The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-01 00:00:00

PROMISSORY NOTES.

(From Last Night's Gazette.)
An Account of the Average Aggregate Amount of Promissory
Notes payable to Bearer on Demand which have been in
Circulation in the United Kingdom, distinguishing those
circulated by the Bank of England, by Private Banks, and
by Joint Stock Banks, in England and Wales, by the Banks
in Scotland, by the Bank of Ireland, and by all other Banks
in Ireland, and of the Average Amount of Bullion in the
Bank of England, during the Four Weeks preceding the
13th day of November, 1841, pursuant to the Act of 4 and
5 Victoria, cap. 50.

ENGLAND.
Bank of England £17,065,000
Private Banks
Joint Stock Banks....
SCOTLAND.
Private and Joint Stock Banks 3,383,036
IRELAND.

Bank of Ireland
Chartered, Private, and Joint Stock
Banks

Total...

£36,102,583

Bullion in the Bank of England .... £4,218,000
HENRY L. WICKHAM.
Stamps and Taxes, Nov. 29, 1841.

SHERIFFS' FUND.
A meeting was held yesterday, at the London Coffee-
House, Ludgate-hill, of the members of this Fund, for
the purpose of receiving the Secretary's Report, to elect
a Committee, and a new Trustee, in consequence of the
loss of a valuable member of this institution.

Mr. Under-Sheriff PRITCHARD took the chair, and
briefly stated the objects of the meeting.
The SECRETARY then read the Report, from which it
appeared that a balance was remaining in his hands, after
paying the expenses of the year, of 901. 16s. 9d. It
further stated that arrangements had been made with
Miss Need, who had established an institution for the
reception of unfortunate females, to receive annually
a number of these females from this Society, for 300/.
per annum. The females to be selected were those be-
tween the ages of 13 and 30, in order to arrest the progress
of crime in its early stages, by being placed under the
care of experienced matrons, the time of probation being
two years. The institution was conducted by Miss
Need and a Committee of Ladies, who were experienced
in prison discipline. The inmates were taught to read
and write after the duties of the day. The Chaplain at-
tended them twice a week, and at the end of their probation
they are sent back to their friends when they lived at a
distance, or were provided with situations as servants.
Many families who had received servants from the insti-
tution had made repeated applications for :more. The
report then went on to state, that they had to deplore
the loss of Mr. Richardson since the last meeting,
whereby a vacancy occurred in the trusteeship. The
Committee felt confident that the Society was only to be
known to the public to at once enlist its warmest sup-
port and sympathies.

- Mr. ANDERTON rose to move that the report be ap-
proved, and entered on the minutes of the Society. He
could not but regret that the meeting was so thinly at-
tended. That great metropolis abounded with philan-
thropists, and he was quite sure that this charity was
only to be made known to them, and they would imme-
diately come forward to assist it.—(Cries of " Hear,
hear.") He would ask, what could be more ad-
vantageous to the public than that of endeavour-
ing to rescue from crime those who had taken
the first step in it. They knew that when men or boys,
or women, had been committed to prison, on their re-
lease their character was gone, and unless there was
some helping hand to rescue them they had no other
means whatever but to resort again to the commission of
crime. The Society's object was to afford assistance to un-
fortunate individuals who had been thrust from the paths
of honesty by the pressure of distress, and who might
by their situation be driven to commit fresh crimes ; to
enable others to return to their relatives and friends,
and thereby prevent this evil; and to supply clothes and
necessaries to females sent abroad. Another im-
portant object of this fund was to relieve poor
debtors, and, supplying them with a small amount,
enable them to surmount their difficulties. Therefore this
Society was not only instituted for the purpose of rescu-
ing the criminal, but also for restoring to society the
man pressed down by misfortunes and pining in gaol.
He did not know of an institution in this great metro-
polis that was more entitled to the support of the phi-
lanthropist than that which they had that day met
to support.—(Hear, hear.) And he did hope and
trust that before many months were past that its use-
fulness would be generally circulated throughout the me-
tropolis. and that it would be upheld with that support
which, in his humble opinion, it richly deserved. With
these few observations, he begged leave to propose that
the Report then read be entered on the minutes.
This being seconded,
Mr. JOHN JOSEPH STOCKDALE rose and said, that he
took the liberty to make a remark upon one point in the
speech of Mr. Anderton, which was that relative to the
thinness of the meeting, which he (Mr. Stockdale) at-
tributed to their own advertisement, as it stated that the
meeting would take place at one o'clock precisely. Now,
they all knew what public meetings were, and they
generally were called at one o'clock for two ; but the
present advertisement left them in doubt as to what time
the meeting would take place. He entirely attributed the
thinness of the meeting to this. Last year there was
but one advertisement, and there was a greater number
at the meeting.
Mr. ANDERTON said, that most likely it was accounted
for by that day being the first Court of Aldermen, and
he knew many gentlemen who were there, but who
would otherwise have attended the meeting. This, too,
would account for the absence of the Sheriffs.
The SECRETARY said, the advertisement was the
same as the former ones.

The motion was then put and carried.
Mr. TAYLOR rose and proposed that Mr. Thyselton
Dyer be re-elected Treasurer to the Society, and that
the thanks of the meeting be given to him for his assi-
duity in the cause of the Society.
Mr. ANDERTON seconded the motion. He did not
know any gentleman whose mind and whose hands were
more open to acts of charity than Mr. Dyer. At the
same time he knew that there was no Individual who
Would 10;..dt better after the funds of the Society than that
geD:Leman.
The motion was seconded and carried unanimously.
Mr. DYER thanked them for having re-elected him,
and assured them that his services were ever ready; and
this further mark of their satisfaction would induce him,
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possible,lAlo use greater exertions in their behalf.
RDIAN said their next business was to elect
Mr.ANDER.TON moved Mr. Sheriff Rogers be elected.
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.had a conversation with Mr. Rogers,
who had expressed his desire' to assist the Society all in
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tinue in his office as Honorary Secretary, and begged to
propose a vote of thanks to him.
Mr. COOPER said he should be most happy to continue
his services. The peculiar situation he held in the Ses-
sions House, had induced him to offer them at first ; and
for the same reason now he should be most happy to
tinue them, and he hoped those services would be more
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Committee :—James Anderton, J. H. Capper, Samuel
Charles Pearson, Robert
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the Reverends Samuel Wix and Henry George Watkins.
Mr. ANDERTON, in proposing the thanks of the meet-
ing to the Chairman, said, that he thought the best way
to benefit the charity was by having a dinner. These
things generally did the most good. He, therefore,
trusted the Committee would take means for such a pur-
pose. He was sure the worthy Under-Sheriff would
give his assistance, and he doubted not that they would
afterwards find the Treasurer's purse would be con-
siderably augmented. He begged to propose that the
thanks of the meeting be given to the Chairman. With
respect to the dinner scheme they would have an excel-
lent Carver in the Rev. Ordinary.—(Laughter.)
The CHAIRMAN returned thanks.
The meeting then separated: