The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-08 00:00:00

STATE OF TRIDE.

( Fr ...nr the Mu ndcster Guardian.)
AIAsenEsTER —There was not the slightest improve.
meat in our market yesterday ; on the contrary, the dull-
nes", which has prevailed 1, r some time past was aug-
mented by reports of failures in Germany, which, though
not to any serious event, were quite sufficient, in the pre-
sent sensitive state of the market, to produce a further
decline in some descriptions of yarn, and the business
done was very limited. In the cloth market there was no
change to be notic,d. Tne export trade, to all quarters,
seems, fir the prevent, to ba almost suspended; aud, not-
withstanding an activc home trade, goods of all kinds-con.
tinu much depressed.
RecitosLc FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, APRIL 5.--
There has been a dull ma-ket to_thty : a very iinntcd de-
mand for goods, with prices exceedingly low. The wool
market has been no better than the piece market, and
prices rather giving way.

LEGISLATURE OF PENNSYL.

VANI A.

Every one acquaint ,d with the machinery ,of the Bri.
• tish Parliament knows that for many years nothing
could exceed the profligate dereliction of all principle
which characterized the action of the Commit ees of
' the House of Commons on private Bills. A gentlemen
who has been a Member of the Senate of Pennsylvania
informed me, that the same mischievous machinery is at
work in their Legislature. There is extensive jobbing
and treating relative to private Bills, or Bids for the es•
tablishment of public companie:. The parties who ap-
ply for the Bill, or their agents, coma to Harrisburg
while the Legislature is in Session, and, under pretence
of explaining the subjlet to the members, flatter them,
give them suppers, and open their understandings by
means of plentiful libations of tvine. Macy of the tepre-
sentatives arc men from country districts, ollittle edu-
cation and bumble fortune, but of unquestionable integrity,
who would reject with indignation a money bribe, but who
unconsciously fall before personal flattery arid champagne.
The technical name for these practices is " lobbying."
In the legislature of New York, some years ago, " lolo-
hying" was reduced to a system. The agents for the
various Bills, public and private, concerted their mea-
sures together, and made up lists of all the members of the
Le4islature, specifying those wheal they could influence
absolutely, those u horn they could probably carry, and
those (a very smell remnant) who wore altogether inde-
pendent ; and after " the order of tae day," or list of
business before'thc Chamber;, was published, they met
in a tame., and-timk ' the "yeas and nays" on 'every
Bill in which they were interested, either rib or eon,.
The first Bill, for instance,
was named (probably one
for . a charter to a bank) ; the roll of the repre.
sentatives was tlea called, and the different agents
spectivelv whose votes they could command. , „ten
answered " yea" or " nay," for the metb7 re..
7'l
u
they had done, the independent members were next
distributed, according to the hest estimate rhichthe
agents could forth of their probable course of action i
the balance seas then struck, and the announcement,
yeas" or the " nays" have it. So,
machiuery, and so perfect the saa'a.
complete was this . .
of
the . _ 1
..,
regularly made,
city with which the opinions
Cers were guessed at, that the decisions of the Chambers
became ludicrous echoes of those of the .1 lobby 1" .At
the "
'a eti;v ine ns o
ott .
t riseha
t
higher than its fountain, so, in social life, if the public
mind last a check ;yrs given to the practice, but much' of it
stream
still „jai ; and it will exist until a higher eduCation of
the peopla shall raise the standard of their moral and
iiirtii h
cllecte blindl and se fish, mlierctiptions.As a Straeni nt
the
rep
mind will never rise into the regions of truth and jue•-
tice.—Combe's Notes on the United States.

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DESTRUCTION Or A CO----TTON MILL NEAR
ROCIIDALE.—On Thursday morning, about three o'clock,
aCr a discovered' in
t% ~s
a 'dist
engines; and the alarmtwtobb
o tna
tfionont, t o
and,Rochdale,
l:oiing
Old Mill, at Shawforth.
thes superintendents, with their men,eg
ecAap;alicooi
rbtaoteeliff:n
bfoasrrcuseteror,
sr factory, kertaocwhn is
thetho
fiwvaesmiimlems,en
tdhoiaisftetlyhsehnt
at a rapid
engines, the Mogan and the Extinguiihcrge. t:ipiceyedpirloyecaaertreitivttehaie
sav,ng pac, to the spot; and, although the fire had
e,.n raging during an hour and a hnlf, they succeeded in
the steam engine cmd the wazer wheel. The
building, which was of an irregular ft ran, and part of it
very old, was, with its machinery (a few f•team looms ex.
eel ted), burned 'down to the ground. The building wait
the property of Mr. Edmund Lord, and %vas insured in tin,
L ids and Yorkshire Office. The machii.cry, which was
fur spinning and %%dying, belonged to the severel small
'a stcAm-ennine of
manufacturers who rented the rooms uneer Mr. Lord, and
was, with the above trifling exception, destroyed, and
was, The:
building was of consideraole length, and three stories:
—Manchester
daLYut Is horses''
power.
ti 2,0001
li:fet.ei Peed, Bart., alrcts.t,eil`dla.,Piz
highll6.
i: curses' power,
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t, al' awshh
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about
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