The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-15 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

BRISTOL, AUG. 14.
&max EXCHANGE. —The market showed a better ap-
pearance to-day, and a larger amount of business was done.
Great Westerns closed at 59th—Midland, 33%.
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was a fair business done to-
day, and prices were firm. The transactions were as fol-
low :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Consolidated, 3 3/4—Ditto,
Fifths, 9% dis.—London and North-Western, 11114—Ditto,
New:Quarters, 11-16 p.—Ditto, Fifths, 14 p.—Ditto Quar-
ters (C), 1 1-16 p.—Midland, 3334 —Ditto, Halves, 24 9-16
dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 14 LA .
MANCHESTER, Aua. 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market to-day was
pretty active, and prices have been well sustained. The
transactions were as follow:—East Lancashire, BE/B—London
and North-Western, 11.1%—Ditto, New Quarters, 15-16 p.—
Ditto, Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (C), 11/8 p.—
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference, 734—
North Staffordshire, 11 3-16 dis.—South-Eastem and Dover,
Consolidated Stock (YORK, 1443.
, AUG. 13.
STOCIC EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as
follow :—North British, Preference (guaranteed 6 per cent.
for five years, and 5 per cent. in perpetuity), 43/4 —York,
Newcastle, and Berwick, 14%—York and North Midland,

THE METROPOLITAN INTERMENTS ACT.—This Act,
under which Dr. Southwood Smith has been appointed an
additional paid member of the Board of Health, will be
speedily enforced in " the metropolitan burial district," which
comprises the city of London, Westminster, Southwark, and
numerous parishes set forth in one of the schedules annexed.
There are seventy-seven sections in the Act, which Act is to
be executed by the Board of Health. The Board may pro-
vide new burial-grounds, and her Majesty, on a report of the
Board, in Council, may order the discontinuance of inter-
ments in churchyards and other places. Regarding the re-
moval of poor persons to reception-houses to be provided, it
is enacted by the 30th section that the Board may, at any
time after the passing of the Act, appoint medical or other
officers, who, in the case of deaths.within the district, may,
" where the persons having the direction of the funeral of
the deceased so desire, cause the body to be decently re-
moved to one of the houses for the reception of the dead.
Among the provisions is one under which the Board of
Health may " contract" for funerals at fixed charges, so that
there are likely to be " three classes" of funerals, according
to the means of the parties. The salary of the additional
member of the Board of Health is not to exceed 1,2001. a
year. The short title of the statute is, " The Metropolitan
Interments Act, 1850."
DREADFUL EXPLOSION OF GAS AT BIRKENHEAD.
—We regret to state that a serious accident took place this
morninghead at the Conway Arms Hotel, Conway-street, Birken-
head.
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puttingh l ,
wh . It appears that about seven o'clock Mr. Higgins,
riwenstatiidmoter into the slide of the chandelier, the gas being on
the premises, went into the roogmaanody'swtruockmaelmi phrweidthona
match, when a fearful explosion immediately tookg place, by
hands, and other parts of his body. burned about his face,
the furniture in the room was
which Mr. Higgins was se.
The datuage'done to
burned off the chairs, the painvtryg great, the cushions being
scorched, and the orna-
ments generally rendered valveless.ns
Higgins
es The window was blown
completely out. Mr.
red.—Liverpool Courier of
in a very precarious
state; the boy was very little inju
Wednesday.

by the
THE RIGHT REV. DR. VV7sEm
Surrey,was held at the Thatched-house nst. a private meeting of the Roman AN.—On the 13th
Earl of Arundel and
Catholic laity of the
ouse Tavern, when an ad-
London district, convened
dress of congratulation to theßightc Rev. Dr. Wiseman on
his intended elevation to the rank t
and was numerously signed. A resolution
for raising by subscription the sum which Cardinal was agreed to
for his Lordship's elevation, and a considerablewill be necessary
was also passed
Bishopssubscribed
Wareing, at t heNakerthe eve
held a levee at his episcopal residence in meeting.
Morris , andlnhis Lordship
(whose Golden-square.
. amount was
Mount Lebanon), the Earl of Fingall,the
see is near
Richard Lalor Shell, M.P., Mr. Richard M. eßßeight Hon.
Mr. Clarkson Stanfield, R.A. Mr. C. P. Cooper, Bellew,
M.P.,
very numerous body of the Roman Catholicand
a
clergy
and laity
attended. The Earl of Arundel and Surrey was absent liy
account of illness • and in the course of the eveningn
Thomas Barnewall (the chairman), accompanied by a -Mr.
nume-
rous deputation, presented the address to Dr
. Wiseman, to
which his Lordship, who was deeply affected, made a
eloquent reply. His Lordship will forthwith proceed to Romeery
to attend the Consistory, which we are informed Is ' likely to
be held about the luth of September.
ROBBERY AT THE CLAREI(CE HOTEL, BRIGHTON.
—Among other alleged " swell mob " robberies during the
race week at Brighton the folldwing is reported by the
Brighton Guardian :—Shortly before seven o'clock on Thurs-
day morning, a man, described as of " about the middle
height, rather stout, with light hair and complexion, and in-
clined to baldness," entered the Clarence Hotel. He was of
gentlemanly exterior, wore a loose browat, and carried
an umbrella. Without accosting " Bootsn ," cowho stood in the
hall, he walked leisurely up stairs, with the air of a person
accustomed to take his ease in his own inn, and so disap-
peared. Soon after a maid servant in one of the upper rooms
was startled by seeing her door open and a head thrust in.
She turned round, the head was withdrawn, and she con-
cluded that some one had mistaken that room for another.
Presently Mrs Bull, the landlady, was suddenly awoke by
hearing footsteps in her chamber, and she just caught the
glimpse of a man stealing out on tip-toe. She came to the
same conclusion as the servant; but Mr. Bull, whom she
awoke, on jumping out of bed took a rapid survey of the
room, and instantly detected that the gold watches of him-
self and wife, together with a gold chain, had disappeared
from their dressing table. He instantly rang the bell for the
servant, but before that could be answered the visitor had
been seen to descend into the hall again, to open his um-
brella, a..d walk coolly down the street, in spite of the rain.
Some other trinkets which lay with the watches were left
untouched.
Jenny Mild arrived on Sunday evening at Mar-
gate, from Ostend, by the Princess Mary, Capt. Jenkins,
one of the South-Eastern boats. She was assisted from the
vessel by Mr. Charles Page, the Custom-house agent, and
escorted from the pier to a carriage in waiting, of Mr.
Thomas Batt's, a respectable inhabitant of the town. Her
first expression on landing was " God bless happy England
once again." ,
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WEST RIDING UNION RAILWAY.—The remaining
ortion, of this line, placing Halifax on the high road between
Pr/WA/rcl ancl illancheater, by/ just been opened (9, traffic.
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