The Sun. — London, England, 1857-04-23 00:00:00

THE RUSSIAN RAILWAY ROBBERY SCHEME. Strange to say—for it really is a fact, and a remarkable fact—that most eminently credulous personage, the British capitalist, does not come forward to sow his sovereigns broadcast over the boundless dominions of Russia. He does not cal culate how many of those precious articles it will take to form a continuous line from St. Petersburg to Kaffa, or to spread in the form of goldleaf over the steppes of Crim Tartary. He distrusts an empire the domestic policy of which is seclusion, and its foreign policy aggression, —which plans its internal communications for external operations, and makes mercantile value secondary to strategic importance. His suspicions are not allayed when he hears that the very materials of the proposed lines are to be smuggled in duty-free, like an Ambassador's luggage. He recoils from a region where it is all State, and no public ; where trade is tariffed up to the throat, and opinion is always on the march to Siberia. Foolish bird as he is, he fears to venture his bill down the throat which in vites him ; for though, no doubt, there is a bone to be extracted, there are teeth also to be repassed. In fact, our old gentlemen and our old ladies, and the motley group that always turns up in a list of shareholders to Bubble Banks and Diddlesex Rail ways, are just now in no humour for the bait, not withstandiug the clerical decoy-duck described in our City Intelligence, who is always ordering 20,0001. worth of Russian scrip from Brussels or Amsterdam. The sphere of enterprise is so distant and so vast ; the lines are so long and so strag gling ; the conditions so utterly precarious ; the contingencies so beyond all English calculation ; the domestic influence so absolute, the rivalry of all kinds so possible, and, if profitable, so certain, that, strange to say, nobody is trying to steal a march on the Stock-Exchange and get his cent. per cent. by an empirical exercise of his private judgment. Englishmen, indeed, dearly love to win money against tremendous odds. They like mer cantile quackery, and swallow kill-or-cure specula tions with wonderful gusto. It is a proud moment indeed, in the most sanctified of lives, when a man can let out to his confidential friend, mid through him to the who's town, thatthe got 20,0001. by an investment which he alone had the sagacity or the courage to try. What has a man to do after that but to die in the odour of affluence ? Yet, with this short cut to wealth now open to us, notwith standing its riAky and paradoxical character, no body comes forward, at least not openly. Ten years hence we may possible hear that the worthy Prebendary Savealt, whose will has just been proved, doubled his fortune by Russian railways ; but at present the E,tablisbmenr, the Faculties, the Half-pay List, and Dowagers keep aloof; and the Emperor of Russia will have to rebait his hook, to alter his terms, to give up his enterprise, or to make his subjects construct their own railways. Not, then, for the sake of further warning, for none appears to be necessary, but rather to justify ourselves for the part we have taken, we will tell a short story of a much more promising scheme, in a much more improving Agion, and one much more within the reach of lirifsh surveillance. Ten years ago there was the flourishing State of Indiana, which everybody could know as much about as he pleased. It is needless, however, to extol its peal tied, its resources, its everything ; for, as the se qUel shows, they were all considerably too good, and are the very cause of the whole mischief we have to tell. Ten years ago,, then, this very promising young State had made , immense im provements, and still found great room for improvement ; and what with past, present, and future improvements, both owed and wanted a great deal more money than its Government could ju,t then lay its hands upon. In fact, it had got into that stage of difficulty which we have been lately told in the Bankruptcy Court is certain to occur in the second or third year of the' soundest undertakings. It owed some millions sterling, and, having paid no interest on its debt for six years, it was on the eve of re p u di a ti on , j us t as its natura l resources were showing themselves in brighter colours than ever. So, after some negotia tion, a compromise was made between the State and its creditors, a good many of whom were at New York, but many more, we fear, in this coun try, which strikes us as about the most splendid conception that ever entered into the head of finan cial defaulter. We are not surprised to find a com mittee of the unfortunate dupes saying of the suc cessful performers that "they smote the rock of financial resource, and the living waters gushed forth ; they touched the rock of public credit, and it sprang upon its feet." Indeed, after a caretul l examination of the whole scheme, we take the liberty of suggesting to the Empero r o f Russia to send at once to Indianopolis, and secure, on any terms whatever, the services of the genileman who made this arrangement ; for we are quite certain if any body can cover all Russia with a reticulation of railways at the expense of the British, French, Dutch, and everything except Russian public, it is the parties in question. Our own immediate pur pose, however, in referring to it is just to show oui own countrymen how utterly unable they must be to estimate the prospects of any new and distant enterprise, and how entirely they must be at the mercy of Governments, social influences, commer cial changes, and accidents of all kinds beyond their control. The following, then, was the compromise made by the State of Indiana with its wearied, but still hopeful, creditors of all nations :—Among various improvements in progress or intended the most advanced and the most promising was a canal. Do not start, British reader, at the idea of an unfinished canal in the year 1846, or suppose that there must also have been a gross of green spectacles offered with it to prepare the eyes of the creditors ,for the inspection of the bargain. The canal was absolutely necessary to the develop ment of Indiana. It was fed by the river Wabash, and ran through .the State, of course avoiding as much as much as possible other States, and joined the Ohio and Lake Erie. The financiers, brokers, and engineers marked out an extensive basin that the canal must accommodate, and whose traffic it mast for the present monopolise. In fact, it was the highway of the State, and what put that beyond proof was, that some score of intended railways were all directed to points on the Wabash and Erie Canal, and thus promised to fulfil the pleasing re lation of branches to trunk, feeders to main cean net, children to parent, or whatever else one may please to imagine them. It was true that the State of Ohio had a rival canal, and that the Stats of Illinois had a rival and all but parallel railway forthcoming, but what were they to Indians ? Un fortunately, the State had not even money enough t ) finish the canal, so by way of idling two birds with one stone the State got its creditors to finish the canal at a cost of $BOO,OOO, and then take the profits in payment of half the debt. They caught at lhe proposal so eagerly that, half doubting their luck, they got a second Act to clinch the bargain, and prevent the State f r o m me ddling withth ecana l till they had paid themselves out of its profits, which all the most competent authorities in the State said must be enormous. Have our prescient readers followed the dodge ? Not a soul of them, we will venture to say ? How in the world are they to enter into the mystery of an, American- or a Russian financial scheine till they have actually put their finger or their foot into it ? Why, the Wabash and Erie Canals was i . of Bourse, prodigiously prosperous by con tribut,ing to the construction of the railways that were to ruin it. It was the scaffold of the buitdilig_th e contractors' tramway and plant, to be cleared off and sold for waste iron as soon as the real work was fini-hed. As fast as the canal was pushed on the railways on both sides were pushed on too, and tho canal supplied theta and the population flowing into the State with rails and materials of all; kinds. But as each railway was finished it commenced a most undutiful competition, and beat th e old canal, or rather the old boat, off the lino. The creditors op ene d th e i r eyes like' puppies the second or third year after the bargain, and at their entreaty the State abstained &obi actually ent er i n g the field. agai nst a them. But railwa of course it must hav e , as the neig hbouring Stares ' were makirig them fast; s o i t passed an act allowing the construc tion of railway a by private enterpri • se and the work went on ap ace . her a time, then, the canal bad a suicidal prosperity, which, of course came to an end when the railways in this d the *gh bouriog states w ere all • de. It an le LOW can o re - e. just keep itself goin g , if it can do SO MIA The y rents and tolls are swallowed up M the expenses ; they have been reduced to 20 per cent., or less, of what they were, brit, as all the profitable traffic • P carried off to the railways, and th e greaterl/.1 the heavy traffic too, the canal i s a bankrupt con cern. It has answered a tempora r y Purpos, and is how good for nothing. The shareholders are coining again to the Legislature of Indiaua—es, longer, of course, as indignant creditors —they have lobt that position—but as outwitted and ruined, mortgagees, and ask for a dole from the State Trea sury. Our readers know, of course, how likely they are to get it. But, can anybody say they are a hit Inure at the mercy of the Legislature of In diana, or that they have proved themselves a bit more s mple and credulous than any ordinary Eng lishman throwin g his money into Russian railways? We can only s a y th at even now we would rather invest in Indiana tiler' in Russian railway shares, for there is always some hope in the justice of a fiefs and prosperous people, but nene whatever in either the power or the desire to pay of a corrupt bureaucracy. —7:Times. rHE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APE, 1L 23, 1857. ACCUSATIONS AGAINST LORD PALUE.RSTON. (From the Morning Post.) It is of the first importance that the new mem bers of the House of Commons—that the future men of England, and that statesmen and journalists Et the continent of Europe and America should know the utter groundlessness—the complete falsity of the accusationsmade against Viscount Palmerston. We make no apology, then, for following the Rus sian diplomatist who has attempted —we need scarcely say unsuccessfully attempted—in the .Nord to misrepresent and vilify the character of the ablest, the most experienced, the most courageous, and, above all, the most thoroughly British of living statesmen. The Nord says that, in leaving the Wellington Ministry, Lord Palmerston "speculated on success, and did not then, or at any time, act from conviction." We have already shown that the present Premier left the Ministry because he made common cause with his friend Mr. Huskisson, one of the ablest, beat-informed, and wisest Ministers this country ever produced—a man whose untimely death in 1830 was one of the greatest calamities that could fall on this nation. It is one of the few reproaches that can be cast on the memory of the great and good Duke of Wel lington, that he treated Mr. Huskisson's attempts at explanation on this occasion with an abruptness and a summary sternness savouring far more of the camp than of the Cabinet. In this his grace com mitted a great error; for, in 1828, Mr. Huskisson stood first in the foremost rank of living statesmen, and combined in his proper person more sound poli tical, commercial, and statistical knowledge, and greater administrative skill and sagacity, than any living man. In trutb, since the days of Colbert and Turbot, there had been no such Minister in Europe for a knowledge of commercial and economic theo riee Nor was Huskisson a mere theoriser only. To the highest scientific he allied the greatest practical intelligence, and was, in the best sense of the word, a thorough matter-of-fact and highly.dependable colleague. With the soundest sense he combined the most perfect suavity and a modesty rare at that epoch, and now, we may say, almost wholly mtex isting among public men. When Mr. Huskisson found that his letter to the Duke had been mistaken and misconceived, whom did he select to confer on the subject with the great Captain None other than his friend the then" Secretary at War, the pre sent popular First Minister of the Crown. It is said, in the most off-hand Tartar fashion, by the Russian diplomatist, who unsuccessfully at tempts to depreciate Viscount Palmerston, that "the Duke of Wellington showed him very little respect." At what source the Russian acquired this smattering of information we profess net to know, or, indeed, to care ; but we may take the opportu nity of stating here that the illustrious Duke, often ungracious and brusque to the highest personages in the State, and generally abrupt and decisive in manner, was uniformly cordial and urbane in his commerce with the Secretary at War. The con versation held with the trusted friend of Mr. Huskisson in May, 1828, was of considerable length —much longer, indeed, than that pre viously held with Earl Dudley ; for we may, in passing, remark that the manners of the noble earl, the then gifted Secretary for Foreign Affairs, were quite as abrupt as the Duke's, and occasionally eccentrical in no common degree. After having seen the Duke of Wellington on the part of Mr. Huskisson, Viscount Palmerston ad . vised his right hon. friend to pursue a certain course. That course was pursued, and pursued speedily, and the result was that Mr. Huskiwon and his three Canningite friends —namely, Lords Dudley, Palmerston, and Mr. Charles Grant (now Lord Glenelg)—went out of office. So instanta neous and decided was the course taken by Lord Palmerston that he waited' on the then Secretary (Mr. Peel), and requested that he would postpone the notice for the Army. Estimates, which stood for the following day, in order that there might be time to make the necessary arrangements. So much for the " speculations" of ViscountPalraereton and " the very little respect," according to the Nord, shown to him by the Duke of Wellington. We are next told by the Nord that, in retiring to the Opposition benches, "Lord Palmerston never let an expression to escape him to prove that he had adopted the policy of the Whigs." How little the writer knows of the facts, or how much he mis represents the truth, shall be soon apparent. On the Ist June, 1829, the late Sir J. Mackintosh, the leading authority of the Whigs on international law (and of whom the late Lord Castlereagh ob served that the house regarded him as the eminent professor of that science), brought forward his motion on the affairs of Portugal. Viscount Pal merston, helm able speech, expressed his fullest concurrence in the policy and principles of the mover, and told the house, amidst applauding chcere s that the civilised world rang with execra tions upon Miguel, " thedestroyer of constitutional freedom, the breaker of solemn oaths, the faithless usurper, the enslaver of his country, the trampler upon public law, the attempter of the life of help less and defenceless women," &c. Few speeches in our day made a greater impression than this dis course. On the same occasion Viscount Palmer. ston challenged the foreign policy of the Welling ton Government in reference to Greece, and de monstrated that since ce oker Aberdeen had been Minister for Foreign Affairs, France, from her en lightened liberality, had held the first, and Eng land only the second, place in Europe. These sen timents thoroughly identified the, speaker with the most liberal section of politicians, and prepared the way for the best understanding between the Can niugites and the Whigs. Every week, nay, almost every hour, brought these parties nearer together. Ten days after the period we have been speakiag of Viscount Palmerston summed up his general objec tions to the foreign policy of the Wellington Govern ment in asciil more remarkable speech. He observed that there were two great parties in Europe, one of which endeavoured to bear away by the force of public opinion —the other by the force of physical control. " There is in nature," be observed, "no moving power but mind : all else is pa , sive and inert. In human affairs this power is opinion ; in political affairs it is public opinion." The Statesmen, like Canning or Palmerston, who know how to avail themselves of the passions, the opinions, and the interests of mankind, are able to gain an ascend ancy and exercise a sway,, far out of all proportion, greater than belong to the power an d resources of the State over wh ic they preside, while those who seek to check, to prohibit, and padlock, like the Aberdeens and Gladstones of a lower generation, find themselves at fault. In 1827, when Canuingdirected the foreign peey of the empire, England was in the first r;J: these conditions, and exercised an immense in the nati'ous of the e ar th. I n 1829, ftuence on when Lord Aberdeen was Minister for Foreir , l l Aff a i rs, b y his maladroitness, na rrowness, wed' uosympathising character, our pre s ti ge was le a s W e were spoeen . of abroad with contempt .nd derisi on ; an d , i nstead of being looks., u p to a a the model of cons t itut i onal freedom, as th e ref' age from 'persecution, "and as a shield against c; , pression, our name, from the Ta gus to thaßoephoess, was coupled with everything hostile ,to 'anprov.emeut and friendly to despotism. Agsinsfthis servile and timorous policy, whether in Portugal, in Spain, in Greece, or .in Turkey, lend Palmerston protested, and the Whig party and the country went enthusiastically along with him. In feet, three members of the Canning party iu the Lower House, namely, Huskissou, Palmer ston, and Grant, exercised at this moment a most commanding influence, and there-can be little doubt that all three of them would have entered the Go vernment of Lord Grey iu November, 1830, had not Mr. Huskisson been unhappily killed by an appslling accident near Manchester about sex weeks previously to the accession of the Whigs to power. As it was, however, the three Principal Secretaries of State were men who formed a portion of the Ministry of Canning. Viscount" Melbourne, Can ning's Chief Secretary for Ireland, was made Home Secretary. Viscount Palmerston, Canning's Secre tary at War, was made foreign Secretary. And Viscount Goderich, Canning's Colon i al S ecretary, was again placed in the same office. Mr. Grant, a Canningite, was at the Board of Trade ; and Mr. Wynne, another Canningite, was Secretary at War; whilst Lord Lansdowne, Canning's Hume Secre tary, was made President of the Council. It is a reuaarkablee• attestation to the ability elf Viscount Palmeraten that Earl Grey, who held aloof from the tanning combination in 1827 indsed, who made a violent and vituperative attack on Mr. Canning—selected, when ho had the power, a pupil of that Stetesman as his Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, at a period when Europe was seized with the desire of change, and charged with the eleetents of revolution. The Premier who made this most fitting selection was au orator of high pretensions, a politician of. 44 years' standing, had been leader of the House of Commons, First Lord of the Admiralty, and, above all, Lad himself suc ceeded the all -accomplished Charles Fox as Prin cipal Secretary f or Foreign Affairs in S ep t em b er, 1806. No man was therefore more indeed so cap able of judging who was fitted for the office, and the choice fell on the present Premier. Front that period, as the Nord state; and it is the only fact it states ruly, the sce ne expan d e d forlris count Palm erston, and for th e 2 7 subsequent years th e hi story of the man and th e Minister is the history of his country.` pre We have not yet exhausted the manifold Misre- sentaVons of the Russian scribe. It b e h oves us, in the public interests, and in the interests of justice and truth, to leave none of his aspersions unre moved, none ofhi3 calumnies unrefuted. POLICE INTELLIGENCE-April 22. MANSION-HOUSE.—James Langton, a sur geon, residing in Cross-street, Commercial-road East, was charged with stealing 3 waistcoats and a piece of silk from the shop of Mr. S. Skinner, a clothier, 18, Aldgate. The prosecutor, having been sworn, said—The prisoner and his little boy, about six years of age, entered my shop at 12 o'clock to-day, and gave me an order which came to 14s. Whilst measuring him for a suit of clothes, I observed a waistcoat drop from under his coat upon the floor. The little boy picked up the waistcoat and placed it on a chair. I told him I had forgot to take the measure of his waistcoat, and upon proceeding to do so I disco vered two other waistcoats under his coat. I then gave bim into custody, and at the station-house a piece of blue slk, also belonging to me, was taken from his pocket. When charged he said he was in nocent, and that I could do no good by giving him in charge. He is a surgeon, and bas dealt with me for the last 4or 5 years. He told me while mea suring him that his uncle had recently died, leav ing him an income of 4/. a week. • J. Brooks, constable, No. 666, said that he found the piece of silk alluded to by the prosecutor in the pocket of the prisoner. He also found Os. Bd. in his waistcoat pocket. The prisoner, in answer to the charge, sa id M r . Skinner is perfectly mistaken. I declare to God I never took the articles at all. lam a surgeon and a member of the College of Surgeons. I have an in come of 41. a week coming in. I most solemnly declare I did not steal the things at all. The Lord Mayor—But the prosecutor states that he took , the waistcoats from you, and the police man says he found the piece of s ilk in your pocket. Prisoner—No, they were not found upon me ; there was nothing found upon me, I assure you. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. John M'Nair was charged under the following circnmsta nces. Mr. H. L. Keeling, of the firm of Keeling and Hurst, fruit-brokers, Monument-yard, said—We have correspondents at Glasgow, of the name of Virtue and M'Nair, who are in the habit of drawing upon us on current account. If a genuine letter come from them to us, requesting us to credit their account, we should do so. Yesterday the prisoner called at our office, and presented to me the letter produced. I asked him if he was the party repre sented iu the letter. and he said he was. I asked him what brought him to London, when he told me he was travelling for the house. He said he re quired 121. 10s. upon the letter. (The letter, which was a forgery, purported to be written by Messrs. Virtue and M'Nair to the prosecutors.) I handed him the money, and upon his giving me a receipt for it, I sent for an officer, who took him into cus tody. He then said he should be able to explain matters. The prisoner, who confessed his guilt, was com mitted for trial. GUILDHALL.—Maria Burling, aged 54, of middle height, rather corpulent, with fair com plexion and bloated countenance, who described herself as a fortune-teller, was re-examined on a charge of having sent letters containing threats of a most atrocious character to Messrs. Welch and. Margetson, of Cheapside ; Messrs. George Hitch cock and Co., of St. Paul's-churchyard ; and other gentlemen in the City. It will be remembered that threatening letters addressed to merchants and others in the City were found in the prisoner's room. The detective officers who have been employed in the case, now stated that they were convinced that the prisoner had no guilty knowledge of the letters, and no par ticipation in the o ff ence , an d applied to have her bound over to appear at this court on Wednesday next. The application was granted. Rebecca Rice Hamilton, a respectably-dressed female, about 33 years of age, and in deep mourn ing, was then placed in the dock, charged ori sus picion with writing or being concerned with the writer of the letters in question. Mr. Thomas Welch (of the firm of Welch and Margetson), of 154, Cheapside, stated that he knew the prisoner as having been in employ at their fac tory from the beginning of 1855 till March, 1856, during the whole of which time, and since, he had been in the habit o f receiving filthy and disgusting letters. Sometimes the prisoner brought him some which she said bad been sent to her at her resi dence. Persons in their employ had also been in the habit of receiving letters inciting them to rob their employers. He had received letters on the 24th March and Ist April in the same handwriting with those he had been in the habit of receiving. These were produced. Mrs. Atkins, mantua-maker, of 22, Bartlett's. buildings, who had seen the prisoner's writing, and had also seen her write, stated that, to the best of her belief, the letters produced were in the prison. er's handwriting. The prisoner was remanded, that further in quiries might be made. BOW-STREET.—Mr. Wm. Cloak, who keeps an oyster-house in the _Strand, and has a beer-re tailer's licence, was summoned for having, on the 7th Jan. last, sold one gill of brandy, and for having upon the premises, on the 21st Jan., half-a pint of gin and about half-a-pint of orange wine. About nine o'clock on 7th Jan. two excise offi cers, named Wright and Moore, went together to the defendant's house. Wright went in, leaving Moore outside to watch. Wright, after eating some oysters, asked to see a waiter who had served him on former occasions, and on seeing him ordered some•brandy, giving him the money (6d.) before hand. The brandy was brought, he drank it, and then went out. Moore, who had been watching from the opposite side of the street, positively ds dared that none of the defendant's servants had come out as if to purchase spirits at the public-house. On the second charge the evidence was, that on the 21st Jan., Wm. Gutteridge, an officer of excise, visited the house aad found in a cupboard in one of the entered rooms, a decanter containing about half a pint of gin, and on a sideboard and another de canter containing about half a pint of orange wine. Mrs. Cloak told him that the wine was left from what was taken by some children at a birthday party. The gin, she said, was the remains of some that bad been got in th.c, night before to give the servants a glass eac Mr. Henry.ll after the sh o p was s h u t. QlBerved that as t o th e fi rs t c h arge be did not . there was sufficient ev id ence of selling. As to the second, he must read the act agar-2,, and take tim e t o cons id er h; s judgment. WORSHIP -STREET.—Henry Johnson, a dock labourer now, but who persisted in assorting that he was a seaman, stood charged before Mr. D'Eyn court with cutting and wounding John Duggin, in the employ of the Steam Navigation Company Complainant, whose left arm was suspended in a sling, sta'ed last evening, while in the Founders' Arms public-house, Spitalfields,-the accused, being a perfect stranger to him, at that time suddenly accuied him of having circulated a report in the docks that he had committed a robbery. Tit's wit ness of course denied with some indignation, upon which prisoner drew a clasp-knife from his pocket, and opening it, exclaimed—" I've got it here for you." Instantly he made a plunge at his breast with the weapon, which would assuredly have done him a most serious injury had he . not raised his arm, thereby receiving the blade on tits whole of his fingers, which were sadly cut. Prisoner then ran into the street, and for the time escaped. Mrs. Duggin, who Was present, confirmed the statement, and added that when the prisoner found his intention foiled, he struck her a desperate blow, which blackened both eyes. She believed he was sober. An officer whr subsequently took the prisoner, in the street, described his conduct as that of a madman ; be brandished the weapon and threatened to do for any one who approached him. Mr. D'Eyncourt, with some strong remarks upon the use of the knife," said be would remand the p!i- Boner till this day week. W ESTMINSTER.—Amongst the applicants yesterday to Mr. Arnold, the presiding magistrate, was a very creditable-looking middle-aged man, who made the following distressing communication: Applicant stated that his aged mother, a poor widow woman, had for some time past resided un der his roof, and after a short illness died two or three days ago. He was in such bad circumstances that he was wholly without the tne6s of proeui ing a coffin to put her in ; and under those circum stances applied to the parish for one, but was re fused, and had been advised to apply to a magis trate by the neighbours, who wore acqu Afeted with his condition. 'He had lived in Westminster a great length of limp , and thought he was entitled to what he had asked for. Mr. Arnold asked applicant how he got his living? Applicant replied that he was only a poor shoe maker, with a wife and three children, whom he had the greatest difficulty to find in food. Mr. Arnold suggested that the parish authorities might be treating this as an ordinary case of relief, and inquired wlyether they had offered to take and his family into the house ? Applicant s aid they bad not, go into the workhouse, b u t ther's dyi ng con di t i on owing to hi s p oor mo apply t o th dm f or t h e P . - ar did he want to e had b een compelled to and now that she W'4B parish do;torto at'end her, body remaining it,. dead, h e cou l d not have her and three ehildre his one ro om w h era h i s w if e found th - e '32'2% 41 wer e . If h e could possibly have ns of g e tti ng a coffin he certainly tza would, n o t ha t roubled the pad' lh, It was a mcet distressing thing, arid he hoped the magistrate ' would assist him. Mr. Arnold said he had no power whatever to interfere, but would recommend the poor man to apply to the board of guardians. MARYLEBONE.—John S. Cookson, cab pro prietor, was charged with haying been concerned in stealing a box containing property of considerable value, from the warehouse of Mr. Samuel Solomon, Sutton-place, Edgware-road. The box, which was the property of Mr. Solo mon's brother, who, with his family, were about to sail for Australia, had been left with other pack ages. It was missed, a reward of 51. was offered for its recovery, and very soon a part of the box and some of its contents were found at the prisoner's house. As the police had suspicions with regard to other property in his possession he was remanded till Wednesday. SOUTHWARK.-.Edward Atkins, a middle aged man, a plumber, was final'y examined on the charge of attempting to murder Elixsbeth Fore man, by cutting her throat with a razor. The complainant, whose throat was bandaged up, stated that she lived at 3, Union-street, Bmrough road, and until six weeks ago she htd cohabited with the prisoner. The prisoner left some of his property at her house, and meeting him on Mon day, the 6th inst., she told him to call at her house the next morning and fttch the things away. He said he would, and on the 7th, while she was in bed, be entered her room, and then she got up, and he took a razor, and shaved himself. After he had done so, he told her to fasten the door, which sha refused to do. He then asked her to come and sit by him cm the sofa, and she declined doing that ; but she went and sat near the window looking into the street. While there she felt the prisoner push ingeometbing violently against her side, which she at first thought to be his knuckles, but afterwards she perceived it to be a knif e , w hi c h s h e t oo k f rom him, and told him to keep away for the future. He then seized her suddenly by the neck, and forced her head on the bed, and he then cut ber throat and face with the razor he had shaved with. The prisoner was committed for trial. THAMES.—Capt. Simonds, the master of the ship Neleus, lying in the river, came before Mr. Yardley, and stat e d th a t h e shipped nine China men at Foo-Chow-Foo, and they assisted in navi gating the ship to the port of London. He had paid them their wages and kept them on board the Ne leus at work ever since. The ship was about to sail, and had been taken up by the Government as a transport, and he was not permitted to take out Chinamen as part of his crew. He wished to know if be should be justified in discharging the Chinese and paying thew the wages due to them for work ing on hoard. Mr. Yardley said the captain was bound to send them back to their own country in another ship, and enable them to enter into a fresh agreement in accordance with the original agreement which they entered into with him at Foo-Chow-Foo, and not as passengers. Capt. - Simonds said he had already obtained berths for them in a ship about to proceed to China, and he wished to ascertain whether he ought to pay them off at once, and discharge them. Mr. Yardley said he would strongly recommend the applicant not to discharge the Chinamen into the streets, for it he did they would most assuredly become mendicants or thieves, or both. ' Mr. J. W. Roche, a pawnbroker, No. 1, Com mercial-road East, appeared to answer the coin plaint of Thos. Brandon, a mechanic, to whom be had refused to deliver a double cased silver watch with the name of Edwards engraven thereon, and a silk handkerchief. About a year ago Brandon raised 10s. on his watch at Mr. Roche's shop, and on his wife and daughter going to redeem it a few d a y s s i nce a wa t c h of about half the value of his was handed to him. The pawnbroker now insisted that the watch was the one which Roche bad left with him. The magistrate, however, ordered him to pay the complainant 30s. on account of the watch, and 2s. 6d. on account of the handkerchief, EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL IN PARIS. The Military Tribunal assembled on Saturday to hear pleadings in the affair of the alleged criminal assault made by the two cfficers and a sergeant of the 95th Regiment. The court was crowded to ex cess, and the interest manifested in the case was even greater than that of the preceding day. The 3 prisoners, whose bearing was very calm, on being placed at the bar, shook hands with several of their comrades. The public prosecutor, after some pre liminary observations, proceeded to insist that there was strong moral proof of the prisoners' guilt, in asmuch as the fullest confidence must be placed in the death-bed disclosures of the deceased, who was of the strictest virtue, and incapable of telling a falsehood; and inasmuch also as those revelations were made not only when she was delirious, but when she was perfectly calm and in the full possession of her reason. He insisted that her not having said anything as to the putrage to any one immediately after it was committed did not lessen the value of her death-bed revelations, for she had evidently made up her mind to say no thing about it, lest", on the one hand, she should, run the risk of losing her husband's affection, or, on the other, should drive him to endeavour to avenge himself on the aggressors, and so per haps endanger his life. As to the letter she wrote to Leandri the day after theoutrage, he maintained that it did not prove anything against her revela tions, for, having resolved to observe secrecy as to what had happened, she was naturally anxious to preserve the custom of the regiment, which amounted to 72,000 f. a-year, on which sum her husband's profit was 10 per cent., and to keep that custom it was necessary she should not offend the paymaster. As to the testimony of Dr. Trousseau .and the other physicians, which was to th e effect that the deceased had not been the victim of bru tality, but was labouring under hallucinations, the public prosecutor said that amounted to little, as they had only made a superficial examination of her. He admitted the proofs against Benaguet were weak, but explained the participation of the elder Leandri in the crime by saying that, as a Corsican, he did whatever his brother desired, without stop ping to ask whether it was right or wrong ; and he• said that thatprisoner's declaration, that he remem bered little or nothing of what took place on the 25th 'Dec., reminded him of the Italian who con stantly answered " Non mi ricordo" to all questions put to him on the trial of the Queen of Eugland. In conclusion, th °public prosecutor said that the officers of the 95th had, in the course of the proceedings, frequently manifested dissatisfaction with him for lie manner in which he maintained the prosecu tion ; but they should rather thank him, for if the prisoners were guilty, it was right that they should he expelled from their society: and, if innocent, that their acquittal should not be owing to any lake warmness on his part. M. Chaix-d'Est Ange, advo cate of the two Leandris, said that it was monstrous to suppose that two officers and a non-commissioned officer, who had served creditably iu the glorious campaign in the Crimea, could have been guilty of an odious crime against the respectable mother of a family. The whole charge rested on nothing more than delirious ravings ; and he had not the shadow of a doubt not only of the acquittal, but of the complete innocence of the three accused. There was not, in fact, in the whole affair, a single judi cial, positive, material proof—there was not even a moral proof, a probability—nay, a possibility in it. After stating that there was nothing whatsoever proved against the sergeant, and that there was no reason why he should have figured in the case at all, except it was considered desirable to have three accused, and after showing the improbability that the elder Leandri, who was known by his cont raries to bs ro remarkably modest that ho would never even change his shirt in the presence of one of them, could have assisted his brother in the perpetration of an atrocious crime, the learned counsel entered into an examination of the evidence, and maintained that the pay master the principal accused ! had not only not com mitted a crime on Mme, Dullard, but had not even been gallant towards her. As to the charge that he had givtn on One occasion bonbons to the children to get them out of the way, so that he might be alone with her, he treated it 39 absurd : " what an abteninithle 80ducOr a man must be," he cried sar castically, " w ho g iv es 50 e . worth of bonbons to children 1" " The fact le, gentlemen," he continued, " that gine. Paillard died, not of an outrage, but because she had a malady after a miscarriage. I deplore her fate, but such. things happen every day. Ott the 23d Dec., just after her miscarriage, she ac companied her husband to prison in a wretched cart, which was id suspended, and not covered in, and she eettglit eold. She nevertheless continued to go out to attend to her business to the 27th, when she became so ill thst she had to take to her bed, and site never got up from it—that is the .whole case." The learned gentleman then remarked that on the day of the alleged outrage it was proved that site only rem a i ne d th ree - q uarters of an hour with Loandri) and he asked if the abominable crime which was charged against him could have been perpetrated in so short a time ? It might be said that the crime had not been consummated, but he would not accept any such palliation : either his clients were altogether innocent, or they were worse than cannibals. And where was the odious crime alleged to have been committed? In some desert—in a savage cavern—in the midst of darkness ? No, but ton officers, whose rooms were only separated by thin partitions, which enabled almost that was all in Paris, in the Rue Chebrol, in a house occupied by said or donein the different rooms to be overheard, at half-past nine o'clock in - the morning►, on a day when all the officers were in a bustle, became the regiment was about to change its barracks. Why the story was not consistent with common sense. It would not be believed in a novel. And how was it that the woman, if she had been outraged, had not cried out. Had she been gagged ? How was it that on that morning 10 persons at least had gone to the paymaster's room, and had not seen either the bed or the furniture in confusion ? If again the principal accred had been guiity of the crime im puted to him he would after it have felt remorse, and have displayed disqu'etude ; but he breakfasted quietly with his comrades, fettled with his landlady for what he owed for his lodgings, and even romped with the servant girl. The learned counsel then alluded to the following letter, written by the de ceased to M. Loandri on the very day after the crime is said to have been committed. It istlated the 17th, and says :—"Monsieur,—As you have promised me to be kind enough to secure to me the custom of the regiment, I will assist you in perform ing your promise. I will charge the meat al 70c. the kilo. Have the kindness to inform those gen tlemen of it, and let me have an answer , either favourable or unfavourable." How is it possible to b -lieve, added M. Chaixed'gst-Ange, that a woman who had been treated in the manner stated could only on the 'forowing day have written such a letter ? After discussing the symptoms of the de ceased's malady, and showing that they were such as would have been produced by cold and fatigue after a miscarriage, the learned counsel denounced the mother and husband of the deceased for having made public what she had said in her delirium, and he accused them of doing so in order to obtain pe cuniary damages from the accused. He concluded by contending that the accused could not be con demned. M. Chaix-d'Est-Ange, junior, pleaded for Sergeant t enaguet, and M. Vellaud, advocate of Paillard, spoke in support of the prosecution. The accused were then severally asked if they had any thing to add to their defence, and they answered in the negative. The Court thereupon retired, and after three-quarters of an hour's deliberation re turned with a unanimous judgment to the effect that the prisoners were not guilty, and that they accordingly should be immediately set at liberty and return to their regitnent. The judgment was af , erwards read to the prisoners in presence of the guard assembled under arms, and they were at once discharged. A large crowd collected in front of the military prison to see them leave. OPENING OF THE BISHOP', GIRLS' SCHOOL, INVERNESS. This new school-room was recently opened by Bishop Eden. There were present on the occasion, of which but a very brief notice had been given, a few strangers, and some o f th e co nt r ibut ors t o the good work, amongst whom were Lord Saltnin, Col. Ing Mr. Mackintosh, of Daviot, Mr. E len and the Misses Eden, the Rev. J. Comper and Mrs. Comper, the Rev. P. R. Atkinson, curate of Stis ted, in Essex, Mrs. Gillespie, of Ardachy, Mrs. and Miss G. Anderson, Miss Mackenzie, of Ding wall, &c. After a few appropriate prayers, and a short address, the Bishop declared the school-room to be open for the purpose of education. Regret has been expressed that so beautiful a building should not have been placed in a situation which would have made it a more conspicuous orna ment to the town; but the spot was fixed upon, we have been informed, with . a more especial view to those who were to be benefited by the school. The site, a very valuable one, was given by Raigmore, and we understand.that exclusive of the value of this gift, viz., 2001., the cost of the present build ing, school-room, mistress' residence, outhouses, and enclosures, was between 1,1001. And 1,2001., towards which the Committee of Privy Council contributed 5301. The room is warmed by means of two spaci ous open fire-places ; and from its great loftiness, and admirable system of ventilation, could never, we conceive, become oppressively hot or close even in summer. The walls are covered with maps, and with some fine lithograph drawings of scriptural subjects, and the class-room contains many co loured engravings of birds and other animals. The proficiency of the girls in needlework, under the able superintendence of Mrs. Wilson, the mistress, is such, that, as we are informed, they are capable of undertaking shirt-making, and almost any other fine work which may be entrusted to them, for which there. is a t iriff scale of prices, the proceeds of which go towards the support of the school. The design, when completed, will afford accom modation for 200 boys and 200 girls, arranged with residences for the master and mistress in the centre. The school-rooms for the sexes being distinct, will extend north and south from each residence. The girls' school with residence, which is the part com pleted and in use, consists of the front portion 33 feet long and 18 feet wide, with the wing 43 feet long and 18 feet wide, and a class-ropm 18 feet by 14 feet. The residence contains a sitting-room, kitchen, and scullery on the ground floor, with three bedrooms above. To both residence and school are attached outhouses for fupl, washing, and other conveniences, to promote as much as possible cleanliness, health, and decorum ; these ar rangements being perfected by a carefully con trived system of drainage. Water and gas are in troduced both in the school-room and residence. The style of the building is an application of that in use in the 13th century, the best period of me diaeval architecture, and in which the peculiar fea tures of the style, as it existed in Scotland, have not been lost sight of, as may be seen as well in the general character as in the mouldings to the doors and other parts. The walls are constructed of the native stone called Leys stone, neatly "dressed," or hammered on the face. The stonework to the windows, doors, chimney-shafts, and angles of the building being of Findon stone worked smooth, or, as it is called, " polished." The roofs are covered with Ballachu lish slates, beneath which is boarding seen from the interior, the school-room having open timber roofs with arched braces, the whole of the timber and boarding stained and varnished. The principal front, as it exists, presents a gable at each end, the one being the residence, the other the school-room wing, the latter finished by a bell gable, with a flat-headed trefoil arch, containing a bell cast in London by M-asrs. Mears. Beneath the belfry, in a sunk panel, well cJrved, are the arms of the Bishop and of the See of Moray, en signed by a Mitre. Between the two gables appear two windows lighting the school-room, which, as well as others in the side of the wing, being at a considerable height from the ground, are of the kind called "dormers," and are paced in small of the gablets breaking picturesquely into the sides roof. In the interior this elevated posi t ion of the :"7lil dows has the advantage of giving the utmost space against the walls for desks and other purposes. The designs are by the eminent architect,, Mr. W. Slater, of Carlton Chambers, London, and have been carried out by the co-operation of Mr. Alex. Rosa, our townsman. Mr. Brand, of Dingwall, un dertook the contract forthe whole works; the mason work of which was done by our townsman Mr. Cumming. The whole has certainly been completed in the most masterly manner.—lnverness Courier. SHIPPING STATISTICS: ~--- According to the statistics of vessels entered in. ward the return for the port of London' shows a decrease of 1 vessel, with an increase of 197 tons, the arrivals in 1856 having been 166 vessels; with an aggregate capacity of 100,513 tons ; and in 1857 165 vessels, with an aggregate capacity of 100,710 tons. In the case of Liverpool the decrease is 9 vessels and 8,057 tons, the difference between 70 vessels, with an aggregate capacity of 53,703 tons, and 61 vessels with an aggregate capacity of 45,646 tons. Bristol exhibits an increase of 6 vessels and 1,299 tons, the arrivals in 1856 having been 7 ves sels, with an aggregate capacity of 3,723 tons, and in 1857 13 vessels, with an aggregate capacity of 5,022 tons. In the else of the Clyde there has been a decrease - of 2 vessels, but an increase of 1,548 tons, the arrivals in 1856 having been 10 yes s( ls, with an aggregate capacity of 2,692 tons, and in 1857 8 vessels, with an aggregate capacity of 4,240 tons. The net result of these figures is a decrease of 6 vessels and 5,013 tons, the difference between 253 vessels with an aggregate capacity of 160,631 tons, and 247 vessels wit(' an aggregate capacity of 155,616 tons. The principal decrease has been in the arrival of vessels from Calcutta. The statistics of clearances outward show an in crease in the return for the port of London of 29 vessels and 14,754 tons, the departures in 1856 having been 163 vessels, with an aggregate capacity of 100,689 tons, and in 1857 192 vessels, with an aggregate capacity of 115,443 tons. In the case of Liverpool the increase is 47 vessels, and 43,532 tons, the difference between 89 vessels with an aggregate capacity of 69,247 tons in 1856, and 136 vessels with an aggregate capacity of 112,779 tons in 185:, The return for Bristol exhibits an increase of 5 vessels and 2,441 tons, the difference between 1 vessel with an aggregate capacity of 1,182 tons in 1856, and 6 vessels with an aggregate capacity of 3,623 tons in 1357. In the case off b the Clyde there is a'slccrease of 4 vessels and 1,054 tons, the de partures in 1856 having been 22 vrsels, with an of 13,510 tons, and in 1857 18 with an aggregate capac it y of 12,456 tons. a v g e gr s,,e e i g s a , te capacity The net result is an increase of 77 vessels, and 59,673 tons, the departures in 1856 having been 275 vessels, with an aggregate- capacity of 184,628 tons, and in 1857 • 352 vesseli, with an aggregate capacity of 244,301 toes. The increase in the de partures has bceu in vessels destined for New South Wales, Calcutta, Bombay, Mauritius, and the Cape of Good Hope. 93 71. r. Ct. 40 41. 190 Ili. 100 61. 15s. 100 21. pr. ct. 10 61. pr.ct. 100 7s. 66 40 6s. 100 25/. 100 51. 83 11.55. 143 701 100 21. 10s. 100 161. 100 Name of Company. Berlin ...• •• .... East London Do. 4 per Cent. Pref. Do. 5 per Cent. Pref. Grand Junction ...... Do, New •• •• •• Kent.. ~............ Lambeth .......... New River Company.. Southwark & Vauxhall %Pest Miedlesex Do. Do, ATamo of Company. aungerford.......... Southwark Ditto New of 7% p.c. Waterloo .......... ... Ditto Old Ann. of 81. Ditto Nw ditto of 71. Vauxhall Name of Company Commercial .......... Do. Preference East and West inata Grand Snrry D. & Canal Do. Loan Notes .... Do. 5 per cent. Pref. London .• • . ••••• • • St. Katharine • • •• •• •• 'outhampton •. •• •• •• Victoria .• •• •• •• •• •• Ditto New •• •• •• •• GAS-LIGH Name of Company. British Provincial Brighton •• •• •• •• •• .. City of London .. •• .. European ... . . •• •• .• ilreat Central Imperial Ditto New Ditto Debentures.. Do. Continental I st Cap. Do. Do. 2d Cap. Do. Do. 3d Cap. Do. Do. 4th Cap. Independent London Parl. Preferen. Phcenix . Surrey Consumers .... United General Westminster Chartered Ditto, New ........ Western A. . Ditto B ......... Name of Company. A.lblen •••••• •• •• •• tillianc,l Bri.;. and For. Ditto Marino ....... A.thenamm •• •• • • •• • Atlas .. krgus Life ........... ritish Commercial •.. Church of England .. City of London .. •• .. Gen. Life County •.... •• ••• •• Crown . .............. Eagle .• Equity and Law...... European Life......... Family Endowment •• General•••••• •• •• •• •• Globe • •• •• •• •• Gresham Life . ....... Do. Do . • • • • • Guardian ...• • Imperial Fire • • • • • • Imperial Life ..... .... Indemnity Marine.... Law Fire Law Lite.• • • • .... •• • • Legal and General Life London London & Prov Law.. Marine. .......... Med. Invild & Gen. Life Minerva • • .. Monarch New Equitable Pelican •• •• •• •• •• ..•• Phoenix Profestqonal Life .• Provident Life.... .... Rock Life.... • • • • Royal Exchange Sun Fire ...... • • ...... Ditto Life ..... United Kingdom .... Universal Life .•• ..... Victoria Life ........ _PRICES OF SIIABES. From the Official Last. PUI3LLSIIED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1857. CANALS. Names of Companies. Dividend! 4 per cn Annum. Price., Names 01 Companies. Dividend per Price. Annum Peak Forest. Rochdale.... Stand & Won Stonrbridgi, Severn and Wye Rail. j Warwick & Binning. j I Warwick & _ Napton.. iWorcstr & Binning. j ,Wilts & Brks IRKS« Amount of Share. X s. d. 10 0 0 Stock. 25 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 61 0 0 5 1 8 Amount of Share. Amount of Share. £ s. d. Stock. , Stock. Stock: 100 e 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 Stock. Stock. 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 £ r. d. 20 0 0 20 0 0 ISO 0 0 80 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 Stock 50 0 0 -50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0' 0 25 0 0 60 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 5 50 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 s. d. SOO 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 1 0 0 50 0 a 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 20 0 100 0 500 0 100 0 100 0 100 0 100 0 50 0 25 0 50 0 100 0 50 0 20 0 5 0 10 0 6 5 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. Ashtn &.01d1 Birmingham Coventry.... Derby GrandJanctn Do., 6 pr. Ct. Grand Union Kennt & Avu Leeds &Livrp Leicester Leiestr & Ntb Lought.orogh Macclesfield. Neath COMPANIES Amount of Share. 51. Os. 17s 28/ 124 lOs 11. 16s. Paid, Paid. Paid. 4% lON Paid. I Price. 'RANCE COMPANIES. Dividend per Annum. 71. per c. V. 14s. Gd. Gl. p.c. & bs, 153.0 d. & be 41. per cent. 71. 10s. 71. 10s. 5/. 5 pr ct.Bchs. U. per share I/ IBs. ss. it 4 per cent 11. 41. per cent. 6 per cent. bl. per cent 51. per cent 121. per cent '143. st.p7ct. &bs. 2s & 2s bons 214. per sh. 4s. per shine 18s.& bs. 4► % per cent SL. per cent. 51. per cent. 6 LA per cent 5/ p. Ct. 51. per cent. 5L per cent. 12% per c. 7s. p c. & bs p c & bs. ..i/. 14s. 4/. & bonus. 51. & bonus. 5/. & tonus Amount of Share. Paid. 10$. 7s. Od. 8. d 100 all 4 5. d. 4 s. d. Stock. too "o 0 too o 0 5 0 0 Stock. 50 - 0 0 20 0 0 14 0 0 Z s. d all 150 8 0 12 10 G 100 0 42 15 0 41 0 0 43 10 0 41 0 0 52 0 0 16 0 0 10 0 0 all 4 0 0 £ s. d. 50 0 0 11 0 0 25 0 0 all 5 15 0 25 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 Jo 00 10 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 an 4 0 0 47 5 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 30 0 0 2 10 0 13 0 0 2 10 0 12 10 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 2 0 0 20 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 o 10 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 5 10 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 Name of Company. Australasia... • ..... • • Bank of Egypt .. •• • • Bank of London . British North American Ch. Bk. Ind. Aust & Ch Colonial • • • • • • • • • Commercial of London. Eng Scot. & Aust. Ch. Lond.Char.llk. of Aus. Do. New .. • • .... •. London and County .. Lon. & blustn. Bnkg. C. London Joint• Stock ... Londn and Westminatr Nat. Provincial of Eng. Ditto. New •• •• •• •• Ditto ditto Natio-0:1 Bank New oath Wales Oriental Bank Corpora. Ottoman Bank .. Provincial of Ireland.. Ditto, New.• • .. ~.. 10nian...............„ South Australia Union of Australia... Ditto •• •••• •• •••• IPS Union of Hamburg.... Union of L0nd0n...... .... Unity Mutual . Western Bank or Londn IINT-STOCK Dividend per Annum. 401. per cent ANKS. 51. per cent. 9 per cent, 41. per cent. 51. per cent. 71. p. c. & bs. 44. per cent. 5/. percent. Of lel. per cent. 61. per cwt. 28 per cent. 18 per cent. l6Pc.&bs St.per cent. 20'. per tent. In per cent. 31. p. ct.&bs. 81. per cent. 51. per cent. 10/. per cent. 21!. per cent. 15!. per cent.l Amount of Share. s. d. 40 0 0 25 0 0 IOC) 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 1100 0 0 , 100 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 'lOO 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 Paid. 15 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 s. d. all 18 15 0 50 0 0 all 6 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 20 "o 0 5000 10 0 0 20 0 0 35 0 0 l 0 0 0 5 0 0 22 10 0 Price Price, 15 'I) 0 25 0 0 2 10 0 3 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 102 N 9N erica, 21% 55 10% 8% Price. 0i , 4 lio 3% Price. I LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES • Dividend Amount s a: ne of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. -- ----- -.._-.- -- -- -.- 4 s. d. £ a. d. Bank of Scotlann •• •• 7t. per cent. 100 C 0 100 0 0 195110 British Linen Compa.lY 81. per cent 100 0 0 100 10 0 3/ 0 0 22910 s Caledonian Bank ..... 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 2 16s City of Glasgow Bank h.: P er cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 0 131 5 s Clydesdale Bank .... 5%1. n cent. 20 0 0 100 0 0 248105!9 0 0 14 , Ot . C mmercial Bank .. 71. per ..-. ent 500 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 Ili Os Eastern 8ank........ 61. per cen. t • 25. 0 50051 1 i Edinb. & Glasgow.: •• 3 % 1 • p cent. , ' 0 0 100 0 0 191 i Os National Bank ...... 6% per cent. 100 rtbof Scotland Bank er cent 20 0 0 210 0 1 5 / 8s Royal No Bank of Scot!. .. 5 5 1. l.p Per cent 100 0 4; 100 0 0 41 01 8 J.Tnion Bank of Scot. .. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 0 105:0s resterr, Bank- - .... 71. per cent. 50 0 0 6o 0 0 i 3 ilss Alliance Fire and Lire.. 8% /. pr cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 171133 British Guarantee . - 41. per cent. 10 0 0 2 0 0 1/ 12s Caledonian Fire Insur . 1 Nowt cont. 1 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 251 Os City of tliasgovr Lite.. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 11 5s Colonial Life ... .•• • • • V. per cont. 50 0 0 3 0 06/ Os Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. ver cont. 100 0 0 15 0 0 291 Os Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51..ter cent. 50 0 0 3 5 0 41 Cs Life Assoc. of 3catland 6/. per cent. 40 0 0 3 0 05/ 15s National Fire and Life 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 4 021 Os North British Insur... 71. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 )6/ Os Northern Assurance Co. 20 0 0 1 0 0 I/ 15s Scottish Provincial ..... - 50 0 0 2 0 03/ Os Scottish Union Insrnc. 7Y 2 1. prcent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1/ 15s Standard Life .. •••• •• 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 7 0 6 2 11 Os MISCELLANEOUS. • Dividend Amount Name of Compar.y. per of Annum. Share. Paid. Price. ----------- ---____ , 4 a. • £ a. d. - %Acadian Charcoal Iron .. 1 0 0 . 2 0 0 - African Steam Ship .. • • 20 0 10 0 0 - G Assam lea .... -• ...• t, rer cent. 50 0 20 0 0 - Auction Mart........ 2 1 4/per cent 50 0 - - Australian Agrlculturl _ 25 0 19 0 0 - ,Australian Trust .... 81. pr cent. 100 0 25 0 . 0 21 Australian Royal Mall - 10 0 e all Anglo-Mexican Mint, Il• Ws. 10 0 0 all - British American Land Si. per cent 50 0 0 40 0 0 - Canada .-••• „ .. 1... W. Perceet 100 0 0 32 10 0 153 Do. 5 per cent Bonds 51. per cent Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, S per cent bds .51. per cent Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 6 per cent. .. 6/. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 6p c. bds 1874 61. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 6p c. bds 1876 V. per cent Stock 100 0 0 -- Crystal Palace • ..... 2/. per cent 5 0 0 all 2% Ditto Preference.... 71 pr. cent 5 0 0 5 0 0 - Crys. Palace of France - 4 0 0 all - City Novigation Bonds 3%/. per cent - - . - Electric Telegraph .. 6/. per cent Stock. 100 0 0 94 Eng.&Aus. Cop. Smelt. - 5 0 0 all 1% Eng.&lris. Mag. T. Co. - 50 0 0 all - Equitable Reversion. 51per cent. 1 00 0 0 iOO 0 0 - Ditto New .....' 50 0 0 22 10 0 - - Gen. Revers. & Invest. 51. p c and U. 100 ' 0 0 .00 0 0 - O en. I. Sc. Col. (Lim.) - 25 0 0 ' all - Gen•SteamNavigation 10/. per ct. & 15 0 0 14 o.n - Loudon Cen. Omnibus 121. per cent 4 0 0 all 4 Hudson's 8ay........ 51. per cent. Stock Stock - Hungerford .......... 21. 55. 100 0 0 all - Lon. No. &Na. Manso. - 10 0 0 all - London Reversionary 5/, per cent. la n s all -. Mex. & S. American - 10 0 C all - Nat. Discount Comp • • - 25 0 0 5 0 0 4% N.S.W. Gov.sp.c. Deb. Si. per cent - 100 0 0 - Nor. Bri. Ausiralasian Cal. 1 0 0 all % North of Enrage, stn. Si. per cent. 20 0 0 17 10 0 11 Prias Patent Cand. CO - 2.% 0 o all . 23% Peel River Land & Mi n . -- 50 0 all Pen. & Oriental Steam 71. per cent 50 0 0 all 66% Ditto New •••• • • • • - 50 0 0 10 0 0 14% Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cert 100 0 0 all Ditto New •• • • .... O n /. pr cent. 130 0 0 20 0 0 - Royal Stall Steam.... it. p. share. 100 0 0 60 0 0 . 2 Scottish Ans. Invest 151. percent. 10 0 all 1% South Australian Land 71. per cent. 25 0 0 all Trust and Loan Comp. 7'.. pr cent: 20 0 0 5 e 0 L i Vaa Diemm's Land.. • 10s. 100 0028 10 0 11 /8 1 ' ic Gov. 6 pt.r ctlitis. 6 per cent. \ - - BRIDGE, Dividend per Annum. X s. d. 25 0 0 100 0 0 10a per cent. 30 0 0 100 0 0 6000 40 0 0 70 10 3 H. 12s. ed. 1/. Bs. Od. 28s. DOCKS. Dividend per Annum. 51. pr cent. 61. pr cent. 4/. per cent. 51. pccent. 4%Z. per cnt. 4 per cent. 51. Os per c. [T AND COK Dividend per Adnum. 71. per cent. 51. per cent. 21. per cent. 21. 61. per cent. 81. per cent 101. per cent. 31. 53. 4/. Is. 41. 10s. . per cent. ver cnt 5/. St/. ner cent. 16s Od per sh 7 per cont. OA 490 WATER-W 1 Dividehd per Annum. 51. per cnt. 6c. per cnt. 4/. percent. 51. per cent. 4 . per cnt. 51. per cat 41. per cent NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY. (From Punch. Noire is hereby given that the persons whose • nam. , s and descriptions are hereunder written ill' teud t'o apply at the next WeStminst-r Sessions to be 11 lit ved from all he liabilities they have curred as traders upon cant, parry-cries, populta ignorance, former p res ti ge, an d f act i on gener illY t they being enti re l y b ankrupt in political reputat i on , and insolvent a s regar d s the i r engagements to the persons with wh om th ey h ave had dea li ng s. Notices of opposition must be entered on the paper of the House of C ommons. Benjam m : formerly a revo l u tionarY epicnionver ; afterwards a pupil of the late Jeaerh, Hume, Recical, dece ase d ; : th en a Tory-Liberal an" vituperator of the late Daniel O'Connell, R a dical, deceased ; then for scsree time a tide-waiter at the door of the late Sir Robert Peel, Bart., Liherei - Conservative, deceased ; then a vituperator of the said Robert Peel, and a hanger-on at the itables Of the late Ge. rge Lord Ben' inck, Conservative, de; ceased ; also biographer o f t h e sa id G eorge Lord Bentinck ; then in the service of the Earl of Derby as exceedingly odd roan, and now of no occu pation whatsoever; o f M a id s t one i n 1837 , o f S wsburyll` 1841, of Buckinghamshire in 1847 ; iuventor Of successful specific for getting rid of proprietor , money, called the Representative ; also of a quac k mixture call e d t h e A s i an M ys t ery, f or the ewe.°f social disorders ; also of a great variety of more or less adhesive epithets fastened on with a compos e " lion of gall and impertinence ; also of a new date for the Christian era ; also of an equitable adjus t. ment of taxation, by taking off the territorial arts" toeracy, and placin g it upon the Consolidated Fued ; also treaty between England and Franc s for the more complet e su bj uga ti on o f I ta l y ; a l so o' , a great number of mares' nests, for which he re ceived no consideration or credit whatsoever ; doe' net 'admit that he has , ever' failed in business or anything else. Attorneys, Thesiger and Napier. Gladstone, William Ewart : Formerly holder 0 ' a double first-class ticket for Oxford, which el plains his habit of trying to go two ways at once ; then a doctor of civil law, which was a degree tee civil for him, and he has since laid the law down , with, incivility ; afterwards a Conservative ; tb e t a Pee'ite, and s i nce a partner in a ManchesT7 concern, which failed ; at various times ets business for 'himself as a splitter of hair, al l also an upholder in the church furniture a n d orua: ment line ; also a maker of budgets, in whiae he. was successful, but his prospects were de" stroyed by the war ; also as the representativ e s of Nicholas Romanoff, of St. P e t ers b urg , T u rkisu toweller, deceased ; also in partnership with a ( l r ' don & Co., Aberdeen software merchan.s, bank; rapt ; also a spinner of yarns of unprecedeuteu length and tenuity ; and now of no occu pati° ., '; whatsoever except that which Nich o l as th e el de r habitually provides for idle hands to do ; o f Newark in 1832, of Oxford in 1847 ; attributes his failur s i to the existing prejudice against non-natural vie ir of things. Attorney, Roundel]. Palmer. Cobden, Richard : formerly in successful business in . cheap bread, in c o n nec ti on w ith w hi c h he of tamed an honourable position, and dealt in 11 , u adorned eloquence ; the n s p ecu l a t e d unsuccessful'),„ in crumpling Russia ; then pattuer in a discovery that Russia, ought not to be c r u m pl e d ; t h en in is land scheme for allotting to Russia waste Mot in Moldavia and Wallachia ; then i n best" ness as a peacemonge r , an d em b ar k e d in scheme for paving the streets of St. Petersbu rg with English flags ; then originator of ' proposal for feeding th e B r it is h Li on with humble., e. pie ; then partner with both the above-named 1 . 11 : solvents in a scheme f or i n t ro du c i ng a new bottle. holder of Derby manufacture; of Stockport l! 1841, of the West Riding in 1847, and now of to place what-oever ' • attributes . his failure to the acknowledged fact that the entire nation, with t'', exception of a few of his own f r i e nd s , i s is a ett" 6 of insanity. Attorney, Hadfield. Country Markets. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET• APRIL 21. Supplies of all kinds these last six days again large• Oat straw, from 9s Od to 12s Od per kemple of 16 ot° ° Bl trop; wheat do., 7s Oil to Os Od; barley do., 7s Od• to 6d. Hay from is to is. 3d. EDINBURGH MEA.L—APRIL 21. There were in the market to•day 12 sacks oatmeal , e ach weighing 280113 imperial, which sold at 39s and —s• DALKEITH MEAL MARKET—Arnrr, 20. of There wer e i n th e mar k et to-day 16 bags of oatmeal,o barleymeal, and 0 pot barley. Sales ready. h"a• Oatmeal, per sack 4z)f 2801bs First. Second. 1 -rr -1 r Od imperial 1 36 0 Barleymeal, per ditto -s Oct —s Od : —5 a Peasemeal, per ditto Flour, new, per ditto.., —s Od —s Od ---, a Pot-barley, new, per ditto —Et Od a Od - -11 ° 1 BRISTOL SITGAR—APRIL 22. The market is very shortly supplied, and, as a 01 : 0 , quence, transactions are on a limited scale. Arrivals 40$ however, daily expected. There is no stock of rums in hands, and no business therefore doing. DUBLIN, APRIL 21. 32 1 White wheat, 31 s 6d t o 33 s 6(1; red ditto, 303 Od to „4, Od: ditto new, —s; barley, malting, 16s to 25s 6d ; jog, 15s to 20s ; oats, old, 12s to its Od; ditto, ne%" pi Oct to 15s 04; oatmeal, 13s 6cl to 15s; bore, new, 16s t 0 1 7e Od ; rapess, d, 30s Od to 32s Oct per bri ; bakers' flour, 64 to 24s Oct per owt ; Indian corn, 33s 04 to 35i Od P 480 lbss COAL MAR Prices of Coals Or ton a WMland, &o. 4, 0 Framwellgate 1: 0 Eden Main 9 Riddell • 14 0 LambtonPrimrose lB 0 Barton South Hetton ............. • 1 8 0 Stewart's . 1 0 . Cassop l6 6 Hartlepool Hotton ~ 16 80; sold, 42. %T.—Aran 22. the close of the market. s d. Tanfiold Moor Butes 1 3 3 Wylana Wal'send, /cc. Acorn Close l6 0 Eden l6 0 Gosforth l4 9 Heugh l5 6 South Kelloe 16 6 Tees ............18 Ships at marke LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 22. • O a STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market was better to-asit.,o quotations have slightly advanced. The following ot, the sales :—Caledonians 3R—North Eastern,' Ber w ,. , 21 Manchest er , Sheffield,' and Lincolnshire, 3o off London and North Western, 105 A—Ditto, halves, o w , A die. — Lanca,hire and Yorkshire, 101 I—Ditto, g' irer at 1 dis., I,i p.—South East ern , 2 A —E as t Lancasij o lt 99 —Midlands, 82i d—North British, 11 I—Grand Tr of Canada, 16 —Great Western of Canada, new, 21 Eastern Counties, 11.13.9. MANCHESTER, APRIL 22. • oj ola STOOK EXORANGE.—The mar k e t t o -d ay was d Alm very quiet business but prices were firmer. Sb ° '" jaas 394—Eastern Counties, 11a —Leeds, 1011—Caled 0 31k—South Eastern and Dovers, 22 9-16--Midlandhoio, —Great Western o f Canada, new, p. —Grand V I LA Iq—Lancaabire Insurance, 3-16 p.—Chester Guaran 20/. shares, 14i—District Bank, 11 prem. BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 21. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market was doing 11 , je Wes' fair business to-d a y, and prices remain quiet. (Trea t tern, 664 67—Ditto, Birmingham Guarante ed , 7 2 i 91. Birmingham.'W o l ver h ampton, and Stour V a ll e y , c g 's 31S —South Staffords, 9/. 6s. 3d.—Birmingham Bank' 321 Birmingham Old Union Mill, Di FIRE IN LlVERPOOL—Yesterday a fire broke i t t ; the printing-ink works of Messrs. Gilton and Co., ij it lf btreet, Li ver po o l, which in a few hours were coroP.' e a ; r of gutted, though the adjoining property, consist'°°oo dwelling-houses, was saved. Messrs. Gilton a nd C 0 01, insured in the Liverpool and London Office for V)" BIRTHS. OF, A. SON. tf " On the 21st lest , at 21, Lowndes-square, the wit ° ° Rev. Charles J. D'Oy]y. Ednr On the 21st inst., at Hampst e ad, the wife of s, Brydges Hardisty, Esq. OF A DAUGIITER. the W U° On the 21st inst., at Christchurch-park, Ipswich , - of Charles Austin, Esq., of Brandeston Jlall, Suffolk. ti t, On the 14th inst., at Dover, the wife of Colonel MARRIED. 0 0 On the 21st inst., at St. James's, Paddington, --ht Goring, Esq., eldest son of Sir Harry D G ''ng Da" th e Highdeu, county of Sussex, to Eliza, second daughter Rev. Capel Molyneux. On the 22d inst., at Trinity Church, ll t f a rylebon o, o3' to der Shaw, Esq., Henrietta-street, Cavendish -0 1 00 Susan, widow of John Randell, E q , o f Hadley -o V e i and daughter of the late Michael Turner, Esq., of Fn..° • • DIEI D. ln fer On the 21st inst., Thomas Workman, Esq., of 10, 64. ness-road, Bayswater, and of Basingstoke, Hints, ag..., ed _ er arap On the 20th inst., .at Southsea, Major-General x" C. 8., K.H. -R, arni fig ' On the 21st inst., in .Piceadilly, Miss Mall --° aged 33. , ~ the On the 21st inst., at Powia., Worcestershire Jenafe-,:ftps widow of the late Vice-Admiral Tnomas James Worcestershire, v Elms, Abberley, in the same county. Great P. . 1 the 21st inst., Mr. Thomas Foord, of 45, ... 1 land-street, Marylebone, aged 80. mun the 20th last , at Freemantle Lodge, Millbroolct:;: d Cooper, Esq ;of East-street Brewery, SouthareP aged 72. : fives 1' On the 20th inst., at Brighton, Mrs. M. Bails'', eor On the 15th inst., at Tunbridge-wells, Mr. John _....• Sheppard, of the Stock Exchange , aged 34 oNDpr : Printed and Published by MITRDO ir"14140. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at 77Le Sun 011 ice. 112, Strand., in th© Precinct o f the Savo y , in the c oolly/ of Middlesex, Thursday, Aril 23,1857. /'~ .. ~--' las ap; Oh ma tio Sal wh tot dor Pro , pia holc the PrEs tho for i Coil, and tile cont 11 11113 of ti If M tisl; l to tl recei favor from boat tion tura cont pros eats era, ing t liana( Chet - "del are a to r e rally dour illdul polo eon, man Prod and that tw Is , 15 I. 11( , lyi 'r