The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-12 00:00:00

SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.

Gross traffic receipts for passengers
and goods, week ending Aug. 9,
1851 ... ... £20,877 011
Ditto, Aug. 10, 1850 ... ... 16,694 0 5

Increase in 1851 ... £4,183 0 6
London Terminus, Aug. 11, 1851.

IMMIGRANTS AND LIBERATED AFRICANS.--Yester-
day was printed a Parliamentary paper showing the number
of immigrants and liberated Africans admitted into the West
Indian colonies and the Mauritius during the years 1849,
1850, and 1851. In the three years the total to the West
Indies numbered 12,515, and to the Mauritius 18,600. Some
were landed at Jamaica direct from a captured slaver.
GLASGOW, AUG. 9. —COTTON.—Our transactions
have been comparatively large this week, as prices are now
considered to have reached that point at which spinners can
safely hold a more extensive stock than they have hitherto
been justified in doing. Middling Orleans is gaoled to-day
from 4.1. to 434 d. per lb., which is a fall of no less than
2 L,99 d. since the Ist of April last. Yarns from 40's to 60's
weft, suitable for shipment, have fallen in much the same
proportion. The market this week has been dull and in
favour of the buyer. Fine yarns for muslins are in fair de-
prices. Goods are taken off ,
mend at firm and
prices much the same. Pig Iron.—Pig iron has been dull
of sale for the past week, but prices have not given way
much ; mixed numbers may now be quoted 3,*.z.5. fid., cash,
the demand having much of a retail character.
SUICIDE AT WALWORTM—Yesterday a desperate
act of suicide was committed by a man named John Brown,
a cabinet-maker, residing in Bedford-street, 1V alworth. It
appears that the deceased had been out of work for many
weeks, and latterly had exhibited symptoms of insanity.
Deceased was seen on Sunday walking about the garden at
the rear of the dwelling-house, and at an early hour yester-
day morning was missing, when the landlady became
alarmed, and called in Police-constable 181 I', who forced
the door of the room, and discovered the deceased lying on
his face in a pool of blood, with his head nearly severed from
his body. A razor was firmly clenched in the right hand,
and life appeared to be quite extinct.
WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER OF SHEEP.-011 Satur-
day afternoon last a shepherd was driving a flock of sheep
belonging to a farmer at Steventon from one field to another,
between Oenchworth-bridge and Farringdon-road station,
where he had occasion to cross the Great Western Railway.
He had driven the sheep through the gateway on to the
line, but had not taken the precaution to open the gate on
the other side to let the sheep pass through ; and the con-
sequence was that a train coming up at the time ran into
the flock, and killed no less than 47 sheep as well as the
ttepheal d9g,..Oxfotd Journal,

Railways. I Paid. Nominal Prices. Business doze
to-day.
--- 1---- --.----
Aberdeen .. .. • . all 1 % die dia.
Caledonian 101. .. .. 10 7 —7% 7Y
Chester and Holyhead .. all 14% 15% 15
Dund. Per. & Aber. June, all 3 X die.
East Anglian (31. 10s.)
6 per cent. .. • • • • all 1
Ti 23i
Eastern Counties Exton.,
5 per cent. No. 1 • • all par —X P X pm
Do. No. 2 • • • • • • all % ale par
10% 10%
Do• New 6p. cent. Stock 10
Eastern Union, Scrip
all 11% 12%
guaran. 6 per cent. • •
Do. 101. Deben. Shares . all •• —..
East Lancashire, 6 per
cent. quarter shares .. all •• —..
E. &W. York. June. sths all • • —..
Edin. Per. & Dun. 5# p. et. all % dla• par
°Otlas. SSV
p. roc
no
tl
.. 1021 iis
ii%
13%
Greatl.igoowSr toh&uetrhni: & Western
(Ireland) eighths .. • • 5 1 —l% p.
Lancashire and York-
shire, F. 201. .. • • .. 6 .. ....
..
du.
Do. 6 per ct. Stock .. 100 .. —.. 131%
Leeds and Thirsk, 6 par
cent., No. 1.. • • .. 11 .. ... .. p
Do. quarters, 1848 .. 9 .. .. p
London, Brighton, and
South Coast guar. 5 per
et., late Creydan thirds 100 .. .. .•
Do. pref., 5 p et. Stock,
1851, from 50/. chars. E 100 . —..
Do. new guar., 6 per ct. 100 : —..
London &S.-W., new .. 5 2% —27 i
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen, half shares .. 10 •• ..-• ••
Manch., Sheffield, and
Line., Guar. shrs.,No. 1 all 11% 12%
Do. new, 101. ~ ~ all 11 —l2
Do„ 6L .. .. .. . a 3i %
% P
Midland Con. 6p. C. ~toeli 100 • • —• •
Do. Consul, Bristol &
N Do
rof.
oaßriEstiotlens&
toGnlouce3.:
a4uB • • —• '
Birniing., 6 per cent... 100 128 130
% - 16
Do. guar. 5% per cent. all
Do. Wavency Valley 2 4. --- '
North British .. 5 43( 5
Oa Wor. &P., 01. 151.6 p.c 4 34 I P
Shrewsbury and Birm.
New Guaranteed 10% 10%
' Shrews. and Ches. (Nor. 14% I,BIZ
W. MM.) 8 per cent. .11 -•
South Devon • • • • • • all 13% 14%
434 n
np3; , c 5
tl
:
South-Eastern,
Waterford
n,
rnKi,a
West London,lst Cl. (101.) 101 ....
..-:
..
Do. 2d Class de. (Par) all —..
York, Newe., and Berwa
Gt. N.of E. Pur. • • all 16 16%
54 %
Do.
York and North Midland
11. and S. Purch. .. 10 1% —l% die.
FOREIGN.
Boulogne and Amiens .. all 10% —ll 10%
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzon) .. all 17% 17%
Demerara • • • • • • all .. —• •
Dutch lthenish • • • . 8 4% —4% dia. xi XI
East Indian .. .. .. 16 2% —2% p. 18%
Do. do. do. .. 20 _
Great Indian Peninsula . • all 34 1 p.
Ditto ditto .. .. 3.74 37 —4% p.
Louvain ala Satnbre .. 7% • "
Luxembourg • • • • • . 8 1 1
34
Ditto • . .. .. .. 10 231 a —25 t
Madrid and Valentin .
Maria Antonia .. ... 1716s 8d 8 —lO
Ditto, New •• •• 734 3 . 4
Namur and Liege .. • • all "—6%
Northern of France .. 16 14% 14%
Orleans and Bordeaux .. 2 4% —4% dia.
Paris and Orleans • • • • all 84 —36
Paris and Rouen • • all 25 25%
Paris and Strasbourg .. 17 5% —5% 113, XI 11% x.i.
Rouen and Havre .• .., all 9% —97 i
Sambre and Meuse •• all 3% —3%
Tours and Nantes •• • • 16 9% 9 dia.
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Ilasselt :••• allj . .
West Flanders 1!. It 8% 2'=
2 i's