The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-23 00:00:00

... £738,952 1 2

£. s. d.
34,167 16 8

Coin and bullion ... ••• .••
Landed or other property of the cor•
poration
... 1,706 3 9
Government securities ... none.
Promissory notes or bills of other banks 3,640 910
Balance due from other banks 13,181 8 4
Notes and bills discounted, or other
debts due to the corporation sot in-
cluded in the foregoing heads

... 805,434 3 7

Total average assets ... £858,130 2 2
The-head office of the bank was at Bridgetown,
Barbadoes, and it had branches at St. Kitts, St.
Vincent, Grenada, Antigua, Tobago, and Trinidad.
The effect of the suspension, therefore, if it shall be
forced to suspend, will be severe and extensive.
The suspension of Messrs. J. and H. Reay, an old
and respectable house in the wine trade,- was an-
nounced this afternoon. The actual debts of the firm
are said to he small, the amount being about
20,0001., but from the extent of their dealings their
liabilities in the shape of endorsements on bills are
considerable, and it is from the default of the parties
primarily responsible upon these that the necessity
for stoppage is understood to have arisen. The assets
of the house are believed to show a considerable sur-
plus in the shape of claims, but it is of course impos-
table to calculate upon the ultimate results of the
liquidation until these claims shall have been put in
process of collection.

Messrs: Lackersteen and Co., East lathe merchants,
Ili a W. 1.. • ." LA •
honoured on the 23d ult., but who have since been
making every effort to sustain themselves, we e com-
pelled this morning, on the arrival of the Indian
mail, to make a definite announcement of their stop-
page, the bills remitted to them being chiefly those of
Cockerell and ,Co. and of the Union Bank of Calcutta,
whose drafts Messrs. Glyn and Co. declined to accept
about four weeks back. The acceptances of the firm
are stated at a little above 100,0001, and they appear,
after a series of unfortunate circumstances, to have
sustained a heavy blow from the failure of Trueman
and Cook. It is understood that Trueman and Cook
had accepted bills to the amount of 20,0001. on pro-
duce placed in their hands by tile firm, 18,000/. of
which became due on the 19th instant., and that
as .the maturity of these bills .approached,
Trueman and Cook usged the sale of such produce.
on the ground that they would otherwit.e be unable.
to meet the bills in question. To this sale 'Acker-
stcens gave consent, and it took place about a fort-
night back ; Trueman and Cook's failure, however,
followed almost immediately, and it was then found
that the proceeds thus realised had not been set aside
by them for the above bills, but had been merged is
the general assets of their house.
It is said .that the. firm of Lackersteen andliro-
thers, of Calcutta will not be compromised by the
suspension of Lackersteen, of London, and it is there-
fore believed it will be able to stand its ground.
At the adjourned meeting of the creditors of
Messrs. Judah Cohen and Sons, held this afternoon,
it was finally agreed that the estate should be liqui-
dated under inspection. Mr. Silver, Mr. Isaacs, Mr.
Hales, and Mr. White being the parties appointed. As
it was considered that the services of Mr. Albert
Cohen alone were necessary to carry out the liquida-
tion, Mr. Henry Cohen, the other partner, has been
relieved from further active interference in the affairs
of the house.

MELANCHOLY CASE OF
POISONING.
TRATCRAM, BEERS, SATURDAY NIGHT.. —The
usual quiet of this village has been disturbed this
week by a most melancholy case of poisoning, which
bas occurred in the family of Mr. Jenkyns, a farmer,
living near the water-side. The unfortunate person
is Mary Jenkyns, a daughter of this farmer, who was
living with her parents and sisters.
It appears, froth the inquiry we have made, that
Mary Jenkyns had, been quarrelling with one of
her sisters about a young man win) had paid his ad-
dresses to her. The sister, it is stated, had been ac-
cused by Mary of having endeavoured to aupphint
her, but this was denied, and Mary being a person
of hasty temperament, sought to frighten her sister
by taking a quantity of arsenic, and this she did on
Monday morning last. Towards the evening of that
day Mrs. Jenkyns saw that her daughter was un-
well and depressed in spirits, and asked the cause of
her indisposition. On this inquiry the poor. young
creature, who had evidently suffered considerably
d •
sister,
during thedayh,ad passed between herself an then informed her mother that a few
angry words
and that in a fit of vexation,she mixed nearly a
tea-
spoonful of arsenic in her tea at breakfast and drunk
it on purpose to alarm her sister. Immediately on
this fact being made known, messengers were dis-
patched for medical assistance, and shortly afterwards
Dr. Hemsted and Mr. Lamb, of Newbury, and Mr.
Arrowsmith, of Thatcham, were in attendance, and
every remedy which medical skill could suggest was
adopted, but the poison had been taken too long to
enable them to remove it from the stomach. In ad-
dition to this, the young woman, when seized with
pain, sought to alleviate it by taking a dose of Ep-
som salts. The medical men have been unremitting
in
despaired
o fattentionshe rbut from the first they
rectocveher,
death relieved her until
recovery, and the poor creature lin-
gered from Monday yesterday morning, when
years of from suffering. The deceased is
about 20 age.

THE RAILWAY DEPARTMENT OF THE BOARD OF
TRADE.—It is stated that -.the Commissioners of Rail-
ways will bring in a Bill to extend the time of completion
of all railways under contract for three ears. Those
Bills which have received the sanction of Parliament,
and which are not commenced, will be postponed for a
considerable period. A Bill ought also to be introduced,
giving the shareholders much more extensive powers to
control the acts of their directors than they now possess.
No contracts ought to be entered into, or calls made,
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Rail-
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Railway
Gauge ot shall be maintained in its integrity, and that
the broad gauge shall be confined to its present limits.--
Era.
The forms for perfecting the petition against the
return of David Urquhart, Esq., and Thomas Sidney,
Esq., the members for the borough of Stafford, were
completed to-day, and the petition will be presented to
the House of Commons on Thursday neat.—Observer.