The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-02 00:00:00

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T
NINTH NUMBER of the HYGEIST,
published on Thursday, the Ist of December, contains
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INGOLD'S PATENT FOR MANUFACTURING
WATCHES, CLOCKS, CHRONOMETERS, AND
TIME PIECES BY MACHINERY.

N OTICEPsPesLsioInCoAf
Bis herebyEMADEginivethne,ensuing
Parlia-
ment for LEAVE TO BRING IN A BILL to authorise the
assignment to, and puachase by, a COMPANY of more than
twelve persons, of certain Letters Patent granted to Pierre
Frederick Ingold, for the term of fourteen years from the eighth
day of November, one thousand eight. hundred and forty-two,
for IMPROVEMENTS in MACHINERY fur MAKING
PARTS OF WATCHES and other TIME KEEPERS,
and to enable such Company to make use of, exercise. and vend,
the said inventions and improvements, and to grant licenses for
making, using, exercising, and vending the same ; and to give
the said Company power to sue and be sued in the name of one
or more of their Directors or officers, and to grant other powers
and privileges to the said Company. And provision is intended
to be made in the said Bill to enable the said Pierre Frederick
Ingold to assign over to the said Company any other patent or
patents with reference to the said methods, inventions, and im-
provements.--bated this fourteenth day of November, one
thousand eight hundred and forty-two.

SILVER TEA SERVICES.
T. COX SAVORY, Working Silversmith, 47, Cornhill,
London, seven doors from Gracechurch-street, submits the
prices of the following SILVER TEA and COFFEE SER-
VICES. The Cottage Pattern is plain, standing on shell feet,
the tea and coffee pots with a flower ornament ou the lids. The
King's Pattern is richly embossed with flowers and scrolls.
The shape of either is new and elegant.
COTTAGE PATTERN. KING'S PATTERN.
I: S. L s.
Strong Silver Tea-pot ...12 0 Strong Silver Tea-pot ...12 0
Ditto Sugar Basin 6lb Ditto Sugar Basin 710
Ditto Milk Ewer. 410 Ditto Cream Ewer 5
Ditto Coffee-p0t..15 0 Ditto Coffee-p0t..15 0

Complete €l Complete £4O 0
A variety of upwards of fifty Tea and Coffee Services may
be seen in the Show-rooms, where may be selected every arti-
cle of silver requisite for the sideboard or plate-chest. Pam-
phlets of prices, illustrated by sketches of the various articles.
gratis, and forwarded, postage free, to any part of the kingdom..
—T. COX SAVORY, No. 47, Cornhill, London, seven doors
from Gracechurch-street.

VICTORIA LIFE ASSURANCE AND
LOAN COMPANY.

No. 18, King William-stree!, City.
TRUSTEES.
Sir JAMES DUKE, Alderman, M. Chairman.
BENJAMIN HAWES, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Benjamin Barnard, Esq. I Charles Baldwin, Esq.
Solicitor, John Curtis, Esq., 80, Basinghall-street.
The principle of this Company is to aglow to each Assurer
such reasonable advantages, as may suit Iris particular views.
Thus, parties Assuring the Lives of otit.rs, may make their
Policies secure, notwithstanding the Life Assured may go out
of the limits of Europe, without the necessary permission of the
Directors having been previously obtained. Credit of half the
Premiums for the first five years, allowed on Policies effected
for the whole term of Life. Parties who have been Assured
for five years will be allowed to borrow on the security of their
Policies, a sum equal to one-half the Premiums paid, less that
for the first year. Advances 'are made to parties Assured in
the Office, on real or undoubted Person al Socurity, for terms
not exceeding three years, repayable by instalments. Premiums
moderate. Participation in profits. Detailed Prospectuses
may be obtained on application at the Office, or by letter
addressed to the Secretary.
WILLIAM RATRAY. Actuary and Secretary.

EAST CO WES.—ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
Nov. 30.—The Windsor Castle steamer, which came
into this harbour about two years since in a damaged
state, in order to her being repaired on Mr. Ralsey's
patent slip, discharged her cargo into Mr. Auldjo's
stores, then tenanted by Col. R. Hunter, Consul from
the United States at this port. In consequence of
differences between the owners of the vessel and the
captain, and afterwards with the agent (Mr. Edward
Day), and since with another agent, the clerk to
Col. Hunter (Mr. Knowles), the cargo has remained
in the store, with four locks on it, to the serious in-
jury of the shippers and consignees, persons in no way
mixed up or promoting these suits, but whose pro-
perty was left to perish waiting their decision. After
ruinous expenses had been incurred, four gentlemen
came down on Sunday last, to endeavour to get pos-
sion of the cargo. On Tuesday last Mr. Auldjo's
agents, assisted by the police and some labourers,
made their appearance, and served a notice on the
Collector of the Customs, who attended and removed
the Queen's lock ; at the request of the landlord, the
other three locks were then broken off (Captain Ema-
nuel's, Mr. Edward Day's, and Mr. Knowles').
Mr. Auldjo being satisfied for the amount of rent
in arrear (two years, 1001.), the London gentlemen
took possession of their goods, and are this day (Wed-
nesday) busily employed shipping it on board the
London trader Vectis, Jeffery, master, for Cotton's
wharf. It consists of porter in barrels and bottles,
mess beef in barrels, butter in firkins, flour in barrels,
none of which appears to have received much damage,
nor the barley in bags, and the cases of plata glass ;
but the candles in boxes have perished, of the hams
nothing remains but the bones and the skin, and the
cheeses are also in a bad state. The cargo altogether
has not suffered so much as might have been expected,
when it is considered that the salt water was one foot
deep in the stores on a high tide, soon after the cargo
was landed. The 500 sovereigns are ordered to be
placed in the Portsmouth branch of the Bank of Eng-
laud, by Saturday next. The demands on this cargo
exceeded 3,0001, but possession has been obtained by
payment of only 1001. There is also in the store the
machinery of the steamer, and her spars and sails; it
will require another trader to convey away the whole.
POTATOES.--Six sloops, with west country potatoes
for the London market, have been detained in Cowes
harbour, during the past week, by the weather.
The barometer, which was at four A.M. on Monday
at 28.38, is now at 29.53.

RADICAL ARITHMETIC VERSUS
TORY DISHONESTY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—One of our Tory journals—the same that
was prosecuted to conviction a year or two ago for a
series of. lying libels on the character of some of our
most respectable citizens—on Saturday last thought
proper to call in question your arithmetic, in a para-
graph which appeared in The Sun, respecting the
contributions to our local charities, and in order to
show your inaccuracy, proceeded to place the sum
contributed by the Grateful Society to the credit of
the Tory party. Now, my purpose is to inform you
of a fact with which the Tory Editor was previously
very well acquainted, viz., that the Grateful Society is
avowedly non-political, and is attended by persons of
both parties ; therefore, the sum subscribed by that
Society should either be left out of the account alto-
gether, or equally divided between the two parties,
which would leave the result exactly as you stated.
Having thus corrected the Tory version of your
"Radical .A.iithinetic," I will take the liberty to pro-
pose a problem of another kind, which I should be

happy to see solved in Felix Farley's Bristol Journal
of Saturday next :—Whether is it more immoral, un-
wittingly to commit an arithmetical error, or knowingly
to publish a dishonest misrepresentation? I am in-
formed that the President of the Grateful Society this
year was a Liberal; whether that were so or not, of
this I am certain, that I am
A LIBERAL WHO WAS INVITED TO DINE AT THE
GRATEFUL SOCIETY, BY THE PRESIDENT.
Bristol, Nov. 30.

(From the Bristol Gazette.)
The Journal of Saturday, in giving a paragraph
from The Sun, relative to the collections of the dif-
ferent Societies on Colston's Anniversary, adds the
following:—
" Now for the figures.—The two Tory Societies
(the Dolphin and Grateful) contributed 811/.Bs. clear
of all expenses. The Radical Anchor Society, 380/.
3s. , from which sum is to be deducted for 80 dinners
(not to be too nice), say 501. Thus, instead of the
Whigs " beating the Tories by nearly 1001," the To-
ries licked the Whigs•to the tune of about 4811. We
wonder who the wiseacre is that does' the Bristol
correspondence of The Sun ?"
The statement of The Sun might be excused on the
plea of ignorance, for we do not expect the London
journals to be accurately informed on mere local mat-
ters, but what shall be said of our Contemporary,
who being on the spot, very coolly sets down the
" Grateful" as a Tory Society, and claims the whole
amount of its collection as a party subscription ? It
is perfectly notorious that the " Grateful" is a neutral
Society, and politics are carefully and strictly es-
chewed. Whoever may be the " wiseacre" that fur-
nished the statement to The Sun, he stands in a better
position than the writer in the Journal, inasmuch as
lack of knowledge is venial compared with wilful
misrepresentation.

The Committee of States having concluded their
labours at Berlin, and returned to their respective pro-
vinces, Miss Fanny Elssler is, at present, the undis-
puted lion of the Prussian capital. A caricature has
lately appeared there, with a view to show the com-
parative importance in which the Representative As-
sembly and the danseuse appear to have been held by
the public.

A large party of the members and friends of this
Association dined together on Wednesday at the London
Tavern, Bishopsgate-street. It was, we believe, the
117th occasion on which the supporters of this excel-
, lent Society had assembled, on St. Andrew's Day,
to promote its charitable objects and to celebrate the
recurrence of its anniversary. The Bight Hon. the
Earl of Haddingten (the First Lord of the Admiralty),
one of the Vice-Presidents of the institution, occu-
pied the chair, and was supported by the Hon. William
Fraser, of Saltoun, and several other liberal friends
of the Society. The Association owes its origin to
the exertions of a body of benevolent persons who, as
early as the commencement of the reign of James
the First, formed themselves into a society for the
relief of the less fortunate individuals of the Scottish
nation. Since that period, however, several important
changes have taken place in its constitution, with a
view to increase its efficiency, and it now extends
relief to many objects not originally entitled to claim
its charity. It has a branch society at Edinburgh,
under the Presidency of the Duke of Buccleuch, and
managed by Directors of the highest respectability;
and it may be characterised as an institution emi-
nently advantageous to the nation to which its opera-
tions refer, as a S.)ciety of merited prosperity and in-
creasing usefulness, and peculiarly worthy of that
distinguished patronage of which the Charitable asso-
ciations which adorn our common country bear lasting
and substantial testimony on the .occasions of their
annual celebrations.
After an excellent dinner had been disposed of, and
the cloth was removed, the usual loyal toasts were
given from the chair, coupled with an announcement
that her Majesty the Queen was an annual contri-
butor to the Association of one hundred guineas.
In proposing the toast of the " Army and Navy,"
The Earl of HADDINGTON said that if ever there

was a moment when a loyal company waa called upon
to drink that toast with gratitude and enthusiasm, it
was the present.—(Loud cheers.) To the unwearied
energy, gallantry, and perseverance of our brave sol.
diers and sailors the country was indebted for the
. .

happy news which had so recently arrived of the res-
toration of peace in India and China—(Cheers)—the
consequences of which it was not easy, at the present
moment, to foresee.—(Hear, hear.) Our disasters
during the last year in Affghanistan ha,l now been
repaired, and the character of our country had been
vindicated in the very scenes in which those disasters
had occurred—(Cheers)-and the result was that the
(he trusted) well-founded notion of the "invinci-
bility," if he might use such a term, of the British
arms bad been once more insured.—(Cheers.) He
need scarcely add, that nothing could possibly be
more calculated to perpetuate our empire in the East.,
nothing more likely to keep those countries in peace,
than the prevalence of that notion in the minds of
the native population. (Hear, hear.) With
respect to. the very singular warfare in which
we had been engaged in China, it was most for-
tunate that the contest in which we had there
been engaged, had been brought to a conclusion,
by the united efforts of the army and the navy—
(Cheers)—which had acted during the whole pro-
gress of the expedition with a concord highly credit-
able to both services—(Cheers)--and which had given
to himself, in the situation which he had the honour
to hold, the greatest pride and satisfaction in reading
the account of the manner in which tho Gallant Ad-
miral, commanding the naval force, had disembarked
his men, and acted with 'the military branch of the
expedition as one united body.—(Cheers.) We had
not, however, owed these successes alone to the army,
properly so called, of her Majesty. Let it not be for-
gotten
that, in one of our important victories in India,
the greater proportion of our troops were those in the
servizt of the East India Company—(Cheers)--- and
who nad vied with their European comrades in shed-
ding their blood for the British cause.—(Cheers.)
Let it not be forgotten that in China also there were
engaged many volunteers from India, and Sepoys
from the Madras territory—(Hear, hear)--and that
of the twelve steamers employed no fewer than ten
were the property of the East India Company.—
(Cheers.) Although, Gentlemen (concluded the No-
ble Earl), the forces of the East India Company are
not usually united with our own services in this toast,
I trust, that, in drinking to the health and success of
the " Army and Navy of Great Britain," you will not
forget the duty of paying, at the same time, the debt
of gratitude you owe to the Company's forces.
The toast was drunk with signal enthusiasm, and
followed by " Rule Britannia," which, together with
several other vocal pieces in the course of the evening,
was excellently given by Messrs. Broadhurst, Young,
Fitzwilliam, and Bradbury, accompanied by an effi-
cient band. The Scottish character of the festival
was also kept up by some lively interludes played by
Lord Haddington's piper on the national instrument
of Scotland.

The Noble CHAIRMAN next proposed the toast of
" Prosperity to the Scottish Hospital," and, in the
course of a short speech in support of its object, stated
that it appeared, from the Report which had been that
morning read, at the Annual General Court of the
Governors, that the number of poor persons relieved
during the past year had been, on an average, 259 in
each month, of which 82, together with their wives
and families, had been provided with a free passage
to Scotland. The aggregate for • the year was 3,115,
besides 80 aged and infirm objects, to each of whom
a pension of 101. a year was granted. In those ob-
jects the sum of 2,288/. 3s. 6d. had been expended in
the past year, which, with other expenses, to the
amount of 442/. 4s. 10d., made a touli expenditure for
the year of 2,732/. Bs. 4d. The property of the Hos-
pital consisted of 35,770/. 16s. ld. in the Three per
Cent. Reduced Annuities, 5,100/. Old South Sea
ditto, and also 3,1821. 9s. 2d. invested in the Three-
and- a-Half per Cent. Annuities, of which the interest
was devoted to the schools attached to the churches of
the Scottish Establishment in London, or under the '
min isters thereof.—(Hear.)
After this toast had been drunk, and " The health
of the Duke of Sutherland " had been also given
from the Chair,

The Hon. W. FRASER rose and proposed the health
of a Nobleman who had long been one of the Vice-
Presidents of the Society, and who, in the midst of
other duties of an important and official nature, had
ever shown himself ready to do whatever he could for
the benefit for the Corporation, to the funds of which
he had been a most liberal subscriber. He need not
add that he referred to the Noble Earl who had done
them the honour to preside on that occasion, and to
whom their best thanks were due for his kindness in
having found time, amidst other duties, to do so.
" The health of the Earl of Haddington" having
been drunk with appropriate honours,
The NOBLE EARL, in acknowledging the toast, ex-
pressed a hope that every St. Andrew's Day would It
as well attended as the present; and concluded by
proposing " The health of the Duchess of Sutherland,
and the Ladies Patronesses," which, with the toast of
" The Duke of Buccleugh," was drunk with much
applause ; as was also that of " Vice-Presidents of the
Society."
The Noble CNAIRMAN then rose, mid said that he
was anxious to propose to the Company
the health of
a gentleman who had long filled, to the advantage of
their valuable Society, the useful office of its treasurer.
—(Cheers.) It was the business of treasurers in ge-
neral to give themselves no more trouble than they
pleased, and to content themselves with the simple
discharge of the duties of their office ; but such, how-
ever, was not the case with Mr. Fraser, whose addi-
tional services had been most valuable to the Associa-
tion, and for which he had no other motive than the
exercise of his natural generosity and humanity.—
(Hear.) He (the Chairman) well knew, that among
the other modes by which he benefited their Society,
there:was one branch of his duties which gave him
(Mr. Fraser) considerable trouble, and that was the
exertions which he annually put forth in securing the
patronage for the Caledonian ball, which had become
a great favourite with the ladies, with whom also it
might be some consolation to his Honourable Friend
to know that he was equally a favourite himself.—
(Cheers and laughter.) He would give them the
health of the " Hon. W. Fraser, of Saltoun."

Mr. FRASER, in returning thanks, briefly expressed
his acknowledgments of the honour conferred upon
him, and the pleasure it had given him to do the
humble duties he had performed sincehisconneicio
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of Lady Haddington, whose exertions in behalf of the
Association demanded their gratitude.
Lord HADDINGTON returned thanks.
The NOBLE EARL then rose to propose the health
of as brave a soldier as ever Scotland sent forth to
fight the battles of his country. Lord Saltoun—
(Cheeri)—had served under his itn.mortal captain, the
Duke of Wellington, in the Peninsula, and finished
his services under the same Illustrious Commander at
Waterloo, where he gallantly sustained the difficult
defence of Hougoumont.—(Cheers.) His name had
now again to be mentioned with honour and distinc-
tion in connection with the attack of a place of which
he (Lord Haddington) could not exactly recollect the
name--(A laugh,—lt was, however, that at which

the last battle in China took place, where their noble
and gallant countryman had borne so full a share of
the honour of the day.—(Cheers.) He would, there-
fore,_ give them the " Health of Lord Saltoun."
The toast was drunk with marked enthusiasm.
The Hon. W. FRASER, in returning thanks for his
Noble brother, assured the company of his gratitude
for the, kind manner in which his health had been pro='
posed and received, and. Said that the-greatesepleasure
which his family could, in his absence, feel, was in the
hope that they might soon have the pleasure of seeing
him among them again.—(Cheers.)
The Earl of lIADDINGTON next gave, " The health
of the Secretary, Mr. Auld," who would, he regretted
to say, on that occasion, announce the list of their
subscriptions for the last time.—(Hear.) That duty
he had performed for 26 successive years, and he
(Lord Haddington) would take the opportunity of his
retirement from the office to say that, during the many
long years he had known him, he had ever found him
a most kind-hearted and intelligent man, and a faith-
ful and most useful servant of the corporation.—
(Cheers.) He proposed the " Health of Mr. Auld."
The toast having been drunk in a manner which
must have been highly gratifying to the feelings of
that gentleman,

Mr. Aura), in acknowledging it briefly alluded to
the long period during which he had held the office of
Secretary to the Society, and referred with just pride
to the prosperous state of its funds at present, in com-
parison to their amount when he first joined the Asso-
ciation.—(Cheers.) Mr. Auld then, with much emo-
tion, bade the Society farewell—wishing health, hap-
piness, long life, and prosperity to the members of the
company present, among whom he recognised many
of the warmest friends of the Corporation.—(Cheers.)
Some other toasts having been drunk, a list of sub-
scriptions was announced, amounting to about 350/.,
and after a highly convivial evening the company se-
parated.

PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL
STEAM NAVIGATION COMPAN Y.

The Second Annual General Meeting of the Di-
rectors and Proprietors in this Company was held on
Wednesday at their offices, 51, St. Mary Axe, for the
purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, and
agreeing to a dividend on the shares in the Company.
Sir JOHN CAMPBELL took the Chair, and the Se-
cretary, Mr. James Allan, having read the adver-

I tisement,
The CHAIRMAN rose to submit the Directors' Re-
port to the meeting. The Report stated that the ba-
lance of profits on the 30th Sept., 1841, amounted to
58,6821. 13s. 7d., out of which had been provided the
sum of 12,3331. 6s. Bd., as premiums for insuring the
ships of the Company for the year ending on that
date. The dividend of 34 per cent. declared last May
amounted to 11,8091. 3s. 6d., had also to be deducted
from the profits alluded to, and the surplus of profit
left available on the 30th September, 1842, therefore
amounted to 34,539/. 13s. sd. There was a gradual
increase in the gross receipts this year over that
of last, which the Directors were not prepared
to expect, from the depressed state of commerce dur-
ing the last 12 months. It would be recollected that
in May, 1842, it was resolved that 150,0001. should
be insured on the floating property for the third year
of the Company's operations, commencing October,
1842. The Directors, however, availing them-
selves of the discretionary power vested in their
hands at the last general meeting, had thought
it prudent to increase the amount to be insured to

' 230,0001. They had adopted this precaution under
the impression that it would be satisfactory to the
Proprietors to know that their property was thus pro-
tected. It was nevertheless the desire of the Direc-
tors still to proceed with caution, under the assurance
(which the experience of the past justified them in
entertaining) that by annual appropriation out of the
profits a surplus would accumulate available for an
insurance fund, to which premiums of insurance now
annually paid away to other parties, might hereafter
be added by the Company and invested in available
securities, so as annually to increase the fund in ques-
tion.—(Hear.) The Company's new iron steam-ship
the Pacha, was now ready for sea,-and promised to be
fully adequate to the wants of the trade. During the
past year the Company had frequently been under the
necessity of chartering ships, but now they were
wholly independent of such expensive aid, and the re-
gularity of the mail service had been frequently no-
ticed by Government in a gratifying manner.— (Hear,
hear.) When the Directors met at their last half-
yearly meeting their-attention was drawn to the sub-
ject of the claim on the Government, which the Di-
rectors intended to follow up, in consequence of their
being still required to send the Company's vessels to
Falmouth for the outward mails for India, which it
was contemplated would only continue for a
short time after the contract was entered into
originally. The Directors had succeeded in estab-
lishing their claim, and the Government had agreed
to pay an additional sum of 2,000/. per annum, so
long as this additional service was required to be per-
formed by the Company. The Government had re-
leased the Company, on liberal terms, from keeping
up a semi -monthly communication between Malta and
the lonian Isles. The Report then went on to state,
that the new ship Hindostan had arrived safe in Cal-
cutta, and the passengers appeared to approve highly
of her accommodation. The passage money received
was 6,2501. It would be satisfactory to the propri-
etors to know that the instalments which had not yet
been called for, were fully sufficient to meet all the
existing engagements of the Company, including the
contracts for the completion of the vessels ; out of the

instalments ,called up amounting to 128,2381., only
4901. remained unpaid. It was scarcely necessary to
state to the Proprietors that the entire property of the
Company was wholly unencumbered. The inter-
course of passengers to and from India, during the
year ending Sept. 30, 1842, had increased conside-
rably. In the first year the number, via Egypt, did
not exceed 573; now there were 800.—(Bear, hear.)
In order to facilitate the transit through Egypt,
which embraced a distance of 250 miles, the Di-
rectors had placed two efficient steam-packets
on the Nile, with two iron luggage-boats. The Di-
rectors, however, were still unable to say that the con-
veyance across the Desert from Cairo to Suez (a dis-
tance of 84 miles), was made as convenient to pas-
*sengers as it ought ere this to have been. This was
owing to the parties who Lad hitherto been connected
with that branch of conveyance neglecting to place
this part of the transit on an equally improved foot-
ing. Every facility had been promised and given to
the Company by his Highness the Pacha. His High-
ness had granted the Company firmans for navigating
both the Nile and the Canal by steam, had established
telegraphs across the Desert, and was now taking
measures to erect a coal depot at Alexandria, and a
large hotel at Suez, at the expense of the Egyptian
Government, the former for the Company's use, and
the latter for the accommodation of the passengers.
The Company had sent out Captain J. R. Engledue
to Calcutta, to represent the Company there, and the
East India Company had consented to afford them
whatever facilities their establishment at Calcutta ad-
mitted of, without impeding their own public ser-
vice, in effecting the repairs of this Company's ves-
sels. The Report, after recommending a dividend of
34- per cent. for the half-year, concluded in these
words :—" In concluding this Report, the Directors
cannot forbear to congratulate the Proprietors on the
prdspect of increased prosperity to the undertaking,
which the recent brilliant successes of the British
arms in the East have opened up. The settlement
of affairs in the north of India, the establishment of
peace, and the extension of our commercial relations
with China, are events which must obviously lead to
an increased intercourse with these countries, and a
consequent enlargement of the resources of the great
enterprise in which we are embarked."
The CHAIRMAN having made a few general obser-
vations on the Report, it was adopted, and ordered to
be circulated amongst the Proprietors. A statement
of the accounts was submitted, from which it appeared
that the balance remaining in favour of the Company
was 34,539/. 13s. sd, which would be appropriated to
the payment of the dividend.
A PROPRIETOR then proposed that' the sum of
1,000/. should be divided amongst the unpaid Direc-
tors, as a recompense for their exertions in behalf of
the Company.
Sir JOHN PIRIE thought it would be better to leave

the consideration of this question until another year,
as the present unpaid Directors were self-elected. At
the end of the next year the Proprietors would have
an opportunity of electing fresh Directors, and then
it would, perhaps, be better able to consider this

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question.
The Ch intimAil concurred with Sir J. Pixie, and
the motion was withdrawn.
Mr. POTTS said he wished to call the attention of
the Chairman and Directors to an article which had
appeared in the Railway Magazine. In it there were
certain charges brought against the Directors, and he
wished to know if they had been noticed by the
Board. The first charge was, that the Directors bad
sold, or rather forced sales, of a very great portion, if
not of all, of their shares in this Company, to certain
parties, over whom they had influence, having made

it a condition of sale that they should hold the proxies
' of those shares to use as they pleased, so that they sat
mid controlled the affairs of the Company, having
either none, or a very small stake in the concern. The
names of these Directors, they understood, to be Mr.
Bourne and Mr. Hartley.
The CHAIRMAN said the article had been noticed by
' the Directors, and he was glad they had an opportu-
nity of answering it. So far from the Directors hav-
ing acted as imputed, none of them were holders of
proxies at all.—(Hear, hear.) So much confidence had
Mr. Hartley in the Company, that he had increased
his shares to I,loo.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. Ports said the next charge was, that the trade
in cattle from Vigo was completely monopolised by
Mr. B. A. Wilcox, son of the senior Managing Di-
rector ; or that the Managing Directors themselves
were enlisted in this traffic. In corroboration of this
rumour, it was affirmed that a gentleman having ap-
plied at the Company's offices, to know the freight of
some cattle from Vigo, received for answer that they
could not bring any, and that no freight had been
fixed, yet it was said they did carry cattle to and
from Vigo.
The CHAIRMAN said that, in answer to that, he
begged to say that the short stay at Vigo, only two
hours, and frequently at night, rendered it impossible
for the Company to come under any engagement to
bring cattle. In all cases- where cattle had come, it
had been through Mr. Wilcox, as 'agent of the Com-
pany, and the freight was carried entirely to the profit
of this Company.
Mr. POTTS said the third rumour was, that all the
Mediterranean and Peninsular parcels were taken to
this same son's offices. and the public thereby taxed
6d. or ls., or more, extra on each package.
The CHAIRMAN said that certainly the parcels went
to Mr. Wilcox's office the same way as they went to
Mr. Waghorn's, Messrs. Harvey, Tucket, and Co.,
and others, and Gd. was charged for booking and
agency, as they did not feel themselves responsible for
the parcels until they were shipped at Southampton,
when the responsibility fell on the Company.
-Mr. POTTS—The fourth rumour was, that sin
Mr. Charlton had come into the direction the vess ce
had all been repaired at Liverpool, and such new vols
sels as had since come out had been built and fites
there ; as for instance, the Lady Mary Wood, ted
Hindostan. A third vessel, of 1,800 tons, was now
building there. This Mr. Charlton once belonged to
the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, and after-
wards to the Transatlantic Company, both Liverpool
concerns.

Tlie CHAIRMAN said that all the ships were not
built in Liverpool; nor were they all fitted out there.
The Lady Mary Wood was fitted at Liverpool, but
she was fitted out by Mr. Simpson, of Charing-cross,
who was sent down to do so. The same vessel re-
cently met with an accident in coming from the
Peninsula to this country, and she was placed on the
slips at Cowes. The vessels Bentinck and Hindostan
were built at Liverpool, because the Liverpool tenders
were more advantageous to the Company than the
London tenders.

Mr. POTTS said the Magazine went on to ask how
it was the Company had no vessel in the Mediterra-
nean, to carry on the mails from Malta to the lonian
Islands, and how did the Company manage with the
Government about it ? Why had the Braganza been
laid up for nearly three months to have new boilers,
and to the present time nothing had been done to
her? Why had the Pacha, a new iron steamer, an-
other of the Company's vessels, lain so long idle at
Greenock, and the repairs of the Lady Mary Wood
been only just begun? Was it possible that a Com-
pany dividing 7 per cent. was short of the needful, or
was the whisper true, that there were certain shares
to some considerable extent paid for, not in bankers'
promissory-notes but in private promissory-notes,
which now lay in the banker's box, and had never
been taken um? _ _ _

The CHAIR- .‘l. AN said that the communication be-
tween the lonian Islands and Malta had been stopped
with the consent of her Majesty's Government, owing
to the slight amount of traffic between the two places.
The Braganza's boilers were made and paid for, but
as the vessel would not be required till the spring, it
was considered more advisable not to have the boilers
put in until the days became longer. The Paella
would not leave. Greenock where she was built, until
next spring, and with respect to the Lady Mary
Wood she had been repaired, and was now actually
running on the line. With respect to the shares of
the Company having been purchased by promissory
notes, he could tell them that every share that had
been sold had been paid for in hard cash. He (the
Chairman) congratulated the meeting and his col-
leagues on this subject having been brought forward,
as it had not been their intention to involve them-
selves in a newspaper controversy. It had not been
their object to conceal anything from the Proprietary,
and he trusted that these reports had originated rather
in ignorance than malevolence to the Company.

AT PROPRIETOR wished to know how it ;Vas that
the shares were at a discount, when the Company was
paying 7 per cent.
The CHAIRMAN said the reason he supposed was
the depression in all steam property, and unfounded
reports which had got abroad that the Company was
embarrassed, and had been obliged to borrow 8,0001.
A DIRECTOR said there were two classes of shares,
those paid up in full, and those on which only four
instalments had been paid. The shares paid up in
full were selling last week at a premium, and it was
the other sort of shares that sold at a discount.
Mr. POTTS then proposed a vote of confidence in the
Directors, which was seconded, and carried una-
nimously.
A vote of thanks was then carried to the Chairman,
who briefly acknowledged the compliment, and the
meeting separated.

TIIE NEW ROYAL EXCIIANGE.—At the last meet-
ing of the Gresham Committee, which was held on Fri-
day, the 25th inst., designs were laid before them
of by
several sculptors, for ornamenting the pediment
the portico of the national edifice with sculpture.
The sum voted for this purpose by the Committee is
no less than three thousand guineas. After a most
careful examination of the designs, the artists were
respectively admitted to a personal interview with the
Committee, to explain their own intentions and views
in the composition. On a ballot being taken, the de-
sign proposed by Mr. Richard Westmacott, A.R.A.,
was chosen, and he was appointed to carry the work
into effect. Notices have also been given by the City
authorities for pulling down the mass of buildings in
front of the Bank known as Bank-buildings) in the
course of the spring, and that space, when cleared, is
to be the site for the statue of the Duke of Welling-
ton, immediately in front of the great portico of the
Exchange. The progress mado in the building itself
is,most astonishingly great, reflecting the highest credit
upon Mr. 'rite, the architect, and the contractor. In
the course of next year the work will be in great for-
wardness, and it will certainly be finished in the sum-
mer of the following year. The sculpture of the pedi-
ment, Mr. Westmacott undertakes to complete by the
Ist of May, 1844. So far as the building goes, it gives
great satisfaction ; and the edifice promises to be wor-
thy of its situation, and the purposes to which it is to
be applied.

THE INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.—In consequence
of the glorious news from China, by the conclusion of
peace with his Celestial Majesty, and a treaty of com-
merce with Great Britain, the most beneficial results are
anticipated by the merchants in the City, Bristol, Liver-
pool, Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield,
Leeds, and other manufacturing towns. It is confidently
stated that arrangements are about being made by
Government to ensure the earliest conveyance of
letters to Hong-Kong, Canton, Nankin, and the
different ports of China, through India, by the
monthly overland mail via Marseilles and Egypt,
and by the way of Falmouth. It is in contem-
plation to have a regular communication between Cal-
butte, Madras, and China, by steam-packets, which will
b e a great desideratum, as hitherto the transmission of
intelligence to and from China and this country has
been chiefly confined to merchant ships by way of the
Cape of Good Hope. The postage on letters. to India
via Falmouth, is now a uniform rate of ls. ; by the
monthly•closed mail, via Marseilles, 2s. Bd. ; and if ad-
dressed by French packets leaving that port on the
Ist, 11th, and 21st of the month for Alexandria,
33. 84d. per single letter. The new Post-office arra nge-
ments,between England and France, for a reduction in
the postage of letters going to and through that country
fro the United Kingdom, and vice versa, which has
just been concluded by the Right Hon. Lord Lowther,
the Postmaster-General, and the French Government,
will be highly beneficial to the mercantile interests of
both countries. The next mail to Malta, Egypt, and
India will be made up this dayat the General Post-
office, and be forwarded by the Great Liverpool steamer
via Falmouth, and the overland mail via Marseilles on
Monday next, December 5. All letters must be pre-
paid, also newspapers, the postage on which is 2d.
DETERMINED SUICIDE 'AT HASTINGS.—On Mon-
day afternoon a most determined suicide was com-
mitted by one of the men belonging to the Coast
Guard service. It appears that, while on duty on the
beach under the East llill, Hastings, he was observed
by some persons at a distance to place his musket
against his side and discharge it. On running to his
assistance, it was found that the ball had passed
through his heart, killing him on the spot. The un-
fortunate man has left a wife and eight children.

ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN.
LIVEROOL, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
The fine steam-ship Great Western, Captain
Hoskins, arrived from New York to-day, at noon,
after an excellent passage of twelve days. She
brings twenty-six passengers, and advices two
days later than the Caledonia.
Santa Anna, it appears, is in bad health—so
bad that he had been compelled to retire to his
country seat, issuing a proclamation to the effect
that he would resume the active duties of his
office as soon as his health permitted. In the
meantime he is determined to proceed with
vigour against Texas and Yucatan. An expedi-
tion against the latter place left Vera Cruz on
the 19th October ; and advices from Galveston
to the beginning of November, represent the
whole population of the infant Republic as being
well organized, and ready for the reception of
the invaders. The forces of the latter in Texas
are said to amount to 3,000. The Mexican Con-
gress, much to the annoyance of Santa Anna,
had negatived a second time a proposition for
the amendment of the Constitution. The oppo-
sition came from the Federalists, and this cir-
cumstance is adduced as showing that the power
and the authority of the Mexican Dictator had
already begun to totter.
We have no further accounts from Canada
respecting the health of the Governor-General.
Mr. Murney, who defeated, it will be remem-
bered, the new Attorney-General for Canada,
Mr. Baldwin, for York county, had been dis-
missed from the situation he held as a Justice of
the Peace, and Mr. Murney, in a long letter to
the Governor-General, resented the affront by
resigning the office he held, as a Major in um
Caledonia Militia.
Business matters remained in the same state
at New York us when the advices by the Cale-
donia left—every- thing dull, and people looking
forward with considerable anxiety to the open-
ing of Congress in the beginning of December.
LATEST FROM TEXAS.
By the steam-packet Neptune, arrived at Now
Orleans on the 6th inst., we have full files of papen,
and dates from Houston to the 2d, and Galveston to
the 4th inst.
General Woll and his army have continued their
retreat, and at last advices the spies had discovered
the Mexican army, numbering about 3,000, at the
Presidio del Rio Grande, fortifying. The spy company
had driven in 3,000 head of cattle, which the Mexi •
cans attempted to drive off in their retreat.
The people of Texas are incited by a lively desire
for revenge and justice upon the Mexicans. At Hous-
ton, men of all classes have enrolled thmselves. Even
a minister of the Gospel (Rev. Mr. Huckins) has at-
tached himself to one of the companies, believing the
protection of his country, his home, and his family,
is not incompatible with his holy profession. In Li-
berty, Harris, Jasper, and other eastern counties, the
militia are ready to turn out at the word.
There are now 1,245 troops in the field as follows :
200 at Sass Antonio; 350 under Colonel Bennett, at•
the crossing of the St. Marks; 50 from Fort' end,
under Captain Gibson ; and 200 from Washington,
two miles above the crossing; 50 thirteen miles 'east
of Seguin, under Lieut. Lubbock ; 50 with no com-
mander, about four miles from the St. Marks; 70
from Brazoria, at Peach Creek, near Mrs. M'Clure's ;
and 200 from Bastrop and Travis counties, between
Austin and San Antonio, under General Burleson.
There are also with General Burleson 40 Tonkeway
Indians ; and 50 Lipans, ten miles east of Gonzales,
are waiting to join him.
Many of the French emigrants arrived last spring
at Matagorda, have been sick, and several have died
during the summer.
Four British men of war touched at Velasco few
days since, and took in a supply of beef, &c. They
were bound it is said for the Mexican coast.
The schooner Eliza, last from Galveston, was
wrecked at the mouth of the Brazos a few days ago.
She had a cargo of $lB,OOO worth of goods for Messrs.
Smith and Adriance, which are a total loss to the
owners, as they were not insured.—N. 0. Bulletin.
FROM MEXICO.
The New Orleans Bulletin has dates from Mexico
city to the 15th, and from Vera Cruz to the 19th ult.,
being 15 days later than previous intelligence. The
expedition against Yucatan sailed on the last of the
above dates, under the general command of Don Jose
Vincent Minon. General Bravo has taken upon him-
self the responsibilities of the Executive office, and
President Santa Anna has retired to his plantation for
the benefit of his health, which had became enfeebled.
In a proclamation to the nation he promises, as soon
as his health shall permit, to resume the Executive
functions in accordance with the expressed public will.
MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
Nov. 16.—A fair amount of business was trans-
acted in State Stocks this morning. State Five per
Cents. advanced per cent., and Kentucky
State Sevens sold at a decline ofl.
Southern Exchanges were dull, with but little va
riation in rates.
Our Stock Market shows a decided improvement
in the Stocks of the State and city, their rates having
gradually advanced from 1 to 3 per cent. Ohio, Ken-
tucky, and Pennsylvania Loans have also advanced,
and a better feeling may be said to pervade the market
generally, though no disposition is evinced to specu-
late; the purchases made are altogether for invest-
ments. There is a total absence for all foreign demand.
Money is still quite abundant, though the amount
of paper caused by the renewal of business in the
south gives employment to more of our banking capital.
Foreign Exchanges have been in fair demand at
our quotations, and the departure of two steamers has
left the market rather bare at present. The supply of
paper from the south has thus fitr been limited ; but as
shipments have commenced, and exchange there on
the north is becoming equalised, we think it probable
the supply will soon increase considerably, which will
scarcely be met by a corresponding demand—the fall
business being now pretty much over.
In commerce generally, we are sorry to say the
same stagnation prevails as before, and the period of
its revival can only he a matter of vague conjecture.
UNITED STATES SECURITIES.
Offd.
United States Loan Five-and-a-Half, 1844 97 Aged.
Do. Sixes, 1844 ..
Do. do. 1862 - 101

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STATE SECURITIES.
New
.York State Seven per Cent., 1848-49. 102 sales
n Do. Five-and-a-Halt; 1860.61-65
Do. Fives, 1845 92 96
Do. do. 1846-47-48-49 B5 88
Do. do. 1850-51-53.
Do. do. 1859-60-61
Do. Four-and-a-Half, 1849 7O 75
Ohio Sixes, 1850
do. 1856-60 7ll 71i
Do. Fives, 1850 6O 65
Do. do. 1856 GO 65
Kentucky Sixes 761- 77
1)o. Fives 6l 64
Illinois Sixes, 1870
Indiana (Sterling) Fives, 25 years l9l. 21
Do. (Dollar) Fives, 25 years 19:1 20-1
Do. do. do. 50 years l9i
Arkansas Bonds, Six per cent. 25 years 2B 34
Alabama Fives
Do. Sixes
Pennsylvania State Fives 43 sales
Cotton is in fair demand-450 bales were sold this
morning at yesterday's prices.
Ashes are dull—ss 371- to $5 50 for Pots, and $5 87i
to $5 94 for Pearls.
FOREIGN EXCHANGES.
London
France 5 42 to 5 40
Amsterdam 3E4 to 381
llamburgh 34i to 34Bremen ...

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THE RELIANCE.—We regret to say some of the
bodies were placed, naked, in holes, not two feet deep.
in the churchyards. This should not have been, and
we trust will never occur again. They were, however,
dug up, and received Christian burial, followed to the
grave by those of their comrades who had been more for-
tunate than themselves. The hull of the vessel was sold
for 180/., and the tea, upon an average, at 33f. the box.
The following bodies have been picked up on the coast
during the past week :--Mr. Legge and F. A. Blake,
Capt. Tucker's servant, and two seamen. News has ar-
rived this morning of another body being cast on shore,
and from the'description of the clothes it would seem to
be that of Capt. Tucker.—Boulogne Gazette of Monday.
We have to announce the death of Lady Patteson,
the wife of that most excellent, humane, and learn-d
Judge, Mr. Justice Patteson. Although his Lordship
has, for several years, laboured under the harassing and
increasing impediment of deafness (now permanent) in
the discharge of his important duties, often requiring- at
nisi prius the utmost acuteness in hearing, yet he lits
hitherto been esteemed one of the best practical Judges
in Westminster-hall. lie was promoted in 1830 ; and,
having served his country for twelve years, we are sure
that the public could not grudge his full pension, if
this family affliction, which he feels most sensitively,
be taken as the proper time for his retirement from
the Bench.

METROPOLITAN IMPROTEMENTS.-The list of Com-
missioners appointed by her Majesty for inquiring
into and considering the most effectual means of im-
I)0
rovino• the metropolis, and of providing increased fa-
cilities of communication within the same, will appear
in the Gazette this evening.
ANOTHER CASE.--Mr. Benjamin Wilson, an inde-
pendent, worthy farmer, living in the easterly part of
this town, has been made insane by the fanatical
Millerites. There are others, we learn, in that region
who are but little better off than Mr. Wilson. The
howlings of these deluded people, in a still evening
can be heard for miles.—Fall River Argus.

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