The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-28 00:00:00

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Mining Journal of this day.)

GOLD MlNES.—Business in the gold mining shares
this week has been almost entirely suspended. In the
absence of late advices from Australia, and during a par-
tial holiday period, speculation in this department has
been quite inert. As a natural consequence, the ten-
dency of prices has been unfavourable ; but, owing to
holders refraining from forcing sales, the actual depres-
sion in prices has not been considerable.

In miscellaneous shares business has been generally
dull.

MINICS.—The smelters having got rid of' the small
buyers of copper ores, dropped the standard last week
to 1131. 75., at a produce of 7i. They are, therefore,
buying copper now at about Bd. or 9d. per lb., and
selling it at 13d.—a goodly profit of something like 401.
per ton, made out of the hard-working miner, and the
capitalist who invests his money in mining undertakings.
One company (the St. Day United) withdrew their ores
from the ticketing, declining to take just what the
smelters, by previous arrangements among them-
selves, chose to offer. Wheal Buller adventurers
have left it to the discretion of the pursers to
keep back any quantities of ores they may think
proper, until a fair price can be obtained ;
and if two or three of the large mines will follow the
example, we shall soon have a better standard. The
Devon Great Consols ores (2012 tons) sold last week for
10,3491. 17s. 6d., about 4,0001. less than they ought to
have yielded, according to the price of copper; and as
this is a monthly sale, here is a great and powerful com-
pany submitting quietly to a loss at the rate of 48,0001.
a-year, when, were they to take the lead in forming a
company for smelting their own ores, they would be
joined not only by most of the mines in Cornwall, but
supported liberally by the out-adventurers, who are so
deeply interested in getting a fair price for their produce.
The Share Market continues greatly depressed ; but
mines are not alone neglected ; the depressing influence
is felt in all stocks. For Mill Pool shares inquiries
have been made, and they have advanced from 61. 10s.
to 11/. per share—a discovery of a lode worth 2001. per
fm. having been made.

In the Metal Market, an increased business is gene-
rally doing.—Copper and Tin are both in more extended
demand, and rates fully sustained; large transactions
have this week taken place in Plates.--Spelter is up to
221. 15s. per ton, and higher rates expected.—Lead
maintains its price.—Scotch Pig-iron has advanced to
51s. 6d. cash, and 535. for three months open. Railway
and Manufactured Iron commands an extensive in-
quiry.
In the Bullion Market,—Dollars, 4s. 11 d. per ounce.
Pillar ditto, ss. 14d. per oz. Bar silver, ss. id. per oz.
standard. Ditto, holding 5 grs. of gold, ss. lid. per ox.
standard. Bar gold, 775. 9d. per oz. standard. Span-
ish doubloons, 775. 6d. to 775. 9d. per oz. Columbian
ditto, 765. 6d. to 765. 9d. per oz. Fine cake silver,
ss. 51d. per oz.

THE WOOLLEN TRADE.

(From the Leeds Mercury of this day.)

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The imports of wool into London during the week
have been 3,173 bales, of which 2,727 are from Port
Philip, 216 from Sydney, 120 from Germany, and the
rest from France. The public sales are going steadily,
but the attendance of foreign buyers has not increased.
On the continent, nevertheless, high prices are being
paid.

- In the foreign wool market no sales of any extent
have been effected in this market since our last report,
but a somewhat improved tone has been given to prices
by the full rates which are now being paid at the pend-
ing London sales.
In the English wool market sales of combing wools
have been limited this week ; prices are without altera-
tion.

In the Pontefract wool market, owing to the cold un-
genial weather the show of wool was limited. There
was a good inquiry by the staplers, and hogs of prime
quality fetched 215., mixed 17s. to 18s., half-bred 15s.
to 16s. per stone.

In consequence of an inadvertency, the prices of the
wool sold at York on the 19th inst., noticed in our last,
and also in the columns of some of our contemporaries,
were erroneously stated. They should have been quoted
at from 18s. to 21s. 6d. per stone of 141 lbs., the quar-
ter pound being allowed for draught.
In the Liverpool wool market there is a steady de-
mand for wool at late prices. Imports the past week :-
323 East India, 180 Buenos Ayres, 30 Marseilles, 250
Lisbon.

The flannel market of Rochdale has undergone very
little change from that of the preceding Monday. The
stocks in the hands of the manufacturers are very light,
which shows that the demand for goods at this time of
the year, which is nearly always the slackest, is equal to
the supply. The wool market continues much the same ;
the manufacturers buy very sparingly, and seem dis-
posed to use up the stocks they have on hand.
With regard to the woollen trade of Leeds we have
no material change to report this week. The ordinary
business of the Cloth Halls is partially interrupted by
the absence of many of the manufacturers, who are at-
tending the London wool sales, and by workmen who
are whitewashing and cleaning the Coloured Cloth-hall.
There has, we believe, been rather less business done
during the last two or three market days than there was
a few weeks since. Prices are firm. As the demand
for the spring trade is now supplied, those warehouses
that are chiefly engaged in the home business have been
rather fiat and quiet during this week. There is a con-
siderable trade doing by the shipping houses in blankets
and other heavy goods.

RE-MARRIAGE OF A HINDOO WIDOW.—We beg to
mention, on good authority, that recently a Hindoo
girl, of a Kuhn Brahmin family at Kornugger, has
been re-married to a neighbour of the village by her
own father-in-law, she having been widowed at tho
age of nine years. This unique occurrence has ex-
cited a great sensation in the place, and the subject
is now under warm discussion among the orthodox lead-
ing member of the families of the locale, who have not
only excommunicated the man given in marriage
to his daughter-in-law, but have forbidden all from
either dining or " tiffing " in his house on pain of ex-
communication. But money is now all powerful, and,
in spite of their threatening denunciations, the man pro-
scribed has succeeded in winning over to his side a con-
siderable number of partisans by the sonorous recom-
mendations of the mint. We hope many will emulate
the conduct of this man of uncommon moral fortitude,
and thus break through the pernicious custom of keep-
ing their widows in constrained perpetual celibacy,
which is found so detrimental in these days of the march
of intellect.—Hurkaru,