The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-22 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

433
527
408
261
309
1,875
4,021
1,365
636

4,845

26,950

607
3,542
927

METROPOLITAN VISITING AND RELIEF A SSOCIA-
TIos.—The second annual meeting of th- members and sup-
porters of this institution was held on Friday at Willis's
scorns, St. James's. T:--e Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of
London having taken the chair, briefly to open the business
of the meeting. Mr. Haly, the secretary, then read the
second annual report. It stated that the society had for its
object the physical, moral, and spiritual improvement of the
poor, without regard to religious distinctions ; and he spoke
in encouraging terms of the success which had attended its
operations. The balance sheets showed an income during
the past year, including former balance, sale of Exchequer-
bills, &c., of 8,6911. 10s. 3d. The grants amounted to
7.0081. 18s., and there was a present balance of 8961. 3a. Mr.
W. Gladstone, M.P., proposed the adoption and circuiatiou of
the report. The Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster se-
conded the resolution, and it was carried unanimously. Sir
R. H. Inglis moved the second resolution, to the effect that
the experience of another year had justified the hope ex-
pressed at the institution of -the society, that the formation
of district visiting societies throughout the parishes of the
metropolis had been fully realised. Archdeacon Hale
seconded the resolution, which was carried nem dis. Mr.
Cardwell, ,1.P., moved another resolution, recommending
the encouragement of provident societies amongst the poor,
which was seconded by the Rev. T. Gibson, and carried
unanimously. Votes of thanks were then severally passed
to the auditors and the chairman, when the meeting sepa-
rated.
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. There is
hardly a week passes without some addition to the number
of models of carriages and machinery connected with steam
power propulsion, locomotive, and stationary engines, in the
museum of this excellent Instituti.-n, arid among the more
recent we observe a bernitiful adaptation of pneumatic
science. It consists of a miniature steam-engine playing a
fourettin, the whole forming an elegant article of vertu. The
steam is generated by spirits of and carries out the
whole process of a stationary engine, having a cylinder of
five-eighths of an inch diameter, with pumps, cranks, fly-
wheel, &c., complete. The fountain is attached, and plays in
a globe of glase, in which may be placed gold-fish, and presents
one d the proof that the ornamental and useful may be so com-
bined as to produce sensations of extreme gratification. This
little bijou was designed and manufactured by Mr. T. Smith,
who had the honour a short time since of exhibiting it to his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, Who Was pleased to pay a
high compliment upon its ingenuity. It M no* deposited in
the Royal Polytechnic Instituti.n, and will no doubt be much
appreciated by the visitors during the Christmas holidays.
We hear there are numerous novelties in embryo which will
shortly be produced to amuse and instruct the sight-seekers
at this festive season of the year, more particularly those who
are fond of spending the day in places of more quiet enjoy.
men'

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The late Major-General John Mayne, C. 8., of the
Hon. East India Compatiy'S service, Bombay, late of Edin-
burgh) North Britain, has left personalty in England
amounting to 5,000/. By his will, dated Feb. 24, 1845, he
has left to his son, James Edmund Mayne, Esq., in the mili-
tary service of the Hon. East India Company, two hundred
shares in the Northern Coal Mining Company, for which
4,6001. was originally paid. All his other property he leaves
to his executors in trust for his children, viz., the interest of
4,0001., to be at the disposal of his daughter Mary, wife of
Captain Wormald, of the Bombay Artillery, fir her life, and
the principal to her children at her decease To his daughters
Hemet and Hannah, and son John, 2,2501. each ; anti to ins
son Robert, 1,7501. The residue among them. The execu-
tors are James and Robert Mayne, Esqrs. his brothers, who
are also appointed the guardians of his infant children. The
will was registered in Edinburgh on the 23d of August last,
and proved in London on the 29th ult.—Post.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—On Friday morning, be-
tween four and five o'clock, a determined attempt at suicide
was made by J. R. Cullinford, Esq., a gentleman residing in
Mary-street, Hampstead road, by shooting himself with a
pocket pistol. It appears that he returned home to his
lodgings, apparently much dejected; he proceeded up stairs
to his bedroom; in a few minutes afterwards his landlord
heard a faint report of fire-arms; he instantly proceeded up
stairs, and on entering the bedroom he found Mr. Cullin-
ford on the floor bleeding from the left tide, and a pocket
pistol lying by his side. Surgical assistance being procured,
it was ascertained that the ball had passed through the flesh
in an oblique direction, without injuring any vital part.
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, DEC. 19.—The
supplies-are not large this week. Although in the same un-
certainty about the corn-laws, there was to-day a firmer
feeling in the trade, and although an extremely limited
business was transacted, really fine and dry wheats were fully
as dear; in common sorts nothing doing. Fine barley sold at
former rates, inferior samples unsaleable unless at a reduction.
New Ireans-rath.er cheaper; in old no alteration. Oats id.
per load,. and Sinllina ed. to la. per load lower. Malt as

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, DEC. 19.—Foreign
wools have been heavy of sale this week, and transac-
tions generally are very limit, d in extent.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, DEC. 19. This
branch of trade has remained during the present week
in the same state as named in our last week's report.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, DEC. 19.—The firm-
ness of the growers of wool renders it impossible to
supply the market at the late reduction in price; and the
dullness of the trade and the unsettled state of the
money market and of politics, occasiens consumers to act
cautiously, and generally to be indisposed to operate
largely even at these rates, so that few sales have been
passing.
LEEUS.—The present state of the country, and the
uncertainty of the measures likely to be brought forward
to avert the evils attending a short supply of food, has
considerable effect upon our cloth markets: both on Sa-
turday and Tuesday the markets were dull. There is,
however, an improved demand for goods calculated for
the United States for the spring trade, and also for
Canada. This is prrbably on the speculation that as
there will require to be a large importation of corn and
flour, it will give an impetus to the demand for British
goods in that quarter of the globe. The home trade is
very dull, and little is now doing in purchases for the
home markets, either in the cloth halls or in the ware-
houses.

HoLateraTll.—The manufacturers complain seriously
of the impossibility of disposing of their goods, in any
quantities, at a remunerating price, and consequently
working short time has become general at nearly all the
mills. The failure of Mr. Edward Rawson, merchant. of
Halifax, will materially add to the &pression; his h
bilities in this district being stated at more than 60,0001.
What with the inclement season of the year, the dearness
of food, and the =carcity of employment, the workin
classes, it is to be feared, will have to experience an
amount of misery and deprivation it is fearful to contem
plate. Truly the admonitory lessons of monopoly are
cruel. When will our legislators consent to do our In-
dustriel population justice?
HECK3IONDWIKE, DEC. 15.—The trade of this place
has fallen of very much this last month, and it may he
remarked that it gradually decreased as the price of
bread advanced. We had a dull market to-day, and a
thin attendance .of buyers, oa ing partly to tfe weather.
BRADFORD MARKET. TIIIIRSDAY.—The dullness for
all kimds of wool is not in the Last degree altered. The
business doing is a mere trifle, certainly not more than 30
per cent, of average times; yet there has been no giving
way in price to induce the spinners to extend their per.
chases. The stock in the staplers' hands here is fully an
average. Noils and brokes are riot very plentiful, which may
be accounted for by the very small quantity making, and
the reduced prices at %N hid) they have been latterly sold.
We cannot hear of any better tidings among the spin-
, nets, whose complaints are nut in the slightest abated,
as no better price can yet be obtain.4l for yarns; there
is more inquiry than for some weeks past, and by no
means see many jobs pressing on the market, which have
been sold in many cases for little over the cost of the
wool. There is, however, a prOspect of better times:
with the present production stocks will not increase,
and we hope at the turn of the year to see a more
legitimate state of things. All will rejoice in this,
the sake of our operative classes, whose privations. are
♦ery great at this inclement season of the year. We
cannot report anything different in this day's market,
which has only been dull, nor is any marked animation
looked for during this year. Our next., e hi,th will be
on, Wednesday, will close this profitless year, and it
would prove a great boon to all engaged if the new mar-
ket, opening with the year 1846, should assume a mere
cheering aspect.

MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVI,NING.,--WS hare been
retrograding since this day week in our cloth marker,
both in prices and in demand. The market at the
former period exhibited considerable firmness, but since
the resignation of Sir Robert Pet .1 we appear to have lost
all previous confidence. Price may be called
nearly nominal, but the little that is doing is decidedly
on lower terms than on this day se'nnight. Yarns are
in much the same state, there being no confidence in the
buyers, and it is not a slight reduction thut would tempt
to buy on a large scale.
TRADE OF NOTTINGHAM.—The Naltingltam Review
of Friday contains a very gloomy statement of the trade
in that district.

THE RAILWAY ALMANACK for 1816.
This Almanack might he properly entitled the Com-
mercial Annual. In the calimdar, in addition to the
usual information contained in that portion of an
almanack, we find the various railway meetings, bank
meetings, &c., to be holden in the ensuing year regu-
larly recorded. It is, in fact, a diary pf those meetings
for 1846. We have also lists of both Houses of
Parliament, lists of the stock•br.>kers in the three
kingdoms, of railway officials, of a'l existing and pro-
jecting railways, dividends, the funds and a railway
stock, abstracts of all Parliamentary reurns relating .
to railway matters, and digests of railway law, of the
standing orders, and of legal decisions on railways. It
is the most complete year book of commercial statistics
that has ever been published.

SELLING.— DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY.— On
Wednesday evening, about seven o'clock, as a man named
Skinner, living in this parish, was on his return home from
a friend's, where he nad been to receive a;•me money, he was
stopped near the Wesleyan Chapel, Piekleden wood, by two
men, one of whom placed his hands over Skinner's mouth,
while the other rifled his pockets of three sovereigns and a
tobacco-box ; and although it was moonligtit, he is unable
to give the least description of the offenders, being so ex-
ceedingly frightened. Skinner is a journeyman shoemaker,
and much respected in this place.—Dover Chronicle.
DUBLIN, DEC. 18.—The Corp ra!iun of Dublin
recently agreed to an address to the Queen, repre-
senting the great distress likely to arise from the
fmiltire of the potato crop, and praying that the ports
might be opened, and facilities given for the extension
of employment by railways and public works. A
copy of the address was forwarded to Sir James Graham,
with a request that her Nlajesty's pleasure might be sigriitied
as to the time when the Lord Mayor and the deputation
appointed to present the address might proceed to Londen.
This morning the town-clerk, Mr. Ford, received the follow-
ing comtnunication from the Home-office :
" Whitehall, Dec. 18, 1845.
" Sir,—l am directed by Secretary Sir James Graham to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 13th indent, en•
closing a copy of the address of the Lord Mai or and Corpo-
ration of the city of Dublin, and requesting to be informed
when it will be her Majesty's pleasure to receive the address
from the Lord Mayor and a deputation from the Town
Council.
" And lam to inform you, in reply, that Sir James Graham
will take the earliest opportunity of submitting the subject of
your letter to the Queen. But, under existing circumstances,
he fears that some delay may take place before her Majesty's
pleasure can be notified.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant.,
H. MANNERS Surrox. William Ferd, Esq , Town-Clerk of
Dublin."