The Sun. — London, England, 1855-02-15 00:00:00

"I hAIL WAY INTELLIOENCE. BRADFORD, WAKEFIELD, AND LEEDS. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yeaterday at Bradford. Mr. W. Firth presided. The report, read by Mr. BURNSIDE, the secretary, stated that since the last meeting, held in November, the directors bad been actively engaged in negotiations for land. To some extent they had satisfactorily performed that duty, and they were still prosecuting it with vigour. The engineer was preparing the specifications and draw ings, with a view to early arrangements, to make the requisite contracts for the construction of the line and works. The statement of accounts showed that 18,8251. bad been received, and 10,382/. expended, leaving a balance of 8,4431. The CHAIRMAY, in moving the adoption of the report, stated that from Wakefield to the Ardsley Junction, where the line met the Ardsley branch of the Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax Railway, the land purchases, with the exception of a few of an unimportant character, were completed. Nene of the land had as yet been purchased between Ardsley and Leeds, owing to the difficulties which had b een i n t er p ose d by the landowners. The board were very anxious to commence the line between Ardsley and Wakefield ; and they only awaited the com pletion of a few land purchases to commence operations. In addition to the sum stated in the accounts, there were outstanding liabilities for Parliamentary expenses to the amount of 2,0001. The report was adopted, and the retiring directors re elected. In reply to questions, the CHAIRMAN stated that they were in a position to commence the section of the line between Ardsley and Wakefield in the course of two or three weeks. They had determined, howeier, to obtain possession of the whole of the land before the works were commenced. The construction of this portion of the line would make a 'very good route from Bradford to Wakefield, the distance being about 15 'miles, or only about a mile longer than the present turnpike road. An opinion was expressed on the part of the shareholders, and promised o be considered by the board, that it would be desirable to proceed with this portion of the line at once. The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. CORK AND BANDON. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yes terday at the London Tavern ; General Chatterton in the chair. Mr. H. W. WOOD, the secretary, read the report, an abstraCt of which appeared in The Sun of Saturday. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said be did not think it necessary to detain them by making any observations upon it. Mr. lams seconded the motion. Mr. Cox complained that he bad received a stamped proxy paper from the office. He thought they were not in a position to spend money on stamps for such a pur pose, and he wished to know the object of it. The SECRETARY said the object was to obtain sufficient proxies to constitute the meeting and to secure the re election of two local directors, who were of great service to the company in promoting the traffic. Mr. Cox had no wish to offer opposition to the report, but thought that it was illegal to send out stamped proxies, and was of opinion that it ought not to bare been done. Mr. RADCLIFFE, the solicitor to the company, said the hon. proprietor was quite right. The funds of the company should not be used for proxies. They should not have been sent out at the expense of the company, unless authorised by the vete of a general meeting. Mr. Bans, a director, contended that it was important to secure the re-eledtion of the local directors, as they were most indefatigable in their exertions to improve the traffic and promote the interests of the company. Mr. BEAMISH, M.P., said he hoped they did not in tend to proceed with the bill now before Parliament, unless the parties at the other Side were anxious that it should be proceeded with. The SOLICITOR said that his instructions were to take no steps in the matter until the report of the committee was received. The resolution for the adoption of the report was then agreed to. The CHAIRMAN expressed his regret that they were about to lose the valuable services of Lieutenant-Colonel Beimisb, in consequence of his retirement from the board. The retiring directors, Mr. T. S. Reeves and Mr. W. _ _ J. Shaw, were re-elected ; Mr. C. Beatnisb, a large hhareholder, was elected a director, in the room of Col. Beamish ; Mr. C. Bell, the retiring auditor, was re elected. On the motioi of the CHAIRMAN a committee of share holders was unanimously appointed to confer with the directors on the best mode of placing the pecuniary affairs of the company in a sound and satisfactory posi tion, the committee to consist of Messrs. Jones, Thomp son, Graham, Guiness, Wilson , Taraffe, Mahony, Swan ston, Yeathard, Beamish, M.P., Perrier, and Adair, with power to add to their number. Mr. WINKwbisTR proposed that the grateful thanks of the meeting be presented to Lieut.-Col. Beamish for his valuable assistance to the undertaking, and express ing regret at his retirement from the beard. Mr. Lions seconded the resolution, and it was unani mously adopted. Mr. WINKWORTH called attention to some of the diffi- culties which the committee would ha►e to overcome. Messrs. Barnes and Barnard, ate solicitors to the Public Works Loan Commissioner/0.1.4d served the I ~—+ nti Jut for Oba'eb with notice, tnat it the moneys due to the commissioners were not paid by the 14th instant summary proceedings would be taken to recover the amount. The undertak ing had the elements of success, and it only requited time to develops it. He hoped that•those injurious Inea suree would not be carried into effect, and that the com pany would soon bo relieved from its present position. Mr. BIAMISH, M.P., could not believe that it was the intention of the commissioners to take immediate pro ceedings against the company. He did not suppose for one moment that the commissioners would refuse to give the directors fair and reasonable time to consult with the large shareholders for the purpose of satisfying the. claim. It certainly could not be the wish of the com missioners to injure the undertaking by adopting harsh and oppressive proceedings, particularly as it was a legi timate undertaking, and ca lculated to confer great local benefit if properly carried out. From the progress which Ireland had made during the past few years there was every reason to expect that railway undertakings *could continue to improve and be successful. Tht•re could therefore be no doubt of the security of the under taking. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman, and the meeting adjourned to the 7th of March, to receive the report of the committee. ACCIDENTS ON RAILWAYS. It appears from a report of the Railway Department of the Board of Trade that during the year 1854 233 persons have been killed and 453 persons have been in jured on railways in the United Kingdom. Of the above, 31 passengers were killed and 346 injured ; 112 servants of railway companies, or persons employed by contractors, were killed, and 87 injured ; and 80 persons who were neither passengers nor servants of railway companies were killed; and 20 injured. Of the passengers who have suffered on railways, 12 were killed and .331 injured from causes beyond their own control : and 19 were killed and 15 injured from want of caution on their own part. Ten passengers were killed in consequence of collisions between trains, which are attributed to inadequacy in the regulations for working the traffic on the lines. Of the 331 passen gers injured from causes beyond their own control, 283 suffered in collisions between trains, 33 were injured in accidents fromi trains leaving the rails, and 15 from trains running threugh facing points.- It appears that 95 accidents to trains have come under the notice of the Board of Trade during the year 1854 ; of these 85 have been specially reported upon by the inspecting officers of . . the Railway Departmeni. These 85 accidents may be classed under two principal heads—accidents appertain ing to the rolling stock and road, and accidents apper taining to the management of railways. The accidents appertaining to the rolling stock and road are 32, which may be further subdivided into accidents from engines and carriages leaving the rails, in number 24; accidents from trains running through facing points, 3 ; accidents to persons in trains being struck against works adjacent to the line 2, and miscellaneous 3; total 32. Under the head of accidents appertaining to the management there are 53, which may be further classified as collisions on double lines of railway between trains following each ether on the same line of rails, in number 29 ; collisions at junctions, 5 ; collisions at' stations or sidings, 14; collisions on single lines of railway between trains meet ing in opposite directions, 4; and miscellaneous 1; total, 53. With regard to the 32 accidents above mentioned, it appears that 14 were within the control of the manacre tztent, while 18 could not have been guarded against, turf in six cases out of these 18 the consequences would IWetably have been less severe had a different manage- X ec ut.nrevail d tiro' of the e • Out of the 53 accidents appertaining to ikroont, only one was entirely out of the Con. other eager tir:PanY upon whose line it occurred. In four to the mana te l accidents were not directly attributable occurred if the ansnnt' but they would probably not have greater, or if a dila': zrdation for the traffic had been report shows that out o lli t tagernent had prevailed. The intoinstances did purely acci been reported upon in on l y L B4 accidents which have dental circumstances enterthe the cause of the t ries were the acci dents,acci- and in only 16 out of dents attributable to accidental accidents, to have The negligence of inferior servant, w ould alone. entered into the causes of $6 of the an three cases were the accidents due to that eauusteininonly Three accidents were from causes entirely beyond control of the company, hence only 22 out of the 85 accidents could not have been guarded against. The other accidents would probably not have occurred, or their consequences would have been less Sells:Ma, had proper precautions been taken by the superior officers of the companies, and they art, therefore attributable to the defective management of the lines. The causes of theso latter accidents may be classed under t he heads o f defec ts of conaruction in the real or machinery, insufficient tneatts of securing safety, insufficiency of ,staff, and in adequacy of th e sys t em o f working. RAILWAY DILLS AND STANDING ORDERS. Y . < sterday ihe following railwit,Y bills were declared to have complied with the standing orders of both Houses of Parlimusnt BOMBAY, BARODA, AND CENTRAL INDIA.—TO C Etruct railways from Bombay to Agra and Central India, by will of Surat, Baroda, and Neemucb, and from Surat into Candeish and Barar, and for negotiations with the East India Company for connecting the north-west ana central districts of India with Bombay, and for Mrn'a*). • It "st ~~~ THR gUIT9 LONDONI TIitIRSDAY EVENING, FEBRITAnY 15, 1856. power to increase the proposed capital of 4,500,000 i. to any amount to he certified by the East India Company. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIEL—For power to capitalise arrears of dividend, to create prefe rence shares, and to make regulations as to share capital. WESTMINSTER TERMLNUEL—Extension from Clapham to Norwood. LAW INTILLICr'BNCE.—Feb. 14. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings at Gaildhall.—Before Lord Campbell and a Special Jury.) MIL COL-HOPE V. AGUADO. (Continued from our tmpression of yesterday.) When the court met at half-past one the witness came into court, dressed en voyageur, and seemed rather as tonished to find himself in the witness-box. Jean Ranzd examined' by the Attorney-General—l was concierge at the house, 20, Rue la Bordere. I left two years ago. I was concierge there in 1850 and 18M. The preprieto: was Monsieur Dobcenf. I know the Viscount Aguado. He had the house. He hired it for a year, but he only occupied it during the fine weather. During that time no one but the viscount occupied or used the house. I had the key of the house when ho was out. The count never met a lady there. I did not know him. The viscount came there with his lady, a dark lady. _ _ Cross-examined by Sir F. Thesiger—He came two or three times a week with a lady. He did not reside there. He did not sleep there. Sometimes he took a repast there. Ido not knew Tallaudia, the coachman. There was a person named Graujot, who did the gardening, but he did not come regularly. The viscount only came in flee weather. I cannot say whether the count had a dupli cate key. I usually opened the door, or my wife. Monsieur Dobceuf is a portrait painter. He did not live there at the time the ♦iscount rented the house. He only rented it one year. It was 1850 or 1851. There were two peacocks there. I can't say where they came from. The peacocks were taken away when the viscount went away. _ _ _ _ Dr. Douvin was recalled at his own request, in order to correct an error he had made in his evidence yester day. He stated that he had said yesterday that he had not come to London for a consultation in 1848, but cir cumstances lad brought it to his recollection that it was in 1848 that he had so come. This was the defendant's case. Ann Rouse was then recalled by Sir F. Thesiger— When I was in Paris with Mrs. Hope I went several times to a bathing establishment with Mrs. Hope and the young ladies and Mdlle. Junet. It was a place where ladies were taught to swim. At first she used to have a rope tied round her waist and held on a pole. The man walked on a platform. She attempted to swim according to hie dh , ectluns. I saw other ladies learning in the same way. I have seen her swim without the rope ; but the man walked on the platform. He said, " Tres-bien, madame." It was a long bath ; it was a bath on the Seine ; it might be as long as this court. I have seen her swim along the bath before she left, in 1846, for Havre. Mrs. Hope is a very fair woman and very thin. Cross-examined by the Attorney-General—l have seen her strike out several strokes when she was by herself ; perhaps four or five. I saw her once or twice without the rope—it might be more. That was towards the end of the time she went there. The Attorney-General then summed up the case on the part of the defendant. Sir F. Thesiger proceeded to reply, on behalf of the plaintiff, on the case presented for the defendant. He could not but feel the treat disadvantage under which he laboured in addressing the• jury after so long an in terval had elapsed since he first opened this case, band since the most important witnesses on the part of the plaintiff gave their evidence, a great part of which, he feared, must necessarily have been obliterated from their minds. He trusted, however, yet to be enabled to satisfy them that the case of the plaintiff remained en tirely unaffected and established in spite of the evidence adduced on the part of the defendant. His learned friend had put it to the jury that the case of the plaintiff was an entire fabrication, and got up, upon testimony which had been suborned, as a counter move to the proceedings instituted against Mr. Hope by his wife in the ecclesiastical court. He (Sir F. Thesiger), on the part of Mr. Hope, repelled with the deepest indig nation the imputation made by the defendant's coun sel, that he had been guilty of tampering with wits nesses, or suborning evidence in support of his case. It was only, forsooth, the witnesses on the part of the plaintiff that had committed perjury. The witnesses for the defendant, according to his learned friend, were too respectable for any one for a moment to think of imputing such an offence to them. He (Sir F. Thesiger) would leave it to the jury to say whether they thought his learned friend was justified in making such a distinction. He would not recede from the position which he bad assumed from the very first, that Mr. Hope disdained the notion of receiving damages in money as a compensation for an injury of this kind ; the plain tiff's sole object was to be placed in a proper position for prosecuting the suit for a divorce in the House of Lords ; but, at the same time, he trusted that, in the event of the jury giving a verdict for Mr. Hope, they would not award such an amount of damages as would degrade him. TheAttorney-General (interrupting SirFrederick)said, supposing the jury were of opinion that adultery had been committed by the Count Aguado and Madame Hope, he was quite content that it should be left to his lordship (Lord Campbell) to say what the amount of damages should be. Sir FredelickThesiger stated he was ready to accede to that preposition, Lord Campbell—Do you wish me to state now what the damages should be ? (Laughter.) The Attorney-General—Let the plaintiff first catch his hare, my lord. (Laughter.) Let us see whether he gets the verdict or not. Lord Campbell said he was qutte resay., hs t 4.0 es esst of the jury finding for the plaintiff, to say what the da mages should be. Upon that understanding, Sir Frederick Thesiger resumed his address to the jury. He contended that there was a fact spoken to by the witness Desmaisons, which of itself was conclusive that an act of adultery had been committed ley the Count Aguado and Madame Hope. He meant her statement that on one occasion, at midnight, after a ball had been held at Frascati's, she saw the count enter the bed-room of Madame Hope, and that about seven o'clock the next morning, having business in the corridor, she saw him again coming out of Madame Hope's room in his shirt.' Again, both the witnesses, Desmaisons and Soutreuil, stated in the most positive manner that the count occupied room 122 on the visit to 'Havre, in 1846, which was denied by the defendant's counsel, who alleged that he occupied room 39, and that 132 was occupied at that time by Prince Paul of Wurtem burg. In order to prove that the count did not occupy room 122, the defendant called five different witnesses, including M. Bredard, the proprietor of the hotel. But, M. Bredard said, over and over again, that his memory as to the room occupied by the count was entirely in the books he kept relating to the visitors at the hotel, which the court ruled he should not produce. The truth was, that among all these five witnesses there was not one of them who ventured to say that the count had ever slept in 39, or that they ever saw any toilet articles belonging to hint in that apartment. He contended that that part of the case remained entirely unaffected by the evidence on the part of the defendant, unless, indeed, the jury came to the conclusion that the witnesses called by the plaintiff to establish it had committed perjury. As another incident, tending to give colour to the suspi cion that adultery had been committed, Sir Frederick proceeded to comment on the statement of the wit ness Ann Rouse, that when in Paris in 1846, Mrs. Hope, on one occasion, persuaded her husband to go out and walk with the children ; that, after he had gone, Mrs. Hope told her not to some into her room until the bell rang, and that she (witness) saw the Count Aguado, shortly after the husband left, alone in Mrs. Hope's bed-room. The only attempt made by the defendant's counsel to impugn the testimony of Ann Rouse was the unworthy insinuation that a veil she wore when in the witness box had recently been given her by some one in the interest of the plaintiff, whereas it turned out that she herself had bought the veil in Paris sotne four or five years ago. Adverting to the visit of Mrs. Hope to Folkestone, in 1848, and to the circumstances proved to Lave taken place there at the house of Mrs. Kitchener, he contended that the registers at Boulogne and Folkestone came in strongly and irresistibly to cor roborate the evidence of Young, that immediately after Mr. Hope left Folkestone for Holland, he (Ye ing) went over to Boulogne from Folkestone to fetch the count, to Mrs. Hope. It was not for a moment questioned that the count came to Folkestone the day after Mr. Hope left there, and lived on terms of great inti macy with Mrs. Hope during the absence of bet hus band. Why did the wife send over to Boulogne in that clandestine manner for the Count Aguado the moment her husband left 3 Was it to be presumed that the intercourse which ensued upon that visit of the count _was of an innocent kind I He would ask that question of the jury as reasonable and intelligent men. They would remember that it must always almost of necessity be that the commission of adultery could not be proved by direct evidence in nine cases of ten. A jury having to decide on such a question was usually driven to infer its commission from a consideration of opportunity and circumstances ; and, looking at what took place on that occasion at Folkestone, and previously at Havre, and again at the visit of the count to Mrs. Hope's bed-room in Paris, he would say, in the words of our great dra matic poet-- "If imputation and strong circumstance Can load directly to the door of trutk, Here you have it." He contended also that nothing had come out to shake the evidence given by Mr. Howe, to the effect that when Mrs. Hope was staying at Deepdene, in the autumn of 1848, she gays him a letter in the park there to take to a gentleman whom she said he would find waiting for it at the Redhill station, near Reigate ; it was addressed to the Count Aguado, and he took it and gave it to a gentleman who was waiting there for it, and that on the next market-day afterwards, on going incidentally into a room ii the White Hart Hotel at Reigate, in que:t of a Mr. Clutton, he suprised th e same gentle man to whom he bad given the lett4r, sitting on a sofa, with his arm round J.Nlrs. Hope's waist. Dr. Douvin had, it was true, coins forward to prove t' at at the very time the Count Aguado was said to be at Reigate he was btuot wherethe d t , i ) i c e t ocro,utnhto wasegl very precise to ai his with his f: in that y ear , h a d a ver y i m p er f e ct memory as t o th e I Y i in statement Florence events in his own life in ISI3. Besides, the defendant's counsel had been unable to produce the passport used by the count or his servant on that journey to Florence, though they had put in those of other members of the Aguado family and their suite, who went to Florence in that year. Again, supposing it true that the count was at Florence in the autumn of 1848, there would be no difficulty whatever in his coming over to England, seeing Mrs. Hope at Reigate, and then rejoining his family at ( o: of a the e t igeffia:s given ai Florence. Sir Fred er i c k th en procee d e d at some further length, an d i n muc h detail, to comment upon the evi n;dao: Tan theitocpoanre eloquent part of the eh itne t dwe peroration,it t e h n d t a i n i a t t a a s d o au o pe t pa n de e af r loed pratrhtt to the jury that the great salient points in the plaintiff 's case remained unaffected by the counter-evidence given I on behalf of the Count Agnado ' • and that the plaintiff's w it nes ses, poor and hu m bl e though they were, who spoke to circumstances leading irresistibly to the in ference of adultery between the count and Madame Hope, were not on that account alone to be deemed to have perjured themselves. Lord Campbell then summed up amidst the profound attention of a crowded court. His lordship said this action had been brought by Mr. Hope against the Count Aguado, for criminal conversation with his wife. He was one of those who lamented that such actions might be brought by the laws of England. He thought it was a reproach to the jurisprudence of the country. Adultery was a great crime, and should be treated as a great crime and punished by the criminal courts, and not be made the subject of a civil action. It had been a reproach on the laws of England, that a man having suffered the great injury of having his wife seduced could bring an action at law, and ask the jury to give him a sum of money as a compensation for his dishonour. Foreign countries looked on this as a disgrace, and he himself had had to defend our laws. He had heard the laws of England reproached, on the ground that a man tired of his wife might put a halter about her neck and expose her for sale in a public market. He was sorry to say that this practice sometimes, though it had not recently, prevailed. He blushed to say that a man could bring an action against another for criminal conversation with his wife, and could recover damages. He hoped the jurisprudence of the country would be corrected in this respect. He would not read over the whole of the evi deees, for that be believed would not assist them, as it must be fresh in their memory, but he would briefly advert to some of the leading points. First of all, then, he would direct their attention to the evidence connected with Mrs. Hope's visit to Havre, in 1846. The wit iesses Desmaisons and Soutreuil had certainly given somewhat ex aggerated testiniony, for according to their state ments, after the Count Aguado had obtained possession of Mrs. Hope, he was constantly toying with her where they could be most easily seen ; he had either his hand round her waist or his hand was in her bosom, or they were indulging in other indecent familiarities ; but in reference to this there was much impoz tent evidence which the jury would do well to consider. The story depended much upon the apartments occupied by the Count Aguado. Now there was strong evidence af forded by Monsieur Bredard, the master of the hotel ; Viscomto Aeneas), the defendant's brother, and Dr. Donvin, that the apartment which these women had said the count had occupied had not been occupied by him. He thought, therefore, that they could not place muck reliance on their testimony, though much they had deposed to had been uncontradicted, and indeed could not be contradicted—such as what they had alleged had taken place at night. In the next place there was the testimony of the woman Lowenstein, as to what she had witnessed at Havre in 1850. Though he could not see the improbability of the bathing scene such as she had described, yet she had not given a very satisfactory account of herself. She was leaving her own country, and first she said she was going to Cali fornia, and next she said she was seeking to obtain the situation of a stewardess. On her evidence, if uncorroborated, he thought they could not find a ver dict for the plaintiff. It had not been contradicted by the baigneurs, for it appeared that Mrs. Hope bad learned to swim in 1846. And now he would direct their attention to the question in reference to the house in the Rue de Monceau. Though it was possible that the count might not have taken the house No. 3, the weight of evidence on this part of the case was in favour of the defendant. In support of the plaintiff's case, they had the evidence of Young and Tallande, but against that they had the evidence of the proprietor of the house, who gave a satisfactory account of how it had been let during the last three years, and a register had been produced toshow its residents. In addition to that, they had the evidence of Cohn, the coachman, and of the valet of the Count Aguado. It seemed to him that on this part of the case the evidence prepon derated in favour of the defendant. As to the house in the Rue la Borders, the gardener's son had given his evidence-fairly enough. He said he knew the Count Aguado, and that he had seen him coming to the house; but opposed to that they had the evidence of the viscomte, and what was still more material, the evidence of Ranee, the concierge, who negatived the idea that the count had occupied the house in question. And new he would turn to scenes of a different character. Ann Rouse, who seemed a most respectable young woman, had stated that she had seen that which would lead to the presumption that the act of adultery had been com mitted. It was not necessary that the act itself should be witnessed ; for if it were shown that there was a de sire on the part of the paramour of the wife, and that they bad an opportunity of gratifying that desire, then the legislature, whose duty it was to decide upon those questions, would draw their conclusions as to the adul tery. This witness had said that Mrs. Hope, having sent her husband and children out of the way, bad received the Count Agusdo in her bed-room. It had been said by the learned Ant irney-General that this was a foreign habit. Though they knew what foreign 'manners were, he did not think they would authorise such liberties as bad been deposed to in this case. Arid now as to Folkestone. If they could believe what had teen sworn to, then it would be clear tnat an act of adultery had been committed. It was not necessary that a witness should swear to an act of adultery. If he did so, it would be in itself suspi cious. All that the law required was that there should be such evidence that reasonable men could entertain a strong- presumption that the act had been com mitted. essees Lu rolnestane ? having gone to Holland, Mrs. Hope sends Young to Boulogne to bring over the Count Aguado. She does so in a clandestine manner. Young brings over the count, who remains there during the absence of Mr. Hope. A piano is obtained for his amusement, and on the return of the husband the instrument is removed, seemingly with the view of preventing Mr. Meese know ing that the Count Aguado had been there. If Mrs. Hope and the Count Aguado had any intention of car rying on a criminal intercourse, they had full opportu enity of doing so. Again, Mr. Hope having l eft Folke stone, Mrs. Hope, on the pretence of going to London, clandestinely goes to Boulogne, where she rereains two nights, and then returns. They would reenllect the contrivance which had been resorted to as to how she should be admitted to her house—by throwin g gravel against the window. There is no evidence to show that she met the Count Aguado at Boulogne. It h act been suggested that she went there for the purpose of smuggling over some dresses, but it appeared to him as far more likely that she went over rather for the purpose of seeing the Count Aguado. They would now come to the autumn, when Mrs. Hope was at Deep dens. The evidence of Vie witness Howe, if urscon tradieted, went to prove the commission of the act of adultery. He would implore them,. on this • point, to give due weight to the evidence adduced to shake the testimony which Mr. Howe had given. 'Until that evidence bad been adduced, he appeared to hi In to , be a sincere and respectable witness. He had lived for years with Mr. Hope, of Deepdene, who had given him a good character. Howe had proved that one day, is the park, Mrs. Hope had given him a letter addressed to the Count Aguado, which she desired him to Eive to a gentleman who would be waiting at the Red hill station. He did so, and received an answer, wrinte n in pencil, which he gave to Mrs. Hope. Some d aye afterwards, in endeavouring to find the head stew: trd in the Swan Hotel, he entered a room, and there ho saw a lady and gentleman. It was sworn by Ho we that -the lady was Mrs. Hope, and the gentlema.:n was the person to whom he had delivered the letter addressed to the Count Aguado, and that the genthee man's arm was roun d th e lady's waist. If uncoutr dieted, that would justify the supposition that adulterous intercourse had taken place. If Howe wove not inventing, there must have bee* some lover of Mrs. Hope's to whom she had addressed a letter as the Count Aguado. No other was suggested as the paramour. But then there was evidence on this pert of the case deserving of the greatest consideration . Three witnesses had been called to show that the' statement of Howe was impossible, for the Count, Aguada had left Paris for Italy at the end of July, and did not return until the beginning of November, whereas the circumstance deposed to by Howe took place in September. He did not think there were any written documents to corroborate their testimony. The three witnesses were Dr. Dowd!), the courier, and the count's servant. He did not see that the two former were to bediscredited, but the latter was certainly not entitled 'to credit. As to what had occurred in Folkestone, in 1851, there was a strong presumption, if they believed the evidenoe of the four witnesses, that the act of adul tery had been committed. If those witnesses were to be believed the bed had been removed, and the doors be , twetvalitre. :Hope's and the count's rooms had been broken open. Supenesing that were so, it must be taken that the count did go into Mrs. Hope's room, and the inference naturally would be that he did .so for the purpose of com mitting adultery. The Count de Morny had stated no thing to coat iradict this, but the count's valet had. Seeing that the latter had not only been contradicted by four witnesses, bu.t had contradicted himself, no great reli ance was to be placed on him, and the jury would consi der whether .be had not exaggerated the count's illness in case their hands, iththe sbeeobser vationsggingtrying to ace aunt for having remaine d a l l night , and ev e ry night, i he e h t w , i t ildisle master's them to give leo weight to his observations if the y did not meet with their conc urrence. If the char ge of adul tery were prove d to their satisfaction, they would find a verdict for the • plaintiff ; if not, the y would find for the olaesttehre's bedroom. defendant. A's to the damages, they should be such as not to throw a..slur on the plaintiff; but this was not a case for large &mines, for, if it were true that an act of adultery had In 'committed, then Mrs. Hope was not the seduced b ut the seducer, and Mr. Hope had sus tained but a sli'osist loss. The jury would say whether the act of adialtery bad been made out to their satis faction. The jury, vithout snore than a minute's consideration returned a verdict for the plaintiff. In pursuant le of an arran g ement p reviou s l y entered into between l sir F. Thesis:el . and the Attorney-General, the former hen ing stated that Mr. Hope, in the event of a verdict being returned for him, would only claim such dam ages e n would give him a locus standi in seeking a divorce) fro es the House of Lords, Lord C, anpli ell estimated the amount of damages at 2001. 2001. A verdict s was then entered for the plaintiff—damages COURT OF EXCHEQUER. CllO JCRV. LURCOTT AND ANOTDER.--LTDEL. Mr. M. flbarnbms and Mfr . Maenamara appeared to the plain lift', And Mr. Edwin James and Mr. Pulling re presents ,d th© defendant. This was as,. a ction brought by the plaintiff, the well known railw 'ay carrier, to recover compensation in damage s frorr the defendants, the proprietors and pub lishers 4 0 thf . Railway Tinto, for the publication of a libel in that journal, reflecting on the character of the plaintiff, and couched in the following terms The Contraband Parcel Trade. Mr. Crouch, the gentleman who has made himself somewhat notorious by carry ing on an illicit trade in small parcels, in defiance of the rules of companies over whose lines he desires free way, has sent us a printed statement of his griev ances. Passing over remarkabilities of style, the whole affair resolves itself into this solitary fact. Mr. Crouch could make a trade by smuggling, and afford to give his customers a share of the plunder, if companies wou'd only supply him with speed, safety, and regularity for nothing. He is willing to pay goods' rates, precisely as a parliamentary passenger, on paying his penny a mile, might demand being conveyed by express. Were this enterprising gentleman to show that his system afforded greater security and speed than the companies could themselves, we might advise his immediate employment as parcels superintendent. So long, however, as he merely takes an advantage of an error in statute law, and thereby seeks to elude internal regulations of com panies upon matters of their own trade, we must rebut his charge of monopoly precisely as we would a practical insinuation into our till, a fraudulent cheque upon our banker, or any other mode of obtaining a livelihood under false pretences." It would appear that small parcels are collected by the plaintiff and his various agents at different places throughout the country, and by them packed into one large parcel and forwarded to their destination, where they are sorted, and di-tributed to the parties to whom they are addressed. By this the plaintiff saved con siderably on the carriage. This mode of conducting his business, however, involved him in almost endless liti gation with .the railway companies, who were by this means deprived of theimmense profit they received on small parcels compared with large. The plaintiff having been auccssful against the railway companies, issued a pamphlet reciting his "grievances," entitled " Crouch and the Railways' Monopoly," which he heralded to the public in the following lines, as emblematic of the per secution which he had endured : Go forth, my book, into this world of care, Doomed, like thy master, all its ills to share. In allusion to" railway monopoly" he in the pamphlet went on to say, "I approached the huge monster, like David in , olden time, with my simple staff of honesty of purpose, placing within my bag a few small stones consisting of in dustry, perseverance, and determination, to fight with and slay my mighty Railway Goliah." It further stated, speaking of "railway autocrats," and their "pecuniary resources," " Yet still they gorge their already heated stomachs by oppression, and enjoy the feelings of mono poly they would seek to uphold by the, destruction of the honest, industrious, and persevering tradesman." This pamphlet was sent to the Railway Times, and eli cited from that paper the article complained of. The Lord Chief Baron, in leaving the case to the jury, said—Tue question to be decided was, what was the real matter complained of—was that article libellous, or was it a fair comment en the notorious practice of the plaintiff's mode of conducting his business If the jury were of opinion that the article complained of was libel lous, it was for them to say what damages they thought, under the circumstances, the plaintiff was entitled to. The jury, having consulted for a short time, asked the learned judge what amount of damages would carry costs. The Lord Chief Baron—There is some doubt whether you ought to be told that. You ought to find damages to the amount of the injury sustained. The jury, after another brief consultation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages, 51. PRICES OP SFI ARES IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER. COM PANIES' STOCK. From, the Official List. PUBLIMED EVERY TIIEIDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING. LONDON, TUESDAY, FE8.13, 1855. GAS-LIGHT AND COKE COMPA 'IES. Name of Company. British • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Ditto Provincial.... Brighton • • • • .. • • • • • • City of London .. • • • . .:entinental (3d Cap.)... Equitable ••••.. • • • • Great Central .. Imperial .. • • • • • • • • • • Independent .. • • London • • .. • . Dividend 4 Amount per 1 _of Annum. 71. 51. 4. Os Share. Do., Pail. Preference PcelY. •• •• ••• •• •• Ratcllff •• •• • .„ •• •• . United General ...... Westminster chartered Ditto, New .. •• ... S. d. - 20 0 0 20 0 0 ,100 0 0 Paid. X s. d. Price. 41. Os. 50 0 0 V. 16s. 50 0 0 7/ per cent 10 0 0 10..& bonus. 50 0 0 51, 40 0 0 o 0 0 0 61. per cent. 25 0 0 41. per cent. 60 0 0 51. 100 0 0 IL se. 50 0 0 § ver cent. 60 0 0 51. per cent. 51 0 0 WATER-WORKS, Namo of Company. o 0 20 0 0 I 10 0 , 58% all 29 all , 11 all 98 y, Dividend Amount per ' of Annum. 5G 0 0 204 90 0 0 70 10 0 Share. s. East London Grand Junction .... • • 4;. per tnt. 50 0 0 Kent.... .. 4l. per cut. ;100 0 0 Lambeth 'lOO 0 0 New River Company 2l. 10s. Southwark & Vauxhall 51 per cnt. 1100 0 • West Middlesex .. • . Paid I Price. A s. d. 100 all 66 DOCKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. X s. d. l £ s. d. Commercial .. 41. pr cent. Stock. Stock. East and West India Si. pr cent. Stock. 119 V, East Country.. 2os. per sh. London . .•• •• . 51. pr cent. Stock. 101 Ditto Bonds • • .... 41. pe.• cent. St. Katharine •• • 4 per cent. Stock. $8 "outhampton 3l. os per c. 50 0 0 50 0 I Victoria .. .. . „ 51. per cent. 20 0 0 12 0 0 15 BRIDGES. Dividend Amount Name of Company, per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ s. d. £ a. d. Hungerford • • l2 Southwark ...... • 100 0 0 Ditto New of 7% p.c '7os. per cent. 50 0 Waterloo ..... •• • • 100 0 0 4 4 Ditto Old Ann. of 8L 1/. 14s. 60 0 0 31 Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11. 10s. Od. 40 0 0 2$ Vauxhall 1/. ss. 70 10 3 23 JOINT-STOOK BANKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. I per of Paid. Price. Annum. Shale. .£ s. d. £ s. d. A.ustralasia 6/, per cent. 40 0, 0 all $2 British North American 61. per cent. 50 0 0 Commercial of London. 6/. per cent. ;100 0 0 20 0 0 Colonial lonian 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 Lond . Char. Bk. of Aus. 20 0 0 all 0 21 London and County .. 61. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 30 Londn and Westminstr 61, per cent. 100 0 0 20 • 0 0 40 London Joint• Stock ... 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 27!4, Provincial of Ireland.. 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 Ditto, N ew... ...... 8/ . per cent. 10 0 0 all National of Ireland.... 41. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 I Nat. Provincial of Eng. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 33 0 0 Ditto, New ........ 5/ per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 Oriental Bank Corpora. 121. p. cl. - .&bs. 25 0 0 all South Australia ...... 8 , p. ct. & bs. 25 0 0 Union of Australia..., 40.. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 66% Ditto .. ........... 40/. per cent. 2 10 0 Union of London ..... 8/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 Union of Madrid ... • • 40 0 0 . all . RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending Feb. 4, 1855 £17,762 17 0 Corresponding week last year 19,707 6 4 LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRR RAILWAY.—TraftIo re turn for the week ending Feb. 11, 1855 £17,154 18 7 Corresponding week last year 17,746 19 2 CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending Feb. 11, 1855 £3,898 li 0 Corresponding week last year 3,829 12 8 Increase in 1855 ... £69 2 4 GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—Traffio re turn for the week ending Feb. 10, 1855 £4,851 2 2 `Jorresponding week last year 4,900 2 6 Decrease in 1355 £49 0 4 - A NEW MATERIAL FOR PAPER. A leading New York journal contains the fol lowing : Before us lies a copy of the Albany Evening Journal, printed on paper made from basswood shavings. The interesting article from the Journal, which we copy be low, gives such information respecting the process of manufacture, and the almost certain success of the expe riment, as the public can expect in the present stage of the invention. We may add that the colour and general appearance of the paper are superior to that on which many of our best exchanges are often printed. It is. also of good substance—perhaps, if anything, a little too heavy, which can no doubt be easily remedied—and it is tougher than the great bulk of newspaper made from rags. It has also another advantage, that, although it is without any sizing, it will carry common writing ink almost as well as letter paper. We have little doubt that before long it will be in very general use. PRINTING PAPBE MADB FROM BASSWOOD. Our exchanges, and the various book-publishers with whom we are in correspondence, will receive this number of the Albany P2 ,,, . 4 ".7 - 7 .”44"nal Pri'a on paper made olibiroly from basswood. We hope soon to issue our whole edition upon this paper, and we should have de ferred any reference to it until that period but for the numerous calls made upon us, from all quarters, for spe cimens of it. Its inventor, George W. Beardslee, Esq., of this city, kindly furnished us with a ream to print for circulation among those directly interested in the important discovery. The paper is made from pulp produced from basswood shavings, of a peculiar form thrown off by Mr. Beard sloe's planing machine, which has been improved to produce this result. It contains no mixture of rags, or other material whatever, or sizing. It is from the pure wood alone. The paper furnished us was made at Satterlee's mill, Little Falls, under unfavourable cir cumstances. The supply of water was so small that the mill had to be served by hand instead of by gauge pumps, the consequence of which was such irregular feeding as to produce slightly irregular thicknesses of paper. The paper has also been used with perfect suc cess by Mr. Gavit for transferring fine line engravings— a result which cannot be attained by any ordinary news paper. But Mr. Beardslee is not restricted to bass wood. He has made experiments which leave no doubt upon his mind that paper of a texture even superior to that which he has already produced from that wood can be produced from ether native woods, found in equal abundance. The pulp is manufactured very cheaply, and by a simple process--known, of course, to himself alone. It can be packed in bags and bales, as com pactly as cotton, and sent as readily to any part of the country or world, and at rates which (if it shall prove available) must ultimately drive rags entirely out of the market. Thus far Mr. Beardslee has only manufactured se much pulp as was necessary for the prosecution of his experiments. But he purposes, as soon as arrangements can be perfected, to enter largely into the manufacture of the article for market. It can be used in any paper mill, furnished ready for the finishing engine, and capa ble of producing a weight of paper equal to the weight of the pulp used. Consequently, in adopting it, no new machinery will be required, but a great deal of the most cumbersome now used and much of the most unpleasant part of the work of making paper from rags may be dis played with. This discovery, as timely as it is important, will prove of incalculable value to the world. The necessity of some such substitute for the articles hitherto used in the manufacture of paper had become imperative. The de mand has already outstripped the supply, and the most serious difficulties were apprehended in the future. If Mr. Beardslee has discovered the needed substitute, he will have done mere for the world than any living con• temporary. And that he has made this discovery, few acquainted with the qualities of good' paper will doubt, with these crude specimens of basswood paper before them. ,SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. COVENTRY RACES.—MItRcH 6. I ~VnrnaTa far the C RAY EN STEErj,TOFTARR. Forfeits to be declared on or before the 20th of February. Four miles. Should the highest weight accepting be under 1 Ist. 71b., it will be raised to that weight, and the others remaining in, in proportion st lb Bourton Peter Need wood. Oscar The Trout. Tipperary Boy a 10 0 The General Spring Boundaway 6 910 Rosa a 9 9 Augustine Yr 3, et lb Potter The Poet a 9 6 Lamienne a 9 4 Wanderer, by Ve r ula.m (h.b.) a St: Arnaud Star of England a TomOurney(h.b.) Fen m an Royalty Dangerous 9 4 9 3 9 0 9 0 8 12 8 10 8 10 G.EN.ERAL SCREW STEAM-SHIPPING COMPANY. The adjourned meeting of the shareholders of this company was held yesterday, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, for the purpose of receiving the re sult of the ballot on Mr. Crawford's resolutions, arid on the amendment moved by Mr. Hankey, at the meeting of the company on the 3d inst. The resolutions moved by Mr. R. W. Crawford, and seconded by Mr. Money Wigratn, were— " 1. That it is not expedient to make any payment to the shareholders, by way of dividend or otherwise, for the half-year ending 30th June, 1854; or to make any altera tion in the accounts of the company, as they stand re corded in the company's books under that date. " 2. That the directors be recommended to write off the balances upon the following accounts to the debit of profit and loss, under date 31st December, 1854, viz.:—Suspense account— Separate account in liquidation, No. I—Separate account in liquidation, No. 2- India ships, repairs in liquidation Cape coasting trade account and to the credit of the same account, suspense charter account; also to write off from profit and loss, to credit of the coal and store accounts, such sums as will cover any ascertained losses or probable deficiencies under those heads. "2. That it be an instruction to the directors, when pro ceeding to a valuation of the company's stock, for the be. lance of the 31st December, 18b4, in the terms of the 6Gth clause of the deed of settlement, to assess the value of the company's shipping and other stock, upon the principle of a willing purchase, at the fair market price of the day, from an outgoing partner, by partners continuing to carry on the business." The followinc , is the amendment proposed by Mr. T. Hankey, and seconded by Mr. C. W. C. Hutton : " That the accountants' report 12e received and adopted." The CHAIRMAN (Mr. J. U. Ellis), in opening the pro ceeding; expressed a hope that the meeting would agree to adopt such further measures as might be necessary to put thd company's affairs in a better position, and in a position more agreeable to the shareholders at large. He then proceeded to declare the reeolt of the 11,f,- Ilaukey's amendment as follows : For the amendment Against it 2,479 2,280 Majority for the amendment... 199 A SHAREHOLDER inquired if the numbers declared re. presented the value of the stock I The CnAIRSIAN replied that he had no means of ascer taining the value of the stock. The resolutions of Mr. Crawford having been lost, the amendment of Mr. Han key now became a substantive motion. If that motion did not meet the wishes of the shareholders, it was com petent to any one of them to move au amendment ; but he would put it to the meeting whether it was desirable, after the declaration of the ballot, that any other ques tion sholld be raised. (Hear, hear.) He thought it was for the interests of the company that the decision should be adhered to rather than enter into another struggle on a question on which the proprietors were so nearly divided. (Hear.) The amendment was thee put as an original motion, and the chairman intimated that, according to the show of hands, it appeared to be lost. Mr. CRAWFORD said he was willing to accept the de cision of the ballot as the decision of the meeting, and was not disposed to be a party to any proceedings which would have the effect of destroying that de cision. (Hear.) After a short discussion, the motion was again put and agreed to. Mr. MUTTON then moved, " That the directors make up the accounts of the company to the 31st of Decem ber, 1854, dividing the same into capital and workin. account, upon the basis of the resolution just c o nfirmed, and that they call in such aasietance as may be deemed necessary to close the accounts with the utmost despatch." Mr. CRAWFORD seconded the motion, and said he had no doubt the accounts of the company would soon be in a position to present to the meeting, divested of all cir cumstances which could lead to any doubt as to the manner in which they bad been made up. Mr. TIANKEY said the resolution left it optional with the directors whether they would call in an accountant or not. He submitted to the meeting whether it would not he better to make it imperative on the directors to procure the assistance of an accountant, because the sanction of a disinterested party to the statement that might be presented would give it additional weight. (Hear, hear.) _ After some discussion, the motion in its original shape was put and agreed to. The CHAIRMAN said that Mr. Robarts and Mr. Hoare had expressed their intention of resigning the auditor ship, and he wished to suggest the propriety of naming Mr. Crawford and Mr. Hutton as auditors, in conjunc tion with the other auditors. Mr. CRAWFORD and Mr. MUTTON stated that they had no objection to undertake the duty, on the understand ing that the accounts to Le audited should not extend beyond the 31st of December. last ; and The CHAIRMAN then proposed a resolution to that effect, which was put a.:,cl agreed to. Colonel HEWITT proposed, " That in the opinion of this meeting it is very desirable that Mr. Hutton should accept a seat at the board, and that he be requested to allow himself to be placed in nomination at the next election." Mr. Dexix seconded the resolution. After a long discussion, in the course of which some of the shareholders expressed an opinion that the mo tion was ill-timed, Colonel HEWITT consented to its withdrawal. The CRAIRMAN then announced that he had a letter announcing the withdrawal of Mr. Robarta and Mr. Hoare as auditors. In answer to a question, The CHAIRMAN said that the elecCon of new directors would not take place later than the 4th of April, and that in the meantime any person desirous of becoming candidates might send in their notice s. On the motion of General AITC MASON, seconded by Mr. CRAWFORD, a vote of thanks was given to the chairman, and the proceedings then terminated. • = w0.i...,... PUBLIC BATHS AND WASH-HOUR Bra AT GATESHEAD. — The corporation of Gateshead ha ve just erected baths and wash-houses for the cenveuien, •:e and accommodatime of the poorer classes, at an expense of about 4,3001. The works were opened on Wednesda, r week by the mayor RIO council hi the presence of the , srincipal inhabitants. A MAN FROZHN TO DEATH.--On Saturday Mr. Hills, the coroner for West Kent, held ti,Lt inquest at Stoke, near Rochester, on William Salmon.. The deceased, a married man with a large family, had been drinking pretty freely on Thursday afternocue, and between five and six o'clock was overtaken by rile severe storm ( f snow with which we were visited on that day. His road home (about a mile) was across soisv e open fields, where there eas no shelter, and all traces of the foot-path e ere effaced. He was seen taking elicit cr near a haystack by some men who were passing that way, between seven and eight o'clock that evening, ai id these he informed that he could net get along. They' thought he was jok ine,, and, after persuading him to :make another :trial, left him. As he did nut return - to his home that night his family became alarmed, and a etrareh was instituted. Early on Friday morning his dead be dy was found at the spot near which it was seen by tire- men, and near him. some coals which he had been pure' eatiing. When found the body was quite rigid, the unf intunate man baying been frozen to death. WEIGHTS for the HURDLE RACE. Two miles. Accep. tances to be signified on or before Feb. 22d, to Mr, Merry, Leamington. Yrs. st lb Herbert a 11 0 Spring a 10 10 Voucher Teddesley 6 10 4 Nonsuch (h. b.) 6 10 3 Fenmau Tipperary Boy a 10 2 Odihein Tom Gurney Free Trader Freedom Theodine 6 9 7 Dangerous Yrs. st lb 'Warwick a 9 6 Star of England a 9 3 S•+lopian a 9 2 Potter Badheart (late Sweetheart) Billy the Bean (late Hope) Lincoln Parchment Cardiff Lass 5 830 Snowdrift a 810 Royalty OUNDLE STEPLEECHASES. In consequence of the continued severity of the wea ther, these chases are again postponed. Due notice will be given of the next appointment. A meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Carter and Co., shipowners and brokers, who failed on the 16th Dec., took place yesterday. As the account now stands, the assets show a surplus of 3,000/. after paying 20s. in the pound with interest ; and this amount, it is believed, may, with management, be realised. LONDON RAGGED SCHOOL UNION.— On Tuesday the second annual meeting for the distribution of rewards to those late scholars of the London Ragged School Union who have continued to behave well in the various indus trial situations provided for them was held in St. Mar tin's Hall. Several hundred youths, maidens, and chi'. dren partook of the good things of the tea table, and on the platform, and in the galleries, was a large assem bly of their benevolent patrons. [ADVEIITISEMENT].—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills have effected another cure of bad legs.—Mr. Mason, chemist, of Hastings, states in a letter to Professor Hol loway, that a relation of his, residing in Goodwin-street, Bloomsbury, Birmingham, was afflicted for several years with bad legs. He applied a variety of remedies, but to no purpose, as the wounds increased to an alarming ex tent. However at last he tried Holloway's Ointment and Pills, and by the use of these never-failing remedies, the virulence of the disease was quickly subdued, and by persevering with them for a time they effected a sound and permanent cure.— Sold by all Vendors of Medicine, and at Professor Holloway's Establishments, 244, Strand, London, and 80, Maiden-lane, New York. [ADvERnsEmENT.)—Many thousand cures have Lee, effected without medicine, by Du Barry's Delicious Biva lents. Arabica Food, of indigestion (dyspepsia), constipation, nervous, bilious, and liver complaints, paralysis, k e . W e quote a few :—Cure No. 52,612.—Fr0m the Dowager Countess of Castlestuart.—" Rosstrevor, County of Down, Ireland, 9th December, 1854.—The Dowager Ceuatess of Castlestuart feels induced, in the interest of saffering hit inanity, to state that Du Barry's excellent Rovalenta Ara bica Food has cured her, after all medicines had failed, of indigestion, bile, great nervousness and irritability of many years' standing. This Food deserves the confidence of all sufferers, and may be considered a real blessing. laquiries will be cheerfully answered." Cure No. 71. — Of dyspepsia ' from th e Ri g ht H on . th e L or d Stuart de Decies.—" I have derived considerable benefit from Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, and consider it due to yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines.—Stuart de Decies." Cure No. 32,836.—Fr0ma the - Venerable Archdeacon of Ross.- "Three years, exces• sive nervousness, with painsiu my neck and loft arm, and ge neral debility, which rendered my life very miserable, has bee n rad icallyremoved by Du Barry's health-restoring Food tually rreairal'i• short timen. —A.lex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Ross, Skibereen." Cure No. 4,20g . __., with e Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, spasms and nausea, have been effec t by Du Barry's delicious Food in a very ''civi:Ltir. Joh n W. Flavell, Ridlington Rectory, agony from dys(s No. 51"416.—" N , )rfell:." Fifty Teals' indescribable potion, IlatiiieLerlma, nervousness, asthma, cough, consti i mitings, have befrPeanTir'' sickness at the stomach and vo y,;,an,n(F. near Diss, Norfolk." Cure —Maria Jolly, w ortba :l i by Du Barry's excellent Food. sal debility have been removngt, i i) lig " tkn ' No. 3,9o6.—Thirte en Food.—James Potter, Athol-street, and gene- Food.—James excellent C0.,77, Regencl ters, suitably packed for all climates, tions —llb., 2s. 9d.; 21b., 4s. CA.; 51b., full instrue- super -relined, 121 b,,, 22.5 • 1113., 6s, ; 21b., lls. ; blb., 2'5. ; 10lb. 33 s ' The 101 b. and 121 b., carriage and with can is- freo, on receipt of' g t am. — O ., Purveyor street, office orL d o er n . don l3 ; aly ,ort d n u um l3 , a lt ri a y son an , d in , ornlull ; GO, Gracochurch-street; 330 and 451, Strand ; 63 and 150, 182, Piccadilly; also at 68 c .- ato Oxford-street , , 55 Charing-cross ; 4, °hominids: 25 and her Majesty, . 54, Upper Baker-stroot. CANALS o nd Names of g Dividend Price Names of 31 pvierde Companies. A per , Companies. 'a' Price. Annum. cra Annum. ; .Fr) X X Ashtn &Oldh, 98 71. p. ct. 137% dacelesileid. DA 21. 10s. 51% Banisley•• •• 160' Neath .• •• •• 100 161 150 Brknk&Abrg , 150' 41. GO Oxford .. .. • . 100 13'. 110 Birmingham 140 41. 91% Peak Forest. 78 S. Os. 86 Coventry.... !100' 251. 209 Regent's •.. :1 , 8• 15% Derby •• • ...100; 61. 84 Rochdale.... 85 11. 10s. 60 Lilsture&Chs! 69'2% p. ct. Soinrset Coal 14 0 Grand.l..netuloo,4/ pr.ct. 55 Do Lk F.P-t 1 2, •-*-- Do., 6 pr.Ct.l 10161. pr. ct. tflrd &Wore,4 281. 425 -rand Surrey, 100 ' 2/. 10s. 48 it; rewsbury..l; 25 Grand Union 100 1/. Os 12 % >tour aridge.. , 1 4 5 121. 285 Kennt & Avn; 39 6s. Od. 6% -e ern and Lancaster ..; 100 w a hail. 126 21 . 21 Leeds &L , vrplloo 251. Warwick & 1 20 Leicester.... I 10f 51. 89 Binning. 5 100 21. Lelestr &Nth 83 41. 28% Warwick & 1 le Loughboregh 142 701. 575 Napton.. $ 100 31 ° Moninouthsh 100 Worcstr &I 78 31. 26 Mntgmerysh 100 Birming. MeltnMwbry 100 Wilts & Brks —10 s. Od. INSURANCE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company, per of Paid. Pride. Annum. Share. £ s. d. £ s. d. Albion . - ...... •• .. 31. 10s. 500 0 0 50 0 0 - Alliance Brit. and For. 71. 148 6d. bs. 100 0 0 11 0 0 '87 , ,, Ditto Marine ....... 61. p.c. & bs. 100 0 0 25 0 0 Anchor .............. 6 per cent. 5 0 1 0 0 21 Atlas ... 15s Oct 50 0015 15 0 is Ni xrgus Life ......... • • 41. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 2A B 1 British Commercial 7s. 6). 50 0 0 1 5 ' " .fi Oloriol.sred.& Gen.La spr ct. & bs. lUU 0 0 10 0 0 - County .............. 4/. 100 0 0 10 0 9 - Crown .............. 17s. 05 50 0 0 , 5 0 .1 17 1 ,E Eerie . Equity and Law...-. 4 1 ,4 per cent. 100 0 0 ' i 0 0 5% European Life ...... ... 11. 20 0 0 a ll - General .............. 6/. 5 0 0 ~ 5% Globe ... •• ... 6' per cent. Stock. r „ 123 Guardian ............ 5 per cent U 0 0. 0 45 0 0 1 55 Imperial Fire......... 12/. per cent 500 0 0 50 0 0 , 327 Imperial Life Indemnity Marine.... 1 34 & 3/. 100 0 0 ' 20 0 0 1 66 Law Fire ............ 2s. & 2s. bs. 100 0 0 210 0 4 Law I.ife. •• • . - 100 0 0 10 0 0 66 Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 0 London London -hip... - Marine. .. .. .......... 18s.per share 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Med. Invlid & Gen. Life 43 t per et. 50 0 0 2 0 0 3% Minerva ............ sp. et. & bs. 20 0 0 2 0 0 5% Monarch .....• • .. - 5 0 0 1 0 0 - National Loan Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 - Palladium Life.. - Pelican .... •• •• •• .. • • - - - 46 Phoenix - - - - Professional Life.: •• .. 51. per cent. 5 0 010 0 % Provident Life........ 1/, ss. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 39 Rock Life ••.. ! 53. 53 0 010 0 7% Royal Exchange ...... 61. p et. & bs. Stock. all - Sun Fire 6/ 10s. - PP - Ditto Life ,..•• 1/ lOs - IP 57% United Kingdom .... 41. p. ct & bs. 20 0 0 4 0 0 4% Universal Life •....... 21. ss. per sh. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Victoria Life ...... •• 5/. per cent. - 412 6 5% MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ s. d. £ s. d. Assam Tea •• •• .... 5/. • 50 0 0 20 0 0 - kuctiBn Mart-- • . 21% per cent. 50 0 0 - - kustralian Agriculturl IL Is. 100 0 0 17 10 0 31 Australian Trust •• .. 61. per cent. - 25 0 0 - Australian Royal Mall U. 10 0 0 all - tnglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 10s. 10. 0 0 all - British &merican Land 15s. - 40 0 0 62 Canada ... ...... •... 61. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 - Do. 5 per cent Bonds 5/. per cent. - - - Ditto. 6 per cent. .• 61. per cent. - - 10734 City Navigation Bonds - - - - Electric Telegraph (A) 7 per cent. 25 0 0 21 0 0 16% Ditto .. • • •..... (11) - 25 0 0 15 0 0 - Equitable lievers;onry 51 pr. cent: 100 0 0 100 0 0 - Ditto New ...... .. - 50 0 0 17 10 0 - Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp.c. & bs, 100 0 0 100 0 0 - Gen .8 team Navigation 10 pet 15 0 0 14 0 0 - Hudson's 8ay........ - Stock. - - aungerford .......... 2/. ss. 100 0 0 100 0 0 - London Institution ... - - - - London Reversionary 434 per cent. 15 0 0 all - Russell Institution•... - - 12 10 0 - Pride's PatentCand.Co 101. per cent. 20 5 0 17 10 0 - Reversionary Int. Soc. 41 % Lpr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 - Royal Mail :• , 'team•• .. 41. p. share. 100 0 0 60 0 0 - South A nstral lan. •• • • 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 all . 35}4 Trust and Loan Comp. Upper Canada .... - - - LIST OF SCOTTISII COMPANIES' PRICES. Dlvident, Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ s. d. £ s. d. rank of Scotland .... 7i. per cent. 100 0 0 101 1 0 177110 British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 201/10 Caledonian Bank .. •.. 8/. per teat. 10 0 0 2 10 1 3'. 17s City of ; ;lasgow Bank 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 9 10/ 13s Clydesdale Bank .... /. p cent 20 0 0 10 0 II 17s mmercial Bank .. 71. per cent 5 0 0 0 100 0 0 202/ es Eastern Bank.. •• •• .. 61. per cent. 25 ti 0 10 0 0 10/ It s End, Rr Glaegow •. 3%/. p cent. S 0 0 5 0 0 41. 12s Exchange Bnk of Scot.. National Bank •.., per cent 100 0 0 IP 0 0 165/ Os North of ^cotland Bank 5/ percent 20 0 0 210 • 4/. ICs Royal Bank of cotl. it. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 1241 ,i Union Bank of Scot. 41. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 901 Os Western Bank •• •• .• V. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 74/ es Mance Fire and Life.. 8 V,/.pr cent- 100 Q 0 11 0 0 19/ Os British Guarantee .... at. per cent. 10 0 0 2 0 0 11. 5s Caledonian Fire Insur .101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 251 Os City of !.lasgow Life . 61. percent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 41. 11s Colonial Life ......... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 1 0 0 st. es Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 2 5 / 1 0s Eng. & Scot, Lam Life 51.p0r cent. 50 0 0 3 5 0 41. is Life k ssOc. of ScaL,and 6/.percent. 10 0 0 110 0 s'. Os National Fire and Life 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 11/. 17s North British Insur... 71. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 341 ~s Scottish Union Insrnc. 714/. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 , 11. lOs standard Life ...... •• 5/. per cent 50 0 0 7 0 4 1 171 (3 United Dep. Assurance 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 FATAL ACCIDENT IN A COTTON MILL.—An inquest was held at Manchester yesterday, before Mr. E. Her ford, on the body of Robert Story, aged 47, a card grinder in the factory of Messrs . WilliamM'Connell and Co., whose arm had been taken oft by machinery on Friday last. Story was cleaning the machinery of the mill in the breakfast half-hour, and had his right arm between the spokes of a wheel, when the engine started. A bell was rung a few moments before the engine started, but Story had become rather deaf, and had not heard it. His arm was torn off before the wheel had inmle a single revolution. He shrieked for help, and was taken to the Royal Infirmary, where he died on Tuesday. The jury found a verdict that the deceased lost his life accidentally. A 'meting of the Irish Peat:Company was held yes terday, when a report wa,3 presented shoeing a larle profit likely to be realised from the raising of peat, be sides the iron ore found on the company's es'ates. Tile accounts showed a balance in band of 8491. 12s. To carry on operations it would be necessary to raise more capital for which purpose the directors intended to issue the shares held in reserve. ALLEGED CAPTURE or A FRENCH TRANSPORT. The Journal de Saint Petersboury states that on the 2`..'d a French war transport, the Ajax, grounded on the shoal near Eupatoria, and' that, in spite of a steamer which came to its assistance, the captain, and six sea men were taken prisoners by some Russian lancers, sent to the place with two pieces of horse artillery.' The vessel itself, with its cargo of hay, was burnt. v `:IN - Vfir trA ER 0- EDINIAJEGII IntIABIiETCI There were in the market to - clay , 16 sac"' weighing 2801bs imperial, which sold 10 at 21. Os Od, and 0 at 01. Os. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW 141 V FIB. 13. de o There was a large supply of straw a w, the market. The p r ices to-day wer e as Oil° Oat straw, from is 6d to 8 s 6 d per kettiV tron ; wheat do. 6s Oct to Ss Od. ; barley (Id Hay from 10d to 12d ; new ditto, Od DALKEITH MEAL ] Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs 0' :ARXE T.— c ol 3— F 9ss irs o t od . a ! s: 0 0 03 od -4 od oa —s od imperial Barleymeal, per ditto Peaseineal, per ditto FlOur, per ditto Pot-barley, per ditto ---- DUBLIN, FEB. 13 0 05 The continued inclemency of th e Wes ° . i tiril arrivals, and our corn market to -day I/ 3s : 6 00 plied. We note no alteration in any desellf. i except prime oats, which wore a shade 0 0 1# White vo:eat, 4O ' s 0,1 to 43s Od , rea ditnot; barley, 15s Ocl to 20s Od ; oats, 13s Gd to 0 0,1 1 ; 27s Od to 28s 6d per brl ; oAtmeal, 153 ed,, t4 O P flour, 23s Gd to 27s Od per ewt; ludiatle°'" ler 4801bs. k , #1 I gT."- FSS. e 0100 °I Jc wit COAL MARIO Prices of Coal per ton at tl 8. di Wallaend, &c Acorn Close Harlon Heaton ... Eden Main Riddoll 26 C Efaswell .... .... 25 0 Pluramer 26 0 Caradoc 25 o,Soutb SEABORNE MILS. the (N signifies that the mails ars sent frO ni s t, ' D.) by the night—and M by the Inorning--JeS Day wnen ink" ' in General POst; Office, London. ~~ !'~ ~ <l Ol Every Friday • • •••••• ••••• ,b„ i23d of the Men: 18, 9, 24, & 30 14th & 20th of 10 '4, 17th of the 0 1 ° ° ` 1 9th of the Monts; 9th of the taonte••, 9th of tho mop h ed o l t o ria "„ Once a month • 1 8,13, 8 . 33 A ,:ob. 4th St 20th o f i'rwice daily .• •• I Twice dallY 4, 7 17 20,21° f In° 2nd&l7th o d fr. Fri $ TuesdaY .„ 0 01 2nd of the Dai1y....... 17th of the "" 4 .7,r t ,thw h iB: B: :es, 2 s4 o tah2 t i h ioyf a u4:..o ol o; io .o3o l? .. 7,9, 17, 8 D 2 „,,,00 9th of the ," 23d of Eon.' f 101°. 18, & 2$ ° 4tii of the `;;Ot• 2wl of the .. 0 ~ bthlls th2 ,s w 01 0 1 2d & 17 th 4 o " , •1 By privisfoui , Ali 1 5 th2 5W ,71•0 0 7th 1 7 t112 0 :0 1 2,1 & 27tP By pr l. 100 . tO I th 15 tAL t ii• itlllM , ,r o ils" 2d& :0°.„1.;;;;r A Uu~~P~~ ~u~ Il'o ,2,lZt 17t1'°1,-% gft WIIVD AND2,24- p - „/ .1 a lp Stations. Course if ere Greeuwick Lothb' - N.B. ......... Airy Southampton ld. ............ 0 Cowes N.Vir ..... .... p--- , N.B. ..'ortsreouth ...... Poole. . .......... oft neh field ......... S. E. .... pro Gla,sgow . ......... N. N.i ft .( Edin ............ F 4 - 40" Alin burg , N. Perth ............. S, :8 7 , I Aberdeen • ........... B.rd Dunde® Sunderland Scarborough ... N,3 ,7 - ......... S°c d ir Whitby . - ...... ' • 119 X ft* Hull Ca. ...... •• • 1 : 1°41 -. 0 ~T .. v ....... fleai7 York Darlington I: L W.. ..... ' ul" Berwick Holyhead ..., Dublin .... N.B. E. ''. Y''' t. .t. Liverpool ll ague N. ............ iSsru ~), Leamington N. E .... ..... . ' fr°" • ,:,,A. Ipswich Harwich B. .......... • g` "• Cambridge N. I I( ......... f t. A, Yarmouth s. E. ........ ' fr c li.4. Brighton I,T . E.... ... 1 , 71 r Bristol N.B. ....... .. th Gloucester Swansea N. E .......... Plymouth Exeter ..... ..... N. .... . ........ 11 0 ril it o f ,i Cardiff fft iv S. E, ~. ..... ' Haverfordwest "sled Manchester• Carlisle .. . . :. . .. • vlrogiit Lancaster ... N...•••..... . yr o Stoke-on-Trent N....•.. .••••• Pl, Sheffield N. •.......... yto!, Whitehaven - ...... ye Maryport .. Gai n 8 borough N. .. •.. . .1,01 1 Boston W ......... L a i Great Grimsby Leeds .... rti9 N.N .E ...... ' / N.N•E • • • ". ~ . .1 ,44 .- bl4 ' N.W ......... O roo N.E ......... A""' ~ il: ... :.. ............ .... 9 4 1 .... N.E ...... .. • oit o [A.DTERTisimica.] Tifs v , gs - -- P t u PATINT RECONNOITRUin G 41 ' 35- 1 . 0 0 P r ' mons, opticians, 39, Albeillaf e. 11/ 0 " opposite the York 1 1 ° te " t i ei jOr Letters Patent for valuable al, lli ot .L id I in the most powerful and br 1 •0100700 1 f i i ii 00. course, Opera, and Perspect,i fe „,.. B , 1 of objects viewed throughl ue ;tei c e o 4s . army, navy, and others. To es . 4 ie,, , ordinary powers that movie i '„it,er„9,/ piece, will show distinctly' ''°100,100,1,, and the double stars ; tr it ,t r ee P O '; y a l seen a person's countenaucc.„,""qes. /le/ and as object from 16 to 2 0 ' - oce„, „0,4 sizes, with increasing power% ver, o ter.,9" 1 ing from 4 to 6 inches eneb:e4/4 above, and the Georgian,, - wi t ,' D o l e Ir ' Exhibition, 18:A.—Valuable, 00 .4 it op hot , 1 Orj 0,0 ' P waistcoat-pocket g.„„, i . lg 4 0. O r i t ojA a person can be seen and Its":„.oe,:rg e , A 1 every purpose on the raoe- 09 0 , eIT, . 0 4 0' r country scenery, and ships li o g, A , Y d v A They are invaluable for sbc c ka er:,l74 9 sportsmen, gentlemen, gat ae ;eetio l y, $ 0 race-course, camp, and Pei s plee 9 1 I power.—Newly-constructeu rm , d 4 6 0 0 1, 1 est transparent power ' - t 9 ./ l h o -, li from this invention is, o_l' PI; 1. " l, preserved and strengtheo c ;p o L of : D i ,I enabled to employ their teriAle„ f riti o tY patios—can see with thesdc 01, n0 r 40 00 01 ing power—aud they do 'L A P be . rs/ , to the dangerous effects of 0- 04 6 o fle, r ness—New Discovery. —T lo , - ,401 0, cr i nary powerful, small, newl/ A 'T;rs, e a , 9 entirely different from all der, i , A - bli k iet,cf r9l AI kind that has been, or pru - t io, ..„,! 13 0",100, Being of the same colour 0 , aff- 0 , 0 0. or enables deaf persons to il e ,:issiA 4i5(41 1 public assemblies ; the ullP'„a; 0 11 _. A; ; P is the ears is entirely repot' e l et &see that possibly could 14) . 0 $l l. Piccadilly. Observe —Or:* Derby Nottingham Lecester Newcastle . Tunbridge Strood.. Dover . gd o: n. ::::71 3 1: 1 :17he lT:7/V t-----.,01 T 8 ti:41:1:00_016 .1 afilsl4;oiOr , Upper Thames RPO o'4 /if -11`' n►t° Wo o ' tP e ii, On the 12th inst., at liesw,"'to '1;0' ' only daughter of the late PIT John , 0 1 1 G On the 13th inst.. at St• ,"°,. itig,lot, -street, Londivrif4ptilly R. Crawley, Esq., Captain lortlei rf,Vi rive, daughter of the late ,2901 - camp to the Queen, and of tu° DI if p. yo GKeorge ioW'illnrin'nCtlig:a.tettemathhhEsiDgeteel 0° I Windsor, and chaplain to the $0 ,ge .ago_tl72' 9 On the 11th last ., °l ' Ott since the year 1819, at Dvorgreee , sq. SO P On the 13th inst., at , I <lal©, Esq., FS A as 83. . • ) 11/ Le a l :NO W . :11Tilitetra and nd d 1111 .1 / 0/ °° ,1 ,,," Straid, La the Presiset of the 7 6 je , Pbrtuul 1 1 4 4-046 0,i45t, - COON TELL*. Auterica(iwyltrit.pack).N I America. E by United Ste. packet) ..........N America (by U. States packet) Australia (via South ampton) ...... M Ditto (via Marseilles) N Ditto (via Cape of Good Hope) ............N Africa (West Coast) .. N Alexandria .......... NI Alexandria Bahamas Belgium ............N Brazil Buenos Ayres ........ 3,1 Cape of Good Hope N Cape of Good Hope .. N Cape do Verde ......N Ceylon (see India) Ceylon .. N Channel Isles N Chili.. China ... Constantinople Constantinople Cont. of Europe If & N Egypt (see Indio) .. 141 & N Gibraltar ..1%1 Greece (see India) Greytown .......... M Hanriburgh Havannah .......... M Holland ............M Honduras MI India (vlaSouthampt.)Ml India (via Marseilles) Ali lonian Isles (see India) Ireland .; ......M & N Lisbon ............ Madeira Madeira ............ Malta (see India) Malta Mauritius (see India) Mauritius Mexico we s• ee .. 1 1 /1 Naples . 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