The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-23 00:00:00

MAY 23, 1850.

EVENING,

the directors had not the slightest doubt but that the
Guarantee Society would pay the loss. While a
clerk or other official of the bank was employed in
carrying money
.from one bank to another, it was
wholly impossible to prevent him absconding ; and he
(the Chairman) did not think it was fair to impute
those instances of defalcation to the mismanagement
of the directors. He concluded by proposing the
adoption of the report.
Mr. LAMIE MURRAY had known Mr. Power
for a long time, and be had always enter-
tained the highest respect for him, but he
was very much afraid that Mr. Power
on this occasion spoke under feelings of no
slight irritation.—(Hear, hear.) It was very
natural that Mr. Power should be vexed with the
directors, for his relation had been the cause of the
bank sacrificing the largest sum of money that it had
ever lost by the dishonesty of any of its servants.—
(Hear, hear.) Mr. Power was security for that indi-
vidual, and had been called upon to pay the amount
of his guarantee, although he (Mr. Murray) had re-
presented to the board the vast services Mr. Power
had rendered the bank in its early days, and
strenuously though fruitlessly endeavoured to induce
the directors to forego some portion of their claim
upon him.—(Hear, hear.) Perhaps, then, there was
some excuse for Mr. Power speaking so feelingly on
the subject of losses, but with regard to removing
the bank to Dublin that was a very serious question
which the directors themselves could not dispose of.
—(Hear, hear.) If the majority of the proprietors,
however, thought the capital and affairs of the bank
could be better managed in Dublin, he was quite sure
the directors would be the last to object to it.
No one seconded Mr. Power's amendment, and it
therefore fell to the ground.
The motion for the adoption of the report was then
put and carried unanimously.
Mr. NEWsAM then rose, to move a series of resolu-
tions reflecting upon the characterof the direction. The
Hon. Gentleman then proceeded. to advert to certain
advances which had been made to some of the di-
rectors during the time he was on the directory.
Dr. MG/1E protested' against such a course, think-
ing it a breach of confidence and trust for a director
to divulge what bed taken place at the board while
he was a member of it.—(Hear.)
Mr. Nnwsem said he was ready to concede that
point, but he was, at any rate, justified in alluding
to transactions which had taken place aince his re-
tirement, now two years ago. He concluded by pro-
posing a series of resolutions.
The resolutions were not seconded.
The CHAIRMAN said the resolutions were evidently
contrary to the provisions of the deed of settlement,
and even had they been seconded, he should have been
unable to put them to the meeting. They would also,
in fact, amount to a want of confidence in the di-
rectors ; for if the meeting adopted them
it would seem the proprietors were of opinion
that the board had granted loans without good
security. He could assure the proprietors
that there never had been on the part
of the directors any intention to use the bank's
money for their own private purposes, but, on the
contrary, that their earnest desire had been to pro-
mote in the utmost degree the prosperity sad success
of the bank.---(Cheers.)
Mr. Leans MURRAY said it was extremely painful
for any gentleman in the position of a director to
have an accusation brought against him,. but, in the
present instance, the pain which the alltisions of Mr.
Newsam were likely to produce, was greatly alle-
viated by knowing the quarter from whence they
came.—(Hear.) Mr. Newsam did not like him, and
the secret of his present opposition was to be found in
the fact that he (Mr. Lamie Murray) had
opposed his remaining on the board, because he ven-
tured to think he was a very unsound man of busi-
ness.—(Hear, hear.) As to the transactions which
he had had personally with the bank, there were none
of them which might not be placed before the whole
world, and if it were competent for the meeting to
pass the resolution :proposed by Mr. Newsome, he
was quite able and willing to repay at once the
trifling sum which had been advanced to him by
the bank.—(Cheers.)
After some further discussion of a desultory nature,
The CHAIRMAN intimated that the only business
remaining to be transacted was the election of four
directors in the room of those whose term of office had
expired. The retiring directors were Thomas Lamie
Murray, Esq., Sir Ralph Howard, Bart., M.P., John
Clement Ruding, Esq., and James Reade, Esq. ; but
they were eligible for re-election, and offered them-
selves accordingly.
The names of the above gentlemen were then put
seriatim, and they were unanimously elected.
Mr. T. L. MURRAY begged to return thanks to the
shareholders, on behalf of himself and his brother
directors, for the confidence they bad placed in them
by re-electing them to the office of directors. They had
had a great- many personalities flying about that day,
but be did not think he was much damaged by the
remarks of his ancient colleague on this occasion.

Sir B. MACNAMARA moved a rote of thanks to the
I Chairman and directors, which was seconded by Dr.
M'Gee, who bore testimony to the great confidence
with which the bank was regarded in Ireland, nu-
merous instances of which he had witnessed himself
when in that country.
The CHAIRMAN thanked the meeting with great sa-
tisfaction. He was sure during the next year they
would carry on the business with much greater profits
and much fewer losses, because they would have ac-

quired greater experience.
The meeting then separated, after a vote of thanks
to the secretary, Mr. King, for his valuable services,
which that gentleman acknowledged in suitable
terms.

OUR WEDDING-DAY.
(From Eliza Cook's Journal.)
Though fourteen years have seen the light
Since at the Altar's steps we swore,
There's scarce a day has brought a blight
Upon the orange flowers you wore;
There's scarcely been one word of strife,
To mar the compact of our troth,
And joys unknown in early life
Have shed their blessings on us both !
Remembering such, oh, well I may
Recall them, on Our Wedding-day.
If, for a moment, Care hath come,
And Sorrow spread her sable wings
Above the comforts of our home,
Shrouding all fond, familiar things;
So surely hath thine angel form,
Thy gentle voice, thy visage bright,
Tempered the fury of the storm,
And turned the darkness into light!
Remembering this, full vi ell I may
Recall it, on Our Wedding-day.
And when Adversity has lost
Our household Ark, on Life's deep main,
Faith's rudder broke, Hope's anchor lost,
For Joy—no "resting place" again;
'Twas when the Deluge, like a shroud
Encompassed us,—thy prescient love
Perceived the rainbow in the cloud,
O'er the far waters saw the Dove!
Such worth I may in part repay,
Lauding it, on Our Wedding-day.
Nor must a Father's heart forget
To celebrate that happy morn,
Ileav'n sent, to bind us closer yet,
When " unto us a child was born."
Ilow oft I think, how blest I am,
In thee, and in our pledge of love;
So tends the ewe upon her lamb!
So broods, above her nest, the dove!
Reflecting thus, oh, well I may
Impart it, on Oar Wedding-day.
FRAME F. DALY.

Friday's prices. It is worthy of observation that several
samples of new potatoes, grown in the open air in the coun-
ties ~f Dublin, Wicklow, and Kildare, were exhibited at the
market yesterCay. By the country journals received this
morning we perceive that new potatoes have been exhi-
bited at Cork, Kilkenny, and Londonderry. All this looks
well.

A BARRER'S SHOP ON THE ATLANTIC.—On board
the American steam-ship Atlantic there is a barber's shop for
the accommodation of passengers. The ship, we believe,
provides the establishment, the operator relying for remune-
ration upon what business he can pick up in the passages to
and from the New World. The room appropriated for this
purpose is at the entrance to the companion leading to the
dining-room, and the barber provides neck-ties, Bc., for
those who may have left home in a hurry, or overlooked
their lack of those necessaries.—Liverpool Mercury.
THE DUKE OF YORK'S COLUMN. Yesterday
morning workmen were employed fixing a cage-like iron
railing on the top of the railings which seround the capital.
The iron work is light, but of sufficient strength to prevent
persons getting through, and reaches from the uppermost
horizontal bar of the perpendicular rails (to which it is
firmly bolted) to the summit of the pedestal upon which the
statute stands. From the appearance of the work it is im-
possible that an eccurrence similar to that which took place
lately can again happen.
EXTRAORDINARY LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.Yester•
day no fewer than 28,000 persons were summoned by the
Glasgow Water Company before the Sheriff Small Debt
Court, for non-payment of their water-rates. The court-
hall was so densely crowded with the defendants, that the
sheriff, for want of accommodation in any of the court-halls,
was under the necessity of postponing the hearing of the
cases until future diets, when they will be taken up in se-
parate lots. It is perhaps right to mention that the parties
summoned were entirely of the poorer classes, from whom the
water company have always experienced the greatest diffi-
culty in collecting their water rent.—North British -Vail.
Let us so order our conversation in the world that
we may live whoa we are dead in the affections of the best,
and leave an honourable testimony in the consciences of the
worst.—Eliza Cook's Journal.
GOING AHEAD.—A New York paper says :-

" The Legislature of Pennsylvania have recently created 15
new banks, and granted nearly half-a-dozen divorces. What
next? "

CRAINNIL OYSTER Fisamo.—An English fishing-
boat has been captured and taken into Havre for infringing
the laws of the French fishing-ground. She had 24,000
oysters on board.

To KEEP Caness.—lf fresh cream be bottled and
well corked, the bottles then placed in cold water gradually
raised to the boiling point, it will be preserved for months.
The explanation in these cases is that, by a temperature of
212 degrees Fahrenheit, the quantity of ferment produced by
the action of the air on the caseing is destroyed ; if no
further contact of air takes place, the change of milk sugar
into lactic acid is suspended ; but if the milk be ex-
posed to the air after boiling, a further quantity of fer-
ment is produced, to destroy which, before it greatly ac-
cumulates, recourse must be again had to the process of
heating.

ATROCIOUS CRUELTY TO A. WORKHOUSE CHILD.
—CHELMSFORD WEDNESDAY EVENING.—This afternoon,
Mr. and Mrs. Boreham,3 residing at Billericay, who had been
committed to the Essex Sessions for most inhuman cruelty
to Eliza Walter, a union workhouse child, were placed at the
bar at the Town Hall, Chelmsford. Upon the indictment
being read over to them, contrary to general expectation, both
prisoners pleaded guilty. The facts related to the flogging the
girl,who was compelled by the prisoners to strip herself naked.
The Chairman, on the part of the magistrates present, ex-
pressed their horror and detestation of the cruelty to which this
poor helpless and inoffensive child had been subjected, and
should mark their sense of it by fining them jointly in the
penalty of 50/.
AUTO DA FE IN ESSEX.—We have to inform an
astonished world that an auto dale has actually taken place
in England, and in the nineteenth century. This disgusting
exhibition of truculent bigotry occurred on Tuesday last
week at Billericay, in Essex. The facts of the horrid affair
are recorded in the Morning Post. The victim of a blind
and ferocious superstition was the Editor of the Times, vica-
riously burnt to ashes under the species of his journal. A con-
clave of fanatics of the Protectionist order having met at the
appointed time and place, the alleged heretic was denounced
by the Rev. C. Day, vicar of Mucking, who appears to be one
of the most frantic and violent zealots of his sect. This Day
described the Times as an "infamous, abominable,
and perjured journal," and accused it of " attempting
to set the labourers against their employers." The only foun-
dation for this charge was, that when Mr. Chowler threatened
that the farmers would drive the labourers to rebellion by send-
ing them to the workhouse, the Times made the very obvious
remark that such a proceeding would only have the effect of
causing them to destroy ricks and burn thrashing-machines.
But this, in the eyes of sanguinary and prejudiced judges, was
enough to seal the doom of the offending journal. A voice,
speaking the sentiments of the whole assembly, exclaimed,
"Burn it!" " Yes !" cried the furious though reve-
rend Day, at once accuser and judge; "Burn
it, if you like!" Then followed the execution, which
is thus described by an eye-witness :—"A copy of the
Times, placed on the top of a pole, was then brought out
and formally burnt in the market-place, amidst the execra-
tions of those around." This act of barbarity is evidently
the self-same proceeding with that of the Inquisitors of
Spain, who used to burn heretics in effigy, only when the
originals were out of the way. Such a wreaking of spite
and malice upon inanimate type and paper reminds us of the
schoolboy in Seymour'a carricature, smashing the weather-
glass that would point to " rain," or of children generally,
who beat or kick the object over which they have stumbled.
The Billericay Act of Faith—or act of folly-- will not tend to
lessen the peculiar reputation of Essex ; for whilst it evinces
the savage passions of the bull, it at the same time betrays
the feeble intellect of the calf.—Punch.
UNITERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL. The Rev.
Deacon Morrell has given the sam of 1,000/. towards the
relief of this charity from a debt of 3,000/. This munificent
gift is intended as a contribution to the collection to be
made at the public dinner which will be held to-day in aid
of the funds of the hospital. His Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge will preside, and will be supported by Lord
Brougham. The hospital is capable of containing 200
patients, but for want of means the number is limited
to 120 patients.

TESTIMONIAL To DR. JEREMIE.—On Monday last
the students of the East India College at Ilaileybury as•
sembled together in the college library, for the purpose of
presenting a testimonial of regard to their former dean and
professor, the Rev. James Amiraux Jeremie, D.D., whose
recent election as Regius Professor at Cambridge has obliged
him to retire from the office he held at Ilaileybury. The
testimonial consisted of a beautiful clock, surmounted by a
magnificent bronze statuette of Michael Angelo in his
studio, modelled by Feuchere, and cast by Vittoz, supported
by a pedestal enriched with mediseval mouldings in ormolu,
and bronze caryatides. It was presented. by Mr. Currie, the
senior student, who read an address expresssive of the affec-
tionate regard and the deep reverence in which the learned
professor was held by all the students. To this address,
which bore the signature of every student in the college, Dr.
Jeremie made a most eloquent and feeling reply, alluding
with particular emphasis to the parental relation in which
the teacher stood towards his pupil, and pointing out passages
in both ancient and modern writers in which the office of
preceptor was so honoured. In conclusion, he referred to the
ornament which was presented to him, and by which, amidst
the grave lessons inspired by the flight of time, his thoughts
would be directed to the time when his pupils would re-
turn home and enjoy the fruits and honours of their official
labours in a distant land. The address was received

throughout witk repeated bursts of applause, and, at the
conclusion, the students rose in a body to express their en-
thusiastic sense of the wisdom and kindly feelings which were
embodied in it.

ST. JOAN, CLERKENWEI.L.—It has been cus-
tomary with the rector of this parish, the Rev. Dr. Hughes,
to appoint two Sundays in the year specially for the bap-
tising the children of the poor, remitting all the fees custo-
mary on such occasions, and in the weeks previous to these
Sundays to visit and explain the important duty to the
poorer members of his flock. Whit. Sunday being one of the
days so appointed, no less a number than 99 children were
admitted into the church by the holy ordinance of baptism
on Sunday last. The church was nearly filled with the
godfathers and godmothers and other members of the con-
gregation, who appeared greatly interested in the service.

GROSS OUTRAGE.—A few nights since, four of the
Earl of Derby's keepers, namely, Henry Tyrer, James Tyrer.
Henry Greenall, and John Molyneux, proceeded to Tinkle-
pig-lane, near the Maypole, where they were to meet by
agreement, at twelve o'clock, the keepers of the Earl of
Sefton. Shortly after their arrival, they heard the sound of
persons approaching, and concluding that they were their
expected friends, went towards them. Instead of meeting
the Earl of Sefton's men, they encountered fourteen or fifteen
poachers, all armed with deadly weapons, and a battle in-
stantly ensued. The poachers cried, " Kill them." James
Tyrer, Henry Tyrer, and Henry Greenallhwere quickly pros-
trated, and believing that they had accomplished their pur-
pose, the poachers drew off. J. Tyrer was so dreadfully
beaten that his life was considered in danger, but he is re-
covering, as are his two comrades, who were also seriously
injured. Molyneux escaped with a few slight bruises. This
brutal assault, it is supposed, was made in consequence of a
poacher hating been recently committed for shooting at one
of the keepers with intent to kill him. The Earl of Derby
has °tiered a reward of 501. for the apprehension of any of the
offenders.

—Perth and Fremantle
WESTERN AUSTRALII.O
the end of January. Some
journals have come to hand.sco
discovered in the neighbourhood of
the Geraldine silver lea -
tine country
had heenddlinine. From the published accounts
96th Regiment, there was an abundance of
gopfunr
Ipeons,e
cannibals,s. Tbe natives
eating in t neigh.htehed ea(
of the Deputy Surveyor General and LieutenantElliotwt,atheerr,
Majesty's
no matter whether killed or dying
bodies of friends absouwrehlol
from disease.
natives somewhat hostile, but
Lieutenant Helpman, R.N., who was the first of
.oroeol :In: odr,frisfe:nfuecr,nle
foes, no
these
ne
soon after they became friendly ; they acknowledged to have
ormed a portion of those who attacked the Governor some
months previously, and expressed their sorrow for it, offering
the par°tayds wat
to bring in the man that threw the spear at the governor,
and they also stated that two men and one woman of their
party were killed, whom they ate, as is their usual custom.
Writing on this latter subject Lieutenant Elliott, then on
the spot, remarks :—" The natives in these districts eat their
dead—old men, women, and children. The heart is given to
the mother, as they say it assuages her grief. They hollow
out the ground and make a kind of oven in which they bake
the body, and after eating it, they throw the bones into the
hole and cover them over, which accounts for no graves being
seen."

SPIRIT COLOURING.—A parcel of spirit-colouring
having been imported from one of the French ports, some
doubt existed that it contained a large proportion of spirit,
and was therefore taken out of the category of manufac-
tured articles, and rendered liable to a much higher rate of
duty, and it having been found, on being analysed by com-
petent parties by direction of the revenue authorities, to
contain 75 per cent. of proof spirit, it was directed to be
charged with the duty of 30s. 4d. per gallon as mixed spirits.

On opening an entrance to some subterraneous
passages, which had been long walled up, at Wilna, in Po-
land, there were discovered several tlioucand dead bodies
heaped up in these catacombs, one above the other—some
seated, others lying on the ground. The :kin of several
was similar to parchment; they were internally empty, and
consequently so light, that they were raised with the
slightest effort. Several bore the remains of the clothing of
monks and nuns. The existence of these skeletons was to-
tally unknown.
Ax EXTENSIVE TEAM.—On Monday a large loco-
motive steam-engine was removed from the, luggage de-
partment at Bedford, to the station of the Great. Northern
and weighs
Railway at Hitchin. The ponderous steamer is the pro.
perty of the contractor for that portion of. the latter line
which passes through the vicinity of Hitchin,
and
.yquLst passing through Saint John's at-
along with the equally ponderous carriage on which it was,
borne, 27 tons. The enormous burden was drawn by a team
of 23 horses,
tracteci.mach curiosity.—licdford Tunn,