The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-12 00:00:00

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STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Sept. 11.—There has been a fair amount
of business in shipping yarns to-day, at low prices. Many
buyers have operated more freely from the impression that
prices had for the present nearly touched the bottom. On
the whole, the business has been rather considerable, but
the prices taken have been very low. In home-trade yarns
prices have been rather easier than on Friday, depressed as
they were then. Very little business has been done in
them. In cloths only two or three houses have been dis-
posed .to enter the market during the last few days, and
these have operated only where they could find goods offer-
ing at very low rates. Their offers met with acceptance to
some extent, and thus a decidedly lower scale of prices has
been established. Up to this time there had been no gene-
ral disposition to accept the lower rates, and even now
manufacturers in some cases aro not willing to accept the
full decline. To-day the cloth market is very flat, the
amount of business done has been very small: and prices,
though to some extent nominal, are undoubtedly weaker.
Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report of this day's cloth-
market :—"Pricos have gradually drooped during the week,
and the business has been confined to few hands, and only
at very low prices. Though the business has been far
from general, these low prices have found sufficient ac-
ceptance to establish much lower rates. To-day we have
even less disposition to operate, and our market closes flat,
with a very limited business."
CARDIFF, 10th.—There still exists a good inquiry for
steam coal for the foreign markets ; indeed, from the
lengthened duration the demand has continued, it would
appear that Welsh obtaining steam is
the footing abroad
which has long been predicted for it. A large tonnage is
also exported for marine purposes, principally
for the mail
service stations. The closer attention proprietors have paid
to the home markets has been productive of good results;
as evidenced in the increase in the traffic from this district
to Birkenhead, and the London and Midland markets. For
house coal there is a fair demand coastwise, and freights
during the past week have slightly advanced, which has
attracted a good many coasters. In the iron trade there is
af few
good orders have been secured by some
although most of the establishments are
not of
the
employed, there is every prospect of trade
more
vewry vitality, o
wr works,
and,
becoming more brisk in tho course of a few weeks.
o market has moved a little for the better. In
generally rhaol lmy
' pig iron there is no material change to record, while the
tin-plate trade is looking more hopefully.
LEEDS, 11th.—The weather has boon very wet this
ih: nebusiness morning, and the attendance of both buyers and sellers in
otherwise would have been. The tone of the market was
one
of
quietness, cloth-halls
d n t
principal demand was for tweeds, in which a good business
the n nne'
been rather less than it
done was small. The
has for some time been doing. Good grays and dark shades
in fine and middle qualities command a ready sale. The
country manufacturers report that they are tolerably well
employed, but the orders in hand are mostly for early deli-
very. There is no change in the price of wool. The flax
trade is rather quiet, but the hands are in fair employ.
The prices of yarns and threads are about the same as last
week, and so are those of flax, but the inclination appears
rather downward.
ROCHDALE, 10th.—We cannot report any improvement
in the flannel trade this week. The manufacturers are
fairly employed, and their stocks, which are not larger
than usual at this season of the year, have been reduced a
little within the past few weeks, there having been an in-
crease in the demand for both heavy and fancy goods. There
was but a small attendance of buyers in the market to-day,
and their chief purchases were printed and fancy fabrics,
which fully maintained late rates. The Yorkshire goods
trade, which has shown a slight improvement of late, was
quiet, and but a small quantity of goods changed hands.
The price of wool 43 am.

(From thv Saturday Review.)
On the 2d of August died in London, where he
was born, 'George Osbaldeston, " the best sports-
man of any age or country." The fox-hunters of
England, who gave to Mr. Osbaldeston this title,
were at least competent to decide who was the fore-
most among themselves. his pre-eminence seems
to have been attained by the combination of know-
ledge in hunting with skill in horsemanship. He
made hunting the business of his life, and followed
it with an energy and devotion which are seldom
equalled in more serious pursuits. When he was a
master of hounds, he would ride all night in order
to be at the meet next day. Having originally the
frame of a" pocket Hercules," and being habituated
to the sportsman's labours from early years, his
power of enduring fatigue became almost incredible.
He backed himself to ride 200 miles in ten hours,
and he did the distance in less than nine hours.
He was a capital shot; in the'cricket-field he was
a first-rate performer both with bat and ball ; and
he was moderately successful on the turf. His best
racehorse was Rifleman, who was inexplicably
beaten by Saucebox for the St. Leger in 1855. But
it was in " the Shires" that he gained his fame, and
the sayings and doings of " the Squire," as Master
of the Quorn and afterwards of the Pytchley, will
be remembered as long as the love of field sports is
felt by Englishmen.
The following particulars of the life of this cele-
brated sportsman are derived from a biographical
article which appeared in Daily's Magazine of Sports
and Pastimes for March, 1861. We are indebted
to the publishers of that magazine, not only for the
facts which are stated in it, but also for the cour-
teous loan of the only copy now in their possession
of the number which contains the article. Mr.
Osbaldeston was born in 1787. His father lived
near Scarborough, and although the son was, to use
Swifts phrase, "dropped" in London, he may be
properly counted as a Yorkshireman. Losing his
father at six years of age, he went to reside with
his mother at Bath, where he took his first riding
lessons. From Bath he was removed to Eton, where
his larking disposition " brought him into frequent
collision with the authorities" in a manner which need
not be more particularly described. On leaving Eton
he was placed under the care of Dr. Carr, Vicar
of Brighton, who was afterwards elevated to the
See of Chichester, but not, we believe, in recogni-
tion of his services in enabling Mr. Osbaldeston to
matriculate. He did matriculate as a gentleman
commoner at Brasenose. The biographer mentions
that he had little to learn in the hunting-field when
he went up, but he does not mention whether he had
taken a degree when he went down. Possibly the
case of Mr. Osbaldeston resembled that of a Cam-
bridge undergraduate of more recent times, who was
heard to say, " If the examiners would only give me
something to do with my hands or my feet, I could
get through well enough," but who could not write
a correct account of the working of the common pump,
although he was able to take up a pot of beer with his
foot and drink out of it. Having quitted Oxford, Mr.
Osbaldeston devoted himself, without literary inter-
ruption, to the business of fox-hunting. That he was
well bred for his work may be inferred from an anec-
dote of his mother, who, being told that her son had
been hurt in hunting, at a time when she was
keenly interested in a Yorkshire election, answered,
" Don't talk to me about my son, he knows how
to fall well enough. How goes the poll ?" He
hunted the Burton country in Lincolnshire for five
years. Thence he went to Nottinghamshire, and he
was afterwards successively master of the Ather-
stone, the Queen, and the Pytchley. The fame of
Tom Sebright, who was first whip when he had the
Quorn, was only second to his own. " His reign
in Leicestershire has ever been regarded as the
golden age of the chase."
At the same time that he was master of the
Pytchley, he hunted the Thurlow country in Suf-
folk for two seasons, going through the fatigue of
travelling all night and meeting the hounds on al-
ternate mornings. his career as master of hounds
extended over thirty-five years. As a steeple-chase
rider he never was beaten. In the celebrated match
between Clasher and Clinker, he, being at the time
High-Sheriff of Yorkshire, rode against Dick
Christian. He was less successful as a jockey
on the flat. His riding of.. Rush at Heaton Park
involved him in a duel with Lord George Bentinck.
On the first day of the races Rush ran in
the Trial Stakes, and, says the biographer, " from
some cause or other, into which we will not inquire
too closely, he was nowhere." Although, however,
Rush ran badly on the first day, he won the Cup
on the second day ; and Lord George, who had laid
against him, applied strong language to the affair.
Hence arose a duel, which was happily terminated
without spilling of blood. It would have been in-
deed a pity if a pistol-ball had interfered with the
Squire's capacity for performing such an exploit as
his " great match at Newmarket." The wager was
a thousand even that he did not, with an unlimited
number of horses, ride 200 miles in ten hours. The
match was fixed for the Houghton Meeting in 1831,
over a course of four miles. " The Squire's prepa-
ration simply consisted of galloping 65 miles of a
morning, which generally took him about two hours
and a half, and the remainder of the day he spent in
shooting partridgesfor the relaxation of his muscles."
The adversary of Time in this match was then in
his 47th year. He used 28 horses, and did the dis-
tance in sevenhours, nineteen minutes, four seconds,
or, including stoppages, in eight hours forty-two
minutes. He was able to do full justice to a good
dinner after his performance. Another and even
more severe feat was his riding to a ball at Cam-
bridge and back between two days' hunting in
Northamptonshire, when be was master of the
Pytchley. As he was as active in a ball-room as
elsewhere, he was thus in almost incessant move-
ment for two days and a night. He was one of the
best cricketers of his day, and " introduced cricket
into Yorkshire." He has been known to kill 98
pheasants out of 100 shots. In his 75th year, al-
though he had declined out-door sports, he was
almost as good at the billiard-table as ever.
To complete the above sketch of the Squire's life
we cannot do better than transcribe from that popu-
lar book, Post and Paddock, the admirable descrip-
tion which Dick Christian dictated to " The Druid"
of the match which he rode against Mr. Osbalde-

ston :
Clinker's and Clasher's was a great match ; they
said it was 1,500 gs. a-side. They sent for me the
night before, did Capt. White and Capt. Ross, and
locked me into their room ! then they gave me their
orders ; they says, " We mean you to wait, Dick ;"
I said, " You'd better let me let the horse go along,
gentlemen, and not upset him ; he'll take a deal
more out of himself by waiting." So I got them
persuaded round. Old Driver the groom was out-
side, and he comes up to me—" What do they
shay? What do you want to wait for ?" So I told
him I was to go along, and that pleased him, it did.
We thought it was all right then. We weighed at
Dalby, the Squire and I—bless me ! I never was in
such condition—and away we trotted to Gartree
Hill. They were walking the horses about, and
Capt. Ross he says to me, " Clinker looks well."
"He looks too well, Captain," I said. Then he
lifted me up, and he tells me the orders were changed,
and I must wait. " It's giving away a certanity,,,:
says I, " and if I get a fall then I am all behind.
But it was no manner of use talking. Sir 'Vincent
Cotton and Mr. Gilmour they started us, and Mr.
Maher he was umpire. We rode twelve stone
a-piece ; I was in tartan, and the Squire, of course
he'd be in green. When we were at the post, he
says, " Now, Christian—I know what your orders
are—l do ask one thing ; don't jump on me if I
fall." I said, " I'll give you my word, Squire,' I
won't." The gentlemen they could hardly keep
with us, and some of them had two or three horses
fixed. We were 'almost touching each other over
r Sharplands, and just before the road, I says,