The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-25 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.

JOINT STOCK COMPANIES.—A return, to an order of
the louse of Commons, made up to the Ist of June,
1846, of the Joint Stock Companies, which have
been registered in conformity with the provisions of
7 and 8 Vic. 110, comprises, under distinct heads, a list
of existing, of provisionally registered, and of completely
registered companies. The first is a return of compa-
nies registered, as having been in existence previous to
September 5, 1844. It merely gives the title and the
date of the registration of these companies, of which
there are 994. The second is a return of 1,633 provisionally
registered eompanies, the formation of which was
begun subsequently to September 5, 1844. In 1,112 of
these there has been no registry of directors. T.ba
names of the directors of the remaining number foci
the subject of a separate branch of the return. In I ILI
out of the 1,633 projects no capital has been declared,And
in the 770 in which there is a return of the amount of
capital, it reaches the enormous figure of 634,127,5501.,
of which 40,000,0001. was required for " Cooke's Na-
tional Railway," and 35,000,0001. for the " British and
Irish Granary Corn-mill Company and Provident
Institution." The third part of the return contains
a list of the compantes which have been completely re-
gistered since September 1844. They number 115, and
their joint capital (excepting one, the " New Protecting
Society," which does not propose to raise any), amounts
to 29,774,220/. Of these 24 are gas, 16 railway, 14 in-
surance, 7 steam-packet, 7 building, 7 loan or invest-
ment, 6 mining, 5 glass, 3 mill, 3 cemetery, 2 coal, 2
salvage, 2 iron, 2 brewery, 2 market-house, 1 bonding-
warehouse, 1 smelting, 1 tontine, 1 bath, 1 emigration,
1 cork-cutting, I screw-ship, 1 baking, 1 Decca sugar,
I commercial, 1 railroad- carriage, and 1 oyster com-
panies. The names of the directors of these several
companies are set forth in a separate branch of the
return.

OTAHEITE.—The following memorial to Lord Pal-
merston, on the subject of French interference in Otaheite,
was adopted at a public meeting held in the Town-hall
of Tewkesbury on Friday last, the mayor in the chair:—
" We the inhabitants of the borough of Tewkesbury and
its vicinity, beg leave to express to your Lordship our
deep sympathy with the Queen and Christian people of
Otaheite, in their sufferings under the dominion of the
French in that island, and the contiguous island of
Eimeo. That whilst we are anxious most carefully to
avoid any movement which might by possibility embroil
the respective Governments of France and England, we
do most earnestly entreat her Majesty's Government to
adopt such measures, through negotiation or otherwise,
as shall by specific mutual guarantees ensure to the
inhabitants of the Society Islands, namely, Raiatea,
Taahaa, Boroboro, Iluahine, and Maupiti, the peaceable
and permanent possession of their native soil. We
moreover urgently
implore your Lordship to obtain from
the French Government a positive and explicit pledge
that any portion of the Otaheitian population who may be
disposed to retire from that island and from Eimeo shall
be empowered so to do, without molestation or subse-
quent interference with their persons or property.
MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE.—LiSZt, the pianist, has
left Vienna for Constantinople. On his return he will
most probably succeed Donizetti, whose malady is in-
curable, as Kapebneaster, at the Court of Vienna. Henri
Herz, the pianist, and Camilla Sivori, the violinist, have
given concerts at Now York with brilliantsuccess. Mdme
Cinti Damoreau, the vocalist, and Emile Prudent, the
pianist, have given a concert in Paris, the proceeds of
which have been devoted to the relief of the sufferers of
the recent terrible inundations. The receipts were consi-
derable, an unusual result in entertainments devoted to
the purposes of charity. Gardoni, the singer, having
broken his engagement with M. Leon Fillet (M. Vatel
and Mr. Lumley having paid the stipulated fine of
2,0001.), M. Ponchard s been engaged to undertake
the first tenor part in Rossini's long-talked of pasticcio,
si
street,
Robert Bruce, shortly to be represented at the Acadtanie.
A SUITABLE SITE FOR THE BRAZEN DUKE.—A
creeesnctenat design
or
piazza ;
at certainly
all
have a oer o
vee mt, o
difficulty is said to exist as to the provision of a suitable
te f
agnifi
r
commen-
surate with its proportions ; it is quite certain
that every building, public or private, would be
destroyed by its proximity, while the figure itself
would appear monstrous, from the impossibility of
seeing it at a proper angle of vision, whether pined on a
high or a low pedestal. Bat there is one spot prepared
by the hand of nature for the purpose, and a spot requir-
ing the embellishment which such a majestic monument
would confer;—that-spot is the summit of Primrose-hill.
Monument and site so appropriate to each other, that the
effect would rise to the sublime! Mereover,l would have a
vault beneath the pedestal, consecrated, in which the re-
mains of the hero would repose when his earthly career is
ended. A colossal groupe on the summit of this beautiful
and remarkable hill would be visible from every part of
the metropolis, from the shipping passing up and down
the river, and to the elsepasseng y the Great Northern
and Western Railways; it ld be placed upon a
pedestal from 20 to 25 feet high, according to the de-
sign—(l watched the hoisting of the statue, and I found
the effect to be better at that height than at any other,
either higher or lower) ; the pedestal should be designed
by an architect ; no sculptor can design a pedestal, as
witness their abortive efforts all over the metropolis. It
should be built of Irish limestone.--The Builder.
The practice of buying and selling by the electric
telegraph in the United States is very common. Per-
sonsor six hundred miles from a market
•
can ascertain in ten minutes the prices of various com-
modities, and make this novel insention the means of
effecting sales or purchases, as occasion may require.
The charge for telegraphic communications in America
is considerably less .
thikn in this country cense uentl
b the " q
y
more resorted to, espeMally y ,eonnercial classes.
WEST COAST FISHERIES. The Highland and
west coast fishers seem to have roused themselves up this
season, as a greater quantity oafall.kinds of fish is sent
into market this es
on many
are years
.by
eat numbson thn
er of b daily
past. A gr h railway from Ardrossan to
transmitted by t e
Glasgow, and thmarket is in general inundated.
On Saturday nightfrom thirty to forty large
d other fie Ti were shipped
boxes of lobsters an fiby
Liverpool, and many of the men,
the steamers for Live _
their fish fresh, have
finding a difficulty in disposing of
Eal of salting. 1
to the p
wisely betaken themselves
T IT SELF THE ARCH
OPINION OF GOVERNMV.
dON.of
AND STATUE QUESTION.—In ac)_ !nolv e ging receipt.tects
t of the Jantatute of Architects
against unanimous report
against the dwindling effect of the size of the statue on
thus and
and the injut.37 otherwise
the triumphal arch,
' 1-11. principal
grandeur of approach
done to the general
to the metropolis, Lord Morpeth expressed his gratifica-
tion in finding, that the opinion of the Institute agreed
ty% wrnment.— The Builder,
with that entertained by the G