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London, England, 1851-06-19 00:00:00

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IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM.
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LONDON. TUESDAY, JUNE 17.

JOINT-STOCX ILZLN2ES.

Dividend Amount '
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
--....---. -- -
X 1. 41. X s. d.
Australasia •••••• • • •• 41. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 34
BritshNorth American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 46
Ceylon ••••..•• • • • • • • - 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Commercial of London 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
C010nia1........ .•• •• 21. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
Gloucestershire •••• • • 151 per cent. - - -
lonian ••••••• • • • • • •• 151. pr cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 i -
London and County .. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
Londn and Westrainstr 61. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 -
London Joint-Stook... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 18%
Proviticialof Ireland., 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
Ditto, New......, ~ 81, per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
National of Ireland .. Si. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 -
Nat. Provneial of Eng. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 -
Ditto, New. ....• •• 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 -
South ustralla .... •• 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Union of Australia.. - 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Ditto .............. 61. per cent. - 210 0
Union of London... •• 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 12%
Union of Madrid .• •• • - 40 0 0 40 0 0 -
INSIINANCE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. I per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
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A t. d. 'X e. 1.
Albion
Alliance Brit. and For. 711486 d So bs 100 0 01 11 0 0 21%
Ditto Marine. •• •• •• 6 p ot.k bs. 100 0 0' 25 0 0 36%
Atlas . •
Argus Life ••••• • . .• 41. per cent. 100 0 0 1 0 0 -
British Commercial - Is. 6d. 50 0 0 5 0 0 7
Clericl,bled.BsGen.Life spr et.Bz• bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 20
41. 100 0 0 10 0 0 80
14e. 50 0 0 5 0 0 15
Eagle ss. 50 0 0 5 0 0 6%
Eqity and Law • • 4% per cent. 100 0 0 1 0 0 5
European Life ••• • • 10s. 20 0 0 All paid. 12
General .• ••• • .• • • - - 5 0 0 8%
Glaue •..••••• • • • • • • • 61. per cent. Stock. - 136
Guardian ••••••.• •• • • 51. per cent 1100 0 0 45 0 0 56%
Imperial Fire •••• • • • • 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 245
Imperial Life •••• • • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 18%
Indemnity Marine •• • • 11.1 h. & be. 100 0 0 120 0 0 50
- 100 0 0 210 0 2%
Law Life•• •• •• •• •• .. 11. 16s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 46
Legal and General Life - 50 001 2 0 0 4%
London Fire •••• • • • • 20e. 25 0 oil 2 10 0 19
London Ship ••..• • • • • 20e. 25 0 0,12 10 0 19
Marine.. ••• • • ...... 15s.per share 100 0 01 15 0 0 15%
Med. Invlid&Gen.Life 4%1. per ct. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2%
Monarch •••• • • • • .... - 5001 1 0 0 1
National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 ! 2 10 0 2%
Palladium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 ! 2 0 0 2%
Phoenix ..... ...... - - 156
Professional Li .....
Provident Life •••• - - 11. ss. ilc bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 30
Rock Life ........
Royal Exchange...." 61. p.ct. & be. Stook. - 221
Sun Fire • - - 209
Ditto Life 11. 6s. - -1 44
United Kingdom .... 41. p. ct. & bs. 20 0 0 4 0 0 4
Universal Life........ 10% et. lobe. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Victoria Life .... ..... 51. per cut. i 412 6 8% 1

311711.TE11.-WORBB.
Dividend I Amount
Name of Company. per 1 of Paid. Price,
Annam. I Share.
--.........—. --
£ s. d. £ e. d.
East London...• •• •• •• SI. per cent. 100 0 0 155
Grand Janetien •• •• •• 41. per cnt. 50 0 0 68%
Rent.........• .• •• • • 41. per cat. 100 0 0 82
Lambeth .......• •• • • 51. per cnt. 100 0 0 97
Now liivr Lndn Erdge , 41. Os. -r 57%
Vauxha11'............ 1 51. per cut. 100 0 0 97
West Middlesex . . • 61. Os. pr cnt. 110
DO4lBll.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid, Price,
Annum. Share.
------ -- —
Commercial .. .. —• • £ a. d. £ I. d.
.. 4/.. is alt. Stock. 84
East and West Ind.& ... 61. pr cent. Stock. 144
East Country
London •
Ditto Bonds .. ...• • • 41, per cent.
St. Katharine .... •... 3% per coat. Stock. 77
Dittu Bonds—
Southampton •• ..
8R17307148
Dividend Amount ' i
Name of Company. per ef Paid. Price.
1 ------ Annum, Share.
—.
X. s. d. X.
—fi. d.
Hungerford.. •. •• 115
Southwrk ......... 100 0 0
Ditto Nw of 7% p.c. 355. per cent. 50 0 0 16
Waterloo ............ 100 0 0 3
Ditto Old Ann, of 81. 11. 4s. Od. GO 0 0 15
Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11. Is. Od. 40 0 0
Vauxhall ... •.• Ay. ! 11. 70 10 3
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DEFEAT OF THE AMAZONS.
r% The subjoined letter gives an account of the defeat
of the Dahoman army before the walls of Abbeokuta,
.84 a town sixty miles inland from Lagos, in the Bight
of Benin. The invasion was wholly unprovoked, and
ra their discomfiture is likely to have an important bear-
ing on the decline of the slave trade :-
1
" Abbeokuta, Tuesday, March 4, 1851.
" I hasten to write a few lines to forward to Badagry,
with a hope that it may meet with a early opportunity
for England.
" Yesterday morning we received here your commu-
nications of 29th November, 1850, which proved most
acceptable to us. It is with the greatest thankfulneess I
% desire to communicate the joyful tidings of the defeat
% of the Dahoman King before the walls of Abbeokuta
04 yesterday, and that they have fled, according to our
latest accounts, some sixteen miles, and that the Ab-
beokuta people are pursuing them. The motions of
the Dahomans have been watched most thoroughly by
the people of the smaller towns to the westward of this,
and information sent to the chiefs here. On Saturday
morning such intelligence was conveyed as convinced
- the chiefs of the necessity of immediately arranging their
affairs for self-defence. On Sunday the war chiefs formed
their camps in three companies on the walls of the town.
Price. It became evident to me on Sunday evening, from the
preparations which I saw going on when returning from
Mr. Smith's church, where I had been to assist him, and
from their talk which I heard when passing, that a des-
perate encounter was before their minds, and that they
were preparing for it with a spirit befitting the occa-
sion. Yesterday (Monday) I went out after breakfast
7 to view the camps from one of the heights. I did not
direct my glass to search for the Dabomans, not know-
ing the road they might take, nor thinking of their being
at hand. On returning home I heard that they had been
seen, and that the advanced party of Egbas (the Abbeo-
'. kuta people) had exchanged shots with them. Mr. and
Mrs. Smith came up to see us for a little change, hav-
ing been so long ill ; and Mr. Dennis, who came on
a visit from Badagry, about a week since, also un-
well, was also with us. About twelve o'clock we heard
a rapid discharge of firearms. I was in the act of
showing my interpreter how to form a bullet-mould out
of clay, in his house, when we heard it. With great
impetuosity of manner he called for his son to bring
him his gun, powder, and shot, that he might hasten to
the fight; and with extreme difficulty I restrained him,
he frequently exclaiming, ' I cannot bear it; I must
hasten to the battle.' He was restrained, however. My
cook, without saying anything, or our knowing of it,
tcok his gun and ran off and fought until the Dabomans
were retreating, and shot in the fight ono of the female
warriors. Another confidential servant rau off in the same
manner. Having no arms, he purposed stoning the enemy
if they gave him an opportunity. Goodwill, who is Mr.
Smith's interpreter, and was left by Mr. Smith to look
after the promises, ran also to the battle; all seemed to
be beside themselves. In order to view the encounter,
Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Townsend, Mr. Dennis, and myself got
on a high rock on our ground, whence, with a telescope,
we were enabled to view it. The Dabomans advanced
in compact lines or masses, bearing all before them.
The Egbas endeavoured to check them at the ford of
the river, but were utterly unable. They therefore re-
treated until withinside their walls. The walls were
black with people. They poured forth their fire upon
the advancing enemy, who were checked, and could
not march straight on as they expected, but extended
their lines in front of the wall. A most furious dis-
charge of muskets took place from both sides. The
Dahomans extended their lines, expecting to find a
weak place to attack, and the Egbas extended parallel
with them. At this stage of the battle I observed
a large mass marching in good order to the attack,
and I feared for the result; but they alio ex-
tended, strengthening their companies. Mr. Bowen, an
American missionary who lodges in our compound, now
)3i joined us, he having gone out long before the Daho-
;% mans appeared, to see what preparations the Egbas had
made, and was on the wall at the time of the first
attack. He encouraged us by his account of the
firmness of the Egbas. Having once been a soldier
tee- himself, he had had practical knowledge of warfare in
actual service. After a time we observed that the Daho-
mans showed a disposition to retire, and also that the
Egbas had outflanked them, and were becoming the
,it assailants, setting the grass on fire to annoy their epee
• mies, and firing on them whenever they could. The
Dahomans were now evidently retiring, but turning
about constantly and discharging their muskets. They
retired after a while out of our sight, the firing be-
coming less and less. While this was going on, the
• Abbeokuta women were leaving the town at the back
• pouring out before us with a few men with them,
terrified and cast down; our compound was filled with
,4 terrified people. The Egbas now began to show, in
% truly savage style, some proofs of their success: the first
was the foot of a man who had been slain, then the
hand and foot of a woman, and after a while a living
captive, one of the renowned women soldiers. I fol-
ice. lowed her to the house of her captor, near my own;
she was attired in a sort of vest. She spoke to me as
freely as our ignorance of each other's language would
admit of. Tho Dahomans retired to the ford. Mr.
Ig Bowen returned to the wall as a spectator, and told me
that he saw a daring feat performed by a few of the
Egbas. They went and provoked the Dahomans to
attack them, which they did; the Egbas fled, bat sud-
a. faced about, and discharged their guns with great
effect. He thought he saw four of the Dahomans fell,
! but the smoke prevented distinct vision. The Daho-
mans''' left many of their party on the battlefield dead,
the greater part of whom were women, and many as
11 prisoners, but the number we have not ascertained with
any certainty. The King of Dahomy, as soon as dark-
Od ness permitted, fled with 200 people, leaving the bulk of
1% his army to cover his retreat. They were too strong
insto be attacked by the Egbas after a long fight, and
the Egbas had too little discipline to execute an attack
;% in the night; but they were harassed all the night
05 through by skirmishes, and early in the morning they
r°cl decamped in good order, followed by the Egbas. They
6d stamped their character with infamy by an act of great
barbarity before retreating. They had taken a number
°d of farmers, in their march, prisoners, but, before
leaving, they decapitated 42 or upwards, and
carried off their heads. Their hands being tied,
to. as captives are, and many being identified by their
friends, proved that they were not slain in battle; two
of them were women and one a boy. I understand that
the heads were cast away in the retreat afterwards.
;34 This king is the monster who calls himself the friend
of the white people at Whydah, and of the slave
trade, and by such wars slaves are procured. What
would the members of the Peace Society have done be-
• hind the walls of Abboekuta, with these disciplined bar-
;l4 banana advancing in masses to the attack,' Through
:N mercy they have been repelled; bat many of the Egbas
have fallen, and many are severely wounded. Ono of my
people came to us in the afternoon, begging for some one
to extract a shot from his shoulder; it had entered at
the aide of the upper part of the arm, and passed about
six inches through the flesh outside of the shoulder-blade.
Mr. Dennis ventured to try, although ho had never done
200 or out,
30
anything of the sort before, and after considerable trou-
• ble cut it out. The poor man's first act, on hearing that
• it was
prayer,
and
awoilfaesntthtlyo
phbeoramihnooggernealrineidms
.sauerplef itinhytaionngkasndteollatdtgollonddetfholrf
retreatingbhai ttllefierlcdy;i
na naidieeomieas n yd
r wornued nbpauett !is
they had broken itanPtlhe well. It is supposed that
have been captured. They are
tirbody, but in great distress. If
d retreat scarcely a man or wo-
man could have erica • the Egbas to-day. They are
gr
n epdu,largeh number of the Egbas
eLtiteeir two days' exertions. I
feel, also, worn out by
and hearing of so much slaunet; and by witnessing
hstaivile b.retiun
haver acted cruelly towards
their prisoners.
not aware that the Egbas and cruelty. lam

the pursuit this
Pefateencounter
! with rest or
" Several persons h . Wed
aye returned f nesdaY, March 5.
morning, bringing the intelligence of „,rre
at a town called Ish age, about 14 or 168
The Dahomana endeavoured to enter this miles from this.
pillage, but were resisted. The Egbas came up with strong

When made up in From what When
PLACES. General Post-aloe port dis- K
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America (by Brit. pkt.)Nliluos 20 .. .. Liverpool .. tune 23
AftAmisoriacfavir(ebsytlloo.Sas. pok.t..)
America (by U.S. pkt.) 24 .. .. Liverpool • • July 2
Alexandria* .....• •• N 19th & 30th of mo. Dover .. Juno 2$
Buenos Ayres .. Southampt.)lyoeth tiumosily
326
Belgium .. . .. if Day „ ~ ~ Dover .. Daily
MN4ll4TOtBthe month
Brazil .. .. Id 9th of the month Southampt. July 12
California(via Chagres) It 2d is 17th of month Southampt. Jane 20
Cape of Good Hope N 14th of month Plymouth.• July 3
• • 3l9th of the month Southampt. July 12
Constantinople* .... Ni7th 17th 27th of mo Dover June 20
Central America .. If 2d & 17th of mon. Southampt. June 20
Channel Isles .. .. NIAIon., Wed., & Fri. Soutkampt, Tn. Tk.Sit
Hamburgh .. .. Ni
Chill - - • • • • . 314'17th of the month Southampt. Jan, 20
France •• ••Al & N Twice daily .. .. Dover .• Twicodally
Greece* ..
Honduras .. .. .
• • • • N 7th 17th 27th of mo Dover .. Jane 20
Tuesday & Friday London .. Tues. Sat.
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1 India (via Southamp.) 61 20th of the month Southarapt. June 23
India (via Marseilles) N 7th& 24th of month Dover • • July 1
Mediterranean (es)
S iouthampton) • . td 20th of the month
,Southampt. June 23
Mediterranean (via
Marseilles) • • •• N 7th& 22tk ofmonth Dover . • July 1
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} Dover June 10
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NalY.es° • • •"• N sth 15th 25th ofmo Dover • • June 22
Paps tl States* .. .. li sth 15th 25th of mo Dover .. June 22
Peninsular • • • • • • 317th 17th 27th of 'no Southampt. June, 26
Peru •• •• •• •• Mll7th of the month Southampt. June 20
Tuscany* • • • • • • 1.1,5 th 15th 25th of mo Dover • • June 22
West Indies (except
West Indies .. .. a 4 17th of the month Southampt. June 20
Havanna & Nassau) M2d of the month .. Southampt. July 5 '
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