The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-10 00:00:00

ASSETS.

Specie £198,092 3 10
Due to the Bank in the Colonies on bills
discounted and purchased, including
those past due, but reported good 507,009 19 2
Due to the Bank in the Colonies, cash
credits, and current accounts reported
good
Due to the Bank in London on bills re-
mitted, cash at bankers, &c. 208,358 8 10
Balance of bad and doubtful debts
Bank premises, and furniture in London
and the Colonies
Balance of preliminary expenses

130,697 2 8

22,613 19 7
5,505 18 7

£1,148,460 12 2
On reference to the last report, it will be observed
that there is an increase in the balance of bad or doubt-
ful debts of 3,1271. 13s. 6d., which, it is proper to ex-
plain, does not arise from any new transactions, but has
been occasioned by the colonial managers having now re-
ported as doubtful and bad sundry old debts which they
had hitherto returned as good. A comparison of the re-
ports on bad and doubtful debts down to 31st December,
1844, with those to 30th June preceding, shows..the fol-
lowing results, viz. :
An increase on bills

doubtful, of £1,516 0 6
An increase on bills bad. 2OO 5 8

£1,716 6 2

Ditto on cash credits and
current accounts, doubt-

ful
Ditto ditto; bad

539 16 8
871 10 8

1,411 7 4

£3,127 16 6

Balance of bad and doubt-
ful debt as per last re-
port £83,175 13 6
Deduct undivided profit
for the half-year end-
ing June 30, 1844 10,120 7 6

73,055 6 0

Balance as above stated £76,182 19 6
The Directors regret that, under the circumstances
exhibited in the above statements, they find themselves
again obliged to recommend the Proprietors to persevere
in abstaining from a dividend, and to permit the
amount of profit made during the half-year end-
ing December 31, 1844, after deducting all current ex-
penses, viz.
Less half-yearly proportion of prelimi-
nary expenses

£9,776 12 8
to be carried to the credit of bad and doubtful debt ac-
count, which will reduce the balance to 66,406/. 6s. 10d.
The Directors had flattered themselves they would
have been enabled on the present occasion to re-
port an increased amount of profit as compared
with that of the previous half-year ; but the
sudden termination of the crop in many of the colonies
at an unusually early period, by an unlooked for acces-
sion of bad weather, and its consequent diminution, had
the effect of materially checking the bank's operations,
and of decreasing its profits, even to a slight degree be-
low those of the preceding six months. On a comparison,
however, of the profits made during the entire year
1844 with those of the preceding year, they will be
found better by upwards of 2,2001.
With reference to bad and doubtful debts, the balance
of that account will have been reduced by nearly 50,0001.
compared with that stated to the Proprietors at the half-
yearly meeting held in January, 1644.
It affords the Directors satisfaction to be able to state
that since the commencement of the present year the
operations of the bank in the colonies have keen steadily
increasing, and, they trust, without undue risk, as the
transactions appear to be of a sound and satisfactory
character. They consequently expect, at the next halt-
yearly meeting, to have an improved statement to
submit to the Proprietors, as the accounts of the half
year just ended, which are thus far in their possession,
exhibit an increase of profit arising from the extension
of business. On the whole, the Directors are of opinion
the prospects of the bank are improving, and with an
appearance of steadiness which leads them to hope that,
with a little further exercise of that forbearance which
the Proprietors have hitherto displayed, the corpora-
tion will surmount the effects of those adverse circum-
stances under which it has laboured for some time past,
and will eventually reward the Proprietors, and, at the
same time, fulfil the expectations of its founders.

SERIOUS AFFRAY in LIVERPOOL.
Yesterday afternoon the inhabitants of the lower end of
Dale-street, Byrom-street, Great Crosshall-street, Lace-street,
Fontenoy-street, and the various other streets which intersect
that densely-populated locality, were kept in a state of great
commotion by a mob which had assembled and attacked a body
of Orangemen. It appears that Orangemen to the number of
150 had been walking in procession at the funeral of a deceased
brother. The funeral proceeded from New Bird-street, Tox-
teth-park, the residence of the deceased, to St. Mary's Ceme-
tery ; and, after the deceased had been interred, the procession
was returning to the Park by Scotland-road, Byrom-street,
and, we believe, Dale-street. The Orangemen composing it
wore black sashes, tied, in some instances, at the ends with
orange ribbons. When they had reached the end of Great
Crosshall-street, the crowd which had been accompanying them
down Scotland-road was considerably reinforced by the Irish-
men resident in Lace-street and other low streets in that
neighbourhood. The Irishmen appear to have been the ag-
gressive party, exasperated, ne doubt, by the display of orange
ribbons. A stone was thrown, and then a volley of stones fol-
lowed. The Orangemen, who were walking two deep, and were
only accompanied by about 16 policemen, immediately halted
and made an attempt to repel their assailants. In this they
were, to a certain extent, successful, for they drove them up
some of the adjacent streets, with the assistance of the
police. The uproar, however, drew large bodies of other Irish-
men to the spot, and the mob, having in this way regained
strength and courage, made the Orangemen, after a vigorous
resistance, fly before them. We have been assured by the
policemen and others who witnessed the melee, that stones and
brickbats were flying about as thick as hail during the greater
part of the affray. Happily no life was lost on the occasion,
and the injuries so far as we could ascertain, were very few.
Mr. Superintendent M'Donald received a very severe blow of
a stone on the leg, and had to be conveyed home in a ear. In-
spector Bibby was struck on the jaw, and two or three of the
force were wounded slightly in the upper part of the head.
When the affray had lasted about half an hour, the Orangemen
were induced quietly to make the best of their way home
through some of the by-streets leading towards London-road ;
and Mr. Dowling, and very shortly after Superintendent Le-
verett, having come up with strong detachments of the police
force from the neighbourhood of the docks, the mob were over-
awed, and all active disturbances was from this moment at an
end. Besides the injuries already mentioned, several panes of
glass were b. oken, and part of a shop sign was carried away by
the force with which the stones were thrown. Mr. Dowling
continued until about half-past eight in the evening to peram-
bulate a large section of the constabulary force in the streets in
the vicinity, which were densely crowded by the lower classes ;
but about that hour a heavy shower of rain fell, which dispersed
them to their homes without much trouble or delay. We
should not omit to mention that three Roman Catholic clergy-
men also remained in the neighbourhood during the evening,
and used their exertions to allay the excited feelings of the
people.— Liverpool Albion.

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LivERPooL.--THE FIRE AT QUEBEC.-A subscrip-
tion has been opened in this town for the relief of the thousands of
persons whose property and homes have been destroyed by the dis.
astrous fire at Quebec. Hitherto, however, no public proceedings
have been taken here to excite an enlarged and general sympathy
I with our suffering fellow-subjects, or to swell the fund to an
amount beyond that which can be expected from the mute appeal
of a subscription-sheet. The total amount subscribed in the Ex-
change news-room up to this evening, was 7904—Manchester
Quardion.