The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-08 00:00:00

BREAD.

The prices of Wheaten Bread in the Metropolis are from
8;id;to 9dy
.of Household ditto, GO to 8d per 4lbs loaf.

SAT 81ED..31.NET3.

SmrrnnELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 15s to 4/18s ; use-
ful ditto, Si to 5/ 8s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ lOs to 5/ 15s ;
Clover Hay, 4/ 15s to 61 6s ; Oat Straw, 11 14s to 11 16s ;
Wheat Straw, 1/ 16s to 1/ 19s per load. Trade rather
dull, at but little variation in prices.
CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3118 s to 4118 s ; use-
ful ditto, 5/ to 5/ lOs ; fine Upland ditto, Si 12s to 5l 16s ;
Clover Hay, 4/ 10s to 6/ 4s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 14s to 1/ 16s ;
Wheat Straw, 11 17s to 1/ 19s per load. A fair average sup•
ply, and a steady demand.
WTIITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 16s to 4/ 16s ;
useful ditto, 4t 17s to 51 8s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ lOs to
5/15s ; Clover Hay, 4/ 15s to 6110 s ; Oat Straw,l/ 14s to 1/ 163;
Wheat Straw, 1/ 16s to 1/ ]Bs per load. Supply good,
and trade rather dull.

New Meadow Hay 3/ lOs to 4/ 15e, and New Clover
4/ to 5/ 5s per load.

STATE OF THE HOSIERY AND

LACE TRADES.

The agitation in the silk glove trade, after an ineffec,

c,
teal attempt to arrest the hands in some shops from go-
ing to work, so disheartened the turn outs, that they
weetto work at the price they had received previous to
the last "fever ;" this has given great umbrage to the
Derbyshire workmen, who had been paying pretty ge-
nerally one shilling per week for their support. The
want of demand for their labour, and the low rate of
subsistence money they received, had caused them to be
nearly half starved out : many of them suffering consi
siderably, as the pittance they received showed their
desperate state, and that they were willing to do much
to amend their condition. The plain silk hose as well
as the knotted hose hands, with a few exceptions, are
in a lamentable state. The wrought, as well as the
cut cotton hose branch, has still further retrograded.
especially the latter, many houses having stopped
an additional number of frames ; and as all the
other branches are in the same depressed state,
they have no means of all,!v'iating or improving their
condition by obtaining som a other kind of employment.
The drawer and pantaloon I iranch has not, we are sorry
to say, improved in demand, the frames in general being
short of work ; we have lx?en informed that some houses
are rather extending the pr aecice of delivering out single
thread yarn ; this has a dtangerous tendency in this
manufacture, which depends upon the stability of the
fabric ; the Marking Bill ought to extend to thi, pray
Lice, and instete! of the e, e's:t holes, as is now the law,
the mark ought to be in word:: at length. The Le every
fancy bobbin net trade con tin ues very much depressed.
and heavy complaints are hen rd on all sides; still from
what we can iearn there is more doing in narrow laces
extensive patterns and wi..do laces at present prices
offering no inducement to an outlay for new aparatu%
or inventions. The circa lar bolt fancy lace has not
felt the reaction to the s ime extent as the Leavers ; nor
has the traverse warp, walich still continues in a
healthy state. The pushers are so unimportant we seldom
hear them mentioned. Th e Committee for the applica-
tion to Parliament for a res friction of the working hours,
continues to sit ; at ti. .e same time, although the
depression is so much complained of, yet many
shops and factories wo .rk long hours that is,
twenty a day, and all night on Friday. It appears that
trade has somewhat sudden dy revived in Calais for plait
nets, and some buyers have arrived from that country;
this has given a little life t o the hopes of the machine
owners, and some of the / nen state that they are pre-
paring to return to France. The cotton warp lace trade
is in a very depressed con& tion, especially at Stapleford,
where the hands are most destitute of employment.

The silk branch is not .of that extent thi4 it was
some years since, but it •is in a better state than the
cotton department. A I sew fabric of gloves is made
from the warp frame, having india-rubber threads
worked into the wrist, at s :small distance of the begin-
ning. After the web is p repared, it is sent into the
west of England, and is f,ew n and made up in the same
manner as leather gloves, which they will to a great
extent supersede, as they- ar a a strong, good article, and
bring a good price to tile manufacturer, being sold at
from 3s, to 4s. per pair.- —A 'ottingliam Review.