The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-17 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, MARCH 16.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was depressed to-clay, .
at a decline upon yesterday's rates, but closed at a slight.:
advance from the morning's quotations : —Aberdeen, 114 ; ;
Caledonian, 27$ ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 63$ ; Leeds
bkrthern, 134 ; Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 114;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 214 ; Midland, 59i ;
South-Eastern and Dover, 1811-Ih, ; East Lancashire,.
Quarter Shares, 84; Buckinghamshire, 9.i.

MANCHESTER, MARCH 16.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business still continues to be
small in amount. The sales were :—Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junction, IIA dis. ; Caledonian, 27$ ;.Lancashire and Yorkshire, 63a x.d. ; London and North-.
Western, 1001 ; Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln, 211;.
Midland Railway Consols, 59i ; South Eastern, 18 n.

BIRMINGHAM, MARen 16.
STOOL ExonArrun —There was but little doing on.
Change to-day. Midland closed at 601.

BRISTOL, MARCH 16.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market continues without ani-
mation. Great Westerns, which opened this inclining A
78, closed this afternoon at 77i ; and Vale of Neath sha.re3
were done at 151.

TRIAL OF DR. SMITH FOR MURDER.—OR Monday last-
Dr. Win. Smith, lately residing at the old village of St.
Fergus, near Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, was placed at the
bar of the High Court ofJusticiary, Eninhurgh, charged
with the murder, on the 19th of November last, of Wm.
M`Donald, farm-servant, on whose life the prisoner is said
to have effected various insurances for short periods, and
which were on the point of expiry when M,Donald was
found lying dead in a ditch, in a field near the prisoner's
house, having apparently been shot with a pistol. The
respectable station hitherto occupied by the prisoner, and
the extraordinary grounds of suspicion alleged against him,
gave the trial a degree of interest which has not been
paralleled in Scotland for many years, and the court-roam
was densely crowded with a most respectable assemblage,.
not a few of whom had come from the locality, a distance,
of 150 miles, to witness the trial. The Lord Advocate (who,
had come down from London for the purpose), with the
Solicitor-General (Craufurd) and Mr. Clark, conducted
the prosecution. The Dean of the Faculty of Advocates
(Inglis) and Mr. Young appeared for the defence. The pri-
soner, a tall man, negligently dressed, of fair complexion,
and about 35 years of age, pleaded "Not Guilty," and a
jury were accordingly empannelled. Throughout the day
he maintained great composure, and often evinced cheer-
fulness. On the first day only 14 out of 81 witnesses for the
prosecution—chiefly the relatives of the deceased—had
been examined. Next morning, on the meeting of the
court, the progress of the case was stopped by the ab-
sence of a juror, regarding whom medical evidence was
given that he was labouring under a degree of mental
excitement such as to disqualify him from discharging
the duty for which he was sworn. The diet was con-
tinued against the prisoner, against whomcriminal let-
ters will immediately be served, so as to bring on a new
trial as early as possible.

BIRT II S.
OF A SON.
Ott the 13th inst., at the Auberries, Essex, the wife of
C. Alexander, Esq.
On the 15th inst., Mrs. Richard Sharpe, Grange•road,
Bermondsey.