The Sun. — 1849-03-12 (London, England)

PUBLICOLA.  ECONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.—The Ordinary annual court of this society, pursuant to notice, and afterwards the extraordinary quinquennial general court, were:held on Saturday last, at Radley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriars. The Right Hon. Sir T. Frankland Lewis occupied the chair, and laid before the members a full statement of the receipts, disbursements, and financial position of the society for the year ending the 31st of December last, the whole of which, as sanctioned by the auditors, was received by the meeting as highly satisfactory, and adopted, and ordered to be recorded in the minutes. The meeting then resolved itself into an extraordinary quinquennial general court for the transaction of special business, and Mr. J. J Downes, the actuary, read the report of the directors for the quinquennium ending the 31st of December, 1848. The chairman then declared a bonus of 168,7941., and congratulated the meeting upon the highly satisfactory position which the society occupied. He announced a contingent bonus of 1,2, 3,4, and 5 per cent. on the sum assured to all policies now entitled to an absolute bonus and becoming claims during the next fire years. Ho also drew attention to the following arrangement announced in the report:—" With respect to the class of assurers on the participating scale, who have not yet paid the requisite number of premiums to entitle them to participate in the present division, the directors, to make the distribution of profits more equitable, have made a provision for the payment of a conditional bonus (calculated on the amount of five annual premiums) on all policies on which claims shall accrue after the payment of the fifth annual premium, and before the next ensuing division. If the life assured survive that period, such bonus will merge into the general fund, and the assured will then participate in proportion to the improved amount of the premiums he has paid." The meeting terminated with the usual rote of thanks to the chairman.  133..irseesou: until that FIRES IN THE METnorous.—Yesterday morning, about four o'clock, a fire of a very alarming nature broke out in the extensive range of premises belonging to Messrs. White, Greenwell, and Co., haberdashers, &c., carrying on business at 53,54, and 55, Blackfriars-road. The discovery was made by Sergeant Davis, of the L division of police, who raised an instant alarm and sent for the engines. After some trouble the whole of the inmates, nearly 50 persons, male and female, wore aroused from their slumber. The building, however, was so full of smoke that the residents made a precipitate retreat into the street in their night_ Brigade and clothes. The engines of the London West of England Company, with the Royal SfinresiemtY:: fire-escape, promptly attended, when first floor. The found the flames raging furiously flames were not extinguished until that partpart damaged by premises was burned out and the lower rt nine o'clock, the water, &c. On Saturday night.. premises ri to be on fire. An 1 maker, 48, Strand, were discovered a messenger was lent for instant alarm was given, and upon entering found the first the engines. The firemen The firemen was unable to get floor in a general blaze• in the fi of the th n burned out, and the stock in the shop flames began was . tha Elizabeth part ar t 1f arth about India-rubberhou house e in which g ol 0 sthhi llarris was fortunately insured in the Sun Fireoffice. A short time since Mrs. Harris's husband and manrds.reisitarorfisthe house severely injured by fire, water, &c. one of her children was burned to death in a fire which destroyed the same premises. The trial of Sarah Grout, charged with murdering two of hrr children, came on at Chelmsford on Saturday. The unfortunate woman, during a fit of furious madness, cut down the children with a billhook. She was acquitted on the ground of insanity. Three carpet weavers, named Phasey, Rennie, and Price, were tried at Worcester on Friday, for poaching in Lord Ward's preserves. They had been attacked and terribly beaten by Lord Ward's keepers. They were all of them acquitted—a striking proof of the hatred 01 the farmers for the game-laws. " The Bishop of London has appointed the Rev. Charles Anthony Swainson, 8.D., fellow and tutor of Christ's College, Cambridge, to be one of her Majesty's peachers at Whitehall.