The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-04 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, JULY I.—The transac-
tions in wool during the present week have not been extensive,
and the manufacturers continue to limit their purchases to their
requirements. Prices are stationary.
FOREIGN WOOL TRAI*E, LEEDS, JULY I.—There has been
no improvement in the Foreign wool trade during the past
week, the manufacturers only buying for their present incon-
siderable wants.

YORK WOOL MARKET, JUNE 30.—The show of wool has
been very large here to. day, but there was only a moderate at-
tendance of buyers. The market has ruled heavy, and although
a great many sales have been made, in most cases they were in
favour of the buyer. The following are the prices : —Best
quality 10d. to Io%d. ; inferior do 9d. to 9%d. ; locks and
cots 7d. to Bd. per lb.
DONCASTER WOOL MARKET, JUNE 25.—We had an abun-
dant supply of wool at market this day, with plenty of buyers.
The market was far from brisk in the early part of the day, but
at the close nearly the whole was sold, yet the prices of last
week could not be sustained. Hog 12s. to 13s. ; Hog and
Ewe 1 Is. to 1 Is. Bd. ; Ewe 10s. to 1!s. ; Locks 6s. to 7s. per st.
GUISBROUGH WOOL FAIR, JUNE 28.—We had a thin
show of wool at market to-day, and about the usual number
of buyers attended. At the commencement great prices were
asked, but sales could not be effected ; towards the close, how-
ever, the farmers were reluctantly obliged to give way, when
the whole was nearly all sold at the following quotations :
Fine Cheviot Hog, 100.; Hog and Ewe, 9d. to 9d. ; Ewes,
Bd. to 9(1. per lb. In Moor Wool little doing.
TRADE OF LEEDS.—The markets at our Cloth Halls during
the week have borne the same dull aspect which has char-
acterized them for some time past. There is still nothing
doing in fine hoods, and low cloths are not so much in demand
as they were a month or two ago. The principal demand
appears to be for beavers, fancy cloakings, and tweeds, and
even in those articles there is scarcely half the usual demand
at this season. Business is correspondingly dull in the ware-
houses, and there is little disposition on the part of the larger
buyers to purchase until the near approach of harvest.
BRADFORD MARKET, JUNE 30.—Our market to-day is not
abundantly supplied with the sorts most in request, which com-
mand late prices. Noils and shorts are very scarce, and ready
of sale, which is, however, rather to be attributed to the limited
quantity making than to increased demand. The condition of
the spinners still continues in the same unsatisfactory state :
the comparatively high price of wool, compared with the cur-
rent rate for yarns, renders it quite impossible to cover cost,
and the spinners, in order to make to themselves the least pos-
sible loss, are curtailing their production to a fully greater ex-
tent than we have heard of at any period during the past win-
ter. We have had a good attendance of merchants at our piece
market to-day, and fair business was done, comprising a great
diversity of kinds, both in fancy and plain cloths. We are
sorry we cannot report any improvement in prices.—Leeds
Mercury.

MR. CROUCH'S IRISH ENTER-
TAINMENTS.

We attended on Friday evening Mr. Crouch's third, and
therefore, last but one entertainment, at the Marylebone In-
stitution, Portman-square, intended to be illustrative of the
character, music, and wit, of the " Green Isle." That we an-
ticipated a pleasant display may be imagined, for (like the old
Greek), your Hibernian, meet him where you will, shows
himself an animal of glorious senses. Whether his mould be
fine-cast, or whether it be downright plebeian, yet so indige-
nous are the better qualities within him, of wit and of humour,
that his most ordinary figures of speech are sure to be corus-
cant with the one, or, at least, abounding in the latter—and
this in the crone, equally with the spalpeen. But it is in their
songs especially that these qualities are most palpably dis-
played ; in these a distillation of either essence is concentrated,
and in the sets of words which Mr. Crouch last night se-
lected, and found fitting airs and voices to which to wed
them, both were excellently brought out. We cannot
more than make a running commentary upon one or
two out of the score in the programme. A couple of Moore's
songs with their beautiful sentimentalisms—half a (been of
Lover's, alternately fine, delicate, and pathetic, with several
composed and sung by the lecturer himself, formed a fair treat
of melody. Miss Dolby, who always comports herself pleas-
ingly, sang " The Angel's Whisper," with graceful stress ; the
refined idea of the poet that the smile, placid and full, of the
sleeping child, is caused by gentle susurrations conveyed to it
by the lips of those sky-visitant s, is one of the gentlest images
that exist. Mr. Leffler lent his strength to the company,
among whom Mr. Redfern, Miss Spence, Miss Bassano, sang
very creditably, while Mr. Morgans comicalities spiced the
entertainment uncommonly. Agreeably with the expression
of Mr. Crouch, we are glad to find that the primitive Irish
music has still some favourites in the metropolis, and that
spite of the great relish for foreign talent, there is room,
nevertheless, for "a sprig of shillelagh."

CHURCH RATES.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
GREAT MARLOW, JULY I.—The Church party have car-
ried the rate, with little credit to themselves, as all sorts of
trickery have been resorted to. The Vicar, Thomas Tracey
Coxwell, decided that no one should vote if he owed a Poor-
rate, consequently the poorer classes were prevented from re-
cording their votes against the rate. The Church party took
care to pay the rates for all that were willing to record their
votes in the favour of a Church-rate. The Overseer's resi-
dence was beset with a select few at midnight, to make the
Church party right on the Poor-rate book ; and where they
had neglected to do so, the Churchwardens themselves pro.
vided the means. One of the Churchwardens actually paid
the rates of William Smith and Richard Muspratt in the
Vestry-room when they came to the poll. On the other side, I
think the Dissenting body might have exerted themselves, as
they did nothing but record their votes, and, in a great many
instances, stayed away, thus net taking the active part they
ought. One the other side every vote was polled that could be
brought up by threats, and one man declaring (William King-
stone) that he came there and voted against his will. I his
poor fellow is to be pitied. Intimidation has had its effect.
A wholesale system of bribery has been practised in this, as
well as at Parliamentary elections—paying the Poor-rates for
those who chose to come forward and tax their neighbours can
he called nothing else. The poorer class of Dissenters in se-
veral instances were forced to come and vote for the rate, under
the penalty of losing their employ. Only 273 polled out of 400
or 500 rate-payers.
Persons polled for the Rate l5O
Persons polled for the Amendment...
Majority for the Rate -- 27

DUTCH AND BELGIAN PAPERS.
BRUSSELS, JUNE 30.—There seems to be every
reason to believe that within a year from this time
the Belgian iron railway will be joined to that of
Rhenish Prussia. •
The railway from Antwerp to Germany was com-
menced in 1833, and as it is to be completed next
year, ten years will have been spent in laying down
this line of thirty-one leagues.
The Moniteur Beige promulgates to-day the law
for the construction of a canal from Zelzaete to the
North Sea.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, .101../ 1.
None,. Hills.
Actual Debt, S.* per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Ainoi t Syndic, 454 per cent 93 931;
Ditto, ditto, 31 per cent 7ll 7(0)4
Commercial Company, 4., per cent lso* /51
Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 9e% 99),
Exchange on Londe*, One month -12 12)4
Two months
Hamburgh, One month 35 t-1)4
Two months 35 37*
Dutch Papers, July 2
BELGIAN e U N US—Biturans, Jumti3o.
Actual Deot, as., per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 99
3per Cent,
72%
(1340) IC3
Loan of City, 132, 4 per Cent. 93%
Society el Commerce, 4 4 per Cent. R6
dank of Belgium, 5 per Cent...—. ............. 76
National Society
Exchange en Londais (short) ...
—Brussels Papers, July 1.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Joffe 22.
fire per Coats. Metalliques
Four per Cents
Three per Cents.
Prink Shares • 1662

CURIOUS FACT.—Upwards of sixty years ago, a
large earthenware stone bottle was placed in the cleft of
a plum-tree, in the front of a house at Ox Bridge,
near Stockton, occupied by tho late Mr. Thomas Cal-
lender, for the purpose of being dried. A pair of
Bluecads (Parus cceruletts, Linn.) commenced carry-
ing in materials for building a nest : the bottle was
allowed to remain ; and they hatched and reared a
brood of young ones. This has been repeated ever
since with the exception of three years. The birds have
this year repeated their annual visit, to the great grati-
fication of Mr. Callender, son of the before-namedg.en-
tleman, whose family have had uninterrupted possession
of the property for that period, and who takes great
pleasure in relatng many little vagaries of his feathered
" stuck," to the numerous visitors who at this season
honour him with their presence, to witness this curiosity
in natural history. The original bottle is still built in.
—Durham Chronicle.

A few days since, Sir John Paul, of the bank of
Strahan., and Co., Strand, sent 1,0001. in notes to the Bank of
England for 1,000 sovereigns. Upon getting them home and
weighing, 27 were found deficient in weight. They were sent
back with a request that they might be changed for gold of
the proper weight. The Bank refused. Sir John Paul im-
mediately ordered his solicitor, Mr. Cookney, of Lamb's-Con-
duit-place, to serve the Bank with a notice of action ; upon the
receipt of which the Bank sent to Sir J. D. Paul, and ar-
ranged the matter.
SEIZURES AT CusTom-HOUSES.—The return 0.
306, June 4, 1842, shows a considerable decrease in articles
seized, especially in spirits, of which 54,2713 gallons were seized
in 1E32, and only 15,325 in 1841.