The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-06 00:00:00

HATTON-GARDEN.

PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS,

ASSURANCE COMPANIES,&c. &c. &c.

LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 5. 1
Number Dividend Price
of per CANALS, per
Paid. Share
Shares. Annum.
1,766 7 per cent. Ashton and Old'nam.... Average 97/. 18-s. sh. 135
1.082 41. Ashby-de-le-Zouch Average Ild'.l.sh. 65
1,260 Basingstoke ION. in, 5
1,005 5/. Brecknock and Abergavenny 1501. sh. 100
8,000 1-16511. 9! Os. Birmingham, 1-16th share .........811. & 711. 220
i 000 Ditto and Liverpool Junct...l3ol. sh. 100 pd 241
600 3/. Bridgewater and Taunton ....lOW. sh. all pd 64
400 4/. Chehner and Blackwater WO/. sh. 102
500 48/ C oventry "'W. sh. 745
4,545 Croydon -.. ...... ..... Average 31/.25.10d. sh. n
7,060; 41. 03. Dudley lOO/. sh. 8123
3
600 141. Derby lOW. sh .
20,000 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne
3,575; 51. Ellesmere and Chester Average 153/. sta. 77
231 46% Erewash .001.5 n. 700
1,297 231. Forth and Clyde Average 1001 .16s. eh. sso
11,600 12/. Grand Juncti-- mirm/. sh. 705
'28494 11. Grand Union 11,01.5 h 25
1,5011 Grand Surrey
20,0001. 41. per cent. Ditto (otional) Loan lOO/ '7O
3,0t16 Grand :Western
600 13/.125. Bcl. Glamorganshire, Average cost 1721. 13s. id. 280
749 101. Grantham 150/.611. 202
6,238 21. Os Huddersfield average 571. ris. 6.1. sh. 37
100 Kensington 100 sh all pd. 1(1
25,328 11. ss. Kennet ; nd Avon, Average 39/. 18s. 10d. sh 25:
2,897; 24/. Leeds and Liverpool 100/. sh. 610
545; 131. Leicester I4O/. sin 225
1,897 6/. Os. Leicester anst Northampton... Aver 43/.103. $l7l
2.400 101. Monmouthshire 1001. sh. 200
150 10/. Meltsn Mowbray lOW. eh. 2110
565
500 251. Mersey and Irwell lOOl. sh.
MOO 1/. 10s. Macclesfield 100/, sh. all pd, ~'2
217 17!. Neath 1,101. sh. 325
2,400 5/. Peak Forest -Svm-ge ai'out 781. sh. 04
1,018 12s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 23/. It's.Bd. f h. 16
5,669 6/. per cent. nechdale Average 85/. s h. I I
500 8/. Shropshire lasl. sh. 138
SOO 9!. 108. Somerset Coal 1501. sh. 1511
3,600/. 41 percent .Ditto Lock Fund Steck 'l. 10E. sh. 114
700 401. Stafford and Worcester
500 91. Shrewsbury 1'251. sh. fo-'0
300 91. lEtourbridge
3.647 21. Or. Stratford-on-Avant -.Average 721. 9s. tad sh. 40-
533 151. Swansea lOW. sh. 2.0
3,762 IL 15s. Severn and Wye and Railway ...Av. 351. sh.
580
:35
2,6104 atm. 321. 10s. Trent and 31ersey, 4 share lOO/. sh.
8,149 Thames •11.1 Medway...Aver. 19/. 53. lici. sh. • 2
1 .01YJsh.i
Oooph.i 16!. Warwick a Id Birmingham lOOl. sh 281
950 15.. Warwick and Napton lOOl. sh. 200
6,000 4/.os. V sircest -r and Birmingham... A v.781.8v. sh 74%1
5,000 255. Wilts .an.., Jerks .. Average 1)7!. 10s. CO. sh. t.-3
800 31. V., Arley and Essington 1251. sh 75
I'2o ... •.. Wisbeach lO5l. sh. 45
90.-) 1,. %Vey and Arnim llOl. sh. 221
DOCKS.
',MO& / . ' 00/. sh. 56
1,0651,h i 3p. c Commercisl
498,66711. 6 pig ct. East India Stock 114
3,238,310 V. 565: p. et. London tock 63
Ditto ;300(14 lOl
1,380,000/. W. p. ct. West India
2.209 24 19s. Bristol
68,324/. 5/. per coot. Ditte No'es, various, amounts ll3
1,352,752 5 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 100
500,000 41 per oent. Ditto Bond. lOO
2419.0(10 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds to 10 years lOOl
2.500 • •••. Deptford Pier "01. sh. 20/. ixl 11
BRIDGES.
1,600 l's. Haminertm.ti 50/. sh. 5..24
7,231 Southwark, Old Av. (4)!.25. 9d. sh. '2
1,700 IL 15s. Ditto, N.:cv, of 71 per cent. 5Ol. sh. 14
5,000 .... ..... Waterloo
5,000 18s. Bd. Ditto, Old A nnuities of W. ... ...... 601. pd 19
5,000 16s. Id. Ditto, New Ditto of 7/ 40/. pd 171
60,0001. 5!. per gent. • Ditto Bonds I Ifi
5,848 lis , Vauxhall A v ^rage 70/. 10s. 3d. sin 21/
ASSURANCF CO3IPANIES.
2,000 3110 s Albion 'OW. sh. 50/ pd 81
50,000 [n
51e:i ~
c!.;c nt'l Alliance, British & Foreign lOW. sh. 101/. pil 131
50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine lOO/. sh. 3/. pd mr z
24,000 /1. per sh. Atlas 50/. sh. 5/. pd 14;
1,200 ash. 5/. Birmingham 1 ire 0501. sh. 35/. pd 11,71
20,000 41. par cent. British Fire 2501. sh. 50/. pd 40
12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 50/. O. 5/, pi 5;
5,000 51. per cent. Clerical, Medial, &c. Life, ICOLsh. 2110 s pd 4
4,000 2/ 10s County 1001. sh. 10/. pd 42
20,000 ss.
2,-, (
and 30/ his. 5 per cent .1 E.k;le
' /3 Economic Liza lOOOl. sh. 2301. per 275
2,271 225. per cent. European Li., .... 001. sh. all pd 22
50,000 2s. Ditto, New 2.01. sh. 2/. pd 11
1,000,900/. 71. per ct. Globe
20,000 51• Guardian lOO/. sh. '27il pd 35
40,000 63. Fd. Hope
2,100 5/. 7s. 6d. Imperial hire 500/ oh. 50/. pd 127
7,500 Os. Imperial Lite ,100/. sh. 101. pd 101
13,458 4!. percent. Indemnity 31.A1 ine lllO/. sh. 8/. jos' 23
2,020 3/ 105 Kest Fire • 30/. sh. all pd 82
3/. Ditto Life 79
10,000 I 6s. Law Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 251
5.000 10s. London, Fir, 9.51 sh. Pd. 104. pd li,
3,900 10s. Londer, Shit, 23/. sh. 101. 10s. pd 16
1,000,000/. ... ..... Min: rva Lif - 100/. sh.
30,0 11 5/. per cent. Palladium Lit . , 501. sh. 2/. pa 2/8s Od
50,000 4/. per cent. Protector File 2Ol. sh. 21 pd lis Od
2,500 1/, Provident Lime WO/. sh. luL pd 20
100,000 ss. Rock Life 201• sh. 1/. pd Col
649,220/ 51. per cent. Royal Exchange Sto,k... 2251
6,000 5 per cent. University Life :001. sh. 5/. pd 51
50,000 4 per cent, United Kingdom Life _

Yesterday Joseph Shirhswy, a Pole, was finally examined,
charged by Mr. James Turner, of the Star Printing-office, No.
20, Cross-street, Hatton-garden, with stealing two silk shawls
and a scarf, and fully committed for trial.

THE GREENWICH PENSIONERS.—We are re-
quested to state that the new uaval work, entitled " The Greenwich
Pensioners," in 3 vols. post Bvo., is published this day by Mr. Colburn,
13, Great Marlborough-street, and may now be had at all the Libraries.
Mr. Colburn has also just published Shakspearo and his Friends; or, the
Golden Age of Merry England, an Historical Romance, in 3 vols.—
Lights and Shadows of Irish Life, by Mrs. S. C. Hall, 3 vols.—and
Nourmahal, the Light of the Harem, an Oriental Romance, by M. J.
Quin, Esq , 3 vols.

MEMBERS OF THE Housz 07 COMMONS. In
the new Series of " Random Recollections of the Lords and Commons,"
just published, will be found, among other distinguished Members of the
Lower House, sketches of Lords Ashley, Leveson, and Maidstone; Sirs
E. Knatchbull, H. Hardinge, G. Clerk, J. Elley, L. P. J. Parry, T. Free
mantle, E. Sugden, F. Pollock, and W. Molesworth ; Serjoants Jackson,
Woulfe, and Lefroy; Messrs. D. O'Connell, Blewitt, D. W. Harvey,
Bradshaw, Hughes Hughes, Hardy, Richards, Kearsley, H. Twiss, R.
Wason, T. W. Beaumont, Gladstone, Gaskell, C. Lushington, James,
Pringle, E. Tennent, Gillon, V. Stuart, Bannerman, Wyse, Barron, J.
Grattan, Scarlett, A. Trevor, Gally Knight, Maclean, Bernal, Aglionby,
Jervis, Handley, Howard, Sandford, Brotherton, S. Lefevre, E. S.
Cayley, G. Berkeley, C. Villiers, Colonel Verner, C. Hindley, Williams,
J. T. Leader, S. O'Brien, Lynch, Fox Maule, F. Baring, V. Smith, R.
Steuart, Gibson Craig, D'lsraeli, Colquhoun, kc.

MAD DOG !—One day during the week a small
lapdog was seen on the streets in a rabid state, and after running
through the principal thoroughfares it was overtaken by the policeman
at the shambles, when it was destroyed. In its course it bit one boy
whose wound was immediately attended to, and we hope it will have no
bad result.—Barwick Advertiser. [Our Contemporary may, we believe,
claim the honour of being the first this season to sound the mad dog
alarurn. A sail dog must this lady's lapdog of Berwick have been I]
CHINESE WATER INIIABITANTS —lt makes
one even fancy that these people are amphibious, when we see a mother
sitting at needlework in a boat, quietly looking on, while a child of five
or six years of age is swimming around it, and another not able to walk
is scrambling on all fours about the little deck, liable at every turn to fall
overboard. This is, however, not so awful a catastrophe as might be
expected, for a precaution is adopted against accidents of this nature. A
light wooden affair, sometimes a gourd as large as a bladder, made air.
tight, and painted with rings of green and red, is fastened a ith a tape at
the back of the shoulders of the new-born infant, which the child
wears until it is able to take care of itself. If it should crawl too far and
fall into the stream, as frequently happens, the mother has nothing to do
but fish it out of the water and put it back to its place again, if the cur-
rent has not carried it down too far, when it may have been smothered
by the length of time its head has been under the water.—The
Fanqui in China.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1838.

MRS. COUTTS'S << SENT TO

COVENTRY."

The following is the account given by Mr. Lockhart, in his
fifth volume of the life of Sir Walter Scott—as to a visit of
Mrs. Coutts to Abbotsford, 1825 :
" The author of Lalla Rook's Kelso chaise was followed
before many days by a more formidable equipage. The
much talked-of lady, who began life as Miss Harriett Mellon,
a comic actress in a provincial troop, and died Duchess of St.
Alban's, was then making a tour of Scotland as Mrs. Coutts,
the enormously wealthy widow of the first English banker of
his time. No person of such consequence could, in those
days, have thought a Scotch progress complete, unless it in-
cluded a reception at Abbotsford ; but Mrs. Coutts had been
previously acquainted with Sir Walter, who, indeed had some
remote connection with her late husband's family through the
Stuarts of Allanbank, I believe, or perhaps the Swintons, of
Swinton. He had visited her occasionally in London during
Mr. Coutts's life, and was very willing to do the honours 'ef
Teviotdale in return. But although she was considerate
enough not to come on with all her retinue, leaving four of the
seven carriages with which she travelled at Edinburgh, the
appearance of only three coaches, each drawn by four hot-Les,
was rather trying for poor Lady Scott. They contained Mrs.
Coutts, Ler future Lord, the Duke of St. Albans; one of his
Grace's sisters, a dame de compagnie, a brace of physicians—for
it had been considered that one doctor might himself be disabled
in the course of an expedition so adventurous—and besides other
menials of every grade, two bed. chamber women for Mrs. C.'s
own person : ehe requiring to have this article also in duplicate,
because in her widowed condition, she was fearful of gtio.,te,
and there must be one abigail for the service of the toilette, a
second to keep watch by night. With a little puzzling and.
cramming, ad this train found accormnodetion ; but it so
happened that there were already in the house several ladies,
Scotch and English, of high birth and rank, who felt by no
means disposed to assist their host and hostess in making Mrs.
Coutts's visit agreeable to her. They had heard a great deal,
and they saw something of the ostentation almost inseparable
from wealth so vast as had come into her keeping, and I need
not observe how effectually women of fashion eel) contrive to
mortify, without doing or saying a.nething that shall ex-
pose them to the charge of actual incivility. Sir Walter
during dinner, did everything in his power to coun-
teract this influence of the evil eye, and something t i overawe
it; but the spirit of mischief had been fairly stirredl; it was
easy to see that Mrs. Coutts followed these noble dames to
drawing-room in by no means that complacent mood which
was customarily sustained, doubtless, by every blandishment
of obsequious flattery, in this mistress of millions. He cut
the gentleman's sederunt short, and soon after joining the
ladies, managed to withdraw the youngest, and gayest, and
cleverest, who was also the highest in rank (a lovely Mar-
chioness) into his armorial-hall adjoining. I said to her,' he
told me, I want to speak a word with you about Mrs. Coutts.
It is, I hear, not uncommon among the fine ladies in London,
to be very well pleased to accept invitations, and even some-
times to hunt after them, to Mrs. Coutt's grand balls and
fetes, and then if they meet her in a private circle, to practice
on her the delicate manonvre called tipping the cold shoulder.
This, you will :Tree with me, is shabby ; but it is nothing new
to either you or me, that find people will do shabbinesses for which
beggars might blush, if they once stoop so low as to poke for
tickets. I am sure you would not for the world do such a thing, but
you must permit me to take the great liberty of saying that I think
the style you have all received my ,guest, Mrs. Coutts in, this
evening, is, to a certain extent, a sin of the same order. You
were all told a couple of days ago that I had accepted her visit,
and that she would arrive to-day to stay three nights. Now,
if any of you had not been disposed to be of my party at the
same time with her, there was plenty of time for you to have
gone away before she came ; and as none of you moved, and
it was impossible to fancy that any of you would remain out of
mere curiosity, I thought I had a perfect right to calculate on
your having made up your minds to help me out with her.'
The beautiful Peeress answered, I thank you, Sir Walter,
you have done me great honour to speak as if I had been your
daughter, and depend upon it you shall be obeyed with heart
and good-will.' One by one the other " exclusives" were
seen engaged in a little tete•a-tete with her Ladyship. Sir
Walter was soon Satisfied that things had been put into a right
train ; the Marchioness was requested to sing a particular
song, because' he thought it would please Mrs. Coutts.
Nothing could gratify her more than to please Mrs. Coutts.
Mrs. Coutts's brow smoothed, and in the course of half en
hour she was as happy and as easy as ever she was in her life."

ELECTION COMMITTEES.

YESTERDAY.

(From our Second Edition of last night.)
WESTMEATH.

The Committee decided that the vote of Edward Lacey was a bad
vote, and ordered it to be struck otf the poll.
Mr. TIIESIUER then renewed his application for a Commission to ex-
amine witnesses in Ireland.
Mr. WRANGIIAM opposed the application. After a protracted discussion,
The CHAIIMAN announced the Committee had resolved on granting
a Commission as prayed.
Adjourned at half past four o'clock until two o'clock tomorrow.