The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-10 00:00:00

THE MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, AND On an abundant supply of ls,heur and cheapness of
DEITHS, I NLAND, eseslon,.
QUAATER Lsl.'4.-B-.P.E 3s, 13,5 D, plen, Lydbery—Births, 15; deaths, 9. The sub-die
10-i t of is at present in a healthy state and free teem ep, •
resurta juec pubiteted by euthority os the Be- deseiss. I consider that the labe.uriug class. wao form
gistrar Genera!, comprises the births and deaths regis- I the m Rity of the inhabitants, are better off than they
tered by 2,189 registrars in all the districts of England have been for some time past.
during the autumn quarter ending Dec. 31, 1850; and Nottingham, Saint Ann—Births, 120; deaths, 69.
the marriages in more than 12,000 churches or chapels, The deaths are below the average; three deaths have oc•
2,869 registered places of worship unconnected with the curred from diarrheas, and one from typhus. One-third
Established Church, and 623 superintendent registrars' of the deaths registered this quarter occurred in the
offices, in the quarter that ended Sept. 30, 1850. Union workhouse. The decrease in this and four pre-
The return of marriages is not incomplete; but the ceding quarters is attributable to three causes: the mild-
defects are inconsiderable, and have been supplied from ness of the season, the beneficial arrangements made by
previous yeas. the sanitary committee, and the decided improvement in
In their general character the returns of the last trade, which has enabled the mechanic to provide him-
quarter of 1850 are. still highly favourable; and imply a self and family with wholesome food. The last-men-
happier condition of the population at the (dose. than at tioned improvement has also thinned the Union work-
th,e commencement of the year. While fewer lives have house, which contributes on an average at least a fourth
beau lost by epidemic diseases, the marriages and births of the deaths.
haste increased. Bolton; Little Bolton—Births, 292; deaths, 121. The
births are much above the average of the corresponding
• quarters of former years, which I attribute entirely to
the steadiness of all branches of trade and manufacture
in this neighbourhood. The deaths are much below the
average of the corresponding quarters of former years.
Measles has been prevalent, and there have been 13
fatal cases. One death certified from English cholera,
and 6 from fever have occurred. The mildness of the
season, abundance of cheap provisions, and plenty of all
kinds of employment, have doubtless tended to mitigate
epidemics and diminish mortality.
Bolton; East Bolton—Births, 220; deaths, 137. This
return exhibits a considerable decrease in comparison
with the average of former years. The recent sanitary
arrangements, combined with the improved condition of
the working population, owing to a better state of trade
and the cheapness of previsions, may account in some
measure for the difference.
Bury; North Bury—Births, 113; deaths, 65. Deaths
considerably below the average; owing, almost entirely
I believe, to the extent to which sanitary measures have
been carried out.
Sedbergh—Births, 21; deaths, 4. The deaths still re-
main much below the average. Sanitary improvements
have been carried out to some extent in the town of Sed-
bergh and neighbourhood. There has been some trifling
movement of the population, but not sufficient to ac-
count for the decrease. The low price of provisions,
plenty of work, new inclosures, and improvements in
agriculture, such as drainage, and bringing moss and
waste land into cultivation : these things have been the
means of keeping the labourers in full employment.
With provisions low, the poor have been able to procure
sufficient food.
Hull was the only town in which any appearance of
epidemic cholera was observed. In that district and
Sculcoates, so fatally visited by cholera last year, se-
veral persons died of cholera in the quarter; 10 at Sut-
ton, one at Drypool, 15 in East Sculeoates, 9 in West
Sculcoates, 19 in Humber, 20 in Myton. At present this
district may be considered healthy. After the ;rent
epidemic cholera of 1832, a second outbreak followed in
1833, and was fatal in towns that had before been spared.
It is a subject of congratulation, and is perhaps ascrib-
able to the better circumstances of the people, and to
some of the sanitary measures in progress, that the
country escaped a second visitation in 1850.
The mortality in the autumn quarter was at the rate
of 2.323 per cent. per annum in 117 town districts ; and
1.824 per cent. per annum in 506 districts, comprising
small towns and country parishes. By causes still in
operation, the towns to every tour deaths from what may
be called natural causes, lost in a favourable season, one
life by the poisons generated in crowded dirty houses,
in the churchyards, in slaughter-houses, in undrained
streets, and sewers.

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eeetery sin. did net eoseess a deposit receipt or a jont
stock bank pass-batik. Ttiey would find that the
Scotchtnan did not conceive that the value end import-
ance of a joint-stock bank in his district was merely
confined to the fact that it might off. r to him the pos-
sibility of having en over-drawn account. Much was
heard in this country of the importance and value of in-
troducing into it the Scotch system of banking, but un-
fortunately many Englishmen to whom he had spoken
on the usefulness of that system, bad fallen into
the error of imagining that it simply meant the
opening of some bank for the purpose of enabling tne
public to overdraw their accounts. The great confi-
dence which was reposed in joint-stock banks in Scot-
land gave much strength and safety to those institu-
tions in that country. With the growth and extension
of that system the necessity of altering the laws of
debtor and creditor forced itself on the public mind,
and in Scotland a those laws had been so al-
tered as to act harmoniously with the extension
of legitimate banking through the instrumentality of the
joint-stock principle. And when the people of this
country began correctly to appreciate, as the people
of Scotland had long since done, the importance of
planting among themselves the joint-stock principle of
banking, an alteration in the laws of debtor and creditor
would become so apparent as to render the demand for
reform in them irresistible. Ho trusted that in making
these observations he should not be misunderstood, and
that it would not be thought that in pointing out the ad-
vantages of joint-stock banks he had any wish to dis-
parage those of a rival principle, for the meeting knew
well that, contemporaneously with the growth of
the former in this great country, we had amongst
us, happily, private banks, whose wealth and whose
blesiness habits justly entitled them to the large amount
of public confidence and support which they received,
and it was in no jealous spirit or mean rivalry that he
had made these observations. It was well known that
a large portion of their (the London and County
Joint-stock Bank's) customers were the provincial
trader and agricultural classes ; and without at all
mooting the question as to the extent of public benefit
which might result from the alterations that had been
made in reference to the importation of food into
this country, all parties were agreed that the im-
mediate consequences of recent legislation had been to
place the agricultural classes, and those small trading
classes in more immediate connexion with them, in very
embarrassing and difficult circumstances.—(Hear, hear.;
No man practically acquainted with agricultural opera
lions or the actual condition of agriculturists could fail to
see that, although one of the ultimate results of our free-
trade legislation might be to diminish the annual rental of
estates, that that effect reached the owner of the land
through the side of the occupier; and that when the
occupier of land found himself in circumstances where a
great and sudden depression of agricultural produce took
place, it was, as ail must acknowledge, accompanied by
great personal embarrassment in many instances; and
that it was very unlike the case of a large speculator
or merchant, who might find himself suddenly with a
large stock of some article, the value of which was
suddenly changed by the rensaval of some particu
lar tax. In the latter case a number of opportunities
was certain to arise almost immediately to enable that
party in a great measure to recover himself; but the case
was very different indeed with the agriculturist. It wae
impossible fur him, probably during the counse of his owl
life, to recover himself from the serious cons• quences of a
sudden depression in the value of his agricultural produc-
tions. The meeting would therefore feet how impanel,
it was that in dealing with the agricultural classes they
did not, by any act of theirs, invite or encourage the agri
oulturist to meet the outgoings either from his ow

MARRIAGES.

The marriages celebrated in the summer quarter
en sling September 30 were 37,496, or more by ten thou-
sand than were registered in the summer quarter of
1842, and two thousand four hundred more than have
been returned in the summer quarter of any previous
years. Allowing for increase of population, the
proportion of marriages is greater than it has been
in the same season of any year since the re-
gistration commenced. Except in the eastern
and south-eastern counties, the increase of marriages has
been general in all the great divisions of the country.
In London the increase has been considerable ; in
Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, North-
amptonshire, and Bedfordshire, it has probably kept
pace with the population ; in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire,
and Cornwall ; in Gloucestershire, Shropshire, and
Staffordshire, the increase has been still more
marked ; in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, and Der-
byshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, and the West Riding of
Yorkshire, however, the greater part of the excess has
arisen. Northumberland, Cumberland, and South Wales
exhibit nearly , the same increase as the Midland
Counties. Among the counties in which the mar-
riages have decreased, or have not sensibly in-
creased, may be named—Kent, Hampshire, Suf.
folk, Norfolk, :Devonshire, Lincolnshire, the East and
North Ridings of York, Westmoreland, and North
Wales. The marriages at Brighton increased from
133 in the summer of 1847, and 113 in 1848, to 177; at
Cheltenham, from 90 to 105; at Clifton, from 88 to 115.
At Wolstanton, Burslern, and Stoke-upon-Trent, among
the potteries, the multiplication of marriages is re-
markable. In the iron districts of Dudley, Walsall,
Birmingham, and Merthyr Tydfil, the advance was
slow or inconsiderable. At Coventry, as well as
Spitalfields, Whitechapel, the seats of the silk
try ie, the marriages increased rapidly ; as they
did also at Leicester, Nottingham. and Derby, at Stock-
port and Macclesfield. At `.Manchester the marriages
ros" from 1,097 to 1,442; at Preston, from 159 to 281;
Halifax, from 215 to 313; Leeds, from 418 and 359 to
488; Newcastle-on-Tyne, frees 293 to 318; Carlisle,
from 39 to 53; Merthyr Tydfil, from 160 to 213.
In the purely agricultural counties marriage then still
went on slowly, but steadily; iu all the iron and coal
fields at but a slightly increasing rate; while in all the
counties peopled by the workers in lace, silk, wool, and
cotton, the number of marriages—of new families esta-
blished—has increased at a rate of which there are few
examples in the returns of the last hundred years. And
the general result is an aggregate increase in the mar-
riagea of the whole country during the summer quarter
of the year 1850.

BIRTHS.
. The births in the quarter following, which ended on
Dscereber 31st, 1850, were also the greatest number
ever registered in the autumn quarters of any previous
) ear. 146,268 children e.sre born in the three months.
The births are in general most numerous in the spring
q*ter, and were eo in the epring of 1850. They have
since greatly exceeded the numbers registered in previous
years in r.li the division's of the kingdom—whether agri-
euitaral ar manufacturing—in counties ravaged by cho-
lera, and in c,mnties left unscathed by that plague.
INCREASE OF POPULATION.
The excess of births registered over deaths in the
quarter is 54,245. The usual excess is forty thousand
more births then deaths; the excess in the list quarter
of 1845 was 50.000; in 1847, when influenza was epi-
denec, only 24,000; in 1849. when the cholera epidemic
was rapidly declining, 38,000.
In the last quarter of the year 1850, 56,971 emi-
grants left the ports of the United Kingdom at which
there are Government emigration officers; 3,836 de-
parted from Irish ports, 1,903 from Glasgow and
Greenock, and 51,232 from three English ports;
namely, 1,702 from Plymouth, 4,282 from Lon-
don, and 45,248 from Liverpool. During the
whole of the year 1850 the births were 593,567, the
deaths 369,679, and consequently the excess of births
over deaths was 223,888 in England; the same year
280,843 emigrants sailed from the shores of the United
Kingdom-214,606 (many of them of Irish birth) from
England; 15,154 from Scotland, and 51,083 from
reiand. The number of births and deaths in Scotland
and Ireland is unknown; and the census alone can dis-
close at what precise rate the population increases; but
we know that the new births more than replace the vast
armies of peaceful emigrants that every year assemble
without muela noise, and, led apparently by the same kind
ot Divine instinct that directs other migrations, leave
their native land to seek homes in regions prepared for
them all over the world.
STATE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH.
That the health of the country is in a state not so
uneetisfactory as it hes been, is evident from the re-
nueed mortar, y. 92,023 deaths were regist-9red; end
aliowin,; fur the prot able increase of population, the
rive of mortality is lower than it has been in any of the
last quarters of the years 1839-50, except 1845. The
rats has been such that one in 197 of the pcpulation died
iu the quarter. The chances were 196 to one in this
quarter, that a person would live through the three
months; the average chance of living through the three
months in England is 184 to one.
London has suffered less than usual from symotic dis-
eases; and the deaths from all causes have been 12,544.
Of this number 1,946 took place in public institutions;
namely, 114 in the military hospitals and asylums,
1,070 in workhouses, 636 in hospitals, exclusive
of 9 deaths in hospitals for foreigners-108 in
lunatic asylums, and 9 in prisons, so that 1 in
12 who died in London ended his days in workhouses,
1 in 20 in hospitals, 1 in 115 in lunatic asylums,
and lin 1,381 in prisons. The deaths from small-
pox and hooking cough are increasing; of scarlatina 429
persons, chiefly children, died; diarrhoea declined; in-
eenze, which destroyed more than 1,161 lives three
years age, was fetal only in 26 cases; of typhus, 619
persons died; of childbirth, including metria, 117 women
died. The deaths from bronchitis and pneumonia toge-
ther amounted to 1,868; these diseases being hull both
in infancy and advanced age. Consumption was fatal to
1,455 persons of all ranks; it is the groat constant in-
exereble (lustre) er of men and women in the prime of
life; and notwithstanding the efforts and researches of
the most eminent inquirers has not yet been disarmed of
its fatal powers; 17 deaths were due to intemperance,
9 to privation, 51 were ascribed to the want of breast
milk, 2 to neg!ect, 1 to cold, 22 to poisoning, 49 to
burns and scalds, 54 to hanging and strangling, 59 to
druwuln,g, 142 to fractures and contusions, 20 to wounds,
11 to otter violence.
In every division of England the mortality has de-
clivas:, and been lower than in the corresponding quarters
of 1846, 1847, 1849. Lancashire and Cheshire present
t 'no, greatest fluctuations.
Tice mortality is the south-eastern division has been
generally low. In Kent, scarlatina, was epidemic at
Gillingham, near the Medway, where cholera was pre-
valent lest year; in Sussex, at Lewes; in Ilansphire, at
N+-Tir Forest, Southampton, and Basingstoke. At South-
ampton, the deaths (300) nearly equalled the births. In
Oxford and other parts of the south-midland counties
scarlatina prevailed. At Harpenden, St. Albans, four
deaths from fever cceurred in one house; and three other
tuetnisers of the family were attacked. The house stands
in an open situation, but has only ore bed-room.
A very accurate and interesting account of the health
and diseases ot Oxford hag been given by Dr. Greenhill;
who bus for some time prepared for that city tables of
m,,rejity, which other cities and large towns would do
well to :rnitat.
In Notfilk, Yarmouth, Norwich, and the neighbour-
ing d:strcr,3 suffered severely from scarlatina. Scarla-
tina and small-pox prevailed in the south-western
counties. Plymouth has been exceedingly unhealthy ;
is Exeter and Bath the mortality has been low. Bris-
tol tad Chfh rt about the average. Measles was epi-
demic at Gloucester ; smeli-pox at Her,,f,,rd ; scar-
lain% at Kingsland, Leominster, and at Shrewsbury.
In eiratferdshire, at Cheadle, a striking instance of
immunity from mortality was noticed ; out of a po-
P"l4ki" s.f 7,000 only two dt atha occurred in the month
c,
November, and one of these was in a child prema-
turely beta., Small-pox has been fatal at Wolverhamp-
ton, and Las raged six months at Bilston; where in the
last quarts it destroyed 69 Futons, 50 of whom had
never been vaccinated. Eirining:ism and Coventry en-
joyed an average degree of health, The mortality of
leetee;tnr, Linceln, and N: ttinghiarn was about the
av,rage; Derby as visiteu by a virulent kind of
in„des, h,oh raised the deaths above the average.
Liverpool sorer been less unhealthy than usual; of Man-
the tality beenee below the average,
cat ster,
although binall-pox has prevalent. The mortality
at Leeds hat; been low ; at Sheffield, near the avers ,
al.b,ogb there scarlatina, msasles, and hooping-couggeh
• a led. Scarborough, Wee
pre . --t'hYt and Durham, were
h. a:thy. The mortality in Newcastle-on-Tyne and
Carliele does not much differ from the average.
The compel...ay/1y good Leal .. of several districts is
ascribed by the registrars to the employment and the im-
' / prtaae condition of the people. Tao following are the
chief r,as,rod,e; roferriu,,,, to this point, and to the effect
of :unitary measures:—
Wi:: MaiiAtone—Diabs, 67; deaths 68,
are be low the average,
aths in the dts!riot teneeejf
a hetet I at r•Oute to the iniprov,tl c•;ndiion of the poor,
arl,,;',g from the c!ie.:pn,s, (,f food.
Sut.kury; Sedbury.—:.;ir hs. 60; deaths, 25. Deaths
coL,id,rabty below she art rep, beirg in fact the
sz.nr4ilest number registered in any quarter since the
cecreseeecement of the pre,ent regi,tratlon. Abundance
of replays:what for the weavers- and toe cheapness of
feud, ,ro the Only apparent causes of the improved state
of elealth.
Weymouth—Births, 76; deaths, 42. The deaths are
, btheef.tike average.
may probably be accounted
rffieftle usual dueness ef the weather for the season,
..eeetTl7 4supply of pure water.
„.4•4:4 100; deaths, 48. The births are
\IISIB
fed quarter of 1849, which
teo a,r on the sari, groukclr as before,
, • t-l-gp,..lst/te,&A strengers into the sub-district. The
eeree 4 •low the same quarter s,f 1849, and alto
reedy average.
Teis improvement is at-
le,
trWrt.' to the entire aasence of epidemics, and to the
.ka bate: ' dirion of the inhabitants generally, consequent

LONDON AND COUNTY JOINT

STOCK BANK.

The half-yearl- meeting of the proprietors of the
above bank was held on Thursday at the London Tavern.
Mr. J. Sadleir, MP., was in the chair.
The advertisement by which the meeting had been
convened having been read, the secretary read the fol-
lowing report:
The directors have to place before the proprietors the
balance sheet of the bank, signed by the auditors of the
company, up to the 31st December, 1850. It will be seen
tb..t the net profits for the past half-year, ending 1850,
amount to 9,9081. 9s. 101., out of which sum the directors
recommend that a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per
annual be declared, free of income-tax, for the half-year
ending the 31st Dec., 1850. which, if approved by the
proprietors, will leave 3,1331. 18s. 2d. to be carried to the
guarantee fund, thus increasing that fund to 35,1931. 6s.
10d. Since the last annual meeting, your directors have,
in consequence of the failure of Messrs. Nash and
Neale, established a branch at Reigate, where an in-
creasing and remunerative business is carried on. It is
with regret that the directors have to announce to the
proprietors the recent demise of John Cuthbert Joyner,
Esq., for many years a member of the Board. The
vacancy thus occasioned has been filled up by the elec-
tion of. William Champion Jones, Esq.
BALANCE SHEET TO 31ST DECEMBER, 1850.
DEBTOR. d.
To Capital ...
... 231,035 0 0
Reserved fend . . ... 32,059 8 8
Customers' balances, &c. ... 2,030,238 4 3
Net profit for the half-year, after
payment of 11,2301. ss. 9d. for
interest to customers ...

capital or from their Bin the bank. There was a strong..
spirit
and desire on the part of the agricultural classes
to meet manfully and scrupulously every engsgamenton,
he constantly found that spirir and that anxiety forcing th,
agriculturists. inclined to hope against hope, to trench or,
T heir own capital, and evincing agreat desire founded or.
sanguine anticipations of future reacti,.n, to encroach or
thiet of the bank; and he hoped that he had the support o
the proprietors in the at.xiety which the hoard had shown
to be more carerul that the bank should be no parties
to assist them in a matter so dangerous, and fraught
with so much injury to the •itabltahment. But.
on the other hand, he was bound to say that in this
period of transition there was a large portion of the
agricultural classes in the district with which they were
connected who had had the good sense to preserve their
capital intact, and the position of this bank at
the close of the preseet year was a corroboration of the
fact he had just stated. The directors hai endeavoured

to meet the difficulty to which he had alluded, !WlC-
creasing the staff of inspectors, and by making an inter-
nal arrangement which secured the daily attendance at
the bank of at least two members of the board. After

some further observations he moved the adoption of t 1;
report.

'The motion having been seconded, was carried unan
monsly.

A dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum was
then declared, and the balance of 3,130/. carried to the
guarantee fund. Some formal resolutions were passed, and
a cordial vote of thanks having been given to the
Chairman, the meeting broke up.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
The following is the proclamation of the new mixed
Commission of Government of Holstein :
" His Majesty the King of Denmark, es Duke of Hol-
stein, having, in virtue of the 4th Article of the Treaty
of Peace of the 2d of July, 1850, demanded the aid of
the Confederation for the re-establishment of his actual
authority in the duchy as the Sovereign of the State;
that aid has been granted by the Royal Government
of Prussia and the royal and imperial Government
of Austria on behalf of the German Band. In
consequence of this intervention the hostilities are
suspended, the army reduced to one-third its force,
and the functions of the Stathalterachaft, and the
chiefs of the departments of Administration under it,
terminated. The Commissaries charged for the present
with the Executive Power in the Duchy of Holstein
have, in virtue of the authority entrusted to them, ap-
pointed, a civil Administration for the State. It consists
of Baron Adolph Blom; of Heiligenstedten, as Presi-
dent, and Baron Heintze, M. Heiexelmann (Government
Councillor), M. Malmros (Councillor of the Court of
Appeal), and M. Prehn; they will administer the Go-
vernment of the Duchy under the control of the Com-
missaries of the Confederation. In other places, and in-
dependently of their authority, the question relative
to the definitive settlement of the relations of the Duchy
of Holstein to the German Band, ant to the Kingdom of
Denmark and the Duchy of Schleswig, will be arranged.
•` The hitherto exiatifConstitution of September 17,
1848, with the law relative to die eiection of the Chem-
b• rs, and the decrees of the 16th of September, and the
20th and 21st of October, 1848, relating to the Admi-
nistration, are hereby suspended and declared valid, and
the Chamber of the Duchy is dissolved. In the same
manner the German declaration of fundamental rights
published in the Duchy is cancelle
"As no laws promulgated without the sanction of
the Sovereign can have any definitive legal force, it
is expressly provided that all the orders, decrees,
and regulations published since the 24th of March,
1848, are only valid dining the existence of the present
interim Administration, and are to be acted on by it
with the reservation that it has the power to
suspend or alter them without limitation. But the ad-
ministrative measures which have been taken since the
24th of March, 1848, will, in the same manner, be con-
tinued and upheld in so far as they are not suspended
by the said administration. The private rights and re-
latiens that have arisen under these laws will not be
affected by their suspension. -
" The hitherto existing Government of Schleswig•
Holstein, the powers and tunctions of which had already,
in reality, been limited to the Duchy of Holstein, is in
reference to the present state of affairs hereby set aside,
and its powers transferred to the civil administration
above named.

" The new Government will, in the publication of new
laws, and changing the course of the administration,
confine itself to what is necessary.
" The above is hereby publis.hed for the information
and observance of the public, individually and collec-
tively.

" Ta the name of the Sovereign of the State, and in
behalf of the German Band.

" H. VOR REVENTLOW-CRIMINIL.
" Von THEMEN. Major•Grneral.
"6 Count MENSDORFF, Major-General.
" Kiel. Feb. 2,.1881."
The chiefs of the several Bureaux of the departments
will be retained, as well as all the subordinate employds.
The Department of Foreign Affairs is the only one din.
solved without any intention of its being re-constructed
by the present Administration.

MINING INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Mining Journal)
A considerable business has been done during the
week, but in many instances at a reduced figure, and
our column of transactions shows, generally, a lower
range cf prices for dividend mines, whilst fur others
there has been a good demand, without any particular
advance or decline. It is, however, important to note
that the bona fide success of mining adventure has been
remarkably exemplified in the sudden, though not un-
expected improvement in several progressive concerns,
and which has operated most favourably on the value of
the shares. We feel called upon to give especial cur-
rency to the fact that several new companies are pro-
jected, with large paid-up capitals, thus compelling the
adventurer to the payment of money which may never
be wanted, and operating perniciously, as we conceive,
on the management, by placing it on a wrong basis at
the commencement. To call for funds as they are wanted
,zppr.ars to us the only legitimate mode of conducting
British mining operations.
In the metal market, Coppsr is steady, without
change. English Tin continues in good demand:
foreign las again advanced, but limited business has
keen done, in consequence of the small quantity offering.
Lead without change, and firm.
In our list of dividends for Ji.nuarr, given last week,
that of Nor,h Ro.kt er, ernoweing to 7061, (eight t have
been included, which sum, added to the total amount,
as published, will make the aggregate for the last month
24,974/.
'rho sale of copper ores at Re drufb, on Thur.day, was
4,799 tons, and produced 20.'221. 154. 6d. The next
sal.- (3,240 tone) takes place at Redruth.
sale of black tin from the Great Beam Mine re-
aliz.d from 481. 103. to 611. per ton, the total amount
being 3691. 121. 3d.
Georgia Consols ttt o parcels of black tin—one of
541. 10e, the other at 301. per tor..
F3ryntail Mine bold 18 tons of lead ore, at 111. 2s.
per ton.
The
at 121. 15. per ton.
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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 101 1851.

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iu a nage proportiuu .f our mice reports, the anews
still complain that their operations have been impeded
by the continued and heavy rain by which nearly every
locality has been visited. At Trelawuy, Wheal Mary
Ann, Alf:ed Consols, and other mines, this obstacle has
been especially felt, and an improvement in the weathe
is generally looked for as a means of giving increased
activity to the workings now in progress.
At Devon and Courteney, the lode in the 40 rise is
about 2 feet wide, yielding Li toss of copper ore, per
fin., of excellent quality.
At Wheal Adems, the lode is becoming more pro-
ductive in the cross-cut westerly, with every prospect,
according to the report, of a large deposit of ore being
..-peedlly reached.
At ldolmbush, in extending the 120 fin. level, a branch
of the lead lode has been intersected, producing a very
fair qu ,ntity of lead, and in places rich for silver.
At East Crowndale, the bunch of tin in the bottom of
the 40, east of middle shaft, is extending both in length
and breadth, and of rich qualty.
At Trannack and Bosence, the winze sinking from the
20 to the 30 fin. level is stated to be worth 201. per fan.
A great improvement has taken place at Wheal Cie-
bon which has caused a considerable demand for the
shares at a meal advanced price, at which several trans-
actions have been done, but holders are firm.
At Borringdon Park Mine, the lode though only 11
fins. deep, is worth between 30/. and 401. per fathom for
silver lead.
At Trelyon Consols, the tin lode still continues good
in the 30 fathom level, worth 30/. per fro. In Wheal
Margery there is a good copper lode in the 60, and a
pitch will be set in a few days. The sampling of cop-
per ore is expected to equal the last, and the produce of
(in is increasing.
By Alfred Consols report, we perceive that the lode in
the 70 fm. level is 9 ft. wide, and worth from 60/. to 701.
per fm.; and the lode in the rise and stopes over the
cask of the same level is estimated as high as in the
preceding week-from 1201. to 1401. per fm.; while the
lode in the winze sinking under the 60 fan, level is stated
at about. 1001. per fm.
In the East Crowndale report, it is stated that, during
the past month, the prospects of the mine have decidedly
improved. In the 40 fan, level a rich bunch of tin has
oeen found, and the value of the lode taken down is esti-
mated at 1201. per fm. In other parts of the mine also
good results are anticipated.
The reports for East Tamar and South Tamar, on the
operations of the past month, are favourable. In the
former, progress has been made in driving the different
levels; and in the latter mine, a 124 fm, level is about to
be driven, which is expected to be productive and profit-
able, and in the 90 end south the lode has been gradually
improving during the whole of the month. A new
stamps engine is also being erected.
Since the notices relative to the Cardiganshire mines,
inserted in another column, were in type, we have re-
ceived additional infortnadou, of an interesting cha-
racter, up to the latest moment. From Allt-ta Crib,
the first returns made by the present company have
been obtained this week, which more than cover
the expenses. The first intention was to have
forked the water, and get down to the old
workings, said to be solid, and of great thickness
and extent; but as the works above the adit produce
1 -age quanutins of ore, it is in! ended to contuare them
dual a large 50 ft. wheel is completed, when the bottom
eouree of (ire will be opened. Owns Seban is now giv-
-114 a profit; the mummery is very extensive, with a
60-ft. water. wheel, the largest working in the county.
Some little alterations are making in details, when all is
expected to go on smoothly. At Daren, ore sufficient
nes been raised to pay for the expensive preparatory
work, with a balance equal to one-tourth of the cost of
a seam-engine, and something left for farther develop-
tll.o E. As Esgatr-hir aal Etaair-fraith a course oi solid
,rte is being worked on, where two men will raise 2001.
worth of ore in about two months. So promising is this
property, that it is in contemplation to give it the name
suggested by Waller, in 1698. when he made his famous
aelculation to return 75,000/. per annum profit, and
give his services for one seveuty-fifth of whatever
it might be-viz., " The Welsh Potosi." The other
mines of Cae gynon, Rhiwleygus, Geller-herein, Court
grange, and Broptleyd, are progressing as well as could
be desired. As Grogwynion, the ground under the
great adit has much improved-the ore more massive
ban in any other mine in the county. Penrhiw is mak
ing a small profit, and would do well, if a market could
be found for a mineral half iron pyrites and half lead,
which might be brought into requisition for manufac-
turing sulphur, as well as obtaining the lead.
We noticed last week that the late workings of the
Great United Mines had not paid cost: at the meeting,
held last Friday, the accounts showed a loss on the two
months' working of 1,3001., and the agents reported
that, unless discoveries were made, the mine could not
be carried on. It was resolved to give another two
months' trial, and unless great improvement takes place
the works must stop, and with them most probably the
Great Consols, to the distress of the population of
Gwennap.
At the North Basset meeting, on Wednesday, a divi-
dend of 1,5004 was declared, being the third dividend
paid since the Ist of June last. The accounts for the
past year were reviewed, showing-By amount of 3,102
tons 8 cwts. of copper ores sold during the year, 18,5281.
85. 261. Total costs for working the mine during that
period, including royalty, 12,367/. 11s.; profit, 6,1601.
17s. 2d. To dividends, &c., paid from the Ist of June to,
and including, this day, 6,070/. Os. 5d.; balance carried
to next account, 90/. 16s. 9d. The reports from the mine
are most flattering, and shall appear in our next.
At the Wheal Basset two-monthly meeting, on Tues-
day, the accounts showed-Labour cost:for Nov. and Dec..
2,2021. Bs. Ild.; merchants' bills, 769/. 9s. 9d.=2,9981,
18s. Bd. By copper and tin ores sold, Nov. and Dec.
(less 1.15 th for lord's dues, 403/. Its. Id.), 5,653/. as. 4d.;
leaving profit, 2,654/.65. Bd.; and balance in favour from
last account, 490/. 9s. 10d. 3,144/. 16s. Bd. By divi-
dend of 101. per share, 2,560/.: leaving balance to next
account, 584/. 16s. 6d. It was resolved that more
vigorous operation be commenced in the south part of
the mine, as soon as convenient.
At the East Basset meeting, representing 236 out of
256 shares, a call of 5/, per share was made.
At the South Tolgus meeting, the accounts showed-
Ores sold (less dues), 2,064/. 15s. Id. By mine cost and
merchants' bills, November and December, 1,2481. Os. 7d.;
leaving a profit, 816/. 14s, 6t1.; to which add, balance
last account, 87/. 6s. Bd., and deduct dividend, 2/. 10e.
per share, 6401., and paid on account of new engine 150/.
-leaves balance to next account, 114/. Is. 2d. The re-
port states that the whole of the prospects appear very
satisfactory, as the improvement in the eastern levels, on
south lode, more than made up for the poverty of the 42
wast, on the north lode, while in all other parts of the
mine the rate of discoveries of ore is fully maintained.
At the Wheal Langford and Wheal Baring United
meeting, the mine accounts up to the end of December
showed a balance in favour of adventurers of 744/. 4s.
9d. A report on the mine, from Mr. Arthur D. was
read to tha mee:ing, tege(her with the agent's reports. .
The statem.-nt of accounts submitted a; the Gustavus
meeting showed-To balance in September account,
1,272/. 15s. 81; mine cost fur the three months ending
in ll,cemb.r, 3571. ls. 61. ; merchants' bills, 2641 its,
5,1.--=1,894/. Be. 7d. By call of 11. 4.4. 9d. per 1,026 ch,
1,269/. 13.. 61.: leaving balance against the mine, 624/.
15s. ld. To cover too loss, and for the further prosecu-
tion of the mine, it was resolved that a call of 20s. per
share be made.
At the Tau Consols ai-m itithly meeting, on Tues-
day, the accounts showed-Balance teorn Dec., 23/. 11a.;
Nov. cost 188/. 7s. 8d; Dec., 136/. 17s. 81; merchants
bills, 1221. 6s. 4d.; petty coati, 121. 3e. 9d. e---- 483/. 6s. sd.
--Oct. ores sold, 1471. 19e. 7d.; Nov. ditto, 2101. 2s. ld.
-balance down. 125/. 4s. 9d; labilities, 375/.; estimated
assets in ore, 2791.
At the Peedurves Consols meeting the accounts
showed-Balance of last account, 812/. 35. 7d.; mine
cost for Oct., Nov., and Dec., 5421. 135.; merchants'
bills, 204/. 12s. 7d. = 1,050/. 9e. 2d.-By copper ores
sold, 27/. 18s. id.; cash received on call, 513/. = 787!,
I ls. Ild.: leaving balance against adventurers, 271/.
10s. 3.1. A call of 108. per share was made to meet the
balance, and carry on the future operations of the mine.
At the East Sharp Tor meeting, on the 16th Jan.,
at which Alderman Copeland presided, the accounts
were submitted and passed, and the report of the
agents received. The accounts showed-Labour cost
for September, October, and November, 2051. 19s. 7d.;
merchants bills, 971. 7s. 2d, ; other disburat-
meats, 115/. 7s. 9d.--=-414/. 14s. 6d.-Balance on last ac-
c3unt, 137/. 12s. 41.; cash received on call, 510/. It:In--n.-
648/. 2e. 4d.; leaving balance in favour of adventurers,
233/. 7s. 10d. The liabilities, including the cost for De-
cember, and outstanding merchants' bills, amount to
294/. 18s. Id ; and the assets, adding ono call now due,
2341. 17s. 10d.
At a general meeting of adventurers in the- Black
Craig and Craigton nines, on Monday, Charles Gilpin
Esq., in the chair, the balance-sheet, showing balance
in hand. 501. 1 Is. I Id., and balance of liabilities over
:assets, 746/. 165., was submitted and passed. Some de-
lay having unavoidably occurred in getting the ore to
market, owing to an accident in the adit level, and the
sinking of the vessel bearing one cargo to ilolywell
(which, however, was insured by the committee of ma-
nagement), it was found necessary to make a call of 2s.
6d. per share. There are 63 tons of ore upon the mine,
a cargo of which will be sent off for sale as soon as a
vessel van be procured.
At the United Mines meeting, held at Tavietock, a
committee was appointed to consider the rules and de-
termine on the future operations respecting the mine,
and arrangements to be made with the lords of the soil.
At the West Trethellan meeting the accounts for four
months, endifig December, showed-Balance from last
account, 210/. 19s. 10d.; ores sold (less dues), 118/. 15s.
10,1..---3291. 15.5. 83. To costs and merchants' bills,
146/. 3a. 2d.; leaving balance in favour of adventurers,
1631. 12s 6d.
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smallAt a general
call
was
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meetra e o h
expenses ns t) 1 s , a
on
fopenTuesday,opening
end clearing the *haft. and levels, preparatory to the
erection t f a steam-engine, which will be down early in
the spring.
At the flennoek meeting, it will be seen that there
was b dance in favour ef adventurers of 1731. 18s. 10d.;
the to,al receipts are 1,708 17c.; arrears received,
292/. 135.; cash on call, 375/. = 2.376/. 104.-Mine
cost, as stet, d in former account. 1,652/. to Si.; labour
for fur months ending Dec. tuber, 2621. 16s. 2d.; men,
chants' bills. 257/. 18s. 10d.; other charges, 26/. 1.1b.94.;
leaving balance as stated. The account of liabilities
and assets showed a balance of assets of 1324
3s. 7d. The agentai report is satisfactory, and
the aprincin,n: of Mr. A. Murray, jun., as inspecter of
the mine, was confirinvi, rho general feeling of the
meeting being that of confi fence in the speed> success of
the speculation. Same splendid Specimens ( f ore were
shown at the meeting, and valuable discoveries, it was

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Colone,l Lack, commarn'inz the, Royal Artillery at Chat-
.

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tt.dt Gehe;•al the Lai of 6trAfFord ix uatigeruu.ilJ
such is net the fact.

'

L'ln,rr.knv M.P.'s.—ln ozir enum.,ration o the Mili-
tary Members of Parliament from whose exertions much
is exp.cted this session, we omitted to mention the name
of Captain Wynne, of the 7th Fusiliers, who takes his
seat for the first time. It is the belief of those who are
well acquainted with Captain Wynue that he will prove
a valuable acquisition to the military phalanx. •• U.
has," says a correspondent, " a sound head, a knowledge
of the sci..ntific and practical parts of the trade, and taus
the advamtage of Lo-ing behind the scenes as to what
is actually passing iu the service, by being a full pay
captain in on, of the best disciplined and best drilled
regiments in the British army."

1/1,--PUTY /ADJUTANT GENERAL.--C,lonel Wetherell,
the Deputy Adju,ant- G,-neral to the Forces, is to be
deprived of the pa) he derives from the appointment he
holds as one of the Aides-de-Camp to her M4jebty, the
o appointments being considered incompatible with the
duties t,f each other.

COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT.--,A ssistaat Commis-
sary-General Mends, who has recently returned from
duty at Sierra Leone, is to proceed to South Australia,
to take charge of the department in that colony. This
measure has been deemed expedient, in cons,quence of
the great aumber of Enrolled Pensioners embarking for
that station.

WAR AT THE CAPE.—In addition to the four com-
panies of the 73d Regiment, with a detachment of Royal
Artillery, which left Cape Town for Simon's Bay on the
sth of December, a further force of a troop of the Cape
Mounted Rifle Regiment, and a detachment of the 91st
Regiment, have proceeded to the Leeuw frontier. The
whole of the troops stationed on the frontier are to be
concentrated in British Kafraria, under the command of
Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Smith.

TRES FOR 185
rARY.

26
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Northampton
Newcastle-on-Tyne S

Malkin l5
Newmark. First Spring 21
Abergavennv 24
Chester

York Spring
Bath
Epsom
Wye
Lenham

S. Lanca.hire (Newton) 18
Stockbridge ...... 19
Winchester 2O
Newcastle

Liverpool
sramford....
Nottingham
G.,odwood
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York ,
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