Nov. 9,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844. 



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SATURD AY, NOVEMBER 9, 1844. 



LIFE ASSURANCE. 



USTRAIASIAN COLONIAL AND GENERAL 



LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY COMPANY. 

 Capital ,#200,000 — i\ T 2000 Sharks. 



directors. 



Edward Barnard, Esq , F.R.S. 

 Robert Brooks, Esq. 

 Henry Buckle, Esq. 

 John Henry Capper, E-q. 



Gideon Colquhoun, Esq. 

 C. E. Mangles, Esq. 

 Richard Onlow, Esq. 

 William Walker, Esq. 



The advantages offered to EMIGRANTS to the Australa- 

 sian Colonies by this Company are,— First, That no extra 

 premium is charged for Residence in any of the Australasian 

 Colonies, except in New Zealand. Second, That no extra 

 Premium is charged to those who Assure for the whole term 

 of life, for one voyage oat to the Australasian Colonies, and 

 for one return v- yage; and that Premiums may be paid and 

 Claims settled in those Colonies. And to all Persons who wish 

 to Assure their Lives, the Company offers unusually favourable 

 Rates of Premium, participation in Profits, and the guarantee 

 of an ample subscribed Capital. 



Prospectuses and full Particulars may be obtained attho 

 Offices of the Company, No. 126, Bishopsgate Street, corner of 

 Cornhill, Ci ty. 



RITISII MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 



17, NEW BRIDGE STREET, BLACKFRIARS. 



Directors. 



HOT WATER FOR BOTTOM-HEAT. 



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Thomas Hamber, Esq., Barns- 



bury Park. 

 John Lodge, Esq., Portman-st., 



Portman Square. 

 Robt. Remmett, Esq., Temple. 

 John Richards, Jun., Esq., 



F.S.A., Mayor of Reading. 

 George Alfred Walker, Esq., 



St. James's Place. 



John Atkinson, Esq., Well-st., 



Hackney. 

 Joshua Burgess, Esq., Park-st., 



Grosvenor-square. 

 George Godwin, Esq., F.R.S. , 



F.S.A., IMham Crescent, 



Brompt- n. 

 Captain C. Twisleton Graves, 



Army and Navy Club. 

 Nutter Gray, Esq., Hackney. 



Consulting Actuary— XY. Ratray, Esq., King William-st., City. 



The grkatkst present bkvepit, and tiik greatkst fu- 

 ture advantages to those who attain the average duration 

 of Life are secured to the Assured in this Office, a combination 

 Of advantages presented by no other in London. 



The principle adopted in the distribution of the profits is pecu- 

 liar to this Office, and is at once safe, equitable, and favourable 

 to young and good lives. The surplus is reserved for Members 

 who survive the period at which their premiums, with accumu- 

 lated interest at 5 per cent., shall amount to the sums assured, 

 and may be received in cash, or applied in the reduction of the 

 future premiums, or to the increase of the sum assured. 



The Premiums are deduced from the Government experience, 

 and are accurately adjusted to the several ages. At early and 

 middle life they are about one-fourth lower than at most other 

 offices. 



All the objects of Life Assurance maybe effectually accom- 

 plished at this Office. 



Every facility and information afforded on application at the 

 Office, J7, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars. 



Charlks James Tiiicke, Resident Secretary. 



ORTH BRITISH INSURANCE COMPANY, 



Established 1809. His Grace the Duke of Sutherland, 

 K.G., President ; Sir Peter Laurie, Alderman, Chairman of the 

 London Board; Francis Warden, Esq. (Director H.E.I.C). 

 Vice Chairman; John Webster, M.D., F.R.S., 24, Brook-street, 

 Physician. 



TniRD Division op Profits. 



The Third Septennial Investigation of the Company's Affairs 

 frill take place on the 31st December next. Parties joining the 

 Profit Scheme in the interim, will participate in the Bonus to 

 be then declared. 



This Institution is incorporated by Royal Charter, and is so 

 constituted as to afford the Benefits of Life Assurance in their 

 fullest extent to Policy Holders, combined with perfect security, 

 in a fully subscribed Capital of One Million Sterling, besides 

 an Accumulated Premium Fund, exceeding Four Hundred 

 Thousand Pounds, and an Annual Revenue of Eighty. seven 

 Thousand Pounds. 



Fire Insurances may be effected on Private Houses, Country 

 Mansions, &c., at the lowest rate of Premium, 



A Prospectus, containing Tables of Premiums, with the names 

 of the President, Vice Presidents, Directors, and Managers, who 

 are all responsible Partners, may be obtained of Messrs. B. and 

 M. Boyd, 4, New Bank Buildings, or of the Actuary, JO, Pall- 

 Mall East. John King, Actuary. 



GREAT BRITAIN MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE 

 14, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, London. 

 The Chisholm, Chairman. W. Morley, Esq., Dep. Chairman. 

 GREAT ADVANTAGES OFFERED TO POLICY-HOLDERS 



BY THIS INSTITUTION. 



The whole of the Profits divided annually among the 

 Members, after payment of five Annual Premiums. 



An ample guaranteed Capital, in addition to the Fund con- 

 tinually accumulating from Premiums fully sufficient to afford 

 complete security. 



Credit given to Members for half the amount of the first five 

 Annual Premiums, without security. 



Credit allowed to Members for the whole of the first five 

 Annual Premiums, on satisfactory security being given for 

 their payment. 



Transfers of Policies effected and registered (without charge) 

 at the Office. 



Claims on Policies not subject to be litigated or disputed, 

 except with the sanction, in each case, of a General Meeting of 

 the Members. 



% An extremely low Rate of Premium, without participation 

 in the Profits, but with the option, at any time within five 

 years, of paying the difference between the Reduced Rates 

 and the Mutual Asiurance Rates; and thus becoming Members 

 of the Society, and entitled to a full participation in the Profits. 



Extract from the Reduced Scale of Rates, for an Assurance 



of 100/., for One Year, Seven Years, and the whole Term of 

 Life, 



T WEEKS AND DAY, Architects, &c, GIou- 



*" • cester Place, King's Road, Chelsea, HORTICULTURAL 

 BUILDERS, and Hot-water Apparatus Manufacturers, invite 

 the attention of Horticulturists to their Implored Plan of Dot- 

 torn-Heat, now becoming so universally adopted. 



From the extensive Practice they have been honoured with 

 for 20 years in designing and building CONSERVATORIES, 

 GREENHOUSKS, HOTHOUSES, PITS, &c. &c, and erecting 

 their HOT-WATER APPARATUS to every description of 

 Buildings to which heat is applicable, J, Wekks and Day 

 have the greatest confidence in recommencing their 

 BOILERS as the most efficient of any yet invented, their 

 largest being capable of heating a range of Forcing Houses 300 

 feet in length, with a comparatively small quantity of fuel, and 

 only requiring attention once in 10 hours. T© be seen in use at 

 most of the London Nurseries, also at their Manufactory; and a 

 variety of Horticultural Erection?, Models, Plans, &c. &c. 



CONTENTS of the NUMBER for SATURDAY last, 

 NOVEMBER 2, of 



THE ATHEN>EUM, 



JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND FOREIGN LITERATURE, 



SCIENCE, AND THE FINE ARTS. 



Twenty-four Large Quarto Pages, Prxcb Fourfekck, 



Or Stamped, to go free by post, M. 



Reviews of, with Extracts from— 



Dispatches and Letters of Lord 



Nelson, by Sir HarrisNicolas. 

 Travels in the Track of the Ten 



Thousand Greeks, by W. F. 



Ainsworth, Esq. 

 TheAttachd; or, Sara Slick in 



England. Last Series. 



Witji Shorter Notices of — 



Factories and the Factory Sys- 

 tem, by W. Cooke Taylor, 



LL.D. 



Life of the Rev. Andrew Bell, 

 D.D., by Dr. Southey. 



Journal of William Dorosing, 

 of Stratford. 



Gallusi or, Roman Scenes of 

 the Time of Augustus, by 

 Professor Becker, Translated 



by F. Metcalf. 

 Survey of the Isthmus of Te- 



huantepee. 

 Thorns'* Chinese and English 



Dictionary. 

 Russian Political Arithmetic. 

 Church Needlework, by MfSs 



Lambert, 



Walks in the Country, by Lord 

 Leigh. 



Egbert's Religious Life of Fre- 

 derick William of Prussia. 

 Translated by J. Birch. 



Ireland and its Rulers. Part 3. 



Berlin as it Was. 



Schi=m and Repentance, by 



J. Fearn, 



The Art of Making Valen- 

 ciennes Lace, by Madame de 

 Conde. 



age. 



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F, »U particulars are detailed in the Prospectus. 

 ~- A. R. laviNB, Managing Director, 



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Foreign Correspondence. — Letters from Vienna: 

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Our Weekly Gossip. — The Royal Exchange— Birken- 

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 and M. Jaquemont— Mr. James Hogg— Father Mathcw— King 

 of Ashantee's Money-box— M. Le Ba's Return— Inauguration 

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Fine Arts. — Pictorial Notices of Sir Anthony Van Dyclc, by 

 W. H. Carpenter — Remarks on Wayside Chapels— Ecclesi- 

 astical Brasses. 



Drama. — Princess's Theatre. 



Miscellanea. — Paris Academy of Sciences— The Poor Man's 

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 Mr. Hood — St. Mary de Crypt, Gloucester — Will of Dr. 

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 on MR. HUDSON'S REPLY to LORD HOWICK— LEASE 

 of the SHEFFIELD and MANCHESTER— REGISTRATION 

 of RAILWAY COMPANIES— JOINT STOCK COMPANIES 

 REGISTRATION ACT, with the CLAUSES-MR. H1NDE, 

 MR. LOCKE, and the LONDON and YORK. 

 REPORTS OF MEETINGS— The Grand Junction Meeting, held 

 Nor. l, by Spkcial Express— The Paris and Rouen, held 

 Oct. 31, by Special Express, th the Accounts— York and 

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VALUE OF SHARES— Returns from London, Liverpool, Man- 

 chester, Leeds, York, Hull, with comments on the respective 

 Markets, and latest Prices. 



PARIS MONEY LETTER, with Reports of the Paris and Rouen 

 Meeting, and tiie Havre and Rouen. 



BELGIAN RAILWAYS— Ghent to Tournay. 



BOARD of TRADE and OFFICIAL PAPES-Circular as regards 

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Just Published, 



AN ESSAY on the Latest Improvement on the 

 Culture of Wheat Sowing, Drilling, fee.; also of Bark 

 Beans, Peas, Seeds, &c., (and for Gardeners and Nurserymen 

 purposes invaluable, as the land is cleared at much less i 

 from weeds. &c.), being aguut saving in id producing gi er 



crops, bv adopting the new principle, ai irhicta la Mutable to all 

 soils. And a small model, with full instruction . make the same, 

 at the cost of to 15s. Gypsum for land, and fo. mg the 



ammonia, &c, in Manure hills, Stab Cc pds, & &c., 



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GARDENING and FLORICULTURE. — I-» two 

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Nctos of the Gttftt. 



Our accounts from Spain give the particulars of 

 another conspiracy which has bren detected in that un- 

 happy country. The alleged object of this atttmpt was 

 the assassination of General Narvaez and of his chief 

 lieutenant, the Laron de Meer, now Captain-General of 

 Catalonia. The plot is said to have been so arranged 

 that the attempt should be made simultaneously at Bar- 

 celona and Madrid, but in both cases the assassins were un- 

 successful. Gen. Narvaez was apprised of their intention 

 and eluded the attack, while the Baron de Meer owed his 

 escape to the indecision of the conspirators. Circum- 

 stances, however, have created an impression that the 

 assassination of the Ministers was never contemplated, 

 and that the affair was arranged by Gen. Narvaez him- 

 self, as a means of arresting certain suspected parties. 

 The real facts probably will never be rescued 

 from the darkness which surrounds the intrigues 

 of Spanish politics, but the feelings of the Minis- 

 try have been shown by the arrest of Col. Prim 

 and other parties supposed to have held treasonable 

 correspondence with Espartero. Col. Prim is well 

 known to have taken an active part in the overthrow of 

 the Ex-Regent, but letters are said to have been found 

 upon him, in which he expresses his regret at the part 

 he had taken in upsetting the Government of Espartero, 

 and bringing back the Moderados, seeing that the only 

 u e they had made of power was to destroy the constitu- 

 tion and liberties of the country. A Council of War 

 had been summoned to try Col. Prim, and it was gene- 

 rally believed that his fate would be a counterpart 

 of that of Diego Leon. The parties arrested at 

 Barcelona have undergone a summary trial, and several 

 have already been shot. The Chamber of Deputies 

 have given a decisive proof that they will adopt the Mi- 

 nisterial scheme of constitutional reform, by rejecting the 

 amendment of M. Isturitz, by a majoiity of 98; and 

 have formally excluded Don Carlos and his family from 

 all chance of reaching the throne by means of an alliance 



with the Queen From France we have no news of 



great importance. The affairs of Spain are the leading 

 topic of the journals, and opinion is as much divided in 

 Paris as it is in Madrid respecting the real character of 

 the new conspiracy. The marriage of the Due d'Aumale 

 with the Princess of Salerno will take place at Naples 

 on the 25th inat., the anniversary of the marriage of 

 Louis-Philippe ; and immediately after this event, the 

 Prince and Princess de Joinvilie are to proceed to the 

 Brazils, where they are to pass the winter, the health of 

 the young Princess requiring a return to a milder climate. 

 — The regular Overland Mail has arrived this week with 

 later advices than those brought by the Calcutta steamer. 

 The southern Mahratta country is in a disturbed state, 

 and our troops have been compelled to attack the 

 malcontents aud dislodge them from some of 

 strong hill forts which they had seized. 

 Scinde tranquillity prevails, and the health of 

 troops is much improved ; the Punjaub is still the scene 

 of hopeless anarchy, and the interference of the British is 

 again mentioned as the only means of restoring order. The 

 news from China relates chiefly to the attacks of the Chi- 

 nese mob on the American factories at Canton, and to 

 the increase of piracy. The troops are again very sickly 

 at Hong-Kong ; and it is said that Mr. Davis, the new 

 Plenipotentiary, has advised the abandonment of that set- 

 tlement. 



At home, we regret to notice the increase of fatal acci- 

 dents, not only in mines, but in important buildings In 

 our provincial towns. The late colliery accidents fol- 

 lowed closely upon a long series of explosions in the en- 

 gine-houses of factories, and this week we have accounts 

 of another class of accidents, which seem to call as loudly 

 for Legislative interference. Our provincial news re- 

 cords the fall of no less than six buildings, including a 

 mill at Oldham, an archway at Derby, a portion of the 

 new market at Birkenhead, and factory chimneys at 

 Stockport, Manchester, and Glasgow, four of which 

 were attended with a lamentable loss of life. 



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Court.— On Saturday the Queen and Prince Albert 

 took equestrian exercise in the riding-school. On Sunday 

 Her Majesty and the Prince walked for some time in the 

 Home Park, and afterwards attended Divine service m 

 the private chapel of the Castle. On Monday morning 

 Her Majesty promenaded for some time in the Home 

 Park, and in the afternoon took equestrian exercise with 

 Prince Albert in the riding-school. On Tuesday, Wed- 

 nesday, and Thursday, Her Majesty and the Prince took 



