The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-10 00:00:00

STATE OF 2.RADE.

LEICESTER, Jan. 9.—There has 'been very little
doing in the hosiery trade this week ; very few
orders are being received, and, indeed, not much is
expected to be done for a few weeks. In Lough-
borough and the country districts trade is flat, and
many of the operatives both in Leicester and the
neighbourhood are unemployed. Yarns holdup in
price, but are not much in demand. The wool
market is firm.
NOTTINGHAM, 9th--There is very little altera-
tion in the state of the lace trade; the improve-
ment, if any, is of a very gradual character. A
slight movement is perceptible in the fancy trade,
and there is expected to be a better demand for
all sorts of goods shortly. A little continues tobe
done in plain sorts used for foundation purposes.
Buyers, however, are purchasing in very limited
qualities both for home and foreign purposes.
There is a good deal of distress amongst the
operatives, as nothing is made except to order, or
what is really saleable. In hosiery there is no
improvement perceptible; numbers of hands are
being discharged, and a good deal of machinery is
at a stand.

Mr. Brewster progresses favourably under his
recent accident. It is hoped that amputation of the hand
may not be necessary.
We (Edinburgh Courant) learn with deep regret
that the health of Lieut. -Colonel Sir H. L. Playfair is such
as to be the subject of serious anxiety to his friends.
THE FELLOWSHIP AT ALL SOULS' COLLEGE.—
The hearing of this appeal was resumed this morning, and
was proceeding when we went to press.
DOVER, Wednesday,—The Salacia, of London,
Captain Pynes, laden with coals, from Shields for Dieppe,
foundered off Whitby on Tuesday. Tho captain and crew
were landed by the Pilot cutter, and are safe at the Dover
Sailors' Home.
RABBIT SHOOTING.—The following letter has
been received by a resident here from the Inland Reve-
nue Office :—" Sir,—Having laid before the board your
letter of the 21st inst., I am to acquaint you, in reply, that
the board, of course, cannot interfere in any question be-
tween landlord and tenant, but the sth section of the act
23 and 24 Vic., c. 90, undoubtedly permits the taking and
destroying of conies without license in Great Britain by
the proprietor of any warren, or of any inclosed ground
whatever, or by the tenants of lands, either by himself or by
his or her direction or permission.--31aidstone Journal.
THE EXTRADITION QUESTION.—Ii we once per-
mit ourselves to be ousted from this view, any foreign
nation with which we may have an extradition treaty may
foist on us twenty arbitrary definitions of the crime of mul►
der, and compel us to be reluctant instruments of their
tyranny. What would become of the political refugees on
our shores if this adverse doctrine should prevail ? Great
Britain would soon be found emulous of the recent infamy
of Saxony. After all, it is less disgraceful to give up a
Hungarian refugee to the tender mercies of the Austrian
Emperor and his police, than to deliver a fugitive slave into
the hands of a Missouri slave-owner. We await in extreme
anxiety the arrival of they next mail that we may know if
the appeal in Anderson's ease has been allowed.—Once a
Week.
BALLAST AT CAPE DE VERDE ISLANDS.—" British
Consulate, St. Vincent, Cape de Verde Islands, Dec. 19,
1860.—Sir,--I have the honour to state that, in consequence
of sundry complaints having been made to me by the mas-
ters of British vessels regarding the want of facilities and
despatch in the supply of ballast at this port, under the
late monopoly system, I addressed a letter to the governor-
general of this province, on the 17th September, on this
subject, and laid before him the representations which had
been made to me complaining of the system. I have now
the honour to report that the monopoly which existed is
now abolished, and that the supply of ballast for the future
is open to competition, and that the Municipal Chamber
will levy a rate of 200 reis (10id.) per ton on each ton of
ballast shipped.—l have, &c., HOMAS MILLER, a B.M.'s
Consul.—To the Secretary of the Board of Trade, Marina
Department, London."
THE ACCIDENT AT ASTLEY'S THEATRE.—Mr.
W. Batty has received a letter from the father of Smith, the
young man who was killed at the above theatre on Monday
morning last, in which he expresses his desire to see the
last of his poor son, but complains of his poverty as an ob-
stacle to his undertaking the long and expensive journey
from Landport, near Portsmouth, were he resides. Mr.
Batty, who is deeply grieved at the ocuerrence, from the
first moment readily promised to defray all the expenses
connected with the funeral, and immediately fur:iished the
unhappy father with sufficient funds to enable him :0 reach
London and provide himself with every requisite m2der
such melancholy circumstances. The incitiest is adjourned
until Monday next, when the fallacious report about the
crushed jaw will be thoroughly refuted. That death was
instantaneous there can be no doubt, although the lion
does not appear to have lacerated the flesh with the inten •
tion of devouring the man.
CHATHAM, JAN. 9.—Although an order has been
given by his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief for
the whole of the recruiting parties, with the exception of
one of each regiment, to join their depots at this garrison,
recruiting is, nevertheless, still proceeding exceedingly
briskly, and several hundred men have arrived at the garri-
son during the last month to join the various East India
regiments. During yesterday and to-day about 50 young
men arrived at Chatham and the hut barracks, chiefly from
the London, Bristol, and Liverpool districts, to join various
depots. In consequence of the recent order for the reduc-
tion of the depot companies, the whole of the officers and
men of the several regiments at this garrison, above the
proper complement, will be despatched to India to join their
head-quarters early in the present year.
There are some regulated pleasures this month;
as the Twelfth Night celebration., Plough Monday, and
the holiday hunting from the Squire's mansion. We see
the shops gay and tempting with Twelfth-cakes, and all
manner of garnishing. We see the rural labourers, in old-
fashioned districts, feasting and dancing to celebrate the
first act of tillage for the new year. On dry mornings,
when a touch of frost edges with rime the brown oak leaves
and the green laurel, or the shining ivy, we hear the well-
known tramp on the resounding road, and see the scarlet-
coated gentry converging towards the meet ; and great is
the fun when every lad who has a pony, and every bird-
boy who can command a donkey for an hour, scampers off
to swell the rout.—" January," in Once a Week.
THE COAL SUPPLY OF THE METROPOLIS.—The
quantity of coal and coke carried into the metropolis for the
year ending January 1 shows an enormous increase on
preceding years. No less than 1,477,645 tons 16 owt. have
been conveyed from various parts of England to London
by the railways having access thereto, the London and
North-Western and the Great Northern carrying the vast
proportion. The following is the actual tonnage of each
railway company :—The London and North- Western,
693,418 tons Newt. ; Great Northern, 502,813 tons 14cwt.;
Eastern Counties, 121,225 tons 16cwt. ; Great Western,
63,944 tons ; Midland, 58,490 tons ; South-Western, 17,589
tons 6 cwt. ; South-Eastern, 14,585 tons 8 cwt. ; Hertford
Luton, and Dunstable, 4,416 tons 19 cwt. ; London, Til-
bury, and Southend, 958 tons ; and the London and Brighton,
104 tons, Of this aggregate one-ninth has been produced
from the Clay-cross pits, near Chesterfield. For the year
the seaborne importation has been 3,573,377 tons, brought
by 11,226 ships, against 3,299,170 tone by 10,693 ships
being an increase of 274,207 tons and 533 ships.
The experience of January, with its vicissitudes
of weather, ought to be enough to warn us against ever
again allowing rapid and extreme alternations of weather
to do us more mischief than is unavoidable. It should not
bo in the power of a speedy thaw after snow to lay under
water more than a very small proportion of the soil of
Great Britain ; but while we let our low-lying rivers swell
to the level of their banks in ordinary weather, an
descending streams choke their own channels, we must
expect the,wned lands, diseased cattle, dr.rap dwelling's, the
sweep of the fever, and a rheumatic and consumptive
labouring population,—" January," in Once a Week,