The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-30 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

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FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, DEC. 27.--owinir
to the majority of merchants and manufacturer• being'
now engaged in taking stock, transactions in Foreign
1N ools (airing the past week have been only inco a-
siderahle in amount, but the prices realised exhibit
somewhat of a rising tendency, especially these sorts
of which the market has recently become very bare.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, DHC. 27.--Tbte
manufacturers of both combing and clothing wools
purchase more freely than a few weeks ago, and prices
have an upward tendency.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, DEC. 27.—We We
again to report extensive operations, and a little
further improvement in the value of deep combing
warp wools, with more firmness in wool of all other
descriptions, both long and short.
LEEDS.—The transactions at our cloth halls this
week have been to a greater extent in balk goods ths.
in any week during the last six or seven. Prices
continue steady, but the manufacturers complron
heavily of the rate of profit. As usual, so near the
close of the year, there is little doing in finished
goods. The foreign houses are doing little, and few
buyers are now visiting the market; and business+
therefore, is dull in the warehouses.
BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.— The closing
market with the year, which formerly was not hei3"
has been fully as animated as for some time past, shad
a general feeling prevailing that the worst is past, sn
that piece goods have seen their lowest point, gives
tone of firmness, and will probably induce the manu-
facturers to change their recent olicy, which is new
Keenly felt by the operatives. the advanced price f
wool has made the spinners worse off, and they are
seeking improved prices for yarns, which on the
opening of the year it is generally expected will be
given, as the contracts for January will not be roue
at December prices. There has throughout the wielci
been a tolerably active demand for both combing en
clothing wools, and on all kinds an advance has been
fully established.
MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We have .°
decidedly better feeling in our cloth market this wee!,
though the week preceding the new year is invert'
ably a duller time than any other. Shirtings for the
Chinese market are in great demand, and the turn
dearer ; other goods are quite firm, and even buornt•
Yarns continue much the same in demand, and prices
though, if anything, rather better to sell.—ieeds
Mercury.

EFFECTS OF PUSEYISM.—As a proof of the state tt,
which Mr. Blunt has brought matters at Helga, °ll
Sunday morning last the three galleries of the chum':
contained but one adult person besides the orgsnis"
although capable of containing two hundred and fiftl
and yet the Bishop says that such men as the curate
Helston are not the least successful of the labourers i"
Christ's vineyard I—Wes! Briton.
Between eight and nine o'clock en Monday
a stack of wood, of very large dimensions, contaiaa;
several thousand faggots, situate by the road-side
pea
Sawbridgeworth, in Herts, was discovered to be on fire).
and after a short time it was completely destroYeu
The stack wasthe property of Mr. Barnard, mat The
and there is little doubt it was wilfully set on fire- ;Li/
contlagratios was distinctly observed here.—Chelosf"
Ch,
Theatrical circles have for some months been so'
buainted with the circumstance that Miss Rainforth
ee me Mrs. Harley. The unequivocal demonstratio
that she ought to be so has occasioned her temPorl
secession from the boards of Drury-lane. Actresses *0
singers generally have a dislike to the fact of their an;
riage being made public as long as it can be kept see.„,re,
they think it interferes with their popularity to a ceriTes
extent, and we believe they are right. A 'nun i •
of persons then begin to look at theisa with more "°
difference, and in singers especially it often maternal;
if net impairs, prevents the successful exertion ofthem
powers. On this account nothing has been said of the
union of Miss Rainforth and Harley in the newsPs9s
until it became absolutely necessary to explain wilt ife's
Poole had been put into the part of Katherine in vi„,zo
Daughter of St. Mark. We hope that Mrs-
retirement will not be of long duration, and that eke zit
then be restored to her place on the stage, and W
popularity with the town.—Observer.
ROYAL ACADEMY OF Music.—The following
been elected King's Scholars at the Academy of
Miss G. Poulter, pupil of the institution ; Meet'llore
mer, of Canterbury; and Master A. Simmons. tof
were ten female and seventeen male candidates, ranloor
whom displayed very promising talent, young
being already a very superior pianist.
LEAGUE REGISTRATION.—The applications for 4...„001
freeholds among the free traders of the Wakefield r
districts have been very numerous. The committee
daily, and render every assistance and infortnatlt°loll
persons in want of qualifications. The more effee.,o-ed
to carry on operations, the committee have esztaks
premises lately occupied by the Yorkshire District
ing Company, and intend having clerks in alien
until the 31st January.—Leeds Mercury.
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ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AND STRANGE ki`---
A PARENT.—Many of our readers may probably r fire
lect that some twelve months since an incendiarx of
took place amongst farm buildings in the sicini"Jtsti
Droitwich, belonging to J. Robesen, Esq., solicitor,
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that a young man
accused a person named Drinkwater of the heino , named Henry 3ennett, WrOng.ful",c
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offence, in order to obtain the reward offered for r:
discovery of the incendiary. Drinkwater, his innoce°.;
being clearly established, was discharged by the Sligiti
trates before whom he had been thus unjustly *ale,.
and since that time the accuser, Bennett, urns lads-
the guilt of perjury seems to have hung line" de"
weight, has wandered about the country dest!oo, or *
prayed, and utterly reckless being. Star/toe him
troubled conscience, or the two conjoined, made an
from bad to worse, till, on Saturday last, 11%otity t.
attempt at self-destruction, by taking * clu-nioroing
" crow-fig." He was discovered earl/ in the —„estlf
lying in the road leading from Hawfor to Cbanes deS-
dead, from the combined effects of the poison an biro.posure to the inclemency of the night. UP° letter'
when searched by Sergeant Radford, was found *OOOll
directed to his father, Samuel Bennett, living st,ll,tattire'
Heath, and intimating that the writer would to his
very shortly his kind offices in " fetching hinlssfortl'
parach, to berry him." Under the care of i-b—tottr•
the unhappy man was taken to a public-house, sup
tM
Shelton, surgeon, of this city, was promptly tiro re'
spot ; and, in a short time, the noxious drug Ird.
moved, and his recovery is confidently anticiPat!so
stantly upon discovering who the would-be suictufogerr
Sergeant Radford dispatched a messenger to his-delta
requesting his attendance. He did come, but ell of his
disinciined to stir hand or foot to save the lifereops,
offspring ; and despite the remons'rances of all Poe, re'
positively refused him an asylum in his own
marking, '` They ought to take him to the wore, if be
or where they liked ; but he shouidna come hotne'slois,
knowed ii." 'l'. G. Curtler and J. M. Gutch,
who had gone to the spot for the purpose of as ce sett 4
ing what could be done for the miserable creator_:,e d
the old man and unnatural lather a severe r At e•
served lecture upon his conduct ; and eventoafis sea
ceeded in procuring from him a promise that Psitslllo
should have an asylum in his house—at leassv..osetl•
had recovered—and there he was accordingly re"-
- Worcester Herald.
I IS i_nfatit'9
PROBABLE ELECTION AT BRADFORD.-- -_,t Of
mated by our Bradford Contemporary that Xr'serioai
is likely to resign his seat, owing to his late asoll,
attack of illness, and that his son, Mr. Gathorn bout
will probably be a candidate for the vacant seat. '-'_e o
a resignation take place, we hope the constituatlolo
Bradford will return a good free trader. If the plods
should be united, we believe they may do thifv"
Mercury.

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On the 28th inst., at M
St. MRIED
argaret's, Lothburft 1100
Venerable Archdeacon Hollingworth, William Butler' Otter
son of Dr. Langmore, of Finsbury-square, to XIV 10
eldest daughter of Mr. Alderman Moon. 130
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On the 26th inst., at St. Peter's, Thanet, Ed°lll/I.,hter
Church, Esq., to Annabella Maria, youngest datib.,s,
Lieutenant Colonel Clarke, C. 8., late of the Scots G 1,9 OP'
On the 27th inst., at St. Pancras Church, Maria DI ?Sr,'
eldest daughter of Mr. Worrell, of Hunter-street, FA,
Haslewood, only son of the late Roger Hasleooo4
Islington.

DIED. fl de t
On the 30th inst., in Bruton-street, the lady ofw_...„/-1/31 to
Scott, Fsq., aged 25, from exhaustion after an infia°-
attack. Pt "1
On the 13th inst., Mr. William Baker, of Trinity'
Taunton, aged 66. Ofidr
On the 18th inst., at Heidelberg, Frederick Willi- -- ~
p man, Esq., aged 55. nam 00, '-
On the 20th inst., Jonathan Amatt, Esq., of .1"--- t
Oxfordshire, aged 64. E. 04*
On the 22d inst., at Boulogne-sur-Mer, S. D. Leos'
On the 24th inst., at Canonbury-place, Miss F.,2, AO*.
On the 25th inst., Mrs. Margaret Fordham, 0, '".
place, Limehouse, aged 86. is. .17 94
On the 25th inst., the Rev. Richard Francis Da/
Rector of Pensock, Worcester, aged 78. sm. 011°1"
On the 26th inst., at Wadenhoe House, n--„,,„otad°
General William Croxton, of the Hon. East Indisuu—'
Service, Bengal Establishment. .2 e 4.
inst., J. C.
On the 26th Thomas Bellett, son of the ..
Crosthwaite, Rector of St. Mary-at-Hill, London. f or, l'
On the 27th inst., Mary Sarah, only daughter 0
Layton, of Kew-bridge, Brentford. nbeh
t.so
On the 27th inst., in Jermyn-street, Thomas
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Esq., of Barnstaple, aged 35.
On the 27th inst., Charles Edward, second sort a gr. if.
are. le
Hawes, Lamb's Conduit-street.
On the 24th inst., in Colehill- street, Eaton-sg° '
Robinson, aged 74. goo'
On the 24th inst., Mr. Henry Spratt, of Caerleoo,
mouth
On the 25th inst., Frances, the wife of William
Esq., of Stratford-place. Do big° 5111'
On the 24th inst., at Shouldham Thorpe, near
Norfolk, John Brackenbury, Esq.

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No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sc,'
Strand, in the Preeinct of the Savoy, in the
Middlesex, Monday, Monday, December 30, 1844.

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