The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-02 00:00:00

WOOLLEN TRADE.

(Prom the Manchester Guardicin of this day.)
LEEDS, June I.—There was a very lively market last
Saturday in both the Cloth-halls. Heavy goods were in
active demand, in which, as well as in nearly all other
descriptions that are adapted for the approaching season,
a considerable business was done. There was also a
fair attendance of buyers in the market on Tuesday, and
the transactions were quite of an average character.
HIIDDZESFIELD, May 29.—The market continues to
wear much the same aspect as for some time back.
BRADFORD, Thursday.—Wool--There is still a very
meagre supply of combing wools, and the prices sought
in the country are too high for the rates current here.
Yarns—There is a disposition to demand higher rates.
Pieces—The present prices for cotton and worsted yarns
is such that old prices cannot any longer be submitted
to, and the manufacturers are seeking an advance.
HALIFAX, May 26.—We have more activity in the
market generally. Yarns are slightly enhanced in value,
and there seems a disposition to buoyancy in the wool
trade. The stock of fleece wool is very low yet, which
is enabling sellers to get rather higher rates for what
they have to offer, particularly in the superfine descrip-
tions of combing. Dawn ewes scarce and looking up.
All kinds of short wool very firm.

HAMBURG, MAY 3L—The Warsaw Official Gazette
mentions, among the killed, on the side of the Russians,
in the affair of the 22d of May, Major-General Alder-
berg, Commander of the 2d brigade of the 9th division
of infantry.
A letter received by a commercial house of Marseilles
announces that the Russian Government had purchased,
on different points of the Sea of Azoff, 500,000 chetwerts,
or 650,000 horse-loads of wheat for the supply of its
army. The possession of that sea by the Allied forces
will consequently deprive the Czar of those provisions,
the want of which will be the more severely -felt as the
crops in the Crimea are likely to prove this year a com-
plete failure.
The }lon. J. Stanley, of the Grenadier Guards, son of
Lord Stanley of Alderley, is about to proceed imme-
diately to the Crimea, to join the third battalion of his
regiment.

CRYSTAL PALACE, JUNE 1 (ONE SHILLING DAY).—
Admissions ore payment, 3,235; ditto, by season tickets
515; total visitors, 3,303.
A letter from Lorient states that the second floating
battery Foudroyante was to be launched in a few days.
The floating battery Lave will seen be ready to put to
sea; she is 51 yards in length and 15 in breadth; her
armament consists of 16 50-pounders, worked by elite
gunners ; she will Lo mounted by a crew of 200 men,
and carry besides 200 marines ; her screw propeller is of
220-hone power. The weight of these floating batteries,
when armed, will be about 1,400 tons—their iron sheet-
ing alone weip:its nearly 400 tons.
AN EXTRAOI tDINARY PERSON. —Last summer a pare-
eraph appear( d in this paper, noticing the an-
nual visit of Mr. John Watkin of Darlington, to
Newcastle, during the hottest part of the season,
when, although the old gentleman had attained his
85th year, he walked the whole distance, being 33
miles, in one day, and we saw him the next morning
quite fresh, sifter a good night's rest. This was a
feat which, perhaps, not one in ten thousand could
have accomplie:hed at the same advanced age. To-day,
however, we b.a,ve to record a still more extraordinary
piece of con duct in the same individual. An ad-
vertisement ft om Mr. Watkin is inserted in another
column, annei unclog to the creditors of his non, who
failed as a drat ier in Newcastle nineteen years ago, that
if they, or th( :ir representatives, will send in their ac-
ccunts, he will , on their being found correct, discharge
them in full !- -Newcastle Courant.
SUPPLY or SPIRITS TO THE NAVY.—A. Parliamen-
tary paper, pciblished yesterday, gives the contracts en-
tered into for the supply of the Royal navy with spirits
from Aug., 1053, to May, 1855. The description of
spirit was ram,, principally from the West Indies, vary-
ing in price fro in 2s. 04d. to 3s. 11d. per gallon. The
quantities contracted for this year have been as follows :
—in January, 67,307 gallons; in February, 113,311
gallons , • in IX. arch 95,066 gallons • in April, 115,527
-4 •
gallons ; and i n May, 134,232 gallons. It would have
been well if is t this return the grand totals of each
month and ye: r had been cast out by the persons ap-
pointed to con ipile it.
PUPIL TreeclHEßS.—Yesterday a return was made in
a Parliamentary paper relative to pupil teachers ap-
prenticed tirade r the minutes of the Council of Educa-
tion. From '1846, the first operation, to December
last, 12,274 ev ere apprenticed. On the 31st December
there were 7,.596 serving under apprenticeships. The
number who I .ad terminated their apprenticeship at the
end of last ye ar was 3,369. There are now in training
colleges 1,01"1. There are now engaged as assistant
teachers or in charge of schools, 1,439 ; and of 694 not
engaged, 33 lad emigrated, 515 in other occupations
than teaching, and 146 returned as unknown or unoc-
cupied (pri nci pally females married or living at home);
added to which 32 were seeking employment, 29 inva-
lided teachers, 47 dead, and 111 inquiries unanswered.
LEEDS CHAMBER or COMMERCE. THE BELGIAN
TARIFF.—•T6 e Earl of Clarendon has replied, through
Mr. Baines, M.P., to the memorial presented by the
Leeds Chamber of Commerce, on the subject of the dif-
ferential duties levied on British manufactured goods
imported lint o Belgium, and states that the attention of
Government is directed to the question. He informs the
chamber t hat a project of law for the alteration of the
tariff was submitted to the chamber by the late Belgian
ministry, be it was withdrawn by the present cabinet,
who have u nder their consideration the question of a
revision ofe the tariff, and that the British minister at
Brussels i s lasing his best efforts to obtain a remedy of
the grieva.nc!e of which the Leeds Chamber of Commerce
justly corm lain. The council of the Leeds Chamber of
Commerce have further steps in contemplation on this
question, ve Bich is of great importance to this district.
Tie' VIL SERVICE.—Audit Office : Mr. Henry
Glover, Ter inporary Clerk, has been appointed Assistant
Examinee, vice Sterling, resigned ; Mr. Henry Madgin
has been appointed Assistant Examiner, vice Fraser,
resigned ;..Mr. Edward Boor has been appointed Tempo-
rary Cler lc, vice Denton, appointed to the Admiralty ;
Mr. Those :Hurst has been appointed Temporary Clerk,
vice Wroth , appointed to the Solicitor's Department of
the Inland Revenue. Ordnance Department: Mr.
James Ala: ston has been promoted to be a Senior Clerk
of the :Viz .st Class, vice Durrant, superannuated ;
Mr. H. L. Hearsum has been promoted to be Senior
Clerk of th e Second Class. vice Maxton • Mr. H. Bond
has been promoted: to be Junior Clerk of the First
Class, vim .Hearsum. The following gentlemen have been
removed fr em the Ordnance Department, Pall-mall, to
the War- ofl ice, in consequence of the Artillery and Enei-
neer corps having been placed under the Commander-in-
Chief, viz. :---Messrs. James Maxton, First Class Senior
Clerk ; S. Bennett, W. A. Cockburn, A. Brandon,
Second Chess Senior Clerks ; A. Keen, F. T. Woodgate,
W. W. Vessey, E. H. Burnidge, First Class Tuniers ;
A. G. Hastings, W. B, Fitzpatrick, J. 0. Neil],
Second Class Juniors. Customs—Mr. D. Evans has
been appointed Clerk in the Tea Department in
London ; Mr. Louis Harris has been appointed Extra
Clerk in. London ; Mr. R. Noblett has been appointed
Clerk in. the East and West India Docks in London;
Mr. G. G. Reid has been appointed Clerk at Dublin.
A Cierkship is vacant in the Accountant and Comptrol-
ler General's Office of the Inland Revenue, Stamps and
Taxes Department Somerset-house, caused by the death
of Alfred Coppin Byers. The appointment of police
magistrate at Sydney is vaoaut,
caused by the death of
Mr. Charles Witideyer.—Civil Service acceette.