The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-03 00:00:00

RAILWAY LAW.

A general railway law has rec;_,ntly be,... enacted
;.ftor dtw deliberation, and sanctioned by the signature of
every member of the Cabinet, which in various points seems
not ail worthy of attention here. if no other advantage re-
sulted from the regulations thus promulgated, the mere sim-
plification, by which all railways are subjected to one general
system, which everybody may understand, is itself perhaps an
improvement upon the practice of this country, where there
are as many different railway laws as there are railways and
Acts of Parliament to incorporate them. According to the
new Prussian law, every projected railway is first of all to be
submitted to the examination of the Minister of Commerce,
with all the information necessary as to the line of
road intended, and the amount of the capital to be sub-
scribed. These preliminaries being satisfactorily adjusted,
a detailed examination of the plan and the workings is to
be entered upon by competent parties, under the direc-
tion of the Minister, which if resulting favourably, his formal
approbation will be signified. He is then to fix a term within
which the projectors are to show that the subscribers have
paid up the requisite capital on the conditions and liable to the
charges indicated by himself, and that the company has been
definitively constituted according to the rules agreed upon
among the shareholders themselves. The shares may be
issued to bearer, are to be exempt from stamp duty, and may
moreover be delivered and transferable before the payment up
in full of the nominal capital, subject to other provisions.
There is a formal prohibition against the issue of promises of
shares to bearer (share-letters, as well understood here) or
other preliminary acknowledgment of a right to shares. Every
shareholder is to be personally and rigorously compromised to
the payment of 40 per cent. upon the nominal capital subscribed
by him, and from this obligation he can neither be freed by the
s le or ce sion c f his shares to a third party, nor by the" Company
itself. In cases of delay in payments be is liable to be proceeded
against a ith all the severity authorized by the statutes of the
society. After the payment of the 40 per cent., the original
proprietor may dispose of his shares, and the Company is em-
powered to release him from his remaining engagements in
favour of the purchaser or at its option may still hold him liable,
notwithstanding the transfer; but in this ease it can have no
claim against the purchaser : the same option is reserved and
in force in every successive transfer. New shares cannot be
emitted or loans raised, excepting by the express permission of
the Minister of Commerce, who will have the power to deter-
mine the amount of the sum to be reserved as a sinking fund
for the reimbursement of the loan and the eventual repayment
of the original capital. The regulations for the acquisition of
the land or other property necessary for the Company's
operations are not much dissimilar from those customary here,
excepting that the previous approval of the Government will
be necessary before the proprietors can be treated with or
forced to sell. But in no case can a proprietor be compelled
to part with his property for the accommodation of the Com-
pany in the construction of warehouses for the deposit of mer-
chandise, or other objects of private speculation, rather than of
general interest. In case of compulsory sale, the Government
takes upon itself to appoint the proper skilled parties to
determine the amount of compensation on hearing of the two
sides interested. In the event of the Railway not being fi-
nished within the period fixed, the Government may then pro-
ceed to put up for public competition the completion of the
works at the charge of the Company ; but prior to this step a
delay of six months extra is to be granted to the Company
to finish the work themselves. No Railway can be opened
and travelled on until the Government has previously
caused it to be carefully surveyed and examined, Companies
are to be held responsible for all damage to persons and pro-
perties, excepting in the case where it shall be clearly proved
that such damage was caused by the fault of the parties them-
selves, or owing to circumstances over which they could exer-
cise no sort of control or power of prevention. During the
first three years the Companies will be free from competition
of other carriers on the Railways, providing that they con-
form to the tariff of fares and rates determined upon, and to
the modifications which may hereafter be imposed, as well as
that they provide for the carriage of all persons and commo-
dities requiring accommodation on the route. After the three
years, the use of the Railway may be granted by Government
to other parties on the payment of an equitable indemnity, and
a rateable contribution on passengers or commodities to the
Companies. _ _

Vie privileges of the post administration, that is the post-
horse and carriage as well as post-office service, may be exer-
died by the Companies, subject to certain charges and condi-
tions, amongst which they are to undertake the gratuitous car-
riage of letters rnd parcels, and of money, with other valuable
effects, the right of carriage of which at present is vested in
the post department. They are also to carry gratuitously
other objects usually confided to the post, as well as persons
having a free passport from the post authorities. The railways
are to be subject to a tax proportioned according to the re-
served fund, but the receipt of this impost will not commence
until after the first three years, and then only when clearly
established that the profits are such as to be equal to support
the burden. Until then the post revenue is to be indemnified
in another mode for the loss ensuing from the railways, having
regard to the other charges which have to be borne by them,
as stated. When, through the operation of the sinking
or reserve fund, the repayment of the original capital
shall have been effected, the railways are then to be so regu-
lated that the charges for carriage shall not exceed the actual
expenses to be covered. The right is reserved to the State
of entering into possession of the railways on payment of an
equitable consideration, but this right cannot be claimed be-
fore the expiration of 30 years after the opening of the rail-
way. The consideration then to be paid for the railway is
to be assessed at a sum equal to 25 times the mean annual di-
vidend received by the shareholders during the five preceding
years. The Companies are to have no claim for damages in
time of war, even if resulting from orders given and mea-
sures taken by the Government. No concession for other
railways in competition with lines established will be granted
before the expiration of 30 years. The regulations, lastly,
of this new law are retroactive, and applicable to the railways
in progress or to be made.— Times.

Application, it is said, will be made to Parliament
next Session, for a bill for the purpose of forming a new
road from Eaton-square to Kensington. The road is in-
tended to cross Sloane-street, Alexander-square, and, Thence
to the gardens of Gloucester Lodge, the r'sidence of the
late Mr. Canning, thence to the Ar.letlison-road, and to ter-
minate at Kensington. The length will be two miles.

One day last week a man was driving a cart near
Branbridges, when five boys requested him to let them
ride. He did so, and having to cross a stream in a dan-
gerous part of the road, the horse and cart were carried
away by the current, and four of the unfortunate boys
were drowned ; only one boy and the man escaping. On
the same day the waggoner of Mr. Porter, of Hadlow, was
talking with another man near the same place about this
melancholy occurrence, when his team were frightened at
sonic sheep, started off, and the waggon, which was luckily
empty, went over his body. He was bled and received
further attention, and is now doing better than under the
circumstances might have been expected.—Maidstone
Gazette.

An inquest was held last night at Charing-cross
Hospital, on the body of an Irish labourer, who died in
that institution from the effects of a fractured skull, re-
ceived by the accidental falling of a portion of a scaffolding
which he and others were erecting in Regent-street. Ver-
dict " Accidental Death." Another inquest was held at
the London Hospital, on the body of a man iu the service
of a floor•cloth manufacturer in the Hackney-road, who,
being seized with a sudden giddiness while at work, fell
from a scaffold, striking his head against a tile, and was so
injured as to expire shortly afterwards. Verdict in this
case also " Accidental Death."

AN ACTOR IN TROUBLE.-Harvey Leach, of
" Gnome Fly" celebrity, was yesterday held to bail at
Guildhall on a charge of assaulting a young man named
Williams, and horsewhipping him as complainant attempted
to pass him on horseback while Mr. Leach was driving a
chaise along Ludgate-hill on the 15th of November last.

FIRE.—A fire broke out yesterday afternoon on
the premises of a laundress named Bains, residing at Turn-
ham-green, from what cause is not known. Fire engines
from town were speedily in attendance ; but did not suc-
ceed in saving the building or its contents. They are said
to be insured.

The further investigation into the state of mind of
Mr. Taylor was resumed yesterday. Two medical gentle-
men gave it as their opinion that Mr. Taylor was deci-
dedly insane at the time to which the inquiry refers. After
the examination of other witnesses, who concurred in that
opinion, the Court again adjourned.

Since Monday, when the sessions of the Central
Criminal Court commenced, upwards of forty persons have
been fully committed to Newgate for trial. Amongst the
charges are twenty cases of larceny, four of burglary, three
of robberies in dwelling houses, four of robberies or em.
bezzlement by servants, and one of highway robbery. The
total number of prisoners for trial is about 130, although
the Court was only adjourned for a week. As usual,
large proportion of the offenders are under twenty years of
age

TwE RUSSIANS AS THEY WERE, AND AS THEY
ARE.—The celebrated Arabian traveller, known by the
surname of Ibn Batuta, who commenced perigrinations in
1304, speaking of the Russians, says, " They are a people
with red hair and blue eyes, ugly and perfidious ;" and our
distinguished English traveller, Dr. Clarke, nearly 500
years after the time of Ibn Batuta, characterises them
much in the same terms, alleging, amongst other things,
that even in the company of Russian Noblemen, yen, must
" take care of your pockets," or it is ten to one you will
lose your handkerchief. What an extraordinary circum-
stance it is in the history of the world that the civilised na-
tions of Europe should have permitted these " red-haired,
blue-eyed, ugly, and perfidious," barbarians, to have car-
ried on their plundering propensities to such an extent as to
have wrested (within the short space of the last 70 years)
from Sweden more than one-halt of her former possessions
—to have grasped two-thirds of Poland—to have advanced
their frontier over Persia and Turkey, 500 miles towards
Constantinople and the Mediterranean, and 1,000 towaros
Teheran and India!
In allusion to the wonderful exploits of steam-Ves-
sels it has been remarked that " Time and tide once
waited for no man, now n
WM waits for them,"

PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS,
SSITRANCT, COMPANIFS)&e, tire.

r,l".;"i)N, TIE:-,WiY, J,l:\, I
N maim' I),rnii,ziu Pri
of per CANALS. per
Shares. Annum. Paid. Share
1,766 7 pei cent. Ashton and Oldham...Average 97/. itis.sh. 135
~082 41. Ashby-de-le-Zouch . Average 1151.5 h. 73
1,260 Basingstoke 1001.&h.
1,005 51. Brecknock and Abergavenny 150 i. sh. 90
8,000 1-16 sh. 91 68. Birmingham, 1-16th share 811. & 711. 218
S. 000 Ditto and Liverpool Junct...l°ol sh. 1000 26
600 31. Bridgewater and Taunton ....1001 sh. all pd 64
400 4/. Chelmer and Blackwater 1001. sh. 101

500 481. C wentry :00/.sh.
4,545 Croydon - Average 31/.26.10d. sh.
2,060; 4/. N. Dudley lOO/.sh.
600 141. Derby lON. sh .
20,000 4 per cent. tianune and Mayne 4ll. 13s. 4d .pd
3,575; 31. Ellesmere and Cheater Average 133/. sh.
231 621. Erewash '001.61i.
1,297 28/. Forth and Clyde Average 11101.165. th.
1,600 121. Grand Junction lOW. sh.
11,849 f I/. Grand Union liall.sb
11,500 Grand Surrey .... .... 100!. sh.
0,0001. 41. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan lool.
3 196
600 13/.125. 9d. Glamorganshire, Average cost 172/.135. td.

749 10i. Grant him 150/. sh.
6,238 2/. Os. Huddersfield Average 571. 6s. 6d. si,
100 Kensington 100 sh. all pd
5.528 11. ss. Kennet and Avon, Average :39/. 18s. 10d. sh
2,8971 241. Leeds and Liverpool 100/. sh.
515; 131. Leicester l4O/. sh,
1,897 61. Os. Leicester and Northampton... Aver 531.108.
2.400 101. Monmouthshire 1001. sh.
150 10/. Melton Mowbray 1001. eh.
500 251. Mersey and Irwell 100/. sh.
3.000 11. 10s. Macclesfield 1001. sh all pd.
247 171. Neath 1001. sh.
2,400 51. Peak Forest Aver.ge about 781. sh.
1,418 10s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. 16.. Bd. sh.
5,669 61. per cent. ttochdale Average 85/. sh.
500 8/. Shropshire /251. sh.
800 91. lOs. Somerset Coal 1501. sh.
3,6001. 41 per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 12/. 10s. sh.
700 401. Stafford and Worcester 140/. sh.
500 91. Shrewsbury 125/. sh.
300 91. Stourbridge .........„, _ .... 1451. sh.
3,647 2/. Os. Stratford-on-Avoir...Average 791. Os. :rd. sh.
533 15/. Swansea 1001. sh.
3,762 1/. 15s. Severn and Wye and Railway ...AT 351. sh.
2,60..15h. 321. 10s. Treat and Mersey, } share 1001. sh.
8,149
I,ooosh.] 161 Warwick aLid Birmingham 1001. sh
I,ooolsh.
9..40 15s. Warwick and Napton lOO/. sh.
6,000 4/.os. Worcester and Birmingham... Av. 78/.Bs. sh.
5,000 255. Wilts and Berk. .. Average 67/. 10s. Bd. sh.
800 31. IN yrley and Essington 1251. sh
126 Wisbeach lO5/. sh.
905 la. Wey and Arun llOl. sh.
DOCKS.
t,600& } Op. c Commercial _ . 'OOl. sh.
1,06515 h
East and West India Stock
3,238,310 V. 555. p.ct. London
Ditto Bonds
2,`.`.09 2/. 19s. Bristol
68,324/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts
1,352,752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock
500,000 41 per oent. Ditto Bonds
200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years
2.500 ..... Deptford Piet
BRIDGES.
1,600 10s. Hammersm Ai 5O/. sh.
7,ff1l
1,700 1/. 15s. Ditto, New, of 71 r cent. 5O/. sh.
5,000 Waterloo lOO/. sh.
5,000 16s. &I. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8/. ... ...... 60/. pd
5,000 16s. 4d. Ditto, New Ditto of 7l 40/. pd
`30,000/. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds
5,848 17s Vauxhall... ... ......... Avnrage 701. 10s. 3d. sh
ASSIJRANCF ..........
2,000
__ 31105 _ Albion 500/. sh. 501. pd 74

113
1071
1011
1001
11

40,000 15fne(ri cent. Alliance, British & Foreign 100/. sh. 101/. pd 14-1
50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 1001. sh. 51. pd 61
24,000 1 l per sh. Atlas 501. sh. 5/. pd 14i
1,200 }sh. 5/. Birmingham Lire
20,000 41 percent. British Fire . 250/. sh. 501. pd 40
12,000 61. percent. British Commercial 50/. sh. 5/. pd 6
5,000 51. per cent. Clerical, Medial, &c. Life, ICol.sh. 2/10s pd 4
4,000 21 !Os County 1001. sh. 10/. pd 42
20,000
_ _ ss. Eagle

~.,
„„,, r 5 per cent.l Economic la/.: lOOOl, sh. 2501. pd 375
''''' land 30/ bs.
2,271 225. per cent. European In • 004 sh. all pd 22
50,000 2s. Ditto, New 2O/. ah 2/. pd li
1,000,0001. 74 per ct Globe Stock 1461
20,000 51. Guardian lOOl. sh. 2711 pd 361
40,000 6s. 6d. Hope 5O/. sh. 51. pd 54
2,400 5/. 7s. 6d. Imperial Fire 5001. sh. 50/. pd 130
7,500 9s. Imperial Lite 1001. sh. 10/. pd 10/
13,458 41. percent. Indemnity Marine 100/. sh. 8/. poi 28
2,020 31 !Os Kent Fire 50/. sh. all psi 82
3/. Ditto Life., 79
10,000 Ibis, Law Life , .1001. sh. 10/. pd 281
5,00 u 10s, London, Fire 954 sh. 12/. 10s. pd 16
3,900 105, London, Ship 25!. sh. 12/. 10s. pd 161
1,000,0001. ... ..... Minerva Life 1001, sh.
30,000 5/. per cent. Palladium Lite 501. sh. 21. pd 2198 Od
50,000 4/. per cent. Protector Fite 00/. sh. 2/. pd 16s Od
2,500 1/. Provident Lire
100,000 ss. Rock Life 004 sh. 1/, pd 61
049,220/ 5/. percent. Royal Exch.nige Stock... 2251
6,000 5 per cent. University Life lOO/. sh. 51. pd 51
50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 1001. sh. 51. pd 7/
JOINT STOCK BANKS
25,000 8 per cent, Agric. and Comm. of Ireland 25/. sh. 10!. pd
5,000 Australasia 404 sh. 40/. pd '7O
10,.06 10 per cent. Bank of Birmingham 5(l. sh. 10/. pd 13
10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 161
31,000 5 per cent. London and Westminster.,.loo/ sh. 201. pd 234
60,000 51. London Joint Stock 50/. sh. 10/. pd 13/
3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster......... ........ -.. lOOl. sh. Ml. pd 50
25,000 Liverpool 1001 sh. 104 p 4 efts
100,000 '7l per sent Man
chester and Liverpool] 501. eh. 151 IA 204
Di
20,000 7 per cent. Manchester 1.041. sh. 25/. pd 27
20,000 Provincial Bank of Irelanc! 100/. sh. 25/. pd 45
50,000 National Bank of 11-eland 5Ol. sh. 17-4/. pd 17
10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. .„1001. sh. 35/. pd 341
10,000 Gloucestershire 5Ol. sh. 10/. pd 20
6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire. 50/. att. Si. pd 9
GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.
2,500 1/ Os 04 Bath
5,000 British 4O/. sh. 161. pd 2(1
~,„, (54pereent.1
50-''' Land Bs. 65.5 Ditto Provincial 201. sh. 19 p.I 241
928 51104 Birmingham 5Ol. sin 93
1,250 210 s Bristol 2o'. sh. 36
1,500 3/ lOs Brighton ‘)0/. sh. 111
750 31 105 Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 18/ IA 9
2,471 41 per cent. Brighton General 20/. sh. all pd 17
4,000 5/, Continental Consolidated
1,000 101. City of London lOO/. sh. all pd 196
1,000 61. Ditto, New
4,000 44 10s. Equitable .. 5O/. pd 301
10,000 21 per cent. Imperial
800 5/ per cent. Isle of Thanet 251. sh. 20!. pd 20
2,350 61. per cant. Independent '3o/. sh. all pd 49
9,000 31. per cent. Phoenix
.... 50/. sh. 39/. pd 23
1,000 41. per cent. Ratcliff 1001. sh. 801. pd 58
4,000 Soot's Metropolitan 5O/. sh. 191. pd 17
4,200 5/. per cent. United General 504 sh. 46/. pd ega
240 5/. per cent. Warwick SN. sh. 50
400 51. per cent Wakefield ......25/. sh. 291
2,000 3/. Westminster Chartered .... 5Ol. sh. 521
' 6,000 12s. Ditto New
•
860 Yarinn,',',in 2Ol. sh. 191. pd
WATER. WORKS.
4,800 -9S. Birmingham 25!. sh. 25/. pd 20
,'-'/4 61, East London lOO/. sh. 170
5,500 21 10s Grand Junction ~.,Average 411 IBs. 4d. sh. 69
2,000 2/. Kent lOO /.sh. 45
372 101. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 326
1,500 2110 s Now River London Bridge WaterAnnui ties 62
6,486 1/ 15s Manchester and Salford lOO/. sh. 51
1,000 4 per cent. South Loudon 100/.Bh. 101
9,994 44 West Middlesex ....Average 634 12s. 9d. sh. 105
1,360 11 148 York Building Co. Lessee Prop 100/. sh. 35
IRON RAILWAYS.
6,300 Birmingham and Derby 50/. pd 401
9,500 Birmingham and Gloucester
-15,n0 0 .........Bristol and Exeter 1004 oh. 90 pd 11
600 Calcutta and Saugur 501 sh. 24 pd 01
7,500 Cheltenham and G. Western !001. oh. 20/.
3,000 .• Clarence WO/ 'h. 1001. pd 40
12,000 Commercial Blackwall 501 sh 2/. pd 4
8,000 Dublin and Kilkenny )00/ sh 5/, pa 3
60,000 Eastern Counties 25/. sh. 10/ pd Al
...... ... Grand Junction 1001. eh. 95/. vi 205
Great North of England :311, rid 18
5,000 Great Western lOO/ sh. 6.51, pd 781
2,000 Hartlepool.„ 100/. eh. 100/. pd 1001
4,000 ...... ... Hull and selby 501. sh. 20/. pd 10
10,009 Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. 5/. pd
2,100 31. per cent. Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 65
1,500 Ills. Leicester and Swannington ..,.501. sh. all pd '75
5,100 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester-10C /.sh. 100/. psi 205
10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 25/. pd 61
16,000 ... ...... London and Brighton 5O/. sh. 14/. pd 11
12,000 London and Blackwall 50!. sh. 31. pd 8
20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich 204 sk. 20/. pd 161
25,000 London and Birmingham ...100/. sh. 901. pd 170
Ditto Quarter Shares 5/. pd 291
20,000 ...... ... London and Southampton -.50/. sh. 501. pd 4.4
Ditto ditto New
14,000 London and Croydon Trunk 20/ sh. 204 pd 14
6,000 Ditto New Scrip l2ll. pd 1_1!
12,000 London Grand Junction 50/. sh. 5/. pd ni
1:3,000 Manchester and Leeds lOO/. sh. 50e. pd 61
10,000 Manchester and Birmingham 70/.B'n. 10/. pd 101
North Midland 1001. sh. 554 pd 56
Northern and Eastern 1001.--sh, 151. Pd 81
2,600 Preston and Wyre 50/, sh. ay. psi 36
1 38,000
1,000 10/. per cent. Stockton arid Darlingtn'. 1061. sh. 241)
9,000 Tha, ,es Haven -....„„ . . ....,501. sh 2/. 10s. pd 0
1,400 Westminster xnet Greenwich 501. sh. 2/. pd 0
11,000 York anti North Midland ...50 . sh. 12/. pd 20
MINES,
8,000 Albion Copper 5/. sh. 31/. pd 12
1,000 11, 5... A lten 151 sh. 121. lOs pd 11
"OM .4...... Anglo Mexican, ;ss. 5/. pm....100L sh. all pd 21
Ditto Subscription .51. pa 3
2,000 1,1, LlOLuos • 1501. oh all pd 57110,000 11. 19s Brazilian Imp. iss. 51. pm .35/. sh. 20/ pd Is
6,000 .... ..... Maeaubas 8e cocass United -251. sh. 24. pd 10
11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey '2Ol. sh. 111.,ixl 5
10,000 Bolivar Copper Company 20/. oh. 20/. pd 5
10,000 ......... Ditto Scrip.... 10/. sh. 10/ psl 101
20,000 British Iron
(3,000 British Copper 5/. sh. 411. pd li
Cita Branca 611. r d 9
Candonga 714 pd 6
10,000 11 Copiapo 'lO/. sh, 131. pd 9)4
8,500
3-4 ... Columbian, iss. 5/. pm,
2,950 3/. Englishl2/ Its. pd 7
50,000 General Mining Association...2o/. sh. 171., ins 124
0,155 Mexican Company 100/. sh. .5511. pd 4
3,000 Politerou Consols .. 'l)/. sh, 8/. pd 41
11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered 9/
Ditto Loan Notes 1504 pd MO 10,000 United Mov.:can, iss. 2 pin, ....401, sh, all pd 11
Dortt. Scrip . . „ s. 21
Ditto New Scrip 5l pd 4
West OW* 501 sh, 50/. pd 39
Ll'fl4 It ARV 1 NSTIT UTION S.
1,000 London, with Brown Ticket.... ..... 75gs. sh. 291
1,500 .. . London University 1001.5 h. all pd 231
700
King' College 1004 pd 26
MISCELLANEOUS.
10,000 158. Australian Agricultural.. .100/. sh 2011. pd 46
6,000 4/. per cent. British American Land eompany . . 2:3/. pd 11
10,000 6/ per cent. Canada Company 100/. oh.' 301. pd 29
200,000 51. per cent. Upper Canaria Loan 99
City Bonds, 4 per cent lOOl
20,000 1/. fis. General Steam Navigation ...151. sh. 14/. pd 231
104 per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock
Av. 17254.. 8,11. ~. . ; .
5,000 Caoutchouc Company:
1129
2,000 11. London Com. Sale Rooms
500,0004
New Brunswick Land Company 5O/
. '-'•'-' 21
,pd 2,751 5/. per cent. Reversionary In terest 50c...100:. sh, jou pd 134
2,5;33 51. per cent. Ditto New
-.1004 sh. 75/. d 96
%nisi '1 hassles Tunnel ..... • p
50/, sh. all pd 81
10,000 6s. Van DK. news I;and
1001. sh. 171. pd 12
LIST OF SCO9..:I'ISII COMPANIES' PRICES.
DEC. 26. 1838.
BANKS.
1,500,001, 6/. p. et. Bank of Scotland 83/. 6s. Bd. sh all pd 1901,
1,000,0064 54 p. ct. li,yil of Scotland 100/. sin all pd 1024 50,010/. Bp. et. British Linen Company 1001. sh. .:11 pd 240/
3,eni,,noet. 61. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1001. pd 1774
s,ots 41 si sn. . rt. "sn-tional
2,00.;,0001. 61 p. ct. Glasgow Union '2501. sh. 504 ini 4r 1,0000 04 4p. ct. Western of Scotland . 2OOl. sh 404 8
pd 51.,/,
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
25,.0005h 01 p. ct. Scottish Union 204 sh. 14 pd
-,5041 61 p. et. Hercules lOO/. sh. 104 30,.
pd 161. Os-
-100,000 5 p. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland
-JO/. sh, all pd 101, b...
2004 sh. 10/. pd:
50,000 6 p. ct. North British
1,000 sp. ct. Caledonian Fire 100/. oh. 10
5,000 6p. ct. Edinburgh Life 100/ h ~t Iscl 201.
_ "201.
Os
100,000 31 p. cL West of Scotland ....
MISCELLANEOUS, ....
".**" 7100
' 5 . jou 1..
pp
csi 141105
4,810 .... Edin, and Ulan.n 0
• ....rt. vai1a....., all pd 104
Ditto Allocated.. ... .S.J . sh.
474
961 is all pd
5,400 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Sind( . W''''"'" 'o ' all Pd 391' Carron Iron corn ater....2.51. sh.
pd
441,
9,0005 h 15 per cent. Shotts Iron F ' P4nY ...,..2501, oh. all d 52/.
10,000 3 percent. Edinbstr. Catudery...
4,500 10 per cent. F.,.,, ..111 St Leith Glass -.201. sh. 164 p
' • -1,....rgh Coal G 4
W2SL sh. all Pd 581.
75() ii per cent. Leith Coal Gas
1,200 Edinburgh and Dalkeitb ItallwaY•.••Mi. eh 9111.
a 001 5 per ceßt' F, •
• • -4"114.1)10 LW" co mpany 4M gh. Pa ilis 110

NEW, QUICK, and HUMANE METHOD
OF FT A.I7OFITERING ANIMALS.

I,lk. 4o the puldie, that. I
hate discovered, a❑d, alter a long series of experiments,
matured a new, quick, end humane method of slaughtering
animals for human food, which promises to be of the greatest
benefit to mankind, and for which her Majesty, the Queen,
has been graciously pleased to grant me her Royal Letters
Patent.

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The physiological principle upon which this discovery is
founded, and the existence of which was first ascertained
by myself, is that a power of great and extensive use to ani.
mal life is derived from the stretch in which the lungs are
held both in the living and recently dead animal, in opposi-
tion to their elasticity. In consequence of this power exist-
ing after death, while the antagonist and controlling power
derived from irritability was destroyed with life, the blood,
lymphatic and lacteal fluids are all drained from the arteries
and smaller veins of the larger circulation; and from the
lymphatics and lacteals into the viscera and blood-vessels
within the chest, and into the roots of the larger veins ap
proaching to it.
The object of the mode of slaughtering recommended is
to remove the impediments which nature has set up against
the elasticity of the lungs, on the existence of which impedi-
ments life, in a great measure,!depends, and, of course, to allow
the lungs to resiliate into their natural dimensions, or in
other words to collapse, while the animal is still alive.
The method of removing these impediments in the cir-
cumstances stated, to break fully and at once what may
be considered the main-spring of life, in all animals with
elastic lungs, in the most humane manner, has been the
object of long and anxious consideration and of much varied
experiment. The results have been effectual and conclusive.
The effect of this method of slaughtering is to retain the
lymphatic and lacteal fluids, and, indeed, all the finer juices
of the body, at the same points, and in the same proportion
in which they existed while the animal was still alive, in-
stead of being accumulated in the large vessels and dis-
charged out of the body in a mass and becoming a nuisance.
The result is an increase of the edible part of a car-
case to the amount of at least one-tenth beyond that which
it would supply by any mode of sle.ughtering hitherto in use.
The meat thus obtained is more juicy, tender, and far better
flavoured. It sets sooner, and, of course, is earlier fit for
use. It keeps much longer sweet and untainted. This
remarkable and important property is evidently derived
from none of the vessels being empty so as to adthit the
external air, and from an oozing of juice or lymph from the
full vessels, when any portion is cut, upon the raw surface
of that portion, and, by its tenacity, forming a sealing ce-
ment. This property is of great importance to butchers,
who lose a great deal of meat in certain status of the wea-
ther ; to the public in general ; but particularly to mariners
and to the inhabitants of warm climates.
The time to which this meat wiP, keep in different states
of the weather has not been ascertained, for it has always
been used before any marks of approaching putrescency
have been discovered; hut, in the course of last autumn,
this meat continued sweet and untainted for many days
after other meat, killed at the same time and placed in
the same circumstances, had given such proofs of spoil-
ing as to render it necessary to cook it.
The meat, the produce of slaughtering in this mode is
more economical. In the first place, it never shrinks, but,
on the contrary, enlarges in cooking ; the fat being supplied
with the juices which enrich the muscular or red portion, is
much more savoury and is more acceptable to delicate pa-
Lites, and is, therefore, less wasted. It requires less time
to cook. The centre of a large joint is done nearly as soon.
as the surface. These properties are derived from the meat.
being less spongy and a better conductor of heat than meat
obtained by any of the modes of slaughtering at present, in
use. It preserves well, and requires a much less quantity-
of salt. Other valuable properties will present themselves
to those who use this meat, and the method in question it
also attended with advantageous results affecting hides,.
skins, &c., upon which it is net necessary now to dilate.

JAS. CARSON, M.D. F.R.S.
Liverpool,
Dee. 24, 1838.

An inquest was held on Friday on the body of an
illegitimate child, a fortnight old, who died in its mother's
arms a few days ago in the streets. There was nothing to
lead to a suspicion that the child had met with its death
unfairly ; on the contrary, it was proved that the mother
was exceedingly attached to it. Verdict—" That the de-,
ceased died from being exposed to cold on account of its
mother having no home to take it to, and not with any
intention to destroy life on her part." A juror said he un-
derstood the mother had been remanded for a week from
Union Hall. He thought she ought not to be kept in, cus-
tody another hour. Several other jurors expressed, their
conviction that in her distressed condition it would be an
act of charity to keep her for that period in food and shelter.
ILLEGAL ARREST.--A correspondent states that
the neighbourhood of Harlesden..green and its vicinity have,
for the last few days been in a state of great excitement,
in consequence of the occurrence of the following proceed-
ings :—lt appears that a man named Smith, a beer-shop „41
keeper, in Lc), er-place, Harlesden-green, ootupied pre-
raises belonging to Mr. Tanner, a wealthy landowner re-
siding in the parish, and by whom he had been warned. to •
quit. This, however, he refused to do, and on Saturday
night at eleven o'clock, Mr. Tanner, accompanied by the
Rev. Mr. Curtis, his next-door neighbour, and a constable
of the parish, proceeded to tl.-4e house, and endeavoured to
persuade Smith to leave ; but he refusing to comply, they
fell upon him, and succeeded in placing the handcuffs on
him. At this time a constable of the parish and one of the •
mounted patrol, who were passing, hearing the disturb-
ance, stopped, and having ascertained what was going for-
ward, protested against the illegality of the proceedings.
Smith was, however, taken into an empty house adjoining,
where he was kept a prisoner till Monday morning, when
he was conveyed before the Magistrates at Hendon,
charged with retaining unlawful possession, but on the cir-
cumstances being detailed, was immediately dEscbarred.
Mr. Smith then, accompanied by some friends, reprAired
to town, and waited on the police-magistrate, Mr. Rawlin-
son, who, on the facts of the case being recited, immediately
granted a warrant against the three parties above named.

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BITHS
On the 30th ult., the lady of.C. A. Crosswell, Esq.,
North Brixton, of a son.surgeon,
On the 30th ult., at Poplar House, West-end, Hampstead, Mrs.
George Wainwright, of a daughter.
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At Edinbnr
Bernhard Rei neeter, Esq., of a son.
Ballin in, on the 29th uh., the Hon. Mrs. Trusser, of
of ".,
dean,daughter.
On t.,e Ist inat. ,in Gloucester-place, Portman-square, the lady
ohn Kingston. Esq., of a daughter.

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On the 2d inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, by the Rev.
Dr. Dealtry, Chancellor of Winchester,
.John Macqueen, Esq., of
Lincoln's-inn, barrister-at-law, to Georgians, only daughter of the
Rev. Geo. Dealtry, of H egworthingham, Lincolnshire. The bride:
was given away by Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Dundas, K.C.B.
At Bombay, on the 2.5 th of September, John William Wood-
cock, Esq., of the Civil Service, youngest son of Charles Wood-
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of Charlton House, Wastage,Berkshire.,
At St. James's Church, Westminster, on the 7th ult., Wil-
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Thompson, Esq., of Vanlittrgh House, Maize-hill, Greenwich,
the Hon. Charlotte Alargaritta Welman, of Poundsforth Park.

On the 25th of DIED.
September last, at Masulipatam, Harriet, one
wife of Captain W. Rawlins, of the 40th Regiment Madras 2.la-
five Infantry.
At Montreal, on the 2d ult., Charles Augustus Howard, aged 32.
At Brighton, Catherine Constantia, wife of James Ob.arles
Michell, aged 54.
On the 23d ult., aged 39, Katherine, eldest daughter of Joseph
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Berkeley-square, aged 43.

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