The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-04 00:00:00

BIRMINGHAM, FEB. 3.

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STOCK EXCHANGE.—The railway share market was
worse hero to-day, and scarcely any business was trans-
acted, but quotations generally were lower.

LEEDS, FEB. 3.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market continuos its
downward tendency. In Midlands there has been a fur-
ther fall of 155., and in Lancashire and Yorkshires of 20s.
since yesterday morning. Other shares have experienced a
similar decline. The following are the closing transactions :
Lancashire and Yorkshires, 761 ; Midland Stock, 76 ;
London and North-Western stock, 119 ; Leeds Northerns,
15} ; Leeds Northern Extensions, No. 1, a die. ; Leeds
Northern Extensions, No. 3, dis. ; South-Eastern and
Dovers, 23g.

RIGHT TO STOP UP A PUBLIC FOOTWAY.—On Tues-
day an inquisition, under her Majesty's writ of ad quod
damnum, was executed at the City Arms Tavern,
Poplar, before Mr. Under-Sheriff James Burchell, and
a special jury of twenty-two county magistrates and
opulent merchants, for the purpose of ascertaining
" whether or no it would be to the prejudice or damage
of the Crown or the public to stop up or destroy a certain
footpath leading from the bridge of the south West
India Dock to the end of Robert-street, on the route to
the ferry in the Isle of Dogs, adjoining the premises of
Sir Charles Bigg, Price, and Co., opposite to the shores
of Greenwich, in the county of Kent." Mr. Bodkin
said—About a mile from the premises of Sir Charles
Price, a ferry had existed for many years, and so far
back as 1813 an act was obtained by a company, in
which the Legislature had declared not only that it
was necessary for the formation of the road, known
as the Communication-road, to be made by the com-
pany, but that it. was also for the better conve-
nience of the public that the footpath, from the Mill-
wall to the extremity of Mr. Batson's premises on the
east, might be stopped. The eminent merchant whom
he represented did not propose to stop up the whole of
that path, but only 430 feet extending from Messrs.
Seward and Co.'s premises to the corner of Robert-
street. He regarded this as a most important inquiry,
and the Crown, in its desire to protect the rights of the
public, had instituted this proceeding through the Court
of Chancery, and left the determination of it to a jury,
which was similarly constituted as a grand jury of the
county. A juror inquired of Mr. Morris, sen., if Sir C.
Price was to give any recompence for stopping up the
footpath ? Mr. Morris replied that the parish would re-
ceive something. Mr. Baker, the coroner, said he had
•known the neighbourhood for 63 or 64 years, and was
clerk to the trustees of the Ferry-road. They fully con-
curred in closing the footpath in question. The public,
he was convinced, would suffer no detriment. He had
frequently, in the discharge of his duties in that parish,
been in that neighbourhood, and always avoided the
footpath in question, preferring the road, as it was more
clean. Several other witnesses gave similar testimony.
The jury having expressed themselves satisfied with the
evidence, a formal verdict for stopping up the footpath
was then recorded, for the purpose of being returned to
the Lord Chancellor.

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savoured so much of the marvellous, that we have hesi-
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[ADVERTISEMENT.]--Diseases of the Kidneys, Bladder,
&c.—Dr. Denis Cronin has removed from Leicester-place
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of affections of the kidneys, bladder, and prostrate gland,
in their cmnection with diseases of the stomach and
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