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London, England, 1852-06-14 00:00:00

N°.18,636.] LONDON, MONDAY

.141QUITABLE FIRE and NATIONAL LOAN
FUND LIFE INSURANCE COMPAN.LBS ... •
/6, CORNHILL, LONDON.
WRECTORS.
t*T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman.
*W. A. B. Bennett, Esq. *Joan Moss, Esq.
i4Hugh Croft, Esq. V`Jobn Rawson, EVI.
fJ. Elliotson, M.D. F.R.S. *John Shaw, Esq.
t*Geo. Fuller, Esq. f 'Edmond S. SYrnes, Esq.,
*Ralph Gough, Esq. t*Clerfient Tabor, Esq.
t ttilliam Kennaway, Esq. (Joseph Thompson, -Esq.
tßir Arnold J. Knight, M.D. f*Augustus Vigne, Esq.
*Air A. W. Hillary, Bart. fSamuel 'Walker, Esq.
*M. C. Maher, Esq.

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f Life. * Both.
EQUITABLE FIRE OFFICE. Capital, 500,0001.
(incdrporated under 7 and 8 Vict., ca 3. 110.)
The Equitable Fire Office, by a constant analysis of its own
experience, from time to time, adapts such rates of premium as the
nature of the risk' justifies ; and with tnis view an annual investi-
gation is made into each class of risk, and a return of fifty per cent.
of the net excep, made to all classes of Insurers whose policies have
been in force for three years,
Farming Stock insured at 3s. per cent. without the Averaze
Clause. '
Losses are made good, without deduction or discount.
NATIONAL LOAN F
EW LUND •LIFETAB OFFIC
ESE. Capital X 500,009.
NIFE L.

* Fire.

On the Withdrawal Table the assured is entitled, by simple en-
dorsement, to receive an immediate advance of one-half the amount
of the paid annual premiums,- without security •or • deposit
of the policy ; or half-premium for the continuance of life. On
surrender one-half of the annual payments will be returned.
Life Annultes 'granted, 'also Deferred and Contingent Annuities.
The terms of the Society are peculiarly favourable.
The present annual inoorne of the Society from premiums exceeds
10,0001 ; the amount covered by the policies of the Society is up-
wards of 2,230,0001.; and the reserve oroflt applicable to future
bonus to the assured, amounts to .95,5021. 14s. Od,
Prospectuse,, and every information, may be obtained, on applica
tion at the Office, or to any of its Agents.
W. S. B. WOOLHOUSE, Actuary.

SECURITY 'I'O.•.VMPI4.O,YERS.
TO SECRETARIES OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,
CLERKS, ST ATI-ON-MIST E RS, R AIL WAY OFFICIALS,
BANKERS' CLERKS, TRAVELLERS, AND ()VIERS.
TIME'S LIFE.ASSURANCEand
GUARANTEE COMPANY.
32, Ludgate-hill, London.
GUARANTEE FOR FIDELITY OF TRUST.
PROFITS DIVIDED.
RATES—From is. 6d. per cent. upwards. No charge for Stamps
An allowatice made in the Guarantee Premium where a Life As-
urance and Guarantee are combined.
LIFE ASSURANCE.
Policies Indisputable save in cases of Fraud.
Arrangements can be made with this Office to prevent the loss of a
Policy where the Assured is unable, from temporary embarrassment,
to keep up the payments '
IL B. SFIERIDAN.
TIMES FIRE AND PROPERTY ASSURANCE COMPANY.
Every descriptive of Fire Assurance. Profits Divided.
Agents Wanted.

11. B. SIIERIDAN.

ACCIDENTS AT SEA.

THE MARITIME PASSENGERS' ASSU-
RANCE COMPANY grant Assurances against every kind of
Accidental Death at Sea.
Assurances granted for the voyage, by the year, or one payment
may be made to effect an a.surance for the whole of life.
Compensation made in cases lIIoUS .ersonal injury.
PR
For the Voyage to any port beyond the limits of the United King-
dom, and such foreign ports as are situate beyond Hamburgh to
the north and Brest to the south,
To assure 1001 .... • • •• •• •• • • • • • • 2s. 65.
For the voyage to any port within such limits,
To assure 100/..• •• • ....... ••• • • • 4d.
By Annual Payment,
To assure £lOO .• .• ..... 35. 65.
By one Payment to effect an Assurance for whole of Life,
To assure £lOO ..... .. •• • 15s.
• £1,000...... • • „ 55.
Assurances are also granted at equally moderate rates to Seamen.
Boatmen, Fishermen, and others whose daily avocations render
them especially Bailie to Marine Casualty.
Applications for Prospectuses, Assurancies, Agencies, &c., to be
addressed to the Officers of the Company, 4, Moor,gate-street,
London.

R. G. ERLAM, Manager.
Officers In her Majesty's and East India Company's services,
also in the Mercantile Marine, Pilots, anthers, are lavited to in-
spect the Riles of Premiums, especially prepared for them by this
Company

INDIA AND CHINA.

,
We hive received, by our semi-monthly express
from Markilles, our letters and papers in anticipation
of the overland mail, which left Bombay on the 12th
ult.

The folio wing is the letter of our correspondent at
Bombay : . - • .
" Scarcely more than a week has gone by since the
dete of my last letter, and no news of much public
importance has reached Bombay during the interval.
Oar latest intelligenee from Rangoon extends to the
23d of April ; no further collision with the enemy
had taken place, and our troops had remained inac-
tive nearly a week. Captain Blundell had died of
his woonds; the remainder of the wounded were
doing well. Cholera was abating; ,the place was
getting into some order and cleanliness; Burmese
labourerere.wece flocking in in search of employment,
and glad to-work at .2 nonas (3d.) per day; several
cargo boats were in the river, and every day fur-
nished new symptoms of a restoration of tranquillity
and resmeitetion of trade. On the other hand, the
rations for European troops were dear, scarce, and
of bad suality, principally consisting of ill-cured pork,
no beef being as yet'obtainable. Temporary wooden
barracks were expected from Moulmein, but mean-
while, the troops were without proper shelter, though
the monsoon was daily expected.
" Nothing was known regarding the future move-
ments of the force ; two light steamers, the Phlege-
non and Mahanudy - had been sent on the 21st to the
Irrawaddy to reconnoitre, if hopirivith a view
to ascertain the practicability of an immediate advance
up the river.' In all' probability, however, the force
will stand fast till after the monsoon.
" The Governor- General's first intention, on the
fall of Rangoon, appears to have been to push on to
Prome immediately ; but, if so, his subsequent inter-
view with Admiral Austen altered his plan. The ex-
press informing us of the fall of Rangoon also brought
orders that two more Bombay war steamers should he
prepared for Burmah immediately, and it was re-
ported that more troops were ordered up from Madras.
The Queen and Victoria were ready for sea in twenty-
four hours (the rapidity of their equipment has been
since noticed in a complimentary order), but by next
post they were countmanded, and three of the steam-
frigates at present at. Rangoon are to return to
Bombay.
" Nothing is known regarding the number or po-
sition of the Burmese troops in the neighbourhood of
Rangoon. Some accounts state the force of the
enemy at 25,000 men ; others say that the troops that
were assembled for the defence of Rangoon disbanded
themselves on its fall, and that the ex-Governor had
only 100 or 200 men remaining with him. The influx
of Burmese labourers to Rangoon appears to favour
the latter supposition ;' if the Burmese were in force
in the vicinity they would drive off the inhabitants,
es they did last war.

The following is taken from a Rangoon
letter :

The Governor of Rangoon has invited tenders for
the heads of the British forces, according to prices as
per tariff, namely, fifty rupees for the head a white
man, and thirty rupees for the head of a black man.
Tee offer has proved a sirong inducement to the Bur-
p e l led
Bur-
mese, who go to work desperately to earn the reward.
No sooner is a soldier or sepoy down than several Bur-
mese rush upon him with hatchets and choppers, eager
etoaseeffs,eeta however,de decapitation and
comsecure
tot bheeahteaasd.
hastyl a
In most
treat with something about their own heads from the
comrades of those Talon; though in a few instances they
have been successful in carrying off the heads of oar poor
fellows.'
" On the 20th the ex-Governor sent a flag of truce
with an impertinent message to the General ; he said,
the English had won the last battle by accident, but
that two more battles must be fought (alluding pro-
bably to the positions of Donbhew and Prome) before
we. could reach Ava; he was fully prepared for us,
but to prevent the effusion of blood would conde-
scend to treat. The General is said to have torn up
the proposals, and told the messenger that he should
not listen to any overtures except from a properly
accredited enemy from Ava, and that if he caught the
ex Governor he would hang hire for firing on his fl :g
of truce (taken up to Rangoon by the Prosperine, by
herself, on the let of April). Thera are rumours of
a rev-inien at Ave, headed by the King's brother.
" On the night of the 14:h the Burmese made a
spirited attempt to recapture Murtaban. They got
within our pickets, but retired after about four hours'
firing. Our loss was only two artillerymen slightly
wounded. Theirs is supposed to be very heavy, but
they left no dead or wounded on the ground.
" General Godwin's and Admiral Austen's dis-
patches will have appeared in the English papers ere
this, and the Indian overland summaries contain nu•
merous private letters from officers with the Rangoon
force.
" The cholera that broke out among •the troops
employed at Rangoon is attributed entirely to the
fatigue and unnecessary exposure they underwent.
General Godwin is universally blamed for having
landed the troops so long before the guns, which it
wes known from the first would be requisite for the
reduction of the Great Pagoda stockade.
" It is urged that the crews of two ships of war,
15 steamers, and 16 transports could have readily
furnished sufficient men for landing their guns simul-
taneously with the troops, in which case the Great
Pagoda would have fallen, and the troops got under
shelter by noon on the 12tb, instead of not till the
14th. As it was, the troops, after being on the 12th
exposed to a sun so terrible that five officers were
struck down at their posts by it (two of them fatally),
lay down at night on the ground, exposed to a
heavy dew in an unwholesome swamp ; the whole
of the next day (the 13th of April) WCI3 lost, because
the guns were not landed, the troops remaining in-
active, exposed to the insupportable heat of the
sun,' and
peering that night also without shelter. In
India cholera is the invariable result when troops are
subjected during the hot weather to any continuance
of undue fatigue or exposure to the sun.
" Sir Colin Campbell's force returned to Peshawar
on the 18th, but a fresh force, consisting of her Ma-
jesty's 321, the 28th Native Infantry, two field pieces,
and some heavy guns, with two troops of the 2d Irre-
gular Cavalry, was ordered out in the direction of
the Swat River a few days afterwards.
A correspondent of the Calcutta Englishman sup-
plies the following paragraph in reference to the state
of the NiZ2M'a dominions The contingent is
established in eight cantonments, in positions to
facilitate the protection of the whole country. De-
tachments from seven of these cantonments, in some
instances with guns, are now out against marauders,
who are laying waste not only villages, but whole
provinces. To enable you to trace the extent of
country'suffering from • bands of depredators, I give
you the names of the cantonments from which troops
have been detached. They are as follows :—Ellich-
pore, Aurungabad, Motoiosbad, Hingolee, Ltngsa-
goor, Thiamin, and Warungole. From Goolburga
alone no troops have been detached. The trade of
Bombay is drawing near its close for-the season, but
a tolerably good business has been done during the
past ten days. The money' market continues easy."

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Calcutta Englishman)
The overland express came in on the evening of the
27:h ult., followed on the 28th by the mail, hringireg
London dates to the 24th of March. Trade was healthy
and steroy, money plentiful, and the general consurnp-
Win of colonial produce ,swisfactory. Sufficient time
has scarcely yet elapsed to admit of the effects of this
intelligence being seen in our export raarket, in which
business continues to be transacted on a moderate scale,
the downward tendency of prices caused by the rise of
the rate of exchange having been counteracted by a
decline in freights.
So short a time has passed since the date of our last
circular that the operations in our import-market have
necessarily been less than they would have been bad the
usual period elapsed between the two Mails. The busi-
ness done in gray shirtings anti jaconets has, neverthe-
less, been to a fair extent, although we regret to say that
the market for cotton goods generally is dull, and with
a downward tendency in prices. Mule twist remains
depressed tinder increasing stocks, although sales con-
tinue to be made; the reporter' transactions in this staple
during the period amount to 879 biles. Turkey red and
German dye remain neglected, and we have no sales to
active.greea Acolours.
speculative AliAli
metals,
demand
reportpt irng'vat idne indp furoart orange
g or
are
salt. asses and Allsop's beer are selling
exc gs-
in ro hands at 75 to 80 per hogshead.
Very little has been done in exchange since the le-
-2msa.yfo/rqucoretodiits,iwilhitleo dir_aiwieirsfodrenacroendditsb,eattned i t
r te,rmo
tare of the last mail. Buyers have been holding u
moreWter
for good documents. The demand for bills is
p
Our money-:market is still abundantly supplreyd.smAd-
vances can be obtained in the bazaar on Company's
at 4 per cent. Toe Bank of Bengal had reduceilaiietrs
'rates of interest another one per cant. all round. For
further particulars we refer to our money article below.