The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-23 00:00:00

Government Life Annuities.

The tables of the premiums to be charged under con-
tracts for the insurance of lives or the grant of Govern-
ment annuities were issued yesterday morning in the form
of an octavo pamphlet of 50 pages. They are printed by
Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode, and appear to have been
drawn up with much perspicuity, and to be presented in
such a form as to be easily understood. Among them are
tables showing what!single premium or consideration money
in one sum, and also what annual premiums must be paid
by the assured person in or from any year of his or her age
from 10 years to GO, to assure the payment of sums of va-
rious amounts at death ; also the tables showing what sum
payable on death may be assured by the payment of an
annual premium of £l, or a monthly premium of 25., from
any year in the age of the assured person from 16 to GO to
the close of his or her life ; also what annual premium must
be paid from 16 years to 50 up to the iime at which he or
sho attains the age of 60, or to assure the payment of £lOO
on his or her death, and showing what sum payable on
death may ba assured by the payment of a monthly pre-
mium of 2s. from any year of age from 16 to 50, up to the
age of 60. In the deferred life annuities (money not return-
able) a table is given showing what monthly allowance, to
commence on the first day of the month next following _the
expiration of 10 or 15, or 20 or 25, or 30 or 35, or 40 or 45,
or 50 years from the day of purchase may be purchased
according to the sex of the person on whose life the annuity
is to depend, and according to his or her age at the time
of purchase, by a monthly payment of Bs. Another table
shows what annual payment and what single payment
must be made, according to the age and sex of the person
on whose life the annuity is to depend, to purchase an
annuity of £l, payable half-yearly at from the expiration
of the second quarter next following the expiration
of terms of years ranging from a term of 10 years to a
term of 50 years from the date of purchase. The last
table shows the sum to be paid for an immediate life an-
nuity, according to the age and sex of the person on whose
life the annuity is to depend. It must be understood that
the tables now submitted are for the insurance of ordinary
lives only. Persons following dangerous or unhealthy occu-
pations, " amongst which occupations," says the rules,
" that of a miner, that of a butcher, and that of an inn-
keeper or beerseller, may be specified, will not, for the pre-
sent at least, be insured under the tables for ordinary lives.
The question of forming special tables for the insurance of
the lives of persons filling especially dangerous or unhealthy
occupations is still under consideration. If it shall be thought
right to frame such tables they will in duo course be sub-
mitted to Parliament."

No one life can be insured for a less amount than £2O, or
a greater amount than £100; but persons may commence by
insuring their lives for £2O, and may increase their insur-
ance from time to time by smaller sums than £2O, until they
shall have effected an aggregate assurance of £lOO. Al
these tables have been framed on the condition that no part
of the purchase money shall in any event be returnable•
The tables for the grant of deferred annuities or monthly
allowances, on condition of the purchase money being re-
turnable, are still under consideration. The tables for fixing
the surrender value of or sum to be returned on a contract
or policy of insurance are also under consideration, but it
may be observed that by the Bth section of the act no policy
or contract of insurance will have a surrender value until
premiums shall have been paid under it for five years—
that is, not before the year 1870.

Serious Disturbance in Leeds.--The Mili-
tary Called Out.

Yesterday morning, between eight and nine o'clock, a
large multitude assembled near the borough gaol of Leeds,
for the purpose of making a demonstration of sympathy
towards a middle-aged woman named Eliza Strafford, who
had been imprisoned a month for having stolen a small
quantity of dripping, the property of Mr. Henry Chorley, a
surgeon and a magistrate, in whose service she had been
for a few months as cook. Since her committal to prison
the indignation of many of the working-classes, and espe-
cially of their wives and daughters, has been very plainly
manifested in various ways, and this feeling has been stimu-
lated by the publication occasionally of various doggerel
rhymes and occasional anonymous placards. The case has
been treated as one in which the prosecutor had acted as
magistrate also, but such really was not the case, and the
prosecution was not instituted at all until Mr. Chorley had
consulted with the mayor, and the last-named gentleman
and one of his colleagues on the bench unhesitatingly pro-
nounced the case to be one calling for a committal. How-
ever, there were thousands having the deepest possible con-
viction that gross injustice had been done. Mr. Chorley
has been subjected to every possible annoyance. "Chor-
ley's dripping" has been inscribed on the street walls in all
directions ; anonymous letters of the most abusive kind
were sent to him in shoals, either through the post-office or
by clandestine insertion under the doors of his house ; and
to show that the feelings of the indignation party were not
of an ephemeral character a subscription was entered into,
and a sum little short of £lOO has been raised, which was
to have been presented to her this morning, but that the
designs of her sympathising friends have been frustrated
by her departure from the gaol an hour or more sooner than
the time when such liberations usually take place.
Last week it was announced by printed placard that Mrs.
Strafford would be liberated on Saturday afternoon, and
the public were invited to meet her at the gaol gates be-
tween four and five o'clock, assist in making a mass de-
monstration, and joining in a sort of triumphal procession
through the town, and especially past the front of Mr.
Chorley's house in Park-square. But this turned out a
ruse, and thousands of working-men and women were the
victims of it. Even that night there was some little dis-
turbance in front of Mr. Chorley's house, but nothing of a
serious character transpired.
It became generally known, however, that yesterday
morning the release frem gaol undoubtedly would take place,
and accordingly there was an immense gathering in the
immediate neighbourhood of the gaol, as we have before in-
timated. It appears that the woman for. whom all the hon-
ours of martyrdom are intended has a daughter in a situa-
tion at Scarborough ; and at the instigation of her daughter
she had expressed to Mr. Keene, the governor of the gaol,
a wish that she might leave the place of her confinement as
quietly as possible, and so early that she could catch the
first train to that " queen of watering-places," where the
object of her nearest and dearest affections would be anxi-
ously expecting her. Therefore about half-past 6 she left
the prison by a private door, accompanied, at her request,
by a turnkey in private dress, and departed for the east
coast at 7 o'clock. The chief constable of Leeds (Mr. Bell)
used every possible means of disabusing the minds of the
multitude of the belief that though the time appointed had
gone by they would yet have the opportunity of seeing the
woman whom they wished to elevate to the dignity of a
heroine. For his pains Mr. Bell got derision and something
worse, for he was both snowballed and hit with other mis-
siles, such as small stones and broken sticks. Fortunately
he sustained no injury there, and, more fortunate still, he
left that locality without any severe molestation, although
there was not a single policeman close at hand. Some of
the more sensible of the crowd applauded Mr. Bell's good
temper, and attributed to him the best intentions in coming
single-handed among so large and excited a concourse.
He returned to the neighbourhood of the Town Hall
about half-past eleven, and in the neighbourhood of Mr.
Chorley's house he found a somewhat angry assembly. A
stone was thrown, which broke one of the windows in Mr.
Chorley's house, and handfuls of sludge, dirty orange 'peel,
and sticks were also hurled at a small party of police who
had mustered in that locality. The chief constable or-
dered the streets to be cleared, and in leading forward a
party of policemen for that purpose, he fell and fractured
one arm very severely. At the same time one of the re-
ceding crowd fell to the ground and was so trampled upon
that he was removed to the Infirmary, and there remains
in a really dangerous state. The excitement continued
very great, and the mayor (Mr. Luccock) thought it ad-
visable to send to Bradford for as many policemen as could
be spared. He also telegraphed to the Lord Mayor of
York, requesting that he would apply at the barracks for
the immediate services of two troops of cavalry. A return
message was quickly received by his worship, stating that
the military had been despatched in a special train, and
they duly arrived in Leeds a little before five o'clock.
One of the means adopted for annoying Mr. Chorley was
the employment of two men to perambulate the street in
which he lives with a long pole, at the top of which was
suspended a physic bottle and a dripping pan. The police
have acted with great forbearance, and only made one pri-
soner, but it was feared that there would be a serious
row.

THE BANCROFT DIVORCE CASE.—The trial of the
suit "Bancroft v. Bancroft and Rumney" was brought to
a close in the Divorce Court yesterday. The jury, after an
absence of two hours, returned into court, when the fore-
man stated that they could not agree upon a verdict. They
were then discharged.
COMMITTAL FOR ATTEMPTING TO MURDER A
SWEETHEART.—The Salford Town-hall was crowded
on Tuesday morning, when William Gray was again
brought up, on remand, charged with the attempted
murder of Jane Elliott, the daughter of a newsvendor,
living in Bury-street. The prosecutrix seemed conva-
lescent, but when the depositions were read (for which
purpose the remand had been virtually granted), she was
unable to stand up in the witness-box. In reference to the
letters received from the prisoner, she said she had never
spoken to the prisoner about them. Two fresh wit-
nesses were brought forward, but their evidence did
not materially add to the facts already published,
being merely of a corroborative character. The depo-
sitions having been read, the prisoner was asked whether
he had anything to say in answer to the charge, and re-
plied, almost inaudibly, that he had not. Mr. Trafford—
It is exceedingly fortunate for you that your evident inten-
tion was not carried out. I cannot see anything whatever
that would have reduced this crime below murder had that
woman's death ensued, and I don't think anything would
have saved your life. The young woman acted in a very
sensible manner, declining to keep company with you, al-
leging as her reason that she was too young ; and because
she did not choose to go with you, you gave way to your
own brutal passion. It is my duty to send you for trial at
the assizes. The prisoner was accordingly committed, and
soon after was removed.-41anchester Examiner.

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Feb. 22.
The Queen, attended by the Marchioness of EIY,
took a carriage drive.
Her Royal Highness Princess Helena went out
driving, attended by the Hon. Flora Macdonald.
The Hon. Emily Cathcart has succeeded the 110.
Harriet Phipps as Maid of Honour in Waiting.

The Prince and Princess of Wales
The Prince of Wales presided at a meeting of the
governors of the Wellington College, held
in the Fine Arts Commission Room, at the New
Palace, Westminster. yesterdg
Their Royal Highnesses the- Duke of Neln°urs,
the Countand Countess (Princess Imperial ofßrazil)
d'Eu, and the Princess Marguerite of Orleans,
visited the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marl-
borough House, and took luncheon.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
also visited the Prince and Princess of Wales at
Marlborough House.
The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended 1)1
the Hon. Mrs. Stonor and Major Teesdale, went
the Adelphi Theatre in the evening. ambridget

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NEW THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIIL—Their rnol
Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, the li°g.
Mrs. Stoner, Major Teesdale, and suite, honoured the Per-
formances with their presence last evening.
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The Duke of Cambridge received the Frell r
Ambassador, the Saxon Minister, the Italian Idini6te.ci
Viscount Palmerston, Lord Dufferin, Lord Lyons, L.,..°,11
Bloomfield, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the
chequer, the Right Hon Edward Cardwell, the Eight 11,1.
the Speaker, Major-General the Hon. Cecil Forester, 0, •
the Hon. James Macdonald, Lieutenant-General IC-n°ll'°'
&c., at dinner yesterday at Gloucester-house.
The Earl Russell was unable to attend the i
Cabii:
net Council yesterday, in consequence of a severe CO•
which confined him to the house.
The Lady Susan Vane Tempest has left Bre'Wn's
Hotel for Clumber.
The Hon. Mrs. Denison has left Brown's IPtetr
The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Excheque3
and Mrs. Gladstone leave town on Saturday to Pa,
few days with Lord and Lady Chesham at Latinicr'•
Bucks. tql9
The Earl of Derby gave his third Parliainen'
dinner this season yesterday evening at his 11°115er,.-0
St. James's-square. There were present Lord Ge°,•fiii
Gordon Lennox, Viscount Galway, Lord Ethviu
sir
Trevor, Right Hon. C. Adderley, Sir Chas. Mordautal
Percy Burrell, Sir Henry Stracey, Mr. Butler Jolluslr'.
Colonel Napier Sturt, Colonel Gray, Mr. C. DU Cane,
Edward Egerton, Mr. Cumming Bruce, Mr. T. 43; v.
ir;fr•
fall, Mr. J. Collins, Mr. R. Longfield, Mr. W. B°°' -''r S.
Kenneth Macaulay, Mr. Vance, Mr. W. Heygate,
Waterhouse, Mr. G. Peacocke, M. W. Rose.