The Sun. — London, England, 1849-09-28 00:00:00

BANK RETURNS. (From the London. Gazette of Tuesday.) An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, L.ap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 15th day of September, 1849: Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Andover Bank, Andover—]loath and Co 11,876 Ashford Bank, Ashford—Joramitt and Pomfret 10.794 Aylsham Bank, Aylsham—R. and G Copeman 5,1,79 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Rickford and Hunt Baldook Bank and Battled( and Bigglesvrtil Bank, Baldock—Wells, Hogg, and Lindsell ... 20,971 Barnstal,le Bank, Barnstaple-llarshall and Co 8,571 Basingstoke and OdihaTr. Bank, Basingstoke — SP 'our, Lamb, arid Co. ........ 15,439 6eymour, Bad 'd Bank, - Bedford—T. Barnard Bedford and Bed,tordshire Bans, Bedford— Trapr, Halfhead, and Co. Be , ,Ndley Bank, Bowdley—Nichols, Baker, and 12,038 Crane B'coster and Oxford hire Bank and Oxford Bank. Bicester—Tubb and Co. .. ...• Blranngham Bank, Birmingham—Attirec da, Spooner, and Co 22,003 5, 668 op( Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming ham L. Moilliett, and Sons 10,147 Blandiord Bank, Blandford—Bastard and Oak 7,476 Boston Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co . ...... 50,389 Boston Bank, Boston—Gee and Co 9,832 Bridg rAter Bank, Bridgwater—J. &J. Sealey 5.259 Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Harford, and Co. 29,049 Brosc. , ley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley—Messrs. Pritchard 16,404 Buckinqham Bank, Buckingham—Bart lett, Parrott, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Stow- Market Bank, Bury—Oakes, Bevan, and Co. 62,292 Banbury Bank, Banbury—Gillett and Tawney. 24,689 Banbury Old Bank, Banbury—Messrs. Cobb 26,635 Bat:. City Bank, Bath—Moger and Son . 3,187 Bedfordshiro Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard—Bassett and Grant 29,864 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bunk, Bradford, Yorkshire—H A. and W. M. Harris and Co 12,106 Brecon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and Co 59,892 Bridport Bank, Bridport—S. and W. E. Gundry Brighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West, and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington — Harding. Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds — J. Worlledge and Co. Bromsgrove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromsgrove—Rufford, Biggs, and Co. Cambridge Bank, Cambridge—Mortlock and Sons a 13,804 Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge—Messrs. Forsters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury—Hammond and Co ...... 21,666 Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—Morris and 12,451 Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey—Messrs. La Coste 2,765 Colchester Bank, Colchester—B o und, Green, and Co. .......................' 13,989 Colchester and E ssex Bank, Witham and Essex Ban',, and rladleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester —Mills, Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co - Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little and Wood- 9,397 1,990 10,495 30,663 30,423 cock City Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co Craven Bank, Settle—Birkbecks and Co. Christchurch Bank, Christchurch—Tice, Welsh, 6,684 14,655 72,670 and Co Cardiff Bank, CarditY—Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmcuth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow—Brornage, Snead, and Co. ... Derby Bank, Derby—Me3srs. Evans Derby Bank, Derby—Smith and Co. Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and C 0..., Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Hughes Locke, and Co Diss Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncmster Bank, Doncaster—Leath am, Tew. end Co. Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster — Cook and Co. Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse, & Co Devonport Bank, Devonport—Hodge and Nor- 90 5,854 man Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster, nn;l Co. East Riding Bank, Boverley—Bower, Hall, and Co. - Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chelmsford—Sparrow. and Co. Ey_eter Bank, V•xeter —Sanders and Co Fakenham Bank, Fakenharn—Gurneys, Birk beck. full Co. Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon—Barnes and Medley Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs. Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham —Hon and CO, Godalming Bank, Godalmin,e ilt ellersh ,--Mand Keen Grantham Bank, Grantham—Kewney and King iluildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Hay don... Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and C 0.... Hastin,T,s Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, and 'Co. Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co. Hertford and Ware Bank, Hertford—S. Adams and Co Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull —Smith, &others, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—ltust and Veasey Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel liewstead— Smith, and Whittinp;stall Honitor. Bank, Honiton—Flood and Co. Hertfordshirelitehen Bank, Hitchen—Sharples and Co. I!er,ford , Ross, and. Archenfield Bank, and Rosa and A rchenfield Bank, Hereford—Morgan, Hoskins, and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipwich—Bacon and Co. Iplwieh and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistloy Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Alexanders and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Mercer Kingtort and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J. Davies and Co Knighton Bank Knighton—J. Davies and Co Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough—Terry and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Ore wdson, aTI (I Co. Kettaring Bank, Ketterin,!:, , —aoia and Sons.,. Lam? End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C. liarvo - y- and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds—Beckett and Co Lez-A3 Union Bank, Leeds—W. Willia , ns, Brown, 8,143 9,433 26,619 21,945 10,105 10,381 54,340 6G,759 10,079 39,043 96,225 41,663 41,425 25,169 17,574 4,233 8,256 3,925 5,478 9,178 20,680 22,220 12,741 11,962 17,373 36,103 4,315 18,639 28,374 13,062 18,770 57,69 S 11,072 15.199 6,335 17,535 35,068 7,471 5,242 53,695 35,635 and C Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Lek and Congleton Bank,Lcek—Fowler,Gaunt, and Co. Leinester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby... Lewes 011 Bank, Lewes—Molineux and C 0.... Lichfield Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green... Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—Smith and Co Lampetor Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando very—David Jones and Co. Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle tons and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymingtou—C. and S. St Barba Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Jarvis and Co. Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst and Co Man ningtrec Bank,Manningtree —Nunn and Co Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tanner and Pinckney Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank, Marlborough—Ward, Merriman, and Hillier Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and Williams ... Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Aberg,avanny—Baileys and Co Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth —Bromage and Snead Monmouthshire Newport Old Bank, Newport W. Williams and Sons Newark Bank, Newark—Godfreys and Hutton Newark and Sleaford B an k, an d Sl ea f or d an d Newark Bank, S leaford—Handley, Peacock, and C 0......... Newbury Bank, Newbury —Bunny and Slocock 20,174 Ne m w o m n a d, rk a e n t d Son New mar k e t —E aton, 17,204 Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Di ss—Taylor and Dyson Norwich—U arveys and 3,415 NOrvviCh Crown Bank, Ifudgons ..................................... .. . ... 40,701 Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gar neys and Birkbeck 69,278 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham—Hart, Fellows, and Co • Nuneaton Bank, Nuneato n—Craddock and 6,095 Co 3,165 Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Mudge, and 18337 26.513 18,651 71,053 17,759 5,610 3,661 31,600 10,903 11,822 5,137 13,510 7,350 5,302 11,362 25,213 11,024 7,910 17,341 21,622 Co Kew Sarum Bank, Sarum Everett, and Co Nottingham Bank, Nottingham — Smith an d Co. 24,578 Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os weFtrv.-Zroxon and Co l 0,703 Oxford - Bank, Oxford—J. and R. Morrell 7,540 Oxford Old Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, and Co. . Old Bank Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Tonbridge— Beeehing: and Sous 7,464 Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney—Clinch, a3kl ......... 9,205 Average Amount. t=ease a Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull-Pease and Co 34,251 Penzance Bank, Penzance-Batten and C 0... Peterborough Bank and Oundle Ban's, Peter borough-Messrs. Yorke .. Peterborough Bank, Peterborough-Simpson and White lB5 Peavarokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest-J. and W. Walters Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and Truro Bank, Penzance-Rickets, Enthovera and Co Reading Bank, Reading-Simonas and Co 25,613 Reading Bank, Reading-Stephens,Blandy, and 28,106 Co Richmond Bank, Richmond-Maxwell and C 0... 4,402 Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood .% Ledgard and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale-Clement, Royds, and Co Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank Roches ter-Day and Nicholson 8,516 Royston Bank, Royston-Fordham and Sons 10,71a Rugby Bank, Rugby-Butlin and Son 10,975 Rye Bank, Rye-Pomfret and Co. Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy• don, and Darking Bank, Reigate-Nash and Co 9,158 Ross Gld Bank, Herefordshire, Ross-Pritchard and Allaway Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden-Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury-Burton, Lloyd,. and Co 11,706 Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough-Woodall and Co. 19,203 Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and co y Ludlow -Roc Bank, Shrawsburke, Eytons. and 25,558 Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne -Valiance and Son 2,477 Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton-Maddicon and Pearco 10,689 Southwell Bank, Southwell-Wylde and Co 11,872 St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's-J. S. Story Salisbury Bank, Salisbury-Messrs. Brodie Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury- Brodie and King- .......... .....,„. Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton-Atherly and Fall Stone Bank, Stone-W. Moore 1,752 Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge -Rufford, Wragg, and Co Stafford Old Bank, Stafford-Stevenson and Ca 11,958 Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford- Eat°lll 25,500 Cayley, and Co. • Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge and Robins Shrew e sla ck ur , yDaonwdnWwaerlds,hapnodolc Bank,o. , Shrewsbury 20 450 -B St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's-Gib son and Stuart Taunton Bank, Taunton-Messrs. Badcock 19,493 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock-Gill, Rundle, and (o 7,310 Thornbury Bank, Thornbury-Rolph, Yates, and Parslow Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton-Duns ford and Barne 6,849 Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston-Yorke and Eland 10,967 Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring-But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester-J. and S Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston-Vivian and Co 6,811 Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge-Hull, Smith, and Co. Wallingford Bank, Wallingford-Allnatt &Co 6,852 Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick- Greenway and Co. Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington-Fox. Brothers West Riding Dank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Waaefield-Leat'nam, Tew, and Co. Whitby Old Bank, Whitby-Simpson, Chap man, and Co 11,025 Winchester, Airesford, and Alton Bank, Win chester-Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester -Wickham and Co 4,838 Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth-Elliott and Pearse Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesworth-Arkwright and Co. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech- Gurney and Co. Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe-P. and W Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton-Good riche and Holyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester-Farley, Lavender, and Co. 7,466 Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester-Berwiek, Lechmere, and Co 61,182 Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster-Farley and Turner Walsall Old Bank, Walsall-Charles Foster and Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster- Everett and Co. Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton- Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth-Gurney, Birkbeok, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth-Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 9,451 Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil-E. and J. Batten York Bank. York-Swann, Clough, and Co 35,603 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad ford Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington . Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry.. County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel- 16,705 7,865 6,805 50,618 8,787 23,197 18,72 40,786 8,263 24,800 9,322 20.398 12,367 tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington 13,565 East of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 119,360 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 37,49.0 Hull Banking Company, Hull Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Ha lifax Halifax and Huddersflold Union Banking Com pany, Halifax 38,525 lielston Banking Company, Helston 1 ;391 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 14,328 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 18,868 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 2,075 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster . 43,893 Leeds Bankinc , Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey l3anking Company, Lincoln 33,309 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,357 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, 'Nottingham Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stdck Banking Company, Newcastle National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, 85,725 20,250 17,932 36,498 13,510 1,695 London 324,315 North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 39,960 Nor thampOnshire Union Bank, Northampton 60,467 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool Pares's Leic3sto.shire Banking Company, Lei cester Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 2,636 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield . 33,663 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com- 16,934 24,525 pang, Stamford. _ 45,628 Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshiro Bank, Lang port Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall ... Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking C om pany, Stourbridge Sheffield and liallamshiro Banking Company, Sheffield Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking Company, Sh4ioid Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond .. . Storey and Thomas's Banking Company Shaftesbury Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield ... Wolverhampton a+ El Staffordshire Banking Com pany, Wolverhampton 33,205 Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield 11,985 Whitehaven Joint Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven .. ..... . 1 9,21 0 Warwick and LeataiLgton Banking Company, Warwick West of England 11141 South Wales District Wililatsnka-nUdrbst:riseCianking Company,63,4 74 West Riding Union Banking C 11 d w d h e i t r e s h fi u el r d - eh and Ellesmere Banking Company, 33,700 Whitchurch . Worcester City and County Banking Corniany, Y om ei v ic a . n . y .. , . y .. o . r . k 5 7 3 0 3:, 3 4 8 9 3 8 0 0 1 Worcester Salisbury 70,294 York Union Banking Company u ,_ York City B an a r n l k C i o ng un c ty om ß p a a n n k y in , g Leeds .... 115,225 P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns. Inland ILvenue, Somerset House, Sept. 22, 1849, 26,759 2,724 BORDEAUX AND CETTE RAILWAY. A meeting of the English shareholders in the Bor deaux and Cette Railway Company was held yes terday, at the London Tavern, for the purpose of advising as to the best course to be pursued for their future interest. Mr. David Salomons was called to the chair. The CHAIRMAN explained that he had thought it desirable to call the shareholders together, to take their opinion upon the present position of the under taking. He had prepared a report for the occasion, which, with the permission of the meeting, he would read. The report was as follows : "The English board of directors of the late Bordeaux and Cette Railway Company have been fully alive to the duty of endeavouring to recover the caution money of their shareholders deposited with the French Govern ment. A memorial stating the case of the English shareholders was drawn up and transmitted by the chairman to the Minister of Public Works, and a copy thereof was sent to each Member of the Constituent Assembly of France. This course was highly approved of by our fellow-shareholders in that country. " After the election of the present chief of the French Republic an appeal was forwarded to him signed by all the English directors, on behalf of the English and French shareholders. Your chairman also went to Paris, and was honoured by an interview with the Pre sident of the Republic, who promised that the position of the claimants, both English and French, should receive the most liberal consideration. Your Chairman was in due course honoured by a communication from the Pre sident, who condescended to invite any further observa tions that seemed pertinent to our case. Your Chair• man, availing himself of this permission, addressed the President accordingly; and in July last he went a second time to Paris, where ho again had the honour of a most gracious reception. He then learned that arrangements were in progress, and almost matured, for a combination, in which the principle of a return of our caution money was a leading feature. This liaS since assumed a distinct form; and a .Projet de Loi is now under the considera tion of the Chamber of Representatives of F ra nce, for the conceesion to a company of a line of railway from Paris to Avignon, under a guarantee from the State of 3 per cent. per annum , upon a capital fully adequate to all purposes. The unfinished line from Paris to Lyons and many other advantages are to be secured to the new company; and it is put forward by the promoters of the scheme, and as a part of it, that the caution money of the Bordeaux and Cette Railway Com pany shall be brought into aec stint and funded in gua rrenteeddebeni per ures n , c w e iti t. eh are to be issued at a price to pay nearly 5 per annum. These arrange ments can only be regarded at present as propositions, inasmuch as their ultimate fate must depend in the first instance on the report of a sub-committee of the Cham ber, to which the Projet de La has been referred; and in the next place, on the vote of the Chamber itself. But looking at the support which the present Administration has received from. the Chamber, there is every reason to believe that some measure involving the return of. the caution money will be adopted by the Assembly. Should this act of equity be carried out, it will realise what has ever been impressed on the mind of your chairman, that forfeitures or confiscations of this sort are repugnant to the feelings of the French nation. " The course hitherto pursued for the benefit of the numerous persons interested in the return of the caution money having thus been explained, you have next to be informed that it is at present proposed by the liquidator of the company in Franca that shares to bearer shall be issued in lieu of those now standing in the respective names of the shareholders. The sum of one franc per share will be payable to them at the same time. Al though the chairman is already authorized by you to do whatever he may deem most to your advantage, he has nevertheless thought it desirable that this meeting should be convened in order that he may put himself in personal communication with you, and thus ascerta in your sentiments on this subject. " Though there is no doubt that shares to bearer are more convenient, yet it may well be questioned whether, in the event of the Bill now before the C hamber bein g either thrown out or essentially modified, the power of the English shareholders to protect themselves would net be materially weakened, by altering the existing form of their certificates. As the Chamber re-as'eembles on the Ist of October, and the report of the committee will then be presented, your chairman would suggest the policy of suspending any movement until alter that event. " The interest of the shareholdera seems to require that the projected scheme shall be carried out ; and therefore every assistance which your chairman can give to it, consistently with his duty to the shareholders of the Bordeaux and Cette Company, will be zealously and cheerfully afforded. It will be a great satisfaction to himself, and those associated with him in the direction, to see a favourable solution of a question so materially affecting the interests of the shareholders of this com pany, both in England and in France." The CHAIRMAN said he would only add to this re port the simple remark, that pact events had proved the stability of railway property in France. What ever might be said in this country to the contrary, such a thing as a confiscation was unknown in France, while a general feeling prevailed amongst all classes of French society that the promoters of works like railways were deserving of the best protection the state could afford them. lie was happy to say, in conclusion, that a project was now before the French Chamber for the relief of parties who were in the position of having forfeited their deposits or caution money by the non-completion of their works, and he would suggest that they should remain in statu quo until they had seen the upshot of that measure. He moved that the report be received and adopted. Mr. RIGSHAW, M P., seconded the proposition. A SHAREHOLDER understood that the new scheme alluded to by the Chairman would guarantee to a new company 51 per cent. on their shares. Now, suppose he objected to take up the new shares, how was he to get back his caution-money ? The CHAIRMAN replied that the scheme did not propose to return the caution money in hard cash, and unless shareholders were disposed to take up the new shares, the only mode of obtaining back the cau tion-money would be to sell the existing shares to those who were. _ _ The resolution for the adoption of the report was then agreed to. Mr. LEVY said it appeared to him that they were in this position, that there was no chance of their ever recovering the caution money, unless they paid up 121. 103. on some new shares. Now it was his opinion that railway directors were all a set of thieves; he would take good care that he paid no 121. 10s., but allow his caution-money to go into the pockets of the fraternity he had just mentioned. Mr, WALEY moved a vote of thanks to the chair man and his co-directors, for the attention they had paid to the interest of the English shareholders, and the trouble they lad taken in preparing the report for this meeting. The motion having been seconded, was put and carried unanimously The CIIAIRMAN, in acknowledging the compliment, repudiated the idea that all railway directors were t reth h aot:i i le:movviabgberaets.uyan, humbug, ao ( ve l nuaryanl tookwere thought lhfhoeoenchud o aeg c rgh c r htrty a hea s eadm i out : . i n tratp.n t i e ynio:c e oi r x bioae p dwti gderleornrsis works wsaofaefohsnropdpeeeaa abroad., se t . u a that Mr.nags a the good opinion of the merchants of London, he would keep his advice to himself. A vote of confidence in the chairman was then passed, who was appointed to act as the attorney or agent of the English shareholders in any negotiations that might be had with the French authorities, and the meeting adjourned. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1849 FRAN CE. La Patrie contains the following paragraph on the affiirs of Rome : " The situation of affairs at Rome has become compli cated for some time past. Our diplomacy experiences serious obstacles and a sort of ill-feeling on the Fart of the advisers of his .Holiness. M. de Bellunc has set out with propositions calculated, it is hoped, to surmount these difficulties. The French Government, moreover, continues to act in accord with the other Cabinets in this important question." It adds that the debate on the Roman question will take place in the Assembly at an early period, and it is said that the Government will take the initiative in the discussion when making a demand for a new credit. M. de Falloux left on Tuesday for the Chateau de 3tors, where he purposes passing some time. AUSTRIA. The Precurseur d'Anvers, of yesterday, contains the following announcement, under the head of " Hungary," which w e feel bound to republish with out vouching for its authenticity : " The news which we this day receive from Comorn does not bear the stamp of entire certainty. Letters from Presburg of the 20th positively state that Comorn has surrendered; that on the 18th two negotiators presented themselves to Field-Marshal Nugent, and that on the following dAy (the 19th), at five o'clock in the afternoon, the Imperialists entered the fortress. It is said that the Emperor has promised a general amnesty to the garri son. This news requires confirmation." Another letter from Vienna of the date of the 22d repeats this rumour. HOLLAND. The Lord Bishop of Guiana, who is holding confir mations for :the Bishop of London at the .various episcopal churches in Germany and the Netherlands, held a confirmation here on Saturday last, at the Episcopal Church. The church was completely thronged; fifty-two young men, who renewed their baptismal vows, received confirmation at the hands of the Bishop; they were members of the Church at the Hague, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and Leyden. His Lordship was attended by his chaplain, the Rev. George Gardiner. On the following day the Bishop preached for the benefit of tile Society for the Propa gation of the Gospel, when 114 florins were collected. The Bishop of Guiana and his chaplain then went to the country-seat of M. Van Borul van Tlfigelanden. —Dutch Papers, Sept. 26. Youth is the vernal season of life, and the blossoms it then puts forth are indications of those future fruits which are to be gathered in the suecoeding periods.— Eliza Cook's Journal. ITALY A letter from Rome of the 17th inst. contradicts the announcement of the arrival of M. do Corcelles in that city. He had sent a courier to General Ros tolan, and the General had an interview with the three Cardinals. The Papal Government con tinued to exclude from office all those who had served under the Republic. Announcements of an examination of medical men had been posted, in which it is directed that none be admitted who have lent their professional assistance to the Lte Government. The promotions made by Generals Durando, Ferarri, and Pepe, are declared to be void, and 120 officers who had submitted to General Oudinot are dismissed. A new coin of five bajocchi (twopence) is about to be issued fron t the Mi n t. M. Galli, Provisional Minister of Finance, had gone to Portici, in order to lay before the Pope a financial project for paying off the Treasury-bills, at the rate of 300,000 scudi every three months, by the sale of church property which is already m,irtgaged. The folio wing correspondtmee passed between Gen. Pepe" and the Municipal Council of Venice, previous to the General's departure for Corfu : " TkIE MUNICIPALITY OF VENICE T GENERAL PEPE. " Venice, Aug. 25. "Excellency,—Venice, which has seen ycu take part in its privations and its sacrifices—Venice will always regard you as a brother, as a friend. It will always grateful both for your noble intentions, and for the ardent sympathy with which you have wished to serve her. You have assisted this city with that love which is seldom felt but for one's own country; you have dis played a generosity which is unequalled. Venice will ever retain the most lively and sincere gratitude. In ono of those moments when the heart, sei-king an al leviation of tha sufferings which overwhelm it, feels a necessity to pour out its sentiments, allow tho re presentatives of the citizens of Venice, the faithful in terpreters of the wishes of all the city to address to you a testimony of their affection. and the expression of their prayers for the happiness which you merit from so many virtues. _ _ Tha Podeita, GIOVANNI CORBEL" REPLY OF GENERAL PEPE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF VENIC2. " From my most tender youth an admirer of the heroic deeds of Venice, I compared them with advantage with those of Greece and of Rune. Wht-n, at a later period, being at the head of an army, I witnessed the peril of that illustrious eity, I hastened to cross the Po, to march to its assistance, followed by those who sought for true glory in defying the pains of exile. During the fifteen mouths that I 11,.d the honour to defend the Logunes, I found that the character of the Venetians had not changed under the weght, of adverse fortune. It has required all the forces of a great empire and a mass of thundering artillery to reduce that illustrious capital, and at test it only yielded from a want of am munition and frons famine. You honour rue with the title of friend and kosher; I shall be both one and the other, Venetians, S) long as my heart continues to beat. " GITGLIELMO PEPE." The municipality of Venice has also addressed a letter of thanks to the Neapolitan officers and sol diers whd served under General Pepe in the defence of the city, and where they supported with heroic devotedness the greatest privations and a series of daily increased perils. VENTILATION OF DWELLING HOUSES VERSUS CHOLERA. Dr. Neil Arnott has published the following re marks on this important subject:—" I assume that most readers already understand, or will now learn, that the air which we breathe, and which is used to stuff air-pillows, consists of material elements as much as the water which we drink or the food which we eit—indeed, consists altogether of oxygen and nitro gen ; the first of which forms also seven eighths by weight of the substance of water, and the other nearly one-fifth by weight of the substance of flesh ; and that there is surrounding our glebe to a depth of about 50 miles, a light fluid ocean of such air called the atmosphere, into which near the surface of the earth certain impurities are always rising from the functions of animal and vegetable life, and the de composition of substances in putrefaction, combus tion, &c., just as into the sea and great rivers, some impurities are always entering from the sewers—all which impurities, however, are quickly so diluted or dissipated in the great masses as to become absolutely imperceptible, and eventually by the admirable processes of nature, are decomposed and changed, so that the great oceans of air and water retain ever their state of perfection. I assume further, that most people know that fresh air for breathing is the most immediately urgent of the essentials to life, as proved by the icstant death of any one totally de privedb y t lie o s l f o i ss t e through r dc,,,th strangulation; n t g o ü b l r a e t a i ot breathe e over d r of d men ro"m om in c go p r e again the same small quantity of air, as when lately seventy-three passengers were suffocated in an Irish steamboat, of which the hold was shut up for an hour by closely covered hatches ' • end by the still slower death, accompanied generally by some induced form of chronic disease, of persons condemned to breathe habitually impure air, like the dwellers in crowded ill-ventilated rooms and foul neighbourhoods; and, lastly, as proved by the fact that pestilence or infec tious diseases are engendered or propagated almost only where impurities in the air are known to abound, and particulary where the poison of the human breath and other emanations from living bodies are allowed to mingle in considerable quantity—as instanced in the gaol and ship fevers, which so lately as in the days of the philanthropist Howard carried off a large proportion of those who entered gaols and ships, and us instanced in that fearful disease, which at the Black Assizes at Oxford, in July, 157, spread from the prisoners to the court, and within two days had killed the J u d g e, the sheriff, several justices of the peace, most of the jury, and a great mass of the audience, and which afterwards spread among the people of the town. This was a fever which did its work as quickly as the cho lera does now. Assuming that these points are tolerably under stood, I shall proceed to show that from faults in the co n s truction and management of our houses many persons nearly°uslY doing, in reg ar d t o th e air as fishes would be d o i ng i n regard breathe, if i ns t ea d o f t h e pure tb eyt to tb e hree u a‘ n yth c a e et ii: c t i i element of the vast rivers or boundless sea streaming past them, they shut themselves up in holes near the shores filled with water defiled by their own bodies, and from ()the* foul sources. And I shall have to show that the spread of cholera in this country has been much influenced by the gross oversights re ferred to. All the valued reports and published opinions on cholera go far to prove that in this climate at least any foreign morbific agent or influence which pro duces it comes comparatively harmless to persons of vigorous health, and to those who are living in fa vourable circumstances, but that if it find persons with the vital powers much depressed or disturbed from any cause, and even for a short time, as happens from intemperance, from improper food or drink, from great fatigue or anxiety, but above all from want of fresh air, and consequently from breathing that which is foul, it readily overcomes them. It would seem as if the peculiar morbid agent could as little, by itself, produce the fatal disease as one of the two elements concerned in a common gas explosion. The great unanimity among writers and speakers on the subject in regarding foul atmosphere as the chief vehicle or favourer, if not a chief' efficient cause, o! the pestilence, is seen in the fact how familiar to the common ear have lately become the words and phrases " malaria, filth, crowded dwellings, crowded neighbourhoods, close rooms, faulty sewers, drains, and cesspools, or total want oithese, effluvia of grave yards," &c., all of which are merely so many names for foul air, and for sources from which it may arise. Singularly, however, little attention has yet been given from authority to the chief source of poisonous air and to means of ventilation by which all kinds of foul air may certainly be removed. A system of draining and cleansing, water-supply and flushing for instance, to the obtainment of which chiefly the Board of Health has hitherto devoted its attention, can, however good, influence only that quantity and kind of aerial impurity which arises from retained solid or liquid filth within or about a house, but it leaves absolutely untouched the other and really quantity, more important kind, which, in known is never absent where men are breathing, namely, the filth and poison of the human breath. This latter kind evidently plays the most important part in all cases of a crowd, and therefore such catas trophes as that of the Tooting school, with 1,100 chil dren, of whom nearly 300 were seized by cholera, of the House of Refuge for the Destitute, and of the two great crowded lunatic asylums here, where the disease made similar havoc—for places so public as these, and visited daily by numerous strangers, could not be allowed to remain visibly impure with solid and liquid filth, like the Rookery of Sr. Giles's, and other such localities. Now, good ventilation, which, although few persons comparatively are as yet aware of the fact, is easily to be had, not only entirely dissipates and renders absolutely inert the breath poison of in mates, however numerous, and even of fever patients, but in doing this it necessarily, at the same time, carries away at once all the first-named kinds of poison, arising from bad drains, or want of drains, and thus acts as a most important substitute for good draining, until there be time to plan and safe oppor tunity to establish such. It is further to be noted that it is chiefly when the poisons of drains, &c., is caught and retained under cover, and is there mixed with the breath, that 'it becomes very active, for scavengers, nightmen, and gravediggers who work in the open air, are not often assailed with disease ; and in foul neighbourhoods, persons like butchers, who live in open shops, or policemen, who walk generally in the open streets, or in Paris the people who manu• facture a great part of the town filth into portable manure, suffer very little. To illustrate the efficacy of ventilation or dilution with fresh air in rendering quite harmless eny aerial poison, I may adduce the explanation given in a report of mine on fevers, furnished at the request of the Poor Law Commissioners in 1840, and of the fact that the malaria or infection of marsh fevers, stitch as occur in the Pontine Marshes neer Rome, and of all the deadly tropical fevers, affects persons almost only in the night. Yet the malaria or poison from decomposing organic matters which causes these fevers is formed during the day under the influence of the hot sun still more abundantly than during the colder night ; but in the day the direct beams of the sun warm the surface of the ea•th so intensely that any air touching that surface is similarly heated, and rises away like a fire balloon, carrying up with it, of course, and much diluting, all poisonous malaria formed there. During the night, on the contrary, the surface of the earth no longer receiving the sun's rays, soon radiates away its heat, so that a thermometer lying on the grown' is found to be several degrees colder than one hang ing in the air a few feet above. The poison formed near the ground therefore at night, instead of being heated and lifted, and quickly dissipated, as during the day, is rendered cold and comparatively dense, and lies on the earth a concentrated mass, which it may be death to inspire.. Hence the value in such situations of sleeping apartments near the top of a house, or of apartments below, which shut out the night air, and are large enough to contain a sufficient supply of the purer day air for the persons using them at night, and of mechanical means of taking down pure air from above the house to be a supply during the night. At a certain height above the surface of the earth, the atmosphere being nearly of equal purity all the earth over, .a man rising in a balloon, or obtaining air for his house from a certain elevation, might be considered to have changed his country, any peculiarity of the atmosphere below, owing to the great dilution effected before it reached the height, becom ing absolutely insensible. Now, in regard to the dilution of aerial poisons in houses by ventilation, I have to explain, that every chimney in a house is what is called a sucking or drawing air pump, of a certain force, and can easily be rendered a valuable ventilating-pump. A chimney is a pump—first, by reason of the suction or approach to a vacuum made at the open top of any tube across which the wind blows directly ' • and, secondly, be cause the flue is usually occupied, even when there is no fire, by air somewhat warmer than the external air, and has therefore, even in a calm day, what is called a chimney draught proportioned - to the ditThe rence. In England, therefore, of old, when the chim ney breast was always made higher than the heads of persons sitting or sleeping in rooms, a room with an open chimney was tolerably well ventilated in the lower part, where the inmates breathed. The modern Cashion, however, of very low grates and low chim ney openings has changed the case completely, for such openings can draw air only from the bottom of the rooms, where generally the coolest, the last entered, and therefore the purest air is found, while the hotter air of the breath, of lights, of warm food, and often of subterranean drains, &c., rises and stagnates n e ar the ceilings, and gradually corrupts there. Such heated, impure air, no more tends downward again to escape or dive under the ehimneypiece than oil in an inverted bottle immersed in water will dive down through the water to escape by the bottle's mouth; and such a bottle or other vessel containing oil, and so placed in water with its open mouth downwards, even if left in a running stream, would retain the oil for any length of time. IF, however, an opening be made in a chimney flue through the wall near the ceiling of the room, then will all the hot impure air of the room as certainly pass away by that opening as oil from the inverted bottle would instantly all escape upwards through a small opening made near the elevated bottom of the bottle. A top window-sash, lowered a little, instead of serving, as many people believe it does, like such an opening into the chimney flue, becomes generally, in obedience to the chimney draught, merely an inlet of cold air, which first falls as a cascade to the floor, and then glides towards the chimney, and gradually passes arvay by this, leaeirg the hotter impure air of the room nearly uritouched. For years past I have recommended the adoption of such ventilating chimney openings as above de scribed, and I devised a balanced metallic valve, to prevent, during the use of fires, the escape of smoke to the room. The advantages of these openings and valves were soon so manifest that the referees ap pointed under the Building Act aided a clause to their Bill, allowing the introduction of the valves, and directing how they were to be placed, - and they are now in very extensive use. A good illustration of the subject was afforded in St. James's parish, where some quarters-are densely inhabited by the families of Irish labourers. These localities formerly sent an enormous number of sick to the neighbouring dispensary. Mr. Toynbee, the able medical chief of that dispensary, came to consult me respecting the ventilation of such places, and on my recommenda tion had openings made in the chimney flues of the rooms near the ceilings, by removing a single brick, and placing there a piece of wire gauze with a light curtain Wale hanging against the inside, to prevent the issue of smoke in gusty weather. 'ihe decided effect produced at once on the feelings of the inmates was so remarkable that there was an extensive demand for the new appliance, and, as a consequence of its adoption, Mr. 'Toynbee had soon to report, in evidence given before the Health of Towns Commission, and in other published documents, both an extraordinary reduction of the number of sick applying for relief and of the severity of diseases occurring. Wide experience elsewhere has since obtained similar results. Most of the hos pitalsei chimney-valves n a e nd poor-housesvalvea; and most natsht of theeking noweddommiel m a have these andthese h others who have published of late on sanitary matters have strongly commended them. Had the present Board of Health possessed the power and deemed the means expedient, the chimney openings might, as a prevention of cholera, almost in one day, and at the expense of about a shilling for a poor mar, 's room, have been established over the whole kingdom. Mr. Simpson, the registrar of deaths for St. Giles's parish, an experienced practitioner, wnose much,visvisit a red h e l a n t s e e t n o n on i e e latelyof f the e that ro y, he register uteo the death of an inmate from cholera. Ile found five other persons living in judgme nt e h a a u d r b ta e e t n n called I vl ed the room, which was most close and offensive. Ile advised the immediate removal of all to other lodg ings. A second died before the removal took place, and soon after, in the poor• house and elsewhere, three others died who had breathed the foul air of that room. Mr. Simpson expressed to me his belief that if there had been the opening described above into the chirn ner, near the ceiling, this horrid history would not have been to tell. I believe so too, and I believe that there have been in London lately very many similar cases. The chimney valves are part of a set of means de vised by me for ventilation under all circumstances. My report on the ventilation of ships, sent at the re quest of the Board of Health, has boen published in the boards late report on quarantine, a ith testimony furnished to the Admiralty as to its utility in a con vict ship, with 500 prisoners. My obsavations on the ventilation of hospitals is alsoin the hands of the board, but not yet published. All the new means have been freely offered to the public, but persons desiring to use them should be careful to employ competent makers. A BRIEF CHAPTER on OLD MAIDS. (From .Eliza Cook's Journal.) The title of Old Maid, and the ridicule once at tached to the condition of elderly female sisterhood, are rapidly passing away together. The world is becoming enlightened upon many subjects. It no longer tolerates old evils ; and amongst others the idea that women, unless married, are useless and neglected, querulous fault finding busybodies; this idea is being swept away with other dust and rubbish of the past, amid the general clearing for the " good time coming." In society where good taste prevails, we now sel dom hear the term of " old maid," the milder appella tion of " single woman " being substituted. 'rids is as it should be ; for wherefore brand, by what has, from association, become a ridiculous nickname, a respectable class of females who are in no wise infe rior to their married sisters—nay, who are in many cases a thousand times better ; for is not your old maid often one who has had to deny the dearest im pulses of her nature, and to stifle all her natural yearnings for a love and a home of her own, for the sake of others, devoting her life a living sacrifice to those who may be perhaps all the while unpercipient of, ungrateful for, her burdens and her cares for them ? Oh !if these women be happy, persist in being happy, notwithstanding their renunciation of self and the lingering prejudice against their condi tion, why rob them of the smallest portion of their tranquillity by a silly jest or sneer ? It is a pitiable fact that young women, especially in the middle classes, often m arry without love, without even esteem, for him with whom they wed, solely for the purpose of escaping the stigma attached by the ignorant and unthinking to the state of old maiden hood. Are we far wrong in referring to this dread of remaining unmarried, the numerous devices of vanity, the flirting, and dressing, and visiting which retard the growth of many a rational brain, and cause the fathers of gay, expensive daughters,' to sigh over their rapidly-diminishing means, and half regret the day when they rashly took upon themselves the cares, and risk, and burden of a family ? We know we are not. When old maids shall be invariably treated with the respect and consideration which are their due—when the last joke at their expense shall have vanished into the Lethe of forgotten absurdities— then will husband•hunting be at its last gasp, and n atrimony again be a sacred thing. Old maids' pets have furnished occasion for many a graceless sneer, for much bitterness and affected disgust. And wherefore ? Surely. those to whom circumstances,. or their own sense of right, have denied the station of wife and mother, may expend a portion of the stifled love throbbing w ,thin their won anly hearts; and which, had they married, would have formed an inexhaustible provision of tenderness for some sweet infant, or may be, a whole rosy little troop of boys and girls—surely they may at their pleasure bestow this objectless affection upon a faith ful dig, intelligent parrot, or gentle, domestic cat. Their friends are not bound to like these pets, nor even to approve of them, but that is no- reason why our single sisters should be ridiculed for loving objects, which, though others way see nothing to admire in them, touch their lone hearts, and are perhaps the means of preserving in its living and purifying flow the well of sweet waters therein. And which in reality is the worthier of disapprobation ; the woman who in the absence of all legitimate. outlets of her overflowing 'affection, fondles and carefully tends a favourite dog ; or, the man who neglects the wife of his youth, and seeks the convivial revel, wasting his substance uppri the smoke of cigars, the fumes of wine, and the selfish indulgences of masculine dissi pation?.. . _ _ No ! " old maids" are neither to be pitied or de spised. Of this we are in a position to speak, for we hare the pleasure of knowing several excellent speci mens of the class ; and we can assure our readers that many . an idle, pleasure-loving matron might benefit by their example. Active, cultivated, ener getic, judicious, widely-benevolent, their t-cant home ties leave them at liberty to • diffuse their words of wisdom, and their deeds of kindness and of mercy, around a larger circle than can be undertaken by the strictly domestic woman ; and in the constant exer cise of their faculties, and their untiring devoti o n t o the interests of their fellow-beings, they experience a solid happiness which surely is equal to any that this changeful state of being can afford ; and we empha tically aver, that we have often obaervel the noblest and widest benevolence of conduct in the abused state of " Old Maidism." LAW INTELLIGENCE. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Sept. 27. (Before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER.) IN RE GEORGE QUANTOCK, SUED AND KNOWN AS GEORGE WOOD. The insolvent was opposed by Mr. Cooke, on be half of Messrs. Green and Niner ; and by a creditor named Woodhouse in person. Upon being examined, the insolvent stated that he I was discharged by this Court in 1834, and went to live in St. John's-lane, Smithfield, and at Croydon,' carrying on the business of an ivory -tur ner , un d er th e 1 name of George Slade. He left each place without paying the rent. His next residence was at Battle. bridge, where he commenced business as a draper and commission agent, occasionally dealing in Birming ham and Sheffield gocds. His debts contracted in the shop during the three or four months he remained there amounted to 6001. or 7001. At the close of the business he soil the stock to a Mr. Nathan for 301., and left without informing his creditors. Shortly after in the same year (1843), he went to Huddersfield, and started as a grocer and draper, under the name of Tock, remaining there about six months, during' which period he contracted from 2001. to 3001. of debts. The next place he visited was Swansea, in Wales, where he opened as a grocer and provision -dealer, under the name of George Slade. In the year 1845 he quitted Swansea and went to Romsey, Hants, where he was a grocer and general dealer, under the name of George Tock; and after remaining there six months, during which time he paid no rent, and con tracted 2001. or 3001. of debts, he quitted and went to Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, where, as well as at Hanley, Staffurdzhire, he carried on business as George Self. He contracted but a small amount of debt at Gainsborough, and about 3001. or 4001. at Hanley. His next remove was to Acton, Middle sex, where, in partnership with James Trueman, he traded as a draper and tobacconist, under the style of George and James Trueman. Had at Acton about 3001. or 4001. of debts, perhaps more, but cer tainly not 1,0001. Mr. COOKE said it was while the insolvent was at Acton that his clients' debt bad been contracted. That debt was, fortunately, very small, about 121., and he did not ask for any remand, as even if a case was proved the insolvent had anticipated the full period of a judgment by having been in prison more than two years. The object of the present examination was to expose the insolvent, and, in truth, the opposition was at the expense of the London Association for the Protection of Trade. The insolvent further stated that upon leaving Acton he went to Canterbury, where, under the name of Quin, he commenced business as a candle factor; thence he passed to Heywood, Lancashire, where he was a grocer and draper, under the name of Slade. Ile then went to Whitechurch, Herts, where he entered into partnership with Walter Lloyd, as grocers, drapers, and dealers in toys and cloaks. His next residence was Waterhouse-lane, Hull, where he described himself as a journeyman cabinet- maker and turner, then of Selby, Yorkshire, _ grocer and tobac conist, and afterwards of Old-street, St. Luke's, London, whence he passed to the Queen's Prison. Mr. COOKE said the insolvent having been so long in prison, and the opposing creditors debt so small, he never contemplated the Court pronouncing a re mand ; but it was important for the interests of trade that the character of such a man should be exposed, that when he got out of prison he should find some difficulty in the way of his cheating other people. His career had been marked by four insolvencies, under which his debts were respectively 8571., 3,1311., 1,1901., and now 5,0001. He had passed through nearly the whole kingdom, and the result of his ac tivity was shown by the experience of 235 creditors in the schedule; and to mark the whole in none of his businesses had the insolvent kept any books, which was itself the strongest proof of dishonest trading. Mr. Woodhouse complained that he bad been in duced to trust the insolvent by the representations of a Mr. Atkinson, an attorney, of Carey-street, Lin coln's Inn•fields, who stated the insolvent was an honest upright man. The managing clerk of Mr. H. R. Atkinson, of Carey street, who was accidentally in court, stated that his principal was not the party alluded to. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER said he found that he had done one thing for which he was sorry—he bad granted the insolvent 151. out of the money at the disposal of the Court for the assistance of poor pri soners. If he had known the facts that had been detailed today, he certainly would not have granted this man one farthing, nor could the Legislature have intended that such a worthless itinerant scamp should be assisted by it. The insolvent having been sworn to his schedule, The CHIEF COMMISSIONER besought him, notwith standing the miserable reckless life he had been leading for so many years, to endeavour to arouse himself to a sense of integrity and good conduct, and to cease his appearance in this court with large amounts of debt contracted under false names. Had it not been for the length of time which had elapsed since the vesting order, which frustrated the power of the Court, the insolvent might be• certain that he would not have been, as was now necessarily the case, declared entitled to the benefit of the Act, and ordered to be discharged forthwith. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSIOLV-HOUSE. Frederick Mills was charged with having obtained money by means of a fictitious cheque. The prisoner called at the warehouse of Mr. Von derhoyde, of Thames street, tobacconist, on Saturday, and said he wanted about 151 b. of cigars for a friend in Birmingham. He handed to the shopman a cheque for 91. Cs. upon the house of Williams, Deacon, and Co., and asked for the difference between that amount and the price of the cigars. As the prisoner was known to the shopman to be a person who had lived some years before in repute in, the Borough, the change was given to him, but the person who was represented as the drawer was not known at the banking-house as keeping an account there. Mr. Blundell, a clerk at Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co.'s house, proved that no person of the name of James T. Wallis kept cash there. The cheque-book from which the cheque was cut might have been issued from the house about the year 1833 or 1834, but the witness could not say exactly when or to whom. Two other cheques of a similar character were shown to the witness. They referred to another person in custody upon the charge of having obtained money upon them, and it was clear from the circum stances that there existed an understanding between the two parties with respect to the three forgeries. The prisoner, who_ upon being asked whether he wished to say anything, and receiving the usual cau tion, that whatever he should say would be taken down and might be used against him, stated that he was desirous to consult his solicitor before he should make any observations, and was then committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court. John Pilgrim, a boy about fifteen years of age, was brought up in the custody of Deady, the officer, charged with having committed several ingenious robberies. On the 24th of August the prisoner vc alked into the shop of Mr. Grafton, of No. 81, Fleet-street, watchmaker, and told the shop-boy that Mr. Grafton had promised to look out for a situation for him, as by giving out hand-bids in he could not get a living the street, and requested the boy to go up stairs and make inquiry upon the subject, presenting him at the sane time with a bill, which was laid upon the coun ter. In a few minutes the prisoner returned and handed what he called his address to the boy, and the moment after he was gone from the door a carriage clock, of the value of 101. 10s., was missed from the counter. Deady apprehended the prisoner, told hie) what for, and asked him for the bag which he carried. The prisoner denied that he had anything of the kind, but the officer found one in his room, and it con tained a number of hand-bills, which it was subse quently proved he had stolen about three weeks ago out of the shop of Mr. Izird, patent medicine vendor in High Holborn, where he had applied for a place, and represented that he was a poor fellow without father or mother. The prisoner —I have nothing to say but that lam guilty. The next case was brought against the prisoner by Mrs. Davie, the wife of Mr. Davie, of 201, High Holborn, watchmaker. The prisoner, it was proved, went into the shop on the morning of the 14th of July, and presented a patent medicine bill, asking Mrs. Davie to purchase some pills. The offer was declined, and the prisoner then inquired whether she wanted an errand-boy, stating that he could get a twelvemonth's excellent character. Upon being in formed that there was no occasion for his services, be departed, and soon afterwards a gold watch-case Of the value of eight guineas, and two watches of the value of 81, were missed. The prisoner—l am guilty of that too. • The next charge against the prisoner was that he had robbed the shop of Mr. William Bayle, of No- 28, Cheapside, jeweller. It appeared that on the 4th of August he walked into the shop and gave the shop boy a bill about the cholera, saying, at the some time, that Mr. Boyle had desired him to call about a. situa tion which he wanted. An answer havingheen given to the prisoner, who had been leaning on the counter near the place in which some jewellery was placed, he left the shop ; immediately after twenty-nine split plated gold rings and eight watch keys were missed. The prisoner —There's no use in saying anything, else, or giving any more trouble—l am guilty. Deady said there were several other cases against the prisoner. The ALDERMAN thought it was quite unnecessary to accumulate charges, after the three acknowledg ments of guilt, and committed the prisoner to the Central Criminal Court. James Wentworth, alias Green, was brought up to be finally committed for trial. He appeared to be just as indifferent as he was upon the former exami nation upon the charges preferred against him by Mr. Reynolds and Mr. Beck f o r f e l ony an d m i s d eme anour. When the depositions w e re rea d over , th e ALDER MAN asked the prisoner w h e th er h e w i s h e d t o sa.): anything, and told him that w h a t h e m i g ht s ay would be taken down and might be used against him. The prisoner said he wished merely to say that all which Mr. Reynolds had stated about his identity had not been taken down. Mr. Reynolds said the depositions were perfectly accurate. Committed for trial. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, SEPT. 27. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was somewhat firmer to-day. The transactions were as follow.—Graf t Western, Quarters, 11% dis.—Taff Vale, }3O. LI VE Rr ooL, SEPT. 27. STOCK Excluaacaz.—There was a fair amount of business transacted to-day, and at the close prices had a tendency upwards. The sales are—Caledonian, Preference, 10 1 At - and York, Consol., Fifths, 6 di& - Ditto,Yreter ence, 12 1 4—Ditto, halves (L. and B.), 18 dis.—Ditto, Fifths (W. R. U.), 6% c. dis.—Ditto, Halves (No. 4), CP% 1).:7 London and North-Western, 113- Ditto, New Quarters, 14 c. p.—Ditto. Fiths, 1 3 % c. p.—Midland, 52—Ditto, Halves , 18% dis.—North Staffordshire, 7% c. din.—South-Eastern and Dover, Consol. (No. 3. ), 18—Ditto (No. 4), 6 % C. York, Newcastle, and Berwick. (G. N. E._Purchase), 6 per cent. till 1850, 4% dis. MANCHESTER, SEPT. 27. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The trans ac ti o ns to-day were as fel low :—Dover (No. 4), Scrip, 6 1-16—Ditto (Registered), 6. Clitheroe, Preference (B.), 1 1 3 —Edinburgh and Glasgow , 36-North Staffordshire, 7% Manchester and Birminghaal (C), Quarters, 1% p.—Lancaster and North-Western, 112 Sheffield, Preference, NlX—West Riding Union, 6 1 4 610 '7; Manchester and Leeds, 64—Ditto, Fifths, 7A —Ditto, 321. Shares, 10% dis.: 7 Eaztern_Counties, 7 BIRMINGHAM, SEPT. 27. STOCK EXCHANOK.—The transactions to-dcy were as fv l " low :—London and North-Western, 113—Midland, 6 p n er cent., 126—North Staffordshire, 7 1 / dis.—Shrewsbury a a Birmingham (A), V i t ; dis.—Ditto (B), 51a dis.—Dato , Preference, Scrip, 2_l-16 p.—Shropshire Union, 31. Cs. 3d. dis. GLASGOW, SErr. 26. STOCK EXCHANGE.— The transac ions to-day w e re as follow:—Clydesdale Junction, 62 1 4 —Edinburgh, Perth, cad Dundee, Preference, 19 —Glasgow, Parrheaa. and Nalsto rt. Direct, 21 % Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves (go. 1), fi. 18s. Gd. WOOLWICH, SEPT. 26.---Escern FROM HIS GANa d AND RE4)APTUAE CF A C ONVICT .—A convict, nam e s Henry Conolly, leEe employed with several other con victs at the saw-pits near the west-end of the yards managed to hide himself, and leave his clothes, after substituting a canvas dress, the same as is generally used by the painters and others employed in working with pitch. Tho convect had been missed before ho was absent many minutes, and an alarm given at the gates to be particular as to every person the constables allowed to go out of the yard. Every exertion was made at the same time by the police to find out his hiding place, but he managed to elude them. When the men left work at half-past five o'clock the gates were only partially opened to admit of every one' being more minutely examined, as it is now more difficult to know the convicts from labourers, since their whiskers have been allowed to be cultivated as they choose. Several of the guards of the convict-ship were also present, to aid in detecting the convict if he should attempt to pass out with the work men, as the convict Wood must have done. After six o'clock sentries of the Royal Marines were posted out side the dockyard wall, and every precaution taken that the convict should be captured. Police-constables were also stationed in various parts of the yard; and about eight o'clock P.M. polica.constable 207 R, James Willis, observed a person vas across nearly opposite the slip, under which the Nankin 50-guu frigate is bnilding, at the east end of the yard, and gave the alarm, when the slip was surrounded, and after a considerable time spent in searching for him with lanterns, he was found lying flat on his face on a coil of rope, and taken to the con vict-ship. had it not been for the exertions made by all parties to capture him, he would have effected his escape during the night, and had evidently made his way from the west end of the yard to the easiest place for throwing a rope over the wall, and letting himself down on the outside, when he found that, owing to the precautions taken at the gate, he could not. pass cut with the workmen. EXTENSIVE BURGLARY AT WORCESTER.—EarIy yesterday morning the shop of Mr. Gwynn, pawnbroker, of High-street, was broken into and robbed to a-serious extent, among the articles stolen being twenty-one silver watches, fourteen gold ditto, with an immense number of silver spoons and forks, five cases of rings, and a multitude of other articles. The till had been opened, but the little silver left in it was untouched. 13y the side of the shop is a passage, leading from the street to some tenements, at the rear of the premises, and which passage is used in common by the tenants. The shop is divided from the passage by nothing but a lath and plaster partition, in which the thieves had made a small opening, just large enough to admit a little boy, and the principal agent of the robbery, must therefore, have been very juvenile in years. The loss is estimated at between 2001 and 3001. Every exertion is now being made to discover the thieves, our worthy Mayor, R. Padmore, Esq., having immediately offered a roe and of 201. from his private puree, and Mr. Gwynn a similar sum, for the apprehension of the burglars. A gang of these fellows is evidently prowling about this city at the present time, and it is therefore highly necessary that every householder should look well to the safety and defence of his premises. Several persons are in custody on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery.— Worcester Chronicle. MEETING OF HAND AND POWER-LOOM WEAyIES. —On Monday evening a very numerous meeting of hand and power loom woollen weavers was held in the Bethel school-room, Toad-lane, Rochdale, to consider the pro priety of applying to the masters for an advance of wages, to the amount of three halfpence in the shilling. Samuel Wild was chairman. Thomas Stansfield stated that several firms had already prom i sed to give the advance required, and to commence on Saturday next, provided the same became general. It was agreed that the masters, both in Rochdale and the neighbourhood , should all be visited thin week, and the meeting was' then adjourned to Monday evening next.—Manchester Guardian. [ADVIRTISEMENT.]—A Weakness of the Chest and Asthma cured by Holloway's Pills.—Copy of a declara tion of Mr. C. Zeitsen, of Nymegen, in Holland, dated 24th August, 18;9:—" I, the undersigned, declare that I have been perfectly cured of a weakness of the chest and difficulty of breathing, by the use of Holloway's Pills. I had been 3 sufferer for years, and was unable to get the least relief from the various remedies I tried, until I took these inestimable pills, and I invite all who may be similarly afflicted to use the same remedy without delay." Signed, C. Zeitsen." Th: y may be taken in all cases of old coughs, recent colds, and ssthmatical affections.—Sold by all Druggists,and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. BIRTHS. On the 24th inst., at Stanford Court, Worcester, Lady Winnington, of a son. On the 22d inst., at Queen's-terrace, Bayswater, the wife of Digby Dampier, Esq.. of a son. Oa the 23d inst., at New Bond-street, Mrs. W. Philips, of a daughter. On the 25th inst., at York-terrace, Regent's-park Mrs. P. Douglas Hadow, of a son. On the 23th ir.st., at Greenhithe, the lady of Captain T. Henderson, R.N., of a daughter. On the 25th inst.. at Clive-vale, near Hastings, the wife of the Rev. R. G. Barton, of a son. On the 26th inst., at Clapham-rise, Mrs. Thomas Southey, of a daughter. JIARRIED. On the 25th inst., at St. Pancras Church, Frank William Hewett, Esq., second son of Sir George Hewett, Bart , of Fremantle- park, Hants, to Julio Minna, fourth daughter of M. Carl von Pouallier, Captain of C.,valry in the service of his Majesty the King of Prussia. On the 25th inst. at Chirk, the Rev. Ch ar l es W. M a ude, to Charlotte Elizabeth, only daughter of the late Robert Myddelt on Bidduiph, Esq., of Chirk Castle, Denbighshire. At St. James's Church, Piccadilly, John David, Esq., M. P., youngest son c f the late Edward David, Esq., of Swansea, Glamorganshire, and Blaine Mawr, Carmarthenshire, to Caroline Mary, third daughter of the la'e Right Hon. Sir Charles Begot, G.C. 8., formerly Governor General of Canada. DIED On the 21st inst., at Wimbornc, Dorset, aged 68, Francis Peter Garland, Esq. On the 21st inst., aged 84, Mrs. Charlotte Anne Barnard, of Withersfiebi, Suffolk, On the 23d inst., at Minton, Kent, Dulcibells Mary, wife of Thomas Duncombe Shafto, Esq. On the 23d inst.. at Leaford-house, Budleigh Salterton, Mrs. Elizabeth Cowd, aged 76 On the 25 - h inst., in Long-lane, Bermondsey, Ann, widow of the late A. Brooksbank, Esq., aged 71. On the 25111 inst., at Bankside, S.,uthwark, Mr. G. War wick, aged 61. At West Watering, near Chichester, John Gorham, Esq. At Clevelands, bawl sh, aged 31, C. W. Montgomery, second son of the late Archibald Montgomery, Esq., of the Whim, Peebleshire. Lf;ndon Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office; No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Aliddlteez, Friday, September 28, 1849. }