The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-20 00:00:00

OXFORD UNIVERSITY.

The following notice has been issued :
The Junior Proctor will receive the names of under-
graduates who intend to offer themselves for the respon-
sions in Michaelmas Term, on Saturday, the 18th inst.
from quarter before twelve till quarter before one
o'clock ; Monday. the 20th, from quarter before
twelve till quarter before one o'clock ; Tuesday,
the 21st, from half-past twelve till half-past two
o'clock. It is necessary that each candidate should
bring his matriculation paper, and the certificate of
having sat in the schools, or copies of them attested b 3
the registrar. These papers must either be presented
by the candidate in person, or transmitted through his
tutor. N.B —Those candidates who may need a dis-
pensation from the Vice-Chancellor and Procters, in
order to have their names inserted in the list, are re-
quired to attend at the Vice-Chancellor's house on
Tuesday. the 21st instant, at eleven o'clock, and to
bring with them, from the head or tutor of their college
or hall, a statement in writing of the grounds on which
the dispensation is sought for.—Merton College, Oct. 14,
1845.

STATE OF TRADE.
FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, OCT. 17.—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.
ENGLISH 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 week 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 buyen,
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. 16.—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 broker and noils, in which there is a
turn in favour of the buyer. The position of the spina rs
still remain unaltered. The price of yarns bears no proper.
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 hear 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 stead\
business doing in Orleans, Coburgs, and Merinos, goods
adapted for the winter. Moreens are hardly so brisk as a fen
weeks back. In prices no change worthy of note.
MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We have had a
dull and heavy cloth market all the week, and it closes to-dav
without any signs of early improvement. Inmost 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.

THE 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 Zolive.
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 manufaaturee
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 Johe
Knapp, aged fifty-nine years, a gunsmith, residing [4
Chambers-street, Whitechapel, committed suicide in the fol-
lowing singular manner :—He had been latterly in a very
desponding way, but he would never disclose to any one
what was weighing upon his mind. He retired to lied oh
the previous night at the usual hour, without the slightest
alteration in his demeanour. In the morning be 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,
hisa
search was made for him, and he was discovered in
nhers
workshop, hanging by a piece of rope, quite dead.
for
hire
being no hook or other convenient'place in the room,
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 comraeaced. . 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 have 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 -are INfakefield magistrates, for an offence
against the game-laws. Higgins, who is a l'arm labourer,
was proceeding to his work early in the morning, :Ind Peekedob.
up a hare, which he found dead in a wheat t ell ; being
served by the game-keeper, the poor fellow
.iv
custody. The hare had been caught in a sn:vl3ilse but there
was no evidence to prove that the plrrisoreeerin cgas itt any wav
connected with poachers. He wasi
his scythe over his shoulder, to a field adjoining ,
the hare was found, wheii
and, naturally enough,
in a penalty' rued costs amounting
sent to the House ofCorrection dto wort:, witli
that in which
he accidentally sari• the animal,
took possession. Higgins was fined
to 5/., and in default he was
for three months.—Leeds
Mercury.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE THROUGH THE FAILURE OF
1-,FcCTLATIONS.-03 Friday night Mr. Coxhead,
THEATRICAL S•
well known in the theattical world, and who, it is said, has
lost 15,0001. in theatrical speculations, went into a hairdresser's
shop in Kennington, where, after lie was shaved, lie 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 annanneement, which was cried
through the fair :—" This is to give notice, that in consequence
of' the continued depression o 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
nest :% ear, when they hope it will be more convenient for
than to entertain their friends. This notice is expressly
given for the-purpose of- preventing disappointment."—Ta'il's
Independent.