The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-04 00:00:00

SIT AT, DECEMBER 4, 1847.

LATEST PRICES OF SHARES, IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM.
PANIES' STOCK.
From the Official List,
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENISL,
LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3.

£35,041,772 I N 4
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
1547.

and at 26s to 29s ed for damaged. Privately Native
Ceylon met with a slow sale. For auction 140 bales
Mocha, 1,500 bags Costa Rica, and 1,300 bags Planta-
tion Ceylon are declared.
Cocoa.—This afternoon at public sale 37 bags
Grenada were sold at 43s Gd for fine bright red, 42s 6d
for good, and at 40s to 41s for damaged.
TEA.—On the part of holders of Congou there is no
inclination shown to submit to any further reduction in
prices. The purchases made in all sorts have been to a
small extent, and there is a plentiful supply. The mar-
ket for Green is in a dull state, and there are sellers at
• further reduced rates, yet buyers buy with reluctance,
and there is a large quantity on offer. The public sales
went off with heaviness, and of the quantity offered,
amounting to 16,700, the small portion of only 3,100
packages found buyers, and at a decline on former rates
of 2d to 3d for Gunpowder and Imperial, mid 2d per lb
for Hyson; but other kinds, however, went at above the
previous value.
RICE.—To-day there was no improvement in the de-
. wand for Bengal Rice, and 3372 bags at auction were
• all taken in at 13s 6d for good middling white rather
dusty, and cargo at lls 6d, but damaged white sold at '
. 9s 6d to 12s 6d per cwt. By private treaty the sales
made were trifling in all kinds,
SPICES.—With Pimento the market has been better
)% supplied this week, and buyers not showing much dis-
• position to purchase, prices suffered a depression
of id per lb. At auction 565 bags were, however,
nearly all sold. Black Pepper met with less at-
- tention, and by private treaty the small parcels
ce. disposed of were at prices in favour of buyers.
For Mace the market is in an inactive state, and prices
are drooping. There are further arrivals of Nutmegs,
and on the part of shippers or the home trade little
desire is shown to do business, prices are on the de-
cline. For Ginger the market is in a quiet state, and
prices tend downwards, notwithstanding the falling off
;s1 in the supply, and the quantity to arrive being small.
At public sale 41 casks, 128 brls Jamaica were only in
part sold. Cinnamon is dull of sale.
SPIRITS.—There is a firmness on the part of holders
of Jamaica Rum, and the rates insisted upon are upon a
par with those previously current, but the home and export
demand has fallen of. Only small parcels have been
sold. Demerara met with little attention. For Lee-
ward Island the market is in an inactive state, and the
tendency of prices is downward, is 8d to Is 9d having
34 been accepted for proof. East India is rather cheaper,
and the purchases made have been trifling at is lid
proof with certificate. For Mauritius is 6d to Is 61c1
have been accepted for proof. The stock of Rum
has been further increased, but all sorts are much
ice. cheaper. The sales made in Brandy have been of little
moment by the shippers or the home trade; prices con-
' tinue on the decline. Geneva is less in request, and
prices are on the decline. For British Corn Spirits the
'4 market is firm at late rates, and the demand is active.
'% Gin fully maintains the former value.
COMINEAL.—A favourable opinion is entertained
towardes all descriptions; the rates obtained in some
• cases show an advance on those previously current of
3,6 Id per lb.
Fem.—Yesterday two large public sales were
• brought forward, consisting of 75 butts, 100 crtls, 224
' brls new Patras, part damaged, a great portion sold ;63
butts, 45 crtls, 55 barrels new Cephalonia; 12 butts, 8
36 crtls new Zante, all damaged, sold from 37s to 38s;
`3, 7,600 drums Turkey Figs from 40s to 61s, and a large
parcel of Imperial French Plums in various descriptions
of packages were all sold at very fair prices; by private
contract there has been an improved demand for all de-
scriptions of common Raisins.
;}6
Ores.—ln consequence of further reduced rates having
been submitted to for Olive Oil, buyers have been tempted
to operate with more freedom, and a good business has
: been done. There is little improvement in the worth of
Linseed. Rapeseed is held firmly. There is not much de-
mand for Cocoa Nut, and there are sellers of good and fine
at 58s to 635. Palm is offered upon further reduced
terms. For Fish Oils prices remain much the same as
4 those previously current, but there are further arrivals,
and on the part of the holders there is a desire to sell,
as the stock generally is large. For public sales on the
10th 25 tuna of Sperm, 30 tons of Southern, and 70 tuns
of Seal are declared. Southern Oil has been sought after.
TALLOW,—This afternoon, although the parcels of
Tallow offered at public sale were large, yet the demand
was good, and full rates were obtained. 222 pps 42
tee' hhds 75 brls and 302 boxes S. American were sold-
- 582 casks Taganrog 41s to 44s 9d, and 157 casks of
Petersburgh Soap Tallow mostly taken in at 42s 6d to
43s 6d.
55

% RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
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BRISTOL, DICKMI3IEIL 3.
I% STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bristol and Exeter,
195 New, 4 dis.— Great Western, Quarters, 2% p.—Ditto, New,
„ 1 5-16 p.—Midland (Birmingham and Gloucester), 119—
h Di orth Staffordshire, p.
LIVERPOOL, Dac. 3.
;14 STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The Share Market has been firm to-
r day, and prices are without alteration ; the business done.
however, has been limited, owing to but few sellers being in
dthe market. The sales are—Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe,
.
and West Yorkshire. Preference, hi c. p.—Birkenhead, Lan-
cashire, and Cheshire (late C. and a.), 271. 10s. Shares, 17,41
c.—East Lancashire, New Shares, 3 c. dis.—Glasgow and
Dumfries, 7N—Lancashire and Yorkshire (late Manchester
81 and Leeds) Fifths, p.—London and North-Western, 156
—London and South-Western, 55—Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, 10/. Preference, p.—Midland, 111%—
Ditto, New Halves, 3H dis.—North British, New Quarters,
par—North Staffordshire, Ui p.—Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and
66 Cheshire, 5 dis.—Seuth-Eastern and Dover, No. 2,4% dis.—
EeDitto, Halves, No. 4,1% dis.—York, Newcastle, and Ber-
wick.
(G.N.E.), 1 p.—Belfast and Ballymena, 11% die.
is MANCHESTER, DEc. 3.
Srocz EXcIIANOE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, 16%
6d East Lancashire, New Quarters, N, c. dia.—Huddersfield
and Manchester Railway and Canal, Thirds,dis.—Lanca-
Ye shire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 3-16 c. p.—Ditto Halves (B),
7-16 p.—London and North-Western, Quarters (A), 41A—
Ditto, Quarters (C), c. p—Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, Quarters, No. 2, la—Ditto, Sheffield and Lin-
, colnshire, 4% dis.—North Staffordshire, par—South-Eastern
and Dever, 32—Ditto, No. 4, 11% die.
BIRMINGHAM, Dac. 3.
STOCK EiCHANGE.—The sales are—North British, Ex-
tension, p.—Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley,
4 p.—Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley, PA
dis.—North Staffordshire, par—Shrewsbury and Birmingham
(A), 3 dis.—Ditto (B), 2 dis.—Shropshire Union, 2 c. die.
—Oxford, Coventry, and Burton, par.

•v. 21 Amiens and Boulogne ..• •• • •
27 Arbroath and Forfar
26 Chester and Birkenhead • ...
25 Dublin and Drogheda...... ........•
30 Dublin and Kingstown
Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen........
27 Edinburgh and Glasgow ....
27 Edinburgh and Northern
28 Eastern Counties and North Eastern..
27 East Lancashire .... ..............
21 Eastern Union ...... ..............
27 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr • •
27 Glasgow and Greenock.. •
27 Great Southern and Western • • •• • •
28 Great Western, Btc
Kendal and Windermere.• ••• • • • •
27 Lancashire and Yorkshire ....... .
26 Lancaster and Carlisle ••••••• • • • • • • •
27 Londonderry and Enniskillen •. • • • •
28 London and North Western, Sm.— • .
28 London and Blackwall ••••••• • • • •• • •
27 London and Brighton .••••••• • • • • • ••
28 London and South Western. •••• • • • •
27 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
28 Maryport and Carlisle ••••••• • • • • . • •
27 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham....
28 Midland Great Western (Irish) • ....•
27 Newcastle and Carlisle.. •• ••
28 Norfolk.. ••••••• . • • •• • •• • •
27 North British .. •.• . • • ........ .....
27 Paris and Rouen .• • •
27 Rouen and Ilavre .. ••.••• • • .• •
26 Shrewsbury and Chester
27 South Eastern and Branches •• •
26 South Devon .....• .
27 Taff Vale .......
28 Ulster .
....
28 Whitehaven Junction .......... .
27 York and Newcastle . ........ •• •
30 York and North Midland •-• • :: •.•

540
215
540
715
714

3,167

555
10,012

855
1,141
2,503
1,034
1,563
15,511

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36,689

635
7,096
6,5116
2,163

511
18,730

613
1,128

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3,272

890
2,020
1,700
2,086
6,546
2,595

8,065

647
7,106
1,061
1,797

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2,126

891
15,027

8,165

34,2G2

704
6,748
4,964
1,890

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16,157

670
185
10,817
7,22.G1

2,075
1,311
1,210
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G,697
5,83

THE HALL AND TUE HAMLET. By the Author
of " The Book of the Seasons," &e. Mt. he's new
work, " The Hall and the Hamlet," eunveys the same
faithful portraiture of English Country Life, with a
greater display of original character, that rendered so
popular his "Rural Life in England ;" and, as its title
indicates, represents the two classes of society to be
found in the rural districts, in a series of picturesque
Narratives, that combine the romance of Watteau w_itt the fidelity of Wilkie. " The Hall and The Hlet
forms a truly English book and must be a favourite both
in town and country.
We regret to learn, that Colonel C. Kemys Tynte,
has been so seriously indisposed from a rheumatic attack
that he has been prevented for some days attending his i
Parliamentary duties.

BENTLEY.
This is a capital number of Bentley, more rich in
papers of real and permanent value than perhaps any
number of the Miscellany which has yet appeared.
In the first place we have a gracefully written account
of the life and compositions of Mendelssohn, from the
pen of Miss Thomasina Ross, illustrated with a life-
like portrait of the Shakspere of music ; then we have
an interesting account of the city of Para, the first of
a series of narratives of adventures .on the banks of
the Amazon, by J. E. Warren. We have also (a
well told history of the military career of the cele-
brated Earl of Peterborough ; the conclusion of Hans
C. Andersen's biography of Thorwaldsen ; and a
" History of the Insurrection in St. Petersburgh in
1825" (illustrated by a portrait of the Emperor
Nicholas), from the pen of Charles Whitehead.
These are all papers of permanent value of great
interest, but they are all surpassed, both in value and
in interest, by " The Memoirs of Mr. Brooke,
Governor of Labuan and Raja of Sarawak," by James
Augustus St. John. The task of writing the me-
moirs of Mr. Brooke could not have been entrusted
to abler hands. Intimately acquainted with every.
thing relating to our Eastern Empire, with the
manners and customs of the various Oriental nations,
with the various treaties concluded by the Dutch for
the regulation of the commerce of the Indian
Archipelago, and with the manner in which every
one of the provisions of those treaties have been
violated by the crafty Hollander, and, above all, with
the immense resources of the islands of that Archi-
pelago, the inhabitants of which only want that
safety which can alone be secured to them by
British protection to amply develop, Mr. St.
John seems to be the man of all others
most peculiarly adapted by the previous course
of his study, and by the boldness and originality, yet
at the same time justness of his views, to understand
and do justice to the merits of the Raja of Sarawak.
He has, moreover, had access to the journals of Mr.
Brooke, and is therefore in a position to furnish the
public with information as to the career and views of
perhaps, with the exception of the Duke of Welling-
ton, the most remarkable man of his day, which can
be in the possession of no other person, and accord-
ingly our readers will not be surprised to learn that
Mr. St. John has produced one of the most valuable
and interesting memoirs that has ever appeared. We
shall not attempt to trace the career of Mr. Brooke, as
every one who can procure the Magazine will no
doubt read and study these memoirs. We cannot,
however, resist extracting the following short account
of the life which Mr. Brooke leads among his subjects
at Sarawak :
" He usually rises moderately early, crosses from his
private residence to the the opposite bank of the rivers
where he holds what in India would be denominated his
Durbar, receives deputations, hears and determines
causes, and is accessible to every man, high and low,
throughout the whole extent of his territories. The hall
of audience at Sarawak is lofty and spacious, and its ap-
pearance when thronged in the morning is highly cha-
racteric and picturesque. lii one part of it Mr. Brooke
is engaged, perhaps, in conducting a trial for life and
death, surrrounded by the impetuous natives, with their
swarthy countenances and flashing eyes, habited in almost
theatrical costumes, and armed every one of them with
a formidable kris or dagger. Even criminals of rank are
suffered to wear these weapons till sentence of death has
been pronounced, when they quietly deliver them up,
and suffer themselves to be led to the place appointed
for theirexecution, where, in the presence of their friends
and relatives, and all other who may take any interest,
they are dispatched by a single blow of the kris; when
affairs of less moment are transacting, the natives, sepa-
rated into groups, disperse themselves through the
apartment, and discuss public or private affairs, accord-
ing to their taste. People, meanwhile, are entering and
quitting the hall, some with merry faces because their
wishes have been complied with, others, perhaps, look
sullenme or dejected because they have encountered disap-
pt.
" The assembly breaks up at twelve, and Mr. Brooke,
returning to his house, spends several hours in his li-
brary, where he keeps up his acquaintance with the
sciences and literature of Europe, or studies the laws and
customs of the various populations of the Archipelago.
He then dines with the members of the small European
society which he has collected around him, and spends
the evening in their company. Towards midnight he
retires, and again devotes an hour or two to study. This
course of life, regularly pursued, will account to those
who know him for the variety of his acquirements and
the extent of his knowledge, which they otherwise per-
haps maybe unable to comprehend. It should be added,
that unless when in his library, he is at all times accessi-
ble to anybody, native or stranger; and that even during
meals groups of Malays and Dyaks are constantly to be
seen in his house, the doors of which are open from
morning till night. It is easy after this to understand
the attachment of the people to their ruler, whose cha-
racter and manners contrasts so strikingly with those of
the native chiefs.
Cooper's novel of " Captain Spike" seems drawing
towards a conclusion. In the number we have an
account of the wreck of the S wash on a coral reef, in
endeavouring to escape from the Poughskeepie, and
of the endeavours of Spike and his crew and passen-
gers to escape in the boat. " Brian O'Linn, ' is con-
cluded, but the imaginings of the novelist are far
surpassed in interest by the realities of the extraordi-
nary career of Mr. Brooke, as narrated by Mr. James
Augustus St. John.

FLOODING OF A COLLIERY.

FEAFL OF LIFE
A few weeks ago we gaveLOSS the particulars Of the break-
ing in of the roof of some ol
dcoal mines at Wigan,
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visited
by heavy and constant rain, and d
about s?veangaoi'nclovciklirt
the evening the river was much swollen, and had over-
flowed its banks in several places. At the beck of
Messrs. Eccles's mill, in a field adjoining the river, the
chasms formed by the former flood, unfortunately re-
mained open, and a torrent of water poured into them.
The first rush of the water into the hollows was met
by the air with such force, that a fountain stream, se-
veral yards high, was raised in the air for some time.
The water continued to pour into the mines during the
night, and after flooding nearly the whole of the pits on
the same level, it burst open the protection walls built
(to keep out the water) in the shafts leading to deeper
pits, and was thrown into the latter a depth of one
hundred and thirty yards below the mines previously
flooded. In one of these, the lower Patricroft Colliery,
worked by Messrs. William Lancaster and Com-
pany, and situate about half a mile from where the water
entered from the river, there were four men and two
boys working for the night, and twelve horses, most of
them were also in the pit. Several attempts were
getitohdh down
fearful
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the
bottom.erfeudu,uwdmhiaimac he
immediately to-
entered,
The
alioresssnid•baelssecatelosnodgievnetgrby:impure, and it was with great difficulty
any person could breathe in the shaft. The cages used
in bringing up the men were set in motion, and kept at
work above two hours, but there was no signal from the
bottom •, nor was it believed, if the parties were then
alive, that any Successful attempt could be made to
approach the shaft and
enter the cages. If the water
had broken in at this pit during the day, it is an almost
certainty that
llnen
it fro immenseee sacrifice of life would have
been the consetiu
RI 2
jci to
300 there being regularly engaged in
colliers and drawers ; and in several
other pity where
the water has broken in, had
the rap% been at their work, they would, doubt-
less. lave shared a similar fate. From the mo-
ra e'.it of the water first entering, and being
rairled, along with large quantities of bricks, coal,
and other material, to such a depth, all chance of escape
must have been cut off, for if not drowned, it is believed
all must have been suffocated. The following are the
names of the supposed sufferers, all the men, it will be
seen, being married ; and each party having a numbered
lamp, there is no doubt of the list being correct :—John
Rutter, jun., and John Rutter, sen., who has left a widow
and five children ; Matthew Bates, has left a widow and
six children ; Thomas Rock., has left a widow and three
children ; John Sherry has left a widow, but no children;
Michael Underwood, a boy. The water continued to
pour in during the whole of the day, and, of course, no
idea can be formed of the time it will take to clear the
mine, so that the bodies of the unfortunate colliers can-
not be got out ; it is believed by all that it will occupy
several weeks. The company have a one hundred-horse
engine, which has been set to work, and every available
effort will, we are assured, be made to pump out the
water with as little delay as possible. Thirteen coal-
pits are said to be closed by this inundation.—Liverpool
Mercury.