The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-25 00:00:00

WOOLLEN TRADE

LEEDS, DEC. 23.—We have no new feature to remark
in the foreign wool trade since' dui ' lgst ;report. The
sales for this seitson' havelbbere to a fair extent,- and prices
are well maintained.

'The amount cif- Imsinese transacted; in 'the English
Wool Market has only been to a- trifling' extent during
the week, and prices remain unaltered;
TR4..RE OF, LEEDI.—,The SAllle, dull state of trade con-
-I:ipu9siat, our clothlialls this week as last, and this,was
more payiticularly the case on Tuesday,; whlc4 ryas, one of
the worst markets we ever witnessed. remunerating
prices cannot at present be obtained, even with the very
limited supply which has lately been brought to market.
The manufacturers are in a state of despondency, and
express" theinselves determined to still further narrow
their operations, and although this will fall heavily upon
the liibburing part of the population in the manufactur-
ing villages, who are even now scarcely, half employed,
it is the only safe policy they can pursue until a better
state of things takes place. few houses are engaged
in sending off a few orders for the spring trade to the
United States, but, with this exception, there is scarcely
any business doing in the warehouse.—Leeds Mercury.

SUPPOSED MURDER NEAR SE-
VERN STOKE.

Early on Sunday morning last, a man named Richard
Kinton, was found lying dead on the turnpike road
about five or six miles from Worcester, on the way;
Tewkesbury. On his shoulder were marks as though a
waggon had passed over him; but, from other appear-
ances on his body, suspicions were raised that something
else had a share in his death, upon which a labouring
man, named Tippin, who resides, with his wife and three
children, in a garret at Severn Stoke, was apprehended.
On Tuesday an inquest was held by Mr. Hughes, at the
Boar's Head Inn, Severn Stoke; and the following facts
elicited:—

John Chivers, van driver from Cheltenham to Wor-
cester, deposed that he met with the deceased at the
Bear, Tewkesbury, on Saturday last, and, as he said
he was going to Worcester, witness agreed to take
him there, although he said that he had no money.
They walked along the road by the side of the van until
they reached the seventh- milestone from 'Worcester,
when Chivers got into the waggon, and left deceased in
care of the horses. Chivers shortly afterwards fell asleep,
and awoke about the fifth milestone from Worcester,
when he. missed the deceased, and hallooed after him ;
they went on till he had reached the gate about a mile
out on that road, and acquainted the gatekeeper and,
subsequently, two-policemen with the circumstances.
Superintendent Manton, who apprehended the pri-
soner, found on him a knife which was clearly identified
by the landlord of the Blue Bell as that which he had
seen in the possession of the deceased, and he also found
a whip, which was identified and owned by the van-
driver.

Superintendent Craig also searched the prisoner's
lodgings, and found a smock-frock with marks of blood
on it; and in reply to his inquiries, the prisoner said he
found the knife on the turnpike-road ; and yesterday
morning he discovered a small quantity of tobacco in the
prisoner's room, wrapped in a piece of the Worcester
JournA a very singular coincidence, if it be accidental,
for Mr. Wagstaff, the landlord of the Blue Bell, gave the
deceased a small quantity of tobacco, on Saturday even-
ing, screwed up in a piece of the Worcester Journal.
The prisoner, in his defence, accounted for the posses-
sion of the tobacco by saying that he had purchased it
at the Barley Mow, the landlord of which is in the
habit of wrapping his tobacco in old newspapers ;
as to the knife he had picked it up on Sunday morning,
between Hill Croome and Severn Stoke, as he was
taking a dog to the former place. He confessed that he
was at the Albion, in Worcester, on Saturday night, with
three other men, two of whom are named rowell and
Stanton ; and he said that on his way home he met a
man at Smallbrook, with some one sitting on the shafts.
The whip, which was produced, he stated he bad never
seen before. The smock-frock he said was marked with
blood from a sheep's head which he had bought from
Mr. Green, of Kinnersley, on the Bth instant.
The inquest was then adjourned till to-morrow
(Thursday).— Worcester Journal.