The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-28 00:00:00

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Cheltenham and Crest 1,1
Eastern Counties RaiEva
Groat Western, (65 pair
Ditto New Shares (5(
Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid) 34*
London and Birmingham (90) ......
Ditto Quarter Shares (25 paid) 473
Ditto Thirds (32 paid)
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) ...) 10
Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid)..... 213
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
Paris and Rouen (18 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid)... —
Ditto Scrip (15 paid) ••• 12
York and North Midland (50 paid) ...
36L
Ditto New Shares (20 paid)

trestern (80 paid)... 20
ty (23 i.aid) ..... 8.1
)
paid)... ...... 584

ROYAL MAIL STEAM-PACKET
COMPANY.—(THIS DAY.)
(Continued, from our Afternoon Edition.)
'I he DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN justified the conduct of
Via, Directors on various particulars referred to by
Liggins.
Dr. BOWRING supported the resolution for an in-
ry into the affairs of the Company. That was
the only course which could put an end to
interminable dissensions and discussions. It was but
natural to ask for such an inquiry in the
c:re of a Company which had commenced
-m:der such-brilliant auspices, but whose affairs were
:.!,)w in such a deplorable condition. No one wished
t cast any stigma on the Chairman or the Directors
sonally; but he hoped they would feel it their duty
..to accede to a motion for an investigation into the
'Airs of the Company which had so unfortunately
llisappointed the expectations of the Proprietors.
Air. BARCLAY also supported the motion for in-
qulry. It was an honest and a fair motion; and if it
1i ere not acceded to, he should bring forward another
res=olution to the effect that the Company should be
1.1-oken up as soon as possible.
Mr. CoLEswoitrir, a Director, said that the appoint-
rant of such a committee of inquiry as had been
inoved for, would be a suspension of that executive
•‘. hich now presided over their affairs.— (Hear, hear,
no.) He contended that it would be equivalent
such a suspension, and that that would bring about
Vie breaking up of the Company altogether, and
such a breaking up would cause an entire
Ass of the capital embarked in the undertaking. Let
ficm allow the pre3ent manageMent to continue, and
I.c!fore six months the Directors would pledge them-
:, ,Ives to convene another meeting, to which they
uld fully explain the condition and prospects of
V:e Company. Their position was not even now as
ttesperate as many seemed to imagine. He believed that
the rext six months they could work the concern
t a profit. He was ready candidly to acknowledge
tL.at the Directors had been mistaken in their original
estimate s, both of the receipts and of the expenditure.
- —(Hear.) He admitted,too, that some of the servants
they had employed had disappointed their expectations.
Litt thane errors in an undertaking so vast and so
rovel were not to be wondered at. The Directors
'Pre anxims to redeem the mistakes into which they
been betrayed ; and he trusted that the Proprie-
t )-es wotld not now refuse them their confidence for
tk.e nix; six months.
Several Proprietors, who seemed apprehensiie that
Ile appointment of a Committee of Inquiry would
It to a breaking up of the Company, spoke in favour
u," the original motion.
In reply to a question from a PROPRIETOR,
Mr. COLESWORTH stated that no call should be
r.aele on the CoMpany before the next general meet-
if, g, except -the call of ten per cent. for expenses
tii:•eady incurred.
The amendment of Mr. Liggins, for a Committee of
I icuiry consisting of seven Proprietors, was then put,
a 416 hands held up in its favour.
The original :solution was next put, and the rest
a. ii:e meeting-, or about 70 Proprietors, held up their
ii .Ic:s—in support of it.
The original resolution was then declared to be
c cer:ed.
A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman,
a. '1 the meeting separated.

HE. THANKSGIVING PRAYER.
The following is the Prayer of Thanksgiving
t,...-Iltnighty God, for the great blessing which,
i!n,- His mercy and goodness, He has vouchsafed
to -this nation, in the late abundant harvest, to be
u.;ed at Morning and Evening- Service, after the
C eneral Thanksgiving in all churches and chapels
in England and Wales, and in the town of Ber-
v:;:k-on-Tweed, on Sunday, the 24:1 of October
n At, as ordered by her Majesty in Council :
•• 0 God, through whose good Providence the
e..,-th yieldeth food for the sustenance of man, we
oifer unto Thee our hearty thanksgivings for Thy
lat., mercy vouchsafed to us, in blessing the la-
b urs of our husbandmen with plentiful increase,
a i preserving the fruits of the field for our use.
C ,ve us grace, we humbly beseech Thee, that
'QV !iilst we receive Thy bounty with thankfulness,
M. may regard the blessing bestowed on us as a
e:.11 to repentance, and turn from the evil of our
11::1:,'S. Remove from amongst us all causes of
strive and contention; put an end to our un-
htz;:py divisions; and °rant that all conditions of
me I, impressed with e"the fear of Thy judgments,
at trusting in Thy fatherly "Care, may faith-
ft„ ly serve Thee, in loyalty to their Sovereign, in
o• -*Hence to the laws, in kindlfaffeciionone to
a :tiler, and in dutiful resignation to Thy will;
t; t so, under the guidanc. of Thy Holy Spirit,
v may pass through this world in peace and
c itentment, and finally by Thy mercy attain
e- Yrlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
A : en."

ti-IRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS D 4.
..iLOBE.—Sir Robert Peel stands in Y.
p
Pr. cli the position of Master Blifil between
pretty
P. arson Thwaeltunz and Philosopher Square.vee
71 tse who remember Fielding's novel are aware
tit: t the young Peel of its pages alternately pro-
fes ed himself indebted to the instructions of one
oi' other of these worthies, according as the one
0): other was ' present, and, when both were
p. sent, held strict silence—a silence which
et. interpreted in the young Peel's favour
aml his own. The political' 'Blifil, however,
has a still harder part to play. He is continually
confronted with the Parson and the Philosopher
at ,:rice ; and is constrained to adapt his- profes-
ak is, as he can, to the simultaneous satisfaction
4.J7the furious orthodoxy of the one, and the
ternal fitness :of things," of the other. Be-
t‘l 'en, the high Church and Horned Beast in-
te„:„restis, espoused by the Times and Post, and the
tk.er ',,e-,. L'iratcle,of the Westminster Review or Spec-
a fine time of it. The Times
re resenting.p l/:)S.
h:, •.. now souk to
Parson Thwachum, the Standard
Parson Supple, and has lost
all -,spirit to r • Maynooth grants, Irish
l'f. tionai Education,es'B t
Ti wachum, howev or anything. Parson
.1 for episcopacy, and
bates not an inch of that
lir education, whicaittid resolution to monopo-
pr :totype. All that was
iI distinguish his novel
avever good in the boy
P
I he declares to have from him, and
th‘ pestilent lessons of P
rei _tit in nothing but puttings°}l!her Square can
to the trouble
birch. Birch of ~ xtirpating them front the mun't oof iusupc
uurpdi
.l
by lie a- posteriori logic of
jug v, in the shape of very bitiwp
Ti) e.!.s and the Post daily administer diatribes, the
131 V, on High Chinch and Hornedtoß"r State
re -,s. Then comes the Spectator weekly, east
line-
n t!utin.qer quarterly, admonishing hllland the
R a gal "rule of ricrla," and "eternal fitness of
th. :::;;". and vindicating, as they may, their share
in' in/ 4 .slippery pupil, who takesoccasion to slide out
al :..e -trade or universal-education phrase or two,
wl:e t the Parson's head happens to be turned
t,ot :er way for a moment. Pursuing the parallel,
uu
7 lord Johnny. (as those who nibble at the
her er of 0 • •
il , , .. PPositton, indulging in an innocent
d c :Luttve, think fit to style him). shall be Tom
fn ':',,'",- " Finality'? shall be any of that hero's
scrapes our readersthink
G, '''re is proper. Black
. O'Connell • and " the Appropriation
Pr ,:etple" Molly S g' The excellent All-
-200 .thy, of cou.irefai- rirn.
Course, is Bull; and Sophia
TV stern—a Lady not in levity. The
del "dement will show whetherine plain or plausible
der ling is ultimately to mi
. ick,ANDARD. The win the day.
has seized upon a trifling
..,,, and obvious
Chronicle
letter,vious misprint
in ( ,n. remarks on Colonel Fane'so
;,:iipt i us a charge of inconsistency,
„ the •e is no foundation in fact. It infers
f- bet . use the word- any paeific ar;nfers
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► were substituted for " a pacific arrangement," it,
we intended to suggest the ranson of the female
prisoners in the bans of Akhbar Khan—a course
which we have stigmatised as dishonourable.
Thera are Other "pacifi arrangements" than thatot
purchasing these ladies like so many head of slaves
from their captors. It has been asserted in the
Indian papers—with what truth we cannot pre-
tend to judge—that on the withdrawal of the
British forces from Affghanistan the prison-
ers of all descriptions will be given up; and if
any such order have been really issued, it has, in
all probability, been given with some such
guarantee. At whatever national dishonour the
female prisoners of Akbar Khan are released,
however, short of purchasing them like
slaves, it must be submitted to; but in pro-
portion to the amount of that disgrace will
be the infamy of those who have left
it, among other legacies of equal value,
to their successors. What we did say
.on the
day referred to by the Morning Chronicle was
this :—" Suppose the British army . occupying
the whole soil of Afkhanistan, and threatening
to waste it with fire and sword, unless the
British prisoners should be restored; the savage
chief might, and probably would, smile at
the threat, or even at its execution, and
carry his prey into the . desert, waiting
there some proposition personally advan-
tageous to himself." This entirely accords
with the message which Colonel Fane has
anticipated from Akbar Khan in the event
of the movement so strenuously recom-
mended by the Morning Chronicle. But lie
tells us that which we had not learned from any
other isource, namely, that the Commander of
the Forces, anticipating the consequences that
might result from the presence of females with
the army in such a campaign, had peremptorily
forbidden them to join it. Who was it, Wien.,
that rendered this wise and humane injunction
inoperative ? The " civil authorities," with
whom, in fact, the whole of our disasters in that
country have originated. That which the expe-
rience of an old and intelligent officer like Sir
Henry Fane clearly foresaw, was wholly impel..
vious to the prophetic vision of the " politicals."

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
WAR-OFFICE, SEPT. 27.
Ist Regiment of Life Guards—Cornet and Sub-Lieute-
nant Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart., to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Allen, who retires ; Ensign 'l'. G. Lord Ula-
mis, from the 69th Foot, to be Cornet and Sub-Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Sir W. W. Wynn, Sept. 27.
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Lieut. B.£l. R. H.
Vyse to be Captain, by purchase, vice Corbet, who re-
tires ; Cornet C. H. G. Lennox, Earl of March, to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Vyse ; F. C. P. A. Stuart
Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Lord March,
Sept. 27.
4th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieut. W. 11.
Megan, from the 9th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant,
vice Francis, who exchanges, Sept. 27.
9th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieut. .T. J.
Francis, from the 4th Light Dragoons, vice Megan, who
exchanges, Sept. 27.
17th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Assistant-Surgeon
D. Cooper, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Leslie, who resigns, Sept. 2.
17th Regiment of Foot—Ensign L. J. M'Pherscn to
be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Baird, deceased,
May 30.
19th Foot—Lieut. F. Deacon to be Adjutant, vice
Calley, promoted, Sept. 27.
26th Foot—Ensign R. F. Synge to be Lieut., without
purchase, vice Sweeny, deceased, Sept. 26 ; Ensign H.
Quincey to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Hon. W. G.
Osborn, who retires ; F. J. Cresswell, Gent. to be
Enssign, by purchase, vice De Quincey, Sept. 27.
40th Foot—Ensign F. Huey to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Armstrong, deceased, March 5.
- 46th Foot—Lieutenant A. Maxwell to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Thompson, who retires ; Ensign A. R.
Garrett to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Maxwell ;
W. Hardy, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Garrett, Sept. 27.
63d Foot—Ensign W. G. L. Crowther to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Spier, deceased, May 25.
66th Foot—Colour-Sergeant M. Reiley to be Quarter-
master, vice W. Hornby, who retires upon half-pay,
Sept. 27.
69th Foot—D. S. Miller, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Lord Glamis, appointed to the Ist Regiment
of Life Guards, Sept. 27.
70th Foot—Brevet Major L. Grwme, from half-pay
unattached, to be Captain, vice J. J. Graham, who ex-
changes, receiving the difference.
72d Foot—Major W. H. Sperling, from half-pay unat-
tached, to be Major, vice F. hope, who exchanges,
receiving the difference ; Brevet Major H. Jervis to be
Major, by purchase, vice Sperling, who retires ; Lieut.
J. T. Hope to be Captain, by purchase, vice Jervis; En-
sign W. Parke to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hope;
J. S. Clark, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Parke, Sept. 27.
87th Foot—The Hon. R. W. D. Shirley to be Second
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Moore, promoted in the
41st Foot, Sept. 27.
93d Foot—Ensign C. Maxwell to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice T. M‘Knight Crawfurd, who retires ; J.
11. Barclay, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Max-
well, Sept. 27.
94th Foot—Lieut. C. 1). C. O'Brien, from the 63d
Foot, to be Capt., without purchase, vice Stoddard, de-
ceased, Sept. 27.
95th Foot—Lieut. J. R. Ford to be Adjutant, vice
Rogers, promoted ; Ensign G. J. Dowdall, to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, May 14.
97th Foot—Brevet Major G. Hutchison, to be Major,
without purchase, vice Cannon, who retires upon full-
pay, Sept. 27.
99th Foot—Lieut.-Col. H. Despard, from Inspecting
Field Officer of a Recruiting District, to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, vice J. G. Le Merchant, appointed an Inspect-
ing Field Officer of a Recruiting District, Sept. 27.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Lieut. J. Marchington, from
half-pay 13th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice
Ostheyden, promoted ; Second Lieutenant H. Lucas to
be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Marchington, who
retires ; H. Bird, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by
purchase. vice Lucas, Sept. 27.
PARTICULAR SERVICE.—Brevet Lieut. Col. P. Young,
from half-pay Unattached, to be Major on a particular
service in Canada, July 12.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk.
3d, or Eastern Regiment of Norfolk Militia.—The
Hon. Berkeley Wodehouse, late Major of the Bth Hus-
sars, to be Colonel, vice Lord Wodehouse, resigned,
Sept. 9.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
J. Stansbury, bookseller, St. Matthew's-place, Hack-
ney-road, Oct. 18, at half-past eleven—G. Stovell and
R. H. Maddox, upholsterers, Lower Grosvenor-street,
St. George, Hanover-square, Oct. 18, at one.
In the Country.

C. Parker, fiax•spinner, Houghton-le-Skerne, Dur-
ham, Oct. 18, at one, at the house of Mr. Peter Wilson,
Darlington-C. Dunderdale, merchant, Manchester,
Oct. t,.0, at twelve, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Man-
chester-R. Ferns, J. Langford, and J. Hadfield, mer-
chants, Manchester, Oct. 22, at one, at the Commission-
ers'-rooms, Manchester--T. Claughton, salt-manufac-
turer, Haydock-lodge, Lancashire, Oct. 21, at twelve, at
the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester-A. Barnard,
money-scrivener, Norwich, Oct. 18, at eleven, at the
Swan Inn, Norwich-R. and R. Steane, ribbon-manufac-
turers, Coventry, Oct. 22, at one, at the Craven Arms
Hotel, Coventry---J. Tollitt, bookseller, Liverpool, Oct.
21, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool-J. N.
Lane, druggist, Birmingham, Oct. 26, at two, at the Wa
terloo-rooms, Birmingham-W. R. Rayne, paper-manu-
facturer, Haughton, .Northumberland, Oct. 24, at twelve,
at the Bankrupt Commission-routu, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne-W. Yates, sen., iron-founder, Worcester, Oct. 19,
at cne, at the Waterloo-rooms, 13irmitigham-W. and
C. Burton, iron bedstead manufacturers, Birmingham,
Oct. 19, at twelve, at the Waterloo-rooms, Birmiiigham -W. Rolfe, grocer, Birmingham, Oct. 20, at twelve, at
the Waterloo-rooms, Birmingham-W. 'Wont, linen
draper, Ringwood, Southampton, Oct. 20, at eleven, at
the office of Mr. R. Davy, Ringwood-D. Hadingham,
linen. draper, Cambridge, Oct. 19, at one, at the Red
Lion, Cambridge-T. Dicken and E. Bromby, bankers,
Market Drayton, Shropshire, Oct. 31, at one, at the Cor-
bet Arms Hotel, Drayton in Hales-L. Frost, jun., and
S. Drinkwater, merchants, Liverpool, Oct. 22, at two, at
the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool-J. Clarke and T.
Parry, drysalters, Manchester, Oct. 21, at eleven, at the
Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester-S. Wilson and J.
Knight, builders, Radford, Nottinghamshire, Oct. 20, at
one, at the George the Fourth Inn, Nottingham-T.
Beal, hayman, Sandwich, Kent, Oct. 25, at seven, at the
Bell Inn, Sandwich-W. B. Mitchell, merchant, Shef-
field, Oct. 29, at one, at the Town-hall, Sheffield-J.
Gillott, slate merchant, Rotherham, Yorkshire, Oct. 20,
at one, at the Town-hall, Sheffield-J. Fogg and G. A.
F. Steen, merchants, Manehester, Oct. 29, at twelve, at
the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester-H. W. Jackson,
wine merchant, Haverhill, Essex, Oct. 18, at half-past
two, at the Rose and Crown Inn, Saffron Walden-C.
Htunberston and S. Frodsham, commission merchants,
Liverpool, Nov. 7, at two, at the Clarendon-rooms, Li-
verpool-W. Dickenson, T. and M. Goodall, and W.
Dickenson, jun., bankers, Birmingham, Oct. 22, at one,
at the Waterloo-rooms, Birmingham-T. and R. Hatch,
aayt
two,car-
calico printers, Eccleston, Lancashire, Nov. 21 at twelve,
at the
lampT Town-hall, Preston-John
Birmingham, Oct.
tt,ralllB7
at the Waterloo-rooms, Birmingham-Thomas Barter,
surgeon, Poole, Oct. 22, at one, at the Old Antelope Inn,
10l twelve,u6i
e-Benjamin
hmtine Guildhall,
pearso woolstapler,yorkn BOuert.g2es3s,
Eagles, provision-dealer, Coed-du, Cilcen, Flint, Oct.
2napa at
c2O,
fi,tanttort,he
Liverpool,Claren Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool-John
rencion-ruorns,Liverpool-William tts, grocer, King's
Lynn, Norfolk, at one, at the Chi-
Oct. 96, at eleven, at the Duke's Head
Inn, King's Lynn-James Roach, tailor, Bristol, Oct.
Lloyd
at two, at the CorAmereial- rooms, Bristol-John
and William Lloyd, builders, Atherstone, War-
wickshire, Oct. 20, at one, at the Red Lion Inn, Ather-
Comt'immbeercri
stone-Bailey Hillyard,
28, at twelve, at the
linen-draper, Nov 4, at ;wo, at the Cla-
rendon-rooms, Bristol, Oct.
al-rcoms Bristol-John
Lawson Bell,
Liverpool.-Henry26; Dartnell, clothier,
Cam, Gloucestershire, Oct. t
oant ten,fiu atd the
l Old Bell
Inn, Dursley-Daval Worthine dornomirs-sioenacerrs,,.roloamn-
chester, Nov.. 5, at four, tl
Manchester--7-Samuel Lees, innkeeper, Manchester, Oct'.
27, at ten, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester-
Mark Marks and Sainuer Barnett, tailors, I •
Liverpool, Oct.
31, st.twelve, at the Clarendon Liverpool-James
Wilson, maltster, Manchester, Nov. 4, at twelve, at the
Charles Lewis
Commissioners'-roonis, Manchester