The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-02 00:00:00

STAI E OF TRADE.

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FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, .LEIZES, APRIL I.—We have
have had rather less inquiry for foreign wools this week,
in consequence, We suppose, of the occurrence of the
Easter holidays.

ENGLISII WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, APRIL I.—We
have this week to report a continuance of the languid
demand for all kinds of English wool alluded to in our
last report. We do not quote any alteration from last
week's prices, though the same quotations are with dif-
ficulty maiaintained.
TRADE OF LEEDS.—At no time since the commence-
ment of the year has there been so little doing as was
the case on Saturday at our cloth halls ; on Tuesday
there was a little more done, but on the whole there is
not half the business doing %%Well is usually transacted
at this season. In this dull state of the demand, prices
are of course very far from being satisfactory. There
Las been a little more business done in the warehouses
this week as compared with hest, but the demand has
-been principally for Tweeds and fancy goods. The fine
cloth trade still continues in the same dull state as it has
been during the last six or eight months.
HoLmruern.—Trade still continues in a fearfully de-
pressed state. Many of the mills have not been half
employed during the last three months, and the circum-
stances of the working class have been gradually getting
worse. The condition of out-door workmen and arti-
sans is deplorably bad.; The impetus which a many
hoped the spring trade would give to our manufacturing
operations has not been realised. Tradesmen cannot
divine what benefit they are to obtain by having the
burden of their taxation increased, and numbers are
looking to the future, not .in buoyant hope, but fearful
alarm. Of Peel's odious income tax, but one opinion is
expressed, namely that it is a dernier raw tto prop up
the landed and colonial monopolists.
BRADFORD MARKET, THURSIJAY.—Our Piece trade
may fiiirly be. quoted a little flatter, which is attributable
to the present time being between the seasons ; and the
German fairs being on, the merchants suspend their
operations till the result is known. There is a steady
business doing in yarn, and We believe there is no accu-
mulation in stocks. PI ices without alters, tion. The de-
mand for wool still continues limited. The market is
fully supplied with all kinds requisite to meet the pre-
sentre 1
is wanted for immediate
use. In prices there is a slight decline.—Leeds. Me, cum
7114)1', rbeul;l. buying only of the
what
cspinners, who are acting very

7.lyElES•sulrame
dis-
tance •
ptiolesed duties of
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Sir Hobert Peel of 255. on Foreign, and Is. on Canadian
n
timbelN would, if carried, afford a sufficient protection to
our Colonies, but as the distance from America is more
than double, the freight being 405., whilst it is 20s. from
the Baltic only, the protective duty is thereby reduced to
45., a total prohibition of the use of Canadian produce,
and throwing out of employ our British
shipping, the
thither from the Baltic being now brought in foreign ves-
sels, which go back in ballast only, so that the pmposed
measure would be a great boon to the foreigner.
April 1,1842. A FRIENDENGLAND.
TO OLD

week, both amongst
leestrend'eerS)m' en, and the greatest
Accounts received this morning state that the dis-
tressth Birminghamople tihnec
lrietat
merchants and manufacturerS.
ewionrlingpe

relative to that eternal
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM AND GREAT 'W
STERN
RAILWAYS.—We hear there is a tough struggle gotpg o 4
between the London and Birtulty*Bl convany-aathe
flf.l'er4Vffnilticlaltl, tl:6llll:ltlieentham and Gloucester por-
fitGio3rlneletloolf railway, They, of course, do not appear openly,
but it is quite certain they
.do covertly direct and fight
the battle,— Railway Magazine,