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

THE RUSSIAN RAILWAY ROBBERY SCHEME. 41. Strange to say—for it really is a fact, and a remarkable tact—that most eminently erectu7ous personage, the British capitalist, -does not come forward to sow his sovereigns broadcast over the boundless dominions of Russia: He does not cal- eulato how many of those- precious articles it will take to form a continuous line from St. Petersburg to Kaffa, or to spread in the form of goldleaf over the steppes of Crim Tartary. He distrusts an empirci the domestic policy of which i 9 seclusion, and its foreign policy aggression,—which plans its internal communications for external operations, and makes mercantile ,Value secondary to strategic importance. His suspicions are not allayed when he hears that the very materials of the 'proposed lines are do 'be smuggled in duty-free, like an Ambassador's luggage: He recoils from ' a region where it is all State, and no public.; where trade is tariffel up to the throat, and opinion is always on the march to Siberia. Foolish bird as he is, he fears to venture his bill down the throat which in- vites him ; for though, no doubt, there is a bone to be extracted,'there are teeth also to be repassed. In tact, our old geiatlemen and our old ladies, and the:motley-group that always turns hp in a list of shareholders to Bubble Banks and Diddlesex Rail ways, are just now in no humour fur the bait, not wi%hstandiug the clerical decoy-duck described in our City Intelligence, who is always ordering 20,0001. worth of Russian scrip from Brussels or Amsterdam. The sphere of enterprise is so distant and so vast ; the lines are so long and so strag gling ; the conditions "so utterly, precarious ; the contingencies so beyond all English calculation ; the domestic influence so absolute, the rivalry of all kinds so possible, and, if profitable, so certain, that, strange to say, nobody is trying to steal a march on the Stock-Exchange and get his cent. per cent. by an empirical exercise of his private Judgment. Englishmen, indeed, dearly love to win money against tremendous, odds. They like mer cantile quackery, and swallow kill-oncure specula tions with wonderful gusto. It is a proud moment indeed, in the most sanctified of lives, when a man can let out to his confidential friend, and through him to the who'e town, that he got 20,0001. "by an investment which he alone had the sagacity or the courage to try. What has a man to do after that but to die in the odour of affluence ? Yet, with this short cut to wealth now open to us, notwith standing its rieky and paradoxical character, no body comes forward, at least not openly. Ten years hence we may possible hear that the worthy Prebendary Saveall, whose will has just been proved, doubled his fortune by Russian railways ; but at present the Establishment, the Faculties, the Half-pay List, and Dowagers keep aloof; and the Emperor of Russia will have to rebait his hook, to alter his terms, to give up his enterprise, or to make his subjects construct their own railways. Not, then, for the sake of further warning, for 'none appears to be necessary, but rather to justify ourselves for the part we have taken, we will tell a short story of a much more promising scheme, in a much more improving 'region, and one much more within the reach of 13rit•sh surveillance. Ten years ago there was the flourishing State of Indiana, which everybody could know as much about as he pleased. It is needless, however, to extol its posi tion, its resources, its everything ; for, as the se quel shows, they were all considerably too good, and are the very cause of the whole mischief we have to tell. Ten years ago, then, this very promising young State hid made immense im terovemeuts, and still found great room for improvement ; and what with past, present, and future improvements, both owed and wanted a great deal more money then its Government could just then lay its hands upon. In fact, it had got into that stage of difficulty which we have been lately told in the Bankruptcy Court is certain to occur iu the second or third year of the soundest undertakings. It owed some millions sterling, and, having paid no interest on its debt for six years, it was on the eve of repudiation, just as its natural resources were showing themselves in brighter colours than ever. So, after some negotia tion, a compromise was made between the State and its creditors, a good many of whom were at New York, but many more, we fear, in this coun try, which strikes us as about the most splendid conception that.ever entered into the head of finan cial defaulter. We are not surprised to find a com mittee of the unfortunate dupes saying of the suc cessful performers that "they smote the rock of financial resource, and the living waters gushed forth ; they touched the rock of public credit, and it sprang upon its feet." Indeed, after a caretul examination of the whole scheme, we take the lit erty of suggesting to the Emperor of Russia to send at once to Indianopolis, aud secure, on any terms whatever, the services of the gentleman_ who made this arrangement ; for we are quite certain if any body can cover all Russia with a reticulation of railways at the expense of the British, French, Dutch, and everythin; except Russian public, it is the patties in question. Our own immediate pur pose, however, in referring to it is just to show oue own countrymen how utterly unable they must be to estimate the prospects of any new and distant enterprise, and bow entirely they must be at the mercy of Governments, social influences, commer cial changes, and accidents of all kinds beyond their control. The following, then, was the compromise made by the State of Indiana with its wearied, but still hopeful, creditors of all nations :—Among various improvements in progress or intended the most advanced and the most promising was a canal. Do not start, British reader, at the idea of an - unfinished canal in the year 1840, or suppose that there must also have been a gross of green spectacles offered with it to prepare the eyes of the creditors for the inspect:on of the bargain. The canal was absolutely necessary to the develop ment of Indiana. It was fed by the river Wabash, and ran through the State, of course avoiding as much as much as possible other States, and joined ; the Ohio and Lake Erie. The financiers, brokers, ; and engineers marked out an extensive basin that .tbe canal must accommodate, and whose traffic it Must for the present monopolise. In fact, it was the highway of the State, and what put that beyond proof was, that some score of intended railways wore all directed to points on the Wabash and Erie Canal, and thus promised to fulfil the pleasing re lation of branches to trunk, feeders to main cuan nel, children to parent, or whatever else one may ple Ise to imagine them. It was true that the Sate of-Ohio had a rival canal, and that the State of Illinois had a rival and all but parallel railway lortlecoming, but what were they to Indian. ? Un fortunately, the Slate had no: even money enuugh .to finish the canal, so by way o ki ling two birds with one stone the State gut its creditors to finish •the c inel at a cost of $BOO,OOO, and then take the profit in payment of h. 11 f the debt. They caught at the proposal so eagerly that, half doubting their luck, they got a second Act to clinch the bargain, and prevent the State from meddling withthecanal till they had paid themselves out of its profits, which all the most competent authorities in the State said must be enormous. Have our prescient readers followed the dodge ? Not a soul of them, we will venture to say ? flow in the world are they to enter into the mystery of an American or a Russian financial scheme ti.l they have actually put their finger or their foot into it ? Why, the Wabash and Erie Canals was, of course, prodigiously prosperous by contributing to the construction of the railways that were' to ruin it. It was the scaffold of the building—the contractors' tramway and plant, to be cleared off and Bold for waste iron as soon as the real work was finished,lighed. As fast as the canal was pushed on the railways on both sides were pushed on too, and th e canal supplied them and the popu l at i on flowing into' the State with rails and materials of all kinds. But as eaoh railway was finished it commenced a most undutiful competition, and beat the old canal, or rather the old boat, off the line. The creditors opened their eyes like puppies the second or thirsdtayteeaarbasfttarir abstained from bargain, and at their entreaty the the field against them. n); actually entering utraihvays, of course, it • Must have, as the neighbouringStates were making them fast; so it passed an act allowing . the construc tion of railways by private enterprise, and the work For a time, went on apace. which, then, o the canal had a suicidal prosperity, course, came to an end when the railways in this and the utieh bottling states were all made. It now can only • just keep itself going, if it can do so much. The rents and tolls are swallowed up in the expenses they have been reduced to 20 per cent., or less, of what they were, but, as all the pr o fit a bl e trac is carried off to the rail ways, and the greater part of • the heavy traffic too, the canal is a bankrupt con tern. It has answered a temporary purpose, and is now good for nothing. The shareholders are Coming again to 'the Legislature of Indiana —no long er , of course, as indignant credifors — they have lost that position—but as outwitted and ruined mortgagees, and ask for a dole from the State Tree aurtr• Oar readers know, of course, how likely they are t o get it. But, cane anybody say they are a bit.more-at the mercy of the Legislature of In diana, or that they have proved themselves 'a bit more simple and credulous than any or dinary Eng lishman throwing hi s money into Rimier' railways? We can only say that even now we would rather invest in Indiana than in Russian railway shares, for there is 'always some hope in the justice of a frda pod prosperous people, but none whatever in either the power or the desire to pay of a corrupt bureaucracy.—Times, SUN,, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 21,_ 1857. ACCUSATIONS AGAIAST LO M) PALMERSTON. (From the Morning Post.) It iv of the first importance that the new mem bers of the House of Commons—that the future men of England, and that statesmen and journalists on the continent of Europe and America should know the utter groundlessness—the cJmplete falsity of the accusations made against Viscount Palmerton. We make no apology, then, for following the Rus- Bian diplomatist who has attempted —we need scarcely say unsuccessfully attempted—in the Nord to misrepresent and vilify the character of the ablest, the most experienced, the most courageous, and, above all, the most thoroughly British of living statesmen. The Nord says that, in leaving the Wellington Ministry, Lord Palmerston "speculated on snecess, and did not then, or at any time, act from conviction." We have already shown that the present Premier left the Ministry because he made common cause with his friend Mr. Huskisson, one of the ablest, best-informed, and wisest Ministers this country ever produced—a man whose untimely death in 1830 was one of the greatest calamities that could fall on this nation. It is one of the few reproaches that can be cast on the memory of the great and good Duke of Wel lington, that he treated Mr. Huskisson's attempts at explanation on this occasion with an abruptness and a summary sternness savouring far more of the camp than of the Cabinet. In this his grace com mitted a great error; for, in 1828, Mr. Huskisson stood first in the foremost rank of living statesmen, and combined in his proper person more sound poli tical, commercial, and statistical knowledge, and greater administrative skill and sagacity, than any living man. In truth, since the clays of Colbert and Turgo', there had been no such Minister in Europe for a knowledge of commercial and economic theo ries. Nor was Huskisson a mere theoriser only. To the highest scientific he allied the greatest practicll intelligence, and was, in the best sense of the word, a thorough matter-of-fact and highly.dependable colleague. With the soundest sense he combined tae most perfect suavity and a modesty rare at that epoch, and now, we may say, almost wholly un-x -isting among public men. When Mr. HuskissOn found that his letter to the Duke had been mistaken and misconceived, whom did he select to confer on the subj€ct with the great Captain ? None otiser than his friend the then Secretary at War, the pre sent popular First Minister of the Crown. It is said, in the most off-hand Tartar fashion, by the Russian diplomatist, who unsuccessfully at tempts to depreciate Viscount Palmerston, that "the Duke of Wellington showed him very little respect." At what source the Russian acquired this smattering of information we profess not to know, or, indeed, to care ; but we may take the opportu nity of stating here that the illustrious Duke, of,en ungracious and brusque to the highest per , onages in the State, and generally abrupt and decisive in manner, was uniformly cordial and urbane in his commerce with the Secretary at War. The con- versation held with the trusted friend of Mr. Huskisson in May, 1828, was of considerable length—much longer, indeed, than that pre viously held with Earl Dudley ; for we may, in passing, remark that the manners of the noble earl, the then gif ed Secretary for Foreign Affairs, were quite as abrupt as the Duke's, and occasionally eccentrical in no *annum degree. After h%viug seen the Duke of Wellington on . the part of Mr. Huskissori, Viscount Palmerston ad vised his right hon. friend to pursue a certain course. That course , was pursued, and pursued speedily, and the result was that Mr. Huskisson and h:s three Catiningite friends—namely, Lords Dudley, Palmerston, and Mr. Charles Grant (now Lord Glenelg)—went out of office. So instanta neous and decided was the course taken by Lord Palmerston that he waited on the then Sect etaty (Mr. Peel), and requested that he would postpone the notice for the Army Estimates, which stood for the following day, in order that there might be time to make the necessary arrangements. So much for the " speculations" of Viscount Palmerston and " the very little respect," according to the .Nord, shown to him by the _Duke of Wellington. We are next told by the Nord that, in retiring lo the Opposition benches, "Lord Palmerston never let an expression to escape him to prove that he had adopted the policy of the Whigs." How little the writer knows of the facts, or how much he mis represents the truth, shall be soon apparent. On the Ist June, 1829, the late Sir J. Mackintosh, the leading authority of the Whigs on international law (and of whom the late Lord Castlereagh ob served that the house regarded him as the eminent vrohissor of that science), brought forward his motion on the affairs of Portugal. 'Viscount Pal merston, in an able speech, expressed his fullest concurrence in the policy and principles of the mover, and told the house, amidst applauding cheers, that the ciselised world rang with execra tions upon Miguel, " the destroyer of constitutional freedom, the reaker of solemn oaths, the faithless usurper, the enslaver of his country, the trampler upon public law, the attempter of the life of helps lets and defenceless women," dec. Few speeches in our day made a greater impression than this dis course. On the same occasion Viscount Palmer ston challenged the foreign policy of the Welling ton Government in reference to Greece, and de monstrated that since ce oker Aberdeen had been Minister for Foreign Affairs, France, from her en lightened liberality, had head the first, and Eng land only the second, place in Europe. These sen timents thoroughly identified the speaker with the most liberal section of pol:t:cians, and prepared the way for the hest understanding between the Can niugites and the 'Whigs. E, cry week, nay, almost every hour, brought these parties nearer together. Ten days after the period we have been speakiag of Viscount Palmerston summed up his general objec tions to the foreign policy of the Wellington Govern ment inas'ill more kableSpeech. He observed that there were two great parties in Europe, one of which endeavoured to bearsway by the force of public opinion—the other by the force of physical con trol. " There is in nature," he observed, "no moving power but mind : all else is pa-sive and inert. In human affairs this power is opinion; in political affairs it is public opinion." The Statcirnea, like Canning or Palmerston, who know how to avail themselves of the passions, the opinions, and the interests of mankind, art} able to gam an ascend ancy and exercise a sway, far out of all proportion, greater than belong to tue power and resources of the State over which they preside, while those who seek to check, to prohibit, and padlock, like the Aberdeens and Gladstones of a lower generation, find themselves at fault. In 1827, when Cantiing directed the foreign policy of the empire, England was in the first of these conditions, and exercised an immense influence on the nations of the earth. In 1829, when Lord Aberdeen was Minister for Foreign Affairs, by his maladzoituess, naarowne:s ' and uusympathising character, our prestige was lest. We were spoken of abroad with contempt and derision ; and, iiistead of being looked up to as the model of constitutional freedom, as the refuge from persecution, and as a shield against oppiession, our name, from the Ta gus to the Bosphorus, was coupled with everything ho-tile to improvement and friendly to despotism. Against this servile and timorous policy, whether in Portugal, in Spain, in Greece, or in Turkey, Lord Palmerston protested, and the Whig party and the country went enthusiastically along with him. In fact, three members of the Canning party in the Lower House, namely, Huskisson, Palmer ston, and Grant, exercised at this moment a most , cenimanding influence, aud there can be little doubt. . that all three of theta would have entered the Go vernment of Lord Grey iu November, 1839, had not Mr. Huskisson been unhappily killed by au appalling accident near Manchester about sex weeks previously to the accession of the Whigs to power. As it was, however, the three Principal Secretaries of State were men who formed a portion of the Ministry of Canning. Viscount Melbourne, Can ning's Chief Secretary for Ireland, was made Home Secretary. Viscount Palmerston, Canning'a Secrs tary at War, was made foreign Secret try. And Viscount Godericb, Canning's Colonial Secretary, was again placed in the same office. Mr. Grant, a Canniugite, was at the Board of Trade • and Mr. Wynne, another Canniugite, was Secretary at War; whilst Lord Lansdowne, Canning's Home Secre tary, was made President of the Council. It is a remarkable attestation to the ability of Viscount Palmerston that Earl Grey, who held aloof from the Canning combination in 1827 indred, who made a violent and vituperative attack on Mr. Canning—selected, when he had the power, a pupil of that Statesman as his Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, at a period when Europe was seized with the desire of change, and charged with the elements of revolution. The Premier who made this most fitting selection was an orator of high pretensions, a politician of '44 years' standing, had been leader of the House of Commons, F.rst Lord of the Admiralty, and, above all, had himself suc ceeded the all-accomplished Chafes Fox as Prin clbiplaeloSfeicurdegtinar: for Foreign Affairs in Septembe r , 806. No man was therefore morel indeed so cap who was fitted for the office, and the choice f e ll on the present Premier. From thatperiod, as the Nord states, and it is the only fact it states truly, the s cene expanded for Viscount Palmerston, and for the 27 subsequent years the history of the man and the Minister is the history of his country. We have not yet exhausted the manifold misrepre sentations of the Russian scribe. It behoves us in the public interests, and i n th e i nterests of justice and truth, to leave none of his a s p er sions unre moved, none of hu calumnies unrefuted. .POLICE INTELLIGENCE-April 22. MANSION-B OUSE.—James Langton, a Bur geon, residing in Cross-street, CoMmercial-road East, was chlrged with stealing 3 waistcoats and a piece of silk from the shop of Mr. S. Skinner, a clothier, 18, Aldgate. The prosecutor, having been sworn, said—The prisoner and his little boy, about six years of age, entered my shop ae 12 o'clock to-day, and gave me an order which came to 14s. Whilst measuring him for a suit of clothes, I observed a waistcoat drop from under his coat upon the floor. The little boy picked up the waistcoat and placed it on a chair. I told him I had forgot to take the measure of his waistcoat, and upon proceeding to do so I disco vered two other waistcoats under his coat. • I then gave him into custody, and at the station-house a piece of blue sdk, also belonging to me, was taken from his pocket. When charged he said he was in nocent, and that I could do no good by giving him in charge. He is a surgeon, and bas dealt with me for the last 4or 5 years. He told me while mea- SUling him that his uncle had recently died, leav ing him an income of 41. a week. J. Brooks, constable, No. 666, said that he found the piece of silk alluded to by the prosecutor in the pocket of the prisoner. He also found 9s. Bd. in his waistcoat pocket. The prisoner, in answer to the charge, said Mr. Skinner is perfectly mistaken. I declare to God I never took the articles at all. lam a surgeon and a rnemb-r of the College of Surgeons. I have an in come of 41. a week coming in. I most solemnly declare I did not steal the things at all. The Lord Mayor—But the prosecutor states that he took the waistcoats from you, and the police man says he found the piece of silk in your pocket. Prisoner—No, they were not found upon me ; there was nothing found upon me, I assure you. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. John M'Nair was charged under the following circumstances. Mr. H. L. Keeling, of the firm of Keeling and Hurst, fruit-brokers, Monument-yard, said—We have correspondents at Glasgow, of the name of Virtue and M‘Nair, who are in the habit of drawing upon us on current account. If a genuine letter come from them to us, requesting us to credit their account, we should do so. Yesterday the prisoner called at our officP, and presented to me the letter produced. I asked him if be was the party repre sent-d iu the letter. and he said he was. I asked him whit brought bim to London, when he told me he was travelling for the house. He said he re quired 121. 10s. upon the letter. (The letter, which was a forgery, purported to be written by Messrs. Virtue and M‘Nair to the prosecutors) I handed him the money, and upon his giving me a receipt for it, I sent for an officer, who took hint into cus tody. He then said he should be aVe to explain matters. The prisoner, who confessed his guilt, was com mitted for trial. GUILDHALL.—Maria Burling, aged 54, o middle height, rather corpulent, with fair com plexion and bloated countenance, who described herself as a 'fortune-teller, was re-examined on a charge of having sent letters containing threats of a most atrocious character to Messrs. Welch and Margetson, of Cheapside ; Messrs. George Hitch cock and o. ' of St. Paul's-churchyard ; and other gentlemen in the City. It will be remembered that threatening letters addressed to merchants and others in the City were found in the prisoner's room. The detective officers who have been employed in the case, now stated that they were convinced that the prisoner had no guilty knowledge of the letters, and no par t;cipation in the offence, and applied to have her bound over tn.appear at this court on Wednesday next. The application was granted. Rebecca Rice Hamilton, a respectably-dressed female, about 33 years of age, and in deep mourn ing, was then placed in the dock, charged on sus picion. with writing or being concerned with the writer of the letters in question. Mr. Thomas Welch (of the firm of Welch and Marg-tson), of 154, Cheapside, stated that he knew the prisoner as having been iu employ at their fac tory from the beginning of 1855 till March, 1856 during the whole of which time, and since, he had been in the habit of receiving filthy and disgusting letters. Sometimes the prisoner brought him some which she said had been sent to her at her resi dence. Persons in their employ had also been in the habit of receiving letters inciting them to rob their employers. He had received letters on the 24th March and Ist April in the same handwriting with tho4e lie had been in the habit of receiving. These w, re produced. Mrs. Atkins, msntua-maker, of 22, Bartlett's buildings, who had seen the prisoner's writing, and had also seen her write, stated that, to the best of her belief, the letters produced were in the prison er's handwriting. The prisoner was remanded, that further in quiries might be made. BOW-STREET.--Mr. Wm. Cloak, who keeps an oyster-house in the Strand, and has a beer-re tailer's licence, was summoned fiar having, on the 7th Jan. last, sold one gill of brandy, and for having upon the premises, on the 21st Jan., half-a pin t of gin and about half-a-pint of orange wine. About nine o'c'ock on 7th Jan. two excise offi cers, named Wright and Moore, went together to the defendant'a house. Wright went in, leaving Moore outside to watch. Wright, after eating some oyst-rs, asked to see a waiter who had served him on former occasions, and on seeing him ordered some brandy, giving him the money (6d.) before hand. The brandy was brought, he drank it, and then went out. Moore, who had been watching from the opposite side of the street, posi'.ively de clared that none of the defendant's servants had come out as if topurchasesp:ritsatthe public-house. On the second charge the evidence was, that on the 21st Jan., Wm. Gut teridge, an officer of excise, visited the house and found in a cupboard in one ef the entered rooms, a dec inter containing about balf a pint of gin, and bn a sideboard and another de canter containing about half a pint of orange wine. Mrs Cloak told him that the wine was left from what was taken by some children at a birthday party. The gin, she sai wAs the remains of some that had been got in the night before to give the servants a glass each after the shop was shut. Mr. Henry observed that as to the first charge he did not think there was sufficient evidence of selling. As to the second, he must read the act again, and take time to consider It's judgment. WORSHIP-STREET.-=-Henry Johnson, a dock labourer now, but who persisted in ass-rting that he was a seaman, stood charged before Mr. D'Eyn court with cutting and wounding John Duggin, in the employ of the Steam Navigation Company Corn pla•nant, whose left arm was suspended in a sting, sta•ed last evening, while in the Founders' , Arms public-house, Spitalfields, the accused, being a perfect stranger to him, at that time suddenly accused him of having circulated a report in the docks that he had committed a robbery. This wit Dess of course denied with some indignation, upon which prisoner drew a clasp-knife from his pocket, and opening it, exclaimed—" I've g)t it hero for you." Instantly he made a plunge at his breast with the weapon, which would assuredly have done him a most serious injury bad he not raised his arm, thereby receiving the blade on the whole of his fingers, which were sadly cut. Prisoner then ran into the street, and for the time escaped. _ Mrs. Duggin, who was present, confirmed the statement, and added that when the prisoner found his intention foiled, he struck ber a desperate blow, which blackened both eyes. She believed be was sober. An officer who subsequently took the priQoner, in the street, described his conduct as that of a madman ; be brandished the weapon and threatened to do f. .)r any one who approached him. Mr. D'Eyncourt, with some strong remarks upon the use of the knife, said he would remand the p; Boner till this day week. WESTMINSTER.—Amongst the applicants yesterday to Mr. Arnold, the presiding magistrate, was a very creditable-looking middle-aged man, who made the following distressing communication: Applicant sWeil that his aged. mother, a poor widow woman, had for some time past resided uu 'der his roof, and after a short illness died two or three days ago. He was iu such bad circumstances that he was wholly without the means of procuring a coffin to put her in ; and under those circum stances applied to the parish for one, but was re fused, and had been advised to apply to a magis trate by the neighbours, who wee acquainted with his condition. He had lived in Westminster a great :length of time, and thought he was entitled to what :he had asked for. Mr. Arnold asked applicant how he got his living? Applicant replied that he was only a poor sh m Aker, with a wife and three children, whom he ha d the greatest difficulty t.) find in food. ,%Ir. Arnold suggested that the parish authorities mig ht be treating this as an ordinary case of relief, and inquired whether they had offered to take him and .his family into the house 7 Applicant said they bad not, nor did be want to go into the workhouse, but owing to his poor mo th.,e, dyi n g condition be had been compelled to apply to them for the parish doctor to attend her, a'id now that she was dead, he could not have her body ,remainino in his one room where his wife and three children were. If he could possibly have found the means of getting a coffin - he certainly tfoulql not have troubled the parish. It was a most distressing thing, and he hoped the magistrate would assist him. - Mr. Arnold said he had no power whatever to interfere, but would recommend the poor man to apply to the board of guardians. • • MARYLEBONE.—John S. Cookson, cab pro prietor, was charged with having been concerned in stealing a box containing property of con'iderable value, from the warehouse of Mr. Samuel Solomon, Sut ton - I lace, Ed 2 ware-ron d. The box, which was the property of Mr. Solo mon's brother, who, with his family, were about to sail for Australia, had been left with other pack ages. It was misi.ed, a reward of W. was offered for its recovery, and very soon a part of the box and Some of its contents were found at the prisoner's house. As the police had suspicions with regard to other propertyin his possession he was remanded till Wednesday. 8017THWARIC.—.Edward Atkins", a middle aged man, a plumber, was finally examined on the charge of attempting to murder Elizabeth Fore man, by cutting her throat with a razor. The complainant, whose throat was bandaged up, stated that she lived at 3, Union-street, Btirough road, and until six weeks ago she hid cohabited with the prisoner. The prisoner lett' some of his property at hor house, and meeting him on Mon day, .the 6th inst., she told him to call at her house the next morning and fetch the things away. He said he would, and on the 7th, while she was in bed, he entered her room, and then she got up, and he took a razor, and shaved himself. After he had done so, he told her to fasten the door, which eha refused to do. He then asked her to come and sit by him on the sofa, and she declined doing that ; but she went and sat near the window looking into the street. While there she left the prisoner push ingsomething violently against her side, which she at first thought to be his knuckles, but afterwards she perceived it to be a knife, which she took f+oin him, and told him to keep away for the future. He then seized her suddenly by the neck, and forced her head on the bed, and h, then cut her throat and face with the razor he had shaved with. • The prisoner was committed for trial. THAMES.—Capt. Simonds, the master of the ship Neleus, lying in the river, came before Mr. Yardley, and stated that he shipped nine China men at Foo-Chow-Foo, and they,assisted in navi gating the ship to the port of London. He had paid them their wages and kept them on board the Ne leus at work ever since. The ship was about to sail, and had been taken up by the Government as a transport, and he was not permitted to take out Chinamen as part of his crew. lie wished to know if he shou'd be justified in discharging the Chinese and paying them the wages due to them for work ing on hoard. Mr. Yardley said the captain was bound to send them back to their own country in another ship, and enable them to enter into a fremh agreement in accordance with the original agreement which they entered into with him at Foo-Chow-Fijo, and not as pas- engers. Capt. Simonds said he had already obtained berths for them in a ship about to proceed to China, and he wished to ascertain whether he ought to pay them off at once, and discharge them. Mr., Yardley said he would stro:,gly recommend the applicant not to discharge the Chinamen into I the streets, for it he did they would most assuredly become mendicants or thieves, or both. Mr. J. V. Roche, a pawnbroker, No. 1, Com mercial-road Eatt, appeared to answer the corn plaint of Thos. Brandon, a mechanic, to whom he had refused. to deliver a double cued silver watch with the name of Edwards engraven thereon, and a silk handkerchief. _ . About a year ago Brandon raised Ds. on his watch at Mr. Roche's shop, and on his wife and daughter going to redeem it a few days since awatch of about half the value of his was banded to him. The pawnhroker now insisted that the watch was the one which Roche had left with him. The magistrate, however, ordered bun to pay the compl4inant 30s. ou alcourit of the watch, and 2s. 6d. on account of the handkerchief. EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL. IN PARIS. The Military Tribunal assembled on Saturday to hear pleadings in the affair of the alleged criminal assault made by the two officers and a sergeant of the 95th Regiment. The court was crowded to ex cess, and the interest manifested in the case was even ,greater than that of the preceding day. The 3 prisoner:, whose bearing was very calm, on being placed at the b tr, shook hands with several of their comrades., The public prosecutor, aftar some pre liminary observations, proceeded to insist that there was strong moral proof of-the prisoners' guilt, in asmuch as the fullest confidence must be placed in the death-bed disclosures of the deceased, who was of the strictest virtue, and incapable of telling a Ifalsehood; and inasmuch also as those revelations were made not only when she was delirious, but when she was perfectly calm and in the full possession of her reason. He insisted that her not having said anything as to the outrage to any one immediately after it was committed did not lessen the value of her death-bed revelations, for she had evidently made up her mind to say no thing about it, lest, on the one hand, she .should run the risk of losing her husband's affection, or, on the other, should Wive him to endeavour to avenge himself on the aggressors, and so per haps endanger his life. As to the letter she wrote to Leandri the day after theoutrage, he mainta ned that it did not prove anything against her revela tions, for, having resolved to observe secrecy as to what had happened, she was natuAlly anxious to preserve the custom of the regiment, which amounted to 72,0001'. a-year, on which sum her husband's profit was 10 ipr cent., and to keep that. cult - ma it was nece-sary she should not offend the' paymaster. As to the testimony of Dr. T r o uss eau and the oilier physicians, which was to the effect that the deceased had not been the victim of bru tality, but was labmning under hallucinati ms, the public prosecutor .said .that amounted to little, as they had only made a superficial examination of her. Re admitted the proofs against 13maguet were weak, but explained the participation of the elder Leandri in the crime by saying that, as a Corsican, he did whatever his brother desired, without stop ping to ask whether it was right or wrong ; and he said that thatprisoner's declaration, that he remem bered little or nothing of what took place on the 25th Dec., reminded him of the Italian who con stantly answered " Non mi ricordo" to all questions put to him on the trial of the Queen of England. In conclusion, th epublic prosecutor said that thi officers of the 95th had, in the course of the proceedings, frequently manifested dissatisfaction with him for the manner in which he maintained the prosecu ' tien ; but they should rather thank him, for if the prisoners were guilty, it was right that they should ne expelled from 'their society ; and, if innocent, that their acquittal should not be owing to any lake warmness on his part. M. Chaix-d'E s t Ang e , advo cate of the two Leandris, said that it was monstrous to suppose that two officers and a non-commissioned officer, who had served creditably in the glorious campaign in the Crimea, could have been guilty of an (Antes crime against the respectable mother of a family. The whole charge rested on nothing more than delirious ravings ; and he had not the shadow of a doubt nut only of the acquittal, but of the complete innocence of the three accused. There was not, in fact, in the whole affair, a single positive, material proof—there was not even a ,moral proof, a probabihty--nay, a possibility in it. After stating that there was nothing whatsoever proved against the sergeant, and that there was no reason why he should have figured in the case at all, except it was considered desirable to have three accused, and. after showing the improbability that the elder Leandri, who was known by his com rades to be so remarkably modest that he would never even change his shirt in the presence of one of them, could have assisted his brother in the perpetration of an atrocious crime, the learned counsel - entered into an examination aef the evidence, and maintained that the pay master the principal accused, had not only not com mitted a crime on Mme. Paillard, but had not even been gallant towards her. As to :he charge that he had given on one occasion bonbons to the children to get .them out of the way, so that he might be alone with her, he tr. ated it as absurd : " what an abominable seducer a man must be," he cried sar castically, " who gives 50c. worth of bonbons to children ?" " The fact is, gentlemen," he continued, " that Mine. Paillard died, not of an outrage, but because she had a malady after a miscarriage. I deplore her fate, but such things happen every day. On the 23d Dec., just after her miscarriage, she ac companied her husband to prison in a wretched cart, which was id, suspended, and not covered in, and she caught cold. She nevertheless continued to go out to attend to her business to the 27th, when she became so ill that she had to take to her bed, and she never got up from 'it—that is the :whole case." The learned gentleman then remarked that on the day of the alleged outrage it was proved that she only remained three-quarters of an 11 , air with Leandri, and he asked if the abominable crime which was charged against him could . have been perpetrated in so short a time ? It might be said that the crime had not been consummated, but he would not accept any such palliation : either his clients were altogether innocent, or they were worse than cannibals. And where was the odious crime alleged to have been committed ? In some desert—in a savage cavern—in the midst of darkness ? No, but in Paris, in the Rue Chabrol, in a house occupied by ten officers, whose rooms were only separated by thin partitions, which enabled almost all that was said dr done is the different rooms to be overheard, at half-past nine o'clock in the morning, on a day when all the officers were in a bustle, because the regiment was about to change its barracks. Why the story was not consistent with common sense. It would not be believed in a novel. And how was it that the woman, if she had been outraged, had not cried out. Had she been gagged ? How was it that on that morning 10 persons at least had gone to the paymaster's ro an, and had not seen either the bed or the furniture in confusion ? If again the priucipal accused had been guilty of the crime im puted to him he would after it have felt remorse, and have displayed disquietude; but he breakfasted quietly with his comrades, tettled with his landlady for what he owed for his lodgings, and even romped with the servant girl. The learned counsel then alluded to the following letter, written by the.de ceased to M. Leandri on the very day after the crime is said to have been committed. It is dated the 17th, and says :—"Monsieur,—As you have promised me to be kind enough to secure to me the custom of the regiment, I will assist you in perform ing your promise. I will charge the meat at 70c. the kilo. Have the kindness to inform those gen tlemen of it, and let me have an answer either favourable or unfavourable." How is it possible to believe, added M. Chaix-d'Est-Ange, that a woman who had been treated in the manner stated could only on -the following day have written such a letter ? After discussing the symptoms of the de ceased's malady, and showing that they were such as would have been produced by cold and fatigue after a miscarriage, the learned counsel denounced the mother and husband of the deceased for having made public what she had said in her delirium, and he accused them of doing so in order to obtain pe cuni try damages from the accused. He concluded by contending that the accused could not be con demned. M. (''hair-d'Est-huge, junior, pleaded for S , irgf-ant Benaguet, and M. Vellaud, advocate of Paillard, spoke in support of the prosecution. The accused were then severally asked if they had any thing to add to their defence, and they answered in the negative. The Court thereupon retired, and after three-quarters of an hour's deliberation re turned with a unanimous judgment to the effect that the prisoners were not guilty, and that they accordingly should be immediately set, at liberty and return to their reginient. The judgment was af. erwards read to the prisoners in, presence of the guard assembled ,under arms, and they were at once discharged. A large crowd collected in front of the military prison to see them leave. OPENING , OP THE BISHOP'S GIRLS' SCHOOL, INVERNESS. This new school-room was recently °panel by Bishop Eden. There were present on the occasion, f which but a very brief notice bad tweu given, a few strangers, and some of the contributors to lhe good work, amongst whom were Lord Salt iun, lug Mr. Mackintosh, of Daviot; Mr. E ten and the Misses Ellyn, the Rev. J. Comper and M. Comper, the Rev. P. R. Atkinson, curate of Stis ted, in Essex, Mrs. Gillespie, of Ardachy, Mrs. and Miss G. Anderson, Miss Mackenzie, of Ding wall, (h. After a few appropriate prayers; and a short address, the Bishop declared the school-room to be open for the purpose of education. Regret has been exprerseti that so beautiful a building should not have been plac , d in a situation which would have made it a mr,re conspicuous orna ment to the town; but the spot was fixed upon, we have been informed, with a more especial view to those who were to be benefited by the school. The site, a very valuable one, was given by Raigmore, and we understand that exclusive of the value of this gift, viz., 2001., the cost of the present build ing, school-room, mistress' residence, outhouses, and enclosures,, was between 1,100/. and 1,2001., towards which the Committee of Privy Council contributed 5301. The room is warmed by moans of two spacf ous open fire-places ; and from its great loftiness, and al mirable system of ventilation, could never, we conceive, become oppressively hot or close even in summer. The walls are covered with maps, and with some fine lithograph drawings of scriptural subjects, and the class-room contAins muiy co lourel engtavings of birds and other animals. The proficiency of the girls in needlework, under the able superintendence of Mrs. Wilson, the mistress, is such, that, as we are informed, they are capable of under taking shirt-making, and almost any other fine work which may be entrusted to them, for which there is atiriff scale of pikes, the proceeds of which go towards the support of the school. The design, when completed, will afford accom modation for 200 boys and 200 girls, arranged with residences for the master and mistress in the centre. The school-roomi for the sexes being distinct, will extend north and south from each residence. The girls' scho , il with residence, which is the part com pleted and in use, consists of the front portion 33 feet long and 18 feet wide, with the wing 43 feet long and 18 feet wide, and a class-room 18 feet by 14 feet. The residence contains a sitting-room, kitchen, and scullery on the ground floor, with three b, , drooms above. To liith residence and school are attached outhouses for fuel, washing, and other conveniences, to promote as much as possible cleanliness, health, and decorum ; these ar rangements being perfected by a easefully con trived sptem of drainage. Water and gas are in troduced both in the school-room and residence. The style of the building is an application of that in use in the 13th century, the best pedod of me ardiitecture, and in which the peculiar fqt tures of the style, as it exists 1 in Scotland, hive not been lost sight of, as may be seen as well in the general character as in the mouldings to the doors and other parts. The walls are constructed of the native atone called Leys stone, neatly " dressed," or hammered on the face. The stonework to the windows, doors, chitnney-shafts, and angles of the building being of Findou stone worked smooth, or, as it is calved, "polished." The roofs are covered with B Machu lish slates, beneath which is boarding seen from the interior, the school-room having open timber roofs with arched braces, the whole of the timber and boarding stained and varnished. The principal front, as it exists; presents a gable at each end, the one being the residence, the other the school-room wing, the latter finished by a bell gable, with a flat-headed trefoil arch, containing a bell east in London by M ssrs. M: ars. Beneath the belfry, in a sunk panel, well cirved, are the arms of the Bishop and of the See of Moray, en signed by a Miire. Between the two gablei appear two windows lighting the school-room, which, as well as others in the side of the wing, being at a considerable height from the ground, - are Of the kind callei "dormers," and are placed in small gablets breaking picturesquely lute the sides of the roof. In the int?rior this elevated position of the win dows has the advantage of giving the utmost space against the walls for desks and other purposes. The designs are by the eminent architect, Mr. W. Slater, of Carlton Chambers, London, and have been carried out by the co-operation of Mr. Alex. Ros 4, our townsman. Mr. Brand, of Dingwall, un dertook the contract for the whole works, the ma,:on work of which was done by our townsman Mr. Cumming. The whole has certainly been completed in the most masterly manner.—lnverness Courier. SHIPPING STATISTICS: According to the statistics of vessels entered in ward the return for the port of London shows a decrease of 1 vessel, with an increase of 197 tons, the arrivals in 1856 having been 166 vessels, with an aggregate capacity of 100,513 tons ; and in 1857 165 vessels, with an aggregate capacity of 100,710 tons. In the case of Liverpool the decrease is 9 vessels and 8,057 tons, the difference between 70 vessels, with an aggregate capacity of 53,703 tons, and 61 vessels with an aggregate capacity of 45,646 tons. Bristol exhibits an increase of 6 vessels and 1,299 tons, the arrivals in 1856 having been 7 ves sels, with an aggregate capacity of 3,723 tons, and in 1857 13 vessels, with an aggregate capacity of 5,022 tons. In the case of the Clyde there has been a decrease of 2 vessels, but an increase of 1,548 tons, the arrivals in 1856 having been 10 ves sels, with an aggregate capacity of 2,692 tons, and in 1857 8 vessel=, with an aggregate capacity of 4,240 tons. The net'result of these figures is a decrease of 6 vessels and 5,013 toils, the difference between 253 vessels with an aggregate capacity of 160,631 tons, and 247 vessels witu an aggregate capacity of 155,618 tons. The principal decrease has been in the arrival Of vessels from Calcutta. The statistics of c:earancis outward show an in creasein the return for the port . of London of 29 vessels and 14,754 tons, the departures in 1856 having beet, 163 vessels, with au aggregate capaci , Y of 100,689 tons, and in 1857 192 vessels, with an aggregate capacity of 115,443 tons. In the case of Liverpool the increase is 47 vessels, and 43,532 tons, the difference between 89 vessels with an aggregate capacity of 69,247 tons in 1856, and 136 vessels with au aggregate c ap ac ity of 112,779 tons in 185:, The return for Bristol exhibits ail increase of 5 vessels and 2,441 tons, the difference between 1 vessel with an aggregate capacity of 1 , 182 tons in 1856, and 6 vessels with an aggregate cap a city of 3,623 tons in 1857. In the case of 4he Clyde there is a decrease of 4 vessels and 1 , 054 tons , the de partures in 1856 having been 22 repels, with au aggregate capacity of 1 3 , 510 tons, 'and in 1857 18 vesseli4, with an aggregate capacity of 12,456 tons. 11 de a iplitnuerreesaseM of f 8 5 7 67 havingvessels, beer and 59,e67n3et tons, reslu t t is ar the 275 vessels, with an aggregate capacity 0f.184,628 tons, and in 1857 352 vessels, with, an aggregat e capacity of 244,3 01 tor.s. The increase in th e de partures has been. vessels destined for New South Wales, "Calcutta, Bombay, Mauritius, and the Tape of Good Hope. PRICES OF SIIABES. Front the Official Lat. rUBLISIIED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENIII,4 LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, J. 85 7 . CANALS. Dividend per Annum. Price. Names of 1 Companies. Dividend per Annum 93 7.. P. et. 40 4/. 100 II:. 100 61. 158. 100 21. pr. ct. 10 61. pr ct. 100 78. 6d 40 63. 100 251. 100 51. 83 11.55. 143 70/ 100 21. 108. 100 16/. 100 'Peak Forest. Regent's • • • • Rochdale.... Sinai &Won Stciarbridgv. Severn and' Wye Ball. j Warwick & 1 Binning. 'Warwick & 1 Napton.. yiorcstr & Binning. j tWilts & Brkk WATER-WORKS. Dividend per Annum. Amount of Share. Price 5/. per cnt. 6e. per cnt. 41. per cent. 51. per cent. 4 per ern 51. per cnt 4t. per cent. BRIDGE! Dividend per Annum. Amount of Share. Paid. ['rice. 103 per cent, 11. 12s. Od. 11. Vs. Od. SM. s. d. 10 0 0 Stock. 25 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 GI 0 0 15 1 8 X s. d. 25 0 0 100 0 0 SO 0 0 1100 0 0 604 0 0 0 0 70 10 3 28/ 121. lOs 11. ICs. X s. d. 100 all Names of Companies. Airttn lilrnii 4liarn Coventry.. • L)erby • . • . GrandJunetn Do., 6 pr.Ct.' Grand Union Kennt w Avn Leeds &Livi p Leicester •. Leicstr atNltb Loughiorogh Macclesfield. Meath Oxford.. •• •• Name of Company. Berlin East London Do 4 per Cent. • Do. per Cent. Pref. Grand Junction .....• Do. New .. Kent Lambeth New River Company.. Southwark & Vauxhall WeA Nliodlesex • • • • .. Do. Do, ...... Namo of Company. (ungerfard.......... Southwark ...... .. Ditto New of 7% p.c. Waterloo Ditto Old Ann. of 8/. Ditto Nw ditto of 71. Vauxhall .......... •• Name of Company Commercial • • • • •• •• • • • Do. Preference East and West India.. Grand flurry D. & Canal )0. Loan Notes .... Do. 5 per cent. Prcf. London .• • • ••••• • • At. Katharine ........ 'onthampton ........ Victoria •• •• •• Ditto New •• •• •• •• DOCKS Dividend per Annum. 51. pr cent. Amount Share. X s. d. Stock. , Mock. Stock. 100 0 0 109 6 0 25 0 0 Stock. Stock. 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 Paid. I Price. Z s. d. Stock. 61. pr tent. 41. per cent. 51. pr cent. 4 1. per cnt. 4 per cent. 51. Os per c. too 7) 0 too 0 0 0 0 Stock. 102 92 50 0 0 20 0 0 14 0 0 GAS -LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. ' Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. ergot. Annum. Share. £ s. d. X s. d. British Frovincial .• •• 71. per c'nt. 20 0 0 all 23% :trighton .................r cent. 20 0 0 - 14% City of London .. •• •• 2/. per cent. 150 0 0 ISO 0 0 - Equitable-. •• •• .. •• •• 2/. 50 0 0 all 40 European .... ... • • 6/. per cent. 20 0 0 - 13 }rear Central .• 4/. per cent 10 0 0 - 12% Imperial .. •• ...... , 101. per cent. 50 0 0 - Ditto New - 50 0 0 12 111 6 - D:tto Debentures - Stock 100 0 ' - Do. Continental 'steal). 31. 50 0 0 42 15 0 49 Do. Do. 2d Cap. 4/. 1 5 5 5. s. 50 0 0 41 0 0 - Do. Do. 3d Cap. 41. 10s. 50 0 0 43 10 0 - D. l . Do. 4th Cap. 31 50 0 0 41 0 0 - Independent •.... .• 51. 40 0 0 all - London Pail. Preferen. ti . per cent. 25 0 0 - - Phcenix ..• ...... •• Ratcliff •••••.. •• •• •• 5/. 20 0 0 16 0 c - ,turre ' C o nsumers - Unite j d General .• - - 165 00 per sh. 50 0 0 - 21% Westminster Chartered 7 per cent. 50 0f) - 55 Ditto, New ...• •• • • - 50 0 0 10 0 0 10% Western A • .. •• 10 0 0 all 8!6 Ditto B••..• • • • • • .••• 10 0 0 40 0 - INSURANCE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. -----------. £ s. d. £ a. d. Albion .... .•..•• • . . . 71. per c. 500 0 0 50 0 0 80 Allian.:3 Bri:. and For. 7/. 14s. 641. 100 0 0 11 0 0 - Ditto Marine Itheinearn, .......• .• - 10 0 all - Atlas .. .krgus Life •• 41. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 28 dritish Commercial .. 71 . 10s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 nt,.:, Church of England .. 71. 'Os. 50 0 0 20 0 31,i City of London .. •• .. 5/. 50 0 0 20 0 214 elerielAnd.& Gen• Life spr ct.& be 100 0 0 10 0 0 - County 4/. pr:r share 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Crown ...... ••••• • •• 1/ 185. 50 0 0 50 0 _ Eagle . Equity and Law.. •• - 51, 4 Per cent 100 0 0 5 0 n Av g European Life ...... ..• I/. 20 0 n ail 18 1 Family Endowment •• 41. per cent. 100 0 0 4 0 0 _ General .. •• •• •• 6 per cent. 5 0 0 all 5 1 4 Globe ... ,_ .. .; 51. per cent Stock. all 98 Gresham Life ...... • • - - 47 5 0 - Do. 1)0....... •• - 20 0 0 50 0 0 - Guardian ............ 51. per cent 100 0 0 10 0 0 53 Imperial Fire... •• -.• 121.1.er cent 500 0 0 30 0 0 - Imperial Life Indemnity Marine.... 51. p ct.&bs. 100 0 0 13 0 0 110 Law Fire ............ 2s &2s bons 100 0 0 210 0 3% Law Lite.- •......... 21‘. per sh 100 0 0 12 10 0 - Legal and General Life 4s. per shalt 50 0 0 20 0 6 " London London & Prov. Law• • 3s. 50 0 0 2 0 0 - Marine._ • • ........., 18s. & bs. )00 9 0 20 0 0 73% Med•lnvlid & Gen. Life 4% per cent 50 0 1 2 0 0 31 .4 Minerva • • ...• - Monarch New Equitable - Pelican .... ••••.• .. •• 510. et• - a - - Phcenbc . • - - Profess:Onal Life.... .. 51. per cent 6 5 0 010 0 - Provident Life........ 12% per c. 100 0 0 10 0 0 40 Rock Life.... •.-• • .. 7s 50 0 010 0 8t Royal Exchange .....• g p c& be Stock. all 275 Sun Fire ...... ;y 2 pc & bs. - o - Ditto Life ..... 1/ 14s. - - United Xingdom .... 4/. & bonus 20 0 0 5 171 0 - Universal Life . - ..... 5/ & bonus. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Victoria Life • • ..... • 5,. & I onus - 50 0 5% JOINT.SrOCK BANKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ------ £ a. d. £ a. d. Australasia...........' M. per cent. 40 0 0 all 90 Bank or Egypt .. •• • • - 25 0 0 18 15 0 - Bank of London . . sl. per cent. 101 0 0 50 0 0 .- British NorthAmericat 9 per cent. 50 0 0 all 70% Ch Bk. Ind. Aust &Ch 4 per cent. 20 0 0 6 0 0 - City ....... • - Colonial ... ... •••• • • • • „ 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Commercial of London. 71. p. c. & bs. 100 0 9 20 0 0 24 Eng ScotAt Aust. Ch. r 4 . per cent., 20 0 0 all 17% Gond. Cnar. Bk. of Aus 5/. percent. !20 0 0 II 17% If 1 20 0 0 II 17% London and County •• IV. per cent.. 50 0 0 20 0 0 30 Lon. & Eastn. Itnkg.C. 6' per cent. 100 0 01 50 0 0 - London Joint• Stock ••• 28 per cent. 50 0 U, 10 0 0 - Londn and Westminstr 18 per cent. 100 0 0, 20 0 0 4G14 Nat. Provincial of Eng. 16 pc.& be 100 0 0I 35 0 0 -' Dittc. New .. •• •• • • PI 20 0 0 In 0 0 - Ditto ditto - Natio , ar.l Bank • • - New oath Wales - orientat Bank Corpora. 101. per cent. 25 00 I II 40% Ottoman Bank - 20 0 0 15 0 13 14% Provincial of Ireland il.p. ctlebs. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -' Ditto, N ew.• • ..•• - 81. per cent. 10 0 0 all - all lonian 5!. per cent. 25 0 0 - South Australia .. - Union of Australia 2l/. per cent.' 25 0 0 all 58y 4 II I •••-• 210 0 - Ditto .............. Union of Hamburg.... Union of L0nd0n...... Uni y Mutual Western Bank of Loud!' 15/. per cent. 1 15 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 2 10 0 3 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES Dividend Amount Name of Company, per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. - -- -- - £ a. d. £ a. d. sank of Scotland .. •• L. per cent. 100 C 0 100 0 0 195/10 British Linen Company 8/. per cent 100 0 0 100 0 4 ) 22)/05 Caledonian Bank ..... 8/. per cent 10 0 0 210 031 16s City of (ilasgow Baak Si. per cent. 10 0 0 10 . a 13, 5: Clydesdale Bank .... 5%1. p :tent 20 0 0 10 0 '1 14 Os C mmercial Bank •• 71. per cent 500 0 0 100 0 0 248 /Os Eastern Bank ........ 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 14 , Os Edinb. & Glasgow.... 3% 1 . p cen t. 5 0 h 0 0 51 li National Bank .. •-• 6% per cent. 1 100 0 0 100 0 0 191. es Neal/of:Scotland Bank 51. per cent 20 0 0 210 0 !,1 s e itoyai Bank of Scott. .. 51. per cent 100 0 0 100 9 0 t 3 , i s Union Bank of Scot. •• 31. percent. 100 0 0 50 0 e lOilOs Western. Bank- •..... 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -3.15 s !Mance Fire and We.. Bi4/.pr cert. 100 Q 0 11 0 0 17/13s ii. per cent. 10 0 0 2 0 0 1/ 12s British Guarantee .. iOO 0 0 10 0 0 251 Os Caledonian Fire [Nur I Oc. per cont. City of Glasgow Lite .. •ii. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 ii 4s Colonial We ....... •• 5/. per cent. 'O 0 0 3 0 0 • ;1 Os Edinburgh Lite Insur. 51. ear cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 491 Oi Eng. &. Scot. Law Life 51. aer cent. 50 0 0 3 5 0 I/ 6s Life assoc. of Scotland 61. per cent. 40 0 0 3 0 oi/ 15s Nationa. Fire and Life 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 4 02/ Os North British Incur... 71. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 n iGi Os Northern Assurance Co. 20 0 0 1 0 01/ 15s Scottish Provincial .... - 50 0 0 2 0 03/ Os Scottish Union Insrnc. 7%1. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 U ll 15s Standard Life ...• •• •• 51. per cent. 50 0 0 7 0 e 21/ Os MISCELLANEOUS. .---------- Dividend Amott Name of Company. per num. S hare. Paid. Price. An ..---------- £ a. d. £ a. d. - A ca di a n Charcoal Iron .. 10 0 0 20 0 0 10 2 0 0 0 0 -- African Steam Ship .. .. sea .... ..... 6 , . rer cent. 50 0 0 Assam2o 0 0 -- AUCOMI Mart........ PA/per cent. 50 0 0 - -. Australian Aericulturi - 25 0 n 19 0 0 Australian Trust •... 81. pr Cont. 100 0 0 25 0 0 21 Austra/ian Royal Mail - 10 o , all - Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 10s. 10 0 0 all - British American Land 51. per cen. 50 0 0 40 0 0 - Canada ... • • .... •• .. 61. per cet t 100 0 0 32 10 0 153 Do. 5 per cent BOnd• 51. pet cent Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 5 per cent bds 51. per cent Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 6 per cent. .• 6/. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 6p c. bds 1874 61. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 6p c. bds !sit; Cl. per sent Stock 100 0 0 - - , Crystal Palace ...... 91. per cent 50 e all '2% Ditto Preference.... 71 pr. cent 50 0 5 0 0 - Crys. Palace of France - 4 0 0 all - City Nievigation Bonds 3%1. per cent - - 1 1 Electric Telegraph .. 6/. p - er cent Stock 400 0 0 94 Eng.&Aus. Cop. Smell, - 50 0 all 1% Eng.&iris. Mag. T. Co. - 50 0 0 all - Equitable Reversionry 5/per cent +OO 0 0 100 0 o - Ditto New ...... 50 0 0 22 10 0 - Gen. Revue. & Inves t. - . 51. p c and 1/. 100 0 0 .00 0 0 - Gen. I. Sc. Col. (Lim.) - 25 0 0 all - Gen•SteamNavigation 10 /..per et. & 1 5 0 0 14 ''' ' - London Gen. Omnibus 121. per cent 4 0 0 all 4 Hudson's 8ay........ 5/. per cent. Stock Stock - - Hungerford .......... 2 /. ss. 1 0 0 0 0 all Lon. Ne. &Na. Mauso. - 10 0 0 all - London Reversionary 51, p er cent. 115 0 e all - Mex. &S. America!: - 10 0 0 all - Nat. Discount Comp • • - 25 0 0 5 0 0 41,,( N.S.W. Gov.sp.c. I)eb. 51. per cent - 100 0 0 6d. i 1 0 0 all % Nor. Bri. Australasian North of Europe, strn. Si. per cent 20 0 0 17 10 0 I I Price's Patent Cand . Co , -2! 0 o all 23% l'eel River Land &Min. - 50 0 all Pert. Sc Oriental Steam 7/. per cent 50 0 0 all 66% - 50 0 0 10 0 0 143 i Ditto New •••• • • • • Revers i ona ry Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent .00 0 0 all - 1 1 , 2 /. pr ceizt. 1:10 0 0 20 0 0 - Ditto New Royal Mail Steam.... Is. p. share. 100 0 0 60 0 0 , 2 Scottish Aus. Invest. 151. per cent. 10 0 all 1 % South Australian Land 71. per cent. 25 41 0 all Trust and Loan Ccmp. 7%., pr cent. 20 0 0 5 e 0 - Van Diemen's Land 103. 100 0 0 28 10 0 ii v 8 lc, GoT. 6 per et,Bd3. 6 per cent, % -7 OTICES .0 P' I'VE-NOY. (R•oin Pape/6) No ice is her.eby given that the persons whose W=lll- S and desctiptions are he, curufer wr tten in tend to apply ht the next Wesiminst r See i~as to be ta li-ved from all ,he they have in curred as tradf , rs upon cant, parry-cric-, popular f ruler prc,tige, and faction gernragy, theybeing entn ely hankyunt reputation, mud insolv,nt as regards - Lew enyagements to persons wi , h whrrn they have had d Notices of oppositi, , n must be eutred on the paper of the House of Commons. Dis;•aeli, : formerly a revolutionary epicmonver ; afterwards a pupil of the late Joseph Hume, Radical, deceased ; then a Tory-Liberal and vituperator of the late Daniel O'Connell, Radical, deceased ; then for some time a tide-waiter at the door of the late Sir Robert Peel, Bart., Liberal- Conservative, deceased ; then a vituperator of the said Robet t Peel, and a hanger-on at the stables of the late George Lord Beal inck, Conservative, de ceased ; also biographer of the said George Lord Bentinck ; then iu the service of the Earl of Derby as exceedingly odd man, and now of no occupation whatsoever; of Maidstone in 1837, of Shrewsbury in 1841, of Buckinghamshire in 1847 ; inventor of a successful specific for getting rid of proprietors' money, called the Represe-ntative ; also of a quack mixture called the Asian Myst:Ty, for the cute of social disorders ; also of a great variety of more or less adhesive epithets fastened on with a composi tion of gall and impertinence ; also of a new date for the Christian era ;. also of an equi able adjust ment of taxation, by taking off the territorial aris tocracy, and placin g it upon the Consolidated Fund ; also treaty between England and France for the more c mplete subjugation of Italy ; also of a great number of mares' nests, for which he re ceived no consideration or credit whatsoever ; does nut admit that he has ever-failed in business or anything else. Attorneys, Tho-iger and Napier. Gladatone, William Ewart : Formerly holder of a double first-class ticket for Oxford, which ex plains his habit of trying to go two ways at once ; then a doctor of civil law, which was a degree too . civil for him, and he has since laid the law down, with incivility ; afterwards a Conservative ; then a Peelite, and since a partner in a Manchester concern, which failed ; at various times in . business for himself as a splilter of hair, and also an upholder in the church furniture and orna ment line ; also a maker of budgets, in which he was successful, but his prospects were de stroyed by the war ; also as the representative of Nicholas Romanoff, of St. Petersburg, Turkish toweller, deceased ; also in partnership with Gor don itz Co., Aberdeen software merchants, bank rupt ; also a spinner of yarns of unprecedented length and tenuity ; and now of no occupation whatsoever except that which Nicholas the elder habitually provi•res for idle hands to. do ; of Newark in 1832, of Oxford in 1847 ; attributes his failure to the existing prejudice against non-natural views of things. Attorney, Rounded. Palmer. Cobden, Richard : formerly in successful business in cheap bread, in connection with which he ob tained an honourable position, and dealt in un • adorned eloquence ; then speculated unsuccessfully in crumpling Russia; then pattuer in a discovery that Russia ought not to be crumpled ; then in a land scheme for allotting to Russia waste lands in Moldavia and Wallachia ; then in busi ness as a pea,cemonger, and embarked in a scheme for paving the streets of St. Petersburg with English flags ; th-n. originator of a proposal for feeding the Bi ittsh Lion with humble pie ; then partner with both the above-named in solvents in a scheme for introdu&ng a new bottle holder of Derby manufacture; of Stockport in 1841, of the We=t Riding in 1847, and now of no place what- oever ; attributes his failure to the acknowledged fact that the entire nation, with the exception of a few of his own friends, is in a state of insanity. Attorney, Hadfield. Country Markets. EDINBUItt;tII HAY AND STRAW MARKET. APRIL 21. Supplies of all kinds these last six days again large. Oat straw, from 9s 0,1 to 12s Od per kemple of l 6 stones trop; wheat do., 7s Od to Os Od; barley do.. 7s Od. to 86 6d. Hay from is to is. 3d. EDINBURGH MEAL—APRIL 21. There wero in the market to day 12 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 28010 imperial, which sold at 39s and —a. DALKEITH MEAL MARKET—APRIL 20. There were in the market to-day 16 bags of oatmeal, 00 1 barleymeal, and 0 pot barley. Sales ready. Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs First. I Second. I Tbird• imperial Boxleymeal, per ditto --s Od I—s Od —s 0 , Peasemeal, per ditto Flour, new, per ditt0.......... . —s Od I—s Od Od Pot-barley, new, per ditto —s Od s Od —. Od X 6. d BRISTOL SUGAR-APRIL 22. The market is very shortly supplied, and, as a conga' queries, transactions are on a limited scale. Arr;val■ are, however, daily expected. There is no stock of rums in first hands, and no business therefi.re doing. DUBLIN, APRIL 21. White wheat, 31s 6d to 33s Gd ; red ditto, 303 Od to 32s Od - ditto now, —s ; barley, malting, 16s to 25s lid ; g rind' ing, 15s to 203 ; oats, old, 12s to 143 01; ditto, new, - -II Oil to 155 Oki ; oatmeal, I:3S 61 to 15s; here, new, 165 to IS I 01; raves , d, 303 Od to 32s Od per brl ; bakers' sour, iP 64 to 243 Od per owt ; luatau corn, 333 01 to 353 Od per 480 lb'. r. —A Pit L 22. the close of the market. Wallsend, Jk.o. s a. Framwcllgate l6 0 0 Eden Main l6 ~ Riddell nprimrose 1 1 ( 1 1 7. 1 Harton South Hetton 17 9 i tewart's is 0 ,Cassop 16 0 , !Hartlepool Hetton l6 6 ~ 80; sold, 42. Price. COAL MARK . Prices of Coals per ton a' s d Tanfield Moor Butos 13 3 It; o WaHamad, &c Acorn Close l6 0 Eden (4oslorth l4 9 Hough Hall l5 6 South liclloe 16 6', Tees Ships at market LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 22. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market was better today, and quotations have slightly advanced. The followin g were the sales :—Caletionians, 34a—North Eastern Berwick. 21 a --Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 3 9 1 London and North Western, 105 A Ditto, halves, Irv"' A dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 101i—Ditto, 91., l's• at 1 dig., to p. —South Eastern, 2 A —East Lancashire. 99- - Midlands, 82,- B—North British, 11 A—Grand Trunk of Canada, 10 .1 —Great Western of Canada, new, 2i p. -- Eastern Counties, 11.13.9. MANCHESTER APRIL 22. STOOK EXCHANGE. — The market today was doing A very quiet business, but prices were firmer. Sheffieldg? 39,f—Eastern Counties, 11; /—Leeds, 1011—CaledoPiae? 3n—South Eastern and Dover=, 22 9-16 --Midlands, 2 , 2 i --Great Weston of Canada, new, p. —Grand Trunko , 104—Lancashire Insurance, 3-16 p. —Chester Guarantee d ? 20/. shares, 141—District Bank, 11 / prem. BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 21. STOCK EXCHANGE. --The market was doing a veil fair busin e s s to-day, and prices remain quiet. Great Wes tern, 664 67—Ditto, Birmingham Guaranteed, 72 73 -- Birmingham. Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley, Si gji —South Staffords, 91. 6... 3d.- Birmingham Bank, 321 - Birmingham Old Union Mill, 1! ---- - FIRE IN LlVERPOOL.—Yesterday a fire broke o a t A i6 worksthe printing-ink orks of Messrs. Gilton and Co,, LeO"C street, Liverpo, 1, which in a few hours were comp o° gutted, though the adjoining property, consisting ao dwelling•bouses, was saved. Messr,?. Gilton and C o • ar insured in the Liverpool and London Office for 1,0001. BIRTHS. OF • SON. On the 21st inst , at 21, Lowndes-square, the wifo Of tb ° Rev. Charles J. D'Oyly. On the 21st inst., at Hampstead, the wife of r —difxrc Brydges Ilardisty, Esq. OF A DAUGHTER On the 21st. inst., at Christchurch-park, Ipswich, the of Charles Austin, Esq., of Brandeston Hall, Suffolk. On the 14th inst., at Dover, the wife of Colonel Flu wit ° MARRIED. m a rlee On the 21st inst., at St. James's, Paddingt li, `-"-,,- f Goring, Esq., eldest son of Sir Harry D Goring, 13 ' 11. '"th ° 0 Highden, county of Sussex, to Eliza, , second daughter a - Rev. Capel Molyneux. On the 22d inst., at T.inity Church, Marylebone, R e es to der Shaw, Esq., Heurietta- stree t, C aven dish-aqua: on, Susan, widow of John R an d e ll , E q., of Hadley-conire- and daughter of the late Mi c h ae l T urnr , Esq., of rutile , ' D FIE D. r.• o f 10, I , l l ° On the 21st inst., Thomas Workman Esa ness-road, Bayswater, and of Basingstoke, On the 20th inst., at Southsea, Major-Genera l - " rar ' C. 8., K.H. Iroleu ilig ' On th., 21st inst in Piccadilly,Miss ., Mary aged 33. „., A , the 11..nts, aged 04 ' On the 21st inst., at Powick, Worcestershire , Jeln" --- 'f the widow of the late Vice-Admiral Thomas James Malin„ Elms, °- Elms, Abberley, in the same county. p ort' On the 21st just., Mr. Th omas Foord,. of 45, Gr eat land-street, Marylebone, aged 80. Ed' On the 20th List , at Freemantle Lodge, Millbrooli, , mund Cooper, Es . of E aged 72. 'v ied 51. On the 20th at . inst., Brlghton, Mrs. M. Bailey. ' ly e stee r q. , East street Brewery, Southanirt°' On the 15th inst., at Tunbridgc-wells, Mr. John Sheppard, of the Stock Exchange, aged 34. ____—...-------- n''----- ONDON : hinted and Publighad by ISIUItD O of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tice Sun Oi 112, Strand, in the Pre cinct of the Savoy, in the of Middlesex, Thursday, Arril 23, 1537. eounv/ s 4 ,,E!} 51 Os 17s 100. 7s. Od. Paid. 106!4