The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-06 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 6, 1850.

Lord for the efforts which he had made to settle
a vexed and difficult question. He thought ho had done
wisely in accepting the compromise which had
been offered to him and the operatives of the
country would have reason to thank him for the re-
mainder of their lives.---(fiear.)

Mr. BROTHERTON did not hesitate to say that this
Bill would be more efficient and be more beneficial to
the working classes than any other Bill which has been
passed into law, and he should give it his cordial sup-
port. He thought if they adopted the relay system thst
the Bill would be rendered a complete nullity.—(Hear.)
Mr. BRIGHT supported the clause. and suggested
that a Select Committee should be appointed to consider
the 'propriety of sanctioning relays before the House
passed the Bill.

(LEFT SITTING.)

STEAM

PrtICES OF SHARES

IN BANK,., ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COIL
COMPANIES' STOCK.
From the Official Li4t.
PUBLISHED EVERT TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING.
LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 4

lOUTT-STOCK Bii.liTITS.

same of Company.

Australasia •• •• • •
Britsh orth American
Ceylon .. • • .. • • • • • • • •
Commercial of London
Colonial.• ••
Gloucestershire .. . • • •
[onlan ..........
Lomin and Westminstr

London Joint-2,ock
Provincial of Ireland..

Ditto, New.— •• •• ••
National •f Ireland • •
Nat. Provncial of Eng.
Ditto, New. . •• •• ••
South Australia • • • • ..
Union of Australia....

IJnioa of L0nd0n.....
Union of Madrid .....

INS

same of Company.

Alliance Brit. and For.

Dividend
per

Annum.

24a.
51. per cent.
71. per cent.
61. per cent.
Si. per cent.
151 per cent.
61. per cent.
61. per cent.

6/. per cent.
111. per cent.
V. per cent.
51. per cent.
61. per cent.
5/. per cent.
61 per cent.
Cl. per cent.
61. per cent.
61. per cent.

.NCE C

Dividend
per

♦anum.

Ditto Marine. • • .• • •
At .
British Commercial .•
Clericl,Med.& Gen. Life
County • • • •
Crown • • •• • •
Eagle • . • . • .
European Life ••• • •
General .• • • ......
Globe
Giardian ...... • • • • • •
Imperial Fire •• • • • • • •
Imperial Life • • • . • • • •
Indemnity Marine • • • •
Law Fire •• • • • •
Law Life— • • • • • • • • ..
Legal and General Life
Licensed Victuallers • •
London Fire •••• • • ••
London Ship •.••• • ••
Marine............. • • • • • • • • • ••
&red. Invlicleic Gen. Life
national Lean Fund..
gational Life • • • • • • .• •
Palladium Lite
Pelican • • • • • • • • • • .. • •
Pricenix • • • • • ....... • •
Protector Life..
Provident Life
lock Lite • •••••
itoyal Exchange
inn Fire..

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

V. 10s.
711486dkbs
61. per cont.
138.6 d.
71. 6d.
spr ct.B4 be.
31.
143.
6s.
4% per cent.

Amount
of
Share.

A •. d.
40 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 •
100 0 0
100 0 0

A E. d.
500 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
, 20 0 0

61. per cent.
51.
121. per cent.
12s.
11. sh. & bs.

Stock.
100 0 0
500 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 •
100 0 0
50 0 0

U. 165.

X s. d.
50 0 0
11 0 0
5 0 0
5 6 a
5 0 0
10 0 0
10 0 0
5 • 0
5 0 0
All paid.
5 0 0

36 10 0
SO I 0
10 0 0
20 • 0
2 10 0
10 0 0
2 0 0
1 0 0
12 10 0
12 10 0
15 0 0
2 0 0
2 10 0
5 0 0
2 0 0

Price.

Price

204
5%
17
_71,4

10s.
10s.
12s.per share
01. per ct.
51. per cent.
81. per cent.
51. per cent.

5 0 0
25 0 0
25 0 0
100 9 0
50 0 0
20 0 9
PlOO • 0
00 0 0

15
51. i,
130
53
Z2B
15%

31. p. sb. & bs
W. per cent.
11. se. & be.
se.
it. per ceit.
61. 10s.
11. 6s.
41. per cent.
10% pr cnt.
51. per cnt.

100 0 0
6 0 0
Stock.

4 0 0
10 0 0
4 12 6

21 Os,

CANALS.
1
Names of F , Diyidendl , Names of Dividend
i er
Companies. xl per Price.
Companies.lA i Annpum. Pries'
ic Amin. se
- -.
£ X
Ashtn& Oldh 97 71. 113 Macclesfield . 100 21. 10s. 50
Barnsley.. • • 160 121. 180 Neath .... • • 100 161. 340
Brknk&Abrg 150 51. 85 Oxford.. •• • • 100 201. 185
Birmingham 40 41. 91 Peak Forest. 7$ 31.115. 70
Coventry....• 100 251. 210 Regent's •: •• 33 11. Os. 1136
Derby ••• • • 100 61. 63 Rochdale.... 55 41. 80%
EllsmrekChs 133 565. 41 Somrset Coal 150 71.105. 130
GrandJunctn 100 51. 85% Do.Lk7dSt 12 61. p. a. -
Grand Surrey 100 21. Os. 30 Stlfri &Wore 140 281. 410
Grand Union 100 11. 105. 24 Shrewsbury.. 125 lbi• -
Grantham .. - - Stoxrbridge.. 145 20/, 210
Konnt & Avn 391 72. 6d. 53( Severm and l 21. Os. -
Lancaster . 100, V. 82% Wye Rail. j 26
Leeds& Livrp 100 241. 820 Warvrick& 7 41. 6434
Leicester.... 118 51. 68 II irming, j 100
Letcstr &Nth 831 41. 4836 Warwick&
Loughboregh 142, . 701. 510 Napton..l 100 31. 42
Monmouthsh 100, 81. - Worcstr Sci
711 31. 48
Sintgoinrysk 100 - - Birming.
Steltnbfwbryi 100 - - Wilts & Brke - 145. 734
LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. prise,
Annum. Share.
_____-- -- - - --- --- -
.Z s. d. X s. d
sank of Scotland
British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 154
Caledonian Bank
City of Glasgow Bank . 61. per cent. -10 0 0 10 0 0 1234
jiydesdale Bank ••• • • • 63, per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 13%
Commercial. Bank •• • • 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 169
Eastern Bank .••• • • • • 61. per cent. 25 u 0 10 0 0 0
Edinbiallasgow Rank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 5/. 7s
Ezahangeßnk of Scot 4l. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 834
Isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 • -
National Bank 6% per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 15
Korthof Scotlandßanl 41. per cent. 20 0 0 60 0 8%
North British Bank - - _
-
Royalßank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 13034
Union Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 003
Western Bank.. ••• • • • 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 • 73
Alliance Fire and Life 8341. pr cent. 10 0 0 10 A 0 2034
B. Accord. Life and Fire - 20 0 • 010 0
dritish Guarantee Ins. 4/. per tent. 10 0 0 1 00is Id
Caledonian Fire Incur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 28
Colonial Life .. , - 50 0 0 1 0 0 11. Ss.
City of Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. 105
gd in burgil Life Incur 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 20
East of Scotland Life - 10 0 0 015 0
Eng. & Scot. Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 234
Hercules Insurance C 7l. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 e _
(mar. Co. of Scetlnd 5l. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Life Assoc. of Scotland 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 ,11. 155
Mercantile Life
National Fire and Life 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 225.6 d
Korth British Incur 6pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 2534
Korth & West of Scot 6l. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 -
Scottish Life and Guar - 20 0 0 •0 11 0 -
Scot. Mas. and Gen. Life - 0 0 015 0 1 -
Scottish Union Inarnce. 6141. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 i 235.0 d
standard Life ...... • . 51. per cent. 50 0 0 4 5 0 1 9%
United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 1165 OA
MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Prim.
Annum. Share.
d s. 4.
kuetion Mart • ....... 2/. ss. b 0 00. A.
- 25
kustrallan Agriculturl 11. 100 0 0 30 0 0 15
knglo-Mexican Mint.. IL 10s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 2134
Ditto, Half Shares.. - - 210 0 -
Canada ........• •• .. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 50
trppr Canada Bonds 51. per cent. - - 59
/My Navigation .... - - 91
Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp.c.Schs,2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 34
Equitable Reversienry 5/. pr cont. 100 0 0 1100 0 0 -
Gen.SteamNavigation 11. Is. 15 00)14 0 0 25%
London Institution ... - - 17315 0 -
Russell Institution.... - - 26 5 0 -
Peninslr& Orient.Stm. 81. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 1134
Reversionary Int. Soc. 4341. pr cent. 100 0 0 ,100 0 0 92
Royal Mail Steam.... 61 18.4. p. c. 100 0 01 60 0 0 58
South Australian ..... IL per awe. 25 0 0, 24 0 0 19
Tan Dieman's Land.. - 100 00,29 0 0 - i

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, JUNE 5.
STOCK EXCIETANGIL—The market was very active to-day,
with a alight improvement in prices. The transactions were—
Great Western Quarters, 143/4 —Midland, 38—London and
North-Western, 188 E Taff Yale, Four-and-a-Half per
Cents., par.

LIVERPOOL. JUNE 5.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market has been better to-day,
and prices higher. The transactions were as follow :—Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, Fifths 81. Is. 3d. dis. London and
North-Western, 108% Ditto, New Quarters, lA Ditto, Quarters Quarters (C), p. —Midland, 371j,—Ditto, Halves,
261 A dis. South-Eastern and Dover, Consol. (No. 3),
15 tAt —Ditto (No 4), Registered, 514 Ditto, Thirds, 5%—
York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 6 per
cent. till 1850, 6:V,—Ditto, 8/. paid, 6',. dis.—Great Southern
and Western, 81—Dutch Rhenish, dis.—Shrewsbury and
Chester (Oswestry and Chester), 5'V.
MANCHESTER, JUNE 5.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was but a moderate business
done to-day, but prices were firm. The transactions were
as follow :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 41—Ditto, Fifths, 9%
dis.—Ditto, 321. (late Extension), 10 dis.—Ditto (West
Riding Union), 8 dis.—Caledonian, 9%—East Lancashire.
g 9.16 - Ditto, Preference, Quarters, 6% London and
North-Western, 108—Ditto, New Quarters, 1-16 p.- Ditto,
Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (C',%B p.—Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 17 Ditto, Quarters
(No. 1), 9%—Ditto, Preference, 8% - North Staffordshire,
934 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 154—Ditto, Consoli-
dated Stock (No. 4), 5 3-16.
BIRMINGHAM, Julia 5.

Srocx EXCITANGL—The transactions to-day were as fol-
low:—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 834 dis.—Alidland,
37 Shropshire Union, 41
YORK, JUNE 4.

STOCK Exolimicip..—The transactions to-day were as
follow:—Great Northern, 101. Bs. 9d.— Sheffield, Rother-
ham, and Goole, N. Div., guaranteed 5 per cent., 17%

THE FORGERY ON THE SOUTH-

WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.

Yesterday Mr. William Edward Eicke and Mr.
Henry Septimus Eicke, who are charged with being
engaged in an extensive fraud and forgery on the
South-Western Railway Company, were further en-
amined before the llon. G. C. Norton, at Lambeth
Police-court. The investigation, which is one of
much importance, occupied a considerable portion of
the magistrate's time.

Mr2Phinn, the barrister, and Mr. L. Crombee,
from the office of Messrs. Burchell, Dalrymple, and
Co., solicitors to the railway company, appeared to
support the charge ; and Mr. Games defended the pri-
soners.

Mr. Phinn, addressing the magistrate, said be
had the honour to appear on the part of the
London and South-Western Railway Company, to
support the present charge, or rather charges,
against the prisoners, and it was his wish in
the first instance to state, for the informa-
tion of the prisoners and the gentlemen who
appeared for their defence, the precise nature of these
charges. He, in the first place, charged the prisoner,
Wm. Edward Eicke, with stealing a debenture bond,
and also with the commission of a forgery to procure
the transfer of the bond; and the other prisoner,
Henry Septimas Eicke, he should charge with being
an accessory after the fact, in stealing the debenture
bond. In order to understand the matter, it was
necessary that he should place before his Worship, and
this he should do in as concise a form as possible, the
precise mode in which the company carried on the
transactions in the department of their vast concern
in which the offence which led to the present charge
and investigation took place. The company, at the
period to which he should have again to refer, received
loans upon their debenture bonds, and it was the
custom when such loans were offered, to place such
applications before the finance committee, and, if
these gentlemen approved of the offer, a resolution
was passed to that effect. Information was then sent
to the parties making the offer, and a request made to
lodge the money in the banking-house of Messrs.Wil-
' liams, Deacon, and Co., the company's bankers, and
directions were then given to have the debenture bonds
prepared for the company's seal. This duty was dis-
charged by the prisoner; but before doing so it was also
his duty to make out, in a book kept for the purpose,
called the " rough calculation book," a calculation
of the interest in order to prepare a coupon for the
amount. It was then his (the prisoner's) duty to go
to Mr. Edwin Jones, a clerk in the accountant's office,
and obtain from him the date of the payment of the
money, by the parties lending it, to the bankers of the
company. By the ordinary custom of business, such
sums were paid in by an order or direction from the
treasurer's office which stated the object, in order that
there might not be any intermixture of such sums
with the ordinary receipts of the company. The
dates of the payment of such sums were furnished
by Mr. Jones, who had to post such entries into the
cash-book from the bankers' book ; and upon the date,
the amount, and the name of the party lending it
having been so given to the prisoner, he made out the
debenture bond.
Mr. NORTON—Then the payment of the money
into the bankers of the company precedes the making
out of the debenture bond.
Mr. Phinn—Yes, certainly ; and the date upon
which the money was paid would also be entered by
Mr. Jones in the "rough calculation book," with the
calculation of the interest in the first instance, aod
up to the half-year, and to such entry, if found right,
should appear the signature of Mr. Jones. But the
fact was, that this book was not to be found, and the
prisoner, William E. Eicke, being the last person in
whose custody it had been, he was served with a
notice to produce it. The rough book, with the cal-
culation, would also, in the ordinary course of busi-
ness, go through the hands of Mr. Heath, the prin-
cipal accountant to the company, and be checked by
him on all the preceding points, and, if found correct,
he would put his initials to it, and this would com-
plete the matter for the treasurer to sign and seal, and
after completion it was given to the prisoner. It
would then be the prisoner's duty to enter the deben-
ture on the register of the names and residences of
the debenture holders, and also to post it in the deben-
ture ledger, in which the amount secured upon it would
be entered to the lender's credit. There was also a
numerical ledger kept of the debenture holders, for the
convenience of keeping up the numbers, the debentures
being numbered in arithmetical progression, so that if
any number were paid off it could be used for a
new debenture. This book was also kept by the pri-
soner, and would be produced. He (Mr. Phinn)
would now come to the subject-matter of the charge
against the prisoner. On the 23d of January, 1849,
Messrs. Capel and Cc., the respectable brokers, in
Threadneedle-street, wrote to the treasurer of the
railway company, tendering 4,0001. on loan for five
years, at five per cent., stating that if the offer was
accepted the name of the party would be supplied.
This letter was entered in a book kept by the pri-
soner, in his own handwriting, and the offer, having
been placed before the finance committee, was ac-
cepted. The Messrs. Capel paid the money into the
banking-house of Messrs. Williams and Deacon, for-
warded the name of Mr. William Dickinson, of
Curzon -street, May-fair, as the lender, and requested
that one debenture bond should be for 2,0001. and
two of 1,000/. each. He (Mr. Phinn) wished here to
mention that the company, at this particular period,
were borrowing money under two different accounts,
namely, the old capital account, as it was termed,
and the new capital account, and the entries relative
to this,, particular transaction, and which were made
by Mr. Jones,• who received instructions to the
effect from Mr. Heath;, ',were 2,0001. out of old
capital, and 2,0001. new capital ; and at this
point the prisoner's scheme appeared to be con-
ceived. The 2,0001. old capital was to be divided into
two bonds of 1,0001. each, and the numbers given to the
prisoner, being old ones and paid off, were 54 and 55,
and in the numerical ledger the two bonds were found
entered by the prisoner to Mr. Dickinson. It would
then be the prisoner's duty to take the remaining
2,0001. in the new capital account from the next un •
nutnberefi in the new capital register, which was 366.
This he did, but at the same time filled up or entered
also another 2,0001. to Mr. Dickinson, at No. 367,
and it was this debenture bond that had been fraudu-
lently sealed, and the alleged transfer of it by Mr.
Dickinson forged ; and for stealing which, the com-
pany having received no consideration for it, the pri-
soner, William Edward Eicke, was now charged. It
would be seen by the dates and circumstances that the
prisoner, when he made an entry of the bonds of Mr.
Dickinson, at 6,0001., must have had two books before
him, namely, the finance committee book containing
the authority for the receipt of the 4,0001., and di-
rections to make out the bonds, and also the cash-
book, in which the amount received, 4,0001., was
entered. It was evident, also, that all the four bonds
made out in the name of Mr. Dickinson were pi-
pared at the same time, as it would be seen by
the numerical ledger in the prisoner's own hand-
writing that in a very few days afterwards applica-
tion had been made and was accepted from a Mr.
Carlton for two debenture bonds for 5,0001. each, and
they were made out by the prisoner, and numbered
368 and 369. It appeared from the date of the frau-
dulent debenture that it had been sealed on the sth
of March, and, assuming that this was the case, on
and after that date it would be in the hands of the
prisoner. A period having arrived when it was ne-
cessary to account for the No. 367, the prisoner
W. E. Eicke made an entry in the " debentures
falling due book," by which he had falsified the trans-
action. In that book there appeared entered the
three debentures granted to Mr. Dickinson for 4,0001.,
the two to Mr. Carlton for 5,000/. each, and in the
line preceding the last entry was one of a debenture
bond for 2,0001., No. 367, with the name of Henry
Salt. Here he (Mr. Phinn) begged to mention a fact
as singularly coincident, namely, that this very bond,
in the usual course of business' actually got into the
hands of Mr. George Salt, the banker, in Lombard-
street, and had been transferred by him to Mr. W.
Wilkinson, its present holder. On a reference to, and
an examination of all the books, no entry could be found
of any advance having been made by any person of
the name of Henry Salt, nor had any money been
received at the bankers' from such a person
on account of debentures, and if there could be any
doubt of the prisoner's guilt it would be supplied by
the fact that :though this very bond had been made
out by the prisoner himself in the name of Mr.
Dickinson, he entered it in the name of Mr. Salt.
On the 19th of March this very debenture bond,
367, was brought into the treasurer's office, but by
whom it did not appear, for transfer from Mr. Dick-
inson to Mr. John Wardour, of Princess-square, a
locality which it might hereafter be important to re-
member in connexion with the case. A regular
transfer must have been left with it, duly executed
by Mr. Dickinson, for the several transfers appeared
to have been made on the instrument itself.
Mr. NORTON inquired if the transfers were not re-
tained by the company ?
Mr. Phinn replied, that prior to 1848, they used to
be kept ; but since then they were given up to the
parties with the bond, being treated as documents of
title ; but if it had been left he did not think it would
have assisted the present inquiry, as the prisoner,
Mr. Edward Eicke, having access to it, would no
doubt remove it, as well as' the rough calculation
book, and other documents likely to affect his case.
The Learned Counsel traced the bond through the
different hands it had passed after the transfer, or
alleged transfer, from Mr. Dickinson to; Mr. John
Windsor, to its present holder, and concluded by
mentioning a circumstance quite conclusive of the
guilt of Mr. E award Eicke in the transaction.
The circumstance mentioned by Mr. Phinn was
the fact, that on the 29th of March the Messrs. Capel
sent in their account to the South-Western Railway
Company for a commission on the transaction of
4,000/., advanced through them by Mr. Dickinson,
and this very account was checked by the prisoner,
who altered it from a quarter to an eighth per cent.,