The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-23 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1851.

PRICES OF SHARES

IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER CON
PANIES' STOCK.
From the Official List.

tUBLISIIED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING,

LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22.

301rX11-131COCIE ZAITZII.

Name of Company. Dividend Amount Per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
A a. d•
A 1. d
Australasia ...... •• •• 44 per cent. 40 0 0. 40 0 0. -
BritshNorth American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 44%
Ceylon .......... „ „ 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Commercial of London 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0
Colonial.. -• • ......• 21. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
Gloucestershire ...• • • 151 per cent. - - -
lonian -•• • • ...... • • 6/. pr cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
London and County 61. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 -
Londn and Westrainstr 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 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
Ditto, New 81. per cont. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
Rational of Ireland 5l. 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 -
South Australia •• •• •• 6/. per cent. 25 0 0, 25 0 0 -
Unicn of Australia •• • • 6/. per cent. 15 0 0 25 0 0 - Ditto
........ •••• • • , 61. per cent. - 210 0 -
Union of London. •• •• 1 71. par cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 -
Union of Madrid I - 40 0 0 40 0 0
INBI77iANCE COMP./LIVID/I.
I Dividend Amount 1
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
-.
............. 0N.,...
Z 6 • d. X s. d.
Albion .............. 31. 101. 500 0 0 50 0 0 86
Alliance Brit. and For. 7/. 145.'6d.b5. 100 0 0 11 0 0 21%
Ditto Marine. ••• • • • 61. p.c.& bs. 100 0 0 25 0 0 37%
Atlas .............. -135.6 d. 50 0 0 610 0 16%
II British
tishLCifeem....
Commercial
11• 0
00 156
00 00 -.6.3i
41. per r6coe.nt . 10050 0
Clericl,Med.& Gon.Life spr ct.& bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 25
41. 100 0 0 10 0 0 84
143. 60 0 0 5 0 0 15
Eagle
ss. 50 0 0 50 0 636
0 0
Ditty and Law .... • • 434 per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 4TG
European Life ••• • • 105. 20
5 0 0 All '.
paid. 11%
General ••-••• • • • • • ~ 5%
61. per cent. Stock. 133
Guardian .... ••••• • • • 51. per cent 100 0 0 45 i; 0 5416
Imperial Fire ........ 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 245
Imperial Life •••• • • • • 123. 100 0010 0 0 1814
Indemnity Marine .• • . 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 20 0 0 50%
Law Fire ••••• • • - • • _ 100 0 0 210 0 2%
Law Life ...... .. •. - 11.165. 100 0 0 10 0 0 46%
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 434
London Firo •••• • • • • Ms. & be. 25 0 0 12 10 0 19
London Ship - • ... •• • • 10s. & bs. 25 0 0 12 10 0 19
Marine ••-•••••• • • • •• 15s.per share 100 0 0 lb 0 0 16
Med.lnvlid&Gen.Life 4341. per et. 50 0 0 20 0 234
Monarch •••• •• • • .... - 50 0 10 0 1
tfatioual Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2%
Palladium. Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
Phoenix . • 31. p. sh.&bs. - - 156
Professional Life.... • • 51. per cent. 6 5 0 010 0 175.6 d
Provident Life •• • ....• 11.55. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 30
Re cA Life - .. .... ..
Royal Emchange... bs.
6/. p.ct. & bs. Stock.
50 0 010 0 6%
all 221%
thin Fire ....... .... ,• 61. 10s. - •, 209
Dittr. Life . - Crui;ed Kingdom
4
theiversal Li 10.... .• •
Si. per cut. - ,i 4 12 6 5%

- W.A.TEIR-VITOILBI3.
Dividend Amount
• Name Of Company, per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
-----
X s. d s.
East London..•• -•• •• 8/. per cent. 100 00. —d.
151
Grand Jenction .... •• 41. per cnt. 50 0 0 C 9
K,..nt.........• •• •• •• 41. per cut. 100 0 0 —78 N
Lainth .......• • • • 51. per cnt. 100 0 9 97
New Rill' Lidn Brdge 41. Os. b 77
Vauxha11'............ 51. per cnt. 100 0 0 97
West Middlesex . . . 6/.os. pr cut. 108
El OCIASII.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
....ae..11...................... ...............,
..........
s.
Commercial .... - •... 41. pr cent. X
Stockd. X s. d..
84
East and West India.- 6/. pr cent. Stock. 141%
East Country
London .. .
Ditto 80nd5........ 4/. per cent.
St• Katharine .... •• - 314 per cent. Stock. 783
Ditto Bonds- -.. •• 11%1. pr cent.
Southampton .. -- •• 2/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 173(
33EXIMES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of paid, Price.
Annum, Share.
•••••I=l
A. Ifungerford.. •• .... •• £. a. d. s. d. 15
SOT tthwrk ...... -..— 100 0 0
3.)itto Nw of 73% p.c. 70s. per cent. 50 0 0 16
Waterloo .... -.•- •• 100 0 0 3
Ditti Old Ann. of 81. 21. Bs. Od. 60 0 0 25
Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 21. 2s. Od. 40 0 0
Vauxhall .... .• • Av. 21. 70 10 3 18

CANALS.
rz 1
Names ..; 'Dividend
Names of ' 2 Dividend of . I
Price. per
Companies. : per I Companies. 4 Anima. Pilo
Annual.' so
—-
46 Z 1
Ashtn& Oldh I:81 71. 140 Macclesfield. 100 21. 10s. 50
Barnsley •• • • 360 INeath ••• • • • 100 r 161.
Rrknk&Abrg 150 51. 85 'Oxford.. •• • • 1001 15'. 135
Birmingham ,40 41. 92 Peak Forest. 78 31. 18s. 70
Coventry.. • • 100 I 251. 200 Regent's .... 331 11. 3s. 19
Derby ••• • • 100, 61. 63 Rochdale.... 85 I 41. 42
Ellsmre&Chs 69 2% p. ct. 3534 Somrset Coal 150 ' 71.105.
Grand.Tunctn 100 31. pr. ct. 57 Do.LkFd St 12 61. p. c.
goo.. 6 pr. Ct. 10 61. pr. et. 11 Stffrd &Worc 140 2Bl. 405
(;rand Surrey 100, 21. Os. 3238 Shrewsbury.. 125
Grand Union 100, 11.108. 24 Stourbridge.. 145 2" 290
Mennt & Avn 39 4s. Od. 434 Severn and 21. Os. 24
Lancaster . 100, 41. Wye Rail. t 26
, Lecds&Livrp 100 201. 405 Warwick& 43. 40
Loicester .. • •1100 W. 66 Birming. j 100
Liotcstr&Nth 83 41. 44% Warwick& "/ !NI 31. 28
Loughboropt /142 701. 510 Napton...l
Monmouthshi 100 Worcstr & i
781 31. 403. Mntgomryshlloo Birming.
Moltn3f wbry 100 Wilts & Brks —, I Is. 6d. 7'

a.a.s-rac,zr AND COIKE CODZPANIZS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price,
Annum. Share.
X. s. d. Z. 8. d.
British •••••••• • • • • •• 11. 40 0 0 18 0 0 7%
Ditto Provincial •• ll. Bs. 20 0 0 20 0 0 18%
Brighton •• •• .. ••• • - 51. 20 0 0 - -
•Ci yof London .. •• - 61. 160 0 0 150 0 0 120
CotitinentalConsolidat. 925. 75 0 0 31 5 0 -
Eiqt 0 table .. ••-- • • -50 s. 50 0 0 50 0 0 27
Imperial --..- - -3/. 50 0 0 50 0 0 69
Ind ependent 6/. 40 0 0 40 0 0 46
London- .. - 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
- 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
D 0., Parl. Preference 61. 25 0 0 710 0 -
41. 50 0 0 49 0 0 273
Rat( Jiff - ... .....• ~ 5/. 100 0 0 90 0 0 -
lard'.ed General U. 50 0 0 50 0 0 153(
V( et ctminster Chartered 31. 50 0 0 - 45
Ditto,Nesv l2s. 50 0 0 10 0 0 9
LIST OP SCOTTISN COMPANIES' PRICES
i Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
-
It en it of Scotland
0 rit ish Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 200
Calridonian Bank ...•. 81. per cent. 10 0 0 '2 10 0 3/. 8,.
Cit:,, of Glasgow Itanll Cl. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 11%
C;'.:y desdale Bank -- •• I% per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 13
C Y nmerci al Bank ...• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 172
F Astern Bank --.• •• 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 9/.175.
" ,:dini).&Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 50 0 5 0 0 435
1.:-.ehangeBnk of Scot.. 4/. per cent. 100 0 0 42 0 0 9
Yational Bank 6% per cent. '5O 0 0 10 0 0 15%
Northof Scotlandßank U.percent, 70 0 0 210 0 2%
iloyalßank of Scotland 5.1. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 135
Union Bank of Scotland 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 8914
Wastern Bank.. ••• • • • 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 703
Alliance Fire and Life 81,61. pr cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 2134
,••;ritish Guarlntes .... 41. per tent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 18s Od
‘.laledonlan Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 2234
City of Glasgow Life.. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 31. lie
Colonial Life ........ 5/. per cont. 50 0 0 1 0 0 21. Is„
Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 : 214
F.ng.& Scot, Law Life 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 1 3
Life Assoc. of Scotland 6/. per cert. 10 0 0 110 0 3/. 1.58
National Fire and Life 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 255.0 d
North British Incur... 61. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 27
ScottishUnionlnarnee. 641. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 255.0 d
Standard Life ...... -5/. per cent. 50 0 0 7 0 0 , 12
United Dep.Assurance ci.per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 17e 6d
MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per I of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
i Assam Tea .. Z. s. d. Z. s. d.
........ - 20 0 0 20 0 0 8
Auction Mart.- .... 21 ss. sO 0 0 - 26%
Australian Azricalturl 11. 100 0 0 30 0 0 15
Australian Trust .... 61. per cent. - 35 0 0 20
Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 1/. 10s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 23
Ditto, Half Shares.. - - 210 0 -
British American Land - 3 B 3B 10 0 -
Canada ••••••• •• • • • • GI. per cent. 100 0 0 82 10 0 49
Do. 5 per cent Bonds _,- - -
Ditto, 6pr et. Bonds 6/. percent. - 109
City Navigation Bonds 3f per cent. - %
- - 96
Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. cAlos, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 93
Equitable Reversienry sp.c.Bchs.s/1 100 0 0 'lOO 0 0 109 N
Ditto New .. ••• , •. 50 0 0 5 0 0 -
Gen•StearnNavigation 10 p.ct.lcbs. 15 0 0 14 0 0 273,
Hudson's Bay.. • • • • • • - Stock. - 205
Hungerford .... ...... 2/, 55. - 100 0 0 47
London Institution .• • - _ 78 15 0 7
New Zealand Company - 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Ditto. New •••• • • • • - 25 0 0 12 10 0 -
Russell Institution •• • • - - 26 5 0 -
Peninslr& Orient.Stm. 81. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 68 1
Reversionary Int. Soc. 4341. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 N
Royal Mail Steam •• • • 41. p. share. 100 0 0 60 0 0 793{
South Australian .•• • • 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 23%
Van Dieman's Land., - 100 0 0 29 0 0 1

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Price Current, Aug. 22.)
SUGAR.-To-day the West India Sugar market pre-
sented a dull appearance, and easier rates were acceded
to for brown and inferior yellow sorts, making a de-
cline of fully 6d per cwt for the week, bat good gro-
cery kinds have nearly supported the terms of that
period. The purchases are only 424 hhds, &c.,
including at auction 48 hhds 19 tierces Jamaica which
sold at 38a 6d for good yellow, at 34s to 35s 6d for low
to mid, and fine brown 33s to 33s 6d; 63 packages Bar-
badoes, low to good mid yellow 33s 6d to 36s 6d, brown
from 31s 6d to 335; 92 packages Antigua, good mid
and good yellow 363 to 375, low and mid 338 6d to 35s
6d, and fair to fine brown 32s to 335. The total pur-
chases for the week are 1,939 hhds, &c.
REIFINED.-To-day Refined Sugar mitt with little at-
tention from home dealers, and 455 to 46s is the value
of brown lamps; rates have still a downward tendency.
There are few buyers of Crushed Sugar for shipping,
and at former prices there are free sellers.
MAunrreeta.-This afternoon there was no increase in
the demand for Mauritius Sugar, and rather lower rates
were taken for brown and inferior yellow, bat better
qualities realised full terms; at auction 3,424 bags were
sold, good mid to good yellow went at 35s 6d to 375, low
to mid 333 to 355, good to fine brown 31s to 32s 6d, low
to mid 29s to 303 6d per cwt.
EAST INDIA -This afternoon the private operations
in Bengal Sugar were upon a limited scale. The public
sale of 1,158 bags went at barely former rates, good
white Benares at 41s, low and mid 37s 6d to 38s 6d, fine
grainy yellow 435, and white ditto 47s 6d per cwt.
FOREIGN.-To-day shippers or home dealers evinced
little desire to operate in Foreign Sugar, although there
are free sellers at previous rates. At auction 84 hhda
88 brls St. Croix at 39s to 43s 6d for good to fine yel-
low; and at 44s to 44s 6d for superior; and 165 bags
Parabia at 39s 6d to 41s 6d for mid and fine white.
MOLASSES._Thare is still little desire to operate, and
prices have a downward tendency, new Antigua selling
at 143 6d to 15s, old 13s 6d; St. Nevis and Vincents
34 123 6d, and low West India lls6d to 12s. Bengal and
Mauritius met with a dull sale at lls to Ils 6d; Porto
Rico and Cuba are offered at 13s to 13s 6d. still few
buyers aro to be met with. West India Honey sells
4 more freely at 409 to 56s for low to fine.
COMEE.-This afternoon the Coffee maket presented
eo% a quiet appearance; the private operations were upon a
2'a small scale by exporters and home dealers, and previous
334 rates were supported with difficulty. The value of good
ord Native Ceylon is 39s per cwt. There was no public
sale of any sort to-day. On Change a parcel of 1,300
6 bags good ord Native Ceylon was sold at 39s per cwt.
COCOA.-Importers of West India have evinced firm-
a% ness this week, and none has been offered at auction,
- although stock is 4,500 bags more than last year and de-
-56d
liveries for home consumption less. A fair business
s. 6
30 has been concluded privately. at rates equal to those cur-
-% rent previously. Trinidad-Fine red realizing 50s to 555,
34 mid to good 44s to 493, low 41s to 435, grey from 37s to
41s, and Grenada 34s to 41s per cwt. Foreign has been
rather more in demand and holders are less desirous to
press sales; the rates paid for Bahia and Para are 26s to
273, and Guayaquil 28s to 30s per cwt. There are
several buyers rather under these rates.
TEA.-Holders of Congou will not sell at a reduction,
but the market is well supplied, and dealers operate
a• cautiously; low to good ord 9fd to 100, medium to rather
- strong blackish leaf 10id to 11d: and good fine is to
Is 6d, the latter most difficult of sale. Souchong
can be obtained rather lower, and few buyers
to be met with ; the supply exceeds the
consumption of this sort. In Oolong business done
34 was small, and sellers will accept is to 23 per lb. Young
Hyson is in good demand for the town and country
trade, and last week's terms aro well supported; but all
other sorts of green met with little attention, and prices
tend downwards. Scented and Pekoe are dull of sale,
and easier to purchase.
ce.
Recn.-The market for East India remains in an un-
- favourable position, exporters and home dealers having
made purchases with much caution; there aro sellers
rather under previous rates, and stock continues to get
larger. At auction 2,100 bags Bengal were in part dis-
posed of, mid old white at 8s 6d to 9e, good middling 9s to
9s ad, and good 956 d. Privately small parcels of fine have
been sold at los to 103 6d, cargo 7s 3d to 7s 63; Madras
pinky 7s to 71 6d, Coringa grain 7a 9d to 81 6d, and
Arracan 8s per cwt. These rates are is per cwt under
those current last year. Patna Rice met with a dull de-
mand at 11s to 15s, and broken 9s 6(1 to 10s 63,
as- but in town dressed Carolina a good deal has been
done at 20s to 255, and American is wanted at
163 to 17s; few parcels are at market. Sago is in much
better demand, and at suction 468 cases chiefly sold at
17s to 20s, and fine 21a to 24s per cwt. Sago Flour is
held for 14s to 15s, and Farina at 13s to 14s, but little
has been done. Tapioca met with a dull demand at 2d
to 4d per lb. Of Arrowroot 31 cases Sydney at auction
sold at Isld to 23; 210 brls 71 tins St. Vincent's aid to
sd; 245 tins Jamaica sd; 55 bgs Bermuda Ild to Is,
and 16 bps Manacroup 28s.
SPICES.-To-day a public sale of 327 bags Sumatra
at. Pepper went at firm rates, and realized 3d to aid for
clean, and damaged aid to 3ii Of white 63 bags went
at 6d to 641 for fair sound, and at 63 to bid for da-
maged. Of African Ginger 1,250 bags were in part sold
at 24s 63 to 255, and damaged 23s to 245; 60 brls Ja-
maica sold at 43s to 55s for ordinary and good ord; 202
bags Pimento all taken in at 6d.
SPIRITS.-Demerara Ram continued in good demand;
merchants remain firm, and obtain 2a to 2s 3d for 30 to
40 per cent over proof. East India is wanted at
Is aid to is 4d proof, and at which few parcels are
to be obtained. In Leeward Island several pur-
chases have been made at Is 5d to is 6d proof,
and there is a firm market. Previous rates are well sup-
ported for Jamaica; there is also a good home and
export demand; the parcels sold were, fine 34 to 33
over proof at 3s 2d to 43 6d; good mid to good 32 to 34
)4 over 2s Sd to 3s; common and mid 38 to 33 over 2s 6d
si to 2s 8d per gallon; but good and fine qualities are still
most in request. Home and export deliveries remain less
than last year. In the Brandy market much dulness
exists, and previous terms are supported with difficulty.
ce. There are sellers of Cognac best Brands of the vintage
of 1850 at 4s 4d to 4s 63, 1849 ditto 4s 6d to 48 Bd,
1848 ditto 4s 10d to ss' older sorts 5s 4d to 6s 6d; low
a, to mid 2s 6d to 33 6d; Bordeaux 2s 2d to 25 3d. British
% made Spirit remains quoted at 9s 5d to 9s 6d, but there
is a better demand. Gin for exportation is held at
2s 6d. Geneva met with a slow sale at is 7d to is Bd,
and fine at is 9d to 2s per gallon.
COCHINEAL.-The demand is still on the increase,
still holders have been compelled to accept previous
rates, there being yet a plentiful supply; but better
qualities are now most in request. At auction 370 bgs
% Honduras were sold-good to fine Silvers went at 3s 4d
to 33 7d, ord to mid 2s ltd to 3s 3d, mid and good
Black 3a 6d to 3s lid per lb. Mexican Silvers were
held for 3a to 33 3d, Black 3s 2d to 3s 6d, Teneriffe
from 3s 3d to 4s per lb.
INDIGO.-Although accounts from Calcutta are more
co. favourable with respect to the crop, still the confidence
of holders here has not been shaken thereby, nor is there
less business doing. A fair quantity of East India has
been purchased for the continental markets, and a
steady demand was experienced from home dealers; the
advance previously established of 2d to 3d per lb is
% maintained, Madras and good qualities of Bengal being
still most in request. Manilla, however, met with little
8, attention, and at auction 104 chests were only in part
% sold at is to Is 103 for low and ord; at 2s to 2a 6d for
mid. Spanish is in fair demand at previous terms;
Sobros at 3s 10d, Cortes is 6d to 4s, Flores 4s 93 to 55.
On Thursday 600 serons Guatemala will be offered at
4 auction. Stock now differs little from last year ; but
14 home and export deliveries are 4,000 serons larger.
0,1 SALTPETRE.-Today there was less demand for
% rough, and previous rates were barely supported. Of
2s 1.039 bags Calcutta at auction not above half sold; mid
is. 133- per cent refraction went at 25s 6d to 265; 7 tis 9
ditto ditto 26s to 26s 6d; good and fine 4 per cent 274
65 to 283 6d; unrefracted 22s to 27s 6d per owt.
Od TALLOW.-A large demand has been experienced for
Od Russian on the spot this week, and prices have an up-
ward tendency; fine old yellow Candle selling at 38s to
38s 3d, and new 38s 6d to 39s per cwt. For delivery
a good business has been transacted, the prices paid
- being 39s 3d to 39s 6d for new for last three months
Price. of the year; and there are not free sellers thereat.
Town melted met with ready purchasers, and quotations
- range firm at 37s to 37s 5d net cash. Orders are on
the increase for other sorts, and supply remains limited,
whilst a small advance has beenobtained. Of Colonial and
Foreign stock there are 6,000 casks more than last season,
and rates are is to 2s per cwt above that time. This
I afternoon the public sales of Tallow went off at upward
rates; 250 casks Sydney-Mutton at 37s 6d to 38s;
Beef 36s 6d to 375.
Ores.-Operations in Seal have been upon a limited
% scale, and holders are disposed to sell pale at 341 to 341
10a, and other aorta 311 to 331 per tun. There are few
% buyers of Cod and parcels can be obtained at 361. Of
Southern supply remains small, and there are several
buyers at full terms; fine has been selling at 331 to 331
10e; and low to good 311 lOs to 321 10s. For Sperm
there is an increasing demand; the quantify on offer is
limioed, and rates have an upward tendency, fine Bri-
tish realising 851 to 861, and American 841 to 851. Head
matter remains scarce, and is worth 931 to 941.
934 I

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From last night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria,cap . 82 for
the Week ending on Saturday, tho 16th day of August, 1851.
ISSUE DEPLUTWENT.

X.
Moto isseed...• •• .. 27,543,905

Government debt • • . 11,015,100
Other securities • • 2,984,900
Gold coin and bullion 13,510,530
Silver bullion • • • • • • 33,375

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Aug. 22.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FANE.)
IN EE CARSTON HOTHOUSE.
The bankrupt was a sugar-broker, sugar-dealer,
and wine-merchant in Great Tower-street. His
debts are 7,1891 ; the assets have realised 1,3001.
This was the certificate meeting. Mr. Matthews
opposed, Mr. Lawrence supported.
Mr. MATTHEWS was willing that his Honour should
give his judgment upon the certificate as the case
against the bankrupt stood at the close of the exami-
nation meeting.
The COMAIISSIONER—The case against the bankrupt
may have been then fully investigated; not so the
circumstances in his favour. I should like to hear
what Mr. Lawrence has to say on behalf of the
bankrupt.
Mr. MATTHEWS—In that case I shall feel it my
duty to call the leading features of the case (as at
present heard) to the recollection of the Court, and
shall also feel at liberty to introduce new matter.
The COMMISSIONER—You can do so.
Mr. MaTTua vrs proceeded—As a sworn broker of
the city of London, the bankrupt had neglected his
duties in not keeping a proper book of his transac-
tions. He was clearly bound by statute to take this
course. He had violated the statute in another re-
spect. In place of charging brokerage to the vendor
he had charged it to the purchaser. The reason fur
this was obvious ; the bankrupt wished to conceal from
the vendors the character of the trade that he was pur-
suing. Upon purchases and sales to the extent of
37,0001. the bankrupt had had an average loss of
of about three per cent., the goods having been ge-
nerally sold a few days after their purchase. In
scarcely one instance had there been a profit. In a
few instances the goods were sold at the cost price;
in others they were sold at losses varying from 5 to
3 per cont., the average loss upon transactions to the
amount of 37,0001. being, as he had stated, somewhat
beyond 3 per cent. It was also to be observed that
the bankrupt had, during the few months next pre-
ceding his bankruptcy, increased his account with
Messrs. Conway from 5341. to 8151, and with Messrs.
Whistler and Scrivens, from 1,5081. to 1,7011
The COMMISSIONER—I do not think this very ma-
terial.

Mr. IslATrusws continued—He should not charac-
terize the bankrupt as one who had recklessly carried
on his trade at great expense, and thus dissipated the
property of his creditors. His object appeared rather
to have been to keep his head above water, by assum-
ing the appearance of a wholesale dealer in Mincing-
lane, and living at a moderate rate of expenditure. It
was by maintaining this appearance that he had been
able to commit his depredations upon the public
purse. Although in 1849 the bankrupt owed 5,0641.
he had not a vestige of sugar on his premises,
or under his own control ; the goods were
purchased on credit, and sold the same day, or
nearly so, far cash at a positive loss. Losses had been
thus incurred to the extent of 1,4001., and of these
losses the bankrupt's wine creditors had particular
cause for complaint, as but for them the bankrupt
might have kept his ground. All his profits in the
wine trade he was more than sinking in the sugar
trade, and this by adopting a principle of business
most unhealthy and injurious to the fair trader.
During this time the bankrupt was keeping up the
appearance of a steady fair taader, and carefully ab-
stained from disclosing the mode upon which he was
conducting his business. The result was this—the
bankrupt now owed 7,1891., and his estate would
probably pay a dividend of about 2s. in the pound.
The COMMUSIONER—And of the assets I find that
not one sixpence is produced by tho bankrupt's stock
of sugar.
Mr. MATTHEWS continued—He heti also to com-
plain that the bankrupt had obtained a loan from Mr.
Moore by means of false representations. The bankrupt
had borrowed two sums of 1001. each from Mr.
Moore, and on one cccasion be had represented him-
self to be carrying on a most profitable business, so
much so that he thought he should soon be able to
retire from it with a competency. He would, how-
ever, call Mr. Moore.
Mr. Moore was called—He was a confectioner at
Holborn-hill. On the 21st of February he had lent
the bankrupt 1001. on his promissory note payable on
demand. In October, 1849, he had similarly lent the
bankrupt 1001. On that occasion the bankrupt bad
assured him that he was doing a very excellent busi-
ness, and that his circumstances were such that the
only difficulty in the way of his retiring from trade
was the getting a young man to go into partnership
with him. Their money transactions had been very
extensive, and he had always cherished the very
highest respect for the
_bankrupt, so much so that if
any person had whispered a word against his charac-
ter he should have ordered him out of his house. The
bankrupt told him in October, 1849, that he was
short of money, in consequence of having to give long
credit in the wiue trade, and he (Mr. Moore) thought
this was very probable, the bankrupt having an ex-
tensive connexion with the aristocracy at the West-
end.

In reply to Mr. LAWRINCE, the witness said his
charge to the bankrupt for loans was at the rate of 10
per cent. He was present at the meeting of creditors
when an offer of ss. in the pound was made. Mr.
Matthews objected to the offer on behalf of Messrs.

Conway. lie (Mr. Moore) had asked the bankrupt
to give him a policy of insurance, so that he might be
paid in full after the bankrupt should have received
his certificate. The policy was to contain a covenant
to keep up the premiums, so that the debt was to have
been paid in full.
In reply to Mr. Matthews,
Mr. Aloore said he rather thought that both
Messrs. Travers and Messrs. Conway objected to ac-
cept the composition, and that they did so on the
ground that the bankrupt's conduct required investi-
gation with respect to the mode in which he had pur-
sued his sugar trade.

Mr. LAWRANCE addressed the Court for the bank-
rupt. He had a somewhat painful task to perform.
The bankrupt had passed the age of three score years
and ten. His career had been one of unimpeachable
integrity. He had brought up with great credit to
himself a large family, one of whom was at the Bar,
and another in the Church. The bankrupt's losses in
the course of his trading had been unfairly magnified.
It was true that his losses by sugar had been 1,0671.;
but if from this were deducted, as they ought to be,
the bankrupt's profits of upwards of 6001. upon his
wine trade, to carry on with success which losses on
the former might have been unavoidable, the balance
of the bankrupt's trading during the period in ques-
tion was no more than a loss of 418/. Granting that
the bankrupt's losses upon his sugar transactions to
the extent of 37,000/. had been three per cent., they
ought to look also to the favourable circumstances of
the case. The bankrupt's expenditure had been most
moderate; members of his own family wore creditors
to the amount of 1,0501.; there had not
ken the slightest preference; in fact, the
solitary improper conduct in respect to the sugar was
to outweigh all the other and numerous circum-
stances in his favour. His Honour, on a former oc-
casiou, had well said, in language better than any that
he, Mr. Lawrence, could command, that " the elas-
ticity of hope with which men in business indulged
must not be too strictly curbed by fear of bankruptcy,"
and in this case there was good reason for believing
that the bankrupt cherished a hope that he might
overcome his difficulties. It should not pass without
notice that nearly the whole of the creditors—includ-
ing Messrs. Whistler and Co., creditors for nearly
1,7001., and Mr. Moore—were willing to accept the
composition offered by the bankrupt, and he hardly
thought that Mr. Moore could now have been a will-
ing witness after what he had stated, that be had lent
his particular friend money at the rate of 10 per
cent., and sought to get the old man of seventy to
mortgage his future earnings in order to secure the
payment of his debt in full. He called upon the
Court to take that large and liberal view of this case
that was its wont in others, and to grant the bankrupt
an immediate certificate.

His HONOUR said that in a case of such very great
importance he should not think of giving an imme-
diate judgment. He would grant the bankrupt pro-
tection to the 4th of September, and give his judg-
ment before he left for his vacation.

veyed back to Manchester, and when they arrived at
the station not less than 5,000 persons were assembled
on the platform. Placards had been posted, adver -
tising that trains would leave the station for Man-
chester as soon as they could be filled, and they
started accordingly. One left at half-past five
o'clock ; another some little time after ; and a third
about ten minutes before seven o'clock. This train,
which consisted of between 18 and 21 carriages, was
crowded with passengers, and drawn by an engine
called the Druid, which proved totally inadequate to
draw so heavy a load, for it took about 40 minutes to
draw the train to Frodsham, a distance of about ten
miles. Having waited some little time at Frodsham
it proceeded on its way, but at so slow a pace that it
took 20 minutes to go from Frodsham to the entrance
of the Sutton tunnel, though the distance was only
two miles. About a quarter of an hour after the
train drawn by the Druid left Chester, another train,
in which the plaintiff and his friend were passengers,
left that station, which, consisting of only 16 car-
riages, and being drawn by a more powerful engine
than the Druid, proceeded at a faster speed,
and consequently came up with the Druid
and its train at the Frodsham station. Here it was
detained by the station master ten minutes, to allow
the Druid to proceed ; but this detention was not
sufficient, for the train in which the plaintiff was over-
took the Druid again at the Sutton tunnel, but, know-
ing that the Druid was shortly in advance, they
slackened their speed and endeavoured, on joining the
Druid's train, to propel it forward from behind; but
its endeavours were of little assistance. Whilst these
proceedings were going on it did not appear that mea-
sures had been taken to stop the progress of those
trains which were known would be following, and the
result was that another train did come up, drawn by
the Albert, a more powerful engine than either of the
others, and having no notice that the former trains
were proceeding slowly, it came up at its usual speed
and dashed into the tunnel. The tunnel was full of
smoke, and in a minute or two the Albert came into
collision with the second train, dashing into it, and
producing the dreadful calamity which occurred.
They then had three trains in the tunnel; one had
struck against another, and had knocked the carriages
in a mass ; there were three engines working, and
upwards of 1,000 human beings altogether in that
tunnel, without a light, a guard, or any security that
in a short time another train would not be coming
up, to add to the general confusion. The
plaintiff, with three others, was lying under
a carriage with his face to the ground—the
four being, to all appearance, crushed to death. They
were, eventually, extricated; three of the persons
were found to be totally dead, and the plaintiff was
to all appearance, deprived of life, but in about
twenty minutes he showed signs of animation.
Every care was given to him at the moment, but his
thirst could not be allayed for a considerable time.
Ultimately surgical assistance was obtained, and the
plaintiff was conveyed to Manchester, and placed in
the care of Mr. Burgess, the surgeon. Two addi-
thine' surgeon's were then called in, and the plaintiff
was not expected to survive. Sixteen weeks had
now elapsed since the accident took place, during
which time the plaintiff had been kept on his back, it
not being deemed safe to raise him up even for the
purpose of making a better examination of the in-
juriea he had received. One of his legs had both
bones broken—not an ordinary fracture—the bones
were protruding some five inches from the skin, and
were mashed rather than fractured. His left arm
was broken, and his breast bane was supposed to have
received serious injury. In addition to the surgeons
mentioned, Mr. Jordan had to be called in as con-
sulting surgeon, and the surgical attendance alone
up to the present time would come to nearly
3001. ; and for many and many a day those ex-
penses would have to be continued. Ile (the
Learned Counsel) believed, on the whole, the jury
would come to the conclusion that reasonable dili-
gence had not been used, and then the only question
would be, what compensation they would award to
this unfortunate man for the injuries which the ne-
gligence of the defendants had occasioned. Here was
one who ought to be in the prime of life and the ful-
ness of health and strength, reduced to a maimed if
not a perfectly crippled condition. He asked them to
think of those sixteen weeks of pain and agony that
the unfortunate man had had to bear, and also of his
succeeding life—shortened beyond any doubt—de-
prived of all those sources of enjoyment which life
conveyed to the perfect and the healthy, and all
through the defendants' negligence, and which the
slightest prudence and forethought might have
avoided. He was aware that no money could amply
compensate for an irsjury like this ; but though it
might not compensate, it would do muck to alleviate ;
and he would leave the case in the hands of the jury,
believing they would come to the conclusion that the
defendants were utterly without excuse, and that
they would give ample damages, in proportion to
the extreme severity of the accident sustained by the
plaintiff.
The Learned Counsel then called Mr. John Gibson,
the secretary, and Mr. John Crichly, the station-
master at Chester, who proved the state of the line,
the times of the departure of the trains from Chester,
and thegeneral arrangement which had been made for
carrying passengers on the line.
Other witnesses were also called, one of whom
stated that he saw the trains go into the tunnel, and
that they appeared to go in together.
Mr. Sergeant WILKINs then addressed the jury for
the defendants, and contended that no sufficient case
of negligence had been made out against the com-
pany ; but even if the jury should come to the con-
clusion that there was some negligence, he asked them
whether they did not think that 1,0001. would be rea-
sonable and fair compensation for the injury whtch
the plaintiff had sustained ?
His LORDSHIP, in summing up, told the jury that,
in his opinion the company had not taken due pre-
caution to guard against accidents which were likely
to occur from the great increase of traffic which had
taken place; the jury would, therefore, find for the
plaintiff, giving such damages as they thought rea-
sonable.
The jury returned a verdict fur the plaintiff—
Damages 1,5001.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PL&TT.)
Ann Shaw, 27, was charged with having, at Ashton-
under-Lyne, on the 15th of,;June last, wilfully mur-
dered her infant child.
Mr. Pollock and Mr. Miilward appeared for the
prosecution, and Mr. Monk defended the prisoner.
It appeared that the prisoner, who is an Irish-
woman, residing at a house in Lees, near Ashton-
under-Lyne, kept by a woman named Fogg, and
earned her living by washing. Her sister, who re-
sided near her, had often accused her of being in the
family way, and although she had been confined a
year or two before in Ireland, she denied that she was
in that state at the time in question, though else was
large from another cause which bad ceased. On
Sunday, the 15th of June, as a man named Adshead
was proceeding through Cockfield, a few hundred
yards from Mr. Fogg's house, he found a child newly
horn, lying dead on the grass, wrapped up in brown
paper, over which was a piece of bedticking, and also
a piece of print. The child was dead, having a
piece of thin cord round its throat, its feet tied up to
its neck, and its arms folded across its breast, so that
it was doubled up like a ball. It was then taken to
Mr. Elliott's, the surgeon, who made a post 'inortem
examination, and on applying the usual tests, he gave
it as his opinion that the child had been born alive,
that it was fully grown, and that death had been
caused by the cord which was found round the
neck having caused strangulation. The police
then proceeded to make inquiries, and the
prisoner was examined by the medical man, who gave
it as his opinion that she had been delivered, but
could not state how recently. They then searched
the prisoner's room, and in a box, which she acknow-
ledged to be hers, some brown paper was found, and
also some ticking, and a piece of print. On compar-
ing these with the ticking and the print found with
the body of the child, they resembled each other in all
respects. Some of these the prisoner acknowledged
to the police were hers, and wondered how they had
been found where it was described they had been. In
addition to this evidence, the prosecution relied upon
marks which were found at the bottom of the pri-
soner's box, and which led those who saw them to
the conclusion that they might have been caused by a
new-born child having been laid in it, and these marks
were only the impression of the body and head, and
not of the legs of the child, which would have been
the case had the child's legs been tied up to its neck,
as the legs of the child in question were found to be.
Various witnesses who resided in the house with the

prisoner, and who slept in the same room with her,
stated that they had observed that she had increased in
site. One of them had given her some medicine to
Alleviate her sufferings, which she did not understand
proceeded from pregnancy, but from another cause.
The witnesses likewise stated that a child could not
have been born in the bedroom of the prisoner with-
out their hearing or being aware of it. The under-
clothes of the prisoner and other linen which had
stains upon them were adduced to show that a birth
had taken place, but the medical man did not assert
confidently that the marks found would inevitably lead
him to that conclusion.

At the close of the case for the prosecution,
Mr. Morro as.ked his Lordship whether there was
any occasion for him to address the jury, as there
was no evidence that the prisoner had been delivered
of a child ; but the jury seemed desirous that the
Learned Counse; should address them.
Mr. MONK th en addressed the jury, and said that
there was no evi. -fence whatever to support the charge
of murder again st any person whatever, and that the
mode and mann( ‘r in which the child was found, at
most would only show that the person, whoever tihf
WSF, whop had delivered of thi; child had en-
deavoured to con ceal the birth, by dispo,ing of the
body; but he would contend, with the greatest con-.
dence, that there was no evidence whatever in the

whole case which could justify them in coming to the
conclusion that tha prisoner had been delivered of any
child at all.
His LORDSIIIP having summed up,
Tae jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

POLICE; INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

CASE OF ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER BY A POLICEMAN.
(Continued from •ur Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
After the examination of several other witnesses,
Mr. Lewis addressed the bench at considerable length,
and contended that the evidence did notjustify the com-
mittal of the prisoner.
In the course of Mr. Lewis's address Lee again in-
terrupted the proceedings, by denying the truth of cer-
tain statements made by that gentleman, and was im-
mediately removed frost the court by the direction of
Mr. Alderman Wilson.
At the conclusion of Mr. Lewis's address the further
hearing was adjourned to Tuesday next.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
George Roberts, a young man of very feminine
appearance, dressed in female attire, and who stated
that he was an artificial florist, staying at the White
Hart Tavern, Bishopsgate-street Without, was yester-
day brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with steal-
ing two gold bracelets, value 61., the property of Mr.
Henry Smith Emery, of No. 31, Welbeck-street,
Cavendish-square.
Mr. Emery, it appeared, went on Thursday night
to a fancy dress ball, at Weippert's Rooms, Davies-
street, Berkeley-square, dressed in the character of
the Prince in Cinderella, having on his wrists the
bracelets named in the charge. About three o'clock
yesterday morning some altercation took place be-
tween the complainant and prisoner about the dancing,
whereupon the prisoner, forgetting his feminine cha-
racter, struck the complainant in the face with his
fists. Prosecutor was then surrounded by several of
the prisoner's companions, and, after being hustled
about, the prisoner came up to him, and tore his
bracelets from his wrists. Defendant followed up
this attack by destroying the dress which complainant
wore. Complainant ran out of the rooms, and, having
procured the attendance of a police-constable, gave
the prisoner in charge. He was searched at the sta-
tion, but the bracelets had not been found.

The prisoner, in a very feminine tone of voice,
said, in answer to the charge, that he was at
Weippert's dancing-rooms on Tnuraday night, when
the complainant came into the room with a long pipe
stuck in his cheek, and placed himself in the centre
of a set of quadrilles in which he was dancing. He
told him to stand on one side, and on his refusing to
abate the nuisance he (defendant) left the rooms for
the purpose of speaking to some person about com-
plainant's conduct, and he was about returning
the prosecutor came up to him with a constable, and
gave him in charge for stealing his bracelets.
Mr. BINGHAM—Pray, what are you, and how do
you get your living ? Defendant—l have only been
from Manchester six weeks, and am an artificial florist
by trade. lam at present staying at the White Hart
Tavern, Bishopsgate-street Without.
Mr. BINGHAM—I shall order you to be put back
till two o'clock, and direct the officer to make some
inquiries about you at the White Hart.
The prisoner was then locked up, but as soon as
he was in the cell he admitted to the officer that he
had given a wrong address, and that he would die
before he gave his right one.
The prisoner was then b: aught into court and re-
manded until Wednesday next.

WORSHIP-STREET.
A respectable-looking young woman, who gave the
fictitious name of Mary Harris, and refused to give
her real name or address, was placed at the bar before
Mr. thunmill, charged with dashing pepper into the
eyes of a shopman, and stealing a card containing 41
gold wedding-rings from the house of Mr. Charles
Alexander Moore, a silversmith and jeweller in High-
street, Shoreditch.
When called upon for her defence, the prisoner
said, " I should not have done it, had it not been for
being involved is great distress, and have nothing
more to say."
The depositions were taken by Mr. Vine, the chief
clerk, and the prisoner was fully committed for tria)