The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-16 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

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LIVERPOOL, JUNE 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There is very little doing to-day,
caansdh
itrhe, the businessand
Cheshire
heavy.
Junction,The
Lancashire, 251. Shares, 71%
2. dis.—Great Northern, 91/I
dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire (late Manchester and Bir-
mingham), 101. Preference, 3s. 9d. p.—London and North-
Western, 122—Ditto, Quarters, 1 c.
.—Manchester, Sheffield,
'e3slall.esshaarree , Lan-
s,
71z2 C. dis.—East
Birkenhead
and Lincolnshire, Quarters,. p No. 1, 5 dis.—Ditto, Eighths,
5/. 1 Is. 3d. c. dis.—Ditto, 10/. Preference, par—Ditto,
Docks, 1114 c. dis.—Midland Stock, 10014 c:—Ditto, New
Halves, 6% dis.—North Staffordshire, dis.—North
Union (A), 201 c.—Shrewsbury and Hereford, 21. ls. 3d.
c. ;dis.- South-Eastern and Dover, 241,1—Ditto, No. 2,
1014 dis.—Ditto, No. 3, 94 dis.— Ditto, No. 4, Thirds, 3 die
—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (N. and B. Extensions),
No. 2,1% c. p.—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 1% C.
p.
MANCHESTER, JUNE 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junction (late C. and B.). 13%
Lancashire and Yorkshire (West Riding: Union), 3 11-16
dis.—Ditto, Preference, 6 per cent., .14 p.—North Stafford-
shire, 2 9-16 n. die.
BIRMINGHAM, JUNE 15.
here to-day. The sales are—North Staffordshire, 2%.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was very little business done
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 455. Bd.—Ditto (B),
dis.

The water of the Kennet and Avon canal has been
this. week drawn off as far as the Avon Cliff, and the
navigation to that point is suspended for a fortnight,
for the purpose of allowing the Wilts, Somerset, and
Weymouth Railway Company top oc reed with the wor
fro mk
which brings the branch line ross the canal
Bathampton to Bradford. The canal traffice is carried
on to this city by land carriage pro tem.— Buth Chronicle.
FOREIGN FRUIT.—The following extensive arri-
vals of foreign fruit took place on one
imme day at the com-
mencement of the week, followingimmediately after
Equally large arrivals of the kind from Fr force S and else-
where, at the close of the past week, urday
morning's markets. The steam-ship Magnet, from
Dutch prednuscievi;thanrdestpheect steamer
Soho, Rotterdam, brought 456 baskets of cherries, the produce
of Holland; the steam-ship Giraffe, from Rotterdam,
1,013 baskets of ebonies, 2 baskets of gooseberries, and
3 of melons, also of D
Soho, from Antwerp, 133 baskets of cherries, the growth
There were present,
of Belgium. These large arrivals of cherries from abroad
are an important feature in the supplies to the metropo-
litan markets at the present time, of a description of fruit
lwfarurhgiieteshquhufaaaenstinetoniestosas yet been brought to market in such
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yesterday evening, at her Majesty's Theatre, the Duke
of. Leeds; his Excellency the Russian Minister, the
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lIER MAJESTY'S TellSTE.gaitreT°t
Baroness Bruuow and Mademoiselle Olga de Lechner, his
Excellency the Swedish Minister, his Excellency the
Hanoverian Minister, his Excellency the Sardinian
Minister, the Marchioness of Waterford, the Marquis
of Donegal, the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl of Munster,
the Earl of Beshorough, Earl Granville; Lady Stuart de
Rothesay, Lady Emily Somers Cox, and the Viscountoss
Canning, who occupied her Majesty's box; M. de Berg,
the Count,- da Barke, the Baron Nicolay, M. C. de
Koudriaffilty, the Viscount Canning, the Viscountisco Land
tilupe; Lord William Lennox, Lordm, Lord
Adolphus Fitzelarence, Lady Ashton, Sir Ralph
Howard, Bart., and Lady Howard, Captain the Hon.
James Macdonald, General the lion. H. Cavendish, Sir
Charles Clarke, Bart., Sir John Bayley, Bart., y, —art., and Lady
Bayley, Sir Jasper Atkinson,
Womb Bart., Sir Frederick
Trench, Bart., Sir George well, Bart., Sir H.
Blake, Bart., Mr. Sanford, Mrs.•Palll, Mr. C. J. Palmer,
Captain and Mrs. Griffiths, the Hon, c. Forester,.
Colonel Dunne, Colonel Tomlinson, Colonel Bradshaw,
Colonel Sands, Mr. Hubert de Burgh, hi,a
Jor Buckley,.
Major and Mrs. Short, Major Baring, Mr. C. W. Packe.
M.P., and Mrs. Packe Reading.
SHERIFFS or LoNDor;.—lt is expected that Mr.
Alderman /Innis and Mr. J. Hartley, the wharfinger,
will be elected without opposition on :Midsummer. day
next, to the important office of sheriffs of London and
sheriff of Middlesex for the year ensuing.