The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-30 00:00:00

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The report, an abstract of which has appeared in
The Sun, was taken as read.
The CHAIRMAN said this was the last meeting of
the company. The act passed last session fully
authorised the agreement for amalgamation with the
Caledonian Company. He then referred to various
items in clearing up the accounts to the date of
amalgamation. There was £1,400 still due to them
by the Post-office. He believed some of the Aber-
deen shareholders were rather disappointed that on
the Aberdeen stock so small a dividend had been
recommended ; but the old Aberdeen Company
had a larger amount of borrowed money than any
of the others—about 75 per cent. of the whole—
and of course the Aberdeen had a larger amount of
interest to pay. If made up as formerly he believed
all the classes of shareholders would have had the
same dividend as at the corresponding period last
year. He concluded by expressing thanks to the pro-
prietors for their very cordial support during the 10
years he had occupied the chair. The accounts were
honestly stated, and he congratulated the share-
holders on the termination of the company.
Col. CnRisTIE seconded the adoption of the re-
port, which was agreed to. Dividends were declared
on the Aberdeen original stock at the rate of 1 per
cent. per annum, on the Midland stock at the rate
of 5i per cent. per annum, and on the Dundee and
Arbroath stock at the rate of 81 per cent. per annum,
leaving a balance of £lO,OOO. The meeting was then
adjourned to Feb. Ist to receive the final dividend.

LEVEN AND EAST OF FIFE.

The half-yearly meeting was held at Leven on
Friday—Mr. J. Haig presiding.
The report stated that the free revenue for divi-
sion among theLeven shareholders was £1,731, from
which it was proposed to pay a dividend of 81 per
cent., and that the proportion of free revenue falling
to the East of Fife shareholders was £865, from
which it proposed to pay a dividend at the rate
of 3i per cent.
The CHAIRMAN moved approval of the report,
-which was unanimously carried, and the dividends
were declared accordingly.

MIDLAND.

A special train of this company left the Derby sta-
tion yesterday morning, conveying the superinten-
dent (Mr. Needham), the goods Manager (Mr.
%Valklate), and a staff of stationmasters, porters, and
others, for the purpose of posting the men at the
various stations and making the necessary arrange_
ments for the opening of the new line to Manchester
on Thursday, Nov. Ist. The signals on the line
were carefully inspected, and also the line and sta-
tions. Thp inspection of the line by Captain Rich
was made a short time since, when the Board of
Trade upon his report sanctioned its opening. Mr.
Bradley, the superintendent, and Mr. Smith, the
goods manager of the Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire Railway, also accompanied the train
from New Mills, at which pcint the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire line commences.

MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, & LINCOLNSHIRE.
The total expenses of this company's rail ways
and canals, including rents, tolls, duty, &c., from
July 1 to Oct. 21, 1866, amounted to £154,659, as
against £141,622 for the corresponding period of
1865. The proportion of the South Junction re-
ceipts accruing to this company from July 1 to Oct.
21 amounted to £13,187, as against £12,990 for
the corresponding period of 1865, and the expenses
to £6,553, as against 16,176.

CONTINENTAL UNION GAS.
The ordinary general meeting of this company
was held Yeaterdal?' at the Loudon Tavern—Mr. L.
Cubitt in the di
ir
The report stated. that the working during the
past year had been .
satfactory. The public lights
had increased from2,9to 10,157, and the pri-
vate lights from 78,893 6
to 86,46 G. The revenue
showed a steady increase as compared
works ompared with the pre-
vious year. The extensive
carried out dur-
ing the year had caused a very lame.n outlay. The
directors had only succeeded inpi:et
10,000 seven per cent. preference shares.s,o49 of the
They had,
however, been able to make temporary
ments to meet the requirements of the
companyarrange-
but it was necessary to place the remainingportion
of the shares in order to meet the engagements
entered into. The net profit, after carrying £1,317
to the sinking fund, left £20,162, out of which the
directors had already paid an interim dividend at
the rate of 8 per cent. per annum on the original
capital, leaving available £11,162, and out of this
it was proposed to pay a dividend of 7 per cent. on
the preference shares, and to declare a dividend on
the original shares at the rate of 8 per cent. per
annum, leaving a balance of £620.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the
report, pogratulatecl the shareholders on the im-

Philadelphia visit, had an interview with his old
master and mistress. Ile had not seen the lady for
25 years. She was very kind to him when a boy,
and received him cordially. llis old master long ago
became convinced of the sin of slavery, and freed
his slaves. He is now living in Baltimore, but when
he heard that his old runaway had been chosen
a delegate to the Convention he came up purposely
to see him.

OCTOBER BANK DIVIDENDS.--Charles River Na-
tional, Union National of Weymouth, Old Colony
National, Newton National, Central National and
National City of Lynn, Merchants' National of
Boston, Appleton, Merchants', Old Lowell and
Prescott of Lowell, Taunton and Machinists' Na-
tional of Taunton, all 5 per cent. ; Waltham
National, $3 per share ; Attleboro' National, 3- per
cent. ; Hingham National and Mercantile National
of Salem, 4 per cent. ; Beverly National, First Na-
tional of Provincetown and Asiatic National of
Salem, 4i per cent. ; First National of Cambridge,
Pemberton of Lawrence and Randolph National, 6

per cent.
We hear from Franklin county that contracts
have been made for the construction of the Troy
and Greenfield railroad to the Hoosac tunnel from
Greenfield, and were ratified by the Governor and
Council at their meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 2. The
entire cost of this section of the road, including
depots and other attendant expenses, will be within
the legislation appropriation of $600,000. It will
be completed to Shelburne Falls in one year from
November 1, and to the tunnel by July 15, 1868.
A. project is in progress for constructing a dam
across the Deerfield river at Scott's bridge, a short
distance from Shelburne Falls, and by building a
tunnel to convey the water through the hill, it is
said that a water power equal to that now afforded
by the falls will be made available. The estimated
expense of the enterprise is $30,000.
A large emigration of sheep from Vermont to
Virginia is in progress, under the direction of George
Campbell of Westminster, Vermont. 1,900 were
started southward on Monday of last week, and
1,200
undertook the journey last Monday morning.
They foot it by the way of Chatham, N. Y., at the
rate of about ten miles a day, and get their living
on the road. They are chiefly cheap grade merinos,
pfeuvrcbhlasooeddedatraamcsowstnolfacfcroorampasn2ytoeacshs
flaohclead. A
. Mr.
Campbell shipped from New York, last Saturday,
50 choice merino rams for Texas.
The Cocheco (New Hampshire) manufacturing
company of Dover, during the last six months,
produced five million yards of cloth, and last year
its earnings were 30 per cent. John A. Burnham
was elected president and Daniel Park treasurer,
at the annual meeting, on Friday, Sept 28. The
state of New Hampshire has lately received an in-
stalment of $172,067 on a debt of $965,512 for
national bounties advanced to the soldiers furnished
by the state, under calls of the President prior to
January 5, 1864. There had previously been re-
funded $224,224, of which the larger part was paid
before the troops left the state. A great deal of
trouble and delay has been caused by the difficulty
of finding out what became of the men reported as
missing, and of whom in some cases more than
two-thirds deserted. The bounties on this portion
of the quota will not be refunded, and will be a
total loss to the towns who purchased the men of
substitute brokers to escape a draft.
Colonel Joshua Capenter, of Houlton, was killed
on Saturday, September 29, by the falling of a tree.
Charles E. Becket, a landscape painter of more
than usual ability and promise, died at Portland on
Saturday, September 29. One of the mills in
Lewiston is hereafter to be devoted.to the prepara-
tion and spinning of jute for bags. Before jute
spinning was introduced into America, the jute
yarn
imported from Dundee, Scotland ; now
was .
is brought direct from Calcutta, and spun and
woven
hearve received a letter from the Liverpool
agency of the
" American Emigrant Company,"
directing our
attention
Amereeriarican jsenoufrronamls,
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Company." The.

The Hamilton woollen mills declare a quarterly
71 per cent. dividend, the National insurance com-
pany of Boston one of 3f per cent., and the
American molded collar company a quarterly one
of $9 per share.
From Maine we hear that the Leeds and Far-
mington Railroad Company has assessed its stock-
holders 28 per cent. to pay off its mortgages, and
leased its road for fifty years to the Androscoggin
Railroad Company for $32,000 per year for the first
five years, and then an annual increase of $2,000
per year, until the rent reaches $40,000 annually.
The Spectator's correspondent, " A Yankee,"
writing on September 28, says that the Democrat
party had made great mistakes in its late nomina-
tions, showing itself the " mere old rotten" political
machine it was for many years before the war. It
has rejected General Dix in New York for Governor
—life-long member of the party though he has been
—and has nominated Mr. Hoffman, the mayor. In
Pennsylvania it has nominated a gentleman who
rejoices in the name of Heister Olymer, who was
one of the bitterest opponents of the Government
all through the war. After all, I for one am glad
that the Democratic leaders have done this, for it
secures the utter destruction of the Democratic
party, which, as a political organisation, was the
pest and incubus of the country. It was crushed
before ; but owing to the lack of statesmanship of
The Republican leaders it was beginning to lift up
its hideous head again. Now it will be ground to
powder. General Dix, a Democrat, would have
been elected by a tremendous majority; Mayor
Hoffman, also a Democrat, and a very estimable
gentleman, will be tremendously defeated ; and
Heister Olymer will be " histed" the wrong way in
such a fashion that he will feel like disowning his
surname ever after. The best, and also the largest
part of the people will not trust the Democratic
party with the Government. I verily believe they
would sooner put it in the hands of Jefferson Davis,
Alexander Stephens, and General Lee, than in those
of the Democratic leader. Among the intelligent
and educated classes almost all the young
men are deserting or not joining the De-
mocratic party. It is quite common to see
a father a Democrat, and his sons, just arriving
at manhood, ready to vote for anybody but a nomi-
nee of the Democratic party, even although
they are not Radicals or even Republicans. The
reverse is almost unknown. Therefore it is that
the Philadelphia Convention has failed in effecting
a coalition against the Radicals. There is another
reason—the President's Tour, which has had just
the contrary effect to that it was intended to have.
But I venture to assure you that under any circum-
stances that are likely to occur there is not the
slightest chance of an outbreak, or of any conflict
of force between the President and Congress. The
President will veto, but he will execute all laws
constitutionally passed, in spite of his veto. The
ballot-box and the Supreme Court will decide all
political questions, and the President will not be
impeached, unless we have a majority in Congress
composed of Wendell Phillippses, which is not pro-
bable.

Mr. David A. Wells, the commissioner of the re-
venue, is at the Tremont House, Boston, and will
remain there for some days consulting with promi-
nent merchants and manufacturers in regard to
the revision of the tariff, in which great work he is

now engaged. •
A monument of granite, costing $lB,OOO, has
just been erected at Mount Auburn, to the memory
of William F. Hamden, the founder of the express
business in America. Its marble tablets are in.
scribed, " Because the king's business required
haste."—First Samuel, 21:8, and " Erected by the
express Sompanies of the United States, in the year
1866."
A stock company has been formed at Bennington,
with Dr. J. Scranton as president, and J. U. Cush-
man as secretary, to work the gold mines supposed
to exist at Pittstown, N. Y. The company are
unusually sanguine of success.—A mine just dis-
covered on the farm of Louis Spaulding at Granville,
is reported to produce gold, silver, lead, and iron.
A recent general order from the War Department
of the United States prescribes the monthly rate of
commutation of army officers serving without
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A letter from Cherbourg states that two men-of-
war, bearing the flag of the United States, have just
anchored in the roads there. One is the armour-
plated ship Augusta ; the other is the well-known
monitor, the Miantonomah, last from Kiel. The
number of American vessels now at Cherbourg is
four, as for the last fortnight the despatch sloop
Frolic and the frigate Colorado, carrying the flag of
Admiral Goldsborough, have been in that port. It
s announced that the Chasse-pot musket, which was
repeatedly tried at the camp of Chalons, is defini-
tively adopted by the War Department. It is some-
what shorter than the weapon now in use in the
French army. It weighs only three kilogrammes, or
61h. 10oz., carries a sabre-bayonet larger than the
old one, and the barrel is rifled. It can be fired, it
is said, 50 times in four minutes ; in the ranks, on
an average, ten a minute ; and the soldiers fire with
ease seven or eight shots a minute. As regards the
appearance of the weapon a print of it is.published
by the illustration—it seems exactly modelled on
the Prussian needle gun. If the weight is only that

'was passed by the Psyche, and communicated with
by signals on the afternoon of the 19th, being then
about half way on her voyage. No change has taken
place in the intended departure of the squadron,
which was to leave on the 22d inst. in order to be at
Malta about the end of the month, calling at Cagli-
ari en route. The Psycheleft again on the afternoon
of the 22d for Brindisi, to convey Captain W. R.
Mends, R.N., director of transport services, and his
staff to Alexandria, where she is to remain under his
orders. It is reported that she will, on her return to
Malta, proceed to Marseilles to embark Sir Henry
Storks for this island. Her Majesty's screw corvette
Cossack, 20, Capt. R. D. White, arrived on the
morning of the 21st inst. from Beyrout, which she
left on the 10th inst., having been -relieved by the
Racer, 11, screw sloop, Commander L. Brine, on the
6th. Notwithstanding reports to the contrary which
have appeared in some of the public papers, the
Cossack has been remarkably healthy during her
stay, extending over several months, on the coast of
Syria. Much of her good fortune in this respect is
probably attributable to the fact of her having been
kept almost constantly at sea during the summer,
though opportunities had been found for the officers
and special-leave men to visit many places of interest
in the Holy Land. Mr. W. H. Bell, assist.-surg. of
the ship, having been invalided, proceeds to England
iu the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Ceylon. Mr. C. Goolden, second master, invalided
from the Hydra, surveying vessel, also goes to Eng-
land by the same packet. At an examination of
candidates for assist.-paymaster, held ou board the

Hibernia, on the 23d inst., Mr. Ashley Innes, clerk
of the Cossack, passed successfully and obtained a
first-class certificate. The Hydra, Capt. Shortland,
arrived from Girgenti (Sicily) on the morning of
the 20th inst., to complete with coals, provisions,
and water. She leaves again to-day for her survey-
ing ground. The Hydra is in quarantine during
her stay at Malta. Her Majesty's despatch-vessel
Assurance, 4, Commander Pym, left on the 20th
inst., to join the gunboat Wizard, 2, Lieut.-Com-
mander P. J. Murray, at Candia, for the protection
of British interests in that island. The Wizard was
at Canea on the 15th inst., having returned there
from her trip to Retymo and the town of Candia.
The story published in the continental journals of
the Alediterranean squadron having been in the
neighbourhood of Cadiz awaiting instructions re-
garding the alleged outrage on the British flag in
the case of the Tornado turns out to be, as might
have been expected, perfectly false. I may here
mention that another statement, to which much
publicity was given, that the squadron had repaired
to Palermo during the outbreak there is equally de-
void of foundation. The telegraph steamer Hawk
arrived from the neighbourhood of Alexandria on
the 20th inst., after having successfully repaired the
cable as has been already announced. She is now
in the dry dock for cleaning purposes. Electric com-
munication with Alexandria continues to be very
satisfactory. The cholera still lingers at Marseilles
and Naples, but has rapidly diminished at the latter
place, only six cases being reported on the day pre-
ceding the departure of the last mail. At the for-
mer it continues to rise and fall from one day to
another in a most unaccountable and capricious
manner, giving but slight hopes of clean bills of
health being issued for some time to come. Some
days not a single case is reported—in the next 24
hours several fresh attacks take place. Our latest
advices report four deaths from cholera on the 18th,
and nine on the 19th. If this continues there
will be no likelihood of any speedy removal of
the quarantine nuisance. The accounts from Sicily
are by no means reassuring. Letters from Mar-
seilles, under date of the 19th inst., say that cholera
was on the increase at Palermo, Alcamo, and Tra-
pani. At Marsala the municipal authorities had
considered it advisable to encircle the town with a
sanitary cordon, so as to prevent persons entering
anywhere but from the immediate vicinity without
performing seven days' quarantine, and for the ac-
commodation of such persons one of the neighbour-
ing convents had been converted into a temporary
lazzaretto. On the other hand, I am happy to say
that, in consequence of satisfactory information re-
ceived by the Malta government, the quarantine on

borough-mews and gave himself up as being con-
cerned in the death of Wilmot, in aiding and abet-
ting in the prize-fight on the 9th inst. The witness
also produced a card given him by Wm. Shaw, the
landlord of the Queen's Head, Great Windmill-street,
on the 10th. Witness asked Shaw on the. 10th if a
prize fight did not take place in his house on the pre-
vious evening, and he said one commenced there, but
it ended in Waterloo-place, as he turned them out.
The card he afterwards gave witness was as follows:
—" Prince of Wales Athletic Club, established and
holden every Tuesday and Saturday evening. M.C.
Jemmy Shaw hiaiself, assisted by Little Alec and
several other first rate professors. On Tuesday next,
Oct. 9,1866, a trial of skill in the manly art between

Young (of Bloomsbury) and Ned Wilmot (of Shore-
ditch), for a handsome purse of sovereigns presented
by a few gentlemen, patrons of the roble and manly
art of self-defence. Admission by tickets, ls. each ;
reserved seats, 2s. 6d. To commence at half-past 8."
James Evans, after being cautioned by the Coro-
ner, said he went in the evening to Jemmy Shaw's,
in Broad-court, where he saw the deceased, who said
to witness, " Nutts" (the name witness was known
by), " I want you to second me in a fight," and wit-
ness, after some conversation, agreed with another
man to do as deceased desired. They all then went
together to Wm. Shaw's, in Queen's Head-court, a
house kept by the son of the pugilist known asJemmy
Shaw. Deceased and another man named Young

then went into the ring together and sparred with
gloves on for an hour or an hour anda half, witness
and a man named Donnelly acting as seconds for
deceased, two men named Morris and Dawes, the
first named a pugilist, the other a coke merchant, act-
ing in the same capacity for Young. A man named
Flynn acted as timekeeper. Witness could not say
whether Shaw, the landlord, was or was not present
during the fighting. Witness flans described the actual
fighting: "I can't say much violence was used. My
boy was licking the other, and it was £lOO to a
shilling whether the other could touch him. I went
to Young's father and told him he had better call his
boy to give up, but he called out to his buy to go on.
Just after then Young gave my boy a blow with the
glove on the jaw and knocked him over, and he
struck his head against a post. The people did not
call out to stop the fight, as there was nothing un-
fair, and on my going up to my boy I found his
head on his chest. I called out that the fight was
over, giving in on my boy's behalf, and then I gave
him some brandy. He said he felt very ill, and in
half an hour's time I brought him in a cab to the
hospital." In reply to Mr. Lewis the witness said
he had sparred himself, and he could say that there
was nothing but fair sparring all the evening. The
two young fellows were in good spirits, and were
laughing and joking together. Witness did not see
the sparring matches at the Crystal Palace, for he
was not in the habit of going to " such places." In
answer to the jury he said of course the men hit
each other no harder than they could, and matches
lasted a long time sometimes. Witness did not know
that the two men were going to fight for a purse of
sovereigns—he believed the fight was for £2 a side.
Shaw, the landlord of the Queen's Head, was quite
aware of what was going on in his house. The man
Goode gave the deceased half a sovereign with which
to back himself. Goode here said that he owed the
deceased half a sovereign and paid him. Witness
owned that he knew of " glove fights," stated to
the public to be for £5 a side, which were not fur
money at all ; and Goode was pressing these ques-
tions when the witness got so excited that the Co-
roner deemed it prudent to stop the questioning.
The Coroner then summed up the evidence, and
brought the whole case before the jury. He re-
minded them that the evidence that they had heard
showed them that the deceased was taking part in a
fight in the house of William Shaw, and no matter
where such exhibitions took place, they were illegal.
The evidence of those who were present at the
fight showed that at a certain stage of the proceed-
ings the young man's foot slipped, and he struck
his head against a piece of wood. The medi-
cal evidence showed that death was from apo-
plexy, the result of a blow or a fall, either of which
must have been caused by much violence, and
the blows struck over the head of the deceased
by the gloves would be likely to cause concus-
sion. If repeated blows were struck over the face
and head a person would be rendered unable to stand
upon his legs, and would be likely to stagger and
fall. If the jury thought the decased's death was
caused by a fall or a blow in the fight, then they
would have to consider the legal liability attached
to the persons engaged in it. " Foster's Crown
Law" laid down the following rules :--" Death
ensuing from accidents happening at sports and
recreations, such recreations being innocent and
allowable, falls within the rule of innocent homi-

tide," and after referring to the eases of playing at
cudgels and foils, or wres ding by consent, continued,
with respect to misadventures, " In the case of per-
sons who in perfect friendship engaged by mu-
tual consent in any of these recreations for a trial of
skill or manhood, or for improvement in the use of
their weapons, here is, indeed, the appearance of a
combat; but it is in reality no more than a friendly
exertion of strength and dexterity for the purposes
I have mentioned, and which takes the case out of
the general rule laid down by Lord Hale, for bodily
harm was not the motive on either side. I, there-
fore, cannot call these exercises unlawful; they are
manly diversions, they tend to give strength, skill,
activity, and may fit for defence, public as well as
private, in time of need. I would not be understood
to speak here of prize-fighting and public boxing-
matches, or any ether exertions of courage, strength,
and activity of the like kind which are exhibited for
lucre, and can serve no valuable purpose ; but, on
the contrary, encourage a F.!pirft of idleness and de-
bauchery, for these disorders will, I conceive, fall
under a quite different concern." " East's Pleas of
the Crown" give a similar view, and it was distinctly
laid down that all engaged in these contests, which
were illegal, were liable in a case of death caused in
them to be charged with manslaughter. If therefore
the jury found the death of the deceased arose
through the fight it was their duty to return a ver-
dict of manslaughter against the seconds, the time-
keeper, and the landlord of the house.
The jury then retired, and, after being absent
for some time, returned into court. The Foreman
asked the Coroner if the jury thought the young
man fell without a blow whether they should then
be right in bringing in a verdict of accidental
death. The Coroner answered that they would if
they thought his fall was quite unconnected with the
blows he had previously received. But if the blows
he had received had rendered him unable to stand
upon his feet, as was suggested by the medical tes-
timony, and he then fell, the death could not be
called accidental. The jury again retired, and after
being locked up for three hours and a half, returned
into court at 10 minutes past 11 o'clock. The fore-
man then stated that 12 out of the 14 jurymen had
agreed to averdict of manslaughteragaiust the prin-
cipals, the seconds of the fight, and the landlord of
the house—viz., John Young, Edward Donelly,
Thomas Dawes, James Evans, Daniel Morris, and
Wm. Shaw. The coroner then madeout his warrants
for the committal of the persons charged to New-
gate.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

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