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TANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
3, GEORGE-STREET, EDINBURGH,
89., KING WILLIAM.STREET, LONDON.

The NINETEENTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING wag
held om 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 cc 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 Company during the year exceed
the large sum of HALF A MILLION STERLING—the
Assurances effected being nearly 400,000 i., adding from that
source alone about 13,1,00/. 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 per cent. in favour of the Company above the
rate calculated ou 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 balar.ce 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 for the
ensuing year:

GOVIULN,R.

The Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH and QUEENSIIERRY.

DE PUTY-GOVER NOR.

The Right Hon. the Earl of ELGIN and KINCARDINE.
DIRECTORS,
IN EDINDWROII.

Thomas Innes, Esq. J. M. Melville, Esq.
Eagle Henderson, Esq. Humphrey Graham, Eaq.
David Smith, Esq. • 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, Eaq.
John Stewart Newbigging, Esq.

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

James Gadesden, Esq.
MANacEft —William Thomas Thomson, Esq.

THIRD DIVISION OF PROFITS.

The Third Investigation of the Company's Affairs, with refer.
since to the approaching Division of Profits, is now in progress;
and parties assuring before the close of the lists 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 EWART, Resident Secretary.
62, Eing Williar.street.

ARGUS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
Mg, , BANK.
EMPOWERED by SPECI ALTHROW/ORTON-STREET ACT of PARLIAMENT,
4 and 6 Will. IV:, c. W.
THOMAS EARNCOMB, Esq., Alderman, Chairman.
WILL IA M LEAF, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Richard E 'Arden Esq. James Clift, Esq.
William Banbu . Esq.
Humphery, Esqßupert Ingleby, Esq.
Edward Bates, Esq.r
Thomas Kelly, 'q., Aid.
Thomas Camplin, Esq. Jeremiah Filcher, Esq.
John
M.P. ~ Alderman, Lewis Pocock, Esq.

PETRIcIAN—DT. Jeaffresen, 2, Finsbury.square.
Senoitors—W, Coulson, Esq ,2, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
CONSULTINO Acrumtr—Professor Hall. of King's College.
In addition to the subscribed Capital of £300,000.
LOW RATES OF PREMIUM.
have tbe security of ie Company's income of nearly £FO,OW pet
annum, yearly incree.inff, and an accumulating Assurance Fund in-
the Assured
vested in Government and other available securities, of considerably
latger arnennt than the estimated liabilities et' the Company.
The rates of premium are reduced to the lowest scale Compatible
with the security of the Assured, and the stability of the Company,
thereby, in effect, Riving to every Policy Holder an immediate and
certain Bonus without risk, in lieu of the deferred and frequently
delusive prospect of a periodical division of Profits.
ARM:AL PREMIUM To ASSURE £lOO.

Age.
20
30
40
SO
60

For One Year. I For Seven Years. I Whole Term.

XII 19 1-
.£0 17 $
118 1 2 7
152 1 4
1 14- 1 1 19 10
3 2 4 3 17 0

£1 11 10
2 0 7
2 14 1•
4 0 11
0 10

• One-third of .4 Whole Term" Premium may remain unpaid .L.,•t
5 per cent. compound interest, as a debt upon the policy for',
ire Or
stay be paid off at an• time without notice. _.
In Assurances for Advances of Money, as ":.-curity for debts or as
a provision for a family, when the leas_._ present outlay is desirable,
':".(i.tes of the Argus "Office will be
the varied and comprehensive
67..urable to the Assured.
found to he particularly
The Medical Ottice;:o attend daily at a Quarter before Two &Clock
---- - EDWARD BATES, Resident Director.
A liberal Commission to Solicitors and Agents
_ ,

MYER SUPERSEDED, and those corrosive
17 and iajttrious Metals, called Nickel and Gerrnai Silver, snp-
planted by the introdactioa •f a new and perfectly inatckleas
ALEATA PLATE.

C. WATSON, 41 and 42, Barbican, and IS, Norton Folgetc,O.l4ed by
a person of Science in the amalgamation of Metals, ha* alleceeded in
bringing to Public Notice the most hcalittflit Article ever yet offered ;
possessing ali the richness of Silver in opt arance, with all its dura-
bility and hardness—with its perfect sweetness in use, undergoing, as
it does, a Chemical Process, by which, all that is nauseous in mixed
Metals is entirely extracted—resisting all Acids--may be cleaned as
silver, and is manufactured into every Article for the Table ant
Sideboard :

Fiddle.
Table Spoons aid Forks, 168. 64. dos,
Desert Ditto ...• • • 12s. 6d,
Tea Spoons . .•... •• At. Gd.
Sugar Ton:0 • • • • ls. 3d.

Tbriadei.
30s.
255.
12s. Gd.
3a.

King's.
Ms.
28s.
13s. 6d.
2s. 6d.

C. WATSON begs the Public will understand that this 'Metal Is
►eculiarly his own, and that Silver is not more different from Gold
than kis metal Is from all others—on its intrinsic Merit Alone be
wishes it to be tested, and from the daily locating enlogiums he re•
ceives, he is convinced that nothing Catt preveut its becoming an
article of universal wear.

C. Watson's handsomely tlltlstrated Catalogue and Price Currant
is just published, and Families wko regard economy and elegance
should possess themselves of this useffil Rook, which may be hat
Gratis, and Post Pree, from the above Address,
PATENT PARAGON CAMNIM LAMPS.
Tho perfection of these Llartpt+ Over the Vesta has been
happily attained by the invention of two parallel flat rings—a larger
and a smaller farming a cone round the margin of the wick, which
cause a rapid reverberation of air against the /lame—thus condensing
every particle of volatilized vapour, it is free from smoke or smell,
having perfect combustion, and in full action, emits a light equal to
16 wax candies.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
Christmas Holidays. Ono of the brilliant novelties Is
CHILD'S CHROMATROPE, New Subjects in Nature and
Art for the PROTEOSCOPE. The PHYSIOSCOPE. The first Ex-
hibition of a Series of beautiful DISSOLVING VIEWS. On the
Evenings of Tuesdays and Thursdays Mr. C. E. HORN lectures en
the MUSIC of DIFFERENT NATIONS. Dr. RYAN'S and Pro-
fessor BACHHOFFNER'S varied LECTURES da:ly. Dr. RYAN
also Lectures on the Evenings of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
The whole of the Lectures abound in interesting Experiments.
SUBMARINE EXPERT MENrrs by means of the I)IVING•BELL
and DIY /t. The COLOSSAL ELECTRICAL MI.CIIINt.
Admission, ls.; Schools, Halt-price.
A New Edition of the CATALOGUE, containing Three Hundred
additional Works of Art, &c., since the last revisal, is just published.
price Is.

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
or PAYMENT to the respective Shareholders.
JOSEPH BERRIDGE, Secretary.
• 11, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, Jan. 1, 1845.

PUBLICATIONS.

AR T-U NIO N. . Monthly Journal. No. 76
A Second Edition is now ready.
Chapman and Hall, Publishers, 186, Strand.

NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL MSS.
Now ready, Two A'ols. Bvo., with Portraits,
MEMOIRS OF
THE REIGN- OP GEORGE 111,
By HORACE WALPOLE, Earl of Orford.
Edited, with Nutes, Sce., by Sir DEN IS LB MARCHANT, Bart.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street
(Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty).

MARY HOWITT'S NEW JUVENILE WORK.
In a handsome pocket volume, price 2s. 6d. hound and gilt,
MY OWN STORY, or Auto-biography of a
Child ; a Tale, forming part of a Series (to be completed in
thirteen volumes) of Tales for the People and their Children. Each
volume sold separately at 2s. 6d. bound, via.: 1. Strive and
Thrive-2. Rope on Hope ever-3. Sowing and Reaping-4. Alice
Franklin-5. Who shall he Greatest—G. which is the Wiser-7. Lit-
tle Coin much Care —B. Work and Wages-9. No Sense like CORI.
mon Sense-10. Love and Money-11. My Uncle the Clockmaker-
-12. The Two Apprentices—and 13. My Own Story.
London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside; Bowdery and
Kirby, Oxford-street ; Cundall, 12, Old Bond-street ; and all other
Booksellers.

C. Watson's Warehouses, 41 and 42, Barbican, and it, Nertoa
rolgato, will contain, throughout the season, el the moat elegant
recherolo and new patterns, comprisiag Okla*, Glass,-and
Opal.

Old 011 Lamps fltte/ with the Farago' Head for 21e. And t►e
ParagoaApparatag applied to the Vesta for Ga. The Spirit analysed
add recommended ►y Dr. Uro, Is dellYered is screw cans by C.
Watann's carte, at 4e. per gallon.
41 & 42, BARBICAN, and 16, NORTON POLGATE.

SCOTTISH EQUITABLE LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE' SOCIETY,
Incorporated by Royal Charter. IZstablished 1831.
Head Office, 26, St. Andrew's-maitre, Edinburgh;
London (Mice, 61 A, Moorgate-street.
PRESIDENT.
ills Grace the Duke of BUCCLF:UCII and QUEENSBERRY.
VICE-PRESIDENTS.
The Right lion. Lord Gray.
David M. M. Chrichton, Esq., of Rankeliettr.
ROBERT CHRISM, Manager.
The leading principle of thlS'Mlitual 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 vestedUnus.
Thus the holder of a Policy for 1,000/. effected on the tat of March,
1832, will,. if it become a claim during the•pl•tient year, be entitled
to 1,2971.; or, ifeffected on or before the let March, 1833, to 1,2751.,
and so on as regards other Policies.
The Accitinalated FUnd exceeds 260,0001., and the Annual Revenue
is above 70,9001., the Whole being In a course of steady and increas-
ing-prosperity.
No other Life Assurance Institution whatever can wsrratilaidy
hold out greater advantages to parties Assuring than this Society does.
:WILLIAM COOK, Agent for London.
61 A, Moofgate-street.
Policies effected before the' let Of March participate in a full year's
bonus.

NEW SELF-ACTING COFFEE FILTER.
Impressed with the manifold defects of all existing filters of
coffee, arising from complication of construction, liability to be put
out of ardor, uncertainty of action, expense in use, &c., RIPPON
and BURTON have purchased a NEW VERTICAL SELF-ACT.
INO COFFEE FILTER, which is extremely simple ; it will al-
ways make the clearest coffee without trouble, it can scarcely be put
out of order, and can be adapted to any description of coffeepot in
use.—Filters is block tin from 4s. each ; coffee.pets and filters
complete in ►lock tin from 7s. each.

DECLARATION OF THE OVA/tDIANB OF BAENT,
DEON.
pfoaillimiongfAcnalet
hRt
)eCv
excitedUo nl t) EriFvmoe .ccohßn
interest,sAi
de t
that
their
te
the
ArALSts 8 SCORBUTIC DROPS.
el
of the
their names to the accompanying important declaration :
e duty Guardians
t o sign
W., the enderslgned, solemnly declare that before Thomas Ito.
bins, one of our parishionert, commenced taking " Halse's Scorbutic
Drbps," he Was literally covered with large running wounds (some
of them sb tato that a IJerstin itii it haVe laid his fist in them); that
bbrtite he had Bnithed the first -bottle he ritticed 813 improvement,
and that by continuing them for some time, he got completely
restored to health, after every, hing else had failed. He had tried
various sorts of medicines before taking" Halse's 'corbutic Drops,'
and had prescriptions from the most celebrated physicians in this
country, without deriving the least benefit, Halse's Scorbutic
Drops," have co npletely cured him, and he it now enabled to attend
to his labour as well as any atm) in our parish. From other Cures
aish made in thit part, we strongly recommend " Halse's Scorbutic
Drops" to the notice of the public.
Signed by John Elliott, sen., Lord of the Manor, John Manning,
William Pearce, Henry Goodman, Arthur Langworthy.
June 21, 1'143.
The ,bove.mentioned Thomas Robins was quite incapable of doing
any MO of Work ttliate'ver befite hsf ConimenCed taking those brdps.
Some of his wounds were so large, that i: was most awful to.look at
them, and the itching and pain of the wounds generally were mo,t
dreadful; indeed, the poor fellow could be heard screeching by
passers by, both day and night, for sleep was entirely out of the ques-
tion, He was reduce i to mere skin and bone_ and slally continued to
get weaker, so that there wa every probatHity of his speedy death.
Read the folloWitig extract from the " Istottingham Review":—
" IMPURITY OF THE BLOOD THE CAUSE OF SCURVY,

To be had only of the Proprietors.
THE PERFECT SUBSTITUTE for SILVER.
The material RIPPON and BURTON offer to the Public
has for the last ten years been found equal to silver in appearance
and sweetness, and superior to it in durability. Of the prices of
toa.sets, waiters, candlesticks, and all articles hitherto made is ail.
ver, a detailed catalogue, with engravings, will be sent (gratis) post-
free. Fiddle Threaded Victoria
Pattern. Pattern. Pattern.

' NINETY-FIRST SALE,
CUSTOM.HOUSE,.LONDON., JAN. 13, 1845.
FOR SALE, by Order of the lion. COMMIS-
SIONERS of HER MAJESTY'S CUSTOMS, at Twelve
o'Clock at Noon precisely, on MONDAY 13th, TUESDAY 14th,
Wanxasnav I.sth, THURSDAY 16th, and FRIDAY, 17th or
January, 1845, at the COMMERCIAL SALE-ROOMS,
Mincing-lane.. .

BAD LEGS, dm
' It is really astonishing that so many persons should be content
to bo afflicted with scurvy, wounds in the legs, &e., when it is a well-
ascertained fact that Halse's Scorbutic Drops' snake the disease
vanish like snow before the sun No one is better enabled so judge of
the value of a medicine as to its effects on the bilk of the people
than a vendor of (lie article; and as vendors of this medicine we Can
conscientiously recommend it to oUr friends, for there is scarcely a
day passes but we hear some extraordinary accounts of it ; indeed,
we have known parties who have tried other advertised medicines
without the least success, and yet on resorting to this preparation
the now justly celebrated' Halse's Scorbutic Drops,' the disease has
y:elded as if by magic. We again say, " Try Halse's Scorbutic
Drops."
Wh,,losale Agents for London : Barclay and Son, Farringdoo.
street; Hallett, S 3, High Holborn; Front, Y2O Strand; Sanger, 13S,
Oxford-street; Johnston, 6s, Cornhill; and King, Napier-street,
Horton.

Table Spoons and Fork v full size,
per dozen
Dessert de. do. do los. ed. 21s. Od. 255. Od
Tea de. do. do ss. Od. 11s. Od. 12s. Od.
Gravy do. do. de es. Od. es. Od. is. Od.
QTEEL FENDERS and BRIGHT STOVES.
The largest assortment of Stoves and Feeders in the world
is now on sale at It IPPON and BURTON'S extensive warehoused,
39, Oxford.street, corner of Newman street (just removed from
Wells-street). Bright steel fenders, to 4 fort, frern 305. each ;
ditto, ditto, with ormolu ornaments, from eos. ; rich bronzed
scroll ditto, with steel bar, 10s. Bd.; iron fenders, 3 feet, 4s. Bd.; 4
feet, is. ; do. bronzed, and fitted with standards, 3 feet, 98. ;4 feet,
1I s. ; wrought iron kitchen fenders, 3 feet, 4s. 6d.; 4 feet, es. ;
bright register stoves, with bronzed ornaments and two sets of bars,
from 5 guineas ; ditto, ditto, with ormolu ornaments, from 91. 10s. ;
black'dinlog.reom register stoves, 2 feet, 205.; S fee', 308.; bed-
room register stoves, 2 feet, 16s. ; 3 feet, 245. The new economi-
cal Thermie stove, with fender and radiating hearthplate, from 8/.
ss. ; dre.irons for chambers, Is. 9d. per set; handsome ditto, with
out heads,Rs. Bd.; newest pattern, with elegant bronzed Leads, 1 Is.
A variety of fire-irons, with ormolu and richly.cut heads, at pro-
portionate prices. Any article in furnishing ironmongery, go per
cent. under any other house, while the extent and variety of the
stock is without any equal. The money returned for every article
not approved of. Detailed catalogues, with engravings, sent (per
post t free. Established (in Wells-street) 1620.

CENTRAL SOUTH AMERICA.
(From the Times.)
The vast regions of Central South America are se-
parated from this country, and indeed from the whole
of Europe, by such an extreme diversity of manners and
of political condition that we have long ceased to pay
them as much attention as our own commercial interests
in that part of the globe would of themselves deserve.
Yet if we are obliged to confess that European politicians
have neglected the rest field which the emancipation of
the southern Spanish colonies was supposed to have
opened to liberty and civilization, it must at the same
time bo acknowledged that the rank native growth of
the soil has choked the seeds we had hoped to plant
there, and that if our attention is recalled to these parts
of the New World, it is only by wars or revolutions,
carried on by the most revolting means, and to the most
unprofitable end. Meanwhile, however. the progress of
the successive military rulers of these unhappy
countries in all the enormities of crime and of mis-
government has been so rapid and so astounding,
their persecutions have become so monstrous and
sanguinary, not only against the scanty Indian po-
pulation of those wilds, or the turbulent rivals
of their usurped authority, but against Europeans
who may have fallen under their suspicions, or even
sought to elude their violence, that it is high time for
more civilised nations to assert their rights, and to check
a series of atrocities which, for cruelty and duration are
literally unparalleled in the history of mankind. The
Rio de la Plata is one of those great ?estuaries of the
American continent which seem destined by Providence
to open as it were inland seas to commerce and naviga-
tion, whilst the vast extent of the rivers which unite
their waters in the mighty stream form a system of in-
ternal communication throughout the continent from
the Cordillera of the Andes to the sea. So great are the
natural opportunities of the country, that, in spite of the
insufficiency of the sparse and needy population, consi-
derable trading interests have risen up at Monte Video,
on the left, and at Buenos Ayres on the right,
bank of the river, and a large population of English,
French, and Italian traders are living under the
Monte Videan Government, where they have taken
refuge from the violence of the Government on the
opposite shore ; but their operations are impeded,
their persons are endangered, and the independent
existence of the Banda Oriental is threatened, by the
exterminating, though unsuccessful war carried on
against it by Rosas and Oribe in the name of the Argen-
tine Republic. A recent event has shown the utter
futility of extending to such States as these the laws
and observances used amongst civilised nations; for one
or two guns from the United States frigate Congress
dissipated what was called the blockading squadron of
the Argentine Republic in half an hour, and any well-
armed merchantman might have done the same. But
we have reason to hope that a more imposing and effec-
tual intervention on the part of the principal Powers in-
terested in the trade of the River Plate will eventually
take place. The Governments of Brazil and of England,
acting in conjunction with that of France, are said to
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'Abrantos's mission. It is probable that the 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 manner 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 mast 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 Senor 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, 3,763 ; 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,
1236, 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 ! 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 lie 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 R sas 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 occas
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 wore 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
Maza 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 hare 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 of
fhihsereso-
lution and address among the Gauchos thandowtith
poli-
tical tical power he has acquired and
reuvethnlethssesheersetriotfy.
his rivals
violence, as, for
ber and vio
by acts of unjustifiable treac thatr
e I ythdeislgyreasceodf
;of war. But if there
reg?, after becoming his. prisone
that of a merciless t
-
be in this man any quality above
have been governed by a s.ys-
rmiruasist bheava:lcilleedeTeev
enemies, it is well even for him
instance, when General Lavelle hot the President Dor-
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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 pease
to the country which can alone render its internal go-
vernment respected and secure.

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to them for their management of their affairs. They
had continued with them through all their difficulties,
and he should not like to see them quit them now.
lie moved that the report be received, adopted, and
printed for circulation among the Proprietors.
The CHAIRMAN did not think it advisable even to
discuss the question of breaking up the concern.
The Directors considered they were doing the best
for all parties by carrying on the business on a safe
and moderate footing till times should mend, and
bring them back to their former prosperity. No
attempt could he made to break up the concern with-
out great loss. With regard to the fixing a time for
the declaration of a dividend, it would be seriously
taken into consideration by the Directors before the
next general meeting.
An Hort. PROPRIETOR asked how much of the
34,000/., stated to be the amount of bad and doubtful
debts, had been recovered up to the dates of the last
advices ?

The CHAIRMAN said the statement was taken from
the reports of their different managers up to the 30th
of June last, and they had no reason to think that
their affairs had been worse since. On the whole,
they were 40,0001. better than they were last year.
Some conversation on the dividend question ensued,
which was stopped by the Chairman, as not then
being before the meeting.
A question was asked as to the value of the secu-
rity for the individual by whom the robbery on the
bank had been committed? It was stated that his
security was 1,500/., but that it turned out to be of no
avail ; inquiry had, therefore, been made into the
securities of all the persons employed in the esta-
blishment.
The report was then received.

An HON. PaoraiErom made a motion for expung-
ing from the minutes the resolution of the day of
January, 1839, by which 3,5001. was annually placed
at the disposal of the Directors as the remuneration
of their labour. Of this sum the Directors have only
token one-half, or 1,750/. a year. The object of the
present motion was to fix the last sum as the allow-
ance to the Directors, which, the mover contended,
was an ample one.
The motion was seconded, but
Mr. C. CAVE moved the previous question as an
amendment.

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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
afrairs' 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 Sir ftETAItt read this document, prefacing it,
however, by the statement of accounts above men-
tioned. The following are the details of it :—Ditwrs:
Circulation, 182,677/. 7s. 6d. ; Deposits and other
liabilities, 438,0011, 2s. sa. , Paid up capital, 6004000/. ;
Profits, 11,1:20/. 7s. 6d.; 'Total, 1,131,798/. 17s. Bd.
ASSETS : Specie, 236,195/. 12s. sd. ; Due to Bank in
the Colonies on Bills Discounted and Purchased, in-
cluding those past due, but reported good,
409,0422/. 17s. 4d. ; Due to ditto on Cash Credits and
Current Ateounts, 139,6611. 15s. Bd.; flue to ditto in
London on Bills Remitted, Cash at Bankers, &c.,
234,6681. Os. 7d. ; Balance of bad and doubtful debts,
83,1751. 133., 6d.; Bank premises and furniture in
London and the Colonies, 22,613/. 19s. id.; Balance
of Preliminary Expenses, 6,5051. 18s. 7(l.—Total,
1,131,7981. 17s. Bd.

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The retiring Directors—Mr. Colville, Mr. Davison,
Mr. P. M. Stewart, Mr. A. Stewart, Mr. Bruce, and
Mr. S. Gurney, auditor, all offered themselves for
re-election ; they were proposed, and re-elected with-
out opposition.

After a vote of thanks to the Chairman and Board
of Directors, the meeting separated.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION.
Yesterday a friendly meeting of the late Robert
Nicoll, formerly . editor of the Leech Nercury, 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, jun., Esq., took the chair, and was sup-
ported by George Thompson, Esq., J. H. Parry,
Esq., Dr. Epps, and others of the ultra-Liberal party.
The proferisionals engaged-L-Mrs. A. Newton (late
Miss Ward), Miss Rinks, Mr. Shoubridge, and Mr.
J. B, Collett—sung a number of admired popular
airs, duetts, Ste., 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 poems, 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, proposed 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 children of
genius, had ever arisen from the lower ranks ; that
their writings- had conduced more to the advance-
ment of freedom and 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. Errs 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. lie 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 William
Molesworth.

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 tip 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 pursue. 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 hrlf-year just ended,
up to the latest dates in their possession, was going
on satisfactorily.
The CHAIRMAN 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 181. 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, but he again urged them, as the concern
did not answer, to break it up. It was merely kept
going to pay people at home 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 Hon. 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. lie 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
at once to a condition of vitality and vigour ; if they
did, he thought it would be dangerous, 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 Directors trusted soon to
be able to recommend the declaration of a dividend.
Different persons would give a different interpreta-
tion to the word " soon ;" he confessed he was one of
the sanguine ones, and he hoped to hear that declara-
tion made at their next half-yearly meeting. In one
point only did he agree with what had fallen from
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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race. May all sectarian feelings and party views be
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.'

RAILWATS.—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 shares 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 hive been disappoihted. 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-
flicting character. It is therefore essential to the proper
performance of such ardudus 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 Trade be much at a loss
how to act, nor ia.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 dea
Cornwall and Devon Central Railway has made intim*:
tion to that effect, while the favoured, or at least the..
fortunate, line • from 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 their committee, in Broad-street-buildings.
No reasons, we suspect, would have satisfied the parties
who have been thrown overboard, and any reasons, or
none, were equolly acceptable to those who received a
verdict in their favour.—Chronicle.
CAMBRIDGE AND LINCOLN RAILWAY.—A rumour
having becothe prevalent that the promoters of the pro-
jected
Cambridge and Lincoln Railway intended to pull '
down the church at Chesterton, we have the highest
authority for stating that there is no intention to touch
the church or the church:yard, but to keep as far 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 corn-
pliance with the standing orders, which require that such
notices should be given to all owners and occupiers of
property within lao yards of. each side of the intended
r(troxick

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SHOCKING CASE Or DRUNKENNESS.—On 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 from some
casks which were being discharged from a ship. As the
boy was in a critical state he was taken to the inirmary,
where, by the use of the stomach pump and other meant,
and after some time had elapsed, has life was placed out
of danger,--Bristol Journal.