The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-20 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

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LIVERPOOL, Marten 19.
&rock EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire, % p.-Eastern Counties, 19%-Ditto, York Extension,
dis.-Great Northern (Nos. Ito 108,000), dis.-Leeds and Thirsk,
2 1/4;dis.- Ditto, Preference, 1% p.--Liverpool, Crosby, and South-
port, p.-London and North-Western, New, Quarters, 10%
Ditto (G. J.), Quarters, 7% p.--Manchester and Leeds, 32/. Shares
(late Extensions), 2% p.--Manchester, Sheffield. and Lincolnshire,
Eighths, 1 dis.-Midland, 116%-Ditto, 401. Shares, 4 p.-Ditto,
New, 3 p.-North-Western, 1/4 dis.-Preston and Wyre, Halves (B),
Ss. 9d. p.-Shrewsbury and Chester(late N. W. M.), 3% p.-Shrews-
bury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 2 dis.-Shrewsbury and Cheshire,
New, Is. 3d dis.-Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 91. 12s. 3d. 'hares
(B), 1/4 p.-South-Eastern and Dover, 37% --West Riding Union, 1%
p.-York and Newcastle, Preference, 4 p.-Dutch Rhenish, 58s. 9d.
MANCHESTER, 31.sacn 19.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.-The sales are-Ambergate, Nottingham, and
Boston, 3-16-Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, %-
Blackburn, Clitheroe, and North-Western, Preferentials, 1%- East
Lancashire (late B. and P.), New, 1% -Ditto, New (scrip), 14--
Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction, 1/4 -Great Northern
(Direct Northern), Scrip, Reg., 1/4-Huddersfield and Manchester
Railway and Canal, 2%---Leeds and Thirsk, 2 3-16-London and
North-Western (Manchester and Birmingham), Quarters (A), 6-
Ditto, (C), 6-Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, % -
Manchester and Leeds, 321. Shares (late Extension), 2%-Manches-
ter, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Sheffield and Lincolnshire), 1 11-16
-Manchester and Southampton, 20s. 6d.-North Staffordshire,
3 1-16-North-Western, par-Northern Counties Union, I %-01d-
ham Alliance, %-Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 91. 12s. 3d. Shares
(13), p.-South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole, 1-16-West
Riding Union, 1 11-16-Wharfdale, 1-16 dis.
LEEDS, Mancu 19.
STOCK ExcsArtol.-The sales are-Ambergate, Nottingham, and
Boston, 4s. Gi. dis.-Eastern Counties, York Extension, Ss. dis.-East
Lancashire, New, 1% p.-Ditto, New (scrip), 245. Gd. p. - East and
West Yorkshire, 13s. Gd. c. p.-Great Northern (late London and
York), 3s. ills.- Ditto, Extensions, par-Leeds and Dewsbury, 5
ty
p.-Ditto, New, Extensions Scrip (pink), 13s. p. -Leeds and Thirsk,
2% n. dis.-Ditto, New, 15s. dis.-Ditto, Preference, 28s. Gd. p.-
Leeds. Wakefield, and Midland, 14s. dis.-London and Brighton
and South Coast, Fifteenths, 3s. Gd. p.-Manchester and Leeds, 321.
Shares (late Extensions), 2% p.-Newcastle and Berwick, p.-
Ditto, New, p -North British, Thirds, 2% p.-Ditto, Quarter
Shares (late Carlisle Branch), 355. p.-Ditto, Extensions (scrip), 13s.
p.-North Staffordshire, 3 c. p.-North-Western, Is. p.-South
Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole, par-West Riding Union, p.
SHEFFIELD, MARca 19,

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STOOL Excnateor.—The sales are—Leeds and Thirsk, 25( dis.
—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Grimsby), 201. Shares,
1% dis.—Ditto, ditto, Docks, 2% dis.—Ditto (Sheffield and Lincoln),
345. dis.—West Riding Union, 1% p.—Leeds, Wakefield and Mid-
land, % dis

GLASGOW, 3flacrt 18.
SToCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are--Ayr and Galloway, 40s.—
Caledonian, 271,4—Caledonian and Dumbartonshire, 435. 6d.—East
Indian, 7s. 6d.—East Lothian Central, 51s. 63.—Edinburgh and
Perth (New Co.), 545. Ditto, Halves, 16s. 6d.—Glasgow, Kilmar-
nock, and Ayr, 36i— Ditto, Halves, No. 2, 71. 4s. 6d.—Ditto,
Quarters (5 per cent. guar.), 161.—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle,
51. 13s. 6d.—Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct, 375. 6d.— Manchester and
Southampton, 17s. 6d.—Midland, 1161.—Ditto, Halves, 51.—North
British, New, Quarters (scrip), 29s.—Slamannan, 201.—Stirling and
Duufermline,:7ss.—York and Newcastle, Preference, 81.

BLOCKADE OF OPORTO.
Portuguese Consulate, London, ISth March, 1847.
Sir,—l beg to inform you, that in consequence of the port
of Oporto being in a state of blockade, I have received orders
from the Portuguese Government not to grant bills of health
or clearances for that port. I communicate this for your
Government, in case you may think it necessary to make it
public.—l remain, Sirs, your obedient servant,
(Signed) F. J. VAN ZELLER.
To W. Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's.
The following copy of a letter from her Majesty's Govern-
ment, relative to the recent seizure of the Lusitania by the
Portuguese squadron blockading Oporto, has been forwarded
to Lloyd's :

Foreign-office, March 18, 1847.
Sir,—l am directed by Viscount Palmerston to acknow-
ledge the receipt of your letter of the 16th instant, respecting
the capture of your vessel, the Lusitania with her cargo,
which had cleared out of Oporto before the 20th of February,
but which had been unable to put to sea until after that date
in vonseqtence of the state of the weather and the high sea
on the Bar; and I am to state to you in reply, that her
Majesty's Minister at Lisbon, has been instructed to demand
from the Portuguese Government, that all vessels captured
under such circumstances shall be forthwith liberated, toge-
ther with their cargoes.—l am, Sir, your most obedient hum-
ble servant.

(Signed)

E. J. STANLEY.

To W. Gibbons, Esq.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From last sight's Gazette-)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, fo
the Week ending on Saturday, the 13th day of March, 1847.
ISSUS DICPAILTMX NT.
&Totes issued • • .... •• 24,786,310

Government debt .. 11,015,100
Other securities .... 2,984,900
Gold coin and bullion 9,237,948
Silver bullioa .. .. • • 1.548,392

£24,786,340

1 X 24,786,340
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
1847.

Dated the lath day of March, I

SANDING D]
.S.
Proprietors' capital.. 14,553,000
Rest •• • • . 3,962,288
Public deposits (in-
eluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ings-bank 8, and Di-
vidend accounts). • 6,716,162
)they deposits ...... 9,536.137
Seven day and other
bills • ........ • • • • 798,465

16PAITMEN T.

Government securi-
ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity) • • 11,990,079
Other securities •• .• 17,358.712
Notes .. • • .. 5,584,140
Gold and silver coin .. 663,121

X 35,566,052

£35,566,052
MARSIIALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated the 18th day of March.

Boz's LAST WORK.—It must be a matter of sur-
prise to the public generally to perceive how varied are the
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but a few. The majority, as we have the best medical au•
thority for stating, may be ascribed to irritability of temper,
generally arising from aderanged state of the liver and other
viscera, and which could easily be remedied by the occasional
use of Frampton's Pill of Health, h whic is gentle in its
operation, and unfailing in its effect.
THE LACE TRADE.—The demand for plain nets
since our last report has been less than usual. Some fancies
of most kinds have changed hands. Ott the whole the trade
is not good. Working short time being on the increase,
prices are maintained. Some anxiety prevails as to the issue
of the patent question. Serious thoughts are entertained of
transferring a body of fancy machinery to the Continent,
unless it can be more freely worked here. It is a subject of
much and growing importance to the trade and town of Not-
tingham at large, and leads to the wish that for the sake of
such large interests, and where numbers and capital are
deeply involved, that such an issue could be arrived at as
might secure substantial justice to all parties concerned, and
throw the manufacture open to the whole trade. Both efforts
and regrets may. before long, be thrown away. When a busi-
ness emigrates it seldom returns. Since writing the above,
we understand that some lair
American orders have been re-
ceived by the packet of yesterday.—Nottingham Review.
CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.--On Monday morning a
vixen fox was found dead on the line of the Didcot and Ox-
ford branch of the Great Western Railway at Radley, her
head being partially cut off by a side blow from a passing
train. The tribe of Reynard are generally wide awake upon
•
matters of self-preservation, and this casualty can only be
accounted fur by the circumstance that close to the line was
a flock of ewes and lambs, and that the fox had cautiously
stolen across the line towards the fold, for the purpose of
seizing a lambkin for her cubs—which it was evident she
possessed—but that hearing the train, she retraced her
steps, and was unable, or too much terrified, to escape the
Wheels.—Devizes Gazette.