The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-14 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Manchester Guardian.)
In consequence of the excitement which prevailed in
the Liverpool Cotton Market on Monday, and the ad-
vance of price consequent upon it, there was a very
uneasy and irregular market here yesterday. The
spinners and manufacturers, scarcely knowing at what
price they might be able to replace their cotton, were
not disposed to sell except at an advance, which the
buyers were by no means disposed to give ; and the
consequence was that a very limited business was done,
especially in reeled yarn. For goods the demand was
somewhat better ; and though the manufacturers were
not able to realize the advance which they had at first
demanded, some sales were made in 27-inch printing
cloth, at an improvement of lid. per piece on
the rate of the preceding Tuesday. Both spinners
and manufacturers, however, are now in a worse
condition than before the late advance in cotton, as

the prices of their produce have not increased in
proportion ; and the buyers generally deem the
recent excitement in Liverpool entirely unfounded,
and do not permit it to influence their operations. In-
deed, the accounts of a short crop of cotton, upon
which the speculation in Liverpool appears to be
founded, are generally disbelieved here. No doubt, the
severe weather, experienced in the United States in
the beginning of the last month, has in some degree ex-
tended to Georgia and Carolina ; and the produce of
those States may be expected to fad considerably below
that of last year, when the season was more favourable,
perhaps, than was ever before known ; but, so far as
we are aware, there is no reason to suppose that the
frost has extended into the valley of the Mississippi.

Indeed, the most recent accounts from the ports of the
Gulf of Mexico speak of the weather as being decidedly
favourable, and the receipts of cotton large ; and, unless
there should be some considerable falling-off in that quar-
ter, of which, at present, we know nothing, the injury to
the crop in Georgia and Carolina will not account
for the prodigious falling off which appears to Ise calcu-
lated upon at Liverpool. The whole produce of those
States, in the year 1839, was only 600,000 bales ; and
if the coming crop should amount only to two-thirds of
that quantity, or 400,000 bales, there must be a dimi-
nution of nearly 400,000 bales in the Gulf States also,
before the crop can be reduced, as alleged, from
t 2,177,000 bales in 1832, to 1,600,000 in 1840 ; and
we can gather nothing from the recent letters from New
Orleans and Mobile, to induce us to suppose that any
such falling off is likely to be experienced, or that the
entire crop will fall short of the previous estimate of
1,800,000 to 1,850,000 bales. It is generally stated that
the speculation in Liverpool, after the arrival of the
packet, on Mokay, was commenced by purchases on
American account, which may possibly be true ; but
we believe there is no doubt, that, up to the very
latest dates from all parts of the United States, cotton
was selling there at prices, which, when compared
with the current rates here, would leave a fair profit to
the importer ; and it seems strange, that, under such
circumstances, the speculations of American merchants
should be made in Liverpool rather then in New *l'm k
or New Orleans. This, at least, is the view very gene-
rally taken of the matter in this town ; and if the pre-
sent excitement in Liverpool should lead to any material
advance in prices, the effect will be a cessation of buy-
ing, except for immediate use, until either the importers
and speculators at Liverpool give way, or the buyers
of goods and yarn consent to give the advance which is
necessary to remunerate the spinner and manufacturer.
llocituaLE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, JAN. 11.

—Though to-day has been what is called the " First
Market," we have had but very little change in the de-
mand for goods. Upon the whole, there has been a
little improvement, but no alteration in the prices. The
wool market remains steady, and prices looking up.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, JAN. I.2.—This was a
tolerably brisk market, especially in low, plain, and
fancy woollens, for which the demand continues un-
abated, arising principally from foreign orders. In other
descriptions there is not much animation ; but, on the
average, a fair general business is doing. Prices still
continue firm, but low, which makes it difficult to rea-
lise a profit on wool. In the warehouses, there is little
or no change. Stocks arc not large, and all the mills
are working full time.

THE BITTLE OF THE BEGGARS

A scene, at once singular and ludicrous, occurred
last week in the New-road. A couple of those blind
mendicants who are in the habit of perambulating the
streets accompanied by dogs holding little caps in their
mouths for the purpose of receiving the donations of
the charitable, happened to be pursuing their "
but with this difference, that while the one endeavoured
to procure a livelihood by vending those necessary ap-
pendages to the female toilet termed " stay-laces," the
other contented himself with exhibiting his sightless
orbs, and simply uttering the pathetic cry of " poor
blind I" The two chanced to be going in opposite
directions, and on the same side of the way, " tapping"
the pavement with their iron-shod sticks, and varying
the monotony of their " taps" with the alternate cries
of " poor blind" and " stay-lace." It appears that a
sort of rivalship exists between them, and on nearing
each other it was observed that the " tapping" be-
came much more energetic, and the tone of their voices
much louder and less supplicatory. The very curs
seemed to partake in the excitement of their masters,
for they simultaneously dropped their caps, pricked up
their ears, and commenced tugging away at their
strings " like mad." The eagerness of the " quadru-
peds" quickly brought the " bipeds" in contact, and
the " scrimmage" commenced by the animals worrying
each other in a style that would have thrown the veriest
eostermonger in all Christendom into ecstacies. At
first the united efforts of the beggars were directed to
separating their four-legged companions, and which,
after considerable difficulty, was effected, and, each
dog being secured under the urns of its respective
master, the following colloquy commenced, to the infi•
nite amusement of the crowd who began to collect round
the belligerents. " An' its you that ought to be ashamed
of yersclf, ye dirty Scotch thafe, to be after taking the
bread out of the mouth of myself and the children, by
coming with your mongrel baste across the bate of a
honest man. An' its bamboozling the ladies ye are,
with yer dirty laces as rotten us a dry rush from the
bog of Ballyshannon. Och ! and it's the treadmill
that's too good for the likes of you, ye dirty spalpeen
of a Scotch beggar." " Whist, whist," retorted the other,
" ye'ro downright daft, man, or ye wudna' be just ex-
posing yerself in sic fashion. Canna ye just quietly
gang ye'se way, and let me gang mine, without fashen
yersel aboot me an' my wee bits o' laces ? Beggar,
too ! na, na, I'm nae beggar. I dinna gang aboot
wi' a tang face and a loud whine like you Irish lunzies
(beggars), with Dan O'Connell at the head o' ye."
This was enough. The word " Dan" had an electric
effect upon the nerves of the Irishman, who, guided by
the speaker's voice, dealt him a blow with a stick that
sent his hat whirling to the distance of several yards and
left a mark on the Scotchtnan's brow, that looked any-
shing but " cannie." The blow was immediately rer
turned, and a curious sight it was to see these two blind
men striking at each other, and to witness the sagacity
with which they sometimes warded off the blows, by an-
ticipating where they might fall. However, some
friends of tbo men, arriving at the spot, separated tho
combatants, who a short time afterwards were seen
" tapping" their respective ways, as orderly as though
no interruption had taken place, to the well-known cries
of " poor blind" and " stay-lace."

THE HALIFAX AND BOSTON MAIL STEAM
SHIP ACADIA.—The latest advices from Boston at New
York up to noon on the 12th ult. state that the Acadia,
which left Liverpool on the 4th of December, had not ar-
rived at Boston at four F.M. on the 18:h, which leaves her
out 14 days. The last four Liverpool packets which have
arrived, viz., Roscoe, Stephen Whitney, Columbus, and
Sheridan, have each rescued the lives of the crews of an
English vessel, and brought them into Liverpool.
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GREVILLY-
SThEET.—Tuesday evening the quarterly medical report
was read to a meeting of the governors of the above insti-
tution. It appeared that during the three months, ending
Jan. 1, there had been admitted as in-patients 146 ;
discharged cured 123. Admitted as ent-patients during
the quarter 3.264. The extreme severity of thew wher
since the Ist inst. had materially increased the number of i
applicants, and is every
case possible they had been imme-
diately admitted.

PUSEYISM AS IT IS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—l was upon the point of offering a few remark!
upon the above (which has been the subject of several
c!everly-written letters, as well as of editorial remark
in your valuable journal), especially when I saw the de-
scription, by " An Angic-Catholic," of the retired and
studious Puseyites, which contrasted so strongly vvitli
my own knowledge of their several characters, as onl•,
to excite a laugh. I will attempt to describe one, and
" ex uno disce omnes."

When I first became acquainted with him, he had
recently taken the title of M. A., and shall nut readily
forget the ostentation with which he displayed his gown
and hood before my unpractised eyes, or the elated—
yea, the triumphal tone in which he read aloud the
" Testamur," &c., which had conferred the envied title
he bore, for he assured me that many of his fellow-
►tudents " would have pawned their souls" for those
slips of paper, which reminded one of blank forms for
copies of Latitats.

He had then recently undertaken a wry responsible
duty, in conuex'o❑ with one of our oldest families.
Instead of inquiries into the opportunities of extending
his sphere of usefulness, he was soon buried in the con-
tents of the " Munitnent-room," and worked up to
ecstacy by the " genealogical tree," which was two
yards long, and embraced the descents and intermar-
riages of the whole family, from the reign of William
of Normandy to that of Charles I.
In one of our early conversations respecting the neigh-
bouring clergy, I was led by respect and affection to
expatiate with some warmth upon the ministerial zeal,
devotion, and eloquence of our Curate, a gentleman
from Cambridge, and an evangelical urine. The learned
M.A. turned up his nose (which was a snub) and echoed
my words, especially " evangelical," with ineffable con-
tempt, and the unmannerly addition of " humbug." 1
was surprised, and perhaps showed it. He piqueu
himself upon discipleship to my Lord of Chesterfield ;
and immediately, in an apologetic tone, gave a learned
dissertation upon evangelical " humbug," not retreating
from but justifying the term.
During the illness of the Vicar, he did some " oc-
casional duty," and employed the intervals of his attend-
ance at church, in attempting to scour off the white-
wash wherewith some " Gothic wretches " had defaced
the tombstones and monuments in the chapel which be-
longed to the family I have alluded to. The clerk
was highly amused by the duty of supplying the anti-
quarian Puseyite with soap, flannel, and hot water, and
could not help remarking that my subject was " the
funniest clergyman he ever saw."

Popery and Puseyism are proverbially prudent. My
Oxonian soon found that Evangelism was the besetting
foible of the family and neighbourhood in which he lived,
and that simple country folks could appreciate the
ministerial labour that did not relax whon Sunday's
duties were fulfilled, but sought out, relieved, com-
forted, exhorted, or warned, as their cases required,
although too simple to value as perhaps they should have
done his literary acquirements and antiquarian researches.
He also found that his equals and superiors in birth
and education were surprised at the closeness, as well as
the texture, of his studies and pursuits.
On a sudden he approved the curate's labours and his
doctrines, and immediatel; entered upon a course of
visiting, exhortation, &c., at the cottages of the poor.
One morning he took up Runyan's ‘• Pilgrim's Pro-
gress," and opened upon Vanity Fair. I entered his
room just afterwards, and he remarked, as he flung the
book aside, that it was an ill-concealed satire upon
" the Church" (of England). Upon inquiry, I found
that the offensive passages were, the description of
the commoaities exposed for sale, bodies, souls, 4c.'
Passing a newly-erected chapel one day, he inquired
what it was. I informed him that it belonged to the Wee-
leyan Methodists ; upon which lie said—" I declare I
would rather see all England Roman Catholics again,
than suffer these detestable conventicle: to spread over
the country as they do. Then we should he a Church
—but at present we are not." " Then do you consider
the Rannish Church, a Church of Christ ?" inquired I.
" Oh, most undoubtedly I do," replied the Oxonian.
I might repeat many similar traits of character, and he
very tedious ; I will, therefore, only add that pride of
birth, bigotry, intolerance, and self-love, were the pro-
minent and leading features of his conduct and conversa-
tion, and if there is any wisdom or truth in Holy Scrip-
ture, then, " as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."
More than once, when startled by his avowed opinions
on politics, church government, doctrine, &c., I inquired
if he expressed the opinions of his fellow collegians, to
which he replied that " he was proud and happy to say
yes." He soon after lost his appointment, owing to his
excessive pride and self-sufficiency.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant and constant reader,
A PROTESTANT CHRISTIAN.

REPRESENTATIVE GOVERN-

MENT.

THIRD LETTER. OF SIR VALENTINE BLAKE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sta.—ln my recent letters which you did me the
favour to publish, I set forth briefly the origin of the
Civil Constitution of England, together with the earliest
interference by the Legislature, on the question of the
Elective Franchise, the most valuable of the vested
birth rights and privileges of the people.
It is now my purpose respectfully to call your atten-
tion to the operation of the disfranchising acts of the
British Legislature upon the analogous constitution of
the kingdom of Ireland, and by which, it will appear,
that even in those days of remote antiquity, it was 6.:
practical policy of the British Government " to esta-
blish the rights of Irishmen to perfect equality of insti-
tutions and franchise with their fellow-subjects of Eng-
land."

We have it OA record that, during the contests be-
tween the Henry's of York and Lancaster, the York
interests predominated in Ireland, and that Lambert
Simnel so far prevailed there, that Gerald Fitzgerald,
Deputy to the Duke of Bedford, taking part against
Henry VII., had Simnel crowned King of Ireland with
great solemnity in Christ Church in tile presence
of the Chancellor and the Judges, and this coronatkn
was actually confirmed by an Act of the Irish Par-
liament.

The generosity of Henry VII. induced him not
alone to pardon the impostor, ufter obtaining possession
of his person, but he also pardoned the infatuated fol-
lowers of Simnel. .

This lenity, however, was not duly appreciated, and
soon after another pretender of the name of Perkin
Warbeck, was acknowledged as the only legitimate
King of Ireland.
Here again the extraordinary generosity of Henry
was conspicuous, and instead of the scenes of blood,
torture, and confiscation which in a succeeding reign
occurred in Ireland, with infinitely less of provocation,
the King sent over Sir Edward Poynings, with full
power to pardon every one, without a single exception,
on the sole condition that the Irish Parliament would
enact a law to restrain any future Deputy from calling
a Parliament, or from giving the Royal Assent to any
Act of Parliament without the authority of the King ;
and the policy of the object of this was to prevent the
possibility of any Irish law, whereby the Crown of Ire-
land might by such an Act be separated from the Crown
of England, and with these terms the people and Par-
liament cheerfully complied ; and then by the enact-
ment of Poynings' law in the 10th of Henry VII. all
former Acts of the British Parliament, and of course
the Acts of the 1 H. 5, c. I, and 8 H. 6, c. 7, were
extended to Ireland, and thus the repeal of Poynings'
law in 1782 accelerated the Union. S) that in fact
we don't know whether we go too fast or too slow."
I fear I am extending my observations to an unreason-
able length.—l have the honour to be your most obe-
dient servant,

VALENTINE BLAKE.

DISABILITIES OF THE JEWS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN:

- - - -
Stn,—The perusal of a letter signed by H. M. SA.
muels, copied from a Jamaica paper in The Sun of yes-
terday, in which the writer very naturally advocates the
right that he and his brethren have to equal privileges
with every other British subject, and in which he ex-
pres,es a hope that they will again possess the land of
their forefathers, " when Jerusalem, their ancient heri-
tage, and the tomb of the great Christian Prophet,
shall be rescued from the Infidel, and that both Jew and
Christian may alike undisturbed worship God in peace
and safety," is the inducement to my troubling you with
this, feeling as I do, from the perusal of your paper
daily, that universal good will towards mankind is the
basis of your principles.
It is now nearly five years since I felt it due to the
Jews to address the Town Council and Burgesses of
this town on the subject of their emancipation, which
was then in contemplation. 1 therein endeavoured to
show that every nation that had oppressed thorn (though
they were under the righteous condemnation of God)
had been destroyed in t heir turn ; but that every Go-
vernment which had a fforded them protection, and
support, had in return been blessed of God. That
eten their greatest enymy, Moab, was called on to
succour and sustain t hem. " Let mine outcasts
dwell with thee, Moab ; be thou to them a covert

from the spoiler,' was the injunction of Holy Writ ; and
I still think that under the appeal to Moab, every
nation was addressed. Suppose we take the case of a sin-
gle individual whom the dispensations of God has afflicted.
Do we not (or ought we nct) to seek to alleviate his
sufferings? What, then, ought to be the feelings of
Christians towards those who have been made the
means of providing the foundation of the Christian re-
ligion, but who, by the sins of their forefathers, have
been shut. out for a time from its privileges? For what
says the word of God, by the Apostle Paul ? " If the
casting away of them be the reconciling of the world,
what shall the receiving of them be ?" And if we, who
call ourselves Christians, seek to add to or continue
affliction to those whom God has smitten, how can we
hold oat to their notice that precious offer of our Re-
deemer, " Come unto me all ye that labour and are
heavy laden, and I will give you rest ;" or to that fiuish-