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The application of Steam to loco-motive and stationary Machines, for the conveyance of Passengers and Goods, will give a new and extraordinary impulse to the industry of this country. Reducing the cost of transporting and exchanging commodities has an effect upou agriculture and manufactures, precisely analogous to that which would be produced by hnprov ing the quality of the soil, or increasing the skill and energy of the workmen. In no part of the country will the benefits resulting from the improved mode of conveyance be more conspicuous than in Kent, although to loco-motive machines this Company will not confine its operations, but will, in addition thereto, make use of the assistance of horses. Upon the greater part of the pro posed line the traffic is a l rea dy immense. Along the great Kent Road, the farm produce of a fertile and highly cultivated coun try. especially in Hops, hi conveyed to the London market, and all the various commodities required for the consumption of the County are returned in exchange. By the same line, immense quantities of LiMe and of Brieks are brought to the Metropo lis; the communications with the great Naval and Military Depots are kept up; and the intercourse between England and the Continent of Europe carried on. • • • ' The quantity of goods, including Naval and Military Stores for the great Clovernthent Depots of Deptlbrd, Woolwich, and Chfitham, which•pass upon the line which it is proposed that the Railway shall take up, cannot be ascertained with sufficient pre cision to form the basis of an accurate calculation. Rut upon this line there are minor and incidental sources of advantage, which, being susceptible of calculation, may be compared will the expellee of constructing the Railway, so as to give a definite idea of one portion of the profits of the undertaking. Accordink to the estimate of experienced Engineers, the ex pence of a Railway ought to be 6,000/. per mile.; but let it be supposed that it may require 10,000/. per mile to lay down a Railway between London and Woolwich, and that the first portion of Capital advanced will be 100,0011/. The number of short coaches running upon this line is 150 per diem. Admit. ting that on the average these Coaches are only half idled, their receipt for passengers alone will be 20,000/. per annum. As loco-motive Machines, moving with twice the velocity, and with greater safety, must in a very great degree supersede the Coaches, the Company will probably obtain front Passengers alone, independently of the luggage, in income of 20,000/. or 201. per Cent. upon the Capital of 100,0001. requisite to carry the Railway to Woolwich. Between Woolwich, Greenwich, Deptford, and London, one hundred waggons and carts pass daily, sonic of them three or four times per day. From Greenwich, Passage and Luggage Boats go every half-hour ; from Woolwich, Luggage Iressels of considerable burthen go daily. The loco-motive Machines, running in half the time, and at less expence, and not subject to delays and dangers from the state of the weather, will neces sarily supersede almost all these modes of conveyance, and in the hest sense of the term monopolise the whole carryingtrade, including the Transport of Naval and Military Stores, between London, Deptford, Greenwich, and Woolwich. At the very lowest calculation, the profits arising from all these sources will be equal to that arising front the Passvngers who now go by the Coaches, and will raise the retain upon the Capital of 100;000/. required in laying. down the Railway as far as - Woolwich, to 40 per Cent. Thus even were the undertak ing to terminate at `Woolwich, it would prove a most beneficial investment. From Woolwich to Gravesend, along the level under Belve dere, there are no buildings to interfere, and the expellee of the Railway could not exceed 5,0001. per mile. The distance being thirteen miles, the Capital required for this section of the un dertaking will be about 65,000/. It would be superfluous to go into calculations to prove, that in consequence of greater ex pedition and cheapness, the, carriage of the passengers and goods now conveyed between Gravesend anti London by Coaches, Waggons, Steam 'Vessels, and Iloys, would be trans ferred to the Railway, and would yield upon this por tion of the Capital a large return. Though the ordinary com mercial intercourse between these places would yield the Com pany an ample profit, yet this profit appears as nothing when compared with that arising from a source which the Railway would itself create. Qn the Coals landed below Gravesend, the London Port Duties are not paid. As soon as the Railway reaches this point, the several Towns upon the Railway, and all the surrounding neighbourhood, will be supplied with coals by Land Carriage, The saving will be most important, and the advantage to the Company immense. From Gravesend to Stroud, a distance of eight or nine miles. the ground becomes less favourable ; and the Railway might require 8,000/. per mile, or a Capital or 70,000!. There the Railway would communicate with the populotta Towns of Rochester and Chatham, and, by a branch with .11Iaidstone and the interior of the country, to Tunbridge, and the 'Wealds of Kent. This branch, indeed, is of the first importance, since Coals, which now cost 30s. at Rochester, are sold in the interior of the County at double that sum ; but it' the proposed Railway be carried into effect. the same article would be sold at a price not exceeding from 40s. to 455. The conveyance to and from these places, of Coals unbuithened with the London Duties, of Farm produce, especially of Hops, of Manufactured Colonial and Foreign Goods, cannot fail to yield on this portion of the Company's Capital a very . high . return. But to this section of the Railway there is an incidental advantage, which, as it is capable of being demonstrated by figures, will serve to give a more precise idea of the vast importance of the present un dertaking. Between London and Rochester twelve coaches pass daily, which, supposing that on the average they are half filled, pro. duce, by passengers only, 34,0001, per annum. Thus the pre. sent coach passengers alone, supposing luggage and parcels to pay the expences of the Loco.motive .Machine, would yield a. profit of 40 per cent. on the Capital: of 70,0001. to carry the Rail front Gravesend to Stroud. The Railway passing through Faversham to Canterbury, and on to Dover and to Sandwich, should the Harbour be opened, will give to the City of Canterbury the advantages of a double Port ; while it will render Faversham and Sandwich, and par ticularly Dover, the depots of a most valuable Foreign Trade. To Faversham the measure will also be of (gent value, since the Harbour is excellent ; and during the coming Session a Bill, of which notice has already been given, to improve that Port, will probably be passed through Parlitunent. Branches of the Rail. way to Margate anti Ramsgate, in addition to the profit arising from the carriage of all kinds of goods, will secure a consider. able incidental advantage, by conveying more rapidly, more securely, more punctually, and more economically, than the Steaal Vessels, the various classes of visitors who frequent these places for amusement or health. The cheap and rapid annmunication about to be established, will give an incalculable Impulse to the property of Kent, anti confer the most important advantages on all its Inhabitants; every article which they do not produce, they will be enabled to buy cheaper; and every article which they do produce, they will be able to sell more advantageously. Its Home Trade with London, and its Foreign Trade with France, especially in Fruit, Fish, and (lame, and all perishable articles requiring rapid and certain conveyance, will be simultaneou s ly incr ease d . Hitherto , the Boats and small craft of the French coast have been excluded from the Thames by the Port Duties, and have been prevented from landing their various French produce in the Ports of Kent, by the difficulty and expence of conveying it to London these impediments will now be removed : the Railway branching through the County to every Town upon ROYAL NAVY and MARINES.—At n nunierons and highly respectable MEETING of NA VAL OFFICERS, held at the White Hart Inn, Bath, on Tuesday, the 30th d. of November, 1831, for the purpose of establishing a BRANCH of the ROYAL NAVA I, AN NUITY SOCIETY, in co-operation with the PARENT SOCIETY at Deyenpnrt ; Present.-. Admiral the Right lion. the Earl of NORTIIESK, in the Chair. Vice-Atbnirals—Sir Win. Hargood, K.C.8., Sir Henry Sr. Bayntun, K.C.8., and Sir Win. Hotham, K.C.B. Rear-Admirals—Samuel J. Ballard, and Robert Williams. Captains—Fitzgerald. the Right lion. Lord jamesl ollryea, Sir Christopher Cole, 111. P., Edon, Clay, Master, C. Jones, Lye, Northey, lasaght. Foote, Baugh, Feßowes, Carroll. Ro berts, the Hon. F. Noel, J. Brenton, Conolly, Sykes, St. Clair, Hooke, Carland,Cotrave, and Harrington. Lieutenants—flobmson, Clarke. Janns, Bendyshe, Paget, Hallam, Nugent, Nuvosielaki, and Sadler. Surgeons—Mr. Dulhunty, Drs, Gillies and Patterson • and numerous other Officers of rank and respectability. , It was unanimously Resolved. That the following Officers do form the Bath Branch of the Naval Annuitant Society established at Devonport. Cum ustAN—Vice ? Admiral Sir H. W. Bayntun, Tar asu nrus.2--Cant. Fitzgerald, 'Capt. rivgaght. SEcnvrantra.—c a pt, J Garland, Lieut. P. Clarke, Capt. Harrington. • TEWaitnn. Capt. Mainwarin g. Lieut. Charles Janns Capt. Gawen Bobe r , Li eut. N ovosielski. After (laP v t • n a i r r ioU t ; other Ilesolutions Maui o to the Bra' itch f etti had been agreed upon, It was unanimously resolved, That th e thanks of the Meeting be given to Mrs. Admiral 111 , Dou g4 11, f or h er lib e ral d onation of 801., -C apt . Si r Chris topher Cole, I.Y. M. ('apt. Ed ge ll 5 1 a nd Lieutenant R. Bourne, 51. That the thanks of the Meeting be given to the Flag Officers , and senior Captains. for thei r p rom p t attention to t h e w i s h es o f a few :Ilettibers of the Parent Societ ing. _ Y, in convening this Meet- That the thanks of the Mee►ing be given to Admiral the Right Hon. the Earl of Northesk, G.C.11. for his able con duct in the Chair. The Bob Branch beg to call the attention of the Officers re siding in Bath and its vicinity to the following Extracts from the Rules and Report of the Parent Society " Tbe object ofthe Society is to provide a stock or fund for the paying annuities to tie widows, children, parents, and sisters of the deceased Members, agreeably to the several Acts of Parliament for the benefit of friendly societies. "The Society is open to receive as its Members, Flag Officers, Captains, Commanders, Lieutenants, Alasters, Surgeons. Pur sers, Chaplains ; and Officers of the Royal Marines, and their respective Widows ; and by paying according to the following Table, Subscribers at their death will insure an annuity to their nominees:— If the Su bAcri.. I If the Nominee be Five ber be Years Years younger than the of Age. • Subscriber,•lie or she is to pay as under, and at the same rate for every year a. d. exceeding Five. Under 30 1 0 0 Ha. Od. From 30 to 40 1 10 0 Os. tid. And 17s. entrance. te'4o 20 0 I la. 6d. These payable 50 to 11 210 0 13s. &I. on ly at t h e en -60 to 65 • 3 0 0 Od. trance. 95 to 70 3 10 0 16s. Od. " Should any Member be unable to pay the sum specified in the above Table at one time, he is at liberty to do so by sepa rate payments of not less than 2/. per quarter ; after die first quarter, interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, will be charged on the remaining sum. Annual Sub scription, may be paid quarterly. " No Officer, above the age of Mt, shall be admitted, unless he pays double subscriptions and entrance monies, as above. " No Claimant can receive any benefit from the Society until the Subscriber shall have been five years a Member. " The Committee of the Parent Society, in presenting their first Annual Report,, heartily congratulate its Members anti Friends on time eminent succees that has attended the esta blishment of the Institution, which is daily advancing in ex tent and consequent importance. They have the pleasing duty of reporting that they have already 6,513 i. 13s. 11d, deposited in the Savings Banks as their capital stock. " To afford a competent income the Society Is endeavouring to establish an adequate fund, in full confidence that as there is no object more worthy the support of the Naval 'profession, so there is none that better deserves it on gmunds of policy.__ Every Officer who feels an anxiety for the welfare of his family, is Called on to enrol himself among its members. By associat ing in a hotly like that formed under the designation of the Royal Naval Annuitant Society, every Officer secures, without risk of failure, an annual income to his representatives and causes the Widow and Orphan to raise their drooping heads in prospect of security from future want. " Considering the brief period that has gone by since the establishment of the Institution, the Committee with pride and gratitude confess that the increase of its fund s had outstripped ' their most sanguina expectations; and from the constant corn munications received from all parts of the world , t h e Rovol Naval Annuitant Society bids fair to rank amon g 'the tiro be.. doubt that it will progrosivelY increase mtportenee , a nd nevolent Institutions in the kingdom nor your Committee like the Wooden Bulwarks of our native isl e exte nd protec tion and relief in the hour of need ; and that whilst England possesses a Navy, it will be handed dow n to posterity as " last ing memorial of that brotherly love which is the charateristie of British Seamen throughout the world, ,, , • Letters p os t-paid, relative to, tots s oe t letY, to be addre ssed to Capt. James Garland, O. 3, Pertty-pi ne Bath, o f w hom the Rules of th e ;society May he bed at the Society's price; and who will a l so g i ve a ttendance at his re s id ence f rom Eleven till One. Also to t h e Parent nevonport. beiut' a' F. Somerville, R. - N. Actuary . ; I ortsmouth Branch—Crown lintel; Falmouth ditto; Mr. Etlwanl :I)lli ent pent n,'Corrt wall; Chatham ditto--His Aiki"tV- 4 pock Vark;..Ue al ditt°' Capt. O. S. 'Burton, R.N., Sandwich ; L on don ditto—Mr. Thomas Willey, R.N., 3, Clifford's-inn, Fleet-street, .8 7 0 r‘ 1. 2 max 4 4 1 4, /i '44**,4 /~. UN. MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20, 1824. the Coast, and from the Coa s t to the interior of the County, will make Kent the centre of our Trade with France, and will render Canterbury and Dover Commercial Towns of the first importance. It is therefore confidently believed, that of all the Plans for reducing the expellee of carriage which have been contem plated, the Kent Railway will be the most profitable to the Shareholders, and the most beneficial to the County and to the Public at large. It possesses great and peculiar advantages. The Returns will not be declared as is usual in similar under takings, until the whole line of communication is complete, but will commence as soon as the Railway reaches Woolwich, anti will become very great indeed when it extends thirteen miles further to Gravesend. Interfering with no vested in terests, the Kentish Railway will probably meet with no ob struction in Parliament, and may - be expected to receive the countenance and support of Governinent, in consequence of :Hording a cheaper and more rapid communication with the great Naval and .Military Depots. This Company will be governed"by Eighteen London Di rectors, who are empowered to add' to their number, twelve Gentlemen selected fr om the C ot t ute o f K ent, whose names will appear in a short time, and who will have the right of attending, when convenient, at the Meetings of the Directors in London, and of voting thereat. The Capital of the Com pany is One Million, consisting or Ten Thousand Shares of 100/. each, on which a Deposit of IL has been paid. As early an application to Parliament will he made for an Act to carry these objects into elliwt as the number and importance of the prior arrangements will admit. N o f ur th er Call will certainly be made until June next ; nor even at that time, unless the Act of Parliament for establishing the Company shall have been obtained. No future Calls will exceed 4/. in Amount at any one time ; and every facility will be given to the Share holders in the transfer of their Allures, and in pitying the itie stalments which will be required. Any further iufonnation can be obtained at the Of fi ces of the Compatiy, No. 119, Poultry. where all Communications are in future to-be addressed. London, `29, Poultry, 10th Dec. 1021 lly Order of the Directors, GEORGE VARLO, Secretary. WES 1 I' DOCK lx.) PAN Y. TILE COURT of DIRECTORS of the c‘'EsT 'NINA DOCK COMPANY tin hereby give No. rice, that an HALF YEAItLY GENERAL COURT will . be held, pursuant to the dir e cti o ns of the Act of Parliament, at the West India Dock (louse. No. FRIDAY, the 7th-day of January next. at One o'Clock in the Afternoon, at which Meeting a DIVIDEND will Le de clared for the Half year ending the 91st instant. By Order of the Court, H. LONGLANDS, Sec. %Vest India Dock House, Dec. 17, 18'2•1. N.B. Tile Chair will be taken at Two o'Cloch precisely. SCOTTISH WOOL-STAPLING COMPANY. AMEET' NG of the INTERIM COMMIT. TEE of the above Company, aided by several G entle mew interested in the Undertaking, was held at Edinburgh, on the 29th November, 1824. • SIR WA ',TER SCOTT, BART., in the Chair. When the following Resolutions were unanimously adopted : /it, That the numerous and highly respectable List of Sub scribers for Shares in the proposed Company, submitted to this Meeting, is a certain Pledge of its ultimate success, and its Iproving highly benefi c i a l to t h e partners an d t h e cou nt r y a t arge. 2d, That in order to give efficiency and stability to the Com pany, the proposed Capital shall b e increase d f ro m 200,000/. as originally contemplated, to HALF A 111 ILLION, in 20,000 Shares of 251. each, of which no Individual or Company shall be capable of holding more than WO Shares. 3d, That the affairs of the Company shall be managed by a Committee of Directors, to be chosen by a general Meeting of Subscribers, to be held at Edinburgh, so soon as One-Halt of the proposed Capital has been subscrib e d. 4th, That an Act of Parliament for Incorporating the Com, pang shall be applied for, declaring, litter die, that the Sub scribers shall form a Body politic and corporate, who shall only be bound to the Extent of their respective Shares; and that as by the standing Orders of the House of Lords, it is required, that Three-Fourths of the Capital shall be invested in Govern ment Securities, in the Name of Trustees, before the Bill can be read a second time in that House, the Subscribers must be prepared to invest Three-Fourths of their Subscriptions, on or before the Ist of 111 arch, 1825. These Investments to be returned in case of such an Act not being obtained ; a Result, however, of which the probability is not contemplated. Gth, That in order to defray the necessary Expeuees of ap plying for the Act of P ar li a m e nt, and other interim Charges, a Deposit of Five Shillings per Share shall be made by each Share-Holder, and that no Person shall be responsible beyond such Deposit until such an Act of Parliament as 'above-men tioned is obtained. 6th, That as it is greatly for the Interest of the Farmers in the pastoral Districts of Scotland, and also of the Cloth Mann titeturers, that such a Company should be established, they be invited to take Shares in the Concern, and thus to become more particu interested in its prosperity. '- 7th,That those Person s w h o have already subscribed upon the Understanding, that the Capital was to be £200,000, be now permitted to withdraw their names, provided they do so within a fortnight from this date- after which time they shall be held as acceding to the New Scheme of the CoMpany. Bth, That 1:108,088 of the Capital be reserved for One Month front this (late, to enable Persons at a distance, or those out of the Country, to become Share-Holders. oth, That the Interim Ctnnmittee of Management 'consist of the following Persons : Lord Balgray. Sir James Montgomery, of Stanhope, Burt. M. P. Sir James Al. Riddell, of Ardnamurchan, Bart. Sir Walter Scott, of Abbotsford, Bart. Robert Downie, Esq. of Appin, J. J. Hope Johnston, Eq. of Annandale. Coin Mackenzie, Esq. of Portmore. Alex. Maclean, Esq. of Ardgour. Hector Al. Buchanan, Esq. of Drumakiln. A. N. Macleod, Eq. of Harris. John Borthwick . Eq. Younger, of Crookston. Juba Spottiswoode, Esq. of Spottiswoode. Colin Mackenzie, Esq. of Kilroy. W. Trotter, _Esq. of ttallindean. Wm. Mackenzie, Esq. 11'riter to the Sig net. • Charles Cuningham, Esq. Writer to the Signet. Norman Lockhart, Esq. Writer to the Signet. John Mowbray, Esq. Writer to the Signet. John Tweedie, Esq. Writer to the Signet. Donald Horne E. Writer to the Signet. Thomas Blackwood,i q Eq. Merchant. Wm. Blackwood, EM. Merchant. Wm. Mowbray, Esq. Merchant, Leith. Robert Mowbray, EM. Merchant, Leith. The Committee, in calling the attention of the Public to the preceding Resolutions, judge it proper to add, that the Esta blishment of extensive Woollen Manufactures in various Parts of Scotland is the natural consequence of the Measure now proposed ; and if it should be necessary or expedient to en courage such Establishments by the example of the proposed Company, in entering on such an undertaking on their own account, their extensive Capital will also enable them, while I the IntenNts of the Share-holders will, in such event, direct them to do w. . . _ Applications for Shares to be left with Matthew N. Mac &maid, W. S. 29, Great King-streets Messrs. Thomas Kin near and Sons, Hankers, Royal Exchange; or with Messrs. 1441 and Cargill, 6, North St. Andrew's-street, Edinburgh. M. N. MACDONALD, Dec. 1, 1824. Interim Secretary. FOR PRESERVING THE TRETII AND GUMS. TH EV EG ETA 13 LE TOOTH-POW DE It has so long been in general me. that it is unnecessary to offer any further recommendation of it. Composed of Ve getables, without the admixture of any Mineral or pernitiritts nieretlient whatever, it is free from the usual objection against !the use of other Dentifrices. Its detersive power is just suf ticient to annihilate those destructive particles which adhere to the Gums and the Interstices of the Teeth ; h ea li ng j u j u rigs in the former, and promoting a new Enamel (where it has heel) injured or corroded) on the latter. It lik rw i se im parts a ft► nuirtsi and healthy redness to 1 his Gums ; tutd, if used regularly, will preserve the Teeth in a struud state to old nee. Sold in Boxes, at Its. 9d. by Butlers, Chemists, 4. Omit" s idr, St. Paul's, R4O, Regent,street ( near the Argy l e It oom o l !mullion; and by the principal ► Perfumers and :11edicine Ven ders throughout the United Kingdom. Be careful to tisk fur '' Butler's Vegetable Tooth Powder," and to observe the name nod address of " Butler. d. Chrarsidr," me engraved on the St . Anwu and Label at tached to each box of this esteemed Pent'bier, to distinguish it from lo6lations under aialikv BANKRUPTCY or STRACEY, AND GRAHAM. A fattier investigation of the affairs of Messrs. Marsh, Stra cev aw l rainun took place before the Commissioners of Rank ro,lo, at Guildhall, on Saturday. A very few persons only p re sent until after eleven o'clock (apprehending . some were wst pooentent probably) in the morning; but as soon as it was ; Ta lersttxxl that the bankrupts were to appear, (though not to ma ke their final disclosure), the room speedily became so crowd ed that the Commissioners with difficulty got to their seats.— Several eminent barristers were in attendance professionally. The Common Serjeant appeared for Mr. Marsh ; Mr. F. Poi lock, for :11r. Stracey : and Mr. Merewether for Mr. Graham. The assignees, Messrs. Holland, Hare, and Knight, also came forward, (though neither bankrupts nor assignees could get a seat), and Mr. Basil Montagu appeared as their Counsel. Messrs. Marsh, stracey, and Graham having been sworn by the Chief Commissioner to make a true disclosure, and informed in the regular way that any concealment of property beyond 20/. by them would become a f e l on y. Mr. Kxto AT (the attorney) rose, and desired to put some questions. Mr. 111 0 TAG It submitted that Mr. Knight's proceeding was premature. The regular course was, in the first place, for the balance.sheet to be produced ; and the next business wait fur the assignees to offer their observations upon it to the Coimissioners. Mr. IhlttinT. insisted thathe was in order, and that he had a right to put his questions : he represented a body of ere& tors whose claim was to the amount of 60,0 0 0 1 . Mt. Moivraou did not mean to dispute Mr. Knight'sright, but merely to correct him as to the time of exercising it. His PRICE SVVENPENCt. (Mr. illontaguis) only object was to prevent delay, and need less charge, a s tar as poSsible, to 'the estate , which' had already, he bagged to say, Itili,ollo/. in cash ready to distribute. among the claimants. tour; wished to add, ati far possible, to that fund, and would at once state his object. On the Saturday on which . the house iiiilerners.strect hadatopped payment, a number of promissory notes an d bill s ( to t h e amount of near, 10,0001.) had been put into the hand s ore particular - gentleman (whose name he would not mention) by Mr. Btracey. Those bills were to be discounted on account of the firm ; now he (Mr. Knight) had information' th a t sonic of these very bills had been since paid by the acceptors; and not paid on account* the estate of Marsh and Co., but for the private Account of the holder—that Was, of the person to whom they had beey committed. ,iie wished' at once' to ask Mr. Stracey, What consideration had in , duced him to deliver out those bills on the day of the bank ruptcy ? Ho* came it that the pat ty to whom they had been delivered fur the purpose of discount, had, been in ,possession of one Of them hims e lf, an d even r e ce i ve d the funeunt of it subse quent to the failure ? 31r. Straceyls solicitor here came forward. and intimated that his client was perfectly ready to answer those finestions. Mr. MosrTAGt; said, that lie still, for the sake of regularity, opppoe►sed any answer being given. Mr. MA VII EW (n Solicitor) said, that Alr. Montagu scemtd acting as Counsel for the bankrupts, rather than for the assig noes. Mr. MONTAGU denied that he was doing so, and insisted that sonicthin6 like rule inust.he adhered to. The imputation now brought iorWard was not one of concealment, but of frau• dttlent preference. As a charge of preference, it was not only the invaluable course, but it was of the highest importance to the creditors, that any examination as to it should be private. Mr. KNIGHT and Mr. MAYHEW still urged the advantago of immediate inquiry. Mr. .111ONTAG11.-1 shall resist it : and I appeal to the CotllroistilOtWrii whether lam right. But the fact to (now. Vet have named your char ,, e) that there hi nothing to inquire about. Ire have already the examination of the gentleman —Mr. Burton, a broker of high respectability—to whom you allude, and to whom these bills were given. The fact is, that at the last meeting here, Messrs. L a fi t t e an d Co., the Bankers of Paris, tendered ' proof against the estate o' Marsh and CO., upon a bill which bore the name of' .Mr. Burton, as an endorser. At the moment when this claim was made, it was nut quite certain whether it would be admitted ; and Mr. Burton (till the point was settled) tefased to give up some of the bills to which you now refer, conceiving that he had a lien upon them. It is now clear that Messrs. Latitte's claim on the estate will be al. , lowed; and Mr. Burton has agreed to deposit the bills under the joint commit] of the assignees anti himself, to be giveti up as soon as he shall be regularly exonerated. It was then agreed that Mr. Knight should call on Mr. Gor.. don, the solicitor for the commission, and have liberty to read Mr. Burton's examination ; arid some conversation ensued about the furnishing papers on various points, which was stop ped by Mr. Pollock's coming forward with the balance-sheet of the Bankrupts. The contents of this paper stood as follows: CLAIMS AGAINST THE lIOUSV. For cash balances - - £3115,170 2 10 Amount proved under the comm i ss i o n not op peering to the credit of the parties - 06,73.1 10 tl Ditto of claims expected to be made, but not yet established (This item necessarily imperfect, but comprehending all at present known) 72,244 3 1 Balance of Mr. Marsh's private account 1,940 11 3 Mr. Stracey's ditto , b,261 3 2 Fauntleroy's ditto - 14,716 . 18 3 Bati debt fund, being the amount carried from profit and loss after the proportion carried to the credit of the partners, to meet the loss on Harrison anti Co.'s, and other accounts - tG,052 ll I Total of claims £832,723 U II ASSFTS TO 31EE'l"fliE ABOVE. By Cash at Martin's Ditto iu Berncrs.street Returned by Miss Marsh . Ditto by Sir Edward Stracey Stock and Exchequer Bills - Bills discounted, dconctl good Debts deemed good Bonds and annuities ditto - Mortgages and life policies - Reversions and shares in Stock Companies - Houses and ground rents - .111,17214 3 13.373 13 8 5,000 0 0 4,141 10 0 ' 2433 0 0 100,3511- 6 179,7: 9 119 9 62,313 16 7 1 2. 3 77 9 0 0,•'511 0 0 411.035 0 0 Good assets - X 455,100 a 10 Deduct from this loans by the house secured by deed 50,275 18 6 • Available By doubttitl debts - Doubtful promissory notes and bills Bad debts - Bad bills and notes - - X 398,933. 13 4 - 9,116 1 10 - 13,272 9 6 - . 121,845 0 10,050 2 3 Total of usaets good and bad - £662,023 0 4 Leaving a deficiency (assumed to be by claims on the estate for non-invested Stock and Ex chequer Hills for which the house received no value) 00,105 0 7 X 6 32,720 0 11 Mr. POLLOCK, having gone- through this account, begged to say one word more upon the affairs of the bankrupts ; par. ticularly as relating to their situation at the time of the failure, some years since, of Messrs. Brickwood and Co. The shoat history of that case was this :—At the time of Hrickwood's failure, Messrs. Marsh and Co., had held paper of theirs to the amount of 140,0001. Of this sum 45,000! . had at once turned Out to be good ; and subsequent payments had reduced ate actual loss upon the rest to about 60,0001. To meet that loss, and the pressure consequent upon it. the friends and partners of Marsh's house had brought forward additional capital to.the amount of 130,000/. Two further sums of 20,0001. each, were allowed by two gentlemen to remain at the same time as cash balances. This statement on the part or the bankrupts would not be deemed irrelevant, considering the reports which had been circulated M to the state of their house in 1010. Mr. M Ayn LW begged to ask how long this additional capita brought in had remained in the hands of the bank ? Mr. PoLt.ocx said that a statement on the subject should be prepared. .111 r. MaynEw further wished to know what Wil9 meant by a variety of entries in the books of the bankrupts, signed 1.. only. `That did those hieroglyphics portend ? Mr. MONT./Mit said that it was not very difficult to suppose what the letters iI. F. in Mucha situation would mean. Mr. Mavitrw then begged that an account might be pre pared of all monies which had been brought into the, house under that signature F.), no notice being taken at the time, as far as it appeared, of how they had come in, or where they had come from. Mr. KNIGHT. also, on the part of his client*, wished to have a statement of all sums of money which had been received by the house since the month of January last, and of the manner in which those sums hail been applied. The Counsel generally for the bankrupts declared, that to whoever would apply, both the assignees and the bankrupts would be happy to give every information. Mr. 111Avirew said he was bound to admit that all his in.. quiches had been answered in the most candid manner. Mr. Mo s T Ati u repeated that the assignees had - 1 OAO/. ready in cash, the moment the law would allow J 1 dividend to be declared. Cretlitor, whale name we did not learn, paid that ftesup. posed the 391401. good assets were estimated independent of any claim by the Bank of England. One of' the Assignees replied in the a ffi rmative. Critditor.—ln that case, if the Bank claims for 25Q 1 0001 , that awn will be diminished ..liii. ii a - NTAG tr .--- iiir;unl y ; but I believe we have very little to apprehend on that account. The meeting was then di:dared to be adjourned. turned oot to From the above " belance-sheet" (which comes a i the state menttassetsg 1 w o i f v,i th ath e sse b ep t t i sro n vi k v r ej u isr 28th of September, vim substantially correct. In that account he b 62,000/., being an excess of 8,000/. to the benefit of the reotstnliietawnsfitgutiTittel4e,a,opmiaptei.a.trhntenhdant they turner] e s e t t a i t t i t g •m::: i i sta t ement the estate. An error as to the estimated amount of claims crept into the published accounts; 100,000/, taken as the probable amount of stock claimed for, not invostcd, was omitted in the full sum.—( Dimes.)