The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-10 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Devon lighter, Bond master, sailed from Devon-
port on Wednesday, with stores for Pembroke.
Desperate screw steamer put to sea, from Plymouth
Sound, on Wednesday morning, having been idle the
past week in consequence of the weather. Mr. Din-
nen is on board, and this is expected to be the last
cruise.

MALTA, OCT. 2.—The Frolic brig was close in to
Gibraltar on Friday last, and beating up with a light
bre( ze.

The Resistance troop-ship was lying at the Mole at
Gibraltar on Friday last.
A slaver, under Genoese colours, taken by the Ri-
fleman steamer on the coast of Africa with six slaves
on board, was sent to Gibraltar as a prize, manned by
a crew of her capturers, and arrived there safely on
the 25th ult.

The Indus, with the heavy portion of the India
mails, arrived yesterday from Southampton and
Gibraltar. The Indus is on her last voyage until after
her contemplated repairs shall have been completed;
she will be cut down and lengthened, and made
equal in speed to the fast bor.ts of the company.
The Tagus, from Constantinople and Malta, Was
entering the Straits of Gibraltar as the Indus left.

The Sultan, on her homeward passage from Alex-
andria and Malta, passed the Indus off Galita on
Monday last.
The Jupiter, from Constantinople and Malta, passed
the Indus during the night of the 27th ult.
His Royal Highness the Archduke of Austria, who
has been for some time past in the Mediterranean,
left Gibraltar, where he had received every possible
attention from his Excellency Sir W. Gardiner and
his amiable consort, on the 25th ult. His Highness
was bound to Malaga.

THE BANK FAILURES.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

NEWPORT, MONMOUTHSHIRE, THURSDAY EVEN..

ING.—The apprehension of a complete paralyzation of
trade in this town, or especially among some of the
iron works ; in consequence of the stoppage of the
Monmouth and Glamorgan Bank, is already felt, and
will be felt for a long period. There is no doubt,
indeed, of two or three large works stopping at once,
they having been carried on alone by the heavy drains
which their proprietors have been making on the
bank, owing to the great depression in the iron trade.
The Cwm Brane iron works are stated to have
drawn 240,000/. or 250,0001. The Blaenaforn and
other works, belonging to the same proprietary, are
put down as having drawn 150,0001. Rumour as-
signs these figures to be even below the mark. The
liabilities are said to be somewhere about three-
quarters of a million ; the cash in hand not two
thousand, and the other property of the bank trifling.
The unfortunate shareholders are greatly alarmed at
their position ; many of the smaller ones must be
ruined. It is understood that the trustees will be
first sued, and that many have already received no-
tices to that effect.

The same proprietary bad branches at Abergavenny'
Tredegar, Pontypool, Monmouth, and Chepstow.
The two former were the principal banks of the
mining district surrounding them. Trade, therefore,
becomes ruined for the time, and a prospective conti-
nuance for many years is seen of the same results.
The system adopted by this bank was latterly in-
dicative of its present condition. Tradesmen in the
towns named, and Newport, find their bills returned
them from the Bank of England, into which this bank
had paid them. The unfortunate tradesmen, having
met them in due course, have now been called upon to
pay anew on the same bills. This is felt to be ruinous
to many parties. Failures will therefore ensue in
many quarters. The town will suffer a fearful con-
vulsion this winter in consequence.
The West of England District Bank is now the
only one here, besides the Savings' Bank. A great
accession of business is the consequence—a g
run upon its gold was also a consequence. They
were well prepared.
The notes of other country banks are now regarded
with apprehension. Only gold is current. This is a
monetary crisis which will shake the credit and the
stability of trade to an alarming extent.

METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OF SEWERS.—A new
commission for a Metropolitan Commission of Sewers has
just issued, in which the following gentlemen are named as
commissioners :—Mr. 1i award Lewes, chairman ; Mr. S. M.
Pao, M.P., deputy-chairman; Major-General Sir John Bur-
goyne, K.C.B. ; Mr. Thomas Allason; Mr. William Cubitt,
C.E. ; Captain Dawson, R.E. ; Captain Harness, R.E. ; Mr.
Thomas Hawes ; Mr. J. M. Rendell, C.E. ; Mr. Robert Ste-
phenson, M.P. ; and Captain Vetch, R.E. It will be ob-
served that Lord Ebrington, Sir Henry de la Beebe, and
Mr. Philip llardwick have retired from the commission, and
that the new commissioners aro Mr. William Cubitt, the en-
gineer, and Mr. Thomas Allason, the architect. This com-
mission is appointed under the Act passed at the end of last
session, continuing the powers given to the commissioners in
the various Sewers Acts, but making provisions for the re-
formation of the constitution of the commission itself. Under
this Act two of the commissioners form a quorum, and can
exercise all the powers conferred on the body, except in
financial matters. The signature of the chairman, or, in his
absence, that of the deputy-chairman, is required to sanction
all contracts and all orders for imposing rates on different
districts within the area. It is to be hoped that the gentle-
men composing this commission will at once and earnestly
turn their attention to the subject of the general drainage,
with the view of devising some speedy means of raising
money for their operations.
A BLIND VISITOR TO THE EXHIDITION.—A blind
youth was observed yesterday at the Exhibition, accom-
panied by his mother, and on her being asked the reason of
her son's visit, when he could not see, she said that he was
totally blind, but had been anxious to come to ascertain if
the sound was as he had imagined it to be, and that ho had
found it such as he had anticipated.

IRON-MASTERS' QUARTERLY MEETINGS.— BIR-
TMICIIAM, TitunspAy.—The third of the iron-masters'
meetings for the quarter was held in the Town-hall to-day.
The attendance was not considered so large as usual, and
but a moderate amount of business was transacted. The
iron trade wss deemed by competent judges as somewhat
brisker than at the quarterly meetings in July, and the old
prices, re-adopted at the preliminary meeting held a fort-
night ago, were fi-mly maintained. Of the state of the iron,
and other trades connected with it, it is impossible to speak
more particularly until the close of the meetings at Dualey,
on Saturday; but so far, if anything, appearances are more
favourable, if not absolutely encouraging, than for some
months past.

RAMSIJAY.—Lord Carlisle having arrived at
Liverpool yesterday, Mr. Samuel Ho'me (the chairman),
and Mr. Jeffery (secretary) of the Whitty Indemnity Com-
mittee, sought and obtained an interview, and laid the
matter of Mr. Itamsbay before him. In reply, his Lordship
expressed his readiness to inquire into the case at the ear-
liest opportunity, and begged that the memorial should be
sent on to him at Sir Benjamin Heywood's, Manchester,
although be would consider that it had been presented.
nil Excellency M. Van de Weyer and the
Marquis of °monde, both with their families, Lord Erskine,
Lad ArNaughten, Colonel Scott, and Major Eden, were
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amongst the numerous passengers who arrived in London
yesterday by the Antwerp stoma Baron Osy, Captain
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