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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. SOUSE OF COMMONS, June 5. (Continued from Edition of yesterday.) tION BILL. On the question for resuming the adjourned debate on the second rea din g of this Bill, Mr. C. ANSTEY, on behalf of the population of the United Kingdom, thanked the Hon. Member for Old ham for having introduced the Bill, and expressed his deep regret that a man like the Noble Lord the Mem ber for Arundel should have felt himself called upon to oppose the liberal design which the promoter of the measure contemplated, namely, conferring the blessings of education upon the great mass of the people.—(Hear, bear.) Whatever might be said of the measure, or the motives of those who had brought it forward, it was the duty of all parties to discuss the Bill in a calm and dis passionate spirit.—(Hear, hear.) It had been said that I the great question at issue was between Christianity and Atheism between heaven and hell, but he for one did not accept that as a correct definition of the matter in dispute between the promoters of the Bill and the supporters of the amendment. If, however, this discussion were really tantamount to a struggle be tween heaven and bell, all he could say was that his vote at least would not be on that side which the Noble Lord the Member for Arundel had termed heaven.—(Hear and a laugh.) He had listened with much attention to this debate, in the vain hope of finding out what the objections to the measure were. The House would remember that the speech of the Hon. Member for Oldham, in introducing the Bill, was at once explanatory of its object and of the machinery by which it was proposed to carry out that object; but the objections urged against the Bill did not seem to him to be quite so clear. An Honourable Member, who represented the peculiar interests of the Established Church, had declared that the only objection be entertained to the Bill related to the dangers which lurked under it, and not to those that were apparent.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member was auspicious of evil because none appeared—(A laugh)— but when the second reading came, and the Bill was found to be precisely the same as that which the Hon. Member for Oldham had described in his introduction, then the cry was raised that Christianity was in danger.—(Hear, hear.) He therefore became naturally anxious to ascertain what reasons could be urged in favour of that cry, but when he did ascertain what the objections really were, it seemed to him they were no objections at laugh.) It was said that in France the adoption of the system propounded in this Bill had proved injurious to the State. while other Honourable Gentlemen who opposed the Bill, said they did so because it was not in tended to make education subservient to religion. Now those who entertained the latter opinion ought to be the strenuous supporters of the principle prevailing in France, for there the education commonly known as the University of France system. was based entirely on religion.—(Hear, hear.) These then appeared to be the objections to the Bill. On the other hand, what was the object of the measure? Why it was to establish a system of education which made the teaching of religion its first principle, but denied the right of the State to dictate to a parent the peculiar religious tenets with which he should inoculate his child. The Honourable Member for Oldham had used the term education in its popular and vulgar sense, as synonymous with instruction, but, for his part, he should prefer the Bill better if " secular in struction " were substituted for the term education, because religious teaching, which some Honourable Members seemed to think was the true definition of the term education, was not all that was necessary to farm the moral and in tellectual character of a child.—(Hear, hear.) The fifth clause enacted that the master and mistress of every free school should allow the children committed to their care sufficient time to receive religious instruct: on under their parents. But there was no provision in the Bill for giving those poor children religious instruction under the ministers of religion, under whose teaching they might desire to be brought up. Instead of the machinery proposed by this Bill he should have preferred the mode of governing those free schools laid down in the report of the society for the establishment of free schools in Lancaster. If the House meant to separate secular and religious education, they had better not have two sets of teachers, as was proposed by the Hon. Member for Oldham. It was an infringement of civil liberty for the State to educate at all ; and it was even more objection able for the State to teach religion. There were five or six millions of your people waiting for secular educa tion, and at the same time it was confessed that the vo luntary system, though aided by Parliamentary grants, was totally unable to supply the want of the population in this respect. The National Society was recognised by the bishops, and recognised the bishops too, so that they were convertible terms, and yet that society had con fessed that there were not sufficient means employed for the attainment of their object. The voluntary principle had nothing to do with secular education, and must be put out of view altogether. All denominations concurred in drawing a distinction between secular and religious education, and it was in that distinction that the point at issue between the supporters and the opposers of this Bill lay. If they were to throw out the Bill, and in doing so they would adopt the principles of the op position, they would express their concurrence with the existing state of things, which admitted of no efficient control over public schools. In Scotland alone, there were 100,000 Roman Catholics, refugees from Ireland, who were in need of religious and secular education, and who could not avail themselves of those schools or churches which were supported by the State. By the returns that were already before them it would seem that in Liverpool alone there were 250,000 children in want of instruction, but that want could not be sup plied solely because the Educational Board of the Privy Council insisted that all instruction to be given in free schools should consist entirely of religious teaching. He concurred in the principles of the Church of Scot land, but he differed with them in the mode by which they proposed to carry them out. The m schinery by which the principles would be put in opera tion would have the effect of making the Church of Scotland the be-all of education, an evil which the plan contained in this Bill would avoid. He supported the principle of the Bill most heartily, but let it not be ttnderstood that in making this statement, he pledged 'himself to all its details.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. H. DRUMMOND thought the speech of the Hon. Member for Oldham in introducing this Bill had been received somewhat harshly on both sides of the House, for certainly if there was a question upon which Honourable Members appeared to be more unani mous than another, it was that the State ought to undertake the education of the people.—(llear, hear.) Now, when this subject was last before the House he ventured to remark that there was a sad confusion pre vailing in the minds of Hon. Members as to the mean ing of the words education and instruction. It was indeed remarkable that even the Honour able and Learned Member for Sheffield, who was generally pretty correct in his appli cation of terms, the other evening used the words education and instruction in one and the same sense.— (Hear, hear.) It seemed, however, that in dealing with this question all agreed upon the substantive, but dis agreed about the adjective.—(Hear, and a laugh.) All were for education of some sort, but some want secular—some biblical—some religious—some scriptural—in fact, all sorts of education, but still state education they would have.—(Hear, hear.) Now he held that state education was an impossibility.—(Cheers.) No two things could be more distinct or unlike each other than education and instruction. — (Hear, hear.) Instruction was putting something into a person, education was drawing something out of him.—(A laugh.) Instruction and education was divided into two classes, scientific and historical; now the necessary tendency of scientific education was to make sceptics.—(A laugh.) In science nothing was taken for certain: the anatomist, in lecturing to his pupils upon tendons, joints, and sinews, invariably told them that they must take nothing upon trust, and so it was with every other science; but in historical researches the case was different.— ( Rear.) There you must trust entirely to the asser tions of others. It was too late to raise the question whether or no Hannibal ever lived; they must depend for that not upon ir experiment, b u t u p on th e a ssertion of others.— (a h” it r.) cou N ld o only no be modified.—(Hear.) made in history, But education wasilu e ;e matter wholly different.—(Hear.) It was said i n a book on the subj ec t, th a t " t h e mere preponderanc e o f v intellect, unaccomp an i e d w ith a corresponding amount of liveliness of the moral affec tions, would ever t en d to boldness in religious matters, and ultimately to semethinworae still." Learni ng wa s after all not an unmixed learn ing, they induced a boy's irrit g a o bihty (?d? By in creased his sense of Buff,rl •n , , they but the him no increased means of hap pine hear, and a laug h. ) Nor did they e for there was no connexion whatever between intellec tual power and moral elevation. But educ ation was a thing wholly different. Education was that whi c h was carried on by the d rawin g forth of that which was good, l)ainteu sh' (Hear, r: morals, gave o g and the non -drawing forth of that which was evil. It wa s a work which could be carried on only by the parents when the children were young, for it was not sufficient merely to tell people what they ought to do, and what they should not do; they must have the power of the Church to convey the power to do t hat which was right; and they were day by day disturbing t hat Church, and endeavour ing to substitute the system of universal instruction in was u of the performance of moral and religious duty. It wholly fallacious; it was the love of the mother, and not the learning of the mother, which educated the infant; and it was the pastorship and the love of the Church, and not its theology or its teaching, that would ever make lsr religious a n d mora l men.—(Hear.) Mr PAGE WOOD h a d a l wa y s taken a very de e p in • terest . in this question, as one in which our pro s p erit y and happine ss happiness were involved. The Hon. Member op posite (Mr. Anstey) had described the National Society in a great as bein gmeasure effete. Feeling se he (Mr. P. Wood) did, that religion was the bendmaid of educa tion, ho would proceed. Ile todemossalsg.g at by argument rather than by teelin go ilitli!tethet "althoughdi'claim"d he was glad the Hon. Member who p , this n . lone abroad on education. yet w some of the erroneous net' at the close of his speech he read a e report of a society of these of working men, in which m any erroneous no tions were propounded. He (Mr. Page t Wood) knew enough of working men to know th a t reportw t asnot written by a working man, for the very first sen tence of that document made reference " plastic m i n d s " an d " th e nascen t judgments" of the e of child ren.—(Hear, hear.) Now, no working man ever used language like that.—(Hear, hear.) Men's minds were variously informed; and he doubted if any h man had ever been h a p py enough to see trut h un adulterated with error; b ut t h ere were mediumsolly ously coloured th roug h w hi c h trut h was conveyed._vari- To begin at the beginning', with the darkness. What e ducation was there th en separate d f rom religious tinsti tutions ? He, like many ot h er H on . M e mb ers , had a debt of gratitude to perform; he had had the advantage of receiving an education in the oldest religious feutida. THE SUN, LONDON ',. feeling, and should they by such a Bill as this be called upon to lower that standard? He would conclude his remarks by hoping that the result of the division would be to establish still stronger in this country religion and piety. Mr. FOX rose to reply. He said that throughout the whole of this debate he had heard nothing which touched upon the precise effects which he hoped to ac complish by his Bill. He had been incited to brieg for ward this measure by the acknowledged and demons strated necessity that something should be done in this direction. He had no wish to demolish existing system' in order to reconstruct; but the cause of the great d's ficiency he had certainly as si g ned to the s p irit religious proselytism which had been too much mixed up with education. There was no want of proofs of the alarming deficiency in education. But one of the moals alarming features in these proofs was that for the last dozen years, which were years of magnificent exertion in the cause of education, if they looked at the records of crime they would find that the number of criminals who had received what indeed was called education, had increased to an alarming extent. What was the position of those great societies to whom the cause of education had been committed? All at war with each other—the main springs of action in themselves broken by dissension. It had been assumed that if religion were not made a part of school teaching they were warranted in sa ying that religion was totally exclu ded. He denied that assumption altogether. He thought it was an im pious assumption, that man could be led away from re ligion by a secular education. In such a country as this, wrier° religion was so closely interwoven with all the feelings of the people, such a result was impossible. If religion was to be a part and p arcel of education, of course it must be the true religion, and who was to decide what was the true religion ? Was it a majority of that House , or of the country ? Had they learnt their own religion so badly as to have forgotten to respect liberty of conscience ? Under the existing system the salaries paid to school masters were beggarly in the extreme. This was proved in some measure by the advertisements that are con stantly appearing in the daily prints, where it was not unfrequently announced that schoolmas ters and their wives were required for different parishes at salaries varying from 401. to 501. per annum.—(Hear, hear) Why, in America, a young woman who had charge of an infant school received 701. a year.—(Hear, hear.) Nor was the poverty of the salary all. The schoolmaster was often degraded and insulted by the manner in which the salary was paid. It not unfrequently happened that the school master had to collect his own remuneration from the subscribers to his school, while, by an order which had recent'y been issued by the National Society, he could be dismissed from his situation at a week's no tice.—(Hear, hear.) No wonder, then, that men of energy and talent treated the office of schoolmaster with con tempt, and left their schools in disgust whenever they had an opportunity of bettering their condition, or find • ing more equitable salaries in other occupations.—(Hear, hear.) With regard to the objection that it would be dangerous to separate secular from religious education, the Honourable Member assured the House that the danger was purely fanciful, arid read a number of authorities in support of his opinion. He apprehended the separation of secular from religious instruction was in every way necessary in order to pro duce the whole amount of benefit. He wanted to see an education which would not send children into the world unacquainted with the simplest objects, unacquainted with the number of ounces in a pound, with the number of feet in a furlong, with the names of the month, unac quainted even with the name of the reigning sovereign, ignorant of the very elements of industry and art, without anything to guard them from becoming the prey of the demagogue or the fanatic, and ignorant of everything which affected the rise and fall of wages, and of what legislation could do or could not do in con- nexion with their interests.—(Hear, hear.) The feeling of the working classes on this subject was strong. He knew that the genuineness of the report he bad read to the House from a society of working men on a former occasion had been questioned, but no reason had been given to impugn its genuineness. That report came from working men, and had not those working men spoken out on the subject at larger and more into resting meetings that had been held since the more stirring political agitations had taken place. Again, he would call on the House to look at what those men were doing for the education of themselves and the sacrifices they made, and at the schools which had been insti tuted at their instance in this metropolis. To those schools the working people paid and were content to pay. What was the fact as to the Prus sian schools? There was no absence of religion there, and religion was intermingled with the teaching. If there was an absence of religion, there was the presence of a larger amount of secular instruction. The Hon. Member proceeded, amidst much impatience, a 2d cries of Oh," to advert to the system of education i n t h e United States, which he said had been the means of diminising crime to a very great extent. He did not mean to say t Le . t education would entirely counteract the fearful amount of :,!norance, vice, crime, and misery which existed in this suntry, but education was an essential condition, and wouid 'neatly tend to diminish those evils. With it they would g'!ve the Sovereign the fairest chance of having an enlightened people, augment the glory of the nation, and give to the great masses that instruction which first humanised them and then Christianised them. Mr. HUME rose, amidst loud calls for a division, to speak in support of the Bill. Tho lion. Member laid down his premises methodically, and was proceeding very deliberately to explain and illustrate them, when The SPEAKER, informed him that he had no right to address the House, because he had already spoken in the course of the debate. Mr. HUME was incredulous. The SPEAKER, however, went seriatim through the names of the Members who had spoken on the day when the debate was adjourned until he came to that of " the Hon. Member for Montrose," and thus convinced the Hon. Member that he was not entitled to proceed any further on this occasion. Mr. HUME, who seemed to bear his disappointment very good humouredly, declared, amidst meets cheering and laughter, that he was not aware he had spoken before. Mr. 61UNTZ asked the Hon. Member for Oldham whether he intended to abandon the compulsory part of his Bill? Mr. FOX replied in the affirmative. Mr. MUNTZ said, as be had been brought ap in the faith of the Church of England, he should have no ob jection to that Church conducting the education of the people, if he thought she could possibly do so, but having many years' acquaintance with the working classes, ho considered that a system of education on such a plan would not be at all feasible. The working classes were decidedly opposed to the Church having the control or superintendence of their education. The question was, whether it would be best to let the children of the poorer classes go alto gether without instruction, or whether they should have the advantage of a system of secular education, such as that proposed by the Hon. Member. He had employed a great number of men during his lifetime, and without fi ar of contradiction he would say that there was no comparison between the properly educated and those who were not educated—the former were open to reason and much more easily managed. While he did not agree with some Hon. Members that any system of education would put a stop to crime, he still thought that some general plan of education was necessary, and whether the present Bill was passed or not, he hoped the Government would take the subject into their serious consideration, with the view of giving the people every opportunity of improving themselves. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the second reading ••• Against it ..• Majority The Bill was accordingly thrown out. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES BILL. Sir J. DUCKWORTH moved that this Bill be com mitted pro forma, for the purpose . of introducing certain arnendnaent4. Sir G. PECHELL objected to their going into Corn mitte at all at that late hour. Mr. HUME said the measure was one of national im portance, and he should therefore be glad to know if Government intended to support or oppose it. Sir G. GREY said so far as the general object of the Bill went he perfectly concurred with it, but there were clauses in it that were highly objectionable ; and it would, therefore, be his duty to move amendments when they got into Committee.—(Hear, hear.) The simple object of the Bill was to repeal an old statute, and to make more effectual provisions for ascertaining the accuracy of weights and measures.—(Hear, hear.) The Bill then went through Committee pro forma, and the House having resumed, the Bill was ordered to be printed. THE COPYHOLDS ENFRANCHISEMENT BILL. At the instance of Mr. AGLIONBY, the second reading of this Bill was postponed until Friday night. The remaining; orders of the d a y were di spose d o f, and the House adjourned at Six o'clock. ... 287 • • • -229 ETON COLLEGE. On Tuesday, the 4th of June, was celebrated at Eton with more than cust omar y g aiet y and splendour. Throughout the day the nobi l ity and gentry, chiefly o ld Etonians, with their families, were continually arriving from all parts of the kingdom, in order to be present at this time-honoured festival. At the accustomed time—shortly before seven o'clock —the regatta boats, being manned by their respective crews, dressed in elegant and appropriate costume, started from the Brocas for Surley Hall in the following order:— Monarch, 10 oar—Robertson (captain of the boats) ; Nind, Molesworth, Herbert, Coltman, Graham, Miles, Harford, Peyt , ,n, Welby. Nevill, steerer. Vietory—Blundell, Powys, Harrison, Nlalcolm, Swan, Praed, Pemberton, Gore Booth. Lambton, mi., stcerer. Prince of Wales—Marshall (e , ,ptaw); Johnstone. Thompson, Snow, Watson, Warre, Barton, Arbuthnot. Fremantle, steerer. Britannia—Fiennes (captain of lower boats); Far quharson, Irvine, Mytton, Fletcher, Legge, Giles, Tr( - tusis. Byng. staerer. Dreadnought—Meade King (captain); Johnson, Clive, Puxley, m a ., Antrobus, Peach, Barton, Sheffield. Thomson, stc erer. Thetis--Lane (eaptain); Egerton, Prodgerg, Harding, Sparke, Lonsdale, Nugent, F►ennes. Gwynne Halfurd, steerer. St. George—Clayton (captain) ; Filcher, Vivian, Tyssen, Wyndham, Mynors, Chapman, Todd. Arbuth not, steerer. After doing ample justice to a sumptuous repast,which was spread out on tables by the bank' of the Thames, and drinking the accustomed loyal and also several standard college touts, the Etonians again manned their boats and returned to Windsor. At nine o'clock agranddi;Play of _fireworks was dis charged from the Eyot, whilst the crews exhibited their tula , trahle dexterity in rowing before the numerous 't!ttors who try wded the wharfs and every available 'ton. po. ~.., The Dr. Uawtrey, head master of the college, gr ,ve a 'grand banquet in the Upper School to upwards of .:30 of the nehility and retry. 7 :he Rev. Dr. Okes, R9V. E. Coleridge, Rev. Lux • !Dr ,re, Rev. J. G. Cookesley, and other members of the Alerro, also entertained large and distinguished parties at their respective residences in the college. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) MANCHESTER, TuESDAY.—The large aggregate amount , of last week's business in yarns, and the remerkabl lightness of the stocks anywhere to be found, ha . ee given extreme firmness is the market, at the advanc ed rates of Saturday, and, in some articles, a tendency to rise even a little higher. The prices that have been paid to-day for most descriptions may be broadly stated at to id, above those of Tuesday last. The purebas,s have, in consequence, been of smaller extent than they were then, both the merchants and the home con sumers naturally showing some hesitation about core plying with the requirements of the spinners, who, however, are more indifferent as to orders than as to prices. In goods the transactions have been limited, as compared with those of this day week, by the prices upon which manufacturers take their stand with entire firmness; holding, as they do, but little stock in the duller fabrics, and none at all ire those for which there is a demand. It remains to be seen what effect the commercial accounts from India will have upon our market; the merchants not havins?; yet had time to consider them. We conceive that they are, on the whole, pretty much what they were expected to be, and therefore are net likely, in any material degree, to influence the general state of things, one way or other. At Bombay there was an improved demand fir the finer quaities of grey fabrics, the stocks of which appear to be greatly reduced. In other staples, however, particularly 40-inch shirtings below a 56 reed, the stocks were in ex cess, having bean much increase I by very re cent arrivals. The market was in a favourable state for mule yarns of all counts except 20's. Of 20's water the accumulations were rather large, but somewhat reduced in No. 30's, while 40's were scarce in request. At Calcutta the operations in piece goods had been on an unusually limited scale, and prices betrayed an inclination to give way. The value of 40-inch shirtings appears, however, to have been fairly maintained. In yarns prices had been on the whole well supported, and the market seemed healthy, although sales had fallen off. The advices from the United States do not appear to have exercised any sensible influence upon our Exchange. The reports of extensive injury done to the growing crop of cotton by cold weather in some districts, and by inundations in others, are still received with caution, as more or less exaggerated ; whilst against them are planed the known Net that a considarably increased extent of land is ap propriated to this plant. But there continues to be the same general expectation, as before, that prices will re main high for some weeks at least. There is nothing here, therefore, t) weaken the general confidence in the prices of yarns and goods. ROCHDALE, MoNnay.--;There has been a fair average market to day in flannels, and prices have been much the same as last week's. In the wool market there is no change to report, either in price or demand. MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—We have to report a ra ther improved business doing in manufactured goods, several buyers having lately paid us a visit, and al though they have purchased sparingly, it is certain that much more would have found sale, had the manu facturers been able to accept the prices offered ; but owing to the raw silk market having assumed a decidedly firmer tone, with advances on some descriptions, amongst which we may mention Italians and first class Chinas, this could not consistently be done. In throwns a better feeling exists, with more business doing. HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—We have this week to report a flatter market than last, both in the halt and warehouses. It is generally expected at this time of the year in consequence of its being between the seasons. In about a month the manufacturers expect to be brisk again for the winter markets. The wool market is de pressed. The weather continues fine and propitious for the season. HALIFAX, SATURDAY. —Although there was not a very large amount of business done in the Piece-hall to-day, y( t there is a good steady trade, chiefly in fancy goods, carried on to order in the warehouse?, both for the home and the foreign markets, and the quotations continue firm. The demand for yarn is undiminished, and the rates la main without alteration. There is a little more inquiry for long wool, with an increasing confidence that prices will not recede. Short wool is also in better de mand, and the spinners are asking a small advance. Dividend Amount Name of Company. par of Paid. Pries. Annum. Share. ---...- --..,--- ••••••••••••• A I. d. X s. d. Australasia .......... 24 5 . 40 0 0 40 0 0 - BritshNorth American ; 51. per sent. 50 0 0 SO 0 0 - Ceylon •• • • ..•• ••• • •• 7l. per cent. 25 I I 25 0 0 - Commercial of London 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 - Colonial.. Gloucestershire ...• • • 115/per cent. 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Pelican •• • • - - •• .. - - - - - Pticenix .. - - 145 Pi otector Life.. -• •• 51. per cent. - - - Provident Life •••• .• 11. 51. fa be. 100 0 0 10 0 0 26 flock Life ........ .... ss. 5 0 0 010 0 6 ',Loyal Exchange 6l. per cent. Stock. - 20$ San Fire. - - 210 Ditto Life . . - - 46 United Kingdom Universal Life lO% pr cnt. 100 0 01 10 0 0 - Victoria Life.... - I 412 6 4% Dividend per Annum. 61. pr cent. 20e. per eh. 51. pr cent. Al. per cent. 4 per cent. 4341. pr cent. 21. per cent. BUIDG: Dividend per Annum. 355. por cent 11. 45. Od. 11. 15. Od. Lion for education in the country. Could any one say that William of Wykehacri was opposed to the Intellec tual development ; or that the other schools, such as Eton and Westminster, which were founded on the model of his, had ever neglected the development of intellect? The Church had also fostered throughout all ages the progress of intellectuel development. In all times, even when there were plenty of philosophers who talked wisely of the destruction of secular and religious instruction, the great advancers of .education were the clergy. At the time of the Restoration the moat dis tinguished in the ca use of education were the most distin guished in the Church. Stillingfleet, Tillotson, nay, he would name even Baxter, for his argument was that the clergy were the m ost ardent promoters of education, and the Church always the foremost. The Hon. Member for 'Manchester said that the Church always came se cond, and he (Mr. Wood) was sorry that there was such an amount of ignorance even in that place. Why, who were the founders of the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, which had done so much for the advancement of knowledge in this country? He denied that the Church had been backward in estab lishing schools for the education of the people. It had been said they had never thought of farming national schools until the Wesleyans and the Dissenters had set the example; but the truth was, that Dr. Bell establishd a school at St. Botolph, Aldgate, is 1789, at which time Mr. Lancaster, the celebrated founder of the Lancasterian schools, was only eighteen years of age. The question was whether the Church had done her duty to the people. If not, ho was quite ready to admit that all she had hitherto done went for nothing; but the facts were otherwise.. The National Society was first established in 1811, and from that time up to 1835 it had expended 104,0001. to promote the education of the people , and from 1838, when the voluntary exertions of the society were stimulated by the Government grants, up to 1847, the sum it an nually expended was increased to 188,0001. That sys temi was producing great and valuable results, and, t properly carried out, would complete the education of the people throughout the country. The number of day schools connected with the Church was 10,800 in . 1837, and 1 7, 000 in 1847, and the number of scholars attending them was, in the former increase in 518,000, and in the la tter 950,000, the in those few years being 6,200 schools and 400,000 scholars. Facts of that kind ought to guide them more than declamation and fanciful theories. Now, he thought he had established three points—that the education of the people had up to the present time been con ducted on religious principles, that the Church had throughout borne her share of the duty, and taken the lead in the movement, and that the existing system of education, combined with religious instruction, was ample for the wants of the times, as well as sufficient to nseet future exigencies. The annual sum spent by the Church from 1833 to 1838, to promote education, ameented to 87,4001. ; and since 1838, it had been increased to 720,0001 But be bad a correction of some importance to make. There were some contributions of a pleasing character that had been received from the scholars, and he found that out of the total, 199,0001, expended by the Committee of Council on Education, no less than 80,0001. had been contributed by the children. Stilt making all these deductions, the Church expended half a million of money in promoting education. But there was another mode by which the Church was promoting education. In Lancashire, in Middlesex. in Surrey, and other parts of the country, training schools had been established for preparing masters, upon which no less than 90,0001. had been spent, and from which as many as 1,050 masters had been sent out.—(Hear, hear.) These masters were mast efficient indeed, since, a little while ago, the knowledge they had attained would have entitled them to a common degree at Cambridge, fully proving the admirable system upon which the training schools were conducted.—(Hear.) It was a mistake to suppose that the crime and immorality arose from any defect in the mode of education now in operation, it re.. stilted from the incompetency of the parties who were s otrusted with the care of schools; and therefore, if the Heise or the Government wished the country improved in the: t respect, they would promote the establishment of these t.saming schools, and help the masters in obtaining ample r emuneration for their services.—(Hear, hear.) Some alluetns hd been made to the dispute going on between Go o vernm a ent and the Church on the subject of the education el orders, but the principle involved in that dispute was so trilling that he entertained a confident hope of a speedy settlement.—(Hear, hear.) At all eve.ets, there could be no doubt of the fact that the working of the existing system had kept pace with the increase in the population, and as the principle contained in this Bill had been tried, and to a certain extent failed, it wets the duty of the House not to support it. There a as; no necessity f; , r it— nay, it would prove highly injierious to the state, beca'ise it must inevitably obstruct the' progress of a system which had produced, and was producing, the most satisfactory results.—(He er.) The age was too far advanced in civilization to adroit of the state neglecting the education of children. The mind of a child in its early condition was like a . blank book, and if the Government did not write upon it they might depend upon it some one else woo d. But in educating children Government should be careful not to encourage the exclusive system proposed by this Bill. At present there were schools enough in all the larg towns for every sect, and the parent who did Hot like to send his child to a school where the principles of the Church of England were taught, could select some other where they were excluded. Under the present system of training they would hare teachers whose feelings came not from any selfish mo tives, but direct from the inmost heart.—(Cheers.) Mr. M. GIBSON wished to say a few words before he gave a vote on this Bill. With reference to the Hon. Member for Oxford, he had used in the speech he had just delivered all those stale arguments which he should never have expected from a gentleman who was so well able to bring much better and abler arguments. If an in dividual Member had no right to bring forward a question of such great importance, pray when would the question ever be brought before the House ? The great masses of the working classes in the manufacturing districts were almost unanimously in favour of the principle of secular education. He did not think there was any prin ciple in which the working classes took a greater iuterest than in this; and he thought that the working classes in those districts, since the passing of the Bill by which all children employed in mills were obliged to attend schools, were placed in a very peculiar position. For if school attendance were made a condition of earning bread, and if religious freedom were anything but a name, he thought they were bound to provide schools where the children would not be exposed to proselytizing influences. They ought not to place the working classes in the position of having to choose be tween their religion and their bread. Why, if the principle were true, there was no reason why they should not extend it to the agricultural districts. If there was such a superfluity of education in different parts of the country, it could not be supposed that the ratepayers would come together and lay a rate upon themselves to establish schools which were totally un necessary. He was ready to admit that much valuable and disinterested aid to education had been rendered by Churchmen as well as Dissenters, and he thought contr o o f ver e s a a it was useless a n d b es id e th e que stion to enter into a s tie. to who education.—(Hear, hfiersiro tin Thethe B fl i e i l l d w i a n s the cause ob jected to because it ma d e no ' provision for religious in structis a, but it did not render that instruction less than at present, and it should be r e member e d th a t this coun try spent twice as much as any other in the world to promote the religious education of the people. According to the pr esen t s ystem religious instruction was given a t a separat e and distinct period from secular education, and he saw no reason why the two should be pursued at different times. What he wanted was, that the poor should have within their reach a bona fide system of secular educa tion, such as the middle classes now had; and if they had, he believed that, instead of doing away with religious teaching and moral training, they would be placed at least in a much better situation than at present, when there was neither religious nor secular education.—(Hear.) He could not understand the prin ciple that because they could not teach everything they should teach nothing. If the people had secular education, no doubt the zeal of the Church and of ministers of different denominations would take care of their religious instruction. He never heard it was the duty of the Church to give secular instruction. It might be the duty of the Church to teach revealed religion, but he denied that it was her province to give secular instruction. If it were her duty to give secular instruction, what a lamentable reproach it was to her that so many hundreds of adult persons ap peared at her altar who could neither read nor write. )Ir. NAPIER had endeavoured to understand the principle of this Bill, which was, as he und erstood it, that it was the duty of the State to provide an edu cation which compelled the exclusion of religion. He thought it would be hardly said that it was a religions obligation to exclude religion.—(Hear, hear.) It was enough, he thought, to state the proposition to ensure its (Hear, ebxecaurs.e)d Hein swtaernvilndg aver,his so w u h l . a t refutation. He would contend that a man was no . State to provide ' a princi I might exist, that it had we had hithertope.theavne r his differences i ff m e r i e n n d s .. been the religious duty of the religion . to . the people. This Bill em bodiedaannttaouisticto the principle on which we might choose between had made religion theweinthiscountry , people.basts of the education of our thechoose sbaemtdweeentimaem; serve theca both were called upon to ere an s d ecul w a e r wanted education to and ext e n a dn th ed e u h ca le t ; i s o in n g b a as n e f d upoh religion. He education, but it was impossible to accede to the Bill before d House , seeing that et th Christianity usually and e n ß t ill made that they had always acknowledg parties who called upon s e u m e p e o s i should be the basis of education, and asked only tow who oe were taughttthe e c s C I i a rily. 717 the House to pass this measure.? Only section of the community, who held somewhat lax a notions tespecting education. Ho contended that w ith respect to education the State stood i n the relation of loco parentiv to the child of parents wh o were unaele to provide him with a suitable educatio n . Th e authority of a p arent was derived from God, and that authority was not a power but . a trust. Instead of ' ton the necessary basis . of education, this making religion Bill made it a mere casual c onsideration. Ile contended that the Bible would not necessarily be taught in tho schools under this Bill. .Ihe great glory ot the Reformation was that it opened the Word of God to every man , and it ba -1 made this country great, happy, and free.—(Hear, hear.) lle submitted that if e d uc ation was important with re gard to the train ing of the whole man in his pu blic duties and relations, and in the moral principles of private .life, the i.nerel ley extending the intellect, without gi vin g it any princip to purify the affections and the heart, would go a very short way indeed to accomplish those ends. A disti • nguished man had said that the strength of the country was in the depth and purity of this religious TflUitgD AY EVENING, JUNE 6, 1850, CANALS. . . Names of g 4 I 1 DiTldend i Names of : DiYidendl . r Companies. , per Price. } An pe nuls. Companies. d 1 ?rice, se An Annum. ..2 £ X i Ashtn& °Uhl 97 71. 113 Wacciesfieli . 100 21. 10s. 50 Barnsley• •• • ;160 121. 180 Nsatk .. .• • • 100 161. 340 1/rank&Abrg 150 51. 85 0xf0rd...... 103 M. 115 Birmingham 40 41. ' II Peak Forest. 7$ 31. 18s. 70 Coventry.. • • 100 251. 210 Regent's .... 33 11. Os. Di% Derby ••• • • 1 100 61. 63 Rochdale .. •• u I 41. 50 EllsmrekChs ' 133, 565. 41 Somrset Coal 150 71.105. 130 Irand.lunctn' 100! Si. 85 3 / 4 Do.LkFdst 12 61. p. c. - Grand Surrey 100 21. Os. 30 Sttfrd &Wore 1 40 281. 410 ,irand Union 100 11. 10s. 24 Shrewsbury- 125 151. - Grantham .. - - Stoarbrldge.. 145 201. 110 Kennt k. Ant 39 71. 6d. 5% Severn and 21. Os. - Lancaster • 100 21 , 32 5; Wye Rail. j 26 Leeds& Livrp 100 241. 825 Warwick& 7 Leicester.... 193 51. 66 Ilirming, 5 100 41 . 64 % Lou ghboroghll42 701. 510 N a pt on .. Loicstr &Nth, 12 41. 48% Warwick& 1 100 21. 42 Vonmouthsh 100 81. - Worcstr 11c/ 71 31. 42 Mntssmrysn 100 - -- Bi rm i ng. j MeltnNtwbry 100 - - Wilts SG Brks -14 s. 75` LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES Dividend Amount Yams of Company, per of Paid. Prise. Annum. Share. -------- .£ s. d. £ s. d Rank of Scotland British Linen Company Si. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 is 4 Caledonian Bank City of Glasgow Bank . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 12 Clydesdale Bank - ..• 6% per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 13% Thmmercial Bank •• - 71. par cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 169 Eastern Bank.. .. •• •• 61. per cent. 25 u 0 10 0 0 9 Edinb.ScGlasgow Rank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 51. 7s Exuhang•Bnk of Scot.. 41. per cent. 100 0 0 80 0 0 sji Isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 ational Bank 6% per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 15 North of Scotiandßank 41. per cent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 Nor a% aT y _ - _ 52. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 130% n l 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 90% ( o ot.nhu Bank hank a r n i British 5 001 Scotlandßs c a o n t k l n . d . Western Balk •••••• • • 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 73 Alliance Fire and Life 8%1.pr cent. 10 0 0 111 0 0 20% B. Accord. Life and Fire - 20 0 9 010 0 - British Guarantee Ins. 41. per tent. 10 • 0 1 0 0 15J Id Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23 Colonial Life ... „ „ - 50 0 0 1 0 0 11. as. City of Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. 10* Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 510 East of Scotland Life - 10 0 0 015 0 Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 4 9N, rlercules Insurance Co. , 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Insur. Co. of Scetlnd•• Sl. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Life Assoc. of Scotland Gl. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 11. 15s Mercantile Life National Fire and Life 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 15125.6•1 North British Incur 6pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 I 2514 North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 - icottish Life and Gear. I - 20 0 0 011 0 - SCOt. MM. and Gen. Life - 0 0 015 0 , - Scottish Union Insruce. , 6 1 41. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 231.15c1 standard Life ...... - 151. per cent. 50 0 0 45 0 9% United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 I6s ed MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount I Name of Company. per of I Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ---,..----- - Z. s. d. A. 2. 41. Auction Mart- -- .. 21. 15s. 50 0 0 - 25 tustralian Acriculturl 11. 100 0 0 30 0 0 15 knglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 10s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 21% Ditto, Half Shares.. - -I2 10 0 - Canada ......... •• .. Gt. per cent. 100 003210 0 30 Uppr Canada Bonds 51. per , cent. - - 89 Pity Navigation .... - - - 91 Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp.c. Sc hs, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 94 Equitable Beyersienry 5/. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 - Gen. Steam Navigation 11. le. 15 0 0; 14 0 0 25% London Institution... - - 75 15 0 - Russell Institution.... - - 26 5 0 - Penlnslr& Orient.Stm. Sl.per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 80% Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 92 Royal Mail Steam- - 61 lE. 4. p. c, 100 0 0 60 0 0 54 South Australian ....• 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 19 Tan Dieman's Land.. - 100 0 0 29 0 0 - RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, JUNE 5. STOCK EXCRANGIL—The market was very active to-day, with a slight improvement in prices. The transactions were • Great Western Quarters, 14 1 4—Midland, 38—London and North- Western, 108 q - Taff Vale, Four-and-a-Half per Cents., par. LIVERPOOL. JUNE 5. STOLE EXCUANGE.—The market has been better to-day, and prices higher. The transactions were as follow:—Lanca shire and Yorkshire, Fifths tl. Is. 3d. die. London and North-Western, 10i 11 ,4 —.Ditto, New Quarters. 1 4 P• Ditto, Quarters (C), 3 / 4 p. Midland, 3714 —Ditto. Halves, 264 dis. South-Eastern and Dover, Consul. (No. 3), 15 1 .4—Ditto (No 4), R.gistered, 5 , 4 —Ditto, Thirds, 5 York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 6 per cent. till 18'0, 6k—Ditto. 8. paid, 6 , A dis.—Great Southern and Western, 31—Dutch Rhenish, 5% dis —Shrewsbury and Chester (Oswestry and Chester). 5 4 ,1, MANCHESTER, Risk: 5. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—There wes but a moderate business done to-day, but prices were firm. The transactions were as follow:-Lancashire and Yorkshire, 41—Ditto. Fifths. 9! dis.—Ditto. 32'. (late Extension), 10 dis. - Ditto ( West Riding Union), 8 ils.—Caledonian, 95‘ - East Lancashire, 9-16 Ditto, Preference, Quarters, 6% London and North-Western 10S—Ditto, New Quarters, 1-16 p. Ditto, Manchester and Birmingham, Q carters (C p.—Man chester. Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 17 Ditto, Quarters (No. 1), 9 1 / s —Ditto, Prefere) ce, 8% North Staffordshire, 9 3 4 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 151,4—Ditto, Consoli dated Stock (No. 4), 5 3-16. BIRMINGHAM, Juxx 5. Stock EYCNANGX.—The transactions t of d a y were as fol low :—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 8 3 / 4 dis.—Midland, 37—Shropshire Union, 444 dis. YORK, JUNE 4. STOCK EXCH A NGE. —The transactions to-day were as follow :—Great Northern, , 101. B s . "9d . S heffield, Rother ham, and 0901 e, Prrt, guaranteed 5 per cent., 17% THE FORGERY ON THE SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. Yesterday Mr. William Edward Eicke and Mr. Henry Septimus Eicke, who are charged with being engaged in an extensive fraud and forgery on the South-Western Rail way Company, were further en 'mined before the Hon. G. C. Norton, at Lambeth Police-court. The investigation, which is one of much importance, occupied a considerable portion of the magistrate's time. Mr. Phinn, the barrister, and Mr. L. Crombee, from the office of Messrs. Burchell, Dalrymple, and Co., solicitors to the railway company, appeared to support the charge; and Mr. Games defended the pri soners. Mr. Phinn, addressing the magistrate, said he had the honour to appear on the part of the London and South-Western Railway Company, to support the present charge, or rather charges, - Spinst the prisoners, and it was his wish in the first instance to state, for the informa tion of the prisoners and the gentlemen who appeared for their defence, the precise nature of these charges. He, in the first place, charged the prisoner, Wm. Edward Eicke, with stealing a debenture bond, and also with the commission of a forgery to procure the transfer of the bond; and the other prisoner, Henry Septimus Eicke, he should charge with being an accessory after the fact, in stealing the debeuture bond. In order to understand the matter, it was necessary that he should place before his Worship, and this he should do in as concise a form as possible, the precise mode in which the company carried on the transactions in the department of their vast concern in which the offence which led to the present charge and investigation took place. The company, at the period to which he should have again to refer, received loans upon their debenture bonds, and it was the custom when such loans were offered, to place such applications before the finance committee, and, if these gentlemen approved of the offer, a resolution was passed to that effect. Information was then sent to the parties making the offer, and a request made to lodge the money in the banking-house of Messre.Wil- Hams, Deacoa, and Co., the company's bankers, and directions were then given to have the debenture bonds prepared for the company's seal. This duty was dis charged by the prisoner; but before doing so it was also his duty to make out, in a book kept for the purpose, called the " rough calculation book," a calculation of the interest in order to prepare a coupon for the amount. It was then his (the prisoner's) duty to go to Mr. Edwin Jones, a clerk in the accountant's office, and obtain from him the date of the payment of the money, by the parties lending it, to the bankers of the company. By the ordinary custom of business, such sums were paid in by an order or direction from the treasurer's office which stated the object, in order that there might not be any intermixture of such sums with the ordinary receipts of the company. The dates of the payment of such sums were furnished by Mr. Jones, who had to post such entries into the cash-book from the bankers' book ; and upon the date, the amount, and the name of the party lending it having been so given to the prisoner, he made out the debenture bond. Mr. NORTON--Then the payment of the money into the bankers of the company precedes the making out of the debenture bond. Mr. Phinn—yes, certainly ; and the date upon which the money was paid would also be entered by Mr. Jones in the "rough calculation book," with the calculation of the interest in the first instance, and up to the half-year, and to such entry, if found right, should appear the signature of Mr. Jones. But the fact was, that this book was not to be found, and the prisoner, William E. Eicke, being the last person in whose custody it had been, he was served with a notice to produce it. The rough book, with the cal culation, would also, in the ordinary course of busi ness, go through the hands of Mr. Heath, the prin cipal accountant to the company, and be checked by him on all the preceding points, and, if found correct, he would put his initials to it, and this would com plete the matter for the treasurer to sign and seal, and after completion it was given to the prisoner. It would then be the prisoner's duty to enter the deben ture on the register of the names and residences of the debenture holders, and also to post it in the deben ture ledger, in which the amount secured upon it would be entered to the lender's credit. There was also a numerical ledger kept of the debenture holders, for the convenience of keeping up the numbers, the debentures being numbered in arithmetical progression, so that if any number were paid off it could be used for a new debenture. This book was also kept by the pri soner, and would be produced. He (Mr. Phinn) would now come to the subject -matter of the charge against the prisoner. On the 23d of January, 1849, Messrs. Capel and Co., the respectable brokers, in Threadneedle-street, wrote to - the treasurer of the railway company, tendering 4,0001. on loan for five years, at five per cent., stating that if the offer was accepted the name of the party would be supplied. This letter was entered in a book kept by the pri soner, in his own handwriting, and the offer, having been placed before the finance committee, was ac cepted. The Messrs. Capel paid the money into the banking-house of Messrs. Williams and Deacon, for warded the name of Mr. William Dickinson, of Curzon -street, May-fair, as the lender, and requested that one debenture bond should be for 2,0001. and two of 1,0001. each, He (Mr. Phinn) wished here to mention that the company, at this particular period, were borrowing money under two different accounts, namely, the old capital account, as it was termed, and the new capital account, and the entries relative to this particular transaction, and which were made by Mr. Jones, who received instructions to the effect from Mr. Heath, were 2,0001. out of old capital, and 2,0001. new capital ; and at this point the prisoner's scheme appeared to be con ceived. The 2,0001. old capital was to be divided into two bonds of 1,0001. each, and the numbers given to the prisoner, being old ones and paid off, were 54 and 55, and in the numerical ledger the two bonds were found , entered by the prisoner •to Mr. Dickinson. It would then be the prisoner's duty to take the remaining 2,0001. in the new capital account from the next un • numbered in the new capital register, which was 366. This he did, but at the same time filled up or entered also another 2,0001. to Mr. Dickinson, at No. 367, and it was this debenture bond that had been fraudu lently sealed, and the alleged transfer of it by Mr. Dickinson forged ; and for stealing which, the com pany having received no consideration for it, the pri soner, William Edward Eicke, was now charged. It would be seen by the dates and circumstances that the prisoner, when he made an entry of the bonds of Mr. Dickinson, at 6,000/., must have had two books before him, namely, the finance committee book containing the authority for the receipt of the 4,0001., and di rections to make out the bonds, and also the cash book, in which the amount received, 4,0001., was entered. It was evident, also, that all the four bonds made out in the name of Mr. Dickinson were pre pared at the same time, as it would be seen by the numerical ledger in the prisoner's own hand writing that in a very few days afterwards applica tion had been made and was accepted from a Mr. Carlton for two debenture bonds for 5,000/. each, and they were made out by the prisoner, and numbered 368 and 369. It appeared from the date of the frau dulent debenture that it had been sealed on the sth of March, and, assuming that this was the case, on and after that date it would be in the hands of the prisoner. A period having arrived when it was ne cessary to account for the No. 367, the prisoner W. E. Eicke made an entry in the "debentures falling due book," by which he had falsified the trans.: action. In that book there appeared entered 'he three debentures granted to Mr. Dickinson for 4,0001., the two to Mr. Carlton for. 5,0001. each, and in the line preceding the last entry was one of a debenture bond for 2,0001., No. 367, with the name of Henry Salt. Here he (Mr. Phinn) begged to mention a fact as singularly coincident, namely, that this very bond, in the usual course of bUsiness ' actually got int o th e hands of Mr. George Salt, the banker, in Lombard street, and had been transferred by him to Mr. W. Wilkinson, its present holder. On a reference and an examination of all the books, no entry could be found of any advance having been made by any person of the name of Henry Salt, nor had any money been received at the bankers' from such a person on account of debentures, and if there could be any doubt of the prisoner's guilt it would be supplied by the fact that :though this very bond had been made out by the prisoner himself in the name of Mr. Dickinson, he entered it in the name of Mr. Salt. On the 19th of March this very debenture bond, 367, was brought into the treasurer's office, but by whom it did not appear, for transfer from Mr. Dick inson to Mr. John Wardour, of Princess-square, a locality which it might hereafter be important to re member in connexion with the case. A regular transfer tnust have been left with it, duly Executed by Mr. Dickinson, for the several transfers appeared to have been made on the instrument itself. Mr. NORTON inquired if the transfers were not re. tained by the company ? Mr. Phinn replied, that prior to 1848, they used to be kept; but since then they were given up to the parties with the bond, being treated as documents of title ; but if it had been lent he dad not think it would have assisted the relent inquiry, as the prisoner, Mr. Edward Eicke, having access to it, would no doubt remove it, as well as the rough calculation hook, and other documents likely to affect his me. The Learned Coun , el traced the bond through the different hands it had passed after the transter, or alleged transfer, from Mr. Divkinson to; Mr. John Windsor, to its present holder, and concluded by mentioning a circoncefesnee quite conclusive of the guilt of Mr. :Elward Eicke in the transaction. The circumstance mentioned by Mr. Phinn was the fact, that on the 29th of March the Messrs. Cape! sent in their account to the South-Western Railway Company for a commission on the transaction of 4,0001., advanced through them by Mr. Dickinson, arid this very account _was checked by the prisoner, who altered it from a quarter to an eighth p er cent., his with ' Pv and the d ocument wou ld b e pro d u ced, ti n ot tials to it. With respect to the prisoner P , t he Septinaus Eicke, he (Mr. Phinn) thought thskv't, evidence of his brother introducing him to a bs ° , l , l l , at house as a customer under a fictitious name, vi". 1 , 01 the same time he was only a clerk at th e "ji be's company's office, and dealing with his brcit tto fi cheques, signed in a fictitious name, was se fficiell ling x him with the charge of accessory to the ge e of the bond after the tact. v ir,:tere Mr. Morga n , th e treasurer t o th e South- bed, Railway Company was ca ll e d, an d said that tiog made search f o r a b oo k an d some d oc uments re ly b to the present tr ansac ti on , b u t cou ld not fill! jot He had also looked th roug h th e b oo ks since t h e e examination of Edw ar d Ei c k e an d co uld not fin the entry for 2,0001. for th e b on d' produced. Wig/0 bond produced (the fictitious bond, No. 3611 t efer produced at his office for transfer, a regular Veto must have been produced w ith it. In "P a li the question from the magi s tr a t e , Mr. Morgan B " - 1 0'0) bond bore the company's seal, and his 01r. 0 11 ' gig nature. iett r Mr. George Cadog an , manager o f the ga nr j t hat street branch of the Commercial Bank, derLeedled in June last the pri soner M r . Ed w ard Elegnisoff at the bank, and introduced himself as John ` Y e l i; a ndt and said he lived at No. 17, Surrey-stree t, and wished to open an accoun t w ith the 10 ": 0 (Mr. Cadogan) told him it was usual to W e o e rei troduction or a reference, and he gave a re fe rr re h - e pri• Mr. Henry S. Eicke (th e o th er p r i so ner). "Z o de: soner then deposited with him a debenture 4 1 9" a nd the South-Western Railway Company, No' 3v s iree t ' drawn in favour of Mr. Dickinson Curso e ' o " the May-fair, for 2,000/. The bond prOduned /7 0 1 0 same. It had a coupon affixed, which we re : n( l tb° executed, and bore the seal of the company opr'; treasurer's signature. On the 13th of July pss s soner opened an account, and the'first money op the in was 47/. odd, the amount of the interess, gars - coupon. On the 13th of August the prisne A e 4 o l directions for the sale of th e b on d, and it was " 1- btA of by Messrs. Sewells and Co., brokers to ti lt/ cre dit' for 2,0511., which was pl ace d t o th e prisorlerL.lo 4 The prisoner continu e d hi s accoun t t o Decens e° when he finally closed it. °"tr At the request o f M r . Phi nn , th e w itness reed o the whole items of the account, which se!: bar, commence and end with th e proceeds of t 'fP; The witness was able to s p ea k to one cheq ue e ase' of Windsor's, which had been paid into hie $, 6)0 by the prisoner Henry S. Ei c k e , w ith the e l vbstB B of 6/., which he recei ve d. Wit ness co uld not •, - ,aser ° his memory with ever having seen both the P r ' The at the bank, or at any other place, togetht othe t prisoner Henry S. Eicke did not introduce tti'g prisoner personally, but he recollected than k a 7o l ,: for the introduction of Mr. Windsor. g enrJ bat i r, mus Eicke had been introduced by a dire nt°f 'loo l6 l account was a very small one, and he finally c h - 0 1 0 `i Mr. Cadogan, in conclusion, said he thought . c iot been dealing with gentlemen, and bad 13° 0 0 Ply one of them was a railway clerk at the tit:0; 0 00 5 contrary, from having such an instrument in bri o, ses:,ion, he considered hi m t o b e a ma n of tbri ffi " n sol:' Mr. George H. Elwin, a cl e rk i n the e nitt i office, was next re-examined at so me leugtiZ„ evidence was principally an identification of tP ;pai r writing of the prisoner, Mr. Ed w ard Bickel ' the conclusion of his evidence, a o f tid e Mr. Phinn applied f o r th e f ur th e r rens° r oe prisoners, remarking that further time 104, site to make the necessary exam i na ti o n of a, cumstances by the active and intelligent offie A e l l s' who had the case in hand. It was admitted Cadogan that one payment of 1,500/. had been * J P to the prisoner, and it would requ ire sere e l t o make the necessary inqui r y as t o how the been disposed of. to,,j Mr. Games would not offer any object i° i e d P;A remand of one of the priso ne rs, but subm it hi t nothing had been said a b ou t th e o th e r but / 1 " -- to, consistent with perf e ct i nnocence . a 10 d Mr. :NORTON could by no means art diet opinion, when he found him dealing with t", e ba ns of his brother i n a f e i gne d name . H e shoulnLoesr objection to admit hi m t o b a il i n two se' v 500/. eh, and hsf in 1,001. , ids tie The p ac risoners were then remanded to a I° txi The folio' UP to this d of returns o Present rep *4* Whe Local Conn Tz - i'S. fe THE COUNTRY MAR-..- stlie r ibi LIVERPOOL, JUNE 4.—Attendance small and 'g a l es 0 1 4 markably fine. Wheat trad e s t ea d y . M o derate o ut 06,i full prices of Friday. Flour moved off slowlY , b rail alteration in value. Oats and oa t mea l qu ite as de ar ; $ 01 4 ,1 1 1 and malt a moderate sale at last wee k' s ra tes. Bet frl'r each rather cheaper. Indi an corn h e ld firmly - IM j prices. Sales are, however, limited. , best l e LEEDS, JUNK 4.—We have fair arrivals et 4 1, el weather is very fine, and h as it s usua l e ff e ct on ''„..i i tspif the millers, who purchase cautiously. Fresh DIP 0 1 1 are not plentiful, and suc h f e t c h equa ll y Fr idays n,l p sorts without alteratio n i n va l ue , an d no t much d°letar nominal. Beans, o at s , an d s h e lli ngs , i n limited ''' 0 1 before. Peas very quiet. el 4 NEWCASTLE C ORN MARKET, JUNE 4.---lrbort continues most brilliant, i n • spite which, with 26 . b ,40. 14 of wheat both from the country and abroad, the ..., - 111,1 ' firm, and Saturday's rates were fully maintained. "" Or 0 demand. Flour was taken off freely at full prices' ba t o p barley met with an i mprove d d eman d at sorae lv ostV prices. In o a t s an d o th er gra i n t h ere i s no c hat/P oo rierl NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET JUNE 41- 20 ,1i1e, of beasts about the same as on this ' day week. w e A r superior. Trade ruled dull, at a decline of Id per s',,, OP, re, left over unsold. The number of sheep and hua li s etile i the show of last week by 1,000. Lambs were al 0 si o r quest, at former rates. Sheep were a slow o,,,a le 'lletl'ltl ti reduction. Beasts, 700 ; sheep and lambs, S,CuY• t o ot , ' to 5s 6dper stone of 141b s ; mu t ton , 4d to sd ; e s ' to 7kd per lb. i ere 4 9 EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, JUNE -.. --11 b1,, A1 the meal market to-day 38 sacks oatmeal, each wei s i t '„y imperial, whereof 18 sold thus :-15 at 11 lOs Od,, t ho 1 at 1/ 9s Od, and 1 at 11 6s ; average price 1) 07 ,, ~9 sr 1/ 9s 8d 4.l2ths. 2 sacks' flour, which sold et b t ti F ' A pot-barley, whereof 8 sold thus ': -3 at li 4s, 1 . 1 ,0, 4/, 4at 1105 6d. I sack brosemeal, which was 10 ' "jiffl t oP 4 ' EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKEfe too For Oat straw, from 7s Od to 9s Od per ke le of 1 6 5 to Inp ,oa 0 ,5 wheat ditto, 7s Od to 9s Od ; barley ditto, i 5 o ee o l Hay, from li ME AL t 2d per stone. T ere Of 0 DALKEITH MARKET, JUNE 3.-- b ., c s , 9 0 1 bags oatmeal and 1 of barley at this i's,,.' per, A sales quick. Top price of oatmeal up 6d per b,I I Pid ye r ej second quality also 6d up ; barleymeal advarreeand _e imperial 0",4 Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Snee,cad .. ... ... 30$ Od ' ,2 '' 01 la d Barleymeal, per ditto ... 173 91 ----5 od / 14 Peasemeal ... ... ... ....s Od •"' s o L I j Flour ... ... ... .., —s Od --14 ocl ' • Pot bar ley ... .. „. —s Od --3 ' A s r .11 ARRIED. Olt t ' k fi r ht On the 3d inst. at Christ Church, Chorle),,,'lbbisOpi°l William Stephen 'Thomson, M.A., rector of Victorlel to Sarah, daughter of John Barnes, ESQ., ho On theuse, Herts. char g ° o f 4th inst., at Trit:ity Church , Chelsea, h oc • Esq., of HorSham, Sussex, to Jane, second Chelsea, late IV. Miller, E.4q., of Brighton. / A l, 012 CL) tia ,, fil 'l',.. On the sth lost, at 15, Queen-street, J , ..-i - 01 ,1 wife of William Ley, E.g. 13 1) John On the td inst , Lieutenant-General Sir - , 1, 4 KG. ii.. in Upper Harley-street g if f tic ed On the i^.olh ult., at Righton, aged '2B, th e - e fe illi tir ,C 47 1" On the 2d ins'., at Grately, Hants, aged " ' Oi l i 4 1 111 " '4 l wife u sW A,y a n o . r N r v o t , e f .h l f y n i n il h r vg s e e , : Sussex.l EZlAv..lGale, William` 'Ef sflq"juNsoCro4lele n org e e On the ith inst., at Ca.rnberwell, aged 65, —e ifh Esq., of Mincing-lane. grectCorainofbrCidlgaPei3l/9:4 „p Air. e goe On the ..th inst., in Great Tower-street, 3 0 , 1 0 1' combe, aged GI, thirty-two years principal clerk t . l itt of C r the 25th Metersult. trust at Ea o s frtbo the urne,ay of L G ond 1 1 . 34, lb?tl .. ja , tbe On a ged i i of Mr. J. A. Brown, of the Academy Eastbourne , %.ndon... Printed and Published by hantis„, 24 1 0 ' o k 12, •:• , ar.rl., Prlpter, at Th.o. ..11.1* .n: 0 ,10 1 . 7:41,C( . ' ,-.••., .. • 'h . ' ' V.i i • 15 "* hi.i.idiesem, Thursday, June G , 1850.. 6. PaICES OF SHARES lii BANK::, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM. COMPANIES' STOCK. Fron the Official List. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING, LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 4_ ZOTN 'T -STOCK BABTXS. East and West Ina's... East Country London .. • • . Ditto 80nd5........ fit. Katharine ........ Ditto, Scrip...—. . • . Ditto 80nd5•....... Southampton •• ...... Name of Company. Charing.CTO:3 • . . Soutlivrrk • . . • Ditto Nn of 7% p.c. Waterloo ............ Vitt) Old Ann. ail. Ditto Nw ditto of 71. Vauxhall .... Ay. DOCHX. Amount of Share. 'ORES Amount of Snare. X s. d. 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 A. s. d. 100 0 0 115 3.,, GAS—LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIBS. Dividend Amiunt Name of Company. per of raid. 1 ?ries. Annum. Share. .--.... X. s. d. A. a. d. British •••••••• • • •• •• 11. 40 0 0 1$ 0 0 14 Ditto Provincial.... It. am. 30 0 0 20 0 O 20 Brighton ••••..• • • • •• 51. 20 0 0 City of London ...... 61. 100 0 0 150 0 0 Continental Consolidat. 92a. 75 0 0 31 5 0 Equitable— .......... 501. 50 0 0 50 0 0 28 Imperial .. . ......... 31. 50 0 0 SO 0 0 69,,k; Independent .......•• 61. 40 0 0 40 0 0 48 50 0 0 50 0 0 Ditto 50 0 0 50 0 0 Do., Parl. Preference Cl. 25 0 0 210 0 4%1. 50 0 0 49 0 0 21 leateliff .... . ....... 51. 100 0 0 90 0 0 7S United General .... • • 7s. 6d. 50 0 0 50 0 0 15U Westmluster Chartered 31. 60 0 0 46 Ditto, New .. -... 12s. 50 0 0 10 0 0 534 VITATEX- Name of Company. East London.... .• •• •• Dividend per Annum. Grand Junction •• •• .. 41. per cnt. tent— • ...• •. 31. 101. Lambeth ............ j 51. per cnt. New Itlyr Ludn Brdge Vauxhall West Middlesex . . . 21. 10e. hi• per ant 1 61.02, pr cut X s. d. Stook. 100 0 0 Stock. Stock. 5 6 0 0 ►mount •f Share. A. a. d. 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 70 10 3 Paid. 4 s. d. II 6 0 0 50 • 0 Paid. 90 0 0 4S 0 0 Paid. X i. 1. rrice. Price Prim RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. DERBYSHIRE, STAFFORDSHIRE, AM) WORCESTER SHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY.—The adjourned meeting of the shareholders of this company was held on Tuesday at their offices in Guildhall Chambers, Ba singhall-street, Mr. Alston in the chair. The report of the directors stated that the taxation of the bill of costs of Mr. J. A. J. Macgregor, late solicitor of the East and West Junction Railway Company, amalgamated with this company, had been, closed, and that from the amount of the bill delivered (2,1161. 165.) there had been " taxed off" 1,386/. 153. sd. The taxation of the numerous bills of costs of their late solicitor, Mr. William Arnold Bainbrigge, had also terminated, so far as regards the charges therein objected to by the directors, and the amount of cash paid to and for him had also been proved to the satisfaction of the taxing master. The total amount of such bills of costs 09 delivered in was 23,900/. Os. N., from which there had been " taxed off" 15,6911. 6s. 7d., leaving a balance of 8,2081. 14s. due to Mr. Bainbrigge. As there had been 10,568/. 93. 2d. cash paid to him, there remained a balance due to the company of 2,3591. 153. 2d. The report concluded with an assurance that every exertion would be made to realise, as soon as possible, this amount. Mr. G. Leger moved the adoption of the report ; and the chairman in putting it, took occasion to observe that the meeting though small was regularly consti tuted, and therefore justified in conducting the pro forma business of the day. He commented on the principal facts of the report, and on the difference between the company's bills before and after their taxation, as affording a lesson to other railways to find some person able and willing, as his friend and colleague Mr. Harris had been, to put such things on their proper footing. The usual complimentary votes terminated the proceedings. GREAT NORTH OP ENGLAND RAILWAY.—On Monday, the 3sl instant, a general meeting of the shareholders in this company took place at the office in Darlington, for the purpose of considering a Bill (as amended by the Committee thereon in the House of Commons), intituled, "An Act to amend the Great North of England Railway Purchase Act, 1846, and to enable the York, Newcastle, and Ben. wick Railway Company, to complete the purchase of the said Railway?' . There was a large attendan ce of shareholders present, Mr. Plews, the chairman of the board of directors, presiding. A letter from Mr. J. G. Hubbard, the chairman of the special committee appointed to arrange the purchase with the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Company, having been read, pointing out a modification of the Bill to which the Committee had assented, a resolution approving of the Bill was unanimously carried, and the meeting sepa rated with a vote of thanks to the London committee and to the chairman. SHROPSHIRE UNION RAILWAYS AND CANAL COM PANY.—SHREWSBURY, TUESDAY.—An extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders in this company was held at the Lion Hotel, this day, for the pur pose of considering and approving or disapproving of a Bill now pending in the House of Lords, entitled, " An Act to authorise the abandonment of part of the undertaking of the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company, and for other purposes." At a late meeting of the company the directors laid a Bill before the shareholders, which was sanctioned, on the con dition that the calls should be limited to 61. 10s. In the Committee of the House of Commons, however, the promoters o f th e A c t increased t he calls to 101 . —the Londo n an d North-Western Company not guaranteeing any dividend on th e additional 3/. 103 . Earl Powi s , the chairman of the board of directors, presided ; an d a f ter a re port had been read by the directors, setting forth that th e Bill would not be pro ceeded with if it were found to compromise the exist ing agreement between this company and the Lond on and North-W es t ern , a three hours' discussion took place, which resulted in a motion approving of the Bill subject to such alterations as may be made therein by Parliament being carried by a majority of 59 against 21, the number of shareholders present. INDIRECT MURDER.--The official Milan Gazette _____----- relates the following singular attempt at indirect murder:— One Philip Agrati had since 1845 had criminal intercourse with Feli c it a Pi co zzi, the wif e of Constantino Lom bardi. Agrati being a widower, Lo mbardi alone was in the wa y of his union with FeHefts. With her connivance, he took ad vantage of the severe laws on the concealment of arms, to introduce t wo pistols and am iunnition into Lombardi's house, and then i n f orme d the military authorities of the fact b y an anonymous letter. Lombardi was brought in consequence before a council of war, and was in danger of being shot; but fortun a t e l y an inquiry wits set on foot, and the conspiracy discovered. Agrati has been condemned to hard labour for eight years, and his accomplice to the same period of impri sonment. TII 14 METROPOLITAN INTERMENT BILL.--This Bill, with the amendments made by the Committee, has been reprinted. The amendments are the following.--Pur chases and works not to be made or done without the pre vious sanction of the treasurer . The Board ma y make pro vision for funerals being conducted at fixed charges. Com pensation to be given to incumbents. Comprisation to incumbents entitled to fees on burials in other parishes. Special provision for cases where incumbent now derives profit from interments of bodies brought from other parishes. Compensation to be made for fees payable for parochial pur poses. Power to compensate individual rights in cksed burial places by the grant of equivalent rights in new grounds. Foos may, at the request of relatives, be paid to minister per. forming service on interments in unconsecrated ground. Power is given to convey chapels in out-lying parochial burial-grounds to trustees for the parishes in which they are situate. And, lastly, provision's made for dissolving Ceme tery Companies. GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH. --- Yesterday R. Government Bil! was printed fo r confirmin g cer t a in provi , sional orde rs o f the General Boar d of Health, p l acing the followi ng t owns un der local boards of hea lth :—Stratford upon-Avon, Dartford, Newport, Brecon , Harrow, Derby, Dover, Chehuiford, and York. Name of Company. PO I COAL MARKET.—YEirrEnca I • ~,, 1 41:a Bate's West Hartley 13 s Od Ed en Alain .... :•• ..0 1 59 Buddle's W. Hartley 13s Od Creswell - • ',,..t• illo Carr's Hartley ~„ ii i i i Davison's West Hartley 13s Ed South Eden •••" 1',,.# 15 4 0 East Adairs Main lls Oil Stewart'a ... ... "' .. pp) , ... I ' , Holywell North Percy Hartley l3s Od South HartlePs? I .. oy Ravensworth'sW.Hart 12s 9d West Kelloe ............. 19 0 South Peareth l anfield Moor .... l3s Od Ad e laide Tees ........... ' jeo west Hartley West Wylam Wall's End, &c. West Pease ...... „ ... 15 . 51,4 Bewicke and Co. . s itlef 00.1 Hilda l3s 3d Derwentwater ~. j pi Gibson Riddell ..... ... ...... Walker - 0 ~0% f VtRyAN.—ANOTHER Ilerry FAmir;r; iO.• 00 0 parish, on the 6th inst., a cat was deprived of bkpg r! tiL, with the exception of one, and on the kittens L' hoo to l a cro there was substituted a brood of' wild rabbits s i " th eal `' - d ts, o l old, from the field. The cat nursed and licke u ri titt o t,,'" fully as if they were her own family, and has ec ' er P s , 9 so to this time. The young rabbits follow l i d c or o t,„• house, and she takes them up in her mouth a n pe N oe vo about and seems remarakably fond of theil l ' s, t it , # 0 rabbits are the property of Mr. Francis Syno n „ f oOd —Cornwall Gazette, f MO A rt o e 0 fie f .. iv , ir [ADVERTISEMENT.]—A desperste "- - i v ir, vijedi e 01' cured by Holloway's Ointment and Pills. a ii h' t lie If Sydney, wholesale agent for the sale of Hollow s, is 40 in New South Wales, states that Thomas El " $ 03 00 0, 0 0 ploy of ldr. Charles Thomson, of. Beraniblhis A o , of afflicted for years with scrofula in the neck, s i l b ich ,r;tei covered with a peculiar kind of pimple, out of "ose i be il 0 watery mucus. He bad been at considerable est ) fje t to ts various medicines, but without any good effec t ' v sho rt 0 1 0 Holloway's Ointment and Pills, which in a i ve • r ia l the,,c li o# l„ effectually cured him that helms continnetini- tug' P-00' feet health to the present time.—Sold by all "„d # GO 1 Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Stra" 1 1 , o ff 4 BIRTHS, n Aar. 0 OF A SOX. f tx. J. 01112 9 5 .10 ° On the 2d inst., at Hastings, the wife ° d # thope, Esq., of Whiligh, Sussex. On the 3d inst., at Carlton-hill, St. 0 Edward Hodgkinson , 9 4 % OF A DAUGHTER. ' , p i ric-. :,,p On the 3d inst., the lady of Francis Efsr 4 0 pill Tilney-street, Park-lane. . , 004:1, tb 9 9 e On the 4th inst , in Hill-road, St. John's . '" foil A. A. Mliville, Esq., jun. d ' St' On the 4th inst.; at Burleigh-villa, Bridg e4cul E f Townleywood, the wife of Mr. C. A. Townley 1 1- ..• s,