The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-06 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Stß,—l shall feel myself obliged by your correcting an error
which appeared in your Journal of last evening, under the head
of " Parliamentary Intelligence," recording the presentation
of a petition by Sir G. Strickland, relative to the Court of
Chancery. There being a mistake in the name, which should
be " Smith," I particularly wish this to be stated.
Your obedient servant,
Bristol, May 29, 1538.

J. H. SMITH.

DUBLIN.-MONO AY.

(rnom OUR PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT.)
" Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven,
And though no science, fairly worth the seven."—Pom

The benefits of an enlightened and independent Press were
never more strongly illustrated than at a meeting in this city,
this morning. The " Hibernian Joint Stock Banking Com-
pany" held their half yearly meeting to-day ; and, after the
report of the Directors, and other routine business had been
disposed of, a warn discussion arose as to the necessary steps
to be taken, in ord=lr to secure for this Company the,advan-
sages long anticipated by its proprietors, from the renewal of
the Bank of Ireland charter, during the present Session of
Parliament. Some questions were put as to what the Governor
and Directors had done, to carry into effect the report of last
year, pledging them to adopt every legitimate means fur pre-
venting a continued monopoly on the part of the Bank of Ire-
land. The answers to these questions not being perfectly sa-
tisfactory to the majority of the proprietors assembled,
Doctor BREEN stood up, and said, it would appear from a
newspaper, which he produced ( The Sun of Saturday last),
that strangers seemed to take a more active interest in our
behalf than we had done ourselves. He then directed the at-
tention of the meeting to the article, in which you commented
on a paragraph from the Tines, stating, in effect, that the
Chancellor of the Exchequer had so far yielded to the remon-
strances of the Deputation from Drogheda, as to promise that
the monopoly in question should not extend more than five
miles beyond the city of Dublin.
Upon this another Proprietor stood up, and requested to
have the article read, and your commentaries thereon : after
which he expressed his hopes that the fact stated was not true,
for if so, the citizens of Dublin, the metropolis of Ireland,
would derive little or no advantage from the expiring of the
Bank of Ireland Charter this year. The " Hibernian Bank,"
in particular, would be precisely as it now stood, not having
the privilege of issuing notes within the city, or five miles
thereof. The Shareholders would have good reason to be
disappointed, and to comelain not only of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, but also of the remissness of the Managers of
their own property, if a renewal of the monopoly charter were
permitted or granted, on the terms mentioned in the news-
Piper. This Bank had been established thirteen years ago,
on liberal principles-, and under the expectation, that as a fair
Company, it would afford accommodation to the public,
without any distinction of sect or' party ; but on the broad
basis of credit, character, and mutual benefit. It had been
cramped in its efforts, by causes which he would not now refer
to, to realize profits equal to those of another Bank established
at the same time. But it had obtained great character and
stability, with moderate gains ; and the time was now arrived,
when the Proprietors had a right to expect the full benefit of
that character. He hoped the Managers could shew that they
had not been remiss in devoting that peculiar attention, which
the events of this year demanded, to the interests of the Es-
tablishment.
The Governor and several of the Directors here stated, that
they had been watching the proceedings of the Joint Stock
Banks Committee of the House of Commons, and that no
time was lost in furthering the interests of the Hibernian
Bank—that a requisition was in preparation to the Lord Mayor
of Dublin to convene a meeting of the citizens upon the sub-
ject generally, and that in the mean time the managers of the
Hibernian Bank held correspondence with friends in London
who were exercising the necessary vigilance.
The'gentlemen who had raised the discussion replied, that
there was need of additional exertion. Petitions to Parliament
ought to be immediately adopted, conformably to the sugges-
tions in The Sun, and a deputation from the Hibernian Bank
sent to remonstrate with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on
the injustice of renewing the Bank of Ireland Charter, on the
condition mentioned in the Times, which, if true, held out no
benefit whatever to other recently instituted banking establish-
ments in this city. After some discussion on these points, it was
finally resolved, without a dissentient voice, that the managers
should forthwith adopt the proper means for carrying into effect
the resolution of December last. The purport of that resolu-
tion is, that all legitimate exertions are to be made to prevent
a renewal of the Bank of Ireland monopoly. Thus has your
Journal succeeded, by its able and enlightened observations,
in stirring up a most respectable and important portion of the
wealthy citizens of Dublin to a due discharge of their duty to
themselves and their countrymen.
I have only rcom to add that wt; are much pleased on this
side of the water, at the course pursued by Lord John Russell
on the Corporation Bill. His yielding to Sir Robert Peel
on the point of making the poor-law rate the standard of
value to ascertain the bona fide franchise, and not yielding to
him in making the franchise a ten pound one in all the corpo-
rations, indicate a proper knowledge of the people of Ireland,
and a determination to legislate according to their wishes and
national circumstances.

DISGRACEFUL. FRACAS.—Greenwich Fair and
Greenwich Railway Rows among the Directors.—About half-past ten
o'clock on Monday night, as Mr. George Money, the chairman, was re-
turning from Greenwich with the Rev. J. M`Donald and his
.lady, on
coining to the carriages which were under the superintendence of the
new managing director, Mr. Gates, an altercation took place, and most
violent language was used, such as horsewhipping, &c., which ended in
the chairman being given into the custody of the police.
HORSE STEALER.—OII Friday last, a young man,
having the appearance of an ostler, was stopped in Chelsmford market
with a pony he was offering for sale, and which Newman, the constable,
suspected, from the contradictory accounts he gave, had been stolen.
When taken before the magistrates, by whom he was remanded, he said
he lived with a person named Demon, in the Old Kent.road but he
subsequently confessed that his name was Wilson Briton, that he came
from Braintree, and that the pony had been stolen from Mr. Chalmers, of
the Robin Hood, Kingston Bottom.—Esscx Herald.
The- Irish steamers are still continuing to import
vast quantities of vegetables.into our market. As the season has been
extremely unfavourable to vegetation, the supply of spring grown -Irish
vegetables has proved very seasonable to our citizens. Our market is
supplied twice a week with vegetables from Ireland via the Arab and
Mercury. New potatoes are expected in a short time front the same
quarter.—Glasgate Chronicle.
A few days ago the long-boat of the store-ship
Chandernagor was towed into Boulogne by a fishing boat, having on
board a sailor nearly dead with fatigue and hunger, having eaten nothing
wmore than five days. It seems that he had fallen asleep in the boat
the ve,,,cl in Ilre-q harbour tliat the boat !:
loose, and that on aw,km,g he found that he had drified far out to sea ;
he was subsequently washed up the Channel, and, notwithstanding all
his exertions, was unable to reach Land until picked up by the fishing boat.