The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-03 00:00:00

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CANCER HOSPITAL, London and West
Brompton.—Pecretary's Office, 167, Piccadilly.—This Institu:
tints has been eqablished exclusively for the treatment of the poir
~filicted with cancerous diseases. Out-door patients to attend at 167,
Piccadilly, on Tuesdays, at 2 o'clock. In-door patients are admitted
at the Brompton F.sta'dishment, for one month, and for a longer
period if recommended by the ,redical officers. The number of per-
sons under treatment as in or out-door patients have averaged for
the last three years about 400 cases each 3 ear. „Since the foundation
of this Hospital in 1851, 1,799 poor persons, suffering under every
form of this dreadful malady, have received the benefits of this
Charity. A Weekly Board manage its affairs, and every informa-
tion connected with the Institution may be obtained on applicatiou
t the Secretary. Contriftitions to enable the Committee to continue
this ereat work of benevolence are urgently solicited, and may be
paid to William Loxham Farrar, the Treasurer, 66, Lincoln's-
inn-fields ; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand ; and at the Secretary's
Offices, 167, Piccadilly.

By order.
W. J. COCFERILL, Secretary.

OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road.
Patron—The QUEEN.— Fom,ded 1828.
No order for admission is here required. The sick poor are admitted
011 their own application alone.

Durinz the past month the following number received the beneflts
f this Charity, either as out or in-deor patients, on their personal
pplication :
Week ending 7th October 2,188
Ditto 14th October 2,162
Ditto 21st Oct,ber „ „ 7,075
Ditto 28th October.... 2,241
29th,30th, and 31st October . . 1,014

new cases, the remainder (still under treat.
Total in October ...... 9,680
omfer7th)lbehav3i;t3gol3Zraedinitted previously.
Heavy expenses aro Inevitably incurred in affording such exten.
slve relief. The Committee, therefore, earnestly entreat the aid of
the public.
The management of the hospital is in the hands of 30 Governors,
early elected front the general list of subscribers, at the Annual
general Meeting in January. A Board is held every Thursday, at
4 o'clock (Rev. J. B. Owen, Chairman), to conduct the business,
when any subscriber may attend, if so disposed, the Board being at
all times desirous of receiving suggestions or giving explanation.
The flospLal is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on volun-
tary contributions and legacies, which are received by the Treasin er,
John Masterman, Esq., M.P., Nicholas-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts
nd Co.;Drummond and Co.; Berries and Co.; Ransom and Co.;
Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Glyn and Co. ;
tones Loyd and Co.; I!arclay and Co.; Denison and Co. ;
Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurnee, and Co.;Nisbet and Co., Ber-
ners-street ; Masterman and Co.; and at the liospital.
Clothing for the destitute patients will be thankfully received.
By order, J. B. OWEN, M.A., Chairman.

1F R. HOWARD, burgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleot-
i y.;._ street, has introduced an entirely new description of ARTI-
ICIAL TEETlloixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so
crfectly resemble the natsral teeth as not to be distinguished from
he on by the closest observer; they will never change colour or
.ecay, and will be found very superior to any teeth ever before used.
`his method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful
aeration, and will support and
Preserve teeth that are loose, and is
guaranteedto restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth
-et:dere:l sound and useful in mastication.-52, Fleet-street. At
me from ten till five.

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EA and PERRiNS' WORCESTERSHIRE
IA SAtJCE nnperts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chong,
~14, all RoaA. Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad,
go, ~,, its tonic and Invigorating nropsrt;es enables the stomach to
~et *qtly digest the food.
The daily use of this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the bast safe-
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901 d by the proprietors, Let and Perrino, 19, Fenchurcli-street,
London, and CB, Broad-street, Worcester; also by Messrs. Barclay
,:n1 dons, Messrs, crease and Blackwell, and other oilmen and mer-
chant% London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce..
N.B.—To guard against imitatioxs, see that the names of " LEA
and Y.ERRINS" are upon tho label and patent cap of the NW°.

THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK.

A meeting,'of the depositors and shareholders of the
Royal British Bank was held last night in FreemasOns'-hall,
for the purpose of considering the course pureued by the
official manager in appealing against the' decision,of, the
Vice-Chancellor, and thereby preventing the declaration of
a dividend. There was not a very large attendance. Mr.
J. Wyld was called to the chair.
The CHAIII3fIN, in opening the proceedings, observed
that i'lr. Taylor, who had hitherto presided over the meet-
ings of the depositors, was prevented from being present,
but he had sent a letter, in which he expressed the greatest
indignation' at the conduct of Mr. Harding, the official
manager, and called upon the shareholders to denounce the
proceedings of that gentleman in the strongest terms. The
present meeting,had been convened by the committee of
depositors. Since the last meeting an adjudication in
bankruptcy had been obtained, and a large sum of money
had been collected by the official manager. Tn addition
a considerable portion of the assets of the bank had been
realised, amounting, he believed, to 130,0001. or 150,000/.
After the adjudication in bankruptcy and the learned
judgment of Mr. Commissioner Goulburn, it was supposed
that the official manager appointed under the Winding-
up-Act, and acting under the instructions of certain
shareholders of the British Bank, would quietly have ,
allowed the. affairs of the bank to have been carried on
under the superintendence and jurisdiction of the Court of
Bankruptcy; but,• unfortunately, that gentleman, repre-
senting'only himself, and being careful of his own interests,
had appealed against that decision. The decision and the
appeal against it would come on for hearing to-morrow.
After the appointment of the .official assignee in bank-
,r9pktypA7 •itzasein4,o by_ JSir,,gpxcljauci
ma:nag-6c 1.67474-nr tire aciai assigned- receMii

any portion of the assets, and indeed Mr. Harding went so.
far as to endeavour to obtain an injunction against the
official assignee. A bill in Chancery was in the first place
filed by the official manager, and then an injunction was
applied for not to restrain the official assignee from admi-
nistering the funds, but only to prevent him from interfer-
ing with the official manager. An application was subse-
quently made to the Vice-Chancellor against the official
assignee for contempt. During the time that the affairs
in bankruptcy were going on, 'an application was made to
the chief clerk of the Vice-Chancellor to delay the appoint.
ment of an official manager, but notwithstanding that the
committee of depositors attended both personally and by
counsel an appointment took place. Immediately after
the appointment was made the official manager, thinking
himself in the full exercise of all his functions, looked upon
the estate as in his own hands, and from that hour to this
had prevented a proper winding up of the affairs of the
bank in bankruptcy. He (the chairman) believed that the
assignees were in a position to declare at once a dividend
of 4s. or is. in the pound, payable on the 23d inst., and
they looked forward to being enabled to pay a dividend of
10s. by the end of January ; but if the official manager
were allowed to pursue his present reckless course the
shareholders would be involved in great expense, and a
delay of six or eight months would take place before the
first divideud could be paid. (Hear, hoar.) The official
manager appeared to have only an eye to his own interest,
but he trusted that meeting would teach him that ho was
playing a rather dangerous game with 5,000 of the people
of this country, many of whom were at this moment in a
state of destitution and want. To show that the official
manager had only been actuated by personal motives, he
(the chairman) would call attention to this one fact—that
when the adjudication in bankruptcy took place the official
manager urged the directors of the bank to appeal against
it. They refused, and the official manager then went to the
chief clerk and obtained an order from him. The official
assignee had been recommended by Mr. Commissioner
Goulburn to apply to the Vice-Chancellor to have the assets
delivered up to him, and while that motion was being
argued, and while it was supposed that the official assig-
nee might receive a portion of the assets from the official
manager, what did the official manager and his advisers
do? Why, ho placarded all the different branches of the
bank with bills, and issued 300 or 400 writs against the
creditors, there being no necessity whatever for such a step,
and the only conceivable object being to put costs into his
own pocket. The Vice-Chancellor treated the whole pro-
ceeding as shameful, and ordered everything to remain as
it was. The assignees thon'thought that they had a right
to collect as much of the money owing to the bank as they
could, and the official manager then applied to the Court
for au injunction to restrain them. Solely through his pro-
ceeding the administration of the estate had been delayed,
and the object which Mr. Harding had had in view ap-
peared to have been not to benefit the shareholders and de-
positors, but to secure for himself the largest amount of
percentage and costs which ho could possibly obtain. To-
ixice-rew the Lords Jueticee would decide the appeal which
had been made; and if it were in faveifiiiitthe committee,
within 24 hours afterwards they ought to be in a position
to receive the affairs from Mr. Harding, and yet it was said
that in such a case Mr. Harding would cause further delay
by appealing to the House of Lords. (Cries of " Shame !''
and " Lynch him !") This being the state of affairs, the
committee had convened the present meeting, in order
that the shareholders and depositors should be afforded an
opportunity of expressing their indignation. The state of
the law itself was, no doubt, very bad, but it was only by
an expression of public opinion that they could hope to
shame the official manager into anything like decency.
(Loud cheers.) The assignees, in their anxiety to protect
the estate, had entered into negotiations with the official
manager, and offered him certain terms; but unless he
could have two-thirds of the estate he refused to enter
into any negotiation at all. (Cries of "Shame !") He (the
chairman) was not at liberty to enter into full details of the
negotiation, but he believed that if he were to do so the
cries of " Shame" would be even still louder than they
were. EverY one who was at all interested in the affairs
of the bank must feel that the Court of Bankruptcy was
the only proper court to deal with the matter. Ho did not
wish any shareholder who might be present to go away
with the feeling that the depositors did not sympathise with
them. Ho felt assured that the depositors felt the warmest
sympathy for their fellow-sufferers, and he believed that
the only way in which the pockets of both parties would
be saved would be to place the sole power of administering
the estate in the hands of the Covet of Bankruptey.
(Cheers.) Under the Winding-up Act the official manager
would receive the enormous sum of 21,0001., but the
whole cost of administering the estate in the Court of
Bankruptcy would amount to 6,000/. At the present
moment many executions had been taken out against share-
holders of the bank by judgment creditors ; but if the
affairs were properly managed in bankruptcy none of those
executions would be effective. (Hear, hear.) It might be
asked how much of the assets of the bank would be
administered in the Court of Bankruptcy. Mr. Coleman
stated that the assets were about 230,0001., and a call which
had been made would realise 150,000/., so that in round
numbers the Court of Bankruptcy would have about
400,0001. to administer. Under the bankruptcy law the
call became an asset, and could be immediately adminis-
tereid, whereas, if the official manager by any quibble of
the law were enabled to retain the management of tie
estate, it might be months before the list of contributories
would be settled and a call made upon them. (Hear,
hear.) Mr. Harding said that he had used great skill and
exertion, and that he had collected enough to pay a di-
vidend of ss. in the pound. He (the chairman) was sorry
to say that that statement was not true. The money
was lodged in the Bank in the joint names of Mr.
Harding and the Vice-Chancellor, and the Vice-Chancel-
lor had refused to give his consent to the withdrawal of
the money by Mr. Harding. That money was the property
of the assignees; they had demanded it, and, supported by
the opinion of the shareholders and depositors at that meet-
ing, he hoped they would soon be able to distribute it.
If, however, the official manager was 'allowed to continue
the protracted litigation which he had commenced, it might
be months, and perhaps years, before the estate would be
administered.
MK: MAXWELL moved the first resolution

" That this meeting views with regret the pertinacity
with which the official manager of the Royal British Bank
resists the measures taken to secure an early, equal, and
just administration of the assets in the Court of Bank-
ruptcy, and tliat both the shareholders and depositors re-
gard his appeal from the decision of the Vico-Chancellor as
antagonistic to their interests, and only calculated to delay
our dividends, diminish existing assets, and create enor-
mous but wholly unnecessary law costs."
He looked upon the procedings of the official manager as
precisely similar to those of a man who, having found a
pocketbook in the street, refused to give it to the owner
unless be would divide the contents with him. He trusted
that hereafter proper steps would be taken for remedying
the present state of the law, and awarding to the fraudu-
lent bank director the same punishment which attached to
the most insignificant thief. (Cheers.)
Mr. RICHARDSON seconded the resolution.
Dr. GODDARD said he was one of the 70 gentlemen who
were alleged shareholders. He represented those gentlemen
that evening, and hewas anxious to say that ono reason why
they had banded themselves together was that they thought
the depositors had exhibited a desire to exact unreasonable
terms from them. It had boon stated on several occasions
that the shareholders were in a position to pay 20s. in the
pound. The shareholders were, however, anxious to
erect a compromise, and therefore they had formed them
selves into an association. At the same time, he could as-
sure the meeting that there was not one of the 70 gentle.
men whom he represented who did riot feel the warmest
sympathy for their fellow-sufferers in this great swindle,
and who would not go hand in hand with the depositors
in putting a stop to the iniquitous proceedings of the offi-
cial manager. (Loud cheers.) Ho hoped that the deposi-
tors would find it to their interest to come to terms with
the shareholders. They were all swindled together—both
, the depositors, who had placed their money in the bank,