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London, England, 1835-06-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1835_1_,

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Ve were prepared for the cavilling in the Tory
Papers .at the suffrage in the Municipal Reform mea-
sure. If the franchise had been fixed at 101., as in
the Reform Bill, we should then have been told that

the object of Lord John Russell was to sever all con-
nect'on between the poor and the rich. This, in fact,
was the objection to the 101. franchise in the Reform
Bill dishonestly urged by Sir Robert Peel, who was
eculiarly eloquent on the evil of drawing invidious
distinctions between different classes of contributors to
the State. We are beholden to the Courier for a
seasonable quotation from a speech of the Right Hon.
Baronet in 1831, on the introduction of the Reform
Bil;, in which this objection to the 101. franchise was
strongly urged. " Why," said Sir Robert, " confine the
privilege of voting to those who rent a house rated
at 101. a-year The law knows no distinction in
this respect bet,,veee the contributors to the State.
Yet the Noble Lord not only refuses the right of vo-
tin,?; to persons rated at less than 101., but lie also dis-
fra::chises many who contribute to the public taxes,
and who no‘f possess the privilege of suffrage. I con-
ceive the Noble Lord's plan to be founded altogether
upon an erroneous principle. The great defect, in my
opinion, is that to which an objection has been urged
with great force and ability by the Hon. Member for
Cellington. The objection is this : that it severs all
connection between the lower classes of the community
and the direct representative in this House ; and that I
think a fatal objection—that it should be proposed in
these times that every link berween the representative
and constituent body should be separated, as regarded
the lower classes. I think it an immense advantage,
that there is at present no class of people, however
humble, which is not entitled to a voice in the election
of representatives." The anxiety of the Right Ho-
nourable Baronet for the preservation of the connection
between the poor and the rich, in the case of the Par-
liamentary franchise, is sufficiently obvious. Where
the object at stake was nothing less than the spoil of a
great nation, it was conceived that the poverty of the
voters would render the corruption of them more easy.
The Right Hon. Baronet did not, of course, wish to
sever from the constituencies the class of voters which
bad all along been the great instrument of the Bo-
mighmongers. The system of virtual representation,
or Boroughmongering, was founded on purchasing,
with the spoil of the whole nation, the votes of the
cessitous portion of it, possessed of the franchise.
The interest of the electors in the welfare of the
cc untry was too slender to render them proof against
the bribes offered them by those who wished to plunder
their fellow-citizens. But in the case of the municipal
franchise there does not exist the same motive for ex-
cluding the humbler class of citizens. There is a
wide difference between returning a representa-
tive to assist in controlling the expenditure of a
great empire, and returning a member of a Muni-
cipal Council to impose burdens to a limited
amount for local purposes. The temptation to
abuse in this case is reduced to its minimum.
The far greater part of the burden raised throughout
the country for the maintenance of the poor is under
the controul, not of councils elected by rate-payers,
bitt of the whole body of rate-payers. We are aware
that great abuses prevailed, and still prevail, under
this system. A may be the owner of the whole land
of a parish, and B, the owner of the tithes, and C,
D, E, and the rest of the alphabet, may have a deeper
interest in expending heavy rates levied on A and B,
than in the economical management of the parish.
But under the Municipal Reform Bill, the power to
tax will in the first place be limited, and in the next
place there is a wide difference between giving the
power to tax to an open vestry, or a common,hall, con-
sisting of all the burgesses, and giving it to a council
elected by all the inhabitant burgesses. The Standard
throws the Common Council of the City of London
in our teeth. " Beyond all comparison (says our
Evening Contemporary), the most corrupt body in
the kingdom is, according to Mr. Henry Hunt
and Mr. Cobbett, the popular Common Council
of -London ; and we need cite no authorities to
show that the Common Council no more repre-
sents the citizens of London of any definite class,
or of all classes together, than it represents the
population of Pekin. We are not aware that the
Common Council of the richest city in the world con-
tains one man of eminent wealth." The city of Lon-
don is not a case in point, because the Common
Council exemplifies the evil of virtual representation,
which leads necessarily to abuse. The city of London
a very small fraction of the metropolis, has the power,
from its command of the river, to tax the two millions
of inhabitants of the valley of the Thames. There
are comparatively few rich men living within the
bounds of the city. The Corporation of London is,
therefore, altogether, an anomaly. If the Com-
mon Council had no other money :at its disposal
than what was raised by a tax on the inhabitant house-
holders, we suspect there would be a good deal less
feasting and hospitality than there is now. We may
see from the sort of objections urged against the mea-
sure, that notwithstanding the apparent acquiescence
of Sir Robert Peel, the Tories have not renounced the
hope of being able to damage the Bill by mutilating its
most essential provisions. It is not without reason
that we have all along warned the sincere friends of
Corporation Reform not to put any faith in the pro-
fessions of their political opponents. The Tories
indeed are too shrewd to repeat their capital error on
the Reform Bills in 1831, of open opposition to the
will of the people ; but assuredly in Committee on the
Corporation Bill they will do their utmost to destroy
its efficiency. Indeed, from the rumours abroad of a
split in the Tory party, it is extremely doubtful whether
Sir Robert Peel will even have personal influence suf-
ficient to prevent a division on the second reading. If
the ex-Premier had possessed sufficient courage, he
w nild have demonstrated his excessive zeal in favour
of Municipal Reform during his short Ministerial
career ; but he feared, and perhaps justly, the ultra-
Tories imposed upon him by untoward circumstances.
It is no secret that the " Conservatives" vehemently
i‘,eiounce the speech of Sir Robert Peel on Friday
lit, and that the self-elect corporators consider them-
selves shamefully-treated by those who used them as
political tools. We are not disposed further to comment
on these civil dissensions. The great subject of political
discussion is not the defects of our present Municipal
in ititutions, or the manifold sins of the Corporators,
but the value of the bold, and almost unexceptionable,
sebeine of reform projected by Ministers. This admi-
rel.& measure is best displayed in contrast with the ex-
isting system. A uniform plan of municipal organi-
zation will supersede the present anomalous constitu-
tion of the Corporations. The self-elect will be
superseded by municipal officers popularly and periodi-
cally chosen. A cumbrous machinery will give place
to a simple and practical form of local government.
Property hitherto treated as private is declared to be
public. Charities prostituted to party objects will be
henceforth honestly administered. Justice will be dis-
pensed by magistrates in effect popularly chosen, and
net, as hitherto, taken from one i-party in the commu-
nity. Irresponsibility will be terminated by the
principles of representation and publicity. Property
will be secured by the conservation of the peace,
and by improved civil jurisdictions: the encourage-
ment of education, and the improvement of the
local tribunals of the Corporations, must tend to
promote order and prevent crime. But the Tories
will despise all these results, anxious only to suc-
ceed in restricting the power of the people. 'We
contend that Municipal Reform is based on the prin-
ciple of popular representation, and can be effected
in no other mode. The Tory journals teem with tirades
against the projected municipal franchise, and denounce
the alieimportant principle of periodical election. Sir
Robert leoel having discreetly admitted the necessity
of Reform, they cannot with decency indulge in the
unlimited opposition to the measure for which they
were preparing last week. We shall to-morrow advert
more particularly to the objections of our Tory con-
temporaries. We shall merely at present observe that
a great advance is evidently made, when even an apos-
tate journal, which has gone such great lengths in op-
position to popular rights, cannot screw up its courage
to the unqualified vindication of corrupt Corporations.
It is extremely amusing to, observe our Conservative
AO nteniporaries now busied in discussing the principles
of Municipal Reform, when, till last week, they Openly
*flied the necessity of any legislative measure. If

they were blind to the existence of the defects of the
system, they cannot be very well qualified to prescribe
for their remedy ; if they dishonestly denied the evils
of the system, their recommendations ought to be re-
ceived with great distrust.—Morning Chronicle.

We cannot withhold a second notice of Lord
Brougham's vagaries at his Almshouse dinner on Sa-
turday, nor a sigh that we were absent ; the loss of a
handkerchief and the purification of our apparel would
have been amply compensated by the exhibition.
Most animals we know are particularly animated at
feeding time ; and Lord Brougham and his Radical
gang appear to have screamed and cut antics in a style
which cannot but have a most serious effect on the re-
ceipts of the menagerie's exhibited about Whitsuntide.
Our chief reason for recurring to his Lordship's per-
formance is some curious remarks made by him rela-
tive to the prospects of the Ministry. He says
"There never was a Government moro confessedly in

need of popular aid than the present ;" that is, less
able to stand by itself. He continues—" They have
against them a formidable majority in the House of
Lords." Popular aid will not reduce that, whatever
physical aid might do. " A powerful Opposition in
the House of Commons, amounting to nearly half
representation, and, what was worse, an Opposition
composed of a resolute and compact body, while their
own party is split into half-a-dozen sections." Whose
fault now ? This is the result of the Reform Bill,
which his Lordship so enthusiastically lauded in his
opening ; and yet popular aid is still necessary to
check the Conservatism of the ten-pounders.
" Oh, 'tis sport to see the engineer hoist with his own petard."
Then there are some ominous allusions to kicking out,
betraying the people, and seeking to fawn on the Court
which we do not exactly understand ; and all is
summed up with the reiteration that the support of the
people is the breath of their (the Ministers') nostrils.
Now, whether these home thrusts have been bestowed
in consequence of any little spite which the ex-Chan-
cellor may feel for being so completely and irreme-
diably shelved, or whether they were delivered at an
advanced period of the evening, we are unable to say.
But, be that as it may, we recommend the considera-
tion of them to Lord Melbourne. And now a word
as to the object of the meeting. The Reform Alms-
houses, which are most appropriately situated near that
large Reform House, the House of Correction at Brix-
ton, is a pet project of some of the members of the
Corporation, or, to use a synonym, a barefaced job,
placing the patronage of the six or eight huts in the
hands of a Committee of Common Councilmen, to
promote their own elections. The principal movers in
the business have been a Mr. 'Weston, who, we hear,
is really very respectable person, though rather rabid
in politics, and a Mr. Shoobridge, a dealer in
ready-made trowsers and jackets for little boys,
who has been used rather scurvily in not having
an office made for him. Lord Brougham is reported
to have said that his exertions deserved a Gazette to
himself, like Lord Nelson, when the worthy Common
Councilman is reported to have replied that he was
perfectly satisfied with the space hitherto allotted to
him in that publication. The Secretary, a paid one,
is a person of the name of Ledger, formerly a Com-
mon Councilman, an office which he vacated in conse-
quence of a written promise, now in his possession,
from Lord Brougham, when the Bankruptcy Court
was only in embryo, to make him an Official Assignee,
which, of course, he is not and never will be. But
where was " our dear friend Banquo, whom we miss ?"
Where was the President of this precious concern,
Sir John Key, Lord Brougham's protege, arid Lord
Grey's patron ; the father of the two-in-one Kingsmill
Grove, whilom storekeeper of his Majesty's sta-
tionery ? Surely he was fit for that company !
Surely the Radicals were not too haughty to produce
their President in public. " Where was County
Guy ?" and echo answers " Where 1" The fact is,
that the twice Lord Mayor was present, to the great
consternation of the company and the dismay of Lord
Brougham, but he was not allowed to speak, or take any
part in the proceedings. 111-used man 1 Ruthless Radi-
cals ! The list of subscriptions was a lie, if it purported
that they were given at the dinner. They were given
when the ground was purchased, the owners hinting in
the most delicate way, as they had to deal with Whigs
and Radicals, the cash must be forthcoming before
anything final was settled. And now one other word to
Lord Brougham at parting. If his Lordship wishes to
place himself favourably before the public by means of
charity dinners, to be attended by Radicals, let him
take our words for it, he will very soon be as completely
left alone in his glory as he is in the House of Peers.
The charity of Radicals begins at home, and, what is
more, stays at home. None are so willing to be liberal
in sentiment, or at other people's expense, but not a
stiver of their own is to be got. For instance, the gift
to this job of 1,5001. from the Corporation, which we
hesitate not to say is a daring misappropriation of the
city funds. But we have done. The only professional
people present on this important occasion, besides
Messrs. Fitzwilliam, O'Connell, Solly, and Lord
Brougham, were tMessrs. Crawford and Patteson ; and,
notwithstanding he heat of the weather, there was no
particular disturbance. We have not referred to the
police reports, but the inspectors at the neighbouring
station-houses say that there was no great influx--con-
sidering.---Morning Post.
A lively wag, called a Zany, was in former times an
indispensable part of a great man's retinue. But
though a Lord Mayor himself now-a-days usually con-
descends to be his own jester, there are other Lords
who crack their jokes by proxy, and sport " the mot-
ley" on other shoulders than their own. Thus it is
that our facetious friend of the Chronicle puts on the
cap-and-bells for Lord Palmerston, and jingles them
with that fantastic vivacity which shows that in such
a service he is quite at home. Strange that the most
solemn of diplomatists should select the wildest of mad-
caps to play his antics before him in the intervals of
those labours which have shed on himself and his
country the immortal glory of the protocols I If,
indeed, immortality should not attend those voluminous
productions with which the " rejected of Hampshire"
has illuminated the diplomatic world, it will not have
been our fault, for those who are most anxious for his
Lordship's reputation must admit that we have done
all in our power to obtain for them a lasting celebrity.
Equally zealous were our efforts to obtain for the
Russian-Dutch loan job its imperishable record in the
history of the illustrious achievements of England's
Statesmen. Yet we must tell Lord Palmerston's
jester that though this job put the Russian Autocrat
in good humour for a time, it was no joke to unfortu-
nate Poland ; nor indeed was it any laughing matter to
Great Britain, from whose coffers some millions of
gold were extracted to supply the Herod of the North
with the " sinews of war, at the critical moment when
it was a question whether he had the means of bring-
ing up fresh hordes of barbarians, to supply the waste
made in the ranks of beaten armies by the sword of
Polish heroism. We admit that Lord Palmerston's
protocols, and his no less famous " demonstration" of
an Anglo-Gallic fleet to the North Seas in the month
of November, wete very amusing jokes to the phlegmatic
Dutchmen. But they were jokes for which this country
paid dearly both in character and purse. It was
during those protocol labours and demonstrations
in the Netherlands that Russia achieved that
" secret treaty " with the Sultan, which we
communicated to the public before Lord Pal-
merston was aware of its existence. At least he
thought it expedient to plead ignorance when ques-
tioned about it in the House of Commons. If that be
another Palmerston joke, it is one at which we are
sure even the sullen Nicholas will condescend to smile,
even on the principle that " he may well laugh who
wins." All the grave jokes of Lord Palmerston who
can tell ? The Chronicle, and the Evening organ of
the great diplomatist had a standing one in their co-
lumns for three or four years. It was the " speedy
and final settlement" between Holland and Belgium.
That is a subject upon which our friend in the cap-
and-bells may disport himself most appropriately, for
never was there a more comical farce than the " speedy
and final settlement" enacted upon any stage. It is
true, a one-act tragedy, called the " Siege of Antwerp"
was interposed, but that only to heighten, by contrast., the
ludicrous character of the other performances which
followed those scenes of amicable slaughter which his
Lordship so facetiously called the " peaceful ,war."
Our facetious friend is at liberty, in his vocation to
fling at us the heaviest of his jokes, provided he does

not too outrageously sacrifice the truth to turn a face-
tious period. For instance, he represents us as being
cruel and unfeeling enough to charge Lord Palmerston
with spoiling the appetite of the King of Holland by
a protocol, and causing the Emperor of Austria a ner-
vous fit by a despatch 1 We should indeed have been
hardened and shameless offenders against truth if we
were capable of making any such assertions. Alack-
a-day I Neither a protocol nor a despatch of the
" juvenile Whig" of the Foreign Office ever excited
in King, Emperor, or Statesman, any other feeling
except contempt—any other strong emotion than that
of laughter. We should as soon suspect " purity of
principle' and " freedom of election" in the Tiverton
job, as a discomposure of the nerves, or loss of appe-
tite of any of our allies or enemies, by any diplomatic
or other demonstration of Lord Palmerston. Surely,
in this instance, the bearer of the cap and bells carries
the joke too far I—Morning Herald.
The party tone and character which it seemed the
purpose of Lord John Russell to communicate to the
debate on municipal reform, by the unfair illustrations
of the necessity for such a measure which his Lordship
resorted to in the course of his introductory speech,
would have produced incalculable public mischief, had
Sir Robert Peel met the provocations offered to him in
a less generous and patriotic spirit, or regarded the
question as one which concerned Whig and Conserva-
tive only. With whatever dexterity the framers of the
bill have endeavoured to evade the imputation that it
was really destined to promote no other than factious in-
terests, every one who has read their journals for some
weeks past, their boastings and swellings, and trumpet-
ings of speedy triumph, must have remarked that the
true excellence of this much-bruited measure lay more,
according to their estimation, in the fierce hostility
which they reckoned on its immediately calling forth
from the Conservatives, than in any benefit that it would
be fitted to confer upon the body of the people. Here,'
they cried " we take our stand '—" corporate reform
is the ground we shall occupy—this shall be our field
of battle"—this shall constitute in the eyes of the peo-
ple of England the one simple intelligible barrier be-
tween us, " the Melbourne Ministers," and the Tories,
the traditional enemies of everything under the name
of Reform. Indiscreet as was such tell-tale gossipping,
disgraceful to the scheming policy of the party, and
big with frustration of the very design which it an-
nounced, it was repeated from day to day by their ser-
vile newspapers, which one and all exulted in the total
overthrow of the Conservative party at the next election,
by virtue of this inestimable Bill—as if the honest
part of the English people felt no other interest in any
great amendment of the Constitution, but for its ten-
dency to keep the Whig-Radicals and their partisans in
office. The proceedings of Friday last, however, were
death to this magnificent manoeuvre. Had Lord John
Russell's speech stood alone, to produce upon the
House its own undisturbed impression, the thing,
would even then have been a signal failure. His Lord-
ship was but languidly listened to by his audience—
and the disappointment of the whole Ministerial
phalanx was stamped upon every Whig countenance
that ventured to raise its eyes from the floor. But
the calm and frank demeanour of Sir Robert Peel was
fatal. So far from a panegyric upon the old Corpo-
rations, the Conservative leader admitted, nay, in-
sisted, that those bodies were no longer efficient to their
original ends ; that the time was come when they
ought to be reformed, and placed upon a footing of
responsibility and popular control ; in fact, the objec-
tions of the Right Hon. Baronet were rather thrown
out hypothetically than dwelt upon, and went rather
to considerations of practical convenience than to the
principles or general objects of the measure. Satis-
factory as this easy and temperate course must have
proved, and has proved, to the great independent
body of constitutional Reformers, there are others to
whom a dose of wormwood would have been less un-
palateable. The soreness of the Whig-Radical
organs was manifest the very next morning, and yester•
terday they writhed under it in mortal agony. Cun-
ning, and want of principle, and abandonment of all
his old prepossessions, and sacrifice of every thing to
the possibility of once more obtaining office,—these
reproaches were each in succession flung at him. It
was cruel of you, Sir Robert, to turn Corporate Re-
former on our hands, to filch our bread from us, to cut
away the ground from us, our " chosen ground," our
" field of battle," to force your undesired services upon
us, to hoist us with our own petard, long loaded to the
muzzle, and with the ruins of the citadel, which we
hoped to garrison alone, fill up the gulf which,
we had flattered ourselves, would be placed for
ever between you and us, between us on the Trea-
sury Bench, and you Conservatives in Opposition 1
The Whig. Radicals will never get over this back-
handed blow. They will have nothing left to fight
about (save and except in their extremity they all turn
repealers), nothing but details, about which it must be
no easy matter to raise a national feeling in their own
favour, with the knowledge and public spirit of such a
statesman as Sir Robert Peel kept playing upon them,
and blazoning to all the world their inferiority in both.
With regard to the working of those portions of the
Bill which have as yet been but little touched upon,
there seems no small amount of questionable matter.
Considering what description of persons are made eli-
gible for burgesses, and that out of such burgesses
a mayor, with magisterial powers, and with the
authority of returning officer (however high may
be the temperature of political party) is to be chosen
would it not be worth some thought, whether an
oratorical shoemaker, tailor, blacksmith, or tripe-
seller, one and all most respectable in their several
callings, but equally and entirely, as it is fair to pre-
sume, ignorant of the first rudiments of legal or political
knowledge, though still indebted for a certain party in-
fluence to their eagerness and vehemence in local fac.
tions,—would it not, we say, be worth while to think
a little whether such honest fellows would make the
very most competent Mayors, or the most impartial
Returning-officers ? The question then comes whe-
ther some sort of property qualification, equal, or at
least analogous, to that of Justice of the Peace, might
not be rendered a useful test of the eligibility of a
Chief Magistrate ? It is at least a question. Then,
again, are populous bodies the best possible nomina-
tors or directors of a police ? Look at the stubborn
stand which was made by the parochial bodies of the
metropolis against the establishment of that most
efficient and valuable institution, the Police, at last
organized by Sir Robert Peel, and in favour of the
reverend crew of watchmen, for the mere sake of a
wretched patronage which had long been so vil-
lainously exercised. Is that spirit confined, does
Lord John Russell think, to London ? And would
btui
et ec t a i
ttown
thpolice
mfoorsp tebo eie s enotfi reorganization'
through which it is managed here, under the chief
command, doubtless, of, the local magistracy? Had an
effective police existed either at Wolverhampton or at
Bristol, the country would have been spared some pain-
ful scenes. The direct financial concerns of
the town
or borough ought properly to be under the control of
those by whom the expenditure is defrayed ; but this
has nothing to do with the charitable funds, which will
be, as they ever have been, corruptly and disgracefully
perverted, where numbers, including
party, are autho-
rized to dispose of them. This question of
the admi-
nistration of public charities is large as well as difficult,
but it cannot be left as the present Bill proposes. Re-
specting ale-house licenses, we apprehend that from a
bench of magistrates to a mob of voters would be a
descent from bad to worse. This likewise must be
carefully reviewed and adjusted by Parliament.—Times.

FEMALE FIGHTERS.—TWO women were on Friday
brought before the Magistrates at Union Hall, charged with
fighting in the streets and causing a crowd to assemble. The
policeman who apprehended the pugilistic fair ones stated,
that he found them "pegging away at each other in the New
Cut." The dispute, it appeared, originated because one of
the women had "most unproperly made use of the other's
husband." The most refractory of the two was committed to
the House of Correction, and the other was discharged.
An instance of somnambulism occurred on Saturday
night, when a shipwright, belong to his Majesty's Dockyard,
dreamt that he was at work on board ship, and in his over-zeal
for the service, actually lifted the sash of the window and went
out, conceiving that he was going out of the porthole of the
vessel into the stage usually erected when thus employed.
After hanging by his hands from the sill of the window for a
short time, and finding he could gain no footing, he let go,
and fell a distance of twelve or fourteen feet, very severely
cutting his head, and considerably bruising himself.-,..Devon-
port Independent.

PRICESOF CANALS, DOCK STOCKSa

ASSURANCE COMPANIES, &c. &c.

LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 9.

Number Dividend

Price

CANALS.

of rer per
shares. Annum. Paid. Share.
1,7f0 6f per cent. Ashton and Oldham.... Average 971 18s. sh. 157
1,182 W. Ashby.de-le-Zouch . Average 1131. sh. a
1,530 Basingstoke lOO/. sh. 5}
1,005 5/. Brecknock and Abergavenny 150. sh. fki
4,(100 sh. 12/. 10s. Birmingham, it share 171. 10s. 241
4,000 . ...... - Ditto and Liverpool Junct. —.lOOl. sh. all pd
600 Bridgewater and Taunton —lOOl. sh. all pd 5.1
4°o 51 Chelmer and Blackwater .. 1001. sh 10'

500 421. Coventry
4,516 Croydon ................Average 311.28 10d. sh. 21
2,060; 31. 10s. Dudley lO4. sh. 74
600 61. Derby 1001. sh. 120
3,575; Ellesmere and Chester Average 133/. sh. 84
231 431. Erewash 1001. sh. 515
1,297 28/. Forth and Clyde Average 4001. 16s. sh. 6011
11,50) 121. Grand Junction ...... ............... -....106/. sh. 237
2,844 Grand Union 1001. sh. 23
1,531 Grand Surrey BO/. sh.
120,000/, 41. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan 1...1001. 73
3,026 Grand Western
600 131. 122. Bd. Glamorganshire, Average cost 172/. 13s. 4d. 280
1,9(2) .. ... Gloucester and Berkley 1041. sh. 15
749 We'. Grantham
6,238 1/. lOs Huddersfield Average 57/. Os. 6d. sh. 33
100 Kensington 10(1 sh all pd. 10
25,328 11. Kennet and Avon, Average 39/. Bs. 10d. sh. 201
2,897; eiv. Leeds and Liverpool 100!. sh. 525
515 121. Leicester l4Ol. sh. 149
907 41. Leicester and Northampton... Aver 63/. 10s. SO
550 5/. per cent. Liskeard and Looe Union 251. sh. all pd. 25
70 111/. Loughborough Average 1421. 17s. sh. 1,600
2,409 01. Monmouthshire 1001. sh. 180
250 91. Melton Mowbray 100/ sh. 190
500 25/. Mersey and Irwell lOO/. sh. 56)
3,000 .... ~. Macclesfield 1001. sh all pd. 52
21'7 15/. Neath 100/. sh.
100
1,786 32/. Nene Navigation Bonds ...160/. sh. 1001. pd. 100
Oxford . 1001. sh. 615
522 2/. Oakham 1301. sh. 38
2,400 ' 4/. Peak Forest .... .. - ...Average about 781. sh. 104
21,418 14s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 331. 16s. Bd. sh. 16;
5,669 5/. per sent. Rochdale Average 85/. sh. 123
500 81. Shropshire 125/ sh. 140
800 10/. Somerset Coal l5O/, sh. IC3
45,000/. 6; per cent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2l. 10s. sh. 12i
700 361. Stafford and Worcester l4‘./. sh. 690
500 111. Shrewsbury 1251. sh. 244
300 8/. Stourbridge
3,647 11. 10s. Stratford-on-Av. i ...Average 791. 9s. Bd. sh. 38i
533 131. Swansea 100/. sh. 205
3,762 11. Severn and Wye and Railway-Av 351. sh. 19
1,600 ;sh. 321. 10s. Treat and Mersey, i share 100/. sh. 625
8,149
1,000 sh.l i 5/. Warwick and Birmingham 1001. sh.
1,000 Ish. '
980 121. Warwick and Napton lOO/. sh.
5,000 3!. 10s. 'Worcester and Birmingham...Av.7Bl.Bs. sh.
%OW 58. Wilts and Berks .. Average 161. I7s. Bd. sh.
800 61. Wyrley and Essington 1251. sh
126 '
905 1!. Wey and Arun llO/. sh.
DOCKS.
2,600 & } ..
a p. c. Commercial lOO/. sh.
1,06515 h
498,667:1 . ... East India Stock
3,238,31 W. 2,/. ... p.. et. London Stock
Ditto Bonds

61
50
57
103
98

1,380,000/. Si. per ct. West India Stock
2,:.09 Si. 6s. 4d. Bristol Average 1471. 19s. Ms.
68,3241. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ...... .....
1,352,752 3 per cent. St. Katharine gioci:
500,000 44 per cent. Ditto Bonds
200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years
Shoreham Harbour
BRIDGES.
1,6C0 11. Hammersmith .501. sh.
7,231 Southwark, Old Av. 631.25. Bd. sh.
1,700 11. lbs. Ditto, New, of 74 per cent. 5O/. sh.
5,000
5,000 1/ 2s. _Ditto, Old Annuities of 81. 6O/ pd
5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 401. pd
60,0001. 51. per eent. Ditto Bonds
6,000 1/. Vauxhall Average '7O/. 16s. 3d. sh.
ASSURANCE COMPANIES.
2,000 3/ 105 Albion 5001. sh. 501. pd
50,000 [5 nrdc:in.l Alliance, British & Foreign 1001. sh. 101. pd
50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 1004 sh. 5/. pd
24,000 t 0... per sh. Atlas
1,200 ash. 41. Birmingham Fire 'WV sh 55/ pd
20,000 41. per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. Md. pd
12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial .501. sh. Si. pd
5,000 51. per cent. Clerical, Medical, &c. Life...lool. sh. 2110 s pd
4,000 21 106 County 'OOl. sh. 10/. pd
6,000 ss. Eagle AO/. sh. 5/. pd
"'''''' 11;:rrcelr30c/e bns4l Economic Life 1000/. sh. 2501. pd
'
2,271 sa/. percent. European Life 2O/. sh. all pd
50,000 2s. Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 21. pd
1,000,0002. 71. per ct. Globe Stock
20,000 11. Guardian 1001. sh. 20/. pd 534
~,, c Fire 5 p ct.l u,„„
4°''''''' ILife 8p ct.. 5 n''''' 50/ sh. 51. pd 6
2,400 5/. 7s. 6d. Imperial Fire 5001. sh. 501. pd 117
7,500 9s. Imperial Life 100/ sh. 10/. pd 94
51. per cent. Indemnity Marine 11'01. sh. 81. pd 12
2,020 34 Kest Fire 50/. sh. all pd 85
10,1)00 16s. Law Life 1001. sh. 10/, pd 26

3,900 It: London, Fire 251. sh. 121. 10s. pd 231
21,000 11. London, Ship 25/. sh. LI 10s. pd 23}
30,000 51. per cent. Palladium Life 50/. sh. 21. pd 215 s
250,000 Is. 6d. Protector Fire 2O/ sh. 21. pd 11 9s 6d
2,500 11. Provident Life lOO/. sh. 101. pd 191
100,000 ss. Rock Life .20/. sh. 21. pd Si 11s.
629,2201. 51. per ceut. Royal Exchange Stock... 186/
Sun 2lO
50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 2l. pd 2/ 2s 6d
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
5,000 .... ..... Au.trala•ia 4Ol. sh. 26/. pd 30
10,006 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham SC/. sh. 101. pd 12;
10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/. sh. 51. pd 12
18,000 2percent. London and Westminster...loo/ sh. 15/. pd
3,000
25,000 6 per cent. Liverpool 100/. sh. 10/. pd 15
20,000 7 per cent. Provincial flank of Ireland 100/. sh. 25/. pd 491
10,000 National Provincial Eng. lOOl. sh. 25/. pd 231
10,000 10 per cent. Gloucestershire .50/. sh. 51. pd 11
6,000

GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.
2,500 11 12s Bath 2Ol. sh. 16/. pd 26
5,000 61. per cent. British 4Ol. sh. 161. pd 23
5.030 [51,..„ i(iieLccenst..3 Ditto Provincial ........« 201. sh. 194 pd 24
844 5/ lOs Birmingham 5Ol. sh. 100
4,250 210 s Bristol 2Ol. sh. 391
1.500 Brighton '2O/. sh. 14
750 Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 18/. pd 12
2,471 5 per cent. Brighton General 201. sh. all pd 19
4,000 31. Continental Cansolidated lOOl. 511/. pd 76
1,000 101. City of London .............«..1001. sh. all pd 1921
1,000 61. Ditto, New
4,000 41. Equitable 551. pd 31
6,000 61. per cent. East London 51. sh. 41. pd 41
10,000 51. per cent. Imperial 5O/. sh. 43
800 51. per cent. Isle of Thanet 251. sh. 201. pd 21/
2.350 61. per cent. Independent 3O/. sh. all pd 50
9,000 41. per cent. Phoenix .501. sh. 39/. pd 24
1,000 44 per cent. Itatcliff 100/. sh. 601. pd
4,000 South Metropolitan Si.. sh. 131. Ikl 141.
8.200 Si. per cent. United General 5Ol. sh. 44/. pd 401
240 51. per cent. VaFwicl 5Ol. sh. 50

lk
400 115 s Wakefield 25/. sh. 22i
12,000 31. Westminster Chartered 5Ol. sh. 4t:(
6,000 12s. Ditto, New 5O/. sh. 11)1. pd 9cx d
1300 Yarmouth 20/. sh. 18/. pd It)
WATER WORKS.

4,800 Birmingham _
25/. sh. '25/ pd 27
4,433 51. East London lOOl. sh. I:3Si
4,500 21 lOs Or ,nd Junction ....Average 411 13s. 4d. sh. 58
2,000 2/., Kent 1001. sh. 44a47

318 101. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh.
1,500 2/ 10s New River London Bridge Water Annuities
6,486 I/. Manchester and Salford ..... ......... ~1004 sh.
1,000 4 per cent. South London 100/ sh.
B,' 00 3/. West Middlesex ....Average 63/. 12s. 9d. sh.
1,360 1114 s York Building Co. Lessee Prop. 1001. att.
IRON RAILWAYS.
MO
2,000 Clarence lOO/ bh. 100/. pd
2,500 los. Forest of Dean 5O/. pd
Grand Junction 1001. sh. 301. pi
2,000 Hartlepool lOC/. sh. 100/. pd
2,100 Leeds and Selby 100 all.
1,500 Leicester and Swannington ....501. sh all pd
5,100 9 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester...lool. sh. 100/. pd
Ditto Quarter Shares 25/. pd
20,000 London and Greenwich 2Ol sh. 131. pd
25,000 ..... ~... London and Birmingham ...100/. sh. 35/. pd
2,500 ..... _,, Preston and Wigan 2Ol. pd
800
MINES.
8,000 Albion Copper 51. sh. 21. pd
4,000 A lten 15/. eh. 101. 10s. pd
1(4,000 Anglo Mexican, iss, 51. pm.... 1004 sh. all pd
Ditto Subscription 251. pd
,000 80l mos .. . 1504 sh all pd
10,000 31. :s. Brazilian Imp. iss. 5/. pm .351. sh. 201. pd
6.0110 .... ..... Alacaubas & Cocaes United....2sl. sh. 201. pd
Ditto St. John Del Rey 20/. sh. 7jl. pd
11,000
Candonga
9,000 Bolivar Copper Company, 201. sh. 20/. pd
10,000 Ditto Scrip 14 pd
20,000 British Copper 5l. sh. 3i/. pd
6,000
1,500 11. English
2,850 General Mining Assoclation...2o/ sh. 151. pd
10,000 Mexican Company 100/. sh 491/. pd
20,000 Polberou Consols 101. sh. 8/. pd
11,500 ...... ... Real del Monte, Unregistered
Ditto Loan Notes l5Ol. pd
United Mexican, iss. 2 pm..... 404 sh. all pd
Ditto Subscription 2/. pd
Ditto New Scrip
Union Gold, Ist. 21.55. pm.... 2211. sh. 414 pd
5,C00 West Cork 501. sh. 251. pd
LITERARY INSTITUTIONS.
1,000 ...... ... London, with Bronze Ticket.........75g5. sh.
1,500
',.00 Russell 25gs. sli.

5,000
30,000

300
58
47
85
'l9
34

King's College
MISCELLANEOUS.
10,000 10s. Australian Agricultural....lool. sh. 2(1601/1. pd
. ph
1,030 11. Auction Mart .50/. sh.
6,000 British American Land Company Si. pd
10,000 61, per cent. Canada Company 1001. sh. 201. pd
200,000 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan
City Bonds, 4 per cent
15,000 11. per cent. general Steam Navigation —.15/. sh. 131. pd
102. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock
2,000 11. , London Corn. Sale Rooms Av. 751. sh.
2,754 41. per cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...100/ sh. 1001. pd
633 41. per sent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 451. pd
4,000
10,000 Van Diemen's Land 1001. sh. 161. pd

2
10pm

LIST OF SCOTTISH
26 COMPANIES
835 ' PRICES,
MAY
BANKS.

1 500,0004 Bt. p. ct. Bank of Scotland B3/. Gs. Bd. sh. all pd 202' p. c
2,000,0004 51 p. ct. Royal of Scotland 1004 sh. all pd 1704
500,000 i, ti p. ct. liritish Linen Company 100/. sh. :;ll pd 2401.
3,000,0001. 61. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 100/. pd 1704
5000,000/. 5 p. ct. National lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 141 10d
2;009,0001. 2;,/. p. ct. Glasgow Union 2501. sh. 50/. pd 60/
4,000,0004 6p. ct. Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh 30/. pd 30/: