The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-07 00:00:00

STATE.OF TRADE

(Front the 4113,44e5ter Ql4ar.:4lwb of J.)

MA:WREST:Cit. April s.—The improving tendency of
business has become increasingly apparent since Tuesday
in a more ge,aoral dispositiou to buy yarns and goods
,and
a growing hardness among sellers in regard to prices. The
continental houses, having been enabled,
.by what.was
going here, to make pretty good progress in selling to their
customers, are-continning their purcases of yarns ; there
appears also tin -be some business doing for China ; and a
small fraction (say ad. per lb.) is now clearly added to the
quotations of last week for water twist, all counts of which,
from 30's. down to the lowest, share in the improvement.
Bp.ADFORD, April i .—Wool : There is an improved sup-
ply of bright-haired wools, and the spinners ara iu better
stock, consequently less eager to buy, as the prices sought
are 'too high for the trade. The supply of deep-grown
wether sorts and hog matchings is yet limited, butt is
greatly relieved by the quantity of skin wool on the riak-
ket, which is of unusually good length, the long-contimied
winter having prevented the fat sheep being clipped. In
Down and half-bred wools the demand is rather improved,
and the diiivnward-tendency temporarily ;hocked. Yarns :
' There is. rather mare doing in a:1 kinds. of spool yarns.
Pieces :. There continues to be-more doing in goods, and
prders are being given 'out.
LFCEOII, April s.—Another flat week, scarcely May-
4ing doing in the warehouses and no buyers visiting our
market. Greatdistress prevails amongst every isra#ch
of ear operatives. Worsted spinners produce
.cautiously
and priceiTeMain unaltered. Wools are springy. Bright-
haired lots are realising better prices. •• - •

;,t WOOLLEN TRADE.

- .(i)itrict-tite Leeds Mercury of this day.

LiE,Ds,..April... G.—The markets have been of a father.'
quiet character this week. Both on Saturday and on Dies-
(My 'theta ' Was
,only a limited busineig done in the cl th-
'halls, and the tone of the 'market'on both days ivaS'-ra tier
-flat.- •Tho..tra'de in Incistor the warehouses has bead in ch.
biitter during the current week. Several of the principal
busters-from Loudon, Glasgow, and . other parts of he
_Country is,well as from Ireland, have been in the town,
which has caused some activity, and given a better .tone to
the demo' for the home market, which will doubtless be
further improved by the lowering of the rate of discount
by. thataqk a England at their meeting yesterday. Our
reEr6apent'alhe woollen trade for the Month of March is,
'ii mote cheerful one than the previous inoutlf. We have
fo'ntSte."ll:-decitied ittroVetuent in the buslness:of the cloth
ha` is his continued thronghont until the Present
week, .which we hive previously said was, a littl6-Ib.tter. •
' • ,ROCHDILE, April 2.-,—The .flannel market' continues
steatly,:bOiltin demand and the amount of businesstrans-
acted.. Xrioes may be said to have undergonalittle or no
variation4stnce the previous 3londay- '
... ~.4 ~,
lICDPF..BSyjELD, April 3.—The market to-day,has been
an indiff,erent one ai far as sales are ,concernekl. Buyers,
both frOtii.l.ohdon and the north, have been in attendance,
brit their pUrchases have been few, anti chiefly confined to
'"cheap lots and low qualities: ' ' •
irlArdiALVAlarch 31.=-We have no new feature tonotiao
[in this'inarketsinenour last report. - -i; -. ,
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INTELLIORNCA.:

:;:: .( From the Mining Journal of this day 4) • -
The at-etbusiness of the week has again been in
. d.end: udues, which maintain their,prices, -and -arok in geed'
demand.." In North Basiet, a rise from 171. ,and
101. JOs, has takon place, owing to the yery, rich quality of
the. ores: how for sale, and which, it js said, wiNealise up-
wards'or4,ooo/*.;and enahre the directors at the next !beet,
ing to-chfgO.three months' costs against two months' ores,.;dndgire, belittle's; a dividend of'ss. or 10s. per Share. Wheal
Baiseti have been done at 5401. to ; Great Devon, 376/.
-to 3751:';' South Frances, 3521.- 10s. to 35170' 10142;- West
Etisset, 301. Rosawarne, 1551. • -Wheal Wray, • 51. to '5/.
2s.- West Caradon 1701.1 gouth Tamar,' ; :Herods-
. f00t,21.,t0 21.,108.;,80df0rd United, 91.75. fid. C'd.;
.Vale of Towy, ,13s. to 158., and in:.request, a still further
improvement having taken place in the Trine, H •

INES WHICH. HAVE SOLD . (Llanar-
rnon), Eiglehiook, East Basset, East Wheal Rose, Great
Wheal ,Alfretf, Rope Valley, Kilbricken, Rheiclol United,
Nantegs antrPen thitv, North Wheal. CroftY,' Etinntl
Scirttiilge Consols. South Garras, St: Day-United, Trenow
Consols, Vale of Tcr.vY, Wheal Franco, Wheal Kitty (Uny
Lelant)' Wheal Marshall.
In therGoldllining Share Market a• slight improtement
'may be nottd.

The screw ship Charlemagne left Toulon, on the 4th;
with troop's for -Constantinople.- '
The 'ships of the line Duguesclin and St. Louis reached
Kamiesh on the 23(1, coming from France withreinfursel
ments and materiel for the army.
The French gunboats. Tourmente and Tempete were
launched ou the 3d.

NEW CifMaga Ig THE WEST3IINSTER-ROAD.—Arrange-
ments are in Progress' for. the erection of a new church
in the Westminster-road, a feW yards east of the 'rear of
the'RomanCatholie cathedral. A site has been obtained
and laid ,out fOr the purpose, and on either side a cape-
.cioua schoel=house has already been built. The church,
which will'bo in the pariah of St; GeOrge-the-Martyr,
SOuthWark; will have an ecclesiaitical district assigned
to it.
"Verf extensive inundations hive recently.taken place
in the vicinity of the Vistula and caused such immense
damage in the provinces of Posen and of Western Prus-
sia, that it, has been found necessary to send commis-
eionerefroM:Berlin to afford relieftO the suffer'erS: The
Lvraters li.ave reached a greater height than in 1829, and
the devastation caused is said to be even greaterthau at
that period. •
The second West Ito* Militia, who have been sta-
tioned tined at Sheffield for some time past, have just received
order-, to march for Portsmouth, whence they are to
,embark for the Mediterranean. About 60Q of the regi-
'ment-have volunteered for foreign service, have received
bounty, jmi,(l‘,J.,ist had a week's holiday. ~.
A letter from Vienna, .Id, in Yoss's Casette, of Berlin,
says --" It 'is certain that Russia demanded that, before
,the deliberation of the third point is entered on, „Prussia
shall be admitted, to tbe Conferences, but the demand
was rejected by the menabers of the Congress as being
complete ybeyond their Competency. to decide.'
, The last L tters from St. Pet,,isburg state. that Prince
Christian of Denmark, Prince Frederick of Hesse,, anti
of Baden, had arrived in 'that city to
present to the mperorAlexanderletters of, condo-
lence qn,i)Ae, death of the .late Czar.. Amongst the
ether envoys from the Berman Courts who have arrived
in A.a,"ticapital.. with similar letters are the Prince of
Tous*.oo Taxis from .Bavaria, and Major-Generai Baron
de 1-4ajnauirom Hesse-Cassel. , •
The Opinione of Turin of the 3d announces that the
King, of,.*'#rainia,
.who bad been for some days past
bouring,tinder an indisposition whiCh obliged him to
hayelt/ice recourse to; bleeding, has now perfectly re-
corered.,

apt4p. Crespi, who served several months in Omer
Pacba's army, has been appointed aide-de-camp to
General Alfonso La Marmora, ,the commander-in-chief
ey*.bnontese expeditionary army.
OF LORD RIITHRRFURD'S LIARY.—The
f
,tsr:E RR
noble, is now concluded--Tuesday
;I.,oafT t:ii oipl4l .
been, the 11th and last day. There _were alto-
gether 2,573 lots, and the aggregate produce of the sale
was about 7,oool.—Edinburgh. Courant.

DONCASTER APRIL FAIR.—Thls, the principal of the
Doncaster ,annual fairs, was held at that town on
Thursday, and proved the busiest known for many years
past. ,
TELEGRAPHS IN THE PONTIFICAL STATES.—The Gior-
nale di Rohm announces that henceforth all the electric
telegraphs throughout the Pontifical states are to be
epee to the public. It also publishes a tariff, fixing the
price of despatches according to length and distance.
A despatch of 25 words or under, transmitted to a dis•
tance. not exceeding 40 miles, costs about 2f. 60c., and
so on. Tile telegraphic stations at present existing in
the Papal states are at Rome, Bologna, Ancona, Fuligno,
and Terracina,
FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE GENERAL POST-OFFICE.—
On Thursday Mr. William Payne held an inquest, at St.
liartholomew's Hospital, on the body of John Newbury
Davy, µwed .51. The deceased, who was a very steady
and attentive man, had been employed for about 18 years
in the General Post-office, On Saturday evening he
was drawing a basket of letters, and, whilst doing so,
he struck his head against a flap in the Register-office,
causing a wourel in the forehead. Very unfavourable
symptoms supervened, and he gradually sunk, and died
from exhaustion on Wednesday evening. Erysipelas
and delirium, according to the medical evidence, were
the cause. of death. The jury returned a verdict of
" Accidental death,"
DANGEROUS Exeertierewee..--M. Julienne, civil engie
neer, Rue de Rocrey, No. 14, who is endeavouring to
employ compressed air as a motive power for omni-
buses and vehielee on ordinary roads, caused to be con-
structed a metallic tube ef sufficient strength to be able
to receive compressed air of the
force of 22 atmospheres.
Yesterday some of his workmen proceeded to make ex-
per laterite With the tube. They arrived successively, and
atmo-
spheres, andac were in
oide:t, etor e,
iinmression of nearly 29
the force,. when all at once
the-tuba exploded with few ful violence, and the fin-
meets flew about in all directions. One of them struck
a wan pawed' iiiirthelmy, who was quietly working at a
bench at some little olistance, and literally swept off his
head as completely as a, eennon ball could have done.
Another of the fragments_ streak a man named Gamier
in the left arm, and fractured it ; he was convoyed to the
Hospital La Riboissiere.—Galigneini.
LAILENTANLQ SPTCIDE.—A most determined and la-
mentable
case of suicide occurred a few days ago at Buck-
fastleigh,
in Devonshire. A man of property; named
'Lee, residing with his wife and children, complained
ee..being ill, and seemed much depressed in spirits.
He desired his brother-in-law to go to Ashburton and
fetch a 'solicitce, in order that he might arrange his
affair.,. Thin was done, 41)d shortly afterwarda hie wife
and ,a neighbour, named Mitchell, were out in the garden
when they heard the report of a gun, On going into the
house Mr. Lee was found lying on the floor, with a gun by
his side, weltering in-his blood. He had placed the gun
under his chin; and a email piece of steel, with which it
was loaded, was found to have passed right through the
unfortunate gentleman's head, An inquest Wag .held,
and from the evidence of several witnesses it yaws evident
that deceased had not been in his right mind for several
days, The jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity.
BOW-STREET POLIOE QOURT,— " DRUNK !"----On Mon-
day last (we may as well he precise, acct show we do not
fear contradiction) we neve there for an hour and a half,
and here is an epitome of the charges made :-.—lst,
woman—drunk ; 21, a woman, well-looking aid decent
—drunk ; a man, a collector with the :charity's
money in hie pocket--arqr,k ; 4th, a boy—ricking a
pocket ; sth, a man—drunk ; 6th, a tiota;:n—,-.4;0n4 ;
7th, a-man,— case of stabbing while drunk (the injured
man not sober) ; Bth, a girl of about 16—drunk ; 9tb, a
girl---drunk ; 10th, a well-looking woman—drunk; 11th,
Weeeee.--_-drenk ; 12th, two boys, 13 and 15—i-for steal-
ing ; untauelit, wite, 'l/47nowledge that- they had
done wrong ; 14th, a da4-4drtink ;
drunk ! How many more were brought tip, victims of
the monster evil:--drink, we know not ; it was too sad-
t4 bo endured longer. —The .Builder, '