The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-19 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, FRIDAY.—The news received by the
Cambria, having given an impulse to the speculative rise
on cotton, the prevailing impression is that spinners will
require to fall back upon short time as their only safe
course. It is certainly a stern mode of bringing things
round, and will press with great severity on the labour.
ing classes, coupled, as it must be, with dear food. Very
little business has been doing for the last few days. We
cannot say that there is any change in the prices of
either cloth or yarn.
LEICESTER.—Trade is much in the same condition as
we last reported. On the whole, it is rather dull for the
season. The country houses experience more demand
than those engaged in the London trade. The failure
of the potato crop, and the consequent advanco in pro-
visions, tends rather to check the demand. There is no
change in wools or yarns ; the mills are workinr, full
time, and the machinery is all employed.—Leicester
Chronicle.

LEEDS, OCT. 13.—Both to-day and on Saturday, the
same dull state of the markets has ruled at both our
cloth-halls, as has been the case of late. The foreign
houses are doing very little in the way of purchases, and
the houses which are in the home trade continue to pur-
chase only from hand to mouth ; prices are without any
alteration. Business has also been dull in the wareholt,es,
but if the weather should be cold during the month, the
general impression is, that the trade for winter goods
will be pretty brisk for a time.
BRADFORD, TIIITRSDAY.—WOOI—The last has been
an extremely dull week for the sale of combing wools,
and the market is well supplied with all kinds; but
owing to the high rates still sought in the country, the
prices here are well maintained. Noils and brokes are
rather flatter, and a shade lower prices submitted to.
Yarns—The business doing to-day is very similar to
several weeks past; and the spinners fear the approach
of winter, with the present low prices for yarns. Pieces
—The piece trade to-day has been rather quiet, but as
the accounts from the fair at Leipzic are pretty satisfac-
tory, it is hoped we shall see ere long more animated
doings. This being between the seasons, the manufac-
turers of fancy goods are generally flat, as plain Orleans
and Paramattas are most inquired fur, and prices remain
steady.—Bradford Observer.
HOSIERY AND LACR TRADES.—The wrought cotton
hose branch, especially the finer and best qualities, are
yet very dull, and many of the hands in the villages are
suffering' for want of employment. Whilst this is the
case in Britain, in France and Spain, fine cotton hose
above thirty-eight gauge are in great demand, and fetch
high prices. The cotton cut up hose branch, which has
been bad for several weeks past, has rather suddenly
mended, and frames that have stood for four or five
weeks are now fully employed. The drawer and pan-
taloon branch has not amended, and there is little or no
employment in the silk glove trade; still the quantity
made is large. The bobbin net lace trade, though in
some quarters a shade better, is yet dull. The making
of a better description of nets from the Lever's machines
is very slowly extending. The warp lace trade is upon
the whole much bater, and the frames are gradually
getting to work. The silk warp lace trade, though con•
tending with difficulties on all sides, is a shade better.
Nottingham Journal.
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AORD ROSSE'S TELESCOPE.--The statement which
has recently gone the round of the London press, an-
nouncing the contemplated destruction of this mag-
nificent instrument by a fanatic, is founded upon
an apparent error of the correspondent of the
Belfast Chronicle. L)rd Rosse's telescope is erected
at Parsonstown, in the King's County, at a dis-
tance of more than one hundred Irish miles from
Armagh. Whilst we rejoice in the inference that it hail
escaped the rude hands of an ignorant ruffian, we are at
the same time thrown on an alternative hardly less
painful, that if any instrument has suffered it is the
telescope of Dr. Robinson, of Armagh, who, it will b 3
remembered, gave some valuable scientific evidence
before a Committee of the House of Commons on the
relative merits of the several kinds of railway haulage.
ADVENTURES OP A CAT.—III April last a vessel
visited Garliestown Harbour, the captain of which had a
favourite cat, kittened somewhere on the shores of
America, that hunted at will over the ship, and
amply repaid board and lodging by the destruc-
tion of rats as well as mice. Tired, however, of the
sea, and its perile, puss gave her old friends the slip,
by landing unnoticed, and establishing, without
leave asked or given, her head quarters in the garden
attached to the principal village inn. Here, however,
she was a welcome guest to all, save the small birds
that hop among the twigs of trees in summer, entered
the house occasionally, and was fed regularly for a
period of nearly fire months. But some farmer friend
having seen and taken a fancy to the stranger, she
was dispatched far inland, packed in a basket to
diminish the probabilities, if not possibilities, of ever
finding her way back again. But puss, although born
in a slave country, repudiated the idea of becoming a
thrall at pleasure ; the home assigned might be all very
well in its own way, but its novelties she liked not ; the
moors were too near, the hills high, and the
1 colley dogs especially pert and uncivil. Again,
therefore, she became a tramp, and at the end of
ten days re-appeared at her former domicile, guided
by some curious instinct, which is as useful to the
feline species as the compass to the mariner. If the
old folks looked surprised, the young ones were de•
lighted, while all admired the sleekness and plumpness
of the far-travelled mouser. After a little time notes
were compared, from which it appeared that the cat had
been eight days on the road, shifting as she best could,
and, in a district where muircocks and plovers are rife,
observing carefully the old maxim, " As we journey
through life, let us live by the way."—Daigfries Courier.
PERILOUS CONDITION OF A BOAT'S CREW.—On
Monday afternoon, during the gale, while a pilot-boat from
Newhaven was running to the northward of Inehkeith, it
was capsized by a sudden squall. The crew, which con-
sisted of two men and a boy, were thus placed in the most
imminent peril. Most fortunately, all of them managed to
get on the keel of the boat, where they remained for
two hours before they were observed from Inehkeitb.
Two boats put off from the island ; one of them, owing
to the strength of the gale, ran to leeward of the
sufferers. The crow of the other were more fortunate,
and succeeded in saving their lives. Previous to this the
unhappy men had shaken hands and bidden farewell to
each other ; and the boy was in a very distressed and
exhausted state.—Edinburgk Post,