The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-26 00:00:00

MUTUAL ASSURANt

THE WHOLE PROFITS DIVIDED. AMONGST THE Ass(' 051;"

SCOTTISH EQUITABLE .LIFE. ASSURANCE sociEj:

I NSTITITTED 1831.
Incorporated by ,Special Act of Parliament.

The Fund accumulated froth. the Contributidns of gel'
exceeds NINE HUNDREDTHOUSAND POUNDS.

The Annual Revenue exceeds ONE HUNDRED .-tutl,s
THREE THOUSAND POUNDS.

The amount of existing Assurances exceeds 1,01i3;14111-0
and a QUARTER STERLING.

The amount paid to trie Representatives of deceased
.Meo;
is upwards of SIX. HUNDRED and FIFTY.: THQII
POUNDS, of which SEVENTY-EIGHT 113011SAND,Pa'
are Bonus additions.

THE NEXT DIVISION of PROF CS TAKES:PLACE/a 11
IST OF MARCH,. 185.6, and Policies effected before that: (Weil'
ceive One Year's. additional itonr.s over the effected after

THE

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SECOND i:EDITION.

STANDARD-OFFICE, FEB. 26, TEN, A.M.

[BY ELECTRIC & INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH.I

LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING.

COMMERCIAL

The last prices of Consols yesterday was 911 for Money,
and 91i 92 for Account. There was no particular pressure
for money in the Stock Exchange, but at the Bank and in the
discount market the demand was very brief.
The committee of the Stock Exchange have resolved that
no new transactions in the shares of the Royal Swedish Rail-
way Company will be recognised until further notice.

The suspension was announced yesterday of Schaefer and
Brown, of Fenchurch-street, London. Liabilities not stated.

LOCAL SHIPPING DUES BILL.
The Times defends Mr. Lowe's Corporation Tolls Bill, and
ridicules Sir F. Thesiger's arguments on the part of the oppo-
sition, special mention being made of Liverpool. The Times
remarks that parliament is dealing with certain powers of
taxation. Such a power may be a property in the same sense
as house and land may be the property of a family ; but it is
not so in this instance, as the corporation under question
should be th emselvethe first to acknowledge. If the trans-
ference of such powers is robbery, then the corporations of
Liverpool, Hull, Newcastle, Bristol, and other ports are self-
conferred robbers ; but that point has now been settled, and
nobody with the Municipal Corporation Reform Act in his
hands can deny that parliament may dealiwith the powers of
taxation before us if it thinks best.
The Advertiser says there was 'considerable excitement in
the House of Commons, owing to a prevailing impression that
if a division had taken place on Mr. Lowe's bill government
would have been in a minority. What added to the interest
felt in the result of the debate, was the general belief that if
defeated ministers would resign. The debate, however, was
adjourned till this evening, and though it is still believed that
government will be beaten, it is expected that it will be by a
smaller majority than:if a division had taken place last night.

THE AMERICAN/DISPUTE.
The Times, in a leader, remarks on the pacific tone of the
American Congress. The'question is seen to have been mis-
understood by the people as much as by their diplomatists,
both as regards the enlistment question and its imaginary
affront, and the Nicaraguan dispute with its contested details,
every man feels that trifling causes of quarrel have wrongly
received importance when affairs of much greater weight
demands the attention of either nation,