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

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, MARCH 154—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 demand for clothing
wools of low and middling qualities, 'at very firm prices.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, MARCH 25.—The market
continues in a espects the same as reported in our last,
no improveme 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 compwrative 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 12s. per stone. There wil be no more York wool
markets until the new clip day.
LEEDS.—The demand for 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, TIEURSDAY.—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 stoked 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 few 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.

CRIM. CON. AND SUICIDE.—yesterday Mr. Baker
held an inquest at the Chequers, Providence-row, Finsbury,
on the body of W. H. Freeman, aged twenty-four, employed
by Mr. Woodruffe, corndealer, of 'Worship-street. It
appeared in evidence that, eight months since, deceased
received injury to the head through having been capsized
from one of his master's carts, and that, from that period,
he suffered much from constant soporific tendency. How-
ever, on Monday night last, accompanied by a young widow,
who responded to his amatory advances, he attended a
raffle at a public-house, and next morning returned to his
work somewhat more animated than he had latterly been.
At one o'clock he went, as it was thought, to his dinner, but
not returning at his usual hour, his young master went to
see whether he was in the stable or not. Finding the key
not in the door, he entered by another inlet, and found the '
deceased suspended by the neck from a harness peg by means
of a halter. His young master directly cut him down, and
sent for Dr. Davies, who though he tried to restore life, be-
lieved that deceased had been dead full a quarter of an hour.
Soon after deceased's death a letter, full of reproaches, ad-
dressed to him, arrived from a married woman, with whom
he had held criminal correspondence, and in which she in-
veighed against his inconstancy and his connection with her
rival, the widow.—Verdict, " Temporary insanity."
BURGLARY AT THE TREASURY OF GREENWICH
HospirsE.— On Friday information was received that some Iszr.
sons had burglariously entered the Treasury of the Royal Hospital.
Sergeant Lovell, R 15, was dispatched to the premise', situated on
the east side of the Institution. From his examination, it ap.
peered that an entrance had been effected in the rear of the
building by means of a ladder, anti breaking through a w;ndow, the
whole e,• the glass of which was destroyed. The thieve 3 were on,
but were left. Yesterday the Council of the Institution
met in the library, for the purpose of investigating the matter and
examining the sentries mho Were on duty at the time the ounce
le luppoted to have been committed,

Canals.
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Basingstoke
Breckneck & Abergay
Birmingham,l.l6th sh
Do. and Liverp. Jut.c
Chclmer & Blackwater
Coventry
Crom ford
Dudley
Derby
D,nube and Mayne
Ellesmere and Chester
Ercwash ............
Forth and Clyde
Grand Junction
Grand Union
Grand Surrey
Grand Western .....
Glamorgansh., ay. cost
Gloucester & Berkeley
Grantham
Huddersfie f ..... .....av
Kennet r.fid Avon ...av
Lancaster 31/
Leeds and Liverpool...
Leicester
Leicester & Northamp
Loughborough ........av
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Montgomeryshire
Melton Mowbray
Mersey and Irwell
Macclesfield
Neath
Oxford
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Regent's (el London)..
Rochdale DV
Shropshire
Somerset Coal
Do. Lock Fund Stock
Sta Cord and Worcester
Shrewsbury
Stourbridge
Stratford .on.Avon...av
Swansea
Severn & Wye & Rail
Trent & Mersey, 14 sh
Thames & Medway..av
Warwick and Birming.
Warwick and Napton
W..rcester & Binning
Wilts and Berks av
Wisbeach
Wry and Arun

Docks.
Commercial
East and West India
London
Ditto Bonds
Bristol av
Do.Bnds, var. amounts
St. Katharine.
Ditto 80nd5....... .......
Ditto Bonds
Southampton

litridges
Hammersmith ......
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Waterloo
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Alliance Brit. and For
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Atlas
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Gaslight 4 Coke
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Birmingham
& Staffordsh
Bristol .....
Brighton
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City of London
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Imperil!
Isle of Thanet
Independent
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Ratcliff
South Metropolitan
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Westmins. Chartered..
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Water Works.
Birmingham .••
East L0nd0n.......
Grand Junction av
Kent .... ... .
Nw Riv Lon. Bridg An.
Manchester and Salford
Vauxhall, late S. Lond.
West Middlesex av
Yrk Bulsig Co. Les. Prop
Iron Railways.
Birmingham & Derby
Birming. & Gloucester
Bristol and Exeter

Cheltenhm 8z Gt. Wcst
Clarence
Eastern Counties

Edinburgh & Glasgow
Ditto New. ........ ......
Grand Juncti00..........

Great North of Englnd
Ore t Western
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Fifths ....... .....
Hull and Selby .......
Leeds and Selby
Liverpool & Manchestr
Ditto Half-Shares
Ditto Quarter-Shares
London and Brighton
.Ditto Loan Notes
London and 131 ckwall
London and Greenwich
London and Birmingh.
Dittouarter-Shares
Third 5.,....,.„
London Thirds.
London and S. Western
London and Croydon,
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto New Shares."
Manchstr and Birming
Ditto Extension.