The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-30 00:00:00

►'LARCH 30, 1846.

THE RAILWAY SHARE MARKET.
TO THE EDITO& OF THE SUN.
Slit —I enclose a statement to you that I hope yon
will consider of sufficient importance for a place in your
journal, as it proves there is no cause but want of
confidence that keeps the Share market at the unnatural
and depressed state in which it is at present.
You have ready means to test its correctness, there-
fore I will not trouble you with my name and address.
A Statement, showing the Cost Price of all the Railways
Completed and Working, and that their Improved Value,
even at the depressed state of the Market, gives 70 per
cent. :

Amount paid up. Present Price.
£ 1. d. £ s. d.
Birmingham and Gloucester lOO 0 0 126 0 0
Ditto New l7 10 0 31 0 0
Bristol and Exeter

Ditto New...
... 5 0 0
Bristol and Gloucester

Eastern Counties
Ditto New 8 16 0
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Quarter Shares 1 10 0
_ -

Ditto New Quarter
Great North of England ..
Ditto New
• Ditto ditto ..a 0 0
Ditto ditto 1 10 0
Great Western B5 0 0
Ditto Half Shares 5O 0 0
Ditto Fifth Shares ... 20 0 0
Hall and Selb_y 5O 0 0
Ditto Quarter Shares .

Ditto One Half
7 0 0
London and Birmingham lOO 0 0
Ditto One Third
Ditto One Fourth 2 0 0
Ditto One Fifth
London and Blackwell l6 13 0
New
London and Brighton 5O 0 0
Ditto One Eighth
Ditto One Fifth.
London and Croydon
London and Greenwich
Ditto Preference
London and South Western 4l 10 0
Ditto One Eighth 2B 0 0
Ditto New
Ditto ditt 6
Manchester and Leeds B2 0 0
Ditto Half ditto
Ditto Quarter ditto 2 0 0
Ditto One Fifth ditto

Ditto One Tenth 6 5 0
Manchester and Birmingham 4O 0 0
Ditto Quarter Shares
Ditto B 2 0 0
Ditto C .
Midland
Ditto New lB 0 0
Birmingham and Derby lOO 0 0
Newcastle and Darlington
Ditto New 1 0 0
Ditto, New Branding ...
North British
Ditto Half Shares 6 0 0
Northern and Eastern....... ........ .•• 50 0 0
Ditto Scrip
Ditto Quarter Shares ......
Ditto New 1 0 0
Preston and Wyre 25 0 0
South-Eastern and Dover .... .....
Ditto New, 1.
Ditto 2.
Ditto 3.
Ditto 4.
Yarmouth and Norwich ... ...
York and North Midland
Quarter Shares 25 0 0
Scarborough branch
Ditto Selby

£1,863 8 3 £3,046 15
IRISH LINES.
Dublin and Drogheda 65 0 0 72 0
Ditto New
Dublin and Kingstown 100 0 0 206 0
Ditto Extension Half Shares
Ditto Quarter ditto
Ulster, Belfast, and Armagh

£217 10 0 £369 0 0
P.S.—The expense in constructing the earlier lines was
enormous, viz. :
Blackwall £300,000 per mile
Brighton ... 60,000
Crest Western ..
Birmingham
Railways are now constructed at from 10,0001. to 15,0001.
per mile.

PROTEST OF THE GREAT
LIVERPOOL.
The folowing is an extract of the protest made by the late
Capt. McLeod, of the Great Liverpool, before the Vice-Consul
of the district of Corcubion, on the 26th of Feb. last :
"I, Alexander M'Leod, Lieutenant in her Britannic
Majesty's royal navy, and commander of the contract mail
steam-ship Great Liverpool, do make known and hereby
protest, that at 4 o'clock on the morning of the 24th of Feb.,
1846, whilst on our homeward passage from Alexandria,
Malta, Gibraltar, towards Southampton, and being then
from 7 to 10 miles to the southward of Cape Finisterre, in
the province of Galicia, in the kingdom of Spain, that the
said ship did strike on a shoal, during thick, foggy, dark
weather, blowing strong from S.S.W., with a heavy sea run-
ning, steering at the time N.N.E., and thereby received so
much damage that the engines were soon stopped by the
water flowing into the engine-room; that she then drifted in
towards the land, and stranded in a small bay called Gure,
about a league and a half to the southward of Corcubion."