The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-16 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, SEPT. 13.—A fair
average business has been done in foreign wools. this
week, and prices continue very firm.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, SEPT. 13.—We have
no material alteration in the prices of wool this week,
the sales being much as usual.

LEEDS.—There has been rather less business done in
heavy winter goods this week, but shawls and fancy
cloakings in good patterns have been in brisk demand.
Heavy tweeds have also been much inquired for; on the
whole the market may be rated at a fair average for the
season. Prices are about the same, and the stocks in
the Halls are very low. In the warehouses there has
not been quite so much business done as for the last few
weeks, but it is expected that sales will be more lively
towards the end of the present month.
BRADFORD MARKET, TIIURMDAY.—The home mer-
chants have been active to-day, the foreign merchants
not so, but upon the whole we think there has been a
fair business dune, but not equal to some former years
at this season. We cannot learn that there is any alte-
ration either in demand or prices of yarn since our last
week's report. The dullness complained of in wool for
several weeks past still continues, nor can we learn that
the stock in the market is on the decrease. Prices are
tolerably firm, which is occasioned by the fact that no
new stock can be had from the growing districts on
more favourable terms than those on which they are
now held.

MANCHESTER, THURSDAY ETENING.—Things have
been rather drooping in our cloth market this week, and
that for most descriptions ; and as the commercial news
has not transpired by the delivery of letters, little can be
hazarded for the future as to the goods adapted for those
markets till the contents are known. Our home trade
is most satisfactory, so far as demand can make it so ;
and our printers and dyers were never more busy. The
opinion is becoming general that wages throughout the
cotton district will be advanced. Yarns are without de-
cided change, but an immense business is doing.—Leeds
Mercury.

THE LATE FATAL COLLISION IN
THE IRISH CHANNEL.
With reference to the loss of the brig Parana, which
was run down by the steamer Iron Duke on Tuesday
morning, an account of which has been published in
The Sun, the Dublin Evening Mail publishes the fol-
lowing
We subjoin a particular account of the accident.
The letter is addressed to Mr. llovvell, the Secretary of
the City -of Dublin Steam-packet Company, by the
agent in Liverpool. " Liverpool, Sept. 10.
Dear Sir,—lt is with sincere regret I have to in-
form you the Iron Duke came in contact this morning,
about 10 minutes past 12, when off Puffin Island, with a
brig, the Parana, Wilson, for Montreal, and run her
down ; six hands, including the captain, perished. I
understand there was a boy belonging to Dublin, of the
name of Crawford, on board of her. . _

" The Duke appears to have struck her right stem on,
and must have cut her nearly in two. The brig went
down immediately, a few minutes only intervening from
the time she was first seen to the time she was struck
and sunk.

" "Ile Duke appears to have sustained comparatively
little damage ; her bowsprit is gone, a plate on her lar-
board bow stove in, which caused the force compartment
to fill with water ; her cutwater bent, and her engine
damaged.
" I cannot learn that any further damage has been
sustained ; all seems as tight and firm as the first day
she started. _ _ _

" The bulkhead shows the value of adopting such
precautions, for it is very probable that had she not had
them she would have gone down.
"rhe Duke was put en the gridiron to see whether
all was right, but as it will be more convenient to have
her in the graving dock, she will go in to-morrow, no
time being lost to repair the damage with all possible
dispatch.
" I have had all the crew who could say anything
about the accident, with Mr. North, for him to take their
depositions. All concur in stating the brig had no light
up, the only, light on board being that in the cabin.
One cause, and, perhaps, the chief one, assigned
on board the Duke for not being able to see the brig
is, that the vessel was going right before the wind,
with the smoke thick before them, led it was only
when she came within five or six lengths of herself
that the brig was seen. Our lo.ok-out man, a most-in-
telligent fellow, passed the word 'immediately " Sail right
a-head," when the second mate, whose watch it
was, cried out to the man at the helm " Port, port—
hard a-port," a seaman running aft to assist
at the same time. The mate, almost in the same breath,
called out to the engineer "Stop her, reverse," and while
the engines were being reversed she struck her. The
first mate came up instantly, and when he saw the brig
was sinking fast he called out" Stop her, go on-a-head,
by which they providentially saved one or two men.
Captain Williams, too, was immediately on deck, and all
appears to have been done which could be done under
the unfortunate circumstances, as to putting the boats
out to look after the crew of the sunken ship, and rowing
about the place for nearly an hour.—Yours truly,
" J. K. ROUNTH WAITE.
" To P. Howell, Esq.' "