The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING; NOVEMBER 23, 1860.

BRITISH POSSESSIONS.

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Paid. eprz jiblSlness done
Share' Railways.
100 Atlantic &St Lawrence all 75 77 77
stk c Bom.,Baroda&.Centlnd 100 94 95 95 44
( Gu. 5 per cent..
18 Do Do.
B 16 11 14 d
204 Buffalo and Laxe Huron all 4f 64d
20/ Do. New
10 Do. Preference ....
100 Buffalo,Brant&Godricif
6p4 ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 100 75 80
100 Do. do. July 1, 1873 100 87 72
100 Do. do. June 1, 1874 100 67 72
5 Cleutta.&S.Eastn. (Lim` 3 4d pr
20 Cape,Eastn•Prov. (Lim.) 25.:
20 Cape Town & Dock Scrip 5 14 14 d
20 Ceylon Guarantd. 6p. o 75 14 1 d
174 Demerara all
20 I'.ar,tn. llen,rral rm. sp. r 10 I'4 14d
stock East Indian, „;u. sp. c. luo 161 1 2 1014 4
20 Do. F Shares Ext all d pr
20 Do. Jubbulpore all d pr
' 100 Do. 45 pc. Debentrs all 981 991
100 Do. sp. c. Deb., 1864 all 1004 1014
20 Geelong & Melbourne all
stock Geelong Corporation 6
per cent. Bonds
stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 22 24 224 3
100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref all 76 79
100 Do. 6 per ct. Debentr all 47 49
100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862
100 Do. do. 1867 all 45 48
100 Do. do. 1872
stock GtlndiaPenin.gua.sp.o lOO 96 97 97 64
20 Do. New gua. sp. c 8 lid Id 7
20 Gt. South.of India (Lim)
guaranteed 5 per cent. all 24 14d
201 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 111 114 114 4
' 204 Do. New
100 Do. Bonds pay. '76, with
opt, till '6O
100 Do. do. '73 till '6O all 98 100
100 Do. do. '73 without opt all 98 100 E 93
100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77 do all 90 93
stock Madras, guar., 44 p. c lOO 85 86
stock Do. do. 5 per cent . _ 100 944 954 954 4
stock Do. 44 p. c. Extension 100 87 88 87
20 Do. Fourth do l5 14 14 dll 4
20 Do. d 0.....
stock Melb.Corp. 6p. o. Bnds lOO
20 Newßrunswick & Canda
Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pc all 5 7
Class A Capital Share
Do. do'. Land d 0........
20 Do. do. B Capital d 0...
all 5 7
Land
••do. do • ••••••
Do.
20 Oude (Limited) ... ..... ss.
stock Scinde ..........f;:i.4.3 100 98 99 99
20 Do. Punjaub .... eta.) 10 2 d 14d 84 i
.;f
20 Do. Do. .... _.. "r 3 t)_. all d
stock , Do. Indus• St. Flo. _ ?,,,," 100 93 95
20 ,StAndrews & Quebec A 18
10 !Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip.. 1 4 4 d
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
10 Antwerp & Rotterdam all 54 54
20 !Ardennes..... ....... . • all —p
20 (Bah.&S.Fran..Lim.7p.c. 10 11 141 8.4 4
5 !Belgian East. Junction all 1 i
20 IBeziers to Graissessac.. all
6 Cariieaux Mine & Rail all 24 24
100 Copiapo .& all
10 Ditto Extension
20 ,Dutch Rhenish
20 !Eastern of France
20 Grand Rus. Guar. 6p. c 6
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20 Do. do. all J
20 'Great Central of France all
20 Gt. Luxem., Con. shs all 64 64 1
20 Italian Junction . . all
20 !Lake Constance & Bale. all
20 ILierre & Turnhout .... all 1
20 !Lyons & Geneva, ...... all i
335 !Maria Antonia .... ~.. all
10 !Do. New ... ........ all 1
20 iNamur & Liege ........ all 74 74 74
20 ,Do. 6p. c. Pref.
16 Northern of France all 885 394
16 IDo. New Shares ..... 15 1
10 !Norwegian Trunk Pref. all 74 81 t
20 Paris,Lyons, & 3lediter. all 351 361
20 Paris & Orleans..
20 I 1
Recife & S. Fran. (Peru.)
gua. 7p. ct. lim l3 44 4 d c
20 'Riga & Dunaburg _
10 Rome & Frascati
20 Royal Danish Bll il
5 Royal Swedish
4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref all 0
20 Sambre & Meuse
10 Do. 51 per cent. Pref.
20 San Paulo, lim, g. 7p. c 2 14 id c
20 &Aust. &Lomb Venetin 12 4d 4 d 134 4 u
20 ;Southern of France.... all 20 21
84 West Flanders ........ all 51 6 5/ N 1
10 Do. 51 p. c. Preference.. all 91 94
20 W. & N.W. of France .. all 22 23 tl
23 'Western of Austria.... 6
20 !Western of Switzerland all h
6 !Wiesbaden ... .. . .. all
6 Do.l 8 per cent. *Pref...... all
20 :Zealand

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LA TV INTELLIGEICE-(THIS DA Y).

COURT OF CHANCERY.
(Before the Lord Chancellor.)
JUDGMENT.-ADAMSON V. THE TRUSTEES OF THE

BIRKENHEJ.D DOCKS.

The Lord Chancellor said he question in this case is
whether the Birkenhead Dom Act of 1855 deprives Mr.
Adamson of the right to get payment of the debt due to
him by the trustees ; that therE should be a deduction from
his debt without any equivalen, ; that he should receive no
more than 13s. in the pound it place of 20s. in the pound
—the Act of Parliament conk not have committed such
injustice. His Lordship consilered that Mr. Adamson had
a lien on the land purchased from him by the dock trustees,
rand that he was entitled to full payment of the, price. The
4,5, and 17 sections of the Ad provides for the full pay-
ment of the price of land purchased by the trustees, and it
never was intended to deprive him (the vendor) of one-
third of the price of his land. There was no agreement
entered into by him with the trustees to make any deduc-
tion whatever from the price d his land. He dismissed
the appeal with costs.

(Before Vice-Chancellor Wood.)
JUDGMENT-HODSON Y. IYEEKES.

The plaintiff filed his bill to set aside an agreement, dated
25th March, 1851, for a lease of a mine by the incumbent
during his incumbency, on the ground that the patron and
ordinary had not consented to the agreement, and for in-
junction to restrain the defendant from working the mines.
His Honour the Vice-Chancellor declared the agreement
unlawful, and directed an account to be taken of the work-
ings of the mine, and ordered the money in court to be ap-
plied in the improvement of the vicarages and payment of
costs of suits—the agreement to be delivered up to the
plaintiff to be cancelled, reserving further consideration of
the cause, with liberty to apply.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(TIZI3 DAI'.)

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

ANNOYING ♦ COFFEE-HOUSE KEEPER.-Mr. James
Wilson, 4, Great Ryder-street, gentleman, was charged
before Mr. Tyrwhitt with the following singular behaviour :
Mr. John Saul, builder, St. James's-street, Haymarket,
and also a coffee-house keeper in Castle- street, Leicester-
square, said that defendant came into his house on the pre-
vious evening, and having asked his barmaid for two cups
of tea, began pulling her about in a very indelicate manner.
She called to him for assistance, and he put him out, and
while doing so he attempted to strike him, but he warded
off the blow.

Phosbe Sutch, barmaid to the complainant, said that,
having served the defendant with two cups of tea, he began
taking liberties with her. She called her master, and ho
put the defendant out. She saw him attempt to strike her
master.

A cabman hero stepped forward and said he wanted 9s.
of the defendant. He had engaged him at half-past nine,
in St. James's-square, telling him to drive him to the
Cafe Chartant, Leicester-square, which he did, and then
to Castle-street. Finding that he was likely to keep him
some time, he told him he had better take him by time,
and he did so, keeping him till nearly one o'clock. The
defendant told him to go into the coffee-house and ask for
a Miss Baths, and he did so four or five times, the defen-
dant sitting in the cab, but at last going into the house
himself. The defendant kept him the whole time occupied.
Mr. Tyrwhitt asked the defendant whether he was willing
to pay the cabman, and he said he was, and did so, at once
kanding.the money to Welsh, the gaoler of the court.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—With regard to the other charge, it is
clear you went to the complainant's house seduced by the
charms of Miss Burns. You will have to make some com-
pensation to the complainant for the assault; and I must
bind you over to keep the peace towards him for six
months, for I shall not let it pass off so easily as you
think.

PARLIAMENTARY SPEECHES.

On Wednesday evening a dinner was given to the
Mayor of Derby, Mr. Cox, at the Royal Hotel in
that town. After the usual loyal toasts, Mr.
Bass, M.P., after a few remarks, said,—Gentlemen,
much has lately been said, and, as I believe, not
altogether unjustly, with regard to the great waste
of public time by unnecessary speech-making in
the House of Commons. I agree with Mr. Gisborne
that the House of Commons has to some extent been
depreciated in the estimation of the public; It has
been said that we have done very little for the
public, and that we have left undone a great deal
that the country expected us to do. Be it so; but
I can assure you that, though comparatively few
good results may have accrued from our labours,
there has been no lack of real.hard work. (Hear.)
I do not think that in any session of Parliament
upon record there has been a greater—or perhaps so
great—an amount of labour in the House of Commons
as during the past sitting. Indeed, I for one felt so
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the measures of the other. If you have two cooks
in your kitchen with equal authority, and one says
you shall have roast and the other boiled, you
stand a good chance of not having any dinner at
all, especially if you have a maid anxious to sup-
plant one or the other, and take his place. (Cheers
and laughter.) However, I am not quite pure—
looking to what has been, and is, passing around
us, if we might not have done worse by doing too
much, instead of too little. (Hear, hear.) Our
facetious friend, to whom we always listen with
feelings of approval, and whose jokes, though pun-
gent, are generally harmless, and therefore well
meant, is inclined to debar certain members of
Parliament of the luxury of much talking.
(Laughter.) That, doubtless, as regards the public
convenience, and the health of the sometimes re-
luctant listeners, is a grievous fault. But, atter all,
the talking is done, and the public time consumed,
by comparative few talkers. When I tell you that
during the past Session 10,473 speeches were de-
livered, can you wonder that so little real business
was done, when there was so much talk ? (Hon.
and Rev. F. Curzon—" So much tongue.') Yes.
Well I will show you how few members are charge-
able with this grave fault. Notwithstanding
Cabinet Ministers have to speak on most questions
of public importance—the able and distinguished
Chancellor of the Exchequer, to wit; Sir George
Cornewall Lewis, who never utters a word more
than is necessary to elucidate his meaning ; Lord
Palmerston, one of the most genial of men, and one
who displays so much ability and tact as a leader of
the Commons ; Lord John Russell, one of the most
Parliamentary leaders of the time; Sir John
Pakington, Mr. Henley, Lord Stanley, one of the
most rising politicians of the day ;—thesclgreat Par-
liamentary men, occupying the important positions
they do, never speak oftener than is absolutely requi-
site ;,while Lord Stanley with his great ability, only
spoke nine times, some private members spoke at
least 200 times in the last session. (Laughter.)
Now, 'don't wish to disparage any of the speakers,
for .some of them are undoubtedly able debaters,
but when I tell you that some of them spoke at
least 100 times, and others as often as 200 times,
I think I give you a pretty good reason why so
little has been done. (Hear, hear.) For instance,
Mr. Ayrton. a clever man, spoke 217 times ; Mr.
E. James, Q.C., spoke 196 times ; Mr. Newdegate,
123 ; Mr. Bouverie, 120 ; Mr. Pope Hennessy, 109;
Mr. Malins, 103; and Mr. Darby Griffiths, 101.
(Laughter.) But no doubt not one of these gentle-
men spoke oftener than he believed the true interests
of the country required. (A laugh.) Again, nine
metropolitan members (exclusive of the city of
London and Middlesex) made 955 speeches, and if
all the rest of the House had spoken in the same
proportion it would have taken five years to get
through a session of Parliament. (" Hear, hear,"
and laughter. Mr. Mundy—" We should be there
now.") No doubt of it, instead of being present
on this most agreeable occasion. (Cheers.) Well,
gentlemen, it has been suggested that 27 additional
members should be given to these metropolitan
boroughs, and, allowing them the same proportion
of talk, that would add 2,700 more speeches to the
955. (Laughter.) Ardent Reformer as I am, I
confess to you that I shudder at the idea—(laugh-
ter) ; —and when that day arrives, though I am
prepared to go many lengths, if it is to be an in-
crease of mere talking power, instead of apply-
ing to you for " a ticket-of-leave," I shall soli-
cit a final discharge. ' (Cheers and laughter.) In
saying this, however,, I will not omit to express
my gratitude to the 245 patriotic members who
have been " eloquent in their silence ;" who, al-
though they scarcely ever spoke, and thus did
not lose a moment of tkeir country's time,
nevertheless devoted themselves to the real
and arduous duties of Parliament by a vigilant
attendance on committees and a rigid regard for
the public good. (Cheers.) That is their best re- I
ward. (Renewed cheers.) Of course, every Eng-
lishman values and holds dear the liberty of speech.
It is not against the liberty, but the abuse of it that
many complain, for mere garrulity or loquacity,
without some good object to serve, can never be re-
garded with approbation or complacency. (Hear,
hear.) Complaining as many de of this abuse of
speech, it would, after all, be a sad day for England
—for this great and free England—if ever its peo-
ple should begin to decry and disparage its Parlia-
ment. Not only the interest of this country, but of
the human race, is deeply concerned in maintain-
ing the authority and independence of Parliament.
(Hear, hear.) We must treasure our free institu-
tions, knowing, as we do, that in so doing we set
an example to the nations abroad, and stand in the
vanguard of freechm—the pioneers of liberty and
the defenders of all that is sacred to hearth and
home. (Loud cheers.)

TBIS DAPS .MARIZETS.