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condition thereof, previous to a 

 declaration of a dividen<i. 



2. That this Court has no 

 means afforded them to pay obe- 

 dience to this enactment, although 

 similar demands have been con- 

 tinually made, on similar occa- 

 sions, without such necessary in- 

 formation. 



3. That this Court is induced, 

 solely by the reliance it h:is on the 

 full responsibility of each and e\ cry 

 of the Diiectors, for any errone- 

 ous application of the piofits of 

 the corporation, or any imdue 

 withholding of the same, to order, 



as it does thereby order, that 



[here followed the words of the 

 original resolution, moved by the 

 Governor, declaring the half-yearly 

 dividend of 5 per cent.] 



Sir Thomas Turton seconded 

 the amendment, which was put 

 and negatived. 



The original motion was imme- 

 diately put and carried. 



A minute of the proceedings was 

 then drawn up and read, and it 

 was ordered, that the warrants 

 for payments of the dividends 

 should be made out for the II th 

 of October j after which the Court 

 udjouined. 



19. Corlc. — A meeting of the 

 Committees of the House of Re- 

 covery and Disjiensary was held 

 on Monday and \\'ednesday, at 

 the Commercial-buildings, to as- 

 certain the health of the city, with 

 respect to the contagious fever. 

 The result of both which meetings 

 was, that the number of cases 

 was found to be not less than four 

 hundred (including 300 in the 

 two houses), and tliatits progress 

 latterly was directed towards the 

 upper classes, and marked with 

 peculiar severilv. Under t!ie9# 



circumstances it was determined 

 to apply to government for aid, 

 and that a general collection sliould 

 again be made on Sunday sennight 

 in the different places of worship 

 in tile city and neighbourhood, in 

 aitl of the almost exhausted funds 

 of these institutions. — Co?/: Chron. 



Extract of a letter from Down- 

 patrick, dated Sept. 'l6.—" Ty- 

 phus fever is very prevalent in 

 this town ; at present 100 persons 

 labour under that malignant dis- 

 ease." — Freeman's Journal. 



CO. Belfast. — We have just iieard 

 from .\rmagh, that the fever has 

 become so alarming, that a town 

 meeting is to be held for the pur- 

 pose of devising the best means of 

 preventing the disease from ex- 

 tending its baleful ravages. — Bel- 

 fast News Letter. 



On Saturday morning as two 

 fishermen fiom the parish of 

 Ruthwell were traversing the 

 sandb of the Solway Frith, oppo- 

 site the Priestside, about four 

 miles within highwater mark, 

 they were alarmed by an extraor- 

 dinary noise, and having directed 

 their steps towards the spot from 

 whence it proceeded, discovered a 

 whale floundering in the shallow 

 water, and endeavouring in vain 

 to extricate itself from its periloud 

 situation. It was groaning so 

 loud as to be heard at the distance 

 of nearly a mile. The fishermen, 

 astonished and terrified, used no 

 means of securing the monster, 

 and the tide soon afterwards flow- 

 ing, covered it, without, however, 

 affording it sufficient de[)th to 

 float. Wlien the .'ea retired, it 

 was found dead, having been pro- 

 bably suffocated, from its being 

 unable, in that situation, to raise 

 its head abo\e the uater so as to 



inhale 



