The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-15 00:00:00

CrTY EANK.-MEETING THIS DAY:

A meeting took place to:day of the City Bank pro-
prietors, when the Directors' report, which was
adopted, stated that the whole of the instalments upon
the 2,000 new shares referred to in their last report, have
been paid—that the other requirements of the bank's
charter in respect of this issue have been fully complied
with; and that, as soon as the certificate of the Board of
Trade has been obtained, the directors will be able to
announce that the subscribed capital of the bank has
been increased to 8,000 shares of £lOO each, upon
which £5O per share has been paid. The accounts
showed that the profit realised by the bank during
the six months ending the 30th June last, together with the
sum brought forward from the previous half-year, enabled
the directors to transfer £lO,OOO to the reserved fund, thereby
increasing that fund to £70,000, and to declare the usual
dividend at the rate of £6 per cent, per annum with a bonus
of £1 per share, together equal to £lO per cent, for the year
(free of income tax), also to carry forward the sum of
£2,172 13s. 10d. to the new profit and loss account.
The CHAIRMAN, in submitting the report fur the ap-
proval of the meeting, said that the certificate of the bank
charter for the increase of capital had been received that
morning. The bank had made very satisfactory and mate-
rial progress since its establishment. Every year the divi-
dend had been increased, such an increase as no other
kindred establishment had been able to accomplish. From
the first year, when the proprietors received 5 per cent., it
had now been augmented to 10 per cent.
The report was then unanimously adopted, and the direc-
tors and auditors re-elected.

THE FIRE IN THE WESTMINSTER-ROAD.

Yesterday morning Mr. T, Hodsoll, the surveyor
of various fire insurance companies; 'Mr. C. White,
of the County Fire-office; Mr. Hayes, of the Mer-
cantile ; Mr. Roberts, of the Royal ; Mr. Rose, of
the Globe; and Mr. Woollett, with Mr. Blake,
vestryman, of Lambeth, met upon the ruins of the
premises destroyed by fire, belonging to Mtssrs.
Goatley and Charley, the extensive floor-cloth
makers or the Westminster-bridge-road, Lambeth,
for the purpose of inquiring into the cause of the
catastrophe and the amount of loss the various fire
offices are interested in.

As far as the first part of the inquiry was con-
cerned, nothing definite could be learned beyond
the mere fact that the flames originated in the
skittle-alley belonging to the San Tavern, in
Mason-street. With respect to the actual amount
of loss sustained by the various sufferers it is almost
impossible to tell at present, but it must amount to
a considerable sum, seeing that there are not fewer
than 33 houses and large establishments either to-
tally destroyed or considerably damaged. Many of
the inmates of the smaller houses have lost their
all, and so have the workmen their tools, and they
have been plunged into such a state of destitution
that Mr. C. White, of the County Fire-office,
Mr. Hill, printer, of the Westminster-road, with
Mr. Watkins, of the parish of Lambeth, are
forming a committee to collect subscriptions
to alleviate the distress of the burnt out persons.
From the calculations made yesterday it appears
that the ground laid bare of the factory, and the
backs of other houses in the intermediate streets,
independent of those in the Westminster-bridge•
road, is not less than 12,500 yards. At the King's
Head Tavern, belonging to Mr. Midgley, it was
found that the western wall had been built
upon an ancient sewer, the covering or arch
of which had in different places given way
owing to the intense heat, and several parcels
of oil-cloth had fallen into the water, and
those portions upon which the tavern rested
had also given way, and in order to prevent the
building coming down a number of men were yes-
terday employed in shorirg up the walls.
Mr. Beckerson, the superintendent of the L divi-
sion of police, had a powerful body of men kept on
the spot to keep persons from venturing upon the
still burning ruins, and it was exceedingly fortunate
that that officer carried out the work in such an ad-
mirable manner, for all of a sudden one of Chubb's
improved iron fire-proof safes fell red hot from the
first floor, and owing to its great weight, had any
oue been under the wall from which it toppled he
must have been killed instantaneously. One very
gratifying circumstance, as far as Messrs. Goatley
and Chorley are concerned, is, that upon opening,
the safe every book and voucher were found per-
fectly secure.
A great many persons connected with the aristoft
cracy came in their carriages yesterday for the pur-
pose of inspecting the ruins, but owing to the dan-
gerous state‘of the few remaining wails the police
and firemen very properly refused them to enter the
barrier put up in the Westminster-road, but a great
many availed themselves of the facilities afforded by
passing through the Sun Tavern into the back pre-

mises.
The engines were still obliged to be kept on the
snot for fear of a fresh outbreak.

A YEAR'S WORK OF THE CITY POLICE.

During the year, of which the full particulars
are before us, fil;ing thirty-one large sheets, there
were 4,209 persons ryaken into custody within the
boundaries of the City. Of these, 3,012 were
males, and 1,197 females, The largest number of
these charged with Ole same species of offence
occurs under the head of " larceny from the person
without violence," 469 ; and the greatest propor-
tion of offenders in this c; ass were of the male sex,
that is to say 379 males an d9O females. The next
largest number was, for common assaults, 417; of
which 365 were males and 52 females. We may
say, then, that every day throughout the year one
of the masculine sex, and once a-week throughout
the year one of the feminine sex is charged before the
police with some species of attack with no distinct
object, beyond the gratification of enmity, resent-
ment of wrong, and to appease the passions engen-
dered in quarrel. The months of January, July,
and August, furnish the greatest aunaber of case;
but generally speaking, the summer months are
slack times with the City police, the " rough"
population being then mostly out of town. The
next largest entry is that of charges of larceny com-
mitted in dwelling houses, 372 ; of which 265 were
males and 107 females. Following the figures in
the same descending order, we have 331 charged
with drunkenness, of which 227 were males and
104 females; 311 disorderly conduct, comprising
117 males and 194 females. Here, for once, the
gentler sex make the grandest figure; generally
speaking, they show the smallest numbers nnder.the
several heads, We have next, 302 offences against
the City Police Act, 287 vagrants, 273 Common
larceny, 230 suspicious characters,lia
observe
I assaults on the police. The reader Will
I that the relation of certain of these totals to
rouping
each other requires a differe.Ftntegre of the shapes
of the
figures to furnish a correct pi
assaults, then,
and colours of offences.
numbered in the whole 591 ; of which. 10 were of
an indecent character. Thore were, in all, 24 bur-
glaries, 1,565 offences ag2afi'vst property without
uses of embezzlement,
violence, which includes
or one a week the whole yeae round ; 44 of fraud
by obtaining goods d
20 uner false pretences; 16 ot
receiving stolen goods ; 97
illegally pawnioyon;
of goods, and the cases of lar- "
cent' citedPabsosveses.—Malinious offences against pro-
unlawful
against the
tahned currencynone of
of w.
Offencesil wilful damage, pro-
perty comprised
ilnsgB.
arson or trespass.
and private credit comprised 3 of coining,. 102 utter-
ing counterfeit coins, 19 of forgery, and 2 of forg-
jog Bank of England notes. The miscellaneous
offences numbered in all 1,680, of which the prin-
cipal were-35 cruelty to animals, 23 deserters, 17
deserting families, 311 disorderly conduct, 331
_
drunkenness, 32 prostitutes, unlawful assem-
bling, and others already enumerated.—City Press.

RAILWAY AND' PUBLIC COMPANIES iN

PARLIAMENT.

Yesterday eight committees met for the despatch
of business in the Lords. The first oar, on the bills
of the Eastern Counties and Eastern Union, Nor-
folk, East Anglian, and other railways, was com-
posed of the following peers :—Lord Pozinian
(chairmen), Viscount Dungannon, Earl of Carnar-
von, Earl Pomfret, and Marquis of Bath, assisted
by Lord B.desdale, the chairman of committees.
The first case considered Was that of the Eastern
Union Railway Company,,for adjusting and
de-
fraying their liabilities by raising a sum of
£250,000 in new shares, with a five per cent pre-
ferential dividend. The committee decided that the
company should have a bill giving them power to
pay their existing debts, that they should be com-
pelled to pay off by instalments some portion of
their existing liabilities out of their receipts appli-
cable to dividend on their ordinary shares, and re-
ceivable under the proposed amalgamation armnge-
ments, but the committee would not allow any
larger claim to be made on the amalgamating com-
panies than the sum specified in the bill. The
further consideration of the bill was then adjourned
until the committee shall have dealt with the amal-
gamation measure upon which it has a collateral
connection.

The next case taken was that of the Eastern
Countico Company for their Epping lines, which
the committee passed, declining, however, to accede
to an applicati,n on the part of the promoters to
withdraw the money deposited as a guarantee for
making the lines with the accountant of the Court
of Chancery.

The committee then proceeded with the conside-
ration of the main measure before them, the amalga-
mation bill of the Eastern Counties and other com-
panies. The bill, since it came from the committee
in tie Commons, has been considerably altered and
enlarged, and is a legislative curiosity in its way.
It consists of 173 folio-foolscap printed pages,
21 of which are occupied merely in recital
abstracts of the acts of parliament, forming the
preamble_ Some 115 pages are filled with the
sections and clauses, of which there are 304 alto-
gether, and 25 are devoted to schedules. Com-
mencing with the 6 and 7 of William IV., the pre-
amble recites that the Eastern Counties Railway
Company have obtained 24 acts of parliament, the
Norfolk 7, the East Suffolk, 7, the Eastern Union,
6, and the East Anglian 5 ; their present respective
capitals being, Eas,ern Counties, £8,415,832 ; East
Anglian, £1,600,000; Eastern Union, £1.748 341 •
Norfolk, £1,458,860 ; East Suffolk, £604 348; New-
market Railway, £142,425; exclusive of each com-
pany's borrowing powers. Mr. Merewether, Q.C.,
with whom was Mr. Burke, and Mr. Round, in a
long and able speech stated the case for the Eastern
Counties, and stated that the objects sought to be
obtained by the bill, that of a consolidation of the
undertakings under the title of " The Great Eastern
Railway," and an equitable fusion of the stocks,
might have been arrived at long since, but for the
reticence of the Eastern Union Company, and their
refusal, until yesterday, t o render an account of their
liabilities, until the present committee met and
elicited from Mr. Ayres, the secretary of that com-
pany, the required account of their liabilities, with-
out which the committee of the Commons were
totally unable to adjudicate on the questions in dis-
pute, which it would now be their lordships' duty
to determine. After some general observations on
the various provisions of the bill, the learned counsel
concluded by calling the first witness, Mr. Crowder,
firm of Crowder and Maynard, solicitors to the
Eastern Counties Company, whose evidence occu-
pied the committee until their adjournment to this
day.

A committee consisting of the Earl of Romney,
chairman ; Viscount Strathallan, Lord Saye and
Seale. Lords Sondes and Truro, passed the bill of
fae Great Western, Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester,
and Ely Valley Railways, the opposition having
been withdrawn ; and also that of the London and
North Western Railway, for additional powers, with
the exception of that part of the bill which relates
to the making an embankment along and otherwise
improving the old harbour of Holyhead, and con--
eernirg which the promoters propose to appeal to
the Lords of the Admiralty.

Tie bills of the Andover and Redbridge, Totten
ham and Hampstead Junction, and North Eastern
(Hull and Doncaster branch), having been referred
for consideration to a committee consisting of the
Lord Steward, chairman, Earl of Desart, Viscount
Clancarty, Lord Somerhill, and Lord Raglan, they
passed the two first bills, and Mr. Denison, Q.C.
opened the case of the North Eastern, and calle
evidence for the promoters.

The Salford Improvement Bill wasunder the con-
sideration of a committee—formed of Earl Powis,
chairman, Earl of Yarborough, Lord Fortescue,
Lord Wynford, Lord \%Tenlock—all day, the case
being conducted pro. and con. by Mr. Cripps and
Mr. Coates.

A committee, consisting of the Duke of Montrose,
and Lords Harewood, Vane, Conyers, and Rivers,
inquired into the merits of the Kent Coast Railway,
and after hearing the evidence of Mr. Holroyd, the
secretary, agreed to pass it. The opposition speech
of Sir W. Alexander for the Edinburgh and Dunferm-
line, against the Edinburgh and Glasgow Bill, occu-
pied three hours in Lord Donoughmores committee.
Further evidence for the promoters was taken by
Lord Wodehouse's committee on the case of the
West Riding, Hull, and Grimsby Railway, the par-
ties having come to an understanding in the case of
the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, the bill was
passed by the Duke of Richmond's committee, and
the provisions with respect to the Middle Level
Drainage and Navigation were finally settled in that
committee.
_ _

THE OFFICIALS OF THE LATE INSOL-
vENr DEBTORS COURT.

Yesterday morning was issued the report of the select
committee who were appointed to inquire into the case of
the clerks and officers of the Insolvent Debtors, Court with
reference to the New Bankruptcy Act. In the opinion of
the committee, those salaried officers, for whom since the
abolition of the court no employment has been found,
should i eceive superannuation allowances as for abolished
offices. They think that some provision ought to be made
for the various officers who have lost the advantage of the
receipt of fees, their present position being taken into account.
Partly in accordance with this view, the committee have ar-
rived at the following among other conclusions :—" With
reference to the persons named in schedule 1 (annexed), we
are of opinion that their claims will be fully satisfied by
their receiving salaries at the rate of their old and present
provisional salaries ; on the understanding that such pay-
ments shall be permanent. With reference to the persons
named in schedule 2 (annexed), we are of opinion that
provision ought to be made for their receiving the follow-
ing sums, so long as they shall continue to be employed,
viz., Mr.. W. H. Lamb, old salary, £3OO ; to be added,
£sso—total, £B5O. Mr. W. Ingpen, old salary, £lOO ; to
be added, £2so—total, £350. Mr. W, Notson, old salary,
£l3O ;to be added, £6o—total, £l9O. Mr E. R. Sturgis,
esbc,aT:dshuopwon,
31r.tajl,
old salary, IVO ; to be added, £3oo—total, £450.
R. Warren, old salary, £lOO ; to be added, £24o—unito
coming
£340. On the employment of any of these officers ce
to an end, we recommend that they should
com-
pensation or allowances, as for abolished offices,re
the average of their receipts for salaries and
in the return of 22d of March, 1861. Ttz
will be sufficiently
in schedule 3 (annexed) it appears to us .
r former salaries,
remunerated by continuing to receive .
their received by
on the condition on which such F feersons named
them whilst employed in the Insosv:Ftd
As regards persons in the
4tsilhould be treated as if by the
schedule,
Cnooumrrnt.i'ttee
report generally that the casesaniens
offices or appointments
Bankruptcy Act of 1861athned
vthat compensation be givenon
had been put en end to,
erann
ing to abolished °,iffihciecsh they have recommended ought to
the footing of the SupTuhaetiocnomAnictisttneoewthininfkorcthearteltahte-
various payments -
the 11th of October last. " And that the
be
that
time received, or to be received,
in connection with insolvency
in formerm of `fees' since business, should be divided
made as from
amount
vi
proportions,an and go in part discharge of such
allowances ; Mr. Dance and Mr. E. Ingpen
h s down to the periods of their retirement
only.
Any further payment to these gentlemen, in respect
of the periods between the 11th October last and the dates
ps)tyi taking enttheir s
shares
a r e
of their retirement, they recommend to be computed at the
rate of a gross annual salary, or allowance, to Mr. Dance,
of £l,OOO, and to Mr. Ingpen of £900."

COUNTY
Jared the state of
GOAIERY, Monday.--The High Sheriff
decounty, to-day, in
OF MONTGOMERY ELECTION.--MONT
the poll, for a representative for
this c The proceedings
front of the Town-hall, at Montg
were quite of a formal character. The
1,269 ; Tracy
i elated as follows :—Wye .irytua, 310,numbers wore de-
-1 (Liberal), 959—majority for