The Sun. — 1837-04-27 (London, England)

STATE OF TRADE.  At Congleton trade was never known in a more depressed state than at the present period ; the majority of the working classes are unemployed, and suffering the severest privations.—Staffoidshire Advertiser. The commercial distress prevailing so fearfully in the north has extended to Taunton. Our principal branch of manufacture, the silk trade, is in a sad state. Some factories are working only two days a week ; others are discharging a great number of hands ; and some have proposed to close altogether for two or three weeks, until the over-glutted markets are a little relieved.—Sonlerset Gazette.  The manufacturers of Kendal are not exempt from the present stagnation of trade. Our weavers are about three parts unemployed, or are nearly all at work about three-part time.—Westmoreland Gazette. _ _ _  Never, we believe, in the memory of the oldest inhabitant was distress more universal among the ribbon weavers of this city than it is at the present time ; we believe that we do not exaggerate when we say-that full three-fourths of the thousands engaged in the ribbon trade are out of employ at the present moment.—Coventi y Standard. A considerable portion of the hand-loom weavers in the neighbourhood are out of employ. Indeed some of the manufacturers here have given up making, preferring this to accumulating a stock which there is not the least probability of their selling, except at a loss. Mechanics, ma• sons, bricklayers, &c., are all out of work.—Preston The town of Stockport largely participates in the embarrasment and distress with which commerce and manufactures arc now afflicted. Many factories are working only eight hours per day, with a prospect of still further abridgment. The consequence is, that the operative classes experience considerable distress, On Thursday a failure was announced of an 'establishment of great magnitude, and one of the oldest in the town, which will add to the difficulties of the town and neighbourhood.— Slockport Paper._  John Runner waS'senteneed in Livingston last week to three years imprisonment in the State Prison, for I.garey. The prisoner confessed to four wives now living. We regret to state, the influenza has again made its appearance in tI is city. Several persons have been severely attacked, though we have not heard of any fatal cases.—Lincoln Gazette.  On Monday morning an inquest was held at the Black rlorsle public-house, in liieh street, Poplar, before Mr. Baker, coroner, on the body of William Robins, a policeman of the K division, who committed suicide by swallowing a quantity of nux vomica and arsenic. It appeared in evidence that the deceased, a tall athletic young man, who was much respected in the district for his uniform civility and his vigilance as an officer, had been for some titne past much affected in his mind by the abandoned conduct of his wife, to whom he was greatly attached. She had committed several desperate assaults upon him, and she left him a few weeks ago with three children to provide for. -He had been since much depressed, and had been heard to declare that he-would make away with himself, and that he would part with the last bit of bread he had if his wife would return to him. On Saturday morning he purchased an ounce of nux vomica of a chemist in Poplar, who is in the habit of selling it to agriculturists, and in the afternoon he mixed the powder in a pot; :ind after drinking some arsenic, which he had dissolved, he swallowed a portion of the nux yemica. His frien-is, observing him drinking something out of the pot, suspected his intentions, and endeavoured to keep him in his mother's house, until a surgeon could be sent for. He got away from them, and ran across a field ; but being pursued, was brought back. Mr. Baillic, a surgeon, and his assistant, were called in, who found him labouring under the effects of poison, and he admitted he had taken nux vomica and arsenic. He lingered until Next morning, when he expired. The deceased received an excellent character from the superintendent and his inspector. Verdict—°t Temporary insanity."