The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-02 00:00:00

~,Cbjrb Wbitton

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

-.!,ERIOUS ACCIDENT on the GREAT
NORTH OF ENGLAND LINE.
(FROM ♦ CORRESPONDENT.)

DURHAM, THURSDAY, JAN. 1, 1846.—This morning
e very serious accident occurred upon the above lime,
find as momentous consequences to the public may arise
from a correct information of the cause of the accident,
I will give you a few particulars below. I left York
this morning at a little before ten o'clock, a.m.,
and on arriving at the Thirsk station the train was de-
tained some minutes, in consequence of the overturning
of an experimental train which had preceded the one
in which I was a passenger. For some days engineers
have been working experimental lines on the Great
North of England line, and on that portion between
Thirsk and Northallerton more particularly, to test the
actin amount of speed that could be attained. This
morning a new engine was brought out, drawing car-
ri..es weighted, I understand, to seventy tons, and at half-
p4A nine o'clock, away went the train like an arrow,
reached Thirsk station in safety, when the speed was
increased to the greatest momentum, and when about
400 yards beyond the station, a gentleman who was
standing on the bridge observed a violent oscillating
motion, which increased every yard, until the engine was
fairly rocked over, thrown upon her broad side against
a slight cutting, upon which some of the carriages were
thrown, and all more or less damaged. I observed one
of the solid beams one, which had seemingly been shivered
with as much ease as one might break a reed ; the front
wheels of another had been carried away, and her buffers
tilted up and driven through the side of another. The
shock had been fearful, and yet the engineers, most pro-
videntially, escaped injury ; one man only, the poor
fireman, was thrown on his head upon the opposite
rails, and so seriously injured that, when I left the sta-
tion, he was not expected to survive very long.

LATEST PRICES OF SHARES
IN BANKS, ASSURANCE. AND OTHER COM-
PANIES' STOCK.

From tie Official List,
::ÜBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENT .VG•
LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2.
JOINT-STOCK BANNS.

' Dividend Amount
..
.N ems of Company, i per ef Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
---- ____ -_-- ----
1 A s. . X s. d.
A.. trala.sia • • ........ 6/. per cent. 40 I 40 0 0 26%
tsh North American 4/. per cent. 50 0 50 0 0 46
i 'urnmercia of London 51. per cent. 100 0 20 0 0 21U
51. per cent. 100 0 25 0 0 15%
Londn and Westininstr 6/. per cent. 100 0 20 0 0 26
i.ondon Joint-Stock .•• 61. per cent. 50 0 II 0 0 14%
Metropolitan ••.•• • • • • - 25 0 7 10 0
Provincial of Ireland.. Si. per cent. 100 0 25 0 0 45%
Ditto, New. ••• • • ... 81. per cent. 10 0 10 0 0 17%
I.ational of Ireland .. 51. per cont. 50 0 20 0 0 19%
''-';et. I'rovncial of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 35 0 0 36
Ditto, New......... 51. per cent. 20 0 10 0 0
Union of Australia.. .. - 25 0 25 0 0 24%
Union of L0nd0n..... Si. per cent. '5O 0 10 0 0 12
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
ame ef Company, per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
A s. d. £ s. 6.
Aiblon ••.•••. • • • • • • • 3/, ins 500 0 0 50 0 0 74
thence grit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 II 0 11 0 0 20
Ditto Marine. ••• • .. 61. per cent, 100 0 0 5 0 0 6%
Atla . 13s. 6d. pr sh• 50 0 0 5 0 0 16
British Commerekil .. 7s.per share 60 0 0 5 I 0 7%
ClerieLlied. SD Gen. Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 210 1 6%
County ••••••• • • • • • • • 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0
9s. and 1
Crown •.••••• • • • • • • • f 61. ss. bs. J 40 0 0 5 0 0 -
Eagle .. • .... ..... .... 6s. 50 0 0 i 0 0 5%
Economic Life. .••.. • • 5'5 per ct.,}
1000 0 0 250 0 0
C & 30s.bs.
En 4. & Scot, Law ••• • • • 51• per cent. 50 00! 2 0 0 3
European Llfe ••• • • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20
Freemasons' .. •••• • • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0
Globe • 61. per cent. Stock. - 142%
Guardian •.•••• • • • • • • 5/. per cent. 100 0 0,36 10 0 51
Imperial Fire •••• • • • • 121. per cent. 500 0 0f 50 0 0 240
Imperial Life ........ 12s. 100 00110 0 0 16%
Indemnity Marine, - • 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 29
Law Life- ••••• • • • • • 11.5 c. 100 0 0 10 0 0 10
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 6%
London Fire ........ 10s. 25 0 0,12 10 0 15%
London Ship ........ 108. 25 0 0112 10 0 15%
:Marine .. ••••• • • • • 51. per cent. 100 00115 0 0 10%
31,(1.1n vlid & Gen. Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 3
National Loan Fund • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2%
National Life ••••• • . • • 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 9%
Palladium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 21. 2s.
Plicenix ••• • • ..... •• • • 3/. p. ct. & bs. - - 210
Protector Life.. •.. • . . 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11. 3s.
Provident Life • . ..... • 11. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24
Rock Life.. •
Royal Exchange 5l. per cent. Stock. - 180
run Fire ......... • . - -
Ditto Life..... - - 16
Universal Life
Or SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES.
/-"-- Dividend Amount
Name of Company. I per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
A s. d. A s. d
Bank of Scotland
Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 6 165
British Linen Company 8P per cent. - 100 0 0 225
Commercial Bank .. • . 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 166
National Bank • ..... • • 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 15%
Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr cent. - 50 0 0 98%
Western Bank - 50 0 0 84%
North of Scotia Bank 61• per cent. - 5001 7 7,
Clydesdale Bank ... • . 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 14%
Eastern Bank - 10 0 0 11%
Caledonian Bank ... • • 7%1. pr cent. - 210 0 , 6
Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 6/. per cent. I - 5 0 • 1 74
, 'ity of Glasgow Bank. Si. per cent. - 815 0 1 15
. cottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. j2O 0 0 1 0 0 1 11A
: 'rcules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 1100 0 0 10 0 0 '14%
stir. Co. of Scetlnd - 51. per cent. 'lO 0 0 All paid. 10
rth British Lew... 5% /. pr cent. 200 II 0 10 0 0 28%
'edonlan Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24%
,nbureh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 19%
An. & 0 lasg. Railway 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 65
! dtto, 14' Shares ..
- lin, , Leith, & Grantn - 20 0 0 20 0 0 21 %
tip, At Ayrshir Rail. 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid, 70
;gee & Greenck Mil. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 21
. ,gw& Garnkirk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 AU paid. 45
. ,dee & Arbroth Rail. 6/. per cent. ,25 0 0 All paid. 35%
-• •-,,clard LifeAssernce,i 51 per cent. 150 0 0 I 2 10 0 8

DOCKS.

ame of Company.

Dividend Amount
per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.

X s. d,

4 s. d

° )nnnercial •• • •
Ist and West India
,tst Country ••.• • • •

135 4

radon ...... • 41;4/. pr cent. Stock.

L Katharine • • S- per cent. stock.
bo tulainpton • • •• • • 4/. per cent. 50 0 0

50 0 0

CANALS.

115
1063(

Names of w .Dividend Price Names of g Dividend'
.
Companies•
eg per Companies. per Price.
cn Annum. Annum.
1
.£
Ashtn & Oldh' 97 51.55. p e 72 sfonmouthsh 100 Di 160
Ashby-d-la-Z 113 41. 70 Mntgotnrysh 100 51. 98
Ilan-Bier •• • . ,160 121. 180 _Macclesfield . 100 - 96
Ilasingstoke.. 100 - - Neath 100 201, 365
Brknk&Abrg 150 51. 85 Nottingham. 150 121, 260
C rom lord .. • • 100 181. 150 Peak Forest. 78 31, 40
Dudley...... 100 41. - Regent's •• • • 33 11. 263 t
Derby• • 100
81. 103 Rochdale,,,. 85 41. 54
•• • ,
.Ellsuire&Chs 133 41. 80 Shropshire 125 81. -
Erewash ... 'lOO 321. 300 Somrset Coal 150 71, 101. 123
Torth & Clyd 100 41. - Do.Lk Fd St 12 6/. p, a, 11
GrAndJanetn 100 71. 100 Stlird & Wore 140 281. 440
Grand Union 100 11. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 125 151. 230
olamoroish . 172' 13321. 210 Stourbridge 145 201. -
tßstr & utitlylloo - j - Strtfrd on Av 79 11. 1011. -
Grantham .. 1501 121. 100 rievern and
kluadersheld.. 26 11. 85.
57,
;7, 20 Wye 1181 i,
Kennt & Avu, 73. 64, 22 Trnt & .11r- kri ani
I.aneaster • 47, it, -
Leeds& Livrp 100; 341. 40 icy. sh.
Leicester . - 140', 101. 512055 TbaWormsestkr 3Scred,' 7819 47. 10
I,eicstr &Nth 53, 41. 6249
I,onglibereghll42: 'lOl. $5O -`ruunk.l
Wllts & llrksl 67 11. 4s. 11
W.A.TER,llroipacs
Dividend Amount, ,
:Name of Company. per of r.,.
Annan. Share. , Price*

East London...• .. • • ••
Grand Junction • • • • .•
Kent ....

X s, d.

21. 103.

100 i 0
46 13 4 -100 0 0 -
100 0 0 -
63 12

LNGE—(THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar.... •.. • ..... • •
Leghorn
Genoa .• 26 W
Milan • ..... -
Naples .. 40
Palermo, per oz 1193
Lisbon 523
0p0rt0....... s2f
Rio Janeiro 24
IBahia ........-.-
Buenos Ayres
NewYork,2ldyssight
Philadelphia
PatlCEa OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold, bars..£3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17
New Poubluons..... 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 93
Silver in Bars 0 4 113

Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Henry Cloete,
Esq., to be Recorder for the district of Natal.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Donald
Moodie, Esq., to be Secretary to Government for the district
of Natal.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Hougham
Hudson, son., Esq., to be Civil Commissioner and Resident
Magistrate of Albany, in the settlement of the Cape of Good
Hope.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Hougham
Hudson, jun., Esq., to be Secretary to the Lieutenant Gover-
nor of the Easters districts of the settlement of the Cape of
Good Hope.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Charles Bell,
Esq., to be Assistant Surveyor-General for the settlement of
the Cape of Good Hope.
Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint S. P.
Fairbanks, Esq., to be her Majesty's Treasurer for the pro-
vince of Nova Scotia.

Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Dorsetshire.
Sir W. C. Aledlycott, Bart., to be Deputy Lieutenant,
Dec. 27.

Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire.
The Right Hon. A. Viscount Valentia to be Deputy
Lieutenant; G. A. F. Viscount Villiers to be Deputy Lieu-
tenant ; Charles Lane, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant ;
J. H. Ashhurst, Esq., to be ditto; L. Pickering, Esq., to be
ditto; H. Baskerville, Esq., to be ditto; M. Ricardo, Esq.
to be ditto ; H. W. Dashwood, Esq., to be ditto ; Dec. 29.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Wigtown.

R. V. Agnew, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant, Dec. 20.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Lancashire.
First Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
R. P. Dawson, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Attwood, de-
ceased, Dec. 27 ; J. F. Slegg, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice
Borrow, deceased, Dec. 31.
WHITEHALL, DEC. 29.

The Right Honourable Sir Nicalas Conyngham Tindal,
Knt. Lord Chief Jurtice of her Majesty's Court of Common
Pleas, has appoirted Thomas Yarrall Johnson Daily, of
Arundel, in the coun4y of Sussex, Gent, to be one of the
Perpetual Commiseioners for taking the acknowledgments
of deeds to be executed by married women, under the Act
passed for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and for the
substitution of more simple modes of assurance, in and for
the county of Sussex.
WHITEHALL, DEc. 24.
The Right Hon, Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal, Knt.,
Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas,
has appointed James Winter, of the city of Norwich, Gent.,
to be one of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the ac-
knowledgments of deeds to be executed by married women,
under the Act passed for the abolition of fines and recoveries,
and for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance,
in and for the city of Norwich, and county of the same city,
also in and for the county of Norfolk.
BANKRUPTS.
James Coe, Sise-lane, money scrivener, Bucklersbury,
London, Jan. 15, at half-past one, and Feb. 20, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy, London. Whitmore, official
assignee, Easinghall-street ; Buchanan, Basinghall-street,
London.
Edward Eedle, bookseller, Chancery-lane, London, Jan.
:3, at half-past twelve. and Feb. 20,iat twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy, London. Pennell, official assignee, F -
nival's-inn, Holborn ; Shaw, Furnival's-inn, Holborn.
(George Seagrave Neale, innkeeper, Portsea, Hants, Jan.
13, at one, and Feb. 13, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Low, Chancery-lane,
London ; Low, Portsea.
Daniel William Lucas, hemp dealer, Mark-lane, City,
Jan. 14, at two, and Feb. 13, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place,
Old Jewry.; Bolton, Merriman, and Dunning, Austin-friars.
Henry Le Jeune, malteter, St. Alban's, January 14, at
half-past one, and Feb. 11, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street buildings;
Laurance and Plews, Bucklersbury.
Robert Headington, laceman, Bath, Jan. 16, at twelve, and
Feb. 10, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan,
official assignee, Liverpool ; Chester and Co., Staple Inn,
London ; Tyrer, Liverpool.
Charles Barber, calico printer, Brindle, Lancashire, Jan.
13, and Feb. 10, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court ;
Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Chisholme, 11 all, Gib-
son, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London ; Gibson, Manchester.
Thomas Carey Williard Pierce, merchant, Manchester,
Jan. 15, at eleven, and Feb. 5, at twelve, at the Manchester
District Court, Hobson, Manchester, official assignee; Abbott,
Charlotte-street, Bedford-square, London, Atkinson and
Saunders, Manchester.
PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, the
produce of the British possessions in America, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending Dec. 30,
1845, is 375. 3d. per cwt.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From this Night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria,
cap. 32, for the Week eliding on Saturday, the 27th day of
December, 1845.

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Votes issued

Government debt 11,015,100
Other securities... 2,984,900
Gold coin and bul-

lion .. 11,189.484
Silver bu11i0n..... 1,582,026