The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-10 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

Males
Females

... 746
... 784

BRISTOL, JULY 9.
STOCK Exciterms.—The share market was flat, holders of
stock being anxious for a rise, but purchasers were not in-
dined to advance over yesterday's rates.
LIVERPOOL, Jura- 9.
STOCK EKCHANON. The business to-day was again
limited, and prices exhibit a tendency to droop. The
transactions were as follow :—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire, 221. Shares, 7% dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 511,4
—London and North-Western, 123—Ditto, New Quarters,
3% p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 281 A2—
Midland, 45—Ditto, halves, 18% dis.—South-Eastern and
Dover, 22%—York wad North Midland, 18%.
MANCHESTER, JULY 9.
STOOK EXCHANGS. —The share market was a little more
steady to-day, but the business done has been limited, at
firm prices. The transactions were as follow :—Birkenhead,
Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 12 3-16 dis.—East Lan-
cashire, Quarters, 14 11-16—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 51%
—London and North-Western, Manchester and Birmingham,
Quarters (C), 2 3-16 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire, le/. Prefer ence, 11%—South-Eastern and Dover,
22 11-16.

THE EMBEZZLEMENT BY THE TUNBRIDGE WELLS
the CLER—The total of the defalcations arising from
ToWN
embezzlements of Benjamin Lewis, the town-clerk at
Tunbridge Wells, have at length been ascertained, and
amount to the enormous sum of -1,0001.; the chief sufferers
s and water companies to whom he acted as
are the Pi, Superintendent 11,1 t
air. er en, who holds the war-
collector.
apprehension, traced him to Godstone, where
remain at Tunbridge,
all clue was lost-
rant for his His family still
and it is believed that he has very little cash in his pos-
session.
yesterday at their offices, No
board of this society was held y
TITHE REDEMPTION TBIIST.—A meeting of the
M.P., in the chair. Numerous fresh
infor-
mationniated, and
wer
were
advice,gon gone
into, fr om somear i s hoefs
1, Lancaster-place, Waterloo-hridge;
casesl ordJ
requestingo h n lNIa ners.,
l where the tithes are a.e-
-
chiefly the energy of the incumbents themselveswhichseemed
theiratondreque
AN OLD PB.INTER.—A W. Scowell, a printer, 80
friends to apply tor aid to the trustees of clerical and other years of age—the oldest in the United States7commenced
corporations in whom the power over the alienated tithes of his apprenticeship of 7
their parishes is vested; others were cases in which seta- London, in 1784, 68 print.ing-office,
years ago. The Boston Mall says :--
present assistance from the trust might be obtained, did the "He was a soldier under Sir John Moore at Comma in 1809,
present state of th® society's funds admit of it immediately where he received a ball in his right arm.
undertaking any fresh cases. He was present
years in the King's
pressed that the parties who are
now
noweart hope was ex- at the burial of Sir John, and remembers the minutest par-
in an active part titulars of the scene. He was also with the Duke of Wel-
innn to the vast amount of lay and clerical tithes alienated by a
the matter of " Church extension" would takingdirect their at- lington through his whole campaign, and lost an ankle bone
from the Church as the most available and mast legitimatetypo, grape-shot in the battle of Waterloo. This veteran
after all his hard service, is one of the swiftest and
means of endowment for the new Churche
19 build. 3 they are proposing i best composition in 13o4on."—New York Journal of C°74-
moo!