The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-01 00:00:00

i'll.Z SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1, 1847.

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF THE ROYAL RANI OF
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 22, 1847.
£646,350 0 0
100,000 0 0
44,125 1 8

Capital paid up ... ... ... ,
Reserved surplus fund ... ...
Contingency Fund ... ... ...
Valuation of bank buildings £65,000
Less amounts not liquidated 25,000

Profits since June, estimated at

40,000 0 0
30,000 0 0

X 860,475 1 8

future arrangements of the bank. Mr. Woods
thought that it would be necessary to obtain some
assistance from the shareholders, but that the com-
mittee would endeavour to make the call as light as
possible. He concluded by proposing the following
resolutions :

" 1. That a committee of six shareholders be ap-
pointed to assist the directors and solicitor of the bank
in examining into the affairs of the company, and
that such company, and that such committee, with
the directors and the solicitor, shall have access to all
accounts, papers, and other documents, and shall be
empowered to adopt such measures as they may deem
advisable for arranging and conducting the affairs
of the bank and protecting the interests of the share-
holders.

" 2. That this meeting offers its warmest thanks
to Mr. John Clayton for his attendance upon this
occasion, and that he be solicited to continue his valu-
able assistance by affording his advice and counsel to
the committee.

" 3. That the following gentlemen be the members
of the committee, and that they report to a future
meeting, when prepared to do so; namely, Messrs.
William Woods, Robert Pow, Errington Bell Ord,
William Anderson of Bent House, John Dryden, and
Thomas Barker.

" 4. That in the meantime no transfer of shares in
the stock of the company shall be admitted."
Mr. CORDER, of Ipswich, expressed his concurrence
in the course proposed to be pursued.
Mr. H. CHAYTOR, of Sunderland, said the constitu-
tion of the bank was founded on a principle that was
objectionable, namely secrecy. He thought that a
consideration for the want of customers and of the
district, as well as a regard for the interests of the
shareholders, required that no time should be lost in
resuming the business of the bank. He had no doubt
but that satisfactory arrangements could be made
with depositors, which would meet the present emer-
gency, and that interest should be allowed at 5 per
cent., at all events so long as the pressure existed on
the money market. He hoped that some arrange-
ments might be made with the Bank of England to
issue bank notes, and withdraw the private notes,
which would tend to restore public confidence. He
trusted that their splendid business would not be
sacrificed, but that under a new constitution, which
should be based upon a system of checks, they would
speedily restore their former prosperity. The best
feeling existed amongst the customers of the bank,
who were taking their notes, and merely awaiting the
decision of the shareholders before they opened any
account elsewhere. He should press upon the com-
mittee the strong necessity that existed for losing as
little time as possible in their deliberations. Mr.
Chaytor's observations were loudly applauded.
The names of Mr. Chaytor and Mr. T. Hewitt were
added to the committee ; and after a short discussion
the resolutions were passed unanimously.
A vote of thanks to the Chairman was given by
acclamation.

The CHAIRMAN, in acknowledging the compliment
paid him by the shareholders, intimated that the call
which the directors would be recommended to make
would be 51. per share, but, as it depended altogether
on circumstances how much of this call would be
required for the purposes of the bank, it was not in-
tended to make more than 2/. per share payable at
present, and it might happen that no more would be
wanted.

THE NORTH AND SOUTH WALES
BANKING COMPANY.
The following resolutions have been adopted at a
public meeting of the gentry, farmers, traders, and
others interested in the trade of the localities of Port
Madoc and Festiniog, held at Port Madoc. Mr. Na-
thaniel Mathew in the chair :
" That this meeting deeply deplores the present sus-
pension of payment by the North and South Wales
Banking Company.
" That taking into consideration the extent of ac-
commodation afforded to this country for many years
by that company, this meeting cannot do less than
express their sympathy with the directors and share-
holders upon so trying an occasion.
" That relying upon the honour and integrity of
the company, and believing that they must possess
ample means to meet all their engagements, this meet-
ing entertain the strongest confidence that the incon-
venience produced by the present stoppage will be
only temporary.
" That as far as the management at the Port Madoc
and Festiniog branches are concerned, this meeting
cannot too strongly express their approbation of the
satisfactory manner in which the business of the bank
was carried on, or of the conduct of Mr. Dillon, the
manager at Port Madoc, and of Mr. Robert Lloyd,
the local director of Festiniog and Port Madoc,
whose constant attention to their duties, and whose
business habits have deservedly secured to them the
esteem and good opinion of the country.
"That this meeting deeply regrets that the Express
London evening newspaper should have been misled
into publishing a premature report of the stoppage of
the North and South Wales Bank on Friday evening.
last ; and they feel that the contradiction of such a
report in their Saturday's paper, was no reparation
to the wounded credit of the bank ; such a false re-
port from a paper having the circulation of the Ex-
press being enough to cause the stoppage of any local
bank in these times; and that it is an injury which
nothing can repair, and which a public organ of com-
mercial intelligence should never admit into its
columns, having a tendency to produce, as in this
instance, the greatest inconvenience to thousands of
individuals connected with the trade and commerce
of the country."
The following resolution was also unanimously
adopted, -a ill reference to the National Provincial
Bank of England
That, considering the present 'position of mone-
tary affairs of the country, and the pressure which
every banking establishment must experience, this
meeting has much pleasure in expressing its fullest
approbation of the manner in which the National
Provincial Bank of England is conducted in this
neighbourhood, and its explicit confidence in its re-
sources, as well as in Mr. Bridgwater, the local
manager."
The speakers were Mr. J. W., Greaves, Mr. G.
Casson, Mr. G. Humphrey, Mr. J. Spooner, Mr. D.
Williams, Mr. J. Holland, and the chairman.

THE TRIUMPH OF THE « BANK-
ING PRINCIPLE."
(From the Bankers' Magazine.)
We need not assure our readers we have great
satisfaction in stating that the Bank Act of 1844, so
far as it relates to the restriction on bankers' issues,
is virtually repealed, and that fear and panic have
overcome the difficulties which were invulnerable to
reason and common sense. We might have wished
that it had, in some respects, been otherwise. We
had rather that Sir Robert Peel and his followers in
currency affairs had yielded to the clear and un-
answerable statements of their opponents ; but before
these could be brcught to bear a more imperative
argument arose—the safety of the country : and to
this powerful appeal the Bank Charter Act of 1844,
and all the plausible reasoning of its supporters, have
been quietly yielded up.
The events preceding this important step may be
briefly described :—A deputation of merchants from
Liverpool first waited on the Ministry, and presented
a memorial which stated—
" Your Lordship may depend upon us when we
assure you, that if the present pressure be not relieved
merchants and other traders, of undoubted respecta-
bilty, who are not onlysolvent but rich, and who have
merchandise and bills which, under ordinary circum-
stances, would afford easy and ample means of meet-
ing engagements, will inevitably be compelled to stop
payment.'
The reply of the Premier and of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer to this memorial was of the usual
official character; and it appeared almost certain that
Government did not intend to interfere. The state
of the country grew more alarming, and the pressure
on the London bankers assumed a degree of severity
almost unexampled. A heavy drain for bullion for
home use by the different country banks set in against
the Bank of England, and the criz.is assumed a charac-
ter too serious to be disregarded. An earnest appeal
was made to the bankers and merchants of London by
the Morning. Chronicle and the Morning Herald that
they should wait upon the Ministry and explain the
actual condition of affairs; and ultimately, in accord-
ance with this suggestion, Mr. Glyn, M.P., Mr. Mas-
terman, M.P., Mr. Samuel Gurney, and other
influential gentlemen, ten in number, waited upon
Ministers on Saturday, the 23d October, and made a
statement, which seemed at length to convince the
Ministry that they could not safely disregard the ap-
peal addressed to them; and that they must endeavour
to restore confidence by taking off the restriction under
which the Bank laboured. They accordingly agreed
to bring the subject under consideration immediately,
at a Cabinet Council. This was done, and on Monday,
the 24th October, the Bank Restriction Act was vir-
tually repealed, by the official communication from
the Premier and the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
addressed to the Governor and Deputy-Governor of
the Bank of England.
The immediate effect of this important, and, wo
may add, unexpected announcement, was to improve
the value of the public funds nearly five per cent.
within three days, as will be seen by reference to
our usual monthly table of the quotations, on another
page. But at the same time, although grateful for
the removal of the restriction which prevented the Bank
pressure; mn
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were first brought before Parliament, are so well
pleased to see them utterly set aside by the event
which we always stated would ultimately prove their
injurious character, that we are not disposed to be
censorious with reference to the terms imposed by
the Ministry. We overlook the legalised usury re-
commended in the Government letter. We exonerate
Sir Charles Wood from the sole authorship of that
document ; and we admire the statesmanlike quality
he has shown in not clinging blindly and obstinately
to an opinion which events have proved to be erro-
neous. We extend the same praise to the several
directors of the Bank of England who are known to
be most violently in favour of the " currency prin-
ciple," and who must feel mortified at its total failure
on the first occasion that it has been brought into
action. But those feelings will gave place to others
of a very different character, if we find that the re-
laxation of the Bank Act is intended merely "to
keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to
the hope ;"—if the Bank's terms for accomodation are
to be increased in proportion to the urgency of the
country's wants ; and if, like a petty usurer, the
Bank intends, as we hear some of its directors do
intend, to endeavour to raise its minimum rate to 20
per cent. if necessary, rather than exceed its obsolete
" authorised issue" of fourteen millions
This is not the course which the country has a
right to look for from the Bank. The directors are
no doubt, bound to protect themselves from the
dangers of a run, and to preserve a sufficient amount
of available assets for their probable wants ; but we
will not believe that the men who were content with
a minimum rate of interest of six per cent. in 1829,
when their stock of bullion was only two millions
and a half, will exact twelve per cent. from the mer-
cantile community when they hold specie to three
times that amount. Of course we do not believe that
the Bank can maintain the rate of interest perma-
nently above its value in the market; but they may
obviously. Add very much to the distress and ember-
Tess mentsof the disastrous times by a course of policy
in opposition to that which should naturally follow
the recommendation of Government to afford assist-
ance to the commerce of the country.
We do not believe that the eight per cent. mini-
mum will be long maintained : it should not be
maintained one moment longer than the exigencies of
the times may seem to warrant it. A usurious rate
of interest is so contrary to the spirit of all our coin•
mercial institutions, and so destruct;ve in its conse-
quences, that it cannot long be tolerated by the
Governmet with impunity ; and we are sure that we
echo the sentiments of nearly the entire commercial
community when we state, that the recommendation
of Government, that the Bank should not charge less
than eight per cent. on its advances at this crisis, in
order to attempt to keep in force an exploded theory,
is a heavy blow and a great discouragement to our
commercial greatness.
The country banks of issue must prepare, imme-
diately on the assembling of Parliament, _to insist on
having the same rights accorded to them which have
been bestowed on the Bank of England. They must
demand the right to issue without restriction, sub-
ject to the payment of their notes in gold on pre-
sentation. This is the true check on an over issue;
and with the public mind now so well instructed on
this point, if the banks act energetically, they will
be successful.

COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON
EDUCATION.

On the report of her Majesty's inspectors, the
Rev. Henry Moseley, M.A., formerly Professor of
Natural Philosophy in King's College, London, and
the Rev. A. Thurtell, M.A., Fellow and lately Tutor
of Caius College, Cambridge, the Committee of
Council on Education have awarded the following
certificates under the minutes of August and De-
cember, 1846, to the undermentioned schoolmasters
and students educated in the Battersea Training
School.

MASTERS.
MIDDLE CLASS CERTIFICATE.

First Division—J. Goodall, Blue Coat School,
Northampton ; 11. J. Hagger, Kirkdale Industrial ;
W. Hammond, Commercial Travellers' School, Wan-
stead ; J. W. Marriott, St. George's, Bloomsbury ;
W. IVilkins St. Thomas, Charterhouse.
Second Division—A. J. Christie, IVindsor National
School ; J. A. Christie, Milton Abbott Free
School; B. J. Jeffery, Dunchurch ; W. H. Krinx,
Woodford, Cheshire.

Third Division—J. Bate, St. Mary, Newtown,
Leeds; C. Castle, New Swindon; A. Diggins, Sid-
dington ; W. Easton, Bridgewater, Dr. Morgan's
endowed ; J. W. Packett, Stepney, Red Coat School ;
G. Wollard, Thorney Abbey.

LOWER CLASS CERTIFICATE.
First Division—J. Biggs, Clifton National School ;
J. Courtney, Hannah More's, Bristol; J. Diggins,
Tittensar, StatTordShire ; M. Hirst, Dovvlais ; W. J.
Lake, St. John's, Worcester; B. ISlield, Eccles, near
Manchester ; J. Ryan, Orby, near Spilsby ; J. L.
Tregenza, Trevenson.

Second' Divsion—J. Burrows, Brimington ; T.
Carvill, Loughborough Free School; T. Cox, St,
Matthew, Holbeek ; F. Dakin, Bennett Si., Manches-
ter; G. Dixon, Worcester National School ; W.
Joyner, Caine ; J.- Woolley, Abbot's Ann.
Third Division—J. Bailey, Sandbach, Cheshire ;
A. J. Braid, Swindon, School of Great Western
Railway ; W. Baker, Cosely, Staffordshire ; P. Brand,
Parkhurst; Carvill, Castle-hill; J. Davis, Indus-
trial School, Kirkflzle, Liverpool ; W. llolines,:Dow-
lais Lower School ; G. T. Rice, Enckwed School at
Bangor; J. Slater, Quarrybank School, Brierley-
hill ; T. Sheard, Blue Coat School, Stockton-on-
Tees ; J. Thackeray, St. Paul's School, Leeds ; W.
M. Thomas, Wheal Friendship (mine) School, near
Tavistock.

STUDENTS.
MIDDLE ClASib' CERTIFICATE.
First Division—W. Pinder.
Second Division—G. With.
Third Division—J. W. C. Blackburn.

LOWER CLASS CERTIFICATE.
First Division—J. Aspin.
Second Division—J, Hallows, J. Peach.
Third Division—J, A. Adams, J. Brown, J. Reid.
W. Ryder, W. Rooltwood.
Council Chamber, Whitehall, Tuesday,
Oct. 19th, 1847.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, OM 29.—1 n a Convocation holden this
morning, the grant of 1501. from the University chest
to the library attached to the Institution for Divinity
students, established at Sawyapooram, in the pro-
vince of Tinnevelly, Madras, and under the super-
intendence of the Lord Bishop of that diocese, met
with the approval of the house.
At, the same time the Rev. Dr. Hawkins, Provost
of Oriel College, was sworn into the office of Pro-
Vice-Chancellor for the year ensuing.
A Congregation was holden immediately after•
wards, when the following degrees were conferred:—
Master of Arts-._Henry Elliq Cramer, student of
Christ Church • Charles Lloyd, student of Christ
Church ,• dole, Christ Church ; John Menet,
Exeter College; Rev. Frederick George Blomfield,
Balliol College; Charles Marson, Christ Church ;
Martin Edgar Benson, St. John's College ; Rev.
Henry Dean Hilton, St. John's College; William
Wynne Foulks,_ Jesus College; Rev. Edward Hum-
phery Ballard, Wadham College ; Williams, Pem-
broke College; Wesley Farrar' New Inn Hall.
Bachelor of Arts—Charles Saltren •Willet, Oriel
College; William John Deane, Oriel College ;
Thomas Hugh Markham, Brasenose College ; Botelar
C. Smith, Trinity College; William J. Trevener,
Trinity College ; Thomas Price, Lusby scholar of
Magdalen Hall.

CAMBRIDOE, CCT. 29.—At a congregation holden
this day, the following degrees were conferred :
Master of Arts—Reginald Guy Bryan, Trinity
College.
Bachelor of Arts—Charles Goolden, Trinity Col-
lege ; Willizrn Gilby, St. John's College.

Saturday,
The leading features in yesterday's Observer,
Oct. 31 :—About nine folio columns of Monetary Affairs,
including one column (by express)
of the meeting on
column of Paris papers of Saturday, with the latest
Bourse and Belgian Funds, by the Observer special at Liverpool, of the Royal Bank Company, a
ex-
press. The Queen's proclamation to convene Parliament
on the 18th November—Marylebone Vestry on Satur-
day—Art and Artists, &c. The extensive publication
of the Oiserver commences at six Sunday mornings.
The Monday's Observer, with markets, at four Monday
afternoon. Price of the Observer (48 columns) 6d.
TuE MURDER AT BIRMINGHAM.—BIRMINGHAM,
SATURDAY MORNING.—The inquest on the body of
Ann Wilkes, against whom a verdict of wilful murder
was returned, but who has since died from the eff‘cts of
the injuries she inflicted :on herself, was brought to a
conclusion at a late hour on Saturday night. A t the
close of the evidence the learned coroner proceeded to
address the jury. lie said if the jury were of opinion
that the deceased was of sound mind when she inflicted
the wound, they had no alternative but to return a ver-
dict of felo-de.se ; but if, on the contrary, they believed
that she committed the act whilst of unsound mind, their
verdict would be in accordance, viz,, temporary insanity.
In g hug over the evidence whioh had been adduced, he
saw nothing to lead the jury to believe that the deceased
Was not sane at the time she destroyed the lives of her
children and inflicted the fatal injury upon herself. At
6helf-past seven o'clock the jury retired to consider their
verdict, and at 11111'
.
0,40"; they returned a verdict of
felo de se against Ann WilkO, In consequence of this
verdict the deceased will have to .I'e buried between the
hours o! nine and twelve at night, sro. ,- at out of con-
secrated ground, and by torch-light.
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is about forty-two years' of age, and received his hono-
rary canonry in
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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY. - The Blenheim steam
guard-ship is commissioned at this port by Captain
Yates, lete of the Victory. She will have a comple-
ment of five hundred, officers and men. The Blen-
heim was an old seventy-four, built at Deptford in
1813, by the then surveyors of the navy, and was of
1,747 tons. She has had her poop and upper works
cut down after the fashion of a flush-decked frigate,
a gigantic specimen of which class of vessel she now
appears, mounting on her upper deck two 56-
pounders, ten feet long, 88 cwt. each ; two 10-inch
beam guns on the quarter deck, ten feet long; two
.56-pounders pointing forward, and two beam guns,
10-inch ; total on upper deck, eight, all on traversing
pivots. On the main deck she carries twenty-two
32-pounders, eight feet long, and from 42 cwt. to 45
cwt. each ; on the lower deck twenty-six 42-pounders,
9 feet 6 inches long, and 67 cwt. each. Grand total
armament fifty-six heavy long guns. Her launch is
stowed amid ships on the upper deck, and the barge
and pinnace on the gangways on either side of it,
leaving very good and clear gangways. The fore-
most guns point in a line with the keel, as do
the guns aft. The whole of the stern bul-
warks of the upper deck unship, so that the
guns may be traversed right round. Her booms
are very admirably stowed under the launch, leaving
clear room for the play of the guns and their gear. All
the officers, with the exception of the captain, first
lieutenant, master, captain of marines and chaplain,
are berthed on the cockpit. The after guns on the
lower deck work round the sweep of the stern by a
shifting pivot, and the bow guns on the main deck are
capable of being fired right ahead in line with the
keel, for which purpose four trucks are let into the
brackets, so as to admit of their being well pointed.
She has a telescope funnel, raised and lowered by a
winch. Her engines are of 450 horse-power, by
Seaward and Capel, of the direct action kind (hori-
zontal), averaging 45 revolutions per minute. Her
boilers are two tubular and two common. Her screw
is of 20 feet pitch with two blades, and is worked by
the engine directly, which obviates the necessity for
driving with a multiple wheel. The whole of her
machinery is below the water's edge. She stows
212 tons of coal in bunkers. She is rigged as a
frigate, having all wire rigging; her funnel is
placed between the main arid wizen mast. The
coal bunkers occupy the space on each side of the
engine room from the after hatchway to the fore
part of the vessel (end of the boilers). The dry
provision room is abaft in the orlop, and the spirit
room on the other side. The salt provision rooms are
on either side of the forehold amidships. She can
stow in the usual places dry provisions for six weeks ;
water, five weeks ; all for 500 men. She was tried
recently with all her sea-going weights in, and ballast
in lieu of her sea-going quantity of provisions and am-
munition. The cable tier and sail rooms :are
between the boatswains' and carpenters' store-rooms.
She is coaled on the lower deck through three ports
on each side by means of a shute, which is emptied
through corresponding incisions in the deck com-
municating with the bunkers; the same shutes being
used for emptying the ashes out through the main
deck ports. The following is a strictly authentic de-
tail of the whole of her workings and performances,
under the command of Captain Horatio Austen, R.N.,
the Government steam-ship Inspector, assisted by
Lieutenant Robertson, R.N., with Lieutenant Pon-
sonby, and Mr. Charles, master, of the Poictiers,
having a navigation party of only 247 hands, from
the ordinaries of Sheerness and Chatham, including
stokers and every available man, and twenty-eight
marines under Lieutenant Heastey :
Total distance run, 222 miles.
Number of hours under steam, 50.
The total expenditure of fuel by the most careful
measurement has been 84k tons, being at the rate of
36 tons for 24 hours.
The maximum speed obtained with engines alone
in a royal breeze, free, the engines making 42
strokes, and the barometer 253-, was 6 6.10 knots.
The maximum speed obtained with engines alone
in a moderate royal breeze ahead, 5 5-10 knots.
The maximum speed obtained with engines and
sail in a single reef topsail, and topgallant breeze,
abeam, the engines making 46 revolutions, and the
barometer 243-, 8 5-10 knots.
The maximum speed with sail alone under the
same circumstances was 4 5-10 knots.

The maximum speed obtained with engines and
fore and aft sails in a moderate royal breeze, close
hauled, was 6 6-10 knots.

The maximum speed obtained with sail alone
under the same circumstances, 1 8-10 knots.
The mean time occupied turning a whole circle
ahead, 7 minutes ; ditto astern, 9 minutes.
Time occupied in reversing engines from full speed,
14 minutes.
Time elapsed from engines being ordered to be
reversed until ship went astern, 2 minutes.

Time occupied-in getting the steam up from cold
fresh water, temperature 56 deg., 1 hour 16 minutes;
ditto from cold salt water, temperature 62 deg., 1
hour 15 minutes. In getting up the steam when her
fires were banked up, from salt-water, temperature
140 deg., 45 minutes.
Time occupied in raising propeller—maximum, 25
minutes; minimum, 15 minutes.
In lowering the propeller—maximum, 8 minutes;
minimum, 5} minutes.
In lowering the funnel, 10f minutes; in raising it,
minutes.
At the measured mile in Stoke's-bay on Friday
she went at 6f knots.
The Nautilus, 8, Lieutenant-Commanding W. T.
Rivers, sailed on Friday evening to cruise off the
coasts of Kent and Sussex for the protection of the
fishery.
The Stromboli steam-sloop, Captain Fisher, left
yesterday for Woolwich to be paid off.
The Myrmidon steam-vessel, Lieutenant- Cont-

manding L. P. Roberts, left last night for Wool Aich.
It is understood that vessel's change of dc,tieation
has been caused by official rcpresentAtions of her un-
fitness for the service required, to tow an unwieldy
dredging-vessel to Holyhead. It is also said that
she is to be paid off, being unfit for any purpase in
which she can be useful to the Government, and thus

does vessel after vessel prove the entire uselessness of
iron as a substitute for wood in shipbuilding fur war

purposes.
'the Hecate steam-sloop, Commander Richard
Moorman, was paid advance wages yesterday, and
sailed this fornoon for Lisbon.

The Lightning steam-tender, Mr. Petley master,
was undocked yesterday afternoon, having had her
defects made good, and the Blenheim transport was
immediately docked in her stead.
The Comet steam-vessel, Commander Johnson,
was at Falmouth on Thursday, into which place she
was compelled to put, in consequence of the dredging
vessel she had in tow having sprung a leak, which
could not be got under with the pumps. This induced
Commander Johnson to bear up for Falmouth, where
the damage was repaired, and both vessels left for
Portpatrick on Friday morning, the wind steady at
south- west. _

Wind, W.S.W. Fresh breezes and dark cloudy
weather, with an apparent tendency to be squally.—
Five r.m., Sunday.
The following are the promotions and appointments
of the last week :

PROMOTIONS.

Lieutenants—William Henry Webb (1841) and
George Oldmixen, to the rank of Commander, for
services in the Parana river.

APPOINTMENTS.

Captains—P. W. Beechy,—;—the Caledonia, for
surveying service ; the Hon. H. Keppell, to the Mean-
der; A. Milne, to the Victory; R. A. Yates, to the
Blenheim.
Commanders Graham Ogle, to the Victory;
George Harper, to the St. Vincent, vice Ogle; J. B.
West, to the Bellerophon, vice Harper; Hugh Dun-
lop, to the Star, vice Ellis, who has declined the ap-
pointment ; Edward Peirse, of the Crusier (together
with his officers as given below), to the Nerbudda,
12, built at Bombay, to be navigated to England. We
stated last week that the Crusier was to be sold out
•f the service at Bombay. J. Nott and L. G. Heath,
to study at the stfAm• factory at Woolwich; W. M.
J. G. Pasco, to the Coast Guard.

Lieutenants—E. Herrick (1811) to the Victory;
A. C. Strode (1847), to the Excellent; Mortimer H.
Rodney, Edwin T. Ilinde, and Russell Patey, to the
Nerbudda ; James B. Ballard, to the Raleigh; John
Richard Harwood, to the Penelope; George H.
Thomas, to the Alert ; Reginald Bateman, to the
Excellent ; Charles G. Rigge, to command the Co-
met ; C. H. Young, to study at the steam factory,
Woolwich. _ _

Surgeons—David Lyall, to the Acheron, James
Patrick (acting), to the Nerbudda.
Naval Instructor—William S. Harvey, to the Bel-
lerophon.
Acting
,Paymaster and Purser—Robert H. Bul-
len, to the Nerbudda.
Assistant-Surgeons—Dr. William Tasker, to the
Bellerophon ; W. M. Ogilvie, to the San Josef; John
Cotton and R. P. Power, to the Vindictive ; Thomas
13. Forster and Christopher K. Ord, to the Victory.
Acting Master—Thomas Wallis, to the Nerbudda.
Second Masters—Edmund Swain, to the Vindic-
tive ; Richard Sturgess, to the Crocodile.
Midshipmen—Mordaunt Smallpage, to the Hecate •
Douglas Walker, to the Arab; J, S. Twysden, to the
Asia; Charles Standish, to the Bellerophon; Robert
Deane, to the Hibernia; J. W. H. Thompson, to the
Excellent ; Richard Bradshaw, to the Acheron ;
Henry Cotter and G. F. Low, to the Nerbudda.
Clerk--Henry S. Dyer, to the Caledonia.
Naval Cadets—Alfred Eaton, to the Amphion ' •
anon, to the Bellerophon ; Handley Bathurst,
old Walker, to the Acheron ; George
-ne ; Henry D. Grant, to the
Nerbudda; Cliftgai
4,1 the Am- 1

Arthur
to the Fly ; hou..
Rivington, to the Penewr
Eagle; F. 0. Handheld, to tu.
Baillie, to the A,sia ; Seymour Curtis,
phion ; F. W. Bennett, to the Canopus,
Altotere Assistants—A, lioxmWnt to the lie:.

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budda ; A. Wylde, to the Poictiers ; Henry P. Ward,
to the Alert.

ROYAL MARINES.

The following promotions take place in conse-
quence of the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Burton.:—
Brevet Major Robert Ford, of the Portsmouth
Division, to be Lieutenant Colonel at Woolwich,
vice Burton, deceased.

First Lieutenant E. P. Snowe, of the Plymouth
Division, to be Captain at Portsmouth, vice Ford,
promoted.

- Second Lieutenant Henderson Ward, of the Ports-
mouth Division, to be First Lieutenant at Plymouth,
vice Snowe.

WOOLWICH, OCT. 30.—The Tartarus steam-vessel,
Commander Sir Godfrey Webster, was tried down
the river to-day, and being found ready for sea, will
leave Woolwich on the 4th of November for Con-
stantinople.

The i3lazer steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
Smith, it to be made ready. for sea immediately, and
Kill proceed on foreign service.

The Porcupine steam-vessel, formerly employed in
the surveying service under Captain Bullock, was
paid off here to-day, and is to be re-commissioned for
foreign service.

Tile Cyclops steam-vessel is ordered to Sheerness
to be fitted for commission.

The Hydra steam-vessel is ordered to be rigged and
to have her guns and stores put on board previous to
being commissioned.

The crew of the Shearwater steam-vessel were paid
off at Woolwich on Thursday, the 28th ult, The
vessel remains at Holyhead.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
On Saturday George Phipps," a person said to be a
saddler at Enfield, was brought before the Lord
Mayor, charged with having forged the name of
Thomas Rance, the executor to the property of a
deceased person, to a dividend warrant for money
payable at the ank of England.
A gentleman from the offices of Messrs. Freshfield,
the solicitors to the Bank of England, attended for
the prosecution.
Mr. John Lewis, a clerk in the Dividend Warrant-
office of the Bank of England, said, on the 21st inst.
a dividend was claimed to be received by a person as
executor of a deceased person's account, standing in
the Bank in the name of Thomas Rance. It was the
October dividend. The person who thus applied
signed the book as the claimant in my presence, and
I attested the signature.
W. Rake, clerk in the Dividend Pay-office, said, on
the 21st inst. this warrant was presented to me for
payment, and I paid it in two 51. notes and 32/. 95.11 d.
in cash. The number and date of the notes were
" 36,681 and 36,682, Sept. 24." The note produced
by Mr. Freshfield's clerk is'one of them.
Michael Wale, a man in the employment of James
Oliver, of No. 108, Bishopsgate-street Without, shoe-
maker, said, I have known the prisoner these eighteen
months. On the 21st instant, between five and six
o'clock, he called at our shop and had two pairs of
children's boots, for which he paid 6s. He paid at
the same time 6s. 3d. for a pair of men's boots, which
he had had on the previous Monday. He asked me
whether I could give him change for a 51. note. I
said I did not know, but I would see, and I gave him
3/. in gold and the rest in silver. I then took the
note, and asked his name and address, and he gave me
the name of " Wilson, Enfield." I wrote that name
and address on the note in the prisoner's presence.
He then went away. On the following Friday I
paid the note to Mr. Oliver. I saw no other note
with the prisoner. lam quite sure of the identity of
the prisoner, and my, handwriting is on the note.
Mr. Joseph Newton, a clerk in the Dividend War-
rant-office, said—l do not know Mr. Thomas Rance
personally, but the same warrant was applied for
subsequently by another person, and my impression,
from what that applicant said to me, is, that the name
of Thomas Rance, signed to this warrant, is a forgery,
and I believe, if the case be remanded, the executor
may be forthcoming.
Daniel Forrester, one of the officers at the Mansion-
house, said—ln consequence of information which I
received in relation to this case, I went to Enfield
yesterday, accompanied by the witness, Wale, and
my brother. I saw the prisoner at work in a sad-
dler's shop, over which was the name of Phipps, and
I walked, together with those who accompanied me,
into the shop. I said to the prisoner, I want to make
inquiries about a 51. note which you passed a week
ago to this person (pointing to Wale), from whom
you got it ? The prisoner said he had received it of
Mr. Emery, of Liverpool -road, Islington, on Thurs-
day week,'who lent it to him, and he asked whether
that was not satisfactory ? I said it was not, for he
had given the name of Wilson to Wale, and his
name was actually Phipps. I told him that he must
go with me and give further explanations. I went
to Liverpool-road with him, and, asked for Mr.
Emery. I saw that gentleman, and asked him
whether he lent the prisoner a 51. note; to which
that gentleman replied in the negative.
The prisoner upon being asked whether he wished
to say anything, said, " All I have to say is that Mr.
Emery his frequently lent me money."
The prisoner was remanded.
William Mitchell was charged upon suspicion of
having been a confederate of other persons in a rob-
bery committed upon a railway on the 26th instant.
It appeared that on the 26th instant, a lady who
was travelling in a railway carriage between Sutton
and Birkenhead was robbed of a 1001. Bank of Eng-
land note, M. W., 26,566, Liverpool, 25th of May,
1846 ; a 501. Bank of England note, 0. W., 74,461,
Liverpool, 22d of May, 1846 ; also 8/. 19s. in cash,
and a Queen Ann shilling, which property was con-
tained in two purses.
Mr. Speilman, of 10, Lombard-street, money
changer, stated that a man named Burgess had been
on the preceding day brought before the magistrate
at Guildhall upon suspicion of having been concerned
in the robbery, and remanded. " The prisoner,"
said the prosecutor, " came in to my office to change
some American bank notes, and be gave his name as
Captain Broadwater, of the ship Wellington, lying in
St. Katherine's Docks. We changed the American
notes, and ho went away. Soon afterwards he re-
turned with another person, who said he was a pas-
senger from America, and he desired to know what
money I had paid the prisoner, and asked me whether
I could change some more American notes. I said I
could if they would return the next day. Yeaterday
the other party (the American passenger) came,
and brought 142 dollars in American notes, and
four five- shilling notes also. I took posses-
sion of the notes, and laid them on the back
-of the counter, and having just received a letter from
our correspondent in Liverpool, stating that 1501. in
bank notes had been stolen, and that American notes
had been purchased with them, and would be pro-
bably brought to be exchanged at our house, I gave
him into custody. The officers, to whose vigilance
and activity we are much indebted, went in search of
the prisoner." In answer to questiens from Mr.
Nobler, who attended f;)r the prisoner, the witness
said he could not he mistaken as to the prisoner.
Edward Funnel], City
whichpoliceman 32, said—On
Friday, in consequence of information I had
received, I went with the officers Isaacs and Willis to
a beer-shop in the London-road, and saw the pri-
soner in the front of the bar. I told him that he was
my piisoner, and that he must go to the City with me.
He asked me what for, and I told him the nature of
the charge. He said he knew nothing at all about
it. I took him to the station-house, where upon see-
ing Mr. Speilman he said, " Mr. Speilman, you
know the transaction we had yesterday afternoon ;
they were all good notes, and they were given to me
by Burgess (the person charged on Friday at Guild-
hall), and I brought Burgess to the gentleman's (Mr.
Spellman's) house, and got a receipt for the moneys.
The LORD MAIOR—Mr. Speilman, have you rea-
son to helive that these American notes are the pro-
duce of the robbery of the bank notes for 150/. ?
Mr. 'Speilman—l have every reason to believe so.
I know the initials of a party on the Bank of England
notes.

The prisoner was remanded.
THAMES.
On Saturday John Klootexman, a Dutch sailor, was
charg?d with feloniously cutting and wounding Isaac
Hughes, with intent to murder or do him grievous
bodily harm.
The prosecutor, a Welsh seaman, whose nose and
lips were covered with adhesive plaster, and who was
also in a weak state from loss of blood, stated that
he was lodging at 25, Farmer-street, Shadwell, with
several of his shipmates. On Friday evening the
prisoner and himself were drinking in a public-house,
and went home very comfortably together. Some
" chaffing" took place, and words ensued. The
prisoner called him a " Welsh nannygoat," and he
retorted by calling him a "Dutch -."
Soon afterwards witness stood up to light his
pipe, and the prisoner caught him by the
throat and attempted to strangle him. Witness
struck the prisoner, and beat him off, and they were
about to fight, when two shipmates in the room
separated them. Directly after that the prisoner
went up stairs with a light, for the purpose, it was
supposed, of going to bed. Witness followed him
about ten minutes afterwards, and had got half way
up the stairs when the prisoner suddenly darted upon
him and cut him down the nose with a knife, and

followed it up by drawing the knife across his mouth
and completely dividing his upper lip. He also
received a stab on the right arm. lie sang out
" Murder ! murder ! he has stabbed me," as loud as
he was able. Two men came with lights and seized
the prisoner. Witness was conveyed to the surgery
of Mr. Ross, in High-street, Shadwell, who dressed

his wounds.
Thomas Jones, a seaman, was following Hughes
up-stairs with a candle in his hand, and caught sight of
the prisoner just • at the top of the stair landing, and
saw him strike at Hughes. After making the last
mow he saw a► knife in the prisoner's hand. The