The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-20 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Manchester Guardian.)
MANCHESTER. The improvement which mani-
fested itself in this market on Thursday and Friday
last (which was slighter and more partial than we
were then led to believe), has since entirely died away ;
and the market yesterday was quite as bad in every
respect as on the preceding Tuesday. What little
business was done, whether i❑ goods or yarn, was in
mast cases at reduced rates ; and the accounts from the
principal markets on the Continent are represented as
being ♦ery unfavourable, so that no very striking or
rapid improvement can be reasonably anticipated.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, FEE. 17.
—There is a slight change in the flannel market to-day
for the worse ; the demand for goods has been ex-
tremely limited, but prices are about the same as on
last Monday. If some improvement do not speedily
take place, it is feared that many hands will soon be un-
employed. The wool market has been also dull ; but
the former prices have been obtained.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, FEE. 18.—There was
a general complaint of comparatively little being done
to-day in this market, either in wools or manufactured
goods. The late partial improvement was by no means
sustained, there being few buyers and less disposition
to purchase. Most that was done was in low fancy
woollens for summer wear, and other goods of a light
texture at former prices. Orders for waistcoatings and
goods generally in demand at this season, were seldom
known to be fewer. Nor can we notice any improve-
ment in the warehouses for a week or two ; a sort of
incubus hangs over trade, which prevents that buoyancy
which might be expected at this season.

INUNDATION OF THE VISTULA.—We ar3
favoured with the following interesting information from Messrs.
Gibsone and Co. of Danzig, through the medium of their
friends in Leith, Messrs. Maxwell, Marshall, and Co.:—" Dan-
zig, Feb. 5, 1840.—A circumstance has occurred
.which may
derange the corn trade this year, and put all parties interested
in it in very unlooked-for positions. In our last we referred to
the dangerous appearance of our river (the Vistula). The re-
sult has been such as no one ever contemplated, and which, at
first, none but eye-witnesses would have believed. The Vis-
tula, from the mild weather and the heavy floods from Poland,
had partially broken up, and came down with great force, com-
mitting frequent damage to the dykes, bursting the sluice, and
overflowing a district called the 413innen Neyrung.' About
four miles from Danzig, at a spot called 4Neufehr,' a stoppage of
ice occurred, which diverted the water from the channel. At
this point the Vistula runs near the sea, being separated by only
one-half to three-quarters of a mile (English) of land, from
which it, however, again diverges, and proceeds on to Danzig.
The channel being blocked up, the river, bursting across the
country, flowed on to the sea ; the intervening sand-hills, of
70 and 80 and even 100 feet high, formed no opposition ; they
were speedily undermined, and the river rolled on, seemingly
regardless of a lower channel on both sides, inwards of the
downs or sand-hills. In a few hours, the cut through the sand-
hills was 1,000 feet wide, and the breadth of the river at the
sea three times that width. Since then the opening is 2,000
feet, and the hills fall hourly down, as if cut with a knife. The
river rushes fiercely through, making, higher up, the most
fearful ravages in the dike. The inhabitants of the populous
district of Werder are hourly in danger of being inundated.
By this cut the river saves a distance of about ten English miles.
What effect this strange work of nature will have on the navi-
gation of the river, the supplies of corn, &c.. no one can tell.
What the human hand can do in it, 'tis impossible to say; the
dd bed of the Vistula lies fast with ice hillocks, and it may
be months ere they melt."—Edinburgh Courant.
A young man at Perth was recently sentenced to
ten days' imprisonment for having sent a forged death to one of
the newspapers there; the Sheriff, in passing sentence, said he
Lad no doubt it woz an indictable offence;