The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-29 00:00:00

EXAMPLES

Bonus Bonus in 'l' g Assured
K2' m Premium.
; added. Cash. z may
Borrow.
1837 £217 15 1 XlOO 011 £l6 0 4 X 445 0 0
Xd. 1838 192 3 01 87 1 4 13 10 2! 395 11 1
601000 3 4 1839 165 11 10, 74 1 9 11 3 1 346 2 3
1840 116 7 6 54 010 718 10, 296 13 4
1841 111 6 8; 49 10 0 710 41 247 4 5

The division of profits is annual, and the next will be made in
December of the present year.
F. FERGUSON CAMBOUX, Secretary.

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Sold in bottles, price 25.9 1., with directions for using it, by al
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WRECK OF THE STEAMER
LONDONDERRY.
On Friday the non-arrival of the steamer Scotia, Cap
tain Cumming, which should have arrived here from
Campbelton at half-past eleven A.M., but did not make
her appearance until about seven P.M., occasioned con-
siderable anxiety, such an irregularity never having
before occurred. On nearing the harbour, her decks
were observed to be literally packed with people, in .
every costume. These were soon discovered to be Irish-
men. bound for the harvest ; but how they came to be
on board the Scotia could not be easily conjectured. On
her arrival, however, we were informed. by Captain
Cumming, that they were part of the passengers of
the steamer Londonderry, from Lond'enderry to Glas-
gow, which ran on some, rocks opposite to Kiell House,
near the Mull of Kintyre, about half-past eleven on
Thursday evening. After various endeavours to back
the Londonderry off. the rocks, the boats were got
out, some of the passengers landed, and an express
for assistance was dispatched to 'Mr. Watson, Lloyd's
agent at Campbelton. He immediately engaged
the Scotia. and at a little after four o'clock the
steam was got up, and she proceeded to the wreck. The
water in the boilers of the Londonderry having been let
off, to lighten her, for many hours persevering attempts
were made to tow her into deep water ; but the tow
ropes were broken, and the attempt proved futile. Im-
mediately after high water, finding all efforts useless,
the Scotia was put alongside the Londonderry, and be-
tween five and six hundred male and female passengers,
who had been already thirteen hours on the wreck, were
taken off. The Scotia then proceeded to Campbleton, to
take up her own passengers, and arrived here shortly
after seven o'clock in the evening. Captain Cumming
stated that his Irish passengers were most orderly,
obeying his instructions with alacrity and cheerfulness.
The last train for Glasgow having departed a few minutes
before the arrival of the steamer, the agent (Mr. T.
Steele) proceeded to the residence c Mr. Smythe,
manager of the railway—at present residing in Ayr for
the benefit of his health—and through him and Mr.
Young a special train was obtained for the conveyance
of the reapers to Glasgow, where they would arrive
shortly before ten o'clock. While the train was prepar-
ing—for which every description of carriage had to be
pressed into service--the steps and the street in front of
the depot presented• a curious scene. The crowd em-
braced men and women of every description, arrayed in
every variety of fashion, and armed with that potent in-
strument in peace, the reaping-hook. Hunger, too, was
seen engaged in active war with kitch enless loaves, that
the bakers' shops readily supplied for mites of money.
About one hundred, who had got ashore in boats, were
left in Kintyre. As the night and day were calm, no
lives were lost. We learn from a private letter, that
after being lightened of part of her goods, and the night
tide proving a better one than the day tide, the London-
derry was got off, and taken to Greenock.—Ayr Observer.

A STRANGE MISTAKE.—A few days ago, while a
number of persons were engaged at harvest work in a field
near Belford, the steward put off his waistcoat to assist in
binding, and placed it on the top of some sheaves, following
the reapers down the field in the usual come of their work
till they were quite out of sight of the clothes. Two per-
sons, a mason and his wife, who were going to employment
on the railway, as they were travelling along the road ad-
joining to the field observed one of the " navvies" go over
the fence into the corn-field, strip off his own waistcoat,
put on the one lying on the sheaves,
nano instantly run off at
a quick pace. The two persons fmed the reapers of
what had taken place, and on coming to the spot where the
waistcoat had been left, the steward found a ragged article
lying in its place, and, being afraid to touch it with his hands,
took it up on the point Gf a sickle, and was dangling the
rags about to the amusement of his fellow-labourers, when,
to his great surprise, three sovereigns fell out of one of the
pockets, and this of course reconciled him. to what he at first
thought a worthless exchange, and checked the jeering and
sport of his companions. A short time after the discovery of
the money, the poor" navvy" returned with a penitent look,
imploringly lamenting his mistake ;" bat he was told he
had the bargain of his own making, and be must now keep
what he had got,—.Newcastle Advertiser
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