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(laughter)—in that sense, I hope I know how to pay a been found than in the neighbouring great city of Alan- , debt of gratitude which I owe, and which I feel to such cheater. There you have a free library within the same an audience as this upon such an occasion. (Hear.) walls, and occupying the sun • rooms, which were Gentlemen founded and built for a Socialist hall. That which was heard by all, or even by a majority of those whom I now I could at no time hope to make myself debasing, that which contained within itself the 'temente address, for at the present time I have rather parted of everything mischievous and destructive, has been, by oompany with my the liberality of the citizens of Manchester, converted .--I have lost it into a fountain from which the blessings of knowledge 1 i n cheering your townsman and my voice—l have lost it in a good cause neighbour, Mr. Brown. Gentlemen, it is with more and enlightenment are flowing largelyatnong the people. than common pleasure that I rise upon such an occasion Here, in Liverpool, you will enjoy those blessings under circumstances no less remarkable, no less startling. to respond to such a toast. Between the family which I stand here to represent and the town whose guest I Here you will enjoy them from the princely liberality of have the honour to be, there has existed for several cen- one of your most respected citizens. (Cheers.) We hear furies an intimate and unbroken connexion. (Hear.) much, gentlemen, on the subject of education—much of If we are to go back to those old times—l believe ie is the voluntary principle. Never has England yet had now something more than 500 years ago—nearly one- such a noble instance of toe voluntary principle—(loud twelfth of the whole recorded annals of the human race— l cheers)—as Mr. Brown has this day afforded us. But I since an ancestor of mine obtained a licence from the ' fear that fall who have the means have not equally the Crown to embattle and fortify a house, the site of which will, and in many places we find neither the means nor lies somewhere, I know not exactly where, buried among the will. Other means must be resorted to if you wish the crowded streets and buildings of this vast commer- to educate the people ; and here again I find that in the cial capital. There may be some vacity in such rerni. town of Liverpool you have a splendid illustration of niscences of past times ; but, standing here, I may be that agency by which the voluntary principle may be permitted to say that none can more rejoice, none can , assisted. I find that you have schools in which are more exult in the present greatness and the glory of the educated many thousands of children, and which are town ef Liverpool than those to whose forefathers were supported bye rate levied upon the people, and paid out committed the charge of watching over its earlier and of your town-dues. Here you have, in my humble epi nion, in your own town a solution of the difficulties of still undeveloped infancy. Gentlemen, we are told that " society in the present day has changed, and in some re- this question. (" Hear, hear, and cheers.) You have speeds it is so. (Hear, bear.) Our improved means of a noble instance of the voluntary principle ; you have communication everywhere, the rapidity w ith which the deficiency of that principle made up by the taxation of the people, which they willingly submit to. (Hear, transit is effected from one part of the country to an• other, have done much to dispel local prejudices and to hear.) This is not an occasion on which it would be destroy provincial peculiarities. But, though they may becemiog in me to dwell furth er upon the det a il s aw l have destroyed prejudice, and though they may have de- difficult i es of this g reat and interesting question. I stroyed provincial peculiarities, though they may have have adverted simply to the fact that I think in this fused as it were the various elements of these pecu- locality we do find an example which other Engli s hm en liarities, into one similar whole, I do not believe may well follow. (Cheers.) I will not detain you l onger that those characteristics of the present time have than once more to offer to my hon, friend my heartfelt destroyed it—l do not believe that they have mate- congratulation upon the scene which I n o w see b e f ore daily weakened those ties of local attachment and me. I never witnessed so striking an exampl e o f th e local sympathy which are founded upon common great principle of "honour to who m h onour i s d ue ." interests with the present—upon common reini. (Cheers.) But certain do I fe e l th a t, a lth oug h my f r i en d , Mr. Brown, must appreciate the manner i n w hi c h you niscences of the past—when a mutual repository of friendship and good offices plays so important and vain- have this day recognised hi s no bl e ac t , th roug h t h ose able a part in our social system. (Cheers.) At least I prosperous and happy y ears w hi c h are st ill i n store f or know this, that in that political arena—the House of him, he will find his be s t rewar d i n th e re fl ec ti on o f hi s Commons—where my lot is chiefly cast, we who come own mind. (Cheer.) I feel that this no bl e h a ll, th e from Lancashire, notwithstanding many diversities of pride of Liverpool and one o f th e ornaments o f E ng l an d, public opinion and conduct—whatever may be the poll- never has been used i n a no bl er cause ; an d I b e li eve that every one who n ow fill s thi s h a ll, ever y b reas t h ere, tical ranks in which we serve—are apt to bok upon one another with!feelings of mutal friendship and goodwill, must be animated by the earnest hope, the anxious (Hear, and cheers.) We are proud, and justly proud, prayer to which I hope you will allow me now to give of the intelligence and activity of that section of the utterance, that the events of to-day, that the ceremony of to-day, may be blessed with th e lar ges t m easure o f population among which we are called ; we are proud, and we may well be proud, of the vast influence which success which the generous founder himself could this county ex Ircises over the counsels of the State— desire ; and that the institution which this day has (cheers)—we are proud, and it is a reasonable pride, of been inaugurated may through many coming gene the more than common proportion of eminent men rations diffuse among the population of this t o wn whom Lancashire in the present century has contributed those blessings of useful knowledge, of intellectual to the national service. (Hear, hear.) SAnd, gentlemen, enjoyment, and religious instruction—blessings which Ittleink the ceremony which we have witnessed to-day will be among the greatest and most enduring that can shows us that we have !something die of which we may be enjoyed by the inhabitants of a great and prosperous be proud. (Hear, hear.) Gentlem en , w ith w h a t we see town. (Loud and continued cheering.) and know before us, it would be not merely an injustice, The Rev. Rector CAMPBELL proposed "The health of it would be not merely a calumny, it wou ld b e ao a b- Mr. Wm. Ewart, the member for Dumfries." (Cheers.) surdity, and a contradiction to palpable f ac t, were an y Mr. W. EWART, M.P., in rising to respond, was vehe one to assert that the great maritim e a n d mercantile in- merit) , applauded. He said—My lords and gentlemen, terests of England are less patriotic or less i n t e r es t e d i n at this period of the entertainment I shall not feel my national affairs than any other class in this o r a n y o th e r self justified in detaining you long ; but I cannot but country. (Cheers.) They have borne ungrud g ingly feel my long and early connexion with this great, in their share, and something more than their sh are , o f the creasing, and magnificent town. I boast of my con public burdens. (Cheers.) They have never he s itated, nexion with it—with its ancient industry, with the opu when, on such questions as peace and war, which some- lance of its commerce, with its past, its present, and I times arise—they have never hesitated, when occasion hope, to a certain extent, with its future. Yet, I should called for it, to sacrifice their private interests to the ill express my feelings if I did not say that I thou g ht general advantageof thecountry ; and they have not only that the end of our commerce was something more than not shrunk from taking upon themselves the burdens and mere commerce itself. In vain, gentlemen, d o y ou ex the responsibilities of property, but they have gone out of tend your docks to the ocean—in vain have you a f ores t their way to bear burdens which no other person could of innumerable masts, unless you have som e u lt er i or have laid upon them, and to undertake responsibilities object, and that ulterior object is the elevati on o f y our which they might fairly and honestly decline to assume, fellow-townsmen and countrymen. (Appl ause .) Thi s (Cheers.) There are, gentlemen, I hope and believe, great town I hope is destined at some tim e or o th er t o achieve something of the intellectual fam e o f Ath ena , many proprietors of wealth—perhaps I should say most of the proprietors of wealth—who regard that wealth as while it will infinitely surpass the commercial fame of a trust, and who are willing, more or less, to use it for . Carthage and of Tyre. Gentlemen, my right hon. friend the public service ; but it is a peculiar advantage of Sir J. Pakington, and my rev. friend who had done me those whose property is of their own creating that they the great honour of proposing my health, have eluded are enabled, being comparatively free from the claims to some exertions of my own in this very cause of pro which custom and society impose in the case of heredi- rooting free libraries. for the benefit of the people of this tary fortune—being more, in fact, the masters of what country. I confess, as my right hon. friend has pro they possess, they are enabled, if such be their pleasure, bably experienced it in the cause of education, it is some to contribute far more largely and more directly to the what of an arduous labour to force such a question requirements of society and of the public. (Cheers.) through the Legislature of this country. And it may That, gentlemen, is a great advantage, and nobly that be compared to that sort of labour which is described by advantage has been used. (Cheers.) I will not weary one of our most eminent poets when he says— you by repeating what, in one form or another, has been "As Sisyphus against the infernal steep said a hundred times to-day ; I will only repeat in public Heaves the huge rock, whose motions no'er may sleep." what I said just now to Mr. Brown on private, that I Such is the destiny of many a Fran who toils in the envy him his feelings on this occasion. And I will only cause of education. Anil yet, gentlemen, I recollect that, add, that though, as we all know, he is well acquainted . in the committee over which I had the honour to with the best modes of investing to capital a d vantage , I preside, there was one object over all oth ers w hi c h th ey believe he will find that this last investment is the best laid down asdesirable for the people of this country, and he ever made. (Cheers.) The town of Liverpool may that was that they should have the power ef educating thank him: for contributing what will be hereafter and in themselves. Gentlemen, lam almost afraid sometimes, future always one of the principal ornaments of its in these days of public examinations, we may lay too streets ; the friends of education may thank him for much stress upon mere educational examination. lam having given an impulse to the cause which puts to for that sort of free scope being given to the line which shame the compete. tive apathy both of individuals and may enable the people to form themselves by free and of public bodies elsewhere—(cheers)—but public men indepeadent development, and not to impose upon them may thank him, and England may thank him—and it to too great a degree the shackles of a sort of Govern. is to this that I attach the greatest importance—for ment system of examination. (" Hear, hear," and ap giving to those who are not possessors of wealth—to the plause.) It has been truly said by Edward Gibbon, i n poor and to the labouring classes of this country—a sig. the acconnt . of his own life—" Society stimulates the in . nal proof that wealth is viewed by those who possess it, tellect, but solitude is the nurse of genius." And it i s not as a means of pleasure, not as an enjoyment of my belief that more will be done by this free and public luxury, but as one means among many of obtaining the institution than by beaurocratic rules, borrowed from respect and the gratitude of our fellow-citizens—(hear, foreign countries—although we may borrow something bear, and cheers)—as one means among many of from them with great benefit and good effect. Another alleviating those hard thoughts and that envy which, principle laid down by the Committee on Public Libra. in a country of oceasional distress and unequal rice, 01 which I was chairman, was this, that the esta. fortunes, will inevitably arise—as one means among blishment of such institutions would encourage the done many of doing good and permanent service to Eng-. tions of private individuals ; and here we see that prin. land, and of promoting the progressive improvement ciple exemplified in the illustrious example of our illus. of mankind. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, if a gift like trious townsman. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, I can that which we are this day celebrating bad been °bra conceive, as has been truly said by the noble lord who ously dictated by any motives of ambition, you would has honoured us by his presence, and delighted us, as he • accept it with thanks, but you would feel that the giyer always does, by his observations this day, that no situa- • had bad his reward. (Hear, hear) If, also, it were a tion is more enviable to a citizen of this country than posthumous benefaction, you would think the donor en- that of Mr. Brown at this moment. But, gentlemen, titled to your thanks, but you would feel that the gift Mr. Brown stands not only before the present genera. had been made at no sacrifice of. present enjoyment. tion—he stands also before posterity ; and he may enjoy (Hear.) But, as it is, you are well aware that Mr. Brown the purest of all pleasures, the sense of feeling his good can have no personal object or interest to serve, except, acts will be felt when he can no longer feel them. It is, indeed, the wish that I apprehend is felt in all generous perhaps, a sort of divine pleasure to feel that when we minds—the wish of honourably connecting his name with are gone, and are no longer sensible to what passes in the history of the community among whom his life has this worm below, there are others on whom our deeds been passed. (Cheers.) He will see, we trust, the comple. will confer benefits ; and that sort of superior and tion of his own liberality. (Hear.) He will live to wit- almost divine pleasure may be shared by those who teas the enjoyment which many thousands derive from do such deeds as this day have been done by the gift which we are celebrating this day. (Cheers.) our honoured fellow-townsman, Mr. Brown. (Ap- Gentlemen, some allusion has been made toan institution Pituse.) Gentlemen, I will detain you for one moment with which a member of my family has some connection, 1 nger. There are others who have done good service and which is called, I believe, the Derby Museum, lam in 1 s great local act. There are those in your Town afraid that is, in point of magnitude, very unworthy to ' council who hive formedeyour Free Library Committee. be compared with the gift of Mr. Brown ; but I cannot Theh have toiled in silence, but they have toiled with help expressing the gratification that I feel on bearing good effect ; and at the head of it, the chairman of the that the two are to be coupled and connected together in committee, is a gentleman with whom I have had the the annals of this year. (Hear.) Gentlemen, before I sit honour to consult on this important subject—l mean down let me express to you in my father's name his re- Mr. Picton—(applause)—and I propose to you, gentle gret that it was impossible for him to be with you mday. men, the health of the promoter, the advocate, and the (Hear.) The cause in which we have all been speaki ng friend of your local free library--" The Health of Mr, is one to which no eloquence cm do more than justice; Picton." (Applause.) and I can only express my sincere regret that you should The toast was responded to with enthusiasm. not have been enabled to have his advocacy instead of Mr. PICTON then rose and said,— Mr. Chairman, I mine. (Loud cheers.) feel it difficult, if not impossible , to express myself ade- Mr. J. C. EWART, M.P., gav e "Th e h ea l t h of the qua t e l y on t h e present occasion.' To have had nay name Right Hon. Sir John Pakington." (Loud cheers) taus publicly brought forward arid recognised in con- Sir J. PAYINGTOM, on rising, was received with cheers. . nection with the p roceedings of this day—a day ever to He said—Mr. Mayor, my lord., an d gent l emen, I am be honourably rem ernberedinthe annals of Liverpool— deeply grateful for the kind and cordial reception which will be to the latest p eriod of my life a subj ec t o f pleas you have done me the hon our o f exten di ng to one who i ng recollect i on. It is about seven years since the sub personally is a stranger among you. I should be guiltyof jest of a free public library was first brough t under the affectation if I were to deny that la m b ot h g i atefut for not i ce o f the T own-council of Liverpool. The want of g and gratified by the manner in whi c h my h on. f r i en d , suc h an i nst i tut i on had long been felt there n ee d e d b ut the member for Liverpool, has so * kindly , an d , I f ear, 80 a vo i ce to g i ve utterance to the feeling. I only did what partially, referred to roy exertions on that erect question, any one else might have done equally well or bett er • the education of the people. But, gen tl emen, d eeply Th e resu l t h as b een such as far to surpass the t t h h n m m d ost . thankful as I feel for this kindness on your p ar t, I f ee l sangui ne expec t a ti ons o f a ll concerned. F yet more grateful for the compliment wilier' has be e n begins a now phase in th e hi s t or y o f t h e institution I paid me in inviting me to attend here upon this occasion, fit local habitation is all th a t i s wante d to elevate it to and to be a witness of what I cannot but feel—with my its proper rank ; and this, thanks to the munificence o f our noble townsman, w e s h a ll soon peseta , . Permit ru e mind altogether free from local bias or local partietty one of the most striking, one of the most gratifying to say, in retiring, that no one can despair of the futu re scenes which in my life it has ever been my lit ti wit- of England when we see the interest taken by the lead ness. (Load cheers.) Gentlemen, it is true that lam one log public men of all parties in institutions like these. of those who think that the struggle between light and To see on one platform my Lord Stanley, with his darkness, between ignorance and knowledge, is not yet expansive and generous sympathies with every move satisfactorily settled in this country. (Great cheering.) meet for the intellectual improvement of the masses • Ie is true that I am one of thos e who d o ver y d ee pl y Sir John P a ki ng t on, w h o has nobly burst asunder' feet that the conditi on o f ig n o ran c e i n w hi c h so l arge a the ties of p ar t y i n hi s e ff orts for the education portlan of th e p o p u l a ti on o f t hi s coun t r y, b ot h i n oar of the pe o pl e ; Will iam B rown, our old friend crowned towns and in our rural districts, yet rem a i ns and townsman, who, after a struggle of twenty is not only, as my hon. friend ba; said, a national die- years, has succeeded i n .realisin g a of permanent araries an d andgrace, but it i s a national danger. (Cheers.) Acting upon stable foundati on f or th e establish ment this convicti on , i t i s true I have endeavoured to arouse museums. When I see t h ese and men of kindred stamp coming together to a id us in doing tumour to o ne o f our into the belief th at the time had come w the feeling of P ar li ament and the feelin of the countr y townsmen, who it may be tru l y Raid is on e of th ose w h o g hen prejuoices '' should be bani s h e d, and when difficulties should be "Do good by stealth, a n d bl ush to find it fame, " trampled under foot ; and that thus, by the exertion of fee l . I that there is hope.for ou r country , If England, that strong, energetic w ill which Anglo-Saxons know com paratively uneducated, could achieve such wonders well how to em ploy w h en fitting occasions call them in arts and sciences, what will sh e not accomplish when forth, some sch eme s h ou ld be ad opted .t.. to bring a sound li g ht an d knowledge and wisdom are b rought within the education to e ver y man's) door. (Cheers.) But, ve reach of all ? ....nd*men , I feel no less deeply that any exertions, any humbl e ex - M r. M ONCKTO N MILNES, M.P., th en rose and said— onions, of min e i n t hi s direction, of or those who act Mr. Deputy Mayor and Gentlemen, it do es not b ecome with me in this grea t cause, are really a co- one who has been invited to this banquet to r e f use any pared to that magnificent benevolence s nothing in while and gen eros it y, t hi ng, otherw i se, a f ter t h e i n t eres ti ng an d various die , thaf practical mo d e o f g i v i ng, woe are only strug. courses you have heard, I should have thought it hardly gling to achieve what the generosit y h on. friend became me to increase the number of your speeches. But has given. (Cheers.) I am glad to find that you thus wel- , to any one who l e bae been interested in any way with the come a sentiment which I assure you c l oa fe ld e a lwith true and literature of his country—to any one who has contributed heartfelt sincerity ; and if anything h a v e as added t o to that literatwre, in however slight a degree—to any the satisfaction and pleasure with which I, one who has mixed in the political affairs of life, and lisbman loving my country, bail an act w • htch does hon. whose mixing in those political affairs has directed his our to my countr y, it is to see, as I h ave seen this morn- attention towards the intellectual education of the com ing, the manner in which the people of Liverpool ap re- munity—to any one thus interested this meeting must ciate that act. I believe that many of those around m e be 'one of especial importance. It does not become me must have felt as I myself did feel this mornin g such an audience as this, and to such a wan as you, they walked in procession through your crowded Streets, l .• it does not become me to speak of the advantages of that of those thousands who w.varined around us °neve I education. s b i o It does not become me to speak to you of side rarity a man would live to bless this day—wourld so uks--you, who know their value just as well as I do. lire to feel that Mr. Brown's generosity had given to him, Iwould rather image to mys e lf, M r . M ayor , w h at wou ld have the means o f i n t e ll ec t ua l cultivation, and thus haveb een the feelings of a stranger coming into this city saved him from the miseries of intoxication, if not from tthiinsi/nio it possible and witnessing thi s s i ngu l ar spectac l e. I the penalties of cr i me . (Ch eers. ) I believe, gentlemen , h tof f he might have said, w h en h e raw t h e that were any o f your wealthy c i t i zens d is p ose d t o ac t as busy mart Liverpool suspended —your sh o p s s h u t, Mr. Brown h as acted—l believe that human sagacity your active popu lation idling in the streeti—h e m i g ht could riot have d ev i se d a wiser or more benevo l en t exer - have said, hat is this for ?" And when he was told cite of his liberality than by founding, as he has done, a it was to celebethe foundation of the library, he might free library for this city, (Cheers.) We are indebted to have said, "Wh a t does Liverpool want with books ? an bon. friend and schoolfellow ef mine, whom lam What does Liverpo 01 , of wose population has been quad happy to see at this; table —e teeact Mr. Ewart, the ment- rupled in the time 1 Brown, want with the re ber for Dumfries—we are indebted to my lion. friend for searches of hoary anti quityo What does Liverpool, which au act of Parliament which enable populous localities to ;is making the history E ngland, want with reading adopt the advantage of a free librar y ; and I think that history ? What has Liver pool to . do with geography, when be who has studied the subject will aotee with me she can learn by sensliog her w e ups, her noble fleets, forth that wherever the free library has been established it has to every sea on tho globe— hen she hears the various proved a signal blessing to the people, and nowhere 1 1 languages in her streets and on the ships that crowd the under more striking circumstances have its advantages' Mersey ?" But there have been among you persons who , .. . . . ~ . ..a have another feeling, and who have felt that Liverpool could do good with books. And the stranger might have told you he had been in various cities and l on historic sites—he bad seen magnificent libraries lying together, covered with dust, unread and unregarded ; and he might have told you the costly libraries of Venice did not pre vent the decay of that great city, or many other of the populous haunts of men. But he might have been answered, as Mr. Brawn would have answered him, that these cities fell because they did not know how to com bine the material and moral elements of mankind—be cause they did not know how to bring together the activity of daily life and the intellectual interests which hooks can furnish and intellectual means can supply. (Applause.) And, gentlemen, the library which you are about to establish will not be one of those which lie bid in musty and unnoticed book-cases, but a library which has a monetary circulation--which will be current among the people. Your books will be bills of hand, passing from band to hand, bearing interest wherever they go— the best of interest. (Applause.) And if that stranger, whom I was trying to bring before you, came from one of those countries of the globe which does not enjoy, as we do, the advantages of free institutions, ha might have been astonished at the aspect of the celebration ; he would have seen sour flags flying, your populace shout ing—all in honour of one of your private citizens. He would have seen the most spontaneous effort of respect and veneration which a free nation could show to a free man. And when you heard the salute firing from your fort in honour of the Princess born yesterday, you were glad to combine those sounds with the shouts for the prince of the people which you have heard to-day. (Applause.) And, gen"emen, we must remember that this celebration has a meaning. There is a large population far away over the Atlantic—our brothers in another hemisphere. (Ap plause.) I would call Mr. Brown a citizen of both worlds—(hear)—and in many a crowded city of our brethren on the other side of the Atlantic will the cele bration of this day be read. It is be and suchras he who have brought together Coe two great countries of Eng land aid America. It is he and such as he, before the electric wire had been laid underneath the surface of the great Atlantic, lying on a rock which Providence seems to have raised for the special purpose of uniting the two great empires—it is he and such as he who have brought together these two nations by the electricity of common interest and common sympathy and feeling. It is my object to bring before you and to drink the health of a citizen of the great republic of the United States. That connexion which Mr. Brown has established between the materiel interests of England and America Natha niel Hawthorne has done much to cement. (Applause.) His " Scarlet Letter" has struck to the heart of every man with whom it came into contact. He has built his house of " Seven Gables" in every town in England, and as for his " Twice-told Tales," we well wish they had been told ten times. (Laughter and applause.) Gentlemen, therefore, in giving you the health of that distinguished citizen of the United States, and that dis tinguished citizen of the literature of the world, I be lieve you will join with me, and that you will feel you are in no degree deviating for the special purpose for which we have met together. (Applause.) And those two great nations, speaking the same great speecli, car rying out in the main the same great institutions, are the hope and the blessing of mankind—the hope of the future world, and, under Providence, a blessing to. the nations. I give you "The United States of America." The toast was enthusiastically responded to. Mr. N. HAWTHORN E, United States' Consul, said—Mr. Mayor, my lords, and gentlemen, I appear in this hall before you, not in any individual capacity of my own, but as the representative of my country, and especially of the literature of America ; and I heartily wish the li terary men of America bad a better representative —one who has done more for the cause of literature than I have done, and one who coul I have acknowledged better than I possibly ran the honour that has been conferred upon them. (Cheers.) The hon. gentleman who has alluded to sue has made allusions also to some productions of my own. That praise, gentlemen, is the more valuable, coming as it does from one who is so eminently qualified to express an opinion when a thing is will done. His praise is very gratifying, for there is nothing in literary reputation so dear to an American as a knowledge that he is considered worthy of commenda tion in the land of his ancestors. (Loud cheers.) But, gentlemen, I must not forget that I.am not speaking here in my own behalf, but on behalf of the literature of my country, and on behalf of the literary men of America —the poets, the historians, the novelists of America. I thank you, for I have no right to decline any applause which you may be pleased to award to them, how much soever I might feel inclined to decline that honour to myself individually. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) The circumstances of our country have directed much cf our attention to the rough side of life, instead of to those softening kflatences which are favourable to literary pro ductions ; but it is something to me to think that we have accomplished an act of gratitude—of heartfelt gratitude—to England. It is something to my country. men to know that they have yet maintained the old Anglo-Saxon spirit, and that it has some hold upon them now in their literary pursuits. It gives me happiness to believe this, because the more we return to you for the great measure of enjoyment that we have received from you the more we shalt aid you in promoting peace and goodwill, in which I hope the two nations will ever con tinue, because every American who has written books which England is content to receive into her literature has contributed something to that excellent result. Having responded to the toast which has been proposed, ' I might sit down, but I cannot do so, and you will par ' don me ; for, as has been justly observed, had the ties been drawn but a little closer, America would have called Mr. Brown her son. (Loud cheering.) At all events, he has the connexion by bl oo d, by friend. ship, by affection, in all the interests of life, which we shall certainly not forget, neither will he. (Loud the-rs.) It is good for our country that there should be such men—men connected with one country, and with another, and yet not the less true to their own beloved land. (Cheers.) It was proved, and not very long ago either, that it was good for both countries that he was here—(hear, hear)—that he grasped one in his right hand and the other in his left. Sir, I assure him, on behalf of my fellow-countrymen, that we are always as proud of him as if be were one of us ; we are proud of his good deeds, of his illustrious life, and of his great acts of noble and enlightened beneficence. (Cheers.) This last is the deed conceived in the very spirit and done in the very spirit in which an enlightened benefactor should seek to benefit his country—by considering the means by which he might best promote human happiness throughout the world. Gentlemen, I thank you. (Cheers.) _ _ Mr. BROWN gave the "Health of the Deputy-Mayor," and that gentleman having responded the proceedings terminated. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL_I7, 18M7. TRIAL OF MR. SMITH'S STEAM PLOUGH AT WOOLSroN. (From Bell: Weekly Messinger.) illustrated in going over his crops, showing the cost of cultivating by the ordinary plough and by his system, it appears that the following results are ob taine'l The application of steam to the cultivation of the soil has at length received a solution which cannot fail to have an important effect upon the farming produce of the country, and upon the general condi tion of those who are immediately connected with agricultural pursuits. This solution took place at Woolston, on Thursday and Saturday last, when it was proved to a great body of landowners and far mers that the power of steam is capable of still fur ther extension than it has hitherto received, and that it is likely to become the most powerful and, at the same time, the most economical agent that the latter. can possibly employ. We need scarcely remark that the inventor of this new agent of agri culture, Mr. Smith, has been some time known as a successful cultivator of the soil, and that the state of his farm, long before he thought of applying steam to that purpose, was the admiration of his neighbours, although he had great difficulties to contend against in the generally cold and stubborn nature of the soil. The opinion of Mr. Smith, there fore, as a practical farmer, is entitled to great weight, and the problem which he has been some time endeavouring to solve, with a rare energy, which, though perhaps a little too unbridled, is quite natural to original mind s , i s s i mp l y this— whether cultivation by the steam-pl oug h can b e brought up to the condition of spade husbandry ? Mr. Smith insists that the most improved of our common ploughs simply turn over the soil, placing the former surface from four to six inches below, and bringing up the smoothed surface of the under soil to the top. By this process all th e see d s , wee d s , and roots are deposited below the surface, and being divided by the plough are indefinitely multi plied. After four or five years these pests of the farmer become so much increased that he is ob liged to leave his land partially barren, for the pur pose of removing them, and as the common plough fails him he is compelled to have recourse to the scuffler or the cultivator. This is not all ; roots of . the thistle kind spread horizontally just beneath the part which is trodden down by the horses, and require deep subsoiling to remove them. In spade husbandry, moreover, the soil is not turned over to anything like the extent that it is by the use of the plough. The system consists mainly of a complete breaking up of the soil, and of mixing the latter with manure. There is a difference, also, in the depth of the cultivation. From four to five inches is the ordinary depth by the plough, and it is a question whether it erould be generally advautageoua to go deeper, if the subsoil were to be laid on the top. A spade is from ten to twelve inches deep, and in good husbandry it is ordinarily thrust to that depth; when the leverage is supplied, it does not upturn the whole of the spit, the lower part being shattered by the violence that is given to it, while the upper ' part is all mixed together and broken. Again, in spade husbandry, the soil is not compressed either by the transit of a heavy implement, or by the pad- I dlino. b of horses, both of whi c h to a co ns id era bl e ex - I tentdiminish the success of agricultural operations; the first, by rendering the percolation of the water, and the action of the atmosphere, less free than they I otherwise would be, and the second, by the tread ing on the lower surface, which bad been smoothed over by the underside of the share, and thereby forming a crust or pan which retains the water, and which can only be removed by a good sub-soiling. There is, therefore, in all our operations with the plough, not only a great loss, but enormous waste of power. The power which a horse exerts to carry itself across a field is simply power lost, and the weight arising from gravitation and non-effective effort is not only wasted, but produces a compres sion of the soil, which previous to seed time is gene rally found to be injurious. In spade. husbandry, too, the land is completely cultivated at once—the breaking-up, the mixing of the soil, and the separa tion of the weeds, being performed at one and the same time. This is a manifest advantage, as on well-drained land the too frequent turning of the soil causes the natural moisture to evaporate, which retards in spring the germination of barley, turnips, and other plants. We may safely infer, then, that spade husbandry is superior to cultiva tion by the ordinary plough, not because it turns over the soil more completely, but because it dis turbs it deeper, mixes it better, more effectually removes noxious weeds and grasses, and more freely admits the percolation of the water and the action of the atmosphere. The application of steam to prepare the land to receive the sc d is, therefore, the nearest approximation to this mode of culture, and, whether by its actual cost or production, is much more economical than that which has hitherto been produced by the common plough. Steam. Ordinary Plough. Qrs. per acre. Fallow Wheat Beans 4 Beans Oats 14 Qrs. 24 Qrs. Tons. Cwt. Tons. Cwt. Clover 2 10 Clover 3 10 - - It will be perceived that Mr. Smith discards the necessity of follows upon his system of culture ; while at the same time he insists that, upon 'cold lands, under the ordinary plough system, they are indispensable every four years. The fact is,• that by simply shaking, and deeply loosening, the soil, without turning it over, the weeds are kept upon the surface and readily removed, while the soil is easily kept clean and ready for seed. The cost of steam-ploughing is about ss. 2d. per acre, of subsoiling 3s. per acre, and of scuffrng 2s. One example or so will since to show the practi , ;al results of this mode of culture : d. Land once steam-plqu4hed (per acre) 5 2 „ Twice subsoilcd, 33 6 0 11 2 Oats, 3 bushels, produced 9 qrs. 3 hush. Land, twice stearn.ploughed, ss. 2d. 10 4 yy Once scuffled, 2i. 12 4 In illustration of these remarks, Mr. Smith, on taking his visitors over the farm, the crops of which were in a most promising condition, and the soil, although a heavy and gravelly clay, in excellent tilth, stated that he had avoided, as far as he could consistently, the use of horses for some years from turning over the soil ; that the principal imple ments he used were the subsoil plough and the cul tivator, and that this mode of cultivation hal been attended with the most beneficial resulis. He had an average return last year of 46i bushels of wheat per acre, while the produce of the rest of the laud, where the plough had been used in the ordinary manure, was so much less that it reduced the total average, over 90 acres, to 424 bushels. IThis shows that the turning _over of the soil is not a matter of necessity, and that as good, and, indeed, a better crop can be secured by well mixing the soils, as there can be by turning them over. As regards the relative advantages of the locomotive and traction plans, be gives the pre ferenee to the latter, from the circumstance that the loss of power even of a team of horses (from 2 to 3 tons), in carrying themselves across a field, as well as the waste of power in counteracting their own exertions, by consolidating that which they are employed to render porous, is enormous, while' that of a locomotive engine weighing probably from ' 7 to 9 tons, would he still g reater, when it was moving itself across a ploughed field, or up even a slight acclivity. By adopting the traction system, the power Jot would be only that which . was re quired to overcome the weight of the ropes and the friction over the soil, which would be much less than that required to carry the locomotive, and little or no power would be wasted in counteract ing its own efforts. Bethides there would be a great advantage in using an engine which could be applied to many other agricultural purposes, such as thrashing, grinding, caff-cutting, d:c. There were upwards of 300 of the gentry and farmers of Buckinghamshire and the adjacent coun ties to witness the trial, and several from the ex treme north and west of England were attracted for the same purpose. Peas, seed 3 bushels, produced 5 qrs. 1 bush. The saving iu horses is also considerable. Mr. Smith showed clearly enough that he could dis pense with three horses, which he valued at 301. each, to say nothing of the;r keep. The cost of the whole plant for steam cultivation, including en gine, windlasses, ropes, anchors, pulleys, ploughs, cultivators, &c., would amount to about 400'. ; but for those who were already in possession of an engine the difference in saving between horse power and steam-power would be sensibly felt, even in the first year, work measured against work, produce against produce. The first experiment was trenching the land. The implement was drawn by means of a metal rope, which, being coiled and uncoiled upon a drum, put in motion by a steam-engine, stationed in a corner of the field, passed rouni three windlasses, the latter being moved as the new ground required ploughing. The engine was seven-horse power, and the rope was three-quarter inch, of four strand. The entire operation required seven men ; one at the engine, one at the drum to put in and out of gear, one to hold the implements, and the others to keep the rope on the windlasses. The imple ment was turned at each end of the laud in the simplest manner possible, and worked throughout with the nicest precision over the whole surface of the soil. The depth requited can be easily regu lated by lowering or elevating Vl* shares, and as de , :p as 19 inches, if requisite, can be thoroughly penetrated. The w or k was admirably done, and had the soil been a little drier, the effect of tho roughly shaking and pulverising it would have been more visible; as it was, there was scarcely a dis senting voice as to its general excellence. The implements in general use may, by their ad justment, be said to comprise four. No. lis a combination of shares, subsoilers, and claw wheels, which is used to break up, trench, and pulverise the soil. By removing the claw wheels and shares, and inserting another subsoiler, a powerful and e ff ec ti ve plou g h is f o rmed, whi c h may be called No. 2. No. 3is also a modification of No. 1, and can be used on light soils, where its wider sweep will enable it to pulverise seven acres a day. These implements are most effective on heavy lands ' • immediately after harvest the white stubbles can be readily broken up at the rate of 4 to 5 acres per day, and if clean, immediately drilled with vetches, or if foul, crossed with No. 4, the cul tivator, drawn by horses, at the rate of 6 acres per day. Bean and pea stubbles can be treated in the same way for sowing wheat. After wheat sowing is completed, all the manure that is ready may be drawn out and spread over the land ; the trenching and subsoiling plough may then be most efficiently applied, as the soil will be all broken up, the ma nure well covered, and the land trenched up and exposed to the action of the weather during the whole of the winter. In early spring beans may be at once planted on the sides of these trenches, when the rows will be about 16 inches apart ' • if any portion of this land is not r equired for beans, it can be crossed with the cultivator, and reduced to a fine tilth ready for turnips, or any other crop thought de,drable. After a crop of turnips, the cultivator, if worked by steam, can break up seven acres a day, and leave it ready either to receive the seed of bar 7 ley or of oats. The ease with which the cultivator travelled over the land, and the effective way in which it broke up its surface, was the theme of uni versal praise; upon this point there were no two opinions, and for breaking up stubble immediately after harvest, all agreed tbat it excelled anything that bad yet been seen in the cultivation of the soil. From a tabular statement, which Mr. Smith MURDER AND ARSON. An account was given a few days ago of a man having committed murder and arson, in order to be able to perpetrate a robbery. The new:Tapers of Albi (Tarn) relate that a similar crime was com mitted ten days back in the neighbourhood of that place.. On the 4 , h of this month it appears that a fire broke out in the mill of Le Cayla, on the road to Realmont, and that when it was extinguished the miller's servant, who had been left alone in the house, was found murdered from blows from a hatchet, and that about 200 f. had been stolen. Al though the gendarmerie immediately commenced a search after the criminal, they could Lear nothing of him until Saturday last, when they learned that a suspicious-looking character had just arrived in the morning at a roadside public-house at some dis tance from Albi, and had at once d eman d e d a b ed, declaring that he was much fatigued. On going to the house the gendarmerie found that the man, in stead of taking the bed which he had asked for, had left and gone to another public-house. They at once arrested him, and toned that he was a liberated convict cf the name of Boussegny, well known in the neighbourhood for having been tried in 1826 for murdering his mother and aunt, but acquitted— and for having, for other crimes, undergone several years hard labour in the bagne. At first the man pre tended that he knew not why he should be arrested, but he afterwards confessed that he had com mitted the murder and robbery. He had, he said, entered the miller's house on the supposition that no one was in it • but finding the servant there, he murdered ber.l He tl-en broke open a drawer and possessed himself of a sum of about 200 f., ; after wards, putting on some of the miller's clothes, he placed some trusses of straw beneath a quantity of furniture, set it on fire, and went away. He pro ceeded to Toulouse, where he spent his time in houses of ill-fame, in going to the theatre, and in other amusements ; and then, when his money was nearly exhausted, he returned to the neighbour hood of the mill, and was arrested. If, he added, he bad not been captured, he should have given himself up to justice. He has been lodged in tino prison at Castres to await his trial. FIRE AT BIRKENHEAD.—LIVT3RPOOL, WEDNESDAY.— About 4 o'clock this morninr; a fire broke out in the shop of Mrs. Jones, milliner, (Mester-street, Birkenhead, and for two hours continue I to rage freely, there being no water in the main. Af'..er water had been turned on the exertions of the pa,ce soon quenched the flames, but not until the entire, place was gutted and a large portion of the inner wall bad fallen in. Fortunately there were no lives lost, although at the time of the dis covery of the fire, in addition to Mrs. Jones there were twelve females, ser vp.nts and apprentices, in the house. These running alcn, a ledge one foot wide overhanging the streets, were rcecued on reaohing the skylight of an adjoining house. FOREIGN EMPCATION OF ENGLISH PRINCES.—Prima Alfred, who is tez,ill at Geneva, is expected at the begin ning of May to arrive at Gotha, where be will reside for a short time at Schloss R9senau. At the conc l us i on of this visit to the territories of which the young prince will pro bably one dP.y be the reigning monarch, be will repair to the Univer iity at Bonn, and paps some few terms there. .For the Prince of Wales there has also been taken a cc nvenicAt and agreeable dwelling in the immediate of the University town, where he will shortly c , ,nue to reside, and enjoy the advantages of the academic, course, without necessarily being mixed up with the sti idents, as the habits of students at German universities do not exactly tally with Eriklish notions of refinement and gentlemanly bearing. The strong feel ing we en' ;ertain on this point has, however, almost no Ay to the students at Bonn, which is the C hrist ourch of Germany ; Prince Albert, the youn g Princes of Prussia, and many of our own nobility and gentry / have matriculated and studied there, SOCIETY 0? ARTS. On Wednesday night at the weekly meeting of the Society of Arts, ,E. Chadwick, Esq., in the chair, a paper was read by Mr. J. W. Papworth, on " Houses as they are and ought to be." Mr. PAPWORTH said it was much to be regretted that those who invest money in building are gene rally lamentably ignorant of the subject, and the result is in many cases a serious misapplication of capital. Indeed, the building owner and the builder, without the intervention of an architect, meet on very unfair terms. This is the more iw p , rtant, since the present system of excessive com petition his gradually reduced the stability of build ings to an alarming extent. It is remarkable that twiny of the brick buildings erected in the early part of the 16th century still remain and command a fancy price, and in many parts of London those built in the seventeenth century still remain in good condition. Towards the latter part of the eighteenth and beginning of the present century, the solidity of the buildings seems to have declined till it arrived at the present flimsy style. Many ob jections may be made against the present almost universally adopted plan for London houses. The placing the kitchen on the basement is an evil that might often be avoided, and a different arrangement of staircase would sometimes be an advantage. Per haps one of the greatest improvements in London houses of all sizes would be to have the drains laid so near the surface, and so covered by boards, that they could be examined or cleaned without trouble. Many a drain has been allowed to leak its contents away into the kitchen floor and the foundations, from which cause alone there ars many damp walls in London. Mr. Papworth then dwelt at some length upon the present competitive system. When tenders are sent in, a most embarrassing discre pancy exists in the amounts named, and generally, if the lowest tender is accepted, it is found to be in the end false economy, and more money is spent eventually than was originally contemplated. The subject of house building, as at present carried on by speculative builders, was then discussed, the badness of the bricks employed, .the careless prepa ration of the mortar, the mixing of old brickwork with now, the bad method of laying foundations these and numerous other evils were pointed out. The rapidity with which the work is carried on naturally produces serious imperfections, among which smoky chimneys are not the least. If the public will avail itself of unlimited competition, and will not pay the builder a fair price for his work, the cl iss of honest builders will die out, and in all our houses we shall see one or more faults Eke those described. With reference to the bad policy of such a system, every year of a badly built house may be said to cost at least one-third of the rent in repairs ; if they are not done, the hoist, goes to ruin at once. Indeed, our modern houses are so b idly hudt that even speculative builders now find it difficult to sell a lease. Mr. Papworth concluded by expressing a hope that if the system he had condemned were continued the bl , tme would not be unfairly laid upon the profession to which he considered it an honour to belong. A discussion ensued, in wbicb Dr. Waller Lewis, Dr. Arnott, Dr. Milroy, Mesprs. Robert Rawlit:Hon, Elliott, Wink wortb, Pearsall, and others took part. LANDLORDISM TN ANTRIM. (Front the Belfast Northern. Whig ) We got one good thing out of the surprise which we inflicted, last Thursday morning, on our Tory friends. In the sudden effort they were compelled to make to keep their ground, they were forced to fling aside all the finesse of their organisation, and to reveal recklessly, in all its coarseness and villany, the whole machinery of intimidation and corrup tion. Such scenes as were yesterday witnessed in the different polling places of the county of Antrim are, if nut unprecedented, at least unparalleled in our time. Men were "driven," called over, formed, marched, all but whipped, to the poll. This was not done in quiet spots, in inn parlours, on gentle men's lawns. There was no disguise—no effort at disguise. On railway platforms the bawl of the agent, the stringing of the galley-slaves—one could almost fancy t e smack of the thong—were bestowed pro bono public°. There was as little shame as dealers feel in a South American slave auction, or, if there was any shame, it was on the side of the cringing creatures who, wanting the capacity to act together, shrunk individually from any act of hos tility to the landlord to whom they owed arrears, or from whom they had got no lease. All this was new; for, usually, they at least enjoy the hypo crisy which is the homage Tories pay to Liberalism —a little reserve—gloves to hide the unc'ean hands. Our own impression is, that the game was overplayed in this way. The rustic oligarchs seemed to know very little of tree new election law, and cases of "treating" came within our own ob servation which would certainly illegalise the whole election, in case Mr. O'Hara. fail. Matt-r 3 were greatly overstrained. Is it not strange that the Mar• quis of Hertford should first give strict injunctions to his master's tenants how to vote, and then tele graph to his employer, in Paris, to ask leave to dic tate ? and yet it is whispered that somewhat like this was the disorder of things ; and we leave it to the Marquis of Hertford, who owes a little to the Whigs, and who " declares" for Lord Palmerston in Parisian society, to account to his counexions— not to mention his conscience—for the fact that his name is being made use of to obtain a vote for Lord Derby. Other agents have blundered as widely, and, perhaps, we shall hear a good deal more of their insolent assumption of extravagant authority. In the blind obedience of the southern Irishman to his priestly director there is something sublime ; there is at least faith and enthusiasm in it. He is too much led, but at least he votes for what he be lieves in. In the abject submission of, the Presby terian farmers of Ulster, not to the great names and. traditional influence of their head landlords, peers or otherwise, but to the second-hand tyrauuy of brutal bailiffs, there are none but the elements of the wretched and the contemptible. But it is impossible to conceive that such a sate of things can endure. The landlords of Auttim did their best and their worst yesterday, and we much mis take the signs of the times if. the men they would make their tools and their victims do not tuna upon them. There must b 3 an end put to this hideous system of mean oppression. • SHOCKING ACCIDENT IN A MANCHESTER WAGE' HOUSE.—On Monday evening a shocking and fatal acci dent occurred in the warehouse of Messrs. John Ponder and Co., Manchester. A hoist used for the purpose of lifting goods from one floor to another bad been fitted with Mr. Hugh Baines's patent self-acting safety appa ratus, a contrivance fur preventing accident in case of any of the ropes failing in the ascent of goods or ser vants from one storey to the other ; and on Tuesday evening a trial was being made of it with six per sons in the cage. On the cage arriving at the upper storey the rope was disconnected (which would be the same as if it was broken), and the patent appara tus for checking the descent of the hoist should have come into play. The apparatus, however, did not act, and the consequence was t hat the cage descended with frightful velocity to the basement flour, a depth of 50 feet. Two of the gentlemen in the cage, Mr. Peacock, head warehouseman, and his brother, had stepped out up,n the upper floor juet as the rope was disconnected, and were saved from injury, but the other four sustained serious injuries, and were carried to the infirmary, where one of them, named Sh aw, died the same ni g ht. Mr. Baines is one of the euffererA, sustaining a severe ineera. ilea of one foot. PRICES OF SHA RES. Prom the Official List. rUBLISIIED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENIX LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1857. CANALS. Names of Companies. Ashtn &Oldh Birmingham Coventry.... Derby GrandJunctn Do., 6 pr. Ct. Grand Union Kennt 3. Avr Leeds &Livrp Leicester .... Leicstr &rith Loughhorogh Macclesfield. Neath .. • • •. Dividend ;1 3 per Annum. I 93 71. a. ct. 40 4/. 00 11/. 00 61. 15s. 100 2?. pr. ct. 10 61. pr. ct. 00 7s. 6d 40 61. 100 251. 100 51. 83 11.55. 143 70. 100 21. 10s. i 00 161. 1100 Name of Company. Berlin ....... East London Do. 4 per Cent. Pref. Do. 5 per Cent. Pret. 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X s. d. 25 0 0 100 0 0 1 50 0 0 100 0 0 60 0 0 40 0 0 ' 70 10 3 Amount Share. £ s. d. Stock. Stock. Stock. 100 e o 100 e o 25 0 0 Stock. Stock. 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 51. Os. 178 281 121. 10s. 1/. 16s. X s. d . 100 all Paid. I Price. X s. d. Stock. too "6 0 too 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 50 0 0 20 0 0 14 0 0 COMPANIES Amount of Share. Paid. Price. s. 20 0 0 20 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 2) 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 TRANCE COMPANIES. Dividend per Annum. Amount of Share. Price. 71. per c. 71. 14s. 6d. 11. p.c. & bs. 15s. 0(1. & bs 41. per cent. 71. lOs. 71. I Os. 51. 5 pr ct.& bs. prr share I/ 18s. ss. '5 1 4 per cent 1/. 41. per cent. 6 per cent. 51. per cent 57. per cent 121. per cent "14s. 51. p. ct. & bs. 2s & 2s bens 2ii. per is. per share 18s. & bs. 4►4 per cent st. per cent 51. per cent. G per cent 5/ p. ct. 5/. per cent st. per cent 12 per c. p c &be p.c & bs i/ 41. & bonus 51. & bonus. 51. & Lonus 5. d. 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 1 0 0 50 0 J 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 20 0 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 iOO 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 6 5 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 20 0 0 1100 0 0 PINT-STOCK Dividend per Annum. ANKS. Amount of share. 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 11 0 2 0 0 20 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 o 10 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 5 10 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 X s. d. all 150 0 0 an 12 10 0 100 0 li 42 15 0 41 0 0 43 10 0 41 0 0 all 52 0 0 16 0 0 10 0 0 all 4 0 0 £ 5. 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 all 4 0 0 47 5 Paid. Name of Company. •• • • Bank of Egypt .. •• .• Bank of London British North American Oh Bk. Ind. Aust & Ch City .. Colonial ........ • • • • • Commercial of London Eng Scot. & Aust. Ch Lond. Char. Bk. of Aus Do. New .. • • London and County .. Lon. & East'. llokg. C. London Joint-Stock . • . Londn end Westinimtr Nat. Provincial of Eng. Ditto. New Ditto ditto Natio-ini Bank New - oath Wales Oriental Bank Corpora. Ottoman Bank Provincial of Ireland Ditto, New.• 10nian........ ..... south Australia • • Union of Australia Ditto ..... Union of Hamburg.... Union of L0nd0n...... Unity Mutual ........ Western Bank of Londn tOl. per cent. 51. per cent. 9 per cent. 41. per cent. 5/. per cent. 71. p. c. & bs. per cent. 51. per cent. let. per cent. 61. per cent. 28 per cent. 18.. per cent. 16 pc.&bs il.per cent. 20'. per cent. 101. per cent. IJ. p. ct.&bs. Si. per cent. 5L per cent. 101. per cant. 211. per cent. 1 151. per cent s. d. 40 0 0 25 0 0 :00 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 1 20 0 0 1 20 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 1 100 0 0 50 0 0 ,100 0 0 100 0 0 1 20 0 0 50 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 4 a. d. all 18 15 0 50 0 0 all 6 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 all 20 0 0 50 0 0 10 J 0 20 0 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 22 10 0 90 15 0 0 25 0 0 2 10 0 3 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, Price. Dividend Atm ua t Name of Company. per of Paid. I Price , Annum. Share. —.-- -- ----. ----- ---- 13ank of Scotland .. 71. per cent. 100 C 0 100 0 0 . 199110 British Linen Company 81. per cent 100 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 3/ 223/oslfs Caledonian Bank .. ••• el. per ce nt 10 0 0 2 City of Glasgow Bank 51 . pe r cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 13/ 5s Clydesdale Bank •• .. SN, 1. p cent 20 0 0 10 0 0 9 9 14 , lis C mmercial Bank .. 71. per cent. ,500 0 0 100 248i0s Eastern Bank— •• •• .• 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 14i O 2ss Edinb.Ba Glasgow.. •. 3 g per p l. p cent. 5 0 500 51 National Bank •• •• —6% cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 192 Os :i t .. p pe e r r c c e en n t t. 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1g: 0 0 0 0 I I V os s Northof Scotland Bank 5/. per cent ,20 0 0 110 0 51 8s Royal Bank of Scotl. ..,. Union Bank of Scot. Western Bank •••• •• 71. par cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 84 /Os klliance Firs and Life.. rie,/.pr cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 17/ 13s British Guarantee . per cent. 10 0 0 2 0 0 1 / 12s Caledonian Fire Incur . 10t.per cent. er cent. 1 25 0 000 0 0 1s 0 0 0 0 0 25/ ri 53 ()a ' City of Glasgow Lite.. Ri g. p er - Co'onial Life ... ••.. 51. per cent. 40 0 0 3 0 0 5/ 10s Edinburgh Life Insur. il. Der cont. 100 0 0 15 0 0 291 Os Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51.,lercent. 50 0 0 3 5 041 6 Life Assoc. of lectian d 6/. p er cent. 40 00 N a tional Fire and Life 61 . p er cent. 10 0 0 1 4 0 2/ .8 0 6l N o rth British Insur.. • 71 . p er cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 36/ O O : N ort h ern Assurance Co. 2000 3 0 0 1 1 s s Sco tti s h Provincial .... 50 0 0 2 0 oat S co ttish Union Insrnc• 7%1. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 15s Os S tan d a rd Life .. ••.• —5/. per cent. 50 0 0 7 0 ° 11 0 0 201 Os MISCELLANEOUS. ______-------- Dividend Amou nt Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ----------- -----.. ..._ ~... 4 s• d. 4 s. 11. Acadian Charcoal Iron .. 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 African Steam Ship • , .. 2 0 0 0 10 0 0 Assam lea .. ,• -• .• '3 . rer cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 Auction Mart...... •• 141 per cent. 50 0 0 Australian A:riculturi _ 25 0 0 19 0.0 Australian Trust .. •• 81. pr cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 21 Australian Royal Mail 10 0 e all _ Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11, 108. 10 0 0 all British American Land 51. per cent 50 0 0 40 0 0 —,,,, cent Bond , •• —•••• •• 'li• per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 l au 51. per cent Stock 100 0 0 Ditto, h per cent bds st.per cent. Stock 1 " 0 0 0 Ca D n o ad . 5 a p . e . r . Ditto, 0 per cwt. .. ni --• per cent. Stock 100 0 Ditto, 6p c. bd - s 1874 61. Dor cent. Stock 100 0 0 Ditto, 6p c. bds 1571 61. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 -- Crystal Palace • ... 2/. per cent 5 0 0 all 2% Ditto Preference.... 71 pr. cent 5 0 0 5 0 0 Crys. Bailee of France 4 0 0 nil City Navigation Bonds 3 1 A Z. per cent Stock. 100 0 0 94 Electric Telegraph .. 61. per cent. ng. --us• C.V. Smelt. 5 0 0 all E g. , A — 50 0 0 all Eng.&lris. Mag. T. Co. 100 0 0 .00 0 0 _ Di Equitable Reversionry 5/per cent. 50 00 22 0 tßevers. te New ........ 0 0 .00 0 0 Gen. & Invest. 51. p c and 1/. 100 10 Gen. I. Sc. Col. (Lim.) 25 0 0 all Gen•SteamNa v igation tot. per ct • & 15 0 0 14 , 1 0 25 London Gen. Omnibus 121 . pe r cent 4 0 0 all 4 Hudeon's 8ay.....• •• per 10 0 hl cent. Stock Stoc allk 0 0 . liangerford .... •• •• 21 53. 10 0 0 all 5% Loa. Ne &Na. Mauso. 5/, per cent. 15 0 0 all London Reversionary Mex. '& S. American — lO 0 0 all Nat. Discount C Comp • • 25 0 0 50 0 4 1 er cent 100 0 0 N.S.W. Gov.sp.c. De b. 51. P Nor. Bet. Australastan 6d. 10 0 all N North of Europe, Stm. ,re cent RI r 2O 0 0 17 10 0 11% Price's Paten t Cand. Co 21 0 0 all Peel River LandSLlNlin. 50 0 all Pen. & Or i en tal Steam 71. per cent 50 0 0 all 6 7 Ditto New •• ••• • • • , —'so 0 0 10 0 0 14% Reversionary Int. Soc. 11 1 / 2 /. pr cent 100 0 0 all Ditto New •••• •• .. a pr ..,. 4 1 /. cevt 130 0 0 20 0 0 Royal M a il ~, Steam.... 41 . p. share. 100 0 0 60 0 0 , 6 Sco tti s h Au.... Invest 151. per cent. 10 0 all 1% Soutli A ustrali an Land 71 . p er cen t. 25 0 0 all 35 % Trust and Loan Comp. 7Y2-. Pr cent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 Yaw. Diemen's Land.. 103. 100 0 0 28 10 0 Vic Gov. ti per ct.Bds. 6 per cent. _. : £ 0. d. MURDER IN PARIS. A. murder was committed early on Tuesday morn ing, or in the night of Monday, in tlL.t quarter of the Madeleine. About six weeks ago a retired pro vincial judge, 61 years of age, hired furnished lodgings at No. 43, in the Passage du Havre, where he led a very regular life, and received nu merous visitors. On Monday night he returned home at about 11 o'clock, and retired to rest. At 9 o'clock the next morning a servant entered his rooms to clean them, and was surprised to find that he had not got up. She went to the bed-room door, and called to him, but received no answer ; she then entered and approached the bed, but the moment after she rushect from the room shrieking " Help !" and fell sensel, si on the stairs. Her mi.- tress and some other penons hastened to er a;d, and when she had somewhat recovered, she, in great terror, exclaimed, "Madame ! madame ! the gentleman—be is dead. I saw him in his bed!" The mistress and others then, finding that the lodger really was lying: dead in the bed, sent for the comnds4ary of police, and ho soon arrived, accompanied by two medical men. Tf ey found that the lodger had been killed by two blows on the head from some blunt instrument, which had caused deep wounds and a loss of blood ; and that his hands were tied together by a cord, one end of which was passed round his neck. On the night-table were some large nails and a knife. Although the furniture in the room was in disor der, it did not_ appear that any search had been 1 1 made after booty ; and though the gold watch and chain of the deceased were not found, it is be lieved that he had confided them to a watchmaker for some repairs, as he had spoken of so doing. No clue to the murderer has thus far been discovered, and the motive of the crime is a mystery. About an hour before the servant entered the room a well-dressed man called to see the deceased, but received no reply to his knocks. He remarked to the surveillant of the pasage that perhaps the gentleman had gone out to be shaved, and that ho would go to look for him. In a few minutes he re turned, and said he had not been able to find him ; the other ar:swered that he had not seen him, but that it was probable he had gone out for a walk : on which the stranger went away and never returned. The police are making a searching investigation into the affair. Country Markets. DERBY SMITHFIELD.-APRIL 14. The supply of fat beasts was large, and in good request, but prices unaltered. The number of sheep less than of late, the demand flat, and sales heavy, at high prices. Of fat pigs there were about the average, and better sold. The following were the quotations :—Beef, 64e to 74d; mutton, 801. to 10d ; lamb, —d to Od ; veal, 7d to 74d per lb. ; pigs, lOs 6d to ll s Od per score; rough fat, 5 s 0 1 t o O s per 14. ; hides, 410 to 6,d per lb ; calf•skins, 44d to 60 per lb. EDINBURGH GRAIN.-Arm 15. A fair supply of grain ti-day. Sales dull for all kinds, and prices better, with the exception of beans. Wheat, on the top, 2s down, and on the average is 10d up. Barley, 03 6d up on the top, and Os 9d up on the average. Oats on the top is 6d down—on the average Os Li up. Beans on tho top 2s down, and on the average 10d down. Tares from 50a to COs por quarter. Potatoos same as last week. AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Wheat ... Do. new Barley Oats Beans £1 18 t 5 2-12ths. 0 0 0 0-12th. 1 N 9 5-12ths. 1 7 2 10-12ths. 1 18 6 8-12ths. BOSTON-APRIL 15. Although the supply of wheat from the growers was only moderate the demand for all kinds ruled firmer, and in ferior parcels were fully is per qr. advance—really fine at late prices mostly. Oats 6d to is higher. Other grain as previously noted. . - Prices :—Wheat, red, 43s Od to 56s 0(1; new, —s to -s ; white, 54s Od to 58s Od; extra, 625. Barley, 38s Od to 47s Od. Oats 18s to 255. Peas, 36- to 41s 081. Beans, 37i Od to 42s Od per qr. NEWARK-Apmr. 15. We had a full attendance of farmers to-day At market, and a good supply of grain. Trade was rather steady, at is per qr. higher. Barley at late prices. Other articles as before. Wheat, white 61s to 635, red 55s to 58s; barley, malting 44s to 48s, grinding 36 s to 38s; oats, 24st. 30s to 32,,, 22st 24s to 26s ; beans, 42s to 44s ; malt, 76s to 80s ; peas, 403 to 425; tares, 42s to 44s per qr. LOUTH-A PAIL 15. There was little business done to-day in corn, all kinds havirg a dull sale at a reduction from last week's prices- Barley ls to 2s per qr. lower. Oats as last quoted. Bean% rather higher. Wheat, 50s to 53s ; extra, 55s ; barley 43s to 45e; onto, 22s to 245 ; beans, 103 to 425. LOCAL SHARB MARKETS, LIVERPOOL, Arnn. 16. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was steady to-day, at the rates of yesterday for all the leading stocks. The fol lowing were the sales : London and North Western. 1051 s—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 39 Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1014 91 -B—South Eastern 2 —Eastern Counties, 11 8 Caled on i ans, British, 118—Graud Trunk, 154 — Whitehaven and Fur ness, B—St. Hel , n's 4 i per cent., D, 90i c.—Sambre and Meuse, 9/. 6s. 3d. '34- I—North LEEDS, APRIL 16. STOCK EXCHANGE.---The market was quiet to-day, and prices without much variation. North Eastern, Lead°, 20—Sheffield5, 39 c.—Midl ands, 82—London and South Western, 104, MANCHESTER, APRIL 16. spoox 2COI3ANGE.—The market to-day was doing veil little business, but prices slightly improved, and at the c lose were at their highest quotation. East Lancashire, 9 9 ' Midlands, 821 4--South Eastern and Devers, 221 n; 11 - "" Shaffields, 34 ?,--East L ancas hi re , new 1-16 d.--Leeds , 101 a n, 2 - - Ditto, n ew, h p. --Londonand North Wee tern, 10. i., f - ,—Ditto, Ein hths 1-16 d.—Eastern Counties, 11 11-16—Grand Trunk of Canada, 16. BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 16. STOCK EXCHANGE. -- The market was steady to-dal, and prices were about the same as yesterday's rates. Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley, 9 1 ." Birmingham Canal, 91 91i—Ditto, New Union Mill, s —Birmingham Fire, 95. Great Western, 661- 67i—London and North Western, 104 The Parana, which leaves for the West lndiea to-daY' will take out 60,3001., 44,300/, being gol and 16,0001. 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