The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-31 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS

4,810 Edin. and Glas. Un. Canalsol. sh. all pd 10/.
Ditto Allocated 961. sh. all pd 471.
5,400 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stock Water 251. sh, all pd 35/
Carron Iron Company ...2501. sh. all pd 44/.
4,0005 h 15 per cent. Shah; Iron Founder, 50/.sh 48/. pd 54/.
10,000 3 per ceoL Edinburgh & Leith Glass.2o/. sh. 16!. pd 81
4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas ...... 251. sh. all pd 50/
4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas 251. sh. all pd 501.
750 71 per cent. Leith Coal has 20/. sh. all pd 504
1,200 Edinburgh and Dalkeith RaP.wayso/. sh 371
3,010 5 ner cant. FAJIII table .nan en,..lv "5/. sh. 'I 9.
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[e penny postage will commence, we learn, on
;he first of January next. It is intended that stamped
envelopes shall be sold at every post-once, so that sta-
tioners and other shopkeepers may, as well as the public,
supply themselves at a minute's notice. No greater risk
whatever will occur of the negligence of letter carriers, for
these men are timed and their route exactly specified.
They are, therefore, manifestly open to detection, if off
their post a single minute. A strict surveillance will be
maintained. Letters not stamped will be charged at a
higher rate. The new arrangements are being made by
the Treasury, and not by the Post-office authorities,
Cheltenham Emniner.

REPRESENTATION OF MAN-

CHESTER.

THURSDAY EVENING.

consequence of the appointment of Mr. P. Thomp-
son to be t,,:vernor-General of Canada, a vacancy has
occurred in the rep;•rsentation of this town. The writ was
received by the hotOtlgh;eeve last night, and the precept
was read to day at 12 o'clock :It the Town Hall. The
Boroughreeve's friends met an Wedne,:7lay for the nomi-
nation, and the following day for the polling. The walls
of the town are placarded, and the different political
parties have had their meetings. The Conservatives have
determined to invite Sir George Murray to start, and a
deputation has been appointed to wait upon him, although
it was stated at the meeting that it was not known where
he was to be found—some said in Perthshire and others
in Dover, and it was admitted by all that unless they
could secure his presence, they would not have the least
chance. The Whigs have three candidates in view,
Mr. Lloyd Jones, the London Banker, whom some of
them have designated as a " snake in the grass," Mr.
Alderman Cobden, and Mr. R. Greg. Mr. Cobden
is a member of the Corporation, and has frequently lec-
tured with great effect against the Corn-laws. Mr.
Greg is a great favourite with the Whig party here,
and a man of considerable talent. The Radicals have
resolved upon inviting Colonel Thompson, and there is
no doubt but that they will be successful, because they
fully rely upon a section of the Whigs to support them.
Mr. Poulett Thompson has issued the following address
to the electors

TO THE ELECTORS OF MANCHESTER.
GENTLEMEN—The state of my health during the
past Session has satisfied me of the difficulty of my
continuing to discharge the duties of your Represents.-
tive conjointly with those belonging to the official sta-
tion which I have had the honour to hold in the Coun-
cils of her Majesty, and the same cause impelled me t•
decline to undertake a still more arduous official task in
Parliament.

I have therefore accepted the important office in the
British North American possessions, with which her
Majesty has been graciously pleased to invest me, the
duties of which I may hope to be enabled to perform,
and in the discharge of which I trust that I may still
render myself useful to my Sovereign and my country.
It is with deep regret that I thus, for a time at least,
sever the connexion which has now for some years sub-
sisted between us, for I feel most sincerely the honour
which I relinquish in ceasing to be your Representative,
any the many advantages which I derived from your
constant kindness and confidence. For these I shall
always remain
truly grateful to you, and whenever my
humble services can be made available to you, consis-
tently with the circumstanC,!'s in which I may be placed,
I shall feel equally proud and liz;;WY to devote them to
you, though I shall have ceased to Lp the legal Repre-
sentative of your opinions and feelings.
Accept, Gentlemen, the assurance of the sincere re-
gard and esteem with which I always shall remain
Your grateful and obedient servant,
C. POULETT THOMSON.
South Audley-street, Aug. 27, 1839.

DISSOLUTION of the NORTHERN
AND CENTRAL BANK OF ENGLAND.

The general half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of this
bank was held yesterday, at Ladyman's Hotel, Bridge-
street, Manchester. There was a numerous attendance,
the meeting being also an extraordinary one, for taking
into consideration the affairs of the Bank, and deciding
whether it should be dissolved, or resume its business. W.
S. Stell, Esq., the Chairman of a committee that had
been appointed in May last, to examine the books and
affairs of the Company, and who had since acted as Direc-
tor, was called to the chair.
Mr. JOHN Baomts, of Huddersfield, moved—" That in
conformity with the requisition first read, the public Joint
Stock Banking Company, hitherto carrying on business
under the style and firm of the Northern and Central
Bank of England,' is hereby dissolved."
It was stated that, by this arrangement three courses
would be open to the old shareholders : —to join the Alli-
ance Bank ; to scil their shares for 41. 10s. each to the
Alliance ; or *to take their share in the dividend of the
Northern and Central. The first dividend of 20s. a share,
it was added, would probably be ready by the Ist of Oct.
—Liverpool Mercury.

BRADFORD.—A CAUTION TO THE DISSI-
PATED.—A young man here given up to drink and loose
habits, and who had threatened to take away the life of his
father, was found last Saturday morning smothered in a
ditch, his face only being covered. The Jury considered
the case felo -de-se; he was unceremoniously interred within
the precincts of the burying ground, between 11 and 12
o'clock on Sunday night.— Wilts Independent.
Harvest has partially commenced in the neigh-
bourhood of Glasgow ; we observed yesterday, on the
banks of our river, the sickle applied to both barley and
wheat. Mr. Baird, farmer, Oldhall, near Paisley, com-
menced harvest in a field of excellent oats on Tuesday.
Glasgow Argus.
We are assured, on authority to be relied on,
that an important victory has been gained by Espartero
over Maroto, the particulars of which have not, however,
been yet received.
Yesterday morning, between nine and ten o'clock,
an awful instance of sudden death occurred to Mr. Thomas
Collard, a stableman, in Bulstrode-mews, Manchester-
square. He was engaged (apparently in perfect health)
in harnessing a horse, when he suddenly fell and instantly
expired.
FATE OF POETS.—There are five thousand
and twenty-three poets in the United States. Of these,
ninety-four are in the state prisons, five hundred and eleven
in the lunatic aayiutns, and two hundred and eighty in the
debtors' prisons.—New York Herald.
Miss Agnews, authoress of the novel " Geral-
dine," arrived on Thursday evening at tLe convent of the
Sisters of Mercy, in this city, on her way England,
where she purposes founding a convent of the Ort.:.•l' of
Mercy. She has been accompanied by Mrs. M'Cawley,
the well known foundress of the Order of Mercy in Ireland.
—Limerick Reporter.
INFLUENCE OF SONG.—A minstrel who ac-
companied William the Conqueror to the invasion of
England, by rushing into the enemy's ranks chaunting the
song of Rollo, led on his countrymen to the victory of
Hastings; the songs of the 'Welsh bards inspired such a
spirit of resistance to the authority of the English, that
Edward the First caused the whole fraternity to be exter-
minated, which Hume has justly styled a barbarous but not
absurd feeling ; the air of the " Bans des Vaclies" has been
forbidden to be played in the bands of the Swiss regiments
on foreign service, because it brought back the scenes of
home to their recollections, and inspired them with a re-
sistless wish to return to their native country; and Lord
Wharton's song of " Lillibullero"—immortal as the fa-
vourite of Uncle Toby—is supposed to have no slight in-
fluence in promoting our English revolutions. To cite

instances of a more modern-date, the " Hymns Mar.

selloise" shook the Bourbons from their thrones ; and Dib.
din's unrivalled naval songs were instrumental in quelling
the mutiny at the Nore. —Neele on English Poetry.

NAPOLEON'S DIAMOND RING.—A superb
diamond ring, which was worn for three years by this ex-
traordinary man, and of the value of 15,000 francs, has just
been presented, together with an autograph letter, by one
of the resident Ambassadors as a present from his Sove-
reign to Mr. Holloway for curing him of a most dangerous
ulcer by means of his extraordinary and wonderful oint-
ment. " Holloway's External Disease Pill" which com-
pletely regenerates and purifies the fountain of life, the
blood I was also used by his Majesty conjointly with the
ointment. These miraculous remedies may be had at any
respectable chemist and druggist's throughout the kingdom,
or at the establishment of the proprietor, 13, Broad-street
Buildings, City, where the ring and letter may be seen.
ABDUCTION AND ROBBERY.—lnforination
nas been received at all the police-offices and stations, of
the elopement of a girl of fifteen years of age, named Mary
Ann Green, daughter of a respectable inhabitant of Wal-
tham Abbey, who disappeared on the night of the 13th
must,. accompanied by James Laurence, a labourer at Gaily-
hill-green, Essex. The female is described as older in
appearance than she really is, about five feet four inches
high, with dark hair and complexion, thick lips, and nose
inclined to turn up. Her dress consisted of a white straw
bonnet trimmed with blue silk, a light coloured cotton
gown. fawn-coloured silk shawl, and leather boots but-
toned at the sides. The man, who is stated to have been
bought out of the Rifle brigade at Woolwich last Christ-
mas, is of middle height, dark complexion, rather stout,
and wore a dark velveteen jacket, with corduroy trousers.
They were traced across the ferry from East Ham to
Woolwich on the morning of the 11th, and along the
Gravesend-road, and had with them a rather large bundle
of wearing apparel, &c., the property of the young lady's
father. A reward has been offered for their apprehension.
A correspondent sends us the answer to the ad-
dress to the Duke of Nassau, recently presented from a
meeting of the English residents and visitors of Wiesba-
den, Sir D. Cunynghame in the chair:—" Colonel Sir
David Cunynghame, Bart., and the other gentlemen who
signed the address to his Highness the Duke of Nassau,
reclaiming against the police orders, forbidding two Eng_
lish medical gentlemen to practise medicine, are hereby
informed that his Serene Highness has beon pleased to
ord. r, that although, by the police regulations, foreign
medical men are forbidden to practise, without being pre-
viously examined, the said gentlemen, and all other Eng.
Wiesbaden,G
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lish residents and visitors, shall not in future be prevented
from availing themselves of the professional assistance of
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STATE.
Two nights since, as a person named Lebaillet,
a cook at a restaurant, was returning home through the
Rue du Ponceau, he was suddenly attacked by an indivi-
dual, who, without saying a word, struck him violently on
the head. Lebaillet defended himself vigorously, and at
the same time that he struck his assailant bit him in the
band. He nad succeeded in throwing down his adversary,
when he was stabbed repeatedly by a second ruffian in the
back, on the head, and in ;he eye. The two wretches then
made their escape. One of them named Hurand, a young
man, but who has already been in the hands of justice, was
arrested with the mark of the bite, which he had received
upon his hand, and was recognised by his victim. The other
offender, who is only 18 years of age, has also been taken,
and acknowledged his crime. Lebaillet, notwithstanding
the prompt aid which was afforded him, is not expected to
survive.—Paris Paper.
THE PAGE OF CHILDE HAROLD.—Robert
Rushton, formerly in the service of Lord Byron, is at pre-
sent settled at Arnold, -in Nottinghamshire, where he
keeps a " seminary" for young gentlemen ; and Mrs
Rushton an " establishment" fur young ladies.—Bath
Chronicle,