The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-07 00:00:00

RAILWAY bHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, JULY 6.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—ThiS market partakes of the im-
provement which is generally manifest within the last few
days. It has a healthy tone, and the aemand is considerably,
better. The sales are—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Che-
shire Junction (late C. and 13.), 221. Shares, 84 dis.—
Eastern Counties, 14,7—Edinburgli and Glasgow, 44—Ditto,
Halves, 3 dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 121/2 dis.—Ditto,
Fifths, 1 dis —Ditto, 10/. Preference, 6 per cent., 1,4 p.—
Ditto, Fifths (late West Riding Union), 31. 13s. 9d. dis.
—London and North-Western, 127—Ditto, New Quarters,
1 p.—llitto, Quarters (A and B), ley p.—Ditto, Thirds,
n. 6s. 3d. dis. Alidland Stock, 106—Ditto, New halves,
5 dis. ex int.—North Staffordshire, 214 dis.—South-
Eastern and Dover, No. 2, 10 dis.—Ditto, No. 4,2% c.
dis. ex int.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Pur-
chase), 1% p. ex int —Ditto, Extension, No. 2,1% c. p.
MANCHESTER, JULY 6.

STOCK EXCHANOK.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 31/. Shares, 7% dis.—
Eastern Counties, Preference, 5,4 p.—Lancashire and York-
shire, Fifths. 1 cis —Ditto (West Riding Union), 3 11-16
dis.— Ditto, Preference, Ai p.—London and North-Western,
M. and B. Quarters (A and B), 2 1-16 p.—Ditto, Quarters
(C), 27,8 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire,
Eighths, 5 c. dis.—Ditto, Preference, 10 tit —North Stafford-
shire, 2% dis.—South- Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 2 11-16 die.
BIRMINGHAM, JULY 6.

STOCK ExcluNGE.—The sales are— Ambergate, Notting-
ham, and Boston, 274 dis.—North Staffordshire, 465. 3d.
dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 4% dis. ex int.—
Ditto (13), 3 dis. ex int.—Shropshire Union, 565. 3d. ex int.

MR. WEBSTEIt'S BENEFIT.—TO• morrow night is
fixed for the benefit of Mr. Webster, the English ma-
nager of the English Haymarket Theatre, and it will be
the last night but one of the season at this, the only
theatre lett us devoted exclusively to the representation
of the British drama. No man has laboured more assi-
duously than has Mr. Webster, through good and
through evil fortune, to maintain and uphold that dra-
matic supremacy which was achieved for us by
Shakspere, and which has been sacrificed to show,
and sound, and gewgaw, by those „.‘ penny wise
and pound foolish" managers who, impudently as-
suming that the English public had no dramatic
taste turned the stage of our patent theatres into show
booths, or something worse, and then wondered that
they were ruined. Not so Mr. Webster. Be has
always set his face against the substitution of show for
poetry, and while every actor of talent and reputation
has ever found a home at the Haymarket, it has always
been as one of the company. Mr. Webster has always
set his face against the star system which has been the
ruin of the drama. " The play 's the thing" to which
he has always attended, and to which alone every true
artist, 'whether, manager or actor should attend. His
exertions in support of the dramatists have been un-
tiring. Not to mention his liberal offer of a
prize of tool. fur the best five set Comedy, let us run
over the names of some of the plays which he has added
to our stock list during the time he has had the manage-
ment of the Haymarket. Of playa "which are not of a
day but for all time" which Mr. Webster has produced, we
may mention the Lore Chase, Money, Time works
Wonders, while be has produced in addition other of the
works of Knowles, of Bulwer, of Jerrold, besides
works by Lovell, Bell, Tallourd, and a host of
other writers nut unknown to fame. Mr. Web-
ster has done more for the suaport of the
British drama than any other tlr-ee men now
living. Behoves it all who love, who admire, who ap-
preciate that drama, to rally round the man, but for
whose exertions there would not have been in London
at this moment a theatre devoted exclusively to its re-
presentatkn. The attendance at the Haymarket to-
morrow night will show the real strength of the up-
holders of the legitimate drama in the metropolis.