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.
At Manchester the increasing demand for goods renders
it difficult to obtain them, except by long previous orders.
There have been more purchases for India within the
last few days, and the market has had a very firm ap-
pearance. Disquiet, however, is felt with regard to the
exciteable state of the Liverpool cotton trade. At Bir-
mingham it has been announced that at a preliminary
meeting of ironmastera not only has the anticipated
further rise in the price of iron been resolved upon,
but that, instead of 20s. per ton, it is to be 305.,
making the advance during the past month Equal
to thirty per cont. In wages there is to be a pro-
portionate increase, and fears are naturally expressed of
the influence of these changes in checking the demand,
especially from the United States. 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 Birmingham there is a
large and continuous business, particularly in marine
engines and copper sheathing. From Nottingham a
slight improvement in the home demand for hosiery is
mentioned, while early and considerable orders are ar-
riving from America. In the woollen districts there has
been no alteration, and it is affirmed that they never ex-
perienced a more healthful trade. The Irish linen-
market has been steady, and, although there has lately
been an increased production, stocks are still light and
wages are advancing.

VIOLENT STORM AND HIGH 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-
tinued all day long, but shortly after three o'clock in
the afternoon the wind changed from the south-west
to an easterly direction, when it blew a perfect bur;
ricane, followed by torrents of rain and distant
thunder, and for nearly an hour the whole atmosphere
was darkened by the black heavy clouds. The storm
lasted till near six o'clock, during which time most of
the streets were impassable,
being stopped
up
o
the gutters
of
up with dirt and rubbish washed
outadjacent
clock in the
courts and alleys. Shortly before sl the
n
evening the tide was unusuallyhigh, overflowing the
banks of the river in min.)" places. Those parts which
suffered most were Bankiide, Bermondsey, Rother-
hithe, and Wapping—the cellars in all those places
being completely inundated, although considerable
improvements hale recently
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 BLACILWALL 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
band,vra
s
found to have received a severe injury to her right
whereby several of the fingers were cut off. She wag con-
veyed to the hospital, where she died on Saturday last.
Alfred Dale, the hous3 surgeon, said the deceaseddiedefi om
exhaustion from the operation and shock to the syt
Verdict, " Accidental death."

RARE Fjsn.—A fig], called the " great weever'
( Trachinus draco), was caught oil' 'Linn the other day, and
has been presented to the Aluseurn. It is exceedingly rare
on our coast, and some peculiaritits 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
which are charged with poison,
of its gill-lids, or operculoa,
and with which it can inflict a serious blow. The possession
of these remarkable instruments of warfare induced the
ancients to call it " dram" or the sea-dragon. The weever
is predatory and solitary in its habits, living at the bottom
of the deep sea. There is no tecord 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
160,0001. in coin for Australia, gives the
200 passengers and
expectation of a speedy passage. It aptiears she arrived at
Madeira in five days and four hours. ner burden is 1,500
tons (900 register), with 300-horse pow er, and she was dis-
patched by private enterprise.