The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-20 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL: APRIL 19.

STOCK EXCHANGE.— The market has been firm to-day
at the quotations. The transactions were as follow :—Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, Consol., 34—Caledonian, 71,i —London
and North-Western, 1021/2—Ditto, New Quarters, l dis.
—Midland, Halves, 271. Bs. dis.—Reading, Guildford,
and Reigate, 14% •- Waterford and Limerick, 40%.
MANCHESTER, APRIL 19.

STOCK EXCHANCIR.—Business on our Stock Excbange
was dull to•day, and prices had a tendency downwards.
The transactions were as follow :—East Lancashire, 6%—
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Preference, 6 per cent. 1 1 34—
London and North-Western, 102—Ditto, New Quarters, 13/4
dis.—Ditto, Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (C),
p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference,
—Ditto, Grim,by (201. Shares), 214—Ditto, Sheffield and
Lincolns Lie, 2%.
BIRMINGHAM, APAIL 19.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—AII descriptions of railway stock were
better to-day, foralt hough the arrangement between the Lon-
don and North• Western and North Staffordshire Companies
has somewhat depyeciated the former, it has decidedly im-
proved the stock of the latter. Ultimately, however, there
is little doubt entertained but the settleMent of the litiga-
tion, which has been so long in progress, will be mutually
advantageous to the companies. Midlands were done to-day
several times over at 33, and North Staffordshires at 10 3-16
and 10% dis.

YORK, APRIL 18.
Srocx EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as fol.
low :—North British, (guaranteed 6 per cent. for five years,
and 5 per cent. in perpetuity), 434 —London, Brighton, and
South Coast, 77—York and North Midland, 144.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Mr. Cope, the governor of Newgate, attended be-
fore the Lord Mayor with John James Bezer, who
was, at the session of the Central Criminal Court held
in August, 1848, convicted of sedition and sentenced
to pay a fine of 101., to be imprisoned in the gaol of
Newgate two years, and to enter into recognizances
in the sum of 1001., with two sureties in the sum of
50/. each, to keep the peace and be of good behaviour
towards all her Majesty's liege subjects for five years
then next ensuing, and to be further imprisoned until
such fine be paid and such recognizances entered into.
Bezer, it will be recollected, was one of several
who had addressed a number of persons in the theatre
in Milton-street, in which, about the period stated in
the commitment, it was the practise of the disaffected
to assemble and discuss political questions most mis-
chievously.
Mr. Cope, at the same time that he exhibited the
original order of the court, signed by Mr. Clarke, the
clerk of the peace, containing the statement of the of-
fence and its penalty, produced the queen's original
pardon, " Granted in consideration of some circum-
stances humbly represented to her Majesty, and upon
condition of his finding securities fur his good beha-
viour as required by his sentence."
Bezer then brought for ward two sureties, whom
Mr. Goodman, the chief clerk to the Lord Mayor,
examined, and his Lordship accepted as bail, and the
original order of the court and the pardon were re-
turned to the governor.
Bezer was then discharged from custody.
Charles Lawrence, a private in the 30th Regiment,
was brought up in the custody of Batchelor, 441,
charged with having drawn his bayonet upon some
persons in King William-street.
The policeman, when upon duty at twenty minutes
to nine o'clock on Thursday night, saw a mob, con-
sisting of from 200 to 300 people, in King William-
street, near Abchurch-lane, and amongst them the
prisoner with his bayonet drawn, flourishing it over
his head, and attempting to stab the bystanders. The
soldier was very drunk, and the policeman gut behind
him, and, watching for a proper opportunity, seized
him and wrested the weapon from his hand. The
soldier endeavoured, on the way to the station-house,
to escape from custody, and kicked at and struggled
with the policeman and two or three others of the
force, who assisted in tugging him along. The regi-
ment had marched out of town without knowing
anything about the prisoner, who will, of course, be
returned as a deserter.

The LORD MAYOR—What have you to say to this,
prisoner ? The soldier—l do not remember any-
thing about it, my Lord, I was so drunk. I had
been out to see my brother, and I must have been
greatly provoked before I drew my bayonet.
Some observations having been made upon the fact,
that notwithstanding the orda issued years ago_
that soldiers should not wear side-arms---they were
sometimes to be seen in the streets, not only with
bayonets by their sides, but in their hands, it was
stated to his Lordship that the prisoner had been bil-
letted in Surrey, and that it was only. when they were
in barracks that the prohibition was in force.
The prisoner was sentenced to imprisonment in
Bridewell for one month.
A gentleman, named Budd, of Castlebaynard
Ward, handed to the Lord Mayor a purse, contain-
ing money, which he had found near the Bank, be-
tween one and two o'clock on Thursday, and sug-
gested that if it should not be owned his Lordship
would apply the contents to the poor-box.