The Sun. — 1845-12-19 (London, England)

JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia ••• London Joint Stock Provincial of Ireland ... 25 Do. New Union of Australia  " That the meeting cannot separate without recording their entire confidence in the Managing Committee, and their grateful sense of the service rendered to the Company by that body, and particularly for the prompt and decisive steps they have taken relative to the meeting, and the full and explicit statement of the present position of the Company which they have made to the shareholders."  Mr. BLOUNT said that he had nothing to fear from what had taken place. He had vouchers showing that he had expended 6,7671. 4s. 7d. for the Company. He denied that he made any further claim on them, and he demanded a copy of Mr. Hawksworth's report, in order that he might answer it in print. The CHAIRMAN said that he should certainly have it,  and every facility should be given him to get himself nu, of (to say the least of it) a difficulty, for he felt bound to say that through the course he had pursued the present Company was tripped up by the heels. Mr. HOLT, a barrister, defended the course pursued by Mr. Brewer, and asserted that he was as honourable a man •s ever lived. Ile thought, if personal statements were to be made against him, he ought in justice to have been permitted to be present. The CHAIRMAN, in the course of the meeting, stated that the iron hand of the Committee of Management would be put upon all the outstanding accounts, and he was in hopes that, besides the 11. 103., the shareholders would receive ss. or 7s. on each share in addition. Mr. HUMPHREYS, in answer to a question from a Proprietor, stated that preliminary expenses were included in Mr. Brewer's account, and also 3,0001. for advertising.  The CHAIRMAN said that at the time when the 15,000 shares were set apart for the promoters of the undertaking, there were no less than 400,000 applications for shares, and had not the Committee of Management been waterlogged with keeping them, the Proprietary would have been in a very ditferent situation to what they were at present. A PROPRIETOR inquired when the 11, 103. would be returned to the Proprietors ?  The CHAIRMAN said in a fortnight from that time. A rote of thanks having been carried to the Chairman, he meeting separated.  DARING ATTEMPT TO MURDER AT DUNMOW -On Tuesday afternoon, Charles Horsnell, jun., of Little Easton, son of the park-keeper to Viscount Maynard, whilst watching the park grounds and preserves in the avenue leading from Dunmow and Stortford turnpike-road to Easton Lodge mansion, observed a man about five feet eight inches in height, having on a black hat and velveteen jacket,standbig in a game preserve where the pheasants are fed ; he immediately made towarils him, and having advanced to within twenty yards of the stranger, Horsnell, observed the man point a gun at him and fire. The scattering shot riddled his (Horsnell's) coat, through two boxes and a book in his pocket; but the principal part of the ,charge struck a tree, knocking off the bark to the extent of six inches. Fortunately not a shot entered Horsnell's person, owing to the pockets of his shooting-jacket being full, which caused them to stick out from his side. As soon as he had recovered from the alarm he naturally felt, he pursued the stranger, and after running about twenty yards shot at him, but his gun missed fire, and the fellow escaped. Horsnell raised an alarm, and immertiatelv returned to his father, when search was c ,n-tinued in the woods for several hours, but to no avail. No clue to the offender has at present been discovered.—Essex Herald  The rumour of yesterday, respecting the nomination of his Royal highness Prince Albert to the post of Commander-in-Chief, has obtained increased currency to day on 'Change, and some have gone so far as to invent an addition, that it has assumed the shape of a command from a -very high quarter. Without attaching the least belief to a statement so improbable in itself, it may not be without utility to mention that, where believed at all, it was universally spoken of in terms of strong indignation.—Times City Article yesterday.