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London, England, 1848-08-08 00:00:00

THIRD READINGS.

The Turnpike Roads (Irelaud) Bill, the Canada Go
vernment Bill, and the Militia Blllots Suspension Bil
were severally read a third time and passed.
CHURCHES BILL.

The report upon this Bill was brought up and agreed
to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to-
morrow.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS BILL.
The report upon the Preclamations on Fines Court of
Common Pleas Bill was brought up and agreed to,
and ordered to be read a third time to-morrow.
POOR-LAW UNION CHARGES (No. 2) BILL
On the report upon this Bill being brought up,
Mr. C. BULLER moved the insertion of the following
clause :—" And be it further enacted, that if any person
hereinbeforo made chargeable upon the common fund of
the union shall be convicted before any justice of an)
offence committed in any workhouse while maintained
therein, or of deserting or running away from
any workhouse, and carrying away clothes or
other property therefrom, and be liable to be com-
mitted to any gaol or house of correction, the
justice before whom such person shall be convicted, may
commit such person to the gaol or house of correction of
the county or place containing the parish in which such
person, if chargeable to the common fund by reason of
being exempt from removal under the statute herein-
before mentioned, shall have been residing, when ad-
mitted into the workhouse, or to that of the county or
place comprising the major part of such union, in the
case of any other person herein rendered chargeable on
the said common fund, notwithstanding such workhouse
may not be situated in such county or place, or that such
justice may not be a justice of such county or place, and
the charges of the conveyance of such person to such
gaol or house of correction, and all other charges con-
sequent upon such committal, shall be borne by such
county or place in like manner as the charges of per.
sons committed in the ordinary mode to the gaol thereof,
shall be borne.
After a few words from Captain PECHELL, the
clause was agreed to and ordered to stand part of the
Bill.

Colonel THOMPSON moved the insertion of the fol-
lowing clause, after clause 3:—" And be it further
enacted that the guardians of any union or parish may,
with the order of the said Commissioners, and in con-
formity with such regulations as they shall direct, pro-
cure, or assist in procuring the emigration of any poor
person chargeable, or who would, if relieved, be charge
able upon the common fund of such union, or in the case
of any parish not comprised in a union, who may, though
not settled therein, be exempt from liability to removal
therefrom; and such
guardians shall in the case of a
union, charge the costs and expenses incurred in such
emigration upon the common fund; and in the case of a
parish not in a union, upon the moneys in their hands
fur the relief of the poor.
Mr. HENLEY trusted that the Hon. Member who
had introduced the Bill would not support the amend-
ment.

The clause, after a short discussion, was agreed to,
and also ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Other amendments were agreed to, and the Bill was
ordered to be read a third time to-morrow.
INCREASE OF VAGRANCY.
Mr. Alderman SIDNEY called the attention of the
Hon. Gentleinan to the vast increase of vagrancy. In
Leeds, the cost of relieving the wandering poor had
been doubled during the last three years, as compared with
'35, '36, and '37. In Manchester, they had. been trebled ;
in Norwich, almost doubled, whilst in the city of Lon-
don, it haeLinereased to.an enormous extent ; for in-
stance, 35$ only were relieved by the city of London
Union in 1839, but 41,743 were relieved in 1847. The
gaols were filled with vagrant poor, from 6,000 to 7,000
of whom passed through the city annually, and no effi-
cient provision was made for their lodgment in any of the
workhouses, except in the city of London Union and the
the West London Union.
Mr. BULLER assured the Hon. Gentleman that his
best attention was directed to the subject. The measure
before the House had been adopted after the fullest con-
sideration of the whole matter. But if any Hon. Gen-
tleman would propose any measure that would better
promote the great object which he had in view, he
should feel happy to give it the utmost encouragement.
Mr. HENLEY regretted the absence of the Right
Hon. Baronet the Secretary of State for the Home
Department, as the questiou was one which came more
properly under his cognisance, being a criminal matter,
than that of the Poor-law Commissioners. He hoped
the Government would introduce a Bill to deal with those
who committed acts of vagrancy.—(Hear.)
Mr. C. LEWIS said the vagrant laws were sufficiently
stringent, and that it would be difficult for the House
to make them more so. It was extremely difficult to
prove an act of vagrancy, and there was great disincli-
nation on the part of metropolitan and provincial magis-
trates to send destitute persons proved soliciting alms to
prison, because the cost of their maintenance would be
greater in the prison than in the workhouse.
POOR-LAW UNION DISTRICTS SCHOOL BILL.
On the motion for going into Committee on this Bill,
Sir H. WILLOUGHBY said that he bad hoped,some
explanation would have been given of the Bill. It was
proposed to provide for the compulsory education of
the children of the indigent poor of the country in a
manner most objectionable. He particularly objected to
the mode in which the expense was to be paid—namely,
out of the poor-rate. The objections urged against the
Bill were so freely stated in a petition from Ashton, that
he felt he could not do better than enumerate them. It
stated that parochial burdens would be increased, which
were now greater than the ratepayers were in a condi-
tion to pay. That the children in the workhouses were
now better educated than the children of many work-
men, mechanics, and others, who contributed to the
rates. That educating the children until they reached the
age of 16 was too long a period, and would engender
habits of indolence which would unfit them for labour ;
that it would lead to the compulsory separation of parents
from their children, or, if they were dead, from their pro-
per guardians; that the Poor-law Commissioners, which
were now in bad odour would, if the measure were passed,
become still more disliked; that it would lead, each dis-
trict being 15 miles in area, to a system et cen-
tralization and of Government patronage; would
establish a national system of education, and interfere
with religious freedom. His great objection to
the Bill was that the expense of the schools would be
paid out of the poor-rates. This was the third time
this session that an attempt had been made to fasten
great and improper charges upon the poor rates. First,
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vagrancy,p which they had just been
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which were altogether foreign to the purpose fur which
they were collected. By the Act of 1844 the Poor-law
Commissioners were empowered, "at their will and
pleasure," to establish district schools ; but since that
time a serious change had taken place in the condition
of those who paid the rates—he alluded to the cul-
tivators of the soil. The Legislature had been
pleased to establish the principle that there should be
free trade in all things produced by the earth, in con-
sequence of which those engaged in the cultivation of
the soil bad had their resources materially crippled.
This being the case, he asked the Government on what
principle of justice they could ask these parties to con-
sent to an increase of the poor-rates? It appeared
from the Bill that the guardians of the poori would
have no power of controlling the expenditure in respect
of their schools. Looking at the late period of the ses-
sion, and the dissatisfaction which such:a measure as this
would cause, he felt it his duty to oppose it.
Mr. CHARLES BULLER assured the House
that he should not at this late period of the
session have brought forward the Bill if he had thought
that it would press unduly upon any portion of the
community. He was prepared to show that the mea-
sure would not infringe upon the liberty of any part of
her Majesty's subjects; nay, more, he was prepared to
contend that it had been brought forward to diminish
the burdens of the rate-payers, by a wise and econo-
mical expenditure in connexion with these schools.—
(Hear, bear.) No power was to be taken in the Bill
which would empower the Poor-law Commissioners

to force anything upon the ratepayerswltiiouttWeir
consent. lie declared he had no sympathy in the
popular notion that they could over-educiae the children
of the poor. Children were placed in workhouses under
most distressing circumstances, and if they did not
educate them, the evil would not only recoil
upon the children, but upon the whole country.—
(Hear, hear.) At present, under the existing poor-law,
there was a schoolmaster and schoolmistress in all the
workhouses, who were maintained at considerable ex-
pense, but it was defrayed by a vote of Parliament,
and so would the expense of maintaining the school-
masters and schoolmistresses in these district schools.
The present number of children in workhouse union
schools was at the present moment in England 51,237,
while out of that number there was only 5,402 who were
children of able-bodied paupers. All that he asked was
that the House should remove the limitations which
prevented those who would unite from being united with
these schools, and by the limitations that at present
existed they were prevented from the formation of dis-
tricts which otherwise could be easily formed. He did
not see why parties should not be at liberty to erect a
building apart, for children from the workhouse,
if parties were willing to pay the expense of them.
He believed that nothing was, more prejudicial to female
children than bringing them up with the women in the
workhouse. The Right Hon. Gentleman, after adverting
to cases showing the excellent effect of the adoption of
such a course, and stating that he preferred in•
dustrial to elementary education for paupers,
stated that this Bill, if passed, would give
him no power except that of forming districts, and atter
that the whole power would go to the ratepayers. He
believed that if the unions were allowed to exercise
their own free will they would form themselves into
districts and build workhouses, to which they would
send their children and bring them up in proper indus-
trial habits. _ .

Sir %V. JOLLIFFE, while he admitted the import-
ance of the measure, and the kindly feelings that had
induced the Right Hon. Gentleman to introduce it, could
not but think the second week in August a most inop•
portune period to discuss a injasure of such importance,
and he thought the Right Hon. Gentleman, in postpon-
ing the measure to auuther session, would exercise a

sound deacretion.
Mr. HENLEY did not believe that the present Bill
would remedy the evils it was intenied to put an end
to. The Right Hon. Gentleman had said that the Bill
was perfectly voluntary. He denied it. They had no
instruction at all as to the number of guardians, and
under this Bill a district might be formed, and guardians
appointed that would tax ratepayers to an unlimited
extent. Such a Bill he objected to at the present
moment and period of the session. He thought the House
ought to have had more explanation on the subject of the
Bill from the Right Hon. Gentleman than they had
hitherto had. He thought the more the measure was
looked
at the more necessity there was for postponing it
till another session.
Viscount EBRINGTON supported the Bill.

Sir H. WILLOUGHBY movtd an amendment that
the Committee on till. Bill be postponed until this day
three months.

Mr. C. BULLER hoped that the House would allow
the Bill to go into Committee, and it there were any
objectionable provisions in it they might then be
amended.

After a brief discussion, the debate was adjourned
until Thursday.
RENEWABLE LEASEHOLD CONVERSION
(IRELAND) BILL.
On the order of the day for going into Committee on
this Bill being read,

Sir W. SOMERVILLE proposed that the committal
of the Bill be postponed until Thursday next. -
Mr. LAW trusted that the Right Hon. Baronet would
defer the Bill until next session, as it was a measure of
very great importance, and could not, in common de-
cency, be di-cussed unless in a full House.

'file committal of the Bill was ultimately postponed
until Thursday next, when it will be taken as the first
order of the day.

WESTMINSTER IMPROVEMENT BILL.

This Bill was read a second time.
ADVOWSONS IN THE COUNTIES OF WAR.
WICK AND STAFFORD.

The Exchange of Advowsons in the Counties of War-
wick and Stafford Bill went through Committee, and
was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow.
DUBLIN POLICE BILL.

The Dublin Police Bill was ordered to be committed
on Thursday next.
The House then adjourned until Five o'clock.

The House resumed at Five o'clock.
Lord G. BENTINCK presented a petition from the
shipowners of North Shields against the Custom-house
regulations of that port.
BOARD OF AUDIT.

Dr. BOWRING postponed the two following notices
relative to the Board of Audit till next session:—
" Select Committee to inquire into the constitution and
efficiency of the Board of Audit." "To call attention
to the returns from the Shannon Navigation Commis-
sion, showing that no proper accounts have been fur-
nished to the Audit Office for nearly ten years, and that
130,0001. of the public money remains unaccounted for at
the present moment."
Tne notices were accordingly discharged.
BRITISH FISHERIES.

Mr. HUME moved for a return showing in detail the
total annual expense, from the year 1840 to the year
1847 inclusive, of the Board of British Fisheries, in-
cluding the salaries, allowances, incidental expenses,
superannuations, or pensions of all persons employed by
or connected with that establishment; the cost and ex-
penses of any steam or sailing vessels belonging to or
employed by it; the nature and object of the duties
perfonned by it; and th. fond or funds out of which its
expenses are delraJed (in continuance of Parliamentary
Paper, No. 529, Session 1839).—Agreed to.
SCOTCH CHURCH.

Mr. HUME moved an addres;fotareturn of the total
number of seats in each of the churches in the city of
Edinburgh, whose ministers are paid by the annuity-
tax; stating the number of seats let and not let, in .-ach
of the last five years ; distinguishing between the
seatholders who reside within the royalty of the- city,
and those who reside in other parishes; also distinguish-
ing seatholders who are actually rated for the annuity-
tax, and stating the amount received for seat rent in
each of these churches in each year, and how appro-
priated.—Agreed to.'
SASINES AND REVERSIONS.

Mr. HUME moved for a return of the establishment
of the office of Keeper of Sasines and Reversions in
Scotland in the years 1846 and 1847, stating the names,
office, and amount of salary of every person em-
ployed, and from what sources paid. And, ac-
count of the amount received for fees in the
office of Keeper of Sasines and Reversions in
each of the years 1846 and 1847, with a list of the several
fees charged, and the rate of each fee, and how the same
have been appropriated in each of these years .—A greed to.
PUBLICANS.

Mr. TATTON EGERTON presented a petition from
Westmoreland praying the House to pass a Bill to pre-
vent the sale of spirituous liquors in public-houses be-
tween the hours of eleven on Saturday night and six
o'clock on Sunday morning.
TRADE AND NAVIGATION

Mr. LABOUCHERE, in laying a number of returns
of the monthly accounts relating to trade and navigation
before the House, said, in order to obviate all complaint
oy any undue paeference having been shown by the
Government, he had made arrangements by which those
returns would be printed and distributed in the usual
way among the Members of the House.
THE CRIMINAL LAW.
Mr. ANSTEY put the following question to the First
Lord of the Treasury:—When her Majesty's Ministers
intend to move for leave to bring in the Bill for consoli-
dating and amending the criminal law of England, pre-
pared by the present Criminal Law Commissioners, and
printed at p. 70 of their Fourth Report, recently laid on
the table of this House; or whether her Majesty's Mi-
nisters intend to take any other and what measures for
carrying into effect the suggestions of that report; and
in particular whether it' is their intention to adopt
such of them as concern the offence of being
a Roman Catholic minister in England, bound by reli-
gious vows, or that of omitting to elect or consecrate an
archbishop or bishop after receiving a congd (Mire, and
whereby the former offence is to be made punishable
with banishment for life in the first instance, and with
transportation for life in the second, and the latter
offence to be made punishable with three years' impri-
sonment or fine at discretion, or both; and why it is
proposed to confine the operation of the contemplated
penal enactments to England.
Sir G. GREY stated in reply to the first question that
the Bill contained only part of the recommendation of
the Criminal Law Commissioners, by which the Govern-
ment was in no degree bound; and, therefore, he could
not say whether it was the intention of the Government
to bring in a Bill in accordance with those recommenda-
tions. To the second question he had to reply that the
reports and suggestions of the Committee would be duly
consider* d by the Government during the recess, when
perhaps the Government would introduce measures on
their own responsibility, such as they might think fit to
meet the state of the case. He was not prepared to say
for which of the recommendations of the Committee the
Government would ask the sanction of Parliament.
REGISTRATION OE BIRTHS. DEATHS, AND
MARRIAGES BILL (SCOTLAND).
Admiral GORDON enquired if the Lord Advocate
intended to proceed with these bills this session.
The Lord ADVOCATE replied, although the House
came to an unequivocal vote yesterday with respect to
these Bills, yet, considering the late period of the session,
and the statement of several of the Scotch Members
that their constituents required time to consider the pro-
visions of the Bill, he should not proceed with them
further during the present session, but he should pro-
ceed with them early in the ensuing session.
COMPULSORY ENFRANCHISEMENT OF
COPYHOLDS.
In reply to Mr. THORNELEY,
Sir 0. GREY stated that the Lord Chancellor did not
consider that the Bill which had been introduced into the
other House of Parliament could be pressed to a com-
pletion during the present session. It was his intention
next session, to reintroduce a new Bill on the subject.
JAMAICA AND TRINIDAD.
Mr. BAILEY inquired if dispatches had been re-
ceived by the last packet from Sir Charles Grey, the
Governor of Jamaica, and Lord Harris, the Governor of
Trinidad, with reference to the state of the colonies.
Mr. LABOUCHERE would make inquiries at the
Colonial-office, and if the Under-Secretary was not pre-
sent to-morrow, he would take care to reply to the
question.
Lord J. RUSSELL said a despatch had been received
from Lord Harris ; he could not then say whether it
could be laid on the table.
ESTATES IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY

(IRELAND).
Mr. MONSELL asked whether it WAS the intention
of the Government to introduce a measure early next
session fur the improvement of estates under the care of
the Court of Chancery.---(Hear, hear. )
Sir W. SOMERNILLE said a Bill for that purpose
had received the consent of the Lord Chancellor of Ire-
land, but the late period of the session precluded its
being brought forward until the ensuing session. He
trusted it would be in his power to bring in the Bill at
an early period of the next session.
WEDNESDAYS' SITTINGS.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that he had given notice
yesterday of his intention to-day to propose to alter the
course of proceeding, with respect to the sittings of the
House on Wednesday. As must be well known to Hon.
Members, there were at present many votes in Supply
yet to be taken, and he hoped the House
would forward the desires of the Government
to get those votes passed through. He
should, therefore, if it met with the approbation of
the House, propose to go into Committee of Supply to-
morrow at five o'clock, and on the Friday, Monday,
and Wednesday following. The. Noble Lord concluded
by moving the suspension of the standing orders
relative to the House sitting on Wednesday.
Lord G. BENTINCK wished to know if the Noble
Lord was prepared to state what course he intended to
pursue with respect to the other business, especially the
sugar duties ?
L6rd J. RUSSELL said that His Right Hon. Friend,
the President of the Board of Trade would, on Thurs-
day, move the Committee on the navigation laws, with
a view of postponing them to another session. After
that he proposed to take the Corrupt Practices at
Elections Bill, and after that the sugar duties.
Colonel SIPTEIORP protested against this novel mode
of proceeding of the Noble Lord. Formerly they never
sat on Wednesdays at all; afterwards only till six
o'clock. He thought it was the incompetency lazi-
ness of the present Government that had caused the
present state of the Reuse, and the Noble Lord now
took the present mode of making up from that incom-
petency and laziness.

SMITH had no objection to the present
motion, but he was anxious to know what course the
Noble Lord intended .to adopt with respect to the mo-
tion the Hon. Member for Southwark with respect
to Colonial expenditure.
Mr. BROTHERTON said, under the peculiar circum-
stances of the time he did not intend to oppose the mo-
tion, but he hoped the Noble Lord would agree with him
that the Wednesday's sittings from twelve to six had
worked well. A great deal of good business had
been done on a Wednesday. It had been a
great ad►antage to Memb,.rs, for it gave them
an opportunity for making arrangements for the
evening.—(Hear, hear, and Laughter.) lie had al-
lowed the sitting on other nights to extend to a greater
length than he should have dune, because he knew that j

in the middle of the week there was no evening
sitting. He had made a comparison of the Wednesday's
sittings under the old and the Wednesday's sittings
under toe present system, and ho found that in
twelve Wednesdays' sittings under the old syateal they

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sat 35 hours, while in twelve Wednut.da)s' sittings under
the present system they ,=tit 70 11,urs.—(lie,ir,
An HON. MEMBER—WeII, and what have we dune ?

Mr. BROTIIFJIION regrtacti that they had Only
had a good deal of task, but they ket done
very little business, and he for one confessed
he had beer, greatly disappointed and annoyed at the
length to which some Hon. Members had carried their
speeches. He hoped, however, that next session some
amendment would be made in that respect, but he
trusted nothing would be done to disturb tueir Wednes-
day day sittings.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. COBDEN rose in consequence of what had
fallen from the Hon. INleu,ber ion Northampton to
state that at the request of his lion. Friend the
Member for Southwark, ho had taken charge
of the motion on Colonial expenditure, but as the
Government had already acquiesced in it, he thought it
was disposed of, so far as the House was concerned.
Should the House arrive at the motion to night, he
should propose to resume the debate, but not for the
purpose of making a speech.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. THORNELY said the Noble Lord had stated that
he intended to proceed with the Navigation Laws on
Thursday. He wished to knoW whether it was the in-
tention of the Government to bring in a Bill on the
subject.

Mr. LABOUCHERE said that was exactly the reasoa
Government proposed to ask the House to agree to the
resolution on the navigation-taws. It the House agreed
to them the Bill would be brought in, printed, and circu-
lated in the country.--(Hear, hear.)
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said there was no objection
on the part of the Government to the resolution
proposed by the Hon. Member for Southwark (Sir
W. Molesworth) respecting the colonies. He was himself
disposed to move the resolution, but the Honour-
able Member for the West Riding (Mr. Cobden)
had stated that he would move . the resumption of
the debate. The Honourable Member for Southwark
had made a very able speech, in the sentiments of which
he (Lord John Russell) entirely concurred, and
as the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies
had also made a very able statement to the
House, he did not think it necessary to take any fur-
ther part in the debate. With respect to the observa-
tion of the Hon. Member for Salford (Mr. Brotherton),
he had to state that he proposed to continue the sittings
of the House on Wednesday evening at five, as this was
the second week in August, and the Government were
desirous o 1 going into a Committee of Supply.
Mr. HUME said the Noble Lord had two propositions
on the paper to make.

Lord-J-. RUSSELL said he wished to explain that he
did not intead to propose the second motion on the
paper for the House to adjourn at three on Wednesday.
Mr. HUME objected to continuing the sittings on
Wednesday atter twelve o'clock, but did not persevere
in making an amendFrent.
After a short discussion the motion of the Noble Lord
was agreed to.

(LEFT SITTING.)

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
MIDLAND CIRCUIT:— Warwick, Aug. 7.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice P.irrzsox.)
Edward Jennings, aged 40, was charged with betting
tire to his dwelling-house to defraud the District Fire
Insurance Company.
The prisoner by trade is a woodcutter, in Birming-
ham, and had insured his stock in trade and furniture,
in the office in question for 1201., the insurance being
effected ten days before the fire. On the (lay in ques-
tion, which happened to be Sunday, the 30th day of
April, the prisoner was seen to go out in the evening,
with his wife and child, for church, but having pro-
ceeded with them a few yards he returned home, leaving
them to go to church alone. In about ten minutes he
came out of his house again, and went on to church.
Shortly after this smoke was observed coming out of the
first-floor windows, and upon the neighbours forcing an
entrance, they found the premises•burning in three dif-
ferent places. The inference was, this Was not acci-
dental but premeditated, but there was nothing but
inference to fix it upon the prisoner.
•The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
LAMBETH.

A person connected with the establishment of Messrs.
Moses and Sons, tailors, &c., Aldgate, attended before
Mr. Elliott to contradict a part of the statement which
appeared in the morning papers of Friday last, under the
head of this Court.

The statement complained of was one which bad been
made during the investigation of a charge against a
female named Mounser, of unlawfully pledging seven-
teen shirts; wherein it was alleged that the shirts so
pawned were the property of Memirs. Moses and Sons.
The applicant denied all knowledge of the transaction;
said that Messrs. Moses and Sons were not in the habit
of getting shirts made up for exportation; that half-a,
crown a dozen was not what they paid for making the
shirts they required, and that, in fact, the woman Mounser
had never been employed by the firm.
Mr. Gunn, the magistrate's clerk, observed that the
person who attended the examination of Mounser, and
who represented himself as clerk to the owner of the
shirts, undoubtedly led the magistrate and all present to
believe that Messrs. Moses and Sons were his employers.
His own words were that he was clerk to Messrs. Henry
Edand and Morris Mosei2, of the. Minories.
The applicant remarked thut the firm just mentioned
resided on Tower- hill, or New America-square, and had
no connexion whatever with the house of Messrs. Moses
and Sons, Aldgate. He, the applicant, expressed a hope
that as the report in question was likely to excite a pre-
judice unfavourable, if not injurious to the latter firm, the
reporters would notice, and the different journals contra-
dict, the statement, as far as Messrs. Moses and Sons
were concerned.

RAILWAI SHARE MARKETis.

LIVERPOOL, AUG. 7.

STOCK EXCHANGEL—There has been but little done in
shares to-day, and prices are somewhat less than last quoted.
The market closed heavily at the following prices :
London and North-Western, 125—Ditto, New Quarters, 1
c. p.—London Brighton, and South Coast, New 5/. Shares,
p....-blidland Stock, 102—Ditto, New Halves, 6% dis.—
South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 3 dis.—York, Newcastle,
and Berwick (N. and 13. Extension), No. 2,1% p.—Ditto
(G. N. E. Purchase), I p.
MANCHESTER, AuG. 7.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sale.; nre—Birkenhead. Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junction. 31/: Shares, 7 11-16
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Preference, 11-16 p.—North
Staffordshire, 2% dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4,
2 15-16 c. dis.—VVhitehaven and. Furness, 9% dis.