The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-22 00:00:00

STEAM-BOAT COLLISION.

A collision took place yesterday in the river, oppo-
site
the Fishery, wh;re the chn,nned is particularly
narrow, between the Pelican awl jax steamers, the
former going out for Lin icn, and the latter coming
in from Liverpool. For a considerable time before
any accident could be anticipated, the Ajax had stopped
her engines, and the Pelican, having also shut off her
steam, came drifting slowly on, but from the fact
probably of its not being understood sufficiently soon
at which side she was to pass, too near to avoid a
collision. She ran into the Ajax at the fore gang-
way, cutting down the bulwark to the deck, and sink..
ing her considerably, while she rose herself in an
imposing manner. From whatever cause, neither
vessel appeared to reverse her engines until after they
came into contact. The Pelican sustained no da-
mage of any moment, having merely her how ropes
cut, part of the bird at her head broken, and a slight
perforation made in the woodwork under the bow-
sprit. Having picked up her beak out of the water,
she proceeded on her voyage. It a striking proof
of the strength of this vessel, that though she actu-
ally rode up on the other, her cut-water was not in-
jured in the slightest degree. The breach of the Ajax,
being confined entirely to the 'part above the deck, is
not so serious as to interfere with her sailing on her
appointed day. It must be mentioned to the credit of
both captains, that when a collision became inevitable,
they were heard on shore warning the passengers to
keep off from the part where the vessels touched.
Owing to this commendable precaution, no person re-
ceived a hurt of any kind, as it is highly probable
would otherwise be the case, from the crowds nn board
each. Both vessels belong to the same company, are
exactly of the same size and model, except in the mode
of propulsion, and are perhaps the largest and finest
channel steamers afloat. It ought to be stated that the
Ajax in coming up was crossed by a smack, which
may have occasioned some deviation in her course.—
Cork Examiner,

FOREIGN FUNDS.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, OCT. 19.
Active Debt,2% per Cent •••••• • • • • • 5G 1-16 56,1(
Ditto, 3 per Cent • • • • • • • • 67% 67 15-16

Ditto, 4 Pereenl.•• •• •••••••• • • "
Amort Syndic, 3% per Cent •••••• • • •• _
Last India Loan, 4 per Cent •••••• •• ••
Frankfurt, 3 per Cents. • • ••••••• •- • •
Russian 5 per cents., Hope & Co. •• .. 104 N

. _
Ditto, ditto, Steiglitz •• •• •• •• •• ••
Spanish New 5 per Cents.;• • • • • • •• •• ••

Ditto, 3 per Cents. .. •• • • • • •• • • • • ••
Austrian 3 per Cents., Meta Hies......
Ditto '4', per Cent. ••••••• • •• • • ••
Commercial Company, 41/, per Cent •• 16i% 169
HAMBURGH FUNDS, OCT. 18.
Bills. Money.
Hanoverian New Loan,s per Cent... •• 105

-
Ditto, 3% per Cent. ••• • • • ••• • • •
Bank 5hare5......................... ••••'•• • • • • • " •••••••
Prussian 5 per Cent. ••• • • • • ••• • • • 106
Anglo-Russian Loan •••• • • • •• • •• --
106
Hamburgh Certificates, 5 per Cent.• •• • 96
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. • • •... 96
Ditto Stleglitz, 4 per Cent. ••••• • • • • 83
Hamburgh, 3% per Ccut. •••••• • • • • • • 8438 80%
Lubeck Loan (!8:10) ••••• • • • • • • • • 98 97yG
Belgian Loan, 2% per Cent
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ••• • • • 74;i 74
Ditto, in 1001. Shares;• ••••••• • • • • • • 74% 741,
Ditto,s per cent. •.•• • • • • " —• • 97 96N,
Anglo-Swedish Loan •• •• ••" ••
Ditto, Transport Loan ............
Ditto, Ilyp., 4 per Cents ••••.• • • • • 963 i
Norwegian 4 per Cents. ••••• • • • • •• • • )00
Spanish New 5 pdr Cent •••••••• • • • • • • 10%
Ditto, 3 per Cents. .. •• •• •••• •• •• 32 81
Anglo-Portugueac Loan, 234 per Cent..
Dutch Actual Debt, 258 per Cent. •
Ditto 3 per Cent. •••••••• • • • • • • • •
National Bank Shares ..............-
American, 6 per CenatA.
Damb. Bed rg. •••••• • • • • • • "••• • • • 92 r•e•w• •••;s••• ••
•• • • 10656
1!

Ditto, Priority Shares •• ••••• •• •• • 105
Berlin and Hamburg •• •• •• • • ''" '• •• 90 893(
Ditto, Priority Shares .. ........• 101 100,4
Ditto, second emission •• •• •• ••• • • • --
Alagdeberg•Wittenburg 51i.
Ditto, 5 per Cent 5....... .• .. •• •• .. 90
Cologne and Minden .• ....•• ••••• •• 971‘
Ditto, Priority Shares .. •• •• •• •• •• 101
Ditto, 5 per Cents... •• •• •• •• .. • • •• 103
Frederick-William, Northern; ........ 381,,j
31ecklenberg .. •• .. •••• •• .... •• .. .. 31%
Ditto, Prierity Shares, 4 j per Cent. 101 101
Altona and Kiel .............8734
Gluelistadt .......• .. •• .. ••
Rendsbnri........ •• •• •• • .... "• •• ••
Exchange on London, 13 7 ; three months, 13 5%.

SHIP NEWS.
QUARANTINE NOTICES.
Leghorn, Oct. 12.
The quarantine on all arrivals from Ystad up to Got-
tenburv,, from liimburgh and all the other ports at
the mouth of the Elly!, Lubeck, Travemunde, Rostock,
and Wismar, has been fixed at six days.
Owing to the appearance of cholera at Ithaca, the
Board of Health has decided to subject all vessels from
that island to the quarantine enforced on arrivals from
Cephalonia, viz., 12 days.

THISTED, OCT. 12.—A. Ischvinter with foremast cut
away was stranded on Ronne, Oct. 9. The Norwegian
brig Julie, from Christiana for Franc-, was stranded in
the Vest.tr Agget, Oct. 9; crew saved. A Swedish
vessel, laden with pitch and tar, is ref orted to be stranded
on Ilarboore.

RIGA, OCT. 14.—The Sarah Barry, loading masts End
timber, drove on shore nr.,ar the lighthouse at 13,Id:ra,
sod it is feared will become a wreck.

11.ionuNG, CCT. 12.—The Myrtle, of Inverkeithing,
from Fraserburgh for Bremen, came on shore on the
Skulling, Oct. 10, a di relict.
Lattevrc, OcT. 10.—The Princess, bound for St.
Pctersburgh, coal laden, was stranded yesterday during
a heavy gale from N.N.W., on Fafearing, near this
place, and went to pieces; craw stiv(d.
SYDNEY, NEW SOUTEL WALES, JULY 31.—The brig
Lady Ilowden has bee n wrecked at the Fjoelands.
GRAVESEND, OCT. 21. —Wind N.E.. fresh, cloudy.—
Arrd. the Gloria, from Bilbon; the Border Chieftain,
from Charente; the Ann, from Amsterdam; the Ma
tilda, the Reward, the Dee, and the Donna Celina, from
Guernsey; the Judith, from ltostcck; the Princess, from
Charente; the Stolpe, from Dantzie; the Vesta, from
Wyborg; the Wave, from Seville; the Roscommon,
from Harlingen; the Director, from Jersey; the
Phcenix and the Scandinovian, from Callao; the Fye-
noord, from Rotterdam; the Achilles, from Christiana;
the Hero, from St. Petersburgh; the Neptune and the
Venezuela, from Havre; the Giraffe, from Tonningen;
the SJho, from Antwerp; the City of Boulogne, from
Boulogne; the Preciose, from Oporto; the Caled ,nia,
from namburgh; the
Ranger, from Amsterdam; the
Magnus, from Rio de Janeiro; the Jane, from Crori•
s a d
Caroline,t ; the
from ll
Archangel; e bdni
from
thelr radn Yrlrte i nbcoe w; , t fhreo m IMarya-
lags; the Challenger, from Callao; the Joseph Fentoe,
from Charente. Sid. the Tiger and the Wilberforce, for
Tonningen; the Albemarle, for Shanghai; the Huron,
fur Boston; the Ingeborg, for the Baltic;
thaw, for Guayaquil.
VESSELS SPOKEN WITII.—The Shenandoah, from
Liverpool, Oct. 8. in long. 18. A large steamer, bound
the John Bag-
W., Oct. 13, at 19 P.M., in long. 13. The Nautilus, of
Dartmouth, Sept. 17, in lat. 37, long. 10. The ship
Kirkman Finlay, outward bound, Oct. 13, in lat. 48 N.,
long. 10 W. The ship William Wa'd, of Liverpool,
outward bound, Oct. 13, in lat. 50 N., long. 9W. The
schooner Eliza Cornish, of Liverpool, outward bound,
July 28, in lat. 57 S., long. 63 IV. The bri Pauline, of
Antwerp, for Rio Janeiro, Aug. 31, in lat. 10 S , long.
26 W. The ship Earl of Ihrdwielte, outward bound,
in lat. 36, long. 12. The b:ig Wilhclmiva, from
Liverpool Sept. 15, in lat. 16 N., long. 27 W. The ship Sandford,
Natal, 16, in lat. 52 N., long. 7W.
The brig Isabella, for Constantinople, Sept 26, iu Ist. 36
N., long. 7 W.
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GLASTONBURYrset
agiioior
ed), pofA Wells,
llBYG—la(stonbury, Shepton, &c. (So-
Frm a
—The o Correspondent.)
areo holding continual meetings complaining that
e are
they have ho railroad; for, although so comparatively near
the Great Western and Exeter lines, travellers have no means
of reaching those towns except bythe old-fashioned jog-trot
route. They Fay (and with much. truth) that were there a
more swift mode of conveyance, their splendid cathedral (one
of the finest in England), the far-famed "Abbey Ruins," and
the "Tory Hill," where Holy Joseph first erected the Christian
standard i the stupendous " Cheddar Cliffs" and " Wbkey
Hole," where Henry VIII. once nearly lost his life, &c., &c.,
would be visited by thousands of the curious. The judges,
too, greatly complain of the inconvenience during assize time,
and the London newspapers to the hotels and reading-rooms
are materially delayed iu consequence:
COLLISION AT SEA.—On Friday night last the
schooner Ann, of Limerick, when off the Start, was run into
by a large barque which appeared to be a foreigner. The
schooner was struck first on the bow, by which her boW-
sprit and cutwater were carried away, and the bow other-
wise injured. She was also struck on the starboard
quarter and had her bulwarks and stancheons carried
away. •The barque immediately after the collision run away
before the wind as if nothing had occurred.—Dereapart
Indenenilent.
THE ASYLUM FOR IDIOM—The board of this ex-
cellent institution hare just issued a "special appeal to the
wealthy and worthy, of the land." It appears that they have
under their care, at. Park House, Highgate, and Essex Hall,
Colchester, no lras than 10 patients, and the total number.
of persons thei institution has dependent upon it is IG3.
There are now 170 eligible patients seeking admission at the
ensuing election, and the board can only venture to admit
15 of the number. They are anxious to erect a building
properly adapted to the care and education of the idiot,
which, they say, ought to contain not less than three hun-
dred beds, and which will be arranged so as to serve in all
respects as a model institution. Her Majesty has set an ex-
ample of pa•ronage by a contribution of 250 guineas, so as to
secure ja perpetual presentation to a bed, the right to be ex-
ercised by the Prince of Wales. Looking at the affecting
nature of the calamity which this asylum is intended to alle-
viate, -we shall expect to see numbers of those blessed with
wealth eagerly availing themselves of a method, by 'which,
in the ;words of the aeal, "they may hlers certainly and
permanentlypp the most unhappy of their fellow-creatures:'
1144TEROMINQ OrIMATION AT THE 'GLA'sGoIY EYit
isinltmALT. Considerable interest _was last week excited
by the cr.se Of a than in whose left eye 'a Hying parasitic'
animal "(cysticercus) existed, and could be seen to move be-
' hindlite transparent part or corner of the eye. This, though
'only tb4 sixth case of the kind on record, is the second
Which 'has occurred at the Glasgow Eyelnfirmary within the
last. tNi. 6 years. The last example was in a girl, who was
aucedssiully operated on by' Dr. Mackenzie, and who, after
the retz'oral of the 'parasite from the eye, enjoyed perfect
' The subjeck: of the pre=cnt notice, having been made
acquainted with tlie nature of his disease, and the good result
of the forner case, came down from England to put himself
under tl se care of, Dr. Mackenzie, who on Friday extracted
the offe riding animal from 'his eye, and has dismissed him
also quite well, tote eye presenting no appearance of ever
having been operated on at all. The animal in question has
a neck ab out a third of an inch long, formed of rings, some-
what.aftez the fashion of a tapeworm, and bearing a =rims
head arraed with suckers. Its other end is a transparent bag,
about
of an , inch in diameter, the wavy motions of which
were boautifuTi:yseen in front of the pupil.— Scottish Guardian.
COLONIAL; ArrousTxtENTs.—W. Odell. and J.
Brown,
Es(ls., Are appointed members 'of the Legislative
Council of Al • 4 JITVICk.
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