The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-05 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

The reports of the state of trade in the provinces
during the past week show no diminution of the activity
which has so long prevailed in all parts of the country.
At Manchester the increasing demand for goods renders
it diffieult to obtain them, except by long previous orders.
There have been more purchases for India within the
last few days, and the market has had a very firm ap-
pearance. Disquiet, however, is felt with regard to the
exciteable state of the Liverpool cotton trade. At Bir-
mingham it has h.en announced that at a preliminary
meeting of ironmasters nut only has the anticipated
further rise in the price of iron been resolved upon,
hut that, instead of 203. per ton, it is to be 305.,
making the advance during the past month equal
to thirty per cent. In wages there is to be a pro-
portionate increase, and fears are naturally expressed of
the influence of these changes in checking the demand,
especially from the United States. In that quarter, as
el-ewhere, however, the progretis of railroad and other
enterprise is likely to prevent any sudden reaction,
whatever may bo the ultimate re,tult. In the general
manufactures of the town of Birmingham there is a
large and conJouous business, particularly ita marine
engines and copper sheathing. From Nottingham a
slight improvement in the home demand for hosiery is
nastntioned, while early and considerable orders are ar-
riving from America. In the woollen districts there bat;
n i
been o alteration, and it s affirmed that they never
na, alaiough there has lately
ex-
perienced a more healthful, trade. The Irish linen-
marketbeea ant hinacsrielred6t;racddYu' aetion, stocks are still light and
wages are advancing.

VIOLENT STORM AND HIGH TIDE.
Yesterday the metropolis and suburbs were visited
by a heavy cl:arni of wind and rain, doing consider-
able damage to property. The rain commenced
shortly before one o'clock in the morning and con-
tinued all day long, but shortly after three o'clock in
t
the afternoon the wind changed from the south-west
to an easterly direction, when it blew a r_
hur-
ricane, followed by torrents of rain
atmosphere
thunder, and fonnearly an hour the whole
ds
time most of
The storm
was darkened by the black heavy panedfecdtistant
lasted till near six o'clock, duringgutwters being stopped
the streets were impassable,
washedthe gutters
out of the adjacent
clohuich.
up with dirt and rubbish
before six 0,
clock in the,
evening
courts and alleys. Shortly
high,
overflowing the
evening the tide was unusually_
laces. Those parts which
banks of the river in many. p, _
suffered most were Bank"ae Bermondsey, Rother.
hithe, and WaPPI
•ng —tbe cellars in all those places
being completely hay inundated, although considerable
haverecentl been •
improvements
but the water rushed with great force up the drains,
and soon made its way into the underground dwellings
of the poor people who inhabit them.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT TIIE BLACXWALL RAILWAY
StATios.—Yeiterday an inquest was held by Mr. W. Baker,
at the London Hospital, on the body of Mary Phillips, aged
63 years. The deceased was the wife* of an eating-house
keeper, of No. 3, Horse Shoe-court, Clerkenwell. On the
evening of August 29th, the deceased and a male friend
proceeded from Blackwell by railway in a third-class car-
riage, and when the train stopped at the Fenchurch-street
statics!), the deceased got out on to the platform, being at
the time intoxicated. Directly afterwards an alarm was
raised by the guard, just as the train was starting on its re-
turn to Blackwell, when the deceased was lying between the
front of the platform and the carriages. The deceased was
released by the servants of the company, when she was
found to have received a severe injury to her right band,
whereby several of the fingers were cut off. She was con-
veyed to the hospital, where she died on Saturd,y
Alfred Dale, the hous3 surgeon, said the deceased died from
exhaustion from the operation and shock to the system.
Verdict, " Accidental death."
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Faro ranr
RARE Fisn.—A. fizh, called the " great Weever'
( Truchinus dram), was caught off th
bus been presented to the Museum. It is xe
on our coast, and some peculiarities in
.its conformation
render it worthy the attention of naturalists. One of the
most remarkable of these is a large spine at the end of each
of its gill-lids, or opercuire, which are
,caarged with poison,
and with which it can inflict a serious blow. The possession
of these remarkable instruments of warfare induced the
ancients to call it " drace,"
or the sea-dragon. The weever
i 3 predatory and solitary in its habits, living at the bottom
i
of the deep sea. There sno teeard of a specimen ever being
caught in our locality before.—. Dundee Courier.
Intelli-ence received of the Cleopatra screw-
stsamer, which sailed from Plymouth on the 7th ult. with
200 passengers and 160,0001. in coin for Australia, gives the
expectation of a speedy passage. It appears she arrived at
Madeira in five days and four hours. Her burden is 1,500
tons (900 register), with 300-horse power, and she was dig-
, patched by private enterprise.

A PEOPLE'S PARLIAMENTARY

PARTY.

Mr. Hume has addressed the following letter to
the editor of the Bull- Advertiser :
" Burnley Hall, Sept. 15, 1852.

is My dear Sir,—l have your letter of the 11th
instant, and I have read the article in the Hull Ad-
vertiser, on the importance of union amongst
the Reformers, and with the Irish Liberal party.
I admit that is important for the cause of good
government and for the future welfare of England
that there should be a people's party in the new Par-
liansent. You must know, from all my speeches and
efforts, that I have been long anxious to see that
party formed ; and further, you should know that I
have at the commencement of two new Parliaments
attempted to form one. But you may as soon make a
rope out of the sand of the seashore. There is no
common principle of adhesion amongst those that have
,hitherto been denominated Liberals to join in the
efforts which I have made to form a phalanx that
would, early and late, and on all fit occasions, take
• the popular course, and support measures having the
public welfare in view, and tending to increase the
power of the people in the House of Commons. After
repeated trials, and after grand promises, the most
noisy in their professions have too often been the first
to desert their principles, and leave the party to
make, as it has always done,
a miserable and
shabby appearance as to numbers. I could
give you
lists of deserters on such trivial grounds and
pre-
tences as would surprise you, and so frequent as
almost to deter any man from attempting such an
effort again. I am not easily driven off my path
when I am confident that my course is right and
ought to be pursued, and I shall be quite willing
again to make the attempt, but not on the principles
you have laid town (of tenant-right, &c.) in the Hull
Advertiser, as in all those matters there is such a di-
versity pf opinion that you could not muster 100
amongst the 654 Members in the House to unite.
The people's league, or party, or union, by whatever
name to be called, must agree on one point, say ballot ;
and after a trial on one point proceed from step to
step to other points—all important—until the attention
of the public can be fixed to the proceedings of the
party. But if my experience, as regards the Irish Mena
bars hitherto in the House of Commons, is to be
taken, the material is not likely to be of that sub-
stance to be moulded and kept in proper position, or
under the influence of any leader ; and any party so
formed, of forty or fifty Irish and fifty or sixty Eng-
lish and Scotch Members, would soon have some ea •
travagant proceeding from some of the Irish or other
members as would damage and discredit the party,
and also frustrate all efforts of the party, even in the
best cause. Yon are all zeal and fresh from Ireland,
and imbued too strongly with Ireland's wrongs and
her sufferings, to see anything, except through that
ardent haze that will sometimes surround you after
your intercourse with her sincere patriots and
honest reformers. Nevertheless, I shall be ready
to co-operate in any measures tbet can forward
the prosperity of our common country ; and, after
I have bad communication with the Irish representa-
tives, I shall be better able to • judge what should be
done. .41,t present, nothing, as far as I know, has
been done towards a union of Liberals who may be
doubtful of the acts of the Derby Administration ;
and when I look to the hollow professions of those
who preceded Lord Derby, and note their throwing
up their cards rather than play out the game for the
popular cause by ..calling on the reformers to join
them, kcaonot have much confidence in anything
they, may do to promote the union of parties. In-
deed, they must, I fear, be left to chew the cud
while the Derbyites are committing all kinds of
misgpyernmeat to forward their own cause, and
to benefit their supporters ; and it will only
be after a considerable time of such conduct that
there can' be any chance of a people's party being
formed ; and, whilst the movement must begin with
a few Radical Members of the House 'of Commons, it
cannot succeed until the people out of doors and the.
electors shall ace the necessity of doing their part, and
of giving support to the small party of the people in
Parliament. There is nothing in this, or in any of
my letters, that you should consider as private, and,
therefjre, my opinions which you ask for are freely
given. Perhaps in some parts they may appear con-
tradictory for want of the explanation ' requisite to
make the allusions known. In you we shalt have fin
honest reformer, but tell me how many editors will
risk their support to a party that, as Parliament is
now composed, can never succeed to power ?
"I remain, your obedient servant,
"E. F. Collins,-Esq.; Hull." "JOSEPH Hums.

ALLEGED BREACEt OF PROVISE OF
MARRIAGE EXTRAORDINARY.
Elopements (says the Leingter Express) have been
rather frequent in our district of late, and, as if to
vary the monotony of such flighty occurrences, we
hava this week a breach of promise of marriage case
more than in embryo. The affair was a piece of town
and country gossip ten days ego, but we were deli-
cate in alluding to it, although it was public property,
lest we should in any way prevent the principal par-
ties concerned cheating the lawyers, and coming to
an amicable arrangement ; however, if it was
only to save the gentleman interested from
the indignation of the ladies of the locality,
who are under a false impression, in conse-
quence of the exaggerated scandal gone abroad, we to
do him justice, will give a full account of this romance
of real life. At the name time, while we will do the
hero a service in setting people aright in his neigh-
bourhood, we will not make strangers a bit the wiser
by giving any names, sa that the tale, without doing
harm, will bear a most advantageous moral in induc-
ing any pining betrothed, who is bound in love or law
costa, to go it" at once, if he intends to "go it
at all. Without fear of fortune or family—without
any gammon or green nonsense come to the
scratch, call for the priest, and tie the " nuptial
knot," with as much nonchalance as if he was the re-
doubtable hero of Bellinaczazy himself.
Honest Mr. D. F is a weatthy shopkeeper in
Maryborougb, who has seen about half a century or
summers pass over his head, and is for some years
advanced iasober widowhood, having, during his course
through life, beau considered a meta of strict upright
dealing, and the reverse of anything that is sensitive,
sentimental, or watergruelish. Little Cupid,
however, is a que'er fellow, and no more
to be trusted (comparisons are odious) than a
brigadier or an habitual borrower of umbrellas, but
the too .sceptical men did not think so, And rashly
defied the young archer, by throwing himself in
the way of his inflemmahle darts, and the rosy boy,
as if to punish him for his temerity, wounded him
with one of the keenest bolts with which his quiver
was stocked, and left him low and languishing_
his heart bleeding so profusely that naught bat the
soft sympathy of a maiden half his years could it
assuage. But he did not surrender at discretion—
and foolishly fought against an unlooked for, but im-
pending dee:lily-3e that it was easy to see by his un-
usual demeanour that hie mind wigs wrapped in doubt
and perplexity. At ]act he come boldly to the fight,
and she, after due consideration, and a little "billing
and cooing" on both sides, being nothing loath, the
day was fixed
"Bright rose the sun o'er moor and mead, and
with the sun," or probably a little after it, rose Mr.
D. F—, and proceeded, ice short time, in the com-
pany of a strapping Young Irelander, as bridesman,
of his "fair Wye;' bat " the course of untrue love
never did run smooth," at any rate it certainly did not
in the present instance. Eeening arrived, lights
gleamed on the hills of Knocknagrove—the guests
were assembled—the banquet spread—all was con-
viviality. and harmony—the priest was in waiting
at the chapel---bibulous Delany, the violin per=
former, played" haste to the wedding," "and all went
merry as a marriage bell," But, lo! look at the bride-
groom, has, his bread been baked, or has he devoured
an anti-love potion in his apple pie? Soddenly, and
with seeming horror, he dashes his plate aside, and
shouts out his determination "never to enterthe bonds
of wedlock, but if he did, he never would marry any-
body but her!" The young Irelander blushed, and
lost the power of utterance! The guests stand aghast!
Had a thunderbolt, or the great sea serpent, fallen
amongst them, they could not be more astonished.
Surprise
,gave way to indignation. The intended
bridegroom, his face white as the flour-dredged vi-
sage of an amateur apparition, stammers forth an
excuse. "He thought the lady too young" much
o'er young to marry yet—but as minima not thinking
so, the indignant friends were unappeased. But the
lady rose with a spirit worthy of a Queen, and
protected' her truant knight from the impending
wrath until he was far out of danger.
On last Tuesday, Mr. D. F—,the gentleman
alluded to above, was served with a latitat for breach
of promise of marriage, laying demages to the amount
of 1,000/, the issue to be tried in Dublin next No-
vember term.

EMIGRATION FROM LIVERPOOL.
The number of ships dispatched by the Government
officials during the month was 62, containing in all
23,280 passengers, including 1,770 migrant?, princi-
pally Scotch, from the depot at Birknhead, all of
whom are bound for Australis. Of these the Ann
Thompson took 250; the Allison, 330; the June,
Brown, 490; and the Shacksmaxon, 700. The last-
named two are American vessels, of a superior class,
and containing excellent arrargements for the com-
fort of the emigrants. Previously to the passengers
leaving the depot on Saturday night week they were
addressed in 'an impressive manner by the surgeon,
teted with three hearty cheers at the
I his remarks. The same token of
was manifested towards the emigration
tr. and Mrs. Smith, the superintendent
the depot. Four other vessels are to
sd during the present month, the Bee-
iscilla, the Thames, and the Arabia.
, which' is the largest vessel over dis-
antipodes, is now alongside the depot,

THE SUN,

waiting for her passengers. She will carry out 750
adults, equal to about 920 souls, exclusive of officers
and crew. The following vessels have also been dis-
patched to the Australian colonies by the owners
or their agents, and, of course, are not included
in the Government list :—The Alciope, Minnesota,
Lucipara, Sewell, Mercurius, Cleopatra (steam-ship),
Sarah Sands (mail screw-steamer), Woodstock, Ben
Nevis, and Catherine Mitchell. Among those which
have been or will be dispatched in the course of the
present month are—the Lady Ebrington, Birman,
Security, Constance, Anna Paulowna, General List,
Lucia Maria, John Knox, South Sea, Edmund, Nor-
thumberland, Baltimore, Anne Elise, Athlone, Alba-
tross, Lady Russell, Stc. To give our readers an idea of
the creature comforts provided for the emigrants
during the voyage, we give a list of the principal
stores on board the ship Constance, which sailed on
Saturday morning, with 395 passengers, for Port
Philip .—Bread, 2,5001 b.; flour, 18,9001 b.; peas,
6,7001 b.. ; oatmeal, 6,8501 b. ; rice, 3,8001 b.; beef,
7b.
pork, 10,3001 b. ; preserved meats, 8,1501 b. ;
currants,
4501 b. ; raisins, 3,8001 b. ; suet, 2,9001 b. ;
sugar, 6,8501 b. ; treacle, 3,80016.; tea, 5001 b.;
6°°l
9601b.;coffee,
butter and cheese, 3,5001 b. ; pre-
served raw potatoes, 8,0001 b.; and 50,000 gallons of
water. In addition to which is a large supply of
t. medical comforts," such as arrowroot, sap, &c.
For strength, beauty of model, and general finish, the
Constance has not been surpassed by any ship that
has sailed hence for the colonies. She was built by
Messrs. W. and R. Wright, of St. John's, for Mr.
James Beazley, and is commanded by Captain M. M,
Mil ward. We understand that Captain Patey, the prin-
cipal emigration officer of this port, has recently re-
turned from the metropolis, and that he is of opinion
that the majority of the Liverpool ships are far superior
to those of other ports for second and third-class passen-
gers, being generally larger, and having greater height
between decks, and consequently possessing better
ventilation. The parochial authorities of Liverpool
are using exertions to obtain a voluntary rate for the
purpose of aiding deserving paupers to emigrate to
the antipodes. They have recently availed themselves
of a balance of an old voluntary aid for this purpose.
On Thursday they succeeded in sending away 20
hearty young girls, by the Catherine Mitchell. Be-
fore the vessel left the river ten of them had been
engaged as servants by families on board.

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