The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-27 00:00:00

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I/M MAE EIL, stateTUESDAY.-- of affair's in
Ireland, th postponement of the armistice in Schleswig.
Holstein, and the unfavourable statements respecting the
progress of the potato disease, which are known to have
produced great uneasiness in London yesterday,—all
. combined, this morning, to check the upward tendency
. which our market exhibited last week. The demand
both for goods and yarn, was exceedingly limited
during the forenoon; and though some of the spinners
and manufacturers showed a disposition to accept prices
a shade below the advanced rates for which they had
stood out at the end of the week, they refused
to submit to further concession, and the little
business done was at the full rates generallg
current last week. In the afternoon, an iasprovisa
feeling began to be manifested. Some of the buyers,
finding that they could not make any impression
upon prices, began to make purchases with more
freedom. A fair amount of business was done
in printing cloth, both 27-inch and 40-inch, chiefly
for the home trade, for which full prices were paid.
There was also some demand for Mexico, from
whence the accounts continue to be favourable ; and
a few orders were given out for yarn—in all
cases, we believe, at the full rates of lest week.
On the whole, the market closed with a rather bettor
feeling than that with which it opened, notwithstand-
ing the announcement, by electric telegraph, of a fall of
fully one per cent. in the funds—the cause of which re-
mained without explanation, though conjecture ascribed
it to exaggerated accounts of the apprehensions enter-,
tained respecting the occurrence of serious disturbances
in Liverpool.
IioenDALE, BIONDA.Y.—The flannel market has been
less brisk than last week. In prices, there is no chrAnge,
and the demand for wool has undergone little ur
no
alteration for some weeks past. The Irish news and
the wet weather have had their due effect upon the
market.
HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY. Business has to-day
maintained the improved character of the last three
markets, and considerable orders have been made up in
the warehouses within the last week. In addition to the
demand for dark fancy woollens, drab kerseys have been
inquired after, an article in which little has been doing
for the last two years.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—The aspect of our Piece-hall
to-day has been as inanimate as usual, and very little
business has been transacted. There is, however, rather
more doing in the warehouses but chiefly in light fancy
goods, and without any improvement in price. Yarns
continue pretty much the same as noted iu our last re-
port; and wools are somewhat firm, at the late triffing
reduction, but not much changing hands.
LEEDS, TUESDAY.—There is a steady good business
going on in our district, independent of the transactions
at our Cloth-halls, which, owing to the lowness of
stocks therein exhibited, scqxcely form a criterion of
the improved state of our akde, although they show
the better dispositions of our merchants for buying.
Goods made of the new wools always are considered
preferable, and therefore a good many orders are in
course of execution, which afford regular and profitablfs
employment to our manufacturers. Prices for the lower
descriptions of pilots and flushings are looking up.--
Manchester Guardian.

THE CHILD'S OFFERING.
(From the Meekly Dispatch.)

"The child Samuel ministered unto the Lord."
1 SAMUEL, chap. iii., v. 1.

A fair young child went wandering out
One glorious day in June;
Flirting with bees that were humming about,
Kissing red buds with a rival pout,
And mocking the cuckoo's tune.

For a moment his tiny hand was lost
'Mid rushes that fringed the stream;
Then it came forth, and white lilies were tossed
After the golden perch, that crossed
In the flash of the noontide beam.

He loitered along in the dusky shade
Whore spicy cones were spread;
He gathered them up, till a pet lamb strayed
To nibble the sward, then down he laid,
Hugging its innocent head.
A pair of glittering wings went by,
And the Child flew after the moth;
Till a fluttering nestling caught his eye,
And be chased the bird, but he gavo no sigh
When he saw he had lost them both.

He found himself in a dazzling place,
Where Flora had been crowned;
Where perfume, colour, light and grace,
Pure as the flush on his own young face,
Were flung over bower and mound.
He stood like an elf in fairy lands,
With a wide and wistful stare;
As a maiden over her casket stands,
'Mid heaps of jewels beneath her hands,
-;tit which to wear.

Ile went through the burnished rainbow mane,
For some trophy to carry away;
"To the tulip bed sad acacia sprays,. .
To tke luicious brAth 'and the scarlet blase,
Not knowing where to stay.
At last the Child was seen to pass
With ono sweet opening Rose,
And a blade of the white-streaked ribbon Grass:—
The beautiful things, in the gorgeous mass,
That his untaught spirit chose.

Ire rambled on through another gay hour,
With a young heart's revelling mirth;
But ho still preserved the Grass and the Flower,
As thongh they formed the richest dower
That he could inherit from Earth.
!Ozer the green hill he slowly crept
Guarding the rose from ill;
He lolled on the bank of a meadow and slept,
Then he hunted a squirrel, but jealously kept
The rose and the ribbon leaf still.

Ile strolled to the sea-beach, bleak and bare,
And climbed to a jutting spot;
And the Child was wooing his idols there,
Nursing thw Flower and Grass with care,
All else in the world forgot.

A dense, dark cloud rolled over the sky,
Like a vast triumphal car;
The Child looked up as it thickened on high,
And watched its thundering storm-wheels fly
Through the blue arch, fast and far.
Ile knelt with the trophies he held so dear,
And his beaming head was bowed;
As he murmured with mingled trust and fear,
" I'll twine them together and leave them here,
For the Gov who made that cloud."

Worshipping Child, thou wert doing then
Wbut all below should do;
We hear it taught by the Prophet men,
We see it traced by the Prophet pen,
By the Holy, the, Wise, the True.
We must lay down the flowers we bear,
Held close in doting pride;
We must be ready to willingly spare,
On Life's altar-rock, the things most fair—
And loved beyond all beside.

Worshipping Child, may the tempest hour
Find me with my spirit as bowed !
As thou didst give tho Grass and the Flower,
May I yield what I lore best to the Power
Of HIM that makes the cloud.
ELI Z A COOL

DARING ROBBERY.—On Tuesday morning last,
about ten o'clock, as a young lady was going through
the Regent's-park to give morning lessons, she was
stopped near Hanover-gate by a man who accosted her,
pretending to beg ; before she had time to reply he
seized her reticule, and. after a struggle, tore it vio-
lently from her arm and set off running ; shebrsocreared
as loudly as she could, but no one came toe
met
Iwo
assist-
ance; two or three hundred yards further she
policemen, and one of them ran after the
could not find bim. The purse containedth 6s. o
or robber,
could
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t
silver, a gold pencil-case worth 303., a scent-bottle, and
a pocket-handkerchief.
HOIRS or WORCESTER,
FESTIVAL OF THE THREE C
IIheEIdREFutORD,AN festival
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SC:I e bpe
n agements having been
tember, all the professional e
g are to be Madame
made. The principal vocal performers
_imssr.Dsoilmbys,
RMeiessver
Signor
Robinson, and 'Machin.
Worcesterp Ger the sth, ItSt—This
aCnadstmelliasse, Williams' bar.
Lablache, and Messrs.
atW itihleoypaianndofßolratger.ovTe;heanbdanMdisiss.
presiderchestras of her Majesty's Theatre,
selected from the o
Philharmonic
Opera, and the Ancient and Ph.lh •
The choraldepartment will include 100 pro-
fessional tee leaders
Lodes
willar e Messrs.
.aeniffgers from London, besides members of the
fetchose,nicolent
Concerts.
isinam Worcester, and Gloucester Choral Birmicg r
So-
cieties. The festival will bo made up of four morning
performances of sacred music, three evening concerts,
and a ball. On Tuesday morning, as usual, there will
be full service at the cathedral, and the Dean will preach
a sermon in aid of the charity for the relief of the
widows and orphans of the clergy of the dioceses of
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gave very great uneasiness to many who were otherwise
The deceased has not been opened,
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regret;hichelwl:weishrs. therefore, there are many conflicting
opinions as to the cause of his death. Some attribute it
to a softness of brain, some to diseased lungs; some (the
more amiable interpreters) to the misfortunes of several
intimate friends now undoing oakum in the House of
Correction. We believe that the desertion of Mr. Cuffey
had a very serious effect upon the spirits of the deceased.
It was thought, at least that Mr. Cuffey would have
closed the eyes of Chartism, and that Mrs. Cuffey would
have laid bins out. We regret to state that it has been
otherwise. The deceased died almost wholly neglected.
It is still declared by some that he caught his death on
the 10th of April, when, against the advice of his best
friends, he would go to Kennington-common, where—it
is thought—an alarm of the scarlet fever, latent in the
neighbourhood, gave such a shock to his system, that
he sickened from that hour. Nevertheless, he made fre-
quent attempts to rally, and it is thought that had hia
friends supplied him with funds he might have lingered
on for some time. For want of a shell, his remains were
consigned to an empty money-box, with a bad shilling
nailed upon the lid, as a significant coffin-plate.—Punch.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Camden and fa-
mily have left Belgrave-square, fur the Wilderness, ueet
Sevenoaks.