The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-14 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

The King will go into mourning for two 'months from this
day, on account of the death of the Duch, 88 of Wurtemberg.
On the Bth of this month there was a vitaent hurricane on our
coasts. It was remarked at Ostend, as a very extraordinary
circumstance, that the water in the port was up to 22 feet on
the scale, whereas it ought to have been low water. The
same was the case on the whole coast, especially at Blun-
kenberghe.
A letter from Ostend contains a long account of the ship..
wreck, off that port, of the Leonidas, from Sunderland to
Southampton, with coals, which had been driven out of its
course, and obliged to make for Ostend. It run
aground on Thursday evening. The crew were got off with
very great difficulty. They are, however, all saved. They
were received with the greatest kindness by the English Con-
suls, and by M. Hamen, a merchant, opposite to whose house
the vessel ran ashore, and who supplied them with provisions
and clothing. At daybreak, the wind having abated, mea.
sures were taken to save all that was possible. The cargo and
all the papers were saved, but the hull, in' which there are
seven leaks, will be sold.
In the storm of the Bth, the steeple of the church of Hecblel
was struck by lightning, and set on fire; the damage was not
considerable. This is the third time that that steeple has been
struck by lightning.

BELGIAN l'UNDS—BßuasuLs, JAN. 12,
Actual Debt, '2 per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent
34
Loan of Thirty NHMons, 4 per Cent......,.,, 11534
--------__ 3 per Cent.
Loan of City, 18.32, 4 per
Society of Commerce, 4 per Cent 1:25
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent
....
—Brussels Papers, Jan. 12.

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Leeds Mercury).
FOREIGN WOOL.-LinDs.-There is not much doing in
the markets just now, but prices are firm, and are likely to re-
main so. The imports into the United Kingdom during the
past year are as follows :—German, 79,320 bales ; Spanish,
8,577 ; Australian and Van Dieman's Land, 30,648 ; Russian,
Turkey, Italian, Cape .f Good Hope, Buenos Ayres, Moga_
dore, &c., 61,675; total, 180,220 bales. The increase is
principally in our colonial and other low wool, and the de-
crease in Spanish. In 1833, the imports of Australian and
Van Diemen's Land were 14,948 bales only, while those of
Spanish were 20,714. During the last year the imports from
Germany into Yorkshire only were 61,393 bales.
Esousn Weer..—LEEns.—There is ao alteration worthy
of notice in the Wool Market since our last report, except that
consumers still hold from purchasing freely, while the staplers
remain firm in consequence of not seeing a chance of replacing
at present prices. Middle wethers may be quoted at 14g. 4id.
per lb.

HUDDERSFIELD MARKET.-Although a considerable amount
of business was done, yet the transactions were not as
large as for some weeks past. Fancy woollens and
fair broads take the Lead. Styles called " the Queen's own,"
" the Alpine," and this "British Queen," in fancy woollens,
are in great request. Fancy waistcoatings and light fancy
goods generally are in fair demand. Prices arc necessarily
improving, in colossi:11101sec of the high rub of the raw mate.
rial, which still continues to look up, especially in middle
qualities. Duriag the week the warehouses have been scenes
of considerable activity. The operatives are generally em-
ployed, and very peaceable.
HALIFAX MARKLT, SATURDAY.-There was i flat market
to day ; buyers were not at all eager to make purchases ; the
American orders being nearly completed for the season, the
Continental msarkets being shut up by the frost for the oresent,
and the home tiusde being but dull. These causes have all
operated to produce a temporary slacknoas, but still we can-
not say that there is not a tolerable business doing.
BARNSLEY LINEN TRADE appears, as might be expected at
this time of the year, rather slacker than it has been for several
weeks past. The frost has tended somewhat to retard the
business at the bleach-work:.

Tint MANIIIIUSTKft SICK TRADE..--There is nothing es-
sentlally different to report in this department from that of this
day se'snight. The weavers are not limited suL to the quan-
tity of their work, as is often the case ; nor have they, as has
been too much the case in times past,..to wait for their warps on
finishing their previous ones. The great improvement which
has taken place in preparing thezz enables the weaver to get
through much more work than was the case some years ago.
There are but few heavy buyeali this week, but prices are steady
for all kinds of goods, The raw material is if anything a shade
higher.

MEETING TO SUPPORT THE CORN-LAWS.--We
have several times said that the more intensely selfish of
the landlords, and their depes the farmers, had taker, alarm
lest their odious monopoly should be destroyed next Ses-
sion. We see in the Cornzvall Gazette a corroboration of
the
afieldassertion in the shape of a long report of a meeting that
as on Saturday at Launceston to perpetuate the
Corn-laws, or, in the words of the Cornwall Reporter,
to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament in
support of the Corn-laws." We are told that " the atten-
dance was large," and despite the most convincing and ar-
gumentative resistance offered by some wiser than the rest,
the meeting of monopolists actually adopted a petition to
Parliament, the very modest, and extremely humane prayer
of '4l.licii is, that the nation may continue for ever cursed
with Corn-laws—that the population of Great Britain may
always remain bound down and oppressed by taxes on
bread, the first neceaary of