The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-16 00:00:00

IRELA.ND TO THE IRISH,
We learn from the Times that Prince Albert is in
treaty for the purchase of the estates of the late Mr.
(" Cruelty to Animas") Martin, of Galway. From
Saunders's Newsletter the further announcement
is made that " a very influential company bas
been formed in England, at the head of which is
represented to be Prince Albert, for the purchase
of lands in this country (Ireland). Their purchases
are expected to be ou a most extensive scale,
and persons in their employment are now busied,
obtaining information on the spot, as to the position
and value of various estates." It may be remembered
by our bebitual readers that a few weeks ago we ven-
tured to inform the founder of the Crystal Palace that
we had other work for the master-hand of one who
had proved himself so able a journeyman, and that we
called upon him to address himself to the regeneration
of Ireland--an achievement to which wa con-
sidered him perfectly competent. Our words,
it will he seen, have not been uttered in vain.
The suggestion was not more apt than the apprehen-
sion has been rapid. The nation, by the anoint-
ment of public opinion, is unanimously crowning the
Prince with the civic coronet of master of this public
work. We earnestly hope that the announcement of
our contemporary rests on some basis more authentic
than an Irish report, which i 3 too often the
result of a mere blank cartridge. We are the
more induced to entertain this expectation, because
the statement is adopted, and carried to a further
circumstantiality, by the "first journal in Europe,"
and because it carries with it much antecedent
probability. The considerations which we have pressed
upon the attention of statesmen as conditions prelimi-
nary to any overt action in this direction, suggest
themselves therefore at present with more than ordi-
nary urgency. In reference to these Martin estates,
it has happened to ourselves to know inti-
mately that their acquisition was very strenuously
recommended to a great capitalist, by a party
who understood that the whole could have been ac-
quired for 403. an acre in fee simple, or at a price of
500,0001. The reply was characteristic, and at the
same time most instructive :—" I can buy the whole
at 20s. an acre, or for 250,0001.; but who will
guarantee me a maximum poor-rate, or insure me
against the whole being swallowed up in feeding
sturdy beg, ors ?" We intreat these best and most
devoted, because most practical and utilitarian, pa-
triots, to pause before entering pell-mell into this
undertaking ; and to insist upon having an assu-
rance. from Government of protection from ex-
cessive local burdens, a 3 an indispensable prelimi-
nary condition of their commencing a work
which can only be successful by being exempted from
subjection to the vicissitudes of eleemosynary mendi-
cancy and the pauperism of universal famine. Here
is a scarecrow that may well frighten the
most enterprising from settling on this field
without the securities upon which we have
insisted. " A single modern instance, ' " observes
our contemporary of the Atlas, is worth a thousand
saws ;' let us take one from the records
of the Irish Encumbered Estates Court. In the
peerage of that country is inscribed the name of a
family who have heretofore been wealthy in more
than repute. The grandfather and father of the present
Peer enjoyed enormous revenues, and expended be-
tween them 80,000/. in the erection of a baronial man-
sion. Perhaps from this outlay on bricks and mortar,
perhaps from other causes, they transmitted the ancestral
estates, burdened with a mortgage of 50,0001.
When the last heir succeeded to the title he inherited
a considerable estated from a collateral branch, settled
and.without encumbrance, together with a prior claim
of 30,000!., upon the paternal properties other-
wise burtier_ed, es we have stated. He had,
therefore, the choice of succeeding to the property
under all contingencies, or of resting contented
with his 30,0001., and his separate estates. As the
lands left by his father were valued at the time at
nearly 1:30 0001., the heir elected to take the whole.
He reigned his own debt, and became liable for the
50,0001. mortgage, and took possession of the whole
property. But ere long came the potatoe blight,
and the consequent era of distress. The new
peer f eind his rents melt under his hands, the
rates for relief continued to mount, until they rose
to a nominal sixteen shillings in the pound, and a
real amuunt for transcending the net receipts from the
rental. He was unprepared—not knowing, unfor-
tunately, that, after all, he was only a manufacturer
—for this cell upon his capital. The mortgage in-
terests fell into arrear ; the mortgagee, using his own
legal powers, superseded the accustomed steward by
a `receiver,' who neither saw nor considered the
exigencies of the case ; the tenants were uncared
fer, and, as an inevitable consequence, the whole
enterprise went to rain. The estate now figures among
the lands to be sold by Baron Richards, and will pro-
bably yield scarcely as much as will satisfy the mort-
gage creditor, dragging the noble name of Gort
through the derogations that attend a process in the
Encumbered Estates Court." The shrewd insight of
the capitalist into the real dependencies which sur-
round the subject was, it may here be seen, prophetic.
The correspondence between the Earl of Lucan and
Lord John Russell arises out of, and illustrates, the
practical results of the same policy. The Board of
Guardians contend only for this, that a national cala-
mity should be relieved, not by local, but imperial
resources ; and that there can be no security for
sober calculations of investment, or the fair enjoy-
ment and proper improvement of property, if pauper
relief is to be made so capriciously local, and so
rigidly parochial, as that a proprietor must maintain,
not only the poor on his own, but also those on his
neighbour's estates ; and may at any time find that
all his energy, enterprise, and skill are totally inade-
quate to avert the entire absorption of his means by
hordes of clamorous and idle beggars. We observe
that, besides the larger and more wealthy institution
at the bead of which British capitalists are desirous
to have the countenance of the Prince Consort, a
company has been registered under the provisions of
the Friendly Societias Act, called the " Small Pro-
prietors' Society of Ireland," which proposes to apply
to the acquisition of arable soil for the purposes of
farming, the principle and working machinery of our
English Benefit Building Societies, or rather our
Freehold Land Societies, which buy at wholesale
price large blocks of land, and retail them out in
small parcels to their members also at prime cost.
Mr. Scull;, in an elaborate pamphlet, vouches for the
pertect technical legality of the projects ; and we see
by the calculations in the prospectus that by the ma-
chinery of co-operative capital, good land may be
acquired at 101. per acre in fee simple, so that a
snug little farm of fifteen acres may be transferred
to the frugal hoarder of 1501., made up in
monthly instalments. All these projects and ru-
mours of projects prove that the revival of a yeoman
class who till their own land is the chief topic of the
day ; and that the mutual co.operation and purse-
clubbing of the many is rapidly changing the tenure
and class of landowners. Absenteeism is being vir-
tually starved out or sold up. A new constituency,
-
resident local, democratic, and independent, will gra
dually command the entire representation of the
island; and the feudal power and principle will dis-
appear in everything but in name and title. We con-
fidently predict that, under such a system, these
realms are more likely to produce a surplus of food
for other nations, than to require foreign contingents
to supplytheir own deficiency ; because it is as true
hoar as it was In the time of Arthur Young, that
~
give rs man a nine years' lease of garden,a aed he
will convert it into a desert ; give biinthe secure pos-
session of a bleak
omen.. Now a rock, and be will turn it into a
ofseen, that secuproaur-plaw deprives him, as we have
capricious and uncertain°s,sethei'lounlttsofoiptesrdaeti
upon the household exchequer demands
upon
purely problematical, inveterately
lof the industrious is
beyond all power of reekoninate ylirhregular, entirely
toil and industry may
find ghimself
earl poorest son of
only to maintain himself and his large family,called upon, not
his neighbours, Cud that, too, at the vgeer but
the pinch is greatest upon himself. The time
when
about lecal self-government is but a poor answer
to this. Give every householder the right to return
r
the legislators of the kingdom, and " local self-go•
vernment" will look after itself without the necessity
of cootinuing the John Bali absurdity of avowedly
creating one nuisance by way of getting rid of another.
We insist upon it that a poor-rate should be national,
not parochial ; that, indeed, local taxation for public
objects, such as the prosecution of crime, the construc-
tion and repair of highways, bridges, Sic., is opposed
to every sound principle of political economics. A
poor-rate
should be a fixed sum, assessable uniformly
Pr"Portitio. to the
value of all property throughout
the kingdom, and estimated as that, in years of
Prosperity and
abundance,
a surplus fund may be
accumulated, so tnat no greater demand may be
made on the re
calamity and resource of the people in periods of
meet it. Su ,ch cra aTtTY, when they are least able to
arneuns, se that every
also have a defined maxi-
mum
able throughout ttseverY purchaser of land should
what deduction for the kingdom to know absolutely
from the natural value. For
burdens he should make
this principle be adopted. want:Aber object also should
porting the poor encroaches
never the cost of sUD-
Upon the resources of the
nations
and permanently
whenever the maximum poor-rateattonat node
to sa;
meet the claims upon the fund, tiB inadequate is,
vise other means of relief, and ais high time to de-
given to parishes to remove their spuorwpe' ur should be
to your heelthy,'wealthy, happy, and thitelc' pauperism
colonies, where they are wanted, and
mayybPopulated '
dependent if they will, or to transplant theesaconitoe In.
ur
domestic wasta lands, which they may labour our
domestic wast lands, which they may labour an
d
make productive, not only for their own support,
but for the increase of the permanent wealth ofthekngclnEn. A noble career opens to the regenerators
oI
t Ireland. It is above all things important that
they should not make a false start, and that they
should begin at the right end. The field is open to
them. Modern improvement, enlightened, progres-

sive, and philosophical legislation, are not likely to
be resisted with reference to that island, as they are
by the sordid interests and absurd prejudices which
stand in the way of every useful measure in England.
Let Irish planters begin well, and we venture to pre-
dict that the most sanguine of them will find their
hopes transcended by the realities.—Weekly Dispatch.

BANK OF FRANCE.
The following is a return of the situation of the Bank
of France on Oct. 9:—

ASSETS.

Cash in hand ..•
Ditto in branch banks
Bills past due ••• •••
Bills discounted, but not yet due, of
which 12,644,063 f. Oc. were received
from the Branch Banks
Bills in the branch banks „
Advances on coins and ingots... ...
Ditto by the braneh banks
Ditto on French public securities ...
Ditto by branch banks...
Ditto to the State on Buns du Tresor...
Ditto on the loan of 75 millions •••
Rentes of the reserve fund ...
Rentes, disposable funds ...
Investments of the new branch banks in
the public funds ...
Hotel and furniture of the Bank ...
Real property of the branch banks ...
Interest in National Discount Bank ...
Ditto branch banks ...
Expenses of administration of the Bank
Ditto at the branches ...
Miscellaneous ...

f. 499,038,883 22
... 124,613,947 0
127,153 13

LIABILITEE 9.

35,421,927 31
58,634,461 0
620,800 0
2,140,700 0
7,961,891 10
3,310,848 0

50,000,000 0
50,000,000 0
10,000,000 0
42,680,121 28

12,952,725 74
4,000,000 0
3,558,874 0
200,000 0
108,000 0
293,209 13
303,054 0
321,759 16

E9G5,338,359 7

Capital ~„ f. 67,900,000 0
Ditto of the Branch Banks ••• ••• 23,350,000 0
Reserve fund ... 10,000,000 0
Ditto of the branch banks ... ... 2,980,750 14
Reserve-immobiliere ••• ••• ••• 4,000,000 0
Notes to bearer, in circulation ••• 418,070,600 0
Ditto of the branch banks .•• 118,351,650 0
Ditto to order (post-bills) ••• ... 8,224,787 27
Account-current with Treasury creditor 83,069,108 97
Various accounts current ••• 119,100,090 48
Ditto in branches 29,697,013 0
Bilis payable at sight ..• ... 11,556,500 0
Ditt- Ix branches 4,093,412 0

he was arrested. Declared guilty by the jury, the
Court condemned bim to four years' imprisonment.—
Galignanis Messenger.

AN AMERICAN NURSE'S SPEECH.
The following speech, delivered to an Alderman's
child, while the nurse was undressing it, was taken in
short-hand, from her own mouth, by the reporter of the

a.
—,o
Dividends payable ••• • •
Liquidation of the Algiers Bank
Expenses anticipated ...
Discounts, interest, and expenses
Ditto of branch banks ...
Re-discounts of the last six months
Ditto in branch banks
Interest on protested bills ...
Miscellaneous

489,744 25
7,275 0
261,732 18
1,930,960 5
976,186 0
96,733 70
227,245 0
540,350 19
414,170 84

E 905,338,359 7

Certified by the Governor of the Bank,
D'ARGOUT.

It appears from the preceding account that the cash in
hand bas decreased by 3,000,000 f. The commercial bills
discounted have decreased by 2,300,000 f. The Bank
notes in circulation have increased by 1,300,0001.
The balance to the credit of the Treasury has de-
creased by 7 400,000 f. Sundry credits have increased
by 1,200,000£

'lstraio Advertiser:—
The child cries, while nurse sings,
Heigh, baby-bunting!
Pappy's gone a-hunting.
"Dids 'em, dids 'em vex my child? What does my
child cry for? ad 'em take my child's hobby-horse?
0 de blessing on it: t'sball have it den again, and ride
abroad with its nown pappa.—Go, naughty daddy, go!
What! ride abroad and not take its nown child with it?
We'll tell mamma. It shall be a mayor itself, some time
or other, and ride in its nown coach; aye, that it shall,
and it's old nurse shall ride with it. [Child cries
louder.] Hush-adea! hush-aden! Won't it be a mayor?
It shan't be a mayor, then! It shall be anything, so it
won't cry so. Hush-aden! Did I say it should be a
mayor, and 'front mine own child? It sha'nt be a mayor:
it shall be a judge or a bishop; for I'm sure my child
would make as good a judge or bishop as any judge
or bishop among them. Dod a bless it! 'tis quieter
now. Aye, aye, it shall be a bishop; and old nurse will
make it so. Hush•aden! what if an old woman should
make it so? [Nurse having stripped it, it cries louder
than before.] Well. Mercy on me! who'd be a nurse?
—0 thee'rt a tiresome brat! What, never leave crying?
Well, I won't huff it no more."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Oct. 15.
(Before Mr. Commissioner lioutoyD )
IN RE ARLISS AND TUCKER.
Ths bankrupts were described as Henry Mowbray
Arliss and Elijah Tucker, of 15, Frith•street, Soho,
printers.
This was a certificate meeting.
The balance-sheet showed the following items :
Creditors, 1,1071.; bill of sale, 2181. Liabilities, viz.
—on joint acceptances given on separate debts of
H. M. Arliss, 438/. ; profits, 8471. ; liquidation of
estate of H. M. Arliss, 83/. ; debtors, good, 1541. ;
doubtful, 37/. ; property estimated to realise 267/. ;
property held under bill of sale, 3681.; losses, '216/. ;
trade expenses, 425/. ; amount drawn by Arliss, 3001.;
Tucker, 271/. ; liabilities per contra, 4381.
Mr. Nicholson appeared for the assignees, Mr.
Lawrance for the bankrupts.
Mr. LAWRANCE said, the bankrupts had offered
203. in the pound, but one creditor stood out, and then
the bankrupts petitioned for this adjudication, with
the consent of their creditors.
The COMMISSIONER asked how they could have
paid 20s. in the pound ?
Mr. LAWRANCE said, it was a business that de-
pended upon personal exertions, and as the debts were
only 1,1001. the bankrupts had hoped to get round,
and that was the opinion of many of the creditors.
They were here now rather than give any creditor a
preference.
Mr. NICHOLSON did not offer any opposition.
His HoNouit granted an immediate certificate of
the second class.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

Charles Martin and Thomas Blowes, two cabmen who
were committed from this court on Saturday last, for
fourteen days, for attempting to steal a gold watch
from the person of Mr. Charles Watson, of 59,
London-wall, were again brought up in the custody
of Springate, the gaoler, and placed at the bar, before
Alderman Sir Robert Walter Carden.
The case was substantially reheard, and, after a
very long inquiry,
Sir R. W. CARDEN said, with regard to the men
at the bar, I see nothing at all against the character
of either of them. I only regret that they have been
placed there innocently. lam quite sure that they
will acquit me of all blame in committing them, for
Mr. Watson's bearing was such, and his evidence was
given in such an apparently straightforward manner,
that I was bound to convict. I am now induced to
alter my former opinion. I shall take immediate
steps to procure the liberation of those two innocent
men, and in the meantime I will consider what fur-
ther proceedings ought to be taken with regard to
Mr. Watson.

Dividend I Amount •
Name of Company. per or Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
..---- -- ---- --...
£ a. d. £ s. d.
Australasia -•••• •• •• 41. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 37%
BritehNorth American 51. percent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 45
Commercial of London 61. per cent.,loo 0 0 20 0 0 -
Colonial.. ••-•• .• • -2/. per cent., 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
Gloucestershire ••• • • • 15/per cent.l - - -
lonian ••• • • • .... •• •• 61. pr cent. ,25 0 0 25 0 0 -
London and County •• 61. per cent. 150 0 0 20 0 0 -
Londn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
London Joint-Stock . - 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 18%
Provincial of Ireland.. V. per cont. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
Ditto, ........81. 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
National of Ireland - 51. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 -
Nat. Provncial of Eng. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 -
Ditto, New. •••• • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 -
Oriental Bank Corpora. - 25 0 0 25 0 0 25
South Australia •• •• - 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Union or Australia.... 61. per cent. 35 0 0 25 0 0 35%
Ditto ........•••••• 61. per cent. - 210 0 -
Union of London... •• 71. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 15
Union of Madrid .• •• • - 40 0 0 40 0 0 -
INSITE.A.NCH 430269CPELN1E13.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
-...-..--- -
£ a. d. £ a. €l.
Albion .. ••••.• - - • • 31. 10s. 500 0 0 50 0 0 86
Alliance Brit. and For. 71. 14s.6d.bs. 100 0 0 11 0 0 21%
Ditto Marine. •••• •• 61. p.c.& bs. 100 0 0 25 0 0 42%
Atlas ••• • •
Argus Life ••••- • • • • 41. per cent. 100 0 0 16 0 0 - -
British Commercial .. is. 6d. 50 0 0 5 0 0 73
Clericl,Med.&Gen.Life spr ct.&bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 25
County .........• •• •• 41. 100 0 0 10 8 0 84
14s. 30 0 0 5 0 0 15
Eatlo ....... ..... .... 53. 50 0 0 5 0 0 6%
Eqity and Law •• 4% per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 4%
i•:.uropean Life ••• • • 103. 20 0 0 All paid. 11%
General •••• • • .• ...• - 5 0 0 .. f,i
Gi,be
Guardian ••-•• - - • • 5/. per cent 100 0 0 4S 0 0 53%
Imperial Fire •••• • • • • 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 245
I nperial Life •••• • • • • 1.25. 100 0 0 10 0 0 18
Ildemnity 313.rine•• • • 11.3 h.& tns. 100 0 0 20 0 0 49
Law Fire . .... -- - 2s. & 2s.bs. 100 0012 10 0 3%
Law rice............- 100 0 0 10 0 0 464
Legal and General Life - 50 001 2 0 0 4%
London Fire •••• • • - lOs & bs. 25 0 0 12 10 0 19
London Ship ..... .... 103. & bs. 25 0 0 12 10 0 19
Marine •• ........... 15s.per share 100 0 0 15 0 0 15%
,ded. Invlld&Gen. Lite 4%1. per ct. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2%
Monarch ••••••• • - •• -500 i 1 0 0 I
!•atlonal Lean Fund•. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2%
ealladium Lite ...... .. 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 •-
I,lCatliX ••• • • ....... • • 3/. p. sh. & bs. - - 158
Professional Life.... - 51. per cent. 6 5 0 1 010 0 173.6 d
Provident Life •• ••• • - 11. ss. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 30
Rock Life- ... . - .... ss. 5 0 0 010 0 6%
Royal Exchange 6l. p.ct. & bs, Stock. all 223%
Sun Fire • • - •• 209
Ditto Life ..... - 48
United Kingdom
Universal Life-. -
Victoria Life - - - 4 12 6 5%
117 A T E 3. -1117 0 72 X.S .
_
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
-------- -
£ a. d. £ a. d.
East London.... .• .... 81. per cent. 1100 0 0 - 151
Grand Junction ...... 41. per cnt. 150 0 0 - 69
gent-- - - ...... 4/. per cnt. 1100 0 0 - 80
Lambeth -•• • • - .... 51. per cut. 100 0 0 - 97
New Rivr Liud n Erdge 41. 03. - - 57%
Vauxhall' .... ........ 5/. per cnt. 100 0 0 - 97
West Middlesex . . ..61.0x. pr cnt. - - 108
DOMES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. I per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
, -
£ s. d. £ s. d.
commercial ...• .. •• .. V. pr cent. Stock. - 84
East and West India... 61. pr cent. Stock. - 142
East Country - -
London . • - 111%
Ditto Bonds •• • • •• - 41. per cent. - - -
it. Katharine •• • • .... 3% per cent. Stock. - 79
Ditto Bonds •• • • - - -
Southampton .3 -••- 2/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 , 16%
*RIDGES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per et Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
------ ----- -
X. a. d. Z. s. 4.
Hungerford • . • • • • .• •• - - - 15
Southwrk • ... ••• • • • - 100 0 0 - -
Ditto Nw of 7y, p.c. 70s. per cent. 50 0 0 - 10
Waterloo ...• •••• • • •• - 100 0 0 - 3
Ditto Old Ann. of 81. 21. Bs. Od. - 60 0 0 25
Ditto Nw ditto of 7/. 2/. 2s. Od. - 40 0 0 -
Vauxhall •. - ... Av. 21. 70 10 8 - 18

0 411.1711.3.13.
.;
Names of e, Dividend! price Si Names of i., ,Di ;
n vi
edrend
Companies. per
\
Companies. IA \ An'num. Price.
1
Z Annum. m
------ —.—
--•
£ £ \
Ashtn& Oldh llii 71. 140 Macclesfield..f.rd.. ....
100 21.105. 50
Barnsley.. • • 160 Neath ...... ion 161.
lilrtnk&Abrg 150 5/. 85
io
17°8 31. ° 1318'.5. 13570
Birmingham 40 41. 93% I Peak Forest.
Coventry..•• 100 251. 200 ;Regent's •• •• 3311/. 3s. 19%
Derby ••• • • 100 61. 63 Rochdale.... 85 , 24. 42
Ellsmre&Chs 69 2N p. ct. 35% Somrset Coal 150
Grand.Junctn 100 31 pr.ct. 57 Do.LkFdSt 12
Do., 6 pr. Ct. 10 6/. pr. ct. 11 Stfrd &Wore 140 281. 405
Grand Surrey 100 21. Os. 32% Shrewsbury.. 125 —OB.
Lirand Union 100 1/.los. 24 Stourbrldre..ll4s,
21.201. 290
Kennt& Avn 39 4s. Od. 6 Severs; and 1 1 I
Wye Rail. i 26 —24
Lancaster . 100. 41.
Lee,ig&Livrp 100 201. 405 Warwick& Z
Leicester.... 100 01. 66 Birming. j 100 41. 40
Leicstr &Nth 83 41. 44% Warwick&7
Loughborogh 142 701. 510 Napton j 100 3!. 28
„
Nionmouthsh, 100 I,lTorcstr &?
Mntgemryshlloo i Birming. j7B 31. 40%
Sleltnllwbry:loo Wilts & Brks 1 ls. 6d. 7;4

GAS-LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.
-----
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. I Share.
---------- --- -
£. s. d. Z. s. d.
British •••••••• • • • • •• 11. 40 0 0 18 0 0 1136
Ditto rrovincial.• •• 11. 83. 20 0 0 20 0 0 18%
Brighton ••••..• • • • •• 5/. 20 0 0 -
City of London .. •• • • 61. 160 0 0 150 0 0 120
Continental Consolidat. 50s. 75 0 0 31 50 , 3934 Equitable •••••• .. • • .• 503. 50 0 0 50 00 1 234
Imperial .• ...... •• • • 3/. 50 0 0 60 0 0 I 70
Independent ....... • • 61. 40 0 0 40 0 0 46
London• • ..... •••• • • • - 50 0 0 50 0 0
- 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Do., Parl. Preference 61.
25 0 0 7 10 0 -
Phcenix .••..•• • • •• • • 4/. 50 0 0 49 0 0 2734
11,.tcliff .• •••••• • •. • • 5/. 100 0 0 90 0 0 -
United General .. •• • • 11. 50 0 0 50 0 0 1 16
Westminster Ckartered 31. 60 0 0 - i 45
Ditto, New •••• .• .. 123. 50 0 0 10 0 0 1 9
11.15 T OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES)
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
_-_------- -- --•
Bank of Scotland
British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 200
Caledonian Bank ••.• • 81. per sent. 10 0 0 210 0 3/. 8..
City ofGlasgew Bank 51. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 1134
Clydesdale Bank •• •• - 634 per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 13
Commercial Bank •• •• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 174
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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 1851.

ROBBERY AND ATTEMPT TO SHOOT
A POLICEMAN.
We scarcely remember an instance in which we
have been called upon to record a more flagrant out-
rage than was committed on the night of Saturday
last; in the midst of one of the greatest thoroughfares
of Plymouth. Lawrence Rooney, an itinerant men-
der of broken glass, spectacle frames, &c., was wend-
ing her way homeward, about the hour of twelve at
night, when the box which he carried at his back, and
which was very similar in appearance to that used by
travelling jewellers, arrested the attention of two
soldiers belonging to the 19th Regiment, named Revell
and Grimes. The first mentioned, after endeavour-
ing to possess himself of the box in Bedford-street,
followed Rooney to the corner of the post.office,
where he knocked him down, and then ran off with
his prize. The outrage did not, however, pass un-
observed, chase was given, and Revell having thrown
away the box, but still finding himself hard pressed
by a policeman, drew forth a pistol (subsequently
found to have been loaded), and threatened to shoot
the officer, who, however, nothing daunted, knocked
the pistol aside, and succeeded in capturing the ruf-
fian. The name of the other soldier, who made his
escape when the robbery was committed, having been
obtained, both were, on Monday, brought up in cus-
tody before the magistrates sitting at Guildhall, and
were remanded until Thursday.
Mr. Jeffery, Lockyer-terrace, Union-road, was the
first witness. He said the prisoners came to my shop
and asked for some caps, shot, and gunpowder. I sold
them id. worth of each; they told me they wanted it
for a pistol ; described the pistol as a large one.
Samuel Hawken—On Saturday night the prisoners
came into his uncle's beer-shop, and had a pint of beer,
and one of them asked where there was a gunsmith's
shop ; the other said they wanted four caps and some
shot ; and he directed them to Jeffery's. Saw no pistol.
Lawrence Rooney—l am a glass grinder, spectacle
maker, &c. About twelve o'clock on the night of
Saturday last, the 4th, I was walking up King-
street towards the Post-office, carrying my box,
hung to my shoulder by a strap. The box was
closed but not locked. I first met the prisoners on
the other side of the Woodman. I was walking very
fast and overtook the prisoners, dressed as soldiers.
I wished them good night as I passed, and one of
them replied in the same words. I walked on
through Frankfort-street and Bedford-street, with-
out talking. They kept close by my side until
we got near the Bedford Inn, in Bedford-street,
when one of them got hold of my box and gave it two
or three twitches, trying to pull it off my shoulder. I
tried to keep it, and said, " Holloa, what are you
about ?" Neither of them made any answer, and I
had not spoken to them, nor they to me, except what
I have stated. When it was pulled I got off the pave-
ment into the street, and walked on towards the
post-office. They stopped on the pavement walking
after me until I came to Morrish's corner. I lost sight
of them and walked as fast as I could home through
Whimple-street, until I was in front of the post-
office, which is about 40 yards from the corner where
I missed them; I was then knocked down by one of
them, I cannot say which, and my box was taken
from my shculder by Revell immediately after I re-
ceived the blow, and he ran down St. Andrew-street.
I did not see the other soldier until after I had passed
the corner. I was tripped up from behind, and a blow
on the back of my head either with the fist or flat
hand. As soon as I got up I shouted " stop thief,"
and followed him down St. Andrew-street, shouting
as I ran. When I got down to the bottom,
through Notte -street, and against Messrs. Scott's
brewery, in Hoe Gate-street, I saw nonce-officer
Croker, and the prisoner Revell scuffling on the
ground. At the bottom of St. Andrew-street I met
Leeworthy, who gave me the box. I saw the police-
man endeavouring to wrest a pistol from Revell, and
Croker got it from him and fired it off in the air.
Prisoner was brought to the station-house by the
police. I took the box home, and in the course of the
night police-constable Colton came for it, and it is the
same now produced. The box was made for carrying
jewellery.
Police-constable John Croker—l was coming*up
St. Andrew-street on the night of Saturday last,
shortly after twelve, and met Revell running down
the street from the direction of the post-office, and
heard somebody from the top of the street shout " Stop
him !" I put out my foot as he passed to trip him up,
but I did not, and as he passed on I observed a box on
his left shoulder. I ran after him. At the bottom
of St. Andrew-street he threw the box over his
head. At this time I was about four or five yards from
him. The box was thrown towards me. I did not
stop. Saw Leeworthy close by when he threw it
back. Prisoner ran through Notte-street, and turned
up Hoe Gate-street. Near Messrs. Scott's brewery
he turned round and said, "If you come near me I'll
blow your brains out," at the same time presenting
a pistol. (The pistol was here produced— a very
large one, with a cap lock, and was marked "B. 0,"
and is one usually carried by preventive officers.) I
ran to him, and caught the pistol by the barrel with
the left hand, and the prisoner with the right
hand. I got him down, and a man came to
my assistance, and knelt on his breast while
I got it away, and when I did so I full
cocked it, and fired it off in the air. While we were
struggling, he took it away once, but I immediately
got hold of it again. With the assistance of two or
three persons, I carried him to the station, and while
there he collared me again, and Colton collared him.
While there, he gave his name Thos. Brown.
The prisoners were then fully committed for trial
at the next assizes at Exeter.
Two officers of the 19th Regiment were in at-
tendance to watch the proceedings.
The hall was densely crowded during the examina-
tion.—Plymouth Herald.