The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-21 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS

LIVERPOOL, MIT 211
STOCK ExcnArqoa.—The market has been dull to-day m
the quotations. The transactions were as follow :—London
and North-Western, New Quarters, 6s. 3d. dis.—Lancashire
and Yorkshire, Quarters, 16% dis.—Ditto, Fifths, 10 dis.—
Ditto, Halves (Huddersfield and Sheffield), 1734 Ditto,
Fifths (West Riding Union), 8'34 dia.—Midland, Halves, 28%
—North Union (A), 232%—York, Newcastle, and Berwick
(G. N. E. Purchase), 6 per cent. till 1850, c. dis.
MANCHESTER, MAX 20.
STOCK EXCIIAIIGE. Our share market was dull to-day,
but prices remain firm. The most remarkable feature is the
rise in the price of Lancashire and Yorkshire Fifths, from
some cause which is not known beyond Change. The
transactions were as follow:—London and North-Western,
New Quarters, 114. dis.—Ditto, Manchester and Birming-
ham, Quarters (C), 7-16 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-
colnshire, 1337L4—Lancmhire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 9 7-16
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, DIA dis.
BIRMINGHAM, MAY 20.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The amount of business transacted
to-day, partly owing to the Whitsun holidays, was small, but
prices were firm, and in some descriptions of railway stock
there was a decided improvement. The immense increase in
the traffic of the London and North-Western, as shown by
thelast published weekly returns, has produced a favourable
effect upon the shares of that company.
AF

,-. --------- - OtTNT Or UIIAIIITT AT OXFORD.----Th the Ca-
thedral Church of Christ, in Oxford, there is no font— the
alms dish, which ordinarily stands on the altar, being used for
the rite of baptism.—Builder.
:THE CAPX or GOOD Hopz.--We have received
files of papers from the Cape to the 20th March inclusive,
but they bring no news of interest.
A VETaaAN.—One of the most remarkable men
in the British army for his services is Win. Lyons, late ser-
geant 88th or Connaught Rangers, and now barrack-sergeant, at Mallow. The following is a summary of his military
life:—He entered the service in 'the year 1799. Served in
the East Indies. Was with the expedition to Egypt in 1804,
under the command of Sir David Beard, in the first British
regiment that ever travelled the long deserts of Egypt. Ac-
companied the Expedition to South America in 1807; and
the attack on Buenas Ayrei. Proceeded to Portugal in 1809,
:and thence to Spain and France. Fought in the whole of
the Peninsular campaigns under the Duke of Wellington.
,Proceeded to North America in 1814, and was at the attack
on Platsburg. Returned to England, and again proceeded to
Flanders in 1815 and France. Had the honour of being
ptions :—Egypt, Talavera,
pre-
sented with a silver Maltese cross, from the gallant old officers
Badly's, Salamanca,
of that brave corps, for twelve general engagements on the
,f_oollnoowri,ngßiondscerriigo,
• • Pyrenees,
Vittoria, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, and Toulouse. He
presented with the Peninsula medal, a
has been recentlt .
and is in and
13Puensaincszli4F,
12 clasps for his -distingu
wueinthtetshde
'shed conduct,
bein conferred on him for
Eectation of another honour
actionsg in which be was en_
e
Egypt. Besides the general
innumerable skirmishes. He wass n.
gaged, he ,fought in
was taken prisoner in Nort
d in South America, and
dven-
a great varietyofother
America, and encountered
tures.— Cork Examiner.

SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH BETWEEN DOVER AND
CALAIS.—This submarine communication, which was to have
been opened this month, will not now be completed and
opened until the end of June.

ATTEMPT TO BURN A CHURCH.--Late on Friday
night last, or early on Saturday morning, the parish church
of the little village of Ripple, near Deal, was broken into by
some person or persons, who endeavoured to set it on fire,.but
tailed, it is supposed, from the materials proving too damp to
render them ignitable.
ROOTS CHOKING DRAINS.—In a recent case, where
some poplar and larch trees stood about 16 to 18 feet from
.the line of a main drain, laid through a field, it was found
that in two years the drain had become choked with roots;
and it is believed that in many instances where drainage has
not produced those improvements in land which were anti-
cipated, and even where hedge-rows cross or'adjoin any Por-
tion of a main drain, the cause may be an obstruction of this
nature. In the case quoted, however, the preCaution of
placing vertical pikes at the junction of each of the parallel
drains with the main drain, aided greatly in -pointing oat the
cai
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