Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-22 00:00:00

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Mayor indicated; and now

e dir&tor met

prietors, and.-they.flid now. challenge for themselves an
opiniOn as t 0 whether the. Queen's Insurance Company
had not in their hands fulfilled the pro Mises which their
chairman then•made for it. (Applause.) They believed
that they had conducted the • affairs of the company
with integrity; they hoped they had not ,been found
wanting in enterprise' and. they trusted that, in every
risk where a question had a"isen, that the community at
large had been dealt with with liberality. (Hear, hear.)
He could, he thought, say that he had confidence that
the same principle which .had guided the board hitherto-
would guide them in the future. He would now pro-
..SCed t 4 111#Q that the report aiid Wince-sheet be re-
ceived and adopted, and he tiusted. those documents
would give them satisfaction. •- He might say to them
thatthe directen, when they commenced the manage-
ment of the institution, •had scarcely—in fact, they had

not ventured to—hope for such a result to- their
first year's operations. They kne*, certainly,
.that
there would be a certain degree of opposition ; that they
would have to contend with a great deal which might
mar the prosperity of tho institution; that the enter-
prise. to a .-meeidation ; and that
_ _

extent, w

from the result of the enterprise they might not be able
to call the shareholders together at the end of the year
and say, " Here, gentlemen, is a satisfactory result of oar
efforts; we have extended our business." The directors
felt that there was a great deal to be hazarded. Now, in
looking over the figures in the Y.wri, they would find
that whilst the income had been 1'20,000 in the past year,
of their existence, their losses had been only £2,700, and
that they were able to carry forward a balance of £9,500
to the next year. This, he thought, would be admitted
to be, on the whole, satisfactory. (Hear, hear, and
applause.) Those gentlemen who had not perhaps re-
garded the nature of th 6 competition that had to be
undertaken in starting. an institution of this kind, were
not perhaps in a position to appreciate all that had
been undertaken. To use a homely phrase, the directors
felt that there was a field to cultivate, and that there
had been placed in their hands the :ploughs and seeds
wherewith to do it; but the risks might have -resulted

so as to compel• them to say,—"We could not call
down the beams of the- sun, nor bring down the dew
of Heaven to fructify the seed." Now, the directors
had appointed agencies in different parts of the country,
and these of necessity involved considerable ex-
pense, the result of which of course was in the
future. The chairman then went on to observe that
the business of the company had not been the
result of any jealous rivalry, or the result of any
endeavour to tread upon tie ground occupied: by
their neighbours, and to reduce their income while ex-
tending. that of the Queen's. The directors of the
Queen's had, on the contrary, no such feeling, and
had been met throughout the whole course of the year
by most liberal treatment and kindly exchanges -of
business intercourse with the great companies, on the
whole very satisfactory to the directors. When they
considered the great increase of the town and the
trade of the port, there was ample room he thought
for a third good insurance company in Liverpool,
and pointed out that in the smaller city of Edinburgh
there were about fifteen such institutions. He hoped
that ere many years were over the Queen's would be
able to boast of being
an equality with the two
which were an honour
other local insurance colnilppoannies,
to the town. The property insured against fire in the
Queen's in the first quarter of their existence was
only £630,000, whilst in the fourth quarter it was
£2,639,000, and since that time--the 31st of Au gust
last—there had been a large accession to the fire business.
The chairman then, at considerable length, alluded to
the immense amount of property passing in transitu
thr9ugh Liverpool annually which was not insured
against fire, and argued that prudential considerations
should operate with commercial men to secure them-
selves against risk by insurance. In 1836, the year which
marked the establishment of the first of our insurance
companies, the number of ships entering the port was
15,060, and tonnage 1,497,000 ; but our commerce had
se greatly extended that, during the past year, 21,300
vessels, of 4,550,000 tons, had used this port; the
value of the cotton imported here was £28,000,000
sterling ; and of the whole exports of the country,
which amounted to £101,000,000, there was exported
from
,Liverpool alone £51,000,090. It was plain,
.. _

ant room for t

he Queen,

Ch e Oldest effices. The life insurance business of the
company had increased very rnueh. The avordge
-amount efqolicies was £635. Sir. Heath had fondly
Sipped thatthe society would be embraced by all clues

of the community, and he trusted .that every one con-
nected with the institution would wed himself to fop-
ward amongst his dependants andffriends a knowledgse
of the existence of this-society, and of the benefits to Ire
derived -front insuring with it. (ffear, hear.)..
the
chairmanithen said the directors had been very cautious
md•-concluded by moving the

in granting
Adoption of

Air. T. T. Bennet

1c Lhe ,motion, which v

•
•
agreed to.
Mr. Councillor Kitchen, one arf the director

and at
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in a speech of I
fiend of fiv-

Heath,

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ngrattilatory nature

but there is still much t
come • when Italy is to regai
independence. This time it must 1
ishcd; and from the Alps' to Sicily she ma'
free ! Providence has given us the man w
Reded to 7,Acnit us together. It is round N
Emma:l7ler f.lat we must rally to repulso the st
"1... We will no longer bear the
.1 but retire and leaVe us 'to cni
and we will at once w
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expricneed so man

to my counti-i
.eward, I have

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that we s:

if dome

let them
hand.
Italiaa

remarn tier
Fifteen thy

musket a

h to, make

ref. I

Lot an embro:

Zonaves. lii their simple, easy dress, they are the
soldiers in the 1 world. I rem,mnber once finding m:
during my4in erican :Campaign, in the midSt of a vast. p.

where:neither from the interior nor from the s.
which the enemy had blockaded, any of our wan

be supplied; The herds.- of the plain were our,
resources, their flesh was our only .notiiishinent;
were our protection from the heat o
Ln, . and • our covering • at night;,
e you our soldiers, armed only witi
Musket, performed prodigies of 'F4iour. We %vol.(
terror of the
.Imperia,listsi and
..my kw hunire.

brave men put to route the enemy -by thousands.
We, my friends, we want arms; and that this wa

exist no longer, I have proposed that Ital
form a subsrciption to purchase a million of
Think only _ how many wrongs we have

redressed.

Bear in mind what-a
series of

witnessed a foreign oppression

Remember to what

ignominious death hasbeen condemned a Cicero Va

Ad his young sons, a Ugo Bassi, an Antonio Elie
do not,
..perhaps, recollect this martyr to the
.c

Italian libertyLLlet me relate to you one trait of

heroic courrm,. Antonio Elia, a dative of Aut._
a simple sailor. He had scarcely attaind his twent,
year when the ship which he navigated was captured by
one of those Turkish galleys which then harassed the
coast of the Adriatic. The Turks manned their prize
with ten seamen and an officer, confining all the original
crew in the ship's hold, except the young Antonio
they retained on deck for their own service. A stron,
sirocco came on, and the extreme obscurity which accom-
panied it awoke in Antonio's breast the idea of deli-
vering himself and his companions. He went to the
prow, where he succeeded in gaining possession of a
hatchet. Armed with this efficient weapon, he returned
to the poop, where he had so lately left the pirate com-
mander. When he' arrived where he thought the officer
was, he struck at him with his hatchet, but the blow
fell on the deck. For a moment he hesitated to draw it
out, but the officer, surprised at the noise, and suspecting
something wrong, drew his yatagan, and wounded Antonio
severely in the shoulder. The latter, seeing his blood flow-
ing, redoubled his efforts, and launching his axe upon his
adversary, he laid him dead at his feet. Encouraged
by his success, he now turned to the crew, and, as
if endowed with supernatural force, he slew them all hilt
two or three, who, with cries of terror, leaped overboard
into the sea. This Antonia Elia, a very lion of courage,
fell before the Austrian powers in 1849, because he
would not clandestinely abandon his wife and children.
"Thus interestingly, and much more than this, the
general spoke, but it would occupy too much of my space
to give more. It was not an orator seeking to astonish
his auditors by eloquent periods, but a chief, an adored
friend, in open-hearted converse with his faithful adhe-
rents, awakening in them sentiments of patriotism by
the recital of acts of heroism. But the hour of our de-
parture was drawing nigh, and we were obliged to take
leave of our kind entertainer and regain our carriages."

whom

TIKE FOREMAN OF A JURY IN DANGER.—At the
Manchester
,city sessions, on Thursday morning, before
R. B.
Captain =,i,rantßecorder, a young man, self-
namedArMstronfr Esq.,
aad 24, was charged with
attempting to obtain a" watch by false pretences
from a man named Williamg aters, a waiter at Cope's
spirit vaults, in St. Mary's Gate, on the 30th ult. The
jury
charge having been proved, the
guilty. As soon as the verdict had been found the prisoner
Boner threw a piece of brick, about the size the pri-
soner
with great force at the head of thee 'lofr ea man'san of
the jury, but it missed the mark and struck theln wood-
work of the bench, about three yards from the Recorder,
who appeared very much annoyed at the occurrence.
The brick appeared to have been taken from the gaol,
but how the prisoner secreted it without being discovered
is.not known. The prisoner was sentenced to two years
imprisonment. lie was removed to his cell, and on
being visited soon , afterwards, he was nearly naked,
having torn to ribbons all his clothes, with the exception
of his shirt, stockings, ald shoes. lie
;c4 informedlifethe
lihort in

police that he had

vent eleven years o: