The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-01 00:00:00

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

9,980

8,692

6,186

7,34

Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal
Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley
Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 46,036
Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver-
hampton
Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven . 29,996
Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad-
ford .... ....
Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union
Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent
Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking
Company, Chesterfield
Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work-
ington . .
Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com-
pany, Cheltenham
Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company,
Coventry
Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 12,602
County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel-
tenham
Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company
Carlisle
Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 20,561
Dudley and West Bromwich :Banking Company,
Dudley
Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 18,361
Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com-
pany, Darlington 20,120
East of England Bank, Norwich
Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 133,936
Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax. 14,616
Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 37,185
Hull Banking Company, Hull 28,355
Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Ha-
lifax
Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com-
pany, Halifax. 29,701
Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,384
Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 20,500
Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company,
Knaresborough .. 24,495
Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,379
Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster . 51,756
Leeds Banking Company, Leeds
Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester
Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 50,997
Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking
Company, Leamington Priors
Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow
Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank-
ing Company, Nottingham 21,627
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking
Company, Nottingham
Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint-

9,021

9,355
8,966

Stock Banking Company, Newcastle
National Provincial Bank of England, Birming-
ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street,
London 377,275
North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 47,832
Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 68,433
Northamptonshire Banking Company, North-

2,570

ampton
North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 27,545
Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei-
cester
Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth... 1,644
Ss tuheffickeld,Banaking Company, Sheffield... 33,644
".
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'-4mford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com-
PanY,Staniford
shirey 38,8 ank, nkivandg
sCoommepranseyts,hßirreisßtoalnSko,mLerasnegt:
port .......
pally, stourbria_rerminster Bankionßoga:Cpkaoinmn:
Shropshire Banking 0 263,904
Stourbridge and if.„-•ciniPany, Shiffnall ...
Sheffield and Rama: .......... . .
Sheffield ire Banking Company,
"..,.". ...........
Sheffield and Rotherham j,2irii
4198,,887175
........ e:
Company, Sheffield
... .....
Swaledale and Wen51eyda1e.1.31;;;1an........"--
Richmond .. .
Storey and Thomas's Banking Company
Shaftesbury ...............................
Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield ...
... -
Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking 6 .... 1
pany, Wolverhampton .............................. 34 225
Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield 11,211
Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company,
Whitehaven . .. . 24,451
Warwick and Lewuir.gtoa Banking Company,
Warwick
West of England awl South Wales District
Bank. Bristol
Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 67,642
West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud-
dersfield
Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company,
Whitchurch
Worcester City and County Banking Company,
Worcester 5,605
York Union Banking Company, York 69,770
York City and County Banking Company, York 86,303
Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds
P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank *hums.
stamps and Taxes, November 25, 1848.

47,276

9,629

3,724

FRANCE.

The following is a full report of the Ministerial
explanations on the subject of the treatment of the
Spanish refugees, given in Wednesday's sitting of the
Assembly :
At two o'clock, M. Corbon, Vice-President, took the
chair, when M. Joly ascended the tribune to address
questions to the Ministry relative to the affairs of Spain.
M. Joly said that he had been charged by Spanish
refugees to lay their grievances before the National As-
sembly. Immediately after the revolution of February,
the Spanish Government sent to Berlin a Minister
Plenipotentiary, General Zarco del Valle, to offer
the co-operation of Spain in the event of
the formation of a new coalition 'against France. On
arriving at Paris the General heard that a revolution
was imminent at Berlin, and having consulted his Go-
vernment he was instructed to proceed on his mission,
but to report that his object was to examine
certain fortifications. General Zarco del Valle was well
received at the Prussian Court, and having delivered
his message, he succeeded in prevailing on Frederick
William IV. to recognise the sovereignty of the Queen
of Spain, which result he could not otherwise have ob-
tained. The French Government was well aware of the
real nature of his mission; but instead of resenting the
hostility of Spain, it gays her a mark of friendship,
by appointing Charge d'Affaires in Madrid M. de
Lesseps, who, as Consul of France at Barce-
lona, participated in the two reactionary move-
ments which took place in that city. Since then a new
cordial understanding commenced between the Spanish
and French Governments, and it soon became so
intimate that the latter stationed on the frontier a
special commissary, named Labridre, who had filled the
same functions under the Ministry of M. Thiers. The
duty of that functionary was to watch the intrigues
against the Queen's Government, and to remove into the
interior of France the Progressista or Republican ene-
mies of her Catholic Majesty. That functionary had
made himself the agent, and he could add the accomplice,
of the wholesale murders perpetrated of late at the
other side of the Pyrenees. He had repaired to Figue-
ras and Puycerda, on the Spanish territory, to concert
measures with the Catalonian authorities. It was owing
to his exertions that M. Escosura and two Spanish
officers were arrested and conducted to the citadel
of Perpignan. M. Escosura was formerly a member
of the Spanish Cabinet, and being hostile to General
Narvaez had been apprehended and confined in the fort
of St. Marguerite, at Cadiz, until the departure of a
vessel, which was to transport him to the Philippine
Islands. M. Escosura escaped and sought refuge on
board a French vessel, which safely landed him in France.
The papers found in his possession were transmitted to
the Spanish Ambassador, in Paris, who forwarded them
to Barcelona. On receipt of those documents, three Cap-
tains of the Spanish army were arrested at Barcelona,
tried by court-martial, sentenced to death, and executed.
The Cabinet of the Republic, he regretted to say, fol-
lowed towards Spain precisely the same line of policy
as its predecessor under the monarchy. The other fact
denounced by M. Joly referred to the revolt of 69 re-
cruits and deserters, embarked on board a vessel at
Santander, who brought the vessel into Pauillac. After
being detained there prisoners for some time, they were
delivered up to the Spanish Consul of Bordeaux, who
sent them back to Santander, where they have been sen-
tenced by court-martial to the galleys. M. Joly trusted
that the Minister for Foreign Affairs would be able to
reply satisfactorily to those two charges.
M. Ras, ide, Minister for Foreign Affairs, said that
M. Lesseps bad been appointed Charg6 d'Affaires at
Madrid by M. Lamartine, on account of his noble con-
duct at Barcelona during the bombardment of 1843. As
regarded the charge of following the policy of the pre-
ceding Government, he replied that, in his opinion, it
was the interest of France to have no distinct policy in
Spain. Ever since Louis XIV. a system of intrigue
hal been pursued with respect to that country, which he
reproved. Ile followed the directions laid down by M.
Lamartine, which consisted in countenancing no
party or lottery in Spain, and maintaining relations with
her founded on mutual sympathy and fraternity. As re-
spected the documents alluded to by X Joly, and which
were said to have served to convict three officers at
Barcelona, the accusation was totally unfounded. The
refugees, whose names were mentioned, had, it was true,
been arrested, because they were conspiring on the
French territory against the Queen's Government, and
their papers seized. Those papers had been sent
up to Paris, and he had refused to commu-
nicate them to the Spanish Ambassador. They
had been placed under seals by his orders; they
still remained unopened, and had been read by nobody,
not even by himself. He affirmed it on his honour.
M. Dutaure, Minister of the Interior, replied, that
peace existing between France and Spain imposed upon
both duties which France could not refuse to fulfil. If,
after the revolution of February, no precautionary
measures had been adopted on the Spanish frontier,
it was because the Queen had granted an amnesty
which permitted the refugees to return to their coun-
try. But, when it was ascertained that the am-
nesty was not general, France, in virtue of the
principles of the law of nations, took measures
to disperse the bodies of refugees who assembled
on the frontiers in order to invade the country, and
seized the arms and ammunition they had collected on
different points foy that purpose. M. Ledru Rollin
had been the first-to order those measures, and his con-
duct had been subsequently imitated by his successors,
Messrs. Recurt and Senart. It was the latter who ap-
pointed the Special Commissary, M. Labrihre, on the
25th September last, for the surveillance of the six fron
tier departments, and who gave him the necessary in
structions. M. Dufaure then read two circulars ad.

ldressed by him to the frontier authorities, reminding
them of the obligations they owed a friendly nation, and
recommending them impartiality and moderation. M.
Escosura had been removed to Chaumont, on his arrival
in France. M. Escosura subsequently asked to be al-
lowed to proceed to the south of France. His demand
was acceded to, but he was forbidden to reside in any
of the frontier departments. M. Escosura paid no at-
tention to the prohibition, and repaired to Perpignan,
where he opened relations with the disaffected on the
other side of the frontier. M. Escosura was arrested
and his papers were seized and forwarded to the Ministry
of the Interior. M. Dufaure, considering them a mere
depot placed in his hands, never opened them. A few
days ago he had delivered them to the Minister of Fo-
reign Affairs, who brought them back to him the even-
ing before, unopened, as he had received them. Those
papers had neither been seen nor touched by the Spanish
Ambassador, and they could not consequently have served
to convict the three officers shot atßarcelona.With regard
to the schooner Montanesa, brought into Pauillac by 69
soldiers, who had forcibly seized the vessel, this affair
had occurred before his accession to the Ministry. But
the documents he had found in that department proved
that his predecessor had acted as he should have done
himself under similar circumstances. Those refugees
had not landed on the French territory; they were on
board a Spanish vessel, and France had no control over
them. M. Dufaure, in conclusion, maintained that
France could not suffer civil war to be organized in
her territory against a friendly power, and would con-
tinue to fulfil the duties imposed upon her by inter-
national laws. The utmost moderation, however, was
recommended to the French authorities, and many re-
fugees were even allowed to reside on the frontier. M.
Salamanca had applied for leave to remain eight days at
Pau. M. Dufaure had consented to it, provided he re-
turned immediately to Paris. M. Salamanca, however,
had not kept his word, and was still at Bayonne.
M. Joly replied that the Minister of the Interior and
Foreign Affairs might not have opened 'or read the
papers seized on by M. Escosura and his ;or
but that M. Labrilre had not been influenced by the
same scruples, and must have taken copies of them,
for the sentence of the court-martial stated in po-
sitive terms that the documents, which served to con-
vict the three officers, had been deciphered, thanks
to the key found among the papers of a central
junta that met in France. M. Joly asked M. Dufaure
if he could pledge himself for the morality of M. La-
briAre, and if he was aware of his having been concerned
in a fraudulent musket contract with the notorious
Vidocq, for which he had been tried by the Court of
Correctional Police.

M. Senart, former Minister of the Interior, said that
on the 25th of September he had appointed a special
commissary on the Pyrenean frontier, whom he had in,
structed to exercise a close surveillance in the six adjoin-
ing departments, and to oppose all facts contrary to the
law of nations. He then explained the part he had taken
in the affair of the Montancsa, and the incident having
terminated, the Assembly commenced the discussion on
the estimates of the naval department.

EXTRA ORDINARY ELOPEMENT.
One of the most extraordinary cases of elopement
that has probably ever been heard of is at this present
time engaging the attention of the public in Preston and
the surrounding districts, and proves that "love laughs
at locksmiths," for in the present instance it broke
through iron bars, removed bolts and fastenings, and
scorned the eye and strict surveillance of the keepers of
a lunatic asylum.
On Saturday se'nnight the village of Chorley, usually
so quiet, undisturbed, and unexcited, except by every-
day occurrences, was thrown into a state of extraor-
dinary commotion by the following romantic adventure:
About two years ago, Dr. J. Seed obtained a license
for opening his residence as a private lunatie asylum, and
he received as a patient a young lady, about 23 years of
age, named Elizabeth Dune, and daughter of the late
Captain Dune, of Astley Hall, near Manchester. She
was considered to be of unsound mind, and incapable of
taking care of herself or property. The latter, it is
stated, was about 3,0001. a year.
Some time back, a groom, named Ellis Norris, laid
siege to the heart of the cook at Brough Hall, where his
master used frequently to visit, but, finding that he
was not so warmly received as he had anticipated
he would be, he transferred his affections to
Miss Durie, whom he frequently saw looking
out of the winnows whilst he was waiting for
his master. When he found that he could treat
with her, that her heart beat responsively, and her eyes
"looked love to eyes that spoße again," he plied his suit,
andsola for twelve months he has continued to visit and
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