The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-18 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Nottingham Review of this day.)
Most of the branches of the lace trade are extremely
dull, there being little' or no demand. Last week the
tatting lace hands were abated 2.5 per cent. in their
wages, not more than one in ten have full employment.
The warp blond lace workmen, after being generally
stinted for some weeks, have many of them got their
warps stopped, with fears that they shall be whoily dis-
charged. Fancy bobbin lace is very slack in demand,
as none but the best of patterns will sell. Those that
are very extensively gimped on the machine fetch high
prices. Power nets, both quillings and plain, have a
tolerable good mark at in Germany, ornamental nets
being placed under heavy restrictions in many of the
States.

Never was the fancy hosiery trade, both silk and
cotton, in such a depressed state as at the present time.
The silk glove trade is in a very precarious state, many
of the hands having only partial employment. The
plain silk hose trade is becoming half extinct. Was it
not for the silk glove trade, half the silk framework-
knaters in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire would be
unemployed.
The drawer, pantaloon, and shirt branch, a very im-
portant part of the Nottingham manufacture, keeps
gradually improving. This branch suffered more than
any other during the late panic.
The men employed in the cotton hose trade in the
villages, though somewhat depressed, are not in the la-
mentable state for want of employment as those in the
silk branches. The cut-up trade, hose, half-hose, and
gloves, since their late turn-outs seem to rest in peace ;
few complaints are heard, except as to low wages. The
turn-out of the female runners is at an end. The number
that actually turned out was 440.

HORSES IN TRAINING FOR THE

DERBY.

There are actually 117 horses and mares in training for
the Derby, and two or three more ready to undergo this
wholesome precess on the Ist of January. There is, no
doubt, some good reason why a horse should go into train-
ing on one particular day, and, as we often hear of horses
being trained to the day, we strongly advise the calcula-
tion to be made, to facilitate which we have searched the
almanack, and discover that the Derby will be run for on
the 26th day of May, about one week earlier than last sea-
son. According to Cocker,..then, and the last new work
teaching you to find cut a horse's exact speed by examining
the muscles in his tail, a horse should take his first gallop
on the Ist of January, at 25 minutes before 7 a.m.
The Monimia colt is dead since my last, and Sir R.
Bulkelcy's Blueskin is reported to be also in that happy state.
This unusual number of horses being alive and well, we
are nevertheless surprised that 15 to 1 is offered on the
field. To the of Troxxc,i it may seem strange that such
odds should find takers, this promiscuous portion of the
public not remembering that at least 25 of the lot have
been so respectably beaten that they are merely kept in
training to fulfil their smaller engagements or win
plates, and without the remotest idea being entertained
by the owners of starting them for the great race.
Again, Scott has so strong a stable, so many well-
bred horses, that those who fancy they know the best
are very glad to take as little as 20 to I about him ;
and the same reason applies to John Day's and other
stables. Again, what matters it if there are 500 horses in
training, when there are not twenty jockies in the world
who could (admitting they were inclined ,that way) win
upon the best horse ? If we look at the horses as they
stand in the betting, we can, without much trouble, dispose
of John Day, W. Scott, Nat, Chilney, Chapple, Edwards,
and J. Robinson. Barring three or four more and a good
jockey—good, meaning one whose character stands unble-
mished, ono with a cool bead and a strong arm—an expe-
rienced rider is scarce indeed. How many great races do
we remember where a clodpole has been put up because
no one else could be found ? Has there not been a
case in point within these three months? Can it be de-
nied that there are dozens of races where Jem Ro-
binson would win on any one of the first three ? The
jockey is so important a part of the horse, that, in any
opinion, there ought to be a jockey stud-book. Great ex-
pectations might be entertained of the produce of a sister
to Sam by James the First. Sam won the Derby. A
fine yearling might be born by Nat, Miss W. Ed-
wards (a filly by Dr. Syntax). I read the other day
a very clever article on this subject. I shall forward it
probably when I have an opportunity of referring to
it. Our reasons for thinking 15 to 1 on the field
liberal odds are briefly explained. The public two-year old
running is bad. Wahab trained by John Day, has run
twice with Cameleon ; Thistle Whipper, also trained by
John Day, has run twice with Cameleon; and the Rosalie
colt (first favourite) is also trained by John Day. It is
fair to suppose, therefore, that said John Day is pretty well
aware of the length of Cameleon, and we may without
much extending our imagination infer from the betting
that a very substantial saddle-cloth would be requisite to
bring these two together, viz., the Rosalie colt and Ca-
meleon. As little as Bto 1 has been taken about the
latter; but 12 and 11 to 1 were taken to sums of money by
good men and true, which is the foundation of this conclu-
sion, that, in spite of his last tipsy performance, Came-
leon is much the best two-years-old by public running.
In giving the preference to Coronation as our winter ta•
vourite, we certes did not do so from either of his public
exhibitions, it not being our opinion that a horse can be
given over for dead in July and be fit to tun a race on the
2d of September. If it were not that the public
are obliged not to believe what they hear until they
see it, the Rosalie colt has far more right to be at 8 to 1
taken than ever Cameleon had, havingthseeontehtheeDd ei
srabsytnr no engage-
ment until the day, the other having two ; and wehe
unfortunately,
those
gallops too
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on
That the public are not forgetful of this is foreibfolauyvsoueffi‘iatt.vectss:
demon-
strated by the fact that the three favourites for the Derby,
the Rosalie colt, Marshal Soult, and Coronation,. have no
engagement until the day.—Correspondent of the Morning
Post.
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THE LATE A rtLEs THROCKMOR-
ToN, BART.—The funeral of the late Sir Charles Throck-
morton took place on Saturdsy last, when his mortal re-
mains were deposited in the family vault of Congleton
Church. Sir Rubert Throekmorton, Bart.,
chief mourner, and a large body of the tenantry of the dc-
ceased Baronet assisted at the obsequies. was the