The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-16 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Manchester Guardian.)
MANCHESTER.—The market continues exceedingly
depressed, and• rather lower prices, both for goods and
yarn, have been pretty generally submitted to. We
understand, however, that the very low rates now cur-
rent have had the effect of causing some speculative in-
quiry, both in yarn and goods. There have been,
during the past week, several failures at Glasgow and
Paisley, two of which are of some magnitude ; but we
understand that one only is likely to affect this neigh-
bourhood, which it will do to the extent of about 14,000 L
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, DEC. 13.—We have
had a fair average market to-day, With no change in
prices. The wool market has undergone no change this
week.

BEAUTIES OF ENGLISH LAW.
On the sth of February last, there was published in
the Shrewsbury Chronicle a paragraph, in which Mr.
Fountleroy, a wool-merchant of Bermondsey, was stated
to have suffered a heavy loss, from having been induced
to give goods to a person named Howell, engaged in the
woollen trade at Llanidloes, hich were afterwards ob•
tained by the party by whom the character was given.
The name of the individual who gave the character was
not stated in the paragraph, but on the 12th February
the attorney of Mr. Jones, a banker at Llanidloes, sent
an affidavit to the Shrewsbury Chronicle, to the effect
that his client was the party alluded to in the paragraph.
On the 4th of March, Jones, through his attorney, de-
manded the name of the person who forwarded the
original paragraph for publication, accompanied by
a suggestion, that if a statement were inserted
to the effect that the editor "had inquired into the ac-
cusation against Jones and found it false," this might
end all further proceedings. After some correspondence,
the name of the writer of the writer of the paragraph was
communicated to Jones, and in the Shrewsbury Chroni-
cle, of the 12th of March, appeared the following retrac-
tation!—" As son:e persons seem to imagine that the
statements in the paragraph of the sth of February apply
to Benjamin Jones, Esq., banker, Llanidloes, we have
made inquiry, and are authorised to state, that not the
slightest imputation rests on that gentleman. We are
glad to give this decided contradiction." On the day
that this contradiction appeared, the writ in the action
was issued. The trial was appointed to take place in
London in June last, and for eighteen days the plaintiff
and his attorney and witnesses, and the witnesses of the
defendant, were kept there at an enormous expense, and
dismissed without the cause being tried. The plaintiff
then caused a Special Jury to be summoned to try the
cause, and all the witnesses on both sides had again to be
taken to London, where, on Friday, the 3d inst., the
cause was tried, and one farthing damages were given.
The plaintiff applied to his Lordship to certify, in or-
der to have his costs ; but Lord Denman said he did not
consider this a case which required a certificate.
The Shrewsbury Chronicle gives the following estimate
of the plaintiff's costs :

EXPENSES OF WITNESSES, &C., ON THE FIRST TRIAL, IN

JUNE.

JONES V. WATTON. £ s. d.
OwENS, solicitor, 18 days, at 2 guineas a day 37 16 0
Travelling expenses, 186 miles, at
ls. a mile up 9 6 0
Ditto, down 9 6 0
PRYCE, manufacturer, 15s. a day for 18 days 13 10 0

Travelling expenses, up and down,
ls. a mile, from Llanidloes to Lon-

don, 200 miles 2O 0 0
MORRIS, stationer, 15s. a day for 18 days
Travelling expenses, up and down,

200 miles - - 20 0 0
STURKEY, 18 days, at a guinea a day
Travelling expenses, 186 miles, up

and down lB 12 0
HAYWARD, 18 days at 2 guineas a day
Travelling expenses
JONES, 18 days, at 15s. a day l3 10 0
Travelling expenses
Fees to the Counsel
Briefs