The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-24 00:00:00

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THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1848.
The TWENTY - SECOND ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
of this Company took place on Tuesday, the 15th of February,
within the Company's Office, No 3, George-street Edinburgh.
GEORGE MOIR, Esq. Advocate, in the Chair.
The Report and Statements submitted by the Directors contained
a very satisfac!ca y account of the progress of the Institution during
the year 1847. It was reported :
That the 'number of Policies for Life Assurance issued by the
Company from the 15th November, 1846, to 15th November,
1847, was 621.
That the Sums Assnred during the same period, contained in
these Policies, amounted to 443,5781. 4s. I id.
That the number of applications for Policies made te the Com-
pany, and from which the above transactions were selected,
was 804, containing proposals for Assurance to the extent of
591,6631. Bs.
That the Annual Revenue of the Company, as at 15th November,
1847, was 131,3161. 10s. 7d.
That the whole amount of assurance covered by the Company's
Policies, in force at 15th November, 1847, was 3,212,0991.
14s. 10d.
The Report then proceeded as follows :
" The past year has been marked by the most extraordinary fea-
tures as regards commercial affairs and general credit ; but, while
all classes of society, especially the mercantile community, and our
public institutions connected with the general affairs of commerce,
have felt the pressure of the times, the Life Assurance Institutions
of the country have stood unaffected by the crisis. Nothing can tend
more to extend confidence in these institutions than this result ; and
it is hoped they will always be found affording protection and dis-
pensing benefits to all connected with them, unaffected by those
periodical changes.
" Notwithstanding the unfortunate position of the country daring
the pest year, the amount of new business transacted by this Com-
pany has exceeded to a large amount the business of the previous
year. The claims during the year have been greater in proportion
than usual , but when the increased mortality throughout the king-
dom generally is remembered, the Directors consider they have
reason to be well satisfied with the results."
♦fter the Report and Statements were read, the Chairman con-
gratulated the meeting on the favourable positioa of the Company,
and its prospects generally, and again brought under notice the
most prominent t.tatures in the Report. He drew attention to the
great increase of the business, the increase of the revenue, and the
rapid ac• umulation of the Company's Funds, which it appeared
11AD BEEN MORE THAN DOUBLED DURING THE LAST
FIVE YEARS.
The following Abstract, showing the new business transacted by
the Company annually since 1842, was referred te, as exhibiting, in
a marked degree, the growing estimation of the STANDARD in
public favour:—

Number of Corresponding Suns
New Policies issued. Assured.
1843, New transactions .... 383 ........ £348,135 17 1
1844, „ ~ .... 562 .. . • .... 387,38 l 0 0
1845, „ (Bonus year) ...• 698 •• •• .... 446,026 12 10
1846, ~ 11P •• .. 592 ........ 368,679 7 10
1847, „ OP •• • • 621
The meeting expressed entire satisfaction with the report and
statements ; and, after the election of new directors in the room of
those retiring by rotation, in aecordance with the Act of :arliament,
the establishment of the Company for the ensuing year was declared
to be as follows :

GOVERNOR.
His Grace the DUKE of BUCCLEUCH and QUEENSBERRY.
DEPUTY-GOVERNOR.
The Right Hon. the EARL of ELGIN and KINCARDINE.
EDINBURGH.
ORDINARY DIRECTORS.
Humphrey Graham, Esq., W.S., 14, Athoil-crescent.
John Sligo, Esq., of Carmyle, 15, Drummond-place.
Alex. James Russell, Esq., C.S., 10, Walker-street.
William Wood, Esq., Surgeon, 9, Darnaway-street.
William Keith, Esq., Accountant, 50, Castle-street.
John Robert Tod, Esq., W.S., 30, Moray-place.
John S. Nowblgging, Esq., Sheriff-Clerk of Roxburghshire.
George Patton, Esq., Advocate, 38, Frederick-street.
Alex. Clapperton, Esq., Merchant, 128, Prince's-street.
Charles Fearson, Esq , Accountant, 128, George-street.
David Smith, Esq., W.S., 2, Ainslie-place.
Eagle Henderson, Esq., Merchant, 16, Coates-crescent.
James Condit), Esq., Perth.
James Robertson, Esq., W.S., 28, Stafford-street.
James Hay, Esq., Merchant, Leith.
LONDON.
CHAIRMAN OF THE ROAD.
The Right Hon. the Earl of ABERDEEN.
ORDINARY DIRECTORS.
Thomas lioldsworth Brooking, Esq., 2, Alderman's-walk.
David Laing Burn, Esq., 12. Kensington Palaoe-gardens.
Alex. Gillespie, Esq., 5, Gould square.
John Lindsay, Esq., 26, Laurence Pountney-lane.
Alex. Macgregor, Esq., 31, Chester-street, Grosvenor-place.
John Scott, Bsq., Moorgate-street Chambers.
MANAGER—WiIIiam Thos. Thompson, Esq.
RESIDENT SECRETARIES.
London—Peter E wart, Esq. Dublin—Samuel Siltylle, Esq,
Gla.sgow—William Hunter, Esq.
82, King William-street, London, March 1, 1848.

THE LIVERPOOL and LONDON
FIRE and LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
Established in 1836. Empowered by Acts of Parliament.
TRUSTEES.
Sir Thomas Braticker,
Adam Hodgson, Esq.,
William Potter, Esq.
Offices be Liverpool—No. 8, Water•street.
DIRECTORS.
William Earle, Esq., Chairman.
William Dixon, Esq., William Nicol, Esq„ Deputy-Chairmen.
Swinton Benit, Esq., Secretary.
Offices in London-3, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house, and 2s, Re-
gent-street, Waterloo-place.

DIRECTORS.
William Ewart, Esq., M.P., Chairman.
George Frederick Young, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Benjamin Henderson, Esq., Resident Secretary.
Frederick Chinnock, Esq., Manager of West-end Office.
Offices in Edinburgh-29, Northumberland-street; Agents, Messrs.
Mackenzie and Todd.
Offices in Dublin-45, Dame-street ; Agents, Messrs. Smyths and

Du Bedats.
The amount of capital subscribed exceeds 1,500,00 e/. At the
commencement of 1848, the Reserved and Guaranteed Funds were
t.,gether 160,4871. 19s. 11. The liability of the proprietors le un-
limited.
The Fire Business has steadily increased year by year. The duty
paid to Government in 1836 was 3,4141.; in 1846 it reached 12,362/.
the Premiums are moderate ; the settlement of claims liberal and
prompt. Insurances are effected in the British Colonies and in
foreign countries, as well as throughout the United Kingdom.
In the Lite Department, simplicity, certainty, and large guaranteed
bonuses, involving no liability of partnership, with very reasonable
premiums, are characteristics of the Company. The anemia of In-
surances effected in 1847 was 154,5781.
Capital Sums, payable on a fixed future day, giving to Property
held under Lease for years certain, the same value as if it were
freehold, are insured by the Company. Policies of this description
are available for many other purposes as well.
Full prospectuses may be had on application at the Offices or
Agencies, and every facility and dispatch will be afforded to persons
desirous of negotiating business.
Applications for Agencies accompanied with unexceptionable
references may be addressed to the Offices of the Company in either
Liverpool or London. SWINTON BOULT,
22d March, 1848. Secretary to the Company.

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SELF-PRESERVATION; a Aliadical Treatise
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turity, usually acquired at an early period of life, which enervate
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Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel.
ON PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPA-
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RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 23.
STOCK EXCHANOR.—The following were the sales today :
—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction (late C.
and B), 13% Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 6% dis.—
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths (West Riding Union), 314
dis.—London and North-Western, 126—Ditto, New Quar-
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field, and Lincolnshire, Quarters, No. 1, 1 dia.—Ditto, Prefer-
ence, 14 (fig.—Midland, 99—Ditto, Halves, dis.—North
Staffordshire, 14 dis.— South-Eastern and Dover, 23%—
Ditto, No. 4, 31/9 dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N.
E. Purchase), p.
MANCHESTER, Maßcif 23.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 614 dis.—East Lancashire,
New, 7 dis.— Ditto, Quarters, I 3 dis.—Huddersfield and
Manchester Railway and Canal (29/. paid), 6% dis.—Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, Fifths, OA dia.—Dittb (West Riding
Union). 3 T.- l 6 dis.—London and North-Western, New, 21/2
p.—Ditto (Manchester and Birmingham). Quarters (A and
B), p.—Ditto, ditto (C), 21/2 p.-51anchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, Eighths, G dis.—Ditto, Preference, 3-16
dis.—Ditto (Grimsby), 501. Shares, 19% dis.—Ditto (Shef•
field and Lincolnshire), 714 dis.—North Staffordshire, 1 15-16
dis.—South-Eastern and Dover,23%—Ditto, No 4,31 A dis.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Mmteft 23.
STOCK EXCHANGL-The sales are—Eastern Counties,
1314—Huddersfield and Manchester, Thirds, 2 dis.—North
I9%—Ditto, Halves, 81/2—Ditto,Tbirds, 85s. 6d. dis.
—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (late N. and B.), 271/2.
BIRMINGHAM, Maacn 23.
STOCK EICHANGE.—The sales are—London and North-
Western, 126—Ditto, Quarters, 21A p.—North British, 19%
—Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 2% dis.—Birming-
ham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley, 3 dis.—North Staf-
fordshire, 11/s dis.—Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton,
Ifl dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 4 dis.—Ditto
(B), 565. 3d. dis.—Shrewsbury and Hereford, 58s. 9d. dis.—
South Staffordshire, 58s. 9d. dis.
BRISTOL, Mancu 23.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market is still very inanimate,
and but little business doing, and the sales were—Great
Western, 17/. Shares, 114 dis.

TRH LATE FIRE IN DUKE •TREET.--The fire which
broke out on Tuesday morning in the Grapes Tavern,
Duke• street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, was attended with
serious, although not fatal consequence, to every person
residing in the house. The person who was suspected
to have perished in the flames succeeded in fighting her
way through the flames, and was found lying in the
gutter plate, almost drowned with the water thrown from
the engines. She was carried down the machine be-
longing to the lloyal Society for the Protection of Life
from Fire. The poor creature, in order to reach the
roof of the house, was obliged to crawl upon her hands
and knees with the flames playing over her back ; in so
doing she was burned so seriously that she was obliged
to be removed to King's College Hospital, where she at
present remains.
Don Ibturitz, the Spanish Minister, arrived in
London on Tuesday from Madrid, to resume his di-
plomatic functions, after an absence of nearly six.
months.

IRELAND.
PROSECUTION AGAINST MESSRS. SMITH
O'BRIEN, M.P., T. F. MEAGHER, AND J.
MITCHELL,—HEAD POLICE OFFICE.
DUBLIN, MARCH 22.—1 n consequence of the infor-
mations sworn last evening, before the in.tgistrates of
the head police-office, by Mr. Hodges, the Government
Oiort-halid writer, Mr. Vernon, an officer of tha Stsmp
office, and Mr. Keruntii, clerk of the Crown, an intims-
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tion was made by Mr. Porter (one of the magistrates)
to the defendants, requiring their attendance, at twelve
o'clock to-day, at this police-office, for the purpose of
giving bail to appear and abide their (trills iu the Court
of Queen's Bench, on the first day of next term. When
the communication reached Mr. O'Brien, he was in,the
act of packing up his portmanteau, to proceed to Paris,
or the purpose of presenting the address of the Con-
federates to the French people. The necessity of
issuing warrants was obviated by the assurance that
the parties would attend, and long before the ap-
pointed hour, an immense crowd of persons, between six
thousand and eight thousand, congregated in Dame-
street, Parliament-street, and Castle-hill, in the vicinity
of the police-office. Their demeanour was remarkably
quiet and orderly. They neither indulged in cheering
.r groaning, until the defendants, accompanied by their
respective bailsmen. emerged from three covered cars,
and then the skies were rent with long and continuous
shouts of applause.
The presiding magistrates were Messrs. Porter,
Magee, and Wyse. Immediately near the bench were
Mr. Maurice O'Connell, M.P., Mr. J. O'Connell, M.P.,
Sir N. Fitzsimon (inspector of prisons, and recently a
magistrate at this office), Sir Arthur Clarke, M.D.,
T. M. Rey, Mr. J. Perring (son of Mr. Justice Perrin,
and nearly connected with the present Solicitor-General).
The room was crowded to suffocation. The defendants
having taken their places at the bar, a few minutes
before twelve o'clock, Mr. M. O'Connell, in a loud tone
of voice, said that if Mr. Meagher or either of the other
gentlemen required bail, he (Mr. O'Connell) and his
' brother John would be very happy to tender them-
selves. The offer witt.politely'declined by gesture, and
not verbally.
Mr. Porter then informed Mr. Mitchell that the in-
formation which bad been exhibited before the magis-
trates of that office, and on which he had been charged,
set forth that he, being the proprietor, printer, and pub-
lisher of the United Irishman newspaper, did on the 19th
of February, and on the 4th and 18th of March, 1848, in
said newspaper, unlawfully print and publish certain
seditious articles. The first headed " Striking Terror,"
the second " French Fashion," and the third (that
alleged to have been published on the 18th instant) a
letter addressed to the Earl of Clarendon, " Her Ma-
jest)'s Executioner-General and General Butcher of
Ireland."—(Loud laughter.) The worthy magistrate
here said he would hare the room immediately cleared
if such indecent interruption was again indulged in.
He then proceeded to inform Mr. Mitchell that his own
recognizances in 2001., and two solvent sureties for 1001.
each would be accepted for his personal appearance in
the Court of Queen's Bench in Dublin, on Saturday, the
15th of April next (the first day of Easter term), to
answer such charges as should be preferred against him
by her Majesty's Attorney-General.
Mr. Mitchell expressed his readiness to execute the
proposed recognisance, and tendered Mr. Arthur
O'Hagait, 29, Lower Fitzwilliam•street, solicitor, and
Mr. James M'Donnell, of William street, papermaker,
as his sureties. _ _ _

Mr. William Smith O'Brien, described as of Cayer-
moyle, in the county of Limerick, and Mr. Thomas
Francis Meagher, as of The Mall, Waterford, were then
informed that they had been respectively charged with
having, on the 15th of March instant, at the Music Hall
in the City of Dublin, spoken certain seditious speeches,
calculated to excite unlawful opposition to her Ma-
jesty's Representative, and the administration of the
laws in Ireland. The same amount of bail was required.
Mr. Francis Comyn, of Woodstock, in the county of
Galway, and Mr. Richard O'Gorman, of 23, Merchant's
Quay, merchant (the chairman of the meeting held at
the Northwall, on Monday) were tendered as Mr.
O'Brien's sureties.
Mr. Richard Davis Ireland. a barrister, and Mr.
William O'Hara, solicitor, of No. 13, Upper Merrlon-
street, Dublin, were nominated as securities for Mr.
Meagher.
No objection was offered by Mr. Kemmis, the clerk of

the Crown.
The several gentlemen named verified as to their sol-
vency in the usual manner, they were accordingly
accepted.
Mr. S. O'Brien said he presumed there would be no
objection to his being furnished with copies of the infor-
so ations.
Mr. Kemmis—They must be first lodged in the office
of the clerk of the Crown.

y.
Mr. Porter—The informations do not set out the
speeches in full—merely extracts. Howeyer, the course
I mean to pursue is to return the informations forthwith
to the clerk of the Crown. _ _ .

Mr. Kemmis—Then copies of them may be had.
The several recognizancos were then formally executed
and acknowledged, and the defendants were discharged.
Ucfore retiring, they took an opportunity of thanking Mr.
Porter for the courtesy with which he had acted towards
each of them. During the proceeding, which did not
occupy half an hour, Mr. Meagher amused him-
self sketching a spear bead and a pike, well
known implements of war iu Ireland. The paper
upon which those sketches were made was gazed
at, with much apparent interest, by many who
were prevented by the crowded state of the board room
from approaching the bench, or seeing " with their own
eyes" what Mr. Meagher had been doing, althougk the
fact was very soon buzzed about and applauded. After
the departure of the parties, the sketches were deemed
(under the peculiar circumstances) to be too significant
to suffer them to escape notice. They were accordingly
handed to the magistrates, the reporters for the news-
papers, and others. It was suggested that a Jac-simile
should be published in one of the illustrated newspapers;
however, if it be omitted, Mr. Meagher will, in all pro-
bability, otherwise take an early opportunity of evincing
kis notions of the respect and deference due to the ad.
ministration (of the law in Ireland. The defendants
were lustily greeted and cheered upon leaving the police
office, as were likewise the Messrs. O'Connell, for their
offer to assist their brethren in distress. Tke crowd
separated quietly, all was soon perfect tranquillity, and
the streets resumed their ordinary appearance before one
o'clock.
ALLEGED COALITION OF THE OLD AND
YOUNG IHELANDERS.

A large concourse of persons soon afterwards assem-
bled outside the office of the Irish Confederation, in
l)'Olier-street. There were about 5,000 present. They
were addressed by the leaders of the Confederate party.
Mr. O'BuiEsi was the first who came forward. He
said that the Government had at last honoured him with
a prosecution, and he was proud of it ; because he be-
lieved it would have the
.effect of making Irishmen, of
all creeds and politics, unite in putting down tyranny
and coercion.—(Cheers) He was happy to be able to
state that the Messrs. O'Connell had in the handsomest
manner come forward and offered themselves to go bail
for him, which showed the feeling of fraternisation
which the policy of the Government would engender ;
for his part, he would pledge himself to say and do more
than ever he did to procure for Ireland her native Par-
liament.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. MIIVHEL then came forward. He had been held
to bail for writing articles to excite discontent and dis •
affection amongst her Majesty's subjects; and he had
come there to admit he wrote the articles referred to,
and that it was for the purpose of creating disaffection
and discontent amongst the Irish people he had done so.
—(Loud cheers.) He was candid enough to make that
admission for her Majesty's Attorney General, and to
inform him and the other law officers, that be would con-
tinue to write, week after week, article a for the same
seditious purpose, and the moment he discontinued to
write them, and to swerve from the expression of the
same sentiments in public, at meetings, and elsewhere,
he hoped to be branded as a traitor.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. MEAGHER next came forward, and was received
with shouts of applause. He said as that was the last
opportunity he would have of addressing his fellow-
countrymen until after his return from France, he had
made it a point to be there to tell the " bloody Govern-
ment" that he was not afraid to meet their hirelings in
.
the Court of Queen's Bench, or a wider field.—(Loud
cheers.) The speaker made use of other very strong
and exciting language, which was loudly cheered by the
mob ; but from the crowd, and other difficulties in
hearing him distinctly, we abstaia from publishing them,
not being able to give his words exactly.
The crowd then dispersed, and a large body of the
police who were in attendance, in ease any disturbance
should take place, were marched back to barracks.