The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-09-26 00:00:00

CHARGED

Attention is directed to the fact that to a defined extent Life
Premiums are not subject to Income-tax, and that in certain
cases Life Policies are exempt from the New Succession
Duties.

FIRE BRANCH

FIRE INSURANCES will be effected at moderate rates of
Premium. The Company, having the advantage of a Resi-
dent Directory, will be enabled to distinguish itself by its
promptness in the settlement of Claims.
No Charge made for the Policy.
LIFE BRANCH.

The Company likewise assure Lives on any of the following
contingencies, namely :
For the WHOLE CONTINUANCE OF LIFE.—The Premiums
to cease after a LIMITED NUMBER OF ANNUAL PAYMENTS.
For a Sutn to be payable at Age 60, or at Death.
PREMIUMS ON CREDIT.

A PORTION OF PREMIUMS MAY REMAIN ON
CREDIT, OR ASSURANCES MAY BE EFFECTED IN
VARIOUS WAYS, NOT ENUMERATED, TO MEET THE
CONVENIENCE OF THE PARTY MAKING THE ASSUR-
ANCE. .

The important advantages afforded by the Company in this
Branch will include the following, viz.:— _ _

-611ARANTEE---OF AN AMPLE CAPITALPROFITS
PRE-
MIUMS, LARGE PARTICIPATION OF BY THE
ASSURED, SMALL CHARGE FOR MANAGEMENT, &c.
The usual Commission allowed to Solicitors.

Fees to Medical Referees are likewise granted by this Com-
pany. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager.
Policies falling due at MICH A E LMAS should be renewed on
or before the 14th of October next.
September 19, 1854.

EXTRAORDINARY PASSAGE OF THE
JAMES BAINES. •

Tins magnificent clipper ship arrived here at 11 o'clock,
yesterday morning, under the command of Captain Charles
M`Donnell, (late of the Marco Polo,) having made the
shortest passage from Boston ever accomplished by a sail
ing vessel. She left Boston at 1, p.m., on the 12th inst.,
and her passage, therefore, allowing for difference of time,
is only 12 days 17 hours, being a day shorter than the
celebrated passage of the Lightning. During the greater
part of the passage, the winds, though favourable, were
only moderate, and Captain M`Donnell believes that,

had he been favoured with strong winds throughout
the ship would have reached here in less than nine days

Her log shows that up to noon, on the 13th, she ha
225 miles ; 14th, 238 ; 15th, 218 ; 16th, 305, th

from S.W. to 17th, 290; -18th, 198 19th, 342,
the wind N.N.W. ; 20th, 200 ; 21st, 230 ; 22d, 291; 23d,
337, wind S.S.W. ; 24th, 296 miles; passed Cork at 8,
a.m., Tuskar at 3, p.m., and Holyhead at 9, p.m. ; 25th,
arrived in the Mersey at 11, a.m. The James Baines at
once went into the Coburg Dock, and moored alongside
the Champion of the Seas, which vessel she slightly
exceeds in size, being the largest and finest merchant ship
in the world.

We have not space for a minute description of the ship
this week, and can only briefly say, that she has all the
beauty of form and magnificence of interior fittings for
which Mr. Donald M`Kay's ships are so famous. Her
burthen is about 4,000 tons, and she will form one of the
"Black Ball Line" of Australian Packets, owned by
Messrs. James Baines and Co., who have now in port
three of the finest ships in the world—namely, the
Champion of the Seas, the Indian Queen, and the James
The James Baines brought over a few cabin
igers and cargo.

SUDDEN DEA.T/I.—On Friday afternoon, Mr. Charles
Frederick Parsons, aged 56, solicitor, of 43, Eldon-place,
was found lying dead, with his body partly in the passage
of the house occupied by the Adelphi Loan Society, Ren-
shaw-street, against the door of which he had apparently
fallen. At the inquest, on Saturday, a verdict of " Died
from apoplexy" was recorded.
THE REPRIMENTATION OB WIGAN.—The vacancy in
the representation of Wigan, caused by the death of
Mr. Thicknesse, was gazetted on the Bth instant, and
the Speaker of the House of Commons stated in the
notification, that in fourteen days he would issue his
writ for the election of a burgess to fill up the vacancy.
It was therefore expected that the writ would be issued
on Friday last, and received in Wigan on Saturday
morning ; but no writ came, nor did it arrive by the
afternoon mail. The proclamation would not therefore be
made before yesterday, and Friday next will be the
earliest day on which the nomination can take place. Up
butgealiy thought that there
meeting of the friends of
Powell (the Conservative candidate
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contest,
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at the last election) was then held at the Royal Hotel,
and it was possitively announced by the chairman that
Mr. Powell had consented to offer himself. It was also
stated that the address would be out on the following
morning, when a canvass would be commenced in every
ward. Considerable excitement prevailed in consequence
during Friday, and there was much anxiety to see the
promised declaration. On Friday evening an address
from Mr. Powell appeared on the walls of the town, but
not such as was anticipated, and it created much dissa-
tisfaction amongst his friends. Mr. Powell says " Not-
withstanding the resolutions passed at the meeting which
was held last evening, and the strong feeling which has
been displayed by.a large portion of your body in favour
of my now becoming a candidate for your suffrages, on
mature reflection, I am reluctant to expose the town to
the excitement of a contest in the present state of parties
and the peculiar posit ion of Parliament." He expressed
his gratitude for the renewed expressions of confidence
and fresh promises of support" he has received, and
concludes by saying, " I yet hope to become one of your
representatives, and I sincerely trust that the time is not
for distant when that hope will be accomplished." All
fear of a contest is now at an end, and there is every
appearance that the election will be the quietest
Las taken place since 1832.

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