The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-27 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAir MORNING JANUARY 27, 1846 PRIPE SD.
SUN

No. 16,677.

OTIC E.- ALTERATION OF TIME AND
REDUCTION OF FARES. GRAVESEND for 6d. or 9d.,
boat and railway included. The STAR and ELACKWALL
PACKETS are now running at the above reduced fares from the
Brunswick 1: Blackwall, at 9%, 10%, 12, 1%, 3%, and 5.
Sundays, 12 and 33¢ excepted. From the New Terrace Pier,
Gravesend, at 8%, 9%, 11% 1,2%, and 5. Sundays 934 and I ex-
cepted. Fare : Fore Cabin and Second Class Railway, 6d.; Saloon
and First Class, 9d.
Star ()Mee, Gravesend, Oct. 11, 1845.

/STATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUIt-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, COENHILL, LONDON.
Capital Aboo,ooo.
Empowered by Act of ParliAlZent,
This institution offers important and sukstantlal advan-
tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities.
The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borr )vr, without ex-
pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid,
(see table) i also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion
of hi, interests to meet other conventmees er necessity. Assurances
for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.
DIVISION OF PROFIT:.
The 'access and increasing prosperity of the Soclety kas enabled
the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a third
Bonus, varying from 311 to 75 per cent. on the premiums paid on
each Polley erected on the Profit scale.
EXAMPLES.

it? PZ) G d..„, IS
~,.....0 v -
k. 72 ' ''.4 BOXIIIS Bonn in II iii .0 "..,
.. . Premium. G ,
p> Ifi P added. Cash. 46s &,s-zil
1 i .
x £ s. d. 1837 £l9l 13 5k87 13 51513 17 1 439511 1
6111000 74 3 4 1838 165 13 0 74 13 10 11 8 6 346 2.3
1839 138 13 6 61 14 3 9 210 296 13 4
1 ' 1840 89 0 0 41 13 4 6• 0 217 4 A

The dwision of profits Is annual, and the next will he made in +O-
- of •he present year. _

F. FERGUSON CA3.IROPX,

THE TONTINE LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
s- • (Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 2,000,0001., in 100.000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, in compliance with the provisions of the statute. 7 and 8
Viet., e. 110, Two Shillings per Share, until the complete Registra-
tion of the Cerapany, when the same will be increased to 11. per
Share, which, with the assistance anticipated from the Tontine De-
partment, will, it is expected, be sufficient to carry eat the objects
of the Company.
The plan of this Company offers considerable and peculiar advan-
tages to the Shareholders, as in addition to the profit arising front
Life Assurance transactions, it is proposed to raise a capital of
1,000,800/., or more, by the grant of Tontine Annuities, in classes
to be regulated by the ages of the Subscribers or their Nominees ;
which capital, on the death of the survivor in each class, will be
divided exclusively among the Shareholders. The principle of the
Tontine Annuities is explained below.
TRUSTEES.
John Elijah Blunt, Esq., 4, New-square, Lincoln's Inn
John Conolly, Esq., M.D., Lawn-house, Hanwell
James Martin, Esq., 68, Lombard-street.
PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.
John Elijah Blunt, Esq., 4, New,square, Lincoln's Inn
Walter Wyndham Burrell, Esq., Knepp Castle, near Horsham, anti
5, Richmond-terrace, Whitehall
John Charritie, Esq., vioorgate-street Chambers, City
John Conolly, Esq., M.D., Lawn house, Hanweli
John More Douglas, Esq., Belvedere-road, Lambeth
Walter Etty, Esq., Lombard-street Chambers
Edward Hamilton, Esq., M.D., Grafton-street, Piccadilly
William Henderson, Esq., 16, Bishopgate-street Within
Hector Monro, Esq., Walsham le Willows, Suffolk
Savile Craven Henry Ogle, Esq., M.P., 84, Eaton-square, Pimlico.
Ambrose Frederick Proctor, Esq., Ware, Herts
C oke Taylor, Esq., LL.D., Fleet-street
John Alfred Trimmer, Esq., Haslemere, Surrey
Forbes Winslow, Esq., M.D., Sussex-house, Hammersmith.
BANEERSic-i3lon_ffiiani Dimes,essrsll.,lllart,n, Stone, and Martins, 68, Lombard-street.
sm T
Esq., 46, Lincoln's Inn-fields.
MEDICAL AND SURGICAL REFEREES.
Thomas Callaway, Esq., F.R.C.S., Wellington-street, Southwark
James Copland, Esq., M.D., F.R.S., &c., &c., Old Burlington-street-
DISTRICT MEDICAL REFEREES IN LONDON.
William Preston Lauder, Esq., M.D., F.R.1.E., Sloane-street,
Knightsbridge
Edward Lloyd, Esq., M.D., Jewin-street, City
Walter Hayle Walsh, Esq., M.D., Professor of Pathology at Univer-- '
sity College, Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square.
CONSULTING ACTUARY—David Jones, Esq., Author of " Tables on.
Annintes," Sec., King William-street, City. •
ACTUARY AND SECRETARY-William Clark, Esq.
Temporary Offices, No. 16, Lincoln's Inn-fields.
It is unnecessary in this Prospectus, to enlarge upon the advan-
tages of Life Assurance, or its adartation to most of the exigencies,
and relations in life. These benefits have been so extensively pub-
lished, that they are already well understood and appreciated.
This Company is formed for granting every description of Life
Assurance, Annuity, and Endowment; Loans either for long or
short periods to persons effecting Assurances, upon receiving satis-
factory security for the payment of premium and interest, and the
repayment of the principal, by instalments or otherwise, as may be
agreed ; also for the purchase of Reversionary Interests, Policies of •
Assurance, and every other description of property.
Persons borrowing money of the Company, upon approved se-
curity, and effecting a policy of Assurance for the amount bor-
rowed, will not be called upon for the repayment of the loan, so•
long as the interest and premium are regularly paid. Thus a party
borrowing 1,0001. upon security of his estate, and an assignment of-
a policy on his life, would at his decease leave his estate unencum-
bered, the sum assured being applied by the Company to repay its
advance.
The premiums are based upon data derived front the most recent
and authentic sources, presenting a moderate and equitably-adjusted '
scale.

secure
t ioy
One of the principal objects of the Company is to assimilate its'
benefits s uwith thenearly
adasditiopsib oasesubosfcri
endt ual
capital. A ss u rlavni
tche
this v ew, four-fifths of the profit, ido rig from Policies affected by
parties on the terms of particip will be divided every three
years, after the first five years, among thole who assure for the
whole term of life. The sum so divided among the Assured to he
applied to the reduction of the annual premium, or added to the
wislorred as bonus. or naid in orpaent vales. at the ()Winn of the
Parties may also effect the assurance by payment of one-half only
of the premiums for a stipulated term of years—the interest upon
the unpaid portion of the premiums, at the rate of 5 per cent. per
annum, being annually paid in advance. Upon payment of the
arrear of the premiums, the Assured will be entitled to a full parti-
cipation of the profits.
For persons who may wish to assure for short periods, or for the
whole of life, without participation in the profits, a scale has been
adopted, which is as moderate as it can be rendered consistently with
the interests of the Company. •
The Assured may at all times borrow an amount equal te the value
of the policy, on its security.
In all the transactions of the Company the ntmost liberality will
be exercised.
Life Assurances will be effected with all the advantages to the
assured afforded by the most respectable established companies.
A Table of Premiums will shortly be published.
TONTINE ANNUITIES.
This Company, in submitting the subject of Tontine Annuities to
the public, is Influenced by the belief that there are many persons,
who from the hope of longevity, and the desire of ease and affluence
as they progress through life, will gladly avail themselves of this
mode of Investment ;—by which they will secure a large remunera-
tive and increasing income, guaranteed to them by the Company
during their own lives or the lives of their nominee.
The following is an illustrattal of the principle of the Tontine An-
nuities :—lf 1,000 persons subscribe 1001. each, they or their respec-
tive nominees, being of an age to enter the class in which the an-
nuity granted is 61. per cent. per annum, each subscriber or nominee
will, during the continuance of all the lives, receive an annuity of 6/. ;
but as the lives drop, the share of the deceased parties will be
divided among the survivors, until they are reduced to six, each of
whom will then receive 1,0001. per annum for life ; but as they re-
spectively die if. the 1,0001. per year which the deceased party re-
ceived will fall into the ftuids of the Company, for the benefit of the
shareholders ; and so in proportion for a larger or smaller number of
subscribers or their nominees.
This mode of investment will place it in the power of almost every
individual, at some period of life, by prudently and legitimately ap-
propriating a comparatively small sum of money, which in many in-
stances would be otherwise uselessly expended, to 'scare indepen-
dence and comfort in their declining years.
Parents may also by these means provide for their children.
Wealthy relatives for their poorer relations.
Applications for Shares, in the following form, to be directed to
Charles Barker, Esq., No. 46, Lincoln's Inn-fields :
To the Directors of the Tontine Lire Assurance Company.
Gentlemen,--L request you to allot me Shares in this
Company ; and I hereby agree to accept the same, or any less num-
ber you may allot me, and to pay the deposit of Two Shillings per
Share thereon, and also to execute the Deed of Settlement of the
Company when required to do so.

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nions of the Senator, he thought there ought to be no
doubt left upon this point, either here or before the
world, as they were called upon to say yea or nay in
good faith before the whole world. The debate was
continued with great anima, and the resolutions were
laid on the table to be taken up hereafter.
On 31st December a Bill 'to regulate the trade and
intercourse with the Indian tribes was reported from the
Committee on Indian affairs, and referred to the Com-
mittee of the whole; and also a Bill to establish a line of
stockade forts on the Missouri, through the Oregon ter-.
ritory, was reported by Mr. Brinkerhoff, of Ohio, and
referred to the Committee of the whole.
We are glad to find that the speech of Mr. Calhoun
has been hailed with lively satisfaction by a large and
powerful party in the United States, who desire peace
on any honourable terms. On this Subject the .A'ew York
Evening Post has the following:ee-
" Mr. Calhoun has realised the hopes of the friends of
honourable peace by the decisive step which he has taken
in the Senate, and we congratulate the country that the
powerful influence of sa diatingaished a man has been
thus openly and decidedly arrayed in opposition to the
war resolutions—for such we consider those of Mr.
Douglass in the House and Mr. Hannegan in the Senate
—and the war feeling which appeared at one time to
carry all before it?'
" Mr. Calhoun's resolutions in the Senate are im-
portant"—as the _National telligencer freely says—" as
disclo€ia g the views of so distinguished and influential a
member of the body, and are eminently important as an
indication that there are Senators of the dominant party
who think that peace may yet be preserved with honour,
and who are not, at any rate, disposed to incur the
hazards and horrors of war until` efforts for a pacific
and honourable adlustmen.t..
_tC:110 ,41411/414)_ • be
exhausted; ' •
" The ground assumed by Mr. Calhoun, that by en-
gaging in war for Oregon we shall lose the whole of
the territory for the present and run the risk of losing it
for the future, is so obviously in accordance with com-
mon sense that we cannot contemplate without surprise
the warlike course recommended and adopted by the
Senators on the other side. Of the adoption of the ex-
treme measures which have been brought forward in
both Houses there is now, we presume, very little pro-
bability.
" The demonstrations made by Mr. Calhoun and his
friends, will prevent any imprudence on the part of our
Government, but we are still to hear from England, and
it is clearly therefore the duty of Congress to place the
country in an attitude to meet every emergency.
"The military preparations, as far as we can hear, that
are contemplated for the present, are an increase
of the army by the addition of two whole regi-
ments, and the raising of a body of mounted
riflemen either in Tennessee, Kentucky, or Texas
This is a formidable demonstration indeed, and
we doubt not will, when the information reaches the
other side of the water, produce as much effect upon the
nerves of Sir Robert Peel and the Iron Duke as the re-
commendation of the Secretary of the Navy that that
branch of the pubic defence be increased by the addi-
tion of—six acting boatswains 1
"Congress has now been in session forsome weeks and
it seems to us that it is full time that the reports of the
two secretaries—of war and of the navy—with their
magnificent estimates for sustaining our present efficient
peace establi,hment be considered at once, and sufficient
measures taken to provide properly for the startling
contingencies which may arise.
" There is no better means of avoiding war, than to
show that we are prepared to meet it, if it should come,
and an expenditure of sweaty millions or five times that
amount, to secure peace, would be in our judgment, as
economical, as it would certainly be a desirable appro-
ISASTER,
priation of the publicEßß ImßoLneEy.
T D"

The New Orleans papers of the 24th bring accounts of
the loss, on the 18th, of the steam-boat Belle Zane,
Captain Brazier, by striking a snag in the Mississippi,
by which about fifty lives were lost.
The Picayune says that she struck at about twelve
miles below the mouth of White River, at twelve o'clock
at night, and almost instantly turned bottOm upward.
There were about ninety on board, nearly all of whom
were in their berths. Of those who reached the shore,
great numbers were frozen to death, as the night was
bitterly cold, and they had not been able in their en-
forced haste to secure any of their clothing.
We copy the following from the Picayune :—The steam-
boat Diamand came along a short time after the accident,
and discovered the wreck of the Belle Z Ine bottom up.l
The officers of the former boat picked up sixteen of the
passengers of the latter at two different points on the
Arkansas side. The unfortunates, after suffering incre-
dibly from the cold, were finally landed at Napoleon,
where the balance of those saved on the Arkansas side
had previously assembled. It seems thaLimmediatelv
which those who were saved tioateu_ The nem.: a
those lost could not be ascertained further than that of
Mr. Bowen, lady and child, of Zanesville. There were five
ladies on board, all of whom were fortunately saved-tex-
cept Mrs. Bowen.
Several of the unfortunate passengers came down on
the Diamond to a point above, and six others came as
far as this city. The names of the latter are John P.
Nesle, of Albany, New York ; James Sheridan, John
Mick, Robert H. Foster, J. Gibson, and Henry Platte.
The feet of some of them are so badly frost-bitten that
they are unable to use them.
The Bulletin says, that so far as they can ascertain,
not snore than sixteen lives were lost. The Tropic says
that sixty out of the ninety were saved. In any event
the disaster is most deplorable.
COMMERCIAL NEWS.

The Ist of January being observed almost entirely as
a holiday, we have little to report under this head,
there was a fair amount of business doing in general
goods on the 2d inst., and at the Stock Exchange a
firmer tone in the market, accompanied by an advance
in prices, was attributed to the effect of Mr. Calhoun's
speech.

EXCHANGE.
Foreign.—We quote on London at 1081 a 109 ; Paris
5f 26* a sf. 25 ; Amsterdam 39i a 39i ; Hamburgh
354 a 35i ; Bremen 781 a 78k.

IRELAND.
CONFERENCE OF REPEAL MEMBERS.

DUBLIN, JAN. 23.—The conference of Irish Members
of Parliament was held this day in the large room of
Radley'e Hotel, College-green. There was no one pre-
sent to represent the Conservative party.
At half-past twelve o'clock, upon the motion of Mr.
O'CONNELL, M P., seconded by Mr. W. S. O'BRIEN,
M.P., the chair was taken by Captain Seaver.
Mr. O'CONNELL, M.l'., first came forward to state his
views. He said that there were two objects combined
in their meeting that day—namely, to form an Irish
party, if possible, and also to devise measures for their
guidance in Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) A public invi-
tation had been held out by several Conservative papers,
high in the confidence of the Conservative party, who
were desirous of meeting other Irish Members upon
mutual grounds—to form a party composed, in fact, of
Repealers at on 3 side, and Conservatives at the other—
(Hear)—and it had been urged, powerfully and palpably,
that there were the materials in Ireland to constitute
suAlt a union, which would work for the good of the
country on all questions upon which they agreed.—
(Hear.) Now, to effect that object, they should first see if
there was any disposition, on the part of the Conserva-
tives, to meet them. The papers he alluded to had
pledged themselves to the willingness of their supporters
to such a connexion; and his object in making that ex-
planation was to say that he had come there hoping that
some proposition would be made. He hoped that a
Conservative would come forward and propose the for-
mation of an Irish party, and to state the basis on which
he proposed to form it. If any one did so, he (Mr.
O'Connell) would answer for the repeaters that they
would meet such an offer more than half-way.—(Hear,
hear.) They did not want the Conservatives to give up
their opinions, nor would they abandon theirs; they
expected uo sacrifices, and would make none; yet he felt
that they could all meet on neutral ground for the good
of Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) He (Mr. O'Connell) would
now sit down, in the hope that they should hear some
gentleman come forward oh the Conservative side, and
state his views for the formation of an Irish party.
which he handed to the Chairman.
A considerable pause ensued, which was interrupted
by Mr. Steele, who entered the room with a copy of the
e newspapers, he
O'Connell read
support the sen-
timents move that Mr. John
Mr. J. O'CoNNeee then read the Speech.
Mr. O'Coesteee again proceeded to address the meet-
ing. He said, in rising for the second time to inquire
QhelMireehrnia'°sje'lstpayei'esEelliSl—Peech aloud.—(Hear, hear.)
would heg for himself to say, that he should not wish
itfimtehnetsre
to act as the leader of such a union ; and if any gentle-
man thought rroper to propose its formation, there
ebnytltenmeanc ponresseerivitattive
• of men of Conservative principles to be
were plenty
ewxapsreasn?-edg
ear
found competent of leaning—%(H • , hear.) He (Mr.
O'Connell) and his colleagues to sold be happy to act
under such a leader if they could only establish the
party—(Cheers.)
The Learned Gentleman having sat
drawn, and waited
for some time to bear if any proposition would be made,
again rose, and
_ said ho was afraid that there was but
little hope left that they would be able to succeed in
this—the chief object of their meeting--(llear, bear)—
as there was no one present to represent the opinions of
the Conservative journals : he would, therefore, dismiss
that topic, and proceed to the other object for which
they had assembled ; not without mentioning, however,
that if the Conservative party originated any meeting to
form an Irish party, before he left for London, he
would be most happy to attend it—(-.ear,
hear, and
cheers.) Having said so much, he would now allude
to the secondary matter for their consideration, and
us an Irish Member state the course he felt bound
to adopt during the session—(lleee, hear.) He (Mr.
O'Connell) was still of opinion that the best part of the
Irish business could be done in Conciliation-hall ; but
still there were questions before Parliament in which
they should take part. There were questions upon
which, even amongst themselves, they entertained a
diversity of opinion, such as the corn-law question—
upon which his individual opinions were known; and all
such questions should be considered as open ones for the
individual consideration of each gentleman and his con-
stituents.—(Hear, hear.) There was a question, how-
ever, upon which, he believed, they were all agreed, and
that was as regarded coercive measures to repress crime

in Ireland. Her Majesty's Speech, which they had just
heard, distinctly menaced a coercion proceeding on the
part of the Legislature.—(Hear, hear.) Now he (Mr.
O'Connell) was obliged to admit that the crime of as-
sassination was certainly increasing, but if so, he was
afraid the cause which led to it was increasing also ;
and he would not, therefore, consent to any alteration
in the law until the Government first began to remove
the cause of the miseries of the Irish people.---(Cheers.)
That was the best method of following up the advice
given in their gracious Sovereign's Speech.—(Applause.)
The magistrates of Tipperary said, in their address,
" that assassination was no longer to be traced to ques-
tions respecting the possession of land." Now that was an
important admission, which showed that the recent mm -
ders through the country originated in a foul spirit of
revenge, on account of the abuses which the landlords
made of their privileges.—(llear, hear.) This be sub-
mitted as the true state of the country, and he submitted
it for the consideration of 'lrish Members, in order to
call upon them to be punctual in their attendance in
their places, if any measure of coercion was- proposed,
and to prevent its passing, if possible. He (Mr. O'Con-
nell) for one would attend the House upon every ques-
tion for procuring relief for the poor, and upon every
question of landlord and tenant law, and with regard to
it he would endeavour to carry out jberecdthmendations
contained in the reports of the,' -Repeal Associatien.—
(Hear, hear.) He would not, believer, move any specific
resolution on the point, but be satisfied with thus ex-
plaining his intentions.
Mr. W. S. O'BRIEN, said for himself he wished
to state, that, as far as he was concerned, he thought it
would be inexpedient to go over to London at present,
as he was not prepared to support a total reßesd of the
corn-laws; independent of which; lie strength-
of Ireland was in Conciliation-hall ; he would not,
therefore, go to England then, or unless an occasion
arose for his special attendance.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. Joan O'CONNELL said he did not know whether
there would be any objection to a resolution, pledging
the meeting to oppose any coercive measure the Govern-
ment might propose, until that measure was accompanied
by a measure to protect the tenant—(Hear, hear)—for
if they allowed Sir Robert Peel once to pas a coercion
Bill, such enactments, let him promise ever so much,
would never be passed.—(Hear, hear, and loud cheers.)
Under these circumstances he thought they might pass
a resolution to the effect he stated; and he would also
state that her Majesty's' Ministers might get support
they little antivipated if they adopted the course he sug-
gested.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) For himself, he
would say he would oppose a coercion Bill if not pro-
posed with other remedial measures, and he would there-
fore move, " That the Irish Members going over to
London do hereby pledge themselves to oppose to the
utmost all Government coercive measures which shall be
brought forward, if they are not accompanied by mea-
sures calculated to settle the differences as between land-
lords and tenants in Ireland."—(Cheers.)
Mr. J. DILLON BROWNE, M.P., seconded the motion.
After a few words from Mr. O'CALLAostste,
Mr. O'CottstELL again rose, and said he would not
consent to pledge himself to the support of a coercion
Bill under any circumstances, or any measure to violate
the principles of the Constitution—(Hear, hear)—and he
considered that the resolution gave no pledge to do so,
or he would not support it.—(Cheers.) The relief they
wanted was relief between landlord and tenant, corpo-
rate, and registry reform, and other important changes ,
—(Hear, hear, and cheers)—and if they got them, they
would vote for the increased military and police forces
to detect and put down crime ; but if they did not, he
would oppose the Government to the utmost.—(Cheers.)
Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL stated that his object was
gained by drawing out the opinions of the gentlemen
who had spoken ; and as he did not expect to have pro-
posed a resolution, he was not prepared with one care-
fully worded, perhaps ; and he wished to say that if it was
supposed that he intended to pledge any gentleman to
support a coercion Bill under any circumstances, he was
very much mistaken, as his intentions were altogether in
the spirit expressed by his father and Mr. Callaghan.
The resolution having been then amended, was passed.
Mr. S. O'BRIEN was called to the chair, and the meet-
ing separated at about one o'clock.
SPECIAL COMMISSION IN WESTMEATH.

RAILWAY DEPOSITS.

The very proper observations made on Friday night by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his reply to Lord John Rus-
sell, have thrown the parties connected with railway de-
posits, whether as owners or as keepers of the funds, upon
their own resources, and it is already pretty obvious that
matters will not be made at all worse on that account, but
th 6 contrary. A first consequence will be a more earnest
endeavour to find out how much will actually be wanted, and
in this not only bankers but directors will find it good policy
Ito lend their cordial assistance. When once the amount is
ascertained, or an approximation made to it, private ar-
rangements may be adopted for distributing the payments to
the Accountant-General over such a space of time as will
preclude great pressure at any one period, which is the
1 great point aimed at. How much it is the interest of rail-
wayi managers, as well as bankers, to establish this necessary
degree of concert, is shown by the recent fact, adverted
to on Friday, of the failure of the Leeds and West
Riding Bank, which is since ascertained to have been brought
on by a sudden demand for the deposits intrusted to them by
one of the railway companies; and this company, it is
understood, though prepared in all other respects for the
ordeal of Parliament, is suddenly stopped in its progress by
this
cause alone. This bank was one of the oldest in Leeds,
and was founded upon the private bank of Smith and Sons;
they have a branch at Bradford, and ii.zsued notes. The de-
mand in question, which is understood to have been the im-
mediate cause of their failure, is stated by some at 40,0001.,
others at 80,000/., but it is said that they hold deposits for
various other companies of large amount. The lesson it will
convey to directors of rails' ays will be that of great caution
in pressing for sudden payment ; for, unless this is observed.
in the present peculiar state of the money-market, even
strong banks will give way, and the best and most legitimate
schemes be frustrated. Hence the propriety of corns general
agreement, and if that is carried on in good faith, the real
amount wanted will,soon be made known, and all- further
alarni - dismiss—el from the minds of the City capital-
ists. The difficulty connected with these deposits is
much aggravated by the antiquated practice of the
Accountant-General's Office, which is about a century behind
all other establishments for banking business, to which cate-
gory it essentially belongs. The office was established about
1706, previously to which the money of the various suitors
was placed with the Masters in Chancery ; but some frauds
having been discovered, the Accountant-General's Office was
established, and, for better security, hedged in with so many
checks and restrictions, that any occurrence of that sort was
effectually guarded against, though it iiroduced a system of
business than which nothing can be more annoying and per-
plexing to those accustomed to the smooth and even course
of business in the City. No money ever passes through the
Accountant-General's hands ; the payments in and out of the
Bank are uniformly by giving an order to receive a certain
sum of money, or if a payment, by giving a cheque on the
Bank, which must previously pass through other offices un-
connected with the Accountant, so as to furnish an effec-
tual protection against fraud ; the trouble can only
be understood by those who have encountered it.
The Parliamentary rules relating to railway and other
public companies have brought an immense increase of
business to this department. With respect to those which
have large payments to make within a short given time the
practice is to leave at the Accountant's for one clear day the
certificate of registration, or whatever the official evidence
may be of the payment ; consequently, if put in on Monday,
the order to the Bank to receive the money maybe made out
on Wednesday, and being then placedto account, the remain-
ing question is, if re-investment be desired, how soon an
order to that effect can be obtained. We have heard it re-
marked that only gross negligence on the part of the Direc-
tors or secretaries of railway companies could allow the funds
to be locked up with the Accountant-General more than two
days, but it has been quite overlooked how much new busi-
ness will now be brought into an office thus clumsily organized ' •
and if the funds are very large, even the two days will
do much mischief. One supposition we have heard, and that
far from an unreasonable one, is, that compliance with the
standing order by the railway companies will be rendered im-
practicable by the inability of this department to wade through
such a mass of transactions. At present the rule is, with
regard to purchases of stock under the direction of the Ac-
countant-General, that they take place by the Government
broker for time— that is, he buys on Monday, Tuesday, or
Wednesday the stock to be paid for on Friday, which com-
pletely nullifies the supposed quick process of two days ; and
seeing that the parties may not all exercise the extreme of
1 diligence in such a case, it may be safely assumed on the
1 average that a week will be lost with all moneys placed with
the Accountant General as deposits for railways before they
can be invested, while many persons in the uncertain state
of the funds will decline investing at all. The question of
where the money is to come from to pay up these deposits
will depend to a certain extent upon the solvency of the re-
spective Railway Companies, or their capacity of borrowing
it; but if some mutual understanding is not come to be-
tween them and the bankers, no degree of credit can
weather the storm, and the whole trade of the City
must be thrown for a few days into confusion. There ought
to be some reform without delay in the office of the Accoun-
tant-General, which is utterly unfit for such business, and, if
embarrassment does arise, will be easily shown to be one of
the principal causes of it. If these deposits had been made
payable at the Bank of England, though even there some oil
might be applied to the wheels with benefit to the public—
however great their amount, not the least .fifficulty would
ill'ellnli:'''ln bne hohr the lodgment of any one railway
would be made, and converted into stock or Exchequer-bills
the next, without the rest of the moneyed world being cog-
nizant of the matter. To have only such a clumsy machinery
as we new possess for such an important purpose is a digrace
to a commercial country. The parties in the City whose
hopes in the Chancellor of the Exchequer have failed them,
now rely upon disclosures to be made on Monday by Sir
Robert Peel when settling the course to be taken by the
House in regard to the railway companies. This must also,
,it is clear, end in disappointment. There is nothing left, as
stated before, but to grapple fairly with the subject, and for
each man in distress to assist and consult with the others.
—Times.