The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-16 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, NOVEMBER 15.
STOCK EKCIIANOE.-The sales are-Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 511. Shares, VA dis.-Ditto
(late C. and B.), 16-Glasgow and Ayr, 98-Great North
ern, 5%8 dis.-Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, s c.
London and North-Western, 153.4 c.-Ditto,_ Quarters,
(C), 4% c. p.-Midland Stock, 109t,4 c.-Ditto, 401. Share.,
413 A c.-Ditto, Halves, 13 c dis.-North British, Thirds,
par c.-North Staffordshire, iq dis. c.-Shrewsbury, Oswes-
try, and Cheshire, 6!,8 dis.-South-Eastern and Dover,
New, No. 1, 534 c. dis.-Ditto. No. 4, 485. 9d. dis..
York Newcastle, and Berwick, Extensions, No. 2, I.7i;i
Ditto, G. N. E. Porch. (guar. 6 per cent. till 1850), 1 P.
MANCHESTER, Nov. 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-East Lancashire,
dis.-Ditto, New.
5 n. New Quarters, 7i3 dis -Lancashire and
Yorkshire, Fifths, dis.-Ditto, /321. Shares, 6 11- dis.- -
London and Nort- Western (Manchester and Birmingham),
Quarters (C), 41A c. p.-Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-
colnshire, Preference, lg c. p.-North Staffordshire, 5-I6
dis.-South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4,2% dis.
LEEDS, NOVEMBER 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-East Lancashire, 4%
a. dis.- Ditto, New, 4% dis.-Ditto, Quarters, 3/4 n. dis. --
Great Northern, 51. 18s. 9d. n. dis.-Lancashire and York-
shire (West Riding Union), 51s. dis.-Leeds and Thirsk,
13% dis.-Midland, Preference, PA dis.-North British,
Tirds, 3s. n. dis.-Ditto, Quarters, 15s. n. dis.-North Staf-
fordshire, par n.-North-Western, 41/4 dis.-York, Newcastle,
and Berwick, Preference, 1% p.-Ditto, No. 2 (New Der"
wicks), 1 p.
SHEFFIELD, NOVEMBER 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-.The sales are-Lancashire and York-
shire (West Riding Union), 21. Its. Gd. dis.-Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Grimsby and Sheffield), 201.
Shares, 5 dis.-Ditto, 121. 10s. Shares, 3 dis.-Ditto (Shef-
field and Lincoln), Preference, Is. 6d. p. c.-York, New-
castle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), p.
:EDINBURGH, NOVEMBER 13.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Dundee and Pert
Quarters, 465. 6d.-East Lothian Central, 203.-Edinburgh
and Northern, Newport. New, Reg., 275. Gd.-Edinburgh
and Perth, 145.-Great Northern, 86s. -North British,
o,'
Quarters, 81s.-Ditto, New Quarters (scrip), 1.05.-1),9,
Thirds, Reg., 345. 6d.-Shrewsbury and Chester, 101. Share
(8 per cent. guar.), 90s.

NOTICE TO MARINERS. Nj L
OFFICE OF COMMITTEE OF PRIVY COl7- -I

FOR TRADE.
Sir,—l am directed by the Lords of the Comnliqc°
of Privy Council for Trade to acquaint you, for the
ins
formation of the committee for managing the alfair,s
Lloyd's, that information has been received by her .IY-Ltsll;
jesty's Government, that a decree was issued on tir,4to
September last, by the Mexican Government, operun?
foreign commerce, and the coasting trade, the Pr"
Altata in that republic.
(Signed) G. R. PORTO.
Wm. Dobson, Esq., Secretary at Lloyd's.

The Observer, of yesterday, Nov. 4 gaVe rent`°1
y, OV.
of programme of the intended performances at C,?k.
garden, on the 7th of December, in aid of the S°3
spere House Fund, with the names of twenty talantbere
performers, who have already volunteered their vidll,!
services. A copy of the Observer will, at all times, ue
great treat to country cousins. Price of the Obseri2er,
(40 columns) 6d. There is scarcely a Club House, n
stitution, Library, or News Room, in all England, See
land, Ireland, the Continent, East and West Indies, 86''
in which the Observer is not taken in, and frequell
duplicate copies. The extensive publication of 01
Observer commences at Six and concludes at Tea
o'clock on Sunday morning. A Monday edition of the
Observer, best adapted for the country, and abroad, 15
regularly published at Four o'clock on Monday after-
noon.
PRINCIPAL CONTENTS OF THE " OBSERVER," NoC.
14.—Upwards of 6 folio columns of monetary affairs
up
to the latest hour of Saturday, including Messrs. Laing
and Bruener's circular ; two columns of Marylebon.o
important meeting at Vestry Court-house ; full ;parti-
culars of the suicide of Count Bresson, the negell3„t7;
of the Royal Spanish marriages ; death and a Weill"-
of Mendelssohn Bartholdy ; art and artists, &c.
[ADVERTISEMENT.--A DISEASE OF THE CggsT
AND A LONG-STANDING COLD CURED BY HOLLOWIIOINTMENT AND PILLS.—MF, James Kilroe, clerk to Mn;o'
Maclaughlin, proprietor of the Castlecoote mills, IRos-
common, caught a most dreadful cold, from We'c-
suffered for several months, and though he received ,he
best medical advice, yet nothing prescribed afforded h 1""
any relief, and fears were entertained that the disease
%as terminating in a confirmed affection of the 11111t..'
whereupon he resolved to try Holloway's Pills and
reof
ment, and those unparalleled medicines for the cure
coughs, colds, and asthma!, shortly effected a peel
many yportohfr e
Professor
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Holloway'shad fa e de. -s— Sold by
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druggists, s afterts, and so mtablishmeet,
2444 Strand, Loudon.

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On the 11th inst., at James-stIRTHS
reet, Haymarket, the lady of
Commander George Spong, R.N ,of twins—a boy an kur..d s,
On the 11th inst., at Stockwell-villas, Clapham-road,
Loraine Weaver, of a daughter.
James
On the 12th in t., at Bus her-hill, Camberwell, Bfrs- .°-
Gardner, of a daughter.
On the l'.th inst., in Southwick-place, the lady of henry
Trower, Esq., of a son.
On the 12th inst., at Oakfield, Worth, Sussex, the lady of
John B. Lousada, Esq., of a son. out h-
On the 12th inst., Mrs. W. Palmer, Dover-road, B
wa
Onrk, of a daughter. -r; of
the 12th inst., the lady of Joseph Nightingale,
Park-road, Stockwell, of a daughter. r Rea'
On the 13th inst., in Eaton-place, the wife of C. J. -
nell, of a daughter.
On the 13th inst., in Bedford-place, Russell-square,
John Havers, of a eon.

MARRIED.
On the 9th inst., at Acton Burnell, Nicholas, eldest son °f
William Blundell, Esq., of Crosby Hall, Lancashire, to et
Agn
youngest daughter of Sir Edward Smythe, Bart., f Actou
Burnell, Salop.

DIED.
On the 7th inst. at the Rectory, Little Bookhain,
the Rev. G. P. Boileau Pollen, 'teeter of that parish. of
On the 9th inst., Charles, only son of C.A. Becket, Egg',
Gravesend, aged 10. William
On the 10th inst., at Lewes, Mary, the relict of
Franklin Ilick, Esq , Bl. TCeut,
On the 11th inst. Agin Sandwell-place, Lewisham,
Lewis Charles Miles, Esq., aged 52.
On the 12th inst., in Edwardes-square, Kensington, Isaac
Woodward, aged C 3.
On the 12th inst., in St. George's-place, Hyde-park-corner,
Lieutenant-Colonel George Hibbert, C. 8., aged 57. Jo 6-
ofi Trinity-square.nst.,
On the 12th inst., at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. Ann - -s
p7aine, the eldest daughter of Captain Schultz, R.N. , ~,4
Ot
the
sq 13th.,
Thomas, only son of the late
huller,

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Middlesex, Tuesday, Noyember 16, 1847.

ROBBERY at the GREAT WESTERN
RAILWAY STATION.
One of the most impudent robberies ever perpe-
trated in the metropolis, involving the loss of a large
amount of property, took place at the Great Western
Railway-station on the evening of Sunday last.
In order clearly to explain the manner in which
the robbery was effected, it should be stated that the
booking-offices for first and second class passengers
run parallel with each other, both being entered by
distinct doors from the front yard, and both afford-
ing distinct egress on the platform from which the
trains start. The offices communicate with each
oth?r by a pair of folding doors, the clerks in each
being thus enabled to pass to and fro without leav-
ing their positions behind the counters over which
the money is paid. The egress on to the platform
from the second class booking-office is by a pair of
folding doors, which at night are fastened by a single
bolt from the inside, running up into the top of the
door-frame. The inner platform being considered
quite private, no more secure fastening to the
door
has been deemed necessary, and, unfortunately, from
the fact of the two doors not meeting very closely,
nothing was more easy than to unfasten this bolt
from the outside : thus any person, first having ob-
tained admittance on to the platform, might with the
greatest ease, by the insertion of a crooked nail or
some such instrument, obtain admittance inside the
booking office. This is exactly what appears to have
been done. As the most opportune moment for the
perpetration of the robbery, the thieves appear to
have selected the period of the arrival of the last
train on Sunday night, viz., half-past ten o'clock.
At this time, of course, all the booking clerks and
other officers, with the exception of the few whose
duty it would be to receive the in-coming train,
had loft. The thieves, no doubt, had previously se-
creted themselves among the carriages always remain-
ing about the station, and there is every reason to be-
lieve that they did not commence operation until all
the officers of the company were busy in attending
to the passengers arriving by the up-train. They'
appear, then, having obtained admittance ss above
described into the second-class booking-office, to have
gone behind the counter, and, forcing in succession
all the tills (six in number) open, and to have cle-rel
them of their contents. This done they passed
the first-class office, where they did precisely the mate
thing, every one of the drawers in both offices hal 14
forcibly wrenched open. At the ri6ht-hos gem 11 .
mity of the first-class booking-office is a sn all oitset,
containing an iron safe, where the money taken
during the day is placcd when not convenient to send
it to the banker's, as on Sunday night, for instance ;
this safe stood on a pair of brackets. Here, also, all
articles of value sent for transmission by railway are
generally placed pending their dispatch. This closet
was fastened by a common lock which yielded with-
out doubt readily enough to the iron wrench which
has evidently been used by the thieves. Having -
gained admittance, the impudent rascals had the
audacity to remove bodily the safe alluded to, which,
it is to be regretted, contained a most welcome booty
for them, no less than 1,2001. in notes, gold, and
silver, having been placed therein in the course of the
day. The thieves evidently carried their load back
into the second-class office, the front door of which
they unlocked, and let themselves out. Once in the
front yard, the safe was doubtless placed in a cab or
other vehicle, and the rascals got clear off among the
cabs departing at the same time. In addition to the,
1,2001. cash, the safe contained a large quantity et
railway securities, the property of the chief booking'
clerk. In the closet with the safe were two boxes
of bullion, each insured for a large amount. happily
these were untouched.
The Forresters are in pursuit of the robbers, but no
clue has yet been obtained.
It is feared the robbers were well acquainted with
the internal arrangements of the office.