The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-22 00:00:00

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STATE OF 7RADE.

MANCHESTER, Oct. 21.—There has been exceed-
ingly little business done in yarns to-day. A few
purchases
of
y small yortG small orders. There
ermans, but chiefly
o
has been a rather more cheerful feeling, but it has
not led to business, and prices are rather weaker,
ver have
lots been
andmade
to a
s bs
though this has not been very perceptible because
in reality there has not been an amount of business
offering fairly to test them. In cloth the depression
existing last week continues, and prices still have a
downward tendency. The business offering has been
on the smallest possible scale, and in some descrip-
tions of goods there has been positively nothing
ftlssdrahhaoorali on
iserne,
shirtings
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because
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tennt
ro
manufacturers
offered
eoektcrdui
report
cfewnourdres
have not consented to fix a lower limit for their agents
prac-
tically unreliable as a guide to buyers. The letters
gave some weeks 'ago' that orders had been sent out to
Bombay to repurchase cloths for this market. The
letters in question say that shirtings have actually
been purchased there for re-shipment to England.
There are still many persons who hold firmly in the
belief that we shall have no permanent decline in
prices ; but not only do shippers find great difficulty
in getting goods off their hands with a view to ac-
tive consumption in foreign markets, on account
of the greatly enhanced prices of them, but even in
this country it in said grant; difficulty is experienced
in very moderate attempts to put up prices. con-
sidering the comparative wealth of this country as
compared with others, it had been thought that,
among the well-to-do middle class and the highly-
paid (relatively) working people, an advance of
shirtings from 6d. (the ordinary price) to 8 d . or 9d.
would not be so difficult a thing as in poorer coun-
tries. Practical men report differently. Where our
large country houses formerly received orders to the
amount of £l,OOO, they are now commonly limited
to £lO or £2O, and this is said to arise from the fact
that drapers find it often impossible to sell at a rate
to cover the advance charged to them. We hour of
one large house that has thought it advisable, under
these circumstances, to invite drapers to send back
their stocks with the view of holding them till the
barrenness of stocks begins to tell more directly on
prices.

LEEDS, Oct. 21.—The weather was not very fa-
vourable for business in the cloth halls this morning,
and the attendance was rather small. Sales to a
moderate extent of seasonable fabrics were effected;
but as the great bulk of the trade for winter goods,
so far as the manufacturers are concerned, is now
over, and it is too early for much being done for the i
spring trade, the markets have worn a quiet aspect.
In the warehouses, too, there is not much activity,
though the business doing is considered of a satis-
factory character. The same amount of employment
which we have lately had to report as prevailing
throughout the woollen district of the West Riding
continues, and while there is not much short time
working, there is overtime working in some parts,
those of heavy and cheap fabrics, orders of which
for America are making up. The local wool trade
is not very brisk, but prices rule firm.
NEWPORT, MONMOUTHSHIRE, Oct. 20.—The
two staple trades of the district are in a buoyant
condition. Some extensive orders have lately been
received for rails, and prices are becoming more and
more firm. Merchant bars are also in good request,
as well as sheets and other descriptions of iron.
Rails command at the works £5 17s. 6d. to £6, and
merchant bars £5 12s. 6d. to £5 17s, 6d. The coal
trade is brisk, as is usual at this time of the year,
and preparations are being made by several of the
local colliery proprietors for increasing their supply.
The Abercarn Colliery will shortly commence
working, and employment will thus be given to 300
or 400 additional men. The following are the ave-
rage quotations for -coals, free on board. Steam,
7s. 3d. to Bs. ; house, Bs. to 9s. The tin works of
the district show increased inactivity, and there is
some hope of a revival in this branch of business.
The advance in the raw material proves that
smelters are sanguine as regards future prospects,
and 'tinplates having in consequence been selling
at from 6d. to ls. per box higher than previous
quotations.
ROCHDALE, Oct. 20.—Owing to the unfavourable
character of the weather there was not quite so
large an attendance of buyers to-day as last Mon-
day. All things considered, a fair amount of busi-
ness was done in flannels, especially in the finer
qualities and in fancies. As there has for some time
been a good demand, stocks in the hands of manu-
facturers are not large. Indeed, although the manu-
facturers keep well employed they take care not to
accumulate much stock. There is a good sale for
Yorkshire goods, and the prices of them, as well as
those of flannels, keep firm. The same may be said,
too, as respects those of wool.

SUCCESS.

(Prom Les .111iserables.)

Success, we may say in passing, is a hideous affair
enough. Men aro taken in by its spurious resemblance to
merit. In the eyes of the multitude, to get on has much
the same profile as to be absolutely the best. Success, that
Menechmus of talent, has ono dupe : history. Juvenal and
Tacitus aro the only ones who kick at it. In the present
day it keeps at its beck a kind of official philosophy, which
wears the livery of success and dances attendance in its
ante-chamber. Get on : and what follows ? To be in clover
is to be clever. You win at a lottery, and you are set down
as an able man. It is the winner who is worshipped. Bo
born with a silver spoon, and your fortune's made. Have
but luck, and the rest won't lag behind. Be but fortunate,
and you will be thought great. With five or six immense
exceptions, which aro the glory of an age, the admiration of
contemporaries is mere weakness of sight. Gilding goes for
gold. Where you come from matters nothing : where you
get to, is all in all. The vulgar is an elderly
Narcissus, in
love with himself and applauding what is vulgar. Those
faculties of enormous power, by virtue of which a man is
a Moses, an JEschylus, a Dante, a Michael Angelo, or a
Napoleon, are awarded by the multitude, "at one go" and
by acclamation, to any one who makes a good hit in no
deputy,
a what. Let an attorney turn himself into a
a sham Corneille write a Tiridatcs,
the decisive battle of the day,
sesssor of a harem, a military Frudhounne
a eunuch bi;coamcoci:,:eonsi,
land with this
pasteboard for the army of Sambre•et-3leuse,.
self an in-
pasteboard which he sells for leather snakes linn
h a pck on his back
an apothecaryga'innveynt soles of
come of 400,000 francs, let a man
Wit
bed of seven or eight
take Usury to wife, and bring
lot the steward of a
millions, of which he is the fathhbeerrisahtnoopd,she the mother ; let
a preacher whine himself into a
well-to-do-family be so rich on
made Minister of Financ:-.7mn give
all this the name of
leaving his place as to be
name
of to te face
Genius, just as they giv
that ofmiAsitaaikeeStfy Beautyortothethsetanreschkof and
of Monsqueton, and
shoulders of Claude. They
firmament, the splays N
cinch a duck makes as it paddles
about in the soft mud of a boggy ground.

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Corbett,AtTartryOFAG i R
al GIRL.—HEREFORD,
of 16
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Tues-
day.--Last -
:fetßhiinßsu;ohuAet:snt;l:rg,rvh:ltcalesosfenMt rb.yShkeerrrinetits,trfeasrsinteor,a
distance to purchase some candles. As she did not return
during the night, a search was set on foot by the parish
constable and others, which resulted in the finding of the
body in an orchard. Marks were first discovered near to
the side of the turnpike road, along which the girl would
have to pass, and it appeared as if two or three persons had
been there engaged in a struggle. From this spot footmarks
were somewhat indistinctly traced across some fields into an
orchard, where they discovered the body of the poor girl in
such a state underneath a tree as to lead to the conclusion
that her person had been violated. Her neck bore marks
as if she had been strangled, the ribbon of her bonnet, which
was on, having been pressed into the skin of her neck,
while her mouth was full of blood. The authorities were
at once informed of the sad event, and the Hertfordshire
constabulary force having been put into operation, two
men, named George Hope and Wm. Wenner, one of whom
is a returned convict, were at once suspected of being con-
nected in some way with the offence. The body was re-
moved to the Prince of Wales public-house, where Mr. N.
Lanwerne, the coroner for this division of the county, will
ihold an inquest on Thursday next. The men suspected
had been drinking at s public-houn in the neighbourhood.