The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-04 00:00:00

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SUN -OFFICE, Seven o'Cioc,.

PRICES CANAL, DOCK, ASSUR-
ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. &c. &c.

LONDON, TUESDAY, OCT. 4.
Number Dividend Price
a Plir CANALS. per
Shares. Annum. Paid. Share.
1,766 7
per eent.Askton& Oldham...Ave rage 27 I.lbs.sh. ! 3
1,432 41. Ashby-de-le-Zouch Average 1131.5 h .11
~•.:041 ..... „,,, 8a5iept0ke.......... .. ....... ....1001.sh. 5
1,0b5 51. Br ecknoc It and Abergavenny ...1501.5h. C 2
3,000:1.16th. 101. Birmingham , 1-16th share ...,8f1.& 711. 191
Lnno ~,.....„ Ditto & LiverpoelJunet.l29l.. sh .190 pd 21

_
gm --ii„ Bridgewater and Taunton.lool.4l. 411 pi -
409 51. Chelmer and Blackwater .- .......5h . 101
500 321. Coventry ........ ......... - 1001.sb. 305
....... Cr0yd0n........... Average3ll.26 10d. eh. -
2,060; 51. Os. Dudley... 1001.411. C.:3
000 131. Derby ............. ...... . IOOI.E h . 120
0,000 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne 411.135. 40. pd 31
45752 4, Ellesmereand Chester Avatagel33.l.sh. 67
231 62/ Erewasn
6,485 eV. Forth and Clyde l9Ol. sn. 1001. pd. l'2
11,45.5 76. Grand .o unction 1005. en 118
9,9494 255. Grand Union ....... 1001. th t 7
1,500 ....... Grand Surrey .. ......... .....1001.sh. 15
1,0001 41. percent. Ditto (optional) Loan 1001.
3,096 .. ..... Grand Western
600 13.125. Bd. Glamorganshire, Aver. c05t171a.1311.4d. 'llO
749 121. Grantham ..... ........ .. 1501 h ale
6,228 • Huddersfield! A veragei)/1. 65.8 d. sh. :0
100 ......... Kensington ....».». .... ..... leo sh. al Ipd 10
25,,22 01.155. Kennet tnd Avon, Av. 391.1e5. 10d. s h 123 i
11,6994 11.10 s. Lancaster Average 471.65. 8d t 752
2,0279 301. Leal sand Liverpool lOOl.l h 640/2
546 f 111. 10s. Leicester 1401.5 t 145
1,897 51.95. Leicester & Northampton Aver 831.10: 'll
4409 101. Monmouthshire 1001.21 `.'nn
950 131. Melton Mowbray . .... .....• 11.41.s h. 117
500 251. Mersey and Irwell lOOl. ab . 5.41
3,000 1/. 106. Macclesfield lOOl. sh. all! d 15
247 171. Neath 1001.,h. 31'6
2.400 51. Peak Forest.... ..... Av el wge about 751.5 b. 55
1,418 %1. Regent's (or London) Av.321.101.8d. :h. 14
6,169 V. Roshdale ........... .........Average 851. ah. 58
SOOBI. Shropshire ..... ........... .......... /351.5h. 1.,5
800 111. 10s. Somerset Coal ........ lsol.sh. 174
MOO/. 6 percent Ditto Lock Fund Stock ..» 121.105. eh . 114
700 Sdi. Stafford and Worcestec..... l4ol.sh . 686
500 151, ihrewsbury . ....................... 1:23/. sh. 280
300 in. Stnurbridge -....... 1451. th. 396
3,247 21. Os. Stratferd_on-Avori ,t0cr....791. Os. kt.th. 33
Swansea . .................... I A. 265
532 1241 - .......... 001.
3,762 91. 121. Severn and 'Wye &Railway Av.. - LI/s.sh. 45
2,500i5h. 32/, 102, Trent and Mersey, } share lOOl. A.
8,149 "'.... Thames and Medway Av. 191.55. ed. Ih. 2
11"1,,-1 ,
141. Warwick and Birmingham . lowan 13
1,0901 s h.
980 10g. Warwick and 8 api,o 1001.2 h. 117
7,000 41 Worcester & Birmingham Av.76/.81.411. 55
5,000 36a. Wilts and Berk,' Averace 071. 10s Bd. sh. 19
No g„ Wizlev and E.singtoo 12rd.sh 14
W.soescn ::::::. ah. :Si)
.26 .... ...
905 l'i Wey and Arun. ............. llOl. en. '2O

DOCKS.

2,000 k 1 sp. c. Commere al ea,. 1061.6h. 61
1,06514 h.
5 per cent. Fast and West India ....Stock 110
,1 ,835,31011. 3jl.p.ct. London . .... ....Stock e21,,i
Ditto Bonds
2,209 31.65. sd. Bristol Average 1171. Os. sh . 75
68,324/. 51. percent. Ditto Notes, various amounts loo
552,752 5 percent. St. Katharine ....... ..... Stock 102%
500,000 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds - idl
24.6(0 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years
Deptford Pict 2Ol. sh. 20/. pd 10
BRIDGES.
1,600 11. Hammersmiti! .....„.....„.. 501., h, 2134
1,231 .. ...... . Ssuthwark, 0164........ Av. 631. 2s. ed. eh.
1,7e0 il. 15s. Ditto, Now. of 7i per cent., 501. eh . 19
osooo .... Waie5100...............................1004 eh. 3
8,000 211 Od. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8/ 601. poi 18,
5,000 191. Sd. Ditto, New Ditto of 71. 4Ol. pd 14
50,0001. 5/.gr cent. Ditto Bonds ••••••••••••••••• .......... 111
MCI Vauxhall .........Average 701. 10e. 3d. sh. 48%
ASSURANCE COMPANIES.
2.000 3110 s Albion ....... .5001. sh. 50/. pd Co
53,000 €6P cell Alliance British &Foreignlool.sh. 111. p 4 14%
and Is.
51,000 6 percent. Ditto, Marine 1004 eh. 5/. pd 5%
24,000 111. per sh. Atlas 5Ol. eh. 54 pd 14%
I,2oo}sh. 51. Birmingham V ire 2501. 5h.551. pd 1075 y
20,000 44percent. British Fire 2501.5h. 50/. pd 41
15,000 61. per cent. British Commercial .504 sb. 54 pd 6
5,000 51. per cent. Clerical & Medical Life, ICOLsh.2/10s1x1 6%
4.000 210 s County lool.Bh. 104 pd 10
20,000 3s. Eagle. 50/. eh. 54 pd 4%
200 r 5 per
30 cent./
/and : be. Economic Lite 16001. sh. 2501. pd 406
2,271 22s.per cent. European Li, 20/. sh, all rid 22
50,000 ne. Ditto, New 204 eh. 21. pd 174
1.000,000/. (/. per et Globe Stork 192
20,000 51* Guardian
30,000 is. 01. Hope 504 sh. 51. pd 5%
2400 5/. 12s. ltd. Imperial Eire SOO!. sh. 501. pd 142
7,500 10s. ed. imperial Lite 1004.0. 10/.1.d 11,
13,45.1 54 per neat. Indemnity Marine Mash. 8/. pd 24%
4,020 31 10a Kent Fire ....................504sh. all i.d 91
31. Ditto Life 1,04 pd
10,000 tilis Law Life lOOl. eh. 101. pd 33
5,000 Its. London, Fire 05/. eh. 124 10e. pd 17
2,000 10e. London, Ship .. ......0.54 sh. 121. 10s. pd 17
1.00,0064 ... ..... Minerva Life 1004 sh.
25,000 51. per cent. National Loan Fun:L.2ol. sh 2/. 10s. pd 2%
30,000 M. per cent. Palladium Lite 504 sh. Si. pd
50,000 5!. per cent. Protector Life 001. sh. 2/. pd 18,0 d
2),0110 4 per cent. Protestant Dissenters .... tOO!. sh. 5/. pd 554
~,500 14 Provident Lire ...«.«..... 1001. sh. 10/. pd 20
10",(430 44. Od. Rock Life ........... .................... 2414 4
60i,"2N 54 percent. Royal Exchange Stork 170
0,004 5 per cent. University Life 100/. sh. 51. pd 11
10,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 1001. sh. 51. pd
.. , . - JOINT STOCK BANKS.
25,1 (NI ... ...... A gri c. and Cum. of I relantl2sl. sh. 10/. pd
15,0110 A per cent. Australasia 404 eh. 401. pd Si .
10,000 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham 504 eh. 104 lid 1334
•10,006.:10 percent. Birmingham Bank
33,000 6 percent. London & Westminster 1001. eh. 5104 pd 2216
60,000 3/. London Joint Stock 50/. sh. 101. pd 131x1
3,008 4 per cent. Lancaster lOO4 sh. 201. pd 30.
25.0,11 Ili per cent. Liverpool 100/ eh. 1214 pd 19
50,0130 74percent, Manchester and Liver-
pool Dis-onnt } 504 sh. 151 pd 19%
20,000 7 per ro-4t. Manchester lool.Bh. 104 pd 4%
10,000 8 per cent. Provincial Bank of 1 relandlool. sh. 254p0l 42
10,001) 6 ten. cent National Bank of Ireland 504 sh. 176/. pd i 5%
10,000 6 per cent National Provincial Eng.lool. eh. -351. pd 85%
10,400'' Ditto New... ........ loi. sh. 10/. Id i 014
13,003 Gloucestershire ....... 5Ol. eh. 101. pd 82
6,000 10 per cent., Hampshire 501.4h. 51. pd 1%
GAS LIGHT AND COKE CONIPANIES.
2,500 ins 03 Bath 2Ol. sh. ler pd 22
4,1it,'0 ........ British tOt. eh. 16/. 1,1 1914
~„,, c 51.oercent. Ditto Provincial 2O/. sh. 191. pi 52%
, s's." land Be. 6s.
. 61128 51 10s Birmingham 50/. eh. 101
6:n10 V tie Bristol 2O/. sh. P 6
2,,35„ .st its Brlghton .01. sh. 14
730 31 los Ditto, New on/. sh. I SI. pri 9
2,471' 41 p-r cent Brighton General 204 50. 3111 d 934
4,000 71. 19s. Continental Conaniidat ,1 -.75/. 62)/.pd 110
1000 104 City ot London.. ....... ....lON. sh. all pd liss
, 4CIO 01. Ditto, New lOO4O. :all PO
,000 ;IL 0.. Equitable 5Ol. id 03
10,000 34 percent. Imperial 5ll/. sh. 68%
800 54 per cent. Isle of Thanes 251. sh. 20/.1.d 10
1,350 61. per cant. independent .2044 h. all /, Llt
0,000 54 percent. Phoenix 504 .h. 094 i.d z.m.,,
i,oco 44 per cent. Ratcliff lOOl. sh. 90/. / d VI
4,1100 South Metropolitan 501. eh." *NI. rd 18
9.000 5/.per teat. United General 50/. eh. 47/. pd 29
240 51. per cent. Warwick 5Ol. eh. 50
400 54 per cent Wakefield ..... 251. sh. 42
2,000 3/. Westminster Chartered
6,01 12s. Ditto New ....... ........51 Ls h 10/. pd 113 i
760 3 per cent. Yarmouth 2Ol. eh. 181. pd
WATER WORKS
5;09 345. Birmingham 251. sh. 254 pd 21
4,433 81, East London 1001. sh. ISO
, ' 500 21 15s. Grand Junction Average 411. 13e. 4d. eh. 6•2
.
1,000 a.. Kent 1004 oh. 515 j
372 19!. Liverpool Bootle 2204, sh. 8,25
1,500 2110 s New River London Bridge Water Ann... 60
6,486 21 105 - Manchester and Salford. ..... IOW. eh. .54
1,000 8 per cent. South London 1004 sh. VA
9,294 411. West Middlesex Average 631.1125. Pd. sh. 1834
. 1.360 11 14s York Building Go. Lessee Prop. 1001. sh. 36
IRON RAILWAYS.
Aan 2/. Os. Birmingham and Derby .... 100/ pd 31
9,500 ...... .. Birmingham and Gloucester ICM. pd 40
15,4110 4 per cent. and Exeter .... ..... 1001. sh: 70 pd 46
7,500 Cheltenham& G. Western ...1001.sh. 80/. 2.1
3,000 ... ..... Clarence ........ .... . .... 100/. eh. 1001 pd 20
8.000 ......... Dublin and Drogheda 100/. sh. 5/. p.l
ten ooe .......„. Eastern Counties 251. sh. 234 pd sli
10,000 21 per cent. Great North of England 1001. sh. 1004 pd 55
19,918 12 per cert. Grand Junction lOOl. sh. all psi 171
el5,nOG *percent. Great Western 1604 sh. 654 rd 82
21,000 3 per cent. Ditto New 501. eh. 501. po 591,%
2.006 8 per sent. Hartlepool 1001. ale 1001. pd 145%
44100 1 pet cent. Hull and Selby .501. eh. 504 pd 37%
2,100 4 per cont. Leeds and 5e1by........... ......... , .... 100 ell, r 5
8,1440 10 per cent. Liverpool& Manchester 1et....., 1004 pd 19354
7,48 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares 504 pd 91
11.865 la per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 051. pd 45
egoei ......... London and Brighton 50/. sh. 501 pd 36%
24,000 ....... London and Blackwall 25/. sh. 254 pd 6%
twin° 3 per cent. London and Greenwich -.204 Os. 401. pd 5
25,000 9 per sh. London & Birmingham 100/, sh. 901. pd 19314
25,000 2r, 7a. rd. Ditto Quarter Shares-2548h. 25/. pd 4-4
31,850 31.25. 4d. Ditto New Shares 317. sh. 324 pd 31
46,2.00 3 per aii. tendon and S. Western Av. 431, 15s. (II .5714
?,..
33,000 ........ London and Croyden Av. 134 151. Ii
i
Ditto Nifiv Scrip.
11,000 31.13 e per eh; Menehester and Lee Dd. h5...100/. sh. 70e d 4.0
Amu .... ..... Ditto Half Shares -i.,
504 304 pd 01
AOOO 4.1. Manchester and Birmingham 701.5 h. 404 2134
Ditto Extension 7l. pd
- ....
s.
9.000 :11. W. Midland Counties 'oo4 sh. 100/. id Su
1, ow sae oe. North Midland 1001. sh. 100/ pd sgar
14 Os, Ditto New 404 pd to, 54
~2,,,i ulna. Northern and Eastern.... 50/. sh 451. pd s 5
'l.titio
........ Preston and Wire
_. ...... 50/. sh 20/. pd :in
(03,000 4 per cent. South Eastern and Dover 504 pd 233 i
10i 0 10/. pee cent. Stockton and Darlington ...... -100/. oh. 265
y.OOO •_Thames Haven , .501. sh 5/. pd
14.000 taper cent. York and NMINES orth Midland 50 . eh. 501. pd 93
....
8,000 ..
Albion Copper 54 h. 2.1/. pd 12
...
s Alto) lsl.ah 12/. Its pd 1%
4,1X)0 X
11. 15- Anglo Mexiran,iss. NI. pm.lool. sh. al 10 2
h)00" '''''''. Ditto Subscription ..................251. pc 2%
Bolanos l5O/. eh all pa 5,4
12‘ad 11.....
....
Britallianlmp.iss.s4 pm 2548 h . 911.1 pd j.,14
"A-'no lo,s. Macaubas & Locate United 251. s h. 251. pd 4%
11-7iiin ""
....
Ditto St. John Dal Rey 2OL sh. 144 pd 1%
j - 'OOO .......... Soli var Cower Company, 201.5 h. 201. pd 1
.'0(- ............ Ditto Scrip .... 104 sh. 10/. pel 2
10;
4 ......... British Iron lOOl. sh. 701. pd 8
2°.00". - .... ' British Copper.... .......... .54 sh. 41d.pd .14
Cats Be.s.dCa 44 pd 54
•Y• ...... 711. pd 5
Candonga.......
10;100 I / Copiapo .... ......-... ..... 204 eh. 13/. psi 0
8,5(00 ~
2.850 •i/, English ...................... . ..... ...144 Gs, pi:di 2
20000 4%
General MiningAssociation2o4ah.l 4
6,135 ••""•••
81 • ' n Coinpsny ......... 1001. sh. re/ pd 1
name
3.06 e - ...... ...10/. sh. 84 pd 4
11.500
110,0e01)itto Loan Notes 1501. pd 40
...... United Mexican, iss. 2 pm. 40/. sh. all pd i %
3,4
Dan. Scrip
Ditto New Scrip 2l 2s. /661 2%
West Cork ......... ....... ...SOL sh 501. pd is
1.000
_LITERARY INSTITUTIONS.
l• ••••...„
•-..... London, with Bronze Ticket ...7.5g5. 3h, 14
......... London University
160 ........ Russell. sh. all r., ,;
~,,,,, sh. 5 i
King' College
ELLANEOUS. lOC/. 18
le, oon 35e. A u sNtirlaSi 'CI
.Vicultural.loo/.'mh. 30: pd 80
6,000 1, percent. British Anin Land Company 3. 1,. prf 1)
10.000 01. per cent. Canada C0n3.0:,'"
City Bonds. 4 pst,Gatti
... . : ... :......7.."....... . I
30,000 51. per cent. Upper Cana . Loan,. l'ine. '1" '3'24l' P 4 3"
20,000 IL Gs. GeneralSteamN7vcen ..... : ... •-• ...... .. .. . !co
101.percant. Hudson's Ray h.;14/.pd :.),i,
11. London Coin. Sale 110.0.ni--; ..
".. ............... r"
..... ..„, Caoctichonc Company .. . Av. 754 sh. 19%
New Brunswick Land C0;;;1....---,.- I ;111.1...4,i if'-
,357 aL per cent. Heversienary Int. Soc...loo;%C•ii;:. i.-• ....4:g
~c,a4 5/. per cent. Ditto New ............ ..100/."0„- =1.1,d 1(5
4.000
..... Thames 'f unn el .... - ....... ZN, Shop: --:.
" In 7
Van Diemer.'s Land.... 114 n.,)„. 1031.11`4! -?
10.000 di.

Pd B~y

LIST of SCOTTISH COMPANIES' pp
(XT. J, 1842. Ck:S

BANKS.

V( O,OOIP 84 p. ct. Bank of Scotland ...83/ es. Ild .. h al; pd , ,
..
1)000,0601 @l. p. ct. Rep! of Scotland..... ....... 100/.a h. siipd 1
25
500.000/. 81. p. et. Bricuh Lipen Company...loo/.sh. :,11pd 21001
600,900/. 71. p. ct. Commercial 5101.1h.l 00/, pd !L2
500,0 Me. Gn. et. National 08/.sh 10/. pd it
504,000/. 81. p. ct. Glafgow Union 2501. sh. 50/, pd 75
1,000,0001. Bp. et. Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh 401. pd fa
INSURANCE CO3IPA NIES.
:s"h. 61 P• Ct. Scottish Unton ...............20/. sh. 1/. pd ..24* Od,
7.500 10 p. et. Hercules • 1001. sh. 10!. Pd 1214
100,000 lo p. et. Insurance Co. of Scotland .101. sh. all pd 814
50,000 10 p. ct. North British 2001. sh. 101. pd 19%
1,000 10 p. ct. Caledonian Fire 1(Y)!. sh. 101. pd tea
5,000 10 p. a. Edinburgh Life 100/. sh . 101. pd 15
610,000 3} P. et. West of Scotland lOl. pd

MISCELLANEOUS.
4,818 ......... Edin. And Glas. Un. Canalso/.sh. 311 pd
Ditto Allocated 90/. sh. all pd
125,4114. per cent. Edinb. Joint ItQck Watcr f. 35/, sh all pd
1.0003 b 24 per cent. Shotts Iron I•ounctery 50/ sh 481 pd
ooko 3 per cent. Edinburgh &Leith Glass tto/. sh. 16!. pd
4.500 10 per cent. Edinburg', Co•ti Gas ......... =l5/.sh. all pd
1,450 10 per cent.
......
...... 254 sh. all pd
750 7i per cent • Leith Coal Gas ..... • .20/.0. all pd
Edinburgh and Dalkeithitatiway 501. sh

WOODCOCE:S.—A fine woodcock was shot last week
in the parish of Ippleden,Devonshire, by Ti'. Cour-
tenay Drake--a remarkable instance of the early ap-
pearance of this far-famed visitant.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

GLOBE.—The autumnal agricultural meet-
ings, now in course of being holden in the oar--
cultural districts, promise to be more than
usually productive of matter deserving of, public
regard. For this more than average crop of good
things suitable to the season, we are indebted to
the seed sown by Sir Robert Peel in the spring,
and especially to the introduction of the new
and improved system comprised in his Corn-law
and Tariff; which, like most innovations, have
been strenuously resisted by many, and have
been regarded with jealousy by most, of the
lords and cultivators of the soil. We have on
more than one occasion given a sample of the
produce supplied by the Waltham meeting, at
which the American Minister brought things
new and strange before the agriculturists of the
midland counties. The Duke of Rutland, as
President of the meeting, in exhorting the farm-
ing and grazing interests of the kingdom to post-
pone their judgment upon the effects of the
Government measures, evidently sought to con-
ciliate the irate agriculturists. The amiable
effort has, however, brought heavy reproaches
on his own head from the organs of the interests
whose "protection" the Premier has ventured to
invade. The Essex Herald—through whose
columns the Essex farmers pour forth their sor-
rows, positive and prospective—refuses to find
consolation in the proffered cup presented by
the hands of the Duke of Rutland. His Grace
had assured the Waltham meeting—and through
that meeting the agricultural interests of the
country—that if the measures, the enactment' of
which had occasioned so much apprehension in
their minds, should supply any real grounds of
alarm, those whose policy had inflicted the mis-
chief will set all right again by the employment
of some counteracting measures. The Duke of
Rutland seems to consider the great State
Physician in the light of a mere empiric; who,
if he has caused a derangement in the system
by the employment of a pill unsuited to the
constitution, and unfit for allaying the
malady of the patient he undertook to cure, will
try another of the numerous drugs he has in
his pharmaceutical budget, by the operation
of which he will endeavour to " set all to rights
again." The Government, says his Grace, " will
make the most vigorous exertions in order that
things may be set to rights again." . Of this the
limiters, and the farmers' friends, are by no means
sanguine. They rather fear" further changes," of
which those they have recently witnessed with
dismay are but precursive. "Even now," says the
Essex Herald, " with a prospect not very cheer-
ing before them, all the farmers desire is not to
be checked in their exertions by uncertainty, and
the threat of further changes." The fears of the
Essex farmers are well founded. So sure as the
changes of the late session are now law, further
changes are inevitable. The principles launched,
and the doctrines propounded by Sir Robert Peel
in vindication of those changes, are instinct with
life and energy.
STANDARD.—It can no longer be denied
that England has its war faction as well as
France, and that the most prominent of the or-
gans of that faction in this country are as inde-
fatigable in the pursuit of their common object
as either the National or the Courrier Frangaie.
M. Thiers, at the most violent crisis of his
war fever, did not rave with greater vehe-
mence of the benefit to be derived from placing
France in collision with all the world,
than do his English imitators against wliat
ever policy would seem to have a pacific. or
concilatory object. Having dune their best to
bring England into collision with two of the
greatest and most respected of her allies, France
and America—having wounded the amour propre
of France by a profitless discourtesy, and pi\)-
yoked the angry feeling of America by needless
and impotent menaces—the British war factiOn
is, as may be supposed, the first to quarrel with
the policy by which the consequences of its own
rashness and folly have been averted. Havinc, be-
queathed to their successors a war in India, whiche'
has been attended by disasters of the most appall-
ing description, and an invasion of China, in which
an enormous amount of life and treasure has
already been squandered without any result
that can warrant such sacrifice, the organs
of the late Government denounce every manifes-
tation of a desire to terminate so useless and un-
profitable a state of warfare in language of the
most indignant deprecation; and without the
opportunity of making themselves acquainted
with the full extent of difficulty bequeathed to
them by their predecessors, stigmatise the pre-
sent Government for the very eflbrts it is making
to overcome it. Not content with a series of
articles deprecating the respective topics of Lord.
Ashburton's treaty with America, the Morniny
Chronicle has fallen upon the correspondence.
in which that treaty originated; attributing
to Lord Ashburton the most apathetic dis-
regard of the interests of his country,
because he found himself either unable to carry
all his original propositions, or was induced to
forego them for concessions which lie considered
of equal value. The aim of Lord Ashburton, as
exhibited in the correspondence which has been
so unfairly commented upon, was less the appa-
rent value of the object in dispute than the
establishment of a good boundary line between
the two countries, so as to prevent collision and
dispute, and an unobstructed communication of
our colonies with each other. This object lie ap-
pears to have achieVed, and if he could have
accomplished all that he contemplated in the
letters which contained his propositions to
Mr. Webster, no negotiation would, in
point of fact, have been necessary. There
must be two sides to a discussion of
this description; and although it was perfectly
right for Lord Ashburton to make out Ls strong
a case as possible in support of his propositions,
it by no means follows that he should have ad-
hered to them if he found that anything like an
equivalent could be obtained by their partial
abandonment. To hold Lord Ashburton to the
precise requisitions made by him in the early
stage of his negotiations would be about as ab-
surd as to make a distinguished advocate, who
had secured for his client a verdict in a court of
law, with which he is fully satisfied, and which
averts a hundred future disputes, responsible for
the claims he had felt it his duty to prefer in his
preliminary address to the jury.

ACCIDENT TO THE ISLE OF
THANET STEAMER.
FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
The Isle of Thanet steamer left Ramsgate yes.
terday morning at ten o'clock for London Bridge,
with about 200 passengers, I being one among
the number. Upon reaching the pier at Mar-
gate, we took in above 100 more passengers.
We left the harbour at the same time as the
The Royal Adelaide. Duchess of Kent was
ahead of us off Margate. W lien off the Recul-
vers, we were alarmed by the sudden escape 01
the steam from a pipe near the chimney, ac-
companied with a tremendnoubslno.ise, not un-
like that which occurs i
steam, but much louder, and the
os' the
page of the vessel. The Duchess of Kelnet which
was still ahead, instantly turned round, '
came4longside of us, and tendered assistance.
Royal Adelaide came on the other side; she,'
however, not only offered no assistance, but,
from some circumstance orpanostehn passengers on boars:egre,ranagaint
our paddle-box. Several as
our vessel shouted " Shame shame !" The
Captain of the Isle of Thanet having stated to
us that the escape of the steam was owing
to a plug having been forced out of one of
the cylinders, and that the accident would be
speedily rectified, we were satisfied ; and, after
a little delay, the steam was got up again, and we
proceeded on our voyage ; but just as we passed
the Isle of Sheppy, another and a loud explosion
of steam took place, which produced the utmost
consternation. The women and children screamed
and the male passengers insisted upon hailing
the Duchess of Kent, which was not far behind,
our Captain at the same time vociferating that
ih r was c, no danger." The Duchess of Kent was
happ ly slon alongside. I with several others
jump( d on boiid the latter vessel, and many
others wished to follow, but the Isle of Thanet
got away by the command of the Captain. We
proceeded onward, leaving the Thanet behind,
but after the lapse of half an hour. we found her
gaining upon us; she soon passed us, and was
quickly out of sight. Some of us shortly
afterwards retired into the saloon, from
Whence we were summoned on deck to witness
the condition of the Thanet. There she
was, about two miles below Gravesend, with her
rts aninagaceitelt id her3l anchorildi vigiftlolui the md
paddle-wheels,
1.1 i glvh
We
nas signalta ial
wentof
a lo distress,
ilg..
consequentlytnd tiillatthe "concentric wheel," col:-
e addle-wheels, had broken, and
latter could no longer re-
volve.
painful, Thefrom scene
eee here was indescribably
intense anxiety of all to
get on board the
Duchesseto of
Kent. The
Captain of the Than
201,
Iffered Captain Jones, of
the Duchess of Kent,
which the latter accepted. to tiiakaevilniigs p
got
s ae
inlgsearise,
on board, the Duchess
of Kent again started for
town, and after landinga great many persons at
erl..ondo
Black wall, we started 'fait. n Bridge, where
we safely arrived at minutes past eight
o'clock. It is but justice to. say that Captain
well throughout these distressing •
Jones, of the Duchess of Kent, behaved ex-
cir-
cc
ten
ne dsi
tnagnicye' s