The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-25 00:00:00

Vbtril Erttion

SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

BRIGHTON AND CHELTENHAM
DIRECT RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.)
A special general meeting of the Shareholders in the
Brighton and Cheltenham Direct Railway was held this •
afternoon, at the offices of Messrs. Routh, Austin-friars,
for the purpoae of considering the present state and
position of' their affairs. Mr. Williams Anderton,
one of the Provisional Directors, was voted to
the chair, and in opening the business of the
meeting, remarked that they had met there for the
purpose of having the affairs of the Company properly
investigated. He was quite sure all of those present
intended to do that which they thought was right, and
he need not tell them that he did so too. Ilis
name was before the public in connexion with this
Company, and the public had a right to expect from him
eve* i
explanation he conld give of it. He told the
pr.enoters of the scheme when he was asked to join it,
" If you mean to do that which is right with the pubic
you may put my name down ; but if I afterwards find
out that there is anything wrong in it, or any bubble
attached to it, I shall be the first to expose
you." Ho then had seventy-five shares allotted
to him, upon which he paid 1571. 10s. When,
therefore, he went to the office after he had paid his
money, to give up the banker's receipt and sign the snb •
scribers' deed and Parliamentary contract, he naturally
enough expected that the scrip would be handed
over to him. But no, it was not ; for
after he had signed the two deeds without
hesitation. he was told that the scrip was not ready, and
from that day to this he had been unable to obtain it.
`Subsequently, however, he ascertained that the Provi
atonal I)ireetors had been disappointed with regard to
the number of shares taken up, and they were investi-
gating the affairs of the Company with the view of dis-
solving it. He was then informed that the expenses would
be about 2s. 6d., but certainly they would not exceed
that sum ; but now he understood the amount would be
10s. per share. He must, in justice to the committee,
state that they disclaimed all knowledge of the transac-
tions on the Stock Exchange in the shares of the
Company, and they believed all the shares sold
had been bought in a bond fide manner.
The amount which had been paid upon deposit was
13,277/. 10s., and the liabilities of the Company were
6,5001. It was for the !meeting to determine what steps
they would adopt under existing circumstances. For his
part he thought it would be better to have a committee
of inquiry.
Mr. ROUTH said, that was the mode of proceeding
be had intended to propose, giving the committee
power to take what steps they thought expedient for in-
vestigating the affairs of the Company, and if necessary to
take counsel's opinion upon the legality of the steps
which had been taken by the provisional committee.
Sir Wes. WHITE apprehended that the committee had
no right to deduct the 10s. at all.
Mr. SIMPSON said they acted under the subscribers
agreement and Parliamentary contract, which gave the
committee great power, but it must be remembered that
there were some parties who had not executed these in-
struments.
Mr. Ross said, from what he could learn of the pro-
ceedings of the committee they were taking the advice
of counsel, and endeavouring to ascertain how they
could legally spend the money which had been
deposited in their hands instead of taking steps to secure
the shareholders frora loss. Such proceedings were
htldy discreditable to honourable men, and he for one
would not consent to receive back his deposits minu the
10‘. per share.
Sir WILLIAM WHITE said the committee ,dis-
claiuied all knowledge of the purchases which
had lately beer. made in the shares of the Company.
Now he happened to be a Member of the " house," and
had sold some four hundred of the shares to the broker
of the Company. They had now, however come for-
ward and refused him the scrip, and he could not ratify
the transaction.
Mes-rs. Greg and Cunbridge, two of the acting corn-
nsittee, hero entered the room, when the former con-
firmed the statement of the Chairman, that the commit-
tee, owing to the deposits not all being paid up, had
d-terinined to dissolve the Company. Each Director in-
tended to subscribe for 75 instead of 50 shares, and in a
few days the books and accounts would be open for the
inapt ction of all parties.
Soy. ral of the sharele Iders warmly censured the con-
duct of the managing committee, and protested that
before dissolving the Company they ought to have issued
Vie scrip, and then called a meeting of the shareholders
to agree to a dissolution.
Mr. ROUTH said, in the Belfast and Enniskillen Rail-
way the managing committee returned all the deposits
on finding that there was not a sufficient sum subscribed
to enable them to go to Parliament clear of all de-
ductions, taking upon themselves all the expense
which had been incurred, and it would redound
more to the credit of their own managing com-
mittee if they were to follow this example.
The CHAIRMAN asked Mr. Greg if he could tell how
the 7,0001. liabilities had been incurred?
Mr. GREG replied that it had nearly all been fairly
and properly incurred. Indeed there was only one ac-
count that he objected to, and that was the account of
the advertising agent.
The CHAIRMAN asked how much that amounted to?
Mr. GREG replied that it amounted to 2,2001. The
advertising agent had charged 25 per cent. to the Com-
pany, and it must be borne in mind that he received a
large per mintage from the newspapers. There was a re-
tainer fee of 4001. which they were in hopes they should
get back again.
The CHAIRMAN asked if he could tell them the amount
of the solicitors' bill?

Mr. GREG replied that the solicitors gave up all their
charges.
Mr. HARRISON then moved the appointment of a com-
mittee of shareholders with full power to take what steps
they might deem necessary for the benefit of the share-
holders, which was seconded by Mr. ROUTH, and carried
animously.
The committee was then nominated, and thanks
having been voted to the Oheirman, the meeting termi-
nated.

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QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
TU$ MATTER OF HENRY HUGH PIKE.

In this ease a Learned Counsel applied to the Court for
permission to allow the applicant, Henry Hugh Pike, to have
his name placed upon the roll of attorneys. The application
was grounded upon a series of affidavits, the first of which,
rather a voluminous one, set forth that the applicant had
been a member of the legal profession for nearly twenty-two
years; that he had also been a reporter; that when he first
entered the legal profession it was as an attorney, and after
having practised in that capacity for some time he then be-
came a member of Gray's Inn, and was called to the bar;
that he had been practising as a barrister for nearly eight
years upon the Home Circuit, and was in very successful
pwetice, when he was disbarred, for no good or sufficient
reason that he could ever discover, except for some breach of
etig.tette or good manners, the precise nature of which he
had never been made aware of; that he believed his expul-
sion had its origin in a degrading combination to drive him
off the Home Circuit, but he denied that the society of
Gray's Inn had any such power as they assumed to them-
selves of expelling a member from such a cause; that he had
endeavoured to ascertain what his error was, and if in error
would be ready to make any atonement in his power, but
c )uld not succeed; that he had never in the whole course of
his life done anything inconsistent with, or derogatory to, the
honour, character, or integrity of a gentleman ; that the case
had been heard by the fifteen Judges, and that they agreed
to rezommend the members of Gray's Inn to reconsider the
case, but they hadnot done so; that he had not practised since
he had been disbarred either as a barrister or an attorney,
&c. ; t hat upon these grounds he now sought to be restored to
his place as an attorney, &c. The Learned Counsel having
read the affidavits, then contended that with such affidavits
before the Court, h• could not see how their Lordships
would be warranted in refusing the application, unless, in-
deed, the Attorney-General should meet them by other affi-
davits, which he (the Learned Counsel) said he looked
f ,rward to with some anxiety. The applicant, in conclusion,
said that if his application should be refused, he would be
deprived of the means of earning his bread.
The ArIVENEY-GENERAL rose to oppose the application ;
bat—

Lord DItN)LIN said, in giving judgment, that the Court
were unanimonsly ofopinion that it was not necessary to
hear any argument in opposition to the application ; it ap-
peared to them so clear that it ought not to be granted, for it
was quite clear that the applicant had been disbarred for
some misconduct, though he had modified it by the name of
some breach ef etiquette or good manners. He (Lord Denman)
had never heard of such a thing as the Society of Gray's Inn dis-
barring a member of the profession without having some
very grave and serious cause for doing so. He was aware
that the fifteen judges had heard the case—he did not even
bear that they had directed a re-hearing of fhe case—but he
was aware that those judges were unanimously of opinion
that the Society of Gray's Inn had coins to a very proper
decision in this case. The applicant said that there had
been a conspiracy entered into against him to prevent his
practising upon a certain circuitwhere he hadbeen somewhat
succeeeful ; but from his (Lord Denman's) recollection of the
case, he should say he did not think there was any founda-
tion fur the attacks that the applicant had made upon others,
and his (Lord Denman's) opinion upon the course adopted
by the Members of Gray's Inn had !seen formed more upon
the affidavits of the applicant himself, in which be said he
set focth all the circumstances of the case, than from any
other cause, and he believed such was the case in regard to
the opinions of the other judges also. He thought it was
only what was due to others to state that fact.
Under those circumstances, then, he felt compelled
to sa7 that It was merely trifling with the
time of the Court to persevere in the application. It might
not, perhaps, be well to punish the party ; but certainly the
Court felt bound to protect their profession. The applicant
appeared to labour under some incapacity to find out what it
wo that he had been disbarred fur, but the Court were cf
opinion that it was such a matter as should not warrant
thein is allowing him to be placed upon the roll of attorneys.
The Court could not be held responsible for the consequences
which the applicant stated would result. to himself by this
refits.]: but they were responsible for the protection of all
branch.e3 of the profe:ssion, and therefore it was quite impos-
sible they could listen to this application.

COURSE OF EXCIL
A en.tardana CF. 12 104
Ditto, at eight l2 7
Rotterdam 2U. 12 11
Antwerp 2O 15
liamburgh M.B. 13 15
Altoaia _

k NGE (THIS DAY )
Leghorn ........ . 3 76
Genoa . ...... 26 10
Milan . ..... ....... .

Venico .....
Naples ..•...... ...... ... 391
Palenaao, per 0z...... 1191
Lisbon ...• 52
Oporto... • ..
Rio Janeiro .....
Bahia , .... NNW

Paris, 3 days' sight 25 75
Ditto, 3 months 2.6 5
Marseilles 26 10
Bourdeanx
Frankfort on Mains 1221
Petersburgh, 3 Us—
Berlin
effee. flo. S
Tneste, ditto
Madrid
Cadiz
/Alba*

Buenos Ayres ..—
NewYork,2ldyesight --
Philadelphia —

PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Golti,i)sui £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doableon& 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 9
Silva in Banc 0 4 11

Barogolu

THE LONDON GA2
(THIS EVENING.

Err E

In pursuance of the directions of an Act, passed in the
twenty-fourth year of the reign of his late Majesty King
George the Third, intituled "An Act to repeal so much of
two Acts, made in the tenth and fifteenth years of the reign
of his present Majesty, as authorises the Speaker of the
House of Commons to issue his warrant to the Clerk of the
Crown for making out writs for the election of Members
to serve in Parliament, in the manner therein men-
tioned, and for substituting other previsions for the like
purposes :" I do hereby give notice, that it hath been eertified
to me in writing, under the hands of two Members serving
in this present Parliament, that John Henry Loftus,
commonly called Lord Viscount Loftus, late a Member
serving in this present Parliament for the borough of
Woodstock, is become a Peer of the united Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, and to whom a writ
of summons hath been issued under the Great Seal
of the United Kingdom to summon him to Parliament, and
that I shall issue my warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to
make out a new writ for the electing of a Member to serve In
this present Parliament for the said borough, in the room of
the said John henry Loftus, commonly called Lord Viscount
Loftus, now a Peer of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, and to whom a writ of summons hath been
issued as aforesaid, at the end of fourteen days after the in-
sertion of this notice in the London Gazette.

Given under my hand the 22d day of November, 1845,
CHARLES SHAW LEFEYRE, Speaker.

Whereas by an Act, passed in the Bth and 9th Victoria,
cap. 94, intituled "An Act for regulating the trade of the
Isle of Man," we, being three of the Lords Commis-
sioners of her Majesty's Treasury, do hereby, in pur-
suance of the powers vested in us by the said Act,
order and declare, that all or any articles legally im-
portable into the Isle of Man, and not enumerated in the
table annexed to the said Act, and upon which the duty of
151. per cent. is hereby imposed, shall and may, from and
after the passing of the said before-mentioned Act, be im-
ported into the Isle of Man duty free, so long as this our or-
der, or any part thereof, affecting such articles shall continue
in force; and we do further direct, that this our order be
published in the London and Dublin Gazettes in accordance
with the provisions of the 3d section of the said Act,
Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, Nov. 10, 1845.
HENRY GOULBURN.
J. MILNES GASKELL.
WILLIAM CRIPPS.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 22, 1845.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Robert
Cumming, as Consul in the island of St. Vincent for his Ma-
jesty the King of Prussia.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 25.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint James
Finn, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul at Jerusalem.

WAR-OFFICE, Nov. 25.

2d Regiment of Foot—Lieut. 0. Nicolls, from the 65th
Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Anthony Walahe, who reverts to
his former half-pay, v. 25.
10th Foot—Major C. L. Strickland to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, without purchase, vice Considine, deceased; Captain
W. H. Goode to be Major, vice Strickland; Lieut. C. Dun-
bar, from the 18th Foot, to be Captain, vice Goode, Sept. 5.
12th Foot—T. Garner, Gent., to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Crofton, appointed Adjutant, Nov. 25.
17th Foot—Lieutenant D. D. Wemyss, from the 46th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Macan, who exchanges, Nov. 25.
18th Foot—Ensign W. B. Graham, to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Dunbar, promoted in the 10th Foot,
Sept. 5; F. Stanford, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Graham, Nov. 25.
31st Foot—Ensign A. Pilkington to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Bernard, appointed Adjutant, Sept 11; C. S.
Nett, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Pilkington,
Nov. 25; Lieut. W. Bernard to be Adjutant, vice Wilton,
promoted in the 50th Foot, Sept. 11.
45th Foot—Captain H. Cooper to be Major, without pur-
chase, vice Butler, deceased ; Lieut. J. I. Oakley to be Cap-
tain, vice Cooper; Ensign R. B. Johnstone to be Lieutenant,
vice Oakley, Sept. 10; E. S. F. G. Dawson, Gent., to be
Ensign, vice Johnstone, Nov. 25.
46th Foot—Lieutenant T. A. Macan, from 17th Foot, to
be Lieutenant, vice Wemyss, who exchanges, Nov. 25.
55th Foot--Brevet Colonel J. Fleming, from half-pay Un-
attached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brevet Colonel Sir
J. 11. Schoedde, K.C.8., who exchanges • Brevet Lieutenant-
Colonel C. Warren to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase,
vice Fleming, who retires; Brevet Major H. C. B. Daubeney
to be Major, by purchase, vice Warren ; Lieutenant E. G.
Daniell to be Captain, by purchase, vice Daubeney ; Ensign
T. S. Lloyd to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Daniell; J.
Walker, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Lloyd;
Nov. 25.

78 h Foot—Lieutenant W. /E. Moecrieffe, from the 92d
Feot, to be Lieutenant, vice Dowse, appointed to the 84th
Foot, Nov. 25.
84th Foot--Lieutenant T. Dowse, from the 78th Foot, to
be Lieutenant, vice Smith, appointed to the 92d Foot,
Nov. 25.
92d Foot—Lieutenant M. M. Smith, from the 84th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Moncriefle, appointed to the 78th
Foot, Nov. 25