The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-05 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, FEB. 3.
STOCK EacnlNGE.—We have had a fair demand for most kinds
of stock and the better shares to-day, and prices are a shade higher.
The sales are—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 311. Share?,
61. 9s. 3 I. dis.—Caledonian, Preference, 7 per cent., 1% p.—East An-
glian, 31. 10s. Shares, guaranteed 6 per cent , 2,4 —Lancashire and
Yorkshire (late Manchester and Birmingham), Quarters, 3% dis.—
Ditto, Fifths, 23( dis.—Di to, 321. Shares (late Extension), 5% dis.
Ditto, halves (late Liverpool and Bury), 9% dis.—Ditto, Fifths (late
West Riding Union), 3% dis.—London and Worth-Western, 137
Ditto, Fifths, 714 p.—Ditto, New Quarters, SIA p.—Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 49—Ditto, 10/ Preference, 11%—Ditto
(Docks), 12% dis —Midland fltock, New Half Shares, 4% dis.—Ditto
(Birmingham and Derby), 68—North British, Quarters, 3% —North
Staffordshire, 314 dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, Preference, 8
per cent. for ten years, 9/. 16s. 3d. —Shrewsbury, Osvvestry, and
Chester, 3% dis.— South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, Quarters, 7%
York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 6 per cent.
guaranteed, 28s. 9d. p.

BIRMINGHAM, FEB. 3.

STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The butiness On our Change continues in-
animate, owing, no doubt, in some degree to the near approach of
the half-yearly meetings of the great railway companies. The only
quotations were—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A.), 51,4 dis.—
Shropshire 17-Ilion, 2/. I Is. 3d. dis.
YORK, FEB. 2.
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STOCK EXCHANGII.—The busir;e s transacted to-day was as fol-
lows:—Great Northern, 91. E —North British, 'Thirds, 4X
Newcastle, and Berwick (Original New3astlo and Berwick), 2914
—Ditto (Extension), No. 1, 21% —Ditto, No. 2 (late New Berwicks),
211%i —Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 9%.

COMMITTEE OF ALDERMEN.....-011 Saturday a com-
mittee of Aidermen was held in the Council-chamber,
Guildhall, when the election of a goaler, in the room of
the late one, who had resigned the situation, took place.
The person chosen was G. Shackle, who for many years,
was one of the old Bow-street officers, but upon the
formation of the new police, he was appointed one of the
inspectors, and subsequently succeeded Mr. Superin-
tendent Pearce, of the F divider', an the inspauLor of the
detective force, from which he retired a few months
ago on a pension. Some of the members of the Court
objected to the appointment, on the ground that some
one of the turnkeys belonging to the Compter could be
found, who would be hilly capable of performing the
duties, but it was contended that, as Shackle was ac-
quainted with the persons of all the metropolitan thieves,
a better selection could not be made, and his election
was the result.

DETERMINED SUICIDE.—On Saturday, consider-
able sensation was excited in Cheyne-walk, Chelsea, in
consequence of Mr. John Naton, the landlord of the
Yorkshire Grey, having committed suicide by shooting
himself. The deceased, who was about thirty-five years
of age, was married, and has left a family of four young
children. It appears that neither deceased, his wife, or
potboy, had been to bed the previous night ; that a few
minutes before five o'clock deceased left his wife in her
bed-room, and went down stairs, saying that he would
shoot himself. He afterwards took a gun, loaded it
with shot, placed the muzzle beneath his chin, and pulled
the trigger with his right foot. The potboy had at-
tempted to interfere, but the unfortunate man swore he
would shoot him if he did.

[ADVERTISEMENT ]—Another Cure of a Bad Leg
by Holloway's Pills and Ointment.—Extract of a letter from
Mrs. Murray, whose husband had been a sergeant in the
Scotch Greys, and now is in the Metropolitan Police :—" 32,
Charles -street, Westminster, 24th April, 1846; Sir,—Having
been long afflicted with an abscess in the leg, I applied for
relief to some of the most eminent of the medical profession,
but getting no better, I was admitted into the Westminster
Hospital, and after a long stay, I left uncured; indeed, the
surgeon said, that any further effort on his part, was per-
fectly useless; yet shortly afterwards, my leg was cured by
using Holloway's Pills and Ointment."—Sold by all Drug-
gists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand,
London.

Fox Cum.—The first meeting of the Fox Club
this year was held at Brooke's on Saturday evening.
The following noblemen and gentlemen were present:—
Right Hon. Earl Fifzvvilliam, Right Hon. Earl of Straf-
ford, Hon. C. Cavendish, M.P., Right Hon. Lord Foley,
Mr. Gibson Craig, M.P., Mr. Denison, RP., Mr. Ste-
phenson, Right Hon. J. W. Fitzpatrick, M.P., Mr. Al-
ston, Right Hon. Viscount Enfield, M.P., Lord E.
Howard, Lord Sudeley, Mr. E. A. Sanford, Mr. Augus-
tus Stephenson, Right Hon. Dr. Lushington, Right Hon.
Lord Poltimore, Lord James Stuart, M.P., Earl Ducie,
Right Hon. Lord de Manley, lion. George Fitzwilliam,
MT., Right Hon. Lord Marcus Hill, M.P., Right Hon.
Earl of Yarborough, Hon. R. Watson, Mr. F. Dundas,
Hon. E. L. Mostyn, M.P., Hon, Colonel George KePPI,
11.1'., Sir U. Hiroo, Viscount Ebringtol M.P., Mr. J.
A. Simi* MY., Hight Hon, Sir-RiStiett AdAiic

Master—Thomas Malcolm Temple (1795), the second
in seniority on the list, died at Plymouth, last month, at
eighty.

APPOINTMENTS.

Captain Sir Edward Lyons, Bart., G.C.8., K.C.H.
(1845), who has been the English representative at
Athens for many years, is to be removed to Switzerland.
Captain James C. Cant, who was promoted in Octo-
ber, 1847, for the relief servicein Ireland, in command
of the Scourge steam-sloop, and whose letters on the
condition of the population of Skull, will, perhaps, be
remembered, who rendered some service at the wreck of
the Sphynx, steam-sloop, and after escorting the Royal
squadron to Scotland, proceeded to Dundrum Bay ; and
was engaged in the successful recovery of the Great
Britain iron steam ship, having been appointed by the
Lord Mayor one of the harbour masters of the port of
London, vice Commander Fisher, retired, the Admiralty
nave been pleased to sanction the appointment. There
were about 50 candidates for the appointment, including
Captains M`Quhae, late of the Daedalus, and Vernon
Watkins, late of the Modeste, Commander Blinstead
(who served in the navy with the Lord Mayor), and
r. Parker, R.N.
Commander E. A. Inglefield, son of the late Rear-
Admiral Inglefield, who went out with his father, in the
Vernon, four years since, as flag-lieutenant (then having
about two years' seniority as a lieutenant), commanded
the Comus at the affair at Point Obliged°, in the Parana,
and obtained his commander's rank, came home to
England, was appointed to the command of the Espiegle,
at China, on the promotion of Captain Thompson, and
thence to the Ringdove, on the appointment of Sir W.
Hoste to the Spiteful, has been appointed by Rear-Ad-
miral Sir F. Collier, C. 8., the Commander-in-Chief in
the East Indies, acting captain to command and to bring
home the Melatnpus, 42, vice J. N. Campbell, invalided
and since dead.

Lieut. Robert B. Miller (1837), who has been first-
lieutenant of the Melampus since she was commissioned,
has been appointed by Sir F. Collier, acting commander
of the Ringdove, 18, on her passage to England, vice
Inglefield.
Masters—James Brown (1811), of the Agincourt,
depot-ship of Devonport ordinary, to the Victoria and
Albert royal yacht, vice Macdonald, appointed assistant-
master attendant at Portsmouth Dockyard; W. C. Trip-
hook (1840), has been selected, from among sixty-seven
candidates, by the Board of Superintendence, as Go-
vernor of the Waterford County prison, upon a salary
of 1001. per annum, with house, coals, and candles.
Mates—William Henry Pym (seniority November,
1848), and Shute Barrington Piers (seniority December,
1848), passed their examinations for gunnery. at Ports-
mouth, on Saturday ; Thomas Hutchinson Mangles
Martin, acting of the Fury steam. sloop, to be act-
ing lieutenant of the Medea steam-sloop, vice Quin,
deceased.
Commander C. Codrington Forsyth, whose promotion
by the Board of Admiralty, from the rank of Haute-

nant, we gave a few days since, entered the service
in 1827, served in her Majesty's ship Jaseur, 18 guns,
Captain Lyons, on the east coast of Africa, for
the suppression of the slave trade. He then joined
her Majesty's ship Maidstone, 42, Commodore Sir
C. U. Schombergh ; from her he removed into the
Warspite, 76, bearing the flag of Admiral Sir Thomas
Baker. After serving in her a short time, he was ap-
pointed to her Majesty's surveying sloop Beagle, under that
talented officer Captain R. Fitzroy. Whilst in this vessel
he assisted in the survey of the coast of South America
from the River Plate to Guayaquil, including the Falk-
land Islands, &c., and, in conjunction with two other
midshipmen, surveyed a distance of 1,700 miles of coast,
in a small vessel of 14 tons, without any other assistance.
He passed his examination for lieutenant in 1836, and
joined her Majesty's ship Pelorus, and then proceeded
to India. On this vessel's arrival on the station, a rup-
ture being expected with the Burmese, he was detached
with her boats to Rangoon, and, by his timely arrival,
saved the British Resident, Colonel Burney, and the
masters of the merchant vessels, from imprisonment. The
Pelorus was then ordered to Australia and New Zealand.
Whilst on these coasts, Commander Forsyth made many
v Linable additions to the charts by his surveys, and was
sent at the particular request of Sir J. Franklin after
a party of desperate convicts who had escaped from
Van Diemen's Land; and after a narrow escape of his
I,le, he saved part of them from destruction. In 1839 he
again joined her Majesty's ship Beagle, and for more
than two years did the duty of lieutenant and assistant
surveyor, in command of her tender, in the survey of
Bass's Straits, without receiving the pay of either officer,
and was most handsomely recommended to the Admi-
ralty by Sir J. Franklin and Sir James Stirling, for his
services on the coast of Van Diemen's Land and Western
Australia. On the Beagle's return to England, in 1843,
he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, and ap-
pointed to her Majesty's ship Helena, on the east coast of
Africa, where he was continually away in command of
her boats. On one occasion he captured an Arab slaver
after some resistance, with 82 children on board, destined
for the slave market at Muscat. In performing this
service, nine out of the pinnace's crew died from the ef-
fects of fever. On the Helena's return to the Cape, the
colonists being at war with the Kafiri, the troops, in con-
sequence of the drought and difficulty of obtaining
supplies, were obliged to retreat to the mouth of the
Great Fish River, where it was reported supplies might
be landed, although it was much doubted from the
heavy surf almost always prevailing on this dangerous
coast. Lieutenant-General Sir P. Maitland applied to
the senior naval officer, Captain R. Gambier, for an offi-
cer to superintend the debarkation of troops and stores,
and survey and report on the coasts, when Commander
Forsyth was selected for this service from his knowledge
of surveying and landing on open coast. On his arrival
there he found the troops almost destitute of provisions,
which he soon succeeded in landing in large quantities,
which enabled the army again to advance against the
Kafirs; for this service he was strongly recommended to
the Admiralty, and was officially informed by their
Lordships, through Rear-Admiral Dacres, that they had
made a favourable note of his name. On the arrival of
Sir 11. Pottinger and Sir G. Berkeley, the troops
again made a forward movement, when Commander
Forsyth was requested to proceed to the mouth of the
Buffalo, and report as to the possibility: of land-
ing stores there. On his way thither with a small es•
cort, he was nearly cut off by the enemy. At this place
he was again successful in landing supplies under the
most dangerous and difficult circumstances. He was re-
peatedly recommended through the Commander-in-
Chief, Rear-Admiral Dacres,' for his valuable assist-
ance and co-operation ; and again by Sir Harry Smith,
who states in his letters to Earl Grey, had it not been
for the energy and perseverance displayed by this
officer in establishing these landing-places the army
must have starved. He was also officially thanked
by the Admiral for his valuable surveys of this coast,
and the Commissary-General likewise recommended him
to tho Treasury for the valuable assistance he had ren-
dered his department during the war. For these im-
portant services the Board of Admiralty have promoted
him to the rank of commander.

SHIPS TO BE PAID OPP.

The Rodney, 92, Captain Collier, C. 8., expected from
Gibraltar, is to be paid off at Portsmouth, where she was
fitted out.

Tho Vanguard, 80, Captain Rich, expected from
Gibraltar, is to be paid off at Devonport, where she was
fitted out.

The Juno, 26, Captain Patrick Blake, arrived home,
is to be paid off at Chatham.
The Harlequin, 12, Commander Seymour, expected
from Lisbon, is to be paid at Devonport.
The Hound, 8, Commander G. H. Wood, for some
time in the West Indies, from the coast of Africa, has
been ashore half-a-dozen times, and will most likely
come home and be paid off. She was commissioned
June, 1846.

The Scourge steam-sloop, Commander VVingrove, is
on her way home from the West Indies, to 5e paid off,
and may be hourly expected. Some time since she
touched the ground whilst the commander in chief Lord
Dundonald, was on board; and it has since Teen ascer-
tained, from the examination of a diver at Bermuda, that
some portion of her keel has been carried away. She
will require docking in a home port, to repa,r these and
other defects.

The Rhadamanthus, 2, steam-transport, Master Com-