The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-20 00:00:00

THE ELYSIAN GINGER BEER,

(UNFERMENTED) OR AQUA SOBRIA.
THIS delicious, Cooling, and refreshing Beverage,
outvies all other effervescing Liquids in appearance, taste,
,7ald the absence of all intoxicating principle. allays thirst,
i;orates the stomach, improves the ite, and possesses
bee Peculiar property of re-efferve • g, at long intervals, on
illg stirred or agitated. To s 'oyagers and parties of plea-
(from*pre its portable natur tis unequalled for convenience.
ft Parcel containing the . ntity for twenty-four glasses occu-
vies the space of a So ater bottle only.
,Sold by most Chemists, Innkeepers, and Confectioners ; and
'Toolesale by Mr. J. D. WALKER, 41, London-road, LiverpooL

THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON FIRE AND
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
MI ESTABL 18.
POWERED BYISHED
IN
36
ACT OF PARLIAMENT.
OFFICES:
8, WATER-STREET, LIVERPOOL, •
CHARLOTTE.ROW, MANSION-HOUSE, LONDON.

The Directors beg to acknowledge the steadi increasing
support which this • • to assure the
Institution experience
that, whilst the numerous wealthy Proprietary
tehles Comp them to offer most am
tsple
confidence
for the fulfilment of
manifested
ny's engagemen e and preference
towards it shall met, as heretofore, by strenuous
Rpeavours to facilita e despatch of business, and by
,grality and prom • ude in the settlement of claims.
Cr THE FIRS CT OF PARLIAMENT obtained by the
sh:Pally, it is e pressly conditioned that the liability •of the
sPecial
reholders under the policies shall not be restricted by
contract or otherwise.
Are INSURANCES AGAINST FIRE
nuthvtaken on Property_
of every description in the United
n_ngdoin, the British Colonies, and in Foreign Countries; the
motes of Premium may be known on application.
LIFE INSURANCE.
fThe Directors continue to receive proposals for the sale and
u!ehase of Annuities, Endowments, Reversions and contingent
,flor_ .erests, and for Insurances on Lives. No Entrance orAdmis-
t, Fees are required, nor is any additional premium charged
~`" Officers in the Army or Navy, unless called into actual
rrvice. The following are amongst the advantages held out
uY the Company :
TWOxt SCALES OF PREMIUMS, ONE LOWER TITAN THOSE OF
°B7 OTHER COMPANIES; the other carrying GUARANTEED
t....1T10N5, or entitling to GUARANTEED REDUCTIONS in the
lITURE PREMIUMS, an .a plan entirely new and peculiar to
x.ls Institution.
'specimen of the Rates for an Insurance of £lOO on a Single
Life, and of the Reduced Premium of Policies taken out on
the Bonus Seale:—

For whole of Life. Reduced
Age Without Bonus. With Bonus. t Premium
When
Insured Yearly. Half do. Yearly. 1 Half do. 1 Bonus.
........._
Xs. d. Xs. d. Xs. d. X s. d. X' s. d.
30 22 6 11 11 29 5 15 6 112 9
15‘ 28 6 15 0 216 5 19 1 117 4
;I: 216 3 1 9 0 3 5 5 113 8 2 2 9
f 3 6 4 114 2 317 2 119 9 210 0
s , __l9 8 2 1 0 412 7 2 7 9 219 1

I sty M i 2 1 U I 4 12 7 t 2 7 9 I 2 19 1
"Pp° e,zen o
Mum
the Addition to the Sums Insured in the case of
o.??
tiiess. of .el,OOO each, to be taken out at the Bonus.
.:Age First By the addition of the further
nen Bonus Then Decennial Bonus, the amount
_'l '44tlred after Ten Annual payable in case of death will
Payments Bonus. be,—after
20 Years. 30 Years. 40 Years.
s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. s. d. s. d.
35 90 8 4 9 010 1271 5 0 1542 10 0 1904 3 4
lo 94 11 8 9 9 2 1283 15 0 1567 10 0 1945 16 8
45 101 13 4 10 3 4 1305 0 0 1610 0 0 2000 0 0
50 107 1 8 10 14 2 1321 5 0 1642 10 0 2000 0 0
13 4 11 13 4 1350 0 0,1700 0 0 2000 0 0

rTL
-goal ,cALE of REDUCTIONS which are guaranteed ranges
'0111,,,1 to 52 per cent. on the amount of Premium, and the
the contingent only on the continuance of the life doubles
y_toont of Policy.
LIABILITY of Partnership, these reductions and addi-
pi:toot being contingent upon Profits.
4114 IciEs are issued for the Half Premium system, and on
Sukce,(ling scale.
I'l'l4 :‘'NoEns of POLICIES are accepted on very liberal.
facto,._, and claims are paid withir. three months after sat's-
' Proof of death.
The '' INSURANCE OF CAPITAL SUMS.
'rectors are prepared to receive applications for Poll-
' which
ha„ though available for many other purposes as well,
Yeara ,`c the effect of rendering Property held under Lease for
ItivalOuivalent to Freehold for all purposes of mortgages or
'Peei, e Zent• The following Table will afford
: qt. the Premium for the Insurance of .£OOO, payable
alter the lapse of a given number of' years.

the lapse of a given number of years.'
Rate. Years. Rate. I Years. Rate.
d
A 116 8 60 e6lO 0 I 40 13 17 6

biti%4oNrcliEs.—The Directors are prepared to receive applica-
4--entish ‘-ngencies in Towns and districts in which appoint-
ilmesse not yet been made. No application will be attended
swing,ll,l,lp_anied with unexceptionable references.
tm,
_km nomur, Secretary to the Company.
-'"v* iIENDERSQN? Resident Secretary in London.

A T.a.PUBLIC MEETING of the INHABITANTS
11 of the BOROUGH of LIVERPOOL, convened by the
Mayor, in pursuance of a Requisition, and held in the Ses-
sions-house, on TUESDAY, the 13th day of June, 1849, •" For
'the purpose of considering the late MEASURES of the GO-
VERNMENT in connexion with our WEST and EAST
INDIAN SUGAR COLONIES, and how f hey have been
effective in carrying out the VIEW ntemplated by the
SLAVERY ABOLITION ACTS • also to consider the ex-
pediency of giving our appro and support to the Resolutions
recently moved and carri reference thereto by our Member,
Sir THOMAS B. Bt ,in Committee of the House .of
Commons,"

THOMAS En-lORSFALL, Esq., Mayor, in the Chair ;
It was moved by F. SHAND, Esq., seconded by CHARLES
LAWRENCE, Esq.,
I.Tbat the Imperial Parliament, in passing the Emancipa-
tion Act in 1833, pledged the national faith to the honest and
effectual working out of that act, with a due regard to the
maintenance of our Colonial Property and the encouragement
of Free Labour in our Colonial Possessions.

Whereupon it was moved, as an amendment, by WILLIAM
RATHBONE, Esq., seconded by CHARLES HOLLAND. Esq.,
That the experiment of emancipation has been crowned with
a most gratifying degree of success in so far as concerns the
condition of the black population of our Colonies, comprising
nine-tenths•of the whole; that the neglect of improvement in
the mode of cultivation and management, the extensive preva-
lence of absenteeism, the want of sufficient capital, together
with the injudicious treatment of labourers, both during the
period of apprenticeship and since its termination, are some of
the palpable and direct causes of the present depression of these
Colonies; that a return to the system of protection would con-
stitute a virtual acknowledgment that the labour of Bondmen
is more profitable than that of Freemen, thus affording to other
nations a plausible reason for adhering to Slavery.
And the motion and amendment being put from the chair,
the original motion was declared to be carried.
It was moved by ADAM HODGSON, Esq., seconded ley the
Rev. THOMAS NOLAN,
2.—That the course of legislation pursued since the passing
of the Act of 1846 has been such as to prevent the attainment
of the objects contemplated by it—to destroy our Colonies, to
aggravate Slavery in Foreign Countries, and to stimulate the
Stave Trade.

Whereupon it was moved, as an amendment, by THOMAS
THORNELY, Esq., M.P., seconded by CHARLES ROBERTSON,
Esq.,
1 hat inasmuch as the most eminent public men of our own
and former times—supported by the all but unanimous voice
of the country—have pronounced monopoly to be in the hig,best
degree detrimental to the classes for whose benefit it is im-
posed, as well as to those from the fruits of whose industry this
unrighteous exaction is levied—this Meeting protests against
the proposition recently made by a Committee of the House of
Commons for maintaining, during the next six years, a differ-
ential duty in faVour of British Plantation Sugars of 10s. per
cwt., which on the quantity imported thence in 1847, would be
equal to a tax on the community of no less than .€2,400,000 per
annum, for the benefit of the Monopolists, and to a loss to the
Exchequer, by the reduction of the duty from fourteen to ten
shillings, without any compensating advantage, of .e 960,000
per annum.

And the motion and amendment being put from the chair,
the original motion was declared to be carried.
. .

It wis moved by the Rev. Huan D.D., seconded
by CHRISTOPHER BIISHELL.. Esq.,_ _

3.—That this Meeting highly disapproves of legislation so
much at variance with British justice, British consistency, and
British honour; and implores her Majesty's government to
adopt such measures as shall carry out the original intentions
of the Emancipation Act.
Whereupon it was moved, as an amendment, by WILLIAM
BROWN, Esq., M.P., seconded by H. K. CLAYPOLE, Esq.,
That, &though the return from a vicious to a sound system
of legislation must necessarily affect at first the interests of
those who have profited by the continuance of such a system,
this Meeting does not consider that either this result, or the
existence of any restrictions on the trade of the West Indies,
are reasons why the industrious classes of this country should
be taxed for the support of the colonial interest; and would
further express its opinion, that any restrictions now pressing
on the trade or industry of the colonists, if such there be,
should be forthwith removed.

And the motion and amendment having been put from the
chair, the original motion was declared to be carried.
It was moved by HAROLD LITTLEDALE, Esq., seconded by
JONES, Esq.,
4.—That this Meeting considers the plan proposed by Sir
Thomas Birch, and recommended by the Select Committee on
Sugar and Coffee Planting, well calculated to promote that ob-
ject, to prevent the immediate and otherwise inevitable aban
donment of the maj9rity. of the West India estates, and to
secure time for bringing into operation the intended measures
of relief, do adopt the following Petition .:
" To THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED
KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN
PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.
"The humble Petition of the Merchants, Tradesmen, and
others at the Port of Liverpool.
" Showeth,—That when the Imperial Parliament, in 1833,
passed the act for the abolition of slavery throughout the Bri-
tish Colonies, the national faith was pledged to the honest and
efficient working out of that act, with a due regard to the
maintenance of colonial property, and the encouragement of
free labour in those possessions.
" That the course pursued by the Imperial Parliament, since
the passing of that act, has been such as to prevent the attain•
ment of the objects contemplated—to destroy the Colonies—
to aggravate Slavery in Foreign Countries, and to stimulate the
Slave Trade.

" That your Petitioners deeply lament that a course should
have been pursued so much at variance with British justice,
British consistency, and British honour.
" That your Petitioners consider the plan recommended by
the Select Committee on Sugar and Coffee Planting well calcu-
lated to promote the original intentions of the Abolition Act
' to prevent the immediate and otherwise inevitable abandon-
ment of the majority of Colonial Sugar Estates, and to secure
time for bringing into operation the intended measures of
relief.'

" Your Petitioners, therefore, pray that your Honourable
House will adopt such measures as shall preserve the Colonies
from destruction, and as shall carry out, with full integrity,
the original objects contemplated by the Legislature in passing
the Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British
Colonies.

" And your Petitioners, &c."
Whereupon it was moved, as an amendment, by JOHN
TAYLOR, Esq., seconded by M`LEAN, Esq., that the follow-
in- Petition be adopted :
Z That in the distressed state of the Commerce and Manu-
factures of the British Islands, a great and immediate abate-
ment of Taxation is required ; and that the entire abrogation
of the duties on Sugar appears to this Meeting an advantageous
anti necessary measure.
" That the admission into this country of slave-grown sugar
for home use is inconsistent with justice, as it aids a system
of robbery from men of their dearest rights.
" That the project of the transfer of Africans to the West
Indian Islands, under the pretext of providing free labour,
would be in reality a revival of the Slave Trade, acknowleged
to have been and to he the greatest public enormity in wicked-
ness ever perpetrated by man, and that the project ought not
to receive sanction or countenance in any way from the British
Legislature."
And the question being put from the chair, the original
Petition was declared to be adopted.
.Resolved,—That the Mayor be requested to sign the Petition
on behalf of the Meeting, and to forward the same to the
Members of the Borough for presentation to the House of
Commons.

THOS. B. HORSFALL, Mayor.
It was moved by WM. BROWN, Esq., M.P., seconded by
JOSEPH B. YATES, Esq., and
Resolved unanimously,—That the best thanks of this Meeting
be Oven to the Mayor for the courtesy and impartiality with
winch he has presided over this Meeting.

NOTICE.
Any Proprietor of Warehouses not having received the said
Prospectus and Form, can obtain the same on application at
the Office of the Provisional Committee, 30, Trafford C.hawhers,
South John-street,