The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-28 00:00:00

THE LATE DUEL IN PARIS.

(From, the Times)
The French Em: eror is likely to pay a high price
for military fidelity. The French people have not
obtained without a sacrifice the order and tranquil-
lity of which Imperialism boasts. Napoleon 111.
has delivered his country from the Parliamentary
system ; he has expelled the v;rus of liberal institu-
tions' suppressed the orgies of democracy, restrained
the turbulence of petty ambitions, and so on. He
his established a throne, guarded by half a million
of bayene's, which we. are told can bi direete 1 by
a gesture from him agiinst; either foreign enemies
or the subverters of order at home. But the army,
which his been the inztrument of these great cliang,l
and is the basis of this overwhelming power, is
learning. its own strength, and seems fully inclieed
to 1130 We should not return to he subject of
tho late duel were it a mete isolated au, or wet e it
that a fitting punishment would fall on the
chief wron;-doer. But we only expre,s that puh-
lie opinion which trembles and shrinks from an
utterance in Paris when we say that the eircum-
stancas of this unit 'ivy affair, the animosity indi-
c a,-.A by the numerous challtnges, the steady pur-
po7e of Hyenne, and, more than all, the aepl ruse
with which the deed has been rect,ive 1 throu.r.botv,
the Fre..ch a; my, are stns of an evil d:y which
is ict hand for French sec'etr, and for al that is
independent, and infellcemal in the country. The
s•hughter of a young writer by a prole- sional sword -
mau for a harmless joke is in itseif a cruel and
cowardly act ; but we wi-h we could thmk that
there was nothing deeper in the affair than the
veng-,atce of a set of underbred men for a ratiu r
petulant satire. People in Pat is feel, and no doubt
conecAly, that the outrage is but an indicat.on of
the passions which are bubbling up in a vat, tri-
umphant, ambitious, and idle army—an army sun-
dered in interest and feelirg from the rest of the
nation, which knows little of society b3yond its
barracks, cares for no authority but that of the
chief it his raised to the throne, and is animated
with a growing jealousy and contempt of the non-
military classes which formerly wielded political
power. . _ .

The conduct of M. Hyenne has received the
approval of the army in general. So strongly has
this feeling been shown that probably no attempt
will he made to visit the action with punishaeatt,
or even to mark it witri disgrace. It is possible
that M. Hyenne may retire from t'ie service, or
the Moniteur say a few words against the practice
of duelling, but that will be all. In short, the
army have triumphed, and every one knows it,
nor can we believe that the Ministerial autho-
rities are sorry that it should be so. Henceforth
there will be another check on the press, which
may save the necessity of warnings, and deliver the
Government from any unpopularity which frequent
interferences might bring upon it. The army as a
body is the support of the empire, and it would be
a brilliant idea to make its officers, as individuals,
a terror to opposition journalists, who may be
called on to account for a chance expression, and
fought by a regiment volunteetiug for the purpose.
The army seems quite disposed to enter into such
an arrangement, and an event which has happened
within the last few days is a proof of their good-
will in the cause. On Saturday last the town of
St. Germain was surprised by the sight of a large
body of officers in full uniform marching to theoffice
of the Industriel, a paper of the locality. Forty-
two of these gentlemen, in fact, thought fit to de-
liver in person a summons to the Director and lie-
&recur en Chef demanding the insertion of a letter
received by them from "their comrade, M. Roge,
officer of the 9th Chasseurs." The officers of the
garrison of St. Germain " request, and in case of
need require," the Industriel to insert an account
of the duel of M. de Peue which they think is
favourable to the character of M. Hyenne. Thus,
it would seem that in France a journalist is not
only liable to be called to account for what he in-
serts, but fur what he refuses to insert. M. de Pene
received 31 challenges for his unfortunate plea-
santry, but the Director of the Industriel might
have expected 42 had he hesitated to print what
the garrison of St. Germain had determined he
should make public.
The document which was the object of this war-
like demonstration certainly disappoints curiosity
The writer quotes the passage which gave the
deepest offence to the military world. It is as fol-
-I.;.ws :—"Remarkable Improvement; the inevitable
Sub-Lieutenant was not there." For this M. de
Pens received challenges from Courtiel at Amiens,
and from Hyenne at Abbeville. The duel followed,
and the facer are almost exactly what have bern
published before. "M. Hyenne," writes M.
Roge, " approaching M. de Pene, addressed him
with the most perfect coolness, and the following
dialogue occurred." Then comes the conversation,
which is substantially what has been already de-
scribed. It ended by M. Hyenne grossly insulting
M. de Pelle in cold blood to make him fight. The
only correction which is made in the former narra-
tive of the trial consists in the statement that. M.
de Pene had a choice of weapons, and chose swords.
But whit the writer thinks of great importance in
M. tlyenne's just fication will be, in the eyes of
ordinary men, his chitf crime. "It is stated,"
writes M. loge, " that after M. Courtiel was
wounded M. Hyenne thought fit to take up the
affair. This way of telling the story is insulting
and iucorr ect, for M. Hyenne did not avenge M.
Courtiel, but the entire army." In other wards,
M. Hyenne went to the spot with the intention of
fighting, and did not it,suit his adversary on the
spur of the moment-. Such conduct was, in the
writer's opinion, highly praiseworthy. " This is
the place," he says, "to assert in the most unequi-
vocal manner that M. de Pene was responsible for
his article, not only to an inuividual, but a class."
" The officers of the Cavalry and Artillery of the
Guard, as well as those of the 84th Regiment, have
spontaneously assured me of their entire sympathy.
Gentlemen, my desire is that the array, to whom
the original insult was adds essed, should know p e-
cisely in what way it was avenged." This is what
the 42 went in full uniform to publish to the world,
and the woad will rtficct on the doctrines avowed.
It is well to know what the chivalry of the Fr,nch
army allows. A young man may, by this new code
of honour, be challenged by 30 men ; one of the
challengers, a professional fencing master, 45 years
old, may come on the field in the gin- e of secoed to
another, take advantage of this function to observe
the skill of the victim, and then, "with the mcst
perfect coolness," force him into a sec end duel, and
t•tb him even as he is failing. Such are the morals
of the force to which every man and every institu-
tion are now rubjeeted in France.

RETIREMENT OF JUSTICI,I COLERIDGE.

(Front the Daily Nevis )

The proximate retirement of Mr. JusticS Cole-
ridge from that seat on the Judicial Bench which,
with so much credit to himself and so much benefit
to the country, be has occupied for the long period
of three-and-twenty years, has thrown upon Lord
Chelthsford the responsibility of appointing a new
Judge. The gentleman upon whom his choice has
fallen is Mr. Hugh Hill, Q. C., an eminent prac'i-
tioner at the Common-law Bar, and for tomej time
one of the leaders of the Northern Grcuit. The
unanimous voice of the profession will pronounce
this selection to be in all senses unexceptionable.
The truth of the old maxim, that it is office only
which proves the man has rarely been better illus-
trated than in the difficulty of conjecturing before-
band whether any given lawyer of distinction will
maintain on the Bench the repufa!ic:n he has
achieved at the Bar. Many learned jurists and
many brilliant advocates have proved comparative
failures as Judges, while others from whom lit le
•was expected have made very valuable and excel-
lent ruagis,rates. In the exercise of his very re-
sponsible office, however, the Chancellor cannot go
I far wrong if be takes the general opinion of Wtst-
mineter-ball as his guide iu the selection he has to
make. The habits of a gregarious prefesSion, where
each man works under the vigilant inspection of
acute and thoroughly informed fellow-practitioners,
are eminently favourable to the firm...llion of as cor-
rect a jude,ment as can be obtained beforehand with
regard to the probable fitness of any given barrister
for promotion to the Beech. It is not only the
intellect, but the moral character—it is not only
the moral character, but the temper and the man-
ner, that are daily put upon their trial before the
most competent and not the most lenient of asses-
sors, in the course of an extensive practice at the
Bar. •
Tried by there tests, the new appointment is a
thoroughly satisfactory one. Quite irrespective of
politics, and apart.from all refetence to any other
consideration than eminent fitness for the post, Mr.
Hugh Bill is, on the whole, thobest man that
could have been selected for the vacant Judgeship.
His range of commou-laws learning is extensive and
profound ; a ready and retentive memory gives him
a facile command over its accumulated stores ; his
judgment is sound, his acuteness considerable, and
although by no means eloquent, he possesses a co-
pious flow of precise and accurate lauguage, well
adapted to juridical argument or lucid exposition.
Mr. Hugh Hill, like S:r Hugh Carus, is a native
of the pis'er country, which, in the persons of Sir
Samuel Maitiu and 6 r Jauies Wilke, has shady
given two judges to WeStminster Hall. The three
out of our 15 chief magistrates should be from the
other side of St. George's Channel can hardly be
cited as an. instance of injustice to Ireland. It is
probably as striking a proof as-could well-be" given
,that the honours and emoluments of the empire
• are impartially 'open to all the citizens of the United
Kingdom.
Sir Johu Taylor Coleridge, who vacates his seat
Cal the bench at the doge et the present, term, will

carry with him into his retirement the respect and
god wishes of the profession. He was not only an
able lawyer, but a thoroughly cultivated scholar.
The s'ngular brilliancy of his Oxford career is still
a tradition in that famous seat of learning. He is
well known, throughout the whole course of his
forensic and judicial labours, to have blended the
amenities of literature with the graver studies of the
law. As a leading member of the Oxford University
Commission he has entitled himself to the espe-
cial thanks of every one intere,ted in the highest
branches of English education ; and it is not his
fault if the report of the Commit ee on Legal Emu-
c•ition, in which he also took a prominent part, has
not as yet led to more satilactory results. It is to
be hoped that by the prosecution of these and kin-
dred objet's, Mr. Jus•ice Coleridge may sill find
the moans of doing the Sate good service in the
well-earned r, l ose of his honourable retirement.
Mr. Hugh Hill, QC. the newly--ipp sinted
judge, was called to the Car in 1841, before which
time he had practised with great success as a pleader
for a cuisiderable number of years. Mr Hill's
plading conn ction early introduced him to busi-
ness, and from the date of his call his practice wss
e.rnsideriblo, e4pecially mercanti'e cases.
the Notthern Circuit he s .on etepped into the first
junior LusiLes-t, and was extensively retained in
the City of London. In the year 1851 he was
CAI)1 witkin the har, and let erly, iii cpusequene
of a failure in health, arising from the over- preSsure
of bruin es, he had given up answering cases, con-
firing himself to practice in open court. Mr. Hill's
age is 60, or vureabouts : he has never taken an
aetive rart in politics, but is understood to be a
strong Conservative.

Sir Jahn Tayl Coleridge, the retiring judge,
has been for more than 23 years on the bench,
having succeeded Sir William Taunton, one of the
judges of the Court of Queen's Bench, on the 28th
January (Hilary Term), 1835 ; Sir John Coleridge
was educated at Oxford, and took his degree in
Easter Term, 1812, when he was the only man of
his year in the first class iu classics ; in 1810 he
obtained the prize for Latin verse, and in 1813 the
two prizes for the LAtin and English essays. Mr.
Justice Coleridge, while at the bar, went the
Western Circuit, and became a sergeant in 1832,
three years before he was raised to the bench.

PROGRESSIVE REFORM*.

(From the Daily News.)

It cannot be too often repeited that the princi-

pal cause of the present unsatisfactory sate of
affairs in the House of Commons is the want of a
broad and marked line of demarcation between the

two great parties of which the House is made up.
Public opinion in this country is divided into two
great camps : the e Imp of those who, being con-
tented with thins as they are, would remain stand-
ing still ; and the camp of thole who think things
are susceptible of amendment, and would "move
OD." From an endy ried of the reign of
George 111. till the acce-sion of Mr. Canning to
power the difference between the two camps was
sufficiently marked. The great bodies who occu-
pied them were not altogether at one among them-
selves. There were d-eided and moderate Re-
formers—Whigs and Radicals; and there were
ultra-Tories and moderate Tories. It was not easy
to tell with certainty whe her a man was a mode-
rate Tory or a moderate Whig it you met him alone.
the characteristics of the masses of the two
parties were sufficiently distinc'ive. But with the
Canning era began a changis, Mr. Canning's views
on the Catholic guts ion, and his foreign policy,
gained for him ihe support of the Whigs, and to a
;ertain extent of tie Radicals, againA the staunch
ld Tories who had re:nied to follow h's banner.

1 Tire habit of actii:g along with their allies taught
the Canningites to speak liberally and paironis-
.ngly of other articles of the Reformers' creed ;
tod this habit facilitated immensely their
adoption of it when the It-form struggle
Of 1830 began. As soon as Earl Grey's Re-
form Bill was carried, the Canningites, and some
of the moderate Whig 4 wished to draw bridle. At
the same time Sir R. Peel very adroitly persuaded
the Tories to drop their old distinctive name and
adopt one which was calculated to arouse less of
popular hostility, because it had less meaning.
"Conservatism" was the substitute. It is not
necessary to recapitulate all the incidents that have
occurred since 1835 to render the characteris.ic
differences of parties less marked. Suffice it to say
that, thanks to the euphonious and meaningless
epithets of " Conservative Liberals," and " Liberal
Conservatives," a man of any opinions may no w-
a-days declare himself a follower of any statesman
—a member of any party. Ie fact, th' only re-
cognised party distinction has come to be the fol-
lowing of this or the other leader. A follower of
Lord Derby calls himself a Conservative ; a follower
of Lord Palmerston calls himself a Liberal ; yet
there are members of Lord Derby's Government
who profess openly to aim at organic constitutional
charges from which many a staunch follower of
Lord Palmerston would shrink aghast.
So long as this is the state of the public and Par-
liamentar y mind we may have factions, cliques, and
coteries ; but we can have no parties in ihe consti-
tutional sense of the phrase. It is this mixture of
heterogeneous and incompatible members that has
p tralysed the party of progress, and rendered the
Obstructives triumphant. It is not the so-
called Conservative party—made up of the followers
of Lord Derby—that arrests and impedesprogress.
fn itself that party is as powerless as the Jacobites
were after the accession of George 111. It is a
minority both in Parliament and in the country ;
arid, what is more, its apparent numbers are eked
out by men—as, for example, Lord Stanley and
Sir Fitzroy Kelly—who do not even give them-
selves the -trouble to pretend that they hold Con-
servative opinions. For any resistance this party
could offer, any measure of Reform whatever might
be carried to-morrow by a majority which would
make the Conservative Lords act as they acted when
the Reform Bill passed und,esp ntornueetetds
oft rf
through
are their
house. The real effective ,p
those who, under the convenient name of Liberals,
have mixed in the reform ranks, and impede all the
movements of Reformers. Is a measure of reform
proposed ? these men object to this or that detail
as too sweeping ; they argue, and cavil, and
threaten to oppose ; they bring the real Reformers
to a parley, and by species of pathetic representa-
tions about the danger of disunion, they prevail
upon them to do nothing. Another favourite and
effective method with them of hampering the party
to which they profess to belong is to insist upon its
following, under penalty of disruption, leaders of
their choosing.
The scandalous and aimless faction fights—the
halting between two opinions—the infirmity of pur-
pose, reversing to-day what was decreed yesterday.
—which have disgraced the present Hon=e of Com-
mons, are almost entirely owing to the incongruous
assortment of men of all principles and of no prin-
ciples, under the designation of the Liberal party..
The evil cannot be put an end to until the tares are
winnowed from the wheat, the goats separated from
the sheep ; until the impossibility of keeping alive
a re a Tory party having been recognised, the Con-
.ter vatives of all shades agree to act openly together,
and secede from the ranks of the Party of Progress.
It is not our wish to denounce any man as un-
worthy of the confidence of Reformers, and insist
upon his exclusion from the muster-roll of the
Party of Progress. No such invidious process is
required to purify the party. Let the real Re-
formers among the leaders of the party earnestly
press on measures of practical reform, regardless of
muttered discontents and threats of secession from
professing members of their party, ani the separa-
tion will soon be accomplished. Lay down real
measures of Reform before the party, and real re-
formers will advance and cling to them, as the steel
filings inixe 1 with dust start from the mingled
mass and cling to the magnet held over them. Let
those who are thus found capable of pronouncing
the Reform Shibb Meth, dropping the unmeaning
designation of Liberal, re-baptise themselves the
Party of Progress, and leave to the residuum that
apathetically hangs,back to designate itself by what
epithet it pleases.
_

Even du-ring the necessarily brief period of the
Session that remains to be gone through, a begin-
ning may be made. Two Bills, the object of which
is to effect partial Reforms in our representative
system, have already gone through several stages in
the douse of Commons—the County Franchise Bill,
and the Bill for abolishing the Property Qualifi-
cation of Representatives. A resolution affirming
the principle of Secret Voting will he submitted tob
the house soon after it re-assembles, Hera- are
three important elements of Parliamentary R. form
whichcan be succes'folly carried through one House
of Parliamsnt—p ssibly, seeing how desirous Minis
ters arc of obtaining popularity, through both—
before the session closes. There can be no doubt
that all real reformers would insist upon the whole
of these three items being made part and parcel of
any comprehensive scheme of Parliamentary Reform
tiv‘
they cantheyhich be ca
could r site
duringtlt tbe
eirslippp,rrc.
esession,
If, there-
fore,
It will be comparatively easy to carry the supple-
mentary items required to make up a complete-
Reform Bill in the course of the next The mem-
ber of the House 9f Commons who demurs to such
a policy is scarcely entitled to call himself a mem-
ber of the party of progress. Scarcely any objec
tions are urged against the two bills of Mr. Locke
King ; and as for Vote by Ballot, there can be no
doubt that its adoption is desired by a majority of
the real Reformers. The majority in its favour is
sufficiently decided to entitle its members to call
upon, those of their colleagues who still doubt and
hesitate to co-operate with them. Unless the ma-
jority of every party is entitled to call upon the
minority to follow its lead when the time for action
comes, there can be no combined action. Anyone
who hanets back when called upon to sup-
port the three • measures we have , pointed
out, must be contented to be taken for- one
of those Cense, vati7es who have insidiously mixed
with the Reformer:, fee the purpose of impeding
their advance. There is no chance of a compre-
hensive Reform Bill this session; and the carrying
of these three poikts will make the work of next
session so much water. At the worst, if the mea-
sures are rejected iby the Lords, we shall have
made a beginning of re-organisiug the Party of
Progress upon the basis of a recognition of defined
practical measures lf, on the other hand, Minis-
ters, catering for
,popularity, prevail upon their
House to concede an extension of the County
Franchise, the aboition of the Property Qualifica-
tion for Represonatives, and Secret Voting, the
Party of Progresswil!, even without a complete
Reform Bill, go tothe poll at the next election—
which cannot, miler any circumstances, be far
distant—with infintely greater advantages than it
has ever done befob.

We have shown how the reorganisation of the
Party of Progress /lay he begun. If we are asked
who are to be its faders, we reply, Those who by
their achievementi in the struggle to which we
have been invitini shall show themselves most
deserving of the diS notion.

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EV ENIiNG, MAX 28, 1858.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-3lay 27.

At Bow-street Pulice Court Mr. Joseph Bla-
nior.t, a barrister, of 6, Old-square, Lincoln's-inn,
attended before Mr. Hall to prefer a charge against
Joseph Belasco, the keeper of a small "ticket-
office," opposite the Royal Italian Opera-house, in
Bow-street, for having obtained 1/. lls. 6J. of him
by false pretences.
Mr. Lewis appeared for the defendant ; the com-
plainant conducting his own case.
The case appeard to excite considerable interest,
awl one or two other gentlemen who had made
similar complaints to the ma;istra`e were in attend-
ance, intending to be guide" by the decision of the
Court.

Names of
Companies.

Ashtn
Coventry....
Derby , . • ...
GrandJunetn
Do., 6 pr. Ct.
Grand Unitn:
Kennt 3, Avl,
Leeds Sc.Livrp
Leicester
Leicstr Ntl,
Lottglif,orogl,
Macclesfield.
Neath
0xf0rd......

Charles Comtans, clerk to the complainant,
proved that he was sent to the Royal ItitTtp Opera-
how-) on Monday, the 17th init. with instructions
to purchase three of the amphitheatre stall tickets,
advertised at 10s. 61. each, if procurable, or three
at 7s. or 55., if the former could not be obtained.
He went to the new theatre, and being informed
that the temporary office was on the opposite side
of the street, he tressed over as he supposed, to the
ofiLe in question, arid stw the defendant, whom
he supposed to be the authorised agent of Mr.
Gye. The off i:0 was a small reces,, apparently
pat titionecl off from the shop, and fitted up with a
plan of the interior of the new theatre, the placards
inqle and out inti'natiug that were to be
had within. Witness sta'el what he required,
upon which the defendant produced three tickets,
saying, " Are you aware of the price ?" Witness
said he wanted the half-guinea tickets. Defer dant
said, " These are the half-guinea tickets," and,
painting to the midd'e of the third row upon his
plan, said that they admitted the purchaser to those
places. Upon this representation witness paid him
the sum he demanded, namely, 1/. 11s. 6d. The
stalls purchased admitted to the performance of
Tuesday evening, the 18th. On Wednesday
morning witness went again to the defen-
dant's office, by direction of his employer, to
complain that they were only ss. tickets, and ad-
mitted to the fifth row instead of the third, as repre-
sented. The defendant and another man were there,
and the latter said, " They altered the plan at the
t''eatre, and we can't be responsible for tha'."
Witness demanded back 16s. 6d., the difference in
the price charged, and the value of the tickets, but
they refused, and ordered witness out of the shop.
The defendant said they paid Bs. 6d. each for the
tckets themselve;, and offered to bet wituess a
sovereign that he could not get them at ss. each.
Witness having now discovered that he had mis-
taken this place for the genuine offic-, which was
a few doors off, demanded to know the name of
the defendant and the other person present. The
defendant said, " The name is over the door plain
enough, and the number is 24." Witness looked
up, and saw the name of "Harris" outside.

Berlin .......

East. London....

Mr. Lewis—Did the defendant say, when he
sold you those tickets, that they were the tickets
issued by the conductors of the new Opera-house
at 10s. 6d ?

Witness—No ; he said "These are the 10s. 6d.
tickets."

Mr. Lewis—Meaning that they were the tickets
which he sold at 108. W.

Mr. Edward Hall, of Myddleton-square, keeper
of the box-office of the new theatre, deposed that
the tickets prolue3d admitted to the fifth row of
the amphitheatre stalls, and were ss. each. The
first row of stalls were 10s. Gd., the second row 75.,
and all the rest were ss.
Mr. Lewis—Then the third and the fifth row
asathe same price

Witness—Yes ; ss. That was the price charged
for the tickets produced ; but of course we do not
know who are the pinch ►sers, or what use may be
made of them. No extra charge beyond the price
advertised is ever made at our office.-

Mr. L .wis—But you are aware that tickets are
purchased by speculators, like defendant, and like
the ho,ksellers at the West-'ind, to be sold again
at double and treble the price advertised '1
Witness—No doubt of that.

The Magistrate—l do not attach much import-
ance to the price charged for these tickets ; for
everybody knows that the dealers charge a large
profit upon them ; and if the public are willing to pay
it, instead of going to the theatre for their tickets,
no one has a right to murmur. The question here
i. what was the representation made by defendant
when he sold the tickets ?
Mr. Lewis—l submit that the summons has been
already answered. It charges the defendant with
having represented them as the tickets issued by
Mr. Gye at 10s. 6d. each. In answer to my ques-
tion the witness admits that the defendant made no
such representation.
Mr. Blamont, the complainant, observed that
there could not be a doubt of the meaning implied,
if not actually expressed, by the defendant, who
had also represented the seats to be in the 3d
instead of the sth row.

Mr. Hall inquired of the witness Constans if the
seats were numbered on the defendant's plan ?
The witness replied that none of the seats were
numbered.

Mr. Hall considered it was just possible, under
these circumstances, that the defendant might have
been mistaken as to the row of seats to which these
tickets admitted. No doubt strong conjectur, s and
surmises to t' :e con' rary might be entertained; but
it would not do t ) convict upon mere surmise, and
therefore the summons must be dismissed.

PRICES OF SHARES.

From the Official List.
rUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVEIINO

LONDON, TUEiDA.Y, MAY 25, 1858.
CANALS.

g Dividend
per
rn Annum.

93 71. p. et.
40 4l
00 II i.
.00 el. 15s.
00 I% pr. ct.
10 6' pr.ct.
00 7s. ed
40 63.
00 251.
00 fil.
83 11. ss.
113 701
100 21. 10s. 11
100 161. 1
100

Name of Company.

Do. 4 per Cent. Pref.

Do. 5 per Cent. Pfef.
Grand Janction

Do. New ......

Lambeth • • ........

New River Company..
Southwark & Vauxhall
West Middlesex
Do. Do, .. •• • •

Name of Company.

flunzerfard ..........
Southwark ......•...

Ditto New 0f7% P.C.
Waterloo ..... ....•...

Ditto Old Ann. of Si.

Ditto Nw ditto of 71.
Vauxhall

Name of Company

Commercial .• .• •• •• ••

Do. Preference
East and West India..
Grand iurry D. & Canal

Do. Loma Notes .. ..

Do. 5 per cent. Pref.
London .• •• • .• • •• • •
St. Katharine • • •• • • • •
Southampton •• • • • • ••
Victoria .• •• •• •• •• ••
Ditto New • • •• •• ••

Price.'

Names of
Companies.

Peak Forest
Kege::t'a.. ••
.Itoehdale..••

Stffrd &Wor

jStourbridgq.
j Severn and I
Wye Rail.
6 j Warwick &'j
firming. s
yWarwick&
Napton..
jWorestr &
j Birming.
Wilts & Brk:

10) !.,

WATER-WORKS.

Dividend
per

Annum.

51. per cnt.
cnt.
41. percent.
51. per cent.
4s. per cut.

Amount

Share.

5/. per ent,

t:. per cent.

Dividend
. per

Annum.

£ s. d.
10 0 0
Rock.
25 0 0
25 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0

51. pr cent.

6/. pr cent.
41. per cent.

51. pr cent.

4%1. per cnt.
4 per cont.
51. Os per c.

IT AND CO]

British Provincial
Brighton • •• •• ••
City of London
Equitable-. •• ••
European .... •• ••
Great Central .• •• .•
Imperial ••
Ditto New

Dividend
per

Annum.

,100 0 0
GI 0 0
5 1 8

Amount
of
Share.

X s. d.
25 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
60 0 0
40 0 0
70 10 3

71. per cent.
51. per cent.
21. per cent.
21.
61. per cent.
Si. per cent.
M. per cent.

Amount

Share.

4 s. d.
Stock.
Stock.
Stock.
100 0 0
100 0 0
25 0 0
Stock.
stock.
50 0 0
20 0 0
20 0 0

Ditto Debentures
Do. Continental I st Cap.
Do. Do. 2d Cap.
Do. Do. 3d Cap.
Do. Do. 4th Cap.
Independent
London Parl. Preferen.
Phoenix .•• •• •• ••
Ratcliff
Surrey Consumers
United General
Westminster Chartered
Ditto, New
Western A ...
Ditto B

31. ss.
41. 15s.
41. 10s.

COMP.

Name of Company.

Amount
of
Share.

Albion .... • • .... • • ..
Alliana Bri:. and For.
Ditto Marine ...
Atheneum ..........
Atlas F.
Argus Life ...........
British Commercial ..
Church of England ..
City of London .. • ...
Clericl.Med.& Gen. Life
Crown .... .. • .
Eagle ..
Equity and Law......
I European Life
Family Endowment ••
General • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Globe
Gresham Life .
Do. Do.. .......
Guardian
Imperial Fire... • • ....
Imperial Life .........
Indemnity Marine....
Law Fire ..........
Law
Legal and General Life
London
London & Prov. Law
Marine... • • .... • . • •
& Gen. Life
Minerva • ....... • •
Monarch
New Equitable
Pelican .• •• .• • • PIP
Phoenix
Professiona Life .•
Provident Life........
Rock Life.... • • .. • • ..
Royal Exchange .....•
Sun Fire

61. per cent.
5% per cnt.
5/.
8/. per cent.
16s Od per sh.
7 per cent.

71. per c. ,
71. 14s. 6d.
l. p.c. & bs.

£ 8. d.
20 0 0
20 0 0
t5O 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
10 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0

Stock
50 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
40 0 0
25 0 0
60 0 0
20 0 0
10 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
10 0 0
10 0 0

15s. Od. & t£
41. per cent.
11. 10s.
71. 10s.
5/.
5 pr ct.& bs.
1/. per share

11. 18s.
ss.
iti per cent
11.
41. per cent.
6 per cent.
51. per cent.

51. per cent
121. per cent

14s.
il.p. et. kbs.
2s & 2s bons
24i. per sh.
4s. per share

18s. & bs.
4 per cent
51. per cent
51. per cent.
G per cent
51 p. Ct.
51. per ceßt.
5/. per cent
12% per c.
71.
8 p c &bs
p:c & bs

Ditto Life
United Kingdom ....
Universal Life
Victoria Life .....

'ANIE S.

it 14s.
4/. & bonus.
5/. & bonus.
5!. & totals.

Dividend

Name of Company.

per
Annum

A.ustralasla. • • • • • • • • • .
Bank of Egypt ......
Bank of London ......
British North American
Ch. Bk. Ind. Aust & Ch.
City....
Colonial ..............

Commercial of London.
Eug. Scot. & Aust. Ch.
Loud. Char. Bk. of Aus.
Do. New
London and County
Lon & Eastn Bilkg. C.
London •Joint• Stock
Londe and Westminatr
Nat. Provincial of Eng.
Ditto, New
Ditto ditto

Natiow.l Bank
New .- oat's Wales
Oriental Bank Corpora.
Ottoman Bank
Frovinctal of Ireland

Ditto, New.....••
...
lonian
South Australia
Union of Australia....

Ditto .
Union of llamburg....
Union of

57. Os.
lis

- 281-
121, 10s.

IZ. I's.

10s.
is. Od.

Paid.

X s. d
100
all

Paid.

Price.

Z s. d

['rice

Amount
of
Share.

Price.

Paid. I Price.

Z s. d.
Stock.

s. d.
500 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
1 0 0
50 0 a
too 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
1100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
20 0 0
100 0 0
5 0 0
Stock.

(oo "o 0
too 0 0
5 0 0
stock.

50 -0
0
20 0 0
14 0 0

"lES.

Paid.

123%

20 0 0
100 0 0
500 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
IN 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
5 0 0
10 0 0

107%

Price.

6 5 0
100 o 0
5 0 0
Stock.

s. d
all

150 0 0

12 10 G
100 0 0
42 15 0
41 0 0
43 10 0
41 0 0

52 0 0
16 0 0
all

10 0 0
all
4 0 0

10014

1954
150

Price.

39%
17%

FR 'NCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.

ARTIFICIAL INCUBATION.
A nr sw apparatus for this purpose has just been
preset ted to the Academy of Sciences by M.
Segni ar. The usual method of hatching eggs arti-
ficiall.y consists in placing them between layers of
manure ; M. Seguier, on the contrary, places them
iu• nests consisting of straw, hay, shavings, he.,
just aaOley would be in the case of natural incuba-
tion. illoteover, in the latter, the egg receives
warm th from above, and the same effect is imitated
in the new system, which consists of a central stove
from 1, ?Lich eight or ten pair of India-rubber tubes
issue in -various directions. Etch pair establishes
a corm .u&cation between the stove and an India-
rubber cap, which covers a nest filled with eggs.
The ste; ari generated in the stove is thus made to cir-
culate c one tautly over the eggs, which are thus ex-
posed to a moderate heat radiating upon them from
the concac e surface of the India-rubber cap. The
wh.-ming ;apparatus describe I to the Academy of
Seim: 's a ommunicates warmth to eight nests, each
containing 24 eggs, but the number of nests might
be much gi r.

HYDRAULIC CEMENTS.
AllO •lier interesting paper on this subject has
been submit ted by Ile. F. Kuhlmann, showing the
advantage that may bi derived from the combina-
tion of silic ater, with mortars and cements in gene-
ral, and esp ecially with those tint are intended to
resist the action of the sea-%later. It it well known
that the first effect of water on cements is that of
forming hydr. Ntes ; after which a gradual contrac-
tion tikes pla, le, producing a degree of hardness
which increases in proportion as the contraction 13
slower, and the_ re is more silex or alumina in the
cement. Now VI. Kuhlmann has observed that if
alumina or its silicate, or else magnesia, whether
caustic or carbonated, be kneaded into a paste, with
a solutirn of silicate or potash or soda, the com-
pounds resulting tt,erefrom will bear a perfect re-
semblance to the na .tural silicate, such as feldspars
talcous slate, magnesite, drc., and will, by repose
and slow contraction, become hard and semi-trans-
parent, resisting in a high degree the corrosive
effects of water. If slaked lime be added to the
said compounds, they acquire the properties of hy-
draulic cements. M. Vicat, jug., having shown
that calcined magnesia added to a cemeut would
resist the actiouda sulphate of magnesia, M.
Kuhlmann has :andeavouied to turn this obser-
vation to account„ by mixing calcined dolomites
(which contain magnesia) with mortar, with the
addition of a'kalirte silicates. This composition he
finds [posts advantageous, since most of the salts
contained in sea w ter must contribute towards the
preservation of such cements. In fact, the chloride
of magnesium, as well as the sulphate of magnesia,
will be decomposed and form a layer of silicate of
magnesia on the surface of the cement ; in the same
manner the surface of lime must, being in contact
with the silicate ,of potash or soda, form a silicate of
lime ; and all these silicates strongly resist the ac-
tion of sea-water. As for sea-salt, which is a chlo-
ride of sodiuLa, M. Kuhlmann proves that, in the
proportion in which it exists in sea-water, it will
slowly decompose the silicate of potash contained
in the cement. and leave the silex free. The comp°
sitions proposed have therefore the singular pro-
perty, not only of resisting the corrosive qualities of
sea-water, but actually of becoming more insoluble
the longer they are in contact with it. A cement
composed of 30 parts of rich lime, 50 of sand, 15 of
uncilcined clay, and sof powdered silicate of po-
tash is recommended by M. Kuhlmann as having
all the requisite hydraulic properties, especially for
cisterns intended for spring water. In marine con•
structions care should be taken to add an excess of
silic,te to those portions of cement which are ()V'
posed to the immediate contact of the sea.

Courtry Markets,

ivr A NCIIESTER-blAr 27.

Owing to the occurrence of our annual holidays there wag
a most meagre attendance of buyers at market this morn'
ing, and few factors found it necessary to open their sant"
pies. Under the circumstances we can only repeat the
quotations of this clay se nnight.