The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-20 00:00:00

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal
Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley
Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 44,269
Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver-

hampton V 9,135
Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven
Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad-
ford
Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union
Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent
Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking
Company, Chesterfield .. 7,904
Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work-
ington .
Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com-
pany, Cheltenham
Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company,
Coventry
Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 11.755
County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel-
tenham
Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Compaly

Carlisle
Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 19,021
Dudley and West Bromwich Tanking Company,
Dudley
Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 19,412
Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com-
pany, Darlington . 19,226
East of England Bank, Norwich
Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 142,071
Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 13,664
Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 32,964
Hull Banking Company, Hull
Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Ha-
lifax
Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com-
pany, Halifax 31,209
Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,434
Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 19,182
Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company,
Knaresborough 22,364
Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,108
Lancaster Banking_ Company, Lancaster
Leeds Banking Company, Leeds
Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester
Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 50,808
Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking
Company, Leamington Priors
Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 11,425
Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank-
ing Company, Nottingham 21,623
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking
Company, Nottingham
Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint-
Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 2,815
National Provincial Bank of England, Birming-
ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street,
London V 394,875
North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 50,312
Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 75,610
Northamptonshire Banking Company, North-

ampton -
North and. South Wales Bank, Liverpool„„.... 25,935
Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei-

cester .. ..... ....... .... 41;652
Saddle worth Banking Company, Saddlnworth... 1,907
Sheffield Banking Company, 5heffie1d............ 34,475
Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Coin- .
pany, Stamford
Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset-
shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang-
port .... 273,542
Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall ... ..... 38,566
Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com
pany, Stourbridge
56
Sheffield and liallamahire Banking Company, ,476
Sheffield,
Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking
Company, SI-,,.nizld
Swaledale and Wenaleydale Banking Company,
Richmond .. .
Storey and Thomas's Banking Company
Shaftesbury .. ..... ...........................
.......
9,505
Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield ...
.......
......
Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Com.
pany, Wolverhampton , 36,071
Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield 13,484
Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company,
Whitehaven , 23,944
Warwick and Le&niligton Banking Company,
Warwick
West of Englane and South Wales District
Bank. Bristol
Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 67,355
West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud-
dersfield
Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company,
Whitchurch
Worcester City and County Banking Company,
3,276
Worcester._ „.
York Union Banking Compani,7,262
York
York City and County Banking' Company 69.305
,York 89,716
Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds
P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank itehtinle
SiaZUPS • and, Waxes, October 14, 1848. - - ) i

• THE CHOLERA.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Six,—The enclosed was drawn up for the use of
111.5 own private patients, but, as one part of the treat-
ment therein advocated I have not seen mentioned else-
where (I allude to the hot saline bath), and as I con-
;ider it a point of very great importance, I have for-
varCled it to you for the sake of publicity, should you
C,Dns ider it worthy of insertion in your widely-ex-
tc.l22.ed paper.—l have the honour to be, Sir, &c.,

A. TOUL MIN.

I.'isiatic or malignant cholera differs chiefly from
th e English malady of the same name in its intensity,
a' id in its assuming an epidemic rather than a sporadic
form.

" The essential cause of the complaint consists in a
certain miasm, or malaria, which for the time being
pervades the atmosphere around the places it visits.
The poison is consequently in a gaseous form, and
possesses a certain density, which appears to be some-
what greater than atmospheric air, inasmuch as it
follows the course of rivers rather than passing over
higher ground.
" The disease is not contagious, and its infectious
cFaaracter is denied by the majority of the profession.*
-Ale inference is, that those who suffer from the corn.
plaint have been exposed to its morbific influence, and
have not caught it by attendance at the bed-side of the
sick.

" Everything that tends to improve the general
health will likewise tend to render the individual less
susceptible to its influence. Hence, cleanliness,
temperance, and a regulated diet are most im-
yortant.
" The first should be directed not only to the per-
son, but also to the house and surrounding locality.
The body should be spunged over with cold or tepid
water on rising in the morning, or in lieu of this, the
shower bath may be used. The house should be kept
perfectly clean and well ventilated—all drains and
cesspools should be emptied—all decaying or putrid
substances removed—and, if possible, all stagnant
waters in the neighbourhood be drawn off.

" The diet should be of a sustaining character,
consisting of bread and meat (roast - rather than
boiled), milk, rice, and farinaceous food in general.
All vegetables, fruit, acids, salted meats, and pickles
being avoided. Spices of all kinds are useful and
should be taken freely. All light wines, and ill-
fermented beet avoided. If wine be drunk, a glass of
sound sherry will be the best, and in constitutions of
lax fibre, a table-spoonful of French brandy in as
much water may be taken during dinner.
" Where habits of intemperance have been indulged
in the stimulus must not be wholly withdrawn, but

" Early hours, and the absence of all depressing
passions, will tend greatly to sustain thelealth.
" The cause of death in cholera arises from the
animal fluids being all drained off,_ in the continued
diarrhcoa which takes place, until the blood is left of
the consistence of tar; in consequence of which the
circulation becomes greatly impeded, if not suspended,
and the blood black from being loaded with carbonic
acid. To this the coldness of the body necessarily
ensues, because the blood ceases to be arterialized, or,
in other words, heat ceases to be generated.

" The medical treatment mint be left in the
hands of the profession ; but as in this disease time is
most valuable, I would strongly recommend what
will be found to be a most important improve-
ment on the practice of applying dry heat—namely,
putting the patient at once into a het saline
bath at 100 deg. F., in which two or three pounds
of common salt, of bicarbonate of soda, of phos-
phate of soda (the very salt of which the blood has
been robbed) may be dissolved. In this he may be
kept front the first moment of the attach until reaction is
fully established; and when in the bath, the heat may be
raised to 105 deg., or even higher, provided his feel-
ings will admit of it.
" Three important objects will be thus gained. A
degree of heat will be maintained over the whole sur-
face of the body higher than that of the blood, and,
therefore, the vital heat cannot be dissipated. A
quantity of fluid will also be absorbed, replacing that
which has been abstracted, and along with it the blood
will regain the alkali it has lost in the continued drain
from the system.
" In many cases diarrhoea will be the precursor for
days before. This ought never to be neglected. At
this time, half a wine glass of brandy, with twenty
drops of tincture of opium, may be taken; but pro-
fessional assistance should be obtainod..

" Should the disease become fully established in
the interval that must elapse before such aid can
arrive, awl of which time not a moment should be lost,
I would recommend the following medicine to be
kept in readiness in the house :

Take of—
Tincture of opium d.
Tincture of cardamoms ... d. iv
Aromatic spirit of ammonia .. d. j
Compound spirit of sulphuric rather d. ij
Cajeput oil .. m viij
Oil of peppermint m ij
Best French brandy ... .. oz. iij
" Of this a fourth part may be taken every half-
hour, in as much hot water, until assistance arrives.
" A. TOULMIN, M.D., M.R.C.S.E.
" Wilton House, Blackheath, Oct., 1448.

" P.S. To render the bath more completely effective
it should be made for the purpose, for none of the
present make are intended for a long continuance in
them. One end should incline at such an angle as to
enable the patient to recline on it with perfect ease,
bearing in mind the utter prostration of strength that
occurs in cholera. It should be padded with vul-
canized India rubber, and be raised on a platform,
about a foot high, and supplied with a tap, so that,
when needed, the water may be drawn off and re-
filled, without the patient being disturbed. Every
parish should keep half-a-dozen of these baths in
readiness in case of need."

$ I confine the term contagion to its true meaning—
namely, to diseases induced by contact or inoculation;
and infection to such as where the miasm is generated in
the body of the patient suffering under the complaint,
and therefore may be imbibed or inhaled by those in at-
tendance. For example, the vaccine virus is simply con-
tagious—the small-pox both contagious and i❑fectious—
while the measles and scarlet fever are infectious only.

THE M.P. FOR PAISLEY AND HIS

CONSTITUENTS.

On Friday last, Mr. Archibald Hastie, the respected
representative of Paisley, was subjected to a " heck-
ling" by his constituents in the Exchange-rooms,
Moss-street, in that town. The meeting was a public,
one—the Provost in the chair. Mr. Hastie gave a
lengthened and interesting address, illustrative and
explanatory of the votes he had given during the past
session, which sometimes was received with cheers, and
sometimes with disapprobation. From the discussion
which followed, and which was characterized
by as much ill-nature as good-humour, Mr.
Hastie appears to have given mortal offence
to his constituents, or at least to a part of
them, for not going sufficiently far as a free-
trader in sugar; and, second, for not going the whole
hog in support of Mr. Joseph Hutne's motion for
household suffrage, vote by ballot, triennial Parlia-
ments, electoral districts, &c. Mr. Hastie agreed to
several of these points, and would even go the length
of a U. franchise in the burgh, and 101. in the county,
but he would not swallow household suffrage, and
hinted to the meeting that it might take a good lesson
from the helter-skelter pace at which the universal..
suffragists were moving to destruction on the Con-
tinent. The reasoning of the Honourable Gentle-
man, however, did not satisfy his constituents, at
least those who were there; and after some fur-
ther sparring, the Rev. Dr. Baird moved a left-
handed vote of censure, concluding with the " re-
quest that Mr. Hastie shall re-coniider this
subject, and support the motion for Reform (i. e.
Joseph Hume's) when again brought before Par-
liament; or, failing this, he shall adopt such a
course as his own sense of honour and justice may
prompt, that the constituency may not be misre-
presented on a subject which they deem of vast im-
portance, not only to them but to the empire at
large." Mr. Brown was a degree plainer, and moved
as an amendment, that Mr.. Hastie had lost tho
confidence, of, the meeting altogether. The electors
when, tellers having been
then went to the vote,
appointed, the .division was declared to have been
as follows :—For Dr. Baird's motion, 160; for
Mr. Brown's amendment, • 167 ; majority in
favour of the amendment, 7. The announcement was
received with loud cheering, both by the supporters
of the amendment in the and the large body
of non-electors who thronged the stairs and-passage
outside. So the matter rests, and it remains to be
seen whether Mr. Hastie will take the hint to accept
the Chiltern Hundreds, as the result of a division in
a meeting composed of 327, while the almanac sets
down the total constituency at 1,086. While
on this subject, we may state that we have
seen some Paisley folks who are not at all
ill-pleased that their member has declined to
dance down hill, arm-in-arm with the fast politi-
cians of that town. They express themselvei as not
blind to the fact that the French Chamberis elected
according to the " six points," and even something
beyond them ; and yet a most unpromising concern
it is ; and they are aware, too, that universal suffrage
has pitched into the German Parliament or Diet a
parcel of men, as legislators, who cannot write their
own names. It is said that in the event of Mr.
Hastie's resignation, Mr. Vincent is willing to under-
principles —Glasgow Herald.
take the representation of the burgh on genuine

THE WEATHER.—CORK, WEDNESDAY—.We are
already in the depth of winter, and a severe winter.
Yesterday was as harsh a day as any experienced here
for the preceding twelve months. There were heavy
falls of snow, sleet, and rain; accompanied -by violent
wind from the north-east. The snow and sleet which
fell yesterday morning are still onthe ground, and the
cold wind blows with unabated violence. But this day
week, we were in the enjoyment of fine
-warm sunshine._

9
POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

David Harris was brought before the Lord Mayor
for re-examination upon the charge of haVing de-
frauded Aaron Woolfe of 101. by means of a wedge
of base metal plated with silver.
The prosecutor, upon bringing forward the charge
on Monday last, said the prisoner called upon him
on Sunday for the loan of 101., and deposited in
his bands the bar of metal produced as security,
there being no 'market for such an article on such
a day, and the Lord Mayor remanded the case, and
directed Mr. Woolfe to get the metal assayed in the
mean time.

On the first examination the prosecutor was evi-
dently exasperated against the prisoner, and spoke
of the transaction with an appetite of revenge.
His present demeanour exhibited a very remark-
able contrast. He appeared to have abandoned
all idea of retributive justice, and to be influenced
by the spirit of charity and forgiveness of injuries
done.

The LORD MAYOR—WeII, prosecutor, have you
had this metal tested ? The prosecutor—No, your
worship.
The LORD MAYOR—NO! Why not? Did I not
send back this man to prison that you might hare it
assayed ?
The prosecutor—They wouldn't try it under half-
a-crown, please your Lordship.
The LORD MAYOR—WeII,' what of that ? Why
did you not get it tested, and let the assayer send
here for the amount of his demand ?

The prosecutor, shaking his head, and speaking►
with great tenderness—Why, your Lordship, I
find he's a poor man, a very poor man, and he has
a vife and a large family oflittle children, and I felt
very sorry for the poor things, your Lordship.
The LOAD MLTQS--Nonsense I The prisoner
has committed a most villanous fraud, and must be
punished. Come, what's the reason you don't wish
to proceed ? The prosecutor—Vy, my Lord,.his poor
vife and families is in such distress.

The Lola, MAYOR—Nonsense, I tell you! What's
the cause of this change in your conduct towards him,?
The prosecutor (after some hesitation)--Vy, your
Lordship, I thought you would have no objection if
I could get back all my money vot I gave him for
his lump of lead.—(Great laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—I thought so. Well, I cannot
allow such a flagrant transaction to pass with im-
punity. Officer, take the metal to be assayed, and
let the prisoner be brought up on Friday. Prosecutor,
you mist then attend.
The prosecutor—Please your Lordship, I don't
vish to prosecute him for the sake of his poor vife
and (L aughter).
The LORD MAYOR—Let the prosecutor be bound
over to attend here on Friday.
Mr. Goodman (the chief clerk)—Mr. Woolfe, you
are bound over to appear on Friday in the sum of
101. to give evidence against the prisoner. Are you
content ? The prosecutor—Vy, I must be content,
I suppose, as you say so, but I would rather have
my money first, and then could prosecute after-
wards.—(Laughter.)
The prisoner was then remanded.
Three young women (casual paupers) were brought
before the Lord Mayor upon the charge of having
smashed two panes of plate glass in a respectable
tradesman's house in Cannon-street. They at once
acknowledged that they had committed the offence.
Several tradesmen of the neighbourhood of Cannon-
street, in which the union is established, waited upon
the Lord Mayor to ascertain whether his Lordship
could by any means protect them from the very
serious damage to which they expected to be in an un-
common degree subjected in the ensuing winter from
the multitudes of casual poor who would be crowd-
ing in from all parts of the country. The inhabitants
of Cannon-street were, they said, peculiarly liable to
suffer when any of the applicants for relief happened
to be dissatisfied with their reception at the union.
It often occurred that if. an inhabitant whose win-
dows were broken declined to appear against the
offender, there was an immediate threat of double or
treble the mischief.

The LORD Miron said he deeply lamented, with-
out being at all able to remedy, the evil. He had
no doubt at all On great influx of casual poor into
the City of London, from the impression that the
prisons of London would be preferable to the
unions in the country, but with the casual poor
he could not at all conjecture how to deal, al-
though there were regulations for the legitimate
claimants upon the City. He generally sentenced
window breakers to Bridewell for 14 days, because
bread and water was the allotted food for those who
were to undergo so short an imprisonment, and he
knew their great object was to obtain a long sentence,
there being annexed to it comforts not known to the
offenders who received a quick dismissal. The win-
dows of the Mansion-house had been at the com-
mencement of his mayoralty so frequently broken by
the mischievous vagrants from all parts, that he had
been obliged to get them wired all round, and to keep
an officer constantly about it, who was not very cere-
monious when he saw any new assailants at work.
The inhabitants of Cannon-street submitted that it
would be but fair to let them have the protection
which might be afforded by additional policemen.
The LORD MATOR—I am sure you are, from the
nature of your situation, entitled to additional pro-
tection, and I advise you at once to apply to the City
Commissioner, who I have no doubt will see the j us-
tice of your claim, and afford you the necessary as-
sistance.