The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-20 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY M NiNG S Ny

A T a GENERAL ( OUR-r of PROPRIETORS,
.11 held at the BANK of ENGLAND, on Tinian...a. the 19th k.f
March, 1846,
Resolved—That the thanks of this Court be given to the Governor,
Deputy Governor, and Court of Directors of the Bank of England,
i for their able management of the affairs of this Corporation, and
particularly for the liberal accommodation afforded to the commercial
public during the last halt' year.
Ord, red—Thar the said resolution be advertised in all the daily
morning and evening papers.

JOHN KNIGHT, SerTetary,

BANK UST ALA 1 A •
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.-183.5.)
London: 8, Austin Friars. March 12, 1846.
NOTICE OF DIVIDED.
, .
The Court of Directors hereby give notice that a half-yearly divi-
dend of One and a Half per cent. (being at the rate of three per cent.
per annum) on the capital stock of the Corporation, will be payable
,to the Proprietors on MONDAY the 13th day of Aram next, at their
Offices as Wove. between the hours of Ten and Three. The transti-r
books of the Bank will he closed on Monday the 23d instant, had
continue so until the dividend oecomes payable,
By order of the Court,
WILLIAM MILLIKEN, Secrenr3.
• - •

GROCERS' -AND TEA DEALERS' BENS
VOLENT PROTECTION SOCIETY.

A Full Report (of flve•.•eolurinas) of the Interesting proceeding's at
the Ninth General Annual Meeting,of the Grocers' and Tea. Dealers'
Benevolent
.Protection Society, held at the .London Tavern, on Tues-
day last, will appear In the " JOURNAL 'OF COMMERCE" of
TO-MORROW. .

The " JOURNAL OF COMMERCE," a .London Weekly Com-
mercial and Family Newspaper, supplies an authentic record of
General Trading Information, with a digest of all the Foreign and
Domestie News of the week.

May be had .( Price 6d.) of the Newsmen; or at the office of publi-
cation, 54, Gracechurch-sweet, City.

NINETY-SIXTH SALE.
•
CUSTOM-HOUSE, LONDON, Meacn, 1816.
VOR SALE, Order of the HohouraWe Com-
missioners of her Majesty's Customs, at Twave o'clock at
Noon precisely, on MoNuar, 30th, and TUESDAY, 31st ➢larch, WED-
NESDAY, ISt, THURSDAY, Yd, FRIDAY, 3d, and SATURDAY, 4th April,
1846, at the COMMt rICIAL SALE ROOMS, Mincing-lane,

The following GOODS for HOME CONSVMrTIOST

109 Pieces bfack silk hat plush.
882 Pieces pll ow lace, 174 pieces thread lace.
39 Cartoons artificial flowers. ,

420 French silk shawls and scarfs,
13 caution crape shswis.
27 Sets priests' vestments.

3%i8 Pelts embroidered muslin curtains.
686 -Gold and 417 silver watches, 79 cloefitft,'
2,463 cameos, 976 Mosaic and 285 enamel brooch fronts.
American and Dutch cl,eks, barege, wafer and paper boxes.
beads, • baskets, 'bead purses, bronze powder, coloured p,,reelain,
combs, cotton canvas, muslin collars, chain watch guards, dressed
calf hides, dressed feathers, embroidered muslin dresses and shawls,
embroidered handkerchiefs, elastic slates, silk gauze, fitrniture,
gongs, fringes, French damask, gilt metal buttons, gold watch keys
and chains, glass, head ornaments, hair brushes, habit shirts, imita
Don cameos, mahogany and rosewood tables, mock jewelery, musi-
cal boxes, Meerschaum and other pipe bowls, medallion jewel cases,
mousseline. de laines, matchas, needlework, point lace, penknives,
perfumery, purse garnitures, opera glasses, silk manufactures, straw
cord trimmings, silk purses, snuff boxes, sawn wood, tarlatans, toys,
walk-ng canes, white ,enamelled boxes, silk watch guards, watch-
maker's tools, woollen shawls, wax inciter matches, manufactured
and unmanulactured tobacco, cheroots, segars, snuff, tea, coffee,
sugar, white and red wine, rum, can de Colonic., &e., &C., &C.

FOR EXPORTATION
Watches, pistols, biscuits, refined sugar, glass tumbler`, &c.; &c., &c.

FOR TILE RE •:EFIT OF THE CROWN,

Old rope, old telescope% and a giant ty of old stores.
FOR EXPORTATIO N, at BUYER'S PRIkES : or. ROME CON-

SUMPTLIN, on PAYMENT of the DUTIES.
Canton crape shawls, silk manufactures, spirits, co-dials, wines,
tea, coffee, arrowroot, tamarinds, books, sugar, molasses, &e., &e.
To be viewed at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom-house, Thames-
street, at the St. Katherine, London, West India, awl East India
Docks, and t the Tobacco Ground, Rotherbithe, on Thursday, 26th,
Friday, 27th, Saturday, 28th March, 1,46, from Ten o'clock in the
Morning until three o'clock in the Afternoon, and on the Days of
Sale, from Ten o'clock in the Morning until fw,lve o'clock at
Soon.

Take notice,,that the goods sold at this sale w l' not be &livered
until after two clear days of the day they are sold, andthat no lots can
be paid for at the Office of the Receiver of Floes atter Two 'clock in
the Afternoon: During the days 01 sale, money will not be re-
ceived by the Receiver of Fines after Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon.

Catalogues may be had at the Queen's Warehoute, Custotn-house,
price (hie Shilling each.

11111 E CAMPAIGN on the SUTLEJ creating
immense Interest at the present moment, there is exhibiting
at the ROYAL POLYTECHNIC; INSTITUTION Portraits of ,he
most Distnignished Men both in the SIKH ARMY and GOVERN:
MENT of LAHORE, taken by a lady at rank, distinguished in the
Fine Arts, during her residence in i 'oh& Also,
Portraits of Sir Henry
'Jardine, Sir Robert and Lsoy Sale, Re. By m. ant of the OPAQUE
MICROSCOPE these interesting Portraits are on a msgniSc ni
scale. Mornings, at Half-past Four o'clock ; Evening,, at a Quarter
to Ten. The LECTURES include those on ASTEONOM Y, 'during
Lent on Mondays,, W,(hiesdays, and Fridays, COLEMAN'S WORK,
INO MODEL ascending and descending Inclined Planes, Re. Re.

pany. Ile proposed that trains should run every half hour for
Gravesend, and every five hours ;Or Dover. He had fixed no statloa
yet at Grevniritbe, nor had he yet fixed neon a station at Graves •
end, .owing to the differeace of opinion which _prevailed
thereon the subject. The South. Eastern line was nearer to Greenkithe
than his own, but it was not ire:rer to Gravesend. From Gravesend
to Rochester th—e was a gradient tie- two miles of 1 in 142. The
difference of level between the high water mark at Rochester and
the level of the letel.oi the 'nibs there was about 17 feet 3 inches.
With respect to that portion of the line wit:eh lies near t.Faeersham,
he should certainly prefer the str4.-ht line, which avoided the town,
- but, a c,urse, 1! was for the Committee to say whether the import-
ance of the town of FavershinujustiMatihe adoptiou of the alterna
• true Mee which eau tbroogii the town. There went,: be a tram-road
from the Inc ntays,With gradients of 1 in 3s, 1 in
.28; and 1 to 17. hut there way no section to mint:et it with
the altet•natlve The distance of tine strhight line from the
gunpowder niilleicsould be-about 185, and the tram-road about 3-'0
yards. Thi,leripp,„oft the itrwl worn 11,iighton to Harboard.,am, was
flyemiles, the tunnel
,Was t5r1.0 tiards or 4 little more thaw three-
niearters (Wu nilleilitrii-either side there -win; half a mile of mixed
deep and shillomtvetati4l4-theavers'ge depth was 5u feet, and deepest
depth 80 feet ; th.srost of-this portiets of the we•I: would be 160,000/.
This caleulationll4,-Oadi in anticipation of flinEng the Boughton
hill consisted of -tt reticular kind Of sand, 10/. per cent. would per-
haps have to bellattcied, If the Atrattan was found to be of London
,
clay. 'the Prkell4 tire 4utineling would be about 70'. the yard in-
caw jug ,orningeneies. The Dem and Dovcr trains, he proposed to
work from the Canterbury station, that was a train leaning Deal
and I lover staticeus wooed arrive at the
point of junction where the line
forked otf and he drawn into Canterbury and on to Chathamby one
engine. Further tiltbeyond Canterbury the Rainsgate and Margate
csrriages would be hooked On behind the Deal carriages, and so
e,irried on to Chatham, and thenee to the metropolis. The line be- •
tweet] Canterbury and Deal would only be five miles shorter than
tire i'llth-Eastern, but the hire, ought to be taken hi the aggregate;
and thenit shortened the distance between the metropolis and Deal
try tenor twelve nit es. The maximum gradient on the litre *as I
in 132, while the fuse between L 6, (sham and
•Woolwich wa- le°
feet. The work this n ear was more expensive than that -which he
proposed last year, hut he had made it so in deference to art opi-
nion expressed by the Counnittee which sat last year. •
The witness was then crosi-examined by Mr. CALVERT, on behalf
of several landholders, whore property would be injured by the
station in Union-street, Southwark, with a view of showing that
last year •it was proposed to have ,a station at the Brick-
layers' Anns, which inlaid be 'extended to the west, ivhiitl
the Croydon and .Greettwich line 'might be used for passen-
gers going to the eastward. The Learned Counsel wished .to •
impress upon the Committee that the plan of last year was still guile
adequate to meet the wants or the public, and therefore there was no
necessity for tire lines Invading Southwark.
• The remainder of- the day ryas occupied with similar cross•
examinatb•ns osiAbehalt tfuume.r,ous other landltollets on the line.
The Committee adjourned at four ii'cloirk till twelve to-rnorreiv.

The next allegation fell to the ground.