The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-09 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

LEEDS, Nov. Bth.—The woollen cloth trade con-
tinues steady and without any marked features of
change. There has been a moderate attendance of
buyers in the cloth halls to-day, and about an aver-
age Tuesday's business has been done. Prices are

NIANCIIMER, Bth.—There has been a very fair
business in yarns for Calcutta and China, and the
Germans have been buying with more freedom. A
fair business is reported in cop yarns for the home
trade, and fine counts of Bolton spinnings meet with
greater demand and are firmer in price. Manufac-
turers meet with more difficulty in obtaining warps
owing to the pre-engagements of spinners, and they
have in many instances had to give amonth's notice
to insure a supply for printing cloths and some other
fabrics. Buyers for the Mediterranean markets are
also doing a fair business. The aggregate business is,
therefore, considerable. An attempt was made by,
spinners to exact 'rather higher terms, but it tended
to check business where persisted in, and, with
some exceptions, the trade have met the demand at
last quotations. There is greater firmness, gene-
rally, however, and spinners being well supplied
with orders there is a very healthy tone in the
market. In cloths there is also a very decided im-
provement both as to demand and prices. India
shirtings have advanced fully 10. per piece, and
other fabrics suited to that market have advanced
in a relative proportion. A considerable, if not
extensive, business has been done in these goods
to-day for Calcutta. It is presumed that this
impulse has been given to the market by tele-
grams to hand from Calcutta to the 18th and
16th of October, which bring advices of a de-
cided improvement there both in demand and
in prices. There is some discrepancy between
the accounts to hand by telegrams from Bom-
bay ; but those to hand from one of the most
reliable houses there speak of some good sales—of
a considerable business in fact, and generally these
advices are regarded in a favourable light. Cloths
for other markets, including the home trade, are
without much change. The India advices have had
a cheering influence on the market generally, and
a fair general business is reported at steady prices.
Printers, particularly 9-Bths, are in very good de-
mand, with a tendency to improved values. We
hear, also, of looms standing in some districts from
the difficulty of getting workpeople.

LOST ON THE FELLS.—The following distress-
ing circumstance will give an idea of the fearfully incle-
ment weather that prevailed in the northern part of the
kingdom last week. On Friday evening a drover left Al-
lendale town fair, which is held in the hill district dividing
Northumberland from Cumberland, with a drove of cattle.
His course lay across the Fells, which stretch between the
two northern rivers, the Allan and the Derwent, his desti-
nation being towards the latter named stream. The night
was one of the roughest that has been known in the hill
districts for many years. The rain descended in torrents,
and the wind howled dismally over the hills which skirt
the dreary waste. It is thought that the drove on-geting
out among the Fells had broken up into parties, sorae
taking one direction and some another, and that the drover
attempted to collect them until he fell from sheer exhaus
tion. He was found on Saturday morning lying out on the
Fells quits
uitedead. Up to Saturday nighbeent the cattle had not

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TII E SUN.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1869.

The announcement of the deadly Conspiracy against
the life of the SULTAN CALIPH startled Europe a few
weeks back like a detonation audible throughout
Christendom from Constantinople. The earliest
tidings were--although as vague and brief as the
flying rumour of a telegram—so vividly suggestive
of the magnitude of the peril but just (at the last
moment of the crisis) escaped, as if by a miracle, by
his Imperial Majesty, the Commander of the Faith-
ful, ABD-UL-MEDJID, that universal attention and
curiosity were awakened almost instantaneously.
Mail by mail from the Golden Horn has been scru-
tinised since then with eager solicitude—but as yet
the Golden Horn has in this particular proved any-
thing but a cornucopeia or horn of plenty in the way
of information., Gradually, however, the true par-
ticulars of this all but dire and fatal conspiracy have
been accumulated bit by bit, and the whole depth of
the atrocity_ brought to light. But for an oppor-
tune disclosure, in common parlance, in the very
nick, the head of the reigning Sovereign of
Turkey would have fallen before the scymitar of
his dastardly foes, the leaders of this unnatural
Conspiracy. Their plot was literally all but suc-
cessful. The train was laid, the match was
lighted, it was smouldering rapidly down to the
final point of ignition. Comparatively speaking,
but one instant more, and the conspirators would
have had in their possession at once the palace, the
dead body, the sword and the sceptre of the ruler
of Constantinople. And the very Prince against
-whom this detestable project was formed, was
all the while notoriously and undeniably one of the
most enlightened and magnanimous princes that
has ever sat upon the throne of the crowned suc-
cessors of MAIIOMET. The reigning Sultan has
the reputation,-it-is true, personally of being little
better than an exhausted voluptuary. He is at
this moment, if not in the flower of his age, at any
rate, in the prime of his manhood, and upon the
very threshhold of his maturity. Born in the
winter of 1822-23, he is no more than thirty-six,
although his reign may be regarded as having been
even now—at least for- a Sultan—somewhat pro-
tracted. This, however, is simply and obviously
attributable, of course, to the circumstance of the
premature decease of 'his great father and prede-
cessor, a man of rare genius—one whose extraordi-
nary capacity in statecraft was evidence of his powers
as a resolute Reformer or Re-organiser of Govern
ment, Following in the broadly marked and colos-
sal footsteps of his great father, the young Sultan,
though endowed with scarcely one scintilla of his
sire's genius, and possessing but few if
any of the attributes of an energetic and original
individuality, has, by the maintenance of the
enlightened system inaugurated during the last
reign, and by the pursuance of the course marked
out by the last Sultan, " Won ..•folden opinions from
all sorts of men" in AV stern Europe. Insomuch
that hardly one lustre since when his dominion
was threatened with a violent dismemberment by
the legions of the Northern Autocrat, his capital
was guarded, his very frontiers were defended by
the allied forces of the two Powers foremost among
the nations, and certainly facile principes among
the Champions of Civilisation.
Repeated)!, moreover, during the reign of the
present Sultan he has given evidence of the nobility
of his disposition and temperament. He has done
so in several instances so signally that those who
appreciate him best may with reason langh to scorn
the sneers of such as affect to rank him merely with
the e„ princes and the roisfaineants of the present

epoch. None but a monarch of chivalrous sym-
pathies and truly heroic nature would have with-
stood, as the world knows ABD-UL-MEDIID did
withstand, ten years ago, at the close of
the Hungarian war of 1819, the haughty
and combined and insolent demands made
by the two great despotic Governments of Russia
and Austria, then with their legions in arms upon the
Turkish frontiers, and flushed with the recent
triumphs gained through the treachery of GORGEY
—the threatening demands, almost commands,
made by the CZAR and the KAISER for the deliver-
ing up of the fugitive Leaders of that grand, and
for the time utterly ruined cause of Magyar inde-
pendence ! Hungary, England, Europe, especially
Western Europe, will not soon forget how that band
of heroes was sheltered under the iEgis of the
despised and dreaded Turkish Sovereignty—how
the SULTAN drew his Imperial mantle as it were
over the bowed heads of KOSSUTH and his com-
patriots! Prior to this ABD-UL-MEDJID had in a
noble spirit of sympathetic pity contributed his
quota to that humane fund which was accumulated
from all quarters of the globe for the relief of the
Irish nation, stricken down simultaneously by the
fatal ravages of famine and pestilence. And subse-
quently in a spirit of generous admiration this same
high-minded ruler of the Turks presented (as a per-
sonal tribute of regard) an estate to the pure and
dauntless poet-statesman of Francs—ALPHONSE
DE LAMARTINE. A sovereign of whom such acts
are recorded can be no more sated debauchee. He
may be an epicurean in his life—his existence may
be touched by the vices of the voluptuary. But he
is something more than that—he is at heart
capable of something better than a career of mere
animal enjoyment. Turkey under his rule
may improve slowly, but—it improves. Happily
the present SULTAN has enjoyed throughout the
chief part of his reign the advantages—of a wise
councillor in the person of the late British Ambas-
sador to his Court, Viscount STRATFORD DE RED-
CLIFFE—and of a wise Minister, not long since
snatched away by sudden death in the maturity of his
ppwers,the most gifted of all the great Viziers of the
Sultan Caliph ABD-UL-MEDJID, the late REDSCHID
PACHA. Unfortunately for the Sultan, REDSCHID
PACHA is now no more—and, so far also unfortu-
nately for his Imperial Majesty, Lord STRATFORD
DE REDCLIFFE has closed at length his long and
distinguished career in diplomacy, a career princi-
pally passed as British Minister at Constantinople.
But with Lord STRATFORD'S vacated post filled up
as it is by one of the most gifted and astute diplo-
matists now in the service of the CROWN of
England—with Sir HENRY LYTTON BULWER
there at the Ottoman Porte as her BRITANNIC
MAJESTY'S ambassador with the SULTAN
startled from Isis princely apathy by the discovery
of the astounding perils, but just escaped by him-
self and hislGovernment almost by a miracle—we
may yet hope that good will come at length to
Turkey ! 'That again the flower safety may be
culled from the nettle danger. That once
more the darkest hour will be seen to have
preceded the dawn, and that with no sinis-
ter result, though, by what at first appeared
but a most evil omen Coming events have
also in this instance, according to CAMPBELL'S
felicitous fancy, cast their shadows before. Sup-
posing all which to be the happy fruits ripened
upon the hotbed of this detected conspiracy, the
first reform adventured upon by the SULTAN must
assuredly be a Financial Reform. A wholesome
system of retrenchment must replace the profligate
expenditure hitherto the bane and curse of the
Turkish rule at Constantinople.

The whole mystery of the Harper Ferry affair is
now before us. We know how it began and how it
has ended. All apprehensions of anything like an
organised servile insurrection are now at an end, and
we know that the whole business is summed up in
the semi-insanity of one Captain BROWN, as his
neighbours had termed him—a name well-known
to Americans, though hardly heard of on this side
the Atlantic.

Yet the story of this " Old BROWN, of Ossowa-
tomie," as he was often called, from the scene of one
of his victories, is a deeply interesting one, and well
worthy to be known for itself, and as an illustration
of what it was that the last two pro slavery Presi •
dents of America were supporting in Kansas.
BROWN, it appears, emigrated from the New Eng-
land States, a Puritan of the old sort, as described
by MACAULAY and CARLYLE. A man who believed
in a living GOD, who had no manner of doubt that
his most ardent desires and emotions were Divine
inspirations, and who, whether in battle with " the
thick trees on which he lift 1d up his axe," or en-
countering "the Amalekites" of the day, was quite
sure that his arm was outstretched or withdrawn,
strengthened or weakened, by the decree of the
Omnipotent.
This man took with him to Kansas his family of
six. He had not long settled there before " the
sinners "—and verily sinners they are—the slave-
holders, stirred up the much talked of Missouri
Ruffians to do their work. These brigands were to
force on the free settlers of Kansas, by tho terrors
of fire and sword, a pro-slavery Constitution ; and
we all remember how, by outrageous violence, they
succeeded, and how PIERCE and BUCHANAN made
it their grand object to curse the new territory with
their infernal demon of slavery.
In the progress of this bloody work it was that
the Border Ruffians raised up a man to avenge the
wrongs of freedom, who regarded himself as one of
-the old Judges of Israel. Under circumstances of
great atrocity, not to be paralleled on this-side of the
Atlantic except by the savageries of Austria in Italy
and Hungary, the Border Ruffians had murdered
several of BROWN'S children, and several of his neigh-
bours around him. This he regarded as his com-
mission from on High. He collects around him a
small band of Ironsides likeminded with himself,
and now it is " the Sword of the Lord and of
Gideon." He met " the enemies of Kansas and of
the Lord" in any numbers and invariably routed
them. His countrymen conferred on him the name
of " Ossowatomie" by the same right as a new title
was given to the Dukes of MALAKOFF and MAGENTA;
and though so much smaller the numbers engaged,
the merits of the Far West victories were not in-
ferior to those of this quarter of the world. Where-
ever he came the " Ruffians" fled at the very sound
of his name, and many of the worst of them were
surprised in their houses, and executed- summarily
on the trees adjacent to them. Till the war was
over his was their name of terror.
But even Kansas troubles came to some sort of
an end. Peace was enforced ; but there was no
peace for slavery and slaveholders in the mind of
" BROWN of Ossowatomie." his brain, frenzied by
the murder of his children, could know of no mercy
to the infernal institution to which they had been
offered up as victims. lle now determined to be
the plague if not the subverter of slavery.* Being
not far from the Free States, he employed himself
in aiding slaves to escape from American bondage
to British Freedom, and was chief guard of the
" underground railway" from the slave states to
Canada. He appears to have done a great deal in
this way, and no doubt vexed sorely the. heart of
many a southerner, by enabling his " property" to
become its own property, and to exult in a freedom