The Sun.
London, England, 1836-02-29 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

( From the Leeds Mercury.)
LEEDS.—The demand for goods at both halls has been
been quite as good as for the last few weeks past, more par-
ticularly for low and middle qualities, which, in conse-
quence of the continued large purchases, are now become
scarcelY adequate to the demand, and prices in consequence,
are rather on the advance. There has been a considerable
influx of buyers at market since the 20th inst., and business
has been unusually brisk in the warehouses.
HuDnEnsriEr.o, FEB. 23.—There continues to be an
increased demand for broad cloths and narrow plains of a
low quality ; prices a little in advance. Fancy buckskins
and checks the same as our last account, brisk, and sold as
soon as received from the loom. We never knew a time
when there were so few woollen goods in our Market Hall
as at the present time.
BRADFORD, FEB. 25.—The advance in the price of
piece goods, specified in our report of the 11th instant, has
not only been maintained, both at last week's and this
week's markets, but even a further advance has been sought
to-day, though it is difficillt to ascertain bow far it has been
complied with ; as, whilst some of the merchants have hesi-

tated to givo,others have bought freely ; and it is evident
there has not been any slackening -in the demand for goods
to-day, compared with any market during the present year.
Wetheri are fetching high prices for the Leicester trade.
FEB. 20.—There has been an average
quantity of pieces sold in the Hall to-day, at prices similar
to those of last week. Manufacturers contintvi their ope-
rations-with great activity, and on account of the smallness
of the stocks of stuff goods, both here and in all places
whither they are exported, they are anticipating a brisk and
profitable summer trade. The spinners of this town and
neighbourhood are fully employed, and say, that the orders
which they are obliged to reject. would occupy double the
machinery that they have running. Yarn, however,

although in excellent -demand, has been nearly stationary
in price during the last fortnight. Some descriptions of
wool, such as super wtthers and super hogs, have risen
about 20s. per pack of 2401b5. within the last week ; but
a great deal of business has been done to-day at last
week's prices.

WAKEFIELD, FED. 26.—We again report long wool
a little improved in value since our last. Short wool may
also be quoted a shade higher, and that stocks arc taken off
as they are brought to market.

TIIE GWENNAP MURDER.—On Friday last, a
most horrid murder was committed at Gwennap, in this
county : a monster in the human form having taken away the
life of his child, a daughter, of the age of fourteen years. It
appears that for several.years the wife and children of this un-
happy person, whose name is Philip Manuel, have been under
the necessity of living away from him, in consequence of his
brutal conduct, and his repeated threats to murder them.
On the day above mentioned the deceased and another sister
went to his house to ask for some meat and some money, when
he became enraged, and ordered them to go away. They re-
fused to go, and remonstrated with him, which only increased
hip anger; he threatened to shoot them unless they left
immediately, and going into the house brought out his gun,
and fired at the younger girl, but without injuring her 'beyond
the effect of the alarm : it was said that the gun was not
&lotted ; however, he fired a second time without
further effect, and such was the desperation which
the children were driven to by want that all the threats
of the unnatural parent were disregarded. lie then loaded the
gun a third time, desired his elder child, on whose life he held
a lease of his farm, to stand apart from the youwer, and took
a deliberate-aim at the latter, who fell at his feet mortally
wounded. He then told his other child that unless she left

place, taking her wounded sister with her, she should in-

staniiy share the same fate. Some persons hearing the report
of the gun hastened to the spot, and found one of the girls
•v-eltcring in her blood, and her sister by her side, recommend-
ing her to call upon the Lord to have mercy on her soul. The
dying girl was conveyed to St. Day (where her mother and
tha rest of the family reside), and two surgeons were sent for
who, on examining the wound, found that a hall had entered at
the back of the neck, and penetrated the windpipe, conse-
qr,ently death was inevitable, and the poor creature died the
following morning, after suffering great agony. An inquest
was held on Mond4y, which lasted all day, when the Jury re-
turned a verdict of " Wilful murder " against the unnatural
parent.—Falmouth Cornubian.

FLOGGING A GHOST.—Much excitement has been
occa-ioled within the last few days in the neighbourhood of
the Wandsworth-road, in consequence of the mysterious ap-
pearance and disappearance of a supposed " ex-human being"
all in White, whose perambulations were confined to certain
lanes and other isolated places in the vicinity of Short's-fields..
The taste of the perturbed spirit was exceedingly equivocal,
inasmuch as rumour with its " hundred tongues" stated that
this ghost seldom attacked other than the fair sex. To the
cost of sundry of the latter they discovered that "there was a
method in the madness" of their tormentor, partaking more of
were to be
this life than of the other, consequently some of the rougher
ex on Friday night last, at a quarter to the " witching hour"
et iiiint a
ise,re butexc a
ussatbhleey
on that n-
exact, sallied forth, and placed themselves in various parts of
,he ghost's domain. They were disguised a/a petticoat, and
usedca arms—notrrieadgainst a
supernaturalexactly
count. The assailants waited bet a little while ere they
lured
from his lair the object for which they had
1 e;lgi
terepudiated their
beds. no ghost suddenly sprang from
a hedge by the road
aide, approached, and embraced un',l of the
party nearest its
clutch. But the amorous snirit in that embrace met a de-
served file ; he was quickly tfra rri, d
from his intended victim,
-id lashed to a lamp-posti w
in cr oeb
1 position he must have felt
that the flogging s'sslern tea The pseudo glioq proved to s
be the
ialltogether done away with.
keeper reskieut in the Wandswort e son of a respectable inn-
th-road.

SUDDEN DEATHS —Saturday morning a young
,nan named Hutton, fell down and expired, in the parlour of
Aii: Johns°li,
refiner, in Hatton-garden.--A young woman,
‘,11!IC carrying a basket of linen, roll down a corpse, in Ex,
mouili-ttreet, Spa-fields. On her person was found a bill,
male out to a Air. Marshall, for washing. The body was re-
moved to the station,louse, and lies there to be owned.