The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-22 00:00:00

PLYMOUTH GREAT WESTERI

DOCKS.
The fifth ordinary half-yearly meeting of the share*
holders was held on Feb. 12, at the office of the com-
pany, in Stouehouse—James Wentworth Buller, Esq ,
of Downes, in the chair. The meeting was respectably
but not very numerously attended. The preliminary
business having been gone through, the secretary, Mr.
Edward Fielder, was called upon to read the reports.
The directors' report stated that the company having
been put into possession of the Millbay pier, at Michael-
mas last, under the contract with Mr. Gill, they had
engaged permanent officials and appointed a secretary.
The directors hoped that, by fixing a judicious and
moderate scale of duties, and extending the accommoda-
tion which the pier afforded, a very considerable addi-
tion would be made to the existing trade. The directors
to retire by rotation were Mr. David Derry, Colonel
H. B. Harris, Mr. T. Gill, and Mr. It. M'Calmont, who
were eligible for re-election. Mr. Jonathan Clouter,
one of the auditors who retired, was also eligible for re-
election.

The report of Mr. I K. Brunel, engineer, stated, that
during the last six months the progress of the wurks
had been satisfactory, as rapid as the season of the year,
the weather, and the nature of the work would permit.
The eastern portion of the south wall had been nearly
completed, and the western pert commenced, and some
progress made in it. The report then proceeded to say :
the western side of the coffer-dam for the lucks has
been constructed ; the eastern side is commenced, and
preparations made for proceeding with the south ; and
considerable progress has also been made with the ex-
cavations for the main sewers required on each side of
the bay ; and the masonry of the east sewer
commenced. During the last fortnight the contractor
has suspended his work. It is impcssible for me here
to enter into the consideration of the reasons which
he appears to have had for doing so ; but I trust that
it will shortly be resumed, that the delay will not have
been great, and that no other inconvenience will result.
The pier has required some repairs; the masonry at the
extremity had been much damaged by the action of the
sea; this has been rebuilt in a substantial manner. Much
of the timber has also been destroyed by the worm, not-
withstanding the usual precautions adopted in the origi-
nal construction of the pier. In the repair of this, I have
adopted a plan which would admit more easily of repla-
cing any parts that might be again injured; but the ex-
perience of several years confirms my expectation that
the use of creosote in the preparation of the timber will
protect it completely from this cause of destruction. The
rubble bank in which the pier is built has received and
still requires some additional quantity of stone, which
will be thrown in as opportunities for obtaining it from
the basin may occur. With these precautions I. believe
the p er wilt soon be placed in a substantial state of
repair.".

The balance-sheet showed that there had been re-
ccipts on account of calls to the amount of 37,2221.2;. Id.
On the, side of payments there had been expenses in-
curred before and in obtaining the Act, 4 591/.; Parlia-
mentary expenses in 1848, 550/. ; law charges, 746/. ;
land and compensation, 13,4114; engineering expenses,
1,599/. ; works, 15,314/. ; interest on shares, 478/. ;
balance at bankers, &c., 2401., making, with a few small
items, a balance of the account.

The report of the directors, and the statement of ac-
coutts, were then adopted, and ordered to be printed ;
and the directors and auditors, whose names are men-
tioned above, were then re-elected. This closed the
business of the general meeting.
An extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders
was then held, for the parpose of authorising the direc-
tors to borrow on mortgage or bond such sums as they
were authorised to borrow by the Act; and a resolution
for borrowing 30,0001. was agreed to.
In reply to a question from Mr. May, it was stated
that the works had been stopped by the contractor, and
not by the directors, or through any Rant of funds on
their part. But it was believed that the stoppage was
only temporary. It was further stated, that the South
Devon Railway Company had not paid their calls, but
the Great Western and the Bristol and Exeter Cotn-
panics had paid a call in advance, which was in the na-
ture of a loan to the South Devon Company, and more
than covered the dcbt due from them.
On the motion of Admiral PAsco, a vote of thanks
was given to the Chairman, and the meeting broke up.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Admiralty, Feb. 14.
Sir,—l am commanded by my Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty to transmit to you, for the information
of the Committee for Managing Affairs of Lloyd's, the
enclosed copy of a letter from her Majesty's Consul at
St. Michael's, stating that the shoal supposed to exist
near that island could not be discovered, two British
shipmasters having been sent to try and discover it.

- (Signed) - IL G. WARD.
Capt. G. A. Halsted, RN., Secretary, Lloyd's.
St. Michael's, Jan. 22, 1849.
My Lord,--With reference to my dispatch No. 2, of
the 4th inst., I have the honour to Lequaint your Lord-
ship that, thinking it of the highest importance to
13ritieh trade that the existence of the shoal, which
formed the subject of that dispatch, should be proved
or disproved as soon as possible, I induced the
masters of the British vessels Prospero, of Lon-
don, and Aolus, of Guernsey, to proceed to survey
the quarter in which it was said to have been seen.
They returned yesterday from a week's cruising,
having passed repeatedly over and near its alleged place,
without finding any discolouration of the water or other
indication of a shoal. But they stated that they saw
during bad weather frequent heavy breaking seas, like
the " Overran' of the Gut of Gibraltar, which might be
easily mistaken, even at a short distance, for breakers.
I trust that it may be considered as satisfactorily
shown by the tracks of the two ships, as laid down in
the inclosed chart, that such a mistake was made by the
shipmasters whose reports I had the honour to transmit
to your Lordship, and that there is nothing to endanger
the passage of ships between this island and Terceira.
It is probable that the meeting of the tidal and At-
lantic currents, which, it will be seen from the small
chart introduced, cross each other at right angles in
this quarter, may make such appearances a regular ac•
companiment of bad weather.

(Signed) THOMAS CAREW HUNT.
Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., &c.

The private advices as well as the newspaper de-
details by the Canada, although they bring no positive
intelligence later than the 22d of November from Cali-
fornia, are extremely interesting. It was a curious fact
that up to the sailing of the steamer, the gold from the
mines received in the United States did not exceed
100,000 dollars, while the amount of specio taken by
the swarms of adventurers who had already sailed was
upwards of 500,000 dolls.; goods and provisions having
also been shipped to the estimated value of 5,000,000
or 6,000,000 dolls. Under these circumstances it was
felt that unless considerable arrivals of gold should soon
take place a severe pressure might ensue, since the goods
sent off, and for which the returns can only come at
a distant date, must be supplied by fresh importa
Lions that will call for remittances. The disappointment
at the non-arrival of any large parcels from the mines
had been used by those who have endeavoured from the
first to throw discredit on the whole affair to justify their
distrust, but there were no apparent means by which
any such supplies couid have been expected, while at the
same time all the additional statements which had trans-
pired from indirect channels tended not only to confirm
the former accounts of the discovery, but also to increase
the estimates of its results. The latest accounts appear
to be contained in a letter dated Mazatlan, Dec. 20; but
as this gives no date in connexion with its news from
San Francisco, it is only from the circumstance of its
mentioning a fall of snow that there is reason to suppose
it to reach beyond the advices already received.
PIRATES IN THE WEST INDIES.—The captain and
crew of the British schooner Bittern arrived at Yar-
mouth, Nova Scotia, a short time ago, from the West
Indies, gives the following account of the loss of their
vessel:—About the 22d of December, when off Sabea,
near St. Thomas's, they discovered near them a raking,
piratical-looking schooner, filled with negroes, which
sailed round them several times, apparently to recon-
noitre, and endeavoured to draw them from the land.
From the proceedings on board the strange vessel, the
captain and crew of the Bittern had no doubt that the
supposed pirates intended to board their vessel, and,
therefore, as soon as night set in, they abandoned her,
taking with them what money and valuables they could
carry in a boat, and landed at Sabea. The governor the
next day dispatched a schooner in pursuit of the pirate.
Both the Bittern and the pirate vessel had, however, dis-
appeared. It is supposed that the pirates boarded the
Bittern, robbed h( r of all that was valuable, and then
scuttled her. The crew of the Bittern were taken to
Yarmouth in the British schooner Osier.--Boston 'Fran
script.

TUE PARISII of BERMONDSEY.—On Friday the
adjourned meeting of the ratepayers of this parish for
the election of Commissioners, under the Bermondsey
Improvement Act, was held in the Committee-room,
Russell-street. The meeting had been adjourned from
Wednesday last for the purpose of taking a poll for the
respective candidates. Shortly after ten o'clock, W.
Lambert, Esq., took the chair. The poll having been
formally opened, Mr. Drew, the clerk, read a letter from
Mr. C. Legg, stating that he was authorised on the part
of Mr. G. Porter, Mr. Fauutleroy, Mr. Christie, Mr.
Bathe, and Mr. C
Challis, they not vsishing to create any
disturbance or excitement in the parish, to withdraw any
further opposition, and they would now retire from the
contest. The following gentlemen were then declared to
be duly elected as Bermondsey- Improvement Commis-
sioners (being the candidates proposed by the Rate-
payer's Association) :—Mr. W. lleykes, Mr. Richard
Harris, Mr. S. Watkins, Mr. W. Hooper, and Mr. E.
Hunt. Thanks were then voted to the chairman, anti the
meeting bruit* up.

FROM THE LOYDON GAZETTE
TI.TESDAY.
1)11111)ENI)t%
At the Court, .Basieglia:l-ztrecJ. t
Hassel;, jun , Whittlecea, lie of Ely,.
Cambridge-
Aire, builder, March 16, at clic-Ir. L. Beesusi:ll,
Bensusau, J. L. Benstisan, and J. L Bensusan, Magda•
len-row, Great Prescott-street, Goodman's ,fields, mer-
chants, March 1:3, at eleven—W. Iloole, St. James's-
walk, Clerkenwell, metal tool merchant, March 14, et
twelve—T. Ridgway, Huddersfield, wool merchant,
March 15, at half-past one—R. Dutton, Sambrook-court,
Basinghafi-street, wool broker, March 15, at two—G.
Hithe, Kent, grocer, March 13, at ene.
In the Country.
Anne Evans, Raglan, Monmouthshire, victualler,
March 16, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—J. Philp,
Bristol, wholesale stationer, March 16, at eleven, at the
Court, Bristol—B. Fen wick, Newcastle- upon-Ty ne,
linen-
draper, March 15, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne—J. Bet kley, Newcastle-upon-Tyle, March 15, at
half-past ten, at the Court, Newcastle .upon-Tyne—T.
Dalt( n, Darlington, Durham, rope manufacturer, March
15, at one, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—T.
Nesbitt and R. C. Nesbitt, Sunderland, Durham, brewers,
March 15, at twelve, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-
ne—C. Cradock, Darlington, Durham, ropemaker,
March 15, at eleven, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
—G. Atkins, Liverpool, brewer, March 19, at eleven, at
the Court, Liverpool—W. Croudson, Wigan, Lanca-
shire, iron•tnerchant, March 14, at twelve, at the Court,
Manchester—l?. Ellerbeek, Pilkington, Lancashire, cot-
ton spinner, March 14, at eleven, at the Court, Manches-
ter—J. Coop, Radcliffe, Lancashire, timber merchant,
March 14, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—J. Rang-
ford, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, coal merchant,
March 22, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham—J.
Brett, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, grocer, March 21, at half-
paat ten, at the Town•hall, Kingston-upon-Hull—W.
Ellam, jun., Birmingham, patent cock founder, March 14,
at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham—T. Lay, Dudley,
Worcestershire, grocer, March 14, at twelve, at the
Court, Birmingham.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.
P. J. Antill, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, wine and spiri
merchant, 9d. (in addition to Is. 6d., previously de-
clared), any Saturday, between the hours of ten and
three, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle upon-Tyne.
C. Allen, St. Ives, Cornwall, ironmonger, 4s. 6d., any
Tuesday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the
office of Mr. Hirtzell, Exeter.
11. W. Hayes, Tei,gnmouth, Devonshire, 3s. 4d., any
Tuesday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the
office of Mr. Hirtzel, Exeter,
G. Goddard, Leicester, tea dealer and grocer, 2a. 5d.,
any Wednesday, between the hours of eleven and two,
at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street.
J. Roberts, Liverpool, ironmonger, 2s. Bd., Wednes-
day Feb. 28, or any subsequent Wednesday, between the
hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Morgan,
Liverpool.
W. Ilignett, Liverpool, tobacconist, 11d., Wednesday,
Feb. 28, or any subsequent Wednesday, between the
hours of eleven and two, at the office oi! Mr. Morgan,
Liverpool.
R. Ruberts, Denbigh, innkeeper, 41d., and first and
second dividend of 3s. Bth, and 41d. on new proofs,
Wednesday, Feb. 28, or any subsequent Wednesday,
between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr.
Morgan, Liverpool.
T. Bishten, Kilsale, Shropshire, ironmaster, 3s. lid.,
any Thursday, between the hours of eleven and three, at
the office of Mr. Christie, Birmingham.
J. B. I3rowne, Newcastle-under-Lyme, wine and spirit
merchant, Is. Bd., any Thursday, between the hours of
eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Valpy, Birmingham.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basiughall-street.
W. Abbott and W. Abbott, jun., Bermondsey street,
patent hair felt manufacturers, March 16, at half-past
eleven—G. T. Saltmarsh, Houndsditch, wine and spirit
merchant, March 16, at twelve—C. Story, jun., High.
street, Bow, and High. street, Poplar, hatter, March 16,
at eleven.

In the Country.
J. T. Bourne, Dill-torn, Staffordshire, earthenware
dealer, March 20, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham.
At the Court of Review, March 13.
G. Benda, Camomile-street, City, importer of foreign
goods—W. Wood, Waddington, Lincolnshire, licensed
victualler —A. Butterfield, Hitchin, Hertfordshire,
builder—W. Evans, Sheffield, tuble knife manufacturer
—S. C. Aaron, Brighton, auctioneer—H. Searle, Beau-
mont-street, Oxford-street, tailor and draper—J. T.
Harrison, Haydon-street, Minories, cooper—E. G. Hone,
Liverpool, licensed victualler.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
Harriet Cockroft and Jane Batley, Huddersfield, mil-
liners and dressmakers—J. Peacock, E. C. Jepson, J. -6.
Copley, and G. Copley, Gainsborough, Yorkshire,
wharfingers (so far as regards .J. Peacock and E. C. Jep-
son)—C. R. Huxley and E. Huxley, Vere-street, Cavan-
dish-square, shirt and surgical stocking makers—Naomi
Mary Langridge and Amelia Langride, Bristol, stay-
manufacturers—W. Watt and T. H. Watt, Deal,
apothecaries—H. Beattie and W. Briggs, Liverpool,
contractors—T. Poole and T. Fenson, North-street,
Edgeware-road, greengrocers—J. Grower and W. Hill,
Kingston-upon-Hull and Leeds, linen and woollen-
drapers—J. Parker and H. Parker, Shipston-upon-Stour,
Worcestershire, joiners and builders—J. Broadhurst
and W. Green, Stoke-upon. Trent, Staffordshire, earthen-
ware manufacturers—A. S. Evans, D. Evans, B. Evans,
and It Wigans, metal and colour dealers (so far as re-
gards B. Evans)—S. Loxton and C. Loxton, Birming-
ham, japanners—J. Tilson and J. Monknian, Scarbo-
, borough, Yorkshire, cabinet makers and upholsterers--
T. Allen and M. A. Simpson, Aisgarth, Yorkshire,
joiners and cabinet makers—W. Coulthurst and AL
Pogget, Higher Broughton, Lancashire, joiners and
builders —R. Channon, jun., T. Channon, and R. Chan'
non, Bristol, livery stable keepers (so far as regards R.
Cha.nuon, jun.)—W. Cooper and E. Criek:nay, Nor-
wich, surgeons and apothecaries--R. IVitty and G.
Dodds, Great Driffield, tailors and drapers—B. Bache
and W. :dillward, Moor-lane Colliery, Staffordshire,
coal masters—J. Thorne and J. Keevil, Bristol, linen
drapers—Hannah Haekitt, Sarah Darnill, and J. W.
Darnill, Reading, milliners and dressmakers—T. Brodie
and J. Forsyth, Berwick-upon-Tweed, ship and in*
surance brokers—H. Hoyle and G. Hardman, Roch-
dale, cotton manufacturers—G. Roe and C. Waller,
omnibus proprietors—J. Hatchett, sen., and J. Hatchett,
jun., Savage-gardens, ship and insurance brokers.

INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
John Sargeant, Barrow-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire,
farmer.
Henry Slater, King's Norton, Worcestershire, umbrella
furniture-maker.
Philip Mann, Birmingham, dealer in ironmongery.
Richard Deakin, Birmingham, baker.
John Westwood, Brampton, Huntingdonshire, dissenting
minister.
William John Bennison, Kingston•upon-Hull, victualler'
Thomas Gibson, Kingston. upon-Hull, auctioneer.
William Wilkinson, Kingston-upon-Hull, furniture-
broker.
John Batty, Kingston-upon-Hull, superintendent of pub-
he baths.
Benjamin Russell, Kingston-upon-Hull, grocer.
James William Bogie, jun., Woodchurch, Cheshire'
Thomas Webb Gilson, Kingston-upon-Hull, butcher.
Henry Ibbotson, Sheffield, brace-bit manufacturer.
Juhn Russell, Sheffield, watchmaker.
John Hague, Sheffield, brush manufacturer.
John Bishop, Birmingham, boatman.
Henry Clark, Holbeach, Lincolnshire, journeyman brick-
la) er.
John Howard, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, hair dresser.
David Mouusey, Birmingham, commission agent.
Thomas Cropper, Linton, Derbyshire.
James Edmund Currey, Newchureh, Isle of Wight.
SCOTCEI SEQUESTRATIONS.
J. Lyell, Aberdeen, ironmonger, to meet within the
Royal Hotel, Aberdeen, Feb. 24 and March 20, at two.
P. Brown, Edinburgh, printer, to meet within Steven'
son's Sale-rooms, Edinburgh, Feb. 24 and March 17, at
twelve.
T. Gray, Glasgow, surgeon, to meet within the Star
Hotel, Glasgow, Feb. 23 and Mgch 16, at one,
J. Cameron, Dingwall, printer, to meet within the
Caledonian Hotel, Dingwall, March 1 and 22, at two.
J. Pattison, Edinburgh, writer to the signet, to weet
within the Wattrloo Hotel, Edinburgh, Feb. 26 and
March 19, at two.

1). and Jessie Hannah, Irvine, merchants, to meet
within the King's Arms Inn, Irvine, Feb. 24 and March
19, at twelve.

J. Pearce, Edinburgh, dealer in railway shares, to
meet within the Royal Exchange Coffee-house, Edio'
burgh, Feb. 19 and March 21, at two.

PRINCE'S THEATRE Rorer., GLASGOW.—.A grog!
military ballet d'action, founded upon the popular song 01
Jeanette and Jeannot, was produced here with groat
success a few evenings back, and has proved one of the
most successful hits of the season. Miss Lonsdale per
sonates Jeanette with so much sweetness of expression
as to gain the plaudits of all parts of the House. Miss
Massed, as Maria a vivandiere, was remarkably
sprightly ; her spirited execution of the Cracovienne
proved quite exhilarating. Inn mock polka with Mr'
Lloyd she is also very clever, and receives much applause'
She is a great favourite with the good people of Glas-
gow. Miss Fairbrother sustained the part of Jesnno'
very excellently. The business here is excellent.
A large number of the police-constables on tile
Great Western Railway have been discharged during the
past wet le, in pursuance of a system of the strietes',
economy, which is being carried out in every depart'
merit of the establishment.
CLASSICAL CLERKS. One day this week, Mr
Miller, the official assignee, mentioned to Mr. Sergeant
Ludlow a " fix" iu which he was, in consequence 01
bankrupt, an apothecary, having made out his account°
in that wretched jargon—medical Latin, which is only
( quailed by the barbaric absurdities of the
tintiquo,,'°,,-„
—Norman French—used in our courts of law.
1-
Learned Sergeant laughed at! the dilemma, and said ,
thought that the Bankruptcy Act should have rendered
it compulsory on official assignees to have good classicsi
scholars for their clerks.-13ristol Journal.
THE WEATHER.—Since our last, the weather brig
been variable. Saturday was a beautiful spring day. Sun:
dry was gloomy, and some rain tell during the morni
Monday was chiefly characterised by a high wind, and .IN
it became lulled, slight showers fell. Yesterday was glowi%;
with occasional showers of rain. In the telegraphic report
of of the weather yesterday morning, from different parts
the kingdom, there is considerable variation ; fine in so
places; cloudy and dull in others ; and, in a few, Eli„.
weather prevailing :—Glasgow, S.W., slight rain ; .
burgh, W., very cold; Newcastle, W., tine; York, Serve,
fine; Leeds, S., cloudy; Normancon, S., cloudy;
S.W., tine ; Dereham, S., cloudy ; Norwich, W., frost ;
mouth, N. W., fine; Lowestof:„ W., cloudy; St. Ivo, i_s_
tine ; Cambridge, W., cloudy ; S. W., tine; icr.,;
with, N.W. by W., cloudy ;; Chelmsford, S.W., cl°,l.\
Hertford, S.W., fine; Londo S.W., fine; Gosport
cloudy; Portsmouth, S.W., ciusdy; Southampton, 11 4:4
dull.—Manchester Guardian. !

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