The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-23 00:00:00

THE BANKS.

The National (O'Connell's) have passed the following re-
solutions at a meeting of the friends and shareholdersheld
at Drogheda :—That in consequence of the Bank of Ire-
land office in this town having refused to take the Notes
of the National Bank of Ireland, by which much inconve-
nience may arise to the inhabitants of Drogheda and its
neighbourhood, we feel it our imperative duty, as friends of
the National Bank, to unite in supporting the Establish-
ment by all legitimate means. That if the Bank of Ire-
land persist in refusing the notes of the National Bank of
Ireland, we shall feel bound, in self-defence, to demand
gold for all the paper coming into our hands, and we shall
call on the country in general to follow our example, in re-
sisting the monopoly which has so long paralysed the pros-
perity of Ireland.
It would seem that upwards of 40,000/, in gold was dis-
patched from Dublin to the different branches of' the Agri-
cultural Bank. This is a very timely assistance, and will
prove powerfully influential to the restoration of that con-
fidence upon which all the important interests of the country
depend.—Pilot.
The Mai/ of this evening complains that the impartiality
of its course on the subject of the late run for gold has
displeased almost all parties. In the same journal we also
find the follwing information

" Rumours were afloat exceedingly prejudicial to the part
taken by the Provincial Bank of Ireland, in reference to
the late runs ; and in one place, at a public meeting, and

in the populous town of Loughrea, it was Resolved—
That our confidence in the Agricultural and Commercial
Bank is not diminished by present circumstances, convinced
as we are, that they were induced by a combination of mo-
nopolists to depress a native Institution, and to seek and
found on its downfall a perpetuation of monied control as
exercised by the Provincial Bank of Ireland previously to
the introduction or tb. nnd National Banks.'

" Anxious to do away with this impression, we gave gra-
Euitqus insertion to what we conceived to be a vindication
Hf that tarns out to be anything but
that—in the shape of an authorised stateriient; and
copies of letters which had passed between the Secretaries
and Managers of the two establishments. Well, for this we
have been blackguarded by authority,' called all manner
of infamous names, and threatened with an ex-officio, or
bill of pains and penalties ; because, in reply to a question
put by the Register of that morning, we stated a notorious
fact, that Mr. Spring Rice, the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, is a large shareholder in, and one of the directors of,
the Provincial Bank of Ireland.

" The truth is, as we took occasion to state on a former oc-
cas'on, there is no natural trade in Ireland requiring the
facilities for raising money afforded by those rival estab-
lishments • nor is there any discounts of a wholesome or
business-1'1(e character that could remunerate the com-
panies for the enormous outlay at which they have been in
fitting out expensive establishments in the various cities and
towns in which their branches are situate, nor any return
that could reimburse them for the monstrously extravagant
staffs they have set up."
The following extract is from a letter addressed to the
Mail:—

" Tipperary, Nov. 19.
" The Agricultural Bank in this town is paying all de-
mands upon it punctually, and the letters of credit they
gave are duly honoured. The other branches in this part
of the country are doing the same. There is every appear-
ance of credit being fully re-established in a very short
time ; the run upon the other Banks is also decreasing.
The Tipperary Branch had not above 27,000/. in circula-
tion, while another Bank in the town had 120,0001. The
farmers are paying their notes with astonishing punctuality.
A most infamous attempt has been made to fix upon the
Tories the odium of having caused the run ; it is decidedly
the reverse."

THE Foe.--Yesterday morning the fog was so ex-
ceedingly dense on the river that the shipping proceeding
up and down could with difficulty guard against accidents
by running foul of each other. Lights were hoisted at the
bows as a precaution. The mails and other coaches were
conducted into London with torches, and the shopkeepers
in the City and West-end had their shops lighted with gas.

MADRID IN 1835.—This interesting work, which
has just appeared, gives some bold pictures of Spanish
society, and exhibits the demoralizing effects of Monkish
despotism. In this latter respect alone, as a work of nar-
rative, it will command attention, and that will be the more
excited, from the knowledge that the scenes described are
of not romantic fictions, but actually drawn from real life.
At the present juncture of Spanish affairs the information
with which it teems must be peculiarly valuable.
Shortly after ten o'clock yesterday morning a wherry
was proceeding down the river with two persons in it, when
the boat ran foul of some barges which were lying off So-
merset-house with such violence that both individuals were
thrown into the water, and before any person could procure
assistance they were sucked under the barges and perished.
FlRE.—Yesterday morning, about three o'clock,
Mr. Head, the pa►tner in the brewery of Messrs. Charring-
ton and Head, in the Mile End-road, discovered that a
stable adjoining the premises was on fire. He instantly
gave an alarm, and a number of the workmen employed on
the premises, together with Inspector Ham, with a party of
policemen from the station-house nearly opposite to the
brewery, hastened to the spot, and by their united exertions
and a plentiful supply of water the flames were confined to
the stable, which fortunately was a detached building. It
was found, however, on the stable-door being burst open
that two horses, of the value of at least fifty guineas each,
were quite dead.
HORACE WALPOLE'S CORRESPONDENCE.—The
public is informed that it is the intention of Mr. Bentley,
shortly after Christmas, to publish the most complete edition
that has yet appeared of the Correspondence of Horace
Walpole, having been favoured with a great number of let-
ters hitherto unpublished of this prince of letter-writers to
his latest correspondent, an entirely new series ; and many
additional letters to all his other correspondents. In this
edition the letters will be for the first time chronologically
arranged, and illustrated with notes from MS. and other
sources ; and the names will be inserted where the initials
were formerly only given. It will also be embellished with
fine portraits from original paintings, and other illustrations.
Yesterday morning, between five and six o'clock, a
fire was discovered to have broken out on the premises of
a dealer in marine stores, situate in Queen-street, Horsely-
down. The flames raged with great fury, and were not ex-
tinguished until considerable damage had been done.

SERIOUS MAIL-CART ACCIDENT.—On Monday
evening the following, serious accident occurred at the top
of Arlington-street, Piccadilly, just previous to the starting
of the western mails from the Gloucester Coffee-house.
About half-past eight o'clock, as the Exeter mail-cart, driven
by William Coleman, was on its way with the mail-bags, it
came into contact between St. James's-street and Arlington-
street, with a chaise-cart, belonging to and driven by Mr.
Press, milkman, of No. 41, Henry-street, Hampstead-road,
in which were two young females, named Mary Anne Press,
sister of Mr. Press, and Mary Ann Dark, of Southwell
Cottage, Clapham, Surrey, who we regret to state, were
thrown out of the vehicle with great force by the violence
of the shock, and severely injured. Sergeants Valiance and
Dudley, Nos. 11 and 6 C, and police-constable Beech, 167,
being in attendance at the Gloucester Coffee-house at the
time, immediately proceeded to the spot, when, after the
vehicles were disentangled, the two females were picked up,
and conveyed to the shop of Mr. Walker, surgeon, No. 209.
Piccadilly, where on examination it was found that Miss
Press, who, when picked up, was in a state of insensibliity,
the horse having trod on her head, was happily not so much
injured as was as first anticipated ; but that Miss Dark had
suffered most severely, the bones of her right arm being
broken, and several of her ribs greatly injured. Mr. Walker
having applied temporary restoratives, both females were
at their own request removed in a hackney-coach to the re-
sidence of Mr. Press, where, on inquiry yesterday, it was
stated that they remain in a very precarious state. We
understand no blame can be attributed to the driver of the
mail-cart, Mr. Press being on the wrong side of the road at
the time of the accident.

We have it from authority on which we can place
reliance that the Parliament will be dissolved in March
next.—Plymouth Herald.
It is reported that instructions have been brought by
the Malcolm for the return of the Hon. T. B. Macau-
ley, Esq.—Calcutta Gazette, May 14.
Christmas-day falls this year on a Sunday, which
will be a great convenience, particularly to shopkeepers, who
will not have to close their shops two days in the same week.
The Marquis of Hertford is still in Paris, at Meu•
rice's hotel, which he will leave next week for Nice, where
he will decide on the place where he will take up his winter
quarters. When the Marquis loft England he intended to
proceed to Naples, but in consequence of the cholera pre-
vailing in that city he will probably go to Milan.
The venerable Mrs. Fitzherbert takes her departure
this week for her residence at Brighton. She has suffered
for some weeks past by rheumatism, but is now recovered.
A marriage is talked of between the Hon. Colonel
Bridgman, son of Lord Bradford, nephew of Lord Cork
and the Marquis of Exeter, and Miss Hooper Aston, niece
to the late Marchioness of Huntley.

A public meeting was held at Leith on Friday, at
which the Lord Advocate said he thought there ought to
be communication between the representative and the con-
stituency. The learned gentleman, in a luminous and pa-
triotic speech, then gave an account of his political steward-

About half-past 4 o'clock on Monday afternoon, as a
lad, named William Cannon, was proceeding along Philli-
more-place, Kensington, he observed a young girl, about
11 years of age. named Eliza Lenhein, residing at Nc. 4,
Jennings's-buildings, High-street, Kensington, sitting on the
step of the gate of one of the houses, with a baby in her
arms, and crying very much. On inquiring the cause she
informed him, that about an hour previous she had been ac-
costed by a young woman, about 21 years of age, of re-
spectable appearance, who said she had to deliver a note at
the house of a lady close by, and offered to give her a penny
if she would take care of the infant she held in her arms
until she returned. The girl unsuspectingly did so, but the
female never returned. Cannon immediately took the girl
to the station-house of the T division, near Kensington
Church, where she repeated her story. Information of the
circumstance was then forwarded to Mr. Balls, one of the
overseers of Kensington, who had the little innocent, which
is a fine male child, about five weeks old, promptly con-
veyed to the workhouse. The only description the girl
was able to give of the female was, that she was of middle
stature, and wore a dark shawl and straw bonnet. The
child was very carefully wrapped in fine flannel wrappers,
and covered all round with a dark chocolate shawl.
Mr. Boynton,
_aed 24, died on Saturday morning at
the North London Hospital, en suite, from a surgical ope-
ration performed on him for the removal of a tumour on
the left side of his mouth and nose, about the size of an
orange. The cause of the tumour was a blow from a cric-
ket-ball r( ceived about two years since. He went to Guy's
about nire weeks since, but the surgeons there declined
having any thing to do with him. The operation was very
skilfully performed in less than a quarter of an hour ; and
it is only justice to Mr. Liston, the operator, to say that he
has already operated five times with success in similar cases.