The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-30 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Leeds Mercury of Saturday, Jan. 28.)
TRADE OF LEEDS.—The quantity of goods sold at the
cloth halls was much the same on Saturday as during the
last few weeks ; but on Tuesday there was an unusually
small number of manufacturers and buyers at the market,
and from the very dull state of the atmosphere during the
time the market was held, very little business was done.
In the warehouses there has also been less business done
this week than last : it being so near the close of the month,
few of the wholesale buyers have been in the market.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, JAN. 24.—We have no
change to report in the state of this market.
BRADFORD MARKET, JAN. 26.—The general opinion is
that no improvement has taken :place in the piece market
to-day, though some say that more goods have been sold.
There is an evident caution on the part of buyers. The
yarn market continues the same as quoted last week.
There is no material variation in the wool market. Busi-
ness is dull, and some sorts may be bought a shade lower.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, JAN. 23.--There has
been very little business done in flannels to-day ; those of
the middle quality have been most in demand, and even of
these but comparatively few have been sold. Prices have
undergone no variation since the last market. Wool still
keeps up its price, and manufacturers arc unwilling to pur-
chase only for present use.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, JAN. 27.—We have not
had that active inquiry for combing wools that has existed
for the previous two months, and we can report but few
transactions in them this week. In blanket and clothing
' wools there is a steady, but by no means extensive, demand.

By a letter, received on Friday, from Berlin, we learn
la the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland and seventeen

of their household are suffering from the epidemic raging
in the Prussian capital. It also states, that upwards of
50,000 inhabitants of Berlin and its suburbs are confined to
their rooms by the serious visitation. The Duke of Cum-
berland, who, for many Sessions past, has always been pre-
sent at the meeting of Parliament, will not return to Eng-
land for a mouth or six weeks.

A correspondent of Le Volcur says, that Mr.
Green's Balloon is not, as professed, the largest ever con-
structed, for that in which the Duke de Chartres ascended
in 1783 was fifty feet (French) in diameter, and that Mr.
Green's balloon is only 49 English feet in diameter ; that
Messrs. Mialan and Janavet constructed a balloon in 1784,
in which ❑ine persons ascended, and which also carried bal-
last that Selim ()gat, the first Turkish aeronaut, ascended
at Smyrna, in 1825, in a balloon of 110 feet in circumfe-
rence, and that the balloon in which M. Lennox ascended
in 1832, was capable of containing 60,000 cubic feet of
gas, and was filled with pure hydrogen gas. The writer
proceeds to contend that although the use of carboretted
hydrogen gas is not se expensive, and is more convenient,
yet that it requires a balloon of larger dimensions. Another
objection urged is, that the maximum height which Mr.
Green could attain, even if alone, would be about 5,500
metres (about a league and a half ), and, of course, the as-
cending power would be less, if he carried several persons
with him ; that carburretted hydrogen gas only differs from
pure hydrogen gas by being less effective. He enumerates
several other defects in Mr. Green's general process : and
in conclusion he observes, that there is nothing either use-
ful or new about his balloon, and that Mr. Green's alleged
discoveries respecting currents of air are entirely French
discoveries. -

A little boy, only nine years old, the son of Mr.
Alfred Davis, of Bromham, on Saturday week, by some
means obtained -an empty pistol, which he loaded heavily,
and discharged the contents through his head, blowing his
skull to pieces.—Cheltcnhant Gazette.
On Thursday night a party of poachers were in the
preserves of Sir T. Winnington, Bart., of Stanford Court,
when the keepers and some of the domestics went in pur-
suit ; after remonstrating with them on the dishonesty of
their proceedings, one of the miscreants deliberately turned
round, presented his gun at and shot one of the under-
keepers through the body. The poor fellow is not yet dead,
but his disease is hoUrly expected. The poachers then
made their escape, but left their hats in the wood, which it
is expected will lead to their detection.—Woreester Journal.
AMERICAN LOVE OF OCCUPATION.—There is
probably no people on earth with whom business constitutes
pleasure, and industry amusement, in an equal degree with
the inhabitants of the United States of America. Active
occupation is not only the principal source of their happi-
ness, and the foundation of their national greatness, but
th•ey are absolutely wretched without it ; and instead of the
" dolce far menus," know but the horrors of idleness.
Business is the very soul of an American ; he pursues it,
not as a means of procuring for himself and his family the
necessary comforts of life, but as the fountain of all human
felicity. From the earliest hour in the morning until late
at night, the streets are thronged by men of all trades and
professions, each following his vocation like a perpeluitin
mobile, as if he never dreamed of a cessation from labour,
or the possibility of becoming fatigued. Neither is this
hurry of business confined to the. large cities, it communi-
cates itself to every village and hamlet, and extends to and
penetrates 'the 'Western forests. It is as if all America
were but one gigantic workshop, over the entrance of which
there is the blazing inscription, " .No admission here except
on business."—Cirvilds Americans, in their Social, Moral,
and Political Condition.

On Sunday morning a poacher, named Smith, was
shot. by his own gun in Brafferton Spring Wood, near Bo-
roughbridge. He had been loading his gun, and while
striking the butt against the ground, for the purpose of
forcing the powder into the nipple, the piece went off, and
lodged the contents in his head, blowing the skull to atoms.
On Tuesday a fire broke out in the tar-manufactory
at Wincolmlec, which burnt the still-house to the ground.
One of the workmen, named Wilkinson, was drawing out
the bung of the still, when his foot slipping he fell in
amongst the boiling pitch. Another man immediately res-
cued him from his horrible situation ; in doing which, be set
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THE RECORDER'S REPORT.-Saturday after-
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tally convicted at the two last sessions of the Central Cri-
minal Court, and were confined in the gaol of Newgate,
under sentence of death :—James Turner, aged 18, for
burglary ; Daniel Turner, aged 22, for burglary ; John
Smales, aged 21, for burglary ; Henry Heath, aged 16, for
burglary ; George Jamieson, aged 21, for highway rob-
bery ; Thomas Heed, aged 21, for burglary ; William Gar-
cia, aged 19, for highway robbery ; James Lapham, aged
00, for burglary ; John Welsh, aged 17, for burglary ;
William Roe, aged 25, for burglary; John Turner, agrd
26, for burglary ; Francis Freake, aged 33, for maliciously
cutting and wounding his son,,John Freake, with a feloni-
ous intent to do him some grievous bodily harm ; James
Riley, aged 18, for highway robbery ; and William Death,
aged 24, for highway robbery. January Sessions : Martin
Nolen, aged 18, for burglary ; Thomas Goddary, aged 33,
for highway robbery ; Thomas Purdon, aged 22, for mali-
ciously cutting and wounding a person with an intent to do
him some grievous bodily harm ; Henry Smith, aged 22, for
robbery ; all of whom his Majesty was, after some consi-
deration, graciously pleased to respite during his Royal
pleasure.
At East Brent, on Sunday week, as the Rev. Mr.
Rocket was performing the burial service, and reading that
beautiful passage, " Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust,"
Joseph Day, the sexton, while in the act of sprinkling the
earth upon the coffin, dropped at the side of the grave and
immediately expired. The Clergyman's son, a surgeon, at-
tempted to bleed him, but it was perfectly useless ; the
vital stream had ceased to flow. The deceased was 7G
years old, and bad been sexton 20 years.—Bristul Paper.
The body of the man who died suddenly a few
days since, waiting for a Greenwich stage in Gracechurch-
street, and which was taken to Allhallows Church, was bu-
ried, after remaining there three days, and proved to be
that of Pemberton, whose evidence tended principally to
the conviction of Thistlewood and the Castle-street conspi-
rators. He resided at Woolwich on a pension granted to
him by the Liverpool Administration for his services on
that occasion.
SHAMEFUL AND CRUEL FRAUD.—In conse-
quence of the late conviction of Mr. Pilbrow, the contrac-
tor for several workhouses in this county, before the Ma-
gistrates of the Deptford Bench, for using false weights,
both in the purchase of his provisions, rind in the delivery
of rations to the paupers, the former being overweight, and
the latter considerably deficient, the Mayor and Guardians
of this city determined to institute an examination of the
weights employed by Mr. Pilbrow in the workhouse here,
for which he is also the contractor. On examination of
these weights, eight or nine of them were found deficient.
The Magistrates ordered the weights to be sealed up in
their presence; and issued a summons against Mr. Pilbrow
to appear before them to answer the charge. The case was
begun on Monday, and adjourned for further evidence.—
Kent Herald.
Tallowin, a pauper of the parish of Snettisham,
was found lying in the night upon the road leading from
Snettisham to Heacham, he having, it appears, no place of
lodging. He was taken off the road and conveyed to some
out-house as a temporary shelter, and on being removed
from thence, he died very soon after. He was 74 years of
age, and it appears that he had been for some time subsist-
ing upon the parish allowance of half a stone of bread per
week, but had been destitute of the means of providing him-
self with a lodging. A coroner's inquest was held upon him
on the 28th ult., when the verdict returned was, that
lie came to firs death by the inclemency of the weather,
and being put into nu improper place.".—Norfolk Citron.