The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-31 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

FCILEIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, MARCH 28.—Foreign
Wools continue to maintain great firmness in prices ;
but the business done during the past week in German
sorts • has been rather limited, imputable to the little
choice left in the market. On the arrival of fresh stocks,
which may now be looked for daily, a brisk demand
may be confidently anticipated.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, MARCH 28 —We
have not any alteration to report in this market during
the present week, either in sales or prices.
LEEDS.—There has been an improved demand at our
Cloth-halls this week, for Cloths of fine and middle qua-
lities, also for fine Tweeds, calculated for the summer
trade, but low goods of all descriptions have not been so
free of sale as of late. Prices are steady, and the stock
of goods generally are lower than usual at this period of
the year. There has been a considerable number of the
larger buyers in the town during the week, and, in con-
sequence, a full average amount of busines3 has been
done in the warehouses.

If ECKMONDWIKE BLANKET MARKET, THURSDA Y
MARCH 27.—There was a full attendance of buyers on
Monday, and more doing than there has been for the
last few market days. To•day's market only quiet.
LEICESTER.--The price of wools remains very steady,
and in yarns there has been little actual variation, except
the case of lots made up for sale during the recent slack
demand. There will now, however, be less cotton
worked up, as the spring shipping demand has closed,
and the goods now made will be for the autumn trade.
The prospects for the American fall trade are very dull
as compared with the last year ; but fur the home de-
mand, we are happy to find they are considered much
more encouraging, in consequence of the long-continued
winter having cleared the retailers of their stocks, so
that they must come much earlier into the market. If,
therefore, we continue to have an ample supply of cheap
food, we may this year look to our home population to
be our best customers.—Leicester Chronicle.

BRADFORD MARKET, MARCH 27.—The spinners still
continue to supply their immediate wants for wool on
the most limited scale, and the prices sought are such
as holds no inducement to more extended operations.
The change in the weather is 109klid farouxably On by

the spinners, who are complaining of the ruinous price
that yarns command ; and if any change, for the better,
in the.demand, higher prices must neeessari y follow.
Thero are rather more lookers-on in the piec . market,
and perhaps an increase in the business done, which may
now be fully expected from the home-trade merchants
for the spring ; also by the American houses, which fur
some time past have done only a trifling business. Prices
are very steady.
TRADE OF MANCHESTER, TUESDAY EVENING.—The
breaking up of the frost has not yet restored animation
in this market. The demand for yarn was yesterday more
limited than for some time past; and some of the buyers
for Russia and Germany were offering orders on lower
prices. 'We believe that, at a very triflng concession
from previous rates, a considerable amount of business
would have been done.—Leeds Mercury.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM TELE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
GLOBE.—John Tawell, the wretched murderer of
the confiding woman whom he had seduced, and who
was the mother of two children by him—has suffered
the appropriate and well-merited punishment which the
law assigns to the crime of deliberate murder. Pre-
viously to Tawell's leaving the cell to which he had
been confined since his conviction, he delivered to the
Rev. Mr. Cox, the chaplain of' the prison, a sealed
paper, which contained an admission, full and explicit,
of his guilt. He poisoned his victim by the means
charged in the indictment; and had previously sought
h-r life by administering to her a different poisonous pre-
paration, as suggested on his trial, in September last. The
turpitude of this atrocious criminal's offence was greatly
heightened by the base hypocrisy of his obtrusive preten-
sions to piety, by which he sought to procure a reputation
for sanctity of morals, while he was secretly indulging
his vicious inclinations, and revolving the means of
murdering the poor creature he had previously betrayed.
So successful were Tawell's personations of good-
ness, that—in the face of proofs of guilt that were,
perhaps, as strong and conclusive as were ever ad-
duced against any criminal on his trial—there were not
wanting persons who could not think that such a man
could ba the perpetrator of such a crime. These—
doubtless amiable, but certainly weak minded, persons, are
now relieved from all doubts. However difficult it may
be to solve the psychological paradox which the cha-
racter of Tawell's mind and contradictions of conduct
displayed, the fact of his guilt, in the fulness of its de-
pravity, is now placed beyond question. To every one
capable of reason, this was placed beyond controversy by
the evidence of the different witnesses against him on his
trial. The line of argument adopted by his counsel—
if that can be dignified by the appellation of argu-
ment which was a mere string together of im-
probable and contradictory hypotheses—removed Ila
expectation of his acquittal, for it had [not shaken
the direct and conclusive testimony against him. This
mode of meeting the case, by such an advocate as Mr.
Kelly, showed to what an extremity this justly-eminent
lawyer felt himself reduced, when he could oppose
nothing but extravagant, far-fetched, and almost puerile
suppositions to such a case. The prisoner had admitted
that the woman he was accused of having murdered,
died in consequence of something she had poured into
the porter of which she drank. Yet, notwithstanding
this admission, Mr. Kelly actually argued that she
did not die of poison, but by suffocation from the
water which was attempted to be forced into her mouth
by her neighbour, who entered the room when she lay
in eafremis, if not actually dead. The Learned Gentle-
man also suggested, and argued the probability of the
hypothesis which rendered nugatory his former reason •
ing, and with a gravity which would imply his own
belief of what every one else saw was not merely
delusive but absurd—that the woman died from the
effects of prussic acid, generated in the stomach by the
process of digestion, from the pips of an apple found
partially digested among the contents of the stomach,
which were subjected to medical examination and che-
mical analysis—no apple-pips, however, being found
therein ! The acute mind of the Learned Judge (Parke)
who presided od the trial, in a few words swept away
this miserable refuge. We have dwelt strongly on this
branch of the evidence adduced on the trial, because there
is too much reason to believe that the monstrous verdict
returned in a case of an individual who was tried at the
Central Criminal Court a short time before Tawell made
the first attempt on Sarah Hart's life in September last,
suggested both the mode of the perpetration, and the
hope of escape, if detected, from the difficulty of esta
blishing commission to the satisfaction of a jury. The
conviction of Tawell will, we trust, tend to correct mis-
taken notions which are frequently entertained by some
persons, both in and out of the jury-box. Any extravagant
suggestion, however opposed to reason and science, with
such persons is sufficient to destroy the effect of the most
direct testimony. If ingenuity succeed in raising a
momentary doubt, it is pounced upon, as sufficient to
destroy the strongest proofs enforced by reason, derived
from the evidence of unquestionable witnesses, supported
by th. 2 testimony of science, and therefore claiming
from reasonable men the calmest investigation, and the
obedience of reason to the conclusions to which they
lead.

STEAM BOILER EXPLOSION AT

A SIITO N ND I?, It- LYNE.
Thursday- morning, about six o'clock, just as the en-
gineer of Messrs. Mason and Sons' mill was preprint;
to start the engine, one of the boilers exploded with
such fearful violence as to shake the whole building
to its very centre. Fortunately, however, the boiler
house is situate some distance, from the mill. It

appears that one end of the boiler was completely
blown away, carrying with it the walls of the build-
ing for upwards of two hundred yards. The boiler
was driven from its seat, and the engineer and fireman
both blown into the canal, which adjoins the mill,
mother of whom sustained any material injury, if we
except a few bru3ses and a ducking in the cartel.
The roof and other parts of tho building u erc
carried ac oss the canal and the river Tame to a dis-
tant e of seventy or eighty yards, awl, coming in contact
with a machine shop, smashed nearly the whole of the
windows, and materially damaged the walls of the
building. Several of the m chanics sustained bruises in
endeavouring, to make their escape, bAieving that their
lives were in dang,r. The mill hands, as might be ex-
pected, flew in all directions, and in the confusion many
of them were seriously injured. The scene of this acci-
dent presents a very singular appearance, on account of thc
scores of window-frames and wood-work which have been
shattered to pieces by the shock. The most extraordinary
circumstance in connexion with the explosion is the escape
of the engineer and fireman, both of whom wore blown
a distance of several yards, and absolutely dashed against
the bottom of the canal. The mill is the property of
' Messrs. Swires and Lees, but at present in the occupa-
tion of Thomas Mason and Sons. The damage to pro-
perty is very considerable, and upwards of four hundred
hands have been thrown out of employment in con-
scqurnce. It is stated that, had the other end of the
boiler given way, it must have carried with it a portion
of the mill, and that not fewer than from 100 to 150
persons must have perished.

DEATH OF THE LAST OF THE
EARLY SHIPMATES OF TILE LATE KING

WILLIAM IV.

Died ut Aberdeen, on Monday, the 17th of March,
1845, in the 85th year of his age, William I'hilips, late
of the Royal Navy, which he entered in 1780, as IMaster-
at•-Arms on board his Majesty's ship \Warwick (under
Sir George Keith Elphinstone, afterwards Lord Keith),
while his late Majesty, then Prince William Henry, was
a midshipman in that vessel. Wiriam Philips served in
the Warwick 011.1783, and during the currency of that
period, the late King, when only sixteen years of age,
met ....la' an accident by tumbling over the ninth gun on
the larboard side, upper gun-deck, by which the Prince
fractured his collar-bone, and was, in consequence, con•
fined for about three weeks to his cabin.

William Philips afterwards served in the French fri-
gate L'Aigle, captured on the American coast under Sir
Wm. Fox, Admiral Digby being Port Admiral of the
squadron then and there stationed.
At the beginning of the French revolution in 1790,
Wm. Philips sailed on board the Leviathan, 74 guns,
under Lord llugh Seymour, when Toulon was delivered
over to British arms. After this the Leviathan was or-
dered home to join the fleet in the English Channel, re-
maining there till the celebrated action of the Ist of
June, 1791-, under Earl Howe. . _

William Philips afterwards went with Lord Hugh
Seymour to the West India station, in Le Sans Pareil,
80 guns, until she was sent down from Martinique to
Jamaica to relieve Admiral Parker, who was ordered
home to head the fleet sent against the Danes at Co-
penhagen.
In the year 1805, William Philips having left the
navy, and being captain of a vessel of his own, was
captured on the coast of France, and confined, during
the late war, fur nine years in a French prison, until
released, at the peace of Paris, in 1814, when he re-
turned to Britain.

In 1842, our excellent Queen Dowager, coming to
the knowledge of William Philips being alive, with her
usual munificence, sent the honest shipmate of her
royal and lamented husband a present through her pri-
vate secretary, along with a kind communication, through
the same channel, expressive of her Majesty's sympathy
for the venerable sailor. _ _

Near the close of his life, William Philips was offered
a provision for the remainder of his days by the Lords
of the Admiralty through the Earl of Haddington,
which, however, he saw fit to decline.
William Philips was a man of singular integrity of
character, and, in early life, was an admirable mathema-
tician and navigator. He is the last of those who served
on board the Warwick with the late King, and has sur-
vived almost every relative see, we believe, the present
minister of the ,parish of Kirkurd, in Peebleshire.—
Edinburgh Post.

A Petition against the increased grant to May-
nooth has been hawked about Southampton for signa-
tures. It has been concocted privately without
public notice or discussion by the old ultra-Tory
clique, and is stuffed with the stale clap-traps
of worn-out bigotry and intolerance. For these
very sufficient reasons, the demand for signatures
has signally failed, and the names attached to the
petition are almost wholly made up of the class of old
alarmists and their dupes—scarcely a liberal of any
shade joirning in giving countenance to the stupid and
illiberal document. We are glad of this. Our objection is
to the principle of increased grants of public money to
Church establishment—of which there are already more
than enough. But whilst fighting the battles of prin-
ciple, Liberals must guard themselves against being
found in the ranks of Bigotry, and scorn to use its en-
venomed weapons.—Ha»ipshil e Independent.
LYmlNGroNsp—The Free Trade Bazaar, to be held
at Covent Garden, in May, will receive many contribu-
tions from the ladies in this town. We have seen beau-
tiful specimens of needlework and other articles, which
display much taste, which are highly creditable to the
zeal of those who are favourable to support so good and
righteous bi mine... Hampshire Independent,