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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Apric 23. BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS BILL. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) Mr. NEWDEGATE of j ‘cted to the declaration upon the principle that it would have the effect of bring ing all declarations into contempt. Lord J. RUSSELL Lit bound to vote against the clause, expressing his opinion that the Bill would not even, it' carried into stringent effect, be sufficient to prevent the practice of bribery under the cloak of giving a fair remuneration to a voter for the expenses which he incurred in going to the poll. The Noble Lord then cited the case of Mr. Strutt, and stated his firm belief that no man could have been actuated by higher motives than that gentleman--(Loud cheers) — and yet he had been unseated by the decision of a Com mittee, and if this Bill had been the law of the lard, he could not possibly have come up to the table and make the declaration which it required.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") On the whole he thought that the Bill would produce more of injury than benefit.—(Gear.) Sir ROBERT PEEL was induced to object to this Bill because he conceived that it was only leading the House to take delusive securities. The Right lion. Baronet then went on in a very happy strain of humr, to show how the provisions of the Bill might be avoided by any clever solicitor in a small borough, where he was a man of influence, and who chose to take his reward in the shape of a Government office instead of a pecuniary re turn. He had merely made these observations with a view to show that the security, if taken, would be only a delusion, and that it would be simply giving the dishonest and unscrupulous an advantage over the sensitive and conscientious man.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. BROTHERTON said that although there was an evidently expressed desire for the suppression of bribery, yet the question still remained—was:that really the case? He could conscientiously say that he had never been guilty of bribery—(Cries of " Hear, hear")—but yet his election had not cost him less than 4,0001; and he knew that the expense of such affairs must always be consider able.—(Hear, hear.) If this Bill were not sufficient for its purpose, the measure of his lion. Friend the Member for Montrose (Mr. Hume) was so. Members of a consti tuency generally supposed that they were doing a candi date a wonderfully great service by sending him to that House; but what he (Mr. Brotherton) wished to impress upon constituencies was, that Members were sent to that House, not for a privilege, but to do their business.— (Hear, hear.) At any rate this was a move in the right direction, and he should support the proposition of the Hon. Baronet. After a few words from Mr. Sharman Crawford, from Mr. Hume (who said that if his proposition with re spect to the ballot was adopted the mischief would be avoided altogether), and from Mr. Aglionby, Sir J. PAKINGTON, in reply, said that after the opposition which had been offered to this clause of the Bill, ho did not feel justified in putting the House to the trouble of a division, but still it was due to those Hon. Members who had supported him to proceed in the way which they deemed to be most advisable.—(Loud cries of " Divide, divide.") He was satisfied with the testimony which had been borne to the singleness of his purpose in introducing the Bill.—(Cries of " Divide, divide.") The House then divided, when there appeared— In favour of the clause ... 54 Against it Majority against the clause . . 92 On re-entering the gallery we found Sir J. PAKINGTON speakine,r, and moving that the Chairman report progress and ask leave to sit again. This was agreed to. BANKRUPTCY (IRELAND) BILL. This Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. SUNDAY TRAVELLING ON RAILWAYS. Several petitions having been presented both in favour of and against this B Mr. LOCKE said that, in moving the second reading of this Bill, he should have thought that he might have relied on the good sense of the House to affirm its pro visions, especially when,his only object was to attach a certain number of carriages to the trains which were already teluired to run under the authority of the law, and he should not have felt justified in occupying any considerable portion of its time. But after the nature of the opposition which had been developed, he did feel it necessary to say something to justify his determination to proceed. It might be necessary to premise that he did not propose to add a single additional train on the Sunday. By the Ist and 2d Victoria, chap. 98, all railway companies were compelled to provide carriages for the conveyacce of the mails, on any day, et. at any time of the day, which the Post-office authorities might require. All he proposed to do was, to add some car riages to those trains which already ran ; and if Hon. Members were as well acquainted as he was with the numerous cases of great individual hardehip, they would agree with him in the neceisity for some remedy. Among others he might cite that of the Duchess of Sutherland, who, in consequence of a notice of the immi nent danger of her father, had posted all through the north of Scotland to the terminus of the Caledonian Rail way, having sent messengers before her to secure a place in the train; but, on her arrival, was refused a place, and as all knew, had arrived too late to find her parent alive.—(llear, hear.) The lion. Gentleman then cited the case of a physician in Glasgow, who had re peatedly been prevented either from attending his patients, or returning to his practice, on the Sunday. No later than last Seeday an Hon. Member of that House, who had posted from the Highlands of Perth, before parting with his postilion, but after the latter had received his fee, was told by him that he hoped he was going to London to vote against this Bill, and on being asked why, answered, because it was the only day on which he had any business.—(llear, lacer.) The Hon. Member then went on to show that the provi sions of the Bill could be carried out without employing any viditionel hands, with the exception of a clerk to take and give tickets to the passengers. Before railways were thought of, mail-coaches, ferries, and post horses had been employed in travelling on Sundays in Scotland, and he would ask the opponents of the Bill why the people of Scotland were to be deprived of those advantages which they possessed before railways existed? Not a single petition had been pre sented from the working men, who would be most affected by the measure, against it, but, on the contrary, he believed meetings of their body had taken place in order to petition in favour of the measure. The Honourable Member then proceeded to contend that the greatest demoralization existed in Scot land, which ho attributed to the strict stop put upon the innocent recreations of the people there, under the semblance of the observance of the Sabbath, and concluded by moving the second reading of the Bill. Mr. WIVAN thought that a mope obnoxious or tyrannical measure than the present could not bo intro duced. More bad been made of the Duchess of Suther land's case than it called iur. He thought the case of the railway - servants ought to be taken into con sideration, and that soint thing ought to be done to give them rest on the Sabbath-day. Ile be lieved also that it was the wish of the Postmaster- General to lessen the labours of the officers of the Post office on Sun(lays. He thought the House ought not to legislate on the question of travelling on railways on Sunday; but that the solusion of the question should be left to public opinion, end entertaining those opinions he would move UT:A the Bill should be react a second time th Lt day six clonil:s. _ _ Mr. MACGREGOR. opposed the second rtadingof tis Big, as being directly opposed to the religious feel ings of the ueonle c f Se9tland. LA . BOUCIIERE claimed for the House the full ri i ;lit to legislate on this quesion, and in anything he might state he Legged it to b.: under stood that he was speaking personally, and not as a Member of the Government. B,lieving, that tho Bill would give a great shock to the feelings of a large number of the people of Scotland, he should vote aga i ns t the second reading of the measure. His impression was that they had better leave the mea sure to the progress of public opinion, and such being the else, he should certainly vote against the second reading. Mr. PLUMPTRE said that the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Locke) wished to introduce a new principle into legisla tion. He wished to make a human law to induce people to break a divine law, when they had no inclination to break it. When he and his late friend, Sir A. Agnew, had brought in a Bill, to oblige a due observacce of the Sabbath, they were accused of endeavouring to make people religious by Act of Parliament..—(Hear.) Such an absurd idea never entered their head, ; but he might observe that this was a Bill to make people irreligious by Act of Parliament, and this, he trusted, would never be countenanced by that Howie.—(Wear.) Mr. HUME - said that, as a representative of Scot land, he was bound to say that he had presented twelve petitions from the burghs which he represented against the Bill, and three in favour of it ; but in making this statement he was also bound to remember that he did not sit there as the representative of one particular place, but to consider the interests of the whole empire. —(Hear, hear.) No one was more desirous in this country than he was to preserve a due observanca of the Sabbath-day, but so far as he could observe no attempt had been made to grapple with the real arguments of the case. At any rate they had not been answered—(Hear, hear)—and he was, indeed, astonished to hear the decision of the Bight Hon. Gen tleman, one of the Ministers of the Crown, had come to, to oppose the second reading of this Bill. He must protest against any such dogma as that which had been pro • claimed, that railways were to be treated as private pro perties. The very grounds o r n which permission had promote been craved by the o f those railways was, that they were to be made for the s pu blic benefit.—(Hear, b ea r.) Such being the case, what bec ame of the objections which had been made to the proposed to be given to the people of Scotland to a m : l a o il n t t h h emselves of e abbath the benefit of railway communication Sabbath day? ? Taking the matter only in its theological was well worthy of the consideration of tlae vi 7 u th e a it i They had it in the evidence of Mr. Hill anothelir one of the great causes of crime was the rational amusement to the people. What was the preven tione of that the people of Glasgow and of Edinburgh w ere ason more deeply immersed in criminality than those even of the large manufacturing towns of England? Nothing, ac. cording to the best authority, but the deficiency of op portunities for reasonable recreation. Again, it should be observed that by the enactment of this Bill they would be reducing the amount of labour employed on the Sab bath-day, for according to the Hon. Member who brought in the Bill, only ten persons more were required to give full accommodation to the public than 'those who were already-engaged in the transmission of the mails. All these reasons combined to induce him to give the Bill his most hearty support. Mr.IHEALD reiterated Mr. Plumptre's arguments, and having expressed his opinion that the mover had be€n emtuated by the best intentions, concluded by asserting his intention of voting against the Bill. Mr ' BAILLa CuCHRANE couceiyed that the het *Polon haQ9444lctediaistaelf. Mr. PETO said that he would yield to no one] in that I House in his dcs're to secure a due observance of the Sabbath-dsy, but then he conceived that it cught, in order to be useful, to be an intelligent observance, anl he trusted the House would affirm the principle of this Bill, in order to give to the people of Scotland the., whole advantage which the railway system was calculated to con'er. Mr. F. 11IA.ULE said that it was a singular circum stance that petitions signed by upwards of 36,000 per sons had been presented against this Bill, and but very few in favour of it. The principle of the Bill was alto gether against the feelings of his countrymen, and he should give it his decided opposition.—(Hear, hear, and cries Afterof b a ‘ Divide, etd we r di s v i d e." ) from Mr. C. BRUCE, The LORD-ADVOCATE brif fly expressed his dis approbation of the Bill.—(Loud cries of "Divide.") Mr. CIIARTERIS arose, in the midst of repeated cries of " Divide," and said that he had but one word to say in reply to the remarks of the Hon. Member for Mon trose on the moral state of Glasgow by reminding him that It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest."—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) It was evident that the system of rail way communication had superseded all other means of conveyance, and some means were evidently necessary to obviate the evil which such a monopoly was likely to occasion. Mr. MOORE said that the Right Hon. Gentleman at the head of the Board of Trade had justly stated that this Bill was a balance of two evils. That Right Hon. Gentleman had come to one conclusion, but he (Mr. Moore) had come to another, and should support the Bill. Mr. REYNOLDS said that he found by a return that there were sixteen railways in Scotland in active use, eight of which were worked on Sunday, and eight of which were not; so that it appeared after all that it was merely a geographical question, and the religious and the irreligious railways were set against each other. The Honourable Member was proceeding in a humorous strain to descant upon the assumed sanctity of those who opposed the measure, when the feeling of the House was so expressed that he refrained, and con.' eluded by regretting that any theological consideration should be mixed up in a question which was purely com mercial in its character. After a few words from Mr. SCOTT, who expressed his opinion that the feeling of the whole of Scotland was against the Bill, the House divided, when there appeared— For the second reading ... ... 122 Against it Majority against the second reading... --9 The Bill is consequently lost. The other orders of the day were then disposed of and the House adjourned shortly before Six. o'clock. AUSTRIA. Gallicia is in a state of indescribable ferment. Serious disturbances, the Vienna journals inform us, have broken out at Cracow, where the country people make common cauae with the insurgent citizens, and burn the barns in which the Imperial soldiers are quartered. An engagement hetween the insurgents and the soldiery took place at Chrzanow. The sol diers were routed. The Allgemeine Zeitung has letters from Walla chia, of the 7th instant, which positively contradict the late news of the entrance of another Russian corps into Transylvania. Howevei this may be, letters from Bucharest, of the 9th instant, state that the Russian General Lilders had gone to the Transyl vanian frontier by way of Rimnik. PESTU, APRIL 17.—Yesterday afternoon a brisk cannonade was again heard, and the insurgents who had appeared at Palota yesterday were now seen in great numbers at Rakos, below Czinkcta. The Im• penal troops were drawn up in a long line on the north-west of the capital. At half-past nine the insurgents commmenced a brisk cannonade on the Rakos bridge, and made a feint of attacking the Imperial right wing. The Imperialists, however, returned the fire with great energy, and compelled them to withdraw the artillery end f-tll back upon Czinkota. The Imperialists, seeing this advantage, advanced their artillery, and opened a very destructive fire. The insurgents again had to remove their field pieces, and withdrew the troops on the right wing, where they met with a very obstinate resistance to the mountain ridges lying to the left of Czinkota. The c innonade continued without intermission till half-past five, when it suddenly ceased, and at this moment the Imperial troops are rallying to the right wing of Baron Jellachich.—Pesth Gazette. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. The Kolner Zeitung has advices from Apenrade, of the 21st, stating that a brigade of Schleswig- Holstein troops entered Jutland on the morning of the 20th instant. The brigade consists of the Ist Rifles and two battalions of foot, with the usual comple- ment of horse and artillery. The statements of the Cologne Gazette are borne out by our Hamburgh correspondence, which is of the 22d instant. Our correspondent further informs us that the preparations for storming the Island of Alsen are still going on. Some heavy battery trains have been brought to Duppeln, and among them some 84 pounders. A postscript to our Hamburgh letter announces the taking of Kolding by the Schleswig troop, under General Bonin, on the 20th instant. Kolding lies about one mile and a half from the frontier cf Schleswig, and nearly five miles from the fortress of Fredericia. THE FRENCH NAVY. (From the Journal des Debats.) The budget of the Marine is about to be discussed two or three days hence. In:the fever for savings, more or less prudent, more or less reasonable, which seems to govern the last anxieties of the Assembly, we may ask whether the navy will find any mercy before this ardour —too blind to allow of any mistake for an electoral watchword. We do not hope as much, but we would at least prevent the throwing overboard of the very thing required to steady the ship during the storm, and to save the most precious part of its freight —the crew. The considerable reductions demanded by the com• mission are of two kinds, like the two great divisions of the departmeat, viz., personal and material. Nobody in France can have yet forgotten the sponta neous acclamations of the country, the press, and, above all, the Chamber, unanimously voting, after two eloquent speeches from MM. de Lamartine and Thiers, the sub vention of 93,000,000 demanded in 1846 by P.I. de Mackau, then Minister of Marine, for the increase of the materiel of the fleet. That credit, distributed over a period of seven years, is not yet exhausted. We can understand its applica tion being postponed—we can understand the reduction fur a time of every expense not indispensable to the materiel, and the limitation of the expenditure for a short time to the urgent necessities of reparatioa and replacing, in order to prevent the decline or decay of the immense property of our arsenals. We admit, in a word, that the navy, like all other branches of the public ::,ervice, ought to bear its share of the sacrifices which the country is obliged to impose on itself, even in op po , iti , :n to its mo,t legitimate and most manifest sym pathies. But if, although with regret, we suffer judgment to pass on this he ad, we do not think that the personnel can be subjected to the same sacrifice, because we are convinced that it would be striking our navy—one of the glories and one of the essential forces of the country — to the very heart. We will only here allude to the mi litary and navigating personnel—the vital and real force of the fleet; and a simple comparison will suffice to show that the actual staff of our naval officers cannot be re duced without rendering the ordinary service of the state of peace perfectly crushing and overpowering, if not immediately impossible. The English navy includes 4,700 officers, and the French 1,600. In the English navy the proportion of the officers to the total number of ships is in the ratio of 7 to 1; in France it is only 4 to 1; that is to say, that if for any contingency whatsoever you were required to arm your fleet, however reduced at this present moment, you would not have—far from it—the necessary per sonnel in officers. You would not have one left fur the harbour service; not one would have time to be ill or to take a day's rest! Can it then be necessary to repeat, in order to prove how tenderly this state of the naval staff requires to be treated, the lessons which our history has only taught us too dearly? The spontaneous creation of naval offi cers cannot be decreed like their instantaneous suppres sion, by abruptly terminating their career berme the regular time for the sake of an insignificant saving— less than 300,0001., if the retiring pensions that must be allowed them be taken into thelaccount. Would the Republic, for the second time, attach its name to the most afflicting reminiscences of our naval annals? It ono day believed that men—brave, no doubt, but who had not gained their ep au l e tt es by th e hierarchial instruction indispensable to special corps, might replace the officers formed and grown gray on board our squadron; it intrusted its ships to them— and the navy of France has not yet repaired its disasters; and she has required more than thirty years of peace, military or scient ific expeditions, active naviga tion and serious studies, more and more exacting, to re-construct a navy worthy of her, not by the number, but by the acknowledged merit of its . officers. Need we insist further.? Will a beggarly r s t a a v i i a ng fu b t e ur a e ll , ow of ed th t e o destroy the laborious past, the certain French navy ?We cannot believe it.. . M. Charles Dupin has shown . with his u s s n u d al th ta e lent in figures rigorously exact, the little reason in the im mense danger of the radical reforms demanded . naval personnel. The support of M. Dupin has never been wanting to the navy. It is to be regretted that representative admirals, removed from Paris for the ser vice of th e R epu bli c, h ave no t b een able to quit their posts for a day to come and defend, with their authority and experience, their arm thus attacked, perhaps with more passion than justice, and more levity than con viction. We hope, however, that the naval officers, in de fault of their natural defenders in an assembly too few in number or too timid, will meet with men who most know and appreciate them, for they know their lives and their devotion, and if the school to which they belong is an easy and speedy affair; we allude to the generals of the African army, of which our navy has, so to speak, formed part for the last 19 years, and whose testimony it ought not to fear invoking. We still hope that the navy will be defended with energy on this same question , by the represen tatives of the seaports in what concerns the effective of the seamen and the masters, any reduction of whom, at the ~m oment when our maritime com merce is far from huipg ramrod its activity, Quid ho a saving at once disastrous and cruel. We even venture to rely on the support of all men of any prudence, with out any re;arence to opinion. - The I.`;ational AssinLly will not destroy in a few seconds, by an ill-considered vote, the irreparable work of ages—the fruit of the trea sures and the blood of France. ' Dividend Amount Kanto of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. --- - -- - A s. d. A s. d. .iustralasia •• .. -•• •• - 40 0 0 40 0 0 23M Britsh North American 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 - Ceylon •••• .. • • ...... 71. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Cnnmercial of London 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 - ............Si. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Gloucestershire ...... 15/per cent. - - _ 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Londn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 - - - 13 0 0 - London Joint-Stock .•• 16 1. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 - Provincial of Ireland • • 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Ditto, New. •.•• • • • • 81. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 - National of Ireland .. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 - Nat. Provncial of Eng. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 - Ditto, New. ••. - -5/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 - South Australia ...... I 51. per cent. - 22 10 0 - Union of Australia.. .• , 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Ditto .............. ; 61, per cent. - 210 0 - Union of L0nd0n..... 1 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 10M Union of Madrid ..... I - 40 0 0 40 0 0 - • INSURANCE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. £ s. d. £ s. d. Albion .. -..•••• •• •• 31. 10s. 500 0 0 50 0 0 75 Alliance Brit. and For. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 13 Ditto Marine....... 61. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0' - Atlas 136.6d.prsh. 50 0 0 5 6 8 15 British Commercial - 7s.per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 5% Clericl,Med.&Gen•Life spr et.& bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 19 Caunty .............. 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -- 14s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 - Eagle . . Eng.& Seet.Law - European Life ••- •• 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. - Family Endowmnt Soc. 41. & bs. 100 0 0 4 0 0 - Freemasons' .•• -•• .• C per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 - Globe - - Glardian ---••- •• 51. 100 0 0 36 10 0 - Imperial Firs •••••• • • 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 220 imperial Life ........ 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 15 indemnity Marino •• • • 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 - Law Fire ---- .. •• - 100 0 0 210 0 2% Law I ife •• •••••• •• .. 11. 16s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 45 Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 041 10s Loi.den Fire ........ 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15 Landon Ship ........ 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15 ifarine ••••••••• •• •• - 100 0 0 1 5 0 0 - lied. Invlid& Gen • Li fe 4%1. per et. 50 0 0 2 0 0 - National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 - National Life.• .. ..... fil.per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 - Palladium Life ..... ... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 210 s. Pelican • . • • •• • • • • •• • • - - - - - 141 E PTcrte a c ix te . r . iiie. .. . ..: ....... 3 54 1. . P P: h r . !en b t s .. 20 - 0 010 0 - Provident Life --..- 11. ss. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 26 Rock Life -- - - ss. 6 0 0 010 0 5% Royal Exchange ...... 51. per cent. Stock. - 184 San Fire • • - . - .... ~ 61. 10s. - - 203 Ditto Life ... • . ..... 11. fis. - - 44 Universal Life........ 10% pr cnt. 100 0 0 9 0 0 - Vhitoria Life.. - .... 51. per cnt. - 40 0 4N BRIDGES Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ------ ------ A. s. d. Z. s. d. Charing-cross- .... - - 25 0 0 - Southwfk, Nw Sub. Av. - 632 12 8 -1% Ditto Nw of 756 p.c. 355. per cent. 50 0 0 - 4 Waterloo .......... „ - 100 0 0 -3% Ditto Old Ann. of 81. li. ss. 4d. - 60 0 0 27 Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11. 2s. 2d. - 40 0 0 24 Vauxhall .... • - Ay. 11. 17s. 70 10 3 - 24 DOCILS. • Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. ---- - -- A s. d. £ s. d. Commercial • • ....... 41. per cent. Stock. - 75 East and West India... 61. pr cent. Stock. - 131' East Country - - London 51. pr cent. Stock. - 111% Ditto Bonds •• -- - 41. per cent. - - - St. Katharine ••• • - - 4 per cent. Stock. - 82 Ditto Bonds •....... 45{1. pr cent. - - - Southampton •• •• - - 1111 21. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 - Name of Company. East London..•• •• •• •• Grand Junction • • • • •• Kent................ Lambeth •• • • .. •• •• •• New ltivr Lndu Brdge Vauxli all .. .. .. .. .. .. West Middlesex . • • AND CORE CO Dividend 1 Amount per 1 of Annum. Share. British • • •• • • •• • • • • •• Ditto PrOVIIICIal• • • • Bristol • • • • •• • • • • • • •• Brighton .• •......... City of London .• • • • • continental Consolidat. Equitable•• • • •• • • • • • • Imperial •• .... • • • • •• Independent ..... • • •• London...—. • • • • • • • • 8. d. 40 0 0 20 200 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 Z. 5. d. 18 0 0 19 0 0 11. Bs. 1 101. per cent. 51. per cent. 101. 925. pr share / 455. pr share 61. per cent. 61. per cent. Vhcenix . .......• •• • • ftateliff —•• • .. • • •• • • United General •• • • • • Westminster Chartered Ditto, New • • • • -• • • 100 0 0 39 5 0 60 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 51. per cent. 5/. 4% I. pr cent. 3/. 12s. 46 0 0 90 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 CANA.I.s, .; I 4 Names of Dividend Price. Names of „,,°; 'Dividend Companies. A per , Companies. t's El° l. Peet ALI .iusrrhe: n t wtari t s:h2k o hc i a. o :.sl : cl 9 3o3 7 s3,: A 1 153 4 72 11 1 1 .: .1 48 - 21 sr ld neo a niao c k c .ry l B: es tkot tl ir: e do l s d stat.i . 1 37 0 51823 0 A 763 2 1 n : 1 / 11 ..... pi1 1 1 : 0 0 .8_ ; 5c.. ... I E 3I. 80:, 1 c 4 B trnsley... • 160 i 121. 180 Neath ...... nrknk&Abrg 150 1 51. 85 Oxford...-. 1 1001 201. 185 100) 181. 340 Coventry.... 100' 2 5 1. 2&0 Regent's .. .. Derby .•• . . 100 61. 63 Rochdale.... 8 5 41. 54 (3randJunctnloo 51. 80 Sttfril &Wore 1 40 281. 310 Grand Surrey 100 21. 30 Shrewsbury.. 151. - .irand Union 100 11. 103. 24 Stourbridg°- 12 1455 2Ol. 285 Grantham • • 1 150 - - Seve rn andi Kenut & Awl' 39 7s. 6d. 534 Wye Rail. j 26 21 . 05 . 22 f.e3 , lBSt LiTrp' 100 301. 320 Warwick& 7 Leicester .. • • 'l4O 5 !. 63 % Riming. i 100 41. 50 `,eicstr &Nth' 83 41. 45 Warwiek&l 1 0 0 ' . '',. 41 Nionmouthsh 100 81. - Worcstr l bothrhborogh 142 7 01 . 650 Napton.. Sc 78 21. 41 Antgemryshlloo --- Birming. j Meitn3lwbryl 100 - - Wilts & Brks - 11. 10 LIST OP SCOTTISH •CONIPANIES' PRICES ---- Dividend Amount Name of Company per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. --------- ------ 100 0 0 100 0 0 193 British Linen Company 81 . pe r cent. Bank of Scotland 71. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 161 Jaledonlan Bank .. 8 per sent. 10 0 0 210 0 3!. 18 City of Glasgow Bank . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 111 0 0 0 0 15 1 2 2 N 0 C 9/. 7s ~ ; ° ClydesdaleEasternm Bank I aa Bankl n ßank k .. . : ... ... ... 6 7 6 31: .. perppee per cent. cent. c e e a n n t . cant. 5 2 2 0 5 0 0 :0 0 0 0 10: 0 0 0 Edinb.k Glasgow Bank 6/. per cent. 50 0 50 0 53{ [aleE x a 1 0 1 a f n s g i e lL ll n nk .to o in t S p e a o i t iy 7 41. . p p e e r r c c e e n n t t . . 1 , 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 7 0 0 0 0 0 30_ National Bank 034 per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 131, North of Scotland Bank 41. percent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 31.17 a. North British Bank: - 50 0 0 10 0 0 4.4.6 d Royal Bank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 116 1 4 urnionßank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 803 Western Bank-. -• • • 81. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 73 % Aberdeen Fire and Life 7%1.pr cent. 12 10 0 20 0 216 B. Accord. Life and Fi re - 20 0 0 011 0 _ dritish Guarantee Ins. 4/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 lOs Od C E a d l i e n d b o u n r i g a n n Fire Life in Insur.ur 6 - 17 . . per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 21 Church of England Ins. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2 City of Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 '2l. Ila East of Scotland Lif e - Eng. & Scot, Law Lif e 5 / .percent. 50 0 0 217 6 - Hercules Insurance Co. 71. p er cent. 1 00 0 0 10 0 0 - 12 10 0 Incur. Co. of ficetlnd- Cl. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - per cent. 10100 00 0 0 102 15 00 9, 1 . 7 0. 1000% d Life Assoc. of Scotland 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 11 . 63 - Sfercantile Life .... 10 0 0 010 0 3s. Od. National Fire and Life 51 . per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 1203.6 d North British Insur... North & West of Scot. 61 . per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 171.6 d, - Scottish Life and Gua r , 20 0 0 011 0 1 _ Acot. Max. and Gan. Life 5341. pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 I 22U - 1 0 0 015 0 1 - Scottish Union Invitee. 6U 1. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 ' 11. 2s Standard Life ....., , 51. per cent. 50 0 0 5 0 I 9u United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 0 i 145.6 d MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount Name of Company, per of Paid. Price, Annum. Share. _____------ - -.-.. Z. a. d. X. a. d. Australian Agriculturl - 100 0 0 30 0 0 -. .{,nglo-31exican Mint.. 11. 4s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 - Ditto, Halt Shares.. - - 210 0 -. Canada .. •••••• • • • • • 61. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 31 - 88 Cit U y PP - r Canada Bonds 51. percent. - Navigation „„- - 9014 c o mp.Cppr Mare Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 70 0 0 - Gen• Revers. & Invest. sp. c.k bs, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 90 Equitable Reversionry s'. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 Gen.SteamNaTigation 11. Bs. 15 0 0 14 0 0 London Institution ... - - 178 15 0 - Russell Institution •. .. - - 1 26 5 0 3 Peninslr& Orient.Stm. 81. per cent. 50 0 0 1 50 0 0 67% Reversionary Int. Soc. IV pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 90 Royal Mail Steam•• • • 61 15..4. p. c. 100 0 0 60 0 0 533 South Australian ....• 1/. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 16 Iran Dieman's Land.. - 100 0 0 23 0 0 - Mr. French, M.P., had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Downing. street. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, and Sir Robert Ferguson, had interviews yes terday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office, for the Governors of Malta and Ceylon, and for the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. AMERICAN PAPERS. The latest accounts from the gold regions are dated San Francisco, February 7. We extract the most interesting points from the lengthy details which appear in the papers. From San Francisco, on the 23d of January, Captain Folson writes as fol lows : " Since my last private communication nothing has occurred to change the general views I then ex pressed in relation to California. Within the last few weeks much has been said and done in regard to the organization of a Provisional Government for this territory. several villages have appointed dele gates to attend a convention for the arrangement of fundamental laws for the country, and other elections are now understood to be taking place in the remote parts of the country. It is proposed to have the Convention assembled at the Pueblo de San Jose, about sixty miles from this place, on the 4th March ; but I believe it will be found impossible to assemble all the delegates at that time, and it will probably be found expedient to defer the meeting until it is known that the present Congress has not acted on the ques• tion of a territorial government. " The only tribunals which have attempted any jurisdiction in cases of murder, &c., some months past are those formed for the occasion as it arises, and offenders generally escape, or, if they are taken, it is amidst the frenzy of popular excitement, where the guilty and innocent may be victims together. Seve ral executions have taken place in pursuance of this kind of law, and it is supposed that several others will be announced by the next mail from the south. In the meantime, outrages are occurring in all quar ters of the country, and the public astonishment has scarcely subsided after one murder has transpired be fore another is committed more horrible than the first. House-breaking, thefts, and robberies are of almost hourly occurrence. " Within the last five or six weeks we have had weather of extraordinary severity. It is said to be the coldest season experienced here since that of 1823- 24. In the gold mines the snow nas been four feet deep, and at Sutter's Fort ice has formed three inches in thickness. Within two weeks the streets of this village have been repeatedly whitened with snow and hail, and the hills within sight, on the opposite side of the bay (12 miles distant), have been capped with snow for the last 15 days. Very heavy and protracted falls of rain have now swept off the snow from all the hills within sight; but high in the mountains, among the mines, it is thought that they have had nothing but snow. If so, it must have fallen to a very un usual depth. We now have cool winds and occa sional rains, but the severity of the latter, it is believed, is now past. "As a general thing, the operations among the mines were suspended on the approach of winter; but large numbers of persons built log houses in the mountains, and, having laid in a winter's stock of provisions, continued among the mines for the prose cution of their business. It is now understood that the extraordinary severity of the weather has pre vented them from effecting much, and there can be no doubt that much suffering will be the result. Many of the log houses were good, or at least com fortable, and some of the parties were tolerably well supplied with provisions and clothing. This remark, however, is not by any means of general application, and there can be no doubt that many are suffering for food, clothing, and shelter. After the winter rains have once set in, it .is almost impossible to send goods into the mountains, and large numbers have, no donbt, been too reckless and improvident to foresee the consequences and provide for them. Those who are now in the mountains are almost exclusively Indians (indigenous population) and foreigners, or emigrants. The Spaniards and Californians have retired to their ranchos, or to the various towns about the country, to await the return of spring. Many of the people who have emigrated from Oregon are in the mines. " I believe the steamers vid Panama will afford a more certain, expeditious, and comfortable way of reaching California than any other; and for emi grants in the eastern, middle, and southern states it will probably be the cheapest. Where families are coming with the intention of remaining in the coun try, I believe the voyage round Cape Horn is pre ferable in all respects to a journey across the moun tains. It is cheaper, safer, more comfortable, and quite as expeditious, generally speaking, as that over the mountains; and for emigrants leaving the eastern and middle states far preferable to any route, except that across the isthmus at Panama by the new line of steamers." The advices to the 7th of February were brought to New York by Mr. Suwerkrop, late Danish Consul at the Sandwich Islands. N'Ve give them as published in the Herald : " The latest letter states that after a winter of the greatest severity, fine weather had set in, the snow had begun to melt, and many diggers had started, and were 'on the eve of starting, for the mines, to recommence operations, and that the sales of goods had, in consequence, begun to increase. The firm, Messrs. J. B. and Co., by whom the letter was written, had purchased a considerable quantity of gold, on commission, at 14 dolls. 50c. per ounce, but could not purchase another parcel at that rate. The price of gold had risen, in consequence of the large arrivals of specie from San Bias, Valparaiso, &c., and which has been placed in the hands of the merchants at San Francisco for investment. About 700 persons had arrived at San Francisco from Valparaiso, and about 400 from the Sandwich Islands. There were about 7,000 in California ready to commence opera tions in the mines the moment the weather would permit. There were not many in San Francisco; they were scattered over the country—at Sutter's fort, encamped on the placers,' &c. House room was, of course, very scarce ; many diggers had pitched their tents around the Bay of San Francisco. The price of provisions had become more moderate. On the 30th of January, flour in parcels was selling at 10 dolls. per barrel; by the single barrel at 16 dolls. Pork was dull at 30 dolls per barrel. Salt beef could scarcely be sold. No one would give 14 dulls. per barrel for it. It appears that, notwithstand iug the many reports to the contrary, the United States store ship Lexington did not sail from San Francisco for the United States till the 25th of • Ja nuar - y She bad 400,000 dollars in gold on board. The largest lump that Mr. Suweikrop has seen weighed 14 cz. He knew of a piece that weighed, with the dirt, about 60 oz , which had been sold for 30 oz , it containing about that much of pure gold. The British ship of war Calypso was at Mazatlan, to leave soon for England. She would take away over 2,000,000 dolls. in specie. Of this there were over 5,000 oz. of California gold, and of this 1,000 oz. be longed to Mr. Suwerkrop. The reason he put it on board the Calypso was, that he could not find a con veyance for it direct to the United States. Those who think it strange that the gold does not reach this country in larger quantities should take this fact into consideration. The California gold put on board the Calypso was brought down by the Mary Frances from San Francisco. While Mr. Suwerkrop was at Mazatlan California gold was sold at 15 dolls. per ounce, and the proceeds put on board any vessel free of charge. After going into a careful calculation with Mr. Suwerkrop,we were assured that about4,ooo,ooo dOll s. in gold had been obtained from the mines. Of these 1,300,000 dolls. had passed through the Custom-house at San Fran cisco, valued at 10 dolls. to 13 dolls. per ounce; 700,000 dolls. had gone off in dribblets, in trunks, boxes, and on the persons of its owners, to Oregon, Valparaiso, Sydney, New South Wales, Sandwich Islands, the United States, England, &c., to save freight. Several lots of 10,000 dolls. each had gone off in this way. 1,000,000 dolls. was in the hands of the merchants of San Francisco, and about 1,000,000 dolls. was scattered over California in large and small parcels in the possession of parties, miners, &c , that had not been sent down to San Francisco. This, Mr. Suwerkrop assured us, was a very moderate calcula tion. It was made with the greatest care, in order not to deceive the public. Mr. Suwerkrop says there are several sunken rocks in and contiguous to the harbour of San Francisco, which are dangerous to navigation ; and that the United States Government ought to take measures to place buoys on them, and, in addition, to have the harbour properly surveyed, from San Francisco, through Suisoom-bay, to the mouth of the Sacramento river. If this were done, it would greatly facilitate the commerce of California. Ho tells a good story of the dues which foreigu vessels entering San Francisco have to pay. They are charged a dollar per ton for harbour fees, half of which is for lighthouse dues, but not a single light house is there, and the •remaining half for buoys, where there is not a boy to mark the rocks and shoals on which they are liable to be wrecked." (From the Manchester Guardian. ) market uardian.) STATE OF TRADE. M ANC HE S TER, APRIL 24.—The still droops under the weight of a full production, upon which the irregular and most inadequate purchases now in pro gress do not tell with any effect. On the whole, the tendency of prices is to decline. This is the general characteristic of the state of things to-day, making al lowance for such exception as we shall point out. In yarns there is some increase of operations on the part of the German houses, not, to any extent, for immediate shipment, but rather in the way of speculation, mani festly induced by the excessive lowness of pricer. We have heard, however, of experimental shipments made by new channels of c ommunication with the mann. facturing States of Germany, by the lame, and through the northern ports of Holland. These, how ever,are necessarily, as yet, to a very small extent. In certain kinds of yarn a little more steadiness is appa rent; in other kinds this can hardly be said to be the ease. For India anti China, the business is small, and OA rather worse terms for the spinners. The Mae re- 1 GAS-LIGHT Name of Company. £ s. d. 100 0 0 41 13 4 100 0 0 100 0 0 ►oo 0 0 raid. 4 s. d. :PAINX: Paid. mark applies to qualities for home manufacture. As regards goc ds, it cannot be said that there is any better demand at, all. In domestics and fustians, the stsg nation is undiminished, and prices can scarcely be quoted. Long cloths end T's may be got at rather lower rat es. The inquiry for fabrics adapted to the eastern markets is now trifling, and wide shirtings are again sriielding in ralue, with the exceptioc of 60 and 64 ireeds. ROC) IDALE, APRIL 23.—There is no improvement in the fit.' mel market today, either in prices or quantity sold. The wool market also continues much depressed; the manufacturers buy very sparingly, at prices a shade lower. HUDDERSFIELD, APRIL 24.—The market to-day is not quite so brisk as fur some weeks past. Even the woollen trade, which for some time has been good, seems to have received a slight check. Fancy goods for the spring trade have been bought very readily during the season , and few, if any, now remain on hand. ILL, - .IFAx, Aran. 21.—There has been but a slender attendance of merchants in our Piece Hall to-day, and the se,rne causes continuing in operation, there is no imprcvemeut in the inquiry fur worsted goods. Yarns, also remain pretty much the save. The wool market is exceedinzly dull, and the quot..tions are somewhat lower. PRICES OF SHARES .N BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM PANIES' STOCK. From the Official List. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FAIDAY EVENING. LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 24. ZOTNT-STOCX BANKS. WATER-WOKSS. Dividend per Annum. Amount Or Share. 21. 10s. 31. 10s. s'. per cnt 21. 10s. 5!. per cnt. pr cnt.l THE GAME LAWS. In addition to the heavy list of charges, which, as the farmer's friend, we have latterly had occasion to exhibit against a large portion of the landed prop' ii-tsry of this country, we have now to exhibit. the mischiefs ieflict ,, d on the tenant-fa , mers exclusively, we might almost say uoiversaliy, by the operation .of the gsime-laws. We are aware that there are among landlords some, we hope many, honourable exeptions to that reckless, ruthless spirit of game preserving by which most of the rural gentry are infected. hatever else of burdens may b 3 taken from the shoulders of the tenant• farmer, either by landlords themselves or the Legislature, we are fully persuaded that no such substantial relief will be afforded to him as shall enable him to sustain the severe competition to which he wilt henceforward find himself exposed, so long as this im pediment to the spirited outlay of capital, and the earnest application of skilful industry, is allowed to re main in the active operation in which it now exists in many districts. It is of no use for a nobleman or gentleman to say, "I make an abatement of rent to my tenantry suffi cient to cover the loss which they sustain by my dente preserves." When these preserves—more especially of hares and rabbits—are allowed to swell out to the extent to which they are carried on numerous estates, we are fully persuaded that no such satisfactory abatement ever takes place—the tenants themselves being judges; and it is upon this judgment that everything i❑ the question depends. We have, it is true, heard a tenant-farmer, whe❑ challenged in public by his landlord in reference to this subject, admit that he was satisfied by the abate ment of rent made to him for the damage done to his crops by the game on the estate ; but we never heard a farmer express his opinion on the subject in private, but that it drew from him the most bitter invectives against tho landlord or his agents, for making him, or allowing him to be made by others, the victim of such a degrading and ruinous system of spoliation.- We say a degrading system—and we use th© term advisedly— for we are certain that every intelligent, high-spirited agriculturist feels himself more degraded by the game laws than by any other circumstance connected with the tenure of his land. We just invite our readers, in order that they may the better be enabled to enter into the feelings of the farmer upon this subject, to accompany us into the lands of a personal friend of ours—an industrious, hard-working man, and, withal, as good a practical farmer as need to walk over the broad acres of Eng land. This person rents a farm of considerable ex tent in a certain division of this county. His landlord is a liberal Peer; but an inveterate, despotic, mercenary game preserver. Well, but to the farm: wherever you may go—whatever cropping you may inspect—there, we will engage for it, you shall encounter hares, not in units or tens merely, but by scores; and those in addition to a large amount of feathered game, both partridges and phea sants. Within the last fortnight, the occupier of this fat m was induced one evening to visit a field of seeds, in order to ascertain whether they would bear stocking for a few weeks with about forty or fifty ewes and their lambs, when, to his extreme mortification, he found that the crop, so valuable to him at this season of the year, and more especially for the purpose for which was then required, had been literally eaten close down by the hares, not fewer than eighty of those vermin being at the time of his visit engaged in qttietly feeding upon them. Now, we ask, was it in human nature that a man should feel other than at once indignant and degraded by such a circumstance as this. If there was a single practice of bile or bitterness, in such a constitu tion, could the man do other than curse the selfish despotism which infl.cted such a wrong upon him— was there a single spark of pride in his bosom, could he do other than feel the flush of shame upon his cheek, from the reflection that he was compelled to witness such a spoliation of his property, and yet dare not, through dread of his landlord's myrmidons watching his movements, perhaps through the apertures of half- a ,lczen hedges about him, to fray the vermin from their pre): ? Upon this farm of about 400 acres, and upon many others of a similar extent in this county, it has been estimated that, at scarcely any period of the year, is ',here fewer than five hundred head of four-footed game to be found, besides birds, and at particular seasons many more. . Look at this picture again, gentle reader ! Eighty old strong hares feeding altogether upon about twelve acres of clover seeds, and the tenant of this land—the man by whose sweat and toil, and the application of whose hard earned capital the crop has been raised, compelled to stand by and dare not so much as clap his hands—or fling up his hat—or give them an halloo, to drive them away, in order to make room for his ewes and lambs, without incurring his landlord's displeasure —or, mayhap, subjecting himself to the costs of an infraction of the game-laws. Why —was there ever anything equal to this rural despotism, in a state of society like ours, in any country, or, at any period of the world's history I And what adds to the enormity of the tyranny is, that, in numerous instances, as in the case under considera tion—the proprietor, after all, is not a man who takes pleasure in field-sports —one who has a peculiar taste for this description of butchery himself, and lives jollily and cheerfully among his tenantry—dispensing to cliche who have fed the animals the proceeds of his days slaughter—but, one who, atter having drawn from the occupiers of his lands the last shilling for their use, which aristocratical cupidity can extort from patient industry either re-lets, as it were, the land to some amateur game-butcher ; or else, employs little army of ignorant, and oftentimes brutal watchers and keepers under him to commit trespass upon his tenant's occupation and sell the game, fed at their ex • pence, in the public market of some neighbouring town :or his oa n exclusive benefit; and these are the acts, for sooth, of farmers' friends! and it is to uphold, in all its .idious integrity, a system like to this, that the cry for Protection to Native Industry' —or, in other words to enhance the price of bread by a penny a pound to the labouring population, by shutting out the competition of the foreign grower—is raised by the mass of landed proprietors, and their retainers in all parts of the country. But is it passible to suppose that such hollow pro fessions of friendship shall not be seen through—or inch profligate invasions of the rights of property as are involved in game preserves, by those who are ostensibly the peculiar conservators of property, should be much longer tolerated in a nation where the bulk of the people possess such an innate love of justice—such a correct appreciation of the natural claims of industry as in this country ? Certainly not ! The day for the entire overthrow of this debasing, de• noralising system of feudal plundering of the cultivators if the soil may not have fully arrived—but it is on the way, and certainly near at hand. We will resume the consideration of this subject next week, when we will endeavour to place the injurious operation of these laws under another aspect to our readers.—/Vottinghani Mercury. THE EMBEZZLEMENT at LEEDS. On Monday, Mr. Peter Mann, chief clerk of the Leeds Waterworks Company, was further examined before the sitting magistrates at the Court-house, Leeds, in a charge of having embezzled a sum of nearly 5,0001., the property of his employers, he Waterworks Company. The investigation, which was taken before Mr. Carbutt, Mr. Monkland, and other justices, occupied a considerable time, in consequence ,f the 'accessary reference to the books in which the ac ;ounts of the company kept by the prisoner were entered, out the facts lay within a very narrow compass. Mr. N. Freston, a clerk in the service of the company, produced a number of "rent cash-books," each being made for a seperate half-year, which purported to contain the parti culars of the various sums received on account of water rents by the collectors, and paid to the prisoner. The entries of these sums in the rent cash-books, as well as in the general cash book, into which the sums purporting to have been so received were, or should have been, correctly entered, were in the hand writing of the prisoner during the year 1847, but during the whole of that year the entries in the general cash book do not correspond with the entries of the receipts from the collectors of the water rents. There is an entry of the accounts for the year 1847, having been audited by two directors on the 6th of May, 1848, but witness was not present. Ths " rent cash-books" were tt hand for audit if they had been required, as well as the general cash-book. In 1848, during the ab ience of Mr. Mann, Mr. Preston was in the habit of receiving the rents from the collectors, and handing the cash-box and the key to Mr. Mann, on the follow ing morning, or the morning of the second day, but he made no entry in the " rent cash-book," leaving that to be done by the prisoner. The sums paid in by the collectors were entered in their collecting books by themselves or other clerks. During Mr. Mann's absence for three months of that year (1848) Mr. Preston 'received the rents from the collectors, and made payment thereof to the treasurers, Messrs. Beckett and Co. accounts for 1848 have not yet been audited, in consequence of the Michaelmas survey of empty pro. per t• not leaving been completed, and other charges for water supplied under special circumstances, not having been adjusted. Mr. Robert Bird, who had been a col lector, of the company since February, 1846, states that his duty was to go to the office of the company every night, and there to enter the water rents he had collected daring the day in a book called the collector's water rent book. When ho had so entered them in detail, he had to make out an account on a piece of paper specifying each portion of the year to which the accounts received related, as sometimes there were arrears received. The accounts of water rents were formerly presented half yearly, but now quarterly. Mr. Mann signed a receipt in the book in red ink for the sums the collectors paid him, and it was his duty to enter those sums in the " rent cash-book." All the entries made by Mr. Mann in his presence were correctly made in the collector's water rent book; but sometiraes it happened that Mr. Mann was not at the office in the evening, and then he left the money with another clerk, who locked it up in a cash. box and gave it to Mr. Mann when he came, and wit ness frequently found when he went to the office next morning that Mr. Mann had correctly entered tLJ money he had left over night before his arrival. All the pay ments he made to Mr. Mann were in that manner cor rectly entered.—Mr. Richard Newton, another collector, gave similar evidence as to the course of business, and said that the prisoner had always correctly receipted at the foot of the daily accounts the moneys he paid him or left for him.—Mr, Preston, on being recalled, said that for the last three or four years the arrears of rents re ceived are partly in the handwriting of other clerks, and for the last three or four epistlers the entries in the rent cash-book are principally in the handwriting of other clerks.—Mr. Mallinson, a ledger clerk in the ba n k of Messrs. Beckett and do., the treasurers to the Water works Company, referred to a pass book showing the r.ccount between the bank and the company from January 1, 1841, to December 81, 1847, and a sub. Secluolll book bringing down the itocount to the present time. The moneys were generally paid in by Mr. Mann; occasionally by Mr. Peccut,. The m,ee7 c Ay dra , en out by &tee/ars F,igTe d;:e: tor, d re cently they bar, beea countersig ,k-d by the chief clot k. The firs , -mentioned pass 1),:ok was signed at the by tt,e three gentlemen who were auditors of the b,a-on::h :flied accounts in 1848, and dated October IS; thera were also the Litials of two of th.z directurs.- 11r. J. R. water said that he had b 'en employed durirg tho whole of last week ia gating the accounts of the Loons Watcrwcrks Cern pany. lie had into tha rant c ash-bo,les but more paHeuhrly info th..)sie fran 1;•,b. 28, 1847, to Dec. 31, 1847, and tho:a• fe,m Jan. 1 to 1) - 'e. 31, 1818, and from the latter [cried to arch 31, 1849. Witness produced an account which he had drawn out of the sums received by Mr. Mann from the col lectors, as shown by the rent cash-hooks, and a l so the amounts pzid by him to Messrs. 11ekett end Co.. during the ten months from February 28, 1847, to December 31, 1817, which showed a balance against him during that !Deli id of 13101. I Is. sd. The rent each Vohs from which this account, s matle ur, do not appear on the face of them to have been b, for,. the auditors, though there was au audit of the in.couhts tor that period, by the company's auditors or. the GLI - 1 Moy, 184 S, and on the 18th of October by the ancht , are• of the town council. The general eish book, which ap pears to have b ten bAore the auditors, agrees, so far as relates to the payments made by Mr. Mann to the treasurers during these ten months, with the piss bock of Messrs. Beckett and Co. He was not able to mention any particular sum which Mr. Minn had received from the colLcturs, and had withheld, as he paid in several days' receipts at one time, or at least a sum on account of those receipts. Tho cash account for 1848 had not yet been balanced and consequently not audited ; but a " rest was taken of the receipts to Dec. 31, 1848, and that showed that the prisoner had paid to the tree surer 3,0501. 4s. id. less than he appeared, by the rent cash •book kept by him, to have received from the collector during that year. In the three months ending 31st March, 1849, there was asimilar deficiency of 3421. Is, 2‘1., making an aggregate deficiency of 4,7831. IG-. Bd. As the witness was unable to state any particular sums which the prisoner had received and not paid over, the further examination was adjourned until Monday next, for that to be ascertained. THE NAVIGATION LAWS. It almost escapes the public attention, and may_there fore be very properly suggested to the notice of the Lords, that the question does not lie between the present Navigation Bill and no Bill at all. The state of the law, the difficulties cf its working and even of its interpretation, the commercial treaties now about to expire, the just demand of foreign States, the urgent wants of our colonies, and the recent surrender of colonial protection, all call for a prompt and extensive readjustment of the present syweir. Something must be done, and so far from the Bill just brought into the Lords being a premature measure it has already been delayed rather too long. The question really lies between a general, a simple, and a generous measure on the one hand, and, on the other, a vast and compli cated system of patchwork compromise, which will only render confusion still more confounded, and which it will be necessary to cobble again before two sessions are over. On the immediate necessity of great alterations all authorities are unanimous. Ministers, present and past, shipowners, Free traders and Protectionists, agree that something must be done, and the strongest opponents of the Ministerial measures has apologized for their hosti lity with the remark that they are prepared for a moderate relaxation of the law. There appears, how ever, to be a singular horror of positive susgestions. Neither Mr. Herries, nor any of his more youth ful allies, have ventured to inform us what they would do. We are not surprised at their shirking a difficulty which they cannot feel snore strongly than we do ourselves. Such responsibilities, however, do not always admit of evasion or postponement. Should any chief in the Upper House, confident in his genius, his rank, his position, or his fate, muster names enough to de feat the present Bill, he must be prepared with his own solution of the difficulty; and we venture to assure him that many and great as are the burdens a Protec• tionist Minister would find on his shoulders, not the least will be the duty of adapting our Navigation Laws to the changed circumstances of the empire. Should there be any man in either House ready to undertake this onerous office, and should he also succeed for the space of two or three years we nee,l go no further back than Monday night for a warning of his eventual destiny. The most unqualified, as well as the moat able speech of the evening, going, indeed, still further than the Ministerial measure, was made, not by some enthusiastic novice, not by the disciple of a new and more absolute school, but by one of the very men who only four years since framed, introduced, and passed the Navigation Acts in their present amended form. Those Acts, cocci (!ering the circumstances of that day, were just such a moderate reform as, we presume, Mr. Herries or Lord Stanley would recommend to the present Par liament. They would merely repair the old vessel, caulk up its scams, replace its di cayed wood, and add a few bits of improvement. We will not even guess how they would deal with Canada, with Russia, with Prussia, with Holland, or whether they would even attempt to add new facilities for the importation of raw materials. We will suppose them so ingenious, so bold, and so successful as to frame, to introduce, and to pass a new Navigation 811 of a mode.. rately progressive character. By the example of Sir James Graham sacrificing the navigation Jaws, as Sir Robert Pet I had previously sacrificed the corn-law, it may be confidently p: - edicred that in three or four years the author of such a new naviga tion•law, peddled and patellas' up on :he same fatal model, will stand up in Parliament and tear into shreds his own once cherished workmanship. The only doubt or curiosity we feel about the matter refer s to the manner in which such a man as Lord Stanley will perform his political penance. Peel was a man whose work it had been fur years the " the struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide," and accordingly he recanted with a fury of penitence which his party could not follow for very shame. Graham has retracted with an easy composure which altogether escapes animadversion. Time only may show how Stanley, or any other Pro tectionist, would pass a moderate Navigation Bill in 1849, and pronounce it a mischievous failure in 1853. Surely there are men in the Lords who can see that dignity as well as political morality respires the adoption of a course which can stand the consequence of its own success. The opposition to the pending measure ought, in our humble opinion, to be much more practical and constructive than it has hitherto been. When a change is wholly wanton and gratuitous, it may be enough to demolish it, but when a change so far from being unnecessary is thrust upon us by the course of events, the only proper reply is a substitute. Instead of telling us, what is not always so agreeable to the ears of ship owners, of the vast increase of shipping under a protec tive system, and other arithmetical generalities, let Lord Stanley, or some of his friends, tell us how they propose to meet the existing pressure on the Government. How will they deal with Canada? How will they make the route of the St. Lawrence as cheap as that of the Erie Canal? How will they put the upper province on a par with the neighbouring States of the Union? Will they open the commerce of the West Indian islands ? What sort of treaties will they propose to the various European Powers with whom we must shortly be in communication o❑ tWs delicate subject? Will they attempt to remove the ridiculous anomaly by which we can import articles in any stage o' manufacture from European ports, though we cannot isn. port, in the very same ships, the very same materials iu a raw state? Will they pay any attention to the circum stance that as the law new stands our merchants cannot touch numerous articles of tropical produce at their natural depots, in ports where our vessels are continually looking for cargoes, but must leave the article where it is abundant and cheap, and seek it for themselves, at much cost of time, money. anti life, in remote, deadly, and inhospitable coasts? Will they continue the prohi bition of foreign-made ships in the British trade under all circumstances, and the vexatious restrictions on the employment of foreigners ? Will they carry out the principle of indirectly taxing our staple manu'actures for the supposed benefit of a carrying trade which those very manufactures have created ? Will they leave the navigation-laws iu such a complex state that shipowners and merchants had need be lawyers to know what they are about, and the most cautioas and honourable men amongst them are continually offending to their cost? Unless they are prepared to act wholly in the dark, and plunge themselves and the nation into an en tanglement from which they cannot escape without atter loss of credit, they will consider beforehand what they will do, as well as what they will oppose. If they have a rival measure, let them give us the opportunity of selecting between it and Lord John Russell's. If they have not, they must allow us to put up with the only actual alternetive.— Times. EMILY SANDFORD. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sitt,—lt will be an act of justice on your part to ad mit the reply of a subscriber to the fund for Emily Sand ford to the animadversions on that subj , ct in your paper of the 23d. I shall consider the case on its ow❑ merits, setting aside the comparison with that of Eliza Chestney, as not a fair argument against the contribution for Emily Sandford, I regret that this subscription was not prefaced by a full statement of the grounds on which it was raised ; for the destitution of its object was the weakest of them. The strongest was, that she had " turned from the error of her ways," with feelings still manifestly under the influence of her tyrant. One who beard her evidence in court, and sympathised with a woman's Mart, perceived that her toes became tremulous from tenderness in addressing Rush. Was it 1e5:.; an effort to decree his doom because hi; guilt was of so deep a dye? Nu; the very fact of the peril in which he stood, appealed more than all, to her love. She could not so have acted from any motive but a revived sense of duty. Had she made use of certain cant phrases, she would have been placed in the favcured class of llagdalens', anointing the Sa viour's feet—but, like Mary Magdalen she did, and said not.' - 1 7 nc7 - aivering herself to bar witness to the truth, she gave you, Sir, n right , which, acc..raing to ne judge, you would not otherwise' niiVo had, to stigintitze her as the paranyair of a murdel'er. For these reasons I - offer her my small sul)cription, with more even of espect Om of t iLy—and I will here ldd to it my earnest %vish, th...t in her future retin meat the mother's sins and sorrows may, thro ug h th e p rov A,,,,, which is always bringing goof our 0 1 evil, b t . c o nie ings to the child by the lesions the-y will hrwe left en graven on her own mind. These are not the sentimentalities of youth ; yen may look upon them as the pusrilitiss of one from whom youth has long passed away. I am, Sir, &0., AN OLD READER. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—A 80 , 4 rd r AdruilaltY , c , nsistina. ot Captain the lion. M. F. F. B::rlevley, M P.; Captain Alexander Milne, R.N.; Captain Sr Baldhin Wa 1C,C.8., S urve y or o f t h e N avy; an d Mr. IsaAc Watts, Assistant, Surveyor, arr i ve d at this port at 11 this morning, ar:d were received at Gosport station by Flag-Liententint Cochran, who conducted b un t o toe Commander-in Chief; in whose barge tial cretsed the harbour, and ccAntnecceil their inspection, ti rat going on board the Arrogant, 46, CapttAn Ifizrroyt thenm• visiting. the Plumper serew•schooner, Corrmindtr No 11,01; and the Reynard : , chuorter, Contrmtnder Cra• to-oft, rest.ectin r ewhoso armament the, visit was princi pally occasioned. A long examination of several of the superior officers of the two lager vessels as to their opinion of their various qualities ensued, but as each person was examined privately in the captain's cabin, we are not in possession ot what took place. The Board afterwards visited the Blenheim, 56, Captain Austin, C.B. In all ships the guns occupied much at tention, haling been worked for the purpose of ascer taining if their was sufficient roam to fight them. The haturin - c1:1 wet-, alto hung up to see it sufficient accom modation for the crew existed. After is cursory inspec tion of one or two other object in the dockyard, and a conference with the principal officers, the Board returned to town. A board of scientific officzrs, consisting of Mr. Mur ray, superintendent engineer of this dockyard ; Mr. Dinneu, inspector of machinery, of Simerset-house, late of the St. Vincent; and Mr. Thker, inspector of machinery, of the Royal yacht, is orders d to survey and report upon the state of the engines of the Sidon steam friga'e. WEDNESDAY.—A most at% ful accident happened yes terday a'ternoon in this dockyard, which is expected to terminate fatally to one or more persons. As a gang of men were employed on the new dock, building by Mr. Bramble, at the north corner of the yard, in working the " traveller" of the tramway, supported on piles for rais ing and lowering stones i n t o th e b as i s of the fabric from a lighter moored alongside, the gear broke, and the " traveller" went over the rails into the lighter, and most seriously injured two men in the vessel, and dragged several others from the scaffolding support ing the tramway. Some fell into the vessel, and others into the water. Six men were maimed, three of them dangerously. Three of the most seri ously injured were conveyed to the Portsmouth, Portsea, and Gosport Hospital. One man, whose leg was so severely injured and l acerate d (a b o lt having stuck into his thigh tour inches deep) that the only chence of saving his lite was by removing the limb above the joint, had that operation most skilfully per formed by Dr. E. J. Scott last night by gaslight ; little hop , ..s, however, are entertained of his recosery. Another man had both legs broken —one in three places ; it is much feared he must lose it, but he is not in a state at present to undergo the operation. The Third is seriously injured in the chest and heed. Tho greatest attention was promptly afforded by the Excellent gunnery. ship, and ihe poor sufferers were taken to the hospital upon the shoulder. and in the arms of the crew of that ship, which is moored adjacent to the spot where the accident occurred. The medical officers or the Excellent 'were the first in attendance, and accompanied the sufferers to the hospital. The less injured were conveyed to the medical department of the dockyard, where they received the promptest attention from the officers of the establish ment. The cases of these poor nice illustrate in a most striking light the value of such a benevoleet institution as the Portsmouth Hospital. The poor fellows were not admissable into the Naval Hospital, and but for the esta blishment of the former, would have had no place of re ception where heir cases could have been done justice to nearer than Winchester. The Favourite, 14, Commander Murray, arrived this morning from the coast of Africa. She left Sierra Leone on the 21st of February, Goree, 26th of March. No news or specie. Has sailed fur Devonport W be paid off. The Vixen steam sloop, Commander Jenner, was at Bermuda on the Bth instant, to leave for Halifax the next week. The Sappho, 16, Commander Michell, put in at Ma' deira on the 20th ult., having encountered a gale of wind off the Western Islands. The sea ran so heavy sbe worked considerably, and the rigging all being newt settled down at the mast heads, and gave out. The lower masts and bowsprit were marly going by the board. Ilaving secured her masts, sbe put to sea in 2 4 hours afterwards for Bermuda. The Captain and officers of the Dutch corvette Am' phitrite were entertained this evening on board the flag' .hip Victory by Captain Blackwood and the officers of that ship. Comniander Lord Amelius Beauclerk, of the Strom' boll, has leave of absence, to visit the Duke of St. Al ban's, who is very ill from the effects of a fall from hill horse lately while hunting. Wind—W.S.W., moderate breezes, and fine weather. RAILWAY li Alt it SI ARK E TS. BRISTOL, Arm 25. STOCK ExcnAstoe.—The Share Market continues very depressed , the dealings being principally confined to the Old bharea of the Itid land Company, which closed at 74%. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 25. STOCK ExcitAlgar. —The share market opened with a better feeling to-day, and a fair business was done, but afterwards became dull, and closed heavily. The sales are —Caledonian, Preference, HS -- East Lancashire, Preference, Quarters, 7% Lancashire and York shire, Fifths, 4 dis.— Ditto, Halves (L. and B.), 12% dis.—LOndon and _North-Western, New Quarters, 4c. p.—Manchester, Slid" nal, and Lincolnshire. 36—Ditto, Eighths, 414—Ditto, Preference , 10% c.—Ditto ((treat Grimsby and Sheffield), 30 dis. Midland, 74 — "; Ditto, Halves, 3s. 9d. ills. —shrewshury and Chester (Oswestry an d Chester), 5% dis.—Scottish Central, 24% —York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Original Newcastle and Berwick), G. N. E., 6 per cent till Ibso, 174 dis.—liitto, 17;4 dis. MANCHESTER, APRIL 25. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Linc , )in Union, 2% dig.-- Dover (N 0.4), 7 dis.— Sheffield and Lincoln, 4 11-16 dis. —Leeds, Fre ferenee, 1151—Sheffield (No. 2), 9 —Old DoTers, 22%—Lescls, 221. Shares, Sy. BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 25. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The following aro to-day's transactions :-- Birmingham and Stour Valley, I It. 3s. 9d. dis.—Shropshire Union. 2; / , dis.— South Staffordshire, 71. 6s. 31. dis. YORK, APRIL 24. STOCK EXCHANGE —The business transacted to-day was as rot' low:—!;rest Northorn, 1 1 York, Newcastle, and Berwick (SO" castle Extension), —Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 6 , A _ Tor k and North Midland, Preference, 8%. GLASGOW, Aran. 24. STocx EXCHANGE.—The business done in the Stock Exchange to day has been as follows : —Glasgow, Duinfrier, and Carlisle, 4!. 191' —Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 57—Ditto, Mitres (No. 1), 6 " 17s. —Ditto (No 2), 6/. 175. Scottish Central, 23% —York, Nell• castle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase or Preference), 6%. MELANCHOLY DEATH.-011 Monday evening an inquest was held at the White Horse, Strand, on Lieu tenant-Colonel T. Sutcliffe, aged 59, late of the Royal Horse Guards Blue. Mr. W. Knight, of 357, Strand, stated that the deceased had resided in his house for the last three years. He had held a commission in the Royal Horse Guards, was with his regiment at Watt rloo, and left for dead on the battle -field. Since then he had been in the army of Columbia, South America, and thus forfeited his half-pay from the British Government. Returning to this country with but very slender means, rte enleavoured to improve them by literary pursuits, his last work, which he completed only a short tune ago, te" ing " A Chronological Record of the Trade, Commerce, Resources, Expenditure, and Progressive Improvement in the Textile Manufactures of Great Britain and Ireland, from the earliest period to the present time." lie finished his book by vie opening of the present session of Par liament, and, being then without the means of publish ing it, wrote to Lord John Russell, with whom h e had had some previous acquaintance, to assist him in putting the work to press. He was at this time utterly without money, aid all his hopes were built on the success of his application, but his L';rdship's reply was unsatisfactory. He had depended entirely on the proceeds of his book to pay witueEs what he owed him for his support during three years, and the failure of his attempt caused hula ;,1--eat sorrow. Deceased had late ly been in good health, with the exception of a slight cold; and on Sunday eeiteess was much surprised to find him dead in bed. Mr. Lane, surgeon, said he had made a post mortem exa mination, and found the cause of death to be suffocation from ossification of the heart. Verdict, " Natural death." [ADVERTISEMENT.].—CONSU MPTION , BRONCHIAL, ASTHMA, INFLUENZA, &C.—The following cases of the severest forms of disease arc selected from the clinical report published by Dr. Cronin: —Mrs, Osborne, 8, Ox' ford-street; Mr. Morley, Messrs. Croncock and C o ., Bow Churchyard; Major Lynch (late 14th Foot), 7, IV ood• lanl-place, St. John's Wood; Mr. Bryant, 7, Padding ton-street Maryleba,ne; Mademoiselle Duprez, Royal Academy of Music; Miss Erwood, 72, New Bond-street; Miss Robb, at the Baroness Bassett's, Tehidy Park, near Truro, Cornwall; Mrs. Thurinott, 29, Bedford-street - Covent Garden; Mrs. Williams, Portobello Arms, Kentish New Town; —, 14, Leicester-place, Leicester, squ are. [.ADVERTISEMENT.]—TO Persons Paralyzed, 8 0 ' —Extraordinary Cure by Holloway's Ointment and Pills' —Copy of a letter from Captain E. F. Ferris, com manding Rampore Forces, Rohilcund, India, January 15, 1849. To Professor Holloway ; Sir,—l deem that your wonderful Medicines ought to be made well known, an d .take the liberty of reporting a miraculous cure under my own eye. An old woman had been for this last two years quite bed ridden, having entir e ly l ost t h e us e of her legs from the hip joint. Her limbs were ap parently quite dead, and without the slightest feeling, but by the use of year Ointment and Pills, she is quite restored. Signed, E. F. Ferris. Sold by all Ve n d ors of Medicine, an d at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. BIRTIIB, On the 20th inst., in Eaton-square, the wife of Edward Divett, Esq., M.l'., of ason. On the 2 .:(1 inst., at king William-street, City, the wife of It E. Morrice, Esq., of a son, stillborn. On the 23d inst., at Eccleston-street, Chester-square, the lady of Captain J. W. Montagu, R.N., of a daughter. On the 23d inst., at Lonsdale-square, Mrs. Joseph R. Mor rison, of a son. On the 24th inst., at Oakley-square, the wife of B. S. Gaden, Esq , of a son. MARRIED. On the 2'th inst., at St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington , Colonel G. E. Pratt Barlow, of Leonard-place, to Elizabeth Thcophilia, eldest daughter of It. Clarke, Esq., of Kensing ton-square. On the 19th i ns t . , aged 48, DIED. the Rev. Thomas Littleba!e s, rector of Sheering, Essex. On the :fist inst., aged 87, Major Wathen, Military Knight of Windsor. On the 22d inst., Lieutenant W. A. Usher, R.N., of Sea" harn-hathour. On the 22d inst., at the Rectory, Handsworth, Stafford - Niariannu Catharine, second daughter of the Rev. G. W. Murray. Oa the 23d inst., Mr. Thomas Rood, bookseller, Great Newpurt. street, Long-acre, aged 53. CA the :3d hist., Mr. \‘ illium Chase, Stamford-street. On the 23d inst., in Baker-street, the wife of John E q. On the 2. , d inst., W. Warden, M.D., Surgeon of her Ma jesty's Dockyard, Chatham, aged 72. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, or No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, Na 11 :i Strand, in the Precinct of the S avo y, i n t h e conn tl A/Actions, Tburclity, April 26, 1849. THE SU N, LONDON, THITIISDAY EVENING, APRIL 26, Prick Prig 1819. SIM