The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-02 00:00:00

THE LATE MRS. FRY.

During the last few weeks several meetings have taken
place at the Mansion House, over which the Lord
Mayor presided, connected with the memory of the late
Mrs. Fry.
By a resolution, proposed by Lord
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work of reforming the discipline of prisons, would assist
in carry ing into execution one of the cherished designs
of her life—the establishment of a temporary refuge, in
which female prisoners, anxious to reform their lives,
might, upon
their discharge, obtain food and shelter for
a few days or weeks, until, under the discreet advice and
assistance of the Committee of Ladies, who during Mrs.
Fry's life had been her associates, these unfortunate
persons might be placed in asylums or penitentiaries, or
be passed to their parishes, or, in the case of young and
petty transgressions, might be resUred to their parents
or friends, when, after due probation, they gave evidence
of repentance and amendment of life.

The Hoc. W. COWPER, M.P., moved, and Lord HENRY
CHOLKONDELEY seconded a resolution, appointing a
committee of noblemen and gentlemen to carry the design
into execution.

The committee, on Thursday last, was numerously
attended, when several chaplains of the metropolitan
prisons, and also several members of the Society of
Friends present at their annual meeting, delivered their
sentiments in approbation of the measure ; and some
large subscriptions were announced. His Excellency
the Chevalier Bunsen informed the meeting that he had
secured the coininands of his Majesty the King of
Prussia to tlstify his regard to the memory of the de-
ceased, and his approbation of the objects of the insti-
tution,
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SLAVERY IN CHINA.
(From the New York Journal of Commerce.)
CANTON, JAN. 1846.—0 f all the men on the lace of
the globe (and I have sojourned among several nations
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in the love of money. It is said this people have many
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street; nay, every house of every street, as far as I have
seen, has a niche on the side toward the street, dedicated
to the god who brings riches. And impious would that
man be esteemed who neglected to light a taper and
burn three incense sticks every evening before that ali
adored idol. Even now do my ears ring with the ex-
clamation Of horror which burst from my landlord, some
few nights ago, when on taking possession of the pre •
mises, his incense pot was thrown into the street. That
landlord now, of his own accord, comes elmost every
evening to my study, to join in reading the Bible, and
uniting in prayer to the true God with the disciples.
The prominent position which the subject of slavery
is occupying in the minds of Christians at home, led me
to inquire into its existence in this great provincial city
—Canton. It seems that among the one million of in.
habitants, which it is said this city contains, there are
estimated to be about 100,000 slaves, all of which are
females; that is to say the number of: male bondmen is
not computed to be beyond one hundred. The reason
of this disparity of numbers is the following:—the male
slaves in China are chiefly employed in agricultural pur-
suits, and therefore are not found in cities; whereas the
female slaves are chiefly employed in swelling the harems
of the rich. It is not legal in China to have more than
one wife, though it is legal to have as many concubines
as one can maintain. The former invariably maintains
her superiority over the other inmates of the inner
to her husband for support. The number and beauty of
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these slaves are limited only by the ability of the owner
andales Pnr• voi lleogoeks
to support them. I was in a house the other day the
owner of which has from twelve to fourteen female slaves,
besides his wife. Some of them are very pretty ; and
one of them cost her owner 5,000 dollars. The general
average price of a slave, whether male or female, is from
200 to 500 dollars each. When old and unable to work,
these slaves are made either to act as door-keepers to
the houses of the rich, or, like worn-out horses in the
streets of New York, they are turned out of doors to beg
and die. And as in one case, to in the other, the former
owners are not regarded as deserving censure or notice
for such abandonment.

The supply of slaves to meet the demand is, generally
speaking, from such sources as the following:—A debtor,
hard pushed by his creditor, will sometimes sell his wife
or children, or even himself (having no family), into
slavery to pay his debts. Orphan children left destitute
are often sold into slavery, merely to procure their sup-
port. Parents or guardians will often sell those under
their care, either to get rid of the charge, or to make a
little money. There came a very decent woman to my
house not long since, very anxious to sell me (what she
said was) her own grandchild (two years old) for the
sum of 6or 8 dollars. Very large numbers of slaves
are those who in infancy, or too young to remember,
were kidnapped from their friends. For many make it
a business to procure young children and maintain them
till adult age, either to sell, or make them minister to
the carnal appetites of the people.
Chinese slaves are not to be distinguished in colour of
the skin, in dress, or in any other particular, from free-
men, except that when quite young, female slaves gene-
rally have their braid of hair wound with a string sonic
six or eight inches from the head, while free girls have
the braid tied close to the head. The former, too, ge-
nerally have large feet, while the latter, except the boat-
women and the very lowest order of respectable women,
have the feet cramped in infancy.
Female infanticide in China, about which I have
read so much in American papers or in books on
China, very rarely, if ever, occurs in Canton. Not
only have I never seen a case myself, but I have not
seen an intelligent Chinaman who tells me from his
own personal knowledge of a case of the kind. In-
deed, I suppose infanticide at Canton does not now
exist ; not because the people are any better than
they formerly were—but simply becanse it is not in the
nature of a Chinaman to throw away anything which
can be turned into money, and they all know that a child,
male or female, will bring from ten to thirty dollars, ac-
cording to its health mid beauty.
I have often thought, in connexion with this subject,
what miserable: lives those persons would lead who
should come as missionaries to this country, resolved
that they would neither touch, taste, nor handle, any.
thing that was the pruduct of slavery. Not only does a
very great portion of the tea and silks exported to the
United States come from the hands of slaves, but in like
manner that consumed here, as well as perhaps four-
fifths of the food offered for sale, passes through the
hands of those who are slaves, in the very strongest
sense of the term. For, be it understood, that the chil-
dren to the farthest generations, of a slave, are likewise
slaves, until they are bought or liberated from their
despotic masters.

DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—MOSELEY, WORCES-
TERSHIRE, AIAY 30.—A highway robbery, attended with cir-
cumstances of considerable aggravation, occurred in the im-
mediate neighbourhood of this village last night. Mr.
Briscoe' a gentleman upwards of eighty years of age, resid-
ing at Great-hill Mill, had been spending the day with a
relation, Mr. Kemp, of the Fighting Cocks Inn, Moseley, and
left on his return home between seven and eight o'clock in
the evening. On arriving on Moseley Wake. green, at the
corner of the road leading in the direction of his own house,
and about half a mile distant, lie was suddenly attacked by
two young men, one of whom pulled him npon his back and
rifled one of his pockets of a purse, containing 7s. or Bs., while
the other held a pistol to his head, and, upon pain of death,
demanded his money. Having secured the old gentle-
man's purse, the villains decamped, but in the confusion of
the moment, for it was a mere momentary affair, he was
unable to state the direction they took. Fortunately, it
being broad daylight, the thieves omitted to search more
than one of Mr. Briscoe's pockets, otherwise they would
have met with booty in hard cash to the amount of 40/. and
upwards. On his arrival at home Mr. Briscoe communi-
cated the robbery to his family, and his son, after hearing
the description of the men by whom his father had been as-
sailed, recollected seeing two fellows of like description
passing by the house a short time before. An alarm was
immediately given, and men sent of in all directions in
pursuit of the robbers, and in the course of an hour and
a half they were apprehended at Golden Hillock, about
two miles and a half from Birmingham. They gave their
names as Garrett and Bellingham, and their residence
Birmingham. They were found in possession of 7s. B',4d.
in money, nine skeleton keys, and a crowbar, but no
pistol. Immediately the prisoners were shown to Mr.
Briscoe, he identified them as the men by whom he was
attacked and robbed, and whom he had seen more than once
during the day at the Fighting Cocks, Moseley. They were
delivered over to the county police, and for the night con-
veyed to the station at King's-heath. Subsequent evidence
proved the correctness of Mr. Briscoe's statement. The pri-
soners, after the old gentleman left the inn, were seen by Mr.
Bird, the postmaster of the village, to follow hint in the di-
rection of Wake-green, and this morning the police-officers,
Superintendent Potter, and Constable Clewer, found near the
spot where the robbery was said to have been committed, a
pistol loaded with powder, and two pebble stones. Both
Bellingham and Garratt admitted that they had been at the
Fighting Cocks Inn; and the servant-man in waiting states
that they more than once inquired who Mr. Briscoe was, and
where he lived. The prisoners were this day taken before
Mr. Lawrence at the Public-office, Birmingham, and fully
committed to take their trial at the ensuing Worcester
Assizes. The general belief is, that their original intention
was the plunder of the Fighting Cocks Inn. -

GALVANO-PLASTIC PROCESS. The galvano•plastic
process was applied on a large scale a short time ago at the
establishment of Baron de Harkewitz, at Berlin. The colos-
sal plaster head of Juno, by Ludovisi, and also the plaster
bust by the sculptor Rauch, of Berlin, were both covered
with bronze. The frontal region of the head has a diameter
of more than 6 feet, and a circumference of nearly 18 feet.
The operation, which was executed in the presence of the
King, succeeded so well that no finishing off was necessary.
His Ma,jesty was so much gratified that he immediatelygave
orders for bronzing the colossal statue of Christ, by Thor
waldsen, and the model in wood of the gates destined for the
royal palace of Wittemberg, on which are cut in relief the
texts of the ninety-live Theses of Luther. The bronze used
in the establihment of Baron de liarkewitz presents the
most varied and beautiful shades, and resists all the effects of
the weather.
Foun BULLOCKS KILLED ON THE RAILWAY.—At an
early hour on Monday morning last four fine bullocks, the
property of Mr. Robert French, of Bull's Lodge, Boreham,
which had strayed upon the line, were killed from being run
over by a train of empty cattle trucks proceeding .o Col-
chester. The poor animals were completely cut to pieces, so
that though the authorities of the Company (who, we under-
stand, without hesitation agreed to sustain the loss), gave
the porters at Chelmsford station permission to take away
any parts remaining for their own use, they were hardly
repaid for the journey, the whole of the animals being lite
rally cut to piecemeal. It'is a providential circumstance that
the engine was not thrown off the metals by the obstruction ;
but the break carriage was jerked off the rails and proceeded
for a considerable distance ploughing up the line before the
train could be stopped. The guard, however, maintained his
seat, and by
.means of the traversing jerks and levers carried
upon the a, gine the carriage was again got upon the rails,
after a delay of about two hours, and the train arrived at
Colchester without further accident.—Essex Standard.
ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS FOR IRELAND.—Yes-
terday the annual report of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners
for Ireland, for the year ending the Ist of August last, was
printed. The Commissioners had within the year augmented
41 benefices to 1001. a year each, in the same manner as they
are now empowered to apply the moneys bequeathed by the
late Primate Boulter. The benefices augmented in the year
were in the dioceses of Armagh. Dublin, Meath,
Clogher, Kilmore, Elphin, Connor, Down, Cork, Limerick,
Killaloe, Tuam, Achonrv, Ferns, and Lismore. The aug
mentation salaries paid to the clergy from and out ef
Pri-
mate Boulter's fund amounted, in the year, to 4,39 C/.
lo
s. under the powers vested iu the Commissioners by the,
provisions of the Church Temporalities Act, the sum of
6,409/. 15s. 4d. has been, paid in the way of stipends to the
,
city of Dublin. and to other curates, and
schoolmasters. After provid charge ing foralso_ diocesan
tes ,
churchth
sit.ners have within the year appropriated
the sum of 24,0001, of which 18,4694 16s. was allocated to
repairs, and 5,5301. 4s. to rebuildings, aided by private
subscriptions to the amount of 2,39/. Os. 7d. The Commis-
sloners have since the last report dispensed with the ser-
vices of a number of local agents, and have established an
agency office. The following passage occurs in the report
on " Perpetuity Purchases e—" In relation to the perpe-
tuity purchases, 44 applications have been received within
the year, of which four were from sub-tenants, and the re
inainder from immediate tenants. The sales of perpetuities
have amounted to 11,146/. 17s. 6d., arising principally from
applications received in preceding years, of which sum
10,821/. 18s. 2d. has been hedged in the Bank of Ireland to
the credit of the Perpetuity Put chase,Fund, and the residue,
324/. 193. 4d., has been secured by mortgage; and in dis-
charge of the mortgages previously granted, the sum of
5,801/. Os. 3a. has also been received. The moneys arising
from' this source of reverue have been from time to time in-
vested in the Government securities, pursuant to the pro-
visions of the statute in this respect." By an account of the
receipts and disbursements, it appears that 131,726/.195. bid.
was received, which was expended in various ways, includ-
ing the purchase of considerable funded property, and a
somewhat large balance in hand. The balance on the pre-
vious year was 15,622/. Bs. 4id., and in the present account
6,4781. 15s. Sid. An account is rendered of Primate Boni-
teea and Primate Et binsnn'a Funds.

LOWELL -ITS ASPECTS-MANU-
FACTURES - CONDITIONS OF LABOUR -
REFORM.

(From the New York Tribune.)
We spent a few hours in the " City of Spindles" last
week, looking with interest on its thrift, its enterprise,
its busy population. We looked thoughtfully into its
rattling, whirring factories, and anxiously into the faces
of its labourers.

Lowell was never more active, more "growing," or
apparently more prosperous than now. New factories,
new works of all kinds, new dwellings are being con-
structed; and the company, which is now running some
fifty carpet looms, is about to tear all down, and cover
an acre with mills, in which some two hundred lcoms
will weave carpets, with a spinning-mill, dying,-rooms,
and everything complete for making the car-
petings directly from the fleeces. The new ma-
nufacturing city going up a few miles lower
on the Merrimac seems to have abstracted
little of capital, enterprise, or business from the " Man-
chester of America." The repeal of the tariff is re-
garded thane with general incredulity and partial de
fiance. We were shown several descriptions of goods
(heavy checks, brown drills, &c.), which the makers
assured us could not be made in England or any where
else cheaper than they are now made and sold at Lowell,
while some, they were confident, could be sold in Eng-
land at a profit if all tariffs were abolished on both sides.
In carpets the English have greatly the advantage in the
cost of stock (working in a greatproportion of ground
rags, while ours are made entirelyL a unworn wool), but
they are wovenewienhgeatpeear
ginreatoywell than anywhere in
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of Lowell (hard and difficult work)nP rnßrtiher dollar a
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oweltlais 0 cents
per yard against 67 in Leeds for what passes fora, similar
British article, though the British is vastly inferior in
strength and durability.
No tariff that will pay Polk's war expenses can be
low enough to swamp the bulk of the Lowell naanufao-
turers. In fact, they rather seem to doubt the Govern.
ment's ability to get along with as low duties as they
can. Certain descriptions of fabrics, of which the mar-
ket price depends rather on style, fashion, or novelty,
than on actual cost, would suffer from a reduction of
the tariff ; but Lowell could stand this far better than
the younger and feebler manufactures of other sections:
in fact, she would receive an incidental benefit from the
check necessarily given to the extension and diffusion
of manufactures through the country. If any body ima-
gines that the West is to bo benefited at the expense of
the East, or labour achieve a triumph over capital by
reducing the tariff, then that body will find himself mis-
taken in the event.

Visitors to Lowell generally sce but one side of the
picture—the bright or the darker ; we endeavoured to
look fairly on both. With one class, we saw and were
delighted with the general activity, the ready employ-
ment for labour of almost every description, the won-
drous inventions andcombinations of machinery whereby
such stupendous results are produced that ten thousand
workers produce more and better fabrics than one hun-
dred thousand could have done a bare century ago. We
do not believe there is on the face of the earth a com-
munity of thirty thousandpeople who add so much every
year to tho amount and value of articles necessary to
human subsistence and comfort as do those of Lowell.
He who views Lowell in this light only, may well go
away admiring and delighted.
Yet there is another and, as we have intimated, a
darker side of the picture, which is not the less real be-
cause it has usually been grossly exaggerated by those
who have presented it to the public. Ile who tells you
that the working men and women of Lowell are Flaves to
the capitalists—that the men must vote as their em-
ployers direct—that the women are so crowded, over-
worked, badly fed, &c., that they are dying of consump•
tion and other chronic diseases, do grossly vary from the
truth. We believe it is a fact that a majority of the
workmen usually vote against what is supposed to be
the interest and the wish of their employers ; at all
events, we know that they vote as they please, and
that it would be impossible to make them vote otherwise.
Manufacturing labour is not such a heaven that able
bodied, strong-limbed, two-handed men are eager to sell
their souls for the privilege of doing it ; and our manu-
facturing labourers are quite as intelligent and as
independent as any other class of labourers for wages.
He who employs a few men and is constantly with
them, may possibly influence' their votes ; but a
great company, employing its hundreds, can never
even know what sort of ballots its workmen see fit to
deposit. Even though it were to attempt to exert
an undue influence, and go to the length of pro
viding a peculiar ballot, it could eff,ct nothing.
The inside of a vote need not correspond with its exte-
rior ; and the workman generally knew how to get a
living before any company hired him. We believe the
cry of political tyranny raised against the corporations,
by those who justify the national executive in exercising
this very same power over the nation's servants which
they justly stigmatise when exerted by a private com-
pany, is unfounded and unjust. There may have been
instances of undue influence, but not one by corporations
where there are a hundred, openly, notoriously, by the
Federal Government by whose partisans this clamour is
raised.

On another point, we obtained the unanimous testi-
mony of all parties in Lowell that the Corporations have
been unjustly assailed. We have heard it asserted as a
notorious fact by intelligent demagogues here, who have
made it a current belief among tke ignorant here, that
the workmen in factories are paid half in barter, goods,
store-orders, &c. Nothing like this.is true. The workers,
whether male or female, for the Corporations have uni-
formly been paid every two weeks, and paid wholly in
cash—none of your shinplaster trash, borrowed or bought
at a discount of a broker, but par money, such as will pay
rent, a note in bank, or any thing else. Honour to the
Boston Banks for their noble stand years ago in bt-half
of a Uniform Currency throughout all the country,
whereof Boston was the commercial centre ! That much
abused policy known as the Suffolk system' has shielded
the labourers of New England from heavy aggregate
losses and infinite vexations.

As to the regulation which requires the " operatives"
(we cordially detest the term), who are in the employ of
any manufacturing Corporation in Lowell, to board at
some one of the boarding-houses on the grounds of that
Corporation, we believe it was intended for the good of
labourers, and has done good. These houses are rented
at low rates ; the prize of board in them is moderate
(1 dol. 25 c. to 1 dol. 37i c. per week); and it is not pre-
tended that the Companies have any interest in the mat-
ter, c xcept to have board cheap and the labourers handy
to their work, In fact, many workmen board elsewhere
than in Corporation boarding-houses, as all have the right
to do who have relatives to board with. No inquiry is
made by the companies unless some of the boarding-
house keepers complain of being so slenderly patronised
that they cannot live and pay rent. This produces a
requisition that the labourers shall board on the premises
according to the regulations. There is no complaint that
board is too dear, rather the contrary; but many of the
boarding-houses are too crowded, and lack accommoda-
tions essential to health and cleanliness. We believe these
are equal to those enjoyed by labourers in cities gene-
rally, but they ought to be improved. We should think the
girls especially, who are mainly farmers' daughters
and have been accustomed to ample sleepin,,,,sroom, op-
portunities for washing, &c., would remedy the matter
themselves by just uniting to pay 25 or 37 cents more
per week, on condition of having ample and comfort-
able accommodations. There is no regulcion in the
way of this—nobody would wish to prevent it—and
they would still earn more, beside their board, than is
earned by working women almost anywhere else than in
American factories. Will they not think of this ?
We fear there is not care enough taken to provide for
the ventilation of the factories. We know that ig-
norance and indifference in this respect is all but uni-
versal, but this is no excuse. The owners of factories
are usually men of decided intelligence ; tlhy under- .
stand the laws of life and health ; they arc aware that
the mills are often required to be kept at as high a
temperature as is consistent with health ; that a hundred
human beings being employed for day after day in ono
room must have large and constant supplies of fresh air,
or their health will suffer. We entreat them to give
earnest heed to this matter, not only in building new
factories, but with reference to those now existing.
They should at least consider that ventilation is
cheaper than hospital treatment, which we believe in
Lowell is afforded to those who need it gratuitously. '
claecilt,oraiells,his natdhsatare of ex-
The great master evil in operation atLowell, however,
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labour. At r
ex-
pected to begin work at five A m and to labour with but
half an hour's intermission fur b
breakfast, and, as much
more for dinner, till seven P.M., making thirteen hours
steady employment daily. The working day is a little
longer at some seasons and a little shorter at others, but
this is about the average, and it is entirely too much. It
is a severer tax on human energies than formerly, because,
with the progress of machinery, the attention required is
more constant and the work more exacting. Many
of the girls tend three looms on plain weaving where
one was formerly thought enough, two certainly so ; in
some cases a chain is to be lifted at intervals, requiring
a very considerable muscular effort ; and though this
may be more healthful than merely mending threads and
supplying spools all day, it not the less contributes to
increase the fatigue created by thirteen hours of scarcely
remitted toil. Most of the women employed in the fac-
tories are still young ; a large proportion mere girls of
fifteen to twenty ; and w hen it is considered that they
are hereafter to become wivesand mothers, it will be seen
that the preservation of their constitution is of the highest
public importance. And it is not enough that they
should continue healthful and vigorcais. They should
have time for and be encouraged to form habits of daily
reading and study.
Yet whit. can be expected of girls of
slender forms and immature strength, who find them
selves first at leisure a little before eight o'clock p.m.,
after having been on their feet with barely time- for
hasty meals since five, a.m. ? Can they be expected
now to apply the mselvcs with alacrity and perseverance
to any means of mental improvement ? Surely nut.
Hence must grow habits of indifference .to books and of
mental frivolity, very mournful to think of as 'character—,
ising the mnthers of those who will rule the destinies of
our country in the next generation.
Now we know very well that women are more un-
healthfully employed, confined-=ere hours, and far worse
paid
in many other branches of industry, than in nnilita,
factoring. We know that those engaged in sewing in
our cities, are a special instance ofahts—that there are
thousands on thousands-of household servants, for whom
even "Sunday shines no holiday," and who would be
deemed upstart end affected, if they should even indicate
a wish for mental improvement. It is not a question
whether manufacturing is worse than other employment
for women—we have often enough expressed cur
conviction that it is not—that the introduction of this
branch of industry into New England has largely con.
tributed to emancipate woman there from pecuniary de-
pendence, and to increase the reward of her
There is no question with us as to the utility and ad-

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vantage of sustaining and cherishingmanufact ,r
inquire only whc_ er more good may not be de▪ ka:N;l---`l.
evil prevented, s • we
_cherish them—and we insist
that there may 7'. *,Let cur manufacturers spare DO
pains or expense toilr*lee the situation of those they em-
ploy just what it should be—let the hours of their labour
be reduced, and everything essential to their health pro-
vided, without reducing their wages—and then let
the country be appealed to to sustain our own truly
free labour against the cheaper vassal service of the Old
World. Rely on it, though a tariff of one hundred per
cent. were demonstrably necessary, the country would
cheerfully impose and unflinchingly maintain it. Who
would not cheerfully pay a beggarly cent a yard more
on cotton fabrics to secure such a result? Who would
care how many agent of Birmingham and Leeds went
showing and rubbing e.eir trump cry specimens through
the committe rooms of Congress, while our labourers
were prosperous, healthful, contented, and happy?
The Great National Fair at Washington neat week
will naturally draw toge:her a great rur2ber of persons
engaged in mar ufactures from all parts of the country.
Will will they not come together there and consider
whether something cannot be dune, may not be done, to
limit and render uniforin the beers of labour in future
throughout the country? A voluntary resolution thus
framed and acted on would exert the force of taw over
the whole Union. It would do more to establish and
secure the protective policy than reams of undeniable
statistics and cart-loads of convincing speeches.—
Friends of Home Industry ! will you not think on this
subject and speak cut ? Speak now.

SWINDLING AT WINDSOR,

WINDSOR, MONDAY EVENING.—The cheque paid into
the Windsor Bank by the swindler assuming the name
of " J. H. Wyndham," was drawn upon the Gloucester-
shire Banking Company, at Gloucester, and was fur 1501.
It
Reid
n appears,adco
from., information by
the Glouces-
tershire Messrs. NevilletheWindsor bankers,recved from
Banking Company, that " Mr. Wyndham" has
passed similar cheques at Oxford, Dover, and other
towns in the provinces, where he has been equally suc-
cessful as in this neighbourhood in fleecing tradesmen
and innkeepers of their goods and chattels to a
ug nature
goods
con-
siderable amount. He has also played off tricks of alike
uponand
otherseveral
property
tradesmenrnp t
by means
ns London,ofch e qoube s-
upon banking establishment-Ber wyhel -e he was totally
unknown. A description of him has since appeared
in the Lyndon Police Gazette, but it is expected, from
p üblipshaerdin dg estchre ipt
aimone,
the various disguises he assumes, that there will be some
dbieffiincgulteynianblttedstratongerer,enisefgronmsuch him.
he was at the Royal Hotel, at Slough, he invariably
wore spectacles, and his dark whiskers were combed
towards the back of his head. When he paid a visit to
Mr. Yarrow, at Eton, to order " a wedding suit," and to
Mr. Hanson, at Windsor, to order a watch and other
articles of jewellery, he had doffed his glasses, and his
whiskers were combed the reverse way.
It would appear that if the Windsor Bank had adopted
the necessary and usual precautions, neither Mr. Han-
son nor Mr. Yarrow, at Eton, would have been " done"
out of their property. Mr. Yarrow, as has been stated,
called at the bank some hours before he sent the fellow
his " wedding suit" to the Royal Hotel, at Slough,
where he Was informed the cheque was " all right."
The cheque given to Mr. Hanson (just after the bank
had closed for the day, the transaction not having taken
place until between three and four o'clock in the after-
non), was sent down to the bankers immediately after-
wards, when the message returned with it was (as in the
case of Mr. Yarrow) that it was " all right." Had it
been otherwise, the property could have been easily re-
covered, as "Mr. Wyndham" did not leave Slough fur
London until upwards of five hours afterwards. As it
is, however (fortunately for Mr. Hanson and Mr. Yar-
row), the Windsor bankers, under the circumstances,
are considered to be liable to pay the amount of the
cheques respectively held by them.

rbirb Vlitton

SUN OFFICE, Set en o'clock.

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

From tie Official List,
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING.
LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 2.
ZOINT-STOCK BANES.

1 Dividend Amount 1
Same of Company. 1
er of I Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. i X s. d.
Australasia ••••.• • • • • 1 I 6/. per cent. 140 0 0 40 0 0 2$
Britsn North American 151. per cent. 150 0 0 50 0 0 451%
Commercial of London 151. per cent. 'lOO 0 0 20 0 0 22%
2olonial .
j 51. per cent. JIOO 0 0 25 0 0 16
Londn amlWestminstr 61. per cent. 1100 0 0 20 0 0 56%
London Jolat-Stock... . Cl. per cent. !50 0 0 10 0 0 13%
Metropolitan ......... ; - ' 25 0 0 ' 7 10 0
Preetheial :if Ireland.. i 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 40%
Ditto, New.- -- . • 181. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 19,e,
Sat.orlai of Ireland .. 1 51. per cent. 150 0 0 20 0 0 20 7
Nat. Proem
Proemial of Eng. Si.sl. per cent. 1100 0 0 35 0 0 35
Ditto, New. • . ... •• • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0
Union of Australia.... 1 6/. per cent. j 25 0 0 25 0 0 25%
Union of London. -• • I 5/. per cent. !50 0 0 10 0 0 12
INSURANCE CONIP.A.NIES.
Dividend Amount \
Paid. Price
Name ef Company. per of
Share.
Annum. --- -
--_--
2 9. d. £ s. d.
Alliance Diet. and For. 6
1500 0 0! 50 0 0 71
Aiblon .. . • •• • • • • • • • •
t. 1100 0 01 11 0 0 19%
per cent.
61• per nre.th,.lloo 00 ! 50 0 6%
Ditto Marine.• ••• • • 50 0 0 I 5 0 0 16%
13s. •
British Commercial .. 75. per share 50 00 j .5 0 0 714
cleriel,Med.&Gen.Life 51. peent. IN 0012 10 0 6%
100 0 0 ! 10 0 0 l•i
10s. 50 0 0 ! 5 0 0 -
i :Town. ••--- • • •• - 6s. 50 00' 5 0 0 5%
tnaggllS. Co. t..L..a.w• •.••: •• •• 51. Per cent. 50 00 ' 20 0 2%
European Life ••• - • . 51% per cent. 20 0 0 . All paid. 20
Freemasons'
.., .... - 51. per cent. 20 0 0 i 3 0 0
61. per cent. Stock. j - 137
Guardian ...... -•• •• 5/. per cent. 100 0 0136 10 0 48
Imperial Fire .. .. •• • • 61. and bonus. 500 0 0 i 50 0 0 240
'lmperial Life •.•• • • • • 12s. 1100 0 0 10 0 0 16
Indemnity Marine...• 11. sh.& bs. 1100 0 0 j 513 1 29
Law Life •• U. ss. 100 0 01 10 0 0 52
Legal and General Life - I 1
50 0 0 2 0 0 6%
London Fire ........ 10s. 25 0 0 112 10 0 14%
London Ship ........ 10s. 25 0 0!12 10 0 14%
Marine.. ........... 5/. per cent. 100 0 01 15 0 0 10%
Med. Invlid &Gen. Life 4%1. per et. 50 001 2 0 0 3
National Lean Fund- 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 21%t
National Life .. .• .• . 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0%
Palladium Life •••••.• • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 21. Os.
Phoenix ...... ...... .. 3/. p. ct. & bs. - - 205
Protector Life- - ... 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 I 0 0 1/. 4s.
Provident Life •• ••.• • • IL ss. 160 0 0 10 0 0 23
Rock Life.... --- • • 4s. 5 0 0 010 0 4%
licyal Exchange 5/. per cent. Stock. I - 180
Sun Fire ...... .... - - 210
Ditto Life .• • - • • •• 11.64. - - 49
Universal Life
V.TATETZ-WORKS.
-•
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
X s, d.
East London...• •.• • • • 81. 100 0 0 . - 216
Grand Junction .• •• • • , 3/. 10s. 41 13 4 ; - 90
2/ lOs• 160 0 0 ; - 70
Vauxhall --• • • ....• U. per cent. 100 0 0 j - 57
West Middlesex ...... 5/.55. pr cnt. 63 12 9 ' - 130
DOCKS.
Dividend Amount
Name ef Company. ' per of I Paid. I Price.
Annum. Share. I
- I
£ 9. d. ' X 9. d. ' ,
Commercial -•••• .• • 3/. per cent. Stock. - 78
Fast and West India... 161. pr cent. Stock. - 141%
Eitet Country ••.•• • • . ' I,!. per sh. 100 0 0 - 21
L melon .. -..••• • • • • '5/. pr cent Stock. - 113%
St. Katharine .... ••• • : 5 per cent. 1 Stock. - 104
Southampton •• .. •• •• 4/. per cent. 50 0 0. 50 0 0 30

LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES.
- -- - -
Dividend ' Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. 1 Prier.
Annum. I Share. 1
,
X. s. d. £ s. d
Bank of Scotland
Royal rank of ficailand 61 per cent. 100 0 0 17.7
British Linen Company 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 1 221
Cemmercial Bank ..
National Bank
Union Bank of Scotland 1712 1. pr cent.) -- 50 0 0 93
Wer4tern Bank ....
Nt,rth of Scotland Bank ; 61. per cent. 5 0 0 7 4
Clydesdale Bank .. ..
Eastern Bank .... I 5/. per cent. ; 10 0 0 11
Caledonian Bank
Edinb.ez Glasgow Bank ' 6/. per cert. ! 5 0 0 1 7%
City of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent. , 10 0 0 ' 13%
Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 1 20 0 0 I 0 0 255.
Hercules insurance Co. 71. per cent. 1100 0 0 10 0 0 14%
Insur. Co. of Scotlnd• • Si. per cent. 1 10 0 0 All paid. 9'
North British Insur 5 jiz /. pr cent. 1200 0 0 10 0 0 28
Caledonian Fire Insur lOl. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 22
Edin7,urgh Life Insur 6l. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 18%
Edith ea Glasg. Railway 11.10 s. per c. 1 50 0 0 50 0 0 75
Ditto, '4 Shares— . • 7s. 6d. p. s. i 12 10 0 All paid. 18
Edin., Leith, & Grantn ' 20 0 0 20 0 0 IG
kilastrw 8c Ayrshir Bail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 76
GlasgvaSaGreenckßall. 21. per cent. , 25 0 0 All paid. 17
Glsgw&Gantkirkßail. 51. per cent. 1 25 0 0 All paid. 4014
Dundee ac Arbrothltall. 6/. p&r cent. 25 0 0 AU paid. 39
Standard LifeAssvirnce.ls/. per cent. I 50 0 0 2 10 0 9

• sion come to by a House of Commons this year in regard
to the scheme of the Glasgow and Dumfries Company,
which was put forward last year against the Caledonian,
but which was lost, after a full and fair investigation
before Committees of both Houses of Parliament. From
what had previously taken place I had good grounds to
expect a decision of a different kind. I do not say so
without sufficient grounds for the statement. You will
recollect that, after a lengthened inquiry, on the
part of a commission appointed to investigate as
to the best means of supplying the south
thata
nikof
Scotland with railway accommodation,
scheme.
t
decisioas given in favour of the Caledoniannof
That decision was affirmed in the able report
e
e
Beard e ofof Tcroamdme,ohasndanadftesruwhaserrueantv Committeeof the
House
Committee of
the House of Lords ratified thatthe Caledonian decision.
Railway's
claims that on public grounds
claims for preference were well foundtehde.
feSitihnschoefoutwhldheinbehel
coo d,
thesee Caledoniannoreasonwchyomthpaant decision,y,arporate
in a
departed from by the admissioname
ofpla
andcom pfacitrinigraleisntei.—va.
line, too, which after the most
tion was rejected last year as incompatible melt
the Caledonian Railway. This is the posi-
tion in which we are now placed, the
Bill which was last year rejected having now received
the sanction of a Committee of the House of Commons.
But we must not rest satisfied with that decision—
(Hear, hear)—or allow ourselves to remain in the posi-
tion in which we have been se unjustly placed, as I can-
, not but think, when the case is more fully considered,
that it will be seen the decision is not such a one
as we were in justice and equity entitled to. I may,
however, observe, that if we have failed before the
Committee of the House of Commons in opposition
to the Glasgow and Dumfries scheme, we have prevailed
against another opponent that threatened to take a con-
siderable portion of our traffic I mean the North
British extension, from Hawick to Carlisle. We stand
in as favourable a position as we could desire, as far as
that] project is concerned, the Committee having de-
cided that the preamble of their Bill was not proved.
With reference to the Bills now submitted, some it will
not be necessary to proceed with; only I think it will be
better that the whole be agreed to now than postponed.
We should then be in a position to proceed with all of
them at any time, should circumstances require it. I
think that all f these branches are essential to
the prosperity of the Caledonian system ; and some
of them have been brought forward more as
a protection than from the expectation of large remu-
neration. Last year we proposed a branch from the
main line of the Caledonian Railway to Dumfries, which
we thought would give the necessary facilities to that
town. We thought one branch which would not have
cost more than 100,000/, and with the trifling detour of
only seven miles, would have been satisfactory, but the
Committee decided differently. In order, therefore, to
meet their objections we brought forward the present
scheme, to unite Dumfries with the main line of the
Caledonian Railway, by two branches involving a con-
siderable expense. We have also considered a deviation
in the main line near to Carlisle necessary, in order to ob-
tain an entrance into a commodious central station that is
proposed to be erected there for the accommodation of
this railway in conjunction with the Lancaster and Car-
lisle, the Newcastle and Carlisle, and the Maryport and
Carlisle Railways. Conceiving that such a central sta-
tion will be of the greatest advantage to the public, we
have proposed the deviation in question. We also pro-
pose, about nine miles from Carlisle, to take a branch
from the main line to Langholm, both as a means of
protection and to afford ecconiniedation to a considerable
population. We likewise propose a small deviation on
the Clydesdale Junction Railway, whiCh is necessary in
consequence of a decision of the House of Commons last
year. There is a Bill also involving considerable opera-
tions in the neighbourhood of Glasgow, which are found
necessary to connect the Clydesdale Junction with the
Barrhead and Neilston and Glasgow and Greenock Rail-
ways, a connexion that will be of great advantage,
embracing also a scheme for crossing the River Clyde,
so as to establish a station in the very centre of the city.
This Bill has been agreed to by the Committee of the
House of Commons, with the exception of the latter
part, for crossing the Clyde, which is not to be per-
mitted without the consent of the Admiralty. The
Committee would only sanction the preamble of the 8111,
subject to such approval. At present the Admiralty are
not prepared to sanction the crossing of the river,
and we will, therefore, have to confine our opera-
tions, at present, to the south bank. I may-here
remark that the Ayr and the Glasgow and Edinburgh
Railway Companies had a project before the same Com-
mittee for crossing the river lower down, but that was
rejected, so that with regard to the crossing we steed
at least upon equal terms with them. If the Admiralty
at any future period may consider our plan for crossig
the river unobjectionable, or we may devise some meal's
of effecting that object that will meet with their ap-
proval, then we shall be in a position to give a most
central and commanding station in the very heart of the
city. We have also Bills for short branches to connect
the Garnkirk Railway and the adjoining district with
the Scottish Central Railway, so as to bring
the large northern traffic on to the line. The
last Bill is for the purpose of effecting a
junction from the terminus at Edinburgh to the pier
at Granton—a pier constructed upon the largest scale, in
order to accommodate the shipping, and through which,
by the proposed branch, we shall be able to afford every
facility to the shipment of coal and other mineral traffic.
We have proposed to make this junction along with the
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company. It will
not involve any great expense, and no doubt be highly re-
munerative. We did submit a Bill to extend the junc-
tion to the port of Leith, but some difficulty arose in
carrying it out, and we have not proceeded with
it. We hope, however, to make such arrange-
ments as to be able to bring it forward in
another session of Parliament. These are the
different schemes to be submitted to your consideration,
which, if carried out, will, I have no doubt, return you
a profitable interest on the capital invested. Should the
Bills pass at a future period, we shall be prepared to
settle the principle upon which the holders of the pre-
sent stock shall unite with the holders of the original
Caledonian stock. At present I hope there will be no
difference of opinion as to the propriety of agreeing to
these schemes, which have already been submitted to,
and sanctioned by, two general meetings. They are
now submitted only in agreement with the resolutions
of the House of Commons. In conclusion, allow me to
observe that, under existing circumstances, you should
distinctly remember that as a means of protection, as
well as a means of bringing traffic to the main line, it is
your interest to sanction them all.—(Cheers.)
The SECRETARY then read the heads of the sever al
Bills submitted for the approval of the meeting.
Mr. VANDEP.WALL said, before the sense of the meet-
ing was taken on the Bills, he wished the meeting would
agree to a resolution authorising the payment of sat,' 4
per cent, on the paid-up stock. He believed a proposi-
tion of that kind was agreed to at the Caledonian I{ 'x-
tension meeting yesterday.
The CHAIRMAN thought it was an important question,
and required consideration. The directors, he believed,
were willing to take the matter into their consideration.
Mr. BUCRLEY wished to know if the shareholders of j
the present company would have anything to do with
the Caledonian Extension.

The CHAIRMAN said that an understanding had been
come to by the Caledonian Company with the Caleilo.
nian Extension, in its original form, to lease it at a rote
of not less than 4 per cent. on the whole capital. But the
original plan having been altered on account of the
eastern pori iou of the Caledonian Extension being t .e-
-jected by the Standing Orders' Committee, the mauter
assumed a new form. It had not yet been fully consi-
dered by the directors of the Caledonian Cumpauy, and it
could not be decided without full communication with t he
shareholders. Yet, inasmuch as the western portion of
the Caledonian Extension, which was retained, was the
most favourable portion of the scheme, if the Bill fie' it
was obtained, it would come before the shareholders of
the Caledonian Company, when there was no doubt tit ey
would see at once the propriety of leasing it.—(Hear.)
Mr. BUCKLEY said he was a holder in this Company
of shares which he purchased for investment,:and not for
speculation. Had he sold out last year and bought,' in
now he might have cleared 1,5001. by the transaction;
still he preferred to hold on, and would continue to do
so, as he believed it would yet turn out one of the best
paying line in the United Kingdom. If they only
waited till the line was opened, he was sure they wot ild
obtain 50 per cent. on their shares over the origiloal
price.—(hear, hear.) He trusted he would live to nee
tel.e shares at a good premium, and if the directors
° caulpidtalonplyaidbenprz was
aled dotone giveby smallasomeh
o t e
rornp
interestc onan
companies,
say even 3 per cent , it would be of great importance,wCloimeiTaitnyw:as likely the line
andA gsinvel
RvEigueouLrptceßthienqwuhiroelde
' w oTu lhd be opened
e cuAiR3,?
N
believed that the line would be opened
throughout early in the year 1848. A portion
o
line, however, to the extent of 80 miles, he hoped
would ed I
uocpKeLnEnizexttrusustmedmetrh,eabdoiurtectthoerslswt
oouf
I.Tdulayr.ran
ge
31,. bi 33
the calls so as to press as light as possible on the share-
holders.
pa
The CHAIRMAN—We have already 151. per shareid
up. When 25/. is paid we can then proceed upon the
powers of our Act of Parliament to borrow money, and
the could
decisionn of
you may rest assured we will take care to press you as
little as possible.
Mr. P. M. STEWART, M.P., said, as he held a ROI 131.•
derable stake in
Company,iarnenc to e
resist saying fewthe
words
inn
reference
which had just been recorded against it by aCo
decision so cont
j te
o
of the House of Commons--ammittus , he was quite sure
sion of Parliament, that
justice and to the determination come to last ses-
they would yet find redress in the House of Commons
itself. If there was any
faith to be placed in the deci-
sions of Parliament, if there was any trust to be re-
posed in the Legislative body, the matter mnst.. enddeinu
favour of the Caledonian Company, which 11, a
21 13.
sanctioned by Parliament, after passing through
gid
ordeal of ten years. He maintained that on the faith of
Parliament the Caledonian Company had proceeded to
execute their works; yet now they found a eornpettn,
line, which last year bad been tried and found want-
ing, let loose upon them. There would be an end
to all confidence in Parliament if it sanctioned
this most unjust and untoward proceeding. According
to the usage of Parliament, it was required that when a
report is brought up from a Committee a day is fixed for
its consideration • when that came on, all he would say
was, that if the House of Commons confirmed that re-
port, it would create the feeling in the country that pro-
perty was not safe while Parliament was sitting.—(Hear,
hear.) But there was another tribunal to which it
would have to go, and where he was sure a Duke and
one or two Marquises would find no favour beyond their
intrinsic worth.—(Hear.) He could say both the London
and Birmingham and the Grand Junction Railway Compa-
nies felt the liveliest interest in these proceedings, and he
had no doubt they would yet bring matters to a favour-
able issue. He thought it his duty to say so much, and
he assured them lie would do what he could to sustain

the Caledonian scheme before the House in its original
integrity. At present they were labouring under this
unfavourable decision, but such had been the unac-
countable want of business conduct on the part of the
gentlemcn who composed the Committee, that he would
be much surprised indeed if they (the Company) yet
did not get justice done.—(Cheers.)
Mr. VANDERWALL recalled the attention of the meet-
ing to the question of interest on the deposits.
Mr. HODGSON, M.P., said the meeting was not com-
petent to entertain that question today. Under present
circumstances considerable advantage might result from
an arrangement for the payment of interest, and there-
fore he did not object to it. He had formerly thought
such a course was not advisable, but as many other
Companies had acted upon this plan he would not oppose
it, and it would no doubt receive the attentive considera-
tion of the Committee. With regard to the Glasgow
and Dumfries scheme, it would be found that the ques-
tion had been decided by the Committee on the
question of its local merits, and independent of
the consideration of its being an independent
competing trunk line with the Caledonian. If so,
then it was a clear question for the House of Com-
mons at large to enter upon. He hoped the subject
would be brought fully and fairly before Parliament,
in order to see whether they who sanctioned the Celt,-
donian line last year would allow another com-
peting trunk line to be constructed against it now.
The CHAIRMAN then took the vote of the meeting on
the whole of the Bills submitted, which was as follows:
Scrip represented at the meeting—
Assents
Dissents
Neuter
The CHAIRMAN declared that this concluded the busi-
ness of the meeting.

Mr. BUCKLEY Moved a vote of thanks to the Chair-
man for his great attention to the interests of the Com-
pany and his conduct that day.
Mr. ASTON seconded the motion, which was put and
carried by acclamation.
The CHAIRMAN returned thanks for the manifesta-
tion of feeling just shown, and said nothing would so
much encourage him to labour in their behalf as the
consciousness that he possessed the confidence of such a
body.
The meeting then separated.