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STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
(Constituted by Act of Parliament, 1825.)
elovra.sroa.
His Grace the Duke of BUCCLE'UCII and QUEENSBERRY.
DEPUTY-GOVERNOR.
The Right lion. the Earl of ELGIN and KINCARDINE.
The TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the
STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY was held within the
Company's Office, 3, George-street, Edinburgh, on Monday, the 15th
day of February, 1847, in the terms of the Act of Parliament by
which the Company is constituted.
JAMES 110.1TCRIEFF MELVILLE, Esq., in the Chair.
A report on the progress of the Company's business during the
past year was submitted by the Directors, in which the following re-
sults were communicated:—
The new Policies issued from the 15th of November, 1945, to the
15th of November, 1846, the Company's business year, amount to
592, the number of proposals made to the Company during the same
period being 769.
The amount of new Assurances, covered by the 592 now Policies
is 368,6791. 7s. lOd. (an average of 6251. for each Policy) ; the
amount of Assurances applied for during the year being
476,1351. 17s. 9d.
The revenue of the Company is upwards of 120,0001. per annum.
The claims have been moderate, both In number and amount, and
considerably less than shown by the mortality tables on which the
Company's calculations are founded. The results in other branches
of the business have been favourable.
The business of the Commercial Life Assurance Company of Scot-
land has been transferred to the Standard Company during the past
year, being 398 Policies, covering about 200,0001. of assurance, and
being in addition to the new business of the year above reported.
The business of the York and London Assurance Company, which
was transferred to the Standard Company in 1844, continues to exhi-
bit satisfactory results in its progressive development.
The report then alluded to 4.te great extension of the Company's
business in Scotland generally, and to the rapid progress of the Com-
pany in England, also in Ireland.
The increasing success of the Branch Office opened by the Com-
pany in Glasgow was subject of congratulation, and the establishment
of Local Boards in Aberdeen and Inverness were reported.
The following new Directors were elected :
David Smith, Esq., W.S., Edinburgh.
Eagle Henderson, Esq , Merchant, Edinburgh.
James Condie, Esq., Perth.
James Lindsay, Esq., Lawrence Pountney-lane, London.
By order of the Directors,
WILE lAM THOS. THOMSON, Manager.
The Standard Life Assurance Company is so constituted as to afford
the benefits of Life Assurance to all who may seek its protection in
that form which is best snitetlto attain the partictilu,objeotinatiaw
Trltlia4o thoser*bo look to 'the aorrantaite 40. to ?t:ei'v,. by we"' of
bonne to their Policies from the favourable results of the business,
there is every inducement to connect themselves with the Company.
The annual contributions demanded for Life Policies have been
fixed on the most approved information as to the value of life, and
the Company have published an extensive set of Life Tables (18 in
number), setting forth its terms for all ordinary transactions, so that
its principles are fully before the public.
Bonus additions to Policies have been declared on three occa-
sions—in 1835, in 1840, and in 1846.
The following are examples of the additions made :
Policy of 1825 for £1,009 increased to £1,600 0 0
Do. 1830 do. do. 1,412 10 0
Do. 1835 do. do. 1,225 0 0
Do. 1840 do. do. 1,087 10 0
An 'investigation of the Company's affairs, and a division of pro-
fits, are made every five years, the next being in 1850.
The system of bonus being An advantageous one for Policy-holders,
the Directors of the Standard Company, in fixing the mode of division
which they have adopted, gave the subject much attention, and after
the most particular inquiry into the practice of other Companies
who had divided profits, they adopted the survivorship principle
followed by the Equitable Society of London, under which system a
policy has been known to realise at death six or seven times its
original amount. The Standard Company do not hold out the pro-
spect of similar results as regards the amount of additions to their
policies, for there are peculiarities in the arrangements of the Lon-
don Equitable conferring Class Benefits, and there were advantages
which arose in its earlier years, which are not in the present day
open to any office But it is the principle of division which is re-
ferred to as common to both Companies, and which has been highly
conducive to the production of the great results alluded to.
To the terms and conditions of Assurance the Directors of the
Standard Company have directed their particular attention, satisfied
that the more liberal these are made, the wider will the practice of
Life Assurance be extended,

SALES BY AUCTION.

SALES OF LANDED PROPERTY, OF FREEHOLD AND
LEASEHOLD HOUSES, RENT -CHARGES, REVERSIONS
POLICIES, &c.
R. EDMUND ROBINS (Successor to the
LT 1 late Mr. GEORGE ROBINS, and whom he has assisted
many years in the conduct of his business) announces most
respectfully to the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public generally, that
the BUSINESS WILL NOW BE CONTINUED BY HIM in tho
department of SALES by AUCTION, or PRIVATE TREATY, of
LANDED PROPERTY, of FREEHOLD and LEASEHOLD

110 USES, RENT-CHARGES, REVERSIONS, POLICIES, &c., as
well as SURVEYS and VALUATIONS; and he most respectfully
urges that the long experience he possesses, under the able conduct
of his lamented relative and predecessor, entitles him to solicit a
portion of that support so many years enjoyed by the old-estab ished
concern in Covent-garden, whilst he ventures to assure his
patrons that a strict attention will not only be paid to the interests
of those who may entrust the disposal of their property to his con-
duct, but a scrupulous desire to render the charges for commission,
&c., as moderato as he consistently can to accomplish that success
which it will ever be his primary object to achieve.

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PETER EWART, Resident Secretary,
82, King William-street.
Forms of proposal and every information may be obtained at the
Company's Offices, 3, George-street, Edinburgh ; 82, King William-
street, London ; 66, Upper Sackville-street, Dublin ; 35, St. Vincent-
place, G'asgow ; or at any of the Agencies which are established in
the principal towns of Scotland, England, and Ireland.

ADVERTISERS and the PUBLIC are respect-
fully informed that
THE LEEDS TIMES _

LIFE ASSURANCE.—BRITISH
SOCIETY, 11, New Bridge-!

MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE
•street, Blackfriars, London.
:TORS.

John Atkinson, Esq. Captain Tvrislcton Graves
NOnry Wm. Beauclerk, Esq. Thomas Hamber, Esq.
Henry Charles Curtis, Esq. John Lodge, Esq.
0. Godwin, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A. Lieutenant-Colonel Montresor
Hon. William Gore George Alfred Walker, Esq.
riIHE BRITISH MUTUAL LIFE
I_ ASSURANCE SOCIETY entertains proposals of any descrip-
tion involving the contingency of human life.
Prospectuses and every information may be had on application at
the office, 17, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars.
CHARLES JAMES THICKE, Resident Secretary.

INVESTMENT for LARGE or SMALL
SUMS.
The attention of the public is invited to the following notice :
The Deeds for carrying out the resolutions of the Shareholders in
the Guarantee Fund of the BRITISH MUTUAL LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY are now ready, and the respective Shareholders
are hereby requested to attend at the offices, between the hours of
Eleven and Three, to sign and execute the same, when the old shares
may be exchanged.
Applications may be addressed to the Secretary for the remaining
unappropriated Shares entitled to the advantages set forth in the
following

ZEAOLUTIONS:

That for the purpose of extending the usefulness of the British
Mutual Life Assurance Society, it is desirable to grant loans In con-
nexion with life assurance, and that a guarantee and loan capital
of 100,0001., in shares of 101. each, with a deposit of 11. per share,
and future calls not to exceed ss. per share, at 60 days' notice, be
substituted for the present Guarantee Fund. The Shareholders' lia-
bility to be limited to the number of shares they hold. . .

That all profits accruing
expiration of three years, and
from theafterw loansards sahtatlii
bee
eanageortainf eaecdh aty etarhe,
and subject to the payment of interest at 51. per cent., such profits
shall be divided and paid as follows, viz,-,4-sths thereof as a bonus to
the Shareholders, 2-sths to be added way of accumulation to the
capital, and the remaining 1-sth to cededb to the Assurance Fund
of the British Mutual.
That upon such subsequent division. of profits the interest to be
paid to the Shareholders shall be at tge same rate, not only on the
amount paid up on the shares, but also on the capital increased by
such accumulations. •
And that when the capital, by means of such accumulations shall
have increased to double the amount actually subscribed, it shall be
divided and paid to the Shareholders in discharge of their respective
shares.
That in consideration of the anticipated advantages to accrue to
the British Mutual by the assurances which will be th9s gained,
that the British Mutual Society shall have at all times the guarantee
of the capital to meet unexpected claims by death, and in considera-
tion also of the one-fifth oftheproflts from the loans being paid to the
Assurance Fund as beforementioned, the British Mutual shall gua-
rantee, from the Society's funds, to the Shareholders the payment of
the interest, at the rate of 51. per cent, per annum, payable half-
yearly. By order,
CHARLES JAMES THICILE, Secretary.
17, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Directors of the British Mutual Life Assurance Society.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me Shares of 101.
each, in the Guarantee and Loan Capital of the Mash Mutual Life
Assurance Society, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, or
any smaller number, that may be allotted to me, to pay the deposit
of 11. per Share thereon, and to sign the necessary deed when
required.

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EAST and WEST INDIA DOCK
COMPANY.
The Directors hereby give nutice, that it is intended (unless the
charges shall have been previously paid) to SELL, en the 10th day
of March peat, such WINES, RUM, and other Spirits, as from
length of deposit or depreciated quality are not considered to be
worth the charges thereon, and that sundry parcels for which
WARRANTS have been issued will be included in such Sale.
A List of all the Goods may be inspected at this House.
GEORGE COLLLN, Secretary.

East and West India Dock House,
131lliter-square,Feb. 9, 1847.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26 CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital Z 500,000.
Empowered ►y Act of Parliament.
This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages
with respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured
ins, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for-
ettare of the Policy, two-thirds of the ureralurns paid (see Table) ;
lso the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in-
erests to meet other conveniences or necessity.
Assurances for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible
ates.

BRITISH GUARANTEE ASSOCIATION.
Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 9 Waterloo-place, Lon-
don, and 127, Princes-street, Edinburgh.
The Association will grant Bonds of Guarantee for the fidelity of
all persons employed—

1. In any of the Government Departments (under the recorded
sanction of the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, 19th
Feb., 1847).
2. Savings' Banks
Friendly Societtes
Loan Societies 1 Under the Special
Benefit Building Societies provisions of the
Government Annuity Societies r Act of Incorpora-
Certified by John Tidd Pratt, Esq., (for I lion.
which no stamp duty is paid).
Poor-law Commission
3. All Public and Private Institutions
Banks
lasurance Companies
Railway Companies
Mercantile Houses
And in all other Situations at home cr abroad, where security
against fraud or failure to account Is required. Rates of premium
14 per cent, and upwards. Forms of proposal may be obtained a^
9, Waterloo-place

By order of the Directors,
A. CHAMBRE, Secretary to the London Board.

THE CIGAR WAREHOUSES, LONDON.
The Union Cigar, equal to Foreign, 12s. 6d. per lb. ;
Fine Foreign Cigars, of all Makers, 17s. 6d., 18s. 6d., 205., !and
21s. per lb.; British made, from the finest tobaccos Imported;
Cheroots, 65.. Mexicans, 7s. per lb. ; Cigars, Cuba. 75., Ha•
vannab, 7s. 6d. Bs. 6d. per lb. ; „Cabanas and SUMS, Bs. 6d. per
lb. ; Principes, Lopez, Recompendzas, Esparteros, Dos Amigos,
Estrellos, Regalias, and Emperors. 9s. 6d. per lb., warranted first
quality.
Messrs. Tosswill and Co., Commission Merchants, Importers,
and Manufacturers, have a large stock of the above, well worth
the attention of large buyers. 6 and 7, Pudding-lane, Eastcheap,
three doors from Gracechurch-street and King William-street,
City. A pound sample o f each may be had where required.

PLA'

AA B. SAVORY anC
Silversmiths, 14, Corrihill
England—The best wrought SILVI
Pattern, 7s. Od. per ounce ; King'
following are the weights recomme
lighter or heavier, at the same pric

I SONS, Manufacturing
1, London, opposite the Bank of
ER SPOONS and FORKS, Fiddle
's Pattern, 7s. 2d. per ounce. The
coded, but the articles may be had
:e per ounce :
King's Pattern.
oz. s.d. s. d.
12 Table spoons 40 at 72..14 68
12 Dessert ditto 26 at 7 2.. 9 6 4
12 Table Forks 40 at 7 2..14 6 8
12 Dessert ditto 26 at 7 2.. 9 6 4
2 Gravy Spoons 12 at 7 2.. 4 6 0
I Soup Ladle 12 at 7 2.. 4 6 0
4 Sauce ditto 12 at 7 8.. 4 12 0
4 Salt Spoons (strong gilt) 2 2 0
1 Fish Slice 3 5 0
12 Tea Spoons 14 at 7 8.. 5 7 4
1 Pair Sugar T0ng5...... 1 5 0
at as a Newspaper, illustrated by
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had on application, or will be sent
I answer to a paid letter.

N A TIO NA L MERCANTILE LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIBTT,
POULTRY, MANSION-ROUSE, LONDON.
DIRECTORS.
ROBERT WILCOION, Esq., Chairman.
THOMAS SIDNBY Bsq., Alderman, Deputy-Chairman.
Edward Baker, Esq. (Gale, Baker, Wards, and Co.)
George Curshant, M.D., Saville-row.
William Lawson, Etsq. (Trower, Lawson. and Trower).
George Moore, Esq. (Groucock, Copestake, and Moore).
Nicholson, Esq. (J. and W. Nicholson and Co.)
James Peck, Esq. (Peek, Brothers, and Co.)
Giles Redmayne, Esq , New Bond-street.
Peter Rolt, Esq. (Brocklebank and Rolt).
Axagag ether advantages offered by this Society are security with-
out liability, economy in the management, and low rates of premium.
Claims promptly paid.
PROFITS TO POLICT-lIOLDERS.
(Bonus declared July 1, 1846.)

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183 S I 7 60 1,000 62 15 02415 4 248 4O
1885 7 41 1,000 39 16 0 14 7 3 144 80
1839 6 69 1,000 60 0 0 2A 110 224 33
1539 6 43 2,600 68 0 0 21 0 7 474 31
1840 i 44 1,000 36 001 9 6 I 202 27
1841 4 40 2,000 82 10 6tlB 10 0 341 ! 23
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J. JONES, Actuary and Secretary.

DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAIL.
THE HAGUE, FEB. 24.—1 n the sitting cif the Second
Chamber of the States-General to-day, the Chamber
adopted unanimously-Ist, the project of law for adding
100,000 florins to the Bth chapter of the budget for
1847, in order to defray the expense of commencing
the works for the docks and other public works at
Flushing; and 2dly, the project of law for adding
100,000 florins to chapter 4 of the budget of 1846 for
civil and military prisons. In the debate 'on the last
project of law, his Excellency the Minister of Finance
gave the satisfactory assurance that all the expenses for
the service of 1846 would be covered by the means
already granted for that year, and even that there would
be a surplus of some 100,000 florins for the service of
that year.
FEB. 24.—Tne most important occurrence in the
sitting of the Second Chamber tl-day was the fact,
that before proceeding to the vote on the second pto-
ject of law, his Excellency the Minister of Finance
delivered a speech on the result of the state of the
Finances for 1846. We have not time to enter into the
details which such a subject requires, and to which we
shall return when the speech is officially published ; but
it is sufficient to state at present that notwithstanding
the considerable increase of several chapters of the
budget of 1846, and that including the funds required
by the project of law which the Chamber has discussed
to-day, the Finances for the service of 1846 present a
surplus of nearly 100,000, resulting from the ways and
meane, besides a colonial surplus of 300,000 florins
above the original estimates.

COBLENTZ, -FEB. 22.—There is every indication that
emigration from Germany to America will increase very
considerably this year. The navigation is scarcely
opened, and a great mass of emigrants have already set
out to embark at Antwerp on the 25th.
BERLIN, FEB. 22.—The public are looking with ex-
pectation for the matters which will be brought before
the Diet. The report of a loan is contracUcted.' It is
said that the subject to be laid before the Diet will be,
Ist, The capitalizing of a disposal part of the interest
which the States of 1842 have assigned to meet the in-
terests guaranteed for some railway shares on the public
revenue ; 211 y, The abolition of the tax OR flour and
meal ; 3dly, The establishment of a bank, to be
guaranteed by the State, for the convenience of the
landowners. The Cracow Gazette again contradicts
the report that Russia is assembling a body of troops on
the frontiers. The reports that were circulated here of
extraordinary assemblages of troops in Prussia are like-
wise said to be unfounded.

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VIENNA, FEB. 18.—We have just learnt that the
loan of 800,000,000 of florins, at five per cent., was yes-
terday finally concluded with the banking-houses of
Rothschild, Sena, Arstein, and Erkeles. The further
particulars are not known.

MutAsEts, FEB. 25.—The Chamber of Representa-
tives continued te-day the discussion of the project of
law i-clative to g.old. coin. It also named the number of
thkexamining juries, and passed the final vote on the
prej,ectLof law relative to the arrondissement.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.-MONDAY.

A variety of investments, mostly of small amount, enable
us to submit a qbotation on all the events now in the market,
but at the same time render it necessary to state that betting
never was so miserably dull;; even the steeple-chase, on
which money has been laid out, was scarcely noticed. It is
only requisite to direct attention to a marked decline in The
Lamb for the Chester Cup, and to state that Glentilt was in
force for the Derby, and Nerissa for the Oaks ; in no other in-
stance does the business transacted call for more than a quo-
tation of the prices :--

LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE.
5 to 1 agst Mr. Preston's Brunette
8 to 1 agst Hon. Robert Lawley's The Roarer—taken
12 to 1 agst Mr. 0. Higgins's Pioneer—taken
12 to 1 agst Mr. Watts' St. Leger
12 to 1 agst Mr.D'Arey's Culverthorpe
NEWMARKET HANDICAP.
15 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Lynceus—taken
15 to 1 agst Sir C. Monck's Vanish—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Sir Martin—taken
20 to 1 agst Sir J. Hawley's Humdrum—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Devil-me-care—taken
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
10 to 1 agst Mr. Stephenson's Sheraton—taken
14 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Jenny Wren
25 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Pink Bonnet—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Devil-me-care
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
5 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Glentilt—taken
CHESTER CUP.
20 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Mendicant
25 to 1 agst Mr. Herbert's Antler
25 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Camera Obscura
30 to 1 agst Mr. Wilson's Punch—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. B. Green's The Lamb—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scett's Sir Tatton SykeS—taken and
afterwards offered
50 to 1 agst Mr. Hesseltine's Fitzallen—taken and aft off
60 to 1 agst Mr. B. Green's The Conjuror—tak and aft off
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Mangle's Golden Bee—taken and aft off
2000 to 20 agst Mr. T. Parr's Sylvanus—taken
DERBY.
7 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Glentilt—taken freely
28 to 1 agst Sir R. Pigot's Conyngham—taken
1000 to 30 agst Duke of Richmond's Red Hart—taken
and afterwards offered
1000 to 30 agst Mr. Gully's Allertonian—t. and aft. of.
50 to 1 agst Mr. O'Brien's The Liberator—t. to 1501.
50 to I agst Mr. S. Conway's Christoper
50 to 1 agst Mr. Stephenson's Black Dwarf taken
1000 to 15
500 to 10 agst Mr. Pedley's The Cossack—t. and aft. of.
2000 to 30 agst Mr. J. Rogers's Lionel—taken and aft. of.
500 to 5 agst Mr. L. Fox's Philosopher—taken.
OAKS.
13 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Nerissa
15 to 1 agst Mr. Blostyn's Slander—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Maid of Motherwell—taken.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—The Dauntless, new steam-
goftahtee ,
\ruin:lt
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at hceimcdh
Aarlgbee
rotf 11,RI
or.yJa
lo hyna
ch
tt,D oa7dl d ,mmaster
by a crew composed partly of dockyard riggers, and
partly of blue jackets from the Victory, was towed out
of harbour yesterday morning by the Echo steam-
tug, nearly to the Nab Light, whence the Dauntless
made sail, and steered down the channel with a
fine breeze at E.N.E. The Dauntless has a large
quantity of meal for the relief of the destitute in the
north of Scotland, after disposing of which she will pro-
ceed to Napier's establishment in the Clyde, to receive
her engines. The officers and crew employed in navi-
gating her are, it is understood, to return here by rail-
way, leaving Mr. Luke, inspector of shipwrights, in
charge of the ship.

Trite African steam-tug, Mr. Barker, master, returned
from the wreck of the Sphynx on Friday night, and pro-
ceeded yesterday morning with Mr. C. P. Bellamy, assis-
tant master attendant, and a large party of mechanics,
riggers, seamen, and marines, to take in tow a mooring-
lump and the two camels, which had been brought up in
the course of the week, and repaired for the purpose, in-
tending to go forthwith to the Sphynx. It having been
found on a former occasion that the camels did not tow
well by ring bolts, they were slung in a peculiar way by
ropes, and cleats nailed over the slings to keep them
in their places. Unfortunately they had not
calculated on any sea, but on reaching Spit-
head,- it was found that there was a strong
wind and considerable sea. The camels, which
were fastened side by side, fell to quarrelling with each
other, like Johnny Gilpin's two bottles of wine, and very
quickly disencumbering themselves of slings, cleats,
and all, took their own way singly through Spithead.
The African was in consequence obliged to cast off
and anchor the lump, and go in pursuit of the re-
fractorysu ur c cue
again,
da i
lne
vci
na tgc h i
tnhge,
bruugcahmt camels, which h
and sahreb o
two mooring lumps to be towed down by the
Echo. The African waited till 7 o'clock last evening,
while the necessary alterations and repairs were being
made, and then once more proceeded with them for the
wreck. We have not much faith in their efficacy, or
rather, we doubt the possibility of properly fixing them
in consequence of the surf. The Monkey steam-tug
came up to-day at noon with a large paddle-box boat in
tow, containing some of the heavy portions of the
Sphynx's engines.

From the -Cerneen (Mauritius paper) of November 28
we learn, that " Her Majesty's corvet
harbour,te, the Snake
anchored on Wednesday evening in that
hav-
ing on board the crew of the Levant packet, a vessel
belonging to this port, which was wrecked on the reefs
of the island of Cosmoledo on the sth of July last.
The Levant packet had left Nosse-Be the 28th of
June, with a crew of eleven men and seventeen passen-
gers. She had a cargo of salt beef for this place.
After fruitless efforts to save the ship, they took
the resolution to abandon her, but before they could
reach the shore three men were drowned. At Cosmo-
ledo, the crew of the Levant packet found five fishermen
who had been left there to fish by the Rosalie, of Sey-
chelles. This latter vessel was afterwards lost on the
1 island of St. Juan de Nove, but we know nothing of the
fate of her crew. The Snake arrived at Cosmoledo Nov.
2, and took off all the men of the Levant packet. The poor
wretches had subsisted for four months on birds, eggs,
fish, and turtle. An iron pot which they found on the
island, and a gun-barrel, served them to evaporate sea-
water and render it drinkable. On the 7th of September
a French vessel passed in sight of the island, and, though
she answered their signals, made no attempt to relieve
them. The Snake touched at the island of Glorioso,
and found there the wreck of a vessel belonging to Sey-
chelles that had been cast away on the 12th of May.
The crew and passengers of the Levant packet speak in
the highest terms of the commander and officers of the
Snake, who paid them all the care and attention which
their situation required."
The Fairy royal yacht, returned to this port yester-
day, after having undergone divers alterations, and will
be ready for her Majesty's service on the day appoir.ted
for the removal of the Court to the Isle of Wight.
The Dragon steam-frigate, Captain Ramsay, having
had her machinery temporarily repaired, is ordered to
ship another cargo of meal and biscuit for conveyance
to Ireland. She will commence loading-to-morrow.
The Volage, 26, at Devon port, is reported to be corn •
missioned for surveying service, by Captain Graves, late
of the Bonetta.
The Baretto Junior, transport, Lieut. Griffiths, Ad-
miralty agent, is coming round to this port from Dept-
ford, to complete loading with as much stores, &c., as
she can hold for the squadron under Sir W. Parker, off
i Lisbon, whence she will proceed to Gibraltar.

PRICE SD.

We have received letter's from the slave trade sup-
pression squadron to 'the 31st of Decemb-er, at which
date it was generally healthy. • From AseensiOn, letters
state. that ~severals prizes have been taken lately by the
cruizers to the soqthward, but the captures and captors
are not particularised. . The commodore started in the
Devastation .on- the • 26th, for Cape Vert, whence he
would go the round- of the station to make his
first official inspection:- , With the exception of
the Wanderer, = no- very serious cases ,of fever
had occurred in the Squadron. We regret to add, how-
ever, that Commander Gooeh, of the Sealark, 10, had
received a paralytic stroke, and, at the date of our
advices, was not expected to survive.
A coal depot for her MajeitY's steam-vessels on the
New Zealand station is ordered to be established forth-
with. -
Captain Corry, of the Superb, SO, at Lisbon, is ordered
to exercise the new frigate Thetis, 36, againit the Ame-
rica, 50, razeed 74, and report upon the trials of sailing
to the Admiralty.
It is stated that another experimental squadron will
shortly assemble at Spithead.
WOOLWICH, FEB. 27.—The Amphion steam-frigate,
Captain Woodford J. Williams, who is at present in the
Odin steam-frigate, conveying provisions to Ireland,
went down the river on Saturday, in charge of Lieuten-
ant Sibbald, to try her engines. Shortly after 10 o'clock,
a.m., Commodore Sir James J. G. Bremer, K.C. B. and
K.C.H., Superintendent ' of Woolwich dockyard ;
Captain Ellice, Controller of steam machinery; Captain
Austen, R.N. ; Captain Schwabe, of the Russian navy ;
Count Rosen, on whose principle the engines have been
constructed; Mr. Oliver Lang, Master Shipwright; Mr.
Lloyd, Chief Engineer ; Mr. Atherton, Assistant to the
Chief Engineer at Woolwich Dockyard ; Mr. Smith,
inventor of the screw propeller 2 • andiiller, of the
firm of Miller and Ravenhill, who conlitiateted- the en-
gines, went on board, and about 11 o'clock the vessel
left her moorings, followed the Black Eagle steam vessel,
under the command of Mr. S. B. Cook, master, R.N.
The Amphion had on board the whole of her guns,
consisting on the upper deck of two 56-pounders, of 85
cwt. each ; on the traversing platforms eight 32-
pounders, six feet long each ; and two land service
guns. On the lower deck, four 8-inch guns, 65 cwt.
each ; and sixteen long 32-pounder guns, 50 cwt.
eacia, with a large quantity of shot and shells.
She was in excellent condition for trial. When she
left her moorings the tide was running up with a strong
north-east wind against her. The engines, when set to
work, made 36 revolutions per minute, and gradually in-
creased their velocity to 44 per minute, which was the
highest number during the trial. The engines on Count
Rosen's principle are different from any used in the
Royal navy of this country, being on a similar prin-
ciple to locomotive engines, and acting horizontally
with a four-feet stroke attached to the axle
of the screw propeller with which sho is fitted,
and dispensing with the use of cog-wheels,
which were required for the Rattler, the Fairy, the
Dwarf, and other screw-propeller vessels. The engines
of the Amphien were only 150-horse power each, and
were found sufficient to give the vessel the speed of 643
knots in an hour and a half against wind and tide, and
when her full speed is attained she will average about
six knots per hour. The engines worked re-
markably easy, and with scarcely so much
noise as a pair of smooth engines of 20-horse power
each. The construction of the engines, on the horizontal
principle, gives them the advantage to a war steamer of
being considerably under the water level, and not liable
to danger except from shells falling perpendicularly,
which could scarcely take place at a long range. The
Amphion, during the experimental trip, was immersed 17
feet 11 inches in the fore part, and 18 feet 4 inches aft, and
the trial gave great satisfaction. Owing to the state of
the tide, she was under the necessity of bringing up at
Greenhithe until the following day. She is well ap-
pointed with stores, and has two of Porter's patent
anchors on board, one of 52 cwt., and another of 13 cwt.
2 qrs. Commodore Sir James J. G. Bremer, and the
officers and scientific persons who went down the river
in her, returned to Woolwich in the Black Eagle in the
afternoon.

IMPORTANT CASE.
DROGHEDA SPRING ASSIZES, FEB. 22.
(Before Mr. Justice PZERIN.)
BARKER V. TAYLOR..

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, an advertising
agent, carrying on business in London, against the defendant,
one of the provisional committee of the Irish West Coast
Railway, to recover the sum of 1,1881. 65., for advertising the
undertaking. The counsel for the plaintiff were Mr. Napier,
Q.C., Mr. O'Hagan, and Mr. Kernan, and the counsel for the
defendant were Mr. Tomb, Q.C., Mr. Holmes, and Mr.
Perrin.

The facts of the case were as follows :—ln the month of May,

1845, the project was first started, but did not appear befo-re
the public fully developed till the month of September, in
the beginning of which month the prospectus was issued
containing the names of a number of highly-respectable
merchants and gentlemen who formed the provisional com-
mittee. Amongst them appeared the defendant in that
capacity he was now sued. From the evidence produced in
support of the plaintiff's case, it appeared that the defendant
had given his name to the Irish attorney to the company on
the 17th of September in that year to have his name pub-
lished as one of the provisional committee. Ilis name,
with many others, was forwarded to London, and
was in due course inserted in the prospectus,
and also published in the Irish and London
daily and railway papers, and towards the latter part of
that month the defendant made an application, through the
company's agent in Dublin, for thirty shares to be allotted
to him. The shares of the company, however, were not
allotted, owing to the panic and other untoward circum-
stances. When it was fully ascertained that it would be
useless to prosecute the scheme under the then state of
affairs, it was abandoned by the English portion of the
committee. The Irish committee, however, continued to
meet, and have done so to the present time. At one of their
meetings in the month of December, 1845, it was resolved
that Mr. Kelly, their solicitor, should be sent to London, with
authority to make arrangements with the London committee
for obtaining the plans, books, and everything connected
with the company, and to ascertain the liabilities, and upon
this agreement the Irish committee, undertook to settle all
claims on the company, it being their intention to proceed
with the project. Mr. Kelly, thus armed, came to London,
and obtained from the English committee the plans, books,
&c., and went to the plaintiff on the 31st of December,lB4s,
with an advertisement, which was duly inserted on January
1, 1846, requesting all the accounts against the company to
be rendered forthwith, in order that they might be examined
and discharged. On Mr. Kelly's return to Dublin,
the committee met to receive his report, which
was appproved, and his exertions were highly
appreciated. The committee then forthwith passed a resolu-
tion authorising a circular which was duly issued, calling on
the allottees to pay 3s. or 4s. per share towards the expenses
incurred by the provisional committee, and thus to liquidate
the claims on the company. The defendant bad acted in this
and at nearly every meeting as chairman, and in that
capacity signed all the resolutions referred to.
A certified copy of the registration of the defendant's
name as one of the committee was put in, and the usual
evidence as regards the work having been executed was then

taken.
For the defendant, it was contended that the evidence was
not sufficient to warrant the case going to the jury, and that
after the two recent decisions in the English superior Courts,
the plaintiff must submit to a non-suit.
For the plaintiff, it was contended that sufficient evidence
had been adduced to carry the case to the jury, and therefore
he declined to submit to a nonsuit.
Mr. Justice PERRIN (addressing defendant's counsel)—
They refuse to be nonsuited, and insist on my sending the
case to the jury, and I believe they have a right to do so.
Mr. TOMB—Very well, my Lord. Your Lordship will of
course direct the jury to find for the defendant.
Mr. Justice PERRlN—Certainly. His Lordship, in sum-
ming up, said that this was an action of assumpsit for work
and labour done. The evidence was that the work and
labour was done in London upon the orders of persons named
Campbell, Aguilar, and Stuart. It did not appear that there
was any distinct communication between the defendant and
those who authorised the doing of any matters for which the
action had been brought, at least it had not been given in
evidence. It was stated that the defendant was a provi • -
sional committeeman, and having attended meetings, and his
name being published in the papers, he was said to be liable,
but little evidence had been given to show that the plaintiff
distinctly relied upon him or looked up to him for payment.
His Lordship then referred to the opinions of Sir Thomas
Wilde and Baron Rolfe in recent cases, and said that the
present action must be guided by those authorities; the
jury he therefore thought ought to find a verdict for the
defendant.
The jury then asked leave to retire, as a difference of opi-
nion existed among them.
Mr. Justice PERRIN said the case rested on a question of
law, and on such a question the jury should be directed by
the Court ; but if they wished to consider the case further
they had better retire.
After an absence of a quarter of an hour the jury returned.
One of the Jury.—My Lord, I am deputed by the jury to
ask your Lordship whether it be a question of law or a ques-
tion of justice that the jury are called upon to decide ?
Mr. Justice PERRIN.—Law ; I told you so.
Juror.—There is a difference of opinion between us on this
subject as to what is justice; for, if we were at liberty to
consider the honesty of the case, we could not agree to a ver-
dict for the defendant.
Another Juror. —ls it by justice or law we are to go, my
Lord ?
Mr. Justice PERRIN.—It is a question of law, and it is the
duty of the jury to bow to the Court on a question of law.
Juror.—We bow to your Lordship.
Mr. Justice PERM/T.—lf I am wrong my
set right. decision can be
The jury then found, as directed, a verdict for the de-
fendant.
The Counsel for the plaintiff shortly afterwards tendered
a bill of exceptions, which was received by his Lordship.

SUDDEN ILLNESS Or THE DUKE OF SOMERSET.—
It is with extreme regret we make the announcement that
his Grace the Doke of Somerset was suddenly seized with a
tit on Sunday afternoon last, at his residence, Wimbledon
I'ark. Dr. Parrott's services were immediately put into re-
quisition. Dr. Parrott succeeded in restoring thenDiguhkt in
Duke t()
consciousness,. but his Grace remained during the
a very precarious state, and yesterday afternoon the reports
of his Grace's medical attendants were very far from encou-
raging.
Mr. O'CONNELL'S HEALTIL—The answer to in-
quiries at the British Hotel, after the health of the Hon. and
Learned Member for Cork, is, that " Mr
well; that be rides out daily for two or threeO'Connell
hours
in
nqtihtee
day, and eats well, frequently
friends." Sometimes the mil% with three or four
answer is, however, varied to
" Mr. O'Connell is much better, and is doing well." As we
stated, however, on a former occasion, the state of the Hon.
and Learned Gentleman is represented, by persons who have
the best means of judging, as far from being " quite well ;"
and considerable doubt is entertained a: to his recovery.