The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-25 00:00:00

COAL MARKE'

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Prices of Coal per ton at I
Hate's West Hartley 13s 6d
Huddle's W. Hartley 133 9d
Carr's Hartley ..... 13s 9d
Chester Main l3s 3d
Hasting's Hartley
Holywell
North Percy Hartley l3s fid
New Tanfield
Ravensworth'sW. Hart 13s 6d
Ravensw,rth Pelaw 12s 3dj
Tyne Main lls Odl
Tanfield Moor
T0wn1ey.............._ 12s 0(1
Walker's Primrose
West Hartley .. l3s 9d
West Wylam
Wylam

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Wall's End, &c. ..
Acorn Close .......» 14^ 3d
Gosforth .....
Barton
Lawson l3s 6d
Northumberland
Mira at market,

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS•

BRIsroL, MAY 24.
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STOCK EXCHANGE. —The share market was very
,o-day. The only sale reported was—Caledonian, 191.

LIVERPOOL, MAY 24
&ram EICRANGE.—The business to-day was rather
mited, but prices had an upward tendency. The sal
were--Caledonian, 1234—Ditto, Preference, 87/8 EPrstfds
Counties, 8 15.16—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 723/4este7:.-.,
r
Northern (late L. and T.), 16—London and North-
w i 6.
122%—Midland, 68%—St. Helen's (Railway and Canal),
MANCHESTER, MAY 24.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted in our shal:23
market to-day was very limited, but prices continue Sr''
The sales were—Birkenhead. Lancashire, and Cheshire Junc-
tion, 103/ dis.—Eastern Counties. 9—Warrington and Al;
trincham, par—Caledonian, 19 11-16—South-Eastern as
Dover, 21 15.16—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 72—Ditto,
Fifths, 6 1-16 dis. Midland, 685,8—Manchester, Sheffieltle
and Lincolnshire, Preference, 13'4.
BIRMINGHAM, MAY 24.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—We have no improvement to not.ic!,,
to-day. The transactions have been very limited, and price_
varied little from those which have been quoted for the last
few days. The sales reported were—Birmingham,
Wolver-
hampton, and Stour Valley, 105/8—Shrewsbury and Bir-
minglattm (A), 7% —South Staffordshire, 1 dis.

GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic for
the week ending May 22, 1852:—
Passengers 123,111), goods and . .
parcels, horses and carriages.. £4,127 2 2 ; - •
Corresponding week in last year 3,854 9 7
Glasgow, May 24.

SOYER'S NEW BOUQTJET A LA PARMODA.--The
Soyer will introduce at the grand ball, this
illis'sW
Rooms, in aid of the Soup K tcbeu
e
indefatigable
Funds,vning a at
beautifully
intermixed with the flowers. He will also lecture on cbeB
food for the poor, experimentalising on his minature Baderze
de Cuisine.

ukoeuanredd DthuecEherseshodh'Apulzaslew,
us ssessutthtee, Dhou
FRENCH PLAYS —ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.-11q
Royal Highness the Duchess of-Orleans and their Royal
niluiignhenroe
sence last evening.
THE QUEEN'S P
—IRTEI-DAy.—PoRTBMoUTII, MAX
24.—This being the actual anniversaryof her Most Gracious
Majesty's birthday, and in
of
the proximity of
conse uence
the Royal Family with
httenthdeedir hire!
q the ships at •
S • now sojourning at Osborne,
pithead and in Portsmouth harbour were all dressed in co- -.,. lours at eight o'clock. Royal standard
flags were at the ..rc '
same time hoisted at the dockyard, garrison, and other
flag-staffs on shore. At noon all the ships of the fleet fire!
r.)yal:_alutes as did also the garrison battery. The troos
also lined the walls and fired a feu-de joie. To-morrow the
ships will again be dressed with flags, and at noon fire age' ' -
neral salute in honour of the Princess Helena's birthday--
GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE. The Sligo Journal
states that Mr. Abraham Fenton, a member of the Cinll: , '
naught bar, has been appointed Attorney General for the '
Gambia, with a salary of 1,0001. a-year.
i f
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.--Tuesday, Of
Tuesday, the
June, has been fixed upon as the day on which Captain
Sterling Stuart, the scion of a long and honourable line in
Scotland, will lead to the hymeneal altar Miss Fortescue,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Fortescue, of Wilton"
square, late attached to the viceregal household of the Bight
Hon. the Earl of Clarendon in Ireland.

THREE ENGLISH FISHING BOATS CAPTURED.--l_be
Courrier du Havre of the 19th states that the Favori. Go
vernment cutter, has just captured and brought into Havre
three English fishing boats, which were dredging for oysters
on French ground.

HEIL MAJESTY'S BIRTH-DAY.--The Queen's birth'
day was celebrated yesterday with becoming rejoicings "
Windsor, Greenwich, and at all the outports.

BIRTHS.

OF A BON.
wife of
At Stockwell-hall, Surrey, on the 22d inst., the
E. W. Rowden, EEq., New College-lane, (Aford.
On the 21st inst.. at Liverpooldodge, Brixton-hill, the wire
of C. T. Jenkimon, Esq.

1, A DAUGHTER.
On the 22d inst., ato
ILver.house, the Hon. Mrs. Bigot.
At the Rectory, Tooting, on the 2Uth inst., the wife of the
Rev. R. W. Greaves.

MARRIED.
On the 20th inst , at BkhopArow, Henry. third son of
Robert Robertson, Esq., of Portway-house, Warminster, to
Catherine Eleanor, youngest daughter of the late Rev. W. S.
Wapshare, rector of Chitterne St. Mary. Wilts.

DIED
On the 20th inst., at Ranelagh, Chelsea, the Rev. Joseph
G. Brett, LL.B., incumbent of Hanover Church, Reg°
street, aged 62. •
On the 22d inst., in Mornington-crescent, Ann, widoW Of
the late Willoughby Lacy, E-q., aged 82.
On the 22d inst., Mr. William Cooper, for many years the
proprietor of the Excise Coffee-house, Old Broad-street, City
On the 19th inst., at Foot's-tray-place, Kent, Harriette,
the wife of William Vansittart, Esq.
On the 19th inst., at the Rectory-house, Newington,
fordshire, Peter Cotes, Esq., late of Ticton-bridge, near
Beverley, Yorkshire, aged 81.

London: Printed and Published by ISIIIRDO YOUNG, .01
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Strand, in the Precinct of the &wog, in tbe C°11" -
Middle*); Tuesday, May 2b, 1853.