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

SOUTHWARK.

The Magistrate received the half of a 51. note from
" L.M.1V,," one sovereign from " Y.," and 20s. worth
of postage-stamps from " D.G.," for the poor-box of
this court, the donors requesting that an acknowledg-
ment might appear in the newspapers..

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, Nov. 26.

STOCK EXCHANGIL—Therewas 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, £3IA
dia.—Bristol and Exeter, Thirds, 12% dis.
LIVERI'OOL, Nov. 26.

STOCK EXCILANGU.—The share market was better to-day.
The transactions were as follow :—Lancashire and
York-
shire, Consol. Fifths, 6% dis.—Ditto, Halves ( No. 4), 61/a p.
—Leeds and Thirk, B%—London and North-Western, 11314
c.—Ditto, New Quarters, % p.—Ditto, Fifths, 3d p.—Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, Preference, 9 —Midland,
49—Ditto, Halves, 211/ dis.—North Union (A), 223
Shrewsbury find Chester (N. W. M.), Preference, guaran-
teed 8 per cent., 1514—South-Eastern and Dover (No. 4),
61,4—South Staffordshire, 3% dis.—Dublin and Drogheda,
Thirds, B%—Waterford and Limerick, 391/2 dis—Dutch
Rhenish, 7 dis.
MANCHESTER, Nov. 26.
STOCK EXCIIANOE.—The transactions to.day were as
follow :—Manchester and Birmingham (C ), Quarters, 1%
p. —Dover (No. 4), Scrip, 614—Sheffield, Eighths, 2c.
East Lancashire, 12 1-16—Manchester and Leeds, Fifths,
634 dis.—Ditto, Preference, 124—Great Northern, Prefer-
ence,
914—North Staffordshire, 9 234 dis.—Caledonian, Preference, mu,
,4 dis.—London
Stock, 1121 A c. dis.—Sheffield,
Pre

BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 26.
STOCK EXCIIANGIE.—The only transactions to-day were—
South Staffordshire, 3 4 dis. Birmingham and Stour
Valley, 9N.

YORK, Nov. 24.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as
follow :—Great Northern, 6,y",—Eastern Counties, 6% —Mid-
land, 43—York, Newcastle, and Berwick I.6%—York and
North Midland, 18%.
GLASGOW, Nov. 23.
STOCK ExctrAxGE.—The transactions to-day were as fol-
low :—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 58—Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle, 4—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves (No. 1),
61. 7s.—Monklancl, 6 per cent. guaranteed, 11—Scottish
Central, 14%.

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THE OLD CHURCH SPIRE ♦T BIRMINGHAM.—This
spire has been declared, by a majority of architects and
surveyors, to be decidedly unsafe and liable to fall down
if not taken down. It is to be hoped, however, that
whether the latter or 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 has been
started whether the church should not bo 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.

A GHOST STORY.—A droll circumstance lately
occurred at a farm-house, in Knell, 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. The 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 hoard on the
stairs and landing. Tho farmer's son exclaimed, " 0
Lord! the ghost, the ghost!" He jumped from bed, ful-
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 dandling white. Ile soon departed, however,
leaving the two youths in possession of the field; but
when they were about to step into bed again, 10l 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 same track,
and the landlord's claims for rent were met by an empty
house.— Carnarvon Herald.

If there is a delicate, deformed, or weak-minded
child in a family, it is generally the favourite with its
parents, This is a beautiful illustration of Nature
taking the part of tho most helpless.—Eliza Cook's
Joxrnal.