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The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-01

SCINDE.

The sum of £5,665 was paid yesterday to the
credit of the Secretary of State for India in Council
in anticipation of calls on the third issue of shares.

PUNJAB.

The sum of £13,340 was paid yesterday to the
credit of the Secretary of State for India in Council
in anticipation of the final call of this company.

RAILWAY BILLS.
Yesterday the committees on the Bristol and
South Western Junction, and on the West Riding,
Hull, and Grimsby Railway, were engaged all day
in taking additional evidence, and then adjourned
until Friday.

THE DISTRESS IN WIGAN.—The expenditure of
the Wigan Relief Committee is still on the increase, last
week's payments having been a little in excess of those of
the preceding week. The sum paid in out-door relief by
the board of guardians is also rising weekly, though this
but slowly, the Relief Committee having se far been able
to support all the poor making application to them. The
fund upon which they has e to work has lately been in-
creased by some large subscriptions from persons remotely
connected with the town or district. Even with these, how-
ever, the fund will not last more than another month at the
present rate of expenditure, and there will be very great
difficulty in raising a second subscription, as tho inhabitants
have given more liberally than those of any other town in
the county in proportion to population. It is not, however,
likely that Wigan will suffer as severely as Preston and
Blackburn, for, though the state of trade is worse than in
any other district (of 9,000 hands fully one-half being out
of employ, and of the remaining half four-fifths on short
time), yet there are not so many of the families who are
entirely dependent on the cotton trade as in the towns just
mentioned. Wigan being the centre of a coal, as 'well as a
cotton, district, in many instances where the children in a
family are employed in a factory the elder male branches
work in the mine, and thus, though, owing to the decrease
in the consumption of coal, the colliers are now on short
time, they are still earning sufficient to keep want from
their doors. To families containing colliers at work no
relief has yet been given by the committee. Lady Kay-
Shuttlewerth has addressed a letter to the treasurer of the
Wigan Relief Committee, enclosing a check for 10 guineas,
London, England, 1862-05-01

THE AR 131 Y.

A mounted troop of the Royal Horse Artillery,
with 12-pounder Armstrong guns, are under orders
to march from Woolwich this morning at half.past
8, to be in attendance in the park and fire a salute
at the opening of the Exhibition:
A large number of volunteers have arrived at
Chatham during the past few days, from the Indian
and other depots attached to the various depot bat-
talions at the several military stations, for the pur-
pose of joining the 83%] Regiment. The headquarters
and service companies of the 83d are now on their
passage home from Bombay, after serving in India
nearly 14 years. Before embarking, the service
companies gave a great many volunteers to the vari-
ous regiments in India, and this, together with the
usual proportion of casualties, has reduced the regi-
ment to about one-half its proper strength.

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London, England, 1862-05-01

CORN EXCHANGE.

lEI2ERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. -- Wheat, 58s 2d ;
barley, 37s Od; oats, 21s 8d ; rye, 38s ld ; beans, 38s lld ;
and peas, 38s Od.
THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES. Wheat, 58s 4d ;
barley, 36s 4d; oats, 21s 7d; rye, 36s sd; beans, 38s 8d;
peas, 39s 6d.
ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 58,430;
barley, 17,991; oats, 12,689 ; rye, 29 ; beans, 3,401 ; peas,
255 quarters.
METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.

To -day's market was rather scantily supplied with beasts,
and all breeds were in fair request, at fully Monday's cur-
rency. There was a steady inquiry for sheep, at full prices.
The best old Downs, in the wool, realised 5s 6d per 81bs.
Although the supply of lambs was nth& extensive, the
lamb trade ruled active, at an advance in the quotations of
4d per Blbs. Prime calves moved off readily, at an improve-
ment in value of 4d per 81bs ; but inferior calves were a
dull inquiry, at late rates. Pigs were heavy, but not
cheaper. In milch cows very little was doing.
London, England, 1862-05-01

DEATHS.

CHILDE.-At Ticehurst, Sussex, Jonathan Childe, Esq,
second son of William Lacon ()tale, Esq., of Kinlet
Hall, Shropshire, and formerly Captain 12th Regiment
of Royal Lancers,

DENMAN.—On the 25th ult., at St. John's-wood, Frances
Marianne, wife of the llen. and Rev. L. IV. Denman,
vicar of Villain, Hitchin, Herts.

FLOWER.—On the 28th ult , at Hill-house, Tooting-corn,
mon, Hugh Philip, youngest sun of P. W . Flower,
aged 21.

lIAMIVIERSLEY.—On the 29th ult., at 25, Park-place, Chas,
- Hammersley, Esq., aged SO.
SElmoutt.—On the 28th ult., at 40, Gerald-street, Soho,
James Seymour, aged 63.
SHOOLBRED.—On the 28th ult., at The Elms, Acton, Mr.
Shoolbred; of Totteuham-court-road, aged 69.

LONDON : Printed and Published by JOHN CHAPLIN,
of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, No. 112,
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Comity of
11Iiddlesex.—Thursday, 11lay.1, 1862.
London, England, 1862-05-01

BIRTHS.

CALSGTIL:--At Fairlinch, Clifton-park, Bristol, the wife oi
Thomas Castle, Esq., of a son.
ELGIN.—On On the 28th ult., at 123, George, street, Edin-
burgh, the Countess of Elgin, of a son, stillborn.
GARTH.—On the 26th ult., at Wimbledon, the wife of R 1
Garth, Esq., of a son.
JACKSON.—On the 29th ult., at 3, Weymouth- street, W.,
the wife of I'. Curr Jackson, F.R.C.S., of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.
CURRIE—MAcGREGon—On the 29th ult., at St. Leonard's.
on• Sea, Captain A. A. Currie, H.M.'s Indian Army, to
Emily Louisa, daughter of the late James MacGregor,
M.P. for Sandwich.

PUGH—BALDRY.—On the 29th ult., at St. John's, Not-
ting-hill, Thomas Pugh, Esq., of Notting-hill-terrace,
to Catherine Baldry, of Lansdowne-crescent, Notting-.
hill, widow of the late W. C. Baldry, Esq., Streatham-.
common, Surrey.
London, England, 1862-05-01

LITERATUR P.

HARRISON AINSWORTH'S NEW STORY.
As the May instalment of Mr. Ainsworth's brit
liant romance of a hundred years ago, now appearing
from month to month in Bentley's Miscellany, and
entitled "The Lord Mayor of London"—there
appears the whole of the " Second Book" complete.
From this second book, which is headed " The City
Mall," we at once extract, for the amusement of
our readers, the Noveli,t's graphic sketch of the
principal scene there depicted, namely, his descrip-
tion of—
London, England, 1862-05-01

THAMES, THIS DAY.

DARING HIGH WAY R ORBE RY.—Edward J. Richetts,
a well-dressed man, described as a tailor, and 20 years or
age, of No. 1, St, Andrew's-terrace, Limehouse, was
brought up on remand before Mr. Woolrych, charged with
committing a very daring highway robbery.
The prisoner is a determined-looking man, and looks
three or four years older than what ho represented himself
to be, and, from his appearance, is strongly suspected to have
recently been a convict. An attempt was made to show
that he was labouring under insanity, at which the pri-
soner himself expressed some surprise, but the "friend"
who set up this plea took nothing by his motion, for ho was
informed that a jury, acting on the advice and direction ( f
a learned judge must decide the question of whether he was
sane or not, and that if he had committed a highway
robbery in a state of insanity, and it was so proved by the
jury, he would be detained in a lunatic asylum for the res
of kis life.

Mr. Edward Humphreys, a book-keeper, of No. 2 Fair-
field-place, Stepney, stated that in the morning of the 22d
—of April, about half-post one o'clock, he was passing along
the Whitechap 1-road, when the prisoner started out of a
narrow court, near the Earl of Effingham Theatre, and
without saying a word struck him a violent blow on the
mouth with his fist, and took his pin out of his scarf. At
the time he received the blow his cigar-holder fell from his
mouth. He followed the prisoner, who struck him again
and knocked him down. He called for the police, and the
prisoner was given into custody.
Mr. Albert James, a photographic artist, of No. 33,
Dempsey-street, Stepney, stated that he was with the last
witness when the prisoner came out of the court and struck
him and then ran into the court again.
Police-constable Lawrence J. Mandus stated that the
prisoner was given into his custody, and he found the pro-
secutor's scarf pin upon him. The prisoner had previously
denied having possession of the pin, and when arrested,
threw himself on the ground, kicked at every one within his
reach, and resisted with great violence. After the prisoner
was secured, ho offered witness ss. as a bribe to release
him, and said, " Take the money and let me run away."
When this offer was made he held him very tightly indeed.
The prisoner said he would reserve his defence, and Mr
Woolrych committed him to News-ate for trial.

MARKETS-THIS DAY.
London, England, 1862-05-01

CHARING► .CROSS.

A special meeting of this company was held yes-
terday at the London-bridge station of the South-
Eastern Railway Company, the Hon. J. Byng in the
chair.

On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, formal resolu-
tions were passed authorising the directors, under
the Hungerford-market and Charing-cross Bridge
Act, 1860, to create and issue ordinary shares of the
company to the extent of £120,000, to form part of
the general capital, and to bear ordinary dividends,
and to borrow £40,000 in addition to the other sums
which the Charing •cross Railway Company were
authorised to borrow.
The proceedings then terminated.

NORTH DEVON.
A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held
on Tuesday at the offices, Gresham-house—Mr. Tite,
M.P., in the chair.
The solicitor read the heads of a bill for making
a railway from the North Devon Railway, in the
parish of Colebrook, to Okehampton.
The CHAIRMAN explained the bill was promoted
by an independent company, and the line would form
a junction with the North Devon at a point about four
miles from Crediton, and might be of some advan-
tage to their railway.
After some observations from Mr. Hartridge,
Capt. Warren, and Mr. J. G. Frith, a formal reso-
lution approving the bill was carried unanimously.
London, England, 1862-05-01

WEST OF FIFE AND CHARLESTON.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was
held at Dunfermline on Tuesday—the Hon. T. C.
Bruce in the chair.

The report stated that although trade had been
much depressed the revenue had been such as would
enable the directors to pay a dividend of 5 per cent.
rwr pent. to the West of Fife
shareholders. The new works autnortseu
ing satisfactory progress. - - -

The CHAIRiAiv stated the reasons which had in-
duced the directors to seek amalgamation with other
lines, and moved the approval of the report, and
that the dividends be declared accordingly.
Mr. MATHESON seconded the motion.

Mr. HosIE, seconded by Mr, HILL, moved that
the report be not adapted, and that the instructions
to oppose the Edinburgh and Glasgow bill be with-
drawn.

The motion was carried by 361 to 122, but a scru-
tiny was demanded, and the scrutineers were to re-
port the result- on the Ist May.

WEST FLANDERS.
The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in
this company was held yesterday at the offices,
Moorgate-street--Mr. R. Till in the chair.
Mr. Chubb, the secretary, read the report.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving its adoption, congra-
tulated the proprietors on the gradual and progres-
sive increase in their traffic, and that it had at last
enabled them to surmount the difficulty of obtaining
a 5 per cent. dividend. He trusted the traffic would
continue to increase, and that they would at least be
enabled to maintain the 5 per cent. dividend for the
fature. During the half-year some unusual
expenditure had been incurred for the improve-
ment of their property and for facilitating the
traffic. Some improvements in the stations at
Courtrai and Deynze to accommodate the
traffic had been effected at an expense of £1,600,
which would be taken out of revenue and spread
over a few half years. There was another item for
goods engine and two waggons of £2,600. They
nad arranged that this amount should be defrayed
half-yearly out of revenue by instalments, the first
instalment of which would commence when the last
instalment of £5OO for former engines terminated,
so there would be no increase in that item. _

Mr. GREIG seconded the motion for the adoption
of the report.
Mr. HErtArATrr said he hoped that the former
good rn-Inagement would be continued, and that the
shareholders would have something added to the 5
per cent. in future years.
The report was adopted, and a dividend of 4s.
9d. per share for the past half year was approved.
After acknowledging the valuable services ren-
dered during many years by the late Mr. Richards
as president of the company, the proceedings con-
cluded with the thanks of the meeting to the chair-
man and directors, and also to Mr. Chubb, secretary.
London, England, 1862-05-01

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MARLBOROUGH .STREET, THIS DAY.

A THIEF AT THE HANOVER• SQUARE Rooms—AT-
TEMPT TO ROB A LADY.—Wm. Mortimer, a stylishly-
dressed young man, was charged with attempting to rob
Mrs. Emily James, the wife of Mr. Edward James, the
proprietor of Morley's Hotel, and residing at 11, New
Finchley-road, St. John's-wood, while at Mr. Henry
Leslie's concert at the Hanover-square Rooms.
Mrs. James said she was at the concert of Mr. Henry
Leslie at the Hanover-square Rooms the previous night;
while leaving the concert-room the prisoner and two other
men pushed rudely against her, and she then felt the pri-
soner's hand in her pocket. Feeling frightened she
screamed out, and prisoner then said it was a mistake, and
was given into custody.

Mr. James cmfirmcd a portion of Mrs. James's evidence,
and said that on another lady complaining that a man had
put his hand in her pocket, and a gentleman stating that
he had been robbed of £7 at a former concert, Mr. Leslie
said he should feel personalty obliged if he would pro-
secutb,

Sergeant Dodsworth, 24 C, said the prisoner told him
that he was waiting for Mr. Johnson, and that he had
bought a half. crown ticket at the table in the hall, but Mr.
Leslie denied this, stating that no half-crown tickets were
sold there that night. He found three sovereigns and a
cameo pin on the prisoner, who also gave a false address.
Mr. Knox said he had no doubt there would be a fertile
crop of such fellows as the prisonerjust now, and committed
him for three months.
London, England, 1862-05-01

SHIPPING-THIS DAY.

LONDON, May I.—Wind this day at noon—Easterly ;
moderate breeze, and fine weather. It rained in the

morning.

CLYDE, April 30.—Wind S.—Arrived—Melina, from
Pernambuco.

FALMOUTH, May I.—Arrived—Princess Royal, from
Charente for Hull, with bowsprit and cutwater carried
away, and loss of bulwarks and stancheons, having been in
collision.

CHATHAM, April 30.—Wind E.—Arrived--Hunters,
From Moulmein.

NEWPORT, April 30.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Anna Mag.•
dalena, for St. Thomas.
PLYMOUTH', April 30.—Wind E.—Arrived—City of the
Sultan, from Middlesborough for Cuba.
SWANSEA, April 30.—Sailed—Florence Nightingale, for
Valparaiso,

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning.
Arrived—Havre. steamer, from Havre; Sultan, steamer,
from Marseilles ' • Ceres, steamer, from London.
Sailed—Sarah Park, for Newport.
(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Arrived, April 30—Abba from Hjeiting.
Arrived, May I—Prompt, from Stettin; Westley, from
Gallipoli.
Sailed—Schwan, for Bremen.

DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Passed, April 30—Ranger, for Barbadoes ; Secret, for
Antigua ; Alwynton, for Adelaide ; Louisa, for Calcutta ;
Cadiz, screw steamer, for Gibraltar—all from London ; Tees-
dale of Stockton, from the northward, for the westward.

DOUBLE MURDER IN FRANCE.—A double murder
was committed a few days ago in the bagne of Toulon, with
a cool premeditation of no ordinary kind. A soldier named
Huet, who had been condemned to death in 1848 for at-
tempting to kill one of hie officers, but whose punishment
had been commuted, first to hard labour for life, and after-
wards for 20 years, was suspected by two of his fellow pri-
soners of acting as a spy of the police of the bagne, and
they did not conceal their suspicions from him. This roused
Huet's indignation, and he decided to revenge himself on
them. He accordingly armed himself with an axe, used
for chopping wood, and went in search of those whom he
called his traducers. He found one of them fast asleep on a
camp bed, and with one blow on his head terminated his
existence, and the act being unperceived by any one, he
went to look for the other. He found him in his sleeping-
room, but not in bed, and in spite of his cries and vigorous
resistance, inflicted three such severe cuts on his head that
no hopos are entertained for his life. After having accom-
plished this act of butchery, he quietly gave his weapon to
the guard, who hastened to the spot, saying he had no
further use for it. As the lex talionis forms one of the
articles of the code of the bagne in cases of murder, every
man killing another intentionally being put to death, Huet
will doubtless be brought to the scaffold in a few days.—
Gaiignani.
London, England, 1862-05-01

DEATHS.

CHILDE.—At Ticehurst, Sussex, Jonathan Childe, Esq.,
second son of William Lacon Childe, Esq., of Kinlet
Hall, Shropshire, and formerly Captain 12th Regiment
of Royal Lancers. _ _

DENMAN.—On the 25th ult., at St. John's-wood, Frances
Marianne, wile of the Hon. and Rev. L. W. Denman,
vicar of Willain, Hitchin, Herts.

FLOWER.—On the 28th ult , at Hill-house, Tooting-com.
mon, Hugh Philip, youngest sun of P. M . Flower, Esq,
aged 21.
HAMMERSLEY.—On the 29th ult., at 25, Park-place, Chas.
Hammersley, Esq., aged 80.
SEYMOUR.—On the 28th ult., at 40, Gerard-street, Soho,
James Seymour, aged 63.
SIIOOLBRED,—On the 28th ult., at The Elms, Acton, Mr.
Shoolbred, of Tottenham-court-road, aged 69.

LONDON : Printed and Published by JOHN CHAPLIN,
of N 0.112, Strand, Printer, at THE SuN Office, I\ 0.112,
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of
Aliddlesex,—Thursday, May 1, 1862,
London, England, 1862-05-01

BIRTHS.

CASTLE.—At Fairlinch, Clifton-park, Bristol, the wife of
Thomas Castle, Esq., of a son.
ELGIN.— On the 28th ult., at 123, George• street, Edin.
burgh, the Countess of Elgin, of a son, stillborn.
GARTH.—On the 26th ult., at Wimbledon, the wife of R.
Garth, Esq., of a son.

JACKSON.—On the 29th ult., at 3, Weymouth•streot, W.,
the wife of 'I: . Carr Jackson, F.R.C.S., of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

CURRIE—MACGREGCM—On the 29th ult., at St. Leonard's-
on. Sea, Captain A. A. Carrie, H.M.'s Indian Army, to
Emily Louisa, daughter of the late James MacGregor,
M,P. for Sandwich.

PUGIi-BALDRY.--013. the 29th ult,, at St. John's, Not-
ting-hill, Thomas Pugh, Esq., of Notting-hill-terrace,
to Catherine Baldry, of Lansdowne-crescent, Notting..
hill, widow of the late W. C. Baldry, Esq., Streatham.
common, Surrey.
London, England, 1862-05-01

I AIPERIA L PARLIAMENT.

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

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bills were read a third time and passed:—
Bala and Dolgelly Railway—Oathslo and Silloth Bay
Railway and Dock—Crystal Palace and South
London Junction Railway—Eastern Union Rail-
way—East Grinstead, Groombridge, and Tun-
bridge Wells Railway—Leadburn, Linton, and Dol-
phinton Railway—London, Brighton, and South
Coast Railway (New Lines)—London Railway Depot and
Storehouses—Maryport and Carlisle Railway—North Bri-
tish Railway and Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and
Dock Companies—North British Railway and Port Carlisle
Dock and Railway Companies—North British Railway
(Monktonhall and Ormiston and Dalkeith Branches).
[LEFT SITTING.]

BAND OF ENGLAND.

An Account, pursuant to t
cap. 32, for the week ending
of April, 1862:

he Act 7th and Bth Victorip,
on Wednesday, the 30th day

_ .
ISSUE DEP
Notes issued ..—..X30,891,680,

'ARTMENT.
Government Debt £11,015,000
Other Securities .. 3.634,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 16,241,680
Silver Bullion .._

£30,891,680'

£30,831,650

BANKING D:
Proprietors' Capi-
tal £14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Comnus-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-

;PARTMNNT.
Government Secu-

DeadWeightAn-
nuity) £11,210,755
Other Securities 17,856,320
Notes
Gold and Silver 817,766
Coin

counts) 6,817,375
Other Deposits 14,357,007
Seven Day and
other Bills 687,307

439,546.831
31.

£3?,546,831
.RSRA.LL, Chief Cashier.

May 1, 1862.

EAST INDIAN RAILWAY.—The annual meeting
of the shareholders was held yesterday at the London
Tavern. The chairman, in moving the adoption of the re-
port, said the whole of the works were in a very forward
state, and he trusted when next he had the honour of ad-
dressing them he should be able to inform them that the
works on the Jubbulpore line were in active progress. ':he
report was adopted, and the retiring directors reelected.
SHIP ON FIRE.—VALPARAISO, 17th March.—
The King of Italy (British ship, from Melbourne to Eng-
land) put is here this morning, having had her cargo on
fire for 30 days. Hopes are entertained of saving the vessel,
but the cargo will be much damaged from the heat and
quantity of water poured upon it.';

The committee appointed to collect metal for
cannon for Gen. Beauregard's army, applied to a planter of
Adams County, Miss., a few days since fur his bell. Not
having such an article, he mentioned it to his wife, when
she very patriotically offered her brass kettle. The little
ones rather demurred to the sacrifice, and one of them, with.
a sweet tooth, said :—" La, Pa, what will we do for pre-
serves ?" "My daughter," said the wag of a father, "our
whole duty now is to preserve our country." The kettle
was sent.—Richtnond paper.
London, England, 1862-05-01

Oa the other hand,. it must never be forgotten
that we arc bound to go rightly as well as rapidly ;
and' hero again another danger awaits us. The
counsels offered to the Admiralty in Parliament
and elsewhere are various enough and extravagant
erlugh to distract almost any set of men. Mem-
bets of the House of Commons, naval officers, pri-
vate shipbuilders, engineers, and even railway con-
tractors, all set themselves up nowadays, in the
most confident manner conceivable, as great autho-
rities on the construction of ships of war; and Mr.
Cobden actually reproaches the Admiralty (in his
pamphlet on " The Three Panics") for not follow=_
ing the guidance of gentlemen of the greatest abi-
lity undoubtedly in other, spheres, but who are
probably as little qualified to design ships of war as
,they would be to take efle'kfAito action. .it ought
not, must not, be forgotten ;that the construction of
a ship-of_war is adopecial and an exceedingly diffi-
cult art, and that to hand the designing of our navy
over to amateurs would be the most fatal of all
dangerous measures. I may be allowed, I hope, to
say this, having spent 10 years of my life in prac-
tically studying the art in question, and another 10
in watching the momentous changes which it has
lately undergone.
London, England, 1862-05-01

BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE.

Mr. WOODTHORPE, the town clerk, read a letter
from the directors of the London, Chatham, and
Dover Railway Company, complaining of the seri-
ous inconvenience to which they were put by the
delay of the Common Council in deciding the num-
ber of arches for the proposed new bridge at Black-
friars, adding that if the number of arches should
be less than five the company would be subjected to
a large additional expense not contemplated in the
original estimate, and that they themselves were in
favour of a five-arched bridge.

Mr. W. VALLANCE, chairman of the Bridge-house
estates committee, said he had done his beat to have
the question decided with the utmost possible expe-
dition, reminding the Court at the same time that
in this important matter the corporation had a duty
to the public to discharge which had a primary
claim on their consideration over the convenience
of the reilway company. (Hear, hear.)
The letter was referred to the Bridge house com-
mittee for consideration and report.
London, England, 1862-05-01

THE DRIVING OF CATTLE THROUGH TIIE STREETS,

Mr. H. L. Taylor, chairman of the markets im-
provement committee, laid upon the table a letter
from Sir R. Mayne, chief commissioner of metropo-
litan police, enclosing certain rules, orders, and re-
gulations for the driving of cattle through the
streets of the metropolis to and from the Cattle
Market, in Copeuhngen-fields, and which had re-
ceived the approval of the Secretary of State.
The subject was referred to the markets improve-
ment committee.

THE SHERIFFS' COURT.

A report from the officers and elerks committee
was brought up by Mr. H. S. WATERLOW, their
chairman, upon the duties and emoluments of the
several officers of the Sheriffs' Court, and with a

proposed scheme for the future conduct of the bmi-
ness of the court. They recommended, among other
things, tht " The present chief clerk not being
liable by the terms of his appointment, to certain
restrictions proposed in reference to any person
hereafter appointed to that office, there should be
no increase to his present salary of £5OO, but that
the salary of any person other than the present
chief clerk hereafter appointed to the office should
commence at £4OO, and be raised at the rate of £5O
per annum until it reaches £6OO, subject to certain
conditions." They recommended that the salary of
the present entering clerk, to be hereafter desig-
nated clerk of the judgments (£210), be £220, and
be raised at the rate of £lO per annum until it
reaches £250; that the salary of the present pro-
cess clerk (£175), be £2OO ; that the salary of the
present clerk accountant (£200), be £2lO, rising
annually in this and the preceding case at the rate
of £lO, until it reaches £250; that the salaries of
the cash and ledger clerks remain as at present—
viz., £l5O and /130. Mr. Waterlow proposed the
adoption of the report.

An amendment was moved by Mr. Deputy FRY
for referring it back to the committee for reconsi-
deration, on grounds which he stated in some de-
tail. The subject gave rise to a lengthened debate,
but its public interest was not such as to justify a
report. On a show of hands the amendment was
negatived, and the motion for adopting the report
was curried on a division by 53 against 27.

THE PROPOSED NEW STREET TO THE MANSION HOUSE

A conversation arose, on a report of the improve-
racnt committee relative to a correspondence be-
tween Mr. Cowper, the Chief Commissioner of
Works, and Mr. Thwaites, the chairman of the
Metropolitan Board, on the subject of the proposed
Thames embankment and new street to the Man•
sion-house.

Mr. DErtrrY city, the chairman of the commit-
tee, explained that Mr. Cowper, at an interview,
had stated that the new street in question, which,
by the way, is estimated to cost some £600,000, was
a component part of the embankment project, and
would, like the embankment, be constructed under
the supervision of the Metropolitan Board of Works,
unless indeed the corporation of London undertook
London, England, 1862-05-01

Immediately, in 1 vol. Bvo., 145., bound,
AN EMBASSY TO THE COURT OF
ST. JAMES'S IN 1840.
By M. GUM r,
Ambassador from His Majesty Louis PHILIPPE.
Including Ske ches of Lords Palmerston, Melbourne,
Aberdeen, Lansdowne, Russell, Grey, Holland; Lady Dur-
ham, Duke of Wellington, tilt. R. Peel, Stratford de Red-
cliffe, Macaulay, Jeffrey, Dr, Arnold, Hallam, Daniel O'Con-
nell, John Wilson, Croker, Archbishop Whately, Mr. and
Mrs. Grote, Mrs. Fry, Lady Jersey, Lord Lyndhurst, &c.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street
London, England, 1862-05-01

WEST OF FIFE AND CHARLESTON.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was
held at Dunfermline on Tuesday—the Hon. T. C.
Bruce in the chair.

The report stated that although trade had been
much depressed the revenue had been such as would
enable the directors to pay a dividend of 5 per cent.
to the Charleston and 4. per cent. to the West of Fife
shareholders. Tile new works authorised were mak-
ing &,Itisfactory progress.
The CHAIRMAN stated the reasons which had in-
duced the directors to seek amalgamation with other
lines, and moved the altroval of the report, and
that the dividends be declared accordingly.
Mr. MATHESON seconded the motion.

Mr. HosIE, seconded by Mr, HILL, moved that
the report be not adopted, and that the instructions
to oppose the Edinburgh and Glasgow bill be with-
drawn.

The motion was carried by 361 to 122, but a scru-
tiny was demanded, and the scrutineers were to re-
port the result on the Ist May.

WEST FLANDERS.

The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in
this company was held yesterday at the offices,
Moorgate-street--Mr. R. Till in the chair.
Mr. Chubb, the secretary, read the report.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving its adoption, congra-
tulated the proprietors on the gradual and progres-
sive increase in their traffic, and that it had at last
enabled them to surmount the difficulty of obtaining
a 5 per cent. dividend. He trusted the traffic would
continue to increase, and that they would at least be
enabled to maintain the 5 per cent. dividend for the
future. During the half-year some unusual
expenditure had been incurred for the improve •
ment of their property and for facilitating the
traffic. Some improvements in the stations at
Courtrai and Deynzo to accommodate the
traffic had been effected at an expense of £1,600,
which would be taken out of revenue and spread
over a few half years. There was another item for
goods engine and two waggons of £2,600. They
had arranged that this amount should be defrayed
half-yearly out of revenue by instalments, the first
instalment of which would commence when the last
instalment of £5OO for former engines terminated,
so there would be no increase in that item.
Mr. GREIG seconded the motion for the adoption
of the report.
Mr. HERAFATH said he hoped that the former
good management would be continued, and that the
shareholders would have something added to the 5
per cent. in future years.
The report was adopted, and a dividend of 4s.
9d. per share for the past half-year was approved.
After acknowledging the valuable services ren-
dered during many years by the late Mr. Richards
as president of the company, the proceedings con-
cluded with the thanks of the meeting to the chair-
man and directors, and also to Mr. Chubb, secretary.
London, England, 1862-05-01

THE SHERIFFS' COURT.

A report from the officers and clerks committee
was brought up by Mr. IL S. WATERLOW, their
chairman, upon the duties and emoluments of the
several officers of the Sheriffs' Court, and with a
proposed scheme for the future conduct of the busi-
ness of the court. They recommended, among other
things, that "The present chief clerk not being
liable by the terms of his appointment, to certain
restrictions proposed in reference to any person
hereafter appointed to that office, there should be
no increase to his present salary of £5OO, but that
the salary of any person other than the present
chief clerk hereafter appointed to the office should
commence at £4OO, and be raised at the rate of £5O
per annum until it reaches £6OO, subject to certain
conditions." They recommended that the salary of
the present entering clerk, to be hereafter desig-
nated clerk of the judgments (£210), be £220, and
be raised at the rate of £lO per annum until it
reaches £250 ; that the salary of the present pro-
cess clerk (£175), be £2OO ; that the salary of the
present clerk accountant (£200), be £2lO, rising
annually in this and the preceding case at the rate
of £lO, until it reaches £250; that the salaries of
the cash and ledger clerks remain as at present—
viz., £l5O and £l3O. Mr. Waterlow proposed the
adoption of the report.

An amendmeht was moved by Mr. Deputy FRY
for referring it back to the committee for reconsi-
deration, on grounds which he stated in some de-
tail. The subject gave rise to a lengthened debate,
but its public interest was not such as to justify a
report. On a show of hands the amendment was
negatived, and the motion for adopting the report
was carried on a division by 53 against 27.
London, England, 1862-05-01

NORTH DEVON.

A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held
on Tuesday at the offices, Gresham-house—Mr. Tite,
M.P., in the chair.
The solicitor read the heads of a bill for making
a railway from the North Devon Railway, in the
parish of Colebrook, to Okehampton.
The CHAIRMAN explained the bill was promoted
by an independent company, and the line would form
a junction with the North Devon at a point about four
miles from Crediton, and might be of some advan-
tage to their railway.
After some observations from Mr. Hartridge,
Capt. Warren, and Mr. J. G. Frith, a formal reso-
lution approving the bill was carried unanimously.
London, England, 1862-05-01

COURT OF CONNON COUNCIL.

Yesterday, at 11 o'clock, a Court of Common
Council was held at Guildhall for the despatch of
business—the Lord Mayor presiding.

LORD CANNING.

Alderman SALOMONS, M.P., gave notice that at
their next meeting he should move that the free-
dom of the City, in a gold box of 100 guineas, be
presented to Earl Canning, in grateful recollection
of his eminent services whilst administering the
Government of India at a period of great peril, and
in ,a unreeiation of the conciliatory and enlightened
pomp of Ills t.uosequi..ll, ILICLIZUI Vrs
crn_
vernment and permanent improvement of that im-
portant dependency of the British Crown.
The announcement was received with loud cheers
London, England, 1862-05-01

ARRIVAL OF HER MAJESTY AT

PERTS.

PERTH, Thursday Morning.

Her Majesty reached Perth this morning at 8.38,
and, aftexlbreakfasting, proceeded for Balmoral at
9.55.

The Archbishop of York has arrived at 43, Upper
Grosvenor• street, for the season.
The Earl and Countess Craven and the Ladies
Craven come to town to-day from Ashdowne Park, Berks,
for the season.

The Earl and Countess of Clarendon are expected
at their residence in Grosvenor-crescent to-day from the
Grove, near Watford, where they have been receiving a
succession of visitors during the holidays.
The Earl Annesley and Colonel the Hon. H.
Annesley, M.P., have arrived in Norfolk-street, Park-lane,
for the season.

The Countess of Kinnoull entertained a select
party at dinner last evening at her residence, Rutland-gate.
Viscountess Palmerston has issued cards for
assemblies on Saturdays the 3d and 10th instant, at Cam-
bridge House.

Viscount and Viscountess Dungannon have ar-
rived at their residence in Grafton-street, from their seat in
Denbighshire.

Lord and Lady Foley have arrived at their resi-
dence in Grosvenor- square, from Workshop Manor, Notts.
Lord and Lady Vernon and Hon. Miss Vernon
Warren have arrived at Farrance's Hotel from Sudbury
Hall, Derbyshire.

Lord Llanover has arrived in Great Stanhope.
street from South Wales.

Lord Herries has arrived at Thomas's Hotel,
Berkeley-square, from Everingham Park.

Lady Hatherton has left Thomas's Hotel, Bet,
keley-square, for Teddesley Park,

Lady Theresa Lewis comes to Kent House to-day
from visiting the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, at the
Glove, Watford.

General Baron Jocknues has arrived at 32,
Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, from Vienna, for the
season.

Colonel the Hon. H. B. Bernard and Mrs. Ber-
nard have arriN ed at Farrance's hotel from Braywick, near
Maidenhead.

The Hon. Mrs. King Harman intends to give a
dance at her residence, 5, Eaton-place, on the 22d inst.
Sir George and Lady Colthurst have arrived at
their residence in Wilton•crescent for the season.

Mr. and Lady Georgina Vernon have arrived at
Farrance's Hotel, from Banbury Hall, Droitwich,

, ___•
Mrs. Meynell Ingram and Miss Georgina
Meynell Ingram have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-
square, from Hoar Cross]Hall, near Rugeley,
Mr. and Mrs. Brinsley Sheridan and family have
arrived at their residence in Grosvenor-place from their
seat in Dorsetshire.

EVEN THE NIGGERS FIND IT OuTl,—'4Ned," said
' one negro to another, ois you a married man ?" " No, siree,
but I wish I was." Ah, honey, if you was, you'd wish
you wasn't." " Why so, Clem ?" " Because a man dat
marries now-a-days marries a great deal more dan he bar-
gained for. He not only weds himself to de woman, but to
a laboratim ob prepared chalk, a quintal ob whalebone,
:1.11:At coffee bags for skirts), one poodle dog, an' a pet ob
weak nerves, which will keep de seevazit gale busy flying
round de house de whole blessed time. Whether de fun
pays for de powder is a matter ob debate,"
London, England, 1862-05-01

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday, at 11 o'clock, a Court of Common
Council was held at Guildhall for the despatch of
business—the Lord Mayor presiding.

LORD CANNING.

Alderman SALOMONS, M.P., gave notice that at
their next meeting he should move that the free-
dom of the City, in a gold box of 100 guineas, be
presented to Earl Canning, in grateful recollection
of his eminent services whilst administering the
Government of India at a period of great peril, and
in appreciation of the conciliatory and enlightened
policy of his subsequent measuros for the good go-
vernment and permanent improvement of that im-
portant dependency of the British Crown.

The announcement was received with loud cheers

RLACKFRIARS BRIDGE.

Mr. WOODTIIORPE, the town clerk, read a letter
from the directors of the London, Chatham, and
Dover Railway Company, complaining of the seri-
ous inconvenience to which they were put by the
delay of the Common Council in deciding the num-
ber of arches for the proposed new bridge at Black-
friars, adding that if the number of arches should
be less than five the company would be subjected to
a large additional expense not contemplated in the
original estimate, and that they themselves were in
favour of a five-arched bridge.
Mr. W. VALLANCE, chairman of the Bridge-house
estates committee, said he had done his best to have
the question decided with the utmost possible expe-
dition, reminding the Court at the same time that
in this important matter the corporation had a duty
to the public to discharge which had a primary
claim on their consideration over the convenience
of the railway company. (Hear, hear.)
The letter was referred to the Bridge house com-
mittee for consideration and report.

THE DRIVING OF CATTLE THROUGH THE STREETS.
Mr. H. L. Taylor, chairman of the markets im-
provement committee, laid upon the table a letter
from Sir R. Mayne, chief commissioner of metropo-
litan police, enclosing certain rules, orders, and re-
gulations for the driving of cattle through the
streets of the metropolis to and from the Cattle
Market, in Copenhagen-fields, and which had re-
ceived the approval of the Secretary of State.
The subject was referred to the markets improve-
ment committee.
London, England, 1862-05-01

SCINDE.

The sum of £5,665 was paid yesterday to the
credit of the Secretary of State for India in Council
in anticipation of calls on the third issue of shares.

PUNJAB.

The sum of £13,340 was paid yesterday to the
credit of the Secretary of State for India in Council
in anticipation of the final call of this company.

RAILWAY BILLS.
Yesterday the committees on the Bristol and
South Western Junction, and on the West Riding,
Hull, and Grimsby Railway, were engaged all day
in taking additional evidence, and then adjourned
until Friday.

THE DISTRESS IN WIGAN.—The expenditure of
the Wigan Relief Committee is still on the increase, last
week's payments having been a little in excess of those of
the preceding week. The sum paid in out•Aloor relief by
the board of guardians is also rising weekly, though this
but slowly, the Relief Committee having so far been able
to support all the poor making application to them. The
fund upon which they hale to work has lately been in-
creased by some large subscriptions from persons remotely
connected with the town or district. Even with these, how-
evor, the fund will not last more than another month at the
present rate of expenditure, and there will be very great
difficulty in raising a second subscription, as the inhabitants
have given more liberally than those of any other town in
the county in proportion to population. It is not, however,
likely that Wigan will suffer as severely as Preston and
Blackburn, for, though the state of trade is worse than in
any other district (of 9,000 hands fully one-half being out
of employ, and of the remaining half four-fifths on short
time), yet there are not so many of the families who are
entirely dependent on the cotton trade as in the towns just
mentioned. Wigan being the centre of a coal, as well as a
cotton, district, in many instances where the children in a
family are employed in a factory the elder male branches
work in the mine, and thus, though, owing to the decrease
in the consumption of coal, the colliers are now on short
time, they are still earning sufficient to keep want from
their doors. To families containing colliers at work no
relief has yet been given by the committee. Lady Kay-
Shuttlewerth has addressed a letter to the treasurer of the
Wigan Relief Committee, enclosing
.% check for 10 guineas.
London, England, 1862-05-01

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