The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-04 00:00:00

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has not been any variation of moment in this market
during the
present week. The manufacturers buy
cautiously to supply their current requirements. Prices
are stationary.
LEEDS .—With a return of a more favourable state of
the weather, our cloth markets improve. More business
was done both on Saturday and Tuesday than had been
the case the last few weeks, and more goods have been
delivered off the market day than of late. Prices remain
about the same, and the stocks in the manufacturer's
hands much less than usual at this season. There has
also been more business done during the week in the
warehouses. Many country buyers have been in the
town, and they have purchased winter goods more freely;
there is also more business doing for the contingent than
has been the case at any period of the year.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, TUESDAY.—There has been
a moderate attendance to-day of buyers from the Lon-
don, Scotch, and Irish markets, and although we have
not heard of any extensive orders having been given,
still considerable purchases have been made. The in-
quiry is chiefly for cloths of the better qualities, of which
there is a great scarcity. There has been a steady busi-
ness doing in the warehouses during the week. The
weather has been fine, in consequence of which the har-
vest prospects are brighter, and as the reports of the
potato blight become less conflicting, the spirit of confi-
dence becomes more emboldened, and a better state of
things is more confident) looked forward to.
BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—WOOL. —There is
no change worthy of notice since our last report. Stocks
are fully maintained, and in prices no alteration. The
colonial wool sales in London are progressing with more
animation than was anticipated, considering the immense
quantity (36,000 bales) which will be offered before
the sales terminate. YARN.—Both coloured and plain
yarns continue to be freely used by the manufacturers for
the home trade, but there is no improvement with the
shipping houses. Prices remain stationary. PIECES.—
The brisk demand for fancy coloured goods, as well us
for Paramattas and Orleans, still continues. There are
no stocks in the market, and the manufacturers are prin-
cipally working to order. Prices generally are very
steady, and a satisfactory business is doing.
LEICESTER.—A regular demand continues in the
warehouse. The harvest takes a great many workmen
from the frame, and but little is now producing. Yarns
and wocl remain without alteration.
NOTTINGHAM—The cotton stocking trade continues
in a tolerable condition, but rather depressed to what it
was a few weeks since; the better kind of cut-ups made
by thread carriers being in the best state.—The cotton
glove trade is rather depressed, and a few hands are out
of employment; neither has the silk glove branch rallied.
—The drawer, pantaloon, and shirt branch is in rather
an improved state.—The silk knotted hose trade is in a
flourishing condition, and, were the wages better, the
hands would have nothing to complain of. On the other
hand, the plain silk hose branch is in a very low condi-
tion, being half extinct.—The bobbin net trade is gene
rally considered (though heavily depressed) to be in
rather a more active state, but this is only in some quar-
ters; the German and French houses are certainly upon
the move, as is the machine lace trade in the north of
Franco.—The silk net is much better than the cotton in
the plain trade.—The warp lace trade, whether silk or
cotton, is certainly not worse, but the latter is lamentably
,iled.—Leeds Mercury.
depressed. The attempts to make worsted lace suddenly

POTATO DISEASE IN IRELAND A CENTURY AGO.—
Lord Chancellor Jocelyn, writing from Ireland in 1741,
to his brother Chancellor (llardwicke) in England,
"mentions the distressed state of the country at that
period, owing to the entire failure of the potato crop
which had occurred, and which was follQwed by famine
and disease, to a frightful extent,"