The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-07 00:00:00

SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, 1863.

STATE OF TRADE.-

MANCHESTER, Feb. 6,—Toe spirit of the market
to-day has been one of marked depression, the
immediate cause of which is due to the dullness
and decline of the Liverpool cotton market; but
beyond that sellers have professed themselves at a
loss to account for it. They say that everything
that has lately come from America points to a pro-
longed continuance of the war, and that if this is
so they should have expected rising prices and
more confidence among buyers. Yarns have been
remarkably quiet to-day,and some kinds might have
been bought at ld. per lb. decline upon the rates
of this day week ; but even at this serious decline
there has not been much disposition for buying.
There appears to be little or no demand for any
market, home or foreign, and buyers seem to have
no confidence in the present high range of prices
being maintained. The coth market has also been
decidedly flat. Manufacturers are asking the same
prices as on luesday, but buyers are evidently dis-
truetful and less inclined to operate than for some
time past. Where business has been proposed it
has been accompanied with offers of lower prices
than were asked on Tuesday ; but we, do not hear
that in any case they have been acceded to; so
that the business has been veal limited indeed.
Some people attribute additional flatness and de-
pression which have come over the market to what
fell from Mr. Disraeli in the House of Commons
last night, or rather what did not fall from his
lips. His reticence hitherto on the American ques-
tion is thought to have encouraged hopes which
have been disappointed now that the oracle has
spoken.

Supposed Loss of the Bussorah Steamship.

A shocking catastrophe, it is feared, has befallen
the Busso:ah steamer, Captain Gray, belonging to
the British India Steam Navigation Company. She
left the Clyde on the 16th of last month, for Cal-
cutta and Bombay, and there is too much reason to
believe that during the recent heavy gales she was
lost off Islay, one of the islands on the extreme
north-west coast of Scotland, and that not a soul on
board has been spared to tell her fate, The Bus-
sorah was quite a new vessel. She was built at Port
Glasgow last year, under special survey, and was
620 tons register, fitted with four water-tight bulk-
heads, and classed A 1 for 12 years. Her crew,
including engineer and firemen, numbered about 30,
and she was loaded with a general cargo. It
would seem that on leaving the Clyde she took
the north passage out of the Channel. Nothing
was heard of her until last Tuesday, when a
notice was received at Lloyd's, to the effect
that a quantity of wreck, with a board bearing
the name of "Bussorah, Gray," had been washed
ashore near Islay, and the owners at Glasgow
telegraphed to Lloyd's, intimating their appre-
hensions for the safety of the vessel, and that
they had despatched a special messenger to,lslay to
examine the fragment of wreck, particularly a cask
of oil which had been cast up, as the party about
proceeding to the spot had en intimate knowledge
of what the cargo comprised, Later accounts which
have come to hand leave little doubt as to the fate
of the ship. .

The lighthouse keeper at Rhu Vaal, on the north
end of Islay, has made the following report to the
Northern Lighthouse Commissioners relative to the
wreck which has been washed ashore :—" It is
strewed along shore a distance of ten miles from
this station. Four miles distant a large lifeboat
came on shore—name broken away. She has the
appearance of having
belonged to a large steam-
boat. Four and a halt miles farther west there was
a large boat came on shore, bearing the name Bus-
sorah, Glasgow;' has also the appearance of having
belonged to a large steamer. Both boats have been
first class articles, wholly built of teakwood, and
varnished. There was a considerable quantity of
what appears to have belonged to the deck-room of
a steamer come on shore. It is reported that a
great quantity of wreck has come on shore on the
island of Colonsay, similar to what I have men-
tioned. From the direction of the wind and the
places where the wreckage has come ashore, I am
led to suppose that a wreck must have occurred
somewhere between Islay and Omsay Point." The
steamer and cargo are insured for £30,000.

LORD LLANOVER AND MR. HERBERT OF CLYTHA..
—At the meeting of the Usk Fishing Association, in
Jan. last, on the name of Mr. Reginald Herbert being pro-
posed as a member of the association, the chairman, Lord
Llanover, stated " that it was impossible for him to acknow-
ledge Mr. Reginald Jones under that name, and conse-
quently, if such were persisted in, he could not lend his
signature to the minutes of the proceedings, and would re-
sign his position as chairman." It was unanimously re-
solved, " That with a view to the interests of the associa-
tion, and not wishing to prejudge a matter which must
soon be brought under public consideration, the question be
postponed for the present.'—Swansea and Glamorgan
Herald.

A SCENE IN A HOTEL AT TROWBRIDGE.--At the
County Court, Trowbridge, on Tuesday, before Mr.
C. F. D. Caillard, judge, a case, Dent v. Ingerson, was
heard, and caused the most intense excitement, the court
hall being crammed to excess throughout the hearing. An
action was brought by a barmaid, Jane Dent, against
Philip Ingerson, the landlord of the Woolpack Hotel,
Market-place, for £ll Ils, 3d., wages due, including a
month's wages for wrongful dismissal. On the 14th of
January a commercial traveller entered the Woolpack, and,
finding no fire in the room set apart for gentlemen of his
profession, he inquired the reason. Jane,' said the worthy
Boniface to the plaintiff, ' how is this ; no fire in the com-
mercial room ?"Missus toll me never to light one there,
sir, unless it's occupied, was the rejoinder. `I never told
you any such thing,' was the response of the mistress.
You did, ma'am,' said Jane, ' I'm sure you did. An
altercation ensued, during which the unfortunate cause o
it, the commercial, called for dinner. What's all this
about ?' inquired the landlord, who was attracted to the
kitchen, where the contending parties were engaged in a
' passage of tongues."MiSSUS says she did tell me always
to light the fire in the commercial room,' explained Jane,
' and I'm sure she didn't." And I believe you,' said the
landlord. Well, you seem to be both well agreed,' ejacu
lated the enraged mistress, then d-- it, get the dinner
yourself l' The quarrel was continued with vigour for some
time, but was at length abruptly terminated by the land-
lady calling Jane a liar and something worse, touching
her character, and delivering her two blows in the face
with her fists, taking her by the shoulders, turning her
out of the kitchen, and ordering her out of the house at a
moment's notice. The landlord, it appears, who was very
busy, peremptorily said, Jane shall not go ;' but the
weaker vessel proved the stronger, and Jane did go. Her
mistress, according to plaintiff=s statement, then overhauled
Jane's boxes, insinuating that she had not all her own
things. However the luggage was removed, but next day
the landlord sought the intervention of a Mr. Charles
Lansdale, chemist, to assist him in asserting his authority
in his own household. Mr. Lansdale made certain offers to
plaintiff to return to her service, as Mr. Ingerson had a
house full of company, and went to the Woolpack, when
Mr. Ingerson gave him a cheque for the amount of the
plaintiff's bill, which she had cant in, but her mistress dis-
puted the item for a month's wages. Mr. Lansdale, be it
known, stands head an,i shoulders over his fellows, and as
he was leaving the hotel with the cheque the mistress, more
enraged than ever at his busy interference,' flew at him,
and, to use witness's own words, collared him as a butcher
would a bullock, tore his vest, abstracted his watch from
his pocket, and broko the guard' in her endeavours to get
the cheque from him, which she succeeded in doing, and
then triumphantly tore it into pieces. His Honour gave
judgment for the plaintiff for the full amount. The decision
was received with loud applause, which was instantly
checked.—Somerset Barad.

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A GIRL. —Yesterday
morning Mr. John Humphreys, the Middlesex
coroner, received information respecting the death of a fine
newly-born male child, the illegitimate offspring of a girl
named Caroline Burns, aged 15, a domestic in the service of
Mr. James Hills, a Custom-house Officer, residing in Beau-
mont-square, Mile. end-road, Stepney. It appears that the
girl had been unwell for the last two days, when her mis-
tress, thinking that she had a cold, requested her to keep
her bed. She did so, and the mistress gave her nourishing
food aad medicine, but on Thursday, when the bedroom
was cleared, a bundle was discovered in a cupboard, and
upon the covering being removed the dead body of a child
was found. The mistress at once sent for Dr. Atkins, of
the Mile-end-road, who promptly attended, and pronounced
life extinct, but deceased had
not been fully developed. The
mistress interrogated the girl in the presence of a police
constable, and she k tated that one night, about nine months
since, she was sent out on an errand, when she was ac-
costed by a gentleman, who took her, after giving her some
refreshment, to a house in the vicinity of Mile-end, where
he seduced her. Yesterday morning at eleven o'clock the
coroner opened an inquiry at the Ring's Arms Tavern,
Beaumont-street, Mile-end, on view of the body of the de-
ceased child, when some evidence was taken, but as the
girl Burns was unable at present to be removed, the inves-
tigation was adjourned for a fortnight, to give time for her
attendance. unl ~ the authority of the Secretary of State,
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