The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-15 00:00:00

RAILWAY ti t• RKETS.

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BRISTOL, AUGUST 14.
Rroct EXCHANGE. —There were a great many sales, principally of
the smaller shares of the Great Western Company, the prices of
which were very much d, pressed, in consequence of the startling
renuction of the dividend. (heat Western Quarter Shares closed
at B► 4 dis., and Great Western New 171. hares at 5% die.—London
and North-Western Stock was done at 12744.
LIVERPOOL, AUGUST 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The shaic market continues depressed. The
transactions to-daf were vi ry limited, and prices a shade lower. The
saes are- Lancashire and Yorkshire, Halves. 9.4 dis.—Ditto. Fifth'.
dis.—Dicto, Preference, 12% Ditto, Halves (L. and B.) 934 dii.
—London and North-Western, 1263 - Ditto, New Quarters, .25( P.
—Midland, 62—Ditto, Halves, 15 Ms.

MANCHESTER, Aunus2 14.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The transactions to-day were as follow :--
Manchester and Birmingham (C), Quarters, 2 13.16—Sheffield (No.
1), 1() c. dis.—West Riding Union, 4 1,-16 die.—North Staffordshire,
5%, dis.—Leeds, Fifths„3% dis.—Lancashire, Preference, 6 per cent.,
i%—Eastern Counties, 8%.

131.1011NOBAM, AuousT 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market is somewhat bettor The sal sales an—London and North-Western, Fifths. 414—London and
Blackwall, 4—North Staffordshire, 6 ths.—Shrewsbury and Binning-
ham, Preterence, 455. p.—South Staffordshire, 4% dis.

YORK, AUGUST 13.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day have been as AA'
low : 63—North British, Thirds, 31. 18s. 9d.—Dittc Quar-
ters, 3—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) 53(—Ditto, Preference.lol.
3s. 9d.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Neweastle Extension), 1334
—York and North Midland, Preference,

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.--The Flying Fi=h, 12, wee
put in commission this afternoon by Commander Patey.
The United States steam-ship Washington passed
through Spithead between two and three o'clock this
afternoon, from Bremen to Southampton.
Wind—W. by S.; strong breezes and cloudy weather.
MADEIRA, JULY 17.—Her Majesty's brig Ranger,
8 guns, Commander Thomas Miller, anchored here,
from Plymouth, yesterday afternoon. She was off the
port the previous morning, but could not get in owing
to calms, baffling light airs, and a heavy ground swept
.
She will sail again to-morrow evening for the coast of
Africa, after completing with water and setting up rig'
ging afresh. Vessels arriving here from England have
five days' quarantine to perform, and as they act here
under orders from Lisbon, the Governor has no power
to make any modification. The American Commodore,
in the Portsmouth corvette, 22 guns, is lying here,
baying returned about a month since from cruising Oil
the west coast of Africa, but made no captures.
They report the coast healthy. The Commodore
(U. S.) expects to go hence to the Mediterranean
in the course of the year. The Eagle steam"
packet, which left Southampton on the 9th, arrived
here on the 15th, late, and sailed for St. Thomas's last
evening. The Ranger exchanged numbers with the
Penguin packet, Lieutenant Le.lie, R.N., on the morn'
ing of the 15th, while endeavouring to reach the .ne:
choragv. She left Falmouth on the 6th, and anchorea
here on the night of the 15th; sailing yesterday of er•
noon for Teneriffe and Rio, with several passengers et!
board. • The weatner is very warm here, and the isholci
looking very beautiful.

PLYMOUTH, MONDAY, AUG. 13.—Her Majesty's brig
Hound, 8, Commander Granville IL Wood, arrived Ibis
morning from the West Int-ies.

The -Governm.nt oarract convict-ship Stately, Cap'
tain Thomas Gaud( r, with women, fur Sydney, •IvnLc-
lett Plymouth in the latter part of May, was spoken oil
the 231 of June in latitude 11 min. 10 deg. north.l
lungituce 23 west, all well, having experienced a splendid
passage from the Channel.
The merchant-schooner Redcliffe, Captain Hype. be-
longing to Messrs. Stevens and Co., of this port. Whe..,11
on her passage from Newcastle yesterday (Sunday), sn'a
a Dutch barque of 500 tons, with her ensign rarers',
at the peak-end and a black ball underneath, Bp/wet:Ad;
in distress, in all probability from sickness, as one 'Va.,
not disabled, and there was a large number of me'f:
women, and children, looking like emigrants, on deck'
The stranger was ab.iuti half a mile south of the Start
Point at three o'clock in the afternoon, running for Torbay, with a strong wind from W.S.W.
The ship columbine, of 1.000 tons burden, Captsi4
Joseph Cowart, from London, with emigrants, bound P
New Yotk, cane in yes erday. She left the St. KIWI,'"
tine's Ducks at half-past one o'clock on Saturday the
instant. On Monday night her chiet officer was taken
ill, and died on Tuesday morning; a seaman died alsooa
Tuesday; a woman and infant on Thursday, a child oa
Saturday morning, and a German in the afternoon;
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second German yesterday (Sunday). It is stated bYI,:
passengers that the Columb ne carries no surgeon. 01',
has on board upwards of 200 souls, the majority
whom are Germans. The English emigrants, as is
al-
ways
the case when there is a mixture of nations, fake
loud complaints of the want of cleanliness of their fellow'
travellers.

The ship Samuel Enderby, Captain Anderson, bey
longing to the South S,-a Fishing Company. came
this morning, from London, bound to the At ,_?.
Islands.

The ship Peterel, 848 tons register, Captain Taylor
belonging to Messrs. Gibbs, Bugler, and Co., of Live"
pool, sailed 3eAkrday, with 300 emigrants, for Sydney.
Wind, W.S.W.; a gale.

SAVAGE AND VICIOUS ATTACK BY A HOBO
Yesterday (Thursday) afternoon, a boy named Cbor'e.
Guy, in the employ of Mr. Croeke, saddler, pelbat°
street, having been up the Mansfield-road with a letter'
and having to go on to Park-row, was in the act of cross'
ing the field called Calar's Close along a beaten Path
,
made during the time when land was vubject to.cowl%vmst
right, when he was run after and attacked in a 113
savage manner by a horse that was turned out to geese
in the field. The boy endeavoured to escape by flighut,
k
cl
but was unable to do so, and the ferocious brute oeertdo;
the
him, knocked him own, bit him in two or three pleceo
pagndwocuarldridedeahliwmithins
rtlu.
onmouth withback, and
as p
m ucihc picked -(,him udo as
a
Fortunately being near some much frequented thoroughi
fares, several persons hastened to the spot, and succeeded
in rescuing the boy from his perilous position. No boot
were broken, but nearly the whole surface of the youth
baclkvs.li_sNDeivos.oovießtrine.E9dhxWaTmitth
JNssolsu-OisT
Vrenraelo.pcontusions and deep lacer*.
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RAILWAY.—The extension of thisTn „aft
the present terminus at Datchet to the town of Will" 30-;
was expected to have been opened in the course of a W.'
few days. In the course of Sunday, however, lit °P.
pears that the girders of one of the arches of the bridg;
which crosses the Thames near Eton College votlPPeij
rendering that arch fur the present moat insecure; °-
this must delay the opening.
FOREIGN FISH.—The steam-ship Magnet, arrive-a
r 1
from msterdsm, has brought, in addition to a genell.
cargo, fifty packages of fish, the produce of tiollan
This is the largest arrival of fish which has taken lot.ci
from abroad tor some time past,. the demand for tO4
generally esteemed article of food being much lessene
lately in consequence of the complaint which has Pre'
railed

LADVERTISEMENT.]—A Dangerous Liver C°l3l
plaint effectually cured by Holloway's Pills.—Extract of
letter from Mr. W. Roger, blacksmith, Ravensworth, Hunter
River, New South Wales, to Mr. J. H. Heyden, agent i°
Holloway's Pilis and Ointment, at Sydney, dated Jan. 171
1849 :—"Sir,—About eighteen months since, I was attack 0
with a severe liver complaint, for which I consulted the OE.
medical men of this district; but I derived no benefit Eros
their treatment, and at last they gave me up without the.le.;
hope of recovery. I then commenced taxing Holloway I I
valuable Pills, and continued them for about seven weeks! flt
lam now completely cured. I have great pleasure is Pr°,
this publicity to the case." Sold by all Druggists,
Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand Loacl•a•

BIRTHS
On the 2f th ult., at Madeira, the Viscountess Nortbl4l34
or o
On t a sn and heir. the
6th inst., at Knowsley Parsonage, Lancashire/
wife of the Rev. Robert H. Gray. of a son. 10
On the 9th inst., at Cusheendall, county of Antrim, the •
of Captain. Holland, of a daughter. MO*
On the 11th inst., at R.N.donnington Castle, the Eon.
John Heathcote, of a son.
On the lith init., at the Rectory, Tooting, the wife oftbe
Rev. R. W. Greaves, of a daughter. L 100
On the 12th inst., in Edinburgh, the lady of W. 'Ze
_Es(' , of Drumrossie, and younger of Warthill, Aber—
shire, of a son.
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if ARM „aeroo
At Camisky, Inverness. shire, onED.
the 2d inst., John Ca" titer
Macphee, Esq., of London, to Frances Hay, fourth 01! eat.
of the late Captain William Cameron, of the 79th Reg''"
or Cameron Highlanders.
On the 9th inst., at Catton, Norfolk, the Rev. Willa'
Hawtayne, eldest son of Rear-Admiral Hawtayne, to eater,
line, third surviving daughter of the late Harcourt IVi
Esq., of Catton.
On the 11th inst., at St. John's Church, Paddingta,_pd
Spencer, Esq, of the Inner Temple, to Margaret, l'e"
daughter of the Rev. E. H. Penny, M.A.

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