The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-16 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1840.

PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court
of Chancery, made in a Cause SAUNDERS against
GAILTY, the Creditors of ELIZABETH GOFF, late of
Clarence-place, Brighton, in the County of Sussex, who died
in the month of November, 1837, the wife of Daniel Goff, late
of Edmonton, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, since
deceased, are, forthwith to come in and prove their debts be-
fore Sir GIFFIN WILSON, one of the Masters of the said Court,
at his Chambers in Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane,
London ; or, in default thereof, they will be excluded the bene-
fit of the said Decree.
Dated this 13th day of November, 1840. •
PARKER, TAYLOR, and ROOKE, Solicitors, Gay's Inn,

NOTICE having been given in the." London
Gazette" of this day that an APPLICATION will
be made to PARLIAMENT in the NEXT SESSION for
an Act for Making, Paving, Lighting, Cleansing, and other-
wise improving th streets and other public places within
KENTISH TOWN and its vicinity, and other part or parts
of the parish of Saint Pancras, in the County of Middlesex.
Further Notice is hereby given that application will also
be made to Parliament in the sass• Session to include in
the proposed Act all that part of the said parish, without
exception, which is not included in any Act of Parliament,
for the purposes expressed in such notice, and for powers to
raise sums of money, and to make rates on the owners and
inhabitants of all the last-mentioned part of the said parish
for the purposes of the proposed Act.
Dated the 14th of November, 1841.

LONDON, EDINBURGH, and DUBLIN
LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY,

No. 3, Charlotte-street, Mansion-house.
The important and salutary improvements introduced into
Life Assurance practice by this Company are fully explained
in the books of tables which'mai 7se had at the Lo:Arm offices
and the different agencies. - -
For the convenience of parties residing at the west end of
London, there is a branch establishment, 19, Regent-street,
under the charge of William Scott, Esq.; where every infor-
mation may be obtained and assurances can be effected as at the
head office.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND, LIFE AS-
SURANCE, and DEFERRED ANNUITY SO-
CIETY, 26, CORNHILL.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
DIRECTORS.
T. L AMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman.
J. Elliotson, M.D., F.R.S. John Rawson, Esq.
H. Gordon, Esq. Clement Tabor, Esq.
George Lungley, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq.
AUDITORS-Dr. 0. Gregory, F.R. A.S. ; Professor Wheat-
stone, F.R. S.
ACTUARY-W. S. B. Woodhouse, Esq., F. R. A. S.
LIFE ASSURANCE.

Besides the perfect security to the policy holder of a large
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Power to borrow, (without delay, expense, or forfeiture) two-
thirds of all premiums paid upon a policy of assurance.

Premium for assuring 100/.

E s. d.

X s. d. i Age. 1 X s. d.

25 1 1 18 6 1 35 12 10 11 1 45 13 9 4
30 2 4 4 1 40 I 2 18 8 1 50 1 4 4 2

DEFERRED ANNUITIES DEPARTMENT.

By the plan exclusively developed by the Society, a single
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but to equal in amount the entire sum of all the advantages
heretofore only obtained by the middle and industrious classes
by separate investments in Savings' Banks, Benefit Societies,
and Loan Banks.

1. A small yearly or weekly contribution will secure the
most ample return for after life; thus-21. 12s. per annum (Is.
a week) at 20 will at 65 give the policy holder the choice of an
annuity for life of 471. 16s. 6d. : 3941. I Is. in cash; or policy
without further contributions of 466/. at death.

2. Two-thirds at any time lent on deposit of policy, being a
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3. Two-thirds of all payments returned to representatives in
case of premature death.
The report to the Annual General Meeting of Proprietors,
prispectuses, tables, &c., may be obtained at the office of the
Society, by letter or otherwise, 26, Cornhill, London, or at
any of its Branches throughout the country.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Sec.

'BRITISH and COLONIAL TRUST and
ASSURANCE COMPANY.
Office, 444, West Strand.
PATRON.—His Royal Highness the DUKE of SUSSEX.
AUDITOR AND CONSULTING ACTUARY.
Augustus de Morgan, Esq.
The public are reminded that it is a part of the business of
this Company to receive money in deposit at a rate of interest
considerably above that to be obtained in the Government funds,
and to invest the same in British, Colonial, or Foreign Se-
curities, giving to depositors, together with the guarantee of the
Company, a specific lien on the property in which their money
may be invested. Thus they may satisfy themselves as to the
character and safety of the securities in which their capital is to
be embarked, and be effectually protected against any improvi-
dence or misfertuue on the part of the Company.
Sums of any amount may be deposited with the Company at
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The Company assures upon the Half-Credit System.—l;
repurchases Policies at their full value, never to be less than
half the amount of the premiums paid, minus the first year's
premium. It lends Money on Policies to the same amount.
It offers peculiar facilities to persons going abroad.
In addition to Four-fifths of the Profits of the Assurance
Branch, the assured are admitted to participate in One-half the
Profits of the Trust Department.

RESIGNATION OF ALDERMAN

HARMER.

TO THE ELECTORS OF THE WARD OF
FARRINGDON.WITHOUT.

Gentlemen—l am about to resign the office and the
dignity of Alderman of your Ward ; and in doing so, I
feel that to you, whose unsolicited indulgence placed
me in that station, some explanation is due of the mo-
tives which have prompted me to retire from it.
You will remember, that the trust which I now sur-
render back to you was tendered to me by yourselves,
unasked for and unsought. Sixteen years ago, I told
you most truly, in answer to your requisition, that I had
no desire for the office of Common Councilman ; but I
added that, "as I considered no man ought, or could,
live for himself alone, and as each individual was in-
debted to the community for the comfort and happiness
he enjoyed, he was bound, if his neighbours called on
him to serve them in any official capacity, to obey their
call—sacrificing private and personal interests to public
duty."

fassure you that it was only in deference to this sense
of public duty that I have for 16 years given to Cor-
poration functions no small portion of time, which was
of great pecuniary value to me, expended considerable
sums from my own funds, and devoted attention which
I could ill spare, from my private concerns. Eight
successive years I served you as Common Councilman,
and during that time I was elected Maiegawof three
important Committees. That .L=am i aelluit my-
self as a Common Councilman,-yoU adjaged when you
chose me to succeed so excellent a man as Robert
Waithman, as your Alderman.
Upon that occasion, as upon the former, it was you
who offered, and not I who asked.
Ithen told you, " That having devoted the last 40 years
to an active and laborious exertion in my professional
duties, I considered that I should best consult my own
comfort and happiness by passing the remainder of my
days in retirement, and had been making arrangements
for that object; but the same sense of duty by which I
had been formerly influenced operated upon me then to
obey the call of my neighbours ; mid that I had no other
ambition, in yielding to your requisition, than that of ad-
vancing, as I had invariably endeavoured to do, the in-
terests of humanity, truth, and public freedom."
You elected me unanimously. I was shortly after
chosen Sheriff. Most of you will recollect that during
my year of office circumstances of no ordinary difficulty
arose. Radical as my politics were represented to be,
I so far possessed the confidence of the Government
that the Adjutant-General was authorised to place a
military force at my disposal ; and I may say, because
there are many who can testify to that fact, that the
arrangements I then suggested were chiefly instrumental
in rendering the employment of these troops unneces-
sary. The law was enforced by my colleague and my-
self, not only without violence, but without the slightest
breach of the public peace or indication of disturbance.
At the close of our Shrievalty we were honoured with a
unanimous and flattering vote of thanks from the Li-
very for the manner in which we had performed our of-
ficial duties.

I should be unpardonable in thus referring to circum-
stances of my public life if self-exaltation were my ob-
ject ; but vilified and traduced as I have been, I con-
sider it due to you and to myself, when dissolving our
long connexion, to revert to the manner in which you
have trusted me, and the way in which I have deserved
your trust. Accused as I have been of disloyalty—slan-
dered as I have been as an instigator to disorder, and an
abettor of disobedience to the laws—l have a right, I
think, to refer to those public acts of my life which re-
fute such malignant falsehoods, and enable me to treat
them with scorn.

The object of my enemies—the most unprincipled
traducers who ever hounded together to run a man
down—was not merely to prevent my election to
the Mayoralty, but to do much more than this—
to have me rejected by so large a majority that
the rejection would be a disgrace—to have me, as
they said, ignominiously scouted from Guildhall. If
the most persevering, incessant, and industrious ma-
lignity, could have accomplished this, it would have
been done ; but the Liverymen were too intelligent
to be made the tools of so base a party. Gentlemen,
I was returned by a large majority upon the show of
hands, in the largest Common-hall that has been known
of late years. I stood day by day upon the Guildhall
huttinga, 06ov—A by eloo most signal marks of public
sympathy, and if any one was scouted from those hustings
it certainly was not me ; lastly, I polled 2,294 votes, a
greater number of Liverymen than was polled by the whole
four Reform candidatesupon the last election. True I was
beaten,and it is true that I have been denied the honourable
office to which your long-continued confidence, and my
long-accepted services had given me, according to prescrip-
tive custom, a right ; but it was equally ,true. that I
was twice b
as a fitefbreretuprneerdsonby
tothefithat
, Livery.
htiog,hthoE
the Court,
ofAldermen
once in 183.5, out of my rotation, and again in 1839.
The event proves that I have been treated unjustly.
Cant, hypocrisy, ignorance, and slander, are powerful
antagonists to contend with, and when I, a man un-
connected with any party and unbacked byy any faction,
fought single-handed against them ; when I compelled
my bitterest opponents to eulogize my private charac-
ter as a citizen, and my public character as a magis-
trate ; when I proved, before the world, that I had the
entire esteem of upwards of two thousand Liverymen-
and, I might say, a very large majority of my fellow,
citizens, I think, Gentlemen, I achieved more honour
and vindicated my character better, than if I had,
without opposition, been allowed, in regular rotation,
to fill the civic chair.

My enemies may exult, Gentlemen. I certainly have
no cause for mortification. I have long since looked
forward to the period when I might expect to fill the
office of Lord Mayor with more of regret than plea-
sure; because, high as the honour unquestionably is, it
would be moreand than
itd h
weul counterbalanced
eve
b
of those quiet domestic comforts which constitute all my
happiness ;
affordedy the
m e deprivationgreat
satis-
faction to have voluntarily sought to be relieved from
the laborious duties, the ridiculous pageantry, and the
senseless ostentation inseparable from the office. I stood
the contest, not for the object of becoming Lord Mayor,
but in order to silence the calumniators, who said I was
unworthy to be so, and would not dare to present my-
self before the Livery as a candidate. Gentlemen, may
you not, in justification of the favours you have bestowed
upon me, ask, who among the whole body of Alder-
men could, upon mere personal grounds, have more
successfully, contested for the Mayoralty than the indi-
vidual whom you selected as your Alderman ?
The departure from ordinary precedent, in my case,
must, however, determine my connection with the Cor-
poration of London. I now, Gentlemen, resign into
your hands the trust which you reposed in me, and I
venture to say, and to challenge any one to deny, that
ftuhialyt trduisst ba
chars been,
geyt o
ut h utmost of
doubtless,
power,
sel
eselect,
a ih-
t my
successor, one who possesses more ability to serve you ;
but you will find no one who has ever felt a greater re-
(Yard for the honour and interests of your Ward and the
City of London generally, than,
Gentlemen, your old and faithful servant,
Ingress Abbey, Kent, JAMES HARMER.
Nov. 11, 1840.

WHAT ARE MINISTERS DOING ?

" VERY FEW CAN TELL."

(From the Spectator.)

In very large letters above " the leader" of The Sun
Newspaper, advertising a map projected by that inge-
nious publication, appears this heading :—" War with
China. Where is China ? Very few can tell." The
same might with at least equal force and truth be pre-
dicated of the belligerent demonstrations of our rulers,
both in Europe and Asia:--" What is all this?—Very
few can tell."

The bloodshed and the expenditure of our operations
in Syria are bad enough ; and the, risk—not yet got
over—of an eventual war with France, is worse. But
even a war with France is an evil the extent of which
might be calculated by an approximate conjecture ;
whereas the hostile proceedings of the further Asia are
of a nature to lead to consequences which bailie all con-
jecture. We are there embarking in an enterprise of
which it is impossible to foretell where it may or may
not carry us. There can with regard to it be no cal-
culation of means to ends—no estimate as to whether
the undertaking lies within our power—for no one
knows what that undertaking is.

Our territories in Hindostan have been extended
from a paltry district round Calcutta till they embrace
the whole of the Indian Peninsula. When we look
back on the history of their acquisition, we can point
out no period at which the progress of our territorial
acquisitions could have been arrested with any assurance
of our being able to retain what we had already ac-
quired. Our career in India can only be compared to
the proceedings of a man acting under a spell which
doomed him to heap treasure upon treasure, and not to
desist, even when he began to be haunted with the fear
of being crushed and suffocated under his accumula-
tions. We have been constantly protesting that our
possessions in India were too extensive, and regretting
the necessity which compelled us to extend them, and
going on to extend them still further. The first foot of
land we acquired in Hindostan involved us in the poli-
tics of a half-civilized race ; we felt that we must either
relinquish it, or defend it by that aggressive policy, that
mixture of treachery and force, which was brought to
bear upon us by the native chiefs. Our more advanced
civilization has hitherto enabled us to defeat all ene-
mies, but has not enabled us to escape subjection to
their system. In our Indian policy we have been re-
duced to the level of their knowledge and morality.
It is this consideration which renders our present
operations in China and Afghanistan so alarming. They
are necessary consequences of our Indian policy : as the
acquisition of Calcutta could only be maintained by the
conquest of the whole peninsula, so it would seem the
possession of the wide empire bounded by the Indus and
the Ganges can only be maintained by annexing to it
neighbouring empires, each of them equalling itself in
extent.
According to the latest news from China, one British
squadron has blockaded the Canton River, and another
has been despatched to the northward to occupy a post
at the mouth of the Yellow River. These operations
will make us masters of the two principal entrances to
China from the sea. The avowed object of them is, by
stopping the whole export and coasting trade of China,
to excite disaffection against the Chinese Government ;
and ,to promote this end, assurances of amity and pro-
tection to the inhabitants are distributed along the coast.
What does the British Government anticipate or con-
jecture is to be the result of these operations? 'When
and where are they to terminate ? Is it in its power to
limit their duration or extent ? Can it say with cer-
tainty that they will not leave the government of China
upon its hands? or that, having undertaken the task of
governing China for a time, it will be in its power to
give it up again ?
Our operations against China are not confined to
those of aggression ; the Anglo-Indian Government
feels the necessity of placing its own frontier in a state
of defence. Between us and the Nepaulese, on the
northern frontier of our Indian dominions, there exists
but a hollow truce ; and so strong is the apprehension
entertained by the British authorities of an attack from
the combined forces of China and Nepaul, that an army
of observation has been stationed on that frontier.
Simultaneously with these proceedings, we are rapidly
extending our operations to the west of the Indus. In
Afghanistan we and our puppet King possess not a
foot of land beyond what is covered by the range of our
cannon. In Beloochistan our first successes have been
reversed, and it is found necessary to despatch addi-
tional forces from Bombay to the Indus. Suspicions
are entertained of the attachment of the Governor of
Herat ; and it is proposed to occupy that city (800
miles in advance of our Indian frontier) by a British
garrison.
We are :maintaining and daily adding to two large
armaments, carrying on war in China, and in the terri-
tories lying between. the Indus and Persia. We are
maintaining an army of observation on the northern fron-
tiers of Hindostan. And while thus engaged in exter-
nal war, it is discovered that the plots against the
British Government lately detected and defeated in
Kurnaul and Sattara, had wider ramifications, and seem
to have received encouragement and support from the
Seiks, a warlike people who occupy an extensive and
difficult territory between our Indian frontier and our
army in Afghanistan. We have every prospect, there-
fore, of being obliged to maintain our position by force
of arms against external and internal enemies at the same
time. In addition to this, our stoppage of the China
trade is likely to produce misunderstanding between us
and the Americans, and indeed all nations in the habit
of trading to China ; while on the other hand, our oc-
cupation of Herat will bring us into direct collision
with the Shah of Persia, strengthened by Russian sub-
sidies, if not by Russian soldiers.
With these tremendous issures in the range of pos-
sibility, is it fitting that the English nation continue to
repose a blind and unquestioning confidence in Lord
Palmerston and Sir John Hobhouse ? Is it not im-
peratively called to demand from the Government an
explicit statement, what is the extent of operations con-
templated ? what are the objects proposed to be attained?
what are the means by which it is proposed to attain
them? The interest and the honour of Great Britain
require that we should no longer allow ourselves to be
in our Indian relations the mere slaves of circumstances.
The interest and honour of Great Britain require that
before engaging beyond power of retreat in extensive
and costly hostilities, we should inquire whether we
possess the power to follow out our undertaking to a
successful issue, and whether engaging in it be consis-
tent With sound morality.

WELLINGTON MILITARY MEMORIAL.—It
is expected that the equestrian statue in bronze of his
Grace the Duke of Wellington will be completed by Mr.
Wyatt, the sculptor, in 1843, he contracting, in 1839, to
execute the figure in four years. It is said that the statue
Will be erected on the triumphal arch at the entrance of
Hyde-park, and adjoining Apsley house, the residence of
the Noble Duke. The Duke of Rutland is Chairman
and Sir F. Trench Vice-Chairman of the Committee fo ,
uperintending the erection of the Memorial.
NEW CATHOLIC CHAPEL.—We observe an
appeal made to the public for aid to build a chapel on the
enclosed piece of ground near Bethlehem Hospital, St.
George's Fields, running along the high road to the Ele-
phant and Castle. Many thousand Catholics, chiefly of
the poorest class, inhabit the Borough, and the parishes of
Camberwell, Newington, and Lambeth, who are at pre-
sent much neglected.
MISFORTUNE AND DEATH.—On Wednesday
week the office houses at the farm of Bogg, parish of
Cromdale, tenanted by Mr. Allen Grant, caught fire, and
were nearly all ccnsumed, though fortunately the cattle
were saved. In removing the horses, Mr. Grant re-
ceived a kick from one of the animals, in consequence
of which he expired, after great suffering, on the Sunday
following. This double calamity has left a numerous
family in the greatest destitution and distress.—lnter.
ness Courier.

TEMPERANCE V. DRUNKENNESS.—The " Ex-
ecutive Council" of the British and Foreign Temperance
Society have issued a circular addressed to drunkards, in
which they state that there arc no less than 600,000
habitual drunkards in this kingdom, of which 57,000 die
annually, giving an average of 157 per day. The magis-
trates and medical men declare that three-fourths of the
crimes, &c , are committed by persons excited by liquor.
The cost of those intoxicating draughts is 50 millions per
annum. By the exertions of the advocates of temperance
200,000 have been reclaimed, and have not only abandoned
their drunken habits, but have become attendants at the
different places of religious worship. As this praise-
worthy Society does not impose the tee:otalling clause,
there is every reason to believe its endeavours will ulti-
mately be crowned with success, to the advantage of the
individual and the community at large.
The refusal of funeral rites to the child of a
Wesleyan parishioner, by the Rev. Mr. Snowdon, of
Charlton parish, next Dover, has been already published
in the public prints. The body has been for about three
eeks soldered in a zinc coffin, and was 011 Tuesday per-
mitted to be buried in the churchyard, near its deceased
relatives ; the Wesleyan service being performed by one
of their ministers outside the walls of the burial ground--
the minister of the parish attending at the time in the
vestry to observe the proceedings.—Kent Herald.
TYPHUS FEVER.— This dreadful disease !has
begun to assume a serious aspect in some parts of Hudders-
field and its vicinity. Several malignant cases are calling
loudly on the authorities to insist on a rigorous system of
cleanliness. In some of the dwellings of the humbler
classes, especially the Irish, the filthiness is intolerable,
and excites no surprise that disease is engendered. In fact,
some habitations are so disgusting, that the Catholic priest,
tho Rev. Dr. Trappes, felt it his duty on Tuesday week to
make a representation to the sitting Nlagistrates concerning
them. Hopes are entertained that the Commissioners,
who have the power, will take steps of a preventive nature,
in the hope of checking a violation so calamitous.

PRICE sd.

THE BRITISH AND AUSTRALA-

SIAN BANK.

On Saturday a meeting of the Shareholders of the
British and Australasian Bank took place at the Bank.
Several reporters applied for admission, but were as-
sured that the meeting was intended for the Sharehold-
ers alone.

Mr. THOMAS, the solicitor to the establishment, who
declared at the Mansion-house, that everything con-
nected with the Bank should be as public as possible,
warmly urged the propriety of admitting the press, parti-
cularly as such important statements had been made al-
ready to the public, and he was convinced that fair play
would be given on an occasion where answers might be
expected to be made.
One of the persons who appeared to be in authority,
if we may judge from the dramatic tone in which he
spoke, however, settled the business, by declaring that
he would not open his mouth if any person from the
newspapers remained in the room.
Mr. THONIAS said that a gentleman attended from
Mr. Ashurst, the solicitor, to take short-hand notes of
what occurred.

The Man-in-authority—That person in particular
must be objected to. Neither Mr. Ashurst, nor any
body from Mr. Ashurst, shall come in here.
Mr. Boucher, it was said, wished that the reporters
should be present ; but it was evident that be did not
press the matter, as no doubt if he were is lined for
publicity he would have had it, in spite of ad the rest
of the directors whoever they were.
When the reporters were excluded there were about
fourteen or fifteen persons i❑ the room.
Mr. PATCH, a barrister and shareholder, was called
to the Chair.

The proceedings were, we understand, rather of
an extraordinary character. We were, of course,
obliged to collect the substance from some of those who
were present, and who described to us, in a round-about
and desultory manner, what took place.
It will be recollected that, about twelve months ago,
a complaint was made against Mr. Boucher, as con-
nected with the Chatham Bank, on an occasion when a
Swiss received a letter of credit for 40/., payable at the
British and Australasian Bank, No. 55, Moorgate-
street, and that Mr. Boucher readily appeared, and de-
nounced the agency of Mr. Gough, the manager of the
Chatham Bank, declaring that the British and Aus-
tralasian Bank had no connexion whatever with that
concern beyond the mere agency as regarded the sale
of shares, and stating that Mr. Gough was largely in
debt to the Moorgate•street establishment, the direc-
tors of which were very desirous to know where he was
to be found.

Mr. GouGH was, we are given to understand, the
first person who rose to address the Chairman as soon
as the proceedings commenced. He stated that he
was a shareholder to the amount of (>451., and that he
came forward in that character, as well as to wipe away
the imputation cast upon him by Mr. Boucher in the
denial of his agency, and the refusal to recognise the
dealings which that gentleman had himself originated
and sanctioned in a manner the most indisputable. Mr.
Boucher had repudiated any connection with the
Chatham Bank, after having introduced it to the world
under the following circumstances :—He (Mr. Gough)
having purchased shares in the British and Australasian
Bank, and having learned that it was their intention
to extend its colonial business very considerably, ap-
plied to Mr. Boucher for an appointment as Secre-
tary at one of the stations, well knowing that, from
his habits, and age, and activity, he was qualified to
conduct any important branch. To that application
Mr. Boucher replied in the most flattering manner, by
representing that such capabilities as were offered for
carrying on a bank in the colony might be more bene-
ficially exercised nearer horns, and immediately pro-
posed the Chatham agency, which was, in the be-
lief that the British and Australasian Bank was a
bona fide establishment, accepted and undertaken. The
following was the official letter which he received from
Mr. Boucher on the appointment :

EVENING EDITION.

present ? Mr. Boucher replied, very carelessly, that
he had not the slightest objection, and the Shareholder's
friend was admitted. But his presence was immediately
objected to by the Scotch gentleman. "No one can
be admitted here except a Shareholder. This is a pri-
vate meeting, at which none but Shareholders can be
present. But if that gentleman (the Shareholder's
friend) will purchase a single share, ho may remain."
Mr. Frederick Boucher, the Managing Director, did
not offer any opposition to the Scotch gentleman's
decision, and the Shareholder's friend, not being very
eager to purchase a share, withdrew. It was now
one o'clock, and there were present about a dozen
Shareholders and Directors, and ten gentlemen from the
public press. The latter were requested by one of the
clerks to " withdraw for a few minutes." They did so.
While waiting in the office, a gentleman, who stated
himself to be a shareholder to a considerable amount,
arrived with his solicitor, but the latter was refused ad-
mission. It is but justice to state that Mr. Thomas,
the solcitor to the establishment, who, it will be recol-
lected, declared at the Mansio❑ House that every pos-
sible means of publicity should be given to every thing
connected with the bank, strongly urged the propriety
of permitting the press to remain ; he was convinced,
ho said, that the proceedings would be most impartially
sent forth to the public. A gentleman (it is believed
the scotch gentleman) declared that he would not open
his mouth if any person connected with the press re-
mained in the room. He was told by Mr. Thomas
that a gentleman attended from Mr. Ashurst, the soli-
citor, to take short-hand notes of the proceedings.
The Scotch gentleman said " That person in particular
must be objected to. Neither Mr. Ashurst, nor any-
body from Mr. Ashurst, shall come in here." This
decisive mode of dealing with the press was conclusive,
and the managing director, Mr. Boucher, left the room
and informed the reporters in waiting that " the meet-
ing was one of proprietors, to which the public press
would not be admitted."