The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-21 00:00:00

TEIE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1838.

PRICES OF CANALS) DOCK STOCKS,
SSETRANIn COMPANIES,Scc. &c.

LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 18
linnber Dividend Price
"I- per CANAI S. per
Paid. Share
8h tres. Annurn.
1,7;15 9 p'el eeht. .kst-tor: and Cldliatn....Averagr 97/. 18s. sh. 135
1.182 • 41.
1.
1.2„,,,0
...,,,,. ii3:..Liiitt;y3.si:tetk-1:-Zouch .. ....... Average Ilf;.sh. 65
1001. sh• 5
1,0°5 51. Br:el:flock and Abergavenny 150.. sr. 100
VA) 1,.1t35h .91 68. Birminghatn, 1-16th share 811. & 71/. 220
1 4100 ... i . 1.. Ditto 3-rO.l Li Terpool Junct...l.ll sh. 100 pd 241
630 V. Bridgewater and Taunton ....MO/. sh. ail pd 64
400 41. Chelmer and Blackwater... ............ 100/. 50 • 103
560 481. Clventry .00/.sh. 745
4.515 ... Ca)). lon
2,060 i 4:. 0., D.ldley
COO 14,. Derby
2.1.000 4 per cent. _)anise and Mayne 4ll. 13s. 4cl .pd 30
3,5751 31. Ellesmere and Chester Average 1331. sh. 77
231 46'. Erewash
1,297 24/. Flrth and Clyde
1,600 12/, Grand Junction ............................ ,1' 11.,h. 199 j
2,8491 U. Grand Union 4.
.... c.
.r. a.
.g.
.................................................. 7512:1(0)0
1661.5 h zr
11.500 Grand Surrey
0,000/. 41. per cent. Dlt)o (optional) Loan ................... 100/. -13
3 196 Grand ‘flestern .................. 1001. sh. all p
630 131.123. 9d • GLonorganshire, Average cost 172/. 135. Id. 2.9 E
749 101. Grantham ................................... 1501.5 h. 203
6,238 21. os. Huddersfield . Average 57/. (55.6 d. si,. 37
100 Kensington 100 sh all pd. 10
c.'ial 11. ss. Kennet snd Avon, Average 39/.lBs. 10:4. all. 251
2,8171 241. Leeds and Liverpool ..................... lON. sh. 670
5151 131. Leicester .................................... 1101. sh. 220
1,q97 6/. os. Leicester anal Northampton... Aver. VIZ. 'O6. 91
2.400 10/. :Monmouthshire ..- ....................... 100/.sh. 20 ,
150 10/. Melton Mowbray ........................... 1001. eh. 200
500 251. Mersey and Irwell ........................ 100/. sh• 560
3.00 11. 10s. 'Macclesfield 1001. sh. a
00/.shll pd..
325 52
24'7 171. loath 1
2,400 St. Peak Forest ...... ...... Avai.ge about VV. sh. 104
1,418 itt. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. 16s.
8. Bd. sh. 1001,
5,669 61. per cent. rzochdele Average 51. sh. li,i
500 81. Shrepshire .................................... 1251. sh. 138
800 9/. 10s. Somerset Coal ... ........................... 1501. sh. 1511
3,600/. 41 ps-r cent Ditto I ,ock Fund Stock ............ 12/. 10s. sh. 111
700 40/. Stafford and Worcester ................ 110/. *h. 710'
500 91. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 2,30
300 91. Stourbridge ..... ._,...- ~... 145/. sh. 330
3,647 V. Os. Stratford-on-Avon ...Average 791. 95. tsd.
sh. 250
sh. 42
533 15/. Swansea 1001.
3,712 1/. 15s. Severn and Wye and Railway ...Av.
1001 351. sh. 35
2,6•10i5n. ,•21. 10s. Trent and Mersey, I share . sWI
4.149 Thames ~n,l Medway...Aver. 191.55.11 d. sh. 2
1 000sh.1 161. Warwick and Birmingham lool.sh 281
i,ouoish. j
2:80 15, Warwick and Napton lOO/. sh. ten
6,000 4/.os. Worcest .r and Birmingham...A v.78/.81. sh. 731
5,000 255. Wilts an.a Berks .. Average 671. 10s: Sd. sh. 1
800 31. 'lO Arley and Essington 1251. sh 75
126 ••••... Wisheach
90a 1,. Wey and Arun
1101. sh. 221
DO('KS.

2,600/k
1,06515 h } 3p. e Commercial
East and West India Stock
3,2:;3,310:/. 5.55. p.ct. London
Stock

'OOl. sh

Ditto iionds
'2,209 2!. 19s. Bristol
63,324/. 54 per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts
1.352,752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock
500,000 41 per oent. Ditto Bonds
20",.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds tur 10 years
1.500 Deptford Pier ........... .. ........ 201. sh. 201. pd
BRIDGES.
1,600 Ps. Hammersmith 5Ol. sh.
7,231 Southwark, Old .....• Con`. 631.2 s Bd. sh.
1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, New, of 71 r . 5O/. sh.
5,000 Waterloo
5,000 18s. Bd. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8/. 6Ol. pd
5,000 16s. 4d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd
60,000/. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds
5,915 17s Vauxha11........ ....... Avlrage 701. 10s. 3d. sh
ASSURANCE COSIPANIES.
,0,000 {5 per cent./
2,000 31103 Albion .5001. sh. 501. pd
Alliance, British & Foreign 1001. sh. 101/. pd
/ and 15s.
50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. sh. 51. pd
50/. sh. 51. pd
24,000 11 per sh. Atla.
1,200 ish. 5/. Birmingham t ire 2501. sh. 551. pd
20,000 41 per cent. British Fire . 250!. sh. 501. pd
12,1100 6/. per cent. British Commercial 50/..b. 51.
pd
5,000 5/. per cent. Clerical, Medi :al,Sic. Life, IC(ll.sh. 2110 s pd
4,000 21 tes County 1001. sh. 10!. pd
20,000 ss. Eagle 5Ol. sh. Si. pd
0,, I's per cent./ Economic Lite lOOOl. sh. 2501. pd
`''' /and 3Ol bs.
2,271 225. per cent. European Li .o ',O/. sh. all pd
50,000 2s. Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 21. pd
1,000,00e1. 71. per et Globe Stock
20,000 51. Guardian lOO/. sh. 2711 pd
10,000 6s. 6d. Hope 501. sh. 51. pd
2,400 51. 7s. 6d. Imperial Hire 5001. sh. 50/. pd
7,500 9s. Imperial Life 1001. sh. 10/. pd
13,4-59 4/. percent. Indemnity Marine 1001. 'h. 81. pd
~ 020 3/ 104 Kent Fire 50/. sh. all pd
-
3/. Ditto Life
10,000 16s. Law Life 1001. sh. 101. pd
a (561 Ins. London, Fire 251. sh. 121. 1(15. pi
3,904 10s. London, Ship 251. sh. la 10s. pd
1,0(.0,0001. ... ..... Minerva Life. 1001. sh.
30,0 0 :',l. per cent. Palladium Lite 501. sh. 21. pd
511,000 4!. per cent. Protector Fire "0!. sh. 2/. pd
2,500 I/. Provident Lite ....... ........... 100/. sh-. 101. pd
100,000 ss. Rock Life 201. sh. 1/, pd
039,220/ 5/. per cent. Royal Exchange Stork...
6,000 5 per cent. University Life lOO/. sh. 51. pd
50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life ...... IOU ch. 5/. pd
JOINT SI OCK BANKS
'25,000 I per cent. Agric andCumm. of Ireland 251. sh. 10/. pd
5.000 Australa.ia 4O/. sh. 401. pd
10,000 10 per cent. Bank of Biiiningham 5Ol. sh. 10/. pd
1.1,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/. sh. 5/. pd
6 1,000 5 percent. London and Westminster ...1001 sh. 20/. pd
60,000 5/. London Joint Stock 50/. sh. 101. pd
.3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster lOO/. sh. SO/. pd
25,000 Liverpool 1001 sh. 101. pd
100,000 '7l per seat. Manchester and Liverpool/ 501.0. 151 pd
Distri^t
20,000 7 per cent. Manchester 100!. sh. 25/ pd
20,000 Provincial Bank of lreland 100/. sh. 251. pd
T0,,00 National Bank of Ireland 5O/.lh. 1711. pd
10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. lOO/. sh. 351. pd
10,000 Gloucestershire 5Ol. sh. 10!. pd
6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 50/. sh. 51. pd
GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.
2,500 11 Oa Od Bath 2Ol. sh. ICI. pd
5,000 British .......... ....... ..... 4Ol. sh. 161. pd
5,000 151.Ze1Le.121 Ditto Provincial 20/. sh. 19 pa
929 51 lOs Birmingham 5Ol. sh.
t,250 210 s Bristol 20t. sh.
1,500 31 10s Brighton " 20/. sh.
750 31 10, Ditto, New 201. sh. 18/. pd
2,471 4i per cent. Brighton General 201. sh. all pd
4,000 5/. Continental Consolidated
1,000 101. City 01 London .................100!. sh. all pd
1,000 • 61. Ditto, New
1,000 4/.los. Equitable 5O/. pd
10,000 21 per cent. Imperial
800 51. per cent. Isle (A- Mallet 251. sh. '2Ol. pd
2,350 61. per cent. Independent 9O/. sh. all pd
9,000 3/. per cent. Phoenix 50/. sh. 39/. pd
1,000 41. per cent. Ratclifr 100/ sh. 80/. pd
4,0,10 South Metropolitan 5O/. sh. 19/. pd
5,200 51. per cent. United General 5Ol. sh. 461. pd
240 54 per cent. Warwick 501. sh.
. 400 5/. per cent Wakefield
2,000 31. Westminster Chartered
6,001 12s. Ditto New .... 5(1. sh. 10/. pd
860 Yarmouth 201. sh. 181. pd
WATER. WORKS.
1,800 9s. Blrmingham 251. sh. 251. pd
1,434 6/. East London lOO/. sh.
5,500 21 10s (rind Junction ....Average 41/ 135. 4d. sh.
h.
2,000 2!. Kent 100/.
220/. sh.
372 101. Liverpool Bootle
1,500 21 lOs New River London Bridge Water Annuities
6,486 1/ Iss Manchester and Salford lOOl. sh.
1,000 4 per cent. South London Ka sh.
8,294 4!. West Middlesex ....Average 631. 125. 9d. sh.
1,360 11 14s York Building Co. Lessee Prop 100/. sh.
6,300 ...... ... Birmingham and Derby
IRON RAILWAYS. d
9,530 Birmingham and Gloucester
15,000 Bristol and Exeter 100/ sh. 15 pd
1 660 .
7,500 Cheltenham and G. Western 1001. 5h.1121/.
40/. p
3,000 Clarence lOO/. sh. 1001. pd
12,000
8,000 Dublin and Kilkenny 1001. sh. Si. pd
60,000 Eastern Counties 25/. eh. 711. 1.1
Grand Junction 1001. sh. us!. pd
Great Notth of England ................ 19/. pd
5,000 Great Western 1.00/. sh. 65/. pd
2,000
8,000 Hull and Selby 501. sh. 156 lid
10,000 Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. 5/. pd
2,100 3/. per cent. Leeds and Selby... ..... . ........... .... ..... 100 sh.
1,500 1/.55. Leicester and Swannington -.501. sh• all pd
5,103 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester-la Lsh. 1001. P'
10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 25/. Pd
36,000 ..... ... London and Brighten Si)!.sh. 11L pd
12,000 London and Blackwell 501. sh. Si. pd
20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich 2Ol. sit. 201. pd
25,000 London and Birmingham -lOW. sh. 904 pd
Ditto Quarter Shares .....................5/. pd
20,100 London and Southampton ....501. sh. 501. pd
Ditto ditto New
11,000 London and Croydon Trunk 201 sh. 20/. pd
6,,00 '1 10s. Pd
Ditto New Scrip
12,0,0 London Grand Junction 501. sh. 5/. pd
13,000 Manchester and Leeds ......1001. sh. 301. pd
10,000 Manchester and Birmingham 70/.sh. 10/. pd
North Midland 1001. sh. 45/. pd
Northern and Eastern 1001. sh. 15!. Pd
2,600 Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. 3CI. pd
28,000 ...... South Eastern and Dover 9l. pd
1,000 14/.per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOO/. sh.
2,0P0 ......... Thames Haven 5Ol. sh 21. 10s. pd
1,404
6,001 Westminster and Greenwich 50/. sh. I/. pd
York and North Midland ...50 . sh. 121. pd

113
107
103
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141
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MINES.
8,000 Albion Copper 5l. sh. 31/. pd
4,000 IL ss. Alien 151. sh. 121. 10s pd
150/. sh all pd
12700 ...3., .... . ABonlzilntotoo:lseuxbiscaerni,ptiisosn. Si. pm 100 L sh. all
pa, pd
1(1,0006 11. lOs
r•Biraaczaitigasn 174,..cia550...,516,pfte.d 3.2551...hh: 221
pd
I 1 ~,(10 Ditto St. John Del Rey 901. .sh. 14/. ,pd
10,000 Bolivar Copper Company 201. sh. 201. pd
10,000 ......... Ditto Scrip 101. sh. 101. pd
20,000 British Iron ..... ....... ...... 5Ol. eh. 50/ pd
6,000 .... ..... British Copper 5l. sh. W. pi]
Cata Branca..., 611. $ d
Candonga 7lll pd
11,000 11 Copiapo 20/. sh, 13/. pd
8,500 ... Columbian, iss. 5/. pm.
1,1150 31. English
2.1,000 General Mining Assoclation...2ol. sh. 171. pd
8,155 ««..... Mexican Company 1001. sh. 55i/. pd
3,000
Pluteniatilteerdl) dell
Mexican,
Monte,Cexotiicon Consols.
sn:e2g Unregistered ei r e..d..1.41-011.1... ......... ... 81.:.1..1 ......
11,500
Ditto Loan Notes l5O/. pd
Dit...i, Scrip
Ditto New Scrip
5/ pd
West Cark 10/ sh. 50/. pd
LITERARY 1 NS'IIT U TION S.
I,olio London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs. sh.
1,501 Lorid-n University IM/. sh. all pd
700 It usst4l • 'yes. sh.
15s. AustralianlC.ingNil6(:(o7lEl eAlg'geLrAi eNu
lEtt(i)ratil!..lo(pLsyh.
.217213;1 7111 10,010
6,10%. 41. per cent. British American Land Com
Lon .............. ......... ............... ......
caul.c'.
t CI tiy Canada
poe Company
rn,Cl s a,
n per cart ........... .... •.. ............
2f100),,f(W,Ilx;) (Jul perrr
ii.
os. General Steam Navigation l5l. sh. 14/. pd
la per cent. fluclson's Bay Stock ..................
2,000 IL London Coin. Sale Rooms ..............
Av. 75/. sh.
11,000 Caoutchouc Company `2.51. sh. 121 /.pd
55'10,00L
.pd
New Brunswick Lantl Comps's), ,O/. pd
2,754. 51. per c ..nt. Reversismary Interest 50c...1001. at). mot IA
.2 iii; 51, leer cent. Ditto New 10,./. sh. 70/. pd
,
4,000 .. 1 homes runnel 50/. sh. all 1.4
10,000 01, Van Die ner.'s Land 1001. sh. 17/. pd

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221
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LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
AUG. 25. 1838.
BANKS.

1.50C,f10•,1. el. p. ct. Ear' of Scotland 83/. fls 8.1. sh. all pd 19x.
2,000,0 al. 54 p. ct. Rc r of Scotland IGO/. sh. all pd p 2/.
510,0 4-1. 6p. rt. Br.rish Linen Company 1001. sh. :.11 p.l 240'
3 000,0011. 6/. p. ct. Commercial .5001. :h. 1101. pd 177/.
5 savior.. n , It. '.., tional lOOl. sh. 101. pd 161.
.00,,0.01. el p. ct. GlaAgovr Union 250/. sh. 501. pd 86/.
1,000,040/. 4 p. ct. Western
NC of ScoCOMPANIES. tland 2001. sh 401. pd SW.
INS
.25,..0005h 61 p. ct. Scottish Union 20/. ch. 11. pd 3c,
',50 rl! ..). ct. Hercules lOO/. sh. 101. pd 131 15'
pY,OOO 'l3. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland -JO/. sh. ail pd 9! Os,
50.11:/0 6p. ct. North Iltitish 2OOl. sh. 10/. pd 18L
WO 5 p ct. Caledonian Fire 1001. sh. 10!. pd 19/ Os
54asi 1, p. ct. Edinburgh Lite
1001. ski' lot. 1.1 14/10s
1011,110 U 33 p. ct. West of Scotland lOl. pd ilia
MISCELLANEOUS
Edits. and Was. Un. Cana1...501. sh. all pd 10/.
Ditto Allocated 901. th. all pd 501
5,4(k) 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stack Watcr....25/. sh. all pd .59/
Carron Iron t'.otn pan y 250/. sh. all pd 441.
t,ooosh 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundery 50/. sh 4.441. pd 52/,
'VICO 3 per cent. Edinburgh k Leith Glass VOL sh. 16/. pd Si
4,:'.00 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Ga.- 23!. sh. all pd COl.
4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas "51. sh. all pc! 1344
750 `.71 per cent. Leith Coal Gas 201. sh. all pd .01/.
'...1( 0 '
1000 spar cent. Equitable Loan C0any...15/. sh. pa W. 116

4,810 ........

CELEb4IAL titIEI'4OMEXA:

The appearance of the heavens on Saturday night ilst
dicated a renewal of tho.,:e celestial appearances which were
so frequently seen in the months of October and November,
1837. On Sunday evening a cool elastic flow of air from the
north-west was the forerunner of a stream of illuminated va.
pour shooting upwards towards the zenith, and proceeding
from a quarter of a circle from the horizon. Nearly due north
arose one steady spire of luminous matter, inclining in an an-
gle of about forty five degrees. This did not vary much,
but all around, chiefly to the west of it, were ripples of
waving light that flickered in the streaks within a very short
distance of the earth, so near that the lofty shafts of the
steam-mills in this city seemed to be in the midst of some of
the flakes of extremely attenuated light. One would almost
suppose that philosophers could not fail to trace the cause of
these singular appearances when so adjacent to the earth.
There was not a cloud nor an opaque streak in the atmos-
phere for a considerable period ; but at ten o'clock a thick b-lt
of dark cloud circumscribed the west a few degrees above the
horizontal line, and from this seemed to be sent forth the
strongest waves of light. The day had been somewhat warm
and close—nightfall and these phenomena produced a rapid
change of temperature, and it might admit of the conjecture
that the earth aas yielding some of its surplus heat to the at-
mosphere. —Lincoln Gazette.
At half-past seven last Sunday evening, there was observed
at St. Alban's, the sky being clear and starlight, a bright band
of light, extending from about twenty degrees from the wes-
tern horizon to about forty degrees from the eastern horizon.
When this appearance was first noticed (which must have
been within a few minutes after it became visible) the band
of light was exactly vertical ; it then moved very slowly about
35 degrees towards the south, where it remained stationary
till, in about a quarter of an hour, it had gradually disap-
peared. The band was nearly in a straight line, from which
it deviated a little, when it moved, and as wide as the distance
between two of the well-known stars in the Great Bear. The
northern edge was clearly defined and very bright. The
southern edge was shaded off. At the same time a thin column
of light shot up about 20 deg. above the eastern horizon, in a
line with the above mentioned band of light. Shortly after
their disappearance the aurora borealis became ♦ery bright,
and the coruscations later in the evening were singularly bril-
liant. The bind of light and the aurora evidently originated
from the same cause.
A remarkable instance of parhelion occurred on the 15th
instant, at 5 P. m. , and lasted about twenty minutes. It was
observed at Th waite, Suffolk, and appeared more than unusually
well defined ; seldom, indeed, has there been so clearly-de-
fined a " mock sun," as frequently termed. It was depicted
in a hazy cirro-stratus cloud, as usual, exhibiting the pris-
matic colours very strongly, but at one time was so bright as
to dazzle the eye almost as much as the true sun, which was
then bright. The electrical indications, as well as pluvial
signs, were afterwards observed to increase, and a sultry and
clouded evening was succeeded by a rainy morning. On the
30th of July a similar instance was noticed early in the morn-
ing, in the vicinity of Sudbury. In all cases of these pheno-
mena moisture abounds in the clouds to a considerable degree
wherein the scene is depicted.—Bury Herald.
Last night ( Friday) the aurora borealis, or northern lights,
were seen to great advantage. They commenced soon after
nightfall, and continued remarkably brilliant for some
hours. Overhead the sky was clear and studded with stars ;
and the lights were confined almost entirely to the northern
region. A long misty cloud, but without any distinct outline,
bounded the horizon, and from thence the coruscations shot
vertically, in sharp-pointed spears, or flashed up in broad
lambent flames as high as the zenith. We have rarely seen
these boreal lights so variable, rapid, and fantastic in their
motions. They were all of a white or silvery colour, without
any admixture of that reddish tint by which they are some-
times marked.—Scotsman (Edinburgh).
[These appearances seem, from the accounts in other pro-
vincial papers, to have been observed nearly simultaneously
in almost every part of the kingdom. They were seen near
London.]

MRS. PATCHWORK !—One Brighton Paper after
calling on the other to stand forth and be examined under the
designation of Mr 3. Patchwork, proceeds thus politely to de-
scribe the Contemporary Journal :—" Of all the Papers that
were ever put together ; of all the trash that was ever raked
up from the purlieus of literature ; of all the nonsense that was
ever written, collected, or stolen, from books and other
sources of information ; of all that was ever jumbled, garbled,
dove-tailed, spliced, or manufactured in the shape and under
the denomination of a newspaper, the is the most despi-

cable specimen.
On Saturday an infant fell from the third story of a
house in Chesnut-row, Woolwich, but was caught in its de-
scent by a man employed in the yard beneath. The mother
fainted on witnessing the accident.
Between six and seven o'clock on Saturday evening,
Henry Hankins, aged 33 years, a labourer employed in dig-
ging out the foundation of one of the hotels intended to bo
built at the Euston-square terminus of the London and Bir-
mingham Railroad, was in the act of unpinning a wall, when
an immense mass of earth, weighing at least a ton and a half,
suddenly slipped, and buried him underneath its ponderous
weight. He was dug out as quickly as possible by his fellow-
workmen, and was found to be crushed and bruised in a very
dreadful manner. He was carried to the University College
Hospital, and is not expected to survive.
On the evening of last Thursday week, tke family
of John Price, Esq., of Plas Cadnant, Anglesey, were sud-
denly plunged into the most poignant distress. William Bul-
keley Price, Esq., the youngest son (a young gentleman of the
most amiable disposition, and quick parts, of the age of 25),
went in a small skiff for a few hours' excursion on the Menai,
attended by William Jones, house carpenter. About six
o'clock, their frail bark upset all at once, in consequence of
one of them leaving his seat ; and the unfortunate deceased
sank to rise no more. Having taken a ride in the morning,
he had not taken off his spurs, which made him more easily
get entangled in the sea tang, from which he was with diffi-
culty extricated. Had it been otherwise, he had a weakness
in the spine, which rendered his being able to save himself by
swimming highly improbable. Though he was brought to the
surface after the lapse of a very short period, life was quite ex-
tinct. William Jones was saved by clinging to the side of the
skiff, and the prompt assistance of the numerous boatmen in
attendance. To his credit, it should be added, that, while his
own life was being saved, he entreated his preservers "to look
for his young master first, and let him take his chance." The
accident happened close to the moorings of the Zephyr steam-
packet, Capt. Goff, who, with the passengers, rendered every
assistance in their power. —Carnarvon Herald.
At Union-Hall on Wednesday no fewer than three
women, all of them the wives of respectable tradesmen, were
severally charged with being drunk in the streets, and unable
to take care of themselves. Two were fined the usual penalty
and discharged ; the third was held to bail for causing a dis-
turbance.

An inquest was held on Wed iesday in the Kings!aud.
road on the body of a girl aged fifteen, named Collard, a silk
weaver, who was found drowned in the Regent's Canal. The
inquiry excited great interest, as it was rumoured that the girl
had destroyed herself in consequence of having been spoken to
by her uncle, with whom she lived, relative to some improper
conduct between her and a youth named Chamberlain, a fellow
apprentice. This young man was examined at Worship-street
on Tuesday, and remanded, on a charge of having indecently
assaulted the girl. The evidence of two surgeons, however,
who had made a post mortem examination of the body, nega-
tived this charge. After a long investigation the Jury re-
turned a verdict of " Found drowned."
DISCOVERY OF TIIE REMAINS OF THE DUKE
OF BUCKINGHAM, BEHEADED AT S•LISI3URT.—A correspon-
dent of the Salisbury Journal has furnished that Paper with a
most interesting account of the recent discovery of the muti-
lated remains of the celebrated Henry Stafford, Duke of
Buckingham, who was beheaded in that city in 1483. History
records that Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, the " cou-
sin of Buckingham" of Shakspeare's immortal page. having
failed in his plan of insurrection against Richard 111., took
refuge in the house of his servant Bannister, near Shrews-
bury, that he was "by that wretch betrayed" into the
hands of the King, then at Salisbury, and suffered death at
that city without form of trial, according to the summary
method of that age, by decollation and amputation of the right
srm. Tradition assigns the court yard of the Blue Boar Inn
as the scene of this bloody tragedy. During the alterations
and improvements which are still in progress at the Saracen's
Head Inn ( which, there can be no doubt, formed part of the
premises originally attached to the Blue Boar), it became ne-
cessary to remove the brick flooring of one of the rooms, and
dig to some depth. In the course of this operation, about
eight inches below the surface of the soil they came to a human
skeleton. The place here indicated can only be a few yards,
possibly feet, from the very spot where Buckingham suf-
fered decapitation. The remains so discovered were evidently
those of a human being, and the skeleton was complete, save
that it wanted the head and right arm. The first impression
on the mind of the landlord, Mr. Shucker, was, that the re-
mains so discovered were those of some travelling pedlar who
had been murdered in the house, and for secrecy buried on
the spot. The absence of the arm, it seems, suggested the
idea that such might possibly have been the vocation of the
deceased, and they accounted for the non-appearance of the
head by sui pt,sing that it had been cut off by the murderers,
en finding that the grave that they had excavated was too
small to conta'n the body. With this impression the land-
lord himself took up one of the ribs, and measuring it by his
own, averred that the deceased must have been of large di-
mensions. The spinal column appeared completely imbedded
in the clay ; and on handling or taking up some of the de-
tached vertebrae they caumbled into dust ia their hands. As
may be supposed, the whole remains were in a like friable
corr'ition ; and acting on the impression that what was once
the most high and puissant Prince Henry of Buckingham
was no other than a murdered pedlar, they actually, with
their " dirty shovels," knocked about his " noble dust,"
and in a few minutes compounded it with the clay " whereto
'twas kin."—Salopian Journal.
On Thursday night, between the hours of eleven and
twelve o'clock, as Levy, the house-officer of the Garrick Theatre,
and Lewisson, the box-keeper, were standing at the entrance,
they observed a more than ordinary light in one of the upper
rooms of the house of Mr. Moss, a looking-glass manufacturer
opposite, Their suspicions being aroused, they instantly rushed
into the house, and on proceeding to the room whence they
had seen the light, they found the table-cover on fire, and
the flames rapidly approaching a bed in which were the two
jefaut children of Mr. Moss. They instantly removed the
children from their perilous situation, and by the most prompt
and preesewertby exertions extinguished the fire before much
damage was done, and long before the arrival of the engines
which were brought to the spot. The fire, which had been so
l.rovidentially checked, had been occasioned by a maid servant
going to sleep while reading a novel.