The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-14 00:00:00

CORK-JAN. 12.

Brls.
Currency.
5 White wheat 26s Od to OOs Od Os Od-20 stone'
57 Redwheat 22s Od to 26s Od
Ditto Oos Odto Oos Od }2ss Od-20 do.
Ditto OOs Od to OOs Od
IE9 Barley l4s Od to 14s 6d
Ditto OGs Od to 00s Oct 14s 4d-16 do.
Ditto 00s Od to 00s Od
Bero 00s Od to OOs Od Os Od
604 Oats ........... 9s 8d to lOs 5d
614 Ditto 10s 5d to lOs 84} lOs 6d do.
104 Ditto... 10s 8d to lls Od
70 Pigs 36s Od to 40s 6d 38s Od per 04'
Quantity
wsold at tho highest :—
9 barrels white heat ;18 red 17 barley; 0 bete; 7
•ats ; 20 pigs.
Quantity of grain and number of pigs sold last week
Wheat, 757. Barley, 1,102. Bere, 0. Oats, 5,05'
Pigs, 1,268.

WANTED, a TRAVELLER, to represent an
old-established House in the Vintish and Colour Trade.—
Acidre!?s (stating particulars) A. 11., 14, King-street, Greenwich.

THE ALBION GOLD MINING COMPANY
.11 NOTICE IS NOW GIVEN. That the Shares in this Compab;
Will be allotted immediately after TUESDAY NEXT, the 18th inst,
and that no application can be reetiveri atter that day.
By order of the Board. .... •
GF:ORGE JACKSON, Secretary.
3, Copthalbbuddings, Bank, London, 11th January, 1853.

GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND RAILWAY
ISSUE OF PREFERENCE STOCK to complete the Line.
Incorporated by 9th and 10th Victoria, c. 103, and 14th and 15th

Victoria, c. 75.

This Line, 72 miles in length, will join the Aberdeen Railway at
Aberdeen, and proceeding northward through a rich, populous, and
fertile inland district, wilt accommodate the towns of liintore, In-

verury, [hinny, Keith, and Elgin.

The present issue of stock consists of 39,000 preference shares of
101. cacti, entitled to a minimum preferential dividend of 5 per neut.
Five per cent.interest 'Mil be allowed on all sums paid in antic-
Patton of future calls, and interest warrants will be 'asued payable
balf-Y!a117,, on the 20thi day. of June and 20th any of De&ember.

Appl'cat•ons for Shares may be made to the Secretary at Aberdeen.
or the following Stock. and Sharebrokers •--Messrs. Carden and
Whitehead, 2, !loyal Exchange-buildings ; J. C. Morice, 1, Warn-
ford-conrt, London; G. and T. Irvine. 2, india.buildings, Liverpool ;
from either of whom fortas of application for shares, detailea pro-
spectus, and maps of the line may he ohmaincd.

TO CIE ii.INN, BANKERS. MANUFAC IUttERS. AND
OTHERS.
ATTENTION IS PARTICULARLY DIRECTED TO TILE
PROVIDENT CLERKS' ^ MUTUAL LIFE
ASSUIZI, NCI ASSOCIA I'ION.

Established 1340.
• • TRUSTEES.
Thomas Baring, Esq., 11'.P. W. G. Prescott, Esq.
Thomson Mulkey, ltui, Esq. I Baron L. De Rothschild, M.P.
Treasurer of the Benevolent Fund —John Abel Smith, Esq., M.P.
Every description of assurance granted with or without profits.
Annuities Immediate and Dderred.
Endowments for Children.
NINE-TENTHS of PROFITS divided amongst the Assured every
five years on Policies cf three years' standing. The last Division
was equal 1.0 33 per cent.- on the premiums paid.
Policies may be made absolutely payable to the WIDOW,
WIDOWEIto and CHILDREN of the ASSURED free of PROBATE
and LEGACY DUTY.
Loans to the full value of the policy.
Policies indisputable, except in cases of absolute fraud.
Clerks assuring with the Association will derive very great advan-
tages from the Benevolent Fund attached thereto.
Fun particulars of which may be obtained at the office, or at the
agents of the Association.
42, }tool

PHILIP HENRY BYRNE, Secretary.
rgate-street, Jan. 1, 1553.

ERITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
Established August 1, 1837.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament, 4 Viet., cap. 9.
CHAlntiax—Colonel ROBERT ALEXANDER, Blackheath Park.
ADVANTAGES OF THIS INSTITUTION.
A table of Increasing rates of premitun, especially adapted to
the securing of Loans or Debts.
Ilitlf•credit rates whereby half the premium only is payable
during the first seven years.
Sum Assured payable at sixty, or at death if occuring pre-
viously.
Orphans Endowment Branch affording the means of having
children educated and started in life, by securing annuities, to com-
mence at the parents' death, and to be paid until a son shall attain
his 21st year, or, if a daughter, her 25th year of age.

BRITANNIA MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION.
Empowered by her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent.

Annual division of profits.
I'olicy holders participate in profits after five or seven Annus
payments, according to the table selected.
Premiums calculated for every three months' difference of age.
Half credit pollcles granted on terms unusually favourable ; the
Unpaid half premiums being liquidated out of the profits..
At the Annual General Meeting on the 27th April last, a reduction
of 30 per cent. was made in the current year's premium on all partici-
pating policies.
A Board of Directors in attendance daily at Two o'clock.
Age of the as3ured in every case admitted in the policy.
Medical attendants remunerated in all cases for their reports.

(PROPRIETARY.)
Extract from the Half
Credit Rates of
Premium.

(MUTUAL.)
Extract from Table with Participation
in Profits, after seven Yearly
Payments.

PATRON—II R. 11. PRINCE ALBERT.
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
_1_11.) ENTIRELY NEW . —An and
AIUSICAL ILLUSTRATION ofEXHI "B AITION MIDSUMMEROPTICAL NIGHT'S
DREAM," the Words -from Shakspere, the Music by Horn,
Stevens, Bishop, H. Buckland, and Dr. Cooke, Mornings and
Evenings.—LECTURES by J. 11. Pepper, Esq., on the endless
AMUSEMENTS of CHEMISTRY, adapted to a Juvenile Audi-
ence; by Dr. Bachhoffner, on the PHILOSOPHY of SCIENTIFIC
RECREATION; by Mr. Crispe, on BALLOONING and the PRO-
SPECTS of AERIAL NAVIGATION, illustrated by a beautiful
Model of POITEVIN'S PARACHUTE, GREEN'S GUIDE ROPE,
DIAGRAMS, &c. DISSOLVING VIEWS, including Day and
Night Views of WALMER CASTLE, WALMER CHURCH, Stc.
Admission, Is. ; Schools- and Children under ten years of age,
half-price.

THOMAS HOOD'S GRAVE.—At a General
Meeting of the Subscribers to the HOOD MEMORIAL, held
Dec. 2d, at the Whittington Club, it was resolved that the Subscrip-
tion List be CLOSED on the Ist of February, 1853, and
Miss ELIZA COOK,
Mn. MURDO. YOUNG, and
Mn. JOHN WATKINS,
were appointed Trustees talhe Fund.

Tho amounts subscribed are dcpozited at interest in the London
and Commercial Bank.

Contributions are received by Mr. William Strudwieke, at the
Whittington Club, Strand ; by Miss Eliza Cook, Treasurer, 54,
Great Onnonde-street, Bloomsbury ; and by Mr. John Watkins,
Hon. Sec., 34,, Parliament-street.
Among the subscribers are the following :
His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, KG • • —£2s 0
Tee Right Hon. Lord John Russell, M.P ...... 5 0 0
The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P
The Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, M.P.....- 5 0 0
Sir WiTam Frazer, Bart . ... ••• • • • • • 5 0 0
James Harmer, Esq.,. ...... ..... ...... • . 5 0 0
k/ John Macgregor, Esq., M.P ...... • • 5 0 0
Arnold Rogers, Esq. •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 5 5 0
Mrs. Robert Elliot ... ••• • • ....• •••••••• • • • • •• 5 0 0
Richard Dawson, Esq., 8f.D..... •••• • • • • •• 5 0 0
George Peabody, Esq..—
Edward Moorman, E5q.......• ••••• • • • • • • • 5 0 0
David Salomons, Esq.. ••..••.. • • • • ••.. • • 5 5 0
Messrs. Spalding and •• •• .. •••• • • • • 5 5 0
Miss Eliza Cook.• •
Miss Cushman.... • ..... ••••-•••••• • • • • . • • • • • • 5 0 0
Proceeds of an "EVening with Hood" at the
Whittington Club.. • ••• • • ••• • • • 8 8 0
Muido Young, Esq., and family 4 4 0
Samugl Rogers, Esq.• ••••• • • • •• •—• ... 3 0 0
C. W. Mike, Esq... .• ••.••••••• • • • • • • •• .... 3 3 0
Charles Lushington, Esq.. ••••• • • • • • 3 0 0
Elias Davis, ESQ..• ••••••••••••• • • • • •• • • •• 3 3 0
The Right Hon. the Earl of Ellesmere 2 0 0
The Right Hon. Lord John Manners, M.P...... 2 0 0
Sir James Duke, Bart., _ 2 2 0
R. Monckton Milnes, Esq., 2 0 0
B. W. Procter, Esq., (Barry Cornwall) 2 2 0
Douglas Jerrold, Esq.... • •
T. K. Hervey, Esq. •••• • • • •
Rowland Hill, Esq., General Post-otTice 2 2 0
C. Mackay, Esq., LL.D. •
C. W. Dilke, Jun., Esq
Edward Moxon, Esq ...• •2 2 0
James Coppnck, Esq ....... .. 2 2 0
Rev. Thos. Wilkinson, Durham . 2 2 0
Collected by M. J. O'Conner, Esq., Morpeth,
Northumberland • • „ 2 2 9
Jas. Wyld, Esq., and family.... 2 0 0
Mrs. Theodora Martin (Miss Helen Faucit) 2 2 0
A few Young Men at Simpkin and Marshall's... 1 5 6
Nine half crowns from Manchester.... 1 2 6
The Right Hon. the Earl of Car1i51e......., .• 1 1 0
The Right lion. the Earl of St. Germans.— 1 1 0
The Right Hon. Lord 8r0ugham......... 1 0 0
The Right Hon. Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P. 1 1 0
The Hon. and Rev. S. G. Osborne.— 1 0 0
Alfred Tennyson, Esq. (Poet Laureate) .... 1 1 0
Lady 5andy5..........., •• _•••••• • _ •• • , „ 1 1 0
W. M. Thackeray, E5q......... • •
Charles Swain, Esq,
W. C. Macready, E:q ••. .• _• • ••.. • • •• 1 1 0
J. Westland Marston, Esq
Mrs. S. C. Hall
Albert Smith, Esq. •• .. 1 1 0
Lady Morgan •• • •
W. C M. Kent, E5q............. 1 1 1 0
Alfred Crowquill, Esq. ••1 1 0
William Jerdan, Esq.... •...
Hepworth Dixon, Esq..
Charles Gavan Duffy, Esq., M.P....
R. Swift, Esq., 1 1 0
James Macgregor, Esq., M.P..
B. Oliveira, Esq., M.P.. •• ••.•••• . • • • •• •• •• 1 1 0
W. J. Fox, Esq., M.P .
Sir John Kerle Haberfield, Knt. 'Bristol 1 1 0
Mrs Milner Gibson 1 0 0
Thomas Creswiek, Esq. 11. A •• .. 1 1 0
J. B, Buckstone, Esq.... •• .• .„ •• 1 1 0
Mrs. Fitzwilliam 1 1 0
Rev. Felix Palmer, Frierning . ...... •• • • 1 1 0
Horace Mayhew, 1 1 0
Sidney Y. Do :ell, 1 1 0
C. Cowden Clarke, ........ 1 0 0
Dr. Robert Elliot, Stratford .............. 1 1 0
Elocution Class, Walworth Literary Institution.. 1 1 0
Temple and I 1 0
Rev. J. C. Collins .......... ..... ............. 1 0 0
Eight half crowns from Preston
In pence from Bideford ...... ........
In Half-crowns, from Bristol.
In Half-crowns and shillings 0 11 0
In pence from Bristol
Jacob Brett, Esq., ••0 10 0
John L. Burnard, Esq., Bath ..... ..... 0 10 0
H. F. Lames, Esq. .
Mrs. E. L. Wilkinson .. • ........... ...• •• 010 0
Miss E. Ebsworth • .... • • ........ 010 0
Miss Mitford .............. •• • .
E. L. Blanchard, Esq .
A few Poor Needlewomen.......
Frederick Hogg, Esq. • •
W.C. Bennett. E5q..... ........ 010 0
Christopher Cook ... . 0 10 0
H. H. Whipple ............. 0 5 0
Miss Ebsworth 0 5 0
W. H. Somerton, 0 5 0
F. W. Adams ... •.. • • .... ••.. • •
E. B. Tripp ....... 0 5 0
M. Welling— •• •• •••• •••• 05 0
Charles F. Ivens 0 5 0
W. Rumsey •••• • • • •
F. O. Dowty • ....... • • ..... . • • .• •• 0
F. W. of Oxford ...... 0 5 0
In other sums ....

£394 8 5
Future subscriptions will be announced in The Times and other
papers. Every subscriber's name will appear in Eliza Cook's Jour-
nal. JOAN WATKINS, lion. Sec.

GR AVESEND STAR
PACKETS,
No other Packets call at the Grays, Greenhithe, and PUrgeet VOIR,
The Packets call at the Piers as underlined (weather permitting)

FROM TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND.

WEEK DAYS.

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