The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-02 00:00:00

LEEDS, SEPTEMBER 1.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are —Ambergate. Nottifig-
ham, and Boston, 29a. 6.1. n. dis.—East. Lancashire. New
Scrip, 7s 6d. dis.—East and West Yorkshire, 555. dis.—lps
with and Bury St. Edmunds (Cambridge and Ely), 17s. hd.
dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire (West Riding Union),
n.dis.—Leeds and Thi:sk, New, SIX, dis.—Manchester, Shef-
field. and Lincolnshire, Preference, 7s. 6d. p.—Newcastle and
Berwick, New, 31. 38. s. p. —North British, Thirds, 264. 6d.
p.—Ditto, Quarters, 17s. 6d. p.—North Staffordshire, 2%
p.—North-Western, 53a. dis.
HULL. SEPTEMBER 1.

STOCK EXCHANGK. —Tile sales are—Blackburn, Clitheroe,
&c., Preference, 134 p.—lpswich and Bury (Cambridge
and Ely), I4s. p.—Leicester and Bedford, 3s. 6d.dis.—New-
castle and Berwick, New, 318 p. c.—North British, Quar-
ters, 18s. 6d. p.—Ditto Extension (scrip), 2s. p.
SHEFFIELD, SEPTEMBER 1.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Eastern Counties (York
Extension), 3% die.—Lancashire and York-hire, (West
Riding Union). 8.. 6d. dis.—Manche,ter, Shy field, and Lin-
e.thishire (Grimsby and Sheffield), 20/. Shares, 314 dis.—
Ditio (Sheflidd and Lincolnshire), Preference, 6s. p.—North-
Western, 2% die.
EDINBURGH, Accuse 31.

&rocs EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 34/.-
Airdrie and Bathgate, 3/. 10s.-Arbroath and Fortar,26l. 10s.
-Ditto, Halves. 141. 10s.-Ayr and Galloway, 2L Bs. 6d.
-Caledonian, 321. 155.-Ditto, New, IL 84.-Caledonian
and Dumbartonshire, 16a. 6d.-Clydesdale Junction. 53/. 10s.
-Deeside, 3/. 55.-Dunblane, Doane, and Callender, 1/.
7s. 6rl-Dundee and Arbroath, 391.-Ditto. New, No. 1,
291. 103.-Ditto. New, No. 2, 321.-Ditto, New, No. 3,3/.
10s.-Dundee and Northern Junction, 11. 10s.-Dundee and
Penh, 341. 17s. ad.-Ditto, New, 18/. 17s. 6d.-Ditto, Quar-
ters, 31. 45.-East of Fife, 41. 55.-East Lothian Central, IL
133.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 101.-Edinburgh and Glas-
gow, 651. 10s.-Ditto, Halves, 201. 7s. 6d.-Ditto, Quar-
ters, 15/, 17s. 6d. -Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 181.
-Ditto, Preference, 201.-Ditto, New, 31. 195.-Ditto, Quar-
ters, 10s. 3d.-Edinburgh and Northern, 191. 155.-Ditto,
New, 2z. 17s. 6d.-Ditto, Newport, 6/. 12s. ad.-Ditto, ditto,
New, 1/. 193.-Edinburgh and Perth (New Co. ), 11, 35.-
Ditto, Halves, ss. ad.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 1181, 17s. 6d.
-Ditto, New Stock, 441. 155.-Ditto, Halves, No. 1, 81. 108.
-Ditto, Halves, No. 2, 10/. 17s. 6d.-Glasgow, Dumfries,
and Carlisle, 81. 2s. 6d.-Glasgow and Garnktrk, 391.
ea div.
-Glasgow General Terminus, 11/. 155.-Glasgow and Gree-
nock, 181. 103.-Ditto, Halves, 91. 12s. 6d.-Ditto, Prefer-
ence, 81. 2s. 6d.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 31.
155.-Great North of Scotland, 11. 125.-Great Northern
(late Direct Northern), 2/. 103.-Ditto (late London and
York), 1/. 55.-Newcastle and Berwick, 261. 153.-North
British, 301. 7s. 6d.-Ditto, Halves, 14/. 55.-Ditto, Qum'.
ters, 51. 12s. 6d.-Ditto, Quarters New (scrip), 14s. adt
Ditto, Thirds, 2/. 35.-Ditto, Fifths.
Central, 271.- Scottish Grand Junction, 10s.-195.-Scottishßlid-
a 226
6d ._&otis-
h
land. 181.-Shrewsbury and Hereford, 10s.-Shle:rttry,
Oswestry, and Cheater, 191. 10s.-Stirlistss.nadwp
Dunferm-
line, 41. 35.-Stirling and Midlolid,_7.l.:_triittbo, seallaw.ll-47L
ness, 47/. 10s.-York and Newcastle, 341
.-Ditto,
of India, 2s.
Is. 9d.-East Indian, Madrid, Nellore,
Is. 9d..-
Ditto, Preference. I.IL 2s.is!cl.6-d.Dircetaßtomboary and Madras,
GLASGOW, AUGUST 31.
audu.dlrrceuat:
iSsr6tdh.ern of Madras,
Dumbartonshire. 178. al.-Direct Boni-
6dS. -DuThe sales are-Caledonian, New. 30a,
Bom-
bay and Madras, 2a.- Dundee and Perth, Quarters, 645.
th rn 195/-ulasgow Kilmarnock,
.--TaKleEdolnc'ffar aGnd.
-Edinburgh and or e '8
and Ayr. 109i.-Glirgow, Durnfnes,ana Carlisle, 8/. as.-
.Ararossan, 80s.-Glasgow, Air-
Glrl'aes,goawncl itsliomnlrlanit'Jaulnidction, 635.-Great Northern, 51s.
(61-Manchester and Southampton, 19s. 6d.-Midland,
Halves, 8% -North British, Thirds, 445. 6d.-Ditto, ditto
(scrip), 435.-Ditto, New Quarters (scrip), 14s. 3d.-Scottish
Central, 26 S -York and Newcastle, Preference, 11%.

ALARMING FIRE NEAR ST. KATHERINE Docas.—
Last night, about nine o'clock, a fire broke out in some
premises facing the .north front of the St. Katherine
Docks, and fur upwards of an hour raged with the
greatest fury, threatening destruction to the neighbour
hood. As tar as could be ascertained, the flames origi-
nated, from some unknown cause, in the back watts-
house belonging to Messrs. Brown and Son, surgeon,,
of No. 8, East Smithfield, whence they extended to the
adjoining buildings at the rear of the dwelling-houses in
the occupation of Mr. Bagent, an eating-house ke por,
and Mr. White, provision merchant. numliqred 9 and t,
o
in the same thoroughfare. Several engines arrived
..s.
rapid succession, and a powerful body of' water w"
triontA over the destructive element, but
Wasurherl
half past- ten o'clock before the fire wask,exting
The damage done• was confined to
the houses in Smithfield, none
but a great num-
ber any injury except by
water=
in Farthing-alley
bet. of poor people holding. h golehrteheb'cl'ew a premisesfigs there
have lost a quantity
ore severely damaged by
removal, and their residences
•
ere sad watt". - •
of-theirteheusehOld goods by hasty

To-morrow' at half• past twelve, their Lordships
will review the Dockyard batiali•in.
On Thursday their Lordships attend a ball, to be
given in aid of the fund for destitute female orphans
of seamen and soldiers, and which numbers among the
lady-patronesses Lady West, Lady Dixon, the Hon.
Mrs. Murray and Lady Leeke.
The Board will probably leave on Saturday.
WooLwicn, SEPT. 1.-It may he the means of
allaying the fears of the reliations and friends of the
persons on hoard her Majesty's surveying-vessel
Mastiff to assure them that no letters have been re-
ceived at Woolwich Dockyard relative to any acci-
dent having happened to that vessel. The Mastiff,
with her tender, the Woodlark, left Woolwich in the
early part of the season, under the command of Com-
mander Becher, of the Hydrographic-office, to resume
the surveying duties at the Orkney Islands, which
were performed in many previous years with great
satisfaction to the authorities, by Master-Commander
G. Thomas. She is a sailing, and not a steam-
vessel, which affords reason to hope that some
mistake has occurred relative to the account
which recently appeared of her having been wrecked
on the coast cf the Orkney Islands.
commodore Sir G. Bremer being still absent
on leave, the examination into the charges made
against some of the shipwrights, caulkers, and
labourers in that department has been postponed until
his return.

The dockyrd battalion having concluded yester-
day evening their drills for the month\ of August, the
following has been is,,ued for their guidance during
the present month of September
MEMORANDUM.
" Woolwich Yard, Aug. 31, 1847.
"In pursuance of their Lordships' command of
this clny's date, during the month of September, each
company will attend drill on two nights in the week
only.
" On the days appointed for drill the whole of the
workmen are to remain at their work during the
dinner hour, and those in turn to come into drill are
to quit the yard at half-past four o'clock, and to be
upon the parade ready to fall in at half-plst five
o'clock precisely.
" The men pot in turn for drill are not to quit the
3 and till five o'clock.

" THOMAS ELSON."

ACCIDENT TO THE GLAMORGAN STEAM-PACKET.—
!3nIsTOL, WEDNLSDAY —lt gives us v,ry great, pleasure
t • st.-te that. the tears which had beet! catered by the
etton at the time expected of the GI ;mi.:mu
team pin ket have n•t been reidisr-d. Ihe ve,te I came
into pert this more ing. rind hroul:ht the plea.ing intel•
li:ence that thou. h the :rip had been anplibia but a
pleasant ~ne, no lives had bet-n lost. It appe.,rs that
when off Mite-head a wild n escape of sr. am caus,-d an
alarm to he raised that the b••iter had nurse, G:eet
c,„,steriviiiti ensued, mid sig, ale of (In tress b..ing rfrtsal,
a number of the passengers left the steam- r in the Fairy
,loop and two hoists fr-iu th- shore. Oti ex9mtnroton
was tound that a boiler pl tt. had given way, a ,d after
anch,ring for Ow night th• as sufficiently re-
:aired next morning to enable them to put into 'alm-
head, and filially return to Br,Aol with the rest of the
pas engers. The vessel is very old, and is considered
ut.fit ior service. .

DEPARTURE OF THE SARAH SANDS.—The Fcrew-
pr.peiler steam-ship. :swell lands. sailed front Liverpool
ye,tei day for Ni -w Yolk Kitt a rich cargo rind a eon-
sickrat,le flume, r of lass, tigers
DEPARTURE OF THE NIAILS FOR SEPTFSBER.---
The following notice, relative to the dates ozi which thi,
foreign mail will b to 41it• up in London, and
the return packets are expec ed at Southampton-
'l'l.. dtvaetres
pool, and Falmouth. was i,,uerl ) esterday at the Ge.leral
Pug-office. St. Martin's-le Grand .—" i'hy mail• for
Madeira, the British and f.r..ign cob ass in the Wreit
i Indies ( xcept Honduras, 8.-mania and the Ilwannah)
ar.d Venezuela, will be niade up on the mornitigs of th.:
(this morning) and the 17th ; Alexteo, lip
duress, and
i'itllavantiah. “n the morning of the 2d (.14
and Bermuda, San Juan de Nicaragua, New tiratooia,
Chili, and Peru. on the morning of the 17th only. The
rails of the 2d instant (this morning) will be to; ward, d
by the Medway steamer • from Southampton. Next
packets due on the 7th and 22d instant Gibraltar,
inr'ia, Hong king, and China, on titer'', en. Ceylonl
3Mda l(ttao,-inG
orerercoew, the) lonianand 2ot hi:l avt:ads,sEoug Aden,
thamm(p)rtonnin.glll4 the
the
overland clost d mails to the M. diterraeean, Er pt,
India, &c., vit.( Marseilles, on the evenings of the 7th
and 24th instant. Madeira, Braz 1, and Buenos Ayres,
on the evening of the 4th instant, v:a Falmouth. Nst
packet due on the 26th instant. British North Americas,
9433041:::::nt
Bermuda, and the Unitcd States, on the evenings of the
3d and 1S :h instant, via Liverpool, Halifax, and Boston.
Next packets due on the 15th and sari instant. Vigo,
Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, via Lisbon, Cadiz, and 'Gator 1-
tar, on the mornings of the 7th, 17th, and 27th, via
Southampton. Next packets due on the sth, 16th, and
26th instant.
SOUTH AMERICA.--LIYEEPOOL, WEDNESDAY.--
By the Wiliam Fisher, from Bahia, we have advises
from that port to the 3d of July. Exports—Sugar—
Sqsuoa rein
jetoiys:
smiodnrestcaol
bv6lased. o e
4sc,i.antod
The market has been firmer, and prices are looking up;
2,400 reis to 2,450 reis the white per strobe for equally
asqusootratedtioneliastsre,
I6s. 10d., and 21s. Bd. to 225. Id. per cwt. Lee on board.
la7ordrienisgtotoi,
uami klt
-.48h.01:ry ebe i s
d' t or
ci 5‘ 2e
d 0 ti
in,
tb..11 s
Tobacco teat is plen-
tiful. Caroettloonweirs asncadreaeb. unßd
can.transac-
tions takenhave
Freights—Several
vesselsf r()
taken up—a schooner for Trieste at 85s andas
aa hawerraPenodre3
the rates bear a declining tendency. Twopirpe
cfoormilmaoinnibyurlgimh
itaeti:Claat.
the
er
rate
t ot 014140(n,
Liver-
pool 955. ld Exchange—Tranmctions h
which rate money has been refuse l; Parials . ndt of 2,.3d ~ at
345 reis.

DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—Yesterday infor-
mbiantditeirn, was rs
of inv esdt r.be);
,thvve h p,.
pt.,hi,aht
adMbr.eeJnohron
Fes-
bbed
by three Irishmen, near Southall, on Monday night, of
a bag containing apparel, seventeen sovereigns, and a
silver watch and guard, as also the entire of the cloth-
ing he had oh him, the ruffians leaving him in a field
gagged, bound, and naked, where he was discovered at
br. ak of day by the police.
DEATH BY FIRE-ARAIS.--Yesterday Mr • Bedford
received information of the following dreadful occur-
rence:—lt appears that on Monday lest ap.rsnn named
Abraham Edmonsthe, of 12, Macclesfi Id-street,,ho,
• was cleaning the barrel of a gun, not knowing it was
charged with powder. Whilst s., en gaged he placed the
barrel •o his mouth, when by some accident the gun
went off, the contents shattering his face in a frightful
manner. The sufferer was r. moved to Westminster
llospltil. where he shortly afterwards expired. An
vigor, t will be held on the body to-morrow (Friday)
evening.
DEATH INDUCED BY SEA-SICKNESS.—The Guernseg
Star of Monday sal s:—" Amongst the passengers %In°
enine from Jersey yesterday by the Vt onder ,was Miss
E. liner. This young lady had been for some vine in a
Welieaie state of 'aealt-h, and was recommended to take
the trip for fl..ange of tt,r. • Unfortunately, however, she
r as attacked with sea-sickness on board the vessel, and.
through the consequent efforts in vomiting, an internal
rupture or derangement took place. On 'he arrival of
the vessel Miss fleet was talc. n to the house. of Mr.
Greenslade, where she received every possible attention;
but the injury she had sustained was fetal, and she VP
pined ill the noturte-of thealtegnool2,"