The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-15 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

LEEDS.—The demand for goods in the Piece Halls
or Saturday, was considered slack, but on Tuesday
there was a visible improvement, and the wool market
WES in consequence rather firmer. We regret, how-
ever, to learn that some of the principal manufacturers
ctscharged a portion of their hands on Saturday night.
BRADFORD MARKET.—Ti'e attendance of mer-
chants, &c., at our market on Thursday, was scanty,
and the demand for goods hunted, but former rates
were sustained. The Yarn market shared the general
depression, and nothing else worthy of note occurred.
There was an improved demand fur the coarser qualities
of wool, but the finer sorts were nearly unsaleable, and
comparatively little looked at. The market may,
however, on the whole, be considered nearly an average
one.

HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, Ocr. B.—We are not able
to report so goof; a market to-day as last week, a general
uncertainty and want of confidence being felt, which pre-
vented many sales ; and we have reason to state, that
in many cases goods were sold at; sacrifice. The news from
America, the state of the money market, and the absence
of some large buyers, proiuced an unfavourable effect.o..
In new goods, prices are tolerably steady ; but in
styles and superfines, cost price cannot be realise I
Much depenas on the weather ; and now that we are
favoured in that reipeat, hopes are entertained that a
short time witness a beneficial change. During the
week, an average business has been done in the ware-
houses. Work is not quite so plentiful, and some firms
are working short hours,

BARNSLEY LINEN TRADE.--it is withipleasure that
we hare an opportunity of stating that the linen trade
of this place is at present brisk, all hands are well em-
plo3ed, and many of the drill houses arc working long
hours.

WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, OCT. 11.—The stock
in all kinds of country combing Wools at market
con_
tinuoc so exceedingly light as not to be equal to the very -
scanty demand ; and consequently, for what little s
offered, a shade better prices are held out for. Clothing
Wools may be bought on rather cheaper terms. Blanket
Wools are without alteration.

The following epitaph, commemorating an in-
)
stance of remarkable fecundity, is stated by Pennant
, in his '' Journey to Snowdon" :—" Here lyeth the
body of Nicholas Hoskins, of Conway, Gent., who,
l was the 41st child of his father, \. illiam Hoskins, Esq.,
by Alice, his wife, and the father of twenty-seven
I children, who died the ')oth day of March, 1637."
The coming of age of the Hon. Haves St Led-
gcr, eldest son of Viscount and Viscountess Doneraile,
was celebrated with great rejoicings on the family es-
I
• ta,tes in Ireland on Tuesday.
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LONDON:
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, Is3s.

It has ever been considered creditable to the
country and honourable to the Navy that our old
and distinguished officers have been rewarded by
the promotion of their offspring and friends. The
service was and still is honoured by the names of
PELLEW, TROUBRIDGE, COCHRANE, HAM-
MOND, PARKER, &c. &c., all of whom received
promotion almost as soon as they were breeched,
and certainly over the heads of many score older
officers. Their success excited no murmurs in the
Navy, as it was looked on as a reward of merit in
their parents and a stimulus to all. The promo-

tions which galled the Navy were those of the
scions of nobility—the CURZONS, the BERES-
FORDS, the PAGETS, the CADOGANS, and PER-
CIES, who, having no connection whatever with the
service, were thrust over the heads of veterans, and
nominally into the command of ships which they
were obliged to leave in the hands of rough
nurses, who were sent to take care of them.
Now the Tory press has throughout argued the
question of the appointment of Admiral FLEMING,
as if he were one of the latter, when the truth is
that he is one of the former, and deserves nearly
the same respect as iF shown to the TROLTBRIDGES
and PELLEWS of the present day. Lord KEITH,
a distinguished Admiral, who commanded at the
Cape of Good Hope, in Egypt, and the Channel fleet,
had no sons of his own, and he turned his patronage
on his nephew. The rapid and early promotion of
Admiral FLEMING was due to his relationship to
Lord KEITH, and is as honourable to him and the
service as the early and rapid promotion of the sons of
Lord EXMOUTH or Sir THOMAS TROUBRIDGE.
The Tory Journals, indeed, would make their readers
believe that Admiral FLEMING was promoted for
electioneering services to the Whigs ; and the Times
gravely tells the officers that they must henceforth
gain their epaulets at the polling booths, and must
there win the spurs of knighthood and the spoils of
victory. The whole representation is both untrue and
absurd ; for whatever may be Admiral FLEMING'S
merits or demerits, all his promotion, his post rank,
his epaulets, —which it is in the power of any Ad-
miralty to bestow, was given him either by Admi-
ral Lord KEITH, or through his influence, or as a
reward for his services.

Having put Admiral FLEMING'S early pro-
motion on its right basis, let us add that, subse-
quently, he was as much and as actively employed
during the whole war as any officer of his
standing. He was not, we admit, eminently
successful ; but that was more from want of
luck than want of skill. Certainly it was from
no want of courage and no want of attention to
his duties or to the discipline of his ship. We
have already mentioned one very eminent officer, the
late Sir RICHARD KEATES, who was in the same
circumstances till the very close of the war. No
person, we believe, ever blamed the various appoint-
ments received by the late Sir ISAAC COFFIN;
but
we doubt whether that Gallant Officer ever saw
a shot fired after he was made a Captain, while
not a few Captains have commanded ships in a
general engagement who have obtained no honours
by that chance occurrence. It is not necessary,
therefore, for an Admiral to have deserved well Of,
his country that he has been in several battles