The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-06 00:00:00

Balance Increase—Assets above Lia-

bilities
Being the amount of Profit added tqllest, as shown
thus :-- REST.
November 27 3,629,567
November 20 3.623,323

Increase, Nov. 27
BALANCES OF RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS OF

TIIE WEEK BALANCED.

Je.
Received Public Deposits—Balance 509,770
Ditto Private Deposits—Ditto... 372,072
Ditto Other Securities—Ditto... 259,307
Ditto Seven day and
other bills. —Ditto .. 9,755
Ditto Cash added to Rest 6,244

Paid Government Securities 312,987
Ditto Bullion 515,98G
Ditto .Notes withdrawn from cir-
tion 328,175

Ilfracombe, Dec. 4, 1847.

1,157,148

1,157.148

0 0 0

INCORPORATION OF WOLVEUHAMPTON.—We un-
derstand that the Lord President of the Council (tbe
Marquis of Lansdowne) has decided in favour of granting
a charter of incorporation for this town, and it is ex•
petted that the sign manual will be affixed at an early
meeting of the Privy Council— Wolverhampton Chronicle.
DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE.—On Friday night last
some scoundrels broke the lock off the " switches" or.
the railway at the Plymouth branch, and wedged them
back with a piece of rail, thereby diverting the main line
into the " siding." At nine o'clock a long goods' train,
which was proceeding to Merthyr, at a rapid pace, was
by this infamous act turned into the siding, and came
into collision with same loaded waggons which were
standing there. The shock was tremendous; the en-
gine and fourteen waggons in the train were thrown off
the line, and considerable damage done to them. The
engine-men and breaksmen narrowly escaped by jump-
ing offi Superintendent Wrenn was shortly on the spot,
and was actively engaged during the night endeavour-
ing to trace the perpetrators of the outrage.—Hereford
Times.

ALARMING CONFLAGRATION.—A most alarming
fire broke out about eight o'clock on Wednesday evening,
on the premises of R. E. Harding, grocer,' tallow-
chandler, and general merchant, of Halfwooa-street.
Shortly after the first alarm of fire had been conveyed
by the ringing of the fire-bell, the flames shot up from
every corner of the building,and brilliantly illuminated the
neighbourhood around, and persons came running from
all parts towards the scene. The scene presented, when
the fire was at its height, was one of awful splendour.
Occasionally a quantity of gunpowder exploded, to the
great alarm of the bystanders ; but, we are happy in
being able to add, that eventually the firo was confined
to the building in which it broke out, and we have also
the satisfaction of reporting that Mr. Harding's loss will,
in all probability, be recovered by insurance.—Shertorne
Journal. _ _

EAST INDIA COTTON..---On Friday Mr. Hugh
Fleming, secretary to the Commercial Association, re-
ceived a letter of advice from the directors of the East
India Company, stating that they had given instructions
for forty-five bales of cotton grown from New Orleans
seed to be forwarded to him from Coimbatore, by the
ship Olinda from Cochin, for sale in Manchester. It is
expected that the vessel will arrive very shortly, and
that the cotton will be of a superior quality to that pre-
viously consigned to Mr. Fleming by the company for
sale. There have also been received two small samples
of cotton grown at Coimbatore under the superintendence
of Dr. Wight, from seed sown, at the suggestion of the
Commercial Association, at an earlier period than usual,
by about a month. One is a very fair sample indeed,
being long in staple, and of a beautiful white colour ;
the other is very different, owing to its being injured by
" damping," that is, from the damp weather preventing
the pods from opening at the proper season. The
doctor, we understand, is not discouraged at the par-
tial failure of the experiment, the season having been
much against it, but intends trying it again next season
on fresh land.—ilianchester Examiner. . .

LITERARY SOIREE.—Lady Morgan's soirée, on
Wednesday evening, was numerously attended. Among
the company were the Raja of Sarawak, their Excel-
lencies the Prince and Princess Calamaki, their Excel-
lencies the American Ambassador and Mrs. Bancroft,
Lord Morpeth, Lord Dudley Stuart, Lord Campbell,
Lord Glenelg, Lady Stratheden, and the Hon. Miss
Campbell, Lord Wrottesley, Viscountess Dungarvon,
Countess of Charleville, Lady Yarde and Miss Buller,
Honourable Mrs. Marley, Baroness Bray and the Ho-
nourable Mrs. Murray, Lord Harry Vane, Sir Walter
and Lady Caroline Sterling, the Right Honourable
Edward and Mrs. Stanley, Right Honourable Milner
and Mrs. Gibson, Sir Benjamin Hall, M.P., Sir W. and
Lady De Bathe, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Hon. Mrs.
Abbott, Honourable Charles Villiers, M.P., Honourable
E. Byng, Mr. Thomas Wyse, Mr. Tennison, M.P., Mr.
Quintin Dick, Mr. Charles Webster, Captain Frederick
Romilly, Mr. Hayward, Mr. Kinglake, Mr. Alfred
Montgomerie, Mr. Charles Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. Prin-
ceps and Miss Pattel, Mr. Pulsford, M.P.. Mr. and Mrs.
Wentworth Dilk, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Twiss, Mr. Bab-
bage, Mr. Higgens, Mr. Thackaray, Mr. Fonblanque,
Mr. Chorley, the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Milman, Mr. 11.
Hope, Lady Webster, Mr. Butler, Mrs. Inwood Jones,
Mr. Moore, &c.
ALARMING FIRE AND ROBBERY.—Last evening
shortly before seven o'clock, considerable alarm was
caused in the immediate neighbourhood of Rahere-
street, Goswell-street, in consequence of loud cries of
fire proceeding from the house No. 44, in that
thoroughfare. After considerable trouble the flames
were subdued, when an examination was made with a
view of ascertaining how the fire commenced. The
firemen during their search found that a cupboard in
the room was partially consumed, and that a box in
which a sum of money had been deposited had been
forcibly broken open, and the contents (upwards of thirty
sovereigns) taken away by some person at present un-
known. It is, therefore, generally believed that some
one had first committed the robbery and afterwards fired
the building.
DEATH OF CAPTAIN JOHNSON.—This convict,
whose name has been so familiarly associated with the
murders of the Tory seamen, died upon his arrival at
Sydney, as we are credibly informed by & correspondent
who has recently arrived in her Majesty's ship the
L Castor.