The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-25 00:00:00

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal
Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley
Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 50,211
Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver-
hampton
Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven
Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad-
ford
Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union
Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent
Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking
Company, Chesterfield
Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work-
ington
Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com-

parry, Cheltenham
Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company,
Coventry
Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 13,005
County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel-
tenham
Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company
Carlisle
Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 20,085
Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company,
Dudley
Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 17,765
Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Cora-

12,364

pang, Darlington 24,102
East of England Bank, Norwich
Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 155,670
Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 18,750
Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 36,237

Hull Banking Compaly, Hill - 29,015
Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 12,365
Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com-
pany, Halifax 44,653
Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,456
Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 24,042
Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company,
Knare sborough 25,102
Kingsbr idge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,202
Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 62,631
Leeds B anking Company, Leeds
Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester
Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 51,596
Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking
Company, Leamington Priors
Leeds and West Riding Banking Company,
_ __ _

Leeds. ...
17,216
Leeds Commercial Banking Company, Leeds 13,694
Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,936
Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank-
ing Company, Nottingham 30,827
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking
Company, Nottingham
Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint-

Stock :Banking Company, Newcastle 71,879
National Provincial Bank of England, Birming-
ham, :Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street,
Londt►Lt
North Wilt:. Banking Company, Melksham 61,690
Northamrptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 88,491
Northaraintonshire Banking Company, North

27,143
54,433

amptoal
North awd South Wales Bank, Liverpool
Pares's L eicest( rshire Banking Company, Lei-
cester.. .
Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 5,585
Sheffield Bankif:g Company, Sheffield 30,545
Stamford, Spalow, and Boston Banking Com-
pany, Stamfold
Stuckey 's Bankit.g Company, Bristol Somerset-
shim Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang-

34657:614732
Shirorpt'sl ii;ll9.nl, * ************** , * **** fr n. a** ** * ******* **
Stourhr idge and Lidderminster Banking Com-
pany., Stourblich;e
Sheffield and liii:umsbire Banking Company,
Shoff eld ..., ... 21,080
Sheffi, .)3 d and Roti,f rham Joint-Stock Banking
Conlinany,Shefliojd
Swalect Ile and W:..,:sleydale Banking Company,
Rich] nond 50,454
Stockt 0 n and Ilic:iam County Banking Com-

7;9 4 8

pany, Stocktrr
Storey and ]kiduas's Banking Company,
Shaft 'sbury
Sh44fielld . and Rd trod Bank, Sheffield ...
Suffolk :Banking Company, Ipswich

It is an old adage, that large bodies move slow;. ;so it in-
deed appears, for the gentlemen in the Bank-ma aa gement
have required an experience of twelve months to 'discover
that if certain parties could get bills discounted here: .at two-
and-a-half per cent. and employ the proceeds in the discount
markets abroad, at from three-and-a-half to fie e. and-a-
half per cent., it would yield a large profit to tho se so en-
gaged and ultimately bring a vast number of co tat:mental
bills in this country for the like purpose, which, sit hough
drawn by foreign houses, yet being accepted or end or sed by
our first-rate merchants- and capitalists, must ofcourse 7oe con-
sidered as unquestionable paper at the Bank and di: iunted
accordingly.--I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

COSkOPOT .4-1 TE.

COWES, ISLE OF "WIGHT-
'
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
OCT. 24.—We have a continuation of the most s]plen-
did weather, no rain baying
fallen for the last foi ight.
The barometer at 30.33 ; the thermometer at 56' ?:n the
shade. Amongt our fashionable departures at •e- —Sir
Bellingham and Lady Graham and family, from N =folk-
house, fur 131, Park-street, Grosvenor-square ; hit ,jor-
General Richardson, Mrs. Richardson, and Miss Ri, ?,11 ard-
son, from Mill-hill-house, for Sydney-place, Bath ; Mr.
Sergeant Shee. from Gothic-villa ; Lady Pigott, groin
No. 1, Bath-buildings ; Mr. Burton, from No. 2, Bath-
buildings. The yachting season is fast drawing to a
close, but we have still some few yachts in the i:oltds.
Captain Ponsonby's new schooner yacht proceed ed to
the westward yesterday to try her trim. The Flit t also
stood to the westward. The Vice-Commodore is at
Harriet-lodge • Sir L. and Lady Shadwell at E
,vy pt-
house P. Erie, Esq., at Beach-villa ; Sir Edwart l and
Lady Paget, at the Castle ; Lord Yarborough is. at
Appuldurcombe ; Sir William and Lady Montagt t :are
are expected at Grantham-house, and Lady Conw: iy at
Norfolk-house. We continue to have numerous arri
but the greater partof them proceed on toVentnorfc rthe
winter. That part of the island is more full of corn )8 ny
than it has been for years.
GAS.—The shops and public lamps of this town rriTe
lighted with gas this evening, for the first time. IS4:trny
of the cld'uns are very anxious about the fire-engi it es,
and hope they will be kept ready. A number of".old
ladies will have a sleepless night—to introduce sue a
dangerous thing in the town, and on a Friday, too 1

THE MANCHESTER ATHEN/EUiti.
MANCHESTER, Oar. 24.—Last evening, the member •B of
this literary association gave their third annual soirée at
Free Trade-hall, Peter's-street. The attendance, as on pr a-
vious occasions, was very large, the vast hall, capable, it is
said, of accommodating 3,000 in a sitting posture, b, jin g
crowded in every part by well-dressed ladies and gentlen let
The chairman, Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, was supported:
the right by the Mayor, on the left by Mr. Cobden, M .P.,
Mr. M. Philips, M.P., Mr. M. Gibson, M.P„ Mr. Brother toi t,
M.P., Mr. Bright, M.P., Mr. Douglas Jerrold, and severs .1
literary gentlemen from London. Mr. Charles Dickens •wa s
to have come, but was prevented by the delicate state.. 'of
Mrs. Dickens's health. N. Thiers was also invited, but wa s
unable, on account of engagements in Paris,- to proceed: 1.0
Manchester.

Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD, who was received with lewd
cheers, commenced the proceedings by briefly adverting t, o
the splendid talents of some of his predecessors in the ch
Impressive as the scene before him would be in any place.,
became solemn, 'almost awful, when the true relations, Iche
real significancy of its splendour were revealed. When thtey
considered that this festival of intellect was held in the ca pi-,
tal of a district which comprised scarcely less than two m
iP-
lions of inhabitants, engrossed in a far greater proportion Ja3 •
the toils of commerce and manufacture than any other dis-
trict in the world—when they remembered that this gr, tat
assembly indicated an unprecedented desire upon the part of
those who directed the labour of these large classes to she ue
with them whose labour they thus directed, and whose int e-
rest they thus guarded, that literature, which was once tl ie
privilege of the cloistered few, but now formed the fine st
social links of this vast society in this vast, city—whe ti
they bore in mind all these considerations, they felt that
the object which this society represented, although in- •
tensely local, was yet of universal concern, and they-
would cease to wonder at that familiar interest which::
he, a stranger, took in it, whenever it was presented..
to his notice.—(Cheers.) The Learned Gentleman pro-
ceeded to congratulate the meeting upon what.
their institution had accomplished—upon what had
been accomplished, too, in Manchester, in a spirit kindred to.
the exertions of the institution whose members he was ad-
uressing. He especially congratulated them, on the boon
which they had secured to the toiling thousands of Man-
chester, the precious Saturday haltholiday—that boon alike
precious to man as to boy—when manhood borrowed the en-
deaiing name from childhood, and sought to enrich it with
all that remained of childhood's still-remembered feelings—
(Cheers)—precious in the impulse which it gave to labour,
and most precious in its result, when, brightened and graced
by those modes which this association indicated, it left body
and mind more free for the service of earth and heaven
(Cheers.) In considering the benefits which the Manchester
Atheneum was likely to be the source of to those among whom
it was founded, he would regard them not so much as afford-
. .

ing a path bywhich a feiv 'light rise above their station, as
promising a means of adorning and gracing that sphere of
action in which many must continue to move. It might be
that some master• mind might start into fame from their
ranks; and should such rare felicity be their lot, with how
great pride would they expatiate upon that greatness which
they had watched in its dawn, and with how pure a satisfac-
tion would they commemorate the achievements of their
the

ustrious townsman, when, satiated with the applause of
strangers, be would revert to those scenes among wnich his
genius found its first expression, and earned its first prize.
But it was not in the culture of such rare minds that he an-
ticipated the happiest fruits of their peaceful victories. The
talents which in darker ages might have suggested the
de..ire to guide the obscure but honourable sphere of peace-
ful labour in quest of literary distinction, could at present
only be safely employed in adorning the path in which they
originally moved. But if it were too late to be ambitious
except on, some rare occasions, fur the immortality which
earth could bestow, yet, for that true immortality of which
time's longest duration was only a vivid symbol—for that
immortality, the cultivation of wisdom and piety was as
momentous now as ever. They would believe him when
he said that there was no path more open to the influenoe
of heaven than the common path of daily duty. On that
path the lights from various departments of their institution
would fall with the steadiest lustre, and by that light they
might walk in peace and gladness, if not in glory, happy in
the opportunity of elucidating some great truth which might
be reflected from the polished mirrors of thousands of asso-
ciated minds.—(Cheers.) After alluding to several other
points, the Learned Gentleman touched upon the financial