The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-16 00:00:00

MANCHESTER, JUNE 14.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notting-
ham, and Boston, 114 dis.—Birkenhaid, Lancahire, and Che-
shire Junction, 1% dis.—Blackburn, Clitheroe, &c., Prefe-
rentials, 1% p.— 'astern Counties, York Extension, 3(ii
--East Lancashire, New (scrip), par—Fleetwood, Preston,
s;nd West Riding, 1% dis.—Huddersfield and Manchester
1/8
Railway and Canal, p. —Leeds and Thirsk, Preferentials,
dis.—Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, lA—London and
North-Western (Manchester and Birmingham), Quarters (B),
ii 9-16 c. p.—Manchester and Leeds, Halves (late Bud. and
Sheff.), %. p.—Ditto, 321. Shares (late Extension), 1-16 p.—
Ditto, Fifths (late West Riding Union), par—Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Quarters, No. 1,2% p.—Ditto,
Eighths, I b—Ditto (Grimsby), 50/. Shares, 7% Ms.—Ditto
(Sheffield and Lincolnshire), 3 —Nort h Staffordshire,
North-Western, 1% dis.—Preston and Wyre, Halves (A),
3 15-16 p.—South- Eastern and Dover, No. 4, dis.

LEEDS, JUNE 14. -
STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Ambergate, Notting-
ham, and Boston, 1143 dis.—East Lancashire, New, 16s. die.—
East and West Yorkshire, 114 dis.—Great Northern, 1% n.
dis.—Leeds and Dewsbury, Halves, 12s. 6d. n. p.—Leeds
and Thirsk. 6 dis.—Ditto, Preference, 13s. 6d. dis.—London
and Manchester (Remingtonls), 21,E dis.— Mallon and
Driffield Junction, 16s. dis.—Manchester and Leeds, West
Riding Union, Is. dis.—Midland, Preference, 3c. p.—New-
castle and Berwick, New, 2% p.—North British, Thirds,
1% p. —Ditto, Quarters, 325. 6d. n. p.—Ditto Extension,
ls. 6d. p.—North Staffordshire, 2 11-16 n. p.—korth-West-
ern, 28s. dis.—York and Newcastle, Preference, 34 a, p.
HULL, Jvxx 14.

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STOCK EXCHANGIT.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notting-
Halves, 51,4—hlanehes-
ham and Beaton, 275. 6d.—Blackburn, Clitheroe, ire., Pre-
iteerreannede,
Leeds 3.6 d(.
Quarters, 90s.—Ditto, Extension (scrip), 3s. 6d, p,
SHEFFIELD, Juitz 14.
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EDINBURGH, JUNE 12.

STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, New,
_ 41a.
—Dundee and Northern Junction, 318.—Dwadee and Perth
Quarters, 64s.—East Lothian Central, 355.-,Edinburgh,Leith, and Granton, Quarters, lls. 9d.—Edinburgh and
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—Ditto, Halves, 7a. 9d.—Great Northern, . 85s.—North
British, Quarters, 87s. 6d.--Ditto, Thirds, 50s. 6d.—Scottish
Central, 27—Scottish Midland, New, 614—East Indian, 2s. 9d.
GLASGOW, Juwa 12.
STOCK EXCHASGE.—The sales are—Dundee and Perth,
Quarters, 6414—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr (5 per cent.
guar. ),1201.—Glasgow, Dumfries, and. Carlisle, 51. 3s.—man_
cheater and Southampton, Bs. 6d.—Midland, Halves, 8%.

MR. GALE'S BALLOON ASCENT.—This intrepid
gentleman, whose aerostatic exhibitions have novelty to re-
commend them, and\ apparent though not real danger to
excite the most apathetic, made an ascent on Monday from
the Rosherville-gardens at Gravesend, accompanied by two
other aeronauts, in the presence of a vast number of spec-
tators collected within the grounds. Previously to the ascent,
the ceremony of naming theballoon, somewhat in the manner
of naming a ship at the time of launching her, took place
amidst the cheers of the multitude. When at a very great
elevation the lower car was let down from the upper one, to
the distance of thirty feet, and Mr. Gale descended from the
one to the other, and ascended again to his original place,
having discharged a battery of shells from the lower car.
The gardens, which are now in admirable order, were, not•
withstanding the unfavourable state of the weather in the
visited by some thousands of persons,
the early of
in cyder to
afford a perfect view of the novelty of its construction. At
aplaltr,otnofhathveindgay,
two o'clock the weather cleared up, and at the time of the
ascent was most propitious.
been inflated since Saturday,