The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-23 00:00:00

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

( Front the Mining Journal of this day.)
MINES —The prospect that Turkish affairs will be
amicably arranged has made the markets firmer both for
dividend and speculative stocks, and a fair amount of
business has been transacted in both. In the former,
Alfred Consols, Condurrow, Bassett, Mary Ann, and
Merllyn, have been most enquired for ; and in the latter,
Copper Hill, East Buller, and Sidney. The great fall
in lead has affected shares in lead mines, and must
seriou.ly reduce their profits, unless a rise takes place
to something like a fair and remunerative price. Many
mines are getting 51. per ton less fur their ores, whilst
their expenses are not in any way materially reduced.
In the metal market, copper and tin are in demand ;
prices continue firm, and an increased price is antici-
pated. Lead remains at the quotations of last week,
with but little business doing. Spelter is very quiet,
holders not not being willing to sell at present prices—a
great demand being expected to arise as winter ap-
proaches. In charcoal tin plates a large amount of busi-
ness has been done, and coke plates are becoming very
scarce, from a falling off in the make. Scotch pig-iron
has advanced, and rails are firm, with every prospect of
an increased demand and rise in price.
In the Bullion Market—Mexican and South Ame-
rican dollar., 4s. ilia. per oz. Bar silver containing
gold, all gold above 5 grs. in the pound to be paid for,
55. ltd. per oz. standard. Bar silver without gold,
ss. lgd. per oz. standard. Bar gold, 775. 9d. per oz.
standard.

The Gold Mining Shares this week have shown
symptoms of a rally from the depression previously
noticed. The re-action in the leading stocks, however,
is not considerable, and credited descriptions re-
main quite out of favour. Generally business in this
department continues quiet, there being little or no
speculation, and the public at the same time are keeping
aloof. Colonial Gold Shares have met with some in-
quiry, consequent upon the receipt of favourable ad-
vances.

STATE OF THE WOOLLEN TRADE.

(From the Leeds Mercury of this day.)

LEEDS, July 22.—The woollen cloth market Continues
without any material alteration. Both on Saturday and
on Tuesday there was a fair steady business done in the
Coloured as well as the White Cloth•hall ; and con-
sidering that several of the principal manufacturers
are attending the London wool sales, perhaps a full
better business was done than might have been ex-
pected. The principal demand at present is for the
various kinds of heavy goods for the fall trade, and
of which the rnarketis very inadequately supplied. tocks
generally are law. Prices continue without any decided
alteration. There are at present, and have been during
the week, a great many buyers in the town ; which has
caused a good steady trade to be done in the warehouses,
principally in heavy goods, of which .the stocks are gene-
rally light in quantity, and dear in value, in consequence
of the high prices that bad to be paid for the raw mate-
rial, which has enhanced the cost very considerably in
heavy gyods. We believe the buyers will have consi-
derable difficulty in supplying their wants at the present
time.

HUDDERSFIELD: JULY 19.—The wool business is flat,
and the quantity arrived from the present sales in Lon-
don is yet small, and though a slight reduction has
taken place, manufacturers generally have an impres-
sion that prices will be still lower, and are accordingly
waiting for a more favourrble opportunity for making
their purchases.

BRADFORD.--Trade is very much injured by the un-
certainty that prevails respecting the Turkish question.
Wool shows a downward tendency, and in ail depart-
ments parties purchase to supply immediate wants.
Very little wool comparatively has yet been got from
the country, and many of the staplers who have pur-
chased have repented of their bargains.
LEICESTER. - Though the demand for worsted goods
is dull, as is usual at this season, all the workmen are
well employed at the advanced rate of wages, and there
is more than usual doing in shipping orders for the colo-
nial markets. The cotton demand still keeps good,
especially for greys, which are very scarce, and the sup-
ply of cotton quite insufficient. The worsted yarn
market is firm of the reduced prices. In wools there is

not much doing,. and the same reluctance is noticed to
sell at present prices by the growers ; spinners only
buy to supply present wants. The present uncertainty
of Eastern pollitics has had the effect of lowering prices
at the colonial wool sales, which have realised from Ad.
to ld. per lb. less than the former sold at.

FATA ACCIDENT IN THE BRISTOL CHANNEL. - —lntel-
ligence has been received at Bristol of the total loss of
the sloop William, Richard Billing, master, the property
of Mr. Robert Jones. The unfortunate vessel was 011
her voyage, with a cargo of coals, from Newport to
Bridgewater, and, when off the Steep Holmes, on Tues-
day morning last, about half-past 10 o'clock, she is sup-
posed to have started a " butt," and sank in nine
fathoms of water. We regret to say that the crew—
consisting of Captain Billings, his son, and a man, to-
gether with a pauper girl, about 15 years of age, named
Humbling, a passenger—we drowned. They were ob-
served by the crew of another vessel to get into her
boat, but so instantaneously did vessel fill that they had
not time to cast off the boat before she sank, drawing
the boat with her crew and the girl after her. The For-
titude, of Bridgewater, bore down to the sinking vessel,
but it was too late to render any assistance. The ill-
fated sloop is stated to have been a very old vessel, and
wholly unfit for sea. The master has left a wife and
family to lament his loss.
BRITISH MUSEUM.—Accordinary to a Parliamentary
return, printed on Friday, the estimated number of
volumes now in the library of the British Museum is
510,110. The number of volumes of each of three sets
of the supplementary catalogue (exclusive of three sets
of four volumes each, of indexes to long headings)
is 305. Each set of 305 volumes contains 220,789
titles, caculated up to the 24th of June last. These
titles are estimated to refer to about 135,000 volumes
of printed books. About 100,000 volumes, in the
library before 1839, are supposed to remain to be
done. Titles for the whole of them are, however,
entered in the old catalogues. Further information is
given in the return (obtained by Mr. Bell, M.P.) of the
progress of the catalogues in the British Museum. It
appears that the additions since 183 S are catalogued and
entered either in the general or in the supplementary
catalogue up to eight or ten weeks ago, with a trifling
exception. The supplementary catalogue (Answer
No. 2), contains the titles of books added to the library
since about 1846.

THE MEASLEB.—The two sons of the King of the
Belgi :Ds, the Duke de Brai,ant and the Uount de
Flandres, are both confined to their apartments at the
Palace of Laeken by the measles, but the malady pre-
sents no symptoms to excite uneasiness.