It has been set up only four years, it is true; but Mr.Brough had a great name when it was established, and a vast connection.

Every clerk in the office has, to be sure, in a manner, paid for his place, either by taking shares himself, or by his relations taking them.

I got mine because my mother, who is very poor, devoted a small sum of money that came to us to the purchase of an annuity for herself and a provision for me.

The matter was debated by the family and our attorneys, Messrs.

Hodge and Smithers, who are very well known in our part of the country; and it was agreed on all hands that my mother could not do better with her money for all of us than invest it in this way.