The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-02 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

FoREIGN WooL Tonna, LEEDS, Aeon. 29. —The trade in
Foreign Wool has shown no symptoms of improvement this
week ; prices, however, are pretty firm.
ENOLIsH WOOL. MARKET, LEEDS, APRIL 29.—The de-
mand for English wool this week has been of the same character
as noticed in our late reports. The tendency of prices is still
downwards.

CHESTERFIELD WOOL MARKET, APRIL 26.—The wool
trade in this quarter scarcely furnishes any new feature. This
article has been rapidly decreasing in value for some time past,
and still remains in a very flat state, which may be mainly at-
tributed to the wretched state of trade in the manufacturing
districts of Yorkshire, combined with the large importations
from Australia and other quarters.
TRADE or• LEEDS.—There has been a little more business
done at the Cloth Halls this week in low fancy cloakings and
tweeds. but with this exception the demand for goods of a
general description has been quite as dull as for some time
past : prices are steady. , The same dull state of business con-
tinues in the warehnuses ; few buyers are in the market, and
those who do some buy with the greatest caution, and for pre-
sent need only.
TRADE OF HOLMFIRTH.—Never were the mills in this dis..
trict so badly employed as they have been during the past
month. Many of the weavers, &c., who work in their own
houses, and who for a long time hive not had half work, are
now completely thrown adrift. We arc tired of alluding either
to causes, consequences, or remedies for this state of things, but
now the most rigid of the Tories admit that things have gone
worse and worse ever since Sir Robert Peel came into office.
BRADFORD MARKET, THU RSDAI . —the purchase of piece•
gobds by the merchants attending our market to-day has beets
of a. very cautious character, and nothing appears to be doing
except to actual order. This is also met by the manufacturers,
Who are only delivering a limited portion of work out to their
weavers, thus preventing any increase in stock or decline in
pries. There is a slight falling off in the demand for yarns
since our last report ; but we do not hear that sales are effected
at lower rates. Spinners have for some time past been pro-
ducing nothing to stock, choosing rather to curtail their pro-
duction than accumulate. Short-time working is quite as ge-
neral as during any period of last year; and without some
considerable improvement, we fear the condition of the opera-
tives will g:ow worse instead of better. During the week
there has been only a limited business doing in wool, nor can
we learn there is any improved demand to.day. Prices rather
on the decline. For fins noils there are more inquiries, and
very little stock on hand; prices firm.—Leeds Mercury.

BODY OF A WOMAN FOUND IN THE SERPENTINE.—
Early on Friday morning the body of a woman—its freshness
proving it had not been long in the water—was found floating
lifeless on the surface of the Serpentine river. The corpse
was that of a female, whose stature had been about five feet one
inch, and whose visage still appeared very round and full fea-
tured. Her age could not have been more than forty. The
dress was a brown stuff gown, and cloak of the same colour ;
a bonnet, trimmed with plaid ribbon, black worsted stockings
and low shoes. In order to give time for identification, Mr.
Higgs will not hold the inquest on the body until Monday
evening next.
The Belgian journals give an account of a singular
pigeon-match between the baron de W— and the Baron de
H—, which came off on Thursday last, in the field between
the gate and bridge of Lacken,in which the citizens of Bressels
amuse themselves on Sundays and fetes in shooting with the
bow. The wager was for 100 Napoleons. Baron de W. was to
fire from a tilbury, and Baron de H. from on horseback, and
both were to be kept constantly in motion.. The tilbury horse,
being long past the frolics of youth, was supposed to be suffi-
ciently steady not to require any precautions. Baron de H.
appeared, mounted on a coach-horse belonging to Count WO ,
also remarkably docile, but as he was never known to have been
accustomed to firing, his eyes were bandaged with silk hand-
kerchiefs, and his ears filled with cotton. The spectators wet?
extremely numerous, and the bets ran very high. The pigeons
were let out of the trap in couples. The old coach.horse
walked about with perfect gravity, and took no more notice of
the shots than if he had been a trooper throughout the revolu-
tionary war. The tilbury horse, however, broke into a gallop
. at every report; nevertheless, out of ten pigeons in flight, the
Baron de W. killed five, and the Baron de H. only three;
consequently the latter lost the stakes.
" TAKE CARE OF THE MINUTES."—A recent
American paper narrates the following instance of the " im-
provement of timeJ"—" A train of cars ran off the truck at
Norwich, Conn., a few days ago, which occasioned some delay.
During the interim a lady and gentleman jumped out of the
cars, went to the nearest justice and were married. They re-
turned in time for the cars and resumed their journey."
A person well dressed, and having the appearance
of being in a respectable class of :society, was observed
walking a few days since in the Hue de Valenciennes at La
Villette, exhibiting symptoms of great excitement, particu-
larly when any one seemed to observe. inn. At length, in
iotnent of increased irritation frt,, this cause, he took a
17isto1 front his pocket, and discharged it at his own head,
end dropped down dead. On being examined, his shirt was
found to be fastened with diamond buttons, and a brilliant ring
was on one of his fingers. In his pocket was a paper, on which
he bad written inpencil—" I live at No. 20, Rue Grenier-Saint-
Lazare;" but on sending an officer to this house with a descrip-
tion of the deceased's person, no' one could recognise him, nor,
in fact, was any one of the inhabitants missing. His body was
taken to the Morgue, and we do not learn that it has yet been
claimed.

Her Majesty's wish, that the guests at the fancy ball
should appear in the costume of the reign oflEdward the Third,
has occasioned a perplexity to the Bishop of Exeter and some
of his colleagues : the Reverend Fathers have expressed great
reluctance to exhibit themselves in the garb of Popish Pre-
lates; and to the suggestion that they might go as Lollards,
they have replied, "that would be worse, for the Lollarda were
Dissenters." Lord Lyndhurst fears that his appearance in the
character of Chancellor to Edward the Third may give rise to
bad jokes, by recalling the earnest prayer of the Commons to
that Monarch, " that he would appoint no alien Chancellor."
A sensation has been excited by a report that the Reverend
Sydney Smith has consented to enact the part of Court Jester :
Lord John Russell and the Bishop of London declare they will
net go if he is to be allowed such a pretext for cracking his
jokes upon them in the very presence. But a worse dilemma
than any of them is that in which the Ambassadors from the
various American States have found themselves. The repre-
sentative of the Union was annoyed simply because he had no
means of knowing what was the costume of his country in the
time of Edward the Third; but the Lord Chamberlain relieved
his apprehension by pointing to the example of the Highland
gentry, who are going
," all plaided and plumed in their tartan
array," although it is notorious that this Harlequin garb was not
invented or borrowed by the savages of North Scotland till some
cent cries later. The American bashfully replied, that although
on this side of the Atlantic, considerable credit was given to his
countrymen for modest assurance, yet all the world knows that
they fall short of Highlanders in that respect : ultimately, how-
ever, he was persuaded to defy anachronism and appear as a
North American Sachem. The dubieties of the Mexican and
South American Envoys have not admitted of so easy a solu •
tion : all antiquarian reserch has only corroborated their fears,
that the dress of their country at the period in question, must
have been a great deal too simple and airy for the present occa-
sion. Sir Allan M'Nab, in whom the self-possession of the
Yankee and Highlander may naturally be supposed to be com-
bined, has set them a good example by resolving to go in the
character cf an Esquimaux.— Spectator.
BRIGHTON ELECTION.—The writ arrived yester-
day, and at four o'clock in the afternoon Mr. Cordy the re-
turning officer, proceeded to the Town-hall, and proclaimed,
from the hustings, Thursday next as the day of nomination.
The polling will commence on Friday. Mr. Harford has se-
vrral times addressed the electors, giving them a most cheering
description of the success of his canvass.