The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-28 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, March 27.—The market continues
languid and depressed. The advices as to arrivals
of cotton on the American seaboard, which con-
tinues to be large, taken together with the quantity
known to be at sea from all quarters, influence buyers
of goods and yarns, and they are holding back from
purchases except where they have the temptation of
lower prices. In shipping yarns there has been very
little business, spinners requiring prices which buyers
are unwilling to give. For home trade descripti'ns
the market has also been quiet, and prices are un-
favourable to sellers, most kinds being Id. per lb.
down since last week. In the cloth-market buyers
appear almost to have suspended operations for some
days past, and to-day there is still the same indis-
position for business. Offers even at very low prices
are unobtainable. This state of things, of course,
causes some weakness in the value of goods, but as
yet there seems to be no necessity felt on the part
of manufacturers to press sales on the market.
Cloths of almost all makes are more or less affected,
but the actual business to-day has hardly been suffi-
cient to test them. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. re-
port of this day's cloth-market :—" Since last Tues-
day our market has been quite inactive, and to-day
buyers still hold aloof. Prices naturally show some
weakness, but there has not been sufficient business
to justify a change in our quotations."

CARDIFF, 26th.—Considerable activity charac-
terises the steam coal trade of the district, the
pits are fully employed, and, as the spring orders
arc coming in rather freely, proprietors are busy
in executing the contracts already in hand,
and the rolling stock of the railway compa-
nies is taxed to the utmost in conveying down the
large quantities to port for shipment on foreign ac-
count. There is a good trade doing in steam for
marine purposes, and several important orders were
about to be given out. The inland demand is im-
proving daily, and it is expected that the railway
companies are about to reduce their tariff still fur-
ther, so as to give greater facilities to the metro-
politan traffic. For house coal the inquiry is about
the same as last reported. In the iron trade a mo-
derate amount of business is being done, and orders
come in a little more regularly on home and foreign
account, but no material change will take place until
the ensuing quarter. Great uncertainty pervades
the future of the American trade, but on eastern
and continental account indications are promising.
Quotations are fully maintained for pig iron.
LEEDS, 27th.—The woollen cloth-markets in the
public halls to-day have been tolerably well attended
by buyers, who displayed a fair disposition to buy
seasonable and ordinary cloths at late prices. The
stocks of new goods in the halls being rather low,
and prices of all such having an upward tendency,
in consequence of the recent advance in the price
of wool, the aggregate amount of cloth which
changed hands was not large, though it exceeded
what was sold on this day se'nnight. The demand
for light meltons was not quite so brisk as we lately
had to report, partly owing to the stocks which are
in the hands of London, Manchester, and other
houses, and partly because alpaca frabrics in the
Bradford trade are competing with them. The
demand for strong meltons, good tweeds, and ordi-
ninary all-wool cloths is steady, though not brisk.
The country manufacturers report themselves as
moderately well employed, but they are looking for
orders for goods suitable for the autumn and winter
trade. Wools are quite as high as last week. Se-
veral parcels purchased at the recent sales in Lon-
don are in the process of being manufactured into
cloth, and their quality and condition are well
spoken of.
NomNorram, 27th.—There was barely an ave-
rage attendance at our Exchange-hall to-day. The
demand for lace yarns, however, ruled firm, and the
full rates of last week were readily made for fine
numbers. Hosiery yarns a tolerable sale, and high
prices were obtained. Demand for silks dull, at
nominally unchanged rates. Brown nets same as
last week in price, but mosquito nets are, if any-
thing, a shade dearer.
ROCHDALE, 26th.—There has been a rather
better attendance of buyers in the flannel market to-
day than last week, but their operations were not
extensive. A few selected parcels, chiefly fancy
goods, were purchased, but the feeling among mer-
chants was mostly in favour of giving sample orders
for comparison before general orders. This was
especially the case where goods are intended for ex-
portation. There is no improvement in the demand
for Yorkshire goods, but some miscellaneous lots at
low prices changed hands. As the prices of wool are
very firm at the late advance, so flannel is also
steady at fully last week's rates. New Yorkshire
goods are also firm in price.

FRIGHTFUL BOILER EXPLOSION AT LEEDS.—
LEEDS, Tuesday.---,At half-past eight this morning,
as the engineman was setting on after breakfast at the
works belonging to Matthias Shaun, in Dewsbury-road,
Leeds, the 45-horse boiler exploded with a terrific report,
and brought down the several sheds and grinding-rooms in
the yard. Tho hands were fortunately finishing breakfast,
but 16 of them (principally girls) aro in the infirmary suf-
feringi from scalds and contusions. The engineman s
severely scalded, and has his thigh broken. 1 lioreo was
killed 200 yards off by a piece PI stone.

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HER MAJESTY•

WINDSOR CASTLE, March 27.
The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon with
her Royal Highness Princess Louise.

Her Royal Highness Princess Helena, attended
by Lady Susan Melville, also took a drive.
Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal High-
ness Princess Louise ki,nd her Grand Ducal High-
ness the Princess of Holienlohe-Langenbourg, drove
out in a carriage and four this morning.

Their Royal Hignesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, Prince Teake, Lord Newory, Major Keppel, the
Hon. Mrs. Stoner and suite, honoured the performances at
the New Adelphi Theatre last evening.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales will leave Marlborough House on Tuesday not
for Sandringham.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and Princess Mary left their residence in St. James./
Palace yesterday for Cambridge Cottage, Kew, where it is
the intention of their Royal Highnesses to pass the Easter
holidays.

The Dowager Duchess of Sutherland has im-
proved in health of late. The anxiety of her friends has
been greatly relieved by the improvement which has taken
place.

The Earl and Countess of Percy, who have been
on a visit to the Duke of Northumberland at Torquay, are
expected to arrive in town to-day on their way to Albury
Park, Surrey.

The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and Lady
Emily Villiers left town yesterday for The Grove, near
Watford, Herts.

The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., and Mrs.
Disraeli have left Grosvenor-gate for Hughenden Manor,
Bucks.

A marriage is arranged, and will shortly take
place, between the lion. Hamilton Haldane Duncan,
brother of the present Earl of Camperdown, and grandson
of Admiral (first viscount) Duncan, and Miss Mercer Hen-
derson, youngest daughter of the late Gen. Mercer Hen-
derson, and sister of Mr. George Mercer Henderson, of
Fordell, Fifeshire, N.B.

We have to record the death of the Hon. Lady
Trench, who died at Nice on the 25th instant, at the ad-
vanced age of 81. The deceased lady was the youngest of
the two daughters of Robert, first Lord Clonbrock, and
was born 28th Sept, 1784. She married, Nov. 21, 1800,
the Hon. Sir Robert Le Poer Trench, 8.C.8., by whom she
has a family of daughters. Her husband died in March,
1824. The deceased lady was connected by birth and mar-
riage to some of the best families in Ireland.

THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY AND GOOD
FRIDAY.—At the monthly (March) meeting of the
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Archdeacon
Sinclair, who was in the chair, was requested to forward 3
memorial to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the desecra-
tion of Good Friday. The Primate has sent the following
reply ;—" My dear Mr. Archdeacon,—l have long observed
with feelings of deep concern the growing disregard of that
sacred day on which we commemorate the great sacrifice of
the Cross, and should humble ourselves in penitence before
God for the sins which caused it to be offered. To turn such
a day into a season of festivity and recreation is to dishon-
our Him who so loved the world that He gave His life a
ransom for it; and I would fain hope that reflection will lead
many who call themselves Christians, and who would be
unwilling to renounce their hopes as Christians, to feel
how grievous a slight they thus put on Him who Put.;
chased the redemption of the world at so great a price.
entirely concur in the tenuor of the address which, as
chairman of the meeting of the Society for Promoting
Christian Knowledge, you hare presented to me, and you
aro at liberty to make known this expression of my grest
sorrow at the frequent desecration of Good Friday, an"
my earnest desire that all the members of the Christian
community should observe that day with such feelings 0f
reverence and devotion as the remembrance of the
Saviour's Cross and Passion ought to inspire. Believe Ins,
my dear Mr. Archdeacon, very sincerely yours, C. 1:"
CANTUAIt."

NEW APPOINTMENTS.—We understand that Mr.
George John Shaw Lefevre, M.P. fur Reading, has AC-
cepted the post of Civil Lord of the Admiralty. ,jr.
Kuatchbull-Hugessen, M.P. for Sandwich, Junior Lord of
the Treasury, is to be Under Secretary for the Home D'37,
partmont, vice the Hon. T. G. Baring, who will succeed
Lord Clarence Paget as Secretary to the Admiralty.
DEATH OF A Mn. T. THORNTON.—The death 16
announced of Mr. Thomas Thornton, who was for 40 yearn
connected with the Parliamentary staff of the Times.
was rarely absent from his duty—that of preparing the
summary of the debate in the House of Commons. Ile
was in the habit of attending the house at 4 o'clock, when
the Speaker took the chair, and never left until the house
rose, involving in many cases a sittin of nine or ten hours.
He retired from Parliamentary duties at the close of lot
session.

DAMAGES FOR INJURY ON A RAILWAY.—The Rec.
David Dunlop, a licentiate of the Irish Presbyterian
Church, and described as editor and part proprietor of the
Banner of Ulster, has obtained a verdict in the Jury Court'
at Edinburgh, with £1,500 damages, against the Scottish
North-Eastern Railway Company. The pursuer was, °ll
the let of September, 1864, travelling from Aberdeen t°
Glasgow with a third-class ticket, and in approaching the
General Station at Perth the train came into collision with
another from Inverness, and he sustained severe bodily
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injuries, which for a time laid him aside from work, a1i„,c1,,b,,"
some extent permanently impaired his constitution.
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collision was proved to have occurred through the fault
the company's servants, and a tender had been made
£1,050. The damages claimed in the issue were £6,500'
and the Lord-Advocate, at the trial, asked the jury for 1:-
t
least a sum which would yield the pursuer £220 a-Yes:
with £l,OOO for solatium, and £l6O for medical expens,e,
After a speech in defence from the Solicitor-General, W4'"
asked for a candid consideration of the pursuer's injury
and loss, which he had greatly exaggerated, and a charge.
from Lord Barcaple, who said it was not so aggravated
case of fault as to require exemplary or inflamed damages'
the jury awarded the sum above stated—.£l,soo.
EXECUTION AT EXETER.—The execution of the
murderess Mary Ashford took place to-day in front of the
gaol at Exeter. 'The convict, it will bo recollected, W 8
tried and found guilty of poisoning her husband, a s4°6:
maker, who had discovered the existence of an improper
intimacy between her and another person.
EXECUTION AT STAFFORD.—George Bentley, Wil?„
on the afternoon of the Bth of January last murdered .10'
Poole at Gilley Brook, about three miles from Eccleshali;
f
in North Staffordshire, was executed at Stafford yeaterdefi
Ho fully acknowledged the) justness of the sentence th 4
had been awarded. The executioner was a cattle dealer, °i
Dudley, named Smith. When on the scaffold, and imnje;
diately before the adjusting of the rope, the culprit 1,
heard to say, " Lord Jesus receive my spirit." Shllll'
afterwards the drop fell, and death took place almost in-
stantaneously. :
THE BRIGHTON MURDERER.—The execution
John W. Leigh, whose trial and condemnation tooli.._
place at the Sussex Lent Assizes on Thursday last, i 3
been fixed by the high sheriff, Mr. Hankey, to take Piluscst
at Lewes on Tuesday, April 10. It is not expected bas
any reprieve will be obtained. Since his trial Leigh,ot
conducted himself in an orderly manner, and his c°l3sioll
on the whole leads those in a position to form en °Pillota
to believe that he is not so indifferent to his fate as, sr
the careless and apparently unfeeling nature of his etitli-e;
behaviour, is generally supposed. He receives the &tiLivg
tions of the authorities and of the chaplain with becel! his
respect. He has had several visitors prior to and sineecx
condemnation, including his mother and his wife.

Advertiser.
SHOCKING DEATH FROM SCALDING.--YeStera
nie ploY
John Clements, about 22 years of age, in the
Mr. Townsend, bone boiler, Hatcham-road, Old lient-rS;
lost his life under the following circumstances. It age-
that yesterday morning the deceased was reaching °el. 11
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large copper, said to contain above 500 gallons of ws'i ,eet
liquid, from which a quantity of bones and grease balance'
bedn extracted, when by some means he lost his : f
and fell in. Mrs. Townsend, the wife of the propriet°- °Li
the place, who was near at hand, hearing a noise, lola
up and saw the deceased in the act of falling il2t°,ll'ia
ceede-s
copper. She caught hold of his clothes, and suc
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drawing him out, severely scalding her hands in doisg
The deceased, who was frightfully scalded, was wr3PPeerj
in blankets and taken by Edward Maynard, the fore°100;
to St. Thomas's Hospital, where, after lingo Beab.ecis
ding .
hours, death put an end to his sufferings. The
er
who was much respected, leaves a wife daily exPact
confinement. gore-

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CONVICTION FOR ARSON.--At the assizes in - his
ford R. Atkinson was indicted for setting fire t°
house in that city. Earl, one morning in December thetile
prisoner raised an alarm Earl,;
fire, and on the arrival °f,
firemen they found that the flames and smoke arose
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the combustion of certain casks and boxes in the cellarlur
the house. An examination convinced the police suPell
hips,
tendent that the fire was premeditated, as firewood,
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3te., were found carefully placed and smeared overrhe
paraffin oil, tallow, and other combustible material.
prisoner had in September sought to insure his stock I°_
£l,OOO, but did not succeed, as it was not considered to be
et Fet
worth more than £2OO. He subsequently managed
it insured for £lOO and £lOO for fixtures. After hearlog
the evidence for the prosecution and defence, the jail rec;
turned a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner was setttePee
to penal servitude for seven years.