The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-18 00:00:00

MANCHESTER, DEC. 17.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—Prices were lower, and the market
flat at the opening, but there was a decided improvement
both in business and prices after twelve o'clock. Caledo-
nian, 34,i ; London Stock, 125 i ; Australian Freehold, 3-16
prem. ; London and South Western, 92 ; Dovers, 2; North
Stafforcls, 4n. d. ; Leeds, 944 ; Sheffields, 31; East Lan-
cashire, 194 ; Leeds Fifths, 3E dis. ; Lancashire Assurance,
7-16 prem. ; Eastern Counties, 13h ; North British,
Midland, 79k.

BIRMINGHAM, DEC: 17.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—This market was to-day compara-
tively inactive, and the transactions were chiefly in local
stocks. Birmingham Canals were done at 1051.

LEEDS, Disc. 17.
STOCK EXCLIANGE.—Shares were done lower on this
Exchange this morning, and busine3s was limited. The
following are the quotations at which prices marked both
for railway and gold mining shares :—Lancashire and York-
shire, 83i • Australian Freehold, ; Leeds Northern,
171. 18s. 9d. ; Carson's Creek, 7s. preen. ; York and North
Midland, 29g.

ALLEGED GAROTTE ROBBERY AT ROTHERHAM.—
ATTEM HOAX— On Sunday evening, a man named
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of Brinsworth, gave information to the
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Rot erhairepOlice that he had been waylaid on the
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Brinsworth-road, and robbed of his watch and two sove-
reigns, by means of the garotting system. He gave a
certain description of the two men by whom he said he
George
had been robbed. The police were on the track forth-
with, and after a long and unsuccessful search, Serjeant
Handley was returning to Rotherham with Mowe, and
having some suspicion, from his informant's demeanour,
he politely requested Mowe to allow him (Handley) to
search him, which he did, when he found the watch in
its proper place, and the money in his pocket. Mowe
was brought before the Earl of Effingham on Monday,
when the circumstances of the case were laid before his
lordship, who ordered Mowe to pay 135.,
being the
expenses incurred in searching after the visionary robber
—a decision which has given great satisfaction to the
township, which would otherwise have had to pay the
costs so incurred.

MONUMENT IN GLASGOW TO SIR ROBERT PEEL.—On
Wednesday afternoon a public meeting was held in the
Trades'-hall, to take measures for erecting a statue in
Glasgow to the late Sir R. Peel. The Lord Provost,
who was called to the chair, briefly introduced the ob-
ject of the meeting, accounted for delays that had taken
place, and intimated that already a sum of 2,0871. had
been raised, of which 64/. had been subscribed by a
limited section of the working classes. The Earl of
Glasgow moved a resolution, to the effect that the emi-
nent public services of Sir R. Peel, new universally ac-
knowledged, ought to be recorded by a suitable memorial,
to be erected in the city of Glasgow. The motion was
seconded in an able speech by Mr. Hannan' the Lord
Dean of Guild, and unanimously agreed to. A commit-
tee was appointed to carry out the resolution.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT WORTLEY, NEAR LEEDS.— A
pointsman, named Edward Billington, in the service of
the London and North-Western Railway Company, was
so seriously injured on Monday last, at the Copley-hill
station, that he died yesterday at the Leeds Infirmary.
He was turning the points when some carriages lan off
the line, and a piece of iron penetrated his thigh, which
was broken. It is alleged the accident was attributable
to the neglect of some of the servants of the company,
1 but the matter will, of course, be investigated.