The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-25 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

BRADFORD, Jan. 24.—The market is very flat to-day in
every branch. Inanimate as was the wool market last week
the decline is even more marked to-day. The change is
indicated in the fact that the stapler in vain seeks to make
the spinner his customer, instead of the spinner, as hereto-
fore, of late going to press the stapler to do business. There
have been fewer transactions in all sorts of wool, and, ex-
cept in a few choice and scarce sorts, such
inas very good
Yorkshire hogs, there is a marked softening quotations,
which aro fully a fraction lower. The worsted yarn de-
partment is dull and inanimate. There is less inquiry than
last week. Although some spinners continue well em-
ployed, and are consequently firm in their quotations, there
are others who are not so fortunate, quite ready to make a
slight concession to secure a customer. Some continental
merchants have placed orders, small in the aggregate to
supply actual demands, and the home demand is for cur-
rent wants.

ENGLISH OFFICERS' GRAVES AT TOULOUSE.—
Some short time since it was publicly stated that the monu-
ments and tablets erected to the memory of some English
officers who fell at Toulouse were falling into decay, and
Were not properly preserved. Ou this subject the Emperor
Napoleon has addressed a letter, of which the following is a
translation, to Viscount Hood :—" Palace of the Tuileries,
Jan. 20, 1867.—Sir,—I learn with regret from your letter
that the tombs of the English officers killed at the battle
of Toulouse are in a state of decay. S oldiers who fall on a
foreign land belong to that land, and it is the duty of all to
honour their memory. I shall take upon myself the ex-
pense of repairing these tombs. Receive the assurance of
my sentiments, NAPOLEON."

THE TABARD INN, SOUTHWARK.---Of the anti-
quity of this inn there can be no doubt, and its identity
may be traced most satisfactorily. The land on which it
stood was purchased by the abbot in Hyde, in 1307, and
ho built upon it a hostel, or town house, for the abbots
when they came to London. It may bo supposed that the
inn for the accommodation of the public was built by the
abbots, and that they received their profits from it. Pro-
bably it was built with the view of furnishing accommo-
dation for the numerous pilgrims resorting from all parts
of the kingdom to the famous shrine of St. Thomas of
Canterbury, for it stands just between the Pilgrim's Way
from the west and south of England and the much better
known continuation of the Pilgrim's Way onward to Can-
terbury, so that it would be exactly the spot whore they
would be glad to find a halting-place. It is by no means
unlikely that the abbot of Hyde built the inn for this pur-
pose very soon after he became possessed of the ground
if there was not ono already in existence, but there can
be no doubt that when Chaucer lived, that is, in the latter
years of the fourteenth century, the Tabard was the usual
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