The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-24 00:00:00

SHARE MAR.KET.-(THIS DAY.)

ORDINARY saattEs AND STOCKS.

Share

BRITISH POSSESSIONS.

Railways.

Paid,

Closing
Price.

72 71:-
9,2 93
2 li d
4i 6di

Closing , Business 100 !-At tau tc& St Lawrencel all iR-2-:
Share Railways. raid ' ' Price. j Done. etk
f Bom.,Baroda&.Centlndi 100 02 i
( Ga. 5 per cent...
50 !Belfast and Bally :Liana all - - 18 Do, Do. lif 16 2 1
13.14 !Bin, Wol , and Str. Val. all 85 81 205 Buffalo and Laiie Huron all 44
stock !Birk., La., and Ch June. 100 79 81 205 Do. New - -
25 !Blackburn
25 ;Myth and Tyne all - - ,00 ( Buffalo,Brant&Godric.h 100 75 8
10 !Bost. Sleaf: and Mid.Co all 64 7 ' (6 p. Ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872
stock ;Bristol and Exeter
stock ,Caledonian
10 !Carmarthen & Cardio-an all - - 5 Clcutta.&S.F.as tn. (Lim) 3 5 p
50 !Cork and Bandon all - - 20 Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim.) 2s. - -
20 I Cork, I tlrock., ,t, Passage all - - 20 Cape Town & Dock Scrip 5 1/ 3
20 Cornwall
all 6 64 20 Ceylon Guarantd. 6p. c. 74 1 p
( all
until 6pc neran. A gets no div. I - - 174 Demerara all
10 Do A. - -
20 Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. c 10 25 1
10 Do B all - -
,
1 hasbeen' d. toB . stock East Indian, gu. sp. c. 100 974 9
50 !Dublin & Belfast June. all - - aoi 20 Do. F Shares Ext.._ all - -
25 !Dun., Perth, &Ab. June. all 8 84 20 Do. Jubbulpore all - -
stock East Anglian lOO 16 17 100 Do. 44 pc. Debentrs. all 97 !
stock !Eastern Counties lOO 50 51 100 Do. sp. c. Deb., 1864.. all 994 li
stock 'Eastern Union, A stock 100 37 39 20 Geelong & Melbourne.. all - -
stceir Do do Bdo 100 26 28 stock Geelong Corporation 6
25 Do Nw A, late EU3ds. 134 - - per cent. Bonds ...... 100 - -
stock East Suffolk
stock Edinbur,h & Glasgow 100 - - 100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref.. all 70
stock Edin. Perth, & Dundee 100 26 28 100 Do. 6 per et. Debentr. all 45 4:
10 Forth & Clyde Junction all - - 100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862 .. all 50 51
stock Furness - - 100 Do. do. 1867.. all 42 4;
stock Glasg. and S. Western 100 114 116 100 Do. do. 1872 .. all 40 11
10 Great Nthn. of Scotland all - - stock Gt. IndiaPenin.gua.sp.c. 100 941 1
stock Great Northern lOO 1110 111 1114 20 Do. New gua. sp. c... 8 14d 1
stock Do do A stock
stock Do do B do
stock Gt. S. &W. of Ireland 100 111 112 201 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 10 10
stock Great Western ... ... lOO 694 70 704 5 4 209 Do. New ... ... ... 18 101 1C
stock Do Str Val gua. stock 100 61 64
100 Do. Bonds pay. '76, With
12 Trish South-eastern all - - opt, till '6O
stock Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 1135 1131 1184 ; 100 Do. do. '73 till '6O all 92 96
stock London and Blackwall 100 60 62 615 100 Do. do. '73 without opt all 93 96
stock Lon., Brfrht.. &S Coast 100 116 118 1174 100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77 do all 88 82
stock Lond., Chat, and Dover 100 49 51 stock Madras, guar., 44 p. c lOO 83 85
stock Lond. &Nth. Western 100 981 98i 991 5 I stock Do. do. 5 per cent .
stock Lond. & -4th. Western.. 100 924 931 94 4 3 stock Do. 41 p. c. Extension 100 85 87
25 L'derry & Coleraine .. all - - 20 Do. Fourth do l5 1; If
25 L'derry & Enniskillen all 810 20 Do. do all - -
stock MAIL Shef. & Lincoln., 100 51 53 514 4 stock Melb.Corp. 6p. c. Bnds lOO - -
50 Maryport and Carlisle.. all - - 20 Newßrunswick & Canda
124 Do do 4 shares.... all - - Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pc all 5 7
10 Metropolitan 5 3g zid Class A Capital Share
stock Midland - ....
6.4.0. Do new 1.4.0. - - P 20 Do. do. B Capital do. . • all 5 7
stock Do 'Arming. & Derby 100 103 105 .. Do. do. Land do. ......
50 Ind. Gt. W. of Ireland all - - 20 Oude (Limited) ........ 59. - -
25 Dog shares all - - stock !Scinde ...... •• • • ci 4 100 97 971
_as 25 Mid Kent. - - 20 Do. Punjaub .... El 10 24. 2
Fe*
10 Do, Cray Line . . all - - 20 Do. Do. .... -.. O, all --- _
100 Newcastle and Carlisle all - - stock Do. Indus. St. Flo. , ?,,,,'''• 100 92 gi
10 Newry & Armagh, clef 9 7 8 d 20 St. Andrews &Quebec A 18 - -
20 Newry, Warnpt. & Ros all - - 10 Trinidad (Lim.) &Tip.. I 1 4 4
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dock Norfolk lOO 52 64 FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
50 N' lin. Counties Union.. 34 - - d
dock North British . 100 64 65 641 10 Antwerp & Rotterdam all 51 51
dock Nor.Dev.Rail&Dk.stock 100 - - 20 Ardennes --. ...... .. all - -
dock D‘ A stk ; A recs no d. 20 eah.&S.Fran..Lim.7 p.c. 10 ' 21 /1
until 6pclias beenpd.B 100 - - 5 ,Belgian East. Junction all 1 1
'took Do B stock ....... . 100 -- - 20 Beaters to Graissessac.. all -
took Nth. Eastern-Berwick 100 1034 1044 1031
25 Dodo. eI.N.E. purchase 13 13 1 p Ip P 6 Cs'- neaux Mine & Rail all 11 12
took Do Leeds .............. 100 f 0 41 100 Copiapo - ......&...... all - -
,tock Do York
dock North London ..
10 Do new 2O Eastern of France .... all 23 24
9.16.4 North Staffordshire.... 175 I 21 24 ' 20Grand Rua. Guar. 6p. e. 6 - -
I
10 N. and S. W. Junction.. all 10 104 20 Do. do. all - -
12 Not. & Grantham Rail.. 11 8 81 20 ;Great Central 3f France all - -
10 Feebles ...............• all - - 20 IGt. Luxem., Con. shs... all 61 of
- Portsmouth - - 20 !Italian Junction .. ... all - -
10 Rhymney all - - 20 Lake! Constance & Bale. all - -
tock Scottish Central - -
tock Scot N. E., Aber. stock 100 33 44 20 !Lyons & Geneva ...... all - -
tock Do Scot. Mid. stock lOO 861 874 334 !Maria Antonia ........ all - -
tock Shropshire Union . , - ... .. •..... all - -
10 Sittin (*bourne & Sheer. all 8 7 20 INamur & Liege ........ all 71 71
took South Devon
tock South Eastern ...
took South Wales .....- lOO 61 63 16 Do. New Shares .- .. 15 - -
tock S. York. and River Dun 100 180 81 10 Norwegian Trunk Pref. all 84 94
20 Staines, Wok,. and Wok all i 4 7 20 [Paris,Lyons, & Mediter. all 344 354
25 Stockton & Darlington all 41 42 20 tParie & Orleans.. - .... all 53 55
25 Do do ll 191 105 p Recife &S. Fran. (Pern.)
took Taff Vale . ............ 100 . 1 - - 20 11
gua. 7p. et. Um-- 13 34 3d
lock Do Prof. ko 1 - - 20 litiga & Dunaburg...... 14 - -
25 ThamesHavenDk&Rall 22 - - - 10 !Rome & Frascati- ...... all -
50 Ulster .. .'• - .... all -
25 Do ...... ...... - all
110 Do . 2 d 4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref all -
Lock Cale of Neath
13 Victoria Sta. and Pim all 114 111 10 Do. 54 per cent. Pref..... all 8 Ai
took Waterford & Kilkenny 100 - - 20 San Paulo, lim, g. 7p. c. 2 14 1 d
50 Waterford .2 Limerick all - - 20 S.Aust.&Lomb Venetin 1? d2O West Cornwall
20 West London all - - • 84 West Flandern
10 Do let class ........ all - - 10 o. 51 p. c. Preference.. all 94 91
20 Do 2d class .. . .... all - - 20 W. & N.W. of France .. all 21 22
took iWestHartlepool Harhr 20 Western of Austria.... 6 _ _
' and Rail . 100 - - 20 'estern of Switzex land all -- -
Lock West Midland-Oxford 100 44 46 444 61 6 iesbaden -
truck Do. Newport 100 42 44 6 o. 8 per cent Pref all - -
bock Do. Hereford 100 82 84 2O Zealand -

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PREFERENCE SHARES.

osing Business
Share Railways. ;Paid I price.
Done.
25 Blythe and Tyne 10 per
c. pref. (issued at £5O all
ctk ißris. & Exet.4 p.ct.stock 100
20 !Do. do. do. Shares
stock ICaledon £10,44 per cent 100 101 103
stock Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. 100
65 ;Cork k Bandon, 55 p. c. alai,
20 ICornwall. 5 per cent 204 214
64 pun.Perth&Aber..Tun all 6 64
stock E.Angn.Class A 7 Azsp.e lOO 99 101
stock Do. do. Class B 6 Re._ 100 112 115
stock Do. do. Class C 7 p.c lOO 106 108
stock E. Coun. Ex. sp. c. No.l 100 110 112
stock jDo. do. No. 2 100 108 110
stock Do. New 6 pet et. stock. 100 124 126
stock Eastern Union, 4 per et. 106 79 81
stock Do. 5 per cent guar... 100
stock Edin.&Glas.sp.e. shares 100 112 114
stock Do. 4p. c amt. S. &D. 100 90 92
stock I Edin. Perth& Dun. 4 p.c. 100
stock Furness, 5 per cent 100
stock Glas.& S. West.g.a. 5 p.c. 100
stock IGreat Northern, sp. et. 100 116 118
stock • I r'o• 5p c• Redm., 10 p.c.pm 100 112 114
stock t Do. 44 p. c. do. do.
100 Do. sp.c. Bedm. 5 p.c. pml 80 86 88
10 Gt. Nh. of Scotld. Ist pf.' all
stock t G t.Sn. & W (Ireland) 41 100 98 100
p. et pref. stock
50 Great West. (Berke and
Hants) Ext. sp. ct 6
stock ro. 'Redeemable, 44 p.ct lOO 98 100
stock Do. Itedeemable.4 p. at lOO 89 91:'.
stock Do Irredeemable, do lOO 90 92
stock Do. 5 p.ct. Redeem. Pref lOO 101 103 102
8 Do. firm. Pref. Shares all 10 104
10 Ut. W. Ches. 8 p.c. pf.sh all 174 184
10 Do. do. sp. et. pref all 104 11
stock Do Birmsr.,ruar. stock lOO 76 78
264 I Do. Chester grna. shares all 204 214
135 I Do, do. do.
20 ;Do. do. do.
stock ILan.&York 6p. C. stock lOO 135 137
stock I Do.Barnsl.st£s 3s 104 pc 100
stack Do. 6 per c. (E. Lan.) 100
stock Lon.. Brig.s pc.gu. No.l 100 116 118
stock Do. sp. c. No. 2j 100 116 118
stock Do. gua, 6p. c.
stock Do. do. 5 p.c. No. 4 100 116 118
stock 'Do. do. 45 per cm'. 100 103 105
5 'Do. do. 44 p. c. shares., all •
stock Do. 7p. ct. Pref, stock. 100 153 156
stock 'Do. 6p.c. do. (W.E.&C.P.) 100 1304 134
stock tDo.4p.c.S.(div.def.til '65) 100 69 71
stock Lon. Chat. and Dover lOO 88 90
stock Lon. and N.W. Coy. and
Nuneaton, sp. et.. 100 116 118
stock Lon. ft S.W, 7p. ct. stock 100 150 155
stock t Do. 45 per cent lOO
2s. 6d.'Do. (Prtsm. perpl anne.
of 2s. 6d.. all
124 Londondy. ft Cole. sh. all
125 Londony. & Ennis. 4 sh.i all 131 144
stock Man. Sh. &Lin. 6 per et.i 100
6
,D0..£6
stock IDo. 34 per cent llOO 78 72
10 Do. redeem. 6 per cent ) 5 1
12 Maryoort ft Car., 4p. a all
12 ;Do. 45 per cent. all
stock !Mid. eon. 6 p stock 100
stock IDo.Con.Bris. & Bir. 6 p.c 100 137 130
stock Do. 44 p. c. pref. stock 100 102 104
6 Do. with option till 1860 3
stock Do. Leic. ft Hit. pref. st.l 100 95 97
stock Norflk sp. c. Ex. at. 1846' 100
stock Do. 54 p. c. Pref. do. 1847 100
stock jDo.sWay.Val.Ex.st.lB47 100
stock North British, sp. lOO 111 113
stock Do. New, gua. sp. c 100 110 111
101 Do. Bor. Un. g. pf. she 3 4 14 p
10 1 Do. do. do. all
stock Nth.Dev.nail. &Dck.Co. 100
stock N-East.Cons.Pref. 4p. c. 100 92 94
stock Do. Berwick, 4 p.c. Pref. 100 100 102 1014
17 Do. do. do 5.13.4. 4 4p
20 Do. Leeds, 6p. e. No. 1 13
12_4 IDo. do. Quarters, 1848. 9
35 IDo. York, et S. Purcli, 10 4
d p
20 North Staffordshire,.., all 22 23
10 IRhytnney Guaranteed. all
fif 'Scottish Central, new p all
stock Scottish North-Eastern
34 p. c. pref. stock lOO
stock Do.Aberdeenxua.6p. 100 124 126
stock Do. 7p. e. pref. stoc 100 133 136
10s. ;South Devon, Ann. 10s all 104 11
10 Do. Fixed 44 per een all
1.0.6 'South Eastern (Readin,
Ann., 1.0.6) ... all 23 24
stock Do. 45 per cent lOO 102 104
stock Do. Fixed 14p.e. Ist is. 100 192 104
stock -outh Wales, gua. 4 p.c., 100 91 93
stock Do. 15 per cent lOO 100 102
stock S.-Yorkshire, 4p. (Iglu : 100 85 88
25 Stock. & Dar. Asp. 0 1 all 271 28
25 Do. B 6 per cent all 82 335
25 Do. C 6 percent all 32 338
stock Watrtd & ICilkny, 6 p.c lOO 45 48
stock -Oxf lst Guastlt 100 124 123
stock I 1)o. 2d do 100 120 124
stook Do. Newport 5 paptred, 100 100 102
stock IDo.Perpet. 6p.c. pt 1866 100 123 126
stock 1 Do. till 1869, lst is. 100 116 120
124 Do. do. 2d is, 74

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67 72
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50 55
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90 95
92 96
93 96
88 12
83 85
92 03
85 67
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410 920
110 115
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ES.

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANU.

LAW INTELLIG.ENCE.-(THIS .DAY).

COURT OF PROBATE.

(Before the Judge Ordinary, Mr. Justice Willes, and
Baron Channell.)
RYVES V. THE ATTORNRY-GENERAL.

This was a petition for a declaration of legitimacy by
Mrs. Lavinia Jannetta Horton Ryves, claiming to be
Princess of Cumberland and Duchess of Lancaster. It will
be remembered that the case was adjourned for the production
of the original register of the petitioner's baptism at Liver-
pool, which, it was suggested by the Court, with the view
of saving expense to the petitioner, could be transmitted by
the rector to the registrar of this court. The rector refused
to allow the book to leave his custody for a single hour, and
that therefare Mrs. Ryves had sent him a supcena with
funds to defray the expenses of his journey to town.
Accordingly the book was this morning produced in court. I
The petitioner again appeared in person.
Mr. Welsby and Mr. Roche represented the Attorney-
General for the Crown.

The Judge Ordinary, addressing the petitioner, after
having examined the baptismal register, said that the
Court could come to no other conclusion but that the peti-
tioner had proved that her parents were legally married.
Of course the Court could not tell what would be the
result of the decision.

Mrs. Ryves thanked the Court for their decision.
The Judge Ordinary said there was no need of thanks, as
the duty of the Court was to administer justice.

SHERIFFS' COURT.

THE UNION BANK AND ITS CLERKS--MILLER V. THE

UNION BANK.

Yesterday this action, to recover Xll, one month's wages,
in lieu of notice, plaintiff having been summarily dis-
missed under very extraordinary circumstances, was
brought up.
Mr. Lewis, jun., of Ely-place, appeared for the plaintiff.
Mr. Henry James, instructed by Messrs. Johnson, Farqu-
har, and Leech, of Moorgate -street, for the bank,
Mr. Lewis, for his client, stated that the plaintiff had
been a clerk in the Union Bank for five and a-half years.
In the month of July last he was promoted to " ledger"
clerk, and in that capacity he made an error of 6s. 6d. At
least the error in the first instance was that
of another clerk, but through inadvertence the plain-
tiff altered his book, and so the error arose; and he
became 6s. 6d. wrong. Plaintiff endeavoured to trace out
the mistake. He stayed at the bank after time, and at length
he thought he had found it out, but he had not, and another
inadvertent alteration was the result. Finally, the matter
came to the knowledge of the manager, who said that
Pullinger's affair had created such a sensation that this
must be reported to the board. It was reported. All through
September plaintiff was continued in his employment, and
at the end of that month he received his salary. Upon the
• 3d of October he was summarily dismissed, and he he'
sought at this court redress and justice.
Plaintiff was called and said that he had been for five
years and a half in the bank, and described very fully the
nature of the case leading to this action. He derived no
benefit from making the alteration, nor did it put one penny
in his pocket. He had been engaged on the pass-book
before he was promoted to the ledger. He had to keep two
ledgers, containing 600 accounts.

In cross-examination, plaintiff deposed to his being told
that, in consequence of Pullinger's frauds, this case must
be reported. He did alter a customer's balance, but he did
so entirely by inadvertence. Plaintiff described having
put a star to the alterations, and, after a very long
examination,

Mr. James called the principal ledger clerk, who was of
opinion a clerk was liable to dismissal for such an error as
that committed by plaintiff.

The resolution of the directors, discharging plaintiff
for falsifying the books, &c., was read, and after a
rather unseemly exhibition which Mr. James with much
severity checked, and which led his Honour to threaten
to clear the Court, Mr. James pointed out that in such a
case as this the directors of a bank wore bound to be very
stringent. If this were an inadvertence upon the part of
plaintiff then the defendants were bound to pay plaintiff his
month's salary, but the evidence went to show it was wilful
Plaintiff would not make anything by the alteration, his,
character was unimpeached, but he might have done it to
save himself trouble. If a civilian assaulted another the
punishment was slight. If a soldier assaulted his officer the
punishment was death. So in a bank d iscipline was everything
and whether it was thousands or shillings the result of
error was the same.

Mr. Lewis, in a very able speech, said that plaintiff was
made the scapegrace of Pullinger's offences. Me thought
if anybody had been wilful it was the directors themselves,
who had shut their eyes to the deliberate errors and fraudu-
lent mistakes made by Pullinger, and detected the 6s. 6d.
mistake made by plaintiff, and for which they discharged
him. Mr. Lewis confidently expected his Honour's ♦erdict
in favour of plaintiff, who had served the bank faithfully
for nearly six years, who had made a mistake of 6s. 6d.
through being employed in a, to him, new capacity, and
who had been discharged summarily for such mistake.
His Honour said no doubt this was an important matter
for both parties, and he would reserve his judgment till
to-day.

This morning Mr. Lewis elected to be nonsuited.
His Honour said his opinion was that this was a case for
gharp were-matters of foot to be considered, which
matters of fact were directly within the province of a jury.
On the part of the plaintiff his prospects in life were at a
stake, while on the part of the bank it was to be decided
how their business was to be conducted. He was sure the
bank did not consider this a matter of money, but one of
principle.

A gentleman who attended for Messrs. Johnson, Farqu-
har, and Leech, said that it was as his Honour had said
The bank were anxious to spare plaintiff expense, and he
proposed to adjourn the case, a jury to be summoned mean-
while.

This suggestion was acted upon, no special day being
fixed,

Ills Honour complimented the legal gentlemen upon
each side upon the manner in which they had conducted
the Case, and the proceedings terminated.

POLICE IN7ELLIGENCE—(774is Day).

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

SAVAGE ASSAULT BY A FEMALE.-Emily Gardener, a
dissipated-looking female, was charged before Mr. Tyr-
whitt with the following assault on a young female named
Emma Porter.

The complainant said she was talking to a gentleman at
the top of the Haymarket, when the prisoner came up and
asked the gentleman to buy her an orange. She told the
prisoner she had better leave, upon which the prisoner
tried to strike her. With the view of preventing her doing
so she put up her hand, upon which the prisoner seized
hold of it, and in a savage manner broke one of her fingers.
She gave the prisoner in charge, and then went to Char-
ing-cross Hospital and had her finger set.
Prisoner said she did not do it; it was done before she
came up, but this was denied by the complainant.
Holden, 297 A, said that when charged the prisoner
made no answer, but said she would give the complainant
something if he would let.her go, and afterwards said she
would " mark" the complainant when she came out. The
prisoner was the most dissipated woman that frequented
the Haymarket. At the hospital the surgeon said the
complainant's finger was broken, and that she must attend
again.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was very savage of the prisoner to
serve a poor girl in such a manner, and fined the prisoner
405., or six weeks.

The complainant was led out of court, having fainted,
and being evidently in great pain.

THAMES.

ROGUES IN GRAIN—ROBBERY AT A BREWEIN.—Geo.
Hilton, aged 39, a brewer's servant, of No. 2, York-place,
Lower Chapman-street, St. George- in-the .East, and Thos.
Lockett, 30, of 3, Thomas-street, labourer, were charged
with stealing a sack of oats the property of Messrs. Henry
Furze and Co., brewers, Church-lane, Wbitechapel.
Police Sergeant Copping, No. 3 A, the well. known and
intelligent detective officer, said he had been keeping a
sharp eye upon the prisoners for several weeks. Last night
he saw the prisoners with a truck in Thomas street;
Whitechapel. There was a sack of corn on the truck.
The prisoners stopped in front of a house in Thomas-street,
and Hilton went to the door and called out, " Dick, here is a
sack of sawdust for you." Witness felt the sack and said "No,
it is not sawdust, it is corn, you are my prisoners," and
collared both men directly. The sack was branded with
the name of the owner, Henry Furze, and contained four
bushels of clean oats. He asked the prisoners where they
obtained the oats, to which they both replied, " The fact is we
stole the oats from Mr. Furze's brewery." Hilton was re •
cently at the brewery doing a job. The other had been
employed at the brewery and discharged for misconduct.
He believed the prisoners had been in the practice of steal-
ing corn from the brewery for some time.

The prisoners, who appeared in excellent condition,
pleaded guilty, and in excuse for this offence, roared out
"Want, want only made us do it."
Copping said the prisoners were not in distress, and had
good clothes on.

Tke prisoners were sentenced to three months' imprison.
ment and hard labour.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLE-
CHASE.

We are requested to state that the weights for this race
were declared at 5 p.m. on the 22d of January, and that
the forfeits are to be:declared to Mr. Topham, clerk of the
course, at Chester, on or before the 29th inst., at 3. p.m.

AMERICAN SHIPS UNDER THE BRITISH FLAG.—
At Liverpool, within the last few days, several
American'vessels have been registered under the
British flag, in order to enable them to carry salt
to south Carolina And returu With cotton Without
fear of capture.

Y 24., 1861.

LITERA T URI.

THE EARL OF ,DUNDONALD.
Autobiography of a Seainavz. Val. 11. Bentley.
Cannot England even no cv do something towards
the expiation of her heinous ingratitude to one of
her most glorious heroes--Thornas, " Lord Coch-
rane," tenth Earl of Dunde nald. It is due to the
honour of this country thaic there should, at least, be
made some posthumous attempt towards this tardy
recognition of services 1 hat have been wholly unre-
warded, services the 7 nost signal and the most
resplendent. It is only too recently and too pain-
fully in the recollecti on of us all, how this incom-
parable vindicator of the glory of England died, at
a great age, in his moilest residence at Kensington,
and was buried not by the nation, not by the
Government—no, forsooth, they wanted prece-
dents for that l—but. by his relatives, with the
sympathy of very ;many of his countrymen,
in that great national mausoleum, the last resting
place of heroes, and of men of genius, that grand old
abbey down at West minter. There repose the
mortal remains of this wonderful Sea Captain after
the close of a life length .ened out beyond the allotted
age of man, a life rendered ever memorable in the
annals of Great Britaba by a series of the most ex-
traordinary exploits, ?and yet—marvellous to reflect
—a life embittered by a succession of the most de-
plorable wrongs, of the most dreadful indignities,
of insults the most sp,tematically ignominious and
contumelious. Here was precisely one of
those men whom (according to the prover-
bial phrase) King's, delight to honour—
a man whose warlike achievements in all parts
of the world were miracles of audacity—a man
who again and again had risked life, and limb, and
reputation in the service of his Sovereign and of his
Fatherland--and who yet, in spite of all his deeds
of matchless daring, lived for nearly fifty years after
the last of his grand achievements had been accom-
plished the victim onlyof alternate obloquy and
neglect.

The anomaly of this great man's life is one of the
most astounding problems of Modern History.
What he did for England. and what England did
for him—we cannot, now that he is dead, recall to
remembrance without a pang of mingled shame
and astonishment. Here—in " Lord Cochrane," for
that is his veritable historic title, that, in truth, is th e
name of terror to our enemies under which his
astopishing exploits by sea and by land were ac-
complished—here, in very deed, was one of those
matchless weilders of the sword apostrophised by
Spencer as—

"All aiightie men and dreadful derring doers I"
Here was a Sea Captain second to no man of whom
this world has record, second neither in personal
valour nor in genius to command—for the genius
and valour of this man were both of them consum-
' mate. Comparing him to Nelson, the Historian of
Europe has said, and said quite truly of Lord
Cochrane (vol. ix., p. 335). " Equal to his great
predecessor in personal gallantry, enthusiastic
ardour, and devotion to his country, he was
perhaps his superior in original genius, in-
ventive power, and inexhaustible resources." If
Horatio Lord Nelson illustrated, as he did upon
countless occasions a personal gallantry never to be
surpassed—what shall not be said, too, of Thomas
Lord Cochrane's valour—evidenced through inci-
dents like the following :—Tbat a seaman
sitting beside Lord Cochrane in an open boat
in the Basque Roads being killed by a cannon
ball while in the act of looking through a
telescope at the French men-of-war—" without
saying a word or averting his eye, Coch-
rane took the instrument out of the dead man's
hand and completed the observations !" That Cap-
tain Lord Cochrane, with his crew, late of the brig
Speedy, being prisoners of war on board the French
line-of-battle ship, the Formidable, during the
action between the French and English fleets in
1801, in the Bay of Algesiras—" at every broad-
side the French received from the English these
brave men gave three cheers, regardless alike of
the threats of instant death from the French
if they continued such unseemly interruptions,
and the obvious danger that-they themselves might
be sent to the bottom by, the discharges of their
friends !" Incidents like these, however, are in
Lord Cochrane's instance, scattered abundantly
through the annals of the Great War. As with the
anecdotes told of Nelson they are familiar, far and
wide, to his countrymen. They embellish the
pages of our history—rendering the volumes of our
Naval Annals fit companions to the classic tomes of
Plutarch. Yet it is this man whom we read of
also in those extraordinary annals as the recipient
from England in return for his extravagant ex-
ploits of valour, as the recipient from England (in
return) only of the cruelest insults and of the most
infamous punishments. As to his promotion in
any way be looked upon as any token of recompencel
his profession, that in his instance could hardly in
Every step made by him in his nominal and titular
rise in the Royal Navy of England was his by
right—midshipman, lieutenant, commander, post
captain, commodore, rear-admiral, vice-admiral,
full admiral, until he came to be at last
what he died as, viz., admiral of the red
and rear-admiral of England! Apart from
this his one sole recompense during life, from
the hands whose glories his resplendent genius'and
valour had so wonderously enhanced in both hemi-
spheres was—the red ribbon and the grand cross of
the most honourable order of the Bath. The insig-
nia of that order of knighthood was in point of ,
fact literally the one sole guerdon doled out by
England to Thomas Cochrane, to Lord Cochrane,
to the Earl of Dundonald ! And that—what was
the sequel of the history of the presentation of that
single reward to Lord Dundonald? Why, that it
was torn from him but a very short time indeed
after its original presentation, thatit was torn from
him too with every possible token of indignity,
that the banner on his stall in Westminster Abbey
was pulled down and kicked out of Henry Vll.'s
Chapel as the symbol of a dishonoured knight, that
he was dismissed the service of which he was the
glory and the paragon, that he was deprived of all
rank in the British Navy, pronounced guilty of
fraud and lying and the basest conspiracy, that he
was expelled from the House of Commons, that he
was condemned to pay a fine of £l,OOO, that hewas
imprisoned in the King's Bench as a malefactor,
that he was condemned to stand in the felon's
pillory:---and that all this is now known and
proved to have been done wrongfully—Lord Coch-
rane being now known and proved to have been ab-
solutely guiltless of everything of which he was
accused ! Is not this a painful history ? Are not
these facts enough to make one blush for one's
country, to make one weep for the anguish that
must have been endured under all these ignominies,
and for years and years afterwards, by. this heroic
heart—by this heart the last and crowning evidence
of the matchless heroism of which was the fact that

it did not burst, that it was not broken by this
infernal and most dastardly treatment.
As to the completion of the vindication of the
outraged character of Lord Dundonald, it has by
this time, thank heaven, come to be simply matter
of History. His own vindication of what has been
finely termed—[the original phrase will be found
shining luminously in Mr. Disraeli's Life of
Lord George Bentinclq—the perfect chastity of his
honour, Lord Dundonald's own vindication of his
unsullied reputation will be read by posterity not
without profound emotion, in the pages of this
manly and outspoken Autobiography.
Upon the last page of the last volume completing
the work—so far, at least, as it had been carried
down as a consecutive narrative before the
veteran author's hand was relaxed by death,
and the pen fell from it (never to be resumed),
as the sword had been laid by previously
—upon the last page of the last volume (vol. 11., p.
399) there will be found to have been recorded by
the great Sailor Earl, who had done so much for,
and suffered so much from, his country, the sub-
' joined memerandum

"Amongst the curiosities shown to visitors of the Bank
of England, there was, and no doubt is still, a thousand
pound bank note, No. 8202, dated 26th June, 1815,
on the back of which are endorsed the following words :
" ' My health having suffered by long and close confine-
ment, and my oppressors being resolved to deprive me of
property or life, I submit to robbery to protect myself
from murder, in the hope that I shall live to bring the de
linquents to justice.

" ' COCHRANE.

(Signed)
" King's Bench Prison, July 3, 1315."'
Having written which—" There," adds the heroic
veteran more than forty-five years afterwards,
" There is the reward bestowed on me by a Minis-
terial faction, memorable only for its political cor-
ruption." Is this pronounced by any one to be the
effusion of (to give it its mildest terms) pique or
petulance ? Let Sir Archibald Alison answer, Sir
Archibald, whose political sympathies would go, if
in either direction, instinctively in that of the Tory-
Government. "In a free country," writes the His-
torian, in the 61st chapter of his opus magnum
(vol. ix., p. 337), " no deed of injustice, whether
popular or ministerial, can permanently blast a
noble character." And he adds—" With the change 3
of time, the power which had oppressed England's
greatest existing naval hero passed away; another
generation succeeded, to which his exploits were an
object of admiration, his weaknesses of forgiveness
his wrongs of commiseration." And Alison observes.
upon this point in conclusion—" One of theme mo.colth
deservedly popular acts of the new ministry hi
succeeded to the helm after the overthrow of' the
Tory administration was to restore him to the rank
and to the honours of which he had been deprived ;
and there remains now tom
he historian onlyorts the
the grateful duty of lending his humble eff to
laid in rescuing from unmerited obloquy the vic-
tim of aristocratic, as he has frequently done those
of popular, injustice." Honour to Sir Archibald