The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-14 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

MANCHESTER, JAN. 12.—The continued flatness in
he cotton market at Liverpool, has, during the last
hree clays, produced its natural effect upon this market,
and the appearances of improvement which presented
themselves about the middle of last week, have entirely
disappeared. Since Friday, very little business has
been done in yarn, and prices, which slightly advanced
last week, hare receded to nearly the same extent. The
demand for goods, too, has been less active, but prices
continue tolerably firm.
ROCHDALE, JAN. 11.—To-day is what is called the
first market, but there has been no improvement in the
demand for goods. Though oil and wool are slowly
advancing, the manufacturer is not able to obtain better
prices for his goods.
HALIFAX, JAN. 9.—The attendance in the Hall to-
' day has been somewhat better than for the last fortnight,
and a few, more pieces appear to have been taken off ;
but there is no improvement in prices, nor are there any
indications of a brisker trade. The present very low
price of yarns, coupled with the conviction that the ap-
pearances in the wool market lead to no expectation that
they can fall lower, induces some buyers to put out
orders • and, in some cases, rather better rates are
obtained. As to wool, the spinners continue to supply
their weekly consumption, for which they are obliged to
give the late trifling advance ; the demand being chiefly
for the lower qualities, in which more is doing. Short
wools maintain their firmness, and are rather more
active ; but the advanced rates are not willingly given,
and the trade is by no means animated.
HUDDERSFIELD, JANUARY 12.—There is but little
doing to-day in the Cloth Hall, but there has been a fair
business during the week in the warehouses. Foreign
wools met with tolerable demand, and colonials are more
sought after.

LEEDS, JANUARY 12.—We have no new feature to
report respecting our market of this day ; it was but
thinly attended, and not much business has been doing
at the halls. Our manufacturers remain, however, well
employed, to order, is low cloths for the American trade.
—Manchester Guardian.

CHELSEA OUT-PENSIONERS.—It having come to the
knowledge of the Secretary at War that the pensioners
in various districts were about to petition Parliament
for the abolition of the per tentage nqw charged on the
payment of their pensions, a circular, dated the 7th inst.,
has been addressed to all the staff officers of pensioners,
requesting them to caution the men agaiitst signing any
such petitions, on the ground that the attention of
Government has been already directed to the subject,
and they intend bringing in a Bill in the next session for
abolishing the obnoxioat impost.
The Right Hon. Charles Watkins William Wynn
M.P. for Montgomeryshire, is now the oldest member
in the House of Commons. He was born in 1775, and
has been in Parliament during the last fifty years.
ME REGISTER FOR SOUTH LANCASHIRE.—The re-
gister for the southern division of this county is now
printed, and it exhibits an apparent decrease of about
250 names, as comyared with that of last year. The
numbers on the register for 1845.46 were 24,179 ; those
for the register now in torce(for it comes into operation
on the Ist of December in each year), are 23,630. But
this, though an apparent diminution, is no real decrease
in the number of electors entitled to vote at the next
general election. We understand it arises from a more
thorough and careful scrutiny throughout the register,
so as to secure the expunging of duplicate entries of the
same votes, which had accumulated from parties making
new claims, and the old ones not bring struck out when
the new ones were inserted in the register.--Manchester_
Guardian.

ARREAR OF BUSINESS IN THE COURTS OF CHAN-
CERY.—There are no less than 645 causes standing for
hearing before the Lord Chancellor, Master of the Rolls,
and the Tice-Chancellors of England. Wigram, and
Knight Bruce, during the present term, in addition to an
enormous number of motionsland petitions.
BANKRUPTCY OF THE LEEDS AND WEST RIDING
BANH.—In the Leeds Court of Bankruptcy, Tuesday,
Mr. Commissioner. Burge gave judgment on the argu-
ment urged against the validity of the adjudication. He
decided that he had no power to annul the adjudication,
but that the parties, of course, had a right to appeal to
the Court of Review.

It is with extreme gratification we notice that
Captain Jackson, the Commander of the Princess Vic-
toria, the Antwerp Steam Company's vessel, has bee n
elected a Junior Brother of the Trinity House. All
who know him must be delighted at this event, as his
general conduct ensures him the good wishes of every
passenger. His chief study seems to be to attend upon
their comforts, and render the voyage a pleasant trip.
An ingenious printer in a small town in Warwick-
shire, who was employed the other day to print some
bills, stating the intention of some of the principal
tradesmen to close their shops till the Monday following
Christmas day, substituted C for S, thus representing
the worthy lieges as having entered into a league to
close their chops during a season rather remarkable for
the increased necessities for opening them which custom
imposes.
MORTALITY OF THE METROPOLIS.--The total
number of deaths registered in London during the week
ending Saturday, Jan. 9, 1847, is I,3BG—of these, 1,369
are deaths from other causes than violence—showing a
a decrease in the number of deaths from disease of 60,
as compared with the week preceeding. There were no
deaths from cholera. The deaths from dysentery were
only 3 ; and from diarrhea only 12. The births regis-
tered diming the were 1,347.
A WOMAN KILLED BY A THRASHING-MACHINE.—
As the thrashing-machine of Mrs. Tadman, of Higham,
near the line of the Gravesend and Rochester Railway.
was in full work on Friday last, a poor woman named
Phillips, while employed in feeding it, was caught by the
lower spindle, and before it could be stopped her body
revolved with the spindle three or four times, breaking
both her legs, one arm, several ribs, and fracturing her
skull, The poor woman lingered until Sunday morning,
when death terminated her sufferings. Deceased was a
widow, and has left a family to lament her untimely end.
PROVISIONS FROM THE UNITED STATES.—The
Burlington and Arethusa from New Yerk, and Judah
Touro from New Orleans, which were reported at the
Custom-house, Liverpool, on the 11th inst., bring 3,529
barrels flour, 12,975 bushels wheat, 6,140 bushels barley,
11,534 bushels and 4,758 sacks Indian corn, 703 barrels
Indian corn meal, 632 packages cheese, 278 barrels pork,
and 356 packages lard.
ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.—At the evening
meeting of this society, on Monday, the 11th, Bartho-
lomew Frere, Esq., in the chair, the reading of Dr
Beke's valuable paper on the Nile was continued and
concluded. At the former reading the subject of the
Blue River having been gone through, the author now
took up the White River, or main stream of the Nile.
Our knowledge of the upper course of this river has bee,
obtained from the exploring expeditions ordered by the
present ruler of Egypt. On its right bank it receives.
in about the 9th parallel, a large river called the Telfi,
or Sobat, which Dr. Beke identifies with the Godjeb, and
he then enters into a minute detail of all the affluents of
this river on both sides. Among these, it will be suffi-
cient tottl ude to the Baro and Bako, which join it on
the right side, and the various streams bearing the
common name of Gibbe, which fall into it on the left
bank. The Godjeb has been presumed to be the upper
portion of the Jub or Gowind, which falls into the
Indian Ocean near the Line; but subsequent informa-
tion shows this opinion, which originated in Dr. Beke's
own information, to be untenable; indeed, M.
d'Abbadie positively considers it to be the heal'
of the Nile. The second Egyptian expedition
ascended the main stream of the Nile as far as
4 deg. 42 min. 42 sec., at which point our positive
information ceases; but from the information collected
by M. d'Arnaud and M. Werne, who accompanied th,
expedition, Dr. Belie shows the existence of another
great arm of the Nile, called the Shoabirri, which, like
the Abai and the Godjeb, joins the main stream from the
south-east, and exhibits the remarkable spiral course
common to those rivers, with many others of the Abys-
sinian plateau. As regards the main stream, Dr. Beke.
from a comparison of various authorities, both ancient
and modern, carries the Nile up to the country of Mono,
Mo6zi, and, in fact, shows the great probability of its
being a continuation of Lake Nyassi, the Maravinror
..i
Zambazi of the old maps. In the word mono-moe
Beke finds the origin of the name Mountains Nile -ot the
Moon, in which, according to Ptolemy,
it,h, thelangua is
ge
rise: the word moczi meaning moon in t
that country, es well as in thus of the whole 5. central
Africa. The author next proceeds to consider the phy-
sical character of the country in which the eastern tri-
butaries of the Nile have their origin, and which he
shows to be an elevated tableland, having an abrupt de-
clivity towards the sea coast, ands very gradual slope
landwards down to the Nile, which skirts its base; and
the ridge of which has an elevation of from 8,000 to
to 9,000 feet above the ocean, independent of isolated
mountain masses, which attain a height of from 11,000
to 15,000 feet.

DEATH OF COLONEL MACGREG9R, OF THE STII
FUSILIERS.—This distinguished officer died a few days
sire? at Plymouth, after a long and eventful life, almost
entirely spent in the service of his country,
He was a
naive of Scotland, and at a very early age entered the
army, his commissions being thus dated :—Second
Lieutenant, June 24th, 1802 ; Lieutenant, June 24th,
1804 ; Captain, August 7th, 1811 ; Brevet Major, July
22,1, 1830; and Lieutt.nant-Colon(1, November 9th. 1846.
All his promotions were unpurchased. In 1807 he served
in Dzypt. and was present at the attack on the forts and
heights of Alexandria, siege of Rosetta, end action of
El Hamet, where he was taken prisoner, and kept in
close confinement for five mouths in Cairo.