The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-05 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, AUG. 2.—Nearly
all descriptions of Foreign Wool have been in fair re-
quest during the past week at full recent rates.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, AUG. 2.—There
has been a considerable business done in combing and
clothing wools, but the _ manufacturers buy. very
cautiously, and will not, at present, give prices in pro-
porti ,n to the cost of new wool in the country.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, AVG. 2.—We do not
report any alteration in the trade this week; holders are
firm in demanding the small advance in combing wools,
which the consumers are yet unwilling to pay, conse-
quently sales are but limited. Short wools continue to
be ready of sale at full prices, and stocks atmarket small.
LEEDS.—The sales of balk goods have been of the
same character as the last few weeks : the great bulk is
delivered to order off the market days, and in conse-
quence the :supply to the cloth halls continues to be
very small. Prices are without any alteration. Busi-
ness continues brisk in the warehouses.
BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—There is a very
steady business doing in the piece trade, and for goods
suitable for the autumn, particularly those made of
worsted, the demand is even increased, and prices are
very firm. Mixed goods have been in rather more re-
quest, and the prospect is more satisfactory. Yarns are
in good request, and the buyers disposed to purchase for
future delivery at last week's prices. The supply of
wool coming to market is very considerable, but there
are great complaints among the staplers that they cannot
realise prices corresponding with what have been given
in the country.
TRADE OF MANCHESTER, THURSDAY.—We have had
the same healthy demand for cloth since Tuesday that was
experienced on that day, and prices are, if anything,
fully as high. Great interest attaches to the nature of
the commercial news by the India mail, just announced,
for, if the accounts are favourable, we shall have a
further advance : of this there can be no doubt; the late
rains will enable the calico printers to set to work in
good earnest, and it is not unlikely but, when fully en
gaged, that a further impulse will be given to printing
cloth, high, as by comparison with other cloth, that
article is. Twist continues in unabated good demand
and, for all export numbers, is fully as dear.—Leeds
Mercury.

On Friday, Mr. Edward Manning, of Gayton,
whilst on a visit at his brothers, at Massingham, put
an end to his existence by shooting into his mouth
with a gun. Although his face and neck were dread-
fully mutilated, the unfortunate young man survived
four hours after the rash transaction, when death put an
end to his sufferings. A Coroner's inquest was held on
the body, and a verdict of insanity returned.—lpswich
Mercury. _ _ _

A youth named Frederic Goat, about eighteen
years old, was accidentally drowned at Massingham on
Friday. Verdict accordingly.—lpswich Mercury.
DUDLEY ELECTION.—Edward Holland, Esq., of
Humbledon House, near Dudley, who formerly repre-
sented the eastern division of Worcestershire, and Sir
George Larpent, are spoken of as probable candidates on
the Liberal interest for Dudley. Mr. Benbow, Lord
Dudley and Ward's agent, and a rejected of Wolver-
hampton, is the Tory candidate. The number of elec-
tors at Dudley is 911, and it returns one Member. It
was created a Parliamentary borough by the Reform
Act, and was represented by the present Lord Campbell
till 1834, when Mr. llawkes, the late Tory Member, dis-
placed him.
RECOVERY OF LAND FROM THE SEA.—Mr.
Samuel Hemming, of Bedminster, Bristol, has succeeded
is reclaiming by extensive embankments, no less than
1,600 acres of rich and valuable land from the sea on the
south bank of Lough Foyle, Ireland.
TIIE )•_'BATA MORGANA.—The heavens in the east
over the German ocean, and from llornsea, on Monday
last, which was an unusually hot and cloudless day, pre-
sented the appearance of a mirror, in which were re •
fleeted a number of vessels with their sails set, and a
tower, supposed to be some lighthouse. A portion of
the vessels were inverted—that is to say, all their masts
and sails pointed downward to the sea.—Eastern Coun-
ties Herald.

GALLANT DEFENCE.—On the morning of the 20th
ult., at four o'clock, five men armed with pistols, entered the
house of Pat Hogan, at Fenlough, as the door was opened.
When Hogan's sister saw them come in, she ran into a room
where her brothers slept, and alarmed them; they got out of
bed, and closed the door, and John Hogan put his shoulder to
it to keep it closed, when a shot was fired through the door
which wounded him in the arm. Hogan's brother Pat kept
flinging stones over the room wall, and kept some of the
party from getting in over it. Two windows were smashed
by them when they went out into the yard.--Yenagh
Guardian.

The new comet has been seen at Bois le Duc, with
the naked eye.
Low FARES ON RAILWAYS.—We understand that
the third-class passengers on the Brandling Junction
Railway are carried at less than one-halfpenny per
mile.—Railway Record.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

REPORT OF SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE
HOUSE OF COMMONS ON GAMING.

(Ordered to be printed 20th of May, 1844.)

Some time has elapsed since we gave a notice of
this Report. It has since been reprinted, together
with the Minutes of Evidence and Appendix. From
the evidence we are inclined to quote some curious
extracts, but at present have only room to select,
from the answers of Peter Cloves, Esq., the following
curious notice of reverend betters and levanters. It
is instructive enough :

What do you suppose is the reason that the clergy
have discontinued attending the turf?—l nek er knew
more than two or three.

How many of those have you known levanters?—l
have known two; not more than that in the course of
my life.

-Llow many have you known betting? —I hardly ever
knew a clergyman bet beyond those.
You state that you have known horses withdrawn pre-
vious to the great races, and other practices which you
consider unfair upon the turf; do not you consider those
exceptions? —Certainly.
And that in general the proceedings on the turf are
carried on honourably?—Yes, I think so, certainly.
And that even those clergymen and such practices are
exceptions?—l do.

Are the clergymen you allude to men occupying high
stations in the Church ?—Yes.

Was time given to those clergymen who levanted?—
One of them went abroad, and the other has not been to
Tattersall's for some time.

Perhaps those gentlemen may not themselves have re-
eeived the bets they won P—That I cannot tell; persons
of course will not pay if they know that they are not
themselves paid; the public have nothing to do with
who receive or who do not receive; they ought to be able
to pay what they bet.