The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-01 00:00:00

TILE WOOL TRADE.

The follbwiag is from Messrs. Joseph Robinson and
Co.'s (of I4verpool) circular
:
"The wool market last month has been marked by con-
siderable activity. From the districts of manufacture,
the complainings of some months past still exist, and,
although threats are held out by the consumers, to the
growers and importers, that the former will work short
time, or close their mills altogether, rather than con-
tinue at such disadvantage, yet an increase is growing in
value from actual scarcity ; from also a large export
demand; from consumption abroad and extensive con-
sumption at. home. Almost every trade report declares
to the healthy state of the country, and from the enor-
mous production and multiplicity of orders, the wool
trade would seem to share richly in the benefit. This,
however, is not the case at the present, neither has it
been for some time ; occasionally it happens, that the
raw material rises in value, considerably beyond the
margin of a profitable investment for manufacture, and,
as this is the state of affairs in the woollen branches, the
consumer must regulate his future operations by pre-
paration, as there is no disposition on the part of holders
of wool to accept lower rates. Probably, some degree of
curiosity is apparent as to the effect produced by the
raising of the rate of discount by the Bank of England ;
as stocks of all classes of wool are very light, and no
great influx expected, and as there was little to speculate
upon, no change occurred in prices, but the recent ad-
vance was firmly adhered to. The step taken is held
judicious, and the general belief is, that money is cheap
enough still. To be brief, the whole of the business of
the month has been by private treaty ; it comprises large
sales of washed Turkey, East India, Russian, Mogador,
Cordova washed, Castel Branco (small parcels), trifling
lots of Oporto and Egyptian, Buenos Ayres (greasy and
washed), long Bosnia (to arrive), and some few other
classes. Most of the purchases have been for export,
and are shipped ; in some instances Ad. per lb. advance
is obtainable since December sales. A greater business
would have transpired, but for the small quantity of
wool here generally. The kinds most in request are
combing Russian, combing and short Egyptian, East
India, Turkey, &c., &c., supplies of which are much
needed. Reports are prevalent that speculative pur-
chases have been made in Yorkshire, for this market, of
Australian wool, and from the arrivals seen the state-
ment is not without foundation. Scotch.— Some sales
have been made in laid Cheviot at very high
rates ; about 100 packs of white Cheviots have
also changed hands. Much higher prices are now
demanded for laid Highland and white Highland ; the
latter is all cleared, and the stock of the former was never
S 9 small for years. Laid and washed cross and Galloway
have been greedily taken, and few parcels remain ; long
before clip time it is expected Scotch wools will be all
consumed. English and Irish.—Stocks here are 'much
reduced, several parcels of fleeces have been sold at an
advance of Id. per lb. ; what few lots are in farmers'
hands, exorbitant rates are asked for ; skin participates
in the advance and is also scarce; it is purchased as soon
as pulled."

STATE OF TRADE IN MANCHESTER GOODS.

The following is from Messrs. M`Nair, Greenhow, and
Irving's circular :

" the transactions of each succeeding month, in this
market, would appear, from its quiet, cool, and tempe-
rate aspect, externally—and as being now so much at
variance with the features incidental to large operations
in former and byegone years—to be rendering the duties
of parties like ourselves more and more difficult in inti-
mating to correspondents a really correct and substantial
notion as to the actual condition of matters here. Dur-
ing the first two weeks of the month the market was
dull and drooping, from easily perceptible causes ; since
then a very large amount of transactions in both goods
and yarns, equalling the well-remembered month of
October last—as to the period indicated—have been en-
tered into.

" The demand has again been mainly for export, both
as regarded goods and yarns ; that for the home trade,
though comparatively unimportant, having exhibited a
gr !ater degree of improvement in the course of the
month, than what might have been anticipated, consi-
dering the influence which the weather, during the last
four months, might have had upon its immediate and
prospective bearing and interest.
" The accounts, as connected with the probable ex-
tent of the cotton crop, come as usual at this season in a
conflicting and contradictory manner. The article has,
in the course of the month, in Liverpool, advanced about
Id. per lb. More than a crop of 3,000,000 of bales, we
cannot so far say, that we are likely to have. Should
such be the case, and providing that nothing arise to call
again for the necessity cf raising discounts further, it
appears to us tolerably certain that, instead of the raw
material declining in value, it will by-and-bye, for a time
realise highei rates.
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_
" Stocks of both goods and yarns are not only as light
as they were a month ago, but in many instances actu-
ally lighter. Prices have during the month fluctuated
slightly. Now they are all not only as firm as they
were at the commencement of the month, but in many
instances higher, with a general upward tendency."

INTERPRETERS OF PROPHECY.—The Rev. G. S. Faber,
I3.D' , has just written a pamphlet to show that Napo-
leonthe Third is the seventh head of a beast mentioned
in Revelation, and consequently, saith he, "there shall
be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a
nation." Next, the Rev. Mr. Hotham, Woodnesborough,
near Sandwich (we must be particular in matters so
mighty), preached to his congregation the other day, that
in fourteen years the world will be at an end, and that
the prophecy would be fulfilled, "Ye shall not know
winter from summer, nor summer from winter." And,
as a climax, the Rev. Dr. Cumming, whose name needs
no description, says, in his new book on the Apocalypse,
that Rome will be " destroyed by fire from heaven, or
swallowed up by earthquakes, or overwhelmed by de-
struction with volcanoes, as the visible punishment of
the Almighty for its Popery."—Bucks Advertiser.
PARTIAL DESTRUCTION OF THE SHIP BODERICK, AND
Loss OF LlFE.—Last evening a fire of a very alarming
and destructive character, and which unfortunately was
attended with loss of life:happened in the ship Roderick,
500 tons burthen, under the command of Captain Hop-
per, and laden with 150 tons of coal for the Imperial
Gas-light Company, which was lying in the Regent's
Canal Basin, Limehouse. The flames originated, from
some unknown cause, under the decks, and when first
perceived had obtained a firm hold of the vessel. During
the
excitement which prevailed a policeman fell into the
dock, and another man, in running to render assistance,
likewise fell overboard. The officer was saved by the
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ment.
ROYAL EASTERN YACHT CLUB.—Our readers will be
pleased to learn that there is a prospect of this club
being resuscitated from its sleep of 15 years. When it
was originally established in 1835, no such thing as a
proper yacht harbour existed in the Firth of Forth,
where vessels might find ingress and egress at ail stages
of the tide. As might have been anticipated, in such a
state of matters, no yachts were kept ; such as bad a
taste for nautical sports went to the Clyde or elsewhere
to enjoy them. Now matters are altogether changed.
The noble energy 'of the Duke of Buccleuch, in calling
the harbour of Granton into existence, and the recent
improvements in Leith, have conferred a great boon on
yachtsmen; and the consequence is that we have now a
f some dozen yachts—some of them very
squadron o
handsome vessels—lying in the Queen's Dock.
SPRING SYMPTOMS.—The song of the lark, that early
harbinger of spring, was
'heard in the vicinity of Arbroath
in the beginning of the present week for the first time this
season, —Northern Wordier.