The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-09 00:00:00

GLASGOW, FEB. 7.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—TIia following are to-day's transactions:—
Dun !cc and Perth, 23/. 10s.—Ditto, Quarters, 29s.—Edinburgh and
Northern, Preference, 17--Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 5 per
cent. guaranteed, 102 - Glasgow Harbour Mineral, 15s.—Great North
of Scotland, is. 9d.—Menkland, 6 per cent. guaranteed, 41. 17s. Gd.
—Nora' British, 161. 15s.—Scottish Central, 25—Stirling and Dun-
fermline, 5/. 2s. 6d.—Wishaw and Coltness, 441. ss.—York, New-
castle, and Berwick, Extension, No. 1 (York and Newcastle), 211.
12s. 6d. —Ditto, No, 2 (Newcastle and Berwick), 211. 12s. Gd.

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LAUNCH OF THE FLOATING RAIL AY.—The
launch of this novelty in railway engineering, for ferry-
ing the trains over the Frith and Forth, took place on
Tuesday afternoon at Messrs. B. Napier's ship building-
yard, near Glasgow. The operation excited consider-
able interest, more particularly as the vessel was built
" broadside," and not in the usual manner, with her bow
or stern to the river, it being conceived that owing to
the elevation of the ground above the high water level
of the Clyde, the launch of the vessel on the broadside
system could be more safely and easily effected. The
method, in fact, was adopted from the circumstance of
the success attending it in the case of one or two other
iron vessels of 100 tons burthen, just built at Glasgow,
for the Forth awl Clyde Canal, and which have been
launched broadside from a height of twelve feat into
the river. The signal being given to pipe all hands, the
blocks were removed, and the stopper ropes cut,
when the huge fabric, 170 feet long on deck, by 34 feet
wide between the paddles, and 10 feet deep, strongly
framed and plated to sustain the great weight of a train
of loaded trucks, glided with a gently increasing velocity
to the end of her ways, fell about 2i feet to the river,
gave two or three heavy rolls, and then drifted into the
centre of the stream and was towed to the Broomielaw,
where she received her machinery. Her engine is 56 in
cylir.der and 3 feet 6 inches stroke, working each
paddle. A chimney on each side allows a clear space in
the centre for three trucks loaded abreast, and the cap-
tain stands above them between the paddles to steer
either end foremost. The vessel is of iron ribbed, the
plates on the bottom being half an inch thick. The usual
baptismal ceremony of breaking a bottle of wine at the
bow was dispensed with, and the vessel being a sort of
hybrid between a railway and a steamboat is to be known
as " the floating railway." ,
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—More Cures by Holloway's
Pills.—Read this.—Airs. Jernima Albert, the widow of a naval
officer, residing in Campbell-place, St. George's in the East,
had been ill fur a long time with a distressing cough, accom-
panied with much expectoration, great weakness of the chest,
and continued head-aches ; besides this, her digestion was
greatly impaired, appetite completely gone, and always drowsy.
She considered herself past cure. Yet notwithstanding her
advanced age, she iv restored to the highest state of health and
vigour by the use of Holloway's Pills, declaring she feels more
like a young girl than one of her years, being so hale and
strong. Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's
Establishment, 244, Strand, London.
PORT OF GRIMSBY.—We understand that the
Great Northern Company are contemplating aline to
branch from the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire, at the Lock, to a jetty (by the basin) which has
been undergoing a thorough renewal, for the purpose of
landing goods of all descriptions at the Old Dock, with-
out having recourse to the tedious and expensive mode
of carting. This must eventually prove a great public
convenience, both for export and import traffic, particu-
larly as regards the transit of coals from sloops. The
Great Northern Company have also erected a very spa-
cious and substantial warehouse near Pasture-street.
It is expected that very shortly first-rate steamers will
Rotterdam, and other ports.—
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FOREIGN SUGAR CANDY.—Very large arrivals are
taking place of sugar candy from the Dutch ports, the
and in consequence of the re-
duzon manufactureo f
thoef
dlhitoyl Rolland, n
the article, a very considerable
qtrintity of it is cleared for home use. The liteamtr
arrivcd from Ni a Diep, has brought thy,
large quantity of 918 cases of the article, in addition to
222 barrels of crushed refined sugar, as a portion of her
cargo, the produce of Holland.