The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-17 00:00:00

PRACTICE OF THE SOCIETY

Whilst this Society owes very much unquestionably to
the Equity of the Rules and Principles upon which it has
been Established, some share of its Popularity is attri-
butable to the manner in which these Rules and Principles
are practically carried out. The Tables and Calculations
are all founded upon data which the long and successful
experience of the Equitat l- Society of London has show'
may confidently be relied upon as safe.
Although almost universally practised by other Offices,
and although it unquestionably adds considerably to their
Business. the System of Bribing Parties unconnected
with their Office, by the offer of a Commission on all
Business introduced through their medium or influence, is
not countenanced by this Society. The Directors have al-
ways looked upon it as a practice which, for many reasons.
is equally to be deprecated in ~he Company or Society
offering, and in the party accepting the bribe.
One of the great characteristics of the Society is the li-
beral, punctual, and simple manner in which the Claims
are settled, combined with the very great care bestowed
by the Directors (with the advice and assistance of the
Medical Officers) in the Selection of Lives. Instead of
affording every facility to parties to join the Society, and
afterwards throwing all manner of unnecessary obstacles
in the way of settlement, when the claim emerges, the
Directors proceed upon the opposite principle of being
most cautious and particular in their inquiries before ad-
mitting Members to the Benefits of the Society; but,
after being admitted, they are entitled to all the advantages
which the Society affords; and when the claim emerges,
no undue delay takes place, and no difficulties which can
be avoided are interposed to prevent an easy and expedi-
tious settlement.

The utmost care is bestowed upon the Investment and
Accumulation of the Funds ; many advantageous oppor-
tunities, which are not open to others, being afforded to
this Society, in the large Amount of its Capital, and its
rapidly increasing Annual Revenue.
Forms of Proposal, and all further information, may
be had on application at the Head Office, or at any of the
Society's Ayenciee.

JOHN MACKENZIE, Manager
Andrew-square., Edinburgh.

BELL, GOULDIE, and Co., Exchange-place,
Agents for Liverpool.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSURANCE
ANNUITY AND DEFERRED ANNUITY
SOCIETY.
26, CORNHILL, LOND9-Nl'

Capital, £5OO,
EMPOWILRED BY PAILMICNY

DIRECTOri

T. LAIIIIC nuaanv, Esq., Chairman.
J. Elliotson, M.D., F.R.S. George Lungley, Esq.
John Griffith Frith, Esq. John Rawson, Esq.
Hunter Gordon, Esq. Clement Tabor, Esq.
Joseph Thompson, Esq.
Auditors—Professor Wheatstone, F.R.S.
Professor Graves, A.M., F.R.S.
Actuary—W. S. B. Woodhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S
Secretary—F. Ferguson Camroux, Esq.

THE superior advantages to those Assured with this
Society will be best understood by a comparison of
its principles and a reference to the last Annual Bonus
declared on Policies of five years' standing, at the Society's
Meeting on the 10th of May, 1813. The report exhibited
a steady increase in its business, and a Bonus was then
declared, varying from 97 to 36 per cent. on Premiums,
as an addition to the Policy—l 7/ per cent. in cash, or 10
per cent. permanent reduction on_all future premiums.

EXAMPLES

L I Sum
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Annual
• Pre- Bonus i Cash Premium
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AF 8. d. Je s. d. Jets. d. Je 8. d.
1837 39 59 1000 67 8 4 132 14 6 58 19 9 919 7
1838 114 56 3000 176 15 0 290 9 7 123 0 6 16 9 4

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DEFERRED ANNUITIES.—The beet and most
varied provision for after life hitherto offered.—£2 12s.
per annum (Is. a week at 20, will at 65 give the Policy-
holder an annuity of .£47s. 163. 6d., or £394 Ils. cash, or
Policy of £466. Similar advantages at 50, 55, and 60.
Treo-thirds payment lent at any time, and two-thirds re-
turned in case of premature death. _

—Prospectuses arid last Annual Report forwarded post-
free on application.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary.
AGENTS.
Liverpool—JAMES I RV IN E, ERI., 23, South Castle-

Duffield and Loithouae, and

FOREIGN 6- COLONIAI, IN7ELLIGEA CJ

ARRIVAL OF THE ORIENTAL-LATEST FROM

INDIA AND CHINA

We announced briefly in our last the arrival of the Ori-
ental at Malta, without bringing with her the Sept-mber
mail, which, from some unexplained cause, had not ar-
rived at Suez. We have, therefore, two mouths' mail
now in arrear. By the steamer Flindostan, however,
which had been dispatched from Calcutta on the 10th of
August for Suez, touching at Madras. Ceylon, and Aden.
we have a supply of papers which no doubt comprise all
the material intelligence which the mail would have
brought us. although not quite to so late a date.
The news from Scinde are important. Further hostili-
ties have taken place, which have resulted in the entire
annihilation of the torce of the fugitive Ameer Shere Ma-
homed. After a slight affair with Lieut. Anderson. which
cut off his means of recruiting in Beloochistan. the Ameer,
finding himself surrounded by the movements of Col.
Roberts in the north, and of Capt. Jacob on the desert,
turned upon the latter (the weakest), with about 8.000
men ; but his Belooches had not resolution enough to
Stand—they broke and dispersed.
Previous to this, Col. Roberts had succeeded in cap-
turing Meer Shah Mahomed, and in dispersing his force.
Of the further operations, we have only disjointed ac-
counts.
Great sickness was said to prevail amongst the troops.
Affairs at Cabul are unsettled, and intrigues are said to
De going on against Dost Mahommed.
The Hur karu mentions a report that, early in the en-
suing cold weather, an army of observation. amounting
to 15,000, will be assembled on the Sikh frontier, under
the command of Sir Robert Dick

" Some attribute this
contemplated movement to the unsettled state of th Pun-
jaub, and others, anin, to a rumoured confederation. of
the Afraans, aided by the Persians, for the recovery of

Peshawar."
The accounts from China are highly satisfactory. Col.
Malcolm, who left Hong Kong on the Ist August, in the
Akbar, brought the ratification of the treaty of peace, the
result of which is a new Chinese tariff and regulations for
the carrying on of our commerce with that country, which
documents we give entire in our columns this day. •
Sir Henry Pottinger has announced his determination,
" by every means at his disposal, to see the provisions of
the commercial treaty fulfilled by all who choose to engage
in future in commerce with China, and that, in any case
where he may receive well-gronnded representations from
her Majesty's consuls, or from the Chinese authorities,
that such provisions of the commercial treaty have been
evaded (or have been attempted to be so), he will adopt
the most stringent and decided meas-res a,,ainst the of-
fending parties; and, where his pre

t powers may not

fully authorize and sanction such measures as may seem
to him fitting, he wilt respectfully trust that the legisla-
ture of Great Britain will bold him indemnified for adopt-

log them

The smuggling vessels late at Whampoa were leaving
the river, and H.M.S. Dido was stationed at Whampoa,
to assist in making the new trade regulations observed.
Meanwhiie, precautions are being taken against the
future. Hong Kong is to hr. strongly fortified.
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reed to, which tariffs are " to
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THE NON•INTRUSION QUESTION IN INDIA.—The
ministers of the Scotch Kirk at Bombay have joined the
non-intrusionist party, and formally withdrawn them-
selves from their connection with the Church of Scot-
land.

A MOVING APPEAL.—THE HAGUE, Oct. 6.—Yester-
day the wife of Van Stenis, who has been condemned to
death, with her child n her arnis fell at the king's feet as
his majesty was leaving the palace of the Prince of Orange.
His majesty, as may be supposed, could not hold out any
hopes to her; but he treated her with great kindness, and
assisted her to rise.

EPIDEMIC IN THE BERMUDAS.—A fatal fever existed
at the Bermuda Islands in August. Lieutenant-Colonel
Arabin, commanding the artillery, fell a victim to it; also

Captain Sir H. Chamberlain, Bari., of the Artillery, who

succeeded him; and Adjutant Jenkin, of the Royal En-
gineers. In addition to these officers, 9 gunners, and
drivers of the Royal Artillery, and 37 privates out of a
company of -only about 70 Royal Sappers and Miners,
have died, and about 120 of the reserve battalion of the
20th Regiment of the Line at present serving on the Ber-
muda station. We-are glad to find by subsequent accounts
from the islands, that the epidemic was fast subsiding, and
that the number of patients in the hospital, as well as in
private houses, had greatly diminished.

IMMENSE IRON MINE NEAR BALTIMORE.—The
Baltimore Sun says :—" We have the satisfaction to an-
nounce, that-an immense iron mine has been discovered,
extending along the shore, as well as some distance into
the river. The outer, edge of the mine has been walled
up, and large quantities of ore have been raised, which
good judges pronounce to be equal in quality to any that
has been discovered in the United States. The ore is al-
most as heavy as iron itself, and will of course yeild largely.
The mine is situated on the ground of the Canton Com-
pany, by whom it is worked, and if it should prove as ex-
tensive as is generally supposed, will greatly enhance the
prospects of-this enterprising corporation. A large en-
gine has been rected, and it is expected that operations
in Smelting will be commenced about Christmas.

EXCLUSIVE EMPLOYMENT OF HORSES IN THZ OR-
DNANCE SERVICE THROUGHOUT INDIA.—By the last
Mail we are informed that the camels attached to Capt.
Whitlie's Bombay battery at Hyderabad have not been
found to answer and the application of these animals to
ordnance draught, purposes is now considered a complete
failure. We leartiNthat Sir Charles Napier has ordered
the battery in question to be horsed with all practicable
expedition. Every day's experience serves to prove more
clearly that the horse is the only animal generally suited
for this purpose, and great hopes are entertained that the
present heterogenous system of employing bullocks,
camels, and elephants, will be abandoned, and horses
given to all the batteries throughout India, which is the
only means by which efficient field artillery can be en-
sured.

The Voice of Jacob, a Jewish newspaper, announces
from an authentic source that the execution of the atro-
cious d, cree of Leo, XII. against the Jews, which was
revived by the Inquisitor-General of Ancona,
And some of the clauses of which had been actually put in
force, has been suspended, in consequence of the feeling
exhibited by the press of England Find France. and the in-
terference, pehaps, of some influential individuals. But

Mist we have been exclaiming against the oppression of
the Latin Church, the fact appears to have escaped notice,
that a still more iniquitous persecution is now being per-
petrated by the Greek Church, a ukase having been issued
by the Emperor of Russia, by which from 300,000 to half
a million of Jews are ruthlessly expelled from their homes,
without even shelter or sustenance being assigned to them,
on no better plea than that their removal is necessary to
put a stop to the contraband trade on the Polish frontier.
THE LATE CONFLAGRATION AT HAMBURG.—The
senatt
)eratlon of the

people of Hamburg, in grateful acknowledg-
ment of her Majesty's bounty and the liberality of the
English nation, have addressed a letter to the Queen in
suitable terms, signed by the presiding burgomaster, and
forwarded it to their resident here, (Mr. Colquhoun.)
which has been presented to her Majesty. The address is
beautifully written ou vellum, and illuminated with gold
and coloured letters. The illustrations and the writing
are executed in the taste which began to prevail in the
beginning of the sixteenth century, combining classic an-

tiquity with the gothic, and forming a fantastic style Ilse-
ally designated the renaissance. The artist, Mr. James
Gensler, of Hamburg, has succeeded in expressing power-
fully the proofs of good and friendly feeling, Hnd the vi-

Of the fire, arid has referred to the ancient relations with
the mighty empire of Great Britain.

ARTESIAN WELL IN WESTPHALIA.—It is intended to
bore to a depth of 2000 metres (a mile and a quarter
English), and at that depth, it is supposed that the water
will be of the enormous heat of 70 centigrade. The
borers have reached a depth of 622 metres. To that
depth, the augmentation of temperature had not followed
the ordinary law, which, according to M. de Humboldt,
was owing to the cooling of the column of air by the
waters of filtration from above ; but once arrived at 622
metres, the ascensional force was so great as to drive back
the water of the upper sources, and the ordinary law was
re-established. It is the intention of the French govern-
ment to make an artesian well in the Jardin des Plantes,
of a depth of 900 metres—viz., 200 metres more than that
of Grenelle. The water from the artesian well of the
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ardin des ilantes will, it is supposed, be of a tempera-
ture of 31 centigrade, and it is to serve to heat the hot-
houses of the gardens, and supply tie hospitals of La

Pitie and La Salpetriere, which. will effect an enormous
economy as to fuel.

RUMOURED ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF THE EMPEROR
OF RUSSIA.—Both the Prussian Gazette and the Aug•s-
burg Gazette make mention of an alleged attempt on the
lite of the Emperor of Russia on the 19th ult. The for-
mer paper says that either a gun or pistol was fired at a

late hour in the evening close to the Imperial Chancery's
carriage when it was passing the Walli,chei suburbs. The
Augsburg Gazette says, " It is rumoured that twenty
shots were fired at the mperor and his suite, and that by
a miracle nobody was wounded." It is not known whe-

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E. aeveral arrests have taken place at Warsaw ;
lot against the life of the Emperor was talked of

The iovestigation at the latter city will probably show
whether the alleged machinations there be connected with
the alleged attempt at Posen.

Loss OF THE MEMNON.—Further particulars.—On
Thursday week a brief and hastily written letter from a
gentleman at Aden, connected with the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company, was received by
their secretary, which communicates the gratifying intel-
ligence that there were only seven instead of one hundred

and seventy passengers, who endured the personal suffer-
ing and loss of property consequent on the wreck of the
ill-fated steamer. Five of these were enabled to reach
Aden in safety ; the remaining two, a lady and gentle-
man, were, at the time the letter was sent off, with the
crew, encamped at a village called Uloolah, about twenty
miles from the scene of the wreck. On their match to
Uloolah their fatigue and sufferings must have been very
great, as the heat was so intolerable as to affect one of
the crew with brain fever, and who, melancholy to relate,
in a fit of delirium, dashed out his brains against a rock.
A steam-boat had been dispatched from Aden to fetch
the above unfortunate individu,ls from Uloolah, who will
be brought to England in a few days by the Peninsular
and Oriental Steam Company's vessel, the Oriental.

A DANCER IN TROU BI.E.—A letter from Berlin states
that Mademoiselle Lola Montez, the Spanish dancer, who
has been for some time much admired in that city for her
great talent, likely to be put in prison for some time.
The day of the grand review she was present on horseback,
and kept at some distance from the royal crrte. When,
however, the firing began her horse took fright, and
rushed amongst the suite of the two sovereigns. A gen-
darme ordered her to fall back, and at the same time gave
a blow with the flat of his sabreto her horse. Feeling ir-
ritated at such a liberty, she struck the man across the
face with her whip. He was cool enough to keep quiet,
and merely lodged a complaint against her. The next
day a hussier handed her a summons to appear in court
to answer the charge. As soon as she learned what the
paper meant, she tore it in pieces, and threw it her feet.
The hussier at once went for the public force, and had her
arrested for having manifested marks of disrespect to the
orders of justice—a misdemeanour punishable with from
three to five years imprisonment. Mademoiselle Montez,
who is the daughter of a deceased Spanish general, is only
19 years of age.