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

STATE or TRADE.

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, 145., 14s. 6d. to
155.; locks and cots, 9s. 6d. to Hs. per stone. For
moor wool there apps ared a dull sale at 7s. to 7s. 6d.
The buyers and sellers have determined to attend once
a fortuight 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
tighter than We
,have seen them for a long time.' Goods
of 1.,w qualities are a shade higher, but floe qualities are
without. any alterat,on, although the stocks are exceed-
ingly low. There h.tve iieen a arger number of buyers
in the market this week than fur a long time past, and
their purchases have been heavy in iow priced good's.
The s..ipping houses also are busier than usual at this
period, c.n-equently more than an average business has
been done in finished gothis tlur.ng the week.
BRADFORD, THURSDAY.—The lemand for merinos,
moreens, and all other worsted goods, continues to
prove, and are firm in price. In other goods there is no
marked alteration. Yarns are a m ire 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 a
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-
TALITY.

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 41 Eng-
land. The ,population was 6,578,912 in 1841.
The deaths registered in tho last quarter (ending
June 30) amounted to 38,925, which is less by 7,116
than the deaths in the previous quarter, and 1,283 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 i n the large manufe,ettr4ng
districts.

Average of five Deaths in the
previous spring Quarter ending
Quarters, 1838-42. June 30,4844.
Manchester ....
Salford
Ashton and Oldham 1,377
Leeds
Sheffield
Stockport 630 ..... 416
Liverpool
.. . 1,744
Birmingham remained the same ; and in a few of the
other manufacturing districts, to be shortly mentioned,
the mortality was above their average.
Small-pox and Scarlatina hare 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 e ere 425. 107 of the
number were reported by the iiformants to have been
vaccinated ; but the evidence of this would necesztrily
be, in many cases, uncertain and imperfect, Influenza
has declined ; and since the mean temperature has ri,en
above 60 degrees, bt.tv% el complaints have b. come more
prevalent. _ _

The epidemics most frequently menlicrl.4 in the
country districts are • scarlatina, measles,- small-pox,
hooping-cough, arid 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, thy; lowest 34 deg., ; the
thermotheter once ro-e 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. 9. The quarter has Veen remarkable for the
small quantity of rain which fell, The rain collected in
thirteen weeks was only 2,31 inohes, and of this 1.55
inches fell upon the last week of June.
Districts in which the mortality was I;igher than the
average mortality of the spring quaTter in the seine dis.
tracts--The south districts of the metropolis, Portsea
Island, Northampton, Bedford, Clifton, Stroud, Here-
ford, Kidderminster, Weit 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, /4tockport, Macclesfield,
Great Broughton (Chester), Liverpool, Preoo,A, Bury,
Bolton,Treaiatt, Manchester, Salford, tauten, Sheffield,
llnddersfield, Leeds, York, Sonderland, Tynemouth,
Newcastle-on-Tyne, 'Pontypool, Newtown, Anglesey.

Tug > Tis Logp E.Luotes WIG. During the
State .Trials" in the House of Lords, itttsly, Sir
Thomas Wilde apologised to the Lord Chancellor for
not being in full costume, anti requested to be and
was permitted to address their Lordships withont
his wig. This reminds us of a story told by Mr.
Horace T ' wigs in his " Life of Lord Ridon, just
published :—Lady Eldon, in all Ler anticipation of
her Lord's judicial promotion, had been ranch
fretted by the consideration that he wMild hsve to
assume the ordinary head-dress of tbe ton law
judges -a powdered bush wig, She
had therefore in-
portrait, while he was yet
dueed him to sit for his
Attorney-Gener4l4 §o at to make sure of preserving a
record of his fe4t4res, undisguised by the obnolcious
„rt,h, ; and this portrait, which was painted by
stir Thomas (then Mr.) Lawrence, and which remained
in Lord Eldon's possession till his death, is dressed
in exact accordance, with the toilette which he prae-
tiled till his elevation to the bench. In compliance
kit 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. He pressed on the King the fact,
that in former days wigs were not worn by the judges.
I' True," replied the King, 4, I admit the correctness of
your statement, and am willing, if you like it, that you
should do as they did for, though they certainly had
no wigs, yet," added his Majesty, facetiously, " they
wore their beards." The King further added, ' No, no,
innovation in my time."
TEST OF AGE At the inquest which was held
last Monday, by Mr, Wakley, at the Elephant and Castle,
St. Pancrasi on the body of a female unknown, that was
taken nut or 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 positively stale the age
of deceased, but that from appearances he Judged she was '
about twenty years old. Mr. Wakley asked if he could not
tell 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 ;
as he thought that, with a little attention, the age
of any person could be ascertained Aum the, appearance of the teeth.

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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 busine4s, to the loss of the importer,
widlont any sAicie,;t t.) the (~sliat-r to ,2ozni:en-

contea.tpiced it,,xt 5;=.5.,4,,, l'a,rliameitt, leav every-
thing in a state of uncertainty, injurious to all par; ies ;
first to those who, not already in the sugar business,
will not move until they know on what they may cal-
culate, 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, anti, 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 thraws 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 a 4
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
tiie 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 expoi•ts to foreign
markets may continue on a respectable scale to some
quarters, but to others the prospects are not encouraging.
Money continues abundant, yerthe 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
caused 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 buoyant, 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 AIARK ET, JULY 26.—T0 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 keeps good for all short wools, and stocks are light
in the market.