The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-05 00:00:00

LIFE DEPARTMENT.

In this Department the Directors have had a new set of
Tables calculated expressly for this Office, which have been
submitted to and received the sanction and approval of one of
the most eminent authorities, and settled in accordance with
the experience of the Government Annuities.
The following is the Rate of Premium for a Single Life for
securing .elOO, viz. :

Without Profits. With Profits.
Age One Year. Seven Years Whole Life. Whole Life.
- - -
.e 4. af. £ s. d. £ s. d. s. d.
15 018 0 1 011 1 12 1 1 16 9
16 019 0 1 1 11 , 1 12 9 1 17 8
17 1 0 .3 1 2 9 1 13 5 1 18 7
18 1 1 0 1 3 4 1 14 2 1 19 5
19 1 1 9 1 3 10 1 15 0 2 0 3
20126142 1 15 8 2 1 1
21 1 3 2 1 '4 7 1 16 6 2 2 0
22 1 3 9 1 5 0 1 17 4 2 2 10
23140157 1 Is 2 2 3 9
24146163 1 19 0 2 4 8
25 1 5 0 1 611 1 19 10 2 5 7
26156178 2 0 8 2 6 7
27161185 2 1 9 2 7 7
28168190 2 2 9 2 8 10
29 1 7 5 1 9 8 2 311 2 911
30 1 7 9 1 10 4 2 5 1 211 1
31 1 8 6 111 0 2 6 2 212 2
32 1 9 1 1 11 9 2 7 10 2 13 10
33 1 9 11 1 12 4 2 8 7 2 14 8
34 1 10 6 1 13 1 2 10 0 2 16 0
35 1 11 4 1 14 0 2 11 4 2 11 4
36 1 12 1 1 14 9 2 12 6 2 18 10
37 1 12 9 1 15 8 2 13 9 3 0 10
38 1 13 5 1 16 10 2 15 6 3 2 1
39 1 14 I 1 17 11 2 17 3 3 3 9
40 1 15 0 1 18 11 2 19 0 3 5 6
41 1 15 11 1 19 10 3 0 11 3 7 3
42 1 16 11 2 010 3 2 9 3 9 1
43 1 18 0 2 1 10 3 4 7 3 11 0
44 1 19 3 2 3 G 3 6 7 3 13 0
45 2 0 2 2 5 0 3 8 8 315 1
46 2 1 1 1 26 9 310 8 317 3
47 2 2 4 2 9 4 3 13 1 3 19 8
48 2 3 11 211 7 315 6 4 2 2
49 2 5 9 214 1 318 4 4 5 1
50 2 8 7 2 16 11 4 1 2 4 8 1
51 211 2 219 3 4 4 3 411 3
52 2 13 8 3 211 4 7 4 414 7
53 216 4 3 4 5 410 9 418 2
54 2 18 1 3 6 7 4 14 7 5 2 0
55306393 4 18 8 5 6 0
56 3 2 10 3 12 6 5 2 10 5 10 5
57 3 5 6 3 15 0 5 7 8 5 15 2
58 3 8 4 3 17 6 5 12 6 6 0 0
59 3 11 4 4 0 4 5 17 7 6 5 1
60 3 14 0 4 3 1 6 2 6 6 10 3

The Company likewise Assure on Joint-lives, payable on the
death of either, or both also on Survivorships.
SPECIAL INSURANCES taken at • special rates on the partici-
pation scale; the Assured will receive two-thirds of the profits,
which he can receive in cash, or by a reduction of the Annual
Premium.
A LOCAL BOARD is appointed, so that prompt settlement of
claims can be effected.
The Company also offer advantages to Persons wishing to
endow their Children with a sum of money, when of age, on the
following terms :

ENDOWMENTS.
SINGLE AND ANNUAL PREMIUMS FOR THE ENDOWMIN OF
£lOO, ON ATTAINING TWENTY-ONE.

Sine Annual Single Annual
Age.
Premium. Premium.Age'Premium. Premium.
e s. d. • s. d. s. d. s. d.
1 37 12 8 3 2 4 9 61 17 7 6 6 9
2 41 12 3 3 8 4 10 64 8 2 7 1 3
3 46 0 5 314 7 11 66 19 2 718 9
4 49 17 3 4 1 4 12 69 11 7 9 0 0
5 51 14 4 4 610 13 72 6 4 10 6 7
6 54 16 9 414 9 14 75 3 4 12 1 1
7157 3 4 53 10 15 78 210 14 4 2
8 59 19 9 5 14 6

The Directors also beg to remind Assurers that all Policies
falling due at MICHAELMAS should oe renewed within fifteen
days, otherwise they become null myl void.
Prospectuses, Rates, and every information can be obtained
by applying to
JOHN BEN NETT, Agent, t 7, Lord-street,
September 29, 1847.

TOWN-HALL, LIVERPOOL,
26th September, 1847.
T a MEETING of GEORGE HALL LAWRENCE,
Esquire, Mayor of Liverpool, J. BRAMLEY-MOORE,
Esquire, Chairman of the Dock Committee, and TRAFFORD
TRAFFORD, Esquire, Chairman of the Quarter Sessions for
the County of Chester, holden at Knutsford, held in the TOWN-
HALL, on TtiusnAv,.the 28th September, 1847, for the purpose
of the triennial revision of the Schedule of Rates, upon Vessels
entering the Port of Liverpool, and not using the Liverpool
Docks ; in conformity with the provisions of the 106th Section
of the Dock Act of the 4th Victoria.
Resolved,
That the said Revisors having taken the accounts required by
the said Act, for three years, ending the 24th of June, 1847,
according to the classes of voyages performed by vessels as set
forth in the Schedule of the said Act ; and being of opinion that
the Tonnage Rates by thesaid Act imposed, are too much with
reference to the increase of the gross amount of tonnage on
vessels entering the said port, during the term aforesaid, as
compared witlethe three years preceding this revision; the
said revisers do hereby reduce the Tonnage Rates by the said
Act imposed, at and after the rate of Twenty per Cent., or one-
fifth, upon the amount of the Tonnage Rates specified in the
said schedule, according to the classes of voyages performed by
vessels as set forth in the same schedule; and do order and
direct that such reduction shall take place from and after the
First Day of OctOber, 1847.
GEO. H. LAWRENCE, Mayor.
J. BRAMLEY-MOORE,
Chairman of the Dock Committee.
TRAFFORD TRAFFORD,
Chairman of Quarter Sessions, held at Knutsford.

PORT OF LIVERPOOL.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Dock-office, Liverpool, September 16, 1847.
(ALL BEARINGS BY COMPASS.)

MHE TRUSTEES OF 'THE LIVERPOOL Docxs AND
1 HARBOUR do HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that the following
CHANGES in the LIGHTING, BEACONING, and BUOYING
of the Northern Approaches tothis Port will take place on and
after the Night of Tuesday; the 2d November, 1847.
CROSBY LIGHTHOUnE.—A new Light Tower has been
erected nearly Half a- Mile N.E. by N. of the present Crosby
Lighthouse. The Light therefrom will be exhibited, for the
first time, on the Evening of the above date, and be-continued
every Night from Sunset to Sunrise.
The Light in this Tower will be Stationary, of a Red Colour,
elevated 96 feet above the Sea at Half-tide Level, and will be
visible between the bearings of S.S.E. and N.E. by E. 2 E.,
which limits will indicate respectively when a Vessel is west-
ward of Mad Wharf, and when she is abreast of the'Crosby
Light-vessel, and ought to shape her fairway course up the
Crosby Channel.
The FORMBY LIGHT-VESSEL will be moved 170 fathoms
N. by W. i W. of her present position, into 35 feet at low-wa-
ter. When brought in a line with the New Crosby Shore Light,
she will lead in from seaward through the Victoria Channel, on
a course of S.E. by E. g E. ; and when brought in a line with
the Crosby Light vessel, she will lead in through the Half-tide
Swashway, on the bearing of S.S.E. i E.
CROSBY BEACON—The Crosby Shore Beacon will be
moved nearly Half a Mile N. 4 E. of its present position, on a
line with the Crosby Shore Light and Formby Light-vessel.
The BELL BEACON will be moved about 170 fathoms S.W.
of its 'present position, into 35 feet at low water, with the
Formby Light vessel and Crosby Shore Light in one, and bear-
ing from the N.W. Lightship N.E. 2 E. four miles.
1. V.-4, RED (Can) BUOY, with Formby Light-vessel bearing
PERCH, will be moved nearly a N.E. by E. about one-sixth
a Quarter of a Mile N.W. by N. of a mile.
its present position, into 21 feet C 1, Red, (Can,) S.S.E. 2E.
at low-water. j •nearly one and a half miles
FORMBY N.W. SEA MARK will be moved One and One-
Eighth Mile N.N.E. 2 E. of its present position, and a New
Beacon will be erected on Mad Wharf.

These Beacons, when brought in one, on the bearing of S.E.
by E. # E., will lead from Formby N.W. Buoy up the fairway
of the Entrance of the Old Formby Channel.
WILLIAM LORD, Marine Surveyor.
By order of the Dock Committee,
DANIEL MASON, Secretary.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

KINGSTOWN HARBOUR LIGHTS, EAST COAST OF

IRELAND.
HE Corporation for Preserving and Improving the
T
Port of Dublin, hereby give Notice, that on and after the
Ist of October next, the Light hitherto shewn from the Timber
Building on the East Pier of Kingstown Harbour, Dublin Bay,
will be discontinued, and a LOA exhibited from the Tower
built on the Pier Head, which will thenceforth be illuminated
every night from sun-set to sun-rise.

Specification given of the position and appearance of the Tower,
4.c., by Mr. Halpin, the Inspector of Light Houses.
The New Tower is in Lat. 53 deg. 18 min. 10 sec. N., and
Long. 6 deg. 7 min. 45 sec. W., and bears—
From North End of Kish Bank, N.W. by W. 2 W. distant 6i
sea miles.
From South End of Burford Bank, W. by N. N. distant 3i
sea miles.
From Poolbeg Light House, S. I W. distant 21 sea miles.
The Tower is erected in the centre of the Eastern Pier Head;
it is of circular form; as also the lower building around. The
outer walling granite.
The Light will be at an elevation of 37 feet above the level of
high-water springs, and will, in appearance, be similar to the
present Light, viz. :—a revolving light, presenting white and
red faces alternately, attaining their greatest brilliancy at equal
intervals of 30 seconds. The Light will be shewn in all direc-
tions in which the present Light has heretofore been-visible :
kept open, it will lead clear of the Jingling Rocks.
Until the erection of a Light on the West Pier Head, the
small fixed red light in the temporary timber shed on that
Pier will be continued as before.
Bearings stated are Magnetic—Var. 27 deg. W.
By order, H. VEREKER, Sec.
Ballast Office, Dublin, 9th September, 1847.

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