The Sun. — London, England, 1855-05-10 00:00:00

1 nv .nto ( - t c os , style ) ar „ Tiritoal er roll ) SPens Al E T es./412 CO VMEROIAL INTELLIGENCE. ---~ CITY, Two o'CLocK. clos The Cott on M arket at Liverpool yesterday and Surety firmly, an d pr i ct s of American are id. id. p er lb. d earer t h an l as t wee k. Th e sales were estimated at 18,000 hales (2,500 of space]were taken f or ex p or t, an d 6,500 on a t• hion), comprising 300 Pernam and Maran- E g 4lll s id. to 61d , 100 Bahia at 6/d., 1,100 at 6d. to 9id., and 3,000 Surat at 3d. to Old, per lb . The Railway Share Market was firm, and closed at an advance of/ to 1- per Cent. an. lher _e . 11 as not been any . increase in the attend a„.ot either home or foreign buyers at the Indigo or metl o/38 d , and there is a manifest absence of Russian cobeje, although the German houses and our own 147 411 e to purchase to a fair extent. The de- 1 v er ies ;., April have amply made up the deficiency i t t . , e first quarter of theyear. The valueof sugar, as hoewasrs. Layton, Hulbert, and Co., inform us, has sit' „ Ilea rlY recovered what it lost upon the impo hat-011,9f„ the new duties. The imports of sugar sil o ' a lien off materially, and the stock now increase of only 2,148 tons, compared qualities last year, at the same date. The fine l ea c a of Plantation Ceylon coffee have been fad e s ' ad the quantity in importers' hands much n , ag a i i 7 st u;.... The stock of coffee . was 139,299 ewes., st oc k 418)836 cwts. at this time last year. The Year. of is 4,968 tons, against 15,205 tons last st of th a t Saltpetre the stock is 6,600 tons in excess 25 of 1 Q• Th e %. st. lit of s hip Victoria, which left Adelaide on the I St. and -thualluary, has arrived with 30,0001.' in gold, b oard 25 t r ulln Hullett, from the same place, has on 7,t, zn a i• 25,0001. in specie, and 198 oz. in bullion, ; - ,` l l ketic g ' wi th Yesterday's arrivals from V an Di e - 20 200 - d, about 300,0001. In addition to this, s S t t.. )wuj • have thi s wee k b een rece i ved from the et. yn t s - .‘t States and 40,0001. from Brazil, th. .Llia ) the dap the twenty-second annual meeting of B it t : at th e4ti°nal Provincial Bank of England was held St. chair establishment in Bishopsgate-street. The rel3o,2ras taken by J. F. L aur ie,Esq. From the it a ‘l'3 which ved much satisfaction, 4 ud Tared „ that the recei bank of with Messrs. Kinnersly latall e "'ls at Newcastle-under-Lt me ti had been Over to th e N at i onal Provincial Bank of 44.11pporlittilaarid that this branch was now cordially ' l4 1:1 4 6 ' by the customers of the late firm. been L si ness of the brancn at Plymouth had " st Of the to the branch at Devonport. In he 10,000 shares allotted to applicants 10 kark:"otry, 3,917 had been recently sold at the 12 coin pa " Premium of 61. a share, yielding to the ,!_* 1 9s. 0,1 3 Y a profit of 23502/., from which 7,473/. 50 " , q Preli n , w ; a s appropriated to wiping off the balance 40 " 113 fit 6; na rY xpenses, and the remainder of the 2 , 5 fluid ‘,0281. Os. 6d.) was added to the reserve 25 the co . spite of the war, the general business of , s s,t. tar, itPa'aY bad been very successful in the past rih k !l e ,.Pett profits for 1854, after all deductions, st. 791 . 4 5. id. The rest, or undivided pi. 0- st. F r % I 31st Dec.,ora tk. 1854, was 189,890/. 13s. Bd. 50 de f ula thud the directors now declared a divi 25 - ,„. 1)0 14 ) `, 8 Per cent, per annum, together with a . 1 - 2 7 reportch G per cent, both to be paid in July next. 50 N am i was adopted, and a vote of thanks was 20 40 4 a od °„the directors and to Mr. Daniel Robert keichii, the Officers of the establishment, for their Irt E nglish during the past year. 4blo44tuglish Securities there has been no large of the f business done, apart from the settlement De tiEtW ee cnint, and which has resulted in the sus- The sL ll of another broker, but not of old standing. 30th jut:on/less of the current account, ending the the in consequence of the early closing of 411e1C'e loan and calculating the dividends there- Patie "° speculators, having precisely the commissions and sums of the market• they Will naturally be reluctant to operate as d 2 40,, w :: 4 „1d when their bargains had to be adjuste lorward. Now, there are but 18 days, l dem . ve of the Sundays, during which they could tz . tr ah e ,Peols have been 88g and since 88l - Lr• The prices for May 30, have be d en chequer realise Bs., per Cents. C a e n n ci te. l h n av i e a "" 1- en 87 5 ' 4 , Premium. The r „.3 . to •kur. 'gt l Se entities have t _ 14 8 4 been neglected, and h 'Port that have advanced to 74g upon is about t to r an , t the English Government Pock I :" a n ew loan of 3,000,0001. Sard'nian I . , '"ellt ! - 1 48 been at 86. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per been quoted 631 to 1. Spanish Three ` er red e- at ' have been dealt in at 361, and the De kLThe Qelra.,l l4 win g are the nominal prices of foreign b. ll ' r e oada Deferred Bonds to 7 ; 41 2 4 , 1 ; Peruvian, 67 to 69 ; ditto Three titt: Fo .11 4 , 1 t o, 49 Portuguese Four per Cents., Paa•,i,Lir- -- ',,, i _Lao Five per Cents., 98 to 100 ; Diets,, 36 e.iti`j„, 4 4 . - lialf per Cents., 87 to 89 ; uitt B. l% to aii - ' e rred, 18 to 18i ; Ditto 3 per the 88 • to 41 ; --te sl ve, B_,D itto Certificates, t o th is pt Week c t o 4. ar e a te railway receipts ascertained up h, Great round figures as under west e ,, 1855, 1854. '"Q•WeBt-' ......................... X 25,816 £22,358 uth ester M. shtow~ ester ......... 57,477 54,410 - • ................... 1• 4,361 13,472 Idland ... • ....................... 12,618 11,946 ............................ 2• 4.579 24,148 4 r eci"14111.4 ...... .... ............... 1• 5,808 15,425 irtieat zzorv:•• ........................... 11,552 11,026 esahi re ..................... 2• 0.022 17,5 53 ,„ rt h•Ea t : n d r e ;Itah.fr; ************ 1• 9,321 18,511 4 .be p,„ 111 ***** .................. 29,312 28,060 th e T4 e / thnle Share M arket has b een wea k er on 6r itl Midl4 l l; l ' l ciPally f rom the l i m i ted b us i ness. bnoGreatarld North E astern have been rat h er t r Yant, nao Western of Canada Shares are also Sciude and East Indian. (1 0 ,, iir e m Pza, lean Mine are dull. Union of_Lon grol. al request. General Screw steam 114,11,14 20 20 10 10 St. St. St. 50 St. -11 1 ~._ ptr .......„_—___________ 1111 S I RIS DAY. —CLOSING PRICES. l b ._ IPrOni the Ortcial Litt. ) r; r,V'ent. it oA Bocinpeg done 14 %eat. e "11130 d Annuities LIT 3 p er eensols Annuities • • BEq i 5 4.4 il 1 ZAssoitieer-,Annuities ..,,,,.. .. ii) ,‘,.tt 3011.__, axpire sth Jan. 13(10 Ipto 30 y eas Expire Expire 10th Oct. 1859 31 11-16 t l eto 3 0 yeesarrs, Expire sth Jan., 1860 4t,- t ltt(f)loo, 440E0.pire sth April, 1885 16 1 1 401 8 3 4 Inci er 100 .. ...... 4 11 , b4 '4.e.t.3oiii I,i;', ************** BBs i tiiieh,:.; ............... i I i pat 14:60r tal e, 2iii 'NU ..... :....... I ........... ~ ••• • " 8 ?, 8 e(14.21: „,,, ~„•„,.._• 3 ....... .- ......... 99i 1... _ No . t ' l a idsB, i per Cent. I. 4i ltss, t o °P FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. pzitt o 1 , 1 . Tuls, 5 per C en t .„ hia v ius t o ' 185 2, 4A per Cent ... / krt. 44 ,,, ti onZ a l o ti per Cent. 6B akw-.,44 e nds, . .042, per Cent. £St 99 5 Per C t b1int4,4,4(1,3, 3p e en . 361 alxtto,,,,,t_f rCent Ike, ter th e „ er red, 3 per Cent l4 0 , - Accou n t Did ._ h i 1 1 -`)nareittee 4 a T "Al t f l o leud e, Cert. of Coup. not fun. _l 3 o per cent :4,44441ithe Account 4 11 1 / 1 id; 4 1 Per Coat.. ..... ......i l 2 71 4Jit0.,,,. 11 , f -arida Ork in ble..in bonier . eb aive, „ Per eabo e pave , :D o , r , 44 Cent. 12 Gull 0 -411 z• Cortifieatee bC ol ,, THREE O'CLOCK. itili,'l ............. 883 1 4 . 1_ : ..... ................. 83t ..r.a.. i 4 irs.2-_______ ."I'keZ NEWs—(THIS DAY.) tll . l tiv MEAT t 4 tti 04Tp, &., . MARKETS. 04014410 f ~‘"`iJ LaR ADENRALL.—We had a slow sale for ' 4 4, 1 b3 s 2 . Ts.t, as follows: —Beef, from 3s Od to 4_ e 0 (1; IlitßOt„,' ; P ork " ) 4 i 4 , 1 ; lamb, 488 d to 6s 0(1; Veal, 3 e. iou l, elltkt,t, M a 3s 2d to 4s 4d per Sibs, by the parc u as p.. i totlgglVA ki01.,3",97-To-day's market was fairly v g as P i l n ie" a 4. 4 ,4 !,"tat e. a ,.", ,Stock. The general demand was &a , at t o 4 , 'mows :—Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s 6(1; Mut , s o ,;_tio r k ~a 1( ; Lamb , 5a Od to 632 d ; Veal, 4s Od to O•EL4(POrtI*C 8 d to 46 4d per Blbs, to sink the offals. oo?. a s a ' ur-LaY 9 . - Vire were fairly supplied with stock ts Oa 2,14,,the trade ruled dull, on easier terms. Beef, 4114:14 Q trrals 6d ; Mutton, 3s 6(1 to 5s Od; Lamb, 5s Od A0(1 to 4s 8(1 • Pork, 3 s 6(1 to 4s 2d per er old Store Pigs;2os to 25s each. ,A tt te atIiPTZ3 ...RAY MARKETS. -, bn '-.04 t ';'", A leadow ha 2/ 18s to 5/ 0i Oil • clover 04 _1 1 11 Zr:t o - ", ti `' , s: ; a nd ,str y a'w, 1/ 5s to 1/ 10s per load. to 3, al...s aill .7 a n d a steady trade. rtttl,, l 4 Os to ,•1--,slleadow hay, 3/ Os to 5/ Os ; clover ai t t4 ll , l ; l l. ulg ; and straw, 1 / 6 8 to 1/ 12s per loa d . A f .131 441'41,--Ildead h 2/ 16 to 5' Os • clover 44 (1 t e 6/ 0 . v° ay• s • eres t a 8 , and straw, ll 5s to 1 103 per loa d. x.lYk -11.IPPING—{THIS DAY.) k 1,,,, -.,,v• .Di v, 4Ilio,;.; lUstio7a?_lo.--Wind and weather this day .3 noon, „. I't• Th o be breeze with alternate clouds and sun qi t tro re ~,a , (1 / 1 .,, I .Prt i, lta a heavy fall of rain during the night. t t'kt ` 4 eLle 7 9 — Wind, S. Arrived—Grace, from tv... F 4 rla. ' fer Chatham ; Panola (transport, No. 7), orAtlitoulla 7. 4 r4 4 8 fr' 11319. --Wind S.S.W. Arrived—August ''qlly , ell d o, °111 Rio Janeirc• J. E. Walsh, Matanzas ; 4 ,1) ( ; . ,„m• t Mtn *TN • I , t . 4 haviilti ‘411.,,,,3" 9.---Win_ ,1 W S.W. Arrived—Howard, l't b ee' 41 for N ew York . •th considerable damage, tkyr,44l( il 111 c ontact i ' with . 1 )14,7_,•../, a t. At a , A w th a large vessel. hi ‘ 1 [1• art o f ' . --.. lrrived—Ranne3, from Buenos RA . i l l r, Iph ie , the cargo of tho Adeline, from Cette to t r . 5 111 , 1, ks be go u w ent to pieces near the Land's End last t il ers t, •ltr ), u saved. il it li t.,. ,1 1 :„ 11 %, whi.„4l? 9.—The Portuguese brig Gram Para, 'M. ''' tt 4 a ..'" came on shore at Freshwater on tbe 7th 'neck, but tho greater part of cargo will be LOO 1.00 20 100 kbevieen..... . ...., • 8r A.mbg. Nottng. Bost. and Radii. Juliet_ all Belfast & Ballymena. all Birming. Wolverh. E.: Stour Valley ...... 29' Birkenhd. Lancsh. & Cheshire Janet all Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. 19 Do., £2O .. all Rlyth & Tyns origins.' £25 (issd. at £45 ) .00 Bristol and Exeter... 00 Caledonian Gls. Carmarthen and Car digan all Chester & Holyhead all Cork and Bandon all Bork, Black, & Pass 16 Cornwall 12 Crieff Junction 45 Driblin&BolfastJunc all Dundee Perth &Abe r leen Junction all Do. New 100 East Anglian , All Eastern Counties...., 100 Eastern Union, Al Stock . ..... .......... 100 De., B Stook 811 Do., New A....., . 100 East Lancashire lOG Edinburgh & Glasgow all Edinb. and Peebles .00 Edin. PrLh & Dundee 1 ' - ortli & Clyde Junc, all Furness all Do. Extension 100 Glasgow &S. Western LOO Great Northern .00 Do., A. Stock ...... , , 00 Do., B. Stock JO 'lt. Stb. &West.(lre.) .00 Great Western Do. Stour Val. Rail Gua. Stk all Irish Soutli-Easter all Lancaster & Carlisle I 4?, Do., Thirds 7 Do. New Thirds 00 1.....nca51i. and York s I 4 1 1 1., 4V et. Riding TM all Liv.Crsby.&Southpt all London & Black wal 00 I .ond. Bright & S.CRi 00 I.sond. and N. Westx: 16 :10. Fifths N, I )0.10/. Sh., M&B. . C 2.; Do. Eighths 100 'tendon and S. Westn 424 Do., £5O. 34 Do., £4O all Lnudrry& Col eraine all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. 100 Manch.She.& Linde all Do. f Shares, No. 1 44 Do., Man. & Lin. Un 100 Midland 100 Do. Birmng. & Derby all Vidld. G. West. (Ire, ) 224 Do. Half Shares all Newcastle & Carlisle 21:3 Nwpt.Aberg. & Hrfd 8 Newry & Enniskillen all Newry Warrenpoia and Rostrevor 100 Norfolk 34 Northn.Counties Un .00 North British all North Devon, No. 1 all Do., No. 2 all Do., A A Deferred all Do., B Guaranteed 100 N. Eastern—Berwick 20 Do. do. Extension 13 Dodo. G.N.E. Purch. all Do. Leeds 1 00 Do. York All North London all Do. New £lO 13, I F N.&S.Wstrn.,Hamp stead, and City Jn.. 1.7 North Staffordshire all North Western all N.& S. Westrn. June 1 Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester......, LOO Oxford, Worcester,& Wolverhampton 8 Portsmouth 100 Scottish Central . 1.00 Scottish Midland 00 -,hropshire Union a 1 South Devon 1 )6 Smith Eastern al South Wales Yrksh. & Riv. Dm , Do 12 Staines, Wok. &Wok al Stockton St Darliai 16'k Stc . :kton & 100 Taff Vale 9 Do. Xl.O shares. )c I Do. Pref., No. I 21i Tlqunes Haven Doc and Railway all Vale of Neath all Waterfl. & Kilkenny all Wa.terfor.l&Limei , 18 West Cornwall 5 West End of London and Crystal Palace all West London 0 11715..WimMei 1!) k Croydon ARE MAR (THIS DAY.) RAJLWAYS. rz. , ithj +kn.s? AY,. illosint Prices this tiv. 19 - 20 4i - 4i at 8i 14 131 —14 i- sii 9 Bdl 87 —s) 59 - 604 12i -13 i 7 -9, ..• 5 - 4 5i - 6 - 16 -11 g 30 - 32 - 22 711 -- 72, 51 56 2d p a 1 . 161 18, ••• , 67 - 69 89 - 90 74 - 75 123 - L 5 92 - 94 61 -_64 58 - GO 65 76' 5 -- 7n 7 761 - 7 7i 98 99 98 984 id - 1 4 ,ti 80 - 81 , 104 9 f 9 801 23 - 23 7 - 8 69 - 69 40 - 42 11 - 9 li - 2 ii :: 4.6 274 ~. 28. 71 72 7 4i 3i 124 13 47 48 48 50 a d par 6 6 4 td —Far 25i - 26,i 98 - 100 54 - E 6 44 - 46 12 - 13 59i 60 27 - 28 5 - 3 3 - 1 •• '''' 7i 18i -, 4i - 8 5i - 6i 7 . - FOREIGN. A ntwerita Kott ;Main isetgian Eastn. Juin.% P.ezi ere to Graissessa ,, Bombay, Baroda, and Central india,Scrip Central of Italy Demerara Dntch Rbenish Eastern of France Do, New East Indian, g. 5 p c. Do. EY'Ansion Do. 4i p. c. Bds., pay '57, convertible Do. do. do., '59, do Gd. Tk of CanadaA is Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. Do. Cert. of Deben., con. into Stk. till '63 Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. I I Gt. Central of Franc , Gt. Indian Peninsula guar. 5 per cent. Do. New 5 per cent Do. Extensions...—. Great Luxembourg Constituted Shares Do. Obligations Gt. Western of Canad Shares Do. Bds., payable's7,' with option till '55 Do. do., '62, p. '56 Do. do., '76, p. '6O Do. do., '73, without option Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 per cent. Lake Const. & Basle Lucca k Pistoj a 5 p. c. prof Lyons and Geneva Lyons d; Mediterran Madras Do. New Maria Antonia Do. do. New Namur & Liege (witi) interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France. D 0.201. Shs.late Char leroi and Erquelinee guar. 3$ p. c. & red. at 22 Al. dm'. 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854 Do. 201. 3 p. c Bdp (fmy. . R. & Ams. She. NorwegianTrunkPre Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen ParisCaen & Cherbrg Rouen and Harm._ Royal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Do. 5i p. cent. Pref. Southern of Franoe St. Andrew's and Quebee (A) West Flanders , Do 5/ per c. Pref Western of France WoFt. of Switzerland 'IVIJsb9Aen Zealand JOINT-S! all ustrabtsia all I British Colonial Bank - and Loan Company all British N. American 5 Chartd. Bank of Asia 2 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, & China 25 Colonial 20 Commercial of Lond 18 English Scottish and Anstralian Chart all Lond. Chart. Bk. o' Australia 5 Ditto New 20 London and County 10 London Joint Stock 20 Lond. & WePtminste; 35 National Provincia j:)of England ---- 1 10 Do. New 221 National of Ireland all - New South Wales all Oriental Bank of Corporation. ... . .. . 25 Provincial of Ireland all Do. New,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 1 Royal Australn.g. & Gold Imp C 0..., all South Australia ... all Union of Australia 2i o. New .., iO UUtioll Of London to -- 7 4 3f - 2t - P 35 35. 7 8 P 24 2a 2ip 91 - 81 15 - 16 49 - 51 4 83 - 90 - 2 i IP * -- in iP # 11 -- 2 2t 3 19i -20 i 99 -- 101 99 -- 101 103 -. 105 98 100 1 204 - 214 102 - 105 31 1 ; 4 - 1p 11 Zia, 4 6 13 2i 54 6i 3.64 13 wM 13 - .• i lii - g 24t - 25 p 45 47 39 41 • Pro 21i 22i d — lda iP 2 7i 8 wee pm 3i 4 d g' - 6 ii - fi i BANKS. 80 -- 82 I'd : cd 1 id 16i -17 i 20 - 2 1 - iP 32 - 34 39 - 41 • •• ..... ••• 68 _ 7011 71 Si es. „, t 7811.1 , !i this day. 25 St, 20 St. all 4 10 2s. 20 50 50 100 100 20 50 20 25 PITH SUN, LONDON; r ITTJI RSDAY -I nVENrING - , M I AY JO, 1855. - - - .Iti k% RAILIVITS. NEWMARKET RACES (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRA,' TELEGRAPH.) JOCKEY CLUB PLATE. Asin, OOmpart F I lotom erice, Uu+i• ess this day. this day. . 4. " l 'd And rgnidou V, w-1 L. &N. W. Un. h. B 1 etch ley Bnekghamsh. aydesdale Col. Stour Vy. Sud. and llal. E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct Do. New Glstr.& D n. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway . Hull & Selby Do. Shares. Do. Shares. Lon.&Greenw Do. Preference Lon., Til. , & S. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per ct. Manch. Bxtn and Matlock Middlesbro' & Rodcar Mid i d. Bradfd Newm arket Bury - Exton Northern and Easternsp.c. E. Count. Do. 6 per ct. Do Do. Fixedsl, , e Do Prest. & Wyre L. &N. W an&yi, ;I P 6 e• , 96 Gt.Nrtim. Caldonian, 13 - E 35 11331 Fact' ............. Pa9trycook ........ Do Gt. Weer irk. New Berw Y. EtNn Do Do S. Easter Do Peto & Co 106 - 108 Two ran. 50 to 3on Alastor. - 13 23 - 24 11 - LATEST BETTING. DERBY. 11 to 2 apt Lord of the Isles 7to 1 afkt De Clare (offered) Norfolk... Do, I.&N.W Midld. Stekton Darlingt. Nfidland.. 2a ‘ a ••• - ••• 92 --- 94 OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Cresswell.) lEn. Conn. ip par 57 59 Do. Shrs. A Roystn.k Hit. Shef.Roth and Do.. Gt North , laancam;:s& lio := 333 Gooleg.sp.c. Vorksb. ... Shrews. &Her T. Brassey 71 S. Staffordsh. Vl.MClean .21 Wear Valleygr Stockt. & 6 per cent Darlingt Do Oo 3li Wilts&gomrstleitWestn. 8S - 241 MINES. 1 all Agua Fria . . 1 all Anglo Austrin. Gold 10s. all Anglo Californian 4 20 6 Australian 1 1 all Australian Cordillera 1 all Ave Maria •— 1. all Baden (Gd. Duchy or . 4 • all Bla3narvon Iron and Coal `,5 British Iron 4— 6 Brazilianlmp.(issued at £5 pm.) 10 all Do. , Cocaes & Cuiab 2) 3 15 D o. 3t. John Del Ro3 31 -- 33 1 i Carso Creek 1 Clarem ton Cons. Min Co. of ~ T am a " X 56 0 all Cobre Cop:ve.,r 54 56 5 1 Colonial Goi t. all Copper Min. 91 Eng 30 40 . pa 5 all Do. Pref. 74 p. tent 2d r 16 5 all English and Aus tin. Copper Smeltg 14 —l4 14 2 1 Fortuna par —ip all General 144 164 I all Gt.NuggetVeinßeg — all Great Polgooth. —la 1 all Liberty . •• all Linares . • 7 711 i 1 Lusitanian g I all Mariquita ........ g— 8 I all New Granada -- all New Linares Mining and Smelting Co •••• all Nouveau Monde —• § all Pontgibaud Silver Lead Min. & Smelt. 144 154 1 Port Philip I - 4 • all Quartz Rock I all Rhymney Iron lll 21 all Do. New 5 6 124 Santiago de Cuba...„ 51 — 6. i all South Australian 8 Tin Croft.., 2 3 all United, Mexican 6 - kqi 64 I all Waller - all West Mariposa 12s. Wortlaing Mining of Australia all Yuba.. 30 20 1 1 40 5 St. 25 The Recorder said that Hooker could only be consi dered as an accomplice, and therefore he should at once direct the jury to find Price not guilty, and further, that the evidence was not sufficiently confirmatory against Williams. The jury found both the prisoners not guilty. THIRD COURT. (Before Russell Gurney, E3q., Q.C.) Alfred King, 21, labourer, John Grimes, 18, book binder, Henry Esqulent, 26, wood cutter, and William Caddick, 20, hat maker, were indicted for stealing a chest and 20,000 envelopes, the property of Charles Morgan. It appeared that the prisoners, some of whom were last night convicted of a similar offence, belong to a class of fellows who bang about the carriers and inn yards in the garb of porters, and carry off what they oan. In this instance the envelopes had been sent from the prosecutor's, who is a stationer in the City, to a cus tomer' at Portsea, and bad been stolen from a cart in the Old Bailey, in its transit to the railway. The prisoner Caddick was stopped carrying the chest, and was just about entering a notorious resort of thieves in Gray's-inn-lane, where all the pri soners lived. The jury acquitted King, and the other prisoners were each sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour ; Grimes and Esqulent baying been each sentenced to four years' penal servitude for the offence of which they were previously convicted. PREFERENCE SHARES. 1 00 I % berdeen 100 IDo. No. 2, 7 p. c all filyth and Tyne I ()poi c. pref. (issd. at 50/' Bris. & Er. 4 p. c. St. Do. 4 p. C. Shares oaledonian £lO ':'hester & Hol7head Guar. 54 per cent, Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Cork &Bandonsip.( , Dun.Prth .& Al er.i. 'AI. Anglian Cli.. A Sh. Jo. do. C s. B 6 p. c. Do. do. Cls. C 7 p. c. Eastern Countiet, Ex tension,s p. c. No. I Do. No. 2 Do. New 6 r. c. Sl., East Un., G. 6 p. c Do. 5/., 10 ner cent. Do. 101. Delientr.Sl , . Do. do. 4 per cent... .i',ast Lancash. 6 p. 44.. ii - I.&W. York. J. 5 ths , OA. Prth.&Dun.4p.c. FurneQs ;las. & S. W. 0.5 P. c Great Northn. 5 p. c.t th, 6 p. c. Redeem , at 10 p. c. prom... Do. 4:1 p. , Do 5 p.c. Scrip, Red. nt sp.e.pm •• (R. N. of Scot. Ist Prot (it. S. & W. (Ireland) Do. 4 per C. Pr. t. St (it. Westn. (perks & Hants Er. 5 p. c).. Do. con. red. 4i p.c. Do. con. red. 4 p. c. Do. irred. 4p.c. ... Do. Birm. Pref. Sh... Do. Cnester 8 p. c.P.S. Do. do. 5 p. c. d 0... Do. Birm. Gua. Stk. Do. Ches. Qua. Sh.. Do. do. do Do. do. do ....... ••••• Lan. &York. F. £2O Do. 6' p. c. Stock Lon. & Brigb. G. 5 p.c Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St Do. New Guar.6 p. c Do. do. 5 per cent Lon. &N. W., Coy. & Nuneaton 5 p. ct Lon. & S. W. Con. 3th Londy. & Coler. i Sh. Londy. & Ennis.6Sh. Man., Shef., & Lin New, £lO Do. a Nfarypt .& Carl.4p c Do. 4. per cent I Do.. 102 - 104 89 - 91 92 = We 98 2i - 3i 54 - 6 COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH-(THIS DAY. - 1 p r 121 -13 i Lord Campbell sat at Nisi Prius today. WISDEN V. VISCOUNT CLIFDEN. FORD V. VISCOUNT CLIFDEN. CLARK V. VISCOUNT CLIFDEN. All these cases stood on the paper to-day, in conse quence of the application yesterday of Mr. Edwin James. They are actions brought in each case by the plaintiff to recover the sum of 3,0001. upon bills of ex change drawn by the Hon. Francis Villiers. Mr. E. James, upon the cases being called over, stated that the parties had determined to try all the matters before a special jury, and he had therefore to ask the Court that they might stand on the paper for the first sitting in next term. Lord Campbell had considered the subject since it was mentioned yesterday, and thought that the course proposed by Mr. James was a proper one. All the cases, therefore, were postponed to the first sitting in the next term, upon the understanding that they were to be tried by a special jury. The court then proceeded to bear common jury cases. MOTT V. THE LONDON AND BLACKWALL RAILWAY. This was an action brought by the plaintiff against the London and Blackwell Railway, for the purpose of recovering damages from them for injuries they had in flicted upon houses belonging to the plaintiff..! From the statement of counsel and the evidence adduced, it appeared that the plaintiff erected several houses in the neighbourhood of Bow. Sometime afterwards the de. fendants made a station to their railway near the houses of the plaintiff, and erected a tank for holding water, which it was asserted by the plaintiff was so defective that the water percolated through it, and so far injured the houses of the plaintiff as to s cause the tenants to leave, and rendered it necessary for him to incur great expenses. Mr. E. James and Mr. Powell were for the plaintiff ; and Mr. H. Hill appeared for the defendants. Various witnesses clearly proved the damage done to the plaintiff's property by the overflowing of the defen dants' tank. 58 - 62 all 100 100 14 - 116 Ins 110 100 - 102 i - ip all 100 9 6 6 - 64, 96 - 98 83 - £0 90 - 92 10 - 11 17 -17 i 10 - 104 72 -74 191 -19 i 9$ - 141 -14 i 1 - ,134 -- 136 St. St. St. St. St. ... ..... ... •• • -- 11. ••• - ••• 2i - 3 p 50 12i1 1.4 10 5 all all all 12 } - 12' -P 1011 ifi97 16# At the conclusion of the plaintiff's case, Mr. Hill said that on the part of the railway company he would consent to a verdict for 501. damages, on the understanding that no further action should be brought. This proposition was agreed to by the plaintiff, and a verdict was taken for 50/. damages. Lord Campbell could not but remark that the whole expense of bringing this action might have been saved if the surveyor of the railway company had efficiently performed his duty. 100 100 , Consol .6 p.c. St. Do. Consol. Bristol Sz firm. 6 per cent Do. 4i p. c. Pref. St ►o. Pref. 4i pct. cen Do. 5/. Pr. f. 4 p. c Ditto Leicester and Hite:en Prrf. St..:. Norfolk Debenture Do.Prsf. 4 p. c. Stool. Do. 5 p. c. Est Do. 54 per ct. Do. Way. Val. 6 p. c. North British ...... V. E. Berw, 4 p.c. P Do. do. do Do Leeds 6 p.c Do. do. Quarters P. , Do. York H.& Pur. North Staffordshire.. Oxford, Worcester, Wolverh..£ls, 6 p., Scot. Cent., New Pre , South Devon Do. fixed, 4 per cent S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. Do. 4i per cent `4 Wales Gua. 4p. c Do. do. 4i p. c.... S. Yorksh.4p.c.Guar. Stock. & Dar. , 5 p. c. Do. do. do. Stock. & Hartl. g. p. c. till July 1, '56 Wateifd.& Kilk.6 p cf St. 16i 5 St. 100 11i all 100 134 - 136 94 - 96 - 4 - 35 - 87 103 - 105 ARMY BEFORE SRIBASTOPOL COM- MITTEE:-(THIS RAY.) 98 - 100 - 92 31 - 3i 1 98 i The committee re•assembled at the usual hour. Wr. Wood, Secretary to the Board of Ordnance, was exa mined by Lord Seymour.—He stated he had filled the situation of secretary about 18 months, and had been in the service 51 years. He was not aware whe ther any communication had been made to Lord Raglan as Master-General of the Ordnance since he had been in the Crimea. The Lieutenant-General had performed his duties. He did not think it possible for one member of the, board to perform all the duties of the board, but it was the custom for one to disdharge the duties when one only was present. Formerly copious minutes of the transactions of the board were kept, but now only the principal ones —these were duly forwarded to the Master-General, who had power to re verse the decision of the board. The Lieutenant- General had not that power. He could not say whe ther all instructions or orders given by the board were entered on the minute-book. In a great measure be himself and those under him were the judges of what was of sufficient importance or not to be entered on the book. The erection of a shell foundry at Woolwich would have been of sufficient importance to be entered on the book. He could not say when the erection of the shell foundry at Woolwich was brought before the board, nor when he first heard of it ; neither could he remember if a plan of it was submitted to the board. Every paper received into the office was registered, dated, and numbered, and afterwards sent to the Master-General, the business was decided by the majority. The Chairman—But if there is only one member pre sent there could be no minority ?—The decision of that one member is considered as the decision. of the board. There were circumstances which required. The signature of two members. 20 124 25 20 St. i.. ..... se• ..'". id 100 - 102 100 I all all 13 14 id Pal 22§ 23 97 99 i . 6 = li' 1 -- 2 p ... ... 21 —2 id MISCELL &NEM:TS. 25 ' 171 Australian Agricult. 28 30 29 10 all Aush.aln. Royal Mail 10 7 Berlin Water Works 3/ 3 d 50 40 Brit. American Land 5 1 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co.' 100 32i Canada llO 115 St. 100 Canada Gov. 6p. ct Jan. and July lO9 109 1091 5 all Crystal Palace 3a 33 3i 5 4 Do. Preference * 11 3 1 4 4 4 all Crystal Pal. of France 1 3 Duston Tron Ore • ••• 20 81 Eastern Steam — 25 22 Electric Telegraph l6 17 1 all Electric Teleg. of Ir — 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat 20 all General Screw Steam ..• 141 20 10 Irish Beetroot. Sugai 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig. 10 all Mediteran. Elec. Tel. 10 9 Mexicau&S.Americn. 6 - 7 10 21 Do. New - ••• 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel , 10 5 Netherlands Land 4 - 2 1 N. S. W. Coal (Sx Inter Steam Navigat. Co .„ 1 all N. B. Australasian — 1 . 20 12. Nrth. rof EuropeSt Sam b all Peel Rr. Ld. & Miml. 21 50 all Peninsular& Oriental 59 61 50 10 Do. New llf 11 11a 2 all Portland Iron C 0...,, 13 100 60 loyal Mail Steam 68 .•••• 70 69f 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest. 11 1' 13 1 Ditto New. 25 all Soull Austral. Land 36 38 37 7 1 all Submar. Tel. Scrip — 1 1 all oe. Reg.Ntered 20 5 Trust& L. Co.II. Can 100 28i Van plumes Lawl. 13 133 13 The witness was then examined at length on the de tails of the office. 13 ••• •-• ••• Admiral Sir D. Dundas, admiral of the Black Sea fleet, was next examined by the Chairman —lie stated that wheo he was in Busika Bay, in 1854, he understood it was likely his fleet would be used against the enemy. When it was likely war would be declared, he was under Lord Stratford's order , . The Admiralty gave him a rough statement of the power of the enemy's fleet in the Black Sea likely to be brought against 'Urn. After he moved into the Black Sea, he was unable to gain more correct information as to the strength of the enemy's fleet from Lord Stratford, and h e was equally unsuccessful in his applications to other persons. The gallant admiral proceeded to read copies of letters he had written with respect to the attacking Odessa and Sebastopol, when he was interrupted by the committee, wh ) thought it desirable they should not be read. By Mr. Drummond—He wrote to Lord Stratford re specting it, b u t received no a nswer, on which he sent Captain Drummond to him ; b u t th ere was some (Wl:t -culty about the him. passport, and he received no answer by 'LEFT SITTI1(0.1 L n u e r r d n ft t a ........... ...... . .. .................................. walked o ver S VVE AliEs fur Two and Three-y r Old s. Ctrea ................. Five ran. , 501. HANDICAP PLATE. 2 Five ran. SWEEPSTAKES FOR TWO-YR-OLDS. 10 SOVS, Alastor lago Colt ~~ CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT (THIS DAY), Thomas Evans, and George Turner, the two militia men who were convictedyesterday of a felonious assault upon a young girl named Henrietta Gotland, were brought up for judgment and sentenced to six years' penal servitude. Plower Guppy and Trillion Melrose, two Post-office letter carriers, who had pleaded guilty to se parate charges of stealing letters containing money, were also brought up for judgment and sentenced to be transported for 14 years. NEW COURT. (Before the Recorder.) John Williams and Joseph, Price were indicted for burglariously entering the dwelling house of Joseph Brown, draper, of Finsbury Pavement, and stealing therefrom goods to the value of 2501. In the second count Price was charged with receiving that property, knowing it to have been stolen. Mr. Ryland prosecuted, and Messrs. Sleigh and Salter defended. It appeared from the evidence, which was anything but satisfactory, that a man of the name of Hooker was going with his cart along Golden-lane, when he was stopped by a man not in custody, who bar gained with him for the loan of it. He was requested to go to a coffee-house close by, and was informed that the cart should, before long, be there returned to him. He stood looking through the window, and saw the man drive the cart to Mr. Brown's house and wait for it, while another man, whom he believed to be Williams, brought two large bundles out of the house and depo sited them in the cart. They then both got in and drove away. Witness ran after them, and saw them stop at a house in Verulam-street, Gray's-inn-lane, where another man whom he believed to be Price, came out in his shirt and took the bundles in. The man then gave him 21. for tile hire of the cart, at which he (witness) was surprised. Other evidence was adduced, but The following letter on this subject was lately addressed by Lord Ebrington to a gentleman of influential position amongst his constituents : Bruton-street, April 16, 1855. Sir,—l proceed, in compliance with my promise, to ex- .j L aai managementt o you the " • k o ' i o t v h i e si m on e s tro in pol S is ir tßo.e7hailchs b ir il e l nt f e iir the the gre a t es t o bj ect i ons. As I object' to them for u reasons which I stated at almost everypnblic meeting I addressed in 'the course of my, election, no elector has any right to be surprised at the course 1 feel it my duty to take with re gard to this important measure. • I said on the introduction of the bill that, far from deny ing the existence of the evils its author so graphically. de scribed, I entirely agreed with him both as to their extent and their indefensible &erecter. Indeed it was not likely I should do otherwise, after strenuously labouring for more than ten years, both in and out of Parliament, to direct public attention to- these evils , with a view to getting them remedied. At the same time the reverse of wrong is not necessarily right • and I think I shall be able to show, that, while the remedy proposed affords little if any prospect of improve ment as regards many of. the evils complaieed of ; it will not only, if left as it stands, tend seriously to aggravate others, but also to introduce several new and grave ones for the first time. The bill proposes to establish, including the City, 36 districts, each consisting of a parish, or union of parishes. Hobhouse's Act is to be applied to all the parishes, whether single or in union, In the 21 single parishes the vestry are to be the district board. In the 14 unions con sisting of 56 parishes, the several district boards, com prising in all 653 members, will be chosen in certain speci fied proportions by the vestries so elected by the single votes of the ratepayers. The several district boards are to send one member each (except eight sending two members each) to the metropo litan board, which board will therefore, with the addition of two members from the City, consist of 41 members. And this metropolitan board is to select' three persons, of whom the Secretary of State is to appoint one to the office of chairman, at a salary of 'not less than 1,5001., or more than 2,0001. a-year. The metropolitanlboard is to take charge of the main sewers, and is also to be invested with very large powers for the improvement of the thoroughfares of the metro polis. All the other sewers are vested in the 36 district boards, as is also the paving, lighting, &c., within the several districts: I will not call in question the limits proposed for the metropolis, which are identical with those adopted by ;he Registrar-General; and I heartily approve, on principle, of the union, under the same authority, of the subterranean road surface management, i. e., of the sewerage and of the paving, lighting, road-watering, &c. But I object to the bill in its present shape. Ist, on account of the number of districts into which the metropolis is to be divided for these purposes; 2d, on account of the nature of these divisions ; 3d, on account of the large number of the governing body to be established in each division; 4th, on account of the composition of the constituency to elect each of these bo dies; sth, on account of the mode in which the vote of these constituencies are to be taken ; 6th, on account of the large numbers of members of the metropolitan board of works, and of their representing only one class, 'fez., the ratepayers. Lastly, I object to the enormous powers of this over-numerous board, and its probably unsatisfac tory dealing with the local interests of the metropolis ; and I dread its almost inevitably undue influence upon the Go vernment and the Legislature. Ist. With regard to the establishment of the 36 divisions. This is a retrograde movement, The old separate and in dependent Commissions of Sewers were seven in number, and as such too numerous for economy. There was consi derable waste in having so many separate staffs of officers, quite apart from the inconvenience of their totally inde pendent action ; and a large saving resulted from the con solidation of the seven staffs, especially in the engineering and - financial department. The general average cost of management to the ratepayers was, during 1847, more than 7s. per cent, per annum on the rateable anneal value of the seven districts ; while (notwithstanding the disad vantage of having to procure information which ought to have been provided by our predecessors) the charge for management under the new consolidated commission, to which I belonged, was actually below 58. per cent. per annum on the rateable anneal value of the district under our active jurisdiction. When the expenses of manage ment in 189/ are stated at 23 per cent. of the expenditure in works, it should be remembered that this was in consequence of money being refused us for the execution of works to the extent of hundreds of thousands of pounds, the plans, drawings, and specifications of which had been prepared at a heavy expense by the staff. The staff ex penses in 1846, under seven commissions, were more than 20 per cent. on the works executed. The staff expenses in 1854, under the consolidated commission, were only 11 per cent„ and that included systematic mapping and under ground surveying, items quite unknown in the olden times. This economy resulted from placing seven engineers in charge of a district each, at a moderate salary, under a more highly-paid chief to superintend the whole, with two or three assistants devoted to specialtias. The same obvious course was taken with regard to the financial and other departments. A reversal of this system, and the multiplication of sub divisions for drainage purposes to a five times greater extent than prevailed under the Unconsolidated Sewers Management, must inevitably lead to the officers in each district being either underskilled or over-paid, probably, to their being both—underskilled for the work they have to do, and overpaid for the work they do : in other words, to a great additional expense, either in the shape of extra salaries, or of inferior work, and, probably, of both. And this objection is not met by clause 110, giving a the Metropolitan Board compulsory powers of uniting districts for the election of joint-officerS. For the district boards retaining each their separate control of the sewers in their districts, the officer would be placed in a position of almost hopeless difficulty between his several masters, in spite of any directions the Metropolitan Board might issue about him. I therefore look upon the clause only as a confession of the consciously imperfect arrangements made by the author of the bill. When deprecating, how ever, the multiplication of drainage divisions, r do not say that for the far simpler work of superintending the pav ing, lighting, &c., smaller "sub-districts" than our former sewers "levels," or even, in some cases, than the parochial divisions proposed by the bill, might not work pretty well. Bat the surface manneinent should, in my opinion, be subordinate and subsidiary to the far more difficult and important work of underground management. And it is for this reason that I object, 2dly. To the proposed 36 divisions for drainage pur poses. I object not so much to their unfairness, though it is difficun to understand on what principle some parishes have been dealt with in the bill. Why, Paddington for instance, with a larger and more rapidly increasing popu lation than St. Martin's in-the-Fields or St. James's, should be united to Hampstead, with which it is not par ticularly connected, while these two parishes (St. James's, occupying an area of only 165 acres) enjoy the same privi leges (except as to the sending one instead of two represen tatives to the Metropolitan Board) that are enjoyed respec tively by the parishes of Marylebone, which is 16 times, of St. Mary, Islington, which is 19 times, of Lambeth, which is 22 times, and of Camberwell, which is 28 times larger. But I object especially to the parochial character of these divisions, because the parochial boundaries clash, in almost every conceivable way, with the natural watershed boun daries of the eight valleys running down from the north into the Thames, and of a ninth from the west into the Lea. The consequence will be that the branch drains (or submains, as they are sometimes called), if constructed alo ig the best and cheapest lines, will cross a number of separate jurisdictions, with the certainty of delay, and the probability of differences arising between the several autho rities. If the branch drains are taken with reference to the limits of jurisdictions, rather than of watershed, they will be constructed at greatly increased expense, and must act with diminished efficiency. The parish of Marylebone, for example, drains in its different parts, along not one but three separate valley lines, down to the Thames. Oxford-street,fromEdge ware -road to Tottenham-court-road traverses four separate districts ; and moreover has its own sewer, running sometimes on one side of the street and sometimes on the othee, in different parishes, besides being crossed by numerous other sewers going down towards the Thames. It is true that, by clause iii, the Metropolitan Board may place part of a parish or parishes under the management of the vestry of another parish, but this will involve such complicated accounts and such nice questions of jurisdiction ; and, above all, the multitude of such cases as those described is so great, that this provision again must be considered rather as a confession of the hopeless inap plicability of the scheme than as a practical remedy for its simitted defects. 3. I object to the large number of members composing the district boards under the bill-120 being, under Hob house's Act, the number of vestrymen in all populous parishes without local ads, and therefore the number in most of the single parishes und er thi s bill ; and up wards of 45 being the average number in each of the 14 district boards formed by the union of parishes under the bill. The vestry of St. George's as a body, and many vestrymen individually, have declared their inability to transact the laborious and difficult business arising under this bill ; and, indeed, such large bodies are found in practice to deal far less efficiently and satisfac torily with detailed business than smaller ones, es pecially when that business is of a kind requiring a constant reference, not only to general principles, but also to the local specialties incident to former defec tive arrangements. Having worked hard myself for seve ral years, in company with some of the most eminent men in England, upon these matters, I can answer fur it that they are not to be dealt with so easily as some speakers at public meetings imagine. Notwithstanding the praises lavished by Sir B. Hall at different times upon the manner in which parish affairs have been managed by the large vestries of Marylebone and St. Pancras, I must be allowed to express my doubts whether, even in the far simpler matters of administra tion the working of those vestries has been so uniformly conspicuous for efficiency, economy, and discretion, as to lead to the conclusion that similar large bodies would deal satisfactorily with the far more complicated task of man aging the great public works below and above ground in their several districts. But decidedly as I object to the largeness of these boards, I object, 4thly, much more to the composition of the constituency by whom they are to be elected. This constituency is to co - isist wholly of ratepayers voting by single votes. No owner or lease-holder, what ever the amount of his property or the duration of this interest in that property, having, any vote as such in the choice of the bodies to be entrusted with such large powers of taxing and dealing with property. We shall be told that this is the case under the Munici pal Reform Act. I know that it is so; and as regards the Management of Works I deplore it ; because I know that the public works in towns managed by munici pal bodies are, with some striking exceptions, in a far from satisfaesory state. But even were the Municipal Reform cas e of working well w ith regar d t o san it ary ma tters, the s. of the metrop o li s i s no t para ll e l t o th e ca ses of those towns. The a The tax in th em i s genera l, an d levied - in the borough rate upon the ratepayers at metro polis, on the contrary, the sewers rats , large : 'ln law, and has the shape been for centuries, not an occupier's, which the tenant is entitled by law to but an deductown owners rate, a his landlord's rent. We shall be told that, in the hte tenant spe dally majority of cases, there are clauses in the leases by which the law had im. takes upon himself those chargesi which This is true to some extent , but posed upon his landlord. y no means !so extensively so. roo ters of the bill. I y as g o i Od all a e u g t e h d on Ll ty t , he th p a r t o—ni t o c; of say nothing of the constantly - recurring cases of leases ex piring an d change b of residence, and, consequently,. . t arel w arg d e e d fr i a s y tri t c he s ces sation of interesi w here e it is not the . p ractice . th ten faourt tenant — there occupier er rate. But it is said that in these cases the tenants sewers prac ti c ally pay the sewers rates in their rents, and that, therefore, the proposed arrangement is not an unfair one. If that be so, however, then the lodgers, an important p or tion of the population of the metropo li s have ... . . THE LOCAL ADMINTST R- 41 -r ----7 5.11 1 THE equally a right wi th th e ra t e p a y ers t o s h are in the rep re - MET.ROPOLLS: ' . sentation. If the single voting per capita is just with re , gard to the management qf s works, ,whiclis , are in . law ssi , ? charge trpcinhe owners, I kno* riot on what ground the lodgers are to be wholly excluded from voting ; and I for lone should regret their -being so, unless the owners are to be admitted. The principle of single voting in regard to the government of persons has always been recognised by the. Constitution, as is seen i n th e P ar li amen t ary franchise. I am not, therefore, adverse in the case of populous town Parishes to the Maintenance of this leading feature of Hobhouse's Act as regards the - management of relief to the poor, a matter evidently relating to the government of persons, and involving charges almost entirely.of a tempo- IlirY, though to a certain extent- a conateutly-recurring, nutcphaoannragapcerteenirpe.,:ttßit the application of - this principle , to.the a w n e d rks afre in et v i o e lvi f n e g r heavy a e n r d w l e a re st e in i g te b pe urd rre en a s .. nent value —in other wordsggi ' to a flucfuating body elected by men who have confessed ly vmg no permanent interest in that property, such an absolute h control over it —seems to me an anomaly not less isc ievous than unjust. If the ratepayers, as som e say in general f pay the sewers en rite, legally d ue f rom their landlords, th wehaee every probability of, the sanitary evils continuing f or t the most part unremedied, as th ey have been will be, in many of our corporate to ' and ns. For theaerapopoarlecnntg w ~ r a aa ve ratepa d yer I do not say the real, interest of the tem as distinguished from that of the landloXic the lodger below, him in the social scale, is to put Off'doinof anything to the last moment, and then to, do it asecoehnedaaprlyyg as possible ; the efficiency of the works being of s importance to him, and their permanency utterly indif ferent. The interests of the landlord and of the lodg er, on the cont rar y, are t o a great extent identical ; since efie.. ciency, which is generally found in conne cti on with dura bility and real economy, is to these parties far more im portant than mere cheapness at the moment. If, on the other hand, as others say, the sewers rates are in reality a landlord's tax, we have the anomaly of the landlords being excluded from all voice in the laying out of their own money on their own property—that is, representatio n would be, in fact, as it inevitably is in law, dissevered from taxation by this professedly liberal measure. My opinion, published last spring by Mr. Ridgway, and expressed viva voce over and over again during the last winter to large and apparently approving audiences, has always been, that both the class of owners and of long lease holders on the one band, and the classes of ratepayers on the other, ought in fair proportions to be represented in the several bodies for the management of public works. But, sthly, I object still more to the 'kind of suffrage proposed,,and to the mode of taking the suffrages than I do even to the single qualification or the single voting. It is proposed that every elector in 'every part of the parish shall be entitled to vote for the whole number of vestrymen, and shall in person take up to his polling place a voting paper containing the names of the whole or any less than that number. The parish of St. Pancras contains about 20,000 ratepayers. Each elector would therefore be entitled to vote at each annual' election for 40, and in the course of three years for 120, vestrymen. In that parish, therefore, alone,. supposing the ratepayers really polled out, the number of names would be 800,000, spread over 20,000 lists, all requiring to be scrutinised and ar ranged. But, further, St. Pancras ii 25 miles in circum ference, and extends overpart of Hampstead and Highgate. It comprehends, therefore, not only cr ow d e d s t reets, but also a rural district. What is a Highgate elector to do when he has exhausted the limited number of those among his neighbours willing, and, in his opinion, fit to serve in the office of vestryman with its double duties of relieving paupers and managing public works I Either he must vote one-sidedly for a mere Highgate list, or he must-take on trust some pink or blue parochial list , fall of names quite strange to him from the other side of the parish, in consideration of the insertion upon the list of some High gate man on whom he and his neighbours have confidence. Could any better specific be devised for insuring the maxi mum of electioneering agency with all its attendant jobbery and demoralising organisation ?—for excluding from the re presentation all members of the minority, .indeed all b u t the most deeply-pledg e d thick-and-thin partisans ?—for al ways securing, for the time being, an overwhelming influ ence in the assembly to one or other of the alternately suc- s,, cessful parties, each in turn obtaining its triumph through <' the fairest pr om i ses of efficiency and economy --- each in turn, after a short trial in office, being summarily ejected for failing to realise the expectations it had raised? Could , a more ingenious sc h eme b e d ev i sed for insuring the mini- i mum of consisten c y an d con ti nu i ty of action, the maxi- 1 mum of oscillation and reversal of policy in an adminis- i trative body; together with the greatest amount of change i and the strongest sense of insecurity in its paid, I dare not say, its permanent, officials ? Such, experience has shown, to be the natural result of voting " by the ticket," as it is called ; in other words, of the system of giving to a l arge body of electors a p ro p or ti ona t e number of votes each for a proportionately large number of representatives. The adoption of this course is the more indefensible when the , course of dividing a large constituency into divisions or wards, each returning some one, two, or three members, is recommended by such numerous precedents, and has for centuries worked so well. But, 6thly, the inherent evils of the " ticket " system of voting may be aggravated by the mode of taking the votes. And of all the known modes of taking such multitudinous votes, that adopted in the bill seems about the most incon venient, except that originally established by Hobhouse's Act—an act passed, however, before, not after, the success ful trial for 20 years,of the improved system introduced under the poor-law. How has the system embodied in this bill worked hitherto in the metropolitan pa rishes ? I will take those 'of Marylebone and St.' Pancras. Out of the 16,000 ratepayers in Marylebone at no one of the elections for the last three years have, I believe, as many as 5,500 voted ; though some of the con tests were fierce, and many conveyances were provided for the voters. Out of the 20,030 ratepayers in St. Pancras, I learn from the vestry clerk, scarcely more than 2,700 voted at the election under Hobhouse's Act in 1853 ; though great excitement is said to have prevailed, and long processions of cabs with banners flying and colours displayed are said to have been seen on the occasion. But at St. Pancras we have some instructive returns about an election in 18 5, conducted on the vote-collesting system. The number of ratepayers then was only 13,000, to whom must be added those entitled to vote as owners under the New Poor Law ; but the number of voters that voted—l say nothing of the number of votes liven —was ' more than 7,600. 1 may add that, at St. Martin's-in-the fields, with some 1,500 entitled to "a vote, on no occasion before 1833 had more than 750, or half, been brought up to the poll. Under the first. trial of the vote-collecting system upwards of 1,50,l voters, or near iths, voted out of the then constituency, which had only been slightly in creased by the addition of owners. But we shall be told that this has resulted portly from the want of additional polling places ; and partly from the absence of that greatly-increased interest sure to be felt by all classes in the election of persons to a trust of such large power and heavy responsibility. What do we find, however, at elections where there are plenty of pollihg places and still more stir r in g i n t eres t ? W hat do we see at Parliamentary elections ? 'What was the case oven at mine, when a far large number voted for me than ever had voted before in Maryleb one? a great number of mysupporters having recorded for the first time votes to which they had been long entitled. What happened where no expense was spared either by my manager or by my opponent's ? Scarcely more than half the constituency voted. And is this a singular case? Far from it, The Edinburgh Review gave a list of a dozen large constituencies, with an ag gregate of some 130,000 on the register. Of these not more than 55 per cent. (about 72,000 electors) voted at the contested elections at the last dissOlution. Nor is this indisposition in the very large constituencies to poll at all surprising, when we remember, that the cost of voting in the shape of time lost, trouble incurred or business neglected, is a constant quantity; while the value or propor tionate influence of a vote varies inversely with, magnitude of the constituency to which the voter belongs. . The re fusal of the franchise, and the imposition of a prohibitory duty of time and trouble (i.e., money's worth) upon its exercise, come practically to much the same thing. The grievance seems certainly more crying in the former case ; but is it practically much, if at all, more injurious ? You know whom you exclude by the refusal of the fran chise. But do you know whom you will exclude by your discouraging and prohibitory duty upon its exercise—by sending the unpaid many and the paid few, the electors to the poll-clerks • instead of sending the few so un d t o t h e many, the paid vote-collectors to the unpaid voters' refil -1 dences ? Ask any election agent—he will tell you of whole streets in the metropolis full of educated, respectable , and wealthy inhabitant s , w h o h ave scarcely ever contributed a vote to the decision of any parochial contest, and contribute very few indeed even to that of a Parliamentary contest. Even at my election I hear that three-fourths of the elec tors in some of the wealthiest streets and squares never voted at all ; while in Cromer-street lam told that the proportion polling was just about three-fourths. And yet if one or the other class, which I deprecate, is to be with held, which can be best spared from voting on a question relating to the management of works and the taxation of property ? It has been shr6wdly observed, as I have elsewhere said, that, especially in the middle and lower ranks, those who occupy themselves most about elections are either the best or the worst citizens. The best take part in public affairs from a sense of duty, religions or patriotic. The worst busy themselves in party contests either from a love of the excitement and conviviality attending elections, or else from the hope of gaining something in the way of patronage. There is, however, a large intermediate class of men of average in dustry and character, who care much for their own interests and their families, and comparatively little for public measures or public men. And these can with difficulty be persuaded, however . clear their preference, to support either one side or the other, at the expense of any of that time and trouble, which they value so highly and know, so well how to t urn t o account. And th i s class is probably nowhere in England more numerous than in the metropolis. I therefore think that it is particularly essential in this bill to adopt sotne such plan for encouraging the quiet and the infirm, the thoughtful and the impartial, the busy and the lazy, the fastidious and the timid—all to take their share in the public duty of electing local functionaries. I have dwelt thus at length upon the system of voting by votepapers at home, instead of at a poll, because it seems to me one of the most important questions connected with the franchise. With this system I should dread th in bill comparatively little, whatever objections I feltto a t n h composition of the constituency; without it I dre ad ;c°y measure such as this bill, because I judge from °pre i d in the metr opolis. governing assemblies will be returned of Works. MY by what class of the inhabitants almost exclusively the g I now come to the Metropolitan Boar d ose I have air,.dy objections to that are very similar to . th 'ea to their composition, I cannot, . metropolitan board J which this bo f mem urged at too great length to the distorifetcobnorasred,sb.e A.astiisfieehd with the constituencies by practical . is to elected. o l bi o e b e j t e i c o t n a m b le , e o , to n o th the large aicfire n olitu d t large number . m tr i a tes n r saction of bars of whom it ,i t s h t t o he b s e pe c e o d es y e at e n e o ed ne • ly incompatibility with hid' applies still more strongly to And I think this its business (a reason w Boards); 1 nb itfini itcyattsdie,:edsfe owfbfuooielrtrtchli,Pvvoneuoelmti between gettingsiia4cgotraohmol might (hihd.have vllsFegt) 'thosealso, lusdo,Dbei e i e n t ti to ie p t r oh this o large sed P a n r u o m c h b i e a r l aarvcelsr)a i g; :m but e lut r rn o l ri b i: )eb b rjs ody would afford opportu trliacrtg a gitation, though a smaller body, better through 3 work, instead' of 'talking poli tics, stirring speeches can arc ybe h il yets cause such i of an audience. In otphuisiaasrbseoludy. however, I think in times of ex 'an a;Wgiittahtoiuont, anxiety yly almost o f ex citement a formidable kind. For this will au abeltheeonofnelsys PI aril one of to the esta blishmentPntlrlgia,morentr, oufend.orgtthoexnepamree. t representing h oso who hododocof a t nu rhootolrmokoes look Metropolitanr ro quite p p ol e is s e sent, a population of more thlia two P millio s ri si s n - and a half (i.e., more than that of ally eSawr.itzerland), and increasing at The Prime Miyantpreehr,elnaskinonows., notthe rsnataereofthf these s l e l announced that he does h e bad no fear but that the Baltic fleet last _year would do hlarsealuember, however, that wonders in the north,andthe Alli e d armies take Sebas topolwould in di (3b the yhn south.tos4ue had no f ear th a t our sold i ers nds of cold, neg l ect, and privation. But the ab sence of all misgiving on hi s par t did not .pre vent, but, o n th e contrary, the occu rrence o f the s e dunk*. "The directors trust that the shareholders will agree with them, in thinking that these figures fully justify the anticipations held out in their previous reports, as to the result of the society's operations. The following directors, Samuel Driver, Esq.. Henry Peter Fuller, Esq., Edward Vansittart Neale, Esq , and Sir Thomas Newby Reeve, retire by rotation ; but being eligible for re-election, offer themselves accordingly. Henry Peach Buckler, Esq., and re Jo t h ire n Soperfrom office, Streeter, Esq., E t sq being . theeligibl e forel of re -election o e ti als offer o themselves accordingly. By order of the board of direc tors. F. Ferguson Camroux, Manager." The CHAIRMAN, in moving the reception and adop tion of the report, said he could not avoid stating the pleasure it gave him in doing so, recollecting, as he did that, at their first annual meeting he ventured to express in strong terms his decided opinion that the society must be successful, in Alonso. quence of the directors having formed the deter mination of making it of a highly honourable charac ter. Whether their business should be little or great, the directors made up their mind that this society should be one bearing the highest character an assurance society could bear, and he felt confi , lent at the time that in a country like this where straightforward conduct, if not at first, was at last sure to be appreciated, that such a society ought and would Aucceed. (Hear, hear.) It therefore gave him great pleasure to ask theca to a.lopt the report, which showed they had succeeded by his being able to ask them to declare a bonus of considerable extent on all the busi uess done in the office. (Hear.) The society's arrange- ments were such that be had no hesitation in stating that be looked forward to their business increasing, and their being ab!e to declare much larger bonuses than they bad yet done. Thor arrangemez , ta With regard to the country business had been much enlarged, and were capable of greater ext,nsion; but whilst the directors did all they could to improve and increase 'the business, it was the duty of every shareholder to assist them, which they could now do with confidence, in recommending the society to their fri , -nds as one which was sound in every respect. (Cheers.) He bad little to say to them on that occasion, his being, a simple tale, and soon told. He bad no apologies to make for any wrong-doings, but had only to point out in a straightforward and honest way the good and favour. able condition the society was in to ask them to receive and adopt the report. Mr. J. S. STREETER seconded the motion, believing most firmly that the society was deserving the confidence not only of every shareholder and policyholder, but the public generally. The motion was carried unanimously. The retiring directors, Samuel Driver, Esq., Henry Peter Fuller, Esq., Edward Vansittart Neale, Esq., and Sir Thomas Newby Reeve were unanimously re-elected, the Chairman announcing that Mr. John Fisher, of the firm of Messrs. Fisher and Robinson, of Watling-street, London, had been elected a new director. The retiring auditors, Henry Peach Buckler, Esq., and John Soper Streeter, Esq., were also unanimously re-elected. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Sir T. N. REEVE, the usual sum of 20 guineas was voted to the auditors as remuneration for their trouble in audit ing the accounts. Mr. STREETER acknowledged the compliment of his own and his colleague's re-election, and bore testimony to the accurate manner in which the accounts of the so ciety were kept. On the motion of Mr. GORING, seconded by Mr. SMITEI, the unanimous thanks of-the meeting were voted to the directors. Mr. NEALE returned thanks, congratulating the meet ing on the prosperous condition of the society as exhi bited by the accounts that day presented which indicated that the society must • have been fairly launched ; and he hoped it had a long and uninterrupted career of prosperity before it. (Cheers.) The commencement of institutions of this kind was the most trying time, both from the largeness of the expenditure and the com paratively speaking small returns; but having success fully passed over that period, and established themselves, they might fairly anticipate their expenses would be small in proportion as the business extended, and their profits considerably increased. (Hear.) The society was in a thoroughly sound condition, and would bear the most strict inspection from any person competent to judge of it. (Hear.) nieaptreomote the prom• The CHAIRMAN proposed a vote of thanks to the officers of the institution, who, he was happy to ;sr . , worked cordially together'for the benefit of thehseocit toot in owed them their thanks for the trouble t mu: r t ri res G u rt l i t r i r n iN t h . in conducting the businesi in such a soli carried unanimously. , ~ r in returning e se P c €2b on in d M. F. F. Camicaom aedneuttheberneesfiotluotfiotnl7 insur ed. Dire as: worked cordially pleasure to state that gn parts. The directors together, and endeavou red t til h a e n wt 1 6 8 3 01 as they could. The the selection of lives, and theit affordedofficers him o ft t hd h n e e nic s m ta h o - a the society was confined and he mentioned wholeparity f') the h et the society isodoecgidee t o y dtr fore, not having aq y et .operations tl England, one t r h be e nyiu r e i x e s h t k en ; ded their to Ireland, Scotland, ttsectoonsdteadteb'y mr. they rarely too k more than two or three because, bad they done otherwise, a this much la et careful li e fe th w i l n ier tof business might have been transacted. I rg "min alwaysos been tbhaed to m custom o t b h t e i e o a n d o e f o ofr M... that pi society 611 it t had were e xceedingly teal income, and it now amounted after its as lapsed policies, to 17,0371. ls. Bd. ; deducting all SMITH, a vote of thanks wa s a r.hich, having been acknowledgeda ccorded to the chairman, separated. by him, 'the meeting ____ LYCEUM THEITRt. m Madame A nna Tbi llon com e willnces a farewell engag e ment nex t M onday, when she appear as Ca tarina in Th e C rown Di amon d s, an d hseeerinagdmthlirserswill have an opp or t un i ty of. hearing , and cha rmingaetress and songstress in one of her b est character s . Madamen h T e h i n il o o n d 's u e il n t g engagement the mn t h t is e a t f r o e r six nights, an d there ca will be nightly filled to over fl ow i ng . ° Mr. Alcroft, With his good judgment, has made the price of admission very moderate, so that all classes may have an o pportunity of seeing this delightful actress previous to her final retire ment from public life. • Advises from St Petersburg to the Ist inst. state that there had been an increased inquiry fit hemp, owing to several vessels under the American flag being expected at Cronstadt. It was hoped they would obtain permis sion to discharge and load there, and hemp, h em p yarn , and iron were being sent down for shipment. Never theless, there were doubts of the success of the attempt, as the blockade of all the Baltic ports had been already announced. The weather continued fine, but the com munication with Cronstadt was still interrupted by the i ce . , From Riga the dates are to the 3d inst. Two ves sels had put to sea the day previously, and there had also been one arrival. The bay remained full of ice, and the weather; from a continuance of northerly winds, was very cold, 181 16i 171 90 89, 1 75 4i 1 . 241 4 64 i it s k i 8O I 71j 12• 47 60 59i 28 35} 17 21 12} if I lk / 2 21 204 i 20 i 104 i 3i 99 i i 21 i 21 P 69i 231 6 i m............, .. ten 4aa . And, with the sincerest re s p ec t f or hi s experiences sagacity, and statesmanship, I must be allowed to remark .that on co mplicated t domestid questions like the present one, which, till quite recently, he never professed having attended to, I have less confidence in his judgment than I have for it on military or foreig n affairs, to which h e h as long d evo t ed himself with such signal success. In conclusion, I will only add that though I do not ( think there is any chance of any serious opposition being made to the bill on the second reading to-day, I hope and believe that many useful alterations may be made in it in it s passage through the house. ' Indeed, without many such I thinkit neither could, nor ought to pass into a law. Requestingyou will be so good as to show this letter to the other members of the deputation, I remain, air, your obedient faithful servant, EBRINGTON. METROPOLITAN' COUNTIES AND GEE& BAL ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Yesterday (Wednesday) the seventh annual general meeting of this society was held at the society's office, Regent -street ; Mr. H. P. Fuller in the chair. The notice conveying the meeting having been read, Mr. F. F. CAMBOUX, the' manager, then read the fol lowing report of the directors, with the financial state ment and report of Mr. Woolhouse, the actuary : " The directors of the Metropolitan Counties and Gene ral Life Assurance Society have the gratification of report. ing to the members of the society a steady progress during the last year. Notwithstanding the unusual obstacles which the state of commercial affsirs has offered during a great part of that time to the growth pf the business of an assurance office, the directors have ilisued in this year a larger number a policies assuring a larger sum than the year last preceding :—the number of policies issued being .102, assuring 1 09,150'., and producin g an an nual income a the b o namescom pleted co prising of m any gentlemen of the first respects circumstance to w hi c h t h e b oar d re f ers with much satr'sf action, as a testimony t o th e hi g h o h s - . ratter which the daring the year ha y societ has attained. The claims paid 1,038. lls. 6d. l es s ve a mounted to 2,6551. 18 s . Od. ; b e i ng of the society is than d ur i ng the last year. The income y now 17'037/' is ' Bd. ; after deducting all lapsed policies. The rec . the present occasion, in directors have to submit to you on to the usual annual statement of account, a r esu l t s o a d d ition port from Mr. Woolhouse, your actuary, upon the result fs o society during th e fi rst seven the b us i ness done by the which it appears that the Years of its existence, from y is now in a position to declare to its sharehold er, a b upon their paid-up capital, and to thosec!f7i per cent. Policy -holders who are entitled to participate in profits. an average bonus of 33 per cent, upon the premiums paid. Mr. Woolho use has assured the board that in making the calculati on s upon vision this report is founded, he has allowed itmpulseupron vision for every claim to which the society can be subject, and that the result is the legitimate conclusion from the figures representing the present state of its assets and liabilities, without any attempt on his part to produce an issue in its favour. The directors have therefore no hesitation in recomend ing the declaration of a bonus to the extent mentioned by Mr. Woolh ouse , I n the case of the shares, this bonus will be added to the amount paid up, and will bear interest ac cordingly. In the case of the policy-holders, the bonne may at their option be applied in reduction of premiums, instead of being taken as an addition to the sum receivable on death. .To illustrate the operation of this bonne, the following cases have been selected from policies now in force suppressing the names :-----:- ..; 4 o Option of .2 0 z.; Amount 4 ; . ~: Annual of "EI g ,g ... M =24 Age 4 Pre- Pre- 'O, gb . s :E.FEt -r, .... 4 s mium. mi.. 5 102, .4 t. 4 - ,5 al 6- igg,zl t ti Paid., rs 4t. ~‹ .zi ...; 3 5,4 a, .0 Cwt .4.. 4 el , ciS 8 A ___ ......... ............... £ S. d. £ s. d . £ s. d. £ s. d. X B. d. 1848 38 1000 30 19 2 216 14 2 5 8 4 58 3 0 1058 3 0 1849 26 1000 22 010 132 5 C 3 6 1 44 16 6 1044 16 6 1850. 30 1000 25 6 81.6 13 4 3 3 4 40 14 11 1040 14 11 1851 25 1000 21 15 0 87 0 1 , 2 3 6 31 2 0 1031 2 0 1852 32 1000 26 8 4 79 5 I 1 19 8 25 910 1025 910 —— - - Ofi l° 69 i 89i i 184 i 40i i