The Sun.
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TIE gUN, LONDON, MONDA -V EVENING, APRIL 11, 185 3. ,‘.
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shown that the apparently hostile clauses are no- - ASSIZE INTELLIGENVE. ' __THE FATE OF A HANDSOME SLAVE. SPORTING NOTES.-No. OCCOIX.
RA ILWA.Y AND CANAL AMALGAMATION.- clearly
This meeting,
NEWMARKETnewin CitltaAeiVghEtyN-seMeeEnEd TyleNarG;having 1 IN
OFFICIAL REPORT. inserted as a cloak for amalgamation ;' arid also that effect -
tual security may be and has been taken for conducting the __ie._
CROWN COURT.-CHESTER, APRIL 8. • -•
(From the Key to Uncle Tam's Cabin.. )
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List,
FRIDAY EVENING,
traffic without danger, if the companies continue indepen-1-
the established
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crav
Craven,
inn , Iw7illl,
eaenmdmneanme
ee named
ei n. d complimentay. a
b hali act
(Before Mr. Justice Wightman.) Among those unfortunates guilty of loving freedom
ytoeemadnid
The committee of the House of Commons on this sub- dent of each other.
eTrOCK BANKS.
ject have agreed to their report, deprecating amalgama- There are also many railways before Parliament in the CHARGE OF MURDER FOR THE PURPOSE OF OBTAINING too well, was a young quadroon girl, named Emily
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-uo np 0
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dtahye, s C
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evienng , Sandal .
have
morel r e ayd
Russell, whose mother is now living in New York. The e i J . PUBLISHED EVEFROY:TTU:Ehps
enthteadt
resent session which may not appear to be in themselves
tion for the present-under Parliamentary powers- BURIAL FEES.
Pclaimants for amalgamation, and which yet may be in sub- Honor Gibbons, aged 21, and Bridget Gerratz, 40, were writer has seen and conversed with her. She is a piousLONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 5.
though it is admitted it may be necessary ultimately to.
_ stance means of defence or of offence in the contests going , woman, highly esteemed and respected, a member of ase
placed at the bar on an indictment and inquisition bring it about. This decision will go very far to dinu
on between different railway systems. It is impossible for Christian church. Frantic and Gossip will receive forfeit in their respective
your committee, not appointed for • the purpose of investi- charging them with the wilful murder of Mary Gibbons,matches.
nish the private business of the session, and leave the
h .1 f h •
By t e avai s o er own industry, she purchased her
past one, Name of Company''
ThDividend Amount
e races commence to-morrow also at half-
companies
open to effect such private traffic arrangements
and gating in detail attic schemes, and not having time to by the administration of oil of vitriol, at Stockport, on
freedom, and also redeemed from bondage some of her
of Paid. P ice.
as may appear most conducive to their own interests devote to their investigation, to express an opinion upon the 12th of March last. I believe ' with the sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each for three-
thepublic. The following is the each particular plan. But your committee are satisfied Mr.
the accommodation of
if
Davidsonavi and Mr. Horatio Lloyd appeared for ch •
ildren Emily was a resident of Washington, D.C.,
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Annum. Share.
years-old and upwards, over the first half of the A.B.M. i
official report :-the amalg • that amalgamation schemes of the great companies the prosecution ; and Mr. Gifford for the prisoners. a place which belongs not to any State, but to the United _
This, with the 501. plate for two-years-old over the same Austral X S. d. X s. d.
' ded durin this in • it is ri ht to take States, and there, under the laws of the United 5tate5,a5ia........... 6;per tent Your committee have carefully considered the evi- are suspen q quirt', g
son"
1 Mr. Davidson said the prisoners were indicted for the course, does not close and name until this evening A • 40 0 0 40 0 0 92
British North American 6 •
dente which has, up to this period of their inquiry, _ _
been precaution for guarding them against an unfair opposition I •
. wilful murder of Mary Gibbons, an infant of the age of she was held as a slave. She was of a gentle disposition, . • tee erne 50 0 0 0 o 0 60
two-years old plate is a bit of a novelty at Newmarket
al which ma a • from otherschemes,and that '
the publicand amiable manners • she had been early touched with Commercial of London. 61. per cent., 1. 0 o o .0 .1 0 32
laid before them on the subject of railway and canal aural-
will
be ybenefited • • I nine months. The learned gentleman then detailed the
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Dint of in the Craven meet'-this 1 • Colonial 3;
a sense of religions things, and was on the point meeting -Eng the first that I can lonian ..
•••••• • • • • • • - per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
ga tion and they have come to the conclusion that it willes
_.. by limiting the legislation of this year to , -ma , of the facts, as afterwards given in evidence, in therecollect ever having been proposed. •• • 6/. i.e- cent. 25 0025 0 0 - uniting herself to the Christian Church ; but her heart Lond. •
Char. Bk. of sus. -
not be proper to sanction the progress of bills now before lin which it is intended not only to pass into law, but whole .
observed that the child had been The Newmarket Handicap, the ninth 25 0 0 2le 0 17%
Parliament for th-at object, without adopting the most also to carry into actual effect, 1 course of which he
of its death yearned after her widowed mother, and after freedom, p, - Your committee therefore entered in a burial societ and at the time
careful regulations, to secure the public against the risk of „ would advise that all schemes 'the. Y' and so, on the fatal night, when all the other poor vie-
out of a s bsc ' t,'
u rip ion list of eighty-eight has obtained a Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 35%
Londoen, oint Stock ... 6t. per
oppression from the virtual monopoly, which would thus for amalgamating two or more companies already incorpo- mother was entitled to the sum of 4/. bu •.1 money. fifty acceptances • the field, howe • tims sought escape by the Pearl, the child Emily went, , however,, will but little ex- Provincial of Ireland.. 81'1) -
The following witnesses were then called :- teed a bakers dozen if it does . per cent. 100 00250 0 be created in the hands of amalgamated companies. rated, should be arrested for the present session, and that also among them., at all, the great fa- Ditto, New... - -... 81..1er c eat. 10 0010 0 0 -
prisoner
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Your committee would willingly have adopted any no new scheme should be permitted to proceed without Hannah Hogan said she lodged with the
They were taken. The sin of the poor girl was inex- vourifism of Contentment and Ethelbert frightening the N
National of Ireland.... 41. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 - course which mig •ht have secured the fair consideration of giving effectual security for its actual and immediate tom- !Honer Gibbons up to the death of the child on the 12th .
before Table. Because she longed for her mother's arms andmajority of the animals
fell away. The latest accounts name at. Provncia of gr, 61 per 1 ne..
~i: cent' 00 0 0 35 ,1 0 -
these several proposals upon their merits in the present sea- pletion. They are fortified in this conclusion by the fact ' of March, and three weeks previous. Thursday
forliberty, she would not. be forgiven. Nothing would
the owing as the starters :-Weathergage, Conniore Ditto, Newt..
Oriental Bank Corpora.••••__ t. 20 0 0 10 0 0 --:
sion hie] it been in their power to suggest any course of which has appeared in evidence, that 2,000 miles of railway I the death of the child it appeared quite well. Slept inor Charley, • 81. pct & bs. 25 0025 0 0 55%
that kind, with a due regard to the just requirements of involving more than 40,000,000/. of capital have been I h Ile the prisoners. During the night the
Banc- ,t e room wi do for such ,
a sin but to throw her into the hands of the ey, Koh-i-Noor, The Little Savage, Antigone South Australia -.• .. 16/, p. et. & bs. 25 0025 0 0 Herbert, Peacock, Grapeshot,Union of Australia.. - .6,.p.ct&las. 25 0025 4' 0 tok
the community at large. tioned by Parliament, and afterwards
abandoned without 1 •
child cried several times. The next morning saw the .
trader. She also was thrown into Bruin and Hill's gaol Ethelbert, Jack the Ditto
It has, however, been
generally admitted by the advo- the consent of Parliament.
child on theknee
.e.l , on en ment, sister to Cara- Uri• ••• • • •....... ! 61. per cent. - 210 0 -
nof London ... .. 7/ per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 171
cedes of more extensive amalgamation, that this question Your committee have taken some evidence on the sub- b deceased. Saw a bottle like the following letter from her. Read it, Christian mo- 'ara, and !Nerve. Any addition to, or subtraction union of Madrid ..... , - 40 0040 0 0 -
now nroduced was worn y
really involves, by no remote consequence, the union of all ject of public safety, with which the subject of amalgams- - they, and think what if your daughter had written it to made from this list by five o'clock this evening will ap-
the railway interests of the kingdom in one body, or, at tion is very materially connected. But as their present the one now produced with yellow stuff in it.
• h , INSURANCE COMPANIES.
pear in the seven o'clock edition of The Sun, '
you ? My opi-
any rate, in a small number of great incorporations not report is mainly directed to the course of proceeding which Nancy 'Hogan, sister
"Alexandria, Jan. 22, 1850. nion of the result of the race I expressed last week, Name of Dividend Amount
fhr
materially differing in their effect upon the public interest , ought to be adopted with regard to the bills now before called. She corroborated the evidence o e
.sister.
"My dear Mother,-I take this opportunity of writing when I awarded the first, second, and third I p aces to Company. per of
Annum. Share, Paid. Price.
from such an union. It would manifestly be unjust to per- Parliament, and the question of safety is too important to Edward Molloy lodged with the prisoners, in
,Flet-
you a few lines, to inform you that lam in Bruin's Gaol, NERVA, ETHELBERT, and Contentment Anti d
gone
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mit the combination of great companies in particular die- be dealt with in a partial m our committee do not there's yard, Stockport, and had lodged there upwards of
and Aunt Sally, and all of her children, and Aunt Hagar Herbert I expect will be f ' • fourth and fifth, with Grape- xs.'d.X s. d.
Albion ...
tricts without, at the same time, guarding against any in- propose to offer th • ' • manner, y
until a future half a year, with his five children One of whom is 18 and all her children, and grandmother • almost M
their opinion to the house iscrazy. y shot heading the ruck. ••••• • • - • • 3L 10s. 500 0 0 50 0 0 90
jury to smaller companies whose railways might be situate tine. years old. The deceased was 'taken ill on the Monday dear mother, will you please to come on as soon as you The twentieth Tuesd R. Affiance Brit. and For. 71.143.6d.b5. 100 0 0 11 0 o
ay's iddlesworth Stakes of 200 AtlasTto Marine..:.,„ 61. p.c.& bs. 100 0 0 25 0 0 50
within the same districts, and against the inconvenience In order to give effect to these views, your committee night before her death. She died on the Saturday. , Was can ? I expect to go away very shortly. 0, mother ! m
which the public would sustain if the communications have agreed to the fell • g resolutions, andhave instructed not well on the day before and remained in the house dear mother ! come now and see your diitressed and heart- sovs, each, h ft, over the De M., according to present A- •'--• • - • • 6 per cent, 5 0 0 1 0 0 -
through these smaller systems were interfered with by their chairman to move the house thereon. (See Perlis-
the most of the day. The deceased didnot that day broken daughter once More 1 Mother, dear mother
. arrangementswhich may be capsized with respect to Argus Life .. ..... ..:. 41. NZ: 6d.
50 0 e 510 0 '41%
cont. 100 0 0 16 0 0
the power thus vested in greater companies possessing mentary b • 2 )
usiness, page . rsake me for I feel
appear to be very sick. Towards the latter end of do not fo , desolate. Please to come one horge - Constantine b
, 1 , y the running to-day-will be British Commercial .. 7s. 6d. 50 0 0
a 4 0 7
rival branches. cont t d b .G 1
es e y enavon, Phrygia Constant' D. cr Clericl.Med.& Gen. Life spr ct. & be. 100 0 0 Friday night was awoke by the crying of the now.
...y. , me, mime la,
. County 4/ I 10 0 0 2016
The proposals for amalgamation have been recom- daughter, ' " our " EMILY RUSSELL. erb 11 if a n
and p -aps -a-our- ; ...,lOMEDIA and GLENAVON being Crow ' •• • mg: 00 0010 0 0 121
_ mendedto yam-committee uponthe ground that much bane- THE PIRATES OF BORNEO. child. It continued to cry until witness got up. „
T Mrs N Cali 'To • ancY wright, New York. the probable occupants of the first and second places. Eagle s° 06 500 IN
ss. 50 0 0 ~
fit would result' to the shareholders from the increased es, three hours.
Should think the child cried about
" P.S. If you do not come as far as Alexandria, come A Sweepstakes of 100 sovs., over the D. M will only, ••• • •
• - 0 o 71,6 Equity and Law,..... 4% per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 a „L.-
between nine
confidence which the possessors of stock would feel under By the following extract from a Sarawak letter, it Got up in the morning of Saturday
to Washington, and do what yo " have two at the post, the result •M.
0 can.
LA General • Iss. 20 0 0 w
all paid. 20
these arrangements, by being, to a great extent, secured will be seen that the Sakarram Dyaks, encouraged by and ten ' o'clock. The mother had the child in
That letter, blotted and tear • • (N t)
f 1• Ph • (N
-soiled, was brought by a , , to orman), 2. Globe . . . - 5 0 0
..... ........ 61. per cent. Stock. " sei
against the risk of future competition. Speakin of this • the long suspension of support on the part of this her arms in the bed-room, It was crying very much,
this
poor washerwoman to some Christian friends in New Another. Sweepstakes of 100 sovs each, over the a uardian . .
5.1. per cent 10e 0 45 0 0 61e
• risk, Mr. Stephenson has stated to your commit& that, count to the peaceably disposed portion of the tom-
,and, witness said to her, "Honor, your child is poorly
York, and shown t them, What A e D. M • • • ' lmperial Fire...... '- ' • '
o em " eo you suppose the - • •, is uncertain m the number of starters ; fort2l.per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0
...... 4
if the competition which now prevails between the London nitrY have broken out afresh, and that a young Eng- all night and very sick." She said, " Yes." Witness
k. for her 2" • . was her question. All that she had should Filbert put in an appearance he will have but a Imperial W
Indemnity Marine...;
and North-Western and Great Western Com •shall mlisuh gentlemanY' named Lee, has fallen. To understand asked to look at the child. She turned it towards me,
willheni .i. all. & SS. 100 0 0
amiss little house, her little furniture her small earnin s
, solitary opponent, who, of course, will not be able to Law Fire 20 0 0 58
2s. & us. bs. 100 0 0 2 1 0 4%
continue, a large propeety, which now yields 54 per cent., .the •extra.ct properly, it must be borne in mind that these and I said, " The child looks very bad ; I think she will
these. Nancy' - beat him, Should he be Law Life • • '
poor was willing to throw in ; but all
~ . reserved, however, for the • ••• •• •••• ••• ••
- 100 0 0 10 0 0 50
will probably in ten years be reduced to 3 cent. in - erected by Sir James Brooke, after the men- not live long." The, mother did not say anything, but -all
per Te forts were
these were but as a drop in the bucket. Column on the followieg day, War Whoop will have the Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 5%
turn for tie advantage of being thus secured, it has been s which led to the destruction of the pirate fleet Of as she turned the child it vomited. very bad stuff. On
felicity of:beating London Fire . • les & bd. 25 0012 10 0 28%
sure
b
The first thing to be. done, then, was to ascertain what Dabchick, Jupiter Tonans, and London h.11;1. .
. . , proposed to give. to the public, in the shape of reduced
and Sakarran b C tain Far h • 1849 • • t G t h •d' fH ' 'y ap on ar, in , going ou saw. erra z, w o yeas min mg one o ogan alos. & bs. -260012 10 0
Sare as
Cobnut. ' esei
charges, a share of the- profit which would, from time toEmily could be redeemed for • and, as it may be an in- Marine
had been approved by the government, and were in- children in the kitchen. Shortly after Honor Gibbons , •• • .. 15s.per share 100 0 0 15 0 0 22
time arise from the iner • 4- m d it would.
peas' srame, spree ,a 8 intended by Sir James as the beet and most humane came down stairs with the child in her arms. Mrs. teresfing item of American trade, we give the reply of THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF, Med. In
vlid & Gen. Life 4%1. per ct .50 0 0 20 • Minerva
then be spread, ' over the same amount only of expended..
traders in full :- - •• •• •• ••.. sp. ct. & bll. 20 0 0 2 0 0 6
Monarch - - -- ..
capital. It has been proposed to secure to the public this mode of checking piracy, by preventing the exit from Flannery then came in and said, "The child is very .
- " Alexandria Jan. 31, 1850. TATTERS L'S-SATURDAY. - 50 0 10 0 21s.
return, by a - closed capital account, their rivers of the piratically disposed Dya,ks in their poorly ; did you bring it to a doctor I" Gibbons said, ~ ! ... - National Loan Fund;; 5t per cent 20 0 0
machinery comprising a c
Dear sir -When I received your 'letter I had not - NEWMARKET HANDICAP, Palladium Life. .
an estimated maxim dividend, with a periodical revs- eankcngs or war prows ; and be trusted that, by en- " No. Mr. Ylannery then said, " Come along with 51. per cent. 50 0. 0 20 (I 2%
bought the sir,
on spoke of but since that time I have
negroes y , Bien of tariff, by which the charges to the travelling public forcing this rule fora few years, the people would be me to the doctor," and both went out together. ' Did 9 2to 1- agst Contentment (taken). Phoenix .. - .... .... - - 45
bought them. All have to say about the matter is, that - \ - 173
sto 2 agst Ethelbert. Professional Life •• -
,naellt
mfr.__
ii
ab 65. 0 010 0 %
Board of Trade, or in some other Government board, a
time was entirely successful, and many if the better witness identified the dresses worn by the mother and the- •
girl Emily-for less than ehteen hundred dollars. This sto 1 agst Nerve. Rock Lif'0...........: •. a. 6.1100 0 0 10 oil 41
wide control for the purpose of insuring the free, fair, an
disposed engaged in the peaceful avocations of fishing child previouseto the death. of the latter.) . Saw some may seem a high price to butcotton b • le h you,, emg very hi , CHESTER CUP. ss.
Royal Exchanee ....•• 61. ext. & ba. Stock.
5 3 0 010 0 8%
economical transit of persons and merchandise from one and farming.
Sun leire all 236
61. lOs
part of the kingdom to the other,
by the lines now in Two young En rh gis gentlemen Of the bottles in the h6se. Two of them were like those now consequently slaves. are high. We have two or three offers Bto ' 1 agst Trifle, (taken). .. .
Ditto Life .. -
91 •-•
1/. 6s.
naives of Brereton and Lee, volunteered ' ered to take charge produced. They were in the same room in which the for Emily from gentlemen from the south. She is said to -
10 to / agst Richmond (taken and offered.) United Kingdom ••• 41.,1.et.&b5. 20 0 0 4 i'i 0 5-
? existence, or by lines hereafter to be made, .
'lt may be inferred from the evidence, that, in some shape of two of these forts, the one at Sakarran, the other at Prisoners slept- The bottle containing the yellow stuff be the finest-looking woman in this conntry. As for 20 to i agst Newminster, (taken). _ Universal Life
or other, ultimate combination of interest will result from Linga ; while a third, the Rejang, was placed under saw last on the clumneY-Piece in the kitchen. • Did not Hagar and seven children, we will take two thousand victoria Life
i, 33 to 1 agst Ann, Page (taken). - 412 6 5%
the temporary competition of rival cotupanies. It appears Mr. Steele's command. They were all 'dependent en- see the other after the death of the child. (This • con_ five hundred dollars for them. Sally and her four children,
46,t0 1 agst Ann Eliza (taken). BRIDGES.
that, in Lancashire and Yorkshire, a district not the least tirely on their own resources, or such James •d • ' Did like the latter
as Sir tame ivitnol.)e not see any stuff
.• sensitive to the advantages of free competition, no such' Brooke could afford them, and they cheerfully under- used in the house. You may seem a little surprised at the difference in prices, DERBY. , Dividend Amount
freedom is practically enjoyed 'as regards communication took the riski and privations f - ' • • ' - •
but the difference in the negroes makes the difference in 'lO to 1 agst Pharos (taken). Name of Company, per of Paid' Price.
o such a life as the pio- Cross-ex
, =need- The prisoner Honor
Annum. Share.
railways • but that, on the contrary, between Liverpool P price. We expect to start south with the negroes on the
• seers ofand 10 to 1 agst West Australian.
; , and Mene' hester, where five different modes of transit, civilisation good government among e wild, peered fond of' the child,' and took care of it. Bth of February, and if you intend to do anything, you had
10 to 1 agst Honeywood (taken). £ s. d. X s. d.
and abort • al eople
• , more or less competing with each other in their inception, gin p • A very moderate ametint of Ann MrNauutra said-She lives in Grape-street
, better do it soon.-Yours, repectfully,
14 to 1 agst Cineas. Flungerford - -
- - 12
have been established, viz„ the Liverpool and Manchester support, or the occasional visit of a steamer, would have Stockport, near; the residence of the prisoners. Knows --- "BRUIN and HILL." 4orithwark - 100 0 0 -16 to 1 agst Umbriel. •
Railway,„the railwaYs by Bolton, Puri,. and Wigan, in the enabled theta to maintain their position. Such how- Hono Gibb Recollects her child dying. Was at This letter came to New York before the case of the , r. one. 18 to 1 agst Ninnyhammer. Ditto New of 7% p.c 70s. per cent. 50 0 0 -
Waterloo ..... -- - - lOO 0 0 - 16
hands of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company, and the ever, was not accorded them, and his countrYinen. have her house the , afternoon before, 'and saw the child. Edmonsons had called the attention of the community 3,=,i
20 to 1 asst Sittingbourne. Ditto Old Ann. of 81. 27. Se, Od. - 60 0 0 2r-
East Lancashire railways, the Bridgewater Canal, fife Old now to deplore the loss of a gentleman who so early de- 'Asked her how the child was ? She said it was very to this subject, the enormous price asked, entirely die- Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 2/. 2s. Od. - 4a 0 0 •') '
River
Trust, all five have, more or less, a common under- veloped those rarely combined qualities, an invincible 'ill. Saw the child. ' She took it out of the cradle, and couraged effort, and, before anything of importance was 25 to 1 agst Ethelbert. Vauxhall ........ Av. 2/. 70 10 3 ,2
standing with each other, and no rivalry exists bearing any courage with great powers of command. We subjoin said it was swollen on both sides of the belly. The same done, they heard that the coffle had departed, with 30 to 1 agst Filbert. - 21
analogy to the keen competition of private individuals con- th4o to 1 agst Contentment. WATER-WORKS.
e extract referred to :-
tending in the same trade, - evening went again to the house after dark. Asked her Emily in it.
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Again, in the case of the London and North-Western "I shall now attempt to give you some of the par- how the child teas, and she said, "A little better." Did Hear, 0 heavens I and give ear, 0 earth ! Let it be
STATE OF TRADE. Name of Company. Dividend Amount
per Of Paid. Price.
and the Great Northern Railways, a division of traffic has ticulars of a most unfortunate occurrence that has be- not see the chi nor hear it cry. known, in all the countries of the earth, that the price -
... Annum. Share.
been adopted, under arbitration, by which the whole fallen us. Rentab had for several months past been Julia Ct;yle , another of the neighbours was at ,Gib- of a beautiful Christian girl-in America, when she is set (From the Manch,ester Guardian of Saturday. -- country from London to Edinburgh and Glasgow is divided collecting a ballah and taunting Brereton. About a bons' house the.' evening before the death, and asked her up to be sold to a life of shame, is from,eighteen hundred MANCHESTER, April 8.-Since T d ues ay, there has East London ,
. £ s. d. X s. d.
6L per ent. Stock_ - 125%
according to a fixed plan, and rivalry between these two fortnight ago he sent word to Gasim and Lin •and how the child Img and she said " Very well." It ap- to two thousand dollars •; and yet, judicatories in the been a somewhat more marked quietness in yarns and Grand Junction ...... 41. per cut. 50 0 0 - 69
trunk lines of central communication is, to a great extent the others who had • gi'
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been friendly with Brereton, peered very weRT, and was laughing. Went there again church of Christ have said, in solemn conclave, that goods than was described in -our last report. In this Kent.-- .......... 41. per cat. 100 0 0 - 84%
extinguished. Between the Great Northern and Eastern Lambeth :.
that unless they joined him and forced their way to the following day, between 11 and 12 o'clock. Saw the American slavery as it is is no evil ! respect we have sympathised with the state of things - 100 0 0 - -
Counties there exists an agreement, dividing into two parts the sent New River C• • • • • • • • • •
ompany.. 27. 10s. the country in the neighbourhood of these islands, and ef- sea he would attack their houses and take all their prisoners and the child, the latter in the arms of its From the table of the saerament and from at Liverpool, where spinners have operated warily, Southwark &Vauxhall 51, per cut, 100 -0
0 - 60
0
factually putting an end to any realcompetition in in that property. Brereton, upon this determined to go mother, The child appeared -fery poorly. Asked Gib- tuary or the Church of Christ this girl was torn away, and only to the extent of their present wants. But, al- v•,, est Middlesex -.. .. 60. Os. pr cnt., -
- Ho
district.up the river and defend their houses. He sent bons what was the reason of the strokes on each side of because her beauty was a saleable article in the slave though the buyers are less disposed for business, there is
These instances are cited; but they n 1
are o y examles of for Lee and the Balows and the Batang Lepers, and the mouth of then; child ? She said, " From the drink." market in New Orleans ! no further change among spinners than a modification , DOCKS. .
what appears to be the general tendency in respect ofcollecting as large a force as he could, proceeded to Looked at the child's mouth, and asked what was the Perhaps some northern apologist for slavery will say of price on the part of such as were previously asking Dividend Amount
petition and combination between railway ' corn-
Bandang's house, which he hastily fortified. Rentab reason of her mouth being full of blisters, and the tongue she was kindly treated here-not handcuffed by the more than could be obtained. The amount of transac- Name of Company.
companies.
per of Paid. I Price.
It is natural for traders to compete where the port came down with only two boats, was fired into, and ran sticking to the upper lip ? She made no reply. Blood wrist to a chain, and forced to walk, as articles less
, tions is very limited. Goods are affected as regards Annum. Share. I '
nits is unlimited for new rivals to enter the field from time away. Rrereten and Lee rushed to their boats, and, came from the oheices nose, and I asked her the reason of choice are ; that a waggon was provided, and that she
demand, but not in an equal degree with erns and -------
t° time iit is quite as natural for traders to combine so followed by one other Malay boat, and a few Balows in 'of it, Both thw prisoners answered, " From the drink rode ; and that food abundant was given her to eat, and prices remain steady. There has been rather ;call
more Commercial ...... .. .. 41. pr cent. Stock.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
soon as, in the particular trade in which they are engaged, scampans, pursued the retreating foe. The boats soon it has taken." •, that her clothing was warm and comfortable, and there- for lorigcloths, which have conseeue tl • d 1 d
y game 4 to East and West India.. 6%1 pr cent, _ _
the whole number of possible competitors may be ewer- scattered, and on the leading esuddenly • By the Coure--She did not say what the drink was. fore no harm was done. We have heard it told us, 3d. • • • -n - - - ' East Country.. 2(js" - stock.
- 167
oat turning a per piece •in price. . per sh. 100 0 0 - -
tamed and limited• sharp point of the river she was received with a shower Julia Flannery another of the neighbours, deposed to again and again,' that there is no harm in slavery, if one GLASGOW APRIL -T
, 8. he market has been steady London .... .•• •• - 51. per
cent. Stock, - 127
These considerations while they appear to your tom- is only warm enough, an full-fed, an comfortable.
of d f '.
• ,th child • tls death.
•It was d dlt
spears, an our huge bankons lying in wait were frequently seem g•, e previous 0 4throughout the week, and a fair amount of business hays 8 Ditto Bonds - -.. -
LK atharine •• .... •• 4 per cent, Stock. - -
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mittee calculated to diminish the reliance which can be upon her before her crew could get at their guns ; they a fine baby. Sew it again on Saturday morning, be- is true that the slave-woman has no protection from the Etintbarapton
been transacted at the prices current last Friday.
Placed upon competition as a sec •ty for the public againstf .foulest • •
Victoria ......... - - _ 2 0 0 6%
the abuse of power b' • • th
y railway companies, increase in e fought, however, most gallantly till Lee came up and tween nine and ten o'clock. It was frothing out o its dishonour and the utmost insult that can be NOTTINGHAM APRIL '
, 7,-There is some improve-
same proportion the necessity for vigilance in parting with took off the attention of two of the enemy. Lee shot mouth, • offered to womanhood-none whatever in law or gospel ; ment i
, ,
n the demand for lace goods on the whole, CANALS.
any control.which, as guardians of the public interest, the Gibbons up to a fort- but so long as she has enough
with his gun two men, right and left, but had no time Peter 1112sTamAra lodged with _ . . to eat and wear, our although there are some sorts for which there is not so
Legislature May possess, to reload. Brereton's fire also killed several men, but night before the death of the child. Was ill, and had Christian fathers and mothers tell us it is not so bad ! much inquiry. We do not specify these
_t,
o il Dividend iZ Dividend
The voluntary combinations to which your committee his boat was soon swamped alongside the gigantic' ban- some medicine ;dt was yellow stuff, and in a bottle like Poor Emily could not think so. There was no eye to it is 'know there is an accumulation of any kind of Companies. a Price. Names of 2..).
, per
Companies. as
have thus (adverted have not generally the sanction or force kong of Rentab, and he and her crew got to the shore the one now produced Had none like the oil of vitriol. pity, and none to help The food of her accursed lot t k look have them
• . stock, oc , buyers are always on the out to ca Annum. .g Annum. Price.
co ,
1
of law. The relations which the companies have been without a weapon. Boats, guns, rifles, everything fell now produced, did not nourish her ; the warmest clothing could not pretty much at their own price and we have known free- - -- - .
enabled to establish by their means are net secure arras and it into the Dyak hands. Whilst this was going on the Patrick Flannery said he saw the prisoner Gibbons on , keep the chill of slave from her heart. In the middle quest instances where manifest in' 1- £
Jury has been sus- Ashtn& Oldh 981
/1. p. ct. 140 Macclesfield . 100, 2/. 10s 50
is a test of- the difference in value between these ge- Balows, who fought well at first, finding they had no the evening the child died. At half-past seven the same of the overland passage,rY sick, weary, heartbroken, the - tamed by parties so circumstanced. The h • osierytrade Barnsley.. • • 160 - - Neittla .... • • 100 18/. . -
ments and actual amalgamation under the authority of chance in their small boats, and with 27 of their num- evening he accompanied her to the Red Bull, where the child laid down her head and dies, By that lonely continues in '
an uninterrupted state of activity for the grknk&A.brg 150 51. 132% 00d. . ••
Parliament, that the witnesses who recommend amalga-
ber wounded,gave away in all directions, Lees ns. men, club is held. They went with the president of the club pillow there was no mother, but there was one Friend, home, colonial, and South American markets, and large Birmingham 40 41. 105% Peak
ore
100 13/. 132
mation speak so strongly as they do of the additional
killed after • 1 Dr. L dthe prisoner Coveltry•••• 100 251. -gent's. Re. • • 78'3 311 i. To's". 71 11,,e,
someand many wounded, vainly urging to own es, whom
security which it will confer upon the stook of the tom .
their leader to fly, jumped overboard, with the seen the 'child. Was present on Tuesday when a bottle Could our eyes be touched by the seal of faith, where already arrived. The cotton market is hardening in 1=8;11.; 14 lis: 6l. 63 Rochdale.... 85 20. 42 -
panies obtaining that advantage.
ou 2% p. ct. 3', X,, Somrset Coal ,51 -
It is, therefore, manifest that, in conceding amalgams- exception of four, who gallantly stuck to him till was found in the-, ash-pit near the Prisoner's house. It others see the only wilderness, and the dying girl, we, Lancashire, especially for fine numbers, and we shall not GrandJunctn 100:iii. pr. et. 68- Do.Lk Fd St -12?
tion, Parliament would part with a power which it might all were wounded. They begged and prayed him to is the one now produced, and it contained a little more perhaps, see one clothed in celestial beauty, waiting for be surprised to hear of .an advance on the price of lace Do., 6 pr. Ct. 10 61.. k. ct. - Stffril &Wore ,40 281. 405
exercise for the purpose of securing to the public one of the jump overboard and get ashore. Though desperately of the oil of vitreel than there is at present. Isherwood that short agony to be over, that He might redeem her yarn very soon.-Nottingham Journal. Grand Surrey 100 2/. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 25 -
greatest advantages that a commercial country can enjoy, wounded, the gallant fellow fought on, saying he would took the bottle. from all iniquity, and present hei faultless before the ,
Kennt& Ave 39 6s. 05. 7% Severs sea? 1-* '
viz., freedom and economy of transit for persons and mer- never rile away, he would die, but never be shamed by Cross-examinedi--The ash-pit is common to about 12 presence of his 'grace with exceeding joy ? Lancaster . 100, - - Wye Rail. t 26 2/. Os. 24
chandise from one part of the kingdom to another •; and turning, and as his last follower jumped overboard, Lee houses. - Even the hard-hearted trader was touched with her THE WEATHER IN THE METROPOLIS.-The metronolis Leeds& Livrn 100! 5.61_ can W. ee.b.ii f - %

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These instances are cited; but they are only examples of
what appears to be the general tendency in respect of com-
petition and oombination between railway companies.
It is natural for traders to compete where the opportu-
nity is unlimited for new rivals to enter the field from time
to time it is quite as natural for traders to combine so
soon as, in the particular trade in which they are engaged,
the whole number of possible competitors may be ascer-
tained and limited.
These considerations, while they appear to your com-
mittee calculated to diminish the reliance which can be
placed upon competition as a security for the public against
the abuse of power by railway companies, increase in the
same proportion the necessity for vigilance in parting with
any control which, as guardians of the public interest, the
Legislature may possess.
The voluntary combinations to which your committee
have thus (adverted have not generally the sanction or force
of law. The relations which the companies have been
enabled to establish by their means are not secure ; and it
is a test of the difference in value between these arrange-
ments and actual amalgamation under the authority of
Parliament, that the witnesses who recommend amalga-
mation speak so strongly as they do of the additional
security which it will confer upon the stook of the com-
panies obtaining that advantage.
It is, therefore, manifest that, in conceding amalgama-
tion, Parliament would part with a power which it might
exercise for the purpose of securing to the public one of the
greatest advantages that a commercial country can enjoy,
viz., freedom and economy of transit for persons and mer-
chandise from one part of the kingdom to another ; and
that so important a step should not be taken unless these
advantages be fully secured.
When the first railway bills were passed, and the present
system of railway legislation was gradually acquiring shape,
the ordinary traffic of the country was conducted upon the
roads and canals ; and the new system offered to the public
the option of an improved method of transit, which was
naturally accepted on the terms on which it was offered.
Nor can it be doubted that railways were expected to be in
practice what they are in contemplation of law, new high-
ways freely open to the public to pass with engines and
carriages at their own discretion. But in course of time
the ancient methods of transit have necessarily fallen into
disuse, and the railways have become the only mode by
which the greatest part of the internal communications of
the country can be conducted ; while considerations of
public safety, and other circumstances, have placed the
management and use of them exclusively in the control of
the railway companies. In passing front the ruder to the
more artificial system, while the greatest advantages have
on, the one hand been attained, on the other hand some
sacrifice has been made of the freedom with which indivi-
duals are able to exercise their choice of route, and to se-
lect the means of locomotion they employ. Under these
circumstances, the relation which ought to subsist between
the Executive Government, as the guardian of the general
interest, on the one hand, and the owners of the railways
on the other, has become a question of the utmost im-
portance ' • and it would be in the highest degree unfortu-
nate if, by any precipitate step, Parliament were)precluded
from arriving at the conclusion best calculated td promote
the public good in future years.
Ii order to ensure this end it will be necessary to estab-
lish, in the clearest manner, what that relation ought to
be; and, as subordinate to this subject, to determine,
among other things,- for what purposes and to what ex-
tent, audit can be rendered effectual ; whether it be pos-
sible to ascertain and define what portions of the expendi-
ture should be charged upon the capital of the companies ;
whether the fixed amount of dividend which any company
should enjoy before submitting to the proposed revision
of tariff can be fairly assessed, and what degree of control
it is right that any central authority should exercise, for
the purpose of securing fair facilities for the transmission
of traffic arriving at the points of junction between dif-
ferent lines ; or for the development, by new lines, of the
traffic of the country, as circumstances may from time to
time require.
There are also kinds of traffic, such as the conveyance of
coals and minerals, in respect of which maximum charges
have been prescribed ; but it is doubtful whether the com-
panies have not the power; by denying to one person facili-
ties which they afford to others, of materially interfering
with the freedom of trade, and frustrating the intensions
of Parliament.

In many of the most important districts of the country
canals have been united with railways in traversing the
. .

whole or part of the same district ; arid while precautions

have beer; taken in some of the acts for Ek..cturizi,g to trade
the benefit of free transit by such canals, much evidence

has been offered to your committee that these precautions

have been ineffectual.

Into these questions your committee have entered with
all the diligence which their limited time has hitherto ren-
dered possible ; but other important evidence remains to
be heard, and your committee are not prepared to pre-
judge the determination at which, when the whole inquiry
shall have been concluded, it may be their duty to arrive.

"I shall now attempt to give you some of the par-
ticulars of a most unfortunate occurrence that has be-
fallen us: Rentab had for several months past been
collecting a ballah and taunting Brereton. About a
fortnight ago he sent word to Gasim and Lingi, and
the others who had been friendly with Brereton,
that unless they joined him and forced their way to
sea, he would attack their houses and take all their
property. Brereton, upon this determined to go
up the river and defend their houses. He sent
for Lee and the Balows and the Batang Lapurs, and
collecting as large a force as he could, proceeded to
Bandang's house, which he hastily fortified. Rentab
came down with only two boats, was fired into, and ran
away. Rrereton and Lee rushed to their boats, and,
followed by one other Malay boat, and a few Balows in
scampans, pursued the retreating foe. The boats soon
scattered, and on the leading boat suddenly turning a
sharp point of the river, she was received with a shower
of spears, and four huge bankons lying in wait were
upon her before her crew could get at their guns ; they
fought, however, most gallantly till Lee came up and
took off the attention of two of the enemy. Lee shot
with his gun two men, right and left, but had no time
to reload. Brereton's fire also killed several men, but
his boat was soon swamped alongside the gigantic' ban-
kong of Rentab, and he and her crew got to the shore
without a weapon. Boats, guns, rifles, everything fell
into the Dyak hands. Whilst this was going on the
Balows, who fought well at first, finding they had no
chance in their small boats, and with 27 of their num-
ber wounded, gave away in all directions. Lee's men,
some killed and many wounded, after vainly urging
their leader to fly, jumped overboard, with the
exception of four, who gallantly stuck to him till
all were wounded. They begged and prayed him to
jump overboard and get ashore. Though desperately
wounded, the gallant fellow fought on, saying he would
never run away, he would die, but never be shamed by
turning, and as his last follower jumped overboard, Lee
was seen to spring sword in hand into Rentab's boat,
where he was soon dispatched, and so we have lost as
gallant and noble an English gentleman as ever stepped.
I think you scarce knew him—he was shy and retired at
first, but on acquaintance he much improved, and has
endeared himself to all by many admirable qualities.
Every one in Sarawak, including Malays, deeply feel
his loss ; he was a great favourite with all—his courage
was Spartan. The news from Kanowit is also unsatis-
factory. Briah Riab got past the fort, with a large
ballah, and has gone up the Rejang. Kum Nipa has
been trying to get up a combined attack on the fort,
and it is said Pa Lambung, of Sarebas, is preparing a
tremendous ballah for the same object. I, have dis-
patched the Badger, with orders to Steele to take every
precaution, and with supplies of muskets and ammuni-
tion, also strict orders not to quit this fort. I much fear
Kanowit, Sarebas, and Sakarran will break out this sea-
son ; there are evident signs of it. St. John has asked
for a steamer, but I shall not rely on his getting one—
we must defend ourselves, and thank God, our people
are ready and willing. If the Dyaks should break out
now, the mischief will be terrible, not only to the rapidly
rising trade, but to hundreds of unsuspecting people who
are fishing and farming on the banks of the rivers, al-
most to the sea."

That it will be undesirable to permit the bills now before
Parliament to proceed, without having first arrived at a
conclusion upon the merits of the whole question, will be
manifest, when it is considered that the bills promoted by
One company (the London and North-Western) have been
stated to your committee to involve the union, under one
control, of a raised capital of 60,000,0001., between one-
fourth and one-fifth of the railway property of the kingdom
—an annual revenue exceeding 4,000,00 Q/.—and an extent
of railway communication of upwards of 1,200 miles, or
mmre than one-sixth of the railways in the United' King-
dom,whic is ingfro the importance of the towns with
connected, a key to the principal communica-
tions of the country,

It may be mentioned that Mr. Brereton had arrived
safely at Sarawak.

Your committee are not prepared to advise that your
honourable house should part, at present, with any of the
power
anies. s which Parliament possesses in reject of these great
comp The period of the session has now arrived at
which it is absolutely necessary to take a decided course in
regard to private bills. Your committee, therefore, commend that the bills for effecting the more extensive
re-
amalgamations, shall not be allowed to proceed to a second
reading.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Harvey Lownd:es, druggist at Stockport, stated that
on Saturday, the ,12th of March, the prisoner Gibbons
Ibrought a child to his shop, and wished to give the child
some medicine. The child lay in her arms with its
mouth open, the tongue was turned up, and the under
part dry and cha med. Asked her what she had given
the child to cause its mouth to be in that state. She
said, ‘‘ I have given it nothing." I said, "You must
have given it sonic thing, or its mouth would not be in
the state it is, and I shall not mix any medicine for it ;
you had better t Ole it to some one else, for the child is
dying." There vr;is a little discharge from the nostrils,
rather coloured, lyut not bloody. Asked her how long
the child had been ill ? She said it had been poorly on
the Monday, but; she had not taken any notice of it
until the Friday night previous. Saw her again that
night along with Thherwood, president of the club, and
the witness Patrick Flannery. Isherwood said he had
come to see what ,-was the cause of the child's death, I
said I could not ,-tell him, for I had only examined its
mouth, and it wns a very suspicious case. The prisbner
and Flannery said the child had died a natural death.
Isherwood said they must meet him in about three-
quarters of an hcnir, at the Red Bull, and he would see
whether he could. settle with them. They then went
away.
Edward Isherwood, President of the club, deposed to
what took place between the prisoner and himself, as
already detailed by Flannery and Lowndes.
Charles Prince, one of the officers of the burial club,
produced the boo.ls of the club. He said Gibbons came
to him on Sunday night, the 3d of October, and entered
herself and child, as members. James Flanaghan put
her name down he. the books. Afterwards saw the same •
child dead at the house of Gibbons, the prisoner. The
witness then deposed to seeing Gibbons at the club--
house on the Situ lday evening after the child's death,
and she said if he (witness) would get her the money she
would give him or te-half.
James Flanaghan deposed to the prisoner Gibbons
and her child being members of the club.
Mr. W. Derby hire, surgeon, of Stockport, deposed
to going to Gibbons's house on the day of the child's
death. Saw sonie, dark brown stains, as if somothing
had ran out of its mouth. The lower part of the belly
was going blacic.. Asked the prisoner Gibbons what
she had given to the child She mentioned some simple
things in the way of food. Saiv the child on the Sunday
morning, and its:, tongue was white and corroded,
Cross-examined--On the first occasion the' prisoner
said the child 1124 died a natural death, and witness
might open the body, or do what he liked.
John Derbyshire, police officer, produced the clothes
worn by the child and the two prisoners, and a bottle
containing oil of -vitriol, which was found in the ashpit.
George CheatNsan deposed to the fact of the prisoner
Gerratz giving h erself up on the 25th of March.
Mr. John Rayner, surgeon, of Stockport, deposed to
making a post mortem examination of the body of the
child, and that iJr,s death was produced by mineral poison
such as oil of vii wool. He also produced an analysis of
the clothes worn by both prisoners, and also by the child,
in all of which he found oil of vitriol. He also found
the same thing cin the inside pocket of the dress taken
from Gerratz in the lock-up.
This closed th e case for the prosecution.
Mr. Gifford addressed the jury at considerable length
in favour of the prisoners. He contended that the
charge against the younger prisoner was a most impro-
bable one. The prisoner Gibbons might have adminis-
tered the poison by mistake, but as against the other
there was not the slightest case. After going over the
whole facts of the case, the learned gentleman con-
cluded with a most powerful appeal to the jury in behalf
of the prisoners.
The learned Judge summed up the case to the jury.
The jury retired, and after being out of court an hour
and a half, found both prisoners Guilty, but recommended
them to mercy.
His Lordship then put on the black cap, and pro-
ceeded to pass sentence of death upon the prisoners.
His lordship said they had been found guilty, after the
most careful consideration of their case, of a vile and
cruel murder. They had had the benefit of being de-
fended with the greatest zeal and ability by the learned
counsel who had kindly undertaken their defence ; but
he could see no reason whatever upon the evidence to
doubt the propriety of the conclusion to which the jury
had arrived. With respect to Honor Gibbons, she, for
the basest motives of gain, had unnaturally violated one
of the deepest feelings of human nature, and for the
price of that unfortunate infant's burial fees had had the
heart to destroy her own child by means the most cruel,
unnatural, and barbarous. With respect to the other
prisoner Gerratz, his lordship observed that there ap-
peared no adequate motive for her conduct, except some
inherent disposition to join in such a deed. After stat-
ing that the recommendation of the jury should be for-
warded to the proper quarter, the learned judge pro-
ceeded to pass the awful sentence of the law upon the
prisoners, holding out not the slightest hope of a com-
mutation of the sentence as far as Gibbons was con-
cerned.
Theprisoners were then removed from the bar, sup-
ported by the matron and turnkeys.

Perhaps some northern apologist for slavery will say
she was kindly treated here—not handcuffed by the
wrist to a chain, and forced to walk, as articles less
choice are ; that a waggon was provided, and that she
rode ; and that food abundant was given her to eat, and
that her clothing was warm and comfortable, and there-
fore no harm was done. We have heard it told us,
again and again, that there is no harm in slavery, if one
is only warm enough, and full-fed, and comfortable. It
is true that the slave-w Oman has no protection from the
foulest dishonour and the utmost insult that can be
offered to womanhood—none whatever in law or gospel ;
but so long as she has enough to eat and wear, our
Christian fathers and mothers tell us it is not so bad !
Poor Emily could not think so. There was no eye to
pity, and none to help. The food of her accursed lot
did not nourish her ; the warmest clothing could not
keep the chill of slavery from her heart. In the middle
of the overland passage, sick, weary, heartbroken, the
child laid down her head and died, By that lonely
pillow there was no mother, but there was one Friend,
who loveth at all times, who is closer than a brother.
Could our eyes be touched by the seal of faith, where
others see the only wilderness, and the dying girl, we,
perhaps, see one clothed in celestial beauty, waiting for
that short agony to be over, that He might redeem her
from all iniquity, and present her faultless before the
presence of his grace with exceeding joy ?
Even the hard-hearted trader was touched with her
sad fate, and we are credibly informed that he said he
was sorry he had taken her.

Bruin and Hill wrote to New York that the girl
Emily was dead. The Quaker, William Harned, went
with the letter to break the news to her mother. Since
she had given Up' all hope of redeeming her daughter
from the dreadful doom to which she had been sold, the
helpless mother had dropped like a stricken woman.
She no longer lifted up her head, or seemed to take any
interest in life.

When Mr. Harned called on her, she asked, eagerly,
"Have you heard anything from my daughter ?"
"Yes, I have," was the reply, "a letter from Bruin
and Hil."

"And what is the sews ?"
He thought it best to give a direct answer,—"Emily
is dead."

The poor mother clasped her hands, and, looking up-
wards, said, " The Lord be thanked Ile has heard
my prayers at last !" _
And now, will it be said this is an exceptional case—
it happens one time in a thousand ? Though we know
this is the foulest of falsehoods, and that'the case is only
a specimen of what is acting every day in the American
slave trade, yet, for argument's sake, let us, for once,
admit it to be true. If only once in this nation, under
the protection of our law, a Christian girl had been torn
from the altar and the communion-table, and sold to
foulest shame and dishonour, would that have been a
light sin ?

'•

POPULATION.—It may be fairly assumed that more
than 80,000 souls from all quarters' of the world have
landed on our shores during the past'year. The entire
population of the colony at the preient moment may be
stated at more than 200,000 souls. \ The principal in-
convenience felt by new-cornem is the want of house ac-
commodation. The abundanCe of money, and the defi-
ciency in effective labour, have raised the expenses of
building far above the point at which it would be a pro-
fitable investment for capital. The number of buildings
erected in the city within the year, bears no proportion
to the increase of the population. But already we dis-
cover symptoms of reaction in this respect ; and we think
that the ensuing year will witness a revival in the building
trade, and a great extension and improvement of the city.
Meantime, the wAnt is partially !supplied by tents and
small wooden buildings in the outskirts. On the
southern bank of the Yarra Yarra there is a population
of four or five thousand ]ivpig in tents ; and all' around
the boundaries of the city wooden cottages are daily
springing up. The scheme for affording temporary shel-
ter to newly-arrived immigrants has been carried for-
ward with spirit. The private subscriptions amount to
nearly 40001., to which the Government is to add 8,0001.
The Wesleyan Methodists have erected a building for
the temporary accommodation of immigrants, of their
own and other denomi nations, in want of shelter.
Despite all such efforts, however, there must be a great
amount of privation, as we have said ; but it will rarely
sink to actual destitution, and at worst is only tem•
porary. The immigrant, once landed, if he has any self.
helpfulness at all, speedily finds means to ward off actual
want, and sooner or later gains a footing from which it
is his own fault if he does not stride rapidly forward into
competence and comfort. —Melbourne Argus.

THE WEATHER IN THE METROPOLIS.—The metropolis
was on Friday visited by a succession of atmospheric
changes, but rarely witnessed at this season of the year.
At an early period of the morning there was a brilliant
sunshine, but this was of very temporary duration, for
the wind, that had been veering between the west and
the north, settled at the latter point, and about mid-day
thick and dark
"clouds completely obscured the north-
westein horizon, and this darkness was soon followed by
a heavy fall of hailstones, accompanied by several smart
claps of thunder. This having passed over, it was suc-
ceeded by a copious fall of rain, and gusts of wind.
After a time this subsided, and the sun again burst
through the obscuring clouds, but this was merely tem-
porary, and a second and heavier fall of hail soon fol-
lowed, which alternated with showers of rain for the
rest of the day. In the evening, between five and six
o'clock, a fearful storm of' hail took place, accompanied
by rain, and although of brief duration, it has not been
exceeded in violence by any since the year 1846. The
atmosphere was so partially darkened, that the places of
business, shops, &c., had to be lighted by artificial
means, and in about a quarter of an hour the storm
burst furiously, and in a short time increased in violence,
rain and hail descending perpendicularly in sheets with
such force as to cause considerable damage to skylights,
and to premises roofed with glass of ordinary thickness ;
rain descending with the hail, the latter did not lie on
the ground, but quickly liquified, deluging streets in
consequence of the drains and sewers being for a time
surcharged, and in many instances overflowing foot-
pavements, so as to render them impassable. These oc-
currences principally took place in the northern district,
nevertheless the Surrey side of the river did not escape,
unscathed. The surfaces of macadamised roads in the
outskirts were completely washed away. The roads,
after the storm had ceased, had the appearance of the
bed of a torrent after much sultry weather. Market
garden ground in the suburbs suffered severely from the
violence of the storm.

THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT WIGAN.—The coro-
ner's inquiry was brought to a close at a late hour on.
Thursday night, and the jury came to the following ver-
dict :—" We find the death of Henry Marsden, and
fifty-six others, whose bodies we have viewed, was
caused by an explosion of fire damp which occurred on
the 23d of March last, in the Arley Pit, situate in
Ince, belonging to the Ince Hall Coal and Cannel Com-
pany ; and that the explosion occurred from gas which
accumulated in No. 6 (Griffith's) and other drifts on the
south side of No. 2, north jigger. There is no direct
evidence to show how such gas ignited, or the accumu-
lation took place ; but the jury are of opinion that it
arose from the door on the south side of No. 2 north
jigger being improperly left open for a longer or shorter
period. The jury cannot separate without strongly ex-
pressing their opinion that the rules for the regulation
of the said colliery are very imperfectly carried into exe-
cution."

X, I
Ashtn& Oldh 98 /1, p. ct. 140 Macclesfield. 100, 21. 10s. 50
narnsloy.• • • 160 Neath • • 100 16/.
l4rknkkAbrg 150 51. 82% Oxford.. • • • • 100' 13/. 132
Birmingham 40 41. 105 m Peak Forest. 78' 31. 18e. 'A,
Coveltry.. • • 100 251. Regent's ... • 33 1/. Os. 161
Derby • •• • • 1001 61. 53 Rochdale ... • 85 21. 42
Ell,mre&Chs 692 p. ct. Sstorset Coal 501
GrandJunota 100: pr. ct. 68 - Do.LkFd.it -12?
5 ,2
pr.Ct 10 61. k. ct. &first &Wore 40 28'. 405
Grand Surrey 100 2/. 108. Shrewsbury..
'4rand Union 1004 it. 10s. 24 Stourbridgs.. 145; 201. 290
Kennt & Avn 39. Os. Od. 7M Severn and 1 1
Lancaster . 100, Wye Rail. 26 2/. Os. 24
Leeds& Livrp 100 251. 550 Warwick &
Leicester.... 100, 51. 66 W .)
aning. 'CO 4/. 40
Leicstr &Nth 83 41. 44% Warwick&
Loughborogh 142 703. 510 Napton.. 3 31. 28
Mmmouthsh 100 Worestr & i 78 „,
Mntgmerysh 100 Birzning. —'l
MeltnMwbry 100 Wilts & Brks 10s. Od. 7

CONFERENCE OF DELEGATES FROM THE PROTESTANT
ALLIANCES OP GREAT BRITAIN.—On Friday lasta meet-
ing was held at Birmingham, to which the Protestant
Alliances of the following towns had been invited to
send delegates :—London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Man-
chester, Birmingham, Bristol, St. Helen's, Kent, Ply-
molith, Newcastle, Stroud, Sheffield, Worcester, Wol-
veffampton, Stafford, Leeds, Nottingham, York, Chel-
tenham, South Shields, Norwich, Ryde, Stoke-upon-
Trent, East London, Clerkenwell, Torquay, Leaming-
ton, Hull, Leicester, Shrewsbury, Southampton, Derby,
Islington, Devonport, Bath, Newbury, Stonehouse,
Tonbridge Wells, Gravesend, Durham, Peterborough,
Stamford, Hereford, Blackheath, Weymouth and Brad-
ford, Norwood, Carlisle, Preston, Dorset, and Weston-
super-Mare. The business of the conference was com-
menced by a preliminary meeting:for arrangement, held
at twelve o'clock, and from that hour until half-past
five the delegates were engaged in discussion of the vari-
ous operations qonnected with the alliance. The meet-
ing was not onl of public demonstration, but solely for
private deliberation. Among the subjects which occu-
pied the attention of the delegates were the modes of en-
lightening the public with respect to popery, and pro-
testant truths, by meetings, lectures, sermons, the press
publications, colporteurs, missionaries, schools, contro-
versial discussions, &c., &c. From about twenty of the
more importa'cit alliances accounts were furnished of the
success attending their efforts, and the energy with
which the work was carried on in Scotland was regarded
as highly encouraging. It was intimated also that the
Protestant Alliance, with the 62 kindred associations
connected with it, was increasing in efficiency every day.
Attention was directed to the present condition 'of po-
pery at home, in regard to which an inquiry into the
teaching and effects of Maynooth was expected to be in-
stituted by the House of Lords, and a bill was to be in-
troduced into the House of Commons for the inspection
and control of nunneries, while the persecuting cruelty
of popery abroad had been signally exposed and defeated
by the exertions called forth at the instance of the Pro-
testant Alliance on behalf of the released prisoners, the
Madial

There is a class of bills included within thercauded within
cal description as bills of amalgamation, which tethui-
to the same objection, and ought not to bein included
net open
the prohibition against proceedine, in the
These are bills, the object of which is toemsenitc seamslioocani
branch, for the benefit .f a particular district ;aa
the small and new undertaking cannot prosper byirils since
facteo
unite it in interest with the trunk, of which it muset,
necessity, be a mere branch or adjunct. Bills of this'of
na-
ture, instead of deserving restriction, rather need encou-
ragement, and ought, therefore, to be subjected to no un-
necessary expense, and to none of the hazards of delay.
How far, under any unproved system of railway legislation,
it may be possible to increase the facility for obtaining
lines of local convenience, is a subject to which the atten-
tion of your committee will continue to be carefully di-
rected.
It remains that your committee should submit the views
-which they conceive should be adopted, pending their in-
quiry upon other subjects indirectly affecting the question
of amalgamation.
The first of these subjects is that of running clauses, as
they are usually termed ; in other words, of conceding to
one company powers of traversing, without coisent, the
lines of another. This practice has always been regarded
as questionable, from considerations of public safety, and
your committee advise that the attention of the select com-
=Mee upon each bill should; in every case, be specially di-
rected to this subject, and that running clauses should be
fttimitted, with great caution, and only in cases where it -is

A ROYAL TELL-TALE.—The poor King-Consort of
Spain is a sad tell-tale. A few days ago the Queen asked
the Marquis of Miraflores some questions about political
matters, upon which he addressed her Majesty at some
length on the subject, and concluded by giving it as his
opinion that it would be highly conducive to her inte-
rests if her mother and the Duke of Rianzares were to
leave Spain. The King-Consort was present, and is
said to have (though the Queen desired that nothing
should be said about it) repeated the whole conversation
to Queen Christina in half an hour afterwards. Queen
Christina and the Duke of Rianzares came to the palace
next morning, and there was a regular consejo de familia,
the first result of which is that the Marquis of Miraflores
has been forbidden the palace, while some recrimina-
tion is said to have passed between much higher parties.
A PARIS WALKING MATCH.—A man, a tinman by
trade, recently arrived from the department of the Gera,
wagered 150 fr. two days ago that he would walk twice
round Paris by the octroi wall (29i miles) in eight hours,
on the condition that he should, be conveyed across the
river in a boat at the Barriere de Sevres. He performed
the feat in fifty-two minutes less than the appointed
time.
A FRENCHMAN'S NOTION OF THE BRITISH HOUSE OF
COMMONS.—The following description of a sitting in the
House -of Commons is given in a recent feuilleton by
Mery, one of the most celebrated poets and one of the
most amusing writers of modern France :—" Speeches
are'. delivered in a psalm-singing tone ; members sleep
here and there, and everybody yawns ; the Speaker
does not use. a bell, and, no one is ever called to order ;
there is never any agitation on any of the benches ;
ennui rains in torrents ; Whigs and Tories share amongst
themselves badly-baked biscuits ; a good deal of Barclay
and Perkins' porter is drank ; members go out every
movement to swallow a basin of turtle soup ; on their
return they turn over collections of caricatures ; Minis-
ters play at short whist in a corner ; those who are not
asleep read a romance of Dickens ; speakers seem not
to care about being listened to."
A FEMALL MISER.—Last week an old woman, named
Ann Dawes, was taken from a house in Strait's-mouth,
in the lowest stage of destitution, and conveyedfothe
Greenwich Union. On her arrival at the union, the
master, Mr. Ellis, with his characteristic activity, di-
rected her clothes— or rather Fags, to be burnt, as they
were in a most filthy. condition. On searching her
apartment, a banker's book was found, from which it
appeared that Dawes was worth 1501., part of which
was deposited in the Islington Savings' Bank, .and the
remainder in the London and County, Bank.—Kentish,
Mercury.

GAS-LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.
Dividend • Amount
Name of Company. per • of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share. •
, -
British .• ...... X se d. X s. d.
•• •• .• -
Ditto Provincial..., - -
11. Bs. 20 0 0 20 0 0 23
Brighton •• •• .. .• •• •• 51. 20 0 0 20 0 0 16
City of London ...... 61. 100 0 0 150 5 0 125
CntinCenentatri 41. 75 0043 10 0 67
Equitable., .. •• .. -•• 501. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Greatlo per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 144
Imperial ...... -.. .. 31. & bonus. 50 0 0 50 0 0 83%
Independent .....
- - • 61. 40 0 0 40 0 0 46
- 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Do., Pad. Preference 61. per cent, 25 0 0 25 0 0 24%
Pecs ai(3.d..C.a.p...)....
nix • ............ 3il, per cent. 50 0 0 49 0 0 -
Ratcliff .. 51. .100 0 0 90 0 0 -
United General .....- IL 50 0 0 80 0 0 20
Wcsbninster Chartered Si.per cent, 50 0 50 00! 39
D'tto.New .. •. • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0' 0 7%
• , LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES.
---
Dividend Amount
'Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
----•-
----
. s. d.
Bank of Scotland ...... 7/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 u 188110
British Linen Comp.... 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 2111 0
tlaledonian Bank
*l. per sent. 10 0
City ofGlasgow Bank 51. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 101135
Clydesdale Bank -.- -6/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 12 14s
Commercial Bank •••• 71. per cent. 500 C 0 100 0 0 1821 0
Eastern Bank 6l. per cent. 25 0 e 10 0 0 10/11s
Edinh &Glasgow
Exchange:link of Scot - 100 0 0 31 5 0 85. Od
50 0 0 10 0 0 1612 s
National Bank
North of Scotland B ant 5/. per cent.
20 0 0 2
10 0 4/. 2s
Royalßank ofScetland 51. par cent. 100 0 ' 0 100_ 0 0 1,5110
Colon Bank of Soot.
Western Bank ... ..
, Mance Fire and Life B%l. pr cent. O 0 0 10 0 0 24110 s
British Guarantee
0 0
10
0
0 1
Caledonian Fire Incur. 101.007 cent • I 0
00 261 od
City of Glasgow Life* 62. per cent. 25 0
00 0 41: lOs
0 0 2
Colonial Life ....... • • 51. per cent. 50 , 1 0 0 4/. 7.
Edinburgh Life Insur. al• per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 21110 s
Eng. & Scot, Law Life • •
5/ per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 41. es
ppoer, cent.ee
* 111, per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 34/. 0.
Lliiafetiolnsrl Firent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 11. 13,
ScottishUnionlnsrnc. 741. pr cent. 20 Q 0 North British Insur.
andScetlLainfde
661/..
1 0 0 1/. 135
standard Life •••• .. • 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 7 0 0 131 es
United Dep. Assurance Sl.ner
Dividend. cent 1 0 0 1 0 0 111. 08
Ex 0