The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-16 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARII MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, JuLy 14.
STOCK EXCLIANOIL—TIIe
Is.aoirckss aree—,
Prefer-
ence, 12—Lancashire and Caledonian, n
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rvl) t t
4o
3i,
ds._
Ditto, Fifths, 31f3
North-We•tern 132 c.— Ditto, uar or, ••c, D.-
-London:lnd.
Cbestrr, ani,,,le,Svto2ckpotrt,.33l.lBs. 9d.
Ditto, Fifths 5,,.4 p.—_Midland, naives, 12Th.vdls....—Dit to, 37 ql. Shar‘a^
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions 95—Shrew.sbury, OsinvelaßtairyiaNnadf(l:7Ahc;ft,cr
to-day were as follow-:
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 6) dis.—Cale.lonian, Prefer-
ence, 2 p.—Coventry and Atanchester, 3 p.—London and North-
western, 133—Nortb Staffordshire, 41. lls. 3d. dls.—Shropshire Union,
dis.—South Staffordshire, 47,', dis
YORK, JULY 13.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day have been as fol-
low : —East Lancashire, Preference, 6 per cent., 714 —North British,
Thirds. 3;a—Ditto, Quarters, 3!6—North Staffordshire, 13—York,
Newcastle, and Berwick, 20—Ditto (Newcastle Extension), 13%
York and North Midland, Preference, 7.
GLASGOW, JULY 13.
STOCK F.Miklq(lE —The transactions to-day were as follow :
Clydesdale Junction, 671,x—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves
(No. 1), SI. lis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase
or Preference), 37. Lis.

TESTIMONIAL TO THE LATE LORD G. BENTINCK.
—On Saturday afternoon a meeting of the trustees of
Cavendish-square assembled at the Court-house, Nary-
lebone, for the purpose of considering the plans and pro-
itosal to erect a statue, as a testimonial to the memory
of the late Lord George Bentinek, M.P., within the
enclosure of the square. Viscount Barrington, M.P.,
presided. The statue is to be of bronze, of very large
dimensions, and it is understood that the plan, as pro-
posed by the testimonial committee, involved the removal
of the statue of the Duke of Cumberland, erected in his
honour in reference to the battle of Culloden, which now
theu lolteinmeatesul)rrep.assTelidisthisemsfoulbijoevveituedg
occupies the centre offo
to by the trustees, w
resolution:—That the trustees of Cavendish-square do
Io
the site marked out on the plan,
"
as the
same apwpvoruolde of
materially interfere with the enclosure. The
trustees willingly give their convent to the erection of
the statue opening to liolleS street, in a line with the
iron railing within the gate, upon two new gates being
furnished at the expense of the committee, one on each
side of the statue, and all dilapidat.
Bto tehreesicerds made
. good by the
communicate this be requested to
arrangement, if accepted by the committee,ominittee the By this
will occupy a Commanding pcsition facing towards
Oxford-street, and in a similar position to the statue of
Mr. Pitt, erected in Hanover-square.
DISTRESSING SUICIDE OF A WAITER.—An inquest
was held before Mr. W. Baker, at the Three Compasses,
Dalston, on view of the body of John Ball, aged 59 years,
who had been waiter for upwards of 40 years at Baker's
Coficehouse, Change-alley, Cornhill. P. appeared from
the evidence that the deceased had been in a very de-
sponding state for some months past,
which was attri-
buted to the death of his young master, to whom he was
much attached. On Saturday night last he was disco-
vered by police-constable Watts, No. 156 N, lying upon
the fcotpath in the Middleton-road, Ralston, immediately
opposite the house in which his young master had died.
He as in a state of insensibility, and blood was flowing
copiously from an extensive wound in his throat, which
he had inflicted with a razor, which was found 13 inn by
his side. Ile had divided the carotid artery, windpipe,
end the wound extended to the vertebim of the neck.
fie w„, subsequently removed to the German Hospital,
and lingered in great agony until Thursday morninf
lost, when he expired. Verdict—." Temporary insanity.
A cricket ball, measuring fourteen inches in cir-
cumference, was found in the stomach of a fine heifer
!lately slaughtered by 14 buScher tit Rotherham.