The Sun.
London, England, 1836-03-19 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

Yesterday three men, named George Whitlamb, William
Graham, and James Brown, were brought before Mr. Alder-
man WINCHESTER, charged with carrying unstamped news-
papers.
Mr. Alderman WINCHESTER discharged them with an ad-
monition.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Robert Smith and William Davis, a couple of boys, in the
full professional costume of the order " chummy," were brought
before Mr. CONANT, charged with the high crime and misde-
meanour of having attempted to carry off a portion of the con-
tents of Lord Derby's dusthole, the property of the dust con-
tractor in that district.
" Please your Lordship's Grace," said the dust contractor's
deputy, " ve've lately lost a hunaccountable lot o' dust off of
our beat, and as ve natrally know'd as it couldn't have wanished
if nobody hadn't prigged it, vy conseqventlye I keeps a look
out for them ere covies, what goes out a dusting on the cross.
Vhile I vos out in Grosvenor-skvare, I saw'd both these here
young criminals slip down his Lordship's airy, and begin a
shovelling his Lordship's stuff into von of their sacks. I drops
on 'em in the werry hact, and collars 'em both vith the pro-
perty in their possession.
Mr. CONANT—You: hear the charge, my lads; what have
you to say in defence ? Smith—Ye vorks for the house, my

Lord.
Mr. CONANT—Is it your business to take away the dust ?
Smith—No, my Lord, vere the reglar chimbly sveeps vot
sveeps his Lordsip's chimbleys. Both on us called to ask if
his Lordship's chimbleys vonted sveeping, and they told us
they didn't. So, my Lord, as ye happened to see a lady sift-
ing cinders in the airy, ye arks'd her if she could be so werry
obleeging as to let us have a shovel full. She granted us our
demand, and jest as ye vere about to cut our sticks this here
good gentleman comes up and lugs us avay to this here office.
Mr. CONANT—You must be fined 10/. Have you got 10(..
apiece to pay? Smith (grinning from car to ear)—Me got
ten pounds ! All as ever I got in my pockets is three-hapestee
farden, and a bag of marbles. (To the other.) You got any
capital, Bill ?
Bill—Ain't got nuffin. I spent my last brown on Vensday
for a baked tater.
The fine of 101. each was imposed, or ten days' imprison-
, ment.

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The meeting of Bank Proprietors held on Thursday
passed over much more harmoniously than many former occa-
sions of the same kind. The blunder of Mr. Spring Rice in
allowing 4 per cent. discount on the anticipated payments
on the late loan, at the time when the Bank were lend-
ing money on the same security at 3} per cent. has worked
admirably well for the proprietors, as every one foresaw who
had paid the least attention to the subject must necessarily be
the case. The profits of the establishment have been so con-
siderable, that instead of the " rest" of the Bank being dis-
turbed, as was done at the last dividend, to make up the 4 per
cent. shared among the proprietors, there has occurred in the
interval an addition to it of 25,0001., after providing for the
present dividend, and carrying to account another sum of
15,0001., as the final loss sustained by the Bank through the
forgeries of Fauntlei oy. The only facts elicited by the dis-
cussion of any interest out of the circle of Bank proprietors
related to the recent transfer of a certain portion of the public
business to the London and Westminster Bank. An impres-
sion prevailed, it seems, among the proprietors, that this busi-
ness, which arose under the management of the Excise out of
the hop duties in Surrey and Kent, had previously been ma-
Ds
themselves,
ma-
naged by the Bank of England, and that the change had led
to a diminution of the balances there. It appeared, however,
that the business was wholly ander private control, and had
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hem
been conducted by Mr. Ward, lately a member of the Court,
Governor admitted, on the change
that were desirous, as the .
but who did not keep any accotuentthaits the Bank.
that took place, to appropriate
of
and addressed a'letter to the Chancellorncl ce the Exchequer on
the subject, pointing
oeutfieactsedan; butluthment, the large saving
that might thereby be
the, ey were informed that
this was a matter over which Government had no control,
and that it rested solely with the Board of Excise. Some
feeble attempts were made, as usual, for the production of a
balance-sheet, as a corollary to the declaration of a dividend,
but no motion was made on the subject, and the great bulk of
the meeting were evidently averse to any such disclosure.
The meeting did not occupy much more than half an hour.—
Times.
On Friday, a sermon was preached agreeably to the
will of Hercules Clay, and in the afternoon the Town-hall was
crowded with men and women, with a numerous host of chil-
dren, to receive the dole of bread agreeably to the will of the
donor, when every applicant, amounting to 3,774, received a
penny loaf, as has been the custom for 186 years !—Lincoln
Gazette.