The Sun.
London, England, 1825-03-17 00:00:00

BANK OF ENGLAND.

At twelve o'clock thi's day the Half-yearly
Genzral Court of Proprietors of Bank.
Stock was held at the
Bark of England, for the purpose of declaring a dividend for
the half year ending on the sth April next. The Court was
unusually crowded.
The SECRETARY read the minutes of the last Court, after
which,

The GOV E RN or. submitted, for the approbation of the Court
of Proprietors, a resolution of the Directors, that a dividend of
four per cent. profit and interest be paid upon their stock for
the current half year. On the question being put,

Mr. Vous° begged to ask the amount of the issues of the
Bank of England notes to the present time.
The CHAIR MAN replied he could inform the lion. Proprie-
tor, that it did not amount to 20 millions.

Mr. Yousn also asked the amounts advanced on mortgage.
The CHAIRMAN replied, 1,200,000/.
Mr. You Na also asked how much was advanced on stock ?
The CHAIRMAN was happy to inform him, the amount did
not exceed 600,000/.

Mr. Vou NG, at length, pointed out the necessity ofguarding
against advancing money to persons wit,. only speculative ca-
pitals, and hoped the Directors would attend to it.

The CHAIRMAN assured him no loss had as yet been sus-
tained by such advances, and in reply to a question from the
same proprietor, said, the subject of preventing the forgeries of
transfers was now under consideration.--The Court then broke
up.

SCIENTIFIC BARB 111ITY.-The? following De-
claration has been signed by 38 physicians and
other medical Prosessors at Bath :--
" BAT it,FEll.27.—We, whose names are underwritten, me-
dical persons, chiefly practitioners, resident at Bath, do hereby
engage and declare that we will, as far as in us lies, prevent
and discourage by our example, influence, and dissuasion,
those painful and cruel anatomical experiments upon living ani-
mals which to the disgrace of science, in our opinion, are made
sometimes without necessity or utility, and frequently without
any adequate end, under the plea of promoting medical know-
ledge. The gratification of mere curiosity, the illustration
of favourite but unessental theories, or the repetition of any
known and conclusive experiment, we consider very insuffi-
cient motives for the infliction of torture. We do thus protest
against, and reprobate such conduct, esteeming it wholly unwar-
rantable and discreditable to our profession. And we earnestly
recommend this subject to the serious consideration of all
students in anatomy ; entreating them, under a sense of moral
principle, not to he misled herein by the practices of others,
who have thoughtlessly (as we hope), but unfortunately de.
graded researches otherwise so meritorious and important."

A striking decision has been prenounced by
the Court of Assize of the Tarn and Garonne, on
a charge of murder brought against a M. Gignoux,
a proprietor of that district. M. Gignoux had
reason to suspect the fidelity of his wife ;
and in order to satisfy his mind on the subject,
pretended to leave home on a journey, while he
only concealed himself in his own house. On
the arrival of night, his suspicions were verified
by finding his place occupied in the conjugal bed.
Driven to fury by the sight, he fired two pistol-
shots at the bed, and killed the adulterer, who
was found to be one of his own servants. He
then surrendered himself to justice, and on his
trial acknowledged
the fact. The Jury ac-
quitted him on the ground of the provocation he
received.

On the 9th inst., the assistant of the Mayor of
Chartres was assinated, along with his wife, by a
convict who had been liberated after 18 years of
imprisonment and hard labour. The assassin
had entered the house of this officer begging his
bread. He was offered refrt'sment and even re-
quested to stay supper. During the time his
meal was preparing, he perpetrated his double
crime. Ile has been apprehended.
At a Meeting of the Committee of Lloyd's
held yesterday, it was resolved that it be proposed to the Sub-
scribers at a General Meeting on Wednesday next to vote
1001. to Mr. Coox, Master of the Cambria ; and the like sum
to be divided among the crew and others who were on board
that vessel, for their humane and praiseworthy exertions in
saving 547 persons out of the Kent East lndiaman, which they
fell in with on fire on the Ist instant ; also, 201. to Mr. Bibby,
Master of the Caroline, and his crew, for picking up fourteen
soldiers whom they discovered on part of the wreck of the Kent
the day after she blew up. It is needless to add that the pro-
posal will be carried unaniously.
CROOKED PEOPLE MADE STRAIGHT.—At Paris
there is an establishment, Orthopedique, for making crooked
people straight, which may probably answer the same purpose
of adding a cubit to the stature. The busts of the cured are
preserved in plaster, and the difference is so great as to astonish
everybody.—( French Paper.)
A curious custom prevails at South American balls, public
as well as private. Ladies of all ranks, who happen not to be
invited, come in disguise, and stand at the windows, or in the
passages, and often actually enter the ball-room. They are
called Tapadas, from their faces being covered ; and their ob-
ject is to observe the proceedings of their unconscious friends,
whom they torment by malicious speeches whenever they hap-
pen to be within hearing.

STOBBS MILLS.—We have seen a gentleman,
who resides about a mile and a half from the powder-mills.
He was sitting in his bed-room in the act of shaving, when
the decanter of hot water before him suddenly bounced up
from the table several feet, the mirror upset, and the other
apparatus were tossed about the room. On looking out of
his window, he saw an immense column of smoke arising from
the spot, mixed with flame, which from the ignition of fresh
quantities of powder from time to time, while carried up, added
much to the sublimity of the scene. There was loud noise,
like thunder, continued for some time, which struck terror
even on the beasts of the fields, and nothinhir was more
remarkable than its effects on the hares, which are very
numerous in the neighbourhood, and which were seen in
all directions, raised up on their hinder legs, and look-
ing round. At a distance of a mile and a quarter from the
mills, a Iploughman was found lying insensible, who drop-
ped down at his plough, but soon recovered. A carter, driving
a load of hay, at nearly the same distance, was driven down on
his face, though nothing happened to the horse or cart; the
poor man could not account for it, but described it as an
invi-
sible something coming up behind him, which, like a gust of
wind, felled him to the (Tr ound. The head of one of the men
who suffered was carried upwards of a mile, and stopped only
by coining in contact with the wall of a farm-house, where it was
dashed to pieces. Some stones and iron bolts were found at an
almost incredible distance.—(Stirling Journal.)
NEWSPAPERS.—A meeting of the Proprietors
of Newspapers, in Edinburgh, was held in
miEwEN's, on Friday, when it was resolved to
petition Parliament for a reduction of the duty
on Newspaper Stamps and on Advertisements, on
the ground that such reduction would be attended
with little or no loss of revenue.—( Edinburgh
Courant, March 14.)
MURDER OF Two CHILDREN.--On Friday last
Robert Maydrzell took his trial at Lincoln
Assizec, on suspicion of having, on the 26th of
February, 1524, murdered Frances Smaller, at
Boston. There being tto evidence whatsoever
to criminate him he was acquitted. lie was also
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but no
bill -baying been found against him, he was im-
mediately liberated.