The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-19 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

BRISTOL, JAN. 18.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market continues both firm and
active. Great Western, Quarters, were done at 2,4 dis.—
Bristol and Exeter (Old), 28 dis.—Caledonian, Preference,
p.— York, Newcastle and Berwick, 281,1.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 18.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market is firm and good
to-day, and prices are a point higher. The sales are—East
Lancashire, Quarters, 5 Great Northern, 9/. 16s. 3d. dis.—
Ditto (B Shares), 2 dis. Great Western, IV. Shares, 11A dis.
Kendal and Windermere, 10/. Preference, 14 p.—Lancashire
and Yorkshire (late Manchester and Leeds), leifths, 3 dis.—
Ditto, 10/. Preference, 11/2 p. ex int.—Ditto (Preston and
Wyre, No. 1), Half Shares (A, No. 4), 5 p.—London and
North-Western, 1304—Ditto, New Quarters, 3/. 183. 9d.—
Ditto, Quarters (C), 31/4 p.—Ditto (Leeds and Dewsbury),
424—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 10/. P're-
ference, 111/2—Ditto, 20/. Shares, 10 dis.—Midland Stock,
New Halves, 5/. ]6s. 3d.—North Staffordshire, 27A dis.—
Shrewsbury and Birmingham, Preference, 8 per cent. guaran-
teed for ten years, 9% South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4,
Thirds, 71. 13s. 9d. ex int.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick
(Extension, No. 1), c. p.—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), %p.
MANCHESTER, JAN. 18.
Sirocx EXCHANGE.—The sales are—North Staffordshire,
2 dis.—Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 414 dis.—
Leeds, Fifths, 3 dis.—Ditto, Preference, 11/, p.—Great
Northern, 9ye dis.—South-Eastem and Dover, No. 4, 7
11-16 Clitheroe, No. 1, 6—Shrewsbury and Birmingham
(A), VA—West Riding Union, 0,1 dis.—Manchester and
Birmingham, Quarters (C), 3 p.—Ditto (A and B), 31s p.—
Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 9,4—North Union, 146%—
Eastern Counties, Preference, 11 p.—Sheffield, No. 2, 1234
—East Lancashire, New, 4% dis.—Ditto, Quarters, 5%.
BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 18.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The following are the day's quota-
tions :—Birminghain, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley,
101/—North Staffordshire, 58s. 9d. dis.—Shrewsbury and
Birmingham (A), 5% die. ex int.—Ditto (B), 3/. Bs. 9d. die,
ex int.—Ditto, Preference, 1 p.—Shropshire Union, 2:li dis.
ex int.—South Staffordshire, 3% dis.
YORK, JAN. 17.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted to-day was
as follows :—Eastern Union, Class B (late I. and B.), 8%
—Great Northern, 9 ex int.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick
(Extension), No. 1, 20%—Ditto, No. 2 (late New Berwicks),
20%—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 81/
...4.

GLASGOW,-;TAW. 17.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, Pre-
ference, Bs.—Edinburgh and Northern, 11%—Glasgovr,
Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves, No. 1,5/. 6s.—llitto, No. 2,
51. Bs. —Great Northern, 81. 19s.—Scottish Central, 26!i.

MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES.
A meeting of the justices of the county of Middlesex
,oule place yesterday at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell.
The chairman, Henry Pownall, Esq., presided.
The usual preliminary matters having been disposed
of, Mr. BENJAMIN HALE moved that a county rate of
one halfpenny in the pound, be made for the ensuing
quarter. This rate was estimated to realise the sum of
16,1541. 17s.
The report of the Visiting Justices of Ilanwell Lunatic
Asylum, Coldbath-fields Prison, and of the Westminster
House of Correction were received and adopted.
The report of the House of Detention expressed the
conviction of the justices that the separate system, with
reference to untried and remanded prisoners, was the
best to which that class of prisoners could be subjected.
TliE COUNTY BATE.—At the last quarter sessions a
committee was appointed to consider what means were
requisite in order to procure for the justices the power
of revising the estimated rental of any parish in the
county, and a report from that committee was now laid
before the Court. It will be remembered that the whole
of the county rental was souse time ago raised, and the
assessment upon certain places was increased, upon
others it was decreased; but, in some instances, it was
satisfactorily shown to the magistrates that the rental had
been over-estimated. They had not, however, any power
to alter the assessment upon any individual parish with-
out undertaking the trouble and expense of a revision
of the whole county rental, and to devise means to ob-
viate this difficulty this committee was appointed. the
report was elaborately drawn up by Mr. Freshfield, the
chairman, and stated that there was no remedy in the
present state of the law but an entire re-assessment.
After some discussion it was resolved that a copy of
the report should lie sent to the Secretary of State for
the Home Department, in the hope that some legislative
enactment might take place for the remedying of the
evil complained of; and that the report be also referred
back to the committee for the purpose of adopting what
measures they might deem necessary to carry into effect
the recommendations contained in the report.
TIIE PROPOSED NEW HOUSE OF CORRECTION.
Sir I'. LAURIE requested that certain memorials which
had been sent in to the Court from various parishes and
districts in the county, protesting against the erection of
the proposed new House of Correction, might be read.
Mr. MAUDE, the deputy clerk of the peace, proceeded
to road the memorials. They were from the following
places :—The Strand Union, Poplar Union, St. Andrew
Holborn, St. George the Martyr, the Liberty of Saffron-
hill, Hatton-garden, and Ely-rents, St. James, Westrain-
step, St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Marylebone Vestry,
St. Pancras, Paddiugton, Brentford, and Hackney.
Capt. CARPENTER observed that these memorials were
couched in language the most respectful, and it was in
his opinion the duty of the Court to pay the greatest pos-
sible deference and respect to the feelings expressed by
so large a portion of the ratepayers. Ile therefore
moved that the memorials be printed in cattenso, and cir-
culated among the magistrates.
Mr. ARMSTRONG seconded the motion with very
great pleasure, for, if the memorials were printed and
circulated the sentiments of the ratepayers would
have ,an opportunity to be more fairly weighed and
considered than they would if merely read in Court.
When the monstrous presentment of the House of
Correction as a nuisance was first submitted to the Court.
he protested against it, and hoped that the rate-
payers would speak out. They had spoken out—
(Hear)—and in a way to which this Court was not used,
and he hoped that the presentation of those memorials
that day would lead to memorials from parishes and rate-
payers being treated with more respect in future than
being "ordered to lie on the table," as they had been ge-
nerally hitherto.—(Hear.)
Several magistrates disapproved of the proposition for
the printing of the memorials; but ultimately the motion
was carried by a great majority.
Some routine business was then transacted, and the
Court adjourned till the next session.

FIRST LORD OF TDB ADIVIRALTY..—NIIII?berless
rumours were afloat during the pending negotiations be-
tween Lord John Russell and other members of the Go-
vernment, as to the cause of the delay in the appoint-
ment of the First Lord of the Admiralty. Some said
that Lord John was ciquftting with Sir James Gra•
ham; some that he was determined to have Lord Tinto
again; and others whispered all sorts of things, reason..
able and unreasonable, as best suited their fancies. We
understand, however, that the chief cause of postponing
the appointment lay in Sir F. T. Baring himself, g
arose from his determination not to accept ffi ' and
were comp,lled to support the ir.corn
this to be the truth, and feel happye. to learn that the
tax e believe
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Right Hon. Gentleman hed so high a
character for consistency, and that he would
sweets of patronage and erne,forego the
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ratl regard for his
principle for them. The question is • ler than sacrifice
to h
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pleasure seeing this .
which the Lord Bishop intendsi week a beautiful bible,
Lind. It is a Swedish for presentation to Jenny
quarto, unamifieeria bound
of the Holy Scriptures, in
the arms oPthe see Y in purple morocco, having
tooled-. --The edo.es en the covers, and bring beautifully
skiff. - The binder isarlelrgilt and burnished with great
Coote, of Hay-hill. We also
hear that some specimens. of Norwich manufacture, the
work of those for whom
and whose cause she comes to serve, will be presented to
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