The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-16 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, DEC. 13.—A some-
whit larger amount of business has baen done in foreign
wool this week than during the preceding fortnight, and
prices, if anything, in low and middle qualities, evince
rather a rising tendency.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, DEC. 3.—There is
a firmness in this branch of trade, and the tendency of
prices is upwards. The manufacturers buy cautiously,
and complain that the present prices of goods are below
the proportion of the rate q at which they are obliged to
buy wool to supply their iiresent limited consumption.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, DEC. 13.—There still
continues an animated demand for all deep combing
wools, and the turn is in favour of the seller, and this
has imparted more confidence in the buyers of the better
description of combing wools, as well as in those of short
wools.
LEEDS.—The markets at both our cloth halls hare been
of much the same dull character as the markets of last
month, with little probability of any material improve-
ment till after Christmas. The stocks, however, in the
hands of the manufacturers are moderate, anal they are
acting with caution by curtailing their operations. Prices
are steady. There have been very few buyers in the
town daring the week, but from the severity of the wea-
ther there has been a better demand for winter goods
than for some weeks past; with this exception, busines:, is
dull in finished goods, and the foreign houses are very still.
BRADFORD MARKET, DEC. 12.—There is nothing dif-
ferent in the wool trade since our last report, either in
Jemand or prices. Yarns are still produced in very re•
duced quantities, to supply the immediate wants of con-
sumers. Stocks are not increasing, and prices are firm.
More piece goods have been sold during the week and
to-day than we have heard of for several weeks past. The
prices still continue so ruinously low, that there is no
disposition to relax the tringent measures adopted by
he manufacturers.

MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We do not im-
prove in our cloth market ; on the contrary, we are
retrograding, and this has been more evident since
Tuesday, as shown by a more anxious desire to sell by
many manufacturers. This state of things has in some
measure been brought about by the closing of some of
the important continental rivers, so that we need not
expect any improvement for some weeks to come. Our
home demand is on the whole good, but not large. In
yarns we are decidedly flat, with lower prices. The
continental demand having in general subsided, spinners
will be compelled either to stock for a while, or to sub-
mit to lower rates.—Leeds Mercury.

REDUCTION OF THE THREE PER CENT. RE
DUCED ANNUITIES.

A few months since it was noticed, under this head,
that, providing the politics' horizon remained unclouded,
and the Money Market free from anything like disturb-
ment, the Chancellor of the Exchequer would not hesi-
tate to propound to Parliament in the ensuing session a
measure for the purpose of reducing the interest on the
Three per Cents. Reduced Annuities. An evening Con-
temporary yesterday had a paragraph to a full extent
confirmatory of such being the intention of Mr. Goul-
burn. The amount of stock to be dealt with ou the pre-
sent occasion, should the Government resolve upon so
bold a measure, is not less than 125,359,000/. The total
Three per Cent. debt of the United Kingdom, but which
it is not likely would be all touched at once, is
515,150,0001., viz., debt due to the South Sea
Company, 3,662,7841. ; Old South Sea Annuities,
3,497,8701. ; ditto, New, 2,460,8301. ; ditto of 1751,
523,1001. ; debt due to the Bank of England,
11,015,1001. ; Bank Annuities of 1726, 817,0711.,
Consols 367,813,9641., and Reduced Three per
Cents., 125,359,5561. With the success that has
attendel the reduction of the Three-and-a-Half to
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., and with such a sur-
plus of floating capital as now exists, it is the opinion of
many of the influential persons in the City that the
Minister may succeed, should a guarantee be given, as
no doubt it will, that no further reduction will be at-
tempted for twenty years. So vast are the accumula-
tions of capital, and so low is the rate of interest in com-
mercial circles, that with a sacred promise of the de-
scription named, it is not thought there would be such a
number of dissentients as would baffle the Chancellor of
the Exchequer. It will be recollected that in the scheme
for the reduction of the Three-and-a-Ilalf per Cents.
the promise was held out that for ten years the
interest should not be lowered beyond 3i per
cent., and from that forward for ten years more
not below 3 per cont. But, it is said, as oppored to
such a plan being carried out, that there are means of
employment for money in railroads, &c., much more
profitable. This, to a very considerable extent, is most
unquestionably true ; but it should be borne in mind
that there are immense masses of wealth locked up in
trusts, which must remain invested in the Funds, let the
reduction of the rate of interest be carried out or not:;
and when it is recollected how successful have been for-
mer steps of this kind to reduce the national obligations
—such as the translation of the Navy Five per Cents.,
the Four per Cents., and, lastly, the Three-and-a-Half
per Cents.—little doubt is entertained that the next pro-
position in the same direction will be fully carried out.
And it must also be stated that the dissentients to the
last conversion now deeply regret the course that they
took when the proposal first was circulated by the au-
thority of the Ministry, as the New Stock has been
greatly in demand—indeed, so much so, that it has
reached a price full three per cent. above par.— Otiservcr.

AWFUL EFFECTS OF INTEMPERANCE.—In the after-
noon of Friday, the 20th ult.; six persons were drinking
together in a public-house in Crieff. One of them,
Anthony Culbert, a man in the prime of life, witiiin half
an hour after leaving the public-house, dropped down
and expired. Another, William Robertson, inillwriAt,
advanced in years, managed to get home, but shortly
thereafter was observed to be seriously ill. In the case
of the former the stomach pump was applied, but to no
effect, inasmuch as life had been extinct for some time
before its application. In that of the latter it was hoped
its application would have been followed by happier con-
sequence ; but no ! he lingered apparently in great suf-
fering till half-past two o'clock ni,xt morning, when he
~xpired. The general impression seems to be that
death, in both cases, was caused by the quantity of cold
whisky each had swallowed—said to have been not less
than sixteen glasses each, and that in the short space of
an hour ! We have not heard of any of the other mem-
bers having been seriously affected.—Edinburgh Even-
ing Post.
Wisoncir.—On Wednesday morning the brig
Enterprise, laden with corn, was removing for the pur-
pose of sailing, the rope slipped, and by the tide sad ice
she was driven up the river, endangering the smaller
vessels in her course, until she reached the bridge,
against which she struck so powerfully as to break her
altermast into two pieces, and greatly damaged her IRA-
Narks. No injury whatever was done to the bridge, or
to any of the other vessels in the river.—Cambridge
Ckonicle.

_ WRECKS. __ id ift -
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the Cape of Good Hope, dated Septeinhei-9,8,-f- . „,..:_,"-%
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Informed of the total loss of an Ein in '.' ...-N---• I'' ..--"-•
called the St. Mungo, a fine barque,*-. t.'.. 4 5 ...-.., ' - - '
c^mninr4pd im e,r,.,;.• T ~ ~.-.,1 ~, J „I:7y, ~, ~ . , -7.,i...,
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It appears the imiatiehtily e, vent occurret - - Nt---
of the 20th of that month (September), osA oint
of Cape L'Agullas, during a severe gale of wind from
the westward. She was on her homeward passage
from Calcutta to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to which
place she belonged, and had a very rich cargo on
board, consisting of merchandise of every description.
For several days the weather, it seems, was exceed-
ingly stormy, when, on the night in question, the
wind blew terrifically, in the height of which the ship,
to the consternation of the crew, struck on some rocks,
which subsequently proved to be those on the extreme
point of Cape L'Agullas. In a few seconds after-
wards the vessel pitched on her broadside, followed
by the mainmast giving way and falling overboard.
Whether any of the poor creatures took to the boats
or not we are unable to say, but at daybreak ten of
the crew were found to be missing, and in the course
of the morning it was ascertained beyond a doubt that
they had perished. The remainder of the crew were
saved.

The names of those who were drowned are as fol-
lows :—Mr. Thomas Sheppard, first mate ; T. W.
Milne, second mate ; J. Webster, ship's carpenter ;
Joseph Harrison, sailmaker ; John Thomson, steward,
Williams, cook ; Thomas Rose, seaman ; Francis
Ratnerro, seaman; Robert M'Arther, apprentice ;
William Hunter, apprentice.
The names of those saved are :—Captain Lamond,
master ; William Miller,. John Truman, James Jack-
son, James Fisher, John Frolick, and T. Shank. All
the sugar has been washed out of the bags. The
ship was buit at Glasgow in the year 1839, and, with
the cargo, was valued at 60,0001. The loss, it is
stated, will amount to 25,0001., of which, we believe,
no part will fall on any of the metropolitan insur-
ance companies.
DREADFUL WRECK NEAR HARWICH.

During the heavy north-easterly gales on Tuesday
morning last, a vessel was lost under the most dis-
tresslng circumstances on Langguard East Beach,
near Harwich, accompanied with shocking loss of
lite. The vessel was the Hero (a schooner of 180
tone); belonging to Amsterdam, Mr. South, master,
to which port she was bound from London. The
master, observing the weather was not likely to mo-
derate, and the gale direct against them, attempted to
run into Harwich harbour, but unhappily it proved
fatal to the ship, as well as to all (except one) on
board. In running along the coast, past Walton, she
struck on the sands called the Andrews, within 200
yards of the coast, upon which she was dashed about
with fearful violence by a heavy sea. The crew, seven
in number, including the master, took to the rigging,
for safety, but the excessive darkness of the night pre-
vented them beingseen until the ship had almost broke*
up. The first attracted to the spot were the men
belonging to the revenue cutter Scout, quartered at
the Harwich station, who fired rockets and blue

lights, for additional help, but, alas! no life-boat was
sent, or any other apparatus, from the adjacent coast
guard station. As the vessel was thrown by the
waves towards the beach, a man and a boy could be
seen clinging to the bowsprit. The principal officer
of the Scout endeavoured to save them by a line,
which he had contrived to throw over the wreck, by
the aid of a common rocket ; however, the poor
fellows were so benumbed with cold, there being an
intense frost, that they were completely powerless, so
that they could not keep a tight hold, and sunk in
the boiling surf beneath and perished. All the rest
met with a similar fate, except one, who was washed
ashore, lashed to a spar alive, though in a dreadful
state of exhaustion. He still remains in a precarious
state. The vessel, by the following morning, was
discovered to have gone entirely to pieces, and her
cargo strewed for miles along the beach. None of
the bodies have yet been found.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Cumberland stag hds., Tues., Chalk Foot ; Fri., Elephant
inn, Broadfield.
Wigton harrs„Wed.,Longthwaite ; Thurs., Kirkland-8.
Aikton harrs., Fri., Curthwaite-8.
Eamont harrs Wed., Salkeld-dykes ; Sat. Low Plains-
gate-101.
Cheltenham stag hds„ Wed., Andoversford ; Sat., Beech
turnpike-10.
N.F.H.—The first hunting day, at the kennel.
Craven hds., Wed , Brinaslade ; Fri., Great Shefford ;
Sat., Hunt's.green.
Hambledon hds., Wed., Bordean-house ; Thurs., Warn-
ford-park ; Sat., Preshaw-house-10i.
Surrey harrs., Fri., Hamsey- green.

A fine fat ox, of the short-horn breed, three years
old, fed by the Earl of Zetland, was slaughtered
this week at Richmond, Yorkshire, by Mr. James
Blenkiron, which weighed. when alive, 1324 stones.
EXPORTATION or PAPER.—Great complaints have
been made by the exporters of paper for the Excise draw-
back, of the inconvenience to which they are subjected in
consequence of the recent new regulation transferring
the examination of the cases from the Excise department
to the Customs' officers ; the packages, which are gene-
rally fastened in a secure manner, baying to be entirely
unpacked just previously to shipment in presence of the
shipping searchers, are thereby much deranged, and
the value of the property considerably deteriorated.
This alteration in the regulations was professedly for
the purpose of ascertaining the actual quantity of paper
shipped for the drawback, the examining officer on the
shipment destroying the official marks on the packages,
and making a return of the quantity to the Excise depart •
moat, although for what reason this could not be as well
performed by the Excise officers themselves on the pre-
mises of the party, previously to the final racking for
shipment, as is done in the case of plate glass, the
cases being then and there finally packed for shipment,
and sealed, if considered necessary by the Excise, with
an official stamp, to prevent the practicability of the pack-
ages being re-opened, does not very clearly appear. The
Customs' authorities are evidently aware of the great in-
conveniences to which merchants are subjected in conse-
quence of this new regulation, as well as the almost im-
possibility of a compliance with it, without serious injury
to their property, for in numerous instances have they, on
application, allowed the packages to be shipped on a
partial examination only, the parties urging that as the
paper was closely packed and secured for a long voyage,
the exposure of it to the damp atmosphere at this sea-
son, in addition to the injury caused by the unpacking
of the cases, would so materially deteriorate it, as to
render it unfit for the intended purpose. •
RAILWAY BUSINESS FOR NEXT SESSIO?L The
mere enumeration of the proposed Railways, in the Par-
liamentary Notices of " New Railway Bills for England,
Scotland, and Ireland," is of tremendous length—occupy-
ing some nineteen columns of close print. The new rail-
ways (or extensions, deviations, &c., of existing ones) for
England alone amount to no fewer than 195; those for
Scotland to 7; and those for Ireland, 23—making a total of
235 Bills that are to be introduced next Session, for new

lines of railway, lengthening, diverging, or otherw:so
altering and improving old lines, &c. The " Eas. ern
Counties" Company alone have given notices, ]lane,
&e., for seven Bills. There are also a "
gerford-bridge and Birmingham Junction" (to join at
Willesden) ; no fewer than nine lines, one of whose
termini is Manchester ; four from Newcastle ; four fron
Oxford ; five South-Western extension lines, &c. The
capital proposed to be raised for these railways is enorrr on&
Two of the Oxford lines alone would cost, aocoi ding
even to present calculation. 4,000,000!. The North
Kent would cost 2,200,0001. ; the London and York,
5,000,000 L ; the London and Chatham, and North Rent,
1,500,0001. ; the Leeds and West Riding Junction,
1,200,000/. ; the Direct Northern to York, 4,000,0001. ;
the Central Kentish, 2,250,000!. These are the lose est
" estimated" expenses. It is not an unnatural question
to put—where can all the money come from for these, in
addition to the already countless existing speculations ?
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