The Sun.
London, England, 1834-06-30 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE..

Woot--Withia the last fortnight or three weekSo
nearly all the wool in the neighbourhood of li.,tford
has been bought up at - very high prices : the bests
clips obtained :As. .per toti, and secondary qualities
from 48s. to 525. per tut!. The large farmers on the
foret, taking advantage of the very liberal offers made
by the, Yorkshire woolstaplcrs, have cleared themselves.
completely out, and' very little indeed rcrnaitts-VnfiZ
chased. Lamb's wool is about 14d. per lb./ And locks
from 265. to 295. per tod.
YORE WOOL MAtKET, JUNE 26.—The. tx,3rket was
well supplied with wool to-day ; with the usuahttfen-
dance of buyers. For very fine hog wool there was a
good demand, but for coarse quality rather heavy sale,
which caused the market to hold to a rather late hour,
and a few lots were left unsold. Bogs, 265. 6d. to
275. 6d. ; hogs and ewes, 245. 6d.• to 26.5. 6d. ewes,
225. to 245. ; locks, 'l6s. 6d, to 175., per stone of Nibs:
DONCASTER WOOL MARKET, SATURDAY.----Mlierd
was a tolerable supply of wool considering that it was
the first market this season,' and a numerous attuzlance
of buyers. All were sold off at the following prices
Hogs, DU. to 275. ;_ Eves and weathers, 225. to 225.
; 6d. Locks, 13s. 6d. to 145., pet stone of lolbs.
TZIE LEEDS TRADE.—There has again bet!' a very
fair demand for goods in both halls this Wtelt, but no
alteration in prices. A few buyers have been down
during the week, and in consequence there has beers
a little more business done in the warehouses.

BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—The high price
of wool in the months of January and February pro-
duced a temporary cessation of business in our market,
and a consequent reduction in the raw matetial in ad
months of March and April. During the tittnihs of
April and May the merchant bought with more et:in-
fidence ; and in that period, -.nd up to our last repttrt;
there has been a progressive improvement in thd
amount of sales. Meanwhile the pressure en the ma.
nufacturers has been painfully severe. Indisposed to
discharge their hands, and unable to obtain a terabit&
rating price for their goods, great sacrifices have been
made by them within the last three months, to etect
sales. During the last three weeks they have ob-
tained a partial advance on goods ; but from the spe-
culative spirit again prevalent in the wool trade, they
are now threatened with renewed difficulties; Praia
the continued scarcity in the market of tides.
and consequent advance, the manufacturers are
no longer able to offer their goods without a fur-
ther advance. The demand for. goods for foreign
markets at present being comparatively inconsi-
derable, and merchants in the home trade having
bought largely within the last two months; rather in
anticipation of, than from any existing demand, they
are at present unwilling to give the advance required
by the manufacturers, and consequently the Sdies
effected to-day have not been so great as for some
weeks past. The demand for yarn continues good,
and the prices obtained are rather higher. The manu-
facturers have not been so eager in the purchase of
wools as they were last week, principally from the cir.,
cumstance of higher prises being asked than they eau
afford to give. There is no stock of hog wool in the
market; and from the difficulty the staplers experience
in making purchases from the farmers, it will be some
time before there is one ; consequently business will
be very unprofitable to both stapler and spinner.
HALIFAX MARKET. —The business transacted in last-
ings, 3-4ths and 6-4ths merinos at this market last
Saturday, was equal to that of the preceding week,
and for such goods prices were invariably firm, but no
advance was obtained, and no increased disposition to
purchase was' evinced by the merchants, nor have any
foreign orders been received lately to give spirit and
stability to our trade ; still-we are doing a considerable
quantity of business, and most of our mills are at pre-
sent running full time in the execution of orders prin-
cipally designed for the home trade. In wool, hogs
are still most in demand, and command a dispropor-
tionately high price to *ethers. Prices, however, are
stationary.—Leeds Mercury.
SILK TRADE.—The silk weaving in the neighbour-
ing towns, eight miles round Manchester, appears to
be rather slacker within the last fourteen days. Plain
sarcenet weavers have to wait for warp three or four
days. The figured or fancy sarcenet weavers are much
in demand, and of late a great number of the former
have changed to the latter kind of weaving.—Man-
chester Chronicle.

ATTEMPTED MURDER IN HYDE PARK.

Yesterday morning week, between six and seven
o'clock, police constable No. 40, of the I division,
while on duty in Hyde Park, near the Magazine, dis-.
covered a man lying underneath the trunk of one of
the trees which have been recently felled there, with
a dreadful gash across his throat. He was immediately
conveyed to St. George's Hospital, where he received
proper attention, but was so severely injured that he
was for a considerable time unable to give any account
of himself. He aflast made himself sufficiently in-
telligible to intimate that his throat had been cut by
some person, but he was unable to detail further parti-
culars. Yesterday morning he was sufficiently re-
covered to give the following account of himself:—
He states his name to be Alexander Aldridge ; is be-
tween 45 and 50 years of age, and, until lately, was
employed as gardener at Trinity-square, Tower Hill.
On. Saturday evening week he had occasion to call on
an acquaintance residing at Knightsbridge ; and was re-
turning hoine through the Park about eight o'clock,
when, on reaching near to the Receiving-house of the
Royal Humane Society, he sat down to rest himself upon
the trunk of one of the trees that have recently been
cut down there ; in a few minutes a man dressed as a
haymaker, accompanied by a woman, came and sat
down beside him, and they all three entered into con-
versation together; in a short] time the man suddenly
rose up and struck Aldridge a most violent backhanded
blow over the check, which knocked him backwards
off his seat, and in falling to the ground he sustained
a severe concussion on. the back part of the head.'
which nearly rendered Lim insensible ; the man' then
jumped upon him, and forcing his knees into his chest,
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to do so, and, after some difficulty, he succeeded in
crawling under some boards that had been left by'the
workmen aslant against the fallen timber :.here he re-
mained during the night, having tied his neck-
cloth tightlV round the wound in his throat, to
prevent the further flow of blood, and in the morning
he was discovered by the policeman in a most pitiable
plight. On coming to a perfect. state of recol-
lection, Aldridge founl that 2s , all the silver he 1 ad
had about him, had been taken out of his pocket. The
wound in his throat has to all appearance been inflicted
by a clasp-knife,.such as labouring men generally carry
about then, and although the incision is of consider-
able extent, it fortunately escaped dividing any of the
principal arteries of the neck. The unfortunate man
is now in a fair way of recovery. The police are now
engaged in making inquiries respecting the outrage.

The Earl of Roden arrived in Cork on
Wednesday, to attend a" great" Protestant raeeting-
there. Everything seems to indicate that, with what-
ever success, the attempt at agitation on the part of
the conservatives will be made at all hazards in
Ireland.