The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-30 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, SEPT. 27.—We
have no•aiteration of moment to report in this branch ot•
tritde. Prices are firm and stationary. There hare
been rather more sales effected in some kinds of comb-
ing wools.
FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, SEPT. 27.—We hare
no material change to report in the Foreign Wool Trade
this week. Sales have not been ♦ery extensive, many
buyers being absent at the London wool sales, but prices
remain firm.

WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, SEPT. 27.—There has
been more doing this than for several preceding weeks
in deep combing fleeces at previous rates, which has
caused an increased degree of confidence in holders, that
prices proportionate with those recently giren to the
growers will be established, and the trade firm. In
short wools there is no variation, and no accumulation
in the stock.

DONCASTER WOOl, MARKET.—We beg to remind MIT
agricultural and manufacturing readers, that the last
market for this season will be held on Saturday, Oct. 5.
LSEDS.—There has been rather less business done
this week at our Cloth Hall than for some time past.
Prices are steady, and the stocks on hand are much less
than is usually the case at this season.
BRADFORD ,MARKET, THURSDAY.—The attendance of
merchants is not numerous to-day, and, upon the whole,
the Piece Market may be termed flat. Manufacturers
complain bitterly of the extreme low prices at which
sales are effected. We are sorry to hear that many
respectably houses are already curtailing their produc-
tion. We regret the necessity for so doing, not the fact
itself, which may indeed be, most likely is, the wisest
course to adopt. There is nothing new in yarns since
our last publieation. We cannot quote any improvement
in wool; the demand continues of the same limited
character as noted for several weeks past, and prices
somewhat in favour of the buyer. There is scarcely
so much activity for noils and brokes, but no alteration
hi prices.
MANCIFIVSTER, THURSDAY ETEND:c.--We have had
rather more doing in cloth this week, and prices more
steady on all kinds except in printing fabrics, which.,
notwithstanding an -extensive demand, continued to
recede, though almost imperceptibly ;—for instance,
the decline may be called Sl' 04.;r piece durin; the
last six weeks. The low . price of the staple, with is
prospect ( its continuance, is a favourable omen that
such will be the case. The home trade is very brisk, so
far as extensive sales can make it so. Our dyers were
never more busy. From present appearances the ope-
ratives will succeed in obtaining a small advance of
wages without a general strike. The sale of Yarns is
still very large, but without any now feature as to value.
—Leeds Mercury.

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TFIR MARQUIS OF DONEGAL.-We regret to learn
that very unfavourable accounts have been received in
regard to the state of health of the above Noble Marquis.
On Saturday his Lordship was removed to Ormian from
Calbra, where he has been residing during the summer,
and the worst fears are entertained as to the Noble Mar.
quis's ultimate recovery.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Waterford, and,
Sir James and Lady Campbell, were among the nume-
rous passengers who arrived from Ostend on Saturday,
by the Sir Edward Banks. The time occupied on the
passage to London a little exceeded twelve hours.
FUNERAL RITES DENIED.—At St. Margaret,
Church, Leicester, on Friday last, the officiating curate
was about to inter a child of a carpenter named We'sster
when he asked by whom it had been baptised. Re seas
told that it had not been baptised at all. Be they
refused to perform the service, virtually excommunicating
the deceased ; and the interment was prevented by the
sexton. The parents are respectable members of all if-
tist church in the town, the chapel belonging to which
has no burying ground.
ManntAGEs.—By an Act passed in the late session
concerning bans and marriages in certain district churches
or chapels, various doubts which had arisen are removed
respecting the legality of such marriages, and it is de-
clared that in every case in which a district has been or
shall be assigned to any church or chapel under the
Church-building Acts, it shall be determined by the
Commissioners and the Bishop of the Diocese whether
bans of matrimony shall be published and marriages so-
lemnised in any church or chapel or not. The follow-
ing clause has been framed to render marriages valid
which have already taken place, and provision is made
for future cases. Section :3—" And whereas by error
bans have been published, and divers marriages have
been solemnised in chapels with districts assigned to
them under the provisions of the hereinbefore recited
Acts, or some of them, but in which chapel bans conic'
not be legally published, nor marriages by law solem-
nised ; and it is expedient to remove difficulties arising
from the circumstances aforesaid touchiug the validity
of such marriages ; be it therefore enacted, that harm
already published and marriages already solemnised in
such chapels as aforesaid shall not hereafter be ques-
tioned on account of the said bans having been published
or the said marriages solemnised in any such chapel as
aforesaid; and the minister or ministers who solemniaest
the same shall not be liable to auy ecclesiastical censure
of to any other proceedings or penalties whatsoever by
reason thereof, and the registers of all marriages so so-
lemnised as aforesaid, or copies of such registers shall
be received in all courts of law and equity as evidence or
such marriages respectively."
A slizr thine since a young gentleman, near Gilts-
tonbury, with right and left ban el, shot on the wing, and
bagged' nine jackdaws arid two rooks, in the middle of t
twenty-acre stubble ground,—Sherborne Journal.