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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 4. 1804.

entertained that they went down at the moment when
Captain Hoegrnan observed the light to disappear, and
that not one of them escaped a watery grave.
The survivors arrived in town yesterday morning, and
were forwarded by the consul-general back to Bremen
and Hamburg by one of the General Steam Navigation
Company's steamers.

The total number who have perished by this sad
catastrophe amounts to no fewer than 201.

THE ROYAL ACADEMY.

The opening of the Exhibition of the "Royal Academy
of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture," is something
more than the inauguration of the full royalty of the
London season. To spend an annual shilling at what
will long be called by elderly people the "Somerset-house
Exhibition," and "the Exhibition," is nearly all the art
patronage and art study which the middle classes yet
compass. Apart from this traditionary importance of
May-day to the world of art, the Royal Academy has
very large national associations. It is an accredited and
chartered institution, in the fame and usefulness of which
great public interests are involved. It is more than a
voluntary association of artists. It is not only a Royal
foundation, but a national institution. George 111.
lent a certain body of painters a few rooms in a Royal
palace ; and, in course of time, this body has contrived
—we are not complaining of the process —to tenant,
rent-free, a semptuous public building, and not only
levy a vast income from the public through volun'
tary contributions, but to obtain the chartered
right of conferring degrees which are of im-
mense pecuniary advantage. The decoration of
R.A. is a certain income. If we view the Royal
Academy as an Art University, it is a seminary sup-
ported chiefly by the public, but not governed by any
statutes—if we regard it as a corporation, it is a self-
renewing body, with no constituency to control it—if
we look at it as an ordinary trust, it presents the anomaly
of having large trust moneys, but no trust deed. When
treated as a public body, it falls back, as in the case of
Mr. Hume's motions for making its exhibitions gratui-
tous—with which, by the way, we by no means coincide
—on its voluntary character. When, on the other
hand, we attempt to place it on a parity with its rivals
in Suffolk-street and Pall•mall;- we are reminded of its
charter and its corporate privileges.
But, apart from its legal aspect, what is the scientific
status of the body of which we are speaking ? It styles
itself "the Royal Academy of Arts." Its theoretical
completeness is equal to that of Solomon's house, as
elaborated by Bacon. It exhausts the circle of fine
arts. It has Professors, and, we suppose, lectures, in
painting, sculpture,architecture, perspective and anatomy.
It adopts all the ancillary and preliminary duties,
studies, accomplishments, and relations, which can
adorn the artist and exalt the citizen and scholar. It
has its chaplain, who is no less a personage than the
Bishop of London himself ; and for its " professors of
ancient history and ancient literature," it has affiliated
the honoured names of Hallam and Macaulay. Sir
Robert Inglis is its antiquary, and Sir George Staunton
its foreign secretary. These last functionaries are
honorary, by which we presume we are to understand
that they receive no salaries ; for it cannot be supposed
that these high-sounding offices are mere moonshine and
humbug. We cannot conceive of a chaplain who never
says prayers, of professors who never lecture or teach,
or of a foreign secretary who conducts no foreign corre-
spondence. Doubtless, therefore, the Bishop of London
repeats to his academical brethren the lessons which
were practised by the saintly Angelico ; Mr. Hallam
teaches his artist students from Muller and the msthetic
criticism of ancient art ; and Sir George Staunton keeps
the council en rapport with the academies of Brussels,
Munich, and Seville.

Theoretically, the Royal Academy of Arts is perfect.
It fills the complete cycle. It is armed at all points. It
only wants a professor of modern literature to correct
the grammar of its catalogue, and then it would
approach an ideal perfection. It is curious that, with
all this, the world only takes it for a shilling-collecting,
voluntary association, invested with a high traditional
character, and occupying a good set of rooms furnished
to it gratuitously. Of its services to art, and of its high
didactic results, we are far less able to speak confidently
than of the fact that, during three months of every
year, it throws open its rooms at the moderate charge
of one shilling, and constitutes the central sun of the
London system of sights. As an exhibition of pictures
we consider the Academy's the cheapest an most amusing
in the world. We never grudge our shilling. It really
does distance all its compeers, both in value and extent.
As an exhibition it will be, and deserves to be, very
popular. But the institution claims much more than
this. It is an academy, and professes to educate. It
takes high ground—it affects to embrace the largest
range of subsidiary studies, and the most eminent pro-
fessors are nominally attached to it. Its object is to en-
courage art—it sets up for being a national source of in-
struction. How far does it fulfil those lofty aims ?
We shall be told that its professors are no fiction—
that lectures are delivered—that schools are kept open,
prizes given, and students sent to travel—and that in
these, the legitimate objects of an academy, its funds are
spent. But it is indisputable that, in every one of these
objects, the Academy meets with successful rivals. It
has five nominal professorships. The first, that of paint-
ing, is vacant. In sculpture, it is represented by an
accomplished academician, Sir Robert \Vestmacott.
As to architecture, it is notorious that the architects
who aie members of the Academy never exhibit—that
the Institute of British Architects has entirely super-
seded the work which the Academy professes to do--
and that the architectural drawings displayed are meagre
in number and miserable in quality. A clever portrait
painter is professor of perspective ; and if the professor
of anatomy ever lectures, we can only say that we
never heard of his prolusions. Are not these appoint-
ments, like that of the chaplain, honorary ? Is the
Academy an art school ? Reynolds and Fuseli used to
publish their lectures—Sir Charles Eastlake's accomplish-
ments in the literature of art are not expended on the stu-
dents of the institution of which he is president—we
have not met with Mr. Knight's disquisitions on optics
—and if, as we suppose, both colour and composition fall
within the department of the Professor of Painting, it is
curious that that important office should be vacant even
for a week. Yet it is the fashion of the day to require
work, in return not only for pay, but for corporate dis-
tinctions. In Oxford, we are taking care that, for fel-
lowships,
fellows should do the work of education. Is it
too much to inquire whether R.A.'s, and how many
R.A.'s, teach in the Academy of Arts to which they be-
long ?

But we had forgotten one corporate—not to say cor-
poreal—function of the Royal Academy of Arts. They
give an annual dinner to celebrate their own success.
That is to say, the public gives the dinner out of its shil-
lings, and the R.A.'s invite the celebrities of the day—
her Majesty's Ministers, and the like—to their festive
hoard. We quite sy►npathise with the English taste for
dinner-giving, but the Royal Academy feast has this pe-
culiarity—that it celebrates the triumph of the hosts
rather than of the guests. We give a dinner to a mili-
tary or naval commander when he has won a victory ;
but a conquering general seldom asks all the world to
eat and drink when he is mentioned in the Gazette—
least of all does be think of paying himself such a compli-
ment at other people's expense. We cannot quite grasp
the rationale of the Royal Academy dinner. If it were
a banquet given to the patrons of art, that would be a dis-
tinct purpose—not a high one, nor one in perfect taste,
but an intelligible one. The affair would then be of
the nature of a pecuniary investment—it would be an
invitation to purchasers warmed with good fare.
This would be a practical, if not a high aim—pre-
cisely analogous to that which is often pursued by an
enterprising baker when, on opening a new shop, he
gives every customer a glass of gin. But, on looking
over the list of the guests, we meet with names which
have no connection whatever with art. Grouped around
Sir C. Eastlake's hospitable board, on Saturday, we
find noblemen and gentlemen who do not know a Titian
from a Claude. The feast is an occasion, like the Easter
dinner at the Mansion house, for neat speeches from
practised speakers about the war ; and it affords
an admirable opportunity for pleasant postprandial
political skirmishing—to which we may add that, on
Saturday last, it was signalised by the display of novel
pyrotechnical effects, and also by a brilliant experiment
in gas lighting. It has also its value in correlative din-
ners—an object appreciable enough, for it is notorious
that for years the R.A.'s kept on their list a wealthy in-
dividual, who never exhibited a picture, but who gave a
series of dinners to his brethren.

What claims have the present body of R.A.'s to take
this lofty ground of giving a dinner to celebrate the
successes of their own handiwork ? Ten Royal Aca-
demicians du not contribute to the Trafalgar-square
walls at all. The painter of Irene is President of the
Academy and chairman of the dinner ; the author of
"My Two Boys" is a professor ; and the painters of
Nos. 449, 13, 925, and —alas ! that we should have to
place him in such company—even of 63, would have done
more wisely had they not asked for such very public feli-
citations as the dinner implies on their academical tri-
umphs in high art. If the Royal Academy has higher
aims than that of a mercantile concern, it would, we
think, better consult the true dignity of art in not giving
an occasion for critical persons to suggest that its
annual dinner is persisted in only as a convenient means
for forcing on the public its social, apart from its artistic,
claims. The two or three hundred pounds lavished on
this vain and senseless display of luxury would be better
expended on an exhibition to a poor student—on its
library—on its lectures —in the purchase of casts or
pictures—or, if its object is to popularise art and to
educa`e the English mind, even in reducing the charge
for admission. This dinner suggests that the Academy
postpones its corporate duties to the pecuniary chances
of its own members—that it prefers the social counte-
nance of the rich to the claims of what ought to be a noble
and disinterested profession. We cannot forget that the
object of incorporating this institution was an educational
and scientific one—that it professes to collect a gallery
of its own, each Academician being bound to present one
of his own works on admission. And its members will
do well to remember that an institution whose profes-
sion is to teach, but which contents itself with selfish
and personal aims, is likely, in these days—especially
when it draws largely on public funds and public confi-
dence--to find inconvenient inquiries carried into its
services to art and its results on national taste.—Morn-
ing Chronicle.

SOLDIERS' FAMILIES.—.Major Powys, secretary to
the Central Association for Soldiers' Families, writes to
state that as yet no money has reached the association
from the treasurer of the funds raised at the Drury-lane
demonstration and fancy fair. Two hundred pounds
was raised, but the Lord Mayor has not been as yet
convinced that " the Mansion-house is not the best
place for administering relief to every person calling
herself a soldier's wife,"

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(YESTERDAY.)
CRIMINAL CONVERSATION BILL.
Mr. BOWYER moved the second reading of this
bill, which he observed was divided into two parts. In the
first place, it abolished the right of a husband to recover
damages, and made criminal conversation a finable
offence, while in the second place it gave the fallen
wife the right of being heard and represented by counsel
on the trial of the party accused of debauching her. If
the house felt so disposed, he should be ready in com-
mittee to alter the provisions of the bill, and to make
criminal conversation a,h indictable offence, punishable
by fine and imprisonment, or with imprisonment oily,
but he confessed he preferred the bill as it now stood,
and therefore he had moved its second reading, leaving
that question, as well as the right of the husband to
compensation for any circumstantial damage he may
have suffered from the loss of his wife, to be dealt with
in committee. He might be blamed for not having en-
grafted the question of divorce upon this bill, but he
thought that was a subject sufficiently extensive to be
dealt with by a separate measure, and that was his rea-
son for omitting it.
Mr. COLLIER said it appeared to him that after
carefully considering the provisions of this bill, it was
not desirable to proceed with it further, and lie should
therefore move that it be read a second time that day
six months. It occurred to him that, instead of pre-
venting the offence of adultery, it would rather encou-
rage it, for it so mixed up the civil with the criminal
law that a husband would be deterred from bringing his
action for criminal conviction, because he could get no
benefit from it. Either they must leave the law as it
stands, or they must make adultery a punishable mis-
demeanour ; but if they agreed to adopt the latter
course, then the woman as well as the man
should be liable to punishment, while the parties should
be left for prosecution in the same manner as any in-
dictable offender. The bill was full of anomalies ; it
declared that the wife should be heard without declaring
how, and provided that in some cases the defendant
should be entitled to costs, reminding him of the well-
known incident, where Mr. Erskine made such an im-
pression on the jury in defending a case of crim. con. that
they gave the defendant 5001. damages. This latter
principle was unknown to the English law, but his great
objection to the bill was that it proposed to make
adultery an indictable offence, by a sort of side wind, and
as he thought that defect could not be remedied in com-
mittee, he had no alternative but to move the amend-
ment which he had already mentioned.
Mr. CRAUFURD admitted that the bill was based
upon principles unknown to jurisprudence, but that
was no reason why it should not be adopted if it met
the wants of society. Most of the cases of bigamy
brought before the Courts were attributable to our de-
fective law of divorce, and regretted that this bill did
not go the length of declaring that when a case of
crim. con. was made out, the judge should have power
there and then to pronounce a divorce.
Mr. WHITESIDE should prefer making adultery an
indictable offence, to adopting the principle contained
in the bill, which viewed it neither as a civil nor a
criminal light.
Mr. D. SEYMOUR supported the bill, and argued
that it was a monstrous thing that a man should be
allowed to traffic in the shame and ignominy of his wife.
It would he much better to allow the offender to
be punished by fine at the discretion of the Court,
than to permit the enormity of the offence to
be estimated by a jury who were liable to be acted
upon by the eloquence of counsel, and that was why he
supported the bill.
Mr. PHINN totally and entirely dissented to this
bill, though at the same time he was equally opposed
to the existing system. He objected most strongly to
the mixture of civil and criminal procedure of this bill
as it would be found most inoperative. For instance,
suppose this case, a woman had a settlement for her
own separate use of 1,0001. a-year, and she went
away with a paramour, now would not that 1,0001.
a-year be devoted to paying the fine of the offender.
Again, suppose the offender could not pay the fine what
was to be done with him, was he to remain in prison
for ever, as this bill seemed to suggest, if so it would
be most unjust. The fact was this bill was greatly
defective, and though be admitted the evil of the
present system he could not consent to remedy them
piecemeal.
Mr. FITZGERALD readily allowed that the bill was
imperfect in its provisions ; but it affirmed the principle
that it was wrong to allow a man to traffic in the shame
of his wife, and he should support the second reading
with the view of seeing whether in committee they could
not get rid of that anomalous state of things. At the
same time, however, he would much rather make crim.
con, an offence punishable rather by imprisonment than
by fine.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL admitted the law of
divorce and crim. con, required great reform, and that
women were entitled to greater redress in such matters
than the existing law afforded them ; but he objected to
any bit by bit legislation on the subject. He insisted
that before they deprived the husband of his right to
pecuniary compensation for the loss of his wife they must
give him a cheap and simple mode of obtaining a divorce
which this bill did not do, but it mixed the civil law up
with the criminal Law in the most confused manner, and
he could not consent to it. The details of the bill are
not only imperfect, but absolutely impracticable, and it
would do more injury than good if it were passed. The
whole subject of the right of woman, and the law of
divorce, was now under the consideration of a commis-
sion, and the time was approaching when the legisla-
ture would be called upon to deal with it in a large and
comprehensive spirit.
Mr. M. CHAMBERS thought cases might arise where
a husband would be entitled to compensation for the
loss of his wife, for instance he might have had a family
by her, and it was only right that he should receive
something for the loss of his wife's jointure.
He, therefore, agreed with the proposal for uniting
the fine to the Crown, with compensation to
the injured husband. He also approved of the
provision for giving the wife power to appear on the
trial as it often happened that she was sacrificed by an
arrangement between the husband and the accused
party.
Mr. BOWYER replied, after which the house divided
when there appeared,
For the second reading
Against it
Majority
—72
The bill was consequently thrown out.
DECLARATIONS BILL.
Mr. A. PELLATT moved the second reading of this
bill, the object of which was to allow parties who en-
tertained conscientious objections to taking an oath to
substitute a solemn declaration.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL opposed the bill, de-
claring that the oath should only be dispensed with at
the discretion of the court, and not as this bill proposed
upon the mere statement of the party claiming the ex-
emption.
Mr. HADFIJLD supported the bill, but Mr. DRII3I-
- opposed it.
The house then divided, when there appeared—
For the second reading 37
Against it 136
Majority
—99
The bill was consequently thrown out.
CARLISLE CANONRIES BILL,
Mr. FERGUSON moved the second reading of this
bill, the object of which was to suppress one of the four
Carlisle canonries, and apply the revenues to the aug-
mentation of the four incumbencies of the town.
Mr. GOULBURN opposed the bill, and moved that
it be read a second time this day six months.
Mr. J. G. PHILLIMORE highly approved of the
motive which had induced the hon. member to bring
forward this bill, but at the same time in the existing
state of the law, and considering that the whole subject
was now being investigated by a commission, he could
not support the second reading.
Mr. T. CHAMBERS supported the bill, as one
founded on justice.
The Marquis of BLANDFORD admitted the evil to
which the bill referred, but could not concur in the re-
medy to be applied to it. The incumbencies of Carlisle
was miserably endowed, but there were ample means in
the Church for augmenting their incomes without going
to the extreme measuro of this bill, which was to sus-
pend the next ca.nnonry that fell vacant.
The house then divided, when there appeared,
For the second reading
Against it B7-8
The bill was accordingly thrown out.
CONVENTUAL AND MONASTIC INSTI-
TUTIONS.
The adjourned debate on the nomination of this com-
mittee was resumed by
Mr. DIGBY SEYMOUR, who proposed to post-
pone the further nomination of the committee on con-
ventual and monastic institutions, until leave is ob-
tained to bring in a bill to amend the act 56 Geo. 3, c. 100,
for more effectually -securing the liberty of the subject.
The hon. and learned gentleman argued that if this law
was amended so as -to enable strangers to obtain an habeas
corpus wherepersons were supposed to be detained in these
institutions, there mould be no necessity for this committee
With an amendment in the law to that effect, the com-
mon law would ire quite sufficient and quite strong
enough to relieve ;:,ersons who were unjustly orimproperly
confined in monastic or conventual institutions. For
his part he did not think any amendment of the law
was necessary, as strangers could apply in such cases,
but at all everriss there was no necessity for any special
legislation, a 'mere extension of the Habeas Act, in the
shape of a declaratory measure, would be amply suffi-
cient, and tb erefore he was induced to move this amend-
ment.
Mr. HOR SMAN said the angry manner in which ,
both sides )vere debating this question was derogatory
to the character of the house, and therefore suggested
that the oriiginal motion should be abandoned.
Mr. NE‘NDEGATE rose to object to this, but it
being a qu a rter to six, the debate was again adjourned.
The otb cc orders were then disposed of and the house
adjourned, shortly before six o'clock.

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SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE AMEND-
MENT OF TRE LAW.

The society held their meeting on Monday night, at
their rooms in Regent-street, Lord Brougham in the
chair. The subject for discussion was the further con-
sideration of the committee on juvenile delinquency and
reformatory institutions.
Mr: Power considered that the genera! principle hav-
ing been agreed to at the last meeting, they had now
only to discuss the details by which the machinery should
be carried out. He begged to move that the several
resolutions from 3 to 10 (which have been already pub-
lished) be confirmed by the society.
A learned MEMBER drew attention to the Westminster
Reformatory School, where, out of 400 inmates who had
been received in the four years it had been established,
only three had lapsed into crime. The qualification
for admission was that the individual must be a criminal,
and must remain in solitary confinement for a fortnight,
feeding on bread and water ; the doors were open, and
he might go out at any time ; at the end of that time he
was permitted to receive the benefits of the institu-
tion. Secondly, in addition to moral and religious
training, they were taught the trades of carpenters,
printers, and tailors, and they c‘nild learn these trades
in one year. The third point was that the system, like
a similar one in France, was the " patriarchal principle."
The institution was founded by Mr. Nash, who was
constantly present--who pursued a uniform system of
kindness, and who was called "father" by the inmates.
He thought these facts were well worthy of the consi-
deration of the committee. He wished to see established
the system pursued at Mettray. He wanted to see a
large establishment split into sections, each overlooked
by a " father" or " brother." He should move an ad-
denda to the sth resolution, that the managers ought by
encouragement and kindness to place the inmates beyond
the reach of former associates in crime on their leaving.
At the request of Mr. CHARLES PEARSON, the chair-
man read the resolution which had been passed at the
last meeting :—" That in all cases of a criminal nature,
in which th.e offender may be under 16 years of age, the
court or judge before whom the case may be tried be
empowered, upon conviction, either to commit the of-
fender to a reformatory for any period not exceeding
such child's minority, to inflict the punishment now pro-
vided by law."

Mr. CHARLES PEARSON said he differed from the re-
port of the committee. This was "not a question of mere
philanthropy, and they must enter into the matter in a
different spirit, and he would take the sense of the
meeting on each of the resolutions. He objected to the
first resolution.

Mr. POWER stated that the two first resolutions had
been cancelled.
Mr. PEARSON Olen read the third resolution " That
the sale,ohject of such school should be the reforma-
tion and training of the child, so as to render him, on
his discharge, a self-supporting and conscientious mem-
ber of society." What surt of school was this reforma-
tory schOol to be ?
Mr. POWER thought it was sufficiently defined.
Mr. PEARSON, having read the remaining resolutions,
contended that it was proposed that boys under sixteen
should be relieved from punishment for their offences.
Such a principle was unworthy of the adoption of such a
society as this. He would ask for a further adjournment
of this question. The document which be held in his hand
was exceedingly badly prepared, but he wished to put it
before the committee, with one relating to proceedings
in which he was identified in 1846 in committees before
the Houses of Lords and Gmnons. Thousands of
children, it was well known, were left in such a miserable
state of orphanage, want and destitution as to deprive
thews of all free agency, rendering a violation of the law
almost a condition of their existence. He proposed as a
remedy for this that any child under 15 years of age
brought before any court of justice, who should be proved
to have committed an act punishable by law with im-
prisonment, should be acquitted as under the age of dis-
cretion, unless it were proved that such an act was
not committed by reason of the destitution of the
child. He next proposed that weekly payments
should be enforced of not less than 25., nor more
than 4s. per week, which the parish should receive from
the person who had the legal charge of the main-
tenance of the child. He proposed that under cer-
tain circumstances the child might be sent back to
its parents from the asylum to be provided. The hon.
gentleman suggested various other details, which we have
not space to give at length. If the committee allowed
this subject to be referred back to them, he would he
prepared to attend that committee and state the grounds
of his dissent in detail. If, on the contrary, the com-
mittee thought it was ripe fir decision, he should take
pleasure to oppose the resolutions in detail, and move
an amendment upon the whole.
Mr. FREDERICK HILL considered that in most of the
principles laid down by Mr. Pearson the committee's
report coincided. He was opposed to referring the
matter back to the committee after the proceedings
of the former meeting, and after they had devoted so
much time to the consideration of this important
question. He entered hugely into the advan-
tages of the system pursued in reformatory institu-
tions, where the inmates were treated with kindness
and affection, and contended there really was scarcely
any difference between the opinions propounded by the
committee and those of Mr. Pearson.
Mr. Elliott discarded the report of the committee
altogether.
A very protracted conversation followed.
Dr. WADDILOVE considered they ought not to proceed
with the discussion at that late hour.

After some further dispute as the mode of putting
the question, it was at length decided to leave it to the
meeting whether the resolution should be put seriatim
or ea masse.

The question that the resolutions should be put seria-
tim was negatived, and that they should be moved en
masse was carried by a majority of nine to five.
Eventually the further and final consideration of the
whole question was postponed till Monday next.

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Manchester Guardian, of yesterday.)

MANCHESTER, May 2.—We learn from the American
advices that the increasing receipts of cotton at the in-
terior entrepots and at the shipping ports (at the latter
the defiCiency being reduced to 573,402 bales), combined
with the state of things on this side the Atlantic, was
causing a further decline in prices. The steamer left
New York on the 19th ult., and on that day the price
of middling cotton was telegraphed as low as 71 cents
per lb. from New Orleans on the previous day (the
IStii). This marks a great reduction since the com-
mencement of the downward tendency. These accounts
have rendered the Liverpool market dull, and given
buyers a small advantage, chiefly in the prices of
leafy cotton and of middling and lower qualities. Our
own market has felt the influence of these circumstances,
and of the now very decided interruption of the trade
carried on by the Greek houses, as well as of that dimi-
nished ease in the money market which has been latterly
experienced. Buyers have shown increased caution, and
the business of the day has been inconsiderable both in
yarns and goods at 1 irge ; while buyers find a slight ad-
vantage in prices, at least among such producers as are
less favourably situated than others in regard to orders.
On the whole, the bias of prices is somewhat against
spinners and manufacturers, and small actual concessions
are made in some articles, more perhaps in yarns than in
goods. In 64 and 66-reed cloths, there is rather more
purchasing by the printers, for the America❑ houses.
Domestics and T cloths, which are very cheap, continue
firm ; and India and China goods, being well bought up,
particularly the latter, remain steady in value.
The decline of the support fund to a very small amount
last week, is causing a greatly accelerated return of the
operatives to work, on the masters' terms, at Preston ;
and at Stockport a large proportion of the weavers (one-
half at least) have yielded to the reduction, and the other
classes of hands are doing the same, with the exception
of the mule spinners and the self-actor minders.
HALIFAX, April 29.—N0 department of the worsted
trade has undergone any alteration for the better.
There is scarcely any inquiry for pieces, and our piece
hall presents a very dull appearance. The demand for
yarns continues much below the power of production,
and the spinners ere proportionately contracting their
operations. The wool market is quiet, at late rates.
ROCHDALE, May I.—There is not the least improve-
ment in the flannel market to report to-day. The mer-
chants show no desire to purchase at the present time at
any price. In wool there is little or nothing doing, the
manufactureas keep out of the market, and prefer work-
ing up the stocks they may have on hand to purchasing
at present.

HUDDERSFIELD, May 2.--Rather more business has
been transacted in the market to-day in seasonable
goods for the home markets, and a few parcels of new
patterns have been looked out by some of the export
houses. Business during the past week has been very
dull with both woollen merchants and wool staplers.

RUSSIAN DOINGS IN THE DOBRUDSCFIA.—The cruel
manner in which the war was carried on in the Doh-
, rudscha is told in a letter in the German Wochenshrift,
dated April 17 :—" The Russian soldiers give no quar-
ter ; they put to the sword every man they made pri-
soner at Matschin and Hirsova, in the entrenchments of
Tzernavoda and Karassu. We need not wonder, then,
at the Turks, especially the Egyptians, when they fight
on to the last and die sword in hand, though over-
whelmed by numbers." The writer then gives further
details respecting the dead and wounded lying unburied,
but stripped, on the wide plain of the Dobrudscha,
where vultures are feasting and pestilence commencing.
GAS IN ITALY.--The town of Nice was lighted with
gas for the first time on the 26th ult.
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