The Sun.
London, England, 1833-07-15 00:00:00

THE WOOL TRADE.

The past week was a very busy and important one in the
wool trade, in consequence of further sales of colonial
fleeces having been announced for every day in the week. The
stocks not only in this country but abroad being short, and the
quantity in the hands of the manufacturers being known to be
small, a consideratie degree of interest was attached to the re-
sult of the sales. As prices have advanced on the continent
as well .s here, a further rise was anticipated ; but the most
sanguine importer of wool had no idea that so brisk a demand
would have existed as that which prevailed at the various sales.
As some of the finest wools hitherto imported from the colony
of Australia were to be offered, the most intense interest existed.
The total quantity announced for sale was 4,400 bales, of which
2,830 bales were from Australia, 870 bags of Spanish, 276
bales of Van Diemen's Land, 240 bales of German, 140 bales of
Smyrna, and some Cape and foreign wools. The sales com-
menced on Monday, and continued up to a late hour on Satur-
day afternoon. Among the first sales were wools from the
flocks of McArthur and the Australian Agricultural Company.
The former were beautiful fleeces, as may be imagined when
it is stated that they fetched as high as 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d.
per lb., the extreme prices ever before given for colo-
nial wools. The remainder fetched from 2s. lls. to 45.3 d. per lb.
The Company's wools did not realize the high character ex-
pected, but they obtained prices from 6d. to Pd. per lb. higher
than the fleeces last offered by the same establishment; the
finest wools offered obtaining 2s. 10d. to 3s. Id. per lb., and
seconds from 2s. to 2s, Bd. per lb. The other sales of Austra-
lian, on the remaining days of the week, all went off' briskly.
Some fine fleeces, second only to those from the flocks of
McArthur, sold at from 4s. 3d. to ss. 2y2 d. per lb. The Spanish
wools were not in so good demand, but also obtained advanced
prices—the best offered sold 28. 3d. to 2s. 61d. per lb., and the
inferior at from Is. 2d. to 2s. 3d. per lb. The Van Diemen's
Land wools were not sold till Saturday last. The wools from
Tasmania do not show that rapid improvement observable in
the sister colony; they however sold well, some realizing 29. Id.
to 2s. 6d. per lb., and the lower sorts ls. 2d. to 2s. per lb. The
German wools offered sold at 2s, to 3s. 3d., and the Cape from
Is. 7d. to Is. Bd. per lb. The competition for the Australian
wools was never before exceeded.
The result of these important sales is that the finest fleeces
of Australian wools sold 50 per cent, higher than last year,
and in general prices are from 40 to 45 per cent higher. The
Spanish, and other wools, did not establish such an advance.
The arrivals of wool from Germany, Australia, and Van Die-
men's Land have been very large within the last fortnight.

THE RAILWAY.—Workmen have com-
menced the continuation of the railway, from the static n
at Wapping, to the Docks.—Liverpool. Chronicle.

NEW GATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS.
At per stone, by the Carcass.
s. d. to s. d.
Sect, inferior 2 0 2 2 Mutton, inferior ...
middling 2 4 2 6 -middling..
- prime large 3 0 3 2 •-• prime
- prime small 3 4 3 6 Pork, large
Veal 3 0 4 8 -small
Lamb 4s. 2d. to ss. 4d.

6. d.tos. d.
22 2 8
3 6 310
40 4 2
3 2 3 8
40 4 8

INCENDIARISM.—A large rick of new hay
was maliciously set on fire at Deerhurat Walton, near
Tewkesbury, on the night of Wednesday last, and nearly
the whole of it destroyed. It belonged to Mr. JOHN LANE,
a highly respectable farmer. Two of his men, THOMAS
and SAMUEL GASEINS, have been committed for trial by
the Rev. JOHN KEYSALL, charged with the diabolical act.
Warwick Advertiser.

ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET.--On
Monday but few goods were offered at the market; but
what business was done was at an advance on previous
prices.—Manchester Guardian.

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SHREWSBURY.
Alton Towers, July 13, 1833.

DOVER, Jut 14.

Their Hi4hnesses, the Princes Alexander and Chart, a of
Wirtemberg, arrived here this morning early from the Isle
of Wight, where they had been paying ;I visit to her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and shortly after-
wards they embarked for Cilais, under a salute from the
Western Heights. It was understood that immediately
before their departure an express reached them, announc-
ing the death of their father, the King of Wirtemberg.
The Venetian brig Viparo, Captain Andrea Drossa, from
Venice for Rotterdam, with wool, su'phur, juniper ber-
ries, &e., has been brought in here this morning by two
Deal boats' crews, with loss of rudder, having struck on
the Goodwin Sands. The brig and boatmen are placed
under quarantine.

We are authorized to state that the paragraph
copied into the Chronicle of this morning, from yesterday's
Observer, respecting Mr. BUNN's lesseeship of the two
theatres is untrue in every particular.

The Prefecture of the Seine is engaged in
making arrangements for lighting Paris with gas, as in
London. In the streets where gas-pipes are already lai,l the
operation will soon be completed ; but for the others, it mum:
be some time before this desirable work can be accomp'i•hed.
MR. STEELE—CROWN PROSECUTION.—
Mr. STEELE yesterday received intimation from the
Crown Solicitor's office tl,t his trial in Limerick will
come on before the one in Kilkenny.—Dublin M.,rnivg
Register.

MANSFIELD RACES, JUNE 11.-A plate of
401. was won by Mr. BROOMFIEAD'S I). C. by Caton.
4 years old ; the other plate by Mr. MASON'S b. tn. by
Maley, beating Mr. BOWSER'S bl. h. by Grenadier, who
bolted. There will not be any races on Wedoetday at
Ascot as reported.

The Earl SPENCER, who is now at his de-
lightful villa, at Hyde, in the Isle of Wight, has recently
he: n indisposed. His Lordship is in his seventy-fifth year, ,
and although his life has been marked by rigid tempe-
rance, still it has presented one continued ecen6 activity,
both political and literary, during the most avemft4
periods within the last forty years.

The very thought of the possibility of the Tory'
locusts coming into power has created a great alarm—
we may say a panic—in most of the great towns in tiles
north. At Halifax, Manchester, and Liverpool the run
for gold has been very great. The ultra- Radicals are in
high glee, and the age of the "Destructive,'' is approacla-
ingl— Tinses.

COUNTRY BANK NOTES.—The annual Va-
lue of country bankers' notes stamped from the sth of
January, 1826, to the sth of January, 1833, was as
follows :—Years ending the sth of January, 1827,
1,239,755/. ; 1828, 1,970,595/. ; 1829, 2,542,130/. ;
1830, 2,403,7001. ; 1831, 1,955,4301. ; 1832,
2,217,915/. 1833, 1,751,6851.
WEST INDIA AFFAIRS.—The Committee
appointed at a general meeting of West India Proprietors,
held at the Thatched House Tavern nn Wednesday last,
for the purpose of communicating with Mr. Stanley on
the objectionable provisions of the Bill for emancipating
the colonial slaves, met on Saturday afternoon to consider
their report, which, when prepared, will be laid before a
general meeting of the West India body.
The mason trade is very dull at present in
Aberdeen. There is not a single bowie, or stone build•
ing of any kind in progress—a circumstance which the
gexo:periiiernredcedthterraedbesemfuerne
foof that
Aberdeenria cedo not
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recollect s a yhs a tvhi en
long period of forty years.—lnverness Courier.

The story of- PAGANINI'S marriage to an
English girl is a " hoax." The wealthy Signor has am
such intention. ACer be has completed hit engageawnta
in London, he intends to "pick up crumbs" in the pro-
vinces—Cheltenham being the first town where be will
"halt." On his return to London, and when he has again
partaken the hospitality of his friends, he will bid a final
adieu to England, and enjoy the wealth he has acquired
here, in his native land, accompanied by his son, a very
interesting little boy.
Accounts from Algiers of the 24th ult., stave
that some French engineers, when engaged in the lab.ura
of the harvest, had discovered the bed of the canal con-
structed by the Romans for conveying water through
province of Mitidjea, which was capable of being repaired
and applied to its original use at the very small expen4e of
about 25,0001. Hence was demonstrated the possibility
of cultivring this province, the resources of which for
agricultural produce are of the most extensive kind.
A SLIGHT MISTAKE.—An innkeeper in
this city, in company with some tr.vellers, were speaking
of the well known print in a stationer's window of "Three
Blind•uns and a Bolter," which they wished to see. The
landlord immediately despatched Boots to the shop for it.
The man being a stranger and the horsekeeper's name
something like the stationer's, he went to the stable for
the "three blind•uns and the bolter." Boots returned
with two " blind uns," and informed his master the other
was out. Where the bolter was we have not ascertained.
—Stamford News.
SURGEONS' DIPLOMAS.—An account has
just been printed by order of the House of Common., of
the number of persons who have obtained Diplomas from
the Royal College of Surgeons in London, in each year,
from the let January, 1823, to 31st December, 1832 ;
from which it appears that in the year 1823, 295 persons
obtained the Diploma of the College ; in 1824, 291 ; in
1825, 340 ; 1826, 366 ; in 1827, 467 ; in 1828, 384 ;
in 1829, 470 ; in 1830, 481 ; in 1831, 406 ; in 1832,
402.—The average annual number of persons examined
and rejected during those ten years was 28.
A YANKEE DIALOGUE.—" JONATHAN, in
what excavation have you trenculatel my sickle ? See, I
am all ready to violate natur, you rascal" (he was lathered
for shaving). " Why, daddy, I just pared Jezabeel's (the
donky's) hoof with him, and has lent it to Jam to open
highsters." " Tarnstion take your exploits ;go and rub
it on an old HURON'S tomahawk, and then if it does not
mow proper, why, I guess I must grind it on a Susque-
hanna stone to take the blunt out."—The Town.

TAXATION.—An account has been printed,
by order of the House of Commons, "of the gross and
net amount of all taxes repealed, expired, or reduced in
each year since the termination of the war ; and also of al
taxes imposed in the same period, showing the several
articles on which the alterations of duty were made, to-
gether with an estimate of the amount of the reductions or
increase of duty upon each article." The return does not
include the reductions in the present year. It appears
the gross estimated amount of taxes repealed since the close
of the war is 42,345,592/. The estimate gross produce
of the taxes imposed in the same time is 5,536,1101. leav-
ing a balance of taxes reduced above those imposed of
about 36,500,000/. Of the taxes so reduced about
9,000,000/. have been custom duties, 14,000,0001. excise
duties, and above 11,500,0001. the property and assessed
taxes.

BODM IN TURNPIKE.—The first meeting
under the new Act was held on Tuesday, when it was
determined to proceed forthwith with the proposed line of
road by Lanivet Church, and St. Bennet's Monastery, so
as to avoid Lanivet Hill, the greatest obstacle to travelling
between London and Falmouth. It is expected that the
n‘lw line of road for avoiding the Resprin Hills, will also
soon be commenced, by which the communication will be
perfected between Bodmin and Liskeard.— Cornwall Gas.

The weather being now very favourable, the
hay harvest is in full operation. The mowers are busily
employed in every direction, great quantities have been cut
and saved. In general the grain crops look well, with the
wheat in full ear, and the quantity of straw which is
likely to be produced, will be fully equal to the produce of
last year.— Cornwall Gazelle.
The Dramatic Authors Bill has already pro.
duced this good effect in London—that it bas enabled
the author, KENNY to obtain fifteen pounds for three
representations of his Opera of Mussaniello. We men-
tioned last week that KENNY had made his demand
through MILLER, the agent of an association of dramatic
suthors. It may be worthy remark, from whatever cause
it may have arisen, that this is the only sum
by the author of Alassaniello from any theatre in London
for that production. It has been out now several years,
and it has been played more than 150 times at Drury_
lane. But for the Dramatic Authors Bill, KENNY wou4
not have been able to enforce his claim even to 51. lor
each representation. Of c?
urse the scale of prices w
have already inserted applies only to theatres in the
country, where the audiences are small and the rece,pts
uncertain. yet received