The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-02 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARES.

Versailles, R.B .••••• • • • • • • 525 •• 525 .. 520 .. 520
L.B•• •• •• •• •• •• 333 • 335 332 50 .. 332 50
Rouen •• .• .• •• •• •• •• •• •• ••1085 . 1085 ..1085 ..1085
Rouen to Bitare•• •• ..... •• 870 •• 880 .. 870 .. 880
Orleans 1215 ..1215 ..1195 ..1195
Strasburg to Bale• ...• 287 50 .• 287 50 .. 2so .. 280
Avignon to Marseilles•• •• ••1000 ••1003 .400) . 1005
Por.leaux to Teste •• •• • • 215 .. 215 .. 210 .. 210
Orleans to Vierzon

RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, MAY 3.
St. Germain •••• • • •• ••10.55 ..1057 50 —lO4O "1045
Versailles, R. 8... •••• • • • • 520 .. 525 .. 517 50 .. 517 50
L.B. •• •• •• •• •• 330 •. 332 50 •• 327 50 327 50
Rouen •••• • • • .......••• • • 1585 —1( 85 ..1070 —lO7O
Rouen to Havre .•••• •• 892 50 892 50 .. 867 50 .. 867 50
Orleans . •••• • • •......... 1225 ..1225 ..1190 n 95
Strasburg to Bale •• •• • • .... 287 50 .. 287 50 .. 280 .. 280
Avignon to MarseWes•• • ..• 1010 ..1010 ..1000 —lOO5

MORTALITY IN TILE METROPOLIS.—The number of
deaths during the week ending April 26, was 904, show-
ing a decrease of 24, as compared with the previous week,
and about 60 less than the average of live year=.
We arge glad to see that the fatality from diseases of the
lungs and other organs of respiration is now reduced to
about the average. Bronchitis and pneumonia are the
only exceptions. There were thirteen violent 'deaths
including lour suicides, one murder, and two from burns.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 10,000
bales, 5,000 of which were taken on speculation. Prices
-were very firm, and buyers had the market rather
against them. - Railway Shares were rather better,
and there was more doing at •the rates subjoined:-
Armagh and Portrush, 31. 2/. 18s. 9d. ; Barnsley Junction,
Half Shares, 1% : Birkenhead, Mancester, and Cheshire
Junction, 8% ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 135 ; Black-
burn, Darwen, and Bolton, 5L 18s. 9d. ; Belfast and Bally-
mena, 914 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 11% 1%; Cale-
donian, 12 11%; Ditto, Extension, 765. 3d. % ' • Cambridge
and Lincoln, 7% ; Chester and Birkenhead, Half Shares,
'23%; Chester and Holyhead, 16% ; Churnet Valley, 71/g ;
Clydesdale Junction, 8 ; Cork and Bandon, 8% ; Cork and
Killarney, 3% ; Cork and Waterford, 2% ; Dereham and
Norwich, ; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 12 11% ;
Dublin and Galway, 3% ; Dublin, Mullingar, and Athlone,
5 43A ; Dundalk and Enniskillen, 5A3 Bs. 9d. ; Eastern
Counties, 201 A; Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarter Shares, 16 ;
Ditto, New Quarters, 6% %; Edinburgh and Northern, 2%;
Glasgow and Dumfries, 295. ; Grand Junction, 227 ; Ditto,
Half Shares, 113% 114 ; Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 4414 ;
Ditto, Eighth Shares, 191. A ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield,
; Goole and Doncaster, 19s. ; Huddersfield Canal and
Railway, 8/. 183. 9d. ; Inverness and Perth, 16s. ; Jamaica
Junction, 4%; Lancaster and Preston, Quarter Shares, 9%;
Liverpool, Urtuskirk, and Preston, 58s. 6d. ; Loudon and
Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 32% ; Londonderry and En-
niskillen, 4% 3A ,• London and York, 5% Ils 6d. ; Direct
Northern, 2%; Leeds and Dewsbury, 10% % ; Leeds and
Thirsk, 6 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 7%.%; Lynn
and Dereham, ; Manchester and Buxton, 6% ; Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction, 8 73/4 ; Manchester
and Leeds, 137 ; Midland Railway, 158 159 ; Ditto, 40/.
Shares, 193/4 ; Ditto, Fifth Shares, 43% ; Newcastle and
Berwick, 14-%; Newry and Enniskillen, 54 ; North British,
Half Shares, 5; North Western, 4% lls. 3d.; Oxford, Wor-
cester, and Wolverhampton, 375. ; Sheffield and Manchester,
116 117 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 15 ; Sheffield and Lincoln,
335. 325. ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 514 ; South-
Eastern and Dover, New Shares, No. 2,9% %; Ditto, No. 3,
734 ; Scottish Central, 7%; Trent Valley, 1914 %; Trent
Valley Continuation, 2141 A ; Welsh Midland, 1% 2 ; West
Yorkshire, 7% 6 -,11; Wexford and Carlow, 5 %; Worcester
and Tring, 4a ; Austrian and Sardinian, 5 ; Bordeaux,
Toulouse, and Cette, 51s. ; Northern of France (Laffitte's),
57,8% ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux (English). 1114 ;
Paris and Lyons, English, (Laffitte's), 2% ; Paris and Lyons
(Ganneron's), 51s. 2%; Paris and Rouen, 42 ; Verona and
Ancona, 2% 465.
It appears that we are still threatened with a flood of fo
reign schemes, French, Dutch, Belgian, Spanish, Portu-
guese, and we know not how many others, although any re-
flecting man must see that the number of those already pro •
jetted, or even of those actually subscribed for, with the
view of accommodating districts of the United Kingdom really
' much in want of railway facilities, is beyond what the surplus
capital of the country is likely to be able
to meet. In fact there is not a shadow of necessity for a
single new foreign line being brought out here, and except
some of the French, such as Paris and Lyons, Bordeaux and
Toulouse, and Tours and Nantes, counting first-rate men in
their direction, and promising a very ample return, we are
glad to see that some of the lately published foreign schemes
show very weak Committees. They may be respectable,
but they are neither influential nor wealthy. The
English, Scotch, and Irish lines, on the contrary,
are most commanding in this respect. The first
landholders, merchants, and manufacturers are enrolled in
their behalf, and there is no risk of total forfeiture in the
event of a Continental war. Perhaps if the Scotch and Irish
lines had beeß brought forward sooner there would have been
less favour shown to these foreign mushrooms. Among the
recent Irish lines the Great Munster stands foremost, as ac-
commodating a very important district from Kerry to Queen's
County.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 30.-The sales
are :-Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarters, 61%; Man-
chester and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 10; Manchester,
Bury, and Rossendale, 17%; Barnsley Junction,4 1,43 ; Ditto,
Half Shares, 214 ; Belfast, Ballymena, and Carrickfergus,. 10;
Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 83/4 ; Blackburn,
Darwen, and Bolton, 6; Caledonian, 1214 %; Cambridge
and Lincoln, 8 1/4 ; Clitheroe Junction, 31/s prem. ; Direct
Northern, 3 234; Dublin, Mullingar, and Athlone, 4 ; Great
Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 614 % cum new; Hudders
field and Manchester Railway and ; anal,
Oxford, 84
se
teedrs
aa and d
Wolverhampton, d
Thirsk, 6 ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 13 ; Leeds and
16C
West Riding Junction, 7X; London and York, sys ;
Manchester and Buxton, 63/4 11-16; Newark and Sheffield,
5
reston and Wyre Extension, 1%
% prem. ;
Scottish Midland, 4% • Sheffield and Lincolnshire
Junction, 15A4.4 ; Southport and Euxton, 2%; Trent Valley,
18% 19%; Ditto Continuation and Holyhead Junction,
; Nerolfratm 7-
h Western, 41~
vs prem.; West Yorkshire, 7% 7 ; Great Northern of France
'English), 5%.

The British Museum closed on Wednesday afternoon
until Friday, the iiith instant.
MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR —During the whole of Wed-
nesday afternoon the inhabitants of Clare.market were thrown into
considerable excitement by the discovery of the following extraor-
dinary case :—lt appears that there has been residing for several
years past,
zin the house of Mr. Macey, the surveyor and builder, of
No. 6, Derain-street, incoln's.mn, a person of the name of Thos.
Parr, by trade a copperplate printer. About three years since,
his two daughters—the one Mary, aged thirty-six, and the
youngest Ann, aged thirty—left the union workhouse, whet e they
had been as paupers, and came to reside with their parent in a
small room adjoining his own apartment on the third floor. They
never permitted the father or any of the lodgers to enter their
room, and weeks have been known to elapse without their being
seen by any of the lodgers. For some days past the neighbours
have complained of a most dreadful stench apparently proceeding
from the room of these females. Upon interrogating the youngest
she denied all knowledge of the cause, at the same time positively
refusing to permit any person to enter her apartment. About
three o'clock yesterday afternoon, Mr. Baker, the summoning
officer, and a policeman, proceeded to the room, and upon burst-
ing open the door, were nearly driven back by the disgusting
nature of the effluvia that issued therefrom. Upon the bid they
discovered the youngest sister, Ann, asleep, and by her side the
body of Mary dressed, in a dreadful state of putrefaction, having
been dead between four and five weeks. No possible cause can
be assigned for the conduct of the surviving sister, farther than the
rumour that she has been subject to fits of insanity. The body
awaits the Coroner's inquiry.
LONDON HOSPITAL.—The one hundred and fifth
anniversary festival of this hospital celebrated on Wednesday
day by a public dinner at the London^ Tavern, to whichlabout 130
gentlemen sat down. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
was to have presided, but being unavoidably prevented from at-
tending, Mr. Cotton, the late governor of the Bank of England,
officiated in his absence, supported by the Bishop of St. David's,
0. Byng, Esq., M.P. Mr. Hanbury, Mr. Sheriff Sydney, G. F.
young, Esq., and many more of the patrons of the hospital. After
the usual loyal and patriotic toasts had been disposed of, the
Chairman proposed " Prosperity to the London Hospital," which
toast was received with considerable applause. The annual report
of the committee shows that during the past pear 3,691 in-patients,
and 14,497 out-patients, had been admitted into the hospital ; that
the receipts had amounted to 16,9531. Os. 10d., and that 15,3931.
had been expended, leaving a balance of 9601. Os. 10d. in the
treasurer's hands. The subscriptions during the evening amounted
to upwards of 1,2001. Some of them were as follow :—The Duke
of Cambridge, 201. ; %V. Cotton, Esq., 10/. ; G. Byng, &N..
104 108.; the Buxton family about 130 guineas; Robinson,
Esq , 101. lOs ; Carrington, Head, and Co., 311. 10s. ; 11. P.
Blythe,
routine toasts ware afterwards proposed, including the health'
Esq., 311. 10s. ; Sheriff Sydney, 51. 55., &c. &c. Other
of the Duke of Cambridge, of George Byng, Esq., and of the
Chairman. The singing arrangements were very efficiently
GUANO.—There managed by Mr. Francis, assisted by Messrs. Bailey and Brad.
bury, and Masters Stevens and Sullivan. The toasts were given
by Mr. Toole, jun., with an immense volume of voice, equal to his
father's.
A
of the past week, 29 vessels from Ichaboe, bringing 9,240 tons of
guano, and five tons of penguins. The sale* in the same perio
amounted N—There arrived at Liverpool, in the course
too
3,000 tons, so that there has been a considerable auz..
mentation of the stock in hand. Priee' have ranged
from 61.
55.
to 61 I ss. per ton; but this depreciation is probably attributable, in
part, to the fact that the guano recently arrived, and now arriving,
is not of so good a
quality as the previous importations.
CORONERS' INQUESTS.—The magistrates of Devon
in Quarter Sessions have agreed to a stringent rule
with reference to the holding of inquisitions. They
have decided that in no case shall the expenses be paid,
unless the finding of the
jury be returned in the
bills
presented by the Coroners for payment ; and that in
c•ises where the verdict is natural death, a strict exami-
nation shall take place into the circumstances which gave
rise to the inquest being held ; and it' they be such as
to excite no suspicion respecting the cause of death, the
expenses will be refused,— West Briton.