The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-23 00:00:00

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IMPERIAL FIRE OFFICE.
THOSE Persons whose Annual Policies ar newable on
the 29th instant, are respectfully informed that, for their
own security, they should be renewed vphin fifteen days
from that date.

WALTER CLARKE, Agent.
High street, Liverpool, Sept. 21, 1842.

YORKSHIRE
FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
ESTABLISHED 1824.
PARTIES having Annual Policies falling due on the 29th
September are respectfully informed that they should
renew the same within fifteen days from tlfot date.
AGENTS.
LATHAM HANMER, Jun. I
1, Dale-street.
FREDERICK LAPAGE
JOHN ATKINSON, 25, North John-street.
NATHAN LITHERLAND, 12, Exchange-street East.

THE MANCHESTER ASSURANCE COMPANY,
For Assurance against Fire, and on Lives and Surofvorships,
Purchase of Annuities, Reversions, 4'c. ke•
OFFICE, No. 98, KING-STREET, MANCHESTER.
Capital, Two MlLLioNS.—Established March, ]824.
FIRE DEPARTMENT,'
THE Assured are entitled to one third the profits, with-
out any liability on their part to t a losses.
Parties intending to continue their P licies, falling due at
MICHAELMAS, must renew them withim fteen days from that
time, or they will become void.
LIFE DEPART NT.
The Assured are entitledto two-thhiirds of the profits, with-
out any liability on their part to the losses.
The Premiums charged are lower than those of the ma-
jority of other Offices.
The business of the Life department is kept quite distinct
from that of Fire, and its accumulations are not liable to
make good any losses arising therefrom.
The Rates of Premiums, and all other particulars, may be
obtained on application to M r. JOSEPH MORTON, Secretary,
or to any of the Company's Agents.
RICHARD DAWSON, Agent for
Liverpool.
N.B.—Agents have already been appointed in most of the
principal towns in the kingdom ; but applications for Agencies,
in places where appointments have not yet been made, are
requested to be addressed to the Secretary.
BONUS.
At the Annual General Court of Proprietors, held on the
20th June, 1839, bonuses were declared to the assured in the
Fire Department of £lO per cent. on the premiums received
during the five years previous to the 25th March. 109, to be
paid on all insurances of two, or more, years' stantflw the
to the assured in the Life Department, on Pisignding, on
whole duration of Life, forfour, or More yatiallk
cent. on the
the 25th March, 1839, of very nearly
amount of the premiums received thereo26l4l?tmerproved at com-
pound interest, to be added to lhi! .assured by such
policies when they become claims, °ran equivalent reduc...tion
to be made in the annual premiums upon them, atthe oprson
' (tithe perils* entitled thereto.

CHURCH SCHOOLS.
Two SERMONS will be PREACHED ijt-ST.MARY'S
CHURCH, Kirkdale, on SUNDAY, next, the 25th
instant; in the Morning by the Rev. Ax M'CONKEY, A.M.
Minister of All Saints; in the Evenlu, by the Rev. R. T.
WHEELER, A. 8., Incumbent of ft. John's, Blackburn.
After each Sermon a COLLECTION will be made in aid of
the Everton and Kirkdale Day and Sunday Schools.
Divine Service will commence in the Morning at Half-past
Ten; and in the Evening at Half-past Six.

ST. BARNABAS' CHURCH, PARLIAMENT-
STREET.
(IN SUNDAY next, the 25th instant, TWO SERMONS
kJ' will be Preached, (if the Lord permit,land a Collection
made after each, to defray the expense of the Scripture
Reader for the District assigned to ~the Church of St.
Barnabas. The Rev. F. OULDVA.M., Incumbent of
Christ Church, will Preach in thaeMorning ; and the Rev.
FALLOON, A.M., Curate of St. Jude's, in the
Evening-.
The -District of St. Barnabas contains a Population
amounting to nearly 12,000 Souls, the greater part of whom
belong to that Class among whom the labours of a Scripture
Reader are especially useful.

Divine Service will commence in the Morning at Half-past
Ten, and in the Evening at Half-past Six.

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uitted on the
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Cheshire side of the Mersey, within Two or,Three Miles of
a Ferry. The House to have good-sized Receiving-rooms
and Seven Bed-rooms ; Stable and Coach-honse would be
required.—Applications to be made to R., 37, Liverpool
Post-office. lo'nßEorSl

CAPTAIN ROSS AND THE ANTARCTIC

EXPEDITION.

(From the Guernsey Star of September 15.)
The Alarm, Captain T. L. Stewart, left Guernsey last year
for the Falkland Islands, and departed thence at the end of
givingof t i this island
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account of Captain Ross and the vessels under him, engaged
in a scientific voyage of discovery towards the Antarctic Pole,
The Erebus and Terror came in contact, on endeavouring to
expedition will positively be here for five or six months to
of observations are carrying on, which will oenr
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every quarter of an hour. Astronomical observations are
also carefully made by the officers. Thermometers are placed
both above the ground and under it ; mine, with my baro-
meters, are now doing duty with the rest, and have the ho-
nour to be registered also. The anotneters. showing the
direction and force of the winds, will add much to the valuable
information afforded by Captain Sullivan, R.N., respecting
these islands. Pluviameters are also carefully registered, and
we are now about the end of your Guernsey November. A
tide-guage is by the jetty, and an excellent magnetic obser-
vatory, where the dip, intensity, and variation of the needle
are carefully registered by able observers. The officers re-
lieve each other in regular watches on these duties ; and I
never met with such devotees of science. You would be de-
lighted to see Captain Ross's little hammock swinging close
to his darling pendulum, and a large hole in the thin parti-
tion that he may see it at any moment, and Captain Crozier's
hammock is close alongside of it. The floor of this room is
mother earth, from our want of timber.
" Capt. Ross has been so kind, at my request, as to add
to these observations another series, to ascertain the rate of
evaporation in these islands; and Hooker, the botanist, is
also so good as to draw up a report on the grasses, the pre-
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of these
islands. It will, I hope, yet make the fortune of Orkney and
Irish landowners of peat bogs. Every animal here feeds upon it
with avidity,aud fattens in a short time. It may be planted and
cut like the guinea grass of the West Indies. The blades are
about six feet long, and from 200 to 300 shoots spring from
one plant. I have proved, by several experiments, that one
man can cut 100 bundles in a day, and that a horse will
greedily devour five of these in the same time. Indeed, so
fond of it are both horses and cows, that they will eat the
dry tussack thatch from the roofs of the houses in preference
to good grass. About four inches of the root eats like the
mountain cabbage. It loves a rank wet peat bog, with the
sea spray over it. Indeed, when the sea beats with the
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as Guernsey, are covered with tussack, which is nutritious
all the year.
" The whole of the gentlemen in the expedition are de-
lighted with the Falkland Islands, and express themselves as
being more pleased with them than even with New Zealand.
Some think them in every way better for colonization, even
with the drawback of wanting timber trees.
" When the observations made during their voyages are
published, you will be surprised at their favourable account
of the climate.
" In addition to all these scientific observations, the sur-
veying department in exploring and examining different
harbours, sites for different objects in a new settlement," &c.
observations.li
Antarctic
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