The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-10 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

BRISTOL, AUG. 9.

STOCK EXCHANGIL—The market was somewhat firmer
to-day, but there was little business doing. Great Westerns
were done at 99.

LIVERPOOL, AUG. 9.

STOCK EXCHANGE. - Our share market appears to-day'to
have recovered from the depression of Friday and Saturday,
but still is not strong. The unfavourable half-yearly state-
ments and diminished dividends of the leading railways have
given a shock to public confidence, which has a depressing
effect upon prices. The transactions were as follow:—East
Lancashire, 1734—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 8 114 —Ditto,
Preference, 6 per cent., 151/B—London and North-Western,
1251/2—Ditto, New Quarters, 31y8—Ditto, Fifths, 4y2
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolishire, 32 V 8 —Midland, 73%
—South-Eastern and Dover, 2034.
MANCHESTER, Aua. 9. _

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market opened well this
morning, but declined in a slight degree towards its close.
The transactions reported were—Leeds, 80%—Sheffields,
333/4—Midlands, 73%—East Lancashire, 1714—Ditto, Pre-
frence, Quarters, 9y4--Eastern Counties, I.o%—Caledonians,
20 ii—Leeds, Fifths, 4318 dis.— Uanchester and Birming-
ham (C). Quarters, 1 15.16 p. South-Eastern and
Dover, 20;d.

THE COAST DEFENCES.—A survey, under the
Board of Ordnance, by Captain Fanshawe, R.E , and Captain
mbyadCeapfrtoamin
asGambier,fa R.A., is now being made along the Sussex coast
forts for
Fairlight, to ascertain the capabilities of the several
Engineers inmth
(..;,am b
er theaod
, national Captain
Gordon, defence.
ha s surveyboea
Littlehampt n (Sussex) to Hurst Castle (Dorset), with
Gosport
the same object. On Wednesday last a board of military
and scientific (civil) officers, presided over by Colonel Sir
a chain of new fortifications.
til
Frederick S • , C. 8., M.P., Commandant of the Royal
Portsmouth garrison, made a tour of inspection
along the
shore, with the object of selecting sites for
activity. At Manchesterwen the
whole,
a slight diminution of
state of trade in the provinces
The reports
in cosepienocte of leessened shipments,
fer the past week show,
business has been on a smaller
mind has continued large. scale,
F
men-
tioned that a strike is expected
om
among
in the ironworks, owing to the latea large class of men
and that it will probably be met in improvement in prices,
strike of the engineers was met in Londonilthe
same way as the
at the beginning
of the year. The inconvenience from the di isturbance in the
copper-market is still felt, but in
all other branches of manu-
facture there is full employment. The constant appearance
of articles of new design is stated as one of the consequences
of the Exhibition of 1851. In the woollen districtsseciences
u
the
transactions have been numerous,not quite
although •
te to the
same extent as in the preceding week, and prices are firm.
The export trade is considerable, and the American orders
At
larger than usual. Nottingham there has been no par-
ticular alteration, but the Australian shipments create stea-
diness. The Irish linen market has been rather dull.
THE AMERICAN WHEAT HAEXEST.—The harvest
is in great part gathered even as far north as Wisconsin ;
and in quantity and qua lity the wheat generally exceeds
the yield of average yars. Exceptions to this fact are
merely local, and in the estimate of the aggregate crop hardly
worth considering.--New York Journal of Commerce,