The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-07 00:00:00

SH A RES

14
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) 1 284
Ditto, New Slams, lii paid ...
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 51) paid
Ditto Quarter Shares (12% paid) ........
Great North of England, 100 paid ......
Great Western (75 paid; .................
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid ..............».N.«.«.«..Fb"'"
Ditto Fifths, 12 paid
London and Birmingham (Stock)
Ditto, New '1 hiros, 2 paid .......... 44
London and Brighton (50 paid) 7,
Ditto Loan Notes, I 0 paid
London and Greenwich (12/. 15s. 4d. paid) ..... 50f
Diito, Preference or krivilege, .£ll3 1752 d paid ~E,*
Lendostand South Western (411.65. 10d. paid) "i4
Ditto Eighths (15s. paid)
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ..... by
Manchester and Birmingham 1064
Midland Counties (100 paid) ..... 59
Northern and Eastern (45 paid) ........ 504
South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) .....•••• )2%
Ditto New Shares, 4 paid .....
Yarmouth and Norwich (18 paid) ...........
York and Scarborough Branch (4. paid)
Paris and Orleans (20 paid)
Paris and Rouen, 20 paid .................

HER MAJESTY'S SIGNATURE TO THE COPOIS I
—Her Majesty signed the Commission for giving 6°,00'7.,
Assent to various Bills yesterday morning about eq;•
scarcely three hours before her accouchement I 3'
mission was dispatched by the Lord Chancellor toe Powooco,
jesty by a special messenger, who went by the Itillss reer
train from Paddington on Monday evening.. It,wr sig,De
tioned to the Queen that a Commission requiring
ptil At
ture had arrived, but that she need not sign it ;jog Ore
following morning. About five o'clock, however, feetb,t Pot
her accouchement was fast approaching, and with tbstber
sence of mind so characteristic of her recollectingtiog
important public document was in the Castle givitlitoht,lws,
signature, she immediately directed it to be bt? sig-0•
although not free from pain and anxiety,xiety,
affixedonfhe co 0
ture with the same freedom of 11., as usual, t 00,1
mission, and the sheets,Aesarchment upon which t glee° 0
of the Bills were inscritit7V As there were eccend to he
parchment, the signature of the Queen was require
often repeated. pa"' 011
FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE ST. KATIIABIIIf f fly
Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, a cry was raised°lo, in_ •
overboard," when it was discovered that a youn Ted, fro;d
act of pushing a craft, on iihich he was eloP'2botiselid
ship in the dock, within twenty yards of the doe". The uvo.4,
,
overbalanced himself, and fell into the water•
out
felle
were instantly put into requisition, and the poor
the P't 010
after the lapse of a few minutes delay, cause
the wAteijiy
crowded state of the dock, taken out of to n% speF.,lolo
removed into an apartment in the dock-b.17,0'41if
appropriated to the purpose. Owing tall idot.Sio
arrangements of the Company, in case of t
water °jlter'
kind occuring, the man was immersed in how the
„loco'
quarter of a minute after he was taken_ o.l_ usual re"_ser
Medical aid Was immediately sent for, and the fitting
tives were applied ; but, after the most u ~0 0.01,10
not in the ware
in
life was extinct. The man was
tions for nearly two hours, it was found to be
_owl ;wore
three minutes. : dray rli
The gin no r
TEETOTAL EXAGGERATION.—
amount
to ()
England and Wales annually aln sow
rter•
us Bee
rates three times oven—Cork South
20,000,000/. sterling, a sum which would pal