The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-15 00:00:00

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We had a decided increase in the supply of each kind of
Meat on offer. Generally speaking the demand was heavy,
at our quotations. Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 8d ; Mutton, 3s 4d
to 4s 8d ; Lamb, 4s 8d to 5s 8d ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; and
Pork, 23 8d to 4s per 81bs.

GREAT EMBARII AS,3II.NT
AMONG ,SPECLTLATORS.

The totally unexpected am ilgsmation ef the Hud-
dersfield, Halifax. anti Bradford Union Haitway with the
Manchester and Leeds Railway Company has had the
most extraordinary and unhappy eff, ct on great numbers
of speculators in shares in Leeds and the neighb,mring
towns. Accordir:g to the fatil system which prevails so
extensively, of persons selling shares without possessing
them, on the speculation of being able to buy them a'
lower price before the time comes for their delivery, a
vast number of thr se shares had been sold in th, market,
no less, it is said, than eighty thousand. The number
of shares originally annouricA in the prospectus of this
railway was onlt. fifteen thousand, and the numb, r
which the committee have actuslly to allot. according ti
the agreement with the Manch( ster and Leeds, is only
seven thousand five hundred. As soon as the arrange-
ment with the latter Company was known, the shares
sprung up from 30s. to 10/., 12/., and even 15/., partly
wing to the real value of the shares as stock of the
Manchester and Leeds Company, and partly from the
rush into the market of those who had previously sold
hares, to obtain them for Celirery. The Como (pence
aas been the absolute inability of tho e who had pre-
viously sold Oil speculation to fulfil their bargains ; at d
this inability is all but univer.al both among brokers and
,heir clients. Under those extraordinary circumstances
the members of the Lee Is Stock Exchange met on
Thursday, and adopted the following resolutions
:
That no buyer of shares in any pr j(-eted railway
\ here the scrip was not ismed at the date of the c,n-
tract shall be alowed to buy in such shares again-t the
'eller: but that the members of the Exchange be required
:o do their utmost. to effect a
,i,st and amicable arrange-
nent with each other of any contracts for such shares in
which they have been engaged, and be bound to abide by
he decision of the Committee of management as to the
mode of such arranvement. That no dealings be here•
after permitted in shares of which the scrip is not issued,
with tia exception of such transactions as may be
.ntered into with the express view of promoting
the settlement of transactions now Open." It is
believed that it will be agreed to receive about 5/.
per share, instead of the mark, t price. In the L-eds
Association of Sharebrokers, we understand that it has
been det,:rmined to repudiate alt get her the bargains in
'his railway, on the alleged ground that the Committee
Itave not fulfilled the expectations held out in their pro-
pectus as to the number of shares to I e allotted to the
public. All bargains in shares where the scrip has not
been issued being illegal, payment cannot be enforced
by law ; but we need not say what the effect of the re-
pudiation must be on the parties. In at least one other
town of the West Riding the same state of things exists
As in Leeds. The Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford
Union not being thflught likely to succeed, the shares
were sold (or Geared, in the phrase of the speculators) to
-in immense extent ; and the consequenc,s are of the
-most disastrous character.—Leeds Mercury.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—DR. DE DASSEL, OF VAN
DIEMEN'S LAND, AND HOLLOWAY'S PlLLS.—Extract of a
letter from John Knight, Esq., dated " Launceston, Ist of
March, 1845.—Professor Hoiloway,—Dear Sir, I am autho-
rised by Dr. de Dasset, of this colony, to inform you that,
having witnessed here in several instances the extraordinary
effects of your pills,he in consequence is induced to say that you
may make use of his name as attesting their efficacy. Signed,
John Knight, Carr Villa, late proprietor of the Launceston
Advertiser." These pills sat upon the fmindation of the
system• thus curing the most deep-rooted complaints. even
when every other treatment has failed.—Sold at Professor
Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand ; and by all respectable
vendors of medicine throughout the civilised world.
The wheat harvest has commenced at several lo-
ealities in this neighbourhood, and the opinion is, as far as
can be ascertained, that there will be general deficiency. com-
pared with last year's crop, of full 25 per cent. We have
heard that a similar deficiency is apprehended in the Hundred
of Tendring, which is allowed to be a most productive dis-
trict. The barley crop is excellent; and if there should be a
fine harvest, the quality will be very good. The oat er,p is
palicularly good, but the bean and pea crops are defewive,
owing to an attack of that deadly enemy th . louse.— Ipswich
Express.

CRICKET.—The match between Sussex and Mery-
lebone ( with Pilch), which has excited en myth interest in
consequence of the extraordinary number of runs obtaine,l by
Sussex at the commencement of the game, wasresumed on Wed •
nesday morning at Box's grounds. Brighton, in the presence of
abdut 2,000 spectators. Marylebonu, it will be remembered,
hail been put in on the runs, Sussex having scored 26.5,
and Marylebone only 138 They continued playing till five
o'clock, when Marylebone had obtained 212 runs, making
heir total score 350, being 85 in advance of the first inni.igs
of Sussex. Against this number Su sex went in, and Sopp
and the two Nappers played together for about an hour and a
half, when they lost their wickets with 54 runs. Hammond
was sh, rtly afterwards caught by Roston ; four wickets down,
with 55 runs. The game was now becoming interesting, but
the stumps were struck at seven o'clock, leaving the game to
be finished to-morrow (this day), Sussex having obtained 59
nut of the 85 runs
ALARMING FIRE IN OXFORD-STREET.—Wedrv'SdaV
night, between the hours of eleven and twelve, a fire of rather
an alarming character broke out upon the premises belon7-
ing to Mr. James Nunn, hosier and silk-mercer, situate at
No. 217, Oxford-street, near Portman-street. It originated in
the front shop, a spacious compartmeut filled with costly
articles; and, owing to the combustible nature of the stock,
the flames very speedily obtained a firm hold. they hay
ing in less than fi-e minutes cooirnu,iicated to each side of the
shop. The origin of the fire is not precisely kt.own. The
building and its contents are insured in the Phcen,x Fire-office.
Al. 41,- Brannow, the Rus.ian
recently made some efforts to obtain a reduction of the duty on
Russian tallow; but Sir Robert Peel has intimated that it is
Mt kit) intention to rake any ellange..—Aforntng Chronicle.