The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-13 00:00:00

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS•

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST Re-1.--
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Traffic return for the week ending April 9, 49
1853 • £11,492

Corresponding week last year 10,613 ."-- 16 9
Total of the half-year to this date, 1853.
Total of the half-year to this date, 1852 121,370 A
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LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTERN HAILWAY.—ann,
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turn for the week ending April 9, 1853 £13,737
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Corresponding week last year 13,677 1/.

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259 3

Increase in 1853,

GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WASTBEN RAILWAY.—TrafI
rurn for the week ending April 9, 1853 £4,756 0
Corresponding week last year 4,236 1,"
£519

Increase in 1853

COUNTRY MARKE2'S.

LIVERPOOL—APRIL 12.
At this day's market there was rather a large 80014
of the town and country trade, and a good consuxclP
demand was experienced for American white whe,,,,V
flour, at an improvement of about id per 701bs, and onot
barrel on the prices of Friday, being slightly under I'o4
of this day week. Red Baltic and other wheats an 04
flour were neglected, ld to 2d per 701bs and is pet ,
lower. Oats met with a slow sale, at about late rat'
oatmeal declined 3d per load. Barley, beans, and ro
were without altelation either in value or demand. In')
corn, both afloat and on the spot, was in moderate de°
and prices generally supported.

IPSWICH—APRIL 12.
tlOl4
The supplies of wheat are very small. The supplf
was at market was taken off by the millers. Pricie,lo/
mained unaltered, and a greater firmness in the tratv.
manifested after the dull reports of London yeste
What few samples of malting barley were offered Pr
were taken off at full prices.
,d,
PER QUARTER. PER cati4 O'
Oila
Wheat, red (old) 42s to 45s Barley, grinding
... 2os - ~.
Ditto (new)
Ditto, white (new) 46s to 53s Peas
Ditto (old)
Barley, malting ~. 33s to 36s Flour, per sack
AVERAGES FOR TUE WEEK ENDING APRIL 9, 1853.
Wheat
Barley
Oats
--
~ 00s Od
Beans
Peas
~

HULL—APRIL 12.
At to-clay's market we had a very short suply
wheat, which met a pretty ready sale at about 10 N,
prices of last week. Only a retail sale of foreign*tber
doing in barley. Oats uly as dear. Betus-g
proved sale at the reductifonl noted last we de
for peas. A very dull linseed market. We again , our quotations for linseed cakes, but there is a
if'u
sumptive sale thereat. No rapeseed offering. Rae,
are scarce, and 5s per ton dearer, with no foreign Id)"
The following are the present prices of grain :

8
Wheat, English, red 44 to 46
Ditto white 47 to 49
Dantzic and Konigs-
berg
Pomeranian and Ham-

ti
Peas, gray and black 3! 0
Linseed, Black Sea 440,' to
Ditto Petersburgh . • 7- ,'
Ditto Riga and Arai-
40
angel
Ditto Konigsberg and
Memel 4O 'TO
per ! 0
Linz. e., Hull 71100 Od to lo'ig,
Ditto fine for. 71 55 Od 00
Ditto inf. for 6l 153 to of 0
Rapeseed 291 106 OAK
Rape cakes
Tares, English 426 17
Ditto foreign 10
,1
Guano 51 71 to ~,7
Bones 1005 to I°;ofi
Rye Meal .................

burgh
Danish, Holstein, and

Friesland 42 to 44
Russian and Odessa 40 to 43
Oats, English
Ditto Danish
Ditto Friesland
Ditto Russian lB to 19
Barley, malting
Ditto grinding 2B to 29
Beans
Ditto foreign
Peas, white and, yel 37 to 39

RA ILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, APRIL 12. A
STOCK EXCHAN—GE.—The market was flat all (151'
very little business doing. Birkenhead, Lancashlre,'s,
Cheshire, 63 ; Caledonian, 321 ; Eastern Counties
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 764 ; Lancaster and (I'
Thirds, 13i prem. ; Leeds Northern, 16 ; London 1
North-Westeru, 1191; Midland, 744 6 ; North 9.0
8 11-16 ; South-Eastern and Dover, 22i 6 ; .
; North Union A guaranteed, 254.

BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 12. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The rumoured postponeraelittio
next year of measures with regard to the amalgano 1,0
railways has had the effect, if not of depreciating toi
of impeding railway business on our local Stock Exe,B
Considerable anxiety is manifested with respect to tt
ture of the proposition to be submitted to Parliament
evening by Mr. Cardwell, and it is improbable the ,
important transactions will occur until they are 0.
No sales were effected on 'Change to-day, but price
not materially altered.

BRISTOL, APRIL 12.
a rl4'
lan
STOOK EXOHANGE.—The ap of the
were day was very guid. The on lyearance quotable sales Wel" of Neaths, which were done at 154.

THE GOLD COAST.--An unusual degree of interesto
be excited by a work just published, entitled " Eigla Years on the Gold Coast of Africa," from the Pefoi
Mr. Brodie Cruickshank—a gentleman
NS ho has je
occupied a prominent official position in our Aki
settlements. The book is remarkable for its revelatj
respecting the native tribes, and their social condiV
It abounds with curious pictures of savage life in its
perceptions of civilisation, and shows most clearlit
progress made in reclaiming and elevating the Pt"
The author's long residence on the coast, and fro i 6
journeys into the interior, have made him familiar ee!
every feature of the country, and hence his book OA
only in the highest degree entertaining, but ft'
valuable information.
THE DIXON FOLD RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—Afte, AfP
gering rather more than a month, the unfortunate' 0
Constantine Caratti, a Greek merchant, from Gla° bif!
so seriously hurt by the train running off the Lane's' I),
and Yorkshire line on the 4th ult., has sunk undere
sufferings. His brother was with him at the tifty
his death, which took place in the Manchester St°otf
Infirmary on Sunday. There is no truth in the ell,
given in some of the morning papers that Mr. C,31:101.;
had laid his damages against the company at 204rper
in fact no claim whatever has been made. Mr. P,°tV,
Fitton, of Middleton Hall, who was removed fr°P:jeo_,'
infirmary to his own home on the day after the tic,e'for
has been found to have been more injured than '47
first supposed, and one of his legs has had to be it; V
tated. It appears that he was removed from tl3 t 4,
firmary against the advice of the surgeons of the 035
ton.

MARRIED.
On the 12th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-Nuareile
,ev. J. F. Thrnr F-'

pp, Eellow of Trinity College; Calo::frpeof
and Vicar of Barrington, Cambridgeshire, to EP_L•e
Bligh, fourth daughter of the Rev. J. D. Glen>
Green-street, Grosvenor-square.

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J. H. Marshall, printer, aged 62.
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