The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-18 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, MARCH 15.—We are
enabled again this week to report an active demand for
nearly all descriptions of foreign wool, and recent rates
are firmly maintained.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, MARCH 15.—Sales
of combing wool, during the present week; have been
limited, prices remaining nominally the same as last week.
The consumption is undiminished, and is expected to
continue large. There is a fair dethand for clothing
wools of low and middling qualities, at very firm prices.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, 11.1ARCH25.—The market
continues in all respects the same as reported in our last,
no improvement in demand, and prices nominal.
YORK WooL MARKET, MARCH 14.—We have had a
fair supply of warehoused wools to this day's market,
but a small comparative amount of business done, incon-
sequence of an apprehension by the manufacturers that
present prices will not he maintained. First-class fleeces
realised from 15s. to 15s. 6d. ; locks and cots from 10s.
to I2s. per stone. There will be no more York wool
markets until the new clip day.
LEEDS.—The demand fair single-milled tweeds of low
qualities has not been quite so brisk as of late, but better
qualities have been more in demand, and good shades
suitable for the spring trade have been taken very freely.
Low cloths are still in request, particularly in common
dyed blacks. Middle qualities of cloths have also gone
off rather better this week, but there is no improvement
in the demand for fine goods, the prices of which con-
tinue stationary. There has not been many of the
larger buyers in the maket during the week, and busi-
ness in consequence has been dull in the warehouses.
BRADFORD, TICURSDAY.—The piece market continues
tolerably brisk, and no accumulation in the manufac-
turers' hands, which encourages them to seek full prices.
The continued advances on cotton warps have made a
very serious difference in the cost of a piece, exclusive of
the increased price, of worsted weft. Yarns are consi-
dered hardly as brisk as a few weeks past; the present
prices hold no inducement to purchase for distant deli-
very. The stocks continue low, and prices firm. There
is no material alteration in the wool trade; the market

is well stocked with most kinds, and, if any change in
prices, a shade in favour of the buyers.
MANCHESTER, THURSDAY.—We are still very dull
and heavy for all kinds of cloth, except a certain descip-
tion of shirtings, which for the last fdw days have been
readily sold at a small advance on India and China ac-
count. Printing cloth is again lower, and dull at the
decline. Twist is without any change in value, but
there is no life in. the trade, as neither the German or
Russian houses have commenced their spring purchases.
The demand for the Bradford market is still very good.—
Leeds Mercury.

THE EXCLUSIVE WORKHOUSE.
(From Punch.)
So admirably has the New Poor-law operated in the
prevention of pauperism, and-so satisfactory has been
its influence on the poor themselves, in alleviating their
sufferings, endearing them to their benefactors, the rich,
and diffusing among them a spirit of subordination and
content, that Government, w% understand, is meditating
an extension of its principle for the benefit of the younger
sons, ruined spendthrifts, and portionless daughters of
the superior classes. Exclusive Workhouses are to be
provided as places of refuge for the destitute aristocracy.
Arrangements strictly corresponding to those of the
union workhouse, but modified in accordance with the
quality of the inmates, will regulate these establish-
ments. The diet will be as simple as a refined palate
can bear, and limited rigidly to that quantity which will
just suffice for the maintenance of genteel existence.
The dress of both sexes will be plain and respectable,
such as a gentleman or lady would be rather ashamed to
be seen in, and no superfluous comforts, amusements, or
accommodations will be allowed. In fine, the Exclusive
Workhouse will be divested of all inducements which
might tempt a person of fashionable ideas to wish to
enter it.

For breakfast, plain bread and butter at. discretion
will be allowed, with tea or coffee and sugar; but no
eggs, ham, tongue, anchovies, chocolate, or any other
more palatable articles of food. This meal will take
place at nine precisely.
Dinner, which will be served at three, will consist of
a plain joint, roast or boiled, with bread, potatoes, and
the ordinary garden vegetables; neither soup, nor fish,
nor game of any description, even when sent as presents,
allowed to be dressed. The joint to be followed by a plain
tart or pudding of the fruit in season. The repast to cen-
elude with bread and cheese, which latter is to be a good
common Stilton or Cheshire, exclusive of all Gruyere,
Parmesan, or Neufchatel. No omelettes, macaroni, or
any fi 'reign or made dishes to be permitted. Sherry to
be allowed during dinner, and port afterwards, and
table ale or porter to those who wish for them. Every
gentleman at dinner to be limited to two glasses of
sherry, and every lady to one. After dinner the gentle-
men to have three glasses of port a piece, and the ladies
two ; and each individual to be entitled to a captain's
biscuit : no other dessert. The above to be the only
wines suffered in the workhouse, and all persons con-
victed of smuggling in hock. champagne, burgundy, or
any other description of liquors than those provided, to
be punished by solitary confinement.
'l'ea. same as breakfast, at seven. No other meal.

The dress of the gentlemen is to consist of a blue coat,
with plain cloth buttons, black waistcoat, and pepper-
and•salt kerseyniere trousers, with Wellington boots,
not of patent leather. No gentleman to wear mous-
taches. Ladies dresses to be of good Mousseline-de-
Nine, of a simple and uniform pattern, cotton stockings,
without open work, and black morocco shoes, unsan-
dalled. No lady to be adorned with any trinket beyond
her wedding-ring; and no gentleman to appear with a
watch-guard or an eye-glass.
Husbands and wives to be compelled to live together ;
but the separation of parent from child to be strictly
enforced. Gentlemen are to be expressly interdicted
from the use of snuff and cigars ; and no lady to be
indulged with smelling-salts or vinaigrettes, except by
medical order. The ladies also will be forbidden to wear
or carry bouquets. All novels, newspapers, magazines,
and works of fietion to be excluded. No billiards to
be permitted. Any lady caught waltzing to be punished.
The employment of the ladies to consist in fancy or
ornamental needle-work ; in making copies of paintings
and drawings; the sale of the articles manufactured to
be applied to the support of the establishment. The
gentlemen to be employed in penmanship, as the drawing
up of official documents, and the like. Those capable of
literary exertion to be allowed to write articles, and
compose poetry and jokes, also saleable, on behalf of the
establishment, to the proprietors of Punch and others.
Ladies or gentlemen refusing to work to be confined
to their own apartments. Each person to have a bed-
room and sitting-room, but no more. Plain brown
Windsor soap and water to be the sole adjuncts to the
toilet, to the exclusion of all Circassian cream, Kalydor,
Rondeletia, and all other pomades and perfumes.
The children to be kept in a separate part of the
establishment, and to be instructed, under the auspices
of competent persons, in literature, the sciences, morality,
music and dancing.
Further particulars will transpire when the Bill for the
purpose intended is brought before Parliament, which
will be shortly.