The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-23 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

( From the Leeds Mercury of May 21. )
LEEDS.—There has been a much slacker demand for
goods at the Cloth Halls durinc, the week than has been
the case of late ; the stocks on hand very light, and little
or no alteration in prices ; there has also been less doing
in the warehouses ; this being the middle of the month,
there have been very few of the London buyers in the
market. . .

HUDDERSFIELD, MAY 17.—We think there has been
less business done to-day than for some time back in the
Cloth Hall ; but still the amount is considerable, and
neither buyers nor sellers appear to expect any 'decline
in prices. Indeed the present state of the Wool market,
and the prospects held out in Germany, discountenance any
such expectation.
BRADFORD, MAY I9.—hive-eighths, three-quarters,
and four-quarter plain backs have been flat for some time,
and remain so still, but the demand for six-quarters me-
rinos coiltinues good, particularly in low and middling
qualities, although, owing to the repeated advances which
have taken place since Christmas, the merchants are
cautious in giving orders. There is little variation in the
yarn market from the last two or three weeks' report. The
purchasers complain of the prices asked for yarn, not be-
ing able to bring up the price of goods in the same propor-
tion ; consequently they do not give large mders, but con-
tinue
to purchase only to supply their weavers. The stock
of yarn is very small, therefore it is not likely, with the
present demand, to lower prices, and the makers ought to
obtain better prices, or they will be unpleasantly circum-
stanced. We can say nothing more of this day's Wool
market than that transactions in the above article continue
on a very limited scale, at a reduction of from .1- to Id. per
pound on the highest prices.
HALIFAX, MAY 14.—The amount of business trans-
acted in the Piece Hall to-day, has been about an average
of the last four weeks. Lastings and merinos have been
most in request, and have currently supported former prices.
In the Yarn market there has been a pretty brisk demand ;
'out many are of opinion that there has not been so much
business done in it to-day as there was last week, owing to
manufacturers refraining from purchasing largely at present,
in the expectation of buying it a shade cheaper in a few
weeks. In the 'Wool trade there has been very little done
to-day, and purchasers have been offering rather lower
prices for some sorts, but we understand they have seldom
succeeded in this respect, and when they have been suc-
cessful, it has only been to the extent of about ss. per pack.
The demand for middle wether fleeces has been, like far
other descriptions, much flatter during the last three weeks,
and their average selling price here at present is about 17d.
per lb. Various reports have reached us regarding the
prospects of the ensuing clip, and the general opinion seems
to be that in high dry districts the wool is equal in both
quantity and quality to what it was last season ; but in low
marshy grounds, the wool, though full stapled, is consider-
ably injured by the almost incessant wetness of the winter,
and consequently a large proportion of the finest fleeced
flocks is found upon examination to be tender.

NIMROD'S VISIT TO THE HAMPTON

COURT STUD.

We next visited the stallions. I had not seen The Colo-
nel since the last day he ran, but having once seen him is
enough to enable one to know him again. He is a noble
animal, and his stock arc, like himself, very full of bone.
Of their racing powers I can say nothing, that being now
quite out of my line, nor did I ever know much about it ;
but it appears that out of such a mare as Posthuma, he
can get a runner—(Post-Haste, Colonel Peel's). Posthuma
Was put into the Royal stud at the enormous sum of eleven
hundred guineas ! Acteon is a splendid animal, and more
like a modern race-horse than The Colonel. When we
look at his stock, and see what they have done, we need no
longer marvel at a thousand guineas having been given for
him, to the Viscount Kelburne. But, in fact, they are all
splendid animals—l mean the four stallions ; and of that
stamp which offers a chance of their produce being good
for something, if they cannot race. What a hunter would
The Colonel have made if he had been used solely as such !
The brood mares are thirty-three in number. I saw them
all but one, and a fine sight it was. At the head
of the list stands the mater familias, poor old Belvoi-
rina, of the late King's stud, with a filly at her foot by
Actaeon ; and followed by Elizabeth and Maria, her daugh-
ters, and likewise Fleur de Lis—those great favourites of his
late Majesty—the following having a filly at her foot by Ca-
mel. I also saw Maria (whose picture lam this instant look-
ing at, and a great pet of George the Fourth's) heavy in foal
to Camel, and apparently fresh and well. According to my
idea of a race horse not upon a large scale, her form is perfect,
particularly as regarded the shoulder, the position of the fore
leg, and the fetlock. But I should occupy the entire of
your pages if I were to say all I could say about these mares,
than which I never saw a finer lot—particularly Scandal
(the dam, by the bye, of that good racer, Intriguer), Pos-
thuma, Fleur-de-Lis, Peri, Wings, Miss Clifton, Gulnare,
and Nannine. The colt foals, as they are properly called in
the list, but which on the day this article appears will be year-
lings, are 13 in number, seven got by the Colonel, and one
either by him or Tranby. Those out of Posthuma, Scan-
dal, Sister to Sailor, Galatea, and Spermaceti, are very
promising indeed. There is also a capital colt by Bizarre,
out of young Mouse, and by Taurus out of Miss Clifton.
The fillies consist of seven, and they struck me as being,
generally, superior to the colts. Finer animals for their
age cannot I think be seen, than that by Sultan, out of
Rachel, or that by The Colonel, out of Peri. The Camel
and Priam fillies are also very fine ones. I was struck with
the substance—the kind of generally-useful appearance—
of this young stock, which, if they cannot race, will make
the sort of horses and mares which England now wants,
and which, should racing be at an end to-morrow, she will
never again want so long as fox-hunting continues. With
the exception of the Bizarre colt, out of Young Espag-
nolle, of very racing form, but a little deficient in substance,
I saw not any of the young stock, barring one or two, called
Arabs, that were not likely to be valuable in case they may
not race. But this I take to be, in a great mea-
sure the object of our present good King, who, I believe,
cares no more about racing than I myself do ; and from the
liberal price his Majesty gives for stallions and mares, the
country is not likely to be just yet stripped quite bare of
its best horse blood, which foreigners appear to have the
inclination to do, and we know they have the means. Your
readers are for the most part aware, that nothing bred in
the Royal stud is kept beyond the first year, and the annual
sale is at Tattersall's, on the Monday during the first
Epsom meeting, or, in more sporting language, " on the
Monday in the Derby week." Although profit is not his
Majesty's object, yet I have reason to believe remunerating
prices have hitherto been generally obtained. On inquiry
into those of last year, I learnt from Mr. Worley that the
average amounted to 108/., which in these times I consider
a saving price. Every thing appertaining to the stud ap-
pears to be done with great order and regularity, a sure
sign of the " pennyworth for the penny ;" • and I was some-
what surprised to hear, that eight helpers were all that
were used throughout the entire establishment._Ninirod
in the New Sporting Magazine.

HOUS

.DS.

APPEALS.—THE MARQUIS OF BREADALBANE V. THE MAR-
CHIONESS OF CHANDOS.
Mr. IvoRY having concluded his arguments this morn-
ing, the ATTORNEY-GENERAL replied. In the course of
the argument, the case of " Little Gilmour" had been re-
ferred to as an authority decisive of the question now be-
fore their Lordships, and in some of the opinions expressed
by the Scotch Judges that case had been referred to as of
unanswerable authority.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, at the conclusion of the argu-
ments, took occasion to mention this circumstance, and said
that he was surprised to hear any decision of an inferior
Court cited especially by that Court itself as binding upon
their Lordships. Such a decision might be entitled to very
great weight, in showing what the law had hitherto been
considered to be, and how it had • been applied in inferior
Courts, but that Court was a Court of the highest juris-
diction, and had authority not only to examine what was
the course of decision in Courts below, but also to see whe-
ther that course of decision was conformable to the princi-
ples of the law. No decision of an inferior Court could
therefore be absolutely binding upon their Lordships, because
if they found that it was opposedto the principles of the law,
they had full power to declare what those principles were,
and by that declaration to bind the proceedings of other
Courts. At the same time that he made these remarks
with respect. to the manner in which the Little Gilmour
case had been quoted, he begged to say, that he desired to
be understood as not expressing any opinion on the case
itself. The question now brought before their Lordships
was one of considerable importance, and he should wish for
further time to consider it.
Lord DENMAN likewise took occasion to observe upon
the manner in which the authority of the Little Gilmour
case had been referred to, and after making observations
similar to those of the Lord Chancellor as to the power of
their Lordships' House as the supreme tribunal of appeal
in the kingdom to examine into the principles on which the
decisions of inferior Courts were founded, he said that he
had never before seen the decision of a Court cited by that
Court itself as an authority binding on the judgment of that
House. Certainly no such thing had
,ever been done by
t the Courts of Westminster Hall. At the same time he too
wished it to be understood that he did not now express any
opinion on the Little Gilmour case, which was very well
deserving of the deliberate consideration of their Lordships'
House.—Judgment postponed.
The House then adjourned to the 30th of May.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

On Saturday William B. Shaw, the driver of the hack-
ney-coach, No. 622, was brought before Sir CLAUDIUS
STEPHEN HUNTER, by John Ambrose, one of the City
police, under the following circumstances :—The Countess
Poligna Niel stated that she lauded from the Batavier
Rotterdam steam-vessel on Friday at four o'clock, at the
Custom-house ; she sent from the searcher's office for a
coach, and was assisted by Ambrose in depositing her lug-
gage in and upon the coach : the charge of Bs. 6d. was
made for the drive from the Custom-house to Mansfield-
street, in the west end of the town, and the number of the
coach of which the prisoner was the driver, was accordingly
taken ; at six o'clock a box, containing jewels and a variety
of elegant trinkets, was missed. John Ambrose stated

that he assisted the Countess's waiting-maid to stow the
luggage in and upon the coach ; there was another person
besides the coachman upon the box. Application was
made to witness afterwards to apprehend the parties who
drove the coach, Lind he took the prisoner into custody ;
the box which was missing was covered with leather, and
marked C. P. N. on the lid : the other man had not been
taken into custody. The prisoner said that he knew no-
thing of the box, and had delivered everything safely at
Mansfield-street. The person who sat with him on the
box was a person with whom he was acquainted, and be
(prisoner), after leaving Mansfield-street, had had a fare to
another part of the town.
The prisoner was allowed to be at large upon procuring
a responsible person to promise that he should attend on a
future occasion. •