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THE LATE JOHN WILSON C.ROKER. John Wilson Croker was a conspicuous man. during a long course of years in politics and litera ture. He was widely knowji as Secretary to the Admiralty which office he held for one-and twenty years ; as a member of Parliament for twenty-five years; as an industrious and accom plished author ; and, above all, perhaps, as the wickedest of reviewers ; that is, as the author of the foul and false political articles in the Quarter/g _Review, which stand out as the disgrace of the periodical literature of our time. His natural abilities, his capacity and inclination for toil, the mingled violence and causticity of his temper, and his entire unscrupulousness in matters both of feeling and of statement; combined to make him a remarkable, if not a very loveable personage, and an useful, though not very honourable member of a, political party. He was the son of the Surveyor-General of Ire land, and was born in that Connaught which was then the "hell" of the empire. "To Hell or Connaught," was still the imprecation of the day when Croker was born; that is, in 1780. He was always called an Irishman ; and very properly, as Galway was his native place ; but he was of English descent. As for temperament, we do not know that ei , her England or Ireland would be very anxious to claim him : and he certainly was sui generis— remarkably independent of the influences which largely affect the characters of most men. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and was called to the bar in 1802. His first publication, " Fami liar Epistles to F. E. Jones, Esq.," shows that his proneness to sarcasm existed early ; but the higher qualities which once made him the hope of the Tory party were then so much more vigorous than at a later time, that the expectations excited by the outset of his public life were fully justifiable. It was in 1807 that be entered Parliament as member for Downpatrick, and within two years he was Secretary to the Admiralty. He bad by that time given high proof of his ability in his celebrated pamphlet on the Past and Present Slate of Ireland." The author ship was for some time uncertain. Because it was candid and painfully faithful, the Edinburgh Review, so early as 1813, could not believe it to be his, while, on the other hand, there was the wonder that the man who so wrote about Ireland should be so speedily invited to office by the Government under Pcrceval. That Irish pamphlet may now be re- garded as perhaps the most honourable achieve ment of Mr. Croker's long life of authorship. Just before this he had joined with Mr. Canning, Walter Scott, George Ellis, Mr. Morritt, and others in setting up the Quarterly Review, the first num ber of which appeared in the spring of 1809. The Edinlncrgh Review hed then existed seven years ; and while obnoxious to the Tory party for its poli tics; it was not less so to the general public for the reckless ferocity of some of its criticism, in those its early days. If the Quarterly proposed to rebuke this sin by example, it was rather curious that Mr. Croker should be its most extensive and constant contributor Tor forty years—seeing that he car ried the licsnse of anonymous criticism to the last extreme. Before he had done his work in that department, he had earned for himself— purchased by hard facts—the following character, calmly ut , ered by one of the first men of the time Croker is a man who would go a hundred miles through sleet and snow, on the top of a coach, in a Dec .tuber nig'et, to search a parish register, for the sake of showing that a man is illegitimate, or a woman older than she says she is." He had actu ally gone down into the country to find the register of Fanny Burney's baptism, and revelled in the ex posure of a lids-statement of her ago ; and the other half of the commentary was understood to have been earned in the same way. He did not begin his Quarterly reviewine , with the sable virulence which grew upon him in as later years. That malignant Weer of the mind, engendered by political disap pointment, at length absorbed his better qualities. It is necessary to speak thus frankly of the temper of the man, because his statements must in justice be discredited ; and because justice requires that the due discrimination be made between the bon- oirrable and generoui-minded men wbo ennoble the function . of criticism by the spirit they throw into it, and one who, like Croker, employed it at last for the gratification of his own morbid inclination indict pain. The propensity was so strong in Croker's case that we find him unable to resist it even in regard to his old and affectionate friend Walter Scott, and at a time when that old friend was sinking in adversity and disease. He reviewed in the London. Courier Scott's " Malagrowther Letters," in 1826, in a way which called for the delicate and touching rebuke contained in Scott's let'er b him, dated March 19th of that year—a rebuke remembered long after the trespass that called it forth was disregarded as a piece of " Croker's malignity." The latest instance of this sort of con troversy called forth by Mr. Croker's public vitu peration of his oldest and dearest friends, was the series of letters that passel between Lim and Lord J. Russell, after the publication of NI ore's Diaries and Correspondence. Up to the last his victims re fused to believe, till compelled, that the articles had proceeded from his pen—well as they knew bis spirit of reviewing. When he had been staying at Drayton Manor, not long before Sir Robert Peel's death, bad been not only hospitably entertainel, but kindly ministered to under his in- ' firmities of deafness and had health, and went home to cut up Ns host in a political article for the forth coming " Quarterly"—his fellow guests at Drayton refused as long as poesible to believe the article to be his ; and in the same way, as Lord John Russell informed him, Mrs. Moore would not for a long time credit the fact that the review of the poet's " Life" was his, saying she had always understood Mr. Croker to be her husband's friend. It was in the "Quarterly" that the ctsappointed politician vented his embittered feelings ; as indeed he him self avowed. He declared, when Lord Grey came into office, that he did not consider his pension worth three months pnreh tsa ; thit he should therefore lay it by while he had it, and macie his income by " tomahawkin" liberal authors in the " Quarterly." He did it, not only by writing t :cies upon them, but by interpolating other people's arfeles with his own sarcasms and slanders, so as to compel the real reviewers, in repeated instances, to demand the republication of their articles in a genuine state and a separate form. When be entered parliament, he was an admi rable debater—ready, acute, bold, and well fur nished with information, and not yet so dangerously reckless as to make him feared by his own party. It is rather strango now to find his name foremost in the list of parliamentary orators in the hooks of foreigners visiting England after the peace. He was listened to by the house as an inferior kind of Disraeli, fur the amusement aff,rded by his sar casm ; and foreigners mistook this manifestation of the old bull-baiting spirit for an evidence of the par liamentary weight of the satirist ; and a House (.f Commons that enjoys that sort of sport deserves the French commentary—the imputation of being led by a Croker. There were occasions, however, on which he appeared to ad-vantage on other grounds than his sarcastic wit. It should be re membered. that it was be who, in 1821, before Oa th lie Emancipa' ion could be supposed near at hand, -proposed to enable the crown to make a suit able provision for the Catholic clergy. Lord Cas tl-reagh opposed the motion, which was necessarily withdrawn ;-' but Mr. Croker declared that he con sider. d the principle safe, and should bring forward the measure t-11 it' should be adopted. He was Steady to the object, and in 18025 actually obtained a nrijority upon it in the Commons; and there is no qmstion of his earnestness in desiring a mea sure of considerable relief to . the consciences and liberties of the Catholic body.. He held his grcund with the chiefs of his own party by other qualities than his official ability. Ms command of detail was remarkable and So were his industry and his sagacity within a small range interests wa , I E4 zeal for p ar ty also great—a zeal hbown in his eagerness tofilla 3 ip places with patty adherents, fr-m the laureateship (which he pro "'ea for Southey) to the lo.weat office that could be filled by an electioneering agent ; bet it " was also this Iv a _most acceptable political gossip' It was b e i s ch made him a frequent guest at the lt egun table, and an inimitable ac quaintance at critical seasons of ministerial change, when such men as lie revel in the it'd,. &nits of the d ay , anci.i anifeatation of such vices and weatinn the m e %ET - Jss- cotrat out, together stith noble virtues, i n gerki4stAe spirit of of personal . interests. The con paper, which made such a tioiseol' n the Beacon netw -1822, nne on tit: made him the proper recipient of Seowa:tcoont Me ma tter ; and to him therefore s ina'a P nl addressed his painful explanations, as they stand in th e id Lif „ It is probable that the intercourse betweeul Scott, though not without an occasional ru m' e about the most cordial that the survivor ev er w" enjoy - ed. Scott's real geniality and politic obt i mass to offence enabled him to bear more than most men would : and in their literary relations, h 6 contrived to show Itimse'f the debtor. He avowrd that his " Tales of a Grandfather" were suggested and moclelLd by Croker's "Stories from the His tory of England . ;" and he was aided in his "Lire of Napoleon," by Croker's loans of masses of P l ' r'. He met cabinet ministers, by the half= dozen at a time, at the Secr,tary's fable; and re ceived from th e the Regent's abomut reports of handsome sayings of him. t The cordiality could not, withstand on Croker's side, the and the temptfttion to insult a friend throughpress, a - 4 he showed at I the very time by his remarks on Malag,rowher ~ but on Scott' ways side i thearty. When the political changes of 1827 we n , . going forward, his first thought seems to have been for Croker. "I THE SUW, LONEON, THURSDAY EVENING AUGUST 13 it:.57. fear Croker will shake," he wrote, " and heartily sorry I should feel for that." The shaking, however, only shook Croker more firmly into his place and function. In 1828 he became a privy councillor ; and he retained his Admiralty office till 1830. It was the Reform Bill that destroyed him politically. It need not have done so. There - was no more reason for it in his case than in that of any of his com rades ; but he willed political suicide. He declared that he would never sit in a reformed House of Commons ; and he never did. He expected revo lution ; and he thought it prudent to retire while be could yet save life and fortune. His view is shown by his mournful account in the House of the spectacle of a Montmorenci rising in the French Constituent Assembly, to propose the extinction of feudal rights and dignities, such as his ancestors had earned and been ennobled by ; and he let fall no word to show that he recognised any grandeur in the act. He thought that pitiable which to others appears the crown of the nobleness of the Montmorencies. He proposed to grant no thing to any popular demand, because something might at length be demanded which it would be im possible to grant; and before the shadows of the pos sible evils which he conjured up, he retired from public life, leaving its actual difficulties to be dealt with by men of a higher courage and t more disin terested patriotism. His political action, for the rest of his life, consisted merely in the articles he put forth in the Quarterly Review—articles which (to say nothing of their temper) show such feeble ness of insight, such a total incapacity to compre hend the spirit and needs of the time, and such ut'er recklessness abouttruthof both statement and prin ciple, that elderly readers are puzzled to account for the expectations they once had of the writer. It was the heart element that was amiss. A good heart has wonderful efficacy in making moderate talent available. Where heart is absent, the most brilliant abilities fail, as is said in such cases, "un accountably." Where heart is not absent, but is not good the consequences are still more obvious; t e faculties waste and decline, and the life sinks to ,nothing before death comes to close the aceno. It is' impossible to avoid such reflections as these while contrasting the strength and goodness of Croker's early work ou Ireland with his latsst judg ments on public affairs in the Quarterly Review, and his correspondence with Lord J. Russell on the busi ness of the " Moore Diaries." It may be observed by the way how such a spirit as his stirs up the dregs of father people's tempers. Lord J. Russell's no+e, in allusion to Mr. Croker, in "Moore's Life," appears to be unnecessary ; be was moved to it by seeing Mrs. Moore stung by the review ; and he met speedy retribution. Pain was inflicted all round ; and Croker was the cause of it all. He was the author, editor, arid translator of various works, the chief of which is his edition of "Boswell's Johnson," a book on which he spent much labour, and which was regarded with high and trustfel fav our till Mr. Macaulay overthrew its reputation for accuracy by an exposure of a singular series of mis takes, attributable to indolence, carelessness, or ig norance. That review (which is republished among Mr. Macaulay's Essays) destroyed such reputation for scholarship as Mr. Croker had previously en joyed, and a good deal impaired that of his industry. His other works of bulk are the " Suffolk Papers," the " Military Events of the French Revolution of 1830," a translation of " Bassompierre's Embassy to England," the " Letters of Lady Hervey," an I " Lord Hervey's Memoirs of the Reign of George II." Mr. Croker was an in'imate of the late Lord Hertford ; and his social footing was not improved by the choice of his friendships, and the revelations made on the trial of Lord Hertford's valet. In brief, his best place was his de•k at the Admiralty ; his best action was in his office ; and the most painful part of his life was the latter part, amidst anignoble social reputation, and the political odium attached to him by Mr. Disrael's delineation of bim in " Co ningsby." The virulent reviewer found in Ins old age the truth of the Eastern proverb—" Curses are like chickens, they always come home to roost." He tried to. send them abroad again—tried his utmost severity in attacks in the Quarterly on Disraeli's Budget. But it was too-late, and the painter of the portrait of Rigby remained master of that field in which the complotest victory is the least enviable. Looking round for something pleasanter on which to rest the eye in the career of the unhappy old man who has just departed, we may point out that his name stands honourably on our new maps and globes. Ho was Secretary to the Admiralty during the earlier of the Polar expeditions of this century ; and it is understood that the most active and effi cient assistance was always given by him in the work of Polar discovery. Long after political un scrupulousness and rancour are forgotten, those higher landmarks of his voyage of life will remain, and tell a future generation, to whom he will be otherwise unknown, that there was one of his name to whom our great navigators felt grateful for as sistance in the noble service they rendered to their country and all future time. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH Ilii DIA. The public of England and India are deeply in terested in this question. Its importance, great even in ordinary times, has become vital at this crisis, when instantaneous communication would prove a most powerful arm to aid the military ar rangements upon which alone our hold over India depends. Under these circumstances we are all concerned in knowing at whose door is to be laid the blame that a telegraph to India has not been in operation at least since the beginning of the year. Prima facie one would imagine that a telegraph to India would in the natural course of events pre cede a telegraph to America. Whether we regard it in a political or a commercial point of view, the Indian telegraph, connected as it is with the rapid transmission of inf elligence from Sincapore, China, and Australia, is at least equal in importance with the American. its construction iseasier. The Ameri can telegraph bas to traverse 2,000 miles of ocean, the Indian only 500 miles at one stretch; the feasi bility of the latter was therefore known several year s back, and that again was a reason why it should have had precedence. These are the broad facts of the case. They suggest the question, how comes it that the natural order of events has been reversed, that the Atlantic cable is at this moment being laid whilst the manufacture of the Indian cable is not begun ? We unhesitatingly say that the Treasury are alone in fault that we have not for many months been in telegraphic communication with India. More than two years ago the East India Company gave their adhesion to the Red Sea telegraph project. With that support the Com pany a pplied to the Treasury. The cold shoulder was turned upon them ; they were, in short, snubbed, and plainly told they must abandon all hope of Government aid. The company then broke up, or, to use the expression of the chairman, remained in abeyance, after having despatched an agent to Constantinople and Egypt to obtain the necessary firmans. These he obtained with the sup port. of the Foreign-office and Lord Stratford de Red cliffe. The Treasury, however, were not to be thus foi►ed. During the agent's absence the Euphrates telegraph project was started, and was subsidised by Government, the East India Company giving a reluctant assent. This was done on the opinion of Sir W. O'Shaughnessey, who condemned the Red Sea line, alleging that the coral reefs would cut the cable. It must be observed that though Sir W.. O'Shaughnessey laid 4,000 miles of land_ wires in India in the short space of two years, yet he knew nothing whatever about submarine cables ; that an eminent firm of contractors for sub marine cables are, in spite of the coral, ready to lay the Red Sea line at their own risk, and deliver it over in perfect working order to the company at the ordinary rate of charge ; that the Mediterranean line to Corsica has been in permanent work fur several years, though it crosses coral in more than one place ; and that in- the Red Sea the coral is confined to the shores, which the cable need only approach twice, i.e., at Kossier and Jiddah, and by taking careful soundings, it is expected that it can be avoided even there. We have frequently compared the two projected lines by the Red Sea and the Euphrates. We shall only state that the Turks, who may be supposed to know their own country and their own power over the inhabitants, have refused to sanction 'ho construction of the Euphrates I;ne, on the ground that they have no power to protect it, naturally also refusing to allow the Company to do so, and thus by degrees become master; of the country. -In fact common-Fenio at once points out that isolated telegraph wires laid batore the completion of the proposed railway, and without the protection of any established transit route, would never be safe, even in tmes of peac-, and would inevitably be destroyed the first war that occurred b e t ween an y t wo t r ib es , or b e t ween any gibe and the Turks or Persians. The stations in the Red an.l Sea line only will be at large occur every 400 to 500 miles, se . wv,re Where garrisoned towns, and on the The Treanury, - if necess ary , The nion of the and Lord Stratford they could be protected by a ship fiaraCom East however,d having, against the opi nion the Red Sea Telegraph de of the objections made to tunity of answerinv, Euphrates telegraph line, and pang, of the Foreigil office,Redcliffe, and without their Company auy notice them, hastily or any oppor tunity c-.nstruct their line, a Qa.. ' - .tily subsidised the and .given it the monopoly , two years to m k t! l f e ( 1. 3 - r o t a lr r n i z e n in t e b i t i t t s s i u .that during those two years their hands are tied that they cannot subsid . as a competin g File and pre , mise it any portion of their businec:. If the Trea sury haie wade a wistalie it lies wiili Thera to iv medy it as well las they can. It cannot for a moment be tolerated that a feasible project of this immense importance should be suspended for two Tars longer by a project that is impracticable, and to which the Porte has refused its assent. We trust that the East India Company and the Board of Control will act independently of the Treasury, and grant the pecuniary aid which will enable the Red Sea line to be executed within 12 months. —Daily .t ews. SUMME.R ASSIZES. HOME CIRCIIIT.-CROYDON, Aug. 1?. (Before the Lord Chief Baron and Special Juries,) BECKWITH V. THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY. Sergeant Shoe and Mr. F. J. Smith were for the plaintiff ; Mr. Bovill, Q.C., and Mr. Hankins ap peared for the company. This was an action to recover damages for an in jury sustained by the plaintiff upon th occasion of the explosion of the fog si g nals at Stratf o rd on the 26th of February last. It appeared that the com pany had made an announcement of the intended sale of a quantity of stores, and the plaintiff, who is a smith and engineer, had gone to the station at Stratford with his brother to inspect them, and they happened to be near the factory at the time the ex plosion took place ; and the consequence was that the plaintiff's brother was killed on the spot, and he himself had his leg broken, and received other in juries from which, it was stated by the surgeons who were examined, he was likely to suffer for the remainder of his life. The defence attemptel to be set up by the com pany was that the plaintiff was a trespasser, but it altogether failed, and the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 7501. THE MARQUIS OF SALISBTRY V. THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY. Mr. Bovill, Q.C., Mr. Lush, Q.C.,_ and Mr. Watkin Williams were for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Rochfort Clerk appeared for the company. This was an action of ejectment to recover pos session of a piece of land at Hatfield, in the county of Hertford. The land in question was formerly a portion of the old York-road, which had been di verted where it was crossed by the railway. There were a variety of points of law raised, and eventu ally it was arranged that a special case should be drawn up for the opinion of the Court. (Before Mr. Justice Willes and a Common Jury.) attempts to induce him to leave, the prisoners de parted. He then went into the van, and feeling about observed some bot'ltrs, Byett communicat ing these facts to the superintendent, a search was made, and six bot les of wine were discovered in tile van, and it was found that the door of the truck had been raised, the hamper b ro k en open , and.seven bottles abstracted. It was further shown that the prisoners' duty was to shunt trucks, and could cause them to be at offices situated at some considerable distance from the truck and van. It was elicited on cross-examination that the shunter's duty was to look into the van before passing is down to the good station, but that this duty should be performed at a spot far removed thence, and whence the trucks ran down an incline of themselves to the goods station. In addition, it appearedthat more labourers wero at the passengers' station a little way off._ Mr. Powell having addressed the jury for the prisoners, Mr. Baron Bramwell summed up the evidence. The jury found the prisoners not; guilty.. This case concluded the criminal business of these assizes. Mr. Baron Bramwell thon stated that he would be prepaied to assist this day in the trial of causes; but the offer not having been accepted by counsel in due time, his lordship has left. POLICE INTELLIGENCE-Aug. 12. MANSION-HOUSE.— James Bannister, the driver of an omnibus belonging to the Loudon Ge neral Omnibus Company, plying betwee❑ Putney and the railway terminus of London-bridge, ap peared before Mr. Alderman Wire in answer to a summons, which charged him with misbehaviour. The court was densely crowded with omnibus proprietors. _ . . - Mr. Sleigh appeared for the complainants, the Saloon Omnibus Company, and Mr. Robinson at tended on the part of the defendant. Mr. Sleigh said that the summons against the de fendant was taken out under the 28th section of the 6th and 7th Vic., cap. 86, which enacted " that every driver of a hackney carriage, or driver..or conductor of a metropolitan stage carriage, who shall be guilty of wanton or furious driving, or who by carelessnes or wilful misbehaviour, shall cause any hurt or damage to any person or property being in any street or highway, or shall make use of any insulting or abusive language, or shall be guilty of any insulting gesture or misbehaviour," shall be liable to fine or imprisonment. He should contend that what the defendant had done amounted to mis behaviour within the meaning and spirit of the Act. It would be proved that the defendant, who was the driver of an omnibus belonging to the London General Omnibus Company, had, on the day stated in the summons, followed in the very closest proxi ' mity, short of touching it, an omnibus belonging to the Saloon Company, from the city to Putney bridge. Joseph Sexton said—l am driver of a saloon om nibus from Putney to the London-bridge railway terminus. On the 3d inst. I was in the city at five minutes past 4 o'clock. I came over into King William-street. I saw the defendant's omnibus on London-bridge. It was behind me. He followed me within five yards all the distance from London bridge, through the city, and ou to Putney-bridge. He passed me at Walham-green. Through the city I had one omnibus before me, and if I pulled up its driver stopped, and the defendant also pulled up. When I drove fast the defendant drove fast, and. when I drove slow he drove slow. He did not in terfere by putting the pole to the door so as to pre vent me from getting passengers. He did not pre vent any passenger from getting in, but if a passen ger hailed me the conductor of the defendant's om nibus got down and tried to get that paQsenger. This occurred once or twice—once in the city, but I cannot say where. The defendant might have passed at various places, if he had liked. I had a time allotted by the company, but not by the Com missioner of Police. Cross-examined by Mr. Robinson—My conductor is in court. I was formerly in the service of the Lo ndon General Omnibus Company. That company had a time at 8 o'clock. My omnibus was started on the morning in question at 8 o'clock for the first time. The General Omnibus Company's omnibuses start from the private property of the company. An extra omnibus went before and the defendant's omnibus behind me. A few days ago I was ordered out of the railway station for taking a wrong time. George Foster, a superannuated police-officer, said—l was employed by the Saloon Company, and rode on the complainant's omnibus on the 3d inst. We left the railway station about 4 o'clock, and on coming through the city there was one omnibus in front, the defendant's omnibus being in the rear. We stopped in King William•street and took up passengers. The other omnibus also stopped. The defendant drove fast when we drove fast. We took up about nine passengers between London ' bridge and St. Paul's. I did not see the defen dant's conductor take any passengers away that joarney. When the omnibus was hailed both con ductors alighted and spoke to the passengers who appeared to me to bail the Saloon omnibus. kr. Sleigh asked for a conviction upon this evi deuce. Mr. Robinson submitted that no misconduct or misbehaviour whatever had been proved against the defendant, and that the Act of Parliament did 'not touch the alleged grievance. Alderman Wire—l am clearly of opinion that this summons cannot be sustained. Ido not be lieve that the conduct imputed to the General Om nibus Company comes within the meaning of the Act of Parliament, and therefore lam und to dismiss the complaint. Mr. Sleigh said there were summonses against osher persons of a similar nature to the one just disposed of, but that, after the construction which the worthy Alderman had put upon the act of Par liament, be should not proceed with them. Alderman Wire—The public is greatly advan taged, no doubt, by the omnibuses belonging to both companies. I think it would be a great advan tage if au arranqement could be come to by the two parties, so that they should not interfere with each other's times. However, that is a matter for their own consideration. I cannot enter into it. The parties then left the court. The annual meeting of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company is called for the 3d September, at Liverpool. REPORT ON THE CO ALWHIPPERS ACT. —The report of the select committee of the House of Commons was published yesterday. The committee consider that the present state of the coal whippers, as a class, is deserving of cons' deration, and that the grievaacus alleged are susceptible of remedy, except so far R 3 relates to the in sufficiency of employment and a consequent depression of wages. The committee do not recommend the re vival of the Act of 1343. The publichouse grievance is considered worthy of the attention of the Legislature. It is suggested, in fine, that each employer keep a register of labour, giving the time and place where each coalwhipper has been paid, with other details, which shalt be open to the constant inspection of the Board of Trade, or the magistrates of the district. Tne evidence taken before the committee is appended. LOLA MONTES.—The renowned Lola Montes is now spending a few days at Niagara falls. She has appeared at the Buffa;lo Theatre as a sort of interlude to her sea son of pleasure. On Friday morning Lola took the train for Buffalo, and, without advice from any source, she seated herself in the baggage car to quietly puff her cigarette. While thus cosily throwing off from her lips the curling smoke, she was discovered by the conductor and informed that passengers were not permiged to ride in the baggage cars. She paid no attention to the intimation, but continued to smoke as if no one had ad dressed her. Assistant-Superintendent Callarner was at the station, and was informed what Lela was doing. He said she mustdo as other passengers did, and that she could not be permitted to ride in the baggage-car. The conductor called upon her, and politely told her that she must take a seat in one of the cars designed for passengers. Lela drew herself up into an attitude of defiance, and told the conductor that she had travelled all over the world, and had always rode where she had a mind to, and proposed to do so in this case. The conductor further expostulated with her, and assured her that he was but executing the order of the superintendent and the rules of the company. Lola replied that she had "horsewhipped" bigger men than he." This settled the matter. The conductor withdrew, and Lola was not again disturbed. She rode to Buffalo in the baggage car, and had no occasion to use the whip. The railroad men did not care to Maher disturb the tigress.—Roeltes ter Union, July 20. 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Arabica Food." PR ICES OP SHARES. From the Official List. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENIN, LONDON, TUESDAY, AUG. 11, 1857. CANALS. Names of Companies. A shtn &Oldh Birmingham Coventry.. • • Derby .. • . • • GrandJunctn Do., 6 pr. Ct. Grand Union Kennt Ave Leeds &Li vr p Leicester ...• Leicstr &Nth Loughborogh Macclesfield. Neath 0xf0rd...... P t Dividend per an 'Annum. 93 71. p. Ct. 40 41: 100 11/. 100 6/. 15s. 100 21. pr. ct. 10 61. pr.ct. 100 7s. 6d 40 63. 100 251. 100 5/. 83 1/.53. 143 701 . 100 21. 103. 160 16/. 100 N,mo ef 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. aungerford...... Southwark Ditto Nevv of 734 p.c. Waterloo ......... • • • . Ditto Old Ann. of 8L Ditto Nw ditto of 7/. Vauxhall Niuno of Company Commercial ......... Price. Names of Companies. Peak Forest. Regent's • • Rochdale.... Stfird &Wore Stourbridge. Severn and Wye Rail. Warwick & Birming. Warwick & 7 Wanton.. Worcstr & Binning. ,Wilts & Brki WATER,- WORKS. Do. Preference East and West India.. Grand Surry D. & Canal Do. Loan Notes .. .. Do. 5 per cent. Pref. Loudon •••••a • • • • • • at. Katharine •• • • • • =outhampton • • • • .. • • Victoria .•••••• • • • •• Ditto New • • •• •• • • Dividend per Annum. 51. per cnt. tik. per (Mt. 41. per cent. 51. per cent. 4:. per cnt. si. per cnt. 4% per cent. BRIDGE' Dividend per Annum. lOs per cent.' 11. I2s, ed. 11. Is. Od. 28s. DOCKS, Dividend per Annum. 51. pr cent. Amouir Share. a. 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 6/. pr cent. 41. per cent. Amount of Share. 51. pr cent. 06/. per cnt. 4 per cent. 5/. Os per c. £ s. d. 25 0 0 100. 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 60 0 0 40 0 0 70 10 3 Amount Dividend per Annum 51. Os. 17s. 281. 121. 10s. 11. IGs. 10s. 7s. Od. Paid s. d 100 all Paid. British Provincial •• •• Brighton •• •• •• •• •• •, City of London Equitable .... European .. . .••• • • • Great Central Imperial .. • • • • •• • • • Ditto New Share. s. d. Stock. Stock. Stock. 100 0 0 101 0 0 25 0 0 Stock. Stock. 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 £ s. d. Paid. Price. Z s. d, Stock. 00 0 0 0000 5 0 0 Mock. 50 - 0 0 20 0 0 14 0 0 ET AND COKE COMPANIES. Dividend per Annum. 71. per cent 5/. per cent. 2/. per cent. 2/. 6/. per cent. per cent 111. per cent Amount Sharo. Z s. d. 20 0 0 20 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 2) 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 Ditto Debentures.. Do. Continental I st Cap. Do. Do. 2d Cap. Do. Do. 3d Cap. Do. Do. 4th Cap. Independent ••• London Part. Preferen. Phoenix . •• .. •• •• •• •• Itateliff. .• • • • .• •• •• •• Surrey Consumers • • United General .. .. • • Westminster Chartered Ditto, New Western A •• . Ditto B . ..... Paid. 31. ss. 4/. 15s. 4/. 10s. 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 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 Z s. d. all 64 per cent. 5%. per cnt 5/. 81. per cent. l6s Od per 911 1; 7 per cent. Name of Company. Albion .... • • ••• • • • Alliance Bri:. and For. Ditto Marino ....... Athenaeum........... Atlas .. Xrgus Life ......... • • British Commercial .. Church of England .. City of London .. •• .. Gen. Life County .............. Crown .... .......... Eagle .. Equity and Law.. European Life Family Endowment General•• • 00000 •• •• •• Globe Gresham Life . 71. per c. 71. 14s. 6d. ;1. p.c. & bs 150 0 0 12 10 0 too 0 0 42 15 0 41 0 0 43 10 0 41 0 0 153. Od. & bk Al. per cent. 'Ti. 10s. 71. 10s. 5/. 5 pr ct.& bs. Si. per share 52 0 0 16 0 0 all £ s. d. 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 1 0 0 50 0 0 100 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. ti 18s. ss. 544 per cent 1/. 41. per cent. 6 per cent. 51. per cent. Do. Do.. Guardian . • • • • • • • • • • • Imperial Fire......... Imperial Life Indemnity Marine.... Law Fire Law Legal and General Life London London & Prov. Law • • Marine......... Med. Irtvlid Bc. Gen. Life Minerva • • • • Monarch New Equitable Pelican •• •• •• •• .. •• Phcenix Professional Life ...• Provident Life........ Rock Life.... • • •• .. Royal Exchange ..• • Sun Fire vb •••• 51. per cent 121. per cent 10 0 0 all 4 0 0 Paid. - 143. it.p7ct. &bs. 2s & 2s bons 211. per sh. 4s. per share Ditto Life ..... United Kingdom .. .. Universal Life Victoria Life .. 18s.& bs. per cent st. per cent. 51. per cent. 6 (A per cent 51 p. ct. 51. per ceet. 51. per cent 12% per c. 7s, g p c & bs p c bs Z s. d. 50 0 0 11 0 0 25 0 0 it 14s. 41. & bonus. & bonus. 51. & tonus. 20 0 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 'OO 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 6 5 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. all 5 15 0 25 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 a!1 4 0 0 47 5 0 50 0 0 •10 0 0 3) 0 0 2 10 0 13 0 0 2 10 0 12 10 0 2 0 0 12 1) 2 0 0 21 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 o 10 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 DINT-STOCK 5 10 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 WILLIAMS V. DE VILBRAY. This case was disposed of late on Tuesday evening. It was an action brought by the administratrix and representative of the Erin of Williams and. Sowerby, silk mercers, &c., of Oxford-street, to re cover 521. for silk dresses and other goods supplied to the defendant. The pleas put upon the record in answer to the plaintiff's claim admitted the receipt of the rodp, but alleg d that they were sold for an immoral pur pose,—narnely, to enable the defendant to carry on the occupation of a prostitute. Mr. Petersdorff was for the plaintiff ; and Ser geant Parry and Mr. Joyce for the defendant. The issue being upon the defendant, Alga de Vilbray, the defendant, a tall, elegantly dres,ed Frenchwoman,, was examined, and she stated that she had been in the habit of purchasing articles of dress at the establishment of the plain tiff, and always paid ready money f)r them. Upon one occasion, however, she saw Mr. Grant, the manager of the establishment, and he inquired whether she was not a gay woman, and she told him she was ' • and he then said that he thought she might get more friends if she dressed more ex pensively, and that she might have anything she required upon credit. He showed her some ex pensive dresses, and said that she would look like a queen in them, and at thesame time told her that she should go to the Argyll-rooms and other places of a similar kind, and she would easily find a friend who would pay the bill. She stated that it was solely in consequence of this that she was induced to purchase the dresses, and she afterwards wore them in the pursuit of her vocation. The defendant was cross-examined at some length by the learned counsel for the plaintiff, but nothing was elicited from her that at all tended to shake her testimony, and she persisted in declaring that the plaintiff's manager was perfectly well aware of her position at the time the goods were supplied, and that he induced her to purchase them under the circumstances - she stated. _ Mr. Petersdorff then addressed the jury for the plaintitl, and he called Mr. Grant, the person referred to by the defen dant, who stated that she was introduced to him by a Frenchman named Dorbas, who represented that she was a respectable married lady, and that her husband was abroad, and would not return for a fortnight, and that the arrangement was that half of the atnonnt of goods supplied was to be paid down, and the remainder when the husband te turned. He stated that after the goods had been sent in an excuse was made for not paying what was agreed upon, and subsequently it appeared that the defendant never intended to pay, and therefore the present action was brought against her. He also positively declared that he had never made the suggestion she represented to her. Mr. Justice Willes explained to the jury the law W in reference to a case of this description, and said that if they believed the evidence of the defendant she was entitled to a verdict, and the only question for them was which of the witnesses they con sidered entitled to credit. The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict for the defendant. OXFORD CIRCUIT.-GLOUCESTER, Aug. IL CIVIL COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Martin and Special Juries.) Mr. Baron Martin has been occupied the whole day iu the trial of a cause in which the question is as to the competency of a party to make a will. The criminal business of the assizes was brought to a close last night after the despatch of our re pore. CRIMINAL COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Bramwell.) Ann Bird was charged with wilful and corrupt perjury at Cheltenham. Mr. Fallon, appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Sawyer defended the prisoner. It appeared the prisoner, who was servant to Mrs. Col. Gordon, living in Lansdown-terrace Chelten ham, had laid an information against a 1 Vlr. Chas. Neale, a printer, for a burglary and robbery com mitted in the house of her mistress on the morn ing of Friday, the 24th of April. The prosecutor had been apprehended and taken before the ma gistrates, and the prisoner there swore that she came downstairs a little before 6 o'clock on the morning of Friday and saw a man going across the ball to the kitchen door ; that he looked up and said that if she told of it he would mur den her ; that she knew it was Neale by the black patch on his eye, and tad known him'for years ; and that he then went out at the back and got over the wall. The prosecutor stated that on the night in question he was not at or near the house of Mrs. Gordon, but that from 9 to 12 on that night he was with a man named Wallace, and that from 12 o'clock till 8 the next morning he was at home in bed. This evidence was confirmed by Wallace and by Mrs. Neale ; and' his little girl said she went into his room a little before 6 in the morning to get some matches to light the fire, and saw him in bed, where he remained till 8 o'clock. A man named Brewer said be was at work at the back of Mrs. Gordon's house on the morning in question, and if anybody had got over the wall he must have seen him. A policeman named Sheen said he had examined the premises, but there was no appearance of any breaking or forcible entry, but a man might have got in at an unfastened window at the back of the house, but this window was 12 feet from the ground. A good many things were scattered about the place, and the sum of 51. had been taken from the box of a French servant. Mr. Sawyer having addressed the jury for the prisoner, the jury found her guilty, and Mr. Baron Bramwell sentenced her to be im prisoned, with hard labour, for one year. Mary Browning, who had been convicted of the manslaughter of the illegitimate child of her daughter, was brought into court, and Mr. Baron Bramwell sentenced her to be im prisoned for one year. It was stated to the Court that the prisoner had been certified to be of unsound mind, and she would be removed to a lunatic asylum. John Townsend and William Holland, two ser vants of the Great Western Railway Company, were charged with stealing seven bottles of wine, the property of Messrs. Wheeler and Co. Mr. Cripps and Mr Gilmore Evans appeared for the prosecution; Mr Powell defended the prisoner. It appeared the Messrs. Wheeler and Co., wine merchants, had caused a hamper of wine to ba delivered at the Great Western Railway station at Gloucester, to be forwarded to their correspon dents at Swansea. This hamper was safel y re ceived in a luggage truck at the inwards goads station to the knowledge of the prisoners, who were porters of the company, and the hamper re mained safe in that truck till half-past 10 at night at least. Between 10 and 11 o'clock, on t h e arri val of the H ere f or d t r ain, goons van No. 261, which came with th a t t ra in, was s hunted near to the luggage t r u c k i n which Byett, the night poli c eman, in the hamper was. Shor ly afterw ar d s th e p r isoner Townsend engagel conversation in a place from which the truck and van could not be seen, and at the same time the other prisoner was seen close to them by a porter who chanced to come down to the goods station. Byett observing the prisoners t 3 hang about the place, and thinking some , hing was wrong, went down to the van ; and when ho got near to it he saw Townsend come out and Hol'and go in, and then heard the clash ine, of bottles, and the drop of the lid of a locker. On asking what was up, •it was an swered to Byett that they had a couple of women in the van. They further refused to let Byett have their light to see whether all was right, and refused to let him go into the van. Byett kept wat , :h over the van, till, after many various GAS-LIGII' Name of Company. Name of Company. tustralasia.. .101. per cent. Bank of Egypt ...... Bank of London ...... British North American Ch Bk. Ind. Aust & Ch City . Colonial Commercial of London. Eng . Scot. & Aust. Ch. Lond. Cnar. Bk. of Aus. 51. per cent. 9 per cent. 4 , .. per cent. 51. per cent. 71. p. c. Sibs. C. per cent. 51. percent. Do. New . • • • •• • • •• London and County .. Lon. & Eastn. Bnkg. C. London Joint• Stock . • • Londn and Westminatr Nat. Provincial of Eng. Ditto, New .. • • • • • • let. per cent. 6!. per cent. 28 per cent. 181. per cent. 16 pc. &bs Ditto ditto Natio-Lai Bank ••• • • • • New oath Wales .. • . Oriental Bank Corpora. Ottoman Bank Provincial of Ireland I.per cent. 20'. per cent. 101. per cent. Ditto, New. • • .. •. • South Australia .. -... Union of Australia.... i!. p. ct.&bs. SI. per cent. 5 7 . per cent. 10/. per cent. ill, per cent. Union of Hamburg Union of London...—. Unity Mutual .... • • • • Western Bank of Londn, 151. per cent, i LIST OF SCOTTISH .COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. . - - -- -- X s. d. £ a. d. Bank of Scotland .... 71. per cent. 100 C 0 100 0 0 195/0s British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 224110 Caledonian Bank .. •• . 81. per cent. 10 0 0 210 03/ 16s City of Glasgow Bank 51. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 13/17s Clydesdale Bank .... 5% /. p cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 14/ 7s Cmamercial Bank .. 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 248 iths Eastern 8ank........ 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 141 bs Edinb. & Glasgow.... 3341. p cent. b 0 5 0 0 5/ 2s National Bank ...... 63¢ per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 193105 Northof Scotland Bank 5/.percent 20 0 0 210 05/ 108 Royal Bank of S cotl. .. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 1401's Union Bank of Scot. .. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 106/10 Western Bank •. .. .... V. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 92 /Os Alliance Fire and Life- 83( 1 1. pr cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 17112 s British Guarantee .•• 41. per cent. 10 0 0 2 0 0 I/ 7s Caledonian Fire Incur . 10e.per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 251 Os City of Glasgow Life.. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 4/ 4s Colonial Life ......... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 3 0' 061 Os Edinburgh Life Incur. 81. percent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 28115 s Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 3 5 0 11 6s Life Assoc. of Scotland 61. per cent. 40 0 0 3 0 061 15s National Fire and Life 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 4 02/ Os North British Insar... 71. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 36115 s Northern Assurance Co. 20 0 0 1 0 0 II 16s Scottish Provincial .... - 50 0 0 2 0 02/ 19s Scottish Union Insmc. 7%1. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 011 15s Standard Life .. ••.. •. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 7 0 0 22/ Os 31 I SC E L LAN E OTIS . Dividend ' Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Pricc. Annum. Share. . - 4 a. d. £ a. d. Acadian Charcoal Iron •• African Steam. Ship . • .. 20 - 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 - Assam t ea .......... 6'. per • cent. Aacti6n Mart...... • • /14 /per cent. 50 0 0 - - Australian Agriculturl - 25 0 0 19 0 0 21% Australian Trust •• •. 81. pr cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Austrnnan Royal Mait - 10 0 0 a ll Ang l o -M e xican Mint. 11. 10s. 10 0 0 all 14% British American Land 51. per cent 50 0 0 40 0 0 - Canada .1. •• •• •• •• .. 61. per cent 100 0 0 3 2 10 0 - Do. 5 per cent Bonds 51. 'pet cent Stock WO 0 0 - Ditto, 5 per cent bds 5/.per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - lit t t te o : 66 p pe e r . cnednstl.B44. 41.6/. per r cent. eent. s S t t p o e c k k 110000 0 0 - 0 0 Ditto, Ditto, 6p c. bds 1876 6/. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 -- Crystal Palace Ditto Preference 7l pr. cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 4% Crys. Palace of France - 4 0 0 all - City Navigation Bonds 332 l. per cent - - - Nllectric Telegraph 'Eng.& Aus. Cop. Smelt - 5 0 0 all I °4 Eng.&lrls. Stag. T. Co - 50 0 0 all - Equitable Reversionry 51per cent. 00 0 0 00 0 0 - Ditto New .. „ - 50 0 0 22 10 0 - Gen. Revers. & Invest 5l. p c and 11 100 0 0 'OO 0 0 - Gen. I. Sc. Col. (Lim.) - 25 0 0 all - Gen.SteamNavigation 10/. per ct. & 15 0 0 14 0 0 - Hudson's Ray Gen.Omnibus ry...... . 1 5 2 1 1 . . per cent 40 0 all 3% flangerford ........ all - Loa. No. &Na. Mauso. - 10 0 0 all o S o to o ck 0 Stock - all - - London Reversionary 5/, per cent. 15 0 t 51ex. & S. American - 10 0 0 all - Nat. Discount Comp • • - 25 0 0 50 0 3% 100 0 0 - N.S.W. Gov.sp.c. Deb. 5/. per cent. - Nor. Bri. Australasian 6d. 10 0 all % North of Europe, Stm. gl. per cent. 20 0 0 17 10 0 23 Price's Patent Cand. Co - 21 0 0 all _ Peel River LandBcMin. - 50 0 all 1 Pen. & Oriental Steam 71 . per ce nt 50 0 0 all 6'. % Ditto New .• • • - 50 0 0 10 0 0 141 A all Reversionary Int. Soc. I. 100 -- 0 0 20 0 (1 . t,.,/. pr cec.- Ditto New •••-• • • • 114/. pr cer.t 100 0 0 41. p. share , 100 0 0 80 0 0 - Royal Mail Steam.... GD Scottish Aus. Invest 15/. per cent. 10 0 a l l South 32% Trust Australian anaLon Comp. Land 7 7: i . , p . e p r r c c e e n u t t .. 2 2 0 15 0 0 0 0 5 aull 0 _ Vat Diemen's Land .• 10. t• 100 0 0 28 10 0 - Do. Gov. 6 per ctEds. - 6 per cent. - . - . Naval and Milmary intelligence. The letter of our Malta correspondent dated August 7, mentions the departure on the 3d, for England, calling first at Malaga and Gibraltar to communicate, if there, with Lord Lyons, of her Majesty's steam gunboat Arrow, and the arrival on the 4th, from Barcelona, of the Wanderer steam gunboat, which left his lordship with the squadron on the 31st of July, en route to Malaga, Gibraltar, Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and Malta ; and on the 6th of her Majesty's steam frigate Centaur, from Naples and Catania. The Abeona, steam transport, ar , rived from London on the 2d, and left for Gibral tar on the 6tb, with the 68th Regiment. The Minos, Tunisian steam corvette, arrived from Tunis on the 6th, and left the same evening for Trieste, with presents for the Emperor of Austria from the Bey of Tunis, in charge of Ismail Bey, accompanied by Count Raffo, the son of his Highness's Minister for Foreign Affairs, as secretary. The mail steamer Valetta, belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Company, arrived from Marseilles on the evening of the 31st July. Intimation was on Tuesday forwarded to Colonel Bloomfield, commanding the Royal Artillery gar rison at Woolwich, that his Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief would inspect the troops on the following morning. Accordingly the entire garrison was yesterday morning assembled on Woolwich common, and drawn up in two lines, consisting of every available man off duty. The front was composed of the troops of the Royal Horse Artillery and the battalion companies under orders for India ; the second lime was formed of two bat talions, Royal Horse Artillery, and the battery companies. A Royal salute from the gun park at 10 o'clock announced the arrival of the Duke of Cambridge, who proceeded to the review ground on the Common, accompanied by General Sir Hew Dalrymple Ross, G.C.8., Adjutant-General to the Royal Artillery ; Colonel Bloomfield, Aide-de- Camp to the Queen, and Acting-Commandant ; Lieutenant-Colonel Bingham, Assistant-Adjutant- General; Capt. Robert Talbot, Brigade-Major, in the absence of Major Shaw, ou sick leave ; Captain George Ross, Royal Engineers, aide-de-camp to his father, General Sir H. D. Ross, and attended by the ordinary staff of the garrison. Immediately on ,their arrival the united bands of the corps struck up " God save the Queen," when the Duke, ac companied as above stated, rode up and down the lines ' passing a minute inspection of each man. The troops then marched past in slow and quick time, and retired to quarters. At 2 p.m. the four companies about to proceed to India were marched down to the Royal Afsenal pier, preceded by the regimental band, and embarked in the following order :—Major M. C. Smith, in command ; Major C. E. Walcott, Lients. V. D. Majendie, F. A. Whinyates, Henry Edmeadea, a surgeon and vete rinary surgeon, and 143 rank and file, composing the 7th company, 14th battalion, Royal Artillery ; and Lieut.-Col. S. E. Gordon, in command, Se cond-Captain Charles Johnston, Lieutenants B. F. Schreiber, W. Gilmour, and E. Egan, a surgeon and veterinary surgeon, and 143 non-com missioned officers and men of the 4th company of the 14th battalion of the Royal Artillery, on board the screw steamship Sydney, Capt. Cat ter, for Cal cutta. The other two companies embarked on board the screw steamer Victoria, Capt. Thornhill, for Madras, and consisted of No. 3,3 d battalion of the Royal Artillery, viz , Major Godhy, commanding, Second-Captain Rowley, Lieutenants Brown, Stewart, and Welch, a surgeon and veterinary sur geon, and 143 non-commissioned officers and gun ners ; No. 6 of the 14th battalion, consisting of Capt. Palmer, commanding the company, Second Captain Bradshaw, Licuts. Morgan, Redhead, and Brackenbury, a surgeon and veterinary-surgeon, together with 143 rank and file; also Lieut. Brock, 82d Regiment, Ensign Wilson of the 53d, three sergeants, and 122 privates of the 82d, who ar rived the same morning from the depot at Chat ham, under the superintendence of Captain Bailie, 82d Regiment. The whole of this large body of troops were embarked in' perfect order, there being only one defaulter, the aggregate number amounting to 30 officers and 694 rank and file, a great number of whom were volunteers from other companies. So great was the desire for service that a large number of volunteers were rejected. The two ships sailed down the river about 5 p.m. Sir C. Wood, accompanied by Rear Admiral the Hon. Sir R. Dundas, K.C. 8., Colonel Green, Mr. Baring and Mr. Romaine visited Woolwich Dock yard yesterday morning, where they mustered and inspected the labourers, and surveyed the whole establishment. Their ordshipS were received by Commodore Shepherd and the general body of officials superintending the departments there. On their entrance to the dockyard the guard of Royal Marine, under the command of Captain J. Bunco, turned out tinder arms. After the inspec tion of the dockyard they repaired to the Royal Marine Barracks. The entire corps had been drawn up in anticipation of the visit, under the command of Col. Brown, the commandant. Their lordships com menced the inspection of the columns forthwith, and examined with much care the equipments of the men about to proceed to China. They then visited the official quarters and various departments of the establishment, as well as the site on which it is in contemplation to erect the new infirmary, and, having partaken of lunch in the mess-room, they returned to Loudon. Yesterday reinforcements for the 82d Regiment, consisting of 122 non-commissioned officers and men, under the command of Lieut. J. E. Brock, 82d Regiment, and Ensign H. R H. Wilson, 53d Regiment, left the Provisional Battalion, Chatham, and proceeded to Woolwich, where they embarked on board the steamship Victoria, for Calcutta, the previous order for their embarkation on board the steamer Australian, at Portsmouth, having been withdrawn. The 82d Regiment was one of the four regiments which embarked for China, but have since been ordered to India. At 4'elock yesterday morning the battalion of Royal Marine Light Infantry under orders to pro ceed to Plymouth left head-quarters at Chatham and proceeded to join the companies of that divi sion. The strength of the battalion was 12 non commissioned officers and 200 privates, with Capt. R. Farmar, First Lieuttmant C. T. Daly, a n d Se cond Lieutenant M. Hogge. Chas. N. Streatfield hag been appointed mate to the Peloru., and Elwin B. Ackloni midshipman to the Buzzard. Yesterday 89 troop horses, for cavalry detach ments, were despatch'd by Capt. Bevis, R.N„ Ad miralty agent at Liverpool, in the steamer Princess for Dublin. Yesterday the steamer Duke of Cambridge dis embarked at Liverpool 14 officers and 270 men be longing to the 36th Regf., who had arrived from Dublin. The screw steamship Lebanon will to-morrow (Friday) embark at Liverpool 250 troops for Gibral tar. 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J upi t er's moons, Saturn's i ing, and the double stars. With the same telescope can be seen a person's coun tenance three and a half miles distant, and an object from 14 to 16 miles. All the above can be had of larger and all sizes, with increasing powers, and are secured by Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. Newly-invented Spectacle Lenses of the greatest transparent power. The valuable advantage de rived from this invention is, that vision becomes preserved and strengthened; very aged persons are enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occupation—can see with these lenses of a much less magnifying power—and they do not re quire the frequent changes to the dangerous effects of further powerful assistance, Persons can be suited at the most re• mote part of the world by,sending ono of the glasses out of emir spectacles in a letter, and stating the distance from the e ye they can read small print with it, and those who have not made use of spectacles by stating their age. De afness — A n owly-invented instrument for extreme eases of deafu-ss, pen( called the Sound Magnifier, Organic Vibrator, and invisible ' V o i ce Conductor, It fits so into the ear as not to be in the least pe: ceptible. The unpleasant sensation of singing noises i n th e bean s entirely removed. It affords instantreliof to the deafest --s, and enables them to hear distinctly at -, 4etnblies. 39, Albemarle - street, Pic i Church an d at public "dilly Y lc a " - vi olel) W. (opposite the York ..„, 'RANCE COMPANIES. Dividend per Annum. Amount of Share. Dividend per Annum. 20 0 0 100 0 0 ANKS. Amount Share. s. d. 40 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 • 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 1 50 0 0 1100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 1 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 50 0" [OO 0 00 0 Paid. 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 )0 0 0 5 0 0 22 10 0 15 - 6 0 25 0 0 2 10 0 3 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 TRIAL OF &POLLEN FOR THE MURDER OF MR. LITTLE. ACQUITTAL OF SPOLLEIV. DUBLIN, TUESDAY EVENING. , Chief Justice Monahan summed up this morning elabo 'rately and impartially. He referred to the extent and na ture of the wounds and the weapons with which the mur der was probably committed. He dwelt strongly on the circumstance that access to the building might be bad by others besides the prisoner ; although, doubtless, Spollen had much greater facility than any other person, from the nature of his employment. The learned judge regretted that the servant, Catherine Campbell, was not produced, and observed that no evidence was given to connect the hammer found in the canal with Spollen. The facts con nected with the razors, his lordship said, were important ; but the identification of the sun-bonnet was the principal feature in the case. The statement of the prisoner to In spector Ryan, that he returned home at half-past 5 o'clock on the evening of the murder was disproved by the chil dren's evidence, which deserved the most serious attention of the jury. His lordship then road over the deposition and evidence of Joseph Spollen, commenting upon the dis crepancies between it and that of his sister. Throughout the judge's charge, the prisoner maintained his usual calm and collected be:.rine:. The charge of the learned judge occupied more than four hours and a-half in delivery, and theconcluding portion of it was delivered in a most solemn and impressive manner. The raz-rs, hammer, and calico rag having been handed to the jury, they retired' to consider their verdict at 20 minutes to three o'clock. The prisoner was then removed. Having remained in consultation for an hour and a half, the door of the jury -room was opened, and the prisoner was then placed at the bar. He was paler than when he had been removed, held the rail in front of the clock with a Inervous grasp, and w a t c h e d th e j ur y w i t h i n t ense an d evi dent anxiety. ' THE VARDICT. At ten minutes past four o'clock the jury came into the box, and the foreman halded down the issue paper. Mr. Alley, the Clerk of the Crown, baying called over the names of the jurors sail—Gentlemen of the jury do you agree to your verdict? Foreman—• Yes. Clerk of the Crown—You say James Spollen is not guilty. (Some applause in the gallery, which was imme diately suppressed.) The prisoner on the entrance of the jury, had stood up from his seat in the dock and leaned forward on the bar, manifestly endeevouriug to maintain his self-possession. immediately on hearing the finding he sunk into the arms of the gaolers in a half fainting condition. His necktie was loosened by those about him, and his face and bead were bathed with water. While in this state ho audibly uttered the words "My children." In the meantime, The Foreman of the Jury said—My lords, we hope that from the long attendance we have bad in this case that we shall be exempt from attending on trials for some time Chief Justice Monahan—This is the last case, gentle men. The business of the commission has concluded. The Foreman—Oh, but on future occasions. We would wish to be exempt for a year or so. Chief Justice—Oh, I have no power to do so. The prisoner having now recovered came forward to the bar, and in a somewhat broken manner addressed the Court as follows :—" Well, my lords and gentlemen, I find that lam not exactly deceived. My conviction was fixed that I stood before 12 of my countrymen —men of age, experience, and that had happy firesides, and confi dence in their family circles. I thought that they would impartially take my case into consideration, and they have done so. It is not for me to commence to praise myself, but I have been brought here in a wrongful way—wrong fully by—l will not condemn the woman. I always liked the man and I loved the woman ; hut it is a dreadful thing to be in the hands of a female tigress. I should have re turned thanks to the two gentlemen, the honourable gen tlemen, pillars of the law on the bench. I may be too sensitive when I say the servants of the Crown have black ened my character too much in their addresses to the jury. I have, however, thanks be to God, escaped (raising his hands) , thanks and praises be to God 1 Amen. (Here the prisoner sat down on the chair in the dock, but immedi ately rose and began speaking again.) My character, I am afraid, must remain triflingly impaired—my children, the only ones I love, I have to provide for. (The prisoner here again was overcome by his feelings.) If I bad means to retire to some— Chief Justice Monaghan—ls there any other charge against the prisoner? Governor Of the Gaol—No, my lord. Spollen proceeding—lf I can find means of retiring to an asylum in some of these colonies where I can continue for the remainder of my life to support existence, and to — Chief Justice Lefroy—Do the Crown intend to proceed with any other charge against the prisoner ? Mr. O'Donohoe—l am not instructed that the Crown intend to proceed with any other charge against the pri soner. Spolien proceeded to say—To the gentlemennf the press I return my sincere and hearty thanks for the manner in which they remained silent during my incarceration. As for shaking hands it would be foolish in me to do so. The public witnessed the untiring energy and scrutiny with which, as the gentleman himself said, he had grown old in the service, your hon. friend Mr. Curran, my counsel, and the untiring energy he displayed. But he is not so old in the service that he does not retain a large fund of that which will go to support many and many a poor client be neath his able hands. May he live many a day with a similar case as mine to defend ! (Sounds of cheering outside the court-house became audible as soon as the news of the verdict had passed oat•.) Mr. Curran—lt would be well if the prisoner were not discharged immediately. There are great crowds outside. Mr. Sidney—Your Lordship will please to order his dis charge. Chief-Justice Monahan—Ho is now formally discharged by the jury and the Court. Mr. Sidney--Tho jailor will kindly assist him in retiring privately. The Court was then adjourned. Country Markets. EDINBUIU HAY AND STRAW MARKET. AUG. 11. Supplies of all kinds these last six days large. Oat straw, from 5s Gd to 10i Od per kemple of 16 stones tron ; wheat do., 5s Od to 8s Od ; barley do.. 546 1 to 6s Gd. Hay from is ld to is 4d; new do., 9d to 10d. EDINBURGH MEAL—Avg. 11. There were in the market to-day 12 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801 b imperial, which sold at 44s Od and s. DALKEITH MEAL MARKET-AUQ. 10. There were in the market to-day 9 bags of oatmeal, 0 of barleymoal, and 0 pot barley. Sales dull. Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs First. Second. Third. imperial Barleymeal, per ditto -s Od —s Od —8 Od Peasemeal, per ditto Flour, new, per ditto.... —s Od —s Od —s Od Pot-barley, new, per ditto —a Od a Od —8 (d DUBLIN, Aug. 11. White wheat, Ms Ocl to 37s 61 ; red ditto, 34s 01 to 353 Od; ditto new, —s; barley, malting, 16s 6d to 25s 6d ; grind ing, —s to —s ; oats, old, 153 61 to 183; ditto, new, --s Od to —s 03 ; oatmeal, 15s to 17s 6d; bere, new, --s to Od ; rapesc , d, 28s Od to 35s per brl ; baker s' flour, 19s Oct 01 to 24s Od per cwt; Indian corn, 38s 61 to ,393 01 per 430 lbs. ET.-AuG. 12. the close of the market Witllsoud, &c. s d. [lama 18 9 Kepler Grainge l7 6 Russell's fletton 17 0 South lletton 18 6 3towart's 18 6 Hunwiek l5 6 Gosforth l5 9 ;, 38 ; sold, 35. rrice. ['rice Price. Prico. 11 1 A 79 24y, 200 Price. 49 1 ,i 38U 130 Price. COAL MARK. Prices of Coals per ton a s. cl.' Hastings Hartley-- l7 3 Benton West Hartley 15 Htl'pool West Hartley 16 e Newcastle Hartley .. 15 6 Elolywell ..... ..... l6 ( 1 Wallbettle Hartley 15 6 Wallsend, &a. Eden Main l6 Ships at market LOCAL SHARE MARKETS, LIVERPOOL, AUG. 12. STOCK EXCHANGE.-- - The transactions in this market to-day are merely nominal, the market continues dull, and prices of all the leading stocks have again declined. North Staffordshire, xd d 4 8s 9d —South Eastern, 21i — London and rth-Western, 102 4 —Caledonian, 38 it — Eastern Counties, 104—Midlands, 83i—Grand Trunk of Canada, 13—Duteh Rhenish, 4 7 } d.—Luxembourg consti tuted, 64 7R—Chester and Holyhead, 174—North Eastern, Berwick, 23/ 4—Ditto, Leeds, 22—Great Western, 55 I —Great Western of Canada, 21 /. BIRMINGHAM, Aua. 12. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was rather better to. day, but there was not much improvement in prices. Birmingham and Stour Valleys, at 8;- -- Great Westerns, 55 56—Birmingham Guaranteed Stock, 724 =—South Staffordshire, 9 3-16. MANCHESTER, AUG. 12. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was active to-day, but prices were a shade lower. Nearly the whole of the busi ness was for next account. Dovers, 21 15-16—Sheffields, 40 40 391 .3—London and North Westerns, 102— Ea,t Lancashire, 95A—Great Western of Canada, 21— Lancashire Assurance, 1 it--Great Western, 56--Warring ton and Stockport, 68—Leeds, 99 1. BIRTHS. OF A SON. On the 11th inst., at 20, Eaton-square, Lady Troubriclge.l On the 11th inst,, at 2, Halkin-street west, the wife of the Rev . . George Hill. OF A DAUGIITER, On the 12th inst., at 8, Montague-place, Russell-square, Mrs. Henry Chater. On the 11th inst., at 8, Little Sussex-place, Hyde-park. gardens Mrs. Donaldson. On the 11th inst., ht,jls, Carlton-hill east, the wif e o f H. Everest, Esq. MARRIED. ta.k.Glaenoer,gee'si,tyToamnbdlanndo,iy.Tohli Lodge,T. T Le:p i : n k r enham, eldest son of S. Lepard, E sq., N ewington, Sur rey, to Harriet , on l y d aughter of the late Wm. Tomlinson, Esq., Norwich. Lepard, the architect, t i cet, just., 9, atc Cloak-lane, DIED On the 11th inst., at 6, Nelson-terrace, Twickenham, Mid dlesex, Richard Estwick, Esq., aged 74. On the 11th inst., at 37, King's road, Brighton, Marshall Hall, Esq., M.D., P.R.S., M &c., aged 67. embar of the Institute of France, On the 10th inst., at Matlock, John Trickett, Esq., aged 71. On the 9th inst , at Palmer's-green, Edmonton, Alfred, infant son of Charles Lever, Esq. On the 10th inst., at Bath, Captain Thomas Colson Festiug, On the 10th inst., at Boddington Manor House, near Chel tenham, nindley Malcolm, infant son of Captain R. H. Gall, of the 14th Dragoons. On the 7th inst., at Devonport, William Christian Ander• son, Esq., Lieut. Royal Engineers, the fourth son of Colonel Anderson, R. ILA., aged 20. LONDON i Printed and Pullishod by MURDO YOUNG of No. 112, Strand, Printor, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middleazz, Thursday, August 13, 1857.. 35ii 1%4 61.74 M R I'. 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