The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-26 00:00:00

THE WOOLLEN TRADE.

(From the Leeds Mercury of Saturday.)
TRADit or LEEns.—Considering the late period of th•
season our cloth markets have been unusually brisk, more
particularly for blues, wool-dyed blacks, and other woaded
colours ; but in what are termed common colours there has
this week and for some time past been but a very limited
demand. The makers generally have, however, been acting
with caution in these colours, and in consequence the stocks
are very low, whilst for woaded colours, from the want of
drought, the supply has been unequal to the demand.
There have been but few buyers in the town during the
week, and business has, therefore, been but slack in the
warehouses.

BRADFORD MARKET, THE nsDAY.—There has been
more inquiry for goods in the piece market to-day, though
we do not hear of many sales being effected. There is a
considerable degree of firmness among the manufacturers,
as the raw material continues to fetch higher prices. There
has been little or no vari ition in yarn for several weeks ; the
prices are firm, and very likely to be worth a shade more, as
wool is not to be had nithout an advance. In the wool
market the impressioa is (and it has undergone no change
this week), that the prices of almost every description of
wool will for some time be fully maintained. Matchings of
higher qualities, and New South Wales combing wool, are
in good request.
THE BARNSLEY DRILL TRADE is in SO brisk a state,
that the manufacturers of that article are unable to meet
with a sufficient nurnb:-r of :re avers in the town to do the
work. We have heard that one manufacturer, who has
advanced wages, is so short of hands that he is compelled
to send some of his warps to Darlington to be woven. At
the public meeting of weavers on Monday night, one of
the speakers said he believed that any one of the drill
manufacturers would be able to employ nearly all the
weavers in Barnsley, they had such good orders for
that article.

WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, FRIDAY.—We have ex-
perienced an active inquiry for all deep combing wools
through the week, and a further small advance in them has
been obtained. The demands for the finer and shorter
combing sorts, as well as for all carding wools, is good, at
very firm prices.

DESTRUCTION OF THE PALACE
. OF RApHOE
BY FlRE.—This magnificent structure is now a heap of
groundsees,.
and,o on s i
aFriday e
dnight.eath
ruins. It was burnt to
Raphoe is one of the suppressedDe
of the late excellent prelate, . r.Bissett, who had expended
by a care-taker and his family,
v trge it,ta thepl
ay palace
hwea soccupiedEcclesias-
tical
a considerable sum in i
fire was discovegr,edainadblvouletseiliaperaopeelerteyk,
the
Commissioners
ewaalas.rm-%%ber alarm-bell
When e
ofn
11 thethe
palace was rung, numbers of the inhabitants of the
towns with the constabulary attended,
.. but all their efforts
to suppress the fire were unavailing.
supposed to have been e i
tia:aiilirig. The. conflagration is
by the lighting of a fire
in one of the unoccupied rooms, which was
.not properly
attended to. The only article '(:f
furniture which was saved
was an organ that belonged to the late Bishop.
ODD CIRCUMSTANCE._Out of the 54 coats of
arms displayed in the Peerage, 135, or about one-fourth of
the whole, have horned aturoalq for supporters—if the
r. n
crests
be taken into the aecoant, the proportion would b
higher : one Noble Duke's coat exhibits on and abo-utmuchch
it r.o
fewer than six pairs.—Scasnian.