The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-31 00:00:00

TH.E SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 31, 1844.

THE ANTI-LEAGUE AGITATION. ' mittee of this Society would communicate with other
MEETING AT STET KING. : societies established in various parts of the country ;
Tuesday a meeting of farmers and others interested and he hoped and trusted that ten days would not pass
in agriculture, was held at Steyning, pursuant to public 4 before a similar society would be formed in every part of
announcement, for the purpose of forming a society, to England. It appeared to him, also, that those demon-
be called the " Sussex Society for the Protection of atrations would induce the confidential advisers of the
Agriculture." A commodious hustings had been erected sovereign to speak out plainly on the subject of the
in an orchard adjoining the White Horse Inn, and some eorn-laws.—(Hear.) He thought that they were en-
lime before the hour at which the proceedings were an- titled to ask, not in the language of menace or of threat,
- nounced to commence, the hustings were crowded with or even, perhaps, of any sort of reproach—that they
noblemen and gentlemen, intermingled with a consider- would be entitled to tell the Ministers of the Crown that
' able number of the neighbouring farmers. The agents of uncertainty with regard to their views on this subject
the Anti-Corn-law League were in the town actively was an evil of no ordinary magnitude. We want to know
distributing their tracts. The meeting was called for (continued the Noble Duke) what they are going to be
twelve o'clock, but the proceedings did not commence about?—whether they mean to maintain that protection.
until half-past. which is still left to us ? We will only ask them to
Among those on the hustings were the Duke of Rich- speak out, and no doubt they will, when they know the
mond, the Earl of Egmont, the Earl of Winterton, the opinions of se respectable a body of the farmers of the
Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Sheffield, the Earl of country.—(Cheers.) He did not think it necessary to
Abergavenny, Lord Gage, Sir H. Shiffner, Sir C. M. detain them with any repetition
.of his.recorde opinions,
Burrell, Bart., MP • Colonel Wyndham, M.P. Colonel
. ~ ~ further than to say that no whateverconsideratioi.t would
G. Wyndham, the Earl of March, M.P. ; Hon. R. C. ever induce him to vote against the agricultural interest
Scarlett, M.P. ; Mr. C. Goring, M.P. ; Mr. G. Darby, .
of this country-he would not sanction the withdrawal
" M.P.; Mr. R. Prime, Mr. R. Hasler, Mr. R. Hurst, Mr. of one iota of the protection at present existing. No
J. B. Dunbar, Mr. W. W. Richardson, Major Sandham,
threats, on the one hand, no cajolery on the other,
Mr. H. Ingram, Mr. H. Penfold, Mr. H. D. Tredcroft,
should ever induce him to depart from the position which
Mr. W. Borrer, jun., Mr. J. Scott, jun., Mr. IL Hullick , he now occupied. He did not speak front selfish feelings
when he declared his belief that on the well of the
Mr. R. W. Blencowe, Mr. H. Bates, Captain Richard-
son, Mr. L. Wood, Mr. F. Smith, Mr. C. S. Dickens, agricultural interest was based the prosperity of the
country and the welfare and happiness of every indivi-
Mr. C. Dorien, Mr. C. Shirley, Mr. J. King, Captain
Paine Mr. D. Lyon, Mr. J. Barton, Mr. C. Mitford,
, dual residing in her Majesty's dominions.—(Cheers.)
Mr. T. Thomas, Mr. C. S. Finbury, Mr. Pringle, Mr. J. Thanks having been voted to the Chairman, on the
Dennett, Mr. J. Smith, Mr. A. Smith, Mr. J. D. Smith, motion of Sir Charles Burrell., Bart., the meeting
Mr. T. Coppard, Mr. J. W. Ladbrooke, Mr. W. New- separated.
land, Mr. Fitzgerald, Sir 11. Symons, M.P., &c. There A subscription WAS afterwards opened, when upwards
appeared to be about 1,200 persons present. of 1,0001 was at once subscribed ; the Duke of Rich-
On the motion of Mr. BARTON, of East Leigh, near mond, the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Egmont, the
Havant, county' Members, and other gentlemen, putting doivn
Mr. J. ELLMAN, of Line, an occupying tenant, was their names for 1002 each.
called to the chair at 25 minutes to two o'clock. He
said, no doubt they would feel disappointed and sur- SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
prised at seeing a small proprietor (though a consider. PROW THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
able occupier) in so prominent a situation on so impor- GLOBE.—Our Contemporaries, without respect
tent an occasion ; but this was a meeting of occupying to mere
farmers ; and as he had for the last 30 years never highest party politics, have united in paying the
praise to Mr. Shell's speech. This offering
"shrunk from expressing personally and in print his at the shrine of talent is creditable to their taste ; and
opinions in favour of protection to the farmer, he did
not think he ought to refuse to stand forward now.— will. go far to excuse those of them who endeavour to
(Hear.) 1f anything could have been required to pre- weaken the effect
. of that splendid effort upon the case
vent a doubt that those opinions were general, it was for the prosecution. That those who have prejudged
afforded by the highly respectable and numerous meet- the case—who have laboured for a conviction, and have
ing of tenant farmers whom he saw here to-day. It had therefore defended the means by which the Attorney-
always been said that they had been incited by their General has endeavoured to secure it—that these jour-
landlords; but he thought that meeting, and the fact that nals should feel general chagrin when they discover
he, an occupying tenant, was placed in the chair, were the weakness of the case, as made out by the Crown
a sufficient answer to such a charge, let it come from lawyers, and the effective dispersion of that air-built
whatever party or from whatever source it might. The pile by the powerful speech of Mr. Sheil, is not to be
cause of the meeting was obvious. They all knew that t •which
wondered at. Admit the relevancy of the topics
the last crop of corn, as well as the previous one, had
constitutedthe material of Mr. Shell's
argument, and,
been below the average, and yet they had seen that the
prices were such that the tenant could scarcely pay his for any purpose for which the prosecution was insti-
way.—(Hear.) That was the real cause why it was tuted, the case might as well be withdrawn from the
incumbent on the agriculturists now to make a stand consideration of the jury. The " monster indictment"
against the advances of the Anti-Corn-law League. has become so much waste parchment—utterly worth-
Tat was the one bond of union amongst them. It had less, except as a memorial of' the legal ingenuity and
brought together on that occasion noblemen and gentle- labour employed in its fabrication. Hence the
men of opposite 'political opinions, but all harmonious efforts of the Tory journals to neutralise the ef-
and agreed in their determined antagonism to the fect of Mr. Sheil's oration. It was " effective,"
League.—(Hear.) He very much regretted that they " brilliant "—" the most able effort of an able man "
could not see among them a Noble Lord for whose
—" the best speech of the Grattan school of eloquence
personal character he, as well as those who now heard
him, entertained the highest respect, and whom the agri- ever delivered
„ by any disciple of that school, or by its
cultural body had honoured with the Vice-Presidency founder; a similar . opinion being expressed without
of the Smithfield Club—he alluded to Earl Spencer.— any important variation of phraseology by them all.
(Hear, bear.) He very much deplored the adhesion of But then the speech which they thus agree to praise,
that nobleman to the Anti-Corn-law League, and he was so much eloquence wasted ; for, say they, "it
still more deplored that he should have chosen such a failed to touch the defendants' case;' and, therefore,
time as the present to declare it.—(Cheers.) Lord though commanding admiration by its extraordinary
Ducie, also, who was called the best arable farmer, as merits as an oration, has not succeeded in influencing
Earl Spencer was termed the best grazing farmer, was the judgment of the third party—the jury and the
now giving his declared support to the League. The public. What, then, is the defendants' case? This
agricultural body were under great obligations to Lord question must be determined before the inquiry as to
Ducie for his improvements in agriculture, as exem- the effect of Mr. Sheil's speech on that case can be
plified in his " model farm," but he was not acting as
answered. The indictment charges " conspiracy"—a
their friend in abetting the League. He (Mr. Ellman)
combination to effect an illegal pu se •or to effect a
could only say, that it it was well for the farmers to
. imi.-
1 lunlawful means. ir
' '
tate Lord Ducie in his farming proceedings, their imi- legal purpose by ll, T. Shell opposed to
tation should extend no further.—(Hear.) Lord West- this, the most formidable count in the monster indict-
minster also had written a letter to the papers supporting ment, the fact—admitted by the witnesses far the
the League. Crown—that every meeting of the alleged conspira-
A Voice—Ah, but he don't grow corn.—(Laughter.) tors was open to every person without distinction,
Mr. ELLMAN—Ay, that's true ; but we could not but who, by the payment of a shilling for enrolment as a
regret to see such noblemen as these countenancing the member of the Association, desired to know what
League—those who by their blasphemous publications
they said and what they did. Even this small fee
were attempting to sow the seeds of disunion everywhere;
was not demanded from the reporters for the public
separating the tenants from their landlords, and the
labourers from the farmers. Mr. Ellman then proceeded press, nor from the short-hand writer who announced
to attack the principles of the League in detail, himself an agent of the Government. The Repeal
He denied that this was solely a question of rent, as Association published its documents to the world.
asserted by Messrs. Cobden and Bright. He also denied The correspondence was read openly; and was pub-
that Scotland was with the League, and in contradio- lished in the papers of the day, as part and parcel of the
tion to that statement, lie would only point to the late proceedings of its meetings. Such a conspiracy was
meeting in the Lothians. He then quoted the opinion never before heard of. Not a day passedbut the news-
of "Mr. Huskisson in favour of agricultural protection. papers told all that could be known respecting it. The
That friend to free trade said there would be no effec- Attorney-General himself has admitted this. His
tual security in peace or war against repeated returns of . speech was little more than a repetition of what every
scarcity, except a proper protection of our home supply. one knew from a perusal of any newspaper. This
Let the bread we eat be of home production, and then
rehearsal was, it is true, seasoned with a somewhat
let it be as cheap as it can. At a late meeting in Scot-
Mr. Fox Mettle said, that no settlement of the corn alarming assurance to the jury, of "as wicked a
question would be satisfactory that did not involve total conspiracy as ever yet was entered into against the
repeal. Was that true?—(A general cry of " No, no.") peace of any country ;" but it was a mere momentary
- Now, they were met there especially to combat this doe- flight of imagination ; it excited inordinate expecta-
trine, and the League as its expounders. Whatever tions of some astounding revelation, which was
Minister might be in power—whether Whig or Tory— doomed to disappointment.
if he attempted to take away one iota of the protection STANDARD.—It is important that the public
on agriculture, let the farmers rise up as one man and should be put in possession of the marks proper to
tell him that they would not submitlo it.—(Cheers.) distinguish those who ruin causes and parties, by
Mr. WYATT (also a tenant farmer) moved the first
supporting the right on wrong grounds, and by
resolution—" That while the tenantry of the country, "
~
ng bad worse, " when they happen to be on
and others investing their capital in agriculture, have snaking
had their protection greatly reduced by recent legis- the wrong side ; and our time happily furnishes
lative enactments, and their prices seriously affected an example in which we can trace all those marks
by the. constant agitation of the Anti-Corn-law without the least chance of error, and with a
League, it is the opinion of this meeting that certainty that in pointing them out we can-
it ia the duty of the owners and occupiers of land, not not possibly offer offence or wrong to political
only on their own account, but also for the welfare of integrity. The example in question is the for-
the numerous labourers, tradesmen, and others depen- merly renowned Sir Thomas Buckler Lethbridge,
dent on them for support and employment (the interest who has once more emerged from his natural ob-
of all being indissolubly united), and for the general
scurity to instruct the people of England. Thirty-
welfare of all classes of the community, to use their
years best endeareurs to counteract the designs of the persons
four T
confederated together under the title of the Anti-Corn-
patriotic faith, was, truly or falsely, said to be a
law League, the attainmet.t of whose object would, in little tyrannical; certainly, it was not favourably
cur opini-n, produce a crisis we cannot contemplate disposed to popular rights, and then the future
without the greatest apprehension." Radical was of course the most violent of Tories.
Mr. W. TANNER seconded the resolution. He it was who moved the committal to the
A Mr. DunataN, of Brighton, ivho stated himself to Tower - of the late lamented Sir Francis Bur-
be a mechanic, here addressed the meeting at some dett for a letter, little differing from the pre-
length. He attacked the Anti-Corn-law League, he amble to the Reform Bill, afterwards supported
said, not so much because he was friendly to the agri- with zeal and even fury by the imprisoner of
cultural interest, as because he thought the League the the honest and able, though somewhat extravagant,
greatest " humbug" of the two. Member for Westminster A few years later the
The resolution efts then agreed to.
Mr. W. STACE (a tenant 'farmer) moved the second Irish Romanists pressed their demands. These de-
resolution, expressive of the sense of the meeting, that mands were resisted upon the two-fold ground—that
the protection of agriculture was necessary to the main- Romanism was false in doctrine, and that its political
tenance of the best interests of the empire, and that no organisation must render it both dangerous to, the
amount of foreign trade could compensate for its de- peace of a country governed by free institutions, and
struction. This speaker, like the previous one, addressed obstructive of improvement and civilisation. Sir
his observations to the refution of the arguments and the Thomas, of course, chose the weaker groud, or
denunciation of the designs of the League. perphaps took a weaker than the weakest ground
The resolution having been seconded by Mr. HAMP. taken by others, and opposed what was called Ca-
• TON (a farmer), was agreed to. tholic Emancipation, as an extension of civil liberty.
The third resolution, for the formation of the Sussex
Agricultural Protection Society, was also agreed to, This was not less absurd than the argument of his
having been moved by Mr. W. C. Newland, and se- friend, the late Mr. John Fuller, of Sussex, who
conded by Mr. C. Beard. denounced Romanists as unworthy of civil rights,
The other resolutions, which were of a formal nature, because the majority wore red waistcoats and blue
including the nomination of the Duke of Richmond as breeches, and frequently stockings that did not
President, and the Earl of Egmont, Lord Gage, the cover the foot. While the opposition to Romanism
Earl of Sheffield, Sir C. Burrell, and Colonel Wyndham, contained any such dash of absurdity, Sir
as Vice-Presidents of the Society, were severally pro- Thomas Lethbridge was the most zealous among
posed by farmers and unanimously agreed to. the opponents—but when the dangerous character
-The Duke of RICHMOND then came forward and ad- of Ro nism had fully developed itself, when the mis-
dressed the meeting. He said he was anxious to express
chief hadma
grown to some formidable strength under
his to
of the high honour they had done him by
making him their President. His services might not be the lethargic administration of Lord Liverpool, and
of much use, but they should always be, as they ever when, consequentl the Opposition became rational
bad been, at the disposal of the farmers of the empire. and serious—as offered to a tangible evil, menacing
He had felt it to be his duty as a landlord to attend there our peace and union and freedom—then Sir Thomas
to-day at a meeting called by the tenantry of his native suddenly changed sides, and became as violently
county, and to co-operate with them to the utmost of pro-Romanist as ever he had been earnestly ultra-
his power in the promotion of every object that would Protestant. The Protean politician, however, did
be beneficial to agriculture. He should feel that he was not close his metamorphoses with this change ; for
base indeed, if he could desert the farmers in the mo- we next find the old violent ultra-Tory the most
ment of clanger.—(Cheers.) He could not approve of the Radical among the Radical supporters of the Reform
proceedings of the Anti-Corn-law League. He had
Bill. The history sketched above is not a very re-
heard with surprise, not unmixed with indignation, that
their leaders had threatened to interfere in the election spectable one, but Sir Thomas has challenged it in
of Members of Parliament, with the money which their coming forward with the weight of his high char-
dupes had placed at their disposal.—(Hear, hear.) He acter for consistency, honesty, and wisdom to exhort
felt sure that the farmers would not attempt to follow so the farmers of England to fall back upon the fixed
bad an example—this Society was formed for self-de- duty scheme of the Administration cashiered in 1841.
fence, and for self-defence alone.—(Hear, hear.) Were There is something extremely characteristic of
free and independent men to suffer themselves to be all the doings of this person, in the time which
trodden under foot, by a Society such as the Anti-Corn- he has chosen for his last demand upon public
law League ?—(Hear, hear.) No ; they little under- attention. The League has been at work for two
stood the stuff the British farmer was made of, if they •
or three years, demanding a total abolition of the
supposed that they could do it.—(Hear, hear.) He re-
peated, however, his belief that the farmers would not corn-laws; but the voice of Sir Thomas was never
follow the bad example of the League—they would not heard to resist that scheme which he now pre-
attempt to set against each other classes whose interests tends to treat as so wicked and unjust.
were identical. Nor would they send delegates into the For anything that Sir Thomas cared—for any-
manufacturing districts, to excite the passions of the thing that Sir Thomas said—the corn-laws
people, and to inflame the minds of the operative against might have been repealed at any time in 1842 and
the manufacturers. No ; on the contrary, confiding in 1843. But 1844 presents a different aspect of i
the justice of their cause, they would seek by all legiti- affairs. The farmers are awakened, by what we
mate means must think exaggerated, but what we admit to be
to combat the arguments of the League, and
- dispel the fallacies by which they attempted to support salutary, fears of the effect of the practices of
their views. At the same time he begged to say, that he ,
• thought they ought by no means to confound the League the League." And in the general awakening,
with the manufacturers and the commercial classes. Sir Thomas, too, arouses himself, for what ?
To encourage and co.operate with his brother
It was true that the Anti-Corn-law League did boast
and claim that they were t representatives of the o‘pi- agriculturists ? Oh, no ; the Baronet
starts up;
nions of the commercial ande manufacturing interests ;
• merely to tell them, that though it is wrong. to I
but it was no such thiu —elarge proportion of the most I submit to be ruined outright, they ought to ,submit
influential and honest (%' the men who pursued those i to be ruined a little; in short, Sir Thomas fries to I
most useful and honourable avocations disapproved of ; break the fall of " the .
the conduct of the League as ranch as they'League " (to :borrow I
They disliked the agitation—thedid.—(Hear.) his own figure), by receiving the conapira-
the considered
co
oute•eroef
morally wrong—they knew that ifl tors upon a fixed duty. We have, indeed, (no ap-
repealed, a large quantity of land must be thrownnsprehension that a single human being Om be
cultivation—they knew, also, that they would lose their biassed by the advice or example of such a Aierson
best customers, and they knew something else, too— as Sir Thomas Lethbridge has shown himself
_ which was, that success did never yet produce modern,- through a long life. Still less do we apprehend
tion in any political party.—(Hear, hear.) They knew that such arguments this can prevail with even the
well that, if the Anti-Corn-law League war© now to weakestas
understanding; but it is well to let the public
succeed, they would not stop there, but that they would know that Sir Thomas is now a Whig and a fixed-
go on creating anarchy and confusion in the country, duty man, because front that it may be confidently
• taking away from us everything that was dear to us as keened what is t be
free Englishmen— they knew that they would attempt the fate of the ir loti .the fate of the fixed dot as to
to defraud the public creditor of his due.—(Hear, hear.) since. Let the t, iAtt, thatduty"ed has been determined long 1
Ile (the Duke of Richmond) believed that they would fools there are,behenicef farmers, if any such ,
that had taken I
axree with him, that the demonstrations . orthknown as "Lethbridgites " '
and there will be little dofthe - 'ise a did ale,'
plaer in -.l_ifff,rset r arts of the Y''uritr:' had ;I, .-_ .
le, _ anger -
the billy
, slid _II,. I- pon address it would be unn - '
iiegati,<_, to .the Antt-1-72rii 1.,.' Le'','"'" ' hen the~ - Rare
o .a.), mon., some not used it as a
that they had succeeded in eon vincin2, the farmer,
which to
i text upon raise doubts as to the probable
that the question was not a tenant's question, out .
that it was only a question of rent between land-
course of Ministers in the session about to
lord and tenant. He felt that the managing coin- con=ence. Si
1
We have no authority to say

anything upon this point, but we are as
thoroughly convinced as we can be of anything,
that no change whatever in the corn-laws—that no
change of any other law calculated in the slightest
degree to depreciate agricultural property—is in
contemplation. When people say that the Minister
must speak out, they forget, or would try to make
others forget, that Sir Robert Peel has already
spoken out as distinctly cs man could speak—
that he has pledged himself to the sliding
scale unaltered for some years ; and at all times to
the maintenance upon that scale of figures such
as shall insure to those engaged in agriculture a fair
remunerating profit. Perhaps the Right Honourable
Baronet anticipates a time when the corn-laws shall
be a dead letter, removable without injury as a mere
incumbrance. We know that we, onrselves, antici-
pate such a period, the period when the united king-
dom shall become- -an exporting country as respects
corn, if only the present corn-laws be maintained.
Within the last thirty years agricultural produce has
increased in a higher ratio than population; so that
now they are nearly commensurate. Let this pro-
ceed, and the facilities opening for colonisation ren-
ders the process almost certain, and we shall have a
surplus of agricultural produce to export; but with
such a surplus we suppose that no one would care
much about corn-laws. This is the sense, and this is
the only sense, in which the question of the repeal or
modification of the corn-laws was ever treated by Mi-
nisters as a " mere questions of time." As long as
these laws shall be in any degree necessary, they will
be firmly maintained by a Conservative Adminis-
tration.
TIMES.—The Irish trials have of a sudden, although
perhaps but for a short time, changed in one particular
their outward aspect. To tediousness and dulness a
brilliant flash has Succeeded. Mr. Sheil has made a
speech, the report of which fills eleven columns of the
Times of yesterday--a -speech in his character of Coun-
sel for Mr. John O'Connell; and to which we should do
much less than justice were we to deny it those merits,
a very high degree of which might have been fairly ex-
pected by every person at all acquainted with Mr. Shell's
public history, or with his unquestionable talents as a
speaker, both in the House of Commons and at the bar.
This display of oratory embraced ft field of observation
rather vague than grand, and fertile rather than fruit-
ful. how much it may have been calculated to work
strong conviction in any quarter, is a question.which it
would now be premature and possibly invidious, to pro-
flounce upon. It may be disputed how far an advocate, es-
pecially a paid one, is justified by his peculiar position, we
mean with a view to his client's interests, in laying
down broadly, upon his own personal authority, as if
he were a witness before the Court, any fact which, if
delivered by such witness, would have an important
bearing upon the case under trial, The word of a
hired, but unaworn advocate, can in itself have no
weight at all. He must be aware that the jury, on a
moment's consideration, will be more surprised than
persuaded by such an effort upon their credulity, and
disposed to ask, why is the traverser's counsel so
much at " a loss for legal testimony, that he at-
tempts to put us off by his own bare word ?"
Yeti in one of those analogies or illustrations of
the O'Connell case, as treated by Mr. Sheil, which
were meant to be regarded as among the weightiest,
we find the advocate adducing, "of his own knows
ledge," the conduct of Mr. O'Connell, for instance, in
his management of the Roman Catholic cause, before
emancipation, as "conceived in the spirit of peace," and
" in the spirit of peace carried out," and in that "spirit
consummated," and all this to make it credible that the
repeal agitation has been conceived and carried on in
the same spirit. No doubt Mr. Sheil, who claims to
have been a partner of Mr. O'Connell in the former
stance, and " privy to his inmost thoughts" (?), ought
to be some authority on that specific passage of his-
tory; but is not it odd that the Duke of Wellington, a
sagacious man, and a bold one, should have so far mis-.
taken the above ".peaceful" spirit that he really regarded
the machinery for bringing about Roman Catholic relief
to have been framed in a spirit not of peace, but of " re-
bellion?" We have already, by describing the enormous
dimensions of this oratorical effort, abundantly ex-
plained to our readers how impracticable would be
the task of anything like an analysis or even enume-
ration of its details. But, in truth, properly speaking,
the speech has no parts—that is to say, it is incapable
of argumentative division. Nowhere can it be brought
to bear with a distinct •and tangible effect, either upon
the matter of the indietment or on the evidence in sup-
port of it. The character of the defence is a declama-
tory appeal against the whole history of British govern
ment in Ireland—against the means (bad enough we
admit) by which the union had been carried—being,
in fact, the spirit of-corruption versus that of rebel
lion,—and pretension to assimilate the measures
of O'Connell now to those of 1782, carried on by
Mr. Grattan and his colleagues. But Grattan bad the
Parliament at his back. He made no attempt to set
up the brute force of Ireland against the Church
and State, the laws, institutions, , and property of the
realm. He did not collect the multitude by hen.
dreds of thousands, make boast of their numbers and
their bravery, exasperate them by recalling the wrongs
of centuries, although at that time still unredressed—
whereas now, while dwelt upon by O'Connell, nine-
tenths 'of them have no existence. It would be childish
and unhandsome to deny that the speech sparkles
with elaborate elegance—that its movement is light and
graceful, and that it is, as a whole, a full-dress version of
the rude, coarse, and unmannerly language of the Corn-
Exchange. But that is all. It barely touches the
question submitted to the jury-box. It loses sight of the
issue—whether the several traversers, or Mr. Shell's
client, with any one or more others, did or did not con-
spire to produce certain specified purposes byillegal means.
It puts the union on trial ; it puts the law on trial; and for-
gets that the traversers, and not the law, are indicted.
Eloquence was not designed for admiration only—as a
mere arrangement of musical sentences. if it had an
been, Mr. Shell might be esteemed 'a most effective ora-
tor ; but the business of eloquence is to convince men—
to persuade them, and, in a word, to make them act,—to
satisfy, not the taste of a jury, but their inward con-
science, and, as one main instrument to that great end,
to keep tenaciously before their eyes the merits and in-
terests of the client as he who alone is entitled to their
sympathy, not the person or powers of the Counsel, as
a candidate for fame or an object of wonder. We heart-
ily wish that, if innocent of the offences charged upon
him, Mr. John O'Connell may enjoy an honourable ac-
quittal. But we are bound to add that a mind gifted
ever so slightly with the elements of reasoning power
must seek for proofs of that innocence—or, indeed, of
any other fact but of Mr. Shell's rich vocabulary, some-
, where else than in the speech of that Right Hon. Gen-
f tleman.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Jan. 30.
(Sittings ih Bftneo.)
BOSANQUET r. GRAHAM.

This was the case in which the London and Westminster
Bank were plaintiffs, and the South-Western District Bank
defendants, and which has been so often before the Court.
The defendant Graham was the public officer of the latter
bank, and in such capacity had executed a warrant of at-
torney to the plaintiff, on which judgment had been entered
up. A rule nisi had been obtained to set it aside, and. the
lourt had directed an issue to be tried, in order to ascertain
the facts of the case. That issue had been found for plaintiff.
A new trial had been applied for and refused. So that every
question had been decided in favour of plaintiff.
The Attorney-General. this morning, applied to the Court
to discharge the rule nisi, to set aside the judgment as
_against his client, Mr. Graham, with costs.—The Court
granted the application.
CRIMINAL INFORMATION.—THE QUEEN V. HAMPDEN.
In this case a rule nisi had been obtained for a criminal
information against the defendant, under the following cir-
cumstances. Air. Ey-ton, the applicant, and defendant, were
both gentlemen of fortune, residing in Warwickshire, and
had at one time been intimately acquainted. At
length the attentions of Mr. Hampden to Mrs. Ey-ton be-
came very marked, and that lady complained to her husband
of Mr. Hampden's conduct, and Mr. Eyton remonstrated
with him, but Mr. Hampden continued to annoy the lady,
and the consequence was a fracas between the parties, and
the application by Mr. Hampden of the terms liar and
coward to Mr. Eyton. Some time since a portrait painter at
Leamington had taken Mr. Eyton's portrait, and had, with
Mr. Eyton's permission, exhibited it at the News-roomi, as
a specimen of his talents. Shortly afterwards Mr. Reeves,
the keeper of the rooms, received an anonymous letter,
stating that he was likely to do an injury to his business by
publicly exhibiting in his rooms the portrait of a man who
had suffered himself publicly to be called a liar and coward.
Mr. Ey-ton then applied for a criminal information against
defendant, alleging m his affidavit that he believed defendant
was the writer of the letter. Several other persons who had
seen it declared their belief that it was defendant's writing.
Mr. TIIESIGER this morning showed cause against the rule,
and read the affidavit of the defendant, distinctly denying
that he was the writer of the letter.
Lord DENMAN—Where the question is one of simple fact,
and that fact is distinctly denied, the Court, I believe, never
interferes by criminal information. It is a matter to go to a
grand jury.
Mr. KELLY, in suppport of the rule, argued that notwith-
standing a denial of a fact by the party accused, yet the
Court could interfere if the case were one in which there was
strong probability that the charge was true.
Lord Dr2csax said that in such a case the Court might
possibly interfere, but in the present case the matter was of
too little importance for the time of the Court to be wasted
by going into a minute inquiry on the subject. The rule must
be discharged, but without costs.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jan. 30.
(Sittings in Banco.)
THE ATTOMCF.I.-GEICEIZAL r. CLARKE.

Mr. Jrrtvis (with whom was Mr. Erle and Mr. Wylde)
moved for a rule to call upon the Attorney-General to show
cause why the verdict found for the Crown should not be set
aside and entered for the defendant. _

It appeared that the defendant entered for exportation a
large quantity of foreign wines at less than their real value,
which subjected the wines to forfeiture to the Crown, and
they were accordingly removed to the Queen's warehouse,
where they now are.
Mr. WARRE'S showed cause against the informality of
seizure on the ground on which the verdict was sought to be
set aside. 'The arguments on both sides were of a technical
character, and occupied the attention of the Court the whole
of the morning.—Judgment deferred.

SHERIFFS' COURT, Jan. 30.
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff KENNEDY.)
BEACH OF rnowne OF MARRIAGE.—cFrANNING V. BUMS.
This was an action by the plaintiff to recover compensa-
tion in damages for a breach of promise of marriage by the
defendant.
Mr. James appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Thomas con-
ducted the defence. Judgment was allowed to go by default.
From the evidence for the plaintiff it appears that the de-
fendant is a master baker, residing in Pentonville. He some
time since became acquainted with the plaintiff,"Miss Miry
Anna Channing, at which time he carried on business
at 135, Edgeware-road. The acquaintance lasted some time,
and a correspondence (which was read) took place between the
parties, who at several times visited_places of amusement to-
gether, and on their return from the Eagle Salsen
the promise alluded to was given. Subsequently the inti-
macy ceased, and the defendant married a Miss Holliday,
his present wife. He then disposed of his business in the
Edgeware-road to his foreman, who paid him 651. premium
for the house, and 10 per cent. off a premium of 100/. The
defendant went into business then at 45, kay-street, Clerken-
well, which house belonged to his present wife's mother. Mr.
James described the plaintiff as a person of great personal
attractions, aged,32 years, but a wituess deposed to her
being 38.
Mr. Thomas described the case as a most trumpery one,
the plaintiff being forty years of age, and his client not only
being that age, but likewise a widower, with two children,
• when he became acquainted with the plaintiff, and he trusted
the damages would be merely nominal.
The Learned Under-Sheriff summed up, and the jury,
after having retired some time, returned a verdict for the
plaintiff—Damages, 601.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
CLERKENTVELL.

An Italian named Mottenzir was charged with
.violently
assaulting police constables 101 and 240 G.
The former constable being on duty in Hatton-garden on
the previous night, heard cries of ‘,Police, Murder," pro-
ceeding from Greville-street. He hastened thither, and saw
a crowd of about 150 persons in the street, most of whom
were Italians. As soon as he attempted to interfere to restore
order, the prisoner felled him to the ground with a blow, and
when down kicked him so violently on the sides and abdo-
meal, that he still felt great pain from the injuries received.
Polk* constable, 240, came to his assistance, but hum too the
prisoner kicked and cuffed in a very brutal manner.
Mr. GREENWOOD sentenced the prisoner to pay a fine of
1!. or 10 days' imprisonment.
MAR YLEBONE.

Monday a young woman, named Isabella Honeyman, was
placed within the felons' bar, charged before the sitting Ma-
gi,trate, Mr. Rawlinson, with having stolen jewellery and
other property, from 42, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-
,quare, the residence of Mrs. Phillips and her son, the Rev.
Howell Jones Phillips.
It which was gone into at
coi
bie length, that the prisoner, who had been in the
service of Mrs. Phillips, was discharged from her situation
is
about two months ago, and that she then sought and idaeprpeeared from the evidence,
ob-
tained refuge at the institution called the " Servants' Home,"
situate in Nutford-place, Edgware-road ; she at length
cook, and left go to Major Chase's, 31, Nottingham-plaee, as
k one of her boxes; at the institution before. re-
a napkin, and Some dessert plates; Iler box
ferred to. It was searched, and in it were found a pair of
Chase's Was next examined, and in- it were a
spalloticirt3kle-;:tilittiirtains, dkerchief with a lace border, and other articles.
From further information which was obtained, it turned out
that a Mrs. Collins, whose son had lived at the Major's, had,
at the request of the prisoner, sent her daughter with a gold
in
pawned for her (prisoner) numerous articles
ko to pledge ; and that James Collins, the
known to Mrs. Collins, who had made and
and from the representations made
the manner in which she became pos-
sessed accused of the robbery- at Major Chase's,
ohbaltered
chain,pshh laeentredmd. ,: seals,rihte slseisi
dieraecsan,
:lvifpsloaeers ringcitletro,
sessed of the plate, Six., the correctness of her story.was not
eisloner said that when she took the things she wawas,tdhoeubptr
great distress, and exclaimed to the Rev. Mr. Phillips,:". For
God's sake let me off; don't prosecute me, and I'll work.and
redeem it all."
The property was Produced, and a great portion of it was
sworn to as belonging
that to the Rev. Gentleman. • .
• • It farther appeared a great • many duplicates were
discovered in one of the prisoner's boxes, and that evidence
would be forthcoming upon a future occasion which would
show that she tad perpetrated robberies at . the " Servants'
Home."
The prisoner stands committed for trial on Mr. and Mrs.
Phillips's case, and she will be brought up again on Wed-
nesday (to-morrow).
A tall, well-dressed, lovesick-lookingyouth, about 19 years
of age, who gave his name George Fondelly, was placed at
the bar, charged under the following
somewhat curious cir-
cumstances :
It appeared that on Saturday night last, as police-con-
stable Chester, 103 D, was on duty, he heard a noise in
James-street, Oxford-street, and Oil going to the spot he
beheld the prisoner lying drunk upon the pavement; he was
Isdheaer
come Emmtao !
his
making a great noise, and witness therefore felt it his duty to
take him to the station-house.
about the stones, your Worship,
Mr. RAwLuesoN—What kind of noise was he making?
"—(Laughter.)
assistance ? Wit-
tnrobullie,idn
ness—No, your Worship.
Prisoner (sheepishly)—l hadn't long left off work, Sir, and
on my way home I unfortunately had a little drop of drink.
Witness—Hea
i\l ir .cryingit Al v Lu,
;t1::0‘a
sEs
Mr. RAWLIIISON—You are a foolish fellow ; go about your
business, and find your Emma as soon as you can.
UNION-HALL.

HERALD.—It would be uncandid to deny to Mr.
Sheil's speech for the defence in the Dublin State trials,
the praise of great brilliancy—but materiam superat opus
—Mr. Sheil has been forced upon the Egyptian toil of
" making bricks without straw," and for a conclusive
argument he has necessarily substituted at most a splen-
did thesis. 'Through the whole of his.very long, address
he did not in a single instance impugn one of the im-
mense mass of facts detailed with such lucid order in
the matchless statement of the Attorney-General for
Ireland. How, indeed, could he impugn any of them ?
All of the whole body of proof had been published by
the traversers themselves, and, as it were, ratified by
the publication. As little could he attempt to break the
connexion of these facts with the central movement of
the Repeal Association. All that was done ie. the agi-
tation avowedly emanated from, and again converged to,
that central power. The concert was as certain and as
notorious as the facts that flowed from it ; and though
it has been ruled in law that conspiracy may. exist with-
out concert—concert and combination are inseparable.
Whether the combination was for a lawful or unlawful
purpose—whether its proceedings were calculated to pro-
duce disaffection in some and alarm in others, and to
create ill feeling among all, is a question upon which a
Court and a jury have still to decide. But this appears to ,
us to be the real question in the case, for if it be found
that the combination produced such effects as we have
described, every man of common sense must see that a
combination producing such effects, and persevering in
its course for months and even years after the effects
were manifest, must be an unlawful conspiracy. To
this cardinal question, however, the Right Hon. Advo-
cate did not address a single sentence of his speech.
Why, we will not at present surmise i • but the omission
is surely instructive. For the rest, tine speech is a beau-
tiful speech ; but, in truth, Mr. Sheil might as well have
tried to work the acquittal of his clients by continuing the
excerpta of love songs from the Nation, read in defence,
or by a recitation of the magnificent ballad of his name-
sake, " Chevy Chase," as by such a speech.

Thomas Sparks, formerly shopman in the employ of Mr.
Bayford, a pawnbroker in the New-cut, was charged with
stealing 411., the property of his master.
The prisoner had left his situation in October last, but was
in the habit of calling there occasionally to see the house-
keeper. A few evenings ago the :prisoner called at the com-
plainant's, and having remained some time there he took his
departure rather hastily. The next morning it was observed
that the cash-box, containing the above sum, was gone,
together with a watch and chain. Upon subsequent inquiry
it was found that the prisoner had absconded, and he was
traced to Folkestone, whither he had gone by railroad.
When taken into custody but a small portion of the stolen
money was found in his possession, and he at once made a
declaration of his guilt, and said that keeping bad company
was the cause of his acting
.dishonestly towards his late
master. In the course of the inquiry it was stated that the
prisoner, after the robbery, had hired three gigs, each of
which he smashed in driving about the countrywith some
loose women.
The prisoner, who declined saying anything in his defence,
was remanded.
THAMES POLICE.
Monday William Daisley, a boiler-maker, was brought
before Mr. Broderip, charged with causing the death of his
infant daughter, Caroline Elizabeth Daisley, hy striking it
on the head with a bundle containing meat. The prisoner,
who exhibited great remorse, appears to be about thirty years
of age.
John Davis, a police-constable, 94 K, stated that on
Saturday night, about half-past eleven o'clock, he passed
the prisoner and his wife at the corner of Grundy-street,
Poplar. They were quarrelling, and the woman had a
child in her arms. He had not gone more than thirty yards
from them when lie heard the sound of two blows, and the
prisoner'said "How do you like that—you shall have more of
it if you don't mind.' The prisoner's wife immediately
crossed to the opposite side of the street and sat down on
the steps of a door and began crying. He asked her
what was the cause of all the disturbance, and while he was
talking to her the prisoner came up and said " That is my
wife ; I wish you would take her home." Witness told him
if the woman was his wife he ought to take her home and
settle his family grievances there, and not in the streets.
The wife, who appeared in great dread of the prisoner,
said, " I can't go home along with him, or he will half
kill me, as he has done before.' She then got up and prci-
ceeded- towards her home, and on her way began crying
again, and said, "Oh, policeman, this is not the first time he
has ill-used me ; he has frequently threatened to knock the
baby's brains out when it has cried." Witness saw them
home, and returned back to his beat. In about ten minutes
afterwards a young man came after him, and said the baby
was dead. Ile immediately returned to the house, and saw
the mother sitting on a chair, with the infant undressed on
her lap. The prisoner was standing behind her, and looking
over her shoulder, and his wife accused him of having killed
the infant, which appeared to be quite dead. He took the
prisoner into custody, and fetched a surgeon to see the body
of the child.

. _
SUPPOSED ATTEMPT AT INCENDIARISM AT WOOL-
wrcri.—On Tuesday and Sunday the town and garrison of
Woolwich were in a state of great excitement, in consequence
of a report that an atrocious attempt had been made to
set fire to an ammunition store-house, near the Medical
Hospital. On inquiry it was ascertained that a sergeant of
marines discovered near the building a ball, or species of
grenade, composed of stout paper, covered with a composi-
tion apparently of a highly inflammable nature, and filled
with gunpowder. The ball, which was found close to the
building, had evidently been lighted, as a fuse was partly
burnt. The probability is, that fear or want of skill had pre-
vented its being thrown into the building, which is composed
of wood, and contains a large quantity of ammunition ready,
for service ; had it taken effect the consequences would un-
doubtedly have been most disastrous.
Information has been received at Bow-street that,
on the morning of the 23d inst., about the hour of three
o'clock, some evil disposed person or persons wilfully and
maliciously set fire to a thatched hovel, in the occupation of
the Hon. and Rev. H. Tollemache, at Harlington, North-
amptonshire. Also, about 7 o'clock the same evening, another
thatched hovel was set fire to in the same lordship, in the i
occupation of Mr.W. Cheney, whereby the hovels were entirely
consumed. A reward of 100/. hag keen offered by the lion.
Charles Tollemache fur the discovery of the incendiaries.
On the evening of the 25th inst. a hay-rick, about twelve
tons in weight, situate in a field near the house of Mr. Wm.
Rogers, in the parish of Kingston Deveril, Wilts, was wilfully
act fire to, and the whole destroyed. A reward of 40/. is
offered for the discovery of the incendiaries. Also, about one
o'clock on the morning of Friday last, the 26th inst., a large
wheat-rick in the farmyard of Mr. John Mersey, in the
pariah of Desborough, Northamptonshire, was wilfully set
fire to, and the whole destroyed, with a deal of other valuable
agricultural property.
FATAL ACCIDENT sT MACAINERT.—.-Mr. Baker
held an inquest on Monday at the London Hospital, on the
body of John Broad, aged 33, a boiler-maker, in the employ
of Messrs. Miller and Ravenhill, engineers, Millwall, Poplar,
It appeared by the evidence that on Saturday morning last
deceased was attempting to put a strap on the drum-wheel
of a steam-engine, when the strap slipped, caught his.apron,
and drew bins round the shall. The engine was stopped
directly, and deceased extricated and taken to the hospital,
when the surgeons discovered that his right arm was frac-
tared in two places, besides heing torn from the humerus
socket. The left arm- and three ribs and the right clavicle I
were all fractured. Deceased lingered until seven o'clock
yeeterda7 raosnisig, when he died frox. ;the effects of the
above injuries.Verdicim."4,cticleat.l death."

A young man at the back of the Court here said the wife
did not use the words, "You have killed my child," as sworn
to by the policeman. She merely said her husband had
binten her, and injured the child-. He lodged' in the pri-
soner's house, and it was he who called in the policeman.
Davis was re-called, and he said the expressions used by
the wife were, "Oh, how oonld you kill my baby?" and the
husband made no answer whatever.

Inspector May, of the K division, said the post inortent
examination of the body had not yet taken place, and the
inquest could not be held .till next day. There were several
witnesses in attendance ready to give evidence.
Mr. BRODERIP declined hearing any more evidence at pre-
sent, and, after the usual caution, asked the prisoner if he
had anything to say in his defence?
The prisoner held down his head, and in a subdued tone,
said he had nothing whatever to say—he had no recollection
&anything he did on Saturday night.
Mr. BrioDEntr—lt is my duty to remand you on this very
painful charge until Wednesday.
A coarse and dissipated-looking man, of great bulk and
florid complexion, named John Brown, was charged by Mrs.
Eliza Brown, his wife, with assaulting her in a most violent
manner, and nearly knocking her eye out with a rolling-pin.
Mrs. Brown, a lady-like and elegantly-dressed woman,
who appeared in great pain, said that her husband came
home very tipsy on Friday evening, and made a great dis-
turbance. On the following morning he asked her for sonic
money, and on her refusal to give him any, he abused her,
and made a good deal of noise. She begged of him to go
into his own room, and was anxious that he should not give
annoyance to a gentleman, the captain of a ship, who
lodged in the house. He swore he would have money, and
struck her with his fist, and beat her violently. She fell
down, and he kicked her, and said he would be the death
of her, and then took up a rolling-pin and struck her on the
eye with it.

PttlOES OF SHARES
IN CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE
.IND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK.

,
The defendant, Who is very deaf, in addition to his other
infirmities, said he had not heard a word, and the evidence
was read over to him by Mr. Leadley, the clerk. He said
it was all false, and that his wife was penniless when he
married her, and she had persuaded him to -assign over to
her the lease:of some property, and would not allow him a
penny to get shaved with. ins wife pulled him by the hair
of his head, and threw water over him.
Mrs. Brown denied this, and said she wished the case to
be sent to the Sessions, where she was determined to prose-
cute ker husband for the outrage.
Mr. BRODERIP said it was a proper case for a jury to de-
ter Mine. If the defendant did not control the ferocity of his
disposition, he would have to answer a charge affecting his
life. It was a most unjustifiable and cruel assault, and he
committed the prisoner for trial in default of bail.

Dividend
Per

Annum.

LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. 30.

per cent
41.

Names of Com-
panies.

Canals.
Ashton and Oldham
Ashby.de.la-Zouch..av
Basingstoke .....
Br eckneck & Aborgay.
Birmingham,l.l6thsh.
Do. and Livcrp. JuL c
Chelmer & Blackwater
Coventry
Crom ford
Dudley
Derby
Danube and Mayne
Ellesmere and Chester
.Erewash
Forth and Clyde...
Grand Junction
Grand Union ......
Grand Surrey
Grand Western
Glamorgansh., ay. cost
Gloucester & Berkeley
Grantham
Huddersfledl ....av
Kennet and Avon ...ay
Lancaster sr
Leeds and Liverpool...
Leicester
Leicester & Northamp
Loughborough ..k•
Monmouthshire ......
Iblontgomeryshire .......
Melton Mowbray
Mersey and Irwell
Macclesfield
Neath
Oxford
Peak Fi rest a•
Regent's (or London)..
Rochdale av
Shropshire ..........
Somerset Coal
Dn. Lock Fund Stock
Staffbrd and Worcester
Shrewsbury
Stourbridge.. .......
Stratford .en. Avon...a,
Swansea
Severn & Wye & Rail
Trent & Mersey, t sh
Thames & Medway..av
Warwick ,did firming.
Warwick and Napton
W .rcester & Binning
Wilts and Berks av
Wisbeach
NVey and Arun
Docks.
Commercial
East and West India
London
Ditto Bonds
av
Do. Bnds, var. amounts
St. Katharine
Oat, 80nd5........
Ditto B nds
Southampton .
ridges
Hammersmith

4 pc iient.
V.
_4OL

5i.151.
71.
11. ss.

13Z 1-2 s. ed.

15e.
1/ 10s.
34/.
104

171.
ant
17g. M.

101.
6 percent.
28
151.
20:.
U. 108.
15/.

32L LOs.

104
N. 10s.
41.
11. Is.

3 per cent.
per cent.
per cent.
4 per cent.
3!. 10s.
5 per cAtt.
5 per cent.
I% pea cent.
per cent.
4 per cent.

I% per c•nt.
It. os. SJ.
18g. Id.
per cent.
b

Southwark, new Lulu.
Ditto New of 7}i pr c
Waterloo
Ditto Old Ann. et St,
Ditro New di to ot 71
Ditto
Vauxhall, a.
Assurances
Albion •••
A 'red Life
Alliance Brit. and For
Ditto Marine
Atlas
Birmingham Fire
British Fire.
British Commercial
Cler. Med. & Gen. Life
County
Eagle
Economic Life

3. 10s.
4 percent.
6 per cent.
6 per cent.
13s. pr sh
Al. 51.
4 per cent.
7s. per share
5 per cent.
3/.
6s.
5 per cent.]
Itz 30s. hits.
5% prr cen%
5% per cent.
5 loer cent.
6 per cent.
5 per cent.
4s.
2s. 6d.
12 per cent.

Eur peau Lite
Ditto Nei
Freemasons

(globe
Oti,rdian
Hope Life
Ditte
Imperial Fi.e... .......
Ditto Life
Indemnity Marine
Law Life
Legal and General Life
London Fire
Ditto Ship
National Loan Fun
P.,ll,lium Life........,
Protecto. Life
Provident
Rock Life
It yal Exchange
Sun Fire
Ditto Life...........
University
Universal Life
Union Fire and Life
Toint Stk Banks
Australasi,
Ditto New
Brit. North American
Commercial of London
Colonial
London & Westminstr
Ditto New.......
London Joint Stock
Metropolitan
Provincial of Ireland
Ditto NeW
National of Ireland
Nat. Provincial Englnd
Ditto New
Gloucestershire ~..
Union of Australia
Union of London
Gaslight & Coke
Bath

•
12s.
I/. sh. & bd..
it ss.

101.
10s.
5 per cent.
5 per cent.
5 per cent.
11. ss.

5 per cent.
6% per cent.
14 45.
5 pe, cent.
10% per cent
51.

li per cent.

6 per cent.
5 per cent.
5 per cent.
6 per cent.

E per cent.

per cent.
8 per cent.
6 per cent.
Ns per share
6a. per share

10 per cent.
5 per cent.

IL-6i.

11.75.

British
Ditto Provincial
Birmingham
Birsoing. & Staffordsti
Bristol
Brighton
Ditto Getieral
City of London
Ditto New
Continenta. Conso
Ditto New
Equitable
Imperi I
Isle of Thanet
Independent .....
Phmnix
Ratcliff:
South M, t•• opolitan
• United Geller," ......
Westmins. Chartered
Ditto New ........«..«
Water Works
Birmingham
Dist London
Grand Juncti,,n ..... ..av
Kent
Nw Rot Lon. Bridg An
Manchester . nil Salford
Vauxhall, late S. Lond.
West Middlesex av
Yrk Buldg Co. Les. Prop
•
Iron Railways.
Birmingham & Derby
Birming. & Gloucester
Bristol and Exeter
Cheltenhin & Gt. West
Clarence
Eastern Coil ntie,
E'inburgh & Glasgow
Ditto New
Grand Junctio
Great North of Elighol
I Gre t Western
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Fifths
Hull and Selby ......
Leedi and Selby
Liverpool & Manchestr
Ditto Half-Shares
Ditto Quarter-Shares
Loudon ,nit Brighten
Ditto Loan Notes
London and BI .ckwall
London and Greei.wich
London and Birmingh.
Ditto Quarter-Shares
Ditto Thirds
London and S. Western
London and Croydon
Manchest r and Leeds
Ditto New Shares
Manchatr and Binning
Ditto Extension
Mid 'and Cou tics
North Midland
Do. 4.5 h., iss. Ii) dis
Nor: hern and Eastern
Ditto Scrip, iss.s/. dis
Paris and Rouen
Stockt n & Darlington
South East. and• Dover
Ditto New, iss. 25dis.
York and N. Midland
Ditto New Shares
Mines.
Albin Copper
Alten
Anglo Mex., iss.s/. p.m
Ditto Subscription.—
Bolanos
Ditt Scrip
Brazil. Imp. iss.s/. p.m
Do. Mocaub. & Coe. U.
Do. St. John Del Rey
British Iron
Candonga
Ditto Registered
Cobre Copper
Copiapo
Columbian, iss. U p.m.
General Mining
Hibernian
Imperial Slate Compy
Mexican
Mining Co. of Ireland
Real del Monte, Unreg
Ditto Loan Notes
Rhymney Iron
Santiago de Cuba
United Mez.,iss.2/. pm
Ditto scrip
Ditto New Scrip
Literary.

Amount

of
Sham

33 16 8
8.5 0
125 0 0
150 0
12 10
140 0 0
125 0 0
145 0 0
79 9 8
100 0 0
2( 9 3
54 0 0
19 5 8
100 0 0
100 0 0
78 8 0
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