The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-01 00:00:00

labourers are still in need of further defence
against the rapacity of their employers, how
much worse must be the condition of the la-
bourers in manufactories, who are destitute oi
I even these slender protections!

STATE OF TR IDE.
`i` FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, SEPT. 30.—Th(
-aremand for foreign wools this week has shown rather
more animation than has been exhibited during the
fortnight or three weeks previous : a somewhat larger
amount of sales has been effected, and prices are steady.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, SEPT. 30.—
Sales of combing wools continue very limited, and
late prices are with difficulty maintained. In clothing
wools we have not any alteration to report either in
demand or prices. . .

TRADE OF LEEDS.—The markets at our cloth-ha%
still continue dull for cloths of all descriptions, the
principal demand being for heavy tweeds, fancy cloak-
ings, shawls, and beaver cloths. Prices are stationary,
End the stocks in the hands of the makers are un-
usually low. There have been a great number of
drapers from the [country in the market during the
week, and in consequence there has been a little im-
provement in business in the warehouses.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, SEPT. 27.—The demand
for all descriptions of goods is still very limited. Some
American houses have been rather busier, but the
general aspect of the market remains unchanged. Ali
hopes of an active intercourse with America have
been damped by the increased duties upon our prin-
cipal productions, and though the very ample con-
cessions of the British Ministry on the boundary
question to the Government of the United States have
removed all fears of a rupture between the two coun-
tries, there is still a war of tariffs and prohibitory
duties in existence, which is not less fatal to British
interests, and which the longer it is protracted, the
more ruinous will be its consequences. In the mean-
time the home trade languishesior want of an impulse
from abroad. So severe and long-continued has been
the depression of trade, that the working classes have,
in too many instances, become deeply involved in
debt, and it will require all their energies, even with
the aid of cheap bread, to extricate themselves : with
them, for a long time, clothing must be a secondary
consideration.
BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—We have had
fully as numerous an attendance of merchants at our
piece market to-day as for several weeks past, and the
inquiries for gdods are chiefly for the export trade;
the home buyers at present purchasing very sparingly.
The accounts of the commencement of Leipsic fail
are considered favourable. Low Orleans cloths are
more in demand, and prices generally the same as last
week. There is not quite so a good a demand for
yarns; buyers are acting with great caution, and offer-
ing lower rates, but this the spinners will not accede
to. The supply of all middling qualities of wools is less
abundant than for several weeks past, which is ac-
counted for by the price in the growing districts
being as high as in the market. Those staplers who
have had a stock and disposed of it, now find the
greatest difficulty to replace the like wools, and ob•
tain the slightest profit.—Leeds Mercury.

CHARING-CROSS HOSPITAL.
(THIS DAY.)
The winter session of the Charing-cross Hospital.
Medical School commenced this afternoon at three
o'clock, on which occasion Dr. Sherman delivered
the introductory lecture. The Doctor is one
of the old school, and holding in proper
and orthodox abhorrence, the pestilent doc-
trines of phrenology, which lead, according to the
Doctor's ideas, to fatalism and materialism, and ali
the other isms that are horrible and improper. The
phrenologists need not, however, stand in much dreau
of the Learned Doctor, who, throughout his attack
on their doctrines, took that for granted which he
ought to have proved—in short, begged the whole ques-
tion in dispute. In one part of his attack, however, he
made u-. Most important admission. He said phreno-
logists were in the habit of exhibiting casts of the
head of the same individual taken at different periods
of his life, and showing the change which had taken
place in the phrenological developments; but, said the
Doctor, what is the u*.of showing these changes, un-
less they can show that the change took place in the
development before the change took place in the
conduct of the individual ? Now, begging the Doc-
tor's pardon, his argument is beside the question. He
should have denied that any such change in the de-
velopments ever took place. By admitting the fact,
that such a change does take place, he admits the truth
of the fundamental doctrines of phrenology.
There was a very respectable muster of students
present. .

EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT

MURDER.

An extraordinary and most inhuman attempt was
made, on Sunday last, by a man named James Mailers,
or Mallard, to murder his wife, at Hemingford, Cam-
bridgeshire. Mailers and his fitther-in-law lived next
door to one another, and on Sunday afternoon, during
Divine service, Whilst all the persons residing in the
house adjoining his own were at church, he enticed
his wife (who is pregnant) to the brink of a well in
the back part of the premises, and, watching his op •
was engaged, y and
portunity, when
he
stehizeedunhfeorrtusundadteenwoman's
threwattention
her
head foremost into the well, which is about ten or
twelve feet deep. In the fall the poor creature's head
came upwards, and, as there was not more than five
feet of water in the well, she was enabled to keep her
mouth above the surface. Seeing that his object was
not likely to be effected, the murderous wretch
jumped down upon her shoulders and endeavoured to
trample her under the water. During this attempt
the struggles, of the woman for life were dreadful ; and
each time that her head rose above the surface she
made use of the brief breathing space to beseech
him, in the most agonising tones, to spare her,
promising that if he would desist from his de-
sign, she would not mention a word of what had
happened. Ile replied that he had gone too far
to stop, and she would hang him if he spared her
life Moved at last, either by the fear that somebody
would arrive, or by pity for his victim, he relented,
got a ladder, and helped her out. The moment she
was inside her bedroom, she had the presence of mind
to lock the door. He tried to get into the room, but
not succeeding made his escape. When the monster's
father-in-law returned from church the circumstance:
became known, and the Magisterial authorities hav-
ing been made acquainted with them; the poor woman's
deposition was taken down, and a warrant issued for
the apprehension of the prisoner, who 'is supposed to
have come to London.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, SEPT. 30.—We hav(
had a very flat market through the week, influenced
by the state of the London market, which has been
exceedingly depressed in consequence of heavy arrivals.
and the increasing surplus in the stocks of West India
and Bengals.—Bristol Mercury.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
STEPHEN SIAISON, jeweller, Shirley, Southampton-
shire.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
GEORGE EATON ROTHE, merchant, New Broad-
street.

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BANKRUPTS.
WILLIAM URQUHART, merchant, Wellington-
street, Strand, to surrender Oct. 10, and Nov. 11, al
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, officia.
assignee. Birchin-lane; Simpson and Cobb, Austin-friars.
JOHN YARRAD, Jun., grocer, Spalding, Lincoln-
shire, Oct. 15, and Nov. 11, at twelve, at the White
Hart Inn, Spalding. Thompson, Field, and Debenham,
Salters'-hall, London.
JAMES FISHER and WILLIAM MILNER, drapers.
twelve,
~fficial assignee,
Norwich, Oct. 10, at eleve t, and Nov. 11, at two, at tla
Court of Bankruptcy. Gr.2en, official assignee, Alderman-
'oury, London ; Ast,urst., Cheapside, London.
HENRY THOMAS HARRISON, hotel-keeper.
Tavistock-row, CB)aysei:tg-hgaairid:setnr,e'et
; Oct.
Ford,l-1, atit i woemlts'e
Nov. 11, at one, at the Court of 'Bankruptcy. Gibson,
square.
FRANCIS SANDON, cabinet-maker, Rugeley, Staf-
'ordihire, Oct. 29, and Nov. 11, at eleven, at the Swtal
Inn,. Lichfield. Smith Bedford-row ; Crabb, Rugeley.
RICHARD LEWIN, leather seller, Northampton.
oct. 7, and Nov. 11 at eleven, at the Angel Hotel.
b, u anti
Northampton. Rands, Northampton ; Cross, Essex_
court, Temol.. London.
ADOLPHUS BLUMENTHAL, wine merchant,
Warwick, Oct. 10, and Nov. 11, at eleven, at she
Waterloo Rooms, Birmingham. Chilton and Acklan ,
Chancery-lane, London ; Suckling, .Birmingham.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
W. Nicholls, livery-stable keeper, Adam's-mew ,
Edgeware-road,.oet. 24, at half-past two—W. H. Kin:
H. King, and D. King, coach builders, Old-street-roae,
Oct. 12, at one.
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In the Country.
J. Irvine, salt broker, Liverpool, Nov. 5, at two, at the
pl.
C.
n I tr
auib rues,,oug salt,h en:
Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool—W. Slater, banker, Marto! ,
Cheshire, Nov. 5, at two, at the Clarendon-rooms, Livei-
oo•--D Aienrecehr, Liverpool, Oct. 27, et
ant, Great Budworth,
Cheshire, Nov. 5, at two, at the Clarendon-roonis, Liver-
poollv
two, at the C.arendon-rooms, Liverpool—J. Stead,
saddler, Leeds,Oct. 21, at twelve, at the Commissioners'-
rooms, Leeds---.R. S'firley, worsted yarn manufacturer,
Kinfare, Staffordshire, Oct. 24, at one, at the Lion Inn,
iiidderminster—R. Turner, shoe manufacturer, North-
33aPtta', Oct. 27, at twelve, at the Cross Keys Inn,
Northampton —J. Smith, draper. Thorne, Yorkshire,
Nov. 4, at eleven, at the Guildhall, DoDoncaster--W.Ridge, C. Ridge, and AV. Newland' bankers, Chichester,
Oet.'2s, at three, at the Dolphin,
Chichester—T. Sin-
4leten, flax spinner. Kirkham, Lancashire, Oct. 24, at
twelve, at the Town-hall, Preston—J. W. Pilipson, metal
•lealer, Northfield, IVorcestershire, Oct. 25, at twelve, at
the Waterloo•rooms, Birmingham—N.• Hingley, chain
cable manufacturer, Cradley, Worcestershire, October
24, at one, at the Waterloo-rooms, 13iraiinghart—A. and
B. Procter, coach proprietors, Kington-upon-litill, Oct.