The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-03 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

Mr. J Nairne, of Warneford-court, stock-broker,
was brought up for further examination, charged
with not surrendering to be examined as a bankrupt
in the Court of BAnkruptcy at the time notified by
the L.ndon Gazette.

Mr. Lucas, the counsel for the creditors, said he
had two charges to make. Besides not surrendering
under the fiat, he was charged with embezzling three
Exchequer, bills, with which he had been entrusted
for safe custody only. Mr. Sturgeon, an innkeeper
at Hounslow, was recommended to Mr. Nairne as
one of the best men to tell how to make a safe invest-
ment of 1,0001., and Mr. Nairne advised the pur-
chase of an Exchequer•bill at 48s. premium. The
innkeeper's friend next inquired about a safe place of
deposit for such a thing, as the innkeeper lived at a
now lonely place. Mr. Nairne said there was an
iron chest in the Stock Exchange, in which he had
securities to the amount of some thousands. It would
not be negotiated, but be merely kept safe for him.
Mr. Sturgeon afterwards purchased, and deposited
with Mr. Nairne, two other bills for 7001. Eventually
Mr. Nairne absconded to France, and it was found
he had negotiated the bills.
Mr. Sturgeon and sonic other witnesses were ex-
amined in support of this statement, and then an
adjournment was granted to get further evidence.
A solicitor stated that at the next hearing he should
adduce a like charge of negotiating 2,0001. worth of
Ituesia❑ Bonds, the property of a clergyman, under
circumstances of great atrocity. They were en•
trusted to him in like manner, without authority to
negotiate them.

JONES'; OR TUB GOLDEN LECTURESHIP.—This
honourable and valuable appointment, vacant by the
resignation of the Rev. Thomas:Dale, was en Saturday
conferred on the Rev. Henry Melvill, 8.D., by the
Haberdashers' Company.
PERILOUS POSITION AND PROTIDENTIAL ESCAPE.
—'l he following graphic anecdote of Sir James Ross's
expedition has been communicated to us by one of the
parties engaged in it:—" Those who have never visited
the rocky icebound shores of Greenland, can form no
conception of our dangerous position on the evening of
the 15th and morning of the 16th of July, 1848. It
was raining and blowing fresh. We were moored to an
iceberg, and that berg drifting in a space of open water
not larger than the Grand Harbour of Malta, sur-
rounded by mountains, precipices, and glaciers ; huge
bergs drifting and closing around us from all directions,
presenting to the eye a scene of terrific grandeur. No
means of escape left us—the only passage—that by
which wo entered this sombre locality—being blocked
up with heavy ice. The berg that we were fast to began
to tumble to pieces ; we had then no alternative left
but the dangerous one of making sail, and endeavouring
to get hold of one aground. To accomplish this we had
to run the awful risk of coming in contact with some of
the numerous floating masses through which we had to
thread our way in the " wind's eye." Our vessel was
sluggish and uncertain in her movements, and had we
" missed stays " our destruction would have been inevi-
table. Ilad we been commanded by an officer of ordi-
nary experience it is hard to say what would have been
the result; but our safety was entrusted to a man firm of
purpose, and of strong nerve, who gave his orders on
this trying occasion as cool and distinct as if he had
been "tacking ship" in the middle of the Atlantic. At
five A.M. we got hold of a berg aground, and lay fast to
it in apparent safety until the afternoon of the following
day, when we let go and stood into open water, all of
us exceedingly glad that we had got out of our critical
predicament."

Moderation is the silken string running through
tho pearl-chain of all virtues.—Eliza Cook's Journal.

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.—The system of re-
duction in the Customs' department is still being carried
out with rigid economy. Among other arrangements
a diminution has been made of 15 persons in the number
of officers employed in the class of landing waiters at
the port of Liverpool ; and, as opportunities occur, re.
ductions are effected at many of the smaller ports,
which, although of comparatively small amount in each
case, will in the aggregate form an important item in
the financial expenditure. In Dublin, however, wo
understand that the requirement of the service render it
necessary to increase the existing staff of officers at that
port ; but that any new appointments which may bo
deemed necessary will be filled up by experienced offi-
cers, whose services have been dispensed with at other
ports in the United Kingdom. The situation of Collec-
tor of Customs at Sierra Leone, recently become vacant
by the decease of Mr. Logan Hoek will be filled up by
selection from the list of redundant officers whose ser-
vices have been discontinued on the abrogation of the
imperial duties in the West Indian and Nerch American
colonies. The Queen has conferred a pension of 100/,
per annum from the Civil Li A, upon Mr. George Petre.
one of the honorary secretaries of the Royal Irish Aca
dewy, who is so well known for his extensive antiquarian
researches.—Senday l'aper.
CIIRLiTMAS GEESE.—There are two poalterers in
Spalding who have now near 4,000 geese up, tattering
for the approaching Christmas. They are fed upon dry
oats, ar.d the quantity they daily consume is almost in-
credible.—Lincolnshire Chronic?e.

LEST OP SCOTTXSE COMPANIES' PIIICES
Dividend Amount '
Name of Company. per of Paid. Prioe,
Annum. Share.
£ e. d. t s. d
Bank of Scotland
British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 211
Caledonian Bank •• •• • 8 per sent. 10 0 0 210 0 31. 19
City of Glasgow Bank . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 12
Clydesdale Bank •• • • 635 per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 131.65.
Commercial Bank •• •• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 163
l'a3torn Bank.. •• •• •• 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 8%
Edlnb.&Glacgow Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 6%
Exchangeßnk of Scot 4l. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 201
!sic of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0
',rational Bank 634 per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 143
siorthof Scotland Bank 41. per cent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 31.0 s
North-British Bank . • -
Royal dank of Scotland 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 125
Unten Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 5G 0 0 85
Western Bank •• • • 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 731
Aberdeen Fire and Life 73%1.pr cent 12 10 0 2 0 0 2
B. Accord. Lite and Fire - 20 0 0 • 0 10 0 -
dritish Guarantee Ins. 41. per tent. 10 0 0 I 0 0 Its 6d
Caledonian Fire Incur. 101. pet cant. 100 0 0 10 0 0 21
Church of England Ins. 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
City of Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. Is
Edinburgh Life Insur CI. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 19
East of Scotland Life lO 0 0 015 0 96.0 d.
Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51, per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 -
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Insur. Co. of Scetlnd.• SI. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Life Assoc. of Scotland 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 11, 7s
Mercantile Life ... •
National Fire and Life b/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 208.6 d
North British Incur s3¢l.pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 23%
North & West of Scot 6l. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 -
Scottish Life and Guar 2O 0 0 0 11 0 -
Scot. Mas. and Gan. Life 0 0 0 15 0 -
Scottish Union Insrace. 6541. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 i225.6d
Standard Life ...... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 4 50 i 5%
United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 14s.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
Z. s. d. Z. I. d.
Auction Mart .••• • • .• 21. bs. 50 0 0 25
Australian Azrieulturl I/. 100 0 0 30 0 0 16
Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 4e. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
Ditto, Half Shama.. 210 0 -
Canada GI. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 26
Uppr Canada Bonds 51. per:cent. -
pity Navigation .... 90
Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.&bs.2l 100 0 of 100 0 0 -
Equitable Reversionry 51. pr cent. 100 0 0 ;100 0 0 103
Gen.SteamNavigation 11.8 s. 15 0 0 14 0 0 25
London Institution .•• 73 15 0 -
Russell Institution.. • • 26 5 0 -
Peninslr & Orient.Stm. 81. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 73%
Reversionary Int. Soc. 4341. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 90
Royal Mail Steam• • 61 18..4. p. c. 100 0 0 60 0 0 -
South Australian ....• 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 17
Van Dleman's Lund.. 100 0 0 23 0 0 9

EtY MARKETS.
'flees to-day are unchanged.
.1 s. d. 8. r.

Barley, English, pr
imperial quarter 31 0 to 32 0
Irish, Scotch, and

)Vlanx,per6olb,.. 3 0 3 4
Barley, Feeding.. 3 0 3 4
Rye, per 4801 b .. 22 0 24 0
Beans, English, pr
imperial quartr 34 0 36 0
Irish and Scotch,

per 4801 b.. .: 50 0— 31 0
Foreign, duty pd. 25 0 25 6
European, per im-
perialquarter.. 32 0 —33 0
Peas, Engllsh, per
imperial quartr 32 0 33 0
Foreign • • .. 29 0— 33 0
Malt, English, per
Imperial quartr 50 0 5G 0
Do., Irish •• 40 0— 4G 0
Do., brown • • 30 0 —5l 0
Flour, English, pr
2301 b 31 0— 35 9
Irish, extra fine.. 34 0 35 0
Muted States, per
barrel .. 23 0 26 0
(Canadian .. 23 0 23 6
iOatmeal, English,