The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-05 00:00:00

THE WOOLLEN TRADE.

(From the Leeds Mercury of Saturday.)
LEEDS.—Our markets at the cloth halls have been but
thinly supplied with goods, more particularly of heavy descrip-
tions calculated for the winter trade, from which circumstance
alone much less business was done than for some tine; many
manufacturers are engaged in 'delivering goods to order, and
en the whole there is quite as much buSiness doing as usual at
this season, at au advance in price upon the lower description
of goods. There has also been rather a brisk demand in -the
warehouses.
BaADroan.—We have had a brisk piece-market to-day.
The activity lies principally among middle qualities, and As the
demand exceeds the supply, manufacturers are able to get a
light demand in price upon those descriptions. In other
kinds of goods business is steady. There is a fair demand for
yarn to-day ; and upon those sorts most in request a little ad-
vance 4: raked. Short wool continues brisk, and long wool
dull, with stationary prices.
HALIF AL—The transactions in yarns to-day have been much
more extensive than they were last Saturday, and the orders
given for future supplies have likewise been considerably mere
liberal than for many weeks past. Former prices for twist
have been freely offered. The demand for short wools to-day
has been again brisk ; much business has been done in them;
and for downrights and able prices have been about ss.
per pack higher. The long wool trade still continues languid.
For hogs generally the demand to-day has been fully better
than it was last week. Prices at present are stationary, with-
out any appearance of immediate improvement. In wether
fleeces there has been no alteration from last week in either
the price or demand ; but wether sorts have been in greater
requests, and are found to be rather scarce. In the piece-hall
there has been more business done to-day than there was on
the week preceding,: and for lasting crapes there has been a
very active demand, and for them higher prices have in numer-
ous instances been obtained.
WAKEFIELD.—We continue to have an active demand for
blanket wool to en unusually late period, and all other descrip-
tions of carding and the higher qualities of combing wool are
in steady demand at stationary prices. With regard to the
ordinary run of combing wool, notwithstanding that all bands
are employed, and the mills. running to the full extent of the
time allowed by law, and no accumulating stocks—the trade
for this article continues heavy, and prices barely maintained.
Rocuoal.E.—The flannel market was not as brisk this week
as last ; fine-goods were not much inquired after, and the de-
mand was principally in low and middle qualities ; grays 'and
dyed goods were in pretty good request, and last week's prices
were fully maintained. The wool market is very dead.

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The I,viscacres of Peckham and Camberwell have
given ❑p lighting their district with gas, and have substi-
tuted naphtha ; the result is that they have produced a sort
of "darkness visible," and the inhabitants will be driven into
a rebellion against paying the rates,.

SPI ia OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

In the John Bull, the favourite organ of the Tories,
xhe following paragraph appears :
" The newspapers aro full of the accounts of the recep-
tion of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and the
Princess Victoria at Ramsgate. In times like these, when
the Ministry itself is leagued with tlle disturbers of the
public peace, it is mast gratifying to witness the inherent
loyalty of the people of England manifesting itself in just
and Constitutior.al tributes of duty and affection towards
the Royal 'Family. Nothing can exceed the warmth,
amountitn, to enthusiasm, with which the Royal Duchess
and hear illustrious and interesting daughter have. bees
welcomed to every place which they have visited during the
ate.umn."

Colonel Fairman and 'his Orange brethren would
have ordered matters differently ; and the John Bull
must be conscious that the party it so faithfully repre-
sents is not the warmeFl in attachment to the Duchess
of Kent and the Pr;,.ncess Victoria. The excellent edu-
cation of the Princess, under the judicious direction of
the Duchess of Kent, has, indeed, inspired the best
hopes ; but these hopes are the hopes of the people, and
have never, yet been discovered to be the hopes of the
Carlton Club or the Apsley-house coterie. It is evi-
dent to, the public that liberality, in the largest and
best 'sense of the word, has been the principle of the
young Princess's education. Kensington palace has
been no Orange Lodge, and all party distinctions have
been cancelled in its circles. The people have watched
w:,th deep interest the signs of an enlightened educa-
tion, adapted to the genius of the age and the high
destinies of the Princess, and the sentiment of loyalty
which is never wanting in them, has been strengthened
by a sense of the worth of its object. The John Bull
frankly admits the warmth of affection, amounting to
enthusiasm, with which the Duchess of Kent and the
Princess Victoria have been everywhere received ; and
our contemporary has to observe that the portion of the
people which he is in the habit of villifying as revo-
lutionary and republican, or anarchical, has contri-
buted most largely to the manifestations of attachment
which he records. This has not been the tribute
of respect which would be -paid to any Prince, or
Princess—it is not the mere formal homage to the
station—it is the tribute to the best promise of worth
in connection with the station that may one day give
the widest scope to the exercise of the virtues. And
here we may, in the words of Cowper, remind the
John Bull of the difference between the loyalty of its
party and the loyalty of an intelligent and manly people:
" Mark now the difference, ye that boast your love
Of Kings, between your loyalty and ours
We love the man—the paltry pageant you;
We the chief patron of the "Commonwealth—
You. the regardless author of its woes ;
.We;, for the sake of Liberty, a King—
You, chains and bondage, for a Tyrant's sake ;
Our love is principle, and has its root
in reason, is judicious, manly, free—
Yours, a blind instinct, crouches to the rod,
And licks the foot that treads it in the dust.
Were kingship as true treasure as it seems,
Stirling, and worthy of a wise man's wish,
I would not be a King to be beloved
Causeless, and daubed with undeserving praise,
Where love Is mere attachment to the throne,
Not to the man who fills it as he ought."
The Tories, however, preach what they do not prac-
tice, iii inculcating the respect for station. Their gross
abuse of the King when Duke of Clarence, and upon
his accession to the throne, must be in the memory of
thousands. To bring his Majesty's character into ri-
dicule and contempt, they invented and circulated the
most coarse and indecent stories of his manners and
conversation. If there are any who doubt this fact,
let them remember the malicious triumph which the
same party publicly manifested when the Duke of Cla-
rence was removed from the Admiralty by the Duke of
Wellington ; the dark reasons hinted .at in justification
of that step. and the recent discovery of the view that was
taken of it by the Orange schemer, Colonel Fainnan.
But we need not go so far back for an instance
of the hollowness of Tory loyalty—almost their
only boast--.--their loyalty is an empty boast. The
John Bull, which now lies before us, gives a striking
.example in point. It sets out by admiring the inhe-
rent loyalty of the people of England, as manifested
iu just and constitutional tributes of duty and affec-
tion towards the Loyal Family, and then, in the very
same page, it illustrates the sincerity of its doctrine
by a most foul libel on the Duke.of Sussex. In the
letter of his" Royal Highness to the Under-Sheriffs
for London and Middlesex—the letter in which he
congratulates Mr. Salomons on his election, and re-
joices in the decline of prejudice, of which it is evi-
dence—in this letter, so consistent with all the honours
of the illustrious writer, this passage is fastened on
by the John Bull, and we reprint it as it is-printed by
our Contemporary :

" Gentlemen—For wise purposes, as they no doubt ima-
gined, and under the extraordinary circumstances of that
period, they might possibly have been justified in what they
did, the Statemen of the seventeenth century enacted sundry
penal laws, and laid severe restrictions upon the liberty of
conscience in this country. But was it to be supposed that
a Statute of Disabilities should remain in force, when the
necessity which had occasioned its enactment no longer ex-
isted .9 Such, however, unhappily was the case, and men,•
•I grieve to say, were found, who, in defiance of that more
generous spirit of liberal and improved thinking which was
and is diffusing itself around, has power sufficient to main-
tain the narrow view, and to continue the ancient prejudices
of times long past and gone. Happily for us, Gentlemen,
«•e have lived to see the extinction of most of these anti-
social, and, I may truly add, anti-Christian notions—their
extinction, I mean, as far as can affect the government of
this great country."

The comment upon this text, and misrepresentation
of its purport, is a remarkable example indeed of the
hardihood of Tory falsehood. It will be seen that.the
inherent loyalty of this faithful representative of the
Tories does not forbid him to libel the King's brother
most foully.
" his Royal Highness is pleased to say that the necessity
of upholding Christianity no longer exists. His Royal
Highness is pleased to consider Christianity as an ancient
prejudice of limes long past and gone;' and a belief in the
Saviour his Royal Highness is pleased to stigmatize as a
narrow view.' We assume all this because his Royal
Highness's well-known literary power is exerted in display-
ing the advantages, wisdom, and enlightenment exhibited to
our common country' by the election of a disbeliever to a
high and responsible civic office. His Royal Highness
—who, as it appears to us, is all the way through his letter
laughing at the Sheriff and his subordinate—fdr, as every
body knows, his Royal Highness is a wag—adds to the
congratulations which he is graciously pleased to offer Mr.
Charles Pearson on the spread of liberal opinions, and
the triumphant success of the certain by-laws' of the Cor-
poration which have secured the election of a Jew, this—
' Happily for us, we have lived to see ,the extinction of
most of these anti-social, and I may truly add, anti-
Christian notions.' "

" His Royal Highness is pleased to say that the
necessity of upholding Christianity no longer exists."
Impudent falsehood ! His Royal Highness ivas
pleased to say that the necessity which had occasioned
the enactment of the disabilities no longer existed.
" His Royal Highness is pleased to consider Chris-
tianity as an ancient prejudice' of times long past
and gone." Compare this foul calumny with the words
which clearly indicate that the " ancient prejudice"
mentioned is the ancient prejudice against the Jews.
" A belief in his Saviour" (proceeds the slanderer)
" his Royal Highness is pleased to stigmatize as a
narrow view.' " The " narrow view" which his Royal
Highness condemned, was the narrow view upon
which the disabilities have been maintained. There
has been, there could be, no mistake about these
passages ; but it mattered not to the writer or
to his Tory patrons how truth was outraged
so that the most villanious calumny could be exercised,
if only for an instant, upon a Prince who has been the
friend and champion of every good cause. The
John Bull boasts its loyalty. We challenge it to
answer this question—Whether there is a man
within the protection of the laws of England whom it
would have ventured to libel as it had libelled the
Duke of Sussex in the above atrocious farrago of
falsehood ? The slanderer while he assails the Duke's
high character, knows that the very loftiness of that cha-
racter enables him to do so with impunity. And
this is the organ of the Tories, who affects such grati-
fication at witnessing " the inherent loyalty of
the people" manifested in tributes of duty towards
the Royal Family. Out on the hypocricy I Supposing
for A moment that the representation we have quoted
could obtain belief, Prince exalted as the object of it
is, he would be driven from society ; and the only
shameful apology which the journalists can make for
having published it, is, that it was a manifest lie, and
that the truth and the falsehood stood side by side, so
that none could be deceived. What, then, was the