The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-20 00:00:00

RAILWA I SHARE MARKETS,

BRISTOL, JUNE 19.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market has been very flat to-
day, and scarcely any business has been doing ; indeed, the
only transactions have been in Great Western Stock, of
which the Quarter Shares were done at 218.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 19.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There is very little business doing
at this market. Prices are not lower. The sales are—
Great Northern, th dis.—Great Western, Quarter Shares,
2% dis.—LancaFsihftirhe
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dreis....(lLateendbolhancahhedstNerhratnhd-
c.—Ditto, New Quarters, 76 p.—Midland
SWl3tioercsmtkei,nrngihoal2/211' c.—Ditto, New Halves, 6% c. dis.—Ditto
(Birmingham and Derby, 75—North Staffordshire, 2% c.
dis.—Shrewsbury and Hereford, 21. ls. 3d. dis.—Shrewsbury
and Birmingham, 91. 12s. 3d. Shares, (B), 3,4 dis.—South-
Eastern and Doter, N 0.4, Thirds, 27/8 c. dis.—York, New
castle, and Berwick (N. and B. Extension), No. 2,1% p.
Ditto (G. N. E.

MANCH:ESTEIi, JUNE 19.
STOCIC EXCITANOIL—The sales are--Birkenhead, Lan•
cashire, and Cheshire Junction, 7% dis.—Lancashire and
Yorkshire (West Riding, Union), 3% c. dis.—Ditto, Pref.
Ditto, M. and B. Quarters (A and B), 1 11-16 p.
6 per cent., Vs p.—Loudon and North-Western, New Quar•
an7/111:e.—ster, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Quarter Shares,
No._te 1,1,
4% tern,
dis.-Ditto, Preference, par—Ditto (Grimsby),
dis.—Ditto (Sheffield,and Lincolnshire), 9%
British, Thirds, 2% c. dis.—North Staffordshire,
2d2131,—N°
21:nS.liadisrre.tsli 8
1.1V5
South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 2 13-16 c. dis.
BIRMINGHAM, JUNE 19.

STOCK EXCILINGE.—The only sales were—North Stafford-
shires, at 214 dis.—and Shrewsbury and Birmingham B's,
41. 13s. 6d. dis.

YORK, JUNK 17.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted to-day was
as follows : —Great Northern, 6—York, Newcastle, and Ber-
wick Extension, No. 1, l7%—York and North Midland
(East and West Riding Extension), 311/.

EXTRAORDINARY PRESERVATION OF LIPE.-Dur.

ing the last two or three days the respectable inhabi-
tants of Camden-town have been actively engaged in
preparing and procuring signatures to a memorial to the
Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police and to the
Royal Society for the Protection of Life from Fire, on
behalf of William Trafford, police-constable, 344 S, on
account of the extraordinary and praiseworthy acts of
intrepidity he performed o❑ the morning of the 9th
instant, in saving the lives of nine persons, who but for
his single-handed exertion must have perished in the
destructive fire which occurred at 61, College-place. It
appears from the memorials that the fire broke out
shortly after two o'clock in the first floor front room, and
that on Traff2rd's arrival ho found the flames coming

through the first and second floor windows, and two
men in their night clothes were observed clinging from
the tills of the second floor windows. Regardless of
the consequences to himself, the constable called upon
the poor creatures to drop into his arms and he would
break their fall. They did so almost simulta-
neously, but the interposition of the arms and body of
Trafford between the men and the pavement caused one to
alight in safety without tho slightest injury, and the
other with but a slight injury to the back. Notwith-
standing the shock sustained by Trafford by the falling
of the two men upon him, he having been informed that
there were some women and children in the upper
apartments, he twat open the street door, and, at the
risk of his own life (the flames at this time having
frightfully increased), he rushed three times through a
dense and suffocating smoke, and brought down four
children and one woman from the first, and two women
(the wives of the men alluded to) from the second floor.
This was all accomplished before any engine arrived.
The house was completely !gutted, and although all the
above circumstances were known to the Fire Brigade,
the generous feelings of that body did not extend suffi-
ciently far to give an intimation of the facts to the re-
porter who reported the fire, lest it might tend to throw
their exertions into the shade. It is stated that the
policeman Trafford received some slight injury, and
there is but one feeling on the part of the inhabitants,
and that is that such a praiseworthy example to the po- '
lice generally ought not to go unpublished and unre-
warded.
NEW CORN ESCUANGE AT EDINBURGH.--The
Corn-market is held weekly, and is both a stock and
sample market. The great increase of trade in this
market since the opening of the various railways, has
rendered an enlargement in the accommodation a matter
of urgent necessity. About a year ago application was
made to Parliament by the city of Edinburgh for an Act
empowering them to purchase properties in the Grass-
market—a large open square in the ancient part of the
city—and to erect a new corn exchange of such dimen-
sions as to meet the increased wants of the trade. The
new edifice is to be in the Italian style of architecture,
with a clock and bell tower at one end. Contracts have
been entered into for the erection of the building, the
estimated expense of which is about 7,500/. The design
has been supplied by Mr. David Cousin, architect, su-
perintendent of public works for the city of Edinburgh.
—Builder.
MEETING IN POPLAR.—On Friday evening, a
numerously attended meeting of the inhabitants of the
parish of All Saints, Poplar, was held in the Town-hall,
for the purpose of taking into consideration the necessity
of passing resolutions in support of Mr. Hume's motion,
and presenting a petition to the House of Commons in
its favour. The Town-hall was crowded on the occa-
sion. Mr. Jeves, Churchwarden, was voted in the chair
by acclamation. A series of resolutions, affirming the
necessity of further reform, was then proposed and car-
ried unanimowly, and the meeting separated.
A. NOBLE FEMALE PEDESTRIAN.—In 1776 the
Duchess of Charteris beat her husband in a foot race of
200 yards for 200 guineas. The Duchess was allowed
to secure her petticoats above the knees of her drawers,