The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-05 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL, MARcx 4.

Srocx EXCHABOX.—The share market opened firm this
morning, and with a good demand for the heavier shares,
and continued so until midday, when prices declined a little,
and closed_ quietly at the quotations.. The transactions were
as' :follow : • Aberdeen, 15%—ikrkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire, 7 1-16 dis.—Ditto (late C. and B.). 22—Ditto, 221.
Shares, 4 dis. Bolton, Clitheroe, and West ',Yorkshire
(No. 1), 63/4—Chester and 'Holyhead, 23—East Lancashire,
1614—Edinburgh and Glasgow. 35%—Great Northern, 19
—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 59%—Ditto, Fifths, 7 dis.—
Ditto (West Riding Union), 5% dis.—Lancaster and_Car-
lisle Thirds, 9 p.—Leeds and Thirsk, 16'4 —Liverpool,
Crosby,
and Southport, % p.—London and North-Western
132 4 —Ditto, New Quarters, 61,4 p.—Ditto, Fifths, 64, p.—
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 353/4—Ditto, Prefer-
ence, 11 15-16—Midland, 65—Ditto, Halves, 13% dis.—
North British, 9LA —North Staffordshire, 5% dis.—North-
Western, 113/4 dis.—St. Helen's (Railway and Canal), 48
Shrewsbury and 'Birmingam (B), 53/4—South-Eastern and
Dover, 271 A—South Staffordshire, 2% dis.—York, New-
castle, and Berwick, 22k—York and North Midland, 2614—
Ditto, Preference, 1 dis.
MANCHESTER, MARCH 4.
STOCK EXCHAAGR.—There has been a good business done
to-day, and prices were firm. The transactions were as
follow :—East Lancashire, 15%—Ditto, Preference, 5-16 p.
—Leeds, Fifth, 7 dis—London and North-Western, 13214—
Ditto, New Quarters, 69 p.—Ditto (C), Quarters, 3 3.16 p.
—Sheffield, 3644—Ditto, Preference, 12 1-16—Ditto (No. 1),
141/2—Ditto New 61. Preference, % p.—Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 35%—North Staffordshire, 6 1-16 dis.—South-
Eastern and Dover. 2714—West Riding. 514 dis.—Cheshire
Junction, 744 dis.—Leeds Stock, 593(,—Clitheroe (A), 614—
Great Northern, 18 15-16 East Anglian, 7 per cent., %
Eastern Counties, 7 3-16—Matlock, 3% dis.
BIRMINGHAM, MARCH 4.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market waevery active
to-day, with prices tending upwards. The transactions were
as follow :—London and North-Western, Fifths, 6% p.—
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 43/4 dis.—Ditto (13), 33/4
dis.—Midland (Birmingham and Derby), 36%.
YORK, MARCH 3.
STOCK EXCHANGI. —The only transaction to-day was—
Great Northern, Preference, 13%.

SHIP NEWS.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
" Malta, Feb. 15, 1851.

,
Sir,—This Government, at the request of the Cham-
ber of Commerce, has caused a mark to be fixed, at a
depth of four fathoms, upon the spit of a rock on the
west side of the Quarantine Harbour, opposite Fort
Tigne, stretching to the eastward, as a guide to vessels
entering the Quarantine Harbour from the westward,
which should pass outside thereof.
" The mark is a wooden buoy, painted black, show-
ing seven feet above water.
(Signed) " Agents to Lloyd's.
" Captain G. A. Halstead, R.N.,
Secretary, Lloyd's.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

Oceanide, Stettin to Valparaiso, February 11, lat. 42 N.,

long. 17 W.
Utility, of Newcastle, January 11, lat. 89 N., long. 6 E.
Maid of Erin schooner, outward bound, Feb. 9.
Anronato Bremen brig, outward bound, Feb. 24, lat. 48

N., long. 8 W.
Isis, of litv,rpool, lat. 40 N., long. 10 W.
Croostadt, February 24, lat. 50 N., long. 11 W.
Marion ship, outward bound, February 24, lat. 50 N.,

long. 9 W.
Carl brig, of Hamburgh, Rotterdam to St. Thomas's,
February 20, le. 49 N., long. 6.
Charlotte, of Guernsey, Cagliari to Rio Janeiro, February

8, in the Gut of Gibraltar.
Parthian, standing for the W.S.W., February 24, lat. 48
N., long. 7 W.
Lady Bute, from London, February 20, lat. 44, long. 11;
Mary Somerville, Liverpool to Calcutta, same day.

SEABORNE MAILS,
[N signifies that the mails are sent from the General. Poet-office
by the night—and M by the morning—dispatch.]