The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-16 00:00:00

ITALY.

Accounts from Rome of the sth state that a very
had feeling exists between the Pontifical and the
French troops, and that several serious collisions ve
occurred.

1 shock of an earthquake was felt at Massa on
,he 3i.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)
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MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The tendency apparent
in the accounts latterly received from the United
States to enlarge the estimates of the cotton crop,
has became more decided in the advices which have
' come to hand this week by the Africa. This
has increased the dulness of the Liverpool market,
and caused all classes of buyers here to hold
more markedly aloof from business than they
did before. The sales of goods have been very
inconsiderable ; and in general some concession has
been made from the late quotations. In yarns, the
home consumers have done extremely little ; as have
also the German merchants ; and both classes of
buyers have been able to supply their comparatively
trifling wants on rather lower terms than they could
have done last week, except in the better descrip-
tions of fine numbers, suitable for the Bradford
trade, the value of which is supported by the ex-
tent of contracts in the spinners' hands. There is an
inquiry for twist adapted for India, which is still
comparatively scarce. The brief and vague tele-
graphic notice of the Bombay and Calcutta markets,
received by way of Trieste, appears to be favourable
for cotton yarns and cloths, taking into account the
continued high rates of exchange. This state of the
exchanges, so favourable for our shippers to India,
promises to be sustained by the demand for eastern
produce, and the large supply of China bills at Cal-
cutta and Bombay drawn upon England.
ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—Considering that it is
the first market (a day which is kept as a general
holiday in Rochdale), we have bad a fair business
doing in pieces, with little or no change in prices.
There is little change in the demand for wool, and
last week's prices are fully maintsine 3.
MACCLESFIELD, TUESDA r.—The improved feature
noted in our last, in preparing for the coming season,
continues to the present time; and if this state of
things should last the weavers will soon all be put to
work. Manufacturers complain of buyers not giving
further advances, which must be attained ere long.
Goods are evidently wanted, though buyers will bold
back as long as they are able. They will find that
the stock of goods on hand is very light. There is
nothing new in respect to the raw and thrown silk
markets, which are very firm.
HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—We have had an ave-
rage number of buyers in town for the commence-
ment of the season, but not much business has been
done, as the manufacturers have been standing out
for an advance in prices, but which the merchants
seem not very ready to comply with. There has
been a good demand for wools during the week.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—The business in our Piece
Hall has not varied much from that of last week.
The demand for low lastings continues; and fancy
fabrics, of low quality, go off freely at a slight advance
in price. We have no alteration to report either
in yarn or wool, in both of which there is a steady
trade, with the quotations very firm.
LEEDS, TUESDAY.—Without having bad a very
brisk market to-day, still a fair business has been
done; prices are looking up a little, and a steady
business continues to be done in the warehouses.

EFFORTS IN SEARCH OF DESPAIR
His cousin was drowned by the upsetting of a
pleasure boat. At such a calamity it was reasonable
to despair—to refuse comfort—to leave his hair un-
combed—to look constantly on the ground—to lose
all appetite—to write flowing verse. Mr. Black-
brook entered upon his vocation with a full sense of its
heroism. At least one hundred lines would be expected
from him on so tremendous an occasion. The catas•
trophe was so poetical I The sea-weed might have been
represented entangled in the golden tresses of the poor
girl, had the accident happened only a little nearer
the Nore ; and the print of her fair form might have
been faintly traced upon " the ribbed sea- sand."
This was unfortunate. In reality the " melancholy
occurrence" took place at Richmond. Mr. Black-
brook began by calling upon the willows of Richmond
and its immediate vicinity to dip their tender branches
in the stream in token of their grief. Mr. Black-
brook felicitously remembering that Pope once lived not
I far from Richmond, next invoked that poet's shade,
and begged the loan of his melodious rhythm. But
the shade in question not answering to the summons,
all that remained for the sorrowing poet to do was to
take down his dictionary of rhymes, and tune his
own lyre to its most mournful cadences. He set to
work. He called the Thames a treacherous stream ;
he christened the wherry a barque ; he declared
that when the pleasure party embarked at Rich-
mond-bridge,
Death, the lean fellow, was stand-
ing upon the beach with his weapon upraised.
Asterisks described the death ; and some of his
friends declared this passage the best in the poem.
He then went on to inform his readers that all was
over; but by this expression the reader must not
infer that the dirge was brought to a conclusion. By
no means. Mr. Blackbrook had made up bis mind
that his state of despair required at least one hundred
lines to give it adequate expression. He had devoted
twenty to the death of afly—surely, then, a female cousin
deserved one hundred. This logical reflexion spurred
him on. He pulled down the blinds, and in a gloom
that suited well with his forlorn stags of mind, he be-
gan a picture of his condition. With the aid of his
dictionary, having asserted that the shroud enwrapped
a cousin's form, he reflected that he envied the place of
the winding-sheet, and was jealous of the worms. He
felt th it be was warming into his subject. He
tried
to think of the condition in which the remains of his
relative would speedily be; and having carefully re-
ferred to an eminent medical work, as to the length of
time which the human body requires to resolve itself
into its original earth, (for he was precise in his state-
ments), he proceeded to describe, with heart-rending
faithfulness, the various stages of this inevitable decay.
That was true poetry. He declared that the worm
would crawl upon those lips that the lover bad fondly
presied, and that the band which once touched the harp
so magically was now motionless for ever. Having
brought this tragic description to a conclusion, be