The Sun. — London, England, 1856-12-15 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN STREETS EXTRA ORDINARY! It has been rather maliciously said that the Me tropolitan Board of Works ought to be called the Board of Words. If they really deserve that title, now is their opportunity for a display of the divine gift of language. As all the beasts of the field were brought before our first father to be named, all the streets of this great metropolis are to have their names reviewed by the conscript fathers of the city. It is a stupendous literary labour ; and, judging from the report of the committee .ap pointed to inquire into the subject, it is beyond our power to comprehend how the Board are to overcome the difficulties of their task. We are told that streets ought never to be called after the names of places, as there is a chance of letters be ing in this way forwarded to some distant town or village, instead of to the terrace or square which has received the same appellation. Then, alas for genius ! the names of our " poets, painters, states men, warriors, judges, divines, and other eminent men" are all used up, and we are so hard pressed for titles that we have 62 George-streets, 55 Charles streets, 45 John-streets, and the other Royal and ducal !names in proportion. What then is to be done ? Where are the new names to come from, for the committee declare that the repetition of titles is an absurdity which cannot any longer be tolerated ? There are not less than 571 streets pos sessed of only 17 names, and the committee are go ing to begin with this batch. It is cruel to keep us in suspense. The streets are to be called, not after men, not after places, but after what ? Who does not know that the most arduous task of the novelist is to invent names for the personages of his tale ? Cliffords and Bellvilles and Mordaunts are all worn out, and the writer who can paint a hero to the life, and make the description of a battle terrible as the reality, is not less at his wit's end to baptise his hero and localise his battle than Cassim Baba to find the magic word that opened the cave of the robbers. Mr. Dickens has achieved great things, but what has he achieved greater than the discovery of suck names as Lord Frede.l rick Verisopht, Dotheboys-hall, and the Circum locution-office`? Who does not read with admira tion, what is one of the most remarkable results of human genius—the list of candidates for the honours of the Derby, and wonder by w h a t cur i ous process those singular names, Peepo'day-Boy, Fly by-Night, Surplice, Blinkbonny, and the rest, are invented ? Where, then, are we to get the names for our thoroughfares ? Are they to be called Street A, Street B, Street C, and then, when the alphabet is exhausted, Street AA, Street 88, Street CC, or will the Metropolitan Board, in an antiquarian fit, begin with Paternoster-row and go right through the Prayer-book, or in an access of Puritanic enthusiasm, shall we make broad our phylacteries, and adorn our highways with texts of Scripture, such as Resist-the-Davil-and-he-will flee-street ? or shall we adopt the French mode, and start from the Rue de 29 Juillet ? The task undertaken by our tive-and-forty 4;liles, it will be seen, is one of no small magni tude, and, if they accomplish it well, it is difficult to say to what heights their ambition may not here after soar. Here is a problem evidently far greater than the drainage of the city. They began with the collection of guano, they proceed to the nomen clature of streets, and possibly they may end by dis covering the universal language. They began as a metropolitan vestry ; they may end as an academy of the sciences. The nextstep will be tointerfere with the family of the Smiths, the Joneses, the Browns, and the Robinsous. John Smith gives the postman as much trouble as George-street. In fact, the criticism of the committee who have reported on this subject bears not only on the streets of London, but on the use of the English language and on the appellations selected by Englishmen all over the globe. How is it that we find the home names repeated wherever the English race is to be found—Cambridge in England and Cambridge in the United States, Ben Lomond in Scotland and Ben Lomond in Tasmania ? How affectionately we cling to . particular epithets ! A day is beauti ful, and a song is beautiful ; a mathematical problem, a colour, a form, a motion, a military manoeuvre, are all alike beautiful ; and one some times hears an old lady declare that the oxtail soup is " beautiful." Then we have a bit of slang which is eternally the same and means always something different :—a man rides like blazes, smokes like blazes, drinks like blazes, reads like blazes, sleeps like blazes, laughs like blazes, and one hears those who deal in slang use the term so often, that we have a little natural curiosity to know what is this " like blazes ?" With the most affluent language in the world we are the most parsimonious in our use of epithets. The members of the Board are grieved to observe it, and so they are going to set us an example by show ing how we can attain a judicious variety in the denomination of our streets. They have set them selves a'very difficult task—we are afraid also a hopeless one. In all soberness, is there any great advantage to be obtained by this reform ? By all means let the reform be carried out, if it can be effected easily. The Metropolitan Board of Works, like all gram marians, are quite right, and we, the public, are quite wrong. All we say is that the scheme which the committee have rather pom pously proclaimed is about as useless and as troublesome as if they had propounded the theory of a perfect language with eleven genders, sixteen persons and twenty-five numbers, such as used to excite the imagination of uld Sir Thomas Urqu hart. If there are many Cilarlosestree,ts, fur ex ai4ple, they are quite well enough distinguished for all practical purposes by the addition of the loCality—:a3 Charles-street, Berkeley-square, and Charles-street, Groavenor-square ; and those who would blunder such simple addresses Would blunder them were they ever so plain, and would pro oably confound the High-street, Oxford, with the High-street, Edinburgh. But another - part of the scheme which is far lees pretentious is likely to be far more useful.. The grand object of the scheme is to invent 500 new names of streets ; the supple mentary.part is to obliterate a multitude of names in extensive thoroughfares that form one long line of communication. The principal advantage to be gained from the former proposal will Lill to the lot of the novelists and dramatists of the next genera tion, who, in the confusion of a title. iced cT the mistake of a rendezvous, will find a ready means of eoMplicating a story or defeating a conspiracy. The advantage of the latter proposal will be felt by all . wh o daily traverse this vast metropolis. Who has not been tortured ley that long lino of commu nication known as the New-road, which is in reality a_ n infinit e ser i es of small streets, or rat h er rows o r houses, all having different names, and those on the one sid e of the thoroughfares repudiating the names of - th ose on the other ? ,‘ laces" a n d .c i Here wehave terraces" innumerable , nobody knowing where they begin, nor where they end. To cut up iolonecf. ow 3 sions, and number.'" themr few natural divi into a straight on, will be an undoubted improvement and save a great deal of I embarrassment. --Times. YEW NAMES POR LON DOB STREETS. ;proceedings of the Metropolitan Our report of the B -eerd of Works, at its pleeotifogivi,:Friday 1 e + ; d a summary of the labours .as., con.a.ee wiii.ndon. Some further tee on the street nomenclat e „, of L,D'lffanger's nobably be commit informations on the same head ly hiber attacked the hie to our readers. Mr. i l sv 7 ork by taking accept difficulty in detail, and, commences but .. names among in hand 571 streets which have them; it follows that for the streets i n alone 554 names must be found. this first section We give from the Observer of yesterday an i 4 anaaesi the proposals which the committee make On this J s of In the first place, there are 62 George-streets. ) ,- oint ' street, Hanover-square, will remain unaltered, and e "g e- Ge ther e will also be a Great George-street and a Littl e street in Westminster; that is all of the Georges George will remain. Among their successors we notice scientifi c men, as Liebnitz, Lardner, Hutton, Priestley, and Shrapnel. Literature and divinity are represented by Mahon, Paley, Marvel, Strype, Ogilvie, Lowth, T'nirl wall, Aytoun, Massey, and Baxter. Poor Power, the actor, has one of the streets. Of the aristo cracy there are Wynfora,' Vivian, and Rutherford. Among a number of miscellaneous names of more or less note are Whittington, R us hwortb, Esdaile, B!ake , ivliskin, P a t more , Reynard, Chaplin, Fairbank, and others —names certainly not of any great renown, with the exception of that of the 44r-famed Whittington. Among the substitutes for the Charles-streets literary , men am _ predominate. Th ere are Ai ns worth, Lever, Mark -1 d u l , Strickland, liea( s , uarles, Lingard, Thomson , Southey, Croly, B wer, and Homan& Men of science are inelude representedthe by Hoffman and T e nant ; thearistocracy n e e names of Vane, Caledon, Rawdon, Denham and pii kwotth. Th ere are t h ree ac t ors —Cibber, Garrick, and . Foote. These thtee celebrities very appro priately represe n t t h e three Charles-streets wh i c h ex i s t in the im mediate neighbourhood of the two large theatres--Charles-street,ber-street ; t% h art, Drury-lane, is to be Gib ber-street ; aid Charles-street, Covent-garden. Garrick street -street, Loner-acre, Foote-street. The miscellaneous n include th a t o f E ugene Aram Macpeil, the engine:slr. Richard Mayne gives his name to Charles street, near „e the d Arbour-street, police station ; while i ll ie, who takes Char!es street, Lowndes-sqnare ; „ c arles-street, St. John's wood, bi to be in future earned we presurse, the late talented Cameron-street," after manager of the Royal British Bank. _.......-- ---- The names of the aristocracy are wire frequent among those propo,-ed in the place of the " John-streets" than, in either the Georges or the Chartesep. Thera are St. Germaine, Elleamere, Wodahouse, Lyttelton, and Portland ; Literature is represented by B remner, Horne, Horner, Mull, Cir Carport, Mayhew, Hnadl ey , Charming, Potapn ; Playfair and Brodie are the men cf ;c i ence Caxton, an o:d historic worthy; Boecawen, a name familiar in the naval glories of the country, and Handel, the immortal composer, are among the more prominent of the names, " Faithful" and " Gay." We will not venture to depict the consternation of some steady ma tron who, waking some morning, may find her old familiar John-street converted into a Gay-street. What, too, will the conservative or orthodox resident in John street say to living in future in a street bearing the name of Miall or Channing ? The aristocracy are unusually numerous in the sug gested names for the family of King-streets. They in clude Lennox, Hotham, Erskine, Wortley, Wortley. Woodville, Mandeville, Malmesbury, and Paulet. The House of Commons is represented by one name only, that of Ewart. King-street, Pall-mall, is to bear the name of the Premier, Palmerston ; King-street, Smith field, will bear the name of Ridley, one of the martyrs ; King-street, Aldgate, the name of the present Jewish Rabbi, Dr. Adler ; King-street, Covent-garden, is to be improved to Shakspere-street ; King-street, Tower-hill, to Dibdin-street ; King street, Commercial -road, is to be transferred to the famous Booker, of protectionist notoriety ; the name of Flaxman is to supplant King street, Northampton-square. Jacquard and Fulton are among the suggested names, as are these of Beckett, Sedgwick, Weiston, Bentham, and Hassal, of unadul terated food notoriety. The Queen streets have not so good or so varied a selection of names as the "King -streets." Queen-street, Great Russell-street, is to become " Betterton-street," and Queen-street, Sven Dials, " Pepys street." Queer street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Brougham-street ; Queen street, Mile-end, claims Alderman Challis. The literary names include those of Lockhart, Howitt, Dugald (Stewart), Congreve, and Thackeray ; there are two members of the House of Commons, Mr. Mackinnon and Sir Edward Filmer, one Saxon King (Egbert), one admiral (Plumridge)—there is no Napier—one founder of a sect (Wesley), for Queen-street, Chelsea—and four lords, Danby, Loftus, Ebrington, and Egerton. The suggested names for the Church-streets contain but one name of any ornament of the church—it is that of Wickliffe. Will a member of the Church of Rome consent to date his letters from such a street ? Church street left the question of the rival creeds au open one, and Mormonites, or high church, might equally be proud of the street they lived in while it was called Church street. The literary men are in the majority among the suggested names ; they are Waller, Wordsworth, Farquhar, Somerville, Dampier, Arbuthnot, Macaulay, and Chalmers ; Sterndale (Bennet), as a musician ; Alderman Carden, Huskisson, the financier ; Knox, the divine ; Tullocb, one of the commissioners to the Crimea ; (Roger) Aschani, the chemist; (Colonel) Sabine, the man of science ; LorG Strangf‘ r l and Sir Cullen Eardley are among the new names. The remainder of the list is made up of some modest gentlemen, to whose merits we shall presently more particularly allude. The "New streets" are to be converted into Smollett, Sterne, and Whateley streets ; and some others are to be named after Srneaton, Nasmyth, and Dollond—each eminent men in their spheres—Sudgen, the Lord Chancellor ; Machu), the artist ; Coke, the learned Chief Justice ; Arne, the musician ; Anson. the naval commander; Hansard, well known by his Debat.s ; " Sotheby," the successful auctioneer ; Staunton, the chess player ; Cathcart, one of the heroes of the Crimea; and there is one Shakscere-street, which is the second time the name of the dramatist has been suggested to be used. The "William-streets" have a somewhat mtscellaneous, but at the same time highly respectable, list of candidates to take their placs. There are Piunket, and Grattan, and Curran, names honourable alike to the country and the age ; there is Ftillarlon, the learned and sagacious ; Cresswell, one of the most accomplished of ° English judges ; Biair, whose literary merits and great learning are universally recognised; Buller, the amiable and lamented President of the Poor Law Board ; Byng, either an admiral or a prominent writer of the sewers commission ; Barrel (Sir Charles), the father of .the House of Commons ; Bruce, the hero of Scotland, or the undaunted African traveller; Monckton (Milnes), the poet of the palm leaves and the bottle-holder of the Premier; Lords Dynevor and Melford; and Baird, Cor bould, Hantner, and some other hautes well known to the public. The "High-streets" retain their names in a somewhat subjective form. The high-streets in the different parts of London beinc , merely named after the district in which they are situated, High-street in the Borough being for Vie future proposed to be called "Borough High-street." There will still be thirty High-strettt, but they will be distinguished by the name of the district being prefixed to each of them. The substituted names for the "Union-streets" are marked by the names of men of science ; they include Airy, Arnett, Brewster, Davy, Wollaston, Wheatstone, and, we may add, that of Chesney. Akenside, Alison, and Hobbes are the literary celebrities, and Wilberforce and Mrs. Chisholm are among the selected benefactors of their species, while Westmacott and Eastlake are the artists who have the honour to be selected. The next batch of streets are the "North -streets." Literature is in the ascendant among the suggested names, and the list includes Defoe, Atterbury, Barbauld, Blackstone, Chatterton, Coleridge, Pope, and Selden. Babbage is the only man specially devoted to science, and Balfa to music. A fitting tribute of respect is paid to the memory of the gallant Ballot, who perished in the Arctic voyage. Boleyn (Anne) is brought from the page of history, Cbsntrey, the sculptor, is duly honoured, Clarkson, the great friend of the slave, and by his side is placed the name of Darg,an, the open-hearted, liberal, and successful contractor, who taught the world the virtues of self-reliance, even in Ireland. Charlemont and Clauricarde are selected from the House of Lords, and an amiable and distinguished representative of the daily press, Mr. Delaine, is chosen to give his name to North•atrcet, Brompton. , . Next come the " Duke-streets." Two of them, one in f. Aldgate and the other in Houndaditcb, give place to the names of Rothschild and Salomons. Others disappear before the names of Hobbes and Stowell, both eminent ' in their way, though somewhat opposed to each other in theological oninions. Then come Chaucer, Shenstone, Wycherley, Balfour, and Boileau ; followed by Faraday and Herschel, by Beechy, the arctic navigator, and with some other names they effectually clear off all the "Dukes" save one from the streets of London. "Janes-streets" are the next to be immolated, and their places are supplied by Grote, Hallam, Malone, ' Sheridan, Roscoe, Or,way, among the literati of the past and present time; by Lance the fruit painter, Logan the Scottish poet or the Canadian geologist, as the case' may be, Paxton of Crystal Palace notoriety, Raneford, a po pular singer of the present day, Macready the tragedian, Morley the chairman of the effete Administrative Re form Association, and Pitcairn the navigator. The " York-Streets" are 25 in number ; they are to be exchanged for Catternaole, Chalon, and. Hogarth among the artists, Donne, Horne ' and Bickerton among lit e r ar y men and divines, Forbes, Latham, end Jenner, men of science, Lake, Cardwell, Siddons, Romilly, Burgoyne, and others whose names are generally known, The 21 condemned " Park places' 'will give way to Aldermen Farncomb and- Eagleton, to Dryden, Fielding, and U urtown, Gainsborough (artist), the Countess of Blessington, and that Lindley (Murray), whose !serves, if he were now alive, would .be often so sadly shocked in the debates of the Board of Works. The selection of his name is a graceful attempt on the part of the board to appease his angry manes. In the case of the 20 " Ed ward-streets," Waterton, Darwin, and Davenant are to take the places of three of them, and the remainder is to be supplied by Abernethy, Abinger, Admiral Gambier, Humboldt, Kneller, Lely, Luttrell, Poto, Rennie, Scarlett, S r coresby, and some others. " York-places" are the last proposed to be now dealt with, and in the selected names the merits of Jer rold, Hepburn, Ligonier, Liston, Acland, Abraham, and a few others, some unknown to fame, have not been I overlooked. There yet remains that very modest class of persons, to whom we have already adverted, whose names it is proposed to substitute for those of more frequent occur rence. The individuals in question who seek to thrust themselves into this Walhalla of the metropolitan streets, are the members of the Board of Works themselves. Estimating their merits and their claims to such great honour at their own standard, we extract the list of such members of the Board as are desirous to lend the sanc tion of their names to this wholesale re christening of our streets. NAME OF STREET. LOCALITY. SUGGESTED NAME. George-street Rotherhithe Miskin-street tt Pall-mall Carpmael-street ft Marylebone Crellin-street Charles-street Bermondsey Morland-street Queen-street Kennington lrvine-street Church-street ......Islington Pascall-street Bethnal Green Bevan-street tt 'II Hackney Offor-street Chelsea Chalmers-street St. Giles's Seeley-street It William-street Manchester-square .Dalton-street Union-street Shad well Dennig-street Clarendon-square Woolrych- street f t James-street Adelphi Marrable-street Lambeth Doulton-street York-place Camberwell Boyson-place STEREOSCOPIC NOVELTIES. T he the,,,o p p rof i usion of stereoscopic pictures observable in and growing of the metropolis indicate the huge -, interest felt not only in the curious optical apparatus to which they belong, but to the extraordinary universality of t n he delineations. N ear ly the whole o f Europe ham been the instrumentalitytraversed for subjects ; and through ~., the public aro now as familiar with 54, cheapsie of the London Stereoscopic Com pany,t he architectural poectotsle remains of ancient [tome, as of Paris, the landscape varie ties of Switzerland,' the instrnun with the local feature: f tispection of the novelties about been favoured with a n i their own country. We have Company ; for the gratification of ' prutionent, and without fear of to be issued by the ,: e : t c h a ell ue l it p e er i fe ni e p ti o y ss u ih n l i e qu t e o . the adMirers of Our Village," from the contradiction, we can Th e y comprise scenes from 0 different pictu res Court of Louie Quatorzs, an d a admiration, Dovedale, in Derbyshire. It i onic exquisite views of To those to mention separately the beauties parle.,bbecome submitted to us ; we therefore our s uginnifiepent in a word, and say they are ma whom the marvellous effects are unknown. tion, that in this instrument the two pi:tu e may men graceful. one, and all the objects stand visibly an d out. The pictures are taken by lenses which representpaly two eyes. In the portrait department of the company, the the latest production is an admirable likeness of the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon. The rev. gentleman is taken in his e pulpit, and the position is at once easy and For this portrait, speaking from the impression Mr. Spurgeon has made upon his admirers, we have no doubt the demand will be immense. The entire collection re flects the highest credit upon the whole of the artists of their establishments. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT—YoitK, DEC. 12. (Before Mr. Justice Erie.) John Godson, age 19, was indicted for a rape on Eliza beth Sissohs. Mr. P. Thompson and Mr. C. Newton were for the prosecution ; the prisoner was defended by Mr. W. D. Seymour. The prosecutrix, an intelligent and good-looking girl, 13 years of age, but apparently older, living in August last at the Rev. Mr. Mayor's, the incumbent of Leckon field, by whose housekeeper she had been sent at noon on the 7th of August to deliver a letter to Mr. Lang dale, a farmer living about a mile from the village, near the high road to Beverley. On her return, about 1 p.m., she overtook the prisoner, who lived with his parents, near Mr. Mayor's house ; as she passed him, about a quarter of a mile from- the village, he put his arm round her neck and kissed her ; a struggle ensued, she got away from him, and ran on towards the village ; the prisoner followed her on the high road, seized her, and dragged her, notwithstanding her screams and struggles, through a gate into a gravel pit, near the road, where he threw her down and committed theoffencecharged against him. Two laboprers, working in a field about 500 yards off, attracted by the continued screams of the prosecutrix, witnessed part of the struggle until the girl was dragged too far down into the pit for them to see more. The screams, however, were continued, and a ft er a ti me grew fainter, as though the sound had been muffled by a hand placed over the mouth. As these men had to make a considerable circuit to get to the pit, by the time they arrived there the offence had been completed, and the girl had run as well as she was able to her home, which was about a quarter of a mile from the pit. Mr. Mayor's housekeeper described the torn and soiled condition of the dress of .the poor girl, who arr iv e d with bloodshot eyes and crimson face, crying bitterly, and so agitated that she,was for some time unable to give a con nected account of what had happened to her. , On her mother being sent for the girl made a statement upon which the prisoner was apprehended the same day. At this point of the trial Mr. Seymour, feeling unable to contend against the evidence—the prosecutrix's testi mony not having been shaken in any particular—retired from the case. The learned judge summed up, and The jury immediately found the prisoner guilty on the whole charge. Sentenced to 14 years' transportation. DECEMBER 13. (Before Mr. Justice Erle.) MURDER. John Hannah was charged with the wilful murder of Jane Benham, at Armley, near Leeds, on 11th Septem ber last. The prisoner, a tall, fair-haired young man, who was neatly dressed, and by no means ill-looking, on being placed at .he bar and called on to plead, appeared to be greatly distressed. After a paroxysm of grief, he flung his hands wildly above his head and cried out, " Oh, God—not guilty !" He was accommodated with a seat, but throughout the trial he kept sobbing and beating his forehead with his hands, and seemed to be greatly dis tressed. Mr. Millie and Mr. West were for the prosecution ; and Mr. Price and Mr. Greenhow for the prisoner. The learned counsel, in stating the case, said that one more appalling or more fall of horror had never before been presented to a jury. It appeared that the prisoner was a tailor, living at Manchester, and that the deceased Jane Benham was the principal dancer in a travelling corps of performers, with whom she and her parents went to the principal towns of the West Riding. The deceased bad been married to one Williarn Benham, who some time afterwards left her and proceeded to America. She then formed a connection with the prisoner. They lived togeth- r as man and wife, and had two children. The deceased's father, John Hope, was at this time in India, whence he returned in May, 1855. About a fortnight before Christmas last the prisoner and deceased separated, when the latter and the two children went to live with her father. In June the company were performing at Halifax, to which place the prisoner had walked over from Manchester, when he, after a night exhibition, followed theca home and expressed a desire to speak to the deceased. Her father said, " No," and if he did not go away he would get a policeman and have him taken up. Prisoner declared he must se,e her, and eventually he was told he might see her at nine the next morning, when prisoner and the deceased had an inter view, and the former was heard to say that if she did not mind and would not do what he wanted he would be hung for her yet, at the same time urging her to s o me and live with him again. In September the company was at Armley, near Leeds, when the prisoner again sought for an interview. The deceased and her parents were lodging the next door to the Malt Mill Inn, and in a front parlour of that inn prisoner, deceased, and her father again met. The prisoner appealed to the father to incluse the daughter to live with him. The father then said, " 1 don't want to have ary more to do with you, and I won't," and left them together. The door was sharply closed—there was a rattling of the chairs, when he next went into the room, which was shortly after wards, the deceased was on her back and the prisoner oa the top of her. The father said to him, " What do you mean, von scoundrel I" Prisoner replied, " I mean murder." The woman's throat was cut, but, strange to say, she got up and staggered into the open street. The prisoner walked out, too, without any interruptio n . H e was heard to say, " I have had my revenge ; now they may do what they like : I'm ready to die." The woman died about two hours afterwards. The prisoner, on being taken into custody, to the policeman exhibited a drunken demeanour, and to the gaoler he had suggested that all this proceeded from his having been slighted. These statements were made after his mind bad been calmed, nd when he mi g ht b eg i n to b e speculative about cense , rips. Laflre After the examination of several witnesses for the pro secution, the learned counsel for the prisoner then ad dressed the jury for the defence, contending that there was no previous malice in the mind of the prisoner, but every evidence of an ard en t an d s i ncere a ff ect i on f or the deceased, He had come from Manchester for the pur pose of seeing her, to endeavour to induce her to return and live with him. He bad been travelling without any thing to eat and bad been drinking on the road. His affection had been repulsed by her, and, aggravated and driven to madness by her conduct, and probably by the sight of the miniature of another man, which she wore in her bosom, in a sudden outburst of passion be bad drawn the razor out of his pocket, which be had with him as he was travelling, and had inflicted the dreadful injuries he bad done. He implored the jury lo look on the case rather as one of aggravated manslaughter than of mur der, for it appeared to have none of the malice and pre meditation of the latter dreadful crime. His Lordship then proceeded to suns up the evidence. He directed the jury that if they found that the deceased died by the act of the prisoner, and that the fatal wound was inflicted by him, they were bound to find him guilty of the offence with which he stood charged, unless there were some circumstances of palliation which would reduce the offence to manslaughter ; but if they found that the prisoner, entertaining a strong affection for the deceased, and endeavouring to prevail upon her to live with him again as his wife, yet, on 'the failure of his efforts, and on finding that his affection was disappointed, had deter mined that she should live no more, that would be within the meaning of the law malice prepense, and would re quire a verdict of guilty. The step from earnest affection to deadly thoughts was not without experience. Words or disappointed affection were n o p a lli a ti on o f a d eadly wound. If, hoWever, the evidence left a reasonable doubt on their minds the prisoner was entitled to the benefit of it ; but, if they had no doubt thae the dreadful crime of murder had been committed, it was of great importance to society that a verdict should be given according to the dictates of truth, acd they would never regret a verdict so given. The jury expressed a wish to retire, and after an ab sence of 20 minutes they returned with a verdict of guilty. Proclamation having been been made, His Lordship put on the black cap, and, in a very im pressive manner, briefly pronounced the awful sentence of the law, that the prisoner should be hung by the neck till he was dead, and his body be buried within the precincts of the gaol. The prisoner was carried out apparently fainting, and the dense crowd in court dispersed in silence. This case finished the assizes. (Before Mr. Gurney, Q.C.) James Mitchell was indicted for having in July last published a malicious libel, in the furm of a handbill, at Bradford, on George William Flint, an architect and commission agent, living at Bradford, imputing to him that he had been obliged to leave Manchester, Liver. pool, and Sheffield as a swindling vagabond, and that he had, as a commission agent and money lender, ob tained a will and the title deeds of some cottage pro perty at Bradford belonging to a widow named Ann Gibson, for whom he had obtained a transfer of a mort gage of 2501. on the property, and that, although the property was of considerable value—the rents amount ing to 401. a year—Mrs. Gibson had never since been able to obtain from him the will or any rent whatever, and he had attempted to sell the property and defraud her out of it. Mr. Shaw appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Campbell Forster for the defence. The learned counsel for the defence, in addition to the plea of not guilty under the statute of the 6th and 7th of Victoria, chap. 96, tendered a special plea in justifi cation, alleging that all the matters set out in the alleged libel were true, and that it was for the public benefit, to prevent others being defrauded, that the alleged libel had been published. Mr. Shaw prayed for time to answer the plea, and that the case might be postponed to the next assizes. Mr. Foster resisted the application. The indictment averred the statements in the libel to be false. If the prosecutor believed this he had only to juin issue on the plea. The defendant had been put to great expense in bringing witnesses from Manchester, Sheffield, and Bradford, to substantiate his plea. The learned Judge said he could not resist the appli cation. The prosecutor was entitled to time to make inquiries, and bad a right to demur to the idea if he thought right. The case was then postponed to the next assizes. Richard Orgon, surgeon, was charged with forging a promissory note for 1501., purporting to be made by the prisoner and John Wightman jointly and severally. Mr. Johnston appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Blanchard for the defence. It appeared that the prisoner had been for some years assistant to Mr. Wightman, a surgeon at Cawood, and in the middle of last year had bought Mr. Wightman's business for 1,0001 , to be paid by instalments out of money which the prisoner proposed to raise partly by loan from a Mr. Ferrer, and partly by taking a partner ; and the whole of which money was paid in the course of the year. In the month of July, 1855, Orion applied to a Mr. Wheately fur a loan of 4001. or 5001., and eubeeritientj Mr. Wheatley got hid brother-in-law, Mr, Middlewood, to advance 150/. to the prisoner on the security of a promissory note to be given to by him and Mr. Wightman. Orgon on receiving the money gave a promissory note, which was proved to be entirely in his own handwriting, the name of John Wightman, as one of the drawers, being forged. It appeared that Mi Idle wood had taken fresh security in the shape of a bill of sale, and refused to prosecute. Mr. Blansbard, for the prisoner, contended that no intention to defraud had been proved, and called one or two :out of 56 witnesses present in court to give the prisoner a very high character. The learned Commissioner having summed up, The jury almost immediately returned a verdict of Not Guilty, which was received by the spectators with the most boisterous applause. This case concluded the bwiness on the list assigned to trial to the learned Commissioner. LIVERPOOL, DER. 13. Mr. Baron Alderson, who had previously disposed of all the heavy cases in the calendar, left for London last night in consequence of a telegraphic message. Mr. Commissioner Cnannell will, it is expected, finish the remaining cases by Tuesday. MIDLAND CIRCIIIT.—NOTTINGHAM, DEC. 12. (Before Mr. Justic3 Willes.) Henry Golland, aged 37, and George Golland, aged 50, were indicted for night poaching . Mr. Boden prosecuted, and Mr. O'Brien defended the prisoners. It appeared that a party of five men were encountered on the night of September 23 by the keepers.of Mr. Thorpe on land called Ling Moor, in the occupation of Henry Gilbert, at Barnby-in-the-Willows. The men had with them dogs aad nets, and they had possessed themselves of large stones, which they threw at the keepers. No great injury, however, was done to any. body, and the men, wbo took to their heels very soon, got off without being apprehended. The keepers, however, now swore to the Gollands as being two of the men whom they met on the night in question, and a constable identified two hats found on the spot as the hats of the prisoners. It appeared that the Ling Moor was adjacent to a wood in which there was a large quantity of game, and that the prisoners had not taken any steps for the purpose of netting game in the Ling Moor ; whereupon it was contended on their behalf that unless the prisoners were on that land for the purpose of taking there they could not be convicted. The learned Judge summed up. The jury retired to consider their verdict upon the question of identity. They shortly returned into court and found the prisoners Guilty. His lordship then asked them whether they were of opinion that the prisoners were out with the general purpose of taking game wheresoever they could find it. The jury answered the question in the affirmative. The learned judge then said that, in his opinion, upon that finding the prisoners were guilty of the offence, otherwise the act of Parliament would be so limited in its operation that a conviction could scarcely ever take place. If it were shown affix 'natively that the persons charged did not intend to take game in the place where they were found, but were in transitu to sonic other place where they did intend to take it, the offence would not be committed ; but if they were out with the gene ral purpose of taking game wheresoever they could find it, and were proved to be upon land in which game might be found, he felt bound to direct the jury that they were guilty. If, however, the learned counsel for the prisoner should think that direction wrung he would reserve the question for the Celia for Crown Cases R - served. Mr. O'Brien said that he did not think that he could take exception to the ruling of the learned judge. The verdict of guilty was then taken, and the prisoners were afterwards sentenced—Henry Golland to 4 years' penal servitude, and George to 18 months' imprisonment. John Potter, 52, Geo. Lomas, 36, Wm. Manners, 52, and Chas. Manners ; 37, were also indicted for night poaching. Mr. Merewether and Mr. Bell prosecuted, and Mr. O'Brien defended the prisoners. rJC,is prosecution arose out of another poaching affray, which took place between the keepers of Lord Chester field and a large party of poachers, numbering according to the evidence of the former, as many as 13 or 14 men, at Gedling, on the night of the sth Sept. last. It seemed in this instance that the actual violence began on the part of the keepers ; for, according to the evidence of a man named Musson, who was the chief of that party, he saw at first only four or five men, who were setting a net in a stubble field, when he, with some of his assistants, went up to them and asked them what they did there. Upon receiving no answer he at once raised his stick and knocked one of them into the ditch. He then fell upon the prostrate man and remained there until some of his companions returned to the spot, and, striking Musson on the head with a stick, compelled him to re lease his prisoner. A general affray ensued, and the keepers, of whom there were five or six, were knocked down, and all but one of them stunned for a minute or so by the blows they received. Musson could not iden tify either of the prisoners, but they were all sworn to by one or other of the keepers, who were examined as witnesses. They had all of them, however, upon their apprehension and before the magistrates, denied that they were ont with the poachers on the night in ques tion. The trial occupied several hours, and in the result the jury convicted Patter and Lomas, each of whom was sentenced to five years' penal servitude ; but acquitted the other prisoners. The Court did not rise this evening till near 11 o'clock. DEC. 13. Joseph Bonney, aged 39, labourer, was indicted for setting fire to five stacks of wheat, one stack of barley, and one stack of beans, the property of Wm. Baker, of Colwick, on the 21st Nov. last. Mr. Boden prosecuted, and Mr. O'Brien defended the prisoner. The jury found the prisoner Not Guilty. DERBY, DEC. 13. Mr. Justice Willes arrived here this afternoon, and opened the commission. The Court was then adjourned to Monday morning, at 10 o'clock, at which hour the grand jury are summoned. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—EXETER, DEC. 13. John Riley was indicted for assaulting Alexander Car rick with intent to murder him. The prisoner pleaded " Guilty," and then addressed the Court in the most extraordinary manner ever heard ; he would not care for being burg that moment if they would only let him have the —'s life. The Judge addressed him, saying he was a convict at Dartmoor, and he had gone behind a warder with a spade, and in a cruel and cowardly manner had cut him ou the bead. Prisoner—Cowardly ! I don't sail it cowardly. I should have been a fool if I had not tried to kill the —. Talk about slaves ! Let the public go to Dartmoor, and there they will see what slaves are. If they sprain their ankle they give them poison ; if they have the tsothache they give them a dose of salts. I only speak for my brother convicts. If one complains of a warder, they put a nine pound weight of iron upon him ; a set of ! they never had any clothes on their backs till they got there. The Judge—l want to say to you -- Prisoner—l don't; care a what you say, I can assure you. The Judge—Have you done ? Prisoner—No, I have not done. You, and all the rest if you, are a set of swindlers. Hang me at once ! Eventually, after the prisoner had conducted himself in such a way as to make every other prisoner appear a polished gentleman, he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment with hard labour. Sporting Intelligence. GREAT STEEPLE CEASE. Much curiosity and interest were excite 1 in sporting circles generaly, and among the visitors of Melton Mow• bray in particular, by the announcement of a great steeplechase match. The "event" originated at the dinner table at the commencement of the hunting season, and it was appointed to take pace on Saturday, the 29th of November. The frost intervened, and, of course, rendered the running of the match impracticable. The race was therefore postponed until Saturday lasL, when it was decided over a line of country parallel with the Oakham road, near Melton Mowbray, the route being, with a few immaterial exceptions, the same as that selected by Messrs. Leslie and Crawfurd for their match about 10 years ago. The ground was very rotten and holding, and was calculated to try both the speed and stoutness of the competitors. Mr. Gordon rode the Clown, and Mr. James Mason Abd-el-Kader. Mr. Mason was formerly a professional steeplechase jockey of considerable reputation, but he retired some years ago, and made his re-appearance , on this occasion, a t th e sol i c i tat i on o f Lord Strathmore. The event was appointed to take place at half-past 10, but it was past 11 before the horses were started. Th e following are the terms of the match and the result of the race Match for 5001. a side. Four miles. Mr. W. Craven's The Clown, by Pantaloon, aged, 13. t ............... . .................... F. Gordon) 1 Lord Stra.thinore's Abd-el-Bader, by Scutari, aged, 13st (Mr. J. Mason) 0 Betting ----2 to lon Abd-el-Fader. Mr. Mason wore Lord Strathmore's colours—light blue and drab stripe, and the Clown was ridden in a white jacket, dark blue garter, and scarlet cap. Tho race from start to finish was not for an instant in doubt. Abd-el-Bader early exhibited syrup' ours of dis tress, and after going about a mile he fell headforemost into a hedge, and unseated his jockey. The Clown, therefore, went on with the leaf, and galloped in alone. Abd-el-Kader's performance excited much surprise. Both his owner and his rider seemed quite astonnded, as the horse had been most highly tried. It should be stated that .Abd-el-Kadee walked lame when brought out of his stable in the morning, and it was found that a " tight plate" was the cause of his limping. This de fect was soon remedied, and the horse went to the post seemingly "as sound as a bell." Abd-el-Kader is not the Abd-el-Kader of Liverpool celebrity, whose suc cesses for the "Grand National" are still fresh in the memory of sprting men. Sir George Wombwell was umpire for Lord Strath more, and Lord Grey de Wilton officiated for Mr. Craven. Mr. Henry Gilmour was chosen referee, but, in conse quence of that gentleman's indisposition, Mr. Leslie noted for him. A second match was made, which was decided as under : Match f or 501 . a s id e. Two miles. Mr. A. W. B ernal ' s Jim, aged, 11-,t (owner) 1 Lord H. Th y nne's Cineas, aged, 12 3t (owner) 0 Cineas f e ll a t th e second fence, and Jim, s‘ho jumped admirably, galloped in at his leisure. These two horses will run in a match on the same conditions and over the same ground this day (Monday). AWFUL INTELLIGENCE FOR TEETOTALLERS.— An In dian got drunk, lay down in the snow, and died of cold. The tribe held an inquest over him and returned a ver• diet that he died from mixing his whi s k y with water, which froze on his stomach. [ADVERTISEMENT.}—We have read with much pleasure Du Barry's report on the cure of diseases without medicine by Du Barry's Food, of Indigestion( Dyspepsia), Flatulency, Constipa tion, Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints, Cough, Asthma, Consumption, and Debility. The following are a few extracts which appear to merit the attention of many:----Cure No. 47,121. —Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Walthamcross, Hefts< a cure of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gather in.'s, low spirits, and nervous fancies. Cure No. 48,314.._. 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He is a Neapod tan ; he is not a refugee, he has not been mixed up in politics ; he merely paid a visit recently to his native country after a lergthened absence, and he now returns, not to France or England, but to another more distant country, where he is engaged in business. During his stay in Naples he visited the provinces. He comes, therefore, full of information, which is of value, inas much as it proceeds from a person quite capable of form ing an opinion on the real state of the country, and of expressing it impartially. It would appear, according to this account, that the Neapolitan revolution continues to be directed by -- (the names of the persons are omitted for obvious reasons), and the other chiefs of that party. They are no longer either Bourbonites or Uni tarians—they are Federalists. They prevent the explo sion of the revolution, for they do not wish to trust to the chances of street fighting the moral revolution which is already effected. In truth, the Neapolitans are no longer the gay and noisy people travellers knew them not long ago. They are become serious, speak little, and in a low voice, but whatever they do say they say it without fear. The terror which hung over them no longer exists ; you hear them speak of the incompatibility of Ferdinand 11., of the Constitution, and of liberty, without apprehension or disguise. One would suppose they are anxious to go to prison, but the police dare not gratify their wish. They seem to wish that the police should commit excesses; but Bianchini does not venture, or does not wish, to gratify them. Bianchini is respected and honoured as a❑ honest man ; his police are tolerant, and even civil. The police are now divided into two parts—the old and the new ; and these last detest the ,excesses of the agents of Mazza. Neither Morbeil, nor Campagna, nor Creffi is now seen in the streets. They have disappeared, and are now afraid to show themselves in public. The King earnestly desires to get rid of Bien chini, whom he detests, but he dare not brave public opinion so far as to remove him. Much distress exists. Since the departure of the French and English Ambas sadors thousands of strangers have left Naples, and none arrive. Hotels and houses are empty, and several shops of the Toledo-street are shut up. Commercial affairs are at a stand, and solitude and distress are on the increase. The moral revolution is very nearly com plete ; except a handful of Lazzaroni who inhabit the quarter of St. Lucia, the whole population detest the King, his Government, and his .system. The Lazzaroni of the other quarters of the city, who are part armed, are for the deposition of the Bourbons and for liberty. An employe under Government is designated by the epithet of Fog - nottista —that is, a poor wretch who cares for nothing except for the bread he earns. The Swiss have, as it were, disappeared ; shut up in the castles, with the mis sion of exterminating the people and bombarding the city, hardly one is ever seen abroad, and the few families who hitherto received the S wise officers into their houses now exclude them. The Steiss at Naples are now pretty much on the same footing with respect to the inhabi tants as the Austrians at Milan. The troops are dis contented, and since the King has nominated his 24 now generals the discontent of the officers has increased. The King fears the native troops and despises them. Foreign papers and proclamations are circulated everywhere. At Naples conversation is very monotonous. If yen happen to see two or three persons speak together in an eating house you may be sure it is to this effect—" Ferdinand 11., impossible ; his son, we don't know him, but they say he is brought up by the priests and is ha.f an idiot. What we want is a Constitution like that of Belgium." Reforms or amnesties no one seems to care about. In the Baguio of Ischia there were 42 political convicts. It was intimated to them that they should demand their pardon of the King. One demand only was made, and two days after the person who made it was found dead ! When the King passes in the streets few salute him. If the Queen nod the children pass the people turn their backs on them, and no one. touches his hat. An amnesty is spoken of as on the point of appearing. Most of the persons included in it are un known. Those most known are the Duke de C and B---. The Duke of P--, who debased himse.f in order to obtain his return to favour, is despised and avoided by every one, both Liberals and Rs•actionists. Mazza, whom the King had named member of the Con sults, has been obliged to demand of the President not to give him any more work to do to avoid attending, as no one would-speak to him, and he was shunned as if he had the plague. The relations with Sicily are completely interrupted ; little was known about the revolution, and but little was expected from it. Tne courtiers are com pletely down-hearted, and the ministers discouraged. The officials dread the English ; the Liberal party, that is to say, the majority of the nation, look upon theta as their liberators. The population are armed, but they will not have recourse to arms, except at the last extre mity. The public mind in the provinces is still more decided than in the city of Naples. The people will no longer he content with half measures. Neither reforms nor amnes ties, nor compromises, nor reconciliations between this man and that, nor concessions made to the demands ol France and Ei gland are now valued ; and they declare that Naples should not e worse off than Piedmont. The hereditary Prince himself is discontented ; he is hated by the Queen, and turned into ridicule by the King ; he is prohibited from reading the newspapers, which, how ever, he feels the greatest anxiety to see. He is only al lowed to see and converse with the priests. The aristo cracy, sceptical and inept heretofore, no longer conceal their aversion, and have courage enough to speak their sentiments. In a word the people of Naples appear as if they were desirous of being thrown into prison. Society is in a state of dissolution. Filangieri, who perhaps might have been received three years ago as Minister of War, is now for the people only the bombarder of Mes sina. The same may be said of Cariati and Ischitella, who would serve as a point of junction with the brutal despo tism of past years and of a new era. The education of the people is nearly effected—they know what they wish for. Their moderation is a proof their force and of their resolutions. General Martini gains ground, thanks to the Queen The symr a by for Piedmont is hurtful to Russia. When Poerio was transferred from Montefusco to Mon tesarchio, before the prison door were found elegant carriages to convey him to his destination. Tiaey were the carriages of the proprietors in the province, who dis puted among themselves the honour of conducting the prisoner. Such is the description given by my informant of the present state of Naples, almost as literally as he has expressed it. The events that have recently occurred in Sicily and Naples bring forcibly to mind the observations of Count Cavour at the Paris Congress, that unless some remedy was applied to such a state of things Italy would be a permanent source of revolution and danger for the whole of Europe. Whether the movement be really put down or not, these remarks have not less force and truth. As long as the same (Ames subsist, so long we may expect the same effects. Repres•Aon will not conjure the danger; the Italian provinces will still be in a state of agitation until such time as the great question which concerns it is definitively solved. COMMITTAL OP A MOTHER FOR THE MURDER OF HER CHILD. A most revolting instance of unnatural and cold• blooded cruelty on tne part of a mother, resulting in the death of her child, has just been discovered at the little town of Nantyglo, in Glamorganshire, and has led to the committal of the murderess to take her trial up .n the capital charge at the next county assizes. Tho name of the wretched woman, who is married, is Elizabeth Oram, and the deceased, George Williams, was her illegitimate son, about 10 years of age. It appeared from the evidence adduced before the coroner that the little fellow has been fora long time subjected to barbarous treatment, being at tim beaten kept on nn es wholesome and insufficient food, and eating been with dreadful severity. The poor b boy yha and d often seen by the neighbours picking up g arbage et).ngto the pigs' it to satisfy his hunger, an d trough and devouring eagerly even sncii refuse as the pigs had not eaten. Some o f the neighbours at times had been induced to strip the child and examine his person, when his emaciated body was found to pre•ent a shock ing spectacle, from the excoriations and bruises with which i. was covered. Commiserating the child' s ' unhappy condition the neighbours used occasionally t o give Li m pieces of bread and meat, and would gladly Lave continued to do so, but that the mother, whose desire seemed to be to get the boy out of her way, b eg an a few months since to keep him i n th e house altogether, excusing his non - appearance abroad, when asked respecting him, by saying that he was not well. Upon his death becoming known, a communication was made to the coroner, and the deputy coroner (Mr. W. H. Brewer), commenced an inquest at the Cyclops Inn. Evidence was soon adduced to justify a criminal charc, against the mother, who was wrested as she was com pleting her toilet to attend th e f unera l o f t h e boy. The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder again t Elizabeth Crain," the mother, and the c oroner at once issued his warrant for her committal to prison, i From the Official Last, NJIILISIIED EVERY TIT )li' • • LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 1 CANALS. Names of Companies. Divideno per Annum. Price.! Nines of Companies _PRICERS Std AB LS. .85C. Dividend per Annum Ashtn &Oldb Birmingham Coventry.... Derby .. •. • GrandJ unctn Do., 6 pr.Ct Grand Jnion Kennt dr, Avr. Leeds &Livri. Leicester Leicstr ScNtL Lought,orogb Macclesfield. Neath .. • • 93 74. P. et 40 4/. 103 11, 100 ot. 15s. 100 11. pr. ct., 10 61. pr. ct 100 7s. 6d 40 6s. 00 251. 00 51. 83 1/.55. 143 70 t 100 21. 103. 100 161. 1100 Name of Company. Berlin , East London Do 4 per Cent. Pref. Do. 5 per Cent. Pref. Grand Junction ...... Do. New ...... Kent.. .... .......... 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South Australia .: Union of Australia.... Union of Hamburg.... Union of L0nd0n...... Unity Nfutual ........ Western Bank co , ' Londn Name of Company Commercial. Do. Preference East and West India.. Grand Surry D. & Canal I Po. Loan Notes .. Do. 5 per cent. Pref. London •• • • ••• • .. St. Katharine ?onthampton Victoria .•••• • • ^ . Ditto New .......• LIST OF Name of Company. 'Peak Forest 91 L 4 Regem t's • • Roclidal e 84 ;Stfird &Wor, 43 Stourbridg, - ;Severn and Wye Rail. j 61A Warwick & - Birming. 49% Warwick & Napton.. ! 550 ;Worestr & 51 firming. Wilts & Brit 103 WATER-WORKS. Dividend per Annum. Amount of Share. Price. 51. per cnt. 61. per cnt. 41. per cent. 51. per cent. 4 . per cnt. Si. per cnt. 4L per cent. BRIDG: Dividend per Anlium. lOs per cent.l H. 12s. Od. 11. 9 s. Od. 235. LT AND CO: Dividend per An - uum. 71. per cent. 51. per cent. 21. per cent. 21 108. 5/. per cent. 8/. per cent 101. per cent, 31. 53. 41. 153. V. 10s. 61. per cent. 5 . per cent 5/. 8/. ner cent. 13s Gd per sh. 6; per cent. FRANCE ca Dividend per Annum. 7/. per c. Ti. 14s. 6d. bs il. p.c. & bs. 15s. Ocl. 41. per cent. 7/, 10s. 71. Ios. 5/ 5 pr ct.& bs 47. 1/. 16s. ss. 5 1 4 per cent 1/. 41. per cent. 6 per cent. 51. per cent 57. per cent 12L per cent 149.& 21 hs 5 .p.ct.&bs. 2s & 2s bons Si. per cent. 4s. per share 11. 53. 18s. & bs. 4% per cent st. per cent 61. per cent. 6K percent • 5/ p. ct. 5/. per cent. SI. per cent. 1234. per c. 7s. g p. c. & bs 4% p. c.& bs. 11/. 14s. 41. & bonus. 5/. & bonus. 5.. & t 011U4 !OZ, per cent. 51. per cent. p. c. & bs. pe l t cent. 51. per cent. 101. per cent. 41. percent. 191. per cent. 61. per cent. 1.2 k, pc. &bs' 16;. per cent. qi.per cent. 20'. per cent. 101. per cent. p. ct.8:1:18. Bi. per cent. 5L per cent. 10!. per cant. M. per cent. 01.pc151.b5.1 DOCKI Dividend per Am - iura. 51. pr cent. 61. pr cent. 41. per cent. 51. pr cent. , 041. per cnt. 4 per cent. 51. Os per C. 'ISH CUM . DiVidead per Annum. 71. per cent. 81. per cent 81. per cent 5 1. per cent, 51. p cent 71. per cent 61. per cent. 6 3 1 4 per Lp c c e e n n t t : 5/.percent 51. per cent 81. per cent. 71. per cent. 8% /.pr cent. U. per cent. Int. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 61. oer cent. 51.0er cent. 61. por cent. 61. per cant. 71. per cent. 7%/. prcent. 51. per cent. X s. d. 40 0 0 25 0 0 103 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 1100 0 0 1 100 0 0 1.00 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 120 0 0 ' 50 0 0 1 100 0 0 ' 50 0 0 100 0 0 'lOO 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 15 0 0 50 • 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 Amount of Share. s. d. Stock. 'stock. Stock. 100 0 0 lOU 0 0 25 0 0 Stock. Stock. 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 :PANIES' Atnon.n t of Share. X 3. d. 100 C 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 ,0 10 0 0 20 0 0 500 0 0 25 0 0 1 5 0 1100 o 0 ' 20 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 Q 0 10 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 43 0 0 10 0 0 200 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 X s. d. 10 0 0 Stock. 25 0 0 25 0 0 60 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 GI 0 0 5 1 8 Amount of Skare. X s. d. 25 0 0 IOJ 0 0 .50 0 0 100 0 0 60 0 0 40 0 0 70 10 3 COME Amount of Share. X s. d. 20 0 0 20 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 21 0 0 10 0 0 so 0 0 5' 0 0 Stock sti 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 23 0 0 60 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 59 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 :PANIES. Amount of Share. s. d. 500 0 0 ,100 0 0 1 100 0 0 1 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 '0 50 0 0 50 0 50 0 0 100 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 10 " 0 CO 0 0 20 0 .100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 20 0 0 t!0 0 u 500 0 0 100 o e 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 6 5 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 20 0 0 100 0 0 INT-STOCK Dividend per Annum. BANKS. Amount of Share. £ a. d. 50 0 0 11 0 0 25 0 0 all 5 15 0 25 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 all 4 0 0 47 5 50 0 0 40 0 0 3) 0 0 2 10 0 13 0 6 2 10 u !2 10 0 2 0 0 12 11 0 2 0 0 2!) 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 o 10 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 all 5 10 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 s. d. all 150 0 0 all 12 11 0 100 0 0 42 15 0 41 0 0 43 10 0 4l 0 0 all 52 0 6 16 a 0 all 10 (1 0 Fit 4 0 11 Z s. d. all 18 15 0 50 0 0 all 8 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 20 . 0 0 50 0 0 10 J 0 20 0 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 22 10 0 15 "6 0 25 0 0 all all 2 10 0 3 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 Paid. Z s. d. Stock. to) 0 0 too 0 0 5 0 0 Rock. 50 " 0 0 20 0 0 14 0 0 Paid. Bank of Scotland .... British Linen Company Caledonian Bank .. •• . City of i , ilasgow Bank Clydesdale Bank .... C Inmercial Bank .. Eastern Bank Edinb. & Glasgow.... National Bank North o f Scotland Bank Royal Bank of S coll. Union Bank of Scot. 'Western Bank • ... Alliance Fire and We.. British Guarantee . Caledonian Fire Insur. . City of Glasgow Lite.. Co'onial Life ......... Edinburgh Life Insur. Eng. & Scot, Law Life Life Assoc. of Scotland Nationa, Fire and Life North British insur... Northern Assurance Co. Scottish Provincial .... Scottish Union Insrnc. Standard Life • • • X Y. d. 100 0 0 100 0 0 2 10 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 100 0 0 2 10 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 11 0 0 2 0 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 15 0 0 3 5 0 3 0 0 1 4 0 20 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 7 0 0 Price. 191;1708 229/Cs 31 15s 1 2 / 1 5s 13 12s 236/0s 12i Gs MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount Name of CompaLy, per of Paid. Price, Annum. Share. ----------- ------- - Z Acadian Charcoal Iron d. 10 0 so. 0 Z s. d. 20 0 .. African Steam Ship .. .. 20 0 0 10 0 0 _ Assam lea .......... 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 Aucti-n Mart .... .• • • 24 /per cent 50 0 0 Australian A;:ricultur/ 25 0 0 19 0 0 Australian Trust .... 7%1. pr cent 100 0 0 25 0 0 Australian Royal Mall 10 0 0 all Anglo-Mexican Mint.. IL 10s. 10 0 0 all British American Land 5/. per cent 50 0 0 40 0 0 Canada ... •• •• .. •• .. 61. percent 100 0 0 32 10 0 1215 Do. 5 per cent Bonds 51. per cent Stock 100 0 0 Ditto, 5 per cent bds 5 , per cent Stock 1 0 0 0 0 Ditto, 6 uer cent. .. 6/. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 113% Ditto, 6p c. bds 1784 Gt. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 _ Ditto, 6p c. bds 1876 6/. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 Crystal Palace .... 5 0 0 all 2 Ditto Preference.... 7l pr. cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 5% Crys. Palace of France 4 0 0 all City N4vigation Bonds 33 l. per cent Electric Telegraph .. 6/. per cent. Stock. 1 00 0 0 36 Eng.Bs Aus. Cop. Smelt. 50 0 all 114 Eng.&lris. Slag. T. Co. 50 0 0 all _ Equitable Iteversionry 5l per cent. 100 0 0 00 0 0 —. Date New ........ 50 0 0 22 10 0 Gen. Revers. & Invest. 51. p c and 11 100 0 0 00 i. 0 _ Gen. I. Sc. Col. (Lim.) 2h 0 0 all _ Gen.- team Navigation 10?. Per. ct• & I 5 0 0 14 e . 25 ,' London Gen. Omnibus 121. per cent 4 0 0 all Hudson's 8ay...... •• 5/. per cent. Stock Stock Hungerford ......... 2s. 53. 104 0 0 all Loa. Ne. &Na. Mango. 10 0 0 all London Reversionary Cl, per cent, la o all Mex. &S. American 10 0 0 all 3% Nat. Discount Comp— 25 0 0 5 0 0 r ; 1 /6 N.S.W. Gov.sp.c. Deb. 5/. per cent !t3 Nor. Bri. Australasian 6d. 1 o 0 all North of Europe, Stat. RI. per cent 20 0 0 17 10 0 1 Price's Patent Cand. Co 2:i 0 0 all 2 2 274 Peel River Land&Min. -- 50 0 all Pen. & Oriental Steam 71. per cent 50 0 0 all 7414 Ditto New ..... ..., 50 0 0 10 0 0 15% Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%/. pr cent 100 0 0 all Ditto New ...... .. 4 %1. pr cent. 130 o ~ 20 0 0 Royal Vail Steam...'. 41. p. dm,. 100 0 0 60 0 0 Scottish Aim Invest. 151. por cent. 10 0 all I '4 South Australian Land 71. per cent. .28 0 0 all Trust and Loan Comp. 7%1. pr cent. • 20 0 0 5 0 0 Van Diemen's Land.. I° B. 100 0 0 28 10 0' Vic. Gov. 6P. c. Bds. 6 1. per Cent, ACCIDENT ON THE MFER AT BLACKFRIA RS BRIDGE-THREE 1,11/ S LOST - _.; ... l,d -; L , 1.141ii,ee;.,..1) ar (,au : .0 6 ti, ua, . Ave ttilire pei.of with considerable p,ril to fdur other.r, w,.0 were saved, occurred at Blackfriars-bridge. A hoot wa,r coming down the river, on the south side, with 7 persons in it—three young men and four females—and making for the stairs on the west side of the bridge. The tide was running down strongly, and they were unable t, turn the r.oat to towards the stairs, but , sere earned bey. nd by the force of the current, and then the boat etruck with great force against the pier of the bridge. A panic here seized all the party—the female. shrieked for help, and ali rushed towards the end of the boat nearest the stairs, wi!li the desire of effecting their escape. The consequence of this was to overload the boat at that end, which caused ft to overturn, and the whole patty were thrown into the water. The piercing cries instantly raised for help attracted the atten tion of Witt. l'Anson, City police constable No. 375, who war at the foot of the bridge at the time, and he saw the boat bottom uppermost, with several persons clinging to it, and screaming for assistance. Re ran to the opposite side of the road, where he met with his sergeant, John Freeman, told him of it, and then at once proceeded to the pier to obtain the boat and drags of the Royal Hu mane Society. In the meantime several boats put offfrom the stairs, and rescued the three young men and a young woman, but the boat then went down, carrying with it the other three young women, who never rose again The society's boat, with their drags, had now come u;t, and commenced dragging for them,but up to the time this was written without effect. The three young men were taken to a public-house, and, by administering some sti mulants, were soon in a fit state to be conveyed home in a cab to Holborn. The young woman saved, who was almost in a d rowning state, was taken to the receiving house —the Jacob's-well, in upper Ground-street ; dry clothes were given to her, and she was put to bed. At 8 o':ilock, about midway between Blackfriars and S mthwark bridge, the men succeeded with the drags in laying hold of the boat ; some sculls belonging to it were also picked up. The boat had been hired at Blackfriars-bridge from a person named Lewis, the party expressing their inten tion to go to Battersea, and it ought to have returned at an earlier hour. Country Marketr. HADDINUTog CORN MARKET—DEo. 12. wrowr. EARLS./ I OATS. I isilAto. First 653 0:1 46s Gd 35s Od 55s Od Second 453 5d I 36s 10d / 253 01 4ls 11d Third 33s Od 126 s Gd I 203 Od, 38s Od Total quantity of wheat in market, 688 qrs., 663 sold barley „ 814 qrs., 768 sold oats ,; 436 qrs., 394 sold beans If 42 qrs., 34 sold AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. PP , Wheat, 2/. 5 5 zl-12ths f Barley, lb 10 8-12ths Oats, ... 11. 5 0 7-12ths 1 Beans, 91. 111 6-12tbo DALKEITH GRAIN MARKET—DEC. 11. Qrs. Best. Current. Enteric. 291 Wheat 70s Oki 13Di Oats 32s o,i 2os 9.}d......... 16s Od 1019 Barley 4ss Gd 36s 9d - 0d,,, 24 Peas & beans 56s 0J s2i 4/d 494 v" A I 3EIZDEE . N-DEC. 12. Potato oats °OA Od to 228 Oil Common oats I.sB Od to Os Oci } 4olbe P er bushel Bere 30s Od to 37s Od 1 531bs ti Barley ' Osd to 37s %., d Wheat, red (spring)3os Od to 408 Od I.t 621bs ~1 ~ white .......30s Od to 45s Od Oatmeal 1.6 s 0:1 to 178 Oil per boll. Flour 528 Od to 533 Od per sack. PtOVISTON MARKET. Beef, per lb Gd to 8,1 Butter, p lb. is Od to is ld I Mutton, per lb Gd to 8d Eggs, p doz, is Od to is 2d Lamb, do., Os Od to 0:• 0 I Hens, p pair 2s Ed to 3s 61 , Veal, per lb ... 7d to Os 9d Chickens,do.2s Od to 2: 6 1 Pork, per 5t...7s Oil to 8s Oil Ducks, do. 2s 6d to 2s i ' Salmon, p I er lb ...... Os to Os DucklingsdoOs Od to O. 0 Grouse, per brace.....Os to Os Turkeys, each 4s Od to 53 91 Tallow, p stone, 12s 0:1 to — s I P o t a t oes , pr poc k, ...7d to °' Rabbits, each 9a to —d. Butter for exportation (present cure) per cwt.9ssOd to 1 000 Eggs, wholesale price, per dozen .... ......... .., Od to 94 RETAIL Flour,l4lb 0s Od to 2s lOd Oatmeal Os Od to is 8d Beremeal Od to 23 Od Peasemeal... Os Od to 2s Bcl 4-Ib. 10af...8d. I Cheese, per imperial sti PRICES. Barley flour,l4lb Os to 2s 4 , 1 „ dust, Os to is Od „ per lb. 2d to 2 Sids, Bd 2-lb. 10af...4d. ,one, 4s. Od. to 4s 6d DUBLIN, DEC. 12. White wheat, 333 0.1 to 35s 6d ; red ditto, 31s 6d to ass 6d. ditto new, —s ; barley, me lti ng, Hs to 243 6d. ; ing, 183 to 203 Od ; oats ' old, —s to —s ; ditto, new, tv' a . Od to 14s 6d ; oatmeal, 14i t 0 .153 ; bore, new, 16s to ;I d 01 ; ranesecd, 303 03 t o 32 s Oct per bd. ; bakers' flour, Od to 253 64 per cwt; Indian corn, 323 0(1 to 363 Od Pe r 480 lbE. LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 13. STOOK EXCHANGL—The StoCk Exchange today 71.8 heavy at the opening, but subsequently improved, and the . prices cloned with ac ti v ity. Bi r k en h ea d , Lancashire , and Cheshire (late Birkenhead and Chester 271. A sh ares) ' 18 42 -- 11 Ditto, 221. shares, 144—L ancas hi re an d Yorkshir e, ex n.—Midlands, 82—South Eastern, 22 i• Price. 10(1 18% LEEDS, DEC. 13. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The transactions have been to-day. Midlands, at 821. 10s.—Londons, 105j—Idalton and Driffield, 2/. [When the date remains open until mall, via Southan e rening previous.] SEABORNE M -OILS 4714 38N 13% 3~~ 727 t mhtohfol no7oftthhet :h Bc e }-( FOR Made Vessel. tt , h a t expectediv hen OB:ye Vessel. e ls: I t the ampton Euxine Dec. 14 bra. -----------. _ ___ Post_______ Office. patched. south i ARAM 4mt4htoth&hu etoh 2 f o . t h .) : asionupttho..n Indus South-. GibraltarSL i p s a b i onn :_. : ... month. 4th and 20th of c o hmst* CE G meg i a n yyl la at i Gibraltar ••1 - I rli 5 : Indiathe Mauritius month. iviaCeylon)J i Sou'll- China Pensng ~ .( 5 1 Singapore Australia(via the Cap e ) }Al Dec. 12 .. Bil l ,i n rias d abdz i o a eiliiir. . a. . ...... 1 11 lan , .. . 1 Dec.— ACP' Cape of Good ampton p, an Hope '' E ' ll — ro .... Jan. 4.. 1: 1 1 :1 • Mauritius - Engla nd E Jan, W.S. Jan. 25 Ceylon ... mouth south. Lindsay CapedeVerds I Te a) 8 uenosAyres . 1 ampton Falkland Is- I lands..... i lndiesWest Indie • Tamar Jan. 12 1 (except ila- vana and Honduras). Ist and Magd a' Venezu la . 2d and I ith Grey Town.: M of t 11 ° ‘ ampton S"ut- 16th of len* Atrato the Ne w Granada month. month. Chill ...... Peru ...... California .._ • 1 6th of di . Yog llonduras • } Routh- the M Dec. 17 .. ' Atrato .. Una Is assau .... ampton m on th. Mexico .... F,,, Tan. 2.... } South- , J a n. I 1 Havana . ampton . ...... ... Madeira .... . i , 6 catidaea'. Teneritte ...E Dec. 23 Ply - Niger . a n * W C.otAfrlca l B A ri m tis e h ri N ca orth .. Iliiited States oot United Statesl Dec. 9 and British North E alternate Liver- srlos o p Dec. America .. Tuesdays. pool United States? . South- Dec. 13 inn British North M Dec. 17 ..} Fulton ampton America .. Angl a-3 Liver- 'A' Ame- J e n. 7 boa Canada .... 1 E Dec. 23 .. P-o rical2________ Niagara Dec. 1 1 9 5 Neila ic g „w ar: E Every Fir:i. Liver-moulth M—Morning. E—Evening. BIRTHS. 0711 SOL On the 11th inst., at 49, Eaton-square, the Lady IP ° Lovett. On the 13th inst., at 67, Eaton-square, the wife of A• Robinson, Esq. On the 11th inst., at 5, Ulster-place, Regent's-park, the wife of Robert Patry, Esq. OF A DALIGHTEIt. On the 12th inst., at Tunbridge, Kent, the wife o f the Rev. Edward Ind Weldon. t north, FlO a- On the 12th inst., at 5, Glocester-ereseen park, the wife of George A. Pollard, Esq. MARRIED. On the 11th inst., at St. Mary's, Lewisham, Thomas vr• Meates, Esq., of Forest-hill, Sydenh am, to Harriet Wiz:: ter, fifth and youngest surviving daughter of the lat e Henry Fetch, Esq., of the Gsove, Blackheath, azid' 69 f Fleet-street. On the 11th inst., at Trinity Church, Marylebone, Vi r oi H. F. Sykes, Esq., 3d Bombay Cavalry, younger Fee ° Colonel Sykes, Chairman of the Court of Directors of the 1.C., to Julia Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Charles Walter, Esq., of Devonshire -place. for making up a mall , falls on a Sunday, the mil • the day tollowli}g ; except in the case of the India made up tb• npton,.which, on such occasions, is DIED On the 12th inst., the Lord Al maric Athelstan Spencer Churchill, son of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough, V. th e Hon. Charlotte Au g usta Fl ower , s econd Duchess or Marlborough. On the 12th inst., at Osborn Villa, Mr. Sergeant Thou*" soh, aged 71 On the 13th inst., Mr. George Baker, Camden t ,, wn, aged 73. ' -hill On the 1 3 th ins t . , at 38, ChalcotVillas, Haverstoes Richard Burns , aged 20 . On the 11 th inst ., at Theheiton•street , Islington, Ilen r Y Tavlcr, Esc., aged 47. G n the 11th inst., George Croft V e rnon, Esq. , of Han- Worcestershire, age d 62. c f Park-terraoe, LolipoN: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG► of No. 112, St ran d, Printer, az; The Sun Office, 1,0 112, Strand, in the PreciLct of the Savoy, in the county of Middletex, Mon , igy, December 15, 1c156. Z a. d. 100 all X s. d. T JOIE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER x 5, 1856, 5. Os 175 is. Od. Paid, Paid. Pald. Paid Paid. rcts, rrice. 113} 101 2Up Price. Price. 25 44 16 11' Price. 52% 370 Price