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

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, MARCH 16.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was depressed to-dal,
at a (lodine upon yesterday's rates, but closed at a slight
advance from the morning's quotations : —Aberdeen, 111;
Caledonian, 27 ; LancasLire and Yorkshire, 634 ; Leeds
N. Ahern, 134 ; Liverpool, Crosby, and S ,uthport, ilk
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 214 ; Midland, 59k'
South-Eastern and Dover, 18 11-16, 4 ; East Lancashire,
Quarter Shares, 84; Buckinghamshire, 9).

MANCHESTER, MARCH 16.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business still continues to be
small in amount. The sales were :—Birkenhead, Lane,'
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 11A dis. ; Caledonian, 2711 ;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 633 x.d. ; London and North"
Western, 1001 ; Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln, 211;
Midland Railway Consols, 59i ; South Eastern, 18i n.

BIRMINGHAM, MARCH 16.
STOCK EXCHANGE —There was but little doing 00
Change to-day. Midland closed at 60s.

BRISTOL, MARCH 16.
STOCK EICHANGE.—The market continues without ani'
mation. Great Westerns, which opened this mai ning et
78, closed this afternoon at 77i ; and Vale of Neath share°
were done at 15.

TRIAL OF DR. SMITH FOR MURDER.—On 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 Wc
M'Donald, farm-servant, on whose life the prisoner is said
to have effected various insurances for short periods, and
which were oa 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-room
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 Advocate;
(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
jury were accordingly empannelled. Throughout the day
he maintained great composure, and often evinced cheer-
fulness. On the first play 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 whom criminal let-
ters will immediately be served, so as to
.bring on a nevi
trial as early as possible.

BI R7ll S.
OF A SON.

On the 13th inst., at the Anberries, Essex, the wife of
C. Alexander, Esq.
On the 15th inst., Mrs. Richard Sharpe, Grange Toad,
Bermondsey.