The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-27 00:00:00

Price 4s. 6d. and Bs. 6d. per bottle, duty included.

OBSERVE—The Name and Address of the Proprietors,
A. ROWLAND and' SON, 20, HATTON-GARDEN, LONDON,
arc engraved on the )vernment Stamp pasted on the Cork ; also
printed, in red on the Wrapner.in which each bottle is enclosed.
Ask for RO WLAND'S KALYDOR."

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MR. SHERIFF EVANS AND THE LIBERTY OF THE

SUBJECT.
Second Edition, now publishing by W. E. Painter, 342, Strand,

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REASONS for the FREEDOM of the
SHERIFFS, deduced from the laws of England.
By R. THORPE, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, of the Inner
Temple.
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OYAL BANK OF AUSTRALIA.
Capital, 1,000,000, in 20,000 Shares of 501. each.
Deposit 51. per Share.
DIRECTORS.
Benjamin Boyd, Esq. Alexander Cockburn, Esq.
Thomas Meux, Esq. William P. Craufurd, Esq.
George Webster, Esq. John Connell, Esq.
John W. Sutherland, Esq. John Mitchell,- Esq. -
STANDING COUNSEL.
Peter Laurie, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Parken and Webster, 13, New Boswell Court. •
Messrs. Johnston and Farquhar, 32, New Broad-street.
BANKERS.
Union Bank of London,
Moorgate-street, Lothbury ; and Argyle-place, Regent-street.
Edinburgh—National Bank of Scotland.
Leith—Edinburgh and Leith Bank..
Glasgow—Western Bank of Scotlapd.
Greenock—Greenock Bank...<.``'.-•...,..:fr
Aberdeen—Town and County Bank.
Arbroath—Arbroath Banking Company.
Dumfries—Southern Bank of Scotland.
Ayr—Ayrshire Banking Company.
The object of the Company is for the transaction of all
Banking business at. SYDNEY, LAUNCESTON, ADE-
LAIDE, PORT PHILIP, and such other places as the Di-
rectors may deem advisable ' • and it is intended to apply, as far
as possible, the system which has proved so successful in Scot-
land.
The extraordinary progress which the Australasian Colonies
have made within the last few years, the continued flow of emi-
gration towards them, together with the high value of money
there, call for an increased number of establishments of this de-
scription, and the prosperous condition of the Banks already in
operation is a sufficient guarantee that under prudent manage-
ment this Investment must prove a most profitable and secure
one to the Shareholders, as high rates of interest are obtained
with perfect security in a country where, from well ascertained
data, Capital is improving at rates varying from 50 to 75 per
cent. per annum.
The following Extract from the Official Share List of February
4th, 1840, shows the present value of Stock in Two of the
Australasian Banks formed in London :
Original Share. Paid up. Present Price.
Bank of Australasia ....,....£40.. £4O 0..... £57 10
Ditto (new Shares) 4O ... 10 0 l7 10
Union Bank of Australial 25 (established in 1838 )1
Nor can the prosperity of Banking operations connected with
those Colonies be better illustrated than by reference to the
satisfactory Report of the Directors of the Union Bank of
Australia, presented to the Proprietors at their General Meet-
ing, on the 3d of February, and by the following extract from
the Rev. Henry Carmichael's Pamphlet on New South Wales,
wherein he observes—" There are at present in Sydney three
Joint Stock Banking Companies in operation, with a paid-up
capital of abut 80,0001. each ; which divide a profit annually
of from 20 to 25 per cent. His Excellency Sir James Stirling
also, in his recent work on Western Australia, says, in allusion
to the Western Bank of Australia, The second half-year left
a clear profit over the expenditure of 14 and a half per cent.,
which, after setting aside one-fifth as an accumulating fund,
according to an existing rule, enabled the Directors to declare a
dividend of 11 and a half per cent. on the paid-up capital ;at
the close of the year no dishonoured bill remaining on hand, nor
had the Solicitor of the Bank to commence a single suit for the
recovery of a debt due to it."
The Directors have for some time been making arrangements
for immediately carrying into effect the objects of the Com-
pany; and in order to advance the influence of the Bank in the
Colonies, they have reserved a portion of the shares for distri-
bution there.
As the principal part of the business must necessarily be car-
ried on in the Colonies, it has been thought inexpedient to
have a numerous Board of Directors in London : it has there-
fore been determined that the number shall not at any time
exceed ten ; but to secure the prudent administration of the
affairs of the Bank, a complete system of superintendence is
now being organized by the Directors for the Establishments
in the Colonies.
A sufficient capital has already been subscribedto enable the
Directors to commence business immediately. They have
therefore resolved, in order to avoid the inconvenience which
has been found to arise in other undertakings from an mire-
stricted application of shares, and to induce only those to apply
who wish to become bona fide proprietors, not to entertain any
application unless made in the printed forms provided by them
for that purpose, and accompanied by a payment of 21. upon
each share applied for, the Directors reserving to themselves,
at the time of appropriation, the right to reject or comply with
such application, either in whole or in part, the money to be
returned if the application be rejected, and to be placed to the
' credit of the party in respect wf- the Owes allotted to ,hiai
if accepted.
For the guidance of those who may wish to become proprie-
tors, it may be mentioned, that it is not in contemplation to
call up more than 101. per share for the next twelve months.
The Directors have postponed filling up the London Board
to the full number of ten, in order to give them the opportunity
of selecting influential proprietors, whose assistance and co-
operation they may think it advisable to secure for the interests
of the concern ; power is reserved to them for that purpose,
and they are also authorized to complete all other arrangements
necessary for putting the Company into immediate operation.
Application for shares, in accordance with the printed form,
, to be made to Messrs. Boyd, 4, New Bank Buildings, Lothbury,
London

♦DVERTISEMENT.
TO MR. JAMES TRIMBEY,
39, QUEEN-STREET, LONDON.

Sir,—l have observed with much surprise, an advertisemen
in the London papers with your signature attached, in which
the public are informed of my having quitted your service, and
are at the same time cautioned against paying any moneys t
me on your account. As I cannot but feel that such an adver-
tisement is calculated to injure me in public estimation as a
Commercial Commission Traveller, by indue'ng the belief that
I had improperly sought to receive your moneys, I am bound in
justice to my character and to the claims of a wife and nu-
merous family publicly to vindicate myself against such a sup-
position.
Having for some years travelled for you by commission, and
having in the course of that period established a first-rate
connexion, it grieved me much that the limited extent to
whieh the orders of my numerous customers were executed
became so unsatisfactory as to compel me in September
last to give intimation of my intention to tender my resigna-
tion at the termination of my next journey,nevertheless subject,
as per written agreement, to the three months from the specific
period of its being tendered, unless the terms of my engagement
could be altered from a commission of 7i per cent. on the pay-
ments to that of 5 per ent. on all orders taken, and then a 9?-,
on the payments, by which means I hoped to secure the
due execution of my orders, and at the same time advance
your interest as well as my own. I certainly did not in-
tend my notice to expire at the time you construed it. On
the 9th of October I paid the balance of my journey account
and left town that day for my then next journey, and from this
date to the 13th of January, I made no arrangements for future
engagement, nor did I in one instance hint to any customer
any expectation of leaving, as I concluded the difference might
be settled agreeably to both parties when I got home.
On the 25th of December I got back to London, and on the
26th called upon you in my usual way, gave in my ledger, and
inquired also if my patterns had arrived, but finding they had
not, I did not regret this circumstance much as I wanted a little
rest, having been out from the Ist of July to the 95th of De-
cember, with only an intepval of ten days. On the 28th of De-
cember I was at Queen-street, and gave you a letter order,which
you executed. On the 3d ofJanuary 1 went v. ith a written order
from you to look out some goods, and upon inquiry found
my journey ledge; was ma. to up, and on the following day I
called in and pa'd the balanc e due to you of 181. 125., but got
no receipt, the lodger not bei:.n,g, as you said, at hand. When
my patterns did arrive; which was on the Bth of January, I
said to you that I should be ready to go off on the following
Monday, when I found you had determined not to alter the
terms, and that you considered the notice had terminated. I
was then compelled to look out, which I did, and in a few days
I received a conditional appointment for another house, and im-
mediately started on my journe y. I found that most of my old
customers were anxious to continue to do business with me
without regard to the principal, whom they had never seen, and
of whom, except through me, they knew nothing, announcing
through the different towns I passed on to that I did not now
represent you, nor did I use any under means to induce them to
give their orders to me. I ceuid not help telling them how it
happened, as I had been to on my of the same places only the
preceding month on other busin ss,for y d had told them then I
should see them at the regular tittle ou.
In consequence of a letter rebich 1 received from you at
Wakefield on the 27th of Januall, presupposing I had preju-
diced the mind of a customer at Peterborough against you, I
immediately wrote you that it m Is incorrect, for I had not so
much as seen the gentleman. I further said I lamented that
the long connection between us should be severed, and that
upon so minor a matter; that I believed it was much to your
interest to resume that connectinis, having turned you over last
year, amidst the distraction of the times, nearly as many thou-
sands as you had hundreds out, on. the ground I now take, when
I first took your business in hand 3 and to testify my feeling for
your continued prosperity, I staged I was ready on my part to
bury all in oblivion, and if it met. your approbation by sending
down my patterns, accounts, arid ledger to Huddersfield, I
would instantly relinquish the en; :agement I had entered into,
and commence again without furt!aer delay on your account, on
the terms I had before proposed, :and for my word's sake I would
not alter. Knowing as I did tha t the connection was mine' it
did strike me' to be an offer we mthy your notice. I found also
that no one was on the ground before me representing you,
nor had any advice letters been received. With the impres-
sion on my mind that the offer would be accepted by you, I
passed on to Pontefract, then toDe•wsbury, the last town before
I reached Huddersfield, where y ovr answer was to melt me.
A customer there said he wanted no goods. and, as he was
going on a journey, it would ba better for me to draw upon
him as usual, at two months, dated the Ist of February, which
acceptance was drawn 231. 1 Is. Od ~ in your name, and, as a
natural inference, no use whates •er to me. This I did, but
with no ether object in view than for you to realize a payment,
struck also by the thought that yc .sir representative might have
been taken ill, and all standing s t.:11 in the country, as I found
(but not by you) he had been star t ed several days before I ac-
tually knew I was going to leave. Another person in the same
place, who had several pounds to pa y me for another house, for
which I also travel, had provided a banker's bill, which more
than covered both accounts. You only wanted 4/. ss. Od. of
that person ; therefore, to take this bill of my friend, I received
61. Bs. Od. of a third customer. 'fou were then entitled to
10/. I3s. Od. ; minus my commission 7% per cent., and stamp
2s. Id., on 341. 4s. Od., amountii sg to 21. 13s. 4d., leaving a
balance due to you in cash of the s mall sum of 71. 19s. 7d. ; and

tie 1d , I w ould not
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to received
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field ako
fact
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the acceptance and this are all the money I received between '
London and Huddersfield of yours; and but for the simplenee-
penny. If I do not speak the words of truth, disprove it.
ImreaocffheerdfrlimuddWerals'fieem I received aep
field letter, written in a friendly way, but that you were not
open to a fresh contract, and from that period to now 1 have
not received one penny. On the Bth inst. I made up a letter
to you, enclosing the 23/. Ils., giving you a statement of the
transactions, and telling you the circumstances under which
these accounts were paid, and that 1 would pay you the balance,
71. 19s. 7d., in any way you pleased when I heard from you
again. After the many large towns I passed through before I
got to Dewsbury, the thousands I have turned over for you,
and that to your advantage, for you have never added one clerk
more to the counting-house, I feel fully persuaded that in your
more deliberate moments you do not entertain the thought
that this small sum of 71. 19s. 7d. was received by me but
with the intention of being regularly accounted for, as, in fact,
it was ; for there must naturally be an open account until I
am paid my commission for my sales up to the time of leaving.
That the long standing connexion between us has ceased is
not attributable to me, is still my firm conviction ; this, how-
ever, you can do—furnish me with a copy of the letters I
wrote on the 24th of September, and the 11th of October, on
this subject, and I beg to say, I think you are bound in candour
to do this after the unmerited attack you have made on me,
and that when I was 200 miles rif, and without, at all events,
waiting for an explanation. By these letters I will stand or fall,
and it will be then seen whether I left you or you left me.
That I acted faithfully and laboriously for your welfare is known
to all the customers. That I stuck to your interest in all its
bearings, according to my ability, like the hammer to the beaten
anvil, you must admit, not thinking any exertions or pecuniary
sacrifice too great to prevent bad debts and gel in the accounts ;
and if you will look to my last year's business you will find an
average of 15s. paid on all my accounts, and I believe 501.
covered the bad debts last year made by me ; and I can only
add, the notice which you have given so prematurely, by way of
caution, was perfectly unwarranted. Finally, it is important
for me to state, that you hold the commissions due to me on the
whole of my last half-year's account, which, with balances also
unpaid, will amount, I expect, to something like 4,0001. The
actual sum you can soon know by reference to your ledger.
Had I continued to collect your accounts, my due would
have been 3001. And now, Sir, after the attack you
have made, without even writing me on the subject,
you ought, as one act of reparation, to pay me my commis-
sion in full on the amount outstanding, without delay or deduc-
tion for collecting, ancl:to send me a check down, after taking off
the 71. 19s. 7d. received by me at Dewsbury, errors, if any,
and any claims you have upon me. Do this, furnish me with
a copy of my letters dated September 24, October 11, and
February 8, and let me have my journey ledger signed, in con-
formity with the balance you claimed and I paid on the 4th of
January, as I have never had the opportunity of examining its
correctness and then all further connexion between us will
entirely cease. At all events lam anxious, after what has
taken place, to have the accounts between us finally balanced,
and to effect that lam quite ready to leave any question as to
allowance of the 7 commission to be settled by any respectable
commercial gentleman, to be agreed upon between us.
As it cannot be expected that I should remain here at ex-
pense and loss of time to await your answer, I have left the
whole matter in the hands of my solicitor, Mr. Leeman, of this
place, to whom you will be good enough to address any commu-
nication which you may have to make upon the business.
I am, Sir, your obedient sere ant,
R. W. WHITFIELD.
Lockwood's Hotel, York, Feb. 13, 1840.