The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-03 00:00:00

STATE OF TR& DE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE,. LEEDS, SHPT. 30. The
demand for foreign wools this week has shown rather
More animation than has be..ni exhibited during the
fortnight or three weeks previous : a somewhat larger I
amount of sales has been effeoted,and prices are steady.
LIS II WOOL 71.11 R K ET, LEE D 3, SEPT. 30.
Salei of combing wools continue very limited, and
late prices are with difficulty maintained. In clothing
Wools we have not any alteration to report either in
demand or prices.
'faan.; op LEER;.---The markets at our cloth-halls
still continue dull for cloths of all descriptions, the
prl;icipal demand being for heavy tweeds, fancy cloak-
ings, shawls, and heaver cloths. Prices are stationary,
e 0 the stocks in the hands of the makers are un-
"iii:,t!ly low. There have been a great number of
diap4rs from the country in the market during the
"el,,.and in consequence there has been a little im-
Proven-lent in business in the warehouses.
ALarourr, SEPT. 27.—The demand
f
.descriptions of goods is still very limited. Some
Louse; have been rather busier, but the
~-‘enerai.aspect a the market remains unchanged. All
hOTes of an active intercourse with America have
bee. ;1 fl
anmetl Ly the
increased duties upon our prin-
cipal pro Suctions, and though the very ample con-
cessions of the British Ministry on the boundary
of
scion to the Government the United States have
removed:all fears of a rupture betweentrfri the two coun-
t rk w a
s, there is.still a
`-.Tar of and prohibitory
duties in existence, which is not less total to British
interests, and which the loner priontracted, the
more ruinous will he its consequence':
time the home trade languishes for want of an
from abroad. So severe and long-continues
class.t.;h have,
the depression o( trade, that the working
in too many instances, become deeply involved
debt, and it will require all their energies, even with
the aid of cheap bread,. to extricate themselves: with
them, for a ling time, clothing must be a secondary
consideration. the
mean_
BRADFORD MARKET, TII.L'IODAY.— We have had
fully as numerous an attendance of merchants at our
piece market to-day as fir several weeks past, and the
inquiries for golds are chiefly for the export trade,
the' home buyers at present purchasing very sparingly.
.The accounts of the commencement of Leipsic fair
are considered favourable. Low Orleans cloths are
more in demand, and prices generally the same as last
week. 're is not quite. so a good a demand for
yarns; buyers are acting with °Teat caution, and offer-
ing lower rates, but this the, spinners will not accede
to. The supply of all middling qualities of wools is less
abundant than for several weeks past, .whicktis !te-
c!ounted for by the price in tlleowing districts
being as high-as in the market. Those staplers who
have had a stock and disposed of it, now find the
greatest difficulty to replace the like wools, and oh'
tAin the slightest profit.—Leedv Mercury.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, SEPT. 30.—We have
had a very fiat market through the week, influenced
by the state of the London market, which has been
exceedingly depressed in consequence of heavy arrivals,
and the increas►ng surplus in the stocks of West India
and Bengals.—Bristol Mercury.

CEIARING-CROSS HOSPITAL.
The winter session of the Charing-cross Hospital
Medical School commenced on Saturday afternoon at
three, on which occasion Dr. Sherman delivered
th 3 introductory lecture. The Doctor is one
of the old school, and holding in proper
and orthodox ' abhorrence, the pestilent doc-
trines of phrenology, which lead, according to the
Doctor's ideas, to fatalism and materialism, and all
the other isms that are horrible and improper. The
phrenologists need not, however, stand in much dread
of the Learned Doctor, who, throughout his attack
on their doctrines, took that for granted which lie
ought to have proved—in short, begged the whole ques-
tion in dispute. In one part of his attack, however, he
made a most important admission. He said phreno-
logists were in the habit of exhibiting casts of the
head of the same individual taken at different periods
of his life, and showing the change which had taken
place in the phrenological developments; but, sail the
Doctor, what is the use of showing these changes, un-
less they can show that the change took place in the
development before the change took place in the
conduct of the individual ? Now, begging the Doc-
tor's pardon, his argument is beside the question. He
should have denied that any such change in the de-
velopments ever took place. By admitting the fact,
that such a change does take place, he admits the truth
of the fundamental doctrines of phrenology.
There was a very respectable muster of students
present.

EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT

MURDER.
An extraordinary and most inhuman attempt was made,
yesterday week, by a man named James Mailers,
or Mallard, to murder his wife, at Hemingford, Cam-
bridgeshire. Mailers and his her-in-law lived next
door to one another, and on Sunday afternoon, during
Divine service, whilst all the persons residing in the
house adjoining his own were at church, he enticed
his wife (who is pregnant) to the brink of a well in
the back part of the premises, and, watching his op •
portunity, when the unfortunate woman's attention
was engaged, he seized her suddenly and threw her
head foremost into the well, which is about ten or
twelve feet deep. In the fall the poor creature's head
came upwards, and, as there was not more than five
feet of water in the well, she was enabled to keep her
mouth above the surface. Seeing that his object was
not likely to be effected, the murderous wretch
jumped down upon her shoulders and endeavoured to
trample her under the water. During this attempt
the struggles of the woman for life were dreadful ; and
each time that her head rose above the surface she
made use of the brief breathing space to beseech
him, in the most agonising tones, to spare her,
promising that if he would desist from his de-
sign, she would not mention a word of what had
happened. He replied that he had gone too far
to stop, and she would hang him if he spared her
life Moved at last, either by the fear that somebody
would arrive, or by pity for his victim, he relented,
got a ladder, and helped her out. The moment she
was inside her bedroom, she had the presence of mind
to lock the door. He tried to get into the room, but
not succeeding made his escape. When the monster's
father-in-law returned from church the circumstances
became known, and the Magisterial authorities hav-
ing been made acquainted with them, the poor woman's
deposition was taken down, and a warrant issued for
the apprehension of the prisoner, who is supposed to
have come to London.