The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-16 00:00:00

Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
--...--- - -- -
£ s. d. £ s. d.
Australasia .......... 12s. per shale 40 0 0 40 0 0 21
BritshMrth American 54. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Ceylon .. -..-- • . .• 71. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
C smmercial of London 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
C )lonial. .. • -
Gloucestershire ...• • • 151 per cent. - - -
lonian •• ••••..• • • • • • 61. par cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Londn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
Ditto
- - 13 0 0 -
Loudon Joint-Stock ... i 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 16
P:ovincialot Ireland.. , 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
Ditto, New ....• .... 8/. per cent.' 10 0 0 10 0 0 --
National of Ireland .. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 -
Sat. Provncial of Eng. j 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 3434
Ditto, New. •••.• •• Si. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 -
South Australia -- - 151. per cent. - 22 10 0 -
Union of Australia... 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
-
Ditto .• •• .... •• •• - 210 0 6/. per cent. - „ 0 0 10%
Union of L0nd0n..... 61. par cent. 50 0 0
1400 0 0
Union of Madrid ..... --L-4? 0 0
IN suiLaamr cm COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. Annum per.
of
Share. Paid. Price.
•••••••••................. ............
A e. d. 1 £ s. d.
Albion .. -•••••• •• • • 31. 10s. 500 00;50 0 0 75
Alliance lirit. and For. 71. 4s. 6d. 100 0 0; 11 0 0 18%
Ditto Marine.• ••• • • 61. per cent. 100 0 0 ' 5 0 0 -
Atlas .
British Commercial - 7s. per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 5%
Clerici,Med.&Gen.Life spr ct.& bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 19
Cdunty ••••••• • • • • . • • 31. 100 0 0 , 10 0 0 65
Crown • • ............ 14s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 -
Eagle ......
Eng.& Scot. Law •• 51. per cent. 50 0 0 212 6 -
European Life ...• • • 534 per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. IS
FamilyEndowmot Soc. 41. & bs. 100 0 0 4 0 0 -
Freemasons' .• •••• • • • 61. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 -
Glibe - 125
Gtardian •• -•••• • • -- 51. 100 0 0 36 10 0 49
Imperial Fire •••• •• • • 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 220
imperial Life •••• • • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 15
Indemnity Marino •• •• 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 -
Law Fire •••••• • • • • •• - 100 0 0 210 0 234
Law Life•• •• •• •• •• - 11. 16s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 4134
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 4%
London Fire -•••• • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15%
London Ship ..•..... 101. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15%
liarine -.-- - - - 12s.per share 100 0 0 , 15 0 0 9%
tied Invlid&Gen.Life 4341. per ct. 50 0 5 2 0 0 234
ationai Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 -
National Life.... -
Palladium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 210 s.
Pelican - - • • • • • • .. - - - - -
Paconix - - 142
Pi otector Life• •-. • -5/. per cent. 20 0 0 I 1 0 0 -
Provident Life•• -- - IL ss. & bs. 100 0 01 10 0 0 26
Rock Life .• • ... .. .... ss. 5 0 0 i 010 0 6%
',loyal Exchange V. per cent. Stock. 1 - 210
Sun Fire ....... - - - 203
Ditto Life ..... - - 44
Universal Life lO% pr cnt. 100 0 0 9 0 0 -
Vletoria Life •... - 4 0 0 4%
BRIDGES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
--- - -
A. s. d. Z. s. d.
Charing-cross .• ••.. •• - - 25 0 0 -
Southwrk,NwSub.Av. - 632 12 4 - -
Ditto Nw of 736 p.c. 355. per cent. 50 0 0 - -
Waterloo •.•••• • • • • • • - 100 0 0 - 334
Ditto Old Ann. of 81. 11. ss. 4d. - 60 0 0 27
Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11. 2s. 2d. - 40 0 0 -
Vauxhall .... .•• Av. 11. 70 10 3 - 18
DOMES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
................................ I .......................
£ s. d. £ e. d.
East and West India... 61. pr cent. Stock. - 13234
East Country •• 40s. per ale. 100 0 0 - -
London • - 110
1)Itto Bonds.• •• •• - 41. per cent. - -
Si. Katharine ........4 per cent. Stock. - -
Ditto, 5crip........ - - -
Ditto 1i0nd5........ 4541. pr cent. - - -
-
-
Southampton •• ...... , 21. per cent. 60 0 0 50 0 0 , -

Name of Company.

177 AT EU -IXir 0 ILILS .

Dividend ) Amount
per of
Annum. Skare.

Easit London.... •• •• ••
grand Junction ......
rant.......• .. •• .. ••

raid.

81.
21. 10s.
31. JOEL

X s. d.
,100 0 0
i 41 13 4
!100 0 0

£ s. d.

Lambeth 5i per cnt. 100 0 0
New Rivr Lndn Brdge 21. 108.
V.tnithall •• .. • 61. per cnt. 100 0 0
Veit Middlesex . . . 61.0 e. pr cnt.l

Price

Price

1 174
200
3/. 18

91. 7s

14%
81.04.
125)4
81
71%
2%

9s 6d

21. 7i

1834
93.00.

11.
60.
208.6 d

185.3 d

11. 18
91'
148.6 d

a
70
92

LOSS OF THE SWALLOW, GREEN-

LAND SRI?.

The brig Swallow, of Hull, Captain Lee, was on
the 24th March last, driven into a pack of ice, the
same which proved fatal to the William Ward, whose
loss was recently recorded. It will be remembered
that the survivors of the "William Ward were taken
on board of various ships. The Swallow, it seems, had
none to help her, and the way in which her whole crew
were preserved in life (although some of them have been
mutilated by the frost), while continuing at the pumps
day and night for nine weeks, appears most remark-
able. On the 21 of July she got out of the ice,
and her commander ran her on shore on Iceland,
from whence the crew were taken to Belfast and
thence to Liverpool, where those who had lost their
toes were received into the Infirmary. The mate
arrived here on Sunday last from Belfast, and was
followed two days after by the master, Mr. Thomas
Lee, jun., who had remained with the men to see
them properly attended to. It was the 6th instant
when they arrived in Belfast. All the crew were
saved. The vessel is a total loss, and had it not been
for the large number of men on board, including the
Shetland men, by means of whom they were enabled
to keep up relays of men at the pumps, the vessel
could not have been saved from sinking.
Captain Lee furnishes the following particulars
from the log :—March 19, lat. by obi. 72 06 N., 21st
and 22.1, sun obscured; 23d, sun still obscured ; saw a
great number of old seals in the water heading to the
W.S.W. Ship raching along a patch of ice to the
N. Saturday, 24th, P.M moderate breezes, and
thick snowy weather, ship retching to the southward
along the ice, in search of seals. At four, A.M., a
strong gale from the N.N.E. coming on, the topsails
were close reefed and the foresail furled.
The wind increased to. a complete hurri-
cane, with thick snow showers. The ship
was put upon various tacks, but continued to bear
down upon pack ice. At 9.30 there was a temponry
cessation of the storm, the ship being pretty quiet,
but at ten the swell broke in upon her, and she began
to strike heavily against the ice ; her warps were or
dered to be cut up for fenders, and this was imme-
diately done. The first damage sustained was the
breaking of the rudder in two or three places, by
which the ship became unmanageable. At 10.30
the ship was stove in on the starboard side,
under the main chains, and the same blow broke
two of her main beams; at eleven her star-
board bow was stove ,in, from her ice knees to the
fore chains: the water came in rapidly, and
gained upon the pumps very fast. A warp was got
• out from the starboard bow to a heavy piece of ice,
and the foresail was next set, and by the vessel forg-
ing a head, she wore round. It was most providen-
tial she did so, as had she not, she. would have been

full of water in twenty minutes. The pumps were
not sounded, but she must at this time have been half
full ; we cut her booms up for " shores" (or fenders),
and set them fore and aft on the larboard side, and
larboard bow, by which means she stood the shocks
much better ; both pumps were kept going, and the
water was gaining upon her a little. The weather
was severe, the ship like a floating iceberg, and many
of the men severely frost-bitten.
No observation had been taken since the 19th, but
the latitude was supposed to be 74 30. On Sunday
the 25th, at five P.M. (the nautical day begins at noon),
the larboard bow was stove in, and the water gaining
upon her much ; we therefore cut the masts away, and
lost four quarters of fresh beef that were hung in the
rigging; that the ship survived was a miracle. At
nine she drove out of the stream of ice, and went into
open water ; set the stunsail boom for a jury-mast, and
a topmast stunsail upon it. The cutting of the masts
away lightened the ship about a foot, but still there
were many leaks under the water, besides a hole in her
starboard bow, that we could do nothing w ith ; the water
still gaining upon us, to preserve our lives, and keep
her above water, we cut the anchors from the bows,
and put the chain cables overboard, with the whale
lines, the salt strakes, and every moveable thing we
could lay hold of. Had not this precaution been
taken she could not have survived twelve hours. At
I,ur, A.M., got the pumps to suck. The decks were
two feet thick with ice that had accumulated by pre-
vious pumpings, and many of the Shetlandmen had
given in through being frost-bitten ; as many of the
men as could be spares from the pumps were engaged
in cle_.ring the ice from the decks. At 11 A.M.
we drove into a heavy stream of ice, and
all hands that could be spared from the pumps
were attending the ship with fenders and
ice poles; we had heavy gales and thick snowy
weather to the end of /the day. 26th. The men
exhibited extreme fatigue, having bad no rest for two
days, but we kept the coppers going with plenty of
but coffee and tea for them ; " we had no spirits on
board (observes the captain), and I think they held
out much better without it." The crew were ani-

mated by the hope that they would soon fall in with
some ship, the vessel not having a whole timber in her
from the water line and upwards. At four r rd. we
drove into another stream of ice, and were more
quiet. The day closed with gales and thick snow.
On the 27th the vessel lay close beset in the ice,
but striking very heavy at times ; the
noise of water running in veryfist being
neard near the stern-post, the carpenter cut away
part of the stern-frame, and patched the leak; he
dare not cut any further, being afraid of weakening
the vessel too much. What was done eased the
pumps a little. On the 28th and 29th was similar
weather. On the 30th three men—namely, Oila
Grey, Gideon Anderson, and Peter Henderson were
in a shocking state, their frost-bitten feet being quite
dead and black. Oatmeal poultices were applied.
The same day the holes in the vessel's sides were re-
paired, by thrusting in beef, and bags of barley and
sawdust, and covering over with three thicknesses of
canvass. From the 31st, for many days and nights,
the pumps were constantly going, and the vessel close
beset in the ice.
On the sth April, the weather having moderated,
sundry repairs were done to the ship. On the 6th,
the rudder was repaired and " shipped." On the 28th
of May the ice began to open, but closed again same
day. [The entries as to pumping ship and " fodering"
here are so constant that we omit them] This day
saw the west land of Greenland, bearing by compass
N.W. N., and sixty miles distant. 29th—East
Water, beariug S.E. by S , distant four or five miles.
30th—In a stream of ice; all hands to the fenders.
June Ist—lce again opened ; all hands warping the
ship to S.E. 2d—Open water ; the watch set ; and
the sails set for Iceland. 31—The vessel makes
more water, and the sea is getting up. 4th—lceland
seen, distant about fifty miles. sth—The water
runs in through the holes under the cabin deck,
and gains upon the ship. At eight P.M. were
close in with the land, and the vessel being
in a sinking state, we ran her ashore on
a sandy beach ; there were a few houses at a
short distance, but none of the natives could speak
English. One of them was engaged to conduct the,
mate to the Governor, whose residence at Isseford was
about eight miles distant. The Governor and two other
gentlemen came down, and on the receding of the tide
surveyed the wreck, which was then delivered up to
them, and all hands left for Isseford, from whence they
were forwarded home, as above described.—Eastern
Counties Herald.

PURIFICATION OF THE THAMES BY DEEP TUNNEL-,
SEWERAGE.—AII honour should b- given to Mr. John .
Martin and others, who have been urging this point tor,
its,
importance. before the public mind was awakened to
importance. The general idea is not a new one, and for,
the purposes of the
none the worse for
that. In 1843 Mr. Tphuobmliacs is
sitt published a short
pamphlet,state of
t h
e
entitledßiverm
h "Suggestionsa esand thepr
a g
for
u e
improving
of the
Lou,
don," wherein, after pointing out the injury done by
discharging the sewers into the Thames, he says,
—" My idea is, that the best means of ob-
viating this evil would be to conduct the sewer,
drainage at once from the west and north parrs of Lon
don, by the shortest and straightest lines that can be
found, to a place to the east of the town (and perhapa
the low lands of Plaistow or Barking Level would be
the best calculated for the purpose), and there, near to
the river, to form one or more very large reservoirs
to receive the discha-ge. Very deep sewers might be
Made, of sufficient capacity to take a large quantity of
water in the most direct way, and to receive the contents
of all the sewers crossing the lines. For example : one
great line might be made to comwence at Padr
dington, going along the New-road by King's. cross
(or Battle-bridge), and there taking the Fle4
ditch; from thence, running towards the east by Isliugl
ton, passing under the new river and the canal, through
Hackney and Bromley, and passing below the river Lea
to its great receptacle. The distance from Paddingtop
by this route would be only about twelve miles, being
six miles less than the present course, which has to
travel with the river, by all its windings and
bendings, round the Isle of Dogs, and all other obstrue-
tions. Another great line might be carried along 04-
ford-street to the bottom of Holborn, where it coulld
be made sufficiently deep to take the contents Of
that part of the Fleet Ditch, and which might
be lowered from the river to run in that direc-
tion ; then to continue across Smithfield, the grounds
of the Charterhouse, along Old-street by Bethnal-
green, and so eastward, to join the great outlet. This
wouldgive an opportunity of draining many parts that
are in a very crowded state, and at present without suffi-
cient means of drainage." For the south side of Lon-
don he proposed a similar deep sewer running towards
the east, on the other side of the Thames.—Builder.

FIRE AT MESSRS. CAPELL'S DISTILLERY.—On
Saturday morning an alarming fire broke out on the
premises belonging to Messrs. Capell and Co., the dis-
tillers, of Poplar. The stock in trade being. of so com-
bustible a nature, the flames spread in a very minutes to
an immense extent. Several engines were on the spot
in a very short time, and the large float engine from the
Deptford Dockyard was also brought to bear upon the
premises, but in spite of the exertions of the firemen,
the flames could not be extingui.hed until the contents
of two -icamense oil and tar tanks had been destroye'd,
and the valuable steam machinery considerably damaged,
The fire was caused by some of the men warming a tap
to make the pitch run. Messrs. Capell, it is beliered,
were not insured.