The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-06 00:00:00

The Electors' Removal Bill was read a second time and
ordered to be committed.
The High Sheriffs' Expenses Bill went through Com-
mittee.

WINDSOR CASTLE STABLES.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved
for a grant of 70,0001. out of the Crown Land Revenue,
for the purpose of rebuilding the Royal Stables at
Windsor, which were at present not only not fit
for a Royal residence, but for that of a private individual.
' The proposed plan would not create any additional charge,
as it would be paid for out of the accumulation of the
Crown land revenues, arising from the sale of Crown lands,
which had been set apart for the purpose of improving the
Crown residences.
Mr. WARBURTON would not offer any opposition at
the present moment, because he should have an opportu-
nity of doing so at a future stage of the measure.
Mr. M. PHILLIPS wished to know whether in the
70.0001. the sale of the present site of the stat4les had been
calculated ?

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
that the 70,0001. was the maximum amount of the expense.
After a few words from Mr. WILLIAMS, and the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
Mr. WARLEY said the vote was a most extravagant
one. 70,0001. for stables was an immense sum. The
horses surely did not require palaces, although her Majesty
might. He gave notice that on a future stage he would
move that the sum be reduced to 50,0001.
The vote was then agreed to, and the House resumed.
BOROUGH COURTS.
On the motion of the SOLICITOR-GENERAL, the
Borough Courts Bit/ was read a third time and passed.
Mr. HODGSON, in the absence of Sir Robt. Inglis,
moved that Mr. Burge be heard at the Bar against the
Jamaica Bill.
Adjourned at Half-past Eight o'Clock.

,EPORT OF THE WOOLLEN
TRADE FOR THE MONTH OF MAY.

We have but small improvement, if any, to report of
the woollen trade for the month just closed. A dull
trade in the months of March and April is rarely fol-
lowed by activity in May ; the bulk of the spring trade,
so far as the wholesale business is concerned, being over
in the former months. The home trade during the
month has maintained the same heavy and unsatisfac-
tory character which it has borne since October last.
The foreign demand, until the last ten days, has been
equally languid ; within that period there have been in-
dations of renewed and somewhat extensive business to
the States.
The state of Stocks, we believe, is not materially al-
tered since our last report, that is, there is no excess
tither in the balk or the finished state. Notwith-
standing this favourable feature, the rate of prices has
not been remunerating either to manufacturer or mer-
chant. Both have been guarded in their conduct, but,
unfortunately for them, the contraction of purchases
and preparation has not kept pace with the diminution
of demand, and the buyers have, consequently, had it
much their own way.
As to prices, cloths are lower, rather because they
do not bear a profit, than because of any corresponding
fall in wool or dyeing. Wools have, indeed, been sold
at a lower rate during May than at any time since
October last, but they arc still higher proportionally
(as they have been during the last four or five
months) than cloths. The stock of wool, we be-
lieve, is not large under t2s. 3d. to 6d., but it is un-
derstood to be considerable " for the season" above
those prices.

The goods in greatest demand during May, and
throughout the spring have been blues, blacks, and invi-
sible greens ; fewer common colours have been asked
for than we ever recollect in the spring season, and
there does not seem to be much prospect of a change in
taste at present. Of goods in preparation we are dis-
posed to think the quantity is not large of this we are
certain, that wool has been very cautiously purchased
for some weeks, and many manufacturers have greatly
diminished their scale of operations : what effect the pre-
sent re-opening of the American demand may have on their
disposition we presume not to say, though we think the
prospect of continued and increasing demand for
that quarter should be more sure than we now
take it to be, ere they resume full work. The
kinds of goods in preparation, in addition
to the regular supply of blues, blacks, and greens,
of al :prices, are understood to be Petershams and
beavers, with, we suppose, a moderate quantity of
double-milled cloths. We speak rather doubtfully as
to the latter kind, because we have not heard of them
as we did last year, on all hands. Then, as we ventured
to hint at the time, too many were made, as not a few
are aware of, both in Leeds and London, who hold
stocks of them. This year we think the quantity of
fresh double-milled cloths required will be small, and
that the manufacturers will do well to guard against
over supply. Pilots and beavers, it is supposed, will
have a run, and of the latter the slighter kinds will
probably be most wanted.—Leeds Mercury.

THE MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE'S DRAIN
TILE MactitNE.—This machine will make 10,000 drain-
tiles a day, one man and two boys to attend it, and twenty
thousand of flat tiles for the drain-tile to lie upon, but if
the tiles are broad for roofing, it will make 12,000 a-day.
These draining tiles arc fifteen inches long, so that three
machines would make in one season (of thirty weeks), as
many tiles as would lay a drain from London to York.
Now a man and two assistants will only make 1,000 drain-
tiles in a day, and these only one foot long, which is 1,000
feet per day. While the machine with the same number
of persons will make 12,500 feet per day ; so that if the
drain be laid at the distance of twenty-five feet, it will make
in one day sufficient tiles for six acres. The advantages
are—lst. The tile is much stronger from being com-
pressed, and less impervious to water—it is not only com.
pressed but it is smoother over, which gives it a surface as
though it were glazed. They are capable of being made
front a much stiffer clay than usual, and in nine cases out
of ten the clay may be used directly on being dug, if passed
through the crushers, being much drier. Clay. unfit for
bricks and tiles by the common method, is avadable by the
machinery. The expense of draining will be paid in three
years, but not unfrequently in one. —Farmer's _Magazine.
The must noble and most salutary forms and in-
stitutions which, whether in civil or moral societies, are
bequeathed from generation to generation. after the lapse
of centuries, will prove defective. However exquisitely
fit, they may have been when they were framed, it would
be necessary that the vital power in states and churehu's
should act instinctively, and evince a faculty (.f perpetu-
ally adapting itself to the occasion, as the ship Argo did
when it spoke, if such a fitness is to last. As it is, however,
they either continue without any outward alteration, and
then are only the mote certain of becomin,' a mere lifeless
shell, or they are gradually developed and transformed ;
during which process their original purpose is but usually
little thought of, and often totally misunderstood ; nay,
the condition of the persons for whose sake the institutions
were first enacted, will often undergo so great a change
that there ceases to be any room for such a purpose ; and
then should any one perceive that what is now oppressing
and harassing us would not have existed, but for these
forms and the events which fashioned them, he may un-
thinkingly turn his displeasure against them; may wish
not that they were suitably modified, but that they had
had never twen; and may extol what they did away with ,
without knowing what it was, without asking what and
where he himself would be. but for those institutions which
now in their turn have outlived themselves. —Niebuhr.

DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE AT WA-
TERLoo.BRIDGE.—Yesterday afternoon, between four and
five o'clock, a desperate attempt to commit suicide was
wade by an elegantly-dressed female, apparently about
twenty-six or twenty-seven years of age, who threw herself
off Waterloo-bridge into the River. Some watermen on
the jetty for the accommodation of the steamboat passen-
gers rendered Instant assistance, and fortunately succeeded
in getting her out of the water, and she was conveyed to the
Savoy Palace public-house, in Savoy-street, Strand, when
she was attended by Mr. Scott, a surgeon, who used the
stomach pump, and drew off a great quantity of water, and
was conveyed to Charing-cross Hospital in a very pre-
carious state. She is unknown, and was dressed in black
silk, with patent leather shoes, and had a bouquet in her
bosom when she committed the rash act.

After a few words from Mr. G. HOPES and Mr.
ESTCOURT,
Mr. AG LIONBY said he considered the provisions of
for effecting a compulsory enfranchisement the best part of
the Bill.—(flear.) He denied that heriots were the
principal, on the contrary, they were the least evils of copy_
holds under the present system. There were many harsh
and vexatious incidents to copyholds. The Committee
had stated that the enfranchisement of copyholds was a
great public national object. Because, in many casos, there
were heavy impositions ; the forfeiture, for instance, of two
years value, by the tenant at alienations, ere. ; and would
not this necessarily be prejudicial to the public interests, '
as tending to prevent the profitable cultivation of land ?
( Hear, hear.) He earnestly entreated the House not to
give up any means for getting rid of this odious relic of the
feudal system.
Mr. FRESHFIE LD expressed himself in favour of
the compulsory enactments.
After a few words from the SOLICITOR-GENERAL
and Mr. GOULBURN,
Sir G. STRICKLAND explained.
Mr. DARRY thought the compulsory clauses would
inflict a hardship on the smaller tenantry; but he wished
the Bill should be discussed, and hoped the House would
allow his lion, and Learned Friend to go on with his Bill.
Mr. C. BULLER thought they might come to this
arrangement, that the Hon. Gentleman should strike out
the clauses that he thought compulsory, and that the House
should consider the remainder.
After some further discussion Sir George Strickland
withdrew his amendment, and the House resolved itself
into Committee on the Bill.
After a desultory conversation, in which Sir G. Strick-
land, Mr. Aglionbv, Mr. Darby, Mr. C. Buller, and
several other lien. Members took part, relative to what
could be considered the compulsory clauses,
The Bill was then reported, and ordered to be recom-
mitted when printed.
The Patterns and Inventions Bill was read a second time
and ordered to be committed.