The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-23 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

NOTTINGHAM, THURSDAY.
The lace trade, in most of its branches, continues dull.
For the home market there is very little doing, the
season for home operations having not yet set in. We
have, however, a few foreign orders in the market, and
manufacturers express themselves with confidence as to
future prospects.
The hosiery trade is active. The orders for the home
market are good, and the foreign trade is also buoyant.
Upon the whole the operatives are well employed at
good prices.
Silk and yarns continue high.
LEICESTER, THURSDAY.
The hosiery trade is by no means active, yet a healthy
tone pervades the market, and manufacturers are san-
guine with respect to future operations. The great
difficulty they have bad, and, indeed, to a considerable
extent, have now to contend with, is the unprecedented
price of material, being unable to obtain anything
approaching an adequate remuneration. Wools and
yarns are selling at enormously high rates.

SALE OF LAND.—Nearly ten thousand pounds' worth
of land, in pots varying from 501. to 1,0001., was sold
at the allotment of the Kentish Town estate, at the offices
of the Conservative Land Society, yesterday. Mr. Pow.
nail, Mr. Steven, and the Rev. Dr. Worthington were
present at this large distribution.
Yesterday the body of an infant was discovered on the
doorstep of a house in Collingwood-street, Ratcliff-
highway. From the external injuries upon the head,
there could be no doubt but that a brutal murder had
been committed.
Up to yesterday, nothing relative to the body of the
man found in the reservoir near Hendon, had been
discovered by the police.
A letter dated Hamburg, Jan. 20, says :—The float-
ing ice in the Baltic is decreasing. The Elbe is entirely
free.
The Master in Chancery charged with the winding up
of the Amazon Life Assurance and Loan Company has
appointed a meeting for the 27th inst., to consider the
propriety of entering into compromises with certain of
the contributories, and for other business.
Seven skeletons have been discovered in the neigh-
bourhood of Hangleton. The remains are supposed to
be those of some Roman soldiers, as an encampment
once existed near the spot.
A few days since an elderly woman died at Saltash,
and in the lining of the stays worn by the deceased the
sum of 1001. was found. The discovery was a windfall
for the brother of the woman, he not being in very
afauent circumstances.
William Tabner, an overlooker in the silk factory of
Messrs. Booth, of Patricroft, has' been charged before
the magistrate with cruelly assaulting ono of the "hands"
of the establishment, a young woman named Maloney.
He was remanded. His conduct to the workpeople
generally was complained of.

Difference .........

2,954,540

3,097,753

* These sums are the net amount paid to the Bank of
England after deducting GO,OOO/. for composition for stamp
duty, and 120,000/. contribution out of the profits of the
circulation department, per act 7th and Bth of Victoria,
chap. 32.

Ring
No part of this income is at present paid for the use of
Leopold. The trustees, after discharging certain annui-
ties and pensions to the establishment of the late Pnncess
Charlotte, repay the balance of the annuity to the Exche-
quer. The sum so repaid in the last
year was 33,5001.
JAMES WILSON.

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The Right Hon. H. Labouchere bas subscribed the
sum of 2501. towards the rebuilding of St. Mary's Tower,
Taunton.