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

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NORTH BRITISH INSU
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
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COMPANY.
N that a GE
MEETING of the PROPRIETORS
ofNERAL the
NORTH BRITISH INSURANCE COMPANY is to
be held, in the Company's Office, No. 64, Prince's-street,
on FRIDAY, the 20th day of December current, at Twelve
o'clock, Noon, for the purpose (Ist) of CONSIDERING
the EXPEDIENCY of an APPLICATION to PAR-
LIAMENT for an EXTENSION of the COMPANY'S
tPOWERS ; and (2d) of DISPOSING of a PROPOSAL
hebe submitted by the Directors, to the effect of giving
PARTICIPATING 'POLICIES a LARGER
SHARE of the SURPLUS or PROFITS than hitherto.
-Edinburgh, 2d
JAM
De ES
1844. BORTHWICK, Manager.
DOUGLAS,
WM. DOUGLAS, Secretary,
I, Ir_dia-buildings, Liverplol.

MARINERS' AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
.4.44111 U-R-STREET EAST, LONDON-BRIDGE,
Assurances on Lives and SwevivorAkips, Granting
-- felerred Annuities. Effecting Endowments, Purchn-
-Bt.ng Reversions, Making Loans, and Receiving Depo-
sits.
Teti
EMPOWERED:By ACT OF PARLIAMENT.
" Per Cent. of the Profits are set aside as a Fund for
Destitute and Disabled Mariners.
TRUSTEES.
Admiral Sir Philip Henderson Durham, G.C.B.
Joseph Somes Esq.
~„
viee-Admiral'Sir William Hall Gage, G.C.B.

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The T) • DIREO7OIIS.
'tight Hon. Capt. Lord Viscount Ingestre, R.N.,
C.8.,M.P.
j.CaPt. Thos. Dickinson, R.N. Sir George Rich.
Pr.e.Ph pi,hop, E,q, John Warrick, Esq.
"liP Es q.
oGeorgerge Lee lker,,
Esq• - Edmund Turner Watts,
Esq.
(I'''ge Mann, Esq. I.John Willis, Esq.

AUDITORS.
Donald WRae, Esq., B. Fooks, Esq.

PHYSICIAN.
Sir. jannes Eglinton Anderson, M.D., M.R.1.A., 11, Now
Burlington-street.

SOLICITOR.
j°111:1 Hayward, Eso.. 2, Adelaide place London-bridge,
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and Dartford, Kent.
BAN KERS.—Bank of England.

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

lane.
RESIDENT MANAGED.—John Dawson, Esq.
ADVANTAGES
ON Life Policies, half the premiums may !emainausna-
paid for Seven Years, and then be continued
Permanent loan, if required.
Thus a Policy is obtained at half the usual rate, and
"nay be dropped, at any time, at halt 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-
quence. seeing that the person whose life is insured may
go out of Europe and cause a forfeiture of the policy.
Interest is admitted in all policies on the lives of others.
Every MARINER way now, if hr will, derive advantage
.front this Institution, either by an Insurance upon his
Life; the purchase of an annuity to commence at a pet iod
when age or incapacity unfits him for sea ; the Endow-
ment of Children ; by a Loan ; by depositing spare moneys
at interest ; by means of a fund expressly for destitute or
disabled Mariners. The word MARINER • comprehends
2iidividuale of every rank and grade, whether of the Royal
0
er. Mercantile Navy, Members of the Coast Guard, Fish-
r;,!en, Pilots, or Boatmen of Great Britain and Ireland.
ri But INSURANCES at this office are not confined ,to Ma-
nerg INDIVIDI) ALS going voyages, or intending to set-
tle irl or dangerous parts of the globe may insure
lioe8.; RS MILITARY MEN, MEDICAL PRACTI-
sIici;LkS, aDd CIVILIANS : SO ALL PRRSONS, retiding on
TA.'ne' in England, or any where in Europe, are eligible.
cl nys or IPREeaIuMs for every kind of risk have been
oeu'ated, and the rates made as low, in each case, astre
.Ite'Patible with the particular risk and the pecuniary
l'ar,ty of all varies.
de,-u_n Premiums on Policies to cover 17,oyages of every
tei',ViPtion and service, in every part of the globe, viz.,
flZt"Perraission,to go any and every where without for-
feiture
'Assulrower than have ever hitherto been taken.
gerioZ antes and Deferred Annuities deserve the
take consideration of all. How often does death over-
often n'en in the midst even of health and hope. How
rents are
those most dear to them, wives, children, pa-
rrospectuses array 1,_,01 other relations, thus deprived of all support.
uunon, or be had at the Chief Offices, in
of the Agents to the Company.
C. F. HAYES and Co.
Pemberton-buildings, Fenwick-street,, Liverpool.
••••

A }"nxlsten HOTEL.—The walls blazed with rows of
coP•Per stew pans, highly burnished; ranging, in nice
gradations of size, from comfortable elbow-room for a
eak) to boil in, whole, down to the guage you would se •
'ea to do one fritter. Among these hung here and there
vessels with implements of a more contorted shape, and
apocalyptic meaning—culinary alembics, probably to dis-
til the finer flavours ; " portentous e ngines and strange
gins," applied when deep and obstinate essences are to be
tortured forth for princely degustation. They filled me
with respect for the chef de cusine- a meagre, thoughtful
Ulan ; clad in pure white from head' to foot, like to some
antique hierarch, surpliced for sacrificial rites. He, with
daring hand, had set a-going seventeen simultaneous pans,
big doubtless with the fate of seventeen separate break-
gfasts. Among them his vigilant eye wandered up and
°ll4l—active. yet serene ; like Goethe's planet, " without
aste, without rest." some of the pans were simmering
L,e+aderly ; some frizzled in a louder key ; some rumbled
ander cover ; some, lidless, bubbled full in view. Each
mad its crisis, and doubtful turning-points—its special
ailltingencies of failure and success. Yet all these com-
ated issues his clear mind kept apart, and severally
aver!
tio (iked. I noted with delight the nice discrimina-
Ntns af his artistic torches—so fine, and yet so decisive.
Another°'m hers Ike let fall one single drop from the cruet.
tre trirecl with a spoon ; frowned, and cast in
1`
kgoil
a sorts of spice. One little one he tasted, and, with
gently laid back the lid, one
Alagning,

AMERICAN ADVERTISEMENT.
ftFOREIGN and DOMESTIC COMMISSION and
SHIPPING HOUSE, well established, in the City
of New York. United Stats, having an extensive corre-
spondence in every part of the Union, wish to increase
their connexions in Great Britain, for the Sale of its
Manufactures, for the Purchase and Sale of Stocks, the
Negotiation and Settlement of Accounts, and the Ship-
ment of Produce, of which the Advertisers can influence
large *quantities, as well as Orders for the Purchase and
Forwarding of Gonds. References will be made to the
first Banking Houses in London for whom the Advertisers
are now acting.
Address, Box 555, Branch Postoffice, New York City,
U.S.

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 draw sepa-
rately from 1,000 to 2,000 tons.
A " FAIR" Putt.—l remember (says Lord Eldon) I
was coming away from the Quen'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, 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 gentleman is a " Judge.' "
A TOWN 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.—Chavlaires „Report
on the House of Correction.

CRISIS OF THE AFFGHAN TRAGEDY.—Tbe 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 he might leave
without a protector; and as he twined his fingers among
her disordered hair, alid 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 °be! 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
ushed on to fulfil its fate. Tazeen ! Koord 'Cabool!!
Jugdullock's barrier!! ! and Gundamuck's hill, clad with
corpses !!! ! But many fell worthily at these. Was not
he a gallant soldier who, 'mid a heap of 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 constimmated:—Asi tic Journal.
ADVANCING CIVILIZATION, AND COMPARATIVELY
!TNADEQUATE ELEVATION OF NATIONAL TASTE AND
,PURSUITS.—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 pronortion to the ex-
tended,facilities given to the great body of the people?
Alas ! the fact is just the reverse. Balbec was a mere
s!ation 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, not 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
,t he Jordan," the ruins of more sumptuous edifices than
any city in the Eritish islands, London:itself not excepted,
can now boast. It was the same all overthe 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 enlargedcultivation
have been so immeasurably extended ? It is in vain to
say, it is because we have more social and domestic hap-
piness, and our wealth is devoted to these objects, not
external embellishment. Social and domestic happiness
are in the direct, not in the inverse ratio of general re-
finement and the spread of intellectual intelligence. 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-
ments ? Is it that the spreading of knowledge, intelli-
gence, and free institutions, only confirms the sway of
sensual 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 ? Must 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 iy
foundation in human nature ! We mention the facts, and
leave 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
a
the level of their
rovellysenntaegebs,asobrplutostiwfey4 tuhpecibogi.lels
blessings which
Algcfrlo94'l? .Magazine.

CHURCH MISSIONARARY SOCIETY.

A public meeting of the members and friends of the
Liverpool Auxiliary to the Church Missionary Society
was held last night, at half-past six o'clock, in the Music
Hall, Bold-street, for the purpose of receiving informa-
tion concerning the operations of the society in several of
the British dependencies abroad. There was a crowded
attendance : upon the platform, besides other friends of
the society, we noticed the Rev. Messrs. W. W. Ew-
bank, Thomas Nolan, Henry Carpenter, B. A. Mar-
shall, W. R. Hunt, C. W. Lawrence, H. Hampton,
Hugh M'Neile, R. Davies, &c. &c.; Messrs. T. B.
Horsfall, A. Hodgson, John Howard, W. Rowett, Tho-
mas Forsyth, Charles Coteswortb, P. 0. Cooper, R. A.
Payne, George Jones, George Groom, William Maples,
Lord Bangor, &c. &c.

The chair was taken by Mr. ADAM HODGSON, who
(after prayer had been offered by the Rev. H. Carpenter)
said be regarded the numerous attendance at this meeting
as an evidence of the interest felt in the cause. It was
with a view of deepening this interest, and of keeping
alive our sympathy for the great object of Christian mis-
sions, that it had been deemed expedient not to limit
these meetings to the anniversary meetings, but to have
occasional supplementary meetings at which to give testi-
mony with regard to the different branches of missionary
labour. It had been the particular desire of the com-
mittee that the proceedings should not be protracted to
any great length, and accordingly they would be confiued
to two addresses, in relation to two different missions,
and he had no doubt the observations upon them would
be found to interest the meeting.
The Rev. W. W. EWBANK then came forward, amidst
much applause. The Chairman, he said, had well ob-
served that the object of these supplementary meetings
was to deepen our interest in the sacred cause of missions,
not only in the common way of meetings, but especially
by attempting to impress more particularly upon our
minds the geography of missions, in order that by direct-
ing attention to one or two special portions of the world,
where it had pleased God to bless our missionary exertions,
our minds might be able to rest more definitely upon those
portions of the missionary subject, Our blessed Saviour
himself, in his own history, gave us a specimen of this
feeling; his heart was always deeply engaged for men ; it
was to save men that he came down from heaven; and
yet we found that upon special occasions his sympathy was
particularly called forth. For instance, it was when he
saw Jerusalem, and had that city extended before him,
that he wept for its coming destruction ; it was when he
actually stood upon the, grave of Lazarus that he_wept for
the loss of his friend and it was just upon this principle
that the committee were anxious to impress the public
mind, if possible, with some particular portions of mis-
sionary enterprise. The subject assigned to him was an
exceedingly large one ; and he might just say in the com-
mencement, that it would be utterly impossible for him
to mention even the various stations which it had pleased
God to plant for the dissemination of the Gospel in
Northern India: but he would simply attempt to do his
best, in order to give some general view of what had been
done in that important portion of the world. We could
scarcely mention India without having our imagination
excited by the remembrance of its past history. We re-
membered that that ancient history was c unected with
the name of one of the greatest conquerors in the world,
Alexander the Great, who, just before he reached the
Ganges, was obliged, by the rebellion of his soldiers, to
return into Europe. Long after that time, we found that
Ghengis Khan overrun a great portion of the country ;
and after that • the Mahomedans, under Mahomet the
First, issued from the mountain fortress of Gbuznee—
the name of which had now become well known to us—
and occupied almost the whole of Northern India, fixing
their capital at Delhi, which was now, though not exactly
a missionary station, included in one of the principal
missionary stations of the Church Missionary Society.
To come down to more recent times, and more interest-
ing for the especial purpose in view, it was not till the
year 1599 that a small company of British merchants
asked and obtained permission from Elizabeth, the Queen
of England, to undertake a trade in India. A royal charter
was obtained, and this was the beginning of that East India
Company which now ruled over nearly two hundred mil-
lions of British subjects in India. The first proceeding
of this Company was to build a factory near a very cele-
brated idol temple, called " Caligoot," the meaning of
which Ilindostanee term was " the landing place of one
of the principal divinities of Hindostaa." Its modern-
ized name was Calcutta. He must of course pass over
all the exertions of other societies, and other c'asees of
christians to evangelize Northern India ; very little, how-
ever, had been done by any body of christians till the
year 1812, in which year he first found a notice of the
claims of India in the reports of the Church Missionary
Society. There was then given a lengthened consideration
of its claims ; and it was said " At a time when the mer-
chants of England are pressing forward to obtain 'the ad-
vantages of trade, surely the servants of Christ ought
not to be behind them in asking for an entrance for the
gospel into that benighted region, where there are hun-
dredS of millions of idolators living without hope and
without God in the world." The first step which was
taken following that, was in the latter part of 1813, when
a requisition was sent to the Rev. Josiah Pratt, then se-
cretary to the Church Missionary Society (who died very
lately), tucall a meeting of the society. Mr. Wilbetecterce
was in the cnair, and it was agreed to send a deputation
to his Itlajesty's ministers. This deputation was alto-
gether unsuccessful, his Majesty's ministers bad deter-
mined, at that time, to create en ecclesiastical establish-
ment for India; it was determined that one bishop and
two archdeacons should be sent out, and they positively,
at the time, refused to give leave to any missionary to
proceed to India except under the permission of the di-
rectors of the East India Company. But in consequence
of the excitement which was produced—a religious and
proper excitement—by this refusal, a petition was after-
wards addressed to the houses of parliament, and a reso-
lution was passed by the Eletue of Commons with consi-
derable difficulty, which be would read, as it formed the
foundation of the proceedings of the Church Missionary
Society in Northern India :—" It is the opinion of this
committee that it is the duty of this country to promote
the interests and hainessotuhgehtßrtiotibshe
dominions in India, and,that such
re
pp of the nativeseasu osf
adoetsd as may rend to the-introduction among themuf use-
ful
knowledge, and their religious and moral improvement ;
furtherance of that object, every facilitseshom 'd
be afforded by
law to persons desirous of going out and
and, in the
sending-to India for the purpose of accomplishing those
benevolent designs."—This resolution, simple and natu-
ral though it appeared, was passed with very considerable
difficulty.; it was passed by a very small majority, and
it was stated by Lord Aliltown, who supported the
resolution, that "it was quite a sufficient proof of
the necessity of missionaries going to India, to hear
the sentiments which were uttered in parliament by no-
minal Christians who had „just returned from India."
The resolution, however, was passed ; and this wee the
foundation of the Church Missionary Society's future
proceedings. The first station they had in India was
at Calcutta. They had there, for two or three years, a
corresponding committee, the object of which was to
look out for opportunities of usefulness throughout.the
whole of northern India. But let him fora short time en-
gage attention with the difficulties which the missionaries
expected toencounter when theyentered upon their arduous
work. First, there were the immense numbers in northern
India, it being calculated that in the whole of that pen-
insula there were now about 150 millions of idolators,
including the Mahometans, who might be computed at
one-tenth. Then there was the religious system of the ,
Hindoos—which the reverend gentleman explained in a
popular manner—the consequence of which upon the
minds of the inhabitants was that they had not the
slightest knowledge of the difference between right and
wrong ; their consciences wen!, in feet, completely asleep,
and one of the greatest difficulties which the missionary
experienced was to awaken their consciences. How indeed
could we expect it to be otherwise, when we found that
their gods were continually represented t) them as
bait g guilty of the grossest crimes, and the most dis-
gusting immoralities ? Then look at their religious
books. These books were of incalculable size; and
it was computed that it would be utterly impossible
:for any man to read them through in the whole course of
his life. They were divided by Oriental scholars into 18
divisions ; and thought a portion of them seemed to be de-
rived from ancient philosophy, and contained many beau-
tiful descriptions of abstract virtue, we found them filled
as we might suppose them to be filled, witch the moat dis-
gustilg narrations of their Gods. It was to attack such a
mass of idolatry and wickedness that the friends of the
gospel and of the Church Missionary Society went forth,
by the strength of God-; and he would now attempt to
show what had been the general result of, aud what had
been the mode of proceeding by, the Church Missionary
Society in India. They had built chapels and churches in
all the places they had been enabled to occupy. Those
chapels and churches were of the simplest formation ; but
the missionaries went forth and preached daring the
idol feasts, in the large fake, and in places of conti-
nued resort. One of the moat useful modes in which
they disseminated the gospel was by itinerating ex-
peditions on clephants (some of which were described)
and on these occasions it was surprising how anxious the
lower orders of the people were to have copies of the
word of God. Here the rev. gentlesnan narrated an anec-
dote of a Sirdar, who actually seized a missionary, and
retained him in a strong grasp until he gave him a copy
of the new testament. There was, he added, a remarkable
story of a fakir, one of the order of individuals who think
they will obtain holiness by practising certain ascetical
absurdities. This person had been for seven or eight
years perambulating the whole of India in order to get
rid of his sins; and at the end of the last year of his
perambulations he met, accidentally, or rather provi-
dentially, with a Christian native. This native told
him in the simplest manner that all his observances
would be of no use, but that if be would believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ he would find rest to his soul.
The word of God found entrance into his heart ; he at
once determined to embrace the religion of Christ ; and
it was repotted as having been a most affecting sight to
see him strip himself of his fakir dress—first the ring
that was bound round bis neck, and then the large iron
chain that was fastened round his waist. Mr. Ewbank
then described the positions of the various stations of the
Church Missionary Society in Northern India at the pre-
sent time ; following the course of that famous river, the
river Ganges, which had its source in the north-western
part of India, in the Himinalayan Mountains, the course
of which was from north-west to south-east. Beginning
at Calcutta, which was situated upon the river Hoogley,
an arm of the Ganges, there were five stations, three mis-
sionaries, and twenty-five teachers. At Burdwan, to the
north-west of Calcutta, there were two stations, two
missionaries, and fourteen teachers. The mission here
was founded by Lieutenant Stewart. Following the
opus of the Hoog)e,Y) 4471 d yrogteding tofs'enlA the