The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-24 00:00:00

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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 24, 185 6,
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Spirit of the Public Journals. I cry for next session ; and that it may be aloud
IRELAND. Naval and Military
intelligence. was paid, and were then, at four o'clock in the morning, PRICES OF SHARES,
sent on shore, and marched to the head quarters of tl e
BANKS, ASSURANCE AND OTHER COTO.
i cry, let the people begin it now. Weknow what we 4- 4. corps in Portsmouth. Out of some 25 men composing
____.„.„.._ DUBLIN, SATURDAY MORIN•ING.PA.NIES' :STOCK.
I have to expect from our representative 3 in the An Admiralty order has been received at Sheerness, the detachment, half a dozen were at bead-quarters at
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( Prom the Times.) i early sessions of Parliament. We know how soon THE TIPPERARY RANK. postponing the experiments that were to have taken place once placed under arrest and con reigned for various breaches
What can we say on the passage of arms between The dreary arguments in the case of " O'Fla.-
at Seoeburyness to-morrow aeainst the floating battery of discipline &c. which were no doubt attributable to Prom the Official Lest. Fin
See
the Marquis Townshend and Sir Robert Peel re- ' they forget their hustings pledges, their many and
i glorious promises, their protestations of immaculate Trusty. She remains.. now at her harbour. mo
.g.,
.a . the lengthened period they_ had been. kept.. .on duty. The
ispecting the letter's judgment in commenting on 1
purity and sturdy patriotism. But when the pros-
P Y pert yv. Dowell," were at length brought to au
end yesterday, and the Lord Chancellor has inti- ready ; on the inside of her starboard side, the side in
''
o'rin s ail
tended to be fired at, all her orts are secured by solid
P marines belonged to the Woolwich division and they
had th l'ortune to be sent to that lace'b railway
e good P y PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING Thi
LONDON, FRIDAY, Nov. 21, 1856. q
Sir Charles Napier'a doings ? Of course the charge
Peet of the hustings comes once more in view, we mated the probability of his being prepared to timber, shored with square baulks of timber from the side at about noon on Thursday. (SAS-LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.
ita, that the Baronet's observationss savoured of i may aive judgment on Tuesday next. In the Court of to the midships hatchway combings. This certainly could Nov. 23. Dividend 1 Amount
" indiscretion." Be it so. Sir Robert Peel, as con- expect that for their own sakes they will do
1 something popular,_ if only to pave the way for 7,
racbequer yesterday the Chief Baron delivered The order for the Shannon, 51, screw, to come into Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
sleeted with the Admiralty, should have been silent their re-election. Now, if ever there was a Parlia- s, not be adopted if she was in action against a stone bat-tale unanimous decision of that Court in the long- eery, and it has beeu suggested that she should receive harbour has to-day been countermanded. Annum. i Share.
OR all matters connected with the high seas, and pending case of " Carroll v. Kennedy." The judg- the fire in the same state she must be in if in active sea- The Bulldcg, paddle sloop, Commander Gordon, :.zs.d. X s. d.j Oa
neither in his capacity as borough member, nor of meet which had the credit of being, renegade from
the faith it professed at the hustings, it is this. meet is considered very important, as bearing upon vice. Notwithstanding this, the undermentioned officers arrived to day from a cruise. British •.• •• • ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• - - - 1 -
,20 0 0 20 0 0 -
returned Moscow lion, should he have uttered one the case which has just been argued in the Court have offered their services to remain on board her while Ditto frovincial •• ••
,20 0 0 20 0 0 15
word concerning Cronstadt or the Baltic campaign. Others may have been quite as bad-in fact very
probably they were so ; but none have had the ill- of Chancery :- under fire ;-Capt. Edward P. Halsted, Commander H. WOOLWICH, 23. Brighton •• •• .• -•• • 3
Nov*
1. City of London .. •• •• I
100 0 0 150 0 0 16 Qi
Certainly, were we to measure our official people Lloyd, Lieut. Fred. Pyne, Lieut. Godfrey Taylor, and VISIT OF MISS NIGHTINGALE TO WOOLWICII.-miss continental (4th Cap.) . - 50 0020 0 0 - . 3
The Chief Baron said that the case came before the all
luck tower the same credit for their dishonesty. „
Lieut. Geo. V. Phillips, all belonging to the Edinburgh Equitable ••••••• •• .. 21. 10s. 50 0 0
by past standards, such reticence would be praise-F. Nightingale, accompanied by Lord Pam-pure, paid an 12
What chance have the men who compose it of
Court upon a demurrer taken by the plaintiff to the plea
screw steam guardship, of the reserve, at Sheerness, unexpected visit to Weolwich on Friday last, and were Great Centra1........
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worthy, and, indeed, indispensable. According to in answer to the scire facia.e filed by the plaintiff. The •all
Imperial .. • • lOl. & roans. 5400 0 g
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being re-elected ? They have the chance which
the old etiquette, we cannot doubt that for a subal- their votes during next session will give them. plea, the subject of the demurrer, stated that the co-part- Several consultations of naval artillery officers have re-
centl been held - t Sheerness and Sh b
Gently a oe uryness. received by Sir W. F. Williams, commandant of the
garrison, who subsequently proceeded with the distin- Independent ....... ••
London.• -.••••• • • • • 51.
_ 50 0 0 PP ..-
tern to give in public any opinion on his depart- The last week at school is universally the week in nership kne .vn as `the Tipperary Joint-Stock Bank' was Do., Parl. Preference 6/. per cent. 25 0 0
went or the officers employed by it would be the which master and matron overflow with affection a banking company, and its members bankers within the So large is the number of invalid troops now stationed 52 (1 0 ! 24'1
at St. Mary's Barracks, Chatham, awaiting an order for uished party to the Royal Artillery Hospital, which
PithacetZir.....• .. •. - ...• 41. pesri.cent.
12 0o 0
e 16 0 0 16
greateat of offences. But, unhappily, these whole- for their pupils-the week of cakes and wine and meaning of the old statute, the 33d of George 11.,
their discharge, that the Commissioners from Chelsea, gwas minutely inspected, Dr. Hallahan, the Deputy In•
Spector-General, conducting the visitors over the various United Go.ieral. :::: ••• 21. 10s. 50 0 0 all Ins;
some traditions are no more. The Gracchi com- smiles, instead of frowns and short commons and and that it bad stopped payment, and was at the time of
Hospital have been occupied for three days in medically 9 P 53
plaining of sedition would be as much on false the birch. For the first six sessions of this veteran its stoppage largely indebted to divers persons, and . P .
inspecting those noncommissioned officers and men who Miss Nightingale recognised several ef the Royal Artils Ditto, New ........ - 1500010 0 0 , 10%
ff ir became liable to be d ' • t din wards, and explaining the arrangements and regulations, Westminster Chartered 41 per cent. ,60 0 0
ground as are our military and naval people when parliament we had plenty of the latter ; now let therefore its a a s
in a minis ere
had been recommended for discharge. The commissioners ler), who had been under her care at hospitals in the WATER-WORKS.
the Court of Chancery, and were, fact, then under the
they disclaim public discussion of official or pro- us hope we shall have a little of the former. And engaged in this duty were Mr. D. Maclachlan, Deputy East, and with these she freely conversed. After re-
feasional questions. What Crimean hero has not in order that we may succeed, let us make up our administration of that Court ; and that by reason
Inspector-General of Hospitals, assisted by Dr. J. R. maiming in this building two hours, the party proceeded Dividend Amount
thereof the provisions of the act of the 6th George IV,, Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
made his speech in his county town or written his minds to ask one thing-relief from this odious Winding-op Act,, Taylor, C. 8., Deputy Inspectcr General of Hospitals, and to the Cadets' Hospital connected with the Royal Mili• 1 Annum. Share.
burden in its odious form. known as ' the Joint Stock Companies'
two or three letters to the newspaper 1 What Dr. Tice. During the sitting of the board 386 invalids tart' Academy, and, after a similar inspection of this es- P
were not applicable. His Lordship observed that it was I 4 s. d. X s. d.
wronged or miscomprehended commander has ab And let us ask in a tone which will show that we not stated in the plea how the affairs of the bank came were inspected by the commissioners-a larger number tablishment, returned to London. The visit was strictly
j 61. per cot. Stock. 100 119 A.
stained from attacking rivals% or superiors in the are determined to have it. The iniquities of this than were ever inspected on one occasion -the whole
under the administration of the Court of Chancery, and . . incognito,
and but few were aware that the lady who Grand Junction ....•• ' 4i. per cot. 30 0 0 all
East London- I
of whom were ordered to hold themselves in readiness accompanied the Secretary-at-War was Florence Night- Kent.... • • - 80
public press ? Every officer is as much a servant of tax are positively untold; uo language can describe that Court could not assume that they were taken under
to be discharged from Chatham on Thursday next. Not- ii,gaje. Lambeth • • .... •.•• . . ! - ' )00 0 0 - 95 }
her Majesty as Sir Robert Peel, and yet the spirited, the disaffection they have created, nor the extent the provisions of the 6th George IV., and, therefore,
withstanding the immense number of invalids discharged ___ .---.
. New River pant'..m , 2/. 10s. - - -- S
soldier-like polemics, to which the world is now Soathwark &Vauxhall 151. per cot. 100 0 0 - - ,
to which they have loosened the ties of morality. they did not, and could not, express any opinion as to
from St. Mary's invalid depot during the past year,
accustomed are to pass blameless, while the coat- We do not for a moment sanction or excuse the man whether the statute of the 33d George 11. was repealed
there are still upwards of 1,500 sick and wounded men a a CURIOOS RELI^IOUS CEREMONY IN JAPAN. West Middlesex • ..... 5/. per cent. ,61 0 0 - 101 ,
the 6th George IV. There was as •
mentary of the Admiralty baronet, in his capacity nothing, at that establishment, and a detachment of 89 men ar• , BRIDGES.
of country gentleman and popular member, is to be appeared to the Court in the proceedings of the old act .
who makes a false return of his income ; but we or not by .
rived on Saturday. The Moniteur de la Flotte publishes the contents of a _
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judged with pristine severity. Such is the opinion can quite understand howiit comes that hundreds do
11. to revent a )ceedin b action at cora-
lthatP Pr(
'"andthe On Saturday the ship Acadia, of London, Capt.Richd. letter of July 15, from Sitnoda, a port of Japan open to N f
ame oCompany. of Paid. Price. I
make false returns. The fact is that, right or of George .
non law -anti act was put in force; - Annum.P Share.
of the Marquis Townshend, or, at least, such it wasSpratley, from London, bound to Buenos Ayres, with
at the earlier period of the evening which was dedi- wrong, men will take the law into their own hands,
nonasowing an ac ion o e roug a com-
-1 11 • t. t b b ht t
1-8 officers and men lately disbanded from the British rest to the followers of the religion of Sint°, a pagan
X s. d. X s. d.
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if they can. If a law is manifestly unjust they
law was applicable to the proceedings under the °
Italian Legion, was towed into Sheerness Harbour by sect of the extreme East, having under its rule 40 mil- • 7%
cared to the konour of the late Mayor of Tarnworth. will evade it by any means in their power. They
remedies given by the late act. Such being the opinion lions of souls. The letter says :- ifungerford.... ••.. • • •••• - -
- 130 0 0 - - 1
If harmony was restored at a later hour, it was
are to be blamed ; but the temptation and wrong of the Court, there was nothing to prevent the party the steam tug vessel Sir Walter Scott, John Barrowly,
"The vast empire of Japan is governed by an here- Southwark -...-. •• • •
Ditto of 7% p.c. 1/. per cent. 50 0 0 - - 1
master, and anchored abreast of the flagship Waterloo,
due to the common-sense view of the case, and the from proceeding in the present action and issuing execu- • ditary and absolute prince named Kl 3 Emperor, Wt 1 New
- use 0 0 -
on o or a er oo ..... .... •• • • -
under which they mislead are not without weight
120 guns, Capt. Lord Frederick Kerr, for the purpose ofDitto Old Ann. of 81. 17. 14s. Bd. 60 0 0 - -
general conviction that whatever Sir Robert Peel tion. The demurrer should therefore be allowed with b • and and at Y ddo • the island of Ni bon. Inde-
residing e ,in
- ' • . Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11. 10s. 4d. 40 0 0 - 2i36
o taming an securing rng during their outward passage,
had said was fully justified by facts, however much in the scales of Justice. Let the Government bear
some portion of the blame of actions to which they costs." pendently of the Emperor, another personage in teat Vauxhall ............ 965. 70 10 3 - 20
firearms, ammunition, bowieknives, swordsticks, and
official decorum might have prescribed silence on THE MURDER OF MR. LITTLE. dangerous weapons of various kinds, which a number of country is of first-rate imPortance-the Dairi, or sove-
the matter. have urged their subjects. But at the same time
let the people remember that this is a considers-
Indeed Although no very striking facts calculated to in- the men had purchased at Gravesend, and refused to give reign-pontiff of Japan, supreme head of the religion of
Sinto. He is regarded as a god on earth, who never DOCKS.
fora man of good feeling, good sense Dividend Amount ,
crease the chances of the discovery of the murderer up to the captain and officers accompanying them out. dies, but who from time to time renovates his soul. The Name of Company per of , Paid. I Price.
and full acquaintance with the subject to abstain
5 tion which will sit very lightly on the consciences
of our rulers ; and that, if they would be free from have publicly transpired since Thursday, there is The officers in charge were Captain Gwyn, commandant, Dairi inhabits the city of Myako, also situated in the Annum. Share. 1
from remarking on Sir Charles Napier's proceedings this immoral and extortionate impost, they mast
ample reason for believing that the dreadful affair island of Nippon. He possesses there a, magnificent pa- ----
X s. d.' X s. d.
is more than is to be expected from human mode-Capt. Bianchi, Capt. Moreschi, Eusign Porsi, and Inter-
win their freedom by their own determined resole- will, ere the lapse of many days, cease to be the preter Zambianchi. Capt. Spratley, in command of the
lace, and has a court of 22,000 priests, charged with the Commercial .... •• •••• 51. pr cent. Stock. Stock. -
ration. Here is an officer who has for many years lion to submit no longer. mystery that has so far almost set speculation at Acadia, with whom was Capt. Clark, ship's husband to service of 4 000 places of worship in that immense city.cent. Stock.
East arid West India.. 61. pr
.... - -
taken credit for conspicuous boldness in the attack - defiance. The police authorities seem to be quite the house of Charles Walton and Sons, the ownere, find- His dress • '
is composed of a long white tunic, over which East Caritry..... ..... 20s. per sh. - -
London .• • • •.••• .. 51. pr cent. Stock.
of fortifications on land, who is appointed to con- (Prom the Daily News.) in the officers in charge could not succeed in effecting a • • -
is a wide crimson robe, and he wears a white tarnsparent Ditto Bonds •• •• -•• 4/. per cent. - - , -
sanguine of the ultimate success of their exertions •; delivery up of their arms at Gravesend, determined on _ _
duct a cam •h defences 11chiefly ' • h hgratification find that G
campaign where such will be lt is with much wea- veil, trimmed with gold lace, the people never behold- St. Katharine ........ 4 per cent. stock.
but from the very proper secrecy with which all obtaining the assistance of the commander-in-chief at the • • outhampten ........ 3/. Os per c. 50 0050 0 0 -
relied on by the enemy, and who goes to his oom- vernmeut have lost no time in appointing a Royal ing his face. On July 1, 1856, the Dairi fell ill, and
their movements are shrouded. it is impossible to .port, the Hon. W. Gordon ; and for this purpose, on the Victoria ..•• ........ I 5/. percent. 20 0 0 , 10 0 0 , -
mand amid the general belief of his countrymen Commission to inquire into the present arrange-thietbhi priest called to thepalace
was immediately call .
say what foundation there may be for the hopes Siiip s arrival, Capt. Spratley and Capt. Clark waited
that he is about to perform eome brilliant exploit, ments for transacting the civil and criminal business thus the sacerdotalcollege, composed of 200 priests JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
entertained. The following
g particulars are cordially th d • 13. f h •d th most Novfi
e comman er-in-c le , w o receive em
How far Sir C. Napier encouraged such a belief, or of the Superior Courts of Law at Westminster, andthe first class, charged with the religious adrun Dividend Amount
compiled from the papers :- , and in a short time First Lieutenant Edward E. nistration of the empire. On the 3d he got much worse, Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
how far this anticipated greatness was thrust upon into the manner and times of holding the circuits.
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____ Maunsell, of the Waterloo, proceeded on board theAcadiaAnnum. Share.
From the pertinacious and almost unheard of at- and immediately the priests spread the news that the
him, we shall not discuss. It is enough that he went Among other points on which the commission is
hich re b • de b th se
1 d with the master-at-arms and ship 'e corporal, who were
a.
•eing ma y o emp oye Dairi hadplaced himself in communicationwith -----j
the X s. d. Z s. d.
forth with the good wishes of every one, and, so more particularly directed to report, is the goes-
prosecutingtoemptsatsecrec, w .
shortly after followed by Capt. Lord Frederick Kerr. The
the inquiry it is generally surmised that greatgods heaven, andabout his seal in 140 0 0 all
of
far from there being any intention to thwart him on rice whether the number of the common law judges
lth ,are at lin possession of some clue to the party or request of Capt. Spratley and Capt. Gwyn was inter- the bosom of Ten-Sic Dai-vain, the highest of all these British North American 6l. per cent.
15000 00 (.6)
20 i•
the part of the Admiralty, it will be remembered can be reduced without detriment to the public parties implicated in the fearful deed. Up to a late hour preted to the men by Lieutenant Maunsell, addressing divinities. Prayers were ordered for the happy accom- gcrmierlcial of London. ,15011.. 0 0 ;5
Ppeerr cceennt. 100 0 0 0 0 22N
that his subsequent adversary, Sir James Graham, service. The commissioners appointed are Lord on Thursday night Mr. Kemmis, the Crown solicitor, them in French, and Zanabianchi, in Italian, informing plishment of that solemn act, and when they had terms 5:Lenia:„.:11'.......:::::. i 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
went even beyond the limits of good taste in dilat- Campbell, Lord Wensleydale, Mr. Baron Alderson, was engaged in holding a private investigation at the them that it was the custom of this country on emigrants
' nated the priests announced that the people were about Lond.Char. Bk. of Ans.', 20 0 0 all 0 20'/
ing upon his expected triumphs. Well, the thing Mr. Justice Cresswell, the Right Hon. J. Stuart terminus, when Bernard Gunning, clerk in the locomo- embarking for a foreign port, to delivertbe up
y werea taking London
percent.unlawful
destination.
pontiff. The crowd hastened to the palace, where the London Joint• Stock . - il2l. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 -
was censured, the commander was censured. The is now finally confirmed), Sir Frederic Thesiger, Catherine Campbell, servant to Mrs. Gunning, the t Dairi was lying on an immense bed of state with his erg
(lifter some reoPnymer-ation among thr men, who formed ititiOiTeof Ireland- 1
8811..ppoerr percent. 11)1(c)) 00 (0) 25
allO 0 :.-.
criticism may have been hasty ; perhaps it was. and Mr. Horatio Waddington, Under-Secretary of housekeeper ; Robert Phayre, an audit clerk ; and one . different robes on and the gauze veil covering his face. The priests
On the one side numerous instances of attacks on State for-the Home Department. or two others were examined at great length and with in groups upon deck, Cavite Giovan • • ni, a pn- N tier '''' or Ir'el.a.n.d 61 per cent. 50 0 0
remained praying in turns in the midst of the burning a '''' • • -' i. 22 10 0 -
.. vat. Provincial of Eng. ,8- per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 -
vale of the 2,1 Regiment of the Legion, set an example
land batteries were cited ;on the other we were Having taken an opportunity on several recent the utmost ,
minuteness and their depositions committed
by walking up on the
quietly .
..
drawing his •
perfumes and other practices of their religion. Oa the ' Ditto. New .. •• •• • •
, 8/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 -
to writing. The key has not yet been found, and it forecastle, sth July, at nine in the morning, the Dairi expired, and oriental Bank Corpora. 181. p. ct.&bs. 25 0 0 all 39!;
told of the long blockades of Toulon and Cadiz, occasions of pointing out the urgent necessity that six-barrel revolver, and discharging all six shots into the South Australia ••.• - ' ,141 p.ct.&bs. 25 0 0 35%
wouldappear as if the police *ther despaired of itsimmediate] after his breathin his last the high priest PP
when the bravest of the brave would not trust oak has arisen for a thorough and searching inquiry c very etertained hopes
oefi
eoroinonsomething
re
.
water. He then came aft, on the poop, and delivered announces that the soul hadg gone to pay a visit to Union,ittoof Australia...... Iol..epeerr
ceeerint 25 0 0 63
210 0 -
against stone walls. The end was that Sir C. into the whole subject of the judicial arrangements more important, and ha therefore coming
further his revolver, with all his ammunition, to Captain Gwyn, the gods, but would speedily return. A dead silence Union of L0nd0n.....--... 20,1, per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 28%
Napier was not reappointed to the fleet of 1855. .of the Superior Courts, especially with reference to and the other officers, for which he received a receipt. then 40 0 0 all
search, as the canal has been permitted to refil its bed succeeded ; and at the end of about ten minutes, Union of Madrid ... •• - -
The Admiralty, his superiors, considered that the the present manner of holding the circuits, we are by means of the syphon. We have heard on good au- Upon the others seeing this done they followed the ex- the high priest, surrounded by the sacred college, threw CANALS.
national interests would be served by a change of of course well satisfied to find that the subject has thority that but for the peremptory remonstrances of ample. Revolver after revolvero was discharged and a large white linen cloth over the body, and the moment
command. What was the duty of the Admiral in so promptly been put in a course of investigation. the police the canal would not have been suffered to re- rdsti k
given up, b. owie.knives, sw. oe, poniards,. dirks, after, withdrawing it, discovered to the eyes of the mot- Names of 94 1 •
- Dividend pri,A Names of lti Dividend
such circumstances ? Evidently to do what Jervis The constitution of the commission is more open to main dry on the second day, when the razor was got, &c.
Captain Lord Frederick Kerr, with Lieutenant • danother force titu e rm altogether, similar to that of the late Companies. 4 , per .
• ! --- Companies. Per Price.
the Acadia,andthe
Maunsell, the master of s 4 Annum.
and Parker and many a great man had done before stricture. Without objecting to any one of the and it is thought that the key is still in the same place,Dairi, but full of life and health. This new head of the re 'Annum. ,
1 02 i
husband, assisted by the non-commissioned officers of - -
him-to submit to the judgment of those who had lawyers nominated to serve on it, the remark in- and that if a proper search had been made it would, in Church at once sat up in the bed, then rose altogether, ,
X X
the Le ion, the master-at-arms and ship's corporal
intrusted him with command, and had au equal evitably arises that an inquiry of this kind ought all probability, have been also recovered. It has been a -, andproceeding to altar placed one side ascended it,:los. 51
d h.ise l, on . _ tshtn &Oldh 93 71: p. ct. 145 Nlacelesfleld. 100
then proceeded below ieto the berths of the soldiers,2%.se
right to resume their trust. But already the spirit not to be entrusted entirely to professional men. As subject of remark to many that the search in this qnar•
and Le gave. benediction o t . t e multitude, who uttered El arnsley •• • • 160 - - N eath •-• • • • 1001
of folly and insubordination had shown itself. The the commission stands at present this is the case, Mr. conducted with considerable carelessness, some
every man opened his box or sack to satisfy all par- ts of joy. By a stratagem easily managed, the priests BrkrikecAbrg 1501, 4/: Oxford.... • • 100; -
ter 103
ofthweasworkmen being often engaged in killing eels,: i ties they had no firearms or weapons concealed therein. had substituted for the deceased Dairi the person of hie Coventry,...eirniineham fro/
2451.1. 91%
iPteeagkeal,;:isr.e.s.t.. 7308 ! Slip. 166 ii
Admiral could. not be content with sharing the Waddington, the only apparent exception, having stead of working steadily under guidance of os le:
0 During the search Captain Spratley detected two bowie- son, his natural heir. A trap had let down one body, Derby •• •• ,100 6/. 15s. 84 Rocdae... 851 11. 10s.
blame of any shortcomings with the Admiralty, been for years a practising barrister before his ap- knives and a swordstick ooncsaled, for which no owner
tent officers, such as the company might be naturally and raised the other, without the people being able, in Trßasoindrjei&Chs! 69 pi p. ct. - Som rset Coal 140; : -
with his officers, his men, and with the circum- pointment to the under-secretaryship. There can could be found. This being effected, Captain Lordl2
supposed to have at their disposal. The smallness of the the midst of the prostrations called for by their form of Do., 6 1 StfirelL&F‘Trdo7
I,'
rnl.ll eil /I:ppi.r:cett... 413,,, Do. ic
14 281. 440--
stances of the case-all of which the nation was he no doubt that in this respect Government have reward offered has alsoibeen the subject of general ob- Frederick Kerr left, and on Lieutenant Maunsell leav- worship, to perceive the deception. Tee corpse was re- Grand Surrey!loo 4/. -' Shrewsbury:: i - -
disposed to believe in some way responsible for the proceeded on an erroneous principle of selection. servation. There are good grounds for believing that ing he addressed the men, recommending them not to moved Irons the palace the same night and burned; and Grandennt Union 100 leo it. os. - itourbrldge.. i 45 121. 290
failure. No, he must endeavour to clear himself Upon one of the most important points of inquiry the remains of Mr. Little were privately exhumed this forget they were soldiers, and to cheerfully obey all the ashes deposited in the hollow head of one of a range i-
Lancaster .. 130?) 6s. Od. 634 sivevyeneißaanildi
26 2%. _
and preserve his popularity at the expense of every to be submitted to the Commission, viz , the work- day and again examined by the medical men in connexion orders of their superior officers, upon which the men of bronze statues erected in the Temple of Ycle to the Leeds &Livrp; 100' 251. 44-3 N Warwick &"/
one connected with the service. In so doing, ing of the existing Circuit arrangements,' there are with the instruments lately found, to see if the injuries gave him three hearty cheers. Captain Clark was also highest god. On the 7th the new Dairi quitted his pa. Leicester .•••1100 51, 49% Birming. 5 100 • 21. 25
it is needless to say, he has only damaged many lay members of the House of Commons who, loudl cheed b the officers men and women, Of
were such as they would be likely to inflict, and the - yy " Tand went through
lace surrounded by all the priests, - -
Loughbo Warwick &
r0gh,142 701. 550 Napton_.l 100 21.
the latter there was a goodly number. he Acadia
his own case. Two years ago there were from frequent attendance at the assizes as sheriffs, Crown Solicitor, with the superintendents of the deter- the various parts of the city in a grand triumphant car msemsa i
thsh,loo - _ Worcstr .8; 1 ~,, gz
left the harbour S d
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plaining of sedition would be as much on false
ground as are our military and naval people when
they disclaim public discussion of official or pro-
fessional questions. What Crimean hero has not
made his speech in his county town or written his
two or three letters to the newspaper What
wronged or miscomprehended commander has ab
stained from attacking rivals or superiors in the
public press ? Every officer is as much a servant of
her Majesty as Sir Robert Peel, and yet the spirited,
soldier-like polemics, to which the world is now
accustomed are to pass blameless, while the com-
mentary of the Admiralty baronet, in his capacity
of country gentleman and popular member, is to be
judged with pristine severity. Such is the opinion
of the Marquis Townshend, or, at least, such it was
at the earlier period of the evening which was dedi-
cated to the konour of the late Mayor of Tamwortb.
If harmony was restored at a later hour, it was
due to the common-sense view of the case, and the
general conviction that whatever Sir Robert Peel
had said was fully justified by facts, however much
official decorum might have prescribed silence on
the matter.
Indeed for a man of good feeling, good sense,
and frill acquaintance with the subject to abstain
from remarking on Sir Charles Napier's proceedings
is more than is to be expected from human mode-
ration. Here is an officer who has for many years
-taken credit for conspicuous boldness in the attack
oh fortifications on land, who is appointed to con-
duct a campaign whei e such defences will be chiefly
relied on by the enemy, and who goes to his com-
mand amid the general belief of his countrymen
that he is about to perform some brilliant exploit.
How far Sir C. Napier encouraged such a belief, or
how far this anticipated greatness was thrust upon
him, we shall not discuss. It is enough that he went
forth with the good wishes of every one, and, so
far from tkere being any intention to thwart him on
the part of the Admiralty, it will be remembered
that his subsequent adversary, Sir James Graham,
went even beyond the limits of good taste in dilat-
ing upon his expected triumphs. Well, the thing
failed. The Admiralty was censured, the fleet
was censured, the commander was censured. The
criticism may have been hasty ; perhaps it was.
On the one side numerous instances of attacks on
land batteries were cited ; on the other we were
told of the long blockades of Toulon and Cadiz,
when the bravest of the brave would not trust oak
against stone walls. The end was that Sir C.
Napier was not reappointed to the fleet of 1855.
The Admiralty, his superiors, considered that the
national interests would be served by a change of
command. What was the duty of the Admiral in
such circumstances ? Evidently to do what Jervis
and Parker and many a great man had done before
him—to submit to the judgment of those who had
intrusted him with command, and had au equal
right to resume their trust. But already the spirit
of folly and insubordination had shown itself. The
Admiral could not be content with sharing the
blame of any shortcomings with the Admiralty,
with his officers, his men, and with the circum-
stances of the case—all of which the nation was
disposed to believe in some way responsible for the
failure. No, he must endeavour to clear himself
and preserve his popularity at the expense of every
one connected with the service. In so doing,
it is needless to say, he has only damaged
his own case. Two years ago there were
thousands still willing to believe him a hero
thwarted by circumstances, to whom it was
wrong not to give a second chance. Now he
stands self-convicted of almost every fault which
unfits an officer for command. He has spoken,
written, and electioneered against the Admiralty,
to the confidence of which he owed the highest
appointment to which a naval officer could aspire.
Sir Robert Peel, as the representative of the Ad-
miralty, was in some respects on the defensive. If
the Board had provided the Admiral with unwieldy
ships, manned by land-lubbers ; if it knew nothing
about the defences of Constradt, and had placed
false descriptions of their vincibility at his dis-
posal ; if it had restrained him through tenderness
for the enemy, or insufficiently supported him from
matters of parsimony, it was much to blame. Sir
C. Napier and his friends bad asserted or insinu-
ated all these things. Southwark had rung with
denunciations of the department to which Sir R.
Peel belongs. The Admiral, an officer bearing the
Queen's commission and a Grand Cross of the Bath,
had harangued mob after mob against the meu
who superintended during the war the most im-
portant part of the national forces. Seeing, then,
what the provocation was, what the habits of the
times are, how far the old etiquette has been in-
fringed by those who are most bound to conform
to it, we certainly cannot find any great harm in
Sir Robert Peel stating a fact within his knowledge
which contradicted the arguments of the noisy Ad-
miral. When Sir Charles Napier makes a visit to St.
Petersburg, and has an interview with the Grand
Duke, who was opposed to him merely in order to
get matter for the enlivenment of the beer-shops of
the Borough, it may certainly be permitted to
those who iu the due fulfilment of a public mission
have become acquainted with the truth to utter it
in their private and unofficial capacity.
We cannot therefore but rejoice that the Mar-
quis Townshend, in hissubsequeut speech, acknow-
ledged the essential fairness of Sir R. Peel's re-
marks. In fact, it is evident that the two speakers
are pretty much of the same opinion in the main.
The Marquis Townshend is intimate with Sir C.
Napier, an l " told him from the beginning what a
scrape he would get into." He owns that the
admiral has disappointed the country, and thinks
that it would have been better for him to remain
quiet, and he deplores " that unfortunate cacoethes
scribendi, that eternal love of talking, that perpe-
tual hatred of leaving things quiet, which has been
Sir Charles's " worst enemy. ' Sir Charles may
well pray to he spared from his friends. If these
be the opinions of a man who is sufficiently his par-
tisan to disturb a festive meeting iu his defence,
the admiral may form some notion of the verdict
of the impartial and uninterested public. Per-
fectly agreeing that " far too much has been said"
on this subject, we are willing to leave it in the
position in which the two speakers at Tamworth
have combined to place it.

(From. the Morning Advertiser.)
A meeting of the
held
Property and Income-tax As-
sociation is to beto day, at the London
Tavern, Alderman Sir James Duke in the chair, to
the
promote the objects oft
association—to agitate
against this unequal, oppressive,and immoral tax.
We know no subject of the present day—whether
of home or foreign politics—
olifat either deserves or
sym-
is so likely to command the attention and
pathy of the public in behalf
an
eassociation which
n
is doing what it can to put
an impost
on
that presses most severely those d to
who are least able to bear it, and placesvery persons
of Englishmen in the position of having thousands
to support
an often unequal struggle between.
Pconscience. The association comes forvred trty fiand
the battle of those thousands ; and the least
st ghtthe
thousands can do is to stand by the association.
The first object is to obtain an immediate reduction
of the tax from 16d. to 7d. in the pound, an
then
to fight.; for an equitable adjustment of this
much-
abused impost—much abused on both sides, and
on one side deservedly.
There is not a man in England worthy to live
under the protection of its laws who would not
readily, and heartily, contribute his fair share to
the support of the public burdens. He who would
refuse to do so would be unworthy the name of
Englishman. But he would be ((pally unworthy
of it were he tamely to submit to be robbed, even
though the process is sanctioned by Act of Parlia-
ment. It is nothing less than legal robbery—im-
moral, if it were sanctioned by the whole statute-
lsook—to make A, who. works ten hours a day, pay
the same tax on h. a 13 income which B pays, whole
work is play, d whose income flows into his hand
whether hey' plays
immoral
lawpwahyshor works. It is a monstrous and
compels the poor teacher oflan-
guages, the toiling
the clerk, to pay student, the writer, the artist,
landed potentatye as much upon his income as the
poverished, give who could, without being im-
lacqueys incomes ass twenty or thirty footmen and
plate, answering his good as theirs for handing his
is a monstrous and an ' running his messages. It
income, which will immoralscarcely
thing to say that an
and preserve a decent Boat
keep the pot boiling,
shall be taxed in the same t °II the owner's back,
sands and tens of thousands which
as the thou-
incomes of the men who havetoad form
the the modest
to
enforces this iniquity. Englishmen h law
have submittedwhich
to this extortion long enough already,
their time to be up and doing in good earnest.
Now is
arnest.
" Down with the Income-tax;" Let that be the

a body of inquirers exclusively composed of those
who are, have been, or aspire to be Common Law
Judges is hardly so likely to come to a satisfactory

conclusion on this point as a Commission comprising

a due share of well-informed lay members The
point indeed is so clear that we trust Government
will give a convincing proof of their being in
earnest in the inquiry by speedily adding to
the Commission the names of some of those
members of the House of Commons whose
breadth of ♦iew, general acquaintance with pub-
lic business, and administrative ability, would
qualify them to consider the question in all its
bearings, and not merely or mainly as affecting the
supposed interests of the legal profession. Amongst
many other names that might be mentioned, those
of Mr. Gladstone, Sir James Graham, Sir John
Pakington, or Mr. Henley, at once suggest them-
selves as those of men able, if willing, to do good
service to the public in a matter of this kind with
which politics have absolutely nothing to do.
On the importance of the inquiry, after the fre-
quent comments we have so recently made on the
matter, we need add very little. If further evi-
dence were wanting of the necessity for some speedy
re-distribution of judicial force and re-arrangement
of judicial business, it has been amply supplied by
the state of business in the Superior Courts of Com-

mon Law at 'Westminster during the term which is
just drawing to a closQ. In the Court of Common
Pleas it has more than once happened of late that,

after a formal interchange of' tows between th .;)
Bench and the Bar, the venerable tribunal has had
to rise from an absolute failure of any public de-
mand for its services. The sittings in the Court
of Exchequer have been less indecorously brief, but
they have been to a great, extent filled up with
discussions on mere points of practice which
might be decided quite as satisfactorily, and far
more economically, before a single Judge sitting,
as is the case with the Queen's Bench, in a se-
parate Court. In the Court of Queen's Bench,
where the amount of solid and serious business
transacted is generally greater than in either of the
co-ordinate Courts, it has this term sunk below
anything that has been usual of late years ; nor do
the most sanguine habitués of the Hall look for-
ward in this respect with much hope of amend-
ment. Of course " this effect defective comes by
cause"—and the cause is no mystery. The in-
creased and still increasing jurisdiction of the
County Courts is rapidly tending to decentralise
the practice of the Bar. There is no help for this
change. Professional people are naturally enough
disposed to be elegiac about it, but, as far as the
public are concerned, it is the most simple thing in
the world. The laity in want!of law prefer getting
it at a low price instead of a high price, and close
at home instead of Westminster Hall. Voila tout.

On Saturday the ship Acadia, of London, Capt. Richd.
Spratley, from London, bound to Buenos Ayres, with
158 officers and men lately disbanded from the British
Italian Legion, was towed into Sheerness Harbour by
the steam tug vessel Sir Walter Scott, John Barrowly,
master, and anchored abreast of the flagship Waterloo,
120 guns, Capt. Lord Frederick Kerr, for the purpose of
obtaining and securing during their outward passage,
firearms, ammunition, bowieknives, swordsticks, and
dangerous weapons of various kinds, which a number of
the men had purchased at Gravesend, and refused to give
up to the captain and officers accompanying them out.
The officers in charge were Captain Gwyn, commandant,
Capt. Bianchi, Capt. Moreschi, Ensign Porsi, and Inter-
preter Zambianchi. Capt. Spratley, in command of the
Acadia, with whom was Capt. Clark, ship's husband to
the house of Charles Walten and Sons, the owners, find-
ing the officers in charge could not succeed in effecting a
delivery up of their arms at Gravesend, determined on
obtaining the assistance of the commander-in-chief at the
.port, the Hon. W. Gordon ; and for this purpose, on the
ship s arrival, Capt. Spratley and Capt. Clark waited
upon the commander-in-chief, who received them most
cordially, and in a short time First Lieutenant Edward E.
Maunsell, of the Waterloo, proceeded on board the Acadia
with the master-at-arms and ship's corporal, who were
shortly after followed by Capt. Lord Frederick Kerr. The
request of Capt. Spratley and Capt. Gwyn was inter-
preted to the men by Lieutenant Maunsell, addressing
them in French, and Zansbianchi, in Italian, informing
them that it was the custom of this country on emigrants
embarking for a foreign port, to deliver up all arms,
ammunition, and any unlawful weapons they were taking
out fur their protection at their port of destination.
After some conversation among the men, who formed
in different groups upon deck, Cavice Giovanni, a pri-
vate of the 2d Regiment of the Legion, set an example
by walking quietly up on the forecastle, drawing his
six-barrel revolver, and discharging all six shots into the
water. He then came aft, on the poop, and delivered
his revolver, with all his ammunition, to Captain Gwyn,
and the other officers, for which he received a receipt.
Upon the others seeing this done they followed the ex-
ample. Revolver after revolver was discharged and
given up, bowie.knives, swordsticks, poniards, dirks,
&c. Captain Lord Frederick Kerr, with Lieutenant
Maunsell, the master of the Acadia, and the ship's
husband, assisted by the non-commissioned officers of
the Legion, the master-at-arms and ship's corporal,
then proceeded below ieto the berths of the soldiers,
and every man opened his box or sack to satisfy all par-
ties they had no firearms or weapons concealed therein.
During the search Captain Spratley detected two bowie-
knives and a swordstick concealed, for which no owner
could be found. This being effected, Captain Lord
Frederick Kerr left, and on Lieutenant Maunsell leav-
ing he addressed the men, recommending them not to
forget they were soldiers, and to cheerfully obey all
orders of their superior officers, upon which the men
gave him t hree hearty cheers. Captain Clark was also
loudly cheered by the officers, men, and women, Of
the latter there was a goodly number. The Acadia
left the harbour at 4.15 p.m. on Saturday.
The Hermes, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Commander
William E. A. Gordon, recently returned from North
America and West Indies, has been taken into No. 2
dry dock, at Sheerness, to make good defects.
On Friday last the Royal George, 102 guns, in the
steam reserve at Sheerness, was taken out on a trial of
her machinery under the superintendence of Mr. George
Blaxland, civil engineer. On her trial, between the
Great Nora and the Mouse light vessel, her engines,
with 14th. pressure on the square inch, made 62 revolu-
tions per minute, and an increase of from one and
a half to two knots per hour, by patent log, was ob-
tained beyond what she had ever previously done.
The frigate Raleigh, 50, Captain the Hon. Henry
Keppel, from Portsmouth, arrived in Plymouth Sound
on-Friday evening, and is appointed to call to-day for
the Eust Indies, calling in Algoa-bay to land specie.
The paddlewheel steamship Bulldog, Commander
Alexander C. Gordon, from Sheerness, arrived at Ply-
mouth on Saturday, with seamen paid off from the
Hannibal. •
The steam vessel Advice, from Cork, arrived at Ply-
mouth on Thursday, with supernumeraries for the lin-
pregnable, 104, flag of Admiral Sir Wrn. Parker, and
sailed again on Saturday.
The gunboats Actaeon and Ringdove, from Ports-
mouth, arrived at Plymouth on Saturday.
The screw steam storeship Himalaya having made a
successful trip in the Channel, returned to Hatnoaze on
Saturday.
Letters have been received at Plymouth, from the
screw steamship Duke of Wellington, 131, Captain H.
Caldwell, dated Nov. 4, at Malta, where she was wait-
ing for orders. Crew well.
Capt. Craigie, R.N., entered upon his duties as Capt.
Superintendent of the Royal William Victualling-yard,
Plymouth, on Wednesday, and on Saturday accompanied
by Mr. Triscott, storekeper, and the other officers, in-
spected the bakehouse, cooperage, stores, &c.
The Star of Peace, Capt. Sproat, from London, ar-
rived at Plymouth on Saturday, and is appointed to sail
to-morrow, with a mail for Sydney.
The following promotions were made on Saturday :
Commanders A. Ilesettine, C. R. Johnson and G. J.
Napier are promoted to Captains. Commander J. B.
Cragg, A. S. Booth and G. S. Reynolds, to be Captains
on the reserved list. Lieutenants S. B. Dulling, Henry
Brown, Arthur Barrow, and H. F. W. Ingram
are promoted to Commanders. Lieutenant Percival
Baskerville to be Commander on the reserved list.
The following appointments were made on Saturday
at the Admiralty :
Commander Robert Tench Bedford to the Royal Wil-
liam, vice Cragg, promoted ; Lieutenant R. H. Dalton
to the Formidable ; W. F. Boughey and E. D. Achlom,
midshipmen, to the Hermes.

" From the pertinacious and almost unheard of at-
tempts at secrecy which are being made by those employed
in prosecuting the inquiry it is generally surmised that
they are at last in possession of some clue to the party or
parties implicated in the fearful deed. Up to a late hour
on Thursday night Mr. Kemmis, the Crown solicitor,
was engaged in holding a private investigation at the
terminus, when Bernard Gunning, clerk in the locomo-
tive department, and who also resides in the house ;
Catherine Campbell, servant to Mrs. Gunning, the
housekeeper ; Robert Phayre, an audit clerk ; and one
or t vo others were examined at great length and with
the utmost minuteness, and their depositions committed
to writing. The key bas not yet been found, and it
would appear as if the police either despaired of its re-
covery or entertained hopes of coming upon something
more important, and had therefore abandoned further
search, as the canal has been permitted to refil its bed
by means of the syphon. We have heard on good au-
thority that but for the peremptory remonstrances of
the police the canal would not have been suffered to re-
main dry on the second day, when the razor was got,
and it is thought that the key is still in the same place,
and that if a proper search had been made it would, in
all probability, have been also recovered. It has been a
subject of remark to many that the search in this gnat.-
ter was conducted with considerable carelessness, some
of the workmen being often engaged in killing eels, in-
stead of working steadily under the guidance of compe-
tent officers, such as the company might be naturally
supposed to have at their disposal. The smallness of the
reward offered has also:been the subject of general ob-
servation. There are good grounds for believing that
the remains of Mr. Little were privately exhumed this
day and again examined loy the medical men in connexion
with the instruments lately found, to see if the injuries
were such as they would be likely to inflict, and the
Crown Solicitor, with the superintendents of the detec-
tive police, subsequently entered the chamber in which
the murder took place, and were engaged for some time
in closely inspecting its appearance, size, and general de-
tails, with a similar object. The result has satisfied the
police that beyond doubt these were the actual instru-
ments used in the commission of the crime. The most
positive instructions have been given to exclude stran-
gers, and more especially the representatives of the pub-
lie press, from the scene of the occurrence, and should
the inquiries now making lead to the immediate arrest of
the supposed guilty party there may be some show of
reason in the precaution ; but the hope of keeping from
the few what must be known to the many is simply ab-
surd, not to say raiachicvous. Nothing that has yet
appeared can be considered as in any way calculated to
defeat the ends of justice, and all attempts at enforced
secrecy in a case of the kind are altogether futile.
"It is now well ascertained that no stranger to the
railway terminus perpetrated the murder. This conclu-
sion has been arrived at after an examinatien of the vari-
ous facts and incidents which have come to the know-
ledge of the officers charged with the investigation. One
of these facts is the mode of procedure of the assassin
after the committal of the murder, including his egress
from the car-gate, at the west side of the terminus, be-
traying an acquaintance with the locality impossible to
be obtained by any person who had not been either con-
nected with the company, or who had not familiarised
himse:f with the various details. We stated on Wednesday
that suspicion had fallen on some person of this class, and
we find now that that statement was fully justified by the
circumstances which have since transpired. The police
are fully satisfied that the murderer still lurks on the pre-
mises of the company, or has been till within a re-
cent period in their employment. No reasonable doubt
can now be entertained but that the hammer, the
discovery of which we announced in our last impres-
sion, was the instrument with which the assassin be-
gan his work, and from the fact that the head of
that weapon was in store, and unapproachable except
by parties properly authorised, it would seem that
those suspicions are well founded. Notwithstanding,
however, all the difficulties in the way of the officers
in their efforts to bring to justice the party concerned
in this foul crime, we have good reason to think that
those efforts are continued as unabatingly as ever, and
with more pr spect than ever of a successful result.
From information which has come to their knowledge they
are at present engaged in an investigation of the where-
abouts of certain persons on the etening of the murder,
and this, taken into connexion with the facts already
known to the public, lead to the belief that ere long the

suspected perso❑ will be in custody. With reference to
the parties brought berore the sitting magistrate at
Capel-street police-office it is but just to say that the
police are of opinion that they had not any hand in the
crime. Respecting the razor, it is now ascertained that
the blade was set in a white, not a black haft, and it

appears to be such a one as might have been taken out
of a dressing case, the property of a gentleman. It
bears the name of 'Reid,' the celebrated cutler, as ma-
nuficturer. No trace of blood is apparent on the blade
or handlc ; but from its having rz,inained in the water
for, as is presumed, some few days, all appearance of
blood, mu,t, no doubt, have been washed away. I t
will, however, be subjected to a microscopic examination."

Well, we have sanctioned the change, we have
recognised it as a necessity, we son cl,•arly enough
that the tendency, the irresistible tendency, of the
public mind is to go still further in the same direc•
tion, and yet with true British want of method we
have taken no pains to alter our judicial system
to meet the new needs of the new time. There
they are still, the three old co-ordinate Courts,
with their concurrent but separate jurisdiction ;
they still sit iu Banco during the four legal terms,
with their full staff of four Judges a-piece ; these

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- 150 0 0 10 0 0 10%
WATER-WORKS.
Dividend Amount
per of
Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. £ s. d. -.
East London
Grand Junction .... • • 4i. per cnt. 30 0 0 all -
Kent .... • •
- 80
Lambeth • • .... •• • • - 1100 0 0 - 95
New River Company - - -
Soithwark &Vauxhall 1 51. per cnt. 100 0 0 - -
West Middlesex •• • • - 101
BRIDGES.
, -
Dividend I Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. I Share.
m -
£ s. d. X B. d.
flungerford.... • • .. • • ••- - -7%
Southwark .. . ... •• • • - 130 0 0 - -
• Ditto New of 734 p.c. 1/. per cent. 50 0 0 - -
Waterloo ..... .... •• • • - 100 0 0 - -
• Ditto Old Ann. of 81. 17. 14s. Bd. 60 0 0 - -
, • Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11. 10s. 4d. 40 0 0 - 23%
' Vauxhall ...... .. •• • 965. 70 10 3 - 20
f DOCKS.
✓ Dividend Amount ,
3 Name of Company I per of 1 Paid. I Price.
e
Annum. Share. I
--- -
i• £ s. d. ' £ s. d.
e Commercial - ........ 51. pr cent. Stock. Stock. -
East arid West India.. 61. pr cent. Stock. - -
a • East Cc
.. • ..... 20s. per sh. - - -
London .• • • •..- .• 51. pr cent. Stock. - -
It Ditto Bonds .. ...... 4/. per cent. - - -
I. St. Katharine ........ 4 per cent. Stock. - -
d outhampton ........ 3/. Os per c. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Victoria .. •• .. .• .... i 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 m 10 0 0 ' -
)e
be JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
i- Dividend Amount
e, Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
me Annum. Share.
--------.
le I
in Australasia........... 20/. per cent. 40 0 0 all 98
ie British North American 6l. per cent. 150 0 0 „ -
Commercial of London. ,101. per cent. , 100 0 0 20 0 0 28
n-
Colonial ........ ...... 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 22N
1 10nian................ , 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
lot Lond. Char. Bk. of Aus. 1 - 20 0 0 all 0 20 ,
ed London and County .. ' 101. per cent. 60 0 0 20 0 0 3034
Londn dad Westminstr 14/. percent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 50
'e London Joint• Stock .•• ;121. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 -
kis Provincial of Ireland •• 181. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
its Ditto, New..... -
Natiotini of Ireland 6l. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 -
;g Nat. Provincial of Eng. , 8%. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 -
he Ditto. New .. ••• • • • 8/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 -
ad Oriental Bank Corpora. 181. p. ct.&bs. 25 0 0 all 393 i
,st South Australia • •
Union of Australia.. •• 301. per cent. 25 0 0 ~ 63
to Ditto - 210 0 -
Ce Union of London I 1201. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 2831
lg. Union of Madrid ... • • - 40 0 0 all -

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 22.

" The vast empire of Japan is governed by an here-
ditary and absolute prince named Koribo or Emperor,
and residing at Yeddo, in the island of Niphon. Inde-
pendently of the Emperor, another personage in that
country is of first-rate importance—the Dairi, or sove-
reign-pontiff of Japan, supreme head of the religion of
Sinto. He is regarded as a god on earth, who never
dies, but who from time to time renovates his soul. The
Dairi inhabits the city of Myako, also situated in the
island of Niphon. He possesses there a magnificent pa-
lace, and has a court of 22,000 priests, charged with the
serv,ce of 4,000 places of worship in that immense city.
His dress is composed of a long white tunic, over which
is a wide crimson robe, and he wears a white tarnsparent
veil, trimmed with gold lace, the people never behold-
ing his face. On July 1, 1856, the Dairi fell ill, and
the high priest was immediately called to the palace
with the sacerdotal college, composed of 200 priests
of the first class, charged with the religious admi-
nistration of the empire. On the 3d he got much worse,
and immediately the priests spread the news that the
Dairi had placed himself in communication with the
great gods of heaven, and was about to renew his final in
the bosom of Ten-Sio Dai-Tsin, the highest of all these
divinities. Prayers were ordered for the happy accom-
plishment of that solemn act, and when they had termi
nated the priests announced that the people were about
to be admitted to the palace to behold their venerated
pontiff. The crowd hastened to the palace, where the
Dairi was lying on an immense bed of state with his
robes on and the gauze veil covering his face. The priests
remained praying in turns in the midst of the burning
perfumes and other practices of their religion. On the
sth July, at nine in the morning, the Dairi expired, and
immediately after his breathing his last the high priest
announced that the soul had gone to pay a visit to
the gods, but would speedily return. A dead silence
then succeeded ; and at the end of about ten minutes,
the high priest, surrounded by the sacred college, threw
a large white linen cloth over the body, and the moment
after, withdrawing it, discovered to the eyes of the mul-
titude another form altogether similar to that of the late
Dairi, but full of life and health. This new bead of the
Church at once sat up in the bed, then rose altogether,
and proceeding to an altar placed on one side ascended it,
and gave his benediction to the multitude, who uttered
shouts of joy. By a stratagem easily managed, the priests
had substituted for the deceased Dairi the person of his
son, his natural heir. A trap had let down one body,
and raised the other, without the people being ab!e, in
the midst of the prostrations called for by their form of
worship, t• perceive the deception. Tee corpse was re-
moved from the palace the same night and burned ; and
the ashes deposited in the hollow head of one of a range
of bronze statues erected in the Temple of Ycle to the
highest god. On the 7th the new Dairi quitted his pa-
lace surrounded by all the priests, and went through
the various parts of the city in a grand triumphant car
drawn by one hundred white horses. Everywhere on
his passage the people bowed down to the earth as if a
divinity was before them. On that day all work and
business were suspended, the prisoners set at liberty, and
all criminal proceedings annulled. There are in the city
of Miyako, as in all the other parts of Japan, a consider-
able number of Buddhists, who, from deference to their
adversaries, remain shut up in their own houses during
these events,.no slight being permitted. Formerly the
Dairi united in himself both temporal and spiritual power
in Japan, hut in the year 1,200, having called to his
assistance the Seogoun, or commander-in-chief of the
army, the latter officer by degrees encroached on the
temporal power of the former, until about 1590, all
that remained to the Dairi was the spiritual power,
which he retains in all its plenitude. Since that time
the successors of the SCogoun have never ceased to
reign, and the present Emperor of Japan is his direct
descendant. There has never been any contest with the
Pairs, and so complete and well-observed a separation
of the spiritual and temporal power is unexampled in
history. With the exception of some petty pagan sects,
Japan is divided between Bhuddisna and Sintoism, the
professors of those religions living on good terms with
each other. Sintoism is the creed of the Emperor, his
family, and the numerous princes who surround his
throne, and who form an oligarchical power with which
he is obliged to govern. According to the religion of the
Sintos, the souls of virtuous men inhabit the luminous
regions. on the threshold of which Japan is placed, and
which regions are the habitual residence of the seven
spiritual gods. The souls of the wicked are condemned
to eternally wander about in the air, rejected by the
gods both of heaven and of earth. The priests of
Sinto, who are 60,000 in number in the empire, abstain
from the use of animal food, and live on vegetables
and fruit. They call their gods Sin or Kami, and their
temples Miya. In addition to other allegorical objects
there is placed in the centre of each temple a large mir-
ror of metal, the polish of which is carefully preserved,
and the signification of which is, that if the bodily de-
fects are faithfully reflected by the mirror, the defects of
the sou! are seen by immortals. The other religion prac-
tised at Japan is that of Boutsdo, which is nearly the
same as that of Bouda, but with some -trifling additions.
They admit the doctrine of the transmigration of souls,
and they threaten the wicked with all the torments of
hell. They believe in the existenceiof a paradise—a
place of real happiness, called Gokurak, which is go-
verned by the god Amida. Boutsdoisna is, however, so
closely allied to Sintoism in its belief and practice that it
is probable that at no very distant period the two creeds
will become one. Kio, or Miyako, which is the place of
residence of the Dairi, is the second capital of Japan. It
has a population of 500,000 souls."

The last illustration of the present plan of paying off
ships' crews is perhaps the very worst it could receive.
As already reported, the Hannibal, 51, screw ship, Capt.
Hay, was paid off at this port on Thursday, or rather, it
commenced at 10 in the morning of that day, but did not
finally conclude till 3 o'clock on Friday morning. The
number to be paid comprised about 700 seamen, the
marines and marine artillery being paid at their respective
head-quarters, and the sum sent on board the Hannibal
by the Portsmouth Branch Bank of England, for this
purpose, amounted to about 13,000/. The paying off of
ships of war, up to a few months of the present time,
was effected by the clerks belonging to the pay-office in
the dockyard, and a ship like the Hannibal usually had
her crew all paid off in the time included from ten in the
morning to-three in the afternoon. The pay office has
been abolished so far as this service is concerned, and
ships' crews are now paid by their own paymasters.
These officers, from having little or no experience in the
duties of a cashier, cannot be very ace fait in their dis-
charge, and it is only reasonable to suppose that the
disbursement of so large a sum among such a number
of men, hardly two of whom receive the same amount,
must be a work of time and responsibility. What-
ever may have been the cause the results to the men
have been, in a great number of instances, lament.
able and disastrous. The ship was paid off up the
harbour, in the middle of the stream, and the men had
to reach the shore in watermen's boats, of course paying
a fare of the most exorbitant character, even considering
the hour of the night or morning. But this was the
smallest of their troubles. About fifty were prudent
enough to go to the Sailors' Home, which was kindly
kept open on the occasion all night, and there found
shelter and protection ; but others, as may be expected,
were tempted to indulge in something to cheer or warm
them, the night being dark, damp, and cold. Many of
these poor fellows had a piteous tale to tell in the course
of a few hours, At seven o'clock in the morning one
man presented himself to the police at the dockyard
gates, and requested their aid, saying he was only paid
off a few hours before, and that he had already been
robbed of every farthing he received-211. In the
course of the day several others went to the Through
police•stations complaining of having been robbed of
1.151., and other similar sums of money ; but so
bewilderedl4 were they from the effects of like horrible
drink they had received that they were totally unable
to tell the police what houses they had been to. The
paying of men under such circumstances is to th em a
curse of the bitterest ciaaracter. They not only, at least
many of them lose their money, clothes, &c., but they
get brutally ill-treated, One man was seen in the
streets to-day half naked, without a farthing in his
pocket, his eyes swollen and discolaured, his face cut
in a shocking manner, and exclaiming, with an oath,
I that
" had just been paid off, but would be
htbfore he would be paid off again in the navy." Although
the number of instances similar to those we have de-
scribed has been great, it is only surprising that out of
so many men landing at such an hour with so much
money in their possession, and beset by clamps, prosti-
tutes, &c., that number has not been greater. It is ob.
vious that some material improvement is needed in the
system of paying off ships of war. A. number of the
Marine Artillery detachment serving on boar
i .d the Ran-
nibal also carne in for a share of the thisfortuues'of the
°evasion. They were kept on teutry till the. Wit DIATI

Judges when they visit the provinces still do so
only twice a year, as in the days when they rode
the circuits on horseback, and they still persist in
going to the same set of towns which were princi-
pal centres of business in the days of the Ed-
wards, but have dwindled into insignificance in
the days of Victoria. Verily, it is high time, on
all grounds, that these things were thoroughly in-
quired into. Government deserves the thanks, no
less of the legal profession than of the public, for
setting the investigation on foot ; it will do still
more towards conciliating general confidence in the
results of the inquiry if it adds a few eminent lay-
men to the eminent lawyers of whom the Commis-
sion is now exclusively
composed.

Name of Company. per of Paid. I Price.
Annum. Share.
---- -
£ a. d. £ a. d.
Albion .... • • .... •• .. Si. 10s. SOO 0 0 50 0 0 90
Alliance Brit. and For. 71. 148.6:Lb5. 100 0 0 11 0 0 18
Ditto Marine ... 6l. p.c.& bs. 100 0 0 25 0 0 4136
Anchor .... ••••• • • • - 6 per cent. 5 0 1 0 0 -
Atlas ..
krgus Life
British Commercial .. 71. 10s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 6%
Clerici.Aed.& Gen. Life spr ct. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
County .............. 4/. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Crown .............. .17s. Od 50 0 0 5 0 0 -
Eagle . -
Equity and Law...... 4% per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 5%
European Life l/. 20 0 0 all 18
General.... -..-- -6/. 5 0 Q ~ 5%
Globe .. -.._ .. 51. per cent. Stock. ~ 102
Guardian ............ 51. per cent. 100 0 0 47 5 0 553
Imperial Fire ..... .... 12/. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 360
Imperial Life -
Indemnity Marine.... 11. 3s. & 3/. 100 0 0 20 0 0 95
Law Fire ............ 23. & 2s. bs. 100 0 0 210 0 3%
Law Lite. •• .• ...... • • - 100 0 .s 10 0 0 613¢
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 5 %
London
London Ship.... -
Marine... • • .......... 18s.per share 100 0 0 28 0 0 62
Med. Ir.vlid & Gen. Life 4% I. per et. 59 0 0 2 0 0 3%
Minerva ••.. • • ...... 51p. ct. 20 0 0 2 0 0 -
Monarch •••••• •• - .. - 5 0 0 1 0 0 11.
National Loan Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 -
Palladium Life... -
Pelican •• •• •• •• •• •• •• - - - 50
Phoenix - - - 17736
Professional Life •••• . . 51. per cent. 5 0 010 0 -
Provident Life.-- - 11. ss. & bs. 100 0 0 'lO 0 0 39
Rock Life .. .... - _ 7s. 53 0 010 0 8
Royal Exchange ....• • 101. per cent. Stock. all 275
-
Sun Fire •• •• •• 61. 10s• - lit -
Ditto Life ..... 1/. 14s. - 4 0 0 4%
United Kingdom .... 41. p. ct. & bs. 20 0 0
10 0 0 40
Universal Life ... ..... 51. per cent. 100 0 0 412 6 5%
Victoria Life ........5i. per cent. --___:

ABOLITION OF TElElc°3rE'
TAX.—On Friday night a
was heldN
public meeting
aet the Assembly Rooms, Dean-
street, Soho, to take inetpeaco:{sideration the best means
to be adotphteeichfaorirmthaenr,
ep,lned the income-tax. Mi. J.
he iTohceome-tax as unjust, un-
the proceedings, and at
George,
the proposition fur fixing
some length denounced t
fair, and improperly levied.
reuctound. as some were
agitating amount at sevenpence in
ere
agitating for, sounded very
a permanent
continusaice of the tax, and he for one like
c
nise such a proposition fora moment. i\.,jurld ri.,t recog-
churchwarden of the parish, Thatmoved—,,. Jtif t
this rys, the
ing is of opinion that the present income-tax meet-
and inquisitorial, and ought to be abolished onisu, just
the first
150/. of every person's income."
fairly imposed income-tax, but he certainly was t o a
satisfied with the way the exiting tax was levied notd
Underwood seconded the resolution, which was unani.
mously adopted; and a committee having been appointed
to carry out measures in opposition to the tax, the pro-
ceedingB terminated,