The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-31 00:00:00

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This you will do me the justice to rd-
iber, I was always opposed to going down
Bay in search of a field, instead of fighting.
near Manassas, as only shifting and not sur-
nting a difficulty ; that we would find the same
my and the same or equal intrenchments at
1r place. The country will not fail to note—is
ig now—that the present hesitation to move
an intrenched enemy is but the story of
Manassas repeated. I beg leave to assure you that
I have never written or spoken to you in greater
kindness of feeling than now, nor with a fuller pur-
pese to sustain you, so far as in my most anxious
judgment I consistently can. But you must net.
" Yours very truly,
" A. LINCOLN.
"To Major General Welellan."

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Jail. 30.—1 t will be seen by the
reports of the Liverpool cotton market that the raw
material has fallen from 4;d. to Id. per lb., the total
sales of the week reaching oniv 20,500 baLs, or
about balancing the importsdurin theseme period.
Under tilt se circumstances, as was to be expected,
we have had a very inanimate market here. There
has been little or no business to-day in either cloth
or yarn. In the yarn trade there have been a good
many offers made with a view of testing prices, but
they have not led to business, though sellers think
they are preparatory to business, and that the mar-
ket closes with a more hopeful feeling than has been
experienced for some weeks past. Prices are rather
easier, in consequence of the decline in cotton, but
are not quotably lower. The cloth market is quite
as flat as on Tuesday, and there is, if possible, less
inclination to buy. Prices are more shaken in the
cloth than in the yarn market, and there is very
great irregularity, perhaps more than at any time
within several months past. All sorts of prices have
been asked to-day, and without leading to business.
Buyers seem less inclined than ever to operate, and
to a great extent refrain even from making offers.
At the same time, a large number of manufacturers
and holders of cloth do not believe in the possibility
of successful mediation, and remain firm, though
others are alarmed by it and are anxious to sell at
almost any reasonable decline. The cloth market,
like that for yarn, is also affected by the decline in
cotton, and the rise in discounts. Buyers for the
home trade are equally as indisposed to operate as
shippers.
LEEDS, 30th.—The trade report of the Leeds
Chamber of Commerce for the month of January, is
as follows :—" The month of January is rarely ono
of great activity in the woollen trade, being too
early for the spring trade to have much effect.
There has, however, been a tolerable amount of
business done, especially in light fancy goods. The
country trade has been very quiet, the unusual
mildness of the season having greatly restricted
the demand for heavy goods. The shippers have
been buying pretty freely, and a very fair busi-
ness has been done for export. The manufacturers
are all in full work to order, and the operatives are
generally well employed; and on the whole the
prospect for the spring trade wears a healthy ap-
pearance. Since our last report the wool trade has
presented no peculiar features, the general demand,
I as is usual at the turn of the year, being slack.
Prices of all descriptions of colonial wool are with-
out change. In English combing wools less busi-
ness has been done, the spinners generally having
laid in supplies for the orders in hand. Prices are
well maintained. Shorts and noils are without
alteration. All kinds of flax, especially Baltic, are
very firmly held for higher prices, but at present
the spinners are very cautious and unwilling to give
any advance on former rates. The actual business
done has consequently been inconsiderable, being
principally confined to present wants. Foreign
tows are plentiful, and are very flat. Home-made
tows and codillas are in much better request, with-
out any change in prices. Hemps, especially green
hemps, are also very flat, and the stocks in hand
are rather heavy. In yarns the spinners continue
busy, and an advance has been asked and obtained
both in line and tow yarns. The demand for the
latter and for carpet yarns is very brisk, but the
advance has checked the inquiry for line yarns, the
manufacturers finding great difficulty in obtaining
higher prices for goods. The dulness in the iron
trade reported last month still continues, and orders
are very scarce for the best iron. The demand for
merchants' iron is pretty good, particularly for
plates. The makers of flax machinery are very busy,
and the makers of other kinds are well employed.
The engineer tool trade continues dull some few
makers continue in full work, while others are
working short time. The makers of railway plant
continue as before—busy. The cut nail trade also
continues brisk. There has been a fair demand this
month for leather of most descriptions, and prices
are maintained without change. The supplies
have been to the average extent at this season of the
year, and business generally may be said to be
steady. Rape and linseed have advanced in price
since last month. Rape oil is in good demand at
rather better rates, but the price is not in proportion
to that of seed. Linseed oil is much in request, and
the prices are also higher. The difficulty of dispos-
ing or cakes, owing to the area season, obliged
crushers to seek for higher rates for oil. There is a
fair consumption of olive oils at slightly lower prices.
There is no improvement to report in this trade, the
demand continuing dull. The number of cattle
shown during the month (four markets) is 1,922
beasts, 11,620 sheep. There has been a brisk de-
mand. There have been fair supplies of wheat.
Sales have only been to a moderate extent. Barley
and oats as before.
NOTTINGHAM, 30th.—At the exchange to-day
there was an increased attendance of merchants and
manufacturers, most of the leading firms being re-
presented. Cotton yarns and silk met a moderate
inquiry, and several orders were given for brown
lace nets. A satisfactory amount of business was
done, taking into consideration that this was the
second day of the market being open.

FRIGHTFUL DEATH OF A BOY WHILE AT PLAY.—
Yesterday Morning Mr. H. Raffles Walthew, the
deputy coroner, held an inquiry at the Prince of Wales
Tavern, Hyde-place, Heaton, respecting the death of Ed-
mund Lowman, aged ten years. who was killed on Satur-
day last by being run over. It appeared that the deceased
was playing in the middle of the roadway in Luncan-terrace,
when a gentleman, driving by in a trap, struck him a vio-
lent blow on horse. The boy, in his pain and fright,
rushed
right under the wheel of a brick cart, and was immediately
knocked down and crushed under the heavy
wheel. he
gentieman in the trap drove on, and Charles Willias, the
driver of the cart, was taken into custody bythe licep for
but
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causing the deceased's death,
ing statement, the jury Death was recorded.
THE COLOSSEUM.—
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population of the centre city of the world. In its arena,
gazed at by a hundred thousand eager eyes, the gladiator
fell, while the vast vcleriuin trembled as the air was shaken
by savage shouts of " Habet," and myriads of cruel hands,
with upturned thumbs, sealed his unhappy fate. The sand
of the arena drank the blood of African elephants, lions and
tigers,—of Mirmilli, Laqueatores, Retiarii, and Andabata,,
—and of Christian martyrs and virgins. Here emperor,
senators, knights, and soldiers, the lowest populace and the
proudest citizens, gazed together on the bloody games—
shouted together as the favourite won, groaned together
fiercely as the favourite fell, and startled the eagles sailing
over the bine vault above with their wild cries of triumph.
Here might be heard the trumpeting of the enraged ele-
phant, the savage roar of the tiger, the peevish shriek of
the grave-rifling hyena, while the human beasts above,
looking on the slaughter of the lower beasts beneath,
uttered a wilder and more awful yell. Rome—brutal,
powerful, blood-thirsty, imperial Renie—built in its da?,s
of pride this mighty amphitheatre, and, outlasting all its
works, it still stands, the best type of its grandeur and
brutality. 'What St. Peter's is to the Rome of to-day is the
Colosseum to the Rome of the Ca3sars. The Baths of Cara-
calla, grand as they are, sink into insignificance Leside it.
The Caesars' palaces are almost level with tho earth. Over
the pavement where once swept the imperial robes now
slips the gleaming lizard, and in the indiscriminate ruins of
these splendid halls the contathno plants his potatoes and
sells for a paid the oxidised coin which once may have paid
the entrance fee to the great amphitheatre. The gulden
house of Nero is gone. The very Forum where Cicero de-
livered his immortal ()ratio's is almost obliterated, and an-
tiquarians quarrel over the few columns that remain. But
the Colosseum still stands—despite the assault of time and
the work of barbarians, it still stands, noble and beautiful
in its decay—yes, more beautiful than ever,—.Roba di Roma,
by William W. Story.

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