The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-24 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)
MANCHESTER, NOV. 23. ItlB stated, by some parties,
that the flatness which pervaded our market on Tuesday
has undergone some slight alleviation since then. A
renewed tightness in the money market had caused an
apprehension that a further advance in the rate of dis-
count would ensue ; and the removal of that apprehen-
sion on Thursday may seem to have had a partially
favourable effect. The sellers of goods for India and
China are, we believe, receiving more offers than they
were ; but those offers are not at improved prices ; the
merchants still look for concessions from producers, and
as the latter are rendered firm by the degree in hich
they are under contract, comparatively little business is
effected. We have here indicated the extent to which
any appearance of increased steadiness can be traced.
In regard to 16's and 30's pincops, something of the
kind was observable on Tuesday, as a consequence of a
diminution in the supply which has taken place in this
city. In other things there is no abatement of dulness,
nor any turn in the adverse bias of prices.
LEICESTER, Nov. 22.—The weather lately has been
in favour of the country demand, and there has been
some shipping business done, so that an average amount
of goods for the season is cleared off, the fancy branch
still being in a healthy state. The glove branch con-
tinues sluggish. Worsted spinners produce cautiously,
and prices are firm at the late reduction.

WOOLLEN TRADE.

(From the Leeds Mercury of this day.)

LEEDS, Nov. 23.—There has been rather more inquiry
for combing wool this week to replenish the stocks of
the manufacturers, and last week's prices are fully main-
tained.
BRADFORD, Nov. 22.—There was a very fair demand
for combing descriptions of wool at our market to-day,
and the finer qualities fully maintained the firmness
in prices
_manifested last week, in consequence of the
spirited manner in which the colonial wool sales have
proceeded. Thcre was not much doing in short and in
ferior wools, and as there is a good supplY
of those de-
scriptions, the prices were in favour of the purchaser.
HALIFAX.—The long wool trade has hardly shown the
activity which marked last week's operations; still there
are fair sales going on, and prices, so to speak, more
than firm. Short wools, we may remark, are rather
depressed.

THE CORN IN THE SEA OF AZOFF.—A letter in the
Austrian a;rrespondance, dated Nov. 8, says :—" The
vessels of the house of Goprevich have arrived in the Sea
of Azoff, but as there is no quarantine establishment in
the ports of that sea they cannot communicate with the
shore. The Governor-General, Count Stroganoff, would
not let them touch without first referring the matter to
St. Petersburg, nor will he send for quarantine officials
from Odessa. The Russian functionaries in the Sea of
Azoff have been slow to listen to the complaints of the
hduse of Goprevich, that they have even declined to re-
ceive a communication addressed to the Governer, and
conveyed by M. Goprevich personally. The permission
granted to this house, to load with corn, is therefore
completely illusory, and their ships will perhaps be com-
pelled to winter in the Sea of Azoff.
THE PARIS EXHIBITION.—The Moniteur publishes the
following notice :—" Artist exhibitors are requested. to
remove their works from the Fine Arts Exhibition,
Avenue Montaigne, from and after the Ist December,
between the hours of 9 and 4, As the demolition of the
building will commence on the 15th, the administration
cannot be responsible for any damage which may happen
to works which si!riil not have been removed at that
period. They will only be delivered on the production
of the receipt which was given for them at the time of
their being deposited at the Exhibition buildiog.'!