The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-01 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Manchester Guardian.)
MANCHESTER.—The unsettled state of the foreign
relations of the country continues to exercise an unfa-
vourable influence on this market, and some descriptions
of yarn, together with almost all kinds of goods, were a
shade lower than during the preceding week.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, SEPT.
08.—We have not had quite so brisk a market to-day
as that of last Monday, though there have been many
pieces sold. Fine goods have been more inquired after,
and have met with a readier sale than formerly. The
manufacturers have been trying, but without success,
to get better prices for their goods. In the wool mar-
ket there is no alteration to report. A steady busi-
ness is going on at previous prices.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, TUESDAY, SEPT. 29.
Business is improving, which was evidenced this day
by the appearance of many buyers, who purchased
largely, and gave better prices. In heavy goods espe-
c;ally, the demand is considerable, and all new goods
are cleared as they come in. In fancies of a light
description, such as waistcoatiogs, checks for dresses,
&c., the demand also continued very brisk. In super-
fine woollens there was not much doing, but prices re-
main firm. The warehouses continue pretty active,
and wools were firm at last prices. Many Irish buyers
are in the market, who purchase freely, in the expecta-
tion of a brisk trade in the sister isle after a plentiful
harvest.

CONNECTION BETWEEN ARIS
TOCRACY AND SERVILITY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE.

SIR,--I fear that the army will be little grateful to
you for your assistance : the first step towards its re-
storation must be a deep probing of its wounds, and
full exposure of its weakness ; and this it is as yet un-
able to bear. A few more Cardigans, and the work
will be in progress.
The army is aristocratic--it prides itself on that cha-
racter. I have seen men suffering from every form of
danger—from the deadly breach from the more
deadly climate—with talents, energy, and information
sufficient to found a princely fortune in any free pursuit,
starving proudly on seven shillings a-day, and on the
memory of having dined at the same mess with several
knights, a sprinkling of obscene honourables, and a
glimpse or two at an Earl as he whisked over their
heads into the Lieutenant. Colonelcy.
The connection between chivalry and servility is
close and explicable. It begins with ducal valets in the
royal household, and descends through every glimmer of
tinsel to.the lowest, last retainer of any one who, by
bowing, begging, borrowing, or bullying, can live at the
cost of others and avoid the disgrace of doing anything
useful to his race. To be honoured and honourable,
one condition alone is requisite—you must not live by
honest labour ; and it is this fatal and proud prejudice,
this relic of the darkest days of our ignorance, this
superstition which they take for holiness, that makes
men with vigorous minds, highly cultivated powers, and
principles independent on all other points, cling to a ser-
vice in which wrongs are hourly perpetrated, where
there is no hope of redress, where remonstrance is re-
primand, aad complaint cashiering ; where success at-
tends not on service, but is bought by money, or snugly
given to servility or cousinship ; although every despot
of the day may insult you, though you may be taunted
for the blunders of a mess waiter, may be reported for
complaining, put under arrest for explaining ; though
you may be put under the ban of society by your Colonel
without an answer or a remedy, and may be finally
crushed for your agonised attempts to obtain a wild sort
of justice, though you bear, and must bear, injustice and
insult as no starving labourer would endure from a land-
lord, yet you are still thought by yourself to_ be ex-
clusively a gentleman.
And for this false notion many of the best examples
of our race are sacrificing all the highest qualities and
most valuable years of their manhood, content to be the
stepping-stones which lordlings spurn and soil as they
pass upwards—to have their fame, which is their life-
blood, tainted by foul whispers—to remain judges of
shades of pipe-clay, counting shirts, stocks, and button-
brushes, and laying the foundation of a sullen unsatis-
fied old age as half-pay subalterns ; when, from the
(Worts of the despised thrones of busy men around
them new nations are Springing from the wilderness :
when enterprise is uniting the eastern to the western
world ; when new elements of communication, now
hopes of science, new means of 114,11, soul-satisfying
employments are growing and glowing around them!
Alas, for gentility !
When the army shall really arouse itself from its pre-
sent gold-lace dreams of unenvied dignity, it will de-
mand a responsible Minister for its chiaf—an open Go- 1
XeXiasulaat....for ,its ,adatinistration—and will unite with 1
absolute obedience in the field, justice niia—lciiylight i-n-
-its cabinet ; above all things, no aristocracy, wl ich is
only the concrete form of shouting—no exclusiveness,
no slander, no injustice, no irresponsible insolence.
I am, Sir, you obedient servant,

A CIVILIAN.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.

Elizabeth Cooke, an eklerly women, in the service
of Mr. John linbrie, fishmonger, Strand, was yester-
day brought up on a warrant, charged with assaulting
and wounding Henry Hatley, a journeyman fishmonger,
with a knife, with intent to do him some grievous
bodily harm.

The complainant stated that on Saturday last he
bad occasion to retire to his room up stairs for the pur-
pose of washing and dressing himself, and on coining
down he met the defendant at the bottom of the
stairs, having four knives in her hand, when she asked
him what business he had up stairs, and if he went
there to rob his master ? to which he replied, that she
ought to mind her own business. She then became
very abusive, and struck him violently in the left arm
with a knife, which caused a rent in his shirt, and, in
preventing her from repeating the blow, she inflicted
several wounds in his hand, causinfr
the blood to flow
profusely. He immediately went to a surgeon, who
.arm his r and hand,
on the Monday follow-
ing, in attempting to give her into custody, he was dig-
charged :by his master.

Mr. JAIWINE inquired if he had given the defendant
any provocation ? The complainant said that he had
not spoken to her during the entire day, and the only
words he made use of when she attacked him for going
up stairs was to mind her own business.
The defendant said that the first assault was commit-
ted by the complainant, whose conduct had been of
late so intolerable towards her, that she told her master
she would leave unless he discharged him, and the reas.,n
why he so repeatedly insulted her was because she would
not allow him to go to her master's drawers to take
money from them as she suspected.
Mr. JARDINE said the charge was of a very serious
nature, and he would require security for her appear-
ance, if required, at the sessions.
Mr. Imbrie, on being sent for, said he had no doubt
from what he knew of his servant, that the complainant
was the aggressor ; and having become bound in the sum
of 201. to produce her at the sessions if required, she
was ordered to be discharged.

A CHILD CHOKED BY A BIT OF BEEF.—
On Monday forenoon an inquest was held before Mr.
_Baker, at the White Lion, S Juth Hackney Wick, on the
body of Wrr,, wrigia, aged four years, who, on Friday
0 u g b
,the tsboeurtghbei see
surgeon, Paid last,
at dinner, snatched from a plate a bit of
at, surgeon's,
beef, not bigger :han a walnut, and put it
intoe his mouth. He had scarcely done so when
of
c became black in the face, and showed symptoms
. him it was apparently dead. He
hfis hoking.ln
his
agony
he thrust his fingers fiercely into
forthwith afterwards to
throat, bit could get nothing out of it. The child
ps.oait rh:deedr 'wohnaennt dh
the
waye
child
h i
ld thither.was b
rMo ra.g
brought
a ts
o-
wes taken
tiering to, and obstructing, the passed a probang down
its throat, but encountered no obstacle. Since death he
epiglottis, which caused
_had opened the body and found a small piece of meat ad.
suffocation and death. The Coroner remarked on the sin-
gularity of the case, and said that it differed little from one
wnich was the subject of inquiry before him list week, ex-
cept that in the latter case the bead of a shrimp had caused
suffocation. In Limehouse, two or three days back, a man
narrowly escaped being choked by 2 bit of cord beef.
Children ought to be taught to masticate their food, and
not be allowed to gulp it down, or, vulgarly speaking,
" bolt" it.--Verdict " Accidental death."
The Lord Ma or, Aldermen,
and Sheriff's, as-
sembled yesterda y:a. at the Guildhall, from whence the
y y
proceeded in state to Westminster. The carriages and
equipages of the Sheriffs
on
attracted great admiration in the
Guildhall yard, w account of the election, a
much greater crowd than bled. The liveries, usual)
congregates was assem.
erey
supplied by Mr. Paul, of
Bucklersbury, are extremely splendid, and deserve the
name of State Liveries The-y are trimmed with breadwhi nch w
rich gold lace, relieved .I)an elegant Vandyke down the
front, and the shoulders
are ornamented with massive
bullion epaulettes.

wo\o‘c;:n°l:loEcikrs
tion, held this year at Glasgow, Lc British Associa-
tion, de Lisle read
a paper, in explanatio
Pf
oAr vpEavAilnETw.h—i—chAhtatshi
of laying down
figure in which the vertical strength
tried a n of his
The lecturer exhibited
and approved at Whitehall.
a division of the cube, to show the applications of its sec-
tions to the above purposes, and stated having obtained a
was preserved by a
slight incline, presenti
avement clean, economical,
and enduring. Among thape various applications of these
sections of the cube shown by the lecturer, was one in
which they were made to form
a spiral column, appro-
priately denominated the skeleton or osteologie, part of a
quadrangular column, upon a scale of 120 feet in height.
The practical uses of this for the purposes of architecture
were variously illustrated, and seemed to he duly appre-
ciated.