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

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, FEB. 12.—We 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.
ENGLISH 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 end Cape realised
full prices, considering 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was nearly all withdrawn.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 hare not bad 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, ot goods calculated
for the East India and China markets, and front thi-
circumstance, added to the great caution exercised by
the manufacturers generally, the stacks in the cloth
halls are not large, end prices are firm. There
little more business doing by some of the foreign house.,,
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. Fancy crticles, made partly of silk, will, we
have no doubt, have a great run during our spring
trade. Merinos a t present are dead stock. The manu-
facturers are full of hope as to a brisk spring trade. -
MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—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 Horn.--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
station. 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 7th battalion, embarked at the
Royal Arsenal at the same time, under the command of
Lieutenant Drayson, to fill up the two companies of Royal
Artillery at the Cape.
THE COST or FOURPENCE.—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 thede-
de-
fendant to pay the amount claimed—fourpence,
five shillings
and and the costs,
five shillings and sixpence, making a total of
and tenpence, the costs amounting
to nearly twenty times the
sum sued for.
andke t
h
Bordeaux, has been wrecked on
Creole, which was long employed betweente
east
ANOTHER STEAMER LOST.— Tll
ern coast of the
Nefiwnoerleapnasc
Island of Cuba.
She left Bordeaux on the Bth of Novem-
ber,board, including crew and passen-
gers. On the
I of Bahama, and remained
rocks off Nuevitas, Canal 19th Decemberc she was driven on the sub-
marinethree nights.
All notwithstanding thepassengers
All hopes of getting her off,
in this perilous situation during two days and
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
82 reached the shore. Among those who were lost was the
captain, M. Jules Cayol, who refused to quit the vessel until
every other living person had been got off. Those sewed
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 Hodgkinson
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
:fiends, 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 exipsed
giving any more action for the precent.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, FEBRUARY 13.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are —Blackburn, Clltheroe, &c.,
dis.—Birminghain and Oxford Junction, 1.3% p.—Chester and 1 3ir-
kenhead, 201. Shares, % dis., ex div.—Edinburgh and Glace. ylv.
Quarters, 19—Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, p.—Gr eat
Western, Quarters, 714 p.—lluddersfield and Manchester, 3% P
Ditto, Extensions, 1% p.—Leeds and Dewsbury, New, Extens lon
(pink), 1 p.—Leeds and Thirsk, -2% dis.—Liverpool, Crosby,
Southport, 2% p.—Ditto, New (late 'West Lancashire), 2q P L
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, % dis.—Lon don
and North-Western, 189 -Ditto, New, Quartets, 12 p.—Manche der
and Southampton, % dis.—Midland Stock,. 40/. Shares, 5'A p• ex
div.—Ditto, New, 3% p.—Newcastle and Carlhie, 13—Preston ind
Wyre (A), 4 p.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 9J. 12s. 34. (B). P•
—Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, dis.—youth-Eastern
Dover, No. 3, Consolidated, 1 p..—Ditto, N 0.4, Thitds, p.—So t
Trent Midland, % p.— South Yorkshire, Doncaster, aid Goole, Ui P
- 1,6
—West Riding Union (R.), p.—York and New cast.l.o (late N. Ani
D.), New, 6 p.—Ditto, Preference, 4% p.

_
MANCHESTER, FEBRUARY 13.
S'rocx EXCPIANOE. --The sales are—Birmingham and astfordJunem
lion, 8% p.— Blackburn, Clitheroc, &c., 5-16 di3.--Eastern Counticas
21% —Ditto, York Extension, % p.—East Lancashire, 1%
New (scrip), 1 3-16 p.-- Fleetwood, Preston, and Wsst P'
—Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 3 p. --L I*-
caster and Preston, Three-quarters, 17 p.—London and Not di'
Western (Manchester and Birmingham), 7234 c.—Manchester
Leeds Extension, 1% p.—Manchester Sheffield, and Lincolnsh dre
(late Sheffield and Lincolnshire), 1 dis.—Manchester and Sou tb-
ampton, 7-16 dis.- North Staffordshire, 2 15-16 p.—Preston
Wyre, 34—Ditto, Halves (A), 3% p.—Ditto, ditto (13), 7-16 dis
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 13-16 p.—South-Eastern i od
Dover, No. 4, % p.—South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole, %
—Southport and Euxton, 114
,_dis.—West, Biding Union, 1 19-16 p. •

LEEDS, FEBRUARY 13.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The markets have remained dull with reduc gd
quotations tor all stocks, and with the uncertain prospects of ti as
money markets, and the price of corn, which is again advancing, v 4,%.
do not anticipate present alteration tor the better. 31uch rimier/
is felt to know the particulars of the Government financial arrange-
ments, and in the meantime speculators arc very cent tolls. The sales
are -Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 3s. Gd. -East Lan-
cashire, 1X p.-Ditto, New, 1% p.-Ditto, New Scrip, 245. p.- East
and West Yorkshire, 2s. 6d. dis.-Huddersneld and 31ancIliester, ”fi
p.-Leeds and Dewsbury, Halves, 4% n. p.-Leeds and Thirsky
Preference, 245. p.-Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 11 s. dls.-- •
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 7s. Gd. dia.-Malt-NI
and Driffield Junction, 235. Gd. c. p. -Manchester and Leeds, Hal cc*
(late Ilud. and Sheff.) p.--Ditto, Extensions, 15s. s.
cheater, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, Its. p.-North British Qt, er-
ten (late Carlisle Branch), 41s. n. p.-Ditto, Extension (scrip), I Ai&
p.-Nbrth Staffordshire, 3 n. p.-North-Western, 7s. Gd. p.-- it est
Itidim: Union, 31s. Gd. p.--York and North Midland, Preferca ci`.
10% p.

• EIU,LL, FEBRUARY 13.
STOCK EXCIIANGE..-Although no busing as a importance has tray
pired on our exchange to-day; many orders remain unexecutf
owing to a shade difference in limits, holders of stock being fin Hi
whilst buyers fight shy.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, FEBRUARY 13.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-East Lancashire, New Ser-111.
1 p.-Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, Bs. 6d. d 15.
-North British, 10 p.
EDINBURGH, FEBRUARY 12.
STOCK Exensasos.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 23L-Airdrie as
Bathgate, 41. la.-Arbroath and Forfar, 287"=-Ditto,-Harf Shares; lb,
55.-Ayr and Galloway, 2/. Os. 6d.-Caledonian, 271.-Ditto, Nee
2L Gs. - Caledonian and Dumbarton, 2/. 135.--Clydesdale Junettol
39/. 53.-Deaside, 31. 58.- Direct Northern, 21. lls. 611.-Dunblan ,
Donne, and Callender, 11. 12s. 6d.-Dundee and Arbroath, 43/. e $c
new Ditto New, No. 1,32 i- Ditto, No. 2, 271. 10s.-Ditto, Na'
No. 3, 41. 17s. Gd. -Dundee And Perth, 22 Ditto, New, 151. 7P.
61.-East 01 Fik, 2/. 165.-East Lothian Central, 2/. 2s.- Edinburf, 1111
and Bathgate, 51. 4s. -Edinburgh alai 4.w, 77/.-Ditto, 1113
Shares, 20,, ss.- Ditto, Quarter., 19.. -Edinburgh, Leith, and Gran,-
ton, 19/. IN.-Ditto, Preference, 20'. IN. -Edinburgh and Northern~
16/. 7s. 6d. ex new-Ditto, New, 31. 13e. 6d.-Ditto, Newport.
5/. Gs. Gd.-Ditto, ditto, New, 21 10s.-Edinburgh and Perth (Old).
11. 18s. 6d.-Ditto (New), 21. Bs. 6d.-Glasgow and .Ayrshire, 614-
-Ditto, New Stock, 341.-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 16/. 10a.-DittO.
Halves, No. 1, 71. 155.-Ditto, No. 2, 91. ts.-Glasgow, Dumfrie
and Carlisle, 61.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 391.-Glasgow General Ter
minus, 12/. 10s.-Glasgow and Greenock, 191.--Ditto; Halves, 91:
-Ditto, Preference, 81. ss.- Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossarlo
61. 17s. 6d.-Great North of England, 2371. -Great North of. Scot-
land, 21. 55.-London and York, 31. 12s. 6d.-Ditto, Extension%
(scrip), 2/. 55.-Manchester and Leeds, lOU-Ditto, Sixteenths.
71. 155.-Ditto, Extensions, 3/. 25.-Newcastle and Berwick, 321. 15re.
-North British, 351. 2s. 6d.-Ditto, Halves, 161. 17s. 6d.-Dittol.
Thirds, 31. 125.-Ditto, Quarters, 41. 35.--Ditto, New Quarter.
(scrip), 11. 7s. Gd.--Ditto, Fifths, 71. 2s. W.-Scottish Central, 214
7s. 6d.-Scottish Grand Junction, I/. Is. Gd. --Scottish Midland, 224
55.-- Shrewsbury and Hereford, 11. IN.-Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and
Chester, 81. N.-Ditto, New, 11. Os. W.-Stirling and Dunfermlinfor
3/. 12s. 6d.-Stirling and Midland, 21. IN.-Strathern Junction, 34
35.-Wishaw and Coltness, 481. 155.-York ' and Newcastle, 361. 105.
-Ditto, New, 111. 155.-Ditto, Preference, 91.-Direct Bombs.
and Madras, 3s. 6c1.-East Indian, Bs. 6d.- Great North of India"
3s. Gd.-Great Southern of Madras, 35. Gd.--Madras, gad
Arcot, 2s.

GLASGOW, FLEW:TART 12.
STOCK EXCHANGE. -The sales are-Ayr and Galloway,
Caledonian, New, 445.- Caledonian ansi Dumbartonshire, 488.-Directg
Northern (scrip), 505.-Dundee and Perth .28 3 -East of Fife, 51s.
East Indian, Bs. 9d.-East Lothian Central, 41s. 6d.-Edinburg?-
and Glasgow, Halves, 20% -Ditto, Quarrel's, 191.-Edinburgh and
Perth, 505.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 651,-; -Ditto, HalveSs.
No. 2, 91. Is.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ar.drossan, 6% -Great,
Southern of Madras, 35.-Kilmarnock and Ayr Dir,ct, 325. -Man-
cheater and Southampton, 325. -Midland, Halves, 51. 165.-North
British, Thirds, 71s. 6d.-Ditto, Quarters, 82s. 6a..-Ditto, New,
Quarters (scrip), 275.-Scottish Central, 2414-SceStish Midland
Junction, 22%-Stirling and Dunfermline, 335.

CHEMICAL MIRACLES.—At the Court of the Duke
of Brunswick, Professor Beyruss promised that during dinner
his coat should become red ; and to the amazement of the
Prince and his other guests, it actually became that colotsre
M. Vogel relates the fact, but does not reveal the secret made
use of by Beyruss, but he observes that by pouring lime water
on the juice of the beetroot a colourless liquid is obtained;
and that a piece of cloth steeped in this liquid, and quickly
dried, becomes red in a few hours, simply by contact with the.
air; and further that the effect is accelerated in an apartment''
where champagne and other wines are being plentifulli
poured out. It has been proved by recent experiments the&
wool dyed by orchil of a violet colour, or stained blue by the
acidulated sulphate of indigo, in a bath of hydro-stilphuri
acid, becomes colourless, yet resumes the blue or the violet
on exposure to the free air. Either explanation applies to
the modern fact, and indicates the possiliiiity of revivliet
ancient prodigies; it also discovers the m,annerin
amidst fie, ing tta-ches and smoking incense, in tbetsanc-
tuaries of Polytheism, the veil concealing theisandcreded hue?
may have been seen to change from white to a b‘e-- ir fright-
and which spectacle was considered as the presage the
ful disasters. Blood boiling on the altars, or indicative
marbles, or in the vases of the temples, were alai
of perils and calamity. In Provence, in the sixteenth
century, when a consecrated phial filled with the blood of St.
Magdalene, in a solid state, was placed near her pretended
head, the blood became liquid, and suddenly boiled. The
same phenomenon was exhibited in the Cathedral of Avellino,
with the bloood of St. Lawrence; and also at Bisseglia, with
that of St. Panteleon, and of two other martyrs. In the
present day, at an annual public ceremony at Naples, some
of the blood of St. Januarius, collected and dried some cen-
turies ago, becomes spontaneously liquified, and rises in a
boiling state to the top of the phial that encloses it; These
phenomena may be produced by reddening sulphnrio ether
with orcanette (onosma Lion.) and mixing the tincture
with spermaceti. This preparation, at ten degrees above
the freezing point (centigrade) remains condensed, but
melts and boils at twenty. To raise it to this bemperature
it is only necessary to hold the phial which contains it in the
hand for some time.— Thompson's Philosophy of Magic.
Emroa. MuTANTun.--On last Sabbath, DUn
f. ieg time was adjusted to London time, and to effect this our
public clocks had to bF accelerated twenty-five
minutes.'
This was a process sufficiently simple—setting the hands to
half-past seven in the morning, instead of five minutes pest
that hour; but the confusion produced was petfectly chaotthe
ic.
The country people who throng into our churches at
ringing of the bells " were perfectly astounded to hear their
jangle when they had yet miles of their journey
firm. Deuce citizens, not long out of bed, were startle('
at their coffee by the unexpected, and till now welcome
peal, and left the second cup untouched. The alarm was
so great, that we doubt not many china sets suffered break-
age on the occasion : and we dare say some not very die:
ritable suppositions were cherished, to the effect that the
bell-
man was either " blin' fou," and had mistaken the hour, or
bad set the bells a-ringing so long before their time out of
pure mischief. In some of the churches the congregation had
met, but there was neither minister nor precentor. In othersr
the clergyman and clerk were present, but only a tithe of the
people,'abd then, long after the exercise bad commenced,
the remaining portions came horning in, in hot haste, as h
pursued. The reason that our clocks had fallen so far be-

hind exists, we need scarcely state, in the between,
the longitude of Dumfries and Greenwich, and the neglect of
causing them to be adjusted weekly —Dumfries Standard.
MURDER AT A CLIRISTENING.—A dreadful murder
was committed on Sunday evening at Newborough, in the
southern division of the county of Northuirberland, about •
four miles from Hischam. There had been a christening that
day, which in that part of the country is usually a season of
great festivity ; and after the parties had been to the church,
they repaired to an inn in the village of Newborough
partake of some refreshment. While there, a man named •
Welsh, who is a labourer in a quarry in the neighbourhood,
took some improper liberties with the females of the christen-
ing party, and made use of indecent language, which called
for the interference of the father of the child, a person of the/
name of Proud. When Proud and his party left the house,
Welsh followed and went in the same direction ; and some
wrangling took place between the parties on the road. They
had not, however, proceeded far, when Welsh went up to
Proud, seized him by the head, and pulling it back, cut hiS
throat with a knife so severely, that the unfortiznate victim
died almost immediately. After committing the ho; rid deed
Welsh ran off, and called at the same public-house the ply
bad been at, where he called for a pot of whisky, and hailPs
drank it, he stated to the mistress of the house that it W 1
the last time she would see him. He then left, and hastened
to the Four-stones station of the Newcastle and Carlisle',
R ilway. On reaching it he seems to have been entirely
overcome, partly by the liquor be had taken, and partly by
the exertions he had made to fly from the locality of his '
crime. In,the meantime intelligence of the murder spread
over the village, and the constable ( Mr. Riley) was dispatched
on horseback in pursuit of the murderer, whom he found ar
a public-house at the Four-stones "station, and lanmediselY,
apprehended him. An inquest was held on Tuesday before.
,dtehtea
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eodroinnerfor evidence,t he eaonuan tt3h•,ewj
uhre;
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aaMbvroer'Sedtisectptahtoeefdn were
Reed,
Murder" against the prisoner, who was
committed on the coroner's warrant to Morpeth gaol, for
trial at the ensuing assizes.

ANOTHER CAPTURE OF ♦N ILLICIT DISTILLERY.-
From information received, Messrs. Bayfgd and J. Lewin',
officers of Excise, yesterday proceeded to the house of Mr.
John Hatfield, Trafalgar-street, Whitechapel, where, after
obtaining admission, i❑ a back apartment they found a large
copper still, a quantity of fermented wash, molasses, spirits,'
and the usual fittings of a distillery. The process of distilla-
tion was not then going on, but it appeared to have been re-
cently suspended. They accordingly seized the still, appa-
ratus, and utensils; but, in consequence of there being no
fire under the still, they were not empowered to take the
proprietor into custody, although he was on the premises at
the time.

BIRTHS.
On the 10th inst., in Portland-place, the wife of the Rev. Charles
L. Royds, of a son. e wife
On the 11th inst., at Emmanuel Parsonage, Camberwell, th
of the Rev. Robert Fayrer, of a daughter.
On the 11th inst., in Torrington-square, the lady of W. 11. Harrison'
Esq., of a son.
On the 12th inst., the laay of Edward Morris, Esq., Gloneester"
road, Hyde-park-gardens, of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 11th inst., at Kirtlington, Edmund Antrobus, Esq..
o1!1.r.;
for East Surrey, to Marianne Georgiana, oldest daughtor
George Dashwood, Bart., of Kirtlington-park, Oxfordshire.

DIED.
On the 10th inst., at Belle Vise House, Chelsea, Charles Ilatehett,
Esq., aged 82. fpie
On the 10th inst., at Liverpool, Jane, the wife of Captain Gille
Dunslevie.
On the 10th inst., Thomas Hayes, Esq., of Darby House, StznburY.
Middlesex.
On the 10th inst., at Aldwick, William Titchener, Esq.. aged 67.
of
On the 11th inst., at °Afield, Ilornsey, George Buceiton, Esq.. °
Doctor's-commons, aged 63.
On the I th inst., Jecosho, wife of Themes Nett, Esq., of Mes"---
burgh-square. ate
On the I lth inst., at Kentish-town, Elizabeth, relict of the
Mr. Charles Ernest Christian Hering. Wan t
On the 11th inst., at Manchester-street, Michael Ffenshavf,
vn of H. S. Russell, Esq.
On the Ilth inst., at Denmark-hill, surrey, Vice-Admiral Vori
Young, aged 86.
On the llth inst., at Wokinghem, Berke, Thomas QueotorY_L ".
On the 11th inst., at Islington, Joseph Chippindale, E9(l-, aged '

Londnu: Printed and Published by IifIIRDO YOUNO, of No. 114
Printer, at The au-, "ifice, N 0.112. Prr,r', in the Preenot
of the Savor. In the County of Bibidlesex, Monday, it.
bruary 15, 1447.