The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-29 00:00:00


LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY EVENING.—The trade of last
week has been regular, but without animation. The
proposed alterations in the sugar duties have been suffi-
cient to unsettle the business, to the loss of the importer,
without any sufficient benefit to the consumer to compen-
sate for the change. The notice that further changes are
contemplated next session of Parliament, leaves every-
thing in a state of uncertainty, injurious to all parties ;
first to thee-8 who, not already in the sugar business,
di net move until they know on what they may cal-
cub) te, and consequently to the consumers in the de-
lay of those arrangements, from which a larger supply
might be expected; producing the extraordinary state
of things that, in England, with an increasing popu-
lation, and, as it is urged, increasing wealth, the consump-
tion is, to say the least, not increasing, while the contrary
is the fact in other countries. Also, consequent on
this state of things, is the appearance of the Brazilian
tariff, making so large an increase of the duties on
manufactures as greatly to reduce our exports, unless
we will admit their exports on more equitable duties.
In other articles of colonial produce, the transactions are
on a limited scale, which throws the whole weight of
holding on the importer, and prevents any buoyancy in
prices. An active business is doing generally in the
manufacturing districts, and has increased since the
rain has given hopes of a large crop of wheat and
otherwise improved the appearance of the spring
crops. The farmers will probably find this season as
last, that the sliding scale will cause the payment of
high duties on grain set at liberty when they would
least wish this to be the case, and forcing sales from
the disproportioned amount of capital required
to pay the duties, as compared with the import cost of the
article. If the harvest is well secured, we may reasonably
look for a steady home trade. Our exports to foreign
markets may continue on a respectable scale to some
quarters, but to others the prospects are not encouraging.
Money continues abundant, yet the general uncertainty
prevents that commercial activity which such a state of
things might be expected to produce. It is remarkable
how general the feeling seems to be amongst the consu-
mers not to stock themselves largely with the raw ma-
terial. A general impression seems to prevail that the
tendency of the new Bank Bill will be to restrict the
currency obstinately ; and that any circumstance which
tamed a draw upon the Bank for bullion, would, to a
certainty, be productive of severe pressure on the coun-
try. This dead-weight feeling is only to be removed
by those measures which would divert the drain upon
the Bank to a drain upon the unrestricted industry and
energies of the country.—Liverpool Journal.
FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, JULY 26.—We
have no material change to report in the foreign wool
trade this week. The demand continues brisk, and the
amount of sales effected has been considerable. Prices,
too, are buo) ant, with a tendency upwards.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, JULY 26.—Sales
of combing and clothing wools progress steadily, and to
a moderate extent. Prices are very firm and tending
upwards ; but still are not such as to allow a profit on
the rates asked by the growers for the new clip.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, JULY 26.—To meet
the advance in all growing districts, higher prices are
sought by the staplers, which consumers are not yet dis-
posed to pay, consequently there has been little done; at
old prices, a large business would have been done. The de-
mand kolas good for all short wools, and stocks are light
in the market.

YORK WOOL MARKET, JULY 25.—There was not
much business doing this day, the show of wool being
very small, and the buyers few in number. Prices were
as follows:—Good lots of hog and ewe, 14s., 14s. 6d. to
15s.; locks and cots, 9s. 6d. to 11s. per stone. For
moor wool there appeared a dull sale at 7s. to 7s. 6d.
The buye:.s and sellers have determined to attend once
a fort!iight for the remainder of the present season.
LEEDS.—The markets at both our halls have been
very brisk both on Saturday and Tuesday; after the
market of the latter day the stocks on hand were
lighter than Ise have seen them for a long time. Goods
of Liw qualities are a shade higher, but fine qualities are
without any alteration, although the stocks are exceed-
ingly low. There have been a larger number of buyers
in the market this week than for a long time past, and
their purchases have been heavy in iow priced goods.
The s ipping houses also are busier than usual at this
period, c, nsequenily more than an average business has
been done in finished goods during the week.
BRADFORD, THURSDAY.—The demand for merinos,
moreens, and all other worsted goods, continues to im-
prove, and are firm in price. In other goods there is no
marked alteration. Yarns are a mire ready sale, and
the prices very firm at a shade advance. There has
been rather more wool changing hands during the week,
and as the spinners have been buying cautiously for
some time past. it is more than probable the demand and
prices may alike be permanent. The prices demanded
in the country continue to rule beyond what can be af-
forded to bring to market.
MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We have had
large business in cloth this week, and since Tuesday the
demand appears to be on the increase. The consequence
is a slight improvement in most descriptions, with a cer-
tainty of prices further advancing, if even the present
demand only continues. The home trade, now that a
fine harvest is almost certain, continues to improve; in-
deed the demand is unprecedented. Twist is the turn
dearer ; no stocks of export numbers—and many spin-
ners are refusing to contract at present rates.—Leeds
Mercury.

QUARTERLY TABLE OF MOR

TALIT Y.

— -
The Quarterly Returns are obtained from 115 dis-
tricts, sub-divided into 576 sub-districts. Thirty-four
districts are placed under the metropolis, and the re-
maining eighty-one districts comprise, with some agri.
cultural districts, the principal towns and cities of Eng-
land. The ppulation was 6,578,912 in 1841.
The deaths registered in the last quarter (ending
June 30) amounted to 38,925, which is less by 7,116
than the deaths in the previous quarter, and L283 less
than the average of the corresponding spring quarter
in the five years (1838-42). Allowing for the increase
of the town population, the mortality was ten per cent.
below the average of the season.
The reduction in the mortality has been unequally
distributed over the kingdom ; but, as a general rule, it
has been most remarkable. n; he large manufacturing
districts.

Average of five Deaths in the
• previous spring Quarter ending
Quarters, 1838-42. June 30, 1844.
Manchester ..... 1,543 1,260
Salford 5-19 417
• Ashton and Oldham 1,377 993
Leeds 1,107 936
Sheffield 577 ..... 464
Stockport 630 418
Liverpord - 1 744 1.547
Birmingham remaini-il the same ; and in a few of the
other manufacturing districts, to be shortly mentioned,
the mortality will above their average.
Small-pox and. Scarlatina have been epidemic in the
metropolis ; and towards the end of the quarter, fifty-
one persons (chiefly children), died of the former, seventy-
eight of the latter disease in one week. The deaths in
the quarter from small-pox were 425. 107 of the
number were reported by the informants to have been
vaccinated ; but the evidence of this would necessarily
be,' in many cases, uncertain and imperfect. Influenza
has declined ; and since the mean temperature has risen
above 60 degrees, bowel complaints have become more
prevalent. _

The epidemics most frequently mentioned in the
country districts are scarlatina, measles, small-pox,
hopping-cough, and typhus.
The quarterly meteorigical table has been compiled
from the weekly tables supplied by the Astronomer Royal.
The mean temperature (55 deg.) was 1 deg 9 above the
average of the season ; the highest temperature of the
air (observed) was 83 deg. 3, the lowest 34 deg. ; the
thermometer once rose in the sun to 111 deg. 7, and fell
on the grass so low as 21 deg. 6. The mean dew point
was 47 deg. 2. The quarter has been remarkable for the
small quantity of rain which fell. The rain collected in
thirteen weeks was only 2.31 inches; and of this 1.55
inches fell upon the last week of June.
Districts in which the mortality was higher than the
average mortality of the spring quarter in the same dis-
tricts--The south districts of the metropolis, Portsea
Island, Northampton, Bedford, Clifton, Stroud, Here-
ford, Kidderminster, West Derby, Wigan, Bradford,
Merthyr-Tydvil.
Districts in which the mortality was lower than the
average mortality of the spring quarter in the same dis-
tricts—Brighton, Oxford, Norwich, Dorchester, Bristol,
Worcester, Wolverhampton, Stockport, Macclesfield,
Great Broughton (Chester), Liverpool, Preston, Bury,
Bolton, Prescott, Manchester, Salford, Ashton, Sheffield,
Huddersfield, Leeds, York, Sunderland, Tynemouth,
Newcastle-on-Tyne, Pontypool, Newtown, Anglesey.

THE LATE LORD ELDON'S WIG. —During the
" State Trials" in the House of Lords, lately, Sir
Thomas Wilde apologised to the Lord Chancellor for
not being in full costume, and requested to be and
was permitted to address their Lordships without
his wig. This reminds us of a story told by Mr.
Horace Twiss, in his " Life of Lord Eldon," just
published :—Lady Eldon, in all her anticipation of
her Lord's judicial promotion, had been much
fretted by the consideration that he would have to
assume the ordinary head-dress of the common law
judges—a powdered bush wig. She had therefore in-
duced him to sit for his portrait, while he was yet
Attorney-General, so as to make sure of preserving a
record of his features, undisguised by the obnoxious
peruke ; and this portrait, which was painted by
Sir Thomas (then Mr.) Lawrence, and which remained
in Lord Eldon's possession till his death, is dressed
in exact accordance with the toilette which be prac-
tised till his elevation to the bench. In compliance
with Lady Eldon's feeling Lord Eldon applied often
to King George the Third to allow him to dispense with
his wig at times when he was not engaged in perform-
ing official functions. lie pressed on the King the fact,
that in former days wigs were not worn by the judges. ;
"True," replied the King, "I admit the correctness of
hyotuhelyikeeeirtt,atihnalyt
had
facetiously, " they
isylloroouNtvrt lids:d:oeynealste
wore their beards," The King further added, "No, no,
,n,tth,aeda3n:i deddi
did am mh; i
,t4;
no,innovationin time."

TEsr.t 0Y AGE.:—At the inquest which was held
lot Monday, by Mr. Wakley, at the Elephant and Castle,
St. Pancras, on the body of a female unkticwn, that was
taken Out of the Regent's Canal, in reply to a question from
Mr. Wakley, Mr. Cooper, the house surgeon of St. Pancras
workhouse, said that he could not positivt ly stale the age
of di•ecAtii,lt, ho; that from appearances he judged she was
allout twenty years old. Mr. Wakley asked if he could not
tail a person's age from the teeth? Mr. Cooper said that
he could do so to the age of fifteen, but that after that
period it would be difficult. Mr. Wakley was of a contrary
opinion, as he thought that, with a little attention, the age I
U! any person could be ascertained ti•ORI ON appearance of
the teeth.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
TWO VESSELS PLUNDERED AND BURNT.--
MASS CRE OF THE CREWS.
South Sea Islands. The discovery was made by tp_a
crew of the brig Magnet, Captain Lewis, while onthe
ticTulhaersreoefemntoraerrhiovarrlsiblfer"lbutc
expedition among the islands for sandal wood, and
data
subjoined statement of the facts is from a letter,
.e..
Sydney, May 6, signed by the chief mate, Henry Al 1
ander ;--
! end of the Liffore, one of the South '4ett Isant14, the
Sydneyerybybrtihneg
noavteirvetsheefperla
go:
14th (f January, was, as usual, bearded by a number of
The Magnet, on coming to anchor off the
I natives to barter with us, and their dealings were ju!..,
Their conduct throughout was so satisfactory, as to 1U,
duce Captain Lewis to go ashore and spend seven"
days with one of the chiefs. While the If;
rain was absent, we were informed that a of
had lately been taken, and the greater par of
the crew massacred by the natives at the island
Maryee. The distance not 13,:ieg much, wo determall
d
uponimmediately.prebeeding tote island mention
endeavour to rescue the remainder of the crew and W....A,
property might not-have been destroyed. We aac"";
ingly weighed, and with a favourable wind succeeded 0
reaching the place the following day. At four P. f. north-weit.
canoe came alongside, with a missionary and three ott,.,
men, who had just come from the south-east extreraraY,
of the island, and they confirmed what we had P..1,
viously heard, The intbrmatien they furnished us
was, that all hands had been killed, and the vessel :5
sunk ; but that the sails, ropes, and part of her store
were ashore in a hole in a rock, abreast of which was,
spot where the vessel went down. ' They also, to our !II
little alarm, stated that another vessel had either bLe%
wrecked or taken, and that all the crew had met with
to that island, where they still remained ; and t,_tel,
. similar fate. except two seamen, who-managed to escape
added, that if we remained till the_following day, tns,/,,
would bring them on board. We accordingly did .de,
and about mid-day the same men came alongl,e
having with them one of the survivors, the other
the chief detained. The account he gave of ;he
transaction was, that he sailed from - London in
month of September last, in the brig .Janet of 9°
barton, Capt. Gorman, on a voyaee to the South Sea D,
lands, to procure a cargo of sandal wood i,41,1 torto;v
shell, but was wrecked upon the coral reef off Caleclenis,
on the 14th of December ; seven of the crow perished its
the wreck, and the remainder, fourteen in number, wile
themselves in a boat, and landed on the same day 01't
Isle of Pines. They remained there but a short ffracl:
and sailed again, anticipating to fetch the other island
inhabited by a more civilised race of people, but unfe'm
attacked by the natives, their boa' destroyed. and ft.
nately they touched Nlaryee, where they were installti,
teen of their companions wounded. He and an°rf
sailor, named William Richards, were saved, and lue,f,
afterwards succeeded in escaping to that part of the
he
land. We inquired of them whether they had;
anything of the vessel that had been taken by the
tives. He replied in the negative, but said a great 113!";
things had lately been distributed amongst the nstlYt5,
consisting of sails, clothing, mathematical instrutne°4
and various other articles. He said a boat. Intini•4
by natives left the island a few days before, ba`)-
on board a great many articles, among the ho
watch and chronometer, but did not know .)Kr,
they became possessed of them. (Here .0
Alexander observes, that the conduct of the man exelieb
their supicion, for he refused to leave the island, wiln)
he could with ease have done, and accompanied thew,"
As we could not lean anything further as to the fat'ne
the vessel, we determined on furthee search, and lostd,
time in making for the south-west-end of Liffore Isn4r,
:00
where it was understood the boat full of goods had g;iis
to, and if possible to learn the particulars from Bull"'
ve.
chief of the tribe, whom we had. some previous kncito
ledge of. At seven A.M. the next day the lifslloe
reached the place, and from the first boat that elito
alongside they ascertained the -ill-fated vessel to b.,e
bf
- brig Two Sisters, a South Sea whaler,
comman46"-'
Captain Brend. The account that was furnisfred
of her loss was, that two or three days after tier goTiy
off the coast, at the time there was a large ember(); of
natives of both sexes on board, and part of the
were employed at their respective duties, Si]u': of
they were all seized (it was stated ou aocons.V
one of them taking liberties with one of the nati
wives), and horribly massacred. Not -a single anehe
caped—none, not even the poor cabin-boy—all oTre,-;10$
chered, and their bodies thrown overboard. -The 1,1a5)1e,
then plundered the vessel of everything that Was vania41,
and afterwards the ship was set fire to.and conV:auhas
As some of the property had to our knowleilge
taken to that part of the island, and strong17 sa-Pecfslir
these people to have been accessory to tte-whole tray
saction, we resolved to detain. the eVef's brother uteel
swswi iata thatkept
ehpe t
nubaepml.
e,i nl
teThdewt1oo6stt hhi
Sisters
efurnsrf0oe
cpr:t;e
the rest went ashore and brought off what things off
s
l
vess7.1. They consisted of a chronometer, grestiLtei
mlasatd.„,
jahunardde dti.hneatlhjooegli,lryi boatos
whichse
lavielrepasprseepdaorffedqufoiertlayn; aatntdackhahv!bdg.
farneYeibtbe;
in yellow over the stern, a quadrant, some accoun %bet
We
et
chief's brother, we set sail from the ieland to SP„lioog
Mr. Alexander concludes by stating, that he has for,
suspicion as to the truth of the seaman, Jonea'6...A.- btl;
went. We suspect that the vessel was not wreCln t0
that he, along with the other seaman, Richards, plan_"
,y the natives her destruCtion for plunder, d an
sacred their brother messmates.
The atrocities perpetrated on these islands tifeto°
South Sea have been very great. within the
years no fewer than three vessels have been dest___Ar°'
by the natives, and upwards of fifty persons murder:4f
DESTRUCTION BY FIRE OF THE ROBP'.
NAPIER. pre
The Robert Napier left London on WednesditYkL,,,4
noon, for Liverpool, with a very heavy cargo on
"erli
and about thirty passengers. Nothing partintlid
worthy of notice seems to have taken place until a"-ffo
half-past ten o'clock at night, when she arrived U9
o
place called Woodsontown, between Portrush
n, 704
Castle; she was a considerable distance off the lan°0„1"00
being little or no wind, and the night excessively
di
the discovery was made by one of the crew, viiiic-Hr
h
served smoke issuing, it is stated, up the main
7,,11(
way, but whether it emanated fro
mthe carg° .1111
boilers, it was impossible to say, for no stoner
hatchways removed, than the flames burst fort%0011
alarmit g violence, and the consternation that ing„s-
ensued amongst the passengers and all on board,
a de.o:iption painful in the extreme. The pumP5
got to work, lengths of leather hose screwed °I;1'
streams of water brought to bear on that part Qt 011
but very little effect was apparent, for very salif
afterwards the destructive element shot forth w" -per
creased fury. Captain Forrester, the commander;gelt
ceiving the imminent danger of his crew and ass'ie
determined to run tbe.vessel ashore. Aceordingv
steamer's head was brought round for the des j, cts, while the boats (three in number) were gold 'thei
to be launched overboard at a moment's notices Praetf,
preservation, The distance from the shore being; se
miles. it was nearly an hour before she.struck, ,t","e
being Bally Castle Bay, near Belfast. By that 14,..`"„
after part of the ship presented a, vivid sheet of r";;sie,
flames reaching far above the deck. Before tben.io
went ashore, the passengers were all got salelYi4 boats, and were conveyed to the beach without IV.,
ing the slightest injury, but their luegaige was
board, and was afterwards burnt. Thefiget beings
by the coast-guard stationed along that part of tile bf.
some time before she reached the 'AY/ a
the time she struck, a powerful body ciy,or,,
were in attendance to render assistance. Th°,1,,ir;
however. had too strong a hold the shi, and 127,40,
standing all the exertions ussti,'she continued to ih
several hours, and, according to the letter receivel,
undereriters at Lloyd's from their agent at .'",.,,01104
" was burnt to the water's edge." Anothor sf'-colf:
however, states that " although the steamer 0,170
plete wreck, she being burnt from the quarter atlye
her machinery and part of the cargo will be '-
The steamer is reported to be partly insured. -

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SANDWICH.--A WATER SPOUT.-011 v, -.05 . ar
one of the most extraordinary events ever reco-rdetl.,s" e,;3
nessed at this place. About noon a whirl. vind j-.;)n•u
bleb Ply
tended by what is called a " water-spou'„" -ar sa,sre
within half a mile of the town. It cams+, over a 131 folcol
sbelonging n thoadM In.
sJteenonminingsenGeeidbbsst,atnLgitttlneebohuar;:tivroit,ort
standing closely by was carried 'she distance oi 0 la to
four rods, and some of the hay/ as far as thrersh tO
towards Minster. Some boys who were in 0(3.11,50 65°
taken off their legs, and thro•Nrn to the ground r"rs, ',1f,
violence, and covered with. hay. The hayrna'e gte ot
were sitting quietly at dinner, were, of course'. oriepfk surprised and alarmed ; and still more so, Whe-is °ter
their baskets was borne off like a parachute, too *tr
derable distance, and lodged in the river. The,, ja eilie
spout," in its course, sucked up every pond, 50% t 07
ing the river the water rushed up like a fount8lopegotii,
phenomenon was exceedingly alarming, and we npateepso
hear of the terror created at Minster, where it 1%00
burst. Our informant, upon whom we may rell.....
the whole chapter of events.—Kentish Observer. _ _...------

BIRTHS.
On the 19th inst., the wife of Charles Woodbridge,
.,atf
Uxbridge, of a son. p 13
AC "
On the 24th inst., at Park-place, Peckham, L.-1.
of a son.
St- ret On the 24th inst., at the Vicarage House, t, sot; Oil'
Thanet, the lady of the Rev. George Hodgson, 0.1,-rpooh
On the 24th inst., at Woolton-grove, near LlY" o%del.
Samuel Woods, jun., of a son. x, r
On the 25th inst., at Bryanston-square, MI15'
ePk
Broadwood, of a daughter. Sir•
On the 25th inst , at Lloyd-scrtkare, Mrs. gef,
of a son. f
the
On the 25th inst., at Clapham-Dark, the wife °
Wodehouse Raven, of a child, stUI-born. he ef
On the 25th inst., at Hampstead, t
tead, the wife of the
B. Wells, of the Rectory, Wo',Idchurch, Kent- uttre'
On the 26th inst., at Bernard-street, Russell..„
lady of R. Pollock, Esq., of a daughter, still-born.

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On the 20th inst., at Stoke PriorWoreestershiretojaa
John Hornsby, of 13runtsford-hill;Bromsgrove, to ' , roll
r3urry;:eWter_gan'1,iel
Mary Anne, eldest daughter of Mr. Sergeant 1/' e ' Tenn
Castletield, Wilts.,..'.n1 Teilliia,
On the 25th inst., at St. John's, the Rev. W"''—, yeet
Esq.,'of Leeds, to Anne, eldest daughter of Tlyosai
Esq., f,f Mil hank-street, Westminster.

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On the 25th i.,,t., at Witnpole-street,
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