The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-07 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

G. D. Watts, grocer, Great Massingham, Norfok, Oct. 15,
at four, at the Red Lion Inn, Fakenham, Norfolk—W. Moore,
innkeeper, Newark-upon-Trent, Nottinghamshire, Oct. 17, at
six, at the Castle and Falcon Inn, Newark-upon-Trent—C.
Reesby, maltster, Stamford, Sept. 30, at eleven, at the
o ffice of Mr. Jackson, Stamford.
CERTIFICATES.—SEPT. 27.

G. J. Burnham, sen., and G. W. Burnham, jun., druggists,
Bedford—W. J. Potter, victualler, Little Compton-street,
Soho—J. Ransford, coal-merchant, Leamington Priors
W. Moore, innkeeper, Newark-upon-Trent.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

J. S. Fisher and T. Fisher, linen-drapers, Holborn-bridge--
J. Dudley and C. Dudley, gilt toy makers, Caroline-street,
Birmingham—R. Litler, J. Stringer, and W. Mann, white
salt manufacturers, Northwich, Cheshire (as far as regards R.
Litler)—J. Bremner, jun., and G. Chapman, tailors, Saint
Augustine's-parade, Bristol—W. Hedley and W. Atkin, spin-
ners, Gateshead, Durham—E. Rodkett, B. Brierley, and W.
Prest, cotton spinners, Blackburn, Lancashire (as far as regards
W. Prest)— IV. Harrison, S. W. Harrison, and G. Pawson,
ship brokers, Newcastle-upon•- Tyne (as far as regards G. Paw-
stm)—N. Wakeman and J. Willson, carpenters, Tiverton-
street, Newington—T. W. Lyes and E. Lyes, tailors, Judd-
street, Brunswick-square—S. Cherrill and M. Cherrill, jewel-
lers, Newcastle-place, Clerkenwell—J. W. Maddox and T.
Prestige, linen-drapers, Tavistock-street, Covent-garden—
A. Jackson and J. Braham, watch-makers, Bristol—J. Butler,
sen. and J. Butler, jun., file-manufacturers, Sheffield—
W. Syrette and E. Davies, shoe warehousemen, Evesham,
Worcestershire—J. L. Fernandes, sen., J. L. Fernandes, jun.,
and N. L. Fernandes, worsted spinners, Wakefield, York-
shire (as far as regards the said N. L. Fernandes)—
W. Smith, J. Dick, and L. Fuller, Glasgow, ('so far as re-
gards) L. Fuller—J. Anderson, J. Kennedy, and W. Han-
uington, potters, Portobello, near Edinburgh.

Music.—The Jamaica planters were formerly
accustomed to maintain that the harpy condition of the
negroes in a state of slavery was attested by their passion
for dancing and singing. We do not know whether the
white inhabitants of the West Indies imbibed a love o
song from the sable sons of Africa, but our attention has
been called to some excellent specimens of music com
posed and published by Mr.. Francis Egan, of Kingston,
Jamaica, two of which are now before us. The first, en-
titled " Oh I water for me," will soon become as popular
among the tea-totallers on this and the other side of the
Atlantic, as " God save the Queen" at a Cabinet dinner;
and the " Tear," from the pen of Samuel Rogers, well
adapted to thaw the froien sensibilities of the most obdu
rate old bachelor. The young ladies are under a thousand
obligations to Mr. Egan, for thus rendering them more
completely invincible.
IMAGINATION OF FACTS.—There are many
things in prose as well as poetry which we read and un-
derstand sufficiently well for the comprehension of the ge-
neral scope and tendency of the given work, yet which
we never realise to our imaginations as facts, or supposed
facts, without the ingress of certain adventitious circum-
stances inducing a home-searching view of the literal
truth. This is not only the case in reading books, but in
our affairs of life, and knowledge of actual things. We
believe, know, and understand very well that a certain
number of men are shipwrecked, murdered, and starved
every year ; but let us be suddenly called upon to imagine
a drowned, murdered, or starved man lying before our
feet, and we shall feel that our previous impressions were
vague idealisms of the fact, and that we never were con-
scious that the thing was a reality. But, in proportion as
people possess and exercise the power of calling the
mental facultis onward to the imaginary realization, or
inward ♦ision of the embodied truth, so is the depth
and breadth of their comprehension and sympathy with
men and books. Our dormancy in realising known or
admitted facts will become apparent to every one Rho ex-
amines himself on the point—Monthly Chronicle.

TRICKS OF HORSE-DEALERS.—A friend of
mine was once done in the following way. He repaired,
with more cash than wisdom, to the stables of a horse-
dealer, and having selected a nag that he thought would
suit his purpose, demanded the price. The dealer, per-
ceiving his customer to be a little green, immediately asked
about 15 pounds more than he meant take, and finding that
the price was not objected to, began no doubt to think
himself an egregious ass for not having demanded more.
He therefore requested my friend to look round his
stables, and to try some other horses, and while thus em-
ployed, dispatched a message to a confederate, who
quickly arrived as a stranger, and unhesitatingly bought
the horse first brought out at all the money that was asked
for him, declaring be bad never picked up such a bargain.
In this assertiat he was strenuously backed by the
dealer, who regretted that my friend had not decided at
once upon taking se cheap a horse himself, and added in a
whisper, " Offer him five pounds for his bargain, Sir; I
know something about him, he'll sell." " Upon this hint
he spake," and to some purpose too, for he of course got
the horse, and learned a lesson in dealing into the bargain
—his purchase turning out, when minus the ginger and
threats of the coper's yard, a very sorry beast indeed.—
Old Sporting Magazinefor September.
TRICKS OF PARIS.—The day I purchased
them (bracelets) was marked by the following singular
occurrence. I was walking across one of the bridges in
Paris, when a well-dressed man suddenly threw himself
over the parapet into the Seine. Fortunately he fell in a
place where the water was not very deep, and he was
speedily rescued from his perilous predicament. A crowd
immediately surrounded him—l amongst the rest. He
opened his eyes, and his words were Ma enfans—mes
pauvres enfans I—My children, my poor children 1' These
piteous exclamations moved me, and I immediately gave
the man a couple of Napoleons, they being all the money
I had about me. " Lord bless you, sir," said an English-
man, whom the occurrence had also attracted to the spot,
" he's done that already three times this week. He regu-
larly drowns, or poisons, or stabs himself four or five times
every week." " Good God !" said I; " what does he do
that for ? Is he mad ?" " Mad I no," returned the man :
" he is a devilish clever fellow on the contrary, and picks
up a good deal of money in this way. It's an excellent
business. He lives better by dying five. or six times a
week than Ido by working hard." " What ! is he an im-
postor, then ?" cried I, naturally indignant at the gross
manner in which I had been impoad upon. " That's a
harsh word, sir," answered the man ; "but he's something
like it, though."—Pickwick Abroad.

I went this morning to see the specimens of
Daguerrotype exhibited by M. Giroux in the Rue de Coq
St. Honore. They are very beautiful, and entirely unlike
those which have been exhibited in England. I cannot
give you a better description of them than by stating that
they resemble very much the appearance which the objects
have upon the table of the camera obscura itself Every
thing is represented minutely and clearly ; but unless the
plate be brought near the eye, there is little effect: whereas
the specimens shown in England are pictures like any
others at a certain distance. M. Giroux is making a fine
harvest of the exclusive privilege of selling the apparatus
which has been granted to him by M. Daguerre, for he
charges 425 f. for a case containing the necessary mate-
rials, and boasts of having sold 150 cases during last week.
As the cost of a complete set of materials cannot be to him
more than 100 E, he must have cleared more than two
hundred and fifty pounds sterling in a single week. The
charge for one of the plates purchased separately is 6f.,
and in the event of failure in taking the objects it may be
cleaned fifteen times, so that it is not likely ever to be a
decided failure. With skill, however, the experiment is
generally successful in two or three operations. In each
of the cases which he sells there are only six plates for as
many pictures.—Paris Correspondent.

PRICES OF CANAL, DOCK, ASSUR-
ANCE:COMPANY SHARES, &c. egc.&,.

LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 6.
Number Dividend Prim
of per CANALS. per
Shares. Annum. Paid. Share
1,766 7 per cent. Ashton and Oidham-Average97l. 184. sh. 129
,082 41. Ashby
..e-le-Zt .....h A -.Rage Ilfil.sh 71
1,200 ........ Basingstoke lOOl.O 5
1,005 5/. Brecknock and Abergavenny 150 .0.. -
8,0001-1912 h. 91 6s. Birmingham, 1.16 th share 8141.8. 711. 223
4 000 ~ ...... Ditto and Liverpool Junctl*M sh. 100 pd '26
600 31.. Bridgewater and Taunton .100/ sh. all pd -
400 4/. Chelmer and Blackwater 1001. sh. 101
500 481. Coventry !00/.sh. 690
4,545 Croydon -
2,0601 41. Os. Dudley
-
000 141. Derby 1001. sh. 155
30,000 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne ...... .. 411. 13s. 4cl .pd 264
3,575; 41. Ellesmere and Chester.. Average 133/.QII. 83
231 62/, Erewash ' 001. gn. 81'0
1,297 30/. Forth and Clyde ....Average 4001.165. tn. 610
~600 10 Grand Junction WO/. sh. 185
2,6491 11. Grand Union 1001. sh V 5
:1,500 Grand Surrey
0,000/ 41. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOOl. 63
3 896
600 131.125. Bd. Glamorganshire, Aver. cost 172/. 13s. 4si. 2201
749 Ht. Grantham 1501. sh. 203'
6,238 2/. Os. Huddersfield Average 571. 6s. fid. sii. 36
100 Kensington 100 sh, all pd. 10
5,923 1/. ss. Kennet and Avon, Aver. 39/.lBs. 10c1. sh Th.
2,8971 301. Leeds and Liverpool 100/. sh. 750
545; 154/. Leicester l4O/. sh. 230
1,897 61. Os. Leicester and Northampton Aver S 3/. Ins. 90
2.400 101. Monmouthshire 1001. sh. 202
150 101. Melton Mowbray lON. eh. 200
500 251. Mersey and Irwell 100/. sh. 560
3,000 11. 10s. Macclesfield 1001. sh all pc/ 51
247 171. Neath 1001. sh. 325
2,400 51. Peak Forest Aveh.ge about 78/. sh. 104
1,418 12s. Regent's (or London) Av. 331. Ifis. Bd. sh. 12
5,1369 6/. per cent. Rochdale Average 85/. sh. 110
500 81. Shropshire 1251. sh. 138
800 9/. 10s. Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 150
3,r00/. 41 per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2l. 10s. Bh. 111
700 401. Stafford and Worcester l4O/. sh. 7101
500 91. Shrewsbury
300 9/. Stourbridge ........... ....... 1457. sh. 330
3,647 2/. Os. Stratford-on. AVM za rerage 791.95. tsd. sh. 45
533 161. Swansea 100/. sh. 280
3.762 11. 15s. Severn and Wye and Railway Av 351. sh. 39
2,6004,h. 221. 10s. Trent and Mersey, I share 1001.8 h. 530
8,149
1,0005h.1 ,q. Warwick and Birmingham 100/.sn 280
I,oooish.l '"
980 151. Warwick-.' isiain,m, lOO/.Bh. 201
5,000 4/.os. Worcestcr and Birmingham Av. 781.83. sh. 71
5.000 25s Wilts and Berko Average 67/. 10s. Bd. sh. 28
Am 3i. IN i t iev and Essington 125/. sh 75
46
905 11. Wey and Arun llOl. h. 22
DOCKS.
1,060650 ft
sh. o .
p. c. Commerc al OOOl. sh. 68
1,1
East and West India Stock 109
3,238,31041. 60s. p.ct. London Stock 63
Ditto iSonds lOl

2,209 21. 19s. Bristol
68,124/. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll3
1.152,752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock 109
500,000 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds lOl
,
200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years lOO
4.500 , .... Deptford Pies "01. sh. 20/. pd 10
BRIDGES.
1,600 10s. Hammersmiti 5O/. sh. 21
7,•1,31 Southwark, Old
1,700 I/. 15s. Ditto, Now, of 71r cent. 5O/. sh. 14
5,000 Waterloo
5,000 225. Od. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81. fio/. pd 23
5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 401. pd 21
10,000/ 5/. per cent. Ditto Bonds l2O
5,848 17s Vauxhall ....... ...,Av9rage 701. 10s. 3d. sh 251