The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-29 00:00:00

STATE OF FRARE.

(From the Leeds Mercury.)
LEEns.—There has been a brisk demand for goods of a
general description at our cloth halls this week, but more
particularly for low blue cloths, of which a large quantity
was sold ; prices arc stationary, and the stocks are very low.
There continues to be a steady demand for goods in the ware.
houses.

BRADFORD, THURSDAY.—The Piece Market has again
been decidedly flat. The continental trade may be consi-
dered at an end; and little or nothing is doing for the States.
Prices, however, are not below recent quotations. There
has been an average business done in yarns, without any
alteration in prices. In the Wool Market there is a dispo-
sition on the part of consumers to purchase combing wools
at late prices, and short wool also goes off without any ad-
vance ; indeed, it appears that consumers have just cause of
complaint, that the disproportion between the present com-
paratively high price of wool and low price of goods should
continue so long.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—The Stuff Market to-day has been
well attended, and a fair amount of business has been done.
The chief demand is at present for lastings. There is but
little improvement in prices yet. The yarn market is much
the same as last week. The demand for lasting Yarn is much
improved, and pi ices for such are advancing. There has been
rather more activ►ty in the Wool Market the last week. Nether
Wools are scarce, and a higher price is obtained. Middle
wethers fetch from 151. ss. to 151. 10s. Short Wools and
coils are quite firm in price.
ROCHDALE, OCT. 25.—The attendance at to-day's Market
was but poor. In the different sales but little change has
taken place for some weeks past.
WAKEFIELD, OCT. 26.—We have had a good demand for
all deep combing Wools through the week, and as the supply
at Market is not large, we have been able to maintain some
little advance in them ; there is a ready sale for the finer qua-
lities of combing, as well as all short Wools, at full prices.

STRANGE AFFAIR IN HIGH LIFE.—Some
paragraphs having appeared in various papers respecting an
affair that happened lately at the residence of Henry Win-
ston Barron, Esq., M. P., on inquiry we find that the facts
are as follow :—There were some friends stopping at the
Hon. Member's residence, near Waterford, on a visit, and
amongst the rest Lord L. and his pretty wife. One evening
that some gentlemen dined there from the neighbourhood,
Lord L. lost a very splendid gold snuff-box. A great noise
was made about the affair, and the box was discovered in the
shop of an eminent jeweller in this town some days after it
was lost, and traced to a Captain D., who then held a com-
mission in a regiment quartered in Dublin, and who is the son
of a General Officer, and related to some of the most dis-
tinguished officers in the army ; he was one of the party who
dined at Mr. Barron's the day the• box was lost. He has
since sold out of the army, and, we believe, left the kingdom.
—Dublin Evening Post,
On Friday afternoon between two and three, a most
serious accident occurred in the Kingsland-road, by which two
men were deprived of life and four severely injured. It ap-
pears that a new house had been erected in such a short
period that the walls had not sufficient time to settle. Two
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men, named Gregory and Harrison, were employed on the
roof placing the weather-boards previous to slating: when
the side wall suddenly gave way, and the roof fell in with
them ; the rafters of the second floor haring been started from
their places by the receding of the wall, unable to bear the
additional weight, fell likewise, and they were precipitated
to the first floor, where three joiners and two labourers were
at work, the whole mass falling upon them and burying them
beneath. A great number of persons who had witnessed the
accident were deterred from venturing to assist them,
for
fear the walls, which now assumed a most dangerous appear-
ance, should fall. At length a few men heroically volun-
teered their services, notwithstanding the very precarious
state of the building, to extricate the sufferers, whose groans
had by this time become truly appalling, from their perilous
ruins, Gregory and Harrison, we regret to say, lifeless.
situation. After some time they succeeded in clearing away
the broken woodwork, and took the unfortunate men from the
man, named Wilkes, had his leg fractured, another sustained a
concussion of the brain, and Wood and Farnfield had several
e. fwthfrier ribs broken. One man, who hrd been at work near
fj plzic,e, on notice
"eing iven tl.,p first sought
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excruciating torments. The two men 1 killed have
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left large families. w.lo were