The Sun.
London, England, 1836-04-02 00:00:00

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Wind at Holyhead, N. W.—Nothing- to report along the
line. Vessels put back :—The Mogul, for New York ; Esther,
for Demerara; Aliranda, for ditto.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY.-
The sales are 36,800 ; the import is 13,807 bags. Cotton
has this week been in very great demand, both by the trade
and speculators, and has throughout had a decidedly upward
tendency. Prices may be quoted id. per lb. higher in Ame-
rican, Maranhams, and Bahias, 4d, in Pernams, ld. in Egyp-
tian, and id. in Surat, and the market closes with much firm-
ness at the advance. The demand to-day has been less ani-
mated than previously, but prices are steadily maintained.
16,350 bales have been taken on speculation, consisting of
11,500 American, 2,100 Brazil, 850 Egyptian, and 1,900
Surat ; 900 American, 400 Bengal, and 400 Surat for export.
There have been forwarded into the country unsold during the
month 4,750 American, 300 Brazil, 50 Egyptian, and 200

INCREASE OF CRIME.—The Assizes generally
throughout the country, appear to be very heavy. Is this a
part of the working of the New Poor Law? This harsh sta-
tute which refuses relief, and the extension of the Police sys-
tem which prevents begging, the vending of matches, &c.,
will drive the puor, of necessity, to absolute crime. We are
sorry to observe, that almost every law seems now directed to
grind down and harrass the poor. Whatever may be the pa:it
gress of political liberalism, the march of social liberalism is
evidently retrograde.—Kent Herald. ',Our country friend
ought to be better ;informed than to give currency to such
arrant nonsense. What but "social liberalism" the liberally
which provides politically for the happiness of the poor, who
are the majority in every country—what but their permanent
well-secured happiness is the object of " political liberalism."
Surely it will not be denied by any sane man that the direct
tendency and inseparable consequence of liberal politics are to
increase the happiness of the poor.
A singular wager was decided a few days since in a
tavern at Gloucester, between a corn-dealer and a speculator
in railway shares. The former, in the course of conversation,
remarked that if a farmer were to bring a barleycorn to market
one week, double it the second, and so on for every succeed-
ing week for twelve months, all the ships which ever entered
the port of Gloucester would not be able to convey it. A
laugh went round the room against the party, and of course a
bet was proposed. The railway speculator, however, speedily
found himself minus 101., the amount staked, for on a calcu-
lation it appeared that it would require 1,099,511 vessels, each
capable of carrying 1,000 quarters of grain, to stow the whole
of the barleycorns on the fifty-second week. The parties
present, it is understood, each set about a more diligent study
of Cocker.

On Tuesday, about half •past twelve o'clock, a.m., a
fire broke out in the premises occupied by George White, of
West-street, in this town. Several hundreds of people were
in a few minutes on the spot, and, by their extraordinary ex-
ertions in stripping the thatched roof, but little injury was sus-
tained. Much credit attaches to the inhabitants for their
hearty assistance, for a little .delay (or indifference, too often
manifested at fires) would have involved in ruins many thatched
buildings by which the fire was surrounded, the wind being
very high at the time. The property destroyed was insured._
Sherborne Journal.
A determined attempt at suicide was perpetrated in
Carlisle goal after the assizes had terminated, Thomas Twed_
dell, who had been condemned to transportation for life, en-
deavoured to shorten his days, first by hanging himself from
one of the bars of the cell, but the bar failing his purpose, he
then sharpened the metal spoon allowed the prisoners for
taking their food, and with it made several severe incisions in
his throat, but being promptly discovered, the wounds were
staunched, and he is now in a fair way of recovery.