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THE NEWSPAPER. 



i^tojsjmner. 





SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1844 



VjCTORIA TJFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.— 

 Trustees. 

 Sir Jas. Duke, Aid., M.P., Chairman. 

 Benjamin Hawes, Esq., Deputy Chairman. 

 Beniamin Barnard, Esq. | Charles Baldwin, Esq. 



Peculiar advantages are offered by this Company. Thus— 

 Parties assuring the lives of others may make their policies 

 secure notwithstanding the life assured may go out of the 

 limits 'of Europe, without the necessary permission of the 

 THrectors having been previously obtained. 



Credit of half the premiums for the first five years allowed on 

 policies effected for the whole terra of life. 



On policies of five years' standing, half the amount paid, after 

 the first year's premium, may be borrowed thereon by the 



Advances made to assurers on real or undoubted personal 

 security, for terms of years, re- payable by instalments. 



Attention is particularly requested to the detailed prospectuses 

 of the Company, which may be obtained at the Office, 18, King 

 William- street, City, or by letter, addressed to the Secretary. 



William Ratbay, Actuary and Secretary. 



/^ROWN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 



\J 33, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London. 



Directors.— George H. Hooper, Esq., Chairman ; Sir John Kirk- 

 land, Deputy-Chairman 



Jameson Hunter, Esq. 

 Lieut.-Col. Moody, R.E. 

 John Nelson, Esq. 

 Richard Norman, Esq. 

 Alexander Stewart, Esq. 

 William Whitmore, Esq. 

 William Wilson, Esq. 



Geo. Hankey, Esq.; Thomas 



John Chapman, Esq. 

 Charles Chippindale, Esq. 

 James Colquhoun, Esq. 

 B. D. Colvin, Esq. 

 Rear Adm. Dundas, C.B., 



M.P. 

 Thomas Harrison, Esq. 



Auditors— J. H. Forbes, Esq.} 



Lawrence, Esq. 

 Physicians.— Dr. James Johnston. 8, Suffolk-place, Pall Mall 



East ; Sir C. F. Forbes, M.D., K.C.H., 23, Argyll-street. 

 Surgeon.— Samuel Solly, Esq., F.R.S., 1, St. Helen's-place. 

 Standing Counsel.— Charles Ellis, Esq. 

 Solin tors.— Messrs. Hale, Boys, and Austen. 

 Bankers.— Bank of England. Actuary.— J. M. Rainbow, Esq. 



THE ADVANTAGES OF THIS OFFICE, among others, are: 

 1. A participation septennially in two-thirds of the profits, 

 which may be applied either in reduction of the Premium, or to 

 augment the sum assured. The following Bonuses have been 

 assigned to all Policies, of at least three years' standing, 

 effected for the whole duration of Life :— First Division, in 1832 — 

 From 18s. to 11. 12«. per cent, per annum on the sums assured, 

 varying with the age, being equivalent, on the average, to 26£ 

 per cent, on the Premiums paid. Second Division in 1839— From 

 upwards of U. to upwards of 87. per cent, per annum on the 

 sums assured, or, on the average, 33 per cent, on the Premiums 

 paid for the preceding seven years. 



2. Premiums may be paid in a limited number of annual sums, 

 instead of by annual payments for the whole of life j the Policy 

 continuing to participate in Profits after the payment of such 

 Premiums has ceased. 



3. The Assurance or Premium Fund is not subject to any 

 charge for Interest to Proprietors. 



4. Permission to pass to Continental Ports between Brest and 

 the Elbe inclusive. 



5. Parties (including Officers of the Armv, Navy, East India 

 company, and Merchant Service), may be assured to reside in 

 or proceed to all parts of the world, at Premiums calculated on 

 real data. 



6. Claims to be paid within three months. 

 7- The Assured may dispose of their Policies to the Company. 

 8. No charge but for Policy Stamps. 



in t ld r0Spectu /* J ab,es of Rates « &c - to be had at the Office 

 in London, or of the Company's Agents. 



T. G. Conykrs, Secretary. 



Mr. Hay was within 15 miles of the city, bearing the 

 important tidings that the Emperor had actually con- 

 ceded every point demanded both by France and Spain. 

 The Tahiti question continues to be the subject of angry 

 discussion, but nothing definite is yet known ; and the 

 speculations of the Paris papers on the subject have 

 lost the interest of novelty — From Portugal we learn 

 that matters are daily becoming worse ; the Minister has 

 issued a decree which virtually gives him the legislative 

 attributes of the Cortes, and suspends, if it does not 

 abrogate, the constitutional Charter. The Duke de Pal- 

 mella, and other statesmen, have appealed to the Queen 

 against these encroachments, and it is not improbable 

 that the Cortes will interfere. — From Egypt we have 

 some further details of the late proceedings of Mehemet 

 Ali, but they throw no certain light upon his purpose, 

 and indeed are contradictory in their statements of the 

 reasons which are supposed to have led to his departure 

 from Alexandria. Some accounts attribute his move- 

 ments to a sudden fit of insanity, while others, with 

 more probability, suggest that he had received intel- 

 ligence of an intrigue against him in his own family, and 

 that he had determined to take them by surprise. 

 Whatever may be the cause, it is important to know by 

 the last advices that Ibrahim Pacha had not assumed the 

 Government, and that the country was perfectly tranquil. 



[1844. 



Nctos of tfje mttt% 



The details of the bombardment of Tangiers, and of 

 the events by which it was preceded and followed, will 

 probably be considered by the great bulk of English 

 readers to be less interesting than the professional criti- 

 cisms of our naval officers, who witnessed the manoeuvres 

 oi the French squadron. The official accounts of the 

 Domoardment state that the answer" of the Emperor was 

 tW^D^ fuU ° f re8t »ctions to be satisfactory, and 



on th L r - mCe dG Joinville accordingly opened his fire 



ne oth mst., and after a cannonading of nearly three 



™urs, succeeded in silencing the batteries. The French 



Cadiz? att6mpt t0 land ' but P roceeded immediately to 

 on a m° ^^ daDQa S es P rior t( > a second demonstration 

 The Fr ^^! 6118 ^ 6 8Cale ' on the harbour of Mogadore. 

 Con«* . P8 fired 9000 balls and bombs ' besides 



short orhT t% bUt the greater number of shot8 fel1 

 crumblin i. n ° ° ther effect than t0 break down the 

 dismount* a f the fortincati ons. Very few guns were 



continued? ^ Moorish fla S was never 8truck » b «* 

 lef t the h b* ° n thC f ° rt8 when the French 8 q uadr <>n 

 w w bel • ° Ur " affair was witnessed by men-of- 



aad the ° Dglng to no less than seven different nations, 

 spite of T li\ 0rt u fr ° m 0Ur own offi cers assure us that, in 



France as ^ been done of late years to raifie 



de Joinvill* DaVaI power » the manoeuvres of the Prince 

 disparity i^ &t Tan 8 iers show that there is still a vast 

 French and^ 6 ^ branch of naval efficiency between the 

 hably before ^\ rse * ve8, The French squadron has pro- 

 S & dore, and • comDQenced the bombardment of Mo- 

 effect which th* * fCW dayS We shal1 no doubt learn tbe 

 issue bet wee 7h h ° 6tilitie8 have had on the questions at 

 eTer > that S D conter »ding parties. It is clear, how- 

 to « affai r f° T 6 circunastance8 occurred in reference to 

 brief official giers * wh »chare not explained by the 



Fr ench Gover mmary ° f the de8 P atcbes Published by the 

 Jo »aviUe had^ 106111 * lt a PP ears that the Prince de 

 thin S *or e a &Ssured th « British Admiral that every- 

 C onsul. gener peaceful aspect ; and that, although our 



& reat personal 1 • v unde rtaken the duty of mediator at 



* ith ^e ana*/ 1 f ^ Prince did not wait for his return 



er 0f the Emperor, but opened his fire while 



p|ome Nefos. 



Court. — Her Majesty and the infant Prince are now 

 sufficiently well to be enabled to dispense with the fur- 

 ther attendance of Dr. Locock, who took his leave of 

 the Queen on Tuesday, and left the Castle for a tour on 

 the Continent. The Prince of Wales and the Princesses 

 are also quite well, and have taken their usual airings 

 during the week. Saturday being the birthday of the 

 Duchess of Kent, when Her Royal Highness completed 

 her 58th year, Prince Albert, the Duke of Cambridge, 

 and other members of the Royal Family, paid visits of 

 congratulation to Her Royal Highness. On Monday 

 Prince Albert inspected the Scots Fusilier Guards in the 

 Great Park, and afterwards fished in Virginia Water. 

 On Tuesday His Royal Highness went out deer-shooting 

 in the Park ; on Wednesday again inspected the Fusilier 

 Guards ; and on Thursday went out rabbit-shooting in 

 the royal preserves. Lieut.-Col. Wylde has succeeded 

 Lieut.-Col. Bouverie as Equerry in waiting on Prince 

 Albert. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the 

 Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, left 

 town on Monday on a visit to the Earl and Countess of 

 Shrewsbury at Alton Towers, where they remained until 

 Wednesday, and then returned to Kew. The anni- 

 versary of Prince Albert's birthday, on Monday next, 

 on which day His Royal Highness will enter upon his 

 26th year, will be celebrated at the Castle with the usual 

 honours. A display of fireworks will take place on the 

 eastern terrace, directly opposite to the private apart- 

 ments. His Royal Highness will be serenaded, at an 

 early hour in the morning, by the band of his regiment, 

 the Scots Fusilier Guards. A public dinner will take 

 place the same evening, in honour of the event, at the 

 Royal Adelaide Hotel. The venison for the occasion 

 will be presented by the Prince. 



The Prince of Prussia. — His Royal Highness on 

 Friday embarked in one of the Watermen's steamers, 

 and went down the river to Greenwich, visiting on his 

 return the Thames Tunnel, the London Docks, the 

 Bank of England, and the Tower. The Prince then 

 visited the British Museum, prior to his return to Carlton 

 Terrace, where Chevalier Bunsen gave a grand enter- 

 tainment in honour of his Royal Highness. On Satur- 

 day the Prince visited Woolwich, and accompanied by 

 the Duke of Wellington, reviewed the Royal Horse 

 Artillery, inspected the Military Academy, the Re- 

 pository, and the Arsenal. In the evening he dined 

 with the Duke of Wellington, and afterwards visited the 

 Opera. On Sunday morning, accompanied by the 

 Duke of Cambridge, the Prince visited the Wellington 

 Barracks, and afterwards attended divine service in 

 Westminster Abbev. In the afternoon the Prince 

 visited the Queen Dowager at Bushy Park, and dined 

 with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, at Kew. 

 On Monday the Prince and the Duke of Wellington left 

 town by an early train on the South Western Railway 

 for Portsmouth, where they were received with the usual 

 honours. His Royal Highness and the Duke visited the 

 Dockyard, the Victualling-yard, the Block Machinery, 

 the Collingwood line-of-battle ship lying at Spithead, 

 and the Victory, Lord Nelson's flag-ship at Trafalgar. 

 During the dejeuner a discussion arose among 

 some of the suite, as to whether it would be pos- 

 sible to accomplish all that had been laid down, 

 and leave Gosport at the hour appointed (five o'clock.) 

 It was thought impossible, and some gentleman of 

 the Royal suite suggested omitting the proposed visit 

 to the Victory; but the moment the fact of 6uch intention 

 came to the Prince's knowledge, he definitively settled 

 the question, by observing that he would much rather 

 omit his lunch altogether than his visit to Nelson's ship. 

 " In fact," added his Royal Highness, addressing one of 

 the company in French, t( I consider my visit to Ports- 

 mouth a 6ort of pilgrimage to Nelson's ship, and I cannot 

 deny myself the pleasure of visiting it." On leaving 

 the Victory, the Prince inspected the Royal steam yacht, 

 and soon afterwards took his departure with the Duke 

 of Wellington for Basingstoke, whence they proceeded 

 to his Grace's seat, Strathfieldsaye, where a select party 

 had been invited to meet the Prince. On Tuesday, His 



Royal Highness and the Duke left for Oxford, and pro ■ 

 ceeded to the residence of the Vice-Chancellor at St. 

 John's College. His Royal Highness, on his arrival, 

 put on the robes of a D.C.L., that degrte having bten 

 conferred upon him by the University in 1814. At the 

 Schools, the Duke of Wellington, as Chamcallor, pre- 

 sented to the Prince an address of congratulation on his 

 arrival at Oxford, which was acknowledged in English. 

 The Prince then visited the different halls and colleges, 

 the Bodleian, Dr. Buckland's Museum, &c, and then 

 partook of a dejeuner in the hall of St. John's. The 

 Royal party then proceeded to Nuneham, the seat of the 

 Archbishop of York, where they passed the night, a 

 distinguished party having been invited to meet them. 

 On Wednesday the Duke of Wellington returned to 

 town. His Royal Highness left Nuneham for Stowe, the 

 seat of the Duke of Buckingham, and after partaking of 

 lunch, inspected the mansion and grounds. The Prince 

 was greatly pleased with this beautiful seat, and the Royal 

 party devoted nearly three hours to an examination of its 

 attractions. At six o'clock the Prince left Stowe for 

 the Wolverton station on the London and Birmingham 

 Railway, en route for Derby, where it had been arranged 

 His Royal Highness should pass the night at the Mid- 

 land Counties Hotel. On Thursday His Royal Highness 

 rose at nearly daybreak, and after partaking of an early 

 breakfast left Derby at six o'clock for Chesterfield. His 

 Royal Highness made no stay in the town, but proceeded 

 at once to view the princely domains of the Duke of 

 Devonshire, at Chatsworth. His Grace is at present 

 sojourning at Bolton Abbey, but he had ordered prepara- 

 tions on an extended scale to be made for the reception 

 of the illustrious tourist ; and, accordingly, when the 

 Prince arrived at Chatsworth, he found a dejeuner pre- 

 pared for him, and Mr. Paxton, the Duke's head-gar- 

 dener, with a train of attendants, ready to accompany 

 the Prince and his suite over the grounds. His Royal 

 Highness repeatedly burst out into exclamations of asto- 

 nishment and admiration at the varied forms and extent 

 of the stupendous undertakings piled around him in such 

 magnificent profusion, and complimented Mr. Paxton in 

 the most flattering terms for the taste and ingenuity 

 which he had displayed in laying out the ground. On 

 leaving Chatsworth, the Prince proceeded direct to York 

 on his way to Edinburgh and Glasgow. His Royal 

 Highness has received pressing invitations from the 

 Marquis of Londonderry, and the Earl of Shrewsbury, 

 who is at present entertaining at Alton Towers a distin- 

 guished circle of friends, including several members of 

 the Royal Family. The necessity, however, of His Royal 

 Highness's early return to Prussia compels him to travel 

 day and night in order that be may accomplish his pro- 

 jected tour within the limited period which is yet remain- 

 ing for his sojourn in this country. 



e France, — The French Government on Friday re- 

 ceived news from Tangiers of the 7th inst., respecting 

 the facts announced by the telegraphic despatch given in 

 the Debats of Thursday, and in our Paper of last Satur- 

 day. From this it appears that on the 4th the answer 

 arrived which the Pasha of Larache had made to the 

 ultimatum of France. That reply was not satisfactory. 

 It said nothing of the intended dissolution of the bodies 

 of troops collected on the frontier of Algeria, the num- 

 bers of which would be augmented by the arrival of the 

 hereditary Prince with 20,000 or 25,000 men. The an- 

 swer renewed the promise that exemplary punishment 

 should be inflicted on the Moorish chiefs guilty of the 

 aggression upon the frontier, but making it a condition 

 that Marshal Bugeaud should be recalled. In fine, the 

 part of the letter relative to Abd-el-Kader appeared 

 more satisfactory than what had hitherto been obtained, 

 but the style of it was vague, obscure, embarrassed, and 

 full of restrictions. The Prince de Joinville and M. de 

 Nyon, French Charge d' Affaires, did not regard the 

 reply as acceptable, as it appeared to have no object but 

 to gain time. His Royal Highness therefore determined 

 to attack the fortifications of Tangiers. The following 

 facts appear to result from the official report addressed 

 to the Minister of the Navy :— * It was on the 6th, 

 about half-past 8, a.m., that the squadron under the 

 command of the Prince, at anchor under the walls of 

 Tangiers, opened its fire with shouts of ■ Vive le Roi.' 

 In one hour the fire of the place was silenced, the bat- 

 teries were dismantled and the guns dismounted. On 

 the side of the French the loss was not considerable. 

 Notwithstanding the difficulty of the ground, the 

 squadron came up and took its station with com- 

 plete success. The Suffren, in which the Prince 

 was, anchored in six fathoms and a half, in a rocky bot- 

 tom, at the nearest point to the enemy's batteries, which, 

 the Admiral had reserved for himself. The fire ceased 

 entirely at about 11 o'clock. It was kept up the whole 

 while with an ardour which did not for a moment exclude 

 the composure and precision required for correct pointing. 

 It is to that correctness, as well as to the station selected 

 by the Prince, that the rapid success obtained is to be 

 attributed. The example set by the Suffren was followed 

 by all the ships of the squadron. The resistance was 

 much more vigorous than was generally expected ; several 

 cannon on the ramparts ceased their fire only after having 

 been shattered. Mr. Hay arrived during the engagement 

 in the Vesuvius from Mogador. In the evening he 

 waited on the Prince de Joinville, and had a conference 

 with him. The Spanish division, an English ship of tnc 

 line and a frigate, several Sardinian, Swedish, and Ameri- 

 can vessels of war were present at this brilliant achieve- 

 ment. According to the preparations made on the / th, 

 the squadron would be able to put to sea on the following 



