The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-03-20 00:00:00

Company gave a grand con
Sir Charles J. Is

pier, on the e

sume the
in India.

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Tavern
all the:

The entertainment took r
The service of plate was m

ries of the t
character. Sir J. Lusl
India Company, preside
were the Dukes of Wellington
of Breadalbane, Sligoand Clanric
Jocelyn, Sir C. Wood, Sir G. Gr(
In the course of the Duke of Welling
toast of " the army," his Grace said :
that I do not consider the existing state
as one of most extraordinary emergen,
have seen that the object of the war 1

(Cheers.) A. great fortress„.._
sail:, to possess, in order to maintain ou,
into our hands, after a long siege, by the unqualin
render of the enemy. True, great loss has bee
tained ; but I must say, if we are to fight
if great risks are to be run, we must expect to incur losse
n ' ends. (Cheers.) If such ac-

great D

piined, without

...ae attainment of great _
tions could be fought, and such victor._
loss, it might be considered that little honour
iu achieving them. While, therefore, Ido consider it
most important that such a man as my hon. and gallant
friend should be at the head of the armies in India, I can-
not look at the circumstances of the moment in that
country to be such as should be regarded with gloom or
discouragement. (Cheers.) lam glad my hon. and
lant friend has taken the comr

have done everything in my power to accomplish that'ob-
ject, both with my hon. and gallant friend and elsewhere,
and 1 have no doubt, if occasion shall offer, my hon. and
gallant friend will so conduct himself as to do honour to
himself and to satisfy this country by some of the most
splendid snccesses of which it has ever received the ac-
count. (Loud and continued chee
THE DEVIL'S DYKE,—A corres]
Advertiser states, that he has sc
the height of the Dyke-hill t

mdent of the Sussex
entificallr

'ertained
inAe,

a," .11U
above the level of the sea. It has often been asserted
that it was 1,000 feet above the level of the sea.
CHANGE OF COLOUR IN Fisn.—The change of colour
in fish is very remarkable, and ta';es place with great rapi-
dity. Put a living black burn trout into a basin of water,
and it becomes, within half an hour, of a light colour.
Keep the fish living in a white jar for some days, and it
becomes absolutely white; but put it into a dark-coloured
or black vessel, and although on first being placed there
the white-coloured fish shows most conspicuously on the

black ground, in a quarter of an hour it liccoty

conseque

coloured as the bottom of the jar, an,
cult to be seen. No doubt, this facilit
colour to the bottom of the watt
the greatest service to the fish in protect..
merous enemies. All anglers must have observeu
every stream the trout are very much of the same colour
as the gravel or sand on which they live: whether this
change of colour is a volunta l
ig , , ~ ~
.. on the
part of the fish, I leave it fort wn V. 4 ,
• . , 3. me.—
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In accordance with tt
that there shall be r

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I die by hi
felo de se
held fele di

odified as
I was of sa

rule- is ad-
g. For, if
nqrument,

his view the
no forfeiture
r words, wil-
ts modifying
appreciable.
ardirectors.

:mind, or, in otti
iiberately took away his life. In the
,e, the loss by suicide will be hardly
417 n statistics which have been furnished to yoi
y high medical authority, it appeals that the death
imongst the members of the community whose ha
could lead them to assure are so very few that a •
loss would be practicably unattainable.
'Where the policy has been assigned for onerous cases, it is
proposed that there shall be no forfeiture, as far as regards the
interests of such onerous holders, by the failure of the life of
the Assured by suicide. No argument is necessary to estab-
lish the propriety of this alteration, whether with regard to
Justice to the Policy-holders, or with a view to the commercial
value of the Policies.
This Report, with the relative States and the Report by the
Auditors, having been read by the Manager,
RORERT CHALMRRS Esq., Publisher, submitted the fol-
lowing Motion:—
"The Meeting approve of the Report now read; and further

forfeitur

s by suicide
bits of mind
lculation of