The Sun. — London, England, 1854-01-19 00:00:00

TIIE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVEN' SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY). 100 Aberdeen ........ 100 Do., No. 2, 7 p. c 30 Blyth & Tyne 10 per ct. pref. (iss. at£so) 100 Bristol & Exeter 4pr cent., stock... 5 Do. Do., shares 100 Caledonian £lO all Chester & Holyhead, Guar. 5?1, per cent ) 6J Cork&Bandon 5i p.c all Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction all EastAnglian (£3los) 6 per cent 1 all Do. (AZ) 7 per cent (E 7 17s) 7 p. ct all I Eastern Counties Ex- BRITISH RAILWAYS. Closing Prices this day. Paid! RAILWAYS. Basiness done Si this day. ... . d. 99 . 10 1 1 ... . 19 - 20 4i- 5 100 !Aberdeen ..... 81 Ambg. Nottug. 1 & Eastn. June all (Belfast & Ballymena all IBlrmng. Wolverh. & Stour Valley 23 IBirkenhd. Lancsh. & Cheshire Junct all Do. Chesh. & Birk , £5O & £25 Cons 131.D0., £20... •• • 30 Blyth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at £45) 100 Bristol & Exeter 100 Caledonian. all ;Chester & Holyhead all ,Cork and Bandon all 'Cork, Black. & Pass. 12 'Cornwall 45 Dublin&BelfastJunc all :Dundee Perth &Aber deon Junction 5 all 'Do. New .......... ;5 all East Anglian (£25 L & E. & L. & D.) .8 all Do., (LlB E. & 1.1.) !O all Eastern Counties It. 100 EasternUnion,A.stk , It. 100 Do., do. B 5 81 Do.NewA(lateThirds; it. 100 East Lancashire It. 100 Edinburgh & Glasgow) 0 31 Edinb. and Peebles 1 t 100 Edinb.Prth.&Dundeo 0 1 Forth and Cly &June. t. 100 Glasgow &S. Westerns ;t. 100 Great Northern Stk >t. 100 Do., A. Stock it. 100 Do., B. Stock • 100 Gt. Sth. &West.(lre.) 3t. (100 Great Western 11 Irish South-Easters ! all Lancaster &Carlisle 11111)o., Thirds 1100 Lancash. &Yorkshire 171 Do., Fifths 11i Do., Wet. Riding Un all Leeds Northern all Liv.Cisby.&Southpt all London & Blackwall 81 Loud. Tilb. & Sthend. 100 Lond.Bright.&S.Cst. 100 London &N. Western 12 Do. Fifths 1 D0.,16/.5h.,M&8...0 21 Do. Eighths 100 London & S.Westorn 421 Do., £5O 34 Do. ' £4O all Lndndrry.d/Coleraine all Lndudrry. & Ennisk. 100 Manch.Shef.&Lincln. 4 Do., Man. &Lin. Un. 100 Midland 1 100 Do. Birming. & Derby 471 Midland G.West.(lr.) 171 De. h Shares all Newcastle &Carlisle 1100 Newmark et ...... 5 Do. Bury Extensions 171 Nevrpt,Aberg.&lltfd '4 Newry & Enniskillen all Newry Warreupoint & Rostrevor 'lOO Norfolk.— 31 Northn.Counties Un 100 North British 16 North Devon, No.l 11, 1 . Do., No. 2. .. •• • all IDc., 1 A Deferred 8 I Do. , B Guaranteed \ all 'North London ..... 1.1 N. &S. Wstn. , H am p ll stead, and City Jn.. i 171 North Staffordshire.. all North Western........ 10 N. &S. Westru. June 1 Nuneaton, Hinckley, and Leicester 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton 2.2 Portsmouth 100 Scottish Central 100 Scottish Midland 100 Shrewsbury & 13irmg 100 Do., L. & N. Westu Guaranteed Stock 10 Shrewsby. & Herefd all Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) all Do. Halves, do. all Do. Oswestry 61 Shropshire Union Do. A, B,C, &D, fully paid up at per cent. all South Devon 100 South Ea5tern......... all South Wa1e5........... 15 S. Yorksh. RiverDunl 5 Do ..... . ...... 2.2 Staines,Wok.,&Wok. all Stockton & Darling.. 161 Stockton & Ilartlepl , 100 Taff Vale 8 Do. £lO shades 100 Do. Pref., No. I 20 Thames Haven Dock and 17 Vale of Neath all Waterfd. & Kilkenny all Waterford&Limerick 14 West Cornwall.. 1 West End of London and Crystal Palace—, all West London 515., Wimbledon &Croydon 100 !York Newctl. &Berw.' 20 IDo . Extensions....... 1111 Do. G. N. E. Purchase t. 100 York &N. Midland.. 6 1 - 6 4 - 44 54 5i P 1 - lip 1 -14 p, 131--14 12 10 dl 16 18' 6 5d tension, 5 p. c. No.l all Do., No. 2 all Do., New 6p. c. St all Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent all Do. .410 Deben. Sh 100 EastLancash. 6 p.cts all East & West Yorksh 94 - 96 51i - 52 14 .-16 14 - 15 43 -45 Junction Fifths all Edinb.Prth.&Dundee 4 per cent. 100 Glasgow de S.Western guar. 5 per cent 100 Great Northr sp. c 100 Do. sp. at 10 p. c. pram 10 Do. 4 percent. Scrip 4 Gt.N. of Scot. ,lst Prof all Gt. Southn. &Westn. 8 - 9 23.- $ 11.8 - 120 4i - 41 121 -12 i 36 - 42 26 - 28 'lO9 - 111. i - I 1) 6 - i - 64 61 - 63 (Ireland) Eighths...l 2 Do. 4 per et. pref. St. 6 Gt. Westn. (Berks Hants Ex. 5 p. c.).. 100 ( Do. con. & red. 4. p.c 100 Do. do. 4 per cent... 100 Do. irredeem. 4 p. c. 6 Lan. & York. F. £2O, 100 Do., 0 p. c., Stock... 13 Leeds Nn. 6p. c. No. 1 9 Do. Quarters,lB4B... 100 London and,Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. 0... 100 Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St. all Do. Convertible, sp. 8 - 8} = 2* 64 7 98 —looxd 95 —lOO „ 96 98„ id par 13 8 —Mut 62 3 / 4 - 83 58 - 60 127 - 129 100 - 102 80 3 / 4 - 81 92 95 114 120 1 61 1521 —74 d 124 13 c., 1852. . , 100 Do. New Guar. 6 p.c 100 Lend. & N. W., Coy & Nun., 5 per cent 5 London &S. Western, 7i 8 par p 98i 99. 1001 1011 d Par par— P 75 6 7 13 12 d 10 9 di Con. Thirds 12i Londonderry& Coler Shares all Londy. & Ennis. Sh all kia.neh.,Shef., & Lin., 2i - 3 12 6i 7i 94 10 par p . . i Shares, No. 1 1 all Do. New, £lO 3 Do., £6 . all larypt.&Carl. 4p. c. all Do. 14 per cent 204 - 214 10i Do. . 100 Hid. Consol. 6p c. St. 100 Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent.... 591 - 601 33 - 35 1110 142 id 5 Do. Pref. 4 per cent.' 6 Norfolk Debent. Sh. 100 Norfolk Ex6ension... 100 Do. Pref. 5, 1 2 . per ct... 100 Do. Way. Val. 5 p c 100 North British all North Staffordshire.. 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolverh. 215,6 p. c. 54 56 d par 54 3 --- ... - zi 99 101 par— i p 6 47 —49 ! 3a 34 d 29i 30} 8 10 15 Do.. all Scot. Cen., Now Pref all Shrews& liirm. N. G all Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min),B p. e. 10 Do. 5 per cent all South Devon 14 Do. New all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.,) of £1 os.6d. all S. Yorksh.4p. c. Guar. 3 Waterfd.&Kilk.6p. c. 100 York Newcastle and Berwick,l p.c.Pref. - 6A io 15 161 94 101 12 14 id -23 24 17 19 11 d 04 9 7 3i 44 - 2 Gj - 52 55 - 61 53,11 8 - 1 d pa' 5 Do 10 York& N. Midlaud H I; S. Purch disxdi 34 - 36 91 - 93 56 - 57 55 - 60 55 - 60 2i 21h 13 - 15 I 64 - 7i 10 - 12 -- 14 - 16 53 —59 31 32 3 2 a 4 5 --- ~ .. 2 2 L 46 - 156 ) 1 5 - 25 - 27 66 76 - 7 62i —63 i 9 BAd 41 - 4 d 444 -45 A LO 7 5.. 3 ?,0 8 NY all all 10 - !O 8 l 0 all KI 2 5 all 20 10 10 ;0 I 8 :011 201 Al loi 0 all !O 5 5 4 *t. A-rititt t a Z/ 171) t SUN OFFICE, Six o'Clock. I shr. TATTERSALL'S. st. 20 (THIS EVENING.) 50 14 LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. STEEPLECHASE. 10 to 1 agst Half and Half (takentake ). to 1). 10 to 1 agst Miss Mo wbra y ( 11 GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP. 33 to 1 agst Newminster (taken). CHESTER CUP. 30 to 1 agst Newminster. 40 to 1 agst Virago (offered). 40 to 1 agst Tom (taken). 50 to 1 agst Typee (taken). DERBY. 3to 1 agst Autocrat and King Tom coupled. 14 to 1 agst Dervish (taken). 40 to 1 agst Prince Arthur (taken). 50 to 1 agst Brother to Chanticleer (taken). OAKS. 4to 1 agst Meteora (taken). LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Jan. 19. —Wind this day at Noon, S.E. ; light a;rs, and hazy weather. PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 18.—Wind, S. Off Port—G. B. Leemar; from New York, for London. SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. 18.—Wind, S. Arrived—Prince (s), from Brazils and Losbon. The Thomas Gleadow, from Ibra ila to England, was seen on shore on the bar of the Tagus, and it was feared would become a wreck. PLYA.ItUTII, Jan. 18.—Wind, S.E. Sailed—Spermaceti, for Savannah. OFF T3E START.—Diamond, Demerara. SHIELDS, Jan. 18.—Wind, W.S.W. The Signet, the Junius, Sarah Milledge, Virginia, and Ann, still remain on the Herd ; and the Hannah and Norio on the rocks ; the others have become total wreck s. SUNDERLAND, Jan. 18. Wind, W.S.W. Arrived — Oceanus from Quebec ; British Tar, Dalhousie. NEWPORT, Jan. 18.—Arrived—Wilhelm Ludwig, from Bristol, for St. Thomas ; Michael, Gloucester, for ka. vannah. CORK, Jan. 17.—Wind, S.S.W. Arrived—ldas, from Demerara. Sailed —Corsair, for Barbadoes. BOSTON, Jan. 4.--Thi wreck of a barque of about 300 tons, almost new, on her beam ends, painted black, with a white rnonkeyrael all round, cabin on deck nearly forward to the mainmast, yards painted black, lower masts white, except the mizen, which was varnished, apparently a French clipper, was passed on the Bth December, in lat. 29 N., 66 W. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Thursday, 10.30 A,lr. Wind, S.S.W., fresh breeze, and fine. Arrived—American Union, from New York. Off Port—Magician and Forest King (ships) ; Lotty, Sleigh (barque), Arica (brig), and Cherub (schooner.) QUEENSTOWN, JAN. 17. Wind, S.S.W. Arrived—Charlotte, from Memel; Unicorn, Moulmein ; Engineer, Liverpool, for Barbadoes , with l oss of water, out 11 deys ; North Star, from Liverpool, for New York, with cargo shifted; Leslie Adams, Malta; Courier de Messina, Trieste. (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thursday, 9.45 a.m. "Wind, E.: tide last hour's ebb ; thick fog. Arrived-18th.—Elise, from New York ; Jassy, Guerra sey ; Rival, Terceira. DEAL, Thursday, 9 a.m. Wind, S.E., light, and foggy. No arrivals. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended Jan. 19, 1104, male up from the Returns of tl e Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wale , per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT. EARLEY. I OATS. I are. BEANS. PEAS. 783 10,1 42s 01 I 263 41 , 47s 7d 48s 91 51s 91 THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGE. WHEAT. 1 BARLEY. I OATS. I BYE. I BEANS. PEAS. 73s 51 39s 10d 25s 51 46s 2d 48s 01 50s 93 DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Is WHEAT 05 Is . I BARLEY Od . I Is OAT Od S. I he 01 RYE. I BEANS Is Od . 1 PEAS. Is 01 QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. Wheat, 60,500; Barley, 87,532; Oats, 17,952; Rye, 141 ; Beans, 4,310; Peas, 1,784 quarters. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 31 53 to 5/ lOs ; clover ditto, 4/ Os to 61 6s ; and straw, 1/ 183 to 213 s per load. Trade steady. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 31 5s to 51 lOs ; clover ditto, 41 Os to 61 6s ; and straw, II 18s to 2/ 4s per load. Supply moderate, and trade firm. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 31 3s to 5l 8s; clover ditto, 41 Os to 61 103 ; and straw, 1116 s to 2138 per load. A. full average supply, and a sluggish demand. MARKET NE . W - 2--(THIS DAY.) 110 MEAT MARKETS. NEWOLTE AND LEA.DENHALL.—The general demand ruled heavy at this market, at the following quotations. Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s Od ; Mutton, 3 - , 2d to 4s 8d ; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; Pork, 3s 4d to 4s 10d per 81bs, by the carcase. SOUTHALL, JAN. 18.—We had a dull sale for all kinds of stock, the prices of which had a downward tendency, as follows : Beef, from :3s Od. to 4s 4d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 5s 0,1 ' • Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 60.; Pork, 3s 4d to 4 s &I per 81bs, to sink the offal. 20 20 50 20 . . .. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT MESSRS. FIGGINS THIS DAY This morning, shortly before seven o'clock, a fire broke out on the premises, No. 17 and 18, West-street, West Smithfield, in the occupation of Messrs. Vincent and James Figgins, type, and stereotype founders. It was first discovered by one of the workmen, on his arrival at the factory • an alarm was.instantly raised, and messen gers despatched for the engines, which arrived with great itromptitude. In the meantime, the flames had got such ----...------ an ascendancy that it was found difficult to subdue them. Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held by Mr. Towards eight o'clock the, flames were quelled consider 11aYne, in the Steward's Office, St. Bartholomew's Hos- ably. At nine o'clock they were totally extinguished, Pita', on view of the bodies of John Hayes, aged 25 but not before the second and third floors and roof were years, and Lawrence Murray, aged 24 years, who were completely destroyed, the lower part of the premises killed on M on d a y last, by the falling of a portion of the seriously damaged, and a considerable quantity of pro perty destroyed. O ld Excise -office, Broad-street, City. • - 3 - : FIRE IN NEW-STREET , COVENT-GARDEN.—Last night, The Coroner, in opening the proceedings, said that it between the hours of 10 and 11 o'clock, a fire broke out had been his intention to obtain the attendance of the in the premises of Mr. Ferroy, a hat manufacturer, No. District Surveyor, to, assist the investigation by his 16, New-street, Covent - g arden, which, besides.destroy fng n property, was well ni h ev idence, but as that gentleman could; not attend, he i a de c a ons w id it e h rab th le e u amount e e of from 25 to 30 hum g an .(the C oroner ) was h a ppy to •say that Mr. Shaw, the abtetiencra. ~, Police constable 149 immediately sprang his offici a l re f eree, a gen tl e man of superior abilities and ra ttle, and, after knocking at the street door, succeeded' e xperience, andplr. Piper, the contractor.for the works, i n ma king the inmates sensible of their impending da n g er. were present. A woman named Scott, who occupied the second floor, Wm. Cuningham deposed—ls a carpenter, and leading on finding the smoke rushing up themthree, do reeb w u n, Intendingwas, I.l3 ern, the floor of which fell, is about 17 feet b y 21 feet. the violence of the fire that remaining ewas prevented. The There w`ure 11 men employed in it, cleaning bricks, which Chandos-street engine at that moment came 'up, when were -taken from the walls, and they were lowered down as the poor woman informed Cooper, the sub-engineer, that fast as they were cleared. At the time of the accident, three of her children still remained in the building, and there was not more than a dozen bricks in the room, and likewise several other lodgers. • Cooper, during the time about 15 owt. of rubbish. There was about 2 cwt. on each the men en h wer . e h se t t h t e ing ea th te e d enein k e tol:vidorhko,lrduoshf two ed uP the stairs the floors beneath. The first intimation he had of the d et in whom he found on th e e m s e tai e r ' s—one in each arm — occurrence was that six men, who had been in the room, and was carrying them down, when he heard another Passed him on the stairs and told him that the floor had crying. He returned a few steps, and told the child to fallen in, and that they were going down to rescue the jump upon his back, which was done, and by that means Men. The three floors gave way, and the whole lodged he succeeded iu saving the lives of three children. Luckily, Merryweather's fire-escape, kept at the police on the basement. Three-quarters of. an hour elapsed station in Bow-street, was brought to the spot and placed before the men were extricated, Hayes and Murray on the roof, by order of Inspectors Dodd and Wilkinson, Were quite dead. Considered the accident was to be by the aid of which the unfortunate creatures were attributed to the girder giving way. This beam is 11 enabled to pass to the next house, and, with the assist inches by 116 inches, but five inches had been cut away ance of Briggs, who had charge of the Royal Society's fire-escape, the whole of the occupants in the house were on each side, to mortice the binders, leaving only an savedfrom a horrible death. Owing to the indefatigable inch solid of this great mass of timber. There was a exertions of the firemen the flames were extinguished, crack that ran the whole length of the girder, which but not, however, until the whole of Mr. Ferroy's stock was rotten at both ends near the walls: The several in trade was totally destroyed, and serious damage done floors were not shored up, nor did he consider such a pre- to the property of the different lodgers. How the dis caution necessary, from the apparent strength of the aster originated is enveloped in obscurity. Mr. Ferr o y building. The girde r g ave wa y in the centre (its weakest the one of the lodgers were insured, but the whole of and others were not insured for a single' penny. •.ayt) and at the ends. It mi g ht have be en the effect of (TREAT FIRE AT TOTTENHAM. —DESTRUCTION OF THE he vibration, caused by the men working and walking CATHOLIC SClWOLS.—Yesterday forenoon, between the anal fro, which allowed the beam to surge, and then hours of eleven and twelve, a fire, attended with a consi break. derable destruction of property, broke out in the pre had been at work on the iiises known as the Catholic Schools, situate in White Charles Powell, a mas on, Horse-lane, Lower Tottenham. The building in which wall' the misfortune commenced was nearly 50 feet wide and and had only walked a cross the room a minute or so b e f ore . Since the accident, bad examined the girder, 30 deep. Besides the large school-room there were which pis ver y mu ch decayed, particularly that part left i about 16 separate apartments in the place. , The dis k sounded d vias made by one of the inmates, who at once longing to the in the 'wall. Can give no reason for its breaking, except shoring 7. alarm and sent for the engines. Two be lts rottenness. Did not think the floors required no time was in setting them to work ; but by E lost parish were quickly on the spot, and Lulu) Fidler, a mason's labourer, thought there was I t u h ei e ze t d im u e po tat th c e ou g l r d ea b teer a p c o c r o t m io p n lis o h f e t d h , e tbhueildflinamg.es Thehad 1 , authorities of th sot above a ton weight on the floor. arish, on seeing that the confiagra- ..Ntr. John Shaw, official referee under the Buildings iron was extending e s: d.i r o Lp i idly, and that there was 'l‘...ct, examined the building. The model produced most academy also falling a truly represents the broken girder. It is his decided prey to the fury of the destructive n element, dispatched a • ')Pinion that the cause of its giving way was the very mounted police-officer to London for the services of the i engines‘ea of the London Es deep insertion ma d e i n it for the.admission of the bind- Brigate and West of England firemen. The moment the 1 news arrived, two powerful ` 11413 . winch, being exactly opposite each other, it must tablishment, with that of the tofEngland Office, - b e obvious, weakened the beam very much, as the im- started to the scene, and upon firemen found every room in the extensive building in a arriving there the reense 'scantling of 11 in. by 11i in., was reduced to the . value of little more than an,inch in old-buiklings. The blaze, and the fire had seized upon the next house, mode of placing bindersopposite each other was adopted, termed Dawson'! Academy, The firemen from town, ' but now - builders have abetter plan by allowing 3' or 4 feet Superintendento Braidwood d Connor 'to intervene. The blame of this. rests with the builders, • and Messrs. Fogo an ut, in apit , e w o e f ra ti t ie o ir work in an and not with any person at present connected with the admirable manner ; b under the direction of I exertions, nearly every Work. The beam, which was 90 years old, became dry t ined at length became and brittle, and on a slight jar ' ht have broken even migfloor and all they eon a the work of destruction continued, and tb k the 1 • Previo us ly ; Th e accident, in his judgment, was purely involved. The firemen, on finding that accidental, as judging f rom the scantling of the girder, building in which . the ou rea began must b e he'would have placed 20 tons weight upon it, and con sideired it safe. In his opinion,withsuch wholly destroyed, directed the full force of water upon the adjoining house, . Sound) shoring was unnecessary. ' liftr. Edward James, resident surgeon said that the at the roof. By mounting the building, and cutting away the bond timbers, the men, after some hours' hard two dece ase d men were brought to the hospital On Mon- I labour, eventually succeeded in g ettin g the fearful con day afternoon quite dead, and bleeding at the nose, one flagration subdued, but not until th e building in which of the symptoms of the base of the skull having been it commenced was burned down. The greater part of fractured ; f a ili n g i n to lime rubbish might have aecele- the roof is also burned off the premises of Mr. Dawson's rated their death by suffocation. r academy, and the remainder of the buildinThe s ext g ien- The Coroner, in summing i•i -P, said he entirely . s i v el y dama g ed b y fire and water. building colincided with Mr. Shaw, that the occurrence was purel y y belonged to Messrs. Alexander and Bradshaw, of South aocidental. street, Finsbury, and are supposed to be uninsured. - The jury, after a minute's deliberation, returned a The fire, it is believed, arose from the over -heating of a verdict of ‘ 4 .Apcidental death." , , i drying stove. t . THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE EXCISE OFFICE.-THE INQUEST. FOREIGN. A.ltvarp &Rotterdam Belgian East. Junct. Beziers to Graissessac Central of Italy Charleroi & Erquelin Demerara Dijon and Bess2on Dutch Rhenish East Indian Do. Extension Gt. Indian Peninsula Gd. Junct. of France Gd. Trunk, of Canada Shrs. and Bonds Gt. Central of France Gt. Westn. of Canada Shares Do: bonds(l i55.)1857 Do. bonds (2 i55.)1862 Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 per cent Lako Const. & Basle Lucca and Pistoja, 5 per cent. prof. Luesembourg Do. (Railway) Do Do. (Canal) Do. 6 p. cent. pref. Lyons & Mediterran Madras Maria Antonia Do: New Melbourne Dk. & By. Namur & Liege (with intsrest • Do. (ex interest) Northern of France Do. 201. 3 p. c. Bds [fmy.B. &A ms.Shs ] Norwegialarnk Pref Paris and Lyons Do. bonds Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg Paris Caen& Cherbrg Quebec & Richmond Rouen and Havre Royal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Mouse ,'Jo. 54 per cent. pref S.E. of France • Southern of r...ance St. Andrews & Quebec Upper India Scrip L West Flanders Do. 4 . per c. Pref . Western of France West. of Switzerland ! Wiesbaden Zealana . . 9 15 13 0 3 !0 12 !0 1 33 29 [0 10 ZO 2 n all 0 I -all .6( all 0 1 all 2 d 1 4 3d 12 - 14 • •P 3 3 3jp id t p i P 2i Zip 4 3 dl 14 ld 2 ld 9 94 5t —7 64 la 1k 111 id P 7:1 - 31 -3: 8 -- 13i -- 43 - 45 38 - 40 29i -30 i 3 18 id - 8. 3p ... pm x in 3i - 4i 1 - 5- 6 p ••• 411 LINES LEASED AT FIICRD RENTALS RAILWAYS. Leasing 3otnpans Closing Prices this day. Ibr.j*Paid; It. Iwo 0 all it. 100 ZIP 5 all ;5 all )0 all ki all 5 all .2i all 21 all 0 all it 100 it. 1100 SAI all Bedford and Bletchley Buckghamsh Clydesdale Jc E.Lincoln. gr 6 p. cent Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct. Do. New Glstr.&Dn.Fr. Hrtlpl. Dk: di Railway Hull di Selby. Do. Sharer/. Do. I Shares.. Lon.dtiGreenw Do. Preference Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent._ Do. 6 per ct... Manch.Baton and Matlock Middlesbro' dz Redcar Midid.Bradfd , Northern and Eastern sp. c. Do. 6 per ct.. Do . Fixed sp. c Prost. 6i Wyre Do. Shares. Roystn. dr Do.Shepth.St. Shef. Roth. & Goole g.5.p.e S. Staflordsh WearValleygr, 6 per cent Do NVilts&Sonarsi Ln. &N. W. L., &N.W. 10aledon... Gt.Northn Caldonian. Do. at. Westn. Yk. New. dti Berw Do Do • S. Eastern Do Norfolk Do Ln.&N.W ck Midid ' Stckton Darlingt. ,Midland E. Count Do Do. L. drls . W &Lndak Do Gt.Northn Do Gancash.&l Yorksh..l MrMClean Stockt. del Darling.l Do ......... Qt.Weetn: 101 - 103 50 - 52 .10 - 143 3() - 32 109 - 111 54 3 / 4 - 55 3 / 4 27 - 28 13 3 / 4 - 14 24 3 / 4 ' - 25 - 3 99 : 100 60 - 62 Lit) - 143 140 - 143 ••• ••• 1 2 lid 30 3 / 4 -- 311 95 -- 91 MINES, all Agua Fria all Anglo Austria. Gold all Anglo Californian 2 Australasian 6 Australian all Australian Cordillera all Australian Freehold all Ave Maria all Baden (Gal.Diachy of) all Blainarvon Iron and Coal all British Austria. Gold 13.5 British Iron 244 Brazilianlmp.(issued at £5 pm all Do. Coeaes & Culacla 15 Do. St. John Del Rey Carson's Creek all Cobre Copper 1 Colonial Gold \l6 Copiapo . all Copper Min. of Eng. 7 all Do. Pref.. p. ceut all English aud. Austin Copper Smeltg. Co. all General all Gt.NuggetVeinSerp 2 'Do. Registered all Great Polgooth all Lake Bathurst all Liberty all Linares all Lond:&Californ.Gold Quartz Crush. Co all lvlariquita ........ 9 Mexicau&S.Amerien all New Granada all New Linares Mining and Smelting Co all Nouveau Monde all Pontgibaud Silye] Lead Min. & Smelt 1 Port Philip all Quartz Rock all li,hyrnney Iron 15 Do. New 11 Santiago de Cuba all South Australian 7 Tin Croft all United Mexican all Waller all West Granada all West Mariposa 12s. Worthing Mining o Australia all Yuba JOINT-STOC. all iAustralasia all (British Colonial Bank and Loan company all British N. American 2 ettrtd. Bnk.of India, Austral. and China 5 Chrtd. BA. of Asia, 25. Colonial _ 20 ICommercial of Loud. 10 English Scottish and Australian 15 London Chrtd. Bnk. of Australia . 20 London and County 10 London Joint Stock.. 20 LonlandWestminst. 35 National Provincial of England 10 22 )o. National New ... r - ... ... ... all New South Wales all Oriental Bank Cor. 2 5 P P r ° o l ; t e c i n ai of Ireland all Do. New 1 R o yalAustraln. Bkg and Gold Imp. Co 25 uth Australia. all Union of Australia 2A Do. New 10 - Union of London all Union of Madrid a P ... par A d ip 4 d 2 3 d d d d 9 - 11 8 - 10 5 - 6 2 - 3 214 - 31 4o *47 * - 124 65 - 75 4 - 6p 2} - *I 14 -16 par 2 d 4d 10 ... 11 6 t 61 1 cl idia— par ... -- ... par -- ip d 29 —Slid P 8 10 di 5i 5 7 3 i oil 1 •.• ''''' i - :K BANKS. 7 7T= - 80 i idis 14 ldis 2 - - P ii -7- ii 44 - 46 i d— par 73 - 75 7i - 8 MISCELLA.NEOUS. 5 25 20 10 5 Aubin u , xtl and Iron 17i Australian Agricult. 12 Australsn.Pcific Mail 8 Australn. Royal Mail 24 Berlin Water Works 38 Brit. American Land 1 Brit. Si; Coln. Smoltg. and Reduction Co 32i Canada Company 5 Crystal Palace 4 Do. New 2 Crystal Pal. of France 3 Eastern Steam 20 illectricTelegraph (A) 20 Do. (B) 1 Electric Tel. of hal 14 Gen. Steam Navigat 18 General Screw Steam 76 Irish Beetroot Sugar 6 Magdalena St. Navig. all Nat. Pt. Steam -Fuel 4 Netherlands Laud 1 N. S. W. Coal Sz Inter-. Stem. Nay. Co all N. B. Australasian Do. New 10 Nrth.ofßuropoSteam all Peel Rr. Ld. Minrl. all P en i nsu lar & Oriental 25 Do. do. all Portland. Iron Co 60 Royal Mail Steam all Scot. Austral. Invest. 25 South Austral. Land all Submarine Telegraph 281 Van Dienton's Laud ••• ---- ••• 41 - 43 72 L. ;76 75 -- go 11 P lt -- 11 p 15 20 20 20 ••• 16 - ii 16 - 18 SHERRY WINES.—A return of the sherry wines ex ported during the past year shows the total to have been 53,357 butts, being an increase upon 1852 of 6,318 butts. The largest shippers were Diaz Merello and Co., 3,915 butts ; Duff Gordon and Co., 3,469 ; J. W. Bur don, 3,442 ; P. Garvey, 3,171 ; P. Domecq, 3,157 ; Gonzalez and Dubose, 3,063 ; P. Beigbeder and Co., 2,344; Pemartin and Co., 2,210 ; Misa and Bertemati, 1,980 ; Paul and Dastis, 1,748 ; Gordon and Co., 1,688 ; S. de la Sierra, 1,611 ; J. Haurie, Nephew, 1,456 ; Widow X. Harmony, 1,395 ; Mora, Son, and Gassiot, 1,379; F. W. Cosecs, 1,335; Mousley and Co., 1,218 ; B. Vergara, 1,159; J. M. Pico, 1,111 ; Ysasi and Co., 1,012 ; M. and F. Tozar, 1,009. All other shippers were under 1,900 butts each. HUDDERSFIELD, Jan. 17 , —During the past week there has been a good trade done in the warehouses to order. Flatness in the general business was to be anti cipated from the season of the year. par --. itp ;•*, ... ; par - IR D 36 - 3$ i 4 d- - 15 i P 1 37b x d JANCIARY 19, 1854. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL-MEETING OF SURGEONS. A public meeting of the members of the surgical pro fession, called by advertisement, was held yeSterday afternoon at the Hanover-square Rooms, to express their opinion upon the conduct of the board of manage ment of the Royal Free Hospital, in recently dismissing from his situation Mr. John Gay, who had acted as honorary surgeon to the institution for the last 17 years. There was a large attendance of the members of the pro fession, and the large room was nearly filled. Dr. Cop land was unanimously called to the chair. " The SECRETARY (Mr. Ludlow) read a statement, drawn up by Mr. Gay, of the proceedings of the board of management connected with his dismissal. From that statement it appeared that in the month of March last a biographical sketch of Mr. Gay's life and surgical career, appeared in a professional periodical, called the Medical Circular, which, among other statements re specting Mr. Gay, contained the following :—That the present position of the hospital was almost solely owing to Mr. Gay, the principal surgeon--that but for the re-, putation which that gentlemen had earned for it the institution would be almost unknown —that, unlike most other surgeons, Mr. Gay was not indebted to the hos pital, but that the hospital owed everything to his skill and enterprise. No notice was taken of these statements till the month of July, when the secretary of the hospital was directed by; the board to ask Mr. Gay, first, if the MS., or any proof of the sketch, was seen by him previous to its publication ; secondly, if he himself supplied any portion of the sketch itself ; and thirdly, if it was published altogether without his know ledge, whether he had since disclaimed the statements contained in it ? To these questions Mr. Gay re plied that he had supplied the editor of the paper with such facts relating to his birth and education and with such references to his writings as were required for the purposes of the biography, but that he was not respon sible, directly or indirectly, for any statements of opinion it contained ; that he had not seen any part of the sketch previous to its publication ; and that, till he read it in the paper, he was not aware of the tone that would be taken by the writer. He added that he had not com plained to the editor of any of the statements contained in it. Another meeting of the board was held upon this, and Mr. Gay was requested to correct the of fensive statements ; on which he wrote a letter to the editor, stating that he was not the principal surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital, as there were two other sur geons in the institution, and that Dr. Marsden was his senior • that the editor had overrated his services, and especially that he had overlooked the merits of the founder of the institution, with whom it had been Mr. Gay's privilege to co-operate for many years ; and he concluded by expressing a hope that the editor would admit he (Mr. Gay) was not responsible for the opinions which had been published. At the next meeting of the board, in August last, Mr. Gay produced a reply from the editor, stating simply that Mr. Gay was not responsible in any way for the opinions ex pressed in the biographical sketch. Hereupon the com mittee came to a unanimous resolution that the explana tion of Mr. Gay was not satisfactory, and that by his conduct he had forfeited the confidence of the board. Another meeting of the committee was held in Decem ber last, when Mr. Gay again addressed a letter to the committee, offering to use his best endeavours in the event of the republication of the sketch, to have the offensive passages suppressed. The committee, how ever, came to a resolution that those letters did not alter their former opinion, and that Mr. Gay be dismissed from his office. The CHAIRMAN then addressed the meeting, and sa i they must observe, from the papers which had been read, that the proceedings taken against Mr. Gay had been taken with dtsign. (Applause.) Mr. Gay had resorted to every mans of conciliation which it had become a gentleman to do, but every attempt had been rejected ; and under these circumstances, it did appear that an indignity offered to one member of the profession was to a certain extent reflected upon them all. He apprehended every one would agree that the position of a surgeon in an hospital ought not to be affected unless he was guilty of some moral delinquency or professional incapacity. Mr. KEMBLE DR MORGAN, in moving the first resolu tion, said there would, perhaps, be different opinions as to the propriety of members of their profession allowing biographical pketches to appear. (Hear.) For himself, he had a strong opinion on that point ; but it must be borne in mind that if Mr. Gay had allowed his biography to appear without making any comment upon it at the time, that was done by the advice of one of his colleagues, who advised him to take no notice of it, and told him the affair would only be laughed at, as, indeed, it ought to be laughed at by all sensible men. (Applause.) But sup pose Mr. Gay had written every syllable of the article on his own life ; they might have said he was a vain man, but there would have been an end of it; it contained nothing insulting to the hospital. But there was something more than a dismissal of Mr. Gay, which had tended strongly to enlist the sympathies of the profession in his favour. For himself, he had no acquaintance with that gentleman—he had never met him till this occurrence took place Why, then, had he felt so strongly upon the subject 1 It was because of the conviction upon his mind that all this was done by a single individual who exerci.wd an undue influence over the medical proles sion•L--(applause and hisses)—an individual who pro fessed to be the guardian of the , rights of medical men, and the defender of their honour, but he feared that his acts had not borne out his professions. But he hoped one result of this day's meeting would be that the profession would not submit to his dicta tion any longer. He concluded by moving the first resolution—that without expressing any opinion as to the publication of ,biographical sketches of the lives of members of the profession, that meeting recorded its conviction that Mr. Gay had been guilty of no act which called for the inference in any manner of the governors of the hospital ; that his dismissal from office' with no charge against his moral or professional character was an act in the highest degree oppressive and unjustifiable. Mr. WEBER, of Norwich, seconded the resolution, and called upon the members of the profession present to emancipate it from the dictation of the Lancet. The resolution was then carried unanimously. Mr. JORDAN, the senior surgeon of the Manchester Infirmary, in moving the second resolution, said the charges against Mr. Gay were far too insighificant for the punishment he had received, and he hoped that the vote for his dismissal would be reversed by those go vernors who did not vote on the first occasion. He moved that the dismissal of Mr. Gay by the committee of the Royal Free Hospital was not only unjust and oppressive to that gentleman as an individual, but that, if adopted as a precedent, it would be most injurious to the interests of hospitals generally, as well as insulting to the profession at large. Mr. HOLMES COOTE, of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Dr. BAGUET moved, that copies of the statements and of these resolutions be forwarded to the public and to the medical journals, to the heads of the medical profes sion, and to the officers of her Majesty's household. Dr. CONQUEST, in seconding this resolution, said it appeared to him that a gross insult had been offered to the profession generally in the person of Mr. Gay. He had not seen any charges brought for ward which would justify a reprimand, much less a dismissal. (Applause.) He had known Mr. Gay in timately for the last fourteen or fifteen years, and lie had never known anything of him unbefitting the cha racter of a gentleman and philanthropist. He never knew a man with a higher sense of honour and integrity, and he believed that be would submit to any sacrifice rather do a dishonest act. (Applause.) Mr. LIDDELL, of Ely-place, Goodman's-fields, here asked what was to be done with Mr. Gay's place. It was not yet filled up, and he presumed no man of re spectability would take it. (Great applause.) He pre sumed also that Mr. Gay's colleagues had resigned, and that they only held their places till their successors were appointed. (Applause.) This gave rise to a conversation of a very exciting nature, as a question was put to the medical lecturers connected with the hospital present, whether they ap proved of the proceedings taken against Mr. Gay. Dr. ConmAcK, one of the lecturers, repudiated the proceedings of the governors, as far as he was concerned. His sympathies were entirely with the meeting and with Mr. Gay, though he strongly disapproved of the system of biographies. (Applause.) Dr. GAILLARD. another of the lecturers, said he had come there to learn the real facts of the case. After what he had heard; there was only one course open to him, and that course he was determined to take. (Great applause.) There were then loud calls for Mr. Gant, and that gentleman, in answer to questions put to him, said he had voted conscientiously, as one of the governors of the hospital, for Mr. Gay's dismissal, and that he hakl sent in his testimonials and application for the vacant place ; but that, he said, was only done formally to keep his standing in the hospital. He would not accept the situation if it were offered to him. Each of these a dmissions gave rise to a storm of hisses and great confusion. • The resolution was carried, like the rest, unanimously. A resolution was then moved, and agreed to, to open a subscription for defraying the expenses connected with the proceedings, and thanks having been voted to the chairman, the meeting adjourned. DEATH OF A DISTINGUISHED OFFICER. —Major Ro berts, for many years a resident stipendiary magistrate in the West of Ireland, died on the 16th instant, at his residence, near Dublin, at an advanced age. He bad but a short time retired upon a pension. Major Roberts was one of the few Waterloo men left. He also served with distinction in the Peninsula, and was at the battles of the Pyrenees and Vittoria, whilst connected with the 71st Highlanders. LIFE-BOAT AT HARTLEPOOL —The seamen of the above port held a meeting, to take into considerations he awful sacrifice of life near Hartlepoo l durin g the pt week, and they determined to have a life-boat of their own, not being satisfied with the conduct of those who have the management of the life-boat now under the care of the pilots and fishermen there. The seamen complain that their brethren are drowned before the boat is started. Resolutions were passed to the effect that a second life boat was necessary, and that the same be the property of the Seamen's Unite d Friendly Association of the port. Twenty, pounds were voted out off the funds of that association, an d a book was opened or voluntary subscriptions ofseamen and the public generally. Bravo Jack I May your endeavours be crowned with complete success. ~_a..~_ TIIE, COAL TRADE. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, Wednesday.—The large fleet of coal-laden vessels which had been accumulating in the northern ports during the recent bad weather, have nearly all put to sea. We have had too heavy sea tides during the past 24 hours, and next tide will about clear the harbour. The vessels that were blown dow n to Leith-roads are also getting up. Several laden vessels passed Shields-bar yesterday from the north for London. These vessels were Newcastle colliers. Coal freights on Newcastle quay are 13s.- per ton to Lon don. If they only could procure coals and decent Passages, there are an immense number of vessels in the trade. In former times, about this season of the Year, a considerable quantity of tonnage employed in the American and Baltic trades during the summer months was laid up in the harbours on the north-east coast ; but now, on account of the high rate of freights, they are all fa employment. The losses occasioned by the late gale Will fall heavily upon the underwriters, though vessels belonging to the southern ports have suffered more in proportion than north country colliers. A considerable proportion of those wrecked at the mouth of the Tyne Were strange vessels. Foreigners have suffered most severely in the late gale. The principal part of the-crews drowned during the storm were foreigners. The Break , Water, Conference, and Mountaineer colliers and the Auroca barque have been got off the Hurd Sand. GREAT FLOOD AT DONCASTER. Owing to the rapid thawing of the snow, the inhabi tants of the lower part of Doncaster, lying in the valley of the river Don, were yesterday (Wednesday) surprised with one of the greatest floods that has occurred in that tow n tor the last 60 years. In previous inundations in this locality as great a weight of water has probably Overflowed the banks of the river, but it has never before been concentrated in such a narr•w space, and consequently has never been felt so severely by the poor People whose domiciles are exposed to its ravages. For merly the flood water was allowed to escape through the fields on each • side of the river from Isabel Wath, about a mile above the town, to Sanda,ll-outfall, about two miles below it. The extra course on the left side of the river has, however, been stopped within the last year or two by extensive embankments erected by the River Don Company, while that on the right side has been considerably contracted by the elevated line of the great Northern Railway Company. On the other hand, a new flood drain has been opened as an additional outfall below the town, but owing to the water being held up by a wear in con nection with a millrace and by the circumscribed area of the bridge above it, the new drain cannot receive the surplus water on these occasions in time to prevent a general submerging of the locality adjacent to it. The water in the river began to rise on Tuesday night, but it was not until Wednesday morning, at about 4 o'clock, that it began to encroach on the houses in Marshgate, which extends at a right angle to the course of the stream. The inhabitants of that street, mostly water ram and labourers, then found it necessary to take measures for the safety of their household goods, while the owners of horses and cattle in sheds and pastures in the neighbourhood as promptly removed them. By 11. a.m. every house in the street was flooded—a circumstance which has not occurred at any previous inundation within recollection. The water in some of the cottages was between two and three feet deep. All the inhabitants were in their upper chambers. Their furniture was floating about in the rooms below, or in the street, and communications could only be kept up by carts and waggons and ladders. At 2 p.m. the water Was still rising ; it rushed though the courts and alleys in the street with great impetu3sity. It also overflowed the canal lock, against which a large mass of ice was lodg e d, and it was only prevented from rising above the north bank of the river by a number of labourers piling up sods as fast as it rose. Mr. Carr, the resident en gineer of the Great Northern Railway Company, also had a staff of "navviea employed in filling up the an gles of tho pilc-bridge of the line over the flood-dike, to prevent the water washing down the railway. At 3 P.m, the flood had not begun to abate, though it was the falling of the fill tide which held up the stream at Sandal' would admit of its abating in the course of two or three hours. The weight of water above the town, however, was very considerable. In the field in Marshgate it was seven or eight feet deep at the least, and was bursting through the wall next the pavement in countless streams. A strolling players' booth in the middle of the field was half sub merged in the flood, and the proprietor and his family found it necessary to remove to their caravan on the canal bridge. Several women and children were taken out of the houses in Marshgate in the afternoon, and found shelter among their friends and relatives in other parts of the town. One poor creature, who bad been confined only the night before, lay in a room not many feet above the water, without any fireplace in it. Al though no lives have been lost, and no personal injuries sustained, this calamity, even if it should end here, will •be seriously felt for some months to come by those who are the principal sufferers by it. It is expected the town authorities will take some steps to prevent the re currence of such a flood for the future. At 5 p.m. the water was as high as ever, and was believed to be rising. the weak anion more the ,en. 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The royal commissioners met again yesterday, at the Privy Council Chamber, Vowning-street, and resumed their inquiry. Commissioners present : the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Sir John Patteson, and Mr. Cornewall Lewis. The proceedings were recommenced by the fur ther examination of Mr. Sergeant Merewether, town clerk, who stated — Since he had been last before the committee he had pre pared a list of the charters which had been granted to the City in various reigns, with the different amounts which had been paid by the City to the Crown in con sideration of those charters. The list was as follows : GRANTS OF MONEYS TO THE CROWN FROM 1139 (4TH OF STEPHEN) TO 1487 (18TH EDWARD Iv.) 1139. Stephen, 100 marks of silver for permission to choose their sheriffs. 4th Henry 11., 1,0431., gift. sth Henry 11., 1,000 marks donum. 16th Henry IL, 666/. 13s. 4d. 19th Henry 11., 6661. 13s. 4d. Bth Richard L, 1,500 marks. 35th Henry 111., 600 mark s . 40th Henry 111., 3,000 ma r ks. 52d ITenenrYryIIIIII.,., 100 marks. marks. 54th Henry 500 ditto. 307-8. Ist Edward 11., { . 1,7°°1 • 1,000/. 1314-15. Bth Edward 11., 600 marks. 1319. 12th Edward 11., 1,000 marks. 1322. 16th Edward 11., 2,000 marks. 1332. 15th Edward 111., 20,000 marks. 1371. 44th Edward 111., 4,601 marks. 1383-4. 7th Richard IL, 4,000 marks. _ 1478-9. 18th Edward IV., charter granting package, car . riage, porterage, garbelling, and ganging, and coroner, in consequence of the City releasing a debt due from the Crown of 7,0001. Another charter respecting mortmain in conse quence of the City releasing a further debt -1640-1. 16th Charles 1., charter respecting porterage 4,200/. The witness then proceeded to another point: He said : It was very material that he should lay before the com mission a plan of the sewerage of the City, a reference to which enabled every citizen to ascertain how near the public drains came to his own house, if he wished to connect his house drainage with them. He next referred to the subject of the suit with the Crown respecting the right to the soil and bed of the river. He said that he held in his hand a report drawn up in 1842 by Mr. Walker, the eminent civil engineer, and Captain Bullock, R.N., of the Admiralty, who examined the state of the river, assisted by the city water bailiff and the engineer of the navigation committee of the corporation. This report entered into the management of the stream of the liver, and was founded on the assumed necessity of giving to the current as direct a channel as possible, in order to maintain a uniform depth of water. The framers of the report considered that the complete embankment of the river was an undertaking which would be impracticable to carry out as a whole on account of the enormous ex pense it would involve ; but they thought that the bringing about of the same object by degrees, by ob taining a certain amount of frontage wherever any alteration took place, was a feasible scheme, and they accordingly recommended that this plan should be adopted. The examination of the river, performed by Mr. Walker, extended from Teddington to a point be low Gravesend. After this report was made the Crown called upon the corporation to vindicate its right to the bed and soil of the river, the Crown at the same time asserting a claim on its own part to all the soil between high and low water mark. The City had contested this claim of the Crown, and he felt satisfied that, in all the historical and legal records of the country, no mention would be found of so extensive a right on the part of the Crown as this aniounted to. The doctrine of the City is that, the proposition of the Crown cannot be supported, and that, if the CroWn seeks to take the river out of the possession of the corporation, it. should do so in the ordinary course by process of intrusion ; first, establishing its own right, instead of starting with the assumption of that right, and then calling upon the City to make out its right. Mr. C. Lewis—l understand Mr. Pemberton, solici tor to the Board of Inland Revenue, to hold that the City, being conservators of the river, has been compel led to perform acts resembling acts of possession, but not acts of possession in fact. How is that allegation made by the. City ? Mr. Merewether—l look upon that as a mere ab stract proposition which is not at all tenable. The City has performed acts of actual possession, interfering with the soil ; and it is impossible for anything to be more distinct than the acts of the City as conservator of the river, and the acts it has exercised as owner of the soil. The corporation resisted the claim of the Crown to cer tain parts of the banks of the river in the reign of Henry VIII., and it also established the well-known water works near London-bridge on the soil of the river. In Doomsday-book there is no record of any claim of the Crown to the sea-shore or to the bed and soil of the river. 1158. 1159. 1170. 1172-3. 1197. 1250-1. 1256. 1267-8. 1270. Mr. C. Lewis—What is the origin of the right of the City to the soil and bed of the river ? Mr. Merewether—l would rather abstain from going into that point, it now being pendente lite. Mr. C. Lewis—But a public matter like this might be made the subject of legislation as well as of litigation. Mr. Merewhether—Yes, but of course legislation with regard to rights of this kind would proceed on the ordi dmary principle of granting compensation. And the corporation are quite willing to give every facility for having its rights tried in a - court of Jaw if the Crown proceeds by writ of intrusion, and does trot set out with an extraordinary assertion, like that of its general right to all the soil lying between high and low water marks. Mr. C. Lewis—Of course we do not wish to ask you as an officer of the corporation, what the specific nature of the right of the City is, but it is necessary for the purposes of this inquiry that we should ask you what is the general nature of the claim of the City to the soil and bed of the river—whether it is a right of prescrip tion, or a grant, or any other kind of right ? Mr. Merewether— We claim by prescription, as in dicated by successive acts of ownership, performed from an early period. The corporation derive no revenue from the conservancy of the river. They derive a small income of about 1,1001. a year from the soil of the river, in the shape of rents ; but any sum thus derived is ex pended on the river itself. The corporation look on the matter rather as one of jurisdiction than one of revenue.- The witness then stated that he had paid great attention to the case, in which Mr. Mathews, solicitor, was con cerned, with regard to a lay-by place on the river near Gravesend. The right to this inlet, which Mr. Mathews's client claimed, was very doubtful and uncertain, and the corporation could not, therefore, interfere. The cor poration always exercises its jurisdiction over the river where it feels that it can properly do so. It is not inac tive or slow in the exercise of its rights, but it abstains from mixing itself up with questions which are in dis pute with private litigants. The navigation committee make personal visits of inspection on the river from time to time. The Chairman—But a body like the navigation com mittee, engaged in trading pursuits as they are, must he guided by their professional officers with regard to the river, must they not ? Mr. IVlerewether—To a certain extent they must be ; but there is a very proper jealousy entertained by the corporation with respect to acting on the advice of its officers ; and it is on this account that the navi gation committee make these visits of inspection. There are members on the navigation committee who have great knowledge of their duties, and are inti mately acquainted with the river ; and their officers are admitted to be, very efficient. I think the busi ness of the navigation committee is conducted iu an efficient manner, and in a manner that on the whole gives satisfaction to the public. At the same time, I do not mean to say that no further improve ments could be effected in this department of the affairs of the corporation. The witness theU gave evidence re garding the police of the City. This body he thought was managed with efficiency and economy. The police rate in the City was 7d. in the pound, and was not more, but rather less, than the same charge in the me tropolitan districts. The reason why the City had desired to be separated from the general system of the metro politan police, was because it thought it could manage its police better for itself; and experience, he believed, had confirmed that opinion. As far back as history went the City had always had the care and control of its o?vn police, whether in 'the hands of the trainbands, the watchl and ward, or other wise. The police of the .other metropolitan districts e used ty toan manages e s regulated itsow n s b e y w etrhse.different considers t ean forcthoer pimanagerwa ett. Ttirhoshneetmh themselves sewersbetter delegatess elvre f is o i tt r ahe es t e s im e ni ni management a h iaeg a v i c3 i er nri t ty h ey e n. y ta oc perfectr f o e u ti i l nle d eoTs b das th e eena rewdtmae sewers re mannerxn: aptTgeo andhen dae. d co it m ur m e i o ss f io th n is and departmentthe accountsare k Society kept dh i e stTn a n c n am t d . ofprosecutions instituted by the torily. The conduct the Court of Aldermen. The n of es s s ub in d t i o vi s d e i p n a g ra th te e corporation is vested in Irish connection between the g o e e n boardst o f the works very corporate sat f u a s c i some other officers and members of the trusts mana corporation are governors not the The Chairman—Doescorporation of London or control possess any j urisdic d ti o o f n other Irish over the muni6ality commonsu c boroughs? y L t o h n e don cor porationwso corpora tionezarmig sergeant, an s . ndpm n toe o , otnetifrdt andevi ev e r nrreyythai presented,nenrt Londonderrym i a te h tvobaoefu the never sr society. knowntime corporation g , oa t h nob e yf ju risdiction to be exercised by the city of London. There but nothing was actually done in the matter. Ido not recollect what was the nature of this petition, but I will. have the petition itself produced on a future day. The Chairman—ls it not necessary for the bye-laws of the corporation of Londonderry to be sanctioned by the corporation of London ? Mr. Merewether—l do not believe there is any such power now in actual use ; but the petitioners to whom I have referred seem to consider that there is such a power vested in the corporation. Mr. C. Lewis—What was the origin of the Irish So ciety ? Mr. Merewether—l hold in my hand a complete state ment of the charter and other particulars relating to the Irish Society, which I obtained for the purpose of lay ing before the commissioners ; but I thing it will be better that information on that subject should come from the secretary of the Irish Society himself. The City has very little to do with the society. The Gresham institu tion was formesiy connected with the Royal Exchange ; but ViliCE n the old Royal Exchange was destroyed by fire it was thought advisable to separate the two, and a new building was erected for the Gresham institution at the corner Basinghall-street. There are four terms in nted each year, and five or six professors are, xpis . whose lectures are pretty well attended, particularly' the music lectures ; but I do not say that I think it a very_ efficient educational institution. The new Ex change cost more than the income of tbe Gresham estate •si would provide, and that building is now in debt to the' 7( corporation on this account. The a pproaAes to the -i Exchange were very Costly. - The question as to - whether the general words of an act of Parliament can over-ride the special cnstornii 'of the city has ne yet/ en .E.- cided by the highest courts of the realm. Every free man of a livery company could vote in the common hall, but it was extremely difficult to say whether the companies separate and distinct from the corporatiOn, or formed an integral part of it. This was a point on which witness had not been able to satisfy himself, be cause the companies elected their own officers and dis posed of their own funds. The Goldsmiths', the Apothe caries', the Stationers', and the Vintners' companies were composed of persons carrying on these trades re spectively. If the livery companies were abolished, the elections in common hall, under the act 2d Geo. 1., could not take place. Mr. Me ether then withdrew. av i d Mr. E Tyrrell, remembrancer of the corpora ttoio anded. Hsneooseaeiddetdhahtishfeawthaesraipnpiot.inHteida emoluments are derived from two sources. 'He received 1,0001. a year from the corporation in a fixed payment, and 2501. more for office oharges ; and he was also paid certain fees on acccount of the parliamentary businees that passed through his hands, and which fees amounted corpora tion, office i t n ex l a B m s2 l , n altogether to 700/. ix 1852. These fees fluctuated very considerably ; and it would be more satisfactory to him if he received a fixed salary in lieu of them. His average income, after deducting the expenses inci dental to his office (which were NOP amounted to about 1,400/ a yeaa. He acted as parliamentary solicitor to the corporation, and had the superintendenc e of the corpo ration business in both Houses of Parliam ent. The cor poration regarded him as the responsible par t y for ever y - - thing which passed in either branch of the Leg islature in any way affecting the interests of the City. He had also to attend all the Courts of Aldermen and Courts of Common Council, and was likewise the medium of com munication between the corporation and the Crown. Last year the number of public and private bills in which the City was interested was fifty. That was a rather larger number than usual. It was his duty at an early period of each session to report to the Court of Common Council all the bills which were likely to affect the inte rests of the City. The subject of these bills were then re ferred to a committee of the corporation, and if any further step was taken in Parliament with regard to the bills, he (witness) had to communicate with the chair man, who would then call . the committee together to consider the matter. The Chairman—We have heard of an extraordinary expense incurred on the part of the City, in opposing the Government measure relating to the removal of Smithfield market. Had you any control over the management of that expenditure ? Mr. Tyrrell—The control, generally, was in my hands. I sat from time to time, and Mr. Scott knew what was done. A. great deal of it passed through my depart ment. The Chairman—l allude to that part which is called the irregular expenditure. Were you not the-party who had the management of that ? Mr. Tyrrell—l was in some degree, because no great outlay was incurred without a communication passing between me and Mr. Scott. The total amount of this expenditure was 2,7501. Mr. C, Lewis—Mr. Scott said that out of that sum professional gentlemen were employed. Did you employ any of them ? Me. Tyrrell—l think not. Mr. C. Lewis—By whom were they employed ? Mr. Tyrrell—l really at this time hardly know the names. It was represented to me that it was desirable to have the aid of some literary gentlemen, and I gave my sanction to the expenditure of 100/. in that. way. The Chairman—How was the remainder of the 2,750/. applied ? Mr. Tyrrell—The main part of it went to parties who got up petitions. I believe about `;2001,, or perhaps a larger sum, went in that way. . . The Chairman—Did you authorise and control that expenditure ? Mr. Tyrrell—l did, in a certain degree. Whenever any amount was paid, the bill was brisaght to me. - The Chairman—Probably you selected the agents you thought best able to carry youi views into effect ? - Mr. Tyrreil—l did not personally employ the agents, although I gave my sanction to their being employed. The Chairman—ls it an unusual occurrence to set aside a sum of money for the conduct of Parliamentary business, or is it the common practice, when any im portant question affecting the City is under discussioia Mr. Tyrrell—lt is a most uncommon occurrence, al thoggh on a few other occasions there have been smaller expended. ,____ . Mr. C. Lewis—What was the total cost of the Parlia mentary opposition to the removal of Smithfield market ? Mr. Tyrrell--There was the 2,7501. of which I have just been speaking, and then there was 3,109/., the amount paid by me for counsel, witnesses, and the other usual legal charges • and these two items make the en tire sum, which I Celieve is rather under the sum paid by the Government for the same purpose in promoting its Smithfield-market Removal Bill, Mr. C. Lewis—But the bill of the solicitor of the Go vernment was printed and published among the Parlia mentary papers at length. A return of the whole ex spense was moved for. Mr. Tyrrell—l was not, aware of that. The accounts of Parliamentary expenditure. are laid before the Court of Common Council in detail ; but they are not pub lished in detail. As soon as any Parliamentary effort is concluded, the account of the expenses is sent in, and is laid before the committee to whose department the business belongs, and when the committee is satisfied that the thing charged was ordered by them, the chair man signs the bill, and it is then laid before the Court of Common Council. It is next submitted to the law bills committee, which is composed of legal members 'of the court, and after the vouchers have been examined, the charges are either . allowed or abated, and afterwards paid. The account specifies every particular measure, 1 such as so much for opposing the Smithfield Market Removal Bill. The Chairman—Do you see any objection to laying these accounts before the corporation in detail? Mr. Tyrrell—None whatever. Mr. C. Lewis—When the City Police Bill was intro duced were you an officer of the corporation ? Mr. Tyrrell—l wes. Mr. C. Lewis-e-When Mr. - Rogers was examined by the commissioners as a witness, he stated the mode in which the corporation opposed the measure of the Government of Lard Melbourne as follows :—" They (the corpoiation) immediately fixed their town clerk in New Palace-yard. They gave him a large body of assistants, and instructed him to com municate with every, corporation in the United King dom. The consequence was that by the influence of those country corporations, the Minister found that his support fell like a "rope of sand." Is that a correct statement ? Mr. Tyrrell— It is rather an over-coloured description. The fact was a committee engaged an office at Palace yard, and I believe communications were made to other corporations, but what the nature of those comraunica-t: tions was lam unable to state. The whole expense of these proceedings was 3061. The Chairman—Were any literary gentlemen engaged on that occasion ? Mr. Tyrrell—None whatever. Mr. C. Lewis—l believe the corporation considers that it has the same right to its tolls and markets as it has to its lands or other property ? Mr. Tyrrell—lt does. Mr. C. Lewis---LAnd it would regard any attempt to take away its markets without compensation as confis cation and injustice ? . Mr. Tyrrell—Yes. Mr. C. Lewis—Would it apply the same doctrine to the Coils on earts ? Mr. Tyrrell—lt might make a voluntary surrender of the tolls cn carts. Mr. C. Lewis—But supposing the corporation did not They property,wre * rat consent to that, would not these tolls be a portion of its revenue which it would call its property ? Mr. Tyrrell—Certainly. Mr. C. Lewis—How would it be with the. tonnage s wo .A u l l r d . b rr e y t ts h r e eli c_ase Tl w lp h ar tl t i ye tpgta d oi nri 1 uveo Mr, L lS n e l erpl i l s eni rea r % nv?. make wouldbot 0 te T yyuh. yl,teadhr Tyrrell—Thatle erebtevael compensation o—fn be tplnpoa' entitled Tyrrell—That a lni itcast Lewis—Howal sma i ttisi differenteisordmoneaondttyu?focompensation.ooc rutiatago compensation decidedly iview eo particular e t u h hoer i e n sv g d repeal . i ftehoteahleyt tax , xwalenrde corpora tion M Mr. C, Lewis—ln the event of their repeal, who ought withdrawn. re pprehend. And the same who in deprives the City of its The Chairman—ls there no distinction to be drawn between the right given to a public corporation to levy a duty for public purposes, and a similar right given to any indiiidual for his private benefit ? Mr. Tyrrell—lt would depend a good deal on the terms of the grant. The Chairman--Is not every revenue of a public body like a corporation intended for public purposes, and not for private purposes ? Mr. Tyrrell—lt belongs to the corporation. The Chairman—Do you mean that it belong's to indi viduals, or to the community ? Mr. Tyrrell—l should say it belongs to the persons from whom the representative body is chosen- The Chairman—At the time the coal duty was given did not the City constitute the whole of the metropolis ? Mr. Tyrrell--It was given to the same body as now holds it, but there certainly was not the same popula tion outside the walls then as there is now. The Chairman—Do you consider that if the size of London had been the same as it is now in those days, the right of levying a duty on the whole of the inhabitants would have been given to so small a portion as is now contained within the walls? Mr. Tyrrell—That is a question which I can hardly . answer ; it depends so much on the particular circum stances of the case. . The Chairman—ls it not reasonable to conceive that the right of levying the duty was given because it was known at the time that the City was the whole, or nearly the whole, of the metropolis, and that it would scarcely have been given in perpetuity if it had been anticipated that London would become so much larger? Mr. Tyrrell—That is impossible to say. I dare say, no idea that the bu ildin g s outside the walls when the coal duty was first granted, there was, pro bably,would become so numerous ; but, so far as the application of the proceeds of the coal tax went they bad been ap plied for some time not onl y for the benefit of the City, generally. but of the metropoli s . The Chairfnan- -But I distinguish the 4d. duty from ,~,,~ ;7f. aris 62f. ;ern Of. ; I at pri re- had that nny gimo mgh M. his Go- B no Ivice late vely. I 9§ ~ a in x in 99i 9 '~~ r l4 ' -- t --- ~ . 4 w.'-:ate- -{+:~Zli~~,,