The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-09 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

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trade; there is not much alteration in pri •
ces. soils and
shorts still continue very scarce and dear.
BRADFORD MARKET, MAY 7.—For combing
wools the
demand is much better. Prices are firm. There seems
a disposition in the spinners to buy more freely. In the
Yarn Market business was brisk. Stocks are very low,
and the spinners are generally working to order, and
prices have an upward tendency. There was a good
attendance of merchants, and they were not merely
lookers on, for a great number of pieces changed hands,
and a great number of orders were received for the
autumn trade. The three branches of trade in Bradford
market certainly exhibit a more healthy tone.
MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.--The commer-
cial news from India, &c., has not had any sensible effect
on our market either for cloth or twist. There is great
complaint made about the home trade, which is very
dull. Domestics, that is, heavy cloth, are unusually
depressed. Neither the dyers nor printers get any busier.
There is a slight improvement in the silk trade, but the
weavers on the average have not more than half employ-
ment. Twist is without change, with a moderate busi-
ness doing.
NOTTINGHAM.—The principal manufacture of the
hosiery trade, namely, wrought cotton hose, keeps de-
clining. The cut-up branch is rather better than the
wrought departments. The cotton glove trade still keeps
in a tolerable state. The silk glove trade has so far de-
clined that the hosiers give out their materiols with a
very sparing hand. The drawer, pantaloon, and shirt
branch has a shade further improved. The silk hose
trade is, if anything,
further declining, silk stockings
being almost out of fashion. The fancy lace trade is in
general considered •
worse. The cotton warp lace trade

is still very much depressed, and few of the hands have
more than half employment. The silk blonde branch is
considerably better, that is, what remnant is left of this
once extensive manufacture.—Nottingham Review.
LEICESTER.—AIthough there is not much more doing
in the warehouses, there is a more healthy tone given to
business; and the prevailing opinion is, that the point
of depression is past. Manufacturers have produced
with caution, and hence stocks are comparatively light.
A fair export trade has been done in faney hosier), and
gloves, though but a limited one for stockings. Yarns
are in fair demand, and spinners hint at a rise in prices.
There is more doing in weols, and prices rule if anything
a shade higher.—Leicester Journal of yesterday.
THE IRON TRADE IN STAFFORDSHIRE.—BIRMING•
HAN, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—The circulars for the
month of May have been issued to the trade from the
principal houses, including those of Messrs. Williams,
Thornecroft, Barrows, Badger, and others, and they an-
nounce that no reduction of the prices of last quarter-
day has taken place, nor is any contemplated.

A GHOST.
(From the Bristol Times.)
We have this week a ghost story to relate. Yes, a
ghost story—a real ghost story, and a ghost story with-
out, as yet, any clue to its elucidation.
Where do you think has Ibis ghost made his appear-
ance ? Not, of course, in a modern house—no ghost of
good taste would think of coming t. any tenement that
was not time-honoured—that had not a charter at least
of two hundred years ; and what edifice more fit for his
supernatural reception than the ancient residence of the
Calendars—the Vicarage-house of All Saints, Bristol,
adjoining and almost forming a part of that church.
After the dissolution of the Calendars, this house
was converted into a vicarage-house, and it is still
ealled by that name, though the incumbents have for
many years ceased to reside there. The present occu-
pants are Mr. and Mrs. Jones, the sexton and sex-
toness of the church, and one or two lodgers, and it
is to the former and their servant maid that the
strange visitor has made his appearance, causing such
terror by his nightly calls, that all three have deter-
mined on quitting the premises, if indeed they have not
already carried their resolution into effect. What
makes the whole affair the more unaccountable and ex-
traordinary is, the official quality of the persons affected
by the fright. Had it been a common-place family. un-
conversant with grave matters, a very simple incident,
coupled with ancient and monastic character of the
building, might be sufficient to create alarm and terror ;
but here are people—sexton and sextonesi—whose vo-
cation lies in solemn churches and amongst the silent
tombs, who, in the way of business, must every day have
something to do with grim skulls and grey mouldering
bones, and who might be almost said to be on such fa-
miliar terms with at least the outward emblems of the
invisible world, so as to be able to shake hands with a
ghost without any great perturbation—terrified out of
their house by a nightly visitor, scared to such extent
as to determine to take down their tester and four-
bedsteads, " being certain," to use Mrs. Jones's own
words to their landlord, that they shall die if they sleep
another night in the house."
Mr. and Mrs. Jones's description of the disturbance,
as given to the landlord, on whom they called in great
consternation, is as distinct as any ghost story could be.
The nocturnal visitor is heard walking about the house
when the inhabitants are in bed; and Mr. Jones, who is
a man of by no means nervous constitution, declares he
has several times seen a light flickering on one of the
walls. Mrs. Jones is equally certain that she has heard
a man with creaking shoes walking in the bedroom
above her own, when no man was on the premises (or
at least ought to be), and " was nearly killed with the
fright." To the servant maid, however, was vouch-
safed the unenvied honour of seeing this restless
night visitor ; she declares she has repeatedly had
her bedroom door unbolted at night, between the
hours of twelve and two o'clock—the period when
such beings usually make their promenades—by
something in human semblance ; she cannot par-
ticularise his dress, but describes it as something antique,
and of a fashion " lang syne gane," and to some extent
corresponding to that of the ancient Calendars, the
former inhabitants of the house. She further says, he
is " a whiskered gentleman" (we give her own words);
which whiskered gentleman has gone the length of shak-
ing her bed, and she invariably puts her head under the
clothes when she sees him approach.
Mrs. Jones declares she believes in the appearance of
the whiskered gentleman; and she had made up her
mind, the night before she called on her landlord, to
leap out of the window (and it is not a trifle that will
make people leap out of windows), as soon as he entered
the room. The effect of the " flickering light" on Mr.
Jones was quite terrific, causing excessive trembling,
and 6' the complete doubling up of his whole body into a
round ball like."

STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEES.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
Their Lordships met at the usual hour for the dispatch of public
business; present, the Earl of Shaftesbury (in the chair), and Lords
Kenyon and Hawarden.
MALDON, WITHAM, AND BRAINTREE RAILWAY.
This case, which came before the Committee on a previous day,
and was adjourned at the instance of the agents, was again resumed.
The usual evidence having been gone through, and the certit:cate
of the Accountant-General of tl.e Court of Chancery having been put
in, in proof of the payment of the second deposit on the capital,
The Earl of SHAFTESBUZY intimated that the Committee were of
opinion that the promoters of the Bill had in every instance complied
with the standing orders, and that the Bill had passed that tribunal.
Parliamentary agents, Messrs. Dyson and Co.
MIDLAND (SYSTON AND PETERBOROUGH) RAILWAY.
This case, which had been adjourned from a previous day also from
want of proof of compliance with Lord Wharncliffe's order, was
again resumed, and, after a lengthened hearing, the Committee de-
cided that the Bill had passed.
Parliamentary agents, Messrs. Burke, Pratt, and Co.
These two were the only cases which came before their Lordships,
who adjourned at five o'clock.

INGLAND.

ight's Gazette.)
7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for
ie 2d day of May, 1846.
.ARTMENT.

Government debt .• 11,015,100
Other securities .. • . 2,984,900
Gold coin and bullion 11,279,130
Silver bullion ...... 1,793,165

X 27,072,295
[. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Government securi-
ties (including Dead

Weight Annuity) .. 13,303,065
Other securities .. .. 17,901,148
Notes • • ••• • • . 6,408,470
Gold and silver coin.. 661,418

£33,274,101
MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

GE.-(YESTERDAY.)
Gibraltar.. ....
Leghorn 3O 75
Genoa .. • • • • 26 15
Milan .. • • ...... ..
Venice.... „ „ . •
Naples ...... • . 39%
Palermo, per oz . 119
Lisbon. 52
Oporto ................ 52%
IRio Janeiro .......... 23%
Buenos Ayres
New York, 21 days' sight
Philadelphia

PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ,
Foreign Gold in bars.. X 3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 3 17 5
New Doubloons ...... 0 0 0
New Dollars • • ...... 0 0 0
Silver in bars ........ 0 4 11