The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-30 00:00:00

TEE MINISTRY.

The Earl of .A.berdees, who has remained in town
di tring the week, is now on a short visit to her Majesty
at Windsor Castle.

The Lord President of the Council and Lady John
Russell, with their youthful family, were expected at
Ptimbroke Lodge, Richmond-park, on Saturday evening,
front visiting the Dean of Bristol at Clifton during
the sojourn of the noble lord in the neighbourhood of
Brilstol.

The Marquis of Lansdowne is staying at Bowood-park,
Wilts, surrounded by a select circle.
The Duke of Newcastle, with the exception of a two
days' visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle last week,
continues in town. His grace and department remove
to the new War-office, in Whitehall-gardens, the first
we ek in January.
Vhe Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, Bart., M.P., and
La( ply Mary Wood, have left town for three weeks.

Tiscounl and Viscountess Palmerston continue at
Broadlands, near Romsey, Hants, and remain in com-
parative retirement. The noble viscount and viscoantess
intend coming to town towards the close of the week.
'Che Earl of Clarendon left the Foreign-office on
Saturday evening for the Grove-park, near Watford.
Lord Wodehouse has resumed his duties at the Foreign-
office.

The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer
and Mrs. Gladstone are staying with Sir Stephen
Glyrate and family at Hawarden Castle, Flintshire.
The Earl and Countess Granville have left town for
Staffordshire.

The Lord Chancellor is in town. The noble and
learned lord gives his breakfast to the judges on the 2d
proximo.
The Right Hon. Sir James Graham,'Bart., is in town.
Sir G. Grey is still at his seat, Falloden, near Aln-
wick., and is not expected in town for the present.
The Duke of Argyll has joined the Duchess and
family at Inverary Castle, Argyleshire, from town.
The noble duke and duchess have been placed in mourn-
ing by the lamented death of the duchess's brother,
Lord Frederick Levesoa , GI-o we r, at Balaklava, of
cholera.

The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert left town on Satur-
day for Wilton-house, near Salisbury.

WOOLLEN TRADE.

( From the Leeds Mercury of Saturday.)

LEEDS, Oct. 27.—There has been considerable varia-

tion in the state of the woollen markets this week. On
Saturday, in both the cloth-halls, there was a good at-
tendance of merchants, considerable activity, and in
witneys, beavers, pilots, and other goods adapted for
the winter trade, there was a good business done ;
but on Tuesday both the coloured and the white cloth
market was very dull and flat, and the quantity of
cloth that was cleated out of the halls was within a very
limited compass. Prices remain without alteration.
There have not been many buyers in the town during this
week, and the trade has been rather quieter in the ware-
houses, but. still a fair seasonable business is doing.
HUDDERSFIELD, Oct. 24.—The market to-day was the
worst of a rather long series, which it is feared will yet
be progressional. Wool being on the advance tends to
darken the prospect, and for the present produces an
extra dullness. The mills and factories, however, are,
as yet, generally employed, and for the most part work-
ing the usual time.
ROCHDALE, Oct. 23.—We have had a steady demand
for flannels, at prices much the same as those that have
been given for these last few weeks. In wool the prices
are firm, and the demand moderate.
Ileum, Oct. 21.—Thera are no signs of improve-
ment in the piece trade hero, and in the yarn department
business continues very unsatisfactory, though of mode-
rate amount. In the long wool market the trade has
been very still this week, and as regards "midland
counties" descriptions prices are rather adverse to
sellers. The bright haired Lincoln and Yorkshire
kinds are less affected either in demand or price than the
former. Short wools show less active business at rather
worse prices.

MUNICIPAL HOSPITALITIES.—.On Friday night, James
Baldwin Esq., the Mayor •f Birminzhaio, entertained
at dinner two hundred of his fellow•townamen, at the
Royal Hotel.

RENY CHURCH IT HALIFAX.—The skew church at
Heptorstall, in the parish of Halifax, was consecrated
on Thursday by the Bishop of Ripon.
SITTINGS OP THE INSOLVENT DIETORS COURT.—
The sittings of the court will be resumed on Wednesday.
The Chief Commissioner (Law) is too unwell to attend
court.

FIRE NEAR ST. JAMRs'll THEATEM—On Saturday
morning, at a few minutes before three o'clock,
a fire of
a destructive character, and attended with a great loss
of property, broke out in the premises of Mr. Thomas
Seymour, a carpenter, carrying on bysioess at No. 3,
King's-place, King-street, St. James's.
WOOLWICH, OCT. 27.—Quartermaster Moore, of the
Royal Artillery, 3d battalion, died at his residence in
Beresford-terrace, Woolwich, 'on the 26th inst. He had
risen from the ranks by his scientific abilities to be
quarter-master.

- THE SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY.—The solicitors' clerks
of Plymouth are endeavouring to obtain a weekly half-
holiday on Saturday afternoon.
ILLEGAL MARRIAGE.—Considerable excitement has
been occasioned in the town of Braintree, in Essex, by
its having transpired that the newly-appointed vicar of
that place, the Rev. Mr. Brown, has recently solem-
nised a marriage between two poor people belonging to
the parish out of the canonical hours prescribed by ant
of Parliament.
JESUS COLLEGE.—The Rev. E. Owen, M.A., fellow
of this college, and curate of St. Mary the Virgin, Ox-
ford, left that city on Thursday last for the East, where
his gratuitous services will be rendered as chaplain to
the British forces.
Tun CROLICEA. AT OXFORD.—The cholera, we are happy
to say, seems to have taken its final leave of Oxford.
During cast week there has been but one new case and
one death. The medical staff will be disbanded forth-
with. The expenses of this disease to the citizens of
Oxford will, it is thought, be upwards of 2,0001.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.—
On Saturday, between the hours of eleven and twelve,
while a man named George Wright, carpenter, was en-
gaged in fitting a circular piece of timber to one of the
windows of the Victoria Tower, his foot slipped, and he
was precipitated from a height of eighty-four feet, falling
upon a large iron beam.
THE BLOCKADE.—The letters from Odessa mention
that several ships were loading linseed in the Black Sea,
thus indicating the continued absence of an effective
blockade. In the London market the disbelief in any
complete exclusion of Russian produce from that region
is such, that two cargoes now loading at Kertch, on the
Sea of Azoff, have just been sold for arrival.
PRONE ELECTION.—A correspondent writes that a
petition is about to be presented, on the part of Mr.
Donald Nicholl, against the return of Viscount Dun-
garvon for the borough of Frome, on the ground of cer-
tain acts of bribery and intimidation alleged to have been
committed.

DEATH OF MR. 11. STUART, M.P. FOR BEDFORD.—
We have the melancholy task of announoing the death
of Mr. Stuart, one of the members for the borough of
Bedford, which took place very suddenly on Wednesday
night. We are informed that on that evening he at-
tended the Freemasons' Lodge at Bedford, which was
named after him, and left at his usual time for his resi-
dence. When he was in the act of alighting from his
carriage he was seized with a convulsive tit, and died in
10 minutes after he was carried into the house. He had
for some time past been subject to fits of that nature,
and had been under medical treatment. Mr. H. Stuart,
who was born in 1804, was grandson of the third Earl
of Bute, being the second son of the late Archbishop
Stuart, of Armagh, and Sophia, granddaughter of the
celebrated William Penn. He was first returned for the
borough of Bedford in the Conservative interest in 1837,
but was unseated on petition, and Mr. Samuel Crawley
took the seat until 1841, when, after a close contest,
Mr. Stuart was again returned. At the subsequent ge-
neral election he was returned, with Sir Harry Verney,
his old colleague, Captain Polhill being rejected; and at
the last general election he was again returned, with
Mr. Samuel Whitbread, Mr. Chisholm Anstey being the
winoopsful candidate,--Bedford Timor.