The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-26 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS'

LIVERPOOL, MARCH 24. meted,
STOCK EXCHANGA —The transactions to-day were very
ei
and prices are again lower. The sales are—East Lanc''„ e•
tA Preference, 6 per cent., 7%—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Ot pr
p.
ference, 6 per cent. 1 p.—Lancaster and Preston, Quarters, .7* •
—London and North-Western, Quarters, New, 4%
,
Sheffield, and Lincoln (late Sheffield and Lincoln), 1411 1d
Midland Stock, New Ilalyes, S dis.—Shrewsbury, Oswestry,
Chester, 101. Preference, guaranteed S per cent., 15% Stta.
Eastern (No. 4), Thirds, 71. 3s. 9d.—York, Newcastle, and
wick (G. N. E. Purchase), 6 per cent, guaranteed, 13s 9d. die..
BIRMINGHAM, Marten 24.
f elf STOCK EXCHANGE.— The share market continues compara,p.-e
inactive, and partakes of the general dulness pervading all A 0,4
Stock Exchanges. The sales are—North Staffordshire, af...,",t1
,;
Midland, 6 per cent. 124—Ambergate, 4% dis.—Shropshire um
11. 6s. 3d. dis.—Coventry and Nuneaton, % p.
YORK, MAacH 23. fol'
STOCK EXCHANGE —The busine,s transacted to-day waS 01°
lows :—Great Northern,ll%—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (~
castle Extension), 177, —Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 7%.
GLASGOW, Menai 23.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The following are to-day's transaction-1 J....
Caledonian, Preference, 1 l —Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, i 9,1
North British, Preference, 245.

NE WC ASTLE-LTPON-TYNE, Merton 24. to'
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business done in the Stock Exch....-,:usit
day has been as follows:—North British, 1,1%-31iddloshow
and RedeAr, 101%.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—TrafficI
for
the week ended March 18, 1849:—Coaching traffic. 736/,
10s. 7d. ; parcels, 421. 10s. 9d ; goods and cattle, 258
Is. Id.; steam-boats, 105/. Bs. 6d. Total, 1,142/. 105.11 d,
—exclusive of toll from Shrewsbury and Chester Coin.
pany, and payment for conveyance of mails.
ENORMOUS EGG.—Our neighbour, Mr. Mayer, the
silversmith, has sent to our office an egg, laid by
goose in the farm-yard of Mr. Parry, near Chester, all
which may be seen in our window. It measures 4
inches in direct length, 9 inches round the middle, 121,
inches round the oval, and weighs 121 ounces.—Liverpool
Mercury.
A GOOD SHOT.—At Strickland-gate, in Kendal,
on Thursday last, a sportsman, who was passing St.
Thomas's Church, with a common air gun
observed a starling perched upon the
pinnaclehis of the
steeple. He instantly discharg,d the piece, and the bird
felskullldeaidg,hittsot the having
pinnacle
befreonmfrarsepdotbywthheencbeultlhete.
The he
sportsman took aim is upwards of clOO feet.—Cumber-
land Pacquet.

BIRTH.
On the 18th insf.., the lady of the Rev. Charles Dashwood
Goldie, curate of Horncastle, of a son and heir.

MARRIED.

14, India-street, on the 23d inst., Williats
Esq.. son of Henry Curwen, Esq., of Work
in wn Hall, Cumberland, and Belle Isle, Westmoreland, to
Catherine Robertson, daughter of the late Robert No3/!'
BlamireG Glasgow,
Curwen,
D.D., Minister of the united parishes of Larbert and Duni-
pace, Stirlingshire.
On the 22d inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, Jobs
W. Brown, Esq., of Motcombe.street Bel e-square,
..,
, grav Eleanor, second daughter of Mr. Richard W. F alrlain,
Oxford-street.

DIE.
On the 12th inst., at Portsmouth, Mrs. Tidy, widow. 0f the
late Colonel Tidy, C. 8., 24th Regiment. of
On the 14th inst., at Woolwich, Dr. Parkin. NT• 0
Cawsand, Cornwall, aged 71, Inspector of Fleets and s‘.
pitals, having served upwards of 53 years. On the 18th inst., in London, Robert Claxton, Esct' her
Majesty's Chief Justice of St. Christopher's, West 'flair; gl,
age
the 19th inst., at Sharow-lodge, Yorkshire, P" -
Thomas Hopper, Esq.
On the 20th inst., at Rainham, Kent, Mr. T. WakeleY•
On the .oth inst., John Priestley, Esq., of Parkfleld-c°'
•
tage, Toxteth park, Liverpool, aged 63.
On the 20th inst., at Brixton, Edmund, eldest son 9f
T. Goodbehere, Esq., of Lee.
On the 23d inst., J. R. Barnes, Esq., Darley-hall, near
Bolto, Lancashire, aged 63.
:f of
On the 25th inst., in Wimpole-street, Catherine, wife
Admiral Sir Byam Martin, G.C.B.

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