The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-13 00:00:00

STATE'OF TRADE.

Fonran.—The beautiful weather now set in will
enable the reapers to conclude the harvest in this quarter
very soon. On some farms it is already finished, at
least, all cut down. The crop is, according to all ac-
counts, above an average ; in short, nature appears to
have done her. work well ; but, to the great mass of man-
kind, her bounties are of little avail. They are more
than counterbalanced by the machinations of selfish
men. Small, indeed, will be the working man's share
of the fruits of the earth this season ; he has not the
wh ereivithal to procure them. These remark:; are peon-
liar:y ippplicable to this town and neighbourhood at the
present ti'me ; work is so very scarce, and wages so very
low, that .starvation in the midst of plenty seems to be
our Jot. o,nr social condition is every day becoming
more degrade, i, and how, in such a state of things, can
it be otherwise' ? A sullen, gloomy apathy has, to all
appearance, seizoel the minds of our working population,
produced by exce.iisive toil and scanty food.--Dundee
Chronicle.

ASIIBURTON.—The privations the working classes are
driven to in this town and neighbourhood are truly de-
plorable, for want of work, and from the high price of
food.— Western. Tir,les.

Trade is improved. Wools are firm, and yarns have
advanced id per lb. Still the state of business is any-
thing but satisfactory ; the general distress in the
country has long incapacitated the working classes from
purchasing as usual, there is consequently such an ab-
sence of the ordinary demand as to make even the dimi-
nished supplies of the last few years greater than what
the market will absorb ; a vast deal of business had been
done to no profit:, and in many instances to actual and
repeated loss, .;he competition in the meantime is unpre-
cedentedly sev, ,n-e, and the prospects on the whole under
existing circum stances, are anything but encouraging.—
Leicestershire I ler curt'.
Though we 1. Lave heard of no further failures this
week, and some, which took place in that preceding turn
out to be merely temporary, we are sorry to say that we
can report no 'turtter improvement in the state of trade,
either local c,r ge:teral. Our docks are crowded with
shipping, but the on l'y sign of life on the export side is
in the emigran vesscls which are exporting, not the
products of capital and industry, but the hands and skill
which vainly seek employment at. home. We believe
business was n ever known to be so dull with the trades-
men of Liverp 001, or money so scarce, as at the present
moment.—Lii )erpocl Journal.

MARRIEIoGE IN HIGH LIFE.—On the 20th
or 21st Mr. In 'ttleton, eldest son of Lord Hatherton, will
lead to the alt r the Lady Margaret Percy, eldest daugh-
ter of the Eval. and Countess of Beverley.
The preliminaries-for the marriage of Sir Hugh
Purves Hum a 4..3ampbell, Bart., M.P., and Aliss Fuller,
only claught( o: Lieutenant-General Sir Joseph Fuller,
G.C.H., and Lad v Fuller, and niece of Lady Peel, are
already arra aged, ,and we understand the solemnization
is to take pl: tee this autumn.
The railroad .from- Aix-la-Chapelle to Cologne
was opened on the Ist instant with great eclit ; dinners,
dances, and of her aversions took place for three days.
The fare to Cc ,logme, a distance of 45 miles, is fixed at
six shillings ft )1- the fir.lt class, four and sixpence the se-
cond, and three shillings for the open carriages. The
number of pa csons travelling by it on the opening fully
answered the most sanguine expectations of the share-
holders.

George Celman, getting out of a hackney I
coach one nigh t, gave the driver a shilling. " This is a
bad shilling, Si r," said Jarvey. " Then;it's all right,"
said George, with his inimitable chuckle ; " it's all
right ; yours is ;11 bad coach."
The foinpathl from the Hampstead-road, through
the ,fields to Ilainystead, which has hitherto been unin-
terrupted, has lavely been obstructed by an enclosure,
apparently fi irined .4 ithout any other object than to rob
the public of their right. The paling crosses the foot-
path in two places, and causes great inconvenience of
females and children. We trust the parish of St.
Pancras will not .submt to this nuisance. It is evi-
dently an attempt to shut out the public from these
fields, to which they have aii undoubted right.
The following is an extract from the letter of a
foreigner, dated Lyons : —" The ninth session of the
Congress of Fra,u_e opened here on the Ist in-
stant.Sticienfi
Itwas a fine spectacle to. behold all our popula-
tionto honour this intellectual
festival. It was no t confined 1,9 savants
joining our magistrates
become
and artists, but
to
manufacturers, me ;rchants, an ‘ l
cub workmeni quitted
their atteliers, and the priests theirt
times more oess;
so that this meal ng is four or five
list amounted to numerousl,lo
either members of ' or auditors at this Scuirecnltifis,c
than any of the j ,receding ;
TI
its installation. the com-
missariesmetropolitan elr arch before
of all the European
names. The Cc ,ngress assisted at a high mass in our old.
of the fete put up the flags
nations. Teel arge hall was too small
obtain an entrance.
nu-
merous mendle::s who endeavoured to .
" to contain the
stions of a Par-
liamentary Chapter of Dur-
hamln accord '
ance with the suggestions
co mmitte e, the Dean andi
for the
the Chapel of Nine Altars) open to the p
h 'uldirr, momi-
have thr, )wn the' Cathedral (with the
bexl_ccesption of
purpose of ena. tiling the mto view the ~,in .
meats, &c.
in the
AMERICA.—A v, 25 important meeting took place
THE CORN—IA \VS AND FREE TRADE
Corn Exchan H ' Pita, on Wednesday even-
ing,
ge . angi ng
,-
W.lll-1
to hear a d.et ailed statement from Jamcs Curtis,
willingness. of the A .mericans to supply England with an
Esq., of Ohio, tin itcd States, " on the capability and
abudanec, of corn , in exchange for our manufactures.
Richard Gobden, E ;q., M.P., took the Chair. Athongst
the gentlemen on ft le platform, besides Mr. Cobden and
Ml.• Cur'‘is, we notk ed Mr. Alderman Brooks, Mr. Wil-
liam Rawson, Aev, William Shuttieworth, and several
gentlemen of the. An ti-Corn-law League. Many hun-
dreds left the doe as bo, lause unable to find even standing
mom.—Munckesi .Ler Tire !es.

MODESTY.— —The first• of all virtues is inno-
cence ; the next modesty. If we banish modesty out of
the world, she ( tarries aura.:, with her half the virtue that
is in it.