The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-19 00:00:00

TFEE SUN, LONDON, ,MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 19, 1850.

COURT-MARTIAL' ON LIEUTE-
NANT SYMONDS, R.lll.

PLYMOUTH, AUGUST 15.—This morning, at nine
o'clock, a naval court-martial assembled on board her
Majesty's ship Impregnable, 104, for the purpose of
trying Jermyn Charles Symonds, a first-lieutenant of
Royal Marines, on the following charges :-
1. That the said First Lieutenant Jermyn Charles
Symonds, of her Majesty's Royal Marine forces, while
borne on the books of her Majesty's ship Trinco-
malee, in commission, did not, on the 4th of April,
1850, return to the said ship, then being in the har-
bour of St. Jago de Cuba, until after eleven o'clock
P.M. that day, whereas he ought to have returned on
board the said ship at eight o'clock on the evening of
that day.
2. For that the said First - Lientenat Jermyn
Charles Symonds. while so borne as aforesaid, when
he returned to the said ship after eleven o'clock P.M.
of the said day, as aforesaid, did force lis way on
board the said ship, when ordered by the officer of
the watch and the sentry on the gangway of the said
ship to keep off.
The Court was composed of the following officers:
—President, Lord John Hay, CB , commodore of
the first class, and second in command of her Maje-ty's
ships and vessels at this port; Captain Sir Thomas
Maitland, C. 8., of the Impregnable ; Captain Note,
C.B , of the Agincourt; Captain William Hop- John-
stone, of the Albion ; and Captain Augustus L. Kuper,
of the Thetis. Mr. William Eastlake officiated as
deputy-judge-advocate.
The usual warrants for ordering the holding of a
court-martial having been read, the prisoner pleaded
not guilty to bath charges. The first witness then
called was—

Lieut. John Seacombe, who said—l was first. lieu-
tenant of the Trincomalee on the 4th April last, at
St. Jago de Cuba. The prisoner was borne on the
-ship's books, and was doing duty on board that ship.
During the prosecutor's absence from that ship on
that day I gave prisoner leave to go on shore. I ac-
quainted him that he must be on hoard by eight P.M.,
telling him that it was the captan's orders that every-
body should be on board.. He did not return at
that time. I reported his absence to the -captain on
my .reporting my usual rounds a. few minutes
after nine o'clock. I gave other officers leave on
that day. They all returned at the time, to the best
my knowledge, with the exception of Sir. Bas-
tow, the acting mate; but. I have for the first time to-
day officially known that he was out of the ship—so
much so, that on the captain asking me at nine
o'clock on the evening of the 4th of April, if all the
officers were on board, I told him they were all on
board, with the exception of the prisoner.
By the PRESIDENT-It was not the practice of the.
ship to name any particular time to be on board when
giving officers leave. On every occasion when the
ship was under sailing orders, the officers were de-
sired to be on board at eight o'clock. Mr. Bestow
might have got leave to be later, as the captain was
on shore ; but when the other 'officers came on board
I thought that he was amongst them.
By Captain JOFINSTONE—I was not on deck when
the prisoner returned that night.
By Captain Sir T, MAITLAND—I said publicly at
the mess-table that there was no leave after eight
o'clock. I don t think that I gave prisoner clearly
and distinctly to understand that the ship was under
sailing orders, but I said, " You know the orders."
By the PITESIIDENT-1 am not positive that the
prisoner was at the mess-table when I gave the
orders.

By the prisoner—At the time, I did not know
that 'Mr. Bastow came on board with you, but I
heard it some time afterwards rumoured that there
was some person in the boat with you when you
came on board on that occasion. When the officer
of the watch and the sergeant of the marines made
their report to me the next morning, neither of them
mentioned anything about Mr. Bastow being in the
boat. I said to Mr. Bistow a day or two after that,
when I heard that there was some one in the boat,
I thought he was the likely man, and it was lucky
for him that I did not know it.

Second Lieutenant Charles Goodwin Fagin stated
that on the 4th April, on the captain leaving the
deck he ordered witness to allow no boat alongside
without the carain's permission. The prisoner got on
board during his watch about 12 o'clock. The boat that
the prisoner was in hailed before she came along side, and
was ordered to lay off. After the boat had been hailed
-by the sentry on the port gangway several times, the
mate of thewatch, Mr-Dent, made a report to witness,
andin eensequence of that report he went over to the
port gangway, and saw the shore•boat, at a little
distance from the ship, with the sitters in her. Tne
sentry at the port gangway was standing at the time
in the gangway. Witness immediately ordered Mr.
Dent upon no account to allow the boat alongside
until he had reported the circumstance- to Captain
Warren. Witnes' went below, and Clptain Warren
ordered no shore-boat to come alongside till daylight,
or after. Witness at once went on deck towards the
port gangway, where he saw the prisoner talking to
the mate of the watch. The boat was at some dis-
tance. On the following morning witness reported
that the prisoner on the night before had forced the
sentry's post on the port gangw-,y.
By Captain JOHNSTONE—When I saw the prisoner
on deck, Mr. Dent reported that the sentry's post
had been forced by .the prisoner, or words to that
effect.

By Sir. T. MmTLAsp—l saw the boat at the end
of the swinging boom; there was at the time a light
breeze, and it was starlight. •

Albert Dent exarninid—l was mate of the Trinco-
malee on the 4th of April last, at St. Jago de Cuba.
I was then officer of the watch. A boat came along-
side about seven bells, in which was the prisoner. I
heard her hailed, and ordered to lay off hefore she goc
alongside. In my opinion she was sufficiently near
to hear the hail to keep off. The officer of the watch
went down to report it to the ceptain, and during his
absence I had charge of the deck, end while he was
away I looked over the gangw.y and siiidto the pri-
soner, " You must not come up the side until the
officer of the watch has seen the captain." I walked
att, to see if the officer of the watch was coming. and
on returning towards the gangway I saw the prisoner
standing on the gangway. I told him he would get
into trouble, it being the captain's order that no boat
should come alongside. The officer of the watch then
returned.

By Sir T. MAITLAND—The pri.oner came up the
side of the vessel, but I did not see the sentry op-
pose him.

By the prisoner—When I reported to the officer of
the watch that the boat was alongside, he was leaning
on the netting, on the starboard side of the quarter-
deck, by the main rigging. I did not hear him inti-
mate to you, in any way, that you were not to come
on board or alongside.
Sergeant Smith, a non. cornmisaioned officer, proved
thst he was on deck on the night in qut,stion when
the boat came along,ide, and that he heard it slid that
no one was to come on board, and that after that the
prisoner came on deck.

By the COURT—TiIe orders were given clearly,
loudly, and distinctly to the boat to keep off, and for
no one to come On beard.

Private Slater, of the Royal Marines, fully cor-
roborated this.

This was the case for the prosecution.
The court having been cleared for a short time,
The prisoner made a statement to the effect that
he did not force his way on board on the night in
qwstion. But he believed there was a strange feel-
ing exhibited towards him by having him kept tour
months' in confinement, without asking him tor an
explanation. 'When he was alongside in the boat,
the midshipman of the watch looked over the side.
and, laughing, sail, " You must not come on board,"
and he thought it was a joke of his, and he treated it
as such by walking on Wald immediately after. He
tin n called

John Parlor, thia quartermaster of the watch, who
stated that the officer of the watch was asleep in the
Jacob's ladder when the boat was first hailed. Mr.
Symonds was not made a prisoner of while he was
there. He heard a reply from the boat after the
hail. which was " aye, aye."
Private Robert Witcher fully corroborated this
statement, and

Tne prisoner then called the midshipman, Mr.
Fortescue, who denied laughing when he looked over
the side.

Louis Pastow was also called, and a question was
put to him by the prisoner, " Were you in the bole
with me on the night of the 4th of April last at St.
Jago de Cuba?"

The PRESIDENT—You need not answer any ques-
tion that will tend tlodcrim. criminate yourself.
'to answer.
Prisoner--T6'she4ll arkinidneoething,else.
Private James Brielle
vPhodeinfohrue ei
attnhee
on board.
not
being taken into custody
haanrgdeorno
The court was then cloar,
its re-opening, the Court declared twoth hfi"-rusrtsc'
he in part proved, and the second cheer to
t be fully
proved; and adjudged the prisoner to losege
years
rank as a lieutenant, and to be severely reprimanded,
and he was reprimanded accordingly.
The CJurt then broke up.

CHARGE of ATTEMPTING to DEFRAUD

the ROYAL lASURANCE CO lif'd~vY.
At the police court, Liverpool, on Friday, a very
serious charge againit Mr. Georg., Smith, of 169,
Scotland-road, tailor and draper, together with aper-
%on called Mark Caron, was preferred.
Mr: S. Booker, of Castle-street, conducted the case
on the part of the insurance company.
From the statement of Mr. Booker it appeared that
Mr. Smith applied to the Royal Insurance Company
for the purpose of effecting a policy of insurance upon
his stock -in-trade and shop fixtures. The amount of
ate policy was 8701., and the date of the same was 15`h
of May. 0 i the following 13th of July the premises
were partially destroyed by fire, and on the following
26th be (Smith) put in a declaration, which was taken

before Mr. Rushton, in which he stated that his 'wises
were over 1,5001. for goods, and 501. for fixtures. Tee
fire took place on a Saturday night, and was after-
wards extinguished. In Smith's declaration he averred
that he bad lost the whole of his books° of
accounts, except two ledgers, and that he
was therefore unable to make an accurate
and detailed statement of his losses, and that the
amount claimed in the declaration was under the
actual sum. That in March previous he had taken
stock, at which time be found it was then worth
1,6001., and he had added to his stock to the extent of
801. It should have previously been stated that the
charge now before the bench arose from the fuct of
three men, Edwin Roe, William Roe, and Mark Car-
son, having been brought up previously for having. in
their poSsession a quantity of woollen cloth, supposed
to be stolen. This charge failed, but it fumed out in
the evidence that it was got from Smith's, and that
the numbers on it corresponded with those in his in-
voices. The two Roes were discharged, eut Carson
was kept in custody, and an application made by Mr.
Booker for a warrant to arrest Smith on a charge of
conspiracy to defraud the Royal Insurance Company.
In support of this charge, Mr: Booker called
Mr. Percy Dew, the manager of the Royal Ex-
change Company, who stated that in May last the
prisoner Smith applied to have his sock-in-tt ade and
shop fixtures, 169, Scotland-road, insured. It was a
new policy. The sum insurred was 8701. A fire
took place on the premises on the 13. h July, and on
the 26th Smith handed in his deelaration, for the
purpose of having his claim adjusted. The declara-
tion now produced is in tfie same state as when re
ceived by the Royal Assurance Company. Along
with the declarations were extracts or copies from his
invoices, one of which was headed from Ellis and Co.
29th Ai ay. 1850, fur the sum of 271. 7s.
Sarah Roe was next called—She said she was the
wife of Edwin Roe. Tney live in Roscommon-street,
where they keep a beer-noose. On a Wednesday morn-
ing Mr. Smith came to their house about Line o'clock.
He first came to the kitchen, and afterwards up to the
parlour, with her husband and the prisoner, Mark Car-
soneWitnees followed up to the bar, and was in the aceof
washing the glasses, when her husband came to her
and said, " Sarah, you are wanted to go out." She
replied that she would not go until she had done her
work, as she had no servant. Ile then said that
Smith, wanted her to go for an inch measure to
Whitechapel. Witness replied it was " such a way"
to a piece-broker's in ‘Vhitechapel. He replied toat
she might take her time, as she was not wanted back
r until te elve o'clock. She then went to dress herself,
and when she went into the bedroom for her bonnet
she flstind Smith " prizing" the old lock of the box now
produced. &le took no notice of the circumstance, and
went and obtained the measure as directed, and re-
turned at ten minutes to twelve o'clock.. She gave
the measure to. Smith, and he and Carson left. She
atterwards misted the box. The box belonged- to her
husband's father, who made them a present of it when
they were married. She saw it at the police- officatieday.
It is the same box that she has bad at her house, otily
that it has a new lock upon it. On last Sunday
Smith sent a boy to their house, and stated that he
wanted to speak to witness; he afterwards came to
her house, and said that if any one spoke to her about
the box she was neither to own or to mention it.
Smith was frequently at their house since th fire.
When she saw Smith on Sunday she asked him it
her husband would .get out, when he replied, "YeS,
Counsel, to the police, and that he would be home
by three o'clock on Monday ; as it was his brother
Willy who bad stolen the cloth from off the railwaY."
The prisoner Carson was present at several interviews
with Smith in. the house.
Mr. George Smith, on being sworn, said that he
was engaged to investigate the amount of the claim
made by Smith, the prisoner, on behalf of the Royal
Insurance Company. He saw the invoices neiv pro •
duced, and .believes that it was Smith who showed
them to him. He saw the one now handed to him
from Ellis and Co. It. has marke on the margin of
the invoice, namely 5,853 and 5,852. The prisoller
Smith claimed a loss .upon those goods. The cloth
WAS produced, and the witness identified two nieces
as being those mentioned in the invoice. [Mr. Rush-
ton here said—Grant a warrant.] When he went to
the premises he and his colleague in the investigation
formed en opinion as to the extent of the loss sustained
by the fire. It was not over 2001. or 3001., and
Smith's claim was over 1,500/. It was nut usual for
a person having the business that Smith had to keep a
stock to the extent he stated.
Detective-officer Makes proved getting the box in
Latimer's. It contained the cloth now produced,
among other things.
Mr. RU:4ITON here said that the present prosecution
was a very proper one—not only in justification 'to
the R qui Insurance Company, but to ,the public
at large. Ha would remand the prisoner to Wednes-
I day next.

you- what we should have dune in the air, and how
we should have gone on to see if spring was advanc-
ing. This was not one of the positions in which to
exclaim Facilis descensus Averni. Happily for us,
this was his 109:h ascension, and it does not appear
that he has ever fallen. We were heartily glad, how-
ever, to see him return safely. The Lieutenant was
as calm and unruffled as Baptiste, and we drank a
glass of Madeira to our good acquaintance."
M. Lemoine then gives an account of the course,
taken by the balloon, and of the descent, which was
skilfully and happily effected near Precy, in the de-
partment of the Seine-et-Marne. He concludes as
follows :—" Now that I have lett the balloon, I have
no greater desire than to return to it."

CHINA MARKETS.
CANTON, JUNE 20.
IMPORTS.

Cottons—The transautivna,tiOugh at low rata., have
been conbiderubl:!.

Raw Cot.tords—Of B mhay the sal,s have been 9,000
hales 4t 8.1 ti 8.5 f,r No. 1. 7.7 so 7.9 for Nu. 2, and
7.0 .to 7 4 for No. 3.. B-11,1a1 noralual at 8.0 to 8.5.
Madras, 100 bales sold at 7.9 to 8.5.

Cottol Yarn has deoliuul. Orly 200 hal,s sold at
dolls 24 a dolls. 26 for No.. 16 u 24, dulls. 24 50 a doil.a.
26 fnr Nus. 28 a 32, and dulls. 26 a dulls. 27 fur Nus.
38 u 42.

Lung Cloths—We qnote Greys weighing 5i to 54
eattles, done. 2 05 a dolts. 2 15; 61 a 64 eatties, dolig.
2 25 a dolt,. 2 35; 71 a 7:4 ealtle4, culls. 2 50; and
Whitert, 563 a 63,, dot.. 2 to a doils. 2 20'; 64s a 66g,
dulls. 2 45 a dolls. 2 60;
.684 a 725, dolt,. 2 70 a dolts.
2 80. The sales have heen 55,000 pieces (.1 the former,
and 17,000 of the Ltt-r.

Ain:r.can Good—The !ales of drills amount to
19.00 ut dulls. 2 25 to dolls. 2 30 for 30 yards, and
dulls. 3 to dulls. 3 05 fur 40 yards. :Meetings are in little
demand, at dolls. 2 20 to dolls. 2 25. Jeans much
wanted—none in market.

Woollens—Prices have slightly improved.
Sianish Stripes—We quote the colotirs of hest marks:—
scarlet, dolls. 1 21;. purple, dolls. 1 02; dark blue, 953 ;
black, 80c.; bromi, dolls. 1 12; light blue, doll. 1; yeilow,
doll. 1 12; green, dull. 1; ash, 98,1.; gentiuneda,
1 48; and other qualities, 100. to 15e.lower. SAes 2,200
piece.'.
Lung Ells-7,600 pieces have been disposed of, at for
best dolls. 8 10; purple, dolls. 7 07; dark
blue, doalillat.y7s4cssr7fblack, dolls. 6; brown, dolls. 8; light
blue, dolls. 7 62; }allow, dulls. 7 80; green, dulls. 7 10;
-ash, 6; geutionella, d.Als. 7 35; other desctiptinns.
15c. a 25c. loser. Lai go supplies expected.
Cawlets-840 pieces sold at dolls. 20 a doll!. 23 50
fur English, and dolls. 17 a dulls. 19 for Dutch.
Habit Cloths—Dolls. 1 10 a dolls 1 20.
Medium Cl,4s,—Dulls. 1 25 a dolls. 1 40.
Lastings—:-Dolls. 6 60 a dulls. 7 50 for 25 inch, and
dolls: 13 a dolls: 17 f,r 31 inch.
Mouls—Sales 2.000 piculs, at d:.lls. 255 a dolls.
2 15 fur Nailrod, dell.'. 2 90 a dolls. 3 20 for hoop, dolls.
2 15 a dulls. 2 70 for bar, &Ili.. 4 20 a dolls. 4 30 for
small round,°Q.nd dolls, 7 a doff-. 8 for wire.— Li,sid: En
1.1-h, doll.. 6 50; American scarce, at c,ollz. 680 a dulls.
7.—Sputter: dolls. 4 80 0.,d0115..5.—Tin Plates: dulls. 9

dolls. 9 50.—Tin: Banea, dolls. 19—Steel: dolls. 4 a
dolls. 5 20.

Glopeog—Crude, dulls. 70 a dolls. SO; Clarified,
dolls. •130 a dolls. 140.

Cochi:,e4l—Java nominal at dolls. 100 a dolls. 110;
Mexican dolls. 120 a dolls. 130. Stock hr e.
Straits and ludi% Produce—The sales have been ex-
tvnsi%e, but st a decline in prices.
Pepper—Noce in market wanted at dolls. 590 a
dolls. 6 20 for Mick, and dolls. 7 a dolls. 7 50 for white.
Betel Nut-2,000 piculs sold. Present quutstions,
dolls. 2 50 a; dolls. 2 60.

Sandal Wood—iouTh Sea, dolls. 4 60 a dolls. 5 10;
dolls. 3 70 a dolls. 5 50; Malabar, &Ha. 9 50 a
dully. 10.

• Opium—Present quotations—Palm dolls:470; Be-
hares, dulls. 480; Mums. cloth. 6W; Turkey, dulls. 490.

EXPORTS.
Teas.—Black—The new Congou is arriving fast, 150
minters are in the market, of which 70 ch,,ps have
arrived. It is said the teamen would accept 28 tads
tore the first class choir, but we have nos he.ird of any
afers near that rate, 22 to 23 !dela being the prif-es
talked of by the foreign merchant; with this d;ft,recbe,
it will be probably a month ere the market is openci.
The quality is generally good, and very fsw cf the tarry-
fisvoured sort.

The transactions during the month have been prinoi-
pally in Canton tea for England, for which market pur-
chases have been made, of Young ilyson, 3,000 a 4 000
holt;•chesits at 15 a 24 taels, and 6,000 half:elle:4, of Gun-
powder at 12 a 16 Earls for common to fair, and 20 a 30
taels for go+id to best.
Musters of the rev crop of Ning Yong have arrived,
but have ti+ t been put on the market as yet.
Of new Plain Orange Pekoe about 1,000 half-chests
are down, but no price is named fir them. The crocks
of old taa are but little reduced since Our last rep,rr, and
consist of about 5,000 chests of Congou• and Souchoriv,
held «.t 11 a.lB taels, and s;on3e small stocks of Nil.g
and plain Orange Pi.:koe. Of country
Green nitre are about 3,000 half cheats lefr.
Raw Sdk—Soine of the new crop has arrived, and we
quote No. 1, 228 No. 3, 273 dulls.
600 ',lents were bought fur the United Sta'..es
at 14 31,113. 30 c. to 1 t dolls. 50 c., but the remaining
atoek is held at 16 dolls.

F.eights—To E-gl4od, 31. 104. To Americo,
Ex,tiLO,ge and lioiliou.--Ou Lkm,lon, 4.. 71r1 to 4s. 8„1.
On Indl3, -E. I. C9mpenie Acerpted. 222 rs. Calitik-
nian Gold, dolls. 15 90 per 4,z. troy. Sycee-5 per cent.
etniurn.
SHANGHAE MARKET--JUNE 11.
• I ‘i POR TS.

• Oar market as jet shows n, appearance of recovir•
ing from the severe shouk it received by the farnina last
year, though the healthy appearance of the crops prc-
mi.es a 13:iuuteous nary,. st.

Llug Cloths—The iransietions in these goOs are re-
portett.a 25,000 p emsg, ny and 15.000 pieces whitr•
ylisht deolino upvn ia3t q .tatiOM fur the I.J Wer
qo stook or both kindi 540 000 vecel.
:American Goods—:)rills nousinal at-2 dolls. 55 c. f
40 yards. Sales 500 Pieces. and black 9,900. Iu Sheet•
ane nothing doing; stock 5,500 pt.( _ .

,
VV,0)11- bttip,s—Sinne 16 COO pieces hays
b_
cttfu sold At from 90 c. d 211.7 e.

E Is— Che sal,s ae only 360 pieces inferior
6C-4,let «t 7 (rol-s.
Chtutz-2,400 pieces sold at 2 dolls. 40 c. to 2 dolls.
90c •
Leal—There is no stock—the last sale was 2.000 pi-
culs Spini,h at 6 dolls.
Strors rrodu, e—N•ithing farther t:) report, except in
ricc-, which has ciecliu d to consequence of the continued
time w,ather and arrivals. W. no vqu ,te Arracan, doll.
1 85; Rilli an,l dolls. 2 2J u ficunal ; Form.ma,
doll. 190 to doll. 1 95. _ _

Oeium—The largo arrivals (..f M.Awa. and the
sire of holden; to sell, f 145 caus-d a conliderabbl de-
cline in price*, and wi.iich have how gone tiown to
dollars 610 tor besr, at which itir4es',leshave
-lately been math?. Deliveries since the 13th ultimo
rbert Compton's 4,700 cheios. Patna advanced
may be about 570 chew,. ; and socks with the Sir
to dolls. 550 for now attn. our la.t Ames, but has re-
ceded again. Tne deliverixs are sin. t 1 as compared with
the past two years. about 160 chests, showing a eonsi-
derahle talli, X off in the past ;ew months. Pre,cat
quotations dolls. 430, air; dolls. 495 iAtlw. Stock 500.

EXPO RTs.
Tes—No transactions. Tti new crop is said to be
abuudap,t and go. d.
Kxw silk-800 !Jules nold at last month's rates. 'flit
new er,,p is reported to be of superior quality, but de-
ficient iu quantity, to lase years ; dulls. 440 is said to be
asked in the interior tor f: (pal proportions of Nos.
tut.

S.ik Pima Gods can be purchased at slightly lower
rates.

Freights—To England, 31. lOs. a 41.
Exchange and Balli,,n—On Lond,w, 4s. 7ifl. to 4s. 83.
Oa India, Comp my's acc.:pte3 234 N. a 236 Go-
vernment Syce,, dulls. 143 50; Wousung, Dohs. 142 44.
Gold, dolls. 203.

among otheftiont killed. some very fins salnzo ferax.
The Shin is literally swarming with fish, and nothing
is wanting to produce first-rate angling but a fall of
rain. which we have now some appearance of. The
Inver, Lasford, Helmsdale, and Brora, are very low,
and from the want of a large lori'a at the top of these
rivers, the sport has not been so good as on the Shin,
for the Shin runs from a lake eighteen Highland miles
long. You are not perhaps aware what a Highland
mile is (writes our friend). It was two Highland
miles from Inchnadamph Inn to Loch-Inver, and
might have continued to be so, bad not big Lawson,
the road surveyor,. gone over it with his Sassenach
measuring barrow, and made it fourteen miles. From
these measurements you can guess what keeps the
river Shin in order during the dry weather.
THE SEA^STATIONS.—Though the matter is only
remotely connected with sport, it may interest some
of our readers to know that throughout the Chanonry
Point district, which comprehends the fi,hina; stations
of Kilmuir, Fort George, Delnies, Nairn, Crcmarty,
Newt,a!l, and lovergerdon, the present season has
proved the most unproductive of a series of bad
years. , The superintendent of those f►shings is of
opinion, .however, founded on the long experience of
thirty-six years, that in salmon fishings, as in every-
thing else, there are periods of plenty and scarci!y,
and he anticipates that at no distant season the sea
will again yield to the nets its " fruits" of fish in
abundance.—lnverness Courier.

COPYHOLD ENFRANCHISEMENT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sta,—Tne Bill of Mr. Aglion by has been defeated, but
the copyhoiders will renew their cla m next session
with redoubled viirour.

It is not likely that measures sanctioned by the
Archbishop of Canterbury, the Dake of Sutherland,
Lords Ashburton, Overstone, anti Cotteubam, and hal-
lowed by one of the last votes cf Feel, can, be other-
wise than founded in justice.
• Full compensation to the Lords, nntwithstanding
their past immunities, from the restoration, when, in
the plenitude of po over, and by one of the earliest Acts
of the reign of Charles the Second, they created an
hereditary excise, the origin of the present impost; as
a compensation for their own fines and services to the
Crown and State.

It is very unwise in them to he governed by the
manoeuvres of a body of unscrupulous speculators in
manors and grasping stewards.'
. The consent of three-fourths of the copyholders re-
quired by Mr. Henley's amendment would never be
obtained. Mortgages, infancies, absence abroad,
tunidirv, and a variety of other causes, would prevail
against it—to say nothing of the manceavres of
opposing lords and stewards, with the rolls of the
manor in their power. There would, with clever
management, be scarcely a manor in the kingdom in
which the lords might not compel, and scarcely a
large manor in whicn the copyholders could claim
entranchisement ; and if this be true, such a 13d1 would
be a lords' Bill—a mere mockery. to the copy-
holdere—a Bill in direct violation to the
principle of equal justice in legislation—a Bill, not
in appearance so great a monster as the statute of
Charles the Second, but, in truth, based on a more
grovelling principle, the duplicity of professing to
serve, whilst it was intended to destroy the just
claim of the poor copyholder.
The interest of the lords is in a very large pro-
portion of the manors quite infiniteSsimel, and really
valueless, in the most oppressive cases of fines arbi.
treble not etceediog one-eleventh of the rents. In
all cases of change for the public welfare, the smaller
interest has yielded to the larger, particularly in the
cases of commons and tithes, wherein legislation has
been very beneficial to the lords.
The period has arrived in which the landed inte-
rest should not be divided ; the lords of manors and
large lauded proprietors should cultivate the friend-
ship of all, even of the present proprietor; but the
discussion that will certainly arise if, in the next
session, the lords refuse absolutely, or seek exorbi-
tant terms or enfeanchisenwnt, will produce a spirit
of antagonism between the large and small land-
owners.

I urn, Sir, your ohedient gprvanf-,
A COPYHOLDER.

TRAGICAL E VENT.

On the 6th inst. Mr. J. W. Dutton, the eldest son
of the lion. J. W. Dutton, cf Bibury house near
Pairford, Gloucestershire, and graudsan of Lord Sher-
borne, with three other gentletnen and some guides
(headed by the enterprising Johann Lauener, of Lao-
terbrunnen), left Interlachen to hunt chamois amongst
the mountains of the Bernese Oberland in the neigh-
bourhoud of the Blumlis Alp and
,Jungfrau. The
day succeeding their departure they were detained by
inclement weather at some chalets, only inhabited be
cowherds in the height of summer. Oa the Bth they
pr ,ceeded to range a district between the Sehilthote
and the Tschingeiham for chamois. During the dm.
two• of the party left . and returned to Interlachen,
being tired of the sport, leaving Mr. Dutton and Mr .
Roh,-o.t Ward Jackson, a gentleman from Cleveland
in Yorkshire, who alone w,re anxious to pursue it.
On the.morning of Friday the 4th they left at 4 A.M.
a chalet, where they had slept, in • the Seefinenthal
end proceeded over tee Furke, a pass separating tta
Kienaal from the Seefiuenthal ; thence they went
along over a large tract of snow, the extreme head o'
the Kienthal, and crossed an intermediate ridge 01
,teep rocks into the Gernschithal, which is a tributary
to the Kienthal. S)111e chamois being descried at a
great distance the party remained at a certain
point, whist Lauener took a long circuit, hoping to
drive them in the direction of the rifle. Upwards of
an hour and a half was required to accomplish this,
which was an unsuccessful attempt, on account of
the chamois having scented him. Upon the occasion,
of V•e party leaving their point of view to join Laue-
ner the following sad accident occurred :—Mr,
Dutton, being slightly cold, gave his rifle to
a guide to carry that he might more effectually tee.
his Alpine staff in descending diagonally the steep
incline of the mountain, covered with bow slaty
deposit upon its rocky
.foce. Mr.. Dutton hevine
slipped whilst placing his foot upon it piece of rock,
tell upon his left thigh and hip, and at the same mo-
ment the guide, who was immediately behind him,
carrying his rifle, stooped to break his fell and pre-
vent his sliding down
.the slope. The fastening by
which the leather sling was attached to the r;fl we,
not strong, and slightly out of repair. Mr. Dutton
was seen endeavouring to improve it upon two occa-
sions—one, the day before; the other on the fatal
morning. The movement of the guide in order to
save Mr. Dutton had the effect of causing a strain
upon the sling more than it could bear. It accord-
ingly gave way, the rifle fell from him and dropped
down the slope, pointing straight up it. All the party
viz.,: Mr. Dutton, Mr. Jackson, and the three guidee,
were then. close together. Scarcely a moment
had elapsed , when one barrel went off, and the
ball must have passed amongst them ; scarcely
another moment passed ere the second barrel
went vff,(the rifle not being at more than a distance
of about five yards). This second explosion was with
more deadly effsct, for poor Mr. Dutton WAS shot
through the stomach. His first . request was to be
carried down to the snow, and to the edge of it, there-
fore, he was taken. Mr. Jackson having endeavoured
to stanch the wound as best he might .with few ma-
terials, immediately dispatched one of the guides to
Interlachen, to Mr. Dutton's travelling companion,
the lion. J. C. Murray, with a request to proceed
with medical aid to the village of Kien, the first place
down the Kienthal where any, even rude, accommo-
dation was to be obtained. Mr. Jackson being in-
formed by the guides that some materials might be
obtained from some chalets at a moderate distance
sent another guide off for the purpose of regaining it.
After waiting above an hour one man arrived with
two poles and a sheet, bringiog word that it might be
some hours before further assistance could be got.
This being the case, Mr. Jackson deemed it better to
commence transporting his companion with the four
individuals the party then consisted of. They had
first to ascend 1,000-or more feet (this being about
7,.000 feet above the sea) to repass the before -mentioned
ridge of reeks, and then to descend for nearly two miles
diagonally over snow, which towards the bottom was
extremely slippery. Whilst passing over it the cow-
herd saw at a distance one of his cows in rather a
dangerous posiion, and in spite of bribery, entreaties,
and threats, left the party to continue, as best they
might, their difficult route, rendered much more so
by their being.so greatly overweighted. Further de:
tails would only prove, that after passing the snow,
their route was still steep and fatiguing, so much so,
that it dccupied, from first to last; nearly eleven hours
to convey the wounded man to Kien. He bore the
whole journey with the most 'patient and determined
resignation, being from the first convinced that his
wound was mynah It was, indeed, al ways too evi-
dent. Murray, with two medical men, had ar-
rived shortly after the party reached Kien, when their
united opinion was, that nothing could save him, and
that had the accident occurred where medical aid was
close at hand, life could not have been prolonged more
than one hour.. The ball bad entered the under part
Of the right thigh, and proceeding through the intes-
tines and bladderehad come out under the left rib, near
the' hip. Mr. Dutton expired, after continuing to
beer up with the most admirable fortitude, at 9 A.M.
on Saturday, the 10:1). his remains were conveyed
to Interlachen the ,•atne day, and were interred in the
benutirtil tittle Peee,tent churchyard of Stieg, one
mile distance, being, followed to the grave by the
English visitors, among whom be bad during his stay
excited a lively interest.

lADVERTISEMEI4T.j—THE EA I,th of ALDBOROUGH
AND HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—An astounding cure by this miraculous
.medicine, arter every other means had tailed. See extract (rein lib
Lordship's letter, datbd " Villa Messina, Leghorn, Feb. 21, 1845.
Professor Holloway—Sir : I beg to acquaint you that your pills hay, ef-
fected a cure Ma disorder in my liver and stomach which all the moo
eminent of the facility, at home and all over the continent, had not
been able to effect nay, not ever, the waters of Carlsbad or Ma-
rienbad. (Signed) ALDB01011308." TheSe WOW:hand pill• will
cure aay disease of the liver or stomaeli.L.Sold (also Holloway's
Ointment) at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, aad
by 311.041029VP1F1 AFOI44RBt, ths -civiunst World.

PRICES OF SHARES

IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM-
. PANLES' STOCK.
From the Official List.
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING.
LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16.

ZOINT-STOCIE slarc-xs.

Name of Company.

Australasia • • •• • • • • • •
BritshiS orth American
Commercial of London
C .•
Gloucestershire • • • • • •
Londn and Westrainstr

Loudon Joint4tock
Provincial of Ireland..

Ditto, New.........
NAtonal of INland ..
Nat,Provncial of Eng.

MUG; Now. • • •
South Australia ......
Union of A ustralia..

Ditto
Union of L0nd0n.....
Linton of Madrid .....

Name of Company.

Albion •• •• ••
Alliance trit. and For

Ditto Marine. •• • • • •
Atlei .........
Britist, Commercial ••
Cloriel,Med.& Gen. Life
Eazle .. • • . •
Curopean Life "• • • • • •
General •••••• • • .• • •
Gboo •• •• •• ••
G sardian
linperiai Fire ........
imperial Life ........
Indemnity Marine....
Law Fire
L.sw i tfe ••••• • • • ..
Leal and General Life
Licensed Victuallers ..
London Fire •• •• • •
London Ship
...........
-
wed. Inviid & Gen. Life
stational Lean Fund..
Stational Life....
Palladium Lite
Pnosaix • •
Professional Life.. • • •
Fi °Lector Life
Provident Life • • •• . •
rock Life•• • • •• •• •• • •
Loyal Exchange

111 Fire..

mitt, rite
'jolted Klugdom
,dversal Life
,14toria Life •...

Name of Compaay.

East and West In 4 a ...
Elst Country •• „
London •• • • •

Ditto Bonds ........
it.K atharino • • •• • • • •

Ditto, Scrip.• .. •• .

Ditto- Bondi • • • • • • • •
Southampton • • • • • • • •

Name of Company.

;haring-cross •• •• ••
iouthvrrk •• .• •!•• ••

Ditto Nw of 7% p.c.
Waterloo • • •••• • •

Ditt Old Ann. of 4/.
Ditto Nw ditto of 71.
auxli al I .• •

Dividend
per

Annum.

243.
51. per cent.
71. par cent.
61. per cent.
51. per cent.
151 per cent.
CI. per cent.
61. per cent.

61. per cent.
81. per cent.
8/. per cent.
51. per cent.
61. per cent.
51. per cent.
6/ per cent.
61. der cant.
61. per cent.
61. per cent.

Dividend
per
Annum.

31. Ills
7114 s 6d & bs
61. per cent.
135.6 d.
7s. 6d.
st,r ct.& bs.
31.
14s.

61. per cent.
5/.
121 per cent,
12s.
11. sh.

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10s.
l es.
15s.per share
4%7. per et.
51. per cent.
al. per cent.
51. per cent.
:34. k. sh.gc hi.
57. per cent.
51. per cent.
11. ss. &In.
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V. per ceSt.
E. 10s.

11. 6s.
41. per cent.
to% pr cnt.
51. per cnt.

al. pr cent,
20e. per sit.
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41. per cent.
4 per cent.

4341. pr cent.
21. per cent.

33RIDG:

Dividend
per

Anuuna.

1355. per cent,

11. 4s. Od.
11. ls. Od.

virATiest.-'

Amount
of

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40 0 0
50 0 0
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100 0 0
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2b 0 0
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50 0 0
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500 0 0
100 0 0
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50 0 0
11 0 0
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5 6
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36 10 0
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12 10 0
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i Dividend
game of Company. I per

Annum.

East London .• •• • • 81.
/rand Junction .• .... 41. per cnt.
dent •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 31. los.

Lambeth 51. per cnt,

Z s. d. Z s. d.
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100 0 0
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64
15
51.,
1294
533 k
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43%
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Paid.

'JewVr Lndu Brdge 2i. 10s.
Vauxhall .. • • •• ••
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West Middlesex pr cnt

G.131.8-ZIGHIP .O.NII CO,

blame of Company.

100 0 0
50 0 0
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Ditto frovincial....
srlehton • • ..
:Ity of London .. • • • •
lontinentalConsolidat.
qultable. • •• •• .•
mperial .• .... • 4 • • • •
,ndependent ....... • •
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Ditto. • .. .. • • • •
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•hcenix . • • .. •••• • ..
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'cited General
Teatintester Chartered
Ditto, New

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20 0 0
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..• , c.; Dividend Companies.
Companies.
Names of ,t 1 Dividend Names of
Price.per
, nor , Companies. it
;44 Annum. Price.
sr Annu.n.,
.£
A
kshtn& Oldh 971 71, 113 Macelesteill . 100. 21. 10s. 50
3arnsley -• • 160 121. Iso Neatk -- •• 100 161. ' 349
2 riznk&Abrg 150 Si, 85 Oxford.. -• • 105 '2O(. 185 ;irmingham 40 41. 85% Peak Forest. 78 31. 18s. 70
Ilventry.... 100 257. 2(8 ;Regent's.. • . 33 IL Os. 18%
,)arb) .•• • • 100 61. 63 Rochdale.... 85 41. 5()%
.111smre&Chs1133 3 is. 41 Sotnrset Coal is° 71.105. 130
;rand runctnlloo 41. 74 Do.Lk Fd St 12 61. p. c. -
;rand Surrey' 2/. Os. 32 Stffr(2 &Wore 140 281. 410
.rand Linionlloo 1/. lus. 24 Shrewsbury.. 125 151. -
Irantham .. I- I - - Stourbrldg, 145 201. 290
;ennt & Avni
~ 39 7s. 6d. 514 Severn and 1
„,''_. 24
Lancaster .1100 41. 32% Wye Rail. t 26 '''''
...e.ls& Livrp' 100 241. 310 Warwiek& !,eicester .... 100 51. 66 uirming. i
100 41. 643
.eicstr StNth 83 41. 48% Wamiekk lOO 31.
~.mehhoregb 142 701. 510 Napton..j 42
tonmouthshi 100 81, - Worcstr &-1 ~. 32. 43 ~.
iint;4mrysh 1 100 - - Birming. I I'
sieltnMwlary, 100 - - Wilts &D i.
rks -14 g. p
ILIST OP SCOTTISH CO/SOLPAIVXMS' PUZILIAS
Dividend Amount
Name of Company, per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
____
£ s. d. As. d 3,ink of Scotland ' V. per cent. 100 0 Q 100 0 0 180
Irltlsh Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 193
'aledonlan Bank
iity of Glasgow Bank
llydcsdale Bank - ••• • 6% per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 13%
lommercial Bank - - 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 169
•••listern Bank•• •• .• •• 6/. per cent. 25 u 0 10 0 Pl
clinb.ScGlasgow Bank 6/. per cent. 50 0 50 0 3
S
estshangeßnk of Scot 4/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 9)4
isle of Man. Company 7/. per cent. 10 007 0 0 National Bank 6I,E per cent. 50 0010 0 0 144 k
Nort
N'orthhof Scotland
Bank .B 4Lper cent. 20 0 0 50 0 2%
British Ba - - - - Royal Rank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 132
Union Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 88
Western Bank.-- •• 7/. per cent. 50 0 0. 50 0 0 71
Alliance Fire and Life 81%1.pr cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 201.1
B.Accord.Lifeand Fire - 20 0 0 010 0 British Guarantee Ins. 4/. per tent. •10 0 0 10 0. 144 .0d
•Jaledontan Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23
Colonial Life .. - 50 0 0 10 0 11. 3s. city of Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 0 20 0 21. 1
Edinburgh Life Incur 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0
201 e
East of Scotland Life - 10 0 0 015 0 - King. & Scot. Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 2
,lercules Insurance Co 7l. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 01
insur. Co. of Scetlnd 5l. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Life Assoc. of Scotland 61. per cont. 10 0 0 1 0 0 11. 18s
Mercantile Life .... •. 3% per et. 10 0 0 010 0 6s. Gd.
National Fire and Life 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 225.114
North British Incur 6pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 ' 25%
North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 100 I - 4cottish Life and Guar - 20 0 0 011 0 -
Acet. Mae. and Gen. Life - 000 15 0 icottish Union Imam. 6141. pr emit. 20 001 0 0 244.0 d
standard Life ...... • . 51. per cent. 50 0 0 45 0 9% United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 16s 3d
MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
-__.......r......-____ --.
A. B. d. 4. 3. d.
Auction Mart ••-• • • • • 21. ss. 50 0 0 - 25
kustralian Agiculturl 11. 100 0030 0 0 15
kngio-Mexican Mint.. 11. 10s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 211,E
Ditto. Half Shares.. - - 2 10 0
danada ......... •• .. 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 35%
Uppr Canada Bonds 51. per cent. - - -
r'ity Navigation .... - - - 951,4
Pen. Revere. & Invest. sp. c.& bs, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 -
Equitable Reversienry 51. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 106
Gen. Steam Navigation 11.8 s. 15 0 0 14 00' 27%
London Institution . - - - 78 15 0 -
Rnssell Institution.... - - ' 26 5 0 -
Peninsir& Orient.Stm. 8/. per cent. 50 0 0, 50 0 0 78
Reversionary Int. Soc. 43¢1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 96
Royal Mail Steam .. 6/ 18. 4. p. c 100 0 0 60 0 0 60
South Australian..... 11. per share. 25 00 , 0
025 0 1814 Van Dieman's Land. I - 100 0029 0 112

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS,
BRISTOL, AUG. 17.
STOCK EXCHAlnne.—The share market was dull and in-
active to-day. The only transactions reported were--
sEllersGreat Western, 57;% ex div. Midland, buyers, 33;
, 33;4.

LIVERPOOL, Atm. 17.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was a small business done to-
day, but prices were steady. The transactions were as fol.
1,,w :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Consolidated, 3914—Ditto,
Fifths, 94, Lancashire, 8%--London and North-
Western, 111 Ditto, New Quarters, 1-16 p.—Ditto, Fifths,
1/4 c. p.—Midland, 323/4—Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester,
Preference, guaranteed 8 per cent., 1234—South-Eastern and
Dover, 14th—Ditto (No. 4). Registered, 474.
MANCHESTER, Aua. 17.
STOCK EXCHANGE.--The share ' market to-day was
rather flat, and prices scarcely so Um as those of yesterday.
BIRMINGHAAL Ago. 17.
STocx ExCHANGE.—The recent reports of the London and
North-Western and Great Western Railway Companies, to-
gether with the proceedings at the annual meetings, have
produced a favourable effect upon their respective stocks.
At present, however, there is hate business doing, but prices
remain steady at about last London quotatiors.
YORK, AUG. 16.
STOCK F.XCRANGE.—The transactions to-day were as
follow :—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 145/—Ditto (New-
ence, 71A
castle Extension), 9%.—York and North Midland, Prefer-

THE DUCHESS OF KENT'S BIRTH-DAY.--Saturday
being the birth-day of her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, her tradespeople ht the West. end and Kensington
illuminated in honour of the occasion. Her Majesty's Theatre
was brilliantly illuminated, as Were also the premises of
Messrs. Cawtnorne and Hutt, in Cockspur-street, and of
Messrs. Vouillan and Leure, in Har,over-square, and many
o,liers -of her Royal Highness's tradesmen.