The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-12 00:00:00

AN AFFECTING NARRATIVE.

The Liverpool Journal relates the following romantic
story :—About 11 years ago, long before the gold disco-
very in Australia had startled the people of England,
and tempted from her shores some of her best and wor-
thiest sons, a silk manufacturer of Manchester, having
failed in business, quitted his native country for that
distant colony, leaving behind him a wile and two chil-
dren. To a sensitive mind there is no change so bitter
as one from affluence to poverty, and so keenly did
Mrs. M--(for so we shall term her) feel this, that
she determined to leave the scene of her former pros-
perity, and accordingly came to Liverpool, hoping
among strangers to hide her altered circumstances, and
find a living by industry for herself and children. By
the application of her needle she endeavoured to keep
gaunt famine from her now humble hearth. Time
flew on, and, although her husband had promised to
write and inform her of his success in his struggles in
a sphere so new, and cheer her with hopes of returning
fortune, no such tidings came, but after an absence
of two years and a half intelligence reached her that
he had died in a strange land. Unused to the rough
labours of life, this was enough to fill with despair and
dishearten the most courageous. The presence of her
children, however, nerved her to fresh exertion. But the
unfortunate seldom find friends, and those little articles,
the wreck of other and better days, one by one went to
find bread for the starving children. Even clothes were
sold to meet the demands of a heartless landlord ; but in
the meantime the stranger in Australia had prospered,
and not only written to his faithful wife, but sent her
remittances, which never reached their destination, her
whereabouts not being known. Every article of furni-
ture bad been sold by Mrs. M--, and there seemed
for her and her children but the last resource of the
friendless, when the former unsuccessful merchant ar-
rived in England a wealthy man. Through a chain of
circumstances the suffering wife and mother were dis-
covered, and once again raised to affluence, for, besides
14,0001. which was showered into her lap, large posses-
sions in Australia are now held by her husband. It only
remains to add that the now happy family are about
pi-oceeding to Australia ; but the tale may be relied on
as one of the strange things told in connection with that
colony and the eventful histories of families.

STATE OF THE WOOLLEN TRADE.

( From the Leeds Mercury of Saturday.)

LEEDS, Sept. B.—The markets have been of a rather
varied character this week. There was a fair business
done on Saturday in the Coloured Cloth-hall ; but in
the white market the tone was generally dull and inac-
tive. On Tuesday the transactions in the White Cloth-
hall were again very few and meagre, and it was a de-
cided bad market—in fact, the worst there has been
for a long time. There was a better feeling in
the Coloured Hall, and a moderate business was
done for a Tuesday's market. On the whole,
the tendency this week has been towards dulness.
The mills in the clothing districts continue in active
operation, as it is the manifest policy of.every manufac-
turer, now while the prices are high, to work up his
materials with all possible dispatch ; there is conse-
quently abundance of employment for every one that is
willing and able to work.

HUDDERSFIELD, Tuesday.--Our markets are now so
generally good ones, that it is difficult, week after week,
to vary the tone in which an opinion is expressed of
them. The same tale has to be told to-day. All kinds
of seasonable goods have been bought up as readily as
ever, and nothing of any consequence left unsold. Prices
about the same.

ROCHDALE, Monday.—There has been a good demand
for flannels, more especially for those made of the lower
qualities of wool ; goods of a finer description have not
been so much inquired after. Low priced English wools
are scarce, and better prices are asked for them.

BRADFORD, Thursday.—The market of this day was
characterised by dulness, though a good deal of business
was done. In plain goods, Cobourgs are the principal
article in demand. This is a brisk season for fancy
goods. The present condition of trade is what is likely
to continue for some time to come. An average sale,
but perpetual struggling about prices to secure the
barest profit ; purchases made from hand to mouth,
without livelinesss or speculation.

HALIFAX, Saturday, Sept. 3.—The market to-day has
been rather quiet in nearly all its departments. Few
sales have been effected in long wool, and the expecta-
tion of higher prices, which very recently prevailed,
seems for the present at least to be checked. They are
reported stationary and firm. Short wools pretty well
inquired for.

HOLYROOD PALACE.—We understand that it has been
determined to re-floor the whole of the suite of state
apartments of the Palace, including the Picture Gallery,
and that the work will be commenced immediately after
her Majesty's return to England. This, we have some
reason to hope, is only the commencement of more im-
portant alterations and improvements on the house and
grounds.—Scotsman.

The Duke de Montpensier has just purchased the
humble house which was inhabited by Fernando Cortes,
at Castilleja de la Cuesta near Seville. The prince be-
ing desirous of transmitting to posterity what may be
called a monument of Spanish national glory, is about
to have the house repaired without changing its form,
so as to leave it just as it was inhabited by the illustri-
ous Spaniard.
VISITATION OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.
—His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury concluded
his triennial visitation of the diocese of Canterbury on
Friday, September 9, at Maidstone. Before taking
leave of his clergy the Archbishop expressed the great
gratification which he had experienced at the state of
the churches and schools within the diocese, and at the
very full attendance both of the clergy and of the church-
wardens at the different places of bolding his visitation,
LETTERS, &C., FOR GREECE AND THE lONIAN ISLANDS,
—The following notice has been issued by the Postman-
ter General :—" Her Majesty's Packet heretofore con-
' veying the mails between Malta and Corfu having been
withdrawn, the correspondence for the lonian Islands
and Greece can no longer be forwarded by the Overland
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Newspapersand
lonian Islands ' are liable to a rate of one penny halfpenny
each, and newspapers for Greece
e to a rate of one penny
each, and, unless these sums are paid in advance, the
newspapers cannot hereafter be forwarded. Printed
books, magazines, reviews, and pamphlets, can nolonger
be transmitted between the United Kingdom and the
lonian Islands at the reduced rates of postage fixed for
such publications under the Colonial Book Post Regu-
lations. They will be chargeable, when sent by'Tifeste,
with the same rates of postage as letters."
DARING ROBBERY OF BANS NOTES.—On Saturday
at the Brentford petty sessions, Ellen Haley Haley,
aged 40 years, was charged before the magistrates with
stealing five 1001. notes, the property of Michael Daley,
her master, living in Daley's-buildings, Isleworth. John
Poole, a police serjeant, stated that on the_
a
15th of
August he apprehended the prisoner on board ship
lying off Spithead, and preparing for her departure for_
New York. She had only 10s. 6d. in a purse, and an
outfit sufficient for the voyage. gr.
the prosecutor, who was a very feeble
age, oldmt
he ' ar Fspo enaer
r-
ing to be about 80 years of
entered his service as housekeeper in 1851, and he had
employed her sometimes to collect his rents. She knew
In November, 1852, he re-
where he kept his money.
ceived five 1001. notes, which he deposited in a box. He
afterwards sent the prisoner with the five notes as a pre-
sent to Mother Mary, at the I sleworth Nunnery. She,
eive so rich a gift, and he put
however, refused to rec
in the box again,
them
_he had never seen
andthem
chant and outfitter, at East
since.—A provision-mer
he bad furnished the oner
Smithfield, proved that . .
her friends, with themecesand four other persons,
and the
saries for a voyage, to New
which ho York,
articles were
paid for by a 1001. note,
.hafterwards paid into
the Bank of England.—The prisoner, in defence, told
a long story about Mr. Daley being frequently drunk,
and her having to wash and dress him. She said he
was a Catholic,
• as well as several of his friends ; that
his married daughter lived in the same house, but was
not on good terms with him ; that on a particular occa-
sion she bad returned home and found the street door
open ,
• that Mr. Daley was in bed and had been wounded
in the face, and she attributed this to some thieves hav-
ing entered the house, who had, no doubt, taken the
money at the same time that they had ill-used Mr.
Daley. If she had been inclined to rob him, she might
easily have done so when sent with the five notes to the
nunnery. She declared, as a true Catholic; and as she
hoped to be saved, that she had not touched the money,
but had only taken enough to carry her to America,
where her relations lived ! The prisoner was committed
to take her trial at the Central Criminal Court.