The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-08 00:00:00

THE WOOL TRADE.

By no rules that we have heard from our fore •
fathers, nor by any previous experience of our own,
can we account for the present state of the English
wool trade, which now appears to be practically
moving in a direction contrary to all received theory.
When, some three or four years ago, the Bank of
England was almost drained of bullion, and the cir-
culation of money was considerably curtailed, wool
stood as high as 18d. per lb. ; but now, while the
Bank is overwhelmed with gold, and money may be
obtained at the very low rate of '2 per cent. interest,
wool stands as low as 9id. to 10d. per lb., and without
any visible change of improvement. We are compelled,
then, to seek some other cause which must be affecting
prices ; and, although there may be many more rea-
sons stated, yet we think the grand cause is to be found
in the increased production of wool, without a cor-
responding increase in its consumption; and as long
as the importation of wool from our colonies continues
to find favour in the market, and to increase lin the
same proportion as it has done for several years past,
we apprehend it will be in vain to look for any great
improvement in the value of English wool, unless the
expansion of our trade with China, or other countries,
should induce a larger demand for woollen goods of
British manufacture. We are compelled to quote still
lower prices. d. d.
Long Combing Fleece in Yolk 51 to 61
Ditto washed
Dorset Horns
Ditto Down Ewe and Lamb
Tegs 10 to 10i
—Sherborne Journal.

[As no alteration has been made in the duties on
wool by the tariff, Sir R. Peel can neither be praised
by the manufacturers nor blamed by the flock mas-
ters for the reduction in the price of wool. It occurs,
which is perhaps the most singular part of the matter,
in conjunction with a great failure in the wool crop
in Germany, and a considerable rise in price there.
In fact, what formerly happened as to sugar is now
happening as to wool. A few years ago the English
colonies produced more sugar than could be con-
sumed in England, and the surplus being sold on the
Continent at continental prices, beat down the price
of sugar here to its price abroad. Our colonies now
produce more wool than we consume, and it having
to seek a vent abroad, the price of wool at home is
determined by its price in the continental markets.
Our wool growers, therefore, are not likely to get
higher than continental prices for wool which they
produce under English charges. This 4 partly the
consequence of a diminished demand A/1* otir woollen
manufacture,, which is again oaused by
the Corn-
laws shutting out American flour. The abolition of
those laws, and perfoot free trade, would reduce the
farmers' charges to the charges borne b the conti-
nental farmers, and increase the demand for wool by
extending the woollen manufacture. Honesty, let us
tell the farmers again and again, is, after all, the only
policy.—ED. &m.] •
s' • •

,HOCKING ACClDENT.—Yesterday evening an in-
quest was held at the London Hospital, on the body
of Hannah Cleary, A girl about five years of age, whose
death was oceasioneclliy filling from a window on the
second flow of the house No. 7, Brick-lane, St.
Gearirea in the East. It appeared, from the evidence
of the deceased's mother, that, abbut two o'clock in
the afternoon, the little girl was leaning with her back
towards the WIWWW, outside of which some wooden
bars hid been placed for the protection of the younger
ehlldren, when the upper bar gave way, and she fell
out through the window,_ turning over once or twice
in the descent, and pitching on the ground upon Ler
head. Mrs. Cleary stated that she had warned the
deceased to oome away from the window a few
minutes before the accident, and while going towards
the fire-place she heard a scream, and then saw her
fall. She was quite dead when brought into the hos-
pital. Verdict—Accidental death.
EXTRAORDINARY ATTRAIPT AT SUICIDE. -- On
Tnemlay morning last, about five o'clock, as a gentle-
ehfinmaldoai;
roan who is living in the house of Mr. Ross, an officer
In the Customs, of O. 6, York-street West, Com-
mercial-road, was standing at the window of his bed-
room, IN was surprised at seeing a man rush
the garden and precipitate himself head foremost into
a large water-butt. The gentleman instantlyb ran
him out.
down and eudeaYa4red to extricate him,
nngg
it imposale to effect it without assistance,
ei?,e.t pniy being above water, he called M
after soilu, time they succeeded itrnievhivettid rt.oßbaeOdesnms'istaennodtf
asnseantsilbelneg;tbbustuffiea siuenrqeotiy
that he is the son
for,l wheasw
carried.
"naLdFrepepears
Ilant hying at No. 76,
.rof ikiliigtoloasse.reen,-gcsoirertrett,,
his being It a
Stepney,
and has lhtely been much addi tede' Is 25 Years of age,
night previous to the attempt
much excited that it was not to drink. On the
-deeoinnedhipsprudentetowlasea:
him alone, and his father
past them out of the ho
room with him on Tuesday and
motile's- were in the
walls in order to reach Mr. slimed
above stated. He,
must have
and made the attempt as
111(41"g when he rushed
tvoerbingl:froorakhmstatohusteeeoefff effectsof Ross's
s his immersion, he was foigul
gardoovle.r
OtwnorechigolT
madness, and was removed to Rat-
cliffe
) where he now lies. "-

GLOBE.--The Herald does most potently re-
mind us of Manse Headrigg, who had no opinion
of human devices in threshing and winnowing
vcoidrenn,
cad was
enwoul for
dsentdruosntintig to the
ieshi spieling
gid thilli.la.t, " Pro-
61`u`
Church,' we
eweestaahrleishtoedldp, ra,yweerrseanfdratmhaendksbg7iningesriofwtheha
thought cheap food a blessing to the nation.' They
dearth'
were
earthm, men,
were
reply, we-
a`just ho s
u fftehroi
nuggbfto
rthoatur' sicr
iniquity'--tea
qculittyy and
punishment for our sins with adversity ; they were
men who thought the supplication of the Divine mercy
and goodness was the only sure and holy mean's of rot-
lief, and that • cheapness and plenty were in His
hands, who for our benefit temporarily afflict us
with dearth and scarcity-.' These are thou,Ots
wholly unknown to the Chronicle and its patroro—
unfortunately too much unknown by the generality
of mankind in these days—when human agency is'
openly regarded as the best means of controlling God's
blessed will and ordinances."
Here is the Spirit of the East with a witness !
Prayer, not precaution, is the way to secure
plenty. Human agency is not to be regarded as
the means to human ends. Why what stupid prac-
tical blasphemy is this ! What was our reason
given us fbr ? Why were we endowed with any
more forecast than the beasts that perish, or the
wild Indians who perish too, when they have ?bade
no winter-provision ? " The only sure and. holy
means of relief" are the labours of our heads and
hands. Prayer is no means of relief for outward ne-
cessities; it is only such Sinners Saved as thelate
William Huntington, who pretend to expect
material answers to all their supplications. That
notorious personage prayed for a pair of breeches
on one occasion, which of course came, and be
thereupon returned thanks to the Divine Being
for not only having disposed the mind of the
donor to give, but also instructed his fingers to cut,
as he had never had a better fit in his life. These
are the practical blasphemies which men are led
into by this passive pietism. To regard " human
agency" as oppOsed to God's " w ill and ordinances,"
is the worst practical blasphemy of all. Who
made man capable of action ? What were his
capacities of action and calculation given him
for, but to be exercised with faith in the bless-
ing of Heaven on that exercise ? Qui laborat,
orat. Provident efibrts imply faith in a higher
Providence. They imply faith in that order
established and sustained by a higher Provi-
dence. Man was meant to co-operate, as a free
and rational agent, in that order—not, of course,
excluding acts of devotion and thanksgiving
to the Source of all good—but not mistaking
those acts for " means of relief" from those out-
ward necessities for which God has given us
heads and hands expressly that we may relieve
ourselves. The Herald's doctrine of " the only
sure and holy means of relief" would lead it, by
very easy gradations, to promenade the image of
one Saint to stop an epidemic, or liquefy the
blood of another, to stop an eruption.
STANDARD.—The Opposition journals have
found what, were not the subject too sacred, we
should call familiarly " a mare's nest," in the
beautiful prayer appointed to be used in grati
tude for the late bounteous harvest. These
pious and orthodox critics have discovered
that a new form of thanksgiving has been
substituted for that to be found in the
Liturgy, merely to get rid of the words
cheapness and plenty contained in the latter.
Now, the answer to this complaint of our Con-
temporaries is very short. Cheapness and plenty
are the contraries of dearness and scarcity, and
the form of thanksgiving in the Liturgy insisted
upon, expressly refers to a previous condition
of dearth and scarcity; but comparing the
late year or two with preceding years, we
have no evidence of either dearness or
scarcity, though we have too painful proof of
suffering from want of' employment. The prices
0f18417154'2, have not ranged materially higher
than the average of preceding years, while the
absence of scarcity is sufficiently attested by
the clamour we have lately heard npon the
unloading of the bonded warehouses. There has
therefore been no dearth or scarcity in the
direct and plain meaning of' the words, and to
employ a form of address to the God of Truth
affirming either, would be an irreverent levity.,
if not something more gravely impious. Th'ia
goes to the substance of the question, hut the
formal obstacle to the use of the thanksgiving io,
the Liturgy is equally insurmountable.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
THIS EVENING, OCT. 8,
Will be repeated the English Version of Rossini's Grand
Opera of SEMIRAMIDE. —The Character of Semiramide
by Miss Adelaide Kemble' Arsace, Mrs. Alfred Shaw (from
the principal Theatres in Italy, her third appearance on the
En?,lish Stage) ; Assur, Mr, Giubilei ' Oroe, Mr. Leffler ;
Idreno, Mr. Travers ; Shade of Ninus, Mr. J. Bland.
After which, a new Farce, called COUSIN LAMBKIN.—
Squim Mulberry, Mr. Bartley ; Captain Bantam, Mr. Walter
Lacy; Doctor Lionel Lambkin, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Bantam,
M:ss Cooper ; Rose Maynard, Miss Lee ; Dainty, Mrs. Humby.
To conclude with the Farce of THE IRISH TUTOR.
Flail, Mr. Meadows; Terry O'Rourke, Mr. G. Hodson ;
Rosa, Miss Lee; Mary, Mrs. Humby.
Doors open at Ilalf-past Six, and the Performances com-
mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes is., Second Price 3s. 6d. ;
First and Second Circles .55., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s,
Second Price tas.-; Gallery Is.
Ticket! and Places fer the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit-
low. at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season
Tickets may be had.
Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office ; of Messrs. An-
dreas, 11.7, New Bond-street ; Mr. Mitchell, Old BoLd-street ;
and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
THIS EVENING, OCT. 8,
The Performances will commence with the New Original
Melo-dramatic Romance, celled the OWL SISTERS; or,
the HAUNTED ABBEY RUINS. Principal Characters by
Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, H. Beverly, Craven, Wilkinson,
Maynard, Frampton, Miss Faucit, Miss Chaplin, and Mrs.
E. P. Gratton.
After which, THE RIFLE BRIGADE. Characters by
Messrs. Wright, 0. Smith, 11. Beverly, Mrs. H. Beverly,
Mrs. Y 3. P. Gratton, and Miss Murray.
To conclude with NORMA. Pollio, Mrs. H. P. Grattan ;
Norma, Mr. I'aul Bedford ; Adalgisa, Mr. Wright.
13)xes, 43. ; Pit, 23. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past
six, commence at seven o'clock.