The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-21 00:00:00

MANCHESTER, AUG. 20.

STOCK EXCHANGE. —There was a tolerable amount of
business done in the share market to-day, but prices were
drooping. The transactions were as follow :—Caledonian,
197/B—East Lancashire, 171/2—Eastern Counties, ,10;8
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 781/2—Ditto, Fifths, 51/2 dis.—
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 28—Ditto, Prefer-
ence, 1238—Ditto, New Preference, I,fi p.—Midland, 75
London and North-Western Stock, 122—South-Eastern
and Dover, 21 3-16—York and North Midland, 24.
BIRMINGHAM, AuG. 20.

STOCK EKCHANGE.—The share market opened better this
morning, and affairs generally presented a more cheering ap-
pearance than they have for some days past. There was,
however, but a very limited amount of business transacted.
The only sales reported were—Birmingham, Wolverhampton,
and Stour Valley, 11%—London and North-Western, 122%.

THE GUILD OF LITERATURE AND ART AND THE
PROPRIETOR OF THE MANCHESTER THEATRE ROYAL.—At
the Manchester Borough Court yesterday, before the Mayor
(R. Baines, Esq.), Sir Elkanah Armitage, Sir John Potter,
Alderman Watkins, Alderman Walker, and other magis-
trates, Mr. Shipman, solicitor, applied, on behalf of Mr.
Charles Dickens, for leave to use the Free-trade Hall for one
day—viz., the Ist of September—for the performance of stage
plays. The application was made in older to relieve Mr.
Dickens and his colleagues from the legal consequences of
performing in an unlicensed building on Wednesday week,
when they are to perform a second time before the peeople of
Manchester to raise funds for the guild. Mr. Jannion, solici-
tor for Mr. Knowles, of the Theatre Royal, opposed the ap.
plication. He said that his client had no objection to the
guild performing in Manchester; and in opposing the appli. '
cation he was animated only by a determination to conserve
his own rights, and not by any ill-feeling. towart:e Mr.
Dickens and his friends. So far from that, indeed, he had
formerly made an offer to them of the gratuitous use of his
1 theatre, and he again repeated it; but he could now allow
the application to pass by unnoticed, because a precedent
might be drawn from it in favour of the Free-trade Hall,
which could readily be converted into a rival establishment
to his own, and in the same line of business. The magis-
trates retired to their private room, and, after consulting
together for about ten minutes, returned into court, when
the mayor announced that they had determined to grant
the application, in consequence of the circumstances under
which it was made, and the object for which the perform-
ance was to take place. The objection made to the use of
the Theatre Royal is, that the guild company have had their
own stage constructed, and they are extremely averse to
performing in any building that will not allow of the use
of that stage and its appointments.
BIRKENHEAD DOCKS.—On Wednesday a meeting
f
of bondholders was held at Birkenhead for the election
six bondholder trustees in the place of Sir J.
Sir Isaac Lyon, Baron Goldsmid, Messrs. B. Garnets,,
11. Barnett. and W. Ellice. After considerablerdiflawkes,
in which Mr. S. Ilolme, Mr. Winch, the Rev.
BalleY, •tt, 6.
pert to the
and Mr. Goldsmid, barrister, took part, with F,73-1 engineers,
plans of Mr. Rendal and Mr. Abernethey, ‘_'
Mr. Abernethey made a statement, asseTti-nrf;
designs of Mr.
that it was
utterly impracticable to carry out the origoie
observing that the
Rendel with any benefit to the s !
only course which it would be unt of trade at the
gradually to finish the works as thonted
advisable to pursue would be
ivere - Baron Gold-
docks increased. The trustees AP (I'l
Piueors. Ames, Henderson,
amid, the Rev. Mr. Hawker, er!a
wing names were also en-
folloß
5. Holme, and Powles. The j. ailey, M,p,, Mr. G. H.
posed, but were rejected:—Sir
Barnett, and Mr. W. L. Bailey.
INFANT POOR ESTAHLWI Union have appointed
MENT AT EDMONTON.—
The board of guardians of the_ Strand
the Rev. George Phillips, M.A., of Queen's College, Cam-
bridge,
perpetual curate of St. James's district, Upper Ed-
monton, to be c haplain to their infant poor establishment, at
Millfield-house, Edmonton.