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GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE AS-
SURANCE COMPANY,
No. 11, Lombard-street, at the Entrance of the Old Post Office,
London.
DIRECTORS.
JOHN W. BUCKLE, Esq., Chairman.
JAMES MORRIS, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
I.tenry Hulse Berens, Esq. John Loch, Esq.
John Dixon, Esq. Lewis Loyd, jun., Esq.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. George Lyall, Esq. M.P.
Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. S. Marjoribanks, Esq. M.P.
Ralph Fenwick, Esq. John Martin, Esq., M.P.
Thomson Hankey, Jun., Esq. Robert Mitford, Esq.
John Harvey, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, jun., Esq.
George Johnstone, Esq. John Thornton, Esq.
John Labouchere, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq.
AUDITORS.
A. W. Roberts, Esq. I Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
Samuel Jones Loyd, Esq. George Stone, Esq.
ACTUARY—Griffith Davies, Esq., F. R.S.
In the LIFE DEPARTMENT, a Bonus was declared in June,
1829, exceeding One per Cent. per Annum on the Sums in-
sured, en an average of the different Ages; and a second Bonus
9f nearly similar amount was declared in June, 18136. At each
period the Bonuses allotted to the different Policies averaged
rather more than 28 per Cent. en the amounts of Premiums
paid thereon during the preceding seven years.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.—Notice is hereby given, that Assu-
rances which expire at Christmas must be renewed with-
in fifteen days at this office, or with Mr. Sams, No. 1, St.
James's-street, corner of Pall-mall, or with the Company's
agents throughout the kingdom, otherwise they become void.
GEORGE KEYS, Secretary.

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
8, Waterloo-place,Cl 4Y'
Pall-mall,N London.
DIVISION OF PROFITS AMONG THE ASSURED.
HONORARY PRESIDENTS.
Earl of Errol Earl of Stair
Earl of Courtown Earl Somers
Earl Leven and Melville Lord Viscount Falkland
Earl of Norbury Lord Elphinstone
Lord Belhaven and Stenton
DIRECTORS.
JAMES STUART, Esq., Chairman.
H. DE CASTRO, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Samuel Anderson, Esq. Charles Downes, Esq.
Hamilton Blair Avarne, Charles Graham, sq.
Esq. F. C. Maitland, EEsq.
Edw. Boyd, Esq., Resident William Railton, Esq.
E. Lennox Boyct, Esq., As- John Ritchie, Esq.
sistant Resident F. H. Thomson, Esq.
SECRETARY.—Patrick Macintyre, Esq.
This Company, established by Act of Parliament, affords
the most perfect security in an ample paid-up Capital, and in
the great success which has attended it, since its commence-
ment in 1834.
In 1841 the Company declared an addition to the Share-
holders of one-half of their Stock, and also added 21. per
Cent. per Annum, from the date of the policies to those par-
ties who had insured with Profits.
The Premiums nevertheless are on the most moderate scales
and only a moiety need be paid for the first five years, where the
Insurance is for life.
The amount of bonus added to policies since the commence-
ment of the Company in March 1834, to the 31st December
1840, is as follows :
Sum Assured. Time Assured. Sums added to Policy.
£ ,000 6 Years 10 Months £136 13 4
1,000 ...4... Years llO 0 0
1,000 3 Years
Every information Year
will6o 0 0
Esq., of No. 8, Waterloo-place,
be afforded on application to 0 the
Resident Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq., and E. Lennox Boyd,
Frederick Hale Thomson, Esq., Surgeon,all L4Bo, nßdeorn.
ne
rs.
street,
attends at the Office daily, about Half-past Two o'clock.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
EFFECTS OF MONOPOLY.
LONDON, Nov. 5, 1842.
The following average prices of Brown or Musco-
vado British Sugars, exclusive of duty, were pub-
lished in the Gazette of last night :
East India ........ 3ss. 9id. per cwt.
Mauritius 32
West India 33 4-4-
us.—The same is the case with respect to Wells.
The total avenge price of the three descriptions is
35s.id. per cwt.

The actual weights of Sugar sold on account of the
importers, in the week ending the Ist inst., accord-
ing to the returns Made upon oath by the Sugar bro-
kers, in compliance with the Act of Parliament, and
on which weights the abov?, prices are computed, con.
sisted of 33,660 cwt. West India, 8,431 cwt. East
India, and 1,072 cwt. Mauritius.
About 1,600 cwt. of very dark unsound Sugar
have been sold in the same week at from 225. to 275.
per cwt., which having been classed in the returns as
East India, unfairly depresses the average price of that
kind of Sugars, as well as the total average price.
Foreign Sugars, quality for quality, with the ave-
rage of West India Sugar, may be bought for 17s. 6d.
per cwt., they are consequently 18s. 3d. per cwt.
cheaper. The total sales for the week in Mincing-
lane were 43,163 cwt., taking the sales at the outports
to be together the same as the London market ; the
consumers bought 86,000 cwt. of Sugar at 85s. 9d.
per cwt., amounting in round numbers to 152,0001.
sterling ; they might have bought the same weight,
86,000 cwt. of foreign Sugar at 17s. 6d. per cwt.,
amounting to 75,2501. sterling; they have, therefore,
given the monopolists, over and above the real value
of their Sugar, 76,7501.—pretty well for one week.
On the 9th September last, under the head " Price
of Sugar," we stated that by throwing out of sugar
cultivation the worn-out soils in the West Indies, the
rich and good yielding plantations might he culti-
vated at a proper rate of wages; and that, in the
aggregate, more sugar would be imported into this
country from the West Indies by such an arrange-
ment, than by the system now in practice, of apply-
ing labour to exhausted soils. That the wages of the
blacks would, in consequence of the adoption of the
proposed mode, be reduced to such an amount as
would compel them to work continuously, in lieu
of alternate days ; and that the proprietors, provided
they resided on their respective estates and looked
after their own affairs, as they ought to do,_ would
be enabled to undersell, at ex-duty price, the sugar
produced by their foreign 'competitors through the
means of slavery, in any market in the world,
thereby effectually driving slave labour from
the field. Great Britain has, therefore, cheap and
easy means in her own hands of annihilating the slave
trade by rendering it unprofitable to those who carry
it on. While this great truth is apparent, she may
send fleets to intercept the traders; she may burn
barracoons, and make other violent demonstrations if
she please to submit to the costs of so doing, and of
the chance of embroiling herself in a war ; she may
have one set of Ministers, who stimulate by their in-
structions the energies of her sail ars on the African
coast, and another set who counter-order the direc-
tions of their predecessors, and thereby damp those
energies. She may do this, and a great deal more,
but she will signally fail to impress either the nations
of Europe or the United States with the belief that
she seriously intends merely to suppress the traffic ;
they will place no more reliance on her declarations
than we (the English) do on the assurances of the Go-
vernments of Cuba and the Brazils that they are in-
tent on abolishing . slavery: We naturally perceive
that a feW policemen, judiciously stationed in
Cuba and the • Brazils would, at a small cost,
prevent the landing of the slaves from the slave
traders' ships, or, at all events, the sale of the un-
happy victims afterwards. We therefore arrive at the
conclusion that these Governments turn a willing ear
to their supposed interests, and fling humanity to the
winds. So they, the nations of Europe and the
United States, have a right fairly to conclude that
Great Britain, possessing as she does the means of
exterminating tht slave trade at little cost, whenever
she chooses, is not honest in her views, or that, if
she really intends to stop the traffic, she has also some
ulterior object to attain valuable t4her commerce, in
proportion to the pains she takes, and the expense sise
is at, in displaying her 'opposition. These nations
have also remarked that, throughout the contest in
this country about slavery, the people invariably took
the lead ; the people compelled a powerful interested
aristocracy into the grand measure of emancipa-
tion ; .the people loosened the grasp of the
slave holders, and drove them from che-
rished practices, sanctioned by time and cus-
tom. To the people, and to them alone, the
negroes in the British possessions are indebted for
their freedom ; all the Government of the day did was
to place such a price upon the boon of their liberation
as was thought would arrest .the realization of the
people's wishes—an amount more than the worth of
the fee simple of all the West India Islands put toge-
ther, as they were then, and are now managed. Con-
trary, however, to expectation, the money was cheer-
fully paid, and the great and glorious day for general
emancipation appointed. Foreign nations witnessed
these. proceedings ; they remarked the unwillingness
of certain influential parties to come into the measure,.
they now behold those very
parties in power ; with
them they must treat when any great question is
under consideration. Are they wrong, then, when
the subject of slavery is the question, in distrusting
the sincerity of these men ? Can blame attach to a
foreign Minister who refuses to enter into treaties
containing conditions which, in operation, would cer-
tainly detract from the dignity of the nation he repre-
sents, and, probably, interrupt her legitimate com-
merce. Are the Governments of France and the
United States wrong in resisting such a humiliating
measure, as the proposed right of search—especially,
knowing, as they both know, that the degrading pro-
ceeding is unnecessary to secure the professed object ?
That Great Britain holds the cards in her own hands
—that she can so play them, if she please, that slavery
will be speedily annihilated. Slave produce is bought
on account iGtsrecahteßapritneasisn
cheapness, not because it is slave
produce. manage her West India
possessions, as common sense dictates she should do,
and free-labour produce will become the cheapest, to
the certain exclusion of slave-raised sugar from 11
Let f
the markets in the world.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

(YESTERDAY.).
MANSION-HOUSE.

TDB LONDON CAOUTCHOUC COMPANY.—Yesterday
Mr. James Morley, of the firm of J. and R. Morley,
of \o. 18, Wood- street, Cheapside, accompanied by
Mr. Bevan, of the Old Jewry, solicitor, and about fifty
of the most respectable hosiers from the City and
West End, appeared before Sir Peter Laurie, to com-
plain against the London Caoutchouc Company. The
scene was one of the most extraordinary description.
Mr. Morley stated that he had to complain of the
conduct of certain parties, representing themselves to
be the " London Caoutchouc Company," and profess-
ing to sell articles
,made of India rubber, the interest
in three-fourths of which Company he believed to be
vested in Mr. William Leaf, of the Old 'Change, in

having filed 55 bills in Chancery against the retail
hosiers in the metropolis for an alleged infringement
of their patent. The articles alleged to be pirated
were those into which strips of India-rubber were in-
troduced, surrounded by thread, and so covered over
that it was impossible for any one to discover whether
they were or were not similar to the articles manufac-
tured by the Company.
Sir PETER LAURIE said he had acquainted himself
with the nature of the article, and inquired whether
a.by one was present in behalf of the factors ?
Mr. Warne, the secretary of the Company, and Mr.
Wight, of Percy-street, Bedford-street, then pre-
sented themselves upon the part of the Company. Mr.
Leaf, to whom it was stated notice had been sent,
was not in attendance.

Mr. Morley continued.—The first intimation given
to the parties was the service of the writs, in some
instances in a very offensive manner, requiring them
to appear and answer a bill in Chancery filed by Mr.
Wright, in the name of the London Caoutchouc
Company. When the parties applied to Mr. Wight
for information, they were told they had infringed
the Company's rights, but that he was willing to com-
promise the matter, and in many instances they were
induced, through intimidation and ignorance of the
awful proceedings with which they were menaced, to
pay large sums, varying from 151. to 701. Mr.
Wight asked much larger sums than he eventually
consented to take, his principle being apparently to
get as much as he could.—(Laughter.) In one in-
stance he asked 45/. of a respectable tradesman, de-
claring that less would not pay him, but he was at
last satisfied with 15/.—(Laughter.) The great op-
pression and cruelty in those proceedings on the part
of the Company was in selecting as victims the retail
dealers, who were struggling for an honest sub-
sistence, difficult in such times to be obtained, in-
stead of boldly attacking the manufacturers of the
article complained of, who, if any were really liable,
must be the parties to answer, and who could afford
to spend 1,000/. if need be, in contesting the right.
No wonder that some of these parties should be glad
to stop Chancery proceedings, at the sacrifice of the
sums set forth in the list, when many who were
better acquainted with the nature of such proceedings
would probably have acted in the same manner.
Sir P. LAURIE here read the list of the names of
some of the parties who had compromised upon being
threatened with Chancery proceedings by Mr. Wight,
and of the amount for which these tradesmen had
compromised with that gentleman. It was as follows :
James Beale, Bond-street .
Gilbert Wilson, Oxford-street
Goy and Evans, Cornhill .. 20 0 0
J. and B. Taylor, ditto 2O 0 0
E. and J. Burch, Great Russell-street 20 0 0
Samuel Barton, Strand 2l 0 0
John Lord, Burlington-arcade .... 28 0 0
John Jowett, Conduit-street
Thomas Flint, 337, Oxford-street
Alfred Faulkner, 107, Regent-street 21 0 0
Charles Fossett, 76, Quadrant ... 20 0 0
Jeffery Ludlam, 174, Piccadilly l6 16 0
Foster, Porter, and Co, 124,W00d-st 7O 0 0
Samuel Morgan, 173, Strand l5 0 0
Smith and Withen, Poultry
Mr. Mohler, upon being referred to by Sir Peter
Laurie, said he certainly never heard of such a sys-
tem, and that if what had been stated could be proved
elsewhere a stop would be soon put to it.
Mr. Morley—ln a case of such a nature, of so ex-
tremely oppressive a description to a large body of
tradesmen, it is most important to have the opinion of
Sir Peter Laurie, to whom tradesmen are already
under the greatest obligations. A letter has been this
morning received from Brighton, stating that Chan-
cery proceedings had been instituted by the Company
against retailers there ; and parcels have been, we are
assured, brought from Bath, which have been pur-
chased of shopkeepers there, and upon which the soli-
citor
to the Association means to take proceedings.
Sir I'. LAURIE—As far as I can judge, from what
has appeared before me, this mode of getting money
by the compromise of Chancery proceedings, is likely
to be more profitable to the Association than their
professed business.—(Laughter, and applause.)
Mr. Warne— Whatever the solicitor to the Com-
pany gets by these proceedings, not one farthing goes
to the Company.
Sir P. LAURlE—Certainly, if we may judge from
the profits of the solicitor employed to protect the in-
terests of the Company, the Company itself must be
an admirable one. I never heard of such a system in
all my experience. It is clear to me that the Com-
pany are responsible to every man who has been ap-
plied to and been induced to part with his money
through apprehension, in order to stop proceedings,
for the acts of tLe secretary and solicitor are the acts
of the Company.—(Loud applause.)
Mr. Morley—But the Company disclaim the acts
of the solicitor. The principal shareholder in the con-
cern declares that the solicitor has gone further than
he was authorised to go.
Sir P. LAURIE—I should wish to be informed by
the solicitor to the Company whether he had instituted
these proceedings by the desire of the Company.
Mr. Wight—l have proceeded by the desire of the
Company, certainly.
Sir P. LAURIE—Then the Company are amenable
for your acts ?
Mr. Wight—The Company are not aware of the
extent to which the proceedings have been carried on,
for they are not aware of the extent of the infringe-
ment of their patent. It is my duty to protect them,
but it is not by any means true that I have proceeded
in every case of violation. There are 150 parties who
have infringed the patent, but against whom I have
not proceeded.
Mr. Warne stated that the solicitor, in filing the
bills against so many parties, exceeded his instructions.
Several tradesmen Isere stated that Mr. Warne had
made a similar statement to them.
Mr. Wise said the receipts were in some instances
for damages and costs.
Mr. Wight said he had general instructions to
protect the Company's interests, on whichhe had acted.
Sir PETER LAURIE here intimated that he had
looked at the Patent law, and had Treat doubts whether
the patentees had any remedy against a party who sold
only, and did not manufacture the article ; and it ap-
peared to him that the circumstances might amount
to the offence of obtaining money under false pretences.
—(Great cheering.) Proceedings more discreditable
had never appeared before him on any occasion. He
wished to know whether any of the parties who had
paid the sums specified in the list were present.
Mr. Foster, of the firm of Foster, Porter, and Co.,
acknowledged that they had paid 701., under the ad-
vice of their solicitor, to avoid litigation with the
Company.
Sir PETER LAURIE—It was not very creditable to
you, Mr. Foster, or any of the other parties, to submit

to such extortion. -
Mr. Morley denied that his object in applying to
Sir Peter Laurie was rather to give that publicity to
the proceedings which he had no doubt they would
obtain through the medium of the press, than at pre-
sent to consider the remedy which the injured persons
might calculate upon. The mode of proceeding had
been to select a few who had submitted to the pay-
ment, and when they were settled with, to frighten
others into a like compromise, and it was impossible
to know where it might end.
Mr. Wright denied the imputation, and stated that
the subject could not possibly be argued or determined
in the justice-room.
Mr. Morley said, nobody could say to what extent
the nuisance had spread, as he had heard from parties
in the country, who had been served with a similar
process, and who had no means of discriminating be-
tween the genuine and the spurious articles; and that
the articles complained of had actually been bought
of the agents of the Company, and proceedings in some
instances commenced on these very articles.
Mr. Wmarne hoped Mr. Morley was stating what
1 he was prepared to prove.
Mr. Morley said, he undoubtedly was.
Sir PETER LAURIE asked whether the tradesmen
particularised had sold much of the article which was
said to have been made in violation of the patent ?
Mr. Wise said that some of them had sold no more
than one or two pairs of braces, and ddemands, wown the solihich
citor
popped upon them, with enormous ,
after some expostulation, was reduced to the amount
specified.

Sir PETER LAURIE—And perhaps those braces were
purchased by the sufferers at the warehouses of the
very parties who accused them of the offence.—(Loud
laughter.) I certainly never heard of anything more
discreditable, and I advise all who may now be under
threats of proceedings in Chancery not to pay one
farthing.
Ilere there was a cry from several voices, "We
never will.

Mr. Morley requested to be informed by Mr.
Wight who made the purchases of the articles at the
different shops ? Mr. Wight—They were made by
various parties.
Sir P. LAURIE—No doubt the solicitor to the Com-
pany sent round his clerks to purchase.—(Laughter.)
Mr. Taylor (one of the tradesmen who compro-
mised) said that Mr. Wight, accompanied by another
person, called at his shop, and routing about some
articles, pkked out a pair of braces, paid for them,
and took them away. Intelligence reached him that
a neighbour in the same trade- had been proceeded
against by the Company ; and soon afterwards, to his
surprise, he received a subpcena from the Court of
Chancery. Mr. Wight offered to take a compromise
of 30/., but at last accepted 201.
Sir P. LAURIE—And you, unconsciously as to the
patent, had purchased the braces ? Mr. Taylor—l
had purchased them in Maiden-lane, without any idea
of breach of patent. I had a doubt whether they
were bought at my shop, and I told Mr. Wight so,
but he said he was ready to make affidavit That they
were. I offered him 1.51., hut was at length induced
to give him 20/.
Sir P. LAURIE—And I dare say you suppose that
you are exonerated from further demand. Don't be
too sure of that. 31r. Wight, the attorney, may say.
" I have my 20/. ;" and afterwards Mr. brown, the
attorney, may come down upon you for 20/. more.
Mr. Wight assured Sir Peter Laurie that he might
have insisted upon the whole amount.
Mr. Warne complained that the name of Mr. Leaf
had been used invidiously in the course of the state-
ments, in order to annoy that gentleman, when it was
well known that there were a great many proprietors.
Several of the complainants loudly asserted that
what Mr. Morley had said as to the interest Mr. Leaf
had in the Company was perfectly correct, and denied
that they had other reasons than those stated for using
Mr. Leaf's name.

Mr. Morley said the great ground of complaint was
that those odious and oppressive proceedings had been
resorted to without any previous warning to the public.
Mr. Warne produced a newspaper, which he alleged
contained due notice.
Mr. Morley was aware that an advertisement had
been published, but it was headed " The New Tariff,"
and as the new tariff did not affect the price of those
articles, it could not afford proper notice to parties,
who would be more likely to look under such a head-
ing, for the price of beef and pork. He referred to
the honourable course recently pursued by another pa-
tentee in a similar case, that gentleman having caused
circulars to be sent round to the trade, containing a
copy of the injunctions obtained by them against the
manufacturer, and warning them against any future
dealing in the spurious articles.
Sir P. LAURIE, after a great deal of cross firing
between the complainants and the secretary and
solicitor to the Company, again expressed his astonish-
ment and disgust at the proceedings described, and
said he would adjourn the further hearing of the
matter till next Friday, when he trusted Mr. Bevan,
the solicitor to the great mass of the complainants,
would be prepared with all necessary information.
Mr. Morley hoped that Mr. Leaf and others of the
shareholders would attend, and not leave the whole
business in the hands of the secretary and solicitor.
He trusted also that Sir Peter Laurie would attend
to decide upon the case.
Sir
pb
euct t reallyL A n LAURIE
thoughtsaid htehseh ocuolmdprnlaoinstaNnits'il,liinfgltyh
ey attend,ex.
ehdePt.o see any other faces on the other side than
those of the secretary and solicitor, would be very
much disappointed.
The crowd of complainants cheered the conduct of
Sir Peter Laurie, and thus ended this most remark-
able case.