The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-17 00:00:00

RAILWAY TRAFFIC BETU.RHS.

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—
Traffic return for the week ending Oct. 14,£15,414 1 10
1854
Corresponding week last year 13,623 14 5
Total of the half-year to this date, 1854 253,964 2 1
Total of the half-year to this date, 1853 233,288 18 10
LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—Traffio re-
turn for the week ending Oct. 14, 1854 £20,018 16 6
Corresponding week last year 19,012 1 11

Increase in 1854 £1,006 14 7
CRYSTAL PALACl.—Return of admissions for six days
ending Saturday, Oct. 14.--Numbers, including season
tickets, 24,852; amount received for admission, 1,1981.
uls. Od.
CRYSTAL PALACTI, OCt. Day.—Admis-
sion at the doors, 3,882 ; admission by season tickets,
804 ; total, 4,186.

THE SYNOD ON THE lINIVEESITIES.--The Synod of
the Established Church has come to nearly unanimous
1:-solutions :-1. Against a union of the colleges, as
unf„-.ourable to efficient teaching. 2. To consider
favourab any plan for the union of the universities.
, In favour of the graduates having an influential voice
in the governme ef the university. 4. Against any
such increase in chars in arts as would materially in-
crease the expense to siodents.; though, as there has
been only one chair additonal explicitly proposed—a
chair of rhetoric and English iiterature—we do not
other see
how this resolution comes to be included. All
the
three resolutions, we believe, accurately express the pre-
vailing feeling of the public here, and especially id the
present universities.—Aberdeen Herald.
NOTABIES.—The use of notarial seals would semis to
be of English origin. The French, like the ph,
have adopted, in their stead, a pen-anil-ink device whichh
they call a " paraphe," and which is generally of
intricate and inimitable form. As the use of seals has
become in England the ordinary method of authennFticance,
ating
public documents, so has the "paraphe " ir
with this difference, that the difficulty
.of counterfeiting
the latter affords a greater security against may attempt
at forgery. " Paraphes " are now comm only used
throughout the Continent, not only by notaries and
public men, but by persons of every class ; and even the
ladies seldom sign their names without a.ttempting a
I"flourish of some sort. With a fore igner, the
" paraphe" is as necessary an appendage to his sig
ic3 natv re
las the moustache is to his face.— votes and Quer.
Three houses were destroyed by fire at chatham, oil

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From the Official List.
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING.
LONDON, TUESDAY, OCT. 13, 1854.

GAS-LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.

Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Ammin. Share.
--
£ s. d. £ a. d. '
British • • •• •• •• -• •. •• _
Ditto Provincial •• •• I/. Bs. 20 0 0 20 0 0 21
Brighton •••••• • • • • • . 51. 20 0 0 20 0 0
City of London .. •• .. 41. 10s. 100 0 0 150 0 0 100
Continental (3d Cap.)... 41. 10e. 50 0 0 43 10 0i
Equitable .•• •• ...... 1/. Is. 50 0 0 all 26
Great Central •••• • • • 71 per cent. 10 0 0 all 1i %
Imperial .. • • ........ 6/ & bowls. 50 0 0 all 86
Independent ....... •• 51. 40 0 0 9, --•
L0nd0n.............. 60 0 0 f•
1)o., Parl. Preference 61. per cent. 25 0 0 ff 25
P -ce• ix ............, 41. per cent. 60 0 0 50 0 0 26%
Rateliff .• •• . ....... 51. 100 0 0 00 0 0 73
United General ..•• .. 2/. 10s. 50 0 0 all 20
Westminster Chartered 51. per cent. 50 0 0 1/ 35)6
Ditto, New ........ 51. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 6%

WATER-WORKS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. , per of Paid. Prise.
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
East London -
Grand Junction
Bent - 80
Lambeth • • - 100 0 0 - 97
New River Company.: j 21.105. - - 55
Southwark &Vauxhall 51. per exit. 100 0 0
- 8934
West Middlesex • . • - 102
DOCKS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
I
IX s. d. £ s. d.
Commercial .. , . ...... • 4/. pr cent. Stock. Stock. -
East and West India.. Si. pr cent. Stock. - -
East Country.. 2OB. per sh. - - -
London ..: . ....... 5/. pr cent. Stock. - 109
Ditto Bonds .. - , - -
St. Katharine ........ 4 per cent. Stock. 1 - -
r outhampton ........ 31. Os per c. 50 0 011 50 0 0 -
Victoria .. •......... 52. per cent. 20 0 0 12 0 0 -
BRIDGES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
Hungerford .. ... • .... - - - 12
Southwark ...... •• • . - 100 0 0 - 9
Ditto New of 7% p.c. 70s. per cent 50 0 0 - -
Waterloo ..... .... .• • • - 100 0 0 - 4,4
Ditto Old Ann. of Si 11. 14s. 60 0 0 - 3134
Ditto Nw ditto of 7/. 1/. 10s. Od. 40 0 0 ,••-• 28
Vauxhall • • 11. ss. 70 10 3 - 22
JOINT-Sa-2K BANKS.
Dividend Amount
' Name of Company. per of Paid. I Price.
Annum. I Share.
£ s. d. x 8. d. -7--
. Australasia........... Gl. per cent. 40 0 0 all -
• British N orthAmerican 61. per cent. 50 0 0 If -
Commercial of London. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
Colonial .............. j 3/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
lonian ............... 161. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Lond. Char. Bk. of Aus. 1 - 20 0 0 all 0 21%
London and County .. 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 35
Londo, and Westminstr : 62. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
London Joint Stock ... 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 2834
Provincial of Ireland.. , 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 55
Ditto, N ew. • • ...... ,8 i . per cent. 10 0 0 all ___
' National of Ireland.... 41. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 4932
Nat. Provincial of Eng. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 -
• Ditto, New .. ••• . •• 5!. per cent. 20 0 0 13 0 0 -
[ Oriental Bank Corora. 122. p ct.&bs. 25 0 0 all 42%
South Australia • ......5i. p. ct. & bs. 25 0 0 t 9 --
Union of Atistralia•••• 40/. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 69
Ditto .............. 40/. per cent. - 210 0 --
Union of London .....5i. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 2364
, Union of Madrid ..... - 40 0 0 all -