The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 1864.

WHERE JAN WE MEE r AFTER 'll-1E
PANTnIIIMES? My dear Fellow, Gentlemen sup
at E VANS', Covent-garden.

KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC,
BRANDY.
This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest
FRENCH BRANDY,
It Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome.
Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by
the Agents in the principal towns in England; or wholesale
at

8, GREAT WINDUILL-STREET, W.
Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded
"Kinahan's LL Whisky."

THE WELLINGTON THREE SHILLING
DINNER, consisting. d Soup, Fish, Made Dish, Joint,
Sweet, &0., is served daily tram 3 to 9 p.m., and on Sunday
from 5 to half-past 8 p,m.

JOHN CATES, "Tanager.
The Wellington, St. James's-street.
Entrance, 160, Piccadilly.

ATLANTIC and GREAT WESTERN
RAILWAY.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that in conformity with
the terms on which the first Mortgage Bonds of the Pennsyl-
vania Section of this Railroad were issued, the following
BONDS, viz.:
80 BONDS OF 1.000 DOLLARS EACH.

4 99 - 506, 804 1099 1366 1640
21 142 345 512 806 1101 1314 1681
29 189 382 514 960 1102 1453 1707
51 196 383 628 981 11 6 1455 1708
52 231 411 529 986 1107 1463 1737
55 232 412 531 1028 1122 1464 1833
83 235 449 584 1054 1154 1465 1834
84 257 450 624 1058 1205 1571 1833
90 187 151 721 1077 1208 1599 1836
93 292 472 745 1084 1301 1600 1851
24 BONDS OF 500 DOLLARS EACH,
2024 2122 2144 2185 2257 2309 2421 2472
9047 2127 2154 2221 2274 2398 2444 2493
2068 2140 2168 2247 2298 2420 2459 2573
80 BONDS OF 100 DOLLARS EACH.

2601 fe 707 2934 3147 3102 3546 4141 4356
2602 2725 2947 3202 3410 3574 4216 4359
2604 2733 2049 3203 3431 3820 4260 4362
2613 2751 2953 3273 3435 3.,95 4244 4363
2626 2771 2963 , 3280 3169 3,96 4266 4370
2637 2800 2570 3289 3475 39 2 4308 4461
2667 2809 2976 3336 3529 3913 4309 4520
2633 2536 2977 3318 3539 4006 4117 4563
2594 2876 3:45 3351 3540 4116 4323 4583
2704 2895 3146 3352 3545 4121 4329 4589
were this day publicly DRAWN at the London Tavern, in
this city, in the presence of Thomas Hollis, Esq., secretary
to the Company, by the undersigned public notary.
Notice is also given that of the Bonds so drawn such as
have been issued in London will be paid off at par on
presentation at the Company's office, No. 2, Old Broad-street,
KC., on and alter the Ist day of April next, in addition to
the coupon due on that day, after which all interest will
cease. _ . . _ _

London, Jan. 12, 1881.

W. GRAIN, Notary Public.

THIRTY-FIRST REPORT of the UNION
BANK OF LONDON.
At a Half-yearly Meeting of the Proprietors, held at the
Court-room of the Banking House, 2, Princes-street, Man-
sion House, on Wednesday, the 13th of January, 1864,
P. NORTHALL LAURIE, Esq., Governor, in the Chair,
the following REPORT was read by the Secretary :
The Directors have the pleasure to report that the net
profits for the Six Months ending the 31st December last,
after payment of all charges (including the sum of £112,487
a. 10d. tor interest paid and due to customers on their cur-
rent and deposit accounts), and making ample provision for
all bad and doubtful debts, amount to £114,323 14s. Bd.,
which, with £668 12s. Bd. brought forward from 30th June
last, make together £114,092 7s. 4d.
The Directors now declare a dividend of Hs. per share,
clear of income tax, for the six months ending 31st Deoem-
bor last, amounting to £54,000, and leaving a balance of
£69,992 7s. 4d.
This state of the accounts induces the Directors to antici-
pate that which, in the ordinary course, they would have
postponed until July next. in order that the proprietors may
participate in the profits of the past six months at the earliest
possible period ; they have, therefore, appropriated £60,000
of the profits of the past half year to the Reserved Fund ;
and out of such Reserved Fund, thus increased to £170,000,
they have appropriated £61,000 in adding £ll per share to the
paid-up capital of the Company, which will thus be increased
from £720,000 to £780,000.
After deducting the sums applied in payment of the divi-
dend, and iu addition to the Re erved Fund, amountirg to-
gether to £114,00 there will remain a balance of £992 7s. 4d.
for appropriation in July next.
THE UNIO:i BANK OF LONDON.
For the Half-Year ending 31st December, 1863.
GENERAL BALANCE.
DR.

LIABILITIES.
Capital—£lo per share paid up on
60,000 Shares £600,000
~ £2 per share aided out of
Reserved Profits 120,000

.f720,C00 0 0
Due by the Bank on Current Accounts. De-
posit Receipts (including interest accrued),
and other obligations 16,472,278 13 7
Reserved Fund, invested in Consols, ss per
Contra . 110,000 0 0
Rebate on Bills not due
Balance at credit of Profit and Loss

£17,444,354 5 1

ASSETS.
Cash in the Bank —X741,644 8 8
„ in B tnk of England 779,686 13 7
„ lent at Call 972,000 0 0
£2,493,331 2 3
investments In Government Stock, Exche-
quer Bills, Debentures, dm 921,200 4 2
£118,460 19s. Rd. Consols (taken at 921) Re-
served Fund llO,OOO 0 0
Bank Premises consisting of Freehold
Buildings in Princes-street, Mansion
Howe -street, Argyle-place, and F leet-
street ; and Lease and Fixtures of No. 4,
Palllnall East ...
Loans, Bills Discounted, ,to. . _ 13,811,077 14 3

£17,414,384 5 1

PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT.
DR.
Amount of Dividend of 18a. per Share
Appropriated to Reserved Fund 60,000 0 0
Balance, being Undivided Profit carried for-
ward to next half year 992 7 4

CR. £114,992 7 4
Profit unappropriated on 30th June 1.1863 .. £668 12 8
Amount of net profit of the half-year ending
3t at December, 1863, al ler dedunting all ex-
penses, and interest paid, and due .ZP.2,4,7
la. 10d.), allowed to customers on their cur-
rent and deposit accounts 114,323 14 8

£114,992 7 4
The Governor then declared a Dividend for the past Half-
year of 189. per shire. clear of income tax.
Also the capitalisation of £60,00D of the Reserved Fund, by
adding £1 per share to each of the 60,000 shares of the Com-
pany.
It was Resolved unanimously—
That the report now read be adopted, printed, and circu-
lated among the Proprietors.
That the most cordial thanks of the Meeting be given to
the Governor, the Deputy-Governor, and the Directors, for
the able, efficient, and profitable manner in which they have
conducted the affairs of the Bank during the past half-p ar.
Thar the best thanks of th. Meeting be given to Mr. W.
W. Scrimgeour, the General Manager, for the zeal and abi-
lity so long displayed by him in the discharge of his impor-
tant duties.

That the thanks of the Meeting be given to Mr. Barton,
the Manager; Mr. In2pcn, the Manager of the Regent-street
Brawl' ; Mr. St. Barbe, the Manager of the Charing-cross
Branch; Mr. Beattie, the Manager of the Temple-bar Branch;
and to Mr. Newmarch. the Secretary, for the zealous and
efficient manner in which they have discharged their several
duties.

(Signed) P. NORTHALL LAURIE, Governor.
That the thanks of the Meeting be given to P. Northall
Laurie, "k sq. , the Governor, for his conduct in the chair this
day,
(Signed) JAMES FARQUHAR, Deputy-Governor.
Extracted from the Minutes.
HENRY NEWMARCII, Secretary,
N.B.—The Dividend will be payable on and after Wednes-
day, the 20th inst.
Proprietors, desiring it, may exchange their present cer-
tificates for new ones expressing that £l3 per share have
been paid.

THE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION.

The following diplomatic correspondence has
taken place between the British and Saxon Govern-
ments in reference to the Schleswig-Holstein ques-

Lion :

remarks, and after you have made yourself acquainted with
the reply of Freiherr von Beust, will place me in a condi-
tion to report to my Government that you cannot but re-
cognise that the conduct of the Saxon Government has
been entirely in accordance with honourable intentions.—
Accept, 84c., (Signed)

THE NEW PRISON MINISTERS ACT.

At the January General Quarter Session of the Magis-
trates for the county of Middlesex, held at tho Clerkenwell
Sessions•house yesterday, under the presidency of Mr. H.
Powell, after some routine business had been despatched,
Mr. E. W. Cox rose, pursuant to notice, to move:—

" That the visiting justices of each prison be requested
to inquire and report to the Court on the next county day
the number of Roman Catholic prisoners that have passed
through each prison during the last 12 months, the number
of Roman Catholic prisoners then in each prison, and the
number of Roman Catholic prisoners in each prison who have
been visited by a priest during the preceding three months."
He said that, in making this motion, it was necessary that
he should explaiu why he brought it forward after the de-
cision which had been come to by the last Court. At that
court a motion was submitted to them which rather took
them by. surprise. For want of authentic information they
were not prepared to pronounce an opinion on the question
laid before them. He thought it desirable that they should
approach the subject of the Prison Ministers Act with the
facts necessary to a right judgment in their possession, and
therefore he had given notice of a motion for obtaining from
the visiting justices the statistical information referred to in
his resolution. The Prison Ministers Act contained two
important provisions, the first of which evidently contem-
plated that where there was a large number of prisoners
differing from the Established Church, a minister of their
own faith should be appointed and paid to attend them ;
and the second contemplated the admission of such
a minister to visit them, whether the requested it or not,
in cases where the number of such prisoners was few, and
where the expense of engaging a chaplain for them might
not be justified. The real question to be considered in their
county, as he took it, would arise under the first of those
two provisions. The main question—viz., whether it was
desirable to appoint a paid minister of any persuasion other
than that of the Established Church—ought, however, to be
deferred until they knew officially what was the precise
number of Roman Catholic prisoners who passed through
the gaols of Middlesex. When the proper time arrived, if the
statistics for which he asked were such as he anticipated

they would be, he would be prepared to state the reasons
why he thought the Court should carry out the provisions
of the Act. Another notice of motion on this subject had
been given by Mr. Turner, the first part of which closely
resembled his own, but it went on to suggest that the visit-
ing justices should also be asked to report their opinion as to
the expediency of appointing a Roman Catholic chaplain in
accordance with the new Aot. Now, he objected entirely to
anything like an invitation of an expression of opinion from
any section of the Court. Mr. Cox being here called to
order for anticipating the discussion of a motion not yet re-
gularly before them, concluded by moving his resolution for
returns.

Mr. T. TURNER said it might be convenient if he now
moved his resolution by way of amendment, instead of
troubling the court with two discussions on the same sub-
ject. He was quite ready to adopt Mr. Cox's motion as far
as it went, but he thought they ought to go further. Mr.
Cox was opposed to inviting any expression of opinion from
the visiting justices of their prisons; but it certainly had
been usual, when any measure was suggested affecting the
administration of any particular institution, to invite from
those magistrates, who had special charge of that institu-
tion, not only a statement of those facts which were impor-
tant for the information of the Court, but also an expression
of opinion resulting from their own experience and intimate
knowledge of all the details of the case, Moreover, even
when the Court had before them the opinion of the commit-
tee, they could throw it aside if they did not approve it;
and certainly it could do no possible harm. His present
motion was in substance the same as he had moved by way
of amendment when that question was last before the Court.
Some members might not be aware of the different alter-
natives which the Act presented for their consideration.
They were not limited to the simple course of appointing a
minister of the Roman Catholic persuasion to attend the
prisoners of that Church in their houses of correction and
paying him a salary. It was also competent for them to
leave the visiting justices of each prison to exercise the per-
missive power vested in them by the Act of inviting, or not
refusing, the voluntary services of any Roman Catholic
priest who might offer them, reserving the matter of his
remuneration for future consideration. Now, the Court
refused, on the last county day, specially to appoint a
Roman Catholic chaplain, but they still might adopt the
second alternative be bad just mentioned, He was him-
self rather in favour of that course, much as bit by bit re-
form had been derided. Without, therefore, iwerfering
with their previous decision the Court might accede to his
motion, unless, indeed, they were perfectly satisfied with
the working of the present system, and thought nothing at
all should be done under the new Act. the Court would,
ho believed, be slow entirely to disregard on that subject a
decision of the Leislature concurred in by the leading men
of all parties. But, not to rest his case on the deference
due to the Legislature, reasonable as he thought that
deference, let him remind them of one or two facts as
to the state of Coldbath-fields Prison, with which, as
chairman of the visiting justices, he was personally
acquainted. There were upwards of 1,800 prisoners there
at their last Friday's meeting, and of that number 380
were Roman Catholics. How many of those 380 would the
Court suppose had been visited by a minister of their own
persuasion during the preceding week ? Why, only eight
and small as that number was, he believed it was twice the
ordinary weekly average. There were not more, he believed,
than four Roman Catholic prisoners per week who made a
special request to see a minister of their own Church. Was
that a satisfactory state of things What became of the
remaining 372? Did they, through the magical effect of
their incarceration, immediately become good members of
the Church of England, and, by attending the prison
chapel, renounce their connexion with their own creed?
Nobody could conclude anything of the kind. The great
mass of them passed through their prison life without any
religious exercises whatever. Roman Catholic prisoners
were now allowed to be visited by their priests, provided
they specially requested it, but not otherwise. On what
grounds was that permitted ? Not on the ground of fa-
vour due to good conduct, because, be the prisoner's con-
duct bad or good, his request was equally granted or
equally refused, The ground was either that they would
not deny him a right—the right of having religious
ministration in conformity with his own faith—or else
that they allowed it for purposes of reformation. If they
granted it because nobody confined in a prison ahould be
subjected to a religious disability from which he was exempt
outside its walls, it surely ought to be extended to those
who did not mike a special request equally with those who
did. Moreover, if it was granted for purposes of reforma-
tion to those who made a special request, clearly those
who made no such request required that reformatory in-
fluence most of all. (Hear.) On principle, then, the pre-
sent system could not be defended, and nobody acquainted
with the state of crime in the country could regard its
practical working as any more satisfactory. He trusted,
therefore, that the Court would adopt his amendment, viz. :
" That it be referred to the Committee of the Visiting
Justices of the three county prisons to inquire and report
to the Court what numbers of Roman Catholic prisoners
have been committed to each prison (stating separately the
numbers of adults and juveniles of each sex), during each
of the three years ending respectively, Michaelmas, 1861,
Michaelmas, 1862, and Michaelmas, 1863, and also what are
the present numbers of such prisoners within the same pri-
sons respectively. And that such committee do report
further whether, having regard to the numbers of the Roman
Catholic prisoners within the aforesaid prisons respectively,
and to the circumstances of each prison, it is in their opinion
advisable that a minister of the Roman Catholic Church
should be appointed by the Court, under the provisions of
the Prison Ministers Act, 1863,' to attend on the prisoners
belonging to that Church, at each or either of the prisons ;
or whether it appears to them preferable for the Court to
leave it to the visiting justices of each prison to act, if they
think fit, upon the authority vested in them by the said act
(in the event of no such nomination as aforesaid being made)
to permit the visits of a Roman Catholic minister to pri-
soners belonging to that Church, without any special re•
quest for such visits on the part of the prisoners themselves;
or whether, lastly, they are of opinion that it will be fit and
proper to leave the ministrations to Roman Catholic pri-
soners, in each or either of such prisons, on their present
footing. And that such committee be requested, in the
event of their recommending the nomination by the Court
of ministers of the Roman Catholic Church to each or either
of the said prisons, to state whether any and what annual
or other sums ought, in their opinion, to be awarded to
such ministers respectively in remuneration for their ser-
vices. And that the committee be requested to state to the
Court the grounds upon which their recommendations or
opinions upon the above points respectively shall have been
founded."
Mr. BAKER seconded the amendment.

Lord EBURY thought that, instead of extending to the
wide question opened by the amendment, the discussion
ought, if possible, to be confined to Mr. Cox's simple pro •
position—viz., that they should be furnished with fuller in-
formation. Very recently the Court came to a decision ad-
verse to the appointment of a Roman Catholic minister in
accordance with the act of Parliament; and the avowed
object of Mr. Turner's amendment was to induce them to
reverse that decision. He sincerely hoped that that deci-
sion would be reversed; but the mode of attaining that end
most congeaial to the Court would be by now limiting their
action to a request for further information. Tho main
question at issue was clearly one of proportion and degree,