The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-20 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

ENGLISH WOOL MARKET.—LEEDS, .JULY 1 7.—The
demand for wool is still confined to the immediate re-
quirements of the manufacturers. In prices we do not
quote any alteration of moment this week, although the
tendency is downward.
FOREIGN WOOL TRADE.—LEEDS, JULY 17.—A full
average business has been done in foreign wools this
week, and recent rates are very firmly maintained.
YORK WOOL MARKET, JULY 16.—This market con-
tinues to be well supplied with wool, and a steady busi-
ness doing, at prices nominally the same as last re-
ported.
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- BRADFORD MARKET, THIIRSDAY.—WooL.--The busi-
ness doing is still limited, and as the prices in the coun-
try have not been such us will meet the rates current
here, it is more than probable the supply in the market
will not be so ample as at present. YARNS.—There is
an average business doing in general numbers of weft
yarns, hut we do not learn of any improvement in prices.
PIECES.—The buyers, both for home trade and export,
are extending their purchases, and a fair business has
been done.

TRADE OF MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—
We are, if anything, progressing, though slowly, in the
right direction in our cloth market. Confidence is daily
on the increase, seeing tiere is now all but a certainty
that the harvest will be both early and abundant. Our
home merchants are quite sanguine that flourishing
times are at hand. The market closes to day very firm,
and even buoyantly. Spinners of low numbers find a
brisk sale at rather higher rates, and all numbers are
firm and in fair request.

THE LATE MAJOR-GENERAL
M'CASKILL, K.C.B.
(From the Perthshire Courier.)
The late Major-General Sir John M'Caskill, K C. 8., who
died gloriously in the bloody engagement at Moodkee, on the
18th of December last, was a native of the Isle of Syke, the
birth-place of many gallant heroes. Sir John M'Caskill was
the last of four excellent brothers, three of whom died in the
military service of their Sovereign and country. By his
death his father's family became extinct, except two
sisters, who still reside in their native island. These
amiable ladies, whose moral worth render them worthy of
being sisters of their gallant deceased brother, were libe-
rally supported by a handsome annuity which he duti-
fully allowed to each. Their prospects at his death
were, indeed, gloomy in the extreme, as they had no
friend s cf whom to claim support, and no resources
whatever to depend upon for their maintenance. They had
no legal claim on Government, as their gallant brother left
a widow and family to be supported by the public funds.
Their case was alike distressing and hopeless; and although
it was early represented at bead-quarters, there were no ta-
vourabre replie4, on account o i the stringent regulations o
the War-office. The Rev. Alexander Macgregor, of Kilmuir,
deeply sympathising with their afflicted condition, took the
liberty of representing it by letter to Sir R. Peel, on the 18th
of June. The appeal was not made in vain, and the result
affords an illustrious display of the worthy Baronet's humane
and generous heart. The following communications, iu the
hand-writing of Sir R. Peel, are full of interest :

" Whitehall, June 29, 1846.
' " Sir Robert Peel presents his compliments to the Rev,
Alexander Al‘Gregor, and begs leave to inform him, that Sir
Robert Peel has had great satisfaction in recommending to
the Queen that pensions to the amount of 501. each shall be
granted to the Miss M‘Caskills, in consideration of the gallant
service of their brother, the late Sir John M'Caskill, and of
his death on the field of battle."

" Whitehall, June 29, 1846.
"Sir Robert Peel presents his compliments to the Miss
M•Caskills, and has great satisfaction in informing them that
the Queen has been graciously pleased, on the recommenda-
tion of Sir Robert Peel, to grant to the Miss M'Caskills pen-
sions of 50/. each, on the civil list, for their lives."