The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-29 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL GENERAL PIER COMPANY...—. The
ordinary general meeting of this company was held yes-
terday, at Gerrard's Hall, Mr. Chapman in the chair,
to receive the auditor's report, and other business. The
auditor having read his report, Mr. Fearon complained
that it was in several respects irregular, especially in
relation to a bad debt, arising out of the bankruptcy of
a tenant of the company, named Lemann, and moved
that a committee be appointed to investigate the ac-
counts of the company, and generally to inquire into
the management of its affairs. No objection having
been made to this proposition, it was carried, and the
adoption of the financial report postponed. A discus-
sion followed on the subject of the non-performance
by the board of directors of a clause of the deed,
which bound them to fill up any vacancy in the board
without delay, whereas it appeared that one of the
members of the board having died more than a twelve-
month since, the board had not filled up the appoint-
ment; while, on the other hand, a Mr. Sexton had
attended meetings of the board without being duly qua-
lified. Mr. Haslewood pointed out that the chairman
and several of the directors being holders of shares in
other pier companies were under the deed disqualified to
be directors of the Commercial Company. In other
respects, too, they had shown themselves men not fit to
be entrusted with the management of the affairs of the
company, and he therefore moved a vote of censure upon
them, and that counsel's opinion be taken as to whether
they had not forfeited their appointments.—A Share-
holder said that the better course would be for the
board to resign their seats at once.—The chairman and
the other directors having adopted this suggestion and
respectively resigned their seats, the following gentle-
men were appointed in their places :—Messrs. Hasle-
wood, Dale, Fearon, Goodwin, Pegg, Lloyd, and Haw-
trey, the three last having been members of the previous
board.—Mr. Heath was then re-appointed one of the
auditors, the other auditor, Mr. Wilding, having been re-
elected by the past board.—A dividend, payable on and
after next Monday, was then declared of 10 per cent.
for last year and 10 per cent. for the present year, the
thanksvoted having been
givenarehtooldtheers
SPIRITS IN BOND.--A communication has been
made to the Commissioners of the Customs by the Lords
of the Treasury, stating that the latter approve of the
shareholders being
chairman
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the meeting
report of the former on a memorial from an eminent
firm, praying a diminution of duty on a deficiency of
one gallon a hogshead of brandy, and that brandy racked
in quarter-casks may be entitled to the same allowance
and regulations as if imported in such casks, in which
report it was stated by the Commissioners that by two
orders of their Lordships of the Treasury, dated March
and May last, authority was givenfor a remission of the
duty on apparent deficiencies, similar to that now applied
for ; but that since then there is an evident tendency to
make the grant of these indulgences the foundation of a
system detrimental to the revenue, and that, therefore,
their Lordships now recommend that similar concessions
in this and all future cases be refused.
An accident of a very curious and serious nature
occurred at Trimdon colliery on Tuesday night last.
A pitman, named Francis Dinning, was making shots
(powder rolled in paper for blasting coal) in his own
house, about six o'clock in the evening, when his
nephew, a boy, came in with some milk, part of which
he spilled. Dinning took up a bag containing 61bs.
of powder, and struck the boy with it ; the bag burst
and the powder fired, and blew the window out, partly
unroof d the house, and seriously injured five persons
who were in it at the time, one of whom, a child two
years old, named Moody, is since dead. Dinning's
nephew had an eye blown out, and is in a very precarious
state.—Durham Chronicle.
AN OLD FISHERMAN.—James Bruce, the oldest
inhabitant of Ferryden, died on Sunday last, at the ad-
vanced age of ninety years. Till the last ho enjoyed
good health, and although the storms of ninety winters
had passed over his head, his hair was neither grey nor
thin upon his temples. Old James was a quiet citizen,
and could beguile the tedium of a winter evening by re-
lating the many and great changes which he had lived to
tee. He recollected Montrose when it was scarcely one-
third of its present size, and he remembered well when
ail the shipping consisted of two or three small sloops
moored round a small jetty at the foot of the Shore
Wyud.—Montrose Paper. • • •