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and that commission included some of the most eminent jurists of whom this country could boast, either among the judges in Westminster-hell or among those who had occupied seats on the judicial benches of the courts in India. His learned file .d the late Chief Justice Sir J. Jervis had devoted the utmost attention to the subject, and Sir E. Ryan had been indefatittable in his labours. Toe commission framed a code which it was believed would greatly improve the administration. of the laws in India, but up to the present moment that code was a dead letter. It seemed as if no reformation could be effected either in India or EuOnnd, for there was simply an - oscillation of schemes between England and India, and meanwhile the native population remained in the most unfortunate position. Tim native population were most anxious to be placed under the jurisdiction of the English courts, and be thought that prompt and efficient measures should be taken to ameliorate in this respect the condition of our fellow-subjects in India. The !notion was witadrawn. Tneir lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 5 o'clock. Mr. H. Baillie, Mr. Cowan, Mr. F. Williams, Col. Biddulpb, Lord Haddo, Mr. Cheatham, Sir M. Cholmondley, and two other members took the oaths and their seats. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following private bills were read a third time and passed :—Exeter and Exmouth Railway, Great Southern and Western Railway Capital, and Inverness and Nairn Rail way. PORTLAND HARBOUR BILL. Mr. OSBORNE nominated the foiiowing select com mittee on this bill :—Mr. Osborne, Col. Frcestun, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Portman, Mr. H. Sturt, Mr. Ker Sey mer, Mr. R. B. Sheridan, Mr. C. Sturt, and five mem bers to be added by the committee of seiecion. Five to be the quorum; and tbat the committee have leave to sit and vroceed on girl g two days' notice in the Private Agreed to. CANNOCK MINERAL RAILWAY (No. 2) BILL. Mr. MALINS moved that this bill ba committed, be read, and di6ctrarged, and that the nili be withdrawn.— Agreed to IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(YESTERDAY.) The Loan CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH presented a peti tion from the civil servants of the Crown, employed in the Registry and Record-office at Seaham, praying for an advance in the allowances from the superannuation fund. Lord VIVIAN presented petitions to a similar effect. THE OPIUM TRADE. In answer to a question from the Earl of &LUTES EUBT, The LORD CHANCELLOR said that, in conse quence of what had passed In this house List session he bad communicated with his honourable friend the President of the Board of Control, with respect to the legality of the traffic in opium. (Hear, hear ) Immediately after the termination of the elections he bad drawn up a statement setting forth all the facts of the case to be submitted to the law officers of the Crown. The case had been submitted to the Hon. Court of Directors of the East India Company, to ascertain whether, according to their views, the facts had been correctly stated. He expected, in the sours!) of a few days, to receive the document, when it would be laid before the law efficerg, and their lordships would be made acquainted with the result. CASE OF BHAWANNY LALLAII. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE moved for a re return of the appointments held by Mr Thomas in the civil service of the East India Company in the month of September 1854, and of the appointments he may have since held up to the date of the latestaccounts, distinguish ing judicial from other appointments ; and also for copies of any correspondence that may have taken place between the Governor or other superior authorities at Madras and Mr. Thomas relative to the case of " Bbawanny Lallah v. Thomas," and to the judgment delivered thereupon in the Supreme Court of Madras by Chief Jus tice Sir Christopher Rawlinson. The noble earl pro ceeded to observe that the case he was about to submit to their lordships was a case of great tyranny and oppression. It appeared that upon some unfounded charge, Bhawanny Lallab, a merchant of great worth and respectability, was arrested at the instance of Mr. Thomas, in 1854, and for 14 days was marched backwards and forwards in charge of a con stable, without any charge being made. In fact, for upwards of 17 days this Indian gentleman was kept in confinement, and was exposed to mach suffering, without ever being brought to trial, or declared to be guilty of any specific charge. He afterwards instituted legal proceedings against Thomas, and Rained a verdict with damages to the amount of 1,000 rupees ; but a point was reserved for the consideration of a supe rior court. That judgment had been afterwards set aside, and up to the present moment this much-'njured gentleman had been unable to gain any redress for the indiznities and injury to which he bad been sub ected. (Hear, bear.) These being the facts of the case he had thought it his duty to draw their lordships' attention to the circumstance. He had been told that Mr. Thomas had been disini-sed from the service, and he should to glad if such was the fact. Could his noble friend say so ? Earl GRAN VILLE said the noble earl was not jus tified in making such sweeping charges against the admi nistration of justice in India, and the civil servants of the Indian Company. The correspondence to which the noble earl had referred had not yet been received, bnt was expected in the course of a few days, and until then be did not wish to express any opinion as to the actual merits of the case. An icqeiry, without doubt, would be made into the whole affair. _ _ _ Lord CAM PBELL was uoacqnainted with the circurn. stances of this eve, and was therefore unprepared to pro nounce an opinion upon it, but he felt it his duty to xpress his deep regret that no effective measures bad been taken for improving the administration of justice in our Indian possessions. As the noble marquis bad stated, justice was most satisfactorily administered in what were termed the Queen's courts—the supreme courts at Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay ; bat in what were called the Mofussil courts, existing throughout the extec,ive area of our Indian possessions, the administra tion of justice was rnc,t defective, fur the simple reason that the judges had received no proper legal training. Indeed, many of the judges were piing men who were first appointed police magistrates, and who were soon afterwards placed as judges upon the bench. The con sequence was that serious complaints were made of the manner in which justice was administered. With regard to criminal law, all Europeans were under the exclusive jurisdiction of the supreme courts, and when they en tered into civil contracts they generally made it a con dition that the supreme courts alone should determine any disputes which might arise under such contracts. The great mass of the population, however, comprising many millions of people, were subjected to the jurisdic tion of such magistrates and judges as he had de scribed. The pressure of the evil had been so great that a commission bad been appointed to consider the best means of improving the sdm . inietration of justice in India, questions arising out of the harbours for mercantile and general purposes. HONG KONG. Mr. DUNLOP asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies, with reference to the fact, appearing from the Pail anientary paper No. 147, of last session, that, while the emigration officer at Hong Kong had refused to grant a certificate for more than 81 Chinese coolies being taken to sea by the John Calvin, bound for Havana, that vessel carried away 297 such passengers, of whom 110 perished on the voyage, by suicide and disease, and 23 more in quarantine and hospital at Havana : whether the conduct of the master, in taking pas• engers exceeding so greatly in number that for which the certi ficate was granted, was a contravention of the Chinese Passengers' Act of 1855, and, if so, whether instructions had been siren for enforcing the penalties under the hood granted at Hong Kong in terms of that act ; or, if it be not, whether her Majesty's Government would propose an amendment of the act to remedy a defect which gave occa-ion to kidnapping and its consequences : and, whether any communication Chad been made to his department of an explanation having been demanded or received from the British Consul General in Cuba of the ' statement, so far as regards the John Calvin, contained in his report on the cases of that vessel and the Duke of Portland, that he had minutely inquired into them, and Ithat there was no blame whatever attached to the mas ters of that vessel ? Mr. LABOUC HERE said that the officers at Hong Kong only licensed for SO coolies, and that the others I were carried against that license. The authorities were considering whether th© law was sufficient to prevent such conduct, and if so, measures would be accordingly taken, and it it was found the law was defective he should take steps to amend it. With regard to the conduct of the Consul at Havannab, no blame was justly imputed to him. CPIA.THAAI LA.NDS, &c. BILL. Mr. OSBORNE nominated the :-.elect committee on thi bile. Mr. o.borne. Sir F. Stela, Mr. P. W. Martin, Mr. J. A. Kioglake, Sir E. Dertog, Mr. Whatman, Sir B. ErldgeA, Sir J. Rammten, and five ummheri to ba added to tilt) cowmittee of Felection—five to be a quorum —acd that the committee have leave to sit and proceed on giving two days' notice in the Private Bi 1-office.— Agreed to. CHATHAM DISTRICT WATER BILL. Mr. C. FORSTER moved that this bill be committed, be read, and discharged; and that the bill be withdrawn. —Agreed to. PETITIONS. Numerouß petitions were presented against the Civil Service Superanuation Fund Act ; petitions were also presented wiainst the p aper duties ; for the removal of the Jewish Col. FREESTUN presented a petition from the civil servants of the Crown attached to the part of Weymouth and Melcornbe RmaiB, and whose appointments date sub sequently to 1829, praying this honourable house to amend the existing Act of 4th and sth Wm. IV., cap. 24 ; and also to repeal the 27th section of the said act, for the improvement of the scale of superannuation allowances. RETURNS. Several unopposed returns were ordered to be laid upon the table of the house. SIR J. BOWRING. On the motion of Lord GODERICIT, copies or rxtracts of correspondence between Sir J. B itvring and the Secretary of State for the Colonies, relative to the re-construction of the Legislative C , uncil of the colony of Bong Kong is the years 1555 and 1856, were ordered. BRAZIL. Mr. ROEBUCK gave notica that on this day fort night be should m-ve for a stlect committee to consider our relations with Biaz,l. KI NNAIRD gave notice that on Thursday, the 11th June, he should mil the attention of the house to a pttitinn presented venue time since frau the Protestant misAoraries of Bengal, and to move an address to the Crown thereon. THE ADMIRALTY. Sir C. NAPIER gave uotice that on tbia day fort night he should !cove for a select committee to ingulre into tl'e ccustitutuni of the B oard of Admiralty, with a view to render it more efficient for the public service. LAND TAX. Mr. KINNON gave notice, that on this day fort night he sbould move for a select committee, to con fider the state of the and tax. CLIFFOIZD'S BOAT APPARATUS. . „. . In rfnly to a quei.tion frcin Colonel Sir C. WOOD F aid, that Clifford's mcde of lower ing boats had been tried in the Navy, and was thonght ce 0, and V; a certain extent the ships had adopted it. 2,IERCANTILE MAT IZCE ACT. In answer to a ouesti.in frorn Colonel SYKES. Mr. LOWE said there wa,poaitermtion contemplatEd n the Mercantile Marine Act, and if there had it wou'd not attempt to make it compulsory on all ship 3 to u,e Cliffcrd. apparatus. THE SCOTCH HERRING FISHERY. In answer a question from &Lir:el SIXES, m r . WILSON said that as the Commißsi , 4litrs were 'tit - Arc:Wed what "brand" should he used for the herring fi ,, hr . ries in SeAland, and as regarded the harbour of Wick: and the Larbours in that part 'of Scotland, he intended shortly to ask for a committee to consider In answer to a question from Mr. SLANEY, Sir 3. PAKINGTON said he did not contemplate bringing in a bill this session on the question of educa tion, but he would introduce the subject for the conside ration of the house by motion. , THE PROPERTY OF MARRIED WOMEN. Sir E. PERRY moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend the law of property, as it affects married women and their separate earnings. The hon. and learned mem ber said he had hoped that this question would have been taken up by her Majesty's Government, the late Attor ney-General, now Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, having admitted, when he brought it before the house, that the rules of common law relating to the property of married women were most unjust, and inapplicable to the present state of society, and that the rules of the Court of Equity were more consistent with the require meets of the age. He could assure the new members of the house that what he proposed was not founded o n mere theory; what he wished for was a practical rer ae d y for a practical grievance, and in the last session nearly 1 25 , 000 persons complained in petitions of the present state t f the law, and brought before the house examples of hardship which had fallen within their own experi ence ; and having pointed out a grievance they were now anxioueiy waiting for the remedy. One ground on which he appealed to the house to take up this question was that a bill had been introduced in another place to increase the facilities for obtaining a divorce. Those who understood the law of divorce in other countries were not anxious to see any innovation on our present law of marriage undertaken hastily, and his own, opinion was that the people of England did not desire that facile di vorce should become part of the law Ve . the land. There was, however, a general desire for some wise and com prehensive measure as to the enjeyment of property be tween man and wife. Lie husband required to be re lieved from pecuniaryliabili'~ieson the part of a guilty wife, and on the other hate, the wife who had been de serted desired that her 0 ,on earnings should be secured to her, instead of being left to be seized by a profligate hus band. He was can vinced that the carrying out of these ()ejects would do away with the demands which were being made in some quarters with regard to divorce. The objections which were made to the present state of the law by those who had petitioned the house was that the common law of England was unjust in principle, that it differed from the law of all other civilised countries, that it was even inconsistent with itself, and that it was grievous in its operation. He would not dwell at length on these points, but would content himself with very shortly stating the effect of the law as it stood. By the common law of England the wife had no property whatever, either in the per sonalty which she had before marriage, or in anything which she might acquire after marriage. She had no right of suing or being sued, and if she claimed the protection of courts of justice, their decision was nearly always against her. The law on the subject of dower was entirely in favour of the husband. The Roman law, which was the great foundation of the laws of the civiised world, treated woman with the same respect as man in regard to, property, giving her all the rights of property and imposing on her all the obligations arising out of those rights. So, again, under the German law, which prevailed over the greater part of the continent of Europe, the wife had an indefeasible interest in the common stock of the husband and wife, the communia bonorunt, and could claim her share if the marriage were dissolved or a separation took place inconsequence of differences. Not only was the English law unlike the laws of all other civilised countries, but it had departed from its own prig ciples. The early principles of the Eng lish law were as enlightened and just with respect to the property of women as were those of the Roman or the German law. In early days, when land was not of great value, the English law did not take from the wife any landed property which she possessed before marriage ; and though it gave the husband a right to that property after ber death, if a child were born after the marriage, it made the wife a compensation for that by giving her a third of the land whether a child was born or not. So again with regard to personalty, which was in those days of little value, the wife bad a clear indefeasible right to a third of her husband's property after his death. These rights were destroyed by succes sive decisions of courts of justice. Sir William Black ' stone remarked that wives lost them by imperceptible de grees, the truth being that husbands assumed a right to everything that was possessed by their wives, and the ceurte of justice sanctioned that assumption. For the credit of the legal profession, he must say he had very rarely heard any defence of the law as it stood. It was generally admitted to be a harsh law, and with the ex ception perhaps of the hon. and learned member for Wallinerford (Kr. Malice) be bad not heard any one in that house defend it. Some sages of the law, tolerably advanced in life, had indeed set up a defence. One of the most distinguished judges of the country said that as the law threw on the husb an d th e m ai n t e nance of his wife and children, aed the education of his children, and as it rested with th e hu s b an d t o s t a t e h ow th ose duties ehou!d be performed, it was quite right that the law should give to the husband the whole of the property 'af the wife, in order that be night be enabled to discharge these obligations. Now, assuming that the liabilities were correctly stated, it was quite obvious that the con tlusion was a great deal too wide. Supposing the hus band were bound to maintain his children, what was to . be the case if there were no children of the marriage, or if the wife died a week after the marriage, or if the hus band had a mistress and ilegitimate children'? Was it right, was it reasonable, tint in such cases the husband should be able t o di spose of all that was possessed by the wife ? But the propn , .ition which be had quoted was not correct ae reeardeu facts. The law of England did not make a man liable tnR intain his children or to edu cate them. H . e was bound to ma i nta i n his wife in accord ance with 11:s Own poeition, but hie maintenance of his children was governed by the poor law, which simply required that they should not become chargeable to the pariah. No father was compelled by the law of England to educate his children, the law very wisely leaving the Mr. H. 'DRUMMOND said he felt great pleasure in secondin g the motion, being convinced that the working of the present law in regard to married women was ex ceedingly injust. He must confess, however, that be had 'very great doubts whether his hon. and learned friend would be able to attain his object unless a measure were previously passed to give greater facilities for divorce a mensa et thoro. And he had hoped that a bill on that subject would come down from the House of Lerds be fore this bill was introduced. He might himself have in troduced a measure on the subj ect if he had notlearnt from experience that it was utterly useless for any private member to introduce a bill of importance. (Laughter.) The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he wishedto state in the first place that the Government would not oppose the motion of the hon. and learned member. He was by no means desirous of preventing a discussion on the sub ject ; on the contrary, he should be very glad if hon. members would make it a subject of special and careful attention. When the divorce bill came down from the other house, it would be necessary that it should engage attention. It was, however, a subject which was very different from the ordinary topics of the law. The laws affereting the property of married women, and their status ith respect to that property, were intimately bound up with our social institutions, and it was by no means a light thing to attempt an alteration of the law which in volved a material change in the social or political in stitutions of the country. The .hon. and learned mem bE had undoubtedly taken upon himself a very diffi cult and onerous task. So far as the hon. and learned member bad stated his proposition, he did not anti cipate that it would be received with much favour. His object seemed to be to make husband and wife independent persons, to make the women of England stand in that strong-minded po-ition which he had indi cated—(laughter)—to make them independent in all acts, so that neither would be in any way affected by what the other said or did. He (the Attorney-Genera') did not think that was the wish of the best or the most amiable portion of the women of England. (Hear, hear.) He, however, was certainly desirous that the law of Eng land on this subject should be made consistent with it self, and as an individual member, expressing individual opinions, he would endeavour.to point out how far he should himself be disposed to go in a measure of reform. (Hear, hear.) The hon. and learned member had alluded to the remarkable difference which•existed between the law of England with respect to the effect of marriage on real property and on personal property. They all knew very well that in the early period of English history per sonal property was greatly disregarded. When a marriage took place, therefore, between a man and woman possessed of real estate, the law gave to the husband not the unqualified property in real estate, but a right to the rents and profits during coverture ; and to make an effectual alienation, he must obtain the consent of his wife. The operation of the law was, however, ab surd. It a woman when she married had a real estate of 5001. a year, this did not necessarily go to the husband, but if she had 20,0001. in the funds, the stock was trans ferred to him, He, should, therefore, by no means be indisposed to let the dividends from stock be settled by the marriage contract on the wife, and to apply to that case the same safeguards that applied to real property, unle4s the wife should, after marriage, consent to the transfer of her personal property to her husband. He would make the gift to the husband, as was now the case in law, a gift subject to the condition of maintaining, pr,:- tenting, and guarding the wife, and would provide that if that duty were notdischarged, and the propertyrernained intact and unalienated, the life interest should revert to the wife who had been deserted or treated brutally by her hus band. He now came to thequestion raised as t the earn ings of a married woman during coverture from any trade, avocation, or pursuit. With regard to property of that description, the courts of equity were in the habit of re coenising a separate interest on the part of the wife ; and he concurred with the hon. and learned member that what the wife earned during coveture should re main her separate property. There remained a third subject to be dealt with----namely, acquisitions made after coverture ; the three kinds of property under con sideration being the property which the wife had at the time of her marriage ; the property which she acquired after her marriage and during coverture by her own in dustry ; and the acquisitions she made by her own in dustry, gift, or otherwise, after coverture. The law was at variance with equity on this subject. If a married woman who bad no settlement bad a sum of money be queathed to her after coverture, she had a right to go into equity and requi reasettlement to be made, and a portion of the principal of the property was takettaway and locked up in settlement for the benefit of the wife, with remainder to the children. But this could only be obtained through the in - erposi tio a of a court of equity, and that interposition was limited by the, amount of the property. He thought that such property should be given to the wife without the interposition of a court of justice ; and that it was inex pedient to make her go to any tribunal, and much more to so coseey a tribunal as a modern court of equity. It must be remembered that the law gave absolute owner ship of all the wife's property in possession to the hus band, and if they altered that law they would take away the necessity for the interposition of a court of equity. He should propose that the law should give to the bus ba.sd o n l y a lif e i nterest, subject to the duty of maintain irig and protecting the wife. The mode of compelling a l iusbatfid to pe r f orm hi s o bl igations was most weak and inefficient, but they would make it efficient if tbey enacted that a husband ill-treating his wife should lose his interest in the property of the wife, which should revert to her. He made these observations t., inform the hon. member how far some members of the Government, who have con sidered this matter already, were prepared to go in the matter. He did not know any subject that was more diffi cult, or that should be dealt with more anxiously and approached with more timidity, than anything that dealt with the relations between husband and wife. Sir J. PAKINGTON hoped that the hon. member, in bringing forward this bill, would adopt the course in dicated by the Attorney-General. He thought that the same protection w'nich was given to married women with regard to real prverty should be given to them with re gard to personalty. There was another matter. He was not sure whether th Attorney-General fully stated what be thought should be done where a separation had taken place between husband and wife, but still there bad been n I divorce. By the present law the husband so living apart from his wife had a right to take her earnings for his: own nee, The. AttoroerGeneral had alluded to the one ob ervation he cmld not refrain from making. The principte of the bill was one the importance of which could not be overrated, for in fact it, if conceded, would affect the right to all church property. This bill, as he understood, was to be supported by the Government. Was it not much better unler circumstances of this kind, where a measure involving a principle of this im• portance was sanctioned by the Government, that the bill should be brought forward by the Government itself. If that were so, still, in the present instance, her Ma- jesty's Ministers had thought it consistent with their duty to permit a private member to bring forward a bill on a subject of such magnitude ; and he thought that the Government was at least bound to do this—to tak e care that a principle cf such magnitude, having ben approved by them, the hou,e should have an early op portunity of expressing an opinion on it ; for if it were left in the hands of a private member, the chances were against its ever being b-ought before the house fur defi nitive decision. He thought that the Government was bound to make such arrangements that the bill should be brought speedily to a second reading. (Hear, hear.) Certainly he should oppose it Sir G. GREY agreed that it would be inconvenientto discuss thematternow, and therefore he would not follow the right hon gentleman in the observations which he had made. The Government proposed to do what bad been stated. What was stated last session was that the Government proposed to act on the recommendation of the committee of this house which sat in 1847, and look ing to the difficulty of collecting the fund for ministers' money and other matters, they proposed to exonerate the corporation of Ireland from the duty of collecting the money, a duty which they could not be forced to per form without very great difficulty. As his hon. friend (Mr. Fagan) had taken this subject up, it would have been ungracious to take it out of his hands. As t de lay by leaving it in the hands of a private member, look ing to the amount , of Government business before the house, he believed that the house would be called on much sooner to discuss the b.ll than if it were taken on a Government day. Mr. NAPIER said the amount of business rendered it more necessary to fir a day. The whole question was one o f deep importance, and it was his intention on the second reading to move the rejection of the bill. He thought he had better reserve his observations until then. Mr. HENLEY thought that the bill involved a prin ciple of too great importance to be dealt with by a pri vate member. Leave was given to bring in the bill. REGISTRATION OF VOTERS (SCOTLAND). The LORD ADVOCATE brought in a bill to amend the law for the registration of persons entitled to vote in the election of members to serve in Parl;ament for coun ties in Scotland. Mr. G. DUNDAS very much regretted that the bill had been introduced after those meetings had taken place in Scotland at which the matter might have been so well discussed. Mr. KINNAIRD thought that they were greatly in debted to the Lord Advocate for bringing in this bill. Mr. CRAUFURD objected to the bill. The LORD ADVOCATE said that the discussion had better take place.on the second reading. Leave was given to bring in the bill. BURIAL ACTS. Mr. MASSEY moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend the Burial Acts. Leave given. THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. Lord ELC ao moved for leave to bring in a bill to alter and amend the laws relating to the medical pro fession. The bill was the same as bad been brought in on a previous occasion. Leave given. GRAND JURIES (IRELAND). Captain MA.GAN moved the second reading of this bill. Mr. NAPIER wished to know whether any member of the Government had seen it 'I Mr. BUTT said his attention had been direoted to it by the rapir. He thought the bill objectionable and unneceserry. Mr. H. HERBERT thought that the hon. member deserved the graittude of the country for bringing this matter before the home. _ _ The bill was read a second time. 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For further particulars respect ing this invaluable food our readers are referred to Du Baa:res advertisement in another part of this paper. The jury returned a verdict of 'wilful murder, and the coroner made out his warrant accordingly. In the afternoon an examination took place be fore the magistrates, when the prisoner made the following statement :--" The reason why I did it was because she deceived me. I had promised her marriage, and she consented. I went to her house on Monday evening, but she was not at home. I left about nine, o'clock. I went again on Tuesday at six o'clock, and she was not at home then. I went there again and stopped till a quarter past ten, when she re turned home. I went into the front room, and asked her the reason of this unpleasantness. She said it was my own fault. I said, 'Be it so.' I said, 'Give me a decided answer, yes or no, and I will leave you for ever.' She said, 'No, Stephen, I will meet you tomorrow (Wednesday) evening, precisely at eight o'clock. Sbe did not meet me, however. This morning at seven I saw her again. She said, Stephen, forgive me. Tsaid, No, I can't.' I had kept company with her two years. I never had a mis-word till last Tuesday evening." He was then committed for trial at the next asslzes. T.H.E COTTON SUPPLY AND INDIAN RIVER NAVIGATION. We are requested to publish the following copy of a memorial frouu the Manchester Cbamher of Commerce to Lord Palmerston, with Lord Palmerston's reply : " To the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Palmerston, K.G., M.P., &c., &c., " The memorial of the Directors of the Chamber of .Commerce and Manufactures at Manchester shewetb, " That among the measures which have been proposed for developing the resources of India, and obtaining increased supplies of cotton from that country, there is probably none which promises more ample or more speedy advantazes than the navigation of the great rivers of that country by steam, whereby the productions of the interior would find an easy outlet to the coast, and a superior inlet would be afforded for British manufactures. "That the main impediments heretofore subsisting to the effectual and profitable navigation of Indian rivers by steam, has been their shallowness at certain seasons, but that this difficulty has been overcome by an expedient pro posed by Mr. Bourne, civil engineer, whereby the cargo, instead of being placed in the steamer herself, which would sink her too deeply in the water, is placed in a succession of shallow barges properly attached to the steamer, where by a large carrying capacity is reconciled with a shallow draught. "That Mr. Bourne's proposal has been submitted to the most eminent engineers of this country, and t 3 a number of the most distinguished Indian officers, who have all tea• tified to the great advantages which the introduction of it into India would afford ; that his arrangements have been tested practically with satisfactory results ; and that, as far back as 1849, your memorialists, in common with other commercial bodies throughout the kingdom, addressed a memorial to the directors of the East India Company, urging upon them the great public importance of so far en couraging Mr. Bourne's proposals as to enable them to be practicall3 carried out. "That your memorialists have, ever since that time, looked upon this scheme for promoting internal transport in India with the greatest solicitude; that they consider the wide introduction into India of such improved modes of communication as will enable large quantities of bulky commodities to be carried through long distances at a small expense, as the indispensable antecedent of any solid or permanent improvement in the condition of India ; that water conveyance is the cheapest of any mode of con veyance yet known . and that in Mr. Bourne's plan for navigating the Indian rivers, whereby many thousands of miles could be immediately opened up without any con siderasble outlay, they recognise a means of speedily reali sing this important desideratum. " That your memorialists are informed by Mr. Bourne that a company has been formed in London to carry out this plan of navigation in India, and that he, on behalf of that company, has applied to the directors of the Honour able the East India Company for such terms of encoura ze ment as he considers would enable them to carry out the design, but that he has not yet received any definite answer, and that the delays which have occurred are most injurious and discouraging to the said company. " That your memorialists are fully persuaded that if, in 1819, when this expedient for opening up the resources of India was urged upon the Indian authorities, some step bad been taken for carrying it into practical effect, an im portant impulse would by this time have been given to the production and improvement of Indian cotton. "Calling to mind your lordship's patriotic desire to multiply the sources of supply of raw cotton, believing that India, under wise and necessary reforms, would be enabled not only to produce an immense increase in cotton and all other articles of export, but to absorb, in con sumption a corresponding increase in the manufactures of this kingdom, convinced that the means of cheap trans port is an absolute essential toward such a desirable con summation, and that Mr. Bourne's scheme is well calcu lated to provide it, your memorialists earnestly pray that your lordship may use your powerful influence towards hastening the directors of the Honourable Company and the Board of Control to a favourable decision with respect to it, and granting to it such legitimate assistance as its merits deserve, and as, in the opinion of this board, the tree interests, both of India and Great Britain, require.— And, as in duty bound, So., (Signe.l), " TEC.IIIt3 BAZLEY, President," " Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures, Manchester, April 30, 181. "My Lord,—l place in your lordship's hands a memo rial from the directors of this chamber, praying for your lordship's intercession on a subject which, they fear, has encountered, and is still experiencing, an apathy which is injurious to the interests both of India and this country. Your lordship will believe that, in advocating Mr. Bourne's scheme for river navigation in India, the memorialists have no other object in view than the public good ; but they see in it so strong a probability of real usefulness,that they do not hesitate in invoking your lordship's aid as the First Minister of the Crown.—l have the honour to be, &c., TLIONAS BAzLEY, President." (REPLY.) " D o wning-street, May 2, 1857. "Lord Palmerston presents his .compliments to Mr. Bazley, and begs to acknowledge the receipt of his letter, dated the 30th ult., and of the accompanying memorial of the directors of the Chamber of Commerce and Manufac tures at Manchester. "Lord Palmerston begs to assure the directors that the subject referred to in their memorial shall receive duo con sideration from her Majesty's Government. FIRE ON BOARD SHlP.—About 11 o'clock on Wednes day night an alarming fire broke out on board the ship Henry Moore (1,225 tout), Captain Stewart, of Loudon, fitting out in Mem..;. Young's dry dock, Limehouss. Serious consequences were fur a time apprehended, but by dint of exertions the flames were got under, and the damage confined to the parts previously enumerated, which were partly deetroyed, - THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY THE CHARTIST CUFFEY. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why William Cuffay bad not participated in the general amnestygranted in the spring of last year by her Alajesty to all political prisoners ? Sir G. GREY said his name was on the list sent out, but that probably it bad not arrived when the hon. member's information left Van Diemen's Land. THE MURRAIN. Lord NAAS asked the Vice President of I . ,he Board of Trade, whether her Majesty's Government had re ceived any communications relative to the murrain said to be raging among the cattle on the Continent; and, whether• he would lay such communications Cu the table of the boule ? Mr. LOWE said that no communicAtion had been received that could be laid on the table of the house. The communication that had been received had been handed to Dr Greenhow for a report, and when ready it would be laid on the table of the house. If that did not satisfy the noble lord he would then lay the original documents on the table of the house. GUANO. Mr. CAIRD asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether a search for guano, nitrates, or other natural deposits of manure, formed part of the instructions to her Majesty's naval officers at present engaged in the surveys of the coast of Egypt, the south-east coast of Africa, the south-western Pacific, and the river La Plata, all of which surveys were Stated in the navy estimates to be now in prozress ? Mr. BAXTER asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Government to send out a few small vessels of war for the purpose of searching the rainless coast of Africa, and other promising locaFties, for supplies of guano ; and whether any negoti.itions had been entered into with the Brazilian Government for securing a right to remove nitrate of soda from the deposits lately disco vered near Pernambueo? Sir C. WOOD said that vessels were not sent out spe cially by the Government to search for guano islands, but directions were given to captains to look about and report to the Government ; but at present they had been unsuccessful. The cfficers would not be likely to find any on the coast of Egypt and the south east coast of Africa, but they had directions to look out for guano in the south-western Pacific. He was not aware of any negotiations with Brazil relative to taking nitrate of soda. THE SHIP " LORD RAGLAN." Mr. LAURIE asked the First Lord of the Admi• ralty whether it was decided that 1,000 troops, with officers and women, were about to leave Kingston for the Mauritius on board the ship Lord Raglan ; and whether a vessel of such tonnage was capable of con taining so large a number with any comfort or safety ? Sir C WOOD said that the Lord Raglan was only to take 727 men, with officers and women, and 70 boys. She was quite capable of taking that number. THE TRANSIT. In reply to a question from Admiral WALCOTT, Sir C. WOOD took the opportunity of stating that in teDige, on had been r, ceived from the Transit, dated Cape de Verd Islands, and that everything was going on satisfactory. (Hear, bear.) EDUCATION. performance of such duties to parental feelings. If this were the case, why should the property of the mother be taken from her in order to enable the father to discharge these duties ? No one would contend that parental feelings were not at least asstrong in the female as in the male, and that being the case, there was no excuse for placing the wife's property at the dis posal of the husband. He would not trouble the house by reading a bead-roll of grievances which had arisen under the present law ; such cases must now be familiar to all ; but there was one instance which he would refer to, because it illustrated a very large class of cases. It was taken from a letter from an eminent solicitor, which appeared in a late number of the Edin burgh, Review. This gentleman was applied to by a lady of rank and influence, whose daughter had just eloped, and was asked to try and stop the marriage. The young lady had a great deal of property in the books of the Bank of England. The solicitor was fortunate enough to arrive at the church before the marriage was solem nised. The young lady being of age he had no power to stop the marriage ; but he succeeded in postponing it for 24 hours, and, during that period, the bridegroom, a 1 1 young officer, was so loud in his professions as to what he would do for bis future wife, that even the solictor, with all his experience, was taken in. Accordingly a deed was prepared settling the young lady's property on herself, and before the marriage it was attested in the vestry by the officiating clergyman. After the ceremony was over, however, the old lawyer, inspired with profes sional caution, sent to the Bank of England, and put a distringas on the young lady's property. It was most fortunate that he did so, for almost at the earliest pos sible period after the marriage the husband went to the Bank of England, and demanded a transfer of the stock into his own name. This the distringas prevented, and thus the solicitor had the good fortune to secure the property to the lady herself. This was a specimen of cases wbioh are happening every day ; and if any doubts existed on the subject, they might be easily removed be fore a committee. Now, he might be asked what remedy he proposed to apply to the present state of the law ? What he proposed was, in the first place, to give to females of the middle and humbler classes the same powers with respect to property before marriage that were now ex ercised by the higher classes, with the aid of solicitors and settlements. He fully admitted the difficulty of legislating wisely on such a subject, but he was happy to say that the whole question had been fully investi gated by a learned society, to which many distinguished members of that house belonged—he meant the Law Amendment Society—and that society had,almost unani mously come to the conclusion that one of the first steps in the improvement of the law was to leave to the wife the sole enjsyment of her own property before marriage, so far as it was not affected by any settlement. This was no new principle in legislation, it was a principle of the Roman law, which was described by Lord Lyndhurst as the noblest monument of human wisdom. It was also oneof the principles of the German law, and of the law of the United States. The United States of America had for the most part adopted the English law ; but having found that portion of the English law which related to this subject very injurious to the community, they bad adopted the principle of giving to married women ex cltisive rights over their own property. The hon. and learned member then read a letter from Mr. D. Field, an American lawyer at New York, in reply to one from the Committee of the Law Amendment Society, in favour of the view which he was advocating. The ques tion, he said, would be asked, if property was to be secured to a married woman by the common law, what liabilities should attach to her. On that point he had no hesitation in saying that a wife should be as much liable for all her own acts as she was before marriage. That was the case in equity at present, when a wife had a separate estate. But if this principle were adopted, the extraordinary anomaly of the husband being liable forall the debts contracted by his wife before marriage, must at the same time be abolished. (Hear, hear.) The hus band was now liable for the wrongful acts of his wife, even for the slanderous use of her tongue ; but he thought that if a wife were made capable of holding property under the common law, she ought to be reponsiblo for her own conduct. He was convincedtbat to say that the women of England desired to escape from such respon sibility would be a gross slander. They knew that moral responsibility attached to every individual, and they thought that in this matter legal responsibility ought to accompany it. He thanked the house for the patience with which they had listened to his re marks ; and he would only say, in conclusion, that as the upper classes of society possessed all the requisite machinery for protecting themselves, what he now asked the house to do was to give the middle and work ing classes of society similar benefits to those which the upper classes enjoyed. He would now move fur leave to introduce the gill. wife's separate earnings during coverture, but not where the parties were living separate. The ATTORNEY:GENERAL—A fortiori du►ing separation. - Sir J. PAKINGTON—Tbe other question, as to the wife's earnings during coverture, might lead to some difference of opinion. He had only made this statement that he might express his strong opinion that, so far as the bill applied to proved evils, the hon. and learned gen tleman bad taken a course that deserved the thanks of the house, and he hoped he would follow the very judi cious advice given by the Attorney-General. Mr. B. HOPE thought that this matter was not so clear as the right hon. member for Droitwich (Sir J. Pakingtou) assumed it to be. Hitherto there bad been free trade in the property of husba.,cl and wife, and to resort to protection in these days was rather a strong proposition. Ttis was a very delicate state of things. (A laugh.) He was glad to say that all the husbands thought so ; it was a delicate thing to interfere between man and wife. The hon, gentleman would no doubt next session bring in a bill to protect fathers against spendthrift sons, and also a not less necessary law to protect sons against curmudgeon fathers. The measure had two sides, One object being to protect the rich, and the other the poor. No doubt the hardest case was where a profligate husband wrested from the wife the few pence which she had earned by the sweat of her brow. That was an undoubted hardship, but how was the Legislature to interfere ? Let the Legislature declare that the earnings of the wife should not belong to the husband, but how could acts of Parliament protect her when the drunken brute came home and wrested the money from her. She might go to a magstrate, and he might order him to refund what had been already spent, or send him to the treadmill, and leave her a beggar in the streets. With respect to the rich, in matters of marriage settlements and other cases, he thought that the doctrine of careat emptor was a very good law. Se riously, he doubted, when the whole matter had been fully discussed, as it would be in another place, bow far it would be found right to meddle with one branch of it. Mr. M. MILNES said they had been reproached upon this subject in the public prints, and it had been said that there were no persons who owed more to the ladies than they did, in reference to their assistance in placing them in the high position which they occupied. (A. laugh.) He did hope that they would come to the col, sideration of this question in a very serious, and not in a jesting spirit. It was only at the eleventh hour that they had come to consider the matter at all. He thought that his hon. friend who had brought forward this mea sure deserved the thanks of Parliament for having bro• ken the ground. The hon. member for Maidstone (Mr. B. Hope) might be assured that the house would do no thing that would attack the sanctity of those institutions which he so revered, for those institutions were fixed too deep in the hearts of the people to be altered by any act of Parliament whatever. What they had to do was to remedy patent and admitted evils. He did not think that the question was so difficuE in that part of it which re ferred to the protection of the poorer classes, but when they came to the upper classes, no doubt the question did mix itself up with questions of separation and di vorce in a manner that made it very difficult to deal with. There were cases of desertion of wives and also cases of desertion of husbands by wives, and this was not solely a woman's question. Mr. MALINS thought it was farbetter to reserve any thing he had to say until a future stage of the measure. Leave was then given to bring in the bill. ARMY nurs. Capt. BOLDER() moved an address for returns of the number of huts supplied to the Ordnance or War De partments during the years 1854-5 and 1855-6 ; the ap propriation of the same ; together with the stations, and quantities sent to each. Aud of the names of the several contractors, amount of each contract, and price per hut, with dimensions ; the present extent of hut accommoda tion in England and Ireland, and the number of troops butted on the Ist day of April. 1857. Agreed to. MINISTERS' MONEY IN IRELAND. Mr. FAGAN moved to bring in a bill to amend the act of 17 and 18 Vic., c. 2, with a view to the abolition of ministers' money in Ireland. As be understood that it was not the intention of the Government to oppose his bill, he thought he should best consult the pleasure of the house by deterring any observations on the subject until the measure reached a futnre stage. Mr. STAFFORD asked what was the opinion of the Government as to this measure Lord PALMERSTON said he had taken an opportu nity last session, when his hon. friend brought this question before the house, of saying that the Govern ment, after full consideration of the matter, were pre pared to concur with the motion of his hon. friend, and therefore if the details of the bill were unobjectionable, the Government would not oppose it, for they agreed with the principle. Mr. DlSRA.ELlobserved thatthe principle of this bill bad been opposed by every Government, and by the nob'e lord himself, who had designated the principle as one of confiscation. However, he did not think this a fitting opportunity to enter upon the discussion of this bill, for it was best to discuss a bill when they were preparei to divide, which they would not be upon a motion to bring in a bill. He did not think that the present was a con venient time to discuss the merits of this measure, but 15, 1857. MURDER, AT WOKI.NGIUM. A man named John Blackwell, a shoemaker liv ing at Wokingham, has recently exhibited symp toms of aberration of mind in the shape of violent religious delusions, and the parish officers had de termined to remove him to a lunatic asylum. On Wednesday night a naan.named.Rance was appointed to sleep with him to preVent mischief. Rance agreed with two men occupying cottages on either side of Blackwell' that if he required assistance in the night he should knock loudly on the walls. Soon after midnight one of the neighbours was awoke by a loud noise. He went to Blackwells, cottage, and saw Blackwell standing over Rance, who was lying on the floor quite dead. Being frightened, he went ,into his own cottage, and shut the door, at which the maniac presently knocked, saying, " I have killed the devil, and I am the king of kings." Black well then went away, and was not found till Thurs day morning, when he was seen kneeling in the street and praying in an incoherent manner. From the appearance of Rance's body, it seemed as if he had been first knocked down, and then had re ceived several severe cuts in the throat and hand. The maniac's own account of the matter before the magistrates was as follows :—" That man offered to be my protector, and wished me to sleep on.- When I had a certain evidence in my mind that eternity was coming, I could'nt sleep. I got out of bed, but he pulled me back. He said, You feel warm and I said I don't feel everlastingly warm.' I had a presentiment that he was a devil, and I deter mined to kill him. I struck him a blow, which almost levelled him, but the second did quite. I then got a knife, just as he managed to get the door open, and stuck him in the neck. The knife didn't cut, but I managed to hag and jag away till I hal done the job." The magistrate committed him for trial at the assizes, and he was removed to the county gaol. SHOCKING MURDER AT CANTERBURY. CANTERBURY, THURSDAY. A murder was committed this morning, at about 7 o'clock, on the Starry-road, by a young man, named Stephen Fox, a plane maker, aged 24, upon a young woman, named Mary A-un Hadley, aged 23, by shooting her. The latter, who is a laun dress, was on her way to her work, at Mr. Carter's in the Sturry-road. Fox waylaid her in an alley between the cavalry barracks and the new militia stores, leading to the road where she had to pass. When she came up he ran out an?l presented two single barrel pistols at her, exclaiming " Now you must die !" and immediately discharged the con tents of both at her. One ball passed through the upper part of the left thigh, and the ether shattered the third finger of the left hand. The poor girl ran about 20 yards, and while falling was caught iu the arms of Stephen Baker, a labourer working at the new militia sores, who, on hearing the report of fire-arms, ran to her assistance. Fox ran off as soon as he had done the deed, but was soon cap li by Edward Gurney, a gardener. Hadley was conveyed to Mr. Carter's house, which is close by. Mr. Carter went for medical assistance, but when Mr., T. Andrews, surgeon, arrived he gave no hopes, and the wounded girl died about 16 minutes afterwards. The parties had courted about 18 months, but the eugagement had been suddenly broken off in consequence of Fox's misconduct. In the course of the day an inquest was held on the body, and the evidence adduced clearly proved that the murder was premeditated, Fox having shown the loaded pistols to a witness of the name of Gurney, and said be me int to shoot the deceased. Gurney informed deceased of Fox's threats, and she tried to keep out of his way, but he watched for her, and ultimately effected his diabolical purpose as above related. It was shown that there had been a courtship between them, which was broken off by the deceased on account of Fox's intimacy with another female. PRICES OF SHARES. From the Official Lest. PUBLISHED. EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENIN,. LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1857. CANALS. Names of Companies. Dividendl _g per co Annum. Price.l Names of Companies. Dividend per Mintan. Ashtn &Oldh Birmingham Coventry.... Derby .. • • • • GrandJunctn Do., 6 pr. Ct. Grand Union Kennt & Avn Leeds &Livrp Leicester Leicstr &Ntb Loughborogh Macclesfield. Neath 0xf0rd...... 93 74. p. ct. 40 4/. 100 I 1 t. 100 61. 15s. 100 21. pr. ct. 10 6' pr.ct 100 7s 6d 40 64. 100 251. 100 61. 83 11.55 . 143 70' 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 West Middlesex .. • • .. Do. Do, .. •• . • Name of Company. flungerford.... • • .... Southwark ...... • • .. Ditto New of 7 p.e Waterloo ..... • • . Ditto Old Ann. of 81. Ditto Nw ditto of 71. Vauxhall .. • • Name of Company Commercial • • • • •• .. • • Do. Preference East and West India.. Gland •nrry D. & Canal Do. Loan Notes Do. 5 per cent. Pref. London ••• • • ••••• • • it. Katharine •• •• .• •• • onthampton •• .• .• Victoria ••••..• • •• • • Ditto New • • •• •• •• Name of Company. British Frovincial Brighton •• •• •• •• •• •. City of London Equitable European .... .•• •• Great Central Imperial Ditto New Ditto Debentures Do. Continental 1 st C ap Do. Do. 2d Cap Do. Do. 33 Cap Do. Do. 4th Cap Independent London Part. Preferen Phmnix .•• •• •• •• Rateliff Surrey Consumers United General •• • . •• Westminster Chartered Ditto, New Western A •.. Ditto B . ..... Name of Company. Albion .. •• •• •••• • • Alliana Brit. and For. Ditto Marine ....... Athente am .......... Atlas .. &rgus Life British Commercial .. Church of England City of London .. • • Clericl.sded.& 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 I London London & Prov. Law Marine... • • &led. Invlid & Gen. Life Minerva Monarch . • • • • • • • • • • • New Equitable Pelican •• •• •• •• •• .. •• Phcenix Professional Life • Provident Life ........ Rock Life.... • • .. • • .. Royal Exchange Sun Fire Ditto Life ..... United lEingdom Universal Life .• • ..... Victoria Life ........ Name of Company. Australasia... • • .• •• .• Bank of Egypt ...• • • Bank of London British NorthAmerical , Ch Bk. Ind. Aust & Ch City......•• Colonial ..... Commercial of London. Eng Scot. & Aust. Ch. Lond. Char. Bk. of Aus. ZOl. per cent. 51. per cent. 9 per cent. 4 per cent. 51. per cent. 71. p. c. & bs. 4 . per cent. 5/. percent. London and County .. Lon. & Eastn linkg. C. London Joint-Stock ... Gonda and Westminstr vat. Provincial of Eng. l 8 7.. per cent. 6! per cent. 28 per cent. 18 per cent. 16 p c. & bs New .. • • • • • Ditto ditto NatiO•if.l Bank • New oath Wales Orientai Bank Corpora. Ottoman Bank Provincial of Ireland Ditto, 10nian............ • South Australia .. •• Union of Australia—. 5 /.percent. 20 7 . per cent. 101. per cent. 41. p. ct.&bs. 81. per cent. 51. per cent. t 01. per cent. 211. per cent.' Union of Hamburg.... Union of L0nd0n...... Unity Mutual Western Bank o , Loud n 151. per cent Dividend per Name of Company, Annum. tank of Scotland . British Linen Company Caledonian Bank .. •• . City of Glasgow Bank Clydesdale Bank •• •• C 'rnmerelal Bank Eastern Bark.. •• • EdinU.Bs Glasgow. National Bank • • • • North of Scotland Bank Royal Bank of 3 cotl. Union Bank of Scot. •• Western Bank •• • . illiance Fire and Lire.. British Guarantee . Caledonian Fire Insur City of Glasgow Lite.. Co'onial Life Edinburgh Life Insur. Eng. & Scot, Law Life Life Assoc. of Scotland Nationai Fire and Life North British Insur... Northern Assurance Co. Scottish Provincial Scottish Union Insrnc. standard Life •• •• Name of CompaLy. Acadian Charcoal Iron African Steam Ship Assam lea • • • • Auction Mart •• Australian A4rtcultur) Australian Trust A.ustrman Royal Mail Anglo-Mexican Mint British American Land Canada ... • • Do. 5 per cent Bonds Ditto, .5 per cent bds Ditto, 6 per cent. • • Ditto, 6 p c. bds 1874 Ditto, .6 p c. bds 1876 Crystal Palace Ditto Preference.... Crys. Palace of France City Navigation Bonds Electric Telegraph .. Eng.&.l.us. Cop. Smelt. Eng.&lris. Slag. T. Co. Equitable Reversionry Ditto New •• •• Gen. Revers. & Invest. Gen. I. Sc. Col. (Lim.) Gen .5 team Navigation London Gen. Omnibus Hudson's Bay.. •• Ilungerford ....•• •• •• Lon. tie. &Na. Meuse , . London Reversionary Rex. & S. American Nat. Discount Comp.• N,S.W. Gov.sp.c. Deb. Nor. Sri. Australasian North of Europe, Strn. Price's Patent Cand. Co Peel River LandkAlin. Pen. & Oriental Steam Ditto New .• ••• • • • Reversionary Int. 80c. Ditto New •• •• •• Royal 'w ail Steam.... S co ttish A us. Invest. South Australian Land Trust and Loan Comp. Vam;Diemen's Lard.. Do. Gcv. 6 per et Bd6. LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' 71. per cent. 81. per cent. 81. per cent 51. per cent 51. p cent. 71. per cent. 6/. per cent.l a}4l. p cent. 6% per cent. 51. per cent 51. per cent. 81. per cent. 71. per cent. 8 4/.pr cent l Cl. per cent. , 0/. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. it. Oct cent. 5/..oer cent. 61. per cont. 61. per cent. 71. per cent. 7%/. pr cent. 51. per cent. EISCELLAN Dividend per Annum, rer cent.. 2 41per cent 81. pr cent. U. 10s. 5/. per cent tit. per ceht. 51. pex cent 5/.per cent 6/. per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent 21. per cent. 71 pr. cent 13%1. per cent 1 61. per cent. 51per cent. 51. p c and U. 10/. per ct. & 121. per cent 5/. per cent. 2'. ss. 51, per cent. 5/. per cent 6d. fa/. per cent. 71. per cent 4%1. pr cer,t pr p. share. 157. per cent.' 71. per cent. 1 7 1 A pr cent. 10s. 6 per cent. Peak Forest. Rego' t's • . • • Rochdale.... Stfird &Work IStourbrid 'Severn and 1 Wye Rail. Warwick & Birming. Warwick & Napton.. I Worcstr & Birming. Wiits & Brkk WATER-WORKS. Dividend per Annum. Amount of Share. M. per cnt. per cnt. 41. per cent. 51. per cent. i•:. per cut. 51. per cnt. 41. per cent. BRIDGE! Dividend per Annum. Amount of Share. Paid. lOs per cent.l 11. 12s. Od. 11. as. Od. 28s. X s. d. 10 0 0 &odic. 25 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 1100 0 0 100 0 0 GI 0 0 5 1 25 s O d o' 1)00 0 0 I 30 0 0 \l.OO 0 0 60 0 0 40 0 0 70 to a DOCKS. Dividend per Annum. 51. pr cent. 61, pr zent. 41. per cent. 51. pr cent. 41. per cnt. 4 per cent. 51. Os per C. 71. per cent. 51. per cent. 21. per cent. 21. 61. per cent. $l. per Cent 101. per cent 3i. ss. 41. 159. 41. 108. 61. per cent. 5% Per cnt 51. 8/. per cent. 16s Od pot,sh 7; per cent. rEANCE CO: Dividend per Annum. 71. per c. 71. 141.6 d. ii. p.c. & bs. 15s. Od. & bs l 41. per cent. 71. 10s. 71. 10s. 51. 5 pr ct.& bs. par share 18s. ss. 3 1 4 per cent it. 41. per cent. 6 per cent. 54. per cent 57. per cent ,121. per cent '1 43. b..pC&bs 2a & 2s bons 2;s. per sh 4s. per share 18s. & bs. 44 per cent 5/ per cent 51. per cent. 6 A per cent 5/ p. et. 5/. per cent. 51. per cent 12%_ per c. p c. &bs p c & bs. il 14s 41. & bonus 51 & bonus. 51. & ionus TINT-S rocK Dividend per Annum. Amount of Share. s. d. Stock. Stock. Stock. 100 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 Stock. Steck. 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 51. Os. 17s 281 121. lOs 11. les. 75: Od. £ s. d. 100 all X 8. d. Paid. I Price. s. d. Stock. 00"0 0 0000 5 0 0 Ftock. 60 0 0 20 0 0 14 0 0 COMPANIES. tiAS-LIGH' LT AND COS Dividend _ per Annum. Amount of Share. Paid. Price. s. d. 20 0 0 20 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 Stack 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 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 TAXIES. Amount of Share. s. d. SOO 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 1 0 0 50 0 tOO 0 0 50 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 n 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock, 20 0 0 100 0 SOO 0 0 tOO 0 0 100 0 0 tOO 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 1 00 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 6 5 0 tOO 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 2000 100 0 0 47 5 50 0 0 •t 0 0 0 39 0 0 2 10 0 13 0 0 2 10 0 12 10 0 2 0 0 12 19 0 2 0 0 2000 2 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 o 10 0 to 0 0 0 10 0 5 10 5 10 0 0 5 0 0 ANKS. Amount of a. d. 40 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 1100 0 0 1100 0 0 100 0 W 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 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 15 0 0 .1 50 0 0 101) 0 0 i 100 0 0 £ s. d all 160 0 L all 12 10 0 100 0 42 15 0 41 0 0 43 10 0 41 0 0 all 52 0 0 16 0 0 10 0 0 all 4 . 0 0 Paid. £ s. d. 50 0 0 11 0 ( 25 0 0 all 5 15 0 25 0 0 5 0 c 2 0 0 2 0 0 10 0 4) 10 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 0 a!1 4 0 0 Paid. 4 s. d. all 18 15 0 50 0 0 all 6 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 20 . 6 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 22 10 0 15 0 0 25 0 0 2 10 0 3 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 'RICER. Paid. Z s. d. 100 0 0 100 0 0 2 10 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 100 0 0 2 10 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 11 0 0 2 0 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 15 0 0 3 5 0 3 0 0 1 4 0 20 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 7 0 X s. d. 2 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 19 0 0 25 0 0 all all 40 0 0 32 10 0 100 0 0 1100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 all 5 0 0 100 0 C Inc 0 0 22 10 0 iOO 0 U all 14 0 0 all Stock 5 0 0 100 0 0 all 17 10 0 10 ii 0 all 20 0 0 6000 5 9 0 28 10 0 amount of Share. X a. d. 100 C 0 )00 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 500 0 0 25 0 0 ,5 0 1100 0 0 1 20 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 5000 100 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 10 0 0 200 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 Amount of Share. s. d. 10 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 o 10 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock 5 0 0 5 0 0 4 0 0 Stock. 5 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 15 0 0 4 0 0 Stock 100 0 0 10 0 0 15 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 1 0 0 20 0 0 29 0 0 5 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 1 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 'lOO 0 0 THE .ROYAL BRITISH BANK. Mr. Commissioner Holroyd is entitled to the puliPc gratitude for the adm , ralle judgment which tae prem.unced yes. erday in the affair of the Royal British Bank. He is about to (lir( ct that copies of the examinations taken-underthe bankruptcy shall be transmit ed. to the Attorney-General with a view to theinstitution of criminal proceedings. "I do not," said the learned Commissioner, "berieve that a scene of greater reAleseness, fraud, and crimi: nality of conduct in the management of a banking establishment was ever exhibited in a court of jhs tice than is disclosed by the examinations taken in this court under the adjudicaton of bankruptcy ?ga nst the Royal British Bank, and I nray observe that these examinations will be admissible against the parties, in case of - a pi osecutien." Why, then, should Sir Richard Be•hell hesitate for one single moment cn such a matter ? We are confident that we !are but giving utterance to the expressed opi nions of the ablest criminal lawyers , in the country when we say that a prosecution of these great crimi nals can be conduc el to a successful issue. Yester day, at the Old Bailey, the Bacons were on their trial,—that was mat enough. The New Court, however, under the auspices of the Recorder, was occupied with the trial r.f a wretched creature who had stolen six pairs of boots. The Third Court, presided over by the Common-Si rgeant, expended its powers upon a lad who had, as it was said, wrongfully (riven a recept for 71. is. Bd. It turned out that he 6 had done nothing of the sort. All this while the Esd4i'es, and Stspletons, and Camerons, and" Craufurds, and Browns, and Pellattg, whoe conduct, as the Commissioner tells us, has been tainted with such gross "recklessness, fraud, and criminality," are walking about the stie-tg. .One of them, indeed, occupits a seat in Parliament for the town of Berwick. Sir Richard Bethel!, we re peat it, will be himself guilty of a heinous neglect of duty if be does not take the most instant and effectual measures to carry into effect the recom mendations of Mr. Commissioner Holroyd. should fail in giving full expression to public feel ing with regard to this Matter if we did not add that Mr. Linklater haz earned the highest appro bation by the spirit and intelligence he has die-. played in 'the conduct of the recent inquiry.-- Times. Country Markets. MANCHESTER-MAY 14. Our market this morning was thinly attended, and there was less disposition to purchase wheat and flour. The for mer must be quoted is per qr lower for English, and id to 2d per 701bs for American ; whilst to promote business in the latter holders would have submitted to a reduction of 6d to is per sack. Other articles fully supported the prices of last week. BOSTON-MAY 13 We had a seasonable supply of grain at to-day's mar' ket, and a lazge attendance. Wheat met a fair demand A t fully 2s per qr under last week's rata. Oats, beans, and peas at t revious rates. Nothing doing in barley. Prices :—Wheat, red, 478 Od to 58s Od; new, —s to . - "" 9 ; white, 561 to 60s Od extra, 635. Barley, 408 Od to 47 8 011. Oat- 20 Bto 288. Peas, 40. to 448 ad. Beaus, 4 23 Od to 463 Od per qr. NEWAPK-MAY 13. A full attendance and a good supply of grain. Wheat met a heavy sale, and was is cheaper. Beans wore 2s to 3s advance. Wheat, white 65s to 68s, red 62s to 635; barley, Plaiting 44s to 48s, grinding 36s to 38s; oats, 24st. 30s to 32., 22st , 24s to 26s ; beans, 47s to 50s ; malt, 76s to 80s ; peas, 4 44 to 46s ; tares, 44s to 183 per qr. LOUTH-MAY 13. - ---- --- A poor trade was done in corn to-day, and of other graiil, nothing doing. The few sales of wheat must be not ed at last week's prices. Wheat, 56s to 59s ; extra, 62s ; barley 43s to 465; oats' 22s to 255; beans, —s to —s. GLASGOW-lay 13. There was less activity in the market to-day, buyers having recently supplied themselves pretty freely; holders of good dry A merican whe Lt, however insisted upon fell prices, while soft new Baltic might Ilave been purchase° on easier terms. Flour steady. Fine oats rather dearer , as well as oatmeal. Barley scarcely so saleable. Beall° and Indian corn fully 6d per boll dearer, with a good quiry for the former. Peas firmer. EDINBURGH GRAIN.—MAT 13. An excellent supply of grain of all kinds to-day. Sale° ready, and rather higher in price. Wheat, on the top, 2s 6d down, and on the averse Os 8d up. Barley, is Od down on the top, and Os 6d uP on the average. Oats on the top is 6d up, and on the average Os 5d up. Beans on the top 4s up, and 00 the average 2s 2d up. Tares from 545 to 55s per quarter. Potatoes—Regents, from 20s to 255; Orkney reds, 1 51 to its. ♦VERAGEB PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Wheat .C 2 5 8 11-12ths. Do. new -12th. Barley Oats 1 9 6 0-12ths. Beans Total Supply and Sales. Wheat 1644 qrs sold 1339 qrs Barley 428 qrs sold 228 qrs Oats 1164 qrs sold, 829 qrs Beans 215 qrs sold 215 qrs DERBY SMITHFIELD.—MAY 12. There was a large supply of fat beasts to-day from t l3. North of England, Rotherham, and Liverpool market ° the best quality was in good request. A full attendance°, buyers, but prices unal .ered. The number of sheep ll' large, the greater part being without their wool ; the drf mand was good, and a clearance effected. The supplY,°, fat and store calves was large, and in request. Fat pig were wore plentiful, and soon found buyers. The following were the quot4ions :—Beef, 6,1,1 to 10! mutton, 7d to 8d ; lamb, —d to Od ; veal, 7d tc 71d P 8" lb. ; pigs, lOs 6d to 118 0.1 per score; rough fat, 5s 3. i ti‘, per 141 b. ; hides, 44d to 6 ,d per lb ; calf-skins 4td r" , 62 per lb. LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, MAY 14. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market has been very Oig e to-day, closing steady at the highest point. Caledoni fo 375 I —Grand Trunk of Canada, 161. Bs. 9d. 4 s—Easteo Counties, 11/. ICs. U.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 103 lt Manchester, Sheffield, and Liacolu, 424 3 1---Londo,h and North Western, 106—Midlands, 834 4 44 i.—Sh u te Eastern, Great Western of Canada, 2t new, 25 pm—Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee, 8.6.3 Lancashire, 94 MANCH ESTER, MAY 14. 0 STOCK EXCHANGE.-- The market was active, at a- 1,0 ~ previous rates, closing firm, Eastern Counties, OM Leeds, 1026—Londons, 10 ;J : -Sheffields, 431—Doverg9,1_ , —East L , ncashire, 9.) Caledonians, 37—Midlanns,.°' , Great Western of Canada, '2 5-16--Ditto new, 2 7-lb 1 3 1. 6 Londonl, 1064—Ditto, Bths, 3-16 d. - Grand Trunks/ 7-16. BIRMINGHAM, MAY 14. • le i STOCK EXollaNtiv.—A good business to - day in stock. Birmingham Guaranteed, 73—Great Weste';i. Birmingham pref. 91—Grand Junction Canals, 47i —P yc mingham Gas, 140-- District Fres, s.!.—Birminghain JO" 32—Shropshire Union, 49. LDS, MAY 14. 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