The Sun.
London, England, 1825-07-12 00:00:00

THE IRON TRADE.

On the Shropshire and Staffordshire quarter-
days last week the price of pia- iron fell ten Shil-
lings per ton. Manufactured iron continued at
the same prices as the previous quarter. The
demand has been, and still is, nearly equally
great. The small decrease in the price of pigs is
referable chiefly, or perhaps wholly, to the con-
fident expectation that the new furnaces building,
and the additional mines of stone opening, will, by
increased supply, have the usual effect on prices.
Not only are the old and wealthy ironmasters
extending their works, but new capital is daily
being transferred from less profitable employ-
ment into a trade which is now undoubtedly the
most lucrative in the empire. The prices given
for mineral property, the last six months, have
been unprecedented in the most prosperous state
of the trade. Jn Staffordshire from eight to
twelve hundred pounds per acre, deferred pay-
ments, has been given for improved land con-
taining coal and iron stone ; and four and five
hundred pounds per acre, money, in many in-
stances, for ten-yard or thick coal only, re-
serving the thin measures and iron stone !
140,000/. deferred payments, is reported to
have been recently given for 160 acres of
mineral in Staffordshire. The price of coal
has risen 2s. notwithstanding the season of the
year, and the great number of new pits at work
and now sinking. These high prices, by disin-
terested judgments, are considered as by no means
generally beneficial to the country, and decided.
ly prejudicial to the manufacturing and commer-
cial interests. Coal, however, will probably
maintain the present price, the general prosperity
of all trades, the iron trade particularly, com-
bining to increase the demand. There is no
stock in any part of the midland coal dis-
tricts, and the consumers are often detained at
the pit mouth for their loads._ The consump-
tion of coal in lime-works and ,brick-making is
very considerably greater than generally known.
About 12 cwt.of coal is calculated on an average
to a thousand bricks; and more bricks are sup-
posed to have Leen made during the last two
quarters than in any similar period. Although
the rail-road subscribers have not converted the
Parliamentary Committees to a belief in the prac-
ticability and expediency of rail-roads, yet their
projects (which will be renewed next Session)
have had a very seasonable effect in im-
proving and facilitating the inland navigation
of the country, and increasing the courtesy
of the canal directories. But whatever may
be the canoes or future effects of the present
extraordinary consumption and prices of iron
and coal, certain it is that the midland districts
of the trade never were in so flourishing a state,
and the beneficial consequences to the agricul-
tural interest and retail trades so correspondingly
great. It is also gratifying to observe, that al-
though the demand for, and the prices of, the raw
and manufactured articles have naturally raised
the price of labour, yet, with very few excep-
tions, the masters and the men have amicably
agreed on their relative claims.

To T. TAYLOR, Esq.
No. 9, New Bridge-street, London.
HONIM RED SIR,
JBEG leave to inform you, that ever since: the
Year 1790, I had been afflicted with the Luce Venereal,
which, from its obstinately resisting every course of medicine
prescribed by the most eminent of the faculty hare, and un-
dergoing severalsevcre courses of salivation, and twice dis-
charged from the Hospital with little relief, would appear to
be of the mast inveterate nature. In tic spring of last year
my nisorder.had got to such a head, as nearly to put a period
to my existence—l had a large ulcer on the crown of my head,
one en each arm, and my legs were broke oust in a frightful
manner ; my right was dreadfully painful, and had been in a
state of ulceration for the last seven years ; my left had also
two large node; on it, was very much discoloured, and gave
me such excruciating pain, particularly when warm in bed;
as nearly to deprive me•of rest ' - in this lamentable state, 1
was recommended by Mr. .1. 'clionipseri, (who received so
great a cure by them here), to take your Leake's Patent Pills,
which I began to (loon the 26th o. May; in the course of a
fortnight I began to receive benefit—iii little more than a
month the ulcers on my h ead and arms were soundly healed—
soon atter, the sores on my legs healed all); Waving, how-
ever, considerable discolouration in the skin, and pain in the
bone of the left, which, by the blessing of God, am; a little
longer perseverance in your invaluable Medicine, subsided;
the nodes dispersing, the skin regaining its natural bite, and
the nocturnal pains gradually. going off.—l thus became, by
your liberal advice and medicine, perfectly free from all my
former complaints—have recovered my former spirits and
strength, and am become jolly and fat, in which state having
continued many months, to the astonishment of all who k new
me, I am at a loss in what terms to express my gratitude, but
beg you, for the good of other suffering mortals, to make
this my case as public as possible, as I shall on every occa-
sion ; in so doing you will greatly oblige,
Sir, your grateful, obedient, very humble servant,
ALEX. MORKER
Swan's Close, High-street, Edinburgh.
Witnesses to the above Cure:—
folio Thompson, No. a, •New Poultry Market, Edinburgh,
John M'lntosh, Old Assembly Close, Edioburgh.-
Piepared and sold by the sole Proprietor, THOMAS TAY-
LOR, Member of the Royal College of Sim:eons, at his
house, No. 9, New Bridge-street, London; where, after a
constant residence of more than 40 years, in a practice parti-
cularly directed to the cure of Venereal omplaints and those
incidental to the Pasta of Generation, with 1 hat inviolable
secrecy which men of his profession should always observe in
such eases, he flatters himself the advice and assistance he
gratuitously administers to persons taking this Medicine, will
be esteemed, by a discerning Public, as an adyat.tage seldom
attainalale, and veld of all analllgnity.
Also sold, by his appointment,tor the convenience of those
living at a distance, at the Toyshap, No. 103, Oxford-street;
Mr. Disborough's, No. 7, Fish-street-hill; Mr. Baxter,
South-bridge, Edinburgh ; Callwel 's, blin ; and ot
one person in every considerable town in Great Britain and
Ireland, in boxes of only Rs. 9d. each, stamped, :end sealed up
with foil and plain directions, whereby persons, of either
sex may cute themselves with ease, speed, secrec v, and s4fety.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday morning, at
eleven o'clock, an Inquest was held at the King's Arms public-
house, Prince's-street, Vauxhall, before RICHARD CARTE it,
Esq., Coroner for the County of Surrey, on view of th'e body
of George Cook, a child ten years of age, who came to his
death under the following circumstances :—Hugli Hodges,
of No. 1, Prince's-street, Lambeth, deposed, that on Wed-
nesday evening last, about eight o'clock, he was sitting out-
side the King's Arms public-house, and saw a coach coming
from Vauxhall-Gardens. The coachman, when he neared
witness, turned round
; witness }ward a noise like the crack of
v;
a whip, which was instantly folloed by a loud shriek ; the
deceased ran round the coach and leaned against some garden
pales. Witness immediately ran to the assistance of the de-
ceased, examined hint, but did not discern the slightest
injury. The deceased had been riding behind a carriage,
and was sliding t. orn behind it, when he was jammed
against a post whilst it was turning round; the deceased lin-
gered unti' Friday morning.—Kobt. Abbott, of 28, Glasshouse-
street, deposed, that he went to the assistance of the deceased,
who was leaning against some garden palings, but almost
double; witness took the deceased in his arms, and carried him
home. lie said 11,e had been riding behind the coach with se.
veral other boys, that the coach backed and jammed him
against the post. The deceased was ten years of age. The
Jury retired to view the body, and returned a verdict of " Ac-
cidental Death."