The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-28 00:00:00

THE SUN,

AMERICAN NEWS.

In addition to the summary forwarded on Monday
by electric telegraph the following items of intelli-
gence have been recived by the Africa :
the Maryland House of Representatives have
passed resolution:; welcoming Kossuth to the State
Capital, but repudiating the doctrine of intervention
for non-intervention.

The Maine House of Representatives, by a vote of
83 yeas to 34 nays, has passed the following resolu-
tion in relation to the intervention of Russia against
Hungary :
" Resolved,-- That we earnestly desire that the gene-
ral Government of the United States may exert an in-
fluence, in some wise and prop3r manner, against all such
intervention in future."

The Governor of- Ohio, in his Annual Message to
the Legislature, recommends Kossuth to the hospi-
tality of the State.
In the American Senate, on the 12th, Mr. Seward
presented a petition from New York State, on Rus-
sian intervention, which was referred.
Some dispute had arisen between the Hungarians,
arising out of the libel case in which Major Jochman
was plaintiff.
Several petitions for intervention in favour of
Hungary had been presented to Congress.
Governor Low (Maryland) had entertained Kos-
suth to a banquet, at which almost every member of
the Legislature attended,
John C. Calhoun, Esq., son of the late celebrated
statesman, had published a long letter, advocating the
principle of intervention to procure non-intervention.
The clergymen of New York (the Roman. Catholics
and Dr. Pise, Puseyite, excepted) had addressed Kos-
suth, through their spokesman, the Rev. Dr. Greeley.
The interview between Governor Kossuth and the
Hon. 11. Clay was profoundly interesting. Kossuth
was accompanied by Mr. Cass and Governor Jones,
of Tennessee. Kossuth was excited and agitated at
the prospect of his introduction to the great parlia-
mentary leader of the United States—the Prince, as
his western admirers call him. Mr. Clay was seated
in an arm chair, and on Kossuth's entrance rose 'up
erect to his full height, and cordially received the great
Hungarian. After the ceremony of introduction was
over, and a few minutes were passed in allusion to the
incidents of his visit to this country, Mr. Clay began
to address him on the great subjects of his mission.
Mr. Clay began by saying with great solemnity
that he addressed him as a dying man, and that, as it
was an important occasion, he should speak to him
freely and with the utmost frankness. For himself,
he bad worshipped all his life at the shrine of
Liberty, and had ever been one of the most devoted
votaries of freedom, and he trusted that Kossuth
was as sincere a lover of liberty as himself. At
these remarks Kossuth di4played much feeling,
and listened with great eagerness. Mr. Clay then
proceeded to say that he stood firmly upon the long-
established doctrine of non-intervention by this coun-
try in the affairs of Europe. He believed that this
policy was the best for America, the best for Europe,
and the best for the cause of liberty ; and he went on
for 30 minutes to enlarge upon these views, which he
did with his usual vigour and elevation of thought
and felicity of diction. At the expiration of this time,
be remarked that he would be glad to say more, but
that he was unable, having quite exhausted his powers
of speech.
Kossuth replied with his accustomed ability, de-
clining to touch the question of what should be the
policy of this Government, which he said rested
entirely with the statesmen of the country. He re-
viewed the state of Europe, and expounded his general
sentiments for about twenty minutes. The whole
interview up to this point had been exceedingly in-
teresting and marked by the most refreshing and ap-
preciative mutual sympathy. Both parties were
deeply affected, and under the peculiarly touching
circumstances of the occasion, found it difficult to
conceal their emotion. It was thronghout a spectacle
of the noblest character.
When Kossuth rose to depart, Mr. Clay also raised
himself from his chair, and taking one of Kossuth's
hands in his, he placed the other upon the shoulder
of the exile, and with deep feeling invoked the blessing
of Heaven upon him. The bosom of Kossuth swelled
with emotion, and the tears rolled down the veteran
cheeks of the great Kentuckian, as he added, that
on every day his life should be spared, his fervent
prayers should ascend to Almighty God for the pro-
tection of the noble exile, and for his restoration to
his native country.

The Exeter (N. H.) News Letter, in an article
upon the reported difficulty between Kossuth and
Captain Long, says :—" We are authorised by Capt.
Long to say, that the statement that Kossuth sent
him a challenge to mortal combat, is an entire fabri-
cation ; no challenge, and nothing approaching to it,
ever having been received by him from Kossuth."

ATEIt FROM SOUTH AMERICA.
LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.—The clipper ship Linda, Cap-
sin Green, arrived here this afternoon from Pernam-
buco, whence she sailed on the 2d inst., making the run
in the short space of twenty-four days.
The Linda's news is twelve days later than that
brought by the Brazilian mail. That relating to poli-
tical matters is unimportant. Everything was quiet, and
likely to remain so.
Business affairs were quiet, owing to the Christmas
holidays.
A Pernambuco circular, of late date, contains the
following:—
" The occurrence of the Christmas holidays has par-
tially suspended business operations, the only change
being iu exchange, which, owing to the advicea of a de-
cline in Rio, brought by the Tay on the 22d December,
business has been done to the amount of about 5,0001. at
28d. Since her sailing there has not been any further
operations. In freights, the Ayrshire Lass has been
fixed to load sugars for the Channel at 30s. and 5 per
cent., with 55. extra to the continent. For the United
States the John Omerod has been taken up for sugars.
The rate has not transpired, but about 50 cents. has been
named."
The demand for cotton was not active. First quality
had been sold at 4,600 to 4,700, and 4,200 to 4,300 for
secondary descriptions. The entries from the 16th to
the 27th ult. had been 850 bags.
Sugars were in quiet request. Sales of first quality
white had been reported at 255. 4d ; second ditto, 275.
3d.; third ditto superior, 225. 3d.; the value of fourth-
rates nominaf at 19a. id. to 205.; fifths, 17s. 3d. to 18$.
2d.; and sixths, 16s. 4d. to 17s. 3d. per cwt. Musco-
vado yellow selected had changed hands at 14s. to 14s.
7d.; regular descriptions were considered worth 12s. Id.
to 13s. 3d.
Some sales of Irish butter had been made at 560 r. to
580 r. per lb.
There were large supplies of English bar-iron on the
market, the value of which was quoted at from 4,600 to
5,000 r. per quintal. Swedish was nominal, the demand
being dull, at 9;000 to 10,000 r. per quintal.
There was little or no.bar lead on the market, and the
sales reported were made at 1,000 to 1,500 r. per quin-
tal; sheet was worth from 1,200 to 1,300 r.
With a large stock of tin plates holders could hardly
effect sales at 1,800 to 1,900 r. per box.
The rate of exchange was steady at 28 dolls. sterling.
Discounts varied from 1* to 1 per cent. per month ac-
cording to time.
The rate of freight on cotton, to Liverpool, was
quoted at 7-16ths per lb. and 5 per cent.

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The advices by the Africa
confirm the telegraphic accounts received by the Pacific;
and they inform us that cotton had advanced lc. in the
last four days, middling ranging
.from 8/c. to Bic. ex-
change 94 to 104, and freight to Liverpool id. At New
Orleans large purchases for the European continent had
raised middling at the latest date, January 12th,
to 7*c. exchange 9 per cent., and freight to Ltverpool
13 32d. As the total receipts were not more than
1'019,063, against 952,003 bags at the corresponding
period at last ar—that is, as the excess over last year
was Only 67,000 bales—some parties were reducing their
estimates
to a crop of 2,700,000 baler, and the others
to a lower
amount.i These advices have stimulated
the Liverpoo
market; the sales being 10,000 bales
yesterday, at
e e. fully *d,
Friday's rates, an
advance of 1-16 d, per lb. upon
andlet..ls,ooo to-day, at fully another 1-16 d.
have raised their quotations state generally that spinners
impulse. we
tint. Our market, also, has shared the
an kindsi of mule also ; and that in
and some counts and OXIS it(l. per lb. for water twist,
increase of firmness is ex-
other descriptions
hibited. The same tendeenn4Llhdas shown itself in goods
condition manifestt great also, though not in an
buyers, however, continue toegree. All classes of
tortetotetrms manner, as.
cau-
tion. The dangerous
con-
tinent imposes this upon many, iT
ails. European
purchasers for that quarter ; whilst are indi-
rectly influenced by the same cause. And
a suspicion
attaches to the movement on account of the e
which it originates, and of the recollection that prices
in
were similarly acted upon last year,. at this time,p Icl7
statements of the same sort,
.to the injury of those
whyo
were guided by them in their operations. The sellers
of yarns have, therefore, found it difficult to obtain id.
more than they required last week, and have but very
partially succeeded in doirg so. perhaps the ex-
tent of the improvement we have realised may be cor-
rectly stated thus t--The home and foreign buyers
are induced to makeup their minds to give what the
spinners wanted, but they refused to pay a week ago;
and the business of the day has been cffected, for the
most part, on such terms. The sales of bundles and
warps ,have been on a fair scale ; in pin-cops and.
cap twist there has not been equal spirit. There'
is nothing
in this, however, to encourage
spinners to pay more for their raw material ; for,
whilst this has not given way during the last four weeks,
yarns have had a tendency that way; •o that the turn
now taken is only towards a point that had been pre-
viously receded from. The cloth market is more slug-
gish than that of yarns. Manufacturers are, however,
firmer than they were; and an increased disposition for
business has appeared amongst the buyers, particularly
in'the home department.
ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—We have had no improvement
in the flannel market to-day. There has been a very
, thin attendance of buyers, who have purchased very
sparingly. The wool dealers are asking former prices,
but the business transacted is upon o very plaited scale.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—There were very few buyers
in our piece-hall to-day; and the demand for worsted
fabrics, of all sorts, is exceedingly languid, There is

LONDON,

less doing in yarns, and the merchants are more re-
luctant to give the late advance. Wool is quiet. The
principal spinners are working up their stocks, and are,
therefore, out of the market; but, from the prices asked
by the growers, there is no reason to expect that the
staplers will be able to 'give away.
HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—We have no new feature
to report in our market to-day; it continues much the
same as last week, about an average one for the season.
Though there have been a scarei'y of buyers in the
town as regards number, a fair trade has been done in
the hall. In the warehouses there has been an improve-
ment during the week. A good trade has been done in
the wool market, wools being very much sought after,
several London brokers having been in the market trying
to buy up stocks.

MACCLESFIELD.-Our manufacturers have been doing
a little more business during the last fa w days, and in
some instances aro working to order. It is almost too
early to expect a very active demand for goods; con-
siderable preparation is, however, being made for the
spring trade. We are sorry to mention a turn-out that
has taken place of the inside weavers of one of our largest
arms, in order to compel the outside weavers of that
firm to support the local board of trade—a body
that was constituted about three years ago to regulate
prices of weaving, and has been found to do injury to
the outside weavers, many of whom are comparatively
starving in the streets, while, at the same time, large
quantities of work are being sent into distant parts
of the country, at prices that our own weavers would
be willing to accept, but are prevented by the
regulations of the board in question. Thrown
silks continue in demand, and the market is pretty
nearly cleared of the finer descriptions of China and
Bengal. Throwsters are busy, and at full work. The
dyers are well employed. Raw Silks—A large specu-
lative business has been done in Chinas the last two
days, about 1,600 bales of the new arrivals having
changed bands. Public sales are announced to take
place in London on the 18th inst., at which most of the
unsold silk is expected to be brought forward.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.

The Christmas holidays being over, and the ar-
rangements, which had been chiefly made for the ju-
veniles, being altered, we attended, with much
pleasure, the new lectures of J. H. Pepper, Esq., on
the variable condition of oxygen and phosphorus.
This lecture was of a highly scientific character,
and treated of that peculiar state of oxygen which,
considered as a new form of that element or as a
peroxide of hydrogen (under the name of ozone),
presented features of the utmost interest to all those
engaged in science. The air from an electrical ma-
chine, commonly called the electric aura, was shown
to contain ozone by turning iodide of potassium and
starch blue, by its peculiar odour, and also
by its power of bleaching indigo. The same
production of ozone having similar properties
occurred from the mixed gases, obtained by the
voltameter; also by putting phosphorus to water in a
bottle of air.

Having demonstrated the different modes of pro-
curing ozone and stated that it was contained in at-
mospheric air, the learned lecturer then proceeded to
explain its use in the economy of nature, as a
disinfectant. There could be little doubt that
ozone performed this duty—hence the difference
between town and country air, the latter promoting
health, the former the contrary. Phosphorus was
then alluded to; in its ordinary state highly com-
bustible, throwing out fumes which were most
poisonous to the workmen employed in the manufac-
ture of lucifer matches, causing a peculiar disease,
which destroyed the nose and ears, and made the
bones of the men so brittle that they broke with the
slightest application of force. This disease had oc-
curred particularly in Germany, and was now stopped
by the use of M. Schrotter's red or amorphous
phosphorus, which possessed every useful quality
belonging to the common variety, but was so altered
in its character that it could be packed in barrels or
carried in the pocket, and did not cause those fumes
which were found to be so destructive to health. As
a climax to these curious productions, Mr. Pepper
directed the attention of his audience to a number of
lumps of gold, one valued nearly 2001., from Oba,
Australia, brought over by Colonel Munday, and
shown from philanthropic motives, in order to attract
attention and induce all persons starving or im-
poverished in this country to emigrate there, as the
true Ophir and land of promise. Hitherto the greater
number of emigrants have gone to California, but the
advantages of Australia were paramount, as it was
under the protection of the British Government, and
proper, instead of Lynch, law prevailed. Messrs.
Hunt and Roskill kindly sent the specimens.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Though infinitely more accustomed to the
use of Harlequin's bat than the pen of a newspaper
correspondent, I feel it incumbent upon me on this
occasion, out of a regard to the reasonable and sea-
sonable privileges so long enjoyed by my professional
brethren, to tumble before the public, not in my
usual " motley garb," but in the more sombre guise
of printer's ink, with which your compositors may
(with your kind permission) think proper to in-
vest me.

. _
In the pages of your facetious contemporary
Punch, at the close of a caustic article on the late at-
tempt of the Lord Chamberlain to fetter the exube-
rant outpourings of our hitherto unrestricted hilarity,
the writer flatteringly observes—" We leave the pro-
posed remedy in Dr. Flexmere's hands, assured that
his professional experience will enable him to advise
his brethren how best to administer the dose."
Thus finding myself called upon to undertake the
cure of what seems to be a confirmed case of visual
obliquity on the part of the Lord Chamberlain, I
would wish through a corner of your columns to
convey to the most Noble Marquis of Breadalbane,
who has thought fit to sit in judgment on our annual
whimsicalities, the following small donation in the
shape of a little advice, which I trust will not be
deemed unworthy •f attention, though it avowedly
comes from one who is populurly presumed to be a
great fool.
Without the-slightest wish to make game of anything
be considered to trench upon political
grounds,and for which I presume a game licence
that
tld m
be considered necessary, I would deferentially
suggest that, in common with many others of my
brother clowns, I have for some time past been in
the habit of using au implement of apparently very
dangerous character, and which traditionally figures
in the comic scenes of most pantomimes as a .Red-hot
Poker.
Now, if the Most Noble Marquis would really wish
to carry out his views as a pantomimic censor in the
fullest spirit of impartiality, he would here see that
this poker was really something to lay hold of, in fact
precisely the kind of article that would be most likely
to make a stir. My Pantaloon (who is a valuable
authority in these matters) declares that it has a most
objectionable tendency, and I myself have found it to
be a kind of thing that was by no means to be handled
with impunity.
As the knights of old resigned their swords when
they found themselves unable longer to wield them as
they wished, I now resign my red-hot poker into the
hands of the Lord Chamberlain, and with it I give
the advice I promised. My candid advice, then, as a
loyal subject and a clown, is simply—to drop it. And
in the hope of this recommendation being duly and
promptly attended to,
I beg to remain, Sir, yours, &c.,
FLEXMORE.
Royal Princess's Theatre.

DEATH OF LIEUTENANT•GENERAL SIR LEWIS
GRANT, K. C.H.—This gallant and distinguished officer, the
colonel of the 96th Regiment, died on the 26th instant. His
commissions are dated—as lieutenant, Feb. 15, 1794; cap-
tain, June 11, 1796; major, Sept. 8, 1802 ; lietenant-colonel,
Feb. 18, 1801 ; colonel, June 4, 1813 ; major-general, Aug.
12,1819 ; lieutenant-general, Jan. 10, 1837. He was ap-
pointed to the colonelcy of the 96th, April 9, 1839. Sir
Lewis Grant was on board the Orion, 80, with Sir James
Saumarez in Lord Bridport's action with the French fleet,
June 23, 1795. He was subsequently in various places in the
West Indies.
FIRES AND Loss OF LIFE.—Yesterday afternoon,
shortly. before four o'clock, considerable excitement was
cause 1 in the vicinity of Backchurch-lane, Whitechapel, in
consequence of violent screams proceeding from premises in
the occupation of Mr. E. Sutliffe, in Everard-street, one of
the side streets running into the above thoroughfare. Seve-
ral of the inhabitants and the police on duty proceeded to
the building, when on entering the same they beheld a sick-
ening spectacle, for on the floor, near the street door, they
found Mrs. Sutliffe, a lady near eighty years of age, enve-
loped in one immense sheet of flame, and the flooring on fire.
Water having been procured the flames were extinguished,
and the unfortunate lady was extricated, but she died in the
course of a few•minutes. A spark from the grate, it is pre-
sumed, was the cause of the melancholy event. Two other
fires occurred yesterday.
On Saturday the Rev. Mr. Bennett was inducted
to the living of Frome Selwood. On Sunday he read himself'
in, but did not preach.
th The Duke of Wellington did not come to town on
and Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley an
_ teraclose of his visit at Windsor Castle, but proceeded to
the Noble and Gallant Duke at thatdsea
S thfieldsaye. The Marquis and
familyt. Marchioness a
are
ef
staying Douro,Douro,
LINCOLN'S INN, JAN. 27.--The following members
in this evening in the hall
have been called. to the bar, and were sworn
andhan
dJs'oahtn
tJh.oMs e apclaaucleasy,sir :—Augustus F. WW. K. Stephen son,
not M.A..
on the e is very
; Edmund Kb .r
iTsukr,ne
andr , Ai .
tAh.
e;
The iron trade at Rochdal
strike
B.A. • William F. Smith,
are working over-
time. The hands of three brass and iron firma still remain
on the strike.

DESTRUCTION OF A COTTON MILL BY FIRE AT
MANCIIESTER._The loss is estimated at from 40,0001. to
50,0.0/. The safe has been dug out, and the contents are
not in the slightest degree injured.
WRECK OFF CROMER.—The brig Guide, Russell,
of Stockton, from Hartlepool for London, sprung a leak off
Cromer, on the 24th inst., when both pumps were set to
work ; but the wind and sea increasing, the water gained
upon the pumps. Shortly after the boats were washed off
the decks by a heavy sea, and at 6 P.M., the vessel lost her
in eight fathoms water, crew being drowned suc-
ceededex-
in getting up into t cross-trees, and the vessel
iinn,
awvheer
yweaxshtaauksetne
do off the
state,
hy cross-treesth e
Inc,
sunk
steerage, fell over, and beghaen
matiaolithhe
sink. Captain Russell
Stone, of Blythe, he having been there for thirteen hours.
dc eapy t
mt hoer
nc
ianpgt a,
landed at Yarmouth.
He afterwards got on board the Globe, Smith, and wag
oynesstatenrt