The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-18 00:00:00

As sETs.

By total amount
of cash, bills
of exchange,
and remit-
tanoes in hand ...
By book debts—
Good ... 13,918 17 11 13,918 17 1
Doubtful ... 430 10 10
Bad ... ...6,685 0 9i

X. I. d. X. I. d.
... 9,865 0 9 7,865 0 9

7,115 11 711

By property,
merchandise,
and counting-
house furni-
ture ...

... 1,529 3 4 1,529 3 4

By surplus secu-
rities per contra ...

... 357 3 6 357 3 6

£32,785 17 1 23,670 5 6
A meeting of the members of the district commit-
tees and other influential shareholders in the North
of England Joint-Stock Banking Company, which
suspended on the Bth of March last, was held a few
days ago in the banking-house at Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, having been convened by the directors to
confer on the present position of the affairs of the
bank. Mr. John Fenwick was in the chair, and the
following statement was read :
" The directors hare to the present time been daily
engaged in arranging settlements with the debtors
and creditors of this establishment. When they com-
menced their onerous duties, in April last, the most
clamorous portion of the creditors insisted, not only
upon a cash payment, but upon bills at short dates
for the remainder of their claims ; this was resisted
by every argument the directors could offer,
but to avoid heavy law expenses they were
compelled to give notes to a large amount
at six and twelve months; several forming
a series of those at a longer date. Nearly the
whole of the former were granted in the months of
April, May, and June, therefore becoming due in
October, November, and December, to the extent,
with other engagements, of 34,798/. 17's. 10d. With
this large amount of liability before them, and the
cash derived from the first call, and the assets of the
bank so far as realised fast disappearing, the directors
were compelled, much against their inclination, to
make a second call, and had that been responded to,
even to the extent of the first, although that has
hitherto fallen short of the amoant which the directors
hope may yet be realised, the necessity of the present
meeting would not have existed. To this time the
first call has produced 47,4341. 15s. 9d., and the
second 28,1151. 13s. 11d., together 75,5501. 9,. Bd.
A considerable portion of the second call consisted
of transfers of loans previously made by the share-
holders; the benefit derived from it has therefore been
much lessened, and the directors regret to say that
they have engagements to the amount of 15,000/. to
meet between this and Christmas, and that their cash
is nearly exhausted. Ever since the suspension
of this bank the country has been in a degree of
panic, and matters have been brought to a serious
crisis in this district by the stoppage of the Union
Bank ; now it is scarcely possible to get any bills
discounted, and the disposal of property at anything
like its value is quite out of the question. Under
these circumstances it is clear that calls will comae
very slowly in, and slme other mode of raising money
must therefore be adopted, by loans or otherwise, to
the extent of 12,0001. With that sum the directors
consider they can meet every engagement to the end
of the present year, and thence to May, 1848, the lia-
bilities are comparatively light. It therefore rests
with the shareholders whether_they will aid the, di-
rectors in their laborious and most onerous duties, and
carry out engagements of vast magnitude and import-
ance both to the welfare of the proprietary and the
public, by coming forward at once with aid to the
extent named, or allow the affairs of the concern to
pass into bankruptcy; a course that cannot be
thought of without a fearful dread of its most ruinous
consequences to every party connected with the Bank."
It was suggetted that a list of the shareholders
who had not paid their calls be printed and circu-
lated;" but the • motion, after some discussion, was
postponed until the general resolutions subsequently
adopted were submitted to the shareholders. The
following general resolutions were then put seriatim,
and carried unanimously :
" That, in the opinion of this meeting, it is highly
desirable that the affairs of the establishment should
continue to be wound up under the management of
the directors, so as not only to avoid the ruinous ex-
pense of any other mode of settlement, but to ensure
to the shareholders the valuable services of gentlemen
who have now become familiar with the affairs of the
bank, are consequently best able to decide on the j
course most expedient to be pursued for the general
advantage, and under whose superintendence so very
large a reduction has been made in the liabilities of
the company.
" That this meeting regret that the obstacles which
the directors have had to encounter should have been
aggravated by the serious commercial difficulties of
the present crisis, and, having heard the explanation
of the directors, they feel that the true interest of
the shareholders imperatively requires that they
should, to the utmost of their power, aid the directors
in raising the sum requisite to meet the pressing de-
mands upon the bank.

" That, in the opinion of this meeting, this purpose
can best be effected by an advance made to the bank
by shareholders upon loan notes ; and that the parties
present therefore pledge themselves to assist in car-
rying out this most desirable object.
" That the directors be requested to communicate
with the absent shareholders, to submit to them these
resolutions, and to invite their co-operation, in car-
rying out the resolutions of the present meeting.
" That it be recommended to the directors, in con-
junction with the district committee, to wait per-
sonally upon the shareholders in their several districts,
for
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submittedmake
the bank."
directors, together with the
resolutions adopted, should
be
printed
and
circulated Among the shareholders. It
bathe

is generally considered thst the representation of the
directors will be responded to.

BANK OF ENGLAND RETURNS
OF OCTOBER 30 AIM NOVEMBER 6, 1847,
STATED AND COMPARED.

THE GOVERNOR AND DIRECTORS IN ACCOUNT
WITH THE PUBLIC AND PROPRIETORS.
ACCOUNT OCT. 30.

Notes Issued ... .•• 22,009,490
Deduct Notes in Banking De
partment

1,176,740

Public Deposits (includisF Exchequer,
Savings' Banks, Commissioners of Na-
tional Debt, and Dividend Account)
Other Deposits

Seen Day- and other 81112 ... ... -...

Balance in favour of Proprietors ..,

Government Debt ... 1111. 1111. ...
Other Securities ...,1111 1111. ~,
Gold Coin and 'Bullion
~,
Silver Bullion ... 11,11 11,11 1100
Government Securities (including Dead
Weight Annuity)...
Other Securities 1111. 1111. 1111. 1111.
Gold and Silver Coin 1101 ~, 1011

Total Assets ...

ACCOUNT, Nov. 6.
Notes Issued ... ... ... 22,426,530
Deduct Notes in Banking De-
partment ...

... 2,030,035

Public Deposits (including Exchequer,
Savings' Banks, Commissioners of Na-
tt. and Dividend Account) ..
..
..
Seven Day andtther 8i115...
Other Deposits
eigisits

Balance in favour of Proprietors ...

Government Debt ... ••• I." •• •
Other Securities ... ~,
Gold Coin and Bullion ... ... •••
Silver Bullion ••• ...
Government Securities (including Dead
Weight Annuity)... ~,
Other Securities ... ... ... ...
Gold and Silver Coin ... ... ...

20,832,750

4,696,032
8,911,442
931,335

35,371,559
18,090,819

53,462,378

11,015,100
2,914,900
6,864,511
1,144,979

Total Assets ...

10,613,607
20,409,897
429,384

53,462,378

20,396,445

4,991,313
8,804,395
921,673

35,113,826
18,134,247

53,248,073

11,015,100
2,984,900
7,247,959
1,178,571

10,598,607
19,919,915
303,021

53,248,073

The constitution of the Balance in favour of
Proprietors:—
Government Debt ... 11,015,100
One quarter of the Debt of 14.686,800 L re-
paid the Bank in 1833, together with the
Rest; forming resources in the hands of
the Directors, for banking purposes, to
the amount of

... 7,119,147

18,134,247

The above stated returns compared:—
Notes from Issue Department.
November 6
October 30

Increase--November 6... ... ..
Notes in Active Circulation.

October 30
November 6

Decrease—November 6

Notes in Banking Department.
November 6 ...
October 30

THURSDAY
.EVENING, NOVEMBER 18, 1847.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nev. 17
(Sittings in Banco )

THE QUEEN v. CHADWICK.—M &RRYING A DECEASED
WIFE'S SISTER.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
Mr. AFSLAND replied, and contended, on the
strength of numerous authorities which he cited, that
the marriage was void.
The further hearing of the arguments was ad-
journed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Captain Edward Lewiski, a Polish refugee, was
brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with having
assaulted and used insulting language towards the
Rev. 11. Brookfield, assistant preacher at St. James's.
Mr. Brookfield said he had just concluded afternoon
prayers, and was relieving some poor persons in the
vestry, when the defendant and another foreigner
walked in and begged money in extremely bad Eng-
lish. Complainant declined to assist the defendant
and walked into the churchyard, upon which the de-
fendant told him that " he spat at him as a rogue," at
the same time putting his offensive menace into prac-
tice. This was the substance of the complaint he had
to make. He thought it his duty to give the de-
fendant into custody, as the bullying way in which
he sought charity might have the effect of frightening
a timid person into compliance.
The defendant said he had a recommendation from
another clergyman, proving that he was an object of
charity, and as he only wanted to procure some as-
sistance for a starving wife and family, he did not
think that a minister of the gospel ought to have
refused relief to him.
Mr. BINGHAIIot said he should cause inquiry to be
made into who and what the defendant was, and he
should afterwards require him to find very good
security, to deter him from the repetition of similar
conduct.
The magistrate was here informed that the defend-
ant, though a Polish refugee, was not countenanced
by the ron3t. Sc.oi
tody before. QtY, and that he had been in cus-
Mr. BINGHAM ordered these circumstances to be
formally reported to him, when the defendant was
brought up for final judgment.
Mr. Clack, manager of the Regent-street branch
of the Union Bank of London, handed Mr. Bingham
ten pounds, placed by " Miss D." at the disposal of
the magistrate for the relief of the distressed.
MARY LEBONE.
Anne Simons, Mr. Hickman, a merchant, and B.
Simons, the father of the first-named prisoner, were
brought up for final examination before Mr. Brough-
ton, on the recent charge of extensive robbery at
Messrs. Marshall and Stinton's, silkmercers, &c.,
Vere-street, Oxford-street. The particulars of what
transpired at the former examinations have already
appeared in The Sun. The following additional facts
have been adduced :
Mary Anne Riley, who had been employed at Mr
Hickman's chambers, 18, Lincoln's Inn-fields, said
that she had seen the prisoner Anne Simons there
several times, and had known her to dine and sleep
there. She had frequently seen her come in a cab
with parcels, which the witness had helped her to carry
up to the bedroom, but had not seen the contents.
Anne Simons had made witness a present of three
dresses, which had been since given up to the prose-
cutors. Mr. Hickman was not present when she re-
ceived the articles alluded to.
In reply to :questions from Mr. Ballantine, who
attended for Mr. Hickman, witness said she had seen
Anne Simons with a bunch of keys, and had also seen
her open drawers which witness had heard her say
were hers. They were in a bedroom, in which was
also a wardrobe of Mr. Hickman's. She (Anne
Simons) had opportunities of putting articles in her
drawers without Mr. Hickman having any know.
ledge thereof. She had often been at the chambers
on Sundays in Mr. Hickman's absence. Witness
had never the slightest suspicion that her (Simons's)
drawers contained stolen property. After Mr. Hick-
man became acquainted with the robbery, and upon
hearing that Anne Simons was in custody at the sta-
tion-house, he (Mr. Hickman) gave directions that if
any one came to make a search every facility should
be afforded.
Anne Day, formerly servant to Mr. Hickman, said
that about a year and a half since Anne Simons gave
her two dresses and two shawls. She returned one
of the dresses to her as it was too gay.
Mr. White Brown, who is employed by the prose-
cutors, stated that he took an inventory of the things
in Anne Simons' box, and in reply to Mr. Humphreys,
said that he did not find any letters from Mr. Stinton.
Mr. Clarkson (to Mr. Stinton)—ln point of fact,
Mr. Stinton, did you ever write a letter to Anne
Simons in the course of your life ?
Mr. Stinton—l never had any intercourse with
her except as a master towards a servant.
Mr. Marshall also, on his own part, made a similar
statement. He (Mr. Marshall) then said, that upon
seeing Mr. Hickman after Anne Simons was in cus-
tody, he afforded every assistance in his power for the
recovery of the property. Mr. Hickman observed
that he first became acquainted with Anne Simons
by accidentally meeting her in Holles-street. Upon
his (Mr. Marshall's) asking him how he could imagine
that a girl in her situation could have so much valu-
able property of her own, he replied that he had under-
stood from her she was in the receipt of a salary of 701.
a year, with considerable perquisites. He added that
he had paid off a mortgage for the father of Anne
Simons, amounting to 2801., and that altogether that
affair had cost him 5001.
Mr. Marshall, in reply to a question from the
magistrate, said that he had a good character with
Anne Simons from her last situation in Argyll-street.
Mr. Phillip, the clerk, having read over the depo-
sitions,
Mr.BaouGsrrosr. committed the accused parties for
trial at the Central Criminal Court.
Mr. Hickman is under bail, himself in 500/., and
two sureties of 2501. each, to be forthcoming at the

sessions.
The Court, as on former occasions, was greatly
crowded.

LAMBETH.

Yesterday two well-dressed persons, named Thomas
and Mary Ann Simpson, who described themselves as
man and wife, were placed at the bar on a charge of
stealing a tea service of plate and various articles of
jewellery and trinkets to the amount of 1001., the
property of Mr. Edwards, a gentleman residing in
Stepney-green.
Mr. Edwards deposed that on the evening of
Sunday, the 31st of last month, on returning from
church, he discovered that the plate drawer in his
bedroom . had been forced open, and a tea service and
some valuable jewels and trinkets belonging to Mrs.
Edwards carried away. The female prisoner had
been in his service for eight or nine months, and left
in the month of May last, but the male prisoner he
knew nothing about, nor could he charge his memory
with having seen him before. The teapot produced
was his property, and formed a portion of the plate
that had been stolen. The plate had been all safe on
the day before the robbery.
Mrs. Tomlin, the wife of a bootmaker, residing at
82, Friar-street, Blackfriars-road, deposed that on
Friday, October 22, the female prisoner took a fur-
nished apartment at her house for herself and her
husband, whom she represented to be an artist, and
said they had just come from the country. Their
manner was so strange, in going out together and
coming home at different times, that she suspected
them to be either shoplifters or passers of base coin.
On Mouday, the Ist of the present month, she entered
their room in their absence, and examined the bed to
see if the bedclothes were all right, and on turning
them over she observed between the blankets a silver
model of a cow which had been broken off the top of
a butter cooler. Finding the things all safe she did
not proceed further in her search,
.but on the follow-
ing day she again entered the room, and perceiv-
ing a box belonging to the prisoners open, she looked
in and saw the silver teapot now produced, and a
cream jug nearly filled with rings and trinkets in
it. She instantly communicated her suspicion to
her husband that the things had been stolen, and
he went to the station-house and gave information
to the inspector on duty. About one o'clock the
prisoners came in, and upon being informed by a
lodger in the house that she (witness) had been
in the room, the male prisoner abused her for daring
to enter his room. He then went into the yard,
turned over the water butt, and took from under it a
quantity of silver knives and forks, and other articles
of plate. He then returned up stairs, took the rings
and trinkets out of the box, and put them into a carpet
bag. At thii time he was told that there was a
policeman down stairs ; upon which he remarked that
he had nothing to fear from the police, and that he
should go at once and face him. He then left the
room with the carpet bag, and was followed by the
woman, and both slipped out of the side door and went
away, leaving the teapot and the ring produced behind
them in the room.
Mr. NORTON remarked upon the extraordinary
conduct of the witness in allowing the prisoners to
escape as she had done.
The witness replied that it was not her fault, but
through the negligence of the police that they had
escaped. Her husband, she said, had gone to the
station-house and informed the police of their sus-
picions.
The husband confirmed the greater part of the
wife's statement, and said, that at ten o'clock on the
morning of Tuesday, the 2d instant, he sent to the
Southwark Police station-house, and informed the
inspector on duty that there was a quantity of valu-
able property in his house which he suspected to be
stolen, and also told him the cause of his suspicion.
The inspector asked him if he could prove the pro-
perty was stolen, remarking that if he could not
the police could not interfere. The witness told him
that he could not prove it, though such was his sus-
picion, and the inspector then said he :lonia send a

constable to see about it. No constable, however,
came, and finding the prisoners were leaving with
the property he called in the constable on the beat,
but the prisoners in the meantime walked away.
Inspector Campbell, of the I' division of police, de-
posed that on Friday last the prisoners were taken at
Kidderminster while in bed at an inn. While he
was taking the woman to the railway station she
said the property was all right, but the person who
had it would not give it up unless she was set at
liberty.

Sergeant Dawick said that the male prisoner, while
being taken to the railway station at Kidderminster,
said he supposed he should be transported, but added,
that if Mr. Edwards would get them " turned up,"
he should hare his property back. He also said
that Mrs. Tomlin had demanded 51. for letting them
go away with the property.

_
Mr. NORTON inquired flow much of the stolen pro-
perty had been recovered ?__ _ _

Inspector Campbell replied, the massive teapot
produced, a gentleman's ring, and a mourning ring,
the last article being in the hands of the superin-
tendent of police at Kidderminster, it having been
found in the room where the prisoners slept.
The prisoners made a rambling defence, in the
course of which both said that Mrs. Tomlin demanded
51. for allowing them to go ; and added that there
were no less than three policemen near the house
when they left it. They said they had been married
four months ago, but declined stating the church
where the marriage took place.
Mr. Edwards said, that from letters in his pos
session he had no doubt the woman was the wife of a
soldier in the 63d regiment.
Both prisoners were remanded,
Inspector Yates of the 111 division, has been sus-
pended by the commissioners for his alleged neg-
ligence.