The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-03-27 00:00:00

BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL

THE Alderman and Assessors of No. 7, or SAINT
PETER'S WARD, do hereby make the following Return
of a Councillor Elected for the said Ward by the Burgesses
thereof, on the 24th day of March, 1819, to supply the Vacancy
occasioned by Robert Sellar Henderson, Esq., late a Councillor
of the said Ward having been Elected an Alderman of the
Borough, and to continue in Office se long as the said Robert
Sellar Henderson would have continued, viz., until the Ist day
of November, 1850.

c; I I I Councillor
Ward. Elected. Alderman. I Assessors

Joseph Bispham
, I St.
Ward. Peter's 1 Daniel Bell William Nicol Leatherbarrow,
Geo. Hopkinson.

Published by me, pursuant to 5 and 6 William IV., cap. 76,
sec. 35.

J. BRAMLEY-MOORE, Mayor.
Town-hall, 24th March, 1549.

NORTH BRITISH INSURANCE COMPANY.

The THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING of PROPRIE-
TORS of the NORTH BRITISH INSURANCE COMPANY
was held, in the Company's Office, in Edinburgh, on the sth

instant,

The Hen. Lord CUNNINGHME, one of the Extraordinary

Directors, in the Chair,

A Report by the Directors on the business of the year ending
31st December last was read to the Meeting, showing that the
Fire Premiums collected during the year amounted to .e 26,455
14s. 2d.—that 269 Life Policies had been issued in the course of
the year, insuring £22l,Boo—that the Accumulated Life Fund
amounted, at 31st December, 1848, to £523,568 is. 6d.—and the
&initial Revenue from Life Premiums was £104,984 10s. Bd.
A. Dividend was declared of Five and a Half per Cent. free of

Income tax, payable on Monday, the 2d of April next.
The following Shareholders were then elected President,
Vice-Presidents, and Directors, for the current year :

PRESIDENT.
His Grace the Duke of Sutherland.
VICE-PRESIDENTS.
The Most Noble the Marquis of Abercorn.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Stair.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Camperdown.
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Melville.
EXTRAORDINARY DIRECTORS.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Airhe.
Alexander Campbell, Esq., of Monzie.
Thomas Guthrie Wright, Esq., Auditor of the Court of Session.
Sir Adam Hay, of Hayston, Bart.
James Farquharson, Esq., of Invercauld.
The Hon. Lord Moncrieff
The Hon. Lord Cunninghame.
Colin Campbell, Esq., of Colgrain.
Sir David Dundas, of Dunira, Bart.
Sir John Macpherson Grant, of Ballindalloch, Bart.
William Ramsay Ramsay, Esq., of Barnton.
Sir John Dick Lauder, of Fountainhall, Bart.

ORDINARY DIRECTORS.
Robert Whigham, Esq., Sheriff of Perthshire, Chairman.
Peter Ramsay. Esq.. Banker.
Captain Henry Dundas, R.N.

LaUrence Davidson, Esq., W.S.
John Anderson, Esq., W.S. .
John Brown Innes, Esq., W.S.
John Gibson, jun., Esq., W.S.
Thomas Macpherson Grant, Esq., W.S.
John Forbes Walker Drummond, Esq., W.S.
James Campbell Tait, Esq., W.S.
William Young, Esq., W.S.
Henry Duncan Ferguson, Esq., W.S.
JAMtS BORTHWICK, Manager.
JOHN OGILVY, Secretary.
64, Prince's-street, Edinburgh, 7th March, 1849.

LIVERPOOL BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
JOHN CROSTHWAITE, Esq.
THOMAS MURRAY, Es
_g.
WILLIAM BALLENY, ESQ.

ROBERT DIROM, Esq.
ALEXANDER SMITH, Jun., Esq.
WILLIAM DOUGLAS, Secretary..
OFFICE, INDIA-BUILDINGS, WATER STREET.

METROPOLITAN COUNTIES AND GENERAL
LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
27, REGENT-STREET, WATERLOO-PLACE, LONDON,
INCORPORATED PURSUANT TO ACT OF PARLIAMENT.

TRUSTEES.
Spencer Horatio Walpole, Esq., M.P.
Henry Peter Fuller, Esq.
Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P.
Edward Vansittart Neale, Esq.
DIRECTORS.
Samuel Driver, Esq., Whitehall.
Henry Peter Fuller, Esq., Piccadilly.
John Palk Griffin, Esq., Ironmonger-lane, Cheapside.
Ca_pt. Hon. G. F. Hotham, R.N.. United Service Club and

Brighton. Limes,
Edward Legh, Esq., thet, john,Lewisham, Kent.
Edward Lomax, Esq., S • s-wood-park.
Samuel Miller, Esq., Lincoln's-inn.
E. Vansittart Neale, Esq.,*South Audley-street.
Sir Thomas Newby Reeve, Richmond, Surrey.
William Studley, Esq., Brixton, Surrey.
William A. S. Westoby, Esq., Hyde-park-place.

AUDITORS.
Thomas Bates, Esq., Old-square, Lincoln's-inn.
Henry Peach Muckier, Esq., Basinghall-street.
MEDICAL ADVISERS.
W. W. Fuller, M.D., 45, Half-Moon-street,:Piccadilly.
Robert Keate, Esq., Sergeant-Surgeon to the Queen, Hertford-

street, Mai-fair:
W. H. Smith, Esq., F.R.C.S., Fonthill-place, Clapham-rise.

Commercial Bank of London, 6, Henrietta•street, Covent
garden.

SOLICITORS,_, ,GeapSuie,
WaitY)lsl7E, Richmond, Surrey.
PROVINCIAL SUPERINTENDENT.
H. It. Addison, Esq.
MANAGER.
F. Ferguson Camroux, Esq.

BOARD OF MANAGEMENT FOR LIVERPOOL.
Office, Talbot-chambers, Fenwick-street.
DIRECTORS.
Thomas Littledale, Esq. William Fisher, Junior, Esq.
I Mathew Gregson, Esq. George W. Ewing, Esq.
Manager—S. Lee Trotman, Esq.
Physician—D. Macrorie, Esq., M.D.
Surveyor—John Stewart, Esq.
Solicitors—Messrs. Christian and Jones,
Bank—Bank of Liverpool.
The LIFE ASSURANCE DEPARTMENT of the Society
embraces:—
Assurances upon single or joint lives, contingent survivor--
ships, or the survivor of two or more lives.
Endowments of widows and children.
Immediate, deferred and survivorship annuities.
The payment of fixed sums to the assured at any specified
age, or to the representatives in case of death before that age;
and
Every other description of risk contingent upon human life.
The RAILWAY LIFE ASSURANCE DEPARTMENT of the
Society embraces :
The Assurance upon the lives of Railway Passengers, for the
single payment of 10s. for every .€lOO assured, in the event of
their losing their lives from the effects of any accident by
travelling on a Railway in Great Britain or Ireland.
EXAMPLE.—A perm' may, by one single payment, thus
assure to his family, or others, the sum of 'lOOO, to be paid in
the event of his losing his life by Railway Travelling in Great
Britain or Ireland.
The LOAN DEPARTMENT of the Society embraces :
A new and liberal system of Loan in connection with Life
Assurance, whereby the assured may not only render their po-
licies available to themselves during their lives? but also secure
to their representatives a sum of money at their decease.
Advances are made for the purchase, or on the security or,
freehold, leasehold, and other property
The system is also peculiarly adapted for cases involving the
payment of fines on renewable leases, or ecclesiastical pro-
perty, and on admission to copyhold estates. Advances are
also made for repairs and improvements to owners of life estates,
incumbents of livings, and other persons.
PROSPECTUSES, with every variety of Tables, and all in-
formation, may be obtained personally, or on application by
letter addressed to the Manager at the Offices of the Society,
27, Regent-street, Waterloo-place, London ; or to
S. LEE TROTMANt
Talbot-chambers, Fenwick-street, Liverpool.