The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-18 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

The increased firmness observed in the Liverpool ,totton
market since Thursday last, instead of causing An insp.-ova-
meat here, appears to have had an oNosite tendency , as
the demand for yarn yesterday was decidedly smaller t tiara
on the preceding Tuesday ; and: in order to snake sal es,
spinners were generally compelled to submit to a rcducti 7o
of about /d. per pound on the prices of that day. Thy
fact seems to be, that the buyers of yarn will not coma
freely into the market, until they are satisfied that the
cotton speculation has been fairly broken down, and
the price of the material has reached its natural
We believe that if the prices of Thursday last bad
continued to the present time, there would have be, ta
a considerable business done; both in cotton and yar, t.
Not that the spinners, as a body, would have been dis
posed to stock themselves heavily with cotton at those,.
prices, but their purchases for present consumption
would probably have been rather extensive. Tile ad-
vance of a halfpenny a pound, however, since Thurs-
day, has had a considerable tendency to check purchases;
and many consumers, who went to Liverpool with the in-
tention of taking two or three weeks' consumption, have
contented themselves with supplying their immediate ne-
cessities ; and, as we have already intimated, the effect
produced on the Market here, has been unfavourable. The
goods market has been somewhat better than that for yarn.
and the prices are tolerably well supported, though still by
no means remunerative. The working of short time ccn-.
sequently continues in full force. The spinners and ma-•
nufacturers at Stockport—who, as our readers may recol-
lect, have already worked short time for nearly a month--
held another mectiog on Monday last, and agreed to pro-
long the period for a second month, commencing on the
22d inst. It wilt also be seen from a paragraph elsewhere,.
copied from a Preston paper, that the spinners of ths:t
town have also agreed to work short time, which indeed
may now be said to be universal ; for, in those establish-
merits where no formal arrangement to that effect has been
made, every opportunity of limiting production is eat-
braced.—Manchester Guardian,

THE CROPS IN ESSEX.—Much of the hay
in the neil. hbourhood of Chelmsford has been snugly
stacked, some discoloured by- the •frequent fl: ing showers,
and some in excellent condition, while a portico, as usual,
has been rendered useless by a hasty gathering to the
stack-yard. The swarth is very uneven, and upon the up-
lands generally light. The corn crops are represented as
standing up well, and though this is too early to speculate
upon quantity and quality, we may add that we hear little
complaint or anticipations of defect. Wheat is described
as tain upon the ground, and upon light land -, in many
cases, the strata is abort; but barley and wits atf,rd a
better promise, though, the long continued dry weather
having stunted its growth, the straw is shorter than last
year. Peas are an average crop, 'beans are short, at/c1
complaints Pare made that they do not blossom well.
Potatoes promise a good crop, while maegel wu+zcl exhi-
bits too general a misplaut, but is, however, partially very
promising, and the late showers have much improved the
thin plants.—Essex Herald.

It is expected the Railroad will be opened from
Rornfordto Brentwood in about six mot:as.

The Humber dock-master has announced that no
ships will be permitted to pass out of the docks on Sun-
days, and that from the 31st of this month no vessel,
steamer, or other craft, shall enter the docks on Sundays.
This is announced to be with the concurrence of the Trinity
House of Hull.

THE CHARTISTS AT COCKERNIOUTII.—TII.I
following is an extract from a letter, dated Cockermouthr
Thursday evening, July 11 :—" Now for news at home;
they are of rather ia serious nature. This morning we
(the tradesmen and others) were all sworn in as special
constables, and the military has been s:,nt for, by express,
from Carlisle. A general rising of those deluded Char.
tists is expected on Saturday. They are bearing the*
pikes about openly in the town, and the Magistrates are
at their wits' end; they dare not even commit a man to
prison for fear of an outbreak. A letter was read in the
Chartist's Council chamber, on Tuesday night from Dr-
Taylor, wishing every man to provide himself with a
pike by the 13th of this month, and on that day they
will receive instructions for a general rise. Such being
the information laid before the meeting, an order was
given for the manufacture of pikes. Curiosity led me to
a blacksmith's shop, in the ad joining premises, this morn-
ing, and I saw a man busy at work. I saw severs pikes.
He had made twenty-eight on Wednesday, and this morn-
ing he got an order for twenty-five more. Not less than
three hundred have been made during the last week, and
awful looking things they are—the shaft nine feet long,
and the pike two feet. At the time I write, six men are
at work making wad grinding. The pawn-shop is abso-
lutely invaded by the poorer classes, pledging articles to
obtain money to purchase pikes. The Chartists say they
will lay Cockermouth in ashes if they meet with any re-
sistance. Business is entirely suspended, and likely to re-
main so."—Liverpool Albion.—[lt is proper to state, that
the Whitehaven Herald of Saturday makes no mention of
these circumstances.]
THE FORCE OF CONSCIENCE.—WhiIe in
Bengal (says Mr. Forbes) my society was assiduously cul-
tivated by one of the most enlightened natives. He was a
person of profound parts, and most acute discernment.
We became deeply attached to each other, and daily spent
hours together iu the investigation of moral and physical
science. Years after our acquaintance had commenced, I
received from England the present of an elegant micros-
cope. This, upon his next visit, I exhibited to the Brah-
min, and directed his attention to the rnimalculai in water.
He made no observation, and I saw him not for some
time. After months of absence, he called and said
he was desirous of purchasing the microscope. "It
is a present from a friend. and it is impossible for
me to sell it." " That friend's object was to afford you
gratification. Were I to give you ten or twenty times
its value, your friend's object would be equally obtained."
" You place the matter in a new, rnd perhaps a correct
point of light. Pav me rupees, and the microscope
is yours." He handed me the mcney, and I gave him the
instrument; seizing it eagerly, he at once dashed it upon
the floor, and broke it into a thousand pieces. " Why
this frantic act ?"—I exclaimed—" it was for the promo..
tion of science I believed you had made the purchase."
" No ! I am taught by the religion to which I firmly ad-
here, that he who destroys life will be eternally punished.
I have, however, learnt by that instillment, that I cannot
either
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am made miserable during existence. I bid you farewell,
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and farewell for ever !" He left me, and I never again saw
my conscientious friend.

AN AMERICAN CEDAR SWAMP.—These
swamps are front half a mile to a mile in breadth, and
sometfmes five or six in length, and appear as if they oc-
cupied the former channel of some choked-up river,
stream, lake, or arm of the sea. The appearance they
present to a stranger is most singular. A forest of tall and
perfectly straight trunks, rising to the height of fifty or
sixty feet without a limb, and crowded in every direction,
their tops so woven together as to shut out the day, spread-
ing the gloom of a perpetual twilight below. On a
nearer approach, they are found to rise out of the water,
which from the impregnation of fallen leaves and roots of
the cedars, is of the colour of brandy. Amidst this bot-
tom of congregated springs, the ruins of the former
forest lie in every state of confusion. The roots,
prostrate logs, and in many places the water, are
covered with green mantling moss ; while an under-
growth of laurel, fifteen or twenty feet high,
intersects every spring so completely, as to render.atpas-
sage through laborious and harassing beyonddescripnilo,enr.
At every step you either sink to the knees, clamber
fallen timber, squeeze yourself through
born laurels, or plunge to the middle in ponds
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of death reigns in these drearyg•lroengmio,ns; a few interrupted
rays rays of light shoot across the
occasional hollow screams of the herons, and the melan-
choly chirping of one or two
... small birds, all is silence,
solitude, and desolation. When a breeze rises, at first it
sighs mournfully through the tops; but as the gale in-
creases, the taallgmniansstjlinknenhcedkoathrser:vapvreodluiten finshli.nargi-eptyolensi
with the help of a little imagination,
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resembles shrieks, groans, growling of bears, wolves,
arid such like comfortable music.— Wilson's American
Ornithology.