The Sun. — London, England, 1857-03-10 00:00:00

VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IN THE MINISTERS. The complaint made has been that the Arrow had no right to hoist Englieh colours. Her date of registration is September, 1855, so that s .me days before this outrage took place her register was said to have expired. Mr. Besley here quot e d ex tracts from s , •veral other despatches from the Bri tish representatives at Cant ).n, and said that no doubt whatever could b • ent-rtained thrt the Chi nese had acted towards British subjects with studied insult. He proceeded to ask what vveuld have been saiu if any offic-r en rusted with her Majesty's com mission, whose business it was to protect the com merce of England, if hi had been cogidsant of such transactions as these, and had not at once asked for permission to repress them ? With re gard to the trans tction wider our more immediate notice, two hours were given for an apolpgy. No apology was, hlwever, made, but a quibble - was set up that the lorcha bad no right to have English colours. This, therefore was a premeditated insult offered to the British managers, and L hold that those men wou!d have been traitors to their coun try if they. had not used the force at their disposal to punish it. (Cheeriu.) Suppose that-Mr. Con sul Parkes had pocket d the affront ; the very men who opno-el the Government on Tuesday n'ght last would h the b-,en the very first to condemn his conduct. (d• ar, hear.) • A French newspaper, the Univers, speaking of oar Parliament, says : " What do these sol.ion debates a.orl philantnropic de. clamations really signify I One soh obyct. The poli tical adversaries of Lord Pal:net-stun wished to Ohtan i his place ; and w!)13 the Porliarnetit of Ifoglaud is gravely disrms,ing the jiistice or kgalit . y of this war, the Chinese are setting a price upon the heads of Europeans, an 1 are surrounding them with as , assins, incendiaries, and poisoners. The Bishop of Oxford, in his speech, evi• dently list sight of all that Christian nations have suf fered. from China. The E n gli s h ora ' ors are realty too considerate when they invoke the right of nation., justice, and humanity in favour of a popuiation which, by every act, places itself beyond the right of nations, and systematically violates all the laws of humanity and justipe." (Hear, hear.) Now, my Lord Mayor, I believe it to be our leDonden duty to back up Lord Palmer ston with- g all o strength. (" H ear, heir, " aril "No, no.) Loid Palmer- on, oil the pres git oc casion, has stood up b defence 01 the r.ght4 of the people of Engla , and I hope . thw he may be generously, and he triAly, and vigorously sup ported. (Loud chet ring.) Mr. Deputy DAKIN seconded the motion, and expressed an earnest hope that the resolution would be carried by a large maj.lr ity. (Loud cheers.) Mr. ABRA_HAMS proposed the following amend ment : "That it i s no t expe di ent f or th i s municipal b ody to interfere in a party and political question." (Rear, hear. Mr. D E I.SE said he rose with very consider able pleasu r e nE re o to s seco second the amendment. said it was the bounden duty of the Court to_ depart from the ordinary routine of their bus dto ress, in the - strongeA and most deter min b elmanner, that the conduct of the Coalition had as not only to justify large meetings in the coußut'h but that that municipal body (the Corp,r totpinoinnliToo'nf London) were a so botuad to express their been upo ii n the same subject. Lord Palmerston had t ' e a i ued uponlen tcithetakhoenotuill reins of Governmentat a , and interests of the country v fe .._ l : f were lu most eictrenie jeopardy, and was just) , enti led to the b.2st th an k s at larg e. and consideration of the community (Cheers.) ' Alderman SALOMONS said he ail not reason .ft , r wit drawing confidenc e • 8 ' any In Lord Palmerston. ' After a short discussion the amendment wa s pot, and after.a show, of hands was taken, tie Court divided, when there appe .red in favour of ti e amendment 13 • an 1, agatrist it, 39 ; majority, 26 . Mr. G ILPIN ;11-nll2ov:A the previoui criostion as en amendment • Deputy GODSON seconded the amendment, which, upon being pip, vas negatived by a consid , rable majority. , The original motion was then put and carried, amidst loud cheers, and. the Court adjourned. .••••••••••••=..11•• The amount paid into the treasury .f the East India Rouse for bills on India from the 25th of February to the 9th of March wet. 82,628/. The departures from the port of London for the Aus tralian colonies during the past wp.-k have cornpri.led four vessels to Sydney and one to Hobart Town, with an aggregate capacity of 3,656 tons. The rates of freight continue to exhibit heanuess. Yesterday a Con, t was held in consequence of a requisition numerously .signed, "to express the opinions of the Court up in the con- equenci , s likely to arise to the coineieree of the con'' , 'a' from h -a decision of the Hou-e of c. m win s on T ue lay l a t, awl to take suet steps !!s they titiy !link ,ry." There was a large wt,m,lance of the nv-_,nhers of both Ceur's of the Corp ra on. Mr. BESLEY Pr o oo , ed, amid cheers, the fell() w ing motion : "That her Majesty' servants i n China have, in the trying sit , aatio n in which they were placed, meted in a manner to s us t a i n the honour of the British flag, the commercial interests of the country, and the cause of truth and ju,tice. "That this Court have l-arred, with feelings of deep regret, the decision of the Honourable House f Con,- mons against her Majesty's Ministers for supporting her Majesty's servants in the dischar ge of their duty. "That this Court presits its ihanks to Lord Palmer ston and her Majesty's Minister-, fir the course they pursued in that occasion, which justly entitles them to the confidence of the coto:try." Mr. BESLEY then said—My Lord. Mayor, I ap proach t with some feelings of regret. I certainly do regret it will be my hudeess to ask the Court to pass a vote of censure upon m-n with ant::ced-mts I have been frequently disposed to be pleased. I regret exceedingly that sacred principles have been made the staltiing,-hor-,-e of faction. Ido feel come pleasure that I think the shock which the late decision in the House of Cem mons has given to the feelings of the p .ople of England—c, , ll them prejudices, if yon like—will be sufficiently p overfill to arouse their sleeping energies. One of the gre itest banes of this country, for the last t:.-n yea's, has been the indifference of the people to rnattyrs of great national import. I hope that inliffe! - ence will cease to exist, and that we shall have the people of England attending to their own affairs. The late Sr R. Peel—than whom we could have hardly a better authority in Parlia mentary particulars—set down as a maxim, that when Parliamentary opposition, un tssociate l in principle, at variance with the principles of the Executive, and that Parliamentary opposition re ceived the support of a majority of tie House of Commons, that it was the duty of the Executive to resign office, and allow the Parliamentary oppo sition to act upon the Got - eminent on their own principles. (Hear, hear.) Now, I ask any reason able set of men to lo >k ar, the division-lists, and see if by any po , sibiity they can cou,plain of the con duct of the Government for the part they have taken in the recent debates ? (Hear, hear.) It is not my intention to detain the C,,iurt by reading copious ex tracts of proceedings contained in this blue-hook— (referring - to the blue-book con aming t'!e papers re lating to the operations at Canton)—but I neverthe less feel i, my duty to teal to you one or two of them. I will red you a despatch from Lord Clar endon respecting altransaetion on the 22d of March, 1856, and which is addressed to Sir John Bow ring : " Sir,—l have received your despatch of the 22nd of November last, respecting the steps which you took, in consequence of the refusal of the Chinese authorities at Canton to surrender, when required to do so by her Majesty's Consul, two lorchas bearing the British flag, and which bad been seized by them on a charge of being engaged in smuggling salt ; and I have to state to you that, having consulted the law officers of the Crown, her Majesty's Go vernment are o f op i n i on that you acted properly in calling in the ail of the naval authorities, and in rescuing the vessels so improperly detained." Now, I find that there are other transactions of the same sort to be found detailed in this volume, which assume the character of a premeditated series of insults to the British flag up to the 10th of Octo ber, 1856. (Hear, hear.) On the Bth of October, 1856, Consul Parkes addresses Commissioner Yeh in these terms : "This morning, shortly after eight o'clock, a Chinese war-boat boarded an English lorcha, the Arrow, lying at anchor in the river, near the Dutch Folly ; and, re gardless of the remonstrances of her master, an English. man, seized, bound, and carried off twelve of her Chinese crew, and hauled down the English colours, which were then flying. (Hear, hear.) Hesitating to rely solely on the master's account of so gross an outrage, I at once despatched people to make inquiries, and found that the facts were as he bad stated, and that the war-boat was said to be under the command of Leang-qno-lung, a captain in the Imperial service. After leaving, the lorcha had dropped down the river, and was lying off Yung tsing gate, with the crew of the lorcha still on board as prisoners." In another despatch, thted Oct. 10, 1856, Con sul Parkes reports to Sir John Bowring :-- "I should mention that the Arrow is sailirg under a colonial certificate of registry, renewable annually, bearing the date Hong Kong, 27t.h September, 1855, and the number 27. She is ti.erein said to belong solely to Fong-a-Min2, of Victoria, Hong Kong, Chi nese trader, hut the pl tee and date of her bills are not given. Her master's name is Thomas Kennedy, a native of Belfast, and a very respectable man of his class, who informs me that he was engaged by Mr. Block, Dani:h Consul at Hung Kong, a nominal mas. ter of the lorcha, which he has hitherto believed to belong to Mr. 13!ock's comprador, and he supposes that it is the compridor's name which appears in the regis ter." COUNCIL. COURT 0 ELECTION INT PUT o ENCE. LAMBETH. Last; evening a n - te•Aing of Ntr. Wilkin , on's friends was hell at the Horns Tavern, Kennington, for the purpose of adopt rig the rectssiry theasurs to en -I,llre the re•urn cf the lion. gentleman, w ose vote against Mr. C b ten's m )n has given much satis fitetio., in the herongh, Mr. WILKINSON httended, and satisfactorily ex plain-d his reasons fur supporting Lord Palmer s n's Governinnt. A resolai,ri via.? carried that Mr. Wilkinson de. served the upport of all present. GREAT YARMOUTH. On Saturday Mr. W. T. M'Cullagh and Mr. E. W. Watkin, the Lberal candidwes for this borough, appeared before a public inee!in.y; at the Star Hotel. Mr. J. W. Shelley, one of the inajstrates of the tok.n, was called to thN chair. On the moton of Mr. J. CLOWES, seconded by Mr. LETTIS, Mr. M'Collagh acid Mr. Watkin were form Ally recognised as the candidates of the Liberal party in the borough. BANBURY. —Mr. H. W. Tancred, M.P. for this borough for many years, has issued an address to the electors:. Mr. Tancred's last vi te, in favour of Goverrim-nt, on Mr. Coblen's resolution‘i, gave general satisfaction. CHELTENHAM. —A very strong feeling has been created t .is town by the defeat of the Ministry on the China qu stion, and a determinatii.n is ex pressed among men of all shades of politics to up hold the Premier in the course he has adopted of appealing to the country. The name of Captain Berkeley appears in the minority, and the gallant captain's vote on this occasion will, it is thought, seen. e his re-e'ection by a triumphant majority. HAMPSH IRE. —ID the northern division Mr. Beach, of Oakley-hall, near Basingstoke, is named as a candidate, should Mr. Shaw Lefevre vacate the Speakership, and go the Upper House. LANCASHIRE (NORTH). —Mr. Heywood retires, hut Colonel Patten will again come forward for this division of Late ishire. LINCOLNSHIRE. —For the northern division of the county oar present members are the Right Hon. Robert A. C. N. Hamilton and Mr. James Banks Stanhope. Mr. C. Hamilton has announced his intention of retiring, and it is believed that he will be returned for one of the Scotch beryl's. In his place the Government will receive a supporter by the return of Sir Montague John Cho!meley, of Easton,, who repres-inted the northern divisien un til the last eect on, when h e was defeated by a majority of 800 votes by Mr. J. Banks Stanhope, of Revesley Abbey. Mr. Stanhope will again be returned. For the southern division Sir John Trollopo, of Casew:ck, and L or d B urg hl ey w i ll b e returned unopposed. For Lincoln our repres :n -taiives are Major Sibthorp, of Canwick, and Mr. George F.esciii Heneage, of Hainton. It is au ticipatad that a vigorous effort will be made to reject Mr. Heneage. It has been said that Viscount Goderich would contest the city, but he has de clined to do so, as also has Major Weston Amcotts, of Hackthorie. Mr. George Kuolles Jarvis, of Doddingten-hall, has been mentioned. Mr. Charles Seeloy, of Heighington, declined to canvass the city. It is not unlikely that he will again contest Newport. At Boston Mr. Benjamin Bond Cabell will not, it is believed, put himself in nomination again. For Great Grimsby the Government will, in all probability, receive another vote by the elec tion of Lord Wors'ey in the place of Earl Annesley, who last election defeated Mr. Edward Heneage, the brother of the member for Lincoln. For Stam ford Sir F. Thesiger and Lord Robert T. G. Cecil will lie returned unopposed. LIVERPOOL. —At a meeting of the Tory Consti ' turional Association of Liverpool yesterday, Mr. J. A. Tobin presiding, it was resolved that Mr. T. B. Horsfall, one of the present members, and Mr. Charles Turner, th e c h a i rman o f the Dock Commit tee, should be nominated at the forthcoming gene ral election. The Reform Association held a meet ing t i-day (Tuesday), and we shill probably be able to announce the second Liberal candidate to morrow. LYMII REGIS. —Mr. G. D. O'Kelly Temple, a Conservative, declines to become a candidate under the auspices of such a coalition as the present. NEWARK. —The defeat of Ministers created con siderable sensation here. The present members are Mr. G. H. Vernon and Mr. Manners Sutton. As yet we have not heard of any opposition. NORWICH. —At a large meeting yesterday even ing Sir S. Bignold was unanimously accepted as the Conservative candidate for the city. No ad dress has yet been issued by Mr. Warner, the pre sent Liberal member, but the tone of the meeting was in favour of a compromise. It is stated that both divisions of NToi folk will be contested. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE (NORTH). —At present no name is me , ,tioned in op )osit , on. to the sitting mem bers )Lord H. Bent nck and Lord R. Clinton), and it is highly probable that they will be returned unopposed. NOTTINGHAM. —At present no opposition has been det.-rmined to the present members (Messrs. Walter and Paget), who both voted, 'in the mino rity at the recent Ministerial defeat. Ernest Jones expressed his intention a few months ago of coming fur war] at the general election. OXFORD. —Mr. Cardwell paid a visit to the city on Sato i day, and, after conferring with some of his leading supporters, returned to L , ndon in the evening. Th e r i g ht hon. gentleman has not up to the present time issued an address to his consti teeets, awl some uncer ainty prevails as to whether ho will offer himself as a candidate when a dissolu tion tidies place. An ore onent is alr, ady in the field in the person of Mr. Charles Neate, Senior Fellow of Oriel Co lege, a g-ntlernan who has taken a very act,ive part iu local affairs for some years. His opinions are said to be Liberal, and he will give a general support to the Government of Lord _Rd roe 1.., ton. OXFORD UNIVERSITY.—The rumour still prevails that de. present Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir G. C. Lewis, who is a member of Christ Church, will be solicited to allow !dins .1f to become a can didate for the University of Oxford, in opposition to Mr. Gladstone. PORTSMOUTH.—At a meeting of the friends and suppo tors of Yee .unt Monet( held last evening, at St. George's h a ll, P or t sei, M r. T E. Owen in the chair, it was moved by Ald rinan G-o. Sheppard, second , d by Ezekiel Emmanuel, and c irried unit ninaeusly,—‘ That in the opinion of this meeting the condu..t of Lord Monck, as representative of the borough of Portsmouth in Parliament, entitles him te the renewed c alfidenee of the electors, and therefore this meeting pledges i's:lf to use its best endeavones to smile hie rot ine" PRESTON. —lt is indent .od *that the present members—Sir G. Strickland and Mr. R. Townley Parker—will offer themselves for re-e!ection. SHEFFIELD —Mr. Ovt.r.-nd, Q.C., who last year contested th s borough in the'Conservative interest and was defeated, is again in the fl 1d as a candi date. He repudiates the views of his party leaders. Derby and Disraeli, on the Chinese question, and announces himself a supporter of Lord Palmerston. Mr. Ov:•rend also expres.ies a hope 'hat he shall be able to assist in reversing the vote of censure upon the policy of Lord Palmerston implied in the reso lutions proposed by Mr. Cobden. TYNEMOUTH.—A requisition is in course of sig ua•ure in this borough to Mr. Hugh Taylor, of Back wort I), the chairman of the Coal Exchange, to allow himself to be put forwatd as a candidate. Mr. Taylor was unseated after the last general elec tion fur bribery. He is a nephew of Mr. Hugh Taylor of Earsdon, the lie id agent of the Duke of r humbeiland, who has considerable influence in Tyoe:uouth. CALNE. - ---- General Sir William Williams of Kars is a candidate for Caine, for which borough he was elected on the elevation of the Esrl of Shelburne ti the peerage some months since. There is at pre sent no sign of opposition. MIDHLTR - ST.-Sfr. Samuel Warren, Q C., is again a ca , idi , late for this borough, and is, up to the pre sent t me, unopposed. BRIDPORT. —Mr. E. T. Smith will be a candidate for this hor ugh. Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Murrough offer themselves for re-election. EAST INDIA (LAW EXPENSES). —The amount of money exE ended by the g East India Company arid charged, or to be chargeil,lon the revenues of India for law proceedings in England was last year 2 1,751/., against 9,8861 in the year 1855. The expen,es incurred by the lion. Company in opposing " the Nawab of Surat Treaty (a private) Bill" before a committee of the House of Commons amounted to 8,5411. . [ADVERTISEMENT.]—The great injury inflicted on many la valich3 by drugs increases the interest the public take in Du Barry's Revalent4Arabica Food, which cures without medicine indigestion (dyspepsia), flatulency, constipation, nervous, bilious, and liver complaints, cough, asthma, consumption, and debility. We quote a few out of many thousand cases of cures by this delicious food :—From the Dowager Countess of Castlestuart. Cure 52,612. • Rosstrevor, County of Down, Ire land, December hneerr, s,ua December 9, 1854.—Th0 Dowager Countess of Castle t rt feels induced in the interest of suffering humanity, to state that Du Barry's excellent,. Revalenta Arabica Food has This i food a deserves a re a l t a h n b e d l confidence i ,voaufstnereenall medicines had failed, of indigestion, bile, rritability nf of nu m many years' sufferers, ear s a ' n s d t a m n a d y i n b g e . Prom the Venerable Archdeacon of Ross. No. essing. Inquiries will be cheerfully answered.- 32,836.—Three years' ire - nervousness with pains in my neck and left arm, and e g m e c n e e ss , very miserable, has been radical debility, which rendered my life , yreved byDu,Bany's health tiie A r chdeacon of Ross, Skibereen. restoring food.—ALmx. SreART __celebrated Professors of d er ; Dr. Harvey ; Supported by testimonials from ; D i3 r, r7hz_anzi Chemistrypblr.; A p n r d . re cf w at U ti i k •e e ; r Dr. Cam Lord Stuart do Decies; the D aw —'' u r ; Dr. Ingram; ager Countess of Castle- Major-Gen. Thomas King, and army 4 other respectable hose health has been rest ored b persons, w y it, after all other means of cure had failed. For further particulars re=pect ing this invaluable food our readers are referred to Du Barry' s advertisement in another part of this paper. THE SUN,_ LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MA RCH 10, 1857 , 7HE LAW OF LIBEL. (Prom the Times.) The interests of society and the claims of the press were brought once more under the considera tion of a court of justice on Friday last in the now well-known case of "Davison v. Duncan and Another." We do not desire to enter into details which have attracted our notice solely on account of the public interests incidentally involved, bat the leading facts of the case may be recapitulated in a very few words. The defendants were the publishers of the Durham Advertiser, in which journal there appeared a report of the proof e lings at a certain meeting of the West Hartlepool Im provement Commission. This report contained matter reflecting on the conduct of the plaintiff, who thereupon brought an action for libel against the paper, and the question raised the freedom of the press in publishing fair, true, and correct re ports of public proceedings without responsibility for the statements which they may contain. It has been recen'ly held that the press is not entitled to any such lib ,rty, and that it is liable to account for any act onable matter contained in a speech re ported, al hough such speech may have been pub licly delivered, correctly and without malice taken down, and printed in the simple discharge of that duty which every reader of a newspaper expects to see performe I. As far as regards the trial which appeared yesterday in our columns, the result was not unsatisfactory, for while, on the one hand, the imputations of which the plaintiff complained were disiproved, on the other the jury awarded only a farthing damages ou the fir-t two issues, and found for the defendants on the last and import int plea, " beinglof opinion that the report was correct, and published without malice." To the several points, however, affecting th , great principle at stake as they were brought out by the arguments we now very earnestly invite the attention of the public. It was not denied for a moment that the meet ing in question was a public meeting, and such a meeting, in everysense, as called for the publication of its proceedings. The Clerk to the Commissioners deposed, that " their meetings were held every etheteweek, and for the last year and a half had been attended by the reporters for the press, and the proceedings report e d." It i s also perfectly manifest thAt the passage on which the action was founded amounted simply to a report, and nothing beyond, being a plain matter-of-fact representation of words spoken and proceedings taken. It is true that the plaintiffs counsel impeached the accuracy of the report in one particular point, but, as Mr. Justice Crompton very fairly remarked, " the re port gave the purport" of the matter, " and a newspaper doee not always profess to give every word of a document." In short, it appeared from the evidence, beyond all question, that the Durham Advertiser did truly perform the part of a public journal, and did nothing more. Now, on the face of such su hstantiation, we affirm that no liability on account of any matter contained in the report ought to attach to a paper, which is merely a vehicle of information, and the functions of which, in such capacity, are universally recognised and turned to use. Against such a view of the ca,se we have the learned Judge's observation in his charge to the jury, that " there is no obligation on the press to publish matters of this kind, so as to protect them in the way that a man is protected in giving what he be lieves to be a true character of a servant." As a declaration of the existing law, this coincides, no doubt, with what has b een l a id d own elsewhere, nor do we desire to argue the legal point afresh ; but we do affirm that, morally and in fact, this obligation has a real existence, and that, if a cor responding protection is not extended to those who act honestly under it to the best of their power, there is an end to the freedom of the press, and to all the public benefits which that freedom conveys. The free press of this country is a fact ; that press discharges certain notorious functions, and among these one of the most noto rious is that of reporting public proceedings. We s a y that we, and not we only, but all the journals of the kingdom, stand bound by the very terms of our existence to furnish our readers with such re ports, and that if we failed to do so in any case of public interest or importance we should be justly held as defaulters as regar is a known obligation. We say further, and without fear of denial, that this system of reporting is confessedly to the ad vantage of the country. There is not a speaker at any meeting, whatever may be his politics, his ob jects, er his views, who does not wish that weight and effect may be given to his arguments through that publicity with which the press provides them ; and it is but common justice that in discharging such a function we should enjoyprotectiou, so long as we discharged it honestly. " Publishers of newspapers," said Mr. Justice Crompton, "have no more right than other pi-ople to print matter in jurious to the character of others." Of course not; but when they print such matter not with the in tent or purpose of injury—not as the authors or even the endorsers of the statement, but simply in the exercise of a known and a beneficial profession, and as repeating for the benefit of many what was designed for all, but could only be addressed to a few,—then, we say, they do possess more rights than other people, and that such right s oug ht i n justice to be embodied in law. A second objection to these views is also to be found iu Mr. Justice Crompton's charge, where he intimates that, but for the existing state of the law, a sufferer under the circulation given to a calumny by a printed report might lose his opportunity of, redress. To this we reply that redress should be claimed at the hands of those who did the wrong. We abstain from entering into the particular case which happened to be tried, but we affirm, as the plain and obvious dictate of reason and justice, that if the report of a speech carries injury to any one, the speaker, and not the reporter, should. be accountable for it—exactly as in the case of a threatening letter the writer, and not the Post office, is chargeable with the offence. A public speaker addresses his audience with all the liabli ties attending publication. He knows that he will be reported ; he intends to be reported ; if he were not reported ho would think himself ill-used, and he should be prepared therefore to take the conse quences of the position he assumes. We admit en tirely that for wrong there should be remedy, but we say that this remedy should be sought from the ongdoer himself. A third *argument against the freedom thus claimed for the pleas is occasionally brought for ward, and seemed to be indirectly alluded to io the speech of the plaintiff's counsel. It implies that there is some d'scrirnination incumbent upon journalists—that they ought to report some speeches or parts of speeches or proceedings, and not others, and that while professing to give an account of what actually took place, they should subject thi s account to certain modifications at their own proper discretion. We make bold to as sert that t!iis ground will ni t be found tenable for a moment. It stands to reason that a report, if it is to be worth anything at all, should be a full re port and a true one. If it were otherwise; no superstructure could be rased upon it, as nobo ly could tell weether some suppression or omission might not change the import of what was left. In plain truth, it is utterly impossible that an editor could apply such judgment to all the rep,rts coming before him, and even if the nature of things did admit it, who, we ask, would recommend or tolerate for one moment a system under which in what purported to be a full report of some public meeting any speech might he omitted altogether or garbled at the publisher's discretion ? We cannot affstot to consider such a point as admitting of argument at all. Gross violations of public decency we can, of course, exclude from our columns, but, with such rare exceptions, a report should neces sarily reflect the proceedings in question with all the simplicity and truthfulness of a mirror. And now we will state in plain language, and in half-a-dozen words, what is the real difticUlty, at the bottom of all th:s question. It is this :—That those duties of the press which everybody recog nises in practice are not recognised in law. There is not a man who would not say the newspapers "ought io report the proceedings of public meet ings ; in f tut, this very function follows in the shape of an absolute obligation upon the existence of a free press at all. When, however, the matter is bi ought to the test of law, the professional func tions of a journalist are ignored, and the circula tion which in the performance of a well-known duty he his mechanically given to an injurious speech is represented as making him the responsi ble author of the injury. It is true that he may be sometime—we trust very often—protected by the manly justice of such a jury as sat at Durham, but we, look to Lc.r,l Campbell and the Committee of Lords for such an assimilation of law and reason as COGLAN v, LA MERT. (From the Times.) That one half the world is ignorant of how the other half lives is an old enough saying, which would appear to be ! Singul ar ly ill us t ra t e d by the case of " Coglan v. La Mert," which was tried on Saturday last before Mr. Justice Willes at Oxford. In this proceeding were involved the son of an English nobleman, a quack doctor, an Irish man in an indescribable position, and a horse formerly the property of that respectable mem ber of society, William Palmer of Rugeley. The action was in the nature of an interpleader to try in whom lay the right of property in the horse, which was called Gemma Di Vergy. We need not, however, trouble our readers with technicalities, as they have nothing to do with that with which we are alone concerned —namely, the picture of modern manners which is presented to us in this report. The two principals in the transaction were the plaintiff Coglan, a defaulter on the Turf, and Joseph La Mert, who is described as a quack doctor. The history of Coglan appears to have been some what as follows :---110 began life as apprentice to a merchant at Dublin, but the tedium which attends the operation of legitimate commerce was not to his mind, fn. in the year 1835 he became affiliated to the Turf. We cannot suppose that during the first five years of his career in this speculative pro fessien Coglan very materially improved his for tune, for in the year 1840 we fi n d bi m engage d a t the Wellington Arms, at Strathfieldsaye, in a seri ous game of " Blind Hookey" with a young gentle man named Stratford. From this deluded indivi dual he wort a sum of 10,0001., for which he ob tained bills, which he endorsed away to another dupe, from whom he received as value 4,0001. or 5,0001. in cash. The endorsee sued the young champion of "Blind Hookey" on the bills, failed in the action and lost his mon e y. Thi s t ransact i on, as Coglan said, proved to him a " great moral les son." It is to be regretted that during the next six years materials fail us for au exact biography of Mr. Coelan. In the year 1851 be became insolvent, but most unfortunately, as he said, "through a techni cal objection"—tne man is an Irishman--his peti tio* was dismissed. He happened to be down at a steeplechase at Liverpool in the year 1855, and there he was arrested. When ques ioned by the Court be was unable to give any idea of the amount of his debts. They migh' roach the sum of 20,0001. ; or again, they might not—he was e n ti re ly un informed—or perhaps, magnas inter opes mops, he was too well informed upon the subject. He was a defaulter on the Turf ; he had not so far back as the year 1850, as he informed the jury at Oxford with tears in his eyes, sustained heavy losses on that debatable ground ! Despite of this series of adventures in the year 1856, by some miracle of good luck or good management, he bad a credit in the hands of his bankers, Messrs. Retries, Far quhar, and Co., to the extent of 1,8001., and in that year paid 6501. as the price of the horse Gernrna di Vergy to the Hon. Mr. Lawley. Mr. Lawley, as is sufficiently notorious, subsequently got into difficulties. The horse was seized, as his property, by the Sheriff of Berkshire under an execution, and the question before the Court was whether the sale from Lawley to Coglan was a bona fide proceeding, or whether it was a mere pre tended sale, set up in order to protect from Law ley's creditors a horse which had so increased in value as to be estimated at 2,0001. Mr. Lawley's connexion with the case is somewhat more strange. This gentleman, the son of Lord Wenlock, was compelled through untoward circumstances not long since to quit the country. Before the occur rence of this event, however, the Turf, like misery, had made the hon. gentleman acquainted with strange bed-fellows. On Saturday last there was placed in the witness-box, as a person who bad acted in the character of Mr. Lawley's confidential agent, a street-sweeper, named Hamil. This exhi bition will, we fear, prove a heavy blow to the " crossing interest." Mysterious tales have ever been rife as to the luxurious mainer in which the ladies and gentlemen who devote themselves to this somewhat unpretending profession pass their hours of retirement. If we remember right, the tenant of the Bank crossing is generally supposed to have married a lady of great personal attractions and considerable fortune, and to have resided in a genteel villa residence in one of the more polite suburbs. Even the less fortunate members of the profession are said to meet at luxurious supper tables, and to laugh over their savoury rashers and steaming punch at the credulity of the public. El derly street-sweepers of the gentler sex have died upon mattresses stuffed withgold.en sovereigns. Their outward poverty has been but as the ugly wall of the Alhambra, erected by the cautions Moor to dis arm the Nemesis of his creed, and conceal the in ternal splendour, which might provoke the envy o f mankind. Mr. Hamil, however, the street-sweeper, the confidential agent of Mr. Lawley, regardless of the traditions of his school, made ostentatious dis play of his wealth. He carefully inspected the check which was submitted to his notice with a gold eye glass, for he had been called by the plaintiff to prove that the amount of one of the checks had been paid,to Mr. Lawley. It is a somewhat novel feature in London life to find a street-sweeper en gaged in Turf transactions, 'acting as confidential agent to a nobleman's son, and cowing forward to give his evidence in a court of justice with a gold eyeglass. Time was when the betting-ring was filled with gentlemen of high character ; but those days seem to have departed. LORD P.ALMERSTON- THE ELECTIONS. (From the Daily News.) The character of the representation of the City of London in the next Parliament may depend upon a movement which is to be begun this day. We allude to the meeting of the London Liberal Registration Asso ciation. We have perfect confidence that the members of that respe&able ,and influential body will assemble under a due sense of the grave responsibility of their task. The metropolitan character of the City constitu ency enables it to give the tone in no inconsiderable de gree at a general election to the other constituencies of the empire. The character of the electors all )ws us to hope, and entitles us t') expect, a fitting selection of re presentatives at their hands ; but any false or inconsi derate move at the outset may peril the whole prospects Of the election. From the men of business of the City of London, whose extensive operations have taught theta to appre ciate the difficulties which impede or bias tbe transaction of peblic business, and afforded th em, rare opportunities of scanning the haracters and motives of men, we are entitled to expect a deliberate and judicious choice of re presentatives. Their proximity to the central scene of political action, their frequent and intimate converse with the actors on that scene, enable them to judge of the exigencies of the time and the situation. They cannot but be painfully aware how d e fi c i ent the age is le St l a u t a e y . They hav e b een t aug ht with perfect confidence d in el m eg e n n te to th w e h n o n m arg th e e of pe th o e p feelingly that the present is eminently one of those crises in which the clear views, the high pri nc i p l e, t h e sleep l ess watchfulness, the unbending integrity of the members of the Legislature, must compensate for the deficiencies of the party leaders upon whom, under a Parliamentary constitution, must devolve the task of administrative government. Turn our eyes in what direction we will, we find no statesman of that commaidiag character which - men instinctively obey and follow —falling behind him "like waves behind a vessel under sail." Nay—let us honestly confess the truth to ourselves —we have but one living statesman who possesses that geniality of tem perament, that confidence in self, that tact and boldness, which enable a Minister to form a working majority out of the heterogeneous elements of the House of Commons. Every Englishman will at once feel that it is Lord Palmerston we are describing. Anti every Englishman will at the same time feel that this acknow ledged superiority over all his competitors is accompa nied in the noble lord by serious defects. Lord Palmer ston, plunged at his first emerging from boyhood into the strife of parties, has ever since lived in tbat stormy turmoil. Ever inaction, he has had no leisure to frame comprehensive and foreseeing schemes of policy. It may be doubted whether under any circumstances the constitution of his mind would have fitted him for such a task. It has been said with truth that Lord Palmer ston has no domestic policy, and those who have most closely watched his career are those who are least disposed to believe that he has anything that deserves the nameef a 'foreign policy. His pococurantedisposition and indomit alle courage embolden him to let the morrow care fOr and the adroitness things of i t itself, t f, n and ee r the vessel rel yu pon of the his own stateself-possessionclear n f a b vi his a unforese. a br ea k ers. His good fortune and his invinc ible confidencecheerfulness st rh inspired tath thee himself multitudefee ls. the same Yet all wary observers have often had occasion to shudder at the narrowness of his escapes from shipwreck, and all men of reflection and principle to be vexed and irritated at the levity with which he treats every consideration of principle. Such is the man whom our necessity has made, and will probably for some time maintain as the Prime Minister of Eugland. In accepting him, we all feel that he needs cloie watching. And we all feel that his dex terity, his experience in the turnings and windings of political intrigue, his almost cynical indifference to all opinions and principles, make bin one who may be kept right in the main if he is conscious tbat he is acting e 4 of me n o f i ntelligence, principle, and jaunt:lde: able e e ey determination. this sthdeay by key to the policy w hi c h oug h t to b e i n i ti members of th e L on d on Lib era l Regis tration Association. They s re too sagacious to be carried away by the cry of rally round a Minister who is in danger. They cannot but p erce i ve the danger of allow . log, any election by whi c h the people abdicate their p o wer for seven years t o turn upon one isolated ques tion, or upon mere pe rsonal considerations. For the a T te h d i' next few years all will depend upon the characters of the majority of the House of Commons. England needs men of integrity and earnest character—men who know how arduous are the times, and whose courage and rectitude enable them to walk without shrinking amid difficulties and dangers. At home, urgent Sporting Intelligence. TATTERSALUS.-MONDAT. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.—The principal trans. actions were relative to "lots." St. Giles, Sir Colin Ski-mi6he r , an d Ad amas were b ac k e d f or about 2001. against the field, and 7 to 4 to M. was laid against St. Giles, sir Colin, and Skirmisher. Not one of the animals quoted was backed outright for a good sum. CHESTER CIIP.—The favourite was firm. The prices quoted against Minoepie end St. Giles were booked to small amounts only; the odds against Yellow Jack were laid to 501. Two THOUSAND.—Vedette was decidedly the first favourite, 6 to 1 being taken freely about him, and offered against Loyola, 5 to 2 was laid against them coupled : 5 to 1 was the highest offer on the field at the close. 1001. was invested on Schiedam at 7to 1, and backers would have gone on at the price. Lord of the Hills was in force, and from 100 to 8 he quickly ad vanced to 10 to 1, taken. DEBBY. -500 to 30, and afterwards 18 to 1 to 50/. were laid against Loyola ; 10 to 1 was taken about Lord Ciiflen's lob to 501. Victor was backed several times at 1,000 to 10, and in some quarters, 1,000 to 15 wa s taken. The last bet which came under our notice was 2,000 to 25. The only bet about Blink Bonny was 14 to Ito a " pony." 1,000 to 25 was laid against her winning the Derby and Oaks. A lot of ten was taken repeatedly against the field, the investments in the aggre gate amouLting to 750/. - CLOSING PRICES. DONCASTER HANDICAP. sto 2 agst Odd Trick (take 3to 1) 6to 1 aget Codrington (taken) 7to 1 agst Martlet (taken) 7to 1 agst Mary (taken) HOPEFUL STAKES, DONCASTER. 7to 2 agst Heroine (4 to 1 taken freely) 5 to 1 apt Peregrine (taken) NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. 6to 1 agst St. Giles (taken) 7to 1 agst Skirmisher (taken) 7to 1 agst Sir Colin (taken) 10 to 1 aget Adamas METROPOLITAN STAKES. Offers to take 11 to 1 about Gitana. Two THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. sto 1 agst Vedette (6 to 1 taken freely) 6 to 1 agst Loyola (offered) 7to 1 agst Schiedam (taken freely) 7to 1 aget Sydney (taken) 1/ to 1 agst Lambourn (taken) 10 to 1 agst Lord of the Hal, (taken) sto 2 aget Vedette and Loyola ooupled (taken' CHESTER Cur. 10 to 1 agst Loamington 16 to 1 agst Mincepie (taken) 20 to 1 agst St. Giles (taken) 40 to 1 agst Yellow Jack (taken) DERBY. 10 to 1 agst Lord Clifden's lot (taken) 14 to 1 asst Mr. W. I'Anson's Blink Bonny 18 to 1 agst Loyola (taken) 25 to 1 agst Sprig of Shillelagh (taken) 30 to 1 agst Arsenal (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Blue Jacket (taken) 1000 to 15 agst King of the Forest (taken) 2000 to 25 agst Victor (taken) NEWCASTLE . Nominations for the North ' 61 UPON-TYNE. umberlaud Rate. Two miles, subs. Age, Gruenlus Esuriens 5 skirmisher Bobby B . 4 Colt by Birdeateher-- Maid of Masharn ... 4 Gm ,d Friday Typee Artillery Underhand Homoeopathist Captain Po vv lett 3 Coup de Main 4 Filly by Burgundy— Prioress Mongrel St. Clair Ephorus .. 4 Janet Bolton • 5 Humourist Age, Tempest Preston Alma The Seoteliman Hamlet El Hakim. 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With the same teles cope can be seen a person's countenance three miles and a half distant, and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They are of larger and ad sizes, with increasing powers accordingly.—T no 3yal Exhibition, 1851. Valuable, newly-invented, verysmall, powerfal waistcoat-pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known ll miles distant; they answer every purpose on the race-course, and at the opera houses, Country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at 8 to 10 miles. They are invaluable for shooting, deer -stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Opera, rase-corase, camp, and perspective glasses, with wonderful power. Newly-constrteted Spectacle Lenses of the great est transparent power. 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Ob serve—oppos i te the York Hotel. and difficult questions are multiplying around us. The portentous growth of the Mormon and other quackeries ought to teach us how much the inte lect of the country is in need of judicious educa tion. The fearful abundance of the Pariahs of crime who infest our cities urge upon us the necessity of providing for improved modes of reformatory and penal discipline. The difficulties experienced by the advocates of general education and reformatory institutions, from the jea lousy and wrangling of sects, point to the expediency of promoting mutual tolerance by removing all relics of sectarian inequality. A population in its rapid growth pressing continually on the means of subsistence is a con stant reminder of the need there is of removing every im pediment from the path of productive industry, and seeking to perfect those modes of associated labour which our instincts of combined exertion suggest to us. Lastly, the importance of_ inspiriting all the dwellers in the land with a sense of a common brotherhood prompts to ex tend the suffrage as a means of extirpating that spirit of caste, that tendency of classes to array themselves in hostility against each other, which is ne cessarily kept alive by the exclusion of so large a propor tion of the community from the pale of the constitution by the denial of the elective franchise. These are the considerations which trace for us the outlines of our domestic policy. Our innate love of freedom ought to teach us that our true foreign policy is to cultivate friendly relations with all free states—to extend the sagis of British prokction over nationalities struggling against the encroachments of despotism ; while our con scious might, enabling us as it does to assert our national dignity when really threatened, ought to render us su perior to those petty observances of punctilio to which only the weak and frivolous attach importance. Give us members of Parliament who are deeply im pressed with these truths, and who have the courage and the honesty to assert them on all occasions, regardless of the cajolery or intimidation of men in high place, and it will become a matter of comparatively little moment who are Ministers. We call upon the gentlemen who are to meet this day at the London Tavern to set a worthy example to the electors of the empire, by diligently la bouring to insure the return of such members. It is not for us to suggest names. Such are to be met with among the high-spirited and intelligent merchants of London, and the members of the association have suffi cient discrimination to find them out. The eyes of the country are upon them. The people of England expect at their hands a choice of representatives devoted to the cause of progressive reform, superior to the blandish ments of men in high place, and to the blinding influ ences of mere party spirit. Speculation was not actively resumed until late in the afternoon, when the business of paying and receiving on the Liverpool events was concluded. The betting was remarkably dull, and few important changes were effected in the latest published "price current." DONCASTER HANDICAP.-3 to 1 would have been taken about Odd Trick, but 5 to 2 was the highest offer on the field. 5 to 1 was laid early in the afternoon against Codrington, but subsequently 6 to 1 was betted. The Martlet was in some request at 7 to 1, and 501. was laid once on him against Codrington. In the City during the morning St. Giles had been heavily backed, but a notice on the glass stated that he was struck out at 2.30 p.m. HOPEFUL STAKES.—Heroine was well supported at 4, to 1, and finally at 7to 2. A "pony" was invested on Heroine, Peregrine, and Fly-by-day, against the field. BANK RETURNS. An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and. eighth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes of the several Banks of Issue in England and. Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 21st day of February, 1857 : PRIVATE BANKS. Average Amount. Andover Bank, .E.kndover—lfeath and Co. Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jemmitt and Pomfret 10,652 Aylsham Bank, Aylsham—G. and T. Copeman Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Z. D. Hunt 29,409 BaldOck Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bank, Baldock— Hogge, and Co 29,406 Barnstaple Bank, Barns table—Marshall and Co 8,931 Basingstoke and Odihain Bank, Basingstoke— Seymour, Lamb, and C. 9 21,102 Bedford Bank. Bedford—T. Barnard and Sons 31,429 Bewdley Bank, Bewdley -- Nichols, Baker, and Co Bicester and Oxfordshire Bavk and Oxford Bank, Bicester—Fl. M. and G, Tubb 13,062 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham —Attwoods, Spooner, and Co 23,163 Birmingham and IVarwickshire Bank, Bir mingham—J. L. Moilliet and Sons 8,552 Blandford Bank, Blandford—Oak and Co. 7,694 Boston Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co 65,879 Boston Bank, Boston—H. and T. Gee and Co 15,486 Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater—J. and J. L Sealey Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Miles, and Co 32,068 Broseley and Bridgnorth and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley—Pritchards, Boy cott, and Co. Buckingham Bank, Buckingham—Bartlett, Par rott, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, and Stowmarket Bank, Bury St. Edmunds— Oakes, Bevan, and Co. Banbury Bank, Banbury Gillet, Tawney, and Co. Banbury Old Bank, Banbury—Cobh and Son 26,171 Bath City Bank, Bath--G. Moger and Son - Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard—Bassett, Grant, and Co .. 34,798 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire—H A. and W. M. Harris and Co Brecon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and Co 57,400 Brighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West, and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank . Burlington— Harding, *Smith, and Co 11 , P169 Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds— J. Worlledge Cambridge Bank, Cambridge—Mortlock &Co l4, 658 Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge—Messrs. Fosters 4 6,771 Canterbury Bank, Canterbury—Hammond and Co 2 ,8,538 Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—David Morris and Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey—La Coste and Son Colchester Bank, Colchester—Round & Green Colchester and Essex Bank, and Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Bank, Colchester—Mills, Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little f & Woodcock City Bank, Eketer—Milford and Co Craven Bank, Settle—Alcocks, Birkbecks, and ft:1,649 ,736 /6,935 34,952 43,335 - 7,580 :t.8,273 Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff—Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank,ion mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow—Promage, Snead, and Co Derby Bank, Derby—W. and S. Evans & Co Derby• Bank, Derby—Samuel Smith and Co Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Locke and Co Diss Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster —Cooke and Co Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse & Co Devonport Bank. Devonport— Hodge and Co Dorchester Old Bulk and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—R. and H. Williams Fast Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Fos ter, and Co East Rid - me-Bank, Beverley—Bower and Co Essex Bank and Bishop's Stortford Bank Chelmsford—Sparrow, Round, and Co Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon—Barnes, Medley, and Co Farnham Bank, Farnham - Messrs Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co Godalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and Keen Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and Co Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, and Co. Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford Matthews and Co. Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull, Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veaseys Harwich rank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co. Hertfordshire, Hitchin Bank, Hitchin Sharples, and Co. Hereford, Ross and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank. Hereford— Morgan and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Alexander ti and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Co. Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington— Davies and Co. Knighton Bank, Knighton—Davies and C 0.... Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough—Harrison and Co 20,336 Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson and Co. Kettering Bank, Kettering—J. C. Gotch and Sons 8,695 Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—d Harvey and Son 5,351 Leeds Bank, Leeds--Beckett and Co. Leeds Union Bank, Leed,.l---W. Williams, Brown and Co. Leicester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby, 29,058 Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co 25,947 Lichfield Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Greene -- Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—Smith, Ellison, and Co. 81,7' Llandovery Bank, Lampeter Bank, and Dan ddo Bank, Llandovery—D. Jones and C 0... 3, Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle ton and Cradock 7, Lymington Bank, Lymington—St. Barbe and Co. Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis—Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Jarvis and Co 13,222 Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst and Co. Manningtree Bank, Manningtree—Nunn and Co. Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tan ner and Co Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Williams and 50n..... Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams. and Co Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Bailey and Co 24,98. Monmouth Cld Bank, Monmouth Bank, Bre con Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth—Bromage, Snead, and Co 13,790 Newark Bank, Newark—Godfrey and Riddell 24,555 Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Sleaford—Handley, Peacock, and Co Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny & Slocock Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, and Co Norwich Crown Bank and Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Norwich—Harveys and Hudsons... Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur neys and Birkbeck Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham, Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and Co Naval Bank, Plymouth, Plymouth—Harris and Co. New Sarum Bank, Sarum—Everett and Co Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Samuel Smith and Co. Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westry—Croxon and Co Oxford Old Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, and Ce. Old Bank, Tonbridge, Tunbridge and Ton bridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Ton. bridge—T. H. and S. Benching Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney—J. W Clinch and Co. Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co Penzance Bank, Penzance--Batten and Co Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—D. Yorke and Co. Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and W. Walters 12,060 Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co 27,603 Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens, Blandy, and Co. Richmond Bank, Richmond—Roper and Co 5,797 Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, 7 0,635 7-,670 11,769 3 4,202 2a, 832 855 10, 195 69,8 79 83, 3 65 7,81)5 48, a(►B 90,02 8 50,43',7 45,24'g! 23,24:2 7,229 11,801 5,476 5,228 13.216 22,647 31,206 15,133 20,517 5,68 32,155 23,024 18,966 64,044 12,412 25,607 46,001 18,650 7,385 3,495 15,136 .1,800 5,743 16,046 46,445 19,101 20,370 46,882 98,130 10,202 2,957 18,973 8,050 28,433 10,078 31,910 8,225 10,230 47,649 9,568 and Co. Rochester, Chatham and Strood Bank, Roches• 3,723 ter—Day and Nicholson 7,166 Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sona 14,630 Rugby Bank, Rugby—A. Butlin and Son 9,345 Rye Bank, Rye—R. C. Pomfret, &Co 12,872 Ross Old Bank, Heredlordshire, Ross -- 4,020 Allaway and Macdougal Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saf fr ou Walden—Gibsons and C 0,............... 32,246 . ..,......,.....,_ may give ui a final and coiapiehensive security. The new Easter piece by Mr. F. Talfourd is to be read at the Haymarket on Thursday next. 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The (Frectirs of th is company state in their gin" l report that an intermediate dividend at the rate 0, 21. 10s. on the 1001. shares, and so in proportion for those of a minor v - k , lue ' subject to deduction of inco me tax, was paid f or thee half-year ending the 30th jape last ; and they now fur; ier recommend a dividend at the rate of 31. per share, for the half-year ending the 3 15 ! Deceanber l as t, pay able on and after the 31st March , subject to deductim i of income tax, thus making the dividend for the ye ar 1856 51. 10s. per cent. PORTSMOTJTFI DOCKYARD BRANCIL The dockyard at Portsmouth is now being cornier by e, railway with th e li ne at Landp and di-einharkatio ort thus giving ,is' creased facility is for the e m b ar k at i on of troops, bagx-a— -g f•tores, or mu n iti ons o f war. 11111 . s new railway on the Portsmouth side is rather more tliss a mile in le ngth, nad its course, after cro-sing the LI gate road, i s a l mos t parallel to the Flathouse.res curving off as it nears th e h ar b our then crossing .sve r the w idest, part of the moat by means of a awing hi: and passi ng th roug h t h e rampart, under which is a Ive, executed brid ge . Th e li ne ( a single one) en t e rs dockyaT d within a few feet of the chief en trance:: j the co evict pri son , an d i s to be extended down to the ettiris. Th e wor k s are to b e completed on the 151' k - , Apri2. - HONDURAS INTEROCEANIC. An influential meeting of merchants and others c r ; e . held yesterdry at the Town-ball, Manchester, in re be renc.e to the proposed railway from the Atlantic to!oo t Pacific Ocean. M r. E . G . Squier, and a depunltibe fron the board o f di rectors atrended, to explain "tie bete rings of th e un d erta ki ng on the commerce o f em con ritry. Mr. J. Watts, the mayor, presided. l'iTr. G. WlLeorr said Mr. Squie r was th e r epress° tv tiv e of the United States in Honduras for many Y e 4i ar ,d was th e or i g i na t or o f th i s railway, for which bs",, obtained the concession. The board of directors c c / isted of 17 members, of whom 6 resided in America; . in London, 2in Manchester, and 2in Liverpool. os Mr SQUIER detailed at great length the circunises n which had brou g ht t o hi s k nowledge the vast superi!W:af y of the route of th e p ropose d railway from Puerta Caller on the Atlant i c, t o th e b ay of Fonseca, on the raw a (a length of 147 miles), over the routes by Panel:nal, Tehuantepec ; and e n t ere d i nto particulars as to the salubrious nature of the country traversed, its alin l , be richness a n d f er tili ty, an d the great capabilities terminal ports. The route now proposed was coDee.s plated in th e 16th century by the Spanish GoverDo3ls as the future line of communication ; but the subseque" wars and declining power of Spain led to the aband°c." ment of the project. The terms of concession ir . 4 . much more liberal th an th ose gran t e d i n the case o ft other two routes t o w hi c h h e h a d a ll uded ; an d , t': Scherzer, of Vienna, had reported on the country as 7 4 , ing capable of p ro d uc i ng a ll t h e pro d ucts of the tre Pl- , The proposed railway would shorten the distance fr7,l New York to S an F ranc i sco b y 1,300 m i les, or 10 (*I. time, and would att rac t a great proport i on of t h e trait ling from the Panama route, which had paid 12 r; cent. yearly. The proposed maximum cost of the 11 % , would be $10,000,000, and he estimated the net revel, at $3,200,000 p er annum. T he opening of the Atlale," telegraph and the p ro b a bl e telegraphic connection .070 Puerto Cabello t o H avanna h would place that part 014)i world in almost instantaneous communication ' l ' Europe. (Hear.) tbc Mr. T. BAZLET proposed a resolution, expressing_..d importance of connecting the Atlantio and Pacific by means of a railway across the territory of Honda; which would facilitate the transmission of passeDrg re, merchandise, and s p ec i e , w i t h certa i nty and re ularii. . The MASTER CU TLER of Sheffield seconded the re' . tion. Mr. E. WATKIN stated that the directors of the op 0 . taking had decid e d, a t th e i r own risk, to send out e ° o 4 petent staff of English surveyors and engineers, al sis ol by a Governm en t eng i nemr, already nomic , ated by 11n ~.; Clarendon, to ve r ify a ll th e ca l culations before the 701 ter was launched b e f ore th e pu bli c as a conner— scheme. (Hear.) The resolution was carried unanimously, as were fe of thanks to Mr. Squier and the Mayor. „ Country Markets. J , CHELMSFORD—MARciI 6. ~i$ The wheat trad e I to-day was somewh a t fi rmer , the vi r , samples in some in s t ances rea li s i ng an advance of Is Per A S Barleys were scarce, and must be quoted ls. dearer. other things unalt ere d i n value. , .' Wheat, white, old, p er s . s. 0 I' qr. 34 72 O a t s, per qr....... .....2_4 4 5 e new 37 71 Peas, Partridge ....... fi- 4 6 red, old 32 62 White ...... .••••• 39 66 new 32 62 Barley 34 95 37 , a Cheva1ier........... 39 5 i Bean s , Dunß T o i i l e i k n g 3539 39 4 4 : Grinding 34 45 H arrow ticks 3 9 0 Malt 73 77 Mazagan ....... 3 4 s f Chevalier 75 79 Ditto, new... 34 COLCHESTER-31AucH 7. A better supply of wheat, the condition somewhat i . . 01 ; proved. The driest samples sold readily at full pr i ces ; °tn sorts were difficult of sa l e . Barley in demand both for set and malting p ur p oses , an d i s rather dearer. Beans and peso the turn in favour of the seller. Prices to-daywere as follow :—Wheat, white, 60s to 68 0 ; red, 50s to 60s; barley, 44s to 50s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beas//` llfazagan, 34s to 36s ; middle and small, 36s to 44s ; Pewhite, 38s to 42s ; g re y, 38 s to 423. Official Statement of the Quantities of Corn, &c, in the port of London, from the following pi March 2 to 7, both inclusive. ~ receive d nis, from S P 73 go ty X 0 op P . ' Colchester — 29 0 25 620' ' Harwich 25 950 ( ( 25 Leigh Maldon lOB3, 97 ( 100 i 24 ( 305 1 18 75 490 150 KIRKCALDY—MARoa 7. To-day we had good supplies of wheat and oats, but of barley. Sales slow for the two former, at the rates d week ; the latter sold readily at is per qr. advance. Wheat. Ba r l e y. O ats. I AA-ao.oi 1 First 6oi Od 45s 0, 318 Od Os o i I Second Third 3os Od 34s Od j 228 od I Os Oatmeal, 36s to 38s per bag of 2801 b. COAL MARK Prices of Coals per ton al 101 Zolywell 15 6 Bell's Primrose l2 6 Longridge's Wst Hartley 15 3 Walker Primrose ... ... l3 6 Tanfield Moor l3 0 r.-MAROH 9. the close of the market. Wallgend, kch, A. , N ..15 p Walloon& &a. Eden Main l5 6 Wharncliffe l3 6 Belmont 13 6 Braddyll l5 9 Hetton l7 0 Framwellgate l5 0 Birchgrove Graigola 2O 0 I Tees l7 0 Hartlepool l5 61 Whitworth l4 6 :fillips atlmarket...lo Russell's Hetton Brown's Moor High Main Lambton Haswell Kepler Grainge Reugh Hall South Kelloe Peusher South Hetton itewart's. ~.13 . 9 ~.16 ", .16 ..15 ~.15 ..15 • •16 . 9 ~17 ~15 0 ~16 3 ~15 ° Cassop Kelloe... Lumley I Sold 7B LOCAL SHARE MARKBTa. LIVERPOOL, Meng 9. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market has been quiet to-dab and prices were a shade easier than on Saturday, closinf flat. Blackburn, 9—Midland, 831 —Caledonian, 34 --Manchester, Sheffield, and Liucolnshire, 37 61 -- Dit.tt 6 per cent, 121—Eastern Counties, I—North British. 11i 6s. 3d.—Chester and Holyhead, 19 4 18—London and North Western, 105— Ditto, 1 shares, new, die. ax , North Eastern, Berwick, 214 ex d.—South Eastern, 2 3 z —Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1013 -Great Western • 683—Dutch Rhenish, 4 3s. Vd. p.—Great Western of Ca' nada, 26. MANCHESTER, MARCH 9. - STOOK EXCHANGE.--The market was quiet, with rather easier prices. Midlands, 84—Doyers, 23i 3-16 4—Bast Lancashire, 99I—SheMelds, 37f 7—Ditto, Pref., 12A- Kendal and Windermere, 98— Berwicks, 21t—Leedor 1011. BIRMINGHAM, MANCH 9. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was inactive to-daYO but prices were firm. Great Western, 68i 69—London and North Westerns, 105) 6—Shropshire Unions, 5J Great Western Stour Valley Guaranteed Stock, 66-' Dudley and West Bromwich Banks, BIRTHS. OF ♦ SON. On the Bth inst., at 14, Porehester-square, the wife of Richard Baxter, Esq. On the 9th inst., at Upper Clapten, Mrs. Wm. itaxwen. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 9th inst., at 4, Charles-street, Lowndes.square, the Lady Aisne Sherson. On the 9th inst., at 21, Lowndes-street, the wife of Colonel Goulburn, Grenadier Guards. MARRIED. On the 7th inst., at St. James's Paddington, John Blenner• basset Godfrey, M.D., seventh son of the late Capt. Godfrey, R N., of the Abbey, Traleo, Ireland, to Mary, the third d aug hter of John Roge r R ush, Esq., of Craven-hill, Hyde' park. On the 2d inst., at St. George's, Ramsgate, J. Lefever, Esq., of London and Chertsey, to Amelia Emma, the only surviving daughter of Mr. Kempton, of Camberwell, Surrey. D lED. On the Bth inst., in Albemarle-street, Colonel Godfre Thornton, late Grenadier Guards, of Moggerhanger, Bedford shire, aged 61. On the 7th inst., at Bath, Lady Bateman, widow of the late Sir Hugh Bateman, Bart. On the Bth inst., at 29, Burton crescent, the wife of the Rev. Samuel Garratt, aged 35. On the 7th inst , Thomas Nunn, Esq., of Lawford House, near Maningnee, Essex, aged 79. On the 6th inst., at Richmond, Yorkshire, Mr. Thomas Peirse, for many years connected with the turf as a celebrated trainer, aged 67. 72. 0 n the 6th inst., at Finchley, Henry Pouncy, Esq., aged On the sth inst., at 2, Bishop's-road, Bayswater, Mr. 0 - Goodman. f.proN : Printed and Published by Mi7E,DO YOUNOr of No, 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middlesex, Tuesday, March 10, 1857.