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

STATE OF TBADE.

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LEICtSTER, Nov. 26.—There is a fair amount O
business doing in hosiery goods in the plain de'
partment ; fancy goods are not in request. A!
Loughborough and Hinckley business is quiet, and
the operatives are very partially employed. Tiler:,
is very little stock on hand, and manufacturers
not increase their stocks at the preset price of Ma"
terial. Yarns are firm, and high rates are realised
worsted spinners are well employed. In wools that
is no important change, and the market is firm.
NOTTINGHAM, NOV. 26.—There is still no illy'
provement to report in the condition of the lane'
trade; very few orders are being received, and bug"
ness doing in plain silk nets and mechlines, an
cl
few cotton quillings are finishing. A flatness P
vades the silk trade almost generally ; black
few
for trimmings are, however, selling; only a few,
buyers have been in the market, and their op
teec
o.
ro
tions have been very limited. There are nos,
of any description of goods on hand., In 11°iy'
there is not much alteration. Business gene",: + ihe
is as active as could be expected, considering

continual scarcity and high price of yarns•

CABINET COUNClL.—sUmmonseS h
the 2ci
issued for a Cabinet Council on Tuesday ne.Kt,
ace beeti
prom., at the First Lord of the Treasury's official roiSidenCe
in Downing-street.
M. de Sartiges, the new Minister of France st
the Court of King Victor Emmanuel, has left Paris for
Turin.
A WELSH SUPERSTITION:
on the subject
of deaths, I must mention a singular superstitious custora d
which lingered, not very long ago, in some of the seclude
mountain vales of Carmarthenshire. When a person died, his'
friends sent for the sin-eater of the district, who for the
sum of half-a-crown, actually took upon himself the sins °'
the deceased, by the simple process of eating them. 1:11!
plan of operations was this : A loaf of bread was provided
which the sin-eater first placed upon the dead person's'
chest, then muttered some incantations over it, finally
ea
ing it. Will it be credited that ho was believed to hard
as regarded by everybody as a tabooed outcast ?
taken from the defunct the heavy weight of his sins, 011`.
two appropriate them to himself, for which act of kindness Ite
In
immediately after the ceremony was finished, and Ja s 11..$
thereceived his pay, he vanished in double quick time, it be 1.131
usual custom for the friends to belabour hitn
sticks—if
they could catch him.—Once a IFeek.
THE .11I'LACHLAN CASE.—M‘Lachlan, the 1)11
in
S'
band of the woman lately tried at the Circuit Court held
Glasgow for the murder of Jessie M'Pherson, left Inveriles,o
on Thurday last, having placed his child in caro
wife's friends previous to proceeding abroad. He is acconar
panied by a sister of his wife's. The Sandyford-place aff
011;
has so preyed upon the mind of Mrs. Jack, another sister 1.
Mrs. M,Lachlan, residing in Inverness, that she has be
come insane.—Banffshire Journal.
LIST OF BOOKS THAT OUGHT TO OE PUBLISIO,D;
arcll,
—" Our Rivers," Shirley Brooks ; " Life of King
Itich
Dickens ; " The Sloven," Trollope ; " Flowers
Fanny Fern ; " Anecdotes of Swallows," Miss Martineau'
" On Watches," Lever; " Crowned Heads," Kingsley I
Zin,
" The Spilt Child," gip) Alarclon,—