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

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETz'.

BRISTOL, Aua. 20.
STOCK EXCITA.NGE.—The share market has been rather
firm to-day, but there was not much business doing. The
only transactions reported were Great Westerns, 94
Midlands, 74%.
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 20.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was a fair amount of business
done to-day, but prices had a downward tendency. The
transactions were as follow :—Eastern Counties, 1034,—East
Lancashire, 17.,a—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 79—Ditto,
Fifths, 4% dis.—London and North-Western, 122—Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 28%—Ditto, 61. New
Preference, % p.—Midland, 75—South-Eastern and Dover,
211i—Whitehaven and Furness, 7 146—York and North
Midland, 24.

MANCHESTER, Aua. 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,
19%—East Lancashire, 171,4—Eastern Counties, :I0•;1,3—
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 781,—Ditto, Fifths, 5% dis.—
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 28—Ditto, Prefer-
ence, 12N,—Ditto, New Preference, p.—Midland, 75
London and North-Western Stock, 122—South-Eastern
and Dover, 21 3-16—York and North Midland, 24.
BIRMINGHAM, Aim. 20.

STOCK EXCITANOIL-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 s—London and North-Western, 1221,i.

THE GUILD OF LITERATURE AND ART AND THE
PROPRIETOR OF TIIZ 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 order to relieve Mr.
Dickens and his colleagues from the legal consequences of
performing in an unlicensed building on Wednesday week,
wheia 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 abjection 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 towards; Mr.
Dickens and his friends. So far from that, indeed, he had
formerly made an oiler to them of the gratuitous use of his
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
I performing in any building that will not allow of the use
of that stage and its appointments.

BIRKENHEAD DOCKS.—On Wednesday a meeting
of bondholders was held at Birkenhead for the election of
six bondholder trustees in the place of Sir J. Bailey, M.P.,
Sir Isaac Lyon, Baron Goldsmid, Messrs. R. Garnett, G-
-11. Barnett. and W. Ellice. After considerable discussion,
in which Mr. S. Ilolme, Mr. Winch, the Rev. Mr. Hawkes,
and Mr. Goldsmid, barrister, took part, with respect
.to tir,.
plans of Mr. Benda! and Mr. Abernethey, the rival eng!lic..%3;
Mr. Abernethey made a statement, asserting that_
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utterly impracticable to carry out the original des 3
Rendel with any benefit to the estate, obsery
me
would be
only course which it would be advisable to
Prturade at the
gradually to finish the works as the amount o_
Baron Gold-
docks increased. The trustees appointed werees
Henderson,
amid, the Rev. Mr. Hawkes, and Messrs. ATsve,r, also pro.
S. llolme, and Fowles. The following nannly., pin G. H.
posed, but were rejected:—Sir J. Bailey,
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Barnett, and Mr. W. L. Bailey.
INFANT POOR ESTABLISHMENT
Union have appointed
EDMONTON.—
The board of guardians of the Strand
f ueen's College, Cam-
the Rev. George Phillips, M.A.. °- ~, district, Upper Ed-
bridge, perpetual curate of St. James or establishment, at
monton, to be chaplain to their infant P
Millueld-house, Edmonton.