The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-25 00:00:00

WOOLLEN TRADE.

(Front the- Leeds Mercury of this day.)
LEEDS, Nov. 24.—We have no change to report in
the woollen trade since our last notice. The markets
have been of a quiet character this week. There was
an indifferent attendance of merchants in the Cloth.
halls, both on Saturday and on Thursday ; a fiat feeling
ruled in the market, and onlya limited business was done.
At this season of the year there is seldom a very active
business doing in the woollen trade. There is very little
disposition to increase stocks when the year is drawing
to a close.

HUDDERSFIELD, Nov. 20.--We have no better account
to give of the market to-day than previously. Business
is, indeed, very flat, and work rather scarce. Some par-
ties, we understand, are working short time ; but the
just
in are felt more seriously in the vicinities than
in the town.

BRADFORD, Thursday.—Woo/—The demand is as dull
as it can be ; and things are daily getting worse. Yarns—
There have been several failures during the week, we
regret to say ; and to save themselves from a similar
doom, spinners are still obliged further to curtail pro-
ductions, limited as it has long been. Pieces.—Except
for heavy winter goods, there is no regular business, and
the prices even in this department are of a ruinous cha•
ratter. Our condition is very gloomy.
HALIFAX, Nov. 18.—We can only repeat the old dull
story—dulness prevails throughout the entire market,
and but little is doing in either wool, yarn, er pieoes,
and prices still show a declining tendency. Middle
wethers are quoted ls. per lb. The arrivals of wool
from the growing districts are at present very meagre.
ROCHDALE, Monday.—As Christmas approaches the
demand for flannel slackens, which is generally the case
at this time of the year, whether business has been pre-
viously brisk or dull. The wool market continues
steady, tinues
stedy, and the manufactures buy as if they did not
anticipate soon either a rise or a fall in the raw material.

•
On Wednesday Lord and Lady Palmerston dined
with M. Fould, Minister of State. Among the other
guests invited were Lord and Lady Cowley, the Duke
and Duchess of Cambac6res, Dl. Abbattucci, Marshal
Vaillant, MM. Billault, Ducos, Fortoul, and Magne,
M. and Mine. Troplong, the Count de Morny, M. Ba-
roche, General Count d'Ornano, Marshal Baraguay
d'Hilliers, Count and Countess Randon, MM. Rouher,
Mocquhart, itc. On the previous day his Lord-
ship and Lady Palmerston dined with the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, where a number of disinguished per-
sonages were also assembled. Ile is expected to return
to London on Monday next.
RECRUITING.—We understand that for a short thine
back the recruiting parties stationed in Edinburgh (in-
eluding the 82d) have been raising recruits at the rate
of between 50 and 60 per week. In Glasgow the num-
ber was 120 in one week, and 100 in another.
MEXICAN DoLL.ans.—The small amount of Mexican
dollars brought by the last West India steamer has been
sold at 60ad., being an advance of ld. per ounce. The
price of bar silver continues 610. per ounce.

Captain Burgoyne, who landed at Southampton from
the Nubia, immediately proceeded to Ryde, accompanied
by a troop of friends. He carried the regimental colours
of the Grenadier Guards at the furious charge of that
regiment at the battle of tho Alma. The colour staff in
his hand was struck three times by the enemy's shot,
and he himself was wounded in the leg. A. grenadier
sergeant cut out a piece of shot from his leg on the field
of battle, and accompanied him home to England oa
account of his helpless condition.

ST. TROMAS.—Aki vices from §t. Thomas by the last
West India mail give some partiuulars of the guano dis-
covery lately made in that vicinity at a spot called Avee,
or Bird island, stated to belong to the Dutch Govern-
ment. The deposit was found by the master of an
American ship, called the Kentucky, and the quantity
is said to lee equal to 300,000 or 400,000 tons, while its
quality approaches that of the Chincha islands. Two
American vessels, the Kentucky and the Comery, were
already taking cargoes from it, and they are said to have
landed 50 men to occupy the place, and to drive off in•
truders, with two pieces of cannon. If the estimates of
quantity and quality should be realized, the value of the
island will be very great, but the locality scarcely war-
rants an expectation of the deposits being -nearly equal
to the Peruvian. Ayes island is one of the leeward
I group of the West Indies, and lies between the 15th and
116th degrees of north latitude, and 63d and 64th degrees
• of west longitude.