The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-24 00:00:00

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TAT TERSALLS.—T HIS. EVENING.
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WARWICK HANDICAP.
7 to 4 agst Doubt
7 to 2 agst Chief Justice
9 to 1 agst Waterfall

WARWICK STEEPLECHASE.
5 to 1 agst Victress
8 to 1 agst Oscar

CHESTER. CUP.
1,000 to 15 agst High Sheriff
1,000 to 15 agst Goldfinder
1,000 to 15 agst Trickstress
4,000 to 60 agst Nancy

RAN OVER.

The Official Gazette of Hanover publishes the de-
cree ordering the usual homage of the servants of the
State to the new Monarch. The following is the
declaration they are required to make :--
"As by the decease of our Most Gracious Sovereign
and Lord, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, &c., the
Government of the King of Hanover has descended to
the present King, George the Fifth, according to the
right 6f primogeniture, and the patent of the 18th of
November, 1851, I recognise, according to the homage
I have already given, the present reigning King, big
Most Gracious Maje-sty George the Fifth, alone as my
legal Sovereign, and promise to be true, faithful, and
obedient to him, to promote his prosperity and that of
the kingdoeaeothe best of my termer; but, as far as pos-
sible. to avert all injure from them."
The Zeitung fiir Nord Deutschland says :
66 The Roy et patent issued yesterday, relative to the
accession to the Throne, hes produced a favourable im-
pression, as well by its brevity and simplicity as from
the fact that it is in every respect according to the form
prescribed by the Constitution, and promises that it shall
be maintained without qualificatien.or condition. When
there were so many apprehensions that the reactionary
party would gun ground on the change in the succes-
sion, it is satiAletory to perceive no indications of that
result in the acts of the Government. The immediate
summons of the Chambers may be expeected.. (The
109th ear. of the law of sth September, 1848, enacts that
the Chambers shall be celled together within fourteen
,days after th - demise of the Crown. If it not done
those lee; s,ornonca may asseaable themselves to main-
tain the rights of the country.) Of course we assume
that the clear meaning of this article will be carried out,
but after the interpretetioas that Coastuntients have re-
ceived io Many Faris of Germ say, it is no wonder that
doubts and eitspieloas should exist."
Toe Hanoverian Presse has an article to the same
effect, addi:J2 merely :

"As to the conti.eu,:uce of the present Ministry,
nothing i, decided. We believe, hewerer, that tho word
of the fsther wig he as sacred to bins as his own, even
were the latter not already pledged to the recognition
of the erd-T of thighs."
If the Cis-Ambers ase summoned, it is supposed their
session will not occupy more than, a month.

The Weser Zeitzvii states that
" A loog strug,le preceded the dissolution of Ernest
Augustu,; according to au arrar.gement tnade some
.years ago, King will be buried in his uniform of an
_English Field-Marshai. The body, according to the
same directions,. will lie iti state fir eight days; if the
physicians wish it, it may be opened, but the head and
breast are not to be injured. If the body is not opened,
a vein of the neck is to In divided before burial. The
ceremony of the laying in state had commenced on the
20th."

FAILURE OF THE SUNDERLAND
JOINT STOCK BANK.

SUNDERLAND, SATURDAY.—Yesterday morning the
Sunderland Joint-Stock Banking Company stopp3d pay-
ment. This company was established in 1836. with a
capital of 100,0001. in 101, shares, 7L 10s., or 75,0001., of
this capital being paid up. The immediate cause of the
stopp age, it is stated, was, that the London and West-
minster Bank refused to discount its paper; the remote
cause, losses by failures in the town,—a large manufac-
turing firm some years ago, and a shipowner this year,
having failed, with a balance considerably on the wrong
side of the bank book. The operations of the bank were
limited to the town, and, as the tradespeople did not
generally keep their accounts with it, the stoppage
will not be extensively fslt. The bank was known
in the town as the " Methodist Bank," the
directors of it principally belonging to that
body, and from this circumstance its business was
somewhat of a class character. Its stoppage will be felt
most severely by small shiphuillers, whose work is sub-
let to them by large capitalists. Its deficiencies are
stated to amount to 20,0001., but probably they will be
no more. The proprietary is limited, and some of the
shareholders are substantial men. The only fear is that
the pressure will 'come too heavily upon them at first.
The deposits amount to about 24.0001., and there seems
to be little fear but that the depositors will be paid in
full. The corporation banked with the company, and
has 1,700/. deposited. the Sunderland Joint-Stock Pre-
mium Association, 5,0001., and a shipowner, also, has a
considerable sum locked up. There are about 4,500
shares in the hands of persons able to pay all demands,
and, as the deficiency only amounts to about the sun-1
stated, it will appear that the further loss to the share-
holders will not far exceed 51. a share. A. meeting of the
shareholders was held yesterday, when a call of 24 10s.
per share was Entyle.
DESTRUCTION OF A WHALE

SHIP BY A SPERM WHALE.
(From the Panama Herald, Oat. 16.)
We have just received the following thrilling ac-
count of the destruction of the whale-ship Ann Alex-
ander, Captain John S. Deblois, of New Bedford, by
a large sperm whale, from the lips of the captain him-
self, who arrived in this city from Paita on Sunday
last in the schooner Providence. A similar circum-
stance has never been known to occur but once in the
whole history of whale fishing, and that was the de-
struction of the ship Essex, some twenty or twenty-
five years ago, and which many of our readers fully re-
member. We proceed to the narrative as furnished
us by Captain Deblois, and which is fully authenticated
by nine of the crew in a protest under the seal of the
United States Consul; Alex. Roden, at Paita.
The ship Ann Alexander, Captain S. Deblois, sailed
from New Bedford, Bass., June Ist, 1850, for a cruise
in the South Pacific for sperm whale. Having taken
about 500 barrels of oil in the Atlantic, the ship pro-
ceeded on her voyage to the Pacific. Nothing of un-
usual interest occurred until, when passing Cape
Horn, one of the men, named Jackson Walker, of
Newport, N. H., was lost overboard in a storm.
Reaching the Pacific, she came up the coast and
stopped at Valdivia, coast of Chili, for fresh provi-
sions, and on the 31-it of May last she called at Paita
for the purpose of shipping a man. The vessel pro-
ceeded on her voyage to the South Pacific.
On the 20'h of August last she reached what is
well kcown to all whalers as the " Off-shore ground,"
in latitude 5 dvg. 50 min. S., long. 102 deg. W. In
the morning of that day, at about nine o'clock, whales
were discovered in the neighbourhood, and about noon
the same day they succeeded in making fast to one.
Two boats had gone after the whales—the larboard
and starboard, the former commanded by the first
mate, and the latter by Captain Deblois. The whale
which they had struck was harpooned by the larboard
boat. After running some time the whale turned
upon the boat, and rushing at it with tremendous vio-
lence, lifted open its enormous jaws, and taking the
boat in, actually crushed it into fragments as small as
common-siz-d chair. Captain Deblois immediately
struck for the scene of the disaster with the starboard
boat, and succeeded against all expectation in res-
cuing the whole of the crew of the boat, nine in
number.

Thera were now eighteen men in the starboad boat,
consisting of the captain, the first mate, and the crews
of both boats. Th. frightful disaster had been wit-
nessed from the ship, and the waste boat was called
into readiness and sent to their relief. The distance
from the ship was about six miles. As soon as the
waste boat arrived, the crews were divided, and it was
determined to pursue the same whale, and make an-
other attack upon him. Accordingly they separated,
and proceeded at some distance from each other, as is
usual on such occasions, after the whale. In a short
time they came up to him, and prepared to give him
battle. The waste boat, commanded by the first mate,
-was in advance. As soon as the whale perceived the
demonstration being made upon him,
he turned his
course suddenly,
and making a tremendous dashanadt
this beat, seized it with his wide-spread jaws,
crushed it into atoms, allowing the men barely time
to escape his vengeance by throwing themselves into
the ocean.
Captain Deblois, again seeing the perilous condi-A
tion of his men, at the risk of meeting tchuee,and in a
same fate,
h
directed his boat to hasten to
short time succeeded in saving
them
all from a death
little less horrible than that fromwhich they had
then ordered the
twice so narrowly escaped. He
boat to put for the ship as speedily as
possible, and no
sooner had the order been given than theydiscovered
the monster of the deep making towards them with
his jaws widely extended. Fortunately tho monster
came up and passed them at a short distance. The
boat then made her way to the ship, and they all got
on board in safety.
After reaching; the ship a boat was dispatched for
the oars of the demolished boats, and it was deter-
mined to pursue the whale with the ship. As soon as
the boat returned with the oars, sail was set, and the
ship proceeded after the whale. In a short time she
overtook him and a lance was thrown into his head.
The ship passed on by him, and immediately after
they discovered that the whale was making for the
ship. As he came up near her, they hauled to the
wind, and saffered ihe monster to pass her. After he
had fliriv passed, they I.ept off to overtake and
the ship bad reached within
,ra, they discovered that the
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,ar sundown, they concluded to

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