The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-19 00:00:00

SUN,

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER lt, 1850.

doing in the Cloth-hall to.day amongst the lower
class of fancys ; indeed, any thing new in design in
the low qualities meets with ready purchasers, and
the. manufacturers are generally working to order, so
that stocks keep very low for the time of the year.
There has been a decided improvement in the wool
market during the week : as it is expected it will rise
still higher in price, the manufacturers seem to be
taking advantage of the present prices.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—More goods have changed
hands in our Piece Hall to-day than for some weeks
past, but the manufacturers have had to accept re-
duced prices. The yarn trade is still at a stand, as
regards the demand for export ; but the present low
prices have led to more activity in the demand for
home consumption. The wool market is more ani-
mated, and the quotations have advanced.
LEEDS, TUESDAY.—We have had a dull market at
the Cloth-hall since our last report; but there have
been some orders given out by the shipping houses,
and the manufacturers are pretty well employed.
Prices are looking up a little, and, considering the
season of the year, stocks are light.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Dec. 18.

(Sittings at Nisi Prius,-at Westminster, before the LORD
CHIEF BARON' and a Special Jury.)
GRAPES V. BUNNEY.

This action was brought against the defendant to re-
cover compensation in damages for an alleged libel, pub-
lished in the John Bull newspaper, of which the defen-
dant was the proprietor.
The defendant pleaded justification.
Mr. Keating and Mr. Barstow appeared for the plain-
tiff, and Sir F. Thesiger and Mr. M. Smith for the
defendant.

From the statement of Mr. KEATING, it appeared
that the plaintiff, Robert Grapes, who was a person in
humble circumstances, held the situation of a sub-sorter
in the General Post-office, in 1847, when there was a
loud outcry made by the subordinates of that establish-
ment against their being employed, without any addi-
tional remuneration, in collecting information for the
" London Post-office Directory," which belonged to
Mr. Kelly, who was the inspector of the letter-carriers.
The plaintiff took an active part in bringing the alleged
grievance beforo the public, and he was one of the par-
ties who supplied Mr. Thomas Duncombe, the Hon.
Member for Finsbury, with information to enable him
to bring it under the attention of Parliament. In con-
sequence of that Hon. Member's interference, an investi-
gation was made into the subject, which resulted in the
practice of employing letter-carriers on Mr. Kelly's pub-
lication being: discontinued. It appeared, further, that a
sub-sorter named Thacker, who, in conjunction with the
defendant, had made representations to Mr. Duncombe,
was taken into custody on a charge of stealing letters,
and ultimately transported. Before his trial it seemed
that a conversation took place at a public-house be-
tween several employes of the Post-office on the sabject
of the charge, in the course of which the plaintiff ob-
served to some who had been summoned as witnesses,
" say as little as you can, but whatever you say let it be
the truth, and stick to it." This was construed by one
or two who were present into an attempt to tamper
with the witnesses, and the matter having come to the
knowledge of the plaintiff's superiors, he was discharged
from the Yost-office. A short time afterwards,
viz., on the 24th July, 1847, the John Bull pub-
lished a leader, attacking Mr. Duncombe, in
which the following pa3sage occurs :—"A worthy
associate of Abraham's (meaning Thacker) is fish-
ing up dirty matters for Mr. Duncombe, of the
vinous name of Grapes—Robert Grapes has since been
dismissed from the Post-office for endeavouring to
tamper with the witnesses by whose evidence Thacker's
guilt was proved. I has-a received a grf at deal of in-
formation from Grapes,' quoth the Hon. Member for
Finsbury, (information, we opine, is,not the only thing
he has received lrom Grapes), and, therefore'—oh, of
course, therefore—' this charge of tampering has been
trumped up, and poor Grapes has been
plucked before he was ripe.' " The article then
goes on to say, " meanwhile we hope he (Mr. Duncombe)
will behave generously to poor Grapes, and squeeze him
into a good place of some sort or other, since it is most
manitest he has lost the one he had in consequence of
doing his (Mr. Duncombe's) dirty—no, wo mean snow
white work. Ain aham in the bulks, and Grapes pining,
perhaps, in a back garret upon nothing a day, and find-
ing himself." This was the libel complained of.
Witnesses were called, who proved the main circum-
stances detailed above.

Sir F. TUESIGER, on the part of the defendant, con-
tended that the article did not admit of the interpretation
which had been put upon it, and that the plaintiff's
counsel had distorted the real meaning of the words; but
even supposing the words admitted of the construction
contended for, that they were fully justified by the cir-
cumstances, as he should be able distinctly to prove the
attempt of the plaintiff to tamper with the witnesses
against Thacker.
The Marquis of Clanricarde was called, and deposed
that the plaintiff was brought before him on a charge of
tampering with witnesses, and after hearing the facts of
the case he thought he was justified in dismissing him
from the service of the Post-office.

Col. Maberly and Mr. Peacock, the solicitor for the
Post-office, corroborated the statement of his Lordship
as to what transpired at the examination of the plaintiff.
Other witnesses were examined as to the conversation
which passed at the public-house, and they stated that
the plaintiff requested them not to say all they knew
against Thacker.
Mr. KEATING having replied,

The CHIEF BARON summed up, and
The jury returned a verdict for the defendant.
The case occupied the whole day.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NOR THE RN CIRCUIT.—York, Dec. 17.
CROWN COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice PArrEsoN.)
John Robinson, a clerk at the Wadsley station, -on
the Manchester, Sheffield, an.: Lincolnshire Railway,
was indicted for feloniously assaulting' Eliza Newton,
at Eccle.,field, near Sheffield, on the 30th of October last.
Mr. Hall (Mr. Boothby with him) stated the case for
the prosecution, and called
Miss Eliza Newton, a respectable-looking young lady,
living with her mother at Fox-hill, near Sheffield. She
deposed that on the 30th October last, she met the ac-
cused, whom she had known for about 18 months pre•.
viuus, at a wedding party. Alter the party prisoner es.
corted her home, and on reaching the garden gate of
her mother's house he put his arm round her waist and
began kissing her as soon as they ascended into the
garden. She tried ,to release herself, but i❑ vain, and
he nearly strangled her ; he proceeded to further vio-
lence, and she screamed out several times. He stopped
her cries by putting his mouth to hers, and nearly suffo-
cated her. He threw her down and effected his purpose,
and she became insensible. On her consciousness re-

turning she found he was raising hee up. She had lost
her shoe in the struggle, and the prisoner gave it to her
and put it on. She went to the door. Her mother came
to the door, and the prisoner *ran op to her, put out
his hand to shake hands, saying, " Good night, good
night, Mrs. Newton. Witness said at the same time,
Oh, mother, why did you not cope to the door? She
went in and immediately told her mother, who put wit-
ness to bed. The following morning she was in a very
excited state, but was able to go out in the afternoon,
and did go to the bride's. She went at three and re-
turned at six o'clock. She did not tell what was the
matter with her. The prisoner came and knocked at the
door, her mother opened it, and ho said to witness,
" Yuu see, lam not afraid to come." She observed, it
appears not. He then said, " Your mother has accused
me of committing a rape on you. Can you look me in
the face and say so?" .She said she could, and he knew
he had ruined her. He answered, "No such thing, Miss
Newton, I never injured you in my life. I admit I did
not do what I ought to do, but I did no more than any
other man would have done." She said, "You have
ruined me." He then turned to her mother, and said,
" Mrs. Newton, if' your daughter proves with child I
swear I will marry her." Her mother said, "If he
would ma,ry her he must do it now or suffer the rigour
of the law." He replied, "Harry her now I cannot, but
I will come up to-morrow, avid we will see it we can't
come to some reconciliation." Her mother said he must
not. He said then ho would come the follow-
ing day. Her mother sail be must not come
there any more. About six months previogs
he had proposed marriage, but she had declined; she
thought his salary insufficient to support a wife. She
had heard he had a guinea or a pound a week.
Cross-examined—Her mother's is three miles from
Sheffield, and where the wedding was was three-quarters
of a mile farther. The station where the prisoner was
is half a mile below her mother's. Her mother's house
is in a row of four, and there are other houses on the
opposite side of the road, which is wide, and her mother's
stands back three or four yards, the entrance to the
garden where the outrage took place being by six steps.
The prisoner occasionally came to their house, and she,
when she went by the train to Sheffield, or had to meet
any one, went to the station where he was [pastel.. Ho
had given her a kiss in her mother's house several times.
She did not fall down by slipping on the flags. On the
Friday she went to the station to go to Sheffield, and
the prisoner came up to her and said, " How could you
stand by and make such accusa'ions against me, when
you know they are not true?" She answered, he knew
they were true, and that she was a ruined girl by him.
He went away, but soou returned, and then said, " I do
not intend to marry you; sooner than be made a dupe
of I would rot in prison." Mr. Shaw, a surgeon, came
to see her, and examined her. She did not scratch the
prisoner. They have a dog, but ho is very old, deaf,
and blind.

Re-examined by Mr. HALL.—Ke had heard priso-
ner's salary was a guinea or a sovereign a week. She
had never given him a kiss. She had lost her brooches;
her ear-rings were beat, and her ears torn. Her age is
24. Mrs. M'Laurie, the bride, when she went to her
house, asked her whet troub!ed her. She replied she
wa3 in gra at trouble. Mrs. M‘Laurie asked what it was,
and she answered she would know soon enough.
Mrs. Newton corroborated her daughter's evidence as
f.r ai she was cognizant of the affair, and also deposed
to the sta:c of prosecutor's clothes, linen, &c., which
showed ►hat violence had been used towards her.

Medical evidence was also called, which proved that
the capital offence had been committed.
Mr. OVEREND (Mr. Hardy with him) addressed the
jury for the prisoner. He said he had confided to him
the interests and future prospects of a young man who
had, up to the time of this charge, borne an irreproach-
able character. Ho complained of the (kelp stio manner
i❑ which the care had boon opened. Ho submitted that
it was extremely improbable that the prisoner
should think of attempting to commit such an offence
near to the door opening into the room where both pro-
secutrix and prisoner expected t,) find the mother wait-
ing fur her, lie submitted that the prosecutrix did not

make the outcry or the resistance which proved utiques-
tionAbly non-consent.

Two witnesses were then called, who g,ive the prisoner
a good character.

Mr. Justice PATTESON stitnnacd tip. lre told the jury
the charge W 34 twofold, a felonious assault, or a commo❑
assault, and they would say which it was, if either. Ile
said it was a remarkable case, and required their par-
ticular at:ention. For the prosecution the case was, that
what was done was against tho consent of the prosecu •
trix; f.;r the prisoner the case was, first, that the act
was not done; and secondly, if it was, that it was with'
the consent of the prosecutrix.
The jury retired, and ace: being absent from five mi-
nutes to four o'clock till half-past nine, returned
a verdict of Guilty, with a recommendation to
mercy on the ground of his previous good character, and
that he was at the time under the influence of liquor.
Sentence deferred.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
THIRD COUR,:
(B,lfore the COMMoN•SERGEANT.)
Lydia Mortimer, 19, spin4ter, surrendered to take
her trial for having concealed the birth of her female
infant.
Mr. Payne prosecuted.

It appeared that on the 3cl of June last the prisoner
went into the service of a gentleman named Bowles, in
Bedford-street, Hampstead-road; and on the 28th of
last month, there being some obstruction to the pipe of
the water-closet, a labourer was sent to take it up, and
upon so doing he found there what he took to be a por-
tion of some animal, it being dark when he took it out.
He buried a portion in the garden and placed the rest iu
some utensil. The prisoner seemed very anxious to
know what he had found. The next day the labourer
found a portion of what he had placed removed, upon
which he dug up the rest, Land found it to be the muti-
lated remains of an infant.

Mr. Hardwick, of Robert-street. Hampstead-road,
proved examining the remains, which he found to be
those of a full-grown female infant, but he could not say
if b,rn alive. On the next day he examined the pri-
soner and found sho had been delivered, and she said she
had a child on Monday week, and that she had cut it up
and put it down the closet.
Mrs. Cheese, a servant in the service of Mrs. Bowles,
proved finding the prisoner very ill. She at 'the time
denied that anything was the matter with her, but sub-
sequently owned to it.
Lydia Pollard, the searcher at the s'ation, said, that
prisoner said she did not know how she could have been
so foolish, as she had a good home in Wiltshire. She
thought she must have been mad. That the child had
been born dead. That she had cut it up with a knife,
and first hidden it with her dusters, and then thrown it
down the watercloset.

The prisoner, who is a well-looking young girl, and
was in a most pitiable state all the time of the trial,
said that when ill she hal asked Mrs. Cheese to sit up
with her.

This proved to be true.
The jury found her Guilty, but recommended her to
mercy on account of the request she had made on the
night the child was born.

The father, a most respectable-looking old man, who
ha-I come up from Wiltshire, said he had testimonials of
her previous good character.
She was sentenced to three months' imprisonment.
Ann Scanlan, 36, widow, was indicted fur stealing five
handkerchiefs, the property of John Bosberry.
Mr. Platt prosecuted, and Mr. Robinson defended.
The prisoner, who is a careworn, shabby-genteel look-
ing woman, had her head covered with a iarge black veil
which nearly hid her features, and she seemed painfully
sensible to her degraded position.
The evidence offered against her was that of a Mr.
Robert Storey who stated that in July last he was shop-
man to the prosecutors in Regent-street. [he prisoner
came an I asked to lock at some articles of hosiery and
shirts, and also some handkerchiefs, which were shown
to her. Witness, suspecting her, went round the coun-
ter, and requested her to stand away from it, and wished
to know if she had anything about her, She said she
was surprised he should suspect a parson of" her respect-
ability. Witness then saw the hankerchiels fall from
her. She denied the charge, and said that she was needle-
woman to the lion. Spencer Cooper's family in Bur ton-
stri et, which proved to be untrue. She was taken into
custody, but in consequence of her ill-health and poverty
the charge was not followed up.

Mr. iiOBINSON said he should not struggle with the
Facts.

The jury found her Guilty.

Sheplerd, a City constable, 544, said she had been be.
fore convicted in this court for stealing a book.
Mr. PLATT said there were four other charges against
her.

Mr. ROBINSON said he hoped the Court would be
merciful to her. She was the widow of a gentleman of
high literary repute, who died about three years ago;
she ha:l received small sums of money from the late
Sir Robert Peel and others, and she had been in great
distress.

The prisoner said she hoped the Court would be mer-
ciful to her this time as she had known deep misery.
She had found her husband dead at her side. Lord
Palmerston and others had assisted her, but she was in
great distress when she stole the handkerchiefs; but she
would go home to her father, who lived in Wales.
She was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Dec. 18.
(Before Mr. Sergeant Anal's, Assistant-Judge, and a
Bench of Magistrates).
THE QUEEN V. ADOLPHE DE WERDINSEI.
In this case the defendant, who was described as a
dealer, carrying on business in High Holborn, was
charged with having committed an assault upon a young
girl of the age cf 16, under somewhat peculiar circum-
stances.

It will be found, however, that, in common with some
other prisoners and defendants, he was discharged by
proclamation.
Shortly after one o'clock,
The grand jury came into court and handed in the
last batch of bills which had been preferred before them.
They then complained of some irregularity in reference
to the way in which some of the bills of indictment had
been laid before them in the early part of the day.
The Learned JUDGE thereupon ordered that the ex-
penses of all the prosecutors and witnesses in the cases
where the bills had nut b9en ready to go before the grand
jury by half-past ten o'clock should not be allowed..
Were there any more bills to go before the grand jury?
Mr. MAUDE (the Deputy Clerk of the Peace) said that
there was a case in which the defendant was Adolphe do
Werdinski, which as yet had nut been taken before the
grand jury. It appeared that the indictment had been
drawn with only one count, charging the defendant with
a common assault, and therefore he had sent the deposi-
tions to the clerk of the indictments, requesting that he
would consider whether the cash was not one in which
the indictment should contain several counts. That
indictment, however, was not ready to go before the
greed jery, but it was in the course of preparation.
Toe fe:arned JUDGE said he would not detain the
grand jury. That body, it appeared, had disposed of all
the cases which had been brought under their notice,
and therefore he should now discharge them.
It was here suggested, that if the grand jury were
to be discharged at that moment, or without this bill
being taken before them, the defendant must be dis-
charged without any trial.
The Lmrned JUDGE could not help that. The man
ought to be discharged if the parties prosecuting failed
to present their hill of indictment to the grand jury in
proper time. He would now discharge the grand jury.
Shortly afterwards this defendant, with other prisoners
and defendants in cases where the bills had been ignored
or' the prosecutors had neglected to prefer their bills,
were discharged by proclamation.

THE QUEEN V. RITCHIE.
This defendant was brought up in custody from the
House of Detention-,

Fle pleaded "Guilty" to an indictment which charged
him with keeping a place for " music and dancing" (a
penny theatre) in tho parish of St. Luke, not being
licensed.

The Lsarned JUDGE directed the defendant to enter
into lecognisaners to come up for judgment when called
upon, on th, understanding that he would desist from any
further infringement oi the law. The Court was of
opinion that places of the description of that of which
the defendant was the proprietor had a most demoralising
effect, and he trusted that in the course of the ensuing
session theL?gislature would pass some Bill which should
in etrt.ct remedy the present unsatisfactory state of the
lzw in respect of places to which the music and dancing
licence was accorded.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.

Alexander Pacifique Gillis, a Belgian, was brought be-
fore Mr. Henry, for final exlmination, charged with ob-
taining from Mr. Chamberlain, 203, Holborn, a picture,
vale 2001., by false representations.
Mr. Wuntner attended for the prosecutioti, and Mr.
Columbine for the prisoner.
The picture, which was a marine view, by Backhuy-
ten, was entrusted to the prisoner, on Thursday last, far
the purpose of disposing of it to a young nobleman, with
the understanding that either it, or the money, should
be returned on the same evening, he having represented
himself as a respectable man, occupying the ground and
first floor at 28, Great Pultney-street, the furniture being
his own, and as a further proof of his being a person
worthy of credit he exhibited a bill of exchange for 2501.,
giving as reference the managers of the Landon and
County Bank, at Worthing, from whom ho took it for
pictures that he had sold, and that he bad not got it dis-
counted, as he would receive the amount in full when it
became due, upon the faith of which the property was
ent:usted to him.

John Frani, a dealer in pictures, proved that he had
known the prisoner for eighteen months, and had deal-
ings with him. On the 12th instant they went to the
shop of Mr. Riehards,pawnbroker, of 102, Westminster-
Bridge-road, and while the prisoner remained outside,
witness pledged the picture produced for 121.9 upon
being told by him that he expect-4 to sell it to a noble-
man. The prisoner said it was mere likely a customer
would deal by the production of the duplicate, which
witness kept with 71. until it was redeemed, handing over
the differuice to the prisoner, who never mentioned that
the picture was the property of the prosecutor.
The landlady at 28, Great Pulteney-strut, proved that
the prisoner had lodged in her house Irons May until
August, but he never possessed any furniture.
Mr. Joseph Lewis, a commission agent, identified the
bill f)r 250!., which was given to the prisoner by Mr.
Lewis on the 6th inst. to get discounted, for which he
gave a receipt, and was to hand over the money to wit-
ness, but it wl.; a false representation that he had got it
in payment for pictures.
Mr. Columbine submitted that although the prisoner
had made many false affirmations, there being a con-
tract drawn up made the charge merely a civil con-
tract, amounting, to a certain extent, to a partnership
agreement.

Mr. HENRY directed the bill of exchange and the re-
ceipt t., be produced at the trial, and ordered the pri-
soner to be core rnitte I to Nevvgatc.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Fr,:ncis Huron was brought up for final examination,
ch:iraed with having committed an extensive rubbery at
the Prince of Wales Hotel, Leicester-place, Leicester-
square..

At the former examination the singular circumstances
under which the prisoner was apprehended were fully de-
tailed. The prisoner was formerly a waiter at the hotel,
and therefore well acquainted with the premises, which
are extensive. He made use of this information to con-
ceal himself for a whole week in various parts of the
house, first entering one room and taking away anything
portable, and then another—breaking open desks and
drawers wherever anything valuable was supposed to be
kept. All this time the prisoner maintained himself
from the contents of the larder and wine-cellar. Noises
were heard at various times night and day in different
rooms, and provisions were constantly being missed from
the larder, but no solution was obtained to the mystery
until Saturday last, when Madame Aude, the wife of the
proprietor, on going suddenly into her bedroom, found
the prisoner crouched behind some dresses, with a quan-
tity of valuable property, gold coin, gold and silver
watches, and other things, ready for carrying off.
The prisoner was fully committed.

PRICES OF SHARES

IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM-

PANIES' STOCK.
From the Official List.

rUBLLSIIED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING.

LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17.

?OINK'-STOCZ BANsa.

Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
--- ------
X a. d. X a. d.
Australasia --- - .. 245. 40 0 0 40 0 0 30
BritshNorth American 5/. percent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 43
Ceylon •.••..•• • • • • •• 71. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Commercial of London 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
Colonial. -
Gloucestershire ••.• •• 15/per cent. - - -
lonian - - .... •• •• •• 61. par cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Londn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 27%
- - 13 0 0 -
Loudon Joint-Stock ..• Cl. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 -
Provincialof Ireland.. 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 431
Ditto, New... ... •• • 81. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
National of Ireland - 51. per cent. SO 0 0 22 10 0 -
Nat. Provncial of Eng. i 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 -
Ditto, New. •..•• •• 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 -
South Australia •• -•• 6/, per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Union of Australia.... 161. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Ditto .. •....... •• •• ; 61. per cent. - 210 0 -
Union of L0nd0n..... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 -
Union of Madrid ..... , - 40 0 0 40 0 0 -
INSUZILICCM COVEPANXES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
-- ----
X s. d. ; X a. d.
Albion ----- • • •• 3/. 10e. 500 0 0 50 0 0 86
Alliance Brit. and For. 7114 s Gd& be 100 0 0 11 0 0 21%
Ditto Marine... .... 61. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 6%
Atlas 138.6 d. 50 0 0 510 0 171;,
Argus Life .... •• • •• 41. per cent. 100 0 0 16 0 0 -
firalsti Commercial .. 7s. 6d. 50 0 0 50 0 734
Cleriel,Med.& Gen. Life spr ct.& bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 20
County - ...... - .... 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 86
Crown ........ -•• • • 14s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 14%
Eagle
European Life ••• • .. 10s. 20 0 0 AU paid. 11
General ..........., - - 50 0 514
GlJue - 133
Glardiao • • •••••• •• •• 5/. & bonus. 100 0 0 45 0 0 54
Imperial Fire .....• • • la per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 230
Imperial Life ........ 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 16%
indininity Marina ...• 11. eh. & as. 100 0 0 20 0 0 43
Law Fire ............ - 100 0 0 210 0 2%
Law Life• •••.... •• .. I/. 16s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 43t
Leal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 414
Licensed Victuallers • • - 5 0 0 1 0 0 -
London Fire .. -- -10 s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 1774
London Ship • .......• 10e. 25 0 0 112 10 0 17%
1/arine - • .... • • •... 15s.per share 100 0 0 15 0 0 -
Med. Invild& Gen. Life 4341. per ct. 50 0 0 20 0 2%
National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2N,
National L 14,. 8/.per cent. IGO 0 0 5 0 0 -
l'slladium Life .• ...... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 2N
t.ri, enix - - 155
Professional Life .... - N. per cent. 6 5 0 010 0 163.0 d
Provident Life........ 1/. ss. & be. 100 0 0 10 0 0 31
Koeir. Life .. .. .. .. .... ss. 5 0 0 010 0 Gi4
!loyal Exchantfe CI. p.ct. & be. Stock. - 211
-Inn Fire - - 209
'Deft, Lilo 11. 6a. - - 48
United Kingdom .... 4/.p. ct. & bs. 20 0 0 4 0 0 I 3%
Universal Life........ 10% ct.lic bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Viatoria Lite.... 51. per cnt. - 4 12 6 8

WATErg-WORALS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
i £ s. d. Z s. d.
East London...• •• •• •• 181. per cent. 100 0 0 - 160
Grand Junction •.• 41. per cnt. 50 0 0 - 70
Kent................ 31. 10s. 100 0 0 - 80
Lambeth ............ 5/. per cnt. 100 0 0 - 97
New Itivr Lndn Erdge I 21. 10s. - - 57%
Vauxha11'............ I SI. per cnt. 100 0 0 - 97
West Middlesex • . . 61.05. pr cut. - - 111
DOMES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid, Price.
Annum. Share.
- -- -
£ s. d. X s. d.
Commercial .......... 4/. pr cent. Stock. - 84
East and West Ina's-. 61. pr cent. Stock. - 144
East Country .. 20s. per sh. 100 0 0 - -
London . .. 51. pr cent. Stock. - 119%
Ditto 80nd5.... •• •• 41. per cent. - - -
S t•K atharine -.. •... 4 per coat. Stock. -- 76
Ditto 80nd5...... •• 4%1. pr cent. - - -
Southampton ........ 21. per cent. ,50 0 0 50 0 0 9%
137RIDWE 8
Dividend Amount
Name of Company, per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
--- - -
Z. s. d. Z. a. d.
Charing-cross•• •• .. •• - - - 15
Southwrk .......... - 100 0 0 -8%
Ditto Nw of 7% p.c. 351. per cent. 50 0 0 - 16
Waterloo ............ - 100 0 0 - 3
DM) Old Ann. of 81. 11. 4s. Od. - 60 0 0 28
Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11. Is. Od. - 40 0 0 21%
Vauxhall .... .• • Av. 11. 70 10 3 - 18
CANALS.
I t ..- I . . I 'Dividend
Names of i Dividend Names of
Price. per
Companies. 1 per C.mPanleB' .cs Annual. Price'
c Annum. m
- -- - - -
Z Z
Ashtn& Oldh 97 7/, 113 Macclesfield . 100 21. 10s. 50
Barnsley.... 160 121. 180 Neath ......1001 161. 340
larkak&Abrg 1501 51. 85 Oxford.. •• •• 100 201. 185
Birmingham 401 41. 86 Peak Forest. 7il 31. 18s, 'JO
Coventry.... 100' 25/. 200 Regent's .... 331 1/. Os. 18%
Derby ••• • • 1001 Gl. 63 Rochdale.... 651 41. 42
Ellsnare&Chs 133, 355. 26% Somrset Coal 150 , 71.105. -
GrandJunctn 100; 41. 65% Do.Lk Fd St 14' 61. p. c. -
Do.. 6 pr. Ct. 7% - 814 Stffrd &Wore 140; 281. 405
Grand Surrey;loo, 2/. Os. 33% Shrewsbury.. 125 i - -
Lirand Union 100 1/. 10a. 24 Stourbrldge- 201. 290
145
Kennt a".. Avn 39, Is. 6d. 4 Seven,' and?
Lancaster . 100 41. 32 Wye Rail. t on .•••
21. Os. 24
L,Jeds&Livrp,loo 241. 325 Warwick& /
100 , 41. 643 i
Leicester ....1100 5/. 6" Birming. J
Leicstr&NthJ 83 4/. 48% Warwlekit ,
Loughborogh I 142 701. 510 Napton..) 'OOl 31 42
Monmonthsh; 1001 81. - Worestr 751 31. 40
llnt:g4mrysh 1 100 - - Birming.
MoltnMwbryi 100 - - Wilts & Brks -I Ids. 6% .

G.0.13-LIGIIT ANX) CONE COBIPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Prioe.
Annum. Share.
------ -
X. s. d. A. s. d.
British •••••••••• •• •• 11. 40 0 0 18 0 0 13
Ditto Provincial.. •• 11. 85. 29 0 0 20 0 0 17%
Brighton ••-••• • • • • • • 5/. 20 0 0 - -
City of London .. •• •• 61. 100 0 0 150 0 0 -
Continental Consolidat. 925. 75 0 0 31 5 0 -
Equitable.. •• • • ...... 50s. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Imperial .• .... ••• • •• 2/. 50 0 0 50 0 0 ';3
Independent ......... 61. 40 0 0 40 0 0 48
L0nd0n..............- 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
- 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Do., Pad. Preference 61. 25 0 0 210 0 -
Phoenix ...., •• •..... 4%1, 50 0 0 49 0 0 , 28%
Rateliff -•• • .....„. 5/. 100 0 0 90 0 0 ' -
United General ...... 11. 50 0 0 50 0 0 ' 15%
Westminster Chartered 3/. 50 0 0 - 1 48
Ditto, New ........ 12e. 50 0 0 10 0 0 I 9%
LIST or SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICEJI
Dividend Amount
Name of Company• per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
- -- --
X s. d. X s. d
Bank of Scotland
British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 202
Caledonian Bank
City of Glasgow Bank 41. per cent. 10 0 0 10 .6 0 11%
Clydesdale Bank •••• - ,1% per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 13%
Commercial Bank .. - 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 175
Eastern Bank - ... • - 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 91. Is
Edinbit Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 4%
Exahangeßnk of Scot 4/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 13%
National Bank 43.6 percent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 15%
Morthof Scotland Bank 41. percent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 2/.lls.
Royal Bank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 133
Union Bank of Scotland 81. per cent.l 100 0 0 50 0 0 88%
western Bank- -•• •• 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 71%
Alliance Fire and Life .3%1.pr cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 20%
British Guarantee
Caledonian Fire Incur lol.per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23
City of Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. 17s
Colonial Life
Edinburgh Life Incur sl.per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 20%
Eng. & Scot, Law Life 6/. per cent, 50 0 0 217 6 2%
Life Assoc. of Scotland 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 21. Os
National Fire and Life 13/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 245. Od
North British lusur. .• 61. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 26
Scottish'Unionlnsrnce. 4%1. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 248.6 d
Standard Life ...... - 51. per cent. 50 0 0 4 5 0 10
United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 , 1 0 0 i 17s fid
lIIISCELLANHOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
----- - ---,...
X. a. d. ,X. 8. d.
Assam Tea .......... - 20 0 0 20 0 0 4%
duction Mart •••••• • • 21. 50. 50 0 0 - 28
Australian Aariculturl 1/. 100 0 0 30 0 0 113(1
Australian Trust •• .. 6!. per cent. - ,35 0 0 20
Anglo-Mexican Mint.. IL 10s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 20%
Ditto, Half Shares.. - - 2 10 0 5
British American Land - - 38 10 0 -
Canada ......... •• .. GI. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 104%
Uppr Canada Bonds 51. per cent. - - -
Ditto ditto .... 61. percent. - - - •
City Navigation Bonds 31 per cent. - - 96
Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp.c. it be, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 90
Equitable Reversionry 5 p.c.& bs. 5 , 100 0 0 100 0 0 108
Ditto New ........ - 50 0 0 - 50%
Gen.SteamNavigation 11. Ba. 15 0 0 14 0 0 27%
Hudson's Bay ..... ... - Stock. - -
Hunger.-ord .......... 2/. ss. - 100 0 0 47
London Inatitntion ... - - ,78 15 0 -
New Zealand Company - 25 0 0i 25 0 0 -
Ditto, New ........ - 25 0 0 12 10 0 -
Russell Institution.... - - 211 5 0 -
Peninslr & Gricnt.Stm. 81. per cent. 50 0 0, 50 0 0 87%
Reversionary Int. Soc. 4141. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 101
Royal 3lall Stearn-- 41. p. share. 100 0 01 60 0 0 70
South Australian ••••• 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 24
Van Dicman's Land. - 100 0 0 29 0 0 -

The Cheltenham Looker-on announces that a mili-
tary steeple-chase, by the officers of the Uth (Queen's)
Lancers, has been arranged to come off in the neighbour-
hood of Cheltenham, on Friday, the 27th instant. None but
officers of the regiment tire to be allowed to ride, and these
only their own horses.. The chase will take place in
I'restbury Park, and it is expected that eight or ten horses
will start.

THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE NEW
TVESI'4IIINSTER SEWER.
Mr. Bed:ord, the coroner tor Middlesex, and a jury of
respectable inhabitants of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, as-
sembled yesterday, at two o'clock, in the board-room of
St. Martin's workhouse, for the purpose cf investigating
the eircutnstancss under which Edward Gorinau and
William Gardner, two bricklayers' labourers in the
employ of Mt ssrs. Humphrey s end Thirst, the con-
tractors for building the new Victoria sewer in Scot-
laud-yard, met their deaths on the morning of Mon-
' day last.
The board-room was very full. Among those pre-
sent we remarked Mr. Woolrych, secretary to the Com-
missioners of Sewers, and several other officers of that
body; Mr. Humphreys (of the firm of Humphreys and
Thirst), &c.
I Mr. Le Breton, clerk to the Board of Guardians of St.
Martin's, was in attendance.
Some particulars of the accident have already ap•
peered, but none of the accounts hitherto published ex-
plain accurately how it occurred. The coroner ex-
amined two or three witnesses yesterday without
making the matter at all intelligible, and it was only
after the third witness had been called that some light
was thrown upon the origin of the catastrophe. It
appears that two new sewers are in process of forma-
tion under the surface of Co eat Scotland•yard, both
of them having one outlet into the river. The filet is
intended to convey the sewage from the vicinity of Tra-
falgar-square, and the second runs from Whitehall-place
along Parliament-street and Whitehall. In the forma-
tion of the former it became necessary to cross an inlet
called "Blind Dsck," through which the sewage of
Regent-street and the surrounding districts descends. It
is stated that the design furnished by the engineer to
the commissioners proposed to cross this deck by an
open cutting. The contractors, judging from the evi-
dence adduced yesterday, attempted to obtain a commu-
nication between the works by means of a tunnel under-
neath the bed of the dock; and to this proceeding on
their part—all knowledge of which is denied by the
officers of the commission—the fatal occurrence seems to
be fairly attributable.
After the formal identification of the bodies by a
witness named William Wheeler, foreman to the con-
tractors.
The Coroner inquired whether any party was in at-
tendance on the part of the contractors?
Mr. Humphreys said he was a member of the firm
who had the work in hand.
The Coroner—Have you any party here who can viva
• us information as to how the accident occurred? give
us information as to how the accident occurred? Mr.
1 Humphreys—The clerk of the works is here, sir.
Mr. Woolrych (to the Coroner) —I beg to say, sir,
that several of the Commissioners of Sewers are in at-
tendance, and will be quite ready to give any explana-
tion in their power.
The Coroner—Has any inquiry been made into the
circumstances of the accident? Mr. Woolrych—A pre-
liminary investigation has been made, and a report
thereon presented to the commissioners, but it did little
more than announce the fact of the accident.
The Coroner considered that in so grave and serious a
matter something ought to be done by the commissioners
to satisfy the public mind, which had been painfully ex-
cited by the catastrophe.
Mr. Woolrych said, the engineer to the commissioners
bad been ordered to make a further report, which would,
probably, be presented on Friday. This would, of course,
be at the disposal of the jury.
Plans of the works were here put in, and explained to
the jury, but from their technical character, it was quite
evident that they were of little assistance in making the
matter clear. At length one of the jury suggested that
they had better visit the spot.
The Coroner said there could be no objection to this,
and as it was not likely they should be ab!c to complete
the investigation that day, before they resumed the in•
quiry he thought it would be well they should do so.
Mr. William Booth Scott was then called. He said
be was a civil engineer, and clerk of the works of the
Victoria sewer under the Commissioners of Sewers. The
plan of that sewer was prepared by Mr. Frank Forster,
and witness had to see the works carried out under the
general direction of Mr. Gott°, the surveyor of the
commissioners. The witness here explained that the
northern sewer had been completed on both sides of the
" Blind Dock" when he left the works en Saturday
evening. It was necessary to obtain a communication
across this dock, and when witness arrived at the works
on Monday morning, he hoard for the first time that the
contractors' men had made a tunnel underneath the bed
of the dock during Saturday night and Sunday. Feel-
ing satisfied that such a work must be attended with
great danger, he determined to go down and warn the
men to desist. He was prevented doing so at the mo-
ment, and about five minutes before he was about to de-
scend the accident occurred. The tunnel, or " heading,"
as it was technically called, had been carried twenty-
live feet under the bed of the dock, and the workmen
had nearly completed the commuuication between the
two sewers when the water broke in from abeve, and
inundated the whole works. Witness considered that
to perform such a work when the dock was full of water
was exceedingly dangerous. The tide on Monday
morning was unusually high, and the pressure would be
correspondingly greater. Witness had examined the
works since the accident, and satisfied himself that it had
occurred in this way.
A labourer, who wa; at work in the tunnel when the
water broke through, was next examined. He stated
nothing of importance, but gave a graphic account of
r.he terrible struggle for life in which all the unfortu-
nate men in the sewer at the time of the accident were
involved.
Wheeler, the contractors' foreman, was here recalled—
lam satisfied the water came in by breaking through
the bottom of the dock. The tunnel was finished all
but five feet. The tunnel was six or seven feet from the
bed of the river. The deck is never dry. I paid parti-
cular attention to the safety of the men. I was in the
tunnel myself on Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Perrett
(the other foreman), and myself, and Mr. Thirst, consi-
dered it safe to go on with the tunnel as we were, and I
should have been down in the tunnel in five minutes
titer the accident. I can't say how soon before the
accident the engineer was on the work. The tunnel was
only commenced on Saturday evening. The work was
suspended on the Sunday night. Mr. Thirst did not
inspect the tunnel himself; but he ordered us to go on
with it. The works are now in the same state as at the
time of the accident, except the stopping up of the
breach. I would undertake to go through the tunnel
this moment.
Henry George Perrett, joint foreman, examined—l
am a carpenter by trade, and clerk of the works to the
contractors. I never had any communication with the
Commissioners of Sewers, or any of their officers, as to
the tunnel. No doubt there would have been a commu-
nication made to the officers on the works at the time of
commencing it, but there was no officer there then. I
am a carpenter by trade, and have not much experience
in tunnelling, except what I have gained in the present
job. I know there is a great difference between tunnel-
ling in dry ground and under a river or wet dock. I
have been in the dock in question. The bottom of it is
paved, and above that is a stratum of clay.
The Coroner, at this stage, observed that he did not
see that he could carry the case further at present. He
thought that a short interval might enable them to ob-
tain further evidence; and he should like, therefore, to
adjourn the case. In the meantime, the jury might visit
the spot; and as the Commissioners of Sewers were about
to make a further investigation of the case, he had no
doubt but they would afford every aasistance in their
power to elucidate this important inquiry.
Mr. Woolrycb, on the part of the commissioners,
promised to render every possible information; and the
Coroner then adjourned the case until Monday next.