The Sun. — London, England, 1850-07-11 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMAIONS, July 10. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES BILL. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) On the motion for going into Committee on this Bill, Sir G. PECHELL did not dispute the propriety of giving additional powers to the inspectors of weights and measures, but he complained that while that was the object of the present Bill, several most useful Acts of Parliament woald be abolished by which most of the large towns in the kingdom were governed. He hoped the Government would arrest the progress of the Bill, because he believed it was a pieoe of legislation which was wholly uncalled for. So many important considerations were involved in the measure that even if the principle were approved of by the House, it would not be advisable to press it until the subject had been referred to a Committee of Inquiry. He'concluded by moving that the House should go into Committee on the Bill this day three months. _ _ _ Sir JOHN DC - CKWORTH said his object had been to make the Bill as perfect as possible, and for that purpose he had taken the advice and received the assistance of those who were most conversajat with the working of the present law. The working classes were the parties who would be benefited most by the measure, because they were more liable to the frauds practised upon the public by the use of deficient weights and measures. He trusted that the House would not accede to the amendment of the Hon. and Gallant Member. He would not wish to take upon himself the responsibility of altering the law on this subject unless he was supported by the opinion of the House. In de ference to the opinion of the Hon. Baronet (Sir George Pechell), he had struck out certain clauses in the Bill which were objectionable to him. Sir GEORGE GREY hoped the House would go into Committee on the Bill. He approved of the princi ple of the Bill, which was to assimilate the practice of examining weights and measures throughout the country, and to make that practice as uniform as possible, which was not the case under the existing law. Mr. PACKE approved of the principle of the Bill, and would ♦ote for the House going into Committee up)n it forthwith. Mr. BitOTHERTON hoped the House would post pone the Committee on the Bill. Mr. E. ELLICE, jun., said this Bill was little known in England, and still less in Scotland, and he thought the country should have an opportunity of being better acquainted wi4t its provisions. He recently presented a petition from the St. Andrew's district of Burghs, which he represented, praying that they might be ex empted from the operation of the Bill ; and should the House go into Committee on the Bill, it was his inten tion to propose a clause with the view of exempting the whole of Scotland from its operation. Mr. DUNCAN expressed his intention to support any motion for exempting Scotland from the Bill, and of voting at all events for the postponing of the Com mittee. Mr. COWAN hoped the House would postpone the Committee until the next session of Parliament, and that the Government in the recess would take into their consideration a Bill for providing a standard measure. After a few words from Sir DE LACY EvAzis and the ATTORNEY. GENERAL, Mr. HENLEY said he was by no means satisfied with this Bill as it stood, because it proposed to place very extended powers in hands far less responsible than at present. Mr. FREWEN hoped that the Hon. Baronet (Sir George Pechell) would not divide the House on his amendment. Sir GEORGE PECHELL consented to withdraw his amendment, and the House went into Committee on the Bill. Oa clause 1 being proposed, Sir'G. PECRELL renewed his opposition to the Bill. He objected to the details of the Bill, and he thought it wain direct opposition to all former enactments. After a few words from Sir G. GREY, Some conversation took place, in which Mr. Henley, Sir John Duckworth, the Attorney-General, Sir George Ptohell, and Mr. Brotherton took part. Colonel DUNNE asked if the Bill would extend to Ireland? Sir GEORGE GREY said it would. Colonel DUNNE had several amendments to propose then, but he should postpone them till the bringing up of the'report. Mr. E. ELLICE, jun., moved that Scotland should be exempt from the operation of the Bill. Sir GEORGE GREY thought the Bill ought to be confined to ET,gland only. Sir G. DUCK WORTH had no desire to force the Bill upon Scotland. Mr. HENLEY thought a Bill that was required for England was equally applicable to the other parts of the kingdom, and the statement that neither Ireland nor Scotland ought to be subjected to the operation of the Bill was a strong inducement for him to oppose the Bill altogether. Mr. SADLEIR called upon the Right Hon. Baronet who had charge of the Bill to give a distinct pledge that the Bill should not extend to Ireland. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said in the existing state of the law, and as the Bill now stood, it could not possibly apply to either Scotland or Ireland. Mr. E. ELLICE, jun., under those circumstances, would not press his amendment. Sir G. GREY now suggested that they should agree to the fir,t two clause', and then report progress, so as to give Government an opportunity of considering whether or no the Bill ought to extend to every part of the United Kingdom. Sir G. PECHELL understood that the original Act, 5 and 6 Will. IV., applied to every part of the kingdom, but now there appeared to be some doubt as to that. He should, theretore, move that the Chairman do at once report progress. Sir JOHN I)UCKWORTH was prepared to accept the proposal tf the Right Hon. Baronet the Home St crettry, but he must resist the motion of the Hon. and Gallant M.-mber for Brighton. He only proposed to take the fir-t two clauses, and to strike out all the others. Sir GEORGE PECHELL reluctantly consented to withdraw his amendment. Clause 1 was then agrees to with amendments. On (thus , ' 2 being proposed, Sir GEORGE PECHELL proposed the omission of certain words which compelled local authorities to transfer their standard weights and mea sures to the clerk of the peace, with the view of inserting certain other words, which would have the effect df continuing she weights and measures of the town of Brighton and other places in the same custody that they are at present. The Cominiftee then divided, when there appeared— For the amendment - Against it. 126 Majority —l22 The clause, with some slight amendments, was then agreed to. The House then resumed, and the report was or dered ro be brought up on Friday next. MARRIAGE BILL. Mr. STUART WORTLEY presented a large number of petitions from various parts of Scotland in favour of this Bill. :ilr.-COBDEN presented similar petitions from dif ferent parts of the metropolis. M ajor BE R ESFORD presented several petitions from 51 rural porishes in Essex against the Bill. Aldarrnan SIDNEY presented a petition from the City in. favour of the Bill. Colonel THOMPSON presented several petitions from various parts of the metropolis in favour of the Bill. Mr. FOX MAULE presented a petition from Glasgow against the Bill. Sir G. CLERK presented a petition from the Free Kirk against the Bill. On the motion that the Bill be read a third time, Mr. WALPOLE said he thought the Bill was revolt ing in principle, and could not fail to be fatal in its consequences. It had been viewed hitherto in two points of view; the first was a religious, and the second a social point of view; and he could not help expressing his regret that this Bill had not been first introduced in the House where the religious bearing of the question could be fairly disposed of. In the absence, however, of any decision from that branch of the Legisla ture, the House was bound to grapple with both points. Well, then, in his opinion there were greet religi-us objections which ought to preclude them from passing this Bill. I; was doubtful whether it would produce much good, while it was no less certain that it must encourage immorality, and the safest course for the House to adopt was to throw out this Bill altogether. The prohibitions which the Bill referred to were founded upon principles of morality and sanctioned by the Scriptures. True, holy writ only contemplated the male in commanding that a mac should not marry his brother's widow, but according to all ecclesiastical authorities the prohibition ap plied just as much to the female as the male. And it was natural that it should do so. He would not put it positively that these mar riages were prohibited by the Deity, but deal with it as a matter of duubt. Now, how were they to solve that doubt? Why, only by referring to the past. For 13 centuries, thee, these marriages had been prohibited by every Christian community. Look W the east, west, north, or south, and they found that this prohibi tion had never been departed from till the time of the infamous Pope and debaucheie Alexander the Sixth, who granted a dispensation to the King of Portugal to enable him to marry his deceased wife's sister. It was a cardinal rule to take that course which admitted of no doubt, and as it was more than doubtful toat these marriages were forbidden by the Creatur, the House ought to reject this Bill upon religious grounds. He came now to the social part of the question. It was said that this prohibition interfered with the exercise of civil liberty, but before they could enter upon that branch of the ctmtroversy, they must first decide what was—to what extent it should go, because it they were to pass this Bill upon the plea of liberty, why should it not for the same reason extend to other cases of prohibition?. Thelibeity, however, which could sanotion "'such a measure as this was vicious in the extreme, and he hoped no such argu ment 84,.. that would weigh with the House in disposing Otilhia measure. Another ground urged in favour of this Bill was, that it would give orphan fa milies better protection than they now enjoyed. Let t h e House pause before it was led away by such an ar gument as that; Jet it remember the mischief and vices that would be encouraged if the husband were taught to look with longing eyes and evil passions at his wises sister, or, on the other hand, if' the wile's sister were infi laud with the hope that she might one day become the wife of her sister's husband. As for conferring benefit upon the children, every body knew that the feeling of a step-mother for her husband's offspring was not always of the warmest or most af fectionate character, while the situation of an aunt gave birth to a choriteble and motherly solicitude f,r the welfare of a sister's orphan children. The Bill, in fact, west naught with danger, it could only benefit a selfish few. Pass it, and there would be no end to the in roads that would be attempted upon the established laws. At present the law was re spected ; it protected society f. Om frightful abominations, but deny the Divine rule that man and wife were one in blood, and who should say where the injury would stop? As they valued the social and reli gious institution of marriage—as they wished to see society uncontaminated with a frightful vice, he begged and implored the House, even at this stage to stop the further progress of this Bill, and in or der to give the House an opportunity of doing so, he should move that the Bill be read a third time this day six months. _ —.— Colonel THOMPSON deprecated dealing with this question upon theological grounds ; it only led to con tusion, and never gave satisfaction. He took issue with those who contended that these marriages were prohibited by the Levitical law, though he did not dis pute that until political laws were established they were not tolerated. The moment, however, that political laws obtained force, so far from such marriages as these being forbidden, a rich man was bound to wed his deceased brother's widow, while, in the time of the Great Author of Christianity, our Saviour did not dispute the legality of such marriages when he was asked if there was any hope of salvation for a woman who had married seven husbands. The fact was, in disposing of this question upon theological grounds, they were dealing with phantoms, for he could call to mind no passage in the Scriptures or in Montesquieu which declared that there was affinity of blood between a man and his wife's sister. It was there fore ridiculous to tell him that these marriages were incestuous. According to his judgment they would benefit rather than injure society, and be should cer tainly vote for the third reading of this Bill. Mr. M'NEILL would not enter into the religious con• troversy which had been raised by the previous speakers, he would simply confine himself to expounding the feel ings of Scotland upon this measure. They be lieved it to be opposed not only to civil but religious law, and if the House passed this Bill it would be tantamount to telling them that their construc tion of the Scriptures was false. But why should these marriages be forced upon the people of Scotland because some 1,500 violators of the present law in England re quired it to be passed? It was one of the arti cles of religious profession that these marriages were prohibited by Divine law, and in the face of that fact it would be an act of cruelty to force a Bill of this nature upon Scotland. He therefore pro • tested against the passing of the Bill, which ought to be resisted upon every ground of principle, morality, and expediency. Mr. STUART WORTLEY said the Bill bad already undergone such bug and deep discussions that it was hardly necessary for him to trespass at any length upon the attention of the House, but after what had fallen from Hon. Members to-day it would be culpable negligence on his part, if he altogether re mained silent. Now, if they refused to pass this Bill, how were they to deal wish the disastrous state of things which the existing law had produced? Up to 1835 the legality of these marriages had given rise to none of those abuses about which they had heard so much, and he really thought before the House suffered this Bill to be negatived in its last stage, they should require its opponents to suggest some other alternative for removing the evils of the existing law. His Hon. and Learned Friend the Member for Midburst admitted that the Divine law upon the subject of these marriages was doubtful. Well, if it were so, would it not be impious in Parliament to pronounce, through the medium of an Act, what were the intentions of the Deity? In this admitted state of doubt would it not rather be much better to leave the matter to the consciences of men, or bodies of men, or of churches? So much, then, for the religious portion of the subject. With regard to the social part of the question, he really could not understand how this change should lead to so much vice and evil, when he remembered that in America, where these marriag es were general, they produced no such results. Now he did not believe that the English women were less moral than those of America, and, therefore, so far from think ing that this Bill would be the precursor of profligacy and vice, he was convinced it would promote the happi ness and moral welfare of large masses of the community. He was then called upon to pay respect to the people of Scotland—he had ever done so, and if he thought the measure wad repugnant to their feelings, he would not persevere with it. But what was the fact? Wby the whole of the measure having been made known to that dis criminating people, petitions had loaded the table of the House from Edinburgh, Glasgow, and other parts of Scotland in favour of the measure. He was disposed to pay every attention to the wishes of the people of Scot land, and if the old law with reference to marriage in that country was still carried out, he should be content to exclude it from the provisions of this Bill. Mr. F. MAULE could not allow this Bill to pass its last stage without objecting to its provisions being ex tended to Scotland. He also objected to it as far as it related to England, because he believed its provisions would lead to the worst results, and would be a great encourag ement to bigamy. The Right Hon. Gentleman, in his opinion, might as well have brought in a Bill to repeal the laws with respect to bigamy, because old soldiers were in , he habit of marrying wives abroad, forgetting that they had been previously married at home. His countrymen, to a man, were against the measure, he coincided entirely with their feelings, and he there fore felt bound to vote against the third reading of the Bill. Mr. C. ANSTEY supported the third reading of the Bill. Mr. WESTHEAD supported the Bill. After some observations from Mr. MOORE, . . Strangers were then ordered to withdraw., and the House divided, when there appeared— For the amendment ... 134 Against it ... ... 144 M.ijority against the amendment —lO The amendment was consEvently lost, and the Bill wai then read a third time. On the question. that the Bill do pass, Mr. OSWALD moved the addition of a clause, to he effect that the Bill should not extend to Scotland. The House divided upon the introduction of the clause, when there appeared— ___ F.,r the clause ... 130 Against it ... ... 137 Majority against the clause ... —7 It being-past Six o'clock, the House adjourned without the question of the passing of the Bill being put. MASSACaES AT THE SANDAL WOOD ISLANDS. (From the Hobart Town Herald.) In the Herald of the 12th instant an account was given of the voyage of the Elizabeth schooner to New Caledonia, and the account brought by that vessel, led to the supposition that not only had the party at Mr. Fitzgerald's beche-la-mer fish ing establishment, at the north end of the island, been driven away or massacred, but that the French Mission establishment, at Yengin, or Beladeh, had shared the same fate. The Mary Anne schooner, which arrived yesterday, brought further accounts, which we regret to state are of a most melancholy character. The superintendent of Mr. Fitzgerald's establishment, Mr. David W. Miller, arrived by the Mary Anne, and by him we have learned the follow ing particulars : Feejee Island 4, 1849.—0 n the 10th July we sailed from C4ntate Harbour in the Mary cutter, for Blade Harbour, New Caledonia, in company with the schooner Minerva and the Sir John Franklin. We arrived there after a passage of 21 days. On the 12th September, the Mary returned to Balade to look for the Sir John Franklin, which vessel she ex pected to find had returned there from Sydney. On arriving there Capt. Roby, of the Mary, sent a boat with Robert Hall, an American, and a native of Rotumah to procure water. On getting up the river they were attacked by natives and killed. After this, two natives came on board the Mary, under pretence of selling fish ; the cook went down into the hold to bring up some yams to exchange for the fish, and the captain's attention having been drawn to 'the fi.h in the canoe belonging to the natives, they split his head with a tomahawk ; then they killed the cook as he was coming out of the hold. The only man now left alive on board the Mary, was a Rotumah man, whom the natives would not eat, because of a disease in his eyes which rendered him almost blind. They cooked the bodies of the captain and crew ashore, and ate them, after which they burnt the vessettothe water's e d ge . This is the statement of the Rotumah man, who managed to make his escape w w r h i n te o f w rom tak is e i from the cannibals to Yengin,n and who related the s f i a u ct p s er t s o on M , r a . u .N a li w ll h er o , esta blishment :—On the Bth Sept.,sr narrative}u'litztgheeraici ,s we ;lot having - heard of the loss of the Mary, Mr. Fitzgerald beehe sailed for Sydney, of John Blak e a-mer expedition American), nineteen I being left in charge of the —the party consisting nineteen Feejee men, one Rotumah Abra ham Silver (an East Indian). On the of September 20, the natives brought me some grass for " thatching, and appeared on very friendly terms. About noon, from 300 to 400 of them ass embled, and rushed upon us with spears and clubs. We took to our arms, w ith which we were enabled to keep them off till about 4 P.m., and two being killed and a num ber wounded, they retired, John Blake, the Ameri can, refusing to fight, and holding a correspondence with the natives. I took his gun from him and gave it to one of the Fejee men. The natives continued quiet until the 11th of October, when a large body of 800 or 900 natives assembled and commenced an attack on our settlement, which they maintained with great determination from eleven in the morning till sunset. One of the Feejee men was wounded with a spear, and I had several very narrow escapes. The natives had surrounded our hut, and were calling out to John Blake to set fire to it. Several of the natives being killed and a number wounded, we made a rush at them, and shot their principal chief, on which they all ran away. On the follow ing day, finding that our Feejee natives had lost heart, and were constantly crying, we thought it was best to prepare to leave, as we could not have stood another encounter with the natives, our ammunition being nearly ex pended, and on the 14th of October we took the boats and started for Yengin. Having yams and water we pulled up the coast, followed by about 200 natives, until we arrived at Balade. We then landed on a sand bank to recruit, where the natives attacked and obliged us to retake to the boats, one of which being very leaky we left behind, We then pulled to the south-east, the wind being contrary and blowing strong; during the night I missed one of the boats, and ran to the lee side of a small island where there were no natives. We were obliged to remain here for four days, it blowing and raining very hard. The weather having moderated, we pursued our course to Yengin, and during the pas sage picked up two natives from the missing boat the others having most likely been cast ashore and taken to the bush. _ _ _ On the 25th of October we arrived at Yengin, after being eleven days in the boats, and were kindly re ceived by the French missionaries, and remained with them until the arrival of the schooner Mary Anne, when the Bishop granted us a passage to Anatam, from which place Captain Padden was kind enough to give me a passage to Sydney. I do not think the natives would have attacked us had they not been encouraged to do so by the man Blake, who stole a boat and deserted from the schooner Vanguard a short time previously, and had been living with the natives since. COOK'S BAT, ERROMANGA.—Extract from the log of the Rover's Bride, dated 11th December, 1849 : Light breeze ; schooner Rosetta in company. At 7 A.M. lowered the boat, and sent the first and second mate to trade fir sandal wood at Mallaby and Bun kett, the vessel cruising between those places. At two P.M. Mr. Banner, first mate of the Rosetta, came on board, and stated that he had some suspicions that one of my boats was taken by the natives, be having been trading at Effoo, a place about two miles distant from Bunkett, and that about noon the natives of that place gave over trading, and informed him that the Bunkett tribe had taken a boat and killed the crew of five men. The Effoo natives then went in the direction of Bunkett, taking with them their tomahawks and other weapons. On which Mr. Banner returned to the Rosetta, and informed Captain Ed wards. In the meantime Mr. Dill, who had been trading at Bunkett, and had seen the Rover's Bride there trading with the natives on very friendly terms, went back to the Rosetta for more trade, and on his return to Bunkett found no natives but two, who brandished their spears, and said, "No wood to-day.' The Rover's Bride's boat was gone, and Mr. Dill having returned to the Rosetta, and in formed Captain Edwards of his trip, that gentleman immediately sent Mr. Banner to inform Captain 8411 of the Rover's Bride. Captain Bell immedi ately made a signal to his other boat at Mallaby to return to the ship, and on her arrival he dispatched her with two extra hands, in company with the Rosetta's boat, to ascertain the facts. On their return at 7 P.M. they made the following statement:—When the boats arrived at Bunkett the crews landed, leaving one man in charge of each. On examinig the beach they found it strewed with portions of hair and patches of blood ; they then proceeded up the river as far as possible in the boat, and, on landing, discovered one ton of sandal wood besmeared with blood, near which was the stump of a tree literally covered with blood, portions of flesh, hair, &c., and which from its appearance seemed to have served the purpose of a block for this human butchery. Near the stump was found a pistol belt and canvas pistol-bag; no natives were seen, and not a vestige of the boat save the anchor-buoy. Finding that nothing further could be ascertained they took the sandal-wood and returned to the vessel. Captain Bell then consulted with Captain Edwards, and it was deemed best for the Rover's Bride to proceed to Anatam, and the Rosetta to continue cruising about Cook's Bay for five days, in case anything further should transpire. On the Sunday prior to the mas sacre the ehief of the Bunkett tribe was on board the Rover's Bride, received some presents, and appeared on the most friendly terms. Bunkett is a small boat harbour and creek, on the south entrance of Cook's Bay, Erromanga. The following is a list of the names of the men killed :—Mr. Wm. Jordan, first mate, of Berwick-on-Tweed; John Allen, of Liver pool ; Frederick Gardener, of London ; John Bur rows, of Glasgow; and Edward Ward, of Bristol, seamen. THE SUN, LONDON, THE HEALTH OF LONDON. (From the Weekly Return of the Registrar-General.) In the week ending last Saturday, the deaths regis tered in the metropolitan districts were 794—a number which shows that the diminished rate of mortality con tinues, and which, taking the corresponding weeks of ten previous years is less than in the week of any year since 1842. The average of the ten weeks is 877, or, augmented in the ratio of in creased population, 957, compared with which the de crease of last week amounts to 163. The whole number of deaths recorded as caused by the zymotic or epi demic class of diseases is 159, whereas in the same week of last year they rose to 393, and the corrected average of ten corresponding weeks is 227. To take particular epidemics:—small-pox carried off 6 per sons, the half of whom were children ; measles was fatal in 17 cases; scarlatina in 20; hooping-cough in 23, all of these exhibiting a mortality of less than the usual amount. Typhus, of which 35 persons died, shows the ordinary amount of mortality; but it is much less fatal than in the same weeks of 1847-9. On the other hand, diarrhoea continues to increase, as is usual at this period of the year, but its progress is not remarkable; in the last four weeks the deaths from it, for the moat part amon; children, have been 17, 18, 33, and (last week) 40. The average is 27. A case of English cholera is thus recorded:— On the 4th of July, at 3, Pembroke-place, Upper Marsh, Lambeth, a boy of seven years, the son of an engineer, died of " English cholera (14 hours), dropsy (9 days), effusion into the pleura (12 hours)." Exclusive of consumption, the deaths from diseases of the respira tory organs were only 70, which is less than in any cor responding week of 1840-9, having ranged from 76 to 96. Friqn consumption there were 121, whereas they fluctuated in the ten corresponding weeks from 116 to 152. On the 3d of July, a greengrocer's assistant, aged 18 years, died in St. Ueorge's Hospital, to which he had been brought from Kensington, of "chorea (9 days), softening of spinal cord," post mortem. In the sub-district of Saffron-hill, a skin-dresser, aged 43, died from "diffuse inflamma tion of cellular membrane of chest and neck from the absorption of some animal poison (3 days)." A man and a woman died from intemperance. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED LW THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 6, IMO. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... •159 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 38 Tubercular Diseases ... 168 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 112 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 38 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ... 70 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... ... ... 57 Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. 8 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ... 10 Diseases of the Skin, &c. Malformations... ... ... 3 Premature Birth ... ... Atrophy - .•• ..• ... 25 Old Age ••• ..• ... 30 Sudden ... ••, ••• ••• ••• 7 ••• Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance ... 25 Causes not spcclfied 3 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES Population Deaths in cone- Enumerated, apondinz week 1841. of 1849. West Districts... 301,189 . . 130 North Districts.. 376,568 .. 196 „, 794 Deaths in the Week. 136 146 119 166 227 Central Districts 374,199 East Districts ... 393,067 South Districts.. 503,346 183 194 367 - Totals... ..... 1,948,369 ... 1,070 ... Males 794 ••• ••• ••• ••• 406 ... Females ... ... 388 come in for their usual purchases. The throwing trade is much as before; a little more inquiry for some de scriptions has arisen the last few dais. The dyers are better employed again. The raw silk market is charac terised by great firmness, and some considerable business was transacted during last we« k. HuDDERSFIELD, TIIESDAY.—The improvement we had the pleasure of reporting last week has been pretty steadily maintained during the week. The market has not been perhaps quite so lively to-day, although there were a good many buyers. The price of wool has been advancing. HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—There is no noticeable change in the aspect of our Piece Hall to-day, the chief in quiry being still, as before remarked, for low lastings. Those of a finer quality are scarcely looked at. The yarn trade is brisk; and the quotations have under gone a farther improvement. There is a large stock of wool in the market, as the dealers are buying largely; but the spinners are indisposed to give the advance which they are asking, and consequently not much is going into the hands of the eonsumers. LEEDS, TUESDAY.—Since our last report the market has been well attended, and the cloth trade in general still continues active. Stocks are very low in the makers' hands, the clothiers being very busy with orders for the merchants. There is a lair average business doing in the warehouses. BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males ... 640 Females ... ••• ... ... ... 607 Total ... *ln this number are included 20 by Scarlatina, 35 by Typhus Fever, 40 by Diarrhoea, and 1 by Cholera. qualities ;feilafcanhidr- STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) MANCHEsTER, TUESDAY.—The buyers of yarns have manifested an increased disposition for business to-day, and would evidently have operated very freely, could i they have done so at the prices of last week. The spinners, however, have again raised their quotations, and maintained them with the utmost firmness. We may state the realised advance, as compared with this day week, at id. per lb., in all qualities of mule and water, from No. 40's downwards, whether in the bundle, the warp, or the cop. For No. 60's and upwards, both single and double, higher prices are also re quired. Although this rise has curtailed the day's transactions, still their aggregate amount has been con siderable. The continu.-d upward tendency in this de p, it z r . t , ra thee n t g o r f o w o i ti n r ge omarketnv iconviction t i i o s n tha t attributable cotton to wi lwill several causes.range high for some time to come; the lightness of stocks both at home and abroad; and the augmented demand which the full employment of the vast weaving power of the th. district seitrh s terms.has printers, latterly Some. improvement of good and The is s hmoawkisfirgs itselfo f long i n cloths, T cloths, and oe c c i asioned. and u o p les r t d i s cs mfe a d r i e um still hardening in h v e a r: i for also in 9-Bths 60's 40-inch sales o 6 i s the h s i : prices and are bleach ing. qinugir.edF. or Thevarious articles are likewise. re extent, on the whole; but low 7-Bths still neglected, as are also light 40. 1: n r e in h tiy i cloths . are both, however, there is greater firmness. In r t t h ings—in the ware houses of the dealers there has been an acti • ve demand for printed and finished goods. ROCHDALE, MoNDAY.—We have had a good demand for flannels to-day, and the manufacturers are wanting rat her better prices. The wool market is better, and the 1 dealers are asking higher prices for English wools. Co lonial wool is much the same as it was on the previous Monday. MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—We have to report a quiet market fur goods generally, buyers and sellers hold ing back, the latter for prices somewhat in propor tion t) the present cost of raw material ; and as there seems every probability of things remaining very firm, we think ere long buyets will Dialfoe-up 111Lx aligclo to GAS-LIGHT AND CONE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price . Annum. Share. —_____ _________, 14. 8. d. A. e. d. B:itish ••••••• • • • • • • • 11 . 40 0 0 18 0 0 14 Ditto FrOVIIICiaI• •• • 11. tia. 20 0 0 0 0 20 0 0 18 51. 20 Brighton • • • • • • • • • ' •• City of London •• •• • • 61. 100 0 0 150 0 0 UentinentalConsolidat. 94a. 75 0 0 31 5 0 Equitable .•••-• • • • • • • 50 s. 50 0 0 50 0 0 28 Imperial Independent ... ••• • • • 61. 40 0 0 40 0 0 48 London ••.. . • —' 50 0 0 50 0 0 • • • • • • • • 50 0 0 50 0 0 Do., Parl. Preference 61. 25 0 0 210 0 4%1. 50 0 0 49 0 0 29 Ratcliff ...• •..•• • • • • 51. 100 0 0 90 0 0 75 United General ••• • • • 3L 50 0 0 47 11 . 50 0 0 60 0 0 154 Westminster Chartered Ditto, New •••• -• • • 128. 50 0 0 10 0 0 94 I'hcenix . • • .. • • • • • • • • CAN./il i a. .1 I Names of 1 I 4 .Dividend l Price. Names of t; Dividend Companies. A per ' 1 Companies.la per sc Annan. 100 21. 105. 50 4 Annuli. Price. in _ _ ---- -..- ________ kshtn &OM 1 93 71. 113 Macclesfield . 4- 161. 340 Barnsley.. • • ,160 121. 180 Neat .... • '4rlank&Abrgllso 51 85 Oxford.... • I° l Birmingham 40 41 8514 Peak Forest... 2 :2 8 Sittegffreeln&l"o.re 1 31 4 93 0 61: 2 4 8 c• 4 -8 0 1. C G o r v a e n n d t s r u y r . r • e • y • 78131. 18s. 70 100 , 201. 185 Ellsmre&Ch • ;ll33 565. ' 41 Somrset Co 1 Derby •• . ,1001 61. 63 Rochdale... • 2 - 5 - . Os. 5034 50 71. 4 1 1 0 . 5. 130 ;rand.runctnlloo 4/. 7934 Do.LkFdsl a t 11- , 1 1:0 2 2 1. 5 0 1. 5. ;rand Union 100 11. 10s. 24 Shrewsbury „ l ra ntham .. - _ " 145 201. 125 151. - i - Stourbridge ' 250 Kennt Avis' 39 75. 6d. 5 Seve ra an d ~ it Lancaster .1100 41 • 32 Wye Rail. t 26 21. Os. 24 r_•ec.is& Livrploo 241. 300 Warwlc.k& I 'Aicester .... 100 51. 66 lairming. I 100 41. 64 34 eicstr &Nth 83 41. 4854 Warwick&) Loughborogh 142 701. 510 Napton...S 100 31. 42 oionmouthsh l loo 81. -- Worcatr & 78 Nintg.mrysk 100 -- - Birming.J 3 l. 43 Aeltn.Mwbry 100 - - Wilts & Brka -14 s. 73; LIST Or SCOTTISH' COMPANIES' PRICES Dividend AmotusC --- Name of Company. per of Annum. Share. Paid. Price. ........ .........1 • .................. ............... £ ........... s. d. 1 ,4 i. d Bank of Scotland ...•• 71. per cont. 100 0 0 1100 0 0 British Linen Company 8 1 . per cent. 100 0 0 1 1 00 0 0 180 193 ;aledonlan Bank City of Glasgow Bank Clydesdale Bank •• •• •• 634 per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 134 Commercial Bank •• - 71. per cent. 500 0 0 1100 0 0 170 Eastern Bank .• •• -•• 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 9% Edlnb.&olasgow Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 51 . 5 ,, Exehangeßnk of Scot 4l. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 9 % Isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 _ National Bank g% per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 15 North of Scotland Bank 41• Per cent. 20 0 0 50 0 334 North British Bank - - - - Royalßank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 1334, Union Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 85"` Western Bank 7/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 70 Alliance Fire and Life 8341. pr cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 , 2034 B. Accord. Life and Fire - 20 0 8 010 0 - dritish Guarantee Ins. 47. per tent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 15j Od Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cont. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23 Colonial Life ... - 50 0 0 1 0 0 11. 33. City of Glasgow Life 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. 101 Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 20 East of Scotland Life - 10 0 0 015 0 , .... Eng. & Scot, Law Life , 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 , 234 aercules Insurance Ce.l 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 I - Incur. Co. of Scetlnd 5l. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 I - Life kssoc. of Scetland I 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 11. 18s Stercantile Life National Fire and Life 1 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 223.6 d North British Insur 6pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 2534 North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 - Scottish Life and Guar. --20 0 0 011 0 - Scot. Mas. and Oen. Life - 0 0 01 5 0 1 - r cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 :239.0d Scottish Union Inarace. 61;i1. p standard Life •• -.. • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 4 5 0 , 9% United Dep. Assurance 1 Si. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 jlss 96 MISCELLANE OUS. Dividend Amount Name of Company, per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. - ------, --___ £. s. d. £. s. d. knetion Mart •••••• •• 27. ss. 50 0 0 - 25 lustrallan Agriculturl 1/. 100 00 1 30 0 0 is 0 0 - t nglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 103 . 10 0 0 10 Ditto, Half Shares.. - - 2 10 0 Canada ... ••••.. • • .. 61. per cen t. 100 0 0 32 10 0 32 - Uppr Canada Bonds 51. per.cent. Pity Navigation .... - - 91 c.kbe,2/ 100 0 Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. - 89 0 0 0 100 94 Equitable Reversioary 5/. pr cent. 100 0 100 0 0 106 (lea. Steam Navigation 11.83. 15 0 0 14 0 0 26 - London Instltution ... _ 78 15 0 - 26 5 0 - Russell Institution.... - - I Peninslr& Orient.Stra, 8/. per cent. 50 0 0, 50 0 0 7934 Reversionary Int. Soc. 4 1 41. pr cent. 100 0 0 1 100 0 0 90 Royal Mail Steam.. .• 61 18 . 4 • p • c. 100 0 0 160 0 0 I 58 % 0 25 0 0 South Australian ll. per share. 25 0 29 I 19 Van Dieman's Land., 10(1 0 0 0 0 l% - _ CITY OF GLASGOW BANKING COMPAPIY.--alliS banking establishment held their annual meeting on Thurs day. The report entered fully into the transactions of the company for the last year, an d declared the usua l dividend of six per cent. The est now amounts to upwards of 120,0001. 20th inst., is now fi xe d for the DINNER TO L ORD P A LMERSTON.—Saturifiy, the Club, ia honour of mu Pallamt92' grand dinner at the Rayne THE NEW MAIL SERVICE TO THE WEST INDIES. SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 6.—Oa the 6th of May we announced that the Lords of the Admiralty had con cluded an arrangement for the re-organization of the contract mail service between England and the West Indies and Central America. We have on previous occasions fully explained and developed the necessities for a speedy alteration in the routes of the royal mail steamers—a change impera tive both in the interests of British commerce and for enabling the English steamers to meet their American rivals in the steam carrying trade of the Great West on more equal terms. Having been favoured with an official table of the routes now to be pursued, we subjoin for the infor mation of a numerous class of our readers interested in this question, an exact statement of the arrange ments which have been ordered to be at once put in force by the Lords of the Admiralty. It is definitively fixed that the new arrangements (so far as concerns the routes) shall come into opera non on the 2 , 1 of August. The steamer leaving Southampton on that day will, therefore, proceed di rect to St. Thomas and the Isthmus of Panama, in .te.d of taking the course to Bermuda and the Gulf of Mexico, as heretofore. We must, however, premise that the arrangements for traversing these revised routes must merely be considered as preliminary to the more rapid system of steam communication which will he consummated when the new and powerful steam-ships about to be constructed have been placed upon the main line be tween Southampton and Chagres. The immediate change of routes thus comtemplated, and which are to be performed by the existing steamers, it will be 'seen, will have the effect of greatly improving the communications to and from the many important parts of the world comprised in this scheme ; but it will not be till steamers of much greater power and speed have been completed, and nave actually performed the through voyages, that . the great and ultimate acceleration of communication ean be experienced. Some little modifications in the originally pro posed scheme and of minor points of detail, with re ference to stopping places, have been sanctioned by ;heir Lordships. In affording accommodation, we believe, the utmost attention has been paid to the in terests of the various colonies and ports, according to their position and relative political and mercantile importance. From the 2d of August next there will be a semi monthly communication opened with the isthmus of Panama and Spanish Main, instead of monthly is heretofore, and the packets will leave on the 2d and 17th of every month for Chagres, `eking their course to St. Thomas, Santa, Martha, Carthagena, Chagres, and Greytown (Mos quito). Homeward the route will be precisely the same, excepting that the call at Santa Martha will be omitted. The time to be occupied on the voyage to Chagres is fixed at 23 days and 23 hours, including all stoppages. Homeward a similar period will be occupied. The time allowed at Chagres for preparing return mails, transferring and receiving _largo, inclusive of the time necessary for the packet's trip to Grey Town, will be 14 days 8 hours, making he course of post between Southampton and Chagres 621 days. The voyages to Chagres have hitherto ex tended over a space of 35 to 37 days, and the course if post has been about 80 days, so that at least 10 or 12 days will be the saving in time both on the out Ind home trip, and the course of post will in conse quence be diminished about 20 days. The tables of routes are calculated upon a sup position of an average speed of nine knots for he main line steamers, and a nearly equal rate Jf steaming for the branch and intercolonial ackets. The stoppages are to be curtailed where practicable, in the event of a necessity arising by season of decreased speed on the voyages, bad weather, or other causes. It remains to be seen whether all the vessels of the Royal Mail Company will be enabled to maintain the proposed average peed required to enable tbem to fulfil the work set Town. The mails for the Gulf of Mexico are to be dis• Jatched on the 2d of every month from Southampton, mud, after arrival at St. Thomas, will be conveyed, rid Jamaica, by a branch steamer, calling at San Juan t['orto Rico), Kingston (Jamaica), Vera Cruz, and Tampico. The same route returning. The time ,ut to Vera Cruz will be 26 days 16 hours ' • home, 26 lays 18 hours ; time f o r p re p ar i ng replies, eight ley s 20 hours—making the course of post 621 days. In case of late arrivals outwards, or detention at Tampico, the stoppage at Vera Cruz is to be cur ailed, so that the ship may leave precisely at the mppointed time. A saving over the old plan of the Mexican mail service is here exhibited of at least ten lays both out and home ; and the course of post is liminished about 18 or 20 days. On the 17th of each month the mails for flavannah will be dispatched, and are to be conveyed From St. Thomas' by a packet calling at Porto Rico, Jacmel (Hayti), Jamaica, Havannah, nd Honduras. Homeward by the same route. fhe voyage out to Havannah will occupy 24 days 22 lours ; hame 25 days 16 hours ; and, with 11 days Mowed for the return correspondence, during which he packet will proceed to and return from Hon lures, the course of post will be 621 days. In the Llavannah route no great saving appears at present to be effected over the old plan. Mails made up on the 2(1 and 17th of each month for Jamaica will he delivered at that colony respec -ively in 201 days. This is a considerable improve • merit on the old scheme, which never used to supply Jamaica with its correspondence under 28 to 30 days. The mails for St. Thomas, Tortola, St. Kitt's, Montserrat, Nevis, Antigua, Guadalope, Dominique, tlartinique, St. Lucia, Barbadoes, Demerara, Berbice, French and Dutch Guiana, St. Vincent, Grenada, Curagoa, Trinidad, and Tobago, will be made up and dispatched on the 2d and 17th of every month, and their conveyance from St. Thomas' will oe accomplished by intercolonial packets especially appointed for that service. The time occupied in reaching Demerara (the extreme point of the route) All be 21 days 21 hours, homeward in 22k days, a Little over three days being allowed for replies, thus making the course of post 471 days. Trinidad will be 'cached in 21 days 17 hours, while the homeward trip will occupy 221 days, three days being allowed for replies, thus making the course of post also 471 lays. The saving to the whole of these colonies will be about a week each way, as well as shortening he communication with Europe a whole packet. The otermediate colonies between St. Thomas and Guiana will, of course, receive and transmit their nails in proportionately quicker time according :o their respective geographical positions, and will have a greater period allowed for their return :orrespondence, while the course of post will remain the same ; thus Barbadoea will be reached in 20 days, St. Kitt's in 171, Antigua in 181, and so on. For Nassau (Bahamas) a mail is to be made up on :he 17th of each month ; the time occupied via St. ['homes being 24 days, and the course of post 621 lays. It will be observed by the foregoing that to Vera Cruz, Tampico, Havannah, Honduras, Hayti, and Nassau there will be only one mail each month, while o the whole of the remaining ports, including Chigres, Grey Town, Carthagena, and Santa Martha, formerly touched but once a month, a semi-monthly mail will be maintained. The homeward steamers will be due at Southamp -on at midnight on the 4th and 19th of every month. The packets arriving on the 4th and 19th will bring mails from Chagres, Grey Town, Carthagena, Santa Martha, Jamaica, Porto Rico, Demerara, and all the Windward and Leeward Nand?, while the mails from Vera Cruz and Tampico will only be received by the packets of the 4th ; and the mails from Hayti, Honduras, Nassau, and Havannah, will reach Eng land by the packets of the 19th only. It is provided that in the event of either of the sup plementary or intercolonial steamers bringing mails from the Gulf of Mexico, Havannah, Demerara, &c., not reaching St. Thomas at the estimated time, the homeward Atlantic steamer is to await the arrival of the missing vessel seven clear days, if necessary, after the hour appointed for her departure for Southampton. By the tables of routes it would appear that Mobile, Bermuda, St. Jago de Cuba, La Guayrd, Puerto Cabello, Madeira and Fayal, seven ports hitherto touched by the royal mail steamers, have been excluded as places of call under the new ar rangements. There can be no doubt that the advantages thus contemplated of a quickened communication to and from the West India and Spanish American ports will prove of vast benefit to the mercan tile community, not only of this country, but of Europe generally. At the expiration of a year, however, a further improvement will be effected, by means of which the voyages to St. Thomas, now to occupy 16 days 18 hours, will be performed in 12 days, and the Isthmus of Panama will be brought within 18 days of Southampton, in stead of 24 under the contemplated, and 35 days under the old arrangements. Jamaica will then be reached in 16 or 17 days, Vera Cruz in 20 days, and all the ports embraced in the scheme will proportion ately be brought nearer to Europe. The Pacific mails for the ports of New Grenada, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Chili, are, we believe, to be made up in London and dispatched by the steamer of the 17th of each month. The Valparaiso mails will be landed at that port in about fifty-eight days, instead of sixty-six days, as at present, and the mails from the Pacific will be due at Southampton by the packet of the 19th of each month. From seven to eight days are at present al lowed for crossing the Isthmus, but eventually a much shorter time will suffice when the Panama Railway has been got into operation, and ultimately, when the larger Atlantic steamers are placed on the station, the voyage from Southampton to Valparai so will b e re. THURSDAY _EVENING-, JULY 11, 1850. PRICES OF SHARES N BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM COMPANIES' STOCK. From the O f ficial List PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENDTG. LONDON. TUESDAY, JULY 9. ZOTIFT..STOCZ JULNICS. Name of Company. Australasia ........ Britah N orth ♦merican Ceylon • . • ; ...• • • • • • • Commercial of London Colonial.. • ... • •• • • Gloucestershire • • • • • • Loadn and Westrainstr London Joint-Stock . • • Provincial of Ireland • • Ditto, New..... • • • • National of Ireland . • Nat. Provnclal of Eng. Ditto, New. ....... South Australia • . • • • • Union of Australia .... Ditto ..•........... Union of L0nd0n..... Union of Madrid ..... Dividend per Annum. 245. 51. per cent. 71. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 151 per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 81. per cent. Si. per cent. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 6/, per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. INSURANCE 0 Name of Company. Dividend per Ainum. Albion • • • • •• • • • • .... Alliance Brit. •nd Per. Ditto Marine.• • Atlas . • . • • • • • • British Commercial .. Clerici,Med.&Gen.Life County .• • • • . • • • • • • •• Crown •• •• Eagle • • • • • • European Life ••• • •• General •••• • • • • .... Guardian Imperial Fire • • • • •• .• Imperial Life • • ...... Indemnity Marine.... Law - Fire • • •• •• •• •• •• Law Life • • Legal and General Life Licensed Victuallers.. London Fire ........ London Ship Marine . • • • Med. I nvild & Gen. Life national Lean Fund.. national Life.... Palladium Life Pticenix ..... Professional Life Protector Life— • • Provident Life Lock Life • ..... [loyal Exchange ...... iun Fire.. Ditto Life United Kingdom .... Up_iversal Life........ Victoria Life.... Name of Coirtpaay. East and West Ind's... East Country London •• • • • Ditto Bonds . • • • • • • • 3t. K &Marine .. • . .. .. Ditto, 5crip....... . . _ Ditto 80nd5...... •. Southampton •• ...... Name of Company. Charing-cr055........ Sonthwrk ...... •• .. Ditto Nw ot 7% p.c. Waterloo • • • • • • • .• •• Ditt i Old Ann. of 81. Ditto Nw ditto of 71. Vauxhall . .. .•• Ay. 31. 101. 711486d&bs 61. per cent. 135.6 d. 70. 6d. 5 pr ct.& 31. 14s. 1434 per cent 61. per cent. 51. 121. per ccnt, 12s. 11. sh. & be. It. 163. 109. 10s. 12s.per share 4%1. per ct. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. Si. per cent. 31. p. eh. & bs. 51. per cent. 54. per cent. 11. ss. dabs. ss. 61. per ceat. 61. 10s. 11. 6s. 41. per cent. pr cnt. 51. per cut. Arnow' t of Share. A s . d. 40 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 5000 40 0 0 duced to under forty-eight days. We regret very , much to observe, that to correspond with the bi monthly mail to be. de'ivereci at and brought from the Isihmus of Panama, no arrangements have yet been made for en additional communication with the South Pacific ports, for which only a monthly mail is to be made up. Unless a more frequent communication he speedily opened by the British steamers between Valparaiso and Panama a line of American packets will be established, which will absorb a large amount of the traffic and mail service. As many representa tions on this subject have been made by the mer chants connected with the trade of the west coast of South America, we trust that no very long time 'will elapse ere a fortnightly mail to and from the Chilian and Peruvian ports will be provided. A semi-monthly communication with California will now be opened, and mails, passengers, and mer chandise can henceforth be transmitted by the West India steamers on the 2d and 17th of every month. For San Francisco letters can be sent in about 55 days via Panama, and a like period will be occupied on the return voyage,. Pass'ngers for California will have the option of proceeding by either the Panama or Nicaragua route, as the packets will regularly ply to Chagres as well as to Grey Town, the ci-devant San Juan Nicaragua. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. NEW COURT. (Before the COMMON-SERGEANT.) Henry Page, 36, bricklayer, was indicted for felo niously intermarrying with Emma Clarke, otherwise Smith, his wife being then and now alive. Mr. Charnock defended. Mrs. Martha Page, the prisoner's mother, proved his first marriage on the 6th of April, 1834. at St. John's the Evangelis.., Waterloo-road, to one Ellen Regan, by whom he had two children. He lived with her until about two years ago, when, in consequence oilier dread fully dissolute habits, he was compelled to be sepa rated from her, and made her an allowance of 6s. per week. Evidence was then given to prove that on the 10th cf February, 1848, some one of the name of Henry Dick son was married at All Saints, Poplar, to one Emma► Smith, but it could not be proved that the pri§oner was the man or that Emma Clarke, who was then in the dock behind the prisoner awaiting her trial for having committed bigamy with him, was the woman referred to in the register. The woman Clarke was then brought out of the dock into the witness-box, and having been sworn, and cau tioned not to say anything to criminate herself unless she pleased, said that she knew the prisoner from his coming to her husband's house, and that her husband always enc mraged their acquaintance. The COMMON-SERGEANT—Did anything ever occur between you and the prisoner at church? You need not answer unless you like. Witness—No ; nothing ever did. The COMMON-SERGEANT said there was an end of the case; there was no evidence to prove the prisoner waa the man married at Poplar Church. An acquittal was then taken. Emma Clarke, 30, married, was then indicted for bigamy with Henry Page, alias Dickson, her husband being then alive. It was then proved that she was married in February, 1842, to her husband Clarke, who is now alive, but the same difficulty arose in proving her to be the party mar ried at All Saints, Poplar. The police-officer said he saw the prisoner at her hus band's house on the 17th of June. She was recovering from an illness. She told him that she was married in 1848, at All Saints, Poplar, to the prisoner Page, she in the name of Smith and he Dickson; that the only per sons present were the clerk and the pew-opener as wit nesses to the marriage. Mr. CHARNOCK having briefly addressed the jury, dwelt on the fact that the only evidence against her was the statement made by her when on a bed of sickness and which she now denied on oath. The COMMON-SERGEANT having summed up, The jury acquitted her. THIRD COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner GURNEY.) James Cole, 24, polisher, was indicted for stealing a watch, valued at 221., from the person of William Perry. Mr. Parry defended. The prosecutor, who is well known to the sporting world as the Tipton Slasher, the pugilist, said that about half-past four o'clock on Monday morning he was at the bar of the Red Lion, in the Strand, drinking, and several more besides the prisoner were near him. Some one began to spar at him, when a female pressed herself against him, and almost immediately feeling his watch snatched from his pocket, as he thought by the prisoner, he seized him, aed immediately his watch and chain fell to the ground at his feet. Mr. GURNEY said it was not sufficiently clear that the prisoner's was the hand that took it, and directed an acquittal. Henry Wright, 20, barman, and Caroline Davis, were indicted for stealing several sums of money from John Plowman, the master of Wright. Mr. Robinson prosecuted. It appeared that the prosecutor keeps the Three 'Compasses in the Wandsworth-road, and the male pri ioner had been a short time in his employment as a barman, during which period great deficiencies had been found in his takings. Having set the police on the watch they found out that the woman, who either was his wife or lived with him, was in the habit of coming and putting down a small coin in payment fur something, and received from the prisoner more change than she was entitled to; and in the present instance they took her at the bar of the house, having received 2s. lid. in change for le. The jury, thinking the woman had acted under the guidance of the male prisoner, acquitted her, and he WAS found Guilty, and sentenced to twelve months' im prisonment. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Yesterday the young man who described himself on a former examination as a determined Chartist, was again placed at the bar before Mr. Alderman Sa!onions, for further examination on the charge of sedition. Mr. Maule, the solicitor for the Home office, attended on the part of the Government for the prosecution, and stated that he appeared by the direction of the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to request the Al derman to deal with the case summarily, by binding the prisoner over to keep the peace towards her Majesty and all her subjects. After a recapktulation of the facts already published, The ALDERMAN said, it is my intention to bind you over to keep the peace for twelve months, and to order you to find bail fur your good behaviour during that time in two sureties of 1001. each, or one of 2001., and to enter into your own recognisances of 2001., mo►e to the same effect. Prisoner—l'll consider about giving bail. He was then removed from the dock evidently much disappointed at not being sent fur trial. The court was very much crowded, and the result appeared to give general satisfaction to those present during the examination. SOUTHWAI?K. A young man of respectable appearance, who refused to give his name or address, nas brought before Mr. A'Beckett for re-examination, upon the charge of ut tering a forged cheque for the payment of 2501, with intent to defraud theoSouthwark branch of the London and Westminster Bank, Wellington-street, London bridge. The evidence taken upon the former miming tion which has already appeared, having been read over, Mr. Mullens, of the firm o f B us h an d Mullens, for ' the prosecution, addressed the magistrate, and informed hint that since Monday, the day on which the prisoner was taken into custody, it has been ascertained that his name is William Thoms, and that he was formerly a clerk in the employ of Messrs Gooch and Cousins, woolstaplers, of London-wall, in the City. It was also found that he lived with a family who resided at No. 5, Red Lion-street, Whitechapel, at which house were discovered several documents of im portance in elucidation of the present charge, as well as of a forgery to the amount of 72/., which he had committed on the firm in whose employ he had been in London-wall. This latter circumstance he (Mr. Mul lens) mentioned with a view to show that the prisoner must have been well aware of the consequences of the act he had so recently committed, that of uttering the forged cheque for 250/. on the London and Westminster Bank, purporting to be in the handwriting of Mr. Davis, the woolstapler, of Bermondsey, who kept an account with that establishment. He (Mr. Mullens), however, should not on the present occasion enter into the evi dence of the case of forgery alluded to, but should at a future period be enabled to establish that charge, as well as that of uttering the forged cheque on the day in question. Mr. A'BECKETT, addressing the prisoner, who seemed much distressed at the situation in which he was placed, asked him if he had now any objection to disclose his name after having heard the statement just made by Mr. Mullens? The prisoner merely shook his head, but made no reply. T. J. Snook was then called into the witness-box and examined—He stated that he is a clerk in the employ of Messrs. Gooch and Cousins, woolstaplers, London wall; that he knew the prisoner, who was also a clerk in the same firm, but left his situation about twelve months ago. A paper was here shown to the witness, found at the prisoner's residence; it was a written cer iffiest() of his character given to him by Messrs. Gooch and Co. at the period he quitted their employ, and the handwriting was proved by the witness. Michael Haydon, of the City police, stated that on the preceding day he went to the prisoner's residence, 5, White Lion-street, Whitecitapel, and on instituting a search of the apartments he occupied he found the do cument and papers produced, consisting of a cheque bock and also a pass-book belonging to Messrs. Gooch and Co., together with a cheque for 1,0001. rhere were also some papers on ct - hich an imitation of the handwriting of Mr. Davis appeared; and the witness also discovered the forged cheque for 250/., which the prisoner presented for payment at the Lond,,n and Westminster Bank on Saturday last, but which was rejected by one of the clerks, who made a memorandum of the cause of his re fusal on the face of it. The prisoner, it will be recol lected, called again at the bank on Monday and produced the letter, inclosing another cheque . for 250/., whi c h having excited the suspicion of Mr. K ingsford, the mana ger, led to the prisoner's apprehens ion. Mr. ATECKETT asked the prisoner if he wished to put any question to either of the witnesses, or to make any statrtaent in reference to the charge, giving him at the same time the usual caution. The prisoner, however, still maintained the same silence he had exhibited on his first being taken into custody, and only shook his head. So was committed for trial to the Central Criminal B. d. 40 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 13 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 22 10 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 2 10 0 10 0 0 40 0 0 IMPANIES. Amount of Share. A a. d. 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 SO 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 1 Stock. 100 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 1100 0 0 1 50 0 0 5 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 6 5 0 100 0 0 S 0 0 Stook. 20 0 0' 100 0 01 DOCILE.• Dividend per Annum. Amount of Share. CI. pr cent. 20e. per sk. SI. pr cent. U. per cent. 4 per cent. 4%1. pr cent. 1 21. percent. nizzna: Dividend per Annum. ,355. per cent. 11. 45. Od. 11. 15. Od. lITATZE- Dividend Name of Company. per Annum. East London..• • • • .• • • 81. 'lrand Junction •. •... 41. per cnt. 31. 10a. Lambeth .. .. • • .. .._ .. ( M. per cnt, New Itivr Lndu Brdge 21. 10s. Vauxhall •• •• •• 51. per cnt. West Middlesex • . . 61.05. pr cut. X a. d. Stock. 100 o 0 Stock. Stock. 30 0 0 Amount of Share. Z. s. d. 100 0 0 1 50 0 0 100 0 0 70 10 3 ORIEB, Amount of Share. £ e. d. 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 Paid. S B. d. 50 0 0 11 0 0 5 0 0 5 6 8 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 ♦ii paid. 5 0 0 36 10 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 2 10 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 0 15 0 0 2 0 0 2 10 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 0 10 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 4 0 0 10 0 0 4 12 6 X s. d. SS 0 0 50 0 0 A. a. d. 60 0 0 40 0 0 Paid. Price. 4 s. d. Court, and appeared so weak that he was obliged to be supported from the bar to the cells at the rear of the eourt. NAVAL INi TELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 10.—The Vengeance, 84, C . P . Sir Henry Blackwood, was paid off alongside. 00 docky at d ti}-day. 'The Niger steam-sloop (screw-propelled) is ordered to be c‘iminissioned at this port by Commander Halt!': The Fairy royal y ac ht, M aster -C omman d e r Welch , will go out of harbour to-morrow to try her engines prior to teitig report° !early fa. the reception of her Div jesty. The Elfin Kent out to-day for a similar purpose• %V ohs' pats nt screamer fog signal and ventilator yrot . : tried in the '° present use " storehou se in the dockya rd ta•day by Mr. Fincham, Master-Shipwright, and Mr' Murray, the Superintend en t-Engineer, and found to answer all the purpos es o f an alarm in positions % danger *float. The contrivance is as simple as can i ve b! imagined, and seems to possess far greater power thigl the railwaysteam- Oue of them is ordered by the Lords of the Admiralty to be fitted to the stesul" vessel Flamer, about to be commi ss i one d a t t hi s port. , The Maidstone Indianian sailed to•day, calling at tile Cape of Good 11,,pe, APPOINTMENTS. WOOLWICH, JULY 10 — Com mander Leopold G. Heath (1847), to curnmand the Niger. 8, steam -sloop 0 , 1 4oil-hore power, commihsiotled thi. day at Portonouto for service ito C , aSt of Africa. Lit.utenaut Frederick J. Piotheroe (1849), to the Niger. Master George H. Forster (184 s), to the Niger. _ ll Paymaster and Purser W atson W. P arm i n t e r ( 11 " to the Niger. Clerk Alexander Jeffery (1845), to the Niger. M,ster's-Assistant T. G. Chown, to the Niger. Gunner J. Attwood, to the Niger. Boatswain John Patterson, to the Niger. Carpenter Jami-s D.vidson, to the Niger. EXAMINATION FOR THE MERCHANT SERVICE. A list of the Masters and Mates in the Merchant id- gA b r: vice who have voluntarily p asse d an exam i na tion Wad° I taint d certificate s o f qua l i fi cat i on f or the class' Wit% each assigned, under the rt - gu l at i on i ssue d by the 33°` of Trade since the 31st of May last:— MASTERS. FIRST CLASS CERTIFICATES.—Geor ge Willi s , g w rs-- tr Meehan, John Guthrie, Philip Clendon, John Win :, chester, Charles Thom as Searle, James Keay, Johnson Walinsley, Geor ge Ci ssoc k, J ame s St 6l3- i Brass, John Kennedy Freyer, James Meikle, Nathawe, Stewart, William Cl oug h, Ri c h ar d P a i ge , Cher Steward, Henry Holblack, jun., Alexander Witt John S. Byrne, Andre w Ni co ll, J ames N as h Marsh , ' SECOND CLASS.—John Arthur Brett, John Agree Wade (cpaliti,d for steam only), Edward Christial: William Henry Moore, William Clough, William ONe l . Henry John Wo o lcott, D av id N a pi er , G eor ge St al V Frederick John Wil s on, Ed war d Bl ac k m ore, Geo rg Faldo, Robert Clous t o w , J o h n B o h nn M ar tin Wilhp Bacon Ransom, Alexander M'Neil Boyd, James 30 13 , 111 t John Brown, Peter Crelli e , J o h n Sh ow , George 4" :3° „ 7 Bradshaw, Willi a m T a yl or , Willi am F re d r ic Rag e Peter Campbell, G e or ge Bilt on L ee , J o h n Sh a nd, B 0 Briggs. THIRD CLASS.—Edward Stamp, Josiah Penning burd, Edmund Winstanley, George Saxon, Th om -- Emmett. Sd The certificate grant e d t o Ri c h ar d C orne y on the 2 of April, by the Liverpool Board, has been withdralvm MATES. FIRST CLASS CERTICATES.—AIexander Wallace Olr ac- - teath, James Hill. C o bb) , SECOND CLASS.—TbOmas Hyb e rt. Thomas gp d Good, David Grant, Ri c h ar d Tho mas Ed war d s (qua llu „,k ror steam only), W a lt er B evan C ooper , F re d e rick Cr e d Thorndick, John Marshall Girlies David Weir, Final, Samuel Bish o p Sh ear d, William Kirton 61 Z. Welehmaq King, J o hn R o b er t S now , W i lliam P Law s " Harry Cheesman. THIRD CLASS. --William Henry Kemp, James Ge ° '"' Lee Steere, William Howe. DEWIE LE MARCUANT• Board of Trait), Whitehall, July 6, 1850. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. nj LIVERPOOL, JULY 9.—There was a good attendance, lik, the weather being broken, coupled with the advance in ga r , lane yesterday, has occasioned rather an animated trade bni to-day. Wheat is 3d to 4d per 70lbs, and flour Is Per S .. se r. dearer. Spring cern no change. India n c o rn the turn de ate Oats the demand moderate. thii LEEDS, JULY 9.—We had a good arrival of whea t 0 0. week ; the trade is more bu o y an t th an o f l a t e , a nd prices cops' tinue to creep up. An advance of Is to 2s per quarter is " tb i l blished on Friday's rates, and fully 2s from the rates of, s o day week. Barley as before ; oats and shellings steady Iy e without variation. ket NEWCASTLE CORN' MARKET, JULY 9.—At Our .. — or . 0 1 this morning we experienced a ready sale for all descriptitn:oo English and foreign wheat, at an advance of from the rates of Saturday last. Flour met a good sale at l' 1 ";0 sack more money. In all kinds of spring corn there soi l variation to quote. oil , NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, JULY 9.--At to' t o market we have to note a decline of nearly 300 head of 0 ,00 as compared with the number on show last Tuesday. wa s quality was middling, and an advance of 6d per stone , be realised; but trade was dull, and part remained unsold. . 1 0 , sheep and lamb trade was more active, at rather better Pr le j; Beasts, 380; sheep and lambs, 6,700. Beef, 5s to 6 1 mutton, 4d to Sid; lamb, 5d to 6d per lb. vi re i° I s to ..5 . . 1 EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, JULY 9.—There „ e j , n ibs• the meal market to-day 17 sacks oatmeal, each weighing '‘ A "'" t od imperial, which sold thus :-1 at 11 lOs Od, 3 at 119 s ( ti t bit. 13 at 118 s Od ; average price of the whde 118 s 3d 6-:4 y, 2 sacks four, which sold at 28s. 3 sacks pot -b° ' e which sold thus :—1 at 11 4s, and 2 at Ii 8s Od. T EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW M A RKET, .1-LT g' 0 ; Oat straw, from 6s Od to 7s 6d per kemple of 16 stones to o & wheat ditto, 6s Od to 7s Od ; barley ditto, 6s Od to 7 s Hay, from is to Is 2d per stone. 69 DALKEITH MEAL MARKET, JULY B.—There we r e i o• bags oatmeal and 9 of barleymeal at this day's bi g ol: sales ready ; oatmeal up 6d per bag on the top, Is the second price, and is 6d on the lowest ; one parcel 5 01 b' % 22s per bag, inferior quality ; barleymeal fully 6d Pe r dearer. q. rd Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. I First Second 1 - 111 6 d imperial .. ... ... 27s 6d 27s Od 26 5 5 Oi Barleymeal, per ditto ... 17s 6cl 17s 0.1 --", oil per bil i 0 Peasemeal Flour ... Pot barley ••• —s Od -s Od ••• --8 Od —8 Od ... —s Od --3 Od W 1 COAL MARIier...—YESTIRDAY• Buddle's W. Hartley.. 138 6d Lambton • • Carr's W. Hartley l3s 6d Lumley Chester Main 123 3d Richmund— ...... ... Davison's West Hartley 13s 6d Russell's Hetton ..-•• East Adairs Main lO3 9d 'Stewart's Ravensworth'sW.Hart 13s OdlWhitwell l'anfield Moor ......... 123 6d Caradoc ..... .. --,.•••• Walker's Primrose ... 11s OdF Bentley ... . . • Wylam . Wall's End, &c. Acorn Close .. i Id a eu rt g i li ep H oo a i l . l . ........... ...... Bewicke and Co.Hartlepool Elm Park 135 13 s 6d 3d Seymour 13s Od Kelloe Gosforth .. .. Marton Heaton Lawson l2s 9.' Whitworth ............• Walker Eden Main Lambton Primrose Braddyll Hetton Haswell 164 3d Hartley .......... ......• Scarborough .. 13s 9d Sidney's Hartley •••• Ships at market, 129. 16 , is. 04 1; 8 64 15, 01 1 69 0 ▪ 13. 04 , 140 34 os is 3 la. A 65.64 d 16 6 • 12 , ::: 14' 143 d .***. 138 nis . 12s 6 d . • 346 , • 12 3 0 d 13: g d 15- • 13s 0d A I 12 1 ▪ 138 6 RAILWAY SHARE MARKE BRISTOJULY 10. th e STOCK EXCFIANOP..—The market was firm to-day! - 11 , t pd only alterations in price we have to notice are—Brist ol a re, Exeter, 64 , i Ditto, New, 12 dis. —Great Western, Qu gr 6 psi 14j4—Ditto, New 171. Shares, 7 dis.—Midland Stock , j` t ,i cent. ( Birmingham and Gloucester), 123—Taff Vale SW per cent., 1% p. LIVERPOOL. JULY 10. de STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was better tni so , at the quotations. The transactions were as follow; cashire and Yorkshire, Consol. Fifths, 9 1 h dis.—Ditt o rte rs, Shares, 9 1 4 dis.—London and North-Western, New Qu ar t 13-16 p. Midland, 34 1 / 2 Ditto, Halves, 24 7 46 TO. South-Eastern and Dover, Consolidated Stock (No. a) , MANCHESTER, JULY 10. al l l , STOCK EXCHANGE. - The share market was dull to7A to the amount of business being small, and c hi e fly confine d local lines, but prices were firm. BIRMNGHAM, JULY 10. STOCK ExcHA.xon. I Bu•iiness in this share market very flat to-day. The only transactions reported w er North Staffordshire, 11 dis.—South Staffordshire, 4 1 4 di e ' YORK, JULY 9. STOCK EXCFIANGE.—The t ransact i ons to -d a y we, r " follow : Leeds and Thirsk, Preference, 6 per cent, 57 ; 3h , , — yo York, n N d N ew o ca rt s i t i le m , ainddlanßde, 151.rwic 3s. d k(G. 9 N.E. P urchase)' " in e [ADVERTISEM ENT .]—Th e most popu l ar „,rAjo j o t* for the Cure of Indigestion, Stomach and Liver Cot? P h— ivhf ; are Holloway's Pills.—Captain Smith, residing at PoPio r i det• had resid e d th e greater part of his life at sea, and a eool,ol able portion of th a t t i me i n warm c li mates, su ff ere d dresa h l ",o from a li ver compla i nt and indigestion, and often to su ch extent that he th oug ht i t was i mposs ibl e f or hi m t o rec He followed the advice of medical men both at horoe i pi• abroad, but without benefit ; he then commenced with loway's Pills, and soon experienced so mush relief that he Phi severed in taking l them for a few weeks, when he four pro' health perfectly restored. —sold by all druggists, and lit fessor Holloway's Establish men t, 244, S tran d , L0nd0tt........e! BIRTHS. OF A SON. (3'l ei On the 7th inst., at ll e yb r id ge, S ta ff or d s hi re , the vi l the Rev. Wynter Thomas Blathwayt. ,k i " On the 7th inst., at Tackley Rectory, near Woodstoe wife of the Rev. L. A. Sharpe. ic.,, al / On the Bth inst, a t U pper A venue -road, R ege nt'S-Y the wife of Hugh Adams Silver. OF A DAUGHTER. Georg . On the 2d inst., at Walthamstow, Essex, Mrs. Dorman Tyser. fi e/ On the sth in s t., a t Ri c h mond, Surrey, the wife of - Baker Roberts, Esq., s o li c i tor 3., 111 _.....---"". MARRIED. eldest On the Ist inst., a t S t. L eonard ' s-on-Sea, Alfred, eldest son of Mr. P e t er Banks, of Hastings. to Emily , e daughter of Mr. Samuel Chester, of St Leonard's. n iorif On the 4th inst., a t B o l ton, Cumberland, Joseph B„,. `: ro lia° eldest son of Jo se ph Di xon, Esq., of Bayswater, to '-'7,oiag Susan, eldest d aug ht er of the Rev. Richar d . 1) Clarborne. NO' On the 6th i ns t., a t his DIED residence, Charlotte-rows worth, Charl es B arratt, E sq., of her Majesty's E 2l.cu " Whitehall, aged 58. On the 6th; inst., Jehn Sharp, Esq., of Fish - st ree aged 83. On the 6th i ns t., a t h er seat, Ascot-place, Berkshire, AOl/' _ o p daughter of the late John Ferard, Esq, of Englellek"' Surrey. 0. - - - Lip Tap p; • London: Printed and P u bli s h e d by MIJRDO TO PII JO- • No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The San 06 100, Sy 4 - , AO • Stra oi t, Precinct of the gevoy, in t he • Xiddlesex, Thuralay, July 11, 1850. Paid. Price. Price 14% 15 • 61, 132 230 IGi 21 Os. 145 1 ls. 6d Paid. Pric• Paid. 2034 6 20 Price 15 2 16 2 24%