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London, England, 1849-03-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1849,

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ment involuntarily void.—(Hear, hear.) But yet there
was this reply to such an objection. The Bill only gave
the opportunity to the electors of saying whether they
considered any one fit to be a representative or not. He
would rather follow the advice of the Hon. Memb r for
Newark, and wait for a short spontaneous Act from the
House of Lords.
After a few words in explanation from Sir W. CLAY,
Mr. F. O'CONNOR said that he would agree with
the Hon. Member for the Tower Hamlets, and not offer
any active opposition to the Bill. Yet he felt bound to
state what effect this Bill was likely to have on the
people at large. The people were striving to obtain a
power of returning representatives without any property
qualification ; and he would warn the House not to let
them suppose that whilst they were advancing their re-
presentatives were retrograding. The effect of this Bill
would be to frighten Members into the payment of debts
which they really never owed.—(Hear, hear.) He
trusted the Bill would be rejected, for he believed that
if it became an Act of Parliament it would be productive
of great mischief.
Mr. HUME thought that he bad opposed no sufficient
obstacle to raise any serious objection to his proposal.
With regard to the House of Peers, he believed that it
was quite as desirous to keep itself pure as that House
was, and if the measure worked well as regarded that
House, no doubt the principle would be adopted by the
other House. He could well conceive the difficulty
arising from a long Chancery suit, and he did conceive
that it would be hard in the extreme that a man who
perhaps with 1,0001. a year was embarrassed by the
costs of legal proceedings, should be excluded from the
House.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that the best
flan would be to leave the matter altogether to the de-
cision of the judges, whose peculiar business it was to
discriminate in cases of insolvency. This was a portion
of the duty for which they were paid.
Mr. HUME had always thought of late that according
to the present rate of prices the judges were overpaid.
Mr. R. PALMER thought that the Bill would be
useful, and he should support the clause.
Mr. MULLINGS also supported the clause.
After a few words from the SOLICITOR-GENERAL,

Sir W. CLAY said the Bill sanctioned the Speaker's
declaring the seat of a Member vacant who might re-
fuse to pay a debt on the order of the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Now, suppose, on an appeal to a superior
court, it was decided that the Member was
not liable for the debt, what redress did
the Bill give for such an inquiry as it? He still thought
the Bill so defective that he should move that the Chair-
man do report progress.—(Hear.)
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, in the case put
by the Hon. Member the party so aggrieved could be re-
elected.

Mr. HENLEY said that was no redress at all, for the
same process might be gone through of obtaining the
bankruptcy order, and the unseating of the Member
again secured.—(Hear.) He hoped that the discussion
upon the Bill would be postponed until a future day,
when the House might have the benefit of the attend-
ance of one Member of the Government.

Mr. H. BERKELEY thought that a vast deal of the
Bill required much more consideration on the part of
Hon. Members than. had as yet been devoted to it.
There appeared to be a great disposition in that House
to legislate against its own Members, and this was par-
ticularly observed in all measures which were brought
f orward to establish, or rather to create, purity of
election. An agent had nothing to do but
to give a sovereign to a voter, and an Election
Committee could not refuse to turn out the Member on
whose behalf it was alleged that the sovereign was given.
He hoped that the further consideration of the Bill
would be postponed until a future day.
Mr. STAFFORD hoped that no new element of con-
fusion would be introduced into the Bill, which, on the
very face of it had an unsavoury appearance. The So-
licitor-General had stated that the Bill would not effect
the object which it was sought to accomplish, viz., the
exclusion of insolvent Members from the House ; and
when they saw that the title of it was so totally dissimilar
to the clauses, he thought the House bad a good ground
for not sanctioning it. There was a good deal of oppo-
sition in the House to it, but Members had a delicacy in
speaking upon the subject. When it was under discus-
sion upon the last occasion, Members seemed to
take very little interest in the debate, and
on inquiring the reason he was told, but
he hoped it was not true, that all the
insolvent Members had gone to the levee.—(Hear.)
Mr. MACKINNON said it was impossible in the
19th century that they could remain under the slur of
having Members in the House who did not pay their
debts, and who took advantage of the privileges
of the House in order that they might
defraud their creditors. If they wished to raise
themselves in the public estimation they ought at once to
pass this measure. If it was the wish of the House that
Members should be eligible for re-election upon getting
a release from the judgments issued against them, the
Bill might easily be altered in that respect by the in-
sertion of two words. He was strongly opposed to any
attempt for throwing overboard this measure.
Colonel THOMPSON said it might be extremely
improper to afford shelter to any Member who
could not, or would not, pay his debts; but it
was a work of supererogation to pass a measure
for the recovery of debts from Members against
whom a process could be successfully carried
on out of the House. There was hardly a Member of
the House who was not a president, vice-president, go-
vernor, or member of some commercial or charitable in-
stitution; and, in the glorious uncertainty of the law
which existed in the time of our ancestors, and existed
now, they might be called upon to settle claims against
such institutions, for which they were not equitably
responsible. An instance occurred, not many years ago,
of two Members of Parliament being fixed upon for the
payment of some claret, the club to which they belonged
being unable to settle the dt mands upon it. He should
vote against the Bill.
Mr. MOFFATT replied. He regretted that he could
not accede to the proposition of the Hun. Member
for Derbyshire. The Honourable Member for
Not thamptonshire said that a man might be
re-elected; but if he became a fraudulent insolvent, he
never could be re-elected. At the present moment
directors of public companies were no more liable for th•
debts of the undertakings with which they were con-
nected than' they would be under this Bill; for if they did
not pay their debts they were liable to be ejected
from the House under the bankruptcy laws.
The House should bear in mind that he did not propose
the introduction of any new principle. The mover of the
amendment " that the Chairman report progress" had
not stated any valid reasons in support of his proposi-
tion, he had merely objected to the principle of the Bill.
After a few words from Mr. MULLINGS,
'The House divided, when there appeared—
For reporting progress ... 34
Against it 77
Majority —43

After a few words from Mr. HENLEY the House
agreed to the 4th clause.

Mr. ROUNDELL PALMER proposed an amend-
ment to the sth clause, to the effect that an insolvent
Member, whose seat had been vacated, should be put
precisely in the same situation as a bankrupt stood in
regard to that House, who could not sit again until he
had obtained his certificate from the Bankruptcy Court.
Mr. MOFFATT did not see any objection to the
amendment.
The amendment was thereupon agreed to.

The House then went through the remaining clauses,
making a few verbal amendments, which did not provoke
any opposition or discussion, and the House having re-
sumed the Chairman reported progress.
Mr. HENLEY thought that to-morrow would be too
soon to report the Bill.
Mr. BERNAL said this day week.
Mr. HENLEY—There were several Members who
wished to take part in the discussion who had been lin-
able to be present to-day. He thought, therefore, that it
would be better to postpone the consideration of the
report.
Mr. HUME conceived that the objections which he
had put were of great force, and ought to be taken into
account.—(Hear, hear.) The question of costs in a law-
suit was a very grave one.

Mr. BERNta, was exceedingly surprised that the
Hon. Member for Montrose had at all supported the
principle of the Bill. The objections which he had urged
were altogether fatal to the principle—("Hear, hear,"
from all sides of the House)—and he was only asto-
nished at his supporting the Bill, or rather its principle
at all.

Mr. HUME was quite opposed to the Bill. He
should like some arrangement,certainly, but the prin-
ciple of the Bill was one which he could not in any
way support.
It was then ordered that the report should be brought
up this day week.

THE TENANTS AT RACK-RENT RELIEF BILL.-
' Mr. SOTHERON, on the motion being put for the
second reading of this Bill, expressed a desire that some
clause should be introduced by which the rate-payers,
who had formerly contributed to the erection of lunatic
asylums, might be put on the same footing
as those who had not paid anything towards
the fund for such a purpose. He thought
the Bill was a very good Bill, and ho quite agreed with
its principle, but he thought that its details, especially as
regarded the pint to which he had alluded, might be
very much amends d.
Sir F. LEWIS said that es far as the measure went
it had his decided approbation. He did not, however,
think it went far enough. He thought great advantage
would be gained by placing
such rates upon the landlord
instead of the tenant.
Mr HOI)GES doubted whether the provisions of the
'Bill could be carried out.
Mr. BROTIIERTON agreed with the principle of the
Bill, but thought there would be great difficulties in
carrying out its details.
Mr. C. LEWIS did not object to the second reading of
the Bill, but he thought its provisions might be con-
sid,rably improved and amended in Committee.

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Sir J. DUCKWORTH supported the second reading
of the Bill.

After a few words from Mr. T. Egerton, Mr. P.
Scrope, and Mr. 11. Palmer, who also supported the
Bill, but suggested improvements to be considered in
Committee,

Mr. SOTHERON replied.

The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered
o be committed this day week.

SUPPLY.

Mr. FOX MAULE brought up the report of the
Committee of Supply relating to the army estimates,
which was considered, and agreed to.

ECCLESIASTICAL BENEFICES.
Upon the motion of Mr. MULLINGS, leave was given
to bring in a Bill to extend the remedies of sequestrators
of ecclediastical benefices.

PUBLIC ROADS BILL.
Colonel LEWIS brought in the Public Roads Bill,
which was read a fuel time,

After the transaction of some other unimportant
business,
The House adjourned at Five o'clock.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—In your paper of the 16th, I find my name is
placed:, as voting in the minority on Mr. Disraeli's motion
for transferring a portion of the poor and other rates to
the Consolidated Fund ; whereas I voted in the majority
and against Mr. Disraeli's motion. Begging you will
correct this error,
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
RICHARD HARRIS.
Woburn square, March 21.

NEW AUSTRIAN CONSTITUTION.
(From the Weekly Dispatch.)
Mr. Editor,—What have the people of England to do
with the Austrian Constitution? I should reply that,
full of an anxious desire for reform here, determined not
to remain the serfs of a few hundred families possessing
landed property, they will look into the manifesto of a
despot Emperor to see what are the essentials of liberty
and justice proclaimed even by such an authority.
Whether the offer be another lie, intended to be coun-
teracted by fraud, as the concessions of the late Emperor
have been by force, or whether they shall be honestly
carried out for the benefit of the Austrian people, is no-
thing to the question. If it is considered necessary by
the worst and meanest of all Governments, excepting
possibly those of Naples and Spain, to put forth certain
principles as the only ones that can be professed with
decency, as the only pretences compatible with a show
of sense and justice, we are fully entitled to the benefit
of the admission, and have a right to work out its full
conclusions against our own Egyptian taskmasters.
The undisputed abolition of the worst oppressions
throughout the Austrian empire is, in itself, a matter of
congratulation to all freemen. It is something that, in
so immense a domain, inhabited in parts by tribes utterly
barbarous and habitually servile, there should be pro-
mulgated such a law as this, " Serfdom, no matter of
what kind or description, is abolished. A slave becomes
free by touching Austrian ground, or going on board of
an Austrian ship." We may felicitate ourselves that the
freedom of the press is acknowledged, and all censorship
abolished, that Judges are made irrremovable, except for
proved offences in office, that great crimes and all politi-
cal offences, including libel, must be tried by a jury, that
a Habeas Corpus Act is established, by which a prisoner
must be brought within 48 hours before the judge of his
district, that Ministers are made responsible, and that
the Emperor cannot pardon their crimes against the
State; that property cannot be confiscated; that all Aus-
trians are equal before the tribunals; and that a man's
house is to be invaded only by the authority of recog-
nized law. All these are concessions to the general
spirit of established truth. All these are answers to the
pernicious appeals to our English egotism, when we are
told to be content, for that no nation is so free as our
own. Such liberties as we have are proclaimed, for all
his subjects, by the autocrat of Austria, in one of the
strongholds of the Holy Alliance. We may brag as
much as we please about the adoption of these great
foundations of liberty from our example—that, in shed-
ding their blood to lay them, our ancestors established
the basis of European as well as of British freedom; but
we can no longer boast of a monopoly, and, moreover,
we shall find that our dullest scholars have gone beyond
us, and that, among them, these great charters of popular
rights are not frittered and explained away by other
conditions, such as make us hold them only at the will
of an oligarchy.
The security of all freedom is the right of suffrage.
Give the people—really the people—the power to elect
their own representatives, and give to those representa-
tives the control of the taxes, and nothing short of armed
revolution, a conspiracy betweema Sovereign and an army
brought to a successful end, can establish a permanent
slavery. This suffrage is, by the Austrian constitution
now proclaimed, vested in every one who pays a certain
sum in direct taxes. In the country, and in towns of
less than 10,000 souls, nine shillings so paid qualify both
voter and candidate. In towns of greater size the qua-
lifications will vary from eighteen to thirty-six shillings.
This, be it remembered is the proposition of a Govern-
ment fighting against Universal Suffrage, a Government
that claims to have put down all resistance or opposition
by force of arms. What sort of comparison will the
franchise here bear with it? Call our poor-rate, as it
would,be in Austria, a Government tax, and would such
a law be anything short of Household Suffrage here?
But, if we are told to mark the difference of the value ct
money in the two countries, I should reply by demanding
that the difference of the method of taxation should also
be taken into account—that our indirect taxation should
be considered against the simple method of AustAan col-
lection—and then I should say that there is scarcely an
adult peasant in this realm who does not, by his own con-
sumption and that of those who depend upon him, con-
tribute the highest amount, the 365., to the income of the
country; and this is the qualification for the party to be
elected, as well as for the elector.
Besides this, the Austrians are offered equal electoral
districts, ono representative for every 100,000 in popu-
lation. There is no parcelling out of serf-voting terri-
tories; there is no Thetford, with 160 voters sending the
same number of Members to Parliament as the Tower
Hamlets, with 18,000. There are none of those precious
" anomalies" which make the very same man, with the
same means, a freeman in one district and a mute, voice-
less serf in another. There are no double, treble, ten
times repeated votes, by which a great landholder: can
be represented in ten places at once, while a respectable
responsible householder may be represented nowhere at
all. At all events, the new Austrian constitution does
not openly profess itself to be a farce, so full of ab-
surdities, that while every tyro in figures can raise a
laugh by contrastieg one set of constituencies with an-
other, no man breathing can find a respectable apology
for the tyrannous inequalities by which the populous,
intelligent, incorruptible districts are sold to the paltry
boroughs, scarcely known to exist but by their cor-
ruptions.

So much for the proposed Austrian Commons. Their
House of Lords, too, is to be constituted on a plan
quite as superior in liberality to ours. There is no lack
in Austria of a proud, rich, territorial nobility, out of
which au hereditary aristocracy might be chosen. But
either the Government feels that it cannot shock the
understandings of its subjects with such an institution,
or is so wise as not to desire it. The number of the
Upper House is to be but half that of the Lower one.
Each crown land, that is, each separate state of the
empire, is to elect two members, and these are again
to fill up their body from persons paying 441. a year
direct taxes, say from the class which, is England,
would receive and expend about 8001. a year. While
we permit a privileged class not only to have a house of
its own, co-equal with that which we call ours, and also
suffer this class to nominate, by intimidation, influence,
or purchase, a majority in that which should represent
us, the Ministry of despotic Austria is willing, by its
own act, that the people, rich and poor, shall fairly
and equally speak for themselves, and shall settle, with
the Crown, the affairs of the Commonwealth. This
seems clear, at least, that the Austrian Government has
no intention that a few hundred people, wish their rela-
tives, friends, and dependents, forming a privileged body
of a few thousands, shall suck the marrow of the land—
control the Sovereign, on the one hand, and vitiate, as
well as enslave, the people on the other.

Education, too, is provided for--education public and
universal—and the clergy, in this bigotted, Catholic
Austria, are only to interfere with it so far as to teach
their own mysteries to the children of their adherents.
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in ignorance, or dole out instruction through their own
media of priestcraft only, to the exclusion of that ge-
neral and needful instruction which enables men to la-
aciehgew and
the cud of their intole-
rance, Plumptres in Austria,
they must
la-
bour successfully, and keeps them from idleness and
crime.lf
and to mind their own business; and, moreover,
as no religion disqualifies for civil or political rights,
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content
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Austria has no need of a Lord John Russell, with his
double sophistries, to humbug fanatics into half justice,
and Liberals into the acceptance of the half, as a com-
plete satisfaction of right.
I have scarcely, Sir, touched upon the circumstances
of this edict as they effect the Austrian territories them-
selves. I have not alluded to the absolute tyranny of
dissolving the Diet at Kremsier for doing nothing when,
in fact, it was doing too wisely and too well for those
who feared it. I have not alluded to the gross oppres-
sion which may lurk in the seemingly freest institutions
by blending kingdoms together which have nothing in
common but their monarch, and crushing the enlight-
ened races under a body of barbarians. The " Case of
Hungary," by Count L. Teleki, published by Effing-
ham Wilson, is a proof of atrocious violation of long-
guaranteed independence, of perjury and unjustifiable
aggression, which casts the wrongs of Northern Italy
itself into the shade. Hungary is ruled by the Aus-
trian Emperor, only on the very condition of its being
maintained as a separate kingdom, such as it was
when it first elected a Sovereign from that House, and
the Austrian race have no more the right to govern it
than they have to govern England, Nor have I said a
word to those wiseacres who declare that a strong Aus-
tria is a needful ally for us, when it is clear as day that
a strong, free, united Germany would be an infinitely
more congenial friend and an incomparably surer gua-
rantee of peace and progress. The object of this letter
is merely to oho w what the basest and most tyrannical
of Governments allows as the minimum of freedom.
The more depraved and unjust that Government is, the
stronger is my case, and the more intolerable is the
comparison between the electoral and religious rights of
England as they stand, and those which even the pro-
teges J llachich, and Radetzky, allow
lives of Windisehgratz, e
that we ought to possess, by proclaiming a freer char-
ter for debased and brutalized Austria.
CAUSTIC.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian)
MANCHESTER, MARCH 20.—The aspect of continental
politics having become more threatening since our last
report, and other adverse influences remaining undimi-
nished, all classes of buyers have manifested an increased
indisposition for business to-day ; while, on the other
hand, many spinners and manufacturers have shown
a greater anxiety to effect sales. The result has
been a still further contraction of operations, and, alto-
gether, an exceedingly flat market. In the absence of
offers, prices have been put to no sufficient test; and in
the demands of producers there is much irregularity,
arising from differences of position as to contracts, and
in other respects; both 3arns and goods are, however,
undoubtedly lower than they were this day week. In
some articles
which had previously reached a high level,
the fall is considerable.
ROCHDALE, MARCH 19.—We have had a fair average
market to-day, at prices much the same as those of the
preceding week. There has been very little doing in
wool, and the manufacturers have purchased very spar-
ingly, but prices continue firm.
HUDDERSFIELD, MARCH 20.--There has been a very
good and steady trade doing to-day in the hall, and
merchants have been obligedto purchase at an advance
upon last week's prices. In vesting: there is not much
business. Wool goes off steadily, at an advance, and
the
stocks are likely to realise the prices given at the last
sales.

HALIFAX, MARCH 17.—The attendance of merchants
in the Piece Hall to•day has not been large, and the
sale of goods far from brisk. The merchants are un-
willing to give present prices, and having stocked them-
selves at the beginning of the rise are now out of the
market. In the warehouses there is a moderate busi.
ness doing, both in plain and fancy goods, but not,
in general, at prices equal to the increased cost of the
raw material. Yarns have undergone no alteration.

Prices are very firm, and orders are- somewhat freely
given, where they cm be taken a little below the cur-
rent quotations. Thre is not much activity in the wool
market, and prices are maintained, though there is
scarcely so much. firmness as there was.

LEEDS, MARCH 20.—We had last Saturday a very
fair market, but there has been a sensible falling off
in the demand to-day, and very few goods changed
hands at the cloth halls. The warlike aspect of things
on the Continent creates an uneasy feeling, and imposes
the necessity of acting with double caution; many an
operation is on these grounds kept in suspense by the
export houses, who generally begin to be busy at this
time of the year. Prices continue steady, and stocks
low in the manufacturers' hands.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF TUESDAY.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
F. W. E. Barrndon, Philpot-lane, merchant, April 12,
at eleven.

In the Country.
J. Matthews and C. 1). Matthews, Chipping Norton,
Oxfordshire, and Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire,
bankers and grocers, April 17, at ten, at the Court, Bir-
mingham—J. Wilkins, Bridport, Gloucestershire, marble
mason, April 18, at eleven, at the Court, Exeter--T.
Symes, Bridgewater, Somersetshire, scrivener, April 19,
at one, at the Court, Exeter—J. J. Kingdon, Ridgway,
Devonshire, saddler, April 18, at eleven, at the Court,
Exeter—A. Blumenthal, Birmingham, wine merchant,
April 18, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham—W.
Maury, Liverpool, merchant, April 10, at eleven, at the
Court, Liverpool—R. Kay, Tottington Lower End, Lan-
cashire, corn and flour dealer, April 12, at eleven, at the
Court, Manchester—E. Arrowsmith, Burnley, Lanca-
shire, mercer, tailor, and undertaker, April 12, at twelve,
at the Court, Manchester.

PRICES OF SHARES

LN BANKS, ASSURANUE, AND OTHER COM-

PANIES' STOCK.
From the Official List.

PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FAIDAY EVENING.

20.

Name of Company.

Charing-cross ........
Southwrk, Nw Sub. Av.
Ditto Nw of 7j4 p.c.
Waterloo ............

Ditto Old Ann. ofBl.

Ditto Nw ditto of 71.
Vauxhall .... •• • Av.

Name of Company.

C Anmercial •• • •
East and West India
East Country
London ......

Ditto Bonds •• •• ••
St. Katharine ........

Ditto Bonds ......
Southampton • • ....

355. per cent.

IL ss. 4d.
11. 2s. 2d.
11. 17s.

s. d.
500 0 0
'lOO 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
1100 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
100 0 0
1 20 0 0

Stock.
1100 0 0
'5OO 0 0
1100 0 0
'lOO 0 0
100 0 0
1100 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
25 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0

20 0 0
100 0 0
S 0 0
Stock.

100 0 0

Amount
of
Share.

X. s. d.

632 12 ii
50 0 0
100 0 0

70 10 3

41. per cent.
6/. pr cent.
40s. per sh.
5/. pr cent.
41. per cent.
4 per cent.
4%1. pr cent.
2/. per cent.

Amount
of
Share.

X s. d.
Stock.
Stock.
100 0 0
Stock.

3. d.
40 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
20 0 0
25 0 0

25 0 0
20 0 0
13 0 0
10 0 0
25 0 0
10 0 0
22 10 0
35 0 0
10 0 0
22 10 0
25 0 0
2 10 0
10 0 0
40 0 0

Paid.

.Z. s. d.
25 0 0

Prick,

Price

4534
220

Stock.

50 0 0

45.12
41 lOs

II 198

514
184
202

IXT.A.TEIt -WO RILS.

X s. d.

50 0 0

Price,

Price.

70
127%

1104

Dividend Amount
Name of Company. I per of Paid.
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. X s. d
East London..• •••• • • • 8/. 100 0 0
Grand Junction ••• • • • 91. 10$. 41 13 4
...... 31. 10s. 100 0 0
Lambeth ...... • . 57. par cut. 100 0 0
New ltivr Lndn Brdge , 21. 10s.
Vauxhall 51. per cut. 100 0 0
West Middlesex . . • 61.05. pr cnt.
GAS—LIGHT AND COKE COMPANI
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid.
Annum. Share.
X. s. d. s. d
British ••••••.. • • • • .. 11. 40 0 0 18 0 0
Ditto Provincial •• • . 11. 85. 20 0 0 19 0 0
Bristol .. ...... ••• • •• 101. per cent. 20 0 0
Brighton ••• • .. 51. per cent. 20 0 0
City of London 101. 1100 0 0 100 0 0
ContinentalConsolidat. 925. pr share 50 0 0 39 5 0
Equitable........ • • 455. pr share 50 0 0 50 0 0
Imperial .•• • • • 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0
Independent ....... • • 61. per cent. j4O 0 0 40 0 0
50 0 0 SO 0 0
50 0 0 50 0
Phoenix . •. • .... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 46 0 0
Ratcliff ........ 5/. 100 0 0 90 0 0
United General .... • • 4341. pr cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0
Westminster Chartered 31. 50 0 0
Ditto, New ........12s. 50 0 0 10 0 0

Pricy

GAS-LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
X. s. d. s. d. I
British •••••• .. • • • • IL 40 0 0 18 0 0 14
Ditto Provincial•• 11. Bs. 20 0 0 19 0 0 ; 18
Bristol ........ ••• • •• 101. per cent. 20 0 0
Brighton ...... •• • • 5l. per cent. 20 0 0 16
City of London 101. 100 0 0 100 0 0 250
ContinentalConsolidat. 925. pr share 50 0 0 39 5 0 45
Equitable • • 455. pr share 50 0 0 50 0 0 34
Imperial .•• • • • 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 67%
Independent ....... • • 61. per cent. j4O 0 0 40 0 0 64
50 0 0 SO 0 0 -
Ditto
- 50 0 0 50 0
-
Phoenix ........• 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 46 0 0 24
Rateliff . 51. 100 0 0 90 0 0 77
United General • • 4%1. pr cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 121%
Westminster Chartered 31. 50 0 0 48
Ditto, New •• • • Its. 50 0 0 10 0 0 9%
CANALS.
H v Dividend
Names of e, Dividend Price Names of E
Companies. A per ' Companies. Ann p
ara Price.
v: Annum. -
-
Ashtn & Oldh 97 71. - Macclesfield . 100 2/. 10s. 40
Barnsley.• • • 160 121. 180 Neath ••• • • • 100 181. 340
14rknk&Abrg 1501 5/. 85 Oxford.. • • 100 201. 190
Birmingham 351 41. 80 Peak Forest. 78 ' 3/. 18s. 67
Coventry.... 1001 251. 2tO Regent's .... 33 I 1/. ss. 18%
Derby ••• • • 100 61. 63 Rochdale ... • 851 41. 54
Ellsmre&Chs 133' 565. 40 Somrset Coal 150 7/.los. 130
Erewash . 100; 321. - Do.LkFdSt 12161. p. c. -
GrandJunctn 100 51. 79 Stffrd &Wore 1401 28/. 310
Grand Surrey 100' 2/. 30 Shrewsbury.. 125 i 151. -
Grand Union 100 11. 10s. 24 Stourbrldge.. 1451 201. 285
Grantham .. 150, - - Severn and
Kennt & Avn 39 7s. 6d. 5% Wye Rail. j 26 2:. Os. -
Leeds& Livrp 1001 301. 320 Warwick& 1
Leicester .... 140 5/. 55 Birming. j 100 4/. 50
Leicstr &Nth; 83 41. 40 Warwick&
Loughborogh; 142 701. 650 Napton. 100 31. 41
Monmouthsh 'lOO 81. - Worcstr & 78 2/. 40
Mntgemrysh 100 - - Birming.
MeltnMwbryl 100 - - Wilts & Brks -, IL 10
=ST or SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
-------
X s. d. £ s. d
Bank of Scotland
British Linen Company 81. par cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 191
Caledonian Bank
City of Glasgow Bank . 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 0 150
Eastern 8ank...... • • 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 C 91, 75
Edinb.ts Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 .5 0 0 5%
Exchangeßnk of Scot 4l. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 33%
Isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 -
National Bank 6% per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 13%
North of Scotland Bank 4/.per cent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 31.175.
North British Bank .• 50 0 0 10 0 0 4 s.6d
Royal Bank of Scotland 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 117
Union Bank of Scotland 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 80
Western Bank .••• • • • • 8/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 74
Aber leen Fire and Life 7%1.pr cent. 12 10 0 2 0 e 214
B. Accord. Lileand Fire 20 0 0 011 0 9s 6d
British Guarantee Ins. 47. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 12s Od
Caledonian 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 6l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. lls
Edinburgh Life Insur. 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 17%
East of Scotland Life lO 0 0 015 0 85.6 d.
Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 46s 6d
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 10%
Incur. Co. of Scetind• • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 7
Life Assoc. of Scotland 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 11. 6.
Mercantile Life - 10 0 0 010 0 4s. Od.
National Fire and Life 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 I2os. 62
North British Insur. 5% Lpr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 • 2214
North & West of Scot. 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 ;175.6d.
Scottish Life and cluar. 20 0 0 0 11 0 ss.
Scot. Masi. and Gen. Life 1 0 0 0 15 0 108.0 d
Scottish Union Insrnce. 6141. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11. 2s
Standard Life ...... • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 5 0 1 9U
United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 0 135.0 d
MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
X. s. d. X. a. d.
Australian Agriculturl 100 0 01 30 0 0 -
Anglo-Mexican Mint l/. 4s. 10 0 0I 10 0 0 -
Ditto, Half Shares.. - i 210 0 --
Canada ... • • ........ GI. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 32
Uppr Canada Bonds 5/. per cent. - 88
City Bonds.. • • ...... 3% /. pr cent. - - 79
Comp . Cppr Mnrs Eng. 51. percent. 100 0 01 70 0 0 -.
Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.& bs, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 -
Equitable lieversionry 51. pr cent. 100 0 0 ;100 0 0 96
Gen. Steam Navigation 11. Bs. 15 0 0 14 0 0 21%
London Institution ... - 78 15 0
Russell Institution • ... 26 5 0 3
Peninslr& Orient.Stm. 8/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 68
Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 90
Royal Mail Steam.... 6/ 18..4. p. c. 100 0 0, 60 0 0 50
;
South Australian ....• 1/. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 16
Van Dieman's Land.. 100 0 01 23 0 0 -

ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
—Considerable excitement was created at the Shore-
ditch terminus of the above line, on Sunday evening
last, in consequence of the non-arrival of the Norwich
Parliamentary train, due at forty minutes past nine
o'clock. The Woolwich train, being likewise overdue,
increased the consternation, and on inquiring down the
line, it was ascertained that an accident had occurred at
the other sido of Mile-end station, by the Woolwich,
with two engines, having overtaken and ran into the
Norwich train with such violence as to have thrown the
pilot-engine of the former off the line. About half-past
ten o'clock both trains arrived at the terminus, with from
twelve to fifteen passengers (Norwich) more or less
severely injured. Mr. Richardson, the superin-
tendent, and Mr. Hancorn, the surgeon, were instantly
in attendance on the sufferers, some of whom were
ultimately conveyed to their residences in cabs,
while others it was found requisite to accommo•
date with beds in the neighbourhood. It is stated that
the delay of the Norwich train was through inability to
make way in consequence of the slippery state of the
metals, and that every precaution against accident was
adopted by showing the signal lights, &c. The Wool-
wich train was heavily laden with passengers who would
not proceed to London by the steam-boats on account of
the prevailii:g fog, and the driver of the pilot engine as-
serts, that no signal lights were descried by him until
too late to avert the accident, ho of course deeming the
Norwich train to have passed long previous.

THE PLAINTIFF PRELATE.—The word versus ap-
pears so often in the law reports, in connexion with the
ram° of the Bishop of Exeter, that after ages will per-
haps he led to suppose that it was actually one of his
Lordship's titlei. There is probably not a single ern
teaser or martyr that has had 60 luau trials as Bishop
rhillpotts.---Punch,

SURREY SESSIONS.

(Before J. ►V. FRESHFIELD and a lull bench of M9gis

trates.)
Test: relay, William Greenwood, 61, a respectable•
looking old wan, was indicted for stealing a cruet-stand
and two silver cruet-tops, the property of Thomas
Saunders.

The prosecutor, io appeared, is landlord of the Yorlt
Tavern, situated at the corner of the Waterloo and York-
roads. Oa the afternoon of the ult. the Prisoner
entered the coffee-room, and during the absence of the
waiter purloined the articles from a sideboard and sud-
denly lett the house. The son of the prosecutor, >e^ing
him leave so abruptly-, suspected him, and on entering
the coffee-room discovered the felony. lie instantly
pursued the prisoner, and after a sharp chase succeeded
in capturiceg him, when the cruet-tops were found in his
possession. The pr!smer's family were highly connected,
he having been for some time in a respectable situation
in Parliament street, when he embarked in railway spe.
euletions, which caused his ruin, and drove him to com-
mit crime. The prosecutor produced a letter hich he
had received from the prisoner while i❑ prison, begging
to be forgiven, and expressing his contrition for the
offence. He (the prosecutor), therefore, begged lave
to recommend him to mercy.
A verdict of Guilty having been recorded,
The COURT sentenced him to three months' hard
lsbour at Brixton.

Jchn Neaves, 20, and Joseph Frenholm, 20, two noto•
rious thieves, wlio were tried and atgaitted for the
murder of Mr. Bel!chambers, at Westrniut,ter, were in-
dieted f-r stealing' a quantity of lead, the property of
Michael Bryan, at Lambeth.
_ _

Police-constable, 65, L, deposed thst he met the pri-
soners carrying COMO lead in the direction of their
lodgings, in the New Cut. As soon as they perceived
him approach, they threw the lead at his head, and ran
away. He, however, pursued them, and after a severe
struggle, secured them, and took them to the police-
station. The lead was picked up by another constable,
and shortly afterwards the officer ascertained that it had
been stolen from the prosecutor's house.
The prisoners denied having the lead in their posses-
sion, but the jury found them Guilty.
Romaine, an active officer of the L division. said that
the prisoners were notoriously bad characters. They
were tried with Sale for the murder of Mr. Bell.
chambers, and acquitted. They had been in custody
several times since for felony, and had been equally
fortunate. At the last Surrey sessions they were tried
fur stealiw! lead from a dwelling•house, but owing to
some informality they were again acquitted. Two days
after that occurred they were caught with the lead in the
present case.

The CounT complimented the conduct of the consta-
bles fer the activity they had displayed in bringing such
bad characters to justice, and sentenced each of the pri-
soners to ten years' transportation.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
CLERKENWELL.

Mary Watt, alias Mary Wilkins, alias Mara Mathews,
a handsome, fashionably-dressed woman, 40 years of
age, who was remanded on a charge of stealing a ban-
ker's parcel containing 400!. in gold and silver money,
was again placed at the bar before Mr. Combe for further
examination,

The case excited considerable interest, the court being
crowded to excess. Several ladies were allowed seats
during the proceedings. The parish authorities of St.
Pancras were also in attendance.

Mr. Bush, the solicitor to the Bankers' Protection So-
ciety, attended for the prosecution; and Mr. Parry, the
barrister, for the defence.

Since the last examination, the officers Archer and
Lockerby traced the prisoner to have taken lodgings
about three weeks ago, at No. 2, Bridge-street, Lam-
beth, where she went by the name of Miss Mathews.
On searching the place, a number of empty jewel cases
were found, which it is expecied will lead to the disco-
very of other robberies. It appears that after taking the
above lodgings, she was driven to the house in a cabrio-
let, with several trunks, when she said she had just
arrived from the country on a visit to a friend who had
met wish injuries. i(nd was then a patient in Guy's Hos-
pital, and she furnished the apartments, and subsequently
the patient in the hospital was recognised as a returned
transport, named Jackson, who, on dropping from the
wall of St.Paneras workhouse, where a robbery had been
committed, broke his leg, and was secretly conveyed to
the above hospital.
The evidence adduced communicated no new feature
to the case, and was merely corroborative of the facts
deposed to at the first examination, as to the ingenious
way in which the prisoner and her male confederate had
attempted to obtain possession of the parcel at the Cross
Keys Inn, St. John-street. The man is not yet in cus-
tody. After the evidence had been heard,
Mr. COMBE said he should commit the prisoner for
trial on the charge, and the witnesses were bound over to
prosecute at the Central Criminal Court.
Mr. Parry said, by his advice, the prisoner would re-
serve her defence. lie now applied for the restoration
of the six sovereigns, &c., found in the prisoner's pos-
session alter her apprehension.
Lockerby, the officer, said that some of the directors
of the poor of St. Pancras parish were present, and they
had reason to suspect that the money was the produce of
a robbery which took place at the workhouse, a short
time since, and if he were allowed, he (Lockerby) could
give his reasons why the money should be detained, and
the prisoner remanded.

Mr. Parry r aid the officer bad no right to prejudice
the prisoner by such statements. Was there any
other charge against her? The officer ought not to
have said what ho had in the presence of the press and
the public.

Mr. CONDE justified the officer.
Mr. Parry—Then I waive my application, and I
will apply to a judge, and I have no doubt as to the
results.

Mr. COMBE said, as the police asked for a remand, he
should remand the prisoner for a week.
Sergeant Archer—There is another party yet wanted.
Mr. Bush said he had instructed the officers to exert
every effort to trace and apprehend the man alluded to,
and if possible they ought to do so before the sessions.
Mr. Parry said if it was the determination of the
Berch to commit, and to remand the case, which cer-
tainly required further investigation, he would say
nothing more.

The prisoner, who was allowed to sit during the in-
vestigation, conducted herself with the utmost coolness
and self-possession. She was conveyed to the House of
Detention.

THE IRON TRADE.—WOLVERHAMPTON, WEDNES'
DAY.—The demand during the past week for iron has
not been as brisk as during the preceding week. The
demand, however, is such as to warrant the maintenance
of the late advance of 20s. per ton, and unless some re-
trograde movement, caused by the unfortunate turn which
things have lately taken on the Continent, shall take
place, the above rise will, we think, be declared at the
next meeting of the trade for the spring quarter. There
are a majority of the masters in favour of the advance,
but there is an influential minority rather opposed to it;
but on the whole the trade is steadily improving, and
furnaces are being blown in.
COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS' RATING OF THE CITY
CHURCHES.—OH Saturday the several inspectors ar
pointed by the Commissioners of the Court of Sewers
for the city of London were busily engaged in mea-
suring the ground on which the several City churches
stand, for the purpose of being assessed to the sewers
rate. Hitherto the sacred edifices have only been rated
towards the Consolidated Fund ; the only exception
being the Cathedral Church of St. Paul's, and the several
burial-grounds attached to the building, the whole of
which are exempted by an Act of Parliament. Two or
three weeks since, the medical officer of the Board of
Health caused the area of the several churchyards to be
taken, and the number of interments within the pre-
ceding year. The variation being so great, led to the
supposition that a similar difference in respect of "the
churches might exist, and as, under a recent Act of Par-
liament, the above buildings are liable to be rated to the
sewers rate, the deputies of the several wards issued an
order for their re-admeasurement, the Act giving the
power to levy a rate of 2d. per square yard. This mea-
sure has already created a powerful sensation in the
City, it being looked upon in the light of a new and ob-
noxious tax, which will come indirectly out of the
pockets of those assessed to the several rates. Meetings
are contemplated for the purpose of directing the roelne
bars of the Court of Common Council to oppose the
proposed assessment, which, in all probability, will be
done, as the members of the court are annually elected,
and from which body the commissioners are chosen.
ASSOCIATION FOR THE AID AND BENEFIT or
DRESSMAKEES AND AllLLlNEßS.—Yesterday afternoon
a numerously attended meeting of the Ladies' Commit-
tee of the above association was held at their offices, is
Clifford-street, Bond-street, the Viscountess Grey pre-
siding. Amongst those present were the Countess of
Ellesmere, Viscountess Canning, Lady Ashley, Mrs.
James Taylor, Mrs. R. D. Grainger, &c. The report
stated the progress or the society to be very encourag-
ing, more especially- for the reductio❑ of the inordinate
hours of labour of the vast numbers of young females
employed in the dressmaking and millinery establish-
ments. To carry out the objects of the association more
fully funds are required.

BIRTHS.
On the 14th inst., the la ly of W. Whitehouse, Esq., of
Brighton, of a daughter.
On the 16th inst., at Temple-grove, East Sheen, the wife
of the Rev. Dr. Rowden. of a son.
On the 16th inst., at Wappenham, Northamptonshire, the
wife of T. Sheppard, jun., Esq , of a daughter.
On the 16th inst., at John. street, Bedford-row, the wife of
G. Train, Esq., of a son.
On the 17th inst., at Camberwell, Arm. Henry Keene
Smithers, jun., of a son.
On the 17th inst., at the Training College, Battersea, the
wife of the Rev. T. Jackson, of a daughter

ALARRIED.
At Pleasance, Dundee, on the 13th inst., Charles Inches,
Esq., formerly of St. John's, New Brunswick, to Anne'
daughter of the late A. Lowson, Esq, Arbroath.
On the 13th inst., at St. James's Church, Toxteth-park,
Major Reed, of her Majesty's 84th Regiment, to Mary,
youngest daughter of II Denison, Esq., of Liverpool.
On the 15th inst., at Foxearth, Mr. Charles Long, of Kingi
street, Portman-square, London, to Henrietta, daughter 0
F. W. Bethel, Esq,, of Foxearth, Essex.

DIE.
On the 16th inst., at AbbeD
y-place, St. John's-wood, T
W. Boys, aged 21.
On the 17th inst., at Nelson•terrace, Stoke Newington,
Mrs. Sarah .Mountford, aged 85, relict of the late William
Mountford, E:q., of Stamtord-hill.
At Hammersmith, on the 16th inst., aged 51, Catherine
the wife of Mr. W. Morison.
On the 18th inst., in Fitzroy-square, Samuel Ware, Esq.
On the 16th inst., at Lancaster-lodge, New-road, Haul"
mersmith, Mr. T. Hill, aged 50.

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Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the comity 0'
Illiddlesta, Thursday, March 22,1849.