The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-11 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Leeds Mercury, May 6.)
LEEDS. —The woollen business seems to go on in the same
languid manner as it has done for some time past, the sales
both of balk and finished goods being very limited for the sea.
son. There has been a very great number of London buyers
in the town during the whole of the week, but, from all we can
learn, their purchases have been small. Their intention seems
evidently to be that of getting cloths at a great sacrifice, but it
is our opinion that most of them will have to return without
effecting their object: _ _

HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, MAT 2.—We cannot perceive
any alteration in the state of our market this week, compared
with the last two or three.

WAKEAIELD WOOL MARKET, MAY .s.—We cannot report
any relief to the pressure on the trade noted last week—the
announcement of one or two failures has rather increased it
than otherwise. There is very little business doing, and
prices for all qualities continue to decline.
BRADFORD MARKET, MAY 4. —We cannot report any im-
provement in the piece market to-day. The general opinion
is, that it has been flatter than last week. In the yarn mar-
ket there has been no material alteration since our last re-
port—but few goods have changed hands, and, where sales
live been effected, a decline of price has been submitted to.
Wools generally bearing an almost nominal quotation,
the business done during the past week having been to
a very small extent ; but hopes are entertained that this will
be temporary, and that the worst is over. Fine and super
hogs and fine matchings are still in request, but these also
are nearly at a corresponding reduction with other wools.

Mr. Lockhart, in his Life of Sir Walter Scott, re-
lates that Miss Seward had sent Scott some obscure magazine
criticism on his " Minstrelsy," in which the censor had con-
demned some phrase as naturally suggesting a:low idea. Scott
wrote, in reply—" I am infinitely amused with your sagacioos
critic. God wot I have often admired the vulgar subtlety of
such minds as can with a depraved ingenuity attach a mean or
disgusting sense to an epithet capable of being otherwise un-
derstood, and more frequently, perhaps, used to express an
elevated idea. In many parts of Scotland the word virtue is
limited entirely to industry ; and a young divine who preached
upon the moral beauties of virtue, was considerably surprised,
at learning that the whole discourse was supposed to be a pa-
negyric upon a particular damsel, who could spin fourteen
spindles of yarn in the course of a week. This was natural ;
but your literary critic has the merit of going very far a-field
to fetch home his degrading association."
Happiness is a refined sensation, permanently agree-
able from causes in which the mind is peculiarly interested,
and of which it uniformly approves. According to Spuraheim
" the exercise of our active faculties." A fugitive chimerical
being, whom every body runs after, and nobody catches.
ST. PETERSBURHGIT, APRIL 26.—The Gazette
of the Senate has the following article :—" His Majesty the
Emperor, in addition to what has come to his knowledge from
different quarters, has been pleased himself to remark, that
many civil officers, especially out of the capital, take the li-
berty of wearing mustachios, and, after the manner of the
Turks, or aping French fashions, do not shave their beards.
His Majesty finds this unbecoming, and accordingly all the
superiors of civil departments are enjoined to be very strict
not to allow those under them to wear such beards or mustachios,
for the latter belong exclusively to the military uniform."
About ten o'clock on Sunday night,
,a.s,:Sergeant
Prendeville, of the G division, No. 20, was on duty in Golden:
lane, he observed a female, decently attired, sitting on the step
of a door. As she appeared extremely ill, he got another con-
stable to assist him, when they took her to the station-house
in Featherstone-street. Inspector M'Craw, finding her to be
in some danger, had her removed to St. Luke's workhouse,
where she received immediate attention from Mr. Raner, the
parish surgeon, but in a short time all human aid was of no
mail, as life became extinct.
ORTHOGRAPHY.—At a shop window in Eagle-
street, Red Lion-square, a paper is to be seen, on which is
written—" To romes on the 2rnd /lore to be lctt, pul the
midle belle." A few doors from the place above referred to,
we find that " Goodes are removde by hors and Wan, terms
verey moderat."
Our townsmen are exerting themselves to promote a
subscription for the relief of the distressed dist, sets in the High-
lands and Islands of Scotland. Lists are laid at the different
banks and other public places in the town. —Hull Observer.
Mr. H. Tufnell, who was a candidate at the last
Parliamentary election, and who it was understood would offer
himself again at the first vacancy, has in the course of the
present week addressed a letter to his friends in Colchester,
stating he has declined coming forward again to contest the
representation. The Liberal electors express much regret at
the circumstance, as we believe the Hon. Gentleman was
held in high respect by them. —Suffelh Chroniele.
WAR.—Nothing can be worse than the general
feeling on the subject of war. The church, the state, the
ruling few, the subject many, all seem to have combined, in
order to patronise rice and crime in their very widest sphere
of evil. Dress a man in particular garments, call him by a
particular name, and he shall have authority on divers occa-
sions to commit every species of offence, to pillage, to murder,
to destroy human felicity, and, for so doing, he shall be re-
warded. Of all that is pernicious in admiration, the admira-
tion of heroes is the most pernicious ; and how delusion should
have made us admire what virtue should teach us to hate and
loathe, is among the saddest evidences of human weakness and
folly.—Bentham.

In no country are religious creeds tolerated more tho-
roughly than in the United States. Take for example the
following curious list of particulars :
Names. Office.

Creed.

Andrew Jackson, President U. S., Presbyterian.
Martin Van Buren, President elect, Baptist.
Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice, Roman Catholic.
Joseph Story, Associate Justice, Unitarian.
John M'Lean do. do. Methodist.

Wm. L. Marcy, Governor of N. Y., Baptist.
John C. Calhoun, W. S. Senator, Episcopalian.
Daniel Webster, Ditto, Unitarian.
Henry Clay, Ditto, Baptist.
—Religion in the United States.

While Mr. Maclean, on Tuesday night, in the
House of Commons, was calling public attention to the fact
of the Baron de Haber having saved the lives of six English..
men who had been taken prisoners by the Carlists,—Madame
Albertazzi, whose father and two brothers were three of those
six prisoners, was, within a few hundred yards of the same
spot, on the boards of the King's Theatre. Madame Alber-
tazzi, is an English woman by birth.
There are in Sanquhar about 100 weavers who de-
pend upon Glasgow for work, and who were in a state of
complete destitution from want of employment. These poor
fellows called on Major Crichton to ask the Duke of Buc-
cleuch to employ them as day-labourers on his estate, to savo
their families from starvation. The Major saw his Grace, who
immediately put into his hands a sum of money sufficient to
buy yarn to set them all to work, at the same time desiring
full wages to be given to them, the Duke undertaking to buy
the cloth woven, and keep it by him until there should be a
market for it. The surprise and joy of the weavers at this
benevolent action of the truly patriotic nobleman drew tears
of gratitude even from the sternest of them.—DumfriesHeraltl.
The Duchess de Cannizzaro gave a musical soirlt.
on Sunday evening, in Hanover-square.
The court-martial which was held on the sth ult.,
on board the Hastings, at Lisbon, to try Lieutenant John Col-
pop Ommanney, of the Minden, for charges preferred against
him by Captain A. R. Sharpe, C. 8., was composed of the
following members :—Vice- Admiral Sir William Gage,
G. C. H., President; Captains Sir William Montagu, Hon. J.
Rous, G. B. Mends, Daniel Pring, and A. Shiffner. The
charges were as follows :--lst, " For disobedience of orders--
2d. For insolence and altering the log-3d, For writing inso-
lent notes and letters to Captain Sharpe-4th, For writing
similar notes to Commander Knox--and sth, For contemp-
tuous conduct towards the said Captain Sharpe and Comman-
der Knox." The Court decided that the first and second
charges were not proved, and that the third, fourth, and fifth
were fully proved ; but in consequence of the length of time the
said Lieutenant Ommaney had been under confinement, the
court adjudged him to be placed at the bottom of the list, and
there to remain. The ships in the Tagus, when the Camden
left, were the Hastings, Minden, Malabar, Trinculo, Came-
lion, Partridge, and Nightingale. The Partridge was to bring
the next news to England.—Hampshire Telegraph.
On Thursday morning a fatal accident occurred at
Darlaston. Two men, named Teese and Wilkinson, were
employed in blowing up rock-stone with gunpowder, when
Tease, having prepared the hole and put the gunpowder in,
took the touchpaper ready lighted, and before leaving the
usual train, stood with it over the hole. Whether he applied
the lighted paper to the gunpowder, or whether a spark fell
upon it, cannot be ascertained, but an explosion immediately
followed, and blew Teese, and a large quantity of rock-stone,
into the air. Teese was killed instantly, his head being split
into two parts, and a portion of his brains blown out. The
workmen near escaped uninjured.-- Wolverhampton Chronicle.
On a man named Talbot being committed by the
Leamington magistrates for a misdemeanour, he returned to
the dock, after turning to go out with the officer, and seriously
demanded of the magistrate, " who was to pay him for his
loss of time while in gaol ?" He seemed quite annoyed at 1
being laughed at.—Leamington Chronicle.
Three caricatures relative to the Westminster elec-
tion have just been published. They are all good ; that en-
titled " Jump Jim Crow I" is a decided hit. Sir Francis
Burdett appears as " Jim Crow," and appears to be wheeling
about in excellent style. The other two are, " I have a
master, and I am his man ;" and " We are not changed—no,
not we." This artist, who signs himself "B. II.," promises
to follow close on the heels of " H. B."

We have advices from St. John's, Newfoundland,
up to the 11th ult., regarding the seal fishing. The take of
seals had been next to a failure; and, from the state of the ice,
those best acquainted with the trade had little hopes of any
improvement.—Glasgow Paper.
PRESENCE OF MIND—Is courage. Real valour
consists, not in being insensible to danger, but in being prompt
to confute and disarm it.—Byron. A quality which is the op-
posite to surprise.—Bulwer.
THU RUNAWAY CONVICTS AT WOOLWICH.—
On Monday morning, Thos. Bowen, John Wallace, Thos.
Dalton alias Dutton, and John Bannon, the four convicts who
made a desperate attempt on Saturday last to effect an escape
from the dock-yard or Woolwich, were severely flogged on
board the bulk lying off the arsenal, in the presence of the
whole of the male convicts who are confined at that outport.
It is said that one of the men in particular is suffering very
severely from the punishment inflicted, which was of no ordi-
nary description.

BIRTHS.
On the Bth inst., in Great Cumberland-place, the Viscountess
Holmesdale, of a daughter.
On the 7th inst., at the Green-park Hotel, Piccadilly, the WY
of Viscount Adare, of a son, still-born.
On the 7th inst., the lady of Jacob Montefiore, Esq., of Tavig'
tock-square, of a son.

On the sth inst., at Michael's-place, Brompton, the wife of JO'
Scott, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn-fields, of a son.
On the 7th inst., at Hackney, Mrs. F. Tonimin, of a daughter.
On the 6th inst., at Montpelier Cottage, Walworth, Mrs.
Andrews, of a daughter, still-born.
- On the 3d inst., at Baldovan House, Lady Jane Ogilvy, of s

MARRIED.
On the 4th inst., at St. Marylebone Church, William Gibsott
Esq., of Lincoln's Inn-fields, to Jane Sarah, youngest daughter °I
the Rev. S. H. Hoblyn. Rector of All Saints, Colchester.
Captain Goldie Taubman, Scots Fusilier Guards eldest son. vf
Lieutenant-General Goldie, of The Nunnery, Isle of 'Man, to Olen'
youngest daughter of Humphrey Seahouse, Esq., of Nether 11
Cumberland.

On the 9th inst., at St. George's, Bloomsbury, Edward Moc.or.
Kelly, Esq., Lieutenant in the 29th Regiment, second son of Major
Kelly, late of the 23d Light Dragoons, to Frances Georgians, °°
child of the late Captain Hunt, 26th Regiment, and grand-daughterJ
of the late W. H. Micklefield, Esq., of West Tilbury, Essex. „ _
On the 9th inst., the Rev. John Cook, of Laurencekirk,
to Rachel Susan, eldest daughter of Wm. Farquhar, Esq., °f
burn-place.
On the 29th ult., at East Titherly, Hampshire, Mr. Bente°kter
Seeley, of Kingston-on-Thames, to Elizabeth youngest dant,"
of the Rev. Edward Phillips, Perpetual Curate of East Tyt!!tr'

DIED. Mr.
On the 6th inst., at Crouch-hill, Hornsey, Eleanor, wife of -
W. Dickenson.
On the 7th inst., aged 50, Maria, wife of Wm. Ridley, I.l.rtforci
End Mill, Essex.
On the 3d inst., at Thornhill, Durham, aged 75, Shake (or
Reed, Esq., formerly of London, and many years a Magistrate
the counties of Middlesex and Durham.
On the 4th inst., at the Vicarage, East Melling, Kent, Sam
e.
Hyde, second son of the Rev: S. F. Godmond, Vicar of thatjD?e,d,
On the 3d inst., at Ewell, Surrey, aged 73, Edward Arehee"
Esq., formerly of Gibraltar.
of .
On the 2d inst., at Cantley, aged 10, Leonard, oldest son
W. Childers, Esq., M.P.
Hilton,
On the 2d inst., Eliza Marlborough, the wife of Mr. “
Dalby-terrace, City-road. Jobe.
On the 2d inst., at Wentworth, near Rotherham, the Rey' Eart
Lowe, Prebendary of York, and Domestic Chaplain to the
Fitzwilliam.
• r•aci
On the Ist inst., at Boulogne-sur-Mer, Samuel CuMllag* •
Assistant Commissary-General to the Forces, aged 49. jai
On the Ist inst., in London-street, Fenchurch-street,
Maria da Silva, a native of Portugal, late of St. Helen's-place' 0 of
On the 4th inst., at Peldon Rectory, Robert, the infant so
the Rev. Robert Eden. J.
On the sth inst., at Somerset House, Mary, relict of the
late
J. Vassar, Esq.

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