The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-28 00:00:00

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RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS:
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 26.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—East LancaShitei
dis.—Ditto, New Scrip, 1-A3 p.—Glasgow, Paisley,: and Greez
nock, 171/4—Ditto, Halves, B%—Ditto, Preference, ls. 3d. pis
—lluddersfield Canal and Railway, 14 p.—Leeds and
Thirsk, Preference, 16s. 3d. dis.—Liverpool, Crosby, and
Southport, 1% dis.—Ditto, New (late West Lancashire, 28e,
91 p.—London and North-Western, 181—Ditto, ICI'
Quarters, 11% p.—Ditto, Fifths, 15 p.—Ditto, Quarters (V;
J.), 17% p.—Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 434 p.—Dittdi
Ditto (late West Riding Union), 3s. 9d. p. Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Eighths, I:Y4 dis.—Midland Stock,
128— Ditto, New, 41/4 p.—Newcastle and Berwick, New, 2%
p.—North British, Quarters, 11/4 p.—North Staffordshire.
2% p.—South-Eastern and Dover, New, No. 2,/ dis.—Dittd.
ditto, No. 4, % dis.—York and Newcastle, Preference, 4% p.

MANCHESTER, JUNE 26.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lan".
shire, and Cheshire, 1% dis.—Birmingham and Oxford June.
tion, 7 7-16—Blackburn, Clitheroe, &c., .Preferentials, 11,
—Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 1 E.
—Leeds and Thirsk, Preferentials, 3/4 dis.—Leeds, yew'
bury, and Manchester, 2 7-16 p.—London, Oxford, and ChdP
tenham, 8 dis.—Manchester and Birmingham,
Quarters (C),
p.—Manchester and Leeds, 321. Shares, 1,% IN-13""
Fifths (late West Riding Union), 3-16 p.—Manchestert
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Quarters, No. 1,2%
Eighths, 1% dis.—Ditto (Sheffield and Lincolnshire), 214
dis.—Manchester and Southampton, 1% W...
4 p.—North Staffordshire 3 p.—Oldham Alliance, 1A
,
), _ Dit to

LEEDS, JUNE 26.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —A quiet business to an increase
amount has been transacted for the last day or two, although
in the earlier part of the week the trade was marked by,
much apathy, and but very few speculative transactions toot
place. The sales are—Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston.
245. n. dis.—East Lancashire, New, ss. dis.—Ditto, Nei
(scrip), ls. p.—East and West Yorkshire,
—Great
Northern, 31s. 9d. dis.—Huddersfield and Blanchester, 150 e
n. p.—Leeds and Dewsbury, Branches Scrip (blue), 12s. 6d.
p.—Leeds and Thirsk, 5 n. dis.—Ditto, New, 4% n. ditto. '
Ditto, Preference, 15s. dis.—London, Brighton, and South
Coast, 554—Malton and Dritfield Junction, 15s. dis•—„krall.,•
chester and Leeds (West Riding Union), 35 n.
chester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 4s. 6d. c.
Newcastle and Berwick, New, 234 p.—North British, OW-
ters, n. p.—North Staffordshire, 3 p —North-Westeror
245. dis.—York and Newcastle, Preference, 414 p.

HULL, JUNE 26.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notting.*
ham, and Boston, 265. 6d.--Blackburn, Darwen, and Bot
ton, 3 dis.—Great Northern, 41s.—Newcastle and Berwie"
New, 555. p.—North British, Quarters, 925. 6d.—plack•
Thirds, 52s.—Shropshire Union, 36s dis.
SHEFFIELD, JUNK 26.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notting'
ham, and Boston, 245. dis.—Great Northern, 1% dis.-1
Manchester and Lincoln Union, 355. dis.—Manchester Ansi
Leeds (West Riding Union), is. p.—Manchester, Shefa,al,"
and Lincolnshire (Grimsby and Sheffield), 7%
20/. Shares, 535. dis.—Ditto, 12/. 10s. Shares, I%_
Ditto (Sheffield and Lincoln), 58s. dis.—North-
27ds. dis.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, JUNE 26.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Maryport and Car'
4514—Neweastle and Carlisle, 111—Ditto, Newt 11 2'

EDINBURGH, JUNE 25.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 301,7:
Airdrie and Bathgate, 31. 10s.-Arbroath and Forfar, 2."
ss. -Ditto, Halves, 151.-Ayr and Galloway, 21. 21
Caledonian, 301.-Ditto, New, 21. ls.-Caledonian and Dum-
bartonshire, 11. 155.-Clydesdale Junction, 42L 10s.-Dee'
side, 3/. 55.-Dunblane, Doune, and Callender, 1/. 7s. 6d.
-Dundee and Arbroath, 38L-Ditto. New, No. 1,27 L 10s.
-Ditto, New, No. 2, 30/.-Ditto, New, No. 3, 31. 2s. 6d.
-Dundee and Northern Junction, 1/. 10s. 6d.-Dundee
and Perth, 32/. 10s.-Ditto, New, 131. -Ditto, Quarters,
6s. 6d.-East of Fife, 1/. 18s.-East Lothian Central, it,
165.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 71. 155.-Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 691.-Ditto, Halves, 221.-Ditto, Quarters, 1//.
Asa
9d.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 18/. 10s.-Ditto, Pre.
ference 20/. 10s.-Ditto, New, 21.-Ditto, Quarters, 12s. 6,41
-Edinburgh and Northern, 181. 2s. 6d.-Ditto, Nog) 2 .
13s. 6d.-Ditto, Newport, 71. 55.-Ditto, ditto, New, 2/. 844
6d.-Edinburgh and Perth (New Co.), Ili. Is.-Ditto,
Halves, ss.- Glasgow and Ayrshire, 1201.-Ditto, New
Stock, 41/. 10s.-Ditto, Halves, No. 1,
8/. 195.-Ditto,
Halves, No. 2,6/. 155.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle,
5/. 45.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 391.-Glasgow General
Terminus, 12/. 155.-Glasgow and Greenock, 171. I
Ditto, Halves, 8/. 155.-Ditto, Preference, BL-GlasgeW,
marnock, and Ardrossan, 4/. 55.-Great North of Scotlanut
IL 17s. 6d.-Great Northern (late Direct Northern), :41'
65.-Ditto (late London and York), 1/. 125.-Newcastle
and Berwick, 28/. 2s. 6d.-North British, 32/. 10s.--Ditt.
Halves, 151. ss. -Ditto, Quarters, 4/. 95.-Ditto, eW
Quarters (scrip), 14s. 9d.-Ditto, Thirds, 21. lls.--DittOJ
Fifths, 61. 10s.-Scottish Central, 27/. 55.-Scottish Grand
Junction, 195.-Scottish4Midland, 181. 10s.-Shrewsbury and
Hereford, 10s.-Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 91. 105.-:
Ditto, New, 11.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 5L-Stirling
°
Midland, 21. 65.-Wishaw and Coitness, 491.-York an
Newcastle, 371. 155.-Ditto, New, 15/. 17s. 6c1.-Ditto, Pre-
ference, 11/. 12s. 6d.-Direct Bombay and Madras, 2s. 3cl"
-East Indian, 2s. 9d.-Great North of India, 2s.
Great Southern of Madras, 25.-Madras, Nellore, and Ar'
cot, Is. 6d.

GLASGOW, Juific 25.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, New, 410.
—Clydesdale Junction, 421/2—Direct Bombay and Bladrits.
Is. 9d.—Dundee and Perth, Quarters, 663.—Eastern Conn.'
ties,
ties, 20%—East Lothian Central, 36s.—Edinburgh and
Perth, 21s.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr (5 per cent.
guar.), 41%—Ditto, delves, No. 1, B%—Ditto, Halves, No. ?I
61. 4s.—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 54 65.
chester and Southampton 1 ls. 3d.—North British, Third*
51s. 3d.— Ditto, New Garters (scrip), 14s. 9d.—Scottish
Central, 2514—Stirling and Dunfermline, 51. 4s.—Wils°6`
town, Morningside, and Coltness, 641.—York and Newcastlgo
Preference, 11%.

THE POTATO CROP.—On Saturday many of the
market gardeners at Mortlake, Barnes, Putney, Fulhanb
and places adjacent, commenced moving the early P(P"
tato crops, which, without any exceptions that could be
ascertained, are perfectly free from the aphis vastakr*
and all other kinds of diseases. The number of potatoes
on each root is about the average, and they are as fine
and sound as in any previous season. Some recoil:linen.
dations have recently been made by a Morning Con'
temporary, having for their object the immediate up'
rooting of potatoes for the purpose of sowing bade!).
beans. A correspondent remarks that such a course, If
adopted, would temporarily annihilate two valuable
sources of food, inasmuch as the potatoes would be de-
stroyed, and the time for sowing harico beans is past,
the proper time being towards the close of April or very__
early in May. The harico beans sown in the spring of
the present year are scarcely yet in blossom, and the
probability is, if they were sown now, that, being Is
very tender plant, they would not outlive the short but
severe frosts which it is well known immediately pre
_
the early dawn of August mornings. Throughout
most
county of Surrey, generally, the potatoes are in a
healthy condition.
II Mills
DETERMINED SUICIDE.—On Saturday,
held an inquest in the University College Hospital/ on
Hannah Greatrix, aged 33. Benjamin Wood, a cee3l3o-
- deposed that he had cohabited with deceased five
years, and, until her repeated attempts to cut his throat
and by other means to murder him, compelled him to
leave her in January last. Thursday night he met de-
ceased in Union-street, Somers-town, when she told him
she had taken arsenic; but he did not believe her, as she
had frequently before threatened to destroy herself.
The next morning he found her dying in the hospital,
where she expired in six hours after her admission. She
had recently attempted self-destructiou by swallowing
a quantity of laudanum. Thomas Edwards, assistant to
Mr. Knowles, druggist, Seymour-street, stated that on
Thursday evening he sold deceased, in the presence of a
witness, four drachms of white arsenic for the avowed
purpose of killing rats. The house-surgeon observed
that four grains would destroy life, and that the quan-
tity sold contained 240 grains. The coroner and jury
censured the culpable practice pursued by chemists and
druggists of indiscriminately selling poison. Thomas
Kelly, of Kennington, said that at half-past eleven on
Thursday night, he found deceased sitting on the step of
a hall door in Green-street. She told him that she had
taken poison, and begged of him to procure a constable
to carry her to the hospital, which office witness him-
self performed. She acknowledged that she took the
poison herself, and expressed a hope that sho would not
survive. Verdict, " Deceased destroyed herself, but
there was no evidence as to the state of her mind at the
time she committed suicide."

FIRE AT ASTLET'S THEATRE.-011 Saturday
night, shortly after the conclusion of the performance, a
report was raised that Astley's Amphitheatre was on
fire, and messengers were dispatched for the fire-engines.
Fortunately, however, the attendants of the theatre had
succeeded in subduing the flames in their infancy, or
the consequences would have been most disastrous. Mr.
W. Batty stated that at the close of the theatre the men
were engaged in hanging some rolls of calico over the
medallions in front of the boxes, and having left the side
chandeliers burning, the cotton fell on the light and
speedily became ignited, and before the flames could be
got out one of the gas-pipes was melted by the heat.
The damage is but slight.
OPENING OF TIIE ROYAL GARDENS AT
Saturday the pleasure grounds in connexion with the
Royal Gardens at Kew were, according to annual cus:
tom, thrown open to the public, and will remain so until
the end of September, when they will be again closed
until the Midsummer of 1848.

BIRTHS.
On the 26th inst., at 47, Russell-square, the lady of S.
Norton Peto, Esq., of a daughter.
On the Ist inst., at Florence, the wife of Frank Mori, Esq.,
of a son.
On the 21st inst., at Croydon, the wive of N. L. Austen,
Esq., of a son.
On the 22d inst., the wife of Charles Munday, surgeon.
King-street, Snow-hill, of a son.
On the 23d inst., at Fiddington House, near Devizes, the
wife of W. Charles Hood, Esq., M.D., of a son.
On the 24th inst., at Fetcham-park, the lady of G. Bar"
nerd Hankey, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 24th inst., at Clapham-rise, the wife of the Rev.
Robert Bickersteth, of a son.
On the 24th inst., at Lee, Blackheath, the wife of the Rev.
William Francis Sims, of a daughter.
On the 25th inst., in Queen-square, Bloomsbury, the wife
of J. Eustace Grubbe, Esq., of a son.
On the 25th inst., at St. Michael's-place, Brompton, Mrs.
William Moore, of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 26th inst., at St. Margaret's, Lothbury, by the Rev.
Archdeacon Hollingworth, Edward Routh, Esq., of Black-
heath, to Elizabeth Skardon Taylor, only daughter of the
late William Crees Taylor, Esq., of Blackheath.
On the 24th inst., at St. Geirge's, Hanover-square, Charles
William Reynolds, Esq., late Captain in the 16th Lancers, to
Charlotte Mary, only daughter of the Rev. R. P. Butler.

DIED.
On the 21st inst., at Woburn-square, John H. Yates, Esq,
On the 23d inst., at Leamington, Jane, eldest daughter of
the late Claud Neilson, Esq.
On the 23d inst., at Paris, Joshua J. Brandon, Esq.
On the 23d inst., at King's Cliffe, 'Margaret, relict of the
late John Campbell, Esq., aged 72.
On the 23d inst., at Stamford, Henry William Horden.
On the 24th inst., at Croydon Lodge, Croydon, Abigail
Ricardo, aged 65.
On the 25th inst., at Barnes, Mr. Jeffery L. Barton.

Lon,on : Printed and Published by KURD() YOUNG, of No. 112
Btt and, Printer, at The Ban Office, No. 112, Strand, In the Precinct
of the S&yoy, 1D tbo County of bilddlefiez, Monday, Joie ZB'
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