The Sun.
London, England, 1838-07-23 00:00:00

1838.

THE WOOLLEN TRADE.

(From the Leeds Mercury of Saturday.)
LEEDS. —About the same quantity of goods have been sold
at the cloth halls this week as for the last few weeks past. The
stocks of goods in the halls are quite low. The machinery of
this district is in full activity, and the manufacturing popula-
tion are working longer haurs than they have been accus-
tomed to do for a long time past. In the warehouses there
has also been a good deal doing the week, and the stocks on
hand with some of the larger houses are unusually low.
HUDDERSFIELD.—Thursday was a busy market, a great
amount of business being, especially in heavy woollens, low
buckskins, &c. Fancy waistcoatings of a very superior make,
arc in great demand to order, there being little or no stock on
band. Better prices on the whole were obtained, but the
manufacturers have up-hill work, to battle with the wool
dealer on the one hand, and the merchant on the other. How-
ever, a little firmness will ultimately succeed, as the stocks
are extremely light, and the demand daily increasing.
BRADFORD._Considerable sales of piece goods have been
effecteA, prices very firm, and in some descriptions of goods
rather higher obtained. The lower qualities of six-quarter
wide merinos are much sought after, and scarce. Middle
qualities are more plentiful, but of finer there are no large
stocks on hand. Whilst wool is from 15 to 20 per cent.
higher now than it was last year at this period, six-quarter
wide merinos generally have latterly been sold at ss. per
piece less than at the same period last year; this strange ano-
maly we leave those most interested in the trade to account
for. The demand for yarn continues good, and prices firm.
Although there is a fair demand, yet wool keeps up in price,
so as to cause the spinners to ask higher prices, of which the
manufacturers complain malt, as they cannot obtain a corre-
sponding price on goods. Our report of the wool-market, ,
this week, differs little from that of several previous weeks.
About the same amount of business has been done • the prices
asked lst week have in many cases been given, and the state
of the market t}irouglicut indicates much firmness.
HALIFAX.—There does not appear to have been any altera-
tion in the demand for stuffs, as compared with last week.
Damasks, figured Merinos, and fine figured Lastings go off
pretty freely; yet manufacturers justly complain of not being
able to command a corresponding advance with that upon wool.
The yarn market is about the same as last week. Spinners
ask a further advance, which prevents much business being
done. The wool market has been much more active this last
week, a considerable quantity of new wool having come in,
which has put a stop to any further advance for the present.
Those country buyers who have given the high prices quoted
in the newspapers will find some difficulty in disposing of their
stock to advantage. Good middle wethers (new wool) sell at
15/. per pack.
YORK.—Thursday the market had been well supplied with
wool, but there were not a large number of buyers, yet a good
many sales have been made at the following prices, viz.:—
Hog 161 d. to 17d. ; half do. 14fd. to 151-d. ; Ewe 120. to
13W. ; Locks with cast, 83d, to 10d. per lb. ; very little
Moor wool in the market.

INVERNESS.—The great wool fair has been a brisk one.
A letter from Inverness, from the partner of a spinning esta.
blishment, contains the following :—" The market is nearly
over; a great deal of laid wash Cheviot has been sold, and
very little consigned to Liverpool, compared with former
years. Laid Cheviot sold from 19s. 6d. to 225. per stone of
24 lbs. very first-rate clips; and in some instances 6d. more
referred to the wool market a month hence."

Wool, which at this season last year fetched only 103. to
133. per stone in this county, is now selling at 17s. to 215.,
being an advance of about 803. per cwt.—Hereford Journal.

TRADE OF DUTCH INDIA. - AMSTERDAM,
JULY 18.—The Handelsblad gives, in three closely printed columns, a
very detailed and minute comparative view of the commerce and navi-
gation of the Dutch East India possessions in the year 1826 and 1836.
The total value of imports into Java and Madeira was—

In 1826.

Merchandise ...
Specie

f. 10,250,997
3,982,822

Total
In 1836
Merchandise ....... ...........
Specie

14,232,997

f. 17,848,748
... 676,156

Total
Thus there was an incresse in the value of the imports of 4,291,901 f.,
and in that of merehandiss of 7,598,573 f. the import of specie having
decreased by 3,306,672 f. tile greatest increase was in the imports
from England, which were in
1826
1836

f. 1,078,412
3,318,495

Leaving a difference of 2,240,083
The greatest decrease was in the imports from America, which Was in
1826
1836 693,191

Decrease 445,269
The total increase was... 6,121,983
Decrease .................. 1,930,082

Increase -.--
4,191,901

THE AMERICAN IN PARIS, A NEW GUIDE
To THAT CAPITAL.-If the Americans are not the most clear sighted
people in the world to their own faults or good qualities, there are none
more shrewed observers of what other people have or want, and few
who know better how to give reasons for the faith that is in them in
regard to these matters. The two unpretending, but capital little
volumes, which have just been published under the above title, offer an
apt illustration of this opidton. How many more such the Americans
themselves have given to the world we know nut, but we venture to
state that they contain mere punvn,t-and playful satire, more pointed
and original:remark, and pore tre and characteristic observation on
Paris and its peculiarities than any halfscore united of all the thousand
and one English writers who have trea!ed on this inexhaustible, and
ever-new topic of discussion since it became public property by the
opening of the continent.

On Saturday the Eclipse Southampton coach, on
its journey down, met with a serious accident. After passing Bagshot,
on reaching the top of a hill, the horses took fright, and dashed off at a
fearful rate. Although the patent drag was attached to the coach, from
the suddeness of the start, Robinson, who was driving, was incapable
of restraining the rapid progress of the team. One of the leaders dis.
entangled itself from the traces, and got away, but the others, incapable
of escape, plunged dreadfully, till the coach was overturned and
thrown down a steep bank. Two of the horses Wel° killed on the
,pot, and Robinson had his thigh broken. Pierce's omnibus, coming
towards London, reached the spot at the moment, and the coachman and
passengers rendered every assistance. One gentleman had his collar-
bone broken, and others were seriously contused and wounded by the
furze bushes into which they were thrown. Robinson, and those pas.
sengers who had sustained the most serious mischiefs, were conveyed
back in the omnibus to Bagshot for surgical assistance, which was only at
last obtained by sending to Blackwater, as the surgeon of th• village was
from home. The omnibus was detained an hour and a half on the road.
Those passengers who were capable of proceeding were forwarded to their
destinations in post.cliaises.

We hear that the 10th of September is the day
fixfd for the opening of the whole of the London and Birmingham Rail.
Railway Times.

•
MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.—The following facts of
a most mysterious and extraordinary death, which occurred in the Four
Courts Marshalsea prison on Sunday, have been communicated to us :
A young man, named Goddard Sterne, whose father (called General
Sterne) has beers seven years confined for debt in this prison, went in
to see his relative on Saturday evening, and remained for the night.
About half-past twelve yesterday an alarm was given by a boy who at-
tended the General that the young man had hanged himself, and upon
several of the prisoners entering the General's room, they found the
young man stretched upon the father's bed, behind a screen or cur-
tain which crosses the room, with his father rubbing him and
shaking him to bring about respiration, but the vital spark had
fled. Shortly after some medical gentlemen were in attendance, but
to no purpose. What makes this a most extraordinary case is,
that it occurred whilst the General, his maid, and the boy were in
the room, and that the unfut tunate young man had only retired behind
the curtain from five to tell minutes, when the girl alleges she found
him in a sitting posture in the bed, with a small silk handkerchief,
which she lent him, about his neck, and tied to the top rail of an iron
bedstead, less than five feet high, in which the General slept. It has
caused a great sensation through the prison. Yesterday a Coroner's
inquest assembled before Alderman Sir N. W. Brady, when the female
servant, the servant boy, and an old follower of the General, were exa-
mined, but nothing to clear up the mystery had been elicited. Several
of the prisoners were examined, and the Jury having required a post
mortem examination, the same was had by surgeon Benson and surgeon
Hatchell, both of whom recommended an adjournment of the inquest
until this day, so as to allow time for the stomach of the deceased to be
analyzed by a chemist.—Dublin Evening Post.
BONE MANURE.—In consequence of the extensive
introduction of this new species of manure into our highly improved sys-
tem of agriculture, thousands of acres that would have been doomed to
nearly total barrenness have been brought under the most promising
cultivation. As yet the su; ply has not kept pace with the demand. It
will somewhat surprise our r.,aders that in the county of Forfar alone
153,000 bushels of bones were used last year—a quantity which, at 3s.
per bushel, would cost, as nearly as may be, 9.3,0001. This great sup-
ply came from Russia. But, for reasons not precisely known, the Rus-
sian government have issued an ukase whereby bones to be exported
must, after the Ist of January n. xt, pay a duty so high, that it is almost
certain the supply from that country will be whoily cut 01E—Edinburgh
Observer.

A most shocking murder has been committed at a
hamlet called Colehill, near Wimborne, the murderer being husband to
the deceased. The circumstances of the case are as follow :—lt appears
that Daniel Evans lived with his wife at Cie above-na ned place, the for-
mer being a razor-grinder, and the latter travelling with pedlary wares.
Both were accustomed to drink freely, and on such occasions word.
and WAYS frequently ensued. Deceased had been drinking at a public
house (the Barley mow) near Wimborne, which greatly displeased her
husband, and he threatened if ever she entered that house again, her
life should be the forfeit. During the same day he found deceased again
there, at which he bccame greatly irritated, and began to strike her
violently with his fist about the head. They then both left the house,
and as soon as they were on the road, he began a furious and brutal at.
tack on her, and commenced petting stones at her with violence, one of
which was seen to stril.e deceased in her throat, and she fell down, ut-
tering a dreadful oath, and immediately expired. A coroner's inquest
has been held on the body, and a verdict of " Wilful murder" returned
against Evans, who has been lodged in Dorchester gaol to wait his trial
at the ensuing assizes.—Dorset Chronicle.
On Wednesday week the centre arch of Teignmouth
iron bridge fell in with a tremendous crash fortunately no person was
passing at the moment. S nee the accident an investigation has been
made into the causes of the misfortune, and it has been found that the
piles on which the piers were built have been completely destroyed by the
ravages of the worm.—Dreier Flying Post.
DARING AND NOVEL OFFENCE—BREAKING
INTO A GAOL.—On Saturday morning early, the most extraordinary of
offences, namely, breaking into the Horsley Hou a of Correction, was
committed by some daring villains. The bur4lars took the ladders from
the church and pkced them against the outside wall; they then drew
them oyer, descended in the yard, planted them against the window of
the Governor's office, from which they removed a desk containing a con-
siderable sum of money in gold and notes, and returned by the same
means they had entered. In the cisurse of the day the desk was found
in an adjoining field, breten open, but tae gold alone was abstr,Ced from
it.—Cheltenham Gazette.

A WISE JURY.—At the Montogorneryshire Assiz2s
the ju y, after several hours' consultation, returned into Court, and when
asked by their associate if they agreed in their verdict, said, " Yes, we
find a verdict f.ir the plaintiff." Associate—" What damages?" to
which the foreman of the jury wisely replied, " Pleae you, my Lord, we
haven't made up eur minds to that." After the jury had been some
hours out of Court, Mr. Justice Vaughan induced the plsintiff to with.
draw a juror, a: the Learned Judge was of opinion that the jury did not
understand wl at they were about. —Salopian Journal.
A good reason why a prisoner should not take his
trial was given at the Bath Quarter SessiOns on Friday. On the Re-
corder asking w'ly James Berretnan, against whom a true bill had been
found, had not been placed at the bar when the trial was called on, the
gaoler, with great gravity, said he could nut came. " Why not," said
the Judge. " Because," answered the gaoler, "he died the week before
last."—Bath Gazette.

Haymaking has been pretty general throughout the
county during the past week, owing to the prevailing delightful weather.
The shear is good and in most cases heavy. The grain crops looks ex.
cellent.— Western Times.

A SLY TIIIEF.L Yesterday morning a female of
respectable appearance was observed lurking backwards and forwards,
opposite the shop of Mr. Shoppee, linendraper, of Judd-street, Bruns.
wick-square, when she planted herself before the window, near the door,
under. pretence of inspecting the articles exposed in the windows, when
she gradually approached the door, where there sees a box, on which was
placed some shawls, stuffs, and other articles. The shopman, who had
perceived her manoeuvres, and suspecting that a:1 was nut right, placid
himself in a situation to see what was going forward, when she artfully
rr a caged to lay hold of apiece of stuff, and gradually pulled it from the
box until she got possession of it under her shawl, and during the period
she kept her position as if looking at the articles in the window. The
shopman waited patiently until she got possession, when he rushed out
upon her, and seizing hold of her, dragged her into the shop, when she
proluced the property, and in a composed manner inquired its price.
The shopman sent for a policeman, and Wall, of the G division, soon
arrived, and took her into custody. Her cries alarmed the neighbour.
hood and collected a crowd, . She was taken to the staticn.house, and
subsequently to Hatton-garden police-office, before Mr. Witham, when
she gave her name, Macy Martin. She positively denied the charge, but
begged for mercy, crying bitterly. The case was clearly proved, and
she was fully committed for trial.

DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.—The crier of Sher-
stone Magna gave notice to the tradesmen of the town bin the .21st ult,
that W. :_:lierborne, carpenter, would not be answerable fur any tlebts
contracted by his wife On the saint. day Mr. Cox, grocer, on behalf
of the tradesmen of Sherstune, cried the foll.iwing, the proper func-
tionary being from home at the time:—" Notice is hereby given that we,
the tradesmen of this parish, ara willing to trust the wife of W. Sher.
borne to any amount, so lung as :lie is separated from her husband."—
Ipswich Journal.

A tremendous explosion of the gas called by the
co I era fire damp, took place last Saturday, in ono of the coal pits, at

t:tainborough, belonging to Messrs. Field, Cooper, and Company Con-
siderable damke was do, e to the machinery at the top of the pits; but
fortunately. very little injury was sustained by the persons in the pit,
excepting one boy whose heal was frac:ured by a stone thrown down
rie shaft by the explosion, and another who was rather severely burnt.
The ex; lesion was heard at a distance of two miles ; and, from the ap.
pearancepresm'e l at the top, the most fearful apprehension was enter-
tainei that is e re. t below would be extensively la al. In a sort time
it was reported at Barnsley and in the pe!:4b,bourf.oyd that upwards of
100 persons were either killed cr severely inju,ed ; and on the following
day numbers of people from a dista,c: fl c ed o the spot. II p-Alyi
however, the report was found to be iocorrt.ct.—Doncaster Gazette.
. ,
EXTENSIVE FlRE.—About two 0 CIOCK Vt. Sterility
morning a fire broke out in the beck spirit cellars of the Ship Tavern,
Ivy-lane, Newgate-street. It was first discov,. red by a female who was
passing, and who informed the watchman. The iiirra':es had ret.red to
bed an hour previous. In a few minutes the Chi istchurch and another
parish engine were brought to the spot and got into use, but rendered
tittle assistance till the arrival of the Watling-street and Farrincrtion.
street engines and firemen, who were soon joinedby
othe:s, when, by
their united exertions and a good supply of w ;ter, the fire v: ea prevented
fromove,
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which
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so
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the garish watchmen delaying giving• °
the- necessary informatim at the
tire stations in the neighbourhood, M
r. Steer, the landlord, is insured in
the Sun Fire Office.