The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-12 00:00:00

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal
Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley
Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 47,046
Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver-
hampton
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
Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work-
ington
Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com-
pany, Cheltenham
Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company
Coventry
Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 10,385
County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel-
tenham
Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company
Carlisle
Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 19,396
Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company,
Dudley
Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 16,891
Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com-
pany, Darlington
East of England Bank, Norwich
Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 124,104
Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax
Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 34,990
Hull Banking Company, Hull
Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Ha-
lifax
Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com-

84,758

pang, Halifax 42,840
Holston Banking Company, Holston 1,538
Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 14,332
Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company,
Knaresborough 19,727
Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,003
Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster . 45,969
Leeds Banking Company, Leeds
Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester
Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 39,380
Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking
Company, Leamington Priors
Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,478
Moore and Robinson's Notanghamshire Bank-
ing Company, Nottingham 25,863
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking
Company, Nottingham
Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint-
Stock Banking Company, Newcastle ... 1,255
National Provincial Bank of England, Birming-
ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street,
London
North Wilt!, Banking Company, Melksham ..... 39,663
Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton., 57,955
Northamptonshire Banking Company, North-
ampton
North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 22,777
Pares's Leicestcrshire Banking Company, Lei-
- -

tester ... _ 35,300
Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth... 2,968
Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 34,111
Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com-
pany, Stamford. 39,846
Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset-
shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang-

port
Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall ..
Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com-
pany, Stourbridge
Sheffield and Hallamshire 13anking Company,
Sheffield
Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking
Company, Sheffield
Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company,
Richmond ...... „, 36,501
Storey and Thomas's Banking Company
Shaftesbury
Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Com-
pany, Wolverhamptonand Barnsley ,
29 821
Wakefield
Union Bank, Wakefield 12,445
Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company,
a
Whitehaven
Warwick and Leamington Banking Company,
Warwick ...... ... _
24,483
West of Englana and South Wales District
Bank, Bristol . .... • .
Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 70,870
West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud-
dersfield . ................. .. ................... 32,490
Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company,
Whitchurch
Worcester City and County Banking Company, /
Worcester
York Union Banking Company, York 62,005
York City and County Banking Company, York 72,714
Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds
P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns.
Inland Revenue, Somerset House, Sept. 6, 1851.

NEW YORK.—Great numbers of large houses for
stores are being erected of brown stone; the fronts are
supported by iron columns. The spirit of emulation to
outvie in the construction and planning of new edifices is
predominant in all parts of the city. The Saint Nicholas
Hotel, in Broadway, is rapidly progressing. This will
be the largest house in the city except the Astor House.
The cost will be 300,000 dollars. Idr. Brewster has com-
menced two elegant stores, in Broadway; they will be five
stories high, and one hundred feet deep. They present
a tine marble elevation of fifty feet, supported by
unique wrought-iron columns. A splendid hotel is being
erected in the south-west corner of Broadway and White-
street; it is to be five stories high, fronting 80 feet on
White-street, and 25 feet on Broadway. This latter is sup-
ported by elegant wrought-iron columns. It will be com-
posed all above the first story of brown stone. Mr. Brewster
is also erecting a fine store at No. 355, Broalway; it will
be seven stories high 92 feet deep, and '25 feet frontage,
which will be composed of white Paternoster stone, supported
by iron columns.—Architect.

A CUEAP PL&CE TO LIVE IN.—The Literary Ga-
zette, in a notice of Mr. Neale's work on Syria, says -
"People
who love to live well and cheap at the same time should go
to Antioch. Mr Neale tried to be extravagant there, but
be
found it to impossible, house-rent, servants, horses,
b tard, waslung, and wine included,' to spend more than 401.
a year. Oh, that Antioch were London ! Fancy 7ilb. of
good mutton for 18.1—fat fowls for 2d. a piece !-701b. of
fish for Is.. and all possible fruits and vegetables sufficient
for one's household for 2d. a week I If we remembor aright,
the garden of lA= IWO 6013407TheIenear this place."

GERMAN Y.
The opening of the Diet of the Grand Duchy of
Posen took place on the 7th inst. The President of
the Province and the Deputies attended public wor-
ship previous to assembling. At noon they met in
the residence of the President, M. von Piittkammer,
who addressed them in the following speech :
" After an interruption of many years you are again
summoned by his Majesty's Government as the repre-
sentatives of this province ad interim, not only to decide
on its particular interests, but also to give your counsel
and advice on various important questions connected
with the general legislation of the country. The Go-
vernment, in having direct recourse to you, whose
manclut is based partly on your own ancient rights as
members of the orders of the province, and partly on a
former election, as given you a pledge of its special con-
fidence. You do honour to it by imparting to your
resolutions and your counsels that character which
is alone calculated to lend them the proper consecra-
tion, and at the same time to ensure them a beneficial
result. That is the character of pure and genuine Prus-
sian patriotism, that first and highest of national ideas,
to which all others must be subordinate, if they would
not forfeit their claim to recognition. I, who have the
' honour of representing for the first time this idea among
you, am resolved to realize it with that decision and
firmness my King and Sovereign jastly expected from
me when he entrusted this important office to my hands.
Thus, and only thus, shall I be in a position to promote
the true interests of all the inhabitants of this province of
both nationalities. I also know that in the realization
of this idea lies the sole guarantee for that parity be-
tween them which right and equity demand.
You, Sir Marshal, appointed by the confidence of the
lung to conduct the proceedings of this Assembly, will
do so in the sense I have above pointed out. You will
thereby earn another claim to the thanks of the province
and the nation at large.
" In laying before you the decree of the 31st of
August last, containing the special propositions you aro
to consider, I have to remark that the subjects therein
named, so far as they have not been communicated to
you in any form, are to be entered on without delay. It
is of course understood that I, like my predecessor in
office, shall be ready to assist the Assembly in the most
direct manner with any information it may require.
" In the name of the King, I hereby declare the pro-
vincial Representation of the orders of the Grand Duchy
of Posen (as a Provincial Diet the Bth) to be now
opened."
The President then placed in the hands of the
Marshal of the Diet (Baron Hiller, of Gartringen,)
the decree above alluded to, in the German and
Polish languages. The Marshal, turning towards
the President (who is also the Royal Commissary),
then replied as follows
While I, in the name of the Diet of the Province
here assembled, respectfully salute you as Commissary
of his Majesty, I have to express our thanks for the
confidence the Government of his Majesty has placed
in the body. To justify that confidence, as well as the
expectations of the province, as far as possible, will be
the object of cur zealous endeavour.
" The peculiar relations of the province often pro-
duce difficulties which in other parts of the king-
dom do not exist. Those difficulties will also
make themselves felt in this Assembly. I may
at the same time express the conviction that the
Diet will seek to overcome them with its usual perse-
verance. To this end the support you have promised us
will essentially contribute, since in you we see a man at
the head of the Adminisiration of the province whose
capacity for business, decision, and faithful adherence to
the King and his house, justify us in entertaining the best
hopes both in this and other respects."
The Marshal then addressed the following observa-
tions to the members of the Diet :

" With the wish that these hopes may be to the fullest
extent realized, I turn, gentlemen, to you. The honour-
able task entrusted to me I gladly accept, since it affords
me, as it will you, the opportunity to display our fidelity
and adherence to the King, and put me in a position to
work with you for the welfare of the province. If the
want of a knowledge of one of the languages here enti-
tled to be used places me under a double difficulty, I
will the more earnestly endeavour to prevent that defi-
ciency from delaying our labours, and therefore, on ac-
count of their importance, I rely on your indulgence.
" Gentlemen, the special provincial questions laid
before us by his Majesty's Government for our decision
are of no less consequence to the welfare of the province
than those connected with the general legislation of the
country, the opportunity of examining and testing which
must be so much the more valuable, as, in consequence
of the peculiar circumstances of the duchy, our more
recent legislation has net always effected what were
practical necessities.
" May our deliberations contribute to remove existing
defects; may they be beneficial to our common country."
The proceedings terminated with a cheer for the
King.