The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-05 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, Nov. I.—The
sales of combing and clothing wools this week have
been limited to the immediate requirements of the
manufacturers. Purchases have been made by them
with caution. We do not quote any alteration from
last week's prices.
FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, Nov. I.—A co mpara-
tively limited business has been done in foreign
wools this week, but, since it is so generally known
that the continental markets are almost cleared out of
wool, and that the importations into this country
must necessarily be very scanty until next clip, no
disposition whatever exists amongst the dealers to
give way in prices, but rather on the contrary to hold
their stocks with the prospect of realising an advance.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, Nov. I.—We have
no new feature to report in this week's market, which
upon the whole has been a very quiet one; the few
sales that have been made are upon the terms of last
week.

LEEDS.—The demand for fine and middle qualities
of cloths has been very dull at our cloth-halls this
week, but in heavy winter goods there has been a
little improvement over the markets of the last few
weeks. Prices continue pretty steady, and the stocks,
although on the increase, are lower than usual at
this season. In finished goods there has been but
little doing. Few of the larger buyers have been at
the market during the week, and the foreign houses
are doing less business than for some months past ; on
the whole, there. has been much below an average
business done in the warehouses during the week.
BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—There is not
the slightest improvement in the demand for Wool
since our last, and what has changed hands during the
past week is only in very small quantities, and
at about last week's prices. The disposi-
tion to still further decrease the production
is progressing, for the spinners complain of the
great disproportion in the price of yarns with the
raw material, and unless the latter recedes to meet
the spinners, it appears almost certain that the opera-
tives are likely to be only very partially employed,
which is much to be regretted. If anything a little
more business has been done in pieces to-day, but the
prices are very discouraging, and will in no way tend
to stop the progress of doing less, which is daily
going on.

MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We have
had decidedly less doing in cloth this week, arising,
in some measure, from the high rates asked, and this
arising out of all but a. general advance in wages. It
is doubtful whether the manufacturers will succeed in
realising an advance equal to that on wages. In that
case the manufacturer will be in no enviable position.
A large business is, nevertheless, doing, and generally
at previous rates. Yarns are still in brisk demand,
and prices, if anything, higher.—Leeds Mercury.

ROMANTIC and AFFECTING TALE

The Constitutionncl of Tuesday contains the follow-
,ng, the truth of which it guarantees. The facts,
divested of the embellishments of the narrator, are
as follow :—ln the early part of the month a work-
man and his wife, returning to their lodgings at
about ten o'clock at night, found a young female lying
insensible in the street, and having a baby in her arms.
Like good Samaritans they raised her up, and, after
obtaining some refreshments for her, had the satisfac-
tion of seeing her fully restored to life and conscious-
ness, but, on addressing her, discovered that she was
a foreigner, and unable to understand what they said.
They took her home, and treated her with great kind-
ness, and then set about the means of ascertaining
who she was, and what had brought her to the
state in which she was found. In a day or two,
amongst the friends of this kind couple, who, being
acquainted with foreign languages, visited their lodg-
ing in the hope of being able to converse with her,
came an old soldier who had been long in Spain, and
spoke Spanish well. On addressing the female in
that language, her eyes lighted up, and she told him
that she was a native of Valencia—that about two
years ago (she is now only twenty, and very beau-
tiful), she listened to the seductions of a young
foreigner, and, loving him, had at length committed
a fault which compelled her to quit her father's
house, and fly with him to Madrid to conceal her
shame. At Madrid she remained with her lover
several months, who one day told her he was
compelled to go to England on urgent business, but
would be in Paris on the Ist of the present month,
and, presenting to her a purse well filled with gold,
gave her the address of the hotel at which he was to
be found, and requested her to meet him there. She
started for Paris, but before she had arrived had spent
most of her money, owing to her inexperience in
travelling and a delay on account of the illness of her
child. This, however, was not her greatest misfortune ;
she had lost the address of the hotel, and had
no clue by which to find her lover. As long as her
money lasted she remained at a small hotel, devoured
with grief, and when her pecuniary means were ex-
hausted, was driven into the street, where she had
fallen from weakness, the result of hunger.
It was in this state that she was found.
Che worthy couple, after having heard her
sad narrative, took her to the Spanish Embassy,
where she was interrogated by M. d'Aguileira, the
Charge d'Affaires, and in a few days, her account
being confirmed by letters from Valencia, in reply to
inquiries M. d'Aguileira had made, he presented her
with a sufficient sum for her journey home, and
the Chevalier Roubio, the Spanish Vice-Consul,
accompanied her to the diligence, in which were two
Spanish ladies, on.their return to Spain, and who, on
hearing a few words from M. Roubio of the history,
kindly undertook to attend to her on the way.
Every inquiry had previously been made to discover
her seducer, but in vain. The poor girl, although
anxious to receive her father's forgiveness and bless-
ing, could hardly be induced to leave Paris, until it
was suggested to her that her lover was dead. She
would not allow the idea of herhaving been abandoned
by him to enter her mind.

MILAN, OCT. 24.—Among the personages of dis•
tinction who have visited the city during the present
month are the Dowager Viscountess Galway, Sir Fre-
derick Trench, Sir George Palmer, Lady Wilmot, Lord
and Lady Worsley, Sir Wiliam Follett and family,
Viscount Lewisham, General Napier, Captain Colville,
Sir James Strong, Prince and Princess Doria Pam-
philea, Prince Aldobrandini, the Duke de Serra Ca-
priola, Prince Poniatowsky, Countess Woronzoff, Mar-
quis de Custine, &c.
TUE SIIIRT-TREE OF AMERICA.—In the forest of
Oronook there is a tree which often attains the height
of 50 feet. The natives make shirts of the bark of this
tree, which requires only to be stripped off, and to le
deprived of its red and fibrous parts. The shirt is thus •
formed without seam. The head is thrust through one
end, and lateral holes are cut to admit the arms. Natives
wear these shirts in rainy seasons, which, according to
Humboldt, are equal to any of our Macintoshes for keep-
ing out the wet.