The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNE-SDAY EVE_NING, DECEMBE

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, at Westminster, before Mr.
Ju,nee EItLE and C.nirnon Juries.)
TINGLEY V. DALTON.

Mr. Addison appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Ser-
geant Shea and Mr. A. A. Fry for the defendants.
Mr. AmnsoN said, this was an action brought by the
plaintiff; a s rvant, named Sarah Pingley, in forma
panperis. to recover damages from the defendant, who
is a butcher at Westmoreland, near Lung Eaton, under
the following circumstances:—The plaintiff was engaged
by the defendant as a cook, at 91. a year, and she entered
' into his service on the 3d of March last. Shortly after,
she found that the situation would not suit her, and on
the 3d of April she intimated that she should leave on
the following 3d of May. She sent for her uncle, to
whom she had intimated on the 2d of March that she
intended on the following day to give her master
warning, to come for her, and to bring a cart to convey
her things to his home at Long Eaton. He found,
however, that the defendant would not allow her
to leave, on the gr.,und that she bad not given
warning. She left, however • ' but the defendant
relti,e to allow her to take her clothes and boxes

with her, and they were lett in a wash-house.
Before she left her uncle told the defendant that if she
had not g:ien him a month's notice that he might deduct
a month's wages, adding to the plaintiff that so long as
her clothes remained in the defendant's possession, she
would he entitled to cages. In addition to her clothes,
which were stivrior to one in her c ass of life, there
was a mahogany tea-chest, and a rosewood work-box.
She had been unable to obtain her clothes up to the pre-
sent time, and had in consequence been prevented from

earning her livelihood as a servant, owing to the wantof
proper garnn:nts. The hiring was for one year, and a
mouth's notice cr a month's wages was necessary for
both sides to terminate the contract before that time.

The action, therefore, was brought to recover the value
of her clothes, and damages for the injury she had sus-
tained in consequence of their detention by the de-
fendant.

George Hoare, the uncle, proved going for his niece
and that her clothes, &c., were worth about 171. 10s. He
admitted, in cross-examination, that he had not applied
to the defendant for the things, and that she left at half-
past six o'clock on Saturday night.
Mr. Sergeant SHEA submitted that there was no case
for the consideration of the jury. No evidence had been
adduced to show that the plaintiff gave the defendant a
month's notice, and that he had not acted in a perfectly
legal manner.
Mr. Justice ERLE considered that the case, notwith•
standing the meagreness of the evidence, ought to go to
the jury, but in the event of their returning a verdict for
the plaintiff, he would allow him to enter a nonsuit.
The accepted law on the subject was that a master might
either give his servant a month's notice or a month's
wages, but he could recollect no authority where it was
held that a servant had a right to say to her employer,
" Take a month's wages, and let me leave instantly."
Mr. Sergeant SHEA said the action eas nothing more
than the speculation of the attorney for the plaintiff, as
it was commenced only two days after the girl left the
defendant's house, and before any demand had been made
for the goods. Not only was no demand made, but
no evidence had been adduced to show that

the plaintiff gave any notice of her intentiontO
or that he had prevented her using her clothes. No
douht it was her intention to leave on the day she did
without the consent of the defendant, and without having
given any previous notice. A servant was not entitled
to leave her situation just when she thought proper, but
more especially a time when her absence might cause
contusion in the family, when perhaps he expected com-
pany, or when his wife was ill and his children required
her care.

Mr. Justice ERLE having explained the law to
the jury, they, after a few minutes' consideration, found
a verdict for the plaintiff for 37/. 10s., 201. for damages
and 17/. 10s. the value of the clothes.

I Mr. Walton said that the prisoner had been employed !
by him for more than seven years. Ile was in his ser-
vice up to Saturday, 21st November, when witness dis-
charged him in consequence of some defalcations he had
discovered. Before discharging him, he requested him
to give him the names of thoe customers from whom
he had received money, and to state what sums he had
received without accounting for them, as, if he did so, it
would prevent him (witness) from applying for monies
which had already been paid. The prisoner said he
could not do so ; and witness then said, " Well, then,
there's the door, you may go."
Inspector Logan, F division, took the prisoner into
custody on the 20th November.
The prisoner (who neither cross-examined any of the
witnesses, nor made any defence, was committed for trial.
John Illason, who described himself as a marble po-
lisher, was charged before Mr. Jardine with keeping a
private still at No. 9, Princes street, Drury-lane.
John Levvins, an Excise-officer, said that, acting on
information he had received, he went this morning at
eleven o'clock to the house No. 9, Princes-street, where
the prisoner keeps a tobacco shop, and finding nobody
in the shop went down to the cellar, where he found the
prisoner working a still, which was in full exercise.
The prisoner, who made no defence, was tined 301.,
and in default of payment was committed to prison for
three months.

AIARLBRCY-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
William Job Liddington, a pianoforte timer, was
charged with committing an assault on his son.
William Augustus Liddington, the son of the prisoner,
stated that the defendant had deserted his mother
twenty-three years ago, leaving her with three children;
and he ascertained some time since that he had returned
to London, had entrapped another woman into mar-
riage, and was living with her. The complainant had
written several times to his father, with the view of ob-
taining a maintenance for his mother, but last night
about half-past six o'clock, he took his mother to the
defendant's house. When his father came in, he asked
complainant what he had to do there. Upon telling him
his object, the prisoner struck him a severe blow with
his fist, walked into another room, and, having returned,
struck him again with a tuning fork a blow on the head,
which cut it open with a deep gash.
Hannah Liddington, the complainant's mother, corro-
borated evidence.
Police-sergeant, 10 D, banded in copies of two mar-
riage certificates attesting that Job Liddington had been ,
married to Hannah Malpus in the parish of Cirencester,
on the 19th of December, 1816, and that on the 28th
of March, 1831, in the parish of St. Giles, William
Liddington had been married to Jane Howland.
Mr. HARDWICK sentenced him to a fine of 51., or two
months' imprisonment, for the assault, and ordered the
police-sergeant to retain the certificates, in case any
future steps should be taken against the defendant for
bigamy.
Patrick Flannagan, for creating a disturbance at an
eating-house in Cleveland-street, after eating a dinner,
which he had no money to pay for, was sentenced to a
fine of 405., or one month's imprisonment in the House
of Correction.

GIRVAN.
THE PRESENT STATE AND PROSPECTS OF
BRITISH AGRICULTURE.
What has British agriculture clone ? What is it
doing ? What does it expect to do ?—are the three
important questions proposed for consideration in an in-
teresting article under the above head in the current
number of the Edinburgh Review. As a reply to. the.
first que tion,s the writer appeals to the fact thatßrvish
agriculture has expanded in productiveness with our
rapidly increasing population, our average corn imports
up to:last year being about the same as they were twenty
years ago. He also appeals to the experience of full
grown men as to the greater breadth of land in culture,
and its vastly more productive modes since that period.
This last proof seems more conclusive than the
other, as there is no doubt, though the people of
Britain contrived to subsist chiefly on our home
produce for the last twenty years, they did so by being
put on " short commons" through the operation of the
restrictive corn laws. Had such hige duties not existed
in foreign importations there is not a doubt but that
greatly more corn would have been consumed and im-
ported. The people were by no means indulged with
such a fulness of bread, as is desirable, nor their corn-
consuming powers put to full proof. Both the appetite
anti the means were by these laws unnaturally restricted.
Bad trade, currency derangements, &c.—then surely fol-
lo ec ed the years of dearth and high prices.
To the second question the writer furnishes an
answer, by a rapid and interesting survey or tour
of the island. He starts from the remote Caithness,
whence arose the most energetic agriculturist of his
e'ay, Sir John Sinclair, and who stirred up practical
men to new exertions. In this country the improve-
ment has been rapid and striking ; rentals increased
from six to eight times w ithin living memory ; and
worthless moorland pasture converted into rich fields of
oats, wheat, clover, &e.--50 bushels wheat, 56 oats, and
300 or 400 stones hay, being the occasional return per
Scotch acre. Of Sutherland, with its famous clearings
and large sheep walks, the writer admits the great im-
provement in roads, buildings, stock, &c. ; but gene
rously questions whether the clearing has not been
carried too far, and whether it would not have more
largely increased the sum of human happiness, added
more to the strength of the state, and to the rent roll of
the propriethr, to have encouraged and educated the na-
tive population, and kept them
on the land.
Passing into Ross-shire there is much fine farm-
ing-, and great activity in Easter Ross-5 quarters
of wheat and 7 of oats per imperial acre being the
produce of some parts of it. Improvement has
even penetrated the straths that run across the
country: and in strath glens the writer met a cart laden
with guano and in a way-side schcol heard the boys
taught agricultural chemistry. Inverness is equally for.
ward; and though the cost of the transport of wheat or
oats to the Edinburgh market averages 20s. an acre, land
at the head of the Beauty Loch lets at 40s. an imperial
acre. The steam-ships from Inverness have been of im-
mense benefit for the conveyance of fat cattle, &c., &c.
Travelling southwards along Loch Ness, wheat is grown
and ripened at a height of 800 feet, while in Strathern a
beautiful crop of turnips have been raised at a height of
1,200 feet above the level of the sea—only surpassed by an
instance in Wicklow, where a pupil of the Glassniven
school raised a fine crop at 1,600 feet. Nairn and Moray
claiming the title of the " granary of Scotland," have
done much and may do more. Before the drain, the ;
ague and mildew, once prevalent, have disappeared,
while these with liming have tripled many rentals.
Driving rapidly over Aberdeenshire, improved breeds of
stock, liming, fencing, training, and reclaiming, are
everywhere visible. Descending through Perth, Forfar,
and Dundee, to the Carse of Gowrie, which once grew
clover three feet high, deep ploughing, and a ready out-
fall for deeper drains, are the most serious questions, and
their practical solution the likeliest mode of restoring
something like the traditional fersility. Crossing to
Fife, tile-works and lime-kilns, and subsoil ploughs
frequently visible, show the ancient kingdom in
each of its " neuks " to be all alive. Now the
Lothians are reached, where, though capital and
skill have done their best, he deprecates the farmers
resting on their oars, and points out much to be done.
Reaching. Ayr and Wigton, the greater produce of grain
and turnips, the abundant tile draining, and waste land
reclamations are approvingly unnoticed. " Public gra
titude is due to those who reclaim the bleak moss and
the wild moor, and who plant their feet firmly on the
quaking bog," such as in the south-eastern parts of Ayr-
shire, particularly along the first six miles from Barhillto
Newton- Stewart, or the Wason country, where, at a great
expense, the enterprising proprietor, Rigby Wason, Esq.,
has formed a new road across the moor to Cree—drained
and limed, and recalled to fertility a wide extent of once
barren moor.

Crossing to Arran and Campbelton, the change within
the last fifteen years is equalling surprising and agree-
able ; then there was scarcely a saddle-horse in the
country, and the cattle, the poor small black High-
landers. Now, fifty or sixty tenants come to market in
their own gigs, while Ayrshire stock and a lowland im-
proving tenantry have been introduced. Hastening over
other portions of the country, and noticing the border
improvements, where one farm out of lease last year
rose in rent from 751. to 9201. per annum, or 1200 per
cent—and how the land carries triple the stock, and
yields triple crops by thorough-draining. England
entered, and Northumberland is deservedly praised
for its activity and forwardness. Too much time
has been spent in Scotland, with which, indeed, the
writer seems most conversant, and the northern counties
of England is rapidly sketched off. A stop is made at
Lincoln, where, with much naturally rich land, constant
and high manuring is required to keep the " warrens"
from returning to a state of barrenness, and where the
knowledge unfolded by chemistry as to manure, &c., is
of vital importance.
On a review of the whole tour, the writer is satisfied
that great activity is being put forth ; and, "in spite of
corn-law repeal, the energy of the agriculturists as a
body is not depressed, their wits not stagnant, nor their
hands void of cunning."
To the third question as to future progress, he thinks
the produce may be doubled by the general adoption of
the improved practice now known, while greater disco.
'cries and improvements give hopes of a much larger
increase. Another hasty review is made to show how
much waste land yet remains to be reclaimed, and in
how many places the present best practice is to be in-
troduced. Pipe tiles, cheapening land drainage, bone
mills, railways bringing lime, fuel, and manures to
remote places, artificial manures,' resident landlords,
education, tenant rights, subsoil ploughs, &c., are
desiderated to become general, and such they are
every day hastening to become. The much good
which our absurd entails hinders is also well noticed,
and their modification or repeal very much wished.
Absenteeism and the quality of land under trustees
(which might be sold to new improving proprietors but
for the entail) are also great hindrances. For England
also the abolition of reserved rights, such as timber,
game, &c., and a better machinery, are very much
wanted. In the article of thrashing mills, not at all
common in England, 1,200,000 quarters would be saved
by their general introduction. Agricultural colleges
would also do a great good. Of these there is one at
Cirencester, and one at York.
The article is wound up by the cheerful statement
that there is every reasonable prospect for abundant
food and employment for an increasing people, and that
the change in the corn- laws need act not as a depressing
hut as a stimulating influence upon agriculturists.
Whatever art cau extract of enlarged crops from foreign
soils may be reaped in Britain. Oar capital and mecha-
nical skill, aided by science, should place our farmers
beyond the reach of any protracted competition in the
home market. The loss of the potato crop is with equal
philosophy turned to good account. Affliction of this
kind may lead to good by rousing to new exertions, and
opening up new resources.

RELIEF FOR THE HIGHLANDS. - PORTSMOUTH,
DEC. I.—The ./Eolus, store-ship, Mr. Thompson, master,
on her way to the Isle of Skye, has arrived here from
the river. She has been brought into the harbour to
take in a large supply of biscuit and other provisions
from the Clarence Victualling Yard, to be distributed
in the districts in Scotland which are suffering from
scarcity, and when loaded will proceed immediately to
join the Belvidere, store ship. Captain Layton, R.N., is
in that ship, and is appointed to superintend the issue of
the various stores. The „I3elvidera is destined for the Isle
of Mull.

Yesterday Rowland Hill, Esq., entered upon his
new appointment at the General Post-office, St. Martin's-
le-Grand, and was congratulated on the occasion by the
Marquis of Clanricarde, the Postmaster-General, and
Colonel Maberly, the secretary of this establishment;
c
also by T. S. Duncombe, Esq., the Member for Finsbury,
who paid a special visit on the occasion.
DEsAoTII wello krnCoAwrn in
TAlNtheMscAiNenutrifi world by his , R N.—This
inven-
tions,gentle-
man,
more particularly his life-rope for saving ship-
wrecked mariners, died on Thursday week last, after a
severe illness, at Cheltenham, in the seventy-sixth year
of his age.
HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF
THE CHEST.—Yesterday evening the first general quar-
terly meeting of the governors and directors of the Hos-
pital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest (since
the opening of the new institution at Brompton) was
held at the board-room, the Hon. Edward Speer in the
chair. The routine business having been disposed of,
it was stated that at the present time the hospital con-
tained forty in-patients, with twenty more on the books
for immediate admission. An additional assistant phy-
sician was appointed, together with two visiting apothe
caries, and two clinical clerks. Among the governors
present were the Hon. J. W. Percy, Philip Rose, Esq.,
attended,fienry Vaughan,upEsaqt.
ed to the chairman, the meeting,
R. G. C. Gardiner, Esq., M.D., J. Forbes, Esq., M.D.,
'a
late hour.
F.R.S., F.G.S., titc.• the Rev. Robert Mscncrn..o,ThAla.nAk.s,
broke
which
RAILWAY DEPOSITS.—The railway deposits in the
19ash.(11(0)nd.; in Ireland to
373,8121 10s., and in Scotland to
account of rail-
ways aovb
sessionlenrgt was
si
beennvleBe rr4a;;feiuonlrl Esq.,d
England
in Ireland to
180,763/. 15s. For the session of 1846 the deposits into
866,3671.; and in Scotland to 2,323,371 L The deposits
for the ensuini.,
• r session must be made in the course of
next month—before Jan. 16.
POST-OFFICE NOTlCE.—Yesterday the following
v,thaeysCoaunarotuonfteCd.htaoncierly,39i6n,7EB37.
was affixed at St. Martin's- le-Grand :—Mails will be
made up for the Cape of Good Hope, the Mauritius,
and Sydney, to be forwarded by her Majesty's ship
Rattlesnake. All letters intended to be so forwarded
must be addressed, " By H.M.S. Rattlesnake," and will
be liable to a packet rate of postage of one shilling, not
exceeding half an ounce, &c. The Rattlesnake is ex-
pected to sail from Devonport to-morrow. Letters in
time this evening and to-morrow morning,
ANOTHER CONVERT TO ROME. Mr. Henry
Pownall, son of H. Pnwnall, Esq., of Spring-grove,
Hounslow, has just given in his allegiance to the Church
9f 1191110.—. Herald.

LATEST PRICES OF SH ARES,
IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTPLER COM
PANIES' STOCK.
From tie Official List,
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING.
LONDON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1.
JOINT-STOCS

h Dividend Amount '
r;
Name of Company. per of Paid, Prici
Annum. Share. I
A..-.....-....-.....-.-..-. .------.
Y £ 1. d.
I MiStralaliit •• •• -- • • 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 -
BritshNorth American Si. percent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
?, Commercial of London Si. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
I. Colonial . 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
e Londn and Westminstr Cl. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
if London Joint-Stock ... Cl. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 -
Metropolitan - 25 0 0 710 0
e provincial of Ireland. • 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
Er Ditto, New. ••••• • • • 81. per cent. 10 0 0 10 00 I -
e National of Ireland - 51. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 1 -
~ Nat. Provncial of Eng. Si. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 , -
~ Ditto, New... ••• • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 ,
t Onion of Australia.... 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 I -
_ Union of London. -- , 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 -
I
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
B Dividend Amount 1
Name of Company. per of Paid. I Price
• Annum. Share.
,
£ s. d. 1 £ s. d.
A:bion •••••••••• -•• 3/. 105 500 0 0 50 0 0 75
1 Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0, 11 0 0 18%
r Ditto Marine. ••• • • • 6/. per cent, 100 001 5 0 0 5%
Atlas 13s. 6d. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 15 Vi
' British Commercial - 7s. per share 50 00 , 50 0 7
lleriel,Med.& Gen• Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 1 210 0 10
1 county .............. 31. 100 0 0' 10 0 0
Crown .............. 105. 50 0 0,1 5 0 0 -
1 Eagle .... • . ...... •• • • Gm. 50 9 0,, 5 0 0 5 %xd
Eng. & Scot. Law - I
• • 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 3
European Life ... ••• 5% per cent. 20 0 0 I All paid. 20
r Freemasons' ... .. .• • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0
Globe - 135
, Guardian •.. .... ••• • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 47%
Imperial Fire .... •• • • 6/. and bonus 500 0 0 50 0 0 230
imperial Life ........ 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
indemnity Marine •. . • 1/. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 31
Law Life..........., 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 6%
i•andon Fire ..
.•ondon Ship ........ 10s. 25 0012 10 0 151,4
Marine.. ••••• • • • ... 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 -
S.`ed. Invlid& Gen. Life 451. per ct. 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 -
National Life....
Palladium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2/. Os.
Phoenix • - - 205
Protector Life.... ... 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 1 0 0 -
Provident Life-- -• • 1/. 55. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23
Rock Life..........., 45. 50 0 010 0 4%
Royal Exchange Si. per cent. Stock. - -
Sat Fire.... ..... .. - - 210
Ditto Life . 11. 6e. - - 49
Universal Life -
LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES,
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. I Price.
Annum. Share.
---
X a. d. £ a. d
Bank of Scotland - 100 0 0 175
Royal Bank of Scotland 6/. per cent. - 100 0 159
British Linen Company 81. per cent. - 100 0 0 220
Commercial Bank •• • • 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 162%
National Bank ...... - 10 0 0 141.14 s
Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr cent. - 50 0 0 91
Western Bank •••• • • • • 61. per cent. - 50 0 0 85
North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 50 0 7%
Clydesdale Bank.. •• • • 61. per cent. - 10 0 0 131.8 s
Eastern Bank •••• • • • • 5/. per cent. - 10 0 0 111,6
Caledonian Bank - 2 10 0 41. 11 5
Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cert. - 5 0 0 71. Is
City of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent. - 10 0 0 131. 6s
Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 255. Od
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14%
[nsur. Co. of Scetlnd- Si. per cent. 110 0 0 All paid. 10
North British Insur 5% /.pr cent. 1200 0 0 10 0 0 27%
Caledonian Fire Insur lOl. per cent.lloo 0 0 10 0 0 22%
Edinburgh Life Insur 6/. per cent. 'lOO 0 0 12 10 0 181
Edin. & Glasg. Railway 11.10 s. per c. 50 0 0 50 0 0 75
Ditto, q Shares... • 7s. 6d. p. a. 12 10 0 All paid. 18
Edin., Leith, & Grantn - 20 0 0 20 0 0 18% ;
Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 69 %
Glasgw&Greenck Rall. 2/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 161,ti 1
Glsgw & Garnkirk Rail. Si. per cent. 125 0 0 AU paid. 3958 i
Dundee & Arbroth Rail. 6/. per cent., 25 0 0 All paid. 37
Standard LifeAssernce.l N. per cent. 50 0 0 I 210 0 ' 9

2 10 0

CANALS.
, . 1
Names of I ...7) 'Dividend . Names of ro; Dividend( .
Companies eci per Pries"' Companies. :rs per Pn(
.0 Annum.
v: Annum. Co
X X
kshtn& 014111 971 51.55. pc 70 Monmouthsh 100 81. -
Ashby-d-la-Z 113' 4/. I 70 Mntgomrysh 100 51. -
Barnsley.. • • 160; 12/. 1180 Macclesfield. 100 -.-
Basingstoke 100! - 1 - Neath ••• • • • 100 17/. 340
Brknk&Abrg 150 5/. 1 85 Nottingham. 150 12/. -
Cromford llOO I 14/. 1 - Peak Forest. 78 31. 40
Dudley loo' 41' i - Regent's • ... 33 11. ss. 20
Derby .•• • • 100 6/. i 73 Rochdale ..• • 85 41. -
Ellsmre&Chs 133, 41. 55 Shropshire • • 125 81. -
Ezewash •• • 1001 321. - Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. 130
North & Clyd 1001 41. - Do•Lk Fd St 12 6/. p. c. -
UrandJunctn 100 71. 83 StlTrd &Wore 140 281. 270
(.rand Uniohlool 1/. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 125 151. -
tllamorgnsh.:l72l 13%1. - Stourbridge.. 145 20/. 315
(41str&Brkly1,001 - - Strtfrd on Av 79 11. 10s. -
arantham • .11501 121. - Severn and}
26 11. 85. 32
Huddersfield.; 571 - - Wye Rail.
Kennt & Avu 39 7s. 6d. 5X Trnt & Mr-1
50 301.
Lancaster..., 47; 1/. 10s. - sey, m sh. -
Leeds& Livrp ' 100 ; 341. 520 Thams &Med 19 - -
Leicester ..• • I 140; 10/. 105 Worcstr &1 . ,
78 21. 43
Leicstr &Nth; 83' 4/. 52 Birming.i
Loughboroghl42, 701. 850 Wilts & Brks 67 11. 11

DOCKS.

Name of Company.

Dividend Amount
per I of I
Annum. Share. 1

I Paid.

X s. d.

Commercial .... • • 31. per cent. Stock.
East and West India ... , 61. pr cent. Stock.
East Country
I 3ndon .......• •.. 51. pr cent. Stock.
•:t. Katharine • ... 5 per cent. ' Stock.
iouthampton ••.•• • • • 41. per cent. 50 0 0

Name of Company.

WATER-IVORIES.

X 8. d.

0 0

Dividend Amount
per of Paid.
Annum. Skare.

S.
East London.... •• .• . • SI. 100 0
Grand Junction ••. • . • 3/. 10s. 41 13
Kent.• • • . .••• • • • 2/. 10s. 100 0
Vauxhall •• •• • • 5/. per cent. 100 0
West Middlese . . • 5/. ss. pr cut. 63 12

0;
4 ! -
0 !
0 -
9

Price,

141%

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

113
: 5931

Price,

(From the London New Price Current of December 1.)
SUGAR.—To- day although importers of West India Sugar
of every kind were desirous to realise, and submitted to a re-
duction on the rates of Friday, of is for brown, inferior
yellow, and grey, and 6d per cwt for the better qualities of
yellow and grey, still all kinds were purchased with caution
for the scale and pan, the private operations amounting to
only 250 hhds and trcs. The parcels offered at public sale
were only in part sold at a fall on last week's rates of 6d to
ls, the decline being more apparent on the lower sorts.
REFIXED.—To-day there was only a limited demand for
Refined goods from the home trade, and lower rates were
taken, that is to say, 61s for brown melting lumps, 62s to 62s
6d for brown grocery, and 63s to 63s 6d for standard lumps.
Bonded crushed Sugar was purchased with increased freedom,
and prices advanced from 33s to 33s 6d per cwt for first
quality.
MAtmmus.—This afternoon the quantity offered at public
sale amounted to 5,437 bags, but little desire was manifested
to operate, and a part only sold, although a reduction on
former rates of 6d to is per cwt was submitted to.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon three parcels of Bengal
Sugar, amounting _to 5,201 bags, were brought to public
sale; merchants were inclined to realise, and submitted to a
reduction on former rates of Gd to is per cwt, but nearly the
whole sold. This afternoon, at public sale, 74 puns of new
St. Vincent's Molasses were taken in at 225.
FORXION.—This afternoon there was little desire evinced
to operate in Foreign Sugar, and 123 2i-cases and 10 bar-
rels of Bohea at public sale were only in part sold at rather
lower rates, middling greyish white went at 50s, low 48s 6d,
fine yellow 47s to 47s 6d, good 465, middling 45s to 45s 6d,
low 44s to 455, good brown 43s 6d, washed 35s to 45s 6d
per cwt.
COFFEE.—This afternoon Plantation Ceylon Coffee met
with increased attention, and 2,051 bags 81 casks at auction
were sold at full prices, viz.—mid greyish Demerara kind at
58s to G4s, low mid 54s to 575, fine fine ord 49s to 535, fine
ord 46s 6d to 48s, good ord 44s to 45s 6d, ord 41s to 42s 6d,
pea berry 50s to 62s 6d, triage 36s to 40s, and damaged 35s
to 495. Native was only in limited demand privately, and
300 bags at auction were all taken in at 37s for good ord pale,
which was the former value.

TEA.—Today there was only a moderate business trans-
acted in Black or Green Tea, but holders were firm, and in-
sisted upon previous rates : common sound Congou for cash
was not to be obtained under 10d per lb. Letters have been
received from Canton to the 25th September; the shipments
for England up to that period, in round numbers, were
8,000,000 lb, against 13,000,000 to the corresponding period
last year ; the deficiency consisted of about 4,000,000 lb in
Congou and 1,000,000 lb in Scented Teas.
Rim—To-day there was no public sale of East India Rice,
and the few parcels sold privately were at barely former rates.
FRlllT.—Although the quantity arrived has been immense,
still prices rule high, the trade operating largely. Patras
Uurrants 5Gs to 575, Zante and Cephalonia 555. Of Musca-
tels there are free sellers ,and of Turkey Figs some of the im-
porters seem determined to force sales at almost any price.
Valentia Raisins of good quality in demand at 465, but for
the out of condition and interior sorts there is a dull sale.

INDIGO.—For East India there has been a good export
demand for all sorts, and the home trade have been pur-
chasers to a fair extent. The rates paid show an advance
on those of the last quarterly sales of 2d to 3d for Bengal and
Madras. At public sale 68 serons of Guatemala Indigo were
partly disposed of at fully former rates.
COCIIINICAL.—This ate' noon the quantity offered at public
sale was large, and amounted to 165 bags, all Honduras, but
the demand was less active, and a part only sold at former
rates. .

SALTPETRE.—Rough has attracted attention, and the par-
cels disposed of privately were at rather higher prices. The
supply at market is less than it was. At auction 400 bags
Calcutta were disposed of at 25s 6d for gool middling grey
rather damp small chystal, 7 per cent refraction. English
Refined has been in excellent request, and prices rule firm.
Prices are firm for Nitrate of Soda
Oats.—The supply having increased of. Southern Oil, and
the home trade purchasing all descriptions with caution,
whilst there ara few export orders, a decline in the value of
15s to 20s per tun has taken place, and holders are evidently
inclined to realise, although there is not a large stock here,
and the consumption being good. At auction 100 tuns were
disposed of, fine quality at 291 to 291 ss, and good 28/ lOs
per tun.
TaLLow.—lmporters of Russian are still desirous to realise,
and have submitted to a further reduction ; on the spot, how-
ever, a large demand has been experienced, but there are
sellers of fine Petersburgh yellow candle at 47s 9d to 48s per
cwt. For forward delivery very few contracts have been
entered into. Town Tallow is in good supply, and there are
sellers at 49s to 49s 9d nett cash, although the consumption
is diminished.

LADS FOR THE ROYAL NAVY.—Yesterday there
was considerable activity at the various receiving houses
for seamen, at the east end of the metropolis near the
docks, in consequence of the recent regulation respecting
lads for the Royal Navy. During the day large posters
were circulated throughout the metropolis ; and every
inducement is also heid out for lads between 16 and 19
to enter her Majesty's service. Smart, well grown
youths are taken, though not accustomed to the sea,
numbers ( f whom entered during the day.
NEW BRIDGE ACROSS THE THAMES.—Application
is intended to be made to Parliament next session, for
leave to construct a bridge from the church at Lambeth,
to the opposite shore at Westminster ; the want of which
has been much felt by the increasing population on both
sides of the river.