The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-17 00:00:00

BANK ISSUES.

The Gazette of last night contains the following return PF
under the new " Act to make further provision relative•
to the Returns to be made by Banks of the amount or
their Notes in Circulation." The neriod is twelve weeks
prior to the 27th of April last, awl the average amount
in each case is certified by two of her Majesty's Com-
missioners of Stamps and Taxes :
Banbury Bank, at Banbury and Woodstock—
Gillett, Tawney, and Gillett
Banbury Old Bank, at Banbury and Shipston-
on-Stour—T. R. and E. Cobb
Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, at Basingstoke
and-Odiham—Cole, Seymour, Brooks, Lamb,
and Hillier • 24,730)
Bedford and Bedfordshire Bank, at Bedford—
Trapp, Halfhead, and Trapp
Bradford Old Bank, at Bradford, Yorkshire—
H., A., and W. M. Harris
Brecon Old Bank, at Brecon, Merthyr Tydvil,
Carmarthen, Llanelly, Haverfordwest, and
Cardigan—De Winton, Jones, Church, and

4-
43,457

55,153

8,515

12;676

Evans
Bridport Bank, at Bridport, Beaminster, Lyme
Regis, Chard, and Axminster—S. and W. E.
Gundry
Burlington and Driffield Bank, at Burlington
and Driffield—Harding, Smith, Faber, and

68,271

24,698

Foster
Craven Bank, at Settle, Shipton, Keighley,
Gisburn, and other places—J., T., and R.
Birkbeck, and W. N. and H. Alcock
Hereford, Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and
Ross and Archenfield Bank, at Hereford and

12,745

77,154

27,625

Ross—Hoskins, Morgan, and Hamp
Lincoln Bank, at Lincoln, Gainsborough, Brig,
Market Raisen, Caistor, and Grimsby—
Smith, Ellison, Smith, and Melville
Newark Bank, at Newark—T. S. Godfrey and
G. Hutton
Newbury Bank, at Newbury—E. B Bunny and
C. Sloeock
New Sarum Bank, at Salisbury—Hetley,
Everett, Hetley, and Smith
Norwich Crown Bank, at Norwich, Loddo-,,
Thetford, Bungay, and Southwold—Harvey,
Hudson, and Harvey
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, at
Nottingham—F. Hart and A. T. Fellowes
Penzance Bank, at Penzance—Batten, Came,
and Marrack , 11,405
Reading Bank, at Reading and Maidenhead—
J. and C. Stephens, and W. C. Blandy
Royston Bank, at Royston—J. G., H., and F
N. Fordham
Salisbury Bank, at Salisbury and Fording-
bridge—W. B. and C. G. Brodie
Shrewsbury and Market Drayton Bank, at
Shrewsbury and Market Drayton—C. M.
and C. Adams, and C. Warren
Southampton Town and County Bank, at
Southampton—M. Maddison and R. Pearce
Southwell Bank, at Southwell, Mansfield, and
Alfreton—W. and J. C. Wylde
Stone Bank, at Stone and Stoke-upon-Trent--
W. Moore

28,788

15,65.9

45,120

10,866

43,271

16,393

23,335;

9,700

18,58'3

14,744

9,154

MEETING OF IRON AND COAL
MASTERS, IN SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE.
FRIDAY EVENING.—A highly influential meeting of
the leading gentlemen connected with the above tradeitt
this district, has just been held at the Royal Oak, Dud-
ley Port, Tipton, for the purpose of taking into consi-
deration the great decrease in the sales of South Stafford..
shire coal in the midland counties, occasioned by the late
sudden rise in the tonnage rates of the Warwick and
Birmingham, Warwick and .Napton and Coventry canals,
and to determine on the propriety of laying before tlic:
Board of Trade a memorial stating the difficulties, bur-
thensome regulations, and heavy compensation and:
mileage tolls to which the products of South Stafford-.
shire are subject, in passing from the Birmingham canal
to the midland counties and the metropolis ; also to de-
termine on the propriety of taking the necessary step
for obtaining from Parliament, in the next session, power
to shorten and improve the navigation communication
between Birmingham and London. Amongst those pre-
sent were Messrs. P. J. and H. Williams, J. E. Piercy,
Esq., R. Scott, Esq., M.P. for Walsall, and chairman of
the Birmingham Canal Company, and Messrs. J. Haines,
V. Houghton, J. Bagnall, J. Spittle, T. Bolley, T. Jer-
son, J. Tilsley, and many other principals of the largest
establishments in the trade.
Mr. J. Williams having been called to the chair, reso-
lutions to give effect to the objects for which the meeting
was called were unanimously agreed to.

SIIRIMPS.—The office of shrimps, says a writer in
the Penny Cyclopedia, seems to be analogous to that of
some of the insects on land, whose task it is to clear
away the remains of dead animal matter after the beasts
and birds of prey have been satiated. If a dead small bird
or frog be placed where ants have access to it, those in-
sects will speedily reduce the body to a closely-cleaned
skeleton. The shrimp family, acting in hosts, as speedily
remove all traces of fish or flesh from the bones of any
dead animal exposed to their ravage. They are, in short,
the principal scavengers of the ocean ; and, notwith-
standing their office, they are deservedly and highly
prized as nutritious and delicious food.
BELGIUM.--It is interesting to observe, in the
Belgian papers, the announcements of cheap travelling
to England, as if a trip to London were as usual a
summer occupation with our continental neighbour as
it used to be with our country neighbours at this season.
We are informed that in Cologne, Aix, Herbesthal,
Ostend, Antwerp, and Brussels, passengers may he
booked through to London, at one fare, by single
tickets. From Cologne to London you may be booked
for 31. 10s. first class, and 2/. 7s. second class. To Aix,
la-Chapelle the price is the same. There is also this
additional advantage to travellers on this route, that if
you wish to stop on the way, you may do so as often as
you please; the ticket given you lasts a month, a certain
portion being cut off at each principal stopping place.
Booked through from Cologne to London, how English.
—Railway Chronicle.
LONDON JOURNEYMEN BAKERS' PROVIDENT IN-
an asylum for tfl:_,er
STlTUTlON.—Yesterday the first annual meeting of the supporters
support
ofmembers
in k n
charity,
s jeweisi
sic, to hisestablished
provide
the aged, their widows, and orphans, and to establish
district houses for the accommodation and mental im-
provement of members, was held at the Coach and
Horses, High Holborn, Mr. Isaac Henderson in the
chair. Mr. Cruikshanks read the report, which pre-
dicted that the Institution would be, ere long, in the first
class of charitable institutions in the metropolis. 186
members had joined it, and the provisional committee had
received assurances of support from masters, journey-
men, and private individuals. The committee were
also in communication with twenty-nine " houses of
call," that would no doubt join the Institution in time.
Letters were received from Mr. Liston, surgeon, approve
ing of the Institution, and from Doctors Cox, Roberts,
and Bowkett, offering their services as physicians. The.
receipts, after discharging all liabilities, left a balance in
the Commercial Bank of 131. ss. 9d. The report was
adopted, after which the officers for the ensuing year
were elected, and thanks voted to the chairman.
about
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE Sono.—Last night,
_res
a quarter to ten o'clock, one of the most destructive fi
of.
witnessed for many years broke out in theehe.
workshops The.
Mr. Harpur, coachmaker, George-yard,
of '
premises are in a neighbourhood
composedofwood, and only
work-
shops, and the buildings all composed a
few minutes elapsed before the whole was a burning _
and also the C section
The St. Anne's parish,
mass. as well as many
engines of the London Establishment,
others, were in a short time on the spot, but from the in-
flammable nature of the materials on fire the destruc- '
Lion of thousands of pounds worth of property was
quickly completed.
ITER MAJESTY S TIIEATRE.—This successful sea-
son of the opera will terminate definitively on Tuesday
next. The talents of all the first artists of the esta-
blishment in both branches of art will be called into
play. The performances will embrace the operas and -
ballets which have been the greatest favourites with the