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LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, 1850.

identical goods mentioned in these invoices, and so
claimed for by the prisoner Smith as goods received
since the insurance was effected, and as part of the
property destroyed.
Thomas Grey, sub-manager of the Royal Assurance
Company, Liverpool, proved that on the 14th of May
he received an order for the insurance from Smith,
and a policy was effected in consequence. The policy
was called for by the prosecution, but Mr. James ob-
jected that Mr. Dean, in whose possession it was,
and whose clerk was called to prole that he had acted,
and was acting, as attorney for the prisoner Smith in
this matter, was not bound to produce it.
Mr. Buss cross-examined Mr. Dean's clerk, and
elicited from him that Smith had said to him in Cas-
son's presence that he was insured in the Royal As-
surance Company.
Mr. Grey then proved further that Smith called
after the fire to make his claim, accompanied by Mr.
Dean's clerk, and requested to know in what manner
the claim must be made, and what proofs were neces-
sary. In answer to the information given by witness,
Smith said all his books and papers were burnt, except
two ledgers. He also said that his stock, &c., was
worth 1,600'.. Smith called again on the 26th of
July, accompanied by Casson, the latter of whom
produced a paper, and said, " We have come to deposit
the declaration." Upon this occasion the claim of
8701. was made by Smith, and he was told that the
matter would be put into the hands of some respect-
able persons to inquire into it. Messrs. Smith and
and Thornley were appointed accordingly for the
purpose.
The declaration was then put in, and partly read.

James Marshall, sergeant of police, proved the fact
of the fire having occurred at about half-past ten
o'clock on the night of the 13th of July.l It was about
half-an-hour before the fire was extinguished. Casson
came up during the progress of the fire, and informed
him that it was the shop of George Smith, and that he
was his foreman.
James Weir, commander of the salvage corps, was
called to prove taking possession of the premises and
putting his men into them, who remained there until
the 27th of August. He described the state of the
premises after the fire more particularly, from which
if appeared that the damage was almost entirely con-
fined to the shop. From the examination he made of
the cloth, he did not think any pieces had been wholly
consumed.
Samuel Thornely, tailor and draper, proved that he,
along with Mr. George Smith, investigated the claim
of the prisoner Smith on the assurance company.
They saw him on the matter, and he produced two
books, and some invoices were subsequently given to
them. Two were produced; one for goods bought of
Richard Lewis, amounting to 311. 15s. 5d., dated the
27th of May ; the other dated the 29th of May, amount-
ing to 271.75. The witness, Mr. George Smith, and
a Mr. Roberts subsequently went to Scotland-road,
and valued the stock. They found they could ascer-
tain of what length most of the pieces bad been, the
ends having been left, however much they had been
burnt, and they were also able to ascertain the qua-
lity, which was generally of an inferior kind. The
estimate they made amounted to 961. 163. 6d., which
he believed to be a full estimate of what he was able
to value.

Edward Roberts, accountant, entered the quantities
and value in a book as they were valued by Messrs.
Thornely and Smith.
On cross-examination by Mr. JAMES, this witness
said there were a good many pieces so damaged that
they could not be measured at all.

It appeared, however, on re-examination by Mr.
Buss, that they had, nevertheless, been entered in
the valuation for what they were worth.
George Smith, tailor and draper, who acted with
Mr. Thornely, corroborated his evidence as to the
valuation. He appeared, however, to have thought,
on first seeing the stock, and before measuring it, that
it might have been worth fr,-)ra 3001. to 4001. This
was, however, before making any examination as to
quality.
'William Pitt Dixon, woollen-merchant, Manches-
ter, had supplied goods to the prisoner Smith, and
frequently received letters from him. He saw Smith

in April fast in Liverpool respecting an arrangement
with his creditors to discharge his liabilities in full
by instalments. This arrangement was carried out,
and biEs given, of which the witness identified one.
Smith told him that a valuation of the stock had been
made, and an account taken of his debts, and that he
could pay every one in full if time were given.
James Taylor, agent for Messrs. Dixon in March
last, proved that in the course of that month, in con-
sequence of instructions from those gentlemen, he
made examination into Smith's affairs, and found that
the debts due to him amounted to 2241. 10s. 2d., and
that he owed 2491. is. 4d. The value of his stock in
trade was 1371. 13s. 2d., fixtures 401., cash in hand 3/. ;
altogether making a balance in his favour of 150.. He
told Smith that he made these inquiries for the satis-
faction of his creditors, and that be should transmit
the statement to Messrs. Dixon, which he did. He
made his calculation at the lowest value he thought the
articles would fetch. He had examined the salvage,
and identified the quality and pattern of many of the
articles as being similar to those he valued. He was
not prepared to say that there were or were not any
new articles in the salvage that were not in the stock
at the time he valued it. He then asked Smith if
that was the whole of his stock, and he said it was.
The shelves in his shop were not filled up by a very
great deal. The prisoner saw him put down the items,
and made not the least objection to any of them.
On cross-examination this witness said, that at the
time he took stock it appeared to be much less than
it ordinarily was. _

The prosecution, when our reporter left, was pro-
ceeding to that part of the case which involved the
prisoners in the charge of removing goods previous to
the fire, which they afterwards included in their claim
against the assurance company, and the trial would
probably be protracted to a late hour.
It being evident that Sirrell's case could not be
taken to-day, Mr. Justice Talfourd fixed it for the
first case in the morning, after which the trial of
Blackhurst, the attorney of Preston, for forging a
codicil to his late wife's will, will be taken.
Mr. Baron Alderson was engaged during the day
in trying a number of cases, which did not call for a
particular report.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
William Poulter was brought before Alderman
Gibbs for final examination upon charges of having
obtained money under pretence that his mother, at
whose death he will become entitled to considerable
property, had died.
Mr. H. Hammond, of Furnival's Inn, said—ln
October, 1848, the prisoner sent a letter to me re-
quesing that I would call upon him at Whitecross-street
Prison. lat first declined to call upon him, but, know-
ing the bearer of the letter, I went at his request to the
place. I had several interviews with him, at all of
which he told me he was entitled to very large re-
versionary interest under a will. He afterwards com-
municated to me that his mother was dead, and stated
that as he was notable to go himself to take possession
of some trinkets belonging to the old lady, he wished
to send a person to her house, stating at the same
time that she had been a good old mother, and that
she had died at a good old age. I advanced to him
money for the purpose but have since discovered that
his mother is alive.
Mr. F. H. Wood, who appeared for the prisoner,
said he could prove satisfactorily that his client would
not only be entitled to a large amount of property at
his mother's death, but that he had been led to be-
lieve from several reports that his mother was dead.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
The LORD iVievoa requested that the press would
acknowledge his receipt of 10 guineas from the Dra-
pers' Company for the poor-box.
GUILDHALL.
Yesterday John Spencer Francis was placed at the
bar before Mr. Alderman Finials, charged with em-
bezzling various sums, the moneys of Mr. Woolmar,
warehouseman, of Aldersgate-street, his employer.
The prisoner, who steed, through his solicitor,
that he would reserve his defence, was committed for
trial.
Mr. Alderman IluerrnPur begged to acknow-
ledge the receipt of ss. in postage-stamps, to be ap-
plied for the benefit of the poor girl Jane Willbred,
at present in the Royal Free Hospital, and whose de-
plorable case appeared in the journals of Monday
last, from " G. A. H.," Essex.
BO !V-STRE E7'.
James Garrett, formerly a warehouseman in the
service of the London Dock Company, and Samuel
Pool, a carman, were charged on suspicion of being
concerned in the extensive robberies of bonded stores
at the London Docks.
Mr. Bsllantine stated that the charge as against
Oram, another prisoner, would he withdrawn, there
being no evidence on which to ask for a committal.
Oram was accordingly discharged.
Mr. Ballantine now Proceeded with a distinct charge
against Garrett and Poole for stealing a bag of Sin-
gapore pepper, which had been placed in the same
warehouse as that in which the cargo of the ship
Agnes was housed, and where Garrett was then em-
ployed as foreman. The commissioners were deter-
mined to do their utmost to protect the merchants of
London, as well as the public revenue, from the rob-
bery and fraud which, from the admission of one of
the dock officers himself, had become almost a part of the
daily business of the subordinate servants of the com-
pany. The commissioners were extremely anxious to
ascertain the extent of the plunder, as far as possible,
and make an example of such of the offenders as could
be brought to justice.
Mr. HENRY—II the public revenue has' been de-
frauded, you can proceed on that ground also.
Mr-Ballantine thanked his Worship for the sugges-
tion. The Learned Counsel then briefly detailed the
circumstances of the present charge against Garrett
and Poole, which would be supported by the testi-
mony of two of the accomplices who had been previ-

ously examined, and would be further confirmed by
an admission which fell from Poole when he was taken
into custody.
Thomas Mitchell, the accomplice who was exa-
mined in the previous cases, deposed that when Gar-
rett was foreman at the West-quay Sugar-mill, seven
or eight years ego, and was on duty at the loop-hole,
Samuel Poole arrived with his cart for a load of sugar
or pepper—he had forgotten which. Garrett helped
the men to lower the bags into Poole's cart, and when
there were only about three bags to deliver, he or-
dered off the hands to some other job, and they all
went away except witness and Garrett. Then Gar-
rett dropped the bag of Singapore pepper into Poole's
cart, along with the three remaining bags of sugar.
Maynard met Poole outside, and put the bag of pepper
into his cart. This was all arranged previously,when
witness and Garrett met Maynard and Poole at
Whitechapel Church. The same night they were to
meet again at the church, but Maynard and Poole
kept away. Witness and Garrett waited for them
three hours, and then Garrett said it was a sell. Next
morning they went to Maynard's house, and he told
them that he gave the bag of pepper to a man named
Peacock, thinking he would get a better price for it.
Garrett said, You have served us out nicely about
this here bag, but you shall never have no more from
me." Maynard replied that it was not hie fault, but
Peacock had an accident with it. Witness and Gar-
rett never got the money for that bag. Peacock was
a man who lived like Maynard, and loitered about the
docks for jobs.
Cross-examined—Maynard, and several men like
him, were well known in the docks. Whenever
Maynard came in it was known what was going on,
and the men that were not in the secret were sent out
of the way. Several of the foremen besides Garrett
knew Maynard very well, and they must have known
what he came for. There was a man named Harman,
one named Peudennis, and many men whose names
he could not then remember. They knew all about it.
Witness did not know whether he considered it
smuggling or thieving, or whether they were robbing
the merchants or the public revenue. He should say
they were robbing both. Witness had seen Maynard
&at the south quay also. (The names of several of the
foremen and superintendents in the docks, said to
have been cognizant of these proceedings, were men-
tioned by the witness, but it is right to withhold them
in the present stage of the investigation.) The pre-
sence
of Maynard was a signal for the cheating to
begin.
Maynard, another accomplice, confirmed the evi-
dence of Mitchell in every material point. He took
the bag of Singapore pepper from Poole's cart, and put
it on to Peacock's cart, thinking that Peacock could
get a better price for it; but he afterwards said he
had had an accident with the bag, and they never saw
sight of it again, or had any money for it.
Cross-examined—l have been in prison once, and
twice in custody. I was charged with felony at
Worship-street, but was acquitted at the trial. The
second time I was charged with stealing some quick-
silver, but the magistrate dismissed the case. When
I was a lad of fifteen I think I was taken before Mr.
Henry, at the Lambeth Police-court, for stealing
some coffee at a grocer's, but he discharged me. I
am now in the service of Mr. Thomas Rudd, a town
carman.

James Shaw, inspector of the Thames police, stated
that on taking Poole into custody on Saturday night,
the 30th ult., and telling him the nature of the charge,
he said, " Oh, that's eight years ago. Garrett dropped
a bag of pepper into my waggon, and Maynard took
it away. I never received a farthing for it."
Mr. Robert Chapman, an inspector-general of the
wafer-side department of the Customs, was examined
to show that the pepper from any quarter or of any
kind could not leave the docks in the ordinary
way without paying duty. When a ship arrived
her cargo was either cleared off at once, and the whole
amount of duty upon i: pail by the consignee, or it
was put away in bond; that was warehoused, and
delivered out in quantities, or at intervals, according
to the convenience of the person or persons who
might have purchased the cargo. In the latter case
duty was paid only upon the quantities delivered, and
at the time of the delivery, a certificate of the pay-
ment being necessary, as well as the dock warrant
(which was an instrument of purchase), before the
delivery could take place. On the production of these
documents to the warehouseman, he would have
authority to deliver the quantity ordered; and this
was the duty upon which Garrett was engaged at the
west quay. Usually the dock warrant would be
presented by the owner or his representative, and then
his carman would be sent round to wait his turn at
the loophole, where the goods would be delivered. If,
by any previous understanding between the delivery-
foreman and the carman, a bag of pepper, sugar,
coffee, or anything else not included in the dock war-
rant, was lowered into the waggon, it would be ob-
vious that no duty could have been ever paid upon
that bag, which must have been abstracted surrepti-
tiously from the stores in bond.
Mr. HENRY—Are there no entries made, or books
kept, by which the non-payment of duty can be shown ?
Witness—Two kinds of entries are made in the books
—a duty-paid entry, and a warehouse entry. The
first is a record of the payment of the whole duty
upon a cargo at once, when it is cleared off, and the
other relates to the payments made at intervals
upon the quantities delivered from the stores in bond.
No duty is paid until the delivery takes place ; and,
as their is no limit to the period during which a
ship's cargo, or any portion of it, may remain in
bond, the payment of duty thereupon is also in-
definite.
Mr. Wontner—Then, in point of fact, the Customs
have not been defrauded of their revenue, because the
duty was not due upon the stores in bond ? Wit-
ness—lf any of the stores have left the docks surrep-
titiously, it is clear that there has been an evasion of
the duty.
Mr. HENRY—But have you no means of ascer-
taining whether goods have been abstracted from the
warehouse stores ? Witness—On the arrival of a
ship, its cargo is examined, weighed, and removed to
a warehouse, and there kept under the locks of the
Crown and the. Dock Company. The usual account
is kept of the quantity stored and delivered. Occa-
sionally the Crown will take stock, but even then
they must be at the mercy of the dock servants, if
there is a conspiracy among them to deceive the
examiners.

Mr. Wontner—ln short, then, the Custom-house
officers are not sharp enough fur the dock
labourers ? Witness—The plan pursued would be
this :—Supposing 10 bags of pepper have been ab•
stracted from the letter A warehouse ; before the
Custom-house officers arrived to examine the stores,
the labourers would take care to have the deficient
number supplied by 10 bags from letter B.
Mr. Wontner—But surely this would be discovered
when the officers came to the letter B warehouse ?
Witness—Not so; because, before the officers
got round to letter B, the 10 bags would be brought
back
c—(Laughter.)
Mr. againw uftm r letter
supposing, after all, the amount
of deficiency is discovered, are not the Dock Company
againt
A
responsible for it ? Witness—The Commissioners of
Customs would, no doubt, have their remedy in
that case. 1

Mr. HENRY—Ia fact, the evil is an unavoidable re-
sult of the bonding system, I suppose ? Witness—
It is, your Worship. Some of the stores in bond
have been there for 27 years ; and if you were to see
the millions of piles and chests of bonded goods, you
would not wonder at the difficulty. of keeping a per-
fect watch and control over the warehouse stores. If
1,000 bags are taken away, and the duty is paid upon
1,000, we have no means of ascertaining whetner any
transfers may have been made to meet the order.
PoJle said, in his defence—l went after a load of
ppper. Garrett dropped the extra bag into my wag-
gon, and Maynard afterwards took it off my waggon
on to his own. It was the first time that I took a bag
out for any of them. Maynard took the bag as I was
going along the Minories, and I never saw it again,
and never had no money for it. I was not associated
with them. I was 29 years in Mr. Bailey's service,
up to his death, and can have a good character.
Mr. 'Wontner addressed the Court for Garrett, but
;.Zr. lishvair said it was a proper case for the consi-
deration of u jury, and committed both the prisoners
for trial at the Old Bailey.
The prisoners Garrett and Timothy Stratford were
also committed upon the charges preferred against
them at the previous examination, on Saturday last.
The prisoners Shaw, Badcock, Gardiner, Bunches.,
Clinton, Mary Buncher, and Mary Charuneau, were
brought up and fully committed for trial, for the rob-
bery of jewellery and plate at the shop of Messrs
Williams and Clapham, West Strand.

LAMBETH.
Joseph Jourdan, a constable belonging to the L
division of police, No. 88, attended before Mr. Elliott,
charged with following about in his uniform dress a
suspected person named Brown, alias Winterflood,
alias the Doctor.

Mr. Wontner, on whoße application on a former
day the defendhut was requested to appear, attended
on behalf of the complainant ; and Mr. Games ap-
peared for the con4table.

Mr. Wontner said the charge he had to prefer
against the defendant was one of violation of duty;
and it would be for his Worship to decide whether
the police were to be converted into instruments of

individual oppression, and not a force, as originally
intended, for the protection of life and property.
Brown, the complainant, happened unfortu-
nately, ten or twelve years ago, to get into some
difficulty which brought him under the notice of
the police, and after this he took a beer-shop in
the Blackfriars-road. Here, on account of the low-
ness of the locality, his house used to be fre-
quented by persona of bad character, and was conse-
quently frequently visited by the police. Mr. Wont-
ner Wfai authorised to say that on all these occasions
he afforded the constables the greatest assistance in
his fl ower, and always protected them from insult.
413 trills place, however, several informations were laid

against him for harbouring bad characters, and he
made up his mind to leave the house, and to live in
retirement. On leaving the Blackfriars-road, Brown
took a small cottage in the immediate vicinity of this
court, but he had not been many days in the locality,
when two constables were appointed, the one to
watch his residence, and the other to accompany him
wherever he went. The consequmce was, that when
it became known that a constable accompanied him,
crowds of some hundreds of persons used to assemble
at the end of the court leading to his house every
morning to see him go out, and as soon as he made his
appearance, used to abuse and jeer him. Mr. Wontner
would call the complainant into the box, and he would
inform his Worship that the defendant had been follow-
ing him about for the last seven weeks; that whenever
he called at a public-house to take refreshment, the
constable stopped at the door and informed the land-
lord of his character. The complainant would also
inform his Worship that the object of the police was
to get him out of the neighbourhood, for they de-
clared they should continue to follow him until he
left their division, and Mr. Wontner therefore con-
tended that this amounted to a conspiracy on the part
of the police to drive him from his dwelling, an act
which was most improper. The complainant was
most anxious to make an honest living, but the police
by their extraordinary conduct would put it out of his
power. Mr. Wontner, in conclusion, designated the
conduct of the police as a gross act of persecution,
which no Englishman should submit to; and ex-
pressed a hope that his Worship would view the con-
duct of the defendant as a gross violation of duty on
the part of the police, and by his decision put an cal
to a practice which, if tolerated, would lead to a
gross violation of the liberty of the subject.
Brown, who is a thick-set powerful-looking York-
shireman, was sworn, and confirmed the statement of
his counsel as to the fact of the defendant following
him about for seven weeks.

In his cross-examination by Mr. Games, the
witness admitted that he went by the name of
Winterflood as well as Brown, and that the cottage
in which he lived was taken for him in that name by
a person named Thompson. The misfortune that
befel him ten or eleven years ago, as mentioned by
his counsel, was one of having been given into custody
by a man for robbing him. For that offence he was
tried, found guilty, and sentenced to one year's
imprisonment. On another occasion he had been
taken into custody at the Epsom races, and committed
to prison for three months. He had also been in
custody a short time since on a charge of holding a
person at his house while another beat and robbed
him of 501., but was discharged. At present, and since
he left the beer-shop, he made a living by lending
out money in small sums to dealers, and collected
his profits weekly. Did not let the defendant see him
collect any of his profits.
This was the case on the part of the complainant.
Mr. Games, in reply said he had here a few obser-
vations to make on the part of the defendant, who
acted merely on orders given him by his superin-
tendent—orders which he could not refuse to comply
with, and the offence (if any) was on the part of the
superintendent. He then called into the witness-
box Inspector Cowlin, who deposed that the defendant
was acting on the instructions given to him by Mr.
Evans, his superintendent ; and Sergeants Goff,
Barry, and Barker, and Police-constable Combes, all
of whom deposed that they had known Brown to be
the constant associate of notorious thieves ; that he
had been for the last eleven or twelve years a sus-
pected character, and that it was the decided opinion
of two of the witnesses that he (Brown) was now get-
ting a living by dishonest means, in receiving stolen
property. One of the witnesses said he saw Brown on
Monday night in company with Black Jack, a noto-
rious thief.
Mr. ELLIOTT remarked that the circumstances of
the case were quite novel to him, and said that as the
question involved was one of considerable importance,
and as he wished to have before him the legal autho-
rity to justify the superintendent i❑ giving such in-
structions to the defendant before giving his decision,
he should postpone the case until Tuesday next. In
the interim he suggested that, unless there were any
positive directions to the contrary, the constable should
be withdrawn, and Brown permitted to go alone.

John Gray, from Greenock for San Francisco, Nov. 5,
in lat. 8 N., long. 24 W.

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Dividend Amount
Name of Company per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
41.1...............4• ... .....W........ .................,
.......11.
£ a. d. 4 a. d.
Australasia .... •• •• • • 245. 40 0 0 40 0 0 23
BritshNorth American 51. percent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Ceylon .............• 71. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Commercial of London 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 25
Colonial .• -
Gloucestershire ...• • • 15/per cent. - - -
lonian ........ ••• • • • 6/. per cent. '25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Loud]] and Westrainstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
Ditto ---- - - - - - 13 0 0 -
London Joint-Stock. •• 61. per cent. 1,0 0 0 10 0 0 -
Provincialof Ireland- Si. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
Ditto, New......• -8/. per cont. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
Katona] of Ireland . • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 -
Nat. Provncial of Eng. 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 -
Ditto, New. ... -•• 5/. per cent. 20 ' 0 10 0 0 -
South Australia -- • • 6/, per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Union of Australia •• •• 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 35%
Ditto •....... •••• • • 6/. per cent. - 210 0 -
Union of London • • 61. per cent. 50 0. 0 10 0 0 -
Union of Madrid - 40 0 0 40 0 0
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Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
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Albion
Alliance Brit. and For 7114s 6d &bs 100 0 0 11 0 0 21%
Ditto Marine. •• •• •• 6/.per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 614
Atlas
Argus Life .... -• •• 41. per cent. 100 0 0 16 0 0 -
British Commercial .. 7s. 6d. 50 0 0 50 0 73G
Cleriel,Med.& Gen• Life spr cf.& bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 20
County .............. 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 86
14s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 14%
Eagle
European Life • - 10s. 20 0 0 All paid. 11
General ............ - - 50 0 536
Globe - 133
Gaardian
Imperial Fire .....• • • 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 '230
Imperial Life ........ 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 16
Indemnity Marine- •• 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 20 0 0 43
Law Fire ............ - 100 0 0 '2 10 0 2%
Law Life...... •• •• .. 1/. 16s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 43%
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 434
Licensed Victuallers .. - 5 0 0 1 0 0 -
Louden Fire ........ 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 17%
London Ship ......... 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 17%
Marine - ......• •... 15s.per share 100 0 0 15 0 0 -
Med.lnvild&Gen.Life 43 1. per ct .50.0 0 20 0 2%
Stational Loan Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2%
National Life.... -
Palladium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 236
Phcenix - - 155
Professional Life 5l. per cent. 6 5 0 010 0 16s. Od
Provident Life •• •••• .• 11. ss. 4 bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 31
Rock Life ........
Ltoyal Exchange...." 6/. p.ct. & be. Stock. - 211
Sun Fire. - - 209
Dlttr; Life 11. 6s. - - 45
United Kingdom .... 41. p. ct.&bs. 20 0 0 40 0 3%
Universal Life.....• •• 10% ct.&bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Victoria Life. Si. per cnt. - 412 6 5

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Annum. Share.
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East L0nd0n.....• .• •• 81. per cent. 100 0 0 - 160
Grand Junction ••- • • 4/. per cnt. 50 0 0 - 70
rent.........• •• •• •• , 31. 10s. 100 0 0 - 80
Lambeth ...... ••• • - 51. per cnt. 100 0 0 - 97
New Rivr Lndn Brdgo , 21. 10s. - _.57%
Vauxhall' ...... - .... ' 51. per cnt. 100 0 0 - 97
West Middlesex . . . 6/.os. pr cnt. - - 111
2130Cng.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
' --- - - - -
X s. d. X s. d.
East and West India.,. 61. pr cent. Stock. - 144
East Country • 20s. per sh. 100 0 0 - -
London . • - 119%
Ditto Bonds.. - - - 41. per cent. - - -
SLlCatharine ........ 4 per cent. Stock. - 77%
Ditto, Scrip .. .. - - 85 0 0 -
Ditto 80nd5........ 4%1. pr cent. - - -
Southampton .. -- -2/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 9%
___ BRIDGES
Dividend Amount
.Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
---- -- -- ..--....
X. s. d. X. s. d.
Cha.ring-cross • • • • - - - - - 15
Soo thwrk .......... - 100 0 0 -8%
Erato Nw of 7% p.c. 355. per cent. 50 0 0 - 16
Waterloo .......• -..- 100 0 0 - 3
Dial Old Ann. ofBl. 11. 4s. Od. - 60 0 0 25
Ditto Nw *to of 71. N. Is. Od. - 40 0 0 21%
Vauxhall .... •• • Av. 11. 70 10 3 - 18
CANALS.
a; 1 i
Names of .
.; 'Dividend
Names of . ,Dividend
~ .... r
Coiripanies. A per Price. Companies. 2 Annpeuls,. Price.
.1-. Annum. w)
X X \
Ashtn& 01db 97 71. 113 Macclesfield. 100 t 2/.108. 50
Barnsley.... 160 121. 180 Neath .• •... 100 161. 340
Urknk&Abrg 150 5/. 85 0xf0rd...... 100 20/. 185
Birmingham 40 41. 86 Peak Forest. 78 31. 18s. 70
Coventry.... 100 25/. 200 Regent's.... 33 11. Os. 18%
Darby • •... 100 61. 63 Rochdale...• 65 41. 42
Ellsrare&Chs 133 355. 26% Somrset Coal 150 7/.los. -
Gran dJunctn 1001 4/. 65% Do.LkFdSt 12 GI. p. c. • -
Do., 6 pr. Ct. 7% - 8I StifniBsWorc 140, 281. 405
Grand Surreylloo' 2/. Os. 3314 Shrewsbury.. 1251 - -
Grand UntonlloOi 11. 10s. 24 Stonrbridge.. 145 201. 290
Keruft Gc Avn 39 7s. 6d. 4 Severn andl
21. Os. 24
Lancaster . 100, 41. 32 Wye Rail. i 26
Locus&Livrp 100 241. 325 Warwick& 1
41. 64%
Leicester ..••1100, 51. 66 Birming. j 100
Letcstr &Nth 1 831 41. 48% Warwick/
100 3L 42
Long hborogl 142 701. 510 Napton..
Monmouthsh 100 81, - Worcstr & 78 31. 40
Mntgoinrysh 100 - - Binning.
9SfeituMwbry,loo - - Wilts ils Brks -11 s. 6%

' GAS-LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
---- -- ------
---,...
X. s. d. X. a. d.
a British •••••••• •• •• •• 11. " 40 0 0 18 0 0 )3
Ditto Provincial-- 11. Bs. 20 0 0 20 0 0 17%
rig hton ••••..• • • • • • 5/. 20 0 0 - -
ity of London ...... el. 100 0 0 150 0 0 -
Continental Consolldat. 925. 75 0 0 31 5 0 -
Eqrdtable - .......... 50s. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
linnerial ...... •••• •• 3/. 50 0 0 50 0 0 73
8 Independent ........• 61. 40 0 0 40 0 0 46
London ........ .. .... - 50 0 0 50 0 0
- 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Do., Part Preference 61. 25 0 0 210 0
F Phoenix ............. 430, 50 0 0 49 0 0 2834
I Ratcliff ••••-.. • • • • • • 5/. 100 0 0 90 0 0 -
r United General ...... 1/. 50 0 0 50 0 0 1538
Weatialinster Chartered 3/. 50 0 0
i - 484
' Ditto, New ........ 12s. 50 0010 0 0 934
MIST OP SCOTTZSE COMPANIES' PEACES
r Dividend Amount
Name of Company, per of I Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
-• --_-_.
X s. d. X NI. d
Bank of Scotland
, Britlah Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 199 I
Caledonian Bank
City of Glasgow Bank CI. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 11%
' Clydesdale Bank...-. 634 per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 13%
Commercial Bank - - 71. per cent. 500 0 0 ,100 0 0 173
Eastern Bank .......• W. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 934
Edinb.gtGlasgow Lank 6/. ptr cent. 50 0 50 0 4%
Er.ehang,eßuk of Scot 4/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 12%
Isle of Man. Company 7i. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 -
National Bank.. ~,,,•
636 percent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 1536
Northof Scotland Berl 4Lper cent. :0 0 0 50 0 2%
North British Bank - - - -
aoyalßank of Scotland 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 3 0 133
trnionßank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 88%
Western Bank - ... ••• 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 71%
Alliance Fire and Life 8341. pr cent. 10 0 0 10 '4 0 203 i
B. Accord. Lileand Fire - 20 0 0 10 0 -
British Guarantee Ins. 41. per lent. 10 ' 0 0 1 0 0 18s 6d
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23
Colonial Life ........ 50 0 0 1 0 0 111. 7s.
_
City of Glasgow Life.. Gt. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. 17s
Edinburgh Life Insur. 6/. percent. 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 2%
Elercule3lnsurance Ca. - 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Insur. Co. of Seetlnd.. - 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Life Assoc. of Scatland 61. per cont. 10 0 0 1 0 0 11. 18s
Mercantile Life .. •• • • 3% per ct. 10 0 0 010 0 -
National Fire and Life 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 243.0 d
North British Insur. .. 6pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 25%
North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 -
Scottish Life and Guar. - 20 0 0 011 0 -
Scot. Bias. and Gen. Life - 0 0 015 0 -
Scottish Union Insrace. NI. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 , 249 ed
Standard Life ...... - 51. per cent. 50 0 0 4 5 0 10
I
United Dep•Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 116 s Od
MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company, per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
--- - ---
- 1
Assam Tea • •
X. S. d. Z. a. d.
.. • • .... - 20 0 0 20 0 0 43i
Auction Mart •• • ..... 2/. ss. 50 0 0 (- 28 Australian A Trlculturl 11, 100 0030 0 0 15% , r
Australian Trust •••• 61. per cent. - 35 0 0 20
Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 1/. 10s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 20 r
Ditto, Half Shares.. - - 210 0 5 c
British American Land - - 38 10 0
Canada ....... ••• • . 61. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 43 !!
lJppr Canada Bonds 51. per cent. - - 95%
Ditto ditto .... 6!. percent. I - - 103
City Navigation Bonds 3i per cent. - - 96
Gen. P•evers. & Invest. sp. c,& b 9, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 90
Equitable Reversienry 5 p.c. &bs.l3/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 108 1
Ditto New ...... - 50 0 0 - 5834
Gen•SteamNavigation 11.85, 15 0 0 14 0 0 2754 1
Hudson's 8ay...... •• - Stock. - -
Hungerford .......... 2/. is. - 100 0 0 46
London Institution ... - - 78 15 0 -
New Zealand Company - - 25 0 0 23 0 0 -
Ditto, New .......• - 25 0 0,12 10 0 -
Russell Institution- •• 1 - - 126 5 0 - IN
Peninslr& Orient.Stm. , 8/.percent. 50 00'50 0 0 88 -
Reversionary Int. Soc. 4361. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 10034
Royal Mail Steam-- 4/. p. share. 100 0 0' 60 0 0
South Australian ..... 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 20U A
Van Diemen's Land.. 1 - 100 0 0 29 0 0 - m

STRANGE SCENE AT A WILD BEAST SHOW.—
Whilst Mr. Batty was exhibiting his collection of wild beasts
on the Market-hill, Barnsley, on Saturday night week, a
loud noise, accompanied with shrieks, was heard within the
show, and was instantly followed by a rush, and an indis-
scribable scene of confusion arose amongst the inhabitants of
the neighbourhood, as well as the spectators, on the cry being
made, " Th' lion's out! th' lion's out !" The cry was not
founded on fact; but a leopard had got hold of the arm of a
person called Charles Fleetwood, and dragged him to the
side of the cage; fortunately, the sleeve of his smock frock
gave way, and he escaped with a slight bruise on one of his
arms. It was a miracle that nothing more serious occurred,
for at the time the leopard seized Fleetwood the fright was
such that the people inside rolled amongst a largo fire-pan,
which was standing upon the ground, and contained several
gallons of blazing naphtha, and under the belly of the ele-
phant, without doing the least harm.
The Association for, the Protection Of Labour and
Capital meet on Thursday next, at the South Sea House, to
'
issue aril address to the agriculturists, itcwith regard to the
course to be adopted before and during thenext
CASTLE ARIEL—This week the game-house of
the Marquis of Northampton was found to have been en-
tered by thieves the previous evening. A fine deer (a doe)
with a number of hares and pheasants, had been carried off.