ACCOUNT OF CANALS, DOCKS, BRIDGES, WATER-WORKS, INSURANCE AND GAS-LIGHT By Messrs. WOLFE and EDMONDS, No. 9, 'Change-Alley, Cornhill. Per Share. alllag Annual Div. No. of Shares. Shares £. s. £. s. 7p.c. 31 10 60 11,815 100 Water Works. 1521 100 East London...... 60,0002. Grand Junction .... 28491 100 Kent ... 19,3271. 3096 London Bridge.. 100 South London 749 150 West Middlesex 24 7540 350 100 Do. New 2670 Bath Gas.... Brighton Gas 1300 200 Bristol ==5] |** 3 12 8000 30 50 113 1000 100 1000 100 16 2500 1500 26 10 1 14 2500 8888888 5 per cent...... 1815.. 983 104 104 1024102 104 102 103 1043 104 1044 104 98 1074107 107 1821.. 95 9597 97 97 963 By J. M. Richardson, Stock-broker, 23, Cornhill. 104 103 106. 1115 THE LION'S HEAD. OUR Contributor ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ assures C. of S. that all the papers with his signature have been written by him; and he hopes, that all which may appear hereafter will be equally authentic. He has reasons not to open the Lion's jaws too explicitly on this occasion. W. B. M.'s Sonnet had a terrific effect upon all of us. brought home upon a shutter. W.'s Tears of Sensibility had better be dropped. Lion's Head was H. L. is immortal! We have cut,-and cut,- and cut,-but he comes again! This sort of Spaniel-muse is very amiable. B. is surely humming. B. D.'s Ode to the Eagle Steam Packet is very pretty poetry for sick people; but the duty we owe to our advertisements prevents our complimenting "this commodious vessel" as it deserves. Besides, we understand it loads well without the aid of the Muses. We should have preferred seeing "the original production of Gallus, before we decided upon its originality;—and if we had then been convinced of its "genuineness," it would not have been unpleasant to us to find that it was the work of" An eccentric Frenchman." We must observe to we are serious. that *****. He will understand us, and r "A Poor Reader" does not in many of his lines carry his poverty into his writing-but the extreme length of his "Farewell," and the occasional,— what shall we say,-irregularity of the metre, compel us to decline an insertion. C.'s "Sleep" seems to have composed itself. Our correspondent *****, or Hyades, or Five Stars, is assured, that the Contributor of certain papers, of which he is pleased to entertain so high an opinion, is not in the remotest degree concerned in the Editorial department of the LONDON; nor indeed ever sees its contents before the day of publication. His hints, and his kindness, we can promise him, are not thrown away. |