The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-04 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

Yesterday George Terry, a man of re;pectable appear-
ance, was brought before Mr. Hamunill, charged with
sending a letter to Miss Mary Franklin, containing
threats against her life.
The complainant handed a letter to the Magistrate,
which she said was written by the prisoner, and from
which she apprehended her life w,is in danger. It ran
thus:—

You threaten to complain to a magistrate. The
threat has no terrors for me. I again swear by Heaven,
that if I see you in the company of any other man I
shall sta►b you to the heart. Depend upon it that I shall
not depart from my words. You know that I love you,
and sooner than see you with any other one I should
prefer dying on the scaffold. You had better let me have
killed myself last night, and all would have been over
now, than have wrested tho knife out of my hand."
The complainant having declared, in confirmation of
the above letter, that she was in danger from the priso-
ner's jealousy, he was sent to prison in default of finding
sureties for his keeping the peace.

THE WOODS AND FORESTS AND

THE BIRKENHEAD DOCKS.
The Birkenhead Docks Bill, after having received the
unanimous sanction of the Select Committee of the
Commons, conveyed in a most marked manner by the
Chairman (Earl Jermyn), is said to be now threatened
with the veto of the Crown. The intimation of this
intention has create 1 considerable sensation. It is un-
derstood that Mr. Roebuck, who, during his recent visit
to Liverpool, has made himself familiar with the topo-
graphy of the left bank of the Mersey, has spontaneously
taken up the question on its merits, and intends to have
canvassed in the House the Crown's right to arrest a
vast undertaking of this nature, his notion being that
the reclamation of the foreshore and the ♦arious other
improvements are a vast public benefit, for which the
Woods and Forests, as guardians of the general welfare,
are largely indebted to the promoters of the Bill, and
should assist instead of resisting the objects of those
gentlemen. But though the Birkenhead trustees
are preparing for the menaced opposition, there
is surely ample guarantee against the exercise
of an odious prerogative in a matter of this
nature, and at a period like the present, in the
public spirit and manly good sense of Lord Sey-
mour, whose admirable reports as chairman of the Army
and Navy Expenditure Committee show a complete ex-
emption from the pedantry of red-tape routine, and a
discriminating appreciation of the fact that the true in-
terest and dignity of the Executive can never be antago-
nistic to the benefit of' the community. He is about the
last man who, on behalf of his department, would dis-
cover cause for alarm in the prospect of manufactures
springing up on Wallasey Pool, as one of the immediate
consequences of the emphatic decision of the Commons'
Committee; and his Lordship's character generally is a
warrant that, as far as he is concerned, there will be no
necessity for any such course as the Member for Sheffield
and various Members of both Houses would feel called
upon to adopt should there be any attempt to withhold
the Royal consent from the Birkenhead Bill, without
which those stupendous works, i❑ whose progress the
whole mercantile community are interested, and .on
which, and other workS connected with them, not less
than •two millions sterling have been expended, can ever
be complete3.--Liverpool Albion.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, MAY 3.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market is still very inanimate,
and prices lower. The business to-day was principally con-
fined to local stock.

LIVERPOOL, MAY 3.
STOCK EXCEIANGE.—The market has been dull to-day at
the quotations. The transactions were as follow :—London
and North-Western, 101 c.—Ditto, New Quarters, 2 Li, dis.—
East Lancashire, 65% c.—Great Western, 51% c.- Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, Consol., 34 c.—Ditto, Halves, 17
Ditto, Fifths, 10% dis.—Ditto, Fifths (West Riding Union),
91 Bs. 9d.—Laneast,,r and Preston, Quarters, 13 —Shrewsbury
and Birmingham, Preference, 9—Midland, Halves, 29 dis—
York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 6
per cent. till 1850, 6% dis. South-Eastern and Dover
(No. 4), Registered, 4%.
MAN CEIESTER, MAY 3.
STOCK EXCIL4.I4OE. - Our share market was dull to-day
and the amount of business done has been very limited
prices having a downward tendency. The transactions were
as follow :—Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 157 dis.—
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 3/Ph—Ditto, Fifths, 10 7-16 c.
dis.—Ditto (West Riding Union), 914 dis.—Midland, 501.
Shares, 277 u dis.—North Staffordshire, lOLA n. d.—Reading,
Guildford, and Reigate, 14Y3 c.
BIRMINGHAM, MAY 3.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—Businesi in this share market to-day
was eN.trentely quiet. The only transactions were—Shrews-
bury and Birmingham, Preference, Scrip, 9—Stour Valleys,
I'o4—Midlands, Six per Cents., 119—Shropshire Unions,
44) dia.

YORK, MAY 2.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as fol.
low :—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Newcastle Extension),
63/ —GreAt .Northern.. 57,,, —York and North Midland, 16s. 3d.
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CHLSTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—Traffc for
the Week ended April 28, 1850 :—C. and IL Main Line,
24,84/. 9s. 7d.; Mold, 1011. 10s. 7d. ; Steam-boats, 148/.
9s. 7d.---Total, 2,3341. 9s, Dd.