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London, England, 1848-01-17 00:00:00

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STAY OF TRADE.
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. LEEDS.—Last S rday's market was St WO tC4 • 04); ,••
have h.:d for ma weeks, but on Tuesday less busi-
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ness was done • )ere has, however, been mora sold
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out of the halls this week than has been the case
- lately, and, from the great caution exercised by the

7-nanufacturers, the stocks continue low, and prices in
consequence are maintained. Business has been
rather better in the warehouses this week ; during
the last few days there has been a number of the
London buyers in the town, but at this early period
they purchase lightly. The shipping houses are
rather improving.—Leeds Mercury.
BRADFORD, TDURSDA.Y.—;--WOOL.—There is no al-
teration in the wool market. The purchases,thade are
only fur present-concuruption, and on the most limited
scale. '.'here is very little woo] coming to the
tont ket, owing-. to the producers and wool
dealers not being content to accept the
going price& There is a steady but limited de-
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done in pike., and Int?re inquirk-s for fancy good.;.
Several o!' our chief nianuf;,eturers expressed coc•ti-
denCx that W have cr•pn worst in Bradford trade,:
and hencefortn it cili rapidly itnpvove. There is
hardly any stocks•-stn hand, .that, if danandin-
crease, there mut.t he great improveMent.

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IMANCHESTEP, hsve had during the
'ent,lre v.e,-1: sfall demand for most
kinds of Cloth; and the pnx manufacturers rind
Tu• sday have been pressi,,g sale”', which to effect
have been made at a slight r,duction oiCrues-
ciay's rates. With the cxcepti,..,n of the Greeks and
Aniericai,, no extensive usiaess is going :on for
export. Our home merchants are buying mere freely
thanOf late. Our dyi.rs,too are busier, Which is an
other good sign. Yarns'are also easier to buy, but
as this is the exact period at all tines when business
is doing, little is thought of the matter.
TRADE OF NOTTINGHAM.-1t- iS now
,here is an inipravt-mit-nt in severe) of the k.a:-ch
ti,e hosiery inanitiact ore ;. this; it is con, ALIA,
increase ii.,--ttie-year advances. it einigration_to
America contitnies, and from all we can learn. the
stockingers find no difficulty in obtaining employ-
ment,.at high Wages, in Philadelphia, where several
PUtelitnen have purchased frames, and have corn-
- menced as hosiers. -The cotton bobbin net trade,
tfenn'A certaißly,improv.ed, ,yet in a depressed con-
dition, but hopes are entertained of a Of arittiproVe-
went in the spring. Many of the shops engaged
in the making of machinery are nearly at a stand,
the repealing of the law which prevented the free
export of machinery, from which so much was ex-
pected, ins proved of little advantage to them,
as the bobbin-net trade in France and Germany
is described as being in a worse state than in England ;
this is evidently comet, as there are now in Notting-
ham many machine-smiths who have returned front
various parts of France and Germany, where the
mannfacture is carried on, having no employment.
Nottingham Review.
LEICESTER.—The improvement in the demand for
goods is very gradual in its progress, but as the stocks
of the retail dealers are considered to be low, they
must be buyers of more or less goods, as their wants
may require. There is rather more material given
out by the hosiers than before Christmas. A very
large number of frames are, however, yet idle. Most
of the spinning factories are working short time.
Wool is firm, and rather more doing in it—Leicester
Chronicle.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, JAN. 14.—1 n a congregation holden this
day, being the first day of Lent Term, the following
degrees were conferred :

I3achelor in Civil Law, by commutation—Robert
Evans, Jesus, head master of the Bristol Grammar
School.

Masters of Arts—George Guerard Lawrence, St.
Edmund Hall ; Rev. George William Chamberlain,
NVadham ; Rev. Frederick Sowdon, St. Mary flail;
Rev. Charles Thomas James, Exeter; William Merry,
Worcester; Edward Augustus Freeman, Trinity;
Rev. Robert Scarr Redfern, Queen's ; Rev. George
Sereynsham Master, Rev. Thomas Hullah, Rev.
Johntielre
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The Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology intends
to begin his course of lectures of the present term on
Monday, the 28th of February.
Such members of the University- as are qualified to
become scholars in theology, and are desirous of
attending these lectures, are requested to call upon
the Professor on Saturday, the 26th February, be-
tween the hours of eleven and tatro o'clock.
'rile next regular degree day is Thursday, Feb. 3.

ALARMING OCCURRENCE.
On Saturday morning the inhabitants of slington.
Holbeck, near Leeds, were throw , into state of
alarm by observing a considerable quantity of hair
and Hood upon the gate-posts forming the entrance
to tke road loading to a disused coal pit, s butted
about ten yards from the Leeds and Eiland-road;
near to Islington. Upon examining the spot, several
stones were also found stained with hair and gore, and
drops of blood could be distinctly traced along the
whole of the path leading to the coal pit. A short
distance from the pit a pool of blood and several
bludg:ons clotted with gore and hair were discovered.
There were also other indications, as if some unhappy,
victim had here made a last mortal struggle for exist-
ence. On further examination, the fence around the
pit was likewise stained with hair and blood, as if the
victim had been violently dashed against it. As
might be expected, the most horrid apprehensions
began to prevail, It being evident to all that a most
foul and unnatural murder had been committed.
The excitement was increased by the ru-
mour that an individual of the name of
Samuel Carlton, residing at Beeston, who had left his
home on the previous Thursday-, had not been heard
of since. In the minds of the people the cause of his
absence was now accounted for; nothing, to them,
was so natural as the conclusion that he had been
murdered and robbed, and that the perpetrators of the
foul tragedy had cast his body into the coal pit to
escape detection. Mr. James, the indefatigable su-
perintendent of the Leeds night police, was sent for,
and on his arrival finding that the appearances ac-
cord with the statements that had been made to him,
he applied to the Mayor (F. Carbutt, Esq.), and ob-
tained his permission to erect a scaffolding round the
mouth of the pit, in order to its being searched. The
preparations having all been completed on Sunday
morning, thousands of persons flocked to the spot.
Mr. Jaaes, with his assistants, soon arrived, and a
man teas lowered to the bottom of the pit. The ap-
prehensions of the spectators had now reached a most
painful state of intensity. After a short interval, the
man at the bottom of the pit gave the signal to be
drawn up ; the excitement was at its height—scarcely
a breath could be heard. At length the man appeared,
bringing up with him the mutilated remains of—a
large dog,whose brains it appeared some miscreants
had knocked out, and afterwards thrown the body
into the pit. Carlton has since turned up, not from
the pit, however, but from Kirkstall, where it appears
he had been enjoying himself with some friends.—
Leeds Mercury.

EXPLOSION Or A LOCOMOTIVE.--A, most serious
accident took place on Friday at the Carlisle and Mars-
port Railway station by one of the locomotives ex-
ploding, and destroying the greater portion of a build-
ing called the engine shed, and injuring two persons.
The locomotive was standing underneath the shed pre-
paratory to taking a passenger train out, the engine-
(lrk er and stoker cleaning the machinery at the moment.
Both men were much injured, but fortunately not den-
gercusly. The force of the explosion propelled the
engine along the line at an enormous speed; kad a
passenger train been in its way the consequences would
have been most disastrous. The directors have since
mused an investigation into the accident, and have as-
certained that the explosion arose through both safety
valves being tightly screw« d down. The boiler r xploded
just above the fire-box, and near the tender.
THE FREE TRADE DEMONSTRATION (IN NAN-
CHESTER.—Since our lust, letters, signify big their inten-
tion to be present at the Great Free Trade Demonstra-
tion, on the 27th instant, have been received from the
following Members of Parliament:--The Right Ron. T.
M. Gibson. Mr. It. Cobden, Mr. John Bright, Sir Joshua
Walmsley. Leicester; Dr. Bowring, Bolton; Colonel T.
P. Thompson, Bradford; Messrs, J. B. Smith, Sterling:
James Kershaw, Stockport; John Dixon, Carlisle; Jot.
Brotherton, Salford; J. L. Ricardo, Stoke-upon-Trent;
George Thompson, Tower Hamlets; Thomas Th.rantehe
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Wolverhampton; William Ewart, Dumfries; C.
Wilson, Clitheroe; W. Scholefield, Birmingham;
bHuirtind.l—€33,,,Aa
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Gnd der-rLdyienne.; and
The Swiss Diet sat on the 10th. After the
Deputies for Lucerne,
Uri, S chwyiz, and Valais had
been sworn in, the
offe
proposition of they committeetho canton of
f
seven to accept the he guarantees
Uri for payment of its quota of the expenses of the
war was theagreed to, and three years accorded to it for
the reimbursement of what still remains due. A vote
of thanks was passed to M. Kern on his retiring from
the post of Federal representative of Lucerne. Friburg,
Lucerne, and the Valais having declared that they
acceded in principle to the revision of the compact, Dr.
Steiger, of Lucerne, Professor Bussard, of Friburg, and
M. Barmann, of the Valais, were added to the Com-
mittee of Revision. Two Members were added to the
Committee of Seven in the persons of Dr. Steiger, of
Lucerne, and 1)r. Sang, of Uri. It was then proposed
to charge the Committee of Seven to draw up a procla-
mation to the army; and a letter of thanks to Genera/
Dufour in the name of the country in remitting to
him a sum of 40,000 f. Swiss. This proposition was
adopted.
The PRESSURE OF THE TIMES.—It is a fact that
there have been already opened at the Bankruptcy
Court, in Paul-street, Exeter, one half as many fiats in
bankruptcy during the first fourteen days of the present
month of January, as during the whole of the year 1844..
Wcstern Times.