The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-08 00:00:00

THE WOOL MARKET.

LEEDS,—Our markets are quite as bad as any we
have had to record for the last two months, notwith-
standing this season of the year has always been consi-
dered the most active in the demand for the home
trade. We are convinced that the only obstacle to a
very good demand for woollen goods generally, is to be
found in the difficulties thrown in the way of discounts,
and the almost total impossibility of procuring change
in small notes or sovereigns for the necessary purposes
of trade ; in fact, nothing but the first-rate paper will
go up at all, and if a person, be he never so respectable
and easy in his wordly affairs, unless he keeps an ac-
count at a bank, he has no chance of procuring dis-
counts, unless done by a private hand and at an enor-
mous sacrifice.

BRADFORD.—Lower qualities of wools are in better
demand and prices for them have tightened. The finer
qualities are not so much in request, but their prices re-
main the same. The yarn-market continues extremely
steady, and, although business is not carried on in so
extensive a manner as has been usual, and purchases are
made cautiously, yet the demand and prices are toler-
able. The stocks of pieces are very small. Indeed the
prices of pieces and the high price of the material make
the manufacturers desirous of doing as little business as
possible. We hear that some extensive orders have been
received from Spain, which will most likely brighten up
this market a little.

HUDDERSFIELD.-Our market to-day was much the
same as last week. There was a moderate demand for
heavy woollens, and all other descriptions of winter
goods, both in the hall and the warehouses ; the wool-
irket was rather dull, and prices continue without much
variation.

DEWSBURY.—On Monday last a little more business
was done in the blanket line than for some weeks back,
but piece goods were scarcely inquired after. In fact,
trade here is anything but in a healthy state.
ROCHDALE.—The market was pretty well attended
on Monday, though not quite so much business done
as last week, which was owing to the purchasers offer-
ing a trifle less for flannels ; on the whole, last week's
prices were pretty well maintained. Some few flannels
were sold at about Is. per couple less, but the reduction
was by no means general.

WAKEFIELD,—The scarcity of deep combing wools
mentioned in our last report still continues, and, if pos-
sible, is still more felt than last week ; the heavy pres-
sure of the Money Market has, however, hitherto pre-
vented any improvement in price. Short wools arc in
fair demand at late quotations.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.

The intention of the Company to discontinue, during
the winter months, the last down train which now runs
at a quarter before eight, has quite horror-stricken
those gentlemen who were in the habit of enjoying
their wine, and the ladies their tea, with their friends
in London previous to returning home by the train.
Nothing is to run from London after a quarter-past
six ! The day for the commencement of their new
regulation is, however, not yet decided on, and we
trust that the Directors will so far see their own in-
terest as to postpone it sine die. The traffic by the
railway has so much increased of late, that it
has driven some of the short stage vehicles off the
road ; yet still there are several left by which pas-
sengers can be conveyed after a quarter-past six
o'clock, the proprietors of whom chuckle at
the proposed alteration. Nothing can be so inju-
rious to any conveyance as the alteration of time. In
the present instance not one person in a hundred may
know of the alteration till he has arrived in breathless
haste at the station, and met with a disappointment.
The discontinuance of this most important train may
suit the convenience of the official gentlemen in atten-
dance at the respective stations, very well to enable
them to retire to their homes at an earlier hour, but we
are satisfied it will be an inconvenience to the public,
and a great injury to the Company.

•
The conveyance of sixty sheep in one train, a quan-
tity of cattle, some gentlemen's carriages, horses, and
the like, during the past week, has given a new feature
with respect to the utility of the conveyance trains. But
this kind of traffic is yet in its infancy.
The works between Romford and Brentwood are
proceeding with great rapidity, but have been delayed
by the late heavy rains. It is a fixed regulation with
the contractors not to allow their men to work on rainy
days. Those between the temporary terminus at the
London end and Brick-lane are also nearly completed ;
but we apprehend that when the line is opened to Brick-
lane, great inconvenience will be experienced by pas-
sengers, without some good regulations. Brick-lane
crosses from Whitechapel church to Bethnal-green,
passing Spitalfields church and Messrs. Truman and
Hanbury's brewery, and it is beyond (to the north)
of this church and brewery that the railway is to cross,
and nearly half a mile from Whitechapel church—a
very inconvenient situation, without due regulation as
regards omnibuses.—Essex Mercury.

TIIE OTHER SIDE OF THE PICTURE.--
The glorious results of steam navigation in the Great
West have often been the themes of the orator's elo-
quence and the poet's inspiration. It has converted the
desert into a theatre of wonders in art and civilization,
and filled a region of immense extent with homes of
peaceful and contented enjoyment. But our friend of
the Cincinnatti Gazette takes another view of the case,
in the following paragraph :—" One can hardly seri-
ously coutemplate the facilities of travel, which confer
so many advantages, without a painful thought of the
freights of villains with which every train of cars and
every boat is loaded. I see the Cincinnati Races ad-
vertised for the 7th of October, and I cannot but feel
sorrowful, as I recollect the means that exist to bring
together the congregations of those who live by preying
upon the simple ones of society. Time was when the
gamblers of New Orleans and of New York, and of
Norfolk, and of St. Louis, could not meet conveniently
at Cincannati, for concentrating their depredations."
There is no truth in the statement that any
fracas occurred at the Albion Tavern, Great Russell-
street, on F-iday last. No such occurrence took place
there then or at any other time.