The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-03-25 00:00:00

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115ttra lire poticts,

YORKSHIRE FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE
• COMPANY.
ESTABLISHED 1824.
DARTIES having Annual Policies falling due on the
-I- 25th March, are respectfully informed that they should
renew the same within Fifteen Days from that date.
AGENTS.
LATHAM HANMER, Jun.,}
FREDERICK LA PAGE,---- 'D le street.
JOHN ATKINSON, North J. hn-street.
NATHAN LITHERLANDM
, 42, Lord-street.
WILLIA GROOM,
LLOYD and PRICE, 25, Castle-street.

NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY

ESTABLISHED 1821. CAPITAL, £550,000,

Rt. Hon. Lord Wodehouse,TRIJSTEES Rt. Hon. the Earl of Orford.
Lord Lieutenant. Sir Henry Jardine, Knt.
Lord Walpole. Charles Savill Onley, Esq.,
Lord Hastings. &c. &c.

DIRECTORS.
Edward T. Booth, Esq., President.
Anthony Hudson, Esq., Vice-President.
George Morse, Esq. Edward Steward, Esq.
Major-General Sir Robert Lewis Evans, Esq., M.D.
Robert
John Harvey, C.B. T. Blakiston, Esq., R.N.
Isaac Jeremy, Esq., R r- W. Martin Steppings, Esq.
der of Norwich,/ Timothy Steward, Esq.
Charles Evans, Esq. George Durant, Esq.
Samuel Bignold, Esq., Secretary.
THE Public are respectfully reminded, that all Insu-
rances renewable in the LIVERPOOL AGENCY
ce
on the 25th day of MARCH, 1845, must he paid at
the Office, Exchange-street West, on or before the 9th
day of April next, or the Society will cease to be liable
for the sums insured.
In proof of the public approbation of the principles
and conduct of this Company, it may be sufficient to
state, that its business now exceeds FIFTY-EIGHT
MILLIONS.
Prospectuses may be had of Mr. R. L. MILLER,
Agent.
Treasurers—The LIVERPOOL BOROUGH BANK.

THE LIVERPOOL FIRE AND LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.

TRUSTEES.
Sir Thomas Brancker.
Adam Hodgson, Esq. I William Potter, Esq.
DIRECTORS.
Thomas Booth, Esq., Chairman.
Richard Edwards, Esq., and George Holt, Esq., Deputy.
chai
Thomas Brocklebank, Esq.rmen
William Brown, Esq.
Tbos. Arthur Bushby, Esq.
William Dixon, Esq.
William Earle, Esq.
Joseph C. Ewart, Esq.
Thomas S. Gladstone,_ Esq.
Joseph Hornby, Esq.
George H. Lawrence, Esq.
AUDI

Andrew Low, Esq.
William Low, Esq.
James Moon, Esq.
LewiruMozley, Esq.
James Mulleneux, Esq
'William Nicol, Esq.
John Pennington, Esq.
James Powell, Esq.
H. Stolterfoht, Esq.
,TORS.

Thomas Buddicom Blac111;;;ne,lsq., Daniel James, Esq.
The Directors continue to receive Proposals for IN-
SURANCE on LIVES, and against LOSS by FIRE, in
the United Kingdom, in the British Colonies, and is
Foreign Countries.

To-the Public the most ample security is given, inas-
much as the Liability of the large and wealthy Proprie-
tary is unrestricted by Law; and the Policies do not
contain the stipulation that the Stock and Funds of the
Company shall, subject to prior claims and demands, alone
be liable to make good any claim that tnay arise, nor a
reference whatever to the provisions of the deed of settle-
ny
ment .
The Rates of Premium, and all other information, may
be obtained on application at the Office.
Persons whose Policies with this Company expire on
the 25th instant, are respectfully reminded, that receipts
for the renewal of the same will be found in the hands of
the respective Agents; and those who, preferring the se-
curity offered by this Company, may desire to remove
their insurances, are informed that no expense will be
incurred by such removal.

SWINTON Sy.
AGENTS.—For Warrington, MBOITLTr. Henry, Whecretaite ;r for
Prescot, Mr. John Green.
8, Water-street, 19th March, 1845.

ATLAS ASSURANCE COMPANY,
92, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON.

ESTABLISH ED 1808,

DIRECTORS.
John Oliver Hanson, Esq., Chairman.
William George Prescott, Es Delinty-Chairman.
Sir William Baynes, Baq, rn --Sauel Eustace Magaii,Esq,
A. E. Campbell, Moses Mocatta, Esq.
Thos.Chapman,Esi.,F.R.S James William Ogle, Esq.
William Laforest, Esq. Emanuel Pacifico, M.D.
Donald Maclean, Esq. John Peter Rasch, Esq.
Auditors—FßANClS B. HOOKEY, Esq., and JOSEPR
PULLEY, jun., Esq.
Actuary—CHARLES ANSELL, Esq.. F.R.S.
So/lei/or—THOMAS BROWNING, Esq.
Surveyor--THOMAS HOPPER, Esq.
Aesistant-Surveyor—THomAs LLOYD, Esq.

FIRE DEPARTMENT.
DEruRNS.—The Directors request reference to
R
the fact, that twenty per cent. was returned by this
Company on the amount of Premiums paid for the Five
Years up to Christmas, 1841, on all Polices for £3OO and
upwards, which had been in force for ONE YEAR at that
time. The next Periodical Accounts for Returns will be
made up to Christmas, 1846.
RENT.—This Office (independent of the Returns) offers
to Persons effecting Assurances on Buildings, the further
advantage of an allowance for the loss of Rent thereof,
when rendered untenantable by Fire.

Farming Stock is now exempt from Duty, and may be
assured without the average clause.

On Assurances for Seven Years by one payment, a
deduction of one-seventh part of the premium and duty
will be made.

RENEWALS.—PoIicies due on LADY-DAY should
be renewed within fifteen days thereafter.

LIFE DEPARTMENT.
The attention of the Public has, in the Advertisements
and Proposals of this Company of late years, been called
to a Table of Additions applicable to and expectant on
Policies of particular dates and ages ; the Directors now
beg to submit the following Statement of claims actually
paid, showing the Sums respectively assured, and the
Bonuses thereon; and they request, in order to show the
advantageous plan of Assurance ,roposed by this Com-
pany, that Persons desirous of effecting Assurances on
their Own Lives or on the Lives of Others, will compare
the statement now submitted, with the Addition or
Bonus of any of the other Offices which may apply to a
Policy issued by them since 1816, when the Atlas Com-
pany adopted the Bonus system.

- Statement of Claim;
don or through an Ag,

in Lou-

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Name of Life
Assured.

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212 HisMajestyWm IV.
69 & His rt. 11. the Duke
92 of York

0. d
3000 1068 4068 35 12 I
5000 962 5962 19 5
400 284 684 71 0 C
1000 714 1714 71 8
1700 321 2024 19 1 2
4536453 29 1 2
120,3620 44 16 0

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1458IMrs. N. Hyde

Itign Mrs. Mary Everitt,
5610 Adm. Sir W.Sidney
Smith
3422 The late D.of Argyll
3604 The lateEarlof Cla-
rendon
687 M. S. (Berks)

.e. s. d.
2 10 10

2 15 0

3 11 0
3 8 0

500011
250011

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103 Rev.JobW.Baugh
57s Rev. Thos. Cromp•
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4371 8371

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61 12 G

2 7 8

70 0U

3 11 8

5 4 1

2 18 8

2 8 8

3 10 0

imptrial liarlianunt.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY

Tha Blackburn and Preston Railway Bill was read a se-
cond time, and ordered to be committed ; as was also the
North British Railway Bill.

e day for going into committee c
Act, Mr. W. MILES moved as an amen(

On the
the Custom's

rder of

ment, "That it is the opinion of this house, that, in an
application of surplus revenue towards relieving the bur
dens of phis country by reduction of remission of taxation

to the necessity of affording rc-

lief to the agri,:ul,ural interest." The hon. member hav-
ing called attention to the fact that every thing had been
done by the government, since their accession to office, to
benefit

met cial an

nothing had been done b

manufacturing interests,

M. government, since the

cession to office, to benefit the commercial and manufac-
turing interests, while nothing had been done by them to
encourage the agricultural classes, se nut by disclaiming
any intention of asking f,r a repeal of the malt-tax, al-
though he thought that some of the burdens that pressed
upon the land might be sought to be lightened. He main-
tained that the agricultural distress was not local, but ge-
neral ; and he attributed that distress, in a great degree,
to the measures passed by parliament since the coming

into power of the present ministers. The hon. member
entered into a variety of statistical tables, returns, and
calculations, to show the quantity of foreign corn and fo-
reign cattle imported since the passing of the Corn Act,
the Canada Corn Act, and the new tariff, and to prove
the detrimental effects caused by the immense importa-
tion which had taken place. Hay ng fully established, as
he alleged, the impoverished condition of the farmers,
Mr. Miles proceed. d to suggest the alleviations which, he
thought, might a ith justice be acceded to them. Ile pro-
posed that they should be permitted to use malt for feed-
ing their cattle—a boon that would cost the revenue little
or nothing. He proposed that a general enclosure bill,
and a general drainage bill, should be brought in under
the sanction of the government. lie likewise proposed,
that the cost to the counties of criminal prosecutions
should be lightened ; that is, that only such cases should
be paid for out of the county rates as could not be decided
except by a jury at the assizes, and over which the magis-
tra'es had no power of decision; and that all other cases
should be prosecuted at the expense of the crown. He
also propos-El that one-half of the expenses of coroners'
inquests should be charged on the consolidated fund ; and
that the charge of printing the registries of voters should
The total expense of these

be taken off t
ameliorati,ns would not cost £270,000 ; or, including
ScoVanti, £350,000—a sum small in amount, but which
would be regarded as a recognition or the principle that
the legi-lature looked to the interests of the land, as well
as the interests of manufactures and commerce. The lion.
member concluded his speech by stating, that he had not
brought forward his amendment with the assent of the
agricultural members geueral.y, but that he and his
friends were convinced that, by persevering with it, they
would only perform their duty to their constituents
The Earl of MARCEI seconded the motion

it JAMES GRAHAM said, that the question placed be-
fore the house by the hon. member's motion and speech,
was not whether protection should be given to agriculture
but whether the corn law, the Canada corn-law, and the
tariff should be repealed. His (Sir J. Graham's) opinion
was that, most d-cidediy. such protection as wa• const,t-
ent with the general well-being of the country ought to be
extended to the produce of the land. The general inter-
ests of the country peremptorily required the remission
of taxation which had been made, and from those remis-
sions the landed interest would derive considerable bene-
fit. Ti e importation of ten thousand, or even three hun-

dred thousand,

prices Equal to

cul:ural distress was panial

prosper
increas
that th 4

would not affect the f amers

s in the mmulacturilig

aintai ed

Ireland and Scot

sts were in a state of extraoiclin,ry

He likewise asserted, that the progressive
I the imputtatio❑ cf corn w•as bent ficidl, and

e Canada corn ac

as caiculited to c

rt ect t hi

h respect to the re

prop
used for the

d, he could see no objection to malt tti be
- provided it could be done

proposed transfe
con

lidated fund
these loci

ling of c

bills with that inten

ould very
To the

rom it

uhty rates to t

.d. tie con-
and he could

urdens r

agree to rc mo%e them

Mr. D'ISRAELI CO(l,ider: d that pro

s not a

t, it must

nistalices, and

t by quut;
The qut,

-Lion of rte

e was the q

stion of the a

rid of the country

ust all conit

to this tes

proiectlon, or will you have, rot exactly Irer

e importation o

motion
uis of C

torwar

1836

by the M

as a surplus to be appropriated, due regard should

hat motion was supporte

the whole c,n,ervative party, and was chose

y ti,em as

a question on ,‘

h tht.y cLuid bes

try a fall wit

wiiig4. Mr. We► now brought faward the same ruso-
lurinn, and he must have mere suceers now than the noble

marquis had formerly;

s was ac

,ervativc

that was a whig, House of Commons. The Secretary for
Ireland had voted under similar circumstances to a simi-
lar motion, and ❑o doubt he would be anxious to main-
tain his consistency now. There was no occasion to de-
spair of the support of the Vice-Piesident of the Board
of Trade; for he had voted in 1836 w!th his right hon.
friend the Secretary for Ireland. Neither could Lord
Lincoln, a member of the cabinet, fail to wail( into ttie
same lobby with Mr Miles; and Captain Bohlero, the
Clerk of the Ordnance, would also give him the benefit
of his countenance on this occasion, a, he had done in
1836 ; for agricultural distress was a subject on which a
great deal was said at Chippenham. The rest of the con-
servative party would, of course, follow in the train of
such dis inguished leaders; hut Sir It. Peel would pre-
serve his consistency now as he did then, by leering his
party, and walking into the whig lobby. Mr. ll'lsrarli
then, in a strain of sarcasm which elicited the loudest
cheers and laughter from the house, proceeded to assail
the consistency of the Prem er, and the tone in which he
tebuked the mutinous and rebellious members of his
party. He believed protection to be in the saute condi-
tion now as Protestantism had been in 1828. (Cheers.)
The country would draw its moral; but fur him, who
honoured genius, he would rather have those measures
proposed by the hon. member for Stockport than by a
person, skilful indeed in parliamentary manoeuvres, taut
who had tampered with the generous confidence of a
great people and a great country. (Auplause.) For my
part, said Mr. D'lsraeli, turning to Sir Robert Peel-1
care not what may be the result. Dissolve, if you like,
the parliament you have betrayed, and appeal to the peo-
ple, who; I believe, mistiust you : to me there has at
least remained this opportunity of expressing this pub.
hely, that I believe a coLservative government is an or-
ganised hypocrisy. (Loud and repeated cheering from
both sides of the house.)

Mr. DARBY olherved, that though Mr. D'lsraeli might
amuse the house by such an exhibition as that which he
bad just gone through, it was quite certain that it did not
acquire for him respect. Even now, who could tell what
his opinions were of !tee trade ? Mr. D'lsraeli had ac-
cused Sir It. Peel of fit,cling the whigs bathing, and of

Mr. Ds-Israeli had been caught bathing some years ago,
not with the whigs, but with the wildest radicals.
Sir R. PEEL explained the grounds on which be was
compelled to resist this motion. 11 its object were merely
to transfer a sum of money tram the county rates to the
consolidated fund, then they would be deluding the agri-
cultural interest by leading it to believe that such a trans-
fer would be for its benefit. But if its object were to
condemn the financial scheme of the government, as he
inferred that it was, from a circular issued by the Central
Protection Society, then he had additional reasons for
opposing it. \% healer, -then he looked at this motion
upon the grounds laid down by Mr. Nliles, or whether be
looked at it upon thee grounds put forth by the Protection
Society, he could not acquiesce in it. He had never re-
pented of the course pursued by ministers since their ac-
cesedon to office. He desc ibed the lamentable condition
in which he found the country, when he was appointed
prime minister in 1841, and compared it with its condition
at the present moment. He took office, not with the
intention of supporting any partial interests, but of taking
a comprehensive view of the interests of all classes. He
bebeved that in 18-12, it was for the interest of agriculture
itself that something should be done to revive the then
depressed condition of the manufacturing districts. What
had then been done had been completely successful, and
its effects were visible in the present improvements of the
country. Referring to the speech of Mr. Disraeli, he
observed that he suould oppose this motion in 1845 on
the same grounds which he opposed it in 1836. He had
then thought, and be thought still, that it held out hopes
that must be delusive. He had differed in 1836 from the
party with which he usually acted, and had told them that
there was no tax bearing on agriculture, save the malt-
tax, which they could remove with advantage to that in-
terest. That was his opinion then. and it was the same
now. He would not enter into the question of agricultu-
ral protection, for it was not raised at present; but it
would be raised on the motion of Mr. Villiers on a future
evening, and he would then say why he thought the corn-
laws should not be abolished. He would not say that
agricultural protection should not be reduced indirectly
by the tariff, as, for instance, in such articles as lard,
grease, &c. He believed the system of prohibition and
extreme protection to be very wrong, and he would pursue
the course which he had done hitherto with respect to all
such questions. Ministers had attempted gradually to
abolish protecting duties, and hitherto with the best suc-
cess. He looked to the position of the country now, and
to that in which they found it on taking office ; and on
review of every circumstance, he contended that ministers
were justified in the course which they had pursued, and
were encouraged to persevere in it. Mr. D'lsraeli said
that ministers had purchased power by pledges which they
bad not redeemed. He would not enter into any personal
recrimination with that gentleman ; but when ou a former
occasion that charge had been made, Mr. D'lsraeli had
volunteered the defence of the government. He held in
the same estima ion the panegyric and the attack ; but be
was surprised that the attack should have come from the
same gentleman who had delivered the panegyric.
After a few other speeches the house divided, when
there appeared for the motion—Ayes, 78; noes, 213 ;
majority against it, 135.
The house soon after adjourned.