The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-04-18 00:00:00

SHAFTESBURY.

Left' ft Wednesday evening • young man named
Frederick gobiirts, the son of Mr. David Roberts,
chemist, printer, dtc.i committed suicide by cutting his
throat with a carving knife. An inquest was held
before Mr. W. H. It. Bennett, deprity coroner, and the
jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased
was of unsound mind.

E ASTON:
THE tr,EIVEMAN MEMORIAL —The memorial to the
memory of David Herbtrt Llewellyn, late surgeon of the
Confederate cruiser Alabama, was last week erected in the
parish church, Easton, Wilts. It may be remembered
that this gallant man refused to imperil the safety of
the wounded when the Alabama was sinking by taking
a seat in tbe boat with them, and went down with the
ship amid the balls of the Federal Rearsage. The east
window, f Gothic architecture, in the perpendicular
style, is filled with stained glass, the centre compart-
ment reptesenting the birth of Christ, and the
crucifixion, with the Ascension in the quartref oil. The
side light hive figure subjects : the Good Samaritan,
Christ vralkitlg on the water to save the sinking apostle
Peter, Christ healing the siek, the apostles at the
Beautiful Gate of the Temple, and real; Hope, and
Charity, in the tracery. The mcouiment eonsiste of a
handsome black marble slab of pyramidal form, upon
which is placed a Latin cross in white marble, of pro-
minent 'size ; at the feat rest a naval anchor and cable,
with shot of varying sites. Leaning against the aide of
the erbus in the wand:of Eacttlapius, and beneath, an en-
tablature with the inseript on.

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A monumental bust of be lamented traveller, Capt.
Speke, is attracting notice at the studio of the eminent
London seulptar; Mr. Papworth, where the friesids of
the late Mr. Cobden are also resorting to View a bust of
that Statesuiati, said to be a remarksble Lkeuesi.

WEST fiIdRAER.
COUNTY TIMPIRANCX ASSOCIAfION.—On Tuesday,
the 11th inst., the quarterly meeting of die executive
of this aesociation, a 9.i held at Mr. Lawrence's, Mill-
Arouse, ittf. H,, Hodg a in the chair. Mr.
,Curtis,
of Poole, read tiM rvporte Of • Merv. Spriggs and
Vaughan, which proved that a greet deal of 'pod had
Wen done in the county tlifongli their advoausy, and
that • goodly number had signed the ei,alec. At six
o'clock a public tea meeting was held in the Temperance
Hall, to which 'about 80 sat down. At iatven o'clock
4bere wee . public meeting in Cm Weeleyen chapel.
AttAw singing a hymn, prayer was olfereci by the Rev.
D.
the following
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Poole weredHe
delivered
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the Rev. J. Vincent, Mr. Cherrett, of Woodcutts ; the
Rev. H. Patten, of Localism ; Mr. Cn,tia, of Poole;
the Rev. 1). Knell, of Throop, and Mr. Kent, of the
• horse Reformatory. Neatly 200 persona w-re present.
•sy
. er was again offered by the Rev. J. Vinoen t, and
meetieg bronght to a close tiy minsing the Doxology.
Ws understand that the Archdeacon of Sarum intends
holding his Visitation of the clergy and churchwardens
of his Archcleaoonry, at Salisbury, on Tuesday the 16th,
and at Warmineter, on Wednesday the 17th of May.
TXRaint.l Fria AND EXPLOStON.—On Tuesday morn-
ing, a fire broke out on the premises of Messra. Tilkard
adn Sons, in the Borough, London. Some bensoine oil
In the cellar took fire, and a series of explosions
followed, which blew the roof off the building and 000a-
atoned a violent shock, width 'felt, through the
ilve
n4Obourhood. Nearly a' ' giggetmeaters more
or lees eerionsly injured prefiEdiime are almodit
...air* destroyed. 7 ~ ~
A nerOLUTIONART outbreaktfittairen place in Per;
which has lammed f,k proportion& The
insurgents have gained • of fwo war vessels
belonging to the amid itithoritiee, .and 'three
towns are in their possessions. The cages of the out-
break is alleged to be a violation of' the oonatitntion
on the part of President Peget, in concluding a treaty
with the Spanish AdmiraL A revoluMon has also
taken place at Panama, but it is said 'te be " the most
peaceable lipset of a Government ever wltneased."

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ASSURANCE AND INSURANCE.
Lama I.
PROVINCIAL AND METROPOLITAN ONTlegg,

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To the Editors.
The opportunity afforded me through your influence
with many of the Inaoranoe Companies of prosmut.
a rather favourite study of those noble yet numeroj -
institutions, based on vital statistics and the doctrine of
chancels, will, I assure you, not be lost. Familiar as I
am with the systems of certain offices thronigh the re
penance of actual transactione, I had not, I confess, h;
any means an adequate conception of the variety net
ingenuity of the forms of business invented by the
innumerable offices represented in the mass of
you have laid before me, forms devised to meet Rudy
every conceivable peculiarity in human life, sod every
possible risk affecting worthyestate. The man who wag-
reputed to have possessed • stock of impudence sufficient
to set up an insurance office nmet have found out long
ago that this was not enough, and that another capita
equal in value and amount was requisite to find him •
place in the race of competition for hairiness &meagre
the endless rivalry of offices. It is at once amusing and
instructive to regard the striking points of advantage
held forth by different offices, and hard to escape • feeling
of surprise at the inventive genius of their actiss,i"
and managers which has contrived to egaign
special advantage to each, so that taking them all in all
no two of these institutions are at all, or even pearl
alike. It ia this consideration which ban induced limy
pleased as well as surprised at the diversities I have di,'.
covered in the papers before me, to propose addressieg
to you a short, sharp aeries of reintmanications, setting
forth the merits of these various establishinenta, feeling-
agsured that the public will be curious to learn wheeein
and why they differ one from another, and what are the
particulars of the manifold objects to which the Ins*,
ance sciences have no* been extended. This is not I
thick the season when many of the offices are advert
lug; but to go no farther at preeent then those who are
now most prominently occupying public attention
through the advertising columns of the press, I might
just allude to two great Edinburgh offices, the Standard and the North British and Mercantile, with both ee
whom it is bonus year, and consequently the partjci.
pating policy holders are looking forward with eagerness
to the amounts about to be declared as additions to the sums insured by them. As this, however, to some extent depends on the accessions of business still attain.
able before the close of the books at the end of the
year—hence the exertions they are making to obtain aa
extension of the number of new policies. Ti,, tee boasts of the liberality and favorablenese of its trues,-
tions productive of an almost unparalleled swami ; the other of dividing 90 per cent of its profits amongst the
awured, • circumstance Which must cause the assured (of whom I happen to be one) to take a rather lively
interest in stimulating an income of which as large.
slice ia to come their own way. Now thee* two offices,
which to a superficial observer might secret to be cot,
'Witted very much alike—except that the latter boa itself out to do a very large amount of fire 1111 well Se ' life business, and in the returns of duty etude eery near the dun and some of the offices that top the list-.
these offices would by no means be classed together by
an insurance adviser, neither would they be applied by him to meet exactly the same classes of policiea Then
I again there are offices which panning like these the
I main tracks of insurance business, yet throw out
specialities of more peculiar attraction to your country
readers. Such are The Royal Farmers' and General Insurance for Crop and Stock; the Midland Counties'
Hail Storm department; and the Nottingham Hone
and Cattle Insurances—offices which I shall hereafter
have occasion to introduce more expressly to your
notice. Nor must a class of offices whose ann.:nines-
ments frequently appear in your columns, and to.
records of whose transactions are certainly the moat
sensational of the day be omitted. I refer to the
Accidental Death and Railway Passengers Insurance,.
Few of those who have given attention to the rise and
progress of our provincial an well as London alloys can
fail to be aware of the importance attained by the
Norwich Union under the prince and father of practical
insurance 'Menu Sir Samuel Bignold, Haight. Forms
of application for a most admirable fire agency, the
Norwich Equitable, are also now before me, and will be
supplied to those who can produce eligible references.
In the West country, Plymouth bids fair to produce an
insurance institution, however, equal to any in the East,
in the Western Couhliee Mutut4 Life Company. There
I. besides this • Western Fire Insurance Company
(Limited.) seated at Manchester and at London, and
having a Dublin or Irish brand!. But after all London
is the grand insurance centre of the world. I question
if the foreign, and especially European Continental
bualne i of some of the great offices be less than the
domestic. This probably accounts for the absence from
your files of the papers of some high and palmy Oriental
establishment's that probably disdain the paltry bushiest'
of the native Briton. Amongst the older in& itations
, that frankly hold forth, however, all desired information
I am glad to notice the Sun offices, both fire and life,
the former dating from 1710; the Bock an office for
lives and survivorships established in the very infancy
of life assurance in l)6; the Guardian too which
erode in 1821; and the more fashionable, but scarcely
younger, University Life Assurance Society with its
renowned actuary, Mr. Will'eh, to whom the clergy
are annually so much indebted for affording the earliest
Information on the subject of the corn averages which
regulate the rent charge. The Royal EzeJiasgt and
London Assurance are also offices of the highest
respectability of which I have much that is interesting
to relate. It is not easy to classify the other
London offices represented except as coming after
these, and even that as a point of precedency may
depend less on date than on business standing. For
example the Westminster and General (1836) with its
, able actuary, Mr. W. M. Browne, occupies a large and
' favourable space in the public eye; the British Equitable
Is a most respectable life office; the Law Union is both
fire and life, and supported by a strong phalanx of the
profession; The Emperor, also fire and life, Is a young
office with which we are familiar from its holding out
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