The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-25 00:00:00

STATE Of TRADE.

DUNDEE, Dec. 23.—The market was well attended to-
day, and a good disposition nnnifested for business. Since
last report some considerable transactions have been done in
flax, and to-day a number of sales were made, all at about
previous prices. Tow is unchmged in value, and fine qua-

lities are in moderate request but common is neglected.
The advance on juts is maintained, but there was rather
less inquiry to-day than last 'week, many spinners being for
the moment supplied. Yarns continue in good demand at
firm prices for flax and tow civilities, and at a small addi-
tional rise for jute sorts, whicl are much wanted. Linens
are as active as ever, manufacttrers being all full of orders,
some of which extend into Match. It is also impossible to
get a piece of any sort of goods to buy for immediate de-
livery, and sackings, which hare been long dull, are now
all bought up. The foreign advices to hand since last re-
port are of a cheering character for linens, and hold out the
promise of continued good dement

LEICESTER, Dec. 24th,—Thereis a full average amount
of business doing in general hosiery goods, and business
generally is in a hoalthyand satisiactory state for the time
of the year. In the rural listricts business is quiet. Manu-
facturers have been engaged executing goods to order, and
there are no stocks on head. There is no important change
in the price of yarns, butrates continue very high, and the
market is firm. Wools ice making late prices.
NOTTINGHAM, Dec. 24th.--Considering the late period
of the year, there has been a fair amount of business doing
in some descriptions of lice goods. Plain stiff nets and
cotton quillings have been in tolerable demand, considering
the high prices that are paid for them. A few home and
foreign orders are in the market, and there is every pro •
bability that after Christwaslhere will be more doing both
in silk and cotton goods. There is a little improvement in
the demand for black laces and narrow edgings. There are
no stocks of any kind of goods on hand. The hosiery trade
continues as active as could be expected considering this
high price of yarns

THE MODERN CURFEW,—
We want a little more
common sense in the magistraty. When the streets are so
unsafe, and ruffianly assaults Ipon women so rife, what is
to be thought of Mr. Commiasoner Kerr's dictum at the
Criminal Court, that no girls laving respect for themselves
would be out after 8 o'clock ? Why, how many thousands
of virtuous girls are obliged b be out after that hour by
the conditions of the servict by which they gain their
bread? How many servant glis are out on errands; how
many shop-girls also, and retuning home from their day's
work; how many dressmakers who have been kept at their
Y fours to finish some heavy
monotonous labour for man
order ? And Mr. Commissiont Kerr encourages the treat-
ment of these poor helpless matures as loose women, by
the preposterous dictum we hare quoted. It passed, how-
ever, upon a stupid jury who
a:quitted a couple of fellows
who had assailed two girls in ti very suspicious way, and
who, whether with felonious intsnt or not, had treated them
with indecent violence. "We lave nothing to be robbed
of," cried one of the girls with tluching simplicity ; but in
the defence an attempt was ma'e to rob them of their only
little possession--their characteh. And it might have suc-
ceeded upon the strength of thejudieial dictum that virtue
does not go out after eight, if dlcisive testimony to good re-
pute had not fortunately been forthcoming,--Examiner.
A sum of £l3l 10s. 3d. raised by subscription
among the British residents in 3ordeaux and some other
persons, has been transmitted by H B. M. Consul of that
city to the Lord Mayor of Londea towards the relief of the
.
distressed operatives in the cotton manufacturing districts.
Heavy gales still prevail on the Channel coast,
causing loss both of life and property. The day before yes-
terday the schooner Isabelina, boind from Seville to Havre,
with a cargo of or anges, was btally lost at the mouth of
the Eure. The crew were brongit on shore by means of
lines thrown to the vessel from the cliffs, but two of the
men died in about two hours aft.r from cold and fatigue.
A part of the cargo will, it is apected, be saved. The
Alliance steamer attempted to leave Havre for Cherbourg,
but was compelled to put back The French merchant
vessel Charles Dupin, which. had left Havre for Rio
Janeiro on the 18th, was also otaged to return, and, in get-
ting into the port of Havre wasiriven with violence against
the jetty, and stove in part of ler bulwarks, During the
gale a small house belonging p M. Toutain, near the bat-
tery at Havre, was blown down, and another near it
damaged considerably. At !ecamp the gale blew with
tremendous violence, and the Lea ran so high that the jetty
and the stockade which defeated the port on the western
side were washed away ; sericas fears being felt for the fate
of the southern jetty, and of the breakwater which runs
from it.

An impudent robbery leis committed in Decem-
ber of last year, at a jewellerofshop at Havre, by two men
named Dubeis and Dltainealt, Both succeeded in escaping
but were condemned by detach, each to three years' im-
prisonment and five years' surveillance of the police. Two-,
police officers were passing the day before yesterday in the
Rue de la Fontaine, at Havre, when they met a man who
appeared to thera to be Dubos, He was invited to follow
them to the police office, where he formally denied that he
was the person alleged. Oa his being searched, however,
a discharge from the 3d regiarent of artillery, bearing his
name, rendered further denial useless. He was immediately
sent to prison to undergo his sentence.
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some
days since found burnt to death by his fireside, and it was
soncluded that ho had faller into the fire in a fit of apo-
plexy. Two days afterwards, however, the police were in-
formed that the deceased, Bente time ago, had made a will,
leaving his property to a youag man named Legentil, who
had formerly been in his service, and had given the will to
the young man himself, witnesses also came forward who
stated that they had heard legentil make the remark that
Doudement, who was accustomed to sit sleeping by the
fireside, might some day fall into it, and thus put him (Le
gentil) in possession of the property sooner than might be
expected. This statement excited suspicion against Legen-
til, and other circumstances corroborating it having since
been discovered, ho has been arrested, and thettffair is now
under investigation. It is stated that the prisoner's mother
burnt the will some time back, for fear her son might be
accused of Doudement's death, but whether she did so be-
fore or after that event is uncertain.
MSS. OF THE POET BURNS.—Some highly curi-
ous letters of Burns the poet have just been disposed of in a
sale by auction at Messrs. Puttick and Simpson's, Leicester-
square. They consisted of upwards of 20 autograph letters,
with some poetry and a common-place book. The letters
have all, more or less, been used by Dr. Currie in his edition
of Burns' Correspondene,e, but the originals, just sold, con-
tained many unpublished passages. highly illustrative of the
genius, peculiarities and eccentricities of the writer, as well
as numerous particulars of the personal history of the poet
and family. Divided into 26 lots they produced over £lOO.
The following interesting items also occurred in the cata-
logue, and sold at the prices annexed. Lot 154, a short
letter of Alex. Pope, £3 10s ; lot 170, a letter of Roubiliac,
the sculptor, £3 15s ; lots 353 and 354, letters of the poet
Cowper, £3 14s and £3 17s ; lot 377, a letter of the gas-
conading Baron Munchausen, whom nine-tenths of our
readers have no doubt considered as apocryphal in person
as are his narratives, produced £1 7s.
HER MAJESTY'S SHIP CONQUEROR.—A pri-
vate letter from Rum Cay, Bahamas, at which place it will
be remembered the fine new ship. of-the-line Conqueror was
totally wrecked last Christmas Eve, states that the wreckers
are still working at the remains of the unfortunate vessel;
but, owing to the bad position in which she lies, in the most
exposed and roughest portion of the surf, very little had
yet been saved. The screw had not been recovered, though
a considerable quantity of copper and other metal had been
saved from the fragments scattered over the bottom and
along the shore. No part of the hull is visible above water,
although the divers say that a great portion of the lower
deck and bottom still remains intact on the spot where the
ship first struck. All attempts to blow her up by sub-
marine explosion had proved ineffectual from want of pro-
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