The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-09 00:00:00

VIE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY °EVENING, MAY 9, 1862.

BRITISH POSSESSIONS.

Closing
Sharel Railways. Paid I Price. Business done
100 Atlantic &St Lawrence all 67 72
( Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind
Gu. 5 per cent.
stk 1 100 1015 1025 1221
201 Buffalo and Lake Huron all 6 : 651 6, 4
Buffalo,Brant,&Godrich
100 lOO 83 86
205 Do. New
10 Do. Preference ...... all 84 9
I 6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872
100 Do. do. July 1, 1873 100 81 84
100 Do. do. June 1, 1679 100 80 83
5 iClcutta.&S. Eastn.(Lii, ) all 6 65
all Cape Town & Dock Seri] 20 201 21
176 'Demerara.. ....... ..... all
stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. c 100 1021 1024 1021
stock East Indian, gu. sp. c. 100 104 1085 1041 1 4
20 Do. do. 0 Ext.. .. all 4 5
stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 24 25 25 44
:100, Do. 6 per cent. Pref.. all 71 74
100 Do. 2d Pref. 6 per ct.. all 6 , 63
100 Do. 6 per ct. Debentr. all •40 43
100 Do. 7 percent. 1862 .. all 93 46
100 Do. do. 1867 .. all 36 38
100 Do. do. 1872.. all 36 38
stock Gt.lndia.Penin.g-ua.sp.c. 100 1021 1024 1021 1 /
20 Do. New gua. sp. c... 12 5 1 p 121
stock Gt. South.of India (Lim
guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 1011 101 102
201 Gt. W. of Canada Sharer all 124 121 121
20/ Do. New .. . ... .. . ... 16 8 71
100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 102 104
100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77 d 0... all 93 95
100 Do. 1878. all 93 95
stock Madras. guar., sp.c. .. 100 101 102 102 5
stock Do. 41p. c. Extensior 100 94 96
stock Do. 44 do.. .... 100 92 94
stock Melb.Corp. 6p. c. Bnds. 100
20 Newßr unswick &Canda
Ity.&Land(Lim.)g.l3pe
Class A Capital Sharc all 5 7
Do. do. Land d 0........
20 Do. do. B Capital d 0... all 4 6
„. Do. do. Land do. .......
stoat Scinde ........... . A... 3, 100 103 104 103
20 Do. Punjaub .. ii t 1 15 4 IP
1;(4
1
, Do. Do. ... .. ;s" c: all 205 204
stock Do. Indus. St. Flo. tg 100 1,9 100
10 (Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip.. 1 l 1,-
FOREIGN RAILWAYS
20 Algerian 1 5
10 Antwerp & Rotterdam 1 all 74 71 7.74
20 Ardennes.... ......., I all - —r
20 Bah.&S.Fran..Lim.7 p.c 161 1 15 171
5 Belgian East. Junction all 15 11 15
Carmeaux Mine & Rail ac 11 12
100 Copiapo ........ ••.. • • all --
10 Ditto Extension all 45 4
20 Dutch Rhenish l6 11 liP
20 Eastern of France all k 2 z 3
20 Grand Rue Guar. 6p. c al:
20 Gt. Luxem., Con. she all 141 141 145
20 Italian Junction all
20 Lyons & Geneva all
20 Namur & _Liege all I'l 9 81
20 Do. 6p. o. Prof all 20 21
16 Northern of Prance all 414 425
16 Do. New Shares _ 15
10 Norwegian Trunk Prot. all 8 10 9
20 Ot'mn(Smyrna to Aidn) 15 8 7
20 Paris,Lyons, & Medi ter. all 431 44i
20 Paris & Orleans.. _ all 51 63
20 1
Recife & S. Fran. (Fern )
,:cua. 7p. ct. lim 19 45 35 151
20 Riga & Dunahurg all
20 Royal Danish all 13 15
5 Royal Swedish ....... all 1
4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref all
20 Sambre & Meuse all 11 115 114 ill i
10 Do. 51 per cent. Pref all 91 10
20 San Paulo, lim, g. 7 p.c 8 1 ipm 81
20 S.Aust. &Lomb Venetin 18 31 4 p 22
20 S. East Portugal 7 p ct. 7 --
20 Southern of France all 321 331
81 West Fiandern ...... all 74 8
10 Do. 55 pc. Preference all 101 41,4
20 W. & N.W. of France all 215 221 214

SPORTING---THIS DAY.

NEWMARKET RACES, THIS DAY.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAFR.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 100 SOUS.

Palestro
Wallace
Brown Duchess
Won by a head. Brown Duchess beaten a long way
,f5O PLATE.

Batsman
Joyful colt

Eleven ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 EOYS.

Mourbouquet
Acrobat
NEWMARKET STAKES.

Canwell
Argonaut
Xuru110
Three ran.

HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OF 25 SOVS.
Carbineer 1
Amy
Makeless

Six ran.

SELLING STAKES.

Madge Wildfire . 1
Castor Oil

Six ran.
HANDICAP PLATE.

LAW-THIS DAY.

COURT. OF DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
BRIGGS V. BRIGGS.

This was a petition presented by the wife for divorce
against her husband on the ground of cruelty and adultery.
Mr. Thomas Horsely, an artist living at Sunderland, said
he knew the parties to this cause. Mrs. Briggs he had
had known about 10 years. He was present at the mar-
riage, which took place on the 30th June, 1857, at St.
Thomas's, Bishop Wearmouth. On the 2d of August last
he attended Walton gaol, in Liverpool, and there saw the
respondent Briggs. A woman of the name of Eliza O'Neill
was present.

Jane Briggs, the petitioner in the cause, said after the
marriage they went to Scotland, and Len they went to reside
at Thirsk. Mr. Briggs commenced business as a grocer
very shortly after they arrived at Thirsk. He treated her
with great cruelty. On the Sabbath morning Mr. Briggs
threw a teapot full of boiling water at her, which scalded
her. A week after he threatened to stab her. She rushed
into a neighbour's house and remained there. About a
fortnight after that he held both her hands to a heated
oven, which burned them very much. After she got away
from the oven she went upstairs to put some linseed oil on
her hands, but he came up after her, and as she was leaving
the room he threw a knife at her. On the 16th of October
he held a loaded revolver to her head, and threatened to
blow her brains out without she gave him money. She
gave it him through fear.
The Judge Ordinary asked how long they continued to
live together, and what caused them to part.
Witness said she left him a week after he had held the
pistol to her head. The day before she left the house he
had beaten her severely with his fist. She had previously
sent for Mr. Briggs' father. When he came he advised
her to go home to her parents, and she did so.
The Judge Ordinary asked if there had been any quarrel
between them ?
Wilaess replied in the negative.

Mr. Thomas Hill, a saddler, living at Thirsk, said he re-
collected Mr. and Mrs. Briggs coming to reside there. He
thought Mr. Briggs treated his wife with great cruelty..
On one occasion he, witness, got through the window of
their house, in consequence of a disturbance between them,
and found Briggs had gut his wife down by the hair of
her head, and he appeared as if he was going to strangle
her. That was the day before she left her husband. He
had seen him throw plates at her. On one occasion he
(witness) took a pistol from Briggs, as he had threatened
to "do" for his wife.

Alfred Davis said he had seen Briggs frighten his wife
very much, but never strike her.
Mrs. Harriet James said she let the respondent a room
in her house at Liverpool. O'Neill was with him; she
passed as his wife. They lived in her house for some
months. Mrs. Briggs, who had given her evidence that
day, she had never seen betore.
The Judge Ordinary decreed a rule nisi.
TAYLOR V. TAYLOR.

This was a petition presented by the wife against the hus-
band for judicial separation.
The petitioner detailed a series of acts of the grossest
cruelty, which extended over a number of years. The re-
spondent was in the habit of coming home intoxicated, and
on those occasions he either kicked or threatened to murder
her.

The on and daughter of the petitioner confirmed the
evidence given by their mother.

The learned counsel for the petitioner said he had a num-
ber of other witnesses.
The Judge Ordinary thought the allegations in the peti-
tion had been made out, and decreed a rule nisi.

POLICE---THIS DAY.

MARLBOROUGH •STREET, THIS DAY.

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—TiIIs EVENING.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

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PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bills were read a second time :—Dublin
(Borough) Fire Brigade, Limerick Markets, North Devon
Railway and Dock, Rathmines and Rathgar Improvement,
and Launceston, and South Devon Railway.

THIRD READINGS. -
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
The Cirencester District Roads and Much Wenlock and
Severn Junction Railway.
NOXIOUS VAPOURS.

The Earl of DERBY rose to move for the appointment
of a select commit tee to inquire into the injury resulting from
noxious vapours evolved in certain manufacturing pro-
cesses, and also for the purpose of inquiring into the state
of the law relating thereto. The noble lord said he should
offer no apology for bringing forward a subject, which,
both in an economic and sanitary point of view, was pressing
itself upon the attention of Parliament. Having referred
to the steps that had already been taken by the other House
of Parliament with respect to smoke and other nuisances,
which had existed in the metropolis, and which had to a
great extent been abated in consequence of those acts,
the noble lord proceeded to notice the dangerous
system which was carried on to a great extent
in many places in the North where the process of calico
printing was actively carried on. It was well known that a
great quantity of arsenic and white lead entered into that
process, and the refuse of those works in many cases was
turned into the adjacent rivers and streams rendering
them dangerous in the highest degree. He had
lately had the pleasure of seeing a gentleman
who would be acknowledged by their lordships to be a
very high authority on the subject. Dr. Lyon Playfair,
who had been down to examine the state of the water in
one of those districts, and that gentleman found on exa-
mining the bottom of one of the reservoirs that in one
pound of the mud there were no less than from
10 to 13 grains of arsenic. Such being the
state of matters, he thought it became the
duty of Parliament to take the subject into their serious
consideration. (Hear, hear.) His present intention, how-
ever, was not to deal with certain streams, but it was con-
fined to the consideration of the noxious evaporated from
certain manufactories. The law upon the subject was at
present totally inadequate to meet the evil. In dealing
N'I6L the oubj oo 6 ho propoood to oonairlor, first, the
amount of injury infl cted, next its preventability, and, in
conclusion, the inadequacy of the existing law. The manu-
facture of alum wds carried on to a great extent in St.
Helen's, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Glisgow, and other
places, and the nox one vapours emitted by these
manufactories was most destructive to vegetable
life. !n the neighbourhood of St. Helen's the damage
to timber in the surrounding districts was inconceivable.
and many of the poor persons who frequently depended
upon the produce of a few fruit trees to pay their rent had
had those trees entirely destroyed ; and, owing to the exist-
state of the law, the poor people were absolutely and en-
tirely without redress.
[LEFT SFEAKINO.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS—THIS EVENING.
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Lords' amendments to the Bradford Corporation
Water Bill were considered and agreed to, and the bill was
ordered to be read a third time. The British Plate Glass
Company Bill, and Webb and Craig's Patent Bill were
read a third time and passed, and the Tyne General Ferry
Bill was read a second time.
PETITIONS.

Several petitions were presented against the abolition of
church rates, against the Highways Bill, against the impo-
sition of the income tax on incomes under £l5O a-year, and
against the inquisitorial character of the tax ; by Mr. M.
Ginsox from the inhabitants of Ashton-under-Lyne,
praying that a law might be passed to prevent the obtain-
ing of licences for the sale of spirituous liquors without the
consent of ratepayers ; against the appointment of the police
in Ireland as registrars of births and deaths, against the
Public-houses Licenses (Scotland) Act, &c.