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

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, APRIL 29. —The trade in
Foreign Wool has shown no symptoms of improvement the
week ; prices, however, are pretty firm.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, APRIL 29.—The de-
mand for English wool.tlnaweek Eq been of the same character
as noticed in our late reports. tengency 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 importation,
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 warehouses; few buyers are in the market, and
those who do come buy with the greatest caution, and for pre-
sent need only.
TRADE OF 110L3IFIRTH.—Nerer were the mills in this dis
trict so badly employed as they have been during the pas'
month. Many of the weavers, &c., who work in their own
houses, and who for a long time have not had half work, are
now completely thrown adrift. We are 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 Perl came into office.

BRADFORD MARKET, purchase of piece
goods by the merchants attending our market to-day has been
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
price. There is a slight falling off in the demand for yarns
since our last report ; but w•e do not hear that sales are effected
at lower rates. Spinners have for some time past been pro-
ducing nothing to ctoek, choosing rather to curtail their pro
duetion than accumulate. Short-Cm° working is quite as ge
neral as during any period of last year; and without some
considerable improvement, we fear the cond,tion of the opera-
tives will g,ow worse instead of better. During the we, k
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 dec:ine. For fins noils there are more inquiries, and
very little stock on hand; 16:Ts firm.—Leeds Mercury.

I3onr or -v WOMAN rouND IN TILE 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 lor shoes. In order to give time for identification, Mr.
Higgs will not hold the inquest on the body until Monday
evening next.

The- _Hclgien 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 Brussels
amuse themselves oa Sundays and fetes in shooting with the
bow. Tho wager was for 100 Napoleons. Baron de W. was to
fire from a tilbury, and Baron de IL 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 preeautions. Baron de H.
appeared, mounted on a coach• horse belonging to Count d'O.,
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 spe:tators wet e
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 oi
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 pi; eons in flight, the
Baron de W. killed five, and the Baron di, H. only three;
consequently the latter lost the stakes.
TAKE CARE OF THE lINUTES."—A recent
American paper narrates the following instance of the " im-
provement of time :"—" A tram 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
ears, 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 Rue de Valenciennes at •La
Villette, exhibiting symptoms of great excitement, particu•
larly when any one seemed to observe him. • At length, in a
moment of increased irritation from this cause, he took a
pistol from his pocket, and discharged it at his own head,
and dropped down dead. On being examined, his shirt was
founkto be fastened with diamond buttons, and a brilliant ring
yeas on one of his fingers. In his pocket was a paper, on which
he had written in pencil—" 1 live at No. ‘:.O, flue Grenier-Saint-
Lazare ;" but on sending an officer to this house with a descrip-
tion of the deceased's person, no one could recognise hint, 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.

The following atrocious fratricide was committed it
few days ago at Saint Just-k-Pendue, in the Loire. The cri-
mina', whose name and station are not mentioned, having been
to the Mayor to obtain, as it was supposed, a passport, but not
finding him at home, returned, and was so eager to do the deed
he contemplated, that he loaded his gun, and seeking his bro-
ther shot him dead in the presence of at least fifty persons. say-
ing it was better to kill than be killed. He took refuge in the
house of a friend, where In' was followed by the police officers.
They were told that he had concealed himself in the loft, ansi
there they went in search of him! but he was at the time in a
room on the first floor, whence, with the assistance of his friend,
he made his escape to the woods, and, for the present, remains
undiscovered.

A correspondent writes from Florence, that the
mine of quicksilver, discovered last year in the environs of Pe-
ravezza, near Pisa, is in full work, and during the last month
yielded more than 6,0001b5. ; a produce that is daily increas-
ing The Grand Duke had visited their:, and expressed his
satisfaction-at the• able-- manner in-which they bad teed con-
ducted, announcing the intended appointment of a commi,••
Lion of French, English, Italian, and German geologists a'd
chemists, to search for the other mines of quicksilver, which,
according to tradition, exist in the Grand Duchy.