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LITERARY ASSOCIATION OF THE FRIENDS OF POLAND. The annual general meeting of the members of this association was held on Saturday last, at their rooms, Duke-street, St. James's, the Marquis of Townshend in the chair. Amongst the gentleman present we observed the Earl of Harrington, Lord Kinnaird, Viscount Raynham, M.P., Hon. W. Fox Strangways, Rev. Dr. Worthington, E. E. Crowe, Esq., Joseph Ferguson, Esq., Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P., and William Scholefield, E sq ., M.P. WM. L. BIRKBECK, Esq., read the report, which alluded to the abstinence of the association from giving any public entertainment for the benefit of the Poles, a line of conduct which was adopted at the instance of several influential friends of the association, in consequence of the representations made by Russian plenipotentiaries, that the Emperor Alexander was about to enter on a course of jest and conciliatory policy towards Poland ; but that they who trusted in those representations had been speedily undeceived by the speeches of the Emperor Alexander at Warsaw, and the unsatisfac tory nature of the so-called amnesty published by his Government. The expedition of a detachment of Poles to Circassia, and the establishment of a Polish colony on the estate of Redshid Paella in Thessaly, where they had been provided with a hospital, a church, and maintenance till the next harvest, were also referred to. The income of the association for the past year had amounted to 8091., by means of which relief had been ministered in 660 cases The report concluded with the expression of a wish that the attention or the Poles for the present should be especially directed to the social improvement of their country. The Rev. Dr. WORTHINGTON, in moving the adoption of the report, expressed his regret that the hopes to be held out to the Polish exiles were not of a more cheerful character than at the last anniversary meeting of the association, but it was gratifying to know that the feeling of sympathy to wards that unfortunate nation was increasing. Lord KINNAIRD, in seconding the motion, said that on a late occasion hopes were entertained that under the blessing of Providence something might turn up to improve the condition of the Polish people, hut it had not been the will of the Almighty that that country should be restored to that posi tion among European nations in which every lover of liberty desired to see her placed. With regard to the course pursaed towards Circassia, hs believed the blame did not rest entirely with this country, and.that difficulties arose in another quarter. Refer ence had been made to the conduct of Lord Pal merston. He had known that noble lord for many years, and did not believe that there was in exist ence a more cordial and sincere friend of liberty. He had on some occasions raised up ill feelings against himself amongst the pseudo Liberals for the part which he had taken or wished to take with re gard to the liberation of Poland, but the difficulties which any minister had to encounter in moving in that direction were so great that it was impossible to proceed without the active co-operation of the country ; but if the feeling of the coun•ry could be roused in behalf of Poland, he believed that Lord Palmerston would fully respond to that feeling. (Cheers.) He had conversed with the noble lord on the subject of the liberties of Europe, and was convinced that no man had them more sincerely at heart than Lord Palmerston ; but unless the coun try would back up a minister, he could not be ex pected to accomplish one-half of that which he might be desirous of doing. The resolution wts then put and agreed to. The Hon. W. Fox STRANOWAYS moved the next resolution, declaring it to be expedient to continue to give a vigorous support to the Polish cause. He was sure that Lord Palmerston, so far from being adverse, was exceedingly favourable to the cause of liberty in all such countries as Poland and Circassia, and in those two countries particularly ; and he be lieved that nothing but insuperable obstacles, or what appeared to be insuperable obstacles, had prevented the Government on so apparently favour able an occasion as that which presented itself last year from pushing their desires to the utmost extent. (Hear, hear.) He was, therefore, bound to believe that those difficulties did occur, but be was not bound to accept the result as perfectly, agreeable. (Hear.) That was quite another ques tion. The resolution which he had moved was one ot re-assurance rather than of expectation. He believed that some harm had been done by the con stant tone of expectation which had been kept up for so many years. Great events did not happen every day, and if the imagination was always kept on the stretch much commonplace work that was useful was often neglected. In the calm which now existed there was no cause for depression on the part of the Poles. It would hardly be for the credit of the Polish nation that the world should imagine that they required a sea of trouble anda time of agitation in order to induce them to bestir themselves. He believed the Polish character was as firm and calm in peace as it was terrible in war, and he trusted that during the present apparent stagnation they would use their utmost exertions to improve their condition. There were two or three circumstances rather favourable to the cause of Poland in that point of view. One was, that the character of Russia and the character of Poland were better understood by England and by. Europe than they were before the commencement of the late war. The consequence of that knowlege had been to increase the distrust which was felt regard ing Russia, and that distrust would continue to in crease until another favourable opportunity might arise of resisting the encroachments of that power, and he imagined that it would not be very long be fore such an opportunity occurred. (Hear.) He wished to see a more frequent and steady commu nication with the liberal parties in other countries which were nearly in the same situation as Poland. (Hear, bear.) The question of the Danubian Prin cipalities was not yet settled, and whether the re sult would be the union of those Principalities or not, they might turn rgainst the enemies which most nearly beset them. He entertained strong hopes with respec tto the Danubian Principalities. During the last generation there had been a great spread of educa , ion which must, after the lapse of a few years of settled government, show itself favourably towards Poland. (Cheers.) He trusted that any opportunity which might occur of con necting the affairs of Poland with those of Moldavia and Wallachia would he readily taken advantage of. (Hear.) The Polish people hardly knew how much their cause had been studied and reflected upon in countries distant from their own. He bad never heard the cause of Poland more .earnestly prayed for, or her wrongs more bitterly lamented, than in Sicily, which was equally oppressed. (Hear, hear.) Although the Sicilians and Neapolitans were generally supposed to be at daggers drawn with each other, that was far from being the case with the liberal parties in those two countries. (dear.) He trusted that the Poles would make peaceable use of the calm which now prevailed, because such a course of policy would puzzle Russia more than any other line that could be adopted, because, from her general principles, she would not be able to understand it. (Cheers.) The Earl of HARRINGTON, in seconding the reso lution, said that at the last meeting of the associa tion they were recommended not to criticise too freely the conduct of Russia, because it was not politic ot that time to do so, and if any one ran riot on that occasion it was himself. (A laugh.) They were too well acquainted with Bussiau diplo macy to believe that any of the anticipations which had been held out would be realised, and time had proved that those who entertained such opinions had a correct view of the subject. Absolute govern ments under pressure might, like Austria and Prussia and the states of the Pope, give very satis factory promises, but when the pressure was re moved those promises were never acted upon ; and the constitutions which had beau promised hat not been given. (Hear.) Russia during the last war lost from 300,000 t 0 ,400,000 men and expended all her money, so that it would have been impossible for her to carryon another campaign ; and if the spirit of Lord Palnerston had prevailed in our councils and in the councils of our allies he had . not the least doubt that Russia would have been hum bled to the dust. (Cheers.) But alter being thus beaten her despotic wisdom was about to restore Sebastopol and its fortifications. She had attacked Circstisia, and, be was happy t o sa y, h a d b een we ll - •be den. Shehidstir re d up a war b etween England and r ersia, and he rejoiced to think England had'been victorious not only in her arms but irCher (Cheers.) But the most dangerous step which had been taken by Russia was that of con structing railroads. It had been said that she would never raise the money, but , he had no doubt s h e would obtain quite sufficient for the purposes she had in view. If Russia, eluting the late cam paign,. bad had railway facilitie s she would lave taken down her men, and guns, and provisions, and most have been victorious. Her Present ob ject no doubt was to bring down her munitions of war to the Mediterranean, and to form a powerful fleet iu the Mediterranean, and to take p ossess i on of Constantinople. She would bide her time, and had the power of keeping the peace. She might wait ten or twenty years, and then her power of attack would be immensely increased. She would follow the example of Napoleon, and bring immense masses of troops to bear OD one particular point, which with the assistance of railways she would be alfe to do. (Hdar, hear.) Europe had been saved only by the recent alliance, and he believed that alliance would continue scr long as the present Em peror of France bore sway iu that country ; but, in the event of his death, that alliance would not be secure for a single day. Our chief dependence then must be upon Poland, and it should not be foreot ten.that although Poland was tranquil during the rilE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MA It ,18, 1857' lat 3 war, not less than 200,000 men were employed to keep her down. The mind of Poland could not be kept in chains ; and although nominally with Russia her wishes were in reality with the friends of liberty, and she might, always be looked upon as requiring an army of 200,000 men to prevent her from rendering any active assistance to other' op pressed na4ions. (Cheers.) It was, therefore, highly important to keep up the national spirit of the Poles. Let them not be faint-hearted. No great cause was ever yet won by faint hearts. He trusted the great cause of liberty would never sink in the estimation of the people of England, but that they would continue their exertions to pro mote the independence of the Poles ; and what was of still greater consequence, the liberties of Europe, and the balance of power throughout the world. (Cheers.) The resolution was then agreed to. Lord RAYNHAM, M.P., in moving the re-election of the president and vice-presidents, said that, although we must be patient, and by all means avoid giving cause for a renewed state of warfare, yet he trusted we should be fully prepared for it, and in such an event, which in the present un- -- settled state of Europe might not be far distant, that au opportunity would be taken for asserting the rights of Poland. (Cheers.) If the subject had been properly brought before the conference at Paris, he believed it might have led to very desirable results. (Hear.) The amnesty which had been talked of had, in his opinion, tended to mislead the mind of Europe as to the prospects of Poland, and particularly with respect to those men who had been exiled from their eoun try for their patriotic conduct. He concurred in the opinion whichdiad been expressed with respect to the con duct of Lord Palmerston during the late negotia tions and believed that his lordship entertained a sincere desire to do the best he could to promote the liberty of that country. (Hear, hear.) Eng land was too apathetic with respect to the liberties of Poland, and had not manifested that interest which she ought to have done when opportunities offered themselves for the re-establishment of Poland ; but if another opportunity should occur for accomplishing that object, he trusted the ex pression of public opinion would induce whatever government might be in power to use their utmost endeavours to affect the restoration of the netion ality of that kingdom. (Cheers.) EDMUND Bea - eels, Esq., seconded the resolution, and in doing so said that, in his opinion, great blame attached to Lord Clarendon for his conduct during the negotiations at Paris. It was his duty to do right and fear not. If he thought the lights of Poland ought to have been considered, he ought to have ur g ed those rights, and not to have humbled himself before the diplomacy and power of Russia. (Hear, hear.) If he had defended the rights of Poland, and had failed in his efforts, his conduct would have been a protest to the world against the course pursued by Russia, and a vindication for all time of the right of that country. (Cheers.) It bad been said that no man was more favourable to liberty than Lord Palmerston. He hoped that was the case, but his conduct during the late war had left him (Mr. Beales) little hope of anything real or substantial being done in favour of Poland, either by the Government of this coun try or by any dynasty at present in existence. All the results. for which the late war was undertaken might have b:eu accomplished by simply calling Poland to arms. (Cheers.) The people of this country were enthusiastic in the late war because they believed it would lead to the restoration of Poland. Instead of calling Poland to arms, a con trary policy was pursued. Every attempt to form a Polish legion was resisted, until it was too late for that legion to act, and nothing had been done to show that a real desire existed to humble the power of Russia and restore Poland to her rights. He felt convinced that the edifice of European liberty could never be completed, and that a satis factory and permanent peace could never be esta blished, until justice should be done to Poland and also to the other suffering nationalities. (Cheers.) The resolution was then put and agreed to. The CHAIRMAN, in returning thanks on behalf of himself and his colleagues, expressed his regret at the absence of the president of the association (the Marquis of Bieadalbane). At that meeting the noble president was so afraid of trusting himself to the expression of his feelings that he committed his address to writing, thinking that as the times were so critical every topic ought to be avoided which could in any way be considered irritable with re spect to Russia or Austria. But nevertheless the noble marquis said—" The flagrant immorality of the original act of spoliation must be considered, one oethe greatest political crimes and blunders ever perpetrated by the Euporean powers." These words, uttered by a man so cautious, would remain indelibly engraven in letters of brass so long a s Russia existed. Twelve mentss having now elapsed without any appearance of mercy, on the part of that power, there was no necessity in any remarks which might be made to speak on " banded knee or with bated breath." It was impossible not to regret that England and France should not have insisted on some material guarantee from Russia on the part of Poland. That was a great mistake on" the part of both countries. (Cheers.) Nothing could have been more simple than to have raised the banner of Poland, which would have drawn thousands of Poles around it; but when nothing was done, they considered that we were their greatest enemies, and, so far true to themselves, they said, "If you will not assist us we will not assist you." Two such countries as France and England ought neverto have thought of conciliating an unsteady, vacillating Power like Austria. The way to have brought Austria to her senses would have been the rousing of Polane, and other countries Similarly situated would soon have followed her example. (Cheers.) It could not be said that no thing had been gained by the late war. If nothing had been effected beyond the alliance between France and England, that was something, for it was, a proof that when nations acted honesty and fearlessly to gether, they might defy the intrigues of countries that were ruled by despotic sovereigns. (Cheers.) It was therefore a great thing to see England and FranCe acting together in amity and good faith. He could not think that the day had gone by for Poland. (Cheers.) Russia Wail quiet at present. She bad been compelled to make a peace, and not a very honourable one. She collet not have carried on the war for another year. She had given up what we contended for, and would probably remain quiet until her railroads were finished, when she would throw off the mask, and cgain appear in the same character, but in a more formidable shape. It was impossible not to hope that the position of Moldavia and Wallachia would. greatly facilitate the progress of the Polish cause. If these countries should be governed by wise and liberal men, situ ated as they are on the confines of Poland and Austria, it was impossible not o hone that some good would be derived from their example. Be sides, Austria could no longer tepend on Russian bayonets. In a time of peace her revenue was many millions deficient, and she was enable to gO to war with any State, however insignilcant in comparison with herself. (Hear, hear.) Ito trusted that the association would persevere in ~ .ts efforts—that the Poles would remember the interest taken in their welfare by the people ofthis country, from the highest to the lowest ; and that they would, if possible, have the countenance and support b sth of our Govern ment and that of France. He trusted that, if another opportunity should arise, the two Govern ments would manfully come forward and declare their wishes and intentions, and 'that they would persevere until the wrongs Of Poland were redressed and her rights and iudependence were established. (Cheers.) Mr. gCHOLEFIELD, M. P., briefly moved the ap pointment of the members of the council for the ensuing year. ' J. E. JaowE, Esq., seconded the motion, which was agreed to. W. A. SMITH, Esq., moved a resolution, expres sing the gratification of the association at the flat tering remarks made by Prince Czartoryski on the services rendered by the association to the Polish cause. He observed that the Grand Duke Con stantine was about to visit this country, and he was quite confident that the Poles would behave with decency and re pect. He trusted that the English people would allow him to march on amidst a dead silence, and that they would not greet him either with hisses or shouts of congratulation. Let them receive him with solemn silence, for how ever popular he might be in his private character, he was the impersonation of despotism and tyranny of three generations of Russian potentates. (Cheers.) __ The notion was wended by E. JOHNSTONE, Eq., and agreed to. On the motion of Mr. N. F. ZABA, seconded by Major SztmozEwsKr, a vote of thanks was given to the chairman. A vote of thanks was also given to Mr. Birk heck, the hon. secretary, on the motion of Captain ORLON seconded by Captain A. KOZMIAN. On the motion of Mr. BEALES, seconded by the Marquis of TOWNSHEND, a similar compliment was paid to Major Szulczewski, and the proceedings then terminated. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following gen tlemen having undergone the necessary exam i na ti ons f or the diploma were admitted members of the college at the meeting of the Court of Ex' miners on the 15th inst.:— Messrs. John S. Wilkinson, Caledonian -road, Islington ; Wm. P. Price, Margate ; Thos. Rayner, Birstal, near Leeds; Ricp. Griffiths, Machynlieth, Montgomery. shire ; Chas. Kelly, Ramsay, Isle of Man; Chas. F. Eichler, Sydney, New South Wales ; Jas. M'lntre, Coleraine, county D erry; John Chi, y ppbul Joseph J. Muskett, H o lt, N orfolk ; and John T. Shrews Keery ; l, Oalthain, Rutland, THE MURDER AT WOKINGTIAM. A few hours after the examination of the maniac John Blackwell before Mr. Dailey, the chief magis trate, on Thursday last, for the murder of Thomas Rance, he was removed to the county gaol at Reading. Since his incarceration the symptoms of insanity have been so strongly manifested that he has been constantly placed under watch of a warder. In the first night the inmates of the gaol were disturbed by his raving noise, and in his vio lence he broke the windows of the cell in which he was pladecl. He also made a violent attack on the warder, and seized him by the neck, but he did no serious mischief, assistance being immediately pro cured by sounding the alarm bell, which is con nected with each cell. As no doubt can exist as to his insanity, he will in aiew days be removed by au order from the Secretary of State to a lunatic. asylum, where he will be subjected to proper re straint. An inquest was held on view of the body of the deceased man, Thomas Rance, before Mr. R. Clarke, the coroner for the cou n ty, on th e after noon of Friday. The only additional particulars elicited were from the evidence of the grandfather, William Blackwell, who said that the deceased came to take care of the prisoner for the night, as he (the grandfather) had been recently much dis turbed, and wanted to go out and get a night's rest. There was a female lodger in the house, but but she was so deaf that sbe could not hear any thing. He went to sleep at the White Hart public house, where the deceased had lodged, and was called up soon after 12 o'clock by a woman, who said there was a cry of murder. He got up and went to his cottage, and there saw Rance lying outside the back door quite dead, having nothing on but his shirt. It was on Monday last he first observed that his grandson was affected in his mind, as he then cried out very much, made sad lamenta tion, and said, "Oh ! I must die." He was seen by a medical gentleman on Tuesday, who gave him some medicine. On that day he raved very much, but he was pacified on some neighbours coming in in to see him. His grandson had lived with him since the disbanding of the Berkshire Militia, but no symptoms of insanity were visible until Monday last. He, was a shoemaker ; and, although he bad not done much work lately, he could earn from 10s. to 14s. per week. All the knives and razors were put out of his way on Tuesday. The prisoner and the deceased were on good terms, and treated each other as brothers. The relieving officer of he Wokingham Union (Mr. Beecbey) saw the prisoner on Wednesday, and said to him that be must be removed to Littlemore Asylum on the next day if be was not better. He never heard the pri soner talk of destroying himself, or any one else. he was generally talking about religion and pray ing. On Wednesday the prisoner drank no beer or spirits ;in fact, he took nothing but water. The jury returned a formal verdict of " Wilful murder" against John Blackwell. MRS. BACON'S CONBESSI6N. It was stated in the report of the trial of Bacon and his wife that, at the close of the proceedings, Lord Campbell, after the jury had returned their verdict, in an emphatic manner expressed his entire concurrence in that portion of it which exonerated the male prisoner from any share in the transac tion, and he at the same time said that it would no doubt be satisfactory to the jury to hear that the woman had admitted that she, and she alone, had committed the dreadful crime, and that her hus band had nothing whatever to do with it. It has already been stated that Bacon has all along as serted that this was the case, and he had taken every opportunity to urge upon his wife to retract the statement she had made at the police-court, in which she asserted that her husband was the mur derer, and which was no doubt the foundation of the proceedings that were ultimately taken against him. She, however, maintained a dogged silence until the end of the first day's trial, when, shortly after she bad been taken back to her cell, she ex pressed a desire to make a statement, and upon ' some of the authorities of the gaol going to her she at once said that the statement in question was false, and that .she had herself destroyed her chil dren. She stated also that it was quite true that Bacon had left her in bed when he proceeded on his journey to Reigate, and that very soon after wards the idea of destroying her children came into her mind. She first took the little boy out of his bed and cut his throat, and then carried him down stairs and placed him in the chair in the posi tion in which he was found, with the toys before him. She says the child died almost instantaneously, and uttered a very slight cry when she first cut him with the knife. She states that she then determined to kill the baby, but she felt great reluctance to destroy the youngest child, and she did not do so' till after the boy was dead ; but at length she could /11) longer resist the desire for destruction, and she cut the second child's throat in the same manner she had done the first, but this child she left in the room where the deed was committed. She says she has little recollection of what occurred afterwards ; but she remembered Mrs. Munro knock at the door in the afternoon, but was afraid to let her in ; and she remained in the house with her dead children all Monday and the succeeding night, and on the following morning went out with the intention of paying her rent ; and upon meeting Mrs. Munro and her mother the thought suddenly came into her mind that she would tell them that a man had got in at the window and murdered the children, and she expected that this would avert suspicion from herself. She said that, finding it did not have this effect, and that the was taken into custody, she then became alarmed and her mind began wandering, and after the women had been talking to her, and told her that if she did not clear herself she would in all probability lose her life, she resolved to ac cuse her husband, and accordingly made the state ment which led to his being taken into custody and to his being committed to take his trial together with her for the murder. At this time the learned judges bad left the court, but on their arrival on the following morning a communication was imme diately made to the Lord Chief Justice of what had taken place ; but as there were no means of legally bringing the matter before the jury (a statement of this description, made by one prisoner in reference to another, not being legally admissible), the only course, that remained open to the learned judge was to point out the entire absence of anything like positive evidence against the male prisoner, and he summed up the case very much in his'favour, and the result was the acquittal of the male prisoner. On Friday afternoon, before Bacon was removed from Newgate, he expressed a desire to have an in terview with his wife, and the request being acceded . to, the interview took place in the presence of Mr. Weatherhead, the governor of the gaol, and the ordinary. They were both very much affected, and Bacon, at the close and several times during the interview, earnestly entreated his wife to speak the truth, and clear him from the suspicion of being concerned in committing such a dreadful crime, and she replied that she had done se. In the course of ,the afternoon the male prisoner was removed by Mr. Reed, the chief officer of. Stamford, under a warrant charging him with the murder of his mother. Although this step has been taken, the probability is that Bacon will be brought back to be tried at the Central Criminal Court. The coroner's inquisition has already bens removed, under Palmer's Act, to the Court of Qu een ' s B enc h , and when the grand jury, at the ensuing assizes, have returned a true bill, that will also be removed, and the prisoner will iu all probability-be tried at the August session of the Central Criminal Court. Mrs. Bacon has not yet been removed from New gate, but she will eventually be conveyed to the criminal ward of Bethlehem Asylum. EXAMINATION OF THOMAS FULLER BACON UN THE CHARGE OF POISON ING HIS MOTHER. On Saturday Thomas Fuller Bacon (who had been conveyed from London the previous night in cu,tody of Superintend en t R ee d an d Inspector Young), was brought up before the Stamford bench, on the charge of having administered arsenic:to his mother, Mrs. Ann Bacon, of w hi c h s h e di e d on the 15th ay,- 1855. The prisoner was accommodated with a seat, and only once during the day did he make any observa tion. Upon perceiving a professional gentleman with pencil andpaper, 'apparently engagedinsketch ing his portrait, he rose and with considerable warmth, protested against beiugmade an exhibition of. The Bench told the prisoner they could not in terfere in the matter and the inquiry then proceeded. It is unnecessa.rY 'to repeat the whole of the evi dence, it being substantially the same as was given at the coroner's inquest held at Great Casterton, in Feb. lam. A brief resume will, therefore, suffice. Mr. G. P....tterson, chemist and druggist, proved that on the Bth May, 1855 (only aweek before Mrs. Bacon's death), he sold an ounce of arsenic to the prism ler, who said he wanted it to poison rats. The sate was entered in a book kept by witness for the purpoi ie, and attested by the signature of the pri soner liiniself and a witness named Wm. Clifton. Win. Mays Hibbens, an apprentice, deposed that at the boginning of the week before Bacon's mother died the prisoner sent him to the shop of Mr. Wil ford for sixpenny -worth of arsenic, telling him that, if asked. what it was for, he was to say it was for hardening iron. Mr. Wilford refused to let the youth lime the arsenic without a witness. On being informed' of this, Bacon "laughed it o ff," an d said, " Oh, never mind, I'll get it myself." The witness added that 'when there was any iron tit) harden at Bacon's workshop they used prussiate of potash, not arscnic. Mars Riley, charwoman,, who attended Mrs. Ba con d' ,ring I,:er brief but fatal illness, described her symptoms (vomiting and spasms), and said that de ceased told ler that having accepted an invitation to dine with her son Thomas (the prisoner) on Sun day, the 13th May, she was suddenly seized with vomiting and purging after partaking of some broth. The deceased died on the following Tuesday. At this stige of the investigation (half-past 12) the Court adjourned for ten minutes, and in the interval the ?risoner was supplied with a b ee f s t ea k and coffee. which he consumed with great apparent relish William Clifton was the next witness. He de posed to accanpauying the prisoner when he pur chased the aisenic at Mr. Patterson's. Elizabeth Blake said she had known the deceased upwards of 2) years, and she was generally a stout healthy woman. Mm: Ann Uacon, wife of the prisoner's brother William, wasthan examined at considerable length. On Saturday, May 12, 1855, witness saw deceased, who then appeared quite well. Next day witness was sent for 10 deceased, in consequence of her ill ness. Either on the Monday or Tuesday (the day of Mrs. Bacon's death), witness being in deceased's bedrom, heard the prisoner say to his wife, " I think mother had better have something out of that bottle" (referring to a bottle standing on the dressing *able, which witness supposed to contain pepperment or something of that kind). The bottle contained a whitish liquid. On the Tuesday evening, shortly after Mrs. Bacon's death, prisoner took up the bottle in quesiion, and said, " This is :my bo:tle ;it wont be wanted any more—l may as well take it away." Witness did not see the bottle afterwards ; it was a little square bottle, rather lower than an ordinary medicine bottle. ._Witness recollected Mrs. Bacon being ill in March, 1855 ; her symptoms then being similar to those of her last illness. On the first occasion she had a cup of tea or coffee at the prisoner's house about seven in the morning, and she was taken ill about 10 or 11. Under the will of his father the prisoner succeeded, at the death of his mother, to some houses in Pro tection-place, Stamford, which brought in about 90/. a-year, subject to legacies to the amount of 550/., payable six months after Mrs. Bacon's decease. The prisoner was then remanded until Wednes day, when the medical evidence,, including that of Professor Taylor, will be taken. This case, coupled with the Bacon's acquittal on the charge of murdering bis children, has caused the greatest excitement in Stamford, where his an tecedents have caused him to be regarded with no favourable eye. When taken through the town in an omnibus, on his arrival from London on Friday 'night, he was hooted by a formidaVe crowd, and several stones were thrown at the solicitor who conducted his defence. ?HE NEW PENAL SERVITUDE BILL. A meeting to consider the propriety of petition ing Parliament for the insertion into Sir G. Grey's bill of c'auses to secure the employment of convicts in reproductive labour was .held in the Egyptian hall, Mansion-house, on Saturday. The Load Mayor presided, and there was a full attendance of mem bers of the Legislature and other gentlemen inte rested in the improvement of the criminal law. The LORD MAYOR briefly explained his object in convening the meeting, and referred to the commu nications he had received from all parts of the coun try on the subject of our criminal population. Ad verting to the destitution of the metropolis and his own personal visits to the refuges and asylums re sorted to by its poor, he urged as a point of para mount importance the necessity of dealing promptly with the case of offenders who on being discharged from prison had no ostensible means of living. Mr. C. PEARSON then addressed the assemblage at great length, expounding in detail the views he has previously advocated on prison discipline. The gist of his argument was that criminals should be made to support themselves by working at their own handicrafts. Reciting the principal provisions of the Government measure, he said he was willing to concede the large discretionary powei-s with which it would invest the Rome Secretary: Indeed he was anxious to extend those powers further, so as to enah:e Sir G. Grey to give a trial to his (Mr. Pearson's) own scheme. He denied that his views had yet been practically tested, and repudiated with some indignation the absurd attempt to raise crops by cmvict labour from the bleak and granite soil of Dartmooor, which had. bees passed off in his name. Tle experiments at Dartmoor and Port land were wretched caricatures and travesties of the plan h 3 had enunciated. At present the aver age cost of a prisoner's. keep was 261. per annum, against which the only set-off from his reproductive labour was 1/. 4s. 7d. By making each convict work at tie calling he followed before lapsing into crime his average earnings would be 10s. per week, and the cost of his food 3s. To maintain a proper balance of industries in our various gaols magis trates should be authorised, with the consent of the Home Secretary, to transfer their prisoners from one county to another. _ Mr. M. D. HILL (Recorder of Birmingham) vouched for the perfect practicability of Mr. Pear son's plan, which he contended would inflict the most salutary punishments in the form least bur densome to the tax-paying community. Having, enlarged upon the disciplinary effect of useful la bour, he concluded by moving a series of resolutions recommending-1, the substitution in certain cases, in lieu of fixed periods of imprisonment and trans portation, of a proportionate number of hours of labour to be performed by the convict either at home or in the colonies ; 2, the holding out of such inducements to criminals as, in conjunction with proper , mural and religious instruction, would ren der them the " voluntary instruments of their own maintenance, punishment, reformation, and release ; 3, enabling justices of counties and boroughs to exchange prisoners, with a view to a better industrial classification ; and, lastly, the appointment of a committee to carry out the fore going resolutions. - The motion wasseconded by Mr. G. CRUIKSHANK, and supported by the Rev. J. DAVIS, of Rochester, the latter gentleman insisting that restitution should be exacted from the criminal not only for his original offence, but for making himself a bur den to society while in custody. Mr. SIDNEY advocated the assignment system pursued in the earlier history of our colonies, illus trating its beneficial working even under peculiarly unfavourable circumstances by the example of New South Wales. There settlers of the convict class who used to be paid for their labour contracts in " rum" were now its possession of a bank that had never failed, and also kept their own carriag es. (Laughter.) Reformat or y i ns tit u ti ons should be introduced into the colonies, where they would work even better than at hole Mr. ELLIOT caused some merriment by making a vigorous onslaught upon the " humanity-mongers," who built splendid palaces for our thieves, pamper ing them with every luxury enjoyed by the noble man, while they neglected the misery of the honest labourer, and taught him to speculate on the supe riority in point of comfort of crime over steady indastEy. Characterising Mr. Pearson's scheme •as one of many " quack recipes" for curing the same evil, and throwing ridicule on his proposed " exchange of prisoners," which he remarked would require the setting up—perhaps in the Lord Mayor's own official residence—of a " criminal clearing-house," he wound up a lively speech by moving an amendment in accordance with his views, which failed, however, to find a seconder. Lord RANELAGH avowed himself an adherent of the much-decried system of transportation, de nouncing, at the same time, the practice of allow ing notorious thieves; with no"ostensible means of gaining an honest livelihood, to roam at large in this country. Mr. ERNEST JONES came to the rescue of " the humanitarians," and cited his own personal experi ence to prove that the prison discipline to which misdemeanants of the second class are subjected is now sufficiently severe. He.also protested against clothing the Home Secretary with the unprece dented powers sought to be vested in him by the new bill, and advised the setting of our convicts to reclaim the waste lands of this country. At this stage of the proceedings the audience be gan to thin rapidly, the members of Parliament present being the first to depart to attend to their legislative duties, and in a short space but a few gentleman remained to prolong the business. Con currently with this falling off in numbers the dis cussion grew more desultory and even somewhat acrimonious. Mr. Pows . A.LL complained that the meeting had been too much tied down to the consideration of Mr. Pearson's plan, and no time was left for enter ing into the more g( neral question at issue. Mr. LEMAITRE, who offered to second Mr. Elhot's amendment, but was informed by the chair man that he was too late, also alleged it as a grievance that, though they had been invited by the card of admission to a consultation, the first hour and a half had been taken up with a " lec-, ture." An adjournment was also mooted by several speakers, and though Mr. Pearson, backed by the Lord Ma 3 or, at first urged the propriety of agree= ing to the resolutions before separating, in order that the meeting might have its due effect upon the discussion in Parliament that night, the proposal to hula another sitting was strenuously persevered in. An additional element of acerbity was imported into the proceedings by a taunt thrown out in the heat of the moment by Mr. Pearson against Mr. Pownall for his " newly-born zeal in behalf of the reformation of juvenile offenders"--a sarcasm which the worthy gentleman assailed repelled with some warmth. Perfect harmony was, however, soon re stored, and the meeting, which lasted from one till half-past four, was at length adjourned till Monday at twelve. The usual compliment was paid to the Chairman. MR. W. H. RUSSELL'S LECTURES. On Saturday Mr. Russell delivered his third lec ture, the last of the series, in Willis's Rooms. Having terminated his, second lecture with a vivid description of the brilliant but unprofitable charge at Balaklava, he commenced his third lecture with a reference to the promptand admirable dispositions of Sir De Lacy Evans on Oct. 28, for whose services no adequate reward had yet been given. He then passed on to the battle of Inkerman, a large picture and admirably filled in. The storm of the 14th and 15th November Was next described with its at tendant disasters. The horrible state of the camp during the winter was then vividly depicted. Spring and the heaven-sent mission of Florence Nightingale at length brought some relief and good order. On the•6th of February the French took from us our right attack (the Malakhoff), which Sir J. Burgoyne recognised at once as th e key of the position. It would obviously have been more na tional that the English should have kept their lines on the extreme right, and that the French should have occupied the lines on the British left, which were nearest the French lines. It was said the French refused this arrangement. But if they re fused why should we have always yielded ? Mr. Russell, in the course of his remarks, frequently re ferred to the indignity of our playing second fiddle to the French during the operations 'of the siege. Mr. Russell passed rapidly over the intervening events till the assault of the 18th of June. Lord Raglan was not to m dee his att ac k on the R e dan till a certain signal had been given lay the French. But the French, having failed in their attack on the Malakhoff, and got into a difficult and danger ous position, Lord Ragl a n o r d ere d the attack on the Reda,n. It was the old story over again. We were not to do No. 2 till the French had achieved No. 1 ; and to this too easy com pliance with the wishes of the Allies he attributed the fact that this turned out for the English nation an inglorious 18th of June. On the Bth of Sep tember he witnessed that quick, tiger-like, and suc cessful spring of the French oa the Malakoff. The English were preparing to renew their attack on the Redan the next day, but it was not necessary. The Russians felt that the heel of their Achilles had been wounded, apcl. they prepared to leave Sebas topol, which had been defended with so much skill; and they were allowed to do so without any more serious attempt to prevent them than the firing of some shot at the Russian bridge. In conclusion Mr. Russell observed that England was prodigal too late of men as a tardy antithesis of her rea diness to spend money. Names of promise ha I issued from the recext contest which, if they had the opportunity, would one day be come famous. If the English people desired to enter on great wars they mus t be prepared to maintain great armies ; and if these armies were animated by the same spirit as that which possessed the army of Sebastopol, there need be no fear, in any future struggle, for the homes or liberties of England. Mr. Russell's lecture occupied two hours in the delivery, and was concluded amidst loud applause. Mr. Russell will repeat his Personal Narrative at Willis's Rooms; on Saturday afternoon, May 23 ; Thursday afternoon, May 28; Monday afternoon, June 1. THE EQUESTRIAN TROUPE AT DRURY- LANE. An equestrian company—an importation, we understand, from America--commenced a short season at this theatre very successfully on Saturday evening. At present the performers confine their exertions to the circle, leaving the dramatic branch of the art to the old-established home over the water ; but it must be confessed that within tbeir limited range they produce a very varied and ele gant evening's entertainment. Miss Ella, whose name figures in the bills as manager, is a rider of tremendous force and daring, who jumps through balloons and over gates, while her horse is at tl)e gallop, with as much ease and facility as if she were only dancing a polka on terra firma. Mr. Delavanti and his children perform miracles in posture-making, and execute their wonderful feats with so much ease and precision as completely to obviate that nervous sensation with which people are apt to contemplate the tumbling about of young children, as it is commonly done by the less dexterous mem bers of Mr. • Delavanti's calling. A child, Miss Wells, performs with much grace an elaborate act of the haute ecole ; and Madame Newsome manages two horses in a manner that is at once graceful and surprising. The whole of the performances, in short, belong to an advanced school of the art, and present the charm of novelty in a class of public amusement that has made less progress amongst us than any other we know of. There are, besides 'he horsemanship, some first r a t e gymnastic ! exer cises by Messrs. Potter and Jennings, and remark able feats of tumblinc , by MM. Ferdinand a nd Eu gene. These two latter' performers were loudly ap plauded, and may be said to have contributed a leading feature to the evening's amusement. We must not forget the clowns, Swann and Wallett ; the latter, who calls hiniself the " Shakesperian Jester," being almost as loquacious as chorus in the old drama. Both said a great many good things and were very humorous, efficiently filling up the time while the horses were recovering their wind and the ladies readjusting their muslins. Nearly every member of the troupe was honoured with a call, but the chief favourites seemed to be the ladies Ella and Newsotiabe, MM. Eugene and Fer dinand, and the old and young members of the Delavanti family. Great praise is due to Mr. Stir ling, stage manager of Drury-lane, for the celerity with which the theatre was got xeady for this new species of entertainment. Names of Companies. Names of Companies. 93 71. p. ct. 40 4/. 100 11;. 100 61. 15s. 100 21. pr. ct. 10 61. pr. ct. 100 73. 6d 40 63. 100 251. 100 5/. 83 11.55. 143 701 100 21. 103. 100 161. 100 Name of Company. Berlin ...... East London Do. 4 per Cent. Pref. Do. 5 per Cent. Prof. Grand Junction ...... Do. New .. .. • . Kent. . .......... Lambeth New River Company.. Southwark & Vauxhall West Middlesex Do. Do, .. Name of Company. f1unzerf0rd.......... Southwark ...... .. Ditto New of 7% p.c. Waterloo ..... • • • . Ditto Old Ann. of 81. Ditto Nw ditto of 71. Vauxhall freak Forest. Regent's.... Rochdale.... ,Stftrd &Wor. fitourbridgc. Severn and Wye Rail. Warwick & Binning. .5 Warwick & - Napton...3 Worcstr & Birming. 'Wilts & Brki X s. d. 10 0 0 Stock. 25 0 0 2•i 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 '0 0 100 0 0 GI 0 0 5 1 8 HORRIBLE MURDER IN FRANCE. PARIS, Saturday.--The crime of murder is mak ing lamentable progress in France, but, strange to say, the cases are comparatively few in the great 'towns. The villages and agricultural districts in general supply the hideous announcements which are to be found in every number of the Gazette des Tribunaux. The case lam about to record will astonish even those who still remember the name of Thurtell and other miscreants of his class. M. Lechaux, a retired builder and a member of the Municipal Council, 64 years of age, resided with his son and two daughters in the village of Olivet, in the Department of the Loiret. The old gentle man, who had lost his wife some time since, was paralytic. A misunderstanding existed between the father and son relative to the partition of the pro perty belonging to the late Madame Lechaux. One day last week the •old man returned home after a drive in his carriage ; his daughter assisted him to alight, and at the same moment his son ap proached, and, in an angry tone, asked his father how he dared to dispose of some timber without his permission. Thence an altercation ensued, when the son laid hold of his father by the collar, and the latter raised his cane. The son seized the end of the cane, and by means of it drew the old man towards his workshop. There be loosed the cane, and suddenly seizing a carpenter's axe struck at his father. The daughter, however, who clung to her father, war,ded off the first blow. The parricide, who is a man of herculean strength, struck again, and wounded his father in the shoulder. Not satisfied with that, he struck a third time, and with such force that he cut through the face and severed the carotid artery. Lechaux then fell, and the daughter, who had used every effort to prevent the perpetration of the crime, fled, terri fied at the ghastly sight, and screaming for assist ance- The parricide in the meantime quietly picked up , the murdered man's cane, plhced it care fully beside the axe, and went upstairs to his room and locked himself in. There he sat down at his desk, receipted some accounts, and, to use his own expression, " set his affairs in order." The officers of justice having been apprisnl of what had occurred went to the house, knocked at the door of the par ricide's room, and commanded him to open it in the name of the law. "Presently," replied he, "in a few minutes. . . Have patience ; I will not destroy myself ; I will not do my family that honour. I will die on the scaffold." The officer insisted, and the door was finally opened. The Imperial attorney, accompanied by an officer and two. Gendarmes, proceeded to interrogate the parricide, who coolly confessed his crime, adding,. " It must have happened sooner or later." Antoine Lechaux, who is 40 years of aee, unmarried, and possessed of an independent fortune, was committed to the prison of Orleans at 10 o'clock at night, fol lowed by an immense crowd, who waited several hours to catch a glimpse of the assassin. 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Inquiries will bo cheerfully answered.—From the Venerable Archdeacon of Ross. No. 32,836.—Three years' excessive nervousness, withpains in my, neck and left arm, and general debility, which rendered my life very miserable, has been radically removed by Du Barry's health resteringfood.—Atxx. STUART, Archdeacon of Ross, Skibereen. supported by Lestimnnials from the celebrated Professors of Chemistry, Dr. .Andrew Ure ; Dr. Shorland ; Dr. Harvey Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurzer ; Dr. Ingram : Lord Stuart de Decies ; the Dowager Countess of Castle stuart; Major-Gen. Thomas King, and many other respectable persons, whose health has been restored by it, after all other means of cure had failed. For further particulars respecZ ing this invaluable food our readers are referred to Du Barry's advertisement in another part of this paper. Name of Company Amount of Share. s. d. Stock. Stock. Stock. 100 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 Stock. Stock. 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 119)4 93 THE LAW OF MARRIAGE. (Front the Morning Post.) A fourth edition of that remarkable pamphlet, Mrs. Norton's " Letter to the Queer'," is new out, and while the subject of a revision of the marriage laws is under discussion in Parliament, even our legislators might profit by some of the arguments in its pages, especially these which point out the strange anomaly between the Scotch and English method of dealing with these subjects. Against the extraordinary alarm displayed by some of those who speak of any change in trio marriage laws as an experiment fraught with danger, Mrs. Norton quotes, with quiet humour, the story of the Gor man peasant, who, being warned that Le would be drowned if he a - Lempted to cross a certain bridge, replied, " I have already crossed it ;' and she puts this puzzling question to English legislators. "fn Scotland, the ',ridge to justice has been crossed: are English lards prepared to assert that Scotch virtue perished in the experiment ?" The argument of her book, however, is neither for facility of di vorce, nor for a "strong-minded" ass e rtion of equality, nor even for a pertinacious claim on sepa rate property between man and wife ; but sitnplY for a tribunal of marriage and divoree,with a large, indeed an unbounded, discretion of control over married persons of either sex, who are living in 3 state of disunion ; so that both husband and wit . °, may be under the law, for the better protection eL the woman, and for the entire avoidance of the prolonged and revolting scandals which result from. the present struggle between 'contending parties- Certainly if no other good resu'ted from a revision of the laws of marriage and divorce, such suP pressiou of public warfare would be a boon to society in general. Some striking remarks are added in an appendix to Mis. Norton's present edition, on the late ease Baring v. Gordon, in which two married pa_ rt equally injured, are in this position, that the in jured husband has a prompt and effectual remedYt and the injured wile has no remedy at all. though the.cireumstances of the wrong are identical for either party. Several women have lately attempted to argue on the undoubted oppression, the admitted op pression, of the present marriage laws, but none have argued with as Much combined intelligence and moderation as the author of "A Letter to the Queen ;"' and the observations with which she con; eludes her appendix ma y not inopportunely fin a place in our columns, as an effectual answer to the somewhat unchivalrous speech of Mr. Hope dur ing the brief discussion of Sir Erskine Perry's 1311 i " Mrs. Norton says— " It is time this timid handling of the scales of Justice should cease—it is time that the aristocracy of judgme nt ' which so readily commits to prison the hi-tad finder poor family for beating his wife, should venture on ogee cing cing bad gentlemen. The quotation still holds good; in 1611— The laves like spider-webs are wrought ; Great flies escape—the small are caught.' and it is a quotation little to our credit. " Above all, it is time, since the feelings of chiva!rc have not vanished with the fashion of tournaments, the gentlemen of England should cease to answer wit h : mocking sneer the attempts made by women " plead their own cause. Let male indignation be sr• peased by the thought, that for one 'strong minded *l c ; man' —for one woman strong.hearted enough to be l ' ridicule, and intellige n t enoug h t o argue — a hundred, t least, are sitting, feebly weepin g by l one fi re sides, a ° writing quires of letters to brothers and friends to them righted,' without the smallest inkling of coinPf e ", hension of any law whatever, except that law of necees' which compels them to suffer 1 " Nor will women band together. That is an id l e dread. Their feelings are strong ; their experience O re . row. Each thinks the hardship of her own ca,e tn ° , specially calculated to move compassion or rouse innlb; nation than any other ; each fears to associate that o os ,, with (Alms, lest those others should seem less wei lP ft of aid than she deems her own; each judges beret i with the utmost possible favour ; each calls ei4 o , for help. They have a sort of true unreasoaing I stinct that ; aggregate resistance could not se rve i them. They call with separ a te, jealous voices, 0 °':,11 plaintive, some vehement • but call as they may, tbero leel in their hearts (and none more truly than 1) t ' b g they are zilt summoning equals to do battle, but gu l f superiors for protection. In no way confederrtted --4 i cept as classed instances of a similar wrong—they doff, group to4ether to demand a right ; but meet by cho n like other poor suitors, on the common ground of til t. court where they needs must deliver their several P e tions. irg "Let law, authority, and justice overrule all accor d to their deservings. Amen." Country Markets. PRICES OF SUAR.ISB. From the Qificial List. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENIN' LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 1. CANALS. i, 1857. Ashtn &Oldh Birmingham Coventry.... Derby .. • • • • GrandJanctn Do., 6 pr. Ct., Grand Union Kennt & Avn Leeds &Livrp Leicester Leicstr &Nth Longht,orogh Macclesfield. Neath 0xf0rd...... t Dividend . 3 per Annum. Commercial .......... Do. Preference East and West India.. Grand qurry D. & Canal Po. Loan Notes .. Do. 5 per cent. Prof. London ••• • • ••• •• •• it. Katharine •• •• •• outhampton •••• •• •• Victoria Ditto New ...... 51. per cnt. tit.per cnt. 41. per cent. 5/. per cent. 4.. per cut. SI. per cnt 41. per cent. DOCKS, Amount of Share. Amount of Share. Dividend per Annum. X s. d. 25 0 0 100 0 0 5000 100 0 0 GO 0 0 40 0 0 70 10 3 GAS-LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. -- - £ a. d. 4 e. d. Rritish Provincial ...• 71. per cent, 20 0 0 all 23 1 4 Brighton - 14% 1 rlity of London .. •• •• 2/. per cent. 150 0 0 150 0 u - Equitable-. •• •• ••• • •• 2/. 50 0 0 all 41 European .... .•• • • 6/. per cent. 20 0 0 - 13 Groat Central .. •• - . B/. per cent 10 0 0 - 12% Imperial .. •• M. per cent. 30 0 0 - 85 Ditto New - 50 0 0 12 10 G - Ditto Debentures - Stock 100 0 1 208 Do. Continental 1 stCap. 31. ss. 50 0 0 42 15 0 - Do. Do. 2d Cap. 4/. If.s. 50 0 0 41 0 0 - Do. Do. 3d Cap. 4/. 10s. 50 0 0 43 10 0 - Do. Do. 4th Cap. 31. 50 0 0 41 0 0 - Independent ........• 51. 40 0 0 all - London Part Preferen. 67. per cent. 25 0 0 - 26 Phoenix Ratcliff .... •.„ - Surrey Consumers - United General •••• -16 s Od peuh. 50 0 0 - - Westminster Chartered 7;per cent. 50 0 0 - 54 Ditto, New .... •• • • - 50 0 0 10 0 0 10% Western A Ditto B ..... - INSURANCE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ a. d. £ a. d. Albion .....• •• - - Allianza Brit. and For 7l. 148.6 d. 100 0 0 11 0 0 17 1 Ditto Marine ... Athenwam. - 1 0 0 all - Atlas .... ...... krgus Life - i.tritish Commercial - Church of England City of London -• • Clericl.Med.& Gen• Life spr ct.& bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - j.lounty - C:rown - Eagle •.• • • . ss. 50 0 0 5 0 il - Equity and Law - .... 54 per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 5 7 / 8 European Life l/. 20 0 0 all 18 Family Endowment - 41. per cent. 100 0 0 4 0 0 - General ........ 6 per cent. 5 0 0 all 5 1 ,0 Globe .. • • .... 51. per cent. Stock. all 97% Gresham Life . . - - 47 5 u - Do. Do. - 20 0 0 50 0 0 - Guardian Imperial Fire... •• Imperial Life - Indemnity Marine - -5, .p. et. &bs. 100 0 0 13 0 0 114 Law Fire ............ 28 &2s bons 100 0 0 210 0 3y Law Lite.•...... .... 21s. per sh. 100 0 0 12 10 0 62 Legal and General Life 4s. per share 50 0 0 2 0 0 5 London - London & Prov. Law 3s. 50 0 0 2 0 0 - Marine... • - 11Ied.Invlid& Gen. Life 1% per cent 50 0 0 20 0 34 Minerva ........ • - Monarch •• •• •. • • New Equitable - Pelican - - - Phcenix - - - Professional Life...... 51. per cent 6 5 0 010 0 - Provident Life........ 12% per c. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Rock Life • ... 7s. 5 0 0 010 0 7 1 % Royal Exchange ...... Bpc & bs Stock. all - Sun Fire' ...... 5% p c & be. - PP 305 Ditto Life ..... II 14s. - - United Kingdom .... 41. & bonus. 20 0 0 510 0 4% Universal Life ... ..... 5/ & bonus. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Victoria Life • • ...... 3/. & bonus - 5 0 0 5N JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ a. d. £ a. d. Australasia........... 10/. per cent. 40 0 0 all 88 Bank of Egypt .....„ - 25 0 0 18 15 0 17% Bank of London British North American 9 per cent. 50 0 0 all 70% Ch. Bk. Ind. Aust & Ch. V. per cent. 20 0 0 6 0 0 - City .. • Colonial .... .... -_ „ , •, 1100 0 0 25 0 0 26% Commercial of London. 71. p. c. & bs. 100 0 0 20 0 0 - Eng. Scot. & Aust. Ch. 4/. per cent. 20 0 0 all - Lon d. Conn Bk. of Ans. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 17 3 4 PP Do. New ~ •• _ „ - London and County - Lon. & Eastn. Bnkg. C 6l. per cent. ;100 0 0 50 0 0 - London Joint-Stock - Londn And Westminstr 18 . per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 47% Nat. Provincial of Eng. 16 pc.& be 100 0 0 35 0 0 78 Ditto. New ... PP 20 0 0' 10 0 0 = Ditto ditto - Matiorial Bgnk - New .. oath Wales - Oriental Bank Corpora. 104. per cent. 25 0 0 ~ 4 t Ottoman Bank - 20 0 0 15 0 0 14% Provincial of Ireland 4l.p. &Abs. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Ditto, New... -.• - lonian.... .. .. - South Australia - Union of Australia ll/. per cent. 25 0 0 all 57 IP - 2 10 0 Union of Hamburg - 15 0 0 3 0 0 3% Union of London...- l5l. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 25A ljni , y Mutual ...... - - 100 0 0 50 0 0 - Western Bank oe Londn - 100 0 01 50 0 0. 41 I LIST OF SCOTTISH. COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ---- - ---- X s. d. £ s. d. Sank of Scotland .. •. 71. per cent. 100 C 0 100 0 0 197/0s British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 23010 a Caledonian Bank .. •• . 81. per cent. 10 0 0 210 031 163 City of Glasgow Bank 51. per cent. 10 0 '0 10 0 0 131 Ea Clydesdale Bank •• .. 5%1. p cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 14. 2s C.)mmercial Bank •. 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 24810 s Eastern ,Bank.. •. •... 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 . 10 0 0 15/15s Edinb.& Glasgow.... 3541. p cent. 5 0 5 0•0 51 Is National Bank ...... 5% per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 192, Ox Nortbof Scotland Bank 51. percent 20 0 0 210 05/ 10s Royal Bank of S cotl. .. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 137 a i Union Bank of Scot... 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 108103 Western Bank:- .... 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 43/10s Alliance Fire and Life.. 8% /.pr cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 17112 s British Guarantee . .. 41. per cent. 10 0 0 2 0 0 11 lls Caledonian Fire Inoue ..4 tOr.per cent. 100 0' 0 10 0 0 251 Os City of Glasgow Life.. 51. percent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 11 5s Co' onial Life ......... 5/. per cont. 50 0 0 3 0 0 1 Os Edinburgh Life Insur. 51. percent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 28115 s Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 3 E, 0 11 c s Life Assoc. of Ocotland 61.p0r cent. 40 0 0 , 3 0 0 51 Vs National Fire and Life 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 4 0 21 Os North British Insur... 71. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 36/15s Northern Assurance Co. 20 0 0 1 00 li 16s Scottish Provincial .... - 50 0 0 2 0 03/ 04 Scottish Union Insrnc. 71. precut. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1/ 15s Standard Life .----- MISCELLANEOUS.' Dividend Amount • Namo of Company. per . of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. - - X s. d. £ is. d. - Acadian Charcoal Iron .. 10 0 0 2 0 0 - I African Steam Ship .. .. 20 0 0 10 0 0 - Assam ice - Auction Mart........ Ailper cent. 50 0 0 - - Australian Agrintilturl - 25 0 0 19 0 0 20 Australian Trust .... 81. pr cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Austradan Royal Mail - 10 0 0 all - Anglo-Mexican Mint., li. 109. 10 0 0 , all - British American Land Si. per cent 50 0 0 40 0 0 , - Canada ............. 6/. percept 100 0 0 32 10 0 - Do. 5 per cent Bon& 51. per cent Stock 100 0.. 0 - Ditto, 5 per cent bds 51. per cent Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 6 per cent. .. 61. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 6p c. bds 1874 61. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 6p c. bds 1876 61. per sent. Stock 100 0 0 -. Crystal Palace - Ditto Preference 7l pr. cent 5 0 0 5 0 0 sy a Crys. Palace of France - 4 0 0 all - City Navigation Bonds 3%1. per cent - - Electric Telegraph Eng.&Aus. Cop. Smelt ' - 50 0 all 1% Eng.&lris. Slag. T. Co. - 50 0 0 all - Equitable Reversionry hl per cent. 100 0 0 ICO 0 0 - Ditto New - 50 0 0 CO 10 0 - 1 Gen. Revers. &Invest. 51. p c and 11. 00 0 0 100 0 0 - Gen. L Sc. Col. (Lim.) - 25 0 0 all - Gen.SteamNavigation tOt. per ct. &15 0 0 14 0 0 24 3 4 London Gen. Omnibus 121. per cent 4 0 0 all 3% Hudson's Bay - Hungerford Lon. Ne. &Na. 55auso •: - 10 0 0 all - London Reversionary 51;•per cent. lb 0 4. c - Mex. & S. American - 10 0 0 all - Nat. Discount Comp.• - 25 0 0 5 0 0 4U N.S.W. Gov.sp.c. Deb. Si. per cent - 100 0 0 - Nor. Bri. Australasian 6d. •I 0 0 all North of Europe, Stm. Si. per cent. 20 0 0 17 10 0 9 % Price's Patent Cand. Co - 29 0 0 all - Peel River Land&Min. - 5 0 0 a n - Pen. & Oriental Steam 71. per cent .50 0 0 all 69 1 ,6 Ditto New Reversionary Int Soc. 4%1. pr cent 100 0 0 a ll Ditto NEW .• •^ .. .. O a /. pr cent, 130 0 0 20 0 0 . - Royal Mail Steam.... 41. p. share. 100 0 0 60 0 0 ' 6l Scottish Aus. Invest. 151. per cent. 1 0 0 a l l 1 South Australian Land 71. per cent. 25 0 0 all Trust and Loan Comp. 754..1134. 10 cent. 20 0 0 0 0 0 Vaa,Dlereen's Land.. 285 u 10 0 - M.( Do. Gov. 6 per ct.lids. 6 per cent. s -- - --. Naililia WATER-WORKS. Dividend per Annum. BRIDG: Dividend per Annum. 10s per eent.l 11. 12s. (d. U. 9s. Od. 283. 51. pr cent. GI. pr tent. 4/. per cent. 51. p;Cent. 4%d. per ent. 4 per cent. 51. Os per C. 57. Os. ris 281 121. lOs 11. IGs. Paid. Paid. £ a. d. s. d. Stock. 00 0 0 0000 5 0 0 litock. 50 0 0 20 0 0 14 0 0 Price. Dividene per Annum 10s. 7s. Od. X s. d 100 all .26% Price Price. Paid. I Price. Price. HADDINGTON GRAI. WHEAT. 1 ;BARLEY I OATS. First 6Gs Od 42s Od 33s Od Second 463 ld 1 36s 9d ? 29s 9d i Third 34s Od I 33s Od I 27s Od i Total quantity of wheat in market, 657 qrs., barley If 107 qrs., oats •; 187 qrs., ~ beans ~ 111 qrs., AVERAGES PER IMPZUTAL QUARTER. .0 0 Wheat, 2/. t , 1 3-12ths i Barley, „X. 16 9 7 ' l oo Oats, ... 11. 9 9 3-12ths 1 Beans, .....21. 5 6 4 . ' PO BSA o i l 49 4 gI 40 4 01 41 4 62?, oid s° l 193 8 2 selJ PP , DALKRITH GRAIN ZIARBET—MIy 14. fo , Qrs. Best. Current. We l 0 2G i Wheat 61s Od 43s 113 d 3 4, 61 579 Oats 3ls Cd 27s 34d. 12 s Barley 40s Od 36s Od 74 Peas & beans 49s Od _ 42s ld ABERDEEN-MAY 15. Potato oats 23s Od to 24s Od }4olbB per ba frhel Common oats 23s Od to 24s Od Bore 34s Od to 36s Od } 531bs Barley 14 8 Od t o 36 s Od •P Wheat, red (spring)3Bs Od to 42s Od white 3ss Od. to 48s Od 1 G2lbs ~ _ Oatmeal 18s Gd to 193 6d per boll. Flour PROVISION MARKET. 0' Beef, per lb Gd t o 9d Butter, plb. N Od to 1 0 1 g! I Mutton, per lb Gd to 9d Eggs, p doz. 7d 0, 0 _ _ _ N ___ - 'f - .... 9 I' Lamb, do., Os Od to Ol i 0 4 i Bon s , p pair 3s '-. Od to; 61 Veal, per lb ... 9d to Os 10d 1 Chickens,do.2s Od to ,' id Pork, perlb...os 7d to O s 8d Ducks, do., Os Od to 0 , 61 Salmon, per lb .........ls 2d Ducklings,do Os Od to `• 71 : (" Grouse, per brace. ...Os to Os Turkeys, each 4s Od to 54 01 Tallow, p stone, Os to 10s 03 Potatoes, per pock, Oi W Rabbits, each 3(1 to 4d. to 8 0 Butter for exportation (present cure) per cwt.... 80 5 o' Eggs, wholesale price, per dozen RETAIL PRICES. 5 11 214 Flour, 141 b 08 Od to 2s (3d Barley flour,l4lb.Os to `"y); Oatmeal Os Od to is 11d „ dust, ..... Os to 0 04 Beremeal Od to 1s 10d „ per lb 2d t° Pease 111 cal... Os Oct to 2s &1 ski s , ........................ Cheese, per imperial stC 4-lb. 10af...7d. mo, 4s. Od. to 4s 6d 2-Ib. 100f...31d. DUBLIN, MikY 15. At the opening of the market to-day business wasl6 - 11 dull for everything. Tuesday's currencies were O A , supported for any description of grain. Indian corn be quoted 6d loWen L e White wheat, 33s Gd to 37s Gd ; red ditto, 32s Ou -fioe Od; ditto now, —8; barley, malting ' 163 6d to 26s 6d ing, —0 to — s ; oats, old, 13 s 3d to 163; ditto, 0 7 .' 0 ' 4; Od to —s Od ; oatmeal, 16s t o li s Od; bere, new., Od ; rapes. , d, s Od to —s Od p er brl ; bar.ers' clout, A Od to 24s Od per cwt ; Indi an corn , 36 s Od to 38 9 ll' 480 lbs. 4 ., 6 1P1 [ADVERTISEMENT.] — Holloway's Pills should De • - a 0 for the cure of dr o psy. F ema l es a t a cer t a i n peri ° lo 4 , lila become liable to this complaint, which first 13 ;pd its appearance by the swelling of the feet, Jeg s ' i d r hands, and , thus making strong inroads on the 6.- 0 3 eit tution ; numbers of dropsical patients, even villt 3l3 o bi i cases were pronounced hopeless, have been cu t - t oo" taking Holloway's 1)&84 and this medicine having, s 0° the test of years as a certain remedy for this one so afflicted should delay giving it a trial .s ° fre fo r , all medicine vendors throughout the woil,l, am FO ) Holl , way'e Establishments, 244, Strand, Lencl° ll 'oor r 80, Maiden-Line, New York; by A. Stampa ' 0° , 00 1) tinople ; A. Guidici, Smyrna ; and E. Muir,At6) BIRTHS. OF A SON. ,BCOs, ~ye On the 12th inst., at Clarendon Villas, Kensirt wife of Sydney Smith, jun., Esq. oto o On the 16th inst., at Blackheath, Mrs. Thomas s t, On the 16th inst., at Suibiton, Mrs. W. K. Fosse OF A DAUGUTER O. On the 15th inst., at Balham Hill, Mrs. Wigs 0 : Johnson—twins. 00 On the 15th inst., at Elm-grove, Hampton, Of Stephen Ponder, Esq. MARRIED. og re' noirov—. On the 14th inst., at St. George's, Ha.- -14 0 P ele Arthur Lionel Tollemache, eldest son of the late:, of ,h"o C. Tollemache, to Emily, eldest surviving daughnf late Major-General Sir Jeremiah, Bryant, C.l3' Q. Bengal Army. IL DP* , On the 14th inst., at St. George's, Camberwo.-• of T. Sparks, of Shoe-lane, to Emma, eldest daughte,,rov John Newman, of 48, Watling-street, and Alba ny Camberwell. DIED. On the 15th inst., at his residence, 1 5 , Wilm T il eg rP99lift London, General Sir James Macdonnell, of GO" G.C.8., Colonel of the 71st Regt. / 011 ,00 On the 15th inst., at Bibury, Glocestershitetoci Robert, seco n d surviving son of the Hon. Jame° D' late Lady E. Dutton, aged 18. On the .15th inst., at 31, Sussez-gardens 11414' Elizabeth Gowdie, widow of the late John ' Bea d „to 11.E.1.C.0. S., and of liolbrooke House, buffolk. 4011r — On the 13th inst at Hotham Hall, Yorkshire, " 0 , L. Arkwright, Esq. /0 656 On the 14th inst., at Hamsted, Kent , Thos. f r Esq., aged 81. On the 15th inst., at Stanhope-street, p ar k-place, Of gent'-pak, Miss Maly Leifchild, aged 78. ...„, n i t bei On s the r 14th inst., at Radcliffe-on-Trent, w lor, Esq., aged 74. --- ol' LONDON : Printed and Ptibtiehed by Migi.DO n Ow" ~,, 4 of No, 112, Strand, Printer; at The Su ; 000 112, Strand, in the Precinct a the st.troy, ill ti's ; Middlesex, Monday, May 18,1'7• I l ~~ N will n (AL 1 Admii and a m raeterl IXG kid 8 Poiy a been e ~~ ee of tture, Princh eistht. ten. , daily, br. !I Ph n - 6, r at: alruseu , uttrival till 10. Lectur, C r ! tainm e ? ern T oosisio tinugll i Scenic Table d rt,( In eons, the sm twi•Ej L 6 the PRET . 9 :b° bay ."170ED PR. - - ,An El the o i ,k , 4 MY, th The p it i eel, v Rt. An. ; rfenry I • Life A N.B. 3 3 per c ~,~ TII . % - ) tiali I), ir 4f n ib 40,4, de ll F old \Pr§ 05,7 4 l ote trei Nhp t 're ilk tie vi th e To 4( 1544, ~~` N MARKET-MAT 15.