The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-04 00:00:00

INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
---
£ 5. d. £ 5. d.
Albion .. ••..••• • .• - 31. 10s. 500 0 0 50 0 0 86
Alliance Brit. and For. 71. 145.6d.b5. 100 0 0 11 0 0 21
Ditto Marine. •• •• •• 61. p.c.& bs. 100 0 0 25 0 0 4234
Atlas .•• .. .. .. ..... .. 135.6 d. 50 0 0 510 0 1734
Argus Life ••.•• • • •• 41. per cent. 100 0 0 16 0 0 -.-
British Commercial - 75. 6d. 50 0 0 5 0 0 7
Cleriel,Med.& Gen. Life spr ct.&bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 28
County .............. 41. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Crown ••••..•• • • • • • • 145. 50 0 0 5 0 0 15
Eagle •• •• ••
Eqity and Law •• 434 per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 434
European Life •••• • 105. 20 0 0 All paid. 12
General ............ - 5 0 6 „ 5%
Globe • .. • ... 61. per cent. Stock. 133
Guardian • • .... ••• • • • 51. per cent 100 0 0 45 0 0 55
Imperial Fire .. •• .. •• 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 245
Imperial Life ........ 125. 100 0 0 10 0 • 18
Indemnity Marine.. .• 11. sh. lc es. 100 0 0 20 0 0 48
Lsw Fire ••••••• •• •• U.& 25. bs. 100 0 0 210 0 3%
Law Life •..... .. .... - 100 0 0 10 0 0 46%
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 4%
London Fire .......• 105 & be. 25 0 0 12 10 0 20%
London Ship ••.•• • • •• 105. & bs. 25 0 0 12 10 0 20%
Marine .. •-•.• • • • .. 15s.per share 100 0 0 15 0 0 153(
Medanvlid&Gen.Life 4341. per ct. 50 0 0 20 0 2%
Monarch .• • ... ...... - 5 0 0 1 0 0 19s.
National Lean Fund" 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2%
Palladium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
Phcenix - - 160
Professional Life....... 51. per cent. 6 5 0 010 0 175.6 d
Provident Life •• .. .• • • 11.55. & bs. 'lOO 0 0 10 0 0 30
Rock Life ••• • • • ...... 55. 50 0 010 0 6%
Royal Exchange 6l. p.ct. k be. Stock. all 221
inn Fire. - „ 209
Ditte Life .. - 48
United Kingdom
Universal Life lO% ct.fkbs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Victoria Life.... - 412 6 534
BRIDGES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company, per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
---„- - -
X. a. d. X. s. d.
Hungerfori.. • • • • •• •• - - - 15
Southwrk .......... - 100 0 0 - -
Ditto Nw of 734 p.c. 705. per cent. 50 0 0 - 16
Waterloo .. .. •••. •• .. - 100 0 I - 3
Dittn Old Ann. 0(81. 21. Bs. Od. - 60 I 0 2434
Ditto Nw ditto 0f.71. 21.25. Od. - 40 0 0 22
Vauxhall .... .• • Ay. 21. 70 10 3 - 18
WATER-WORKS.
I Dividend Amount
Name of Company. I per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
---
4 s. d. £ s. d.
East London..• •••• • • • 81. per cent. 100 0 0 - 151
Grand Janction .• •• •• 41. per cnt. 50 0 I - 69
tent.-- ...• ••• • • • 41. per cit. 100 0 0 - 80
Lambeth •••••••• •• • • Si. per cnt. 100 11 0 - 97
New River Company.. 21. 103. - - 60
Vauxha11'............ 51. per cut. 100 0 0 - 97
West Middlesex • . • 61. Os. pr cat. - - 106
---
DOORS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
._ - -
£ a. d. £ s. d.
Commercial •••• .. •... 41. pr cent. Stock. - 8534
East and West Ind' a ... 61. pr cent. Stock. - 143
East Country ••.•• • • . 205. per sh. 100 0 0 - -
London .... • .••• • .• 151. pr cent. Stock. - 119
Ditto 80nd5........ 41. per cent. - - -
Bt./Catharine ........ 334 per cent. Steck. - 81
Ditto Bonds •• .... • • 4541. pr cent. - - -
Southampton ........ - 50 0 0 BO 0 0 -
0A.Z.A.31.111.
.;
..; 'Dividend
Names of 4,.. Dividend Names of 11;ppond=nd
Companies. Companies. , per Companies. A (Annum. Price.
sc Annum. m
£
X
Ashtn ft Oldh 98 71. p. et. 141 Macclesfield . 100' 21. 10s. 50
Barnsley.. • • 160 - - Neatk ••• • • • 100 161. -
BrknkicAbrg 150 51. 85 Oxford.. •• • • 100 •13!. 135
Birmingham 40 41. 9334 Peak Forest. 78 U. 18s. 70
Ceventry.. • • 100 251. 200 Regent's •• • • gg • 11. 35. -
Derby .•• • • 100, 61. 63 Rochdale.... 25 21. 42
Ellsmre&Chs 69 2% p. ct. 3534 Somrset Coal 152 - -
GrandJunctn 100 31. pr. ct. 4534 Do.Lk Fd St 12 - -
Do.. 6 pr. Ct. 10 61. pr. ct. 113 L Stffrd &Wore 140 281. 405
Grand Surrey 100, 21. Os. 3234 Shrewsbury.. 125 - -
Grand Union 100. 11. 10s. 24 Stourbridge.. 145 201. 290
Kennt& Axil 39 4s. OA. 5% Severn and 21.05. 24
Lancaster . 100 - - Wye Bail. 1 26
Leeds& Livrp 100 201. 405 Warwick& 1
Leicester.... 100, SI. 66 Rirming.
.1 100 41. 40
Leicstr &Nth 811 41. 44% Warwick& I
100 31. 28
Lou ghboregh 142 701. 510 Napton.
Monmouthsh 100 - - Worcstr ii
78 31. 83
B(ntgemrysh 100 - - , Birming.
Meltn.Mwbry 100 - - Wilts k Erks - Ils. 6d. 7%

CFA.S•amIGHT AND CORE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount '
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
---- ---I- -
X. s. . Z. 11. d.
British •••••• - - - - 11. 40 0 18 0 0 11%
Ditto Provincial- - 11. 88. 20 0 20 0 0 18%
Brighton ............ 51. 20 0 - -
City of London ...... 61. 190 0 150 0 0 130
Continental Corisolidat. 505. 75 0 31 5 0 39%
Equitable- .......... 505. 50 0 50 0 0 2734
Imperial .• .......... 31. 50 0 50 0 0 70
Independent ......... 61. 40 0 40 0 0 46
London• • ............ - 50 0 50 0 0 --
- 50 0 50 0 0 -
Do., rani. Preference 61. 25 0 710 0 -
Phcenix .•• .......... 41. 50 0 49 9 0 27
Ratcliff ..... ........ 51. 100 0 90 0 0 -
United General ...... 11. 50 0 50 0 0 1634
Westrainster Chartered 31. 50 0 - 44x6
Ditto, New .... -.. 12s. 50 0 10 0 0 834
LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
- --- -_ -- --•
£ s. d. £ s. d
Bank of Scotland
British Linen Company 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 201
Caledonian Bank
City of Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 1134
Clydesdale Bank -.. •• 634 per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 1274
Commercial Bank - - 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 176
Eastern Bank .. -•• .• 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 10
Edinb.&olll.sgow Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 4
Exehangeßnk of Scot.. 4/. per cent. 100 0 0 42 0 0 8
National Bank 634 per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 15
North of Seotlandßank 5/.percent. 20 0 0 210 0 2;74
Royal Bank ofScotlaid 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 134
Unionßank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 92
Western Bank.. -
Alliance Fire and Life 434 /.pr cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 2136
British Guarantee
Caledonian Fire Incur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 28
City of Glasgow Life 6l. per cont. 25 0 0 2 0 OU. 15s
Colonial Life
Edinburgh Life Insnr. 61. percent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 21%
Eng.& Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 N
Life Assoc. of Scotland 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 10 0 31. 15s
National Fire and Life Si. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 8 i255.6d
North British Insur 6l. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 ' 27
SCOttishUnionlnsrnee. 6541. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 9 285.6 d
standard Life -•• ... • 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 7 0 0 , 1234
United Dep.Assurance 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 175 9d
MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount
1 IName of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
--------- -
X. a. d. X. a. 4.
Assam Tea ••..•• • • •• - 20 0 0 20 0 0 9
kuctien Mart •••• • • • • 21. 58. 50 0 0 - 2634
instralian Agriculturl 11. 100 0 0 30 0 5 16
Australian Trust •• .. 6/. per cent. - 85 0 0 20
knglo-Mexican Mint.. It. 10s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 2436
Ditto, Half Shares.. - - 210 0 -
British American Land - - 38 10 0
Canada ... •..... .... 61. per cent. ,100 0 0 32 10 0 49
Do. 5 per cent onds - - -
Ditto, 6pr ct. Bonds 61. per"cent. - - ins
City Navigation Bonds 3i per cent. - - 95
Gen. Revers. & Invest. 5 p.c.&bs,2l 100 0 0 100 0 0 95
Equitable Reverslonry 5l pr. cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 10734
Ditto Yew ........ - 50 0 0 710 0 _
Gen.SteamNavigation 10 p.ct. 15 0 0 14 0 0 2734
Hudson's Bay ........ - Stock. - 206
Hungerford ........ „ 21. 55. - 100 0 0 47
London Institution ... - - 78 15 0 6k
Now Zealand Company - 25 0 0 25 0 0
_-
Ditto, New ........ - 25 9 0 12 10 0 -
Russell Institution.... - - 26 5 0 -
Peninslr&Orient.Stm. 81. p. c.&bs. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Reversionary Int. Soc. 4341. pr cent. 100 0 0 1100 0 0 100%
Royal Mail Steara•• - 41. p. share. 100 0 0 60 0 0 80
South Australian ..... ii. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 23%
Van Dieman's Land. - 100 00129 0 0 1

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, Dsc. 3.

STOCK ExcuANGE.—The share market was rather de-
pressed to-day, and prices had a downward tendency. The
transactions were as follow :—Bristol and Exeter, 79--Great
Western, 831/2—Midland Stock, 531,4.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 3.
STOCK Excularoz.—The share market was scarcely so
good to-day, and we had less business generally doing. The
transactions were as follow :—Caledonian, 15.3—Ditto, Pre-
ference, 7 5-16—Eastern Counties, 634—East Lancashire, 15
—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 55—Liverpool, Crosby, and
Southport, 13/4 dis.—London and North-Western,lls—Ditto,
New Quarters, 3 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire,
31—Midland, 544 —North British, 7—South-Eastern and
Dover, 201 A—York and North Midland, 21
BIRMINGHAM, Dac. 3.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was little or nothing done in
the share market to-day. The only sales reported were—
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B), 41. 13s. 9d.—South
Staffordshire, 2 die.

On Saturday information was received that on
Wednesday evening last a number of gold, silver, and other
coins, tokens, and medals were stolen from the Leicester
Museum, situate in the New-walk in that town. Amongst
the coins are an imperial silver Greek half drachm, a gold
coin of Constantine, silver ones of Antoninus, Marcus Aure-
lius, Hadrian, Vespasian, and others, and brass and copper o.;
various Romans; two ancient British coins, a noble of Eliza-
beth, a sovereign of James 1., a gold-silver medal of Anne,
a ditto of George 1., two Queen Anne's farthings, a Victoria
florin, and other British coins; numerous European, Asiatic,
and American coins. A reward has been offered for the dis-
covery of the thief.

GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY
TERMINUS.

On Friday evenieg, Mr. C ,arles Pe.:rson received
the Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Archi-
tects at a soiree for the purpose of exhii,iting the
model, and explaining his plan for combining exten-
sive street improvements in the City and Finsbury
with a central terminus for the northern railroads in
Farringdon-street.
Mr. Donaldson, Mr. Barry, Mr. Fowler, Mr.
Knowles, Mr. I'Anson, Mr. Jennings, Mr. Bell,
and above 150eof the fellows and associates of the
Institute, were present. The model of the street
improvements, with the plans and sections of the
railway, were critically examined by the members,
and Mr. Pearson explained the principles of his pro-
ject; but as the principal topics of his discourse have
been placed before the public in former reports, it is
unnecessary to repeat them.
In answer to a question from Mr. I'Anson,
Mr. PEARSON said wholesale and not retail mar-
kets were in his contemplation in the scheme
proposed, although in all csrcsse markets oppor-
tunities were afforded for large consumers, hotel pro-
prietors, and others, besides butchers, to make their
purchases. The habits of trade and the conveni-
ence of the public rendered retail markets unneces-
sary, and they were passing away. Stocks Market,
on the sire of the present Mansion house—Honey-
lane Market, Fleet Market, all of them retail
markets in the City, had been abolished as
use-
less ; and every street, except the leading streets in
the very focus of business, had now their butchers',
poulterers', and fishmongers' shops, as substitutes for
retail markets. Wholesale markets for the sale of
meat and poultry, and other perishable articles for
the provisioning this gigantic metropolis, ought to
be as near the centre as possible, provided they could
be supplied by means of cheap and expeditious rail-
way carriage. He had had this matter under his
serious consideration, and in the very room in which
he was then speaking the master and members of
the Butchers' Company, together with many of the
largest London meat salesmen, had examined the
model, and, having heard his explanations, had ex-
pressed their approbation of the plan and their readiness
to adopt the market, being convinced that the re
moval would be attended with equal advantages to
the grazier, the salesman, and the consumer of the
meat, resulting from the quick, certain, and economi-
cal carriage and delivery of the goods_ If Smithfield
cattle market, among the changings of this changing
world, were destined to be numbered among the
things that have been, and the bullocks were no longer
to be brought to the butchers, the next best thing
would be to take the butchers to the bullocks. The
proposed railroad with cheap and frequent trains run-
ning from the wholesale meat market in Farringdon-
street to the cattle market on either of the great lines
north of the Thames, would do much to remove the
ill consequences that would otherwise result from the
removal of Smithfield-market. To Mr. I'Anson's
question, as to the cost of the project, he should not
give so direct an answer. The corporation had re-
tained the services of Mr. James Walker, to report
upon the practicability and cost of the project in the
engineering department; and Mr. Higgins and the
City's architect, gentlemen no less eminent as surveyors
and valuers of property, had undertaken the responsi-
ble duty of estimating the value of the ground laid
houses to be purchased, and the per contra money pro-
duce of the surplus ground to be disposed of, when
raised in value by the contemplated improvements, to,
at least, the standard of the circumadjacent property.
Although he (Mr. Pearson) had grounds for confidently
believing be was in a situation to give a fair approxima-
tive estimate of the entire cost of the undertaking, he
must be excused for waiting the result of the anticipated
report, without giving a more specific reply to Mr.
I'Anson's question.

Mr. FowLE& wished to be informed as to the proposed
rat& of c,,nstructing the subway in which the rails were
to bo laid. Had any provisions been made for light and
ventilation?

Mr. PEARSON produced another model showing the
construction of the sub and super ways upon a large
scale. He said that this was prepared some years ago at
his own instance, but under the immediate superinten-
dence of an eminent engineer and architect, woo fur-
nished working drawings, from which an extensive
railway contractor had msdo an estimate and tender to
execute the works. The longitudinal openings shown
in this plan would be ample for all the pur-
poses of light and ventilation. At the time this
model was made an opinion pervaded the scientific
world that for short lines, at least, the atmospheric
principle would be found convenient and effec-
tive. The lamented death of Samuda, its talented pro-
jector, before all its means and appliances had been
perfected, had cast it upon the waters. It might not be
seen again in an available shape for many days ; but
while it was found practically working on the Da!key
and Kingst.iwn Railroad, which was as long or longer
than the proposed line, he should never despair of see-
ing it, or some other modification of the atmospheric
principle, successfully applied to short lines. The prac-
ticability and pre-eminent usefulness of his plan was not,
however, dependent upon an application of the atmos-
pheric motive power, and it need not wait the success-
ful solution of that engineering problem. Since the
meeting of engineers on the previous evening he
bad received from the head of one of the largest
firms engaged in iron roofings, a deign for constrcting
the railroad and the super and subway, with an estimate
and tender for effecting the whole work at little more
than one-half the estimate for the work rendered to him
some years since. By this plan the longitudinal aper-
tures shown in the footways would be covered on an
elevated iron framework by translucent glass half an inch
thick; and he had consulted his friend Dr. Reid, who
assured him there would not be the slightest difficulty,
if locomotives were used in maintaining, by mechanica►
means, at a small cost, a perfect system of ventilation
for the subway, and the removal of the unpleasant gases
which the engine might evolve.
Mr. JENNINGS remarked that no practical difficulty
would be experienced in ventilating the subway. The
tunnels of ordinary railroads were only one fourth the
size of the proposed subway, and they were ventilated,
when of considerable length, by means of shafts at long
distances from each other. Here it would be perfectly
easy to ventilate the subway by connecting it at intervals
with flues in the walls at the sides of the street.
Mr. FOWLER observed that he had derived some satis-
faction from the inspection of the last model produced,
which showed one mode of constructing the railroad;
but the plan as a whole would require much more con-
sideration than could then be given to it. He concurred
to some extent in the remarks made by Mr. I'Anson
as to the difficulty of removing business from old•esta-
blished to newly-constructed markets. He had had
groat experience in such subjects, in the reconstruction
of both Covent-garden and Llungerford markets. The
former maintained its great superiority as a market for
fruit and vegetables, whereas the latter had been a com-
plete failure, notwithstanding the expenditure of enor-
mous sums of money to give it a fair chauce against its
successful rival at Billingsgate,
Mr. PEARSON said there were peculiar circumstances
in that case, which would not be found in the proposed
removal of the meat market from Newgate• street to the
new site, where they would have railroad carriage,
ample space, and a multitude of wide streets all round,
for the quick and easy ingress and egress of twice the
number of butchers that now frequented the existing
meat markets.

Mr. FOWLER replied he did not thick that in this par-
ticular case much apprehension need be entertained in
respect of the removal of the market so short a distance
as was proposed, as, Newgate Market being shut up,
the salesmen would transfer their business to the new
establishment.

Mr. HALT, a barrister, observed that his experience of
the tone and temper of Parliamentary Committees led
him to conclude that no system of street improvements
would receive their sanction unless founded upon a com-
prehensive view of the whole matter. The public would
give no countenance to petty peddling measures of local
improvement in the present day. The magnitude and
magnificence of the plan before them would be its pass-
port te acceptance and success, if upon full exa-
mination it should appear that the returns would
justify the original outlay, which must necesea-
sarily be very large. Without profeseing any very
great acquaintance with the details of such subjects,
common sense and some knowledge of the wretched
locality with which this plan proposed to deal, led him,
however, to the conclusion that no partial attempt to im-
prove it would be successful, and that the only mode of
rendering the plan remunerative, as far as the recon-
struction of the streets was concerned, would be to make
a general clearance of the houses, if houses they were to
be called, which were spread over the length and
breadth of the entire valley.
Mr. PEARSON said his plan was founded upon the very
principles Mr. Holy has just enunciated ; he further
stated that the gradients of both railway and street had
been adjusted so as to assist, instead of impeding the
intercepting sewers proposed by the Metropolitan Com-
mission; and if a general plan of arterial drainage were
to be carried into execution north of the Thames,
the ground to be excavated for the purposes
of the railway, intersecting the metropolis from the
highest ground in the northern suburb to the very level
of the Thames, might be rendered subservient to
that great object, and the main sewer in substitu-
tion of Fleet Ditch, which it proposed to carry by the
aide of the railroad, and ought to be so constructed as to
fall into one or other of the grand intercepting sewers.
Mr. Pearson having further at considerable length de-
plan, said, the main street
to carry the railroad, be-
the pestilential abomination it
uv enldoepre dw
ht
ceh a di
tv awnatsa gienst
eonfdh,
di s
would itself become a powerful
improvement. It Mr. Burke
swa
gda
ees
nsi
tn tstw.onefdeepdint sweeping
sanitarydaiswp ayciern,
had heard of a street one hundred feet in width,
carrying the fresh air from the high lands cf
liiae to the en
mPtettdb licightgraete' and Finchley, in a direct
inof the city of London, he
would surely have classed it among the most powerful
and valuable organs of metropolitan respiration. The
street, it should be remembered, though perhaps the
widest, longest, and straightest in the kingdom, would
in all probability be both wider and straighter than was
represented in the map. It had been drawn with a
detour round the western wall of Culdbath-fields Pri-
son, while a straight line would have carried it right
through that establishment. He had been in-
duced to take this course because his experience bad
led him to believe that if you really want( d to
buy anything, the best way to get it was to show you
could do without it. Having regard to the enhanced
value which the proposed improvement would impart to
all ground in that vicinity, he had no hesitation iu
saying it would 4nswer the purpose of parties under-