The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-10 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPDEC. 9.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market has exhibited a slight
improvement to-day, but the fear lest a change in the Go-
vernment should ensue upon a division on the budget keeps
speculators in check, and some parties disposed to operate
in the market show an inclination to wait the result. The
following are the dars quotations :—Caledonian, 34 ;
Eastern Counties, 13 3-16 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire
Fifth shares, al dis. ; Leeds Northern, 18# ; London and
#
North-Western, 127 i ; Midland, 80. f, 0, ; North British,
105-16 # ; North Staffordshire, 34 dis. : St. Helen's Rail-
way and Canal, 73; ditto Preference, 44 per Cent., 1
prem. ; South-Eastern and Dover, 24i ; York and North
Midland, 31i.

MANCHESTER, DEC. 9.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was a considerable increase,
of business to-day ; and prices were fluctuating, closing
somewhat weaker than they were at noon, when they had
advanced on those of yesterday. The sales were :=--Birkent,
head, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 6A dis.", slo,clo
burn, No. 1,7 i ; ditto, Class B. Pref., 26 ; Dublin and
Drogheda, 61; East-Anglian, Pref., 6 per cent., 3 7-16 ;
Eastern Counties, 13 3-16, 4 • Kendal and Windermere,
144 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 86$, ; ditto, 161.
Shares F, A prem. • London and North-Western, 1271 ;
Midland Railway prem.
80`, ; North Staffordshire,
; South Eastern, 24i ; Warrington and Altrincham,
5-16, g prem.

BIRMINGHAM, DEC. 9.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—There was more doing in the Rail-
way Share Market to-day than for the last few days past.
There were, however, few sellers at present prices, and
consequently little
.
-----e or nothing was done in the heavier de-
scriptions of stocks. The following transactions were re-
ported on 'Change :-..._oxford,
Worcester, and Wolverhamp-
ton Stock, 54 ; Shrewsbury and Birmingham Stock, 67.

BRISTOL, DEC. 9.
STOCK Ex CHANGE.--.The market continues inactive, with
Prices firm. Vale of Neath Shares were done at 13 to 134.

A TRAGEDY ON THE GLACIERS.--Two of the most
adventurous chamois hunters in Switzerland have just
lost their lives at the glacier of Argentieres, under cir-
cumstances peculiarly distressing. M. Carrier, long
resident at this
with his son, a lad of 19, to hunt mormots. The father
Place, went out, a few mornings ago,
had discovered a burrow such as the mormots are ac-
customed to dig, and laying himself on the ground, face
downwards, began to enlarge the entrance, hoping to
take the animal at the bottom. Suddenly a large quan-
tity of earth fell on him, and he was unable to rise. He
called to his son, who crept in after him, and tried in
vain to extricate his father from the load which was
pressing upon him. While thus engaged a second slip
of earth took place and covered both. After two hours
of suffering the son died, lying on the back of his father.
His last words were full of filial affection and anxiety
for his parent. Three long days and nights, without
food or light, far from all human aid, unable to move,
and with the corpse of his son on his back, did M.
Carrier lie in this place until his friends, who had come
out in search of the lost hunter, found him at the point
of death. The unhappy sufferer only lived long enough
to communicate these particulars, and died while his
friends were carrying him home.
PARISIAN STATISTICS.—The statistical returns for the
month of October, which have just been published by
the Prefecture of Police, give the number of deaths in
Paris as 2,249, being 52 more than in the preceding
month ; of these 519 were from pulmonary disease. Theb
same returns state the receipts of the theatres, concerts,
balls, and public exhibitions to have been 1,022,779 E,
being 1175000 f, more than in the preceding month.