The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-02 00:00:00

GLOBE INSURAtiCE-F-IRE A

LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
The Annual Meeting of the Globe lnstrfance Fire and
Life .Insurance Company was held at their Office hi
Cornh.ll, ,at Thursday last, when the Triennial Eliction
of Director, took place, and the 'foll.hv ing gentlemen
were unat.imonsly re-elected
Edivard Goldsmid, Esq.
William Tite, Esq., F.R.S.
George Carr Glynn, Esq.
John S. Brownrigg, Esq., M.P.
William Thompson,' Esq., Alderman, M.P. •
Sir J. L. -Goldsmid, Bart., P.R.S.
Sir Walter G. Stirling, Bart.
Henry Aleminder. Esq.
William Henry C. 'Novi-den, Esq.
Boyce Combo, Esq.
James William Pre AiOelil,Esq,
William Phillimore,,Xq. •
Jonathan Chapmait Esq. /-
Jonathan Birch, Esq.
John Poynder, Esq.
Emannot Silva, Esq.
Edward Yana, Esq.
Thomas Collier, Esq.
Robert Saunders, Esq.
John Hodgson, Esq.
RObert Hawthorn, Esq.
Sheffield Neave, Esq.
Fowler Newsam, Esq.
. Benjamin G. Windus,- Esq.
. Boyd Miller, Esq.
The Annual *port of the state of the Company's
affairs was then Feed, showing that in addition to the
original and permanent Capital of 1,000,000/. the Com-
pany possesszA a large surplus rest beyond the full stun
reserved for all liabilities and'engag•Omehts at:the close
of the last year. The Manager further stated that, not-
withStmding the force of competition, the high cha-
racter mid uuliiubted stability of the office, had obtained
for it the past year an increased revenue and re-
turni ith com trade and investments, and a conti-
nuance of the dividend at G per cent. on the Capital
Stock of 1,000,0001 was declared accordingly.
'rho following resolution was then put, and carried by'
a very large majority :
" 'that the sincere thanks of the meeting be presented
to the Chairman, Deputy Chairman, and- the other Di
rectors, for their zealous and successful efforts on behalf
of the COmpany, and that they be assured of the conti-
nued confidence and support of the Proprietary."

CARLISLE PETITIONS.—We stated the other week
that a petition was in course of signature in favour of the In-
come-tax; and we added that the men who were solicitin,
signatures to it stated that it was the petition of G. H. Head.
Esq., of Rickerby House. We have since heard it was got up
at the ir.stigaLion of Sir James Graham ; and the parade with
which that Eight Hon. Baronet iatroduced it to the House of
Commons on Friday night last, seems to confirm the truth of
the report - * * Sir James Graham presented a petition
from Carlisle, "numerously signed by persons whose incomes
wt re above 1501. a-year each " in favour of the Income-tax.
This announcement was the first that we hail heard of the
petition ; nor can we discover any of our fellow citizens who
,are better informed upon the subject.— Carlisle Journal.

It Orli, ACADEMY.—O2I Saturday the Members ofthe
Royal Academy gave their Anniversary Dinner at their apart-
ments in Traidgar-square, which was attended by a nume-
rous assemblage of guests of the first rank and talent, among
%shorn were--the Lord Chancellor; the First Lot d of the Trea-
sury, First Lord of the Admiralty, the Speaker, Chancellor of
the-Exchequer, Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench,
General-in-Chief; lord Chamberlain. Master of the Horse,
President of the Board of Control, First Commissioner of
Land Revenues, Lord Chief Ju=tice of the Common Pleas,
Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief Baron, Vice-Chancel-
lor of England, Attorney and Solicitor-General, the Governor
of the Bank, Chairman of the East India Company, Chairman
of the Board of Customs. Field Officer in Waiting, Master and
Warden of Dulwich College, FrencliAmbassador ; American,
Prussian, Netherlands, Belgian, Saxon, Bavarian, Spanich,
Porittguese,. Sardinian, Sicilian, Grecian, Turkish, Danish,
Swedish Ministers; Dukes of Wellington, Sutherland, Devon-
shire, Beaufort, Newcastle ; Marquises of Northampton. An-
glesey, Lansdowne, Westminster, Normanby ; Earls Grey,
De Grey, Iturlington,Eldon, Ripon, Howe, Clarendon, Minto,
Cawdor, Linicoln; ViscOunt Dungannon, • Melbourne, Palmer-
ston ; Bishops of London, Durham, Llandaff, Chichester, Here-
ford, Norwich; Lords Nlonteagle„Cottingham, J. Russell, F.
Egerton, Howick; Sudely, Seaton, Prudhoe; Northwicke, Col-
borne, Alford, Campbell; Right Hons. Sir J. C. Hobhouse,
F. Baring, H. Labouchere, J. W. Crokrr ; Sirs R. H. Inglis,
J. Herscbell, J. Swinburne, G.• Phillips, H. Wheatley, Wil-
loughby Gordon, H. Ellis, T. Baring; T.' D. Aeland, J. Lub-
bock, G. Staunton; Rev. Sydney Smith, Chevalier Bunsen,
J. Morrison, J. Neeld, E. R. Tonne, W. Wells, S. Rogers,
C. Babbage, W. Segnier, J. Cartwri,2lit ; Esqs, Stokes, 11.,
Hawes, G. Knott, T. G. B. Estcourt, J. H. Him esley,
Mune, R. A. Munro, R. Vernon, S. Jones Lloyd, T. Baring,
Maeready, H. Hallum, &e..

WOOD-PAVING AND STE.ot-COACHES.—Thursday
morning the Directors of the Metropolitan Wood Paving Com-
pany, to test the running of steam-coaches on wood [avement,
made an experiment in Oxford-street. The coach employed
was one belonging, we believe,, to the General Ste,m-coach
Cempany, and the result wa, highly sAtisfactory. The coach
took the passengers in Charles-street, Portland-road, ran down
Berners-street, went up Oxford-street, as far as the wood pave-
ment, and -tanning round, retrac«l its way down Oxford-street,
and proceeded to "LanghArn Church. Here it turned, went over
the same ground, and then ran to the manufactory in Albany-
street, before eight o'clock. The motion of the carriage on
the wood pavement was not greater than that of steam•car-
riages on a railroad, and at the rate at which the coach moved
was from 15 to 20 miles per-hoer. It was stated by several of
the persons who were passengers in the above early trip, that
it is in contemplation to run a steara-coach between Salisbury
and Southampton, and that a portion of the road between
ihose places has already been paved with wood.
"Trade is very bad," r:aid Stultz, the fashionable
- •
tailor, " Idon't make near so ropy coats as formerly." " How
can, you expect it,”vas the rep y, when there are so many
urned coats among your customers in the Lords and Commons.