The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-12 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, JAN. 11.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market has undergone no
change for tho better, and prices closed as follow —Aber-
deen, 15i ; Caledonian, 344 ; Eastern Counties, 13g ; East
Lancashire, 19A ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 831; ditto
Fifth shares, 38 dis. ; Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport,
184 ; London and North Western, 1244 ; ditto, Fifth shares,
3 p. ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 30i ; Midland
Great Western, sp. ; Midland, 79i ; North British, si ;
South Eastern and Dover, 2441; York and North Midland,
290 ; Great Northern 10/ scrip, 4i per Cent., prem. ;
Lancashire and Yorkshire 16/ F shares, 4 prem.

MANCHESTER, JAN. 11.
STOCK EXCHANGR.—The market has a downward
tendency, with but little business,. Leeds, 84 ; Dover,
24; Sheffield, 30$ ; London and North Western, 1241;
Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 77 ; Great Northern 4i per
cent., 9-16 prem. ; North Staffords, 4 dis.

LEEDS, JAN. 11.

STOOK EXCHANGE.—The share market is heavy this
morning, and the turn is in favour of buyers. Midland
and Lancashire and Yorkshire stock have both receded 108
per cent. The following are the closing transactions in
railway shares :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 831 ; South
Eastern and Dover, 24i ; Midland stock, 79g.

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BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 11.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market here still remains dull,
the continued wet weather causing prices to decline.
Shrewsbury and Birmingham stock was done at 67.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.—The official
report says : The total number of deaths registered in
the metropolitan districts in the week that ended last
Saturday was 965. In the ten corresponding weeks of
the years 1843-52 the average number was 1,145, which,
if raised in proportion to the increase of population during
these years, gives a mortality of 1,260 for the present
time. Therefore the deaths returned last week exhibit
a reduction of 295 on the estimated amount. At the
Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the
barometer in the week was 29.485 in. The mean tem-
perature of the week was 45.3 deg., which is 9.7 deg.
above the average of the same week in 38 years. The
mean daily temperature was much above the average on
every day of the week. It was highest on Sunday,
when it was 48.9 deg., or 12.6 deg. above the average,
and on the following days the excess was successively
7.7 deg., 11.3 deg. 9.7 deg., 7.2 deg., 11.4 deg., and
8.3 deg. The wind blew from the south or south-west.
The amount of rain that fell in the week was 0.71 in.
The difference between the dew point temperature and
air temperature was 5.8 deg.
CONFERENCE OR 41'HE FRIENDS OF PEACE.—It is in-
tended to hold a general conference of the friends of
international arbitration and peace, at Manchester, on
the 27th and 28th of this month. As it is proposed that
this meeting should mainly consist of gentlemen inte-
rested in the progress of the above objects, from various
parts of the United Kingdom, the attention of the con-
ference is to be principally directed to the consideration
of our own national policy at home and abroad, as it
affects questions of peace and war, with a reference also
to the character and probable effects of the recent law
for the enrolment of the militia. The following members
of parliament are enrolled on the list of those promoting
this conference :—Messrs. George Hadfield, John Bright,
Thomas Milner Gibson, Richard Cobden, Charles Hind-
ley, Edward Miall, J. B. Smith, W. Ewart, Apsley
Pellatt, James Kershaw, Joseph Brotherton, James
Bell, John M`Gregor, Joseph Crook, W. P. Price,
Samuel Carter, Frank Crossley, and Lawrence Hey-
worth.

PORTUGUESE MEASURES FOR RELIEVING THE Drs:
TRESS IN MADEIRA.—The following documents from the
Board of Trade were received by the secretaries of the
Manchester Chamber of Commerce and Commercial As-
sociation yesterday morning :—" Offige of Committee of
Privy Council for Trade, Whitehall, 10th of January,
1853. Sir,—l am directed by the Lords of the Commit-
tee of Privy Council for Trade to transmit to you for the
information of the Chamber of Commerce at Manchester,
the enclosed translation of a decree published by the
Portuguese Government, having for its object the alle-
viation of the distress in the island of Madeira, conse-
quent on the vine disease. I am, Sir, your obedient,
servant, J. EMERSON TENNENT. The Secretary, Cham-
ber of Commerce, Manchester.—(Translation.) Finance
Department.—Having taken into consideration the ex-
ceptional circumstances in which the island of Madeira
is at present placed, and being desirous of alleviating,
by all the means within my reach, the evils which
afflict its population, I am pleased, in accordance
with the representation of the commission appointed
consult with respect to the best means of providing
h.
hagasaiantsttatehkeedintjhuoriveisnopsrioncetehdiatngislafreomd,
ttohededifeeatehseetrhwe
richfol-
lowing :—Art 1. , All merchant vessels,
ayserwomellenatsvirsoitsm.
rs shall be exempted from
at Funchalw merely for
psoepllpeldiebsy,
or
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loarodsteapasms,oceaglelin,gf
the charges for
payment ofCutshtoe uhseoffieleeearaaondeesGo,
the Custom-house at Funchal. Art 3.
Art. 2. Potatoes and pearl barley shall be admitted free
of duty through Custom-house
The import duty on salt fish, at the Custom-house at
Funchal, is reduced to 15 per cent. ad valorem. Art. 4.
The favours mentioned in the second and third articles
are granted for the term of one year, to be reckoned
from the day on which this decree shall begin to be car-
ried into effect. Art. 5. All legislation to the contrary
is revoked. Art. 6. The Government will render an ac-
count to the Cortes, on their next assembly, of the dis-
positions contained in the present decree.—Palace of
Necessidades, 12th November, 1852.—Signed by the
Queen ; countersigned by all the ministers.
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NUMEROUS AND EXTENSIVE FIRES.—For about six
licensed victualler's, the Royal Tent, Silver-street, den-square, about 4 o'clock, the back roorms-euesmsrtreeeedeon.nntt:PtAfG:tthet:es-
a 1 tan do
Gol-
den- with their contents, destroyed, most of the roof
doffam, aangdodo.theTrhpe
lfotrhde, hmousr.ewanildootrn,
litouresuredserim. seriously
Monarch-office. Two houses adjoining, Messrs. Higgs
and Stratten, butchers, backs of houses and roofs da-
maged, and contents by water • the two latter families
not insured ; cause of fire unknown. Parliament-wharf, •
Messrs. Radford and Co.; Lobbies on the wharf damaged.
by fire. 9, Union-place, Tabernacle-square. Old-street,
house of Mr. Rowlandson, paperhanger : The partition
between shop and counting-house destroyed, shop stock
damaged, and upper part of house and furniture by
smoke—Cause unknown. ; insured in the Royal Exchange
and Monarch offices. No. 1, Bell-alley, Golden-lane,
house of Mr. Carter ; The bed and bedding on te
urefi
drsy
4?
floor destroyed from a spark of a candle—
Ndotnie to the
10, Ray-street, Clerkenwell : Slight damage
house and furniture of Mr. Hildich, boot-ma
horse street,
maker, second-
floor,ll back room—not insured ; 51, Whiter. Lee, slate
Cornwall-road, Lambeth : House ofr
destroyed, and
by M
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frame maker, front room on first floor,
other damage—not insured— caused a spark from the

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stove.
SHERRY WINES.—A return of the sherryl
ported during the past year shows the amount to have
been 20,532 butts fromp7neorensi,eccian,d2l,46,Bs72b2ufrasom; Portp.
i:i S. t .
509 butt
Mary's. The largest shippers from Xeres were—p.
Garvey, 2,548 butts ; eig.
beder and Co., 2,017 butts ; Gonzalez and Dubose
From Port St.
1,606 butts ; Pemartin and Co., 1,544 butts ; Gordon'
and Co., 1,2'56 butts ; Misa and Bertemati,
Mora, Son,
Paul and Dastis, 1,075 butts ; Simon de la •
butts ; Ysasi and Co., 815 butts ; Ramie Nephew,Sierra) 943
and Gassiot, 1,311 butts ;
butts ; Widow Bermudez and Co., 654 674
butts ; F. W.
Cosens, 621 butts ; D. Goni, .
W.
13
s.
Mary's the largest were—J
Diaz, Merello. and Co., 2,506 buttsurdon. 2,518 butts ;
; Duff Gordon and
Co., 2,106 butts ;
Mousley and Co., 1,03
Widow Harmony and Co.,butts ; B. Vergara, 904 butts ,
750 butts ;
,J. M. Pico, butts ;M. and F. Tozar,
butts. All
other , 711 butts ; W. Oldham, 61i
shippers were Wider 500 butts each.

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 12, 1853.

State of the wind and weather at each of the following
places at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.
HASTINGS—W., strong breeze—squally.
SOUTHAMPTON—W., strong breeze—overcast.
TUNBRIDGE—S.W., strong breeze—cloudless.
BASINGSTOKE—N.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
GREENWICH—S.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
SWINDON—S.W., strong breeze—rain.
CAMBRIDGE—S.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
HOLYHEAD—S.W., hard wind—partially cloudy.

The returns from the following places indicate the state
of the weather on Monday morning at nine o'clock :
LIMERICK—B., gentle breeze--overcast.
MULLINGAR—S.E., gentle breeze—rain.
UASTINGS—S.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
FOLKESTONE—S.W., fresh breeze—overcast.
TUNBRIDGE—S.W., calm-partially cloudy.
BASINGSTOKE—S., gentle breeze—scud, rain.
GREENWICH—S.E., gentle breeze—overcast.
STRoOD—S.W.' gentle breeze—overcast.
SWINDON—S., fresh breeze—cloudy.
CAMBRIDGE—S., gentle breeze—cloudy.
YARMOUTH— gentle breeze—yfartially cloudy.
HOLYHEAD—S., gentle breeze—overcast, rain.
WHITBY—S., gentle breeze—overcast.
DARLINGTON—S. by W., gentle breeze—overcast. ,
SNAP—S., calm—rain.

THE WEATHER.--Sox OFFICE, JAN. 12.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
45 highest since noon yesterday.
38—lowest this morning and during the night.
48—this day, at noon.

BAROMETER, 29.65.

WIND, W.S.W. to S.W.—Fresh breeze, with rain,
and cloudy weather.

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