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London, England, 1849-04-19 00:00:00

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CNomampaesnioesf. Div:edrend Names. of Divid
„nd
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price.
Companies. Annum Price'
v.• Annum. r.
Ashtn& Oldh 971 71. - Macclesfield . 1001 t 21. 10s. -
Barnsley... • 160 121. 180 Neath ••• • • • 100 I 181. 340
lirknk&Abrg 150 51. 85 Oxford ...... 100 20/. 185
Birmingham 35 41. 81 Peak Forest. 78 31. 18s. -
Coventry.. • • 100; 251. 210 Regent's • • 33 11. 53. 18%
Derby ••• • • 100; 61. 63 itochdale...• 85 41. 54
Ellsmre&Chs 133: 563. 40 Somrset Coal 130171.105. 130
Erewash •• • 1001 32/. - Do.LkFdSt 12161. p. c. -
,IrandJ unctn 100, 51. 80 Stffrfil &Wore 140 28/. 310
4randSurrey 100, 21. 30 Shrewsbury.. 1251 15/. -
Grand Union 100 11. 10s. 24 Stourbridg.e.. 145 201. 285
Grantham .. 150, - - Severs and I
Kentit & Avii, 39 Is. 6d. 53 Wye Rail. j 26 V. 03. 25
Loc.is& Livrpl 100 301. 320 Warwick&i
Leicester .... 140 31. 6334 iiirming. j 100 41. 50
Lemstr &Nth 83 41. 45 Warwick& } 100 31. 41
mghborogh 142 701. 650 Igapton.
yfonmoutlishlloo 81. - Worcstr
lintgtmrysk j 100 - - Birming. 78 21. 41
JleitnM wbry I 100 - I - Wilts & Brks - li. 10
LIST OF SCOTTISH COIYIPANIES'
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Faid. Price.
Annum. Share.
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4 s. d. £ s. d
Bank of Scotland
British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 192
laledonian Bank
City of Glasgow tank . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 11/
Clydesdale Bank •••••• 6% per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 12%
Commercial Bank .. 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 18154
Eastern Bank ••••.• • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 C 91. 723
Edinb.loGlasgow Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 5%
Exchange Bnk of Scot.. 41. per cent. 100 0 0 60 0 0 32
fele of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 -
National Bank i34 per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 131
Northof Scotland Bank 41. percent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 71.170.
North British Bank; 5O 0 0 10 0 0 4. s.OO
Royal Dank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 116
Union Bank Of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 80U
Western Bank ...... 81. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 73%
Aberdeen Fire and Life 7%1.pr cent. 12 10 0 2 0 8 2
B.Accord.LiieandFire 20 0 0 011 0 9s Gd
British Guarantee Ins. 4/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 118 60
Jaledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 21
Church of England Ins. - 50 0 0 2 0 0 2
City of Glasgow Life.: 61. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 121. lis
Edinburgh Life Incur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 17%
East of Scotland Life - 10 0 0 015 0 Bs.6d.
Eng. & Scot. Law Life 51. per cent. SO 0 0 217 6 463 6d
I
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 l2
Ensur. Co. of Scetlnd.• Cl. per cent. [OO 0 0 10 0 0 7
Life Assoc. of Scotland 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 1/. 60
Mercantile Life
National Fire and Life 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 208.60
North British Incur. 534 Lpr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 2214
North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 170.60.
Scottish Life and Guar. 20 0 0 011 0 ss.
Scot. Mas. and Gen. Life 1 0 0 0 15 0 103.0 d
Scottish Linton Insrace. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11. 2s
Standard Life ...... • . 51. per cent. 50 0 0 5 0 854
United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 0 155.0 d
MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
X. e. d. X. s. d.
Australian Agrieulturl 100 0 0 30 0 0 -
Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 45. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
Ditto, Half Shares.. - 210 0 -.
Canada ... • • . GI. percent. 100 0 0 32 10 Q 31
Uppr Canada Bonds 51. per.cent. - 7-7
City Navigation .... 10.14
Comp.Cppr MursEng. 51. percent. 100 0 0 70 '
Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.& be, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 • ,C) '.90
Equitable Reversienry 51. pr cent. 100 0 0 1100 0, 0 '94
Gen.SteamNavigation 11.8 s. 15 0 0 14 0 0
London Institution ... - 78 15 0 ' -
Russell Institution.... - 26 5 0 3
Peninslr& Orient.Stm. IL per cent. 50 0 0 50 9 0 64
Reversionary Int. Soc. 4341. pr cent. 100 0 0 1100 0 0 90
Royal Mail Steam 61 18..4. p. c. 100 0 0 60 0 0 54
South Australian .•••• 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 16
Van Dieman's Land . 100 0 0 23 0 0 I -

The new bridge over the Ness will bo completed by
he end of June.

THE LATE Miss JEFEERIES.—The following bio-
graphical sketch, relating to the family of the murdered
lady, has been handed to us by a correspondent :
" The deceased Miss Jefferies derived her ori-
ginal property from her father, Mr. William Jefreries,
heir to Mr. James Jefferies, who established
himself as a builder, in Host-street, in the year
1752, and many years enjoyed the patronage of the
Lippincots, and other respectable families of Bristol and
its vicinity, dying about the year 1766. There may Set
be a few Cathedral attendants who recollect the fine
countenance of Mr. William Jefferies, as he stood before
the monument of Bishop Paul Bush, with his Prayer
Book resting on the table of that monument, which
station he constantly occupied until he fixed his resi,,ence
at Staple-hill, in the parish of Mangotsfields Glouester-
thirc,' —Farley's Bristol Journal.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, April 18.
(Sittings in Banco.)
COLE V. ARADLEY AND OTAIERS, EXECUTORS OF COUNSEL.
This case, which was of a rather singular description, was
tried at Gloucester, before Mr. Justice Coltman, at the last
assizo,-when a verdict was found for the plaintiff for 1501.
Mr. Sergeant TALIrOURD now . applied for a rule
to show . cause why there should not be a
new trial, on the ground that the verdict
was against the evidence. The action was brought
in • forma. pauperis, by a jobbing brewer at Gloucester,
againit the two executors of Mr. George W. Counsel, who
practised for a great number of years at Gloucester as an
attorney, and who died at a very advanced age in 1844. The
action was in assampsit to recover for the services- of, the
plaintiff's- wife in reference to the testamentary dis.
positions of the late James Wood, the banker of
Gloucester, who died in 1836, and which were de-
-scribed in the particulars of demand as services rendered
by Mr ,f. Cole hetwe,ll Jan. 1837, and Augas•, 1841, for the
purpose of substantiating Mr. Counsel's claim to a legacy
bequeathed to him by Mr. Wood. The amount claimed Was
2061. 5i., being at the rate of 2s. 6d. a day, excluding Sun-
days and holidays; but there was a further claim for ex-
penses, which it was alleged Mrs. Cole had paid out of her
husband's money for Mr. Counsel. Some time after the
death of Mr. Wood a remarkable circumstance occurred. A
Mr. Helps, of Batliali .1011, Surrey,:Teceived a paper pur-
porting to he a codicil to the will of the deceased, by
which large legacies are given to several parties, viz.,
6,01/01. to the c,rporation of Gloucester, 50,0001. to Mr. Phil-
putts, MP., ~000/. to Mr. Helps, the gentkinnan who
received the codicil, and 10,0001. to Mr. Counsel, and various
'sums tc other persons. The will and the codicill were,. how-
ever, both repudiated by Sir H. Jen ner Fast, the Judge of the
Ecclesiastical Court, in February, 1839, but or. an appeal being
made to the Privy Council that judgment was reversed, and
both the. will and codicil were considered valid, and' were
received. 'Consequently -Mr.,Counsel received his legacy,
but he died soon afterwards. The parties were then anxious
to ascertain who it was that had sent the codicil, fur it
was undoubtedly in the handwriting of the deceitsed,
but it bad been partly burnt and defaced, auld it
was.anderstimd that by a former codicil, which could not be
dissevered, as much as 200,000/Aad been left to the COrpo-
rati,n. Rewards of 5,0'10/. and 10,000/. were offered respec-
tively by the legatees and by the Corporation for the disco-
very of the person who had sent the codicil, hut
they never succeeded in finding him out. Various
persons in Gloucester were Anduced to incur great
trcuLle, and sometimes expense, in_ endeavouring to
entitle themselves to these large rewards. Mrs. Cole was an
illiterate woma-, not being able to write her name, but she
Vt%3 nearly related to James Wood, and, it appeared, had
made herself very busy in the matter, and it was
in evidence that Mr. Counsel had said to the
town-clerk of Gloucester, that Mrs. Cole was a very'
useful woman, and that he did not know how he should
have done without her. It was also stated by witness
that Mr. Counsel had said that he would give her 300/. when
ho got his legacy. ,The Learned Sergeant stated, however,
although he admitted that she had taken much trouble in
the matter, had gone several journies to get papers and in-;
formation, that every claim she bad against Mr. Counsel
had been fully satisfied.
The CmEF BARON interrupted the Learned Counsel in
his statement, and said the Court was of opinion, taking the
evidenca which had been laid before it and the report of the
Beamed Jtidge, that the question, if any, was :not one of
right but one of quantity, and that it could scarcely be right
to grant a new trial in such a case and incur further expense;
'fete application was accordingly refaced.

BAIL COURT, April 18.
(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.) •
WINNALL E. RETHEESTONHAUGH AND ANOTHER.

Mr. WHEATLEY applied to his Lordship for a certiorari to
remove an indictment for perjury into this court. The
indictment had been preferred and found before
the grand jury of Worcestershire, and it arose out
of a suit in Chancery, which the plaintiff had instituted
for the recovery of an extensive and valuable farm near to
the city of Worcester, and which had been decided against
himself. The perjury was alleged to be contained in
the answer to that suit, but the real object of
the indictment was not to bring a guilty party
to justice, but to gratify the vindictive feelings
of the plaintiff himself, who had kept his name out of the
indictment in the hope of being summoned on the jury to
try the case. For that reason, coupled with the fact that the
indictment was likely to involve points of law and intricate
matters, the defendants were anxioqs to have it tried in this
court. •

Mr. Justice COLMIDGE granted the application, and d.
rected the writ to issue on the defendants putting in bai
themselves in 1501. each, and two sureties in 501. each.

IN RE EDWARDS.
PASIILEY moved for a writ of certiorari to bring
up the order of two Middlesex magistrates, adjudging a Mr.
Robert Edwards to be the father of a bastard child, and an
order o: sessions awarding the costs of an appeal, with the
view of their bang quashed, on the ground that they were
oad and informal. The bastardy order was bad, inasmuch as
it did net state that the evidence upon which it was
founded was not taken before the defendant or his
Solicitor, while, with regard to the order of sessions awarding
ccsts, it was clearly bad, as no appeal was heard. The de-
fendant gave notice of an appeal, but an objection was taken
to the form of the notice, and the objection being held good,
the appeal fell to the ground. It was clear then that no
appeal was heard, and the Court of Sessions had, therefore
no power to award costs to the mother of the child.

kr. Justice COLERIDGE granted a rule nisi.
DAVIS V. LLOYD.
_ _ _

Mr. PsAnsom applied to his Lordship for a rule to show
cause why an attachment should not issue against
the plaintiff for disobeying an order of the Court.
The case itself was an indictment for perjury,
but the defendant being ignorant of who his accuser.
was, he obtained a rule in February last requiring
the complainant to furnish him with the nature of his pro-
fession or occupation, or quality and description of his place
of abode. The rule required the information to be supplied
within three days after its service, but although it had been
served so far back as the 28th of last February, no notice
whatever had yet been taken of it.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE granted a rule nisi.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, April 18.
(11,ings in Banco, before the Lord Chief Justice WILDI,
and Justices COLIMA N, CRESS WELL, and WIL LIAMS.)

SAINTEX V. FERGUSON.

-2.Ylc. Sergeant CIIANNELL said, in this case, which was tried
hefore Mr. Justice Creswell at Chester, and a verdict found
for the plaintiff for 50C1., he had to move on the part of the
defendant for a rule to show cause why a nonsuit should
not he entered, or for a new trial, on the ground of mis-
direction, or to arrest the judgment. TIM result of this
application would depend on the construction to be
placed on a short agreement entered into between the
plaintLl and defendant. The agreement was in these words :
In consideration of Joseph Denbigh Sainter, of Maccles-
field, surgeon and apothecary, being willing to engage me,
the undersigned W. E. Ferguson, as an assistant to him as a
surgeon and apothecary; 1, W. E. Ferguson, promise the
said .7. D. Sainter, that I will not at any time practise in my
own name, or thot of any other person or persons, as a sur-
geon in Macclesfield, or within seven miles thereof, under the
penalty of 50C1. ; and I, the undersigned J. D. Sainter, do
agrea to engage W. E. Ferguson as an assistant
to me as a surgeon and apothecary on the terms aforesaid."
Qae point which he (Mr. Segeant Channel!) had to submit
on that agreement was, that the contract, supposing it were
otherwise binding, was a contract which only restrained the
defendant from practising as a surgeon during the time he
was in the employ of the plaintiff. Secondly, he submitted
that this agreement was a void agreement, upon the ground
that it was in restraint of trade, and not supported
by a good consideration, and for want of mutuality; and the
objection he made was, that there was no obligation on the
part of the plaintiff to employ the defendant, so as to consti-
tute a good consideration. lie submitted that the declaration
which set out this agreement was bad, inasmuch as the con-
tract was nudum pactum.
The COURT refused the application.

POLICE IN'T'ELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH-S TRE ET.
A few days ago a cabman named Roland, applied for
and obtained a summons against a female calling her-
self the Count .sa of Carlisle, fur refusing to pay him
his fare.
Yesterday the cabman presented himself before Mr.
Hardwick, to state :that the summons was not obeyed,
and he wished now to have a warrant against ber pre-
sumed ladyship. A letter, of which the following is a
copy, :71-.-6 brought to Mr. Hardwick.
" T.ie Countess of Carlisle presents her compliments
to Mr. Hardwick, having received a summons with his
s.;gnature attached, for money claimed by a person calling
himself Henry Roland, begs to say that she completely
protests against the charge, under:the following grountis.
In ,:ke first instance, as a married woman she is not liable
to be sued for any debts she may contract, so (bad the
man been refused payment) it was to the Earl of Car-
lisle he shouid have applied. In the second instance, Lady
Carlisle told this Henry Roland, until Lord Carlisle's re-
turn to London, which she expects to-day or to-morrow,
he bad not the means of paying him, as her purse, contain-
ing all the ready money she possessed, was taken off the
table in her sitting-room by some of the inmates of the
house in which she is lodging. In the third and last in-
stance, Lady Carlisle believes that a summons should be
personally served, which was not the case in this in-
stance, as it was handed to her at a late hour last night
by a servant in theshouse named Susan. With all due
respect to the authority of the bench, the Countess, under
theta circumstances, declines to attend at Marlborough-
street Police-court to-morrow.-32, St. Martin-street,
Leicaster-square."
Mr. HARDWICK said he was quite ignorant of there
being any Countess of Carlisle, the wite of the Earl of
Carlisle. Anybody might choose to call herself a
countess or a duchess, and he could only suppose that the
Person who had written this letter must be labouring
under some kind of mental delusion.
TLe cabman said he was hired by the Countess from
the Spanish Ambassador's Chapel. He took her Lady-
ship to a house in Warren-street, Fitzroy-square, where
her Ladyship stopped two or three hours. He then
drove her Ladyship to a gentleman's house in Eaton-
place, where her Ladyship stopped three quarters of un
hour, and where she had called for money, as she said.
Complainant then drove her Ladyship to her lodgings in
St. Martin-street, and he was desired to go away, as
there was no money for him. Her Ladyship was per-
fectly sober while in the cab.
Mr. Mu:swim ordered the cabman to have a second
suremona, and directed an intimation to be conveyed to
the defendant that if disregarded some peremptory steps
would ha taken.