The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-17 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

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than at the market on Saturday. There is a collapse of orders
and sales of goods for Germany, which is felt to be an in-
conVenieike—in soma lieftrtets, but not so much strit
cause positive stagnation in any Particular branch of the
woollen trade. Should war unfortunately break out on the
Continent, the evil effects of it here will be spread among
houses which have been far from confining their export
trade to Germany, and therefore it will be less severely felt
than it otherwise would have been. The representatives of
home-trade houses are, as well as the export ones, operating
cautiously, and were lookers-on rather than buyers to-day.
Wools are nominally the same as last week.
LEICESTER, 16th.—There has been a fair business doing
in hosiery goods during the past few days. The high price
of morkey, however, checks speculation. Goods usually in
demand at this time of the year are printing to some ex-
tent. In the rural districts business is in a satisfactory
condition. Worsted yarns are without material alteration
in price. The wool market remains quiet, and prices are
not much changed, all business being for immediate re-
quirements. - Cotton yarns dull.

Norma-11Am, 16th.—There has been a shade more doing
in some descriptions of lace goods during the past few
days. A little more business is doing in Spanish goods for
shawls, but manufacturers operate with great caution, not
knowing what the summer fashions will be. Sprigged
nets for falls are also finishing to a fair extent. Plain silk
mechlius aro still in request. There is no improvement in
the demand for black laces or narrow edgings. In cotton
goods there is a trifle more doing in the plain trade. The
hoseiry trade continues active. Goods for the home trade
department are in demand, and orders for shipping are on
hand. The workpeople are all fully employed at good
wages. Yarns are unaltered in value.

THE BUILDING TRADES.—A meeting of delegates
from the London carpenters and joiners was held last night
at the Brown Bear, Broad-street, Bloomsbury, for the pur-
pose of receiving reports from the delegates as to how far
the various building firms have acted upon the resolution
of the association employers to pay the advance of 8d per
hour to the men on Saturday last. The Chairman saidthey
would first receive the reports from the delegates of those
firms who had paid the advance, and then from those firms,
if any, where it had been refused; and it would be the duty
of the delegates to deal with the latter class of firms as they
might deem expedient. The delegates from those firmspay-
ing the advance then reported, from which it appears that
with scarcely an exception the leading firms in the trade
had carried out the resolution and paid the advance last
Saturday. The delegates from Perry's, Stratford (36 men),
Wells's, Stapleford's, Thorpe's, Sander's, Bywater's (50
men), Colt's (20 men), Manly's and Roger's, and a few other
small firms, reported that the advance had been refused on
various grounds. The delegate from Perry's stated that
the men had suspended work since Monday last until they
could obtain a definite reply from the employer. Aftersome
discussion it was decided to deal with Perry's firm first,
and the following resolution was adapted unanimously :
" That the men in the employ of Mr. Perry be requested to
wait upon that gentleman to-morrow morning, with a list
of those firms who have given the advance, and in the
event of Mr. Perry still refusing to pay the Bd. per hour,
this meeting empowers the men at once to leave his employ,
and pledges itself to support them in so doing." It was also
resolved that the men in the other firms who had refused
the advance should at once make application to the em-
ployer for it, and report the result to an adjourned dele-
gate meeting before taking further action. The meeting
then adjourned.

THE SAL3ION FISHERY ACT, 1865.—The Special
Commissioners appointed under the Salmon Fishery Act,
1865, to inquire into the legality of the fixed nets and en-
gines in the salmon rivers of England have just completed
their sittings at Newport and Chepstow for the Usk and
Wye estuaries and portions of the Severn estuary, and have
delivered some important decisions bearing on the ques-
tion of the use of putchers in the tideway of those rivers
for taking salmon. The decisions (which were reserved
at Newport), were delivered by Mr. Eden, the chief com-
missioner, at the Chepstow sitting of the Commissioners
this week. A claim made by the Duke of Beaufort to
a fishery at Redwick, on the Severn estuary, was
one which guided numerous other cases, and the Chief
Commissioner, in delivering judgment, said it had been
proved that the duke had had from time immemorial a
right to use a rank of pults—a large wicker contrivance for
taking small fish, and which sometimes took salmon, and
that some time between 1843 and 1848 putchers—a small
wicker contrivance used solely for taking salmon—had
been introduced and used at 250 yards' distance from the
site of the pults. The Commissioners found that fishing
by means of putchers was a different mode of fishing from
that by pults. The fishery right was claimed under a char-
ter of Edward 1., who confirmed a grant by the Earl of
Pembroke to the abbot and monks of Tintern Abbey of
lands and a fishery right. No particular user, however,
was mentioned in the grant, and the immemorial user only
proved a right to fish by pults. They decided that the
right to use one mode of fishing in a navigable river could
not authorise the use of a different mode of fishing esta-
lished on a different site, even though the site (as was not
the case hero) were within the limits of the several fishery,
if such different mode was also a derogation of Magna
Charts and the public right. They considered a grant by
the Crown of a pult fishery did not include a putcher
fishery. The result of their opinion was, that the Duke
of Beaufort was entitled to a certificate for the pults only,
but that the 200 putchers now in use were illegal and
must be at once removed. Similar decisions were pro-
nounced in regard to other claims of a like nature. In
ono called the Goldcliff fishery, belonging to Eton Col-
lege, some thousand pults were claimed. These the Com-
missioners decided were all illegal but they authorised the
use of 127 pults in the same fishery. The effect of these
decisions will be that all the putchers at the mouth of the
Usk will have to be removed.

THE WATERLOO VASE AND THE DUKE'S STATUE.—
We suggest that the great Waterloo vase, removed
from the National Gallery to the North Court of the South
Kensington Museum—where it badly answers its purpose
as a trophy, and occupies a large space that is valuable—
should be erected where it can be seen and cease to be in
the way. For many years this work was placed in a dark
hall at Trafalgar-square; now one can see no more than
half of it. Surely it deserves a place of display. It is too
big to be in-doors, and should occupy a pedestal in one of
the parks, or in front of Buckingham Palace. A ruthless
critic proposes that it should be erected on the top of the
Marble Arch, so as to form a pendant to the Big Dukeon
Constitution-bill. Wer say, put the Big Duko on.
pro-
perly proportioned pedestal, so as at once t.toe molka3011,1:
best of it and relieve the arch. It is really quite '
to position ;
statue ceased to disgrace us in its 0
sought to flatter the
The stiff-necked couuoisseurs, who
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properly placed, it would be inoffensive, f ilf. not
Duke of Wellington, by defying
doo impressive.
areP all dead; their
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vindicated. If Mr. Cowper wishes
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work should bo undone, and English common sense so far
and serve the public,
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Sept. 28, 1816. It cost nearly
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the noblefolly opportunity.
£30,000. Athena:um.
itLSNIPE SHOOTERS.—The sportsmen
about Vincennes, Indiana, reinforced by some of
our snipe shooters, have had alively time for a week or two
past. The success of the Louisvillians is thus stated by
Vincennes Sun
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of yesterday :—" Messrs. Barker Atmore,
Robinson, and Nicholson, in less than two days' hunt,
bagged 22 dozen snipe, besides six dozen outside birds—
this is exclusive of Nichols' share (a meadow-lark), which
was counted separately. Messrs. W. L. Mitchell and Davy
Mills, in a little over a day's hunt on Shaker prairie, bagged
210 snipe and a few other birds. Capt. Torn Smith and
Ike Tyler killed 194 snipe and 26 plover in a two-days' hunt
onAllison prairie." "These gentlemen-returned well satis-
fied with their luck.—Lout.wille Journal, 14th ult.