The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-13 00:00:00

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal
Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley
Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 41,012
Bilston District Banking Cumpany, Wolver-
hampton
Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven
Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad-
ford .... 15,924
Burton, Uttexeter, and Staffordshire Union
Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent
Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking
Company, Chesterfield
Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work-
ington ..... 26,419
Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com-
pany, Cheltenham
Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company,
Coventry
Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 11,626
County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel-
tenham
Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company
Carlisle
Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 18,707
Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company,
Dudley
Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 17,490
Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com-
pany, Darlington
East of England Bank, Norwich
Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 136,922
Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 12,635
Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 32,366
Hull Banking Company, Hull
Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Ha-
lifax
Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com-
pany, Halifax
Heiston Banking Company, llelston 1,471
Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 18,873
Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company,
Knaresborough 21,990
Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,039
Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster . 46,326
Leeds Banking Company, Leeds
Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester
Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 50,805
Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking
Company, Leamington Priors
Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 10,889
Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank-
ing Company, Nottingham 21,714
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking
Company, Nottingham
Newcastle. Shields. and Sunderland Union Joint-

7,877

9,066

2,875

Stock Banking Company, Newcastle
National Provincial Bank of England, Birming-
ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street,
London
North Wilts. Banking Company, Melksham 49,210
Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 72,147
Northamptonshire Banking Company, North-
ampton ...........
North am! S.puth Wales Bank, Liverpol
Pares's Leicl.lst4rshire Banking Coropany, Lei-
cester .......... 39,485
Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth... 1,961
Sheffield Bankiil2., Company, Sheffield ............ 36,335
Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com-
pany, Stamford.
53,599
Stuckey 's Banking. Company, Bristol Somerset-
shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang-
p0rt........... ..................................... 259,795
Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall ..... 37,764
Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com
pany, Stourbridge
Sheffield and 11.111umshire Banking Company,
Sheffield ... 21,042
Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking
Company, 53,132
Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company,
Richmond ...
Storey and Thomas's Banking Company

20,769
25,940

Shaftesbury .
Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield
Wolverhampton aid Staffordshire Banking Com-
pany, Wolverhampton 34,817
Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield 12,654
Whitehaven Joint Stock Banking Company,
Whitehaven ........
Warwick and Lekeiun_gton. Banking Company,
Warwick
West of England. awl South Wales District
Bank. Bristol
... 65,169
Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 65,562
West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud-
dersfield
Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company,
Whitehurch .
3,142
Worcester City and County Banking Company,
Worcester... .•••• 6,784
York Union Banking Company, York 63,127
York City and County Banking Company, York 89,455
Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds
P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns.
Stamps and Taxes, October 7, 1848.

9,550
785

EAST SURR .EY REGISTRATION.
Mr. Fyshe, the # )arrister appointed to revise the
list of voters for thi i eastern division of Surrey, held
his Court yesterday in the workhouse committee room,
Russell-street, Ber retondsey, for the purpose of revising
the list of voters for the parishes of Bermondsey, St.
John, Southwark, St. Saviour, Southwark, St. Olave,
Southwark, St. Thomas, Southwark, St. Mary, Rother-
hithe, and St. Geo ego-the-Martyr, Southwark. In these
parishes there are 49 objections, but none of the.a pos-
sessed any points of ;the least interest.
THE CASE OF Dr ;. BYBER.—The Learned Revising
Barrister gave jui figment this morning in the case
of Dr. Byber, w ho claimed the right of voting
in respect of ti ie freehold pew rents of Roe-
hampton District Chapel. On the case coming
on before the Learned Gentleman at Wandsworth it
was urged, on b 4 !half of the Liberals, that the pew rents
were not freehol, 1, but voluntary payments. Mr. Fyshe
was clearly of 01 pinion that there was no pretence what-
ever for saying that the pew rents were voluntary pay-
ments, and the c :aim of Dr. Byber to vote must there-
fore be allowed..

The revision of the lists of the parishes appointed for
to-day concludes the revision for the eastern division of
the county of Surrey.
Mr. Fyshe will sit on Tuesday next at the Town-hall,
Southwark, to, revise the list of voters for the borough of
Southwark.

ROYAL MAIL STEAM-PACKET

COMPANY.

A general meeting of the proprietors of the Royal
Mail Steam-packet Company took place yesterday at the
London Tavern, for the purpose of receiving the report
of the directors, and on the general business of the
company. _ _

Andrew Colvile, Esq., took the chair at one o'clock.
The usual routine business having been disposed of,
The CHAIRMAN congratulated the proprietors on the
flourishing state of their affairs,
.and called
.upon the
secretary to read the report.
Mr. CHAPPEL, the secretary
.then read the following
report :
" The proprietors have already been furnished with a
statement of the company's working account for the six
months ending 30th June last, to which is appended an
explanation of the mode in which that account is now
made up.
" Although the receipts for the last six months of this
year are less than for the corresponding period of last
year, yet as the working expenses have been reduced to
a still farther extent, the surplus, as already stated,
shows an excess amounting to 2,376/. 13s. 7d.
" The loss of the schooner Lee, off Honduras, on the
10th of June last, is the only casualty affecting insur-
auce that has occurred to the company's vessels during
the six months in question. The directors hope shortly
to supply her place by the purchase of a suitable vessel,
and the schooner Malibran has been chartered, upon
reasonable terms, to carry on the contract mail service
in the meanwhile.

" It may be important to state that great efforts have
been used, and heavy expenses incurred, to so repair
and strengthen the company's Transatlantic steamers,
that they are at this moment fully as efficient as when
they first commenced the packet service nearly seven
years ago. Within the last twenty-eight months, three
ships have been thoroughly repaired, six others received
new boilers, and thirteen been newly coppered • the
directors considering that by thus strongly upholding
the ships, the property afloat is maintained in a condi-
tion to ensure durability, and to enhance the value of
the company's assets.
" It is satisfactory to the directors to be able to re-
port, that, up to this period, the traffic, Panama,
has fully equalled the expectations held out when the
company undertook the transit ; and that while the de-
pressed state of the West Indies has been attended with
a corresponding diminution in the company's receipts
as relates to those colonies, compensation has been de-
rived from the connexion with the Pacific, and the in-
tercourse lately established with New Orleans.

" Adequate time has not yet been afforded to prove
what is likely to be the result, in a pecuniary point of
view, of steam communication between the West Indies
and New York, via Bermuda; but the receipts have been
sufficient to warrant confidence that this portion of the
service may prove ultimately profitable to the company.
" That the proprietors are not aware how injuriously
the hostilities between the United States and Mexico
have operated upon the company's transactions with the
latter country; but now that peace is again established,
and that measures appear to be in progress for ensuring
internal tranquillity, it can scarcely be deemed unreason-
able to infer that this company may derive a correspond-
ing advantage.
" Looking at all the matters herein set forth, and after
due consideration of the whole affairs of the company,
the directors feel happy in being able to recommend
that a dividend be declared of 21. per share, exclusive of
income-tax, payable en and from the 16th inst."

After a sbOri discussion a resolution was proposed by
the Chairman, seconded by Mr. Baring, and carried
unanimously, adopting the report, and ordering it to be
printed and circulated among the proprietors.
The CHAIRMAN, in answer to some observations from
Mr. Ridgway, stated that in future more time would
be allowed between the arrival of one mail and the de-
parture of another from British Guiana for the purpose
of enabling parties to answer lettters.
The following is a statement of the working account
of the company from the Ist of January to the 30th of
June of the present year :

DISBURSEMENTS.
Coals: Freight and all charges ...
Wages ... ... "0

Proiisions

Stores

Port charges and pilotage
General service and stations

Coal sacks, &c.

... Z 36,777 0 6
... 20,490 8 8
... 33,610 17 11

Office and law expenses . .

Salaries

... 8,151 5 8
... 2,652 2 2
... 7,220 9 0
... 348 15 4
... 905 1 4

Insurance

... 5,513 12 4
... 12,500 0 0
... 20,588 10 9

Repairs of ships and machinery...

148,758 3 8
Surplus ... ... ... 67,452 17 2

£216,211 0 10

ADVERTISING FOR A WIFE.

An advertisement having appeared in one of the
London journals, a week or two ago, for a wife pos-
sessed of 5001., it was answered by a wag, stating
he had three daughters, fine girls, from twenty to
twenty-six years of age ; that the advertiser might
have an interview for the purpose of selection ; and
that if his appearance and character were found to
be satisfactory, 1,0001. would be of no consequence.
An appointment was made for him to inquire at the
bar of a tavern in the City, at eight o'clock on Fri-
day evening last, for "Beta." The evening came—
and, true as " Salisbury clock," so 'came our man of
mettle, dressed as neat as neat could be, and

As fresh as a bridegroom,
His chin new reap'd, showed like stubble land,
at harvest heme ;"
his curly locks redolent of our friend Rowland's
Macassar, his whiskers delicately curled, his shirt
front studded with some bright sparkling substance,
while itself, in point of virgin whiteness, would
shame a " hound's tooth ;" his coat was of the very
newest cut of fashion, his hat was a perfect gem,
when he entered the house (we cannot say so much
for it when he left)—and his general appear-
ance was that of a young man of twenty-five,
rather inclined to be " swellish''—he was met by
a witty friend, who opened the proceedings
by a private interview in the bar parlour; while
another went in search of a " fair frail one " to per.
sonate the bride in perspective, and who was to
assume the name of Jane Brown—her papa being
obliged to leave town that morning; and certainly a
better actress could not be found, with her " kiss-me-
quick" bonnet and white veil. Jane was introduced
to our money-hunting advertiser; his eye quickly
surveyed her as she sat in a retired part of the
room, purposely darkened to aid the bashful
modesty of Jane; he fairly chuckled with
delight as he gallantly banded her papa's letter I
for recognition. To the question, " s that your
papa's writing ?" Jane gave a bashful nod
of consent. The young man who played the
part of Jane's cousin, and he who was the friend
of the family, with genuine Irish wit described his
respect for his old friend Brown, and the handful
Jane's mother had with her in the measles, poor
dear woman I Our hero now drew forth a large
bundle of letters, and said he had been all
day going from place to place to answer them.
He gave the address of his uncle, J— K

Esq., Bedfordshire. It was at length settled that
the next meeting (with Mr. Brown, the father, pre-
sent) should take place yesterday (Monday), at one
precisely. Things seemed going on capitally till
the waiter hinted the reckoning was 9s. 6d for
sundry glasses of "cold without," port negus,
and cigars. The cousin and friends of the family 01
course could not be expected to " tip," and our
" yokel " was minus tin. The gas being about to be
snuffed out, he came to the bar, where as jolly a
lot had assembled as " ever set the table in a
roar." One offered his sister, another actually
wished his mother so good-looking a husband, while
Jane was escorted to the corner of the next street,
having first been amply repaid for her part in the
laughable plot. Our hero now began to "smell a rat,"
but he was so hemmed in he could not escape.
While the waiter was requesting of him the score
another was charring a couple of corks, and
in less than no time a change came o'er the spirit of
his dream ; he came a perfect Adonis, and left a per-
fect Juba ; and no doubt, when his head is done
aching, he will repent of his ridiculous folly, and en-
deavour to realize a fortune by some other means than
advertising for a,Nvife.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
I. Frederic Strunse, alias Captain Coarn,l a tall
thin German, was brought before the Lord Mayor,
charged with having solicited alms.
The defendant was seen going into several Count-
ing-houses for the purposes of soliciting alms. At
last he was followed into the office of Mr. Samuel
Gurney, who, upon being applied to, gave him a
shilling.
Horsford, one of the officers of the Mendicity So-
ciety, stated that he knew the defendant to be a pro-
fessional beggar for the last twelve years, and to be
most indefatigable in the pursuit. The face of the
accused was so exactly adapted to the performance
of the character that some tender-hearted persons
opened their pockets to him without hearing his voice
or requiring any other evidence of his necessity than
his ghastly features presented. He had been taken
up in the City in the year 1843, in company with a
begging-letter impostor, whose name of Captain
Coarn he occasionally assumed, and who was upon
that occasion committed as an impostor. Since that
period he had visited the houses of great numbers of
the gentry at the west end of the town, and contrived
to make his appeals so ingeniously as in many cases
to escape prosecution, while his companion, who was
not so clever a workman, frequently got nothing but
punishment.
The defendant said the gentleman who accused him
of being an impostor was mistaken in saying that he
personated Captain Coarn, as he knew nothing of that
person, and he was himself a man of similar rank, and
probably of as strong claims upon the gentry of this
metropolis, many of them he had met in different
parts of the continent, when he had it in his power to
render them similar service.—(A laugh.);
The LORD MAYOR asked whether any one was in
attendance to substantiate any charge of imposition ?
—The defendant cast such a dismal look around the
justice-room that nobody had the heart to answer in
the affirmative ; but it was stated that although Mr.
Gurney was not present, no doubt if a messenger
were sent to that gentleman, he would appear to state
what had taken place on the occasion of the prisoner's
application,
The LORD MAYOR said he happened to be well
acquainted with the defendant's character and power
of exercising his skill in mendicancy. The Captain,
therefore, must, under all the circumstances, find
bail for his good behaviour for three months before
he could be liberated.
The defendant, in his most persuasive manner,
besought the Lord Mayor to discharge him forthwith
from custody, but even the tempting promise to leave
the country at once and for ever had no effect upon
his Lordship, and the Captain was committed.
GUILDHALL.
A foreigner named _Henry Moritz Goldschmi dt,
who refused to give his address at the station house,
was placed at the bar before Alderman Challis on the
charge of attempting to utter a forged cheque for the
sum of 211. 10s.
Mr. Edward Grafton, of No. 81, Fleet-street,
watchmaker, stated, that about a quarter past eight
o'clock the previous evening the prisoner entered his
shop and wished to inspect some gold watches,
varying in price from 61. to 91. He was shown
several trays' full and at last selected one at the latter
price, at the same time requesting to see some chains.
These were also handed to him for inspection, when
he picked out one the price of which was five guineas,
and then asked witness, would he take a cheque and
give him the balance, as he had no small change
about him ? Suspecting the cheque to be a forgery,
he took it from the prisoner, remarking that he had
not sufficient money in the house, but would go out
and get it changed. He at once proceeded to the
station-house, and an officer in plain clothes was sent
back with him, and he was, after a short conversation,
taken into custody.
Richard Cooke, 846 of the City police force, said
that he followed the last witness into the shop, and,
not to arouse suspicion, _ asked to be allowed to look
at some seals. He then heard Mr. Grafton ask the
prisoner where or from whom he obtained the cheque,
and he replied, that Mr. Straker, of Bishopsgate-
street, gave it to him. The prosecutor then said that
as he suspected that all was not right, he should like
to know if the prisoner saw it signed by that party,
and he replied that he not only saw it signed, but
written by Mr. Straker. He Ole officer) asked to
look at the cheque, and on remarking that it was evi-
dently a forgery, the prisoner attempted to regain
possession of it, saying" If you do not like the
cheque I will get the money in the morning." On
the way to the station-house he also attempted to
escape by stooping down and trying to slip under his
arm.
Mr. Samuel Straker, of Bishopsgate-street, litho-
grapher, said that he worked for the Joint Stock
Bank, and the prisOner called a few days ago, and
represented that his name was Henry Smith, that he
was about to go to Hamburgh, and thence proceed to
New York, at the Same time requesting some cards
and lists of prices, so as to act in the capacity of an
agent. He gave him the lists, at the same time inti-
mating that his commission would be paid on his
return, but no discount should be allowed. The
prisoner left, and the signature was not in his hand-
writing. Neither could he account for the prisoner
obtaining possession of the cheque-head otherwise
than its being one of their waste papers, and he must
have picked it up. It only bore the name of the
bank, and the writing was above that.
Cooke said he had since ascestained that the pri-
soner lived in the !Strand, and was connected with
the first families in Hamburgh. However, his friends
in England had entirely thrown him off, in conse-
quence of the falsehoods he had told and the imposi-
tions he had practised upon them for the purpose of
obtaining money.
Alderman CHALLIS a-ked the prisoner what he had
to say for himself ? —He replied that he found the
cheque near Temple-bar, and that having lost some
bank notes on a previous day, he was prevented from
going to Hamburgh, and thought there was no harm
in trying to change it to enable him to proceed on
his journey.
'1 he officer said he also found on the prisoner two
forged hills of exchange, but they were of no use.
Prisoner—They are of no use. I only wanted to
exercise myself a little.—(Laughter.)
Alderman CnALLis remanded him for a week.