The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-14 00:00:00

RE-ANIMATION.

THE MEDICINACEWE&S of STEEL,
as a strengthener and restorative, have been known for
ages to excel those of all other articles of the Alateria Medina,
and in this age of luxury and dissipation, when the indiscretions
of youth disappoint the expectations of maturity, it is not to be
wondered that a medicine of such efficacy as SEDDON'S'
genuine AROMATIC LOZENGES of STEEL should have
attracted the attention of the first medical men in Europe.
When the most important functions of life are suspended, and
those who are invalids by inheritance or imprudence are reduced
to the most deplorable state of nervous debility, it is not in
despair that relief is to be found. It has been ascertained, be-
yond a doubt that these circumstances are occasioned by a ge-
neral or partial relaxation or weaknesses in either sex ; and it
is equally certain that SEDDON'S LOZENGES are the best,
if not the only remedy ever discovered for this species of de-
bility. When taken into the stomach they immediately diffuse
themselves like a vapour through every pore, producing effects
at once delightful, salutary, and permanent. When the spark
of life begins to grow dim, the circulation, languid, and the
faculties paralysed, these Lozenges are found to give tone to
the nerves, exhilirate the animal spirits, invigorate the body,
and re-animate the whole man. When aversion to exercise,
loss or depravity of appetite, and pallid countenance, indicate
approaching consumption, the delicate female will be preserved
and restored to health and society by the benign influence of
this medicine.

Prepared only by the Proprietor, and sold by his Agents,
Mr. Gifford, IN, Strand ; also by Messrs. Ward, Pring, and
Co., Westmoreland•street, Dublin ; Davenport and Stedman,
No. 20, Waterloo•place, Edwburgh ; Corrin, Douglass;
W. Galbraith and Co., Unique Medical Hall. Limerick ;
and of most vendors in the kingdom; in boxes at 7s. and 225.
each. Observe each box is signed J. P. Seddon, without
which none are genuine.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]
SINGULAR CASE OF RESTORATION.—An-
other instance of the almost infallibility of art over the operationsof
nature, and of truth over pre,judiee, occurred the other day in the
family of a gentleman of high respectability in the country,
and which tends to show, in a singular instance the powerful
virtues of Rowland's Macassar Oil. Owing to a well-known
family complaint, that sometimes sleeps throuLth one genera-
tion, a daughter of the above gentleman entirely lost her hair,
so that she was obliged to conceal the defect by the aid of a
cap and false tresses. After having done so for a period of two
years, she was induced. by a medical friend, to try the effect of
Rowland's :Macassar Oil, with a view to the restoration of her
hair In the course of one month a fine down was elicited,
which, by constant use of the Oil (rubbed on with fine flannel)
became, in six months, a fine and healthy growth of hair !
The satisfaction of the young lady is unbounded.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]
HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.--
Extraordinary cure of Mr. .John Holmes, of the Duck and
Drake public-house, Cardigan.—From high and rather intern-
verate living his legs for those last ten years were greatly
swollen, hard, and, knotty. and in colour a fiery red. From
several dread ul ulcers issued hot and acrid humours. The
late Sir Astley Cooper and other eminent. men failed to give
him the least relief. The Ointment and Pills were for the
first time used by him at the commencement of April. His
lees are now both radically cured by the use alone of the
Ointment and Pills. To be had at the Proprietor's Establish-
ment, 244, Strand, seven doors from Temple-bar, and at every
respectable Chemist throughout the Kingdom. In pots and
boxes at. Is. lid., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., lls., 225., and 335. each.
The Voice Conductors, invented by E Solornons
and Co., No. 36, Old Bond_street, and I ,Old Jewry, have proved emi-
nently efUcacious in severe cases of deafness. They are not as large
as r. fourpenn) -piece, and, notwithstanding their small construction,
no instruments extant have proved of such advantage to the
deaf. Fro:n their metallic vibrating quality, table-talk is rendered
perfectly audible, and the wearer is enabled to distinguish the
faintest inflections of a distmit speaker in church, theatre, or pub.
lie assembly. E. Solomans and Co.'s Patent Spectacles are far
superior to all those in modern use ; they extend immediate and
continued relief in all cases of defective vision, enabling persons
to engage their sight for any length of time, at the most minute
employment, either by day or candle-light, and are thus calculated
to preserve vision unimpaired to extreme old age. No other im.
provement has been effected in spectacle lenses for the last 20
years, and as E. Solomons and Co. have secured the exclusive
disposal of them to their establishments by Royal Letters
Pa-
tent," the public should be guarded against the various attempts
of parties of a similar namenitoeleyo,tim, ldtoerfei
jtetwhreya.bcovitey,irawnadlu3a6b,leoals;
Bond. street, Piccadilly.
sistarns ; it is therefore necessary that particular attention should
be paid to their address, namely,
last, by the sinking of
a y,,
THE LATE EXPLOSIONON.omBtaObiI.,Rab AwateßrmAaLn-.
LAST-MA I NE.—OD Wedne'dlY an inquest was held at the
Mitre, B a-kfriars-road, on
James c
who was
ascdaed wt nttehdeoLnaT ilkloinn.,y morning u
!liver. of Bull-stairs, Blackfriars. Clark, it a engineman, was
examined at great length, and said he could only attribute the
accident to the safety-valve having stuck fast, which prevented
the escape of steam. and caused the boiler to burst. He ad-
ed
as
a ballast-machine on the
mitted that he did not examine the safety_valve on Monday
morning, and that he ought to have done so. From other
questions put to him it seemed that great carelessness had
been exhibited by Clark, and that he was not a Practical en-
gineer. The Jury returned a verdist of " Accidental death,
with a deodand of 50/. on the vessel and machinery. ,
'kt the
request or the Jury, Clark was called in and reprmazded by
the Coroner for his neglect
BRUSSELS. MAT 11.—A funeral service was
performed yesterday in the Cathedral of Saint Gedule, iA yri
e.
mory of the death of Neyolen•

Thy... CHAIRMAN said—Gentlemen, before the Report
which the Directors have prepared is laid before you,
I beg to make a few observations.; arid, first, on the part
of the Directors, I have to express their great pleasure
in again meeting the Proprietors. The Report itself
embodies the sentiments of the Directors on all the topics
therein discussed, or upon which they have felt it their
duty to bring before your notice. I will, therefore, not
detain your longer than to request the Secretary to read
it to you, and calling your attention to it.
The SECRETARY (Mr. FERGUSON CAMEROUX) then
read the following Report :
" THE SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
DIRECTORS OF THE " NATIONAL LOAN
FUND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY," TO THE
PROPRIETORS. MAY 12, 1841.
The Directors have to express their gratification, in
meeting for the second time the Proprietors, on the re-
currence of the Annual General Meeting of the Society.
Before-the year 1843 it will not be the duty of the
Directors to place the accounts, calculations, and profit
and loss of the Society, before the Proprietors and the
public. The deed of settlement provides that this
account shall be rendered at that period. Had
it been deemed expedient to have prepared a
statement at this early period, since the commencement
of the Society, - the Directors had the power to have
done so in the present year. But inasmuch as it would
have involved a decision with regard to bonuses to the
policy-holders, which must follow after the first investi-
gation of the business of the Society, the Directors have
deemed it more prudent, notwithstanding their own
wishes to expose the successful working of the Society,
to await the greater experience, which the period pro-
vided for by the deed will afford them, in declaring
its first bonus, and on which so much of its immediate •
future success will depend.
Since the period of the last meeting, several causes
acting on the public mind, have produced impressions
unfavourable to the general extension of the principles
of life assurance. Notwithstanding this, the progress of
the " National Loan Fund Society," has been steady and
uninterrupted. Of these causes, it appears to the
Directors that two leading ones have mainly
contributed to increase the inaptitude of the public
towards investments in Life Assurance, as provision for a
family. The first is, however, but of a temporary
nature—it refers to the sudden appearance and disap-
pearance of schemes of Life Assurance Societies, which
have either become immediately extinct, or merged,
after the lapse of some time, into other Com-
panies. The second is the tendency that has mani-
fested itself within the last few years towards
lower rates of premium than had heretofore been
considered prudent. The competition which has existed
in this respect has given rise to discussion, and a re-ac-
tion has been created in favour of rates, that experience
had proved to be safe and well-founded. While, unques-
tionably, the rates of premium, calculated on the
Northampton tables of mortality, are found by the
experience of the Societies themselves who have
adopted them, to be too high for the contingencies
of life—it must be admitted there should be a limit, be-
low which it would not be safe to go, even in adopting
more correct data of mortality than the Northampton
tables exhibit. This is a subject that cannot be ap-
proached with too much gravity, as involving the deepest
considerations. The more it is discussed, and the limits
of premium within which an office can fulfil all its en-
gagements, fixed satisfactorily to the public mind, the more
will it increase the number of those who, by means of Life
Assurance, seek to provide for a family. No one is so
much interested as the policy-holder himself, that the
rates which he pays to an office for his protection, shall
be adequate. It was after the maturest reflection, and a
lengthened investigation on the subject, not-
withstanding the tendency which prevailed at the
period of the formation of the " National Loan
Fund Society," that its present rates of premium
were determined upon. The tables of the Society were
calculated by its eminent actuary, Mr. Woolhouse, from
original data arrived at by an adjustment of the irregu-
larities of the Carlisle tables, combined with the valu-
able experience of the " Equitable " and other tables of
mortality on which former calculations had been based.
Connected with this subject, the Directors see with
great satisfaction at the present moment, the announce-
ment. of a Committee of the House of Commons, the re-
sult of whose investigations will, it. is hoped, be a guide
to popular opinion on a subject on which there prevails
so great a diversity of feeling ; judging from the differ-
ence in the rates of premiums considered safe by different
Life Assurance Establishments.
There is yet another subject of equal value to the
policy holders, the careful selection of lives. To the im-
portance of this point in the management of the business,
the Directors have paid the most watchful attention. So
far in this respect the Society has been fortunate. Out
of the whole number of policies issued by the Society-
only 11 of them have become claims. The total number
of policies issued by the Society now amounts to 1,611,
which gives an increase on the year of 381.
The present annual income of the Society, derived from
premiums on existing policies, and its investments, is
equal to 22,5001.
The claims paid by the Society since its commence-
ment on eleven policies amount to 5,599/. 195., and the
sum received on short and lapsed policies, on which no
claims can accrue, amounts to 4,489/. 7s. d. The latter
result satifactorily proves an increase in the business of
the Society on short risks since the publication of tables
marked A and B in the Prospectus, which are highly
favorable to assurers for temporary purposes.
The total number of shares disposed of amounts to
19,813, and on which the sum of 44,579/. ss. has been paid
The increasing business of the Society and the accu-
mulation of its funds, besides the burthen to the policy-
holders of too large a paid-up capital, has induced the
Directors, at the pressing instance of several influential
parties interested in the Society, to consider the pro-
priety ofrecommending to the Shareholders the conversion
of the capital into shares of 201. instead of 10/. each, the
present nominal amount of each share. This recommen-
dation, which the Directors now make, has for its object
the giving increased value to the stock, inasmuch as the
one-third of the profits on the business of the
Society, which belongs to the Proprietors (besides
five per cent. on the actual paid up capital), would then
be divided on 62,5001. of stock, instead of 112,500/.

the sum originally intended to be called up, while
the amount of subscribed capital, and the security to the
assured would remain the same. Thus, without any
further payment being made cn the 201. shares, in ad-

, •
dition to that already paid on the 101. shares (except the
sum of ss. per share, in respect to preliminary expenses,
provided for in the deed of settlement), the interestof

each Proprietor in the profits of the Company will be
nearly doubled.

The Directors have availed themselves of the occasion
of the General Meeting to place this recommendation
before the Proprietors for their approbation. At the
same time, in the event of that, it will require the signa-
ture of each Proprietor to a short deed, which the Di-

rectors have ordered to be prepared for the purpose.
The Directors cannot close their Report without ad-
verting to the difficulties they have met with in extend-
ing the efficient agency of the Society. A very
great part of the country yet remains unoccu-
pied by any of its branches or agencies. The
Directors have always felt unwilling to commit the Soci-
ety into inefficient hands, and have been careful to select

only such individuals as 'agents who, joined to respecta-
bility, had the leisure and activy, besides a true appre-
ciation of the extent to which, with the requisite perse-

verance, the principles of the Society could be worked in
every district of the country. The Directors are happy

to say they can reckon many such individuals amongst
the agents of the Society, and who are now reaping the
fruits of their perseverance ; but there yet exists
great space where similar talents could be employed With

great benefit to its interests.
The business to be transacted at the present meeting
is the election of four Directors in lieu of _

JOAN ELLIOTSON, M.D., F.R.S.
GEORGE LUNGLEY, Esq.
CLEMENT TABOR, Esq., and
JOSEPH THOMPSON, Esq.,
whose period of office has expired ; all of whom are
eligible to be re-elected, and offer themselves accordingly.
The election of one Auditor in place of
Professor WHEATSTONE, F.R.S., whose term of office
has expired, and who is also re-eligible, and offers him.

self accordingly.
The Directors have to propose
JOHN RIDDELL STODART, Esq., for election as a Di-
rector, and for the confirmation of the appointment by
the Court, as a Director, of
JOHN GRIFFITH FRITH, Esq., and the election as an
Auditor, of
Professor GRAVES, AM. F.R.S., in place of the late
lamented Dr. OLINTIIUS GREGORY.
T. LAMIE MURRAY. Chairman."

The Report having been read,
The CHAIRMAN said—lf any Proprietor should now
wish to address any observations to the meeting, or re-
quire any explanations from the Directors, I shall be
happy to hear him.
the CHAIRMAN—Since no Proprietor wishes to put
any question, it will now be my duty to move that
" the Report now read be adopted by the meeting,
printed, and distributed to the Proprietors." Before doing
so, I would beg to call your attention to some of its state-
ments. It is not my intention to detain you by any
lengthened observations ; the Report speaks for itself
One thing you will find stated in it, and that
is, out of the whole number of policies issued
—namely, 1,611, only 11 of them have become
claims on the Society, to the extent of 5,5991. 195., but
there is another point that is not stated in it, but on which
you information,
I can now afforcl and that is, the num-
ber of lives that, according to the calculations of
the Society, should have. dropped, and the sum the So-
ciety; should have paid if the selection of lives, they
made, had not been better than the average expec.
tatioa...4hat; however; I learn from the Actuary, should
the sum that. we expected ' qua
hpeArell 2g, WI

The CHAIRMAN—I beg to say one word more
with respect to agencies. It is desirable that the
most efficient agents be obtained, which I believe
has been done ; • some idea of this may be derived
from the fact that 22,5001. per annum is the income
of this Society, and, for the third year, this sum is
very considerable. Success creates success, and
if the future will be equal to the past, it
will be very good, but, I think, from all ap-
pearances, it will be even better.—(Hear, hear.) A
great desire is manifested to obtain efficient agents, but
we have always considered it better to have no
agent at all than to have one not equal to the task which
this Society imposes. We have since our commence-
ment discharged several on account of their in-
efficiency. As we have now no more business
to enter into of this nature, I will propose
that the following , gentlemen be re-elected as
Directors for the ensuing year :—John Elliotson,
; George Langley, Esq. ; Clement Tabor,
Esq. ; and Joseph Thompson, Esq., which was carried
unanimously. Professor Wheatstone, F.R.S., was then
re-elected as an Auditor ; John Riddell Stodart, Esq., and
John Griffith Frith, Esq., were also elected as new Di-
rectors ; and Professor Graves, A.M., F.R.S., as an
Auditor.

Mr. MILLER, of Sunderland, moved a vote of thanks
to the Chairman, and the other Officers of the Society,
was unanimously carried for their able management of the
Institution up to this period.
The CHAIRMAN begged to return his sincere thanks
for the mark of approbation conferred upon him and his
brother Directors.

A vote of thanks was then moved to the Secretary,
who returned thanks, and the meeting separated.
Entire satisfaction seemed to prevail throughout the
mhole of the proceedings.

THE SUGAR DUTIES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—You will oblige me by inserting the following report
of a meetir.g held here last evening, to take into consider-
ation a printed circular of the Committee of the British and
Foreign Anti-Slavery. Society.
On Tuesday evening, May 11, 1841, a meeting of the
Committee of the Bridgewater Auxiliary Anti-Slavery
Society, was held at the Friends' Meeting-house, Joseph.
Thompson, Esq., in the Chair, for the purpose of taking into
consideration a circular-letter received from the Committee
of the Parent Society in London ; and the following resolu-
tions were passed unanimously :

1. That this meeting views with deep regret the opposition
manifested by• the Committee of the British and Foreign
Anti-Slavery Society, to the proposed measures of her Ma-
jesty's Ministers, with respect to the duties on Foreign sugars,
and cannot withhold the expression of its entire disap:.roval of
the course which the Committee have taken on this subject—
s course which appears to this meeting hasty and injudici-
ous, and most ungenerous to the Government, the members
of which have given so many proofs of their sympathy with
the friends of freedom and of the Negro—and which will
have the effect of aiding those men, whose effects have been
always directed to the maintenance of slavery and oppression,
and who are nnw striving to excite the feelings and preju-
dices of the Anti-Slavery body,• not, as we believe, from any
humane considerations, but for party purposes—in their en-
deavours to embarrass and displace the present liberal and en-
lightened Administration. _

-2. That one of the great and primary principles asserted by
the leading men of the Anti-Slavery body, and re-asserted and
defended with much. ability and success at the Convention
last year, is the vast superiority of free labour, above that of
slave labour, both in cheapness and efficiency, and that the en-
couragement and use of the former would speedily and effec-
tually supersede the latter, if they should be brought into fair
competition.

3: That in the opinion of this meeting, the measure pro-
posed by her Majesty's Ministers is designed to give encourage-
ment to free labour, and that if that measure be carried,
though a present and temporary evil may be occasioned by
the importation of sugar into the markets of England from
Cuba and Brazil, it will ultimately end in accomplishing the
destruction of slavery and of slave labour.
'4. That this meeting cannot, therefore, adopt the recom-
mendation of the London Committee, in their recently received
circular, and that a copy of the proceedings of 'this meeting
be forwarded to the Secretary without delay.
This is forwarded to the Editor by the direction of the Com-
mittee. W. JAMES, Hon. Secretary.

Bridgewater, May 12, 1841.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

RESPECTED FRIEND,As a member 'of the British and
Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, I greatly regret the hssty and
injudicious conduct of the London Committe, in taking upon
itself to denounce some of the benevolent and beneficial mea-
sures mo,stly ably brought forward by our present Government.
Whilst I believe the members of the Committee have been ac-
tuated by the best intentions, I can give them no credit for
good judgment on the present occasion. The inconsistency of
their conduct is clearly shown in the letter from " A Hater of
White and Black Slavery," which I saw in the Globe of the
10th inst. As members of the Anti-Slavery Society, I con-
ceive it is our duty to protest against slavery everywhere, and
to do all in our power, consistently with our other duties, to
procure its termination ; but that it is improper and imperti-
nent in such a Society to take upon itself to attempt to frus-
trate or embarrass the fiscal regulations of our Government.
I do not consider my opinions worth recording, but my object
is rather to state, in reference to the able remarks which have
appeared in The Sun, my full conviction that few of the coun-
try Auxiliary Anti-Slavery Societies will support the London
Committee in the step already taken, and that a great majority
of the members thoughout the country will oppose it, and
manifest this in the exercise of their electoral rights.
I am respectfully,
PHILIP DEBELL TUCKET.
Frenchay, near Bristol, 12th May, 1841.

eaf persons, and those who are slightly dull
of hearing, and find a difficulty to catch the sound of a distant low
speaker at a public assembly, will find a most astonishing advantage
from the use of the Messrs. S. and B. Solomons' newly-invented
invisible operative Voice Conductor, which, when fitted into the
cavity of the ear is so small, not the least perceptible, nor more un-
comfortable tlasin having a piece of wool in its place. By this ex.
traordinary rind vali'ablc invention, not only does the hearing be.
come acute, but the ears are so much improved by their use, that
individuals, in a great number of instances, can hear most dis.
tinctly without them. It will therefore be seen that persons do
not incur any constant habit of being compelled at all times to
make use of them, and in consequence of the numerous individuals
having been altogether relieved from deafness, they have become in
general use. The Messrs. Solomons' newly invented Spectacle
Lenses immediately they are placed before very aged and imperfect
eyesight, either by day or candlelight, everyobject becomes clear and
distinct, and the most minute particle is seen with exact distinct-
ness. Their valuable improvements in the material are secrets to
themselves, and are solely confined to their establishments, 39.
Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, and 76,
King William.street, City.
TRIPOLI, APRIL 13.---SLAVE TRADE.---The
import of slaves from the interior has varied much during the
last nine years (say from two to sixteen hundred annually)
owing to the civil war and unsettled state of the Regency; hut
it may be observed, that during the
caravanstheye
years
haveofth enegminyirianiuly gone
mze-
portations from the interior, the
to Tunis or Egypt. A few weeks ago a caravan arrived at
lien: azi with a number of slaves, estimated at 1;01. verymarket
tketis
few of these slaves are retained at 'Tripoli, 1.3 a better
found for them in the Levant.
THE LITERARY FUND Socirrry..--The an-
nual festival of this Society was celebrated on Wednesday, at
Freemasons' Hall. The Earl of Ripon presided, and was sup-
ported by Lord Colborne, Sir Stratford Capping, Sir Charles
t!,tt ch.^....,rip l‘lation, on
Napier, Dr. Croly. Charles Dickens, Esq. W. • creadY,
thEvs.oocasi, &e.
occasion,
oTurneteasduretroaunnpwe uarndeesdath4atotot
The festivities
Of the evening were kept up until slate hour.
ANCIENT CONCERTS.—The sixth performance
et ancient music took place on Wednesday nielt
under the
turodion of Lcid Burgbereb. Conductor Mr. klith

Apart from the eligibility of the business of Messrs. Fryer
and Co., the junction with them had two recommendations.
First, that the field which it embraced had hither; o been com-
paratively unoccupied by Joint-Stock Banks, and, secondly,
that a link was thus supplied in the chain of connexion between
the Company's branches in Devonshire and Hampshire.
The Directors embrace this opportunity of ;;lacing upon re-
cord the expression of their wannest thanks for the confidence
and support which, with very few exceptions, the customers of
Messrs. Fryer, Andrews, and Co., have continued to their
successors.

The Directors now beg to call the attention of the Proprietors
to the annual statement of account, prepared in the usual
manner.

1840.
Jan. 1. Amount of undivided profits at this
date £46,487 19 9
Dec. 31. Net profits of 1840, after making al-
lowance for Dad Debts, and for a
portion of Preliminary Expenses 31,593 16 .9

78,081 16 6

Deduct Dividend of 6 per cent. for
1840 on Company's Stock

Leaving of Undivided Profits on De-
cember 31, 1840 ... ... £53,432 0 6
When allowance is made for the increase of dividend declared
at last meeting, the abode statement, it will be observed, pre-
sents an improvement over the preceding year.
Such is the result of the past, and as regards the future, the
additional experience which the branch managershave acquired
in their several localities, and the greater perfection which the
genet al system of management is daily attaining, justify the
expectation that, with a return of more prosperous times, the
operations of the establishment will be attended with a still
larger measure of success.
The Directors have only further to inform the Proprietors,
that three of their number go out of office by rotation, viz.
John Page Reade, Esq., John Hinxman, Esq., and Almon Hill,
Esq. ; but being eligible to be re•elec:ed, offer themselves ac-
cordingly; and that a vacancy occasioned by the retire-
ment of Lord Douglas Gordon Hallybur. on is to be supplied.
ROBERT HICHENS, Esq., had great pleasure in snoring that
the report just read be received and adopted. After doing so
it would be competent for any proprietor to put any questions
he might think necessary. The report referred to the state of
the money market in 1839 and 1840, and he could say, after
forty years' experience in that market as clerk and principal,
he had never seen any period when so much skill, so much
Ihresight, and so much care was necessary in the management of
the affairs of a Company like theirs. To have carried their business
to such a result as was then before them required the most care-
ful watching day after day of the fluctuations of the foreign ex-
changes, of the prospects of the harvest, the fluctuations of the
Corn Exchange, the state of the manufacturing districts, and the
general prospects of the country. These matters were aggra-
vated very much by three or four deceitful calms or lulls,
and it required no small degree of experience and foresight
to decline taking advantage of what appeared to:be favour able op-
portumties of investing money. Those who did so were compelled
bitterly to regret having risked their capital.—(Cheers.) He
trusted the Directors would go on steadily pursuing the course
of policy they had hitherto adopted, and that they would rot,
fur the sake of adding one-half or on« per cent. to their profits,
rush after business which might not be permanent. The
question was not one of an addition of one-half or one per cent.
to their profits, but it was the larger amount of property
which was invested in the concern, and which was confided to
the discretion of the Directors. When these companies
first started he confessed that he looked with great 'suspicion
upon Joint-stock Ranks, and be feared that the inducement
to look well before the Proprietors and the public would lead
them to run too eagerly af er business, but these fears had
ail sanished.—(Hear, hear.) He now placed entire confidence
in the Company—they had stood the test of experience, and
that of the two last }Tars parti, ulaily should induce the Propri-
tors to place the fullest confidence and reliance upon the Direc-
tors, who evinced great forbearance and sound judgment in not
launching out into too large an amount of business. —( Cheers. )
He had great pleasure in moving the adoption of the Report.
Mr. Raowsia concurred most fully in the observations
that had fallen from the Honourable Proprietor. His
curiosity had led him to go over the Reports made by
the Directors fcom time to time, 'and compare them
with the present Report. He had great pleasure in stating.
for the information of the Proprietors, who had not
the same opportunity of making these comparisons,
that the result was most satisfactory.—(Cheers.) It was
therefore with the greatest pleasure that he had heard reference
made to these documents, which of themselves showed the
principles on which joint• stock banks bad been established,
and that they were calculated to realize 'the most san-
guine anticipations of those, who were interested in them.
their He was satisfied that these institutions had conferred greater
benefits uponeir tohpeerlaoticaolndisteroitullsdthan any one not acquainted
with
hear.) He felt much pleasure in seconding the adoption
of the report. possibly conceive.—(Hear,
The question that the report be adopted, was then put
from the Chair, and carried unanimously.
The' CHAIRMAN tnen moved, that John Pageßeade.
John Htrxman, and Almon Hill. Esqrs., the former Directors
who went out by rotation. be re-elected.:
This motion was seconded by Mr. WastreounsiE, and car-
ried unanimously. fill up the
The CHAIRMAN said the next business was to
Douglas Gordon Hallyburton, from ill health
re.ment
of
Lord
vacancy in the direction, caused by the retirement of Lord
GEORGE GORDON DOFF, Esq., said the rett
The gentleman
the vacancy should be supplied on the iteman
ever
Douglas Hallyburton from ill-health rendered
rietsneenctesosaccryastiohnat
He had great pleasure in proposing
the t*l way
qualtfwd, trom his high standing in t eau e world and
beinghcar.) From his high
his experience and knowledge of busine's'
he alluded to was Archibald Paul,. Esq., a gentleman
his not
ano coonnetcted, with
con-
nected with their colonies.—(H`g"
commercial standing, and
many other public companies, hmoisit d ati*
that
Mr,
found aefficient Director,
Paul would be
and that a due portion of his time would be devoted to the
The Directors interests of the Instiostion._r
au were fully sa.,
Frio ors to confirm theeleetion they approved of it 4).
tisfied of the eligibility P.f l, and it was for the pro.
P. Cnuntsitarms,
,q., seconded the motion, which was
unanimously agreed to.
Mr. HICUENS moved atote of thanks to the Chairman' and
Directors for their greattention to the intereste of the So-
cieltyhe motion was seconded by Mr. Stewart, and carried
unanimously.
The CMAIRMAN returned thanks.
Mr. BROWNS then moved and Captain Fottees seconded a
vote of thank, to the Manager, Mr. Robinson, and the other
Officers of the Company, for their zeal in promoting., its in-
terests. The motion having been unanimously adopted,
Mr. Ronixsox returned thanks, and the meeting, which
was attended by a large number of shareholders from various
parts of the country, broke up.

INQUEST ON MRS. JENNER.—This unfortu-
nate lady, who was, (111 the morning of Tuesday fortnight, shot
at by her husband, lingertd until the evening of Friday I,st,
when ,he died e.f the wouud she had received. 'lll,, inquest
took pace on Monday afternoon, when the Jury returned a ver..
diet of wilful murcl r aLzairtA 'dr. Wiliam Jenner, now in
custody on a ehar,ge of having killed his son.
USEFUL graduate, who had taken
high honours at the University, was selected, on account
of his known attainments and learning, as Incumbent of
a new church in a populous parish. Inexperience, how-
ever, in a most impel-la:it duty led, much to the surprise
of b.s parishioner:, to a failure, which. was promptly,
rectitiAl by an old 'natter-of-fact churchwarden leaving
in th restpr3re--arcahmslotphee- following-
reent
cent. slower,
towite :
eiro.alad ‘l‘lRoot. p•erSr, eeinttf.
130-ouude7uly(cliu would preach with 1,000 per cent. greater
effea.”—C4e/totham ,g.ramin cr.