The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-10 00:00:00

committed for trial

CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.-Mr. Pringle, of Bold-
street, appeared before the magistrates to prefer a charge
of embezzlement against Henry Keyser, late a porter in
his establishment. It appeared that on the 6th of July
Keyser wa,, - with a-- to e —f a '

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__ a mantle ~Lie residence o. ..ady
at tverton ; he delivered the parcel, and also a receipted
invoice for the value of the mantle, £3 35., and waited for
the amount. A servant brought out a five pound note.
which she gave into his hands, desiring he would return
the difference. Keyser tonic the note and left the house.

saying he would come back wit

From th

day until Thursday last, when he was apprehended by
Lloyd, he had not been heard of. The person who deli-
vered the bank note into the prisoner's hands was unable
to identify him ; he was, however, committed on the evi-
dence of Lloyd, who said he had admitted receiving the
money when taken into custody. He was taken directly
before the graed jury.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF MONEY AND TEA.—On
Tuesday, a young man named William Cornett, and a
woman, named Mary Mahon,' were brought up at the po-
lice-court, charged with stealing money and tea from their
master, Mr. Doubleday, tea dealer, Ranelagh-street. The
male prisoner was a porter, the female a domestic servant.
It appeared that Mr. Doubleday had for some time missed
articles from the shop, and frequently money left in the
till at night was found in the morning to be gone. To
endeavour to solve the mystery, he locked his son and
nephew in the shop on Monday night, that they might
watch. They were just beginning to think that no one
would come, when about seven in the morning they ob-
served the male prisoner enter the shop from the cellar
stairs, and walk hurriedly to the drawer and pocket the
contents. He bad been introduced to the shop by the
female servant, who had entered Mr. Doubleday's service
in great poverty : she was now subjected to a search, and
in her boxes were found seventeen sovereigns, fifteen shit-
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were found. Mr. Doubleday also stated that he had missed
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time ago, and which could
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prisoners w, ere committed for
trial,

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Josias Booker, Esq., chairman of the board of u._
in the chair. About one hundred proprietors were },_
sent. P. M. Dove, Esq., the manager, read the report,
which stated the amount carried to profit and I^~-
*

" From this sum

nristmas, 1846, was £61,139 Os. 3d.
however, is to be deducted £3,400, the amount of losses
since paid, incurred on insurances, effected or renewed
within the year 1846. A review of the six months just
elapsed showed that the anticipations of extended business
which were conjectured in March are nnw made certain_

1/11G 1 CLIA, ILII 111 e
insurance which has been effected in the interval, by the
united consent of this and other offices, whereby the mer-
chants of Liverpool have been relieved in some cases to
the extent of no less than 40 per cent of the charges hith-
erto made, it can yet be stated that the fire premiums re-
ceived by the company for the six months ending 30th
June last, exceed the amount received in the correspond-
ing period of the last year by no less than 16 per cent.,
whilst the sum assured, which tests more clearly the actual
increase, as being unaffected by the reduction of rates
which has taken place, exhibits an increase of full 30 per
cent. The losses on fire risks during the-same period was
so remarkably low as £6OO. But a glance at the life busi-
ness exhibited still more pointedly shows the rapid advances
made by the company. The following items showed the
sums assured on lives from the commencement of the coir
pany's business, viz. :—June to December, 1845
1'23,349 ; year 1646, £46,767 ; January to Jun
elusive, £43,287. The number of shares a)'
30th June last was 86,410, and the capital
quently now amounts to X'
mended that the dividend
should not exceed 2s. 6d. per share clear of
being at the rate of five per cent on the paid
the eighteen months ending 31st December,
the motion of the chairman, the report was
adopted.—Mr. F. Grundy thought the amount of profit
would justify a larger dividend, and moved as an anke-
meat that it should be 4s. per share. Mr. Bigho-
conded the motion. Mr. J. B. Moore, howevev
veral other gentlemen opposed the amendment,
Grundy eventually withdrew,—The retiring directors were
then re-elected, and after some formal proceedings, a vote,
of thanks was passed to P. M. Dove, Esq,,,, the mar-
and to Mr. Gray, the aagstant manager.

inclusive,
, 1847, in-

72,820.
n lin ~

Lp capital for
1846. On

which Mr