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London, England, 1847-12-03 00:00:00

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J. P. KAY SHUTTLEWORTIL

PARISH OF LAMBETH AND THE
SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.
Yesterday morning a vestry meeting was held at,
the Vestry-hall, Church-street, Lambeth, for the pur-
pose of taking into consideration measures which
should put a stop to the present proceedings of the
South-Western Railway Company in erecting a
bridge over Church-street, the pier of which would
stand right in the centre of the carriage way, dividing
the road into two parts.
Mr. NixoN, the Chairman, regretted that the
parochial authorities had not paid attention to the
proceedings of the company before, but it was now
quite time to stop them.
Mr. Hicas, in proposing the first resolution,
adverted to the fact of the road being one of the
finest in the parish, and of its being included
in the Government scheme of metropolitan improve-
ments as the approach to the contemplated bridge
over the Thames. The carriage way was originally
38 feet wide, but it was now divided by a pier, on
one side of which the carriage way was 16 feet, and
on the other 18 feet .5 inches. By the Act of the
company they were compelled to cross the road with
an arch of 60 feet span ; and by the Railway Clauses
Consolidation Act every turnpike road crossed was to
be crossed at a span of not less than 3.5 feet. This
was a turnpike road at the time of the passing of the
Act. It would be very easy to cross the road by a
single arch span, supported on pillars, leaving smaller
arches for the footways, as at Bermondsey-street.
He moved, " That the churchwardens be instructed to
apply to the Court of Chancery for an injunction to
restrain the company from any further proceedings in
the present bridge.' He would wish to know what
the board of surveyors of highways had been about to
permit such a thing to be commenced at all. Several
gentlemen on the part of the board of surveyors
stated, that they had given no definite consent to the
plan, which, however, appeared to them to be the beat
proposed. When they spoke of crossing the road at
a single span, Mr. Locke, the engineer to the com-
pany, said that he would not answer for the
safety of passengers travelling over such an arch,
especially after the experience they had lately had
in reference to iron bridges. The Archbishop of
Canterbury, to whose palace the road was the only
approach for carriages, had seen the plan, and
had not objected to it. The company had also built
the piers of the bridge, and had all the cast-iron
frames ready. Some discussion then arose as to the
fact of the bridge being laid down on the plan, as
crossing the road at right angles, giving a way of 46.
feet—when it crossed it obliquely and gave a waytrot
only 33 feet. It was at length determined tommoita
the effect of pacific measures at first, and a
was appointed to act with the board ofsureveyors in ,
representing the case to the company, and inducing
them to construct a new bridge ; the railway corn-
pany to be requested to suspend all further operations
until the result of the negotiation became known. It
was then agreed that the vestry should meet that day
week, to decide upon the other steps to be taken in
case the company should not accede to their request.

On the night of the 22d ult. a most ferocious
and unprovoked attack was made by nine poachers upon
two of the keepers of Philip Bennet, Esq., at Itoughatn,
who were most severely beaten, and a cowardly ruffian
presented his gun at one of the men as he was lying in
nearly a senseless state, and threatened to shoot him ;
but was dissuaded by another of the gang. Unfortu-
nately none of them are known ; but a large reward is
offered for their discovery.—Bury Post.
DEATH or DR. THONISON.—We have the painful
duty of again recording the name of another victim to
the dreadful pestilence whieh is now raging in this city.
Dr. Thomson, the highly-respected physician of the
New Fever Hospital, in Great Clyde-street, died of fever
on Friday morning last.---Glasgow paper.
We understand that there is no truth in the report
that a petition will be presented to the House by Mr.
Hutchins or his friends against the return of ourreptee;
sentative, Sir G. R. Philips. It is quite true that the
latter gentleman was advised that he had g
for a petition against the return of our
repre-
sentative, Mr. Robinson.—Sahabury j our mak
othero
od grounds

SANGUINARY ArFlitAY ON
BOARD A SLAVER.
The following is an extract from a private letter.
'ated Sierra Leone, October 6, 1847 :
"On the 22d of July last her Majesty's ship
terwitch, with her Majesty's ship Rapid in corn-
,,ar.ly, captured the Brazilian brigantine Romeo
char
t rimer°, which was subsequently given in
ge Lieutenant 'IV. G. Mansfield, R.N.,
and f seamen, to be conveyed to St. Helena
adjudication. Owing to adverse winds, and
the unmanageable qualities •f the prize,
the officer in command found it necessar to
y
alter his destination, and to bear up for this place.
On the Ilth of August, about mid-day, tof the
crew being engaged aloft and the otherwo s
in the
bunks, where the arms were stowed, the Lieutenant
being at the moment pulling a rope which had been
recently spliced, was murderously assailed from behind
by one of the prisoners (who were four in number, and
during the day time allowed the liberty of the vessel)
with an axe used for chopping firewood. At the same
moment the other prisoners furiously attacked the
sailors in the bunks, who, from the unexpected na-
ture of the assault, were driven from their post
wounded and unarmed. Lieutenant Mansfield, laying
hold of a piece of firewood, gallantly, but unequally,
contended with a Brazilian armed with a cutlass; in
the course of a desperate struggle the officer received
no fewer than nine wounds, more or less severe, in the
head, arms, and abdomen; a great coat which he
wore being, under Providence, the means of saving
him from instant death. The two sailors who
had been occupied in the shrouds having reached the
deck, of course unarmed, the lieutenant, nearly
exhausted by profuse haemorrhage, made a violent
effort to join them, in which he fortunately proved
successful, though in his progress one of the prisoners
discharged at him a marine's musket, the contents of
which took effect, inflicting a most dangerous wound
on his head, and bringing him for an instant to the
ground. Having succeeded in recovering his feet,
and gaining his men, he encouraged them to rush aft
upon their armed antagonists, a piece of service which
three of their number performed in the most daring
manner ; the fourth seaman (since dead) being hors
de combat by his wounds, and the lieutenant himself
fainting at the instant from loss of blood. The intre-
pidity of the three British tars rendered them more
than a match for their armed antagonists, whom
they speedily overpowered, one of the prisoners leNs•
ing overboard, and perishing in the waves. Believing
their officer to be killed, the seamen, in the excite-
ment of the moment, were about to hurl the surviving
prisoners over the gangway, when Lieutenant Mans-
field, partially reviving, .ordered them to be im-
prisoned, that their wounds should be washed, and
that they should be reserved to be dealt with by
the authorities here. On the Ist Sept., the Romeo
Primero, the scene of this bloody encounter, entered
our port. Lieut. Mansfield, who since the day of COit•
flict had scarcely been able to stir hand or foot, was
promptly conveyed to sick quarters, and for many
days his life was entirely despaired of by his medics/
attendants. The gallant little crew, all wounded,
were also looked after in the best manner which
skill and sympathy could suggest ; but, alas I two
of them were soon removed beyond the reach of human
succour, one dying of the direct consequences of his
wounds, and the second of fever induced by them.
After a fortnight of extreme danger on shore, Lieu.
tenant Mansfield's powerful constitution showed symp-
toms of triumphing over his injuries, and be
is now so far convalescent as to justify sanguine
hopes of his complete restoration. Yester-
day the Brazilian prisoners were brought to
trial before the Chief Justine, his honour Chief Jus-
tice Pine, and assistant-judges Heddle and Lennon,
on charges of piracy, and attempt to murder Lieu-
tenant W. G. Mansfield, R.N. and others. On
the indictment being read, several preliminary: ob-
jections were' taken ' on the: part of the prisoners
by the Spanish Consul, as the only representative of a
foreign country in the colony. The Court, after
some consultation, declared the following objection
fatal to the proceedings :—' That the alleged crime
had been committed in an attempt to recapture their
own vessel, then under the Brazilian flag, and not
amenable to British jurisdiction, the sentence of a
Court of Admiralty not having been then pronounced.'
His Honour, in announcing the decision of the
Court, said, that the case being thus shut out from
an investigation on its merits, he felt called upon to
state that, having read attentively all the depositions
connected with it, he considered the conduct of the
prize officer to have been marked throughout the
trying circumstances by most praiseworthy courage
and forbearance. The prisoners were then discharged.
The brigantine has been condemned by the Admiralty
Court as a slaver."

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a court was held for the dispatch of public
business, The greater part of the day was occupied
with discussions relative to the purchase of a small piece
of ground belonging to Messrs Morley, of Wood-street,
about which there had been some negoti .tion. After a
variety of amendments, it was determined to keep open
the negotiation. It appeared to be the opinion of some
of the members, that the traffic of Cheapside would be
considerably eased by the appropriation of the ground
to the purposes of widening the thoroughfare of Wood-
street, while others thought that the advantage to the
public would not be proportioned to the sum required
by the proprietors.
Upon the motion of Mr. R. L. JONES, the committee
appointed respecting the city's right to the soil and bed
of the river Thames, was dissolved, and the business of
that committee was transferred to the consolidated com-
mittee.

THE ROYAL HOSPITALS.
Mr. LOTT brought up the report of the Charity Com-
missioners and the privileges of the corporation respect-
ing the Royal hospitals, &c., to which ho particularly
called the attention of the Court.
The report was ordered to be printed. Adjourned.

COTTON FROM SOUTH AYRICA.—We have been

favoured with the subjoined extract of a letter just re-
ceived from Port Natal, giving a favourable account of
the soil and climate of that colony for the growth of
cotton. The great difficulty in the way of an extension
of the cultivation will be a deficiency of labour:—" I am
sorry to say, that in consequence of the unprecedented
wet weather last season, the cotton crop from the young
trees is small, and much damaged; that from the old
and transplanted trees, from its ripening much earlier, is
very good. Late last season I planted a small quantity
of imported American black seed, the produce of which
appears very superior in colour, fineness, and length of
staple. This season I shall plant about five acres of it,
to give it a fair trial; but I fear the seed is almost too
old. One great advantage we have over the Amer--
, cans,—the cotton plant here produces several years
in succession. The other day 1 compared the produce
of a six-year old tree with that of a one-year old, and
could not distinguish between them. I have lately pur-
chased 3,000 acres of land on the Omgani River (adjoin-
ing the upper part of my old farm) another near Mau-
ritzberg of 9,000 acres. The latter contains abundance
of water and valuable timber. I have lots of labourers
just now, but they are not to be depended upon, as many
of them hire themselves for six or twelve months, and
bolt at the end of the first; so that until the ' Masters'
and Servants' Ordinance' is passed, and proper laws esta-
blished, little can be done."—Manchester Guardian.
FACTORIES.—The following statement of mills
working and stopped, &c., may be relied on as correct.
In the power-loom weaving department only four mills
are working full time, thirty-six are working from four
to eight hours per day, and not less than sixteen are
entirely closed. 2,200 power-loom weavers, and 200
dressers and tenters, are at present on the unemployed
list. In the cotton-spinning department two mills are
stopped, four are on full time, while all the others—a
very large number in Glasgow and neighbourhood, and
employing numerous hands—are working short !time.—
Glassiew Argus.
THE LATE MURDER IN MADRID.—A correspon-
dent in Madrid, in his letter of the 25th ult., writes—
"lt seems, that a native of Valencia was arrested the
day before yesterday, as he was leaving for that place
in the Madrid diligence. Some suspicion, it is impos-
sible to say how well or ill-founded, is said to attachman
to him respecting the murder of the unhappy
hoautisoentof
which
hia Cithristatina.
impossibleT re are
o various
committed by some
esinitlOrtihweesith reference to that event. Yet one feeling
In whatever way
appears uppermost,
one mostfamiliar
such as it is that is going on, terminates,
the inquiry,
quite clear, that very different steps are
withat the
ee deed
house.wa
t?
from what would be adopted in CABO
any other
the murder gm"' uitnragdkeer had occurred in the house of Ronf
person ; and not even murder but in case
ud
ne ad tehr.
the
Te haetrifiertostatacatu o the r
vf
eillanauthoritieswouldpoliee be
thteo place
whole
of the persons—servants, children, and all in the house;
because the Spanish law presupposes guilt until inno-
cence be proved ; the second step, to lay an embargo
on the property of the persons arrested, to meet the ex-
penses of the tedious
inlasszaProceedings that may follow.
Ills occurs in every to the great benefit of
a rich harvest, thoughln it mayw leadoln tao ctbsksearouinf the
ef
kind
dniyil
housepersons.
hass the
fahree:t
innocent
entij)nretshbenet
sclaigshelehsotwdoevgerre,enoone
incon-
venienced; nor, learned, has any article
of furniture been markesdctaonansewer the expenses of law
proceedings—if, indeed, any are to follow. Much dis-
satisfaction is felt at such deference being shown to the
household of the wealthy Duke of Rianzarea."
BRISTOL, DEC. I.—Our sugar market bas been
quiet to-day, influenced by the flat accounts from Lon-
don, but there is no alteration in prices. A few lots of
chrystalised Demeraras have been sold at from 375. to
50s. per cwt.

DEMISE OF " THE GLASGOW ARGUS.'1 e are
sincerely sorry to state that this journal, in which we
hale often found an able fellow-labourer, ceased its ex-
istence on Monday.—Scotsman.
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nes tfiILANCEI COMPANIES.
Dividend t Amount
Name of Company, per of Pald. Price.
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. A s. d.
Albion ••••••• • • • • • • • 31. 101. 500 0 0 50 0 0 75
Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 I 7
Dltt ) Marine 6l. per cent, 100 0 0 5 0 0 5%
Atlas . .
British Commercial .. 7s.per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 6%
Clericl,Med.& Gen. Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 20%
Cmnty .... •.••• • • • • • 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
13s. 50 0 0 soo 11
ACagle --• • • ..... •• • • 6s. 50 0 0 5 e 0 6%
Eng.& Scot. Law •• •• 51. per cent. 50 0 0 212 6 -
European Life ••.• • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. -
Family Endowmn t Soc. 41. & be. 4 0 0 4 0 0 -
Freemasons' .• • ...... 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 -
Glot.e - 120
Guardian • ... .. ••• • • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 44%
Imperial Fire •••• • • • • 12 per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 214
Imperial Life •••• • • -12 s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14%
Indemnity Marine •• • • 11. sh.& be. 100 0 0 513 1 -
Law Fire •••.•• • • • • • • - 100 0 0 210 0 3
Liw I ife •••••• • • • • .. 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 45
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 -I...xidcn Fire •••• • • • • 10s. 25 0012 10 0 13%
London Skip •..•• • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 13%
- 100 0 0 15 0 0 -
Med. InvIld& Gen. Life 4%1. per Ct. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2%
National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 2 10 0 -
National Life •.• . • • ... 81. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 -
Palladium Life.. ..• . • • 51. per cent. 40 0 0 2 0 0 -
Pellsars - - - 37
Primula .. • • ...... •• • • 31. p. et. & be. - - -
Pi otector Life •. .. .• . 54. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 -
Prbvident LIN •••• • • .• 11. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Rock Life -- - ...... 4s. 5 0 0 010 0 4,1
Royal Exchange .- .- 5/. per cent. Stock. - -
Sul lire- - . • • • • • • .. 6/. 10s. - - -
Ditto Life ........•. ii. 6s. - - -
Universal Life-. .... 10.741. pr cut. 100 0 0 810 0 -
Vl4, ria Life • - 4 0 0 374
LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. £ s. d
Bank of Scotland
British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 200
Caledonian Bank
City of Glasgow Bank . 1 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 11%
Clydesdale Bank •••• • • I 6/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 12110 s
Commercial Bank ••• • I 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 160
Eastern Bank-- -• . 1 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 lON
Edinb.&Ghuigow Bank ' 61. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 5/ 19s
Exchange Mak of Scot 6l. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 51
Isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 11 II 70 0 8%
National Bank 6l. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 13
North of Scotland Bank 71. per cent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 6
North British Bank • • - 50 0 0 10 0 0 6%
Royal Bank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 147
Union Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 87
Western Bank. -•• • . 61. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 70%
Aber Teen Ft-e and Life 121. per cent. 12 10 0 2 0 0 .816 d.
B. Accord. Life and Fire - 20 0 0 0 II 0 9s.
British GusiNntee Ins. - 10 0 0 1 0 0 I 12s.
Caledonian Fire Insur. 191. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1 22
Church of Eng and Ins. - 59 0 9 2 0 0 2
City of Glasgow Life 5l. per cent 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. 8s
Edinburgh Life Insur. 51. per cent. 100 0 9 12 10 0 18
Ea.t of Scotland Life.. - 10 0 0 015 0 125.
Eng. & Scot, Law Life Si. per cent. 50 9 0 21; 6 2%
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 12
Incur. Co. of Scotlnd- Si. per cent. 100 0 () 10 0 0 8
Life tssoc. of Scotland 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 () 0 11 8s
Mercantile Life -• • - 10 0 0 •10 0 : 85.
National Fire and Life 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 9 0 r 24e.
North British Incur 5% I.pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 : 23
North & West of Scot - 10 0 0 1 0 0 I 11. Is
Scottish Life and +4nar - 20 0 0 9 11 0 ,
Scot. Ma+. and Gen. Life 51. per cent. 1 0 0 015 0 13s. fid
Scottish Union Inarnce. 6111. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 i 11. 3s
Sian lard Life ...... . 51. per cent. 50 0 0 4 5 0 9
, United Dep. Assurance i Si. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 l2s.
DOCKS.
( Dividend Amount
Name of Company. ' per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
..--- -
£ d. £ a. d.
..7ommercial .. •• ••. • • 41. per cent. s
ock.St - 70
East and West India ... 61. pr cent. Stock. - 118
East Country - -
Lander, .... -•.. • ... 51. pr cent. Stock. - 97
Ditto Bonds ••. • • ... 41. per cent. - - -
3t-Katharine ........ 1 5 per cent. Stock. - -
Ditto Bonds ••••. . • . , 1%1. pr cans. - - I -
Southampton •••• - • • 21. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 ' -
WATEIR-VIORIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Sitars.
- - -
£ s. d. £ s. d.
Birmingham . ... ..... 18s. 25 0 0 2i 0 0 -
East London.-- -•• • • 8/. 100 0 0 - 170
-.rand Junction -.. • . 21. 10s. 41 13 4 - 32
31. 100 0 0 - -
New Rivr Lndn Ridge 2/. 10s.
Vauxhall ............ - - 85
100 0 0 • 101
West Middlesex . . . 51.15a.prcnt. 63 12 9 -
- 114

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From this night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for
the Week ending on Saturday, the 27th day of November, 1847.
laws DLP ARTME

Not.:. imed........ 23,656,10

Government debt 11,015,100
Other securities •• • • 2,984.900
Gold coin and bullion 8,745,132
Silver bulliox ••• • .. 1,210,433

4 23,956,165
M. MARSII..4.LL, Chief Cashier.
Dtted the 2d day of December, 1847.

£ 23.'56,165