The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-18 00:00:00

LEEDS-JAN.7I6

STOCK EXCHANGE. —Brightons, 112—Sheffiehis 40—
North Eastorn Yorks, 214 -Eastern Ciunties,
Craven Moor, gs.—Gooles, 20—Midlands, 91 k.

THE LAU:STABBING CASE AT LEES.—On Wednesday,
at Ashtcm, James Landy, who had been repeatedly
remanded on a charge of stabbing Timothy Ryan, at
Lees, on the 27th ult., wa3 finally committed for trial
at the a3s.izls. The prisoner's knife, in the surgeon's
-inion, had dividel an artery, and the wound would
have been fatal, had it not gone parallel with

up.
probably ....
the ribs.

LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
-- - -- -
£ s. d. £ s. d.
Bank of Scotland .... 71. per cent. 100 C o 100 0 0 18370 s
British Linen Company 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 209/0s
Caledonian Bank ..... 81. per cent 10 0 0 2 10 0 3/ 12s
City of Glasgow Bank 5/. per cent. 10 0 , 0 10 0 0 8i 7s
Clydesdale Bank •• - 534/. p cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 12' 5s
C .minercial Bank - 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 2101 0
Eastern Bank...-. - 61. par cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 9/ les
Edlnb. & Glasgow.. • . 3341. p cent. 5 0 5 0 0 31 13s
National Bank - •... 6% per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 11 ,Os
Northof Scotland Bank 51,per cent 20 0 0 2 10 0 5 5s
Royal Bank of Scott. .. 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 1 Ws
Union Bank of Scot. .. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 761 Os
Western Bank •• • • - -7/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -1 0
alliance Fire and Life.. 834 1. pr cent. :00 0 0 11 0 0 16/ Os
British Guarantee .. 41. per cent. 10 0 0 2 0 0 1/ its
Caledonian Fire Incur. lOt.per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 251 Os
City of Glasgow Lite.. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 3/ 10s
Cdonial Lire ~........ 51. per cent. 50 0 0 3 0 0 71 7s
Edinburgh Life Incur. 61. percent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 281 Os
Eng. & Scot, Law Life 514t0r cent. 50 0 0 3 5 0 4/ Is
Life Assoc. of Scotland 61. per cent. 40 0 0 3 0 0 61 Iss
Naticua, Fire and Life 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 4 0 [ll9 s
North British 'mar-. 71. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 36/ Os
Northern Assurance Co. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11 14s
Scottish Provincial ... • - 50 0 0 2 0 0 2/ 15s
Scottish Union Insrnc. 7341. pr cont. 20 0 0 1 0 0 I/ 123 ,
Standard Life •• • • - - 51. per cent. 50 0 0 7 0 0 27/ 5s
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GAS-LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
- - - - -
£ s. d. £ s. d.
British Frovinclal..... 71. per c^nt. 20 0 0
all 22%
Brighton ......•• •• .. 5/. per cent. 20 0 0
- -
City of London ...• .. 2/. per cent. sP 0 0 150 13 0 -
Equitable . .......... 2i. 00 0 0 all -
European ..... ....... 6/. per cent. 2J 0 0 - -
Great Central .• ...... 4/. per cent 10 0 0 - 1 1
Imperial ............ 10/. per cent. 50 0 0 - 73
Ditto New - 50 0 0 12 10 G 21
Ditto Debentures - Stock 100 0v -
Do. Continental 1 stCap. 31, ss. 50 0 0 42 15 0 -
Do. Do. 2d Cap. 4/. I,s. 50 0 0 41 0 0 -
Do. Do. 3d Cap. 41. 10s. 50 0 0 43 10 0 -
Do. Do. 4th Cap. 3: 50 0 0 41 0 0 -
Indepen/lent ..... „ -
London Parl. Preferen. Oi, per cent. 25 0 0 - 27%
Phrcntc • .•
Ratcliff • • • • . .. • • •• •• 5/. 20 0 0 16 0 e -
Surrey Consumers
United General .• - 19%
Westminster Chartered 7 per cent. 50 0 0 - 50
Ditto, New - • . • • • • - 50 0 0 10 6 0 -
Western A - •• 10 0 0 all -
Ditto B . .... 10 0 0 4 0 0 3
MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
£ a. ‘l. £ a. d.
Acadian Charcoal Iron •• ' 10 0 0 2 0 0 -
African Steam Ship • • 20 0 0 10 0 0 -
Assam lea .... • • •• •• 6'. rer cent. 50 0 0 10 0 o
Auction Mart.• ...• - -
Australian Acriculturl - 25 0 0 ' 19 0 0 25%
Australian Trust -
Austrailan Royal Mail - 10 0 0 all 2%
Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 10s. 10 0 0 all , 14IA
British American Land SL per cent 50 0 0 40 0 0 -
Canada ... • • - - - - tit per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 "..-
Do. 5 per cent Bonds 51. pet cent Stook 100 0 0 -
Ditto, 5 per cent bds 51. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 -
Ditto, 6 per cent. •• 6/. per cent. Stock COI 0 0 -
Ditto, 6 p c. bds 1874 41. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 -
Ditto, 6 P C. bds 1676 61' per cent. Stock 100 0 0 --
, Crystal Palace
Ditto Preference 7l pr. cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 4%
Crys. Palace of France - 4 0 0 all -
City Navigation Bonds 3%1. per cent - - .....
Electric Telegraph -
Eng.& Aus. Cop. Smelt - 5 0 0 all -
Eng.&lris. Slag. T. Co - 50 0 0 all -
Equitable Reversionry 5/per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 -
Ditto New - 50 0 0 22 10 0 -
Gen. Revers. & Invest. 51. p c and 11.:00 0 0 00 0 0 -
Gen. I. Sc. Col. (Lim.) - 25 0 0 all -
Gen.SteamNavigation 10/. per ct. & 15 0 0 14 0 0 -
Loudon Gen. Omnibus 121. per cent 4 0 0 all 37,
Hudson's Bay 5/. per cent. Stock Stock :,-
Hungerford -
Loa. Ne. &Na. Manse. - 10 0 0 all -
London Reversionary Si, per cent. 15 0 0 all -
Mex. & S. American - 10 0 0 all -
Nat. Discount Comp • • - 25 0 0 5 0 0 4%
N.S.W. Gov.sp.c. Deb. 5/. per cent. - 100 0 0 -
Nor. Bri. Australasian 6d. 1 0 0 all -
North of Europe, Strn. AI. per cent. 20 0 0 17 10 0 -
Price's Patent Cand. Co - 2'3 0 0 all -
Peel Itiver.Land&Min. - 5 0 0 all 238
Pen. & Oriental Steam 71. per cent. 50 0 0 all 75
Ditto New • • • • • • • . - 50 0 0 10 0 0 -
Reversionary Int. Soc. 1%1. pr cent 100 0 0 all -
Ditto New •• - .• - 1%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 26 0 0 -
1
Royal Vail Steam 4l. p. share. ioo 0 0 ir 0 0 56
Scottish Aus. Invest 15/. per cent. 1 0 0 all
South Australian Land 7/. per cent. 25 0 0 , all 1%
34
Trust and Loan Comp. 7%.. pr cent. 20 0 0 , 5 0 0 -
Van Diemen's Land lO3. 100 0 0 , 28 10 0 11
6 per cent. Bonds .... 6 per cent. ,-, I -..•-•

The public is already aware that the execution of
Christian Settler, the Bavarian, which was to
have taken place this morning at Newgate, has
been postponed by the order of the Home
Secretary to the Bth of February, upon the
ground that under the peculiar circumstances of the
case, it was considered advisable that the judges of
the Court of Criminal Appeal should have an
opportunity of considering all the facts, and giving
their opinion as to whether the prisoner was lgally
convicted of the offence of wilful murder, or
whether there were not some circumstances in the
case, in connection with the arrest and detention of
the prisoner, that would reduce the offence to man-
slaughter. It would seem that the respite of the
prisoner was partly owing to the facts as they 'ap-
peared upon the ttial ; but there is no , doubt that
some facts of a rather singular nature, that have
only come to light since the prisoner's conviction,
have had considerable effect in influencing the de-
cision of the Secretary of State, and inducing him
to delay the execution until more full inquiry bas
been gone into.
Upon the subject of the legal or illegal detention
of the prisoner on board the Caledonia, upon which
the validity of the whole of the subsequent pro-
ceedings would seem to depend, it appears that
the arrest of the prisoner at Hamburg in conse-
quence of his not being provided with the neces-
sary papers arose in the following manner
Shortly before the expiration of his sentence of im-
prisonment at Wisbeach Gaol the prisoner, it ap-
peared, had resolved. to go to Hamburg when he
obtained his liberty, and he wrote to his father to
procure him the necessary passports and papers.
This letter, it seems, got into the hands of the
parish priest, who, for some reason which does not
eppear to have been explained, did not deliver it
to the father, but retained possession of it for seve-
ral weeks, and in consequence of this, the father
did not procure a passport for the prisoner ; and,
indeed, it seems that he did not even know of the
existence of such a letter; until after his son was
in custody upon the charge of murder. As there
is no treaty for the extradition of criminals between
this country and the Hamburg authorities, but for
the circumstance of the prisoner not being provided
with the necessary papers, the police of Hamburg
could not have interfered with him ; and there is no
doubt that the arrest of the prishner was merely a
contrivance to get him into the custody of
the deceased officer, that he might be
brought to England upon the charge of robbing
Mr. Ballantine, and that the proceedings taken to
effect this object were to a certain extent illegal.
If the chaplains, upon consideration of the facts,
should ultimately come to the same conclusion, the
probability is that the capital sentence will not be
carried out, but the punishment will be commuted
to such an. one as would probably have been in-
flicted if the prisoner had been convicted of man-
slaughter only.
When the prisoner was informed of the respite,
but at the same time told he must not found any,
hopes that his life would ultimately be spared,
which might prove delusive if the legal point were
decided against him, he expressed himself grateful
for the respite that was afforded him, and evidently
felt the impression that the capital sentence would
not be carried out. He has all along persisted in
stating that he would not have gone on board the
Caledonia if he had been sure that he should have
been ironed and treated as a felon, and he also de'
dares that his object in 'loading the pistol.was to
destroy himself, and he says that if Thain had been
a moment later in entering the cabin the act would
have been accomplished. He, however, came /1"
just as he had finished loading the pistol, and seeing
what he was doing he seized him, and they had a
struggle, during which the pistol went off accidely
tally, and the unfortunate deceased received bin
death wound. The prisoner accounts for the ev
pressions made use of by him after the transaction
by saying that he was in a very excited state,' and,
observing the angry feeling of the people on board
the vessel, he was desirous that they should put all
end to him, as on the first burst of their indignation
they had threatened they would do.
The prisoner seems to have entirely abandon
his atheistical notions and attends chapel resn".
lerly, and appears to pay great attention to thi!
spiritual consolation offered him by the revereen
Mr. Davis, the ordinary of the gaol of Newgato;
and appears to be in a much better state of mina'
than at the period of his trial.