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ISTkTIONAL BANK OF 'IRELAND
4 Notica Is hereby given, that the COtirt of Diroctori, at a tc,e-
elai meeting convened for the purpose, have, in conformity with the
provisions of the deed or settlement, made a CALL on the i+hare..
holders for a farther instalment of 5/. on each SHARE, in addition
to the sums which have already been paid in respect thereof, to
which effect the C,,urt of Directors have passed a Resolution, and
appointed that the same shall 1.0 paid as follows, viz.-21. 10s: on the
15th of October next, and 21. 10s. on the 15th of January, 1846, such
payments to be made at Messrs, Barnett, Hoares, and Co.'s, Bankers,
Loml,ard-street, Londim ; or at any of the Offices of the Society at
the r6llowing. places, Athloas,
jroyle, Cairick-on-Stdr. Cashel. Castlerea, Charleville,
Cloaakilty, elOnillel, Cork, Dungarva::, Ennis, Enniseorthy, Fennoy,
av, Kantilet, Killarney, Kilrush, Limerick, Long-
ford,Midletovrn,;llltchelstowt, bloate, Nenagh,
lolighrea,
New Ross, Rathkealti, Roscomlnon, Roscrea, Skibbereen, Sligo, Tal-
low, Thnrles, Tipperary, Tralee, Tuam, Waterford, Westport, and
Wexford

By order of the Court of Directors,
N. S. KING, Secretary
13, Old Broad-street, London, Aug. 2, 1845.

SALMON Ftsismo.--:-172e take continues to be fair
for the season.. On Tuesday 25t; _boxes were shipped for Lon-
don, being the produce of three (flys' on the upper sta-
tions of the 'ley, which might contain abott;;:.3,000181110/3 and
grilse. Some days are much more productive than others.
Friday last the take was very large, the average being from 60 to
100 at one tide to each station. It has been observed thatja
strong east wind brings the salmon to the estuaries in great
ntimbers, but it is only with a west wind that they ascend the
river. Prices continue pretty steady ; salmon 7d. to Bd., and
grilse:A. to 6d. per lb. A very large fish was takee at the
Rhynd Cairn station (a shot a little above the Earn )en Satur-
day morning. This fish wei4hed 461b5., measured two feet in
girth, and was something more than four feet long. It was a
finely-formed fish, and' seemed to be very old, there being no
teeth in its heed, with the exception of one, which wet much
decayed. It was the largest salmon which has been taken in
the Tay for severs.: years.—Pertlashire Courier.
RAPID TELAVsi.UNG.—CApt4iii Drummond,
Pitcairne, and J. Wheatley, Esq., of her Majesty's 42d Regi-
ment, and Lieutenant Norton, of her Majesty's 88th Regiment,
resolved on Visiting Catania, with a view to ascending Mount
Etna. TheyrictuallT accomplished the distance from Palermo
to Catania, over` a heavy Mountainous country, in twenty-nine
hours 1 On ascending the mountain they found the cold almost
insupportable, 'the thermometer being 2 deg. below zero. tin
placirg a handkerchief before their mouths, it was actually
.frozen to their lips. What delight, 'after leaving a country
With the thermometer at 82 hi the shade!
RAILWAY AVCIDEN T.—The Prfr,;:u Gaz-tie reports
*hat on the 234 ult. a serious accident happened at the railroad-
station in that city, Until the giving way of the columns which
supported the'roct. It is said that one hundred and fifty per-
sons were iejiired; but the above journal is so reserved in its
account that.we do not learn whether any person was

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LONDON.- SATURDA Y, AUGUST 9,

The Lords met at two, and judgment was given in
several outstanding Appeal Cases.
At four; the Royal assent was given by commission to
several public and private Bina.
The Appropriation Bill was r:=ad a third time, and
their Lordships adjourned.
The Commons met shortly before Four o'clock, and
proceeded to the Bar of the Homo of Lords to hear the
Royal assent given by Commission to several Bale.
New writs were ordered for Belfast, in the room of
Mr. EMERSON TENNENT, who has accepted the Chiltern
Hundreds ; for Cirencester, in the room of Mr. CRIPPS,
who has been appointed a Lord of the Treasury ; for
Linlithgow, in the room of the Honourable CHARLES
HOPE, appointed Governor of the Isle of Man ;

for Warwick, in the room uf Sir C. Lo: 11LAS

appointed a Commissioner of Greer wick Hospital and
Suntlerit:nd, in the room of Lord HoWlCii,' "rho has
been called up to the House of Peers.
The Silk Weavers' Bill was read a third time and
passed.

Lord PALMERSTON presented a petition against the
use of propelling engines on railways, and urged the
House to adapt some legislative enactment on the subject.
Lord COURTENAY brought up the report uf the Com-
mittee on Group X, recommending the postponement of
the Hertford and Biggleswade, the Swinton and Lin-,
colt; the Lincoln and Ely, and the York and North
Midland, and Doncaster Extension Railway Bills.
Mr. Ht-PE brought in a Bill for the improvement of
the waste lands in Australia.

Lord PALMERSTON then rose and, in a speech of con-
siderable length, directed the attention of the House to
the affairs of Syria.
Sir R. PEEL commenced a reply to the Noble Lord,
but an lion. Member moved that the House be counted,
and there being only 25 Members present, the House
adjourned.

In our Thursday's edition we remarked, in reference
to the late colliery explosion at Aberdare, on the
general neglect that appeared still to pervade our
Mit.ing Districts of the very valuable recommendations
of the House of Commons' Committee on " Accidents in
Mines," (owing to the want of some duly constituted
Executive to give effect to suggestions of this kind,
when they regard only the protection of life, not the
rights cf property.) Among these neglected recom-
mendations we especially instanced " the bricking up
the final apertures that have been left, marking the site
of exhausted works and demolished passages." To-day
we have to notice the singular confirmation which our
assumption has received by the actual verdict of the
coroner's inquest on the bodies of the: sufferers rescued
from this very Dyffrin Colliery : for the jury, among
other things, beg to enforce the necessity for adopting
"a system that will prevent the gas oozing out from the
old or abandoned workings .to tram-road airways" by
similar precautions. We cannot refrain from observing
that we have here another exemplification of the
" selfish indifference to," we are loth to call it—but, at
least, the culpable carelessness of human life, which too
largely operates upon the relations of masters and work-
men in some of the largest speculations that private
capital is invested in. It was stated in the very first ac-
cDunt W 3 had of this catastrophe that the pit had
always been in bad repute " on account of its deficient
ventilation." We see nothing in the return of the in-
quest to disprove the justice of this received impression.
Now one is irresistibly tempted to repeat the question--
hsd the better ventilation been demanded for animal-
chattels, or other such tangible property, instead of
mere human lives, over which our anomalous law,
all tenderness under some circumstances, permits under
others the most irresponsible custody and control to
private individuals. Had these pitmen been partridges
in a preserve, or pheasants in an aviary, or sheep in a
fild, does any one suppise that after the first represeh-
tation to their owner, that they were exposed in de
fold, the aviary, or the preserve, to mephitic gases or
noxious exhalations, these birds or beasts would have
been left there for another day ? Why, it is not long
since we read of all the leaden water-pipes commu-
nicatirg between the river and a dog-kennel being taken
up and replaced, at a considerable expense, by wooden
or clay drain pipes, on a bare suspicion that some of the
houn...s had been from time to time affected with
symptoms that indicated the presence of some arseniate
deposit from the metal in the water.

If the higher and wealthier orders thus manifest a
comparative apathy about the tenderness for human life,
which it is not oely one of the first objects of morality
to inculcate, but should be considered one of the first
duties of civilized society to enforce upon all its mem-
bers, it must be allowed that the orders below them have
not been slow to follow their pernicious example. We
gather, from a perusal of the daily reports of cases of
t;ic police courts, some conclusions that creep out of
sight in the elaborate organization of our table of cri-
minal statistics. Whatever More favourable result these
latter may exhibit, we are compelled to infer the fact—
tile painful and disgraceful fact—that among the in-
ferior classes (of the metropolitan population at any
rate), crimes of violence against the person are decidedly
on the increase. On many accounts (and for reasons
most of them too obvious to make it necessary here to
enfOrce them) this result is as extraordinary as it is
deplorable. To what cause shall we attribute it ? We
have long since, in our own minds, arrived at the answer
to this query. We consider the result to be ascribable
to the gross anomalies of our criminal jurisprudence.
These anomalies, however, determine in one strangely
ceteistent demonstration—namely, that the genius of
our laws, in modern application, is far more vigilant for
security of property than for security of life. The con-
sequence seems to be that persons of inferior condition
take up a notion that they may, with impunity, commit
any serious excesses of personal violence, seeing how in-
different those in superior ranks of society show them.
selves to be to the personal safety, and even existence, of
others. Property, indeed, as against poverty, seems to
enjoy an immunity from the ordinary liabilities to civil
action, which the latter would certainly occur, for mall-
°lens, or even for mistaken, prosecution. Is there no
chance of inducing the Legislature, in the course of the
c ,wing session, to look into these anomalies, and devise
some remedy for them ?

A very few days ago, we published the report of a
case tried at a country sessions, in which a young wo-
man, who had been accused of stealing some drapery in
the house or shop of a small trader, was, on the clearest
evidence, acquitted. During the trial the poor creature
exhibited all the emotions of terror, shame, and distress
which an innocent but timid female might be supposed
to experience in so trying a situation. Her acquittal
was greeted with the most enthusiastic, albeit indecorous
plaudits of the people in the Court. But she was again
arraigned and tried on further indictments, notwith-
standing a significant intimation to the prosecutor from
the Bench that he should not proceed with them. He
persisted. The woman was acquitted again ; but ever
since remains in a deplorable state, consequent on the
agony of her feelings under so protracted an ordeal.
The defeated tradesman retires to his shop,- with no
other penalty but what it is just possible he may expe-
rience from some occasional accesses of. remorse, or the
undissembled contempt sad disgust of his fellow-towns-
men. At another country assizes, in a case in which
two fellow-servants had quarrelled, it appeared that the
male; prisoner had inflicted a kick upon the person of the
pcosecutrix, from the effects of which she had been
already confined to her bed for five and twenty weeks,—
was still painfully suffering—and, in ell human proba-
bility, never would recover. All the facts were proved
to the satisfaction of the jury ; and the whole punish-
meet to nhich the unmanly perpetrator of this outrsge
was sentenced—was six months' imprisonment. with
hard labour. But might he not plead that even this
visitation was too severe, when iu richer men the gross
carelessness that assigns nine and twenty men employed
upon and "in" their property to it violent and instan-
taneous death, is not visited by a deodand, even of as
many pence ?

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Swiss papers of a late-dace have been received. The
discuiA,Ti •-of the Jesuit question in the Diet was fixed
fizr the 3d inst.

The Suss journals state that General DE SONNEN•
BMW, %au commanded the tnopsi of Lucerne in the
late disturbances, has returned to his military duties •at
ti vies.

Letters from Copenhagen of tin: 31st mention the dis-
covery of a Republican plot in that cit 3. One of the
leaders had fled, and taken refuge, it was suppos(d, in
London. Prince FREDERICK of ILEsSE uas expected
in Petersburgh, on the invitation of his father-in-law,
the EMPEROR, who is desirous that he should marry the
Princess WILHELMINA of ORANGE. It is not yet a
year since his late wife (the Grand Duchess ALEX-
ANDRIA) died.

Accounts from Madrid have been received to the Ist
instant, and from San Sebastian to the 3d.

Se%eral persons had been arrested on the lA. The
QuEtst was at San Sebastian, and the physicians con-
sidered a long course of treatment ntcrssary for the
restoration of her health. Her sister, the Infanta LuisA
FERNANDA, was also suffering from ill health. All
parties seem to consider tbat the marriage of the QUEEN
with the son of Don CARLOS would be a dreadful
eaLmity for Spain. The marriage of the Infanta LUISA
with the Duke of MONTPENSIER is spoken of as a matter
decided on.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
The Moniteur publishes the official dispatch of the
Maiitime Prefect of Toulon on the subject of the late
fire. lie estimates the damage done at 2,400,000 francs.
It has been ascertained, according to some of these jour-
nal:, that the fire originated in a plot among the convicts.
The Jesuit establishment in the Rue des Pontes was
broken up on Tuesday.

The Duke and Duchess DE NEitouns and the Duc
D'AusiALE, arrived at Bordeaux on the sth.
M. MARTIN DU NORD, the Minister of Justice, set out
from Paris on Wednesday for Eu.

Accounts from Posen, quoted in these papers, state
that tranquillity was perfectly restored in that city on
the 30th.

The French Funds rose again on Thursday :
The Three per cents. ciosed on that dad• at 84f. 40c. ;