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SHIPS BLOCKS AND CANVAS.

CJ. IVESTLEY; BROKER and COMMISSION AGENT. Sole
• Agent for REED'S CANVAS. and REAY'S PATENT
BLOCKS, No. 1, Goree-piazzas, entrance Water-street.
C. J. WESTLEY
.having .been appointed-Agent for REED'S
PATENT CANVAS, begs to assure Merchants, Owners, and.
Captains of Vessels, that it is equal • quality to the best ever
offered to their attention. •
Canvas and Blocks for Expo ation.
Sail-makers and Blockmakers supplied on the lowest terms.
Blocks complete, with Patent Iron Coake.d Sheaves and
Rivetted Plank Shells, above 7 inches:

Size Price of Size Price of
In Inches. Metal Bushed. In Inches. Metal Bushed.
4 -
5 ••• .1 01 12 4 2
6.1
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31 3
61, 13.. ...... .',5 2
7 ..1 51 14 ...5 6
8•
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9- ' ;..-.2 51 • . 16...........8 8
10 l7 ...10 S

Hearts, Dead. Eyes, and e
equally low terms.
Old Blocks Repaired, and all
Store may be• recoaked at a trif
requite. it,

.ery description of Blocks on

Coaled Sheaves bought at this
mg expense, shotad they ever

AGRICULTURAL AND CONINIERCIA.L BANK OF

IRELAND.
ON Monday this Company held its Third Half-Yearly
Meeting, which was attended by Gentlegten fiom all parts
of Ireland. Amongst those present w 'noticed the Lord
Mayor, Joseph R. Pim, Jonathan Pint homas M. Gresham,
M. Thacker, Joseph Beale, Mouutm ek; Messrs. Vance and
'Emmerson, Belfast; Jaines Rednnin Barry; C-ork, "COmmis-
sioner of Fisheries ; the Rev. Mr. O'Hara, Boyle; Mr., Wil-
liam Molloy, Mr, P. Kelly, Tuain, &c.

At half-past eleven o'clock, on the motion of Ja NIES DWYER,
Esq., seconded by JOSEPH ROBINSON Pig, Esq.,

The Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR was called to the Chair.
The following Report was then read by James Dwyer, Esq. •
REPORT FROM THE AGRICULTURAL AND COM-
MERCIAL BANK OF IRELAND ,TO THE PRO-
PRIETORS.
Gentlemen,—ln presenting to you the report for the past half
year, the Committee of. Directors have much satisfaction in
calling your attention to the beneficial progress of a great na-
tional undertaking. Since the last general. meeting in April,
the important province of Ulster has been called into activity;
and has more fully demonstrated the nationality of your Com-
-pan y, • by- amalg.m.ting-t. tir the ad-ranceirrertt of a-g•ricui-
tura, manufacture, and commerce. Belfast, having a local pro-
prietary of upwards of 500 amongst the trading and influential
classes, opened its Bank, in connection with your Company,
in the month of August last. It has since proceeded, under the
guidance of an able executive, with prudence and with every
promise of a prosperous result. In the leading towns of Ulster,
wherein the linen manufacture is chiefly being carried on,
_branches have been opened ; but in no case has one been esta-
blished without a local Proprietary, and a fair proportion of
paid-up Capital on the Stock subscribed for ;by this means co-
operation is insured, and united action guarantees success.

The Br.tiks in. the Cities of Cork, Waterford, and other Dis-
tricts Of Ireland, have- satisfactorily progressed, and, generally
have yielded a profitable return.. In some•cases experience has
suggested to your Committee the expediency of circumscribed
action; in order to abridge local expense; and, acting upon the
reports ,of vigilant Inspectors, your Committee contemplate,
without loss of time, to carry their recommendation (where
fully sanctioned by the facts) into effect.
The profit appearing in your accounts for the past half year
would.have been much greater, had not your Committee placed
the branches in the agricultural districts under restrictions,
dictated by the state of the money market in the sister country,
resulting from the operations of the Bank of England upon the
commercial interests of the empire. Your Committee do not
deem it within their province to discuss the policy of the Bank
of England, or whether the refusal of commercial accommoda-
tion, at a period of pressure, be calculated to produce benefiCial
results to the country at large; but as, under existing circum-
stances, the chartered banks materially influence the circula-
tion and credit of the country, your Committee deem it a duty
to be very much regulated by their proceedings, and so to pro-
portion the issues and liabilities, that no capricious exercise of
power, or abuse of privilege by the bank Corporation could
mar the progress of an important undertaking.
With a view, however, to meet the extension of business de-
manded by the increased commerce and enterprise of Ireland,
your Committee felt it to he for the general interest further to
increase the paid-up capital of the Cmnpany, so as to render it
equal to that of the _Provincial Bank of Ireland, viz., £500,000.
They have, accordingly, made a call upon the British pro-
prietors for a third instalment of £5 per share, allowing to
them the option of taking an equivalent in the stock allocated
on the Bth day of June last, rating such stock to present pro-
prietors at par. As the increased capital can be profitably and
with safety employed, your Committee anticipate a prompt and
cheerful compliance with the requisition. It is obviously the
interest of the Irish proprietors to ge hand in hand with the
British; union of exertion and equality of interest being the
great foundation of strength. In order•, therefore, to proportion
the payment towards the capital stock of the COmpany, and
and considering it for the pernianentinterest Of the shareholders
and the welfare of the country?, your Committee recommend
that you should sanction and threct a third call upon the Irish
shareholders, allowing the Caine option as to the British, namely,
to take atm equivalent to the amount of the call in increased
stock at par. Such a measure, promptly adopted by the British
and Irish shareholders, will be productive of the best results,
and must add considerablY to the value of investment, as also
to the welfare of all concerned.

Although the paid-up capital (including the third call of £5
per snare, or allocated stock,) amounts to upwards of £400,000,
yet the ample field presented, particularly in the province of
Ulster, ,for the profitable employment of capital in banking
operations, makes it the interest of the shareholders to increase
the available capital to a standard allowing of perfect liberality
to all deserving of credit; independent of which your Com-
mittee cannot overlook the important suggestions flowing from
the parliamentary report on joint-stock banks in England,
both as to the expediency of a large paid-up capital in such un.;
dertakings, and the necessity for vigilance and circumspection
therein. It may be inferred, from the report of the parliamen-
tary committee, that such companies as have ample paid-up
capital. in proportion to
.that subscribed for, shall meet with
legislative advantages superior to others; and, at the expiration
of the charter of the Bank of Ireland (in little more than one
year) will stand in a position, more strongly, to protest against
its renewal, as a monopoly of issue in Dublin, and the circuit
of fifty miles thereof. ft is, therefore, the manifest advantage
of the united proprietors to leave no ground for cavil; and, by
making the paid-up capital of the company equal to that of the
Provincial Bank (of whose directory the. Right Hon. the
Chancellor of the Exchequer was or is a leading member,)
place your Company upon at least an equal footing for favour
or privilege.

-In conclusion, your Committee refer to the annexed Balance
Sheet, by which it will appear, that, notwithstanding the distur-
bance in public credit, and the pressure on the moneyed and
commercial classes, occasioned by an excess of speculation, and
movements of the Bank of England resulting therefrom, the
balance to the credit of profit and loss will justify a dividend at
the rate of five per cent. per annum, for the past half-year;
which your Committee recommend accordingly.
WILLIAM HODGES,
JAMES DWYER,
J. CHAMBERS.

Fleet-street, Oct. 17, 183 G.
The Balance Sheet was then. read by the General Manager
William Mitchell, Esq., and a Dividend at the rate of Five per
Cent. per Annum voted by the Meeting.
On the Motion of J. R. Pia, Esq., seconded by PHILIP
JONES, Esq., the Report was received and adopted.
Mr. GRESHANI then rose, and said he was really delighted to
find the Committee had been enabled to make so good a report.
for the last half-year, when it could not be denied that the
Company must have passed througb a tryinv ordeal during the
late panic hi the money market; and though it was his inten-
tion to have moved for a Committee of audit to investigate the
minute proceedings of the Board, yet he was agreeably relieved
from that trouble by the verytourishing report then laid before
them- He should, however, ask the Chairman whether the
surplus, which appears. by the, balance sheet, amounts to an
actual, surplus after all bad debts, and over and above all the
capital subscribed r
The Loon MAYOR answered in the affirmative.
Mr. GRESHAM then expressed himself perfectly satisfied.
Mr..JAAIES R. BARRY testified his pleasure, as a Proprietor,
at the progress of the Company, based as it was upon the good
of the country. "'q ,
JONATHAN PIM, Esq., was called the Chair, and thanks
returned to the Chairman.

TO THE WORTHY & INDEPENDENT BURGESSES
OF WEST DERBY WARD.
GENTLEMEN,
rpHE flattering manner in which you ace this day confided
ii
..1. to me the responsible duty of rep enting your Ward in
the Town Council demands my mo t sincere and heartfelt
acknowledgments.
To auv individual merits of m wn. lam well aware that I
am less indebted for this distiug ' hed proof of your approba-
tion than to the justice and importance of the great Cause in
which we have been engaged.
To maintain unsullied the pure principles of that Cause, to
keep a watchful eye over your immediate local interests, and to
labour zealously and independently for the good of the com-
munity at large will be the best means of proving to you that
your confidence has not been misplaced.
I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Your faithful and obliged servant,
JOHN SMITH.
Chatham-place. Edge-hill, November 1, 18343,

TO THE BURGESSES
PAR OF N K
o. 1
W 6, OR NORTH TOX
TETH ARD.

A HOUGH I have been deprived,, this day, by a majority
iiLLGrig:f TvLoutestsa Nh
aving been record against me, of a seat in
in the Town-council, as one oft Representatives of North
Toxteth Park Ward. You will, I sure, permit me to add, that
the warm and affectionate support which 1 have received from
so numerous and respectable a body of my fellow-townsmen
upon this occasion, is most grateful to my feelings.
Gentlemen, yoil have done me no more than justice when,
during' my canvass, you gave me credit for liberal feelings to-
wards those, who conscientiously differ from me in their reliqi-
ous opiniotis. Steadfastly attached to the principles of the Es-
tablished Church, I should be unworthy of the name of a Chris-
tian, if I did not hold out the ready hand of fellowship to my
brethren of a different religious profession, who worship the
same God, though,at a different altar, and trust for salvation to
the merits of the same Redeemer.
I do hope that the day is not far distant when the people will
be convinced that good*government can only he obtained by,
placing the general and local governmg,nt of the country intri
hands of impartial and discreet persons. There is, I v
con-
vinced, a mighty power in the simplicity of this
ltruth,
which no jesuistry can evade, and no authority mit
ra
Gentlemen, whatever may be my future lot, il
sickness, in prosperity or affliction, 7in ft will be bride and
d,l the esteem
con-
solation to have merited (if, indeed, 1 havemosrite health. or in
and approbation of so respectable a number
North Toiteth Park' Ward, as have,
this
week's nominatibn, recorded their votes in my favour.
I beieto return my sincere thanks to my Canvassers, and to
dfa tyli, e Burgesses
after only a
of
all those wholh
traysas have b
theeen indefatigablehsbonour to
be,
Ganintlemmycause.ea,
tout obliged and obedient Servant,
57, Alill-street, Nov. 1,183 u.. .10,./1D.4

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