The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-27 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

BRISTOL, Nov. 26.
STOCK ExcHszion.—There was a larger amount of busi-
siness done than for some days past, and the market evinced
a better tone. The transactions were as follow : - Great
Western, Quarters, 11% dis.—Ditto, New 171. Shares, 81,4
die.— Bristol and Exeter, Thirds, 12% dis.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 26.
STOCK EXCIIANGIL—The share market was better to-day.
The transactions were as follow:—Lancashire and York-
shire, Consol. Fifths, 6% dis.—Ditto, Halves ( No. 4), 614 p.
—Leeds and Thirk, 8% —London and North-Western, 11314
c.
h—espir, t" New Quarters, 1,4 p.—Ditto, Fifths.
te Shefliehl, and Lincoln, Preference, 9,4—Midland,
49—Ditto, Halves, 211,4 dis.—North Union (A), 223
Shrewsbury and Chester (N. W. M.), Preference, guaran-
teed $ per cent., 1514—South-Eastern and Dover (No. 4).
61b—South Staffordshire, 3 dis.—Dublin and Drogheda,
Thirds, •3i—Waterford and Limerick, 39;2 dis—Dutch
Rhenish, 7

MANCHESTER, Nov. 26.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The transactions to-day were at
follow : Manchester and Birmingham (C ), Quarters, I%
p.—Dover (No. 4), Scrip, 614—Sheffield, Eighths, '2 c.
East Lancashire, 12 I -16 —Manchester and Leeds, Fifths,
634 dis.— Ditto, Preference, 1214—Great Northern, Prefer-
ence, 2% dis.—Caledonian, Preference, 8 dis —Slieffiela,
Preference, VA—North Staffordshire, 91,4 dis.—London
Stock, 112 4 c. -
BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 26.
SrocK EXCHANGE.—The only transactions to-day were—
South Staffordshire, WA dis. Birmingham and Stour
Talley, '34.
YORK, NOT. 24.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as
follow :—Great Northern, OA—Eastern Counties, 65 - Mid-
land, 45—York, Newcastle, and Berwick 16%—York and
North Midland, IBN.
GLASGOW, Nov. 23.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as fol-
low :—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 58—Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle, 4—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves (No. I ),
61. 7s.—Monkland, 6 per cent. guaranteed, 11—Scottish
Central, 141 A.

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TEE OLD CHURCH SPIRB AT BIRMINGIIAM.—This
spire has been declared, by a majority of architects and
surveyors, to be decidedly. unsa'e and liable to fall down
if not taken down. It is to be hoped, however, that
whether the latter er the former, such an ancient land-
mark as St. Martin's spire will be at once restored; for
in a place like Birmingham, where all is new and with-
out associations—every ancient landmark passing away
one after another—so prominent a monument of the
olden time can ill be spared. The question bas been
started whether the church should not be entirely re-
built; but however identical in form and position, it may
be a second question, subtle and profound as that of the
identity of Sir John Cutler's silk stockings darned with
worsted till no silk remained—whether such a rebuilding
would constitute a restoration of the ancient fabric of
St. Martin's.—Builder.

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A GHOST STORY.—A droll circumstance lately
occurred at a farm-house, in Kilken, near Mold. The
landlord had left a bailiff in possession of the furniture
and stocks, for rent arrears. The man of law put his
son, a green lad, as his deputy. Th• latter being inordi-
nately afraid of ghosts, which circumstance, as the
sequel proved, was known to the "distressed farmer,"
the young bailiff was put to sleep in the same bed with
the farmer's son, and the moon being about the full, the
bed-room was tolerably light. They had not been long
in bed before there was a terrible clanking of chains
with groans and other " eldritch" sounds heard on the
stairs and landing. The farmer's son exclaimed, " 0
Lord! the ghost, the ghost!" He jumped from bed, fol-
lowed by the young bailiffin a frenzy of terror, who seized
him round the waist for protection against the spiritual
intruder, which stalked into the room in propria persona,
arrayed in dazzling white. He soon departed, however,
leaving the two youths in possession of the field; but
when they were about to step into bed again, lo! it had
vanished as appeared in the train of the ghost. Not
only that, but the whole of the furniture and outdoor
stock seemed to have likewise followed the sane track,
and the landlord's claims for rent were met by an empty
house.—Carnarron Herald.
If there is a delicate, deformed, or mak-minded
child in a family, it is generally the favourite with its
parents. This is a beautiful illustration of Nature
taking the part of the most helpless.—Elizet Cook's ,
Journal.