The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-21 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, DEC. 20. —
STOCK EXCHANGE.--The share market to-day has been
very dull and quiet, and prices are again lower. The salea
.7-Midland are—Leeds and Thirsk, New, 15 dis.—London and North-
Western,Dshitatroe,s,Q4ulalZfN(oArthansdtaßfl
B), 33j4
149 c.—Ditto, Quarters (L. and B.), Mit p.—
and Dover, 291,6—Ditto, No. 4, Thirds, DA dis.
MANCHESTER, Dac. 20.
STOCK EXCLIANGE.—The sales are—East Lancashire,
207ii—Elinburgh and Gllsgow, Halves, 3 dis.—Lancashire
and Yorkshire (P. and W.), 3414—Leeds and Thirsk, Pre-
ferential, 134 dis.—Manchester, Shelue d, and Lincoln-
shire, Ditto (Silefil3l,l •zuld Lincoln-
shire), 5 dis.—Nortli Stalfords:lll7:‘, n. dis.—Shropshire
Union, 21,6 ,''s.—,`Fomli- Eastern and Dover, 29,!4—11itt0,
No. 4, 2 3-16 dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, Exten-
sions, No. 2,19 g p.
BIRMINGIIA3I, DEC. 20.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, 15
Birming.l:am, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley, 365. Bd.
Staffordshire, 13s. Pd. dis.—Shrewsbury and
Birmingham (A), 665. 3d. dis.—Shropshire Union,

The Earl of Devon and Lord Courtenav leave
•

London to-day for I'ow•derham Castle, the farnil3' seat in
Devonshire. A family circle meet there to pass the
Christmas.
The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of

Commons and Mrs. Shaw Lefevre and family leave
Eaton.square to-morrow, for Heekfield-place, Hants, for
the Parliamentary recess.
THE ADMIRALTY BOARD.—The usual notice will

shortly appear in the Gazette constituting the Earl of
Auckland, Rear-Admiral Dundas, Lord John Hay, the
lion. Captain Berkeley, and Captain Milne commis-
sioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral,
FREE CONVICTS FOR NEW SOUTH WALEs.--The
Elphinston, hired barque, dropped down the river yes-
terday to moorings opposite the Royal Arsenal, to
receive on board convicts from the Warrior and Justitia
convict hulks at Woolwich, who have voluntarily pre-
ferred proceeding to New South Wales, where they will,
on landing, obtain flee tickets, with the opportunity of
following any plan they may choose to adopt in that
country for an honest subsistence, on condition that
they do not return to this country again. The convicts
under sentences here for long periods appear very glad
to accept the stipulated conditions, and numbers have
volunteered, and are now having each two suits of plain
clothes made, without any of the convict badges attached,
and these clothes will be given them on their embarka-
tion. Two other vessels have been hired to convey
convicts to the same destination, and are at present
taking in stores at Deptford. A new series of regula-
tions are to be adopted relative to the convicts who will
remain in this country, and the alteration will take
place at the commencement of the new year.
We regret to state that our respected townsman,
Mr. William Brown, M.P. for South Lancashire, has
suffered severely from the prevailing epidemic. After
being so ill during an entire fortnight that he was com-
pelled to absent himself entirely from the House, hav-
ing been present at only one division, he found it ne-
cessary to seek the advice of his own physician and the
repose of his own mansion. This will account for tho
non-appearance of his name amongst those who took a
prominent part in the recent stirring debates.—Liverpool
Albion.

A Staffordshire overseer was discovered, at a recent
parish meeting, to have made 63 weeks in the year ! and
he had also made an entry about " county rats:" The
constable, whose laugh at the overseer was the loudest,
next produced his account, including charge for a “ con-
quest" on a dead man!
A VoitAcious COD.—A gentleman residing in
Fortrose, in walking through their fishmarket the other
day, observed a codfish, which, for enormity of girth,
exceeded all the specimens he had ever seen. He charged
the fishwoman with having stuffed it with other guts, in
order to give it additional plumpness. This being in-
dignantly denied, the fish was opened, when six entire
full-grown herrings, in a stateof inchoate decomposition,
were found in its inner regions. They had been swal-
lowed tails foremost, and some of them, feeling macom-
fortable in their new habitation, were endeavouring to
turn their heads downward, but died in the attempt, as
they were completely doubled. Notwithstanding this
.i—demltici.s
material deduction, the cod proved a very good one.—.
emipnttliu.reen: a
theh :proved so
Inverness Journal.
A FACT FOR TEE SANITARY COMMISSIOswp
a remarkable fact, that whilstexthe
fatal in the metropolis, not excludine• the
New York paper
Brighton has been entirely
sTtEN notable. A
West-end,
saysADVENTUROUS
Amongst
theE N G Laos
Chearnley, who are on theirreiurn
lions in New York,
are two young Englishmen,Williamhonae from a great
and John
tour, hunting buffalo through
They and their party crossed the far west and Oregon.
1846, and since that time the continent in March,
shores
of
Mexico
and have visited the western
California, seen the Sandwich Is-
lands and Peru, run
i up to 54 deg. 40 min., and back
here by way of the Great Lakes."
TILE JEWS IN BAVARIA.—A letter from Munich,
of the 10th, states that the Bavarian Government has
called -all
upon the towns of the kingdom to send in
their opinions on the question of the emancipation of
the Jews, and that the municipality of Bamberg has
already declared itself to be in favour of an entire assi-
milation of the Jews to the Christians as to civil and
political rights.
CHIN SURVEYING.—A person not far from Tor-
rington, Devon, whose face, somewhat above the ordinary
dimensions, had been waited ou and shaved by a certain
barber every day for 21 years, without coming to any
regular settlement ; the tradesman thinking it time to
wind up the account, carried in his bill, charging one penny
per day, which amounted to 31/. 9s. 2d. The gentleman
thinking it rather exorbitant, made some scruple about
payment, when the tensor proposed, if his customer
thought proper, to charge by the acre, at the rate of
2001; this was readily agreed to, and on measuring the
premises, 129 square inches proved to be the content,
which traversed over 7,670 times, would measure
1,472,646 inches, the charge for which would be
46/. 19s. id., being 151. 95. lid. in favour of chin
Mrs
veying.—Poole Herald.