The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-14 00:00:00

NOTIr
THE DIRECTORS OF THE LIVERPOOL
AND BURY RAILWAY COMPANY (originally the Bolton,
Wigan, and Liverpool,) having observed an Advertisement of the
" LIVERPOOL ARD LEEDS DIRECT RAILWAY." in which It is
stated that a preference will be given to the Shareholders of the
" BOLTON, WIGAN, AND LIVERPOOL, RAILWAY COMPANY"
in the Allotment of Reserved Shares in that scheme—think it right
hereby to inform the Public that they have no connexion whatever
with the 21 LIVERPOOL AND LEEDS DIRECT RAILWAY."
By order,
JOHN' S. HERON, Secretary.
33, Dale-street, Liverpool, August 11, 1845.

PrRE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAIL-
WAY COMPANY have caused surveys to be made of the
country between Weedon and Northampton, with the view of apply-
ing to Parliament in the next session for powers to make a direct
communication by railway between their main line at Weedon and
the Peterborough line at Northampton, in connexion with the in-
tended line from Weedon to Kidderminster.
Dated 11th August, 1845.

GREAT SOUTHERN and WESTERN
RAILWAY (IRELAND).
Notice is hereby given, that the BOOKS in which the TRANSFER
of SHARES in this Company is registered, will be CLOSED from and
after SATURDAY, the 23d hist, until SATURDAY, the 20th day of
September next.

By order of the Directors,
WILLIAM TAYLOR, Secretary
3, College-green, Dublin, Aug. 12, 1845.

(Provisionally inegistered.)
D RAPERS' FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY.

Head Office, Manchester.
Capital, 500,0001., in 10,000 Shares of 501. each.
Deposit, ss. per Share, as limited by the Act 7 and 8 Vic., c. 10.
PROMOTERS.
Henry Bannerman, Esq., York-street, Manchester
Robert Chadwick, Esq. (Messrs. J. and N. Philips and Co.)
Edward Westhead, Esq., Piccadilly, Manchester
George Horsefleld, Esq., George-street, Manchester
John Rylands, Esq., New High-street, Manchester
-Uriah R. Cooke, Esq. (Messrs. Wells, Cooke, and Potter)
Daniel Lee, Esq. (Messrs. Wright and Lee)
William Hill, Esq. (Messrs. Smith, Hill, and Co.)'
Edmund Coston, Esq. (Messrs. Todd and Coston)
Edward Jackson, Esq., York-street, Manchester
James Carlton, Esq., Mosley-street, Manchester
William R. Callender, Esq., Mosley-street, Manchester
Samuel Watts, Esq., Fountain-street, Manchester
Thomas Simpson, Esq., Piccadilly, Manchester
George Nelson, Esq., George-street, Manchester
William Morcon, Esq. (Messrs. James Brown and Co.)
John Allen, Esq. (Messrs. William Allen and Co.)
William Hobday, Esq. (Messrs. Oughton, Hobday, and Roberts)
James Gib!), Esq., Mosley-street, Manchester
Edward Bond, Esq. (Messrs. Holt, Bond, and Holt)
James Milne, Esq. (Messrs. Kendal, Milne, and Co.)
Thomas Parsons, Esq. (Messrs. Farmer, Cheshire, and Parsons)
Alexander Morris, Esq., St. Ann's-square, Manchester
Joseph Watts, Esq., Deansgate, Manchester
Edward Slane, Esq., Deansgate, Manchester.
(With power to add to their number.)
This Company is originated on data supplied by official returns,
obtained from a majority of the leading cities and towns in the king-
dom, exhibiting an almost nominal risk in drapers' establishments,
and is based upon the principle of excluding all extra hazardous
risks ; but power is intended to be vested in the Directors to accept
(if they think proper) applications for general insurances, where the
risks can be clearly shown not to exceed that of a general draper's es-
blishment.

The effect of a preliminary canvass has been to obtain large pro-
mises of support in different districts, both by intended insurances
and subscription for shares. It is believed, also, that (rejectinl all
extra risks) the Directors will be in a condition to materially reduce
the premiums payable for insurances.
A small portion only of the capital is intended to be called for, and
the proprietors are to be entitled to interest on the same, and to one-
third of the clear profits; one-third being also retained to consti•
tote a sinking fund, and one-third distributed in bonuses amongst the
assured.

The liability of the shareholders to be effectually limited to the
amount of their subscription to the Company, the usual protective
clause being inserted in all policies issued.
It is intended to give a preference in the allotment of shares to
parties interested in the drapery business, and an early day is ap-
pointed for the allotment.
All applications to be made in the under-mentioned form, and ad-
dressed to Messrs. Sale and Worthington, solicitors, 90, Fountain-
street ; or to Messrs. Duffield, Lofthouse, and Whitworth, accoubtants,
12, Princes-street, Manchester.

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Promoters of the Drapers' Fire Insurance Company.

- .
Gentlemen—l request you to allot me shares of 501. each in
the above Company ; and I hereby undertake to accept such shares,
or any less number, and to pay the deposit and calls thereon, and
to sign the necessary legal documents when required.—l am, gentle-
men, yours, Licc.
Name• • ...... • • • • . .
Residence • • • • • • • • • •
Profession .... • ...
Reference ••••••• • • • • • • • ....
Dated at of 1845.

DRAPERS' FIRE IN SURA.NUE
COMPANY.
London, Aug. 7, 1845.

We, the undersigned Merchants, interested in the prosperity of the
general drapery trade, and in the protection of drapers' property
from tire, having had submitted to us the plan of the above Company,
do strongly recommend the same to the consideration of the
portant classes we believe to be much interested in its establishment.
Caldicott, Powell, and Co.
Robt. and Benj. Brown and Co.
Leaf, Coles, Smith, and Co.
Groucock, Copestoke, and Moore
Gillett, Foster, and Co.
J. F. Pawsen, and Co.
Ellis, Everington, and Co.
Ovington, Warwick, and Ovington
J. and R. Morley
J. and J. Wilson
Bowman and May
B. Salomons and Sons
Robt. Mutrte
Westron, Dignim, and Co.
Welsh and Margerson
Lewis and James
Lycett and Davies
Lewellin, Trueaaan, and Hitchcock

I)RAPERS' FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given, that In consequence of the applications for
shares already received exceeding the number required for the esta-
blishment of this Company, no further applications will be enter-
tained, unless received on or before MoNnsx, the 25th August Inst.

MERCHANTS,TRADESMAN'S, and GENE-
RAL MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE and NATIONAL

BENEFIT SOCIETY.
Offices, 5, Chatham-place, Blackfriars, London.
TRUSTEES.
Quarles Harris, Esq. Alderman Sir John Key, Bart
T. R. Kemp, Esq.

Advantages offered by this Society are—Modeiate rates of Pre-
miums—Ample Security Fund. Premiums paid Monthly, Quarterly,
Half-yearly, Yearly, in one sum, or in the Ascending ur
Descendiug Scale. The application of the principles of the Be-
nefit Club—Credit for half the first five years' Premiums—

Three-fourths of all deferred annuity Premiums returned in case of
Death before the age stipulated—Whole World Policies granted on
the most reasonable terms—All the Profits are divided among the
Assured in this Office.

AGENTS WANTED.
Prospectuses, with names of Directors, may be had at the Offic,
or sent post free.
THOMAS "MUSGRAVE, Secretary.

Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,

C OUNT- KONI'GSMARK,
AN HISTORICAL NOVEL,

BY CAPTAIN FREDERIC MIA:111ER, RIN,

" Count Konigsmark was one of the most remarkable characters
of a wild and adventurous age. Ills extraordinary career in many
quarters of the globe is traced by Captain Chamier with a vigorous
hand, and the interest of the reads is msver suffered to flag tin* a
moment, as the hero rushes from peril to peril, in love awl war. lit,
Indomitable bravery throughout, which made him so
his alllolll,, !Urnislies new and curious filatt,:r.r Cur ,very

I.iterar3'
Henry Co!burn, l'nbli:;x•r, 13, Great 11-Qtt, t

Bitterlsu INSTITUTION, VALL-m A LL.-
The GALLERY, with a SELECTION of PICTURES by
ANCIENT MASTERS, and those of the late Sir A. W. CALLCOTT,
lt.A., and other DECEASED BRITISH ARTISTS, is OPEN daily
from Ten till Six.

Admission On Shilling. Catalogues One Shilling.
WILLIAM P..kRNARD, Keeper.

VALLANCE v. THE DUKE OF
BRUNSWICK.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SI the reports which have appeared in some of the papers
of the above trial, grossly false statements having been made in
regard to myself, I request the favour of your inserting the
accompanying official document.—l have the honour to remain,
Sir, your obedient servant,
CESAR ADAM MARCUS, Count de Wuits.

York-street, Gloucester-place, Aug. 13, 1845.
" I, the under-signed Christopher Kreeft, Consul- General
for the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburgh Schwerin, do hereby
certify that Cesar Adam Marcus,tCount von Wuits, was born
of Christian parents at Schwerin, on the sth of March, 1810,
and that he is the son of the late General Demetrius Count
von Wuits, actual Privy Councillor and Chamberlain to his
Majesty the King of Poland , Stanislaus the First, and Knight
of the Order of Saint Stanislaus.
" Given in London ut supra,
" CHRISTOPHER KREEFT.
" Mecklenburgh Consulate,
9, Billiter-square, August 12, 1845."

EUROPEAN MERCANTILE HOUSE AT BUSHIRE.—We
were favoured with the following extract of a letter, dated at
Bushire on the 4th of May. It contains information which
will, we dare say, prove interesting to our mercantile friends
A mercantile house has been established in this place under
the denomination of Floyd, Mills, and Co. They purpose hav-
ing establishments fur the sale of European goods by whole-
sale—at Shiraz, Ispahan, Bagdad, Bussorah, Bahrein, and
Muscat, and they will do business on a very large scale. They
intend to have a steamer employed on the river Tigris, to carry
their goods to and from Bagdad. They intend sending home
wool, gums, silks, &c., and if they are careful, and can over-
come the combinations which the Persian merchants will raise
against them, they will probably make a profitable speculation.
It is at any rate a bold one. They have letters from the Fo-
reign Secretary to the Court of Persia, and no obstacles will be
thrown in their way in that quarter. Dr. Floyd was surgeon
to the expedition which explored the River Euphrates under
Colonel Chesney. The Bushire native merchants dread the
influence that will accrue to these enterprising people, and offer
to buy all their goods at Bushire on condition that none is sent
up the country."—Bombay Gentleman's Gazette.
DREADFUL OUTRAGE AT WEST TILBURY.—It is
our painful duty to record an outrage scarcely exceeded in the
annals of crime, which occurred in the parish of West Tilbury,
on the night of Sunday last. At about half-past ten on the
night in question, a person, said to be of the name of Rutledge,
a master blacksmith, at Brentwood, was returning in that
direction, with his wife, from Tilbury Fort. When about
half a mile below the parsonage they were met by three
privates of a regiment stationed at the fort, preparatory to their
embarkation on Tuesday, the sth instant, on board the barque
Ramilies for the West Indies. The woman was at the time
some distance in advance of her husband, and was attacked its
the most ferocious manner by the men in question. Her cries
brought her husband speedily to her assistance, who was in-
stantly knocked down by their bludgeons,and received such severe
wounds in the head that he is now lying at West Tilbury without
any hope of recovery. ,The miscreants then directsd their
violence once more against the woman, and all three are repre-
sented, notwithstanding her vigorous resistance, to have com-
mitted a capital offence upon her person, the details of which
are wholly unfit for publication. They then stripped their
victims of the property they had about them, and made off in
the direction of the fort. By this time, however, the cries of
the sufferers had collected persons from the neighbourhood,
who pursued and captured the villains, who were taken next
morning before the Rev. H. S. Hele, at Grays, and by him
remanded. The 'accused are Irish, and are said to have been
intoxicated, having been drinking the whole evening at West
Tilbury. On Tuesday they were brought before the tench of
Magistrates at Orsett, Essex, upon the twofold charge of high.
The examination had been post-
way robbery and violation.
poned from a former day, the complainant and his wife being
too ill to attend, owing to the injuries they had received, and
from which, it is feared, that one of the parties is not likely to
recover. After the examination of the prosecutrix, the Chair-
man asked her if she could swear positively as to the prisoners
being the party by whom she and her husband were'assaulted ?
The prosecutrix said she had not the least doubt as to their
identity. They were committed for trial at the next assizes
upon both charges.
SERIOUS COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—An accident of a
very serious character occurred on Saturday morning last at
Moira Colliery, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, from an explosion of
hydrogen gas in the Bath pit, from the effects of witch three
persons died and fifteen others were seriously injut4 several
of whom are so dangerously hurt as almost to preclude the hope
of their recovery. An inquest was held on Monday before
J. Gregory, Esq., Coroner, when it appeared that the gas by
which the explosion was caused had exuded from the roof of
the pit, and that no blame was attributable to the managersot
the colliery.