The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-01 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE._:---flie uncertainty which
still hangs over the Liverpool cotton market appears to
prevent the restoration of confidence here. The de-
mand for yarn yesterday was rather more limited than
on the preceding Tuesday ; and the buyers generally
endeavoured to supply themselves at lower prices. In
this attempt, however, they were not very successful, the
business done being generally at the prices of yesterday
week, but those prices were by means so readily obtained
as on that day. In goods, also, there was not quite so
much doing, with the exception of printing cloth, which was
about the same as on yesterday week, though scarcely so
good as on Saturday last.—Manchester Guardian.
ETON COLLEGE.—ELECTION MONDAY,JITLY
291.—The annual speeches were delivered this morning, at
eeven o'clock, in the upper school-room, before the ve-
nerable Provost, the Rev. Dr. Goodall ; the Rev. J. S.
Grover, Vice Provost; the Fellows and the various Masters
of the College ; and a numerous host of visitors and
friends of the boys, amounting to upwards of four hundred,
amongst whom were the following :—Lord Morpeth,
Earl Brownlow, the Hon. Henry Thomas Liddell, M. P.,
the Hon. Mr. Lambton, the Hon. Mr. Ashley, Capt.
Howard Vyse, and Miss Augusta Vyse, H. C.
aHnoaireeyand Lady, George Simon Harcourt, Esq., M.P., and
Lady, Colonel Milman, Granville Penn, Esq. (Stoke
Park), Lady Frances Hotham, Lady Mary Thompson,
the Hon. Miss Monson, Miss Prince, Lady Selina Bridge-
man, Lady Mary Higginson, Mrs. Harvey (Langley
Park), &c. Immediately the speeches were concluded
the young gentlemen of the college left Eton for the
vacation. From a statement which was promulgated this
day it appears that there are nearly 553 students reeeivie
their education at the college. .g
CONCENTRATION OF LABOUR. The amount
of labour performed in four and a half days, on board the
steam-ship Liverpool, in discharging her cargo, and taking
in her coal for the return voyage, was
than the labour of one individual f 360 days' work more
or a year.—Arnerican
Piper.

THE LAW a
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who had been
EoDANDs.
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man's cab, held a few da3 s since before Mr. Baker, a
conversation took entl :-
place relative to the levying of
deodand The Coroner remarked on the singularity
of the law, and illustrated its inconsistency in certain
cases. He said that if a man were to fall from the
mast-head of a vessel lying in the Thames, and the
accident proved fatal, the ship would be liable to for-
feiture ; but if a similar accident happened on the high
seas no deodand could be levied. Ho also observed that
if a man were to be walking on the quay of the London
Docks, and through some obstruction he fell over into the
water, and was drowned, notwithstanding it might be
proved that there was blame attached to the Dock
Company, a Coroner's jury would be unable to
levy a deodand, the property where the accident
took place being freehold. In that case it would be neces-
sary, in
• order to inflict a fine, to proceed by action. In
cases where death resulted from absolute carelessness or
neglect, deodands were useful, inasmuch as they were a
sort of punishment to the parties concerned, and tended to
make them more careful in future; but in instances where
death ensued from unavoidable misfortune, the law of deo-
dands was one of the most absurd in the statute boot,.