The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-02 00:00:00

BIRMINGHAM. JUNE 1.

STOCK ExCHANGE.—There was little business done in the
Share Market to-day, prices remaining about the same as
yesterday.
YORE, MAY 31.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The basinesS transacted to-day was
as follows: —Great Northern, .51. 13s. 6d. n.—York, New-
castle, and Berwick (Original Newcastle and Berwick), 301„ii
—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 914.
EDINBURGH, Mir 31.
STOCK ExCIIANGE.—The sales are—Edinburgh and
Northern (Newport), 81. 105. Ditto (Granton) Quarters,
ls. 6d.—Great Northerns, 5/, 1 ls.—North British, New
Quarters, sa.—Ditto, Thirds, 18s. 6d.
GLASGOW, MAY 31.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Dundee and Perth,
Quarters, 40s.—Eastern Counties, New, 528.—Edinburgh and
Perth, 1 Is. 3d.—Glasgow, Dumfries. and Carlisle, 6
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr. Halves, No. 1, 81. 95.
Ditto, Halves, No. 2, 8%, Great Northern,
Bri-
tish, 23—Ditto, Thirds, 19s. 6d.—York, Newcastle, and
Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 9%. 5% —North

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
COWES, JUNE 1, 1848.
THE WEITDER.—The month of May has been a
scorching one, and the spring corn and the hay crops
have consequently suffered. The potatoes could not
go in in April, in consequence of the continued rains,
mad the land was baked so hard in May that it caused
much labour to break it up. With the exception of a
shower on the 17th, there was no rain from the 28th of
April to the 31st of May. The hay
harvest has pretty
generally commenced, but the crop is a light one. A
larger breadth of pOtatoes has been planted this year
than on any former one, and the rain that appears now
set in will be highly beneficial to them and the other
growing crops. Wind S.W., Bar. 29.50.
Died at West Cowes, May 30, Mrs. Elizabeth Roper,
in the 66th year of her age. She was for many years
the highly-respected hostess of the Vine Hotel. Many
a fashionable visitor, and not a few commercial men, will
consider her death a public loss.

HOTEL CHARGES.
Charges on a railway for scalding yourself with a cup '
of tea or a basin of soup are extraordinary, but still we
think they lag far behind those of the railway hotels.
The bill is always made out on the
principle of never
seeing the visitor again. Ile is therefore charged. as
much as his patience or his purse will bear, which is a
sure plan of inducing him never to return. Our feelings
towards Southampton, for instance, are anything but
friendly, and the next time we visit that inhospitable
town we shall walk up and down the pier all night, or go
to bed in the boiler of the engine, sooner than submit to
the atrocious impositions of the railway hotels. We
were in one for five minutes, during which time the
waiter exchanged just three words with US, when we
were asked at the door for " one shilling." " What for?'
we indignantly exclaimed. " Attendance, sir, one shil-
ling." It is true we might have stopped all the night
conversing with the same attendant for the same amount;
still, we thought that fourpence a word was a trifle too
dear, even to converse with a waiter at Southampton.
We beg to draw up a small scale of prices, moderate
too, for the general use of railway hotels.
s. d.
For asking to look at Bradshaw's
For looking at same . 1 0
For a wax candle to read the same..... 1 0
Attendance 1 0

recollecting
lan
gceans
ou Illy
might visitor ;b e but
shownif a
This would do capitallyimm 4 0
person slept there,
always that it is not very .
in the high valuation of each separate item,
likely you will ever see the
visitor again. The following would not be a poor spe-
cimen of its kind:— s. d.
Taking off your b00t5........... 1 0
enfoser
Attendance, lighting you up to bed 1 0
Bed 2 6
Sheets and towels 1 6
Pairof slippers 1 0
Shaving water 1 0
Breakfast, with water•cresses 6 0
The Times, at ditto 1 0
Cleaning your boots
Attendance
Cigar, and light for the same .
Attendance ................... ,

18 0
This would not bo very bad for one bed and breakfast,
but still the thing may be better done. We just throw
out the crude hint ; and railway hotel proprietors are
quite clever enough to improve upon it. What extra-
ordinary notions, by the bye, a railway hotel bill will
give an antiquarian of the next century of the dearness
of provisions at the present period.--Punch.

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was dreadfully afflicted with an
and Pills.-11rs. Dunham of
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the intense pain she constantly endured, it was decided
that nothing but amputation or death could relieve her
sufferings. In this state, Holloway's Ointment and Pills
were resorted to, sad these truly valuable medicines soon
effected a permanent cure, and restored the complete use
of her arm. Mr. Burton, bookseller, Louth, will testify
to this. Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor Iloilo-
, way's Establishment, 244, Strand London,
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