The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-08 00:00:00

RAILWAY -SHARE MARKETS.

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LIVERPOOL, Aram 6.
Srocx EXerIANCH —The sales are—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction, % p.'—Caleclonian, 3 dis:—Dundee and Perth,
dis.—Eastern Counties, York'. Extensions, 10s.. p.—Goole and
Doncaster, % dis.—Huddersfield and Manchester, 2% dis.—liiidders-
flield and Sheffield, 1% p'.—Lceds and Thirsk, die.— Liverpool
and Bury, 4% p.--Ditto, New Shares, 18s. 6d. LiverpOol and
Leeds ,Direct, 6s. 3d, dis.—Live .o • wskirk, and Preston, Bs. 9d.
p.—London and Blnnhigham, ::tidon and York,' 1% dis.—
Manchester and Leeds, 37 p.— 83,g p.—Manchester,
Midland, and Great Grimsby, I .2.clis.-111dland Stock, 14434
Newcastle and Darlington, 44—North British, Carlisle, 14 p.—North-
tanberland and Lancaster, 136 dis.—North Staffordshire, 1% p.—
North Union (A), 208—Ditto (B), 141—North Western, Is. Gd. die.
—Oxford and Birmingham, 103. dis.—Sheffield and Manchester, 105
—Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 3 dis.—Shropshire Union and
Canal, 255. dis,—South Eastern, No. 2, par ex d.—Ditto, New
Halves, 10s. dis. ex d.—South Midland, 34 dis.—South Staffordshire,
% dis.—Tean and Dove Valley, dis.—West Riding Union, 1% p.
—Bandon and Bantry, 235. 6d. dis.—Dutch Rhenish I Is. 3d. p.
MANCHESTER, APRIL 6.
Broca Exexerfos.—The sales are—Bandon and Bantry, 134 dis.—
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 34 p.—Blackburn, Darwen,
and Bolton, 1% dis.— Bcston, Newark, and Sheffield, I 7-16 dis. c.—
Chelmsford and Bury, 1% dis.—Chester and Manchester Direct, 295.
dis. —Clydesdale Junction, dis.—Derby and Crewe, 15-16 p.—
East Lancashire, No. 2, 34 p.—Huddersfield and Manchester Rail-
way and Canal, 134 dis.—Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 1% p.
—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, % dis.—Leeds, Dewsbury, and
Manchester, I—Liverpool and Bury, 5 p.—Liverpool, Onnskirk,
and Preston, 39 p.—Liverpool, Preston, Manchester, and Southport,
% dis.—London and Manchester (Remington's), 1% dis.—London and
York, 1% dis.—Manchester' Buxton, and Matlock, 34 dia.—Man-
chester and Birmingham, 75 e.—Ditto, Quarters (A), p. c.—
Ditio, Quarters (B), 6% p. c.—Ditto, Quarters (C), 5% p.—Man-
chester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 20s. 6d.
dis.—Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 38 p.—North Staffordshire, 1%
p.—Preston and dis. 32%—Ditto, Halves, 234 p. —Sheffield, Leek,
and Crewe, 18s. 6d.—Shrewshury and Hereford, &c., dis. c.—
South Eastern and Dover, Halves, No. 4, 34 dis.—Tean and Dove
Valley, % dis.—Trent Valley Continuation and Holyhead, % dis.—
West Riding Union, 1 1-16 p.

6.
STocx EXCIIANGE.-TheLEEDS
sales, are-Eastern Counties, York Ex-
tension, 10s. p.-East Lancashire, N 0.2 (late Accrington), ss. p.-liud-
derstield and Manchester, 20s. dis.-Huddersfield and Sheffield, 1%
p. c.- Leeds and Thirsk, 4% dia.-North British, New Carlisle
Branch, 6s. p.-Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 4% dis.-
London and York, 295. dia.-Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 255.
dis.-Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 105. p.-West Riding Union,
31. ss. 6d.-Birkenhead, Chester, Mold, &c., 28s. dis.-Bradford,
Wakefield, and Midland, 225. 6d. dis.--Clitheroe Junction, 255.
dis.-Great Eastern and Western, 345. dis.-Lancashire and North
Yorkshire, 20s. dis.-Leeds and Liverpool Direct,ss. dis.-Leeds and
York, 30s. d;5.- Leeds, Wakefield and Midland, 20s. dis.-Manches-
ter, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, Is. dia.-Manchester and South-
ampton, 12s. 6d. dis.-Northamberland and Lancashire Junction, 245.
dis.-North Staffordshire, 335. Gd. dis. -North Western, 2s. 6d. dis.-
Shropshire Union, 275. dis.- York and Carlisle, 365. dis.
HULL, APRIL 6.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-Scripholders are less inclined to force sales
to-day, which in some measure accounts for the small number of
transactions. There is a rumour prevalent that the Lords are lot
unlikely to prevent the adoption of Sir Robert Peel's new Corn-law,
and that probably the present Parliament may be dissolved, and thus
many of the new schemes And a speedy death. Much as this is to
be wished, no faith can be placed in the rumour. The sales are-
Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, lOs. dis.-Blackburn, Darwen,
and Bolton, 3%-Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 255.-Derby, Gains-
borough, and Grimsby, IN.-Hull and Barnsley Junction, 245.-
Hull and Lincoln, %-Liverpool and Leeds Direct, 2 %-London and
York, 243.-North British, Carlisle Branch, 30s. 6d.-North Staf-
fordshire, 31. 175.--Shropshire Union, I % -West Riding Union, 3%.
SHEFFIELD, Aram 6.
STOCK Excuswox.-The sales are-Eastern Counties, York Exten-
sions, 1% -Midland, Sheffield, and Rotherham, 34-Boston, Newark,
and Sheffield, 1/. 65. - Manchester and Lincoln Union and Canal,
11. N.-North Western, I/. la.-Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 11. Is.-
Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe, 1 Is. 6d.
YORK, APRIL 6.
STOCK ExcuArrox.-The sales are-Grand Union (Nottingham to
Lynn), 95.-London and York, I j(-Newcastle and Berwick, 16%
-North British, Carlisle Extension, 11. 9s. 6d.-York and North
Midland, New (East and West Riding), 8%.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
MONDAY, APRIL 6.
The following Petitions for Railway Bills were reported,
and the Bills ordered to be brought in by the undernamed
Hon. Members:—
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth—Mr. Havter and Mr
Dlrdlmid (Clayeroas to Newark)—Mr. Cavendish and Mr.
Hudson.

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE.

MONDAY, APRIL 6.
The following petitions on Railway Bills hare been ad-
journed till the first day after the Easter recess :
East and West of England Junction.
North Devon.
North Gravesend.
Cork and Passage. °
Midland Great Western of Ireland (Mullingar to Galway).
Midland Great Western of Ireland (Longford to Sligo).
Midland Great Western of Ireland (Liffey Branch and Long-
ford Deviation).

THE RICHMOND Ran.wAY.—The works upon this
line of railway, for which Mr. H. Brill is the contractor, are rapidly
approaching completion, and there is little doubt of the line being
opened throughout in June. The line is six miles in length, and is
almost a dead level from Richmond to Barnes Common, where it
rises a few feet, and then a cutting commences, which deepens as it
approaches Putney, under the High-street of which it passes, the old
road being connected by a flat iron bridge, which is now in course of
construction. Between Richmond and Putney nearly three miles of
permanent way are completed, and the rails are laid down. The
greatest engineering difficulty was the crossing of the osier beds, which
are considerably below the level of high-water mark, and a mere de-
posit of mud to the depth of many feet. Over these beds and the
Waddle, as well as ether streams, twenty-two arches were to be
erected, and of these all but one have been completed. Two of the
bridges are seventy feet span, and of very handsome appearance.
An earth embankment succeeds these arches, and the railway is con-
tinued along it antll it joins the South-Western Railway at Falcon-
bridge, Battersea. This latter portion of the line has been completed
some time, and on Monday numerous platelayers commenced fixing
the rails.
FRENCH RAILROADS.—The Journal des Chemins de
Fer announces that the Minister of Public Works had declared his
intention not to concede this year the railroad between Lyons and
Moulins. The administration of the Bordeaux road was waiting
until the Orleans Company should have organised its summer service
to work the section comprised between Tours and Orleans. The
road will not, consequently, be opened before the 15th inst. The
municipal body of St. Quentin voted, on the 29th, a resolution to
the effect of calling on the Ministry to present, without delay, to the
Chambers, a project of law authorising the Government to concede
the prolongation of the Creil and St. Quentin Railway, as far as Belgium,
to the Company which had demanded that concession. The Assembly
had, however, appointed a committee, of which Mr. Cordier, was a
member, to whom it had given full powers to take steps necessary
to forward that object. The receipts of the Orleans line during the
week ending on the 31st alt.' amounted to 150,73ef., and those of the
first quarter of 1846 to 1,745,633 f. The Rouen and Paris road pro-
duced during the same week, 142,648 f., and during the last quarter
1,692,888 f. The receipts of the latter in March, 1846, exceeded by
154,609 f. those of the corresponding month of 1845. The Journal
des Dibats announces that the Government was preparing to
lay before the Chambers some new projects of law relative
to railroads, and that the Chamber of Deputies would in
a few days enter upon a discussion relative to several im-
portant lines. " Thus," observes the above journal, " this
vast enterprise of 'public interest, followed up with energy and suc-
cess during preceding sessions, will, in the course of the present year,
be finally brought to a conclusion in the Chambers. The system of
railroad communication will be nearly complete, and in iliture it will
merely be necessary to form certain branches. The new railroads
which are to be laid before the Chambers are four in number—namely,
the the two sections of the Vierzon line, which werementieti
law of the II th June, 1842, but the plans of which were not
sufd-
ciently advanced, and which will extend, the one from Chateauroux
to Ligomes, and the other from Bec Allier to Clermont; thirdly, the
Normandy line, which will connect Caen, and eventually
Cherbourg,
with Paris ; and, lastly, a line from the Saone to the Marne, or from
Gray to Vitry."
QUICK Wonx.—Mr. Hudson has summoned his
co-shareholders in the Midland Itailway Company to meet at Derby,
on Saturday, May 2, to give their approval to twenty-six railway
Bills which that Company has now in Parliament. The following.
Monday, at ten o'clock, the York and North Midland Railway pro-
prietors are required to meet him at York for the pilrpose of having
submitted for their approval six Bills, and also to confirm certain
deeds and agreements affecting the Manchester and Leeds and Hull and Selby Railway Companies. A quarter of an hour is allowed for
this. At a quarter past ten the Hon. Member for Sunderland meets
the Newcastle and Darlington Company to consider and approve
seven Bills in Parliament and certain agreements. These are to be
decided by half-past ten, when the chairman of the north and south
lines is to officiate as head of the Newcastle and Berwick. We should
not be surprised to find the Hon. Member taking his seat in the House
of Commons in the evening of the same day, havingobtained between
the rising of the House on Friday and its sitting again en Monday,
the assent of the proprietors to ten millions or railway property to
forty Bills in Parliament.—Railway Record.
NEWCASTLE AND BERWICK RAILWAY.—The works
in this neighbourhood are progressing with considerable rapidity, the
very favourable state of the weather having enabled the spirited
contractor, Mr. Mackay, to proceed without intermission through
the winter. Near the site of the station, however, a very formidable
obstruction has presented itself, in the shape of a huge whinstone
rock, extending across the entire breadth of the line ; but even this
is fast disappearing, and from present appearances, there is every
probability that this portion, at all events, of the line will be ready at
the specified time. A locomotive engine has been placed on the line
south of this to assist in forwarding the operations.—Berwick Warder.
RAILWAY LABOURERS' STRIKE.—The greater num-
ber of the labourers employed on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
at and in the neighbourhood of Penrith, who lately struck work in
consequence of the contractors demanding 10% hours' work per day,
exclusive of meal times, instead of 10 hours' daily labour, have re-
sumed their work, agreeing to the demand of the contractors, with-
out an advance of wages.
THE BRICKLAYERS' STRIKE AT BIRMINGHAM.—The
workmen employed in the above trade have refused the offer of the
masters, which appeared in The Sun of Monday.
We have to announce the demise of Lieutenant-
Colonel Sir Thomas Stephen Sorell, K.H., her Majesty's Consul-
General to the Austrian Italian states, who expired on the 24111 ult.
at Venice, at the age of seventy. He had been Consul-General at
Venice since 1834, having filled a similar office at Corunna from
1830 to 1832, and at Oporto from 1832 to 1834. His rank of Lieute-
nant-Colonel, we should add, was of a local nature, and confined to
the continent.

A grand ball in aid of the " Distressed Needlewomen's
Society," is, we understand, to take place on the 24th inst., at Al-
mack's Booms, St. James's. Many noble and influential names arc
among the patrons on the occasion; and we trust that the result may
be such as to reflect increased honour on their exertions, and to add
liberally to the means of the Society. The object is a most laudable one.
The Countess of Wilton and family arrived early on
Monday morning at the Blackwell pier, by the General Steam Na-
vigation Company's steam-ship Wilberforce, after a pleasant passage
of 19 hours from Antwerp.
WELSII FISHERIES.—The trolling smacks have com-
menced operations for the season. During the week a good supply
of fish has been on sale at moderate prices. The scarcity and ex-
travagant prices of butcher's meat place it out of the reach of the
poor classes. Nov that the fishing season has commenced the inha-
bitants of the town will not be wholly dependent on the butcher for
their weekly supply; at the same time we would recommend the
trolling company to preserve a greater uniformity of price than was
the case hiet o.looll.—afrlliartilfift /nitwit.