The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-18 00:00:00

THE WOOLLEN TRADE.

LEEDS. —The markets at both hails have fully maintained
the same lively character this week as for the last fortnight ;
the only new feature is that more has been done in
heavy winter goods, such as Petershams, pilot cloths, &c.,
the prices of which are a shade higher than a month since.
Business is also brisk in the ware houses, particularly with
the shipping houses; the home demanl is much as usual at
this season.

BRADroitn.—Manufacturers arc asking a little more for
goods, and in some instances have doubtless, obtained it ;
merchants, however, generally speaking, demur, and less
business has been done in consequence. There does not
appear to be any falling off in price. Yarns are in full
demand, and readily sold when an advance in price is not
asked. The state of the wool market remains without varia-
tion. Transactions arc comparatively limited. As yet, very
little of the new clip has found its way into our market.
Buyers " hold hard," the prospects of trade not justifying the
prices asked by the growers. . _

WAKEFIELD.-` e have had a good inquiry for all wools
this week ; in short wool at stationary, and in long wool at
rather improved prices. It is thought the present advance
may be maintained, bat that any further advance would check
the trade and cause a re-action.

DONCASTER.--Our first wool market presented only a very
small quantity of ewe and hog and ewe wool, there being no
entire hog wool nor locks shown. The coldness of the season
has no doubt retarded the clipping of sheep in this neighbour-
hood. The attendance of buyers from the manufacturing dis-
tricts was numerous, but the market was any thing but brisk.
The whole (with the exception of one large pack) was sold at
the following prices :—Hog and ewe, 18s. 6d. ; ewe 14s. per
stone.

RIPON.—The price of mixed clips in proportion to the
quantities of hogs and ewes sold at from 14d. to 15d. per lb.,
and 16d. for some very choice clips has been given, subject to
a handsome return, a method of doing business which some of
the farmers are anxious to retain, in order to keep up the ap-
pearance of higher prices.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]--SKIN DISEASES, &C.-
HOT AIR BATHS, &c.—The mode of treating Diseases of the Skin, Gout,
Rheumatism, Obstructions, Scrofula, Swellings, &c., by means of Sulphur
and other Fumigating Baths, Is yet but little known in England, even to
many of the medical profession. It consists in submitting the body (the
face excepted) to increased heat for fifteen or twenty minutes, which
gives a gentle impulse to all the functions of the body simultaneously, and
by adding the use of medicine in obstinate cases, many diseases, otherwise
intractable, are often cured. By this means the fumes of medicine, of any
degree of strength, may be applied, acting through the skin most beneft.
cially in cases where the stomach and bowels are too weak to receive the
requisite remedies. This mode of treatment was established in France in
1315. Dapuytrien, Richeraud, Le Roux, Pinel, &c., &c., were leading
members of the Government Committee, which directed its general ador.
Lion, and the practice soon extended throughout the Continent. In a recei t
visit Paris, Dr. Green found that during the years 1834, 1835, 1830, 141:37,
upwards of 180,1'01 baths were administered each year at the Hospital of St.
Louis, independently of those administered at the other hospitals, pd_
sons, poor-houses, ac. This treatment may be resorted to under the guid_
a,ce of Dr. GREEN, at No. 40, Great Marlborough-street, who has con.
ducted this line of practice for the last sixteen years, and in whose late
work. entitled " Observations on Fumigating and other Baths," published
by Churchill, Princes street, Soho, the subject is considered in detail, and
illustrated by numerous authenticated cases.