The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-25 00:00:00

April 29, IS3G.

Table showing the Progress of County Rates paid by the
Parish of St. Gorge, Hanover-square, from the year 1738,
under the 12th George 2d, cap. 29.
Total Amount Paid. Annual Average.
From 1739 to 1748 inclusive... 425 5 0 ... 42 10 6
1749 to 1758 inclusive... 227 16 3 ... 22 15 71
1759 to 1768 inclusive... 296 3 1f... 29 12 3-i•
1769 to 1778 inclusive... 1,117 0 9 ... 111 14 o'4-
1779 to 1788 inclusive... 2,012 6 10k... 201 4 8
1789 to 1796 inclusive... 2,923 11 7 .... 365 8 11.
1797 to 1806 inc1u5ive...26,037 10 5 ...2,603 15 Of
1807 to 1816 inc1u5ive...31,639 1 1 ...3,163 18 11
1817 to 1826 inc1u5ive...39,244 3 7 ...3,924 8 4i
1827 to 1835 inclusive...s6,l3l 12 3 ...6,236 16 0-1-
Lady-day, 1835, to Lady-day, 1836 ......7,216 13 4
The whole amount paid by the Parish in County Rates for
58 years, from 1739 to 1796 inclusive, was 7,0021. 3s. 7d.,
being 2141. 9s. 9d. less than the last year's payment.

THE FOLLOWING IS THE TABLE REFERRED TO IN T

REPORT :-

POST-OFFICE DEPARTIVIEN

SIXTH REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED TO
INQUIRE INTO THE MANAGEMENT OF THE POST-
OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
(Continued from The Sun of yesterday.)

HOLYHEAD.
We have directed much of our attention to this esta-
blishment, which is by far the most considerable that is
under the Post-office, comprising, as it does, a packet
station, through which the principal part of the post com-
munication between England and Ireland passes, and like-
wise an extensive yard, which has been formed for the ma-
nufacture of boilers, and the repair of the vessels and
machinery of the packets -on the Weymouth, Milford,
Liverpool, and Port Patrick stations.
Since the union between England and Ireland, it has
become especially important that the Government should
prride some one station where a safe and speedy passage
mite be at all times secured as far as possible, and that the
packets there should be maintained upon the most efficient
footing ; both with a view to the regular transmission of the
mails, and to the comfort and accommodation of the pas-
sengers ; nor are we disposed to recommend to your
Lord-
ships any reduction of expenditure which would interfere
with the attainment of these objects.
There are at present six steamers employed in the con-
veyance of the mails between Holyhead and Kingstown
an extra steamer is laid up in ordinary. There are four
sailing vessels which bring the coals required for the use of
the steamers, and a cutter which has not been used for any
public service for the last four years.
The inquiries of Mr. Gardiner and Captain Evans have
been particularly directed to the state of the land establish-
ment. We have already had occasion to call the serious
and special attention of your Lordships to some of the evi-
dence which they received ; we now submit the whole to
your consideration, together with that of the officers of the
Post-office, who were particularly connected with this de-
partment. We must at the same time express our deep
regret that such a state of things should have been found
to exist in any branch of the public service.
The stores required at Holyhead are of large amount,
and as there are no tradesmen in the town from whom they
can be obtained, a supply is kept in store of all articles ne-
cessary for the maintenance of the packets on the station,
the general repair of the vessels, the manufacture of boilers,
and the repairs of machinery.
In April, 1830, a Return was made to the Revenue
Commissioners of the value of stores in charge of the
officers at Holyhead, and the cost was stated at :0631'
They then expressed their surprise at the mode in which
these stores were supplied ; no part of them being obtained
by contract, but an unlimited power given to the agent
of addressing requisitions for stores to the deputy post-
master at Liverpool, who supplied them.
From a Return which we have obtained, it appears that
the value of stores now in charge at Holyhead -amounts to
upwards of 12,000/., and on inquiring_ of the agent whether
the Post-office had not recommended that means should
be taken for obtaining any part of the stores by contract
this officer stated that lie had been at one time directed to
make inquiries with a view to ascertain upon what terms
coals could be supplied by contract, but that he found from
the terms proposed to him, that it would not be advan-
tageous to procure them by contract.
A reference to the agent's own evidence, however, will
show that the only parties to whom he then applied on the
subject were the persons who had previously furnished the
coals for the packets, and who have continued to supply them
ever since.
All the stores, with the exception of coals and timber, are
purchased by Mr. Banning, the postmaster at Liverpool,
who is stated by the agent to be responsible for the clnalitY
and price of these stores—a responsibility which Mr. 13°'
ning disclaims.
Mr. Banning, although he admits his own incompetency
to judge of the quality or prices of stores, and claims irre'
sponsibility in respect of them, has nevertheless, by direoti°BlA
of the General Post-office, purchased them for the Holybet:
station, and occasionally for the packets at Milford ; 131:
Post-office never having employed their own packet-age".
at Liverpool for this purpose.
' Mr. Banning receives no emolument for the service which
he has thus performed.
The stores purchased at Liverpool are conveyed t°
Holyhead in vessels belonging to the resident engineer.
There are other vessels (equally seaworthy) trading re"
gularly between Holyhead and Liverpool, but the agent
did not employ them to convey Post-office stores, altliono
the commanders had offered to carry them at a much lover
rate of freight than was paid to the resident engineer.
We cannot too strongly express our opinion of the
propriety of such a practice in any public department.
conceive that in all eases an officer of the Government
should be prohibited from having any interest in the suPPIY
or freight of stores.
Some of the stores received from Liverpool are stated
by the commanders and engineers to have been of very
ferior quality ; particularly the oil and tallow supplied for
the engines, which were occasionally unfit to be used in tlie
machinery, and offensive and disagreeable to the passengers.
Certificates from one of the tradesmen at Liverpool,
who supplies these stores, have been transmitted to us by
the Post Office, with a view to show that they were not of
inferior quality ; but, on referring to the evidence of Mr*
111‘Knight, it will be seen that these certificates do not or
ply to the stores complained of, but to stores which have
been recently received at Holyhead.
It is stated that the stores for the use of the packet,:
ate generally issued to the mates and engineers, who keel,
pass-books in which every article they receive is entere'
No receipts are given for such stores.
Theses pass-books, on being compared with the chargcr
in the store-keeper's day-book, did not at all corresPeci
many articles being charged by the store-keeper as issue
to the packets, which were not inserted in the pass-booksre•
No account was taken of old stores returned into ste r
from any of the packets or colliers ; nor did it at all age°
how they were disposed of.
the
The agent at Holyhead permitted the officers of a',.
dock-yard to sell stores of every description to private
viduals, or to purchase them for their own use. We uno`b,
stand that this practice, which we consider to be mesa
,des.
jectionable, is strictly prohibited in his Majesty's naval P-tnre
The resident engineer was also permitted to manuf/ ek-
articles for his own private use and emolument in the etite-
yard, to employ the workmen, and to take whatever the
rials he required from the Government stores, using
iron which was entrusted to his own charge. idler
He was also allowed to take coals from the stores, e the
for the purpose of working up his own materials i°
dock-yard, or to dispose of to others. no ae'
It is stated that he repaid the coals in kind, but old
count could be found of the quantity of coals lie hat'
or returned into store.
ell
There was no muster of the artificers or workmen
wen
coming into the dock-yard. " The accounts of; th e
employed were invariably put in by the engineer or to
keeper just as they pleased."•
It appears that one man:who bad been absent inkSse°ot;
land, was regularly entered in the engineer's ben. the
having been during that period daily employed In
dock-yard.
The whole of the artificers and labourers underubtiih:
store-keeper, received their wages from him at a 13 and
house, kept by himself, in the town. The entlinee!.s
smiths received their wages from their foremen at diffeerf6eo
other ale-houses, instead of being paid at the agent's their
or in the dock-yard. These foremen who paid them d•
wages, kept the account of the time they were emPlnYteocted
The stores were left in a most unsafe and unPre:thete
state. No watch was kept during the night, nor 5.v8,4
any person belonging to the establishment who resided
the yard. witlotil
the timber was allowed to remain in an open field, ber
any brand or mark to distinguish it ; and the nornrdeill
keys which different people had of the dock-yard aa"_"000
access to the stores at all times. Great facility Iv lore&
given for the commission of fraud and peculation•aci_bjece or
might have been charged against the different R. I'4 de'
colliers to almost any amount, without the possibilltY° eegi-
tection. And the permission granted to the resident
; te
neer and storekeeper to dispose of stores to private store
duals, afforded them the opportunity of selling th
of
rieioe
for their own advantage, without exciting immediate F
of fraud on their part. ins
In the Report of the Commissioners of Iteivrtni stl;
quiry in 1830, it is remarked that " the whole °
Holyhead, appears to have been hitherto conbserved' ir
perintendence over all the parts of the estafibdliesdhretcolltthaies
packet agent, to whom, as has been already 0 e
intended to assign also the direction of the
.1-1 wsuAerpoonst.
engine department ;' and besides these various Post
upon his attention, lie is responsible for the
Office duties, as lie holds likewise the situation msanje 1:0
toe
postmaster at Holyhead. The competency
d to
13,e•
reasonably doubted." iod of tLig,,ets,
dividual to discharge the whole of these duties may
. The establishment, has been, since the
Peri of the pack'
.15
port, greatly enlarged, and the whole contro the hnu..,,
the dock-yard, and stores, permitted to remain_ii his 071:
of the agent ; who has, in addition to the dutiesrsat'ed alter
station, directed and superintended the rePai
toitohnesrlsvtliaitcihonlisa.ve been made in the packets
cretarv's
On examining the chief clerk in the Se
..ce respos
were informed that the agent was the I's
Pnear„ein en- andcool
for the issue of stores, and the good
tx head, Mr" G°re-4"-'
gularity of the station ; but, at ..o y
issue of sto
o_es.
stated that he " is not responsible theforor
price of
us
for for the receipt of stores—for the qualitytoreeeper account
—for the labour account—for the s
department' „. jrad
nor anything connected with the engine_dovard for the an.,
is not a single book kept in the .
j
of which he could answer.
at Holyhead' var
In the course of the inquiry antics
iD

Stances
were discovered, in which articles had been sold
free the dock-yard by the resident engineer and store-
ke
eper, and no account rendered to the Post-office of the
Produce of these sales. We found it necessary, in conse-
'Aenee of the communication which we received from our
Secretary of these frauds and other irregularities, to re-
_.lllo:roend to your Lordships that some trust-worthy person
72,0 ht be immediately sent down to Holyhead to take charge
t that establishment.
br raft
111‘Knight having been recommended by the Admi-
as a very efficient officer for this service, was directed
Inc Postmaster-General, in the first instance, to inves-
slgate in how far the cases affecting the resident engineer
_and store-keeper were to be attributed to fraud or inaccu-
_
ra eY, when it appeared from his Report that he completely
concurred in the conclusion to which we had come from the
baying made to us, that there was no doubt as to frauds
'aving been committed by both the officers in question.
also directed Captain Evans and Mr. Gardiner to
make-a special report of the state in which they had found
shie Holyhead station, which we laid before your Lord-
Ps ; at the same time recommended that the resident
engineer and storekeeper should be immediately discharged.
We have received a report of the survey of Mr. M'Knight,
and now lay it before your Lordships, together with his
evidence.
I It has been impossible to trace the extent to which peen-
:" has been carried, but from the statement he gives,
ere is every reason to suppose it must have been consi-
siderable. He says that " the accounts of the receipts and
Issues are so complicated as to afford no check on the re-
Inains in store ; not one half of the things that are in the
establishment being made any return of whatever."
I‘l
Mr, ‘Knight also states that he has clearly proved
an overcharge of 1,000 tons of coals a year to the packets ;
but with respect to the other stores, he could find, in many
eases, no books or accounts showing what remained, and
" that, although he found by his survey what actually re-
Thaiaed, be could not tell what ought to have remained."
Since the report of Mr. M'Knight on the deficiency of
coals at Holyhead, the agent there has requested that the
Postmaster-General will permit an allowance to appear in
the accounts for waste, stating as the ground for this appli-
cation, " that it is a well-known fact' that the wastage in
alit; article, especially when it is exposed to the open air, is
Very great."
If this statement of the agent's was correct, it would in
Borne measure account for the great overcharge in coals ;
Y
the practice ur,iversally adopted in the Admiralty
Yards, andthe opinion of private dealers, prove that there
is no waste in issuing coals, but that, on the contrary, the
reasons assigned by Captain Bevis (the present agent) as
Praducing waste, would rather have made a surplus in the
measurement.
, We have also received another communication from the
sate agent, accounting for the deficiency in coals, by sup-
Posing that the quantity had been calculated in the survey
by a different measure from that by which they were deli-
vered into store. It appears, however, from Mr. 111‘Knight's
evidence, that he used the identical tubs or measures on the
SUrvey which had been before used in the delivery of the
coals into store, and did not make his calculations with
reference to the cubic contents of either the Imperial or
Winchester bushel.
The four colliers which have been kept at Holyhead have
been attended with a very considerable expense, amounting
to 10,8021. 13s. 41d. in the last five years.
The master and crews do not receive wages, but are
Paid 3s. 3d. for every ton of coals they deliver.
The system of keeping vessels for the conveyance of the
Coals appear to us very injudicious ; as we have no doubt
that they could be obtained at less expense by contract.
We agree with the opinion expressed by the Commis-
sioners of Revenue Inquiry, " that vessels retained for such
Purposes, whether employed or not, must require a super-
intendence quite foreign to the duties of the Post Office,
which could only be properly exercised by distinct esta-
blishments, and that in the employment of them much op-
portunity of abuse must be afforded."

With respect to the various kinds of oil, a large quantity
of which is required for the packets, we find that irregu-
larities have taken place, a full account of which will be
found in the evidence appended to this Report.
In establishing steamers on the Holyhead station, in 1822,
the Post Office did not follow the recommendations at that
rime made by the most eminent engineers of the day, with re-
spect to the power and class of vessels best suited for the
service. Improvements have, from time to time, been made
is the Holyhead packets, but they are deficient in power,
and some of them, as appears from the statements of the
Commanders, inferior in other respects. The last new ves-
sel, the Gulnare, which was built in one of the Admiralty
Yards, in point of strength and construction was superior to
any of the other packets, but the power is not well propor-
tioned to the tonnage of the vessel.
The comfort and accommodation of passengers, which
has been so much attended to in the construction of the
Li-
verpool packets, in consequence of the opposition of the pri-
vate companies, does not appear to have been sufficiently
regarded at Holyhead. We find it stated in the evidence
aone of the commanders, " that the accommodation at pre-
sent is very inferior, especially for ladies,—very little atten-
tion has been paid to their comfort ; and the Holyhead
Packets do not even carry a female steward, which every
merchant vessel, carrying passengers, does."
The stewards receive no salary, but expect a gratuity of
'I. 6d. from each passenger. On the Liverpool station the
steward's fee is included in the fares. We consider the
lil'actice of employing stewards without a salary, and re-
!luirinc.- passengers to pay them, to be liable to much ob-
Jection.

consequence of having committed a series of frauds on the
tradesmen employed for the supply of stores. The system
appeared to have been extremely irregular. Mr. Richard-
son was employed in trade himself—" he had considerable
business as a shipping agent, and at one time had two
steamers of his own. Great part of the Post Office ac-
counts were mixed up with his own private transactions."
The Liverpool packets have greater power and are of a
better class than any others belonging to the Post Office,
and the accommodation for passengers is of the best de-
scription. Mr. Williams, the Chairman of the Dublin
Steam Packet Company, states—" Two of the packets
are conceived by the public now to be inadequate, though
at first they were not so ; and that impression has
arisen out of the change of public feeling as to the size and
power requisite for packet vessels." Captain Philipps and
Captain Emerson, the commanders of these two packets,
are " decidedly of opinion that unless these two vessels are
replaced by others of a superior class, the Post Office re-
venue must suffer greatly by any private Company placing
packets on the line, which they have reason to expect is
now contemplated. The average passage of the Etna and
Comet, is fourteen hours and twenty minutes. With su-
perior vessels, the passage would not average twelve hours."
The receipts from the Post Office packets between Li-
verpool and Dublin must always be very precarious, in conse-
quence of private Companies having powerful steamers on
that line ; and, as the private steamers depend principally
on the freight, and not on passengers, they are enabled to
oppose successfully the Post-office packets, by establishing
a-low rate of fares.

Mr. Freeling, with a view to prevent hostile competition,
entered into an arrangement, on the part of the Post-office,
with the City of Dublin Company in 1826. The terms of
this arrangement are stated to have been, that " the Com-
pany were not to lay themselves out for cabin passengers,
but to consider their principal business to consist in the
conveyance of merchandise, cattle, and deck passengers."
The Post-office agreed to confine their packets exclusively
to the conveyance of cabin passengers, and to carry all
proprietors of the City of Dublin Company free of ex-
penie. The Post-office seem to have adhered strictly to
the terms imposed upon them, and, up to the 31st of
October 'last, had conveyed 11,313 persons free of charge,
as proprietors of the City of Dublin Company. The num-
ber of free passengers has been increasing every year, and
considerably exceeded, in ten months of last year, the total
number in any one of the former years. The terms on
the part of the City of Dublin Company are not very de-
finite ; but, whatever may have been their precise import,
the Company has, since the period when the arrangement
was entered into, advertised for cabin passengers, and occa-
sionally fixed their fares at about one-half what the Post,
office charged. _ _

This arrangement may have been advantageous to the
revenue, and had the effect of preventing injurious competi-
tion ; but we are of opinion that it is most objectionable
that a public department should be placed in such a posi-
tion as to render it necessary to enter into an agreement of
this nature with private individuals.
The improvements in steam navigation, and the strong
feeling of The public in favour of saving time, has led the
private companies to increase the power of their engines ;
and all the new steam vessels that are at present building
are intended to have a much larger power than even 12 or
18 months ago was thought advisable. The steam-vessels
at 'Liverpool now building for carrying goods, will, in this
respect, be very superior to the Post Office packets. It be-
comes, therefore, necessary to consider whether it would
be expedient on the part of the Government to build new
vessels for the Liverpool station, or take advantage of the
improvements which have been made, by entering
into a contract with a private Company. If suffi-
cient notice was given of the intention of the
Government to throw open any part of the packet
service to contract, we have reason to believe
that there would be a sufficient competition to insure the
contract being taken on terms very advantageous to the
Government, as compared with the present expensive esta-
blishment.

It has been represented to us, in a Memorial which we
have received, " that it would be a very great convenience
to the public if an agent were appointed in Dublin for the
Hol)bead mail-packets, at whose office berths could be
secured by passengers, and from whom the information ne-
cessary for travellers could be obtained. 7 The Post-office
have now an agent for the Liverpool packets in Dublin,
and the interest which the commanders have in the receipts
induces them also to take every pains to get passengers to
go by their vessels. It might be well to appoint some per-
son, with a small salary, to give the necessary information
With respect to the Holyhead steamers.
We have considered whether it would be advisable to
discontinue the morning packet between Holyhead and
Kingstown, but are not prepared to propose to your Lord-
ships any change which would render this station less effi-
cient than it is at present. The day-mail from Kingstown
to Holyhead insures the arrival of all the correspondence
from the interior of Ireland in time for the despatch to
London by the mail of the following morning, whilst the
Dublin correspondence, which is conveyed by the night
Packet, is delayed, in consequence of late arrivals, about
twenty times a-year on the average. We should not,how-
ever, on this account, nor for the sake ofthe correspondence
alone arriving by the Chester mail, deem it necesrary to
tnaintain a double line of packets from Holyhead to
lingstown ; but when we consider the large sums of money
that have been expended on the Holyhead road and bar-
our, in order to improve the communication between this
country and the seat of government in Ireland, we certainly
hesitate to suggest to your Lordships a reduction in the
establishment at Holyhead, which might prove a great in-
Convenience to passengers, without producing any corres-
Ponding reduction in the expenditure. We, therefore, re-
commend the continuance of the morning packet. We
'would, at the same time, call your Lordships' attention to
the evidence of Sir Henry Parnell, relative to establishing
a regular communication between London and Dublin
every twelve hours. We have reason to suppose that such
an arrangement might be effected without much expense by
means of one of the post-coaches.
We have received various returns connected with the
101yhead station, but, from the manner in which the ac-
count were kept, we fear they cannot be entirely depended
111)°e• This observation, we regret to say, applies to many
of the returns connected with the packet estimates. From
the statements of the receipts and expenditure since the
establishment of steamers on the station, it would appear
that up to the year 1826, when the Post Office established
Packets of their own at Liverpool, the receipts at Holyhead
considerably exceeded the expenditure. From 1821 to
1827. the total receipts amounted to 99,6041. 13s. 10d.,
.1
,4114., the expenditure to 69,494/. 3s. 7d. From 1827 to
'36, the receipts have been 98,0481. 3s. 2d.—the expen-
diture 217,787/. 7s. 4d., leaving a loss of 119,739/. 4s. 2d.
r, We have also thought it right to insert two letters from
irnaPtain Goddard, the late agent at Holyhead, to Mr. Free-
g--although they did not appear to us to impugn, in
ZY material respect, the animadversations which have
en made on the manner in which that establishment was
conducted.

LIVERPOOL.

The Commissioners of Revenue Inquiry investigated all
(1/436 circumstances which led to the establishment of Post
4 ffi,(=e packets in Liverpool. On referring to their Report,
the
fairing into consideration the means which existed for
come
conveyance of the mails by private steamers, we have
the
to the conclusion that it would have been greatly to
Illme interest of the revenue to have accepted the proposals
„„ade by the City of Dublin Company in 1826. The C0m-
'41,34137, at that time, were willing to undertake the convey-
ce Of the mail from Liverpool to Dublin, leaving the
Ouneration of such service to the consideration of the
115 of the Treasury, should it merit any beyond the re-
lation of certain harbour and light dues rethittad to
,rpackets carrying the mails.
CpnAhe expense of this station, since the year 1826, has ex-
en—ued the receipts by 59,0881. 4s. 41d. ; and the original
ist el the four mail packets and the tender amounted to
lati.",, °a/- 12s. 10d. Allowing only 10 per cent. on this
f the
sum for interest of money and depreciation in value
14 0 e 'vessels,. the total expense would average nearly
it."/• a year.
the was impossible to mike any investigation relative to
accounts at this station, as the books had been removed
• Richardson, who was dismissed some month ago in

We directed our secretary to make some inquiries on
this subject at Liverpool and the Clyde ; and refer to the
communications made to him with respect to the convey-
ance of the mails from Liverpool ; in one of which the ma-
nager of City of Dublin Company says—" I would pro-
pose, for the purpose of avoiding the great expenditure on
the present mail packet establishment, which so far exceeds
its receipts, and the object being to save the expense of
maintaining that establishment in Liverpool, that this
Company would undertake to work the present Post
Office vessels, and perform the identical service now per-
formed by them, and in an equally efficient manner, without
any expense whatever to the Post Office, beyond that of
their agents in Liverpool and Dublin. As, however, two of
the present mail packets are of inferior power and efficiency,
and it would be necessary to supply their places with
others, so as to be equal to any rival vessels that might be
brought on the station, this Company would undertake the
mail service with two only of the packets now in use (the
Dolphin and Thetis), supplying from their own fleet as
many additional-vessOtras the service would require."
The commanders on this station have salaries of 4001.
a-year, and an allowance of Qs. for each passenger they
carry, " in accoidance with a private agreement entered
into with Mr. Freeling." It is stated, that from these al-
lowances they find cabin attendance, and keep up the stock
of cabin stores. Their total income derived from the Post
Office exceeds considerably, that of the commanders on any
other station, with the exception of Dover—in addition to
which three of them receive half-pay as naval officers.
Your Lordships will, from the returns, observe that the
salaries of the agents and commanders at the different
stations vary greatly, nor do they appear to have been
fixed with reference to the length of service, the rank
of the officers, or the nature of the duty which they have
to perform.
We do not, however, wish to make any suggestions to
your Lordships with respect to the proper remuneration
for the officers employed in the packet service, being of
opinion that the whole establishment must be entirely re-
modelled, and that all the minor arrangements ought to be
made under the directions of the Board of Admiralty.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1836.

I'RICES OF CANALS, DOCK SI OCKS,

ASSURANCE COMPANIES, &c.&c. &c.

LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 24.:
Number Dividend - Price
of per CANALS.
Shares. Annum. Paid. ar ra.
~700 61 pct cent. Ashton and Oidliam....Ar erage 971. 18s. sh. 162
1,492 61. Ashby .de.le-Zoucti Average 113/. sh. 65
1,261 Basingstoke lOO4 sh. 51
1,0;15 5/. Brecknoce. and Ahergavenny 150. sh. 90
4,ooojsh. 121. 10s. Birmingham, 1-16th share l7l. 10s. 206
4.00.) Ditto and Liverpool Junct. -.1004 sh. all pd 301
600 . Bridgewater and Taunton ....100/. sh. all pd 64
400 W. Chelmer and Blackwater 100/. sli. 10°,
500 42/. Coventry 100/. sh. 775
4.546 Croydon Average 314 25.103. sh. 3
2,061: 3/. 10s. Dudley lOO/. sh. 78
600 6/. Derby 1004 sh. 120
20,000
3,575! ......... Ellesmere and Chester Average 133/. sh. 84
231 43t, Erewash 100/. sh. 400
1,297 294 Forth and Clyde Average 4.0111.105. sh. 590
1. WI 12/. Grand .Tunc"- . .. On!. sh. 211
5%8491 'Grand Union IGO/. sh. 25
1,5,1 Grand Surrey lOOl. sh.
10,000/. 4/. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOO/. 75
3,1196 Grand Western
600 13/. 12s. Rd. Glamorganshire, Average cost 1721.11 4d. 230
1,960 Gloucester and Berkley OO/. sh. 141
719 10t. Grantham 150/. sh. 202
3,238 1/. lOs Huddersfield Average 57/. 6s. 6d. sh. 32
100 Kensington 100 sh all pd. 10
1,3:29 IL Kennet and Avon, Average 391. Bs. 10d. sh. 101
2,877; 20/. Leeds and Liverpool 100/. sh. 510
515 121. Leicester
Leicester and Northampt on-, Aver igt. lit. 17498
907 41.
2,409 9/. Moinnouthshire 100/. sh. 192
251) 9/. Molten Mowbray 1001. sh. 200
500 251. Mersey and Irwell • 100/. sh. 530
3,000 Macclesfield 1001. sh. all pd. 54
247 15/. Neat li
1,786 32/. Oxford 100/. sh. 5911
52.2 2/, Oakham 130/. sh. )19
2,400 4/. Peak Forest Average about 781. sh. 104
31,418 14s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. 16s. rd. sh. :71
5,6.19 5/, per cent. 'Rochdale Average 85/. sh. 120
500 8/, Shropshire /'25/. sh. 140
coo 10/. Somerset Coal 1501. sh. 160
45,000/. 61 percent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2/. 108. sh. 111
700 364 Stafford anti Worcester 140/. sh. 690
500 11/. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 245
300 Si. Stourbridge
3,647 11. 10s. Stratford-on-Avoli ...Average 79/. 9s. fed. sh. 421
533 13/. Swansea 1001. sh. 215
3,762 it. Severn and Wye and Railivay -.Av 35/. sh. 173
2,60e-L sr,. 112/.los. Trent and Mersey, f share 1001. sh. 595.
4
8,14) Thames and Medway...Aver. 19/. ss. Bd. sh. 2
1,0005h.l 151. War Wick and Birmingham. 100/. sh. 276
1,00040 Li
9"to 12,.. Warwick and Napton lOO/. sh. 216
6,000 3/. lOs Worcester and Birmingham-A v.78/.Bs. sh. h 2
5,000 255. Wilts and Berks .. Average 671. 10s. Bd. sh. IS.I
SOO .
~ pl. Wyrley and Essington ' 1257. sh 75
,96 • .. ~ .. Wisbeach
945 Wey and Arun I10!.slk. 221
DOCKS. I,

It.
2.69°8' 1 3 n c. Commercial 100/. sh,
1,06.50 h • •.
498,6674 4 per cent. East India Stock
3,238,3101/. 50s. p. at. London Stock
Ditto Bonds
,380,0001. Si. per ct. West India Stock
2:A.1 3!. Os. 4d. Bristol Average 147/. his. sh.
115,3241. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts
1.352,752 3 per cent. St. Katharine Stock
500,0034# per cent. Ditto Bonds
200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years
Shoreham Harbour
Deptford Pier 'lO/. sh. 31. pd
• BRIDGES.
1,600 1!. Hammersmith 5O/. sh.
7,231 Southwark, 010 Av. 63/. 1.25. Bd. sh.
1,700 I/. 15s. Ditto, New, of 7#, per cent. 5O/. sh.
5,000 ... ...... Waterloo lOO/. sh.
5,000 1/. '2g. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8/. GO/. pi
5,000 Ills. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd
60,000/. 51. per cent. Vitro Bonds
6,000 11. Vauxhall. Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh
AS'URANCE COMPANIES.
9,000 3/ Ins Albion
50,000 r 5 per cent. / 500/. sh. 50/. pd
Alliance, British & Foreign 1001. sh. 10/. pd
and ss.
50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. sh. 51. pd
24,000 $1 per sh. Atlas 501. sh. 5/. pd
1,200 ;sh. 4/. Birmingham Fire
20,000 4/ per cent. British Fire 2501. sh. 50/. pd
12,000 Cl. per cent. British Commercial 50/, sb. 51. pd
5,000 51. per cent. Clerical, Medical,&c. Life, ICO/. sh. 12/10s pd
4,000 2/ lOs County 100/. sh. 101. pd
10,000 ss. Eagle 5O/. sh. Si. pd
os. [5 per cent.
-Ou and 30, bal Economic Life lOOO/. sh. 2501. pd 375
2,271 54/. per cent. European Life 'kJ/. sh. all pd 22
50,000 ' os. Ditto, New 'O/. sh. 21. pd 11. I2s.
,000,0001. 71. per ct. Globe Stock 158
20,000 1/. Guardian 100/. sh. 201. pd 37t
40,000
Fire 5 p ct.
- Hope
[Lite 8 pct..] 50/. sh. 5/. pd 6
2,400 5!. 7s. 6d. Imperial Fire 5001. sh. 50/. pd 120
7,500 Os. Imperial Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 10
13,158 10s.6d.'per sh. Indemnity Marine 1001. sh. 84 pd 17
2,020 31 108 Kest Fire 50/. sh. all pd 92
31. Ditto Life 79
10,1,00 16s. Law Life 100!. sh. 10/. pd 28
3,91)0 London, Fire .51 sh. 12!. 10. s. pd 15
1 000
30,0J0 1,1. per cent. Palladium Life 50/. sh. 2!. pd 217 s 6d
51',00) Is. lid. Protet for File 00/. O. 2/. pd 1118. Od
2,500 17. Provident Life lOO/. sh. 10/. pd Bli
100,000 ss. Rock Life 001. sh. 2/. NI 73
689,2204 51. per coat. Royal Exchange Stock... 202
Sun 2lO
_ _ _

2.500

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6,000 5 per cent. University Life lOO/. sh. 5/. pd
50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 9./. pd
JOINT STOCK BANKS
5,000 Australasia 4O/. sh. 441. pd
10,000 10 per cent. Bank of Birmingham s('l. sh. 10/. pd
10,000 Inner cent. Birmingham Bank . . 5O/. sh. W. pd
18,015) 2 per cent. London and Westminster...lool sh. 15/. pd
3,000 Lancaster lOW. sh. 20/. pd
25010 6 per cent. Liverpool 100/ sh. 101. pi
30,000 74 per cent. Manchester and Liverpool/ 100/. sh. 10/ pd
Discount
96,000 6 percent. Manchester 100/. sh. 20/ pd
20,000 b per cent. Provincial Bank of Ireland 100/. sh. 25/. pd
20,110 5 per cent. National Bank of Ireland s°l. sh. 1241. pd
10,000 .... ... National Provincial Eng. lOO/. sh. '251. pd
.. .
9,000 10 per cent. Gloucestershire 5O/. sh. 751. p
6,000
GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.
500 1/ 12s Bath 2O/. sh. 10/. pd
5,000 61. per cent. British 4O/. sh. 164 pd
E''. cW.per cent./ Ditto Provincial 202. sh. 19 pd
814 5/ lOs Birmingham 5O/. sh.
4,250 2/ Os BristolBright
Brighton 1,500 901. sh.
750 Ditto, New
2,471 5 per cent. Brighton General 90/. sh. all pd
4,000 3/. Continental Cansolidated lOO/. 5111.1x1
1,000 10?. City of London lOO/. sh. all pd
1,000 61. Ditto, New
4,000 4/. 10s. Equitable 101. pd
0,100 5/. percent. Imperial 5O/. sh.
SOO 51. per cent. Isle of Thanet 25/. sh. 20/. pd
2,350 6/. per cent. Independent 3O/. sh. all pd
1,5(10 74 per cent. Leeds 'V sh. 2+lo pd
0,000 3/. per cent. Phoenix 50/. sh. 39/. pd
1,000 4/. per cent. Itateliff lOOl. sh. 60/. pd
4,90 South Metropolitan 5ll. sh. 13/. pd
8,200 5/. per cent. United General 5O/. sh. 45/. pit
24') 51. per cent. Warwick 501. sh.
400 81. per cent Wakefield
2000 3/. Westminster Chartered 5O/. sh.
6,001, 12 Ditto, New 5Ol. sh. 10/. pd
PCO Yarmouth 20/. sh. 181. pd
WATER WORKS.
4,300 Birmingham 951. sh. 25/. pd
4,433 51. East London lOO/. sh.
4,500 2/ lOs Grand Junction ....Average 411 13s. 4(1. sh.
2,000 2/. Kent 100/. sh.
3'S 10/. Liverpool Bootle 920/. sh.
1,500 2/ 103 New diver London Bridge Water Annuities
6,400 I/. Manchester and Salford
1,900 4 per cent. S.itith London 100/. sh.
a,'loo 31. West Middlesex .... Average 63/. 12s. Pd. sh.
1,360 I/ 14s YorkIRON BuildinßAg
W Co. Lessee Prop 100/. sh.
ILAYS.
Aylesbury 90/. sh. I/. pd.
Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames Junction
Bristol and Exeter :ii
660 Bolton and Leigh lOO/. sh.
11,000 Calcutta and Saugur 5O/. sh. 2/. pd.
2,000 Clarence lOO/. eh. 1001. lid
2,500 19s. Forest of Dean SOL pd
50,003 ((rand Junction 1001. sh. 40/. p i
30,000 Great Western lOOl. sh. 20/. pd
2,000 Ilartlepool 100/. sh. 100/. pd
2100 Hull and •;elby 5O/. sh. 5/. pd
2,100 Leeds and Selby
1,500 Leicester and Swannington ....501. sh. all pd
5,100 9 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester...lool. sh. 100/. pd
Ditto Quarter Shares "5/. pd
Loughborough
London and Brighton lOO/. sh. 5/ pd
Ditto ditto (Gibbs') ...201. sh. I/ pd
Ditto ditto (Rennie)
London and Blackwall 50/. sh. 31. pd
London and Dover 50/. sh. 1/. pd
30,000 London and Gravesend 20/ sh 1/. pd
20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich 2ll/. eM. '2O/. pd
25,000 London and Birmingham ...1001. sh. 60/. pd
20,000
London and Croydon 5/. pd
20,000 Northern and Eastern lOO/. sh. 51. lid
12,500 ... ...... North Midland lOO/. sh. 5/. pd
2,600 Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. 3/. pd
I,i 00 61. per cent. Stockton and Darlington IOW. sh.
8,000
6,000 York and North Midland 5O/. sh. 1/. pd
MINES.
8,000 Albion Copper 51. sh. 3/. pd
4,000 Alten 15/. sh. 10/. lOs pd
1(5,000 ... ..... Anglo Mexican, iss. 5/. pm.... 1001. sh. all pd
Ditto Subscription ,151. pd
801.,n0s l5Ol. sh all pd
Brazilian Imp. iss. 5/. inn. 35/. sh. 20/. pit
Macaubas et Cocacs United °5l. 81).22/. pd
Ditto St. John Del Rey 20/. sh. 84/. pd
10,000 Bolivar Copper Company. 901. sh. 201. IA
10,000 ........., Ditto Scrip 4/. pd
%0,0111 11. 10s. British Iron 50/. sh. 50/ pd
6,000 British Copper 5/. sh. 3//. pd
11,000 Cata Branca 611/. lid
Candonga 74/. lid
Copiapo • 20/. sh 124/ pd
Conimbian, iss. 5/. pm.
English ., 12/ Its. pd
General Mining Association...2o/. sit. 15L pd
Mexican Company 104. sh 51,1. pd
Polberou Consols lll. sh. 84 pd
Real del Monte, Unregistered
I)itto Loan Notes l5O/. pd
United Mexican, iss. '2 pm ....401. sh. all Lid
Ditto Scrip
Ditto Subscription 2l. pd
Ditto New Scrip 5l pd
Union Gold, iss. 21.55. pm.... 24/. sh. 44/. pd
West Cork 501. sh. 50/. pd
LITERARY INSTITUTIONS.
London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs. sh.
London University 10(11. sh. all pd
Russell 25gs. sh.
King' College 100/. pd
MISCELLANEOUS.
10,000 10s. Australian Agricultural....loo/. sh. 2F11. pd
1,010 1/. Auction Mart 5/. eh.
11,11iin British American Land Company l3/. pd
10,000 61 per cent. Canada Company 1001. sh. 20/. pcl
200,000 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan
City Bonds, .4 per cent
15,000 11. per cent. General Steam Navigation ...151. sh. 13/. pd
101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock
11. London Com. Sale Rooms Av. 75/. sh l9
New Brunswick Land Company 981 pd 254
2,754 5/. per c,nt. Reversionary Interest 50c...100/. sh. 100/. pd 1324
2,633 51. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 45/. pd 771
4,000
10,001) Van Diemet.'s Land 1001, sh. 171. pd 15

2,5n0
7,500

70 1441.
10,000
45,000
12,000

2,000
I 0,000 31.
6,01.0

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8.500

2;a.',0

`20,000 .........
6,155
2,000
11,500 .........

30,000

5,( 00

1,000
1,500
700

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LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES,

MAY 14, 1636.
BANKS.
1.500,n01:. 61. p. ct. Bank of Scotland 83/. 6s. &1. sh. all pd 2041.
2,000,0 Y/. 51 p. et. Royal of Scotland 1001. sh. all pd 1704,
500,01(1. sp. et. British Linen COmpany lOO/.sh. all pd 240/.
3,00004-1. 61. p. et. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1001 180/.
5.000,0(01. sp. et. National lOOl. sh. 101. pit 1531.
2,00'1,000/. 41. p. ct. Glasgow Union 25111. sh. 50!. pd 624
t,000,.-0_ M. 4p. ct. Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh 301. p 4 371.
INSURANCE COMPANIES
.251 mons!). p. ct. Scottish Union .................. 20/. sh. I/. pd 25s
-,500 sp. et. Hercules 1001. sh. 101. pd 141 Os.
1'x,058) sp. et. Insurance Co. of Scotland ....10/. sh..all pd '7l Os.
50,000 -6 p. et. North British 2004 sh. 101. pd 151.
1,000 sp. et. •Caledonian Fire.. ............. 100/. sh. 101. pd 151105
5,000 ti p. et. Edinburgh 1 are lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 14/105
100,000 4p. ct. West of Scotland lol.lxl W los
MISCELLANEOUS
Ellin, and Glas Un. Cana1...501..h. all pd 02/.
Ditto Allocated .................1)61. sh. all pd 651.
5,100 5 per cent. Eilinb..Joint Stock Water.... 25/. sh. all pd
Carron. Iron Company 27)1. sh. all pd 450/.
oeosh. 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Founder)' Sash. 3q. pc! 2SI.
0,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass - 20/. sh. 16/. pd
4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 25/. sh. all pd 65/.
4,47.0 1 Oper cent. Glasgow Gas 25/. sh. all pd 601.
30 6 per cent. Leith Coat Gas ',Mali. all pd 371.
1,200 5 per cent. Edinburgh and nalkeith Railway...so/. sh. (101.
.15000 51 per cent .Equitable LOP't Company 251 sh. 0/. pd ICI.

4,910

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

If our space permitted such an arrangement, we
might easily dispose of the arguments ! put forth from
day to day by the Tory journals, in defence of the mis-
chievous policy of the House of Lords, and in oppo-
sition to the wish for a reformation of that House—
which is unquestionably striking deep root in the public
mind—by quoting their respective lucubrations against
each other. For instance, the Morning Herald asserts,
with wonted self-complacency, that " the Ministerial
journals are labouring in their °vocation ; they are fol-
lowing up the course chalked out on the night of the
adjournment, by advocating the reformation, in other
words, the abolition, of the House of Lords ;" while
the Times assures its readers, that " the more respect-
able of the Ministry would undoubtedly fall away from
the faction, if the destruction of the Peers were made
the war cry !" The obvious inference from this col-
lision of opinion between the journals in the pay
of the corruptionists is, that they know not what
they say, and that they write on without any
other object than the upholding of tyranny and
abuse, and the vilification of his Majesty's Ministers
ters. According to " Grandmamnia," the Ministry
are anxious to destroy the House of Lords ; but if the
authority of the renegade be of any weight in the
matter, Ministers, at least " the more respectable"
portion of the Cabinet, are prepared to stand by the
" order" and to uphold all and every its hereditary
privileges. Again, if we are to rely upon the dogma
of the first-named paper, the H use of Lords is so
constituted, its timbers are so frail, that a touch of the

COURT OF CHANCERY.-TUESDAY

finger of reform reduces the whole building to ashes ;
though the second advocate of their Lordships—which
formerly menaced their most Noble and Right Ho-
_ _

nourable heads with bludgeons and brickbats because
they presumed to question the propriety of a reforma-
tion of the House of Commons—draws clearly the
distinction between a reform and a destruction of a

hereditary chamber, and yet the same journal in a re-
cent number, grossly and wilfully misrepresented the
language of Mr. Sheil, and the avowed object of
the Learned Gentleman in organizing an associa-
tion in Ireland, in order again to extort that justice

for his countrymen from the fears of the Torv-majo-
rity in the Upper House, which again they have re-
fused to concede to reason. Mr. &fell distinctly
stated that he did not desire the destruction of the

Peerage ; and with equal emphasis he declared his
belief that without doing any violence to the Patrician

order, a method could-easily be devised whereby the
privileges of the Peers might be preserved, and, at
the same time, their just rights obtained for the
people. We confess we do not comprehend the pro-
cess by which the Hon. and Learned Member for
Tipperary hopes to effect his twofold purpose ; but
with that part of the subject we do not now intend
to grapple. Our object here is to point out what
Mr. Sheil did really say, and, by contrasting the
truth with the fabrication of the Times, which had
the boldness to assert that the object of the present
agitation in Ireland, the real authors of which are
the Tory Peers, is the destruction of the House of
Lords, to mark the utter weakness of that cause
which rests solely upon personal abuse, and glar-
ing misrepresentation. Good government, impartial
justice, equal beneficial laws, these are the wants of
Ireland—these she demands as her right ; to obtain
these she is now agitated ; and having achieved this
purpose, Ireland would not care a rush if Peers were
as abundant as pebbles. The people of these countries
do not look with envy or hate upon mere titles of ho-
nour or badges of distinction—quite the contrary ;
but they object, and why should they not, to irre-
sponsible juntas of titled corruptionists, abettors of
all manner of abuse in the Church and the State, in-
terposing between them and those beneficial instil
tutions and salutary changes required by the altered
circumstances of the State ; and if they have be-
come, as we firmly believe they have become, ad-
vocates of a reformation of the House of Lords,
this change—for a change it undoubtedly is in

public opinion—is the sole handywork of those
Tory Lords who have scandalously abused their
privileges, in order to curtail the privileges of the
people. It is for municipal institutions, properly
re-modelled, that our Irish brethren are calling
aloud; and should their demaiid be hereafter directed
to another and a far different object, viz., the abolition
of the hereditary Chamber, it must be by the obsti-
nate and insulting denial of justice. We are gravely
told, indeed, that justice has not been denied to
the people of Ireland by the refusal to reform,
rathert than totally abolish, Corporations in that
country ! Nay, it is boasted by the Conservative
destroyers, that they alone bestow equal justice upon
the Irish I—we suppose by equally insulting all
parties in that part of our dominions. It is " jus-
tice," we presume, to rob the citizens of their an-
cient rights, and to transfer their property to the
custody and management of the Viceroy ! But, say
the Tory apologists, the Ministers themselves in-
sulted Ireland, by making a difference in the Irish
and English Municipal Bills. Who ever imagined
that the details—for here alone does a difference exist
—of the two measures could •be precisely si-
milar ? Who ever asked for the establishment in Ire-
land of municipal institutions identically the same as
those of Great Britain ? What the Irish call for,
and what they have a clear right to, is a reformed
system of municipality, based upon the principle of
the British Corporate Reform Act. Such a system
has been contemptuously refused them by the Tory
Peers. Oh I no, says the honest Times—the Peers
have merely refused to sanction the Ministerial mea-
sure, which is no just cause of complaint, seeing that
the Irish are at this moment possessed of all the ad-
-1 vantages that could result from the enactment of the
Ministerial Corporate Reform Bill, by the operation
of 9th of George IV.—commonly called in Ireland
the Taxing and Lighting Act. This is not true ; and
the writer must have been aware of the falsehood he was
pawning upon the public. But admitting the truth of the
assertion, could a stronger argument be advanced
against the proceedings, of the Tory Peers ? or could
a more scathing censure be pronounced upon their
conduct ? If the Irish already possess all the
privileges which the Ministerial Bill for Munici-
pal Reform could bestow upon them, then the
Tory talk about schools of agitation is all the merest
hypocritical cant ; and an act which eight millions of
British subjects construe into a deliberate insult to
them on the part of the House of Lords, is wantonly
committed for the sheer love of doing mischief. By
degrees the country will learn, through the revelations
of the Tories themselves, the whole of the turpitude
and wickedness of that faction. Meantime the people
of England ought to lose not a moment in recording
their sympathy for their fellow-subjects in Ireland,
their fellow-sufferers too under Tory domination, and
in preparing and transmitting petitions to the House
of Commons, and addresses to the Sovereign, praying
the extension of British law and justice to that part of
the empire, by the establishment there of a reformed
system of Municipal Government.—Morn. Chronicle.
We are curious to see what will be the amount of
the respective subscriptions of his Majesty's Ministers
towards the English (or rather anti-English) O'Con-
nell fund. From what we have seen of the liberality
of some of the Liberal Lords and Gentlemen in ques-
tion upon other occasions, there is no recklessness of
disposition among them to part with their money un-
necessarily ; indeed, some of them, it is pretty well
understood, have no great deal of money to part with.
But this is an occasion, we apprehend, in which they
must and will draw their purse-strings, however re-
luctantly. The occasion is one which reduces them to
this dilemma. The idea of rendering the Irish men-
dicant a dependent, too, upon English bounty, is either
right or it is wrong ; and as such, they must support
or denounce it. Denounce it they dare not, and there-
fore support it they must. What man in England
can be expected to subscribe a farthing till they who
owe their official existence to Mr. O'Connell, have set
the example ? 'What ! reap the harvest and not con-
tribute to the cost ! The thing is impossible. The
English " rent" must be headed by the largest of the
landlords' political tenantry, or they will have notice to
quit—than which a quit-rent would be infinitely less
unpalatable.—Morning Herald.

On Wednesday morning last a promisina copper
lode wai cut at Wheal 'Montague Mine, near Redrugh ho.ong-
ing to the Wheal Harmony and Montague Mining Company.
West Briton,