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

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, FEE. 4.—We can merely
confirm our last week's report, no perceptible alteration having
taken place either in the amount of transactions effected or
pr ieo •s obtained. We hear the London and Bristol wool sales,
just concluded, have gone tff with spirit, a large attendance of
buyers being present.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, FEB. 4.—There is yet no
change in the Wool market; the supply and demand continue
to be equally limited, and prices have been without variation
for some time past.
TRADE OF LEEDS.—Nothing but gloom and despondency
hang over our Cloth markets, and the question continually
asked is when will this state of things alter for the better; but
the best informed in the trade are quite unable to answer it.
The state of the markets at our Cloth Halls, the bad state of
business throughout the country, and the absence of anything
like the usual demand for goods for Spring shipment, sets all
calculation on this subject at defiance, although we have now
entered upon the period when business usually sets in pretty
brisk for the Spring trade, yet both in the Cloth Halls and in
the warehouses business has been as dull as we ever knew it du-
rink the week.

BRADFORD MARKET, THURSD•Y. Although the attend-
ance of merchants to-day in the Piece market has been less
numerous, me cannot report any better market; nor can we
learn that more has been (Line during the week. The manu-
facturers are hoping that after the a,rembling of Parliament
an impetus will be given to trade, so as to enable them to re-
new their avocation Kith the wanted ability that they have
been accustomed to. We are unable to report any better
doings in the yarn trade. The manufacturers continue to buy
with great caution, and the spinners, from the ruinous prices
that the yarns are sell ng
at, only produce what is to actual
order, thus prohibiting any accumulation in stock. The de-
mand for %tool still continues on the deep stapled wether
fleeces, and sorts of which the market is moderately supplied ;
prices are without alteration. The public sales in London of
Colonial wools appear to have realized full prices.—Leeds
Mercury.

MESMERISM.--A few days ago, Mr. Braid, of
Manchester, delivered a lecture on Mesmerism before a very
numerous audience at Liverpool, which was enlivened by
experiments on several strangers, whom he reduced into a
state of sleepiness. Mr. Braid explained his own theory at
considerable length. He attributed the extraordinary and
rapid rise of the pulse, during the mesmeric state, to the
stoppage of the flow of? blood through those members in the
cataleptiform state, and its rapid fall after demesmerisa-
tion to the rush of blood into its ordinary chan-
nels. He had proved the truth of this by the application of a
tout niquet to the legs and arms of a person experimented
upon ; and the same effects had resulted. One of the most
important features of his system was its applicability to the
cure of a number of diseases which had resisted every other
curative agency, with present immunity from pain and the
absence of any bad result. Ile had by means of it extracted
teeth without the patient suffering any pain; he had re-
moved rheumatic pains, which had tortured the patient for
months and years ; he had in eight minutes cured a case
of tic doloreux, under which a person had been suffering fer
eight weeks; he had restored paralytic limbs, which had
been useless for twenty-four years ; he had given hearing to
the deaf, and the power of speech to the dumb; and even in
cases where the persons had been born deaf, be had caused
them to hear the tick of a watch in the space of ten or
twelve minutes. From experiments that he had for a short
time been engaged in, he trusted to be able to show that by a
modification of his method the use of opiates might be dia.
pensed with. He would give his word of honour that in the
experiments which would be exhibited to'the audience there
should be no attempt at collusion or delusion.—(Cheers.) His
wish was not to mystify, but to elicit truth. Mr. Braid then
introduced two brothers, named Shelmadine, who had been
deaf and dumb, to prove the curative effects of mesmerism.
The elder brother, tdward, had never heard any sound in his
life,
mesmerised,except the reportoeuldhear
e
ticking of a watch at a distance
of three inches from the left ear, and one inch from his
right. The lecturer cited, from the Medical Times, a case
where another gentleman had restored a person to hearing on
THE DUKE OF CLEVELAND.
plan. A certificate from the head-master of the
operated on
that before Mr. Braid had the brothers Shelma-
AMlarncßh.e'aster school for the deaf and dumb was read. It stated
dine, they had been unabdlse
Atofehiecaurryo.r articulate, but that they
could now do b eth. —Lee
were removed last
ttpgeht, at eight o'clock, in a
—The mortal rLemOaiFns of the late Duke of Cleveland, who ex-
pired on Saturday last, the 29th ult.,. at his residence in St.
t _ Liverpool and Birming-
ham The friends of the we.retsen . b
Ra lway, whence they
cry a special train to Dar-
lington, where they will renTahb 0- h
nimt, and proceed tomor-
row,
whom he was a kind
hearse.
oa
wn st
' os and-ts:i eu four,af James's-square,
Y will b Castle.
The body will lie
in state until Monday at ""'
anduke e buried in the family
vault, followed by the present and the other noble rela-
tives and tenantry of the lamentedlateehonrt peer, whose loss will be
decided upon. By the death of
re is no new
de-
ceased wishing that the funeral cortege from town should be as
irnstnandnaenudistsgien:rnmfnw,tiatnills_auersidpTlfor b.
private as possible, only a few carriages of the nobility attended
the procession to the terminus. It was at first intended to
yesterday
.morning,
have removed the body but that it should
his Grace several branches of the nobility have been put into
deeply
benefactor,
f elt byao tialontyuo
be made private last night
mourning.
STATE OF TRADE. feature
in business here. Manufacturers in the spring trade are maks
ing a few more d
goo_s as the season is near at hand, but the
how es in the general trade are moving very cautiously. The
di tress amongst the operatives is very great.—Leicestershire
Mercury.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, FEB,, 2.—The
supply of Sugar in first bands has been so very limited, that
we have scarcely had a market since 4r lit uport. 'Whit
little has bean done has been at extreme rates. The opportune
arrival of two vessels from pesnerara with 900 hhds. will afford
the trade an opportunity of partially supplying themselves, as
most probably the importers will bring them forward im-
mediately.
The intended railwav ti,irovh
~ , , .. .
44 Rn4l between
.__ a ill soon e corom
Rochel/4‘iiiici t rke.lib r.- t 1 med, The works
ase kpeeteti to e complete in a we vernonth.—Kentish Ob-
server. • •

The thieves are about to present a piece of
plate to our police for their kindly forbearance and considera-
tion. The compliment will not be ill bestowed. Exeter is
the western city of refuge te in;oliszlett
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