LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, No. 1, OLD BROAD STREET, LONDON. SECURITY.-The Assured are protected from the liabilities attaching to Mutual Assurance by a Fund of a Million and a Half Sterling, of which nearly a Million is actually invested, one-third in Government Securities, and the remainder in first-class Debentures and Mortgages in Great Britain. PROFITS.-Four-fifths, or Eighty per Cent. of the Profits are assigned to Policies every fifth year. The Assured are entitled to participate after Payment of One Premium. PURCHASE OF POLICIES.-A liberal allowance is made on the surrender of a Policy, either by a Cash Payment or the issue of a Policy free of Premium. CLAIMS.-The Company has disbursed in Payment of Claims and additions upwards of £1,500,000. PROPOSALS FOR INSURANCES may be made at the Chief Office, as above; at the Branch Office, 16, Pall Mall, London; or to any of the Agents throughout the kingdom. SAMUEL INGALL, ACTUARY. FENDERS, STOVES, FIRE-IRONS, AND CHIMNEY-PIECES. Buyers of the above are requested, before finally deciding, to visit WILLIAM S. BURTON'S SHOW-ROOMS. They contain such an assortment of FENDERS, STOVES, RANGES, CHIMNEYPIECES, FIRE-IRONS, and GENERAL IRONMONGERY as cannot be approached elsewhere, either for variety, novelty, beauty of design, or exquisiteness of workmanship. Bright Stoves, with ormolu ornaments and two sets of bars, 57. 15s. to 337. 108.; bronzed Fenders, with standards, 78. to 5l. 128.; steel Fenders, 21. 15s. to 117.; ditto, with rich ormolu ornaments, 27. 15s. to 187.; Chimney-pieces, from 11. 88. to 80l.; Fire Irons, from 28. 3d. the set to 41. 48. The BURTON and all other PATENT STOVES, with radiating hearth-plates. WILLIAM S. BURTON'S GENERAL FURNISHING IRONMONGERY CATALOGUE may be had gratis, and free by post. It contains upwards of 400 Illustrations of his illimited Stock of Electro and Sheffield Plate, Nickel Silver, and Britannia Metal Goods; Dish Covers and Hot-water Dishes, Stoves, Fenders, Marble Chimneypieces, Kitchen Ranges, Lamps, Gaseliers, Tea Urns and Kettles, Tea Trays, Clocks, Table Cutlery, Baths and Toilet Ware, Turnery, Iron and Brass Bedsteads, Bedding, Bed-room Furniture, &c. with Lists of Prices, and Plans of the Twenty large Show Rooms at 39, Oxford Street, W.; 1, 1A, 2, 3, and 4, Newman Street; and 4, 5, and 6, Perry's Place, and 1, Newman's Mews, London. ESTABLISHED 1820. 65, FENCHURCH STREET, LONDON, E.C. SOUTH AFRICAN WINES. 20s. The established reputation of these Wines renders comment unnecessary. PORTS, SHERRIES, &c. &c. 24s. per doz. The recent alteration of the Customs tariff enables me to offer various European Wines and Spirits hitherto excluded by the operation of high duties at the following reduced prices : PORTS. FRENCH. 24s. per doz. CLARET, VIN ORDINAIRE S. 20s. Ditto (various growths) 28s. 36s. 42s. GIN, RUM, WHISKEY (Scotch and Irish), FOREIGN LIQUEURS, &c. &c. Detailed Price Lists forwarded on application. WINE in CASK, forwarded free to any Railway Station in England. Bottles included in Wines-Sample Bottles of any Wines forwarded. TERMS CASH. Country Orders must contain a Remittance. Cross Cheques "Bank of London." J. L. DENMAN, 65, Fenchurch-street, London, E.C. SLACK'S NICKEL ELECTRO PLATE IS A COATING OF PURE SILVER OVER NICKEL, MANUFACTURED SOLELY BY R. AND J. SLACK. It has stood twenty years' test, and still retains its durability and silver. Strong-Plated superiority over all others for Every Article for the Table as in Silver. OLD GOODS REPLATED EQUAL TO NEW. SLACK'S TABLE CUTLERY Balance-handle Ivory Table Knives, SLACK'S FENDER, FIRE-IRON, AND GENERAL FURNISHING IRONMONGERY WAREHOUSE. Families Furnishing will find it to their advantage to inspect the Stock and compare the prices. A Set of Kitchen Furniture suitable for moderate size house, £4 118, 11d. The Greatest Variety of Dish Covers in London, from 188. set of six. RICHARD AND 336, STRAND, OPPOSITE SOMERSET HOUSE. Slack's Catalogue with 350 Engravings Gratis, or Post Free. £1 10 0 6 Egg Spoons (gilt) 20 0 0 15 0 1 Mustard Spoon, do. 1 Pair Sugar Tongs 1 Pair Fish Carvers 1 Butter Knife 1 Soup Ladle 0 18 026 0 30 ditto ditto, 7 Inches Ditto ditto ditto, 8 Inches Elegant Soup Tureen, to hold two quarts Venison Dish, for Hot Water, to match Set of Warmers for ditto Elegant Soup Tureen, to hold three quarts 0 18 0 100 110 Any Artiele sold separately at the above rate, which is one-third less than the usual charges. One Set of Four Corner Dishes (forming 8 Dishes), £5; one Set of Four Dish Covers-viz., one 20-inch, one 18-inch, and two 14-inch-£9 188.; Cruet Frame, 4-Glass, 208.; Fullsize Tea and Coffee Service, £9 10s. A Costly Book of Engravings, with prices attached, sent per post gratis. Spoons and Forks of equal quality usually charged one-third more. 100 4 10 0 500 750 .5 10 0 . 500 . 5 5 0 This Establishment, the oldest of its class in London, dating from Queen Elizabeth, when it was known as the Old Golden Ball, of Bowyer Row (now Ludgate Street), ought to be a guarantee of the quality of the wares now offered. Full information about prices, copiously illustrated (with 100 designs), is contained in a new Catalogue (Gratis). Thomas West, 18, Ludgate Street, London. Manufactory, Victoria Works. COLD SAOM 12 12.0 Bennett's WATCHES 65,Cheapside SAFE & FREE BY POST FREE AND SAFE BY POST. TIMED & EVERY WATCH IN THE LATEST STYLE, AND MOST CAREFULLY FINISHED. Every Watch skilfully Examined, Timed, and its Performance Guaranteed. POST-OFFICE ORDERS PAYABLE TO JOHN BENNETT, 65, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON. MACMILLAN'S MAGAZINE. JUNE, 1860. THE SUFFRAGE, CONSIDERED IN REFERENCE TO THE WORKING CLASS, AND TO THE PROFESSIONAL CLASS. BY THE REV. F. D. MAURICE. WHY were the people of England so earnest on behalf of the Reform Bill of 1831? Why are the people of England so indifferent about the Reform Bill of 1860 We have all asked ourselves these questions. I doubt whether party politicians will ever find the answers to them. I am sure that those who are not party politicians are quite as much interested in the answers to them as they can be. So far as those whom we commonly describe as the Working Classes are concerned, an à priori speculator might have looked for exactly the opposite result to that which he witnesses. Those classes were not specially considered in Lord Grey's Bill; the classes with which they had least sympathy, the great producers and the shopkeepers, were specially considered in it. They had been taught, by most of the speakers and writers who had influence over them, to suspect the Whigs; the Whigs were the authors of the measure. Nevertheless, the cry for the bill, and the whole bill, went through the length and breadth of the land. It arose from the lowest courts and alleys; the wisest confessed it to be indeed a national cry; the bravest, with the Duke of Wellington at their head, bowed before it. The Bill of 1860 does contemplate these working classes; appears designed especially for them. The popular agiNo. 8.-VOL. II. tator tells them that, if they gain so much, all else they want will follow. He speaks with an ability and an eloquence which few of his predecessors in the same line possessed. He addresses himself directly to the material interests of these classes. The aristocrats, he says, are taxing them cruelly; if they can procure a great numerical addition to the constituencies, much of the taxation will be unnecessary, much will be turned in another direction. What can move them if these arguments do not? The facts say, There must be some arguments which move the hearts of men more than these. And à priori reasoning must bow to facts in a practical country like England. It may sound very absurd, to say that calculations of profit and loss do not affect people who are poor, and may starve, as much as appeals to their conscience and their sympathy. Young gentlemen who know the world are struck at once with the folly of such an assertion. But I suspect that these young gentlemen fall into the fallacy of confounding the stomach with reasonings about the stomach, which address themselves not to it, but to the brain. The bakers' shops had a voice for the hungry crowds who poured out of St. Antoine, which might drown discourses about liberty and the rights of man. But discourses about liberty and the H |