The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-12 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Manchester Guardian of this dey.)
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.--The unfavourable bent
of the market, noticed in our last report, has received
a further development to-day. The buyers of yarns,
whether for shipment or home consumption, have
shown more disinclination for business than before,
and have consequently been more difficult to deal
with. This has arisen in some degree, no doubt,
from the want of animation in cotton, but

much more from the condition of the markets with
which the several classes of buyers are connected. The
home makers of such goods as have been most in re-
quest, finding that their fabrics are somewhat
receding in value, or where this is not the case that
appearances are becoming less favourable to the
maintenance of present rates, have not been inclined
to add to their already fair supplies of twist and
weft. Merchants connected with India, the Levant,
and the Mediterranean, are held back by the state of
things in their own markets. And although recent
differences have slightly diminished in Germany,
prices are still so much lower there than in Manches-
ter, as to restrict operations for that quarter within
exceedingly narrow limits. Under these circum-
stances, spinners have manifested an increased desire
to sell, so as to impart more or less of an adverse
bias to prices. It must be said, however, that the
offers have been far too few to test prices, and that
the different degrees in which producers have been
affected by the causes alluded to, have occasioned
not a little irregularity among sellers. In export
mule yarns, there has been more firmness than in water.
" We stated in our last, that after the market of
this day week, some considerable transactiens took
place in madapolams, and light 40-inch shirtings, at
rather lower prices. Today no further giving ,way
has taken place in those articles ; the better kinds of
the latter have, however, been easier to buy. In 36-
inch, also, the purchaser has an advantage ; as also, in
some degree, in long cloths and domestics. Rather
more has been done in T cloths, the extremely de-
pressed prices of which hold out more inducement
to anticipatory purchases than perhaps any other de-
scription of cloth. The prices of jacconets are well
sustained by the contracts in band. Printing cloths,
for which there has been so active a demand, are now
becoming rather easier in price, in consequence of a
somewhat diminishing call for them, In this de-
partment, as well as in that of yarns, the business of
the day has been of very limited extent, and for the
most part at some reduction in prices, though here
again a good deal of irregularity has been found."
ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—We have not had quite so
brisk a market to-day as we had on the two previous
Mondays, yet there has been a fair amount of business
transacted at former prices. The wool market con-
tinues inactive, with little or no change in price.
MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—The throwing depart-
ment is going on smoothly, and all the principal mills
are working full legal time. The manufacturing de-
partment has still a gloomy aspect, and manufacturers
have had a bad week in the way of selling, owing, no
doubt, to the unsettled state of the weather. The
fancy trimming trade is brisk, but the pow-loom trade
is very slack, and has been so for some length of time.
HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—Business continues
healthy throughout the whole of this district. Every
piece of a saleable quality was early disposed of, in
the Cioth Hall. Not many buyers have visited the
warehouse to-day, but
_orders continue to come in
steadily.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—There has not been a very
large attendance of buyers in our Piece Hall to-day,
and the demand for worsted goods is scarcely so ac-
tive as it was ; but there is a pretty fair business do-
ing to order, and prices are, for some descriptions,
rather better. The yarn trade is exceedingly brisk, the
spinners being very full of orders, at somewhat im-
proved prices. Long wools are held more firmly for
a slight advance, and considerable quantities are
ohanging hands. Short wools go off rather sluggishly.
The supply is now more than equal to the wants of
the trade, and prices are, consequently, lower, in pro-
portion, than those of long wools.
LEEDS, TUESDAY.—There has been little business
done to-day at the Cloth Halls, but on the whole the
woollen trade continues pretty brisk. No change in
prices.

BLINDFOLD CHESS-PLAYING.
MATCH BETWEEN HERR HARRWITZ AND' FOUR
MEMBERS Of THE GLASGOW CHESS CLUB.—The con-
ditions of this match were, that Mr. Harrwitz would
play two games simultaneously, and without seeingb ers of
either of the chess boards, against four
the Glasgow Chess Club—two in consultation
II!
ure of the
lernat each
chess-board. From the extraroVainzfr y
rwitz, the match
conditions on the part oft iaemong
the chess•players
has created great iuteres
accordance with the previous
of Glasgow.
match was played in the
announcanents,
of the Glasgow Chess Club,
splendid club-root:
Regent Hotel, Buchanan-street, on Thursday even-
ing.
The company, amounting to about 100 gentle-
men, having, at seven o'clock, nearly all arrived and
taken their seats, and secured for themselvess chess-
men and boards, a sei vice of tea and coffee was
handed round ; and while the company were thus
occupied, the secretary was busily engaged in making
arrangements for the accommodation of the onlookers,
as well as the gentlemen to be engaged in the contest.
The preliminaries being adjusted, Mr. Harrwitz was
then introduced to the company, and after a short con-
versation with a few of the gentlemen present, whose
acquaintance he made on his former visit to the club, took
his seat in a corner of the room, where he sat with his
back to the company, and totAly excluded from the
sight of the chess-boards. Mr. Harrwitz having to
!e id off in bath games, called out the move he in-
tended to be played for him on board No. 1, and

immediately followed his move on board No. 2 ; th e
players at :the first board made and communicated
their move in answer, and the players at the other
board did the same; and thus the games proceeded,
Mr. Harrwitz giving his two moves simultaneously,
and not moving again till he had received moves in
reply from both boards. The games lasted from
shortly after seven o'clock till half past eleven, and the
result was that Mr. Harrwitz won one game and lost
the other.

We can hardly attempt to convey to the minds of
our readers the difficulties of such a marvellous per-
formance on the part of Mr. Harrwitz. To play a
single game well, with the board before you, is of
itself a difficult task, and cannot be exaggerated.
To play two games at a time over the boards must
be more than proportionately difficult; but how
much greater must the difficulty be to play two
games :simultaneously, and without seeing either of
the boards—when the mechanical objects of the
chessmen and chessboards are abstracted, and no
longer exist save in the powers of the mind ;
when the windows of the brain are closed down, and
the faculties of sight hermetically sealed; when all that
is left of chess-board and men is in their vague and
timid shadow, wandering spectre-like across the
mental chamber; and when memory and the percep-
tive faculties of the brain must be taxed unaided to
name the position of every piece and pawn, and square
of the chequer I The most wonderful part of this
extraordinary effort of the mind is, that while the
blindfold player's whole thought and attention is re-
quired to consider the best mode of play to parry an
attack of his adversaries at one board, he is of neces-
sity obliged to banish from his mind the position of
the game on the other board, and yet to have them so
placed before his mind's eye as to recall either of them
at pleasure.
At the conclusion of the games, Mr. Sheriff Bell
made a few remarks on the highly intellectual feat
which the company had just witnessed. He said he
was sure the members of the Chess Club, and the
strangers present, would join with him in expressing
their sincereithanks to Mr. Harrwitz for the very
astonishing performances which he had gone through
that evening. When it was considered that the
powers of memory, concentration of thought, and
great intellectual ability were required for such a task,
he doubted if there was another person in the world—
he was sure there was not another in Great Britain—
capable of performing it. All who understood
chess knew well that at every move the possible
variations of play were innumerable, and that the
operation of castling in particular changed the rela-
tive position of the pieces, and the whole aspect of
the game completely. Now, in these two games
which had just been played, and conducted by four
of the strongest players in the west of Scotland, the
opponents of Mr. Harrwitz both castled
about the same time, the one on the king's
side and the other on the queen's bide, thereby in-
creasing the difficulty of the task greatly, and
rendering the avoidance of error on the part of
Mr. Harrwitz scarcely possible. It would be re-
marked also, that on one side of the board the players
altogether ceased for some time ; there was a com-
plete cessation of hostilities for upwards of an hour;
the battle going on in another quarter, and yet,
when it afterwards reverted, as it neceesarily did, to
the former point, Mr. H. had such a perfect percep-
tion and remembrance of the relative position of all
the pieces, as to play apparently as easily as if he bad
all along had the beards open before him. The whole
performance he repeated, kept up as it was for more
than three hours and a half, showed such a concen-
tration of mental power, and such intellectual rz-
sources, as were truly wonderful. Chess players
alone could properly appreciate it, and to them it
was undoubtedly a mental treat of the highest order.
The sheriff again expressed the thanks of the company
to Mr. Harrwitz.

Mr. Harrwitz, in a few words, thanked the sheriff
and the company for their kindness, and the satisfac-
tion expressed at his performance. He said he had
of late practised this mode of play—viz., without
seeing the board, very seldom, as he found it was at-
tended with too much mental exertion. He did not
mean by this, however, to detract at all from the
merits of the gentlemen opposed to him ; on the con-
trary, he considered the defence in both games
highly instructive.— North British Mail.

HEREFORD MUSICAL FESTIVAL.
HEREFORD, TUESDAY, SEPT. 11.—The festival has
begun with the lull cathedral service and a selection
of sacred music, according to custom. Before the
service Martin Luther's 100th Psalm was sung by
the choir, the principal singer taking the second verse,
the first third, and fourth being given in full chorus.
The preces, responses, and chaunt of Tanis were
performed, the unisonous phrases of the old English
master resounding through the aisles of the cathedral
with solemn majesty. The Te Deum—Handel's
" Dettingen"—was executed on the whole very
effectively, the solo voice parts being allotted to the
Misses A. and M. Williams, Miss Poole, Messrs.
Hobbs, Machin, and H. Phillips. In the bass solo,
" Thou art the ing of Glory," sung by Mr. Machin,
the trumpet obligato was played by Mr. T. Harper.
The " Jubilate" was also by Handel—the one com-
posed for the peace of Utrecht. The general execu-
tion of this was very satisfactory ; the chorus was
strong and effective ; and Miss M. Williams, Miss
Poole and Mr. Machin all that could be desired
in the vocal solos. After the third collect
an anthem, from the Lob und Ehre und Weisheit
of John Sebastian Bach, adapted to English
words by Mr. Angel, organist of Exeter Cathedral,
was given. It consists of five pieces, a chorus, quartet,
chorale, and final chorus, and is an interesting
example of the simpler style of the master, containing
none of those complex elaborations, none of those
combinations at once so free, grand, and startling, for
which his motetts for double choir, his Passion-
musik, his ltiissa Solennis in B minor, and others of
his choral works are distinguished. The performance
of this anthem, in which the solo parts were given to
Miss A. Williams, Miss Poole, and Messrs. Hobbs
and Machin, showed that it had ken carefully
studied. Before the sermon Dr. Boyce's anthem,
" Blessed is he," was introduced, the solos by Miss
M. Williams, Messrs. Hobbs, Lockey, Machin, and
Phillips. Dr. Boyce's music is getting almost out of
date. He was a clever musician, but wholly
destitute of imagination. His melodies are per-
haps more rhythmical and his harmony clearer
than in the works of Dr. Green, Dr. Croft, and other
English cathedral composers; but he exhibits little
or none of their ingenuity, and never reaches
the moments of sublimity which are to be met with, at
rare intervals, in the writings of the elder contrapun-
tists, who, with all their dry elaboration and mecha-
nical contrivances, have no equals for grave and lofty
intention among the present race of composers.
Indeed, the decay of our church music is a matter for
serious consideration, and reflects disgrace on all those
whom it concerns. Of Mendelssohn's anthem (from
Psalm 115) ".Not unto us, 0 Lord," which followed
the sermon, and was executed with decision, if not
with invariable clearness, we have nothing new to
say. It contains many beautiful points, much of his
peculiar phraseology and instrumental colouring, and
a masterly and splendid double chorus, "Not unto
us, 0 Lord !" at the end ; but we are not inclined to
place it among the highest compositions which the
gifted author of Elijah has bequeathed to the Church.
The solo vocal parts were taken by Miss A. Williams,
Mr. Lockey, and Mr. Phillips.
Mr. Townshend Smith, conducted the musical
performances with judgment ; he is organist of the
cathedral, and may naturally be supposed to be
thoroughly acquainted with the compositions we have
enumerated, which must frequently come under his
attention. Mr. Amott, from Glocester, presided at
the organ, which, since it has been repairing, stands
at the bottom of one of the aisles, at the side of the
orchestra, so that, even with the usual expedient of a
looking-glass, it is doubtful whether the performers
can conveniently obtain a sight of the conductor's
baton. The band and chorus, though not on a very
grand scale, were, for the most part, effective. Mr.
Blagrove was the leader.
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Preached by the Lord Bishop of Hereford.

owcylscioanuesole.
theby ele-
vation THE VACANT DIOCESE OF NORWICH..-- The
death of the Right Rev. r. Norwich,Stan ley
ration of the Right Rev. Dr. Graham, Bishop of Chester,
vacancy in the diocese ob
to a seat in the Rouse of Lords, a hile the new Bishop
of Norwich will be excluded until another vacancy on
the list of bishops takes place. It will be remembered
that when the Bill passed for the erection of Manchester
into an independent episcopal see, it was thought lad-
visable to increase the number of spiritual peers, and
an arrangement was effected by virtue of which the
junior bishop (the two Archbishops and the Bishops of
London, Durham, and Winchester being excepted),
should not have a seat in the House of Lords. Dr.
Stanley's death confers this privilege upon the present
Bishop of Chester, who has hitherto not enjoyed the
honour of a seat. It is confidently anticipated that Dr.
`ti Newell, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, ail! be
Dr. Stanley's successor iu the diocese of Norwich; for
although it has been the general practice of the present
Government to appoint Oxford and Cambridge men
a
alternately to English bishoprics, andh
oineetmseenotf Norwich t
bein
from
being
so Cambridge,
intimately
is t oec thought that
connected
the:.iin
diocese
many respects with that university, the usual course
adopted in such matters will on the present occasion be
departed from.
EXTRAORDI. NARY ROBBERY.—On Monday night a
field of wheat, of the quantity of about half an acre, the
property of Mr. Lawrence, surgeon, at Cheddar, Somer-
set, which was cut and ready for carrying, was actually
stolen and carried off the ground, and as yet the thieves
have not bean detected.—Sherbor ne Journal.
LONDONDERRY, SEPT. 3.—Sld. Haney Thornto, Na
York. sth; *stnuel Cunard, Liverpool, U.S.

THE WIZARD OF THE NORTH
AT BALMORAL.
The following account of the performance of Mr.
J. H. Anderson, the " Wizard of the North," before
her Majesty, on the occasion of the great fete given
there last week, in honour of Prince Albert's birth-
day, is furnished by a correspondent of the Elgin
Courant :—At five o'clock a rush was made towards
the pavilion, where the Magic Temple of the Wizard
was erected. To account in some measure for the
anxiety of the Highlanders to witness the performance
of the professor, we were informed that he was a
native of the adjoining parish of Kincardine O'Neil,
and, consequently was looked upon as one of their
own " kith and kin." Tae Queen, Prince Albert,
and the Royal children, followed by Lord J. Russell,
and the small Court assembled, having taken their
places, the tenantry and domestics were also per-
mitted to enter, and soon after the professor made his
appearance and commenced his conjurations. The dif-
ferent astonishing feats were highly applauded, her
Majesty graciously taking the lead in testifying her
pleasure, while the royal children, in uncontrolled al-
ternations of astonishment and mirth, gave free ex-
pression to their sentiments, the professor being freely
permitted to " cut, burn, and destroy " her own and
Prince Albert's handkerchiefs (on condition of future
restoration), to the amazement of the Prince
of Wales, whose displeasure was expressed
at the mutilation of " papa's pretty hand-
kerchief." The magic coffee was pronounced
excellent by her Majesty, who notwithstand-
ing its diabolical concoction, did not hesitate to taste
it. The production by the wizard of his son, Master
Anderson, as a Highland chieftain, from the magic
scrap-book, excited no little astonishmentin the
royal mind; and on the Honourable Mr. Anson's
hat being made to produce a cart-load of toys,
bouquets, cups, feathers, &c., a sharp-witted High-
lander suggested that the " privy purse" should next
be got from it, and a few " bawbees" scattered
amongst them, a suggested interference with his
custodial duties which the Hon. Gentleman seemed
disposed to decline. Much mirth was excited in the
Royal circle by the usage to which Gibbs, one of the
footmen of the household, was forced by Mr. Ander-
sen to submit ; and on the Royal watches being made
to pass through him, and appear under his chair,
numerous inquiries were made as to whether he was
hurt. The inexhautible bottle having been intro-
duced, to the evident delight of the tenantry and do-
mestics, the Lochnagar whisky of Mr. Begg was pro-
nounced the favourite; and this gentleman being
present at the feast, anxious queries as to whether
"ony mair might be got up by at the destel'ry after
a' that had been used the nicht ?" were put to him.
The Queen and Prince having noticed this
partiality of the guests, determined to test the
nature of the bottle; and commanded, after all
had been most amply supplied, that they
also might have an opportunity of satisfying
themselves as to the correctness of this
in-
exhaustibility of the bottle. The whisky being
immediately poured out, it was pronounced genuine
" Begg and Byres." Lord John Russell evinced his
remembrance of his colonial functions by calling
for rum, which, of course, was instantly produced.
We are happy to find that besides the personal ex-
pressions of her Majesty, Mr. Anderson received
other and more substantial marks of his success.
The Royal party having retired for dinner, one of
the Highlanders, deputed by many of his friends,
relieved his and their doubts respecting the professor's
humanity by requesting an inspection of his feet, and,
being permitted to do so, rather incredulously ad-
mitted their genuineness. A trifling incident
occurred to interrupt the performances, which was
speedily terminated by the Queen's interference. At
the door of the pavilion a loud altercation was heard
between a policeman and one of the younger female
servants, who, being denied admission by the func-
tionary, exclaimed, " If the Queen kent that I was
here she wad sune let me in to see the deevilries."
Her Majesty seeing the annoyance it caused soon
inquired for the reason, and ordered the girl to be
admitted.