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THE SUN, LOND ON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 15, 1858

this country it was gravely proposed, and seriously con-
sidered to change the name of Waterloo-bridge and
Trafalgar-square out of deference to those illustrious in-
dividuals, but he was happy to say that the good sense
of the country declined to make the change, and it
might be urged as one reason agaitot adopting the pro-
posed change. (Hear, hear.) He thought that the
proposal to change the name of Waterloo-
bridge to Sebastopol-bridge came too late. If it
had been suggested at the close of the war, to
doubt it woo.id have been considered, but now that eur
armies were engaged in another quarter, and had
achieved deeds: of renown fresh in the minds of
the people, and associated with a portion of
our own foreign empire, it would be impolitic
‘(0 adopt it. So far as the Government was
concerned, he knew of no intention on their part to erect
another bridge over the Thames for the accommodation
of the metropolitan population. With respect to West-
minster-bridge he thought it would be better to retain
that name, associated as it was with the palace in which
they conducted their legislative labours, than alter it.
(Hear, hear.)
LIGHTHOUSES, Sec.
Lord C. PAGET called the attention of the house to
the present mode of superintending the lights, buoys,
and beacons on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland,
and to the manner in which fund* are now, and have
been, raised to defray the expenditure thereon ;
and to move that this house will, upon a
future day, resolve itself into a committee,
for the purpose of considering an address to her Ma-
jesty, praying her Majesty to direct that measures may
be taken for giving eflect to the recommendation of the
select committee en lighthouses of 1815, namely, "that
all expenses for the erection and maintenance of
lighthouses, floating lights, buoys, and beacons,
on the coast of the United Kingdom, be
henceforth defrayed out of the public revenue."
The noble lord complained of the defective system which
now prevailed of lighting and buoying the coast, and
complained that a uniformity of system was not adeposd.
At present every port had its own plan for indicating
the amount of water at their bars. He had suggested a
simple plan to one of the Trinity Masters, who replied,
" Oh, if we were to adopt such a simple plan people
would not take a pilot." So that lives were to be con-
stantly imperilled in order that seafaring men
should take a pilot." (Laughter.) But, said the Trinity
Master, we have stronger reasons than that, viz , that
if we had such simple buoys as you suggest in the
Thames, the French might come up any night and burn
Chatham. (Laughter.) The noble lord then referred
to the French system and its expense, with the English
system and its expense. He proceeded to show that our
sys' eal of lights, buoys, &c., might be assimilated to the
French system, and with two additional lighthouses for
Scotland, at a cent of 186,000/., instead of 353,0001. He
would provide corepensatiou for discharged servants;
and with regard to the Trinity House, the noble lerd
said old corporations were always averse to reforms and
economy ; aud, referring t) the eight steam boats
I keil for looking after the light-house, Sec., by the
board, said one of them was a yacht in which the Trioit y
masters often took an airing. (Laughter.) He had no
objection to the elder brethren of the Trinity Roust
taking an airing, but he thought it should be at their
own expense. If the inspection was transferred to the
Royal Navy, at least 30,0001. a year might he saved.
The lights on our coast were a disgrace to the country,and
there was no excuse on the ground of means f r not adopt-
ing the latest and hest improvements. Tne difference of
cost in this country was as 4 to 1, and the brilliancy of
light of the French lights and that of the Eoglish was
as 2or 3 to 1. The President of the Board of Trade
had a balance of 400,0001. in his hands, surplus light
dues, which he very properly a few days since refused
to return to a deputation of shipowners at their re-
quest—(aughter)—and that the noble lord considered
should be applied to the purpose of improving the lights
on our own coast. Tile whole of the lights on our coast
including 19 belonging to corporations, which might be
taken from them by the Board cf Trade, would then
amount to 378, which might be kept up efficiently at a
cost of 150,0001. under the direction of a central board,
with a representative in that house, answerable for the
outlay of the money. He could show by entering
into the history of the question that the shipping interest
were now suffering from the grossest jobbery of former
days and referred to the exertions of the late Mr. Hume
on the subject. He referred to the fact that lighthouses
were formerly granted by the kings of this country to
their favourite--(laughter)—and he instanced the cases
of grants of leases: of lighthouses bo'ng given to the gen-
tleman because he bad married the daughter of an Earl
of Leicester ; another was granted to Mr. Grenville
as a provision for his family, to the great de-
triment of the shipping interest. It wee a'so a disgrace
to this country, that whilst other countries admitted our
ships into their ports free cf all light charges, we should
charge them a miserable paltry due for lights when they
approached our coasts. He advocated the lights, etc.,
being put under a board of uniform management.
Mr. LINDSEY seconded the motion.
Mr. HENLEY was impressed with the importance
of the question, but he was in no way answerable for
the system there, as a member of the house, and he was
relieved from great difficulty in knowing it was divested
of party feeling, and would be considered on its real
merits, He would have been better pleased if the noble
lord had addressed himself entirely to the state of the
lights, and not to the cost al )ne, as they were two
distinct subjects. All were desirous of establishing
good lights, at the least possible expense.
(LETT [SPEAKING.)

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API IL.
Newmarket F S l9 ' Plymouth Spring...
Lanboidy " Salisbury

MAY.

Chester . 4 I Harpenden
TAV istock
Bath ll Manchester
JUNE.

AQcot 1 I Winchester
Hampton
Newton 9 Newcastle-on-Tyne .
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Beverley Summer 16 Abingdon
Bibnry Club l6 I Carlisle
Stockbridge
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Odiham 2 Marlborough
Newmarket July 6 Goodwood
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North Staffordshire 3 Egham
Brighton
Brighton Club
Lawn
Wolverhampton
Reading ll 1

SEPTEMBER.
Derby
Cardiff . 2 Manchester Autumn.
Warwick
Doncaster 14 1 Walsall
Leicester 22 I Nerthallerton

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Chester Autumn 5 Royal Caledonian Runt
Richmond 7 and Kelm() 19
Wrexham 7 Newmarket II 25
Newmarket S 0 ll

RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN, AND
GRE AT NORTHERN AND MANCHESTER,
SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE COM-
PETITION.
It appears that meetings of the deputations from
the Midland, North-Eastern, Lancashire and
Yorkshire, and East Lancashire Railway Com-
panies, Mr. Wickham, M.P., in the chair, have
been held at Leeds on the Bth of April ; at the
Radon Hotel, Mr. G. Leeman in the chair, on the
10th of April ; and at Fendall's Hotel, Westmin-
ster, Mr. Leeman in the chair, on the 13th of
April, with an earnest desire to conclude the long
pending and reckless competition between the
above companies ; but, owing to the refusal of Mr.
Denison on the part of the Great Northern and
Sheffield Companies to submit, at the eleventh
hour, the question of fares and rates to the arbi-
tration of the deputations their commendable exer-
tions have been frustrated.
The deputation, after reviewing the whole of the
proceedings, state that the withdrawal of the settle-
ment of rates and fares from the deputation neces-
sarily brings their labours to a close. They further
state :
" It is a ra'isfactioa to t'ze clopn'atine, in ":,s tThetarge
of a not agreeable duty, to find that what they undertook
they have, so far as it depended upon themselves, success-
fully accomplished. They have arranged a mode of
settling every question in dispute on which the parties
were willing to admit their mediation, and all the points
of this arrangement have, though at different dates, being
assented to on both sides. The London and North-
Western Company are prepared to carry the arrangements
into effect, and no obstacle would now exist had the depu-
tation also received the formal concurrence of the Great
Northern and Manchester and Sheffield Companies ; but
those companies, while agreeing to four out of the five
points, have now withdrawn from the deputations any
authority to arbitrate on the remaining question—that of
rates and fares.
" With regard to the proposal to refer the rates and
fares to the consideration of the traffic managers of the
respective companies, without any mode of determining a
difference of opiniou, the deputation, remembering that
this particular question was referred to their decision, in
consequence of those gentlemen being unable to dispose of
it themselves, consider the suggestion illusory, and calcu-
lated to postpone any settlement for an indefinite period.
"This question, however, involves the whole subject of
unrestricted competition, and is of such paramount im-
portance as practically to prevent any settlement so long
as it is kept open. The deputation are unable to discover
sny valid reason why, if this important question has
throughout these negotiations been deemed a proper sub-
ject for the decision of independent parties, it is not so at
the present time when all other points are agreed.
" It is not for the deputation, however, to press their
mediation after the decision of the Great Northern and
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Companies ; and
though, being largely interested in the prosperity of rail-
way property, they regret that decision, they can do no
more than record that regret, and leave the solution of the
present difficulties in the hands of those on whom more
immediately devolves the responsibility attending them."
The document, of which this is the conclusion,
is signed H. W. Wickham, T. Dugdale, W. E.
Hutchinson, and G. Leeman.

RAILWAY COMPETITION BETWEEN
MANCHESTER AND LONDON.
On Monday a meeting of the Ganeral Purposes
Corarni,tee of the Manchester Town Council was
held, at which it was resolved—
" That without desiring in any way to enter into the
disputes which have arisen between the competing com-
panies, this committee is of opinion that a second railway
communication, with undivided responsibility, between
this city and London, would be a great public advantage,
and they recommend the council to present a petition in
favour of legalising the union between the ➢lanchester,
Sheffield and Lincolnshire, and Great Northern Railway
Companies."

ceived, and explaining the views of the shareholders
in English with respect thereto.
A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded
the proceedings.

ANTWERP AND ROTTERDAM.
A meeting of English shareholders in this corn-
was held yesterday at the office in Cannon-street ;
Mr. S. Laing in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN explained that at the meeting in
Belgium last year he had Induced the Belgian boat d
to offer to resign, with a view to eaaable the Eng-
lish shareholders to improve the mantgement, but
theylound that the 'qualified shareholders in Eng-
land were not willing to take
.office, and so, the
matter fell to the ground. They agreed, however,
that Captain Shaw should be the managing director
to look after the traffic. That agreementwas to be
in full force for one year, and he had given a report
full of details, and he (the Chairman) thought the
result of his management was very satisfactory.
The traffic had been increased and the expenses
had been kept down. He thought the proposed
dividend of 7f. per share for the year 1857 should
be declared ; for it was clear that it was
honestly earned, and there was not one penny
charged to capital. It vra, perfectly clear they had
11,0001., and were it not for the deficiency of
4,0001. in their capital stock, which sum had not
been raised, they would now have had 15,0001.
at the b tukers ; but there would be no diffi-
culty in borrowing the d:arenee fur a few
weeks to enable them to pay the 7f. per share. It
semecl desirable that the dividends should be paid
half-yearly—namely, in the months of November
and May—(hear, hear)—say at the rate of 3 per
cent. per annum in November, and the remainder
of the sum available for dividend in May. They
would thus diminish the floeting, debt, and do with
borrowing a less sum from the bankers. In reply
to a question, he stated that one-fourth or one-
fifth of the shares were held in Belgium, and that
they could command a majority at the legal meet-
ing in Belgium unless the English shareholders
used extra Tdinary exertions to attend the meet-
ing. No shareholder could give more than a cer-
tain number of vot s, so that it required a large
attendance of shareholders to carry a measure if
there were anything like hostility. But there had
been no disposition in Belgium to oppose anything
that was reasonable. There was a sum of 4,0001.
locked up in payments to the Custom house on ac-
count of traffie ; they were, therefore, that much
behi lhand at the end of the year. The water ser-
vice would require some steam-tugs and barges to
enable them to carry coal and heavy traffic with
regularity and economy ; but however desirable it
was to have sufficient working stock, he thought
they should adhere to the principle of a closed capi•
tal account. The custom of continually increasing
the capital account rendered such companies unable
to sustain a reverse in their traffic without a heavy
felling off in their dividend. He tnought they
had better not raise additional capital for the pur-
pose further than to place the 4,1301. bonds
that had not been issued. The deficiency in the
the goods traffic had been the cause of their failure
in obtaining 5,6, or 7 per cent. They must there-
fore try and get the heavy traffic, and he believed
the sum of 5,0001. would be sufficient to provide
the vessels to carry it.. They would close the
capital account at 580,0001., and provide the 5,0001.
' by setting aside one franc per share per annum out
of the dividends for two years and a-half—(cheers)
—or until the debt was distinguished. With re-
gard to extending the line to Rotterdam, they did
not propose to find any capital, or to enter into any
liability, but merely to have the power to make
some arrangement for conveying the traffic to Rot-
terdam over a portion of the proposed line from
Rotterdam to Liege. The Dutch Government
were fully impressed with the importance in a
national point of view, of connecting Holland with
the' continental railway, and although it might
viaductsvi would take
u e
ld i
be
eh or nine years
madet
and
d bridges,and th 03,
proposed
t t o i
t w make t
asli
line
elle necessary
believedof railtwh railway
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constructed. With regard to leasing the Turn-
hout line at 8001. a year, it was a question
now whether that should be centinivel, as the
object of it had been frustrated to a certain
extent. The actual expense to the company
was about 6001. a-year, teed the agreement 'nigh',
be put an end to on giving three months' notice on
either aide. It might be worth while to con'inue
the arrangement provided it was for a period of 10
or 12 years.
A discussion then ensued on various matters of
detail, in the course of which it was stated that the
proposed railway would shorten the time for con-
veying heavy traffic, as compared with boats, from
three days to five hours.. Several shareholders
would rather forego the dividend to provide the
boats than to increase the capital.
Resolutions were passed approving the dividend
of 71. per share, and of payments half-yearly, in
November and May ; ordering the capital account
to be closed and not re-opened ; authorising the
directors to place the 4,1301. of unissued bands, to
raise 5,0001. and pay it off out of dividend, as pro-
posed ; and approving arrangement with respect
to the proposed new line, but not to incur any lia-
bility with respect to it.
A vote of thanks to the chairman and Captain
Shaw concluded the proceedings.

THE GOVERN4IEAT OF INDIA BILL

(Front the Daily New.)
When Lard John Russell resolved to aVemp
the rescue of the India question from the field o_
party conflict, he must doubtless have made up
his mind to incur the resentment of the noisy and
numerous suttlers of the Palmerston camp; who
looked forward to a pitched ti ttle, 'on the second
reading of the Government bill, as the one and
only requisite preliminary to their resumption of
the profits and perquisites of office. He cannot,
therefore, feed any surprise at the vehemence or
volubility of the invectives directed against him by
those whose personal advantage—kit were absurd
to dignify it with the epithet of ambition)—he has
momentarily marred. Their explosive rage would
indeed be ludicrous if it were not lamentably mis-
taken for more than it is worth by the undiscern-
ine, who looking on from a distance are sometimes
misled Me confounding eager and angry talk for
sincere or solid argument, because the echo of
what is said comes from Westminster. In the
Pethere are
b
roealywaYs to be found
creoramd'pys aoirn moreover,gians asuodfrce reverberation,
of selfish
reiterated,
until at length the unthinking grow perplexed and
puzzled as to the real merits of the matter. One
of our contemporaries do-s not scruple, indeed, to
insinuate that Lord John has disentitled himself
lience,forl and for ever to the confidence of the
Liberal party, as if the Liberal party actually con-
sisted of the hungry and precipitate hangers-on of
the late Premier. A more scan
Pafss c-sosf o ift sa inherentgi.eat strength
dalpoaurstylibneelvoenr
wasthe
and patriotism, the
become tolerant of the
longntellsiigneenec e
principles
penned
or
numbers, in
Liberal
p a wealth,rparty
hag
brief and feeble efforts of decadent Toryism to re-
gain permanent power. They know that, as Tories,
neither the present nor any other men whom acci-
dent may temporarily thrust ieto office can ever
govern this country ; and that, were they
seriously to make the attempt, they would
be driven from Downing-street in a week.
If Liberalism be worth a thought, and if
its predominance in the Parliament, the Press, and
the People of this country be a fact indisputable,
it is the most impudent and barefaced swindle to
raise a cry of country or constitution in danger be-
cause a succession of faults and blunders ou r he part
of the last (-o-celled) Liberal Administration has
forced for a few seeks into office a set of noblemen
and gentlemen who frankly own that they have no
party strength which can enable them permenent'y
to retain it.
If the large majority whose power and position
is so indecently paraded as the the all-sufficient
justifica'ion for the present outcry again-t the
noble member for London were really of opinion
that, regardless of all the exigencies of the public
service, every question, however grave, should be
converted into a faction fight until Lord Clarendon
and Clieriricard
-e were restored to power, what is
to prevent their doing so ? or what is the pretext
for the shameful howl now raised against the best
and truest statesman that has in our time belonged
to the party ? If the intiins:e jueti.e3 ieed w.edoin
of the course recommended by Lord John Rusiell
regarding the future government of India does not
commend itsclf.to the judgment of a large and in-
fluential portion of the Liberal party, it is bootless
and ineffectual, and the grievance of the infuriated
hacks falls to the ground. If. their leading organ
be correct, Lord John is a mere pretentious ob-
truder of counsel upon a party devoted in its alle-
giance to other chiefs. Well, but if he does not
possess their confidence to any great extent, as our
contemporary avers, what great harm can he do ?
By what conjuration is it that the old and tried
leader, of the party can, by the iit•erance of a few
clear and calm sentences iu his place as a private
member at the House of Commons, suddenly pro-
duce such utter disorganisation in its ranks—ranks
which the journals of the Cambridge House Cabal
still pretend to be enthusiastically loyal to its flag,
and to its flag alone ? It cannot be pretended that.
Lord John has ev. r striven to form around himself
in Parliament a personal faction, nor can it be al-
leged with a semblance of truth that he has relied
for the maintenance of his independent position
upon the
otgauised support of relatives or personal
friends. In the me at r markable transactions that
have occurred in Parliament during the lest two
years he has asserted his authority and influence
without such aid ; and more than one remarkable
instance might be cited where the votes of members

of his own family have been recorded in favour of
a prosperous rival. To what, then, is it owing
that in a Parliament notoriously and unscrupu-
lously packed by that rival, Lord John has been
able successively to veto one act of rashness and
folly after another, and that at the present mo-
ment the adherents and organs of Lord Palmerston
are full of weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of Na
teeth, because they are not allowed to make party Com)
prey of the greatest question which the present
house of Commons has been called upon to £
Ashtn &Oldh 93 71. p. ct.
&MISS ? Birmingham 40 41.
Another contemporary professes to write pri- Coventry.-• 00 tie
vately and confidentially on the subject of the re- Derby .. • ... 100 di. 15s.
Dr a0n.,6J0r.&. di.
cent suggestion made to the Government and to
promptly acceded to by them. Lord John Rus- Grand
tyrn 14000 73.6 6d •
sell, we are told, has acted in this business uncap- LK t
ecds &Llvrp 100 251.
didly ; and what is the proof ? Neither more nor Leicester .... .00 1155 x.
less than this—that feeling from the first a strong Leicstr &Nth 83 11. ss.
Loughboroghls3 7Ol
repnenance to Lord Elleeboreugh's Bill, be de- Macclesfield. 100 41. los.
slaved servedly that he could not support it Newt...b.ee . too .
tl itill.
on the seeond reading. Far Loin being a secret,
it is perfectly welt known that such was his lord-
ship's opinion from the outset ; and such being his
opinion still, he has succeeded to all appearance in
vindicating it ; for all the world is now agreed that
Lord Ellenborough's Bill is a burst bubble of
which we shall hear no more. But then, sobs our
contemporary, he did not put an end to it in the
proper party way ; and he misled the simple-
minded Cianricar'ee and Cleo eudons, Wo,ds and
Paltnerstons by telling one of them in writing how
much he disliked L ird Ellenberough's crazy pro-
ject and how willing .he was to initiate a proposal
for its rejection. And has he not kept his word ?
Does any one seriously believe that, in Committee
of the whole House, the main features of the abor-
tive project of the Minister will not be, as the Par-
liamentary phrase goes, "resolved in the nega-
tive ?" Can any one doubt that wiser and sounder
principles, as the bases of a better India Bill, will
not be " resolved in the affirmative."
But then we are told that Lord John committed
another crime by letting Ministers understand all
along that be meant to oppose their bill. What un-
fairness or disengenuousness there was in this it
passes our comprehension to discover. Had the
noble member for the City shut himself up at Pem-
broke House for the holidays,communicating with
no one on either side of the leums what he meant
to do, there might indeed be some faint colour for
the insinuation of want of candour. But his slan-
derers have contrived amongst them to makeit clear
that not only independent members above and be-
low the gangway, but both the present and the late
Cebinef, were thoroughly aware of his opiniens,
generally, on the subject ; and the so!e point on
which malignity can perch is this, that it does not
seem to have been understood exactly, when he
rose to speak, on Monday last, whether he would
move a string of readutions, in the first instance,
of his own, or invite the Minister to do so, and then
propose such amendments as he might deem requi-
site. Practically the difference between the two
curses, in its effect on legislation for India, is
u terly inappreciable ; nor can we Fee how even for
party purposes it could signify which of the two
were adopted ; althouih, as a matter of parliamen-
tary rule and minis' erial responsibility, it is certain
that Lord John decided rightly in forcing the ini-
tiative in the proceeding upon the official advisers
of the Crown.
From first to last it is plain that Lord J. Russell
has acted in a manner in every way worthy of his
eminent position as the first constitutional states-
man of the day. He has refused to allow the future
Government of India to be made the sport of con-
tending faction ; and lie has refused to be made a
tool of by either, in spite of the private solicitations
of the one and the. public flatteries of the otner.
He has shown himself able and willing to think
and act for the lasting interests of the country, re-
gardless of the spleen and spite of the worthless
portions of his own party, and of the momentary
relief which his wise ioaenanimity has afforded to
the leaders of that which he has all his life op-
po•ed. Faction may for the hour misrepresent
and revile him ; but the nation will comprehend
his motives, and render him gratefully the honour
which is his dus.

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THE BARONESS, THE CHEVALIER, AND
THE HEIRESS.

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A case which excited considerable interest has
just been decided by the civil court of Malta. The
following is a condensed statemeut of the most pro-
minent facts from the Malta Times :
" Antonia Muscati, a baroness in her own right,
the last of a very wealthy Maltese family, was in
1797 married to a military genticman of French
extraction, the Chevalier Parisio. The couple
lived in happiness until the French invasion
tr.:der Bonaparte c Lula to disturb for ever their
conjugal tranquillity. It appears that during two
years that the French► were masters of Valetta, be-
sieged by the population of the coun•ry, the cheva-
li-r lived at his country seat at Naxaro, and, not-
withstanding his French origin, occasionally took
an active part against the invaders. The baroness
continued to live at Valetta, where, adopting the
republican ideas then prevalent about the validity
and dissolubility of previous marriages, she com-

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milted one of those faults which are sometimes

visited not merely on the sinner, but on innocent
vict'ins of other gonerwions. At the expulsion of
the-French the chevalier returnf d to town, and found
his honour tarnished ; from that time he vowed to

abandon his wife, notwithstanding her attractions,
his comparative poverty, and her wealth, and to all
appearance?, up to the time of his death, which
took place in 1840, he kept his resolve,' he having
always lived at the Palazzo Parish), whilst the ba-
roness continued to live in her own house.
" About the time of the chevalier's death a girl
came out of the House of Industry, an institution
for female orphans, and was married to a young man
named Saluitro, a tailor. It soon became known to
this young couple that the marriage was pre-
arranged by the agents of the Baroness Antonia,
and this leading the tailor to inquiry, he began to
suspect from out-of-doors information, and from
avowals of his youthful bride, that she was the
daughter of the Baroness Antonia. The tailor fol-
lowed
up the thread, and having gathered suffi-
cient information, he in 1850 brought an action for
a subsidy, in the name-of his wife, against
satisfied
by the evidence then produced decided in favour of
the plaintiff for the maternity.
" In the meanwhile the baroness had been mar-
ried a second time to Beron Sir G. M. Deiro. She
died in 1856, leavingher uneut tiled properly t him,
viLiist her free estates, the whole amounting it is said
to 3,0001. a-year, wout to her collateral relations.
The daughter was left penniless. Soon after her
mother's death she commenced a lawsuit agsin.st the
testamentary heir and her mother's relatives, and
also her father's heirs de facto, asking for her legi
timacy. Her birth, she said, which had already by
the Court of Appeal been established, had taken
place during her mother's marriage with the Cite-
val!er Parisi°. He was legally her father, anti
et, nsequently she was their legitimate offsering.
The marriage which d been elebrated i 1797
was only solved by the chevalierc's death inn 1840,
and between these dates there was no judicial sepa-
ration between husband and wife. It is tru-, that
they constantly lived in separate houses, but this
was not sufficient to deprive her of her legitimacy;
on the cont-ary, she continues to say, this presump-
tion of the law is strengthened by circumstances
that came to her knowledge after her mother's
.death. The separation between the chevalier and
his wife was merely apparent, and was only insisted
on by the chevalier for the eye of the public, as
having been wronged by her in 1801, he did not
consider it honourable any longer to acknowledge
her publicly as his wife. But, especially towards
1819 (the time of the plaintiff's birth) a good un-
derstanding existed between the parties. It was
beyond any doubt that in 1819 both lived in Va-
letta, and no physical impossibility existed of their
seeing each other. She produced a great number
of witnesses, mostly old servants and neighbours of
the baroness, to prove that a correspondence existed
b :tween the baroness and the chevalier ; that small
pre,eute were often reciprocally sent to each other,
such as game on the part of the chevalier, and corn-
fitures on her part ; ihit the chevalier borrowed
money from her ; that she kept her carriage at his
stable, and that he occaeionallymede use of it; that
meeting in the etie Lcy ueed to say to each
other we revoir ; that he been seen several times at
her house, both in town and at Citta Vecchia, both
before and some time after the birth of the plain-
tiff ; that the chevalier's brother and other mutual
and influential friends were very pressing in their
endeavours for a reconciliation ; that the cheva-
litr had knowledge at the time of the aceouche-
ment of the baroness, and that it was only a few
years after that he entirely ceased his visits ; and
that his wrath against' his wife was observed to re-
kindle froth reasons that it was unnecessary to
relate to the Court. The plaintiff, in short, con-
tended that these might be considered as explana-
tory circumstances, that she advanced her action on
the great principle of the Roman law, that the
child born during the marriage is the child of the
husband, and that therefore she was the legitimate
child of both, and entitled to succeed them before
all others.
On the part of the defendants, it was argued that
so early as 1801 the- chevalier had separated him-
self from his wife ; that this separation continued
up to the time of the. husband's death, and they
produced -evidence to the effect that none of the
friends and visitors, both of the baroness and the
chevalier, ever heard of a reconciliation having
akeri place between them, or had ever seen them
together.
The learned Judge pronounced his sentence, and
non-suited the plaintiff.

PRICES OP SHARES.

Prom the Official List.
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENIN,
LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1858.
CANALS.

fames of i Dividend' Names of Dividend
. ~per
Price
)mpaniez. = per Companies.
m Annum. 00
—..........—
.3 Annum. Price.
---
X X
htn &Oldh 98 71. p. et. Peak Forest. 78 N. Os.
rmingham 40 41. 93 Regea Vs ••• • 30 175. 16%
ventry.. • , 100 111. 190 Rochdale.... 85 41. 84
.rby .. •• • . 100 67. 15s. jStftrd &Wor. 140 287
andJunetn 100 21. pr. et. 51 Stourbridge. 145 121. 10a.
0., 6 pr. Ct. 10 6/. pr. et. (Severn and l 26 11. 16s.
'and Union 100 7s. 6d Wye Rail. j
,nnt & Avn 40 61. 6 IWarwick & 1 luv ~„ 21, 24
,cdsBol,lvrp 100 251. Birming. j
licester —• . 00 51. (Warwick & 1 9
;icstr &Nth 83 11.55. 12 1 Napton.. j 100 27.
mghborogh 113 701 Morestr & 78 10s. 17%
acclesfield. 100 21. 10s. 61 , Eirming.l
eath —.b .. 100 161. Wilts & Britt. 7s. Od.
xford.. • ... 100 105 ~,,

WATER-WORKS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
-
£ a. d. £ a. d.
Berlin .. ••• • . ....... 51. per cnt. 10 0 0 100
East London
Do 4 per Cent. Pref 4l. percent. 25 0 0 25
D. 5 per Cent. Pref 5l. per cent. 25 0 0 27
Grand Junction .... •• 4e. per cnt. 50 0 0
Do. New •• • •
100 0 0 . 2
Lambeth •••••• • • •• . . 51. per cnt. 100 0 0 95
New River Company — _
Southwark & Vauxhall 100 0 0 92
West Niiddlesex •• • •
Do. Do. ••• • • • Vir, per cent. 5 1 8

BRIDGES.

Amount

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

Amount

Share.

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

'ANIES.

Amount
of
Share.

£ d.
500 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
1 0 0
50 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
20 0 0
100 0 0
5 0 0
Stock.

20 0 0
100 0 0
500 0 0
100 0 0
tOO 0 0
!oo 0 0
WO 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
50 0 0
,00 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
5 0 0
10 0 0

6 5 0
(00 0 0
5 0 0
Stock.

20 0 0
100 0 0

INT-STOCK BANKS.

Dividend
per

Annum.

101. per cent.

M. per eent.
9 per cent.
4r. per cent.
51. per cent.

Amount

A s. d.
40 0 0
25 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
100 0 0

„ ;100 0 0
71. p. c. & bs.'loo 0 0
4,. per cent.' 20 0 0
51. per cent. 20 0 0
~ 20 0 0
181. per cent. 50 0 0
6'. per cent. 100 0 0
23 per cent. ' 50 0 0
18, per cent. 100 0 0
16pc.&tos ,100 0 0
20 0 0
20 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
25 0 0
20 0 0
100 0 0
10 0 0
25 0 0
25 0 0
25 0 0

S /.per cent.
20'. per cent.
101. per cent.

81. p. ct.&bs.
L. per cent.
51. per cent.
10!. per cent.)
HI. per cent.

15Z. per eeht.

is. per cent.
81. per cent
81. per cent.
51. per cent.
5%/. p cent.
71. per cent.
61. per cent.
8341.. p cent.
6% per cent.
51. per cent
51. per cent.
81. per cent.
11. per cent.
8%1 pr cent.
41. per cent.
10,. per cent.
61. per cent.
51. per cent.
61. percent.
51. mer cent.
61. per cent.
61. per cent.
71. per coat.

I 7 1. pr cent.
5 . per cent.

15 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
,00 0 0

LT AND COKE COMPANIES.

Dividend
per

Annum.

71. per cent
51. per cent.
21. per cent.
21.
61. per cent.
til. per cent
101. per cent.

3/. ss.
41. 15s.
41. 10s.

per cent.
sy, per cnt.
5/.
81. per cent.
16s Od per sh.
7 per cent.

Amount
of
Share.

s. d.
20 0 0
20 0 e
150 0 0
50 00
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

:SCELLAN

Dividend
per

Amount
of
Share.

Annum.

s. d.
10 0 0
20 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
MO 0 0
10 0 0
10 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
Stock
Stock
Stock
Stock
Stock
5 0 C
5 0 0
4 0 0

65. per cent.
Ali/per cent

81. Tr Cent.

ti. 10e.
Si. per cent.
61. per cent.
5/. pet cent
st.per cent.
61. per cent.
41. per cent.
61. per sent.
21. per cent.
71 pr. cent.

3%/. per cent
61. per cent.

5l per cent,

51. p c and 11

Stock.
5 0 0
30 0 0
.00 0 0
50 0 0
.00 0 0
25 0 0
15 0 0
4 0 0
Stock
.00 0 0
10 0 0
IS 0 di
10 0 0
25 0 0

10/. per et. &I
121. per cent
51. per cent.
2/. ss.

51, per cent.

S l. per cent.
6d.
Al. per cent.

1 0 0
20 0 0
25 0 0
5 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
100 0
100 0 0
1 0 0
25 0 0
20 0 0
100 0 0

71. per cent

41. pr cert
1%1. pr ceLt.
P. Share
15/.- per cent.
71. per cent.
7%. pr cent.
6 per eeis,