The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-25 00:00:00

MANCHESTER-Maxon 24.

STOCK ExcHlNGE.There was very little business done
to-day, but prices have not maintained the rates of yester-
day. The sales at the close were—East Lancashire Pref.
Quarters, 9# ; Leeds, 75# ; Sheffields, 304 ; North British,
88 ; Sheffield Pref., II; Blackburns,

BIRMINGHAM, MAR= 24.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was a fair amount of bassi
ness done in this market to-day, and prices were firm,
Shrewsbury and Herefords were 11 dis.

LEEDS—MARCH 24.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market has this morning
undergone no change of importance. Quotations are firm
a,t_about the rates of yesterday. Lancashire and York-
shires were done at 751 ; Leeds Net at 164 ; North
Westerns at 84 ; and Leeds Northern Extensions, No. 2,
at 4 prem.

STEEPLECHASE TOWN COUNCILLORS.—The monthly
meeting of the Liverpool Town Council was fixed for
the Wednesday—the same day as the steeplechase at
Aintree ; ,nd amongst other subjects which were brought
forward for discussion was one about the museum rate,
which was hurriedly got through, and several members
of the municipal board, at this juncture—(the hour for
the steeplechase was approaching)—manifested great
anxiety to adjourn, before the remainder of the business
was transacted. Two gentlemen, followed by others,
strenuously opposed an adjournment, and notwithstand-
ing that the minutes of the dock, watch, courts of law,
'markets, education committees, id genus amne—ad in-
finitum—were galloped through by the clerk, and passed
by the steeplechase loving councillor's of the port of
Liverpool, with unusual rapidity, strongly indicative of
the ruling passion of sport. The members on the coun-
cil bench were soon like angels' visits, " few and far be-
tween." The worthy mayor, seeing that his sportive
coadjutors had disappeared one by one, with a harlequin-
ade dexterity more worthy of the boards of a theatre-
royal than a civic bench—so that at length a quorum
could only be mustered, inclusive of the municpal digni-
tary himself—who, after remarking that he believed it
was the steeplechase against the public business, broke
up the council, somewhat after the summary mode of
the protector Cromwell in the time of the first Charles,
and threw out an official intimation that he should re-
summon for " the dispatch of public business" on the
following Wednesday. Even the Imperial Parliament
adjourns for the " Derby Day" to the hills of Surrey,
and as long as the Cestrian handicapper (Mr. Topham)
wieldd his witching influence in Lancashire, the worthy
Mayor of Liverpool will find it a difficult matter to re-
tain around him the local legislative talent by which he
is at all other periods of the year so cordially assisted.
Indeed, why should not the fixture of the Derby be a
dies non with the town council of Liverpool, as the great
Epsom carnival invariably is to the senators of St.
Stephen's ?—Racing Times.
STRANGE CHARACTER.—A letter from St. Omer relates
the following :—" A man has just left our prison whose
conduct. though on a smaller scale, reminds us of Cog-
niard, whose dramatic history is well known. In 1812,
when before Smolensko, a mar4chal-des-logis of the
artillery named D— saw General Count Berger fall
near him, having been hit by a cannon ball. He imme-
diately stripped the general of his uniform, and putting
it on possessed himself of 175,000 f., which was in the
military chest of the 4th regiment of artillery to
which he belonged, and returned to Paris, where for
a month be passed himself for the general, and became
very intimate with Count Hulin, then Governor of Paris,
and with the Duke de Feltre, Minister of War. At the
expiration of that time the General, who had undergone
amputation, returned to Paris, and the trickery of D--
was discovered. He was tried and condemned to ten years
of solitary confinement. After the expiration of his sen-
tence he could not reconcile himself to labour for his
livelihood, and lived a vagabond life, for which he has
been 12 times condemned to imprisonment."
OUR RELATIONS WITH TURKEY.—In 1761 we first en-
tered into permanent diplomatic relations with Turkey,
and Sir James Porter was the first Ambassador. Since
that period we have had no less than thirty representa-
tives at the Court of Constantinople. Lord Stratford
has held the office no less than five times. In 1809 he
was first appointed Minister Plenipotentiary, and he re-
mained in Turkey for three years, having been succeeded
by Mr. Frere. That gentleman held the post but a
few months, and was succeeded by the present Lord
Strangford, who during his stay had the Barony of Pens-
hurst, with a seat in the House of Peers, conferred upon
him. In 1825, Sir Stratford again became British re-
presentative, and held the office for two years. His
other appointments were in 1831, 1841, and 1845. His
lordship's late predecessor was Lord Cowley, brother to
the Duke of Wellington. The office has been also held
by Lord Ponsonby and Sir Robert Gordon, brother to
the Earl of Aberdeen. Lord Stradford de Redcliffe,
though raised to the peerage by Lord Derby, is a Liberal
in politics.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—THE ROYAL EXHIBIT/ON. —A
valuable newly-invented, very small powerful waistcoat
pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can
be seen and known 11 miles distant ; they answer every
purpose on the race course, at the opera houses, country
scenery, and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles ;
they are invaluable for shooting, deer stalking, yachting,
to sportsmen gentlemen, game keePers, and tourists.—
To be had at 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly—observe,
opposite the York Hotel. Telescopes.—A new and most
important invention in telescopes, possessing such extra-
ordinary powers, that some, 31 inches, with an extra
eye piece, will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's
ring, and the double stars. With the same telescope,
weighing only three ounces, can be seen a person's
countenance 31 miles distant, and an object from 16 to
20 miles. They supersede every other kind for the waist-
coat pocket, and are of larger, and all sizes with increas-
ing powers accordingly. Opera and race-course glasses,
with wonderful powers. An object can be clearly seen
frorri4-1 to 16 miles distant. Messrs. S. &B. Solomons,
opticians, have invented invaluable preserving spectacle
lenses ; immediately they are placed before imperfect
vision, every object appears clear and distinct ; the most
aged defective sight becomes bright and brilliant, is
brought to its youthful, natural, and original state. The
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