The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-19 00:00:00

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

The Susan, of Exeter, from Exmouth, Sept, 24, eight
miles S.W. of Cape Trafalgar.
The Fanny, of Stockton, for Gibraltar, Oct. 10, in lat.
48 N., long. 9 W.

The brig Amelia, same day.
The Mangola (American ship), from Havannah for Lon-
don, Sept. 14, in lat. 35 N., long. 71 W.
The ship Bremen, No. 133, steering W., Sept. 27, in lat.
45 N., long. 47 W,
The Daniel, from Amsterdam for Constantinople, Sept.
28, in lat. 43 N., long. 11 W.
The Joseph Pater, from Liverpool for San Francisco,
July 28, in lat 55 S., long. 52 W.

ALARMING ACCIDENT. ON A CANAL.—About half-past
6 o'clock on Saturday morning an embankment of the
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal, near the Pres-
tolee-locks, a few miles from Bolton, gave way, and
nearly 30 yards' length of earthwork was carried away.
The canal runs along the side of a hill at the point
where it burst, and about twenty yards below it is
the river Irwell. The rush of water through the
crevasse was on a grand scale for a time, and formed
as magnificent a waterfall as could be desired ; but
fortunately the channel of the river below was of ample
capacity to receive it, without any overflow resulting to
injure adjacent property, or place human life in danger.
Two empty coal boats were near, and were carried
through the opening into the river, but a boy having
charge of them had the presence of mind to leap out
upon one of the banks, and he probably thus saved his
life, as the boats were dashed to pieces. The late heavy
rains are supposed to have been the immediate cause of
the accident, but a subsidence of substrata, in conse-
quence of coal-workings underneath, is supposed to have
previously weakened the embankment. The canal is
the property of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Company, and the traffic is almost wholly one of coal.
They have employed a large body of men to repair the
canal, and, as their railway runs nearly parallel with the
canal almost throughout its entire length, they have it
in their power to prevent much inconvenience to the
public through the accident,
LADVERTISEDIENT.]—DA RIC DAYS AND LONG
NIGHTS.—The necessity of having the most perfect eye-
sight and hearing, and bright and brilliant spectacles.
Persons can be well suited at a distance, &c.—The Eyes.
—39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly.- - Observe, opposite the
York Hotel.—Optical Improvements to enable persons at
an advanced age to read with ease and to discriminate
objects with perfect distinctness.—Messrs. S. and B.
Solomons, opticians and oculists, have invented Spectacle
Lenses, with panoptic frames to see over at a distance
while reading, writing, &c., of the greatest transparent
power. The valuable advantage derived from this inven-
tion over the spectacles now in common use is, that in-
stead of vision becoming strained, heated, weakened, and
in numerous cases seriously injured, it is preserved and
strengthened ; and very aged persons are enabled to em-
ploy their sight at the most minute occupation ; can see
with those lenses of a much less magnifying power ; and,
that which is a matter of the greatest consequence is, they
do not require the frequent changes to the dangerous effects
of further powerful assistance. - The Royal Exhibition.
-—A valuable, newly-invented, very small powerful waist-
coat-pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person
can be seen and known one mile and a half distant ;
they answer every purpose on the race-course, at the
opera-houses, country scenery, and ships are clearly seen
at 12 to 14 iles. They are invaluable for shooting, deer-
stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers,
and tourists. Telescopes—A new and most important
invention in telescopes, possessing such extraordinary
powers that some, 3? inches, with an extra eye-piece, will
show distinctly upiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the
double stars ; with the same telescope, weighing only 3
ounces, can be seen a person's countenance three miles
and a half distant, and an object from 16 to 20 miles,
They supersede every other kind for the waistcoat-pocket.
and are of larger and all sizes, with increasing powers
accordingly. Opera and race-course glasses, with wonderful
power; an object can be clearly seen, from 14 to 16 miles
distant. Deafness—New Discovery—The Organic Vi-
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instrument, for Deafness, entirely different froth all
others, to surpass anything of the kind that has been,
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same colour as the skin, it is .-
is not perceptible ; enablesit
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the ears is entirely removed ; and it affords
ance that possibly could be desired..— and B. Solomons,
Aurists and Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street,, Piccadilly.
Observe, opposite the York Hotel,

LIST OF SCOTTISB. COMPANIES' PRICES.
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Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
----- -
£ s. d. £ a. d.
Bank of Scotland .. • • 72. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 192/ 0
British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 2131 0
Caledonian I3ank ... • . 81. per eent. 10 0 0 210 0 3'. 17s
City of Masgow Bank 51. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 10/ 125
Clydesdale Bank .. •• 6/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 i 1 i 16s
Commercial Bank .. 7/. percent. sro 0 0 100 0 0 182210
'astern Bank .. - •... 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 11l Os
Eiinb.&Glasgow .. •• 31. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 41. 9s
Exchange Bnk of Scot.. - 100 0 0 31 5 0 Os. Od
National Bank ...... 6% per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 161 Os
tiorthof Scotlandßank 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 4/. 4s
Royalßank ofScotl. .. 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 MO 0 0 13210 s
Union Bank of Scot. .. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 931 Os
Western Bank • ..• - - ' 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 71/ Os
Alliance Fire and Life.. 831 i.pr cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 21112 s
British Guarantee .... 42. per cent. 10 0 0 2 0 0 11.456 d
Caledonian Fire Dunn 10/. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 261. Od
City of Glasgow Life.. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 4'. 58
Colonial Life ......... 5/. per cant. 50 0 0 1 0 0 4/. 15s
Edinburgh Lire 'astir. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 ;25110s
Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 21/ 6 131. 7s
Life Assoc. of Scotland 62. per cent. 10 0 0 110 0 141. 15,
National Fire and Life 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 11/. 14s
North British Insur... 51. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 ;362 Os
Scottish Union Insrnc. 7%1. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 'l/. 13s
4 tandard Life ...... • . 52. per cent. R 0 0 0 7 0 o 1151 Os
United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 . 1 0 0 2s Od
MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company, per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
. ----- --
£ s. d. X s. d.
Assam Tea •••••••••• 3'. 50 0 0 20 0 0 -
Auction Mart •••• • • • • 2/. ss. 50 0 0 - -
Australian Agriculturl 1/. 1 ls. 6d. 100 0 0 17 10 0 33%
Australian Trust •• .. 61. per cent. - 25 0 0 -
Australian Royal Mail 51. 10 0 0 8 0 0 1 -
inglo-Mexican Mint.. IL /Os. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
British American Land 15s. - 38 10 0 55
Canada ... •• .... •• .. 51. percent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 -
Do. 5 per cent Bonds Si. per cent. - - -
Ditto, 6 per cent. - 61. per cent. - - 112
City Navigation Bonds 31 per cent. - - -
Electric Telegraph (A) - 25 0 0 20 0 0 -
Ditto.. • • • • • • • • (B) -
25 0 0 15 0 0 -
Equitable Reversleary Si pr. cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 -
Ditto New . • ...... - 50 0 0 12 10 0 -'
Gen. Revers. B:lnvest. sp. c.& bs, 21 100 0 0 100 0 0 -
Gea.SteamNavigation 10 p. et. 15 0 0 14 0 0 -
Hudson's 8ay...;.... _ Stock. - -
Hunger. ford .......... 2/. 10s. 100 0 0 100 0 0 -
London InstLution ... - - • - -
London Reversionary Si. per cent. 15 0 0 15 0 0 -
Russell Institution.... - - 12 10 0 -
Pi ice's Patent Cand. Co. 10/. per cent. 20 0 0 17 10 0 2834
Reversionary Int. Soc. 4)42. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 -
Royal Mail Steam.... 41. p. share. 100 0 0 60 0 0 -
South Australian ....• 5i et. 25 0 0 25 0 0 34
Trust and Loan Comp.
of Upper Canada.... - - -2-- ---

THE RECENT DISCLOSURES RESPECTING THE BIR-
MINGHAM GAOL.—Mr. William Lawson, the late tailor
trade-instructor at the Birmingham prison, hast just
been presented by his friends with a small testimonial
in the shape of a silver snuff-box, as an acknowledge-
ment "of their esteem for the manner in which he ex-
posed the borough gaol atrocities." To Mr. Lawson
humanity is indebted for the complete exposure of the
barbarisms practised in the gaol ; but for his manly
spirit and independence they might have gone on for
some time longer in secret and unchecked. Lawson
is a poor man, he has sacrificed his place and all other
personal considerations. If ever recompence was
merited he deserves it, and it is satisfactory to know
that a testimonial of a more substantial character
than that just rendered is contemplated.
FRENCH V. THE VICTORIA DOCK COMPANY.--An
inquiry before the Sheriff of Kent and a special jury,
to assess the amount of compensation to be paid to the
claimant for sixty-seven acres of marsh land, required
for the purposes of constructing the large docks to be
called the Victoria Docks, was concluded on Saturday
evening. Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., and Mr. Hawkins
appeared for the claimant, and the Attorney-General
and Mr. Bovill represented the company. The case
occupied two days. The point in contest chiefly was
whether the land was to be paid for as agricultural
land only, or as building ground. Upon the part of
the claimant it was valued at 22,0001. and 26,0001.,
and by those who valued for the company at 9,090/.
The jury retired for some time, and gave a verdict for
16,000/.