The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-05 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL MARKET.—LEEDS, JULY 2.—A full
average business has been done in foreign wools this
week, at full recent rates. The improving prospects of
the harvest have contributed materially to an increased
confidence, both amongst dialers and manufacturers.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET.—LEEDS, JULY 2.—We
cannot quote any change in this market this week. The
manufacturers continue to buy cautiously, and last
week's prices are with difficulty maintained.
YORK WOOL MARKET, JULY I.—We have had a good
show of wool at this day's market, and the buyers being
rather numerous, nearly all was sold up at a slight im.
provement of last week's prices.
HULL WOOL MARKET, JUNE 29.—A fair supply of
wool and a good attendance of buyers; nearly all sold
up at last week's prices, varying from 9d. to I Id. per lb.,
according to quality and number of hogs.
LEEDS.—Although there was not any larger purchases
of goods at the cloth halls, either on Saturday or Tues-
day, yet, in consequence of the fall in the price of corn,
and the continued fine weather, there is a return of eon•
fidence in the market, and the general opinion is, that
with a good bavest there must be a good autumn trade.
Prices continue firm, and the stocks are moderate. This
being betwixt the seasons, there has been but little doing
in business in warehouses for the home trade. The
shippers are, however, doing more; on the whole the
prospects of trade are decidedly improved.
BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—There still con-

tinues a very sluggish demand for wool. The staplers
are unable to take lower prices, on account of not being
able to replace their stocks on easier terms. The pur-
chases of the spinners are very restricted. There is no
alteration in the yarn market. The business is steady,
and prices firm. A large number of merchants were
present in the piece market, and a good business was
done. The German houses are purchasing pretty
freely for the autumn trade. The stock of goods in the
manufacturers' warehouses are small. The appearance
of the piece market improves.
MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We have had
more doing in goods this week, and at improving rates
fir most descriptions, but as the advance scarcely covers
the rise in the staple, though cloth changes hands
rather freely, it leaves no increase of profits. Stocks
are, however, rapidly decreasing, and if there
should not happen to be a resumption of full time in the
mills, a fair profit on what may be produced is probable.
The American packet has brought extensive orders, and
those kinds of goods which absorb a great deal of labour
in their production form good features in such orders.
Yarns meet ready sale, but not quotably higher; the
Greek houses are buying extensively of prints.
NOTTINGHAM.—The cotton hosiery trade, especially
in the cut,-up departments, is in the same state as pre-
viously reported, and many hands have been out of em-
ployment more than two months. The drawer branch
and the cotton glove branch are in a much better state
than the silk. The fancy bobbin.net trade is still very
dull, as respects demand. The stoppage of a 'London
house in the lace trade, whose liabilities are said to
amount to 70,000/., has not improved matters.

VISIT OF THE QUEEN TO INVER-

NESS AND SUTHERLAND.
(From the Inverness Courier.)

We have received the following inforMation from a
source on which we place the utmost reliance :—" rue
Queen has taken Laggan from the Marquis of Abercorn
for the shooting season. The Court will remain there
from the beginning of August to the beginning of
September. Her Majesty, it is understood, will visit
Inverness on her way to Dunrobin, the second wetk
in September, coming down the Caledonian Canal
from Fort William." Nothing, we trust, will occur to
interfere with these arrangements. The royal visit
will afford unbounded gratification to all the Queen's
loyal subjects in the Highlands, and the proposed route
will enable her Majesty to see some of the finest scenery
in the Highlands. We may anticipate for the royal
party a magnificent " gathering of the clans." Since
the days of the fiery- cross, no such rallying cry has
been heard as the name of the Queen, and from Ben
Nevis to Ben More, in Assynt, the whole population
will be poured forth to cheer every step of the royal pro
gress. It is now two hundred and eighty-five years since
Mary Queen of Scots visited Inverness, and no other
British Sovereign has since penetrated into our northern
region. Mary found the gates of Inverness Castle shut
against her entrance ; for the Earl of Huntly had then
organised a powerful confederacy in opposition to the
Crown. Queen Victoria has fallen on calmer and hap-
pier days. All gates will be thrown open on her approach,
and from hall and cottage—from Dunrobin Castle down
to the meanest hut on the mountain side—there will be
heard only one voice of generous loyalty and affection.
The shooting lodge of the Marquis of Abercorn
stands on the margin of Loch Laggan, at Ard-
vreckie, on the property of Cluny Macpherson.
" The scale on which this lodge is erected," says
the author of the Statistical Account, " may be
inferred from the fact that it is taxed for sixty
windows." The interior accommodation is of the
most splendid description, and Mr. Edwin Land
seer, in one of his visits to the north, graced the
walls of some of the rooms with the fruits of his
inimitable genius. The situation of the lodge;
and the whole of the neighbourhood, is picturesque and
romantic in the highest degree. Prince Albert will also
have ample scope for his favourite field sports. In ad-
dition to Laggan, the Marquis of Abercorn possesses the
adjoining ground of Glensheiro, the property of Evan
Baillie, Esq., on which there is also a handsome lodge.
The extent of his Lordship's Highland shootings may be
gathered from the fact, that his rental is very nearly
2,0001. per annum—the deer-forest alone being let for
1,3621.