The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-30 00:00:00

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MARCH 30, 1846.

THE RAILWAY SHARE MARKET.

DREADFUL AFFAIR at RUNCORN.
On Tuesday, the 17th instant, a dreadful accident occurred
at the limeworks of Mr. John Tomkinson, the eminent con•
tractor, which are situated near the Pool, Runcorn. From
the best evidence obtained on the spot the misfortune hap-
pened under the following circumstances : William Edwards
had the entire management of the kilns, which are five in
number, they are each covered over by a large brick chim-
ney, commonly called "the funnel," which rises above the
head about 45 feet, and is constructed for the purpose of
carrying off the smoke and sulphur, to prevent annoyance to
the inhabitants in the immediate neighbourhood. At the
bottom of the funnel every kiln has a doorway through
which it is supplied with stone and coke, and a stage or
platform connects all together. The manager lived at a
cottage in the yard, and was assisted by his son and
two youths. About four o'clock in the afternoon he went
into his house to tea, the centre kiln being on a red glow
With heat. He and the others had previously been
"firing up," and they left a barrowful of broken stones on
the stage at the doorway, ready to be added to the burn-
ing mass as soon as the fire had got through its pre-
sent covering. One of the youths. named John Car-
ruthers, was left on the stage, and Edwards desired him
not to do anything to the kiln till he had finished tea.
Whilst he was sitting at it with his wife and family, his son,
who, as previously stated, worked on the premises, ran in to
say that, missing Carruthers from the stage, he called, and
received no answer, he went up, and found him burning in
the kiln; Edwards ran with a short ladder to deceased to
snatch him from the burning flames, the workpeople assist-
ing. In this humane act poor Edwards was unsuccessful,
for, grasping Carruthers with one hand, he tried to ascend the
ladder; but, himself being dreadfully burnt, the sulphur and
fumes overpowered him, and he fell with his dying burden
into the awful abyss. Assistance being now collected, prin-
cipally by the appalling screams of the awe-stricken specta-
tors, a man who worked at the soapery of Messrs. Johnson,
named Levi Knowles, generously volunteered to go down, by
having a rope fastened round his middle, and to tie the one
or other of the sufferers, and so by that means to have them
dragged out. He boldly sprang in, and a few seconds of
breathless anxiety elapsed before the signal was given
to haul up, but the flames had consumed the rope and
it snapped, the greatest difficulty being experienced to
get Knowles out alive. Richard Linaker, with a chain, at-
tempted then, but the sulphurous smoke and stench soon
caused him to become insensible. David Carruthers, father
of the youth John Canna:era, and foreman at Mr. Tomkin-
son's quarries called " the Duke's," at Runcorn, arrived, and
the scene, which before was dreadful, now became more so,
from the force required to prevent Carruthers from jumping
in headlong for the young man. All hope of getting either
of the sufferers out alive being now at an end, drags were
thrown in, and the remains of poor Edwards and the youth
Carruthers were pulled out, two scorched, blackened, lifeless
cinders. Knowles and Linaker still continued in a very pre-
carious state, but through the medical assistance of Mr.
Wilson, surgeon, who was early on the spot, and the kind-
ness of the neighbours, they partially recovered so as to be
able to get home with help. It is not known how Carru-
thers fell in, but it is generally supposed, whilst eating a lit-
tle meat while the two others were at tea, he must have sat
on the barrow, and either fallen asleep or the barrow cap-
sized. Edwards was a steady man, and had been in the em-
ploy of Mr. Tomkinson 22 years. He has left a widow and
numerous family.
On Thursday last an inquiry into the cause of the distress-
ing catastrophe was held before Mr. J. Caldwell, coroner of
Halton Fee, and after a patient investigation of the melan-
choly facts, the jury brought in a verdict of " Accidental
death from burning.
Tomkinson arrived at Runcorn on Friday, and marked
the manner he appreciated poor Edwards' faithful and long
servitude by sootking the widow's sorrows, and substantially
relieving her present distress. The Rev. James Cox, incum•
bent of Holy Trinity, has also with others been unremitting
in their attention and kindness to the bereaved families.

THE NEAPOLITAN TARIFF
The following particulars are derived from a letter re-
ceived by a house in this town, dated Naples, March 12 :
"The question of the tariff is at last decided ; and yester-
day the royal decree was made public.
" The following are the reductions in the tariff on textile
manufactures, as deduced from the amount of duty as stated
in Italian money "
The duty on cotton yarns is reduced one-third.
" On cotton cloths, grey and white shirting., &c., the duty
is reduced about one-half.
" On printed cottons the reduction of duty will amount to
about Gs. per piece, or one-half the existing duty.
"On mixed cotton and worsted goods, and on worsteds,
the reduction will amount to about ss. per piece.
" On silk goods, and goods mixed with silk, the duty will
be reduced one-third."
We are indebted to another letter for the following particu-
lars of the new duties on a few of the most important articles
of export from this country. As the duties were stated only
in Neapolitan measures and money, which are rather difficult
to reduce to English denominations,we may have made some
errors, and therefore give them both ways :
Prints (including handkerchiefs), 80 grani per square canna
(4d. per square yard).
Bleached cAtens, 45 grani per canna (2id. per square
yard).
Plain linens, 100 grani per canna (50. per square yard).
Figured linens, 110 graui per canna (ad. per square
yard).
Fustians, velveteens, &c., plain or striped, 170 grani per
canna (7id. per square yard).
Cotton twists, 17 ducats per canter Oil per lb.).
All the preceding duties are subject to a discount of 10 per
cent.—Manchester Guardian.

MR. WlLsoN.—The Scotch palms record the suc-
cesses of this vocalist in. his tour.

RAILWAY PROJECTS.
, . (From the Times.)
The movement in favour of winding up abortive railway
projects still-goes on. This is the great subject now discussed
among all persons connected
_with the railway interest; and
it is really astonishing to find hoWnniCerSal has become,-the
desire to see measures adopted which have this object in view.
The sharebrokers of Leeds, following the example of their
neighbours at Liverpool and Glasgow, have passed resolu-
tions calling upon their friends and the public to take imme-
diate steps for the prtparation of petitions, requesting mem-
bers of provisional committees of projects that cannot go-to
Parliament this session to prepare accounts, lay thenebsfore
the shareholders, and .at once distribute the funds iii their
possession. From all parts of the country communications
received on this question state that the stock exchanges re-
' cently established, avhichs were some few months.agd the at-
traction of the inhabitants, are now deserted, end the various
securities cannot be got 141 of without submitting to a vast
depreciation in price. It is kesown that in the country gene-
rally
a great scarcity of Toney exists among people engaged
in trader but particularly among the class of shopkeerS or re-
tail dealers; while at the same time it is understood that the
provincial bankers constantly-receive applications for money,
to relieve the pressure in which this portion of the commu-
nity find themselves placed. Much of this- ensbarnissment,
without doubt, arises from share transactions, which having
so universally folio% ed, bring a large amount of responsibi-
lity upon parties possessing hut limited means. ' It therefore
behoves the Government to step in and arrest the progress of
railway legislation, which, if persisted. in, instead of assisting
the prosperity and developini, the resources' of the country,
may prove in the end its road to ruin.
The Bankers' Magazine for April says on this subject :
"We cannot suppose that Parliament will be so unthiodful
of the signs of the times as to pass even a tenth part of the
100,000,000/. which some people expect. The greatest mis-
fortune which can happen to the directors of many of the
schemes would be the obtainment of their Bill. It is very
true that 100,000,000!., compared with the whole disposable
capital of the country, is not a sum which it is impossible to
meet. If the whole disposable capital of the country was
laid under a general pro rata assessment to raise even a
larger amount, there cornet be any doubt that in the course
ora reasonabie- ineerrarstire-Vajeesie eetxld -Ise- accen4ialiedc
But the difficulty lies in a different direction. The funds for
the construction of railways, so far front being suoplieci by
the whole community, are supplied by a very small class of
capitalists and traders. We admit, that in such a time of
excitement as last year, the fever of speculation is so great
as to implicate nearly all the adult population ; but then only
a very small fraction indeed of these shoals of railway pro-
moters have either the will or the means to trouble them-.
selves with shares during the period of the ' calls.' And in
numerous cases where the means are ample, the will to do
this is not present. The circle of holders, therefore, becomes
narrowed to a small class of men, who have the shrewdness
to appreciate the intrinsic value of the scheme, and who can
afford to wait for its development."
(From the Chronicle.)
We alluded lately to a movement, originating in Glasgow,
having for its object an application to Parliament, and other
steps, to put a stop to the further progress of numerous rail-
way projects now before Parliament. We think the object
deserving of support, and believe that a very general feeling
is entertained of the necessity that exists for adopting effi-
cacious measures to accomplish the object sought for, and to
make it applicable, in a wide form, to English railway com-
panies. But to make the movement useful, the motives of
the originators must be pure, and their proce.dings must be
impartial. They must have no favourites. Everything
must be clear and above-board. We make these remarks
because we have heard, from quarters likely to be well-in•
formed, that the list of Bills pronounced against by the
Glasgow movement is not free from objections. The matter
has been taken up in Liverpool vigorously ; petitions to Par-
liament having been set on foot by the bankers, merchants,
and traders, and committees of the Stock Exchange, ap-
pointed to assist and co operate with all parties interested in
the various schemes now before Parliament.
We subjoin a copy of the petition to the House of Com-
mons, and of the circular addressed by the special committee
of the Liverpool Stock Exchange to the various provisional
committees :
" To THE HONOURABLE THE HOUSE OF COMMONS LI PAZ-
LLAMENT ASSEMBLED.
"The humble petition of the undersignedbankers, merchants,
traders, and others, inhabitants of Liverpool,
" SHEWETH,—That your petitioners view with great alarm
the number of railway Bills new brought forward for the
sanction of Parliament.
" That in the opinion of your petitioners the passing of
many of these Bills, unaccompanied by any restriction as to
the time for the construction of the lines, will have a most
prejudicial effect upon the interests of the country generally,
more especially those of the commercial and trading classes,
who are the principal parties pledged to find the capital re-
quired for these undertakings, and whose means for pursuing
their legitimate business will thus be completely absorbed,
involving many of them in loss and ruin.
" That the demand for such a large amount of capital for
railways will, in the opinion of your petitioners, not only
further derange the money market and interfere with trade
and commerce, but by the sudden and violent efforts of its
action on the labour market, will materially retard the com-
pletion of lines already sanctioned by the Legislature, and
now in progress, as well as interfere with all other works of
public utility.
"That your petitioners view with the greatest apprehen-
sion the social evils which, in their opinion, would necessarily
flow from the derangement of the labour market by the
sudden demand for such an amount of labour in addition to
that required for works now in progress, and for agricultural
purposes, all experience of the present mode of construct-
ing railways proving the_ demoralising effects produced upon
eh 6 withdrawn from
their usual occupations, without sunicsent time being allowed
for the requisite arrangements for such a transition.
" That these evils must be felt in an augmented degree in
proportion to the number of new lines granted.
"That, in ord r to avoid the evils anticipated, it is the
opinion of your petitioners, which they respectfully submit
to the consideration of your Honourable House, that, in ad-
judicating upon the merits of any new lines, and in sanction-
ing the same, your Honourable House should prescribe as a
condition attached thereto, that no calls be made by the
companies obtaining such Bills within a less term than two
or three years from the passing thereof, or such other period
as your Honourable House shall deem advisable, reserving
for the discretion of your Honourable House to make such
special exceptions to this rule as shall, in your Honourable
House's opinion, be imperatively called for in those cases
of necessary extensions for completing the main trunk lines
from the metropolis, and such coast and harbour lines
as the Government of the country may deem indispensable
for purposes of national defence, or naval or commercial
objects.
" Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that your Ho-
nourable House will adopt such measures as may effectually
limit the capital to be employed in the construction of rail-
ways to such amount as may appear safe and practicable
within a given period of time."

"Railway Legislation Committee, 1, Royal Bank
buildings, Liverpool, March 27, 1846.
" Sir—l am requested to inform you that a special com.
mittee has been formed out of the general committee of the
Liverpool Stock Exchange, upon the subject of railway legis-
lation ; and this commit tee is anxious to co-operate with all
parties interested in the various railway schemes now before
Parliament.
" That this committee are strongly of opinion that one of
the chief causes of the present depressed state of the money
market, and the unusual depreciation of every desaiption
of property, is mainly attributable to the fears entertained
as to the results of the linee at present projected, as well as
to the large amount of calls now making en the Acts of last
session.
" They are also of opinion, if the Bills now before Parlia-
ment be largely restricted, or altogether postponed, great
relief would at once be felt throughout the country, and
that the calls on the proprietors of existing companies would
be promptly met, and thus enable them to pursue their
works with vigour.
"That, even if success attend the present applications to
the Legislature, it must be evident that the greatest difficul-
ties will be experienced by the companies in obtaining their
capital.
"That for these reasons, and with regard to the best in.
terests of your project, they beg strongly to urge upon your
beard to call a general meeting of your scripholders, to
ascertain their opinion of the expediency, or otherwise, of
withdrawing or postponing your proceedings in Parliament
this session.
"The objects of this committee have been approved by
many most influential proprietors, and they trust that your
board will forthwith adopt the course suggested; and they
further request the favour of an early reply to this communi-
cation. " I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" H. SCRIVENOR, Secretary to the Committee.
To the Chairman of the Provisional Committee
of the --."

RAILWAY ERPRISE
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
EXPRESS TRAINS.
The Great Western Company, it appears, intend from
Wednesday next to start express trains every morning,
except Sunday, at h ,Ilf-past six, from Exeter to Padding-
ton, which will call at Taunton, Bristol, Bath, Chippen-
ham, Swindon, and Reading, accomplishing the whole
distance in four-and-a-half hours, and returning from
Paddington to Exeter at half after five the same evening.
To the commercial body of Exeter, Plymouth, De-
vonport, and other places in the west, these express
trains will be of the utmost importance, inasmuch as a
tradesman will be enabled to leave his home in the
morning, spend in London nearly the business hours of
the day, and return home to Exeter to an early supper !
Considering, too, that Exeter is in the high road to Ply-
mouth, these express trains, securing as they do a rapid
communication with that vast arsenal, are of great na-
tional importance. The thanks of the community are
due to the Great Western Company .or their enterprise
and spirit, and we hope the excellent example they have
set will be followed by the London and Birmingham, the
Grand Junction. and the other railway companies of
similar commercial enterprise. We believe the London,
Birmingham, and Grand Junction have had the idea in
view for some time back, hut the Great Western has the
merit of setting the example.

REPRESUNTATION OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE. We
think it right to state, for the information of our readers,
that there is considerable probability of an early election for
the southern division of this county. Within the last few days
rumours which had previously been in circulation, of sui
intention on the part of government to create several ad-
ditional peers, have acquired greater probability and_ con-
sistency. It is now pretty generally believed that after the
Bill for altering the corn-law has passed the House of Com-
mons, several individuals, now or recently in that House,
including Lord Francis Egerton, Lord Lit.icoln, and Lord
Ashley, will be called to the tipper House, in order to assist
in carrying the great measure through that assembly. We
give the statement as it reaches us. not vouching for its truth,
but, at the same time, with a strong impression that there is
at least some foundation for it.--111anehester Guardian.
A deputation from Glasgow, opposed to the nmal-
gamation of the Forth and Clyde Canal.with the Edin-
burgh and Glasgow Railway, consisting of Mr. Baird,
M.P., Mr. Bain, M.P., Mr. Hugh Tennett, Baillie
Anderson, Mr Brooks, Mr. Mann, Mr. Lamond, Mr.
G. Tennent, and Mr. Strong. had an interview with the
Earl of Dalhouste, at the Bourd of Trade, on Saturday.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

_
SIR—I enclose- a statement to you that I hope you
will consider of sufficient importance for a place in your
journal, as it proves there is no cause but• want or
confidence that keeps the Share market at the unnatural
and depressed state in which it is at present.
You have ready means to test its correctness, there•
fore I will not trouble you with my name-and address.
A Statement, showing the Cost Price of all the Railways.
Completed and Working, and that their Improved Value,
even at the depressed state of the Market, gives 70 Per
cent. :

Amount paid up. Present Price.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
Birmingham and Gloucester lOO 0. 0 126 0.0
Ditto New .. .............. l7 10 - 0 31 -0 '0
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New
Bristol and Gloucester 3O . 0 -:0 ' 52 0 0
Eastern Counties ... 14 16 0 21 0 0
Ditto New
8 16 0 14 10 0
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Quarter Shares l2 10 0 13 0 0
Ditto New Quarter
Great North of England lOO 0 0 215 0 0
Ditto New 5 0 0 46 0 0
Ditto ditto 5 0 0 33 0 0
Ditto ditto .
Great Western
Ditto Flail Shares 5O 0 0 83 0 0
Ditto Fifth Shares
Hall and Selbv 5O 0 0 101, 0 0
' Ditto Q tarter Shares
Ditto One Half 7O 0 26 0 0
London and Birmingham 19
0 0
0
0
Ditto One Third
Ditto One Fourth 2 0 0 26 0 0
Ditto One Fifth
London and Blackwall l6 13 0 8 5 -0
New
Laudon and Brighton 5O 0 0 63 0 0
Ditto One Eighth
gne, Fifth,„.?„4.41,20 0 0 28 00'
Linalisaric iiGioyden ' - . 13.1
9.0 ----! 21 10 0
London and Greenwich .........
Ditto Preference
London and South Western 4l ID 0 76 0 0
Ditto One Eighth 2B 0 0 46 0 0
Ditto New l2 10 0 22 0 0
Ditto ditto lO 0 0 18 10 0
Manchester and Leeds B2 0 0 124 0 0
0 0 54 0 0
Ditto Half ditto
Ditto Quarter ditto 2O 0 12 0 0
Ditto One Fifth ditto 2O 0 1.1 10 0
Ditto One Tenth 65 0 810 0
Mancl:ester and Birmingham 4O 0 0 77 i 0 0
Ditto Quarter Shares
Ditto B 2O 0 910 0
Ditto C
Midland lOO 0 0 146 0 ()
Ditto New
Birmingham and Derby lOO 0 0 117 0 0
Newcastle and Darlington
Ditto New...- 1 0 0 9 0 0
Ditto, New Brandling
North British
Ditto Half Shares 6O 0 90 0
Northern and Eastern ...
Ditto Scrip
Ditto Quarter Shares
Ditto New
Preston and Wyre 25 0 0 34 10 0
South-Eastern and Dover
Ditto New, 1.
Ditto 2.
Ditto , 3.
Ditto 4.
Yarmouth and Norwich ......
York and North Midland 5O 0 0 98 0 0
Quarter Shares '2s 0 0 47 0 0
ScarborouGh branch 25 0 0 47 0 0
b
Ditto Selby
_ ___ ------.

--
£1,863 8 3 £3,046 15 0
IRISH LINES.
Dublin and Drogheda 65 0 0 72 0 0
Ditto New
Dublin and Kingstown lOO 0 0 206 0 0
Ditto Extension Half Shares 5O 0 20 10 0
Ditto Quarter ditto
Ulster, Belfast, and Armagh ... ...... 35 0 0 46 0 0
---

£217 10 0 £369 0 0
P.S.—The expense in constructing the earlier lines was
enormous, viz. :
Blackwall £300,000 per mile
Brighton
Great Western
Birmingham
Railways are now constructed at from 10,0001. to 15,0001.
per mile.

PROTEST OF THE GREAT
LIVERPOOL.
The folowing is an extract of the protest made by the late
Capt. McLeod, of the Great Liverpool, before the Vice-Consul
of the district of Corcubion, on the 26th of Feb. last :
"I, Alexander McLeod, Lieutenant in her Britannic
Majesty's royal navy, and commander of the contract mail
steam-ship Great Liverpool, do make known and hereby
protest, that at 4 o'clock on the morning of the 24th of Feb.,
1846, whilst on our homeward passage from Alexandria,
Malta, Gibraltar. towAttis _Southampton awl, reins -_then
front 7to 10 miles tc, the southward of ()ape inisterre, in
the province of Galicia, in the kingdom of Spain, that the
said ship did strike on a shoal, during thick, foggy, dark
weather, blowing strong from S.S.W., with a heavy sea run-
ning, steering at the time N.N.E., and thereby received so
much damage that the engines were soon stopped by the
water flowing into the engine-room; that she th.:n drifted in
towards the land, and stranded in a small bav called Gure,
about a league and a half to the southward of 'Corcubion."

IRISH PROVISIONS.
The following is the list of provisions which have been im-
ported from the principal ports of Ireland during the past
week,—On the 18th inst. three ships arrived in the River
Thames, bringing collectively 353 packages of beef, 150 of
butter, 2,050 barrels of oats, 450 of bacon, and 193 of lard.
On the following day eleven ships arrived at the port of Lon-
den from the same quarter, having on board 4,477 barrels,
4,113 quarters, and 104 tons weight of oats, 1,152 packages
of butter, 3,339 of bacon, 415 of lard, 20 of flour, 401 of pork,
12 of hams, 250 of seed, 138 of eggs, 50 of merchandise, in ad-
dition to a quantity of porter and linens, and various other
articles the produce of the Irish soil. 6,272 quarters of oats
were also imported into Runcorn from Ballina on the same
day. On the 20th the arrivals comprised 527 packages of
bacon, 356 of pork, 238 of butter, 233 of lard, 29 of hams, 18
of beef, and 312 barrels and 1,250 quarters of oats ; and the
following arrivals also took place at the port of Bristol from
the ports of Ireland in immediate connexion with that place:
—235 packages of bacon, 275 of butter, 18 sacks aad 10 tons
of oatmeal, 128 kegs of lard, sundry packages of seeds and
hams, 37 sacks of pollard, 10 packages, of beef, 20 of pork,
1,568 barrels and 95 quarters of wheat. On the following
day the importations into the port of London consisted of
0,000 barrels and 3,660 quarters of oats, 1,099 packages of
bacon, 41 of hams, 81 of pork, and 338 of lard. The follow-
ing is the list of provisions imported into the port of Liver-
pool from the Irish ports trading with that place, being from
the 13th to the 19th inst. inclusive--4,281 firkins, 175
half firkins, 773 casks, 150 boxes, and 6 tons of butter;
1,320 quarters, 443 bags, 2,835 barrels, and 32 tons weight
of wheat; 4,873 sacks of flour; 185 tons weight, 1,350 bar-
rels, 383 bags, and 630 quarters of oats ; 245 ton weight and
266 packages of oatmeal ; 74 casks of hams; 509 barrels and
5 casks of bacon ; 492 boxes of linens and 19 bales of cotton
manufactures; 161 packages of whisky; 16 packages of
tongues;. 21 firkins of beef; 39 packages of provisions; 297
barrels and 25 kegs of pork ; 2 tons of meal; 38 tons of seed ;
178 bags, 40 barrels, and 380 quarters of malt; 32 sacks, 123
firkins, and 1,772 kegs of lard; 280 barrels of barley; 27
sacks of farina, and various other articles of minor import-
ance. Finally, the importations into the port of London,
from Ireland on Monday in the present week comprised, in
addition to 1,000 quarters of oats, 16 packages of bacon,
29 of hams, 54 of pork, 60 of malt, 34 of lard, 426 of eggs,
and a large quantity of linens, whisky, paper, and ether
articles; and into Runcorn on the same day, 3,3'5 quarters
of oats from the port of Ballyratne; and en Tuesday the ar-
rivals consisted of 754 packages of bacon, 28 of hams, 119
of pork, 42 of flax, 53 of lard, 84 of butter, 521 of eggs, 93
of other descriptions of provisions, 117 of porter, 20 barrels
of shoulders and 75 of middles of meat, 139 pigs, loose, and
7 crates of the same description of animals, in addition to a
variety of other articles of lesser importance too numerous
to be further particularised. In the enumeration of the
foregoing list of provisions of various descriptions which
have been imported into this country from Ireland in the
space of a few days, we abstain from any remark on their
number and importance at the present time, when the con-
sideration of Ireland and the distress stated to exist in that
country are occupying the most earnest attention of the Le-
gislature and the British public, simply stating the facts and
giving an authentic and correct list of the arrivals of such
articles from the quarter alluded to, leaving the further con-
sideration of the matter for those most interested and con-
cerned.

STATE OF TRADE.
FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, MARCH 27.—Some de•
scriptions of Foreign Wool have been more in request this
week, but the demand generally is somewhat languid, and
sales limited to the requirements for immediate consumption.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, MARCH 27. The de-
mand for wool continues in the same languid state as for the
last few weeks, and prices may be quoted a shade lower.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, Iklancti 27.—1 n short wool
we have little doing, but as stocks are small, prices are
better supported than for long wool, the demand for which is
exceedingly limited, consumers only buying to supply imme-
diate requirements on rather easier terms.
LEEDS.—On Saturday there were rather more goods sold
at the Cloth-halls than has been the case during the month,
but on Tuesday there was leis business done. Notwithstand-
ing the dull markets, there is no great accumulation of goods
in the Halls, the manufacturers wisely continuing to limit
the production. Prices in consequence remain steady. Busi-
ness continues dull in the warehouses, and until the Tariff
Bill is settled, it is generally thought, that there will be no
material improvement in trade.
BRADFORD MARKET, TKURSIDAY.—The slackness in all
departments of our market still continues. For combirg
wools the demand is extremely limited for the season; for
short wools there is more request. Prices are very firm.
There is no improvement in the yarn market. A very great
deal of machinery is'standing idle. Prices remain the same.
For plain pieces the trade is steady, but very dull. There
was a good attendance of merchants, but they seemed in
most cases to be merely looking On. The opinion is most
emphatically expressed in our market that the delay in tile
settlement of the corn question is doing great injury to the
trade.
MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—It is hardly po3sible
correctly to describe the extreme prostration of our cloth
market. Advises front all parts of the world represent the
markets as quite overstocked, and sales nr.-.1.(1,q; at great
sacrifices, and to this must be added the daily large increase
of stocks in manufacturing hands. Hence there is a general
anxiety to sell, but it is impossible to effect sales to any ex-
tent, even at prices below the nominal rates of the day.
The printers are very slack, and the dyers not much better
off. The home market is anything but satisfactory. Spin-