The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-21 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN Wool, TRADE, LEEDS, Ocr. IT—The demand
for Foreign Wools continues steady, and sales to about the
same extent as last week have been effected. Prices are firm,
but without any apparent variation.
ENGLISII WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, Ocr. 17.—There has
net been any alteration in this branch of trade during the
present week. Sales are steady, and prices stationary.
LEEDS.—The cloth markets this w ek have been more
lively than for several weeks past, particularly for heavy
beavers of good quality, and other heavy goods calculated
for the present season ; but in all goods of light make there
is very little doing. Prices are steady, and the stocks mode-
rate. Although there has not been many of the larger buyers
in the town this week, there have been a great number of
drapers from all parts of the country, and in consequence bu-
siness has been brisk in the warehouses.

BRADFORD MARKET, OCT. lG.—The demand for wool is
still heavy; the spinners acting with extreme caution, and
only buying for day by day consumption. There is no altera-
tion in prices, except in brokes and noils, in which there is a
turn in favour of the buyer. The position of the spinn rs
still remain unaltered. The price of yarns bears no propor-
tion to that of wool, and the continuance of this state of
things has had the effect of wasting the property of several
once respectable spinners, who have had to give way to the
pressure of the times. We are glad to lu-ar that there is a
feeling in favour of stopping the mills at six P.M., instead of
half-past seven, during the winter. If this prudential step
be adopted, in addition to the already large quantity of un-
employed machinery, we may at no very distant period ex-
pect to find yarns commanding prices more commensurate
with the cost of the raw material. There has been a steady
business doing in Orleans, Coburgs, and Merinos, goods
adapted for the winter. Moreens are hardly so brisk as a few
weeks back. In prices no change worthy of rote.

MANCHEIPER: THURSDAY tvEsisck:—We have had a
dull and heavy cloth market all the week, and it closes to-day
without any signs of early improvement. In most cases prices
have receded just the turn. Yarns are also heavier sale, but
as stocks are very low it has had no effect on prices.

TUE ZOLLVEREIN TARIFF.— • We have just received
a communication from an esteemed correspondent at Carls-
ruhe, on whose information we can place every reliance.
He announces the most gratifying intelligence. The Zol•ve-
rein tariff is at length finished, and will speedily be made
public. He is a good. German, and seems to grudge us our
advantages, for he says, the duties on British manufaatures
are not raised at all on any one. article of the least impor-
tance ; indeed, only on one or two trifling things, as needles.
—Herald.

SUICIDE BY HANGING TO A GUN.— On Monday
morning, about half-past seven o'clock, a man named Jolin
Knapp, aged fifty-nine years, a gunsmith, residing Fin
Chambers-street, Whiteehapel, committed suicide in the fol-
lowing singular manner :—He had been latterly in a very
desponding way, but he would never discloe to any one
what was weighing upon his mind. He retired to bed on
the previous night at the usual hour, without the slightest
alteration in his demeanour. In the morning he was missed
from his bed by the person who was accustomed to call him,
and it being found that he had not quitted the house, a
search was made for him, and he was discovered in his
workshop, hanging by a piece of rope, quite dead. There
being no hook or other convenient place in the room for him
to affix the cord to he had tied it to the stock of a gun,
which was placed in a horizontal position against a wall, and
then, mounting a chair,. had thrown himself off.
PROGRESS OF MANUFACTURES IN HULL.—The
foundation of the Kingston cotton mill is now digging, and
we understand that every effort is making for the successful
and speedy carrying out of the various works. The Hull
Worsted Mill Company have had several offers of sites for
their establishment, and the first meetings of the company
will be held shortly. The Hull Imperial Cotton Mill Com-
pany is proceeding prosperously, and will no doubt meet the
same support as those already commenced. Two or three
companies for the encouragement of various branches of ma-
nufactures in Hull are at present in embryo.—Hall Packet.
Shoals of voters for South Staffordshire hcsve been
struck off on objections made by the agents of the League.—
Leeds Mercury.
THE GAME LAWS—ABOMINABLE CONVICTION.---
Yesterday week, Thomas Higgins, of Ackworth, was sum-
moned before the Wakefield magistrates, for an offence
against the game-laws. Higgins, who is a farm labourer,
was proceeding to his work early in the morning, and picked
up a hare, which he found dead in a wheat feld ; being ob-
served by the game-keeper, the poor fellow was taken into
custody. The hare had been caught in a snickle. but there
was no evidence to prove that the prisoner was in any way
connected with poachers. He was proceeding to work, with
his scythe over his shoulder, to a field adjoining that in which
the hare was found, when he accidentally saw the animal,
and, naturally enough, took possession. Higgins was fined
in a penalty and costs amounting to 51, and in default he was
sent to the House of Correction for three „..months.—Leeds
Mercury.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE THROUGH THE FAILURE OF
THEATRICAL SPECITLATIoNS.—OiI Friday night Mr. Coxhead,
well known in the theatrical world, and who, it is said, has
lost 15,0001. in theatrical speculations, went into a hairdresser's
shop in Kennington, where, after he was shaved, he inflicted
a dreadful gash across his throat. Surgical assistance was
instantly provided, and as soon as the necessary remedies
were applied the unfortunate gentleman was conveyed in a
cab to his residence in a very hopeless state.
WOOTTON BASSETT.— At the hiring fair the crier
received the following announcement, which was cried
through the fair :—" This is to give notice,that in consequence
of the continued depression of the times, and the diseased
state of the potatoes, no feast will be holden at Brinkworth,
on Sunday next. The inhabitants mean to postpone it until
next 3 ear, when they hope it will be more convenient for
them to entertain their frienkla. This notice is expressly
givon for the purpose cq preventing cikappointnAcct."..TVi/o
Adepenclemt,