The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-09 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, OCT. 2.—Though many
pieces have been sold to-day the buyers are not so eager to
purchase as they were two or three weeks back. Wool
seems to be at present stationary in price ; but a very ge-
neral belief prevails that it will be lower, which makes the
manufacturers unwilling to purchase, except for their im-
mediate use.

LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, Ocr. 7.
The week's import is 9,645 bales. The stock previously was
270,589. The sales this week are 13,090, of which 750 are on
speculation, and 570 for export, leaving a stock of cotton now in the
port of 238,197, which is 15,347 bales more than at the same pe-
riod last year, the stock of American being 5,536 bales less than
at this period last year. The cotton market has again throughout
the week been very inanimate, with rather a droopini, tendency.
The disposition to effect sales in the ordinary and middle qualities of
American has been store apparent than of late, and in all qualities
below 61,0. a decline of Vid. per lb. has been submitted to. The
better kinds are comparatively less abundant, but are not readily
s.dcable at our last week's quotations. In Brazil only a small busi-
ness has been done, the common qualities are heavy of sale, but the
finer deseriptions being scarce command steady prices. Egyptians
continue to be freely offered, and are very unsaleable at rather lower
rates. Swats have been but little inquired for, but are unchanged
in prices. The particulars of speculation this week are 750 Ame-
ric-n, and of export 250 American, 200 Surats, and 120 Madras.
tl. d. d. d.
160 Sea Islands l4l to 24 Demerara! .... oto 0
Stained ditto 0— 0 Peruvians ..... 0— 0
3,300 Uplands sh —74 r Laguayras —
2,040 Mobile, &e.... 5i —74 j Surats
4,930 New Orleans... 5 Bengals
320 Egyptians — 9:14 40 Carthagenas 0
690 Pernams, &c B4 —lO i Manilla 0
460 Ilahias
420 Maranhams 9 I Fiarbadoes
Sawginned 0— 0 Smyrna o— 0
There has been very little doing to clay, the sales not exceeding
above 1,000 to 2,000 bags, chiefly common American.

Taken on speculation this year
Same in 1836
Forwarded to the country unsold this year
Same in 1M36
Increase of import this year compared with the
MIMI date last year
Increase of stock
Decrease of quantity taken for consumption
Decrease of quantity taken for export ......

. ..... 28,526
....... 15,030
. 15,00()
18,873

Comparative View of the Imports and Exports of Cotton into and
from the whole Kingdom, from the Ist of January to the 30th
ult., and of the Imports and Exports for the sand• period last
year :

Into tho Kingdom this year.

American .
South American
West Indies, Demerara, &c.
East Indies
Egypt, &c.

Bags.
754,962
97,573
4,441
123,046
35,945

Total of all descriptions
Same period last year.
Bags.
American
South American
West Indies, Demerara, Itc. ...
East Indies
Egypt, Esc.

Increase of Imports as compared with same
period last year
Exports in 1837.
American, 46,075; Brazil, 3,406; East India, 58,222;
West India, —; Other kinds, —.

28,832

Total in 1837
Same period last year
Stock.

Oct. 6, 1837
Same time, 1836 ... ............

`'68,400
953,403

WALES.—For a long time past the farmers and
landowners residing near the Long Mountain, on the bor-
ders of this county and Montgomeryshire, have been re-
peatedly robbed of sheep and other property, and have also
had their horses and cattle mutilated and destroyet. One
or two respectable farmers, near Cherbury, have lost twenty
sheep. Within the last few weeks a clue was obtained,
which has ended in the committal of five men to Worcester
gaol for trial, on various charges of horse and sheep steal-
ing.—Shrewsbury chronicle.
ETIIEL CHURCHILL; OR, THR TWO BRIDES.—
The character of Lady Marchmont, in this new novel-of
Miss Landon's, would alone make the fortune of any book.
It is that of a gay, beautiful leader of fashionable life, full of
wit, and with a recklessness of manner which fails to bide,
even from herself, the pangs of a too sensitive heart. 'l'iiis
character stands in admirable contrast with the stiff, pom-
pous, and self-conceited nothingness of her lord and master.
Lady Marchmont, in the course of the story, becomes the
intimate acquaintance of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu,
Pope, Gay, and the other wits of the period, who are
brought very vividly before us. It will not be long we
predict before " Ethel Churchill " is found in every lady's
boudoir.

A voluntary commutation of Tithe has been com-
pleted with the proprietors of land in the parish of Coltis-
hall, with their worthy Rector in the raost amicable manner,
which has recently received the confirmation of the Com-
missioners and other interests, conformable with the Tithe
Commutation Act.—Norfolk Chronicle.

LIFE OF SIR EDWARD COKE.— Perhaps
among all the distinguished worthies who graced the
eventful period of our history in which Coke flourished,
there is not one, not even Bacon himself—Coke's great
rival—whose life better deserves record than that of the
truly illustrious commentator on Littleton ; and yet, to
this day, little or nothing is known, in a consecutive form,
of his history. We are, therefore, glad to observe that
the desideratum has just been supplied, and by a gentleman
who, being of Coke's own profession, is likely to appreciate
the unequalled value of his literary labours. But his bio-
grapher has not overlooked that noble portion of Sir Ed-
ward Coke's career which was devoted to the political
events and struggles of his day, and in connection with
which he deserves, if possible, still more credit and honour
at the hands of all true-born Englishmen than attaches to
his unrivalled legal labours. The man who, in a reign like
that of the last and worst of the Stuarts, dared to stand
forward on every eligible occasion as the fearless advocate
of the people's just rights against the persevering and perti-
naccous encroachments of that kingly prerogative which was
supported by all the eloquence and learning of Bacon him-
self—possesses eminent claims on the respect and admira-
tion of an age so well able to appreciate his merits as that
in which we happily live.

EXPEDITION OF LA PEROUSE.—The Journal de
la Marine et des Colonies states that an American Captain,
named Morel), has written to inform the Societe de Geo-
graphie that, in the course -of his voyages in the South
Seas, he has found two of the children of the surgeon at-
tached to the above expedition ; and the Minister of Marine
has desired to be furnished with every particular collected
concerning them, together with the precise latitude and
longitude of the island in which they were found.
A mushroom was last week picked in an orchard
near Monmouth, which measured two feet four inches in
circumference ; it was Seven inches high, and eight inches
round the stalk.—Cambrian.,

On Monday night, about seven o'clock, a tremen-
dous explosion of gas occurred on. the premises, at Verre-
field, occupied by Messrs. R. A. Kidston and Co, 2s a
pottery and glass-work. We have not obtained any minute
particulars of the casualty ; but we understand the damage
is very extensive, and that one man has been so much in-.
jured in consequence that his life is despaired of.—Scuts
Times.

(From the Leeds Intelligences of Saturday.)
TRADE OF LEEDS.—The woollen cloth trade in this
town and neighbourhood still continues brisk, and complaints
are beginning to be heard of the lowness of stocks and want
of assortment, particularly in the middle and heavier qua-
lities of goods, which are wanted for the winter season.
The principal demand seems to be for domestic use, very
little business being now doing for for foreign markets.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET.—We do not quote any
variation in the prices of either long or short wools this
week, but there is less inquiry, and not so much doing as for
some weeks past.
BRADFORD MARKET.--Owing, it is generally supposed,
to the tendency of President Van Buren's message to the
American Congress, the demand for goods to-day of all de-
scriptions has been very dull. In the yarn market very
little business was done, the manufacturers appearing to be
unusually cautious in their purchases. The wool market,
of course, participated in the general flatness, and few sales
were effected. On some sorts of wool there was a trifling
reduction of price ; but, generally speaking, the staplers
held firmly.
HUDDERSFIELD.—There was a very fair market here on
Tuesday last, goods suitable for the winter season being
principally in demand.
HECKMONDWIXE.—The blanket market continues to be
pretty regularly attended by the merchants and manufac-
turers, the demand for goods, and the prices for them, re-
maining steady,