The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-26 00:00:00

LEEDS, FEIiItUARY 25,

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Nottingham, and
Boston. Is. p.—Buckinghamshire, 10e. n. p.—East Lancashire, 23i
p. —Ditto, New, 2 % c. p.—Ditto, New Scrip, 28s. s. p.— East and West
Yorkshire, ss. 6d. p.—Huddersfield and Manchester, 33i n. p.—Ditto,
Thirds, 235. n. p.—Leeds and Thirek, 365. 6d. dis.—Ditto, New, Bs.
6d. dis.—Ditto, Preference, 28s. 6d. p.—Malton and Drifileld Junc-
tion, 1% c. p.—Manchester and Leeds. Halves (late 11ud. and shely.),
4►4 p.—Ditto, 321. Shares (late Extensions), 3 p.—Manchester, Bux-
ton, Matlock, and Midland, Lys. n. p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire (Great Grimsby and Sheffield), 4 dis.—Ditto, ditto,
Quarters, 20s. c. dis.—Manchester and Southampton, 16s. dis.—North
British, Thirds, 545. 3d. p.—Ditto, Quarters (late Carlisle Branch),
435. 6d. n. p. —Ditto, Extensions (scrip), 15s. 6d. p. —North St.ttford-
shire, 334 p.—Northern Counties Union, 1 n. dis. —North-Western,
Bs. n. p.—Sheffield,ltotherham, and Goole, ss. p.—West Riding Uniom,
375. p.

SHEFFIELD. FEBRUARY 25.
STOCK EXCIANGE.—The sales are—Mutton and Driffleld Junc-
tion, 265. p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (late Sheffield
and Lincoln), 245. dis.—South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole, k p.
NEWCASTLE-UPON -T Y NE, FEBRUARY 25.

13% p.—North British, 10 p.—Ditto, Quarters,
STOCK EXCBANGE.—Tha sales are—Caledonian, New, Is. fd. dis.
ellenston, p.—North Staffordshire, 3% p.—West
—Great Northern (late London and York), Reg., }4 p.—Newcast]c
York and Newcastle, Extensions, 6% p.
BULL, FEBRUARY 25.
laatill 1 Carlisle,ng-i) Union,t t°l
p .

STOCK EXCEIANGE..—The sales are—North British, Halves, 16
Ditto, Quarters, 88s. cash.—West Riding Union, W. 19s. —lllunches•
ter and Southampton, 245.
GLASGOW, FinntuAßY 24.

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and cDumbartonshire,Hs,csroips).—C,
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al4e6ss.a_ren—irCeaeltedNonoirate New,
Northern (
Dundee and Arbroath, New, No. 3, 5 %—Dundee and Perth, 361,
—Ditto, ditto, New, 231. —East Indian, 9s.— East Lothian Central,
50s. 6d.—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 76 IA —Ditto, Quarters, 191.
Edinburgh and Northern, 161. 195.—Ditto, Newport, 5 % - Glasgow,
Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 39%—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, GE.
3s.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 6 Glasgow Barbour
Mineral, 40s.—Manchester and Southampton, 255.—North British,
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Thirds, 765.—Scottish Central, 22/.--Wilsontown, Morningside, and
Coltness, GO N —York and Newcastle, Preference, 8%.

WRECK of the BRECHIN CASTLE.
SWANSEA, MONDAY NIGHT.—Early on Sunday morning
last a feeling of the deepest regret pervaded the whole town
on the announcement of a most distressing shipwreck having
occurred in the courseof the previous night on the coast west-
ward of Mumbles Head. The unfortunate vessel proved to
be the Brechin Castle, 400 tons burden, homeward bound to
this port from Port Adelaide, with the Australian mail on
board. • The catastrophe was discovered by one of the coast-
guard, who was returning from his duty at daybreak along
the beach, when his attention was drawn to a quantity of
broken bulwarks, and other fragments of wreck, just abreast
of Mumbles Head light. He immedietely hastened to his
superior officer, who lost no time in dispatching a body of
his men to collect what property might be washed ashore
on other parts of the coast. From the fact of both the ship's
boats being subsequently picked up clashed to atoms, no doubt
was entertained that every soul belonging to her bad met
with a watery grave. Every exertion was made to collect all
the information on the subject by closely examining the rocks
for papers and documents, and several were found, which led
to the identification of the unfortunate ship and the names
of the crew and the passengers. It appeared she was laden
with copper ore, and commanded by Mr. J. R. Baxter, with
a crew of 15 hands. The last place she was known to touch
at was the Cape of Good Hope, whence she sailed on the 23d
of December last, and had arrived within fifteen miles of her
destination when the deplorable event occurred. There has
been a tight-ship recently placed on the Helwicks, a dim-
geroui shoal, to the westward of the Mumbles, and of Port
Eynon, and the general belief among the pilots and others
capable of judging is, that this was mistaken for the Mumbles
light at the entrance of the bay, and hence arose the distress-
ing accident. So sudden was it that the momont she struck
the rocks she went to pieces. During Sunday part of the
ship's hull was got off and towed ashore, about half a mile
to westward of the lighthouse, by several dredging oyster
boats. In the afternoon some Australian newspapers, dated
Adelaide, October 17, were picked up in Laingland Bay,
suppcsed to come from the wreck. The narres of the crew
and passengers drowned are described in the list handed to
us by the agents to be as follows :
Air. J.' R. Baxter, commander; Mr. Nichols, first mate;
Mr. John Adamson, second mate; Robert Robertson, ship's
carpenter; Daniel Lottess, steward; John Payne, able sea-
man; William Mills, ditto; Andrew Nelson, ditto; Steward
Mar., ditto; John Gow, ditto; Daniel Myles, ditto; Da•del
ditto; David Reed, ditto; J. Pack, ditto; James
Scott, ditto.
Passenger's names:—
Mr. Winterbottom, Mrs.
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actlhfiel.rla!
Mr. Fairburn, Mrs.air
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names not exactly known.
The only bodies yet
rsthaandt, oanlifSunday
evening, and the other
leather- bag was found this morning,l
sailors; (me was found washeda ashore have been those of two
Cliff, six
secured to it. A largesixThmeille;ttdei
London. It proved to be the mail-bag, containing
General, Lon •
With a brass plate attached to it, addressed to the Postmaster.
the loft Adelaide papers and letters. It was immediately
valued at upwards of 20,0001, and
The ship and cargo are d.
reported to be fully insure
forwarded, in the state it was found, to London.

THE PERFECT APPLICABILITY
OF ETHER TO SURGICAL OPERATIONS
UPON DELICATE FVMALES AND CHIL-
DREN.
An emaciated young female, about thirteen years of
age, who had been reduced to extreme danger from a
painful scrofulous disease, was subjected to an amputa-
tion of her leg on Wednesday, the 24th instant, at the
Westminster Hospital, in the presence of an unusual
assemblage of medical men and distinguished cultivators
of science. The patient was placed under the ethereal
influence by means of the ingenious apparatus of Mr.
Robinson, of Gower-street. The poor child became
etherized in about three minutes, when the eminent
senior purgeon of the hospital, Mr. Hale Thomson,
very dexterously and speedily amputated her leg below
the knee. Three arteries were taken up and tied, and
an admirable cushion was formed. The characteristic
circumstances which mark the effect of the ether were
fully Apparent. The face became suffused with red,
the pupils of the eyes dilated, and the breathing 'slow
a
eTxhheirbei t
wased some
more moof d ifi -
e tdi
olno e. exhibited
involuntary reflex muscular action than is the
commonly
s)T'Enhpistomc ass.°