The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-06 00:00:00

MAJORITY-NOES, 60.

A'Court, Captain Ferrand, W. B. lforpeth, Viscount
Allis, J. P. Forster, Matthew Newdegate, N.
Arkwright, George Frewen, C. H. Patten, J. W.

Baillie, Colonel - ,
Goulburn, Henry Peel, Jonathan
Baring, W. P. Graham, Sir J. Protheroe, Edward
Berestord. Major Greene, Thomas Sheppard, T.
Bowles, Admiral Grey, Sir G. Sibthorp, Colonel
Broadley, H. Grogan, E. Spooner, R.
Bruce, Lord E. Hawes, Benjamin Stanstleld, W. R.
Buller, Edward Henley, J. W. Stanton, W. H.
Buller, Sir J. Y. Herbert, Sidney Strutt, Edward
Cardwell, Edward Hindley, Charles Sutton, Henry
Colquhoun, John Hodgson, R. Thesiger, air F.
Crawford, W. S. Borne, Joseph Thornely, Thomas
Cripps, William Hussey, T. Trench, Sir F.
Dennistoun, John Inglis, Sir B. Walpole, S. H. '
D'Eyncourt, C. T. Jermyn, Earl Wawn, J. T.
Douglas, Sir C. Jocelyn, Viscount Wortley, J. S.
Ellice, Edward Kelly, Sir Fitzroy \ TELLERS.
Escott, Bickham Lawson, A. Young, John
Estcourt, T. G. Mahon, Viscount Baring, Henry

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons,
WEDNEEDAY, MARCH 4.

The following Petitions for Railways were reported, and the Br
ordered to be brought in the undernamed Hon. Members :
Norfolk Extension (Stowmarket, Wymondham, and Attleborm

Branch—Mr. Wodehouse and Mr. W. Collett.
Manchester and Leeds Extensions, &c.—Mr. M. Philips and Mr.

Entwisle.
Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester—Colonel Balla, Mr Pendarves, Mr.
T. Hussey, and Mr. M•Geac..hy.
Wear Dock Haile ay—Mr. Granger and Mr. Wawn.

WEST CORK MINING COMPANY.
The half-yearly meeting of this Company was held at the
George and Vulture Tavern, Cornbill, yesterday, at one
o'cloc, but the attendance Was very small.
Mr. WlrrArt, on taking the chair, proceeded to lay before
the meeting a summary of the receipts and expenditure of
the Company from July, 1837, to Dec. 1845. The cash ac•
count showed a debt of 24,2751., and deducting the
expenditure, a balance of 854 was left in the bankers'
hands. The Chairman stated the present liabilities of the
Company to be about 1,870/., to meet which the directors had
still to receive 1,345/. balance, unpaid upon the call of 10,000/.,
but in order to get up that sum, it had been found necessary
to institute a suit in Chancery, which was pending at that
moment. On that account, he had been unable to bring the
affairs of the Company into such a position as to make it
possible to have them wound up at that meeting, but he
trusted to accomplish this by the meeting in August.
The accounts were approved and passed.
_

It was then moved and carried by the shareholders present,
and approved of by many absent, that the shareholders of
the Company were under great obligations to their Chairman,
Mr. Wittan, for the exertions he had untiringly made
in the cause of the Company, which had been successful in
saving them from much greater loss, and that, in token of
their gratitude, they thought it proper to make arrangements
for presenting him with a testimonial.
The meeting was then adjourned.

THE LATE EXPLOSION AT DOVER.—The borough
Coroner completed his adjourned inquest on the bodies of the men
killed by the explosion of gunpowder in a cave in Dover Cliffs. Since
the adjournment, another man has died of his wounds, making the
thirteenth sufferer by the accident. It appeared from the evidence
adduced yesterday, that for some time past the cave had been con-
verted into a kind of beer-shop, to supply the labourers employed on
that particular part of the line, notwithstanding the dangerous nature
of the contents, which they were perfectly aware of. The jury fouod
the following verdict:—" That the deceased were killed by the ex-
plosion of a certain quantity of gunpowder, not being properly pro-
tected from the possibility of an accident; and that the said explo-
sion was caused by a lighted pipe being dropped by one of the de-
ceased on the said gunpowder."

BRITISH COLONIAL BANK AND LOAN COMPANY.—
The fifth annual meeting of this company was held on Wednesday, at
the efface in Moorgate-street ; Jas. Stewart, Esq., in the chair. From
the
was
.
Wales report of the directors it appeare& that the colony of New South
improving. Since the last general meeting, a reduction
of the
,_too!, liabilities of the company had been made to the extent of
4
to the 31st of Deceiaber last; and since the closing of the
year a accounts a further -reduction of 5,300/. lied been effected,
ananwoyulwde-reavien
making a total of 9 4
the corn
law charges in °:iteLtrain of settlement. The expenses of the
yp
All the other debts affecting the assets of
comp
hthe en further reduced, had it not been for the
The call reads on the 2d Of colonyincurred in foreclosing the mortgages.
October was met in a satisfactory man-
ner. The directors bad to express their regret at the death of
their late respected chairman, Herbert Compton. The receipts
justifiedo the directors in making
r,e.jihtes,2s,7
of interest, though small,
a small dividend. The interest
06relc.el7vsedoato. ; 30inth.
June, 1845, was 3,896. 18s. 7d. .
~? athemortgage
balance of account in
terest due, 1,9501.; together, 8,55 ii/. 6s.
favour of the company was 2,394/. 6s. I Id. The
rte
the
due on leans
to the 30th June, 1645, was 34,372/. 19s. Bd. After
which
ehricering of the
report, a long and tedious discussion took place, thel chair-
man, Mr. Mason, Mr. Rhodes, Mr. Canting, Sir. Cook, and others
part, and it concluded by the adoption of the report and the Lri k
Bart.,
declara-
tion of a dividend of 2 per cent. Sir Francis Shuckburgh,
Colonel Sir W. Gossett, and John Shewell, Esq., were re-elected
directors, when the meeting adjourned.
ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF CRlME.—During an inquest
on Wednesday, at the Penitentiary, Millbank, Captain Grove, the
governor, stated that within two years and a hair they had. trans-
ported from that prison upwards of eleven thousand prisoners. Of
these, there were, males, 9,445, and females, 1,717, besides which
there were juvenile offenders, va° were kept for twelve mnoths pre-
vious to transportation.
A Doc SCHOOL.—A Mr. Henry Winfield, of Utica,
United States, announces that he has opened a dog school, where he
will teach dogs to go on errands as correctly as any boy ten years old
—to dance as well as the most accomplished dancer, waltz, cut the
pigeon wing, to count the number of persons in the room, also to dis•
tinguish the number and colour of persons present.—American paper.