The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-19 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, AUGUST 16.—The
partial decrease in the amount of sales has been appa-
rent in the foreign wool trade during the past week,
but prices are without variation.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, AUGUST 16.—
We have not any alteration to notice this week ; sales
continue steady, and prices firm.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, AUGUST 16.—We
have no alteration to note in the trade from last
week ; sales have scarcely been so extensive, yet
prices are equally as firm in both long and short wool.
LEEDS.—There has this week been a very brisk
demand for beavers, pilot cloth, shawls, and fancy
cloakings, in fact, for goods of every description
adapted to the winter trade. The supply of goods to
the Cloth Halls still continues to be very small, con-
sequent on the manufacturers being engaged in de-
livering to order, and the stocks in the hands of the
manufacturers are smaller than they have been for
many years. Prices are a little higher in low quali-
ties, but fine goods are without any alteration. There
has been a fair average quantity of business done in
the warehouses, principally in goods suitable for the
winter.

BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—In the Piece
Market there is a steady business doing to-day in
merinos, orleans, and cobourgs, for the home trade,
and the shippers are busy selecting goods suitable for
the approaching German fairs, which are generally
expected to be brisk, as the supply sent forward for
the spring fairs was very small, the advanced prices
having deterred the merchants from buying. The
spinners are generally working to order ; old stocks
are cleared out, and prices are firm. There is not
any improvement in the demand for wool since our
last; the supply being good, the spinners buy only
for immediate use. Prices are steady.
TRADE OF MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—
There is no fresh feature in our cloth market since
Tuesday. The demand is steady, and fully equal to
the production, indeed in some kinds of cloth the
supply is hardly equal to the demand. The home
trade is very lively ; a large business indeed is doing,
and probably never a larger one was doing by our
home merchants. All branches seem to be doing
well. The dyers now are remarkably busy, a sure
sign of a very good domestic trade. Twist is very
ready sale, and, if anything, is again in favour of the
spinner.—Leeds Mercury.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, AUGUST lB.—Five hun-
dred hhds. West-India have found buyers since our last,
at from 565. to 655. per cwt., which are considered
firmer rates. The transactions in Bengals and Mauri-
tius continue on a limited scale.—Bristol Illercnry.

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ENGLAND IN 1830.—1 only wish you could read
Arthur Young's Travels in France in 1789 and 1790,
and see what he says of the general outbreak then of the
peasantry, when they burnt the chateaux all over France,
and ill-used the families of the proprietors, and then
compare the orderliness of the French populace now. It
speaks volumes for small subdivided properties, general
intelligence, and en absence of aristocratical manners
and distinctions. We know that, in the first revolution,
to be seen in decent clothes was at one time a sure road
to the guillotine ; so bitter was the hatred engendered in
a brute population against those who had gone on in
luxury and refinement, leaving their poorer neighbours
to remain in the ignorance and wretchedness of savages,
and therefore with the ferocity of savages also. The
dissolution of the Ministry may do something ; but the
evil exists in every parish in England ; and there should
be a reform in the ways and manners of every parish to
cure it. We have got up a dispensary here ; and I am
thinking of circulating small tracts a la Cobbett in point
of style, to show the people the real state of things and
their causes. Half the truth might be of little use ; but
ignorance of all the truth is something fearful, and a
knowledge of the whole truth, I am convinced, do no-
thing but pacify, because the fault of the rich has been a
sin of ignorance and thoughtlessness : they have only
done what the poor would have done in their places,
because few men's morality rises higher than to take
care of themselves, abstaining from actual wrong to
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FATAL EXPLOSION OF FIRE-DAMP.—A frightful
explosion occurred on Monday at the Crab-tree colliery,
West Bromwich, belonging to Messrs. J. Bagnall and
Sons, by which four men were instantly killed, and fire
others so severely burned that they are not expected to
recover. It is supposed that the " air lead" had become
choked up during the night, and thuscaused an accumu-
lation of- explosive gas in the colliery beneath.—Ten
Towns' Messenger.