The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-27 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

LEICESTER, NOV. 26.—There is a fair amount °f
business doing in hosiery goods in the plain de;
partment ; fancy goods are not in request. Ali,
Loughborough and Hinckley business is quiet, s"
the operatives are very partially employed. 'Del
is. very little stock on hand, and manufacturers Well
not increase their stocks at the present price of toiv
terial. Yarns are firm, and high rates are realised
worsted spinners are well employed. In wools the°
is no important change, and the market is &oh
NOTTINGHAM, NOV. 26.—There is still no lei;
provement to report in the condition of the 11'°,
trade; very few orders are being received, and 131191;
ness doing in plain silk nets and mechlines, and
few cotton quillings are finishing. A flatness Peees
vades the silk trade almost generally ; black lefew
for trimmings are, however, selling; onlY a
buyers have been in the market, and their OPeO
tions have been very limited. There are no stocks
of any description of goods on hand. In hesieri
there is not much alteration. Business general
is as active as could be expected, considering
continual scarcity and high price of yarns.

CABINET COUNClL.—Summonses hay° heed
issued for a Cabinet Council on Tuesday next, the
pros., at the First Lord of the Treasury's official resideec
in Downing-street.
M. de Sartiges, the new Minister of France
the Court of King Victor Emmanuel, has left Paris
Turin. "eet
A WELSH SUPERSTITION,--while on the subj
of deaths, I must mention a singular superstitious caw/
which lingered, not very long ago, in some of the secTahe.o
mountainvales of Carmarthenshire. When a persondieu' "fit
friends sent for the sin-eater of the district, who for the s f
sum of half-a-crown, actually took upon himself the eill,L°o
whichingit. twheillsinit-ebaetecrrecifiirtitd ptlhaacetdhue
wonastht dead.
the deceased, by the simple process of eating them.
plan of operations was this : A loaf of bread was proiliu',
.pe_rsed t 0 o:ata
chest, then muttered some incantations over it, finally ea..'
taken from the defunct the- heavy weight-oflihe'vt:
to appropriate them to himself, for which act of kindness dt
was regarded by everybody as a tabooed outcast ? In tad
i
mmediately after the ceremony was finished, and
it ht,,las
received his pay, he vanished in double quick time, viiat
the usual custom for the friends to belabour hito
sticks—if they could catch him.—Once a Week. ils,
THE APLACIILAN CASE.-11PLachlan, the
eP,dio
band of the woman lately tried at the Circuit Court/ i_e69
Glasgow for the murder of Jessie l‘Prherson, leftlnr,Pl;fo
ea.reatc)clow
on Thurday last, having placed his child in
wife's friends previous to proceeding abroad. He 115_0 affair
panied by a sister of his wife's. The Sandyford-
lagster of
has so preyed upon the mind of Mrs. Jack, another ta ,
t she 1135
Mrs. M'Lachlan, residing in Inverness, tha -
come insane.—Banffshire Journal.
-P BLIST2Iq;
LIST OF BOOKS THAT OIJOHT TO BE V
fad,
" Our Rivers," Shirley Brooks ; " Life of King Itioeters,4
Dickens ; " The Sloven," Trollope ; " Wild t s`6o ;
"On Watches," Lever ; " Crowned Heads," lilpg
" bliss of Swallows,"
ilt Gkuld,"
Miss I\la.rtipsicy
Fanny Fern ; " Anecdotes