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TA NDARD LIFE AS
kJ COMPANY.
3, GEORGE-STREET, EDINBURGH,
82, KING WIILIA M.STREET, LONDON,
The NINETEENTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING was
held on Monday, the 16th of December, in terms of the Act of
Parliament by which the Company is constituted—
GEORGE PATTON, Esq., Advocate, in the Chair.
The Report and Statements as to the affairs of the Company
submitted on this occasion were highly satisfactory to all connected
with the Institution; and the Chairman, in an address to the Meet..
ing, directed particular attention to the following very gratifying
results:—
The number of Policies issued singly during the year is 562.
The Assurances proposed to the Coinoany during the year exceed
the large sum of HALF A MILLION STERLING—the
Assurances effected being nearly 400,0001., adding from that
source alone about 13,500/. per annum to the Company's
revenue from Premiums.
Large transactions have also been effected in other departments of
the business.
The Company's investments continued to be upheld at a high rate
of interest on unexceptionable security, chiefly Government
and Heritable, and notwithstanding the great increase of the
Company's funds, the return secured still shows an advantage
of nearly 2'. per cent. in favour of the Company above the
rate calculated on in their Tables for Life Assurance.
The number of lives which have fallen during the year amount!
only to one per cent. on the number of the Assured standing
on the books.
AND, IN ADDITION TO THESE RESULTS,
The Company have added, by an advantageous arrangement, 927
policies to their lists, through a transference of the business of
the YORK AND LONDON ASSURANCE COMPANY.
The Reports and Statements were unanimously approved of;
and the Chairman, after drawing attention to the important posi-
tion which the Company now occupy among the Assurance Insti.
tutions of this country, and the fact of the Company never
having disputed or compromised a claim, concluded by congratu.
lating all parties on the satisfactory results exhibited, and took the
opportunity of calling attention to the important fact that the
THIRD DIVISION of PROFITS among the Policy Holders was
to take place in November, 1845. He was certain that the advan.
tage of joining the Participation Scheme of the Company, before
the balance was struck, would not be lost sight of by intending
assurers, and he felt confident that there would be much reason for,
further congratulation when they next met together.
The MANAGEMENT was declared to
.stand as follows fir the
ensuing year:

NS.

GOVEHN',R.

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to them for their management of their affairs. They i
and
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of mariners and
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of p.litical condition that we have long ceased to pay
He moved that the report be received, adopted, arid
upr
Fl;Luterf,i)pfer,oni this countrst:, '
printed for circulation among the Proprietors. •
The C/lAIRMAN did not think it advisable even to
discuss the question of breaking up the concern. them as much attention as our own commercial interests
in that part of the globe would of themselves deserve,
The Directors considered they were doing the best
and moderate footing till times should Mend, ai„isiud
for all parties by carrying on the business on a safe Yet if we are obliged to confess that European politicians
Oth)ee.Loduttinierliiib,Spanish colonies was supposed to haze
have neglected the vast field which the emancipation of
bring them back to their former prosperity.
out great loss. With regard tn the fixing a time for liberty ard civilization, it must at the same
attempt could be made to break up the concern with-
tthitienesuhiel ahcakslicohwolkeeddgedthethasteetdhse
Nrvaenkin native
h growth,pedto of
the declaration of a dividend; '# would be seriously there, and that if our attention is recalled to these parts
taken into considerlition by the'Directors before the of the New World, it is only by wars or revolutions,
their
countries
i r government
per s
next general meeting.
carried on by the most revolting means, and to the most
An HON. PROPRIETOR asked how much of the unprofitable end. Meanwhile, however, the progress of
34,0001., stated to be the amount of bad and doubtful the successive military rulers of these unhappy
debts, bad been recovered up to the dates of the last
ienc u hasatil (lmthe e
he
been
in.
et
sirom
becomei
rapidties o f
asncrime
u monstrousaan sdtuoutn'
dmai
ninsgd-,
advices ?
The Citarastasi said the statement was taken from
the reports of their different managers up to the 30th saniation of those wilds, or the turbulent rivalsguinary, not only against the scanty Indian po-
uf June last, and they had pfu no reason to think that
their usurped authority but against Europeans
their affairs had been worse since. On the whole, who may have fallen under their suspicions, or n
they were 40,000/. better than they were last year. sought to elude their violence, that it ie''%
Some conversation on the dividend question ensued, more civilised nations to assert their rights, and to check
which was stopped by the Chairman, as not then a series of atrocities which, for cruelty and duration are
being before the meeting. literally unparalleled in the history of mankind. The
A question was asked as to the value of the secu- Rio de la Plata is one of those great testuaries of the
rity for the individual by whom the robbery on the American continent which seem destined by Providence
bank had been committed ? It was stated that his to open as it were inland seas to commerce and naviga-
security was 1,500/., but that it turned out to be of no tion, whilst the vast extent of the rivers which unite
employed the
avail ; inquiry had, therefore, been made into the
their waters in the mighty stream form a system of in-
securities of all the persons in eats-
terns] cimmunication throughout the continent from
blishment. the Cordillera of the Andes to the sea. So great are the
-
natural opportunities of the country, that, in spite of the
The report was then received.
insufficiency of the sparse and needy population, consi-
An Hon; Paoraivroa made a motion for expung- de bl tr di ' t .1 h • '
ra e u ng in erLs s are risen up at Monte Video,
ing from the minutes the resolution of the 24 day of on the left, and at Buenos Ayres on the right,
January, 1839, by which 3,5007. was annually placed bank of the river, and a large population of English,
at the disposal of the Directors as the remuneration French, and Italian traders are living under the
of their labour. Of this sum the Directors have only Monte Videan Government, where they have taken
taken one-half, or 1,750/. a year. The object of the refuge from the violence of the Government on the
present. motion was to fix-the last sum as the allow- opposite shore ; but tb.eir operations are impeded,
red
ance to the Direct Ors, which, the mover contended, exiof their persons are endange ' and the independent
was an ample one.
stenFe the B arala Oriental is threatened, by the
The motion was seconded, but exterminating, though unsuccessful war carried on
against it by RORZS and Oribe in the name of the Arger
1-
MT. C. CAVE moved the previous question as an tine Republic A recent event has shown the utter
amendment.
of ng to such Statestese e aws
It was seconded by Mr. VALPY, and on a shoe of' andfutilit oby servancesextendi used amongst civilised snapions; the
forl one
hands was carried; and the motion was consequently or two guns from the United States frigate Congress
lost. dissipated what was called the blockading squadron of
The retiring Directors-111r. Colville, Mr. Davison, the Argentine Republic in half an hour, and any well-
Mr. I'. M. Stewart, Mr. A. Stewart, Mr. Bruce, and armed merchantman might have done the same. But
Mr. S. Gurney, auditor, all offered themselves for
we have reason to hope that a more imposing and effirc-
re-election ; they were proposed, and re-elected with-
tuai intervention on the part of the principal Powers in-
out opposition, retested in the trade of the River Plate will eventually
After a vote of thanks to the Chairman and Board
take place. The Governments of Brazil and of England,
acting in conjunction with that of France, are said to
of Directors, the meeting separated.
contemplate measures which will at least secure the tran-
quillity and independence of the Banda Oriental, and
impose terms more favourable to the security of trade on
the Dictator of Buenos Ayres. The Government of Rio
Janeiro has shown, in the proposals which it has recently
made to England on this subject, a spirit of confidence
and goodwill towards us which by no means verifies
the sinister predictions of the Opposition as to Viscount
d'Abrantes's mission. It is probable that tke ar-
rival of Mr. Gore Ouseley, who has recently been ap-
pointed. to succeed Mr. Mandeville as the Minister ac-
credited by Great Britain to the States of La Plata, will
speedily remove the obstacles to trade on the river, es-
pecially when it is found that he is to be supported, if
necessary, in the most effectual mariner by England,
Brazil, and France. The intervention of England in
these questions is not attracted by the internal vices of
the South American Governments, but by the necessity
of protecting our own mercantile interests there ; but,
we trust, that in proportion as these Governments are im-
pressed with the necessity of remaining at peace, and of
respecting the rights of foreign nations, they will also
learn that they cannot aspire to the countenance and
amity of England, or of any European Power, unless
they acknowledge the laws of humanity, and observe,
even towards their rivals, some show of moderation and
justice. We employ no figure of speech when we say,
that we are at a loss for words to convey to our readers
any adequate conception of the barbarous acts im-
puted to the Argentine Government, that is, to
Rosas, and his satellites Oribe, the Friar Aldao,
and the club of the Masorqueros, a body of men ex-
pressly enrolled for the perpetration of the most san-
guinary crimes. It is true that at no very distant
period the natural talents of Rosas, his resolution, and
his apparent devotion to the interests of his country,
inspired some Englishmen of station and character with
a sort of respect for his government, and of indulgence
for his earlier excesses. But that time is long since past,
if we are to believe an hundredth part of the frightful
catalogue of atrocities which we have now before us in
the pages of the Tablas de Sangre, or " Tables of
Blood," and these facts, though published by his ene
mies, are many of them attested by eye-witnesses, whose
evidence we have reason to believe. Since Rosas raised
himself to the supreme power in 1835, down to the close
of the year 1843, it has been computed by S enor In•
darte, the author of these " Tables," that he, or his
immediate followers, have put to death by poison four
persons ; by cutting the throat, 3,765 ; by shooting,
1,393 ; by private assassination, 722 ; whilst in the
murderous civil wars of the last ten years nearly
15,000 men have been slain, every battle being
followed by a butchery of prisoners, and 1,600 captives
or wounded men have been put to death by the lance.
One of the first acts of Rosas, on the Bth of July,
1636, was to cause 110 Indians, who had been brought
down from the Pampas, to be put to death, and in order
to strike terror into the population of Buenos Ayres,
they were taken out in dozens, and shot before all the
people. Four of their chiefs were brought to the bar-
racks, where they had their throats cut, along with two
little children I Every day brought with it some fresh
atrocity in this calendar of bloodshed. We can only
select one or two out of many hundred examples. The
war and subsequent persecution of the party known as
the" Unitarians," in opposition to Rosas, as the head of
the Federalists, was conducted with unrelenting cruelty.
" Death to the savage Unitarians" was his rallying cry
and the test of allegiance to his person. A witness
named Jose Ramos made oath, before 12 Commissioners
assembled at Monte Video, that while he was with
Rosa's army he saw many of the prisoners castrated
before they had their throats cut, and that he knew an
Englishman, whose name was William, who was mur-
dered, with a woman and child only seven years old.
Similar massacres were common throughout the war.
The word " Resbalosa" was invented by Roam to
convey to his infernal agents, the Masorqueros, a
particular mode of dispatching their victims. It
meant that they were to be tied up naked, with their
hands behind their backs, whilst the assassins cut their
throats slowly with knives or a saw ; and this horrible
torture was accompanied by a song made for the occa-
sion. The slightest trifles afforded a sufficient pretext
for these monstrous cruelties, which partook rather of
the amusements of cannibals than the known practices
of wars or persecutions even in the most fanatical age.
One man was shot in prison for wearing a fancy dress
on his way to see his mistress ; another for having
steered a Monte Videan barque ; in the month of Octo-
ber, 1842, the Masorqueros repaired every night to the
city of Buenos Ayres from Rosas's camp, or rather Gol-
gotha, called the " Santos Lugarea," hard by the walls,
to murder and pillage the inhabitants, no less than 400
of whom were slaughtered in their houses by these ruf-
fians in three weeks. In actual war these horrors were
all redoubled. The taking of Catamarca by Mariano
Mazy in 1842, when he made a pile of the heads of 600
of the inhabitants, beheaded in the market-place ; and
the deeds without a name perpetrated by the Friar
Aldao (another of Rosa's officers), as Governor of Men-
doza, baffle all description, and exceed the atrocities of
the French Reign of Terror itself. But this Argentine
Reign of Terror has been going on for eight years—it is
still going on with the same fury, or, if checked, is only
checked by the want of victims in a country where the
population has already been decimated by these mis-
creants. We have said enough—perhaps too much—
though we have only opened at random the frightful
record in which these acts are enrolled. They are still,
we repeat it, going on ; they are at this instant inflict-
ing pangs of torture and of grief of which the natives of
this Christian land cannot in the worst hours of their
extremest misery form more than a vague conception.
These horrors have engendered a frightful indifference
to human life and to all the ties which render society
sacred and secure. The character of Rosas is that of the
race to which he belongs, and he is prouder o
than of the poli-
tical f' his reso.
lotion and address among the Gauchos
power he has acquired and exercised with such
ruthless severity. It must _
_ _
be added, that the lives of
even the best of his rivals have been equally disgraced
by acts of unjustifiable treachery ery
and violence, as, for
shot the President Dor-
instance, when General Lavelle
rego, after becoming his prisoner of war. But if there
be in this man any quality above that of a merciless ty-
rant, and if his past acts have been governed by a sys-
tem of policy, and not by the mere sanguinary passions
ascribed to him by his enemies, it is well even for him
that an end should be put to these deplorable conflicts,
and that the Governments of the Plata should be made
to acknowledge, that where the mercantile interests of
foreign states are sacrificed to incessant civil broils, those
states must provide for the protection of the interests of
their own subjects, and endeavour to restore that peace
to the country which can alone render its internal go-
vernment respected and secure.

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His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH and QUEENSBERRY.

DEPUTY-GOVERNOR.
The Right Hon. the Earl of ELGIN and KINCARDINE.
DIRECTORS, •
IN EDINBURGH.'
Thomas Innes, Esq. J. M. Melville, Esq.
Eagle Henderson, Esq, Humphrey Graham, Esq.
David Smith, Esq. •'• • j John Sligo, Esq,
Adam Paterson, Esq. , , Alex. James Russell, Esq.
James Robertson, Esq. William Wood, Esq,
James Hay, Esq. - William Keith, Esq.
George Moir, Esq. # John Robert Tod, Esq.
John Stewart Newbigging,

IN LONDON.

Right Hon. Lord E. Bruce, M.P. William Haigh, Esq.
Sir James Eyre, M.D. Edward Thomas Whitaker, Esq.
Matthew Forster, Esq., M.P, George Frederick Young, Esq.

James Gadesden, Esq.
MANAGHIL—WiIIiam Thotnas Thomson, Esq.
THIRD DIVISION OF PROFITS.

The Third Investigation of the Company's Affairs, with refer.
ence to the approaching Division of Profits, is now in progress;
and parties assuring before the close of the lista in November, 1845,
will participate. •
Looking to the prosperous condition of the Company, and the
large additions to Policies declared to 1835 and 1840, there are
great inducements to Parties assuring to give the Standard a pre-
ference. By order of the Directors,
PETER E WART, Resident Secretary.
82, King William-atreet.

ARGUS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY
39.
EMPOWERED by STHROOMOPECRI AL. ACT ofPARLIAMENT,
5 and 6 Will. IV., c. 76.
THOMAS FARNCOMB, Esq., Alderman, Chairman.
WILL I A.M LEAF, Esq.. Deputy Chairman.
Richard E IlArgen Esq. James CHB. Esq.
William Banbury, Esq. [turd Ingleby Esq.
E-dward Bates, Esq. Thomas Kelly Esq.. Ald.
Thomas Camplin, Esau Jeremiah Pilc'her, Esq.
JohnP.
Humpheey. Esq., Alderman, Lewis Pocock, Esq.
PIITSICIAN—Dr. Jeatll•eson, 2, Finsbury-square.
SURGEON .-W. Coulson, Esq ,2, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
CONSULTING Acruartv—Professor Hall, of King's College.
In addition to LOW RATES OF PREMIUM
the subscribed Capital of L 300,000. the Assured
have the security of the Company's Inco.,e of ne..rl y .fr0,004:0 per
annum, yearly ini•reasing, and an accumulating Assurance Fun.l in-
vested in Government and other available securitie', of considerably
la ger amount than the estimated liabilities f the Company.
The rates of premium are reduced to th • lowest scale compatible
with the socuritt of the Assured, and the stability of the Company,
thereby, in effect, riving to every Policy Holder an immediate and
certain Bonus without rid:. In lieu of the de.femst and frequently
delusive prospect of a periodical division of Profits.
ANNUAL PREMIUM TO ASSURE £lOO.

Age. For One Yiar.
20 SO 17
30 1 1 8
40 1 5 •
50 1 14 1
60 3 2 4

For Serea Years. I Whole Term.

XII 19 1
1 9. 7
1 6 11
1 19 10
3 17 0

£1 11 10

2 0 7
2 14 10
4 0 11
6 0 10

One-third of Whole Term" Premium may remain unpaid at
5 per cent. compound interest, as a debt upon the policy for I.fe. or
nay be paid off at any time without notice.
In Assurances for Advances of Money, as security for debts or as
a provision for a family. when the least present outlay is desirable,
the varied and comprehensive tables of the Argus Office will be
found to be particularly favourable to the Assured
The Medical Officers attend daily ate Quarter before Two o'Clock
EDWARD BATES, Resident Director.
A liberal Commission to Solicitors and Agents

IILVER SUPERSEDED, and those corrosive
and injurious Metals, called Nickel and German silver, sup-
planted by the introduction of a new and perfectly matckless
ALRATA PLATE.

FREEMASONS' AND GENERAL LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY,

DIVIDENDS,

Notice is 'hereby given that from and after the 9th instant the
HALF-YEARLY DIVIDEND to the 31st ultimo will be in COURSE
of PAYMENT to the respective Shareholders. -
JOSEPH BERRIDGE, Secretary.
I I, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, Jan. I, 1845.

SCOT'T'ISH EQUITABLE LIFE ASSUR-
IJ SOCIETY,
Incorporated by Royal Charter. Established 1831.
Head Office, 26, St. Andrew's-square, Edinburgh ;
• London Office, 61 A, Moorgate-street.
PRESIDENT.
Ills Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH and QUEENSBERRY.
VICE-PRESIDENTS.
The Right Hon.-Lord Gray.
David M. M. Chrichton, Esq., of Rankellour.
ROBERT CHRISTIE:, Manager.
The leading principle of this Mutual Assurance Society is, that the
whole Profits are divisible amongst the Policy Holders every three
years. In illustration of the eminent success which has attended the
Society, it may • be stated that the additions made to Policies have
been at the rate of 2 per cent. per annum on the. sum assured and on
the vested bonus.
Thus the holder of a Policy for 1,0001. effected on the Ist of March,
1832, will, if it become a claim during the present Year, be entitled
to 1,2971.; or, if effected on or before the Ist March, 1833, to 1,2751.,
and so on as regards other Policies.
The Accumulated Fund. exceeds 260,000/., and the Annual Revenue
is above 70,0001.,,the whole being in a course of steady and increas-
ing prosperity.
No other Life Assurance Institution whatever can warrantably
hold out greater advantages to parties Assuring than this Society does.
WILLIAM COOK, Agent for London.

61 A, Moorgate-Street.
Policies erected, Wore thelstpfMarch partlaipate in a Cull year's
bonus.

NINETT-FIRST SALE.
CUSTOICHOUSE, LONDON, JAN. 13, 1845.

FOS by Order of the lion. COMMIS-
l?
SIONERS of HER MAJESTY'S CUSTOMS, at Twelve
o'Clock at Noon precisely, on MONDAY 13th, TuesuaT 14th,
WizursEsnaY 15th, THURSDAY 16th, and Fitto4T, 17th of
January, 1843, at the COMMERCIAL SALE.ROOMS,
Mincing.lane.
The following GOODS for HOME CONSUMPTION:—

Accordions, artificial flowers, beads, musical boxes, braces,
breech heads, bandannas, Buhl boxes, ladies' sags, bonbon figures,
camailes, Dutch clocks, ormolu, porcelain, bronze, and other
clocks, chains, coutille, coral beads, chemical glasses, fine woollen
cloth, china ware, cambric handkerchiefs, chandeliers, copper
matrices, cutter with spars, sails, boat, &c , dessert sets, ladies'
writing desk, dolls, embroidered muslin, embroidery, embroidered
cambric handkerchiefs, flute by " Godfroy," a Paris, furniture,
gold rings, flint and cut glass, garters. jewel casts, mock jewellery,
lute strings, pillow lace, matchsticks, merinoes, mousseline de
laines, British machinery a quantity of card clothing being used
in the manufacture of linens or woollens, neckerchiefs, needle-
work, ceillets, opera glasses, coloured porcelain, Chins silks
(plain), silk plush, perfumery, pianofortes, penholders, priests'
vestments, preserved vegetables, erc., perfume stands and cases,
shawls, silk monkies, silk mitts and gloves, sheep skins dressed
and dyed, slipper pieces, cigar cases, sofa, snuff boxes, human
teeth, ,tea caddies (lacqu. red), table and toilet cabinets, toys,
tables, waistcoatings, wire, gold and silver watches, wardrobes,
watchmaker's saws,' manufactured and unmanufactured tobacco,
cigars, cheroots, tea, coffee, sugar, wine, mixed spirits, brandy,
rum, Geneva, squirrel tails, lacquered Russian bowls, &c., &c.

C. WATSON, 41 and 42, Barbican, and 16, Norton Folgate, aided by

a person of Science in the amalgamation of Metals, has succeeded in
bringing to Public Notice the most beautiful Article ever yet offered ;
possessing all the richness of Silver in appearance, with all its dura-
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it does, a chemical Process, by which, all that is nanseens in ■tined

PUBLICATIONS.

NOW FIRST PUBLISHED 111011 THE ORIGINAL MSS.
Now ready, Two Vols. Svo., with Portraits,
311:3101-RS OF
THE REIGN OP GEORGE II
By HORACE IVALPOLE, Earl of Orford.
Edited, with N rtes, &c., by Sir DEN IS LE MARCHANT, Bart.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street
(Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty).

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an
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Metals is entirely extracted—resisting all Acids—may be cleaned as
silver, and is manufactured into every Article for the Table and
Sideboard:—
Threaded.
30s.
1.55.
12s. Gd.
3a.

Fiddle.
Table Spoons and Forks, 16s. Gel. doz.
Desert Ditto ...• .. 12s. 6d.
Tea 5pe0n5........ •• . ss. 6d.
Sugar Tongs • ... Is. 3d.

King's.
15s.
.28s.
138. id.
3s. Gd.

DECLARATION OF THE GUARDIANS OF BRENT,
IT DEvo N.
AL SE'S SCORBUTIC DROPS.
A SURE CURE FOR BAD LEGS.
The following case has excited so much interest, that the Guardians
of the parish of Brent, Devon, have considerel it their duty to sign
their names to the accompanying important declaration :
We, the .ndersignell, solemnly declare that before Thomas Ro-
bing, one of our parishioners, commenced taking " Halse's Scorbutic
Drops," he was literally covered with large running wounds (some
of them so large that a person mig t have laid hi- fist in them); that
before he had finished the first bottle he neticed an improvement,
and that by continuing them ter some time, he got completely
restored tee health, after everything else had failed. He had tried
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Signed by John Elliott, sets., Lord of the Manor, John Manning,
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" IMPURITY OF THE BLOOD THE CAUSE OF SCURVY,
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r It is really astonishing that so many persons should be content
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COLONIAL BANK.
The fourteenth Half-yearly General Meeting of
the Proprietors of the Colonial Bank was held at the
London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, yesterday, at one
o'clock, J. Colville, Esq., in the chair. The business
was that of receiving the usual report of the Com-
pany, and a statement. of accounts respecting its
affairs, and to elect Directors and an Auditor. There
was a full attendance of Proprietors.
The CHAIRMAN opened the proceedings by calling
on the Secretary to read the advertisement for the
meeting, and the report. •
The SECRETARY read this document, prefacing, it,
however, by the statement of accounts above men-
tioned. The following are the details of it :—Denrs:
Circulation, 182,6771. 7s. Gd.; Deposits and other
liabilities, 438,0011.25. Bd. ; Paid up capital, 500,000/. ;
Profits, 11,120/. 7s. 6d.; Total, 1,131,798/. 17s. Bd.
ASSETO: Specie,, 236,1951. 12s. sd. ; Due-to Bank in
the Colonies on Bills Discounted and Purchased, in-
cluding those past due, but reported good,
409,022/. 17s. 4d. ; Due to ditto on Cash Credits and
Current Accounts, 139,661/. 15s. Bd.; Due to ditto in
London on -Bills Remitted, Cash at Bankers, &c.,
234,668/. Os. 7d. ; Balance of bad and doubtful debts,
83,1751. 13s. 6d.; Bank premises and furniture in
London and the Colonies, 22,613/. 19s. 7d.; Balance
of Preliminary Expenses, 6,5051. 18s. 7d.—Total,
1,131,798/. 17s. Bd.
The report commenced by stating that the Board
of Directors still considered it proper to class-under
the head of bad debts those which were doubtful, as
well as those which had been - found to be bad. It
stated, also, that the Directors felt compelled again
to recommend the Proprietors to abstain from de-
claring a dividend, and to allow the amount of the
profit made up to June, 1844, after the deduction of
expenses, to be carried to the credit of the bad debt
account. It occasioned the Directors much regret
to have to renew this recommendation to the Pro-
prietors, but they felt persuaded, under their present
circumstances, it would be the wisest course they
could •piirsue. They trusted the period would soon
arrive when they should feel justified in recom-
mending a portion of their profit to be applied to the
payment of a dividend. The amount of their profit,
though larger than in the preceding half-year, was
still less than what the Directors anticipated when
the sugar duties and other questions shall have been
placed on a more satisfactory basis, which would
enable them to extend the business of the corporation
to a greater extent than they were able to do while
these questions remained in a state of uncertainty.
They continued to conduct -their affairs with extreme
caution, which, though it restricted their profits, they
considered necessary to safety. They thought it more
desirable to realise a comparatively small profit, than
to make apparently large gains, attended with extra-
ordinary risk. The Directors were happy to be able
to say that the business of the Imlf-year just ended,
up to the latest dates in their possession, was going
on satisfactorily.
The CuatamaN would not trouble the meeting
with any observations in addition to the report, but
at once move that it be received.
Mr. LEVI was sorry to see the respectable Chair-
man, and so many gentlemen of high standing, as-
sembled at all on this occasion. He thought it would
he far better if they would dissolve the Company, and
let them all get something out of the wreck of their
affairs. He was sorry to hear the Chairman, and
such a man as Mr. Maxwell Stewart, brought toge-
ther on such a forlorn hope. If they had broken up,
as he (Mr. Levi) had suggested last year, they might
have secured 18/. a share ; he was sure, if they con-
tinued another year, they should not get' eighteen-
pence. He saw it would be,useless for him to make
any motion, hut he again urged them, as the concern
did not answer, to break it up. .It was merely kept
going to pay people at hurtle and abrOad their salaries—
men who never looked into the box for two years,
and, when they did, found there were 12,0001. gone. .
Mr: C. CAVE was entirely opposed to the views of
the lion. Proprietor, which had been but faintly sup-
ported by gentlemen in other parts of the room.
With those condemnatory remarks, in which he had
rather hastily indulged, he had neither sympathy
nor feeling ; and he was much mistaken if all the
gentlemen present were not opposed to the opinions
of Mr. Levi. Far from indulging in such gloomy
anticipations, he thought there was much to console
them in their position. lle admitted that their af-
fairs did not come up to what he had hoped, yet a
little consideration removed much of that disappoint-
ment. They must recollect the state in which they
had been, and from that they could not expect to rise
ati
d, oncehe thought
a condition i
twould be dangerous, of vitality
and in it he
should see the seeds of future misfortune. He would
rather pursue a slow and certain course, which would
be likely to lead to the restoration of a moderate
dividend and the permanent continuance of it. Very
much of their present difficulties they owed to the
large dividend heretofore declared in that room ; if
it had been made less they would not have been in
their present straitened condition. But it was the
Proprietors who shared the benefit of that mistake,
and they should not grumble so unmercifully as Mr.
Levi had done at the present privation. They could
not blame the Directors for what had been
caused by the state of affairs in the West
India colonies ; they had been disastrous, and the
colonies had had to struggle for their very existence.
Men who in one year were possessed of large pro-
perty, had by the proceedings of the mother country
been left in a destitute state. But it was expected
that Sir Robert Peel Would, in the next session of
Parliament, permanently settle the question of the
sugar duties. Sugar, they were all aware, was the
great staple of the West Indies, and till the duties on
it were permanently fixed, it was quite impossible
that their affairs could be placed on a sure founda-
tion. The report said the Director, trusted soon to
be able to recommend the declaration of a dividend.
Different persona would give a different interpreta-
tion.itil what had meeting. In one
had fallen from
to the word " soon ;" he confessed he was. one of
the sanguine ones, and he hoped to hear that declara-
pti,o,inntmoardiley
datidthieleir next half-yearly
agree
with
Mr. Levi. The gentlemen present were certainly
men of the highest character in the City of London,
and he considered the Proprietors Were much indebted

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IVT APOLEON : an Epic Poem, in Twelve Books.
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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION.
Yesterday a friendly meeting of the lute Robert
Nicoll, firmetly editor of the Leeds Mercury, was
held in the National Hall, High Holborn, to comme-
morate the anniversary of his birthday. A very
crowded assemblage filled the Hall at the hour an-
nounced for tea, and, after the tables had been cleared,
P. Taylor, juri., Esq.; toonhe chair, and was' sup-
ported by- George Thompson, Esq:,.-J 71. Parry,
Esq., Dr. EpPs-,-and-others of the ultra-Liberal party.
The professionals engaged—Mrs: A. Newton (late
Miss Ward), Miss Ilinks, Mr. Shoubridge, and Mr.
J. B. Collett—sung a number of admired popular
airs, duetts, &c., and were most deservedly applauded.
The CHAIRMAN then, in a very able speech, directed
the attention of the meeting to the works of the late
Robert Nicoll, and with the most careful acumen
analysed the tendency of his poem', which were
proved, by an abundance .of quotations, to be ever
directed to the -amelioration of the condition of the
working classes.

Mr. PARRY, the barrister, prop:mid the first senti-
ment—" May the beauties of poetry and truths of
philosophy be ever allied and devoted to the elevation
of all, instead of propping up the exclusive, and often
mistaken, interests of the few ;" which, in an admir-
able, though very lengthened speech, he supported by
showing that the most natural—the true childrai of
genius, had ever arisen from the lower ranks; that
their writings had conduced more to the advance-
ment of freedom ani .the.extension of popular prin-
ciples than any of the more polished and aristocratic
poets of our country.—(Cheers.)
Mr. MORTON supported the sentiment in an appro•
priate speech, and it was adopted unanimously.
Dr. Epps moved the second sentiment—" The
memory of Robert Nicoll, the poet and politician of
the millions, whose genius, energies, and life, were
devoted to their true interests, for he was ever
active in exposing error, upholding right, and
endeavouring to blend all in holy brother-
hood, in order to promote the world's happiness ;''
and reminded the meeting that the unfailing—the
ever strenuous exertions of the late Robert Nicoll—
demanded that that tribute should be paid 'to his
memory. He might well say that that lamented in-
dividual fell a sacrifice to his exertions in the cause
of " the people." Indeed, his last moments of life
were expended in the endeavour to return a patriot
for his adopted town in the person of Sir W illiam
Molesworth.
GEORGE TuomrsoN, Esq., in a brilliant speech,
said that the previous speakers had left him little to
do, and were he not to take up the volume and make
4 speech on it, by reading half its contents, he did
not see how he could otherwise get on. He, how-
ever, would entreat the meeting to read the volume
for themselves, if they had not already done so, and
he should use his individual exertions with Mr. Tait
to induce him to publish a cheap edition, that the
work might hereafter be found a constant companion
at the poor man's fireside. The speaker concluded an
able, an argumentative, and analytical speech, amid
loud and continued cheering.
Mr. LovErr proposed the third sentiment—" The
intellectual, moral, and political improvement of our
race. May all sectarian feelings and party views he
speedily merged in the general desire for universal
happiness, irrespective of man's creed-, colour, caste, or
country;" which was supported by Dr. WATSON, and
carried unanimously.
The meeting then, after thanks to the Chairman,
broke up.

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RAILWAYS.—The railway world will be disap-
pointed in their expectations, for the Board of Trade
makes no second appearance last evening in the Gazette
It is natural for those who have embarked their capital
or taken shores- in the proposed lines to wish for dis-
patch--to expect that every Gazette will dispose of a
portion of expectant applicants for leave to proceed with
their schemes—and that they may thus be relieved from
the anxiety of suspense, from the exhaustion which is
experienced by those exposed to the suffering of "hope
deferred." But natural as this feeling may be on their
part, we are well pleased, nevertheless, to find that these
hopes have been disappointed. It is right for the rail-
way department of the Board of Trade to take time for
their work. They are charged with the execution of a
most onerous and important office, involving an immense
amount of capital and public interests of a vast and cen-
fficting character. It is therefore essential to the proper
performance of such arduous and difficult duties that the
decision of the board in every case should be the result
of ample care and previous deliberation. Persons of
some experience in railway business say that the board
could not examine properly into each proposed line
before them without twelve months' preparation. We
do not give way to that opinion, because we be-
lieve that many of the lines do not call for much
consideration. Some of them are of manifest public
utility, running in a proper direction as main trunks
through the localities they intersect, and not exposed to
competition. Others again may be disposed of on grounds
equally conclusive, although very opposite. In neither
of these classes can the Board of Prude be much at a loss
how to act, nor is it likely that they will differ in opi-
nion. The difficulty rests in deciding the question of
competing lines, and so to decide as to do justice to the
parties, and also to pay the requisite attention to the in-
terests of the public. The promoters of some of the lines
already rejected by the board have given notice that, as
the decision was not accompanied " by any reasons in
justification of such a course," the provisional committee
will " not relax" their efforts. The committee of the
Cornwall and Devon Central Railway has made intima-
tion to that effect, while the favoured, or at least the
fortunate, line front Falmouth to Plymouth concisely
observes, on the other hand, with much self-satisfaction,
' that " the Board of Trade having reported in their
favour, any communication in reference thereto" may be
addressed to theiecommittee, in Broad-street-buildings.
No reasons, we suspect, would have satisfied the parties
who have been thrown overboard, and any reasons, or
none, were equally acceptable to those who received a
verdict in their favour.—Chronicle.
CAMBRIDGE AND LINCOLN RAILWAY.—A rumour
having become prevalent that the promoters of the pro-.
jectedCatribridge and Lincoln Railway intended to pull
down the church at Chesterton, we have the highest
authority fir stating that there is no intention to touch
the church or the church-yard, but to keep as fur away
from both as possible. We apprehend this unfounded
rumour arose from the fact of notices having been given
to the patrons, incumbent, and churchwardens, in com-
pliance with the standing orders, which require that such
notices should be given-, to all owners and occupiers of
property within 100 yards of each side of the intended
line.—Canibridye Chronicle. • • •

SHOCKING CASE OF DRUNKENNESS.—OH Thursday
afternoon a lad, named David Paull, was found lying in
a state of insensibility upon the quay at Bristol, caused
by drinking, by means of a straw, brandy front some
casks which were being discharged from a ship. As the
boy was in a critical state he was taken to the infirmary,
where, by the use of the stomach pump and other mean:,
and after some time had elapsed, bas life was placed out
of danger. --Bristol Journal.,

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-r LA.Txn PROM' OTAllittlat,
(From the Shipping Gazette.)
We have been favoured with the following extract
of a letter received by a mercantile firm. It iA some
days later than previous advises, and will be found
- interesting :

" Otaheite is in a ItPmAenPtEabEleTisiajteULaYt ItBhelpBr4e4se.nt
time ; the natives causing much apprehension, kerp-
the French soldiers continually on the alert. We
have, since the arrival of the schooner {let of
July), been daily expecting an attack upon
the settlement, for which reason it was
deemed prudent not to discharge the cargo; but
we commence to-day, having written to the Gover—
nor, holding the French Government responsible for
any loss or damage occasioned to British property
from the proceedings of the present war. The feel-
ing of insecurity has prevented our mei:4e; many
sales at present, and from the same cauee we fear we
shall net realise such good prices as expected. We shall
have a full cargo for the schooner. Captain Hammond,
of the Salamander, has disappointed expectation. He
appears to take a view of Otaheitian affairs opposite
from that of any of his predecessors. A letter he
sent to the French Governor was, by the latter's
directions, rendered into the Otaheitian dialect,
with perverted meaning, and posted about, in the
hope that it might induce the natives to
give over their struggle, and quietly sub-
mit to the French yoke. The perverted letter was to
the effect, that Captain Hammond begged to inform
the French Governor that his arrival in Otaheite was
merely for the purpose of looking after the interests
of British property, there being no representative of
the Queen of Great Britain in this land. Captain
Hammond declared that it was utterly useless for the
Otaht itians to resist the exalted power of France, and
made known to them that no ship belonging to the
Queen of Britain would come to Otaheite at this time
to give them assistance. This letter, in the opinion
of many, instead of having the desired effect, will
Merely precipitate matters a little; as the natives, in
the belief that Britain has deserted and left them to
their own resources, have determined to do or die.
The native population, with few exceptions, have
taken to the mountains, and parties of them from time
to time engaged the French in skirmishes, many of
the latter having been killed, and some Otaheitians.
" The priests' houses hare been burnt, and the
houses of others favouring the French, and much
property has been destroyed ; and in a late affray
between the natives and their invaders, we regret to
state that the Rev. T. S. M‘liean was shot dead as he
was turning from his verandah to his house. The bullet
struck him behind his ear, and lodged below the socket
of his eye ; he breathed heavily for five or six minutes
after his fall, and expired without a word ; it is not
known for certainty from which party the shot was
fired. His loss is deeply deplored, as he was the most
learned of the mission, and a very amiable man. His
wife and children, who had gone to an adjacent
island for security are yet in ignorance of his sad
fate. Nearly all the missionaries are leaving the
island ; some for England, and others for islands ad-
jacent. We will not enter into further distressing
detail, as
ticulars : and we have no doubt you will shudder at
his fate."

UNITED STATES.
(From the Liverpool Tunis.)
By the fast-sailing American ship General Par
Captain M‘Kown, we have several days' later dates from
Charleston than those previously received. Se left the
Bar on the 16th ult. The news from Liverpool by the
steamer Caledonia, of Nov. 19, reached Charleston on
the 12th ult., as appears from a paper of the 13th ult.
We give an extract of some interest :
SPEECH OF JAMES K. POLK.
The Nashville Union of the 30th ult., gives the fol-
lowing report of a speech delivered by the President
elect, Colonel Polk, on the previous day, on the oec,ision
of his reception at Nashville. In reply to an address
from Mr. Nicholson, he rose and replied as follows :
" I return to you, Sir, and to my fellow-citizens
whose organ you are, my unfeigned thanks for this mani-
festation of the popular regard and confidence, and for
the congratulations which you have been pleased to ex-
press to me, upon the termination and the result of the
late political contest. lam fully sensible that these con-
gratulations are not, and cannot be, personal to myself.
It is the eminent success of our common principles
which has spread such general joy over the land. The
political struggle through which the country has just
passed has been deeply exciting. Extraordinary causes
have existed to make it so. It has terminated—it is
now over—and I sincerely hope and believe, has been
decided by the sober and settled judgment of the Ame-
rican people.
"In exchanging our mutual congratulations with each
other upon the result of the late election, the democra-
tic party should remember, in calmly reviewing the con-
test, that the portion of fellow-citizens who have dif-
fered with us in opinion have equal rights with our-
selves ; that minorities as well as majorities are enti-
tled to the full and free exercise of their opinions and
judgments ; and that the rights of all, whether of mi-
norities or majorities, as such, are entitled to equal re-
spect and regard.
In rejoicing, therefore, over the success of the de-
mocratic party, and of their principles, in the late elec-
tion, it should be in no spirit of exultation over the de-
feat of our opponents ; but it should be because, as we
honestly believe, our principles and policy are better cal-
culated than theirs to promote the true interests of the
country.

" In the position in which I have been placed, by the
voluntary and unsought suffrages of my fellow-citizens,
it will become my duty, as it will be my pleasure, faith-
fully and truly to represent, in the executive department
of the Government, the principles and policy of the
great party of the country who have elevated me to it ;
but, at the same time, it is proper that I should declare
that I shall not regard myself as the representative of a
party only, but of the whsle people of the United States ;
and I trust that the future policy of the Government may
be such as to secure the happiness and prosperity of all,
without distinction of party."

ROWING AIATCH.—The scullers' contest between
Thomas Coombes, of Mil!bank, and Joseph Leach, of
Lambeth, for 101. aside, came off yesterday. The former
of these, the brother of Robert Coombes, the champion,
is well known as a first-rate man. and has distinguished
himself on many occasions. The latter has appeared
but little before the public ; but his contest last summer
with Clement Bartlett, induced his friends to consider
him a likely customer for his opponent of yesterday. The
distance was from Westminster to Putney, and Coombs
appeared to have the call in the betting circles. The
race disappointed the expectations of those who hail
assembled to witness it. Coombes won the choice of
station, and went to the Middlesex side, his adversary
being at the next pier. Immediately after the start, and
before their arrival at Lucas's-road, Leach gradually
rowed away from his man, retained the lead, and won by
upwards of forty yards. Coombes, who had started well,
appeared to have strained his left arm immediately after-
wards. his defeat may be :attributed to this, although
it is of course difficult to say that he would have been
successful had it been otherwise.
EXTENSIVE SEIZURE OF TOBACCO BY TIIE CUS-
TOMS' OFFICERS.—OB Saturday last a large quantity of
tobacco and cigars was di:-.covered hidden beneath some
packages on the quay at the St. Katherine Docks,
which, it was supposed, had been surreptitiously landed
from a vessel now discharging her cargo, to await the
opportunity of removal from the premises with some
goods about to be shipped into craft to be landed else-
where, which was immediately seized by the Customs'
officers. On Monday afternoon a further quantity, con-
sisting of about forty pounds' weight of manufactured
negrohead tobacco, done up in the same manner, and of
exactly the same description as that discovered on the
quay o
a shed aatdu Say,jrod i
nin gwa the's
foundplace,
whichconcealed
was b eahlisici)d the
seized
of
the same parties. No clue has yet been obtained as to
the actual source from whence this tobacco was landed,
though suspicions are entertained on the subject.
ARCIIDEACONRY OF CORNWALL.—III consequence
of the death of the Venerable Archdeacon Sheepshanks,
this county, under the provisions of the Ecclesiastical
Commission, will be divided into two archdeaconries.
The Rev. W. Gee, of Week St. Mary, has been appointed,
by the Bishop, Archdeacon of East Cornwall, but the
name of the future Archdeacon of West Cornwall has
not yet transpired. It is rumoured that the two perishes
of Gluvias and Buduck, which have hitherto been held
together as one living, will now be disunited and become
that
Et ait3DhoiTps
building,
E o e
ui
situated!
two separate benefices.—Fulteouth Packet.
sIiPEL.—EXIICAUTION 07
YljiN D CREnsa' the° 11
era srteearnd e tr sx
tarreemai tny' a or aware
that this building, situated at the eastern extremity of
the valley which separates the Old and New Towns of
Edinburgh, formerly the Old Botanic Garden, has been
sold to the North British Railway Company, and is now
about being taken down. About nine o'clock, on Now
Year's..ilay morning, the remains of the foundress, Lady
Glenorchy, were exhumed from a catacomb under
the floor of the chapel, which was covered
by several large flags, on one of which a large
plate of brass indicated who lay below. At the
bottom of a flight of steps, and in a narrow
catacomb, the coffin was found, which lad rested
there in darkness for nearly sixty years. The coffin, in
the first attempt of the labourers to remove it from its
place, parted longitudinally a-top, and the remains of
Lady Glenorchy were deposited within a new shell pre-
pared for the purpose. The plate above bore, in cha-
racters still distinctly legible, that the remains were those
of Lady Glenorchy, the foundress of the chapel, and that
she had departed in July 1786, in her forty-fourth year.
The cover of the new shell was then screwed down over
both the mouldering skeleton and the coffin to which it
had been consigned so long before ; and after it had
been removed to its place in a hearse which was in
waiting the vehicle moved slowly away for re-interment,
followed by a few gentlemen. members of the Free
Church, who, in accordance with the terms of her Lady-
ship's will, were the trustees of the building.—Caledonian
Mercury.