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

MAY 23

EVENING,

the directors had not the slightest doubt but that the
Guarantee - Soc.i.ty would pay the loss. While a
clerk or o:her official of the bank was employed in
carrying money from one hank to another, it was
wholly impossible to prevent him absconding; and he
(the Chairman) did not thick it was fair to impute
tnose instances of defalcation to the mismanagement
of the directors. Ile concluded by proposing the
adoption of the report.
Mr. LAMM MURRAY had known Mr. Power
for a Icing time, and he 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:—(Heir, 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 hi, guarantee, although he (11r. Murray-,) had re
presented to the board the vast services Mr. Power
had re:alered the bank in its early days, and
strenuously though fruitlea.ly 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 objeet 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 character of 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. MGRE protested against such a course, think-
ing it a breach of confidence and trust for a director
to divulge what had taken place at the board while
he was a member of it.—(Hear.)
Mr. NEWSAM said he was ready to concede that
point, but be was, at any rate, justified in, alluding
to transactions which had taken place-since his re,
tiretnent, 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 beer} to pro-
mote in the utmost degree the prosperity aad success
of the bank.—(Cheers.)
Mr. LAME 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 allusions of Mr.
Newaam were likely to produce, was greatly elle.
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 thu
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 busieess
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, Lq., Sir Ralph Howard, Bart., M.P., John
Clement Ituding, Esq., and James Reade, Esq.; but
they were eligible for reelection, 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 had placed in them
by re-electing them to the office of directors. They had
had a great many personalities flying about that day,
but he did not think he was much damaged by the
remarks of his ancient colleague on this occasion.

Sir B. MacNA.saaak moved a vote of.thanks to the
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. Ile 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 tourteen 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 abed their blessings on us both !
Rememb:ring 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 food, familiar things;
So 'urely bath thine angel form,
Thy gentle voice, thy visage bright,
Tempered the fury of the storm,
And turned the darkness into light!
Remembering this, full well I may
Recall it, on Our Wedding-day.
And when Adversity has tort
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 am!
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,
Heav'n sent, to bind,us closer yet,
When "unto us a child was born."
How 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!
R. fleeting thus, oh, well I may
Impart it, on ur Wedding-day.
FRANK F. DALY.

1850. •

Friday's prices. -It is worthy of 'observation that several
samples of new potatoes, grown in the open air in the cunt:7
ties '.t Dublin; Wicklow, at:d Kildare,,wcre exhibited at tine
market yestereay.. By the 9eui?tr3- journals received this
moriiing wa pei=celve that new potatoes have been
'bite& at Cork; Kilkenny,' and Londonder6'. All this looks.
well.

A IhRBER'S TPE AT4NTIC.—jOn board
, the American steam=ship Atlantic ihere is a barbet's shop for
the accommodation of passengers. The ship, we believe,
provides the,establishmeut4,the operator relying for remune-
ration tipdrt what business be can pick up in the passages to
and from the New We&ld. The room. appropriated for this
purpose' is 'nt the'entrance to the companion leading to the
dining-room, and- the barber provides• neckgies, Sc., for
those who may have left home' in a. hurry, or overlooked
their Ip.cle of those necessaries 7.7.-.Liverpool...afercury.
. • TEM DUKE or Yornes- COLUMN.— Yesterday
morning -workmen were employed fixing a cage-like iron
railing on the top of the railings which surround the capital.
The iron work is light, but of sufficient strength to prevent
persons getting through, and reaches from the uppermost
horiz,',ntar bar of the I;erplllicular rails (to which it is
firmly bolted) to the summit of the pedestal upon which the
statute stand,. From the appearance of the work it is Mr- •
pos,ible that un recurrence similar to that which took place •
lathy cal again happen.
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LXTRAUBDINARY LEGAL PRA,CEEDINGS.---Yester7'
day no fewer than 2'?,00J p•rsons were sun:mom(' by the
.thasgow Water Company btfore the Shiriff Small Debt
Court, for non-payment of their • water-rates. The court-
hall was so densely crowded with the defendants, that the
sherill, for want ofaccommodation in any of the court-hallo,'
_was under the necessiV of postponing the bearing of the
cases until future diets, when they will be taken up in se-
parate lots. It is perhaps right to mention that the pa. ties
summoned•were entirely of the poorer classes, from Whom the
water company have always experienced the, greatest dilli-
euity in collecting their.wattr rent. North British Nail.
Lest us so order our conversation in •the world that
we may live when we are dead in the affections of the best, •
and leave an honourable testimony in the consciences of the
worst.—Elfzit 'Cook's Journal.' •

Goma AIIEAD.-A New York paper' says :--
" The Legislature of Pennsylvania have recently created. 15
new banks, and granted nearly half-a-dOzen divorcee. What
next? "

CHANNIIL °Ter
m. FIiHING.—An English.fishipg-
boat has been captured and taken into Havre for infringing
the laws of the French fishing-ground: She had 24,000
oysters oulasrd. ,
To. liEtP CREAM.—If fresh cream be bottled and
well corked, the bottles then placed, in cold water gradually
raised to tha boiling point, it will be preserved for months.
The explanation in these cases is that, by a temperature of
212 degreisValirenheit, the quantity of ferment produced by
the action of the fir on the cueing is destroyed ; if no
further contabt of air takes place, the orange 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 11, ORICHOUSE
--CHELMSFORD, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—This afternoon,
Mr. and Mrs.- Boreham, residing at Billericay, who had been
committed-to the Es ex, 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 Fa IN ESSEX.—We have to inform an
astonished world that' an auto cla fe 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-
chive of fanatics of the Protectionist order having met at the
appointed dine 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 •labonrers 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 eyewitness:—"A copy of . the
Times,' placed on the top of a pole, was then brought out
and fonnally 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's carricature, smashing the weather-
glass that would point to " rain," or of children generally,
who beat or kick the obect 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.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL. -- The Rev.
Deacon Morrell has given the sum of 1,0001. 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 hat 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 fur want of means the number is limitect
to 120. patients.

TESTIMONIAL TO DR. JEREMIt.-011 Monday last
the students of the East India College at Ilaileybury 113.
sernbled t-gether in the college library, for the purpose 01
presenting a testimonial of regard to their former dean and

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professor, the Rev. James Amiraux Joremie, D.D.; whose
recent election as Regius Professor at Cambridge has 'obliged
him to retire from the office he held at ilailey. bury. Tlfi
testimonial consisted of a beautiful clock, surmounted by a
magnificent bronze statuette of Michael Angelo in hi:,
studio, modelled by Feuchere, and cast by Vittoz, suppotteu
by a pedestal enriched with mcdiwval mouldings iu ormolu,
and bronze caryatides. It was presented by Mr. Cufrie, 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 papil, 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
conclusiop,the students rose in a body to express their en-
thusiastic sense of the wisdom and kindly feelings which were
embodied in it.

ST. JOHN CLERICENWELL.—Itt 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 membeis 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, ilea?' 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." Jame:,
Tyrer, Henry Tyrer, and Henry Greenall, were quickly pros-
trated, add 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 comrade', who were also seriously
injured. Molyneux escaped with a few slight bruises. 'Phis
brutll assault, it is supposed, was made in consequence of a
poacher having been recently committed for shooting at one
of the keepers with intent to kill him. The Earl of Derby
has offered a reward of 50f, for the.apprehension of any of the

offenders.
A Lu.—Perth and Fremantle
WESTERN AUSTRALIA.—Perth
journals have some handli to the end of January.' Some
bad, discovered in the neighbourhood of
lead mine. Froni the published accounts
Surveyor-General and Lieutenant Elliott, her
of the Deputy .
fine
Gcoeuranitdrrne
ty 96th Regunent, there was an abundance of water,
silver
Maile lit's4wood for smelting purposes. The natives in the neigh.
as well
a fine reit) of men, cannibals, eating the dead
bbodies of friends or foes, no matter whether killed or dying
from disease. Lieutenant tielptnan. R.N., who was the first of
the party to.land, found these natives somewhat hostile, hui
soon after they became friendly ; they acknOwledged to have
formed a portion of those who attacked the Governor some
months previously, and expressed their sorrow for it, offering
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 asetiages 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 ths:
hole and cover them over, which accounts for no graves being
seen."

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SPIR
IT 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 manage-,
turgid 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 percent. of froot 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 `Vilna, in Po-
land, there were discovered several ti,,,nnrid dead liodies
heaped up in-these • catacombs, one above the other—some
seated, others_ lying on the ground. The skin of skveral
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 clothit gof
monks and nuns. The,existence of these skeletons was .to-
tally unknown.
AN ETENSITE i'd.M.—On Monday a large loco-
motive steanizengine was removed from the luggage de-
partment at dledtord, to the station of the Great Northern
the; latter line
Railway at Ilitchin. ,The ponderous 'steamer is the Tiro-
pert}; for that portion of
which kia.sses thiough the vicinity of nitdiv.,
perty of
u and weighs
i•irtoni'vtittribil+quatiy ponderous carriage On' which It wiliE
borne, 27 tons. The enormous burden was drawn by a team
of 23 horses, and whilst passing through Saint John's at-
tractedmuch curiosity,--Bedford Times.