The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-23 00:00:00

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... walked over

STATE OP TRADE.—MANCHESTER- APRIL 22.—
The business to-day in yarns has been at a further decline
on last Tuesday's prices; but the market was flat notwith-
standing all the symptoms of weakness. The amount of
transactions generally, however, has been equal to an average
of the weekly market held on this day, the buyers appearing
to consider the prices now current as reasonable. In the
goods market there was a tolerable inquiry in the earlier
part of the day; and 39-inch shirtings, required for India,
were sought after by the shipping houses; but when the
telegraph notice declared a ruling flatness in the Liverpool
market the effect was immediately apparent. A remarkable
proof of the little confidence which is entertained in the ac-
counts from America is given in the fact, that though cotton
is reported higher at New York, no effect was observable
either here or in Liverpool which could be traced as a direct
consequence of that fact. Cotton was up in America 14 d. per
lb., and 20,000 bales were sold at New York within three
days of the sailing of the Canada, a circumstance which
seems to be justly deemed suspicious.

AN EXTRAORDINARY SCENE AT GLOUCESTER.-
Some of the good citizens of Gloucester, perambulating the
docks on Good Friday morning, were alarmed by a terrible
noise on board a Greek ship lying in the middle of the basin.
The captain and others appeared to have one of the crew
amongst them, around whose neck a rope was attached, and
before any interference could be offered the body was run up
to the yard-arm, and after a few apparent struggles, so far
as the victim was concerned, all was still. The noise had
hardly subsided, when a similar scene appeared to be going
forward on board another Greek vessel lying alongside the
first-mentioned, the body in this case-being lowered over the
side into the water, and then, as if the murderous wretches
had changed their intentions, it was hauled on deck—
severely belaboured amidst shouts and execrations, and
speedily hauled up to the yard-arm. The excitement on
seeing two bodies dangling high in the air was most intense ;
some of the crowd assembled were calling out for the police,
and two or three, more courageous than the rest, got on
board one of the ships to demand an explanation, and with
the determination to take the culprit into custody. The ex-
planation was duly given, and a hearty and general laugh
was the result. The seamen were only performing a custom
of the Greek Church, usual on Good Friday, by stuffing an
effigy with straw, with a bag in its right hand, to represent
Judas Iscariot, and hanging it, expressive of their abhor-
rence of the conduct of that worthy in betraying our Saviour.
The next morning the effigies were hauled down, and treated
with great indignity, amidst renewed shouts and the dis-
I charge of muskets.
THE SEX OF JOHN SAllTEL—Domestic critics
were last week smitten with wonderment that the Govern-
ment should require them to state, in their census papers,
whether John Smith or Mary Jone was a male or a female.
But we have known freaky parents to give the Christian
names of men to their daughters, and rice versa ; and the
Sheffield Times told us, only last Saturday, of an Irishman
who got his child called Peter before he discovered it to be
a girl.— Gateshead Observer.
GLASGOW, APRIL 19.—Cotton—In cotton wool we
have had another very dull week, and prices have receded
from Vsd. to J-Ad. per lb. Middling Orleans barely realises
7110, per lb. Goods and yarns partake of the general de-
pression, and prices continue to decline. Dealers complain
generally of the dulness in the home trade, or at least of
the difficulty of doing business with a profit. Several
establishments are lessening the amount of their produc-
tion, and in the Paisley district upwards of 1,200 weavers
have been thrown out of employment during the last fe
weeks. Pig iron—The market for pig-iron has been less
animated this week, and prices are scarcely maintained.
Sales have been made at 40s. 6d., cash, and the current
value is from 40s. 6d. to 41s. per ton, free on board. The
shipment from the beginning of the year till the 12th
current have been 137,374 tons, against 86,632 tons for the
same period last year—showing an increase of shipments
of 50,742 tons. At the close of 1850 the stock in Glasgow
was estimated at 230,000 tons; it is now estimated at 203,868
tons.
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Virtue is not so versatile in its nature as to be im
practicable in any possible condition of human
Cook's Journal.

ESCAPE OF CONVICTS FROM DARTMOOR PRISON.--
Two of the convicts, named John Cotton and John Jones,
escaped from the prison on Tuesday. Information was re-
ceived on Thursday that they had committed a highway
robbery near the Rev. H. Strangway's, on the road to Tiver-
ton, by plundering a labourer in the employ of Mr: Rowe, of
Vir he possessed, together with his smock-frock and jacket,
for which they gave him their convict jackets, on which are
the letters "D. P." They found a knife on his person,which
they placed across the throat of the man, at the same time
threatening to deprive him of life if ho failed in:giving up to
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