The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-25 00:00:00

CO URT CIRC ULAR

Yesterday was the anniversary of the Queen's nata.
day. _Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, arrived
early at Buckingham Palace, and remained to breakfast
with her Majesty and her Royal Consort. The Queen
.also received visits of congratulation, in the course of
the day, from her Majesty the Queen Dowager, her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, their Royal
Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess
Mary, and their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cam-
bridge and Prince George.
The Queen and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent,
the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the domes-
tic household, attended Divine service yesterday morn-
ing, in the private Chapel at Buckingham Palace. The
Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took
their usual airings yesterday in the garden of the Palace.
Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, and attended by
the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, took an airing on Satur-
day in an open carriage and four. Prince Albert ac-
companied her Majesty on horseback, and the Equerries
in Waiting, Colonel Buckley and the Hon. Captain Gor-
dor, were in attendance on horseback.
Prince Alfred took an airing in the pleasure grounds
of the Palace on Saturday.
The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace on
~Saturday included her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, the Earl of Westmoreland, the Earl and Countess
of Dalhousie, Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth,
the Right Hon. the Speaker, and Si Heary Wheatley.
The band of the First Life Guards was in attendance
during dinner, and performed the following pieces:—
Marck—Zulchner
Potpourri, "Linda di Chamouni,"—Donize tti
Walser—Carolus—Pleyer
Selection from the Ballet of " Alma"—Costa
Polka, Alm acks—Labi t zky
Cori—La Carita--Rossini
Cavatina—Lombardi—Verdi.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager attended Divine
service yesterday, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Goddard,
Sub-dean of Lincoln, who took his text from the Acts,
chap. 1, verse 9. The prayers were read by the Rev.
J. V. Povah, the lessons by the Rev. T. Helmore, and
the Communion service by the Rev. Dr. Sleath. The
anthem was, "Ascribe unto the Lord" (Travers).—Mr.
Turle presided at the organ.
The Queen Dowager was attended by the Marchioness
of Ormonde and Earl Howe. Among the nobility pre-
sent were the Duke of Beaufort, the Marquises of Win-
chester, Salisbury, Northampton, and Ormonde; Ladies
De La Warr, 'Wilton, St. Germans, Somerset, and Pal-
merston ' - Lords Bessborough, Cawdor, St. Germans,
Zetland, Cantalupe, and Palmerston.
The Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Rutland, Lord
G. Paulet, and Sir F. Trench, attended the early service
yesterday in the Chapel Royal St. James's. The prayers
were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley,•and the sermon was
preached by the Rev. Dr. Gockfard.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager visited her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent on Saturday, at Clarence
House, St. James's. Her Majesty also visited her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester
House.

The Duke of Cambridge visited the Queen Dowager
on Saturday ; and the Duchess of Gloucester visited
her Majesty yesterday, at Marlborough House.
The Duchess of Kent left town on Saturday morning,
for her residence, Frogrnore House, Windsor. Her
Royal Highness returned to Clarence House, St. James's,
in the afternoon.

The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine service yes-
terday morning, in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley-
street. Baron Knesebeck was in waiting on his Royal
Highness.
Their Royal Highnesses the Dnke and Duchess of
Cambridge honoured the Italian Opera with their pre-
sence on Saturday evening.
A deputation from the Scotch Banks had an inter-
view with Sir Robert Peel and the Chancellor of the
Exchequer on Saturday. The Ministers were accom-
panied by the Lord Advocate of Scotland,
Mr. Divett, M.P., had an interview with Mr. Secre-
tary Gladstone on Saturday at the Colonial. office.
The Chairman of the Excise had an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday. The
Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief had also
an interview with the Right Honourable Gentleman.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England held a
Committee Meeting on Saturday. There were present
the Bishops of Winchester, Hereford, Ripon, and Wor-
cester, the Earl of Devon, the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse,
and the Right Hon. Sir George Grey.
Mr. Hume, M.P., had an interview with Mr. Secretary
Gladstone on Saturday. Mr. Hampton had also an in-
terview with the Right Hon. Gentleman.
Sir Robert and Lady Peel had a dinner party on
,Saturday, at their residence in Whitehall-gardens.
Lady Peel had afterwards an evening party.
Dispatches were sent off on Saturday evening from the
Colonial-office for the Governor of the Mauritius.

NEWS FOR THE AMERICANS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—The late accounts from America give us the pleasing
prospect of a speedy settlement of all differences with the
United States on fair and honourable terms. This is devoutly

to be wished by every person who wishes well to both cowl=
tries; but it will still be prudent for us to be prepared for a
different result, in the event of the faction who, now rule the
destinies of America being resolved on war, and exposing
their own country and ours to all its calamities.
I trust I shall be able to show that in this case we possess
the means of meeting them with an overwhelming force, and
that we far surpass them in power and resources, and this
from a quarter from which they never expected to be
assailed.

As by our treaty of peace with the Seikhs we obliged them
to disband their army and give up all their guns that were
opened against us, and as a great proportion of their army
have brothers and relations in our Bengal army, we have
now an excellent opportunity of taking a large number of
them into our service and of having them disciplined and
commanded by British officers, on the express condition of
their agreeing to proceed along with our Sepoys to North
America, should the Government require their services in
that quarter.

The pay of these troops is moderate and they are easily
fed, and they are proverbially brave, disciplined by French
officers, and will attack their opponents hand to hand. Their
artillery is also of the first order, and their gunners excellent
marksmen, and in our late battles stood defending their
guns until bayoneted by our troops.
A force of 20,000 men of these troops, with an equal force
of Sepoys, and a proportionate number of British troops,
would be sufficiently powerful to retain possession of the
south-eastern slave states of America, until such time as the
British authorities should proclaim liberty to the slaves in
those states ; binding them strictly, on granting them their
liberty, to remain as `servants for five years, on fair and
equitable wages, with such of their former masters as should
remain peaceably on their estates after the country had been
taken military possession of by our army, and guaranteeing
to the negroes the full liberty of serving in the British army
as soldiers, to be raised for service in America and the West

Indies during this period, if they should prefer it, to serving
heir former masters.

These corps could be organised and commanded by officers
from the half-pay list of the British army, and might con-
sist of a major-commandant, a second in command, and five
lieutenants and five ensigns for the ten battalion companies.
The filling up the superior ranks would give a fine opening
for promoting and placing upon full pay meritorious officers,
who are now wearing out their lives in listless inactivity, and
the forming of the junior ranks of lieutenants and ensigns
would give a noble opportunity to the Commander-in-Chief
of promoting deserving sergeants to the rank of commissioned
officers, who, when called upon service, would, it may con-
fidently be expected, prove themselves worthy of the new
rank conferred on them. This promotion of so many ser-
geants would also prove highly beneficial to the service
generally, and would induce numbers of men of the very best
description to enter into our battalions; and the emancipated
slaves themselves would prove a much more formidable
force than might at first be imagined, as they would see the
necessity of acting with determined resolution as soldiers
under their new masters, well knowing the fate that would
await them if again brought under the American yoke.
At the same time that we were granting liberty to the
slave we could form a treaty with the yet free State
to
Mexico, by which we would engage to ilritishsends officers
theirtohrgemanaisgeainstt
troops, who
Americans,
makewh
oe,xbcyellent
fraud soldiers, ers,and lead
circumven-
tion, have deprived them of Texas and are making continual
encroachments upon their territory. And along with this
we could send a force of Europeans and Sepoys from India,
who would chase the American squatters from the Oregon
and place it entirely under British rule ; and our forces in
rCiatannadfaronctoiuelrd makattacke
ataqudaermteornswtrhaitlsiotn,thaend wholesea co
the Ame-
rican eo-f
the Atlantic would be placed under a strict blockade, which
would prevent all commercial intercourse between the United
States and other nations, while the southern states, under
British protection, would have free intercourse with every
part of the world.
These are the consequences which the Americans would
quickly feel if they should plunge into a war with Great
Britain. Without commerce, and unable to raise a dollar
on credit in Europe on account of their having forfeited all
claim to character by their having repudiated their own
bonds, they would be unable under the heaviest taxations to
pay one-half of their national expenditure, and with a daily
increasing debt they would be under the necessity of resort-
ing to a paper currency, which would be immediately depre-
ciated within their own territories and of no value whatever
beyond it.
I observe that the question of peace or war is left by the
American Government to the discretion of Mr. Polk. When
settling this momentous question which will decide the
destiny of millions of the human race, it is to be hoped that he
will seriously consider the heavy responsibility attached to'
his conduct before he publishes his ultimatum. If it be for
peace the two Governments, of a kindred race, might easily
now conclude a treaty of amity which would ensure to each
country the advantages of a free and unrestricted commerce
on the principle of perfect reciprocity. As be has deter-
mined on war, I will take the liberty of telling him that his
decision may shake the institutions of his country to their
foundation. A " SPAHI SIRDAR."

DissEcTioN IN THE EAST.—The Grand Seignior has
just promulgated an order that the bodies of female slaves who die in
the markets shall be given up by the owners to the students in medi-
cine for dissection.
JOSEPH MesoN.—The following letter has been re-
ceived from Lord Morpeth, by Mr. Isaac Wood, brother-in-
law to Joseph Mason, who has lately returned from Norfolk
Island, to which place he had been unjustly transported :
" London, May 16th, 1846.
" Sir,—Sir James Graham informs me that he cannot
direct any commission to be instituted in the matter com-
plained of with respect to the case of Joseph Mason. The
complaint should more properly be addressed to the visiting
justices of York Castle; but now that Mason has been re-
turned to his home with his character completely cleared and
acknowledged, I cannot advise any proceedings which now
might bear the appearance of a vindictive character.
" Sir James, at the same time, authorised me to state that
he will confer a gratuity of twenty-five pounds upon Mason,
as a small token of the unfortunate misapprehension under
which he suffered. I cannot help thinking that Mason
would do well to avail himself of Mr. Hudson's offer.
" Your humble servant,
" Mr. Isaac Wood." " MORPETH.
We understand that Mason is now employed at the York
Railway station, a situation having been provided for him
there, through the kindness of G. Hudson, E
sq., M.P.—
Leeds Mercury.

FINANCIAL POSITION AND LIA-
BILITIES OF THE GREAT WESTERN RAIL-
WAY COMPANY.

(From Herapath's Journal.)
The discussion on the gauge question, and the present:ear..
liamentary contest between the Great Western Company and
the South Western, have brought the former so prominently'
before the public as to cause any information respecting it to
be of more than ordinary interest.
So numerous and extensive are the engagements of the
Great Western Company, that it has long been a source of
anxiety to know what are their actual position and Rabin..
ties. It has been said, they are so multifarious that it is
doubtful whether any one member of the Company—director,
shareholder, or officer--could state them, if called on to-co ao.
Certain it is, that none of our usual portfolios of railway in-.
formation are competent to furnish all the cases of their put-.
chases, leases, and amalgamations, made and proposed.
The defect-of this information occasioned a gentleman to
undertake the very laborious and difficult task of collecting
the facts connected with the Great Western engagements.
Whether he has embraced all the schemes taken and pro-
pdsed to be taken under the wing of the Great Western, or
whether there may be any trifling oversights, it is next to
impossible, in such a mass of projects, to decide. If, how-
ever, there should be a few slips, there is scope enough for
them in this mountain range of projects.
In this Andrean, or rather Himalayan group of under-
takings, the Great Western Railway, which was originally
designed to be simply a railway to Bristol of 11814 miles
long, and 2% millions capital, has swelled its own capita/
proper to above 94 millions (including two. branches), of
which 84 have actually been spent. Its effected and pro-
posed amalgamations exceed 11 millions more, and it has
under lease above 61,4 millions, which, with different matters,
make a grand total of 43 millions sterling!
If we regard the mileage, it stands thus :—The 118W'
miles of original line have got annexed to them 170% miles
by amalgamation, and 295% miles by lease, to which it ist
proposed to add 329 miles more by amalgamation,andanoMth
! r
686 N miles by lease, making in all 1,600 miles of railway
or nearly as much as all the railways at this time in opera.. •
tion in the United Kingdom.
The following is the abstract :

Capital and Shares. Lena.
Milos.
Great Western proper, including Mil lion&
half, &c., shares
Amalgamations
Proposed ditto 834 329
Leased
Proposed * iOl)e—le..a.s.e—ci :::: :::
.._

Total ............... 43 Miles
Few can look on this enormous
su rp, we should think,
without wonder and astonishment;
and 'strong indeed must
be the nerves of that shareholder who can contemplate it
without shuddering. It is not a question whether our con.
respondent's figures are right to a million or two, or to half
a-dozen millions, nor to half-a-dozen hundred miles, for the
liabilities are of that vast extent, and the number of mike'
so great, as to make a sum equal to the entire cost of suck
a line as the London and Birmingham, or the much-abused
London and York, and a distance from Liverpool to Load=
and then to Edinburgh, an insignificant fraction—a mere
drop in the huge bucket of Great Western speculation and
risk. Heaven forbid that we should do or say ought te
damage the true interests of the Great Western Railway;
but can any one look on this mighty mass of liability with-
out being appalled at its magnitude? We will venture to
pledge our word that there is not one in the Company---cer-
tainly none of the shareholders—aware of the extent of
bilities to which his property stands pledged and is sought tis
be further pledged.
The original capital of the Great Western Company bas
been swelled under their engineer, with the addition of tw•
branches of 11% millions, from 214 to 914 millions, which has/
materially reduced their legitimate dividends far below the
expected amount, and to less than one-fourth of what they
would fairly have been. So great are the liabilities and en.
gagements, that if trade received a check we are unable
to understand how and where the Great Western
could find funds to meet the demands on them for rent, in..
terest, &c., &c., without calling on their shareholders for
contributions. Some of the lines, it is morally certain, neveg
can pay, and the consequence will be a constant drain on
the parent line. Very kindly to the Great Western the Par.
liament last week threw the wet blanket over five of the
projects, and it would be fortunate indeed if most of the rest
could share the same fate.
In this mass of engagements it should not be overlooked
that, of the 81 millicns expended, only 4 are actually paid
up; the remaining 4 millions are 2 millions in debentures,
and lin loan notes. So that the actual paid-up capital to
meet and bear the brunt of the engagements, and proposed
engagements, of nearly 43 millions, are really only 4i
lions, or not a tenth of the amount. Some of the debenture,
also bear an interest of 5 per cent.
The summary that we have given by no means shows the
probable state of affairs. Most of the lines proposed to be
leased and amalgamated are not yet made, but are to be
made under the Great Western engineer, the same gentleman
who estimated the Great Western at 2i millions, and has
already contrived to spend upwards of seven or eight. Now
we believe, there are at least 25 millions of these proposed
liabilities not yet begun. Supposing, therefore, instead oft
nearly quadrupling the estimates, he is fortunate enough this
time only to about double them, the Great Westernliabilitise
will then amount to 70 millions!
We have long complained of the very great and periloug
engagements of the Great Western Company; but, we can—
didly confess, until the facts were brought before us in detail,
we never dreamt of their fearful extent. We did not ima-
gine that at the utmost they exceeded a half of the amount
they reach. We had, indeed, heard talk of near 30 millions,
but the probability that the directors and shareholders Should.
have committed themselves to this extent, appeared to us to
be so small, that we regarded it rather as a wild guess thail,
an approximation to facts. We looked upon it to be some.
thing like Mr. Brunel's bridge over the Severn—a creation
of the imagination never to be clothed with reality ; or like
his South-Devon Atmospheric Railway, a thing to excite our
wonder by the greatness of its absurdity.
It is but an act of justice to say, that we strongly, doubt
whether any of the managers of the Great Western have
been aware of the monstrous large liabilities they have beets
incurring. Far too much engaged to compute the "runt
tottle of the whole," as Mr. Joseph Hume would call it, they
have gone on step by step, adding item to item, without once
looking back on the insufficiency of the fulcrum to bear so
mighty a load. Like many men in their worldly affairs, the,
have been dealing in those dangerous little items, called' " Itat
buts," without counting their number! or regarding their tic.
cumulated weight; and, we have no doubt, when we now
call their attention to the fact, they will be as much surprised
at the amount as we were when it was laid before us.
In our next, we shall give the details of the foregoing ab-ii
street, with probably a few more observations.

DEATH AT THE LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTEIt
RAILWAY STATION.—On Thursday evening, a little before nine
o'clock, a man, who was sitting on a form in the second-class waiting.
room of the Victoria Railway station, Hunt's Bank, was found dead;
and a surgeon, having been promptly called thither, was unable to
restore animation. The deceased had been sitting there a short time
previously, without exhibiting any signs of indisposition. He wag
apparently about sixty-five years of age, respectably attired In hlaik..
He wore a pia n neckcloth, white stockings, shoes with four buttoti
holes, and a cap upon his head. He had not paid for his fare for any
place. and no money except Is. 3d. was found upon hint.—Manchesteil
Guardian.

THE RIFLE BRIGADE. On Saturday evening the
officers at present connected with the Rifle Brigade, and several whet
formerly held commissions in that distinguished corps, held their an.:
nual festival at Grillon's Hotel, Albemarle-street. Sir Andrew Bar.
nard, G.C.8., Colonel-Commandant, presided. The list of attendants
comprNed-3lajor-General Sir Alexander Cameron, G.C.8., Major.
General Brown, Deputy-Adjutant-General Sir T. Monro, Viscount
Jocelyn, M.P., Colonel Peel, Captains Groves, Walpole, &c. lUpwatclis
of 25 sat down.
FATAL ACCIDENTS ON THE RIVER.—TWO LIVBS
LOST.—On Sunday morning, between six and seven o'clock, a num.
ber of persons hired a boat at Blackfrlars-bridge for the purposesi
proceeding up the river. When they had got nearly facing the new
Houses of Parliament, a young woman named Ellen Morney, WhO
resided in Fnlwood's-rents, Holborn, by a sudden jerk of the boat
was thrown from her seat into the river. A young man name 2
Beagley instantly jumped in after the female, but he was unable to
save her, and up to ten o'clock last night the body had not been re:
covered. The same afternoon as the Matrimony iron steam-boat
was proceeding up the river to Chelsea, with a cargo of passengers,
the foremost mate, a young man, named Charles Pasty, was stand.
ing on the paddle-box, when he was accosted by a friend, and whilst
shaking hands with his acquaintance he overbalanced himse'r and"
fell into the river. The boat was stopped as quickly as possible, ss
waterman put off from the shore, and rowed to the spot,
withoutt, and
sevre_
endeavour was made to save the young man's life but
scoesmse.
dlisttiLisouepbpyostehde swelltht th eesdeseceedasbeyd
tmheusptahssasgveef
been washed caw!
lAasstinoitghhet. previous case the body had not been found at ten o'clock
onrb se
shore rt instant, 'ea in n Halifax
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a Mayoress;
all
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lire nobility,
the Lord Mayor and Lady
have issuediscasrdupspotosedthetbhifloairttyei
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the occasion
or.
ccasion with their presence.
Great Western, we leant that the steam-ship Cambria had met w.fle
an accident on her outward
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it was about half tide ; as the tide rose he,: stein swung round ; and
at high water (about four o'clock on the Sunday morning) she lay
broadside on. On the following day her coal and supplies of watt'
having been discharged, she was got off by the aid of a steamer, an,
on Tuesday morning reached Boston in perfect safety, not having ens..
tallied the s,ightest damage from her mishap. She would leave Bee.i
ton on her return on the 16th instant, and may therefore be exActect
to arrive here about three o'clock on Thursday morning next.
ELOPEMENT.—The clandestine flight of Miss Fanny'
Wilkinson, of Gledhow Mount, near Leeds, with Mr. Joshua Burton,
jun., on Monday night last, has been a subjeet upon which a great
deal has been said and conjectured in Leeds and the neighbourbOod
during the last few days. The young lady is highly respectable.
being the daughter of John Wilkinson, Esq., one of our most exten-
sive and opulent flax spinners. The connexions of Mr. Burton aro
also of a very high standing, his father being a wool merchant doing
a large business, and a bank director. They travelled rapidly it,
York, where they arrived sufficiently in time to proceed northwards
the inhabitantsmarefevonOrl
obieloaoktriaeinthtoe Nmeowrnciasngtie,Ownhitelhieleassvmese tdhaeyliohreky swtaertieonmaebz?ziuetdart
Gretna-green.—Leeds intelligencer.
ADDRESSES FROM SCOTLAND TO IUR. WILLIAM SMrrg
sses
Aberdeen, from
such
and Dundeeof
d towards the agitation of the Irish repealer's, waited oat
Smith O'Brien in the prison of the House of Comm
O'BRIEN. —LGasl
Glasgow,
ggoa,,tu,,rdayttdd
Greenock,re
meEbdi, iFlvdbuiillsrpgio:sfine,
and presented him with addresses of sympathy and unqualified •
approval.
PEDESTRIANISM.—On Saturday Harris, who last week
lost his match, in undertaking to cover the five bridges in one hoaer
made another attempt, and succeeded in accomplishing the feat. His
wager was for 101., and the thus occupied was fifty-nine minutes.
RE-OPENING OF NEW OXFORD-STREET.—This impor-
tent thoroughfare, from Oxford-street to Holborn, near Little Queen.
street, has been re-opened, with the exception of a very small poi,
tion, avoided by going round Hart-street, Bloomsbury.
THE FOREIGN MAILS.—POST-oFFIcE NOTICE.—The
following notice relative to the foreign mails was on Seturday affixed
to the chief office, St. Martin's le-Grand :—The Peninsular Mails_
The next mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz,Gibraltar,
ranean, Egypt, India, and China, will be dispatched from hence OR
the 27th ir.st. The next mails due on the 26th fruit.
hedf Mec'Jter.
the morning of
the 27th Inst. The Overland Indian Mails :—The
the morning of
The Queen will sail from Southampton with the Peninsular milli! on
sn.
next mails for the Mediterranean, Egypt, India, and China, via mar-
eilles, will be dispatched from hence this evening, the 25th tulndia, &c., via Southampton :—The next mails for Gibraltar, Malta,
Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, India, China, &.c., via Southamp-
ton,
tvs-liiiildbi ee s
( dispatchedexceptofromn d u
ras henceanOcin theßermuda),
er morning
mud o,
foreignthe3 d ofc
o ' ,Tune.e
West Indies, &c. :—The next mails for the British Colonies in the,
thoef
in the West IndieS, Mexico, Venezuela, and Madeira, will be dis-
patched from hence on the morning of the 2d of June. The Alloa„
with the mails from the above, due on the 7th of June. Sydney.
New South Wales : -The next mail from Sydney, New South Wales,
will be dispatched from hence on the evening of the 31st inst., and
will be conveyed by the Trafalgar. Madeira, Brazils, and Buenos
Ayres :—The next mails will be dispatched from hence on the t ven-
ing of the 2d of June. From August to July inclusive the p:xket
touches at Pernambuco and Bahia on her outward passage to Rio
Janeiro, and the other six months on her homeward. Her Majesty'!
brig Penguin duo with the above mails on the 29th inst. America:
—The next mails for British North America, Bermuda, and United
States, will be dispatched from hence on the evening of the 3d June.
The Caledonian,to be forwarded with the above mails, due on the 29th inst. Rot-
terdam :—A mail bag will be made up by the 8,,.
tavla on Saturday next, the 30th inst., and every succeeding Saw.
day during the season.
A WOMAN CHOKED BY A PIECE OF BREAD---OIL
Saturday an inquest was held at the William the Fourth, W,aas„,.
worth-road, before Mr. Carter, on the body of Mary Anne Cooke, the,
wife of a sweep, living in Howard-street. A few days previously
the deceased was at tea, when a piece of crust of bread lodged lathe
larynx, and before a surgeon could be procured, the WAS dead, yer•
diet, "Died trona euffocatiell."

LAW INTELLIGEN CE.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, May 23.

TIM QUEEN AT THE PROSECUTION OF THE HON. EAST LNDI.

COMPANY V. CAPTAIN DOUGLAS,

The Court was occupied the entire day up to four o'clock
in hearing the arguments in this case, the facts of which
have already been frequently published.
When the defendant was called up for judgment,
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL applied for a rule for a new trial
upon various grounds, which he stated at great length.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, with whom was Sir Thomas
Wilde, resisted the application, and thus the whole day was
occupied.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
• A youns, man, who appeared upon the list as Mr.
George Dixon, was brought before the Lord Mayor,
charged with having stolen 24 bibles, the property of
' Mr. Ewens, bookseller, of Ave Maria-lane.
A person having called at the shop of Mr. kwens, and
ordered two dozen of bibles and a bill of parcels and re-
ceipt to he sent to the office of Mr. Dixon, in Three
King's-court, Lombard-street, a boy was sent with the
. parcel, and directions not to leave it without the money.
The prisoner was standing at the door of a house in the
court, and he asked the boy whether he came from Mr.
Dixon, to which the boy having said "Yes," " Then,"
said the prisoner, " Mr. Dixon has been waiting here
this half-hour for the books, and ha has just gone down
to Ave Maria -lane to pay for them." The prisoner hav-
ing helped the boy from the weight upon his head,
placed the parcel upon the stones, and the boy went
away, thinking that all was right. Mr. Ewens never
received a farthing of payment for the books.
The LORD MAYOR—Are you quite sure the prisoner
is the man ? Boy—l am.
The prisoner—Oh, I don't mean to deny it all. My
name is Dixon, and I am the person who ordered the
books. It is a regular debt.
The LORD MAYOR—Not exactly. It looks very like
a regular robbery.
The prisoner—l assure you, my lord, I never had any
idea of committing a fraud.
The LORD MAYOR—I fancy you will find that this is
a felony.
The prisoner—l admit I bought the books, and I have
the bill of parcels at home.
The LORD MAYOR—And where are the books ? The
prisoner—The books! why they can be got at; they are
in me possession. I consider that I have bought them.
The LORD MAYOR—I do not consider so at all.
The prisoner—I, at least a friend of mine, ordered
them for me, for I am in the book line occasionally.
• The LORD MAYOR—Why did you not tell the boy that
you were Mr. Dixon? Prisoner—Why I thought my
friend might have said that he was Mr. Dixon, and
_ thought it the most prudent course not to say my name.
(Laughter.) I had no notion of doing anything wrong.
. I have got the bill of parcels to show that it is a regular
business transaction.
The LORD MAvort—That don't favour you, my good
fel'ow, clever as you are. The prisoner—l ran after the
- boy when he left the books, but I could not catch him.
The LORD MAY on--I shall remand you for some days.
I dare say the officer who gave us a history of the swind-
lers it to whose hands the poor girl who appeared before
Alderman Gibbs fell, knows something about you, and
that in a few days we shall have more complaints of this
kind to investigate. Prisoner--I can bring plenty of
respectable persons here to speak of my character.
The LORD MAYOR—I Sh)tild like to see your friend
• who glee the order for you at Mr. Ewcns's. The pri-
sem r —I do not like to say anything to hurt his feelings,
but if he consents I have no objection.
The prisoner was remended.
GUILDHALL.
. Joseph Cart,?r, a journeyman shoemaker, lodging in
Moorfields, was brought up for a second examination, on
the elarsz,! of having murdered John Oddy, a man
• working at the same trade, on Tuesday last.
M. Remnant, the house-surgeon at Bartholomew's
Hospital, was the first witness, who deposed that the
unfortunate man was brought to the hospital at twelve
o'clock on Tuesday night, with two wounds in the abdo-
- men, from which wounds he dyed. They might have
been effected by such a knife as that produced.
Thomas Rigby, of No, 4, Reynold's-court, Type-
, street, Moorfields, deposed, that he lodged with the
prisoner, who came home on Tuesday night, and after
rummaging his drawer he took out a knife, and witness
- asked him what he was going to do ; when he replied
that it was no business of witness's, and he then went
oat as he was getting up to shut him in. The knife
now produced is what is called a forepart knife.
James Shaw, a shoemaker, said he was drinking with
the deceased, when a chaffing arose between him and
the prisoner, when, after a time, the prisoner stamped
his foot, and said, as he went out, "I will fetch some-
thing that will do for him," and ran off in the direction
of his lodging. He returned in a few minutes, and put-
ting his head into the room, beckoned Oddy out of the
• room, and when he went the prisoner immediately struck
him with a knife in the abdomen.
T. Doby Court was present when the unfortunate
affair occurred, and heard the deceased say he would
not allow the prisoner to drink out of his pot, and called
him a sponging fellow, and said he must work for his
living as he did. This witness furthermore corroborated
the -last witness's testimony.
Mr. Alderman Ginus asked the prisoner if he was
aware that Oddy was dead, when he replied he was not,
and that he was sorry for it. He appeared fully sensible
of the awful position he was placed in.
Daniel Blay, a city policeman, was on duty, and heard
the prisoner say, with an oath, as he passed him on his
way for his knife, " I'll do for you."
The prisoner was then committed to Newgate for trial.
BOW-STREET.
•
RAILWAY ROBBERIES.—John Farr and Mary Anne
• Newland, who have been examined at other offices for
robbing the Gravesend post-office bags, and also with
several railway robberies, were brought before Mr. Jar-
. dine, and charged with stealing a deal box from the
. South Eastern Railway in October last, containing the
property of Mr. Joseph Woodhead.
Mrs. Woodhead identified the property which was
found at the prisoner's lodgiegs.
Mr. Ballantine, who appeared for the prosecution,
said there was property to a large extent found at the
female prisoner's house, which, be was assured, was the
proceeds of other robberies Two robberies had been
effected on the Birmingham Railway, and, as the corn-
' pany did not feel inclined to prosecute. he wished to call
forward the parties who had been robbed so as to bring
home the guilt to the prisoners.
This was objected to by Mr. Robinson, who appeared
fo: the prisoners, bat Mr. Jardine thought such evi-
dence ought to be produced ; when Mr. W. Evans, an
- engineer residing in Clayland-row, Kennington, stated
that he was going down by the mail train on Good Fri-
day, from Euston-square. He had a leather case (pro-
duced), containing engineering implements, in his pos-
session at the time. Ile placed the case on a seat in the
carriage, and went to see his portmanteau Fleet d in the
luggage van. On his return to the carria.,,e he found
that his leather case had been stolen.
Mr. Ballantine then applied fel- a remand, as he could
net produce further evidence to-day, but there were nu-
merous other charges he could bring forward at a future
time.

Mr. JARDINE ordered them to be brought up again on
Tuesday next.

SOUTHWARK.
Cornelius O'Donoghue, a schoolmaster, residing in
Union-street, Borough-road, (late a constable of the
metropolitan police), appeared upon a summons granted
on the complaint of William Russell, on behalf of his
in‘ltut son, about six years of age, for cruelly and un-
murcifully beating him.
The child was too young to hive the oath adminis-
tered. Another older lad was too ignorant to be sworn,
not knowing the nature of an oath, nor being able to
repeat the Lord's Prayer. The father of the child
having been sworn, stated that on the morning of the
14th, when the boy went to school he was free from all
marks of violence, but on his return he saw that the
child's face was bruised and much swelled ; and a sur-
geon by whom he was examined said his jaw was in-
jured. The child complained of being badly hurt ; and
on further examination severe bruises were discovered,
extending from his shoulders down his back. Witness
went to the defendant, who said the boy was very mis
ebi rus and obstinate, but added that he was sorry he
had
been so severe.
After being called on for his
defence,
saict he considered thato he only necessary cor-
poreal punishment for the child's good, and he believed
a schoolmaster hal those powers inveosted in him by
law. He then produced a shfiLlfibicatmeld3othcane, as being
the instrument with which
Roempaunnhamhent,
and he appealed to two gentlemen,
olic
elsegymen, as to his general propriety of conddct.
The magistrate expressed his opinion very strongly
upon the gross impropriety of resorting to such violent
means of pnnishing a child of such tender age, and the
Want of temper exhibited by the defendant on the occa-
sion. He (the magistrate) would recommend the de-
fenlant in future to use the birch rod, instead of the
cane, and required him to find two swedes for his
good behaviour for six montl2,3.—The two clergymen
referred to, entered into the sureties, and defendant was
discharged.

TAMES.
Mr. Bill, the gentlemanH
who was defrauded by Joseph
Ady of five shillings' worth of stamps, with the expec-
tation of " nearing something to his advantage," waited
upon the magistrate with a communication from Sir
Peter Laurie respecting this man's practices ; and after
staling that ho should be able to prove his case against
Ady, who was now in custody, left the magistrate a
copy of a printed circular, forwarded from the Mansion-
house. cautioning persons from being taken in and
cheated by letters addressed to them by Ady, and from
payirg any attention to the references as to character
give.' by him. It is understood that Joseph Ady will have
to answer several charges upon his next examination.

llitr-rAny OCT RAG E. —On Wednesday morning, about
two o clo,qc, several privates of the Oth Regiment of Foot,
istatioueli at Bradford barracks, being under the influence of
liquor, went to a house ia Wapping, and demanded admit-
tance, and on being refused, broke oven the door, under the
t!iiit it wai A urothel. The occupier of the house re-
sisted t!itir taitrage :us entrance with a poker, upon which he
was a,seiled and. well beaten with sticks. The police were
sen L for, when tne offenders, with the excepti.iu of two, made
their escape. These were brought before the magistrates on
Wednesday. Their. names are Joseph Rule and William
Close. They were fined Si. each for the outrage, and sen-
tenced to the tread -mill for two months each in default of
payment—Leeds Mercury.
CONVERSIONS.—Oa Tuesday, May the sth, at Rome,
on the Festival of St. Catherine, the Right Rev. Lord Cardinal Acton
received into the bosom of our Holy Mother the Catholic Church, the
Rev. George Dudley Ryder, his wife, Mrs. Ryder, his sister, miss
Sophia Ryder, and his three eldest children. The Rev. G. Ryder is
the second son of the late Lord Bishop of -Lichfield and Coventry,
nephew of the Earl of Harrowby, and first cousin of Ambrose Lisle
Phillips, Esq., of Grace Dieu Manor. Mrs. George Ryder is the
sister-In-Im, of the Lord Bishop of Oxford, Dr. Wilberforce. Mr.
Ryder held preferment in the diocese of Winchester, being rector of
Easton, near that city.—Beacon.

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Dividend Amount '
Name of Company. er of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
- --- --- ---
X s. d. X s. d.
Australasia .... -- .• 6/. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 27 ,
BritshNorth American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 4434
Commercial of London 51. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 22,9
`.2olonial.. ........... 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 0
27
10
Londn and Westminstr 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0
London Joint-Stock .• • 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 13;74
Metropolitan - - 25 0 0 710 0
Provincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 4914
Ditto, New......... 8/. per cent. 10 0
Nat. Provincial
IrelandaiofEn.g.. Si. perper cent.cent.
10050 0 0 10 0 0 19,,,
NOO 2035
00 0
303.4
0 18
_ Ditto, New. •••• • • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0
Union Union oeff •ALuosntrdalonia..... ....
561..
ppeerr
cceenntt.. 25.05 00 00 2105
00
00 2126
ZNSURATICE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount 1
Name of CompanY. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
-------
X s. (I. 1 X s. 4.
Albion ••••••• • • • • • • • 31. 105. 500 00,'50 0 0 71
Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0; 11 0 0 19,,,'
Ditto Marine.• ••• • • 6/. per cent, 100 00f 5 0 0 6%
Atlas 138. Cd. pr sh. 50 0 0 j 5 0 0 1634
BureirtiischolCodomm.&Gerecnial.Lif.;
Si. 7. perpe r scheanrte. ,12(lo 05 25 100 05 67 • 'Ai
County -- - ........ 3l• 1100 0 0 1 10 0 0
Crown .............. 10s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 -
Eagle .
Eng. & Scot. Law
European Life ...• .. 534 per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20
Freemasons' ......... 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0
61. per cent. ' Stock. - 138
Guardian ...... .• -• • 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 48
Imperial Fire ........ 6/. and bonus 500 0 0 50 0 0 240
Imperial Life -•. .. -12 s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 161,4
Indemnity Marine.. .• 11. sh. & be. 100 0 0 513 1 29
Law Life..........., I/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1 52
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 634
London Fire •••• • • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 1434
London Ship •.•.• • • • 10s. 25 0 0112 10 0 1434
Marine .. ........... 5/. per cent. 100 0 0I 15 0 0 10%
Med. Invlld&Gen.Life 4341. per ct. 50 0 0 1 2 0 0 ' 3
National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0012 10 0 234
National Life......... 81. per cent. 100 0 0 , 5 0 0 934
Palladium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 1 2 0 0 V. Os.
Phoenix .. .. .. ..... - - 205
Protector Life....
Provident Life •••• • • • • N. 55. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23
Rock Life.. •.••• • • • • • 45. 5 0 0 010 0 4%
Royal Exchange - 180'
Sun Fire. - - 210
Ditto Life • • • • . •• 1/. 6a. - - 49
Universal Life • •
WATER-WORKS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
X s, d.
East London.... - - 216
Grand Junction - 90
Kent 2/. 10s. 100 00 I - 70
Vauxhall - 57
West Middlesex .. • - 130

DOCKS.

Name of Company.

Dividend Amount
per of
Annum. Share.

Paid.

1 ,
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Commercial • - 78
East and West India , 61. pr cent. Stock. - 1413
East Country - 21
L >ndon . . 5/. pr cent. : Stock. - 11414
St. Katharine .... •• • • 5 per cent. I Stock. - 104
Southampton ••••• • • • ' 41. per cent. 50 0 0' I 5O 0 0 , 30
LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. X s. d
Bank of Scotland - 100 0 0 164
Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 157
British Linen Company 81. per cent. - 100 0 0 224
Commercial Bank •• • • 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 161
National Bank 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 15
Union Bank of Scotland 7361. pr cent. - 50 0 0 92
Western Bank .. ... •• • 151. per cent. - 50 0 0 82
North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 5 0 0 714
Clydesdale Bank 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 133 k
Eastern Bank.... - 10 0 0 11
Caledonian Bank ...• 731. pr cent. - 2 10 0 414
Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 6/. per cert. I - 5 0 0 • 71. ss.
City of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent. - 10 0 0 1314
Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 245. 6d
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14%
Incur. Co. of Scetlnd• • Si. per cent. 110 0 0 All paid. 934
North British Incur VA 1. pr cent. '2OO 0 0 10 0 0 28
Caledonian Fire Incur lO/. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 22
Ediniturgh Life Insur 6l. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 1836
Edin. & (Haag. Railway 1/.los. per c. 50 0 0 50 0 0 77
Ditto, % Shares •• • • 7s. Gd. p. s. 12 10 0 All pa4d. 18A
Edin., Leith, & Grantn - 20 0 0 20 0 0 16
Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 76
Glasgw&Greenck Rail. 2/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 17
Glsgw & Garnkirk Rail. 5/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 4034
Dundee&Arbroth Rail. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 39
Standard LifeAssarnce.lsl. per cent. 150 0 0 1 2 10 0 9
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Names of . 'Dividend, ,„,, Names of ~..)
, per Price.
Companies. 2, 1 per
.1- ..". Companies.
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Ashtn & Olelh 97:5/.55. p e 70 Honmouthsh 100 81. 160 ,
Ashby-d-la-Z 113 4/. 70 llntgomrysli 100 61. 98
Barnsley.. • • 160 121. 180 'Macclesfield. 100 - 38
Basingstoke.. 100 - - Neath ..• • • . 100 171. 340
Brknk&Abrg 150 51. 85 Nottingham. 150 121. -
Cromford.... 100 141. 150 Peak Forest. 78 31. 68
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Dudley lOO 41. - Regent's .... 33 11. ss. 2216
Derby .. -- - • ilOO 61. 73 Rochdale .... 85 41. 77
Ellsmre&Chsl33l 41. 55 Shropshire . • 125 81. -
Erewash •• . ! 1001 321. 300 Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. 130
Forth & Clyd:1001 41. - Do.Lk Fd St 12 61. p. c. 11
GrandJunctn 100' 71. 9534 Stffrd &Wore 140 28/. 290
Grand Union 100; IL 10s. - Shrewsbury.. ;125 15/. 230
Glamorgnsh. 172, 13%1. ' 210 Stourbridge..'l4s 20/. 315
Glstr & Brkly, 100 - I - Strtfrd on Ar 7$ U. 10s. -
Grantham • .
,150, 12/. ' 100 Severn and} 1
26 11. 85. 32
Huddersfield. 57' - - W,ye Rail.
Kennt & Avn' 39 7s. 6d. 10 Tmt &MI 50 30!. -
Lancaster ... 47 1/. 10s. - sey, 34 sh.
Leeds& Livrp 1001 341. 520 Thams &Med 19 - -
Leicester ..• • ,140, 10/. 105 Worcstr Rci
78 2/. 44
Leicstr &Nth' 83, 41. 60 Birming.
Leughboroghtl42; 70/. 850 Wilts & Brks 67 11. 11