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

STATE OF TRIDE.

DUNDEE, Dec. 23.—The market vas well attended to-
day, and a good disposition manifastd for business. Since
last report some considerable transactons have been done in
flax, and to-day a number of sales wire made, all at about
previous prices. Tow is unchanged n value, and fine qua-
lities are in moderate request, but common is neglected.
The advance on jute is maintained, but there was rather
less inquiry to-day than last week, many spinners being for
the moment supplied. Yarns continne in good demand at
firm prices for flax and tow qualities, and at a small addi-
tional rise for jute sorts, which are much wanted. Linens
are as active as ever, manufacturers being all full of orders,
some of which extend into March. It is also impossible to
get a piece of any sort of goods to buy for immediate de-

livery. and Rackinzs. which hnva hem,
all bought up. Tho foreign .aviv.t, to hand since last re-
port are of a cheering character for linens, and hold out the
promise of continued good demand.

LEICESTER, Dec. 24th.—There is a full average amount
of business doing in general hosiery goods, and business
generally is in a healthy and satisfactory state for the time
of the year. In the rural districts business is quiet. Manu-
facturers have been engaged executing goods to order, and
there are no stocks on hand. There is no important change
in the price of yarns, but rates continue very high, and the
market is firm. Wools are 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 lace 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 Christmas there 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 the
high price of yarns.

THE MODERN CURFEW—We want a little more
common sense in the magistracy. When the streets are so

unsafe, and ruffianly assaults upon women so rife, what is
to be thought of Mr. Commissioner Kerr's dictum at the

Criminal Court, that no girls having respect for themselves
_ _

would be out after 8 o'clock ? Why, how many thousands
of virtuous girls are obliged to be out after that hour by
the conditions of the service by which they gain their

bread? How many servant girls are out on errands; how
many shop-girls also, and returning home from their day's
work ; how many dressmakers who have been kept at their

monotonous labour for many hours to finish some heavy

order ? And Mr. Commissioner Kerr encourages the treat-
ment of these poor helpless creatures as loose women, by
the preposterous dictum we have quoted. It passed, how-
ever, upon a stupid jury who acquitted a couple of fellows
who had assailed two girls in a very suspicious way, and
who, whether with felonious intent or not, had treated them
with indecent violence. "We have nothing to be robbed
of," cried one of the girls with touching simplicity ; but in

.he defence an attempt was male to rob them of their only

little possession—•their characters. And it might have suc-
ceeded upon the strength of the judicial dictum that virtue
does not go out after eight, if decisive testimony to good re-
pute had not fortunately been forthcoming.—Examiner.

A sum of £l3l 102. 3d., raised by subscription
among the British residents in Bordeaux and some other

persons, has been transmitted by H. B. M. Consul of that
city to the Lord Mayor of London 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, bound from Seville to Havre,

with a cargo of or anges, was totally lost at the mouth of
the Eure. The crew were brought on shore by means of
lines thrown to the vessel from the cliffs, but two of the
men died in about two hours after from cold and fatigue.
A part of the cargo will, it is expected, 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 obliged to return, and in get-
ting into the port of Havre was drivenwith violence against
the jetty, and stove in part of her bulwarks. During the
gale a small house belonging to M. Toutain, near the bat-
tery at Havre, was blown down, and another near it
damaged considerably. At Fecamp the gale blew with
tremendous violence, and the sea ran so high that the jetty
and the stockade which defended the port on the western
side were washed away ; serious fears being felt for the fate
of the southern jetty, and of the breakwater which runs
from it.

An impudent robbery was committed in Decem
ber of last year, at a jeweller's shop at Havre, by two men
named Dubeis and Dhainault. Both succeeded in escaping
but were condemned by default, 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 do la Fontaine, at Havre, when they met a man who
appeared to them to be Dubos. He was invited to follow
them to the police office, where he formaily denied that he
was the person alleged. On his being searched, however,
a discharge from the 3d regiment of artillery, bearing his
name, rendered further denial useless. He was immediately
sent to prison to undergo his sentence.
The Echo of Yvetot states that a farmer named
Doudement, residing
in Tocqueville-Benarville, was some
days since found burnt to death by his fireside, and it was
concluded that he had fallen into the fire in a fit of apo-
plexy. Two days afterwards, however, the police were in-
formed
rmthearttheetedeceahseisd,sesorvmiceet, and had
had made a will,
leaving his property to a young man named Legentil, who
had
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 tha property sooner than might be
expected. This statement excited suspicion against Legen-
til, and other circumstances corroborating it having since
been discovered, he has been arrested, and the affair 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 consistcd 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' Corresp.ndence, 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, £3 106 ; 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-
per apparatus or competent persons. Whenever a ship of
war had been there it had been too rough for them to render
much assista. cc, and it was thought the wreck would fur-
-1 nish occupation to the wreckers for some years to come.
THE HON. MRS. YELVERTON._This lady, since
the judgment of the First Division of the Court of session,
affirming her to be what the public almost universally be-
lieved her to be, the wife of the Hon. Major Yelverton, has
enintiOnoeda
had a perfect ovation at her lodgings in Crawford's Hotel,
George-street. From morning till night she is surrounded
glathuelartreighhetrs.onlthemrasyubcecerass
by visitors who sympathise. wtth her in so much as she has
beard of the decision reversing Lord Ardmillan's
an interesting feature of her character that she had no
sooner
of the Lord Advocate, who. had so ably and effectivaly
judgment, than she proceeded right direct to the residence
fought her case, and, while tendering her cordial thanks,
vatunddiccaotnift
presented„, tti„.his lordship a very handsome bouquet,—
per-
sistentlyadd,
Velfegentan zercury.