The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-17 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Nov. 16.—The market remains in the
same quiescent state, and prices remain about the
same as on Saturday, Threes, for the Account, are
now unvaried at 67fr. 25c. Mobilier declined to
I,oBBfr. 75c. Railway shares are quiet, but firm.
The market closed as follows :

41 per Cents 95 05
Do. eRd month —
3 per Cents
Do. end month 67 15
Credit Mobilier..., 1081 25
Do. end month -
Bank Shares 3350
Credit Fonder 1275
Roman

Italian Loan 72 30
Do. ()Ed month 72 15
New ditto
Do. end month —
Russian
Austrian .. —
Spanish Threes 53 25
Home Debt .. 5l 50
Deferred
VitY
Cash. Account.
977 50 .. 980 --
977 50 .. 977 50

RAIL'

Orleans
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean
New ditto ............
Geneva
szouthern.
Western ......
Eastern
Sar .
dinian
Austrian ......
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

- - •• - -
953 75 .. 955 -
908 75 .. - -

691 25 .. 692 50
517 50 ..
490 - „ 490 --
407 50 .. 407 50
405 - ~ 405 -
530 - 531 -
535 - 537 50
627 50 .. 625 -
326 25 .. 327 50

Richard Grainger of Newcastle ;
OR, WHAT ONE MAN DID FOR A TOWN.

(From the Building Netts.)
In relation to Newcastle-on-Tyne, Dr. Bruce, in
his Handbook recently published, supplies us with
a mass of information, deeply interesting, as show-
ing how completely the town has been renovated
within the present century, and more especially
within the past 30 years, dating chiefly, of course,
from the time when Mr Richard Grainger began his
gigantic building operations. The account given by
Dr. Bruce of Mr. Grainger furnishes a striking ex-
ample of how genius, comparatively unaided by
education, can make ics way. The man who was
emphatically the architectural regenerator of New-
castle, was the son of poor parents, and received his
early education at a charity school. His parents
only occupied the lower part of the house in which
he was born, a storey only 5 feet high. The boys
of the school in which Grainger learnt his A B C
wore bright green long-tailed coats and leather
breeches, and no doubt Grainger wore them. He was
simply a carpenter's apprentice, and enjoyed no
advantages beyond those common to such a position.
But he had ability, and (what is perhaps better) he
was industrious and persevering. " His mind,''
says Dr. Bruce, " was a well-balanced one, and his
temper calm. He was never in a hurry, never
angry, never in an absent mood, and he never
passed the humblest of his friends in the
streets without noticing them." Grainger
early became religious; and in addition to the
natural gifts and graces already noted, he had the
good luck to find a wire to his mind with a fortune
of £5,000. In this he was worldly-wise, and well
exemplified the Quaker adage, " Marry the girl
thee loves, but love the girl who has money."
Grainger, it would seem, was at once carpenter,
builder, and architect. A simple enumeration of
what he did shows he was a man of great energy
and industry. He built, in Newcastle, some of the
houses of Higham-place, nearly the whole east side
of Carlisle-street, the whole of Blackett-street ex-
cept eight houses. Eldon-square, built of stone, is
chiefly his work. Leazes-terrace, consisting of 70
large houses, was built by him. He built the
arcade opposite the east end of Mosley-street ; and
all this was done before he began those erections
with which his name is chiefly associated. He built
the Butcher and Green Markets, which together
occupy an area of two acres, and of which Dr. Bruce
tells us that, as regards architectural features and
convenience of arrangement, they are believed to
be the finest in the kingdom. We can corroborate
this testimony. Certainly they are vastly superior
to anything of the kind in London. Grainger built
the whole of Grey-street, the street bearing his
own name, and Market-street, and the Central
Exchange. In those streets, of which the
architecture is greatly varied and excellent, the
Theatre, the Bank of England, and Lambton's
Bank (as it is now called, formerly the disastrous
District Bank) are the chief buildings, and will long
perpetuate a memory deservedly dear to his native
town. In this colossal undertaking, in which it
may be fearlessly asserted not one man in 10,000
would ever have engaged, Mr. Grainger planned
and erected buildings within five years representing
a value of about a million sterling, having in his
employment during that period nearly 2,000 men.
In this special view—been largely rebuilt within so
short a period, and mainly by the energy of a single
individual—Newcastle is, undoubtedly, the most
remarkable town in the whole kingdom. Other
towns have, no doubt, more rapidly increased in
population and more extensively enlarged their
area ; but it may well be doubted whether any
town, either in this or any previous age, has been
so completely transformed in so short a time and
to so good a purpose by the magic masonry of a
single man. Grainger, however, scarcely lived long
enough to reap the advantages of his own great
schemes and brilliant achievements. He built
streets of palaces faster than the northern
inhabi-
tants could manufacture the right kind of
; and for many years, with wealth in
abundance under his eye and on parchment, he was
comparatively poor. But it was the unspeakable
happiness of this remarkable man to livelong enough
to win universal respect and to die universally re-
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