The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-16 00:00:00

UOSIERY AND LACE TRADE.

We have the satisfaction to state, that at length there
is a slight improvement in the cotton hosiery branch,
as a few orders have been flitting, which, it is conceived,
are but the precursors of others • these are both for
cut-ups and full-fashioned hose but it should by no
means be considered that it is to that extent to employ
;
the hands, many of the shops having only a frame or
two going. The low price of cotton yarn, as well as of
wages, is thought to be one reason for this improve-
ment, AS the manufacturers conceive that neither can
come lower.
The warp tatting and warp press and lap branch has
also slightly improved ; but then this is considerably
damped by the circumstance, that a reduction of the
wages has taken place in this now low-paid branch of
manufacture.
The fancy bobbin net is in a sort of stagnant calm, very
little is doing, and many good hands are out of work. On the
subject of plat it is impossible to speak with too much praise
of the mechanics, who bring out patterns fully equal to
foreign cushion nets ; and we should see with great pain the
patentees and the machine owners engaged in suits of
law. There is scarcely any improvement in any branch
of the silk hosiery branches, nor any branch of the Not-
tingham or Derby glove trade. The situation of the
cheviners is lamentable, as well as other branches of fe-
male employment ; and hard as is the lot of the male
population, still the state of the females is yet severer,
both from low wages and want of employment.—Notting-
hum Review.

T-'TEAM BETWEEN NEW YORK AND HAVRE.—In
the House of Representatives of the United States, on
the 27th ult., Mr. Adams from the Committee on Foreign
Affairs, reported a resolution calling on the Secretary of
State and the Secretary of the Navy to prepare jointly a
plan for the establishment of a line of weekly steamers,
the United States Go-
, by
ye French Government,
with
next session of Congress
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report
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with statements of the probable expense and other details.
The resolution was passed, and the report was read, and
ordered to be printed.
We arc much pleased to learn that the advantages
which the Eastern Counties Railway will must unques-
tionably confer upon the county of Essex are about
to be appreciated, by the formation of a branch line
of railway from the seaport town of Maldon to the
town of Braintree, with a junction at Witham, so afford-
ing to a rich and populous district the benefits resulting
from railway communication. We understand that John
Braithwaite, Esq., the able engineer of the Eastern
Counties Railway, has inspected the
line, and that the
necessary surveys are already in progress.—llailway

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Tines. -
parts of York-
shire, and the crops are for the must The harvest is commencing in many
part abundant,
and in the finest condition. Before the thunder storm
4 Wednesday, the face of the
country was most
Monday last ;
beautiful ; and although the corn has in many
sustained
draaitiiiy osfertiloluat
it paces
‘,.il l bneoetn
havelaid
sbuys• day. we hope
injury. Near
Thirst; and about Leeming-lane, the cutting of barley,
and if the
andoat:,
weather ‘h':'ae‘l'sich o(b)ufehi'll‘c. 7 the reapers
will be in great activity throughout the country
next week. With the exception of the storm on Wed-
nesday. the weather throughout the week has been all
that could be desired. We hear it generally stated that
the crops arc good. and perfectly healthy ; the wheat,
though not thick on the ground. is well corned, and will
ield well ; and the oats are a very
abundant crop
`Turnips are said to be the largest crop known for many
years..--Leeds Mercury.
A CHICKEN WITH A CORK LEG...__At Kirkby-
green there is now a young fowl, which regular,v
stumps about on a cork feg. When quite a chicken, it
lost its foot in a trap, and a young lady named Woolfit,
very ingeniously inlnufactured a leg out of a long bottle
cork. With piirtlet's approach ,to henhood, the leg has
become too short, so that either the timber
toe must be
spliced, or a new one manufactured.—Lincolnshire Chron.
For 111:01V weeks during the spring and summer,
a great number of immense large oak trees have been
brought and deposited upon the foal Quay, in this
town,-- from whence they have been, n, from time to time,
shipped off cor Yarmouth, for the purpose of being
used in constructing and repairing certain works there.
The trees were grown at Houghton7 am, A
most of them
zire of •
extrtu .- • ary dimensions as to the length and
n dm,
substance of the I 0 ly, and are really ma,
rmiticeht timbers.
-•\-,),(c/k Chronicle.
PORT OF PLYMOUTH.---she trade of the port is ex-
eAedingly brisk, especially in timber, corn, and West
I ILE,: produce.-.Zet)o4o7t CArtoiiciet