The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-21 00:00:00

IMPORT BY THE DIRECTORS OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH

Leaving a balance of undivided profits 0f.... £7662 7 6
This result enables the directors to declare a dividend for
the half-year ending 30th June last, at the rate of 7 per cent.
per annum, which un 21,520 shares amounts to £7532.
In conclusion, the directors have only to reiterate the ex-
pectations held out in the last report, of the increasing sup-
port and confidence reposed in the bank by the proprietors
and inhabitants of the principality as well as iu
and which fully justify the directors in expressing their con-
viction of a continued profitable return upon the capital em-
ployed, yet they still feel it their duty to impress upon the
shareholders, and others interested in the welfare of the es-
tablishment, the importance of using that influence to extend
its business and advance its general prosperity.
The directors cannot abstain on this occasion from express..
ing their opinion to the proprietors that they are eminently
indebted to the head-manager, Mr. Corlett, for the great zeal,
ability, and experience he has displayed in the management
of the bank.
(Signed)

BENJAMIN THOMAS, Chairman.

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Imprisonment for Bebt Bill will, it is now settled
come into operation on the Ist of October next.
The Queen of Naples was delivered on the Ist instant, of
a Prince,fho received the name of Louis Marie.
It is said that Admiral Sir Josias Rowley will succeed
Adniiral Sir Philip Durham in the naval command at Ports-
mouth, in November next.
Large and valuable veins of iron ore have been discovered
on a part of the Brendon Hills, the property of Sir Thomas
Lethbridge, Bart„ which are to be forthwith worked.
Hops.—Tbe editor of the Doncaster Gazette speaking from
personal inspection, says that the crop of hops in the North
Clay district will be very short, in some situations amounting
to little or nothing at all.
The Distin family are making a professional tour in the
West of England. They gave a grand concert at Chelten-
ham on Thursday, which was fashionably attended.
IRISH APPLAUSE.—A funeral procession met the Lord
Lieutenant on some of the roads about Dublin—halted, and
gave him three cheers! It is said the corpse joined in it.
It is reported that the Queen intends to make Brighton her
winter residence, and that her Majesty and the court
generally may be expected here about the 9th of November.
—Brighton Gazette.
We were in error in stating yesterday that the post-office
commissioners had determined on fixing a rate of two-pence
on all letters, in lieu of the present rate of postage. It is
correct that the committee have made such a recommenda-
tion, but incorrect that the commissioners have adopted it.—
Globe.

THE SEAT SELLER AGAIN.—The Dublin Evening Packet
tells us that Daniel, the seat seller, has netted a couple of
thousand pounds by the, return of Dr. Stock for Cashel. If
so, Stocks are rising with the honest man. We believe it is
true that there were several bidders for the seat in the mar-
ket. What a flaming patriot Daniel is !
BIRMINGHAM BANKING COMPANY.—On Wednesday an
extraordinary general meeting of proprietors of this Com-
pany was held. 'The directors in their report stated that the
net profits for the half year to the 30th of June last, amounted
to £11,622. 12s. 3d., and they recommended that a dividend
of 10s. per share, being at the rate of Riper cent. per annum,
should he declared, leaving a balance of £2,237. 12s. 3d. to
be carried over to the current half-year.
WORKING OF THE NEW MARRIAGE ACT.—Whatever
popularity the new marriage act may enjoy in other places,
it has very little patronage in this town, although dissenters
are numerous in proportion to the population. 'We have
observed for some time, that the most respectable members
of .dissenting congregations invariably prefer the venerable
form prescribed by the church, and under which their pro-
genitors we united, to the fanciful nostrum prepared accord-
ing to act of parliament.—Slockport Advertiser'
Sir A. Agnew has addressed the following letter to a con-
temporary :—"Sir,—You will much oblige me by giving
publicity to this letter, for the purpose of correcting a state-
ment which has appeared in the newspapers. The lady of
the name of Agnew, who, it is reported, took the veil at
Cork, is not `a daughter of the late- General Agnew,' for no
daughter of that gallantofficer has fallen from the protestant
faith of the gospel of Christ."
WHITEHAVEN.—The past week has presented no improve-
ment in the state of the weather: rain has continued to fall
in heavy quantities, and yen, serious apprehensions are now
entertained for the safety of the growing grain crops. We
have not had a season near so bad since 1.823, and, in con-
sequence, wheat and all other kinds of grain are rapidly
rising. Large tracts remain covered with hay, in bad con-
dition; and fruit is sadly spoiled.
KENDAL.—The weather for the last fortnight or three
weeks has been such as almost to prevent the housing of any
hay: and vast quantities are now lying out in a spoiled or
rapidly spoiling condition. Fears are now also beginning to
possess the farmers for the safety of the grain crops, and
dealers have this week advanced the prices of flour and meal,
the former 3d. and the latter 4d. per stone, making flour
3s. Bd. and oatmeal 2s. 6d.
The first issue of shillings with the impress of the young
queena limited
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ca
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hears
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in
gOnlyly
handsome profile of her Majesty by Wyon, have as yet been
issued. In a few days the issue will be general. Very loud
complaints continue to be made by the merchants and traders
of the city at the impediments thrown in the way of business
by the refusal of the bank, the post office, and other
wpeuigbhlitc:
departments, to receive a large portion of the sovereigns now
in circulation, in consequence of their being of light
—Observer.
A fatal accident occurred on Thursday night on the Lon-
don and Birmingham Railway to a dairyman named Pritch-
ard, who resided near Chalk Farm. He was returning by
the last train, with aquantity of hay he had purchased, and
when near to Kilburn, be by some means slipped off the car-
riage, when the wheels passed over him and killed him on
the spot.
We learn from Boulougne-sur-Mer that about 100 boats
from that port, with crews of 40 men each, making an effec-
tive of nearly 1000 seamen, are at present employed in the •
herring fishery on the coasts of Scotland. No other port of
France employs so many men in the herring fishery.
A melancholy accident occurred on Wednesday last, which
has deprived the service of a valuable young officer. Lieut.
W. H. Vyse, of the 2d Life Guards, whilst in the act of fish-
ing at his father's residence, in Buckinghamshire, was seized
with a fit of apoplexy, and fell into the water, and before as-
sistance could be procured he was a corpse.
Messrs. Curling and Young, of Limehouse, the builders
of the British Queen steam-vessel, have begun building a
steam-ship, which, when completed, is to be of 2000 tons
burtheu •' ;he is not to be so long as that vessel, but much
wider. We understand she is to trade between London and
New-York.
A DlLEatsta.—The Governments of France and St.Peters-
burgh have both simultaneously granted the monopoly of the
packet-transport between Havre and St. Petersburgh, each
to a different company, so that the Havre boats cannot enter
Cronstadt, nor the Russian boats Havre.
According to the accounts from France, the crops there
have a most favourable appearance.
The Princess Augusta is on a visit to the Queen Dowager
at Bushy Park. Her Majesty will sail for Malta before the
equinox. She is in good health at present.
We hear, that the Marchioness of Lansdowne yesterday
resigned the place ofchief Lady of the Bed-chamber to the
Queen.—Spectator.

Sir Frederick Lamb and Count St. Aulaire will act as
Ambassadors Extraordinary from England and France at
the coronation of the Emperor of Austria.

A subscription has been set on foot. headed by the Arch-
bishop and the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, for the pur
pose of raising a sufficient sum to erect a church and clewy.
man's residence in the trine of Dunkirk, the scene of the
murders of mad Thom.--Kentish Paper.

The apopted son of Rammohun Roy has taken his depart..
ure for India. The Directors of the East India Company
refused to sanction his appointment to a writership.
DOMESTIC SERVANTS.—II appears, from an article in the
London and Westminster Review, that, at the last census, the
number of this useful class in the united kingdom was—fe-
males, 923,646; men and boys, 211,966; total 1,135,612.
STEAM CARRIAGE FROM PARIS TO BR OSSEI.S.—The Nou-
velliste states that a steam carriage is to start from the Bar-
riere de l'Etoile, on Sunday next, to proceed to Brussels,
the engineer xpecting to do the distance, 60 leagues, in 12
hours.

Lord Brougham, in reply to an invitation sent to him from
the Radicals of Glasgow to accept of a public dinner, has
stated that he will fix upon the day after his return to
Brougham-hall, after the session is finished. His lordship
proposes to take a tour through the north of Scotland this
season.—Glasgow Chronicle.
The Espoir de Bruxelles says :—" The Duke of Wellington,
attended by a numerous suite, is expected at Leige. He
has taken apartments at the Hotel d'Angleterre. We learn
that he intends to be present at the races.
WHIG-RADICALISM.—Begotten in vanity and spite, and
nurtured in the hateful shades of craft and calumny, it comes
forth at last, in the full maturity of abjectness and absolutism
—a hideous monster, in ohich the baseness of the slave and
he brutality of the tyrant ara curiously intermixed.—Morn-
ing Post.

LULLS AND HIS CONFESS°R. —His confessor refused to give
him absolution
en preparing for the stage. He consent-
ed, and the m
which
manuscript was committed to the flames. Some
days
afterwards,when he seemed a little better, one of the
unless he burned his opera of Ac/tills et Polix-
he was then
ene,
young princes came to see him. " What, Baptiste," cried',
the y„ung prince, " have you been such a fool as to, bum,
your opera?" " Hush, my lord," whispered Lullir " f have
got a copy of it."--1-jogaTrHthir:ss.lrlußstictaTl._Dlravzn a
A FRENCH LADY iN
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bsiedaeu herwit
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strip wantsg , out,an I ats hteh thelw other,as
In either way she monopolizes the whole street and you are
continually getting between her and the nippy very much
to your inconvenience ; for, if you offend the dog, the mis-
tress is, of course, implacable, and you will very ►likely have
to meet her gallant in the Forest ot Bondy next mornmg.....
Ms American in Pare,.

WALES BANK.
The directors have much satisfaction in meeting the propri-
etors on this their second anniversary.
In the report of last year, the directors detailed so fully the
measures they had adopted for the general management of
the bank, as to make it unnecessary further to allude to it
here.

The directors lament to announce the death of their col-
league John JOnes, Esq., since the last meeting of the pro-
prietors, but they have been enabled to supply the vacancy
by the election of J. B. Tiuton, Esq.
The directors have now to imitate, that havin&obtained
possession of the ground mentioned in the last tepclA, the ne-
cessary arrangements are in progress for the erection-Of suita-
ble ba k premises.
The directors having been enabled to declare a dividend
for the half-year ending 31st December last, at the rate of six
per cent. per annum, upon the increased capital of the bank,
now submit to the proprietors the result of their labours for
the whole of the past year, which they trust will satisfy them
that the business of the bank has been prudently and profita-
bly managed.
The directors have therefore now to announce, that after
deduction of the whole of the annual expenses of the bank,
and making ample provision for all bad and doubtful debts
the nett profits for the year ending 30th June last, amount
to
£18,824 10 0
From which is to be carried to
the reserved surplus fund (being
the largest proportion of profit
allowed by the deed of settle-
ment) £4706 2 6
Making the total reserved fund
£5853 10s, 3d.
Amount of dividend paid to the
proprietors for half-vear ending
31st December, 1837 6456 0 0

11,162 2 6
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