The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-07 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING SUN, FEBRUARY 7, 1846.

No. 16,687.

TO RAILWAY PROPRIETORS AND SUARRHOLDRAS.
MESSRS. WICKHAM and CO., Share
Auctioneers, inform their friends and the public, that their
PUBLIC SALES OF RAILWAY SHARES, &c., are held every
MONDAY and THURSDAY, at the HALL OF COM MNRCE,
Threadneedle street, London, to which place, or to the office of the
Auctioneers, 28, Threadneedle-street, all favours and instructions are
equosted to be addressed.
All scrip and Share Certificates must be lbrwarded to or deposited
at the office of the Auctioneers, as above, at least the day preceding
the day of public sale, and advices of the result of thoce e sake will be
pr
forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds Aurae-
diately disposed of according to instructions.
SCALE OF CHARGEII.—Under 201., Is. per snare; limier M., ls. ed. ,
under 100/., Se. 643. ; and is. for all above.

NORTH WALES RAILWAY.
• GENERAL MEETING.
Notice is hereby given, that the Ordinary or half-yearly GENE-
RAL MEETING of the SUAREIIOLDERS of the North Wales
Railway Company will be held at the LONDON TAVERN, Bishops-
gate-street, in the City of London, on THURSDAY, the 26th day of
February next, at One o'clock in the afternoon precisely, for the
transaction of the ordinary business of the Company, in pursuance of
the North Wales Railway Act, 1845, and of the other general Acts of
Parliament relating to railways.
And notice is hereby further given, that the Books for the Regis-
tration of Transfers will be closed on and after the 16th day of
February next, until such half-yearly general meeting shall have
been held.

By order of the Board,
JOHN MARRINER, Secretary.
2, Gaildhall Chambers, Basinghall-street, Jan. 29, 1545.

MIDLAND RAILWAY.
The Midland Railway Company are prepared to receive
LOANS on SECURITY of their DEBENTURES, for periods of
Three, Fire, or Seven Years, in sums of not less than 1,0001. each,
at interest after the rate of 41. per cent. per annum, papable half
yearly.
Applications to be made to the Secretary, at the Company's
Office, Derby.
January 28, 1846

By order,

J. F. BELL, Secretary,

THE 'BIRKENHEAD, CHESTER, MOLD,
RIJA.BON, AND VALE 01' LLANGOLLEN RAILWAY
COMPANX. s' cvxMirrEs.
W. Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., itc., Alderman, Chairman.
William Morley, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Samuel Haines, Esq. I Joseph Shaw, Esq. •
Frederick Hewitt, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq.
I
John Pickersgill, Esq. John Wheelton, Esq.
The directors have the satisfaction to announce to the Shareholders
of the Company, that the amount of deposit money necessary for
compliance with the standing orders of the House of Commons, was
yesterday lodged in the Bank of England to the credit of the Ac-
countantGenerai- of the Court of Chancery ; and that the petition
for the Bill has been this day presented to the House of Commons
and referred to the standing orders' committee.
By order of the Board,
JOHN SALT, Secretary.
Offices, 5, Gresham-street, London, sth Feb., 1846.

MACCLESFIELD and LICHFIELD, or
CHURNET and BLYTHE JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Offices, 11, New Palace-yard, Westminster.
City Offices, 3, Moorgate-street.
The Committee beg to state, in answer to many inquiries, that the
Petition for this Bill has been presented, and they have determined
to proceed before Parliament with every prospect of success.
Signed by order,
ALFRED (MILT, Secretary.
February 6, 1846.

ITEDICAL INVALID AND GENERAL
LIFE OFFICE.
London-25, Pall-mall, and S, Change Alley; and
Dublin-22, Nassau-street.
Diseased and healthy lives assured at all ages, en equitable terms.
25, Pall-mall. F. G. P. NEISON, Actuary.

LONDON AND COUNTY JOINT-STOCK
BANKING COMPANY.
Parent Establishment, 21, Lombard-Street.
DIRECTORS.
WILLIAM HAWES, Esq., Chairman.
EMANUEL COOPER, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
William Cory, Esq. John Cuthbert Joyer, Esq.
James William Deacon, Esq. Alexander Rogers, Esq.
William Evans, Esq. Richard Springett, Esq.
John Griffith Frith, Esq. Clement Tabor, Esq.
Swynfen Jervis, Esq. 1 John Wheelton, Esq.
General Manager—Henry Luard, Esq.
At the ANNUAL MEETING of Proprietors, held on Thursday.
Feb. 5, 1846, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, the following
Report for the year ending Dec. 31, 1845, was read by the Secretary.
W. HAWES, Esq., in the chair.
REPORT.
Your Director?, in laying before the proprietors the financial state-
ment of the London and County Bank for the last six months, hahe
ve
the pleasure to report the continued and increasing prosperity of t
Company.
Your Directors recommend the payment of the usual dividend at
the rate of five per cent. per annum (free of income-tax) on the
capital stock of the Company for the half-year ending the 31st of
December, 1845, and that the surplus, 3,4501. ss. ld., which remains
after the payment of the dividend, the expenses of the establishment,
the Interest on deposit and current accounts, the rebate of bills
not due, and the allowance for bad and doubtful debts, be carried, as
heretofore to the credit of the Reserved Fund, which will then
amount to, 18,283/. 17s. 4d., making an addition to that fund in the
year 1845 of 5,5"61. 4s. 6d.
Your Directors, re:erring to their notice in the last report of the
debt of Coils and Co., beg to state that, in consequence of the improv-
ing value of the securities held by the Bank, the approbation of any
part of the Guarantee Fund to its liquidation is considered un-
necessary.
The dividend will be payable at the head office and branch banks
of the Company on and after the 16th instant.
The members of the Board retiring by rotation are—William
Evans, Esq., John Griffith Frith, Esq., and Emanuel Cooper, Esq.,
and notices have been received that these gentlemen intend to be-
come candidates for re-election.
BALANCE SHEET of the LONDON and COUNTY BANKING
COMPANY, December 31, 1845.

Dr.
Paid up Capital
Reserved Fund

£200,510 0 0
.. 14,833 12 3
£215,343 12 3
Due to customers on current and deposit accounts 1,489,738 7 9
Gross profits for the half-year carried down .. 42,649 16 8

£1,747,731 1G 8

.. £279,40S 3 7

Cash on hand • • • • • •
Securities, discounted bills, &c. .. ..
Bank premises, freehold and leasehold • • .. -
Preliminary expenses, and expenses of establishing
branches • • • • • • • • • . .. 17,154 2 9
Current expenses, salaries, rent, and bad and doubt-
ful debts • • - • • • • • .. ..
Interest paid on current and deposit amounts • •

.. 1,401,676 11
22,832 6

18,226 14 5
8,433 18 9

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£1,747,731 16 8

Dr.
Current expenses, salaries, rent, &c., of head office
and branches, interest allowed on current and
deposit accounts, rebate on bills net due, and al-
lowance for bad and doubtful debts .. • • .. £34,860 13 2
Half-year's Dividend at 5 per cent., free from de-
duction for income-tax . • • •
Balance carried to Guarantee Fund ..

4,338 18 5
3,450 5 1

£42,649 16 8

Cr.
Gross profits for half-year brought down

.. £42,649 16 8

We, the undersigned, have examined the foregoing balance sheet,
and eompared the Items it comprises with the several books and
accounts relating thereto, and have found the same to be correct.
(Signed) JONATHAN BAItitETT.
JOHN DONKIN.
London and County Bank, January 29, 1846.

The foregoing Report having been read by the Secretary, the fol-
lowing resolutions were severally proposed, and unanimously
adopted :-
1. That the report be received and adopted, and printed for the
use of the proprietors.
2. That a dividend at the rate of five per cent. per annum be
declared upon the capital stock of the Company, clear of the income-
tax, for the past half-year, payable on and after Monday, the 16th
day of February instant.
3. That the balance of 3,4501. ss. ld. remaining to the credit of
the profit and loss accoint be carried to the guarantee fund.
4. That the thanks of this Meeting be given to the Directors for
the able manner in which they have conducted the affairs of the
Company during the past year.
5. That the sum of 2,0001. be placed at the disposal of the Directors
for their remuneration for the current year.
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this Meeting be presented to Henry Luard,.
Esq., the General Manager, the Inspector, Secretary, and the re—
spective Branch Managers, for the zeal and ability with which they
have discharged the duties of their several offices.
The ballot for the election of three Directors having been pro—
ceeded with, the following gentlemen were unanimously re-elected :
—William Evans, Esq , John Griffith Frith, Esq., and Emanuel
Cooper, Esq. (Signed) W. HAWES, Chairman.
The Chairman having left the chair, it was unanimously resolved—
That the best thanks of the Meeting be given to William Hawes,
Esq., for his able and courteous
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conducEtmintheutair.
(Signed) COOPER.
Extracted from the minutes,
(Signed)

R. P. NICHOLS, Secretary.

HORIZONTAL WATCHES, VERY FLAT.
A B. SAVORY and SONS, Watchmakers, 9,
A
Cornhill, Loadon, opposite the Bank. Price, in silver
Cases, Three and a-Half Guineas each ; or, in Gold Cases, Six Guineas
each. These Watches are accurate and durable, the Horizonte.
Escapement being peculiarly suited to combine those important requi-
sites. They are jewelled in four holes, and continue ;going while
being wound. A twelvemonth's warranty is given with each.

COMFORT in SHAVING depends cn the
proper use of a good Razor, an efficient Strop, and a Paste to
renovate the surface of the Strop when it becomes black isju I choked
with the steel from the Razor. To these must be added a soap that
will not dry suddenly on the face, and a smooth taper-poin'Ge d Elastic
Shaving Brush. Unless all these points are attended and the
Razor wiped and stropped after shaving, that operation mine t always
be a troublesome, even if not a painful one. Those gentlenwen whose
shaving apparatus is defective arc invited to I. J. MEM] 'S Esta-
blishment, No. 4, Leadenhall-street, London, where they will not
only obtain all they require for the toilet reasonable and effic lent, but
may also procure, gratis, his instructions for easy shaving, s Cropping,
&c. A large assortment of Papier Mache Manufactures. Dressing
Cases, Work Boxes, and Writing Desks, Bagatelle Tables, :Ike.

JONES'S DEMULCENT COUGH. LO-
ZENGES, the best remedy ever discovered. Persot ss afflicted
with cough, asthma, difficulty of breathing, consumption, or other
diseases or derangement of the respiratory organs, will el perience
immediate relief, and derive permanent benefit, by tb e use of
JONES'S DEMULCENT COUGII LOZENGES, which are so effica •
cious, that they will cut short the most violent paroxysm o f cough-
ing, and are so agreeable to the palate that they mar "be eaten
as a confection.
Sold by the proprietor, Peter Jones, operative chemist, 11, Norton-
folgate, Bishopsgate-street, London, in boxes Is. I M., and i ) tins at
2s. 9d. each, duty included ; and by most chemists and pate) tt medi—
cine vendors in town and country.
Wholesale Agents—llarclay and Son, Farringdon-street ; 'wards,
St. Paul's Churchyard.
•

rrHE PEOPLE'S MEDICINES, (69 in nun ber)
11 are intended to secure to the public the guaranteed Plea, icrip-
tions of an eminent Physician at a trifling cost, accompanied b, dust
full
and explicit directions and advice, and to guard the credulous sgk
the absurd error that what will cure one complaint moat necesssat 'HY
cure another.
The language to the Patient Is this, " You are here offered the
best preeoriptions which Eusope can produce, accompanied by such"
full directions and advice as must prevent the possibility of any
risk in their use. They have been selected from every valuable
source by a Physician of acknowledged eminence, and are coin.
pounded of ingredients which cannot be exceeded in purity (a
matter of the highest importance.) If any medicine will cure any
given complaint, one of these will effect it, but the Gout Pills will
not cure the Ague, nor the Ague Pills the Gout."
" The People's Medicines" may be ordered of any Chemist, or at
the Depot, 367, Strand, (corner of Exeter-street), where Pro-
spectuses may be had.
For detailed advertisement, see the first number of the " Daily
News," dated Wednesday, Jan. 21. .
MANAGER, F. MOORE, .Esq., M.R.C.S. OF ENGLAND, to
whom all communications may be addressed, at the Odes, 4, Little
Marlborough-street, Regent-street.

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
S, WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL, LONDON.
Established by Act of Parliament in 1834.
DIVISION OF PROFITS AMONG THE ASSURED.
DIRECTORS.
JAMES STUART, Esq., Chairman
HANANEL DE CASTRO, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
Samuel Anderson, Esq. Charles Graham, Esq.
Hamilton B. Avarne, Esq. F. Charles Maitland, Esq.
Edward Boyd, Esq., Resident William Railton, Esq.
E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., Assistant- John Ritchie, Esq.
Resident F. H. Thomson, Esq.
Charles Downes, Esq.
Surgeon—F. Hale Thomson, Esq., 48, Berners-street.
This Company, established by Act of Parliament, affords the most
perfect security in a large paid-up Capital, and in the great success
which has attended it since its commencement in 1834, its ANNUAL
INCOME being UPWARDS of 82,0001.
In 1541 the Company added a Bonus of 21. per cent. per annum
en the Sum Insured to all Policies of the Participating Class from
the time they were effected.
The Bonus added to Policies from March, 1834, to December 31,
1540, is as follows :
Sum Time Sum added Sum Time Sum Added
Assured. Assured. to Policy. 'Assured. Assured. to Policy.
C. 5000 6 yrs. 10 mths. £6513 6 8 £5OOO 4 years £4OO
5000 6 years GOO It 0 5000 2 years 200
The Premiums, nevertheless, are on the most moderate scale, and
only one-halfneed be paid for the first Five Years, where tiro thou-
' ranee is for Life.
Every information will be afforded en application to the Resident
Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq., and E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., of No 8,
Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.

THE TONTINE LIFE. ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 2,000,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 20/. each.
The plan of this Company offers considerable and peculiar advan-
tages to the shareholders. In addition to the profit arising from Life
Assurance transactions, It is proposed to raise a capital of 1,00 ,0001.
or upwards by the grant of Tontine Annuities in classes, to be'regu-
lated by the ages of the subscribers or their nominees, which capital,
on the death of the survivor in each class, will be divided exclusively
among the shareholders.
The principle of the Tontine Annuities is as follows:—If 1,000 per-
sons subscribe 1001. each, they or their respective nominees, being
of an age to enter the class, from 45 to 50, at which the Anna ty
Apuld be about 61. per cent., eL,e)!,Au4sriber or nominee will, during
the continuance of all the —lives, receive an Annuity of 6/. ;
but as the lives drop, the Annuity of the deceased parties
will be divided amongst the survivors until they are reduced
to six, each of whom will' then receive 1,0001, per annum for life;
but as.they respectively die off, the 1 0001. 'which he or she received
will fall into the funds of the Company, for the benefit of the share-
holders.
The classee Containing younger lives will receive a lower rate of
=may ; the older a higher rate.
This mode of investment, while it will afford ample funds fcc the
promotion of Life Assurance transactions, will further enable the
Company to guarantee to persons borrowing money upon approved
security, and effecting a policy of assurance, to be assigned
as a collateral security, that so long as the interest on the money
lent and the premium on the policy regularly paid, the money lent
shall not be called in till the precise amount accrues by the failure of
the life assured.
Applications for shares and prospectuses to be made to Mr. Charles
Edmonds, Stock and Share Broker, Sun-court, Cornhill ; and Mr.
Charles Barker, at the Temporary Offices, 46, Lincoln's Inn-fields.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION
Lectares CHEMLiTH T, with Brilliant Experiments,
by Dr. Ryan, daily at Half-past Three, and •n the Evenings of
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at Nine o'Clock. ♦ Lecture
on the .A.TMOSPLIERIC RAILWAY, by Professor Bachoffner, a
Working Model of which, carrying several persons, is exkibitod
daily. The additions to the OPAQUE MICROSCOPE, DIS-
SOLVING VIEWS, ant CHROMITROPE are very effective. The
PPIYSIOSCOPE. Eubmarine Experiments by means of tke 'WEE
and D YIN* BELL. ♦rnong the variece additions t• tite'Working
Models is Coleman's NEW AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE,
for ascending and descending Inclined Planes. ♦ 'magnificent C• -
lecti•f of TROPICAL FRITITS. Mr. Dente, the celebrated Flute
Player, will take part in tke Mule, eonducted by Dr. WRilis. Open
front Eleven to hlalf-past Five, and frets Seven to Ralf-past Tea in
the Evening.

Admittance, Ono &killing. Schools. Walt-price.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE AOCIEFY,
CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital 1500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament_
This institution otters important ant substantial ndvan-
tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities.
Tke assured has, on all occasions, the power to borr)w, without ex-
pense or forfeitare of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid,
(see table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion
of ki• interests to meet ether conveniences or necessity. Assurances
for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
HERALD.—There can be no longer hesitation in assuming
that the transfer of the railway deposits is so nearly completed
that there is no further risk of deranging the Money market
by the operation. As far as respects the Public securities,
the orders for re-investment have exceeded the orders to
effect sales both yesterday and to-day, and the consequence
is a further advance in prices. Throughout the operation,
however, the transactions in the Public Securities have, after
the first offset, been so equally balanced, that they have pro-
duced none of the anticipated convulsions in prices, and the
inconvenience, as we have repeatedly shown, has fallen chiefly
on the commercial interest.
What now remains to be put to the proof is the repay-
ment of loans made on securities by the Bank of England,
the directors of which institution are admitted on all hands
to have conducted the business with prudence and liberality.
The accommodation they have given, both by way of dis-
count and on loan, has been at short dates compared with
the ordinary course of business; but there is no doubt but a
reasonable extension of time will be given when the periods
expire as circumstances render it necessary.
Satoh a strong impression had the overcharged anticipation
of difficulties with the railway deposits produced in the
country, that the hanks that had no direct connexion with
railway business, as well as those that had, have for a
month past generally retained considerable surpluses of
money unemployed, in order to be prepared for the dreaded
catastrophe. The usual sources of discount by the large
houses in London were thus temporarily dried up, and it is
matter of astonishment to every person conversant with the
customary routine of business in the metropolis that the
mischief thereby done has not been much greater than has
yet appeared.
As far as matters have as yet been developed, it, howeve^,
proves the justice of the distinction we • drew at an early
period of the past year between the railway speculations and
those that took place. in 1824-5 and 1835-6. We showed
that the fact of the railway mania being limited to that
matter alone, without being extended to commercial com-
modities, so as to enhance their, money value, would most
materially soften the reaction compared with the other two
periods with which the parallel was drawn, and the result
has so far established the correctness of the position.
We may now expect the discount business gradually te
return to the usual channels, and the process will be accele-
rated by the distribution of the funds of defunct railway com
panies, that must now melt away by hundreds.
The proprietors of the London and County Bank held their
annual meeting to-day, when the directors exhibited their
accounts for the year ending the 31st December.: Our readers
will recollect that we had occasion, at a former period, to call
attention to the relative small amount of the paid-up capital
of this institution, compared with the number of its branches,
and the opinion we gave that it would be prudent to increase
it whilst the Money Market was easy, in order that they
might be better prepared to meet a pressure. This view has
been acted on, and the capital has now been increased to up-
wards of 200,0001., and the statement of the accounts will
show that the bank has been managed throughout the past
year with great prudence and circumspection. It will be
seen that the proprietors are now about to reap the benefit of
that good management in a dividend of 5 per cent., clear of
the income-tax, leaving 5,556/. to be carried to the reserve
fund.
It will be probably recollected that the London and County
Bank was involved in a most vexatious lawsuit, by the
failure of the firm of Thompson and Coils, bill-brokers. It
was at one time supposed that the bank would lose nearly
40,0001. by the securities upon which they had made ad-
vances; but some time age they compromised with the par-
ties to the action, and the said securities have now so much
advanced in value, that the ultimate loss will be a mere
trifle compared to what was expected in the first instance.
Altogether, therefore, the affairs of this bank must be con-
sidered as standing in a favourable position, and it is, at the
same time, worthy of notice, that throughout the whole
period that money was at a very low value, they continued
to pay interest on deposit and current accounts.
CHRONICLE.—The opinion we expressed yesterday, that
the pressure for money had passed its strength, has been con-
firmed to-day. Discounts are still difficult, but the Funds
have experienced a further advance of nearly 3/1 per cent.,
and Exchequer- bills are also higher. We hear that the pay-
ments to the Accountant-General by railway companies
amount to 9,000,0001. From that to 10,000,000/. was our
estimate from the commencement. We held that to be the
fair estimate of the amount that would be actually paid to
the Accountant-General, when others, who spoke with much
assumption of official authority, would not condescend to
name the gross amount at less than 30,000,0001.1 The same
parties, it is true, have lately stated the amount paid in fir
railway deposits at not more than 5,000,000/. The purchases
made to -day by the broker for the Court of Chancery have
been equal, it is said, to 500,000/. They have been effected
for behoof of railway committees, who are now re- investing
the r2tock and Exchequer-bills which they had previously
sold to enable them to make good their deposits to the Ac-
countant General in money. In addition to the support
which the Stock and Exchequer-bill market received from
these large operations, the executors of a very wealthy snem-
-ber of the Stock Exchange, lately deceased, made extensive
purchases.
The movement was almost exclusively confined te' the
English Funds. We quote rather better prices for registered
railway shares ; but the business done was extremely limited,
and until the report of the Select Committee be made known
is likely to remain so. It is said that the members of that
Committee are greatly divided as to the proper course to be
pursued. We are not surprised at this, and shall be more
surprised if they should ever arrive at anything like unani
mite. But be that as it may, it is most desirable that the
result of their labours should be made known without delay.
The promoters of railway companies will then know the best
and worst of their position, and will be enabled to decide
whether to proceed with their Bills this session, or to leave
them over to another and more convenient season.
POST.—Some large purchases of Stock and Exchequer-
bills were made in the course of the day. The Chancery
broker was the principal buyer. He laid out several hun-
dred thousands in Consols and Exchequer bills, for account,
as it was understood, of the railway companies. The Bank
broker made purchases of Three per Cent. Reduced, and
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. stock, and the consequence
of these and other considerable investments, was a further
advance in prices. Consols, which rose 3/4 percent. yesterday,
were done at an equal rate of improvement to-day, so that,
within the two days only, the unusually large advance
of :14 per cent. has been realised, and from the circum-
stance of the markets having • closed at the highest
prices of the day, the chances appeared to be rather
in favour of a further movement in the same favourable
direction. The Bank Directors had their weekly meeting,
but separated without making any alteration in their rate of
discount, which continues, therefore, at a minimum of 34
per mat. This had probably some little influence on the
markets, but the fact that the Accountant-General is con-
verting the deposit moneys of the railway companies into
stock and Exchequer-bills operated as the principal stimu-
lus, as it may be inferred from the adoption of so bold a
course, that Government prefers risking any loss that may
perchance arise from a resale to the other alternative—that
of keeping a large sum of money locked up in the Bank of
England, to the injury of commerce and the revenue. It
would be absurd any longer to entertain the question of de-
posits as one that can exercise a sinister influence on the
Money-market. To-morrow (Friday) will be the last day
allowed for paying up the amounts called far by the stand-
ing orders, subsequently to which the sums provided for the
purpose must, as a matter of course, gradually return into
circulation.
TIMES.—The intelligence from India and China, received
in anticipation of the overland mail, and published :exclu-
sively in the Times of this morning, was read with much
interest in the City. The perfect detail of information so
furnished was everywhere a matter of comment, and gave
universal satisfaction to those connected with the commerce
of the East. The success of the Trieste route now appears
to be considered established, much to the chagrin of those
parties who have hitherto advocated the superiority of the
Marseilles journey. The Triton, belonging to the General
Steam Navigation Company, was the vessel that brought
the express from Ostend, and well she performed her part of
the passage. The commercial intelligence by this arrival is
not encouraging to trade. British manufactures had de-
clined in price, in consequence of the scarcity of money and
the war in the Punjaub ; but, fortunately, at the latest dates
more easiness existed, and the banks showed a better feeling
to the mercantile interest. The value of rice continued to
advance, the accounts from home being favourable te the
article. The Governor of the Mauritius had also offered ad-
vantageous terms for a supply of the grain, a scarcity being
apprehended in that island.

THE PROTECTIONISTS OF
BERKSHIRE.
Nnwritiev. THURSDAT.—A meeting of several members of
the County l'rotection Association was held here this after-
noon in the Town Hall ; the Mayor, as chairman, pre-
siding over between 400 and 500 landowners.
Mr. MOUNT proposed the first resolution expressive of
alarm at the abolition proposed by Sir Robert Peel.
Mr. Tuu, proposed the second, to the effect that all the in-
ferences of the Premier, the Cabinet, the League, and the
people, were erroneous. These having been duly seconded
and put to the meeting, werelof course in the most business-
like way carried. But the third resolution appeared to be the
favourite : it was to the following purpose :—" That the re-
lief held out by Sir Robert Peel to the agricultural body as
a compensation fur the abolition or great reduction of the
duties on foreign corn is altogether illusory and inadequate."
One expression used by Mr. LONSLET, the proposer, is in-
dicative of the average logic of these sagacious gentlemen.
He observed that the free-traders thought the farmers'
speeches were no more than the cackling of geese ; the
cackling of geese had saved Rome. and he hoped their
cackling might yet save the country from its threatened
ruin. Sir Robert Peel had been nurtured by the agricul-
turists, and had now, like a viper, turned and stung them.
They could do very well without him. Talent without prin-
ciple could never be usefel; it was dangerous to any coun-
try.—(Cheers.)
After much enthusiasm, the meeting separated at a late
hour.

Commresiox of LUNACY.—On Thursday a commis
sion de lanatico inquirevida was opened at the King's Arms
Tavern, High-street,
.Kensington, before Mr. Commissioner
Winslow and a special Jury, to inquire as to the state of mind
of Thomas James Selby, Esq., aged forty-four, formerly an
eminent solicitor in London and Margate, and well known as
a member of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, and proprietor
of the once celebrated Lady Louisa yacht. The commission,
which was unopposed, was taken out by the unfortunate gen.
tleman's housekeeper, his next of kin declining to interfere.
In aupprt of the commission appeared Mr. Barron, solicitor,
of Bloomsbury-square, and who, having briefly opened the
case, called Mr. Charles Ilovill, surgeon, of Canterbury, who
stated that he was first called to attend Mr. Selby at Can-
terbury on the 14th of July last, and found him labouring
under most extraordinary delusions. He imagined that he
was extensively engaged in sports, particularly hunting,
shooting, and yachting, and that he had very large preserves
of game. That he had 100,000 guns, and a yacht to take a
large party to St. Petersburgh, and thence to Turkey, and at
other times twenty yachts, for the same purpose, in which he
meant to take fifty people to St. Petersburgh, and thence
overland, yachts and all, to Turkey. He also said he had
been beaten for seven years by ATE men, for which lie had
brought actions, and recovered 100,0001. from each of the Ave.
He was decidedly of unsound mind, and witness believed it
had been chietlyimpairad by a fall from his horse. Dr. Wm.
Maddox Bush. of Kensington House, and Dr. Philp, of Gros-
venor-street, gave testimony to a similar effect. It was
un-
derstood that his mind was first impaired by the receipt of
a fortune of 17,0001., left by his late father. The jury re-
turned a verdict, dating the unsoundness of mind front the
14th July, 1845.

PRIcE

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
PRINCE OF WALES' COUNCIL-CHAMBER,
SOMERSET-HOUSE, FEB. 4, 1846.
Christopher Henry Thomas Hawkins, of Trewithen, in the
county of Cornwall, Esq., has been appointed Sheriff of the
county of Cornwall.
DOWNING-STREET, FEB. 4.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Joseph Gibson
Gordon, Esq., to be Pro Test Marshal for the Virgin Islands.

CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 6.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT.

COUNTY OF SUSSES—EASTERN DIVISION.—CharIes Hay
. Frewen, Esq., of Northiam, in the county of Sussex, the
room of George Darby, Esq., who has accepted the office of
Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds.
City of Cork—Alexander M•Carthy, Esq., of Upper Fitz-
william-street, in the city of Dublin, in the room of Francis
Stock Murphy, Esq., who has accepted the office of Steward
of her Majesty's Manor of Northstead.
Borough of Ripon—The Honourable Edwin Lascelles, of
Harewood House, in the county of York, and of Belgrave-
square, in the county of Middlesex, in the room of the Right
Honourable Thomas Berry Cusach Smith, who has accepted
the office of Master of the Rolls, in Ireland.
County of York—West Riding—George William Frederick
Howard, commonly called Viscount Morpeth, in the room of
G
the Hon. John Stuart Wortley, nowßaron Wharucliffe, called
up to the House of Peers.

WAR OFFICE, FEB. 6.
4th Dragoon Guards—Lieut. T. Jones, from the 15th Light
Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Souter, who exchanges,
Feb. 6.

7th Dragoon Guards—Cornet P. Bunbury to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Arkwright, who retires; N. De la Cherois,
Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Bunbury, Feb. 6.
15th Light Dragoons—Lieut. R. Souter, from the 4th
Dragoon Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Jones, who ex-
ckanges, Feb. 6.
Ist (the Royal) Regiment of Foot—Capt. W. Webster,
from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice R. Blacklin,
who exchanges, Feb. 6.
45th Foot—Lieutenant H. W. Woodbine Parish to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Lucas, who retires ; Ensign L. T.
Cave to be Lieutenant, bypurchase, vice Parish ; F.R. Grant-
ham, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Cave, Feb. 6.
52d Foot—Ensign H. M. Archdall to be Lieutenant by
purchase, vice Hawkins, who retires ; T. H. Vyvyan. Gent.,
to he Ensign, by purchase, vice Archdall ; G. H. Dundas,
Gent., to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Skene, deceased, Feb. 6.
56th Foot—Lieutenant G. W. Patey, to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Smith, who retires ; Ensign J. S. Hanson, to
•be Lieutenant, vice Patev ; W. W. Bassett, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Hanson ; Feb. 6.
57th Foot—Lieut. E. Stanley to be Captain, without pur-
chase, vice Lynch, deceased, Dec. 29, 1845.
78th Foot—Assistant Surgeon J. Leitch, M.D., from the
94th Foot: to be Assistant Surgeon, vice limes, appointed to
the 4th Dragoon Guards, Feb. 6.
92d Foot—The Hon. W. Charteria to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, rice Carnegie, appointed to the Grenadier Regiment
of Foot Guards, Feb. 6.
97th Foot—Lieut. M. A. Obert to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Garforth, who retiree; Ensign E. D. Harvest to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Obert; T. E. Jones, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Harvest, Feb. 6.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Lieutenant-Colonel H. Simmonds,
from the St. Helena Regiment, to be Lieutenant- Colonel,
vice A. Montresor, who retires upon half-pay unattached,
Feb. 6.

St. Helena Regiment—Lieutenant-Colonel J. Ross, from
half-pay unattached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Sim-
muds, appointed to the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, Feb. 6.
BREVET.—Surgeon A. R. Jackson, M.D., Surgeon of the
East India Company's Depot at Warley, to have the local
and temporary rank of Staff-Surgeon of the First Class,
while so employed, Feb. 6.
UNArrAcHED.—To be Captain, without purchase—Lieut.
W. Webster, from the let (Royal) Regiment of Foot, Feb. 5.
STAFF.—Lieutenant A. G. Moorhead, from the 26th Foot,
to be Adjutant of a recruiting district, vice Mason, whose ap-
pointment has been cancelled, Feb. 6, 1846.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—Staff Assistant Surgeon F. R. Waring
to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class, Dec. 15, 1845.
MEMOILANDUAL—Captain C. S. S. Evans, 76th Foot, and
Lieutenant H. A. G. Evans, 22d Regiment, have been per-
mitted to assume and bear the name of Gordon, in addition
to and after that of Evans.

The name of the Assistant Surgeon, appointed to the 94th
Foot, on the 23d January 1846, is ames Leitch, M.D. and
not Lutch, as previously stated.
Erratum in the Gazette of April 11, 1845-91st Regiment
of Foot—For Ensign R. H. Howard to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Harding. who resigns, April 11, read En-
sign R. H. Howard to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Harding, deceased, Jan. 13, 1845.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Fee. 6.

Royal Regiment of Artillery Second Captain C. H.
Burnaby to be Captain, vice Shepherd, deceased; ri74 amt.
C. J. B. Riddell to be Second Captain, vice Burnaby; Second
Lieut. H. Mercer to be First Lieutedant, vice Riddell, Dec.
12, 1845.

kiatonminum.—Tile dates of the promotion of the under-.
mentioned officers have been altered as follow :—Ca,ptain J.
Hile ; Second captain J. H. Lefroy ; First Lieutenant R.
Phelips, Nov. 30,1845.

. .
Corps of Royal Engineers—Major-General E. W. Durn-
ford to be Colonel Commandant, vice Sir F. W. Mulcaster,
deceased, Jan 29.

Commission by the Queen.
East Kent Regiment of Militia—C. Winter, Esq., late
Captain in the 60th Regiment of Foot, to be Adjutant, Dec.
31, 1845.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Oxford.
R. P. C. Grenville Marquis of Chandos to be Deputy-
Lieutenant, Feb. 5, 1846. _ _ _

Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Kent.
West Kent Regiment of Militia—Captain T. G. Molly-
penny to be Major, vice Dalison, resigned, Jan. 20; Captain
r. T. Hodges to be Major, vice Bingham, resigned, Jan. 21;
•
Ensign M. H. Dalison to be Captain, vice Tyssen, resigned,
Jan. 20; F. F. J. Morrice, Esq. to be Captain, vice Baldwin,
resigned, January 21; G. Perkins, Esq., to be Captain,
vice Moneypenny, promoted, January 22 ; M. H. Jen-
ner, Esq., to be Captain, vice T. T. Hodges, promoted,
January 23 ; J. Coveney, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice
R. Hodges, commuted his half-pay, Jan. 20; C. G. King,
Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice How, deceased, Jan. 21;
R. T. G. G. Monypenny, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Potter, re-
signed, Jan. 20 ; J. M. Wilson the younger, Gent., to be En-
sign, vice Dalison, promoted, Jan. 21; W. Sankey, Gent., to
be Surgeon, vice Sexty, deceased, Jan. 31.
East Kent Regiment of Militia—Ensign W. A. Munn to
be Captain, vice E. H. Darell, resigned, Jan. 20 ; C. A.
Mount, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Payne, resigned, Jan. 21;
W. Leith, Gent., to be Lieut., vice Baker, resigned, Jan. 22 ;
H. Maxwell, Gent., to be Lieut., vice Cum ming,lpromoted, Jan.
23 ; T. Abbott, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Love, promoted,
Jan. 29 ; J. Abbott, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Perrott, pro-
moted, Jan. 30.

Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire.

Royal Berkshire- Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant E.
Wheble to be Captain, ♦ice Bacon, promoted, Dec. 29;
H. Pole, Gent., to be lieutenant, vice Wheble, promoted, Dec.

Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Perthshire.
Royal Perthshire Militia—Captain R. Graham. late Cap-
tain in the 68th Regiment, to be Captain, vice J. S. Menzies,
resigned ; F. N. Menzies, Gent., to be Captain, vice A. But-
ter, resigned ; J. Isdale, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice D. Ro-
bertson, deceased, Feb. 3.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Caithness-shire.
Ross-shire, &C., Militia—T. F. Sinclair, Esq., to be Cap-
tain, vice John Sinclair, resigned, Jan. 1 ; J. C. Laing, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant, vice A. Henderson, resigned, Jan. 27.
WHITEHALL, Jam. 28.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Thomas Amphlett, of
Sutton Coldfield, in the county of Warwick, Gent., to be a
Master Extraordinary in the high Court of Chancery.
WHITEHALL, FEB. 2.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed James Philcox, the
younger, of Burwash, in the county of Sussex, Gent., to be
a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.

John Pickles, cotton manufacturer, Preston.
John Smith, warehouseman, Crescent, Jewin-street, Crip-
plegate.

BANKRUPTS.
John Roberts, clothier, Kidderminster, to surrender on
Feb. 13, at half-past one, and March 20,
aastsiatnweeel,veß,
iracthtihne-
Court of Bank. , offici
lane, Cornhill ; ruptcy Als
Cox, Son, and Walrond, Stse-land,
_Buck-
lersbury.
a n S a muaerlchN2ooll,e ra, carrier,
nD, e bar ht a
em , Suffolk,
fFeb.
nl2,r at
Whitmore, official assignee, Basin hghall-street ; B
Buchanan,
Basinghall-street.
Hon. Francis Henry Needham, dressing-case maker, New
Bond-street, Feb. 17, at one, and March '2O, at half-past one,
at the Court of ankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ;
Fisher, Verulam-buildings, Gray's Inn.
Richard Charles Turner, builder, Houndsditch, Feb. 12, at
eleven, and March 20, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Belcher, official assignee ; Norton and Son, New -street,
Bishopsgate.
Robert Gunn, corn dealer, Clare, Suffolk, Feb. 13, at half-
past eleven, and March 20, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Hughes and Turner,
Charles-street, City-road.
John William Frost, coffee dealer, Back-lane, Kingsland-
road, Feb. 13, at three, and March 20, at half-past eleven, at
c
the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee ; Shear-
manttiet ron
Court t.t
and
mcS alstBte,or, Greatc,aktbtrwi
degl
twelve,
at tobacconist, ow
of Wandsworth,
Bankruptcy. F e bB.
anldVisi Illai arh l7
official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings ; Lawrence and
Co., Old Fish-street.

Joseph Henry_ Nock, outfitter, High-street, Poplar,
Feb. 12 and March 17, attwelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-chambers; Hodgson
and Co., Lincoln's Inn-fields.
Alexander Inglis, draper, Portsea, Feb. 17, at eleven, and
March 25, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson,
official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Soles and Turner, Alder-
manbury.
George Duckham, butcher, Merthyr Tydvil, Glamorgan-
shire, Feb. 20, at eleven, and March 20, at twelve, at the
Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol ;
Hassell, Bristol.
John White, wine merchant, St. Benet's-place, Grace-
church-street, Feb. 14, at eleven, and March 14, at two, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Alder-
manbury ; Eyre, Bond-court, Walbrook.
John Burbidge, and John Burbidge, jun., cabinet makers,
Tysoe-street, Clerkenwell, Feb. 11, and March 14, at one, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sam-
brook-court, Basingliall-street ; Macphail, Wilmington-

square. •
Charles Moyle, linendraper, Whitchurch, Shropshire,
Feb. 20 and March 13, at eleven, at the Manchester District
Court. llobson, official assignee, Manchester ; Reed and Co.,
Friday-street ; Worthington and Shipman, Manchester.
Edward White Baster, i-onmonger, Coventry, Feb. 18 and
March 16, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Cour-
t.
Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham; Hodgson, Bir
mingham ; Vincent and Cu., Temple.
Francis Ward, rag merchant, Batley, Yorkshire, Feb. 19
and March 24, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
liaxb.) Free,-
man, official assignee, Leeds; Taylor, Nicholas-lane ,
Dewsbury; Bond, Leeds.
John Hill, currier, Birmingham,
at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy,
ii din Birngham.
al
cloth
hDistrict C ourt.
Feb. 18 and March 20,
official assignee, Birmingham; ar g, Trent,n.,--up- Feb. 16
Jaques
James Duke, brick-maker. New.
and alAn'dh i ni iaorrceh,
Ed-
wards, Ely-place; wN.optot ili,ben•rhl..onolm.
106thcaitaielaesyse
iigi ,ii
et,: hueirßmiirniguiinagmhe;
Over DarIYCLI, Lancashire, Feb. 19 and March 12, at one, at
George Handel oBpre°n's'lina.