The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-09 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, Dec. 6.—As usual
at this advanced season of the year, only a !hailed
business has been done
.in Foreign Wools, hitt every
confidence is felt of a favourable reaction' at the com-
mencement of the new year.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, DEC. 6 .—There
has been a steady demand. for bath combing and
clothing wools this week. Last week's prices are
firmly maintained .; but the rates h hick .have been
given to the farmers lately will not afford further
supplies at a profit, unless higher prices can be realised
in these markets.

WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, DEC. 6.—There is
not the least variation in the prices or demand for
either long or short wool this week, and purchases
continue to be made with more confidence.
Lk:cos.—The Markets at both cloth halls this week
have been very dull. The season having now so far
advanced, and the writer having hitherto been so
mild, hashed the effect, to a great extent, of prevent-
ing the sale of winter goods. The stocks are, how-
ever,. by no means heavy in the hands of the manu-
facturers, and prices are steady. in the warehouses
business has beet' correspondingly dull; feiv buyerF.
have been in ttie market, and there is little deing ex-
cept to order. The threign houses are very gtdst.
BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAT.—Tnere is no
alteration in the demaad for combing wools, and deep
grown hogs and wethers are in fair request to meet
the immediate wants of the consumer; and as such
kinds are not abundant, the difficulty of setting a
supply from the grOwers, at. prices to meet the buyers
here, is not abated. The quantity coming to market
is barely equal to the consumption. Hence comes
the conflict as to :whether an 'increased price can be
realised, which the spinners now so strongly resist.
The exceedingly depressed state of the yarn trade
offers no encouragement to the spinners in any way to
augment their productions, which is now very mate-
rially curtailed. Although yarns are somewhat
readier sale, and a general feeling prevailing that
they'have seen their lowest point, yet there is no dis-
position on the part of the buyers, either for home
'consumption or export, to buy, except at prim must
ruinous to the producer. There is a tolerably good
demand for piece goods made all from wool, such as
lastings, damasks, mereensi
.and merinos; but the
same improvement is not so apparent for Orleans, Co-
bourghs, and fancy goods, which are still only com-
mending prices very unsatisfactory ; and as thisis not
the season when any material increase in the demand
is usual, the manufactUrers are acting with great
caution, and limiting their production till they see a
ohance or realising prices more commensurate with
the cost of manufacture.

MANCH ES rtlR, THURSDAY E VENING.—We,are again
rather more flat than on this day week in our cloth
rnarket, hut as the.month of'December is always one
of the dullest, not much importance is attached to the
fact. Prices are a little lower, but,hardly quotable.
Yarns are much in the same state, though there is a
good business doing.
HARNSLEY.—The linen trade continues to improve,
and the prospect for the winter is very cheering, as
the general trade of the town is better than it has
been for a number of years. There are at present
more buildings in progress (including three steam-
loom factories) than there has been at one time since
the memorable year -1825.—Leeds Mercury.

IVIZZTZCZAPALS. too
There wa• a limited supply of Meat, yet the., to
was rather dull, at our quotations. Beef, from 211
001
3s 8d; Mutton, 2s Rd to 35 Sd ; Veal, 2s 10d to 35
and Pork, 2s 8d to 3s 10d per albs.

311UNGZELPORD.
For most kinds of Meat we have to report An imPf°lljAll
demand, at a trifling advance in the quotations.
other produce met a slow inquiry.

BRZAD.
The prices of wheaten Bread is the Metropolis to
fro•n 7d to lid ; of household ditto, Sid to 6id Per
loaf.

2K21.1113101
Raw hides at p rIMIDII
stone ofl4lbs.—Best7.
steers and },elks i.
5s 6d to 5s 10d ; middling hides, 43 841 to 5s 4(1; '0
ferior hides, 48 4d to 4s 6d. Sheep an 1 calf skins'lo
p.r skin —Nfa(ket calf, 6s 6d to ffs . long "Q!;)
sheep, 31 to 4s ; short ditto, 2s 6d to 3s 3d.

KAY VIAN.X.STO.
SMITIIFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 15s to 47
Useful ditto, 4116 s to 514 s ; fine Upland ditto, 51 n'";
5/ lOs ; Clover Hay, 41 103 to 61; Oat Straw, 111;i0.1
11 121 ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 13s to 1/ 15s per !cad.
(lay and Straw sold steadily at full prices. ,1851
CIIMBERLAND.—COarSe Meadow Hay, 31 15s too*
Useful ditto 51 to 5155; fine Upland ditto, 51 lila
5/ 14s ; Clover Hay, 41 Ss to 5117 s ; Oat Straw,. 110
to 11 13s ; Wheat Straw, ll 14s to 11 .16s Ps!
A fair average supply, and an active demand. • 501
WRITECIIAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 lls tor „$5
Useful ditto, 4/ 16s to 5/ 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 31fl;
'
51 13s ; Clover Hay, 4/ 101 to 6/; Oat Straw, 11Z--,41
1112 s ; Wheat Straw, 1113 s to 1115 s per load
tolerably good, and trade steady.

WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—FitiII#A
ded
There is again a good arrival of Wheat, the 1:1°` iy
are very firm, and demand a small advance uP426;ii'•
finest qualities. Other sorts fully maintain last sip%
prices, and a good extent of business has been P
at this day's Market. The finest §amples of Barley o;sei
support rho it value, but inferior sorts must 1)5 :,,n,P.tei
rather lower. Oats, Beans, and Shelling are in leb-
request, at last week's rates.
the 0.4.11
Per qr. of 601 b. toll.-a
aves. 0
00
Wnest Sufiblk, Essex, and Kent...-. E Red to 46 AS a
Ditto ditto White... SI r
Norfolk. ....
Ditto ditto ..... ..- 50
Lincolnshire and Cambridge 44 4a
Ditto ditto ..... AO 40
Yorkshire ........ ......... 45 4,
Ditto ditto ... ....... White.. Al 41
Foreign ..... ....... 49 s
Ditto ditto White... 54 pop
Per quart 1
xr4
Barley, Norfolk and Sufiblk ... ... sl
Yorkshite and Lincolnshirr ........ g4d
Grinding ......... ........ ..... sO
Foreign — 34 , 00111,1
Per qr. 6.11 b. 4. Pie Si 41
leans, Small "n, ..............».«.»....... .. 0 'SS 1)
Tic' s
...
Foreign. — 43 .01
i-- hits. ~tatt. a d Pola ... . ..... —a ...940.
I. d 12d , ......... --d to Pe log
s-, ..... „
.011. /',,d
....... 40 Bar 445. }Kr eft
APIP
STATE OF -THE HOSIERY

COMMERCIAL RESTRICTIONS.
(From the Times.)
There is a very important distinction to be drawn
between the arguments with reference to the re-
moval of commercial restrictions, which are put
forward by the organs and adherents of the Anti-
Corn-law League or the partisans of free trade
a tout prix, and those views which we have uni-
formly entertained on these important subjects.
We yield to no party in this country in our
desire to procure for the public consumer the
various products which are imported to our shores,
encumbered with as few restrictions as the demands
of the revenue' and the precautions imposed by e
long-established, ,though unwise, system of protec-
tier), will admit of. It is needless .to discuss the
prncticability of measures which would at once
deprive the revenue of its most important items, or
expose various important interests, which have
been created under a system of protective duties, to
unlimited competition even in the home market.
But the interests of the public imperatively demand
than revenue, and not protection, should be made
the ,standard- of our system of import duties ; and
that whenever a greater degree of protection ex-
ists, it should be gradually reduced to the limits
of this sound and equitable rule. Much of this spe-
cies of commercial reform remains to be accom-
plished ; many of the most important articles of
consumption are still' burdened with duties which
.are some of them injurious to the revenue and to the
public, for the sake of certain local or class interests ;
whilst some, as, for instance, the high duties on to-
bacco and tea, are 'equally injurious to the na-
tional interests, without having even the pretext
of protection to support them. Nor can we
allow ourselves to doubt that if the Government
find themselves in possession of a permanent: sur-
plus
revenue, they will avail, themselves of so
favourable an occasion to try these important experi-
ments in finance, although at the risk of a temporary
loss. We are not insensible to the importance of'
this policy; the people of, this country expect it and
demand it ; and as long as we are dealing with - our
own interests under our own, laws, we entertain no
doubt of a favourable result. But here the agree-
ment between ourselves and some other partisans of
the free-trade doctrines ceases, and the distinction
to which we just :now alluded begins. They admit,
with us, that the primary advantage of a liberal
tariff on foreign commodities is the reduction of
prices to the home consumer; but they arrogate to
themselves an absolute and indefeasible power of
obtaining, or extorting, by these reductions' of our
own import duties, corresponding reductions of
the duties levied on our productions by foreign
Governments. Relying with unlimited confidence
on this assumption, they argue that the increase
or decrease of foreign duties is solely to be viewed
as the result of our own commercial measures ;
and thus, under a different form, they revive
the ancient and exploded theory of a direct balance
of trade. All experience has demonstrated that
no such balance exists between nations any more
than between private dealers. Trade is conducted
by a circuit of operations, not by direct exchange,
akin to barter ; and the amount of purchase or
sale from or to any given state by another state,
is no proof whatever that corresponding inverse
transactions in commodities must take place between
them. England is the best customer of Russia,
though Russia prohibits to the utmost extent the
principal productions of England : and Brazil is one
of the best customers of England, although the Eng-
lish colonies are protected competitors,' which exclude,
for the most Flirt, the produce of Brazil from our ports.
We do not contest the obvious truth that a reduc-
tion of duties on the produce of any given country
tends generally to promote commerce with that
country, and may he the means of obtaining by treaty
some equivalent concession ; but it is egregiously
false to contend that such reductions, without
reference to treaty stipulations, force, or even in-
duce, a foreign Government to act in the same spirit.
High or hostile tariffs have been adopted by fo-
reign states of late years, partly for the purposes of
revenue, partly for protection. Our iron and our
cottons are taxed by the Zollverein, not only because
German corn does net freely enter into British con-
sumption, but because there is a ,strong demand on
the part of the German iron-masters and the manu-
facturers for protection ; if we did admit German
corn, and if; in consequence, the rate of wages and
the cost of production fell in this country, our goods
would become cheaper, and consequently more
formidable to foreign competitors. The cheaper
they are, the more will they be excluded, and what-
ever tends to make them cheaper tends, of course, to
strengthen the party of protection abroad. If the
abrupt and unqualified measure of 1841 had been car-
ried, we do not entertain the slightest doubt that it
would either have been used by foreign countries as
a direct advantage, enabling them to lay on export
duties on their produce, or viewed as a danger, de-
manding a stronger wall of defence; and that the
effect would have been a more rapid increase of du-
ties than that which has taken place. In fact, we
have seen in the last four years, that the more we
have tended to reduce our own duties, the greater
has been the tendency of foreign countries in the
opposite direction. In Brazil the question turns upon
the want of revenue, not upon the demand for pro
tection ; but the same argument applies with equal
force. It is a gratuitous assumption to Rifle) that a mo-
dification ofduties in Britain will infalliby bring about
corresponding reductions in foreign states. The income-
tax may enable the British Government to remove
the burden of taxation from the food of the people to
their purses ; but Brazilian Governments have no in-
come-tax, and they must meet the demands of their
Exchequer as they can. An increased export trade
to England would have no effect on their resources
unless it was encumbered with an export duty; and
in their present social and political condition, they
may defy us to point out any mode of raising their
revenue more practicable and more analogous to our
own than that which they have adopted, provided
always revenue, and not retaliation or prohibition, is
the principle of-their new tariff, as we believe it to be.
tlirtgst
As for the threat of hostile differential duties, we are I On the 22d ult ,at Sotterley, Suffolk, Mr. R. Nysgr, A
not bound to presume that such powers will be exec- ! On the 27th tilt., at Black wall, William, sole
cited, though they may have been sanctioned, by- the Howard, of the Thames Plate Glass Woorks•
Legislature of that country; we have to deal, not On 22,-idit.,tEdthwearlieSvollyehEa.srge;
the Payten,
with the powers conferred on the Brazilian Executive, On
Chapel, Yo:rk. 0
but with the use it makes of them, and similar powers On the 3d inst., at Hastings, Miss Letterman.
have at various times been conferred by Parliament On the 4th inst., at the Green, Stratford, E s`""
on the British Crown, although they have remained, rice, late of Mount-street, Berkeley-square. 0
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as these will do, .a_ dead letter.
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LACE TRADE.
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The condition of the workmen engaged "',op
' hosiery trade remains much the same. The 0411„,,r
hose branch, which, a few months since, WO °Ply
rently in a flourishing state, has now become
sogol
most depressed; employment is vary scarce, so°ol,l
0
thing hut complaints are heard on all sides, not
from the stockingers, but from the females en
nolh
in} this manufacture. The wrought-hose 10 t.he
though depressed, is something better than4ll
cut-ups, but even those employed in this ?To,
are suffering severely. The fine branch, tno A
above 40-gauge cotton stockings, experieneels.o
much duller demand than those under that qn°
ge,
though the coarse cotton hose branch, under 30-059,0
is extremely depressed in this district. The clrliel,
and pantaloon branch is, if possible, worse thattlo'po
It is natural to inquire, if these men are stopPe`lbge
are unemployed, what has become of them ?* N'Ve.och,
made an investigation, and are assured that the',slhiles
ingers resort into the neighbouring counties, too ohs
recourse to mPndicity and other means to obtain 50
sistence, not being willing to submit to the worku°0
while they can subsist by any other means. IV
The silk ht)siery trade is gradually declining. to
for plain silk hese and knotted hose, once the ms'lls4
of Nottingham, they have become so flat as to Wier
lint few workmen. The silk glove branch, though s° the
ing severely, is. upon the whole, rather better thanted
other two branches. The bobbin -net trade is edtPlt ihe
on all hands to be extremely dull, and nets cann°,,ers
sold with any degree of facility. The machine nleit
however, no sooner find that they cannot sell too
laces, than they attempt to make new patterro, W As
stopping their machines, they cease to produce. 0
for changing the cards with facility in patterns I°ol
with the jacquard apparatus, experience has Pr° oce
that the changing a pattern causes a great hitidlitsd
in arranging the guide bars or guide brasses,erf
that a considerably less quantity is produced fore'
alteration.
.40
The silk warp lace trade, like every other toil
of British silk manufacture, is in a very g',"'"ths
state ; and were it not that a certain portion °' is
warp frames are engaged in making cotton 1511,00141
press figured stripes, the situation of workmen °cef
be indeed deplorable. In all the numerous brarionlf
of the hosiery and lace manufactures, there jssithf
one that may be said to he in a tolerably Ile,hicit
state, namely, the cotton tatting lace, in.,Ligelt
branch the hands are fully employed.—Nottt4
Review.

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THE LATE EARL OP LONSD;ALE.—The su-50,1101;
,
for the memorial to this nobleman amounts to 8621'
EXTRAORDINARY WHEAT 'CROP9.—A corre,s,,yed
ant of the Norwich Mercury communicates thefO"'"A'be
accoun, of some extraordinary 'crops of wheat:-- 00
land (under 5 acres) lies in Happishurgh, contig°(lfier
hoinestead belonging to G. Wilkinson, Esq., North 00
sham, whoseintelligent steward, DUcker, took theg,reticeal
possible pains to ascertain the exact quantity Prupstil
and alio the exact measurement of the field, to ost
any doubt to the perversion of truth. It was S
an.,lcii
wheat, and the product was an., hundred a° 010
coombs two bushels, being nearly twenty-two 0
col
and a half per acre. Such a productive
.404
has probably never been produced from ail,
quantity of land within the 'memory °' tor'
oldest Norfolk agriculturist, -and many, mini irjed'
may elapse before a similar instance can be rec°,oos
The cast of wheat in this neighbourhood, vosi:
rally, the product of this year,-.is roan,' Ibtsot
lent. Mr. R.' Culley, Becton, has some land "1001 e
produced seventeen coombs per acre, and
in this and the adjoining village of Wittloo.
longing to Lord Wodehouse, which generally Pficel"
eight or nine coombs, and last year only from orb
seven, has this year produced twelve coombs Perottsi'
The cast and quality of the barley, which. wag, 00
dered likely to have been extremely indifferent,
proved quite the con trary.—Bury Post.
____.6,oolo

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BIRTHS. of if'
. On the 3d inst., at Albury, near Guildford, atop it°
H. Place, Esq., of a daughter. ~,, 10`
On the 4th inst., at Rottingdeane, the widow of "'"ists*
Joseph John Wakehni st Peyton, Esq., of wakeburstt w
.A.
of a posthumous son. tl'll-
r the 4th inst, at Lovender-terrace, Wands
Mrs. William Esdaile Win;er, of a son. lititiv'
On the sth inst., in Manchester-street, Manche/Mr
the lady of Charles Jones, Esq., surgeon,.ol a son. tdee, 0.
On the 6th inst., at Charlotte-street, Portland-Plat'
F. E. Walther, of a son. b tit° Sr
On the 6th inst., the wifeOfJ. Henry Dart, Esq.., t/0
at.law, of a daughter.
On the 3d inst., in Welbeck-street, Cavendish-001M
lady of the Rev. S. Paynter, of a daughter. icto-P atill
On the 4th inst., at Snaresbrook, the lady of A-
.Dobree, jun., Esq., of a son.
_..,1 SeliCle
On the 4th inst., at Hampstead, the ladyof Richar•
croft, Esq., of a daughter. tS • I°l3lb
On the 4th inst., at Melchbourne Park, LadY
of a son.

MARRIED. a of
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On the 3d inst., at. Liverpool, Captain. M: Go--IA roe
42d' Royal Highlanders, to Caroline, daughter of E.
Esit.. of A bereromhy. quare, Liverpool. • t )4°3_4
Om the 3d inst., at St. James's, Clerkenwell, CaP-avi to,
Kice)x, to Mary Ann, widow of the late James 14
Stewart, Esq., of River-street, Myddellon-scins

MARKET TiEWS.—(SATURDAY.)
COVZIM-9.altnina. I, Of
Oking to' tile pr,ta:liog cold weather, the supP;
Vegetables was smull, and the trade ruled setl",.,„
advanced rates. Most kinds of Fruit were in good's
ques.:, and prices steadily supported. Potatoes from 266 i
to 4., 6d per cwt; Turnips, 2s 3d to 3s 3d; Carrots, 414
to 6. 6d; Coleworts or Greens, 2s Gd to 3s; and Leek6,,,i
to 1 s 9:1 per dozen hunches ; Apples and Pears, 2s to'64
Spinach, is 3d to 2s ; and Onions, is 6d to 28
pit: half sieve y Pine Apples, 7i to 9s ; Foreign Gill
6d to 10d ; Filberts, Ind to Is 2d; and Cobb Nolg'h.
to Is 2d per lb ; Foreign Melons, Is 6d to 3$ 'Oise ;
Red Cabbages, 2s 6d to 5s ; and Savo:, s, is to 1191110
dozen ; Horse Radish, 2s to ; Broeelf, IS 0.0
2s 9d; and Celery, 8d to 2s 6d
_per bundle ; Mushr°°,ol
8d to is per punnet ; and New Oranges, 80 to '
per 100.
itZWEIA2II AND ILISALDIMILAI.,Z. _ace
Although the supplies of Meats ere rather excen.w,
the general inquiry was -steady, at re. j' fullPr;
Beef from 2s 8d to 3s 8d ; Mutton, 24 8d tri
Veal 3s to 4s ; and Pork 2s 4d to 3s 10d per Os. byr-
carcass. We had a very extensive supply of PI
Game and Poultry offering, and which was mostly
Fused of at miserably low figures. In articles of 114):::
produce rather an improved business was doing. r
advance was noticed in the currencies. •

311111-W'POILT.
For each kind of prime Meat the demand ruled SOL
at Cull prices, but otherwise the trade ruled dull. in
from 2s 8d to 3s 8d; Mutton, 2s 10d to 3s 8d ; Ve"
2d to 4s ; and Pork, 2s 10d to 4s per Sibs.
21XLIZNOSOATZ.
The supply of Fish was in no way extensiie,
the tra.:e was firm, and previous rates were well 114
ported.