The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-08 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MascuEsTen, JULY 6.—There has been a fair de-
mand for goods to-day, and a tolerably large business
would havo been done, if manufacturers would have
accepted the prices current last week. Many,
however, demanded a further advance, which the
buyers were unwilling to give ; and the transactions
-were, consequently, on a more limited scale than
they would otherwise have been, and generally
at last week's prices. The yarn market was not
quite so active ; the spinners generally holding out fur
prices which the buyers are unwilling to give, and very
little business has been dune.
We learn that, at a meeting of the spinners and ma-
nufacturers of Ashton-under-Lyne, held on Monday
last,
a resolution was adopted (unanimously, we be-
lie", with the exception of 'one firm) to the effect that
it was desirable, at once, to rirluce the full time of
working t) ten hours per day provided the same course
was generally resorted to by the trade in other lo
nalities. We understand that a general meeting is to
be held in this town on Tuesday nexr, to take the sub-
ject into consideration. Of course this diminution of
time will involve a corresponding reduction of wages, or
at least an offer of reduced wages on the part of the
employers. Whether the offer will be acceded to by
the w‘,rkpeople iv, at pre,,ent, exceedingly doubtful.
Roc LE --There has been fully as good a
demand fur nLY 5
goods. to
-day
in -day a. last Monday, but no min-
nuir,,d for.
and upon
Wool has been rather more in-
peees remain
FiI7DDE RSFIELD
Zl):l,:lihhe%waihnoel.e more business done; but
m:oeLnrYt h thanW e
market for meonfywi
Every
has thhaeveonneot had a better
held to-day.
There has also been a goods have met with ready sale.
market continues t
LEEDS. JULY 6.--Our eraMe business done in wool.
There has been a fair busine o improv..r.
Sa-
turday.—Manchester Guardlisit.d°lllV" t")-day and last S'i"

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CHILD MURDER AT ROCHESTER. 43„ Saturda
and by adjournment on Monday, an inquest -
the ..iordeu Arms, Rochester, before r. was
Lewisy
heldt
a
.orough coroner, touching the death of a male '
of
wnich Eliza Hewlett. single woman, had delivTrier, the
' h
self on the previous day. From the evidence itepr-
pe,2-0,1 that the mother of the infant, who is 38 yeti;
of age, had lived servant at the Falstaff Inn, Gad's-hill,
on the roes between Rochester and Gravesend; that she
had recently left her place and come to lodge with her
sister in Rochester in consequence of her approaching
accouchment. On Friday morning she was found by
Mr'. Brown, the wife of a mariner, and sister to the
accused, on the side of the bed in a very weakly state.
A nurse and a medical man (Dr. Ely) were called in,
but she refused to lie down or move from the spot she
occupied, and from the state in wnich she appeared Dr.
Ely sent for Mr. Stephenson, surgeon, in order that
tinder the alarming state in which she appeared he
,ea ight have s.,lne one to share the responsibility with
h They at length succeeded in getting her to lie
do and c.n searching about the nurse found the body
of the infant wrapped in a coarse cloth, lying between
the bed and blanket at the spot where she had been
sitticg. There was a cord wound- tightly three times
,the neck, and on a post
roundmorteni examination the
medics I gentlemen were of opinion that the child had
lived; • the lungs were fully developed, •
and all the vital
parts wt n'e in a perfectly healthy state. They were of
opinion itlso that it had died of strangulation, but the
position i which it was found was sufficient to have
caused its death. The jury, after a few minutes'
con-.
sulation.re.turned a verdict of " Wilful murder ~
against
the mother.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has received
from " C." " for thit exigencies of the country.'q
The amount will be paid into the receipt of the Esp.;
chequer.