The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-15 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the ManCliester Guardian.)
MANctigsTEL—The intelligence of the approach-
ing resumption of commercial intercourse with China,
caused a slight improvement, yesterday, in the demand
for 40-inch ihirtings, suitable for that market, and
some business was done at an advance of about 3d. per
piece on previous prices. For every other article, how-
ever, whether of yam or goods, the market was as de-
void of animation as it has keen for the last three
weeks, and lower prices were, in some cases, submitted
to, in order to force sales.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, APRIL
12.—There has been, to-day, an exceedingly dull mar-
ket. Few buyers attended, and the purchases were
limited, and at declining prices. There is no change
in the wool market to report.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, APRIL 13.—This being a
sort of holday market, there was much bustle but very
little business done. Indeed, it is difficult to describe
the present position of business. All is doubt and un-
certainty as to the future ; nnd, consequently, what is
done, is chiefly from sheer necessity. Prices, however,
arc firm, and business in the warehouses is tolerably
fair ; but there is not that buoyancy that was antici-
pated.
LEICESTER TRADE.—The borne demand for regular
worsted and woollen hosiery is very dull, and we do not
hear of any orders executing for the United States,
which are usually, at this season, considerable buyers.
Were it not for the increase in the glove manufacture,
and a growing demand for low cotton hose, both brown
and coloured, a great number of frames would be now
idle. The worsted trade is very flit, but without alte-
ration in price. There is but little doing in wool. The
manufacturers buy only for immediate consumption.
The stock is chiefly held by the growers, who are firm
holders.—Leicester Chronicle.

CITY ANTIQUITIES.—On Wednesday last the
labourers engaged in excavating the foundations of the
French Protestant Church, in Threadneedle-street, found
at a depth of fourteen feet below the surface a fine speci-
men of Roman tesselated pavement, and not a stone with
an inscription on it, as has heen erroneously stated. It is
a very perfect specimen of tesselm of the third or fourth
century, and is about nine feet long and six feet wide.
Mr. Moxhay, the proprietor of the ground, has not only
liberal ly allowed the pavement to remain as it was found,
at the base of a pillar near Threadneedle-street, but has
placed over it a platform in order more freely to allow
public inspection. Many pet sons have the last few days
availhd themselves of the opportunity of witnessing this
ancient pecimen of art is the earlier domestic architec-
ture of this country. The site of the church, it may be
presumed, is that of a Roman house of the higher order;
and it is singular that within the last few years similar
specimens have been found, in nearly a direct line, in
Bartholomew-lane and within the Bank. which may show
a connected series of these villas. Unhappily all rem-
nants of these were lost to the public, as they were broken
np by the workmen, as was the case about two years since
in excavating the sewers in Paternoster-row, where a fine
mass of tesselated pavement, of about flirty feet in length,
was thus broken up. The site of the late Royal Exchange
has produced few objects cf interest to the antiquary, but
within the last few days the excavations approaching
Cheapside have disclosed some solid specimens of Roman
mAsonry. Under St. Bartholomew's Church were found
some curious structural arches coeval with or antecedent to
the Norman period.
ELOPEMENT.—Hobart Town papers to the
10th of November announce that Miss O'Connell, daugh-
ter of Major-General Sir Charles O'Connell, commanding
the troops at New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land,
had eloped with her gallant fathei'i Aid-de-camp, Lieut,
Somerset, 51st Light Infantry,