The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-15 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15, 1858

MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

The loading country imarkets on Saturday were but
moderately supplied with wheat, and nearly all kinds were
in improved request, at a slight advance in the quotations.
Fine barley and flour changed hands steadily, at very full
prices ; but all other produce met a dull inquiry.
Throughout France the trade for both wheat and flour
continues devoid of animation. In the north of Europe,
as well as in the United States, the trade generally rules
heavy.
Only moderate supplies of home-grown wheat were re
ceived up to our market last week. The imports from
abroad amounted to 4,283 quarters of wheat, 7,216 barley,
4,734 oats, 120 beans, 131 peas, 10 tares, 35 mustardseed,
170 sundry seeds, and 1,:333 sacks of flour. _

Fresh up, to-day, from Essex and Kent, the arrivals of
wheat, coastwise and by land carriage, were very moderate,
but the general condition of the supply was tolerably good.
From other districts the receipts were limited, consequently
the show of samples was not in excess of last week. The
attendance of both town and country millers was rather on
the increase, and the demand ruled steady, at fully last
Monday's currency, to an advance of is per quarter.
There was a full average supply of foreign wheat on
offer, and the demand for it somewhat improved. How-
ever, as factors almost generally refused to sell except on
higher terms, the business doing was only moderate, at
fully late rates.

Floating cargoes of grain supported last week's quota.
tions.

We were very moderately supplied with fine and useful
qualities of barley which changed hands steadily; at an
advance in the quotations of is per quarter.
Malt—the show of wheat was only moderate—met a dull
inquiry, at last week's prices.
The demand for oats was far from active. In prices
very little change took place.
For beans there was a good demand at an advance in the
quotations of is. per quarter.
In peas, about an average business was doing at late
rates.
Flour was in improved request, and country marks were
Is. per 280 lbs. dearer than on Monday last.
CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.
Wieat—Essex & Kent, (Malt—Chevalier .... 663 to 683

Red .... new 4ls to 47s

lOats-:- Yorkshire and

Ditto .... old 48s 531
Ditto, White new 503 553
Ditt0........ old 548 58s
Norfolk and Lin-
coln, Red, o'd 443 sla
Ditto new .• 463 513
Bye—Old ............ —8 —Bl
New •• •• 32s 365!
Barley—Grinding... •• 32s 35a
14falting ••••••••• 363 383
Chevalier.... • • 393 42s
3falt—Baffolkand
•• •• 603 683
Brown 548 SOS
Kingston and Ware 603 66s

Lineolask.,F;ed 20s 23s
Potato
Youghal and Cork
81ack....... 18s 22s
Cork, White ... .• 19s 28s
Scotch, Feed. 20s 243
Beans—Tlek ......... 36; 39
Pigeons 37. 4th
Peas—Grey .......... 37s 39;
Maple ........... 383 40s
White. • 403 41s
Boilers .• • • 42s 44s
Floor—Town-made... 41s 43s
Suffolk .... •• • 34s as
titooktn &Norfolk 31s 35s

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
The total imports of foreign stock into London last week
were 358 head. In the corresponding week in 1857 we
received 1,016; in 1856, 621; in 1855, 379 ; and in 1851
3,824 ; in 1853, 3,617 ; in 1852, 1,593 ; and in 1851
~229 head.

IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WIOR.
From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs
Flarliugen B5 .. 20 ...
5
Rotterdam 3B ...
Antwerp —
Ostend

'-•-•
• • II

T0ta1.... 90 58 ... 210 ...
The yearly comparison of weekly Imports is as follows :
Beasts. Sheen. Lambs. CalveB.
1557 • 651 122 213
1856....
1855 214
„. 165 •..
854 _l,Oll 2,327 491 ... 5
.853 475 2,842 289 9
852 430 1,260 200 ... 9
S5l 475 „. 1,484 263 7

There was a very poor show of foreign stock in to-day's
market, both as to number and quality.
From Norfolk there was an increased supply of beasts,
compared with Monday last, and the quality, generally
speaking, was good. From other quarters, however, the
receipts were very moderate. Although the total ;how
was by no means numerous, the beef trade ruled heavy,
and last week's prices were with difficulty supported—the
extreme v..luei of the best Scots being 4s 8d per Blbs.
The arrivals from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cam-
bridgeshire amounted to about 2,000 Scots, and short
horns; from other parts of England, 700 of various breeds
—from Scotland, 550 horned and pulled Scots ; and, from
Ireland, 250 oxen.

We wore again very- moderately supplied with all breeds
of sheep ; nevertheless, the mutton trade raled rather
heavy, but without leading to any change in ♦alue. The
top price for Downs was 5s 2d per Blbs. Seamly any Irish
sheep were in the market; but about CY) shorn English
qualities were on offer, and which changed hauls at 6d per
81bs_ beneath those in the wool.

The supply of calves, b)th English and forci4n, was
very moderate, yet the veal trade ruled dull, at Friday's
decline in value. The highest quotation was 5s per Sibs.
There was scarcely any demand for pigs—the supply of
which was limited, at last week's currency.

• estimates came before the house, he should ask why a
sum of 516,0001. had been spent without any authority
from this house. (Hear, hear.)
THE NATIONAL GALLERY.
Mr. WISE gave notice that he should, when the
Chancellor of the Exchequer brought forward his motion
for a select committee to inquire into the site of a
national picture gallery and the enlargement of the
British Museum, move that the Royal Commissioners
having presented a report thereon, no further inquiry
was necessary. (Hear.)
PUBLIC EDUCATION.
Mr. COWPER brought up her Majesty's reply to an
address of the house for the appointment of a Royal
Commission into this subject, in which her Majesty
stated that having taken the subject into her conside-
ration the Royal Commission would issue for the pur-
pose required.

SEWAGE OF TOWNS.
Mr. ROUPELL asked the President (f the General
Board of Health when the commissioners appointed to
inquire into the disposal of the sewage of towns would be
prepared to present their report, and whether it was
the intention of her Majesty's Government to introduce
any measure this session based upon their recommenda-
tions ?

Mr. COWPER said the report of the commissioners
was now being printed, and he was enable to say at
present whether or not the Government would intro-
duce a measure based upon their recommendation.
CONTESTED ELECTIONS (IRELAND).
Mr. COLLINS asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland
whether the Royal Commissioners, having reported
that "for a long period corrupt practices have prevailed
at contested elections for members of Parliament for
the county of the town of Galway," it was the intention
of the Government to introduce any bill founded on
this report
Mr. H. HERBERT said the question was answered
on a former night.
PROCTORS, &0., OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL
COURTS.
Mr. H. FOLEY asked the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer what mode he proposed to adopt for ascertain-
ng the incomes of the proctors and other officers of the
Ecclesiastical Courts, entitled to compensation under
the act of last session, whether by their own returns for
incoree tax or otherwise !
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the
act only came into operation on the 11th January last.
Daring that short time claims had been received from
GO gentlemen for compensation, and it was anticipated
that 500 at least would make claims for compensation
tinder the act. Under these circumstances, it was not
possible for the Government to come to a decision on
what principle the claims should be met. It was a
question of great extent, delicacy, and difficulty.
INDIA.
In answer to Mr. PALE,
Mr. V. SMITH said no such report had been re-
ferred to, nor did he think it likely such would be made.
Under the circumstances of the state of Ie Aa it was
necessary that Indian officers shoull be recalled who
were on furl Hugh. Some had been appointed to office
by the Governor-General. They bad been paid their
passage money, and the time they had been on fur-
lough would be counted as service.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Mr. CHILD asked the Secretary of State for the
Home Department whether it was the intention of the
Government this session to introduce any bill to amend
the laws relating to weights anal measures ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he
could not undertake to produce any measure on the sub-
ject this eession.
BARRACK ACCOMMODATION.
Viscount INGESTRE asked the Under Secretary
for War when it was the intention of Government to
proceed with the designs for infantry and cavalry bar-
racks selected by the official Committee on Barrack
Accommodation for the Army i❑ the years 1855 and
1856, according to the pledge given to the successful
candidates ?
Slr J. IZAIUS.DEN said no new barracks had been
commenced since the period referred to. When the
army estimates came before the house he should ask fur
a sum of money for the erection of a small cavalry
barracks at Nottingham, and if it were granted they
would be ortc.ed under the direction of the gentleman
who gained the first prize for designs for cavalry bar.
racks.

THE PRINCE ALBERT TROOP SHIP.
Mr. HENLEY asked the Vice-President of the Board
of Trade, whether any certificate (under the Mere ant
Shipping Act, 1854), bad been granted by the Board of
Trade for the Prince Albert, 2,500 tons, iron steamship,
that sailed with troops for India in the autumn of last
year 1
Mr. LOWE said that the Prince Albert was taken up
by the East India Company for the conveyance of troops
to India, having been approved of by the surveyor to
the company. She was afterwards surveyed by the
surveyor to the [Lard of Trade, who reported that the
vessel did not comply with certain requirements under
the Merchant Shipping Act, but he did not reportagainst
the vessel, believing h.er to beagood and trust worthy ship.
Under these considerations the Board of Trade refused
to grant a certificate, but under the emergency of the
case they opposed no objections to the vessel's sailing,
and she sailed without the certificate.
Mr. HENLEY gave notice that he should put a
question to-morrow to the chairman of the Board o'
Directors relative to the contract entered into with
the owrer of the vessel.
INDIA. BILL.—ADJOURNED DEBATE.
Mr. ROEBUCK resumed the debate on the
India Bill. He believed the bill weuld provide a
better government for India than it had ever et-
joyed under this Government. To retain the govern-
ment of India they must give to that country
such a government as would maintain order and
peace, and conduce to the happinese of the people.
They must have recourse to a different principle of Go.
vernment to that adopted for the colonies. The hon. and
learned gentleman referred to the history of the Indian
Government since it had been under British sway,
and in reference to the proposed council, said he
ent,rtained fears that it would produce a divided re-
sponsibility by the Minister for India in that house,
attributing to the members of the council, throwing im-
pediments in the way of carrying out certain pleasures.
He censidered the emergency of the times rendered the
bill neceesary, and the house and the state of this
country admitted of the subject being coolly and
calmly considered. He begged the house not to
shrink from its duty.
Mr. DUFF eetia the old system, as modified by
repeated parliamentary influence, and the public opinion
of this country was not only most beneficial in action, but
was becoming daily mere and more benificent in its acts.
He ho :waver gave a qualified approval of the bill. He
had no wish to oppress India, but if they thought
such a measure as this was required by the necessity
of the time they ought to carry it out with an iron
hand.

M. WHITESIDE rose, and was
(LEFT SPEARING.)

TRIAL OF THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK
DIRECTORS—(This Day).

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, GUILDHALL.
(Before Lord Campbell and a Special Jury.)
The Queen on the prosecution of the Attorney-GeLeral
v. Humphrey Brown, Edward Eidaile, Henry Dunning
Macleod, Loraine do Wolfe Cochrane, Richard /Hartley
Kennedy, William Daniel Owen, John Stapleton, Hugh
lanes Cameron, Lockhart Mure Valiant, and Fred.
Valiant.

Sir F. Thesiger, Mr. Atherton, Q.C., Mr. Sergeant
Ballantine, Mr. Welehy, and Mr. Joseph Brown ap.
pealed on the part of the Crown ; Mr. Huddlestcn,
Q.C., Mr. Kennedy, and Mr. Bell, for Brown ; Mr.
Elwin James, Q.C., and Mr, Asplatid, for Esdaile, Mr.
Lawrance,itor Macleod; Cochran, who had not pleaded,
did not appear ; Mr. Sergeant Shee, Mr. D. D. Keane,
and Air. Jacobs appeared for Alderman Kennedy ; Mr.
Slade, Q.C., and Mr. Kingdon for Owen ; Sir F. Kelly,
Mr. Bovill, Q.C,, and Mr. Coleridge for Stapleton ; and
Mr. Digby Seymour and Mr. Bennett fer Cameron.
The following is an abstract of the indictments —The
indictment charged the defendants, in the first count,
with having fraudulently conspired to represent that the
aflairslof the British Bank were in a prosperous:condition
during the whole of the year 1355, and half of the year
1856, aad far that purpose, in order to carry out the
conspiracy, to publish a statement of the affairs of the
bank, to declare a dividend, when, in fact, so dividend
had been earned ; to issue 500 new shares, when
they well knew that the bask was approaching ibsol-
vency, and to publish false abstracts of the
annual balance-sheets, purporting to exhibit, let,
the assets and liabilities ; 2d, the profit and loss ;
83, the capital property and its value ; and, 4th, the
obligations and circulations of the bank to the date at
which the accounts were made up. It further charges
that they did, in fact, publish each false statements ;
that they had paid dividends as if they Lad been earned
by the operations of the bank which had in fact never
been earned ; that to keep up the credit of the hank
they purchased shares in the market and paid for thorn
out of the moneys of the bank ; that they issued circu•
tars falsely stating that the bank was prosperous, and
published advertisements inviting persons to become
shareholders, with the like object; and had a'so pub
fished a notice that they were about to issue a large
number of new shares at a Si. premium. With the
exception of the last count in each information, which is
a general count to cheat, the statements in the several
counts are varied with respect to shareholders, customers
to the bank, and liege subjects generally, the object
charged being to defraud, by inducing such persons to
buy new shares, or to depost money in the bank.
The case was resumed this morning. It is expected
that from the intricacy of the details connected with
the charges to be proved against the defendants the
evidence for the prosecution will not lyo completed till
Saturday. The learned counsel for the defendants will
occupy at least three days in addressing the jury for their
respective clients, and allowing one day for Lord
Camphe 1 to sum up, the case will not be finished earlier
than Thursday or Friday week.
Lord Campbell suggested to the jury that it would b
better for them to take copious motes f v m e
mence

that would be adduced on the trial, because they would
be detained many days, and the evidence would no doubt
be of an intricate character, referring, as it world, to so
many defendants,
The Foreman of the Jury said he was directed by
the jury to make a rather novel application. They
would be called upon to attend malty days, and they
thought they ought to be paid a guinea a-day far their
attendance.
Lord Campbell said it was impossible for him to make
any arrangements of that kind. It must rest with the
parties concerned.
The Foreman—Perhaps Sir F. Thesiger could give
them an answer.
Sir F. Thesiger said it was hard to call on him to say
anything on the subject. I have no authority to act.
Lord Campbell said neither sides ought to be called on
so to act.
Sir F. Thesiger said it was undesirable he should be
calledl,TL hore:
dups up then
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then
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rdtrohophenpneoeutdhn.
recalledcoeu g ahnt os po
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and examined by Mr.
Atherton in reference to the Welsh mines.
Lord Campbell saidsit was .desirable that when any
newrevidence was called on its nature should be briefly
stated.
Sir F. Thesiger assented, and said he then proposed
to commence inquiry into the Welsh mines, and pursue
it to its end.
Mr. Paddison then proceeded—Mr. HS Scale hap
transactions with the bank in 1850. Ho was enga,e 1
in the iron trade in Glamorganahiro, and was in commu-
nication with Dutalerr and Swift, a London house.lMr.
Scale obtained a credit of 5,0001. in that year, which
was limited to 3,0001., to cover any bills the bank might
be liable bearing their names. On August 16, 1850, a
mortgage of the Hyett collieries was executed by Scale
to the Bank, and also his interest in two mortgages for
2,000/, on property in Liverpool, which bore a previous
mortgage for 5,000/. The lease of the colliery was for
21 years, with a surface rent of 551. annually for the coal
and iron mines, with 3504 a year for the first 15 years,
then 250/. for the next year, and afterwards a pepper
corn, making a gross payment of 6,658/. for the
term. In 1850 a further advance of 3,0001. was
made to Scales on the assignment of a Inoitgege
on plant and machinery at Langley Field Colliery,
Staffordshire, and iron works near Salop. There
was also a speciel charge given on Scales' interest in
premises at Briton Ferry, Gerth, Cefu and Park 'iron-
works, warehouses and wharves at Portcawl, Glamor-
gan ; there was also a subsequent mortgage on 600 tons
of pig iron. The witness then preceedecto detail the
transaction in reference to theseadvances,anithe part the
defendants took in the proceedings by reference to books,
papers, tto. The evidence was of the dallestdescriptiun,
but it might be briefly narrated in the fell° wing wanner:—
Scale was also at that time the lessee of the Catherine
Gas Ironworks and the Briton Ferry works ; he was
uuder a contract to purchase the iron works from the
Galvanised Iron Company for 50,000/.; part of the
purchase money was to be left upon a mortgage of the
estate. The Briton Ferry works he was to purchase at
20,0031, upon the same terms, He applied to the bank
for fan tiler advances, and he gave, by way of eceurily,
mortgage on the Langley Fields Colliery, in Stafford.
shin,. Tile bank contirmed to discount the bills of bele
drawn upon Dumhar, and a Mr. Swift, a merchant, had
been employed in the negociation of those discounts, and
in a vE ry little time it appeared they amounted to about
13,000/. The bank, according to a statement made by
Esdaile himself, wan very insufficiently secured for these
large advance.", and it was suggested by Esdaile that
the bank should advance a further sum for the purpose
of enabling them to become the purchasers of the dif-
ferent works which had been designed to them by way
of mortgage. Pending these negotiations Scale became
a bankrupt, and the matter proceeded between Swift,
Damlerr, and the company. The bank was to advance
to Dumlerr a sum of 20,0001., which they were to pay
to the Galvanised Iron C m3pany, who re to sell the
firJt riwr,gage for a sum not exceeding 20,000/., and a
sum of 4,0001., which they agreed to advance, provided
Dumlerr and Swift would undertake to procure another
4,0004 The Galvanised Iron Company was to have a
second mortgage for 10,000/., and Damien. and
Swift procured the advance of 4,000/. nomi-
nally from a person named A-hley, but which was in
reality advanced to the Galvanised Iron Company.
Dtitnierr and Swift were to carry on these works in
Glarnorgaushire, but it was agreed that the bank was to
send down an inspector to ascertain that the preoeetlinga
were properly carried on. The advances in June, 1851,
by the bank to those works were 48,0001, Messrs.
Dueilerr and Swift required a further anyone's, being
unable to pay their workmen, and the bank consented
if the parties gave them a warrant of attorney to advance
theist 10,0001. The bank advanced them 10,0501.
to enable Dumlerr and Swift to pay a com-
position of 3e. 6d. in tke pound. The whole
amount advanced by the bank in respect of
these works was 65,000/., whereas the whole
'rains was 23,000/. The works were thrown on their
hands. Unsuccessful attempts were made to get up a
company to take the mines, but at last a Mr. Clarke
proposed in 1852 to work the mines' and to pay the
bank a royalty, and to apply that in liquidation of the
debt. Mr. Clarke resigned the directorship, and endea-
vt.ured for some time to work the mines ; but he was at
length forced to give it up. The whole of these works
were eventually abandoned as worthless, and the final
result was that it appeared from the balance-sheet of
the 31 Sept., 1856, that the bank had suffered a loss of
120,000/. Tais evidence was given to show the reckless
manner in which the directors dealt with the fund 3 of
the bank, and the insertion of the securities in the
balance sheet as available, when in reality they were
worthless as tending to prove misrepresentation and
fraud on the part of those directors who were privy to
the advances as they were made, and when the half-
yearly reports were agreed to and distributed to the
public. In the course of the negotiations for the ad-
van cea Mr. Mullens informed the directors that
200,0001. bad been laid out on the works, and that it
would take 30,000/. to work them. The plant, if sold
on the premises, would fetch 15,0001, He bad con-
structed the engine, &c., for the Galvanised Iron
Works. He reserved to himself the right of revising
his off-hand estimate. The bank afterwards
sent Mr. Williams to inspect the works, and he
wade a report to the bank which could not be found,
though Mr. Paddison said ho believed Mr. Williams
had a copy in his possession.
Sir F. Kelly called for the production cf the report,
or a ccpy of it.
Sir F. Thesiger would admit a copy. The defendants
had subpmakd Mr. Williams, and were ao doubt aware
of the contents of the report.
Mr. Williams was celled by the Crown, and pro-
duced a copy of the report, but
Sir F. Kelly objected to its production without Mr.
Williams was put into the box.
Sir F. Thesiger declined to do so.
Sir F. Kelly.said that without the report the evidence
for the crown was incomplete in a most important
part.

Sir F. Thesiger said he would take the responsibility
of not calling Mr. Williams.
Lord Campbell said he would admit secondary evi-
dence of its contents.
Mr. Paddison (the writer) said it was a ♦oluminous
document, and he had no general recollection of its

contents.
' This witness's evidence having reference to the execu-
tion of deeds, &c., and the correspondence between
the partie', as well as explaining entries in the minute
book relative to the transactions between the bank,
Scale, Dnmlerr and Swift, will in all probability occupy
the whole of the day. Much time was occupied in
reading the various documents.
A correspondence was read in reference to the Welsh
and Langley Field Collieries, and the minutes of the
Court of Directors in 1851. Certain portions of them
were rea i for the prosecution, and others, at the request
of the learned counsel, for the defence. In one of them it
was stated that the Cefu and Garth Works would realise
a profit on working of 4,000/. That report was made
after the embarrassment of the borrowers. Witness
raid that on the 2d December the general manager and
Mr. Esdaile inspected the Welsh mines. The Cefu
and Garth coal mines were represented to them as inex-
haustible, whilst the markets for the sale of the coal raised
were easily to be reached. These desirable objects it was
stated in the report might be realised at a trifling
coat. The Briton Iron Works were reported as a
good investment, and a small advance in the price
of iron could not fail to attract customers that
thiswould v
evidence
nacdev
wasaiitagt
ge advantageous
show
that t othe bank.
thedirectors The
in making
tendency of
their advances and afterwards in their attempts to work
the mines had acted on representations which they
thought reliable, but which were in fact of a deceptive
character, and that they believed they were
acting bona fide for the benefit of all cm•
cerned with the Royal British Bank. In June, 1852,
Mr. Beveridge reported to the bank that the Cefu
Collier), and Garth and Park Ironworks were worth,
Cefu Colliery as a going concern, 10,000/. ; the iron-
works, as a going concern, 10,000/. ; and the plant
od \illiams, who
as
to be broken up, (3,0001., making together
26,000/, Mr. Beveridge in that report stated the
groundsi,in pests/
coent
ewhichh e
mines,differedand
irr .
thereon.l' These
matters were brought forward •in great detail before the
Court, and they were most carefully
considered by the board. The directors and anxiously
e irectors, in conse-
quence of apelication
ask 60,0001, for the works but - to take
55,000/, for them. At the end of 1852, and the begin-
clog of 1853, courts
the urity.
thatsec
were held for the purpose of realising
P posed to raise a company for
purpose It was proposed to raise a company for
that purpose, a
bank to and Mr. Pinnager was engaged by the
negotiate with Mr. Baker to accomplish that
obpct.

After some further ovidenca of a like character the
court adj ,oroccl.

THE LATE SIR HENRY BISHOP.—We have great
pleasure in directing the attention of the admirers of the
compositions of this great musician to th© fact that Mr.
E. T. Smith has placed the Alhambra Palace at the dis-
posal of the committee for the benefit of Sir Henry
Bishop'sjarnily, for a concert, which will take place On
the 25th inst., under the patronage of the Lord Mayor
and Sheriff?.

Prince Christian, who has made a most favour-
able impression in Paris, will depart early next
week fur Sweden.
BOURSE, FEE. 13.—The following were the last
quotatiGns :-
4j per Cents ......... 94 80 Credit Fonder
Do. end month — I Belgian 43
Do. end month 69 80 Roman BB3
Bank Shares :3030 ' Austrian
—9O.
Credit Mobilier ... 952 50, Spanish Threes
Do. Acc0unt......... 9551 : Rome Deirt 43
RAIL'
Orleans
Northern
Now Ditto BlO
Lyon and Ilediteran. 8631
New Ditto 8374
Geneva

rAYS.

Midi
Western 560
690
Strasburg
Grand Central
Sardinian
Austrian

ST. JAMES'S UNION LODGE, No. 211.

The first regular meeting of this lodge, since the in.
Illation, took place on Tuesday last, at the Freemasons'
Tavern, au emergency meeting having preceded it, on
Monday evening. The candidates on the list being more
numerous than ciuld be received on one evening, in
accordance with the masonic law ; it was also desirable,
on account of the very heavy business to be transacted
on the usual night. The candidates in attendance on
the first-named evening were—Mr. G. W. C. Deane,
Mr. Charl€s Jackson, Mr. Henry Hart, Mr. Edwin
Beck, and Mr. I. W. Rea, of New York—better known
as Rayner, one of the proprietors of the celebrated
Christy's Minstrels—each being initiated into the order
by Bro. Crofton, W.M., who went through the cere•
mony, for the first time, in admirable style, quite in
keeping with the promise held forth by his attention to
lct oh g a
ir (Tuesday), a large
u
the previous progressive offices. Lodge was then
e adjournedve
irg,h
w untilen
Bro. c
5 o'clockrofto
n esorntuhme e
dfolw
the
o
number of the brethren, as well as the officers, being in
attendance. Bros. Martin, Robinson, Frances, and
andD Bros.uddrid
ge
Awebrreahpaamss, Dedteothtihere, degree of
Harrison,
dFaenllowßCearadfetr,
were raised to the degree of M.M.; the whole
ceremonies being performed by the W.M. in quite
as perfect a manner as the initiations previously
alluded to. o.her matters, only interesting to the lodge,
were then discussed ; after which the brethren partook
of refreshment, followed by the usual toasts, &a. Bro.
Jackson returned thanks for the initiates, expressing the
great pleasure they derived in being admitted into go
so excellent a society ; he hoped that they would be
found to have made progress during their apprenticeship
as to warrant their advancement in the noble science.
The "Health of the Visitors"—Bro. Tyrrell, P.M. 168;
Bro. Cumberland, and Bro. Harris, P.M. 7—was
saocmk neoal
allusions
.ged
to
the
oy
the
mlast-namedanyyears brother,
thislodge whadh
existed
mad e
;
for he belonged to the lodge 31 years ago, when the
Lodge of Gold Intent and the St. James's were aural-
' gama.e d. The "Master's Health" was then proposed,
and responded to most felicitously by the new master,
who assured the brethren that, while he studied their
comforts at the festive board, be would exact proper
attention to the lodge duties, and, by so doing, carry
whol enr
out the best principles of the order. Bro. Nimmo (of
Mitchell's Royal Library, Old Bond street), in a very
humorous speech, proofpNoseewd t\h.reor`k. H, eath of
entered
the
ed American
the lodge
their newly-initiated companions
Br,: za
Brothers present. " The brothers alluded to were Bros.
'Abymerican brothers (of the Christy's
minstrels)
responded, briefly in words, but more exien-
la
te, Pierce l
caecno7 Celli
T hi eend s
sively by singing since delightful melodies. A pleasant
wingev was passed,
: further enhanced by the singing o f
E. Hart, Nimnao, J.
and Miss Ada Taylor. Gurton, P.M. and treasurer,

CHURCH RATES.—Sir William Clay being excluded
from Parliament by the electors of the Tower Hamlets,
a new Church Rate Bill has (in hie absence) been
devised and brought in by Sir John Trelawny, General
Thompson, and Mr. Dillwyn, M.P. The preamble
recites the litigation and bad feeling occasioned by the
forced levy of these rates as a reason for their abolition,
and the first clause summarily enacts that alter the
passing of the Act no church rate shall be made or
levied in any parish in England or Wales. Church
rates, however, may still be levied for the purpose of
paying off certain moneys raised on the security of the
said rates. The Act will not extend to Scotland or
Ireland.

CANADIAN AND AMERICAN EMIGRATION.---An inl.
portant arrangement has been completed between the
London and North-Western Railway and the Grand
Trunk Railway of Canada, by which passengers of the
first, second, and third classes can be booked at the
London offices of the latter Company, 21, Old Broad-
street, E.C., to their destinations on the American con-
tinent, for one payment, which includes the railway
fare from London to Liverpool, the sea transit,_aeriethteor
by steam or by sailing ship, end the railswry f
, a de-
upwards of 150 leading stations and
seilawnwii
and the United States, as far even
and of 1,818 from
tance of 1,694 miles from Quebec,
ona the resources of
Portland. The valuable
pamphlets bowing the railway
Canada
CuandeT SEtates the tariff of
thhee protection afforded to emigrants
through rates, and the
route,
0 continue to be issued as
by the Grand Trunk connections Canada
the
Nsmi.hap of
usual,r, at
on Application either personally or by
t els' Old Broad street, Lond9Di AO,
on gratis,
t