The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-15 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, FEB. 12.—W0 have
no change to report in the foreign wool market this
week. It is expected prices will range full higher at the
approaching London sales, the quantity to be offered
being but small.
Escusu WOOL MARKET, FEB. 12.—This branch of
trade has been without any change this week, either in
demand or prices.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, FEB. 11.—We cannot
vary our report from last week's, the demand still con-
tinuing languid, with prices much about the same.
LIVERPOOL WOOL MARKET, FEB. 11.—There were
1,800 bags of foreign and colonial wool offered at auc-
tion yesterday, scarcely half of which found purchasers.
The attendance was numerousus, but there was a want
of confidence exhibited, owing no doubt to the high
prices of provisions; the biddings, therefore, were lan-
guid. The small quantity of Australian and Cape realised
full prices, eonsidering the quality and condition, which
were very inferior. There was not much United States
wool sold at auction, but several parcels were afterwards
disposed of by private sale, at prices rather lower than
previous sales. There was a-good assortment of Buenos
Ayres, but the prices offered were so very low that it
was nearly all withdrawn.
LEEDS.—We have not had such dull markets at our
cloth-halls for some months past as on Tuesday and Sa-
turday. There continue to be considerable deliveries,
however, direct to the foreign houses, of goods calculated
for the East India and China markets, and from this
circumstance, added to the great caution exercised by
th• manufacturers generally, the stocks in the cloth-
halls are not large, and prices are firm. There is a
little more business doing by some of the foreign houses,
but on the whole business has been dull in the ware-
houses since this day week.
BRADFORD MARKET, FEB. 11.--We can report no
amendment in the wool market. Sales are compara-
tively few, and those of no great extent. The supply of
wool coming to the staplers is small, which tends to
keep up prices. The yarn market is still dull, and no
change in price. The Russian houses are, however, pre-
paring for (we hope) a brisk trade in yarns for export.
Plain Orleans cloths and paramattas are in good demand;
for the American market large stocks of pieces are pur-
chased. l'ancy articles, made partly of silk, will, we
have no doubt, have a great run during our spring
trade. Merinos at present are dead stock. The manu-
facturers are full of hope as to a brisk spring trade.
MANCHESTER, THURSDAY ETENING.—We are in no
ways improving, either in our cloth or yarn markets.
The depression is extreme, and without any rational
prospect of improvement. A decided reduction on the
nominal low rates of the day would not induce merchants
to buy, except to order. There is no taste for the least
speculation.

TROOPS FOR THE CAPE OF GOOD MOTE. —A de-
tachment, consisting of 35 non-commissioned officers and
men of the Royal Sappers and Miners at Woolwich, marched
from their barracks, headed by the excellent brass band of
the corps, to the Royal Arsenal, on Saturday morning, and
embarked in the Lord Vivian Ordnance sloop for Gravesend,
to be transferred to the Senator hired freight-ship for con-
veyance to the Cape of Good Hope, to fill up the vacancies
in the two companies of Royal Sappers and Miners at that
staTioa. Two officers of the Royal Engineers, and five men
of the Royal Sappers and Miners, from Chatham were also
to join at Gravesend for the same destination. A detachment
of the Royal Artillery, consisting of 15 men of the 4th bat-
talion, and 15 men of the ith battalion, embarked at the
Royal Arsenal at the same time, under the command of
lieutenant Drayton, to fill up the two companies of Royal
Artillery at the Cape.
TILE COST or FOURPENCII.—On Friday, at the
Middlesex County Court of Requests, Kingsgate street, Hol-
born, a journeyman paper-hanger, named Barnes, appeared
to sustain a summons against James Hammery, for the sum
of fourpence. It appeared that the plaintiff's child went to
the shop of the defendant for the purpose of obtaining change
for a shilling. Three fourpenny- pieces were given, one of
which was bad. Upon the coin being returned to the de-
fendant, he denied having given it to her, and expressed his
determination of not substituting another. It having been
sworn that the coin then given and the one produced in court
was the same, the Learned Commissioner directed the de-
fendant to pay the amount claimed--fourpence, and the costs,
five shillings and sixpence, making a total of fire shillings
and tenpence, the costs amounting to nearly twenty times the
sum sued for. packet
ANOTHER STEAMER LOST.—The fine
Creole, which was long employed between New Orleans end
Bordeaux, has been wrecked on
n
the eastern coast of the
Island of Cuba. She left Bordeaux
the £3 t h
andof Np oa
syseemn
--
ber, with 135 persons on board, including° crew
gers. On the 19th
December she was driven on the sub-
marine rocks off Nuevitas, Canal of Bahama, and remained
days and three nights.
in this perilous situation during two
All hopes of gettinfs her off, notwithstalding the passengers
added their exertions to those of the crew, being at an end,
the captain ordered her masts to be cut by the board, and
turned every effort to save the passengers; but before means
could be taken the ship broke up. Out of 155 persons, only
8 reached the shore. Among those who were lost was the
captain,2 M. Jules Cayol, who refused to quit the vessel until
every other living person had been got off. Those saved
have been well treated by the inhabitants, and were expect-
ing to leave shortly for New Orleans.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.—The council
have instituted a professorship of the Mechanical Prin-
ciples of Engineering, and appointed Mr. Eton llodgkinson
to the chair. The Flaherty scholarship in mathematics has
been awarded to Mr. William Yool. To Mr. Robert Bald•
win Hayward, who was so nearly equal to Mr. Yool that
the examiners recommended a division of the scholarship,
the council voted a gold medal, with an expression of regret
that circumstances did not admit of their bestowing two
scholarships. Examiners: Robert Leslie Ellis, A.M., of
Trinity College, Cambridge, for the council; and Professors
De Morgan and Potter. The Flaherty scholarship in clas-
sics has been awarded to Mr. Henry Glaldish Rosher. Ex-
aminers: G. S. Venables, Esq., of Jesus College, Cambridge,
A.M., for the council ; and Professors Newman and Malden.
The 401. prize for general proficiency as a student in me-
dicine and surgery has been awarded to Mr. William Henry
Ransom.

The officers of the Royal Horse Artillery, Wool-
wich, gave, on Thursday last, an entertainment to their
friends, to which were invited the nobility and gentry of the
neighbourhood. The Ethiopian Serenaders, from the
St. James's Theatre, were specially engaged on the occasion,
and gave a selection from their popular repertory with their
accustomed success and effect. A large party assembled to
do honour to the hospitality of their gallant hosts.
FICTION.—The editor of the Burlington Free Press
informs his readers, that having published " Dombey and
Son," and the President's Message, he ought to be excused
giving any more ficticu for the present.