The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-15 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, JAN. 1-2..,--TileTe
has been a very evident improvement in the demand
for foreign wools during the past week, and a firmer
tone has in consequence been given to 'prices.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, JAN. 12.—Sales
of combing wools are readily effected, and prices con-
tinue gradually to advance. Clothing wools are firm,
but do not yield higher prices.
WA kEriELD WOOL MARKET, JAN. 12.—We have
to report a gradual and steady improvement in the
demand for all descriptions of combing wools, and, as
the market continues to be very barely supplied, the
advance demanded last week is now fully obtained.
No movement in short wools.

LEEDS.—There has been a fair quantity of goods
sold at our Cloth Halls this work, considering the
time of the year. The principal articles in demand
have been plain and fancy Tweeds, and low cloths
for export, but fine and middle cloths still continue in
very little demand. Prices continue unaltered, al-
though wool is higher. There are, however, no very
heavy stceks, and if there should be a very moderate
demand in the sprirg, an advance in price must take
place. A few houses are busy in the export trade,
but in the warehouses generally there is little doing.
BRADFORD MARKET, J. IL—There is a dis-
position on the part of the merchants to lay in stocks
of pieces, seeing that goods are far below the price of
the raw material, and the manufacturers refuse to
sell except at advanced prices ; knowing that the
further increased cost in the production, by the
late advances in yarns, will not enable them to
meet the- buyers. Scarcely as much business was
done as last week. The recently advanced prices for
wool have caused the spinners to act with great
caution, for many have old contracts at prices very
disproportionate to the raw material ; and what sales
are now made are chiefly for the home and Delaine
trade, the prices of last week being generally realised.
There continues to be a full average business doing in
all kinds of combing wools, and the rates of last week
are fully maintained. Noils and Brokes are more
inquired after; the stock being low, higher prices are
acceded to.

MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We have had
rather less animation in our cloth market this week
thaii-of late, but this circumstance does not appear to
atlect the firmness in the market, as stocks are uni-
versally low. Most parties (sellers) seem anxious
to wait the arrival of another. Indian mail
before they enter into fresh arrangements, which
they might do at old prices. It is -probable that the
temporary and comparative stagnation of trade in,China
xvill continue a short time, so that it will require a
few weeks to test the reality of the present firmness.
The velvet trade is br:sk and likely to continue so.
The silk trade is not so healthy as could be wished :
some weavers are out of work, and a few limited as
to the quantity produced. Twist is without any de.
tided change; the change, however, if any, is favour-
able, and prices rather firmer.
BARNSLEY.—The linen trade continuos steady
although the improvement is not so great as it is in
many other branches of trade, yet the prospects for
the present year are encouraging.—Leeds Mercury.

The trial of Mrs. Gilinour, for the murder of her
husband, was to take place before the High Court of
Justiciary, Edinburgh, on Friday.
The Rev. Dr. David Ritchie, for many years
minister of St. Andrew's Church, and Professor of Logic
in the University of Edinburgh, died on Wednesday at
an advanced age. Ile had long been in bad health.
DEATH OF MAJOR-GENERAL JOUNSTONE,
This gallant officer died on Sunday last. tie was son of
Samuel Johnstone, Esq., of Carnsilloch, Dumfriesshire, by the
only daughter of the fifth Lord Napier, and brother to the Right
lion. Sir A. Johnstone. Ilia commission t f Major-General
(local rank) bore date the 28th of June, 1838—the Coronation
Brevet.
The young, lady who has taken the Neapolitans by
the ears, under the cognomen of Farante, is a Miss Ed-
wards, a pupil of Crivelli, who used to sing at the Aca-
demy concerts a season or tao buck ; and who belonged
to that institution.—Dramatic and Mu,ical Review.

Trawl fish have lately been very scarce, but the
boats brought in a better supply on Tuesday morning.
Gurnets it' particular were very plentiful ; and sprats
have been hawked about the town for several days, at the
rate of a penny a quart. The mackerel season has com-
menced. Several of our larger boats have been fishing for
some days off Plymouth. Two Hastings boats on Monday
took some fine fish, the first 1,300, the other 500, which
were sold at 3/. per hundred. In consequence of this,
other boats made immediate preparations to depart
for the fishing grounds. We heard yesterday that
some of our fishermen had be, n successful off
Plymouth, and had taken about 4,000 mackerel to the
London markets, but that owing to a large supply at the
same time from other parts of the coast, they did not
realise more than 18s. per hundred.—Brighton Gazette.
AMERICAN lioNouß.—The Americans have raised
a loan, but it is out of their own pockets. They have beets
lending each other money, but it is only to decoy.others to do
the same. The accomplices of a thimble-rig proprietor lend
money to each other for the purpose of drawing on the by-
stets:lees to play the game. Such is the iotentien, no doubt, of
an American loan, raised out of the pockets of the Americans.
If other nations are inclined to trust them, the Yankees will
make themselves safe, and then—repudiate. If, by chance,
the pea is discovered under the right thimble, the proprietor of
the " rig" instantly commences a row, upsets the table, loses
the pea. pockets the cash, and, in a word, repudiates. In
fact, repudiation is a convenient mode of disposing of sundry
email claims ; and as America has tried it on a large scale, we
strongly recommend its application to smaller matters—such as
tailors' hills, and the claims of one's landlord.—Punch.
M. Beranger has written a letter, praying the
students of the schools to excuse his proceeding at their head
to the ceremony of inaugurating the statue of aloliere on the
15th, as they had requested. "My character, my
tastes, and my habits," says M. Beranger, " have
always kept nee away from public solemnities, where
I should find myself ill at ease and unable to utter a
single word." The poet also expresses his regret at having
been from home when the students visited him lately, and
laments that any collision should have taken place afterwards.
The following passage in the letter would seem to intimate
that the poet still contames his compositions :—" Persuade
those generous young men to leave in his corner—which, thank
'leaven, is not the gloomy corner of the misanthropist—the old
philosopher and song-writer, still faithful to his convictions and
his sympathies. The dreams which he still makes there will
prove, he hopes, to your generation, which will so lug survive
him, that to his last moments he was occupied with the happi-
ness and glory of his country."
CROMWELL'S Nosr.—Cromwell's nose became a
grand point of attack with the Royalists, in the civil wars of
Charles the First, when they failed egainst the " Parliament
Men" in the field. One of Saneroft's correspondents is thus
humorous upon the topic in a letter, that is preserved in the
Bodleian Library :—" One, in a discourse about the L rd's
anointed, stuck not to say, he thought. Cromwell the my
same.' (This was in 1650.) And shall that oily nose at last
go for the Lord's anointed? No, we have better terms to ex.
press so much desert by. It is the taints' minimum quoddant na.
pirate : a Nol-witlothe-whisp—the Commonwealth's read
roe tangere—that which people rather gaze at than delight in,
and wherewith they are mastered, like a company of jackdaws
in the night at the sight of a torch ; were that quenched, they
would be at their nest again. It is Samson's foxes' firebrands,
and all beaten together into an intolerable nose—the Devil's
breeches turned wrongside upwards, and clapped by mischance
to the General's face 1 But flies must not be too bold with
the candle for scalding their wings: it is, God knows what ;
and do what I can, 1 must leave it the same I found it."
This is a tolerably strong philippic against the Oliverian nasal
organ !
TIIE LATE REPAIRS AT RIPON CATHEDRAL.—The
venerable cathedral at Ripon has, during the last two yea"
undergone several repairs. The south-west tower has had its
bands, mouldings, window betls, and pilasters, restored ; wad
the walls tied together with large iron bars, thus rendering it
more fit to sustain the peal of bells which hang therein. The
apex of the middle compartment of the west front, down to the
string course under the top lights, has also been thoroughly
restored, and an early English cross, in good taste, fixed on the
point. Groined ceilings' in the Norman style, have ben added
to the transepts' roofs. The whole under the architectural su-
perintendence of Wm. Railton, Esq., the architect of the Nel-
son Column.—!'ark Courant.
FURTHER REGULATIONS IN TliE CITY POLICIL—
In consequence of the numerous robberies which have meetly
taken place in the Cite, the Commissioner of Police has lusts
tuted an inquiry, which has resulted-in a return of the different
periods of the dry in which such robberies have taken place.
Most of them, it appears, have occurred during the time of
changing the men by " relief," upon which occasion it has
been the practice for the men to leave their beats, and march
to the stations of their several sections in files. the s chef body
following to occupy the places of those who have thus quitted
duty. During this time the whole range of ground has been
left, and thieves, seeing the opportunity, have burglarieuely en.
tercel the premises, and escaped with their booty. To obviate
this evil, Superintendent Sperry, of the let (or Moor-lase)
division of the City, has received instructions to adopt the fol-
lowing pin, prior to being generally practited, if it is found
to work well, which we understand it has done up to the pre-
sent time :—lnstead of the men being collected and taken to
the station of the district, as heretofore, the man to be relieved
is furnished with a ticket by the relief-constable, who receives
it from the superintendent at muster. This he gives to the
relieving-censtab'e, who returns it immediately to the officer
on duty at the station, who receives it as the discharge of the
constable from duty. By this simple, suet, as it appears to us,
effective arrangement, the whole ground is covered, so that
when the full system is in operation, no part of the public pro-
perty will at any time be left unprotected. The relief will in
future, we are informed, be granted only three times in twenty-
four hours—at eight o'clock in the morning, tour in the after-
noon, and at midnight.
FOOT RACES AT LEWISIIAM.—TWO very well con-
tested fcot.races took place en Thursday near the eight-mile-stone
at Lewisham, and gave considerable satisfaction to a very
numerous assemblage of the patrons and admirers of pedestrian
performances. The first, which was to determine a race before
disputed, was between Goldsmith, of Greenwich, and Banks,
of the West-end-250 yards, for 20). a side. Both men started
well together on the signal being given, and for the first dozen
yards there was no lead taken by either party. Banks thee
went gradually away from his opponent, and, after a race iu
which first-rate speed was exhibited, woe by three yards. The
second match was between Parr and Perch, two men who cone
tended about a fortnight ago, when a close and doubtful race
was the result, which was succeeded by arrangements for the
match of yesterday. The distance was 150 yards, the stake 51.
a side. A good start, and a smart struggle followed. They
were together the whole way, and Perch won by half a yard.
Lott s PitturrE's DlENtoar.—On Captain Crowdy,
R.N., bring presented to his Majesty at the reception at the
Tuileries, on Friday last, the King did the gallant officer the
honour to say that he always saw with satisfaction a Captain
of. the British navy ; Captain Crowdy, in acknowleedgdardg_tall _
compliment, reminded his Royal interlocutor that he
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calculated to obliterate minor circumstances from the mind.--
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