The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-16 00:00:00

GLASGOW, Nov. 14.

STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The transactions to-day were as
follow :—Clydesdale Junction, L'o—Edinburgh and Glasgow
(Stirling Midland Junction), 5 per cent. guaranteed, 21►/R
Glasgow General Terrminus, B—Monkland, 55 Wilsontown,
Morningside, and Coltness, New, 70 —Wishaw and Colt-
nese, 40.

WIGAN.—DusiNEIt TO THE NEw MAYOR.-011
Friday last, immediately after the election of the new
mayor, Ralph Darlington, Etl., a dinner took place at
the Riyal Hotel, in celebration of the event. The
mayor presided, and upwards of 100 gentleman sat
down, amongst whom were Colonel the Hon. J. Lind-
say, M.P., the Hon. Colin Lindsay ; the Rev. H. J.
Gunning, the rector and lord of the manor ; the Rev.
B. Powell, and Thomas Byrom, Esq., the ex-mayor.
After the usual loyal and other toasts had been given,
the health of the new mayor was drunk, and responded
to by Mr. Darlington. The health of the Conservative
Member having been drunk, the Hon. Colonel Lindsay,
in the course of a lengthy address, congratulated the
Conservatives on the result of the late municipal elec-
tion ; and then adverting to politics, he spoke of the
colonies, which he said should always be a profit and an
honour to the country; but it this country persisted in its
policy, the colonies a ould become hostileto us and diminish
the prosperity of our own country. The Hon. Gentle-
man afterwards proceeded to speak of the sanitary con-
dition of the tawn, and alluded to the great havoc which
the cholera had made amongst the poorer classes of
people. He urged them to remember that though the
disease had almost entirely disappeared, the positions
where it was most gener-Aly found were those usually
oscapied by typhus fever, and he called upon them, by
the adoption of sanitary measures, to free the poor people
from an infection, which was almost as serious to them
as cholera, though it did not strike so much terror into
the minds of the population generally. He contended
that cleanliness, by promoting health, would diminish
pauperism, and so in the end save the pockets of the
latepayeis. The Hon. Gentleman was much applauded
during the delivery of his speech. Other toasts were
drunk, and in the course of the speeches it was inti-
mated that Mr. Nathaniel Eckersley had declined to
accept the honours of the mayoralty this year, but that
he would in all probability accept them on a future
oc-
casion.

A PARISIAN FOG.—Several accidents took place in
consequence of the very dense fog on Sunday, on the
banks of the river above Paris. Opposite the park at
Bercy five sportsmen were returning in a char-a-bane,
when the carriage went off the road and fell over the
bank into the river, dragging the horse after it. One of
the persons was killed on the spot, three others were
seriously injured, one alone escaping unhurt. At the
entrance of the bridge of Charenton, ail old man driving
a cabriolet, in which was also his daughter, went off the
road and drove into the river. Their cries brought as-
sistance, and they were released from their perilous
position, but the bursa and cabriolet floated off. It was
expected that the dead body of the horse would have
been found the next morning, when, to the surprise of
those who went in search of it, the animal was found
stuck fast up to its knees in a sandbank, where he had
stood with the cabriolet during the whole night. Many
serious accidents would doubtless have occurred in Paris
but for the judicious al rangements made by the police in
placing lamps at the corners of the streets, and moving
about with torches; the alacrity and readiness to afford
information displayed by these officers to those who had
lost their way were praiseworthy in the extreme.—
Galigani's Messenger.
The American packet•ship Gladiator, at Spithead
with a number of other versels at St. Helen's and the
Motherbank are alt lying wiudbound.
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