The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-23 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS•

BRISTOL, MAY 22.
STontr EXCHANGE —The only transactions to-day were in Brl4ol I
an (1 Exeter Old Shares, which closed at 30 die. The market re-
m; n'ns in a very gloomy and depressed condition.

LEVEIti'OCOL, MAT 22.
11 recit EXCHANGE.—The Share market was very dull to-day.
an, 5 closed heavily. The sales are—Caledordan, Preference. 11347-
Lo t akin and North-Western, 12i c.—Ditto, New .Quarters, 2•SA,_P;:
Mei nchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Prelerene...., 10N-3" u'ind
Ha tves, 11% dis.. -Newcastle and Carlisle, 95 —Shrewsburiatera
Ch e ster, Preference, guaranteed 8 per cent., 15—Seut"
aril Dover (No. 4), 6/. 13s. 9d.
MANCHESTER, May 22.
follows :
:3 rock EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were 945
Do t rer (No. 4), 6%—Ditto (Registered), 6% c.—Sheffield,
en( •!., 11—North Staffordshire, 5 dis.—Leeds, Fifths, 411 dis.-sEasterlii
Co, t nties' 8 1-16—East Lancashire, Preference, 7% —Staffe,rd and
Litz coin, 14 % c. dis.—Leeds, Preference, II 15-16.
BIRMINGHAM. MAT 22-
TOCIS EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day have been as fel"
loNr. s:—London and North-Western, Fifths, s)4—Midland, 6 per
con; L. 123% —North Staffordshire. 5% (W.—Shrewsbury and Be-
min ghain (II.), 4 3-9 dis.—Shropshire Union,
535. 9d. Rs—South
SteStunlordshire, 4.% dis.—York and Newcastle. Extension, 6%,
GLASGOW, MAY 21. '
St rout EXCHANGE.—The only business done in the Stock ZS" *
chiti ige today was hi Clydesdale Junction, at 61.

NSTITUTE OF GAS ENGINEERS.r—WO understand
this t a new college or institute is about to be established,
has ing for its objects the collection and promulgation of
all data relative to the existing methods of manufacturing
and distributing gas; an examination of the most ad'
ent ific and practical methods of increasing its purity
and. illuminating power; of making it in the most ece
no raical manner; of getting rid of all noxious effluvium;
an of of so regulating the mods of supply that it can be
co oveyed to consumers at a cost much inferior to that
whach they are charged at present. Another important
objicct is, the regular training and instruction of gas
engineers, so as to reduce to one undo) m system and
scts.nce the diverse methods which at 1 resent pievatio
leading as they do to extravagant and ill-directed expert'
ditt :re, and greatly enhanced cost of the article, equally
to the injury of shareholders and consumers. When it
is c ansidered that not less than 15,000,0001. of British
cap ital are invested in gas works, and thatt nothing can
be ;more variable than the prices charged throughout the
country, the importance of such an institute, which
will assure to shareholders and the public an ascertained
amount of scientific knowledge-and practical skill on the
pa rt of those to whom the expenditure of this immense
and increasing capital is entrusted will be readily 51).
pr, iciated. The science of gas manufacture is, perhaps,
e tin its infancy. Many improvements have certainly
-beoni made of late years, but owing to the expense of
adapting old works to such improved methods, and other
obvious personal reasons, these improvements have met
with far from universal adoption. New alleged improve;
merits are also daily suggested, which require scientific
investigation, so that the practically good may b.e,
separated from those which are merely speculative and ,
theoretical, and which would lead to a waste of iNtpitat•
The projectors of this new institute are, we understand,
Mr. A. Angus Croll, Engineer' of the Coventry and
Tottenham Gas Works and of the Great Central Con-
sumers' Company, and Professor Wilson, of the Ander-
sonian Institution, who have already, secured the wars'
co-operation of some of the most eminent gas engineers
in the kingdom.
Love is the embroidery of imagination on, the stuff
of nature.—Eliza Cook's Journal.
NATURAL LANGUAGE OF THE HANDS.---The band
has a great share in expressing our thoughts and
feelings; raising the hands towards heaven, with the
palms united, expresses devotion and , supplication ;
wringing them, grief; throwing them towards heaven,
admiration; dejected hands, despair and amazement;
folding them, idleness; holding the fingers intermingled,
musing and thoughtfulness; holding them forth together,
yielding and submission; lifting them and the eyes to
heaven, selemn appeal; waving the hand from us, pro-
hibition; extending the right hand to any one, peen
pity, and safety; scratching the head, care and perplextng
thought; laying the right hand on the heart, affection
and solemn affirmation; holding up the thumb, aPPre-
bation; placing the right forefinger on the lips perpen-
dicularly, bidding silence.--Eliza Cook's Journal.
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CORK, MAY 20.—Arrd. Ruby, Allan, Cuba.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 21.—51 d., Seringapataw, Madras,
&c.; Queen, Victoria and Canton.

SHEERNESS, Ms: 21.—Arrd. Europa (of Bremen),
Curn, South Seas.

BIRTHS.
On the 20th inst., at St. Germains-place, Blackheath, the
wife of the Rev. Paul Ashmore, of a daughter.
On the 20th inst., at Westbourne Park-villas, Bayswater
Mrs. Newman Ward, of a son.
On the 20th inst., at Upper Clapton, Mrs. William Lid-
diard, of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 17th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, Francis
H. Ramadge, M.D., of Clarges-stre-t, to Harriette, relict of
John Carey, Esq., of Park-fields, Staffordshire.
On the 19th inst., at St. Pancras William, youngest son
of the late Colonel George Forster, Royal Artillery, to Jane,
third daughter of the late Robert Pringle, Esq., Ordnahce
Storekeeper, Gibraltar.

DIED.
On the 18th inst., suddenly, in the 71st year of his age,
John Oldrid, Esq., one of the magistrates, and. formerly al-
derman,
and once mayor of the borough of Boston.
On the 19th inst., in Montagu-street, Portman-square, Sir
Nesbit Josiah Willoughby, U. 8., &Cal., Rear-Admiral of
the White, aged 72.
On Saturday, the 19th inst., in Cork-street, Lieutenant-
Colonel T. K. Limond, late of the Madras Cavalry.
On the 19th inst., at Dover, Sarah, relict of the late Law-
rence Banks, Esq., of Boys-hall, and eldest daughter of the
late Joseph Sladen, Esq, of Folkestone, aged 75.
On the 20th inst., at Torquay, Mrs. Julian Tyndale, of
Blandford-square, Marylebone.
On the 10th inst. at the Rectory. house, Worth. Sussex,
Anna Maria, relict of the late Bev. Dr. l3ethune, LL.D.

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Middlesex, Weclueetley, May 23, 1849.