The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-19 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, FEB. 16.—0 n account of
the continued demand for Foreign Wools, and the temporary
suspension in the supply from Germany in consequence of the
frost, the stocks of some descriptions have already become
very bare, and for such as remain on hand full recent rates
are demanded and generally obtained.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, FEB. 16.—We have
not any alteration to report in this branch of trade this week,
either as to demand or prices. There is considerable business
doing, and prices are very firm.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, FEB. 16.—The demand for
all kinds of combing wools continues good, and the improved
terms of last week are fully maintained. Low clothing wools
are much sought for, at advanced prices. Blanket wools are
comparatively neglected, and prices without variation.
LEEDS.—The markets at both our Cloth Halls were very
lively both on Saturday and Tuesday; but the demand is
principally for low goods, upon which a trifling advance has
been obtained, whilst the demand for finer qualities is with-
out any alteration, and prices are lower than at any period
since 1829. The demand continues brisk for Tweeds both
for foreign and home demand. There has been a little im-
provement in business in the warehouses during the week,
particularly for the home market, whilst the foreign houses
continue to be doing a steady business, considering the early
period of the season.
HOLMFIRTIL—There has been a moderate share of busi•
ness done here during the past month, principally in low
fancy goods, Manufacturers continuing to confine them-
selves to the orders received, stocks are consequently low.
BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY, FEB. 15.—There is
quite an average attendance of buyers at our piece market
to-day, and a full business doing, and late prices fully main-
tained. The- demand for yarn for home consumption con-.
finites; also several export houses (who have been doing but
little of late, owing to the Elbe being frozeri)have made their
appearance as buyers, which is calculated to cause the spin-
ners to be busy for a length of time. Prices without altera-
tion. There has scarcely been so much animation in the
wool trade during the week, as for some time past. Prices
are very firm ; in fact all kinds of wool may be quoted dearer
in the growing districts since our last report.
MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—Though the specu-
lation in Liverpool is not so extensive this week as of late,
still neither spinner, manufacturer, nor buyer, seems to know
what to do : the small business doing, however, may be said
to be at about half the advance that has taken place on cotton,
and this applies to all kinds of cloth except printing cloth,
which at present finds buyers at very full and satisfactory
prices ; fine yarns are also an exception, which sell pretty
freely at paying rates.—Leeds Mercury.

GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY COMPANY.
—On Tuesday last, the 13th inst., the half-yearly general
meeting of the above Company was held in the Company's
office, in Darlington ; G. H. Wilkinson, Esq., in the chair.
The Report of the Directors was read to the meeting, and
was received and adopted. The Report recommended a divi-
dend of 1/. I2s. 6d. per share, equal to 31. ss, per cent. per
annum, and being 7s. 6d. per share more than the previous
half-yearly dividends, leaving a surplus of 1,7301. to be
carried to the reserve fund. The proceedings called forth
little remarks from the Shareholders present, but a memorial
was sent to the Chairman from Glasgow, remonstrating
against the guarantee to the Newcastle and Darlington
Junction Railway Company being given up. After a vote
of thanks to the Chainnan, the meeting separated.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS DESTROYED.—The
village of Charlton-on-Otmoor, situate within a few miles
of Oxford, has latterly been the scene of several very lawless
proceedings. Some of the labourers, for the want of employ-
ment, have been driven to the Bicester union workhouse,
which has caused a great deal of excitement and dissatis-
faction in the minds of those remaining. Several of the re-
spectable inhabitants have had their windows broken, and on
the night of the 26th of January three ploughs were de-
stroyed, by cutting them to pieces. Each plough belonged
to a different farmer of the village. A paper was left on one
of them, with the following written on it A fully belly
does not know what an empty one feels."

THE WEATHER.—SCOTLAND.—The comparative
mildness of the weather here, with the plough going in the
vicinity of the town, and our streets and roads free from snow,
is strikingly contrasted with the interior of the Highlands,
where the storm has been severely felt. The road to Perth,
between Moy and Dalnacardoch, is quite blocked up by snow
wreaths of great depth. The mail bags from Dalnacardoch
are conveyed on horseback ; and all letters south of Dunkeld
are sent round by Aberdeen, a circuit of eighty additional
miles to Inverness. This day appearing settled, with symp-
toms of thaw, a body of men have been set to work to clear
away the snow, but it is supposed that nearly a week must
elapse ere the Highland road can be rendered passable for
vehicles. Fortunately the letters from the ;south arrive re-
gularly, with the exception that the delivery takes place here
at eight o'clock in the evening instead of eight in the morn-
ing. In Ross-shire the coast road is quite clear; but in
Sutherland and Caithness the mails are carried on horseback,
owing to the depth of snow.—lnverness Courier.
DESTITUTION.—On Friday last, Mr. Payne held an
inquest at the White Hart, Shoe-lane, on view of the body of
Samuel Townsend, aged thirty, whose death was accelerated
by privation and destitution. It appeared from the evidence
that the deceased was a pattern-maker, and lived at No. 3,
Green-street, Marlborough-row, Chelsea. He had been out
of work sixteen weeks, during fourteen of which he had
been suffering from consumption. Last Monday he was en-
gaged to work at the iron-foundry of Mr. Pontifex, Shoe-
lane, when he took a lodging at Mr. Beckwith's coffee-shop,
No. 77, Shoe-lane. On Wednesday he was so ill that the
foreman advised him to go home, and assisted him there,
about ten o'clock in the forenoon. Soon after he appeared
dying, when Mr. Bullen, surgeon, attached to the Farring-
don-street Dispensary, attended, in whose presence he died.
It was stated in the room that the deceased had left a widow
and an infant, one month old, with six small children, and
that he was in such reduced circumstances that the whole of
them were without food two days of the preceding week.
The unfortunate widow, who had her baby in her arms, said
that they had been in extreme distress, and that her hus-
band's illness proceeded from a cold. Mr. Buller stated that
death arose from inflammation of the chest, which, he had
no doubt was aggravated by privation and want of comfort.
Deceased was, a few years ago, a powerful robust man.
Verdict, that the deceased died from inflammation of the
chest." At the conclusion of the inquiry, Mr. Buller gave
up his fee allowed by law, of one guinea, to the widow.
The Coroner also contributed 55., and the jury 175., making
altogether 2/ 35., which was most gratefully received by her.
NEVER TOO LATE.—DUBLIN, FEB. 14.—A scene
of rather a remarkable character occurred in the cabin of the
steam-packet before her starting :—Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Mau-
rice O'Connell, Mr. John O'Connell, Mr. Morgan J. O'Con-
nell, Mr. Sheil, and Mr. Nicholas Maher, the new Member
for Tipperary, were aboard, and the present Government re-
porter, and the late one, Mr. Bond Hughes, were also in the
cabin. Mr. Steele, who accompanied Mr. O'Connell to the
packet, shook hands with the Government reporter, and was
engaged in some playful conversation with him, when Mr.
Bond Hughes joining, addressed the Head Pacificator. Mr.
Steele immediately and good-humouredly responded, and ad-
dressing Mr. Bond Hughes, said—" Mr. Bond Hughes, you
were under a misconception with regard to Behemoth,' for
I did not speak the quotation ; but I am bound in honour to
declare, that I never in my life heard evidence more straight-
forward, fair, and manly than yours in describing the peace
of our monster meetings." Mr. Hughes, in courteous terms,
responded, and asked Mr. Steele if he would have any objec-
tion to shake hands with him, and the latter replied that, on
the contrary, he would feel pleasure. At this moment Mr.
O'Connell came to the part of the cabin where this occurred,
and shook hands with Mr. Bond Hughes, Mr. Steele telling
him playfully of his observations about the unspoken
"Behemoth," • &c. Mr. Bond Hughes was treated with
marked respect by every one of the traversers present, Mr.
Ray among the number.—Chronicle.
DEATH FROM EATING SPRATS.—Mr. Baker held
an inquest yesterday at the Chequers, Providence-row,
Finsbury-square, on the body of Mr. Thomas Wiley, aged,
thirty-six, an oil and colourman, of No. 5, Windmill-street.
Samuel Moggridge said he was a lodger in deceased's house.
He returned home from the London 'Docks on Tuesday night
last, and deceased invited him into the parlour to smoke a
pipe. Witness sat with him for about an hour, and at twelve
o'clock deceased parted with him, and went to bed. De-
ceased was then in perfect health. At four o'clock the next
morning the witness was awakened and told that deceased
was very ill. He got up and dressed himself as quickly as
possible, but upon reaching the bedside he found him dead.
Mr. John Cantling, surgeon, of No. 11, Finsbury-square, said
he was called to attend deceased, but found him dead.
Witness had since made a post mortem examination of the
body, and found that deceased had died from inflammation
of the stomach, caused by eating some sprats for supper on
the previous night. He was informed that deceased had
eaten very few, but his stomach was previously diseased,
and the number was fully sufficient to aggravate the com-
plaint. Persons with weak stomachs could not be too
careful in eating sprats. Verdict " Died from the effects
of eating sprats, the stomach being previously in an unhealthy
state."

A STRANGE Vow.—A singular instance of Hindoo
devoteeism—a Brahmin from the north—has visited
these parts, and is now on his way to Cape Comorin,
if he has not already reached it. He rolls him-
self over and over on the bare ground, about
three or four miles each day, on his way to the
above-mentioned place ; and it is said that he
has travelled in this manner all the way from Benares, in
doing which he has consumed nine years and three months.
He sets out at dawn, with thick cloths tied round his body
and temples ; and, having reached the village fixed upon,
he performs his devotions, and spends the rest of the day
with his family, who travel with him in bullock-carts. He
is fanned, as he rolls along, by his son, a youth of ten or
twelve years of age ; while the musicians of the village
which he leaves, or o that to which he is going, accompany
him with music and shouting: thousands of people gazing
with admiration upon his progress, and applauding him as
" a great soul"—a most religious man. When he comes to
a- tank, or river, or other places which he cannot cross
by rolling on the ground, he walks through them;
on the other side, rolls the same distance along
the bank, and back again. When he reaches Cape
Comorin, he is to set a plaintain, and wait there till he
offers the fruit of it to the deity whom he worships ;
after which, they say, he is to roll back again to Benares,
on the other side of the Ghauts. He is a stout man, of
about 40 years of age, and is said to be not much in-,
jure4 by his devoteeism. This act, instead of being re-.
garded as a waste of time and labour, is praised by
the Hindoos, generally, as an evidence of the highest
wisdom and magnanimity ; and yet some of them,
enlightened probably by Christianity, regard it
as folly ; unless, indeed, which is not certain,
he derives a splendid profit from it in tha offerings
of the people. Certain it is that his family main-
tain a most respectable appearance; but it is said that
he was a man of property before he set out on his strange
pilgrimage. Many will, probably, consider this an instance
of mistaken piety; but, the real cause of it being known,
will perhaps explain most other instances of Hindoo de-
votion. It appears he had no child; and, being unable to
bear this evil—which the Hindeos ascribe to the sins of a
former birth—made a vow to his god that, if he would
grant him a son, he would undertake the penance which
he is now performing. A son was born to him—the same
who fans him as he rolls along. It is said, but this is proba-
bly, a tale, that he did not at once begin his vow, in conse-
quence of which the child became blind, and that when he
set about his undertaking, a restoration of the child's sight
was granted by the dthty. Perhaps the business is tole-
rably pleasant to the man by this time, accompanied, as
he is, by pomp and praise ; but, even if it were not, his
fear of losing the child, by the anger of the god, would
be sufficient to keep him faithful to his promise.—Petties
Aga Journal.

MARKET NE W5.....8AT URDA Y
c OV ENT-GARDEN.
For the time of the year, we had a very plentifal stippix
of both fruit and vegetables, while the general demand was
on the whole steady, on the following terms :—Potatoes,
from 2s 6d to 4s 6d per cwt ; Spring Onions, 2s 6d to 4s 6d ;
Coleworts or Greens, 2s 6d to 3s 9d ; Turnips, is 9d to 2s 9d;
Carrots, 3s to 5s 6d ; and Leeks, 8d to Is 2d per dozen
bunches; old Onions, is 6d to 2s 3d; Spinach, is 9d to
2s 3d ; Apples, Is 3d to 4s ; Pears, 6s to 12s ; and Brocoli
sprouts, is 6d to 2s 3d per half sieve; Walnuts, 12s to 16s
per bushel ; Asparagus, 3s to 8s ; French Beans, 3s to 4s ;
Oranges, 6s to 14s ; and Lemons, 5s to 12s per WO.
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NEVITGATE AND 36EADENNA.3GL.
The markets exhibited full average supplies of Game and
Poultry, which sold heavily at barely late rates :—Fowls,
Is 9d to 4s; Chickens, Is 6d to 2s; Ducks, is to 2s 3d; Geese,
4s to 6s ; Pigeons, 4d to 10d ; Turkeys, 4s to lOs ; Rabbits,
6d to is 6d; Hares, is 9d to 2s' 9d; Partridges, is
to 2s ; Pheasants, 2s 6d to 3s 9d ; Wild Ducks, Is 6d to 2s ;
Teal, 9d to is 6d; Widgeons, is to is 6d; Snipes, 6d to Is;
Woodcocks, 2s to 3s 6d ; Plovers, 3d to 6d, each ; and Larks,
Is 3d per dozen. Prime Mutton was scarce, and in request, at
very full prices ; but, otherwise, the trade ruled dull :—Beef,
from 2s 4d to 3s 4d ; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s 8d ; Veal, 3s 8d to
4s 8d ; and Pork, 2s 6d to 4s per 81bs, by the carcase.

HUNGERFORD.
Notwithstanding the supplies of most articles were by no
means extensive, the demand was throughout heavy, at but
little variation in prices.