The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-05 00:00:00

NEW ZEALAND,

The following is an extract from a letter dated
Wellington, April 22 :
•• On Thursday evening (the 11th), after a tedious
day's work beating up the northern shore of the Banks'
peninsula, we came to eh anchor about seven o'clock just
outside die heads of Pert Cooper. If we had had two
hours' more daylight we should have gone in, but our
captain is very cutious ; and though we had been
positively assured that coating could possibly happen
even it we ran in bliniitold, he preferred waiting
tilt morning. Eft six. o'clock we wetghtd anchor, the
Wind being fair, theueh light, and passed quickly
up to the bay. None of Iv, I believe, *ere -prepared for
the beauty of the scenery; it took us wore by surprise
than even at O;ago, for the sketches which we had seen
in England were very far from inviting. The character is
very efferent from that of the levely lake on the banks of
which Port Chalmers lies, but 1 am not sure that I do not
preter it; the hills are very bobs, beth in free and in
outline, 13;.'re for the most pert—that is, with only small
patches ut wood at the bottom of the glens, but with
much of that sublimity which is produced by extent
of view cud rugoat w tlaties4. Trio harbour is very fine,
both in a pieture,que ant wiitaritin point of view; the
captain and all toe nautical men on hoard were de-
lighted with it, and gave it: a very d• tided preference over
Otago, as being equally safe and tar easier of ingress
sn•l egress. I. consists iu a regularly shard inlet, about
seven miles long from the entrance to the end,
and varying from a wile to a mile and a half in
width. Lis open to one wind (E N.E.). but everybody
agrees that it never blows hard from that varter, and
also that the swell is lust bef are it reaches tne harbour.
There is good anchorage outside its seven fathoms, stud
thence it gradua:ly shoals to three fathoms, about five
miles up.
" There are two small bays. in which, if it should be
found uecetsarj, shelter fur ships may be found from
the only wind to w hien the rest ut true harbour is exposed.
No pilot is required, as there is literally nothing to
avoid, except tee hills on each side, and there is width
enough to Beet in or out its finite weather. Half way up
the harbour we passed a whaleab'ett, which he-tamed as
that we mieht go up and anchor opts,stte • the town.'
At that time we had seen no sign of civilisation except
the line of a road in process of tortuaLiou along the tace
and over the tap of the hill on the northern shore, and
no human habitation except some moor huts close to the
beach, but we held on, and presently another whale-
boat, with Capta'n Thomas, the chief surveyor
or the. association, on board, shot from behind a bluff
en the northern shore and boarded us. Immediately
afterwards we le; go our anchor, though the town was
not yet visible, and my wife .and I went off with
Thomas. On rounding the. bluff aforesaid, I was per-
fectly astounded with what I saw. One might have
supposed that the country bad beeu colonized for years,
so settled and busy was the look of its port. In
the first place, there is what the Yankees would
call a ' splendid jetty,' thence a wide and beaten-
looking road leads up the bill, and turns off
through a deep cutting to the eastward; on each side
of the road there are houses scattered to the number of
about twenty-five, including two' hotels' and a Custom-
house (in the shape of a small weather-boarded hut,
certainly, but a Custom-house). In a square railed off
close to the jetty are four excellent houses, intentied
for emigrants' barracks, with a cook-house in the eentte.
Next to the square comes a satall house which Thumas
now inhabits himself and which he destined for an
agent's office; behind this, divided from it by a plot of
gratiud intended for a garden, Owls a stately edifice
which was introduced in due form to us as our house.'
It is weather-boarded, bus six very good-sized rooms,
sad a mends.; in short, After seeing it, we could not help
laughiog at our own anticipations of a shed on the bare
beach with a fire at, the Goer. The first view of these
plains, as of all others that I have seen in New Zealand,
is rather disappointing to an English eye—that is, one
misses the greenness cud luxuriance whice the growth of
grass iu a country long cultivated and grazed over exhibits.
The flax •plant, too, which grows lirgely all over them,
ex 'way resembies at a distance that kind of bulrush
which we call flags, so that, although in fact the pre-
sence et it denotes, as I am told, unsrrirgty that the soil
is sound and suifien-roly dry for midis:talon. the appear-
since given by is is that of barren swamps. When we got
down into the plain, we sot ri perceived •he difference
tween the real bulrush, which tikes actually grow its
some spots, and she fl.,x. We overt,lL sever at of our
fellow-passengers wbu cad started before us walking, and
found them unaccustomed to new couhtrie,, us they weld
open-moutbe- about the want of iuxuriant grass. We
saw the country to great ouesdvauta, e, tor there have
been six months ut al,uust utipreeedente4 dry weather,
but, a:ter mekieg allowance tor this, I aim sure that unit.
it snail have been either broken up ur greseal over no
part of a will pro: ue. ao be compared with soil
of vcrial Tient) c.anittise. There its LV dAlcrenct
of opinion, however, s,, f as I can lea n among th who
know the country as to the laud in the Canterbury plains
being or fully average quality, capable of fattening sheep
and cattle, as wilt 6111 of g vireg good crops of all kind:.
When we arrive- at Mr. Deans's farm we had a proant
this, 'or his garden, which never saw or heard of ma.
nurp, la producing luxuriantly envy kind tut vesetabiee
and fruits—l never save a fiuer show of them—apples,
part, p. aches, eve)), thing, it, short. fieuriases. I wish 1
home a speuiLutli of the bpider, they look lake-
waxwork.

reiurri to ihe port we foul.d our pasier.gers
hri.l ut,vi sca,t.rid ,b,ut I-ud ID their prbls.s ut tt:e
rcgress filch bur. 17•-• it mod, ;u ,u store a (10,,,, w"
13:4 ol the t.r,prcis hell out by oe Setth
pa; al!: iiti 0 ugu. %"Y truvh to the "16.0-
Vat.t,:gr of w ',ems to have found f.tvitr:
in ,it ,dy's eyes. Thf y forg-t that '1 humus ha. hao
the spending of a la,ger sum ut money 4,;t a giv.n scot
th.-. 0 soy oiner pit:Leer of a•-tlit IlleTa. in his country i 136
l,r1; su that the ~.nperior.ty if his is not to
be laid althgetber to iho account of his merits. Cer-
?„,,,k, 4.f ever lc ur.d so mu: h dune t,
smooth their path fur them stA ours will fi,;(l. Must ngii-
euitu,tvi pc,.uuce, ur. is ulocacy cheaper iti4r.
at o:4g, ; meat iv pit MAW. sid. par lo.; fresh butt r
Is. per lo.; coterie, Is. per lb.; 'gas and mi.k, appa-
rently vary(ug in price, but v rests, nable ;
potat- es. 4s. 6 I. per ewt. The chief supplier of ltn
market is a MAU notnee litn,des, who Oil the o.,po-
site snie of the harbour flout L)tteltor, and 'rho is tr..,
ossly.perscit beside-, D,413 sod those wh, h.vo bctigr t
from ill,- French, at Akrr a, whose title to laud has be.-u
recoguizvd. lie has, I uudersttuid, 400 acres, and his

stock consists of 3,500 sheep, and about 300 head of
eattte. We dined with Thomas, and there was also a
dinner at the grog-shop dignified by the name of the
Mike' riot-1, and kept by Maj. r Hornbroek, a &ki-
t-Beer of Engineers in the Spanish Legion, who has come
down from Wellington on a spree, and who illy' tie
will give 1001. a year to the individual who gets the
section on which be bas located himself. This gallant
efficer's cookery and accommodations are very well re-
ported of.
" I think all those who see the Canterbury settlement
will admit that, as I have said before, no first body of
colonists from Britain have ever toned so much done to
prepare for and welcome them as ours will find. In fact,
difficulties in the usual sense of the word, as applied to
colonisation. there will be none—no roads to make, no
forests to clear, no want of food or lodging, or of facili- ,
ties for choosing and settling upon land. M.lny thing,
will to doubt be expensive at first; for example, wood,
acme articles of provisions, and labour; but every man',
enterprise may be made the subject of calculation on
paper, as in an old country. Humanly speaking, there
is no uncertainty or chance of distippointment to provide
against. HP may lose his money, but if be does, again
I say, huteaely ipeaking, it will be his own fault, and
not the result of his obstacles which he could not tole-
see. If. et certain that a vast deal of the discontent and
mutual bad feeling which is so painfully conspicuous at
Utagu takes i s origin from the di,comforss and ember-
rarnente experienced by men thrown with their wives
and children upon a bare shore at the beginning of win-
ter, without a road or a clearing, or a sign of civilzation
to welcome or to cheer them. At that time they not un-
naturally acquire the habit of abusing the association
and the company, and their leaders, and each other, and
they &lave certainly never lost it, and I earnestly trust the
example may not be lost upon us."

THE MURDERER BENNISON.

In reference to the case of Wiil am Bennisor, who
was lately executed for the murder of his second w;fe,
we understand the authorities have ascertained the

following fee's relative to the death of his first. wife,
Miry M'Alullan. Af►er leaving Ireland with her,
Bennison brought her to Airdrie, where they
remained in lodgings for a week. Sae com-
plained cf. having been sea-sick on the voyage,
but otherwise looked in good health. For tw o
days before her death she laboured under inces-
sant vomiting and purging, accompinied by exces-
sive thirst. No medical man was called, Bennison
alleging that his circumstances could not afford it,
and afterwards, on a fellow-lodger offering to pay the
expense', that he bad already advised with a doctor,
who had told him to give her a little wine or anything
she could take. Her death surprised the otner in-
mates of the house, and excited suspicions which were
only allayed by Bennison's great pretensions to piety.
She was buried the day after her death by the aid
of funds collected from a few persons of his own
religious persuasion ; and the day after the funeral
he left, taking her clothes with him, and was heard
of no more in Airdrie till after his trial appeared in

the newspapers, and attracted the attention of a
fellow-lodger, who wrote a letter which led to in-
vestigation. The circumstances leave little room
to doubt as to what was the fate of Mary M'Mullan.
A Bible, which belonged to her, bearing her name'
is in possession of a person in Airdrie, so
that there is no doubt of her and his
iieutity. The grave she was buried in is
known to a nearness; and had it been necessary to
.urry out the investigation, it is perfectly possible
..hat even the lapse of eleven years would not have
.revented the cause of death from being ascertained
with suffioient precision for the ends of justice—the
presence of arsenic bein,-, supposed capable of detec-
tion,t,
even in the mouldering remains of the body, or
in the earth of the grave, after the lapse of a very
considerable period.—Scotsman.

Dividend
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Britsh N orth American
Ceylon • • • • „„ •• • • • • • •
Commercial of Londoa
.• .. • •
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Annam.

lonian ••• • • • •••• • .
,ondn and Westnainstr
Ditto •• ••
London Joint.4toct
N~evincialof Ireland..

Ditto, New••• •• • • ••
Catlonai of Ireland
• at. Provncial of Eng.

Ditto. New. .......
south Australia ......
of Australia....

Ditto •. •• •• •• ••
Won of L0nd0n.....
;nion •f Madrid .....

243.
51. per cent.
71. per sent.
61. per cent.
51. per cent.
151 per cent.
61. per cent.
61. per cent.

Areloan
of
Share.

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40 0 0
5000
25 0 C
100 0 0
100 0 0

25 0 0
100 0 0

61. per cent.
81. per cent.
81. per cent.
61. per cent.
61. per cent.
51. per cent.
61. per cent.
61. per cent.
61. per cent.
61. per cent.

5000
100 0 0
10 0 0
AO 0 0
100 0 0
20 0 0,
2 0 0
25 0 0

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40 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
20 0 0
25 0 0

25 0 0
20 0 0
13 0 0
10 0 0
25 0 0
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35 0 0
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25 0 0
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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Sept. 4.
(Before the Chief Commissioner.)
THE " WEDNESDAY EVENING' CONCERTS. IN THE

MATTER OF JO3EFR STAMMERS.

This was an application by Mr. Stammers, who
described himself as a" Musical Director of Concerts"
in his schedule, to he liberated, on sureties, from the
Queen's Prison until his hearing.
The schedule filed:showed debts for which considera-
tion had been received from July last, to 8,4721.,
with no credits on the other side. There were vari-
ous losses set forth, • including a capital of more than
6001., with which the Wednesday Evening Concerts
were commenced. The result was the present ap-
plication, the insolvency being attributed to the re-
reipts of business being insufficient to meet his ex-
penditure. The creditors numbered 131, and there
were many " professionals" in the list fur balances of
services rendered. Nearly 1,000/. had been paid as
rent. for Exeter Hall. The receipt from the concerts,
from July to the end of 1849, were 1,4501., and in
the
present year 2,2261. The expenses were consi-
derable. There was one item in the account of 3,1531.
us having been paid to "artistes."
In answer to the questions of the Learned Com-
missioner, the insolvent said he was a itiu-ieal director
of concerts, and also a musicseller iu Duke street,
Bloomsbury. He had petitioned last month, under
the Private Arrangement Act, the Court of Bank-
ruptcy, and as his debts were the present amount Mr.
Commissioner Rale had dismissed hi. petition.
The Curer CoMMISSIONER remarked that the debts
for which consideration had he.-n received were
3,4721, and there was not a single debt owing to bile.
The insolvent said such was the case; his busiuesss
was a ready money One.
The CIIIkr CoMMISSIONER, -referrit.g to the las-
lance-sheet, remarked that in the present year 2,226/.
had been received front concerts. He inquired
whether the insolvent had any musical instruments.
Tae insolvent answered that he never had any.
Tee Curer COMMISSIONER wished to know what
was meant by an item of losses sustained by concerts
which had not taken place. ,

The insolvei.t explained that he was to give a series
of concerts, fur of which did not take place, but as
there were expenses incurred on them, be had esti-
mated the loss sustained.

The Learned Cosistisstorten said he perceived that
he had borrowed a good deal of money.
Tne insolvent replied that he had done so.
CHIEF COMMISqONER—Have you no property at
all ? lusolvent—Noue. I lost it all by the specu-
lation.

Price.

To further interrogatories he said he bad 6601. in
money and property in October last, all of which had
gone. His furniture bad been seized and sold by
Nathan, the Sheriff's-officer, for money advanced, and
his father-in•kw had purchased the furniture and al-
lowed his family the use of the same. Ile had made
out his schedule from his cash-b,ok, which was the
only book he ke-pt, and about 200 receipts for money,
which receipts he had filed in the court. Ile was a
married man with five children. There were three
detainers against him at the prison.
His Horeouu said the Court would expect, on the
hearing, proof to be given of the sale and purchase of
the furniture by the father-in-law, as the same fur•
niture had belonged to the insolvent up to March or
April la►t.
The proposed bail were examined. Mr. Simmosids,
a silversmith, in Soulhampton-row, Bloomsbury, wot
one, and Mr. Palmer, a hat manufacturer, the other.
They proposed to ittslify, in the sum of 1,0001., tor
the appearance of Me. Stammers on the day appointed
for his hearing.
In reply to the COURT, Mr. Sinimonds said he SitiB
a credi,or to between 1001. ano 2001.
The Cu' Coantaissioratzt asked him whether he
held any property ►n-longing to the insolvent ?
Mr. bimmonds eai i r,e b,n some fvtings in his pos-
session. Ile had fi- fed up Extter- hslt for the con-
certo, and was vow a creditor. The value of the fit-
tings was 5/. or 10/., and he had a lien of 1601.

INSUBLANCE COMPArif IMO.
Dividenn Amount
Name of Company. I per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
.--- - ---
A s. d. A a. 4.
ilblon .......• •• •• .• 3/. 10s. 600 0 0 50 0 0 82
kiliance Brit. and For. 711416cidtbs 100 0 0 11 0 0 21
Ditto Marine.•• • • •• 61. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 -
\ :,ail .. . „,
3ritish Commercial •• 7s. 61. 60 0 0 5 0 0 7%
illericl,Med.&Gen.Life 15pr ct.& bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 20
81. 100 0 0 10 0 0 62
14s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 14%
4agle . • •
....uropean Life • • •• •• 105. 20 0 0 All paid , 15
;eneral ............ - - 5 0 0 51,
41,.0 - 129
:oardian - - - - •• •• 51. 100 0 0 36 10 0 544
Imperial Fire .. •• •• •• 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 230
rmperial Life .. - - •• 125. 100 0 0 10 0 0 16%
Indemnity Marine- •• 11. AL& ha. 100 0 0 20 0 0 42
Law Fire ............ - 100 0 0 2 10 0 2%
Law Life- - - •• .. .. 11.165. 150 0 0 10 0 0 43%
`Awe] and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 4%
~icensed Victuallers •• - 5 0 0 1 0 0 -
Lor,don Fire •• •• •• •• 105. 25 0 0 12 10 0 IN
London Ship ........ 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 17%
:Janine.. ........... 15s.per share 100 0 0 16 0 0 11
Aed.lnvlid&Gen.Life 1541. per et. 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
atione.l Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 2 10 0 2%
,•ational Life.... -
Palladium Lite 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2%
'lllx•tix • •• - - 145
Profesilonal Life.. •... 5/. per cent. 6 5 0 0 10 0 128.6 d
r•otector Life.... ... 51. per cent. - - -
!ruvident Life.. •• - - 11. Ss. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 26
.:ck Lila •• • • •....... ss. 5 0 0 0 10 0 6
toyal Exchange 6l. per cent. Stock. - 209
:.,t1 Fire • • • • . • • • . - - - 209
!Att. Lite ..... - -- 1 48
'rolled Kingdom
‘ivernal Life lO% pr cnt. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
lotoria Lite . . - 4 12 0 4%
DOCILS•
, Divldend Amount
Name of Company. per of I Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
------
X N. d. £ s. d.
diet and West lase.. 61. pr cent, Stock. - 143
,last Country .. 20s. per sh. 100 0 0 - 22
,onion .. •• • - 121%
litto 80nd5........ 41. per cent. - -
•,. Katharine ........ 4 per cent. Stock. - 81
Ditto, Scrip - - 85 0 0 ! •-
:)itto 80nd5........ 4361. pr cent. - - -
~ithampton •• - - .. 21. per cent., 50 0 0 .60 0 0 i 93f
WATZINANPORILS.
Dividend Amount
same of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
---
A s. d. ..£ s. d.
Zast London.. • • • • • • •• 81. 100 0 0 - 16036
/rand Junction • • •• .. 41. per cnt. 50 0 0 - 73
ient................ 31. 10s. 100 0 0 - 76
ambeth - 97
; ew Bivr Lndn Brdge ; 21. 10s. - - 6734
JAuxhall ...........• 51. per cut. 100 0 0 - 98
t'est Middlesex . . • ;61.05. pr cat. - - 112
45.A,EP.LIGIIT AND COILZ COMPANIES.
Dividend 1 Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Peal
Annum. Share.
- - ---1--
A. s. d. A. s. d.
.I.ltish •• •• •• •• •••• •• 11. 40 0 0 IC 0 0 14
Ditto Provincial • • • • 11. 51. 20 0 0 20 0 0 18
trighton ......••••.. IV. 20 0 0 - -
;ity of London ...... 61. 100 0 0 150 0 0 l7O
,mtinentalConsolidat. 921. 75 0 0 31 5 0 : -
'..quitable 50s. 50 0 0 50 0 0 i 27%
'inperial ............ 31. 50 0 0 50 0 0 '7O
,ndependeiat ....... - 61. 40 0 0 40 0 0 I 48
- 50 0 0 50 0 0 I -
Ditto.. - .......... - 50 0 0 50 0 0 i -
Do., Pad. Preference 61. 25 0 0 2 10 0 ! -
Immix . •• .. •• •• •... 4%1. 50 0 0 49 0 0 ! 29
14tcliff .... • ...... • • N. 100 0 0 90 0 0 75
:nited General .. •• •• U. 50 0 0 50 0 0 1531
ffeatminster Chartered 31. 50 0 0 - 4834
Ditto, New .... • ... 12a. 50 0 0 10 0 0 i 934

ilis lloaoua eadtd the attention of the proposed
sureties to an omission in both their affidavits 114 to
the period of their residence in the places of business.
There was a black in both the affidavits.

Mr. Siairm•nds acknowledged that he had omitted
to fill it up. He had resided twenty-six years in his
present residence,; and
Mr. Palma* said he had 13okA more attentively to
the other part of the document.
The COURT said affidavits were serious matters,
and under the circumstances they might pass on being
re-sworn.

The proposed sureties amended their affidavits, and
signed the recognizance in the sum of 1,000/.
The discharge wa, ordered until the Ist of Novem-
ber, when the hearing will take place.

POLICE IN TELLIGEN CE.
M AN VON-HO US E.

Howard Augustus Style*, of Camden-town, chemist,
was brought up in the custody of Huggett, the officer,
for final examination, charged with having forgtd
two bills of exchange, one for 200/., arid the other for
3001., upon the London and County Bank, about four
mouths bgo. The following is the additional evidence :
111r.Iof Swanscombe, in the county
of Kent,
the prisoner. He had not about
r. Charless aid I
knowßail ey,
the month of May sold any land to me. I am sorry
to say I did nut give my acceptances for the amount
of 7001. to him or to any other man. The accept-
ance to this bill for 300/. is not in my hand Nritieg. I
did not authorise him or any other person to uccept
it for me. I never heard that there was any other
gentleman of the narne of Bailey in Swanscoinbe than
myself. I keep an account with the Gravesend branch
of the London and County Bank.
The prisoner said he wished for legal assistance, and
hoped the Alderman would remand him. He bad no
idea of shirking a seltion, but he believed that a
solicitor would obviate the necessity of a committal.
Alderman Glariss—l cannot think of r.manding
you, except you show me good reason frr such a
Course.
The Prisoner—l did not expect to be brought up
to-day, and I require the presence of an attorney.
Alderman Grnss—The evidence is complete, and
whatever 3 our attorney might say upon the subject
could not have the effect of inducing me to dispose of
the case otherwise than by sending it to the Old
Bailey.
The Prisoner—I consider it is within the range of
possibility that it my attorney were present I might
not be committed upon this charge.
Alderman GIBBS—Do you wish to ask Mr. Bailey
any question? The Prisoner—No; 1 cannot ask
questions which my attorney might ask, considering
our relative positions. That will depend upon what
my rne
might urge.
Aldermanttoy
Ginas—ln such a case what be might
a
urge would not influence me. You must go before
another tribunal; I have no alternative.
The prisoner was the n committed for trial.
Ann 111'Carthy, Jane Hales, and Betsey Bakyan,
were brought before Alderman Gibbs, chaged with
baying robbed a gentleman of five sovereigns and
some silver. _ . _

CA 'CALS.
4 I •
Names of ~,,. !Dividend Names of ' Dividend'
%.•
Price. per
Companies. A per• Companies. 4 I Annul... Price.
lc I Annuli. m
------ - -1 -
A A
Ashtn& Oldh 97 71„ 113 Macclesfield. 100 21. 10s. 50
Barnsley.. • • 160 121. 180 Neel • • •• • • 100 16i. 340
irknkScAbrg 150 St. 85 Oxford.. • • • • loe , 201. 185
iirmingham 40 41. 8934 Peak Forest. 76 31. 18s. 70
:2oyentry.. • • 100 251. 208 Regent's • • .• 33 11. Os. 18%
Derby • • • .. 100 61. 63 Rochdale .. • • *5 41. 51.3.
glismre&Chs 133 355' 41 Somrset Coal 15071.105. 130
4randJunetn 1001 41. 73 Do.LkFd3t 12 i 61. p. c. -
•Irand Surrey 1001 21. os. 32 Stffra &Wore 140 281. 410
',and Union 100! U. 10s. 24 Shrewsbury.. 125 151. -
3rantham .. - - - Stonrbrldga.. 145 201. 290
Kennt & Am 39 7 s. 64. 414 Severn andl
~Incaster . 100 4/. 32% Wye 11a11.
1 26 21. Os. 24
Leeds& Livrp 100 241. VS Warwick& /
rAticester .... 100 Si. 66 Uirming. 3 10c 41. 641{
f.eicstr&Nth 83! 41. 48% Warwick&
I.ouithborogh 142 701. 510 Napton..} 100 31. 42
Aonmouthshi 100 81. - Worcstr &2
Jiitgiqmryst, 100 - - Birming. i 7P 31. 43
i!eltnMwbry 100 - - Wilts & Brks -14 s. 734
MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
% netion Mart • • • • .... 21. 55. 50 0 0 - 25
instrallan Avriculturl 11. 100 0 0 30 0 0 Is
toiglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 10s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 20
Ditto. Half Shares.. - - 2 10 0 5
~.anada ... • • • • .• • • .. GI. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 36
Uppr Canada Bonds 51. per cent. - - -
'ty Navigation .. •• - - - 95%
Gen. Revers. & Invest. 5 p. c.& its, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 -
',lgnitable Reversionry 51• pr cont. 100 0 0 100 0 0 106 '
;en .Steam Navigation 11.8 s. 15 0 0 14 0 0 27%
London Institution . • • - . - 78 15 0 -
":,assell Institution • • • • - - 26 8 0 -
'eninslr& Orient.Stm. 81. per cont. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 96
royal Mail Steam • • - 61 18. 4. p. c, 100 0 0 60 0 0 -
South Australian ..• •• 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Van Dieman's Land - 100 0 0 29 0 0 134

The case excited much interest, in consequence of
the belief that the complainant had been thrown into
a state of insensibility by the sudden application of
chloroform. _

RAILWAY SHARE MA
BRISTOL. Sarr. 4.
STOCK EXCHIN(iP..—The share market presents a much
)rirlter appearance than it did on Tuesday, and prices are .a
shade better. The sales were—Great %1' esturn, 61;s—York
and North Midland, ltiN ex div.
Sxrr. 4.
STOCV EXCHANGE. —The share market was dull to-day,
but prices remain without any material deviation. The
transactions were as tollow :—L:incashiTe and Yorkshire,
consolidated, 425u—Ditto, Fifths, 9 dis.—Ditto. 321. shares,
dis.—Lancaster and Preston, r p.—Dittto, Three-quarter
`,harm London ant North- 0. estern, I.o—Ditto,
New quarters, 15-16 p.—Midhul 333/4- Ditto, Halves. 25
ti South-E ' astern and Dover, Iti%--Ditto (No. 4), Regis-
ereti, st,—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G N. E. Put-
,.1.,Q,., F rer cent. till 1 .5()), 5 1.16 dia.—York and Ninth
Midland, 161 s.

KEI S.

The complainant said—Yesterday fortnight I met
room to utn(esresii f 1
Ann M'Carthy in Whitechapel, and was induced by
her to accompany her to it coffee-house in Soinenet-
i
givena on he l
second
by
s t reet
We , kept,
ewent into as lam
very few minutes elapsed before I found her hand in
my pocket. I charged her at once with having. robbed
0 rj,
:nv de
Hales.
me, and opened the door and celled for assistance. I
then heard footsteps on the stairs, and li-air WC;ir
thy swallow a sovereign. At that moment Jane
Hales, who is, I am given to understand, the landlady
of the coffee-house, came up to me, folhwed by the
third prisoner, and put her hand across my shoulder.
The effect of the movement was instantaneous. I be-
came at that moment insensible, and I continued in
that state until six or seven o'clock next evening. I
then found myself at home at Stepney in bed. I had
lost five sovereigns and 12s. in silver, and a white
pocket-handkerchief.
Alderman Gums—Had you been drinking ? Com-
plainant—I bad supped in Surrey,, and had taken
but one glass of brandy-and-water with my supper.
Alderman Glass—You are sure that the prisoner
Hales is the person who put her hand across your
shoulder ? Complainant—l have not the least doubt
of it. It came upon me like a clap of thunder.
Alderman Ginisi—Who took you home ? Com-
plainant—l was found lying in a state of insensi-
bility, as I have been told, in a place called Lady
Lake's-grove, which is near my residence, by some
persons who had some knowledge of me, and con-
veyed me home. The spot where I lay is between
two very high walls, and extremely. dark. I found
that my pocket-book had been examined, for all the
papers in it were turned topsY•turvy—none of them
were missing, for they were not convertible into

money.
Alderman Gross—Howdwhom o yo
ou went to the
u know that Ann
WCarthy is the telltale with y
house ? Complainant—l have been ever since
ewitht he
a time,
police and e
en-
deavouring to find out the woman who induced me to
communicated
the subject municated upon
e t a
ccompany her. At last I met her last night. I was
in disguise
who advised me
how to proceed, and was at hand to assist me. When
I spoke to her she asked me to go to the very coffile-
house in Somerset street where she had robbed me,
and win n we went into the room she appeared to be
very anxious to go for some tea, and no doubt she
meant to administer something calculated to make me
insensible. The sergeant and another policeman made
their appearance, and took the three women, who
were all in the house, into custody.
o
Alderman GIBBS—Wbat did the woman of the
house do when she was informed that you were the
gentleman who ha,l been robbed there ? Complain-
dos,— She was so m ch agitated that she sunk down
on the bench,
as the policeman can state.

111ANCIIESTER, SEPT. 4.
tiTocx EXI`HATME.•— The share um, ket was firm to-day,
but there was little business doing. The transactions were as
follow Birk' nhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction
(Chester and Birkenhead), 12ta Lancashire and Yorkshire,
(lute Fxt ension), 23,4—Ditto, Fifths, 9 n. 32/.
Rsq dis.—Ditto ( West Riding Union), 7:14 dis.— South-
tfii,ld. and Lincoln,re, 15
Eastern and l)ov.-r, 16% Consul. (No. 4), 5 9-16—
alanchest er, She
BIRMINGHAM, SEhi
PT. 4.

Swor Excrtazcoz.— There was a fair amount of busTness
transacted to-day, and ptices had an upward tatultnc..
London and North- Western, New Quarters, were done it
p.—Shrewsbury and Ilirtniouti,m ( A), EL 18e. 9d. dis.
YORK, SEPT. 3.
CHANGE.—The transactions to-day were a.%
follow :—Y. rk, Newcastle, and Bei wick, 1.51/B—Caledonian,
B..—Great Western, 61— North British, 64, —York anu
North Midland, 1634.

THE SUN, LONDON, THUTtSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1850,

The pri,oner A:Kathy sail—Why, I never saw the
man before last night in all my life, and then be
came up to me and asked me to have something
to drink. I wanted him to go into a puhlic•house,
but he refuted, and he then brought me to Some set-
street to the coffee-house, wtere I had m ver been
before, and we had not been there a mit.ute when
tte policeman came into the house and he gave me in
charge.
Jane Hales, the landlady, said so!emnly that she
never had seen the gentleman before he walked
in in the previou4 night, and then he i•poke of
having been robbed of only one sovereign and
some shillings, but she knew nothing of him or any
robbery.
The police-sergeant said •the complainant had
pointed out the landlady is the person VI ho had put
her arm round his shoulder before Ann M•Carthy was
found by him, but it was considered deeifable to
wait till broil c,:uld be secured together. Tm, coffer—
hnuse was No. 37, S rilerset-stgeet, and witiiess re-
collected that shout two years ago a robbery was
committed upon a gen:knurl there.
The prisoners were refounded.
BOW-STRE,ET.

Joseph Murphy, aged 15 3 earf., and Jeremiah Hen-
nessey, aged 14 plan, wwre charged stealit g a
quantity of coals from the bargis of Mesg.s. bowl,
and Sharp.
Falconer, one of the constables of tbs.. Thames po-

lice, said about seven o' 1 •ck on Tu,s,lay evening, he
saw the two priioners lurking on the •hoc-+, near the
coal hellos b. longing to Ales,r*. Sini'.h awl
He we.tehed thin, and raw a ba,,ket with
cords, which thty took nut of one of tke iroges.
When they caw witne they threw the cods into ;he
mud, and nut away.- .Wltness ceught them, and
picked up the coals, which weighed 2811)*.
The clerk said the barges were always swarmed
with boys, and they were robbed of coals to an
enormous extent.

Mr. HALL said the coals were always exposed, and
it was a temptition f,r thieves and for poor people
generally. The barges ought to b.. constantly
watched ; and if he had the power he would fine all
owners of property who did nut have that property
secured to pr.-vent robberies.

The clerk said it was impossible to prevent rob-
beries of these descriptions. If one barge was
watched the others would be robbed by boys who
concealed themselves under the barges, and were not
observed by the men.
Mr. HALL said he bed power to have the pri,
soners whipped for this offence, besides imprisonment.
As they had not been in custody before, he should
only commit them for 11. von days ; but if they were
brought before him again he st.ould certainly exe-
cute his full power.

recount. The legal decision affecting the fifth
shares has not yet been obtained. The directors
are pentuaded thst the chief source of improve-
ment will be found in the progressive development
of the trAßc. Reviewi.ig the amalgamated or leased
lines seriatim, it may be justly stated of the Barnsley
line that until the communicatiot.s now making by
coal owners are complete, the full measure of traffic
cannot be known; that the thirty miles between
Manchester and Preston already yield a higher re-
turn than the parent line, including its branches ;
that the Liverpool and Bury line is rapidly improv•
ing in income, and after the Iluddersfieid line was
sanctioned by Parliament stood in so important a re-
lation tl the Liverpool and Yorkshire traffic as fully
to justify the arrangement. The Preston and %Vyre
line was not expected at the time of the arrangement
to remunerate the company for some years ; but the
losc, so far, exceeds the directors' anticipations ; but
in considering this logs crenit shouid be given for the
el: curnstanee thAt an amount of traffic of from
1.5,C00/. to 20:0001. per annum would have neen ni
verted hom the canipany's Ikea ;f fte Preston and
had iorint.d part of a neighbour ing system.
Tile emziriet,r's report states that the only remaining
portion of the unlioieheit uorke, viz., that part. of
the We,.t, Riding Union Railway between Lialif4x
and Sowerhy- bridge, will be completed within the

The Citaisetax, tiler answerieg one or two trifling
ebjeetions to the steteo ent of euecuitts, held the re-
duction of the dividend to two per cent. must he a
'never of regret to all the shareholders, hut he heprd
th..y :eight he able to he k hack upon it at a future
time as the turning point iii the history of this rail-
wey. They had approttetied thet peiat in the history
of their ethsirs when it would begin to wear a more
satisfactory aspect than it had hitherto done. It had
been said that the directors were chargeable with
the present condition of the line, and that to
causes uudtr their control was attributable the present
depreciation of the company's property. But many
causes operated to reduce the dividend winch wets
entirely out of the control of the directors. He did
not make that assertion with the view to lessen in
any degree any amount of blame which might fairly
and justly be placed upon their shoulders, for the re-
sults their manegernent had not shown them to
very successful hitherto. The chief causes which
had operated to produce a reduction of dividend
were the abstraction of traffic by the multiplication
of competing lines, and the reduced tariff. At
an early period he (the chairman) saw the
injurious effect of the reduced tariff, and
ca lied the attention of the shareholders to
the fact that unless they had higher rates of
remuneration for the work which they did it was in
vain to look for profit, and the directors, acting under
the some imprersion, applied to Parliament last ses-
sion, and succerefully carried a Bill by which tie
rates were partially restored,— (Hear, hear.) Ano-
ther important consideration was this—while the ca•
pital chargeable to revenue had been increasing half-
yearly at the rate of 1,000,0001. to 1,500,0001., their
gross receipts had been almost stationary.—(iiear.) •
In fiiur halt-years their gross receipts. had only ad-
vanced 15,0001. The accountant had made calcula-
tions which showed clearly the effect of reductions iu
the rates, coupled with the abstraction of through
traffic, which bad- reduced their annual income
60,0001.—(Hear, hear.) Another reason for the re-
nuetiun of the dividend, arising from a very natural
cause, was that when this company paid an 8 per cent.
dividend the capital was 3,400,000;., 1,800,00 W. cl
which was borrowed at abut 4 per cent. Tlity had
ore paid up one-half of their capital.—(Hear, hear.)
Now that they had paid up the whole amount,
that fact alone was sufficient to reduce the di-
vidend to one and a half per cent. lie trusted
the shareholders would see that the causes
thus operating were of a very temporare nature; and
that u little time—though not se early as might-origi-
nally have been supposed—would revive the value of
~heir property. At the last meeting along discussion
took place upon the form ot tht, constitution of the
beard ; a ceinunittee n appointed to confer
with the directors upon the subject, and the matter
would be ta.k, n into consideration at a sub,squent
period. He would new move—
" That ts,, much f the report of the directors as does
liot relate to ihe question of the recuritilitie:ioll of the•
hoard he received awl adopti..d, aed that the accounts up
to ',he 30th of June be pas[ef."
Mr. HARPER seconded the motion.

Mr. 1). Pima objected to the enormous salary paid
the engineer, and charged him with having received
a hum of money for services re7dered to the Liverpool,
Manchester, and Newcastle Company, which money,
he Von sid rre d, ought to have gone to the credit of the
Laccishire arid Yorkshire Company. He proposed
that, following the example, of the Midland and Cale-
donian Companies. a list of ail salaries paid by the
company over 1001. per (odium should he printed.
The resolution was skconded by Mr. MOW ATT,
M. P , and carried.

NIL OIIhRTS, of Chester, said that he thought that
so log es the company found work tor law) crs and
s4nginerrs, there would be no end to the exhausting of
their Clpital. He moved that the services of the en-
gineer-in-chief should be dispensed with, and that a
re.,ident engineer should be appointed at a salary not
exceeding 500/. a year.

Mr. Haw]Eshaw-, the engineer, said many cf the
gentlemen near him on the board knew that his opi-
nions were quite consonant with those of Mr. Roberts.
After the completion of the works at present on heed,
they would not requiere an engineer in chief.—
(Applause.) He would then, having a large interest
to the concern himself, be glad to wind up the con-
-I:rector's account, and get rid of the great responsibi-
lity which had laid upon him.—(Hear.)
After a long discussion upon some minor twitters
in the accounts, in which Mr. MOWATT, M.P., de-
pr,caEed the system of share•purchases which the
company had pursued, that gentleman moved for a
return of the shares so purchased and held by the
company.

CHAIRMAN said no new purchases had been
inwie sine, November, 1848, at which time a list of
the shares held by the compsny was publi,bett.
Mr. PE/CE charged the board with having, at
various tiinep, pockAed the dividends upon those shares,
and said it was only at the time wilt n they depre-
ciated in value that they were thrown on the hands of
!born company.
The CHAIRMAN, and other members of the board,
indignantly denied the assertion of Air. Price.
Mr. MOWATT said there was only 52,0001. applica-
hie to revenue, and he thought, when that was
considered, the welt-glorifying terms of the directors'
report were an insult to his understanding.—(Hear.)
The report was subsequalitly adopted.
The resolution declaring the dividend having been
proposed,

- I►ir. COATES (of London), on behalf of the Fifth
shareholders, entered into a lengthy statement of
their case. He said he would not insist upon the
legal view of the case, though he was well ac-
quiiited with the strong foundation which they had
in law; and so soon as the question came before
public legal tribunal, where no proxies could be used
—(flear, hear)—and it must do so unless justice
were previously done to the Fiftt, shareholders—their
right to a dividend would be affirmed, and the com-
pany during the progreas of the cube would be sun-
j,c•;el to great inconvenience, to say nothing of u
uo expensive litigation. The company had now
18.800/ of a balance, out of which they could pay
g.t,e Fifth shareholders a dividend at an equal rat,
with the general shareholders, which he proposed,
therefore, should be done.

Mr. SCOTT bficondtd the motion, but
The proceeding was condtnined by Mr. LEEMAN
and other shareholder:), on the ground that tLe
matter had been referred to the Attorney-General i r
his opinion, and it %Via su4gested that, !khould it nit
be decided by that high authority, it ahuuld be re-
ferred to a tow commercial men.

Thit CUAIRMAN declined to put the motion of Mr.
Coutes, considetitg it would be necessary to convtte
a special meeting for such a purpose.
Mr. MOWATT joined in the opinion that the best
!node of set'ding the question would be to refer it to
the deci,ion of some tour or five business men.
Mr. LEEMAN sugv-seed the reference of the case t
the chairman of the Rink 0( England and the chair-
men of the London and North-Western and Great
Northern Railway Companies.

MANCHESTER, BUXTON, MATLOCK, AND
MIDLAND JUNCTION.
The half-yearly me.-tins of this company was he'd
at Derby yesterday (Wednesday) ; the, lion. G.
Cavendish, M.P., in the chair.
A long discussion arose at the onset on an objec-
tion being wade by Mr. Preston, of London, to the
affixing of the seal.ot the company to the registered
list of shareholders, until he was permitted to inspect
the list. Tne Cosirman said that, in accordance with
the advice of their legal instructor, they must refuse
the application. Honourable proprietors might see
the list f shareholders' names, but not the number
of shares held by each. The directors themselves had
DO objection to any shareholder seeing how many
shares were held by them. The discussion closed by
Mr. Preston stating that he wanted a decision " ay,.
or " no," in order that he might try the question.
The report was then read by tne Secretary. It
stated " That the gross receipts to the 30th of June
last had been 3,0351. lie. 7.1 , and the expenses, in-
cludicg Government duty, 2,3381. 13s. 54., leaving a
balance in favour of the company of 6961. 18s. 24.,
which, added to the sum ot 1,5351 15s. Si.,; brought
tier ward from the f.rtner halt. )ear, made 2,232/. 13,
7,1. at the credit or the revenue account of the com-
pany. bum would lay a dividend of 64. per
share (flee of iccome-tax), and leave 194/. ls. Bd. to
he carrnd forw'ard to the next account. Tice traffic
f r the corr.nt lmlf-ye:r had het- n 1,997/. 18s. to the
25;1i ot August, as c0t,111i8)44.,
r(,l with 1,677/. for the
cortt-sponding period , 9

Oh the 'notion or the CHAIRMAN, who stated that
the traffic had iacreased 3201. duriag the last three