The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-13 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Leeds Intelligencer of Saturday.)
TRADE of LEEDS.—The staple trade of this district conti-
nues in much the same state as it has been for some time past,
yet there are evident signs of improvement; and should the
present excitement in the Money Market happily subside, all
our mills would be again in full operation, as the stocks on
hand are comparatively small, and not capable of supplying an
extensive demand.

BRADFORD MARKET.—This market on Thursday was much
the same as it has been for two or three weeks past. If goods
were offered at lower terms they were readily bought up, but
the manufacturers held pretty firmly, as they sec no proLability
of wool being much cheaper, and they complain that the pre-
sent profits are not remunerative. In wool and yarns a pro-
portionate share of business was done, prices being firm.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, on Tuesday, was considered a dull
one. The attendance of buyers was scanty, and those manu-
facturers who had engagements to meet were glad to quit their
goods on rather lower terms than they would have taken some
weeks ago.
HALIFAX MARKET._There was rather more business done
in this market on Wednesday than last week, yet there was a
very thin attendance of buyers, and all descriptions of goods
went off heavily at low prices. The trustees had a meeting in
the afternoon relative to changing the market back again to
Saturday, but nothing is yet decided. The meeting was ad-
journed till that day fortnight, when the question will probably
be settled.

ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, FED. 6.—There has been a
dull market to-day, and but few goods sold. Those of the
middling quality hare been most in demand, but the ptices
have been low. Wool has been better to buy to-day, and may
beuoted a shade lower in price than the preceding week.
MANCHESTER.—The market yesterday was agam flat; and
sales in most descriptions of yarns and goods could not be ef-
fected without some concession in price. This, however, was
partly attributable to the state of the market for raw cotton,
nbich has rece ded.within the week, especially in American
can descriptions, not less we believe than a halfpenny per
pound.— Guardian.

LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET,.Fffn. 11.
The same desire to sell Cotton which we noticed in our last cir-
cular continuing throughout the whole of the earlier part of this
week, and the money-market generally still being greatly depresses],
sales were daily made in all kinds of American Cotton at lower and
lower prices. The decline in the aggregate during the week may be
estimated at %d. tp,l4d. per lb. On Thursday and yesterday there
perhaps was less disposition on the part of the holders to force
sales, and less Cotton offered ; still the market is wanting in
firmness, and confidence I.tns far from being restored. Bra-
zils, Egyptians and Stints, though not operated upon by the pre-
sent state of things, like American descriptions, partake of the gene-
ral decline, and we reduce bur quotations accordingly 'Aid. to qd.
per lb. ; 250 American have been taken on speculation, and 50
American and 50 Surat for export. Import 39,847 bags. The
sales are—

d. d.
60 Sea Islands 26 to 30
50 Stained ditto 7i —lOl
Bo weds ...... 0 0
8,090 Uplands 7 - 10
970 Alabamas 7 —lO
4,650 Orleans • 7
330 Surats .....
210 Bahias
Carthagenas
Bengals

d. d.
270 Maranhams 9i- to 111
570 Pernams 10i-111
- Madra.3 0 0
West India 0 0
- Barbadoes 0 0
• 10 Demeraras 0 —l2
220 Egyptians
SO Peruvians
170 Laguayras 94— 10
Bahamas
~680 bags.
:e in our Cotton-market to-day.
11 at yesterday's prices, principally
to 914 d. per lb.

Total, 15,
There is no alteration to notie,
About 2,000 bales hare been soh
in American Cotton, from 71/2d. t

Bales.
Taken on speculation this year
Same in 1836
Forwarded to the country unsold this year
Same in 1836
Increase of import this year compared with the
same date last year .. ..... ... 44,138
Increase of stock
. -
Decrease of quantity taken for consumption 31,100
Decrease of quantity taken for export .. 2,940

Comparative View of the Imports and Exports of Cotton into and
from the whole Kingdom, from the Ist of January to the 28th
ult., and of the Imposts. and Exports 'for the same period last
year :
Bags.
95,342
14,125
205
10,937
1,767

Into the Kingdom this year.

American .
South American
\Vest Indies, Demerara, &c
East Indies
Egypt, &c.

Total of all descriptions - 122,426
Same period last year.
Bags.
American
South American - 14,736
West Indies, Demerara, &c. ... ...... 745
East Indies - . 10,933
Egypt, &c.

Increase of Imports as compared with same
period last year
Ekports in 1537.
American, 1,070; .Brazil, 1.5; East India, 3,975.;
West India, ; Other kinds, —.
Total in 1837
Same period last year
Stock.

18.531

5,170
3,777

Feb. 10, 1837
Same time, 183

243,390
•
145,370

LADY CHARLOTTE BURY.—The numerous ad-
mirers of the distinguished authoress of " Flirtation" will be
glad to learn that she has a new work nearly ready for pub-
lication, called " The Divorced." Few living writers excel
Lady Bury in that species of touching fiction which her Lady-
ship has rendered so popular, and we arc informed that in this
work we may expect a story rivalling in pathos and interest
the most admired of her former productions.

PEEL AND THE PEERS.—We have taken the
trouble of examining Sharpe's Peerage, published in 1833, to
ascertain the comparative number of creations since 1760, the
date of George the Third's accession, and we now state the
whole number of the House of Lords in 1833, and those who
have received their patent of nobility since 1760, that all may
be able to ascertain the efact degree of credit due to Sir Robert
Peel's statement respecting the antiquity of the Peers:_
Whole number. Created since 1760.
Dukes 2l
Marquisses
Earls
Viscounts
. Barons 185

58

350 247
Scottish Peers l6
Irish Peers ....... 26 ..

394 272
Thus no fewer than 072 Peers, out of 394, have been created
within 73 years ; where then is the one thousand year's anti-
quity of Sir Robert Peel's promulgation ?-Beots Times.
Properly to approciAto 44 (lob save the King" you
shouhl b io a distance from our dear merry England, for
it is only the poor exiles from their native home that can
feel a national melody. From my own sensations, I can
fatly believe in the existence of the melodic do pays, and
the melancholy that was wont to seize the Swiss troops on
hearing the wild,: but simple, air of the " Ran' des vaches."
It is not the beauty of the music, but the scenes of ,our
childhoo,l, our home, and our paternal residence, associated
and connected therewith, that render certain tones so
touching and so exquisitely, though almost painfully, de-
lightful.—Mrs. Elwood's India,