The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY FNF,NINGD SEF rEMBER 14, 10 5 7

to authority. 'The causes of this are various, part de-
pending on what has been mentioned above, but chiefly
on the abominable system of recognising caste in our
tanks, and on the absurd system of promotion, whereby
the native officers are absolutely uselesr.
"The remedies are, of course, as described with respect
to those causes.
"The sixth evil is of a very grave and important na-
ture. The effect of enlisting men of a certain caste, or
creed, to the exclusion of others in the Indian army, is to
subject that army to the control, not of the Government
and tho Articles of War, but to that of Brahmins and
Goseins, Moollahs and Fukheers. By this system, a man
is not to be chosen on account of his fitness to be a sol-
dier, his willingness and strength, docility and c3urage,
bat because he is a twice born worshipper of Vishnoo.
Whatever his other qualifications, if a man think that a
stone with a patch of red paint on it is not to be wor-
shipped as the Creator, still more if he have bees a shoe-
maker, &c., he is not to be admitted into the ranks of
the Bengal army, for fear of offending the lazy and inso-
lent Brahmins. The consequences are ruinous to dis-
cipline. By reason of this a native soldier in Bengal is
far more afraid of an offence against caste than of an
offence against the Articles of War, and by this means a
degree cf power rests with the private soldier which is
entirely incompatible with all healthy rule.
" Treachery, mutiny, villany of all kinds, may be car-
ried on among the private soldiers, unknown to the offi-
cers, to any extent, where the men are of one caste of
Hindoos, and where the rules of caste are more regarded
than those of military discipline. To such an extent does
this evil exist that I have known a Bengal commanding
oilier express his regret at being compelled to discharge
an excellent Sepoy because the other men had discovered
him to be of inferior caste, and had demanded his dis-
missal. To a Bombay officer such a state of affairs ap-
pears incredible ; it amounts to open mutiny ; but it is
the normal state of the Bengal army at present. It is
curious that, though the Bengal Sepoys have contrived
to have it believed that their religion is concerned in this
business of caste, in our ranks nothing is further from
the truth. In conjunction with the system of promo-
tlbn which prevails this attention to caste keeps all real
power in the hands of the private soldiers ; and, as they
think, saves them from much trouble and annoyance ;
but when they assert that this evil is a necessary conse-
quence of their religion the Bengal Sepoys state the con-
trary to truth.
" This is positively proved by that which takes place
in the army of Bombay, wherein hundreds and thousands
of men from Hindostan, from the same villages, of the
same caste, and even of the same families, brothers by
the same fathers and mothers as the fine gentlemen of

the Bengal army, are seen in the ranks, shoulder to
shoulder, nay, even sleeping in the same tent with the
Maharatta, the Dher, and the Purwarree, without
scruple or thought of objection. The one prides himself
on being a Hindoo, the other on being a soldier. Which
pride is the best for our purpose ? This system of re-
garding caste is the original cause of many other evils
in the Bengal army ; and much of what has been said
regarding the adoption of Asiatic manners tells again
heavily here.* , The Bombay Sepoy, whatever faults he
may have, has one great excellence, which is, that he
looks on the European soldier as his model in all things
pertaining to soldiership, and endeavours to imitate him.
Like the European soldier, the Native Sepoy of Bombay
will tarn his hand to any labour which he may be
ordered to execute.
"If the Imes require cleaning, &c., a working party
of Sepoys is ordered out as a matter of course, with
pickaxe and powrab, and the work is well done. The
technical term working party' is as familiar in the
mouth of a Bombay Sepoy as ' shoulder arms.' Nay, I
have known more than once the men of a Bombay re
giment to volunteer for such work as budding their offi-
cers' houses, mess-room, &c., and to do the work well,
too—making the bricks, mixing the mud, &c., entirely
by themselve3. This would not be credited by the
greater part of the Bengal army, and to such a state of
helplessness has the recognition of caste in the ranks
brought the Bengal Sepoy that a regiment of native ca-
valry, as I have repeatedly witnessed, is unable to picket,
unsaddle, or groom its horses until the arrival of its syees
and grasscutters, sometimes, as I have seen, for several
hours after the arrival of the regiment at its ground. In
a Bombay regiment, before that time had elapsed, the
h r4es would have been picketed, groomed, fed, and wa-
tered, stables would have been over, the tents pitched,
and the men have had their breakfast. To such an in-
credible extent has this helplessness been carried ani re-
cognised by authority that a Bengal sentry cannot think
of striking the gong at his own quarter-guard, and
men called Gunta Pandays' are actualy maintained
and paid for by Government, to do this duty for them.
It is the khansamaum, kittnutgar, hookah -burdar, 4tc ,
over again. The remedy is obvious ; never allow any
reference to caste when enlisting men. If others now in
the service object, let them be told that Government
does not care one pin whether its Sepoys be Hindoos or
Mussulmans, or Brahmins, or Pirwarees, so long as
they be good soldiers, and that if they do not like the
rules of the service they may leave it. If they still ob-
ject, or make any difficulty about the matter, discharge
them on the spot. There are millions of better men ready
to occupy their places,: Let also the use of intrenching
tools be part of the drill of the Sepoy, as much as is the

musket exercise, and when he has learn this let him be

occasionally employed in working parties, &c., to pre•
vent his forgetting it again. This trifle would be found
to possess much more importance than at first sight ap-
pears to attach to it.
" The seventh evil, the bad system of promotion, is
the worst of all ; its effects are crushingly ruinous. In
Bengal army the promotion of natives is made to depend
on seniority only, so that if a man keep clear of actual
crime, and lives long enough, he must become a com-
missioned officer, however unfit fur the offi2e.
" Under this system, the private sol ier feels himself
entirely independent of his officers—he knows that they
neither hasten nor retard his advance in the service. He
has nothing to do bat to live and get through his duties
with listless stupidity, and with the least possible trouble
to himself. No exertion on his part can help him—no
talent, courage, fidelity, nor good conduct is of any
avail. Confidence and pride in each other between men
and officers cannot exist. There is no real co-operation
—for, the one being powerless to aid, the other becomes
careless of offending. This is the effect on the private
soldier. The system is equally, if not more baneful as
respects the native officers, commissioned and noncom-
missioned. The whole of the native commissioned offi-
cars are entirely useless, the amount of their pay is a
dead loss to the State, every one of them is unfit
for service by reason of imbecility prcduced by old
age, or where in rare instances the man may not be
altogether in his second childhood he is entirely useless
from having been educated in a bad school. All should

have been pensioned long ago ; but, alas, if the present
system of promotion be continued, the getting rid of
these poor old gentlemen, who cut such painfully ridicu-
lona figures in the Bengal regiments, would be of no use
whatever, for the non-commissioned officers who would
have to be promoted in their places are but little better ;
even the very naiques (corporals) are almost too old for
service. How very different is the state of affairs under
a proper system of promotion by merit alone !
"It gives the commanding officers of regiments and
companies a good deal more trouble certainly in making
promotions ; but how are they repaid ? If they really
and honestly do their best to choose the men for pro-
motion without partiality, favour, or affection, but by
merit and fitness alone, it is soon found that every man
in the regiment (at least all who are fit to be in our
ranks) exerts himself to aid his officers. A degree of
vigour and activity amounting to a new life is infused
into every part of the regiment. The men, seeing all
the prizes of the service within their reach, exert them-
selves to obtain them. They can only obtain their end
by becoming soldiers, by learning their duty, and per-
forming it to the satisfaction of their superiors.
"The native officers, being chosen with regard alone
to their qualifications and their fitness to hold commis-
sions, are alike proud of the distinction they have
acquired by their appointments, and able to perform
their duties. They are not enfe3bled by age, and the
consciousness that their respectability and success in life
depend on their own conduct makes them exert them-
selves willingly and zealously in maintaining the discip-
line and reputation of the service in which they acquire
honour. The ill effects of the one system and the
excellencies of the other appear to me so self-evident
and have been both proved on so large a scale that I
should consider it to be insulting to the understanding
of my readers were I to enlarge on it.
" With such a system of promotion, the good and the
bad, the clever and the foolish, the brave and the timid
the energetic and the imbecile, are nearly on a par. The
officers are powerless for good, and the men, keeping
j eat clear of open violence, have their • own way in all
things. It is astonishing, and says much for the good-
ness of the raw material of the Bengal army, that under
such arrangementsthe whole fabric has not entirely falien
to pieces. The thing is rotten throughout, and discipline
there is none ; but it is wonderful that even the out-
ward semblance of an army has been still maintained
under such deplorable mismanagement.
" The eighth evil, the want of discipline, is the
necessary consequence of what has been already
described. In speaking of want of discipline Ido not
only mean that which is shown by serious mutinies
and misconduct on ext:oardinary occasions, but also as
evinced in the ordinary every-day routine of duty in
the Bengal army; this is such as to be almost incredible
to an officer of the Royal army, or in the other armies
of India. The first thing done by a Bengal Sepoy
when he mounts guard is to strip himself of arms,
accoutrements, and clothing ; the muskets are piled.
and a sentry is posted, who remains, generally (not al-
ways), properly accoutred, &c. ; all the others, he'll:l-
-ing non-commissioned officers, disarm and strip; it there
be any water near they go and dabble in it after the
fashion of all Islindostanees, otherwise they cover them-
selves with sheets and go to sleep, quite naked, with the
, xeeption of a lungootee. When the sentry thinks that
he has been on long enough, he bawls out for some one
to relieve him ; a'ter a while up gets a Sepoy (rem be-
neath his sheet, and after a few yawns and etretclies puts
on his clothes and ace eitreinents, but does not take his
goes t
theh ls
musket ;.- that would be too much trouble and endanger
relievedmusket
man
utreetatii!g• the whole pile ; he then goes to the sentry,
nei nhim,an (1 and
strips occupies
like thehis others.place ;away
q e attends with the relief; he remains fastasleep
under
under his sheet
seen in hundreßow, this state of things I have myseleds
Bombay officer thatOf be eases. It is so astonishing to a
ernnot help remarking on it ;
yet I have been aseer
that this is the-regular' by numerous B_ngal officers
way of mounting guard It
should be borne in mind, also, that in the Bengal
four men are allowed to a sentry, instead of threaswith

prejudices, ct towards the
Lo* The fact is that when, without giv
English officer shows by his habitual colding offence, the
Sopoys that ho feels their caste,
marks of inferiority, which excite only hi. pity to be
the Sepoys endeavour to keep such caste Prejudice: regret,icci
as much 33 possible out of sight, will never allow th'enTi,
interfere with duty, and will never willingly obtrude
them on notice at all.

the other armies, so -t. + a Sepoy with them is on sen-
try only six hours : '!er during his tour of 24 hours,
instead of eight, as u
;;;',
"But it is by no uncommon in the Bengal
army to relieve a guard • —o:week, and even at longer
intervals, when the stabs =ike.ffairs above mentioned
must take place, even if it.*:eze not so on other occa-
sions. This was the case wheretlie.Bombay and Bengal
troops met at Pesbawur, and considerable grumbling
aud complaining took place when Sir H. Dundas insisted
on the guards being relieved daily. To the mind of any
practical soldier no further proof is necessary on this
subject—want of discipline. Ho must at once see that
where guards are relieved weekly, where the sentries
relieve each other as they please, and where the whole
guard strips naked therm can be no discipline whatever.
It is useless to ask whether a man can read and write
when you find that he does not know a letter of Lis al-
phabet. If it were necessary, however, I could adduce
abundance of other facts to the same purport. The re-
medy is apparent from what has been said before. Such
are some of the reforms peculiarly required by Bengal.
But there are many others, equally requisite, with re-
gard to the native Indian army generally ; for instance,
with respect to the regimental orderly room.
" The commanding officer of every regiment should,
every day of his life, hold his orderly room in some con-
venient public place, where the commanding officer, his
staff, and all the European officers not otherwise engaged
should assemble. Here all regimental business should
be transacted in public; every man in the regiment
bhould have an opportunity every day of seeing his com-
manding officer.

" Everything being done with perfect openness in the
presence of all the English officers, many common sources
of discontent and of grievance, real or imaginary, would
to removed. Every officer would be habitually well ac-
quainted with everything relating to the regiment, and
would be undergoing a course of education calculated
better than any other to fit him for command in his turn.
While the habitual daily presence of all the English
officers around their commanding officer would afford
him the best possible support in doing right, and impose
the most effective check on wrong, a very ordinary mor-
tal might, under such an arrangement, be safely trusted
with absolute powers, while no officer's qualifications
could ever be for a moment doubtful. Where everything
is open to the public, common sense has the fairest
chance of prevailing, and ' regulation' need be but little
intruded.

"Officers need be troubled as little as possible with

form, dress, ceremony, and matters of etiquette at their
daily orderly room; and the inconvenience of daily at-
tendance would speedily be overcome by an increasing
feeling of interest in all regimental affairs, and all
irksomeness would be removed by the grant of leave of
absence when required for auy rational purpose.
" The arrangements here contemplated appears to me
to be of the very highest importance to the welfare of
the native army of India; and I may observe that I have
myself practised what I here teach for 15 years together
with the happiest effect.
" I will now conclude with a few observations on the
late order concerning passing in the native languages,
by which, with the best possible intentions, our hon.
masters have done such an amount of injustice to their
servants that if the order be really and strictly carried
into effect the greatest injury to the army and to our
Indian empire must ensue.
"In the first place, the Hon. Court of Directors pro-
claim that the only post in their service for which a
knowledge of the native language is not a necessary qua-
lification is the command of their regular native soldier?:
officers who do not pass are to remain with their regi-
ments. Secondly, An officer by natural talent and study,
may be a first-rate engineer, or peradventure an astro-
nomer, but nature may have denied him the peculiar
talent of acquiring language, and he has in consequence
wither passed in Hindostanee, Mahratta, nor Persian.
Government requires an engineer or an astronomer ; by
the order of the Hon, Court they must appoint, not the
man who is well acquainted with astronomy and physi-
col science, but some one whose leisure has been occu-
pied, and whose mind has been unproved, by the study
of the indecent and obscene stories and of the childish
fables of which the Hindostanee literature, consists, but
who knows not a vernier from a mural qaadrant, nor.
Jupiter from Venue. Nature has given us all, even the
best of us, but very limited faculties ; some excel in one
respect, some in another, each may'do excellently well if
placed in that position for which his natural talents and
abilities are suited ; but to attempt to force all men to
be linguists is no more reasonable than to compel them
to be all of one size of body ; what between stretching
and compressing, the whole human race might be de-
stroyed, but no uniformity of size would be produced. It

is quite as unreasonable to say that a man 'is unfit for
staff employ because he has not the gift of tongues, as it

would be to say so because he was no musician ; a want
of an organ of language is probably quite as common as
the defect of the organ of tune. But does either defi-
ciency imply that the man is fit to command the native
infantry soldiers of the Indian army and fit for nothing
elbe ? Has any Government on earth such an amours' of
talent at its disposal that it can afford to press all into
one mould without fatal injury to efficiency ?

" I have served my hon. masters long, and at least
zealously. They have-told me that I have done them
good service, and they have given me high praise. I
have never been absent frlm my duty, and have al-
ways performed it to the full satisfaction of my
superiors. I am tolerably acquainted with the natives
of India, in intimate association with whom I have
passed the best part of my life. But, on the other
hand, I have not passed in any language and cannot
read even the Bagh-o-Bahar. Wherefore lam vir-
tually told by my hon. masters that as I have been
so long in their service they will not now positive y
turn me out, as incapable, from the place I
I have held with so much undeserved praise from them
during the last ten years; but my lieutenants, who have
hitherto, I flatter myself, held me in some considerably

respect and esteem, and whom I have endeavoured to

confirm in what seem to me to be soldier-like ideas, are
now told that to prevent my bad example affecting them,
to prevent their becoming such au imbecile as their
commander, in spite of his thinking them the best men
in the army to be his lieutenants, and his never having
had a fault to find with one of them, and in spite of all
their zealous and gallant services, and their honourable
wounds, they are now told, I say, they shall ull be turned
out of their appointments if they do not immediately
pass an examination in the Hindostanee language. Tuat
is to say that seven years' honest exertion, and brilliant
service in the field, including a most honourable share
in hard-fought and important battles and siege', with
frequent commenilation in public despatches, &c., alto-
ther imply, in the opinion of our hon. masters, a degree
of merit and capacity not to be compared to that
acquired by the study of filthy Hindostanee stories.

" Let the Hon. Court at once rescind an order which
will defeat the object contemplated in it ; which has dis-
gusted or will disgust many of their best, most tried, and
most valued servants ; which will make contempt and
ill-feeling take the place of honest pride and generous
zeal ; and which cannot but deeply injure their army
and India ia general.
" I have had abundant opportunity of judging of this
matter, and I solemnly assure my honourable masters
that it is notorious that their officers who have passed
in the language are not only not the most able of their
servants, but that they have as a body (there are bril-
liant exceptions of course) less knowledge of that lan-
guage for practical purposes than the unpassed ; that is
if language be intended to facilitate the communication
of ideas between man and man, and not for concealing
thoughts. This may appear paradoxical, bat a little
consideration soon shows that it must be s ;. While
the young man has been studying books, the other has
been studying men. I have on hundreds of occasions seen
a youthful genius who had passed in the language, en-
Vraly at a loss to understand the express!, as used by a
common peasant, and quite incapable of maintaining a
conversation with him, while one of the unpassed who
could not read a word in a Hindostanee book, but had
been accustomed to associate with the people, would
talk with the man with perfect fluency. A knowledge
of the people of India, of their thoughts habits, feelings,
beliefs, desires, wants, &c., is learnt, not from Hindo-
stanee books, but from intercourse with the people
themselves. And my honourable masters may well be-
lieve me, when I tell them that such knowledge is of
far more importance to their service and to India than
the most intimate acquaintance with all the Hindostanee
books ever written.
"Another subject of vital importance to India, not
only to the army, but to all the services, and to the
whole people of the country, natives as well as Euro-
peans, is the furlough regulations,
"The existing rules are not adapted to the present
state of things, they belong to days long gone by, when
a period of 12 months or more was necessary to receive
from England an answer to a letter from Bombay.
"Moreover, the present rules regarding leave of ab-
sence are exceedingly unfair in another respect. Their
tendency iu every way is to favour the least valuable
servants of Government.--those who are continually
suffering from real or imaginary sickness, and on that
account continually absent from their duty.
"It is an undoubted physiological fact, that hard-
working, energetic men, who continually exercise them-
selves in bodily and mental occupation, suffer the hest
from ill health. They have no time to be sic's. Autho-
rities are agreed on this point. For example, Copland
(Med. Lect„ page 562) says :
" ' When the mental energies are depressed by grief,
anxiety, disappointment, fear, &c., the powers of life are
less able to oppose the debilitating causes of disease
which invade them from without, and of which nature all
the exciting causes of fivers, particularly those which
are specific or contagious and miasmal, generally par-
take in a most marked manner. On the other hand,
when the mind is elevated by success, by hope, by con-
fidence, and the other exciting passions. the depressing
causes make little or no impression upon the constitu-
tion, and individuals thus circumstanced almost always
escape from diseases, which readily invade the fearful,
the dejected, and the disappointed.'
"Again, Copland, Med, Diet , p. 920, paragraph
118; `Confidence, continued mental occupation, and
moderate excitement, are especially efficacious in resist-
ing the causes of most fevers.
" ' There is a moral courage sometimes posses; ed by
persons, the weakest perhaps in respect of physical
power, that enables them to resist infectious and epi-
demic influences more successfully than the most robust,
who are not thus mentally endowed.'
"On the other hand, it is certain that a large portion
of the sickness which causes so many officers to be
absent from their duty in India is produced by feebleness
of character, by idleness, laziness, listlessness, or lan-
gour.
" Now, I would not for a moment wish to lessen the
indulgencies granted by a beneficent Government to
such of its faithful servants as might have the misfortune
to be suffering from ill health. I would leave the rules
regarding leave of absence on sick certificates as they
are, but assuredly I would so order matters that long-
continued, honest, unremitting, and valuable labour
should be deemed to constitute at least as good a title t I

the favour of a furlough in England as the want of
health alone.

" Moreover, if such furlough were obtainable at
moderate intervals, and with greater facilities than at
present, the number of sick certificates would assuredly
be immensely decreased.
"It is probable that after a while they would almost
wholly disappear.
" The evil done, both to England send to India, by
the present furlough regulations, is incalculable.
"A large proportion of the Indian officers who can
now return to England is composed of those worn out
in the service—of the aged, the feeble, the sickly, the
discontented, the idle, and the lazy ; while the energetic,
the active-minded, the able, the zealous, and the strong,
are compelled for the most part to remain at. their work
iii India, without any intermission, without a day of
real rest, until their failing vigour qualify them also for
the indulgence of a visit t 3 their native land.
"In English society, by reason of this state of affairs,
India is not fairly represented.
" The real working men of India, the soldiers, the
magistrates, the statesmen, all those men of clear heads,
strong minds, and active habits, by whose practised
intelligence and honourable labours our Indian empire
is held together, have little connexion with, or infiaence
on, the English public. They are very rarely seen in
England.
"From this cause it proceeds that in the imagination
of the people of England the idea of an Indian officer,
military or civil, is always connected with those of rice
and vrry, and diseased livers.
" Mom this case chiefly results the deplorable ignor-
anoe regarding Indian affairs which prevails even among
i educated gentlefolk in England.
" How easily might all these evils be rectified.
" Let us have recourse to a principle as old as the
history of man—the institution of the Sabbath. This
at once satisfies all our wants and meets every difficulty
in every single point, while no objection whatever can
be brought against it save by those who would wish, if
possible, still to retain a dark ♦eil between India and
England for their own supposed private advantage, but
to the grievous injury of both countries.
" My proposal is to give every officer, civil or military,
every seventh year to himself, if he wished to avail him-
self of the indulgence, to allow him, during that period,
to go wherever it might please him to go, whether in
India or any other part of the world, to allow him during
that year to receive his foil Indian allowances, to retain
his staff appointment if be held one, but during his
absence not to receive the staff salary, which should go
to the officer who might officiate until his return. If an
officer shou'd wish to remain in India, even in the very
camp in which he was serving, and there to enjoy his
sabbathical year, he should be allowed to do so. The
year should be his own to employ as he pleased.
" If an officer chose to allow his Sabbath to pass by,
and to wait till he had served 12 years, be should be
allowed two years rest on furlough ; after 18 years' un-
interrupted work, three years should be allowed, and
so on.

" The consequences of this arrangement would be
great and numerous, and all of them good—good for the
Government, good for the people, and good for the ser-
vices. The amount of vigour infused into Indian society
by this means would be almost incredible. Hope, look-
ing forward to the enjoyment of the sabbath, would sti-
mulate even the lazy and the idle to work hard during
the six years of labour.
" Tue continual return to England and reflux into
India of the tide of Europeans would be to the body
moral and politic, exactly what the circulation of the
blood is to the animal body. England would be our
lungs, the old blood would be there aerated, and new life,
health, and strength thereby sent flowing vigorously to
every corner and extremity of our empire. Energy and
health would take the place of langour and disease.
" The outcry for more Europeans would be at an end,
for those now in the service would be found willing and
able cheerfully to do well double the amount of work
which is now thought to tax their powers too highly.
" There would be a far more equal distribution of the
emoluments of etch appointments by reason of the num-
ber of officiating men. Thera would also be a far
greater number of men well acquainted with and ready
efficiently to perform the duties of such appointments,
to the great advantage of the service, which now ofcan
suffers from the inexperience of new incumbents.
"Society in the two countries would become one, and
all manner of blessings would indirectly follow.
"Let any man of sound common sense, and a tolerable
knowledge of the subject think over the matter, and he
must be convinced at once of the truth of the conclusions
set forth above.

" The doctrine is founded on the laws of nature, and
its truth wit be the more apparent the more those laws
are studied. "JOHN JACOB."

HORRIBLE MURDER OF A LADY IN LEIGH
WOODS, NEAR CLIFTON,

• BRISTOL, SATURDAY.
Great sensation was created in this city and Clif-
ton last evening by a report that a murder had been
committed, apparently under very atrocious cir-
cumstances, in that romantic spot, Nightingale
Valley, Leigh Woods, near Clifton. On inquiry
we learn that about seven o'clock last evening, as
a gamekeeper, in the employ of W. Miles, Esq.,
M.P. was passing along the north side of Nightin-
gale Valley, near the rabbit warren, he was hor-
rified by discovering the body of a female
lying on the ground, with her arms extended, and
her face covered with blood, quite dead. The keeper
raised an &arm, and on examining the body it was
found that her throat was cut from ear to earand. the
head nearly severed from the trunk. There is also
a wound on the right side of the head, apparently
caused by a bidlot, +l-inrigh fhie nan be only aeoor
tained by a post mortem examination. Thera were
no other marks of violence on the body, and no in-
strument of death was found near it. The deceased
female appears to be about 30 years of age ; she is
of diminutive stature, rather handsome, and is
dressed in a grey alpaca gown, frilled round the
neck and down the front, with kid boots, and two
skirts, one grey and the other white. She had no
bonnet. At present the deceased lady is unknown,
and there can be no doubt but that she has been
cruelly murdered. The gamekeeper states that ho
passed the spot on Thursday afternoon in going his
round,., and from this, as well as from the freshness
of the wounds, the crime was apparently perpetrated
in the course of yesterday. Since her death some
of the flesh of the throat has been torn away, it is
supposed by rats.
" The body has been removed to the New Inn,
at Rownham Ferry, and information of the melan-
choly occurrence has been forwarded to the county
coroner, B. Fry, Esq., who will forthwith hold an
inquest. The body of the unfortunate lady may
probably be identified inthec
hourasvee takenthisof place day, but
n
i
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at present the deceased ihseuennknp
rownlnge.d
summerLeih
Nvsoe
ovde la
and
c -ni
havec
parties
uorinngsetmhee
occalons until midnight, and poisons have taken
refreshment at the cottages in the wood, and then
strolled away to Nightingale Valley, and in many
cases the females have left their shawls and bonnets
at the cottages. This may possibly furnish a clue
to the identification of the body, and explain the
fact that the deceased was without a bonnet. The
crime has been commit'ed in the county of Somer-
set, beyond the jurisdiction of this city, but the
city police are on the alert. A married woman is
missing, having eloped with a ticket-of-leave man,
with a sum of money in her possession, but the
husband believes, from the description given to him
of the dress and body of the deceased, that she is
not his wife. Ho will, however, be permitted to
see the corpse this morning.

THE RECENT FEARFUL COLLISION IN

TEE CLIANNEL.

We reported in The Sun of Saturday the colli-
sion in the Channel between the steamers Sophie
and William Witt. The chief mate of the Sophie
has since made the subjoined report of the disaster :
"Left Rotterdam at 5 a.m., 10th, wind from the
W.S. W., fine, and proceeded safely until about 1.15
a.m. of the 11th, when off Dungeness, distant about
six miles, the light bearing N.N.W., wind N.W.,
thick, with rain, and steering W., exhibiting the
usual steamboat lights, all of which were burning.
Mr. Eos (the chief mate) was on the fore part of
the ship, and saw a steamboat approaching towards
them on" the port bow about a cable's length of
them, when he hailed her, and ran aft to the pilot,
who put the helm hard a-port, but before the So-
phie could get clear she was struck by the steamer
betvie eu the foie bulkhead and the foremast. The
Sophie making making much water, they endea-
voured t clear the boats. They succeeded in
lewering the starboard boat, but in doing so stove
her. - Four men got into it, and attempted to stop
the leak. In the meantime others were engaged
in clearing the other boats, but failed in getting
them clear, and in about sminutes the Sophie went
down. Mr. Ees, who was in the boat, hailed the
strange steamer to save the crew, which she did,
and picked up seven persons and took them on
board. The steamer proved to be the William
Hutt, from Havre for Shields. The master of the
E .'ophie was J. Von Knapen. The pilot, George
Barry, belonging
to Bristol, the ship's carpenter,
steward, four seamen, one fireman, the captain's
wire, one male passenger, and the late engineer's
wife, were drowned. The William Hutt brought
the survivors, consisting of the in ite, chief engi-
neer, and nine seamen, as far as the South Fore-
land, and then put them on board a Dover pilot-
boat, which landed them at Dover at 7 a.m."
The William Hutt sustained serious damage to
her stem, and her foro compartment was reported
to be full of water: • Very foitunately she was
light ; had she been loaded, the probability is that
she would have gone down with the Sophie.
The names of the survivors arc John Sambrook,
chief engineer; Morgan, second engineer;
stoker ; Rox, seaman ; Vincent, stoker ; Breahen,
seaman ; Hargen, seaman ; Van Nauten, seaman ;
Kraao, seaman ; and Pajewski, seaman. The late
engineer's wife who was drowned was on her way
to Bristol, to endeavour to obtain the release of her
huslyind, who is in pi icon with the old crew on
some charge of smuggling. None of the bodies
have as yet been washed ashore.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Sept. 12.

----4

BOW STREET.—Mr. Henry Smart, picture
dealer, 10A, Tichborn.e-street, and Mr. T. Closs,
also a picture dealer, Charlotte-street, Blackfriars,
appeared before Mr. Jardine to answer a summons,
charging them with havin2, conspired to defraud
Mr. H. Fitzpatrick, of Sheffield, of 1301., by sell-
ing him a landscape painting, purporting to be the
original production of the eminent artist John Lin-
nell, well knowing the same to be a " c)py " only.
Mr. Metcalfe, instructed by Mr. G. D. Webb, of
Carey-street, appeared for the prosecution ; Mr.
Abrahams defended Smart ; and Mr. Austin de-
feuded Closs.

After a statement of the case by the learned
counsel, who explained that the present transaction
occurred after his client had seen the original pic-
ture at Mr. Smart's shop, and refused to give 2001.
for it, the following witnesses were examined.
F. W. Adams, of King-street, Covent-garden,
deposed that he was a picture dealer, and knew the
prosecutor as a customer. On 24th July last the de-
fendant Closs (also a customer) called upon him and
said he had a picture by Linnell, which Mr. Fitz-
patrick wanted to purchase. Witness said, "Is it
the one Mr. Fitzpatrick saw at Smart's ?'' and he
replied "Yes," adding that he did not want his
name mentioned in the matter. He requested wit-
ness to say that a gentleman had brought the pic-
ture to him (Adams), and that it was for sale. Witness
said, "Is there anything wrong about it ? because
if it is only a copy, or thew is anything not right,
I would not do such a thing for 501., Mr. F. being
a customer of mine." He assured witness that the
picture was a genuine Linnell. The picture was sent
round, screwed up in a case, and Mr. Fitzpatrick
was conferred with on the subject, witness telling
him that the gentleman (meaning Closs) was anxi-
ous to sell it, being very short of money. Closs had
' told him to say this, and also to refer Mr. Fitz-
patrick to Mr. Smart if he expressed any doubt
about thepicture. Witness had several conversations
with the prosecutor, and was eventually authorised
to purchase the picture for 130/., telling him "the
gentlemen" represented that he should be a loser
of 40/. by the transaction. Witness agreed with
Closs to give him 1201., so that he (witness) had
10/. for his own trouble iu the matter. Mr. Fitz-
patrick requested a warranty that the picture was
genuine, but witness told him that the gentleman
did not wish his name to appear in the matter, and
there was no doubt about the genuineness of the
picture. Witness said this, believing that Closs
would not deceive him iu the matter. Mr. Fitz-
patrick paid witness the amount, giving him a
cheque for 25/., and three acceptances (at two,
three, and four months) for 151., 40/., and 50/.
respectively. Witness gave the checque and. the
two latter bills to Closs, keeping the 151. for his
own commission ; although he was now prepared to
give it up to Mr. Fitzpatrick.
By the Court—Closs told me that Smart had seen
the picture and guaranteed that it was genuine.
I did not either tell Closs or Mr. Fitzpatrick that I
had got 10/. on the transaction. Closs agreed to
sell it for 120/., and Mr. Fitzpatrick agreed to
give 130/.
Mr. Jardine—That seems very like a fraud, to
me. You represented that you gave 130/. for what
only cost you 1201.
Witness—Not so. I obtained the picture for
Mr. Fitzpatrick at the price he agreed to give for
it. It is usual in the trade to take a commission
upon a purchase, and I have often got 10/. upon a
picture of 10/. value.
Cross-examined—l am not a judge of Linnell's
pictures, having only seen them at sales. No in-
voice was given nor any receipt for the bills. 1
believe the picture to be genuine, owing to what
Closs said.
Mr. Fitzpatrick, of Angel-street, Sheffield,
corroborated this evidence, and said that he first
saw Mr. Smart about the picture on the 21st
or 22d of July. At that time a person
was in the shop, whom he now believed to be Closs.
He showed witness the original picture of Linnell's
and asked 2001. for it, which witness declined to
give. The picture which Adams afterwards gave
him (from Closs) was in the same frame and box
that he had seen the original painting in. After
buying it of Adams he took it to Smart, and said
to him, "fs that the picture you showed me in
your house the other day ?" He replied, " Yes,
there can be no doubt about it." Smart said, " I
sold it to a gentleman. How did you come by it
so quickly ?" I told him it had been left for me to
look at, and I asked how it was that the owner did
not come fdrward with his name ? Smart replied,
" Perhaps he wants to raise the wind, and don't
wish it to be known." He told me he gave Mr.
Linnell 1751. for it. I asked him to give me a war-
ranty. He replied, " I cannot give you one, but I
will give one to the gentleman who bought the pic-
ture of me." I thought the picture was the same.
By the Court—l would not give 151. or 51. for
the copy.
Mr. Metcalfe—Don't hurt the feelings of the
artist.

Cross-examined—l considered the copy like the
original certainly. I am not a judge of Linnell's
pictures. I sold the copy to a gentleman at Shef-
field for lbUt. ; but when I discovered the fraud, I
told him of it. He has never paid me the money.
I had no receipt fur the cheque and bills paid to
Adams, being in great haste to save my train for
Sheffield. I cannot swear it, -but I believe the
frame of the copy to be the same that I had seen on
the original, at Mr. Smart's shop.
Mr. John Linnell, of Redhill, the veteran artist,
examined (both the pictures were produced in
court)—He identified the original, and said that he
should have known the other to be a copy, upside
down. He painted the original for Mr. Grant, and
sold it in February last to him for 175/. Had known
his family for fifty years.
Cross- examined—T he colours are well imitated
in the copy. I consider the signature in the copy,
" John Linnell," to be a forgery.
Mr. James Lloyd, of Gracechurch-street, deposed
that ho purchased the original of Mr. Closs (defen-
dant) on the 14th July last. Closs said he bought
it of Smart. He sold it again afterwards.
Here the investigation, having occupied several
hours, was adjourned to next week.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Mary Ann Villiers, the
wife of a retired publican, reiiding in Mansfield-
street, Kingsland-road, was charged with feloniously
cutting and wounding her husband, with intent to
murder him.

On entering the witness box the complainant,
who appeared with hii face nearly covered with ad-
hesive plaister, and presented a most ghastly spec-
tacle, said—lt is not my intention to proceed with
this case, as I have reason to believe that the in-
juries T have sustained were accidentally inflicted by
my wife, and I hope you will allow me to abandon
the prosecution. _ . .

The magistrate peremptorily refused to accede to
the request in a case of such a serious nature, and
having inquired if there was any other evidence,
Sergeant Townsend, No. 23, stated that in con-
sequence of information ho had received, he pro-
ceeded on the previous evening to the residence of
the prosecutor, whom he found seated in the par-
lour with the blood gushing down from two fright-
ful wounds in the face. Witness asked him how he
had received the injuries, and before he had time
to reply, the prisoner, who was standing near him,
stepped boldly forward and exclaimed—" It was
done. by me, but I meant to cut his throat, and
now you may lock me up." The prisoner was
immediately taken into custody, and on her way to
the station-house, she declared that it was her set-
tled determination to murder her husband, and
assigned as her motive fur such vindictiveness that
he had boastfully acknowledged the fact of his hav-
ing formed au improper intimacy with her sister.
Police-constable, N 370, gave corroborative evi-
dence, and added that the prisoner lrtd attacked
her husband with the carving-knife produced,
which had been since handed to him by the land-
lady, stained with blood, as it now appeared.
Mrs. Jane Jones, the wife of a builder in Mans-
field-street, stated that the prosecutor and his wife
had occupied apartments in her house for several
months, during which period they had lived on very
unhappy terms together, and const:quently quar-
relled from morning to night. On the previous
evening she heard an unusually violent commotion
in their apartment, on entering which she observed
the prosecutor in the mang:ed and bleeding condi-
ti ni described by the officer. The prisoner, who was
standing over him in a menacing attitude, coolly
avowed that she had inflicted the wounds in his
face while attempting to cut, his throat, at the same
time pointaig to a large kuife on the table, the
blade of which was stained with fresh blood. Wit-
ness instantly secured the weapon, with which she
hastenedinto the street, and gave information to
the police. The wanes; added that the prosecutPr
had formerly been in affluent circumstances, but
was of such profuse and extravagant habits that he
had expended no less than 5,0001. within the last
three yeare
Alr. G. H. Coward, the divisional surgeon of
police, having deposed to the serious nature of the
wounds, one of which had completely cut through
the cheek to the extent of four inches.
The prisoner, who exhibited throughout the most
reckless indifference, as remanded for depositions.

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPLAINS FOR INDIA.--We are
informed that two Roman cattualic clergymen have
volunteered their services as chaplains to the army.in
India, namely the Rev. Mr. Kyne, of St. Peters-chapel,
Clorken-well ; and the Rev. Edward Lescher, one of the
priests attached to the Chapel of the Holy Family, Saf-
fron-hill. They have been already armed with the
neces.ary spiritual " faculties" from Cardinal Wise-
and will leave London for their destination in the
East with as little delay as possible.

I).R _ICE'S 0 SD A .1;

From, the Official List,
FUBLISIIED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENINU

LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 11, 1857.
CANALS.

Names of
Companies.

Ashtn
Birmingham
Coventry..
Derby .. • • • •
GrandJimetn
Do., 6 pr. Ct.!
Grand 'Jnioti
[tenet & AVE,
Lecds&Livrp
Leicester....
Leicstr
Loughborogh
Macclesfield.
Neath •• ••
0xf0rd......

Dividend
per ,

~...2 All-1111M .

93 71. r.
40 4/.
100 W.
100 61. 15s.
100 21. pr. et.,
10 6:. pr
100 7s. 6d
40 63.
100 252.
100 5/.
83 11.55.
143 701.
100 21. 103.
'OO 161.
,100

Name of Company.

Berlin
East London

Do. 4 per Cent. Pref.

Do. 5 per Cent. I'ref.
Grand Jonetion ••
Do. New •• •• ••
Lambeth ..... . • • • • ..

New laver Company..
Southwark & Vauxhall
West Middlesex • •
Do. D 0.......

Name of Company.

flungerford .... • • ....
Southwark ...... • • ..

Ditto New of 7% p.c.
Waterloo ..... ........

Ditto Old Ann. of 81.

Ditto Nw ditto of 71.
Vauxhall

Name of Company

Commercial ..........

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

Do: Load Notes ....

Do. 5 per cent. Pref.
London ••• •
St. Katharine ........
,?outhampton ........
Victoria •• •••••• •• • •
Ditto New • • •• • • ••

British Provincial ....
Brighton •• •• •• •• ••
City of London ......
Ertuitab1e............
European .... .......
Great Central ........
Imperial ...• ........

Ditto New

Names of
'j Companies.

Price.

Peak Forest.
Regem t's • • • •
Stftrd &Won
'Stoarbridge..
Severn and 1
Wye Rail.
Warwick &
Birming.
Warwick & j
1
Napton..
iWorcstr &
Birming. j
Wilts & Brks

5/. per cnt.
St. per cnt.
4/. per cent.
M. per cent.
41. per cnt.

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

Name of Company.

51. per cnt.

IV. per cent.

lOs per cent.)

1/. 12s. Od.
11. Bs. Od.
28s.

DOCKS,

Dividend
. per

Annum.

51. pr cent.

61. pr tent.
41. per cent.

51. pr cent.

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

LT AND CO

Dividend
per

Annum.

Amount
of
Share.

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

71. per cent.
51. per cent.
21. per cent.
21.
61. per cent.
Si. per cent.
10/. per cent

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

100 0 0
61 0 0
5 1 8

Amount
of
Share.

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

Amount

Share.

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

COMP.

Amount
of
Share.

61. per cent.
51A . per cat.
5/.
8/.-ner cent.
163 0(.1 per sh.
.7.per cont.

Albion .... •• •• ••
Alliana Bri:. and For.

s. d.
20 0 0
20 0 0
150 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
10 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
Stock
50 0 0
60 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
40 0 0
25 0 0
GO 0 0
20 0 0
10 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
10 0 0
10 0 0

71. per c.
It. 14s. Get.
51. p.c. & Us.

X s. d.
500 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
1 0 0
50 0 J
100 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
20 0 0
(00 0 0
5 0 0
Stock.

Dividend
per

Annum.

57. Os.
17s.

Ditto Marine .......
Athenaeum. ..........
Atlas ..
krgus Life ..........•
nritish Commercial ..
Church of England ..
City of London .. •• ..
Clericl.Med.& Gen. Life
County
Crown .... ...• .... • •
Eagle ..
Equity and Law......
European Life
Family Endowment ••
General..." •• •• .• •• ••
Globe • •• • • • • ••
Gresham Life .

281.
121. les

1/. 16s.

Do. Do.. ...
Guardian . • • • • • • • • • • •
Imperial Fire.........
Imperial Life .....
Indemnity Marine....
Law Fire .......... •.
Law Lite... •• • •
Legal and General Life
London
London & Prov. Law
Marine. • • .... ••• • • •
Med. Invlid Br, Gen. Life
Minerva •• .. . • .. • •
Monarch . • • • • • • • • • .•
New Equitable
Pelican .• • • • • • • • • •• ••
Phcenix
Professional Life ......
Provident Life........
Rock Life • • ..
Royal Exchange ......
Sun Fire

15s. Oil. & bs
41. per cent.
71. 10s.
71. 10s.
Si.
S pr ct.& bs.
I/. per share

li. 18s.
ss.
514 per cent.
11.
41. per cent.
6 per cent.
ul. per cent.

51. per cent
t2l. per cent

10s.
7s. Od.

Paid.

Z s. d.
100
all

raid.

Z s. d

Paid.

20 0 0
100 0 0
500 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
50 0 0
400 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
5 0 0
10 0 0

£ s. d.
Stock.

Prico.

too 0 0
(00 0 0
EF;tlO
.

50 "0
0
20 0 0
14 0 0

'IE S.

Paid.

'143.
it. p7ct. & bs.
2s & 2s bons
214. pe.e sh.
4s. psr share

£ s. d.
all

Price

18s.& bs.
114 per cent
51. per cent.
51. per cent.
164 per cent

51 p. ct.
51. per cent.
51. per cent.
-12% per c.
78.
sp.c.&bs
6;Q p.c & bs

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

1/. 14s.
4/. & bonus.
5/. & bonus.
5/. & bonus.

TINT-S TOCK

Dividend
per

Name of Company.

160 0 0
all

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

52 0 0
16 0 0
all

A.ustralasia• • • • • • • • • • •
Brum of Egypt
Bank of London
British North American
('h. Bk. lud. Aust & Ch,
City
Colonial
Commercial of London
Eng. Scot. & Aust. Ch
Lond. Char. Bk. of Aus

10 0 0
all
4 0 0

Price.

Annum.

10/. per cent.

51. per cent.
9 per cent.
41. per cent.
Si. per cent.

11. p. e. & bs.
4'. per cent.
51. per cent.

11 6 5 0
1100 0 0
5 0 0
Stock.

Do. New .. • • • ...
London and County ..
Lon. & Eastn 131,11. g. C.
London Joint-Stock ...
Londn and Westmin3tr
Nat. Provincial of Eng.
Ditto. New .. •• •• ••

Ditto ditto
Natio%T.l Bank
New oath Wales .. • •
Oriental Bank Corpora.
Ottoman Bank
Frovineial of Ireland
Ditto, New.• • .. • • • •
lonian.,
South Australia • • -•
Union of Australia

Amount
of
Share.

Price,

Paid.

Ditto ..............
Union of Hainburg • • ..
Union of L0nd0n......
Unity Mutual .. .. • • • •
Western Bank or Londn

ket. per cent.
66. per cent.,
28 per cent.
tB'. per cent.
16pc. &bs

Z s. d.
50 0 0
11 0 0
25 0 0

10834

il.per cent.l
20'. per tent.l
101. per cent.

ct.&bs.
81. per cent.
5/. per cent.
101. per cent.
21/. per cent.

151. per cent.l

s. d.
40 0 0
25 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
20 0 0
1 20 0 0
20 0 0
1 50 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
20 0 0
20 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
25 0 0
20 0 0
100 0 0
10 0 0
25 0 0
25 0 0
25 0 0

all
5 15 0
25 0 0
5 0 0
2 0 0
2 0 0
10 0 0
10 0 0
5 0 0
5 0 0
5 0 0
all
4 0 0

47 5 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
30 0 0
2 10 0
13 0 0
2 10 0
12 10 0
2 0. 0
12 11 0
2 0 0
20 0 0
2 0 0
4 0 0
1 0 0
1 0 0

15 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0

0 10 0
10 0 0
0 10 0

Price.

5 10 0
10 0 0
5 0 0

Price,

Price.

_ i

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LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
----- - -
£ s. d. £ .s. d.
Bank of Scotland .. •. 71. per cent. 100 C 0 100 0 0 19310 s
British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 2191 0
Caledonian Bank .. •.. 81. per cent. 10 0 0 210 031 IGs
City of Glasgow Bank 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 13/10s
Clydesdale Bank •• .. 5%/. p cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 13/ 12s
Commercial Bank .. 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 242/0-
Eastern Bank.. •• •... 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 141 5s
Edinb. & Glasgow.... 3%1.p cent. 5 0 5 0 0 41 Bs
National Bank •• •• .. 6% per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 193 i Os
NorthofSeotland Bank 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 051 lOs
Royalßarik of Scotl. .. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 1381)s
Union Bank of Scot. .. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 1051 0
Western Ba.nk•• .:.... 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 78 158
Alliance Fire and Life., 8%1.pr cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 17112 s
British Guarantee ... 41. per cent. 10 0 0 2 0 0 11 78
Caledonian Fire Insur . 10t.per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24110 s
City of Glasgow Lite.. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 041 4s
Colonial Life ......... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 3 0 0 61 4s
Edinburteh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 281 Is
Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 3 5 041 Gs
Llfe Assoc. of Scotland 61. per cont. 40 0 0 3 0 06/ 15s
National Fire and Life 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 4 021 Ps
North British Insur... 71. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 36/121
Northern Assurance Co. 20 0 0 1 0 01/ 14s
Scottish Provincial .... - 50 0 0 2 0 021 19s
Scottish Union Insrnc. 7%1. prcent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11 16s
Standard Life .. •... •• 51. per cent. 50 0 0 7 0 0 24/ Os
MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend ' Amount '
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
---- --
Z s. d. £ s. d.
Acadian Charcoal Iron .. 10 0 0 2 0 0 -
African Steam Ship .. .. 20 0 0 10 0 0 -
Assam tea •• .• ••.. •• l• rcr cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 -
Auction Mart.• •..... 11.ilper cent 50 0 0 - -
Australian Aviculturl - 25 0 0 19 0 0 -
Australian Trust •• .. 81. pr cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 21%
Australian Royal Mail - 10 0 0 all -
Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 103. 10 0 0 all -
British Arnorican Land 5/. per cent 50 0 0 40 0 0 -
Canada ......... •• .. 4/. per cent 100 0 0 32 10 0 138
Do. 5 per cent Bonds 5/. pet cent Stock 100 0 0 -
Ditto, 5 per cent bds 51. per cent. Stock 100 0 0
I):tte, 6 per cent. .. 61, per cent. Stock 100 0 0 -
Ditto, Gp c. bds 1874 41. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 -
Ditto, 6p c. bds 1876 61. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 --
Crystal Palace .• .... 2/. per cent. 5 0 0 all 1%
Ditto Preference.... 71 pr. cent. 5 0-0 5 0 0 4
Crys. Palace of France - 4 0 0 all -
city Navigation Bonds 3%!. per cent - - -
Electric Telegraph .. 61. per cent. Stock. 100 0 C 105
Eng.&Ans. Cop. Smelt. - 5 0 0 all 1 %
Eug.&lris. Bag-. T. Co, - 50 0 0 all -
Equitable iteversiemy slper cent. 100 0 0 130 0 0 -
Ditto New ........ - 50 0 0 22 10 0 -
Gen. Revers. & Invest. 5!. p c and 11 100 0 0 100 0 0 -
Gen. I. Sc. Col. (Lim.) - 25 0 0 all -
Gen.fateamNavigation 10/. per ct. & 15 0 0 14 0 0 -
London Gen. Omnibus 12!. per cent 40, 0 all 371.
Hudson's Fay........ 5/. per cent. Stock I- tock -
Hungerford .......... 2e 58. 100 0 0 all -
Lon. Ne. &Na. Mauso. - 10 0 0 all -
London Reversionary 51, per cent. 15 0 4' all -
all % sMex. &S. American - 10 0 0
Nat. Discount Comp.. - 25 0 0 5 0 0 -
-
N.S.W. Gov.sp.c. Deb. 5!. per cent. - 100 0 0
Nor. Bri. Australasian 6d. 1 0 0 all -
-
North of Europe, Stm. Si. per cent. 20 0 0 17 10 0
Prices Patent Cand. Co - 2 0 0 all 23l
Peel River.Land&M 50 0 0
in. - 50 0 all 1.%
all Gtl
Pen. & Oriental Steam 71. per cent
. ... - 50 0 0 10 0 0 1,1
Ditto New
•
Reve:sioeary Int. Soc. -
Ditto New .. • • .... /lie& Pr ceet. lao 0 0 20 0 0 -
Royal Mail Steam.... t 1.5. share. 100 0 0 60 0 0 -
1% /. pr cent 100 0 0 all
Scottish Aus. Invest. 15/. per cent. 10 0 all _
South Australian Land 7!. per cent. 25 0 0 all 32
7%.• pr cent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 -
Trust and Loan Comp.
lOs. 100 0 0 ee 10 0 _
VAR Diemen's Land:.
I)o Gov. 6 per ct. ir ds 6 per cent. -.
...

41,GG1

39,620

38,711

39,641

40,: 30

40,00 S

-,-
38,794

-
37,051

TESTIMONIAL TO THE TOWN CLERK OF MANCHESTER •
—A meeting was held in the Mayor's parlour, Town-11a%
Manchester, on Thursday, to secure the means of Pre-
senting a suitable testimonial to the town clerk for 131
services in connexion with the Mersey Conservancy and
Docks Act. A sum o! 2,0001. was put down by th,!
gentlemen present as the commencement of the SD'
ser:ption.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and rine
incontrovertible remedies for Bad Legs.—Mr. Shares
chemist of Salford, reports, in a communication to Pro'
fessor Haloway, that Mrs. Holmes, of Albert-street/
Salford, suffered from a bad leg for upwards of three
years, during which period she could wear neither 1313°e
nor boot—in fact, suffered extreme torture. Sbe wag
at length induced to try Holloway's Ointment and Pill',
and in the brief space of tour weeks, the wounds in her
leg were completely cured, and she can now walk aDY
reasonable distance.—Sold by all medicine vendors
throughout the world; at Professor Holloway's Estab-
lishments, 244,- Strand, London, and $O, Maiden'
lane, New York; by A. Stamps, Constantinople; A'
Guidicy, Smyrna ; and E. Muir, Malta,

B IRTIIS.
OF A SON.
On the 10th inst., at Kirkby Mallory, the llon.
Russell.
On the 11th inst,, at 14, Dorset-square, the wife of
Cowly, Esq.

OF A DAUGHTER.
On the 11th inst., at 24, Porehester-square, the wife of
William Bevan, Eq.
On the 11th inst., at North Lodge, Muswell Bill, Dire'
Henry Smith.

MARRIED.
On the 12th inst., at St. George's, Bloomsbury, Geo.
Dickson, Esq., of Woburn-place, to Marianne, only da,uPe
ter of th 3 late Edward Jones, Esq., of Queen's-terrace.
Wool w ich
On the 12th inst., at the parish church, Bushey, ifertt
Holbert Alfred, fourth son of the late William Halo:now);
of Kennington, to Alice Matilda rniugest daughter 0'
John Towne, Esq., Commander of Bushey-heath.

DIED.
On the llth inst., at the Vicarag ,h
Vicarage Benet-Oen, Konl,tlie
Rev. Daniel Boys, M.A., upwards of 51 years vicar of that
parish, aged ;.1.
On the 11th inst., at Ryde, Isle of Wight, Thomas 1,3,i
Hearn, Esq., solicitor, son of the late W. Hearn, EA -
Newport, aged 39.
On the 11th inst., at High Wickham, Hastings, Lance-
lot Middleton, Esq., aged i u. 1,, Jo
On the 12th inst. Idrs. Sarah Forster, of Spool:lainl3
Neu bury, aged 62.. both
On the 10th inst., at Hillingdon, Charlotte Eliza s
Mary, youngest daughter of the late Major-General Jaroe
Grant, aged 26.
°r
On the 9th inst., at Lowestoft, by a fall from the Pied
Charles S. J. Haw tayne, Vice-Admiral of the Recd. ag
75.

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o bliddlesca, Monday, Soptembor 14, 18T.