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

PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.

JOINT STOCK CoInPANIES.—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. Ia 1,112 of
these there has been no registry of directors. The
names of the directors of the remaining number fovea
the subject of a separate branch of the return. In U
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 companies 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
Sarano., 7 cetnann r---. • , • •• •• „. •
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, 1 screw ship, 1 baking, 1 Decca sugar,
1 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.

OTATIEITE.—Thd 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, nuahine, and Maupiti, the peaceable
and permanent poss ssion of their native soil. We
moreover urgently implore your Lordship to obtain from
the French Government a positive and explicit pledge
that anv 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, whore malady is in-
curable, as Kapelmeaster, at the Court of Vienna. Henri
Herz, the pianist, and Catnilla Sivori, the violinist, have
given concerts at New York with brilliant success. Mdme
Cinti Datnoreau, the vocalist, and Eatile Prudent, the
pianist, have given a concert in Paris, the proceeds of
which have Inen devoted to the relief of the sufferers of
'le 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 Pillet (M. Vatel
and Mr. 1
8.. Lumley having paid the stipulated fine of
2,0001.), M.. Ponehard has been engaged to undertake
the first tenor part in Rossini's long-talked of pasticcio,
Robert
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difficulty is said to exist as to the provision of a suitable
site for so magnificent a design ; and certainly we
have no street, or crescent, or piazza at all 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
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ended. A colossal groupe on the summit of this beautiful
and remarkable bill would be visible from every part of
the metropolis, from the shipping passing up
and down
the river, and to the passengers by the Great Northern
and Western Railways; it should be placed upon a
pedestal froin 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 to chitect ; no sculptor can design a pedestal, as
occasion
commercial
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-
ions residing five or six hundred miles from a market
can ascertain in ten minutes the prices of various com-
modities, and make this novel invention the means of
The charge for telegraphic. communications in America
may
classes.r egtlire.
is considerably less than in this country, consequently
effecting sales or pesuprmchiaasneys,b)a.
The Highland and
west coast fishers seem to have roused themselves up this
as
as a greater quantity of all kinds of fish is sent
season,
into market this season than for many years by
.past. A great number of boxes are daily
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transmitted by the railway from
Ardrossan to
Glasgow, and the market is in general inundated.
.On Saturday night from thirty to forty large
boxes of lobsters and other fish were shipped by
of their fish fresh, have
the steamers for Liverpool, and many of the met:,
OPINION OF GOVEILNIVENT ITSELF ON THE ARCH
AND STATUE QUESTTC)I4.—In acknowledging receipt of
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the unanimous report of the Institute of Architects
against the dwindling effect of the size of the statue on
the triumphal arch, and the injury thus and otherwise
done to the general grandeur of this principal approach
to the metropolis, Lord Alorpet It expressed his gratifica-
the opini,o) of the Institute -sgreed
tlwithb n itnha finding,ntettated by the Government.—The Builder.