The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,_ MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1845:

The jury immediately found the prisoner Guilty,
and the " Major" was sentenced to be transported for
1U year&

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
QUEEN-SQUARE.
CAUTION TO LICENSED VICTUALLF.RS.--Isaac Har-
man and William Nicholson, two ill-looking fellows, the
former of whom had a severe black eye, were on Satur-
day placed at the bar, charged with uttering counterfeit
half-sovereigns, under the following novel and peculiar
circumstances :
Mr. William Bryson, the son cf the proprietor of the
Two Brewers, Brewer's-green, Westminster, stated that
on last Tuesday evening the prisoners came into his
father's house, and called for some shrub, in payment
for which Harman tendered a sovereign. The change,
amongst which was a half-sovereign, was placed upon
the counter before them, when Nicholson observed that
he had coppers enough to pay for the liquor, and that
witness could give back the sovereign, as there was no
necessity for Harman to change. Nicholson then put
' down fourpence-halfpenny, and witness having returned
the sovereign to Harman, took up the change from the
counter, which was, to all appearance, the same as he
had placed there. The prisoners then went out, when
witness on a sudden suspecting that something was
wrong, examined the change, and found that a counter-
feit
half-sovereign had been substituted by the fellows
for the genuine one he bad originally placed on the
counter.
Mr. Thomas Lee, the proprietor of the Rochester
Arms, Rochester-row, said, that the prisoners came in
on Friday evening, and Harman, who pretended to be
drunk, called for a glass of ale, and threw down a sove-
reign. Prosecutor gave him a half-sovereign and some
silver, and was counting some copper money to complete
the change, when he saw Harman take the good half-
sovereign up and substitute a spurious one for it. He
immediately took the latter up and examined it, and, on
his throwing it down upon the counter, llarman sud-
denly put it in his mouth and swallowed it. Prisoners
tried to get away, when he hit Harman, and held them
both till a constable came.
On being called t.pon for their defence, Harman said,
" It's worry unpolite on him to give me this here black
eye, and when I gets out I'll look arter him ;" and Ni-
cholson said it was all wrong that had been said against
him.—They were remanded till Monday.
THAMES POLICE.
CHARGE OF MURDER.—An Irishman, named Simon
Hill, a glass-blower, who is about 29 years of age, was
brought before Mr. Ballantine, charged with the wilful
murder of Jane Thrussell, in a low lodging-house, kept
by a woman named Sheehan, in Blue Anchor-yard,
Roesmary-lane, Whitechapel.
The death of the unfortunate girl, and the circum-
stances under which it took place, have caused great
excitement in the district. The place where the murder
took place is a narrow, dirty, ill-paved alley, leading out
of Rosemary-lane, which is chiefly inhabited by the
lower classes of the Irish, who have made a lodgment
in a great number of dilapidated tenements, few of which
possess any legal owners. In the house, No. 5, Blue
Anehor-yard, one of the dirtiest, and most ruinous of the
Irish freeholds, the prisoner lodged, with many others, in
the midst of filth and pestilence. From the evidence it ap
peared that the deceased, a Yorkshire girl, who came
from Newsholm, near Howden, about six months ago,
lodged in the same house, and was in the receipt of an
allowance of 4s. per week, which was forwarded to her
monthly by her friends in the north. On Friday morn-
ing, about half-past ten o'clock, the prisoner came home
drunk, and entered the room where Mrs. Sheehan, the
landlady, and the deceased were in bed. Mrs. Sheehan
asked Hill for some rent, and he refused to pay her any.
They began quarrelling, and the prisoner threw various
things at Sheehan, and they abused each other grossly
At last the prisoner took up a chair and hurled it at the
landlady ; it missed her and struck the deceased, who
was lying down at the foot of the bed. She immediately
exclaimed, " Oh, Simon, you have hurt me ; you
have struck me on the head !" and she be-
gan vomiting. The prisoner immediately left
the room. The deceased lingered about three hours, when
she expired, and the Irish people in the house immediately
laid out the corpse, and commenced the preparations for
waking the body, although the girl did not belong to
their country or religion. Attempts were made to con-
ceal the circumstances of her death, but on the same
evening Inspector Donegan and police-sergeant Robert
O'Brien received information which induced them to
visit the h )use, and found the body of the deceased laid
out in the usual way. There were six men, of whom
the prisener was one, and a female in the room, and
Mrs. Sheehan was lying on the bed alongside the corpse
in a beastly state of intoxication. The other parties
were also very drunk and noisy.
Mr. Garrett, a surgeon, of the New-road, was called
in, and examined the body. He had not made a post
mortem examination, and could not take upon himself to
speak positively as to the cause of death.
As it was necessary to obtain the attendance of several
other persons, the prisoner was remanded till Thursday
next.

HOCKER'S CONDUCT SINCE HIS CONDEMNATION

After the conviction of }locker he was removed in an ex-
hausted state to the cell in the prison yard. He was received
by the deputy governor, Mr. Wright, who had humanely di-
rected some tea and toast to be in readiness for him. These
he partook of with much avidity, and gratefully acknow-
ledged the attention of the deputy governor. In the course
of the evening he was visited by Mr. Davis, the ordinary,
and exhorted to penitence and prayer. Kitman, one of the
officers, sat up with Hocker during the night, which was
passed by the wretched man in sound sleep. Yesterday
morning he awoke about seven o'clock, and ate a hearty
breakfast ; but although he manifested much firmness, his
spirits were evidently subdued by the solemn warning of the
judge to prepare to meet his Maker. In the early part of the
morning he was visited by Mr. Sheriff Sydney, who had
a lengthened interview with him in the presence of the
deputy governor. At this meeting Hocker for the first
time betrayed emotion, and he wept loud and bitterly. It is
stated that his feelings were overcome on reference being
made to his family, and that he made 110 allusion to the
murder of the unfortunate man Delarue. The details of the
interview are, however, for obvious reasous, withheld.
During the day he was repeatedly visited by the Rev. Chap-
lain, who has supplied him with several religious books. He
is represented to be quiet and respectful to the officers, and
a young man of more than ordinary intelligence in conver-
sation. The singularly written statement which he read on
his trial has been his principal occupation since his confine-
ment in Newgate. He has devoted several hours daily to
framing his defence, which he invariably drew out in short-
hand characters, which were transcribed and reduced into
the form in which it has been presented to the public. His
father had an interview with him on Thursday, but none of
his relatives saw him yesterday. From letters that have
been written by the unhappy convict, and which have fallen
into the Governor's hands, it appears that he has made up
his mind for the worst, as he expressed his determination to
"play the man." His execution, it is said, will take place
on Monday, the 28th instant, and it is believed he will make
a confession.

THE LATE PROFESSOR DANIELL
The late John Frederic Daniell, professor of che-
mistry in King's College, London, lecturer on che-
mistry and geology at the Hon. East India Company's
seminary at Addiscombe, one of the examiners in the
Uaiversity of London, foreign secretary of the }loyal
Society, D.C.L. (Oxon.), &c., was born in Essex-
street, Strand, March 12, 1790. At an early age he
became a pupil of Professor Brande, in whose society
he made several tours, and of whom he spoke as one
endeared to him by kindred pursuits and early recol-
lections the dky before his death. In 1816, associated with
this gentleman, he started the " Journal of the Royal
Institution," the first 20 volumes of which were published
under their joint superintendence. He married in the fol-
lowing year (Sept. 4) Charlotte, youngest daughter of the
late Sir W. Rule, Surveyor of the Navy, and subse-
quently became Managing Director of the Continental
Gas Company, to forward the interests of which he vi-
sited the principal cities of France and Germany, with
Sir W. Congreve and Colonel Landmann, making those
arrangements by which many of them have since been
lighted. On the formation of King's College, in 1831,
he was appointed Professor of Chemistry, and found
himself at length in the position he was so
well suited to occupy. His inaugural lecture,
eminently characteristic of the Christian philosopher,
gave a good earnest of the spirit in which his in-
structions would be conveyed. Of the extent of
Professor Daniell's scientific labours some idea may be
formed from the fact that, independent of his " Meteoro-
logical Essays," an& " Introduction to the Study of
Chemical Philosophy," he communicated to various
scientific periodicals upwards of forty original papers ;
of these thirteen relate to meteorological subjects, nine to
electricity, and the remainder to chemistry and other
branches of physical science. Of their intrinsic import-
ance some notion may be obtained from the circumstance
that he received all three of the medals in the gift of the
Royal Society. In 1820 he published an account of his
new hygrometer—an instrument which, for the first
time, rendered regular and accurate observations •
on the dryness and moisture of the air practicable. It
has since been extensively employed in all climates, and
has enabled hygrometry to take an exact and definite
form. It still remains the only accurate instrument
for making such observations. In 1828 appeared the
first edition of his ".Meteorological Essays," of which he
was engaged in revising proofs of the third edition at the
time of his death. This work was the first synthetic at-
tempt to account for meteorological phenomena as a
whole, the known laws of which regulate the constitution
of gases and vapours. In the following year (1824) ap-
peared his essay on artificial climate in the " Horticul-
tural Transactions," the practical bearing of which on
culture in general, and particularly of plants grown
under shelter, is daily becoming better appreciated, and
which, according to Dr. Lindley, has done more for
the improvement of this art than any single circum-
stance besides. lie received the Society's silver medal
for this paper. In 1830 and 1831 he published his new
pyrometer, an instrument still the best for measuring
high temperatures, such as those of fusing metals, and
furnaces in general. The Royal Society deemed this
an invention of such utility and importance, that they,
in 1832, conferred on him the Romford medal for the
most important discovery relating to heat that had
been made throughout the civilised world during the
three preceding years. In 1836 appeared a paper of
his in the " Philosophical Transactions," describing
his valuable improvement in the voltaic battery, by
which he showed the means of obtaining a constant and
unlimited supply of electricity. The importance of this
discovery was recognised immediately throughout the
previous description
y e
ar made . in
Several
whole scientific world. In appreciation of its merit the
Royal Society, in 1837, honoured him with the Copley
medal, for the most important scientific discovery of any
anyo
other
rt
voalfuathillee
papersworl d during uri
appearedng t h e
in the Philosophical
Transactions for the following
years, and for two of these he, in 1842, received one of
the Royal medals.

Dispatches from the Governor of the Mauritius, and also
from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, wore received on
OiturdaT at tine Colonial-9AM

LATEST PRICES OF SHARES
RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND

OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK.

Front the Official List,
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING.

LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 11.

RAILWAYS.

Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. SI are.
------ -
£ s. d. £ s. d.
Aberdeen...........- - 210 0 4%
Birmingham & Gloster 31. Sc. per sh. 100 0 0 100 0 0 139
Ditto, New, iss. 71 dial. 15s. 25 0 0 17 10 0 34
Brighton,Lews,& 'lnst. - 50 0 0 10 0 0 11
Bristol and Exeter •• .. 2/.165. per sh. 100 0 0 70 0 0 86
Ditto and Gloucester - 50 0 0 30 0 0 6231
Caledonian ••••• • • • • • - 50 0 0 5 0 0 12%
Cambridge and Lincoln • - 25 0 0 110 0 9%
Chatham & Prtsmouth - 20 0 0 1 0 0
Chester, and Holyhead - 50 0 0 5 0 0 10%
Chichester & Brighton - lO 0 0 113 i
Churnet Valley .• ••• • • --20 0 0 2 0 0 9%
Cornwall •••••• .• • • • • - - 3 0 0 5%
Direct Northern ••• • • • - 50 0 0 210 0 5
Direct Norwich ••• • • • - 20 0 0 1 0 0 %
Diss, Beccles, & Ynnth - 25 0 0 110 0 334
Dublin & Belfast Junc. - 50 0 0 210 0 931
Ditto and Galway • • - - 210 0 4%
Eastern Counties .•• • . 4s. per sh. 25 0 0 14 16 0 2074
Do.,Perpetual, No.l 51. per et. 613 4 313 4 Ip.
Ditto, ditto, No. 2. • • - - 0 1 p
3 4 % m.
Eastern Union ••.• • • • - 50 0 0 10 0 0 22
Edinburgh & Glasgow 21. ss. p. sh. 50 0 0 50 0 0 6236
Ditto, Quarter Shares Ils. 3d. p. sh. 12 10 0 12 10 0 mu
Ely and Bedford .•• • • - 25' 0 0 1 5 0 334
Grand Connection •• • • - 50 0 0 210 0
Grand Junction .. •• .. 101. per et. 100 0 0 100 0 0 224
Ditto, Half Shares • • 10/. per ct. LO. 0 0 50 0 0 112
Ditto, Quarter Shares 10/. per et. 25 0 0 25 0 0
Gt. Southern &Western - 50 0 0 6 0 0 17%
Great North of England Si. ss. 100 0 0 100 0 0 195
Ditto, New. •••- • • • • - 40 0 0 5 0 0 48
4;rest Western .••• • .. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 80 0 0 186%
Ditto, Half Shares.. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 10231
Ditto, Fifths.... •• .. 7/. per cent. 20 0 0 20 0 0 41
Guilford Junction. •• • • - 50 I) 0 35 0 0
- 20 0 0 1 0 0 234
Hull and Selby .••• • .. 5!. ss. pr et. 50 U. 0 50 (1) o 98
Ditto, Quarter Shares - 12 10 0 12 10 0 2134
Kendal & Windermere - 25 " 0 0 110 0 23
Lancaster and Carlisle - 50 ' 0 0 15 0 0 41
Leeds and Bradford • - 50 0 0 5 0 0 21%
Liverpool & Manchestr 101. per ct. 100 0 0 100 0 0
Ditto, Half Shares.. 10/. per ct. 50 0 0 50 0 0
Ditto, Quarter Shares 101. per ct. 25 0 0 25 0 0
London & Birmingham 101. per et. - Stock. 235
Ditto, New Thirds.. 101. per et. 32 0 0 2 0 0 4534
Ditto, New 34 Share& 101. per ct. 25 0 0 2 0 0 33%
London and Blackwall - 16 13 4 - 814
London and Brighton.. 31. Os. pd sh. 50 0 0 50 0 0 62%
Ditto, Lean Notes • • 51. percent. ,10 0 0 10 0 0 13%
London and Greenwich - 4 12 15 4 - 11
Ditto, Pref. or Priv.. 5/. per CO. 18 i 7 2 - 24%
London and S. Western SI. ss. ptnsh. 41 6 10 - 81%
Do., New Cons. Bths - . 40 0 0 60 0 26
Ditto, New •••• • • • • 50 0 0 210 0 15%
.ondon and Croydon • • 10s. per sit. 13 15 9 - 1731
Ditto, Guarntd. sp. c. ', " 90 0 40 0 5
London and York.• •• • - • 50 0 0 210 0 314
Lynn and Ely .. --- ,25 0 0 210 0 7
anchester and Leeds 4/.75, 6d..p.5. 100 0 0 70 0 0 15234
Ditto, Half Shares - 1/.175.6d. p. s. 50 0 0 32 0 0 68
Ditto, Quarter Shares 4s. 25 0 0 2 0 0 20
Ditto, Sixteenths .• • - .• 65 0 1 5 0 734
Manchestr & Birming. 21. per share 40 0 0 40 0 5931
Ditto, Quarter Shares - 10 0 0 4 0 0 11
Midland .•••••• • • • • • • 41. 4s. per sh. - Stock. 154
Ditto, Fifths .••• • • • -e - 20 0 3%
Ditto, BL-m. & Derby 21.135. per eh, - Stock. 116
Newcastle & Berwick - '25 0 0 110 0 15
Newcstle & Dad. Junc. Ols. 25 0 0 94 0 0 5031
North British •••• • • • . '.- 25 0 0 10 0 0 19
Northern and Eastern . 21, ss. = 50 0 0 45 0 0 66
Ditto, Scrip, ice. 51. d. 15s. 50 0 0 30 0 0 49
Ditto, Quarter Shares - 12 10 0 12 10 0 1834
North Kent.. •••• • • • . _ 50 0 0 215 0 3
Norwich and Brandon. - 20 0 0 10 0 0 17%
Ditto, New.. - 10 0 0 10 0 5
Portsmouth Direct.. 50 0 0 210 0 2
Preston and Wyre .... - 50 0 0 50 () 0 36
Richmnd& W. E June. - 20 0 0 1 0 0 434
, Rugby _ 20 0 0 10 0 414
Ditto, 2d Pref., 1842 - 25 0 0 25 0 0
I Sheffield and Lincoln.. - 25 0 0 15 0 131
. Sheffield & Manchestr 51. per cent. 100 0 0 82 10 0
t DIU*, Quarter Shares - 25 0 0 8 0 0 13
Shrws.,Wolv.,Dud.,Bir - 50 0 0 210 0 43
I South Devon - 50 0 0 10 0 0 211/1
" South-Eastern & Dovr U. is. 33 2 4 - 4439
• Ditto, New iss. 32/.dis - 50 0 0 80 0 1634
South Wales .• • ..... • - - 210 0 61
' Stevenson's Prtsmouth - - 210 0 23(
• Thames and Medway.. - 19 5 8 - 1734
Trent Valley •• • • .... • - 20 0 0 2 0 0 20
Yarmouth & Norwich - 20 0 0 20 0 0 271
" Ditto, New - 20 0 0 80 0 15
I York & North Midland 101. per ct. 50 0 0 50 0 0 103
i Ditto, Half Shares • • 101. per ct. 25 0 0 25 0 0 5034
I Do., Scarbro' Branch - 25 0020 0 0 43
. Ditto, Selby Scrip - - 50 0 0 20 0 0 6834
Ditto, Extension .. • • - 25 0 0 1 5 0 16/4
Boulogne and Amiens. - 20 0 0 2 0 0 i 1131
5 Gt. Northern of France - 20 0 0 40 0 6
Orleans and Vierzon • . - 20 0 0 2 0 0 18
Orleans & Bourdeaux - 20 0 0 2 0 0 11/
I Paris & Lyons(Laffitte) - 20 0 0 20 0 21
i Paris and Strasbourg • • - 20 0 0 20 0 2y
) Paris and Orleans. •• • • - 20 0020 0 0 4734
Paris and Rouen •• • • 21. 20 0 0 20 0 0 423,
Rouen and llavre •• • • - 20 0 0 14 0 0 293

11%
2%
2%
47%
424
294

JOINT-STOCIC 33112#71C5.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price;
Annum. Share.
£ a. d. t 1. d.
Australasia ......Si. per cent. 41 0 0 40 0 0 45%
Britsh North American 41. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 45%
Commercial of London Si. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 23
51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 14%
Londn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 27%
London Joint-Stock .• • 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 1434
Metropolitan ... ••• • . • 25 0 0 710 0
Provincial of Ireland.. Si. per cent. 108 0 0 25 0 0 46
Ditto, New......... 81. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0
National of Ireland .. Si. per cent. 50 0 0 17 10 0 16%
Nat. Provncial of Eng. 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 5 37%
Ditto, New... 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0
Union of Australia •• • • 25 0 0 25 0 0 26X
Union of London. •• • • 51. par cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 1214

rNsTraANcx COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
of
Name of Company. per Paid. Price.
Annum. share.
- - - - - - - - - ----
--7 1. 1 Os. 74° 0. 0- 70. 455505 80000. doe -716720:
561.ple,errceeennt.t. 100100 00 00 121
100 01 169:
Albion • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Alliance Brit. and For.
61. per cent, 100
40 00 00
Ditto Marine. • • • • • •
13e. 6d. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 1634
7s• per share 50 0 0
11°0°00 00
00
25100 00
00
British Commercial • •
31.
CountyCl ericl,ll.l.e.d.. &.
.G. e. n. ..L. i.f e
Crown...: • • • • • • • • • •
Eagle ....... ..... •• • • 50 0 0 50 0 5X
r 5 per ct.,/
Economic Life .• • 1
691.0.568a0..nd bs. }
Eng. & Scot. Law Life 15/14. p3e°rLcbgen-ti. 50 0 0 20 0 2%
European Life All paid. 20
Freemasons' .. •••• • • • • Si. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0
Globe 61. per cent. Stock. - 142
Guardian •••••• • . . . • . 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 5011
5% per cent. 20 0 o
~,
Imperial Fire ... • 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 195
Imperial Life.• •••• • • • 12s. 100 0010 0 0 16
Indemnity Marine •• • • 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 30
Law Life •••••• • • • • • • IL 58. 100 0 0 10 0 0 45%
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 5%
London Fire •• • • lOO. 25 0 0 12 10 0 16
London Ship ••.•• • • • • 105. 25 6 0 12 10 0 16
Marine . ........... 5l. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0
Med. Invlid & Gen. Life - 50 0 0 20 0 3
National Loan Fund• • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2%
National Life ••••• • • • • 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 9%
Palladium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 2
Phoenix - -
Protector Life •••• • • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0
Provident Life •••• • • • • 11• 58' 100 0 0 10 0 0 24
Rock Life 4s. 50 0 010 0 4%
Royal Exchange .• • ... 5/. per cent Stock. _ 188
Sun Fire .. .... •• • ... 61. 10s. - -
Ditto Life . • • • • • • • • • 1/. 6s. - -
Universal Life •• • • ... 10U1. pr :tilt. 100 0 615 0 14

DOOXS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. I per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.

i-----
X s. d. I• 4 ii. d.
Commercial .• • • ..... 131. per cent. , Stock.
Ltst and West India... 15)4 /. pr cent. ! Stock.
East Country
London ............. 14% l. pr cent. Stock.
St. Katharine .i 5 per cent. Stock.
Southampton • • ...... t 4/. per cent. , 50 0 0

50 0 0

WATER-WORKS.
Dividend Amount
1
Name of Company. 1 per of I Paid. Price,
Annum. Share.
----- —
' 1 ' £ s, 4. 1.
.Ic4 T.nmlnn _ ........ i $l. 100 0 0 i 230

East London..• • • • • • ••
Grand Junction • • • • • •
Vauxhall •••••• •• ••
West 'Middlesex ..

X s, d.
81. 100 0 0
31. 46 13 4
2/. 10s. 100 0 0
51. per cent. 100 0 0
4/. 16s. pr ct. 63 12 9

LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividead Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
--
X 5. d. £ s. d•
Bank of Scotland
Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. 100 0 0 168%
British Linen Company 81' per cent. 100 0 0 226%
Commercial Bank •. • • 61. per cent. 100 0 0 167%
National Bank 6l. per cent. 10 0 0 15
50 0 0 %
Union Bank of Scotland 7% /. pr cent.
Western Bank
North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent.— .
10 0 0 14%
50 0 0 764
50 0 7
Clydesdale Bank.... • • 61. per cent.
Eastern Bank ....• •• • 3/. per cent. 15 0 0 11%
95
Caledonian Bank
Scottish Union Ins. Co.
Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 51. per cent. 50 0 N
City of Glasgow Bank . 51. per cent.
-0 gl5 0 13%
1 0 0 11,4
Hercules Insurance CQ. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14%
Insur. Co. of Scotind Si. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 10
North British Insur 9!. per cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 27
Edin. &Glasg. Railway
Caledonian Fire Incur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24
Si. per cent. 20 0 -
Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 10
0 0 65%0 0 0 181 i
Ditto, Shares.. • • 4%1. per cent. 12 10 0 All paid. 16%
Edin., Leith, & Grantn 20 0 0 20 0 0 15
Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 41,41. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 65%
Glasgw & Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 15
Glsgw &Garnkirk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 28
4141. percent. 50 0 0
Dundee& Arbroth Rail. 5!. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 32%

CANALS.
Names of ,Z" IDivipediend' Price.
Companies. a .
EA Annum.' ‘..8
----- -1 --- .-.-._-
1
Ashtn &DWI, 97 5/.55. pc'
160
Ashby-d-la-Vll3 4/. 70 Mntgomrysh 100 51. 98
15
Barnsley ....:160 12/. 180 Macclesfield. 100 -
Basingstoke.. 100 - 5 Npath ••,• • t 100 201. 365
Brknk&Abrg 1501 5/. 7285 .
,N .
rCt Namesee Companies.
i u. oga hull of
ise 1 .ri
. 1
12140500 D :41
260
40
Cromford.... ilOO 181. 160 NAL Forest .78 31.
24
Dudley 1100 41. 80 Regent's •• •• •• •• 33 IL
Derby ;100 Si. 103 Rochdale .... 85 41. 55
120
Ellsmre&Chs 133' 4/.
Forth & Clyd 100' 41. 105 De.rek Fd St 12 6/. p. c. 11
Erewash -1100 321. 45408 seShrgPsghtireCo;l 115250 71.8110 s. 123
GmndJunctn,loo, 71. 124 Stfird &Wore 140 281. 480
Grand Union'loo 1/. 10s. 25 Shrewsbury.. 125 151. 230
Glamorgnsh .1172 13%1. 91
•• • 0 Sfetirbridge.. 145 201. 360
Glstr &Brklyi 00 - 8 Stitfid on Av 79 1/. 106. 30
Grantham 'lso 121. 100 Severn and/ 26 1/. 85. 29
Huddersfield.' 57. - 20 Wye Rail.
Kennt & Avn 39 Is. 6d. 10 Trntik Mr-1 50 301. 450
Lancaster .•• ' 47 1/. 10. 40 sdyt g 'AI.
Leeds& Livrp 100 341. 570 Thares&Med 19 - 10
Leicester .. • .1140 10/. 110 Worcstr & i 78 41. 50
Leicstr & Nth 83' 41. 70 Irniing..)
Loughborogh 142 701. 1050 - lelf Brks 67 11. 41.
vipnBlie2dlu.tre.rnad. Price,
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INSTITUTION OF CIVIL

ENGINEERS.

(Sir John Rennie, President, in the chair.)
APRIL B.—The paper read was by Mr. J. Baldry
Redman, describing the new cast-iron pier at Gravesend,
just completed, from his designs, and under his super-
intendence. After an introductory memoir, describing
the rapid growth of steam navigation, and conse-
quent increase of the town and demand for greater ac-
commodation, the paper gave an account of the mode
of construction adopted, which was illustrated by
drawings and a model of the work by Mr. Salter. The
pier is situated in front of the Terrace gardens, in a
line with Harmer-street. The length is two hundred
and fifty feet, and it is supported upon twenty-two Doric
columns of cast iron twenty-eight feet long, weighing
nearly ten tons each. The first tier is situated at high-
water mark, and from thence there are three spans of
fifty feet each to the pier-head, which is ninety feet long
by thirty feet wide. Horizontal iron girders support the
platform, and the external girders are inclosed by an
entablature which also forms the parapet. At the south
end are solid abutments and wing walls to support the
approach, and stone offices with turrets flank the
entrance. The first tier of girders is carried over the
esplanade in front of the gardens, which is thus con•
tinued underneath the pier; the whole area of the plat-
form is covered by a wrought-iron roof, boarded and
slated, and supported upon coupled iron pilasters, with
corrugated iron panels between, and the sides can be in-
closed at will by shutters. Skylights are introduced
in the roof. The approach from the river is by
a double flight of steps, with landings to suit all states
of the tide. A powerful light is exhibited from a cast-
iron lighthouse surmounting the junction of the roofs at
the pier-head, which is supported upon a system of iron
trussing forty-three feet in span ; octagonal copper gas
lamps are suspended from the apex of the roof. This
structure has been designed to meet the views of the con-
servators of the river, so as to offer but little obstruction
to the navigation, and there is a clear headway of eight
feet underneath at highwater spring tides. The comfort
and convenience of passengers by steamers have also
been materially consulted. The paper described in
detail the method adopted in getting in the foundations,
which was one of the chief features of the paper, as the
method was novel, viz.:—by sinking cast-iron cylinders

to a depth varying from nine to foUrteen feet below the
level of low-water mark of spring tides, and keeping
their tops always raised above high-water mark, the
ground was excavated from within them, and they were
filled with solid rock to the level of low water mark,
where the columns were bedded on the strong bases.
The work occupied two years in its construction, and
has been since Easter Monday opened to the public.
A very ingenious machine was exhibited for making
with perfect accuracy artificial teeth, gums, and palates.
It is the invention of Mr. Tomes, who described its
action and demonstrated its capabilities. A plaster-of-
paris cast of the gums, &c., having been obtained, a
peculiar moulding composition, softened by heat, is
pressed upon the cast and allowed to cool. In that
situation it is then removed, and reduced to the
shape of the intended teeth, and if on trial this com-
position model is found to fit the mouth accurately, it is
placed in the faceplate of the machine, and a perfect copy
is obtained by the mechanical action of the revolving
cutter or tool. The machine consists of three slides ;
two are placed vertically and move in two di-
rections, horizontally and vertically, but each is the
vertical plane. Upon these slides is a plate of iron, to
which is fixed the composite model and the substance in
which the copy is to be produced. The two, there-
fore, partake of equal motion. The third slide i 3
placed horizontally, and admits of horizontal motion
only, but at right angles with the motions of the
perpendicular slides. Upon this slide a tracer with a
blunt point is permanently fixed, and parallel with it
is a revolving cutting point or drill ; by the three
sliding motions, the tracer is made to pass over the
surface to be copied, whilst the drill is constrained
to describe an exactly similar surface in the substance
placed before it, and by the rapidity of its motion,
joined to the delicacy of its action, copies with accuracy
the most minute projections on the cast. In the speci-
men exhibited, the finest filaments were accurately
delineated on the ivory carving, and the machine was
pronounced to be capable of adaptation to many other
purposesbeyond dental carving, in which it was designed,
and for which it has been entirely used by the ingenious
inventor.
The paper announced to be read at the meeting of
Tuesday, April 15, was "On the peculiar feature
of the atmospheric railway system," by Mr. G.
Birkley, Assoc. Inst. C. E. It is expected that the meet-
ing will be very fully attended, and that the description
ill be vary interesting.