The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-10 00:00:00

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NORTH BRITISH INSURANCE COMPANY,
ITOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a GENERAL
MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of the
NORTH BRITISH INSURANCE COMPANY is to
be held, in the Company's Office, No. 64, Prince's-street,
Ott FRI DAY, the'2oth day of Dece rrent, at Twelve
o'clock. Noon, for the purpos- of CONSIDERING
the EXPEDIENCY of an PLACATION to PAR-
LIAMENT for an EXT SION of the COMPANY'S
POWERS ; and (2d) ofINSPOSING of a PROPOSAL
to be submitted by the Directors, to the effect of giving
the PARTICIPATING POLICIES a LARGER
SHARE of the SURPLUS or PROFITS than hitherto.

JAMES BORTHWICK, Manager.
Edinburgh, 2d Dec., 1844.

WM. DOUGLAS, Secretary,
1, India-buildings, Liverpool.

MARINERS' AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE
COM PA NY,
ARTHUR-STREET EAST, LONDON-BRIDGE,
For Assurances on Lives and Survivor hips, Granting
D.eferred Annuities, Effecting Endowments, Purcha-
azn
sits. 9 Reversions, Making Loans, and Receiving Depo-
SPECI,sALLY EMPOWERED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT.
Ten per uent. of the Profits are set aside as a Fund for
Destitute and Disab;ed Mariners.

TRUSTEES.
Admiral Sir Philip Hender '
Joseph Sornes Esq.
Vice-Adrairal'Sir W' am Hall Gage, G.C.B.
Tile Right RECTORS.
Hon. C t. Lord Viscount Ingestre, R.N.,
C. 8.,
Thos. Dickinson, R.N. Sir George Rich.
~I,,sePh Bkhop, Eq. John Warrick, Esq.
-rniliP Baker, Esq. Edmund Turner Watts,
George Lee, Esq. Esq.
George Mann, Esq. John Willis, Esq.

utham, G.C.B.

AUDITORS.
Donald M'Rae, Esq., B. Fooks, Esq.

PHYSICIAN.
Sir James Eglinton Anderson, M.D., M.R.1.A., 11, New

Burlington-street.

SOLICITOR.
°mil Hayward, Esa.. 2, Adelaide-place, London-bridge,
and Dartford, Kent.
BANKERS.—Bank of England.

SURGEON.
Charles Ilderton Croft, Esq., 22, Laurence Pountney-

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lane.
RESIDENT MANAGER.—John Dawson, Esq.
ADVANTAGES

ON Life Policies, half the premiums may remain un-
paid for Seven Years, and then be continued as a
permanent loan, if required.
Thus a Policy is obtained at half the usual rate, and
may be dropped, at any time, at half the usual sacrifice, or
continued without fresh certificates, although the health
be impaired.
LIFE Policies may all be made WHOLE GLOBE ones. To
those insuring the lives of others this is often of conse-
luenoe• seeing that the person whose life is insured may
go out of Eurore and cauQe a forfeiture of the policy.
Interest is admitted it/ all policies on the lives of others.
fr'mv th
MARINER may now, if he will, derive advantage
Life
is Institution, either by an Insurance upon his
'wh ; the purchase of an annuity to commence at a period
:en age or incapacity unfits him for sea; the Endow-
ent
_ interest •
of Children ; by a Loan ; by depositing spare moneys
by means of a fund expressly for destitute or
oded 114.,ariners. The word MARINER comprehends
ivir?uale of every rank and grade, whether of the Royal
Mercantile Navy, Members of the Coast Guard, Fish-
erTsen, Pilots, or Boatmen of Great Britain and Ireland.
th;But INSURANCES at this office are not confined to Ma-
_", INDIVIDUALS going voyages, or intending to
indistant or dangerous parts of the globe may insure
TioLlives: as MILITARY MEN, MEDICAL PRACTI-
gh''RS, and CIVILIANS : SO ALL PERSONS, rebiding on
Tore,n England, or any where in Europe, are eligible.
ceinuiE? ?P PRExtrums.for every kind. of risk have been
"nlPathl
a'eu and the rates made as low, in each case, as are
safe. '--° With the particular risk and the pecuniary
;Yeof all panics.
descr, P.remiurns on Policies to cower Voyages of every
=with IPtton and service, in every part of the globe, viz.,
reiturPerraresion to go any and every where without for-
/ ;pep are lower than have ever hitherto been taken.
atiZOo Assurances and Deferred Annuities deserve the
takieuus consideration of all. How often does death over-
often are in the midst even of health and hope. How
rents, or
those most dear to them, wives, children, pa-
Fuil kother relations, thus deprived of all support.
London, "Pectuses may be bad at the Chief Offices, in
or of the Agents to the Company.
Pemberton- C. P. HAYES and Co.,
buildings, Fenwick-street, Liverpool,
A p

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"PPer St
-.."Cti HOTEL.—The walls blazed with rows of
gradation ew Pans, highly burnished; ranging, in nice
she °f size, from comfortable elbow-room, for a
ieeter to ii ;
b°-• 41, Whole down to the guage you would se-
....as odo one fritter. 'Among these hung here and there
ale ..easels with implemnts of a more contorted shape, and
CI tehalYPtic meaninculinay slembics, probably to dis-
tills finer flavours; "portentous e ngines and strange
tort aPPlied When deep and obstinate essences hre to be
~Uted forth for princely degustation. They filled me
,',"!_tn respect for the chtf de cusine ; a meagre, thgpghtful
'"littatrl ; clad in Pure white from head to foot, like to some
darr'lue hierarch, surpliced for sacrificial rites. He, with
big d g hand, had set a-going seventeen simultaneous pans,
fasts."nbtless with the fate of seventeen separate break-
eavrti.....Aninnt them his vigilant eye wandered, up and
baste, active, Yet serene • like Goethe's planet,
.` without
tender, 'without rest." " Some of the pans were simmering
lartdepY ; some friezled in a louder key ; some rumbled
lad iii„e°7er ; some, lidless, bubbled full in vieyr. Each
t nniin-
„el Ws, and doubtful turning-points—its special
plies tetPeies of failure and success. Yet all these corn-
°veil° issues his clear mind kept apart, and. severally.
tiolls "Ice,
, I noted with delight the nice discrimina-
into 043,,f "is axtistic torches—so fine, and yet so decisive.
Anothe Pan he let fall one single drop from the cruet..
three 8 1. he strired pith a spoon ; frowned, and cast in
a to "l. spice. One little one he tasted, and, with
- 1P11t,17 Ja./SI bsc,k Allw Ed.—Hood's liiragazine,

MODEST.—A gentleman advertises in a New York pa-
per for board in a quiet, genteel family, where there are
two or three beautiful and accomplished young ladies,
and where his society " will be deemed a sufficiency for
board, lodging, washing, and other etceteras."

Four of the largest locomotives ever constructed are
about to be built for the Sheffield and Manchester Rail-
way. The cylinders are to be eighteen inches, the stroke
two feet, the wheels, six of them, four and a quarter feet
diameter, and all six coupled. The weight of the engine
alone, when loaded with fuel and water, is twenty-four
tons. It is calculated that on a level they will draiv sepa-
rately from 1,000 to 2,000 tons.

A"F Al Th." PUN.—I remember (says Lord Eldon) I
was coming away from the Queen's drawing-room in my
full dress as King's Counsel (Lord Clarendon, then Mr.
Villiers, was with me), and we came into the room where
the milliners were collected to see the fashions. Said I,
" Why, Villiers, I think that all the prettiest women are
here." One of the girls, and a most amazingly beautiful
creature she was, stood up, and said to another, " I am
sure that gentltnnan is a " Judge.' "
A TO'WN WITHOUT A BRICKLAYER OR A TAILOR.—
It is somewhat singular that the " occupation abstract"
assigns neither bricklayers nor tailors to Burnley. The
former are, certainly, not much wanted in a town built of
stone; but the absence of the latter it is more difficult to
account for. It is the custom of large numbers of men
of this trade to remain only a few weeks in a town, and
then move on in search of employ.—Chaplain's Report
on the House of Correction.

CRISIS OF THE AFFGHAN TRAGEDY.—The next scene
was one of murder and treachery ; of fanatical trust and
neglect.; and many felt, but spoke not the forebodings that
arose within them. But there were some whose case was
harder than the rest, for they had wives and children in
the city, and these knew what might be their fate-, yet the
husband went out daily to battle, and returned as oft,
wondering that another day's strife had left him alive. He
looked upon his wife, whom to-morrow be might leave
without a protector; and as he twined his fingers among
her disordered hair, and told who lived and who had fallen
that day., the little boy at her knee, finding somewhat of
pleasure even in that hour, lifted from the ground his fa-
ther's clattering scabbard, and the blade fell out. " Pah !
return it, boy :" it ran with gore,—there were human
brains upon it. Lucky was he who fell in any of these va-
lorous charges; many of those who did not were after-
wards picked off, unable to defend themselves, by a
skulking marksman. The force was ordered forth to the
sacrifice remained, so it obe!ed. The gate of Cabool
closed immediately behind, the passes lay before, and two
feet of snow upon the Huft-Kotul. The well-knit sepoy,
soon becoming unable to grasp his musket, abandoned it;
kept on a little longer, and then gave his throat to be cut,
in accordance with his notions of predestination. The
camp-follower threw from his tattoo the boxes of supplies
and stock in trade, and trusted to the animal for his own
life. That:night the army occupied the side of the Huft-
Kotul ; groups crouched in the snow, and grateful for
darkness, for that was even a safeguard; but the keen
blast of the mountain aided the foe, and many fell asleep
who ne'er woke again. No tents were pitched; lying in
heaps upon the ground, the owners slept beneath them.
Day by day, and hour by hour, the miseries of all accu-
mulated ; it was pitiable. The army was melting away
like the snows of the Huft-Kotul in summer; the daugh-
ters of a white race were surrendered, and the remnant
pushed on to fulfil its fate. Tazeen ! Koord Cabool!!
Jugdullock's barrier !! ! and Gundamuck's hill, clad with
corpses !! ! 1 But many fell 'worthily at these. Was not
he a gallant soldier who, 'mid a heap cf Moslem slain, and
when a bullet aimed by one (himself in safety) passed
through his neck, could still take three Affghan lives ?
That was near the last. They fell with uplifted swords.
The tragedy was consummated.—Asi lie Journal.

ADVANCING CIVILIZATION, AND COMPARATIVELY
INADEQUATE ELEVATION OF NATIONAL TASTE AND
pLJESUITS.—We are perpetually speaking of the march o'
intellect, the vast spread of intelligence, the advancing
civilization of the world ; and in some respects our boasts
are well founded. Certainly, in one particular, society
has made a mighty step in advance. The abolition of
domestic
slavery has emancipated the millions who for-
merly toiled in bondage ; the art of printing has multiplied
an hundredfold the reading and thinking world. Our op-
portunities, therefore, have been prodigiously enlarged ;
our means of elevation are tenfold what they were in an-
cient times. But has our elevation itself kept pace with
these enlarged means ? Has the increased direction of
the popular mind to lofty and spiritual objects, the more
complete subjugation of sense, the enlarged perception of
the useful and the beautiful, been in proportion to the ex-
tended facilities given to the great body of the people ?
Alas ! the fact is just the reverse. Balbee wass-a mere
station in the desert, without territory, harbour, or sub-
jects—maintained solely by the commerce of the East with
Europe which flowed through its walls. Yet Balbec
raised, in , less than a century, a more glorious pile of
structures devoted to religious and lofty objects, than
London, Paris, and St. Petersburg united can now boast.
The Decapolis was a small and remote district of Pales-
tine, nut larger in proportion to the Roman than Moray-
shire is in proportion to the British empire; yet it con-
tained, as its name indicates, and as the remains still
attest, ten cities, the least considerable of which, Gebora,
contains, as Buckingham tells us in his "Travels beyond
the Jordan," the ruins of more sumptuous edifices than
any city in the British islands, London itself not excepted,
can now boast. It was the same all over the East, and in
all the southern provinces of the Roman empire. Whence
has arisen this astonishing disproportion between the great
things done by the citizens in ancient and in modern
times, when in the latter the means of enlarged cultivation
have been so immeasurably extended ? It is in vain to
say, it is because we have more social and domestic hap-
piness, and our wealthis devoted to these objects, not
external embellishment. Social and domestic happiness
are in the direct, not in the
i inverse ratio of general re-
finement and the spread of intellectual etualmtelligence. The
domestic duties are better nourished in the temple than
in the ginshop : the admirers of sculpture will make better
fathers and husbands than the lovers of whisky. Is it that
we want funds for such undertakings ? Why, London is
richer than ever Rome was ; the commerce of the world,
not of the eastern caravans, flows through its bosom.
The sums annually squandered in Manchester and Glas-
gow on intoxicating liquors, would soon make them rival
the eternal structures of Tadmor and Palmyra. Is it that
the great bulk of our people are unavoidably chained by
their character and climate to gross and degrading enjoy-
merits ? Is it that the spreading of knowledge, intelli-
gence, and free institutions, only confirms the sway of
Onus' gratification, and that a pure and spiritual religion
tends only to strengthen the fetters of passion and selfish-
ness ? Is it that the inherent depravity of the human
heart appears the more clearly as man is emancipated from
the fetters of authority ? Mivt we go back to early ages
for noble and elevated motives of action : is the spread of
freedom but another word for the extension of brutality ?
God forbid that so melancholy a doctrine should have a :y
foundation in human nature ! We mention the facts, and
!cave it to future ages to discover their solution : content-
ing ourselves with pointing out to our self-applauding
countrymen how much they have to do before they attain
the !Tie! of their advantages, or justify the boundless
blessings which Providence bu bestowed plum them.—
Blackwood's Magazine.