The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-26 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, SEPT. 23.
There has been no improvement in this branch of
trade during the past week ; few inquiries have been
made for anv descriptions of Foreign Wool, and prices
are nominally the same.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, SEPT. 23.
The transactions in English Wool during the present
week have been limited, especially in combing wools,
prices of which are barely maintained. In clothing
wools there is a moderate demand at late prices.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, SEPT. 23.—We
have no alteration in any department of the Wool
trade since our last report. Stocks are light, the
demand exceedingly languid, and prices without
variation.

YORK WOOL MARKET, SEPT. 22.—The wool
market is drawing fast to a close here, not more than
50 sheets having been shown to-day, and those con-
sisted of mixed lots of hog and ewe, the prices for
which have varied from l ls. 6d. to 12s. 3d.; and
Moor wool Cs. to 7s. per stone.
TRADE OF LEEDS.—With the exception of fancy
cloakings, shawls, and beaver cloths, there' has been
very little business done at our Cloth Halls this week.
Fine cloths 'still continue exceedingly heavy of sale
and tl-e sucks on hand ar.' i ether consije •able, not-'
withstanding that there hr s not been so few made fo
many years as during the—last twelve months. Busi
ess has been a little better in the warehouses this
week than for some time past, but it is still very du,
for the season.
BRADFORD MARKET, THERSDAY.—The merchants
appear to be very active in looking after the job lots
which some of the small manufacturers have been,sub-
miffing in the common or lower description of Pari-
sian cloths, those chiefly the produce of the dobby, and
which have been sold at ruinously low prices. Or-
leans cloths have been more inquired after, and the
stocks.are very light in the hands of the manufac-
turers. Merinos are hardly as good sale as they were
a few weeks past. In other goods no material altera-
tion, neither in demand nor prices. The Yarn trade
is very steady; and an average business doing, and
late prices maintained. So little is the alteration.in
the Wool market, that we can only refer to last week's
report.—Leeds Mewcury.

STATE of the MANUFACTURING
DISTRICTS.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)
Nothing has occurred, since our last, to disturb the
gradual and progressive resumption of labour by the
power-loom weavers in this town, to which we al-
luded m our last. According to statements collected
by the police yesterday, out of a total number of
6,884 weavers usually employed in forty-one mills in
the borough of Manchester, 4,873 were at work in
the forenoon, and 5,151 in the afternoon of that day.
The remainder, being now too few to offer any serious
obstruction or annoyance to those who are in employ-
ment, and being, consequently, deprived of all hope
of carrying their point, are rapidly returning to their
looms, as is shown by the increase of 278 in the
number at work yesterday afternoon, as compared
with the morning. We have little doubt, that on
Monday next_ the whole of the mills, except where
some peculiar circumstances may exist, will be in
full work.

In the surrounding district there is no change
whatever. We believe that, with the single excep •
tion of the mills at Bolton, and a few cases where
peculiar obstacles prevent a resumption of labour, all
are in full operation. With respect to the precise
position of the turn-out at Bolton, we are unable to
,speak with any certainty, owing to the failure of our
usual communication from thence ; but We have no
reason to suppose that the spinners have, as yet, con-
sented to return to their employment.

THE COLLIERS' STRIKE IN MID-

LOTHIAN.
Although the strike has already continued for
fully six weeks, and occasioned a vast amount of pri-
vation and distress among the misguided persons who
have been rash enough to quit their employment, we
regret to learn that they still express their determina-
tion to hold out. They have issued a placard, which
has been extensively circulated in Mid and East
Lothian, in which they say, they " are convinced that
the public generally
.are in total ignorance of their
sufferings, which has induced them to publish the fol-
lowing statement of wages received by them at the
different works under-noted." According to their
statement, the variation in the rate of wages at dif-
ferent collieries is very great; thelighest being
Hintlaw and Edgehead, where the average gran
.wages are stated to be 225. 6d. and 215., and the

,vorking hours per day 13 and 14 hours respectively
Prom these sums are to be deducted the expenses of
tnitters, oil, and tools, defrayed by the workmen. In
-he case of Huntlaw, the putter is rated at Bs., oil `2s.,
and tools 9d., making 10s. 9d. to be deducted from7the
ross amount of 225. 6d., and leaving for nett wages
11s. 9d. At Edgehead the expenses are stated at 10s. Id.,
the free wages being 10s. ltd. The lowest are said to
he at Tranent, where, working 14 hours a day, the
.iverage weekly wages are set down at 10s., subject
to a deduction of a putter, Gs., oil and tools Is. 10d.,
and reducing the average wages to the nett sum of
2s. 2d, per week. In the other collieries, the nett
wages are stated at 4s. 2d., ss. 9d., 6s. 9d., and so on
up to 12s. 2(1., which is the highest. In putting forth
such a statement we cannot help saying that the co.-
tiers seem to have been very ill advised, a great part
of it carrying absurdity on the very face of it, while
other parts have been met by a distinct denial from
those parties best enabled to state the truth. To those
of our readers who are not conversant with the
technicalities of the coal mine it is necessary to ex-
plain that " putters" are boys and girls employed in
conveying the coals from the hands of the collier to
the bottom of the shaft. This is generally done in
small four-wheeled trucks, or waggons, containing from
three to five cwt., and as this part of the work is
performed by young persons of either sex, it is not
understood to be severe. The wages paid by the col-
liers to the putters is generally from 10d. to Is. a day;
and, in this way, men with three or four children to
assist them make a large addition to their earnings.
Now, at the Tranent colliery, the average nett wages
of the colliers are set down at 2s. 2d. per week, while'
Gs. per week is paid to the "putters." if this state-
ment has any foundation in truth, the colliers chould
either turn "putters," or each man should putt his own
work. But before we believe that the average nett wa-
ges of any collier in the kingdom in constant employ-
ment are only 2s. 2d. per week, we will require strong-or
evidence than their printed placard. In fact, Such a sum
is not sufficient to sustain life in any man engaged in
so laborious an occupation as that of a collier, far less
is it sufficient to provide food, clothing, and mainten-
ance for his family. Their assertion on this point,
therefore, must be supported by better evidence than
they have yet furnished before it can command belief.
The nett wages of men employed at the Newbattle
Colliery are set down at 9s. ld., and as this has been
met by a pointed denial and a public declaration,
" that industrious and sober colliers at Newbattle
• works earn from 3s. 6d. to 4s. per diem, clear of all
expenses," and an invitation to all " respectable per-
sons not connected with colliers to inspect the colliery
wages book," that they may satisfy themselves on the
subject, we • venture to caution the public against
allowing their sympathy to be enlisted on behalf of
persons who are endeavouring to obtain countenance
and support by means the very reverse of creditable.
In the meantime the coal-masters are submitting to
considerable loss by the falling in of their works and
otherwise, and will, no doubt, presently be under the
necessity of expelling the colliers from their dwelling-
houses, which they occupy only on the condition of
regular attendance at work.—Caledonian Mercury.

SUDDEN REMOVAL OF TIIE
SPECIAL COMMISSION.

PRESTON, SATURDAY MORNING.
The Special Commission appointed far Lancaster has
been removed to Liverpool. This is assigned for by
the great number of prisoners confined for trial in
Salford and Kirkdale gaols. A circular has been,
within the last few hours, issued to the Magistracy,
relating to the intended removal of the Commission,
from the Clerk of the Crown. The following is a
copy : " Preston, Sept. 23, 1842.

Gentlemen,—l take the earliest opportikity
apprising you, for the instruction of the Magistrates,
that, according to a letter received yesterday, it is in-
tended to issue a Special Commission for the purpose
of trying prisoners charged with offences connected
with the late disturbances only, and that such Com-
mission will be opened at Liverpool in about fourteen
days. I understand that the sittings appointed to be
held at Lancaster will not take place, but another
post will probably bring the official documents, which
may be relied on with certainty.
" Your obedient servant,

" R. W. IiO.PKINS."
11fuch dissatisfaction has been caused since this cir
eular ha.i been received, as the Jury have been sum•
mooed for some days past.

•
SINGULAR ARTICLES.
(From the Dispatch.) •
. .
Three singular articles appeared in succession -ilia
Morning Paper of Friday last. We have first, a lead-
ing article upon a 081 duel, between the Political
Chief of Cadiz, and the Editor of a papers:in which
the combatants fired at what the Spaniards call
"clothes I liming proximity," and after:.exchanginx
more fire than would frighten a company. •of grena-
diers, we are glad to say, for the honour Oour. trade,
craft, vocation, or cloth, that the Editor shot ,the Poli-
tical Chief. There are very odd modes of revenge, and
the Editor.nf the Cadiz Globe being unpopular, the
mob, to punish him for killing the Commander-in-
Chief, went and destroyed all his type4ranies and
presses, burning even his clothes, which was a second
point of the Spanish " clothes-burning proximity?' Let
the Editor of the London Globe, called The Globe and
Traveller, beware of shooting a Commander-in-Chief,
either Lord Hill, or the Duke of Wellington,for, if he
does, he will have all his types and his wardrobe destroy- •
ed; though, what good this could do to anybody, we are
at a los, to discover. If we shoot Mr. Iltunptre, ,Sir
Andrew Agnew, Colonel Sipthorpe, or the Scoth
,Jreacher that goes by the cant name of living's
Ghost; we beseech the Commissioner of Pplice to
erotect our types, and all that is in our wardrobes
which is typical of gentility. Next follows an ac-
count of fuur wonderfully beautiful horses,, sent as a -
:resent to ter Majesty, by the Queen . ofSpain, a
child of twelve years ('f age, and the tails of which,
,ve are seriously assured, reach to within an inch of
tiv ground. What a superb subject to annoy the
space of a political journal in such direful times as
thek, Another journal assures us that these tails
•tre enormously large tails as compared to
English horse-tails. Why were ;not these
horses sent to Turkey as a present sto some
three-tailed Bashaw ? The Spanish grown ,assures
her Majesty that these horses are peculiarly
large and full with respect to fatness. Otte only wish
that her Majesty could say the same thing of her own
working classes; hut they are very empty, both in
pockets, stomachs, and too often in their heads. As
England is the greatest, of all countries in the world
for breeds of horses, and as Spain has never been
tamed but for breed of a;ses, the case of the present to
the Queen is much worse than that of sending coals
to Newcastle. The Queen rather snubs the present,
for immediately she sees these four very' long-tailed
horses, ~he gives two of them to Prince Albert.
We next come to the third wonder, which occupies
the invaluable space- of the Leading Journal, of
Europe. A pair of colours has been presented to the .
ttlth Regiment, and who was selected to present them,
with the accompanying speeehifications? it
a surgeon and apothecary, a dentist, a corn-doctor,
horse-doctor, or anything of the sort ? -No, the gal-
lant regiment Would not put up with such inconsis-
tency. Was it the Attorney-general, the Solicitor-
General, or the Solicitor to the Treasury, to the Society
for the Suppression of Vice, that presented these
colours to the 16th Regiment ? Did any distinguished
General present them ? Oh no ; the Colonel selected
for the purpose—a what ?—why a clergyman. Could
this Colonel Campbell have made a wiser. man of him-
self had he chosen one of his sergeants-. to preach a
visitation sermon instead of selecting a clergyman to
.present aset of colours to a regiment? Never was
a parson more out of place, and they are the last people
in the world that like to be without a-place. What
are we to come to next? Shall we come to a
state of society in which, as of yore, not a dose
of medicine could be delivered out by a 'priest, or
with a priest's blessing! It is thoroughly disgraceful
to think7of a clergyman presenting colours to a regi-
.ment. The parson said that the profession of arms
and love of God were compatible. When a soldier is
.running his sword or bayonet through another man for
hire, 'a man who never Offended him, we suspect that
he has more love for his pay than for God; or at least
his ideas of God are not ours. We have no love for
gods of bloodshed. The tom-foolery on this occasion
was excessive; the regiment was complimented on its
battles under Marlborough, at which period scarcely
the great grandfather of a single soldier in it could have
had martial existence; and then this very wise man, Col.
:Campbell, who certainly is the most superlative speci-
men of wisdom that modern times has produced, gravely
tells the black-surpliced parson, with his flag of many
colours, that for more than fifty years the regiment
had never fronted an enemy, and that the }est time
:the regiment appeared in the field was sixty-thfee
'years ago, when they laid down their -arms, and sur-
rendered themselves as prisoners on the glacis of
Baton-rouge. Really, our officers are themselves
either idiots, or they are over-cunning, and trio easily
take for granted that their privates are idiotic. The
whole •of this proceeding of getting the ilergyman .
to present colours to a regiment semis a premedi-
tated insult, a hoax upon the army. We wonder how
the soldiers will like the quiz. The retim*ot has not
been in fight for fifty years. It is a pa. son end
not a• military man that presents these colours, Loa-
the day selected for the parson's presenting them with,.
colours is the sixty-third anniversary•of their laying
down their arms and surrendering unconditionally to.:
the French, after which the regiment has never been' •

s,
employed, although the intermediate period'has been
the most fighting era that Europe ever
.saw: When
will the clergy cease to expose themselVes, or suffer
themselves to be exposed as foolsi or as something
much worse? The next honour done to the 16th
Foot. will be to grant its Colonel (Viieoutit Beres-
ford), a white feather ; and Lieut.-Colonel Campbell
a wooden sword. It is disgusting to see.the'armv so
disgraced, and especially by saintism.

LOSS OF A RUSSIAIII:LIN,E-OF-
BATTLE SHIP.:
. SUPPOSED LOSS OF 400 arils.
LEITH, SEPT. 22.—The following is a translated
extract of a letter, dated Christiansand, 15th Septem-
ber, 1842, addressed to Mr. Dahl, of .the- firm of
Ferguson, Davidson, and Co., merchants here
(Leith)
" The dulne3s here (Christiansand) has been inter-
rupted by the circumstance of the Russian line-of-
battle ship the Ingermanland. having, been wrecked,
on the night preceding the 12th instant, onthe smalk
rock called Groningen, about two English miles off
this place.
rhUweather was fearful, a severe ga.le blowing
from the east, with a heavy sea. About half-past
ten o'clock on Sunday morning (the 11th) .We heard
uninterrupted tiring of heavy cannon, which con-
tinued till two, a.m., the following day. TNice
during the night the Government steam-packet North
Cape was sent out to discover the 'cause, as also
several pilot-cutters ; but it appeared the ship had
got oft the rock, and driven rapidly to •theivestwarcl,
so that they did not see her.
" On Tuesday morning accounts were received that
'a line-of-battle ship was drifting westward off the
Naze, and the Government steam-packet was again
• sent out, and, having come up with .her about 3G
English miles west of the Naze, she succeeded in
saving 150 of the crew. By crafts from lltindahl and
Fahrsand, 300 men and several of the qfficers had
been previously saved. The-captain of the ship had.
been amongst the first to leave the vessel, and in her
was his lady, who remained on boardf.and Was.subse-
quently saved by one of the Mandahl boats..
" The merchants of Mandahl, at theirow.n expense;
fitted up and sent off two vessels, which saved as
many of the Russians as they could carry, until the
steamer arrived and took off i the remainder. It s said
the crew consisted of 936 men, of whom about 500 are:
drifting with two • ItH:tihd01:1010Ht:
saved ; but this requires confirmation.
"'The ship is now
which were let go when she struck, in the hope of
lerwvelk.wiTthhethieng:;elira,ll:he fore and
lkzin,,,7vithherhnereadrectlkle
get
tr
ashsipfapring, being in the
mainmasts gone, and only her rni.zen standing. She
sheece
nS • the reef or
Skajerack, she may ride there during filo Ivhole win-
ter, should direct l'rearcyk(.lanSglCor°4slps
Her guns were thrown overboara.-
ter, should her anchors hold.

The Council -General of Mayenne :has offered to
suhFeribe a million towards the eimalisation of the
Mayenne. Two plans have been taken into conside-
with the
leiettepnl,acaendl7bthy.
ration, by one of which the junction of the Loire
and the Cohrannen,elpaws'soiunlgd
bt;
-the
plan by the Vire as far St. • 3oetnhnere
as Lo, and from thence by
the canal of Carentan.
SUICIDE AT THE CRAIN PIER, 'BRIGHTON.—
o'c 13RIGIITON, THURSDAY.—last
evening, about seven
lock, the promenaders at the Chain-pier were thrown
into great alarm by a soldier jumping oft' the pier-head
into the sea. It appears that the soldier, who was a
private in the 19th Foot, was observed-br4a, lady mut-
tering to himself, shortly afterwards 'ha took off
his belt, bayonet, and cap, and hung them on the
rails, and then got over on to a small parapet. The
lady spoke to him, telling him the attendants at the
pier would not allow such conduct ;• he imtnediately
answered, " I belong to the 19th," and then jumped
into the sea. The lady, with great presence of mind,
rang the alarm bell, when several of the pier servants
came to her assistance, and one of them, named James
Barber, notwithstanding he is crippled. lit one hand
from tiring a salute, Jumped into the sea, caught
hold of the soldier, and hung on by one of the
piles with his lame hand, the sea dashing both of
them against it. With considerable eficultv, aided
by life buoys, Mr. Mathews, the foreman of the
works,- and others, got them out, and' the soldier was
immediately conveyed to the Sussex County Hospi-
tal, where Mr. Whitehouse, the house surgeon, and
his assistants, perseiered for upwards of two hours
endeavouring to resuscitate the deceased, without
effect. The deceased was a reeruk about nineteen
years of age. It was nearly low water at the time,
and the height to the water, from which the deceased
jumped, was upwards of thirty feet.. Great praise is
due to Barber for the courage displayed by him, as
, the sea. was very rough at the time, in iddition to the
disadvantage of his beitl
-occurred
whilst he was firing- afsa.ute i):.handar of the arrival
of William and Adelaide at .