The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAIr EIrtNIN4,- MARCH 16,

SHARE MARKETS.
(THIS DAY.)

BRITISH RAILWAYS.

RAILWAYS.

Closing Prices
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LINES LEASED AT le IXED RENTALS.

skr. Paid. RAitwAys. Leasing (..iosinirices businessCompans Yesterday. this day.
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Bletchley. . N. West.
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50 all Clydesdale Jc. Caledon... 48 —5O xd
St. 100 E. Lincoln gr.
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100 all tirtlpl. Dk. & irk. New.
Railway & Berw. •••
50 all Hull & Selby Y. &NMd 103 105
25 all Do. 1 Shares. Do 514 —52
124 all Do. 4 Shares. Do 25. 26.
134 all Lon.&Green-s S. Eastern 13 13
20 all Do. Preference Do 241 —254
20 100 Lowestoft gr.
4 per cent. Norfolk.., xci
20 WO Do. 6 per ct. d
51 all Nianch. Batn. L.& N. W.
and Matlock & Midld. 2 - 24
50 all Aiddlesbro' & Stekton &
Redcar Darlingt. x d
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1 all Anglo Austrin. Gold d
10s. 11 Anglo Californian
10 2 Australasian 1 d
20 6 Australian
1 all Australian Cordillera
1 all Australian Freehold
1 all Ave Maria
1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) -
50 all Blaenarvon Ir. &Coal 9 11.
1 all iiritish Austrlr . Gold 4 d
20 13.5 British Iron
35 244 Braziliar Imp.(issued
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30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiada 14 21
20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 31 —33
1 4 Carson's Creek
1 4 Clarendon Con. Min
Co. of Jamaica__
40 all Cobre Copper 4l-43 41
5 1 Colonial Gold —ll p 1
15 Copiapo
St. all Copper MM. of Eng 55 —65
25 all Do. Pref. 74 p. cent 3 5 p
5 all English and Austrin
Copper Smeltg. Co l4 —2l
20 all General
2 .all Great Nugget Vein_ . .
2 all Do. Registered
3 all Great Polgooth
1 all Liberty
3 all Linares
1 all Lond.&Californ.Gold
Quartz Crush. Co. •••
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10 9 Aexican&S.Americn 6 6
1 all New Granada . . ...
1 all New Linares Mining
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1 all Nouveau Monde 3 -
20 all Pontgibaud Silver
Lead Min. & Smelt. 15 •-••=17
5 1 Port Philip
1 all Quartz Rock
50 all Rhymney Iron
15 15 Do. New 8 —lO
30 104 Santiago de Cuba 3 4
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281 all United Mexican 24 34
1 all Waller A 4 d
1 all West Granada
1 all West Mariposa
1 12s. Worthing Mining of
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1 all Yuba
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NAVIGATION OF THE NORTH SEAS.

The following particulars relative to the Baltic navi-
gation wi I not be uninteresting at a time when our
men-of-wzr are proceeding to the spot :

The Kattegat may be considered as consisting of
two different channels, one to the eastward and one to
tha we,wward of the range of island and sandbanks
which diride the Kattegat longitudinally from north to
south, and are named accordingly the East and the
West Channels. Each of these channels has a sufficient
depth of water for ships of any burden, but until of late
the western channel has only been used by ships bound
to the Belts or to the harbours in Jutland, the great ma-
jority of vessels always passing through the eastern
channel. Although the navigation of the eastern chan-
nel has cf late been rendered much more safe, owing to
the light-vessels at Trindelen and Knoben (the eastern
eud of the Anholt reef), by which these two dangers
are changed into directing points, still it would be ad-
visable under certain circumstances to take the western
channel. The current in this channel usually runs with
greater strength than in the eastern channel, and as it
sets to the northward for three-quarters of the year, it
is obviously the most advantageous one for ships bound
to the northward.

Being caught on a lee shore on this part of the Swedish
coast no refuge is to be found, in case of its being impos-
sible to weather the land, than the fiord of Konsbacka,
behind Nidingen or Hallands Waderd, the channel hav-
ing too great a depth of water to bring up. With west-
erly gales ships ought rather to take the Skagen pretty
close, and then beat up in smooth water, until they can
fetch the Ilirtsholni light, where a pilot may be had for
the Lso or western channel, and from whence, hugging
the windwdrd shore if required, a fair course may be
shaped for the Sound. This track has the further ad-
vantage that with a westerly wind there is compara-
tively smooth water all along the coast of Jutland ; so
that vessels provided with good anchors and chains may
safely ride out a gale there, the holding ground every-
where consisting of sand with clay underneath, and in a
moderate depth of from five to nine fathoms water. In-
deed, the whole western side of the Kattegat may be
considered as a capacious roadstead, in which, from the
shoal water and extensive flats in the bay of Aalborg,
no high sea can arise, even with easterly winds, although
short rippling waves may occur when the current sets
strongly to the northward. In the long channel between
Lmsii and Jutland, from:ithe North Bonner to Sild Ron,
the island and surrounding banks afford shelter from
easterly• winds, and it is only northerly and southerly
winds that can produce any sea in this channel.
Anchorage for the fleet may be found in the neigh-
bourhood of Vinga, a rock near the entrance to GOthe-
borg and at Rifii Fiord.

Vinga Sound, between Buskiir and BOtto, has good
holding-ground, in 15 or 16 fathoms water ; as a stop-
ping place, this roadstead is very commodious, partly for
vessels outward bound„ with N.W. or W. winds, and
partly for those going to Gotheborg and meeting con-
trary winds in the narrows between the rocks. A heavy
sea, however, sets in there with a S.W. gale. But in
the fiord of Rifo, four miles to the eastward of Buskiir,
in the inlet to GOtheborg, ships may ride sheltered in
all winds, and this roadstead is spa6ous enough for
the largest fleet, in 8 fathoms water, and in good hold-
ing-ground.
The depth decreases farther in, towards the fortress
of Elfsborg, to 4 fathoms, but ships of any size will
find sufficient water, until abreast of the newly-esta-
blishei navy-yard, two miles from Giitheborg, where
they may run aground in the mid, if they are to
unload. Further up there is a bank named Spanbanken
lying across the inlet, and carrying only 14 f;et water,
and with this draught ships may proceed to the old
navy.yard. Vessels drawing less than 14 feet may
go up alongside the quays of GOtheborg; and those
drawing less than 8 feet may proceed into the canals cut
through the town, as also farther up the Gotha Elf. If
not too large r,o be admitted into the locks, they may
even proceed, past Trolhmttan, through the lakes and
canals of Sweden, and so into the Baltic. These locks
are spacious enough to admit vessels 120 feet long, 24
feet wide, 10 feet deep, and the least depth of water in
the river and canals is 9 feet.

The city of Gotheborg, owing to this communication
with the interior, is a considerable mercantile place,
where ships may find every kind of assistance.
In the S.W. corner of Kiel Bay, the fiord of that
name stretching to the westward forms a harbour nearly
without a parallel. In coming from the northward, the
most conspicuous object will be the high land of Nienhof,
but when coming from the eastward, the yet higher land
at Hohwacht, and in either case, on a nearer approach,
the wood, the point, and the lighthouse of Bulk will ap-
pear as the fiord opens.
The flat of the Stoller Ground may be crossed on its
eastern side by the lead, as well as the Colberger Flat,
which gradually shoals until abreast of the village of
Stein, where it is too steep to be safely approached by
soundings. Between these two banks there is a wide
open passage with a depth of 9 to 10 fathoms, and sleek
bottom.

The Fixed light of Bulk stands on a tower of 33
feet in height, and 55 feet above the sea, and
serves to lead into the mouth of the fiord at night.
To the eastward of the light, the shallow is gra-
dual, and therefore it ought to be a general rule,
in making this fiord at night, to keep on the
western, er the Bulk side, for the bank between Stein
and Labo is steep-to, with a white sandy bottom. In
daylight you may stand in by keeping Kiel church
steeple in orie with the eastern edge of Dusternbrook
Wood, which is some distance to the N.E. of the town
of Kiel ; and by keeping the steeple in one with the
tower in Friedrichsort you will pass along the edge of
the western shallow in 3A fathoms. Ships of the line
ought not to bring the steeple inside of the south angle
of the ramparts of Friedrichsort before Nienhof is run
behind the low point of Bulk, when you may stand
nearer the western shore.

The peculiarities of the navigation in the neighbour-
hood of Kronstat are as follows :
The channel to Kronstat, leads at two miles south of
Tolboukin Lighthouse E.S.E. to Kron Castle, leaving
on the port hand a red flag. marking a shoal in 13 or 14
feet water, 1/ mile S. by E. from the lighthouse ; and
on the starboard a light vessel, from which are shown
three lights, placed triangularly, viz., one at the mast-
head, and one at each yard arm, and lies at the northern
extremity of the London Shoals, 28 Miles S.S.W., from
the Tolboukin Light, and 24 miles from the south
coast, i. e., the mainland. There are flags on either
side of the channel all the way up to the anchorage in
Kronstat, Great Road ; and in mid-channel the depth is
6to 5 fathoms. At the Risbank Battery, abreast of,
and to the southward of the anchorage in the Great Road
three lights placed horizontally are suspended from a
yard 47 feet above the sea, and which are visible at
the distance of 6 miles. The island of Kronstat must
not be approached within a mile, or into a less depth
than 4 fathoms, until past the red flag, 6 or 7 cables'
length west of Peter I. Fort. After that there is a clear
channel all the way up to the Little Road. At the
N.W. corner of Kron Castle there are flags on a small
reef, to which, in passing, you must give rather a wide
berth, leaving it to the starboard. The channel has a
depth of 22 to 27 feet all the way up the Man-of-war
Harbour.

There is a lighthouse, 28 feet in height, on the S.E.
angle of Man-of-war Harbour, from which, at an eleva-
tion of 38 feet above the sea, a fixed light is exhibited,
visible at the distance of 6 miles. A bell is sounded
during foggy weather.
The following lights are also placed. between the
entrance of the Kronstat Channel and St. Petersburg.
1. At Oranienbaum, on the western pier, a fixed light,
placed on a staff 45 feet above the sea, visible 6 miles,
and serves as a mark into the canal.

2. At Peterhof, on the extremity of the pier, two fixed
lights on two pillars, 34 feet above the sea, visible 6
miles, which shows the roadstead and leads into the
entrance of the Galley Canal.

3. From the Yelaguin Light Vessel, at the entrance
of the North Channel to St. Petersburgh, 175 fathoms
outside its mouth, a lantern is shown from the gaff and
16 feet above the sea, visible 5 miles.
4. From the Neve Light Vessel, at the entrance of
the Ship Channel to St. Petersburgh, 150 fathoms from
its mouth, a lantern is carried at the masthead, 57 feet
above the sea, visible 6 miles.