The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-20 00:00:00

SLAVERY AND SLAVE TRADE IN

CUBA.

The subjoined memorial, fiom the Havannah, has
lately been received by the Committee of the British and
Foreign Anti-Slavery Society :
TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT, GOVERNOR, AND

CAPTAIN-GENERAL.
The subscribers, inhabitants of this city, proi,)rietors of
urban and rural estates, approach your Excellency with
the most profound respect, in virtue of the invitation ad-
dressed to this vicinity, in the proclamation which was
published on the occasion of your assuming the govern-
ment of the island, respectfully declaring that one of the
principal exigencies, if not the greatest and must urgent
required from the chief by its actual situation, is an ener-
getic and irrevocable provision for the perpetual suppres-
sion of the contraband traffic in slaves from Africa.

The memorialists, who are intimately acquainted with
the material interests of Cuba in all their details, and
with the best mode of preserving and securing them in
the distressing crisis in which the island is involved, are
intimately convinced that the only means of arresting
the storms with which they are threatened, are to be
found in what they have recommended to your Excel-
lency's superior discretion. The two corporations, the
most respectable in the Havannah, viz., the most excel-
lent and most illustrious " Ay-untamiento," and the
Royal " Junta de Fomento," are of the same opinion,
and have thus addressed themselves to the Provisional
Regency of the Kingdom, with reasons and arguments
worthy of all consideration.
The slave trade is the sole and exclusive cause of
the displeasure with which the increasing agricultural
and commercial prosperity of this island is regarded by.
all-powerful England, and that trade is the real or appa-
rent motive for its having become the target of her di-
plomatic hostility.
It is the slave trade which has excited the philanthro-
pic susceptibility of the powerful and numberless aboli-
tionists of England, who lose no opportunity, by word
and writing, in books, periodicals, and newspapers, in
private society, and in .legislative assemblies, to address
themselves to the British Cabinet, in order that ours
may be required at any price to consent to the perform-
ance of our treaties.

It is for the sake of the suppression of the slave trade
that the British Government has solemnly recognized
the independence of the neighbouring republic of Hayti,
from whence we are exposed to a degree of injury, com-
mitted with perfect impunity, which it horrifies the ima-
gination to conceive.
It is on account of the slave trade that two active and
enterprisinc, envoys of the British and Foreign Society
established' in London for the destruction of slavery
wherever it is to be found, have presented themselves in
Spain, without any disguise, to the imminent peril of
our tranquillity, for the general emancipation of our
slaves, and we are already aware that in Madrid they
have met with a very favourable reception, as they tell
us themselves, and as is to be inferred from the articles
which have appeared, without any impediment, in the
metropolitan press, on a question, the mere agitation of
which in public has opened the door to the most serious
calamities.

It is by the slave trade that the number of our natural
enemies within the island is daily increased, according
to the statistical information contained in the "Stranger's
Guide for the Havannah," of the present year, they now
amount to 660,000 persons of colour, or about 60 per
cent. of the whole population, leaving only about 40 per
cent. of whites. In the year 1775 the coloured inhabit-
ants formed no more than 36 per cent. of the general po-
pulation, so that since that period the whites have pro-
portionally and progressively decreased, to the extreme
point in which they now appear, while the negroes have
gained the relative ascendancy. It appears, therefore,
as the result of that providential law deducible from
these statistical facts, that the increase of the servile is
destined to prejudice the increase of the dominant race ;
since such has been the result observed by able statisti-
cians in the other West India Islands, and in the empire
of Brazil, from whence the celebrated Humboldt and De
Tocqueville have drawn the most disconsolate horo-
scope of the future fate of the white inhabitants of other
countries similar situated.
And it is the slave trade which is the efficient cause of
this melancholy phenomenon. It is on account of the
slave trade that the emigration of Europeans has not
been increased, as, for our future welfare it ought to
have been, under the written provisions of the Royal
cedula of the 21st of September, 1817, under the contri-
bution of 4 per cent., imposed for its increase on the ex-
pense of the judicial proceedings, and under the Com-
mittee established for promoting it.
During the quinquennial period, from 1835 to 1839,
there entered 35,203 white passengers at the port of
Havannah, where they generally arrive, one half of
whom, as mere travellers, would probably not remain.
During the same period there were landed on the coast
of this western department only the moderate propor-
tion of 63,055 negroes from Africa. Hence it follows,
that if future events should proceed in the same career,
we shall be compelled, in a very few years, to lament,
without the means of redress, over the disastrous and in-
evitable consequences which, thanks to our own apathy,
and our incomprehensible want of foresight, are destined
to overwhelm us.

And this, most Excellent, Sir, is not all. Let us
cast a glance only over the countries which surround
us. The firmest mind may well tremble to contem-
plate the dense mass of negroes which so horribly ob-
scure our horizon. Nine hundred thousand are to be
found to the eastward in the military republic of Hayti,
with disciplined armies, and holding at their dispo-
sal the whole means of transport which Great Bri-
tain has to give. To the south there are 400,000 in Ja-
maica, who wait only the signal of their proud liberators,
to fly to the rescue in our eastern mountains ; 12,000 at
least are scattered over the Bahama Archipelago,
and the islands in our immediate neighbourhood, where
as many more have been placed by British policy from
the captures which have been made at the expense of the
trade to this island. And, setting aside the condition of
the slaves of the French West India islands, which are
now on the eve of emancipation, let us turn our eyes to-
wards the north, in the direction of the Capes of Florida, and
the ports of Louisiana, Georgia, and the Carolinas, which
place is almost in contact with the continent where nearly
3,000,000 of negroes are presented to us—a number so
immense as to excite alarm, not in Cuba only, but
throughout the whole American confederation, whose
very heart is, sooner or later, to be in consequence con-
vulsively agitated and devoured. Sad to us will be the
day when this event occurs, if we do not prepare our-
selves deliberately in due time, nay, this very day, for
the tremendous explosion.
This is so urgent, most Excellent Sir, that, although it
were certain, as many erroneously suppose, that the ad-
vance of our agriculture would be paralysed without the
aid of negro labour, we ought immediately to prefer to
live in poverty, but security, rather than: with blind cupi-
dity aspiring to seize a rich harvest for a single year,
expose ourselves the next to lose, not only this, but all
that has preceded it, together with the soil, the machaery,
and the whole territory of the island, in one 'general in-
surrection of the negroes, so easily stirr' up and in-
flamed by cunning emissaries, and f'-.1 in our very fields
by those elements of combustion which will be thrown
upon the fire from the great e,entres of rebellion I,vl-Lei,
surround us on every side.
But fortunately for tlie island of Cuba, for its present
inhabitants, and for the interestsoft
norbemothliy thercoeunstterryi;
it has not been condemned by Heaven,
law of nature, to the necessity of cultivating its fertile
soil by the sweat of African brows. This was the notion
entertained in a former age when the most fatal errors
were regarded as axioms ; but for the men of the pre-
sent day it is a duty to correct the economical and social
mistakes of our ancestors. And guided by the light of
experience, and by the prodigious progress which human
reason has made in these latter times in all branches of
knowledge, we shall doubtless succeed in accomplishing
their correction.

Already in the central portion of the island the
glorious career of agricultural reform has been opened
by a son of our industrious Catalonia. He, however,
and all who follow hi; excellent example, must expect
to have to struggle P.A. some time to come with the in-
numerable obstac]•es which habit, prejudice, bad faith,
and, above all, the deleterious influence of the slave
trade, will oppose to them ; for it is in that traffic alone
that we are to seek for the origin of all the evils by which
we are assa:,:ied.
It is for this reason that the memorialists beseech your
Excenency to take what they have stated into considera-
ti'lm. Not to offend your Excellency's high intelligence,
nor anticipate what your prudence will dictate in the im-
portant affairs to which this memorial refers, they look
with confidence in the result to the illustrious chief by
whom they are now governed, to whom is reserved the
unfading honour of snatching this precious relict of the
Spanish Indies from the precipice whose brink it over-
looks.

ADVERTISEMENT.]
To THE LADIES.—The frequency of scorbutic
eruptions, at the present period of the year, renders the
existence of any agent as a cleanser of the skin of peculiar
value and consideration. The great celebrity that has at-
tended the use of Rowland's Kalydor, as an active, yet mild
and soothing, agent for clearing the skin from cutaneous
visitations, has perhaps never been surpassed in the annals
of felicitous discovery. Mild and soothing, yet searching
and cleansing, the first or second application of the Kaly-
dor dispels all undue redness and inflammation, and soon
succeeds in establishing a beautifully fair complexion, ac-
companied by a roseate bloom.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]
HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS, if used
together, will be found an infallible remedy for scrofu-
lous ulcers and sores on the legs, thighs, feet, and throat.
The following is a copy of a letter written by the great
Herbert Mayo, Esq., Senior Surgeon to the Middlesex
Hospital :—" To Thomas Holloway, Esq.—Sir : Will
you excuse this informal answer ? The ointment has
been of use in all the cases in which I have tried it. Send
me, if you please, some more in a few days' time.—H.
MAYo, 19, George-street, Hanover-square, 19th April,
1837." To be had at the Proprietor's Establishment,
244, Strand, seven doors from Temple Bar, and at every
respectable Chemist's throughout the Kingdom ; in pots
and boxes at ls. lid., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., 11s., 225., and 335.
each.
SINGULAR DEATH.—An inquest was held at
the St. Mary's Hotel, on Tu-sday evening last, before G. n.
Corfe, Esq., Coroner, on the body of Louisa Alexander, an un-
married lady, residing in lodgings in St. Mary's-place. She
had been in good health till recently ; on Saturday evening
she took some peppermint cordial for the wind in her stomach ;
she was cold and unwell next day, but refused to have medical
attendance. In the morning of Monday, as she did not ap-
pear, and the door was, as usual, locked, it was forced open by
a carpenter, in the presence of Mr. Ward, the surgeon, and
the landlady. Deceased was lying on the floor, quite dead,
and as if laid out : she had on only a clean linen chemise, and
a dirty one was folded up, on which her head rested; a brown
tiket was pinned on her bosom. The bed in the deceased's
ru had been laid in, but there was no appearance of strug-
Olif• Verdict--" Died by the visitation of God." We un-
deratand the deceased gave, just prior to her death, every in-
struction respecting her funeral, and had lodged 251. in the
ands of Mr. Bail, of French-stre.,:,t, towazcis the expenses of
tte Num —IL-At., Advert-inn .

THE CORN-LAW CRISIS.

A meeting of the inhabitants of Salford, called by a
public requisition, numerously signed, is to be held on
Friday morning, to express their opinion at the present

These are times for stern spirits and firm hands. We
write advisedly ; we write for Irishmen ; we appeal to
their memories ; we await, but we are sure of a stern
and ominous response to that appeal. The time is no
longer one of compromise, it is not a time for con-
ciliation. No ! The people of Ireland never can,
Dever must forgive the Tories. If Sir Robert Peel
and his despicable band of hypocritical scoundrels pre-
sent themselves to pass the threshold of office, Ireland
will meet them ! And are their words burning enough
to express the horror, contempt and indignant hatred
with which their impudent profligacy might be rebuked.
To England there are many reason why the Tories
should not remain in office. The late debate contains
a summary of them all. National prosperity, the
public welfare—all that is greet or useful in laws or
government were sought to be sacrificed to selfish
and avowedly dishonest interest.. And under what
pretences? The slave-trade. The Tories pleaded for
their own plunder and monopolies on the score of huma-
nity, and the shameless hypocrites avow that they use
both religion and philanthropy merely as instruments to
obtain a factious party triumph. Leagued with the
Chartists, combined with the West India planters, in
fellowship with Anti-Slavery zealots, Sir R. Peel has
placed his party before the empire in startling defer.
mity. Irishmen. you have once already rebuked Sir
Robert Peel from office ; and you must arise and
do so again. He must never obtain one hour's dominion.
But we do not fear it. Ministers will not resign, and
the position of the Tories in an appeal to the people must
be disastrous and contemptible. All their dishoneit
tact, and unprincipled Chartism, and hypocritical hurna:
nity will have gone for nothing. They must come for-
ward as the open and avowed supporters of selfish mo-
nopolists to the nation : they must hear, unanswerable,
the taunt of the starving multitudes whom they plunder.
If Engiand be roused ; above all, if Ireland bet horoughly
awakened, they cannot succeed. But if they should ?
Why, then, we hope that our hostility will be ui appea-
sable and undying! if a people must rise, can they rise
in a holier cause ? For their rights, for their homes,for
their altars, the people will stake every thing, if neces-
sary, but in Ireland the faction never returns to power.
—Southern Reporter.
MONOPOLY OR NO MONOPOLY.—We must buckle
on our armour for a more serious warfare than any we
have hitherto engaged in, and every man must feel that
in the approaching general election the oligarchy are at
length at bay. The present is no servile war for an
agragarian or Spencean division of property, but a peace-
ful constitutional movement for the free use of our own
I legs and arms. Let all plunderers and monopolists
tremble ! Let the parasite classes fear They feel
that a blow struck at one is a blow at all, and that in a
country where no privileges are accorded to idleness,
and no trammels imposed upon labour for their behoof,
abuses cannot long exist. A magnate of their order
said before of Reform—" If this Bill passes, England
will not be a place for a gentleman to live in." To all
such we can easily conceive that the Grand Material
Reform contemplated by Ministers is a hateful scheme :
but to the masses of the people it is " as manna in the
wilderness.' Their cry is not revolutionary spoliation
and robbery, but the honest, manly, independent cry of
old Samuel Johnson—." Better stand in our own shoes
than in our neighbours, after all, better in no shoes than
in those !" Monopolists and anti-monopolists are now
the distinctive divisions of the nation.—C'heltenhenz Free
Press.
THE PROPOSED ALTERATION IN THE CORN-LAWS.
—The natural effect of the bolder and better course of
policy adopted winthin these few days by Government,
in proposing to bestow on the people a real and sub-
stantial benefit—something worth struggling to obtain—.
is beginning to become everywhere unequivocally ap-
parent. The heartless apathy and mistrust engendered
by the meaningless and fruitless character of the politico;
of the last few years, is rapidly clearing away, and the
old " Reform" spirit is awaking throughout the land in
something like its former strength. Hundreds upon
hundreds of petitions have already been sent up in ap-
proval of the proposal to untax the bread and sugar of
the people, and everywhere is heard the din of prepa-
ration for the momentous struggle which is so nigh at
hand—for it is now a matter almost of certainty that
the Ministry, when defeated on the Budget, do no in-
tend to resign, but to appeal to the country by a disso-
lution. The struggle will be a keen and a doubtful one,
and the aid of every friend of free trade and good Go-
vernment will require to he taxed to the utmost.—Ber-
wick Advertiser.

While vast prospects are expanding before us abroad
what is our condition at home ? Hourly threatened by
the accession to power of a party opposed to all im•
provement in our institutions at home, and fronowhose
rule we have nothing to ezpect but domestic confusion
in Ireland. The country; however, must perform its
duty. Ministers are engaged in the most arduous
struggle, and unless supported by all classes of Re-
formers, must inevitably fall and make way for men
whose conduct in the government of Ireland would
endanger the happiness and greatness of the empire, in
order to secure to themselves and the Orange party the
ascendancy. The contest is now not between rival
Statesmen, but between abuses and reform. Let the
country look well into the result of supporting the
present Government or its enemies.—Cambrian.
We sincerely hope the nation will be true to itself'
on this occasion, and, by thousands of petitions,
strengthen the bands of Ministers, who, in this instance,
have redeemed many of their by-past delinquencies, and
shown th-t they both understand, and are determined
to act o", such an enlightened principle of legislation,
as shall prove to the world that they rightly appreciate
the true and substantial interests of the empire, and are
fully aware of the impolicy as well as injustice of any
longer sanctioning a system which sacrifices the well-
being of the many to the rapacity of the few. Even to
fag in such a good work will be to them, and to the Li-
beral cause, a signal triumph, as it will reveal +
dullest capacity who are, and who are r the
friends of the people.—Welshman. the real
WHAT ARE WE FIGHTING. c.. 01 2 it is
most
im.
derstand what it
portant that every man
a the empire should well un-
fight :he shoe' •
s for which he is called upon to
, ,
be satisfied that his exertions are re-
quired fr,r no shadowy or uncertain good, but for red
sub...sandal benefits which he will sensibly feel in his
pocket. There is nothing like figures oa such clues-
tioes as these. We propose to show the middle class
man and the working man what each of them will
gain by the proposed revision of the Import Duties.
Let us take the case of a tradesman who has a family
of six children, and keeps two servants. His weekly
consumption of sugar averages at least llb. per head,
or 101bs. per week. On this article alone he would save
by the al.ered duties no less than 61. 10s. per annum. In
the article of bread, taking his consumption at 15 loaves
a week, he would save by ao alteration in the Corn-
laws about 61. 103. per annum. In the article of
butcher's meat, taking his consumption at 401bs. per
week, he would save, by an alteration in the provision
laws, no less a sum than 171. per annum. If he builds
• a house, he pays some 201. or 301. for his timber
more than he will pay if the duties are revised.
On a multitude of minor articles, such as coffee,
treacle, rum, wine, &c., he pays a very heavy tax in
the shape of protective duties. Thus, on the three ne-
cessaries of life we have named, a man of the middle
classes will save, by a revision of the Import Duties, no
less than 34/. per annum, or about one-twelfth of an in-
come of 4001. a year. Now let us take the case of a
working man. To him the saving will be much greater
in proportion to his income, and it must not be con-
cealed that the main object of the proposed changes is
to improve the condition of the poor. Suppose a
working man to have a wife and four children, and to
to earn 10s. a week. He consumes about 10 loaves,
2lbs. of bacon er other meat, lib. of sugar, and lib. of
coffee. On these articles he is forced to pay, by the
present law, taxes as follows ; on his bread Is. Bd., on
his bacon 4d., on his sugar 3d., on his coffee 6d., in
the whole 2s. 9d., or nearly one-fourth of his entire in-
come. Now, mark how unjustly these taxes fall ; the
middle class man pays only one-twelfth of his
income, but the poor man pays one-fourth
of his ; while the rich man is not taxed
by these duties to a hundredth part of his
income. Here we have a practical reversal of the
scriptural maxim " to whom much is given from him
much shall be required," for these most cruel and iniqui-
tous laws take most from those who have the least. It
will be seen from this, that the question so soon to be
submitted to the electors of Great Britain is emphati-
cally a poor man's question—it is whether the labourer
shall be relieved from taxes to the amount of a fourth
of his little earnings. And it is also a very important
question for the middle classes. To he deprived of one-
twelfth of their incomes by a law made, not for the be-
nefit of the country, but for the enrichment of a few at
the expense of the many, is to them also a very serious
grievance. Relief from such a burden is surely an ob-
ject worth fighting for. We say nothing at present of
the other considerations, as the ruin that impends over
commerce, and, consequently, over themselves, if the
system of monopoly be continued, and which should
rouse all the industrious classes to unrelaxing exertion
to secure the benefits offered to them, for these we must
treat of in another article.—Somerset County Gazelle

DEATH OF MR. HENRY MORETON DYER,
POLICE MAGISTRATE.—This much-esteemed gentleman, who
has for many years been the chief Magistrate at Ma!borough-
street police-office, breathed his last about five o'clock en Mon-
day morning, at his residence, Devonshire-house, Wimpole-
street. He had been for some months in a weak state
of health. but had lately so far recovered as to be able to
attend to his Magisterial duties up to the latter end of last
week. It was, however,
evident that he was fast sinking,
and although on Tlyir:day last, when for the last time
he sat on the bench, he appeared to be better than he had
been for some previous days, yet the fallacious hopes of his
family and frie ids hare been dissipated by his sudden demise.
Mr. Dyer had been abouttwenty-four years in the commi?men
of the Peace, and was foi merly Judge-Advocate in one of the
West India Eland!, where be accumnlated the bulk of his
fcrtwe.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

IMPORTANT TO SIIIPOWNEIRS.—Yesterday Alderman
Pixie sat for the Lord Mayor for the especial purpose of
hearing a case of great importance to shipowners; he was
attended by the City Solicitor.
Mr. Clarkson, the barrister, said the information was
laid under the 3d and 4th Wm. IV., c. 55, to recover a
penalty of 1001. against a Mr. Jordison, for wilfully and
wrongfully detaining the ship's register of the Anne
Mackenzie, whereby the owners of the vessel were un-
able to clear her out of the docks into which she had been
entered on her arrival in January last, to discharge her
cargo. The Act of Parliament in question was one of
the greatest importance to shipowners, as it afforded the
best security, by summary measures, to obtain possession
of the ship's papers if improperly withheld by masters or
other persons who might have got them into their power.
The 27th section, which comprehended the whole matter,
was substantially as follows :—" And whereas it is not
proper that any person, under any pretence whatever,
should detain the certificate of registry of any ship, or
hold the same for any purpose other than the lawful use
and navigation of the ship for which it was granted ;
be it therefore enacted, that in case any person who shall
have received or obtained by any means, or for any pur-
pose whatever, the certificate of the registry of any ship
(whether such person shall claim to be the master or the
owner) shall wilfully detain and refuse to deliver up the
same to the proper officers, for the purposes of the ship,
as occasion shall require, or to the person having the ac-
tual command, possession, and management, as the
ostensible and reputed master or owner, it shall be law-
ful for any such last-mentioned person to make
complaint, on oath, of such detainer and refusal to any
Justice of the Peace ,• and on such complaint the Ma-
gistrate shall cause the person complained against to be
brought before him to be examined as to such detainer
and refusal ; and if it shall appear that the said certifi-
cate of .registry is not lost or mislaid, but is wilfully de-
tained by the person complained against, such person
shall be convicted thereof, and shall forfeit and pay the
sum of 100/., and, on failure of payment, be committed
to the common gaol for not less than three, nor more
than twelve months ; and the Magistrate shall certify
the detainer, refusal, and conviction, to the person who
granted the certificate of registry, who shall make re-
gistry of the ship de novo, and grant a certificate thereof
conformably to law, notifying the ground on which the
ship was registered de novo."
Mr. Clarkson then called Mr. Gibson, who swore that the
Anne Mackenzie, in July, 1840, belonged to his brother,
a shipower at Sunderland, who had mortgaged her to a
Mr. Ingo. The latter had appointed Captain Simpson
master, and sent her on an outward bound voyage, from
which she returned to the port of London in January of
the present year. It appeared that both Mr. Gibson
and Mr. Ingo had demanded the ship's register from
Captain Simpson, but he refused to deliver it up to
either until certain debts that had been incurred in re-
spect of the ship should be discharged.
Mr. Clarkson contended that there was not the slight-
est pretext for retaining it on this account.
The witness then proved the execution of the mort-
gage to Mr. Ingo, and a subsequent bill of sale to a Mr.
Bainbridge, and a demand of the register on behalf of
Mr. Bainbridge of the defendant.
Mr. Boville, the barrister, who appeared for the defend-
ant, severely cross examined the witness, from whom hi
elicited that previously to Capt. Simpson leaving England
two different informations had been lodged under the same
statute against the Captain ; that they had been both
dismissed by Mr. Ballantine; and that, on the last occa-
sion the certificate of the ship's register was sought to
be recovered from Mr. Jordison, and was left in that
gentleman's hands, with the consent of all parties, to
abide any future proceedings that might be instituted.
Mr. Boville *as proceeding by his cross-examination to
impeach the validity of the transfer, but was stopped by
Mr. Clarkson; who contended that his Learned Friend
had no right to pursue that course. It was a maxim
with which every attorney's clerk was acquainted, that
it was not competent to him to vary, by parole evidence,
the contents of a written instrument.
Mr. Bovine admitted the doctrine of Mr. Clarkson,
with one single exception, and that was precisely the
one with which they were now dealing. He distinctly
imputed fraud in the concoction of these documents, and
if it were not permitted by parole evidence to explain
the true character of the transaction, it would be in the
power of dishonest persons to give validity to deeds, at
complete variance with the facts of the case.
Mr. Boville asked the witness whether the person who
gave him instructions to prepare the bill of sale to Bain-
bridge, did not tell him that it was done for the express
purpose of obtaining possession of the ship's registry,
without paying the claims to which the ship was liable ?
Mr. Clarkson having objected to the question,
Alderman PIRIE said, if the witness refused to answer,
he should draw his own conclusions from his silence.
Mr. Gibson said that, no such observation was made ;
no money passed at the time the bill of sale was exe-
cuted, but the consideration, which was 1,800/., might
have been previously paid at his brother's office.
Alderman PIRIE complained that so much time was
consumed in the discussion of collateral matters ; it be-
hoved the parties who claimed the assistance of the Ma-
gistrate in this summary manner, to show that the bill of
sale was a bona fide transaction, and that the purchase
money had been actually paid.
Mr. Boville said he was instructed that these facts
were not capable of being proved, as, in truth, the
whole was a contrivance to defeat the claim of Captain
Simpson, Messrs. Carter and Bonus, and other persons
who had made advances on the credit of the ship. He,
however, contended that the Magistrate ought not to
exercise his jurisdiction, if he had any, in a case of this
kind. These gentlemen claimed to have a lien upon the
document now sought to be taken from them, and the
parties ought to proceed for its recovery if they had any
right, in a superior Court, where the whole matter could
be fully inquired into. The Courts of Law had decided
that the Ships' Registry Acts afforded no impediment to
granting a lien upon a ship's papers.
The City Solicitor—Are you alluding to the case of
Mestacr and Atkins ?

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.
the City Solicitor, and it appeared that tb- - . o
Mr. Boville—Precisely so ; and also to the case of
Bowen and Fox. There it was expressly decided that
the ship's
Alderman q
papers
la imE
held for butcher's meat, and other r- ..., papers were
the ship. Mr. Boville hard',-- --cessaries supplied to
The Alderman aga;- .....y carried this case so far.
clients expect- - -, repeated that, if Mr. Clarkson's
must - ...,:ti to succeed in their application, they
prove the validity of their assignments and the
payment of the purchase money, otherwise he should
dismiss the application. He was advised by the soli-
! citor that he should be justified in doing so upon several
other grounds, and it was too much to expect him to put
in force the provisions of a highly penal statute when
his mind was not thoroughly convinced of the moral
justice of the case.

Mr. Clarkson said, as this was a question of great im-
portance, he would propose to his Learned Friend that
Mr. Jordison should admit the possession of the ship's re-
gister, so that an action of trover might be brought to
try his right to retain it.
Mr. Boville said that Messrs. Carter and Bonus, who
were the parties substantially interested in the matter,
would give the requisite undertaking, which being done,
the information was withdrawn,

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

(From the Dotes and Proceedings of Me House of Common.)
'MONDAY, MAY 17.
LOUGH FOYLE DRAINAGE BILL.

Motion made and Question proposed,—" That the Bill be
now read the second time :"—Amendment proposed, to leave
out the word ' now,' and at the end of the Question to add
the words, upon this day six months :"—Question put, " That
the word now' stand part of the Question :"—The House
divided :

MINORITY—AYES, 58.
Blake, Martin J.- Galway lO'Connall, John—Athlone
Bridgeman, Hewitt—Ennis 'O'Connell, M. J.—Kerry
Briscoe, J. L—Westbury C'Oonnell, Maurice—Tralee
Itrotherton, J.—Salford Oswald, James—Glasgow
Bustield, W.—Bradford Pattison, James—London
Butler, Hon. P.—Kilkenny Co. Pechell, Captain—Brighton
Callaghan, D.—Cork City Pryme, George—Cambridge
Crawford, W.—London Rawdon, John Dawson—Armagh
Dcnistoun, J.—Glasgow Roche, Wilham—Limtrick
Divett, Edward—Exeter Salwey, Lieut.-Col.—Ludlow
Duke, Sir James—Boston Scholetield, J.—Birmingham
I)uncombe, T. S --Finsbury Sharpe, General—Dumfries
Easthupe, .l.—Leicestrr Stens ti eld, W. R. C.—Huddersfield
Ferguson, Colonel —Kirka'dy Stewart, James—Honiton
Fleetwood, P. H.—Preston Stock, Dr.—Cashel
Fort, J.—Clitheroe Strickland, Sir G.—W. Yorkshire
Hall, Sir Benjamin—Mar ylebone Strutt, Edward—Derby
Hamilton, Charles J. ll Aylei. Talbot, J. H.—New Ross
bury Tallourd, Mr. Serjeant —Reading
Hastie, Archibald—Paisley Tancred, H. W.—Banbury
Hodges, T. L.—West Kent Thornely,Thos.—Wolverhampton
Hume, Joseph—Kilkenny Turner, W.—Blackburn
Hutchins, E. J.—Touren Westenra, H0n.14 R.—Monaghan
Hutton, Robert—Dublin White, AndreW—Sunderland
Langdale, Hon. C.—Knaresbo. White, Luke—Longford
roueh White, Lieut-Col.Saml.—Leitrim
Lennox, Lord J. G.—West Sussex Wilbraham, George—Cheshire
Lister, E. Conliffe—Bradford Yates, J. Ashton -Carlow
Moreton, A H.—Gloucestershire
Nagle, Sit n.—Westmeath
O'Brien, Cornelius—Clare
O'Brien, W. S.—Limerick Co,

MAJORITY.
Alexander, Nathaniei—Antrim
Bagge, W.—West Norfolk
Bailey, Joseph—Worcester
Baring, H. B.—Marlborough
Barneby, Joh:l—Worcestershire
Barrington, Lord—Berkshire
Bateson, Sir R.—Londonderry
Blennerhassett, A.—Kern

Bradshaw Jarries-LCZWrburf
Broad ley,'Henry—East Yorkshire.
Brownr gg, J. S.—Boston
Bruges, W. H. L—Bath
Buck, L W.—North Devonshire
Burr, D H. D.—Hereford
Cartwright, Wm. R.—South Nor-
thamptonshire

TELLERS.

Wood, Sir Matthew—London
Aurnphery, John—Southwark

—NOES, 78.
IJackson,Mr.Serj...-Bandon Bridge
Johnstone. .1. P —Dumfriesshire
Jones, John—Carmarthenshire
Kemble, H.—Fast Surrey
Knatchbull, Sir E.—East Kent
Knight. H. G.—Nottinghamshir.
Lefroy, Rt. Hon. T.—Dublin Urn
versity
'Litton, Edward—Coleraine
Lock hart, A. M.—Lanarkshire
!Lowther, Colonel—Westmoreland
Lowther. J. H.—York
Lygon, Major-Gen. Hon. H. B.—
Worcestershire West.
' Mackenzie, Thomas—Ress-shire
Mackenzie, W. F.—Peeblesshire
Martin, Thomas—Galway Co.
1 Marton, Geo.—Lahcaster
:Maunsell, T. P —Northampt,nsh.
Miles, Philip W. Skynner—Bristol
Morgan, O.—Monmouthshire
Parker, T. A. W.—Oxfordshire
Perceval, Colonel—Sligo Co.
!Planta, Joseph—Hastings
Plumptre, John P.—East Kent
Pswerscourt, Viscount—Bath
!Price, Richard—New Radnor
Iftiehards, Richarri—Morinethqh.
Round, Charles Gray—Essex N.
miAbrooke, Colnuel—Suffbiir
Scarlett, Hon. J. Y.—Guildford
Smythe, Hon. G.—Canterbury
Stanley, Edward—Cumberland
Tennen!, J. E.—Belfast
[hornbill, G.—Huntingdonshire
!Trotter, .lobn West Surrey
'Verner, William—Armagh Co.
1 Wood, 13enjamin—routhwark
Wynn, C. W.—Montgomeryshire
TELLERS.
Jones, T.—li.ndoneerry Co.
Conolly, Edward M.—Donegal

Chute, -W. CV-V.—West Norfolk!
Cooper, E J - Sligo Co.
Coote, Sir C.—Queen's County
Dalrymple, Sir A.—Brighton
)arhy, George—East Sussex
Doly,l4s, Sir C. E.—Warwick
Drummond, H. 11.—Perthshire
Dugdale, VV. S —Warwickshire
Dunbar, George—Belfast
Dungannon, Lord —Durham
Egerton, W. 'Patton—Cheshire
Esteourt, 'l'. G. B.—Oxford Univ.
Feilden, NV:J.—Blackburn
Ferguson,Si; R. A.—Londonderry
Fremantle. Sir °llmmr.s Bucks
Fre hfisid, James Wm.—Peoryn
Gaskell, James Milnes—. Wenlock
Goddard, Ambrose—Crick lade
Gordon, Hon. \V.—Aberdeenshire
Gore, OrmsbT—Salop
Grimsditch, I. —Macclesfield !'
Hayes, Sir E.—Donegal
Hodgson IRd.—Berwick-on..Tweed
Hope, Charier—Linlithgowshire
n, Samuel—Cumberland
Irving, John_ Antrim Co.

neslay
Countess Craven, who arrived in town on Wed-
went to Ilamstead Lodge, the seat of the Dowager Lady
from the family seat, Coombe Abbey, near Coventry,
Craven, near Newbury, to jein the circle staying there pith
the a[t toted Lady Louisa Johnston., who. it is needles; to state',
teels most acately her domestic bereavement. Earl Craven
has gore to Bectland to attend the obfequie! of hss unfortunate
brothor-in-law. 1

PRICES OF CANAL,DOCh.,ASSUR-
ANCE COMPANY SHARES &c. &c. &c.

LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 18.
Number Divider d Price
of per CANALS, Der
Shares. Annum. Paid. Share
",766 7 per cent. Ashton & Oldham...Average97/.l'is.sh. 110
1,482 41. Ashby.de.le-Zouch A•crage 1..31.5h. 72
1, 60 ..... .. Basingstoke 1)01.0. 5
1,065 5117 Brecknock and Aber gav cnny / 50/. aft. 93
8,006 I•l6th. 101. Birmingham, 1.16 th share ....til. & 711. 200
4,000 .....«.. Ditto & Liverpool JunCt.IIIN. eh. 100 pi 25
600 31 Bridgewater and Taunton.lool. it, all pi
400 51. Chelmer mad Blackwater lOOl. eh . 101
500 321. Coventry'. 1001. sh. 600
Cr0yd0n........... Average3ll.2s.lod. sh.
2,060 51. Os. Dudley .......«....- ... . ....... 1001. sh. 94
600 131. Derby lool.sh. 120
141,0',0 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne 411.135. 4d .pd v 3
3,5751 4' Ellesinereand Chester Avertge 133:.5k. M
231 621 Erewasn .. ..... . ............. ..........1001. sn. 750
1,297 301. Forth undClyde....Averaye4.:Of. 16s. n. 6fo
11,060 8/. Grand Junction 1001. s n 127
2,8491 25e. Grand Union lool.Bh 26
1,500 .... .... Grand Surrey
1,0001 41:percent . Ditto (optional) Loan 1001.
096 ... .. . Grand Western .............. 11.1 h. allpd 10
600 131.1.2 Z 9d. Glamorgan:hire, Aver. cost 1721.130.4 d, tr.o
749 12%. Grantham
6,238 21. Os. HuddcrallTLl Average 5/1„ 6s. fkl.. sit 27

100 Kenaingtoa - 100 oh. allpd 10
21..329 11.10 s. Kennet and Avon, Av. 391,181.104. sh 2454
11,699 f 14 7s. Lancaster Average 471. Cs. 9d 27%
2,897 t 301. Leeds and Liverpool lthti.sh 750
544 11!. Leicester 1401. it, 151
1,897 51.9.. Leicester & Northampton Aver 931.10! 73
1,409 'lOl. Monmouthshire lOO/.sh 200
250 101. Melton Mowbray • 1091. eh. SIUG
00 251. Mersey and Irwell lOOl. sh . 555
3,000 21. 10s. Macclesfield lOOl. sh. all pd 34N
247 171. Neath lool.sh. 325

2,400 51. Peak Forest . ...A vet ge about 7Sl.sh. 734
21,418 S. Regent's (or I...Cindon) Av. 331.185.8 d. sh. 94
5,669 VI. Rochdale Average 8'31.0. S 8
ZOO 81. Shropshire 1251. sh. 137
800 101. Os. Somerset Coal 1501.31i. 180

3,600/. 4h per cent Ditto Lock Fund 5t0ck......,.. 121 10s. sh. 1114
700 361. Stafford and Worcester 140/. sh . 601
500 151 Shrewsbury 1251. sh. 280
310 91. ;s:tatirbrigge 1451.5h. 396

3,1147 V. Us. Strat ford-im. Avon A vcr....791. 9s. t.d. sh. 35
533 12/1 Swt.nrea ll,ol.sh. 265
3.762 21. 10s. Severn and Wyc and Railway Ar. 351. sh. 45
2,600 f sh. 322. 10s. Trent and Mersey, * share lOOl. ah. 5.0
8,149 .... ..... Thames and Medway Av. 191. Ss. Bd. eh. 2
1."1 162. Warwick and EV rmi R gham lOO/.sn 240
I,oooish.
950 13 • Warwick and Ciapip•n- 1001. sh. 160
7,000 41. Worcesicr & Birmingham Av.7dl.Bs. sh. 55
5.000 325. Wilts and Berk: Avreage 671. 108 Bd. sh. 2.1
600 66. Wytlev and Essington 1251. sh 74
.26 ........ W.eneacn ..:::::./. sh. 50
gm, 1/. Wey and Arun. llOl, sin. /2%
DOCKS.

2,600 & 1 3p. c. Commerc 40 lOOl. sh. 63%
1,065/sh.
5 per cent. East and West India Stock 99
3,238,310 V. VI p ct. London Stock 70
Ditto Bonds
2,009 31. Gs. 541. Bristol Average 14°4 Os. sh. 75
68,3244 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts lOg
1,352,752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock :97
500,0e0 4/ per cent. Ditto Bonds
2004000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds tar 10 years
Deptford Pier ....4. 201. sh. 20!. pd 10
BRUMES.
1,600 14 Hammersmitl • 501. sh. 21
7,231 Southwark, Old Av. 031.25. Bd. oh. 31,
1,700 1/. 15s. Ditto, Now, on/ per cent., 501. sh. 16
~,000
_......... Waterloo 1001. sh. 3%
5,000 225. Od. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81 601. p 4 21
5,000 19e, 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71. ... 4O/. pd 18%
50,0004 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds
5,848 26s Vauxhall ........Average 701. 10e. 3d. oh 26
ASSURANCE COMPANIES: •
2,000 31 lOs Albion 5OOl. sh. 501. pd 72
5.4000 1 6fne,ri ci;V*l Allianceßritish & Foreignlool. sh. 114 pd 13%
10,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine lOOl. sh. 51. pc] 5
24,000 el. per sh. Atlas 5Ol. sh. 51. pcl 14 34
1,200/sh. 5/. Birmingham 0 ire.. 0501, eh, 551. pd 1075
eO,OllO 41. percent. British Fire 2501. oh. 50/. pd 40
12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 5Ol. sh. 54 pd 5'4
5,000 51. percent. Clerical & Medical Life, ICOLsh. 2/103 pd 4%
4,000 310 s County lOOl. sh. 10/. pd I r
20,000 ss. Eagle. 501. sh. 51. pd 5
„no 05 per coma Economic Lito 1600/. sh. 2504 pd 400
j and 301 bs. 5
2,271 22s.percent. European Li • 020! sh. all pd 22
50,000 2s. Ditto, New ..,
.000,000/. 61. per ct Globe Stock 118
23,000 Si* Guardian
36,000 4s. 01. Hope 504 sh. Si. pd 53
2,400 51. 12. i. 64. Imperial Fire 500!. sh. 501. pd ial
7,500 9s. Imperial Life lOO4 sh, 104 pd 10
13,459 51. per cent. Indemnity Marine lOOl.lll. 84 pd 29
2,020 31 10. Kent Fire iol. sh. all pd 92
31. Ditto Life 5O/. pd 63
10,000 16s. Law Life lOO/. sh. 104 pd 303xs
5,000 10s. London, Fire 25/. oh. 121. 10s. rid IS%
3,900 10s. London, Ship "54 eh. 121. 10s. rod 1834
!,000,000/. .. Minerva Idle trele 100
110,0004
30,000 51. per cent. Palladium LIP:. .14, 50/. sh. 21. pd '2l Os
50,000 5/. per cent. Protean: I,ll' • 001. sh. 2/. pd 18s ocl
10,000 4 per cent. Protestant Lossenters ....1604 sh. U. pd 534
9,500 1/, Provident Lite lOO/. sh. 104 pd 20
200,110 3s. Cd. Rock Life 5!. pd 4
99,220/ 51. per seat. Royal Each:Lugo Stock 190
6,009 5 per cent. Untversity Lite Yell. tn. Si. pd 54
10,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Lift.s 100/. sh. 51. pd 74
.10/14T STOCK BANKS.
25,000 Agric. and Com. of I reland2sl. sh. 10/. pd
10,000 8 percent. Australasia 40/. sh. 404 pd 55
10,006 10 per cent. Bank of Birmingham 50/. sh. 10/, pd 1:3%
0,000 IP per cent. Birmingham Bank 504 oh, 104 pd h%
30,000 6 per cent. London & WestminSter 100 i (iii. 204 pd 22%
60,000 5/. London Joint stnth 501. sh. 104 pd 12%
.4000 4 nor cent. Lanopster lOO/..h. 204 pd 90
25,000 11; per cent, Littrpool 1001 sh. 1211. pd Ir3l
50,000 If per cent Manchester and Liver ]
pool District sol.sh. 151 pd 10%
20,000 7 percent. Manchester lOO, sh. 104 pd
10,000 Bpe • cent. Provincial Bank ef !rola tidlool. sh. 2540 42
19,000 o,er t cid National Batik Of Ireland 510. sh 174/. lid 16
10,000 6 per cent National Prov! 'eta] Eng.loo4 sh. 254 pd 353,,
10,000 Ditto New int. oh. 101 pd 10%
••
4\ooo
6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 5Ol. oh. 51. yd 9
GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.
2,500 16s Od Bath 20!. sh. 16/. pd 02
5,000 ....1.... British 40/. eh. 113!, pd 181,,
5,„0„ emper cent. / Ditto Prorincial 2Ol. sh. 191. pd 25
`°°' land Bs. (is.
928 51 104 Birmingham 50/ sh. 88
1,250 V 10: Bristol 2Ol. sh. 30
2,250 31 lOs Brighton 2O/. sh. 13%
750 31 10e Ditto, New
2,471 4 per cent. Brighton General ..901. oh, all pd 9
1,000 71. Os. Continental Consolidated ....751. (12f1.pd 10234
1,000 101. City et London.. ... . ... . .1004 sh. all rid 195
1,000 N. Ditto, NeW .eli ..... •••1:100.4. §h c 701. pd ISO
4,000 31.05. Ereilteble , . ... 60/. lid 24
10,1100 3/. per cent. littperial 5O/. di. 1 0
800 5/. per cent. Isle of Thanct 251. sh. 20/. pd 10%
2,350 114 per Cent. Independent 1304 sh. all r; 49
0,000 41. per cent. Phcenia. . iiiil6ol, 05. 1131.101 3034
1,000 44 per cent. Ratcliff ~,,,. 1.001.811. 1104 IA (0
,000 sßutet Metropolitan .....e.50/. sh. 111/. pd 16
9,000 54 per cent. United General ...... 40/. sh. 471. ed :30
240 5/. per cent. Ware/ink 41, 0 •10.111. ii ti eg11•0 ...... ssa i Mel .sh 50
400 5/. per cent Witketiold .1.,11•11. .. ..1 ti• Vigo 0 1). 1,10,000 31. Weittnimitet OtitrtereS
• 6,000 12s. Ditto New ..b. . 5ll. sh. 104 pd 1130
790 3 per cent. Yarmouth ... ..i - ...0201. sh, 18/. pd
WAl* 61 Wi)ft K S.
1,800 Th. Birminghant ...:iniinues.:2o 4 sh. e/P: i 4 01
IX 3 74 taSt Militlell
5,500 2/ Ips. tir-,r.;, Junction Avcraee 411. 13s. 4d. sh. 61
2,000 "
o-- ;tent. 100/. sh. 46%
.2 104 Liverpool (tootle 2201. sh. 326
1,500 2 /les New River London Bridge Water Ann... 60
0,496 2/ 10s Manchester and Salford lool. sh. 5531
1,000 5 per cont. South London ..,,,,,, .. Wash. 104%
8,294 411. . .
West Middlesex Average 034 12e. 9d. sh. 92
I ,:16‘) 11 lb York 110010110 g r,o, Lessee Plop. 1004 sh. 35
MON ItAILAVAYB.
6,300 ... liitit InghAin Mid Dertit .4. ..n...1141/ pd 014
9,5130 ...4ii... Ilifiiiingham and 01Micesteq •• ttfit: pd (1)1
15,1)00 ~i64;4. piiAtitit tied Egetet.:.o .. ::1001 lb. 13.9 pd 37 19
7,500 ,u.,..,, Chtlitenliatt it 13, WeWeld 100i:Sh. ex/. 30%
3,009 Clarenee oo4r i. PP! p 4 iti
8,000 Dublin and Drogheda IOU!. sh. 5!. pd
50.101 Eastern Counties 251. oh. 23/, pd 9
10,000 Great North of England 1001. sh. 904 ocl 7.i
10,918 14 per cent, Grand ,unction • • • 1001. oh. all pd el 9
25000 Oreat Westeetl ..ietiontiil/3114 H. fie!, od pig
25,000 . . Ditto t,ttv F;111. sit. :,11,. it (IL.
3,000 per cent Gosport Junction.. 504 sh. 401. pd 47
2,000 5 per cent. Hartlepool 100/. sh. 100/ pd 1453
8,000 ..... .... Hull and Selby 51)1. oh. 504 pd 403
2,100 4/. per cent. Leeds and Selby ,
5.100 10 per cent. Liverpool & Manchester 101.46 h, 100/. psi 105
7,011F1 10 per cent. Ditto Half Sharer .„:4„„.1., hot, pd 90
.
11,495 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares "51. p 8 45
30000) .0 ...... London and Brighton 50/. sh. AO/. pd 465¢
94,000 London and Blackwall 25/. sh. 251 pd 17%
*O.OOO 3 per cent. London and Greenwich -.204 s!s. 00/. pd 8,4;
25,000 8 per cent. London & Birmingham 1001. oh. 904 pd 159%
25,000 Ditto Quarter Shares -231. sh. 5!. iel 221
31,250 Dit o New Shares 324 sh. 311. pd 52%
36,000 5 per cent. London and S. Western Av. 384 17s. 9d. 5714,
33,000 .... ..... London and Croydon] Av. 134 15s. 9d. 13%
Ditto New Scrip.... I i%
,IS 000 3 per cent. Manchester and Leeds...loo/. sh. /0/. pd 53%
13,000 ..... .... Ditto Ilalf Shares ............501. 251. lid 21%
10,000 Manchester and Birmingham Men. 40/. 2.114
I )itto Extension 7l. pot 21i
10000, Midland Counties 'OW sh 100/ pd 8(S
15000 North Midland
Ditto New • 404 rd 31
5,128 Northern and Eastern....loo/. sh. 50!. pd 28
r‘,Boo Preston and Wyre 504 sh. 35•1. pd 36
23,000 South Eastern and Dover ...... ... 33/. pd 15%
IO 10/. par cent. Stockton and Darlington ...... ...100/.sh. 275
9,000 Thames Haven .50/. eh 5/, pd
6.0011 York and North Midland 50 . sh. 501, pd 73
MINES.
8,000 00 ... Albion Copper 51.1 h 041. NI 12
4,000 11. ss. A Hen l5!. s h 121. Ii rpd 10
10.000 ......... Anglo 1110zican,iss. 54 pm. 1004 sh. a 1 0 d lit
Ditto Subscription 25!, po 1%
2,000 101. Bolanos l5Ol. sh all pd 35
10,000 ii. 10s Brazilianlmp. iss. 51. pm 351. sh. 204 pd 5
6,000
11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey ...20/. sh. 14/ pd 2%
K,OOO ...
.10000
20,000 ...... ... British Iron 10(1/. sh. 601. pd
Erilish Copper 51. eh. 4//. pd I%
AO ••.
~»..... Citi Br-,nca 6//. nd 6%
Candonea ...
10,000 1 1 C 0 01200
5,500 ~, Columbian, iSs. 51. pni 551. sh. 551. pd 034
2,850 Si English
20,000 .s. ...... General MiningAssociation2o/ 5h.184 pd I%
6,155 Mexican Company lOO4 sh. .07a1 pu 6
3,009 ..«..... Polberou Consols lO4 sh. 81. pd 4
11,500 ..... ... !teal del Monte, Unregistered.... ......... 21N
Ditto Loan Notes. 150/. pd 160
20,000 isms.. United Mexican, les. 2 pm. 40/. eh. all pd 231
Mtn_ Scrip 3%
Ditto New Scrip 51 p 4 4
West Cork ................ .... .501. sh 50/. pd 38
LITERARY INSTITUTIONS.
1.000 ........ London, with Bronze Ticket ...75gs. sh. 16
1,500
700
King' College 1001. 1930
MISCELLANEOUS.
10, vs) 15s. Australian Agricultural.loo/osh. 28/, pd 39
05,X/0 I. per cent. British American Land Company 351 4pd
10,060 61. per ceist. Canada Company ...... ...1004 sh. 3214 pd 31
/0.000 51. per cent. Upper Cana,:.a Loan
City Bonds, 4 par cent lOO
20,000 1/. fls. General Steam Navigation 15/. eh. 14/. pd 24%
101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock
.000 IL London Corn. Sale Rooms ....Av. 751. sh l9
0-e)e ........ Caoutchouc Company 12/4 pd 12
New Brunswick Land Compa•sy...sol pd 12
2,;54 5!. per cent Reversionary Int. 50c...100/. sh. 1001. pd 107
0,633 51. per cent. Ditto New 1001. sh. low. pd 107
4.000
.p,OOO Bs. Van Die:lieu's Land... 1004 sh. 17/4 pd 0

LIST of SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
MAY 8, 1841
BANKS.

i ,0410,(101it. Al, p. ct. Bank of Scotland...B3l. tits. Bd. oh all pd ]59
2,000,000. 6 p. ct. Its yal of Scotland 1001. sh. all pd 154
500.000/. 8 p. ct. British Linen Company 1011/.sh. all pd 22 ;
50(1,0001. fit. ?. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 10(11. pd 10
500,000 t. Gn. cr. National loClosh. 10/. pd 14N
50n,0011. 71. p. ct. Glasgow Union VIOL sh. 50!. pd 85
1,000,0001. 6p. ct. Western 01 Scotland 2OOl. sh 401. pd 72

INSURANCE COMPANIES.
250.0005 h. 61 p. ct. Scottish Union 2Ol. sh. 1!. pd :45 Oil
7,500 7p. ct. Hercules lOOl. sh. IW. pd 13.4
100,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland .101. sh. all pd l!'
50,000 Bp. ct. North British
1,000 Bp. ct. CaledoniAn Fire lOW. sh. 101. psi 20
5,000 6p. ct. Edinburgh L,e 10 01. sh. 10/. IA 113.4
100,010 3i p. (I. West of Scotian ' 10/. pd
;CSC ELLA N EO US.
4,815 ........ Edin. :Ind Was. Un. Canalso/. sh. all pd 14%
Ditto Allocated! 'NI/. sh. all pd 56
2 5,461 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint StQck Water.tlsl. sh. all pd 3t .14
1.00003 :5 per cent. Shotts 1100 Fotindcry......sol oh 4''l. "si 4'
0.000 3 per cvat. Edinburgh & Leith Glavc.'2ol.sh. 16/. pd 3
4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal (las .25/. sh. all pa 4 1
6,450 10 iter cent. Clasgow G2,', ...... .. 's4 gh• all pd 52
75!. 7i per cont. '..c1(15 Coal (las ... .. 2ol.'h. ill pd t 7.5
1,1 4 Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway 50/. sh 2.)

We observe a Fancy Fair is announced to take
place in the beautiful grounds of the Marquis of Westminster,
at Moor Park, Itickinansworth, on Friday and Saturday next,
under the august and noble patronage of her Majesty the
Queen Dowager, and many of the female nobility in tbe neigh-
bourhood, in aid of the funds fir erecting a new Church on
( hodey Wood Common. The easy distance from town, and
the ready facilities of transit afforded by the adjacent railway,
coupled with the benevolent object in view, and the attractive
nature of. the scenery, will no doubt conduce to draw a large
11(10:11111. ei Yisitas do this delightful apt,

FROM TUESDAY'S GAZETTE.
The following places have been duly registered for i.oletriniz-
ing marriages therein, pursuant to the Act of 6th and 7th Wil-
liam IV., chap. 85 :
Pleasant-street Chapel, Liverpool.
Bridge Croft Chapel, Wigan, Lancashire.