The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-02 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

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FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS,— AUGUST 30.
Thtre has been a rather larger amount of business
transacted on foreign wools this week than during
the fortnight preceding, but in prices we have not dis-
cerned any variation.

ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, AuGusr 30.
We have not any alteration to report in this market
this week. The manufacturers are all fully em-
ployed, but buy cautiously. Prices are firm and sta-
tionary.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, AUGUST 30.—There
is no new feature in either the long or short wool
market; prices are quite stationary, and although
sales are not extensive, better hopes are excited by
the splendid weather for harvest operations that has
set in since our last week's report.
LEEDS.—There has this week been quite as brisk
demand for goods at our cloth-halls as of late ; the
principal articles are shawls; fancy cloakings, heavy
tweeds, and pilot cloths for winter demand. The
supply continues to be very limited, and considerably
more business would be done if there was more
choice in the market. Prices continue steady. There
has been a considerable number of wholesale buyers
in the town during the week, and, in consequence,
business has been brisk in the warehouses.
lIECKMONDWIKE BLANKET MARKET, AUG. 29.
This market continues in the same state as last week.
On Monday there was a fair attendance of merchants
and manufacturers, but to-day not so good : few
samples, and little inclination on the part of either to
do business. The manufacturers are looking for an
advance, on account of the present price of wool.
BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—There is a fair
demand for most piece goods suitable for the autumn,
and the prices firm. Yarns are in steady request,
and prices stationary. There is only a very limited
business doing in combing wools, the market well
supplied, and the buyers evidently only take what is
required for immediate use.
MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We have had
much less doing in grey cloth this week, and since
Tuesday the heaviness has been on the increase ; still
a large business is doing. No one seems disposed to
purchase on China account till the next
advices come to hand ; and as this will
probably be the case before Tuesday next,
we shall then have some certain indication of what
may be expected for the remainder of the autumn, so
far as the India and China markets are concerned.
The dyers and printers are very busy—a good sign
of a brisk home trade. Domestics are still in fair
demand, at previous rates. Yarns are shipping to a
great extent, but there is no real change in value.—
Leeds Mercury.

ANOTIIER ATTEMPT AT EXPLOSlON.—Yesterday
morning, about half-past two o'clock, a man named Jo-
seph Almond, a penknife grinder, residing in Sidney-
street, was awoke from his sleep by the breaking of a
window in the bedroom underneath that in which he was
sleeping. He directly jumped out of bed, and ran to the
room where he heard the noise. He there found a gin-
ger-beer bottle, commonly called a pop-bottle, with a
burning fuse inserted in the cork. This he succeeded in
putting out without injury, and in going to the window
saw three men in the street below. He forthwith sallied
into the street, and collared one of the three ; upon
which the other men attacked him and rescued their
companion. The three then ran away, and succeeded in
effecting their escape. Two of them were in the course
of the day captured by the police. On examination of
the bottle it was found to be filled with gunpowder. It
is said that Almond, who is a hard-working man, had
left the union to which he belonged, that he might be
enabled to obtain a living uneontrolled by union regula-
tions. He had reason to know that his conduct had
given offence, and under the apprehension of danger, his
wife had been afraid to sleep at home for four nights
previous to the attempted explosion. The prisoners are
charged with the capital offence of wilfully and mali-
ciously throwing a bottle of gunpowder into the window
of Joseph Almond's house, for the purpose of destroying
his life and property. The case excites intense interest,
being the first in which these Guy Fauxes have ever
stood a chance of being made to answer for these crimes.
—Sheffield Iris.
A NON-RESIDENT CLERGYMAN.—The Rev. Mr.
muck, the rector of Walsoken, Norfolk, has been con-
demned by the Consistory Court, at Norwich, to forfeit
one-third part of the annual value of his benefice, and
costs, by reason of non-residence, without leave, for
three mouths.—Doneaeter Gazette.