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London, England, 1844-10-26 00:00:00

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OSING PRICES.)
FUNDS.

BRITIS H
Bank Stock et div. 2021(1

Ditto Bonds £l,OOO 92 pm.
Ditto under £,OO
1 0. 90

iper Cent. Red 99
3 per Cent. Cons.
3% per Cent. Red
New 3U per Cent. lOl%
New 5 per Cent.
Long Annuities to expire
Jan 1860 l2 1-16
Oct. 1859 ll 13-16
Jan. 1860
Indian Stock 287
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(South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities
.7._

Ex. Bills, 1,0001. I%d 73 pm.
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small '73 pm.
Bank Stock for Acct O2
Consols for Act. lOO
India Stock for Acct --
1 FUNDS.

__ustrian, 5 per Cent
5 per Cent
Brazilian Bonde .......
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent —
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent
Chlliant G per Cent
Colombian, 6 per Cent
Danish, 3 per Cent
Greek, 185, 5 per Cent
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Neapolitan Bonds, 5 per Ct —
Pi ussian Bonds, 4 per Cent —
I-et uvian Bonds, 6 per Ct —
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Ct

Russian, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Metallic
ipanish, 5 per Cent., 1840 —
Ditto, 1841 0000000000
Ditto, 1812
Ditto, 1843.
Ditto, 1841
Ditto, 3 per Cent 34%
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Ct —
French, 5 per Cent.. — C.
Exchange
French, 3 per Cent —f.
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto,:s per Cent ... 98%

SHARES.

Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) lO4
Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid
Caledonian (5 paid) 41,',
Churnet Valley, 2 paid
Eastern Counties (25 paid)
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid
Ditto Quarter Shares (123{ paid)
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid 84%
Lancaster and Carlisle, 10 paid
London and Birmingham (Stock)
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Croydon (Trunk) 163
London and York, 236 paid 35
Midland (100 paid)
Newcastle and Darlingron Junction, 21 paid 45
North British, 5 paid
Norwich and Brandon, 6 paid 85()
South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) ..... .... 433;
Ditto New Shares 4 paid
Trent Valley, 2 paid'
York and North Midland (50 paid) lO3
Ditto Half Shares (25 paid)
Central of France, 2 paid
Ditto Constituted BIA
Boulogne and Amiens, 2 pai d ...........
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid
Paris and Lyons, 2 paid Y%
s'aris and Orleans (21) paid)

Paris and Rouen, 20 paid
Paris and Strasbourg, 2 paid

SPIRIT of tha PUBLIC JOURNALS.
U FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
01.013 E. We find that Mr. George Bankos has
been directing the attention of the Dorsetshire magis-
trates to Sir J. Graham's Bill for paying clerks of
the peace and of petty sessions by salaries, instead of
fees, and for regulating the fees in courts of criminal
justice, in language showing a very unnecessary
alarm for the interests of the fee-receivers :—" Public
attention had been excited by the great impropriety
of charging accused persons with fees on ac-
quittal. The nature of the question had been in
some degree mistaken, for it had been supposed that
all parties accused were liable to these charges. Now,
that was entirely a mistake, because in charges of
felony no fees of that description were charged. It
was, however, by no means just that parties who had
been falsely accused (and they had a right to pre-
sume this of persons who had been acquitted) should
be subject to any penalty. But the clerks of the peace
ought not to be deprived of the emoluments which
their predecessors had enjoyed; and consequently a
difficulty had occurred in the way of putting a stop to
a practice which had been reprobated by the magis-
trates of that bench so long as he could remember. It
was very necessary that such a Bill should be intro-
duced, and he had no doubt it would pass ; but it
was also necessary that they should look over it
with considerable care, because it was not just
that they should deprive clerks of the peace
of their fair and proper remuneration." The
children of Zeruiah are sure to take good care
of themselves ; and however natural it may be for a
Tory county. Member to anticipate their wishes and
over act zeal in their behalf, we should think better of
him if he withheld all encouragement of a jobbing
opposition, too sure anyhow to arise, to so good an
object as that of Sir J. Graham's Bill. These fees, of
which Mr. Bankes pretends so much fear that clerks
of the peace may be unjustly deprived—fees taken from
defendants in misdemeanours--are illegal fees; pro-
hibited clerks of the peace are prohibited from taking
them by the 55th George 111. ; and their illegality
has been affirmed by Sir James Graham, on the autho-
rity of the Law Officers of the Crown, on Mr. Escott
calling his attention to such fees being still demanded
by many clerks of the peace. "It was not just that
they should deprive clerks of the peace of their fair
and proper remuneration !"—This fair and proper re-
muneration being fees which are taken in violation of
law—as, if they were not illegally taken, they would
exist in violation of the plainest principles of justice—
from men acquitted on charges of misdemeanour, or
discharged for non-appearance of a prosecutor. Out,
we say, Mr. Bankes, upon such affectation of justice !
that fees so indefensible, should continue to be
exacted by many clerks of the peace, contrary to law,
is only one of many instances of the necessity for a
more effective supervision of the amateur adminis-
trators of criminal justice at Quarter Sessions. A
Parliamentary return has been obtained by Mr.
Escott (whose persevering exertions to abate this
disgraceful practice deserve all praise) of " Fees taken
or demanded from defendants in misdemeanours by
the Clerks of Arraign and Clerks of the Peace in
England and Wales, at the last Assizes and two last
Quarter Sessions respectively." Put aside the
illegality of these fees ; and that they should
be wrung, legally or illegally, from poor men
as the price of regaining their liberty after acquittal
on a false charge, is enough to make Englishmen
blush for their country in which such practices are
permitted to exist. The same return shows an amount
of upwards of 1101. received by such fees in the two
last sessions in Somersetshire. We rejoice to see
that Mr. Escott, assisted by Mr. Labouchere, has
prevailed on his brother magistrates at Taunton,
at the sessions just concluded, to prohibit the clerk
of the peace from continuing any longer to take
these fees; and we trust other counties will follow
this example.
STANDARD.—We have long been of opinion
that one of the most urgent of necessary reforms is,
the improvement of the residences of the poor
in large towns. In hamlets and villages, and de-
tached cottages, there is, perhaps, little occasion
for the presence of the reformer; there the youth
grows up, and the man lives in the society of his
family, generally the best of moral schools ; but
to transfer this advantage to great towns, or
to provide a substitute for it, is a problem
not yet solved, though its solution, besides being
neccessary to the happiness of the poor, must exercise
an important influence upon society, through all its
gradations ; we, therefore, hail with satisfaction every
fair experiment that is made in a matter of so much
weight, for it is the domestic character makes the
man, and the home shapes that domestic character.
Never did we, however, read of such a
rtexpri-
ment with so much delight as the repo of the
proceedings to establish a sailor's home at
with whom the ad-
Liverpool. We know not td
mirable proposition engine e ,itwhoPv?r la§. the
honour of being its author, that good and grea man,
the Rei: Hugh APNelle, has not only insured the
success of thp scheme at Liverpool, but rendercd cer-
tain the establishme4 of a sailors' home in every