The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-03 00:00:00

THE TARTAN TRADE IN PAISLEY..—BIIsiRPS9., par-

ticularlycontinues as
usual
as
ever;
butin
seidiceepar oftineut'
demand
thein the shawlab
manufactures of the town, many of the makers
been turning their attention to tartans i have
all
In their
varieties of patterns and articles of dress.
As the
market stands, and with business •in its usual state,
we might loot-, forward for brisk ' run in a pretty
n a
small way for a month or two to come ; but as it is,
with trade in such a depressed and hopeless
condition,
and from tartans being almost exclusively a winter
wear, the makers are araid to enter into the busi-
ness to any great extent, or to commit themselves by
the extensive purchase of the raw material necessary
for that purpose, which, perhaps, iti two months
hence, would not be
obtained for the fin• hed
is goods.
Glasgow. Argus.
I • • ERN,
M ESS FARMERS SOCIETY.--The autumn meet-
ing of this Society took 1 p ace on Friday last. The
cattle and grain brought forward were of
quality. The competition for the former was bald in
the Academy Park, and for the latter at the Caledo-
nian Hotel. The judges were—Mr. Trotter, Red-
castle, and Mr. Murray, Mains of Kilcoy. Mr. Mac-
ewe,n, Riverford, and Mr. Macgregor Inverladern
acted as judges of Highland stock.—lioss-skire Ai
vertiser:
On Monday a valuable casket of jewels was stolen
from the auction rooms of Messrs. Debenham and
Storr, King-street, Covent-Garden, containing thirty-
three brilliants, an Indian gold chain, bracelet of
twenty-nine stones, and a variety of diamonds and
articles of gold manufacture, amounting to 1301. A
reward of 501. has been offered for the recovery of
the property, and a further reward of 2.5/. on con-
viction of the parties committing the:felony.:
The effect of the new tariff', liitherto but partially
felt ia the metropolis, is beginning to become more
and more manifest as importation increases. There
have been several large arrivals of American lar
bacon, and pork, during the past week. The l 341
h
and bacon are well cured, and of tolerably good :
your ; the former is retailed at 5d., and Lanthe latter at
4d. or 40. per lb. The American
for the English market ; it is intolerably pork will not do
wastes so much in the boiling that
be dear at any price. prime b the article would
produce will always find _aeOn and pork t f home
purchasers,
doubt but that a ?all of one-thirdch aers, but there is no
provisions will be the in the price of salt
ultimate
in full operation.—Ed• t result of the tariff when
WILSON, THE STEEPLE ii burgh Advertiser.
than once referred to CLIMBER.—We have more
the fearless intrepidityof thisin-
dividual in mount'
high stalks ofing and repairing steeples or the
public works, and to the trod m -11
es au i e
manner with which he '
finishes his perilous operations.
He has of late been employed the loftiest
on some
.of .
stalks in the city,himself to stalk
and now devotes
climbing .'1 -
S a profession. The fellow thinks no more
of climbing
a height of 200 feet than of . swallowing
his breakfast.—Glasgow Arra.
DAN DYPRATTS.—Bishop Fleetwood, in his Chroni
con Preciogum, treating of small pieces of money
coined by our kings of old, says that there were little
pieces coined by Henry VII., called Dandypral,
which he supposes were little and contemptible thillg;
i because, he says, that word has since been ma. tc:
signify small and worthless people. Can this be Ale
origin of the term dandy, applied a few years ago to
the class of persons who dress in the excess of the
fashion, and who h succession leave been, in
called Maur,
bucks, dandies, exquisites, swells, Sce.
SELF-MUTILATION.—A,- most extraordinary act,ot

self-mutilation was yesterday committed by a deserter
from the 18th Grenadier Guards, named Edward •
Fincher, now a prisoner in the city gaol, by sawing
off the first joint of the thumb of his right hand with
a piece of iron hoop notched, and sharpenedintoa
Fincher is a fine strapping fellow,, atipOrtliirtr"
ears of age. He is a native •of tuctwitgoirek
master Ana