The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-01 00:00:00

PRICES OF. SHARES.

Prom the Official List.
PUBLISIIED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENIN,,
LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1857.
CANALS.

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Names of 0 Dividend Names of Dividend
Companies. 2 per Price'" Companies. Zi per Price.
4 Annum.
• Annum.
£ £
A shtn &Oldb 93 71. p. ct. Peak Forest. 78 51. Os.
Birmingham 40 41. , 91 Regent's.... 30 17s 1614
Coventry.... 100 111. Rochdale.... go 41.
Derby .. •• •• 100 6/. 15s. &Ord &W or. igo 281.
GrandJunetn 100 2'. pr. ct. 51% Stoerbrldge. 45 121. 10s.
Do., 6 pr. Ct. 10 6' pr. ct. I Severn and 1
2f• 11. 16s. —'Grand Union 100 7s. 6d Wye Rail.
Remit & AVD 40 Gs. Warwick &
Leeds &Livrp 100 251. 490 1 Birming. 100 21. 2654
Leicester ...• 'OO 5/. Warwick &
Leiestr &Ntl. 83 I/. ss. Napton..) 100 21' 234
LoughLorogb 143 701 IWorestr & 1 ~,, los.
Macclesfield. 100 21. 10s. Birming. 'u 1654
Neath .•...• 1.100 161. Wilts & Brio 7s. Od. 45
0xf0rd...... 100

WATER-WORKS.

Dividend
per

Name of Company.

Amount
of
Share.

Paid. I Pri'

Annum.

ORE 4T LOSS OF LIFE OiV THE LAN-
CASTER AND ULVERSTON.E SAND'`'•

During Friday night or early on Saturday morn"
ing several persons were drowned on the sands be'
tween Lancaster and Ulverstone. On Saturday
evening when our report was ofnecessity despatchear
it was not known at Lancaster what was the pre-
cise number of those who had lost their lives, bet
there was reason to suppose that it was not legs
than 14, and the bodies of eight of the deceased had
been recovered, having been washed ashore at
Hest-bank, ali 1
,ut three miles from Lancaster. ;
was at this point that the fact of the calamity first
became known on the morning of Saturday. Fre°
the sands which it will be remembered skirtsMere'
cambe-bay, there were seen floating in the Water s
number of men's hats, some boxes, and other things'
and it was at once conjectured that the hats, hei.'
&c., were the property of persons who, in crossingr
o
the sand., had either been overtaken by the lide
had left the proper track and so got into the water'
A number of men went out in boats and recovered
e
the hats and boxes, and a further starch revealed
the bodies of eight men floating as nearly togepl,
as possible. They were brought ashore, and ill t
course of the day recognised ; and it was rurnoilers
d
at this place that at Silverdale, two or three eli.dede
higher up the sands, some bodies had been vit'sfve
ashore. It is believed that all the persons who ."3;,,
lost their lives are single young men, in serv7tli
Some suppose there were two young women Wls,
them, but owing to difficulty of obtaining inforeim,
tion from the other side of the sands our eorT-6
pondent had not learnt whether this was: t',o
Suffice it that a party of more than a dozen per
who had been living in service at Poulton, il-est;
ham, and other places on the Ulverstone endpf
sands, left Kent's-bank on Friday night, inteurtil'
to be present at the Whit,untide hirings at 17,
caster on Saturday. Their route was along bat
sands by the edge of the bay, being the mane tut,
is taken by the over-sands coach between Vic.,,,ee
stone and Lancaster. Tire party spent some ti--„a
drieking at Willeocks's Kent's-bank Hotel, irg
they started in twolight one-horee carts. Aceeril„liir
to the tide-table it was high-water at UlverstOrie
Saturday morning at 10 minutes past 4 o'clockaeb,
in order to cross the sands in safety and avoid.til
tide the journey should, have been commenced
either end at 41 win, past 9 o'clock on Fridaypiftr:
but this party, besides beingintoxicated, are under
stood to have started later by an hour orillea;
Some who intended to have crossed with theta j
dined to doso because of the time they d
started, so
so saved their lives. Nothing more is known uel
party until the bodies of some of them werewati
ashore as already described. We have otell'os
to mention that at Hest, along with the bodie,'l 1( 8
recovered on Saturday one of the carts, with
lifeless horse attached to it. Two conjecturegt,/
hazarded as to the way in which the accident flip
have occurred, which no one is left alive to eicPienrie
One supposition is that the carts were floated 0;0
of the streams that have to be forded. At the leon,
dangerous one there is a guide stationed trod
rise to sunset, so that he would not then have t 3,1
on duty. One young man of the company Iletto
Geo. Ashburner knew the track which oug"jo
have been taken, but the probability is that 06.7,0.
thought of using his experience. Another 01120
ture is that the whole party had fallen asleep, tie,
the horses had been left to take their own od..,1110;
and that they actually followed the tide until rj,
sleepy occupants of the carts were fatally iminelltb.
The appearance of some of the bodies has led 1°,4
supposition that suffocation took place duringsf",.,4
Upon the eight bodies recovered at Hest 70
money to the amount of about 301. and 461. foto
found, being the wages they had received be
starting. •

Country Marke

HADDINGTON GRAIN MA.RKET—MAT 29' .;
solbsoj
WHEAT. I BARLITY I OATS. I
48i 3
.14 First 64s Od 42s Od 34s 6d '.
36 Second 4Bs 6d 136 s 3d 1 30s lid Ivs 00
Third 34s 01 I 27s 01 127 s 6d iVi ;il
451 °lid
Total quantity of wheat in market, 461 qrs., .os gold
barley „ 141 gm. '..-8 01"
oats I; 188 qrs., +75.30014
PP beans IP 64 qrs.,
AVERAGES PER IMPrRIAL QUARTER. motli.
Wheat, 2/. 8 6 8-12ths / Barley, ...11. 16 3 .„7"1200
Oatz,i ... 11. 10 11 11.12tha I Beans, 21. 4 4 1."

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4 DALKEITH GRAIN MARKET—NA!. 25' lot
1
1
• Qrs. Best. Current. 00
• 2891 Wheat 62s 6d 4ss Od
407 Oats 32s 6d 2Bs 4d 53 eil
132 Barley 32s 6d 3ls 4id. 355 0
,Ni 46 Peas & beans 39s Od 44s 4id 4.2'