The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-27 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, SIFT. 26.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There is not much doing in Jib are.
but the market to-day is firm. The sales are—Birkenhead'
Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, ML Shares, 9!4
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 3% dis. ex div.—
Ditto,
101. Preference, is. 3d. p. c.—London aid North. Westerr:
110—Ditto, Quarters, 133. 9d. c. dis.—Midland Stock, 0i
—Ditto, New Halves, 101. 35. 9d. dia.—Shrewsbury 171'
Chester, 101. Preference, 13—South-Eastern mad 'Dover, O A
—Ditto, No. 1,93 q dis.—Ditto, No. 4, Thirds, -61. 18a.
York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 11 11. 3d.
/MANCHESTER, SEPT. 26.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Lancashire and
Yorkshire, Preference, 1.16 p.—London and North-Western,
New Quarters, % dis.—Ditto (Huddersfield and Blan-
chester Railway and Canal), unpaid up, EN dis.--bir;
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Grimsby Docks), 11%i
dis.—Ditto (Sheffield and Lincolnshire), 13%
Staffordshire, S% die.— Scottish Central, 23—South-Eastern
and Dover, No. 4, 6 13.16 dis.—Caledonian, Preference,
4;3.

BIRMINGHAM, Sarr. 26.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—North Staffordshire,
5/. 115. 3d. dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 61. 16s.
4d. di .—Ditto (B), 4j4 die.

GROTTO PASSAGE RAGGED ScuooLs.—SaxDnea
OUT EXIGRANTS.—On Saturday evening a meeting of
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meeting was presided over by Arthur Mills, Esq.
inteadeel emigrants were addressed in a feeling manner
by the worthy chairman and other gentlemen, in reply to
which one of the young men, on behalf of his companions,
returned thanks for the benefits they had already re-
ceived. The emigrants are young men about 21 years of
age, four in number, three of whom are married; they
were selected from the adult class of the school as
worthy objects. They go by the Duchess of Northum-
berland as labourers to Port Philip, Australia, the com •
mittee providing their outfit, and paying their passage.
Two more will sail for the same place by the Thetis, on
the sth of next month. The report of the committee
for the pist, being the second year of the schools's exis-
tence, spoke in the highest terms of the general improve-
ment which has been made, there being an infant day
scho.)l, a girl's evening school for reading, and religious
instreodon on Monday; and on Wednesday and Thurs-
day evenings for needlework and writing, as a reward
for good behaviour; an evening school for males vary-
ing from 9 to 30 years of age; and a Sunday school for
children of both vexes. To encourage a taste for read-
ing, a library of useful and instructive works has been
added. In several instances the committee have pro-
vided the most deserving girls with situations, and fitted
out boys for sea. The income for the past year, from all
source-, was 2282 18s. 3d. The expenditure left a ba-
lance of 141. 4s. 7d.
Ala. Joule illrrcuEL.—A letter has been received
in Dublin from Bermuda by a relative of Mr. John Mit-
chel, the writer of which is a lady, a member of the
Methodist community, who devotes her time to the spi-
ritual instruction of the convicts in the island. She
states that Mitchel is in tolerably good health, although
depressed in mind ; he has an apartment to himself, is
allowed the attendance of a servant, and is in every
respco; treated with humanity and consideration. Os'
casionally, however, he suffers much from the attacks of
his old complaint--asthma, but the climate was render-
ing them less frequent and more mitigated in their vio-
lence.

ANTIQUITP OP THE ETIUM PRINCIPLE.—Nothing
so effectual or convenient as ether or chloroform for ob-
literating sensibility to pain was known prior to their
application; but the principle was known, and more or
less successful.), applied as far back as the middle ages-
A pupil of liugh Lucca, called Theodor* mentions, in his
book on surgery,written in the 13th century, a confection,
to be prepared by surgeons, called " Soporific Confection,
to be use t by surgeons." The recipe was re-produced in
1538, and published by Canappe, in his " Book of
Guidance" on the occasion of the per'ormance of some
surgical operation. " Some surgeons," says Can*PPe•
" give their patients soporiferous medicines, which put
them asleep so that they may not feel the incisions—as
opium, henbane, mandagrova, lettuce, 9c,?., they dip *
sponge into them, dry it, and when they want to use it,
moisten it with warm water, and hold it under the pa-
tient's nose till he falls asleep, and then they perform
the operation. They afterwards- rouse him by holding
to his nostrils another sponge, dipped in vinegar. It
is clear, therefore, that our predecessors had a shrewd
notion of the powerful effect produced by certain inha-
lations.

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