... LIFEASSURANCE O.PF1CB,8-THEIR-PX- ]STING CONDITION, AND THE DEFECTS OF THE LA W BELA TINU TO THEM. Al ?? We have already* discussed at considerable length the facts as to the present condition of the Life Assurance Companies * which have been founded since the Act 7th and 8th Vict., cap. 110, came into operation, on the 1st of November, 1844-taking 'for our guide as to those facts the returns ...

... LA Y REPRESENTATiON. TX ToE EDITOR oF TEn MORNING CHRONICLE. SIR-I have a most sincere respect for your cor- respondent, N. Let me, then, as entertaining that respect, beseech him to read again my letter of Monday last. The gravamen of his objection against me is that I am the favourer of a system which Ewill end in rendering the laity the ultimate judges of doctrine-a consummation which (I ...

... BRITISH ASSOCIA TION FOR THB AD- VANCRMRBN'T OF SCIENCE. WE [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] of BELFAST, TUESDAY NIGHT. ex At the general meeting in Dr. Cooke's chapel last night, Bh Col. Portiock delivered a discourse on the recent discovery th of rock Bait at Carrickfergua. He remarked generally on the fic formation of rook salt, contending that it could not have its id origin from igneous ...

... ABOLiTIONV 0S THE FEES OF THE CLERGY (LOS DERC ROS DER ESTOLA.) d The following article is extracted from a South American newspaper. A good deal of the violence of party feeling ap- t pears in it; and society seems to be in a somewhat rude ardirvolutionary state in New Granada. It is not impos. sible that tihe rights of the clergy may not have been suffi- it ciently respected. But at this ...

... CALIFORNIA; The following extracts are taken from Hussey, Bond, and Hale's Circular, dated San Francisco, July 30, 1852:- The opening of the present month found our market almost bare of the principal articles of current consumption, A large fleet of vessels has since arrived, and our merchants have been abundantly supplied with the materials of trade, The present may he considered the season ...

... ,,vTEA r I DISTRICTS OF CHINA pre[ the facilities of intercourse with China are mit ha the increase, the evidence of Mr. For- pati 3YtlY0 on Tea Districts would be almost just 5 book o thea ben I t to prove. Mr. Fortune, who was deputed self i t Iisdi' Compauy to obtain the finest affc un f the tea plant, found little or no diffi- cloE sirietlOS peetrating far inland, and within the sa- gra of ...

... GENERAL HA YNA U. General Haynau is still in Paris. On Sunday he dined with a large party at the house of a great capitalist. There were several French offcers and other persons of distinction pre. sent, and in the course of the evening one of them,. whilst paying some compliments to General Hacnaus on his military skill, which, he said, had beenserviceable'not merely to his own sovereigni but ...

... LONDON: THURSDAY, SEPTEMtBER 2, 1&2. There is a Georgic element in every man. From the child's own patch of garden ground to the stately experimental and model farm which my lord keeps in hand for the most rational, if not the cheapest, of amusements, the natural instinct prevails-we all like to dirty our hands with mother earth. Even journalists, if they cannot tread the meadow or the ...

... HER MAJESTY'S PROGRESS TO .SCOTLAND. My last despatch left the Queen at Darlington, where the train arrived about a quarter past twelve. There was a large assemblage of the inhabitants at this station, as there had been at all the other places where the train stopped-as well as at some where it did not. stop-aud the reception here was as warm and enthusiastic as in the towns further south. On ...

... Tv it'4sSSURANCE. Los, O 1' 6WOBNING CHRONICLE. ?? to the remarks with which you have ac- tcompanied myletter of the Ed li ult.,-llow me-a fewords of (explanation. I did not intend to assert that new assurance offices; ought to expect such a mortality as would swallow up -67 per-cent, of their -premiums ?? that. tha tables upon which their rates of premium were founded ussally proceed upon the ...

... THE FORIER AND THE PRESENT CON- DIlION OFBA RTHOLOMEV FAIR|. This day Bartholomew Pair will close. On Friday the Lord Mayor and some of the City officers went, according to ancient custom, to stir up the dying embers of this venerable institution of our venerable ancestors. Stow tells us, that the fair was granted by a charter of Henry II. to the Mdonastery of St. Bartholomew, which afterwards ...

... AEXTRAORDINAR Y NARRA TI VE. F11.OM1 THE IP'SWICHl EXPRFESS.] Many of tiic ilegatuison n -tlected with the fulIowiu,' QE' traordiniry niarrastion ha.ve for sensie time been known, to us, but Up to tse present period we have for asany reasons pre- ferredi remaining silent regarding them. It is our painful duty to allude to a very remarkable case, many of the fea. tures of which are so ...