The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-05 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

The reports of the state of trade in the provinces
during the past week show no diminution of the activity
which has so long prevailed in all parts of the country.
Ac Manchester the increasing demand for goods renders
it difficult to obtain them, except by long previous orders.
There have been more purchases fcr India within the
last few days, and the market has had a very firm ap-
psarance. Disquiet, however, is felt with regard to the
exciteable state of the Liverpool cotton trade. At Mr-
miughatn it has been announced that at a preliminary
meeting of ironmasters not only has the anticipated
further rise in the price of iron been resolved upon,
but that, instead of 20s. per tor, it is to be
making the advance during the past month equal
to thirty per cent. In wages there is to be a pro.
eePrZin'ead nd ot,
pertionate increase, and fears are naturally
ex
pre
infleence of these charges in checking th
especially from the United 6tefee• In that quarter, as
elsewhere, however, the progress of railroad and other
enterprise is likely to prevent any sudden reaction,
whatever may be the ultimate result. In the general
manufactures of the town of B:rmingham there is a
large and continuous business, particularly iu marine
engines and copper sheathing. From Nottingham a
slight improvement the home demand foe hosiery is
mentioned, while early and considerable orders are ar-
riving from America. In the woollen districts there has
been uo alteration, and it is affirmed that they never ex-
perienced a more healthful trade. The Irish linen-
market has been steady, and, although there hes lately
been an increased production, stocks are still light and
wages are advancing.

VIOLENT STORM AND IIIGLI TIDE.
Yesterday the metropolis and suburbs were visited
by a heavy storm of wind and rain, doing consider-
able damage to property. The rain commenced
shortly before one o'clock in the morning and con-
tinned all day long, but shortly after three o'clock in
the afternoon the wind changed from the south-west
wrahionle atmosphere and distant
to an easterly direction, when it blew a perfect hur-
ricane,thunde, r followedtorrents
nebayrjyanhoar onr theof
was darkened by the black heavy clouds. The storm
lasted till near six o'clock, during which time most of
the streets were impassable, the gutters being stopped
up with dirt and rubbish washed out of the adjacent
courts and alleys. Shortly before six o'clock in the
evening the tide was unusually high, overflowing tho
banks of the river in many places. Those parts which
suffered most w er Thinkside, Bermondsey', Rother-
!lithe, and Wapping—the cellars in those all
being completely inundated,although
considerable
improvements have recently been made in the drainage,
but the water rushed with great force up the drains,
and soon made its way into the underground dwellings
of the poor people who inhabit them.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE BLACRWALL RAILWAY
STATlON.—Yeiterday an inquest was held by Mr. W. Baker,
at the London Hospital, on the body of Mary Phillips, aged
63 years. The deceased was the wife of an eating-house
keeper, of No. 3, Horse Shoe-court, Clerkenwell. On the
evening of August 29th, the deceased and a male friend
proceeded from Blackwell by railway in a third-class car-
riage, and when the train stopped at the Fenchurch-street
station, the deceased got out on to the
platform, being at
the time intoxicated. Directly afterwards an alarm was
raised by the guard, just as the train was starting on its re-
turn to Blackwell, when the deceased was lying between the
front of the platform and the carriages. The deceased was
released by the servants of the company, when she was
found to have received a severe injury to her right hand,
whereby several of the fingers were cut off. She was con-
veyed to the hospital, where she died on Saturday last. Mr.
Alfred Dale, the house surgeon, said the deceased died from
exhaustion from the operation and shock to the system.
Verdict, " Accidental death.
RARE FISH.—A fish, called the " great weever'
( Trachinus draco), was caught off -Clean the other day, and
has been presented to the Museum. It is exceedingly rare
on our coast, and some peculiarities in its conformation
render it worthy the attention of naturalists. One of the
most remarkable of these is a large spine at the end of each
of its gill-lids, or operculse, which are charged with poison,
and with which it can inflict a serious blow. The possession
of these remarkable instruments of warfare induced the
ancients to call it" draco," or the sea-dragon. The weever
is predatory and solitary in its habits, living at the bottom
of the deep sea. There is no record of a specimen ever being
caught in our locality before.—Dundee Courier.
Intelligence received of the Cleopatra screw..
steamer, which sailed from Plymouth on the 7th ult. with
260 passengers and 160,000/. in coin for Australia, gives the
expectation of a speedy passage. It appears she arrived at
Madeira in five days and four hours. Her burden is 1,500
tons (900 register), with 300-horse power, and the was dis-
patched by private enterprise.