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three turnpike roads would be passed over, could not be fully
considered by the present Committee. The plan altogether
was bad, and most expensive, as Mr. Cubitt had shown, and
he submitted that his proposal, that the Committee should
decline deciding upon this important question in the last
week or fortnight of the session, and postone the mFtter till

the next session, was but fair and:reasonable.
Counsel having concluded his addres,,
Mr. MERREWETHER replied on behalf of the promoters of
the Bill. He submitted that little attention should be paid
by the Committee to the evidence of Mr. Cubitt, because it
was only on the previous day that he had seen the plans of
the company, and he could not, therefore, be supposed to be
fully acquainted with the merits or demerits of it. His
Learned Friend had opposed the Bill on behalf of
the Croydon Company, but he (Mr. Merrewether)
hoped that the Committee would consider that that
Company had no ground of opposition to the Bill, because
this Company had proposed to insert in their Bill a clause
which would enable the Croydon Company to form a junction
with the line proposed. The secret of their opposition to this
scheme was their wish to prevent this Company having a
western extension, so that they might monopolise the whole
of the traffic of that district. Now he submitted that such a
reason ought not to induce the Committee to decide against
this scheme.

The Learned

The Learned Counsel having concluded his reply, the room
was ordered to be cleared.

On our re-admission, after the lapse of a few minutes,
The Noble CHAIRMAN said the Committee had resolved
that the preamble was not proved, and they had desired him to
intimate that in coming to that determination they did not de-
sire to express any opinion adverse to a west-end extenssion.
Mr. MEAREWETHER—For the South-Eastern Company?
The Noble CHAIRMAN—Quite so.
LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN (LONDON-
BRIDGE EXTENSION).

The report on this Bill (the preamble of which was de.
dared to be proved on the previous day) wai then adopted,
after which the Committee adjourned till Monday.

LATEST PRICES OF SHARES
IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COll
PANIES' STOCK.

From tie Official List,
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING

LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 24.
JOINT-STOCE BANICS.

Dividend Amount
Name of Company, per of Pled. Price
Annum. Share.
X s. d. , X s. d.
Australasia
Britsri north American Si. per cent. 50 0 0' 50 0 0 44 A,
Commercial of London Si. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 2314
'Jolonial.. . •..
Londn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 VT
London Joint-Stock ... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14%
Metropolitan - 25 0 0 710 0
Provincial of Ireland.. Si. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 48
Ditto, New......... 81. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 19
National of Ireland .. Si. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 20
Nat. Provncial of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0. 0 35 0 0 26
Ditto, New.• •••• • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0
Union of Australia.... 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0" 0 26
Union of L0nd0n..... 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 11U
INSITEANCE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. share.
£ 5. d. X a. il.
Albion ...•••• • • • • • • • 3/. I Os. 500 0 0 50 0 0 74
Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0.0 19%
Ditto Marine. ••• • • • 61. per cent, 100 0 0 50 0 5.34
Atlas . •••
British Commercial • • 7s. per share 50 0 0 50 0 7%
Clericl,Med.&Gen.Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 210 0 63
County .......... •• • • 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 •
10s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 -
Eagle .. •-• • . .... •• • • Os. 50 0 0 60 0 5%
Eng.& Scot. Law •. • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 2y,
European Life .. •• • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20
Freemasons' .
Globe ••••• • • . • 6/. per cent. Stock. - 134
Guardian ••••• • • • • • • 51. per cent. 100 0. 0 36 10 0 48
Imperial Fire .... •• • • 61. and bonus, 500 0 0 50 0 0 240
fulperial Life ........ 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 161 A
Indemnity Marine.... It. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 29
Law Life •••••••• •• .. H. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 52
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 6%
London Fire ........ 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 14%
London Ship ........ 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 141 f;
Marine .. ..... • ..... 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 - 15 0 0 10%
Med. Invlikl & Gen. Life 4341. per ct . 50 0 0 2 0 0 3
National Leaa Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2%
National Life .... . • ... Si. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 9
Palladium Life ...... .. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 21. Os.
Phoenix .. .... ...... .. 3/. p. ct. & bs. - - 205
Protector Life.... ... 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11. 3s.
Provident Life • ....... 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23
Rock Life.... • • ...... 4s. 5 0 0 010 0 4%
Royal Exchange 5l. per cent. Stock. - 194
Sun Fire. - - 210
Ditto Life .......... 11. 6s. - - 49
Universal Life ..
CANALS.
I
Names of I E Dividend Names of .Z, Dividend .
'-.
Companies. 'ld per ,
Price. Companies. per Price.
:1 Annum.
w Annum.' ill
- ' -.•
XI 1 £
Ashtn & Oldh 97 57.55. p c 70 Monmonthsh IN 81. 160
Ashby-d-la-Z 113 41. 70 Mntgomrysh 100, Si. 98
Barnsley.. • • 160 121. 180 Macclesfield. 1001 - 38
Basingstoke.. 'lOO - - Neath .• •. •• 100 17/. 340
Itrknk&Abrg 150' Si. 85 Nottingham . 150 121. -
Croinford..• • 100 141. 150 Peak Forest. 78 3/. 40
Dudley lOO 41. - Regent's .. .. 33 11. sa. '25
Derby ••• • • 100 6/. 73 Rochdale .... 85 41. 77
Ellsmre&Chsll33 4/. 55 Shropsfilre • . 125 8/.
Erewash •• • ilOO 321. 300 Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. 130
Forth & Clydj 100. 41. - Do.LkFd St 12 6/. p. c. 11 -
GrandJunctn'loo 71. 95% Stffrd&Worc 140 281. 295
Grand UnionI100; 1/. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 125 15/. 230
Glamorgnsh. 1721 13%1. 210 Stourbridge.. 145 201. 315
Glstr&Brkly,' 00; - - Strtfrdcn Av 75 11. 10s. -
Grantham • • ;150! 121. 100 Severn and 26 11. 88. 32
Huddersfield., 57i - - Wye Rail.
Konnt & Avn; 39. Ts. 6,1. 9% Trnt 88 31r-1 ~, 301.
Lancaster 147 I/. 10s. - i sey, % sh. j -
Leeds& Livrp 1001 341. 520 iThams&ltted 12 - -
Leicester ... • I4o' 101. 105 =Worestr Bc}
Leicstr& Nth 8.1 4/. 60 Binning. 78 2/. 44
Lough borogli, 142 70/. 850 Wilts & lit Itso 67 IL 11

DOCKS.

Dividend
:Name of Compaßy. I per
Annum.

Price,

Paid.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

GAMING Hot:SEi —On Saturday, Philip William Saunders,
James Catfarth Field, Richard Bradshaw, and James Adkins,
were indicied, charged with having kept a common gaming-
houseat 31, St. James's Street, between the months of M:iy,
1840,'and the same month in the year 1843. In a second
count they were charged with having kept a common
gaming-room at 26, St. James's-street. During the last two
years there hake been several trials and motions in the
various courts at Westminster relative to the recovery of
2,000/. upon two promissory notes or cheques given by Mr.
John Simeon, the son of Sir R. Simeon, Hart. The defence
has been, that these documents were given for the payment
of money lost at hazard, and that there had been es-heat-
ing in the transaction. The first trial was appointed ler
December, 1844, but the day precedilig the defendants
consented to a judge's order for the payment of debt and
costs in fourteen days. That judge's order was subsequently
set aside upon the affidavits made by the above defendants,
wherein they stated that Mr. Simeon was under the influence
of wine upon the occasions when he played, and that he had
played with loaded dice. In these affidavits, Saunders stated
' himself to have been employed as waiter to the establish-
ment, and that he bad handed the loaded dice to Mr. Simeon.
The other defendants declared themselves to have been
partners in the concern with a party of the name of Davies,
who eventually had obtained possession of the notes or
cheques, and that he had refused to give them their proportion.
Upon these affilavits the present indictment was brought.
The Learned Counsel for the prosecution (Mr. BALLAN-
TLNE). however, failed to give evidence as to the parish
wherein the houses were situated, and wherein the money
was alleged to have been lost and won, and also in his proof
of identifying the defendants with the houses.
Mr. CLARKSON and Mr. BODKIN, on behalf of the defen-
dants, submitted under this state of things that there was no
ease to go to the jury.
The Learned JUDGE being of opinion that there was not,
directed the jury to acquit the defer.dauts, which was accord-
ingly done.

Scl-. was again charged upon another indictment for at-
tonpting to pass off a counterfeit half-sovereign, similar to,
and cast in the same die as those found in the carpet-bag.
A second verdict of Guilty was returned, but tie sentence
as postpor ed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP-STREET.

ATTEMPT TO POISON —Hannah Barker, a young wo-
man of very miserable and emaciated appearance, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Broughtun, charged with
having' administered a quantity of oxalic acid to her
husband, George Barker, a shoemaker, living in Holy-
well-lane, Shoreditch, with intent to murder him. _

The prosecutor stated that he was married to the pri-
soner in the month of October last, .but they had lived
together on the most unhappy terms, in consequence of
h s discovery of her infidelity, and her own admission
to him that another man was the real father of the
younger of her two children, an infant four months old.
On the preceding afternoon the prisoner's mother called
at his house, and conducted herself with so much violence
towards him, on. account of his differences with her
daughter, that he determined at once to separate
from the latter, and proposed to divide the furni-
ture between them, and allow her 54. a week for
her maintenance. The prisoner assented to the arrange-
ment, and they soon after
,sat down together to partake of
tea. which he prepared himself; but after filling a half-
pint mug he was in the habit of using from the teapot, he
had occasion to retire for a short time, and fcund on his
return that his wife had put some milk into his tea, a
portion of which he poured outinto a saucer and drank
it off. The peculiarity of its flavour, however, instantly
attracted his attention, and he accused the prisoner of
having mixed something in it, which she at first faintly
denied having done, but on repeating the accusation, she
clasped her hands together, exclaiming—" Oh, God,
what have they persuaded me to do !" and burst into
tears. He then insisted upon searching her, to discover
if she had any poison in her possession, and having forced
his hands into her pocket he discovered there a quantity
of loose white powder, which she admitted to be oxalic
acid. After securing the pocket and its contents, he
hastened to the residence of a neighbouring surgeon, who
administered a powerful antidote, and he was afterwards
taken to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where further re-
medies wire resorted to, which had the effect of neutral-
izing the poison.
Bilice constable Leary, II 129, stated that, having re-
ceived information of the occurrence, he hastend to the
house, where he found the prisoner seated on a chair in
a state of extreme excitement, and took her into custody.
On learning the nature of the charge, she admitted its
entire truth, and said that she had in:ended to destroy
herself and her two children, as well as her husband.

Mrs. Hayward, the searcher of female prisoners at
the Featherstone station-house, said that the prisoner
subsequently repeated the above confession in her hear-
ing, and added that she was tired of her life in con-
sequence of the brutal treatment to which her husband
had subjected her. The witness had since examined the
prisoner's person, the appearance of which certainly went
tar to confirm the truth of her statement.

Mr. Thomas Vale, assistant to Mr. Bower, a surgeon
in the Curtain-road, deposed that on the preceding
afternoon the prisoner cafled at the surgery, and asked
for a pennyworth of oxalic 'acid, upon which he handed
to her a packet containing half an ounce, which was
labelled " Poison." The prisoner then left the shop, and
about half an hour afterwards her husband hastily en-
tered, declaring that he had been poisoned by his wife,
and witness accordingly administered an effective anti-
dote, and directed his removal to the hospital. The
prosecutor's father afterwards arrived with a jug con-
taining some infusion of tea, which was found to be
strongly impregnated with oxalic acid; but he required
further time to complete the analysis.
_ _

Mr. Vann then -addressed the Magistrate on behalf
of the prisoner, and said that he had numerous wit-
nesses who would be able to establish a strong case of
systematic cruelty and neglect on the part of her bin-
band towards the unfortunate woman, but he considered
it most expedient to reserve their evidence for a future
occasion.

Mr. BROUGHTON said that nothing whatever could
justify the atrocity of the offence which had been so
clearly established against her, and he should order her
to be committed on the charge of attempting to poison
her husband, but she would be brought up next week for
the completion of evidence.

RAILWAY SU RE MARKETS

MANCHESTER, Jut 25.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ainbergate, Nottingham, &c.,
I sy dis. —Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 3 p —Blackburn Dar-
wen, and Bolton, New, % die.—Cornwall and Devon Central, 1%
dis.—Direct Northern, 1% dis.—Grand Union, 13s. 6d. dis.—Great
Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, Extension, 325. dis.—lluddersfleld
and Manchester Railway and canal, IA dis.—Liverpool, Ormskirk,
And Preston, 1 1-16 p.—London and Brighton, 6434—London and
York, 1 11-16 dis.—Manchester, Braxton, Matlock, and Midland, 7-16
p.—Manchester and Birmingham. 85% —Ditto, Quarters (B). 113
p.—Ditto (C), 1034 p.—North British, Carlisle Branch, 1 9-16 p.—
North Staffordshire, 3% p.—Preston and Wyre, 34% —Ditto, Halves
(it), % p.—Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 34 dis.—Shropshire
Union Railway and Canal, 1% dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 45—
Ditto, Ne. 1, 634 p.—Ditto, No. 2, 6 p.--Ditto. Halves, No. 4, % P.
—South Midland, 34 p.—South Staffordshire Jwiction, dis.—West
Lancashire Coast, I Is. dis.—West Riding Union, 234 p.
LEEDS, Jeuv 25.

STOCK EXCHAKGE.—A good •deal of stock has been taken off the
markets recently for investment, which has created a fair business,
and the trade continues tolerably firm. Midlands are lower in con.
sequence of the half.yearly statement not meeting general expecta-
tions. The dividend will be declared to-day at Derby, and as con-
siderab:e discussion will probably arise there relative to the liabilities
of the company, we defer any remarks until the result of the meet-
fug is known. The Bradford guarantee of 10 per cent. is viewed
with a good deal of dissatisfaction by some of the proprietors; and
an opinion prevails that the bargain is a bad one for the Midland Com-
pany . Eastern CL,unties stock maintained its position for some days
after the very serious accident on that line, but yesterday in London
they were not quite so firm. North British are much improved and
in good demand. Manchester and Birtningliams are also better, as
well as Newcastle and lierwicks, Norfolks, York and North Mid-
!Ands, and East Lancashires. French Shares have rallied, especially
Paris and Lyons, and Great Northern of France. The sales are—
Huddersfield and Manchester Extensions, 17s. dis. —Huddersfield and
Sheffield, 7S, p.—Leeds and Bradford, 41% p.—Leeds and Thirsk,
dis.—Newcastle and Darlington Junction Extensions, 104 p.—Norte
British, 35k—Ditto. Half Shares, 5 p.—Ditto, Carlisle Branch, 325.
Gd. p.—Grand Union, 145. dis.—Great Eastern and Western, 295.
dis.—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 21s. dis.—Lancashire, York-
shire, and North Eastern, 445. dis.—Leicester and Bedford, 15s. dis.
—Londoc and York, 154 dis.—North Staffordshire. 3114 p.—North
Western, Sc. Gd. dis.—Sheftleld, Rotherham, and. Goole, I die.-- South
Midland, Its. 6d. p.—West Riding Union, 41. ss. Gd.—York and
Carlisle, 40s. dis.

SHEFFIELD, JULY 25

STOCK EXCRANGE.—The sales are—Grimsby and Sheffield Ex.
tension, 265. dis.—Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 16s. 6d. dis
Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, 21s. dis. —Manchester,
Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, ss. p.—North Western, ss. dis.
HULL, JULY 25.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—North British, 36—Ditto,
Carlisle, 58s. 9d.—North Wales, 10s.—Ambergate, Nottingham, and
Boston, 22s.—Grand Union, 13s.— Leicester and Bedford, 7s. 9d.—
London and York, 20s.— Mallon and Driflield Junction, 478.-111an-
cheater, Buxton, and Matlock, 21. 12s.—North Staffordshire, 51. &J.--
South 311 eland, 9s. 3d. p.—Shropshire Union, 125.—West Biding
Union, 4%.
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