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NOTICE TO EQUITABLE POLICY HO7D~ERS.
UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
8, WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL, LONDON.
The attention of the Equitable Policy Holders i. particularly
called to the Half Credit Scales of Premium of this ComFany, by
which Table the Bonus to be declared at the next investigation, in
January, 1850, may be secured at a present Annual Payment Of one-
half the rates charged by other Companies. In the event of death,
the sum insured will be paid, less the amount of Premiums on Credit.
Should the life insured survive the declaration of the Bonus, the
Policy may be allowed to lapse, and the Company will renounced I
claim for the Half Premiums which may be due thereon ; or, in the
event of the party being at that time in bad health, the Policy can be
kept up by commencing to pay the full Premium of the age as, when
first accepted. The above plan, originating with this Company, was
found peculiarly advantageous at the last Equitable Division in 1840,
when it was largely adopted, and many of the Policies then effected
are still in force, and large Bonuses have been added to them on the
scale of the following Table:—
Sum Assured. Time Assured Sum added to Policy.
6 years 10 months • . • .£683 6s. 6d.
5000 .......... 6 years •• •• •• •• 600 Os. Od.
5000..........4 years • . 4OO Os. Od.
5000..........2 years • • • ... 200 Os. Od.
Prospectuses and every information maybe obtained on application
to the Resident Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq. and E. Lennox-Boyd,
Esq., at the Offices, 8, Waterloo-place, London.

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
No. 8, WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL, LONDON.
THE SIXTH GENERAL MEETING OF PROPRIETORS.
The Meeting of the Shareholders was held in the office of the
Company, No. 8, Waterloo-place, London, on FRIDAY, July 10, 1846.
JAMES STUART, Esq., Chairman of the Board of Directors, in the
Chair.
The annual report of the receipts and disbursements of the Com-
pany, to the 31st of December, 1845, and of the amount of their
funds, and also the report prepared by the auditors of the Company
of the accounts of the Company, having been, in terms of the deed of
settlement, laid before the meeting and read, they proceeded, as re •
quired by that deed, to the election of four Directors and one Auditor,
in the room of those retiring at the annual meeting.
The Chairman then expressed the satisfaction which the Board of
Directors had in meeting the Proprietors of the Comptmy, aid hasilfig
an opportunity of making them acquainted with the state of their
affairs for another year. There is now laid on the table a detailed
statement of their accounts, framed by their Secretary and Ac-
countant, from the formation of the Company, twelve years ago, to
the 31st of December, 1845, which contains well-arranged informa-
tion, amply sufficient to explain to the Proprietors the continued suc-
cessful progress of the Company in the amount of insurances, of
premiums, of their funds, and annual income.
1. The amount of assurances effected in the year, from the Ist of
January to the 31st of December, 1845, is 405,6341.—a sum greater
by 62,510/. than in the year 1844. The regularly and almost un-
interruptedly progressive increase of the business of the Company
cannot be more convincingly proved than by reference to the amount
of sums annually assured by the Companysince its formation in 1834.
For the first seven years they averaged above 200,0001. a year.
Their amount in round numbers was :
In 1841
1842 .... •• • ...... 284,000 And in 1845 ...... • 405,634
1843 ••••••• • . • • • • 350,000
It may be proper to notice, that had all the proposals for insurance
offered to the Directors during the year been accepted the amount
would have been 623,9891.
2. The amount of premiums had of course progressively increased,
being—
In 1841.. ••.• . • • • £42,000 In 1844 .• ......... . • £63,000
1842....... 48,000 And in 1845 .. •• • ...... • 72,000
1843 • •
in 1844.
3. The annual income of the Company to the 30th of June, 1846
is, as nearly as it can be ascertained, 84,838/. 6s. Id., greater by
2,7371. Bs. 3d. than at the 30th of June, 1845. It is to be observed
that the amount of disbursements has been much increased, and of
income diminished during the last year, by the large expenditure in
the purchase of the premises, Nos. 8 and 9, Waterloo-place, inclu-
ding the houses formerly occupied by this Company and by the
London and Westminster Bank, and in the alterations and improve-
ments necessary to render them available for the purposes of the
Company.
The agencies of the Company, especially at Glasgow, Edinburgh,
Newcastle-on-Tyne, and Dublin, are in a flourishing state. The
amount of sums annually assured by the agent at Glasgow in the
three last years has varied from 50,000/. to 96,000/. The premiums
received from Glasgow during the last year, 1845, amounted to
5,250/.
The Proprietors are of course aware that, in terms of the deed of
settlement, divisions of the profits of the business of the Company
must be made at intervals of not less than five and not more than
seven years, so that the first division having been made up to the Ist
January, 1841, a division might have been made up to Ist January,
1846. On giving due consideration to the reports and calculations of
their actuary, Mr. King, who had bestowed great attention on the
Subject, and has had several meetings with them, it appeared in the
end to all the Directors, some of them being at first of different senti-
ments, that it was more for the Interest of the Company, and of
codise more expedient, te' delay the next division of profits to Ist
January, 1848.
It only remained for him to congratulate the proprietors on their
now, for the first time, assembling in a house and offices in point of
situation, accommodation, and in all respects so admirably suited for
their extensive establishment.
Ther had only one cause of regret, that the active and zealous
manager of the Company's concerns from the outset, the resident
director, Mr. Boyd, was prevented, by continued indisposition,
from having the enjoyment so fully as he otherwise would have
had, of the superior accommodation which the improvements
made in the house afforded. He was sorry to observe Mr. Boyd's
presence in the meeting, because he knew that it was at the risk
of his health. Indeed, notwithstanding his long•continued indisposi-
tion, he had very regularly attended the meetings of the board,
evincing the same zeal and interest for the welfare of the Company
as at any previous period.
Mr. De Castro conceived that, after the lucid explanation of the
Company's affairs given by their respected chairman, Mr. Stuart,
very little was necessary on his part to add to that satisfactory
statement; but he took this opportunity, in rising to return the
proprietors thanks for the renewed confidence they had just
conferred on him by his re-election as a director, to answer the
inquiries made by some of the proprietors as to the present ap-
plication of their funds. Besides their paid-up capital, a large
investment had lately been made in Government securities;
upwards of 171,000/. is due to the Company on loans, rever-
sions, &c.; and sums of considerable amount are in the hands of
their blinkers, and have been applied in the purchase of their valua-
ble premises in Waterloo-place. Their property had been uniformly
so securely applied, that their whole loss by bad debts in the course
of twelve years only amounted to 6001.
It was proposed by John Connell, Esq., seconded by M. D. Lindo,
Esq., and resolved unanimously—That the report be received and
approved.
Thanks of the meeting were then moved by A. H. Macdougall,
Esq., seconded by D. Q. Henriques, Esq., and resolved unanimously,
to the Chairman, Deputy-Chairman, an Directors, for the attention
and ability continued to be shown by them in the arrangement of
the affairs of the Company.
M., D. Linde, Esq., said, that he took upon himself to propose, in-
dependent of the foregoing resolution, a special vote of thanks to Ed-
ward Boyd, Esq., the resident Director, and founder of the Company,
for his indefatigable zeal in bringing it to its present state of prospe-
rity; which was seconded by John Mitchell, Esq., and carried una-
nimously. JAS. STURT, Chairman.
The most cordial thanks of the meeting were then voted to James
Stuart, Esq., the Chairman, for his able and courteous conduct in the
chair.

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HOME ClRCUlT.—Chelmsford, July 17.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PARKE.)
U 25 " k

George Hyams, ..,, was indicted for burglariously brea.
ing and entering the dwelling-house of William Farrer Ste-
yens, at Bulphan, and stealing a gun and other articles, his
property.
Mr. T. Chambers conducted the prosecution.
The circumstances under which this offence was committed
appeared by the evidence to be of a very outrageous charac-
ter. The prosecutor is a farmer, residing near Romford, and
on the night of the 18th of December he was awoke by hear-
ing a noise in the lower part of his house, when he dressed
himself, took a pair of pistols, and jumped out of the window,
and he immediately saw a man, who presented a pistol at
him, and with an oath said, " You you are dead," at
the same instant discharging.the pistol, and he was slightly
wounded in the head. He tried to discharge ene of his own
pistols, but it missed fire, and he then ran away to obtain as-
sistance, and as he was doing so, the man fired a second pis-
tol at him which fortunately missed him. On his return to
the house shortly afterwards he discovered that entrance had
been obtained by forcibly breaking down a door on the ground
floor, which had been bone apparently with a bricklayer's
hammer, which was found on the premises, and a valuable
gun and some other articles had been stolen. The prose-
tutor could not identify the man who fired at him as his
face was blackened, but the case was clearly made out by
the evidence of an accomplice named George Freeman,
who was one of the party concerned in the outrage. This
man stated, that on the day in question he started with the
prisoner and a man named Scovell from London, and they
arrived at the prosecutor's house about twelve at night, and
that Scovell then said he would not go any further Rithout
getting some money, and he then produced a pair of pistols
and a bricklayer's hammer, and he (the witness) kept watch
while the other two men broke into the house, and he soon
afterwards heard the reports of two pistols. He likewise
stated that Scovell and the prisoner blacked their faces and
took off their shoes before they went into the house, and that
after the pistols had been fired Scovell came out and said
they must be off, and they all three went away and slept
under a hedge, and next day Scovell and the prisoner went
back to London. - --
The prisoner, who appeared to be a hardened desperate
fellow, cross-examined the witness Freeman at considerable
length, and asked him whether he was not the ringleader,
and whether he did not take them down to commit the rob-
bery, and tell them he knew the house, as he had formerly
been in Mr. Stevens's employ.
The witness denied that this was the case, and said that he
should not have watched while the robbery was being com-
mitted if Scovell had not threatened to shoot him if he did
not do so, and he was frightened he would kill him.
The prisoner here exclaimed, " Ah, that's very likely.
You are a pretty fellow to be frightened."
Baron PARKE asked the prisoner whether he wished to put
any other questions to the witness ?
Prisoner (in an impudentlone)—No, I shan't ask him any-
.

thing more it's no use.
Some other evidence was then adduced, corroborating in
several important particulars the statement of the witness
Freeman.

The prisoner, on being called upon for his defence, merely
repeated his former statement, that the witness Freeman was
the man who planned the robbery.
The Learned JUDGE having summed up,
The jury immediately returned a verdict of Guilty.
Mr. Baron PARKE then sentenced the prisoner to be trans-
ported for 15 years, and he ordered that a reward of 10/.
should be paid to Smith, an inspector of the Essex•constabu-
lary, and another officer of the same force, for their activity
and zeal in tracing out the case and apprehending the prisoner.
The other man, Scovel, was convicted at a former assize, and
sentenced to be transported for fifteen years.
Patrick Connor, 30, was indicted for feloniously and
Maliciously setting fire to the common gaol of Romford, the
said building being said to be the property of the High-
Steward of that place. •
Mr. Marsh conducted the prosecution.
It appeared in evidence that the prisoner, who was in cus-
tody upon a charge of deserting from the 18th Regiment,
was taken on the 4th of July from Ilford Gaol under a mili-
tary escort, to be conveyed to the head-quarters of the regi-
ment, and he was placed in Romford Gaol at night for secu-
rity, there being no other prisoner at the time in the
establishment. Very soon afterwards the place where the
prisoner was confined was discovered to be in flames, and on
the door being opened he was taken out nearly suffocated,
and it was ascertained that the straw in the prisoner's bed
had been entirely consumed, and the building was burnt in
several places. Mr. Anderson, the governor of Ilford Gaol,
also deposed that while the prisoner was in his custody he
admitted that he had wilfully fired the place, and also stated
that he had been ill used in his regiment, and he would rather
be transported than go back too it.
The prisoner in his defence said, that on the way to Rom-
ford he had purchased a box of lucifer matches, and that
after he was, locked up he lighted his pipe and fell asleep on
the bed and it accidentally took fire. He said he had served
ten years abroad, and was engaged in the war in China and
other places, and it was not very likely he should wilfully
have set fire to the place when he might have lost his own
life. _ _

Mr. Baron PARKE having synmed up, the jury, after a
short deliberation, returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, July 16.

CROWN COURT.—(Before Mv, Justice CsEi'swEtr.)

Martha Duck, a woman aged 29, late of Scarborough, Was
indicted for having, on the 11th of May last, at Newby, un •
lawfully exposed to the cold her infant male bastard child,
with intent to kill and murder the said child.

Mr. Bliss and Mr. Travers conducted the prosecution. The
prisoner was not defeneded by counsel.
Wm. Wilson, assistant to Mr. Spink, butcher, of Scarbo-
rough; stated that on the llth 'of-May be• was in a field of his
master's, near the road leading from Scarborough to Whitby.
From that he could see into a field belonging to a Mr. Watson,
and there he pdrceived the prisoner walking about. Watched
her for some time, and saw her go into a barn which stands
in the field. She shortly after left the barn again, and
went near to a hedge. Saw her there squat down close by
the hedge, and, on rising, leave something like a cloth,
which she put on a bush. Afterwards she walked about for
some time, looking around her, and after that she lay down
for a time in a field belongifig to one Hopper. Watched her
further, the witness being under a cliff, but the prisoner,
getting on higher ground, perceived him. He then went
up to her, and spoke to her. She appeared to bs large
in the family way. This occurred at about 3 o'clock in
the afternoon.

Henry Richmond, another witness, said that he was in
Watson's field at about six o'clock' the same evening, and
there heard a noise as of the cry of a child, whichiproceedei
from the hedge bottom. A boy who was there and the wit-
ness went and found a male child under the hedge. It was
covered with leaves and grass, and there was some blood
upon it. the boy picked it up, and put it into the hand-
kerchief of witness, who took it to a Mrs. Ireland, living at a
short distance off. •

The witness stated to the Judge that there was no regu-
lar footpath by where the child was fourid. It was found at
about 200 yards from the barn. Saw no people at work near
the spot.
Mrs. Ireland said that she received the child from the last
witness, and observed that it was newly born, and that the
navel-strieg was not tied. She gave it a little gin and
water, and then delivered the child to another woman, by
whom it was suckled, and it was subsequently taken to the
Scarborough union workhouse, Newby township, being
within that union. •
Mr. Thomas Dunkerley, the master of the workhouse, said
that the child was brought there by Anne-Pexton, Mrs. Ire-
land's niece,' and Smallwood, • the overseer of the township.
The infant had severe fits for some days after it came, but it
was still living.
Richard Roberts, superintendent okthe• Scarborough police,
had taken the prisoner.opa the-14th of May. Told her what
for. She told him that she bad not had a child for 10 or

11 years.
Mr. William Henry Wilson, medical officer of the union,
examined the prisoner after her apprehension. She had
then been delivered of a child about a week. Mr. Cross, the
surgeon, saw her, and told her he was grieved to see her in
that situation, and then she said that the child was hers.
Witness asked her where the after-birth was, and she an-
swered that it was in the field, and said that she had severed
the navel-string of the child by tearing it with her lingers.
Mr. Richard Cross, surgeon, deposed that the prisoner told
him she was on her way to Suffield, a village about six miles
from Scarborough, at the time it occurred to her. Her
regular residence was at Suffield. The field in which she
was seen, and where the child was found, was not the nearest
way from Scarborough to Suffield. It would be a great dis-
tance round to go that way. Witness had before attended
prisoner, and in October last she was in a state of pregnancy.
The prisoner was convicted.—Sentence deferred.
Jane Briggs, a handsome and re.speetable-looking young
woman, was tried upon an indictnient charging her with
having, on the 3d of April last, at Eastrington, in the East
Riding, endeavoured to conceal the birth of her infant female
child, by putting the dead body of the said child into a pond,
and thereby secretly disposing of it.
Another bill of indictment had been preferred against the
prisoner, charging her with the murder of the same child,
but that bill the grand jury ignored.
Mr. Temple, with Mr. Dearsley, appeared to conduct the
prosecution, and Mr. Bliss to defend the prisoner.
The prisoner, it appeared, was a daughter of a fan.ner at
Eastrington. She was married about five years ago, but
about three years back her husband left her to go to America.
On the 12th of May, in the forenoon, awitness, Ann Jackson,
was crossing the foot-path which leads through a field
called Samuel Hill's close, in Blacktoft, which field lies near
the prisoner's father's house, and had formerly been in his
occupation. The witness saw a bundle in the pond, which,
having taken it out, proved to be the body of a female infant,
wrapped and sewed up in a piece of cloth or blanket. At-
tached to the bundle there was a brick, fastened with a
piece of cord. There was also the piece of a bedgown, and
an old silk apron, forming part of the wrapping round the
body. The body, with the clothes, were given to Mr. Raines,
surgeon, of Newport, and by him to Thomas Rennison, a
farmer, of Blacktoft, who placed them in a stable, where they
were locked up for safety.
Mr. Raines stated that the appearances of the child, though
the body bad become decomposed, were healthy. It was a
fine child; the lungs floated, and the stomach was empty, but
healthy. Es was of opinion that the child had not died a
natural death. There was extravasation of blood externally
on the chest, and he considered that to have been caused by
some blunt instrument during life—by a blow, and not by
pressure.
Mr. Hill, of South Cave, surgeon, agreed in the views ex-
pressed by Mr. Raines. The prisoner had been examined by
the latter gentleman' on the 15th of April, when he ascer-
tained that sho had had a child within a month or six weeks.
She told him tb,lt it was a still-born child, but she did not
know when, and had thrown it into the pond naked, and
with nothing attadled to it. She then mentioned no per-
son's name to him.
Matthew Maguire, superintendent of police, stated that
15th. He found her in an he took the prisoner on tilt:
un-
occupied house at Eastrington, along with two other women
(Ann Norwood and Mrs. Huddit;stone), where she was at
work, assisting the other two to deal: the ho4e. When he
told her he wanted her, she ran to the trout door and pulled
two cloths from her breast, and threw th,em down. Being
told the charge, she first said that she hat.
A had no child,
and afterwards that the child was still-born, and that she
had had it by :the pond in Sam Hill's close. The body
she had put into the pond she said. Witness found in the
house a piece of blanket, which appeared to be a part of that
found with the child's body. Took the prisoner to the,
Howden-station, and there cautioned her that she had
better not say any more to him about the matter;
but she would speak, observing to him that she
was in the habit of talkibg, • even to herself, and

could not help it. She then went on to contradict -her
first statement, saying that her reason for having made it
was, that the child being John Norwood's, she did not
want to bring him into trouble, as she loved him as well
as her husband. The 'child, she then added, was born in
her father's house on the 3d of May, and John Norwood
came to the house and into the room soon afterwards. He
took the child to the window to look at it; and then told her
it was dead, and that he would take it away, and asked
her if she had anything in the drawer to lay it in. She told
him there was some in the drawer. He then wrapped the
child up and took it away under his coat, saying that she
might trust to him; that he would have it buried, and that it
was all right.
The man John Norwood had afterwards been apprehended,
but was discharged.
Ann Norwood, sister of the man abovementioned, con-
firmed the constable's evidence as to the conduct of the pri-
soner at the house where she was apprehended. The piece
of blanket found at that house had been brought there by
the prisoner. The witness lives with her brothers, John
and William Norwood. John was at home on the 3d of
May. He went to bed at ten o'clock that night, and did not
again go out.
Margaret Ward, dressmaker, of Eastrington, stated that
she lives in a house near that of prisoner's father. On the
3d of May, between • six and seven o'clock in the evening,
saw the prisoneE,ppAs by her house, which is on the road
from Eastrington to Sandholme, wearing a silk cloak, and
carrying a basket. : She went in the direction of the pond in
question, which is but a short distance out of the road.
The defence offered by Mr. Buss upon these facts was
foundad on the supposition that all the prisoner had said in
her second statement might really have been the truth, and
if so, the Learned Gentleman contended there was no evi-
dence in the rest of the case to convict her.

The prisoner was convicted.—Sentence deferred.
The causes tried on the civil side have hitherto been of
little public interest, but there are more than the usual-num-
ber of special juries to come. Many of the common jury
cases have been struck out of the list, owing to the absence
of attorneys or witnesses.
Mr. Justice Wightman, in the absence of other business to
go on with, was engaged this afternoon in trying prisoners.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

Yesterday a man named William Slater, clerk in the
house of Keen, Tebbutt, and Kippin, of 122, Wood-
street, warehousemen, was brought before Alderman
Gibbs, upon the charge of having embezzled sums of
money which he was instructed to collect from customers
to the firm.

Mr. R. Hughes, of Nos. 70 and 71, Chiswell-street,
Finsbury, stated that on.the 10th instant, the prisoner
received, on account of the above firm, the sum of 281.
ls. 6d., from him, and signed his name in the book for
the amount, the signature answering as a receipt for the
money. _ _

Mr: J. D. Anderson, also a shopkeeper in Finsbury,
stated that on the same day the prisoner received from
him the sum of 12L, on account of Messrs. Keen, Teb-
butt, and Co., and signed his name for the amount, as
a receipt.
The prisoner, who it was stated had embezzled a
larger sum, which was paid to him by another concern,
was then remanded till Saturday week.
John Lye was brought up charged with stealing a
cloak, a shawl, and a coat.

The prisoner was seen in company with an accom-
plice, ooking about for something so snatch at. A gen-
tleman's carriage, which stood near Cripplegate Church,
presented an opportunity. The companion of the man
at the bar whipped the three above-mentioned articles
out of it, handed them to the prisoner, and away they
both ran down Cammomile-street. The sudden and dis-
heartening cry of" stop thief" had the effect of checking
and separating them. The prisoner dropped the pro-
perty, but was apprehended in his attempt to cut through
a lane.

The prisoner said he was as honest a man as it was
easy to find, but unfortunately for the reputation he was
entitled to he was poor, and while he was looking about
him for employment, a man who was running threw the
articles across his arm, and in his confusion he thought
it was his business to run after the person who had
given him the job, so after that man he certainly did go.
—(A laugh.)
It was stated that the prisoner dropped the articles
the moment the pursuit was commenced.
The prisoner—Yes, I certainly. did. I knew nothing
of the party that threw them over my arm, and how
could I tell'whether he came honestly by them or not ?
—(Laughter.) I wasn't going to take away things by
chance in that sort of a way.
Committed for trial.
•

LOSS OF THE MAIDEN CITY

STEAMER.

STRANRAER, TUESDAY NlGHT.—Considerable alarm was
created this morning by the receipt of a communication from
the coast-guard station at East Tarbert, distant about fifteen
miles from this port, announcing the wreck of one of the
Irish packet steam-ships off that coast, with 110 passengers
on board. Immediately Lloyd's agent and other persons con-
nected with shipping proceeded to Tarbert, and on arriving
ascertained the report to be only too well founded. The ill-
fated vessel they found to be the Maiden City, a three-
masted steamer, Captain Richard Crompton commander, and
that she had that morning driven ashore on the rocks under
the part of the coast called the Mull of Galloway. The vessel,
it appears, had for some time been running between Liverpool,
Portrush, and Londonderry, with passengers, &c. She left
Liverpool yesterday (Monday) at one o'clock, P.M., having
upwards of one hundred passengers on board. The weather
was as fine as could be anticipated, and so continued till
near eleven o'clock, when the atmosphere became hazy.
The course of the steamer was then, as we are informed,
N.N.W., approaching the coast of Wigton, on the extreme
south-western part of Scotland, between 120 and 140 miles
from Liverpool. It appears almost certain that she was out
of her track—whether from neglect or the force of currents
it is impossible at present to state. Notwithstanding the
dense state of the atmosphere, tht engines were kept
going, as it is alleged, at full speed, when about one o'clock
she struck violently the rocks before mentioned. A scene
of the most painful character ensued amongst the pas-
sengers. Such was the force of the shock as to carry away
part of her keel and hull, and the sea rapidly washing into
her, compelled the passengers who were below to come on
deck—many females, it is stated, being nearly drowned in'
their berths. The captain perceiving the perilous condition
of his vessel, and that she was fast sinking, kept her engines
going at full speed, and succeeded in running her nearer the
coast. Had the distance been much farther, in all probabi-
lity she must have foundered, and a fearful loss of life been
the result. Another fortunate circumstance was the mild
state of the weather—there being very little sea on. Signal
guns having been fired, assistance was obtained, and the ter-
rified passengers were all landed in safety. On the dispatch
of the last accounts from the spot it was expected the vessel
would become a total wreck.