The Sun. — London, England, 1853-01-27 00:00:00

tratitrZY ambition. SUN OPPICE, Six o'clock. TATTERSALL'S. (THIS EVENING.) METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 30 to 1 agst Wedlock filly. 10 to 1 agst Contentment. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 10 to 1 agst Oscar (taken.) 12 to 1 agst Miss Mowbray (taken.) CHESTER CUP. 20 to 1 agst Lady Evelyn. 30 to 1 agst Constantine (taken). 40 to 1 agst Contentment. 33 to 1 agst Tremble. DERBY. 11 to 1 agst West Australian (taken). 18 to 1 agst Sittingbourne taken). 1000 to 15 agst Contentment (taken). 1000 to 10 agst Mr. Sykes (taken). AMERICAN SLA VERY -THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY'S REJOINDER The Earl of Shaftesbury has written the following letter to the editor of the Times. It is an answer to the reply published in the name of the ladies of America to the address of the women of England have just read in your paper a letter purport ing to be the reply of the American ladies to the address of the " Women of England," on the subject of slavery in the United States. You have inserted so many articles adverse to the ad dress that you will, I am sure, in a spirit of justice, in sert these few remarks in explanation of the measure. If the letter were really the production of American ladies, I should certai n ly regar d i t w i t h much respect and deference ; but its own internal evidence shows clearly that no woman has had any share whatever in the spirit and composition of such a document. Its whole value, in truth, is derived from the fact that it made its first appearance in your columns. Now, were the assertions of the paper as true as they are the reverse, it would be altogether beside the ques tion. We have abolished slavery through the length and breadth of her Majesty's dominions, and we call on our American brethren to do the same in their own terri tories. They reply to us (if this, at least, be a real document) by accusations and revilings on subjects totally distinct Prom the matter in hand. " But the writer is not more happy in his facts than in his reasoning. I shall speak of those alone which eome under my own knowledge. I will admit, for the sake of argument, and that only, that had he composed his paper some twenty years ago, there might have been in it an approximation to accuracy ; such, however, is far from the case now. " One person," he says, " out of every eight is a pauper." I believe, on the contrary, that the working people of Englana were never in a more thriving condi tion, and that it requires but a few more improvements to place them on a footing nearly equal to the physical condition of those in the United States. He charges us with defective supplies for the educa tion of our people. Let him parambulate the country and the towns, and observe everywhere the rapid multi plication of schools and churches. We may be behind hand, but we are labouring to overtake the mischief. It was the present Archbishop of Canterbury who stated in his charge that, during the time he was Bishop of Chester there were more churches built in that vast diocese than in the whole of England fr9m the beginning of the contury. " London," he proceeds, "contains 33,000 needle women, who earn, on an average, only 41d. a day by working 14 hours." Ax off er was ma d e through my a short time ago, to provide lodging and 6s a week for 200 or 300 female hands required in the north of England. The proposition was laid before this formerly suffering clam, but rejected, because their actual condi tion was so much better in London. He speaks of the factory classes with commiseration. He would do well to visit the great hives of industry in Lancashire and Yorkshire. He would there see a pros perous, active, and contented population ; work is abundant, and wages good ; the best feeling exists between the employer and the employed, while a large proportion of them, both children and adults, have en tered on a course of personal and social improvement. The great factory bazaar at Bolton will fully justify this assertion. "A very large proportion," he continues, of your agricultu ra l popu l ation live in filthy and crowded cotta ges, &c." This, I regret to say, is still true, both in town and country. But, have no efforts been made—are none being made—to abate the evil ?To quote but one in stance, did not the Duke of Bedford lately erect 400 cottages, I believe, in a single year ? I can answer, from personal inspection, for their excellence. Are not, many other landowners in all parts of the kingdom en gaged at present in the same course ? The reduction of the duty on bricks has greatly facilitated such operations. We see a corresponding effort for the towns in the formation of societies to "improve the dwellings of the poor," in model lodging-houses, in baths and wash houses, in the larger diffusion of the means of cleanli ness, decency, and comfort. Your own columns have - • recently contained an article on the effects of the " Corn mon Lodging-house Act," showing that under the ex cellent administration of Captaih Hay, of the police, the resorts of the most vagrant and degraded of the poorer classes will at least be purified. Again, about 130 tons have been brought under the operation of the Health Act, and many more are waiting for admission ; nor do I hesitate to assert, from long and anxious experience, that, whenever we shall have applied to our courts and alleys the sanatory amend ments for which we have so long contended, we shall have gone far towards rendering our people one of the most thriving, healthy, and happy on the face of the earth. "There are 30,000 cosiermongers," he adds ; "of these only one-tenth—at the outside, one-tenth--of the couples living together and carrying on their coster mongering trade are married." It may be so, and, if so, we deeply regret it. But their state is, at least, the result of choice ; it is not the result of the power of the owner over the slave, nor the condition of things neces sary to the rights of property and the accomplishment of the commercial policy of the "breeding farms." I might recriminate, if I pleased, and exhibit many deformities that have come to my knowledge in Boston, New York, and other towns of America ; but we have far different objects ; we have a real regard and kindness for our brethren in the United States, and we heartily and respectfully entreat their co-operation. The long and short of the case is this. We have had, and we still have, in England, many evils, but we are doing our best to remove them. They have had, and they stilll have, in America, a great evil, which they not only will not endeavour to remove, but they make it daily worse (witness their Fugitive Slave Law), reviling, moreover, and persecuting every one who ventures to jog their memories on things of vital importance to the temporal and eternal interests of the human race. I am, Sir, your very obedient servant, SHAFTESBURY. Genoa, Jan. 20, 1853. STRIKE AMONGST THE SEAMEN FOR WAGES. --The sailors belonging to this port, Maryport and Harrington, turned out for wages about a week or ten days ago. The seamen belonging to the coal vessels have lately been receiving three guineas and a half per voyage to Dublin and back, and the strike was for an additional half-guinea, making the voyage amount to four guineas. The demand, we are glad to state, has been complied with, and the m en h ave again returned to their vessels, several of which have left their respective ports for Dublin.— Whitehaven Herald. [ADVERTISEMENT].-41 SUFFERER FROM SETE= DE BILITY, AND A SHATTERED CONSTITuTIQR CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—Mr. Reintzes Van Veerssen, a merchant r es idi ng a t N ymegen, i n Holland, had been suffering for years from a general debility, his strength had become so prostrated that he was quite incapable of attending to any kind of business • his constitution was rapidly gi v i ng way, notw ithstanding the efforts of the cleverest medical men to arrest it ; at this crisis he com menced taking Holloway's pills, and by their use his health and strength are perfectly re-established, in grati tude for which blessing he desires that publicity be given to it, that othe rs may seek relief by the same means.— Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Esta blishment, 244, Strand, London. EDUCATION OF TEE JEWS 40 YEARS AGO.—Who. ever among us is enabled to carry his back some thirty or forty y ears, memory must remember the system adopted — if such a mode of instruction ass then . pre a va rt lled could be dignified with the title of system — in what was then called education to the clildr i e ni n p of the ing poorer classes. In a second-floor back room, or more frequently in a back attic, sat an aged man, past labour, w ho, having a beard, was dignified with the high-sound ing title of Rabbi. Around thi s aged teacher, in such foetid chamber, with the thing called a bed in the corner, sat, or rather squatted, a number of ill-clad and, with but few exceptions, dirty children, whpoortroenrse nbfeitnhge taught Hebrew, and to translate some Pentateuch and prayer-book, in a jargon composed of l various portions of the languages of the countries which the said Rabbi might have visited during his migration rom the land of his birth—Poland.—Jewish Chronicle. SHOCKING MURDER IN CUPAR.—It is our duty to re cord an instance of this awful crime which has occurred in our community. The victim in this case is a boy of five or six years of age, and the perpetrator of the horrid deed is his own mother. It appears that Janet Keddie or Johnstone had been drinking hard for some days pre viously, and on Tuesday evening, in a drunken frenzy (irritated, it is supposed, by the refusal of the child to go for more whisky), she seized and maltreated him till the p oor child died under her treatment, as he was found in bed ev i dently strangled. The wretched mother is in . the hand s o f the authorities, and in due course will be tr ied fo r the murder. At resent she is still suffering from delirium tremens Her husband and the father of the boy is a book distributor, tor, and was f rom h ome a t th e time of the mur d er. Keddie has oft ener than on e ce de a r lr s e ta a n d d y, t w h h at en th u e n w de o r m t a h n e lif infl —Fife Herald. of liqu ld.our, attempted to take away her own e. TIM REFORMATION IN IRELAND. During Ire ' the llandast lour years no les s th an 40,000 Romanist s in have joined the Protestant Church. L s THE UNCERTAINTY OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. (Prom the Weekly _Dispatch,. ) Mr. Editor,—The ushering in of the new year with three hangings in less than as many weeks naturally recals attention to the subject of capital punishment, and the wisdom of continuing its infliction, at least as at present managed in this country. The Times has taken up the subject in its usual way, pooh-poohing the efforts of those who have devoted the labours of their lives to it, and then proceeding magisterially to enun ciate its own views as law, and declare the kind and de gree of improvement which it is royally disposed to sanction. Just thus, on a f ormer occasion, did the same journal first ignore th e L eague , then abuse it, and at last, on the eve of the great free trade triumph, march into the arena, and crown itself with laurel as the abolisher of the corn laws. Now, we are told, " the question of capital punishment can hardly be said to be mooted in this country, a few sentimental ejaculations being all that one ever hears on the side of the oppo nents." This statement is the very reverse of the fact. " Sentimental ejaculations" are what one does not hear. They are the coinage of the brain for the sake of cutting a joke. And so far from the question not being mooted there are two classes of persons, neither of them likely to die out, and neither of them at all answering to the description of sentimental ejaculators, who are sure to keep this question before the public mind until it be brought to some just, reasonable, and humane settlement. There are those, and they constitute the first class of opponents, with whom the question is a religious one, and consequently of a permanent character. They deny ' the rightful power of man over the life of his fellow-man. They regard the infliction of death as the prerogative of the Giver of life. Their hostility to the gallows is an article of faith. It is part and parcel of their Chris tianity. Their feelings may, and doubtless do, accord ' with their convictions, but there is no sentimentality in ' the matter. If they sometimes become excited, it is the direct and manly result of principle. Who, except the Times, would think of calling the Quakers a sect of sen timentalists ? The second class of opponents consists mainly of utilitarian philosophers. They deal with the subject secularly, and not theoreticaily. From the battle of Bible texts they stand aloof. They push aside the question of abstract right. If they indulge in sentiment at all, it is after the fashion of Voltaire, who lamented over hanging as the worst use to which we could put a human being. The objection of this class is to the in efficiency of the punishment. They appeal to experience against the notion that it prevents crime. They watch the returns from year to year, and point to the condem natory results of the practice. The philosophy of this class is no vague theory. It is clear, defined, and en during. To the extent of abolishing the gibbet (unless, perhaps, in certain extreme cases, rare and exceptional), they have common cause with the religionists, who rest upon the Bible for their hostility ; and these two wit nesses are never likely to be silenced, until something be done towards the purification of our criminal code. And the Times, by implication, to the useful labours of these classes, even while jeering at them, and thruet ing them aside, that it may take the questioninto its own most potent hands. It t a k es u p th e su b jec t, as it always does, because the publi c m i n d g i ves indication of a change ; and that change is the result of the labours to which I have adverted. People are dissatisfied. The good of hanging is obscured to their perceptions. The Times falls in with the doubt of its efficiency. It ecu fesses a flaw somewhere. It repeats, after the " silly philanthropists," who have said it a thousand times be fore, that " the secret of moral effect is certainty." In that axiom, though the Times does not see it, lies the whole question, compressed as in a nut-shell. It con tains, closely folded up, but yet there in its strength, the essence of the growing objections to the present prac tice ; and for this reason, that yuu cannot dissever death punishment from uncertainty. In the ten years from 1842 to 1851 inclusively, capi tal convictions were obtained, and the sentence of death pronounced, in 612 cases. Only 107 were executed. The murderer's chance, therefore, after the final solemn ity, -is nearly 6tol of escape with life. Of these 612 cases, 179 were for actual murder, and 62 for attempts to murder, attended by dangerous bodily injuries; total of cases distinguished by the accidental results, and not by intent, guilt, or danger to society, 241. Measured by this test, and throwing all other capital offences (such as high treason, arson of dwelling-houses with persons therein, &c.) out of the question, the chance of escape with life for the convicted and sentenced murderer is still about 24 to 1. C an anyth i ng like moral certainty _be predicated of such proceedings ? And how is any close approximation to be obtained ? "Bring it to pass," says the nines, "that every rat i ona l man who entertains and acts on the thought of murder shall feel that, on proof of hi s cr i me , he will certainly suff er the extreme penalty of the law." Ay e , i t comes to this postulation —"Bring it to pass." " Give me a fulcrum " said the philosopher. " Bell the cat," said the conspirators. Not one syllable do we find in reply to the fatal "How? ' And the dictate of actual experience is that you cannot " bring it to pass." The chances of escape, described above, are chances after detection, trial, conviction and sentence. What are they, compared with the chances which exists before hand ? The chances of not being detected, not being convicted, and not being sentenced, we must multiply them more than tenfold. And it is the very nature of the punishment to raise these chances to their maxi mum. The burglar commits murder for the sake of one of these chances. He disposes of the probable prose cutor. He puts the most important witness out of the way. He destroys the life which most of all imperils his own life. He thus gains one point in the awful game which he plays against the laws of his country. The punishment suggests the crime, and so promotes its own uncertainty. When the case comes into court, every legal technicality is strained to the utmost. Over the minds of witnesses, jurors, and perhaps of the judge himself, there is the natural recoil from bloodshedding, though blood has been already shed. The growing objection to capital punishment has doubt less, its effect also. The laws of evidence are tampered with. Proof, which in ordinary cases would be deemed convincing, is resisted on account of its consequences. All these are elements of uncertainty; not of the uncer tainty which, in some degree, attends all human proce dures, but of a peculiar and much larger uncertainty which specially belongs to the case of capital punish ment. There is no extrication from it. Ineradicable sympathies and feelings in human nature provide for its recurrence. Criminals take these sympathies into ac count. They reckon them amongst their chances, even in the worst cases and to the last moment. Barbour persisted in solemn asseverations of his innocence till within a few brief minutes of eternity. Others have per severed still longer. They have not felt that the uncer tainty was over, even when the rope was adjusted. The wretch Horler ventured a struggle while the drop was falling. The difficulty with capital punishment is to make anything like certainty ever felt. "Bring it to pass," indeed ; you must first change human nature, both in the culprit and in all who have to deal with him. There will always be some, stimulated by their general condemnation of death-punishment, to strain every nerve to avert it, in any particular case, whatever may be the merits of that case. There will always be some deeply impressible by the solemn assertions of a man condemned to speedy death, ready to believe him, and the more so when, as frequently happens, he exhibits the marks of religious conviction, and is fervent in devotional exer cises. And there will always be some whose naturally acute minds will be almost preturnaturally excited to disoover flaws in a chain of evidence, reasons for doubt on particular points, want of technical completeness, and theories which may comport with the facts, and with the innocence of the accused, even by directing suspicion towards others, who are not upon their trial, and for whom, if they were, a most obvious and triumphant acquittal must be the result. Who in the world ever seriously dreamed of putting M'Cormack upon his trial for the murder of Robison ? Or the Irish boatman for that of Mrs. Kirwan ? And yet Barbour himself tried the dodge of inputation in the one case, and the friends of Kirwan in the other. These are only instances, which might be multiplied, of the warfare which society wages against any certainty in death punishment. They show an invincible propensity not to let it alone, nor allow it quietly to take its place even amongst the common and inevitable uncertainties of the law. They insure its being, and continuing to be as long as it exists, the most uncertain of all punishments, and therefore the most un wise and inefficacious. Take the case of the convict Kirwan. Is his commuted sentence compatible with any strong doubt of his guilt in the minds of the responsible authorities ? Is he not treated by it as a great criminal ? It is not my purpose, and would be beside my present argument, to enter upon the analysis of the evidence on which he was convicted, or the discussion of the different pleas which have been so rife in the newspapers. I assume that, in the proper quarter, they have been weighed and found wanting. Had it been otherwise, common justice and common sense demanded, not a commutation of hanging for transporta tion, but a free pardon. For be it remembered the case is not one of extenuating circumstances. That ground is taken by nobody. The question is simply guilt or in nocence ; atrocious guilt or entire innocence. The highest human authority has decided for guilt, and has also not decided not to hang the murderer. And the public mind acquiesces in the decision. Here, then, is a deliberate determination—a judicial, a governmental, and a national determination—that, not certainty, but uncer tainty of inflction 'shall be the attribute of capital punish ment. It is of no use to call the authorities to account It is of no use to call public opinion to account. What is done has been done advisedly, and will be done again and again. A different course may be imagined —as what Utopian theory may not be cherished I—but what power, or what period, shall "bring it to pass ?" I have entered upon no abstract arguments. I cite no texts from the New Testament. I appeal to no array of jurisprudential, philosophical, or philanthropic autho rities. I make no question of the right of society over the lives of its individual members. I urge no humane objection s to the punishment itself, nor have I traced its brutalising influences. And assuredly I have not indulged in " sentimental ejaculations." The principle laid down in the latest defence of the gallows is, that "the secret of moral effect is certainty." On that has the reasoning of this letter been constructed. Capital punishment is, from its own nature, and that of human beings, incapable of certainty, and, therefore, of being efficacious, whatever Mr. Caleraft or the Timcs may say to the contrary. PUBLICOLA. MORBID SYMPATHY FOR CRIMINALS. ( Front the Derby Reporter.) Undoubtedly it is a grave responsibility for judge and jury to try the issues of life and death. It is equally certain that the arguments are many and cogent in sup port of the abolision of capital punishments. But these broad admissions leave untouched the necessity of carry ing into execution the verdicts of our juries, and do not sanction the false humanity of intervening between jus tice and the culprit when a decision of proper authority has been once pronounced. Cases may, and occasionally do occur, where fresh evidence arises after the convic tion of the accused which gives a totally different colour to the circumstances that were considered to establish his guilt. Even our excellent system of trial by jury is not free from occasional miscarriages ; and notwithstand ing the circumspection and integrity of our judges, it is within the range of possibility that an innocent man may, be found guilty. On rare and special occasions such as' these, where the probabilities are largely in favour of the accused, it may be well to intervene between the pri soner and his sentence • but we recognise too often a morbid sympathy for culprits, and there is an increasing tendency upon the slightest possible excuse to protect offenders when no rational grounds exist for questioning the justice of their condemnation. Our readers know that a Mr. Kirwan was lately tried and convicted at Dublin for the murder of his wife, the presiding judge concurring in the verdict which the jury returned. A memorial to Government, a reprieve and a commutation of the sentence to transportation for life, have successively followed. Upon what grounds ? The memorial has suggested doubts of the prisoner's guilt. We do not share in those doubts ; but it is beyond ques tion that he must have been wholly guilty, or wholly innocent. If he were guilty, why is the sentence of the law not to be carried into effect in his case, as in the case of any other murderer I If he be innocent, why is he to be subject to any punishment at all ? The delay in Barbour's execution could scarcely arise from any dispute of the conclusiveness of the evidence against him. Yet the remand, and the new investiga tion, served rather to throw a suspicion on the trial, when no uncertainty really existed. Indeed, there is scarcely a criminal convicted in the present day but some bodies of nen are so far carried, away by their sympathies as to believe or imagine ex cuses for suspending the arm of justice. The criminal becomes the object not merely of compassion, but of a morbid public interest ; and the sentences of our Courts are impugned and their authority weakened. Offenders cease to have the certainty of punishment before their eyes ; and the moral sense of the people is liable to be depraved by having outrages and atrocities palliated as soon as the time for their punishment arrives. Their is also a strong constitutional objection to the interference of the Executive powers with the sentences of our Courts, except on most rare and pressing occa sions. The same authority which is exerted in softening the punishment of a convicted murderer, may be exerted' also, in bad times, in exculpating offenders against po pular rights or liberties ; and even the prerogative of mercy may become an engine of oppression when wilfully or unduly exercised. The power which tampers with verdicts in one direction may, by an abuse, tamper with: justice also to the prejudice of the people ; and we be lieve that our liberties will always be best secured by . leaving the judgments of our Courts untouched and un questioned, except on great emergencies. We would not deter those who abhor capital punish- . ments from advocating their repeal. Their policy is a: fair and impressive subject of debate. But we cannot sanction that laxity of principle which simply seeks to whitewash the criminal because of the severity of his. sentence. It is the duty of juries if they believe a man guilty to say so ; and not to measure the punishment and acquit against their consciences, because the penalty may be death. And when found guilty, it is for the in terest of society that the verdict of the jury should be sustained, except in those very few and oocasional cases to which we have referred. We object to that melo-dramatic interest which is now centred round a criminal from the time of his conviction —and which sends him to the gallows a martyr rather than a ruffian. There is no range of humanity so low or debased, that in its sufferings has not some claim to o ur pity or our sorr ow ; b u t whre we shudder, let us not burst into an ecstacy of sympathy—where we condole, let it be with struggling virtue rather than with convicted and impenitent guilt. THE CONVICT KIRWAN. DUBLIN, JAN. 25.—The follower letter, from "One of the Jury," and published in the Weekly Freeman, of Sunday last, having created quite a sensation here, as being the most conclusive evidence of Kirwan's guilt yet published (if any such thing were required after his trial), We give it in extenso : " THE CONVICT KIRWAN. "TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMAN. "Sir,—As one of those whose decision and conduct in the case of Kirwan have been made the subject of so much unfair animadversion and wicked misrepresen tation, I claim a portion of your space to vindicate the verdict, and my own honesty as well as humanity. It might have been fairly supposed that Mr. Dennis' letter would have set these questions at rest for ever, but the subsequent renewed attacks upon us render another answer necessary. " Two main points were submitted by the learned judge for our consideration. First, was the deceased lady murdered ? Second, if she was murdered, whose hand did the deed ? "On considering the first question we had the fol- I lowing circumstances laid before us on the oaths of the fairest and most perfectly indifferent witnesses I ever knew produced upon a trial, not one of them having had any previous knowledge of the parties which would lead them either to favour or to condemn the accused. The unfre quented for such and at dp awas place, caafehad been veryu which singularlynd different gaeewcelr accustomed are ues adapted wnsattaso vpmeanerr no body was found in a place unfit for bathing and e a he u s r e p ; pnu u u tie o ebo s d asb e t e: oh, c di e a b ny a n u g s o ft nice oo f r theba bathing cap on, and there was a sheet partly about it. Every effort was made by the prisoner's counsel to he shake this part of the case, but he only proved it the ast placeenat island. for ut hr w t de h more indisputably. The woman who washed the body, as well as the men who found it, proved that one eye was closely shut, the other partly open, starting in fact from the socket, the whites of both suffused with blood—the nose bent 'over on one side of the face—the tongue protruding from the mouth, and bitten by the teeth above and below—the hair filled with sea weed, there being no seaweed near where the body was found, and none nearer than high-water mark—the hands were turned back and clenched—the belly so hol low that the women described it as sticking to the back bone,' although tha,deceased was alleged by pri soner's counsel to have eaten a very full meal shortly before she was found—the sides blackened uniformly from the armpits to the hips, not bruised in patches or spots from knocking against rocks,. but uniformly dis coloured from the effects of violent congestion, one of the earrings torn out of the ear, and the piece of the lobe hanging on—several scratches about the face and neck, and blood issuing from the ears, nipples, and lower part of the person. Such were the marks, and, as an additional circumstance, the deceased's bathing cap was found a few days after amongst the seaweed and sand above high-water mark some score of yards from where the body was found. " Now, sir, these circumstances are totally incompa tible with accidental drowning or death from epilepsy. They were compatible with only one state of things— death by suffocation and compression on dry land, where the seaweed lay upon the sand. The hour of the death was proved by several independent witnesses, who accurately time the three horrible shrieks of the dying woman as having been uttered a few minutes after seven o'clock in the evening. It was evident at about that hour the unfortunate lady had been decoyed to the spot where her bathing cap was found, and there thrown down, the damp sheet held fercibly down upon her face, whilst her murderer knelt upon her belly ; and that in her struggles to tear down the sheet from her mouth, she tore the ear ring out of her ear, and scratched her own face and neck ; that she succeeded three times in freeing her mouth for an instant, and that it was then she uttered those fearful shrieks which were described by the witnesses as having been cut off.' Thus, and thus only, could her nose have been bent, and one of her eyes kept from bursting out with congestion—thus was her belly stuck as far at least as the depth of his own knees, and her body com mitted to the ebbing tide, he not seeing the little rock which finally stopped it, and over which there was then 21 inches of water. When he returned to gather up the clothes and put them where they were to be found, he lost sight of or dropped the bathing cap, which too much resembled the seaweed to be readily noticed. " Thus, sir, of the fact of the lady having been mur dered and most cunningly murdered, there was not the shadow of doubt. The next question was—Who was the murderer I "Her husband stood before us charged with being the man. Under what circumstances charged ? "He was a bad husband. That was not muoh in itself. " It is false to say we were prejudiced by hearing that he had borne a bad character. We did not know that he was charged with having previously murdered and robbed three or four other persons—with having been a notorious seducer—with having been posted in Dublin as a seducer and a coward, and having been beaten nearly to death by the brother of one of his many victims. All those things have come to light since the commuta tion of his sentence. Not one of them was laid before the court and jury at the trial. It was merely proved that by one woman (not his wife) he had seven or eight children. We judged rather of his conduct, than his possible or probable motives. We looked at these facts. "That eight o'clock in the eve= • g of the 6th of Sep tember, when the sun set at twenty-two minutes after six, and when the weather was cold, showery, and, un inviting, was a strange time to appoint for the boatman to call for a party who would then have been 10 hours in the open air on that bleak island ; that there was scarcely light at seven o'clock for an artist to work by ; that, consequently, at five or ten minutes after seven, Kirwan must have been perforce unoccupied, and relaxed from his occupation, and he could not but have heard those frightful death-shrieks of his wife, which after passing right over the whole of the island, startled a seaman in his boat and made him call to his mates who were in the cabin ; that when he must have been altogether idle from a quarter past seven until eight o'clock, twilight having faded into night, he did not seek for his wife, who was to return with him, and with whom it was pretended he had any quarrel, his defence being that, on the contrary, he was most particularly fond of and kind to her ; that from the position in which she lay he must have readily and at once found both her body and her clothes, had he looked for her before night closed in • that when the boatmen came he was waiting at the landing-place, and that they—not he—were the first to ask where she was ; that when the search was com menced, his stumbling near where the body was found, and where there was nothing to account for it, was sus picious, especially when its effect was to put forward Nangle, so as that he should have found the body ; that the finding of the clothes was also surrounded by suspi cion ; that his throwing himself upon the body and ex hibiting frantic grief was so extreme a contrast to his previous carelessness, that it could not be considered as sincere by any rational man, nor as anything but acting a studied part ; that his pretending to have lain on the body for an hour in the same position while the boatmen were going round was an overdone piece , of the same acting, and afforded a strong con trast to his subsequent conduct in the house at Howth, , when he told the women who objected to changing the appearance of the body, because the police would not , like it, that 'he did not care a d—n for the police,' and that they 'must Wash the body;' that he was wet above the knees, the boatman having distinctly proved that he got no wet whilst in their company, and that such wet ting would exactly correspond with the supposition of his having carried the body into the water, and set it afloat ; that when Michael Nangle, the boatman, first asked him ' where the mistress was,' he replied he had not seen her for the last hour and a half, adding, ' she went in that direction,' pointing towards the Long Hole—so that, by his own admission, he knew whither she had gone, and he therefore could, had he chosen, have gone straight to where her body lay, and have readily found it at any time, instead of leading the men round about it until he made Pat Nangle find it. "To conelude, sir. Had Mrs. Kirwan died in a fit of epilepsy where she worked the seaweed into her hair, she could not have worked along the sand and stoiea 30 or 40 yards to the water. Had she swam out far and taken cramps, and so been drowned, she would not have had her drying sheet with her. Mind, there is and was no mistake about the sheet being partly under her when she was found. Pat Nangle had tied it round the body before Michael Nangle and Kirwan returned with the shawl. Had she gone down to the water to wash her feet, and so had fallen in and been drowned at the very edge, she would have had her boots off, whereas her boots were on. Had she died of fit and drowning together—partly one, partly the other—she could not have got seaweed in her hair—she could not have had one eye shut closely up, whilst the white of it was as much surcharged with blood as was the other protruding eye—her nose could not have been bent down to one side of her face—blood would not have been forced out of every pore of her body—her belly would not have been sticking to her backbone—her sides would not have been uniformly blackened, the more especially as she could not have been bruised against the rocks, for it was distinctly proved `that the water in the Long Hole was as smooth as that in a well.' And as to the blood, the prisoner's counsel proved distinctly, by the cross-exami nation of the nurse-tender of '4O years' experience,' that Mrs. Kirwan was not in a condition which would have been a complete bar to her bathing. Nothing could have been more complete than the proof on that point, which, of course, was not fit for publication. The sug gestion that the,scratches on her face and the torn lobe of her ear were the effects of crab-bites is too silly to re quire observation. That she had been'forcibly smothered on dry land where there was seaweed, her murderer kneeling on her'belly, and pressing the sheet so forcibly on her face as to shut one of her starting eyes closely, bend her nose aside, and swell her under lip, and that he afterwards carried her body into the water, was as evident as if a score of eye-witnesses testified to it ; that her screams were uttered when, during her struggles, she thrice succebded in pulling down the cloth from her face, was quite clear ; and equally clear was it that she had had herself thus scratched her face and torn her ear. " In the struggle, too, she would not have scratched or torn her assailant or his clothes, because all her efforts would have been directed to obtaining air for herself; and it is most probable that he divested himself of coat and waistcoat before attacking her, in order both to save his clothes from marks, and to give himself more free dom and power. " Had she been murdered by another person, not her husband, her shrieks would have called her husband to her aid. The ruin he pretended to have been sketching, was not 80 y ar d s —i t was precisely 218 feet from the Long Hole. He could not have been occupied at the hour, between day and dark, when the shrieks were heard by five different witnesses, at points west, south, and south-west of the island, at distances of half-a-mile, a mile and a quarter, and a mile and a half—the evening being still, and the little wind there was from the north east. He would not have spent the subsequent hour in darkness and loneliness, well knowing that not a soul had been on the: island besides himself and his wife since four o'clock that afternoon, if he had not some very weighty reason for it, and neither he nor his counsel at tempted to suggest any reason whatsoever for such an extraordinary proceeding. "Above all, Kirwan being a thorough anatomist— an anatomical draftsman—a student in schools of ana tomy for 16 or 18 years, must have seen in a mo ment that his wife had been murdered—that she certainly had not been 'accidentally drowned !' yet he aided, if he did not persuade, the coroner's jury to return that verdict, which he could not have be li3ved to be true. No ordinary husband would have been so easily contented. But even a bad husband, being fairly rid of the wife he hated, would have, either in hypocritical pretence of love, or in selfish fear of her murder being attributed to himself—seeing that there was no one else to do it—ha-re pointed out the strange signs about her, and mentioned his suspicions eitherthat she had died of epilepsy, or had been murdered by some who had reached the island in a boat, killed her, and returned unobserved. Of course, nobody believes that the poor lady during her life ever had epilepsy. But Kirwan never could have expected, in the ordinary course of things, to have got such a coroner, such a jury, and such a substitute for a doctor as chance provided him with ; and, therefore, he would have provided for his own security from the cl Large of murder if he had not been guilty of it, and p referred leading all parties astray. And, finally, he would not have left his coun ' sel to flounder through his defence in the dark, and to catch at accidents arising in the course of the trial. He I would have given them a plain, unvarnished tale—not suffered them to guess, and question, and invent theories to account for circumstances which could not have escapedc en , ~ h Sir,e his doubt would observation, if t the h a v e evidence feared a n 4 i w b h e o i f e l dh oney, to hadhe who grapplebeensa ww i inno cent, him doo thn.n the deed could have added much to the crushing weight of those circumstances. Taken together, they left his innocence impossible. I, sir, have long had a conscien tious objection to death punishment. I would strain a point to save a culprit's life, but I could not perjure my self to save him ; I could not, turn it as I would, find a shade of a shadow of a doubt in Kirwan's favour. I deny, sir, as a most foul calumny, that he was found guilty because he bore a bad previous character. I deny that he was found guilty of murder because he admitted that he was a long-professed adulterer. I deny that he was found guilty because of his previous treatment to his wife, or his threats to her, or on account of any of the motives that had been suggested for his being likely to have planned her violent death. He was found guilty because the circumstances immediately attending upon, and connected with, her death, were wholly and entirely incompatible with his innocence under any form of sup position or explanation ; and every honest man, of average sense or judgment, in the kingdom, who has read over the reported evidence, imperfect and incom plete as it necessarily was, must come to the same con clusion.—l am, &c., " ONE OF THE JURY." A WORD FOR THE GRAND DUKE OF TUSCANY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. sir,—The Grand Duke, I perceive, has been severely censured for his imprisonment of the Madiais. The fact is, he has acted in dutiful obedience to his ecclesias tical superiors, and the latter have acted in full consis tency with the obligations of canon law. The able Car dinal who represents the Church of Rome in Ithis coun try will tell you what Dr. Murray, late Roman Catho lic Archbishop of Dublin, stated before the select com mittees of the two Houses of Parliament, May 17, 1825, —that the Bull Unigenitus is received by the Roman Catholic Church. It is part and parcel of the canon law, and obligatory on the whole Roman Catholic Church. In this celebrated document you will find the "crime' of the Madiais and the " duties" of the Grand Duke. The following propositions are selected for condemna tion : " 84. Abripere °Christian- "To snatch the New Tes orum manibus Novum Tea-• tament from the hands of tamentum est illis Christi os Christians is to close the obtutaxe. mouth of Christ against them. " 80. Lectio sacra Scrip- " The reading of the sacred tura3 est pro omnibus. , Scripture is for all men . " 85. Interdicere "To inhibit to Christians naffs lectionem sacra Scrip- the reading of the sacred tune est interdicere lucem Scripture is to inhibit light filiis lucis. to the children of light. " 79. Utile et neeessarium "It is useful and necessary est omni tempore, omni loco, at all times, and iii all places, et omni personarum generi, for all sorts of persons to r strider° et cognosc ere s pin- s t u dy an d know the spirit, turn pietatem, et mysteries piety, and myste ies of the sacra Scriptura3." sacred Scriptures.'! These are very simple truths, and very dear to Pro testants. After them the Church of Rome adds the following censure : " We respectively declare, condemn, and reprobate the above inserted proposition as false, scandalous, impio-as, blasphemous, heretical," Sze. Having done so, the Church adds what so far justifies the Grand Duke : " We charge our venerable brethren, the patriarchs, archbishops, - and bishops to coerce and coamel all who oppose or resist, the aid of the secular arm being called in for this purpose if necessary." From the above extract from the canon law your readers will see that the ecclesiastical authorities of Florence have acted canonically, and that the Grand Duke has acquitted himself as becomes an obedient sub ject and son of Holy Church.—l ara, sir your obedient servant, Jan. 25. JOHN CUMMING. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. THE GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending Jan. 16, 1853 (285iimiles) 1 113,232 16 0 Corresponding week last year (2414 miles) 10,364 3 5 LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAlLWAY.—Traffic re turn for the week ending Jan. 23, 1853 £16,527 3 1 Corresponding week last year 15,302 2 9 CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for railway and steam-boats for the week ending Jan:23, 1853 Corresponding week last year 2,342 8 3 Increase in 1853 £B66 19 1 GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re turn for the week ending Jan. 22, 1853 £3,792 11 6 Corresponding week last year 3,521 11 7 Increase in 1853 £27o 19 11 CORK AND BANDON RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending Jan. 22, 1853 £l5O 4 5 Corresponding week last year l5O 12 - 7 * That arrear had been chiefly caused by the illness of his affable, industrious, and somewhat jovial predecessor. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. LAMBETH.—Henry Godshall Johnson, alias Captain Johnson was again placed at the bar on a charge of ob taining by fraud and false pretences from Mrs. Sarah Stewart, a widow lady, residing at Islington, cash and railway shares to the amount of nearly 1,0001. The lengthened testimony of Mrs. Stewart, and which has already appeared in the Sun, was read over, and at its conclusion the witness added that she certainly should not have entrusted the prisoner with her shares or lent him any money if she had not believed the state ments he had made, and which were to the effect that he had held the appointment of comptroller at Antigua, that he was ne ph ew t o Lord Palmerston, that he should place the proceeds of the railway shares at the London and Westminster Bank, where he repre sented she would get better interest, to her account, that he was coming into money, 2,0001. of which was to be raised upon a mortgage, and to be also placed i i i c l en tl t i i e fie l d ...ont e n a c td eci W ues estltn w et n er Bank. The T a h n e d wi g tness iven to the prisoner, and amongst the number was one for 1001., which she said she had handed to the pri soner in consequence of his having shown hor a letter from a Mr. Garner, who he represented to be the owner of some slate quarries, and from whom he was anxious to take a share in the property. The prisoner did not say where the slate quarry was situated, or whether it was in Wales or elsewhere. In a conversation which the prisoner had with witness, he said " If Lord Pal merston should come into power it will be 4001. a year to me." The prisoner had also represented himself to her as a single man, and had made overtures of marriage to her, but this she treated as a mere joke. He had also represented to her that there was'a title in the family, and that his father was a very old man. The witness added, that she used to keep her plate at her banker's, but as the prisoner kept a good deal of company at her house, she took it home for his use. Police constable James Brown, F 140, said that on taking the prisoner into custody on the 4th instant, he told him he was charged with stealing two gold seals and other things from Mrs. Stewart, and also with ob taining railway shares and money by false pretences. the prisoner said, "Where is Mrs. Stewart ? I can set tle with her in file minutes. I shall be ruined if I should be locked up, as I am coming into possession of 4,0001., and if I should be locked up all night I shall be a ruined .an. The seals I'vo got about me, and the diamond ring I left in another country, and I can get that for her. ' I took him to the station house, and on searching him found 71. in gold, and 11s. 6d. in silver, a gold watch, two gold seals, and the latter he said be longed to Mrs. Stewart. I found at his house 191., another gold watch, two diamond rings, a gold pin, two brooches, all new ; and the furniture of the house ap peared to be all new, and of a costly description. Mr. Elliott inquired if there was any testimony to be produced as to the mode in which the prisoner had ob tained his livelihood for the last six months, for if, as it had been alleged, he had been obtaining a living by , fraud and imposition, it would go a great way to nega tive his pretentious that he was a man of property. Mr. Binns thought that the fact of the prisoner having lived at and having been recommended from the Prince of Wales Hotel, in Air-street, Regent-street, was suffi cient to stamp his character. He (Mr. Binns) was not aware that there was any further evidence at present. Mr. Elliott expressed some surprise that the police constable Brown was was not in a condition after three weeks' opportunity to inquire and find out to say some thing about the character and antecedents of the prisoner, and having fully committed the accused on the charge of Mrs. Stewart, remanded him to a future day for fur ther testimony. SEAMEN REFUSING TO GO TO SEA.—On Monday the ease of the Caledonia came before Mr. Mansfield. Twelve of the seamen were brought up at the instance of the commander, charged with refusing to go to sea, according to the terms of their agreement. Captain Richardson, of the Caledonia, deposed--The vessel is registered 789 tons, new measure, and 12 years old. She is now laden with 1,050 tons of coal. I cannot tell whether there are more or not. I signed weight un known. She is drawing 20 feet on an even keel. Mr. Hamilton is the broker. I shipped the men, and I pre sume they were aware at the time of the cargo. Tho Caledonia is going to San Francisco, California. The ship was clas se d "YE" at Lloyd ' s, an she was making two inches of water in 15 hours when she was deserted by the prisoners. One of the men alleged that she had 2 feet 6 inches in her when they left her ; but this the captain flatly denied. Mr. Littledale, secretary at Lloyd's, dep ose d t h at the surveyor, on going on board, found th e l ea k was not increasing, but on further exami nation it was found that the ship was defective in some places. Mr. Mansfield said, from the result of the offi cial survey in the present case, it is quite clear tkat the ship is not in a proper state to go on her voyage, and that there is no excuse whatever for the seamen being retained in custody. If the ship were repaired and could safely go, and that were proved before hint, then, of course, he should think it his duty to hold the seamen to their agreement. But in the meantime they must be discharged. The prisoners then left the dock.—Liver pool Standard. THE FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT NELI OXFORD.— OXFOID, WEDNESDAY.—An inquest was held this after noon before Mr. Brunner, at the Radcliffe Infirmary, on the body of John Williams, another of the unfor tunate sufferers in the late fatal railway accident near this city, who expired on Monday morning, at ten o'clock. The jury, after a short deliberation, returned the same verdict as at the late inquiry. ELOPEMENT FROM STOURBRIDGE.—A considerable de gree of excitement has been caused in this neighbourhood by the report that a medical man in the neighbourhood had eloped with the daughter of a highly-respectable glass manufacturer of this district. The male delinquent has long enjoyed an excellent practice, is married, and has a family of four young children. The lady is the,eldest daughter of the head of a most respectable glass firm, whose specimens in glass obtained a medal at the Exhi bition of 1851. It appears that the young lady, who is only 18 years of age, was visiting a relative in Birming ham, and on Friday se'nnight under pretence of visiting a friend, left the house, and was not heard of until her distracted father received, on Wednesday morning, a letter from her, dated Lisgard, Ireland, expressing her determination to continue with her seducer, and that a search after them would be fruitless. Subsequent in quiries prove that they left Birmingham by the Liverpool train which arrives in time for the Dublin steamer.— Wolverhampton 04ronicle. MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount ' Nam.. of Company per of Paid. Price Annum. Share- X. s. d. X.• s. d. 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Students, teachers, cler gymen, literary men, and others, whose care and most anxious thought is constantly being called forth, can hope for but little pleasure in their high and important undertakings, unless seconded by a proper buoyancy of spirit and vigour of mind. To secure this, then, becomes the first consideration of every individual ; and the fine balsamic preparation, Parr's Life Pills, of all medicines, is without dispute the best calculated to produce a fine flow of animal spirits, a clear head, and a ready percep tion." Sold by E. Edwards, 67, St. Paul's Churchyard ; Barclay and Sons, Farringdon-street ; Sutton and Co., Bow Churchyard ; Hammy and Co., Oxford-street, Lon don ; and by most respectable dealers in medicine. Price Is. 14d., 2s. 9d., and in family packets lls, each. Directions given with each box. TO THE EDITOR OP THE SUN. Sin,,—The just solicitude, apparent in your columns, to render honour to whom honour is due, assures me that you will admit within them some expressions of regret, from a member of the bar of Ireland, on the loss to that country of the bright est ornament of the bench of the United Kingdom. Lord Chancellor Blackburne having sent in his resignation during the Christmas recess, the Bar were prevented from presenting him with an ad dress—a ceremony which etiquette requires to take place in court. Had it not been for this unto ward circumstance, that body would, as one man; have come forward to record their admi ration of his judicial career—a career of which his tory knows no compeer. In the three most ex alted tribunals of Ireland he has presided with equal honour, and in all stands unsurpassed. Who, as Master of the Rolls, has discharged the arduous duties of that office with the same ability, rapidity, and energy ? Who, again, as Chief Justice of Ireland, ever approached him in reputa tion ? I forget not the classical, eloquent, and impartial Bushe, but yet I fearlessly aver that never was that station filled by a lawyer so able —never was the balance of justice held by a hand so steady as that of Francis Blackburne. The wisdom and beauty of his charges at Assizes, on Special Commissions, and at State Trials, have established for him an enduring fame. It was his lot to preside in chief over the criminal courts at a period when rebellion and murder stalked abroad. Nobly he acquitted himself, and well the Irish Government of that day knew the fact. Early in 1852 he became Lord High Chancellor. The business of the Court of Chancery was then considerably in arrear.* That arrear, together with the ordinary amount of business, he com pletely disposed of before the month of July had ended. _ _ Distinguished men have held the Great Seal of Ireland. We recollect with admiration the learn ing of Lord Redesdale, the colossal eloquence and talents of Lord Plunkett, the knowledge and acute ness of Sir Edward Sugden ; but not one even of those men was so perfectly adapted for the woolsack as Mr. Blackburn°. He seemed to have been created for the place. Extraordinary sagacity and power of mental concentration, unrivalled experi ence and profound acquaintance with every branch of law and equity, immoveable temper and pre eminent dignity of manner, a style nervous, terse, and perspicuous, at times highly adorned—a dis tinct and charmingly melodious voice, a fluent de livery, courtesy almost chivalrous, inexhaustible information, and a marvellous facility in the dis posal of business, formed the rare combination of qualities which proclaimed his fitness for the Prm torship. Before him justice was always aided in her struggle with technicality. The innocent pri soner hailed him as his judge—the guilty man knew that his fate was sealed. Every lover of Ire land must deplore that such an intellect should, in its zenith, be allowed to lie fallow. Remonstrance is now too late ; but might not such a judge, a statesman so moderate, the Attorney-General of Earl Grey and Sir Robert Peel, have been preserved for his country's sake ? The attempt, though per haps unsuccessful, would at least have reflected honour on the new ministry, and gratified the na tion. Would that of him we could say as Chan cellor—" Sedet ceternumque sedibit." Respected by the judges, and adored by the Bar, he retires, after forty-eight years of uninterrupted public ac tivity, into private life, where he is as much be loved by his friends as he is popular with his fel low-countrymen. YEQUITAS. Dublin, Jan. 21, 1853. PRICRE OF SHARES. IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM. PANIES' STOCK. From the Official List. PUBLISHED EVERY TUEnDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING, LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25. JOINT-S rom BANKS Dividend Amount Name of Company, per I of Paid. P. ice. 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Atlas . ...... 188.641, 50 0 0 510 0 •.,0% Argus Life ...... .... 41. pe r c en t. 100 0 0 16 0 0 - British Coml.-in:dal .. 7e. 6d. 50 0 0 50 0 7 Clericl.Med.&l3en.Life spr ct.& bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 20% County .... ~........ 4/. 100 0 0 10 0 0 120 Crown .... ..... ...., 14s. 50 0 0 50 0 17% Eagle .... 58. 50 0 0 5 0 0 7% Equity and Law...... 4% per cent. 100 0 0 5• 0 0 5 k European Life ...... ... 15s. 20 0 0 All paid. - „ Genera 1.............. 5 0 0 5% - Globe •.. 61. per cent. Stock. 149 Cluardian ............ 5/ . per cent 100 0 0 45 0 0 61 Imperial Fire ..... .... .421, per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 956 Imperial Life ....... .. 12s. 100 0010 0 0 10 % Indemnity Marine.... 11. eb. & 4 4. 100 0 0 20 0 0 59 Law Fire ts & 2s. bs. 100 0 0 210 0 4 % Law Life. •• - ........ ..... 100 0 0 10 0 0 60 Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 8% London Fire London : - hip.... ..... Marine......... •• • • bled. Invlid & Gen. Life 4%1. per ct. 50 0 0 2 0 0 3 Minerva Monarch •• - - .... - 5 0 0 1 0 0 201. National Loan Fund 5l. per cent. 20 0 0 910 0 2 % Palladium Life ... .... : 51, per cent. 50 0 0 9 0 0 3 Pelican .......... „ - - - 45 Phoenix - - - 173 Pro. essional Life-- - 51. per cent. 6 5 0 010 0 % P •vicieta. Life........ 11. ss. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 40 Rock Life.. ...... -., ss. 5 0 0 010 0 s Royal Exchange .... • • 6/. p.ct. & bs. 'Stock. all 235 Sun lire ..... 61. 10s. - 11, 211 itto Life - Of 55 United Kingdom .. .. 41. p. ct. & bs. 20 0 0 4 0 0 4% Universal Life - 21.55. per ,h. 100 0 0 10 0 0 45 Victoria Life ..... .• • sl. per cent. - 412 6 4 n% BRIDGES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid . Price Annum. Share. - £ s. d. £ B. CI. Hungerford .......... - - - 12 Sonthva.k ......... - 100 0 0 - - Ditto New of 7% pc. 70s. per cent 50 0 0 - 16 W•terlon - 100 0 0 -3%, Ditto Old Ann. of 81. V. Ils. Od. ___. 4;0 0 0 24% Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 2/. 2s. Od. - 40 0 0 '.. , 4; Vauxhall - 20 WATER-WORKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. -- X s. d. X s. d. East London - 124% Grand Junction .... • • 4/. per cnt. 50 0 0 - 69 Kent.... .. .... - 84% Lambeth - - 100 0 0 - - New River Compcny 21.105. - - 60 Southwark &Vaaxhall 51. per cnt. 100 0 0 - 90 5% est Middlesex • - - 1 ll DOCKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ---- £ s. d. A I* d. Commercial .. .. .... .. 41. pr cent. Stock. East and West India.. 6)41. pr cent. Stock. 168 ex East Country 2os. per sh. 100 0 0 --- London .... ... •• • • 51. pr cent. Stock. 129 ex Ditto Bonds II. per cent. St. Katharine Southampton Victoria CANALS. ..; I 4 Dividend Names of 0 , !Dividend „,,_. Mammas E per ~,,,„ Companies. 4 per - '''"' Companies. :A Annum. '''''''' ..1 se Annual. so - _ .£ X Ashtnt Oldh 98 7/. p.ct. 140 Macclesfield • 100 21.105. 50 rtarusley •• • • 160 Noath •• •••• 100 161. Lirknk/c.A.brg 150 54. 82% Oxford.... •• 100 131. 182 Rirmiugham 40 41, 1051, \ Peak Forest. 78 31. 182. 70 Coventry.... 100, 257. Regent's —.• 32 11. Oa. I 6 , ;( 1 Derby ••• •• 100; 61. 68 Rochdale.... 85 2i. 42 Ellarnro&Chs 69,2% p. ct. 3%3( y Serareet Coal 150 Orand.lunctn 100 3/. pr. ct. 60 Do.LkFclSt 12 Do.. 6 pr• Ct. 10 61. pr. et. 12 Strfrel &Wore 1 40 281. 405 Grand Surrey 100 21. 10s. Shrewahary.. 125 ; ' Grand finical 100 11.10 2 . 24 Stonrbridge.. 1451 201. 290 Kenut&Avn 39 6s. Od. 7% S evern an d Lancaster . 100 Wyeltail. t 261 2/.os. 24 Leeds&Livrp 100 251. 550 Warwick& ' Leicester ..•• 100 51. 66 }fi rm i ng. j 1 00 1 41 . 40 LeicstrkNth 83 41. 44% Warwick& Loughboregh 142 701 . 510 Napton.. } 100 31. 28 siomnouthsh 100 -- Worcstr & Untgomrysh 100 1 Birmin g .j 78 31' 33 Meltn3fwbry 100 • Wilts k BrkS ' 108. Od. liz 10s. Od - nrita ' 108. Od.l 714 GAS-LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. vid Name of Company. Diperend I AMenlll of P aid. i Pri ce , Annum. Share. British ........ 4. e. d. Z. a. d. Aitto Provincial 11. 85. 20 0 0 20 1T) 0 29% 51. 20 0 0 20 0 0 16 City of London 6l, 100 0 0 150 8 0 125 Continental (3d Cap.) .. 41. 75 0043 10 0 69 EqUitable 50s. 50 0 0 50 0 0 26 Great Central'.... 10 per cent, 10 0 0 10 0 0 14 Imperial 31.1;;, bonus. 50 0 0 50 0 0 87 Independent 61. 40 0040 0 0 46 L0nd0n............ 50 0 0 50 0 0 - Do., Part. Preference 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 25 itcenia 3il. per cent . 50 0 0 49 0 0 27 Bateliff 51, 100 0 0 90 0 0 - United General ll. 50 0050 0 0 217 i, WestsainsterChartered Si. per cent. 50 0 Ditto, New 51 50 0 0 37% . per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 6 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. hank of Scotland 71. per cent. 106 0 0 100 0 0 190110 British Linen Comp..* 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 2091 0 Caledonian Bank City of Glasgow Bank 8./. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 0/ Os Clydesdale Bank-- • • 61. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 3 3, Commercial Bank ••• * 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 1801 0 Eastern Bank.- .• • • 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 101 55 Fldlub4,olasgow Bank 3/. per cont. 5 0 0 5 0 0 41. Ils Exchange Bnk of Scot.. 100 0 0 31 5 0 9s. (A national Bank.. .• ..* 6% per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 161 Is tiorthof Scotland Bank 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 31.17 s itoyalßank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 'lOO 0 0 1 i5llO Union Bank of Scot ..* 81. per cent. 100 0-. 0 50 0 0 931 Os Western Bank .... Alliance Fire and Life 8% /. pr cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 21112 s British Guarantee Caledonian Fire Incur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 251 Od City of Glasgow Lite 6l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 41. lba Colonial Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 1 0 0 3/. 3s Edinburgh Life Inaur. Si. percent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 1 24/. Os Eng.& Scot. Law Life 51. percent. 50 0 0 217 63175 6 Life"A.ssoc. of Scotland 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 110 0 3/. 178 National Fire and Life 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 11. 14s North British limn.- 61. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 35/. Os ScottishUnionlnarnc.* 7541. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 333 Oci Standard Life United Dep.Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 21a. 6d * Ex Dividend. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSE► 3 REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JAN . . 22. Zymotic Diseases -- Diseases of Uncertain Seat Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of Respiration l7l Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digeston 56 Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. Malformations 4 Premature Birth and Debility 2O Atrophy 26 Old Age Sudden 5 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance l7 Causes not specified • 196 • 49 • 198 . 115 • 36 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES . West Districts .. North Districts.. Central Districts. East Districts ... South Districts . Totals Males Females Population enumerated. 18b1. 376,427 490,396 .. .. 393,256 .. .. 485,522 .. 616,635 ... 2,362,236 994% Deaths in corre- Deaths spending week in the of 1852. Week • 162 185 176 230 308 1,061 994 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males... Females Total 790 787 1,577 COUNTRY MARKETS. EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET—JAN. 25. There were in the market to-day, 5 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801bs imperial, which sold at 31s. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET JAN. 25. Supplies of all kinds these last six days again large. Oat str-,w, from 7s Od to 8s 6d per kemple of 16 stones iron ; wheat do., 6s Od to 7s Od. ; barley do., 4s Gd to 6s Od• Hay from 8d to 10d per stone. DALKEITH MEAL MARKET—Ter. 24. There were in the market to-day 71 bags oatmeal, lg bags of barloymeal, and 2 bags pot-barley ; sales dull. The top price of oatmeal the same as last week, second. quality, 3d per bag up, and the lowest 6d per bag uP ; barleymeal 6d per bag up. Oatmeal, per sack of 2801b5 First. Second. Third; imperial Barleymeal, per ditto Peasemeal, per ditto -s 6d —s Od —5 IP- Flom-, per ditto —s Oct —s Oct --s Oct Pot-barley, per ditto COAL MARKET-Jmf. 26. Prices of Coal per ton at the doss of the market : s. (1. .15 0 15 6, 14 6 15 6 .15 6 .17 9 0. cl• Kepler Grange l7 6 ,, L am bton lB " Lumley 0 17 n , " P ens h er 17 " 0 Scarborough l7 Stewart's 18 6 ,, Plummer l5 Russell's Hetton 18 ° C asso p l7 q Hartlepool 18 ! Hough Hall.. 17 " Kelloe 18 ° South Hartlepool ..... . l.B 3 0 South Kelloe 17 Adelaide Tees 1 8 6 Backh o use 17 ° Pease's West 14 9 South Durham 17 9 18 6 Tees 'Cleveland Tees 16 Woodhouse Close l5 60 Birchgrove Graigola ....- o 25 Victoria Steam 14 g Llangennech 25 " 0 Nixon Merthyr's& Cardifl 2s 0 Powell's Duffryn Steam 2 5 6 Ramsay's Canal 26 Bate's West Hartley.- Huddle's West Hartley Burnhope Carr's Halley Hasting's Hartley Holywell. Howard's West Hartley Netherton 15 6 North Percy Hartley l5 0 Pelton Main l5 0 HavensworthW. Hartley 15 0 Tanfield Moor l4 9 Tanfield Moor Butes 14 9 Townley 15 0 West Hartley 15 6 Smith's West Hartley l5 6, Willington Hartley l5 0 Wall's End, &c. Acorn Close Hodley.. Lawson Northumberland E Riddell Walker Clennell Marton Hetton Haswell 16 9' 16 9 ..16 0 ..15 6 ..16 9 ..16 6 ..15 6 ..16 9 ..18 6 ..18 6 Ship. all market 2 13 I Sold ll4. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JA.N. 26. , 0 41 STOCK EXOTIA.N9II.— Our market opened flatly,.ol the day has progressed it has improved, and we close A t a much better feeling, and a general demand for ek e the rather better prices than yesterday. The following 91 4,41, transactions :—Aberdeen, 14i ; Chester and Birken' /9; 21R; Eastern Counties, 12i; Lancashire and Yorkshir.r,ik; Leeds Northern, 15i ; London and North-Western , 1 77i'; Manchester, Sheffield, and Li nco l n 30$ ; North British, 9 ; South Eastern and Dover, 23i. MANCHESTER, JAN. 26. 00 STOCK EXCHANGE. —Th e mar k et has beeuZr str u' i mia! firmer, but there h as b een very few sales. uarte"' D Freehold, par; M anc h ester and Birmingham C. -. 32; 1 prem.; Dovers, 234; Midlands, M t ; Caledonian' igi; Eastern Counties, 12i ; Leeds, 71i ; East Lancashire' North British, 91-16. LEEDS, JAN. 26. 0 1 STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was an exceedingly 13 %0 market on 'Chaage this morning. The only business was Leeds Northerns, which closed at 15g. , BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 26. , a • till!- STOCK EXCHANGE.—AImost all the transactions . - 1,103 markot to-day were in local stocks, the prices for . $ O, were very firm. . SEABORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the mails are sent from the General Post.° by the night—and M by the morning—dispatch.] ,A., DAWAIMAACI %MACAW %MAW MMAAMI , W D.A. 111tIlil .11111 VITYMUA G 1 by the night—and M by the morning—dispatch.] Day when made up From what whel l COUNTRIES. in General lost- Port duo. Office, London. Dispatched. ------ ed America (byßrit.pack.N Jan. 28 Liverpool „ Arr. • America (by United Sts. packet) ..........N Jan. 25 .......... Liverpool Feb • 3 America (by U States packet) ..........N ...... ... Southampton Australia (via South. 2 4 ampton) ..........?d 20th of each month Southampton Jan. Ditto (via Marseilles N 24th of the month Dover Feb. *Ditto (via Cape of Good Hope) N2d of February.... Plymouth Jon. Africa (West Coast) ..N 23rd of the month. Plymouth reb• la Alexandria* ........ N 19th&30th of mon. Dover Jan' Belgium ............N .......... Dever Dail/ 6 Brazil ...... ........ M 9th of the month.. Soathatonton Feb. 1 Buenos Ayres ...... —ll4 9th of the month.. Soathampsor Feb lb Calitoniia ...... ht -d & 17th of month Southampton F‘b• 2 6 f Cape of Good Hope ..N 14thor the mouth.. Southampton Feb. „6 Cape de Verde ......N 14thof the month . Southampton Feb . ' 4 O Constaniinople..... N 7thl7th27thof mo.. Dover 3 Jan. Central America —.52 & 17ta of mon. Southampton Feb. Channel Isles ........N Mon.Wed.SztFriday Southampton Tu /d & 17th ofmonth • 4 outhampton Feb. France .... M& N Twice daily ...... Dover „„ „ Tv/1 0 ' 4 'i, Greece* ............N 7th 17th27th ofinon. Dover „. JO. Hamburgh Tuesday & Friday London Holland . Honduras .......... N 17th of the month Southampton Fe b. 4011 Ireland M &'N Twice daily Holyhead . .. India (viaSouthampt.)3l 20th of themonth.. Southampton Feb. India (via Marseilles) N Bth& 24th of month Dover „ Feb. India (via Cape of Good H0pe)....... —IN 14th of the month.. Southampton Feb• 96 Mauritius .. Mediterranean (via 2 4 Southampton 20th of themonth , Southampton Feb. , Ditto (via Marseilles).N -ith& 24th ofmonth Dover „ „ Feb.; Mexico „ „ „31 2nd of the month. Southampton Feb. Madeira ............M 9th&23dof the mon. Southampton Feb' 1 7th,17th,190,27th, Malta* ••• • • •A‘ &30th of the month Dover ...... Naples* ... ........N .sthlBth2sthofmon. Dover ...... 2 Papal States*........N ithlsth2sthofmo n . D over ' .. „ „ Feb. Peninsula .. M I th 1 7th27thofmon Southampton Jan' 1 Peru ............ M2d & 17th of mont h g ou th ampton Feb. Tuscany* ..........N s thl s th2sthofmon, Dover ..... Fe b *l West Indies 2d & 17th of month Southampt on Feb. Van Diemen's Land (see Australia) . ......... • The malls for Australi a v i a th e Cape of Good Hope are Innate on the 2d of every rlternate mop :b. Those made up on the tp tanhede2a4pthe of f f G ea o c od h m H o o n p th e. via Southampton and Marseilles are 0° sailing vessels at p resen t f rom Si n gapore. dila ( t Malls are also made up on the 2d of every alternate mon— pi' • The mails to those countries thus marked (*) are wavered French packet to Marseilles. 00 tf The West Coast of Africa mails will not be made up this 0 \, before the night of the 28th inst. BIRTHS. OF A SON. On the 25th inst., at Wandle-houso, Wandsworth, le'll, OF A DAUGHTER. 0' On the 26th inst., at 46, Bryanstone-square, F. Broadwood. W. Langton. MARRIED. ist ^,t Eceltr third se °I the 25th On ~ne . inst., a. 4.wcles, Arthur Henry, -- Sir Benjamin Heywood, Bart., of Claremont, to 't; i l. eldest daughter of William Langton, Esq., of the R o 9'... f ilt On the 18th inst., at the British Embassy, Stu . i. try - to Augustus, son of the Princ e Wilding de RAW" Mathilde, daughter of Captain Gronow. DIED. On the 23d inst., at M a d r y n -p ar k, Carnarvena h , Lieutenant-General Sir L. P. J. P arr y, Knt., we d On the 17th inst., at Stinchcomb, Gloucestershir e 4 r t. 45, Jane, the lady of the R ev . Si r G eorge Provost, t te of On the 23d inst., Edward Clifton Carte, Esq., Falmouth, aged 59. On the 11th of Novemb er , a t P rome , B urma h, of Captain J. H. Rundall, of the Mrdras Engineers, Z.,0; son of the Lieutenant-C o l one l R un d a ll, o f the ar• or' On the 21st inst., at College-house, Brompton, j(1 Gingell, Esq., aged 62. On the 23d inst., at Gravesend, Joshua Jenour , aged 102. On the 24th inst., at 6, Camden-square, G. "'illy(/' Esq., 3.1. D , for 31 y ears physici a n to the SID Hospital. a pt On tho 24th inst., at the residence of his brother, Esq., W. Fulcher, Craven-hill. Hy -pdeark, F. P. Fulch er 6 late Captain 57th R eg i ment of Bengal N. 1., aged 4:„../ C lgt LONDON : Print e d an d P u bli s h e d by .1111Jitl YO I h' X°. 0( of No. 112, St ran d , Printer, at The Sun Office , Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the c° ‘' . . Middlesex, Thursday, January 27, , THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENI G, JANUARY 27, 1853.