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Summary Of News For August
upon a debtor of his Imprisoned in the QueenVBench . The man has since died , and the coroner ' s jury has returned a verdict of wilful murder against the con * vict . On the same day , at Liverpool Assizes , Henry Roger , master of the ship Martha Jcwie , and William Miles and Charles Edward Seymour , the two mates of the same vessel , were ordered for execution for murder upon the high seas . Their victim was a sailor named Andrew Rose , whom they barbarously maltreated . At the same assizes , upon the same day , Thomas Fox Longs was
sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for the embezzlement of £ 8 , 000 . Oh the same day , Mr . Beadon committed to prison Thomas D . Evans , formerly a clerk in the Submarine Telegraph Company , and Captain Henry Thome , on the charge of trying to extort money from the Hon . Mr . Cadogan , one of the directors of that company , by threatening to publish a libel charging him with making his position subservient to stock-jobbing . On the 22 nd , the Royal Surrey Gardens Company appeared in the Bankruptcy Court , on the petition of Mr . Horace Jones , the architect of the Music Hall . ¦ ¦ :+
COMMERCIAL . The North-Western Railway Company has declared on the profits of the last half year a dividend of 5 per cent , per annum . The dividend of the South Western Railway Company has been at the rate of 4 § per cent . The Eastern Counties Railway Company have declared a dividend at the rate of 5 s . per share . The dividend of the Great Western was only at the rate of 1 per cent , per
annum . The Midland Counties Railway Company have declared ^ dividend at the rate of 4 ^ per cent , per annum . The Brighton and South Coast Railway Company have divided 5 per cent , per
annum . The South Eastern have divided 9 s . on each £ 30 . of stock , which with the 155 . divided at the spring meeting makes the dividend for the year equal to 4 per cent . The London and County Bank has declared a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent . The Bank of London has for the present postponed the declaration of a dividend .
ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES . On the 25 th of July , a person named Speed was arrested at Pontefract upon the charge of poisoning . On the 27 th , there was a fire , supposed to be an incendiary one , in Holborn , by which one of the inmates of the house was burned to death . On the 29 th , a lady , Miss Gilbert , was thrown from her horse in Rotten-row and so severely injured that her life was for some time despaired of .
On the 31 st , the brig Pallion of Hull blew up , from the explosion of gas generated in her hold from the coal with which she was freighted ; and there was an explosion of fire-dampin a pit near Ashton , by which thirty-iiine people lost their lives . On the same day a collision took place on the railway hear Hull , by which several persons were severely injured ; and Sir F . Martin , while in the act of getting out of a train still in motion , upon the North London line , missed his footing , and was run over by the carriages in the rear of that in which he had himself travelled . On the 2 nd of August , the vault of the Chester field family was sacrilegiously
broken open , and the ornaments and other mountings stolen from the coffins . On the 4 th , there was a destructive fire , happily unaccompanied by loss of life , in the Commercial-road , Mile End . On the 5 th , a fire broke out in the Lawn Market , Edinburgh , by which some buildings of great historic interest were destroyed , as the residence of Hume , ti p philosopher , and the toady Boswell , where that worthy received his patron , Dr . Johnson . On the same day , a train ran off the rails of the Nottingham and Lin-VOL . HI . 5 Q
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Summary Of News For August
upon a debtor of his Imprisoned in the QueenVBench . The man has since died , and the coroner ' s jury has returned a verdict of wilful murder against the con * vict . On the same day , at Liverpool Assizes , Henry Roger , master of the ship Martha Jcwie , and William Miles and Charles Edward Seymour , the two mates of the same vessel , were ordered for execution for murder upon the high seas . Their victim was a sailor named Andrew Rose , whom they barbarously maltreated . At the same assizes , upon the same day , Thomas Fox Longs was
sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for the embezzlement of £ 8 , 000 . Oh the same day , Mr . Beadon committed to prison Thomas D . Evans , formerly a clerk in the Submarine Telegraph Company , and Captain Henry Thome , on the charge of trying to extort money from the Hon . Mr . Cadogan , one of the directors of that company , by threatening to publish a libel charging him with making his position subservient to stock-jobbing . On the 22 nd , the Royal Surrey Gardens Company appeared in the Bankruptcy Court , on the petition of Mr . Horace Jones , the architect of the Music Hall . ¦ ¦ :+
COMMERCIAL . The North-Western Railway Company has declared on the profits of the last half year a dividend of 5 per cent , per annum . The dividend of the South Western Railway Company has been at the rate of 4 § per cent . The Eastern Counties Railway Company have declared a dividend at the rate of 5 s . per share . The dividend of the Great Western was only at the rate of 1 per cent , per
annum . The Midland Counties Railway Company have declared ^ dividend at the rate of 4 ^ per cent , per annum . The Brighton and South Coast Railway Company have divided 5 per cent , per
annum . The South Eastern have divided 9 s . on each £ 30 . of stock , which with the 155 . divided at the spring meeting makes the dividend for the year equal to 4 per cent . The London and County Bank has declared a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent . The Bank of London has for the present postponed the declaration of a dividend .
ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES . On the 25 th of July , a person named Speed was arrested at Pontefract upon the charge of poisoning . On the 27 th , there was a fire , supposed to be an incendiary one , in Holborn , by which one of the inmates of the house was burned to death . On the 29 th , a lady , Miss Gilbert , was thrown from her horse in Rotten-row and so severely injured that her life was for some time despaired of .
On the 31 st , the brig Pallion of Hull blew up , from the explosion of gas generated in her hold from the coal with which she was freighted ; and there was an explosion of fire-dampin a pit near Ashton , by which thirty-iiine people lost their lives . On the same day a collision took place on the railway hear Hull , by which several persons were severely injured ; and Sir F . Martin , while in the act of getting out of a train still in motion , upon the North London line , missed his footing , and was run over by the carriages in the rear of that in which he had himself travelled . On the 2 nd of August , the vault of the Chester field family was sacrilegiously
broken open , and the ornaments and other mountings stolen from the coffins . On the 4 th , there was a destructive fire , happily unaccompanied by loss of life , in the Commercial-road , Mile End . On the 5 th , a fire broke out in the Lawn Market , Edinburgh , by which some buildings of great historic interest were destroyed , as the residence of Hume , ti p philosopher , and the toady Boswell , where that worthy received his patron , Dr . Johnson . On the same day , a train ran off the rails of the Nottingham and Lin-VOL . HI . 5 Q