The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-03-06 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

HIS ROYAL Ii GHNESS THE PRINCE OF
ORANGE IN LIVERPOOL.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange, accompanied
by Rear-Admiral Arriens, aide-de-camp of his Majesty
the King of the Netherland,. Captain Goedicher, aide-
de-camp to his Royal Highness the Prince, and Sir Henry
Johnstone, Bart., arrived at the Adelphl Hotel, in this
town, on Tuesday afternoon last, from Gresgord Lodge,
Denbighshire. His Royal Highness and suite subse-
quently favoured his Worship the Mayor with their com-
pany to dinner. Among those present were the Earl of
Yarborough, the Hon. Charles Howard, the Hon. Col.
Lowther, M.P., General Sir William Warre, Sir John
Sainsbury Lieut. Col Garrett, Captain Warre, Captain
, Lieut. Edwards (Staff Adjutant), Lieut.
~ Rev. Wm. Pollock, Rev. J. Wybergh,
it of Stockport, G. H. Head, Esq., of Carlisle ;
sq., of Lancaster ; D. Willink, Esq., Dutch
Marsland,
coin ;

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THE WEST INDIA MAIL STEAMERS,

The disaster reported to have befallen the West India
Company's fine steam ship " Forth," may render a few
particulars respecting the company's affairs interesting to
our readers. We have therefore condensed the following
from a statement which appears in the London Times :
"Should the next intelligence from the West Indies bring a
confirmation of the loss of this fine ship, it will make the fifth
large steamer lost by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
since the commencement of their contract for carrying the
West India mails in 1841. Their steamers previously wrecked
were the Medina, on the 12th of May, 1844, on a coral reef, near
Turk's Island; the Isis, on the Bth of October, 1842, which
sunk off Bermuda, having previously struck on a reef; the
Solway, off Corunna, coast of Spain, on the Bth of April, 1843;
and the Tweed, on the 12th of February, 1847, on the Alacranes
rocks, Gulf of Mexico, the same reef upon which the nnfortu-
nate Forth was last seen by the vessel which took the news to
Mobile. The company also lost their inter-colonial steamer
Actaeon, on the Nigrellos, near Carthagena, in 1844, and the
schooner Lee, near Belize, Honduras, in 1848. The wrecks of
the Solway and Tweed were attended with peculiarly distres-
sing circumstances, involving the loss of nearly 120 lives, and
in the case of the Tweed, with an amount of hardship and suf-
fering to the survivors which has rarely found a parallel in the
records of shipwrecks."

The company have been their own insurers; and to
provide against contingencies have a reserve fund, in-
vested in government securities, amounting at present' to
£125,000. The amount to be written off for the " Forth"
will be about £60,000. The -vessel was shortly to have
been overhauled and refitted at an expense of £12,000 to
£15,000. The company's flotilla now consists of the fol-
lowing steam ships :—The Dee, Thames, Teviot, Trent,
Tay, Medway, Clyde, Avon, Severn, Great Western,
Conway, Eagle, Reindeer, and inter-colonial schooners
Larne and Liffey, and is abo-at to be considerably aug-
mented.

ROYAL ASSURANCE SHARES

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Sig,—Can any of your readers inform me how it is that
the shares of our two insurance companies are quoted in
the Stock Exchange list at prices so disproportionate to
their real value ?

The Royal Insurance Company commenced business
about three years back, with a capital of about £170,000.
In these three years it has accumulated a reserve of about
£120,000, paying also five per cent. the whole time. Its
prosperity advances monthly. These shares are quoted
£2 paid, £ll to £2 pm.

The Liverpool arid London Fire and Life COmpany
commenced business about twelve years back, with the
same capital. In the twelve years it has added to this a
reserve of about £160,000, having paid dividends from
five up to twenty per cent. These shares are quoted at 4
pm., to which must be added a new share (allotted in right
of each share), which is quoted at 4fr pm.—making the
original creation worth now in the market £8 10s. pm.
It is said that the incomes of the two companies are about
equal. Whence, then, arises the disparity in price ? Is
it because the public know less of the former than of the
latter company ? it cannot be said that Fire and Life
shares are too high,—paying the dividend they do they
are cheap ; but are not Royal Assurance shares much
more cheap ? Is there, in fact, such an investment offer-
ing the list ?—Yours obediently,

AN OBSERVER

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,

DEATH FROM DRUNKENNESS.—A man VMS brought
on Thursday night last to the police station, insensibly
drunk. He never spoke a word, but died a short time
after his admission to the bridewell.

CHARGE OF ASSAULT.—AR old woman, named Ann
M'Loghlen, charged Thomas Murray with an assault, at
the Police-court on Tuesday. It appeared, however, that
the defendant was the old woman's son-in-law, and that
she had unnecessarily meddled between the son and his
wife. Mr. Rushton dismissed the case, observing that
there was a deal of trouble with these violent old women.
The best thing she could do was to stay away from the
nusband's house till he sent for her ; she ought to be
very glad that she had got a decent husband for her
daughter.
ROBBERY OF A GOLD WATCH AND £45 IN MONEY.—
A man and woman, named William Hayes and Catherine
Richardson, were brought before Mr. Rushton, on Fri-
day; at the Police-court, charged by a man named John
Ellery, with stealing from him, in a brothel in Prudhoe-
street, a gold watch and £45. Two of the detective force,
from information they received, went to the house, and,
after searching for some time, found £39 18s. Several
witnesses said that they saw the prisoners with a g
deal of money ; and one witness saw the male pr
ill-use the woman for having lost a gold watel
Rushton remanded the case

ROBBERY OP £5O.—A woman named Catherine Cox
was placed in the dock of the Police-court, on Friday,
charged with stealing from Mr. J. F. Atkinson a £5O-note
and some smaller sums of money. The prosecutor lives
at Wigton, in Cumberland. Mr. Rushton ordered that
he should be immediately sent for. It appeared from the
evidence of a friend of Mr. Atkinson's, that they were in
Clayton-square, on Thursday night, when the prisoner
came up to Mr. Atkinson, and talked with him a short
time. After she had gone, Mr. Atkinson found that she
had stolen the money from him. The prisoner was taken
by Tuck, a detective police officer, trying to get the note
changed at one of the banks.—Mr. Rushton remanded
the case.

BIGAMY.—Thomas Meanley was brought before Mr.
Rushton on Friday, at the Police-court, charged with
bigamy. Mr. Samuel Harrison, of Chester, was the first
witness called. He stated that the-prisoner's first wife
was his sister; he was present when the prisoner was
married to her, which took place at the Old Church,
Liverpool, in 1835. It was proved that the prisoner had
been married a second time, to Miss Anne Dawson, at
the Superintendent Registrar's office, in Islington. The
prisoner and his second wife were found at Southport.
He was committed for trial. The following singular docu-
ment was found upon him :—" I, Thomas Meanley,
agree to take Anne Dawson to my wedded wife, if agree-
able to her, and hereby bind myself to love, honour, and
obey her on forfeit of one hundred pounds, and the same
Anne Dawson in like manner to bind herself to the said
Thomas Meanley.—Witness my hand this 7th day of
February, 1849. The said Anne Dawson to give the
above party a candid answer within three days from this
date, or sooner, if agreeable, this not to be taken as a
fiction for the old love will never wear away.—(Signed)
HOMAS MEANLEY."