The National Register.
London, England, 1811-10-06 00:00:00

WOOL TRADE.

We extract the following from the supplement to Lord Sheit.
field's Report of the 27th of July last, at Lewes, on the pre-
sent state of the Wool Trade : it is dated September 12.
" Persons concerned in the import of foreign wools say, that
notwithstanding the importation in the half year ending sth of
July last, has been 3,140,6761 b. scarcely a bag has been received
which 4101, three years ago, have been esteemed of prime
quality, and but comparatively a small quantity of superior
second-a. A gentleman who has just returned from Spain, whi-
ther he went last autumn, for the purpose of inspecting the
flocks and contracting for the fleeces, says, that if the country
were immediately relieved from the destructive warfare in
which it is at present planted, many years must elapse before
the flocks would recover their former state of perfection.
There is now scarcely a pure flock in the country, and from the
impossibility of obtaining the usual succession of pasture, and
other causes the fleeces are generally' very much deteriorated
in quality. He accounts for the importation of wool this year
by the fact, that it has been composed chiefly of the inferior
wools which Spain was accustomed to retain for the consump-
tion of her uvyti manufactures, very few of which have been
able to continue at work.
64 The sheep's wool imported into Great Britain on an ave-
rage of four years, ending the sth of January, 1811, was
7,865,5671 b. and the quantity imported in the half year ending
the sth of July, 1811, was 8,140,6;61b5. of which 9,147,6961b5.
was from Spain and Gibraltar, and 872,6811b5. from Portugal.
" The quantity of wool disposed of by auction at the annual
sale in Ireland on the 24th and 25th. of July last, exceeded the
sale of the preceding year, by 1.305 fleeces, and has increased
since the first institution in 1806, from 100 to 5249 fleeces.
The late speculations' and derangements in trade do not seem to
have affected the wool trade of Ireland,. nor has It suffered
.by
the combinations or practices of jobbers.
" The Farming Society of Ireland reports, that the introduce
Lion of the Merino breed into that country has exceeded the
most sanguine expectations of the manufacturers, and promises
amply to repay the.expenses of the import of Spanish sheep.
" The intelligence of our breeders will soon, by crossing,
bring these sheep to such form as we deem more perfect, and it
seems proved that the wool of the Spanish, crossed on Ityeland
and South Down, is Cully equal to the old breed of Span]. if
the constitution of the sheep that first arrived from that country
does not completely resist our climate, their descendants bred
in England will acquire sufficient hardiness, and even by degrees
be brought to bear the fold, if it should be required, as well as
our own sheep ; and the closeness of the wool, and the crt.st
of a waxy matter which peculiarly belongs to thy breed, ought
to preserve them better from the inclemency of the weather
than the slighter fleeces of the English fine-wooled sheep. The
foot-rot to which the Spanish sheep seem liable, aught be
avoided by attention and care."

BOXING.