The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-20 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, Amur, 17.—There has
been no apparent change in this branch of trade during the
past week, either as regards sales or prices.
LEEDS.—At the Cloth halls this week there has been two
of the dullest markets we have had for a long time past.
The merchants continue to purchase as little as possible to
order only ; prices are rather lower upon finergoods, although
the stocks are exceedingly light for the season, with no dis-
position on the part of the manufacturers to increase the pro-
duction. There has also been a very dull week for business
in the warehouses; very few buyers have been at market,
and their purchases have been light.
BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—There were more sales
in combing wools to-day than for some weeks past. The
staplers are now desirous of clearing off their old stocks for
the new clip stock, and lower prices are taken. Nulls and
other short wools are scarce, and fetch good prices. There is
also more business transacted in the yarn market. The
export houses are obliged to order the sorts they want, as
there are no stocks to choose from. A well informed gentle-
man informed us the Russian export trade in yarns has very
much fallen off on account of the Russians having got so
many spinning frames at work. More frames are row em-
ployed than for the last few weeks in Bradford. We may
observe that in all its departments our market assumed
more cheering aspect. T here was a good attendance of mer-
chants, and many pieces changed hands.
MANCIIRSTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We have had a
much better inquiry to ;in fact, many more extensive
sales in shirtings than for some weeks past, and the demand
has been so considerable as to enable the manufacturers to
realise a small advance on nearly all qualities. The very
low prices have no doubt induced speculators to operate most
extensively. Printing cloth is also fully as dear. Twist
commands from to d. per lb. advance on export qualities,
but as the advance on the staple is fully as much, the posi-
tion of the spinners is not improved.
Norrismitast.—The wrought cotton hose branch is a
shade improved, when compared with its state at Christmas.
The cut-up hose hands have full employment in general. The
glove trade, whether of silk, cotton, or warp, is pretty good.
The drawer branch is rather better, and the shirt trade still
continues to survive all the competition of power-propelled
frames. The silk hose manufacture has got so low that it
has become half extinct. The fancy lace trade is worse than
ever, and nothing but despair pervades the minds of even the
most sanguine machine owners. There is no amendment in
the warp lace trade. The warp jack and glove trade is
pretty good, whether lace or plain Berlin.—Nottingham
Review.
LEICESTER.—As this isholiday week, nothing has been done
to give a new tone to the market, which remains is the same
inactive eat, as 1:11- weeks Dist. It is expected that Sir
Robert Peel's measure relative to the proposed railway com-
panies, will have the effect of improving the money market,
thereby producing to some extent a revival in the home
trade. The American President's Message to the Senate, re.
ceived by the Hibernia, is viewed in a dubious light by the
trade, and rather tends to discourage than excite manufac-
turers for the American mai ket. Wools and yarns continr
,t very flat.—Leicester Journal.
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_.RIJITS OF LOUGHBOROUGH JUSTICE.—In le ..er-
cury of March 28, we inserted, in our Loughborough Petty
Sessions Report, a paragraph headed " Can this be true ?"
It related to the case of James Jarvis, aged 75, who was
charged by the officers of the Barrow Union as a refractory
pauper, because he refused to work at the pump—and who
was committed to the House of Correction to hard labour for
twenty-one days—the Bench acting, in so committing him,
upon the faith of the medical officer's certificate that Jarvis
was able to work, although the old man himself declared that
the work did him harm. Well, the old man was sent to the
House of Correction, where we have no doubt he was treated
with far more mercy than the reverend magistrates (Messrs.
Dudley and Ackworth) evinced when they coolly signed his
commitment. We believe, too—but are not certain on this
point—that the hard labour was not enforced by the prison
authorities, in the usual sense of that phrase. But be that
as it may, this last Thursday morning witnessed the termina-
tion of his imprisonment; but it also found him prepared for
that last abode " where the wicked cease from troubling, and
the weary are at rest." The old man died that very morn-
ing, the immediate cause of his decease, we understand,
being erysipelas. How far this disease was the consequence
of his imprisonment, change of air, and natural irritation of
mind at finding himself inside a prison—perhaps for the first
time in his life—we pretend not to say.—Leicestershire
Mercury.
TEMPERANCE HOTELS.—We hear that in some of
these establishments the practice of gambling is carried on
and continued till after midnight, and that a case of this
kind occurred on Monday night last, at a Temperance Coffee
House in Briggate, kept by a person of the name of Foster,
where the attention of the police was attracted by the
shaking of dice, at two o'clock in the morning of Tuesday.
On entering the house, a scene was exhibited which would
have disgraced the worst conducted public-house or beer
shop. No fewer than eleven men of the working class were
engaged in playing at different games of hazard with money
on the table and under all the excitation of gamesters. We
do not adduce this as a specimen of the way in which
temperance hotels are generally conducted, but rather to
prove that very vicious practices are sometimes combined
with very good names, and we have reason to believe that
this is by no means a singular ease.—Leeds krrcury.