The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-26 00:00:00

BIRTHS IN IHE WEEK.

Males ••• ••• ••• ••• 702
Females ... ••• ••• ••• ••• 672

Total ... ... 1,374
*ln this number are included 30 by Scarlatina, 38
by Typhus Fever, 56 by Diarrhoea, and 2 by Cholera.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH.

Yesterday Mr. IL Wakley held an inquest at the
Robinson CruioP, Earl-street, Lisson•grove, on view
of the body of Eleanor Drane, aged 57, a married
woman, who was found dead.

Mary White, the wife of a stonemason, living at
48, Devonshire-street, stated that deceased, whose
husband was a carpenter and undertaker, separated
from her, and allowed her a certain :um per week,
occupied the front kitchen, and lived alone. About
half-past seven o'clock on Monday morning witness
had occasion to go down the kitchen stairs, when she
taw &co Ised's room door open, and deceased lying
on her beck on the floor, her bonnet and shawl on,
her bands by her side, and her clothes above her
knees. Thinking her asleep she shook her, but touch-
ing her face, and finding it to be quite cold, she raised
an alarm, when a surgeon was sent for, who pro-
nounced her to have been dead some time. Any one
might have access to the house at all hours, there
being no fastening to the street door, which was con-
sequently always open.
M-s. Mary Neale, a lodger in the parlour, de-
posed to deceased having her to retire to bed
at ten o'clock on Sunday night, when she was in good
health and spirits. On seeing her after being dis-
covered as stated by the last witness, in the morning,
she saw that she had a cut over the left eye.
Ann Butler, another lodger, stated that between
ten and eleven o'clock on Sunday night she heard the
footsteps of a man descend the kitchen-stairs, and
then a scuffle, and having heard the footsteps after-
wards twice up and down the same stairs, all was
quiet.

Mr. Gardner, surgeon, Church-street, Portman-
market, said that on being called to attend deceased
he found her to have been dead seven or eight hours.
She was lying as a person would be laid out after
death. Tnere was an abrasion over the left eye,
which might have been inflicted by a blow or fall.
On opening the body there was great congestion of
the brain, and extravasation of blood immediately
above the injury to the eye.
The husband of the deceased, who was present,
said he thought his wife had met her death by foul
means.

The jury observed that it was a doubtful and mys-
terious care, and returned an open verdict, " That
&ceased died of congestion of the brain, but how
such congestion was caused there was no evidence
to show."

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, Szrr. 25.
STOCK EXCHANGH.—The share market was firm to-day,
and more business doing. The transactions were as follow :
Great Western, 72- Ditto, 171. New Shares, 7 dis.—Cale-
doni.ai, BX4 —Ditto, Prefe:ence, 51,4—South Devon, B,t.
LI VERPOOL, SEPT. 25.

STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The shun market was dull to-day
at the quotations. The transactions were as follow :
Llncashire and Yorkshire, Consolidated, 47 —Ditto, Fifths,
81g dis.—Ditto, 32/. Shares, 8 dis.—Ditto (\Vest Riding
Union), 6;74 dis.—London and North-Western, 1141/s—Ditto,
New Quarters, 2 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire,
171/o—Midland, 41—Ditto, Halves, 225/4 die. North Staf-
fordshire, 10,41 dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B),
—South-Eastern and Dover, 204,—Ditto, Coasol. (No. 3),
20 - Ditto, (No. 4), Registered, 6 11-16--York, Newcastle,
and Berwick (G. N. E.), 6 per cent. till 1850, 4 7.16 dis.
—York and North Alidland, 1134 —Calelonian, 84—East
Lancashire, 101 A—Leeds and Tliirsk, 11.
MANCHESTER, SEPT. 25. •

Siocx E xcrfAxGx.—The market was pretty active to-day
and prices were firm. The transactions were as follow:
East Lancashire, 10,,t - Great Northern, 124‘, dia.—Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, 48--•Jitto Fifths, 8 c. die.—Ditto,
Preference, 6 per cent., 124,—Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, Preference, 84—South-Eastern and Dover,
Consol. (No. 3), 19 15-16—Ditto (No. 4), 6%—Bolton,
Blackburn, Clitheroe, and West Yorkshire (No. 1), 4.