The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-24 00:00:00

A VIS AUX VOYAGEURS.
MM. NICOLL, de 114, 116, et 120, Regent-street,
et 22, Combat, London, Marchands Tailleurs, brevetes de
son Altesse Royal le Prince Albert, la Cour, etc., ont Phonneur
de prier les strangers voyageurs a Londres de visiter leurs Ma-
gasins ci-dessus bullques, on sont deployes tine grande quantite des
plus riches et belles etoffes, choisi parmi lea =Wears fauriques de
l'Angleterre et l'etranger. Pour ]'unique elegance du style, les
Messieurs Nicoll out acquls use celebrite qu'ils esperent conserver,
et qui leur a merits le 'taut patronage de p!usieurs S )uverains de
!'Europe, ain.sl quo leurs representants Londres, l'excellence des
materiaux, la sup6riorite du travail, colt d ins les Umformes de la
Cour o❑ Diplomatiques,.soit dans les costumes orttinaires du jour,
etant une garantic pour tons ceux qui veulent leur danner des com-
mandes.

EXTENSION OF THE BROAD

GAUGE TO BIRMINGHAM.

The Railway Commissioners have presented to
Parliament their report on Lord Redcsdale's motion
for an inquiry into the merits of the different lines
running to the north. 'We have not seen the report,
but we understand it admits the superior speed of the
broad gauge engines, and recommends that the broad
gauge should he carried up to Birmingham, on the as-
sumption that a break of gauge at Oxford or Penny
Compton would he very unfair to the public, and that,
in fact, as the broad gauge will shortly be completed
between London and Wolverhampton, the Commis-
sioners feel bound on public grounds to recommend
its continuation from Oxford to Birmingham. We
are informed—but we must be permitted to doubt the
accuracy of the information—that the Commissioners
do not admit that the broad gauge has any mercantile
superiority over the narrow gauge in the conveyance
of heavy trains upon certain gradients, or that it is more
economical. We have always understood it to be an ac•.
knowledged fact, that one of the essential advantages
of the broad gauge is its daily practice of running
heavy first and second-class express trains at speeds
which the narrow-gauge locomotive has never yet
approached; and-we have always looked forward to
the extension of the broad gauge to Birmingham as
a public advantage, inasmuch as second-class passen-
gers, as well as first, will then enjoy the benefit of
transit by express trains to and from Birmingham, a
benefit which the London and North-Western cannot,
from the inferior power and speed of their narrow-
gauge locomotives, confer upon railway passengers.
We believe, from our own personal observations, that
the recently-constructed broad-gauge engines will
take a two-hundred ton trai❑ as fast as, it not faster,
than any narrow-gauge engine can take a hundred ton
train up or down the average gradients of the rail-
ways of this country, and tat they will do so at a
much less comparative consumption of coke, and wear
and tear of machinery.
We also hear that the document in question eu-
logises the report of the Gauge Commissioners. We
are almost inclined to be sceptical on this point, when
we reflect upon the strange conclusions at which the
Gauge Commissioners arrived, and the variance ex-
isting between those conclusions and numerous facts
then evident, and which facts further experience has
rendered notorious.—Morning Herald.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 23.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—We have to report a fair general
demand for stock to-day. Dover and Midland seem to be
in most request. Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junc-
tion, 311. Shares, 7 ,/s dis.—Glasgow and Greenock, 151/2—
Great Northern, 9,4 dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths,
dis.—Leeds and Thirsk, New 501. Shares, 20 dis.—London
and North-Western, 133—Ditto, Quarters, 2% p.—Ditto,
Quarters (A and 13), 2% p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincoln, Quarters, No. 1,2.. A dis.—Ditto, 10/. Preference,
1/8 p.—Midland Stock, 1071/2—Ditto, New Halves, 41/2 dis.—
Ditto (Birmingham and Derby), 31—North Staffordshire,
2 dis.—North Union (B), 140—Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and
Chester, 7% dis.—Ditto, 10/. Preference, 23 p.—South-
Eastern and Dover, No. 4, Thirds, 2% dis.—York, New-
castle, and Berwick (N. and B. Extension, No. 2), 1% p.—
Ditto (G. :N. E. Purchase), 114 p.
MANCHESTER, MAT 23.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notting-
ham, and Boston, 2 9-16—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Che-
shire Junction, 71/4 dis.—East Anglian, l'reference, 3 5-16—
Eastern Counties, Preference, 9-16 p.—Lancashire and York-
shire (West Riding Union), 3 11-1(i dis.—London and North-
Western, Quarters (C), 3IA p.—Ditto (Leeds and Dewsbury
rranches), Halves, 4% dis.—Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, Preference, 14 p.—Ditto (Sheffield and Lin-
colnshire), SA:, dis.—North Staffordshire, 2,4 dis.—North
Union, 19)—Shropshire Union, 2% dis.—South-Eastern and
Dover, No. 4, 2 11-16 dis.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—A Gentleman Regained the
Use of his Limbs by toe Effect of Holloway's Ointment
and Pills.—Mr. John Cock, a highly respectable gentle-
man residing at Madron, near Penzance, has been con-
fined to his house for a considerable period from a fear-
ful attack of paralysis. He had recourse to the best
medical aid but to no purpose, as in such eases the usual
treatment never does any good, he the❑ resolved upon
using Holloway's ointment and pills, and to the surprise
of all who knew his deplorable state, these wonderful
medicines alone have restored him to perfect health and
the complete use of his limbs. These valuable medicines
are sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's
establishment, 244, Strand, London.
The new and superb New York line of packet-
ship, Devonshire, arrived 'yesterday afternoon in the
London Docks, commanded by Captlin E. E. Morgan,
who, three years ago, brought the eel( brated packet-
ship Victoria. The Devonshire has seventy-three state
rooms in her chief cabin, and not one of them was un-
occupied.