The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-03 00:00:00

MORNING EDI7:I-ON.
PROVINCIAL BANK OF In. -ELAND.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE 5L71,17.

Parliament-street, Feb. 1, lb 11.
Sin,—Your Paper of the 30th ult. contain,: a
report of the proceedings of a meeting of Share-
holders of the Provincial Bank of Ireland, held:
on the 28th ult., with remarks on my printed
Circular (herewith enclosed) highly prejudicial
to my character, and therefore I request that you
will publish, in as conspicuous a manner as that
of the report, the enclosed Correspondence, in
order that the public may suspend their judgmen t
until my explanation (which I am preparing)
shall appear, and which I will send you when
completed. Your obedient servant,
CHARLES BARRY BALDWIN-.

(Copy No. 1.)
Parliament-street, Jan. :29, 1841.
M dear Sir,—l have this instant taken up a paper
(the Globc), in which there is a report of a speech
made by you at a meeting yesterday of the Proprietors
of the Irish Provincial Bank, on the subject of my
Circular. I cannot suppose that it is correctly reported,
but, under all circumstances, I cannot leave it in its
present state without replying to it in as public a mode
as your speech has gone forth to the world. However,
prcvl.)us to taking any steps I should be glad to hear
from you (without delay) whether it be correct, and if
riot, in what passages the variations exist. Your's, &c.
CHARLES BARRY BALDWIN.
Oliver Ferrer, Esq.

(Copy No. 2.)
Linedn's-inn-fields, Jan. 30, 1841, Five &Clock.

Dear I3aldwin,—Having read in the newspapers of
to-day, a report of what I am stated to have said as
Ch iirman of the Meeting of Proprietors of the Pro-
vincial Bank of Ireland, held on Thursday last, I must
again express my deep regret that you were not pre-
sent at the Meeting, (as I think you ought to have
been, for you could hardly expect that your Circu-
lar could pass unnoticed by the Proprietors) to
hear what really occurred, as you would then
have had the opportunity of forming your own
judgment as to whether anything was ?aid by me
which could be reasonably considered as personally
offensive. Nothing which could bear such an inter-
pretation was said, and nothing could be further from
my intentions.
My soh' object was to exculpate the Court of Direc-
tors from the charges contained in your circular.
The report of my speech contains fully as many in-
accuracies as are usually found in such documents, and
in some instances attributes to me words and even
whole sentences which I never uttered.

At a full meeting of the Directors this morning we
ordered such alterations to be made in the Report as to
bring hack my speech as nearly as we could to what
I actually did say.
We stopped the transmission of the papers contain-
ing the inaccuracies, and have ordered an amended
Report to be published in the newspapers on Monday,
a copy of which will he forwarded to every Share-
holder.

As Chairman it was my duty, called upon as
we were, to put forward and comment strongly
upon all the facts bearing upon the case ; this
I endeavoured to do ; but, at the same time,

I was studiously cautious not to attribute improper
motives. I had no inclination to do so, and I am
happy to add that every one of my colleagues,
who were present, have assured me that in this respect
at all events I succeeded.

Yours ever sincerely,
OLIVER FARRER.

Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq. M.P.

&c . &c. &c.

(Copy No. 3 )
Parliament-street, Jan. 31, 1841.

My dear Sir,—l received your letter last niO3t on
my return home from a ♦ery late dinner party. I regret
very much with you that I was not present at the meet-
ing in question, but, as I have already stated to you, I
purposely absented myself to prevent any angry dis-
cussion.

However, the point'at issue now is the publication of
the proceedings which has prejudiced me so much among
my friends, and no doubt more so with the public,
that I am sure you will not object to my publishing our
correspondence, as (to use your own words) " where,
the poison has been dispersed I wish the antidote to find':
its way." An answer by bearer will particularly oblige..,
Yours, &c.,
CHARLES BARRY BALDWIN.
Oliver Farrer, Esq.

(Copy No. 4
Lincoln's Inn-fields, Ist Feb. 1811, 10 o'clock.

Baldwin,—l have this moment received your
note of yesterday's date, and although when I wrote to
you hastily on Saturday, I had no expectatio:s that
you could: wish to publish our correspondence, 1 do
not see that I can object to your doing so if you think
it will be of any advantage to vourselr.
lied you pointed out the passages in the newspaper
report which you objected to, I would without hesita-
tion have told you whether they were correctly given
or not. 'file words quoted in your letter as an ex-
tract from my speech were never uttered by me. I
wish you distinctly to understand that I deny having
used them.

The quotation is not applicable to asy thing that I
said on the occasion in question, and should not in my
opinion have been used, at all events not until you had
seen the report in its corrected form.
Tours, sincerely,
OLIVER FARRER.
Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P.

(Copy N0..5.)
Parliament-street, Ist Feb., 18.11.

Dear Sir,—As the incorrect report of the Irish Pr-
ovincial Bank Meeting has gone forth to the world, it
is impossible, in justice to myself, that I can do other-
wise than publish the correspondence in question ; for,
although you disavow " words, and even whole sen-
tences," I find that the corrected statement merely qua-
lities some of the expressions used. My objection was,
and is still, to the tenour of the speeches, as it is impos-
sible that any one can peruse them without attaching to
me a charge of having published a statement which I
was not prepared to defend. The passage which I na-
turally quoted was decidedly one of the most objection-
able, and must have been noticed either in the way I
hax e done it, or in the statement which I am preparing
for publication. I am glad that you deny having used it,
as there is no person of whom I entertain a higher
opinion, or esteem more than yourself.
I am, dear Sir, your's, sincerely,
CHARLES BARRY BALDWIN.
Oliver Farrer, Esq.

DESTRUCTIVE Ft RE.—Yesterday morning at
ten o'clock a fire originated on the premises of the Messrs.
Paynter and Co., the extensive cabinet-manufacturers,
Finsbary.pavement, which has, we aro sorry to say, involved
the tc,-tal destruction of that spacious building. The area
occupied by it was almost an acre in extent, and the top
of it was surmounted by a dome. The cause of the fire,
our informant was told, arose from the boiling over of
some varnish which was on a fire in one of the warehouses
n hich were situated under the roof. The inflammable
properties of the varnish, however, soon communicated to
the other materials in the room, when it became soon evi-
dent that no human effort could arrest tbo progress of the
flames. The various engines from the different stations of
the London Fire Brigade quickly arrived ; but water was
not supplied with sufficient promptitude ; and in Cross.
street, where the-back of the houses abut the premises of
Messrs. Paynter, at a little before eleven o'clock there was
no plug opened, And the firemen were calling for water.
Long before eleVen o'clock, however, the whole of the
Mess's. Payntees premises were in one solid flame. By
By
this time, however, the house adjoining, bmiain"r3.
Payntcr, which was occupied by a medical _ at
merchant,ma n u
fac.
The rear of the houses to the south.T:
the corner of Finsbury-square, bad_
Iso in
Cross.
.
street belonging to Messrs. Baker anad importers
hanwg*'Wing
and of Messrs. Ballard and Co.,
turers, were in the same situation, and
_ unfortUrt.oly the
of foreign wines, of 111 r. Everest,
paper
wind was blowing in that direction. The premiSes:',Sl?ovo
ion,
him they fell into the hands of Lackifig
printer. From
referred to were built about forty years ago by Castoll the
' `
the famous bookseller, and upon his death they were to ,en
possession of by the Messrs. Paynter. The dostructioa of
valuable property is very great.
On Monday morning, a few minutes before five
o'clock, a fire broke out in the premises of Mr. Bertram,
ergop in
property
pawnbrcker and silversmith, Princes-street, Soho, which
thein the N'a
shop
ple and stock of
premises.
w
plate,as
jewellery,
destroyed the back parlour and furniture. By th© prompt
arrival
of
and the
otherfire p -
n
saved.

CA ND LEN! A S-DAY, FEB. 2. " The snow-
drop," Mr. Forster remarks, " is almost proverbially con.
stunt in its appearance on Candlemas-day ; and the mild-
ness and severity of the weather seem to make little differ-
ence in the time of its blowing. It comes up and flowers
through the snow, and seems to evolve its white and pen-
dent flowers as if by the most determined periodical laws.
EARTIIQUAKE IN WALES.-011 Sunday
morning tut between the hours of three and four o'clock
a smart shock of an earthquake was felt in this town, ac.-
companied by a very visible tremor of the earth. and a
rumbling noise similar to the sound of distant thunder. A
like occurrer.ce was felt at Pontantwn on the same
tremorsi on
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cornewfealrtdasttoeaLchlanosf thosetephan
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momentary alarm and consternation in the minds of the
ePolemcieisan
hearers. Similar shocks were observed about the month
of November last, in the neighbourhood of Llanstephan,
sianrg ne
verytim considerable
but of.in slight a nature as scarcely to warrant notice....
Carmarthen Journal.
RELEASE 01 MR. H. VINCENT.--On
Sun-
day, at two o'clock, Mr. Vincent was discharged from Oak-
ham Gaol, by an order from the Home-office, and was in.
formed, at the same time, that the indictments by the
Wiltshire Magistrates were entirely act aside. Mr. Vin-
cent arrived in town by the Melton mail, is looking tole.
rably well, and is in good health and high spirits.