The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-07 00:00:00

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SUN-OFFICE, Seven o' Clock,

PRICES OF CANAL, DOCK, ASSUR-
ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. &e. &c.
LONDON, FRIDAY, OCT. 7.
Number Dividend Pnst.
if per CANALS. per
Shares. Annum. Paid. Share.
1,74 6 7 pc: con LAshto n & Oldham...Average97l.lBs.sh. 93
1,4112 41. Ashby.de-le-Zouch ATCrage 1131.5 h. 71
.„260 Basingstoke... lOOl.l h . 5
1,065 11. Br ecknock and Abergavenny lsol.sh. 92
3,0001-16tb. 101. Birmingharn,l-16th share ...SU. & 711. Ist
Isim ........ Ditto & Liverpoo 1 Junct.lslol. 0.100 pd 21
1112 31. Bridgewater and Taunton.lool.-• all p 3 -
409 Si. Cheimer and Bieck water ..... ......,...sh . 101
506 321. Coventry .................... ..... . lool.sh. 305
... ..... Cr0yd0n............ Average3ll.2s.lod. sh .
2,0001 51. Os. Dudley 1001. sh .93
601 135. Derby lool.Bh . 120
0..)n0 6 per erns. Oanune and Mayne 411.135, 4 cl.pd 31
3,5751 4, E'lesmereand Chester AVl,rag e 13U.s h. 67
/31 i2l Erewasn
6,4N1 644. Forth and Clyde
11,458 71. Grand a unction ..«. ...... ......- ...... 1001. s n 118
ti,8494 255. Grand Onion lool.sh 27
1,5110 .. ...... Grand Surrey „„.... ..... .....100/.sh. 15
Lftrie, 11. percent. Ditto (optional) Loan 1001.
:39',16 .. .... Grand Western .... ........ ... 11. sh. allpd 10
100 13. 7-2.4. 6d. Glamnrganshire, Aver. cost 1721. 135.4 d. 110
749 121. Grant hVa ......... ............. .... 1501.s h. 220
6 238
100
15.323 01.155. Kennet and Avon, Av. 391.186.10.1. sh is
11,6414 11. 10s. Lancaster .., Average 471. 6s. 8d 97%
2,8974 301. Leed s and Liverpool lool.sh 680 s
5454 11. 105. Leicester 1401. sh 145
A,807 51.15. Letcesterk Northampton Aver 631.101 71
4,409 101. Monmouthshire .......... 1001.51. 200
250 131. Melton Mowbray ........• 1061.8 h. 117
100 251. Mersey and Irwell lOOl.O. 540
3,257 117 10s. Macclesfield lOOl. eh. all pd. 15
147 17/. Neath .......••.. ........ 1001. sh . 3'5
2,400 51. Peak F0re5t........A vcr .ge about 751.5 h. 55
1.413 %1. Regent's (or London) Av.331.165.8d.1.0. 56
sh. 1 4
209 Or. Rochdale Average 65
500 81. Shropshire ... ......................«..1251.,1.. 1.15
809 111.10 s. Somerset Coal ....... ........ ..... 1501.5 h. 1
1118
200 6rr cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock ......... 121. 105. sh . 1118
TOO 561. Stafford and Worcester. ..... .. ..... 14 6
01.01 86
500 151 Shrewsbury ...... ...... ......... 1251.
145/.5h. 2,3396
0
WO 0/. 3taurbridge ......... sh.
1,617 11. Os. Stratford-on-Avosi 4tver....791. Os. ftl.sk. 31
533 1111 Swansea . ......... . ........... 1001. sh. 265
3.782 V. 12s. Severn Wyeand
&Railway Av. 261.95. sh. 45
Meilen. a2l. 10e. Trent and !Kersey, i share lOOl. sh.
4..149 ........ Thames and Medway Av. 191.55. ed. sh. 2
volsgriehh:l 141. Warwick and Birmingham 1001.sh• 18
IMO 10.. Warwick and Napi.R'.... 1001.1 h. 117
1 Worcester & Birmingham Av.7B/.81.5h. 521
7,000 4
2,000 MR. Wilts and Bents Average 671. 10s Bd. sh. 19
ea fh, W g rlev and Essington 1251.5 h 74
~.16
....... W:socacn . ....... . ........ =.3h. no
005 .14 Wey and Arun llOl. in. 20
DOCKS.
ZOO° k 1 Sp. c. Commerce! ...........,....... SOOLsh. 61
1,16545 h.
Sper rent. P:ast and West India ................ Stock 110
3,138,310;1, 341.p.ct. London Stock 9214
Ditto Bonds
2,209 31.65. sd. Bristol ..... .............Averagc In 9s. sh . 75
168,324/. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various arneunti lO6
351,752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock 102%
°500,1440 44 per cent. Ditto Bonds ..»......... ........ ....... ... lOl
200.000 4 per cent. ittop Bonds for 10 years
...,., ....... Deptford Pier ..

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BRIDGES.
46110 11. Hammersmitt........... .. . .......... -..50/.9h. 215
1,231 Ssuthwark, Old -.Av. 631.25. 6d. sh.
1,790 I/. ISa. Ditto, New. of 71 per cent., 501. sh . 19
is,ooo Water 100...... lOOl. ah. 3
3,01)(1 225. 04. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81 001. p! 1814
5,000 • 19s. .id. Ditto, New Ditto of 71. 4Ol. pd 1454
""0,0001. 111. per cent. Ditto Bonds
5,849 27s Vauxhall .........Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh 28%
ASSURANCE COMPANIES.
2,000 31111$ Albion 5OOl. sh. 501. pd f 9
110,00,0 613neici clesin.t. Allianceßritish & Foreignlool. sh. 11/. pd 144,
#l,OOO 5 per cent. Ditto, Marine lOO/. sh. 51. pd 5%
24,000 i/. per sh. Atlas 501.6h. 51. pd 14%
1.20015 h. 5/. Birmingham Fire 0501. sh. 551. pd 1C714
:20,000 41. percent. British Fire 2501. sh. 501. pd 41
12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 5O/. sla. 5/. pd 6
5,000 51. per cent. Clerical & Medical Life, ICOLsh. 21108 pd 65¢
010 210 s County lool.Bh. 101. pd 10
90,000 As. Eagle 501. sh. 51. pd 434
ono f 5 Per cent. Economic Lile 16001.8 h. 250/. pd 400
? and 301 be.)
2,271 22s.per cent. European Li , , 20/. lb. all pd 22
50,000 os. Ditto, New 201. sh. 2/. pd 174
1.900,4001. f/. per c t Globe Stock It-2
:24,000 51. Guardian
;41100 4s. fe. Hope 5O/.lh. 51. pd AN
9,400 111. 123. 64. Imperial Fire 5OOl. sh. 501. pd 142
7,500 10s. fd. Imperial Lite lOO/. sh. 101. pd 11%
13,411, 5/. psr mgt. Indemnity Marine lOOl. sh. 81. pd 3419
2,020 31 103 Kent Fire 5Ol. sh. all pd 01
31. Ditto Life 5Ol. pd
111,000 (.15s Law Life lOOl. th. 10/. pd 31
5,000 161. London, Firo 251. sh. 121. 103. pd 17
3,900 10s. London, Ship 251. sh. 121. 103. rid 17
1,060,0001. ... ..... Minerva Life lON. sh.
25,000 51. :.,,er cent. National Loan Fund,.. 201. sh 24 liik. pd 23s
30,000 :,/. per sent. Palladium Lite .501. sh. 21. pd
50,000 V. per cent. Protector I; fe ..... VV. sh. 2/. pd 18,0 d
21,000 4 per cent. Protestant Dissenters .... 160/. sh. 51. pd 515
2.5,10 11. Provident Lite
kV) ).I'4o 4s. Pd. Rock Life ......-...... .......... .. ..... ... 21. pd 4
84,201 5/. percent. Royal Exchange Stock 170
'O,OOO 5 per cent. University Life 1001. sh. 5/. pd 11
10,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life..- 1001. sh. 5/. pd
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
25,000 Agric. and Corn. of 1 rel aud2sl. sh. 101. pd
15,000 A per cent. Australasia 401. sh. 401. pd 53
10,010 10 percent. Flank of Birmingham 501. sh. 10/. pd 1354
00,000 IC per cent. Birmingham Bank . 50/. sh. IN. rid 13
ti-t,cmo 6 percent. London & Westminster 1001 sh . 20/. rid 22!4
122,000 At London Joint Stock 50/. sh. 10/. pd 131 a
3,009 4 per cent. Lancaster lOOl. sh. 201. pd 30
95,001 10 per cent. Liverpool 1001 sh. 1241. pd 19
50,000 74 percent. Manchester and Liver ] 502 sh. 151 pd 10%
pool Disconnt
20,000 7 per rest. Manchester lOO/. eh. 10/. pd 4%
20,00 8 per eent. Provincial Bank of Irelandlool.sh. 251. pd 41i
10,009 5 per cent National Bank of Ireland 50/. sh. 171/.0 15%
10,080 6 per sent Natienal Provincial Eng.lool, sh. 351. pd 3514
10,005 Ditto New 101. sh. 101. pd 10)4
10.000 Gloucestershire .50/. sh. 101. pd 12
4.000 19per cent. Hampshire 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 9%
6AS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.
2,500 iiiB ild Bath .. .. ••••••••••••••••••« .... 401. sh. 101. T..
Mtn ..... ..•. 8riti5h.......... .......... ___
MO 111;:iitgIcseigl Ditto Provincial 2O/. sh. 191. pd 25%
19e 5l las Birmingham.... 50/. sh. 101
11.203 2/ Os Bristol 2O/. sh. 36
2,250 Si 1111 Brighton 2O/. sh. II
win 31 101 Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 16/. pi 9
2,471 41 per cent Brighton General 2Ol. sh. 111 pr) 014
4,1119 11. Ils. Continental Consolidated ....751. 0214 pd 110
2,000 10/. City of London.. ....... ...AO/. sh. all pd 193
5,000 (11. Ditto, New lOO/. sh. 75/. pd 150
1,000 31.0 A. E.quitable 5Ol. pd ZI
12,090 Si. per rent. Imperial 561. sh. fleg
800 51. per cent. Isle of Thanet i. YU. sh. 201. pd ig
2,350 6/. per cent. 1 rideliendent 101.3 h. all r, 54;
I,ooe It. per cent. Phi:mix 5Ol. sh. 39/. pd 31
o,otlo V. ner cent. RA:lllff A 100!. sh. 50401.p4 c6t,
9,000 South Mropolitan 501. sh.- P 3541. pd IS
PAO Al. per mt. United General 50/. sh. 471. pd .9
240 51. per cent. Warwick 5Ol. sh. 50
400 M. per cent Wakefield
2,000 3/. Westminster Chartered ..... sol.sh. tp
8,00 Its. Ditto New MI. sh. 101. pi 11%
710 3 per cent. Yarmouth
201. sh. 181. pd
vi ATE/t WORKS.
4,800 Ole. Birmingham 25: sh 23/. pd 21
41,433 81. East London 100/. sh. 11!0
5,500 11l lis. Grand Junction Average 411. 13s. 4d. sh. 62
111,000 2/. Kent 1001. sh. 594
372 IN. Liverpool Bootle 220/. ch. 3.5
1,509 2/19p NSW River London Bridge Water Ann... to
6,491 21 10s Manchester and Salford ........... lOO/.sh. 54
1,000 5 per cont. South London lOO/. sh. 111
8,2111 411. West Middlesex Average 631.1125. 9d. sh . 1854
1.360 11-14 s York Building f,o. Lessee Prop. 1001. sh. 36

',401. sh. 161.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—The Herald does most potently re-
mind us of Mause Headrigg, who had no opinion
of human devices in threshing and winnowing
corn, and was for trusting to the aid that " Pro-
vidence would send on the shieling hill."
" ' The established prayers and thanksgivings of the
Church,' we are told, were framed by men who
thought cheap food a blessing to the nation.' They
were men, we reply, who thought that scarcity and
dearth' were a 'just suffering for our iniquity'—a
punishment for our sins with adversity ;' they were
men who thought the supplication of the Divine mercy
and goodness was the only sure and holy means of re-
lief, and that cheapness and plenty' were in His
hands, who for our benefit temporarily afflicted us
with dearth and scarcity.' These are thoughts
wholly unknown to the Chronicle and its patrons—
unfortunately too much unknown by the generality
of mankind in these days—when human agency is
openly regarded as the best means of controlling God's
blessed will and ordinances?'
Here is the Spirit of the East with a witness !
Prayer, not precaution, is the way to secure
plenty. Human agency is not to be regarded as
the means to human ends. Why what stupid prac-
tical blasphemy is this ! -What was our reason
given us for ? Why were we endowed with any
more forecast than the beasts that perish, or the
wild Indians who perish too, when they have made
no winter-provision? "The only sure and holy
means of relief" are the labours of our heads and
hands. Prayer is no means of relief for outward ne-
cessities; it is only such Sinners Saved as the late
William Huntington, who pretend to expect
material answers to all their supplications. That
notorious personage prayed for a pair of breeches
on one occasion, which of course came, and he
thereupon returned thanks to the Divine Being
for not only having disposed the mind of the
donor to give, but also instructed his fingers to cut,
as be had never had a better fit in his life. These
are the practical blasphemies which men are led
into by this passive pietism. To regard " human
agency" as opposed to God's"will and ordinances,"
is the worst practical blasphemy of all. Who
made man capable of action ? What were his
capacities of action and calculation given him
fin., but to be exercised with faith in the bless-
ing of Heaven on that exercise ? Qui laborat,
orat. Provident efforts imply faith in a higher
Providence. They imply faith in that order
established and sustained by a higher Provi-
dence. Man was meant to co-operate, as a free
and rational agent, in that order—not. of course,
excluding acts of devotion and thanksgiving
to the Source of all good—but not mistaking
those acts for " means of relief" from those out-
ward necessities for which God has given us
heads and hands expressly that we may relieve
ourselves. The Herald's doctrine of " the only
sure and holy means of relief" would lead it, by
very easy gradations, to promenade the image of
one Saint to stop an epidemic, or liquefy the
blood of another, to stop an eruption.
STANDAR D.—The Opposition journals have
found what, were not the subject too sacred, we
should call familiarly " a mare's nest," in the
beautiful prayer appointed to be used in grati-
tude for the late bounteous harvest. These
pious and orthodox critics have discovered
that a new form of thanksgiving has been
substituted for that to be found in the
Liturgy, merely to get rid of the words
cheapness and plenty contained in the latter.
Now, the answer to this complaint of our Con-
temporaries is very short. Cheapness and plenty
are• the contraries of dearness and scarcity, and
the form of thanksgiving in the Liturgy insisted
upon, expressly refers to a previous condition
of dearth and scarcity; but comparing the
late year or two with preceding years, we
have no evidence of • either dearness or
scarcity, though we have too painful proof of
suffering from want of employment. The prices
, of 1841, 1842, have not ranged materially higher
than the average of preceding years, while the
ahsence of scarcity is sufficiently attested by
the clamour we have lately heard npon the
unloading of the bonded warehouses. There has
therefore been no dearth or scarcity in the
direct and plain meaning of the words, and to
employ a form of address to the God of Truth
affirming either, would be an irreverent levity,
if not something more gravely impious. . This
goes to the substance of the question, but the
formal obstacle to the use of the thanksgiving in
the Liturgy is equally insurmountable.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Bengal Hurkaru, Aug. 12.)
STATE OF THE MARKETS.

We give our usual notice of the state of commer-
cial affairs here ; which have not, however, assumed
that active condition we had expected to have found
when we last wrote : one reason of which may, we
think, be found in the corresponding action produced
by the dull state of the home market shown in the last
mail that reached us, arising from the delay that has
taken place in the final decision on the Tariff, and the
next mail is, therefore, looked to with some degree of
anxiety by our merchants here. Freights continue
also at a very low ebb, 3.55. being taken for dead
weight, and we have even heard of one transaction
below that sum. This has given encouragement to
shipments, which have, however, been chiefly under
drafts against the consignments, not above half having
been taken up in the market.
MONET MARKET.—The demand made by the Court
of Directors of 2s. ld. for their bills having had, as
was to be expected, its full effect on remittances to
this place, prevented our markets from being much
affected by the arrival of the mail, and it must be
some time yet before the arrival of the specie which
had been shipped can give its due effect of liveliness to
our market, which, however, continues in a healthy
state. The rates of exchange have, for some little
time past, been rather favourable to the buyer; and
as it is well known that a considerable amount of bills
is now in the market, the prices now quoted of Is. 113-d.
to Is. Hid. may be expected to exceed 2s. by the time
the Express leaves.
Imports of European goods have experienced rather
more activity than when the last overland left us ;
but they have been considerable during the month,
and much exceeding those of the same period in last
year. There still exists, however, among the mer-
chants in the upper provinces, a want of confidence
in bills on Calcutta houses, and this has a considerable
effect on the market for such goods as are usually
taken by them in large quantities at this time of year.
Cou-sna PRODUCE.—Indigo having arrived at that
period of the season when an estimate may be formed
with some degree of accuracy excites much interest,
and we regret that the close of the season at most of
the Bengal factories, which has, by this time, taken
place, shows a very bad prospect for the planters,
most of whom will think themselves fortunate
if they cover their outlay. We last month de-
tailed the bad state of many districts, and in
these we have to note that the continuance of
a heavy fall of rain has put an end to the small
hopes that then remained of a recovery of the later
sown plant. Poorneah, which we then noticed as
less reduced from the season than most other districts,
has since suffered severely to the north and west.
Some parts of Shahabad still promise well, as does
also what plant there is in Bhagulpore. In the upper
provinces they have commenced manufacturing, but
their dependence is confined even there, where a long
continuance of fine weather raised good hope for the
out-turn, to the koon tee, as the very heavy
falls of rain that have visited them in the latter
end of July must have done much injury to
Ushulah sowings. The quantity of rain fallen in the
last two months in Calcutta and its neighbourhood
has exceeded thirty-five inches, whilst in some of the
Bengal districts full ten inches more has appeared by
the rain-guages to be the quantity ; it will, therefore,
be readily believed that but little colour can remain in
the plant under such a drenching. We have seen a
memorandum of estimate made by a gentleman of
several factories which he has lately visited, some of
them holding marks that secure good prices in the
market ; this shows that at certain concerns that last
Year turned out 26,500 maunds, there will not this
year be more than 8,500 maunds. Information too,
from all quarters, on which we can place reliance,
induces our estimating the probable crop at less than
85,000 maunds, which will doubtless have its due
influence on the home market to the benefit of those
who have been able to hold. Little now remains of
our last year's crop in Calcutta, the past month's de-
parture having taken away 4,050 maunds to Great
Britain, and 18 maunds elsewhere, 140,289 maunds
being the quantity that has left Calcutta up to the
present period.
Suosa.—The last month began with an extensive
demand for Benares sugars of first and second qua-
lities, at exorbitantly high rates, which only lasted
until the arrival of the overland brought us accounts
of the decline or price for this species of sugar in
the London market, which, though only small, yet
brought the article below a remunerative rate, and
satisfactorily proved that the prices holding in our
market would barely yield a remittance, set aside
all profit. A stagnation took place in the market,
consequent on this news, and when it re-opened
it was at a decline of from 4 to 6 annas, since
when but few lots have been taken up, even
on the reductions, and no business done in this article
to any extent. As was before stated, we still con-
sider that middling descriptions continue to offer the
best prospect to the speculator, to whom the extraor-
dinary low rates of freight offer yet stronger induce-
ments. The shipments of July were '208,893 mds.
against 117,435 mds. in the same month of last year,
the prices ranging even higher than at that time, and
othfealal merchantable and fine sugars
vdeersacgreiprtaiote:sobfeginogodabout 10 per cent. in all July
r more than when our last mail left this ; though at the
present time rates are at about the same standard.