The Sun.
London, England, 1827-11-13 00:00:00

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS.

LONDON DIARY.—.-TiIIJRSDAY, Nov. 15.--(At the Court of
Commissioners, Basinghall-street.)
Bennett, J. Warwick-5q.... 10 Grain, G., Cambridge lO
Browne, J.:Canterbury lO Haynes, J., Gutter-lane ... lo
Cole, T., Plymouth lO Hobson, E., ShOreilitell lO

COUNTRY DlARY.—Tamtspar, Nor. 15.
Anderson, R., Manchester—Star, Manchester
Hutchinson and Co., Stocktonßlack Lion, Stockton ll

INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED,
Petitions to be heard at Portugal-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields,
Nov. 15, AT NINE.
Anderton, T, Cumberland-st.,lHouse, W., Oxford-street
Middlesex-hospital Lewis, C., Drury-lane
Bowles, G., Brighton Nodes, J., Camden town
Casper, L., Woolwich Richards, W„ Leicester-square
Chance, J., Bristol Sturdy, W., Kensington
Eaglestone, M., Greenwich Thomas, G., Limehouse
Gilbert, E., Burton-crescent Venus, J., Shadwell
Hall, T., Kingsland-road Walters, C., Wapping

COUNTRY.—At the Court-house, at Carmarthen, Nov. 17,
at Ten o'clock.
Jones, D., Rhosmaen, Ltandilofawr
Reep, William, Llanelly
At Bury St. Edmund's, Nov. 17, at Ten.
Clarke, W., Thurston IPendle, N., Fornham Three
Hewson, J., Thetford I Kings
At Durham, Nov. 16, at Ten.
Chapman, G., Barnard Castle Robson, J., Durham
Engledow, C., Durham Shotten, J., Sunderland
Goodchild J., Di illfield Smith, ~ Durham
Groves, J., Darlington Southeron, 8., Durham
Nioholson, J., Stanhope Spooner, R., Shields
Pearson, J., Cornforth Stamp, T, Weannonth
Potts, .1., Sunderland

ST. KATHARINE'S DOCK.—The works at
St. Katharine's New Dock are now proceeding very fa-
vourably. The water (by the constant playing of the
two steam engines) is greatly reduced in quantity. The
workmen are all actively employed ; the breach, where
the extraordinary eruption of water took place, is now ef-
fectually stopped. 'the wooden railings, &c. which were
swept away by the impetuosity of the tide, are now re-
placed, and the foot passengers to and from the neighbour-
hood of Wapping, may walk along without having the
fear of falling some twenty or thirty feet. In a very short
time, all the damage done to the dock by the unprecedented
high tide, will be effectually repaired.

The Leeds Fortnight Cattle Fair is rising ra-
pidly into consequence, since the change of the day.—
Though fresh pens had been provided for upwards of 500
additional sheep since the last fair, ;there was still a defi-
ciency on Wednesday, and, instead of about 300 sheep,
which was the number exhibited at one of our former
fortnight fairs, we had, last Wednesday, upwards of 1,500.
Tile cattle were more numerous on Wednesday, the 24th
ult. than on Wednesday last, but that was probably owing
to the Leeds *inter Fair happening on the following day.
—Leeds Mercury.

The inhabitants of Swansea and Math have
been much interested during the last three weeks, by the
presence of two extraordinary foreigners, whom we believe
to be genuine natives of New Zealand ; one of them is
stated to be a chief of considerable importance in his own
country, and is about forty-two years of age ; the other is
his nephew, a young man, about twenty; both are well-
formed, athletic, and powerful. The Chief, whose name is
Finite, is magnificently tattooed, and is said to have fought
seventeen battles ; the young man, who is called Halm;
or HAIDIC-NAITOR, has not arrived at the distinction
of the tattoo, but simply paints the upper part of his
face, when he assumes his native costume as a warrior.
These persons are accompanied by Mr. JOHNSON, an
Englishman, who has for some time resided in New
Zealand as a trader ; and, we understand, all the three
came away suddenly from that country, in consequence
of the outrages committed by SnuNci, a powerful and
ambitious Chief, who, a few months ago, not only drove
the Wesleyan Missionaries from their station at Wangaroa,
but also carried devastation among the natives wherever he
came. Both the Chief and his nephew are capable of con-
versing a little in broken and very imperfect Euglisb, and
manifest great acuteness in their observations ; their pro-
fessed object in travelling through our country is the very
laudable one of acquiring such information as may be useful
to themselves and to their nativeland.--Cambrian.

TRADE OF THE WEST RIDING.--Novem-
her and Decembir are generally felt as a time of depression
in the Yorkshire trade, and this season does not form an
exception. In Leeds, however, all the manufactories are
at work, and all working full time. The demand for pa-
rochial relief is rather less than at the corresponding period
of last year ; and the guardians of the poor in Leeds do not
contemplate any increased demand upon their funds, as it
is their intention to recommend to the Vestry Meeting,
when the November assessment is laid, to reduce the pours'
rate from 6s. on buildings, and 9s. on land, to ss. on the
former, and 7s. 6d. on the latter. In the neighbouring.
villages, where the domestic manufacturers principally re-
side, trade is very flat, owing principally to the absorbing
tendency of the factory system. We know not how more
justly to describe the state of trade in the other manufac-
turing towns of this Riding than in the language of
a correspondent, well acquainted with the subject, who
has this week visited each of those places:-" The
blanket trade of Heckmondwike and Dewsbury has not,
he says, undergone any change for the worse during the
last month. The rnannfacturers, however, complain of
want of. profits. The carpet trade at those places has
improved, and there are few carpet weavers out of em-
ployment. At Huddersfield, the demand for woollen cloth
has diminished considerably during the last month, but this
is a matter of course, and there is quite as much to do at,
present as is usual at this season. The fancy trade (waist •
coat pieces, &c.) is in a state of depression as compared
with its situation during the last summer, but much better
than it was last winter. The coarse woollens which form
the principal manufacture of Ellaud and Greetland, are in
steady demand, and the work people are fully employed.—
In the stuffline at Halifax and Bradford there has been a
considerable depression within the last two months, but
there are still a great many goods sold though at low prices,
which is generally the case at the approach of Christmas,
principally bought by large capitalists, for
foreign consumption, are
nsumption, and remain dormant till the spring.
partial suspension of the works a Messrs. JERE-
m n and WM. THomesoN, of Rawden, who were great,
Since
os hi e
consumers of foreign wool of the Middle kind,. that article
has lowered in the market at least 5 per cent. ; combing
and other wools remain pretty steady in price, though the
tendency is downwards ; and English clothing wools are
almost unsaleable."..—Leeds Mercury.