The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-23 00:00:00

COUNTRY MARKETS.

EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET—ROM gis A
There were in the market to-day, 4 sacks oatmeal, 16`.`
weighing 2801ba imperial, which sold at 1/ 11s Od.

EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARICL4I---
JUNE 21.
Oat straw, from 5s Od to 6s Od per kemple of 16 001141.
tron ; wheat do., Gs Od to Gs Gd ; barley do., 58 Od to 41
Hay from 9d to lid per stone.

DALKEITH MEAL MARKET—JuNs 20.
There wee in the market to-day 33 bags eatmeAt
of barleymeal, and 00 of pot-barley. Oatmeal liclebar,
ready demand at the same prices as last week. The
loymeal was unsold.
Th.
Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs First. Second. T3tl
imperial
Barleyireal, per ditto
Peasemeal, per ditto
Flour, per dit:,o
--as 001 --as Oclod
Pot-barley, per ditto

COAL MARK
Prices of Coal per ton at ti

ET—JuNs 22.
Le closo of the markot

S. i;
Lambton "
i 416 9
;Pensher 5 9
Russell's Hetton i6 0
n
Stewart's..
15 °
Plummer l5 3
Cassop l5
Hough Hall 15
West Kelloe
...... 16 0
Tees
3
Backhouse 1450
South Durham ....... 1 3
14 9; St. Helen's Tees.. .......... 14
14 91West Tees l4 °
6
14 9 Woodhouse Close ...,.....14
; 0
14 6 Birehgrove Graigola. ..... 2. 6
14 9 Cowpen Hartley .. - .....
15 3 Derwentvvater Hartley n-iv, 0
,14 9 Watney's Anthracite.-. • • 6
14 9 Sidney's Hartley . ...... • • tiu 0
15 61Fothergill's Aberdare
15 9
.16 °Grey'. West

s. d.
Carr's Hartley l6 6
Chester Main 14 "3
H01ywe11..... ....... l6 0
Howard's West Hartley
Netherton • l6 0
Longridge's Wst Hartleyl6 6
Willington Hartley l5 6
Tanfield Moor Butes 15 0
Townley 15 0
Walker Primrose 3
Wallsend, &c.
Gosforth
Harton
Hedley
Lawson
Framwellgate
Eden Main .
Bell
Belmont
Braddyll .
Hetton

Ships at market,

iy's est Hartley ...•
17 I Sold 95.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, JUNE 22.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market to-day has been sale'
what better than yesterday. The following are the tII
actions :—Eastern Counties, 12 15-16 ; East Lancashill
18 1-16; Great Southern and Western, 56 ; Lancashire an,'
Yorkshire, 78 ; ditto (fifth shares), 41 ; London and Nor„„u'.
Western, 115 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, ;J" '
Midland, 71,-I ic. ; North Staffordshire, 4i ; South-Eastern
and Dover, 211 ; York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G.NS
purchase), 2 7-16 d.

MANCHESTER, JUNE 22.
t 1; '
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There has been a very -ani
business, but prices have been firmer. F....+ ^e„n`"'"
per cent., 4i ; otocic, rri Sl...fileltl3, 30 ; vovers,
214 ; Midlands, ; Eastern Counties, 13 ; Leeds F Par ;
West Ridings, 3 d.

BIRMINGHAM, JUNE 22.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—We have had but a very indifferool
market to-day, and prices were not very well supported'
London and North-Westerns were done at 115; Eighths/
at 6s. 3d. p.

LEEDS, JUNE 22.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—Thero has been a general though
only trifling decline in shares on 'Change this morning'
The transactions were to about an average extent, and Or
following are the closing prices :—Afidland Stock, ;
Lancashire and Yorkshires, 77i ; York and North
ib&
j
lands, 29i • South-Eastern and Dovers, 21; I,ol°
Northern Extensions, No. 1,20 s. p.

DOCKYARD APPOINTMENTS.--A return of an interest'
ing character has been printed as to the number of per
sons holding situations in the dockyards of the Admit-Alt/
and Ordnance departments entitled to vote for member°
of Parliament. It seems that in the Ordnance depart'
ment of eight boroughs, Greenwich, &c., the number i°
332, whilst of the dockyards of Greenwich, Chathanli
Portsmouth, Devonport, Plymouth, Pembroke,
Sandwich, the number is 2,435, making the number o'
voters 2,767. The numbers in the dockyards are 0•11
follow :—Greenwich, 981 ; Chatham, 429 ; Portsmouth,
' 431 • Devonport, 469 ; Pymouth, 60 ; Pembroke, 61;
and Sandwich, 4.
A TRADITION.—We read in a journal that a pate?"
has been taken out up to six years, for the following in"
vention :—"How to read letters closed, addressed to good
friends or synonymous rivals." The tradition has onq
noted the letters F.E.G. It is.a, pity for mankind that
we are unable to give the name of the inventor in two
for no doubt he wished for an extended reputation.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Summer dresses.—Bankruptcy of
Mr. E. Blakeley, Silk Mercer and Shawl Manufacturer
to her Majesty.—In addition to the rich silla and shawl°
in Mr. Blakeley's stock, recently purchased and nnf
selling off by Messrs. Atkinson•and Co., of 69 to Pt
Westminster-bridge-road, there are about 2,000 pieces of
beautiful French Muslins, Bareges, and Norwich Lug'
tres, all quite new, first-class goods, worth from 21d.
4s. per yard. These are now being sold by Messrs. At-
kinson and Co. at less than a quarter of their value ; tlls'
is, from 64d. to is. 4d. Ladies are respectfully recoil]:
mended to inspect these goods, in order that their extent"
quality, and cheapness may be duly appreciated.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills an unfailing
Remedy for Bile, Apoplexy, and Complaints arising fr°ll/
Impurity of Blood.—Mr. H. Berry, a master cooper'
residing in the Oldham-road, Manchester, informs Po'
fessor Holloway, by letter dated May 12, 1853, that for
four years he was a continual sufferer from bile, sick
headache, loss of appetite, and dimness of sight, 1"‘,
originating from an impure state of the blood. He b 3"
been under medical treatment of the first eminence In
Manchester, but received little or no relief. At length,
however, he tried Holloway's Pills, and in about three
months this extraordinary medicine so purified the bloel
that the disease totally disappeared, and he is restored
to perfect health.—Sold by all druggists ; and at PO"
fessor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London.
ALLEGED CONVERSION TO ROMANISAL—The Co2zstitg-
tional is authorised to give the most explicit and empha-
tic contradiction to a statement which appeared in 0
Popish Free Press of Saturday last, to the effect that the
Duchess of Hamilton had been converted to the Bemis°
Church. The statement is totally devoid of foundation.
—North British Daily Mail.

BIRTRS.
OF A SON.

On the 19th inst., at Gaddesden-park, the wife of Capt.
Leopold Grimston Paget, Royal Horse Artillery. .Ise
On the 20th inst., in Lansdowne-place, Brighton, '"
wife of William Forster Smithe, Esq.

OP A DAUGHTER.
On the 20th inst., at No. 7, Forth-street, Edinburgh,
the wife of Captain D. H. Jameson, Bth Regiment 8011.
bay Native Infantry.
On, the Isth inst., at 35, Nottingham-place, the wife of
Henry John Wale, Esq., 15th (King's) Hussars.

MARRIED.
On tho 22d inst., at Lewisham, Kent, John Hill
Williams, Esq., of No. 12, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, to
Edwina Anna, daughter of Major-General Edward Nicolls,
late of the Royal Marines.
On the 21st inst., at Christchurch, Marylebone, Dykes
Barry, Esq., of Acacia-road, St. John's-wood, to Cordeli3,
only daughter of James CuHingham, Esq., of Porteus-
terrace, Bayswater.