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lode], V' NeWII' 1 45i r THg e P „H vf-ry T., :eter, 3154, rn•C °ll : r : , 15 ; 'foi 4 Dfa ~ cb s l ' rua— , dares , Lineo.4 127 r 0110 1 ;II ; Nor fri L 3 of the bills been t c° lOW ° u o disli oP 11°5 4 fol Mo l t jg , t eho - lass IPo s g we er v oes s b lvd Il 111 11 1 1109 SP ORTING IN TELLIGEINCE. ...... (RECEIVED DAY.) CHESTER SPRING THIS MEETING, 1845. Handicap for the Chester Cup:-Alice INwthorn, aged, 1081- Poig-a-ballagh, 4 yrs, 9s• 21b-C,irra,w, 6 yrs, Bst 131b-Zammi, 4 yrs, Sst 121h-o,:rl,•ta• t uf..:,. 5 yrs, Bst 121 b-Aristides, 5 yrs. Bst 1 211 , ---'1 fie i ru., 6 yrs, Bst 111 0-N.-, court. 5 yrs. 83t 10th-tit I.:.‘v tepee, aged, Sst 9113-William le G, ;b- Winesour 5 yrs, 83t 61b-Truel3oy, ros, 5 6 yrs yr. 8 8s: 4, 5 h - Lothario, 5 yrs, Bst 51b-The Cur e, 4 yis, Bsc 4i Ratan, 4 yrs, Bst 41 b-Eboracum 6 yrs, Sst 31b-Ci:un sellor, 6 yrs, Bst 21 b-Parthian, 5 yrs, sst 21b-Cointe tie Flandres, 5 yrs, Bst 21b-Red Deer, 4 yrs, Bst Cord, 4 yrs, ist 13 1b-Mickey Froe, 4 yrs. ist 131b dSorel's, 4 yrs, 7st 12 1b-Valerian, 4 yrs, 7st 1.21b-Irene, yrs, I st 121b-M orpet h , 4 yrs, 7st 111b-John o' aunt, aged, 7st 101 b-General Pollock. 5 yrs, 7st 10th --The Best of Three, 4 yrs, 7st 101b-Lightning, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b-Scalteen, 6 yrs, 7st 91b-Peter the Yhermit, 5 yrs, 7st 9 lb-Pluyfellow, 6 yrs, lot 81b eaTdileeyri,a' 5 Yu' 7st 81 b-Extempore, 5 yrs, 7st 811)- 5 yrs, 7st 81b-Bay Momus, 4 yrs, ist 81b rahshist'v,5 irs, 7st 71 b-Gander, 6 yrs, 7st Ib-The yrs, 7st 61 b-Alamode, 4 yrs, 7st 61h- Johnny, aged, 7st 51b-The Artful Dodger, 6 yrs, 7st 516 -- Queen of Tyne, 6 yrs, 7st 5 1b--Portobello, 5 yrs, 7st 51h ---Naworth, aged, Tat 9 1b-Beatrice (Irish), 6 yrs, 7st 21b --All round my Hat, 4 yrs, 7st 21b-D e f en d er , age d , 7 st- P °lish,s yr s , 7st-Poussin, 5 yrs, ist-Dr. Husbasid, 4 yrs, 7st-Yeoman tic Knuck, 4 yrs, 7st-Lord Saltoun, 4 yrs, 64'1314-Barricade, 4 yrs, Est 131b-Adriana mare, 6 yrs. at 121b-E verton, 5 yrs, 6st 1 21b-Vates, 4 yrs, Est 12Th Northumberland, 4 yrs, Est 121b-Idl eness , 4 yrs, 6st--11 1b-P or trait aged, Est 101b-Schoolboy, 6 yrs, 6st 101b-Cataract, 5 yrs, Est 101b-T' Auld Squir, ,I . v yrs, Est 101b-P r id e o f Ki ldare, 4 yrs, 6st 101b 6st sluti (late Si r R obert), 6 yrs, Est 91b-Vitula, 5 yrs, 91b-Little Hampton, 4 yrs, Oat 916-Hemp, 4 yrs, €st 91 b--Pri nce R oyal, 4 yrs, Est 91b- The Dog Billy, ,yrs, Est 91b -Rowena, 4 yrs, 6st 91b-Cretan Oil, Yrs Est 916 -Milton, 4 yrs, Est 81b-Rowland, 5 yrs, 6st 71b--The Dean, aged, Est 61b-Agriculture, 5 yrs, Ost Au. •rJ -- Ale, 5 yrs, 6st 61b-The Old Maid, 5 yrs, 64 GI i-ratriot, 4 yrs, Est 61b-Intrepid, 4 yrs, Est 61b -Coal li t i l te l .k Rose, 4 yrs, Est 5113-Seaport, 4 yrs, Oat 21b-Vol Z, v ent, 4 yrs, Est 21b-Dr. Phillimore, 4 yrs, Est 21b- V' L ee, 4 yrs, 6st 21b-Strathspey, 4 yrs, 64-New 5 °test Deer, 4 yrs, 63t-Little John, 4 yrs, 6st-Sinbad, 4 yrs sst 121 b -Blue Jacket, 4 yrs, sst 121b-Obscurity, 4 Ys, sst 12 Ib-Celeste, 4 yrs, sst 1 21bss.Sulall, 4 Yrs, 53t 10111 -Ambition, 4 yrs, sst 101b-.Stsylsy, 13,4371, s st 71b -April Noddy, 4 yrs, sst 71b -11-t,tish Tr, 4 yrs, 53t 71b-Sweetmeat, 3 yrs, sst 4 11 3-- Xn i i_ _ ll en, 3 yrs , sst - The Hermit, 3 yrs, sst-Young .D - a e s t 7 l4 , , 3 ins, sst-Marrowfat, 3 yrs, sst-Devil's 3 yrs ". Yes, Sat-Robin Burns, 3 yrs, sst Bland. rb; ss, Reims Sat-- Botanie, 3 yrs, sst-Rooney, 3 yrs. sst-The Ile! • 3 yrs, 43t lau,i , in, 3 yrs, sst-Cabin Boy, 3 yrs, sst-Oill i 12 h - ,,Yrs, 5 4-Bastion, 3 yrs, sst-Clumsy, .43bi-,--aa. ias Elia. 3 yrs, 4st 121b-Mystery, 3 y rs, -tst 121 b .4.-iteenrltoulde, 3 yrs, 4st 121b-Secutor, 3 y rs. 4“ 111:! the Rolls filly, 3 yrs, 4st 101h-E,I tie tidy, 4 a Yrs, of 10 Ib-puv, 3 yrs, 4,t 8 , b -S , sier t.• I) , , 1 , 1 i rng the l'aikrs. 3 yrs, 4st 71b-Nereus. 3) rs, 44, 7io th 3ctil vaanza„ 3 srs, 4't 716. To &chin- on .);• ..eto:,- e I st of February. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. 4tl.n!rstone hds,, Mon., Packington Park Gate, 9: 4 '; B " s edc . , Clifton Campirl.; Thurs., Naiistou Viliage; Cr 14 , utters orth-10i. aw leY and Horsham hds., Mon., Churl xood Gate ; , Broadb r id ge H eat h- ; Eat., Platy utrefordahirety W hds , Tues., Perryatone ; N ri.,Yilzor-104- qtgorn eryshire • hds 'rues., Coifronydd; Fri., Glau -, 14 Meoe. . 4i t ,g, h ton barrs•, Mon., Patcham; Wed., Race Course; li '''''., yke. • Qrookside hairs , nomb e , Mon., Newmarket Hill ; Th urs,, Tels „... Ty 41 90 n bk.e. Thakeham; Md., Wa.shin I t e., Ditchling Bosthill. gton Common ; Mure's hds Mon.,Brinkley ; Thurs., Harding ..._streen__lol " Whit e h • c he , aten hairs., Mon., Kinniside; Wed., Wilton -10. ii.s....hrre. lids., Mon., Crewe . ,• Wed. Mere; Thurs., Dan % u ,"", Sat., Davenport liill-101. r „.." • W. Wynn's hds., Mon., Rough Bridge; Wed , „, wynnstay; Fri., Crew Green; Sat., Hanrner-10-k. * hropshire hds., Mon., Chipnal Wood; Wed., }Los k its_stolle; Fri., Child's Ercall-10/, Mr, Me lids., Mon., The Spread- Eagle ; Ti.urs., lye la glebY; Sat., Loxley-10i. Trigton hds., Mon., Coleorton Hall; Wed•, Chaddes _rd.en Hall; Sat., Clifton Village--10i. • hi ..orga!!cliler's lids., Mon., Monks Wood ; Wed , Brands uSeitut.iiouTahkeerL;itz-sliobton_ T-1-44an io d w B b r d .d s. g , e T ; Devon ls , Mon., • 10: Sat., Canongteigu Souse, ; Thurs., Stover Lodge ; Tiverton lids., Mon , Hinistes•hara Castle ; Thurs. Gibbet Moor ; Sat., Third• mile-stone on the Barnpt'on new road-10i. Albrighton hds., Mois , Highgate ; Thurs., Longford ; Sat., Kennels- 10f. • Mon., Scorbro T Iloiderne::s hds., i ties., Kilnwick Percy; Thurs., Winestead Hall • I - ' ~ 13eningholuie ; Sat.' , .ri Lowthorpe Lodge. Lo_rd Yarborough's hds , Mon., Swallow Cross Roa d, • Wed., Wootton Rouse ; Fri., 9 Roads-11. Greyingharn Cross 411sthorpe hds. Mon., Pilbinmoor Build • Wed,, Casty u_ ll award Inn ; lads., Birdsale House--101,,. .• ---1• • -Drax's hds., on., Holnest Kennel ;-. Wed., Ilt.n atrid V ge Ash. v.t.„. ; , hireVqlks hds., Mon., Hatton New Inn ; Tues., P,,,,t0p ila House ; Thurs., Hampton Lucy ; Fri., Comp net b i teY ; Sat. Farnborough -10. 11 e s., on., co -1 .. h k of Irr M ' A 1 oi 4",vri l ,„_ . ' teaufort's hds., Mon., Lowerwoods ; Wed. Pilt e .„7 Park ; F r i., H u ll av i ngton ; Sat., Yate Turn 01. T- T - ATTERSALL'S.— s k T , E e d it g D e A r Y t . indiAlairn‘l., 4t ° P three hedging bets ag Y s E t 1 14 4 t h e liberal odds than were procurable on on( improvement in the Col web colt. The 44 , tete:4 4ll d on the whole it was excessively flat and un 'tit tio--138% touched up a few other Derby horses at the : 141 lakkti°llB. For the Chester Cup 1,000 to 25 each 4, ow, - %It Tru e b oy , Z anon i , and Clumsy ; 1,000 to 000-' to apt C a t aract, The Era, and Barricade ; and IA 1 -- h agst Maramat and P. rtrait. The handi• twepils .00ked for with great anxiety. The Derby . gel at the close were .-- DERBY. 13 t :4 to 1 agst Mr. Grevi taken , 0 1 apt Colonel Ansou's K. dger—t. and aft. oft: 1 taken Ile's Alarm-15 to 1 .7 to 1 agst Lor d Stradbroke's Idas— lS to 1 . : t t o ° ! %gat Lor d Che sterfield's Pam & asst Col. Peel 's Cobweb colt _ - a - to 1 gst Mr. A. Johnstone's Annandale to 1 3 .. - t 4) 1 li aßs& Mr. Jaques's Anti-Repealer —t. 33 3 3 3 - to 1 a sst Ur. Kit) & aft. off. n's Pantasa—taken A , tO 1 Etest Mr. Gully's Old Englan d—t . t ;",, to 1 e gat Lord Chesterfield's Ne , sinonger— . '''' to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Laird o' Cockpen— taken an d a f terwards offered as to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Weatherbit _ t. 40 t o 1 agst Lord Glasgow's Miss Whip colt—ak,,n 5 0 to 1 ,,, 1 agst Mr Irwin's Connaught Ranger—t 2 -... v to 1 a ' CI ar-the- way—taken 5 gat Mr. Ferguson's e to 1 a sst Mr. Lintott's Cabin Boy—taken .." to 1 agst Lord Miltown's Flahowlagh—taken. OAKS. WI 011-7 to 7 to 1 asst Mr. Worthington's Lancash ire t taken to 1504 W.0 01,w ELTHA3I ICH AND frt. S TEEPLE CHACE. ~ ..a1.11.,, to -day, glie. t he able sporting event took p lace ., RA , D. Ni„Lue able stewardship of Captain de Brinzy, . well atteh,l",en and S. Jefferies Esqs. The races were . " m eg, th • ' four - in-hand :, & c., on the loaded, ere being several four-i 4 4w illddeTtakeB of ilO sovs. each, with a purse of 50L , -s o, for an , J horse ;to carry 13st each ;if enter i d 141 h 'old for 5 004, allowed 41b ; 4001, 101 b ; 30J , %01 4 1 - ; 2 "t, 251 b ; 150 Z, 321 b ; 1001., 391 b. Winters ~e_f, 41b • twice, 71b extra. Four miles. It Pl ain Williams's Albert (sold for 200/.) (hisser) I r. vy kr, iplera Brilliant (1500 r j-:zwee Ragtaan 1501.) Af.. . 13alls Student 0000 t 11,.nderson's Carlow (200/.) j 514.1.), William's Exquisite (1500 tie . jitly's Queen of Diamonds (1004) ...... (Dree itt) 0 'fir ttrt. No-go (100/.) .................. (Carpinter) 0 lir. ~.kion's Pat Roony • (1000 )4". isttle's Pickwick (150/) k• :Ti Tollitt's The Pony (1001.) 0.. Te„°llitt's liinahan (200/.) -• •Qtnore's Gay Lad(401.4.) ........... (Elmore) 0 Slv Verfection, Moonraker, and Duprez paid. tv lrt .,_ 11 Came to the post, the flag was dropped, and rieli',..,`"eY went at u good pace, Exquisite leading, Itldrthe ",'e4t Second, Carlow third, and the Queen fourth, oera well up, and all clearing the brook, Exquisite 'ta d . tl , to sh e third field, where he refused the fenve the .nre, e , 1, ItwOue. his rider ; the Queen then took the lead to d turn, when Mason made running, followed by lreit 111 and Brilliant, all three clearing the brook iltili :.'',o second time, when Mason gave his horse a lliii'l44t`lll within half a mile of home, when away he . c i at l i tl won easily Brilliant second, and Ragm e n 1 4 1 . 0 ; toe others bea ' te n oft The winner is in the A 14,4(1 Steeple Chase. th_eeNtakes of 5 sous. each, with 25 sovs. added by 411 „et officers of m i le &c. Gentlemen riders ; 7lb each. Three miles. ' l4 l)t ' 614'8 ptiprez Robin ......... (Captain Merritt) 1 4: 1 ,. !Pi Scobell's Cock . Broadner : 2 .. (Captain l_tittWorth's The Colonel ..... . (Owner) di 's Vk„-7prz took the lead followed closely by Cock Ruin, iris the same way they went over the brook ; but I,lloe,Colonel tell in goin hurter' and threw his rider, Nlketi f."`e itelieve, was not as he quickly mounted liretollowest but his chance in the race wits out. Nritbel kPpt. ;he lead, and at the straight running Capt. l ipshed his horse very much, but Duprez wen 4 1, ~t.er pulling hard. Cock Robin carried albs p s A E la_ b i4All -""'IIT'S PATENT [DIAN. RUDDER SPRIItf/hftro": POILI!'r druwbark to the use of steel pens te the want Nt Auility Whi c h a quill po,.spses, and Which even the 44414410 t oh tai,; • but this difficulty has at length been Sih r . 44l t4.d by theiti Penuity of Mr Perry who by pre gitil. I'll Inditu-rbbl'er spring, . 01 ;1 , 9411e s the sc,ratelvng itNjt" uhavoidable in metallic pens. Let xt►y one %,% h. lb lons th e % N. excellence of these pens but once try tl ti c , t 'lld his doubts will be speedily 1., move li. In ad. titao4 their ease in writing, they possess great )L,ll,ty. qICIIIIIIIIIIIII IN CHAMBERS. —Last evunii,p, the 'Obtr a r 4thiil3l 9 ot Mr. Gurdon, of Grown -office-1., Inner pettyll4h, barrister, were, during his temp,a-ar idisece, i, m 411 d robbed of a handsome gold ehron ,, u,ter, and _ artielea of wardrobe ; yet much valuable pro -14441.41,! the undisturbed. From this fact it may be ‘lle de party waS disturbed. LONDON JOINT-STOCK BANK - - A general meeting of the Shareholders of the Cm - pany was held yesterday, in the board room of the bank, lo receive the report of the Directors, and to cl,Tt nve Directors in the place it those who went out by ro ation, Mr. J. T. Oxl,-y having tfikn the chair, the following report was read by Mr. Boyle, the secretary THE FIFTEENTH REPORT OF THE LONDON JOINT- STOCK BANK. " The Directors have great pleasure in again meeting the Shareholders, to place before them the annexed ab streets of liabilities and assets of the bank, on the 31st of December last, and of the profit and loss accoult for the half-year ending on that day. " By the last-mentioned account it will be seen, that deducting the current expenses, the proportion of balding and parliamentrry expenses, bad debts, income tax. and rebate of interest on bills not due, there remained a di: posable net balance of 18,3051. 16s. ld. Of this sow the Directors have applied 18,000/. for the payment of the usual dividend, at tilerateof6l. per cent. perannum, free fr.itn income-tax, and havecarried 3051. 16s. ld. to the credit of the guarantee fund, with which, and the accumulation of interest, that fund has been aug mented 1,643/. 19s. 9d. during the half-year, being now 90,856/. Bs. " The seats in the direction to be vacated on the pre sent occasion are those occupied by Sir Felix Booth, Bart., William Miller Christy, Esq , Robert Ferranti, Esq., William Ormsby Gore, Esq., M.P., and Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.8., all of whom have given notice that they are candidates for re-election. " The Directors have to report that their highly valued friend and colleague, John Peter Darthez, jun., Esq., not having experienced the improvement of his health which he anticipated at the time of his late re-election, has considered it his duty to place his seat in the direc tion at the disposal of the Proprietors, and he has ac cordirgly sent in his resignation. " I❑ communicating this information, the Directors feel tact they should not discharge their duty, did they omit to testify to the great merits of Mr. Darthess as I)trectr.t• of this Bank, and to the many advantages it derived at its first establishment from his enlightened vit ws, and subsequently from the attention and assiduity with which he endeavoured to promote its best interests. " For the election of a gentleman to supply the vacancy which has been thus created, the Board have appointed a general special meeting of the Shareholders for Thurs day, the 13th day of March next. The half-year's divi dend will be pay able (le and after Friday, the 24th day of January next." On the question that the report be received and prilited fur the use of the Shareholders, Mr. Alderman H. Hiram :a asked the Chairman to state, on the part of the Directors, if it was not incon sistent with their sense of duty to the ProprietorS, what amount had been paid during the half-year as interest on the monthly minimum balances 7 The CHAIRMAN had no objection to give the informa tion ; the amount was 4,761/. 17s. Mr. Alder:min HUGHES asked what was the amount paid during the corresponding period of the last year ? The CIIAIAMAN said that it had been stated at the last :. , eeing at a 7391 Mr. Alderman HUGHES expressed the satisfaction which was generally felt by the Proprietors that the Directors, in their wisdom, had thought fit to reduce the interest on these minimum monthly balances. Mr. CORNEY said the Shareholders had left it to the (lis..!r, , ti on of the Dircctors. He thought they had exer cisial a very sound discretion, and as long as the Com pany had such Directors they could not leave too much in their hands. Mr. G. HARRisoN said that he was one who had opposed the proposition, on the ground that when they had laid down a general rule and induced individuals to ope:. accounts, they should not, without the direst neces sity-, abrogate that rule. As traders in money who bad f Tined a co-partnership, they must take the risk of that trade on their owa shoulders ; they had no right, when the market was in their favour, to say the profit shall be ours, and when it was against them, to turn on the depositors, and say the loss shall be yours. Dr. Bovertallo considered that the Directors had come to it must satisfactory determination. They could not adopt an immutable rule, like the laws of the Medes and Persians, that, under ell circumstances, should the same amount of interest be exacted and paid. The Directors had very wisely and prudently preserved as important principle : they had given the depositors great advan tages by allowing them some benefit from their balances, but at the same time they had done justice to the Pro prietors, and he regretted that they had not persisted in modifying the principle by which depositors benefited from those frequent changes of the market to whit': every institution like this must be subject. Mr. HAJahoe..u. rose to make some observations re specting that part of the report which alluded to the re sii,:natiom of Mr. Darthez. He was glad to see that the Dirt ctors had omitted any recommendation to the Share holders as to filling up the vacancy caused by such re s.gnation. The CHAIRMAN stated that the vacancy caused by Mr. Darthez's resignation would be filled up at a future day. _ BoweING asked whether it was not desirable that the report of the Directors should be distributed to the Shareholders two or three days before the public meet ing. If this Co m p any h ad b een i nst i tute d within the lest six months, such a proceeding would have become imperative, for there was a provision in the New Joint Stock Companies Act, requiring the circulation of ac counts previous to the general meeting. The CHAIRMAN said that the report would be pre pared very soon after the termination of the half-year. Mr. lismoest. again proceeded to make some remarks upon the approaching election. Mr. Alderman H. HUGHES rose to order. The CHAIRMAN repeated that the day specially ap ',einted for the election would be the time to discuss the inerite of the candidates. The question that the report be received, and printed n it the use of the Shareholders was then put and agreed to. The CHAIRMAN said that the next business was to till up the seats in the direction, to be vacated by Sir Felix llooth, Bart., Wm. Miller Christy, Esq., Robert Farrand, Esq., William Ormsby Gore, Esq., M.P., and Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.8.; all of whom had given notice that they wire candidates for re-election. Mr. V. KNIGHT had great pleasure in moving the re election of those gentlemen. Mr. MOORE thought that they could notre-elect those five gentlemen without inquiry. He rnant, as the names were put up, seriatim, to ascertain whether they properly attended to their duties. There was not a more respectable in.in in England than Mr. J. P. Darthez. Last year he had made kind inquiries after Mr. Darthez, and was told lie had not been in England for two or three years, but was expected at the beginning of the year. He inquired again in July last, and was told they did not say the beginning of the year, but some time in the course of the year. There should be a book of attendance of Directors, or some such measure. The ii st gentleman now proposed for re-election was Sir Felix Booth He begged to ask the Chairmen whether bit- Felix Booth was a gentleman who attended to bis iaities as Director ? Mr. HASTIE, a Director, said that the question was of that nature which would operate most powerfully on the minds of the Directors. He himself went to Scotland, probably for three months in the year, and if his seat in tile direction was to prevent his taking that vacation, he should at once say that it was impossible for him to act. lie put it to the Proprietors whether such inquiries were at all desirable for the interests of the bank? Mr. CORNEY said that before the Chairman answered the question, it was expedient to take the sense of the meeting whether any answer should be given. Such questions might lead to consequences not beneficial to the interests of the Proprietors at large. It would be come a precedent, and it became a grave question whe ther such precedents were beneficial. The great point which the Shareholders had to consider was whether they were satisfied with the means adopted to promote their interest... If they were satisfied, they ought not to he too minute in their inquiries respecting the attendances of Directors. A gentleman might be more beneficially employed fer the bank by travelling into Scotland than by remaining at home, and therefore it was no test of his efficiency to ask how often he attended the meetings o the board. Mr. Alderman Hu°Hits, in reference to the resigna tion of Mr. Darthez, thought that the Proprietors had been as handsomely treated by that gentleman as they could desire. It was announced at the meeting this time twelvemonth, that his resignation was to be ex pected if he was unable to attend, and he sent in his re signation accordingly. Mr. AMEROSE MOORE stated that he happened to be the chairman at the time Mr. Darthez's resignation was r. ceived. He knew it to be his spontaneous act, and that his most intimate personal friends at the board were not aware he was going to send in his resignation. Mr. Moore put it formally to the Chairman what had been the nature of Sir Felix Booth's attendance? \lr. CORNEY moved, as an amendment, " That the question be not answered." The CHAIRMAN having put the amendment, it was de cided in the affirmative, only three hands being held up against it. - The original question, that the five Directors who had eacat, d be reelected, was then put and agreed to. Sir FEeix BOOTH said that when he was chosen Di rector, at the commencement of the year, he distinctly informed the Proprietors that his business would prevent his attending as closely as they proposed. If they re quired further attendance he was ready to resign his seat, but whether Director or not, he should always feel attached to the concern. He thanked the Proprietors in the name of the gentlemen who had been re-elected. Mr. HABLOCK referred to the adverti-einent in which the Directors had recommended a candidate. He had always understood that the Directors were not to use their influence to obtain votes, or to interfere with the light of jte , gment of any individual. The CHAIRMAN said that nothing had been done on this occasion, except in strict accordance with what had la n due on former occasions. After some further conversation the Chairman put the question o hieh was submitted by Mr. Moore, " That it is note xpi client the Directors should recommend any of the candidates to the Proprietors on any occasion of vacant')." and deehireti the motion carried, there being forty-nine hands hi IJ up in its favour, and thi rty - oite ti g nitist it. There were some calls for a division, but it was not insisted upon. A Proprietor handed in a notice of motion for the next meeting to take into consideration the propriety of hirining H fund for providing for retiring pensions for the clerks after long service. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman and Direc tors, to Mr. Pollard, the Manager, and the meeting separated. ELGIN Bliacus.—We have authority to state, that notwithstanding various surmises and premature canvas sing, tIo-re hi no prospect of an election for these burghs speedily taking place.—Elgin Courant. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 184 HUNG ERFORD AND LAMBETH SUSPENSION FOOT-BRIDGE COMPANY. A meeting of the Directors of this Compery was yes terday held at the office in Villiers-street, Win. Haste-s, Esq., in the chair. The minutes of the last meeting, held on the 12th December, were read and confirmed. The CHAIRMAN stated that the object of the present meeting was simply to confirm the resolutions agreed to upon the last occasion, which went to empower the Com pany to raise an additional capital of 10,0001. The Act of Parliament required that when any matter of this kind was brought before the Proprietors, a subsequent meet ing should be held to confirm the proceedings of the former court. He had nothing to state beyond what he had stated before—namely, that they were obliged to go to Parliament to obtain an Act to complete their under taking. The Messrs. Tillett, acting under the advice of Mr. Whithall, the solicitor, had been induced to with draw from the friendly offers which had been made on the part of the Company. This, however, was a matter of comparatively little moment. Had the gentlemen agreed to the terms which had been made to them, the Company would have had to pay perhaps 5001., or above, which would have been more than the property was actually worth. To carry out the objects which they had in view, it would cost the Company some eight or nice hundred pounds ; but it was to be remembered that, under an Act of Parliament, no more than the actual value of property required would be given in the way of compensation. He should be very glad if the Company could have saved this outlay of money, but they had very difficult people to deal with. Gentlemen were aware that the Board of Trade were favourable to the extension of the South •Western Railway to the York road, and also to the Richmond line, which would join that railway at Battersea-fields. The Company had abandoced their intention of carrying on a branch from the York-road to Waterloo Bridge. Had that project been carried into effect, it must have been prejudicial to the interests of the proprietors of the Lambeth and Hungerford Suspension Bridge. The resolutions were put and confirmed, and were as follow : Rsolutions of the Board of Directors, held the 16th day of January, 1845, for raising the additional capi tal of 10,0001., in pursuance of the authority in that behalf vested in them, by two special meetings of the Proprietors. " 1. That there shall be created 3,200 shares of a 2s. 6d. each, to be called eighth shares. " 2. That on on before the 16th day of Ft bruary next an instalment of 12s. 6d. shall be paid upon each such eighth share, to the account of the Company, at the Lon don and County Bank, 71, Lombard street. "3.'t hat the remaining instalments to be called for upon such eighth shares shall be paid by the holders thereof at such times as shall be appointed by the Board of Directors, so that no such instalments shall exceed the sum of 10s. for each eighth share, nor shall be called for at a less interval than two calendar months after the then preceding e 4 d . in T g ha ca t such li.: eighth shares shall be offered to the present Shareholders in the proportion of one for every existing share this day held by them respectively. " 5. That a copy of these resolutions shall forthwith be sent by post to each such Shareholder, to vk horn the secretary shall at the same time offer a number of eighth shares equal to the number of original shares this day held by such Shareholder. " 6. That in the event of any Shareholder failing for one month after such offer of such new shares to accept the same, and also to pay the said instalment of 12s. 6d. apon each such eighth share to the account of the Com pany, at the London and County Bank, 71, Lombard street, the same shall be disposed of by the Company to any parties wishing to become the purchasers thereof; for such sum or sums as the Directors shall be able to obtain for the same, as and when they shall deem it ex pedient so to do." Mr. BUCHMASTER wished to know whether any ar rangement had been made with regard to the opening of the suspension bridge ? The CHAIRMAN said that the question which had been put was one which it was difficult to answer, but the Directors saw no reason why it should not be opened to the public in the month of March. They were, how ever, much worried with the details of the work, which involved a variety of scientific and mechanical difficulties. He hoped the bridge would be opened in March. A PROPRIETOR—I hope you will not make it the Ist of April !—(A laugh.) He hoped there was a rea sonable prospect of the bridge being opened in the spring? The CHAIRMAN said he must speak with great cau tion, as he had been misled on former occasions ; but he repeated he saw no reason why the bridge should not be opened by the time he had named. A PROPRIETOR regretted the absence of the engineer, as he wished to impress upon him the propriety of finishing one end of the work. The CHAIRMAN would not attempt to conceal the fact that the Directors had been disappointed in respect to the progress made in the work ; but gentlemen must recollect that they had no money till November, and that up to October they were largely in debt with their contractor. A PROPRIETOR suggested that more men should be put to work. The CHAIRMAN observed that they could not employ above a certain number of men at one time. There were now 100 men at work. Capt. ENGLISH wished to know whether the Directors had taken into consideration the question of the amount of toll to be levied on foot passengers ? For his own part, he was of opinion that they should exact Id. from foot passengers ; at any rate, this might be tried for a time, whilst the bridge was a novelty. The CHAIRMAN said, with regard to the question of toll, that was a matter which had not yet been decided upon, and it could enly be done by a resolution of the Board of Directors, to be afterwards confirmed by a meeting to be held previous to the general annual meet ing. At that meeting the Directors would be bound to state their opinion. He would only observe that he dif fered from Mr. English as to the propriety of making the toll Id. instead of a id. The meeting then broke up. • AYLESBURY RAILWAY. Yesterday a special general meeting of the Proprietors in the Aylesbury Railway was held at Aylesbury, for the purpose of taking into consideration what effect the projected Tring,Wolverhampton, and Worcester Railway would have upon their interests. Mr. W. Rickford oc cupied Vie chair. THE ADMIRALTY AND THE EAST INDIA and CHINA ASSOCIATION. _ - - Admiralty, Jan. 3, 1845. Sir,—ln reply to your letter of the 31st of October last, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to ccquaint you that a contract has been entered into by their Lordships for the conveyance of the mails between Suez and Calcutta and China, and that the particulars will be promulgated by the Post office department.—l am, &c., The CHAIR:SIA X stated that an offer had been made to the new Company to sell their line for the cost price— namely, 60,0001., but their provisional committee had neglected to return a reply. It would, therefore, be for the meeting to say whether the project should be opposed in Parliament or not. Notice had been given to make use of four miles of their line, but as the new Company would take most of their traffic, they could not consent to this, unless the whole were purchased. The meeting appearing to concur in the view taken by the Chairman, a resolution authorising the Directors to take steps to oppose the new line was agreed to, on the motion of Mr. Tindal, seconded by Dr. Lee. JOHN BARROW. John Stikeman, Esq., East India and China Association. East India and China Association, 2, Cowper's-court, Jan. 11. Sir,—On the 4th inst. I had the honour to receive your letter of the previous day's date, acquainting me that their Lordships had entered into a contract for the conveyance of the mails between Suez and Calcutta and China, and that the particulars would be promulgated by the Post-office. Finding no intimation had been gtven on the subject up to the 7th in the Post-office Packet List, or in any other way, I wrote to Colonel Maberly, inquiring how soon the information the merchants are so anxious to possess in respect to the mail which is to leave for Suez on the 20th inst. would be made known, and to my great surprise and regret I have this morning received an answer from Colonel Maberly, dated the 10th, stating that no official communication has been made to that department. —I am, &e., JOHN STIKEMAN, Secretary. Sir John Barrow, Bart., Admiralty. Admiralty, Jan. 11, 1845. Gentlemen,---With reference to your Secretary's letter of this day's date, I am commanded by my Lords Com missioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you, that ar rangements have not yet b*.en completed for the convey ance of the mails between Alexandria and England, but that her Majesty's Government are pledged to the per formance of this service either by vessels belonging to the Royal Navy or by contract, and that when this point is determined, no delay will take place in the announce ment for public information by the proper office. I am, &c, JOHN BARROW. The East India and China Association, Cowper's-court, Cornhill. East India and China Association, Jan. 13. Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, addressed to this Association, of the 11th inst., informing them that arrangements have not yet been completed for the conveyance of the mails between Alexandria and England, but that her Majesty's Go vernment are pledged to the performance of the service either by vessels belonging to the Royal Navy or by contract. As the public have been led to think that, under a contract with the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navi gation Company, one of their vessels (the Hindosten, from Calcutta, on the 10th inst.) would be at Suez on or about the 6th of next month, to receive a mail for Cal cutta and intermediate ports, and as the same Company have by public advertisement stated that their vessel, the Great Liverpool, will depart from Southampton on the 20th inst. for Alexandria, I am directed respectfully to request you will have the goodness to inform me whether it is intended that a mail shall be forwarded to Alexandria, either by the steamer Great Liverpool, or by a vessel of the Royal Navy (on the 20th), or via Marseilles on the 23d or 24th of this month, so that the mercantile community and others may be able to avail themselves of the first opportunity that will present itself for having their letters sent on direct from Suez to Calcutta by the contract steamer on that side of Egypt. It will also be satisfactory to ascertain how letters brought by that steamer from Calcutta, Madras, and Ceylon, will be forwarded from Alexandria to this country.—l have the honour to be, &c., GEORGE LARPENT, Chairman. Sir John Barrow, Bart. Admiralty, Jan. 14, 1845. Gentlemen,--Having laid before my Lords Commis sioners of the Admiralty your Chairman's letter of yesterday's date, requesting information as to the details of the arrangement for the mail communication about to be opened between this country, Calcutta, and China, I sin commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you that the moment the arrangement is concluded notice will be given by the Post-office department. —I am, &c., JOHN BARROW. The East India and China Association. .I.M. THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. The most careful inquiries that we have been able to institute lead us to the belief that the rumour of the Emperor's death is not deserving of credit. From the nature of the case, it is true, we can have none but nega tive evidence; still that evidence is very strong. We know that up to the hour of our paper going to press, no official accounts of the event have reached this country from St. Petersburgh. The report originates with the Brussels journals published on the 14th instant, and they profess to have received it from Berlin via Amsterdam. Now we find from the Frankfort papers of the 11th, that a rumour of the Emperor's " serious illness" was cur rent in that city on the previous day, the 10th, but that it was not believed, because the Prussian corre spondence that arrived in regular course of post, made no mention of it. Moreover, the Universal Prussian Gazette of the 12th is altogether silent on the subject. Our correspondent at Paris, writing on Wednesday afternoon, says—" A rumour of the death of the Emperor of Russia has been afloat, and the news is said to have come via Holland. It, however, obtains very little credence"—and these circumstances, taken together, appears to us a full justification for dis believing the story. It would be exceedingly difficult, on political grounds, to offer a reasonable conjecture as to the motive of the fabrication, if such it should prove to be. However deeply we should lament the demise of the Emperor of Russia, as a man estimable alike in his public capacity and his domestic relations, it is highly improbable that the event would create any sensation in his dominions but one of general grief. There is no risk of a disputed succession, and no room for antici pating that a new course of policy would compromise the peace of Europe. But, while we seek in vain for the origin of the rumour in the position of Russia, domestic or foreign, we think the papers to which we have al luded afford some clue to the solution of the mystery. The Independent Belga says " the funds fell on the 13th at Amsterdam," in consequence of the report ; and the Handelsblad accounts for this by the fact that " a considerable amount of Russian stock has been sold." We confess that, under all the circumstances, we think the story may fairly be attributed, as far as we see at present, to the persons engaged in those great games of hazard which, in the delicate periphrasis of the Bourse, are designated as " financial operations." It would not be the first time that such a thing has hap pened, and we fear it will not be the last. Our suspicion is somewhat confirmed by the manner in which the in telligence reached ourselves so early as half-past six yesterday morning. We received it apparently authen ticated by a signature that we could not recognise, and by a route the most circuitous for anything coming from Holland or Belgium. We, therefore, declined to p r i n t the communicati on ; b ut, finding that the Times soon published several details, we copied them, and in half an hour afterwards issued a third edition, with the result of our own inquiries. We repeat both these statements in our present impression, and our readers will now have before them the whole history of the case, as a means of enabling them to judge how far we are borne out in the opinion we have hazarded during the absence of authen , tic information.—Post. RAILWAY IN TELLIGENCE. BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY. BRISTOL, THIIRSDAY.—This day a special general meeting of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company was held at the White Lion Hotel, in this city, for the dispatch of important bie-iness. The large room was completely filled with Sharehol- ders, the chair being taken by Frederick Ricketts, Esq., the Chairman of the Board of Directors, at one o'clock. J. B. BARHAM, Esq., the Secretary, read the report, which stated that the Dire ctors had taken measures, in conformity with the resolution of the half-yearly .xeneral meeting, held on th e 22d o f A ugust l ast, for obtaining surveys, and for making an application to Parliament for a Bill for constructing a railway from the Bristol and Exeter main line between Bridgewater and Taunton to Bridport, Dorchester, and Weymouth, with a branch to Yeovil and Sherborne. But subsequent proceedings on the part of other companies rendered it expedient to act in more perfect unison with the Great Western Com pany, and to combine with them in an enlarged system of railway accommodation for the counties of Somerset and Dorset, so as to secure the communication between those two lines and Dorchester, Bridport, and Wey mouth. The result was that the Directors, subject to the approbation of the Shareholders at the meeting, had taken measures for applying to Parliament for authority to construct a branch from a point in the main line about five miles distant from Bridgewater, through Langport, and South Petherton, to Yeovil. The CHAIRMAN then laid before the meeting several facts and data showing the advantages to be derived from the proposed extension, and concluded by propos ing the following resolutions, which were seconded by E. Divett, Esq., M.P. for Exeter, Mr. Cross, and other gen tlemexi, and carried unanimously : " 1. That it is expedient that this Company should obtain powers for the formation of the following lines of railway, namely, a railway from Durston, between Bridgewater and Taunton, to Yeovil, in the county of Somerset. - - THE GORGON STEAM-SLOOP. The following letter has been addressed to the Editor of a Morning Contemporary : Sir,—l have this morning received a letter from an officer on board her Majesty's steam-vessel Gorgon, Captain C. Hotham, and you and your numerous readers will be glad to learn that, on the 13th October, that ship was hove from off the beach of Monte Video, and during the following week was dragged through the mud a dis tance of halt' a mile, in seven feet of water. The perse verance and exertions of the officers and crew in this trial of seamanship and nautical skill, appear to have been truly surprising ; during five months their work was continual, by night as well as by day, not only forming a complete we t d oc k, b ut a l so i n excavating a channel, 100 fathoms in length, through which to haul the ship clear of the sand into the mud. It appears the Gorgon was left, after the gale of the 10th May, nearly dry ; at a very high tide there were eight inches water round the bows, and four feet on each quarter, she being buried in the sand to the depth of thirteen feet on the starboard, and nine feet on the port side. To extricate an 1,100-ton ship from this situation, and perfectly to fit her fur active service, was an under taking which reflects the highest credit on all connected with her, and will prove to the numerous foreign officers who were spectators of the undertaking, that thirty years of peace have not deprived the British navy of that energy and spirit for which it has always been distin guished.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, 36, Strand, Jan. 16. GEORGE GILLOT. expect we shall hear of her arrival home some time in April. " A railway from the Clevedon-road station to Cleve don, in the same county, and an .improved junction with the Great Western Railway at the Bristol terminus. "2. That it is expedient that this Company do take 1,500 shares of 501. each in the Cornwall Railway from Plymouth to Falmouth (in continuation of the South Devon Railway), and that the Directors of this Company be authorised to subscribe for the same accordingly, and to procure all necessary .Parliamentary powers fur that purpose. "3. That an additional capital of 500,0001. be raised by the creation of 15,000 third shares, at 331. 6s. Bd. per share. " 4. That every Proprietor of original shares shall be entitled to one such third share in respect of each original share, for which he may stand registered on the 16th of January, 1845, on condition of his notifying his intention to avail himself of it by letter to the Secre tary, and by paving before the 31st of January a deposit of 2/. per share." Mr. MORTIMER inquired whether the new branches would be on the atmospheric principle, or the same as the trunk line ? Mr. BRUNEL, the engineer, answered that the Tiverton branch, from its being so peculiarly fitted for the pur pose, would be worked on the atmospheric principle ; the Clevedon branch like the trunk line ; while the Yeovil was not yet fixed. Thanks to the Chairman closed the meeting. MYSTERIOUS CASE OF POISONING AT SHEERNESS. —Within the last few days, a painful degree of sensa tion has been felt by all parties in and about Sheerness, arising from the affecting circumstances of an accom plished and very handsome young Jewess, named Esther Russell, the daughter of a respectable tradesman in that town, haring died from the poisonous effects of arsenic, in rather a mysterious manner, after giving birth to a female illegitimate infant, since dead. The inquest on the bodies of the young mother and child was held on Tuesday, before Mr. llinde, one of the Coroners for Kent, and the principal facts connected with the deplora ble affair, as given in evidence, have already appeared. The jury returned, after a lengthened deliberation, the f;,llowing verdict :—" That the deceased Esther Russell died from the efftets of arsenic, but bow administered there was no evidence to show, and the jury were unani mously of opinion that a great want of attention towards the deceased had been shown by her parents and family. Respecting the infant, they were of opinion that it had died from excessive hemoirrhage caused by the navel string. not being tied." A FEMALE PIIEA CHER.—Y esterday Mrs. Lydia finder, a middle-aged and rather respectable-looking female was charged at the Lambeth Police-court with creating a great disturbance, in the Westminster-road, on that morning. Police .constable, L 31, deposed that about three o'clock, in the morning lie heard a disturbance in the Westminster-road, and on going to see what was the matter, he found the prisoner in the midst of a crowd of night walkers and others preaching a sermon, partly re ligious and partly blasphemous. lie endeavoured to got her one way or the other, but she refused, and kept abusing him, so that he was compelled to take her to the station-house. In reply to the charge the prisoner said she had been up a number of hours with her daughter, who was in a dying state, and having taken a glass of rum it affected her head very much. She was discharged with an admonition to abstain from rum for the future, LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY. On Wednesday the half -yearly general meeting of the Proprietors of this Company was held at the Town-hall, Lancaster, Mr. D. W. Ilassells in the chair. The Di rectors' report announced that the whole of the works from Lancaster to Carlisle, with a single line only, had been let to Messrs. Brassey, Mackenzie, and Stephenson, the contractors, within the engineering estimate. The works had since progressed satisfactorily, and the con tractors had possession of sixty or seventy miles of land, without having recourse to a jury, although the total number of landowners dealt with had exceeded three hundred. At the Lancaster end of the line the works had not yet been commenced, owing to an alteration de sired by the inhabitants in crossing the line, to effect which an appli ation to Parliament would he made. Another deviation was proposed to be made at Kendal. '1 he Directors now propose to lay down a double instead of a single line, and within the authorised capital. To complete the great chain of railway communication be tween England and Scotland, they have resolved on sup porting the proposed Caledonian line. The construction of the proposed Kendal and Windermere Railway would in crease the traffic of the Lancaster and Carlisle, and the Directors had entered into a conditional contract with the ncaster and Presto n C om p an y to l ease the i r line of twenty miles in length. The accounts showed that the receipts bad amounted to 174,6951., leaving, after dis bursements, a balance of 85,829/ The Chairman con gratulated the meeting on the state of the Company's affairs, and after a discussion, in which Mr. Erringtun, civil engineer, Mr. Nicholson, Mr. Head, and others en gaged, the report was received, and the agreement with the Lancaster and Preston ratified. SCOTCH CURRENCY QUESTION, MON " That from and after the passing of this Act, no per son other than a person who was on the 6th day of May, 1844, lawfully issuing his own bank notes, shall make or issue bank notes in any part of the United Kingdom." Now here is a monopoly created in favour of the existing Scotch banks, and all persons are prohibited from forming any new banks of issue in Scotland, however great may be the increase of population, or strong the necessity for the for the formation of such new banks. On what prin ciple has this monopoly been created ? On what prin ciple should one portion of the cominunity have special and exclusive privileges conferred on them at the ex pense of their neighbours, and more especially i n th ese days, wh e n th e commercial spirit of the country is in favour of relaxing instead of making more binding all restrictions on trade ? Every man connected with one of these joint-stock banks is, in a gre a t d egree, h i s own banker--coins his own credit—and enjoys thereby a mighty advantage over his neighbour in trade, who is now legally debarred from exercising the same privi lege, however great his real capital, and worthy of credit every way as a banker he may be. Whether Sir Robert P ee l will carry his threat into execution remains to be seen. But in the meantime the shares of all joint-stock banks in Scotland have risen greatly in value notwithstanding the threat ; and as to the threat itself, there is something singularly inconsistent in it, and at variance with the clause above quoted—fur if it ever was really intended to suppress the one pound notes in Scotland, why provide by Act of Parliament for their continuance, and create a monopoly for issuing them P The recent agitation in Scotland has been wholly di rected against the threatened suppression of the one pound notes ; not a word has been uttered against the creation of the unjust and unconstitutional monopoly I have pointed out. Can it be that Scotch men generally are ignorant of it, and that interested parties, under cover of the agitation, mean to afford an excuse to the Minister for retracting his threat, so that the monopoly which has been the real object all along will remain secure against the chande of popular objection or legis lative interference ? Is there no Scotch Member who will call for expla nation on this matter in the ensuing session P—l am, &c. A SCOTCHMAN, BUT NOT A BANKER. Jan. 15, 1845. THE ROBBERY IN THE DOCKS. Yesterday Matthew Clark, James Hurley, Samuel Cantilo, William Johnson, and Benjamin Ashton, the five men charged with breaking into the tobacco ware house of the London Dock, on the night of Friday, the 3d instant, and stealing 1471b5. of leaf tobacco, were brought before Mr. Ballantine for final examination at ihe Thames Police -court. They all conducted themselves in a very reckless and impadent manner throughout the proceedings, which commenced by Mr. Symons, the chief clerk, reading the depositions taken on the former examinations, and the evidence contained in which has been already published in this journal. There was a strong circumstantial case against all the prisoners except Ashton, and the tobacco found in the room ‘‘ here Hurley was captured was clearly identified as that stolen from the dock warehouse. Mr. Ballantine said he should at once discharge Ash ton, and commit Hurley, Cantilo, Johnson, and Clark for trial for the felony. Mr. Humphreys —Very well, Sir. Then I will now prove a former conviction against one of the prisoners, and ask you to retur n the evidence with the other depo sitions. William Cheney, an o ffi cer at Ni c h o l son ' s - w h arf, Lower Tham es - street, stated that he knew Johnson, who was con v i cted at the January sessions of the Central Criminal Court, in 1843, for stealing a chest of tea, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour. The four prisoners were then committed for trial. Mr. Humphreys' who app eare d f o r the prosecution, said, now the case had terminated, he begged leave to state that very few robberies bad been committed in the London Dock, and that in no establishment was property safer. Last year there were two attempts at robbery in the dock, which did not succeed, owing to the vigilance of the officers. In a third case the thieves stole about sixteen gallons of brandy from a ship, and that was the only instance during the year 1843 that property was feloniously abstracted from the London Dock premises. --- FATAL ACCIDENT TO J. BROWN, ESQ., or LEA CASTLE, WORCESTERSHIRE.—M r . Brown, who was a magistrate for the countie of Worcester, Salop, and Staffordshire, and was recently High-Sheriff of Wor cestershire, died on Saturday night last, from the effects of injuries received by being thrown from his gig by coming in contact with a dog-cart, near his own resi dence. An inquest was held on the body on Tuesday evening, the 14th inst. , wnen it appeared that Mr. Brown was driving along the road at a proper pace and on the proper side. Coming in a contrary direction were two dog-carts, which were also on their proper side of the road, but their owners were walking on the footpath. On approaching each other the owners of the dog -carts went towards their dogs, to lead them out of the way nearer to the side of the road, when the dogs ran under the feet of Mr. Brown's horse ; that gentleman was then thrown to the ground, his spine was injured, and the left side of his chest co:npletely driven in, causing serious in ternal injuries. He was conveyed to his residence, and Mr. Thursfield, surgeon, was called in, but all the means adopted to save life proved fruitless. The Coroner's jury found a verdict of " Accidental death," and at the same time expressed their opinion " that the use of dogs on a public highway is very dangerous, and requires legislative interference." Mr. Brown was in his 67th year; his remains are to be interred at Manchester this day (Friday). ROBBERIES BY THE SWELL MOIS AT WINDSOR.— During this week, upon the occasion of General Tom Thumb being exhibited to the lieges of the Royal town of Windsor, at the public room, in the High-street, the swell mob fraternity from the metropolis reaped a plen tiful harvest. At the afternoon exhibition, on Monday last, the room was exceedingly crowded ; thus affording an excellent opportunity for the light-fingered gentry to carry on their nefarious calling. Colonel Moncrieffe, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, had his pocket picked of his purse, which, at the close of the exhibition, was found empty in a corner of the room. A lady named Ellis was robbed of her purse, containing four sovereigns, which, after being emptied of its contents, and the silver slides taken off, was again placed in her pocket. Another lady was robbed of her purse and ten sovereigns, and nu merous other similar thefts were committed at the same time. PUTNEY-BRIDGE AND TUE POOR -RATES. --- At refusi ng suraon to pay th e sum Wandsworth Police Court yesterday th e c h urchwardens and overseers of the parish of Putney applied against liedto the proprietors Clive, the ofi iu t m u ey ag - i b s magistrate, for , for of 481. 10s., being the amount of one quarter's rate, due since October, 1844. From the stateme n t s ma d e yes terday and at other times in this Court, it would appear that the Bridge Company and the pa r i s h es of Putney and Fulham h a ve been at variance for upwards of two years, and the B r idge Proprietors have refused t o p a y any upon nt y do hem by either p ar i s h . The Pro prietors not form a corporate body, rates e a s il madeege that up they and that cacti Proprietor should be rat e d separately, ac cording to his s h a re in the bridge. There were now ninety-six Proprietors, some of whom reside abroad ; therefore, to obtain the rate in that manner would be impossible. After a long conversation b e t ween t h e magistrate an d t h e parochial authorities, it was ulti mately determined that a sum mons containin g th e names of ninetpone proprietors should be made out, and served upon Mr. Cheesemore, the secretary, at the bridge toll-house. DEPARTURE OF MR. PRITCHARD—The Patriot mentions that this gentleman, whose name has been s o much before the public in connection with the affairs of Otaheite, takes his departure to-day for the station to I which he has been appointed. He does not go out as a missionary, though his admirers are informed that in his new position he " will promote the missionary enter prise" as effectually as ever. OPOLY IN FAVOUR OF THE EXISTING SCOTCH BANKS. TO THE EDITO R OF THE SUN. Snit,—lf Sir Robert Peel did not exhibit any very great regard for the claims of labour and industry in his currency and banking measure of last session, nor much philosophic comprehension of the nature and functions of money, nor can accurate knowledge of " the ancient standard of value," or of the monetary history of Eng land, he displayed consideraile adroitness—by some deemed statesmanship—i n securing the acquiescence of all parties in the Legislature, by playing off one interest against another, and conferring on parties supposed to be hostile some advantage of a special kind not inimical to the general provisions of the Bill. Thus, the English joint-stock banks were induced to support the measure by the bestowal of certain corporate privileges and legal facilities which the Bank of England had till then exclusively enjoyed. In like manner, the silence an d acquiescence of the Scotch banking and money interest were purchased and obtamocl for tho time —I say for the time—for observe, although Scotland has latterly spoken out in a tone which it is said has so frightened the Minister, that he no lon ger intends to carry into execution his threat of assimi lating the currency of Scotland to that of England, by the suppression of her one pound notes, yet it is re markable that, although this threat was uttered early in May, not a syllable was whispered in opposition to it in Scotland, or by any Scotch Member in Parliament, while the Bank Charter Act was pending, nor until it had fairly passed and become the law of the land in July following. What, then, was the consideration given to the Scotch money power for this tacit support of the measure ? Perhaps the answer will be found in the 10th section of the Bank Charter Act, which, although an Act referable to the Bank of England and the regula tion of its issues, somehow or other includes an enact mentby applicable clause in questi on . Th e c l ause is in torins of to banking in Scotl an d, as w ill be theseen these words : FRENCH PLAYS. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Mr. Mitchell has just issued his programme for the season, which will, we opine, prove even more brilliant than any of its predecessors. The subscription is for forty representations, which will take place on Mondays and Fridays. There will also be a performance on Wednesday evenings, which will not be included in the subscription ; but the arrangement of last season, by which subscribers were enabled to exchange either the Monday or the Friday evening for the Wednesday, will be continued. This is a most liberal arrange ment on the part of Mr. Mitchell. It gave general satisfaction last season, and we hope that it will be met in the spirit in which it ought to be met, and that his list of subscribers will be materially increased. The season opens on Wednes day, the 22d instant, with Monsieur Lafont of the Theatre des Variete, his first appearance at this thea tre, and Mademoiselle Nathalie, from the Theatre du Gymnase, will appear conjointly with M. Lafont. They will be succeeded by Frederic Lemaitre, and Mademoiselle Clarisse, who will remain with us until Easter. During their engagement Don Cesar de Bazan and Ruy Bias will be produced. After Easter Madame Albert will appear for a few nights, and her brief en gagement will be followed by that o f Monsieur Ravel, an actor new to this country. Made moiselle Plessy and Monsier Regnier, of the Theatre Francais, will follow Monsieur Ra vel, and during their engagement a new comedy by Alexander Dumas, written expressly for Mr. Mitchell's company, will be produced under the su perintendence of the talented author. Achard, who ' created such a sensation last season, is engaged for a few nights towards the close of the season; and Monsieur Arnal, from the Theatre du Vaudeville, closes the season. Monsieur Arnal we expect will be a great favourite in this country. He is the original L'Homme Blasé, which admirable vaudeville will be produced during his stay amongst us. The permanent company includes that excellent actor, Cartigny, Lienard, the quaintest of low comedians, and all the favourites of last season. Mademoiselle Eliza Forgeot still continues derectrice, while Monsieur Burotte, late second chef d'orchesire at the Vaudeville, assumes the command of the musical department. The company, taken as a whole, will be the strongest French company that has ever performed in London, and we anticipate for Mr. Mitchell a brilliant and successful season. WESTMINSTER LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, AND MECHANICS' INSTITUTION, On Thursday evening Mr. West, of the Royal Academy of Music, gave a lecture at this institution on the ancient love of music and a plan for a national musical education. The lecturer took a clever cursory view of the real and traditionary evidence of the love of music, and its influence among the ancients. He showed its intimate association with the exercise of devotion in all ages, Pagan and Christian. If Mr. West's opinion be well-founded, and we fear it is so, his remark is worthy of attention that, whereas in the pri mitive days of our Church the music often drew Pagans within the pale, now it is more calculated to drive Christians themselves out of the temple—indeed, a good organ, tolerably well played, and loud enough to stifle the dissonant uproar of the charity boys and congregation would be an inestimable comfort. Mr. West paid due homage to the masters of the divine art, and selected Handel's passionate recitative and air from Jephtha, " Deeper and deeper still," which was sung by Mr. Field with nervous power and great tenderness of expression. The lecturer himself exemplified the richness of Mozart's musical imagination in " Non piu andrai," and subsequently the brilliant fancy of Rossini, as it bounds and sparkles in " Largo al fac totum," and in each of these trying pieces Mr. West evinced the liveliest sense of his author, and in the first elicited an enthusiastic encore. Mr. George Buckland sang Russell's strange yet powerful. song " The Maniac," with much judgment, and at the conclusion of the lecture contributed largely to the entertainment of the audience by giving with much humour John Parry's songs " Mama is so very particular," and Blue beard." Mr. West brought his lecture to a close by referring to the wonderful effects of popular music teaching in Switzerland, and expressed a hope that similar impulse might diffuse the spirit of song amongst our countrymen. BANILKUPTCY ANALYSIS FOR 1844.-Ale merchants 4, apothocuries 9, attorneys 3, auctioneers 9, bakers 9, bankers 4, booksellers 10, boot and shoemakers 10, brewers 8, brickmakers 5, brokers 8, builders 44, butchers 14, cabinet-makers 11, calico printers 4, car penters 241, carpet manufacturers 4, cattle dealers 7, cheesemongers 6, chemists and druggists 15, clothiers 5, cloth manufacturers 4, cloth merchants 2, coachmakers 5, coach mei omnibus proprietors 5, coal merchants 11, commission agents 10, contractors (road, railway, and gas) 3, cooks and confectioners 4, corn merchants and dealers 1.7, cotton manufacturers 3, curriers 10, cutlers 3, dairymen 3, dealers 15, earthenware dealers 3, eating and coffee,-house keepers 3, engineers 6, engravers 2, farmers 7,. flannel makers 2, fruit merchants 4, farriers 4, glass merchants 3, grocers 53, hatters 6, horse dealers 3, hosiers 4, innkeepers 22, ironfounders 11, iron mongers 19„ jewellers 7, lacemon 3, leather sellers 3, lime burners 2, linendrapers 23, linen manufacturers 2, livery-stable! keepers 7, lodging-house keepers 5, ma chinists 2, •maltsters 7, market gardeners 2, mercers 2, merchants. 38, millers 19, milliners 3, money scriveners 5, musical. instrument makers 2, nail manufacturers 2, oil merchants 3, painters 2, paper hangers 2, paper makers 3,. pawnbrokers 3, plumbers and glaziers 13. printers 5,. printsellers 2, provision merchants 4, saddlers 10, sail-cloth manufacturers 3, ship brokers 3, ship owners 7„ shipwrights 4, silk manufacturers 4, silk throwsters 4, silversmiths 4, soapmakers 2, stationers 12, straw-bonnet manufacturers 2, surgeons 13, tailors 28, tallosv chandlers 7. tanners 3, tea dealers 8, timber merchant s a, tobacconists 4, toymen 2, trimming makers 2, upholsterers 9, victuallers 47, warehousmen 10, watch makers 4, wheelwrights 1, wine and spirit merchants 36, woollen.d tapers S, woollen manufacturers 3, woolstaplers 2, worsted manufacturers 3, worsted spinners 3, various 76.-Total, 1,064. DEATH: p ROM POISON.-MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.- Considerablo surprise was excited on 'Change on Satur day, by a re port that Mr. Louis Schwabe, the celebrated manufacture r of figured silks by the jacquard loom, had met with phis death, under circumstances which led to the sus pi. - .ion that he had been poisoned. For a con siderable tit ae the rumour met with but little credit, but unfortunately it proved too true. The deceased was a gentleman+ :much respected in this town, and was well known th ro ughout the commercial world for the ener getic perm. veraaco with which he pushed forward the improvemei it of the silk manufacture by means of the jacquard k orn. It appears from the inquiries which we have keen enabled to make, that Mr. Schwabe had recent/ y lost a valued relation, and appeared de pressed in spirits in consequence. He was taken ill or, Friday nigl it, or early on Saturday morning, and in end sequence e f the symptoms which exhibited themse,ives medical ass istance was called in, and the stomach,-pump used, but b e died at about half-past seven o'clo,:le in the morning. An inquest was held on the body yesterday at the hears e of the deceased, but out of respect to the feelings of I iis family the coroner (MT:. Chapman) deter mined that the proceedings should, be private. We can, therefore, , merely state the result, which wo believe to be, that the deceased came to his death in. consequence of having ti iken oil of vitriol, being at the time in a state of temporsu• y insariity. The deceased, we understand, was about 44 Yea. , :s of age. EXPRR INTENT S IN WOOLWICH MARSHES.-Lieut.- Colonel Danse7 i , C.B. Assistant Director of the La boratory Dep irtment of the Royal Arsenal; Lieu tenant-Colonel Chalmer, Assistant Director-Gene ral of Arlin e of ry; Major Hardinge, K. 11., Assistant- Directorthe Carriage Department, attended in the Marshes; yesterday afternoon, to witness expori rnents with an invention submitted by Lieut. Pen rice, of the Royal Engineers, as a substitute for the present ca se a used for shot fired from field battery guns. 'rite invention consists simply of a coil of wire, of about hall an inch in thickness, formed similar to the elastic coils sf wire introduced in easy chairs and cushions. The diame b aof the coil is made equal to the bore of the gun from inch it is to be fired, and the outside covered with strong ht :own paper pasted together. The inside is then fill , d with musket-balls embedded in sawdust, and attir !lied to the usual wadding with wire. A light six-pour ,der gut was brought within two hundred I yurus of the tan set, and a number of round s were f i red; but in almost every instance the balls, or a great portio . j of them n, struck the ground before they went the whole lens ;th. Two rounds of the common case sh.,t were fired to compare the effect, and they appeared to, answer far better than the invention submitted fur cz.,:periment on this occasion. Experiments were afterwards ca ~ rried on with shot fired from the same gun to teal , the efficiency of marine glue, used as adhesis e power to attach 6-pounder shot tks ' w ""en wlid ding, instead of attaching them, as tit tea , kit it slips of tin, which are apt to g'ot rusted by action of salt water, or broken by rubbing on each c t aer when used for field service. Tvoelve rounds we 3:e fired with this invention, and they appeared to answer the purpose remarkably well, and the aim waa "w' 41 taken by Lieutenant the Hon. C. Devereux that ever y one of the twelve shot entered the tar got at two hunt' tred yards' range. The ) Jowager Princess of Hohenzollern-Hechin gen died at Vienna on the 7th inst., after a long illness. Princ s Frederick of Nassau, uncle to the reigning- Duke, a' id a general in the Alstrian army, died lately at. Vienna, of a disease of the heart, aged 46. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, JAN. 15.—The average prices of wheat last week WAS ME 46c., and that of rye 10E 280. per hectolitre. The duties are the same as they have been for several we4 , ks past. The Clamber of Representatives met yesterday. It was d in the discussion of the budget of the navy, which ,‘,ls adopted by a majority of 46 to 3. In the bank' Sitting the Minister of . the Interior presented a project of law relative to the measures to be taken in case that contagions diseases among cattle should break out, or be introduced into the country, The Moniteur Belge of the 15th quotes from the Independent and Eclair of the preceding day the re port of the death of the Emperor of Russia, adding that the Cologne Gazette and the Frankfort journal, which has later news from Berlin (of the 9th), do not ever► mention the indisposition of the Emperor, which was first announced in the Dusseldorf Gazette under the head of Berlin, 6th January. The Courier Belge makes no mention of the reports. The Prince of Saxe-Coburg, being slightly indis posed, could not attend yesterday evening the brilliant ball of the Society of Nobles at Vauxhall. Their Majesties of course refrained from going on the spina account. AUSTRIAN I P UNDS.—VIENN.L. J. IL 5 per Cent. Metalliques 4 per Cent. Ditto lO2 3 per Cent. Ditto 7B""' ' Bank Shares 1622 Esterhazy's Loan 57 RAILWAYS. • The Northern, or Ferdinand Gloggnitz l27i Milan . .... ... 11R A -Ailgeweine Zeitung, Jan. 12. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BatTssms, JAL 14. Actual Debt, 2i per Cent Rothschild's Loan, Fi ve p er Cent. . -- I Loan of Thirty Millions, F our per Ce ni Ditto Three per Cent Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto — .., Ditto, ditto 1844) Ditto, ditto 1844 Ditto of the City, 1843 lO3 Ditto, 1832 Bank of Belgium 615 -Brussels Papers, Jan. 14. DUTCH FUNDS.—AxgrEkrum, 3A-v, 10. MoT. Bills. Actual Debt, 2 1 4 per Cent. 6 41 65 , 7 4, 1:10 79 3 9 4 4 Ditto, 3 per Cent. Ditto, 4 per Cent. Ditto, 5 per Cent. Amort Svndic. 4 4 l ,,; per Cent 99a i ' 1004 Ditto, - 314 per Cent. CommercialCompany,4l4 perCt 1 9 4 8 6 3 31 1 9 4 9 71 East India Loan, 4 per Cent Exchange on London, one month 12 12 Two months l2 17 At sight — On Hamburg Two months 35 50 On Paris Two months — •Dutch Papers, Jar. 11. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BEnuir, JAN. 7. ___ St. Schuld Sch., 31,4 per C ent Bills. M 99% 991 A oney.. Pruss. English Bo n d s , 183 0, 4 per Ct — Exchange on London, 2 months Universal Prussian Gazette, Jan. 8. THE SHAPWICK MURDERS. BRIDGEWATER, THURSDAY MORNING. —Last evening the inquiry into the cause of Mary Dimond's death was gone iuto. The inquiry terminated in the committal of the prisoner to take her trial at the next assizes for the wilful murder of her mother. She evinced the utmost nonchalance throughout the whole proceedings, and ap peared to be as little affected as the moat careless ob server. Once or twice during the day little miners oc curred which caused a titter in the Court, and no one seemed to enjoy the smile more than the wifortunata woman against whom such serious charges Ore made. To-morrow inquests will be held at Shapsick on tke body of her husband, who died in 1843, and on the body of her child. It will be recollected that both bodies were exhumed, and the stomachs and intestines handed over to Mr. Herapath, who is of opinion that arsenic is to be found in both. UNHEARD OF BARBARITY. (From the New York Herald.) One of the most deliberate and barbarous outrages ever perpetrated in a eivilised com munity was committed yesterday morning. in the upper part o f th e c i ty , b y a wretch who claims to be of the human species. Of all the terrible crimes that were ever attempted in this city, this one is the most shocking, and one can scarcely think of it without shuddering. On Sunday morning a woman, named Catherine Hanlin, wife of Edward, who lives in a little shanty on the north side of Fifteenth-street, was 'tea ing at her door, when a man, named Andrew Klem, who occupies a shanty adjoining, threw several stones at her, which struck her side, and bruised her considerably. She could only attri bute his conduct to a trifling squabble they hitl a few days previous. On Monday morning, half-put amen o'clock, a sh or t ti me her husband had left the house to go to his work, Mrs. Hanlin, who was lying asleep in her bed with her infant child and a boy named Lawrence, was awakened by a hamm er i ng a t th e d oor, and on look ing up, heard the blows of an axe, and soon saw a portion of the door burst in, and fire and smoke pour through the aperture. Dreadfully alarmed, she sprang from the bed, with the child in her arms, and rushed to the door, which was the only means of exit from. the house, except the window. In her terror she saw Klem in front of the door, piling up burning straw, wood, and shavings against the door, and on attempting to go oat, he took a long pole, which he held, and thrust it at her with both hands. She immediately felt a sharp instrument pierce her thigh. Seeing that Iflem was sober, she became suddenly convinced thathis intention was to burn her and her children to death, and in this awful situation, with the prospect of a terrible death before her, she frantically screamed murder, and, rushing to the window, endeavoured to escape there. Klem, however, perceived her in tention, and, jumping upon a barrel that was iu front of the window, with a large piece of board in his hand, brandished It in such a manner that she dared not attempt to get out. The smoke by this time had tilled the room so that she could scarcely breathe, and the child was scream ing in agony and gasping as if in the last struggle. With the strong feeling of a mother for its offspring, and as a last hope of saving its life, she covered it up in a feather-bed, and immediately after fell down insensible. Thus much of this tale of hor ror she relates herself. The residue of the frightful narrative is told by other persons. Mr. Archibald Brown, of . Sixteenth-street, beard the alarm of fire about half-past seven o'clock, and on looking towards the house of Hanlin, saw a man in front of it piling up straw and wood, which was in flames ; he ran towards the spot, and there saw a manoeuvre that he could not understand, and just before he reached the spot the man went into the adjoining house, and a person named Lee came up, accompanied by others, and smashed in the window. The boy Lawrence sprang out and gasped forth that his 'wither and her child were dead inside. Some of ttie party went to the back of the shanty, and with an axe burst it in, and brought out the inanimate bodies of the mother and child, who soon after breathed again. The other party burst into the adjoining house, and there cap tured Klem. In one corner of the room they found an instrument with which he must have stabbed Mrs. Hanlin. It. consisted of &large file or rasp, about a foot long, which had been ground dow n *i d h n i . s us expressly for the purpose to which was app li ed. Mrs. Hanlin and her chid were conveyed to th e City w t as stuc k have been o e i n n a pole eusd as or a siic l k , e, about fourfourand made Hospital, and Klem to the Upper Police. He was , f t e o e a t plooningt, am sented as the most stolid, brutal-looki ng per son ever perfectly sober. He ism Irudiman, and t s repre' seen there. Apparently he is about ferty years of age. The unfortunate woman is burned considerably in the face and right arm, and the stab in hat thigh is of a serious character, and may produce death. In all human probability the child will die. The punish ment for arson in the first degree, which consists of setting fire to an inhabited dwelling, is death. Justice Taylor, of the Upper Police, took the ex amination of M rs . H anl i n at the hospi tal, and corct mitted Klem to a cell at the Upper Police, to await the examination. yc A st u or nE y, AL a O t chi n t e, OR11;T11; --- C11111E5 ---- B RANSOM.— o'clock, a special train arrived at Nine Elms, from Gosport, conveying that portion of the Chinese raIIS"PJ money brought over to this country from nong-liorg by the Pelican sloop. The train con :isted of live waggons and two carriages ; the forint-r contained the foxes holding the syeee silver s each waggon carrying about thre tons and a I,ail weight. A gentleman from the Treasury ar d a detachment of the 59th regiment accompanied d/si f.cei.sure from Gosport, and the latter mounted guard in the railway company's premises during the removal of the silver from the baggage vans to some waggoilo bu lon!,ing to Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, the carriers aE the Company. In the course of the afternoon the trea sure was conveyed in nine waggons to the Royal Mint, Tower-hill, the detachment of the 59th accompanying CHURCH OF SCOTLAND'S MISSION TO THE JEWS. — - A very crowded meeting of the friends of this branch pf the Church of Scotland's missionary labours was held in Swallow-street, yesterday evening. Truly interesting and r impressive addresses were delivered .by the Rev._ 11 sightili‘G l a was s n n d es t s h e e d, Messiah hh to enf t bjnr n .: e eC-r ar ly tilled up all ita Vac/tilde& n ; a, a s T iC) l i l itu t •les ie y l ent ii rth M4t. efr anN'ith men u,as n of real Christian way to Tunis, in Barbary, p a r j n o e c:l v a o i f m_ i t i h n e truee e created d Scotland,th eir fel fellow t wase, e o countrymen wort h. A very hand so me collection lade at the door edmstated,eßoe" in behalf of these missions. - 5 11 15' 5' P IS ' 5$ )lio P~ 9 ;' I„ H;f 13, 1 \-, 1\ ~' 1 ''' ,ii