The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-26 00:00:00

MORNING EDITION

THE BRITISH IRON COMPANY.
Thursday the adjourned meeting of the Shareholders of the
British Iron Company took place at the London Tavern, for
the purpose of appointing a Committee to investigate its affairs
and was very numerously attended.
Mr. Horsley Palmer was in the chair.
The minutes of the last meeting having been read,
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business of the day, said,
as to the late calls of the Company, it was said by one party of
Shareholders that they were illegal, and though he was by no
means about to admit it, still he would contend that a moral
keling ought to influence those who had not paid
their calls to pay them up, for they were all par
in one concern, the liabilities of which are chiefly
to be traced to the adverse decision of the House
of Lords. In all they had done they had had the best advice ;
their counsel were Sir W. Follett and Mr. Butt, and Mr. Butt
was now present to answer all inquiries. With respect to an
allegation that bad gone forth to the public, that Mr. Larpent
and he (Mr. Palmer) had been the causes of the immense
losses the Company bad sustained, he begged to give it un-
qualified contradiction. As to the formation of the Committee,
he hoped it would be made to meet the general view of the
propnetors, that a most searching investigation would be made
into all the affairs of the Company, and that those who com-
posed the Committee would not hesitate to call evidence on
every subject.—(Hear.)
Mr. Gums moved aresolution to the effect—" That nine of
the largest Shareholders (naming them) should be appointed
to investigate the affairs of the Company, and report them, with
a view to the continuance of the concern, or otherwise, &C."
The resolution having been seconded,
Major Rienaanson moved an amendment to the effect—
" That 21 Shareholders be appointed a Committee to investi-
gat! and report upon the state of the Company's affairs, with
a new to its immediate dissolution, &c."
Mr. JACKSON seconded Major Richardson's amendment.
Mr. Horxisson thought that the functions of the Com-
mittee were too limited; they ought to extend tothe past as
well as the present—(Hear, hear)—and have free scope in every
way, whether as connected with the trading or legal concerns of
the Company,-.-(Hear, bear.)
The CHAIRMAN said, the Committee ought certainly to be
invested with such powers.
Mr. GIuBS intended his resolution to have that effect.
Mr. llopKlNsost would like to have it fully expressed in
the resolution.
Mr. INlorr, in the event of Major Richardson's amendment
being lost, would move that a Committee of ten gentlemen be
formed by the selection of five from both sides of the room, out
of a given list of ten. He, by this course, thought he should
preserve the good order and harmony of the meeting.
The CHAIRMAN then put the amendment, which as the
" united shareholders" declined to vote, not having paid their
calls, was lost by a considerable majority.
The original motion was then put and carried, there being
only three dissentients. The " united shareholders" put in a
protest.
An angry discussion then took place as to whether or not a
ballot could be demanded on the original motion.
It was laid down as the law of the deed of settlement, that
proxies could not be admitted to influence such a demand, and
there were not enough shares signed by those present to de-
mand one. In this emergency the Chairman was called upon
to put his signature, which he immediately did, and the ballot
was fixed to take place on the 7th of July, from twelve A.M. to
three P.m., at the offices, Old Broad-street.
A long discussion again followed among the shareholders, en
masse, as to what was to be done ; some recommended the
carrying of the Company into Chancery, and others were for
calling another meeting. Subsequently the proceedings broke
up in the most disorderly confusion.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
- COURT OF QUEEZV'S BENCH, June 25.
MATTMEWS V. HUTTON.
This was an action of replevin, brought to try the right to
certain property situate at Houton. There are a great number
of witnesses to be examined, and the case, which is of no public
interest whatever, is likely to occupy the Court the entire day.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Charles Harrison, a youth of genteel manners and address,
between 16 and 17 years of age, and very fashionably attired,
• was placed at the bar on the following charges :
Police constable, No. 96, of the C division, stated that about
half-past four o'clock yesterday afternoon while on duty in the
neighbourhood of Leicester-square, he saw the prisoner, who
was smoking a cigar, and in the space of a quarter of an hour
snake thirteen attempts to pick the pockets of different gentle-
men, and as he was in the act of extracting something from
a gentleman's coat pocket, he happened to turn his head, and
seeing witness close behind him, set off running, but witness
pursued and overtook him. The prisoner made a desperate re-
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sistance.
• Mr. MALTBY inquired whether or not the prisoner was
known to the police.
• Inspector Baker, of the C division, stated that the prisoner
had been a notorious pickpocket for between four and five years.
His father is respectable tradesman, and had used every en-
deavour to reclaim the prisoner from the vicious courses he
bad fallen into. Ho had twice been convicted of felony at the
Central Criminal Court, and suffered imprisonment.
The prisoner was committed for two months.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
(LLOYD'S).
LONDON, Juwa 25.—Wind this day at noon, S.E.
DEAL, JUNE 24.—Wind S.E. light.—Arrived the Was-
senar, from Amsterdam for Batavia; Belle, westward.
Arrived from the River and sailed, the Essex, for Madras;
Vigilant, and Vectis, Mauritius ; Meanwell, Odessa.
HASTINGS, JUNE 24.—Arrivedoff, the Jane,Ward, St. Lucia,
en the 19th inst., in lat. 49, lon. 11, passed a large boat, bot-
tom up, apparently not long in the water, no particular mark
but a false keel.
SHOREHAM. JUNE 24.—The Gleaner, May, coal laden, is
sunk outside the harbour.
PORTSMOUTH, J u era 24.--Wind. S.E.—Arrived the St.
James, from London and sailed for New York ; Seringapatam,
London for Madras. Sailed the Harriet, for Quebec ; Aurora
(Sardinian corvette), St. Petersburgh.
TORBAY, JUNE 23.—Sailed the John Willis, Demerara,
James M.Queen, St. Kitts.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 24.—Wind variable.—Arrived the
Sarah and Ann, from Leghorn. Sailed the Oriental, from
New Zealand.
FALMOUTH, Juxx 23.—Wind S. to N.W.—Arrived the
Albion, from Malta. Sailed the Arethusa' Clyde; Trefusis
Figuera. Arrived off, General Evans, Dare, Maderia.
Poszoscg, JUNE 23.—The Victoria, from Swansea to
,Landerman, Was assisted in here yesterday, having struck on
the Rundlestone.
BRISTOL, Juxs 24.—Sailed the Victoria, for Calcutta;
Die, Reid, Quebec.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 24.—Wind S.,light.—Arrived the Eagle,
Ritchie, from Villa-Nova. Arrived off, the Standard, from
New Orleans ; Ann Liffey, Charleston ; Countess of Durham,
Maracaiba. Sailed the Diamond, Baldwin, for Buenos Ayres;
Sisters, Barhadoes ; Maria, Cleewes, Diadem, and Harvest,
Wei, York; Britain, Yarmouth, United States ; Dibdin,
Portland, and Agnei, Gilmour, Quebec; Haidee, Newfounth
land ; Lancashire Witch, Montreal ; Doctor, Alexandria ;
Zante, Gibraltar; Olivia (packet), Oporto.
CORN, JUNE 22.—Arrived the Mary Jane, from Port au
Prince ; Feriera, Lisbon.
HULL, JUNE 24.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived the Sovereign,
Mackham, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; Chevalier,
Knight, New Orleans ; Johanna, Braren, Trieste.

VESSELS Sroint WITH.—The Trinidad packet, Trinidad
to London, lat. 24, lon. 60, by the Jane, arrived off Hastings.
Liebe, St. Domingo to Liverpool, 6th inst., lat. 42, lon. 45, by
the Matthew, arrived in the River. Isabel, Liverpool to Leg-
bovn, 3d inst., 50 miles E. of Gibraltar, by the Albion, arrived
at Falmouth. Fanny, Oldhman, of Stockholm, lat. 42, lon.
55, and supplied with provis ons by the Chevalier, arrived at
Hull. William, of Greenock, from Bombay, 4th March, lat. 5
N., lon. 77 E. ; Iris, from Calcutta, 11th ult., lat. 4 S., lon.
17 W. ; Shepherd, Mauritius to London, 25th ult., lat. 12 N.,
lon. 30 ; Victerine, Bahia to London, 3d inst., lat. 30, lon. 41,
by the Lady Clarke, arrived at Portsmouth. Theodore, of
Sunderland, for Quebec, lat. 49, lon. 16; Antilles, from Gua-
elaloope, 29th ult., off the Azores; Daw, Grant, Liverpool to
Lima, 14th nit., lat. 46, lon. 11, by the Fleloise, arrived at
Bordeaux.

TRAGICAL OCCURRENCE.—An inquest was
held on Thursday, at the Horns public-house, near Henley-on-
Thames, on the body of Henry Street, the unfortunate person
who was shot on Tuesday evening, as reported in our paper of
yesterday. A verdict of" Wilful murder' was returned against
George Tyson, who was afterwards examined by the Berkshire
Magistrates, and committed to Reading gaol to take his trial at
the ( nsuing assizes. The perpetrator of the deed is a native of
some village near Grimsby, Line olnshire, which he refused
to tell.
ARRIVAL OF THE TRAFALGAR AT SHEER-
F•Ess. —On Tuesday night, at eight o'clock, the Trafalgar man •
of-war ship of 120 guns, which was launched from Woolwich
Dockyard on
Alonday afternoon, arrived at Sheerness, in tow
of the steam
_packets Salamander, Meteor,
and Monkey. They
returned to the river on Wednesday morning. The Trafalgar
was
hauled into Sheerness dock at high water on Thursday
afternoon.
DREADFUL STAGE-COACH ACCIDENT.
OVERsETTING OF THE
BRIDGE.-011 Union, Lynn stage-coach,
which STAGE
-COACH, NEAR Cast-
Channg-
which should have arrived at the Golden Cross ' . 0
of dreadful •
on its journey to London from
cross, did not, on account a accident occurring by
its being overact near Cambridge,
b • filledwith
Lynn, unfortunately at the time being passengers in.
:side and out, by which unfortunate circumstance the *la ch
man, Thomas Cross, received a
°lnalpsooasustainednd fractureauc of h
searieouso-
his legs, and two ladies, passengers,
injuries that they, with the unfortunate coachman, were neees_
sitated to he conveyed to an inn, where, as quickly as possible,
every requisite surgical assistance was rendered the sufferers.
Another coach being procured, the remaining passengers, after
a delay of a few hours, proceeded on their journey, some few
having sustained slight injuries.
RAMSGATE.—THE CENSUS —The enumera-
tors have concluded their labours, and by the accounts rendered
it appears that Ramsgate contains 4,896 males
and 6,013 f!: s
males, making 10,909; St. Lawrence, 1,272 males and 1,423
females, making 2,695 ; St. Peter's, 1,346 males and 1,616
females, making 0,96". It is a most remarkable circumstance
that this town sould be just the same number as Margate,
swhich is 10,909. In the last census Ramsgate was 7,987,
end has increased in the ten years '25 per cent., and Mar-
gate was 10,460, which has increased 2f, per cent. ; the inte-
rests of the two towns are so similar, that local circumstances
cannot take place without -erecting both in the same way.—
Kent Herald.
ALLEGED I'.
,4TENDED DUEL BETWEEN MR.
GluszaT
YOUNG AND MR. PARES.—Thursday
afternoon,
etine4n, shortly before the close of the Court, Mr. Inspector
Tof the D divi,don of police, had an interview with the
litaut Magistrate of Marvlebone Police Court, and informed
Mm that a written commurhcation which, on the same morning,
svas forwarded to the station-house, had been handed over to
the Police. Commissioners. Our reporter instituted imme-
mediate inquiry into the particulars relative to the matter re-
ferred to, and after some trouble ascertained that information
bad anonymously been made by letter, which set. forth that
duel was about to take place between Mr. Gilbert Anslie
Young and Mr. Parks, the latter of whom holds a responsible
Government situation. An inspector of the division above
tamed, lost no time in waiting upon Sir. Young, at his.resi-
dence, No. 2, Upper Portland-place, when that gentleman
penned a note to the effect that he should take no hostile pro-
ceedings.
DEATH OF VICE-ADMIRAL SIR T. HARVEY,
K.C.B.—The intelligence of the demise of this gallant offi-
cer was received at the Admiralty on Wednesday last, as
having expired at Bermuda on the 28th ult. The deceased
Admiral, who was born in 1775, was second son of the late
Sir Henry Harvey, and at the early age of twelve years en-
tered the navy. He was actively engaged in Admiral Howe's
action, and when Lieutenant distinguished himself in Lord
Bridport's brilliant victory. At the passage of the Darda-
nelles, in 1807, he commanded the Thunderer, and gallantly
took part in the destruction of the Turkish squadron. Subse-
quently he served with great credit on the coast of Egypt and
in the AdriatiThe late Admic
ra,
l where he made several valuable captures.
and North Au, • was Commander-in-Chief of the West India
enean stations.
BRUSSELS, JUNE 23.--The average price of
wheat last week visa 17f. 64c., sad that of rye 101. 17e.