The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-04 00:00:00

FIELD GARDENS FOR THE POOR.

Mr. COWPER said that he thought he had brought
this subject before the House during the last session;
the period at which it came under consideration prevented
it from receiving that consideration which its importance
required. His object was t) attempt an extension of the
garden system in this country. And seeing that there
16s of late a strong desire on the part of the Legislature
to attend to the interests of the poor, he thought it time
to bring the present subject under the consideration of
the House of Commons. And though it was said that
they could not benefit the condition of the poor by direct
legislation, he thought that if the wisdom which was
collected within the walls of Parliament applied itself to
the subject, it would not fail of finding some remedy ;
and, at all events, it was to the Legislature that the poor
themselves looked, for to no other quarter could they
look for rel'ef from their distresses. While the
wealthier classes of the country had made great advances,
there wa no proportional progression : n the part of the
working classes ; and though, in comparison with the
working classes in other countries, they were not badly
off, yet, looking to their real and absolute condition, no
person would contend that it did not require ameliora-
tion and improvement.—(Hear, hear.) He thought it
was in their connexion with land that that improvement
wai to be sought—(Hear, hear)—for that connexion
was an important ingredient in the well-being of the
working classes. In former times, all those who were
above the condition of serfs had their cottages with a
portion of land attached to them. He did not know that
Goldsmith was right when he said—
" Ere England's woes began,
When every rood maintained its man."
But there could be no doubt that the great change which
was made in, the sixteenth century brought great
disasters upon those who were connected with land, and
was the cause of six rebellions in the reign of Edward
VI. Since that time a vast number of Inclosure Bills
were passed. The system of consolidating farms, and
the gradual change which had taken place by givin4 up
the system of leases upon life, contributed to take from
the poor man the interest which he had previously in the
land. There was much to be said about cottage farms,
an snuck against it, but with respect to that they had
nothing to do. The Bill he proposed now to introduce
presided that parties should not occupy more than half an
acre, and the probability was that under its provisions the
parties would not have more than a quarter of an acre
1n614s opinion, it was most desirable, that the labourer
sAattldhaavne sionmcreccaosne4nexdieosnireeitltiotheeultliavnactle, becauseit_(ieariit,
In;srs—but what he most considered was, the moral
effect that it would produce ; it would affordamusement,
it would renovate health, and it would imp rove the
mind and faculties of the oocupiers of cottages, and small
portions of land. There was an attempt made by the
Bill to force any person to carry out its object. The
Bill was nth(); Of SD atd4liar7 character. It proadded,

in the first instance, that there should be a public
meeting of the inhabitants of the parish, to consider
the propriety of adopting the plan. Then officers were
to be appointed who were to have certain powers
to carry out the object among the labouring classes; and
then a provision for the case of inclosure. There could be
no doubt that the allotment system would pay itself. A
notion seemed to exist, end it would probably be
strengthened by the Settlement Bill of the Right Hon.
Gentleman, that the parish had nothing to do with the
relief of the poor, that it was a union and not a parochial
matter. Now, why should not the augmentation of the
parish system be taken advantage of, to give assistance to
the independent labourer, and to enable him to live more
comfortably and securely.—(Hear, hear.) It was not
necessary that he should say anything generally in sup-
port of the allotment system, for experience seemed now
to have p aced the merits of that system beyond
cavil or doubt. He had never heard any ob-
jection whatever drawn from practical experience.
Nobody is ho had tried the allotment system had ever,
he believed, found any harm arising from it, even if no
good resulted from its operation; and, he believed, that
under proper regulations no complaints would ever be
made. The objections made were rather of a theoretical
and sp-culative than of a practical character. One ob-
jection was that it was opposed to sound economic views
of labour, that a man should work for himself as well as
his master. A satisfactory answer to that would be
that the labouring man should be enabled to obtain
higher wages, and then he would not need such a re-
source. Unfortunately, however, the wages of the la-
beuring classes in the agricultural districts were
not sufficient to allow them to live as comfortably as
could be desired, and that the system in
question was necessary to assist them in obtaining a
livelihood. He did not admit, however, in an economic
view, that it was undesirable that the labourer :heuld
employ his leisure hours in tilling a garden. 'I here
was no more profitable way of tilling ground than by a
spade, particularly when wielded by a man who was
tilling his own ground. The produce of allotment-
ground must, too, be much greater than that of around
tilled under any other circumstances. If a labouring
man chose to employ his leisure hours in this manner,
it must be of the utmost advantage, not only to himself,
but to the country at large ; what it produced being the
means of increasing the whole amount of food in the
country. He was not aware that any man had ever become
idle under this system during the hours employed in
working for his master, in order that he might be more
active in labouring for himself. On the contrary, he
beleved it had generally been found that the allotment
labourers were the most industrious portion of that class.
Not only were they, the most moral—not only was their
general characttr the best, but they actually exerted
more power of sinew in their master's service than la-
bourers who did not employ their leisure hours in the
same manner as themselves. Another objection to the
alletrnent system was, that it tended to impede the cir-
culation of a free system of labour. If this ob-
jection were valid it did not apply to the allotment
of gardens in particular, but to everything that
had a tendency to improve the condition of the labour-
ing man.—('Dear, hear.) It applied to every act of
kindness, to every thing, in fact, that made the la-
bourer's situation more endurable than it was before.
If those who made this objection were consistent, they
should hold that the labouring man should be driven to
leave his parish, through his situation in it being made
unendurable. Thoueh it might be very desirable in
many cases that labourers should go abroad, or remove
to another part of their own country, yet he did not
think they would be justified in reusing to afford
him those advantages which would render his condition
a more endurable one.—(Hear, hear.) It was
all very well for a man of capital to leave his country
and go elsewhere ; but when a labouring man did so,
starvation often stared him and his family in the face.
He did not think, that if the main object of the Bill
we re approved, there would be anything in the details
on account of which it would be rejected by the House;
and if adopted, he believed it would confer very great
benefit. morally and physically, on the working classes.
With these observations he would leave the subject in
the hands of the House. and would move that leave be
granted to bring in the Bill.
Mr.' MILES seconded the motion.

Mr. HUME said he approved of the Hon. Member's
proposition, if it could be carried out ; but he
very much feared that it never could, and therefore
there was no use in holding out expectations to the
country people that never could be realised. The Hon.
Member's proposition was in effect the proposal of an
enactment by which the allotment system should be con-
tinued and encouraged, though that was the very great
grievances which was so much complained of in Ireland.
At least, he (Mr. Hume) had been led to understand
that in Ireland there was nothing that caused so great an
outery, or had been looked upon as a greater grievance
than this allotment system, However, if gentlemen did
wish to let their lands in this way, he did think it would
be tery easy to do so without any Act of Parliament.
Mr. ESCOTT said he could nut see the necessity of
legislative interference upon the question at all, for if
landlords were inclined to let their lands in this way,
they could do so without any Act of Parliament. His
opinion was, that if a poor man got a cottage and a
small lot of ground, he would be just as well inclined to
make the most of it without any allotment at all. The
only means by which to prevent want amongst those
classes was to extend the demand for labour. _

Lord J. MANNERS fully concurred in the observa-
tions of his lion. Friend, and if they should be carried,
he did not think the working classes could ever be too
grateful for them.
Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD would not have
risen to speak upon this subject, but that he had heard
some allusion to his native country. In Ireland much
of the agrarian distress that prevailed had been owing
to this very system of allotment which then was called
the con-acre system, or half-acre, for which it was well
known as high as eight guineas an acre was paid.
Therefore he would caution the House against being
precipitate in legislating upon the sahject.
Sir W ALTER JAMES would have no objection to
support the motion, provided it were to be subsidiary to
wages ; if otherwise it would be found to be a dangerous
plan.
Mr. ROEBUCK did not rise for the purpose of enter-
ing upon the details of this prop,mition now ; but he
should say his opinion was, that it this bill should pass
in its present shape, it would have the effect of altering
the whole system by which the labouring classes at pre-
sent were regulated. Therefore he hoped that when this
Bill went into a second reading it would receive the
fullest consideration.

Sir J. GRAHAM was unwilling to detain the House,
bat after the appeal which had been made to him by the
Hon. Member for Bath, he thought it necessary to re-
mind the House that when the Bill was brought in last
year he fully expressed his opinions about it. The Bill
at that time contained a provision that the poor-rates
should bo made security for the rent. To that he did
most decidedly object—(Hear)—but that objectionable
clause was not introduced in the present measure. He
agreed with his Noble Friend the Member for Newark
(Lord J. Manners), that if the landlords would come
forward voluntarily and give allotments to their labourers,
legislative interference would be unnecessary. But in some
parts of the country that might be impossible ; and he
understood that it was intended to make this 13111 only a
permissive measure—and, so far, he was nut prepared to
off r it any opposition ; and, subject to that observation,
he was not prepared to object to its introduction. He
was, however, decidedly of opinion that an acre was too
much, and that he should prefer to limit the allotment
to half an acre. But, upon the whole, he thought it was
generally to the honour of the Hon. Member for Hert-
ford that he had given great consideration to the sub-
ject, and the House ought not lightly to refuse per-
mission to bring in the Bill.—(Hear, hear.) The dis-
tressed condition of the agricultural labourers was such
that it could not have escaped the attention of the House
—(Hear, hear)-7and any measure ha'ing for its object
theimprovement of that condition, demanded their best
attention. For his own part he would gladly consent to
the motion—(Hear, hear)—and he would give it every
attention and assistance, with the hope of some good
result.—(Hear, hear.). .

Mr. MANGLES wished to say a word in reply to an
observation made bythe Hon Member for Worcestershire,
who spoke disparagingly of the allotment system, and
said that the sufficiency of labour was all that was wanted
for the labourers. But the Hon. Member did not say
how that sufficiency was to be obtained. This he (Mr.
Mangles) knew, that he lived in a purely agricultural
district, and during the winter many labourers were
wholly out of employment. With respect to the allot-
ment system, he had during the recess made many in-
quiries, and the result was that he could not find one in-
stance in which it had failed.—(Hear, hear.) He had
been informed by one lady, Mrs. Davies Gilbert, that
she had during the last eleven years had 400 allotment
tenants, and not one of them had ever failed in paying
the rent. On a recent occasion he (Mr. Milnes)
attended at a meeting in West Surrey, and whilst
he and some other gentlemen were discussing this sub-
ject, an intelligent man, who had for a long time been
listening in silence, at length broke in respectfully upon
their conversation, and assured them that the system
was a good one, for it had made a man of him.—(Hear,
and a laugh.) That man afterwards took him to his
house and showed him that he had in the course of three
or four years risen to a state of comfort from that of a
mere labourer hardly able to keep his chin above water.
He had a comfortable house, several pigs, and a large
clamp of potatoes.—(Hear.) He (Mr. M.) differed from
the Right Honourable Gentleman (Sir J. Graham) and
thought that an allotment of one acre was by no means
too much. He would give his best support to the mea-
sure of the lion. Member.

Mr. P. BORTHWICK expres.-ed his satisfaction at
the speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Secretary
of State for the Home Department. The Hon. and
Learned Member for Bath had told the House to be
cautious how they sanctioned a measure which would
produce so great a change in the condition of the agri-
cultural labourers. That was precisely the reason why
he supported it, for any change in the condition of that
depressed class must be for the better.—(Hear.)
Leave was then given to bring in the Bill.
Mr. HUME moved fur a return of the title of all
private Billq passed during the last session of Parliament,
together with the names of Parliamentary agents and
solicitors by whom such Bills were solicited and ob-
tained ; stating, also. the aggregate amount of their
bills of charges, under the separate heads for soliciting
and passing such Bills through Parliament ; stating,
also, how many of such bills have been taxed, and by
whom.

The HON. MEMBER subsequently withdrew the mo-
tion, Mr. Cardwell expressing, on behalf of the Govern
!Dent, his desire that all fees and expenses connected
with the House should be as moderate as poi3sible. The
Hon. Member observed that he did not think any pro-
cess of taxation would remedy the evils the Hon. Member
complained of.
After a few words from Mr. EscoTT,
Mr. AGLIONBY recommended the Hon. Member
for Montrose to move at once for a Select Committee to
inquire into the oubjeot.

Mr. HUME declined to follow the suggestion, imme-
diately, but on a future occasion he might, perhaps,
move for the Committee.
The motion was then withdrawn.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at a Quarter to Twelve.

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES.

SUB-COMMITTEE, No. 4.—This Committee re-assembled
yesterday in Committee. Room No. 7, in the Cloisters of
the House of Commons. Present—Sir William Heathcote,
Chairman, Mr. Childers, Mr. F. Mackenzie, Mr. Brotherton
and Mr. Evans.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 5, 1845.

the deceased at the lower part of his person. Deceased let
go his hold, staggered back to his locker, and exclaimed ►►e
was stabbed. A surgeon was sent for, and found that the
man had been stabbed in the groin, and an artery was
severed. The mate of the hulk deposed that he was called
to the spot, and took the prisoner into custody ; and from his
manner, and what he saw and heard at the time, he had no
doubt it was an accident, and that the prisoner, when he
made the push, had no intention of stabbing the man as he
had done.

Mr. Justice ERLE summed up, laying it down as the law
of the case, that if by the negligence of the prisoner the de-
ceased had met with his death, he was guilty of the crime
charged against him. The circumstances might mitigate the
offence with regard to the punishment, but could not with
regard to the nature of the offence.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, but strongly recom-
mended him to mercy.
Sentence was deferred.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

The Court was occupied the whole of the morning in try.
ing a case of perjury, which presented no feature' of interest
except to the parties concerned. _ _

NEW COURT.

Several cases of petty larceny, totally devoid of public in
;west, were disposed of during the morning.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
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in St. John-street-road and created a large crowd. The
policeman interfered with him, whereupon the prisoner
knocked off his hat ; the officer asked him what he did that
for, and the prisoner immediately struck him a violent
blow on the head Which knocked him down on the pavement,
causing his nose to bleed and breaking his hat.. Police-
constable, 170 G, came up, and the prisoner was secured.
The prisoner denied the whole statement, said there was a
crowd, and that the complainant had taken the wrong man.
Mr. COMBE sentenced him to seven days' imprisonment in
the House of Correction, without the power of releasing him-
self by the payment of a fine.
BO IV-STREET.
On Monday, a respectably dressed middle-aged woman,
named Elizabeth Ann Absalon, appeared in answer to a
summons charging her with having insulted and annoyed
Mr. C. J. Fox Bunbury, the son of Sir H. Bunbury, of
Mildenhall, Suffolk.
The defendant, who was rather a plain-looking woman,
had a female child in her arms, and was represented by her
solicitor, Mr. Wontner. The transactions out of which the
present case arose have lately appeared in The Sun report
of an action brought against the complainant by the husband
of the defendant, who, it will be recollected, was represented
as having originally introduced herself to Mr. Banbury as a
"Miss Francis," but afterwards, upon the marriage of that
gentleman, appeared as the faithless wife of the injured Mr.
Absalon.
Mr. Jennings, solicitor, attended for the complainant.
Mr. Bunbury deposed that he was walking in the Strand
one afternoon last week, when the defendant approached him,
and commenced abusing him in the most violent language.
He endeavoured to avoid her, and with that view turned into
Somerset House, but she followed him closely, and, pointing
to a child which she held in her anus, accused him of brutally
neglecting to support it. He threatened to give her into
custody, but she only became the more vehement, and
" dared" him to adopt a course which would be enabling her
to show him up to the world. He then called a cab, and was
getting into it, when she struck him on the shoulder and
tore his coat all up the back. Upon this he went to a police-
man and thought of giving her in charge, but seeing such a
large crowd of persons collecting round him he abstained
from doing so, and got into the cab, in which he was driven
away. Mr. Bunbury said he had no desire to have the
woman punished, but only wished to be spared the annoy-
ance of another attack of this kind in the streets.
In reply to questions put by Mr. Wontner,
Mr. Banbury...denied that ho had any knowledge of the
defendant being a married woman during the time he was
acquainted with her. She gave him to understand that the
reverse was the fact.
Mr. Ham, objected to the introduction of any matters
irrelevant to the present inquiry, as it was no part of his
duty, as a magistrate, to judge of any former understand-
ings between the parties, or of any supposed claims arising
therefrom.
Mr. Wontner wished to show the provocation which his
client had received; from the treatment of the complainant,
after such correspondence between them as that which he
was prepared to produce.
Mr. Hann could not go into that subject, and reminded
Mr. Wontner that the law did not sanction violent and
abusive conduct in the streets under any pretence.
Mr. Jennings said his Worship might probably recollect
that with regard to any imaginary " claims" that might be
asserted on behalf of the defendant, that matter had been
entirely set at rest by the action in the Court of Exchequer,
which Mr. Baron Platt denounced as a most disgraceful
affair—an opinion in which Mr. Sergeant Jones, who opened
the case for the plaintiff, but gave up his brief on being made
acquainted with the facts, entirely coincided. Mr. Wontner,
however, was not the solicitor on that occasion.
Mr. Wontner did not think the wife should be held re-
sponsible for any steps Mr. Absalon might have taken, in-
fluenced, as he no doubt had been, by feelings of indignation.
He was bound, therefore, to press the claims of his client
upon Mr. Bunbury, who was a gentleman of great wealth
and rank, whilst she had been reduced to the utmost distress.
At the suggestion of the Magistrate the complaint was
ultimately withdrawn, on the defendant's promising not to
repeat the annoyance.
LAMBETH.
Monday John Lenney, alias the Cow-boy, a well-known
pugilist, and William Tho,ne, were charged with being the
second, and the latter the bottle- holder, at a prize fight,
which took place at eight o'clock, near the Nun-head Ceme-
tery, Peckham-rye.
Inspector Gifford, of the P division of police, deposed that
about a quarter before eight o'clock on that morning in-
formation was given at the police station-house that a prize
fight was about to take place in the vicinity of Peckham-
rye.. He in consequence ordered the men on duty there
to go in search of the combatants, and went himself on
horseback, as well as a mounted patrols, on the same errand.
Through some misdirection, however, he had not been en-
abled to fall in with the parties, but one or two of his men
had, and took the prisoners, who had been pointed out to
them as one of the seconds and bottle holder.
A lad who had pointed out the prisoners to the police, de-
posed that he had been present at a fight which took place
about eight o'clock, in a field about a mile from Peckham-
rye, and saw the prisoners in the ring, the one as second,
and the other as bottle-holder. The men were stripped:
the fight was for a sovereign (as he was told), and after
fighting 26 rounds the man seconded by the prisoner Lenney
gave in.
Mr. HENRY here inquired if the prisoners were known as
pugilists? Shields, the Chief Usher, answered that Lenney
was well known as a prize fighter, and had fought some hard
battles.
Lenney admitted that this was the fact, but said be had
left off the practice for some time, and had obtained his living
as an ostler at an inn in the Borough. The fact, he said,
was, that two youths had had a quarrel on the Saturday
night, and had agreed to, see it out on that morning. He
(Lenney) was present with the crowd, and the temptation
of seconding one of the parties was so great that he could
not resist it.
Mr. HENRY remarked that the practice of fighting for
money was highly improper, and should be put an end
to, and ordered the 'prisoners to find bail for their good
behaviour.
Before the closing of the Court they were admitted to bail
in their own recognizances, and discharged.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
The Hibernia, 120, at this port, was commissioned to-day
by Captain Richards, C. 8., for the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir
William Parker, G.C.8., who succeeds to the Mediterranean
command.

The Vindictive, 50, Captain Seymour, will go out of har.
bour in the course of next week.

The royal yacht Victoria and Albert has thisweek been taken
into dock at Pembroke, and had her rudder altered, which,
it is expected, will make her steerage perfect. On her voyage
from Plymouth to Milford, which was performed in 13i hours,
she beat the Black Eagle two hours and a half, or about
per hour; it was blowing fresh all the time, with much sea
on ; and what is extraordinary, the yacht steered better when
in much motion than in calmer weather. The Rattler was
nowhere in comparison with the yacht, but blowing fresh
with the wind ahead, she beat the Black Eagle. The great
power of the yacht must give her the predominence in speed.
Ali the steamers start to-day on a cruise two or three hun-
dred miles to the westward of Scilly; and they may be ex-
pected at Portsmouth by Saturday next.
The iron steam-frigate which has been building at Bir-
kenhead, by Mr. Laird, and is now nearly r eady for launch-
ing, is to have her name altered from Vulcan to Birkenhead,
in honour of the place of her nativity. She is of 556-horse
power.
The Siren, 16, and the Harlequin, 16, have been taken
into the basin preparatory to being docked and brought for-
ward for commission.

The Dido, 20, and the Spy, 3, brigantine, at Sheerness, are
ordered to be prepared for commission. The Spy's masts and
bowsprit were put in on Thursday.
The 50-gun frigate, which is ordered by the Admiralty to
be built from the drawings of Mr. White, of Cowes, is to be
laid down at Deptford Dockyard. The name selected for
her is the Arrogant. She is to have an auxiliary screw-
propeller.
All the steam-vessels on the coast of Ireland are entering
seamen at their respective stations for the ships fitting for
sea. The Lords of the Admiralty, on the entry of ten ship •
wright apprentices in Pembroke Dockyard last week, very
kindly and properly gave one entry to the best boy of the
National School, which has been built on the Admiralty
property at Pembroke Dock.
In Harbour—St. Vincent, Victory, Rodney, Excellent,
Vindictive, Belvidere, Sparrow, Adventure (naval transport),
Fearless, Dwarf, Comet, and Echo steamers.
At Spithead—Eagle, Fantome, and Nautilus.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.
PROMOTIONS.

Lieutenants—Henry John Douglas (1840), of the For-
midable, and Robert A. Stewart (1839), of the Eagle, to the
rank of commander.

Second Master—Christopher George (1838), acting master
of the Tartarus, to the rank of master.

APPOIIITMENTS.

Captains—Peter Richards,C.B., to the Hibernia; W. B
Dobson, to study at the Steam Factory, Woolwich.
Commander—James Fitzjames (late of the Clio), for the
purpose, of making observations of the needle, to be corn •
mander in Sir James Franklin's ship, on his intended voyage
to discover a north-west passage.
Lieutenants—George Goldfinch, to the Superb •, Charles
S. Norman, to the Comus ; C. R. Bamber and G. A. Sey-
mour, to the Rodney ;- E. F. Rose, to the Flying Fish ; Henry-
Bainbridge, to the Rolla; Alfred Kortwright (additional) to
the Illustrious, for surveying service; W. S. Saunders, to the
Vulture; James Stone (1800), to open a rendezvous at
Blackwall and Ratcliffe Highway, for the purpose of entering
seamen and hove for the navy; t. H. Beauchamp Proctor, to
Command the bwarf.
Masters—George Bradley, to the Fox, vice Grant; John
Cater, to the Vulture.
Surgeons—Alexander Kelroy, to be superintendent of the
China convict ship; Colin A. C. Browning, M.D., Superin-
tendent of the Therese convic t ship; and John Sloan, in
charge of the Tory, convict ship; George W. Pritchett, to
the Vulture; and Alexander Anderson, to the Rolla.
Second Master—R. 0. White, to the Rodni.sv•
Assistant-Surgeon—Nicholas Lyttleton, to (120 Express.
Clerk—G. Knox, to the Rodney,
Naval Cadet—C. Dent, to the Rodney.
Captain Stephen Fremantle, R.N., is appointed Private
Secretary to Sir T. Fremantle, the Secretary for Ireland.
An addition has been made this week to the fortification
of our ramparts. Four 32-pounders have been added to the
King's bastion ; and the elevated part of the bastion Inn;
been extended Sufficiently far to make a platform capable of
planting thereon three more in the same line, thus forming a
battery of nine 32-pounders. It is understood (and the mode
in which the work is performed would seem to warrant the
belief) that this is only a temporary arrangement; and that
works on a much larger scale ou4lms spot will be undertalteu
ero long.

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Caledonian • ..... •• • • - 50 0 0 5 0 0 7%
Cambridge and Lincoln - - 25 0 O 110 0 ; 3%
Chatham & Prtsmouth - 20 0 0 1 0 0!
Chester and Holyhead - 50 0 0 5 0 0 8%
Chichester & Bri„,..ton - - 5 0 0 6%
Churnet Valley . ..... . - 20 0 0 20 0 6
Cornwall •••••• • • • . • - . - 3 0 0 5
Direct Northern ••• • • - 50 0 0 210 0 2
Direct -14orwieh ••• • • • - 24 0 0 1 0 0 1%
Disc, Beecles, & Yrmth - 25 0 0 110 0 1%
Dublin & Belfast Junc. - 50 0 0 210 0 , 5%
Ditto mid Galway • • - - 2 10 0 3
Eastern Counties
4s. per sh. 25 0 0 14 16 0 IS
Do.,Perpetual, No.l 5/. per et. 613 4 3134 1 1 pm.
Ditto, ditto, lio. 2. • • - •-•-- " 013 4 151 pm.
Eastern Union . ..... . - 50 0 0 10 0 0 19
Edinburgh & Glasgow 2/. ss. p. sh. 50 0 0 50 0 0 64
Ditto,Quarter Shares I Is. 3d. p. sli. 12 10 0 12 10 0 16
Ely and Bedford .•• • • - 25 0 0 10 0 1%
Grand Connection • • - 50 0 0 210 0
Grand Junction .. • •
Ditto, Half Shares lOl. per ct. ( 0 0 0 150 0 0 112
Ditto, Quarter Shares 10/. per ct. 25 0 0 25 0 0
Gt. Southern &Western - 50 0 0 5 0 0 12
Great North of England 31.155. lOO 0 0 100 0 0 150
Ditto, New.. •••• • • • - 40 0 0 5 0 0 42
Great Western .•• • •
Ditto, Half Shares•• 71. percent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 101
Ditto, Fifths..• ••• • • 71. percent. 20 0 0 20 0 0 I 40
Guilford Junction. •• • • - 50 0 0 35 0 0
Harwich .•••••. • • • • • • - 50 0 0 1 0 0 1%
Hull and Selby . ..... . IL 58. prct. '0 0 0 50 0 0 87
Ditto, Quarter Shares - 12 10 0 12 10 0 15%
Kendal & Windermere - 25 0 0 1 10 0
Lancaster and Carlisle - 50 0 0 15 0 0 34
Leeds and Bradford.. - - 50 0 0 5 0 0 21%
Liverpool & Manchestr 101. per ct. 100 0 0 100 0 0
Ditto, Half Shlres lO/. per ct. 50 0 0 50 0 0
Ditto, Quarter Shares 101. per et. 25 0 0 25 0 0
London & Birmingham 101: per ct. -- Stock. 232
Ditto, New Thirds lOl. per et. 32 0' 0 2 0 0 43
Ditto, New % Shares 101. per et. 25 0 0 2 0 0 293(
London and Blackwall - 16 13 4 - 731
London and Brighton it. Os. per sh. 80 0 0 50 0 0 64%
Ditto, Loa* Notes sl.percent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 13%
Londoi..ind Greenwich - 12 15 4 - 10%
Ditto, Pref. or Priv. • 51. per cent. 18 .7 2 - 2431
London apd S. Western 31. ss. per sh. 41 6 10 -- 80
Do., New Cons. Bths - 40 0 0 6 0 0 24
Ditto, New - 50 -0 o'2 10 0 12%
london and Croydon 10s. perch. 13 15 9 - 19
Ditto, Guarntd. sp. c. - 9 0 0 4 0 0 514
London and York. •• • • - 50 0 0 2 10 0 7%
Lynn and Ely .•• • • • - 25 0 0 210 0 0%
Manchester and Leeds 41.75, 6d. p. s. 100 0 0 70 0 0 140
Ditto, Half Shares .. 11.178.6 d. p. s. 50 0 0 30 0 0 64
Dit o, Quarter Shares 4s. 25 0 0 2 0 0 14%
Ditto, Sixteenths •• • - 6 5 0 1 5 0 7
Manchestr & Blurting. 21. per share 40 0 0 40 0 68
Ditto, Quarter Shares - 10 0 0 2 0 0 12
Midland .••• • • • ...... 4/. 4s. per sh. - Stock. 128
Ditto, Fifths .••• • • • - - 2 0 9 331
Ditto, 13'.':n. & Derby 21.135. per sh, - Steck. 97
Newcastle & Berwick - 25 0 0 1 10 0 15
Newcstle & Dar'. June. 6s. 25 0 0 'O4 0 0 4831
North British - - 10 0 0 16%
Northern and Eastern . 21. ss. 50 0 0 45 0 0 6031
Ditto, Scrip, iss.ol.d. 163. 50 0 0 25 0 0 4434
Ditto, Quarter Shares - 12 10 0 12 10 0 16%
North Kent - 2 15 0 2%
Norwich and Brandon - 20 0 0 10 0 0 16
Ditto, New.. ••.• • • • - 10 0 0 1 0 9 3%
Purism nth Direct - 50 0 0 2 10 P 2
Preston and Wyre •• • • - 50 0 0 50 0 0
Riohmnd& W. E June. - 20 0 0 1 0 0 331
- 20 0 0 1 0 0 3%
Ditto, 2d Pref., 1844 - 25 0 0 25 0 0
SheMelh and Lincoln - 25 0 0 1 5 0 1%
ShetSeld & Manchestr 51. per cent. 100 0 0 82 10 0
Ditto, Quarter Shares - 25 0 0 8 0 0 13
Shrws.,Welv.,Dud.,l4li - 00 0 0 2 10 0 4%
South Devon ... • - 50 0 0 10 0 0 165¢
South-Eastern & Dovr 11. Is. 33 2 4 - 4351
Ditto, New iss.32/.dis - 50 0 0 8 0 0 18
South Wales - - 2 10 0 532
Stevenson's Prtsmouth - - 2 10 0 214
Thames and Medway - 19 5 8 - 1751
Trent Valley - 20 0 0 2 0 0 26%
Yarmouth & Norwich - 20 0 0 20 0 0 26%
Ditto, New - 20 0 0 8 0 0 15
York & North Midland 101. per et. 50 0 0 50 0 0 104
Ditto, Half Shares.. 101. per ct. 25 0 0 25 0 0 50
Do., Scarbro' Branch - - 20 0 0 42
Ditto, Selby Scrip .. - - 20 0 0 6534
Ditto, Extension .... - 25 0 0 1 5 0 1534
Boulogne and Amiens. - 20 0 0 2 0 0 12
fit. Northern of France - 20 0 0 4 0 0 6%
Orleans and Vierzon • . - 20 0 0 2 0 0 17%
Orleans & Bourdeaux - 20 0 0 2 0 0 951
Paris and Lyons - 20 0 0 2 0 0 3'
Paris And Strasbourg.. - 20 0 0 2 0 0 3
Paris and Orleans..... - ' 20 0 0 20 0 0 49
Paris and Rouen ...... 21. . 20 0 0 20 0 0 44%
R. non and ?Sarre .... - 20 0 0 14 0 0 30%

JOINT-STOCIL BANES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
4 a. d. £ s. d.
Australasia •.• • • • .... 8/. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 44N
BritahNorth American 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 45
Commercial of London 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 21
Colonial 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 14
Londn and Westmlnatr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 27%
London Joint-Stock .+ 6L per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14U
Metropolitan ..... • ... 25 0 0 710 0
rrosinc.lal of Ireland:. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 45
Ditto, New.. •.••• .. al. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0
National of Ireland .. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 17 10 0 16%'
Nat. Provuclal of Eng. 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 37%
Ditto, New...... •.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0
Union of Australia •• • 25 0 0 25 0 0 26X
Union of L0nd0n..... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 123 i

INSUUANCE COMPANIES.
Dividead Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Trice.
Annum. Share.
£ a. d. X s. d.
Albion .. •• • .
Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 19%
Ditto Marine. ••• • .. 61. per cent, 100 0 0 8 0 41 6%
Atlas
... .. .. .. ....... 13s. 6d. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 163
British Commercial - 7a. per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 7
ClericLMed.&Gen.Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 210 1 6%
County •.••••• • • • • • • • 3/. 100 0 0 10 0 0
iSs. and
61.55. ha. 40 0 0 5 0 0 10
Eagle 6s. 50 0 0 5 0 0. 5%
p3eor
.c b ; :
Economic Litb .• • ..... [&
leoo 0 0 250 0 0
Eng. & Scot. Law Life.. 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2%
European Life ••••• • • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20
Freemasons' .. •••• • • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0
Globe ••••.••• • • • • • • • • 61. per cent. Stock. - 142
Guardian .••••• • • • • • • 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 8 SOU
Imperial Fire •••• • • • • 12/. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 195
Imperial Life.. •••• • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 16
Indemnity Marine. •• • IL sh. & hs. 100 0 0 513 1 30
Law life ..•.•• • • • • • • N. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 45%
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 5%
London Fire . 10s. 24 0 0 12 10 0 16
London Ship
Matins 5l. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0
Med. Invlid & Gen. Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 3
National Loan Fund.. 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 23&
National Lifts 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 934
Palladium Life ..... .•• 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2
Phoenix .... ...... •. • • 3/. p.ct. & be. - -
Protector Life• ••• - • . 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0
Provident Life... ••• .. 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24
Rock Life .••• • . • .
Royal Exchange 5l. per cent Stock. - 188
Sun Fire . - -
Ditto Life - -
Universal Life • •

Name of Company.

DOCMS.

Dividend Amount
per of I Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
£ e. d. s. d.
Stock.
Stock. 142
100 0 0 21
Stock. 116%
Stock. 109%
50 0 0 , 50 0 0

Commercial •.2 •

iitst and Wert India...
East Country • • .
London • •

St. Katharine • • • • • • • .

Southampton •

pr cent.
11. per eh.
4%1. pr cent.'

5 per cent.

41. per cent.

WATER-WORKS.
Dividend I Amount
NAM! of Company. per of Paid. Price,
Annum. Share. i
£ s, d.
East London..
Grand Junction •••• • • 1 31. 14613 4 90
Kent .••••• • • • • • • 21. 10s. 100 0 0 , 65
Vauxhall
West Mitttllesex ••• • • • 4/. 16s. pr ct. , 63 12 9 127

LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
a. d. a. d.
Bank of Scotland
Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. 100 0 0 16834
British Linen Company 81* per vent. 100 0 0 226
Commercial Bank •• • • 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 167%
National Bank 6l. per cent. 10 0 0 15%
Union Bank of Scotland 734/. pr cent. 50 0 0 97
Western Bank
North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 7
Clydesdale Bank• •• • 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 14%
Eastern Bunk al. per cent. 15 0 0 11%
Caledonian Bank • • • • 61. per cent. 2 10 0 3%
Bdinb.& Glasgow Bank 51. per cent. 5 0 0 7%
City of Glasgow Bank . 51. per cent. 815 0 13%
Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1M
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14%
Insur. Co. of Scotlnd • • Si. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 10
North British Insur. • • 9/. per cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 24%
Caledonian Fire Izmir. 10/. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 25
Edinburgh Life Incur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 18%
Edin. & Glasg. Railway 4%1. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 6534
Ditto, 14 Shares •• • . 4341. per cent. 12 10 0 All paid. 16%
Edin., Leith, & Grantn 20 0 C 20 0 0 15
(Hamm, & Ayrshir Rail. 434 Lper cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 66
Gliuqw& Greenck Rail. 2/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 12
filsgsv & Ganikirk Rail. 5/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 28
Dundee& Arbrothltall. 51. per cent. 125 0 0 All paid. 32

CANALS.
Names of t Dividend Names of r; Dividend
Companies. per Price. compwas. ti per Price.
Annum.
m ASinum.l
XI I X
.A. slitn & 018111 9715/.55. p c 72 Monmouthsh 101. 81. 160
Ashby-d-la-Z 1131 41. ' 70 Mntgomrysli 100 81. 98
Barnsley •• • • 1601 121. 1 180 Macclesfield. 100! - 15
Basingstoke..,lool - 5 Neath
Brknk&Abrg 1501 51. 85 Nottingham
Cromford.... 100 181. 164 Peak Forest
Dudley...... 1001 41. 80 Regent's
Derby ••.. .. 100 81. 103 Rochdale
F.llAmre&Chs,l33l 41. 58 Shropshire •
Eyewash .. .1100, 321. 440 Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. 123
Forth & Clydlloo 41. 105 Do.Lk Fd St 12 61. p. c. 11
r2ii Grand Jan 100, 71. 140 Stffrd &Wore 140 281. 480
Grand 11001 it. 10s. 25 Shrewsbury l2, I 5/. 230
Gismo .172 14%1. 910 Btourbridge 145 201. 360
Glotr lc lirltiyl 001 - 8 Sinn,' on Av 79 11. 106. 30
Grantham • • 150, 121. 185 Severn and 1 26 11. Bs. 30
Hudderstield. 571 -- 30 Wye Ball.
Kennett & Avii 39 7s. 6d. 10 Trnt & Mr./
50 301. 450
i...meaBter .••1 47 1/. 10. 40 say.sh.
Lee. ds& Livrp,loo. 341. 610 Thams &Ned 19 - 10
Leto., star ....114( 101. 139 Worcstr 81 78 41. 50
Leicati &Ni.ll, 83 U. 70 Binning.
I,ouguKkroglrl42, 701. 1050 Pitts 88 Bits 67 11. 48. ,