The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-29 00:00:00

NAME OF RAILWAY.

Week
ending

Mar. 22
21

Arbroath and Forfar ••• • • •••• • • • •
Birmingham and Gloucester.. • • • • • • • -
Brandling Junction . • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Bristol and Gloucester • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Chester and Birkenhead . • •.•• • • • • • •
Dublin and Drogheda• • •• •
Dublin and Kingstown
Dundee and Arbroath . .......
Durham and Sunderland .
Edinburgh and Glasgow . . • .
Eastern Counties and North Eastern ..
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr • • • • • •
Glasgow and Greenock • • •• • • •• • • • • •
Grand Junction .... ............
Great North of England • • • • • • • • • • • .
Great Western. • • • • • • ...... • • • • •• • .
Liverpool and Manchester •• •
London and Birmingham . ... .
London and Blackwall
London and Brighton . • .............
London and Croydon
London and Greenwich . • . • • ... .
London and South Western . .. •• • • •
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ......
Manchester and Birmingham • - • • • ...
Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc..
Midland Counties . • • • • • • ..
Newcastle and Darlington • • • • • • • • .•
Newcastle and Carlisle • ...., . •. • . • .
Newcastle and North Shields • • • • • • - -
North Union and Bolton and Preston
Paris, Corbel], and Orleans . • . • • • • • • .
Paris and Rouen ..
Preston and Wyre • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • • • •
Sheffield and 31anchester • • • ...
South Eastern........ • • •- • •• • • •• .•
Yarmouth and Norwich
York and North 31:Oland ..........

Last
week.

132
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366
2,077
3,884
1,497
701
7,-54
2,885
13,589
4,694
14,564

823
3,476

969
2,021
4,73:)

911
3,43
6,5 fiG
9,27 z
1,143
1,486
361
1,331

22
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23
21

4,50 C
360

118
1,988

519
1,982
3,331
1,229

651
6,652
1,253
12,030
3,793
14,190
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'629
2,552

G'A
4,151

6b7
4,632

739
2,828

7,698

231
2,606

1,415

318
1,114
4,,13
3,925
238
469
2,745
749
620

1,784

POST- OFFICE DELINQUENCIES. -- We understand
that last wet k some of the law officials of the Post-office
arrived in lielmsdale, to institue inquiries, in conse-
quence of susp!ci•in that the mail bags from the post-
offices of Wick, Thurso, and other places had been opens d.
and that mow!), and other valuable articles hail been ab-
stracted. The result has been the apprehension of one
of the guards, who, we believe, has been taken south,
under the charge of criminal officers, and lodged in
Dornoch gaol.—John o' Groat Jou'naL
CUSTONIS' SEIZURES.—An order has been issued
by the Customs authorities with reference to the practice
which has prevailed of seizinc, overtime goods (being
goods which have been allowed bye the owners to remain
in the baggage warehouses, &c., without being cleared
beyond the time allowed by law) when rummaged for
sale at the Queen's warehouse and the several docks, on
the ground of illegality of importation, or for not
having been included in the report of the master of the
vessel at the time the goods sere imported; that such
goods, if not detained by the officers at the time of land-
ing, are not subsequently to be placed under seizure, but
sold for payment of the duties, and dock, or other
charges, and the overpltis (if any) paid to the importer
or proprietor of the goods, in conformity with the pro-
visions of the 17th and 25th sections of the Act of 3d of
William IV., chap. 52, and the 14th section of the Act
of the 3d and 4th of William IV., chap. 57 ; and direc-
tions to that effect have been given to the several depart-
ments accordingly.
SUICIDE OF A MAN TIIROUG II THE BAD TEMPER
OF ins WlFE.—Yesterday Mr. Wm. Carter held an in-
quest at the Waterloo Arms, George-street, Cam-
berwell, on the body of James Edward Crowe,
aged 31, general dealer, of No. 4, Waterloo-street,
close by. Mr. John Godbold, baker, Manchester-
terrace, Liverpool-road, Islington' said that he
had been intimately acquainted with deceased for some
time past. About a week since he called upon wit-
ness, when he complained, with tears in his eyes, of
his wife's ill-usage. The deceased had frequently
recited acts of cruelty on the part of his wife towards
him. On one occasion he observed that his hands
were blistered, and that his face was marked,
which the deceased said had been done by his wife
during a fit of passion with a red hot poker. Such ens
her violent temper, that during her confinement,
deceased informed witness that she had had;
within one month, no fewer than four separate
nurses. Witness did not think deceased was in em-
barrassed circumstances, but his opinion was that his
mind had become impaired through the violence of his
wife. Joseph Leach, a lodger in the house of deceased,
said that on Wednesday morning last, about eight
o'clock, on passing through the back kitchen, be saw
deceased hanging by the neck, with a rope which was
fastened to a gas-pipe in the wall. Verdict-7'f That
the deceased destoyed himself during a fit of mental de-
rangement."

FINSBURY BANK FOR SAVINGS.—The managers of
this Institution held their 28th annual melting at their
board-room in Sekforde-street, on Friday last, Mr. Eli
Baylie, trustee, in the chair. The auditor's accounts
for the past year were presented and approved,
and showed, on the 30th of November last, a capital
of 185,3561., and an increase in the year of 18,990/.
The number of deposits was 14,530—an increase
over previous years of 1,595 ; the number of new
accounts, 2,336—an increase of 283 ; the number of
accounts open, 7,230—an increase of 907; the in-
terest received from Government, 6,6291.—an increase
of 750/. The amounts received and paid were both
larger than in any former year. The interest
now i payable to depositors is 31. per cent. per
annum, and notwithstanding this reduction of interest
f.om 31. Bs. per cent., the capital has since
increased to upwnrds of 190,000/. The average number
of persons attending this savings bank on receipt nights
during the past year was two hundred and ninety, of
which number forty-six attended to open new accounts.
The annuity department has in its second year
made considerable progress, the sums paid for
them having increased from 2,2751. in 1843, to 5,2231.
in 1944; total, 7,498/. The provisions of the new Act
(7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 83), extending the amount of
these annuities from 201. to SOL, and allowing a husband
and wife each to have one, will, no doubt, tend to its
further increase ; but the great advantages allowed
by Government to the purchasers cf these peculiar
annuities (granted under Act 3 William IV., cap. 14)
is now restricted to parties rot possessed of 150!.
per annum. Since the accommodations of the bank have
been extended the business has very much increased
in all its departments, and the average addition to the
savings-bank capital of the fast two years has exceeded
by nearly 12,500!. per annum that of the twelve previous
years—a progress kept pace with by some other banks,
and in part accounted for by the knowledge the indus-
trious classes now have, that Government security, en-
tirely of capital, whenever required, and also entire
freedom from the income-tax, are the lending features
of this *tad all similar institutions.

SHIPWRECK ON THE GOODWIN SANDS.—A meet-
ing of the Commissioners of Salvage of the port of Deal
took place on the 27th instant, at the office of Mr.
George Mercer, their registrar, to inquire into the
circumstances attending the saving of the lives of the
captain, crew, and passengers of the ship John Knox,
homeward-bound • East Indiaman, wrecked on the
Goodwin Sands on the night of the 22d inst., in a
heavy gale of wind, by that veteran George Philpot, and
his hardy crew, in the lugger Industry, of Deal, at the
imminent risk of their lives, thus adding another act
of daring intrepidity to the many already performed by
that celebrated boatman. The captain of the John Knox,
who was present, bore his grateful testimony to the
exertions of the Deal m,,n, and stated that in his opinion
no boatmen. in the re orld would have come alongside the
ship at that moment except the Deal men, and that but
for their assistance the lives of all must have been sacri-
ficed. The Commisioners immediately forwarded a
statement of the facts to the Lords of the Treasury,
strongly recommending the men to their Lordships'
favourable consideration fur some special iernnueretion.
DEATII Or SIR HERBERT (JAKELEY.—We are
sorry to announce the death of Sir Herbert Oakeley,
Bart, Archdeacon of Colchester, Dean of 13oeking, and
Prebendary of St. Paul's, which took place at Patteson's
Hotel, in Lower Brook-street, on Thursday morning, the
27th instant. Sir Herbert Oakeley had been loeg suffer-
ing from illness, but his death Kas comparatively sud-
den, as lie had retired to rest on the previous evening not
perceptibly worse than usual. Sir Herbert was born in
1791, and in 1826 married Atholl Alurray, daughter of
Lord Charles Aynsley, and niece of the late Duke of
Atholl. He survived this amiable lady cnly fourteen
months. He is succeeded in the Baronetcy. by his eldest
son Charles William Atholl, who was born in 1828.