The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-07-11 00:00:00

NOTE.
tE LANCASHIICRE INSURANCE
COMPANY.
CAPITAL, TWo MILLZONS.

Office-26, Market-street, Manckester.
,London Office-2. King-street, CLeapside.
L►verpool Offices-3, High-street, and 5, Exchange-street East.
GlasgcotQl:fice —llB. Ingram-street ; or 4, Havaver-street.
Greenock Office—Mansion-Lome.

NOTJCE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Intereston the Capital
Stotts of the ,Company, at the rate of per Cent, per An-
num, freeof ,Income-tax, for the Half-year ending 24th June
,last, will be paid at the Head Office, or at any of thesranches
fl London, Liverpool, or Glasgow, on and after the 2‘th July
stant, between the hours of Ten and Three o'clock.
hTransfer Rooks will be closed from the 24th to the
rand instant is
BY order, JAMES KENNEDY, General Manager.
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JOHN SEMPLE, Resident Secretary

6th July. 854

SHE
LANCAAHIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY.
CAPITAL. TWO MILLIONS.

-C/FFIcE-26, Market-street, Manchester.
Myttit..."4"/;DosT OFFICE-2, King-street, Cheapside.
01.41,0,70LnOweICE-3. High-street,&s, East.
It
Pict-11 8. Ingrain-street, or 4,Hanover.street,
—"RECCE OFFlCE—Mansion-house.

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The attention LIFEA, DEPARTMENT. eireurnaa
Profits or nee, that
-1 Insurers is particularly requested to
the
lir BONUSES equal to SO PER CE NT of Assts Pe --"e Department will be apportioned to the
tr.ennially ft
PREmp,. 9 4 er ie tl first five years,.
""'"., TO ASSURE 'lOO FOR WHOLE TERM
....—._____
OF LIFE.

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Withttionuess 461 17 0 4,2 6 0 ,t 3 061
113 10 22 6 210 9 1

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S'rAmps,

—}4o Stamps or other fees charged.
LIFE pi, SPECIAL NOTICE.
sills fo uI..ICIES on the participation principle, the of he
r which shall have been lodged at the Offices of the
ittetarZY, Or with any of its Agents, on or before the 20th
bivimon Will have a full year's advantage, at the
. Bonus
Irkoderat
oart..._ e Life
tt 857. over those subsequently proposed , and t
Charges, and increasing business in tbisde-
otheilVsive promise of Bonuses equal to those of any

ofANNu FIRE DEPARTMENT.
the AL BONUSES EQUAL TO FIFTY PER CENT.
°f three refits will be returned to the Assured on all Policies
claim Years' standing, which have not been the subject of
An •
able
tedescPn'l ript
Pros ions of Fire Insurance effected on most favour-
other in;ctuses., Mercantile Rates, Forms of Proposal, and all
'
At the ,?rmatton, will be afforded at the Offices and Agencies
on3Pany.

JAMES KENNEDY, General Manag
JOHN SBMPI,E, iteoident secretary

LAturtc.n.--- The Exmouth, 90, will be launched at
Plqmouth to-morrow (Wednesday) at five o'clock in the
afternoon. Miss Amelia Stopford, daughter of the
Admiral-Superintendent, will perform the ceremony of
naming Iter. Ter dimensions are :—Extreme length,
243 ft. 0 in. ; depth abaft, 513 ft.; forward, 52 ft. 3 in. ;
length between the -perpendiculars, 201 ft.; extreme
breadth, 60 ft. 3 in.; burthen in tons, 3,108 91-94.
After the launch the Exmouth will be taken to the shear
hulk to be masted, and thence to Keyham to be docked
and receive her boilers. Her engines are of 400-horse
power, and will be fitted by Messrs. Maudsley. She is to
be got ready with all .despatch.
THE ANGLO-SAXON CHLEA.CTER.—Forethought and
calculation hold a prominent position in most Anglo-
Saxon hearts. Projects, deaigns, and undertakings of all
kinds with us, are usually pondered over and internally
discussed, before their final adoption. Outbursts of pas-
sion are rarely suffered to devastate tne cool, calculating
hearts of the true children of Brjtain. They possess an
innate proneness to investigate thoroughly the principles
on 'which all things they have to deal with are based—
thus their actions almost universally spring from the
employment of rational faculty, call it as you please, reason
or common sense. They are, in short, an eminentlyp rac-
tical, not a theoretical, people. With them the business
of each day is transacted mechanically, for it is an Eng-
lishman's head, and not his heart, that he takes into
counsel, and whose dictates he obeys.—From Bokinga,
by Morton Rae.
COLLECTION OE DUTIES AT SHAGFIAE BY THE BRITISH
CONSUL.—The following letter on this subject, addressed
to the Presidents of the Chamber of Commerce and Manu-
factures, and of the Commercial Association in the city
of Manchester, has just been received from the Foreign-
office :—" Foreign-office, July 4, 1854.—Sir,—With refe-
rence to the correspondence which has passed between
you and this office respecting the securities taken by her
Majesty's Consuls at Shanghae for duties, which, in con-
sequence of the state of affairs at that port, the Chinese
authorities were themselves unable to collect, I am directed
by the Earl of Clarendon to acquaint you that, after com-
municating with Sir George Bonham, and upon a full
consideration of the question in all its bearings, H.M.'s
Government have decided that those securities shall be
cancelled and returned to the parties by whom they were
given ; and instructions to that effect will be sent by the
next mail to her Majesty's plenipotentiary and chief
superintendent of British trade in China.—l am, sir, your
most obedient humble servant, E. HAMMOND. T. Baxley,
Esq., Manchester." The effect of this will be to give a
very valuable pecuniary advantage to the owners of all
vessels that have cleared out from Shanghae, and in
respect to the cargoes in which the bonds will be given,
as the bolas are now cancelled though the vessels lave
!r• I sailed, ' •