The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-07 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

LEEDS.—There was very little business done at
our Cloth-halls on Saturday, partly occasioned by the
very dark state (of the atmosphere during market
time; but on Tuesday there were more buyers in
the halls than for some time past, and a little im-
provement was visible. The goods in demand were
principally calculated for the home trade for the
spring, but low qualities of goods for shipping have
been in very trifling demand. The stocks of goods
in the manufacturer? hands are very light, and to
this circumstance may be attributed the maintenance
of steady prices. There have been more buyers in
the town this week than for some time past, and,
although their purchases hex( been light, there is a
visible appearance of improvement in the warehouses.
BRADFORD, Fan. 3.—Wool.—The business doing
is of a sluggish character ; as there is no giving way
in price to meet buyers, the sales are small. The
quantity in the growers' hands is far above an average
of last year in February, when there is usually a dis-
position to sell, but without a material reduction from
the prices now sought, it cannot get into the con-
sumer's hands.—Leeds Mercury.
_MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—Though our
market on Tuesday opened very dull for cloth, still
before the close of the market a better feeling existed,
and manufacturers were enabled to dispose of lots at
rates not obtainable on Monday. Since Tuesday also
more inquiries have been made, and which have led to
a very moderate business on the very full rates then
paid. Were the German houses doing their accus-
tomed business, we should be in a much better con-
dition ; but till the rivers are again open, no great
improvement can reasonably be expected. Yarns are
still very depressed, and likely so to continue for some
weeks to come.

NOTTINGHAM.—The silk glove trade keeps gradu-
ally improving, and with some of the hosiers the de-
mand Js brisk, though others appear in a stagnant
state, and the material is given out with a very
sparing hand ; still we believe there are but very few
silk glove hands wholly out of employment. The
cotton glove trade, as a matter of course, has a shade
mended, but not to the extent of the silk manufacture.
—Nottingham Review.

LEICEiTTER.—We have but little change to report,
but we understand there is a little more doing, and a
little more employment appears probable as the
spring season approaches. No doubt is felt but that
yarns and wools have seen their lowest prices—not-
withstanding this, however, extreme caution is exer-
cised by the manufacturers in accumulating stocks.—
Leicester Mercury.

THE OMNIBUS NUISANCE IN Tilt CITY.—The City
Police Committee have come to the determination of
appointing an inspector of omnibuses, in order to pre-
vent the nuisance occasioned by the stoppages of the
numerous omnibuses, which have considerably increased
since the reduction of the fares. The appointment has
been deputed to Mr. Alderman Johnson and Mr.
Pearson, City Solicitor.
WINDSOR, SUNDAY EVENING.—The Duchess of
Kent, who has for several days past been suffering from
a cold was rather better to-day ; but it is not at all
likely that the dinner party, postponed on Friday last,
will take place to morrow, as rumoured in some of
the papers. Neither is it true that her Majesty and the
Prince intend visiting Claremont again next week.
Prince Albert and his Royal brother, the Duke of Saxe
Cobourg, will bare a shooting party in the Great Park
to-morrow.

DANIEL LAMBERT.—At a meeting of the Leicester
Town Council, on Wednesday, a memorial was read
from Mr. Lambert Brown, of Leicester, stating that in
the possession of the corporation was an old arm chair,
formerly occupied by his uncle, Daniel Lambert, when
he attended as keeper of the House of Correction. The
memorialist -was abroad at the time of. the decease of
his uncle, and had, therefore, no means of obtaining
any memento of his " great ancestor."—(Laughter.)
lle did not know whether the chair was the private
property of his uncle, or whether it was provided by the
corporation of the day; but it was now out of repair,
and useless to the council, and he submitted that he
might be allowed to take it into his family, and which he
should hand down as an heir-loom. The council, by
acceding to his request, would confer upon him a great
favour, for which he should ever be obliged.—Mr
Alderman Weston moved that the request of the memo-
rialist be granted; and the motion having been seconded,
it was unanimously adopted.
PARISH OF ST. PAUL'S, COVENT GARDEN.—Dr.
Bowers, Dean of Manchester, has intimated to the pa-
rishioners that he has determined on resigning the rec-
tory of this parish in consequence of his duties at
Manchester to the deanery of the collegiate church, of
which diocese he was some time since nominated by
Lord John Russell. The same intimation having been
conveyed to the Duke of Bedford, who is patron of the
living, his grace has appointed the Rev. Henry Hatton,
M.A., Vicar of Woburn, to the rectory of the vacant
benefice. The reverend gentleman will forthwith resign
the vicarage of Woburn, and will enter upon the duties
of his new appointment in the course of the next month.
ROBBERY or A BANKER'S CLERK.—Some eighteen
months or two years back, it will be remembered, re-
peated robberies were perpetrated in the interior of the
metropolitan banking establishments, and carried on by
a daring and dexterous confederacy of light-fingered
gentry to a fearful extent. The modes operandi was to
mingle in the throng before the counters of the banking
houses during the busy and crowded hours of the day,
as if brought thither for legitimate purposes, and,
watching their opportunity, thus victimise the unwary.
After a suspension of operations, and an interlapse of
time sufficient, it is doubtless warily imagined, to put
the public off their guard, the old dodge is again, and,
as it would seem, too successfully ventured upon. On
Tuesday last an out-door clerk belonging to the parent
establishment of the Commercial Bank, in Moorgata-
street, had received the amount of his change at Messrs.
Barclay's, and, as he imagined, carefully deposited the
bank-notes in his case, which was secured to his person
by the guard chain, when his attention having been
momentarily called off, the whole of the notes, amount-
ing to about 6001., were instantly, and vi ith incredible
adroitness, abstracted ere he had quitted the counter.
Handbills, offering a reward of 501., were forthwith
printed and circulated, and the number and dates of the
notes given in at the Bank of England. There is not,
we believe, as yet the slightest clue to the recovery of
the stolen paper. l
SOUTUAMPTON.—The Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company's ship Jupiter, Captain F.
Meehan, arrived at Southampton on Saturday night,
bringing the usual Spanish and Portuguese mails,
in
charge of Lieutenant Peter Rainer, R.N., Admiralty
agent. Her dates are—Gibraltar, Jan. 28; Cadiz, 2, ;
Lisbon, 30; Vigo, Feb. 1. The Jupiter did not call
off Oporte, in consequence of the bad state of the wea
ther. She experienced strong bre( zes and very thick
haze during the passage home. On the 31st ult., at
5 45 P.st., the Jupiter passed the steamer Montrose 14
miles to the southward of Vigo. She has 11 first-class
and 21 second-class passengers, arid the following
freight :-116 packages of oranges, 58 packages of
chesnuts, 29 sacks of walnuts, 300 packages. of figs, 760
packages
of various fruit, 53 cases of eggs, 16 packages
of specie (value 12,5000, and 64 packages of sundries.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—S7e six or eight of the
Penydaran colliers were returning from their work on
Saturday last, and to save walking about a hundred
yards, got upon the carriage which goes down an in-
clined plane. The chain, by some accident broke, and
and all the persons were thrown off, and some of them
nthat
accidental dtehnety a s
h o deathu l
should
seriously injured, whilst one poor fellow was killed. An
inquestas returned, when
strong verdicteau caution
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heldwi; 11
not trust themselves upon the incline future.—Mon-
mouthshire