The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-09 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, APRIL s—Business to a
very small amount has been transacted in foreign wools
during the past week, but prices have in no degree
varied for some weeks past. The sales yesterday of co-
lonial wools went off, we understand, at about the prices
realised in London February sales.
ENGLISH WOOL MARIKET.—LEEDS, APRIL s.—We
have not any change to report this week either in the
demand or prices. Transactions have been small, prices
stationary. _ s

LEEDS.—Less than an average business has been done
at our Cloth Halls, both on Saturday and Tuesday,
and the deliveries to order have been less than for
some time. Low goods are higher in price, but
the clothiers complain that they cannot replace
them at the present price of wool. Middle qualities and
fine goods continue stationary, and the stocks are low
for the time of the year. Many country buyers have
been in the town, purchasing their stocks for Easter, and
in consequence there has been a little more doing by the
home houses; the foreign houses also continue busy.
BRADFORD MARKET, TRURSDA.Y.--Wool9—The re-
luctance to purchase combing wools still continues, and
the holders show no inclination to press sales. The high
prices now sought, as compared with the cost of wools
in course of consumption, tend to damp the spirits of
inquirers, and we find the spinners unwilling to buy at the
prices sought. To effect sales to any extent, lower prices
must be submitted to; but the staplers are loth to do
this, seeing, as they do, among the growers such a firm-
ness to maintain prices that cannot be realised here.
Yarns—This market is not so active as it was at the
close of February, and prices then current cannot be
realised; nor is the position of the spinner by any
m ans so good as it then was, for wools have as-
sumed a fixity of price from which there has been no
giving way equal to the expectations of the con-
sumer, or to the low price at which orders have been
taken. Labour is decidedly dearer in every department
than it was last autumn, and without an improvement in
the current rate for yarns the condition of the spinner
will not be very cheering. Pieces—The flattering
news from the east, and the arrival of the American
steamers with tidings of a great abundance of money,
cheap discount, and low rate of exchange, are all
highly favourable to a large business for the approaching
season. The sales of goods thus far, for the spring,
are
reported as very satisfactory. If the fair at Leipsic, just
now on the eve, be equal to expectation, we may look for
a particularly busy season, for there are now no stocks of
goods on hand, and the facilities for producing them are
limited, as relays are not applicable to power-loom weav-
ing.. The business doing to-day has not exhibited any
marked alterations. The manufacturers are generally in
good spirits, and in many instances extensively engaged
to order. In prices there is no alteration.
MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—The face of
things in the commercial world is quite changed since
this day week, i. e. as regards our cloth market. Then
all was gloomy and lifeless, to-day the market assumes
quite another hue, and a good business is doing at
improving rates, and there is now a disposition
on the part of buyers to contract for
future delivery. The news from India, whether political
or commercial, is deemed most satisfactory,
and large shipments for the East are in active progress.
There are also large orders in town for the United States
by last steamer, and the market may be called healthy
in every branch. Yarns are in better demand, and id.
to higher than on this day week. The sales for the
week are—Friday, 5,000 bales ; Saturday, 6 000; Mon-
day, 8,000; Tuesday, 6,000; Wednesday, 7,000; Thurs-
day, 4,000; total, 36,000 bales.
.LEICESTER.—BthIneiS in the warehouses remains the
ssme as last reported. The worsted spinners are fully
employed in working up their stock of wools, and
prices remain without alteration, though the demand has
slackened. The check in wools bas inclined the fell-
mongers to bring their skin wool into the market,
but the prices they required will not enable the spinner
to produce at a profit on present terms, so that but
little has been done either in skin wool or fleece sorts.
The little effected has been at prices a shade in favour of
the buyer.

1,2G4

3,419

1,030

464
3,318
1,189
13,065

950
1,036
2,010
947

2,115
17,461

8,933
1,487

37,065

6,795
7,958
2.261
11,816

1,944
2,663
1,108

709
7,125
885
1,789
837

Mrs. Butler (Fanny Kemble), a New York paper
informs us, still continues to have crowded and fashion-
able auditors at her Shaksperian readings, at Stuyvesant
Institute, three mornings and three evenings a week.
She is coining money, and out of her Boston and New
York sojourns together, occupying a term of about two
months, she will have made a pretty little fortune. At
the former place we have seen it stated that she cleared
nearly ten thousand dollars, which we can readily be-
lieve, happening personally to know the sort of houses
she had at the Masonic Temple there. Here she is
creating the same furore, it being the decidedly fashion-
able thing to attend her matinees and soirees. Nobody
ventures to admit the possibility of surviving a single
omission of the " readings," any more than, a few months
ago, that of staying in town during the watering-place
.season. The subsequent readings_of Mrs. Butler have
all been of the same elevated character with that of the
Macieth, the details of which we gave the day follow-
ing its delivery. She is certainly imbued with the true
spiritof Shakspere's genius, to a degree rarely witnessed,
on or off the stage.
If at any time the streets _of a populous town
should be free from the nuisance of stalls, that time is
the period of holding a great fair, when the streets are
crowded with people assembled from all parts of the coun-
try. Ordinary market days present no scenes of bustle and
jostle comparable with those of fairs, when a great sea of
human being is sweeping about. Yet the Lighting and
Paving Commissioners have determined that stalls shall
not occupy the streets on market days, and with a rare
consistency have granted permission that the streets
shall be occupied by stalls during the approaching fair
week. The plea of the persons who have sought this
privilege is the bad state of trade, and the pressure of
taxes. How stalls set before their doors will give them
relief, they did not undertake to demonstrate, but they
seemed comfortably to take it for granted that the
poverty so paraded must be relieved by selling goods
from stalls, and that it would not be mitigated if the
same goods were sold from shops. People generally
think that a good shop is more attractive to customers
than a stall buried in the midst of a mass of crowded
human beings; but the petitioners seem to think the most
enticing object is that which hides their shops, yet
scarcely can be be seen itself. If there were no stalls,
the shops would be visible to entice whoever wanted to
buy, and those who had wants would supply them;
but to think of creating customers by impeding the free
use of the public streets with stalls, is quite as ridi-
culous as the consent to permit stalls to be erected
is illegal, and unjust to the public. Other
people besides the High street tradesmen who signed
the petition have to feel the depression of the times, and
pay rent and taxes; and if each set up a privilege
of being more prominent than his neighbours, there
would soon be a mad competition which would produce
disorder and outrage. With people of foresight, the
uffair is deemed a pretext upon which to hinge the
gpertohveork. e The
policy now adopted
getting back the stallisn into
Lincoln
the s
streets
ets
nota alto
hold of every op-
covetted, but to get it by hits, seising
an-
tugonism by distinctly claiming the whole of what is
portunity which seems to favour the movement. What
of scarlet
the visit of Prince Albert is to corporate lovers
gowns, the fair is looked upon as being to the nuisaa ce-
loving tradesmen, who would not be so fond of talking
about their poverty if they were really poor! it is a con
venient point for originating a stealthy movement.—
Stanford Mercury.

RAILWAYwith
newECONOMYpa66e.n—geSro-ctnareriavgeeryaxule-sebfouxl
haveexperi-
ments
just
t
been completed upon the London and North-Westerns
Railway, under the superintendence of the company's
officers. The objection to the ordinary axle-boxes of
rail way carriages is, that while the grease finds an
easy escape from them, and is wasted to a very expen-
sive extent, the dust, of which an abundance is go.
nerally raised by the speed of the train, insinuates itself
between the axles and the journals, and acts as a grind-
ing medium upon the surface of both metals. The conse-
quence is, a very considerable wear of the materials and
frequent " hot axles." To this objection must be added
the wages of the men employed at the stations to re-
plenish such of the axle-boxes as have lost an undue
quantity of grease. The men are allowed very little
tune to do this, and in their haste they seldom stop to
examine whether in scraping off and putting into the
axle-box the grease that may have been pressed
over the side, they gather up with it a quan-
tity of the fine pointed grit which is usually
adhering to the outside of axle-boxes. It is
very seldom that a passenger train runs fifty miles
without some of the axle-boxes requiring a fresh sup-
ply of grease. The new axle-boxes, which are the in-
vention of one of the officers of the engineering depart-
ment of the London and North-Western Company, Mr.
Normanville, prevent the admission of grit, by the use
of a screw opening, through which the grease is sup-
plied, and the waste of the latter, as well as the insinua-
tion of dust between the axles and the journals, are
avoided by the application of a valve acted upon by vul-
canised India-rubber springs, fitted to the axle at the
hitherto open end of the box. The experiments were
made with two four wheeled first-class carriages, Nos.
106 and 169, taken indiscriminately from the rolling
stock of carriages fitted with this description of box, of
which there is a considerable number at work. These
carriages were worked in the express and ordinary trains
between London and Liverpool and Manchester. One
of them ran upwards of four thousand miles, and the
other upwards of three thousand eight hundred miles,
without the axle-boxes having had any additional grease
supplied, and without,the axles having once got " hot."
At the conclusion of the experiment, the axles and jour-
nals were inspected by the company's officers and found
to be in perfect order. It is stated that the application
of these axle-boxes to the company's stock will effect a
saving of several thousand pounds sterling per annum.
A most providential escape occurred at Recca slate
quarry, on Tuesday. One of the men in the pit espied
a sliding in the side of the rock, and immediately gave
an alarm. The men ran into the tunnel just soon enough
to escapo w, 'th their ves, as some hundreds of ton of
slate fell down on theli spot where they had been standing.

Western limes.
CHICORY IN COFFEE.—Buy your coffee in the bean,
and grind it fresh every morning. You will procure a
small coffee mill for half-a.crown. We recommend you
to buy, chicory, and mix one spoonful with five spoonfuls
of coffee; it is an improvement. Chicory will cost you
4d. to 6d. 'per pound; hut especially avoid 'bifying
ground coffee, for the article is far superior when ground
fresh as required.

MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1849.

street, and am attorney to Lord Vernon. Have read
tbo 1,h,1 with 1"...,t,r.t1
1843;
to the corporation, anti tkr:.: purchase 01 other

(Mr. Sergeant Wilkins adniittvd the article referred
to by Mr. Coppock.)
Cross examined—The negotiations began in
August, 1843, and ended at Christmas, 1844. That
did not refer to the manorial rights, but to Stringer's
fields, which it was considered desirable the corpora-
tion should have for public walks. The other sub-
ject was the site of the court-house and some adjacent
buildings, which were to be granted for 999 years on
chief rent. Prior to that there was a dispute respect-
ing the right of Lord "Vernon to build in the market
place. He understood his lordship's steward sent
several persons to build, but they were resisted by the
corporation. Soon after the negotiations commenced
respecting the purchase by Lord Vernon of a piece of
land and the old workhouse. His lordship gave 1,0001.
for it. Does not know that the building alone cost
the rate-payers 4,000/.
Re examined—As far as I am able to judge the price
was a fair one.

By the JuDGE—The main line of railway comes
close to the land, and it is now turned into a coal
depot.
____

Mr. Thomas Ashworth, local agent to Lord Vernon
in Cheshire—Had had the negotiation respecting the
sale by the corporation and the parish to Lord Vernon.
The article in question refers to the transaction.
Cross-examined—Am a valuer of buildings. The
workhouse must have cost a considerable sum. There
is more than an acre of land adjoining. It is now
valuable to Lord Vernon. Stringer's fields remain as
they were. In the first instance, the agreement was
that the corporation should pay 21,0001. for their pur-
chase from Lord Vernon ; but the contract had not
been completed. An Act of Parliament has been
passed to complete the contract, and the purchase-
money is to be 22,5001. Two of the buildings are
very old.

fte-examined—ln my opinion Lord Vernon gave a
fair price for the land and workhouse. Stringer's-
fields were to be given, if the corporation turned them
into public gardens, and kept them up. I valued the
tolls at 24,5001.

This closed the case for the plaintiff.
Mr. Sergeant WILKINS then proceeded to address
the jury on behalf of the defendant. He confessed
that never since he had been called on to address a
jury, had he been so perplexed for lack of topic and for
lack of argument as in the present case. He certainly
had taken the liberty of asking his Lordship, after
hearing the opening of the pleadings by his Learned
Friend, whether the statement which he read was a
libel, and certainly if they took that view of the case,
that it was a libel, then they must come to the conclu-
sion that every public manwho had ever existed in this
country, and whose conduct had been commented on,
had been libelled. After some other eloquent obser-
vations, the Learned Gentleman went through the
whole of the alleged libel and commented upon it,
contending that it was merely a comment upon Mr.
Coppock in his public character, and not calculated
either to injure him in private, or to bring him into
contempt. He contended that the smallest damages
would satisfy.
The Learned JUDGE then proceeded to sum up to
the jury. After explaining the law of libel, he said
the question to he considered was, whether the article
in question imputed corruption to the plaintiff, or was
calculated to injure him in his character; if so,•their
verdict must be for the plaintiff, with such damages
as they might think him fairly entitled to; but if
they should be of opinion that it was, in truth, merely
a discussion of matter which had been going on in
the borough, and did not attribute corrupt motives,
or was not injurious to the character of the plaintiff,
dirt-) their verdict must be for the defendant.
The jury retired, and, after ten minutes' consulta-
tion, found a verdict for the defendant.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
William _Mansell and Edward Hardy, the one 18
the other 22 years of age, were brought before Al-
derman Hooper under the,following circumstances :
James Ellicomb, police-officer of Exeter, said, on
Tuesday last I was at the coffee-house near the turn-
pike-gate, at the railroad station in Exeter, looking
after a young man who was charged with having set
fire to a house. I saw the prisoners in the coffee
room, and as one of them answered the description I
had received of the person who had fired the house,
and they had a chest which appeared to be well
stocked in their possession, I asked if the chest was
their property, and Hardy said it was, ard that they
were brothers. I expressed a wish to see what was
in the chest, and at their desire had it taken up stairs.
The chest was then placed upon a box, and Mansell
immediately put a pistol in his mouth, and bidding
his friend good bye, snapped it. The pistol, how-
ever, missed fire, for although it was loaded
it had no percussion "cap upon it. I at
once jumped up and secured Mansell, and
he then dropped another pistol, which I se-
cured, and which was also loaded with powder
and ball. I then procured assistance, and I found in
a canvas bag which he had in his pocket 140 sove-
reigns and other money. The chest was filled with
all manner of things, and as I suspected they had
stolen the property, I conveyed them to the. station-
house. I have since learned that the money was
stolen from Mr. Pulling, a stockbroker, at 2, Capel-
court, Bartholomew-lane. At the police office the
prisoner Mansell stated that the money was taken by
the younger prisoner Hardy, from a Mr. Pulling, and
that they were going away with it.
Mr. Joseph Pulling stated that Hardy had been a
clerk in his employment, and had left without notice
a fortnight ago. He bad given him a cheque to get
cashed, which he was to fill up for 10/. ; instead of
this, however, it was filled up for 1051., and the
money was paid at his banker's. The witness ex-
pressed his unwillingness to prosecute the prisoners.
Alderman HOOPER said he could not permit such
a case to pass without investigation.
The prisoners were then committed for trial.
GUILDHALL.
Thomas Peach, a porter, in the service of Mr.
Thomas Rawlinson, Skinner-street, Snow-hill, whole
sale tea-dealer, was placed at the bar before Sir Peter
Laurie, on a charge of carrying on a series of rob-
beries, under the following circumstances :
Mr. Rawlinson stated that the prisoner had been in
his service for upwards of 24 years, and the greatest
confidence was placed in his integrity, but in conse-
quence of finding that he was being robbed to an
alarming extent, his suspicions were aroused, and he
directed an officer to watch the prisoner when he left
the warehouse. Accordingly, about a quarter to two
o'clock on Good Friday, the officer stopped the pri-
soner in Skinner-street, and brought him back to the
warehouse, when it was found that he had concealed
in his trousers and coat pockets 2klb. of loaf-sugar.
The prisoner's house, in the Crescent, Church-street,
Kennington, was searched, and it was there found
out that he had issued cards in the neighbourhood
with his name on them as a " tea and coffee dealer,"
and a large amount of witness's goods, to the extent
of from 8/. to 10/. worth, were discovered.
Sir PETER LAURIE asked Mr. Rawlinson if he was
at all aware that Peach was carrying on business on
his own account?—Mr. Rawlinson said he was not.
The prisoner had been constantly plundering him to
supply his own customers.
Bohle Harms, 288, deposed to taking the prisoner
back to the warehouse, and finding the sugar in his
possession, as also a small key. He then went to the
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weigh-
ing 231bs. ; 18 parcels of loaf sugar, weighing 241b5.;
14 parcels of raw/sugar, weighing 171b5.; 7 packages
of coffee, half a pound of blue, 6 parcels of currants,
9 packages, containg candy, pepper, cinnamon, cloves,
allspice, ground ginger, sago, soda, and isinglass, a
new brass tap, 2 balls of twine, 7 bundles of paper, and
27 canvass coffee bags. That morning, while on his
way to the court, the prisoner admitted the goods to
be the property of his master, which he had been a
long time collecting, and that he must have been mad
to have so committed himself.
Mr. Rawlinson said, from the general appearance
of the goods, he believed them to be his property.
Sir PETER LAURIE asked the prosecutor what
wages he gave the prisoner ? Mr. Rawlinson said he
had 17s. per week.
Sir PETER LAURIE said it was lamentable to see a
man who had held a situation so long, and in whom
such great confidence had been placed, in the pri •
Boner's position. However, the system of robberies
by servants had latterly become so prevalent, that it
was necessary a check should be given to it, and ex-
amples made ; and, therefore, he should commit him
for trial.
The depositions being made out, he was conveyed
to Newgate.