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    Article SUMMARY OF SMEWS FOR SEPTEMBER. ← Page 4 of 7 →
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Summary Of Smews For September.

PROVIDENT . The Norwich Life Assurance Society lately published a report of the progress of their business for the last eighteen months , from which it appeared , that in 1854 , they paid policies to the amount of £ 162 , 144 13 s . Id ,, which had become claimed by reason of the deaths of the assured , together with £ 33 , 372 5 s . 9 fZ ., the aggregate amount of the bonuses upon them . They also paid £ 5288 3 s . lOd . for the surrender

, of policies assuring £ 28 , 995 . Within tho same period some of the assured allowed policies insuring £ 44 , 179 9 s . to lapse . The numbar of policies in force thus became to be decreased to the aggregate value of £ 235 , 319 2 s . Id . The new business for the year consisted of 609 policies insuring £ 313 , 569 7 s . 3 c / ., ancl yielding a premium income of £ 10 , 187 5 s . Id . per annum , being an increase of the insurances in force of no less than £ 78 , 250 4 s . 8

premium of 9 , 335 / . 0 s . Id . The policies in force on the 30 th of June , were in number 8 , 510 , and they insured the sum of £ 5 , 402 , 075 . On the 4 th of September , the Railway Passengers' Assurance Company declared a dividend of 4 per cent ., and resolved to assure against accidents of every description . On the 7 th , the Conservative Land Society held its annual meeting . The Society has already sold land to the value of 114 , 336 / , 10 s . The rights of choice have invariably been sold at a considerable premium .

BENEVOLENT . Connected with the benevolent institutions of the Metropolis , the most remarkable circumstances of the month , have been the rural fete , given to the children of the St . Ann ' j Asylum , and the magnificent bequest of the late Mrs . Harriet Richardson , of 12 , 000 / . to the Institution for Aged and Distressed Governesses . On the 4 th , at the quarterly court of the Philanthropic Society , the Secretary stated , that during the last three months , 40 boys had been admitted into the Society ' s

Reformatory , and 52 discharged from it , of whom 35 emigrated , 12 were provided witli employment , and 5 either deserted or were discharged as incorrigible . On the 13 th , at the 4 th annual meeting of tbe friends of the Sailors' Home at Portsmouth , it was stated that the deposits of the sailors , which , during the first year the institution was open , amounted only to 649 / . 10 s . 3 d , last year reached the sum of 3411 / . 19 s . 9 JfZ . The first year there hacl been 418 boarders , and last year 919 . The same proportion appeared in the number of casual meals served , and in the other statistical items , shewing the growing usefulness of the establishment .

MISCELLANEOUS . On the 23 th of August , a frightful murder was discovered at Cudham , near Bromley . The assassin , supposed to be a ticket-of-leave convict , entered a cottage with the object of robbing it , but being opposed by the wife of its owner , he brutally murdered her , and savagely beat an old woman , the husband's mother . The Overland Mail , received the same day , brought the intelligence of a shocking scene of bloodshed , perpetrated in a road near Canton , where some hundreds of the Chinese rebels

were put to death by decapitation , as a punishment for their disaffection . The same mail also brought tidings of a dangerous insurrection of the Santals , a people inhabiting the Razmahal territory , in the Bengal Presidency . The outbreak has been attributed to tyrannical rule on the part of the servants of the East India Company . The Birmingham Musical Festival in aid of the funds for the support of the General Hospital , commenced this day , and closed upon the 31 st . The total receipts amounted to 11 , 537 / . 5 s- 3 c / ., being an increase of 898 / . 16 s ., on those of last year . On the 29 th , a coroner ' s jury at . Dover , returned a verdict of Manslaughter against the officers in charge of the "Vivid , " a steam vessel belonging to the Dover , Calais , and Ostend Company , wliich had , as mentioned in our summary last month , run down

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UNIFORMITY OF RITUAL. Article 1
FREEMASONRY IN ENGLAND. Article 4
MASONIC REMINISCENCES. Article 11
THE NEW CONSTITUTIONS OF THE FRENCH MASONS. Article 17
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 21
LONDON LODGES. Article 24
PROVINCIAL LODGES. Article 25
ROYAL ARCH. Article 42
SCOTLAND. Article 43
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 50
SUMMARY OF SMEWS FOR SEPTEMBER. Article 53
NOTICES. Article 59
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Summary Of Smews For September.

PROVIDENT . The Norwich Life Assurance Society lately published a report of the progress of their business for the last eighteen months , from which it appeared , that in 1854 , they paid policies to the amount of £ 162 , 144 13 s . Id ,, which had become claimed by reason of the deaths of the assured , together with £ 33 , 372 5 s . 9 fZ ., the aggregate amount of the bonuses upon them . They also paid £ 5288 3 s . lOd . for the surrender

, of policies assuring £ 28 , 995 . Within tho same period some of the assured allowed policies insuring £ 44 , 179 9 s . to lapse . The numbar of policies in force thus became to be decreased to the aggregate value of £ 235 , 319 2 s . Id . The new business for the year consisted of 609 policies insuring £ 313 , 569 7 s . 3 c / ., ancl yielding a premium income of £ 10 , 187 5 s . Id . per annum , being an increase of the insurances in force of no less than £ 78 , 250 4 s . 8

premium of 9 , 335 / . 0 s . Id . The policies in force on the 30 th of June , were in number 8 , 510 , and they insured the sum of £ 5 , 402 , 075 . On the 4 th of September , the Railway Passengers' Assurance Company declared a dividend of 4 per cent ., and resolved to assure against accidents of every description . On the 7 th , the Conservative Land Society held its annual meeting . The Society has already sold land to the value of 114 , 336 / , 10 s . The rights of choice have invariably been sold at a considerable premium .

BENEVOLENT . Connected with the benevolent institutions of the Metropolis , the most remarkable circumstances of the month , have been the rural fete , given to the children of the St . Ann ' j Asylum , and the magnificent bequest of the late Mrs . Harriet Richardson , of 12 , 000 / . to the Institution for Aged and Distressed Governesses . On the 4 th , at the quarterly court of the Philanthropic Society , the Secretary stated , that during the last three months , 40 boys had been admitted into the Society ' s

Reformatory , and 52 discharged from it , of whom 35 emigrated , 12 were provided witli employment , and 5 either deserted or were discharged as incorrigible . On the 13 th , at the 4 th annual meeting of tbe friends of the Sailors' Home at Portsmouth , it was stated that the deposits of the sailors , which , during the first year the institution was open , amounted only to 649 / . 10 s . 3 d , last year reached the sum of 3411 / . 19 s . 9 JfZ . The first year there hacl been 418 boarders , and last year 919 . The same proportion appeared in the number of casual meals served , and in the other statistical items , shewing the growing usefulness of the establishment .

MISCELLANEOUS . On the 23 th of August , a frightful murder was discovered at Cudham , near Bromley . The assassin , supposed to be a ticket-of-leave convict , entered a cottage with the object of robbing it , but being opposed by the wife of its owner , he brutally murdered her , and savagely beat an old woman , the husband's mother . The Overland Mail , received the same day , brought the intelligence of a shocking scene of bloodshed , perpetrated in a road near Canton , where some hundreds of the Chinese rebels

were put to death by decapitation , as a punishment for their disaffection . The same mail also brought tidings of a dangerous insurrection of the Santals , a people inhabiting the Razmahal territory , in the Bengal Presidency . The outbreak has been attributed to tyrannical rule on the part of the servants of the East India Company . The Birmingham Musical Festival in aid of the funds for the support of the General Hospital , commenced this day , and closed upon the 31 st . The total receipts amounted to 11 , 537 / . 5 s- 3 c / ., being an increase of 898 / . 16 s ., on those of last year . On the 29 th , a coroner ' s jury at . Dover , returned a verdict of Manslaughter against the officers in charge of the "Vivid , " a steam vessel belonging to the Dover , Calais , and Ostend Company , wliich had , as mentioned in our summary last month , run down

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