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LAW IiNTELLIG-ENCE.—Nov. 10. I EQUITY COURTS. (Before the Lord Chancellor and the Lords Justices.) )lENRY V. THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COlll - GREAT NORTHERN PREFERENCE SITAREHOLDERS. This appeal from the decision of Vice-Chancellor Wcod, by which he held that the preference share holders of the Great Northern Railway Company were entitled to their dividends irrespective of an act of parliament authorising the payment of the losses caused by the frauds of Leopold Redpath, was resumed. The Attorney-General, for the defendants, urged whereas the ordinary share capital of the company was something over 4,000,0001., the preference share capital was above 3,000,000 1 . ; and the ques tion was whether so large a portion of the share holders should not contribute to the reparation of that which was a misfortune common to the whole company. The whole difficulty had arisen from a confusion in the use of the terms "dividend" and " interest." The construction he put on the Acts of Parliament by which the company was governed was, that the guarantee to preference share holders was limited to a priority of those share holders, and to the rate and amount of the divi dend; but they left the existence of profits contin gent and unsecured. The preference shareholders were therefore left to the chance of their being any profits in common with the ordinary shareholders. The dividend was determinable by the length of time for which it was declared. It was the aliquot part of the profits of each half-year, to a share of which all the shareholders were entitled. It was s question whether or not the guarantee was satis fied by the payment of each half-yearly dividend, and whether the profits of 1856 were applicable to ;he fulfilment of the guarantee of 1857. He would contend that the guarantee was sati.fied by the payment of each dividend. In none of the Acts of Parliament was anything more provided than that there should be a priority of payment to the pre ference shareholders out of the profits of the com pany, if there were any profits. By the Act of last session the preference shareholders could not, under the circumstances, be entitled to receive any thing out of the profits from January in this year ; they could not have received any dividend irrespec tive of that act, and its provisions were prospective, and not retrospective. The 243,923/. 5s Bd., which were the half-year's profits of the company, were, in fact, at the time of the passing of that act, no body's money ; for, owing to the quantity of forged stock which had been issued, it was not possible to say who was entitled to that money. The act was intended to apply to that sum; it disposed of it absolutely, and it was the plain meaning of the act that the common loss which had been sus tained by the company in consequence of these frauds should be borne by all the shareholders in proportion to their respective interests. The pre ference shareholders were not creditors, but part ners, of the company, and were, therefore, liable to bear a due share of its losses and. misfortunes. Without the authority of this act no dividend could have been declared, and the act gave the preference shareholders no rights previous to the beginning of the present year. The 3d section of the act was a disposition by Parliament of the 243,923/. ss. Bd. which the company had in hand, and it was bind ing on all parties interested in it. The legislature was aware that that sum was quite sufficient to meet all the claims of the preference shareholders, and yet by the act in question they directed it to be applied to a totally different object. [n the face of that act, how could the preference shareholders base their rights on this and the former Acts of Parliament 7 Whatever might be the construction of the act of August last, with reference to the future, it was certain that with respect to the half year's dividend from July to December, 1856, the claims of the preference shareholders were wholly taken away by that act. Lord Justice Knight Bruce—lt seems to me that the remedy in this case is worse than the disease. The Act of Parliament appears to we to be no more nor less than a dreadful thing, construe it which way you may, if construed it can be. .The Attorney-General—The question Lefore the court was simply whether they could restrain the directors of the company from declaring a divi dend, unless they were prepared to pay the pre ference shareholders the whole twelve months' dividend divisible from Ist July, 1856. It was im possible that they could claim that dividend, and yet be entitled to the benefits provided by the 3d section of the act of last session. If the claims of the preference sharaholders were allowed it would bs, in fact, treating them as creditors, and the whole of the loss arising from the frauds which had been committed would have to he borne by the ordinary shareholders. He would however contend that it was impossible, looking to the whole facts of the case, that such a decision could be come to, or that the claims of preference shareholders on the dividend for the half-year ending Dec. 1, 1856, could be allowed ; nor could it be held that the loss which had been incurred was not provided for and satisfied by the provisions of the act of the present year. Mr. Rolt and Mr. Denison followed, but the lat ter learned gentleman had not concluded when the court rose. (Before the Master of the Rolls.) SWINFEN V. SWINFEN". On the conclusion of the arguments of the Attor ney-General, Mr. Palmer, and Mr. Hobhouse, who appeared for the plaintiff, Capt. Swinfen, in support of the compromise effected on the trial of the issue, his Honour cane judgment without hearing the other side. He said that he had come to the con clusion that the compromise was not binding on Mrs. Patience Swinfen, and that there must be a new trial. The question of principle resolvedit self into this, whether an attorney or solicitor is at liberty to compromise a suit without express au thority for the purpose. It had been argued on two grounds—one on principle, the other founded on the practice of the court. His Honour said that as a matter of principle he could not understand how it could be contended. The principle of the doctrine of principal and agent was that the agent has full authority to do all which falls within the im plied scope of his authority. But an attorney is em ployed to conduct a suit, and I think it clear that the effecting of a compromise is no part of the con duct of a suit. There is, therefore, no general im plied authority to support a compromise by an attorney. If there is, what is its extent ? Does an authority to recover property by legal proceed ings extend to empower the attorney to sell the subject -matter of the suit ! Can he sell to a stranger? And, if not, can he sell to the other side ? And what is a compromise but a sale to the other side ? Could Mr. Simpson have said to a stranger, "You secure us an annuity of 1,000/. and aou shall have the benefit of this suit if we succeed ?" And if he obviously had no authority to bind his client by such an arrangement with a stranger, how could he do so by a similar arrangement with the defendant 1 Unless, therefore, it could be shown to be necessary for the due administration of jus tiee, the authority of the attorney could not extend to enable him to dispose of the subject -matter of the suit. The authorities cited appear to me to support this view, and, in particular, I concur fully in the observation of Lord Langdale, that it would be impossible to carry on the business of the court, unless reliance could be placed on the statements of solicitors and counsel. It is of the utmost impor tance in this court, which deals daily with consents to a very large extent, and the court is in the habit of making consent orders not only so as to affect adults, but married women and infants also. But the practice in these respects throws groat light oa the general principle. The court will not allow any one to consent for a married woman, but takes her consent personally in court. In the case of infants it only deals with their pro perty by consent after an inquiry whether the arrangement is beneficial for them. When elm-l ed says, "I consent," the court assumes that counsel has been so instructed by a solicitor, duly autherisel fir the purpose. If the client could be bound without having given authority it w 0.1.1 be the duty of the court to make an inquiry into 'the circumAances of each cas°, slid to ascertain 'whether authority had b crt givee. So far, th,ne fore, from the principle contended for befnz nacessary for the administration of justice, it would be productive of the greatest inconvenience. His Honour then discussedthe evidec cc which had been read, and stated that there was not in his opini.,n enough to show that amount of acqui-sc snce the part of Mr.+. Swinfe!i by which the plaintiff's p ra f t , counsel lr-td. argued th a t s h e was eutol resisting the compromise. A. d - cree was arorclitr,,Ldray made dismissing the bill for specific prsrformatic a nd directing a new trial, Mrs. Swinfen allowed to remain in pos?.estion of till property oil giving security to ace .)unt for the rents. (Before Vice-Chancellor Wood.) HANSON V. REECE. This was a question of Wm. The facts were slice,ly these. A cheque was placed in the hands of a solicitor, it being ztgrced in writing that it should be made applicable to what might be n - covered by another party in an action, and the residue to the costs. The client obtained a verdict, subject to a reference. The award was in favour of the client. He became bankrupt, and on taking the accounts between him and the defendant in the action, the latter, it appeared, was entitled to a balance. The case was argnod by Mr. Cairn , Mr. Eddie, and Mr. C. Barber. The Vice-Chancellor decided in favour of the solicitor's lien on the amount of the cheque for the costs of the action COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings in Banco before Lord Campbell, and Justices Coleridge, Wightman, and Erle.) THE GRAND JURY.-OBSCENE P CBLLICATIO NS. Justice Coleridge, in addressing the grand jury, who are summoned to this court every term in accordance with immemorial custom, said, after a few preliminary observations, that it occurred to him to say a few words with regard to an offence to which public attention had been recently drawn, an offence to his mind of great magnitude, and producing mischievous consequences—he meant the publication of obscene books, prints, and pictures, which every one must be aware tended very much to the corruption of minds, especially of young persons. In the course of last session the noble and learned lord who presided in this court (Lord Campbell) introduced a bill to the Howe of Lords for facilitating the punishment of persons who were engaged in this wicked and most nefarious trade, and if possible for putting it down. After some opposition, the bill had happily been passed into law. Its object was rather to give greater power to the magistrates—to put down the sale of such publications by the power of search and seizure, and then by the destruction of the articles—than to create any new offence, or alter the mode of punish ment. When the bill was under discussion in the House of Lords, it was said by a high authority that the common law of the country was strong enough for that purpose. He did not mean to enter into that controversy now, but every person passing throngh certain streets in London must know that thecomnion law did not prevent the existence of this evil, and that the trade was carried on to a most mischievous extent in London. It was not the business of a judge to exaggerate mat ters beyond the truth, but he thought it was hardly possible to exaggerate the mischief of a thing of this kind. They had all been young, and they retained recollections of what passed at that time in their bosoms ; and looking into their own hearts they could not doubt that if publications of this nature had the misfortune to fall in the way of the young they were calculated to do harm ; and, unhappily for the depravity of human nature, such impressions were retained longer than matters more worthy of being treasured up in the mind. He, for one, thought the noble and learned lord had done a great service to his country by introducing thebill, and ho hoped it would be acted upon with good effect. He was led into this train of remarks te cause sometimes persons who carried on this busi ness were disposed to encourage and defend it by resorting to a mischievous kind of ingenuity. They thought they could turn the tables upon the public by instituting prosecutions with regard to other works and publications, under the colourable pre tence that they were of the class indicated by the legislature, although there was no foundation for such a charge. It was not uncommonly said that this or that picture of some great artist—this or that statue, this or that poem—might properly form the subject of a prosecution, being of a loose, perni cious, or voluptuous character ; and it was very easy for ingenious persons to deceive themselves, and perhaps others, by such a tone of argument ; but common sense ilipplied an answer. No doubt the publication of a picture or a statue, if impro perly treated by mischievous ait, would have a bad tendency, but if treated merely in the course of high art and in a natural dealing with the subject, it would have uo such tendency. A corrupt mind bringing its own corruption to a picture, statue, or poem, might perhaps make it worse, but an honest and chaste mind looked at it without injury, and received from the contemplation of it a high, pure, and instructive pleasure. Take a familiar illustra tion. Every oue must have read Milton's descrip tion of Eve soon after her birtb, contemplating her person at the fountain. It was well known that a modern sculptor, taking his idea from that beauti ful description, had made a statue of Eve at the fountain, which was familiar to the eye by casts in shops and elsewhere. Who would sup pose for a single moment that the author of "Para dise Lost" or Mr. Badly, the sculptor, believed that in what he did he was producing anything which would have a bad effect upon morals, and to prosecute " Paradise Lost " because it contained those beautiful lines, would be absurd. To repre sent Eve at the fountain as dressed would be an im propriety, and it would not only be opposed to the law of the country, but an insult to common sense, to present a bill to the g rand jury on any such mat ter. On the other hand , common sense pointed out that the object of publications like those to be found in Holywell-straet was to excite depraved passions, and when that was the case the parties selling them ought to be brought before a tribunal for punish ment. His object in making these observations was that it was possible bills of the kind he had referred to would be laid b .fore them, and that this court would be insulted by trials with respect to matters of high art and high literature. It was possible that advantage would be taken of the statute to bring such matters under their consideration, and if they did come before them, instead of looking to an isolated passage or picture, they would look to the book itself' and see whether the general object of it was of the kind represented in tee indictment. If it was not, they would throw out the bill and not stiffer the case to come before a court of justice. Take any medical or surgical book; they all knew that author, in dealing with his subjeet, must tell things for the sake of instruction. A person of impure mind might take up the book and dwell on a particular passage, and it might do him some harm, but it would be most absurd and mischiev ous to consider the aut'ior a criminal because he had introduced matter of that description for the pur pose of instructioh in a book on science. They all knew that in the book of all books—the best book, God'sgift to man—there were stories such as Joseph and Potipher's wife, which to au impure mind might be perverted to its own pollution ; but this particular story was not there for that purpose, it came there by way of history and instruction. He mentioned these familiar and striking instances in order to point to their mind the broad and grate distinction which existed between the two cases. Therefore he only suggested, by way of caution, in the event of anything of that kind coming before them, that it would be their duty to throw out any , bill which was presented purely for a mali cious purpose, and re ally and truly with the object of bringing the law into discredit. The learned judge then remitted the grand jury to the discharge of their functions. The court was occupied during the whole day with the special paper, but none of the cases argued presented any feature of public interest. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. (Sittings in Banco before Mr. Jusitce Williams.) The Court only sat this morning to hear motions and almost immediately afterwards adjourned, their lordships having to sit in the Court of Error. EXCHEQUER CHAMBER. Their lordships sat hi the Court of Exchequer, and there were therefore no cases in banco to-day. The learned judges present were the Lord Ct►ief Baron, Mr. Justice Williams, Mr. Baron `Vat-on, Mr. Baron Martin, Mr. Justice Willes, Mr. Baron Bramwell, and Mr. Baron Channell. LISTON V. LEATIIER. This was a special case in error from the Court of Queen's bench, and had been partly argued. The question was, whether the defendant had in fringed the patent of the plaintiff, and was wholly without public interest. Mr. Chambers, Q.C., was for the defendant in error ; and Sir F. Thesigcr, Mr. Q.C., and Lush, Q.C., appeared for the plaintiff. CONSISTORY COURT. (Before Dr. Lushington.) The Court was occupied all morning in disposing of questions arising out of the admission of a libel in a case of divorce. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. --Nov. 10. MANSION-HOUSE. —John Grace Leveridge, a ve:y regpeAahle-looking young man, clerk, to Mr. W. Oldham, a wine ruProliant iu Londonstreet, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with embezzling the moneys of his employer. Mr. Le jun., appe,lred for the prosecution, and Mr. Hobltr for the prisoner. The prosecutor, having been sworn, said—The prsoner, who was in my service as clerk, was au thorised to receive money on my account, and it was his duty to pay it into my bankers. On the of Novo-alb <r in t. I gave him a cheque for 311. 12s. 2d. to pay the du y upon a butt of wine. The eietluo has ben returned to tile by my bankers as paid. The rrisoner has ab3ented himself front my counting-licu ;to since Siturviay last, and suspecting that he lie been embazzling my money I yester dAy broke open his disk. I have ascertamed at the Custom house that the butt of wine has not been removed, and the duty has not been paid. This is only one out of a great many charges that I have to bring against, the prisoner, and I ask for a re mind to enable me to complete it. Mr. lialer applied that his client might Le admitted T iteLo to rd b :N z i ti a l y . or refused the applied prisoner wa s remanded. Was His Lordship tion, and the engaged for several hours in hearing charges against persons, of picking pocket s an d of attempted s treet principally b robbery oys, during the procession on the preceding day The prisoners were sentenced t o periods of ina.prison ment with hard labour rangi ng front 21. days to two months. The Lord Mayor thankfully mknowledged the U IA) IN I recuipz . of a ehegir.:. for 5 guineas from the . \ , V u.rs Lip ful Company of Scriveners, as a donation to the poor-box-. GunDraLL.—There were several eases of picking pockets, arising out of the proceedings of Lord Mayor's day, some of which were disposed of summarily by short terms of imprisonment ; and one in which a prisoner named Eager was charged with stealing a gentleman's watch from his person; was coLnmitted for trial, there having been a former conviction against him. MARYLEBONE. Henry Harris, aged 19, was placed at the bar on remand, charged with having on the 29th of Sep tember stabbed a man named George Stake, living at 38, Adam-street west, Marylebone. It apps aced on the morning of the day alluded to, prosecutor, while walking along the Edgware-read., asked the prisoner what o'clock it was, when instead of giving the required information, he made use of a most vulgar expression, and on his being remonstrated with for so doing he drew forth a knife with which he inflicted several wounds upon various parts of prosecutor's perAon ; he (prosecutor) was removed to St. Mary's Hospital, and had been under medi cal treatment ever since, owing to tue serious in juries which he had received. The prisoner was fully committed to take his trial at the next sessions of the Cenral Criminal Court for " cutting and wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm." CLERKENWELL. V if' A gentlemanly dressed man, about 50 years of age, with a profusion of hair about his face, who gave the name of John Hubert Heath, .describing himself as a gentleman residing at Wood-green, Tottenham, was charged with being drunk, dis orderly, and creating a dißturbance in a railway carnage on the Great Northern Railway, and, further, with interfering with the officers of the railway at the Hornsey station. Mr. Thomas Williams, the superintendent of the company's line, attended to watch the case. When one of the passenger trains was proceed ing along between Holloway awl Hornsey the guards and pissengers were much alarmed at hear ing loud screams of "Murder !" and "Police !" proceeding from one of the carriages. As soon as possible the train was brought to a standstill, and the noise and scrums continuing the passengers all left their carriages, and it being dark, and a train nearly due, much danger was incurred. When Clayer, the guard, went to the carriage from which the noises were proceeding he found the defendant, who was very drunk and much excited, fighting with the other passengers. He asked him to leave the carriage quietly, but he refused, and it was with the greatest difficulty that he could get him out and put him in the break with himself. The defendant was very noisy, and when the train reached the Hornsey station he was put out, and although Mr. Crosby, the stationmaster, asked him several times to go away qui e tly h e would not do so, but made such a noise and confusion that business was for some time brought to a standstill. Alto gether the train was delayed two or three minutes, which was a very serious affair. The byelaws of the company were produced by Mr. Williams, and one of them ran as follows : "Any person found in a carriage or station in a state of intoxication, or committing any nuisance or otherwise wilfully interfering with the comfort of other passengers is hereby subjected to a penalty not exceeding 405., and shall immeiiate'y, or at the first opportunity, be re moved from the company's premises." The defendant, in reply to the charge, said he was very sorry for what he bad done. The fact was, he was a little the worse for liquor, and when he and his wife got into the carriage a person was smoking, and, having asked him to desist, and he refthing, ho certainly did knock the pipe out of his mouth, which was the cause of the disturbance. When he got out at the Horusey station he was very much excited, but having been !incarcerated the whole night, he hoped the magistrate would consider that, with an apology, a sufficient punish ment. Mr. Corrie, having looked over the byelaws of the company, fined the defendant the full penalty of 405., or in default of payment one month in the House of Correction. Thomas Harding, aged 23, residing at 28, Sydney-street, St. Luke's, a jeweller, was charged with stealing about 6 dwt. of gold filings of the value of 13s. 6d., tbia property of Mr. W. W. Stirling, jeweller, of 58, Amwell-street, Clerken well. The prosecutor, having for some time past been losing a quantity of property, kept a sharp look out, and suspecting the prisoner, watched him, and found the abovenamed property in his possession as he was leaving his employment. The prisoner, who did not. deny the charge, was sent to the House of Correction for two months. THAMES.—A. seaman, who gave the name of Charles Yates, entered the witness-box and said he particularly wished to make a statement of the cruelty exercised towards him on board an American ship. Mr. Selfe—At sea ? The applicant—Yes, sir, on a voyage from New York to London. Mr. Selfe said that he had no jurisdiction over offences committed on board American ships at sea, and if English seamen would place themselves out of the protection of their own flag the law of this country would not apply to them. If the ap plicant had been struck in a British port he could obtain redress here. The applicant said he had been struck and very shamefully used on board an American ship at Liverpool. Mr. Selfe . said he had no jurisdiction over offen cos committed at Liverpool, whether they were on board English or American ships. The applicant ought to have waited on Mr. Mansfield, the sti pendiary magistrate at Liverpool, who would have listened to his statement, and, if necessary, granted a summons or warrant. He had repeatedly to listen to statements of illusage on board American ships on the high seas, and he believed that great tyranny bad been too often practised on board the vessels of that country, both to American and other seamen of all nations. The applicant said that he wished to caution his countrymen against joining the American ships, for the law of this country, it seemed, had no juris diction over them if offences were committed on the high seas, and it was impossible to obtain any re dress if the party injured were in any port of the United States. He wished the magistrate to read a statement he had received on board the American ship Orient, a New York packet ship, on her voyage from New York to Liverpool. Mr. Selfe said he really piad no time to do so, and the seaman, who said he was a native of Eng land, handed a written statement to our reporter. It was to the following effect "On the 29th of Sept. I shipped on board the Orient, after being robbed by the shipping master of my advance. Tile crimps in New York have a practice of getting the ad vances into their own hands and not giving the sailors whom they ship a copper of it. Soon after I got on hoard the first act of cruelty was committed on a Dutchman for some trifling offence. Mr. Taylor, the third mate, knocked him down on the deck like a bullock, then ' booted' him, as it is termed--that is, he kicked him about the body, the face, nose, and eyes, so that th e s ki n was comp l etely knocked ff the man's face, and on the following day he could not see out of his eyes, and the deck where he was lying was covered with blood. A few days after that, while at sea, the third mate caught about half-a-dozen of us together about 6 o'clock in the evening, and out our hair short close off, and we occasionally got a blow or two in the course of the night. A day or two after that I was coming from the main hatchway, and the third mate took a strap, at least 2f inches thick, and gave me so severe a cut with it across my back and chest that I could not draw my breath or move for some time • I reasoned with him the next clay on his cruelty, and he only acted the worse, fur on every succeeding day he either kicked, knocked, cr cut us about with hand spikes, hammers, his fists, ropes, o • anything be could lay his hands on. One day the thir t mate struck four or five of us with a piece of wood as thick and as lorg as a policeman's staff. He struck us on our heads. Chartds EVAIIR, one of the men who was struck, bled like a pig. He caused a large nail to be driven in the seat of the water closet, and made us draw it out with our teeth under threat of some kind of torture if we refused. On two or three occasions, whoa shortening sail, aed while coming efl the yards, the third mate stoetrin the quarter of the yard and kicked us as wo came clown the rigging. Charles Evans was all but gone overboard. I managed to escape that time by catching a rope and swinging myself into the rigiug : bat he saw me, and cried out, ' You I'll give it you when you come down and be was as good as his word, for he knocked mo down like a bullock, then kicked me in the face and eyes; in fact, all the time I was in the ship, I was never without a black eye or a bruised face. Ono day the second mate ordered me to get a broom, and because I could not find one he took a bee out of another man's hand and struck me with it across the area four or five times, causing me to drag my arm, and I c not use it until some days after I left the ship. The third mate was going to repeat his tyranny, when a gentleman passenger looked at him and interfered, and I got out of his way. The thirl mate used to say be should take a de light in 1 noc'iieg out our brains, kick us ovelb ),rd, or put us to Heine death or other. Tue boatswain and two of the crew, named Devine and Dungaree !Jack, .ecru as great tyrants as the second mate, for they would omieL the same cruelties. Not many nights before we got into L ver pool these barbarians caused a noose to be made in o le of the ropes from the mainmast, and made us p it our legs in the noose, and the ship being on a wind, it, had a lurch. They made us crawl up to windward, they pulling the end of the noose at the same time ; then when as close II e into the ship's side as we could get, they would let us go, which caused us to swing round and round like a cat, and when we stopped our heads, they would corns in contact, and inflict tremendous blows, which took our senses away for some time. Other torturing ope rations were practised, which would take me too long to describe. On the night we came into the Liver- pool docks the boatswain, without any cause whatever, took up a piece of wood or some instrument, and com menced striking four or five of us over the heal. When he came to me ho gave me aviolent blow across my mouth, which laid both my lips open, and at the same time made NES AY E El NING ' tlke c:4%) you z11 , :1 u'it leave the ship without a broken head.' " CiIARLES YATES, ono of the crew from New York to Liverpool." SOUTHWARK.—Wm. Dix, a Sheffield manu facturer of Kent-street, was charged with striking his wife on the head with a poker, and otherwise assaulting her. Mr. Burcham told him that there could be no dcubt that he had continually illused his wife since their marriage, and whatever her temper might be he had no right to strike her with the poker. He must be imprisoned for two months with hard la bour, and at the expiration of that time find bail for six months. WANDSWORTH.—H. Z. Jervis—who, it will be remembered, represented that he was the son of Sir John Jervis, and brother-in-law to the Turkish Ambassador, was brought up on remand before Mr. Ingham, charged with obtaining money from Mrs. Sarah Parker, who is upwards of 70 years of age, and alleged to be insane by false representations. On this occasion it was stated in court that the prisoner was very well known, and had not taken up his certificate as solicitor for some years. He appe fired much better in health, and stood the whole time be was in the dock. The prisoner, upon being brought into the court, wished for the case to be adjourned for the attend ape.) of his solicitor, who had all his papers, and who understood he was remanded until Wednes day, anti not Tuesday. Mr. Taylor, the chief clerk, said it was distinctly understood that Tuesday was the time for the re examina'ion. The solicitor whom the prisoner had employed was iu the court at the time and heard the day appointed. Payne, the summoning officer, said, Wednesday was first mentioned, but in consequence of th e witness (Mrs. Houghton) not being able to leave the Gin cer Hospital, where she was an inmate, upon a Wednesday, the case was adjourned until Tuesday. Mr. Ingham decided upon hearing the fresh evi dence, and told the prisoner that it would not pre vent turn from having the witnesses cross-examined on another day. The prisoner hoped it would be no longer than to morrow (this day), as he wished to obtain his liberty. Mrs. M. A. Grist, a married woman was then called, and stated that she was niece to Mrs. Parker and now resided at No. 45, London-road. She was living with her aunt in Sept. last. She remembered opening the door to the prisoner on a Tuesday night in that month. He addressed Mrs. Parker as " My dear madam," and asked her if she had made her will. Her aunt replied in the negative, and he told her that she had better snake her will as her family would take all the property. Witness told him distinctly that her aunt had no property, nor had she ever had a child. The prisoner replied that it was false, and asserted that there was plenty of property. He accused witness of being in league with her friends to rob her aunt, and that she had drawn large sums from the Bank. She told him not to have anything to do with her aunt for it would be no better than swindling. He then told witness that he would punish her for her insolence. The next day her aunt accused her of having given her poison, and also of robbing her. Witness was with her aunt for five weeks to take care of her, and she at first treated her very kindly, but after the pri soner a iid witness was a dangerous person she quite altered in her behaviour. She always considered her aunt to be deranged. Mr. S. Neagus, the brother of Mrs. Parker, re siding at Bury St. Edmunds, said, his sister was the widow of a stockbroker, and her only income was 401. per annum from the funds of the Stock Exchange. His sister had the lease of a house in Sloane-street, but that had expired some time. Witness had never seen the prisoner until that morning i❑ court. She never came to Bury St. Ed munds. His sister never had any family to his knowledge. She had been deranged for years, and it was above 40 years ago that she threw herself from a bedroom window. • Mr. Ingham asked the prisoner if he had any questions to put to the witnesses ? The prisoner said not at present, but he hoped they would ba there again for his solicitor to exa mine them. Mr. Ingham then said he would remand the pri soner until to-morrow (this day), and he would write to the matron of th e C ancer ospital to allow Mrs. Houghton to attend. The prisoner then asked for his papers to be re stored to him, in order that he might instruct his solicitor, but Mr. Ingham refused until they had been tho roughly examined to see if any of them bore upon the case. The prisoner was then removed, and his worship intimated his intention of applying to the Law So ciety in Chancery-lane as to whether they would prosecute the accused. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL AUTUMN MEETING. TuEs➢AY. Handicap Hurdle Race of 5 soya each, with 30 added. Two miles, over six flights of hurdles. 11 subs. Mr. Barber's Miss Harkaway, 4 yrs, 9st 61b...(Green) 1 Mr. Harvey's Chester, 3 yrs, 7st 10ib (C. L ea k e ) 2 Mr. T. James's Cenral, aged, 9st 41a... (Mr. Game) 2 Antique, Reveillee, and Theodine also ran. Betting-7 to 4 agst Miss Harkaway, 3to 1 apt Theo dine, and 6to 1 agat any other. Won by four lengths ; five lengths betweee the second and third ; Theodine was pulled up at the distance, and did not pass the post. The All-Aged Se ling Stakes of 5 soya each, with 30 added. T.Y.C. 12 subs. Mr, Peter's Leukothea, 2 yrs, sst 131 b (40/.)...(Little) 1 Mr. Bates's Jane, 3 yrs, 7st 2lb (201.).., (Bray) 2 Mr. Daley's St. Dunstan,4yrs, 7st 111b(20/.) (Plumb) 3 The following also ran :—Thistledown' Richmond Hill, Princess of Orange, Hark Forward, bliss Allen, fby Mentor—Psyche, Lady Ann, The Flea, and Flo rence (late Agra). Betting-5 to 1 each agst Florenee and Thistledown, 6 to 1 each agat Jane and Princess of Orange, 7 to 1 agst St. Dunstan. Won by a neck, a head between the second and third; Lady Aun was fourth ; about two lengths from St. Dunstan, Thistledown was fifth, and Psyche filly sixth, the others well up. The winner was bought in for 75 guineas. The Knowsley Nursery Handicap Stakes of 5 soya each, 2 ft, with 301. added ; the second to receive 20 sous out of the stakes ; winners alter the publication of the weights 51b extra. T.Y.C. 32 subs. Mr. J. Merry's Baroness filly, 64 7ib .., (Plumb) 1 Mr. Jackson's Tunstall Maid, 7st 31b (Bullock) 2 Mr. Barber's King William, Get 51b........ (ruck) 3 Tee following also ran :—Meta, Sally, Satinstono, Capt. Wedderburn, Wild Honey, Adventurer, Nelly, i 1 Ellen the Fair. Betting —5 to 2 agst Tunstall Maid, 5 to 1 agst King William, and 6 to 1 each agst Baroness filly, Wild Honey, and Captain Wedderburn. The Baroness filly got off in front, made all the running, and won by half a length ; King William was beaten two lengths from Tunstall Maid ; Wild Honey was fourtb, about as far from King William ; Adventurer was fifth, Captain Wedderourn sixth, and Satinstoue seventh ; Meta and Sally were the last twc. The Croxteth Welter Cup (in specie) of 30 soya, added to a handicap sweepstakes of soya each; gentlemen riders ; jockeys Sib extra ; the second to save his stake. One mile and a half. 11 subs. Captain Connell'e Little Torn, aged, list 21b (Owner) 1 Lord de Mauley's Cotswold, 4 yrs, lOst 10,6 (Captain Little) 2 Mr. T. Dawson's Little Cob, 3 yrs, get 51b (inc Sib ex) (Addcroft) 0 and 7to 2 against Little Tom. Won.by a bead ; Little Betting-11 to 8 on Citawold, 3 to 1 agst Little Cob, Cob was pulled np, and did not pass the post. The Juvenile Stakes of 5 sous each, with 25 acMerl, fur 2-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 7lb ; fillies and geldings, Bet 41b ; allowances and penalties. T.Y.C. 8 "b 4• Mr. Parker's Martha Lynn filly, Set 41b (car B.t Gil) (Wells) 1 Mr. Barber's King William Bet ............ —....(Dales) 2 Mr. J. Oeborne'e Incense colt, Sat 71b (Cballon er ) 3 Mr. T. Dawson's British Flag, Sat 41b .....(Aldcroft) 4 Betting-6 to 4 a gs t Ki ng Willi a m, 2to 1 a4st Martha Lynn filly, an d 5 to 2 agst B r iti s h Flaz. Won by a head ; a l eng th b etween the secon d and third ; bad fourth, Tr..e Aintree Plat e (H an di cap) o f 5 sove each, with 25 added, for all ages. One mile. 29 subs. Mr. W. Saunders' Master Baot, 3 yrs, Get 41b (Plumb) 1 Mr. Andrews' The Martlet, 4 y r s, 7st (Little) 2 Mr. Grim ly's Leukntliea, 2 yrs, 4et 10Ib (Grilosbaw) 3 f ,11 ,wing a l so ran :—Bourgeois, Uz ilia, Do Giukel, and Little Cab. Won by t ire° lengths ; bad third. LATEST LIVERPOOL CUP BErrrNe. S to 1 agat Special License 11 to 2 agst Underhand 7 o 1 agst St. Giles 7 to 1 agst Wardermarske (offered) 10) to 8 agst Cotswold (off.rod) , 1 was taken about Cotswold before his race. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TIIKSDAY. LIVIIIIPOOL AUTUMN CUP• 9 to 2 :,gst Underhand (taken) 7 to 1 ag,t Wardelmarske (taken) 7 to 1 agst Special License (taken) 7 to 1 a2.lt St, Wei (taken) 16 to 1 aggt Totrlamvut (taken) 20 to 1 agit Sir ifumphrey (taken) 20 to 1 a,g4 Victoria (taken) 20 to 1 agßt El Hakirn (taken) 20 to 1 agst Queen Bess (taken) PREACHING AND PRACTIC3.—A worthy clergyman in this city, folhwiog thopractice of his ministerial brethren, recently preached a very earigist discourse on the hard times, enforcing the duty of retrenchment and economy. Immediately after church the congregation took him aL his word by holding a tn eo tii ia , at which his salary was oat down from 1,000 d o l e, to 600 dols.—Ncw York Post. d~ NA VIAL AND MI E 311 r, 11, I its RY _INTELLIGENCE. The officers and men belonging to the 3d Bat talion of the 60th Rifles, who have been for some time held in readiness to embark for India, re ceived an order yesterday to proceed from Cha,tliam garrison and embark at Gravesend on board the In domitable for Madras. Orders have been received at the Provisional Battalions, Chatham, for the reinforcements for the 23d (Welsh Fusiliers) 35th, 53d, Gist, 84tb, and 90th (Light infantry) Regiments to ba held in readiness to embark at Gravesend to-morrow on board the George Mar,hall for Calcutta. The whole of the officers and troops belonging to the Chatham division of Royal Marine Light In fantry at present at head-quarters were as,:embled in the barrack-square on Monday for the purpose of witnessing the presentation of a silver medal, to gether with an annuity of 101., awarded by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to Sergeant William Jefferies, Royal Marines, for long service and meritorious conduct. • Yesterday morning a district court-martial as sembled at Chatham garrison, under the presi• dency of Lieut.-Col. R. J. Royal Marines, for the trial of 10 prisoners be!ouging, to the following corps for various offences :-18th Royal Irish, 19th and 20th Foot, 90th Light In fantry, 98th Regiment, Royal Engineers, Royal Artillery, Royal Marine Light Infantry, and the Hon. East India Company's service. The trials will probably last several days. James Lewis, Acting-Barrack Sergeant of the Royal Marines at Woolwich, was yesterday morn ing presented, on full parade, by Lieut.-Col. Hop kins with a medal (in addition to an annuity of 100 as a reward for meritorious conduct and long services. The 68th Regiment at Portsmouth are preparing to ombark in the steamship Australasian about the 15th inst. for India. The ship New Great Britain arrived at Spithead on Monday evening trona London for Hong Kong, hav'ng been on shore under Dunnose during a thick fog at 10 45 p.m. the previous day. She has appar ently sustained very littie damage. The auxiliary screw transport Indomitable, Cap tain Katt, sailed yesterday from Woolwich, having embarked 6 officers and 110 gunners of the Royal Artillery, 1 officer and 3 privates of the 44th Foot, 10 men of the 60th Rifles, and 9 of the 66th Foot. At Gravesend she received 6 (Ulcers andllB6gunners of Capt. Desborough's company of the Royal Artil lery, 1 officer and 16 men of the 12th Lancers, and 2 officers and 26 men of the 60th Rifles, making a total of 15 officers and 360 rank and file. She sailed direct for Madras. From the London Gazette of Last Night THE PRINCE OF WALES'S COUNCIL CHAMBERS, Buckingham-gate, St. James's-park, Nov. 7. The 1.131110 i of those who have been nominated by the Council of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to servo the (ace of Sheriff of the county of Cornwall William David Horudon, of Pencrebar, Esq. John Francis Buller, of Morval, Esq. John Tieinayne, of Heligan, Esq. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITI.MALL, Nov. 10. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a dispatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, inclesing copy of a French Lnporial Decre,, fixing as follows the import duties upon the under-mentioned articles : - Yellow sln French ships-1 fr. er Wax or brown In Forei gn „ —(3 p 100 French shins-2 White -• ( kilos. In Foreign „ Pickled fish (poissons marine,) imported into Corsica, will pay the same duty as is imported into France. Detached pieces of machinery and mechanism of steel, will pay 150 francs per 100 kilos. BOARD OF TRADE, WFIITELIALL, Nov. 10. The Right Honourable the Lon is of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Seci etary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's acting Consul at Bangkok, en closing copy of a Siamese notification, prohibiting c +plains and masters of ships, under a penalty of SO to 200 ticals, from throwinc , over ballast, sand, stone, earth, &c., any where near the bar of the river Ileitram, where the water does not exceed seven fathoms in depth, or anywhere in the bed of the river. Captains and masters of vessels trading at the port of Bangkok, will be required to prohibit their crews from going on shore with knives and other weapons. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT Cambridgeshire Militia—Sir Charles Nightingale, Bart., to be Lieutenant, vice John Evelyn Kingston Moreley, Rifle Brigade ; Sydney Herbert Drvies, Gent., to be En sign, vice Lockhart Ramage, resigned; Richard Pigott, Gent., to b 3 Ensign, vice John Tibbles, resigned. Royal Sherwood Foresters or Nottinghamshire Regi ment of Militia—Percy Charles Stanhope, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Augustus Mark Hammond, promoted ; George Augustus Montagu Hare Sloper, Gent., to be En sign, vice Edward a' Wood Taylor, reigned. Galloway Rifles Militia--Thomas Palethorpe, Esq., M.D., to be Surgeon, vice Potts, deceased. let or Western Regiment of Norfolk Militia—James Menzies, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Brice, resigned. Worcestershire Regiment of Militia--Ensign William Joseph Tibbs, to be Lieutenant, vice Harry Waller, deceased. (This Appointment is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of the 3.1 inst.) East Font ite,gitnent of Militia —Henry Gillett, Gent., late Lieutenant Essex Rifles, to be Lieutenant, vice Gatty, deceased. 18 5 r Cl' y' iJ .!. UP BLiAI4 11 8. From the Official Lest. FUBLISIIED EVERY TUEBDAY AND FRIDAY EVENINo LONDON, TIIESD 4Y, Nov. 10, 1857. CANALS 1 i 1 ,e' Dividend Names of ' 7,1 Dividend! „ • i Names of ~ ~..I Annum. PrICO. Knee- per Companies. '4 per ' Companies. Fia ;Annum. - cii - X X Ashtn &Oldh 9e 71. p. ct. Peak Forest. 78 51. Os. Birmingham 40 41: 8834 Regent's•• •• 30 17s. 15X Coventry...• 103 11 1. 193 ,Rochdale.... 85 41. 80 Derby ..•• .. 100 61. 15s. !Stflrd &Wort 140 281. GrandJunctn 100 21. pr. ct. 49X Stoarbridgo. 1 45 121. 10s. Do.. 6 pr. Ct. 10 6/. pr. ct. Severn and i Grand Union 100 78. 6d. i Wye Rail. J 26 1/. 16s. Kennt & Avn 40 6s. 61,4 iWarwick & Leeds &Livrp 100 251. 501 Birming. 3 1 00 21. 24 Leicester.... 100 51. 'Warwick & / 21. 9 Leicstr &Nth 83 11. ss. 13 Napton.. j 100 Loughborogb 143 701 . 1 ,Worcstr &I 78 10s. 16% Maccicsdeld. 100 2/. 10s. I Birming. Neath ...• • • 100 161. .Wilts & lirk 7s. Od. Oxford.... •• 100 106 Name of Company. WATER-WORKS. Dividend per Amount of Share. Annum. Paid. 51. per cnt. 66. per ent. 41. per cent. 51. per cent. V. per cnt. Price Si. per cnt 41. per cent. LT. AND COI Dividend per An'num. 71. per cent. 51. per cent. 21. per cent. 21. 61. per cent. Si. per cent 10/. per cent. 31. ss. 41. 15s. 41. 10s. W. per cent. 5% per cut 5/. Sl. per cent. Ilis Od per sh. 7 per cent. BANKRUPTS. William Charles Barnes, and William Cordingley manu facturing chemists, Bow-common, Middlesex, to sur render, Nov. 25, and Dec. 22, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street ; Marten, Thomas. and Hollams, Mincing-lane, City. Robert Bradley, paper-stainer, Trafalgar-road, Old Kent-road, Surrey, Nov. 2U, at one, and Dec. Li, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Spicer, Staple-inn. A petition for winding up the Welsh Potosi Lead and Mining Company (limited), has been presented by George Button. Parties must present and prove their claims on the 27th November, at the Court of Bankruptcy. ' William Stevenson, cooper, Sheffield, Nov. 21, and Dec. 19, at ten, at the Council-hall, Sheffield. Brewin, official assignee, Sheffield ; Branson and Son, Sheffield. Samuel Hawkins Napier and John Hewitson, ship chandlers, Liverpool, Nov. 26, and Dec. 11, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liver pool ; Neal and Martin, Liverpool. William Harrison, draper, Rochdale, Nov. 20, and Dec. 21, at one, at the Manchester District Court. Ifernaman, official assignee, Manchester ; Cooper and Sons, Man chester. Joseph Slater Platt and Henry Sutcliff, manufacturers, Manchester, Nov. 26 and Dec. 11, at twelve, at the Man chester District Court. Hornanien, official assignee, Man chester; Higson and Robinson, Manchester. Charles Warwick, fancy dress warehouseman, Friday street, Cheapside, Nov. 21 and Dec. 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman street-buildings ; Reed, Langford, and Marsden, Friday street. William Benjamin Phillips, bolt manufacturer, Bir mingha'u, Nov. 20 and Dec. 10, at half-past eleven, at thii- - Thrtningliarn District Court. Whitmore, official assigned, Birmingham ; Southall and Nelson, Birmineham. James Robert Page, iron, coal, and coke manufacturer, Cannon-street West, Nov. 18, and Dec. 23, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ; Lawrence, Plows, and Boyer, Old Jewry-chambers. Benjamin Fletcher Burton, timber merchant, Notting ham, Nov. 27, and Doc. 18, at half-past ten, at the Shire hell, Nottingham. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham; Deverill, Nottingham; Hodgson and Allen, Birmingham. Charles Gray, baker, Cheltenham, No,, 23, and Dec. 28, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. E. Mill er official assignee, Bristol; John Miller, Bristol; Cheltenham. John Turton, lace manufacturer, Nottingham, Nov. 21, and Dec. 15, at half-past ten, at the Shire-hall, Notting ham. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham ; Bowley and Ashwell, Nottingham. Charles Edward Merry, grocer, Bristol, Nov. 23 and Dec. 25, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Area man, official assignee, Bristol ; Strickland, Bristol • Harris, Bristol. John Scott Parkin, builder and painter, Bruntcliff, Yorkshire, Nov. 23, at twelve, and Doc. 21, at eleven, a t the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Terry and Watson, Bradf or d ; B on d and Barwick, Leeds. Wiliam Barber, cattle dealer, Dunston, Derbyshire, Nov. 21 and Dec.l9, a t t en , at t h e Council Hall, Sheffield. Brewen, official assignee, Sheffield; C u tt s, Ch esterfield; Smith and Bariekin, Sheffield. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. David Park, warehouseman, Glasgow. John Fawkntr, upholsterer, Glasgow. John Lawrie, bookseller, Kelso. TUE IRISH BAR.—The following I,entlemen were called to the Irish bar on I Vlondayi—Joh n F. Johnson Esq., A. 8.; Robert Seeds, Esq , LL.D , Queen's Uni versity ; John E. C a i rns, E iq., M A,;. Wm, F. John son, Esq., son of the Archdeacon of Ferns • John M. Nlahon, E-q.; John W. Harris, E q., A.B.; P Richard • Reeves, Esq. 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Pd. ; 21b, 4s. 6d. ; 51b, M lis ; 121 b, 225, The 121 b canisters are sent carri age free, on receipt of Post-l. dice order.—Barry Du Barry , c o , 77, Regent-street, London. IMPORTANT CAUTION against the fearful dangers of spurious ituitations :—The Vcc-Chancel lor , Sir William Page Wood, granted an Inju nc ti on on the g, 10th March, 1851, a ga inst Alfred Hooper for imitatin "Du Biury's Levalcuta Arabica Food." Berlin .. • , • • East London. Do. 4 per Cent. Pref. Do. 5 per Cent. Pref. Grand Junction ...... Do. New -••• • •• Lambeth ... New River Company.. Southwark & Vauxhall IVest Middlesex ...... Do. Do, GAS.LIGH' Name of Company. British Provincial .... Brighton .. •... •• • .. City of London .. •• .. Equitable.. •• •• .. •..• European .... . Great Central ........ Imperial ............ Ditto New _ . Ditto Debentures.. Do. Continental I st Cap. Do. Do. 2d Cap. Do. Do. 3d Cap. Do. Do. 4th Cap. Independent London, Parl. Preferen. Pllo3lllid .•• •• •• •• •• Ratcliff ........ 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Unity Mutual •• • • Western Bank ot*Londn. Bank of Scotland .. • . British Linen Company Caledonian Bank ..... City of Glasgow Bank Clydesdale Bank .... C mmercial Bank .. Eastern 8ank........ Edinb. & Glasgow.... National Bank .. North of Scotland Bank Royal Bank of S co tl. Union Bank of Scot. .. Western. Bank • • .. Alliance Firs and Life.. British Guarantee . Caledonian Fire Insur. City of Glasgow Lile.. Colonial Life ......... Edinburgh Life Eng. & Scot. Law Life Life Assoc. of Scotland Nationa• Fire and Life North British Insur... Northern Assurance Co. Scottish Provincial .... Scottish Union Insmc. Standard Life .. .. Name of Compahy. Acadian Charcoal Iron African Steam Ship .. Assam lea •......... Auction Mart•• •• •• •• Australian Avrieultur/ Australian Trust •• Austrivian Royal Mail Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 14ritish American Land Canada • • • • •• • • Do. 5 per cent Bond:, Ditto, 5 per cent bds Ditto, 6 per cent. Ditto, 6 p c. hds 1974 l4itto, 6 p c. bds 1876 Crystal Palace Ditto Preference Crys. Palace of France City Navigation Bonds Klectric Telegraph Eng.&Aus. Cop. Smelt giiig.&lris. Mag. T. Co Equitable Reversionry Ditto New .. lien. Reers. & Invest. (len. I. Sc. Col. (Lim.) Oen .AteaniNavigation London (len. Omnibus Hudson's Bay Hungerford Lon. No. &N.i. Mauso London Reversionary Mex. & S. American Nat. Discount Comp.. N.S.W. Cov.sp.c. Deb. Nor. Mi. Australasian North of Europe, Stat. Prlce'sratent Ca , td. Co Peel River.Laud&Min. Pen. & Oriental Steam Ditto Nev ----- -- Reversionary Int. Soc. Ditto New •....•.. Royal Mail Steam.... Scottish Aus. Invest. South Austral ian Land Trust and Loan Comp. Vaa Diemen's Land • . Go y. 6 per cent. Bud& BRIDGES. Dividend I Amount per of Annum. Share. X s. d. 25 0 0 •••• 100 0 0 103 per cent. 50 0 0 100 0 0 60 0 0 40 0 0 70 10 3 11. 12s. Od. 11. Ss. Od. 28s. DOCKS. Dividend per Annum. 51. pr cent. Gl. pr cent. 41. per cent. 51. pr cent. 4%1. per cnt. 4 per cent. 51. Os per c. 'RANCE COMPANIES. Dividend per Annum. 71. per c. 71. 14s. 6d. p.c. & bs. 15s. 61. & b 41. per cent. 71. 10s. 71. 10s. Si. 5 pr ct.& bs. I/. per share 11. 18s. ss. 5 1 4 per cent. 11. 41. per cent. 6 per cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent 121. per cent. 51. p. et. &bs. 2s & 2s bons 2$L. per sh. 4s. per share 18s. & be. 4% per cent St. per cent. 51. per cent. L 4 per cent Si p. ct. 51. per cent. 57. per cent. 12% per c. 78. 8 p c /lc bs p. c & bs 11. 14s. 41. & bonus. 5/. & bonus. 5/. & bonus. TINT-STOCK Dividend per Annum. 101. per cent 51. per cent. 9 per cent. 4i. per cent. 51. per cent. ll.p.c.&be. 41. per cent.) 51. percent. I lel. per cent. 6!. per cent. 2E3 per cent. IS , . per cent. 16. p c. & be 6/.per cent. 20'. per tent. 101. per cent. 41. p. ct.&bs. 81. per cent. SS. per cent. 101. per cent. I/. per cent. 151. per cent.l 20 0 0 LOO 0 0 , 9,NRS. Amount of share. s. d. 40 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 1 100 0 0 100 0 0 120 0 0 1 20 0 0 20 0 0 1 50 0 0 ,100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 15 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 X a. d. 100 C 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 1500 0 0 25 0 0 5 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 ►OO 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 10 0 0 200 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 Paid. A s. d. all 18 15 0 50 0 0 all 6 0 0 . 50 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 20 - 6 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 22 10 0 15 . 0 0 25 0 0 2 10 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Z s. d. 100 0 0 100 0 0 2 10 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 LIST OF SCOTTISII COMPANIES' PRICES. Name of Company. Divideud per Amount of Share. . -- Annum. 71. per cent. 81. per cent. 81. per cent. 51. per cent. 5%1. p cent. 71. per cent. 61. per cent. 3%1. p cent. 6% per cent. 51. per cent 5/. per cent. Si. per cent. 71. per cent. pr cent. 41. per cent. I Oi.per cont. 61. percent. 51. per cent. Si. per cont. 51.0er cent. 61. per cont. 61. per cont. 71. per cent. '741. pr cent. 51. per cent. Paid. 5 0 0 100 0 0 2 10 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 11 0 0 2 0 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 15 0 0 3 5 0 3 0 0 1 4 0 20 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 7 0 0 Paid. Z m. d. 2 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 19 0 0 2500 40 0 0 32 10 0 100 0 0 )00 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 all 5 0 0 00 0 0 PIO 0 0 22 10 0 , 00 0 0 all 14 0 0 all stock Price. Price, Price. 7% 277 Price. Price. Price, 5 0 0 100 0 0 all 17 10 0 10 0 0 all 20 0 0 GC 0 0 all 5 0 0 28 10 0 FIZ.Z.NCII - - - Country Markets. 10,1. D FM 1 - OF ISCIENCE,','. At the last sitting M. Faye read a paper on the advantages which must accrue to science from the study of figure of the earth, and concluded with recommending the academy to use its interest with the Government for the purpose of inducing it to extend the great French meridian line to the limits of Sahara. M. Eke de Beaumont, the perpetual secretary, warmly seconded the recommendation. On the same subject M. Leverrier read some remarks on M. Biot's observations relative to M. Struve's work on the Russian meridian, which had given occasion to a recent dis cuss i on ; and showed that M. Biot was wrong in attributing to M. Struve the intention of measuring an arc of the earth without taking the irregularities of our globe into account, since Marshal Vaillant had announced that M. Struve proposed to measure a parallel from Astra kau to Ikest, in order to ascertain whether the figure of our planet has the shape of a revolving body. M. Eke de Beaumont then suggested the expe diency of effecting a general triangulation of the Marquesas Islands ; and subseqently stated that the Isle of Wight was crossed from east to west by a great line of dislocation, i n w hi c h th e c h a lk y and tertiary strata had actually assumed a vertical position. This circumstance, he thought, might tend to explain the anomalies existing in the south ern part of the British meridian. M. Seguier pro duced a fragment of an aerolith which had fallen iu the department of the Yonne on the Ist Oct. last, and stated that as soon as he had collected sufficient information on the subject, he would com municate a circumstantial account of it to the academy. M. Puesch gave a description of a female child which lived for thirty hours after its birth, although its most vital organs presented very re markable anomalies and defects. M. Bogdanow, of Moscow, wrote on the subject of the colours of the plumage of birds, and announced that he had been able to extract the colouring matter contained is the feathers of the Calurus auriceps and other birds by means of boding alcohol. He further announced his intention of examining whether a given colour met within different orders of animals is produced by the same or by different pigments. M. Leverrier communicated a letter from M. Maury, director of the observatory at Washington, announcing the discovery of a new telescopic planet. The position was, Oct. 4th, mean time at Washington, 1013. 21m. 24.45.; right ascension, Oh. 57m. 29.245.; declina tion, north, 3 deg. 58 min. 37 . 3 sec. Diurnal mo tion in right ascension, 52 sec.; in declination, 3 min. 54 see. The planet is of the 11th magnitude. M. Leverrier, however, expressed an opinion that this planet was probably identical with the 50th planet discovered on the 19th ult. at Bilk by M. Luther.—M. Tereil presented a lump of glass crystallised after fusion, and gave an analysis of it, showing that it contained but little alumina. and oxide of iron.—M. Decharmescommunicated some fresh information concerning the extraction of opium from the common poppy at Amiens, announcing that the quantity of morphine extracted from it was this year 23 per cent., while in 1853, when the attempt was first made there, it was only 14 per cent. rISCELLAN' Dividend . per Annum. is Ter cent. 3 1 41 per cent ..... 81. pr cent. 11. 10s. 5/. per cent percent. it. pet cent 51. per cent. 6/. per cent. it. per cent. 61. per cent. 2/. per cent. 71 pr. cent. 133,61. per cent 1 64 per cult. S / per cent. 51. p c and 1 / 10/. per ct. & 121 . Per cent 51. per cent. V. si. 5/, per cent. 51. per cent. 6d. Al. per cent. 71. per cent 414/. pr cent 4 1 , 2 /. pr cent. 11. p. share. 151. per cent. 71. per cent. pr cent. 103. 6 per cod, £ s. d. 10 0 0 Stock. 25 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 61 0 0 5 1 8 COMP. Amount of Share. s. d. 20 0 0 20 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 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 Amount Share. X s. d. Stock. Stock. Stock. 100 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 A Stock. _stock. 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 Amount of Share. s. d. 500 0 0 1100 0 0 100 0 0 1 0 0 50 0 a too 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 20 0 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 1 00 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 5 0 0 ,10 0 0 6 5 0 00 0 . 0 5 0 0 Stock. :OTIS. Amount of Share. X s. d. 10 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock 5 0 0 5 0 0 4 0 0 Stock. 5 0 0 50 0 0 , 00 0 0 50 0 0 'OO 0 0 25 0 0 15 0 0 4 0 0 Stock 100 0 0 10 0 0 15 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 1 0 0 20 0 0 21 0 0 5 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 X s. d. 100 all 'IfGB. Paid. Z s. d. all 150 0 0 all 12 10 0 100 0 0 42 15 0 41 0 0 43 10 0 41 0 0 all 52 0 0 16 0 0 all 10 0 0 all 4 0 0 Paid. £ a. d. Paid. I Pric, £ a. d. Stock. oo - 15 0 00 0 0 6 0 0 Stock. 500 0 20 0 0 14 0 0 Paid. R. s. d. 50 0 0 11 0 0 25 0 0 all 5 15 0 25 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 4 0 0 47 5 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 30 0 0 2 10 0 13 0 0 2 10 0 12 10 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 2 0 0 20 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 010 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 5 10 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 LIVERPOOL—Noy. 10. The grain trade during the week has been fair, but only for the passing consumption, and prices can scarcely be quoted up or down. The prevailing monetary panic has not yet touched our corn market, fur the simple reason of having so limited stocks to be affected by it. In 1847 we held large stocks, and consequently could not help suffer ing. At present we feel safe, expecting liberal supplies, which will be sold from on board ship rather than specu late for higher prices by going into store. The market this morning was better attended by millers and dealers than for some time, and a fair business transacted in wheat and flour at a reduction of 2d to 3d per bushel on the former, and is per sack and barrel on the latter. Indian corn gave way in price to the extent of 6d to thl per qr. HULL— Nov. 10. The attendance to-day was not large. Weather fine. Trade very dull. Last week's prices asked. Millers are unwilling to purchase. Barley Is lower. Beaus and peas at about last Tuesday's prices. Wheat, English red, 483 to 51s ; white 56s to 60s; oats, 29s to 323 ; barley, 42a to 468 ; Indian corn, 398; linseed cakes, Hull, 11/ Os to —1 —s Od; ditto, foreign, 81 15s to 10/ 103; rape cakes, 61 5s Od to Cl 103 ; guano, V. to 15e. ; bones, 140 s Od.; flow, —s to --8; tares, —s to —s. LEEDS—Nov. 10. There was a fair supply of wheat, and trade was dull; sales proceed slowly, and to do business rather under Fri . day's rates have to ba taken. Barley continues dull, and prices have a downward tendency. Beans as before. Oats and A v o e t ra he g r e a p rt r i i c c l e e s s oufnaglrta Wheat unaltered. , 53s ; 41s . Bid ; oats, 24s 10d ; beans, 45s 7id ; peas, 42 s 100 ; rye, —s. Od. NEWCASTLE—Nov. 10. Thoro was a moderato supply of wheat to-day, which sold fairly at Saturday's rates. Trade in South country and foreign quiet, millers not showing much disposition to operate, but holders are firm in their demands, and will not force sales at a reduction. Flour in moderate re quest, at Saturday's rates. Oats, beans, and peas un changed. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Yunspe.r. imaterdatn 11 18 Gibraltar •• •• •• •• Ditto, threo months .. 12 2 Leghorn Rotterdam 12 2} Genoa Antwerp .............. 25 85 4111 an Brussels .... • • ........ 25 85 ' Venice .... aamburgh •• •• •• •• •• •• 13 14 Naples •• •• .... .. 42% Altona ..•• •• •• •• •• •• •• • • ,Palermo .• • .... 126% Pari5........,........ 25 45 ,Messina ... ... 126% Do. three months ... .. 26 20 Lisbon .. .... 62g Marseilles •• •. •• •• •• •• 26 20 ,Oporto •• •• •• •• •• •••• •• 52% Bourdeaux ..... ........ .. litio Janeiro ..... .•• •••• Frankfort-on-Maine .• .. 122 Buenos Ayres.... •• •• .. 1 Berlin ................ •• ,New York,6o days'sight Vienna .......... •• .... 10 54 Philadelphia frie5te................ 10 54 ?EWES OF ZULLION. PEA oz: Petersburg ............ 34 Foreign Gold In Bars £3 17 9 Madrid .........., .... 46 Portugal Gold Coin .. 00 0 Caliz ......... • • ...... 49 Mexican Dollars ..... 0 0 0 Barcelona ............ .. New Dollars ....•• 0 0 0 Seville.. LOCAL SHARE MARKBT.I. LIVERPOOL. Nov. 10. STOCK ExerfArrot.—The market is very dull to-day, and closed with a very (fat feeling, at a further decline from the rates of yesterday. Caledonian, 36—Blackburn, B,l—Grand Trunk of Canada, 81—Midlands, 801 4- - Lancashire and Yorkshire, 89i. Great Western, 48 71 London and North Western, 1:4 3—Sheffielda, 364 36 — Great Western of Canada, new, 38 4 die.—South Eastern/ 182—Dutch _Rhenish, 6.; dis. BIRMINGHAM, NOV. 10. STOCK EXCHANGE. —Prices in the market generally brisk to-day, and the business buoyant towards the close. London and North Westerns, 93i 44—Midlands, 801 81 — Birmingham Canals, 88. EMPLOYMENT OF CONVICTS ON THE PUBLIC WORKS AT ;,- CLIATHAM.—During the past week several hundred con victs, separated into different gangs, haVe been employed in repairing the public , roads at Chatham, under the control of the Ordnance authorities. They appeared strong, well fed, and able-bodied fellows, presenting a striking contrast to the miserable creatures one often sees crawling about looking for employment. The ap pearance of convicts at work in the streets has caused some surprise, as some consider it an improper inter ference with the labour market, more especially when there are hundreds oat of employment, and to whom anything in the shape of work would be a great boon. If the authorities are at a loss to find employment for the thousand lonvicts now confined at Chatham, let them direct their attention to the embankment of the Medway, a subject to which the attention of Parliament has been called, and which, ere long, will become of serious importance if we wish to preserve in a flourish- • ing condition the important naval establishment at Chat ham. Years ago it was predicted that unless something were done to arrest the wearing away of the banks of the Medway, that river would soon be closed to ships of great draught, and each year seems to add strength to that prediction. It is to Le hoped that the attention of the authorities may be aroused to the urgent rieeessity of arresting the threatened calamity, and no more effec tual means can be devised than in employing the large body of convicts ❑ow living in comparative idleness at Chatham in embanking the river on both sides from Chatham to Sheerness.—South. Eastern, Gazette. BIRTHS. OF A 80X. On the 9th inst., at Swainston, Isle of Vvight, the wife of Sir John Simeon, Bart. On the 9th inst., at Bandon Lodge, Notting-hill, the wife of U. Rarton Kent, Esq. • OF A DAUGLITHR. tho 7th inst., at 58, Portland•plico, the Lady Isabel Bligh, un tho 9th inst., at Hendoa, the w fo of Wyndham Ho:. gate, Esq. MARRIED. 9n the 9th inst., at Bradgate-park, the seat of the Earl of Stamford and Warrington, George, seventh Viscount Strang d, to Margaret., eldest daughter of John Kincaid Lennox, Esq., of Lennox Castle, N.B. Ou the 3d inst., At the Oratory, Brompton, James Flynn, Esq., Bombay Civil Service, to Magdalen, the youugo t daughter of Charles Crosby, Esq., late of George-street, Portman•square. I) 1 E D. On the 9th inst., at Edinburgh, Archibald llastie, Esq.' of Rutland-gate, London, M.P. for PAsloy, On tho 9th iust., at Brighton, ''aptain Richard Down, late of the Enniskillen Dragoons aged On the 9th i st., at Portskewett, near Chepstow, Captain John King, R.N., for Monmouthshire. On the Bth inst.. at 31, Northampton-square, Mr. John Al!sup, formerly of IG, St. Paul's Churchyard, and late of 22, Ludgate street. On the WI inst., at Camden-town, Mr. John Simpson, of 1, Tottenham-court-road, and 1, oxford-street. On the 7th inst., at Worcester, Mr. Francis Inch's, a ged aged 37. On the 6th inst., at Ihnini>ter, James Stapler, Esq., aged 79. On the 4th inst., Charles Halford Shepherd, Esq., of tL• Middle Temple, aged 65„ LONDON : hinted and Publiahed by MIIItDO YOUNT' of Ile. 112, Strand, Printer, at Ms Sun OtiTee, 112, Strand, in the Proeinct of the Savoy, in the coulltY of Middlesex, Wednesday, November 11,1867.