The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-27 00:00:00

FIRE DEPARTMENT.

ETURNS.—The Directors have the satisfaction of an-
nouncing to the Assured in this Office, that a Return of
Premium, at the rate of 20 per Cent. for the Five Y ears up
to Christmas last, will be payable at the head Office, or
through the Company's Agents in Great Britain, on all Po-
lices for £3OO and upwards, which were in force and had
been so for one entire year at Christmas.
RENT.—This Office (independent of the Returns and the
late Reduction in the Rates of Premium) offers to Persons
effecting Assurances, the further advantage of an allowance
for the loss of Rent on Buildings rendered untenantable by
Fire.
RENEWALS.—PoIicies due on Michaelmas Day should
be renewed within fifteen days thereafter.

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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 Poli-
cies of particular dates and ages ; the Directors now beg to
refer to a Statement (which may be obtained on application
at the Office in Cheapside, or to any of the Agents in the
Country) of Sums actually paid, showing the Sums respec-
tively assured and the Bonuses thereon.
Persons assured for the whole term of life in Great
Britain or Ireland respectively, will have an ADDITION
made to their Policies every seventh year, or an equivalent
REDUCTION will be made in the future payments of Premium,
at the option of the Assured.
The FOURTH SEPTENNIAL VALUATION will be made up
to Christmas, 1844.
ASSURANCES FOR SHORT PERIODS may now be effected
in this Office at considerably reduced Rates of Premium.
The Company's Rates and Proposals may be had at the
Office in London, or of any of the Agents in the Country,
who are authorised to report on the appearance of Lives
proposed for Assurance.
HENRY DESBOROUGH, Secretary.
92, Cheapside, London, September, 1842.

The Agents for the Company at the undermentioned places
are,—
LIVERPOOL .. Messrs. HORNBY and MARSDEN,
Bretherton Buildings, North John-street.
Ditto.... Mr. W. H. M'DOWELL,
Lower Castle-street.

Ditto.... Mr. J. T. LEY
Exchange-ci
Ashton-under-Line, W. Lee.
Blackburn, R. Wilding.
Bolton, C. Briggs.
Burnley and Todmorden, T.
E. Hammerton.
Bury, Richard Lomax.
Chorley, J Wallwork.
Clitheroe, W. L. Oddie.
Lancaster, Thos. Albright.
Leigh, T. Whitehead.
Appleby-

'LAND,
:ourt, Exchange-street East.
Macclesfield, R. Turner.
Manchester, R. & C. Hervey.
Oldham, John Duncuft.
Preston, Wm. Lancaster.
Rochdale, James Hartley.
St. Helen's, John Ansdell.
Stockport, W. Downall.
Ulverston, W. Postlethwaite
Warrington, J. Hall.
Wigan. J. Fairhurst.
—Vacant.

BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY.
THE Directors of this Undertaking will receive Proposals
for LOANS OF MONEY ON DEBENTURES, to
be issued under the provisions of the acts of Parliament, in
the month of OCTOBER next, in pams of not less than
£2OO, for terms of three, five, seven, op ten years, on Interest
at the rate of £5 per Cent. per Annum, payable Half-yearly,
at the Banks of Messrs. MILES, HARFORD, and Co., Corn-
street, Bristol, and Messrs. BARNETT, HOARE, and Co.,
Lombard-street, London.
For Moneys immediately advanced the security of Loan
Notes under the Seal of the Company will be given, which
may be exchanged for Debentures in the said month of Oc-
tober.
Tendcrs, expressing the Sums and Terms of Years' to be
addressed to the undersigned, at the Company's Office,
Exchange Buildings, Bristol.
By order of the Committee of Management,
ROBERT FLETCHER, Secretary.
Qffice,
.Exchange Buildings, Bristol,
30th May, 1842.

To TowN COUNCILLORS.—By a recent Act introduced
by Sir Frederick Pollock, it is provided that members of Cor-
porations arc not disqualified (as they were before supposed to
be) by holding corporation property on lease. It is also de-
clared by this Act that the office of sheriff is not one of pro-
fit, and consequently does not disqualify the holder of the
office from acting as a town councillor ; and another clause
provides that no councillor shall take part in a discussion on
any subject in which he or a partner has a pecuniary interest.
APPROACIIES OF THE MOON TO JUPITER.—On Tuesday
evening last the Moon was observed very near the planet
Jupiter, the conjunction in right ascension being between
two and three o'clock afternoon. Between the parallels of
14 degrees north and -1-1 degrees south latitude, the Moon
passed over the planet produ6ng what is termed an occul-
tation. This planet has been occulted by the Moon every
time she has passed him during the present year, excepting
in the months of January and February, and there will be
no occultation in December next. Near midnight, on the
10th of October, the conjunction will be very beautiful,
should the night be unclouded. On the evening of the 7th
November, the planet will emerge from the western limb of
the Moon, between the hours of five and six o'clock ; but,
the emersion happening before the sun is set, will not be
observed in this country.—Manchester Guardian.
PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—Wednesday, the 31st of Aug. _
about twelve at night, the schooner Sarah and Mary, o
Barmouth, from Sligo, burthen 80 tons, with a cargo of oats
butter, and preserved salmon and lobsters, bound to London
from some defect in her compass and haziness of weather
struck on the rocks at the south-east angle of the bold promon-
tory of Malinbeg (Malinbeg is at the angle of a coast formed
by Donegal Bay and the western coast of
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Douegal county.
Panic-struck at the suddenness of the .socy on so iron-
)
bound a coast, with the stupendous cliffs of an unknown
shore hanging over their heads, and blinded by the denseness
of the fog, the crew instantly took to the boat, without wait-
ing even to throw a biscuit into her, and beat about at sea till
eight o'clock on Thursday morning, deterred by the breakers
from attempting a landing ; but at length they effected one
on Rathrey-brow, an uninhabited island about two miles
front Malinhe,,. In the meanwhile the vessel had bounded
from the rock' on which she had at first struck, and came
upon the rocks a little more within the boat port—a narrow
and romantic, but very exposed, inlet of the sea. There she
was observed by the country people at day-break, who
manned their little fishing-boats and brought her safely within
their fairy estuary; and had not her rudder been rendered for
the time unserviceable, they would have taken her to the
more secure harbour of Killybegs ; they kept the pumps
going, and everything on board safe, till the coast-guards,
some three or four hours atterwardi, came to the spot. No-
thing was pilferred. Contrast this with scenes on more
favoured coasts, and let none malign the good people of
Alalinbeg.'They had a wretched vessel in their undisturbed
possession for hours—they placed her in comparative safety,
moored and anchored her, toiled to keep her afloat, and
preserved intact the entire of her cargo. The men (srs in
number), after being on the island without food till Friday
morning, were brought safely into Malinbeg at the instiga-
tion of the Rev. Edward Labatt, who had Proposed, under
the possibility of their having got into Rathrey-burn, to go
for them the night before, could he have got any man to
venture with him. To him also much praise is due for
exertions in keeping the vessel from sinking (as she filled very
" fast), and in getting the cargo ashore and safely housed.—
Ballyshannon Herald.