The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-25 00:00:00

SIR JOSEPH PAXTON.

(From the Derby Reporter.)
The mode in which her Majesty's intentions were
communicated to Mr. Paxton greatly enhances the
value of the favour she has been pleased graciously to
confer. We have had an opportunity of reading the
letter in which those intentions were communicated to
Mr. Paxton by Lord John Russell, and the terms in
which that document is couched are so honourable to
all parties, that, as a matter of simple justice, we have
obtained the permission of Sir Joseph Paxton to place
the letter before our readers and the public :
" Downing-street, October 15th, 1851.
"My dear Sir,—l have great satisfaction in in-
forming you that the Queen has been pleased to
declare her intention of conferring upon you the
honour of knighthood. The success of the Great
Exhibition has been very much owing to your able
and ingenious design of the building usually denomi-
nated the Crystal Palace. And your name will be
for ever connected with one of the most marvellous
enterprises of an age so remarkable for invention and
discovery. It is in consideration of your distin-
guished merit that the Queen had resolved to bestow
on you this mark of her royal favour.
" I remain, my dear sir, yours very faithfully,
" J. RUSSELL."

THE NORTH. AND THE EXHIBITION.
The publication of the awards of the jurors, which
'ollowed immediately upon the official close of the
Great :Exhibition, brings out a fact or two affecting
the contributions from the north which cannot but be
regarded as satisfactory. From the frequent and
lengthened notices which have appeared in our co-
lumns, our readers are aware that the county of In-
verness only sent up one exhibitor—Mr. D. Mac-
dougall of the tartan warehouse; but we are bound to
say that he exerted himself well, and both in the
natural decorations of the Highland stall and in the
native productions which it displayed, he was well
seconded not only by the nobility and gentry but the
humbler classes of the north. While, as in duty
bound, he exhibited a few of the finer Scotch and
Highland manufactures, his stall derived its chief in-
terest from the native, the home, the fireside speci-
mens of industry which it displayed in tweeds, plaids,
and more especially in knitted goods ; and we are
happy to find from the prize list that the jurors have
awarded Mr. Macdougall a prize-medal in this de-
partment of the competition. It is pleasing to think
that the persevering efforts which have been made for
years past to improve this branch of domestic manu-
factures have not been thrown away, and we antici-
pate that the decision of the jurors, showing as it does
that a high degree of excellence has been attained,
will not be without a beneficial influence on the home-
manufactures of the north. As an exhibitor Mr.
Macdougall will be entitled to another medal, and he
well deserves it for the indefatigable perseverance,
under many and trying difficulties, with which he
carried through his purpose of representing the
Highlands in the Crystal Palace. The only other
exhibitor from this county was Mr. Mason,
jeweller, High-street, here, whose elegant con-
tributions unfortunately did not appear in his
own name, but in that of Messrs. Lister and Son,
Newcastle. In the descriptive account which we
gave of the Exhibition at the time of its opening,
there was a somewhat minute description of Mr.
Mason's contributions, which were certainly not
the least interesting of the articles shown in Messrs.
Lister's case. A medal has been given to those
gentlemen, but from the wording of the award in
the prize list, we think we are justified in infer-
ring that the - honours should have come to the
north of the Tweed, and that Mr. Mason should be
awarded, if not the bronze, at least the honour of
the medal. Like the county of Inverness, the much
smaller county of Nairn had but one representative
—Mr. Mackillican, of Piper-hill, near Cawdor—
whose neighbours it will gratify, as it will most
certainly delight his amiable landlord, the Earl of
Cawdor—to know that he too has carried off a medal.
He exhibited two specimens of produce grown on his
own farm—a farm no way distinguished for its na-
tural advantages—one being a sample of white wheat
grown on reclaimed land as a first crop, with only a
small allowance of guano, and the other of ryegrass
seed. The latter was considered the finest ever seen,
and we venture to say can neither be surpassed nor
matched in Britain or out of it. The jury considered
it an extraordinary sample; but no exhibitor can
receive more than one prize medal, and it was given
to Mr. Mackillican's wheat, possibly as that article
was the more important of the two as the staple food
of the people. The result, however, shows that in the
north wheat of very superior quality is raised; and
the name of the country should stand all
the higher that the medal has been gained
by the wheat rather than by the rye-
grass seeds. It will be seen from the list
published in our fourth page that Messrs. Bremner
and Son, of Wick, civil-engineers, have been honour-
ably mentioned for their plan of keeping out the sea
whilst harbour works are going on—represented in
the Exhibition by the model of Lossimouth harbour
while the works were in progress.
Notice has also
been taken of " J. Sinclair, Thurso, Form Roc
pavement?' Honourable mention is also madekhill of
"J. Gordon, United Kingdom, for an anatomical
model in ivory." We are happy to learn that this
exhibitor, though longresident in the south, is a
native of Nairn, and passed many years in
early,
life in Inverness, where he served an apprentice-
ship. The north is thus not without honour in the
great competition of nations.—lnverness Courier. I

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A FEW WORDS ON WINES.—" At this season of the
year," as the advertisements and puffing paragraphs have it,
we feel it a duty to give the world a little advice upon wines,
and if we cannot tell them exactly what to drink, or what to
buy, we can at least inform them what to avoid. We there-
fore offer the following hints:—l. When vou sec wine ad-
vertised as " an excellent wine to lay down;" be sure it is not
worth picking up. 2. When you read of a wine that is
described as " full of body," you may conclude that it is half
spirit. 3. When you hear of a wino being parbteiecsuwlairulgy,
" racy," you may set it down as sloe. 4. When you are asked
to purchase a fine old sherry with a nutty flavour, the notion
;hear m
re-
tirementetermed
the nut may suggest the idea of what is commonulry_
a cracker. 5. When you read of a wine with much
following
you may fairly say " buzzunch.
of
Hodder,
s the P
°m
collector Ti°N s
'a----t
In
Portsmouth, consequence
tt
changes are to take place in the Customs :—..
collector at Rochester, is promoted to the office of collector at
CusT°omf
Portsmouth. Mr. COlquhoun, collector at Rye, is to succeed
Mr. Hodder at Rochester (which port has lately been re-
duced from the fourth to the fifth class, and Rye from the
fifth to the sixth). Mr. Bull, comptroller at Penzance , is appointed collector ut Rye.

lOENT-STOCIL 11.5.zrz8.

Y - - ; 412 6 1 syi
is BRIDGES
ie
Dividend Amount
Annum. Share.
;-, Name of company. per of raid. prices
-------
6t
Z. a. d. X. a. d.
1, Hungerford •••. - .. - - - - 15
4,, Southwrk .. .. .. •• - - 100 0 0 -.....
Ditto Nw of 7% p.c. 70s. per cent. 50 0 0 - 16
Waterloo ........ -• • - 100 0 0 -
DUO Old Ann. of 81. 21. Bs. Od. - 60 0 0 2b
Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 21. 2s. Od. - 40 0 0 -
. Vauxhall .... •• • Av. 21. 70 10 8 - 18
'WILT EiIE.W. 0 IVES .
Name of Company. Dividend AmountIper of Paid. Price.
1 Annum. share.
Xs. d X East London•••••• •• •• SI. per cent. 100 00. s. d.-
Grand Junction •• •• • • 151 41. per cnt. 50 0 0 - 69
rent-- -•••• • • • • 41. per cat. 100 0 0 - 80
Lambeth -...••• • • • • 51. per cut. 100 0 0 - 97
New Rivr Lndn ISrdge 41. Os. - - 5 Vauxhall.-- • • •... , 51. per cut. 100 0 0 -
97%7
West lliddlesex •. . '61.05. pr ent. - - 108
D OMEN.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
X s. d. X s. d.
Commercial ---• • .. 4/. pr cent. Stock. - 04
East and West India... 61. pr cent. Stock. -
East Country ... 20s. per sh. 100 0 0 -
- - London .. . - 116
Ditto Bonds •• .. •• • • 41. per cent. - - -
St. Katharine .. -•••• 3% per cent. Stock. - -
Ditto Bonds- •••• •• 4%1. pr cent. - - -
Southampton .. •• •• - 21. per cent. SO 0 0 50 0 0 16%
0 AZIF.S.7. 8 .
Names of i Dividend' . Dividend
I)
Companies. 14 per Price. Names of per ,_,
Companies. CC_ Annum., Annum., sr, , Annmy . A--41C0
-...
---.
-.....-...„,
4 1 4
Ashtn& Oldh 98, 71. 1 140 ;Macclesfield. 100. 21.105. 50
Barnsley •• • • 160 - - iNeatli •.- . • 100 ' 161.
13rknk&Abrg IN 51. 85 10Xford .. -• • 100' 13'. 135
Birmingham 40 41. 93% ,Peak Forest. 78 3/. lbs. 70
Coventry...• 100 251. 200 IRegent's - - 33 14. ss. 19%
Derby ••• • • 100 61. 63 !Rochdale.... 851 21. 42
Eilsmre&Chs 69 2% p. et., 35% I Somrset Coal 1501 -
Granchlunctn 100 3/ pr.ct. 52 Do.LkFd St
Do.. 6 pr. Ct. 10 6/. pr. ct. 11 Stffr4 & Wore 140 281. 405
Grand Surrey 100 21. Os. 32% Shrewsbury.. /25 '
; - -
,:rand Union 100 11. lob. 24 Stourbrldge.. 201. 2
K 1145ernt& Avni 39 4s. 04. 6 Severn and 1
„r 21 ' 90
as Lancter • 1100 - - Wye Rail. i 1
' Oa. 24
Lee;is&Livrplloo 201. 405 Warwick&
Leicester .. •• 100 6/. 66 'dinning. J 100 41. 40
Loicatr ,Nth/ 83 4/. 44,, Warwick& 1 31. 28
i
;
Lotwhhoregh,l42 701. 610 i Napton. j
100
Memnon VIM 100 - - iWorcstr 5;1 :I 78 Si, 40%
ntgArnrysb' 100 - - I Birrning.
Holt-, Ni wbry,loo - - Wilts Az !Irks - Ile. 6d. 7l

5 ---, • - - , - nlllB //L isms; •-••• Ile. 6d.1 714
r ..7..a.5-LIGXET AND COL COMPANIES.
i
Dividend Amount
• Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
• ...-.______.--- ---.. ---___ -...
British
X. e. d. X. 8. d.
••• •• •••• - - - 14 40 0 0 18 0 0 11%
' Brighton Ditto Provincial.... 11. 83. 90 0020 0 0 IBrighton- --•••• •• 51, 20 0 0 - - City of London .. •• - 61. 190 0 0 150 0 0 120
COntinentalConsolidat. bOs. 75 0 0 31 b 0 39%
Equitable-. ---•• •• 50s. 50 0050 ' Imperial - ....•• •• •• 34 50 00600 0 , 70
Independent ... ••.• •• 6/. 40 00400 0 1 46
- 50 0050 0 0 -- 50 0030 0 0
Do., Parl. rreference 6/. 95 0 0 710 0 I
Phrenix .-..-- - - 44 60 0 0 49 00 1 27%
Ratcliff ..... - .... - 61. 100 0 0 90 0 0
United General •• •• • • 14 50 0 0 60 0 0 I 16
Westminster Chartered Si. 69 0 0 - 145
Ditto, New ........ 125. 50 0 0 10 00 , 3
2.25112' Or SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PS
Dividend Amount --------
- Name of Company, per of Paid." Price.
Annum. Share.
-- ----- ----
Bank of Scotland
British per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 180
ritish Linen Company 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 200
Caledonian Bank
City of Glasgow Bank 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 0 210 0 31.1 0 10 0 0 1%
Clydesdale Bank.. -•• 6% per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 12%
Commercial Bank ...• '7l. per cent. 560 0 0 100 0 0 175
Eastern Bank-- -•• 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 10
Edinb.&Glasgow Rank 6/. per cent. 50 0 50 0 4
Er.ohangellnk of Scot.. 4/. per cent. ;100 0042 0 0 rational Bank 6% per cent. '5OOO 10 0 0 isB %
North of Scotlandllar.h 54percent. 20 0 0 210 0
Royal Bank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 135
Union Bank of Scotland ii/. percent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 91
Western Bank --••• • . 74 per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 70%
Alliance Fire and Life 8%/.pr cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 21%
1
tiritish Guarantee
Caledonian Fire Insur. 10/. per cent.
Amount
0 0
2831100050
00000 00000 221210526%94
City of Glasgow Lite lll. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 31. 158
Colonial Life .... • 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 1 0 0 21. 2s.
Edinburgh Life Insur. SI. percent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 ; 21%
Eng.& Scot, Law Life 54percent. 50 0 0 217 6 N
Life Assoc. of Scotland 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 110 0 31. 165
National Fire and Life 54 per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 126...0d
North British Insur 5l. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 1 27
Scottish Union 'mace. 6%1. pr cent.
521000 000 0
00 71
0: (1(41 :11671;264i standard Li.fAe
..s.u.r.a.n.
c e
551/..ppeerr
cceenntt..
United Den
IVIISCDEivMsidLenAd 174"5"
Name of Company, per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
Assam Tea •.. ------.
•..... --------
--
•---110:3:id0000. -----.4. e. d.
0
A. n c t i e n
aal‘re
Int a, raAT terz .1:
Trust
i te.
mu. ii.in.u.t.
r...i.
10
6/ .12p:e.irlil:oeSse*.n t .
Australian
- 26%
Ditto, Half Shares.. -
British American Land - '- 2 10 0
Canada ....... •• • • • SI. per cent. 100 0 0'32 10 0 47
Do. S per cent Bonds
_iv - -
Ditto, 6pr et. Bonds 61. per:cent.
City Navigation Bonds per cent. •- - 109 -
911% 31 -
Gen. Revers. & Invest. 5 Equitable Reversionr p.c.& bs, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 95
Ditto New .y 5 p.c. & bs. 5/ 100 00105 0 0 0 105%
Gen•SteamNavigation 10 50 0 0 0
Hudson's Bay ...... •• 0 ....... ',, 27v
-
p.ct. 15 0 0 14 0 v 2,6'.
- -
0
Hungerford ........ Stock.
24 58. -
78 15 0 0 47 7
0 London Institution ..• - 100
0-
New Zealand Company - 25 0 0
26
Ditto, New .....p. 25 o o 12 10 0 -
-26 5 0 -
_ Russell Institution.. - -
Peninslr& Orient.Stm. 81. per cent.
Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr
cent 15000 00
00
10050 00
,2 00
Royal Mail Stearn • • ..41•P• share. 100 0 0 60 0
25 0 0 25 0-9 79
1 23%
Van Dieman's Land.. -
.1
100%
South Australian..... ll•per share.
100 0 0 29 0 0 I

at full prices,
Good hops were
at a
but other sorts were a heavy sale reduction from our
HOP INTELaLgraGinENinCEd.eiTalnVdo:ncztruErßda,y OCT.
last quotations of 3s. per cwt. The supply fresh in from the
planters was small, numbering not more than 6CO pockets ;
but these, added to a considerable bulk loft unsold the pre-
vious week, made up a good show. Fine yearlings and old
hops were more in request at former rates. The following is
New,then ul73boeBr
;of
old, pocketsl4 ofs ahtouprsd lavye i
;—New,hed
It h;d
e ol week, 2 9
...:
Worcester Journal.

ERROR.--A man should never be ashamed to own
he has been in the wrong, v hich is but saving, in other
words, that he is wiser to-day than he was vesterday.—PoPe.
ADVERSITY.—Adversity exasperates fools, kjects
cowards, draws out the faculties of the wise and industrious,
puts the modest to the necessity of trying their skill, awes
the opulent, and makes the idle industrious.
THE MEANEST KIND OF A FAMILY.—Some editor
down South, describing a family of his acquaintance, says
they were so mean they had to die by subscription.
mirlrtor ifogr saamitianthtoatshantri: ibry
.o f ,
z prettyoek i, seoy; easndaart els! he beasm t.
unques-
tionably the case that many
continuing tibetr
LOWESTOFT.—Our steamers are a
man
haasinboenegn shaved
otelherbytht'lgs„
Thethliasst
nceawrg o
route.—
Norwichof tlo
p sheo r t a t
heavy cargoes of cattle and goods.
Cumberland possessed a new feature,.
the kind we have had
Mercury.
broughtion overof a quantity of grain. This is the first im-
portation
RETORT.—Sheridan having threatened his
son, Tom, to cut him off with a shilling, receiv*l this retort
" Where will you get Ai-
.,

PRICES OF SHARES
IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM•
PANIES' STOCK.
From the Official List.
I'ITBLIL,4HED EVERY TUESDA.Y AND FRIDAY EVENING.
LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24.

Dividend 1 Amcu„- 1.----..,,
ri. Name of Company. per; I or paid. rm.,.
Annum. Share.
_ ..........„--........ ..-....___. -.........____. •
E; ------
X 8. d. .f S. d.
Australasia ...... •• .. 41. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 _1- BritshNorth American , 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Commercial of London 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 ......
',A Colonial.. •• .. •••• .. 21. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0
.... " Gloucestershire .• .• •• 15/per cent. - - - lonian •• .. - • -•• •• 61. pr cent. 25 0025 0 0
I London and County .• ; 61. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 .....
Londn and Westnainstr ; 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 sta%
London Joint-Stock ..• , 64. per cent. 50 0 U 10 0 0 18
t. provincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0
Ditto, New.- •• •• • • 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0
National of Ireland .. 151. per cent, 50 0 0 22 10 0 17%
Nat. Provncial of Eng. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 -
Ditto, New. ••••• • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 -
t, Oriental Bank Corpora. - 25 0025 0 0 2634
South Australia ..•... 161. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
1- Union on Australia.... 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0
Ditto .. •....... •• .. 61. per cent. - 210 0 -
Unioa of London... •• 71. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 15%
0 Union of Madrid .•... - 40 0 0 40 0 0 -
a INSURANCE COSIPAXIES.
Dividend Amount
Ditto glarine.•• • • -
1 Name of Company. per of Paid. Pries
Annum. Share.
-...
t ------_____
/a.d.X a. 4. Albion .........• •• • • 3L 10s. 500 0 0 50 0 0 86
ci Britisheri
mC.sarn.2,m
Ge reel a.LI ffe•
Alliance trit. and For. N. 14s. ed.bs. 190 0 0 11 0 0 21%
2642%
AArgue Lifo tlas ..... •• .. ..... .. 130.60. 50 0 0 510 8 16%
41 per cent. 100 8 0 16 0 0
County .........• •• • • P • S.
41. 100 0 0 10 0 0 84
65
1. . 1 *7l) sec' t. 611 . bbe . 11 500 000 000 0 21
550
000 000 734
Eagle .... ....... ... 14a. 50 0 0 b 0 0 15
ss. 50 0 0 50 0 6%
Eqity and Law, •• •• •• 4% Per cud. 100 0 0 50 0 4%
turepean Life .• •• •
Imperial Fire .. .. .. .. 10s. 20 0 0 All paid. 11%
General •• •• •• •• .. ••
Guardian ............ 51• per cent 100 0 0 45 0 0 53%
5 0 0 Pt 5%
Ifinad_em.,nity Marine.... Gr. etce ent Stock. PP 133
121.. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 245
Law 1.1fe.......... ILs & us. 100 0 0 20 0 0 49
Imperial Life .. - •• ••
Lawx
ire •
••
••
••
....
2s
&122ss
bs 1
00 0 0 210 0 334
100 0 0 10 0 0 18
1,0 n
Fire •
11008.3.... i;:.. . 100 0 0 10 0 0 46%
Loudon;rrjn. !hi.p. ....c. ..
22
55
00
00
111
5222
11
0000
000
11
904 :
LegnaldoandGes.e.r.a.l.L if!
158. Per share 1050° 00 00
Med. Invlld&Gen...l.lfe 4%1. per et. 50 0 0 15 Monarch ............
ppeerrceeeantt.. 560
50
00
0 20 0 2%
- 5 0 0 1 0 0 Its.
0 100 00 175.65
ational Loan Fund.. 5/. per cent. 20 0 0
Palladium Life ..... ... 22 10 0 2%
Professional Life...... 5511..
Phoenix •• • ......... •• 3/. p. eh. & bs. - -
- 188
Provident Life -.••• •• 11. 58. 8; a.b 100 0 0 10 0 0 30
Rock Life............
59. 50 0 010 0 6%
3,0yal Exchange ..... • 6/. p.ct. & bs. Stock. all 221
San Fire •• .. - al. 10s.
Ditto Life ..... ..... 11. 64. -
PP 209
United Kingdom •• •• 41. p. ct.&bs. 20 0 0 40 0 4
ilaiversal Life.... •• •• 10% ct. &be. 100 0 0 10 48
00 0 -
Victoria Life....
- 4 12 6 BIZ