The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-29 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

(Front the Manchester Guardian of this day. )
MANCHESTER, Sept. 28.—Our reports have latterly
exhibited a progressively increasing dullness of trade,
which has now attained a point at which the great
body of buyers suspend all operations that are not impe-
rative. This we might naturally expect to be the case
with prudent men, under monetary circumstances which
have compelled the Bank of England to advance the
rate of interest three times in the course of four weeks.
In the present week the buyers have had an advantagelof
most things as compared with last week : but that ad-
vantage is hardly a quotable one. As values are not
subjected just now to anything like a test, the safest
way is to avoid details and to deal only in general state-
ments. Since this decline commenced, yarns may be
broadly stated to have lost fully id. per lb. on an ave-
rage of the middle and lower counts ; while in goods,
the giving way is scarcely so much as that, but may be
represented by lid. to 3d. per piece upon shirtings and
madapollarnu.
BRADFORD, Sept. 27.—W001: The market is now
well supplied with all combing wools, and for which the
rates of the past two or three weeks are steadily main-
tained. Yarns : The contracts for the coming month
cannot be made on easier terms than fur the one near
ending. The demand for spools continues equal to the
production. In reeled yarns there is more doing,
with no stocks on hand. Pieces : There is a satis-
factory amount of business doing in the warehouses, and
in grey goods. The supply is not greater than the de-
mand, but there is great complaining about prices.
LEICESTER, Sept. 27.—Having been holidsy time there
is nothing fresh to remark upon, except that the cessa-
tion of Government orders has produced a stoppage of
some machinery, and a flattening in the demand for
worsted and lamb's-wool yarns. Wools retain their
value, but are not so much sought after.

MARKJ!T NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

COVENT GARDEN.

We were heavily supplied with fruit and vegetables.
The trade ruled steady, at full prices.
FRUIT.—Pine apples, English, 3s to Gs per lb; colonial
do., is to 3s each ; hot-house grapes, is 6d to 4s Oil per lb ;
foreign ditto, Od to Os Od ; melons, is Od to 5s each;
peaches, is Od to Gs ; nectarines, is Od to 4s per dozen ;
apples, is Od to 3s Od per half sieve ; pears, is Oil to
3s per half sieve; Orleans plums and green gages is to 2s
per punnet ; apricots, 6d to 2s Od per doz. ; common plums,
2s 0 i to 4s per half sieve ; cherries, 2d to Gd per pound;
lemons, 4s to Sc Od per 100 ; oranges, 8s to lls per 100; fil-
berts, 5s to Gs per doz. lbs ; cobnuts, Os to Os ; almonds,
Os to Os per lb. ; walnuts, Gd to 10d per 100; figs, is Cd
to 4s Od per doz. ; strawberries, Od to Od per pottle ; goose-
berries, is Gd to 2s Od per half sieve ; currants, 3s Od to
4s Od per half soive ; raspberries, 2d to Gd per pottle.
VEGETABLE.—White cabbages, 6d to is 3d per dozen;
red ditto, 2s to fis Od per dozen ; French beans, is 3,1
to is 10d per half sieve ; brocoli, Od per bund. ; potatoes, 505
to 95s per ton ; vegetable marrow, 4d to is per doz. ; peas,
3s to 5s Od per bushel ; broad beans, is Odto is 9d per half
sieve ; turnips, 2d to 4d per bunch ; carrots, 4d to Gd per
bunch ; cucumbers, Os ld to Os 6d. each ; garlic, 6d to
Os Bcl per pcund ; spinach, is Od to 2s Od per sieve;
old onions, Os to Os per bushel ; now ditto, 2s 6d to 4s
per doz. bunches; leeks, 2d to 3d per bunch ; shallots,
4d to 6d ; horse-raddish, 2s Od to 4s Od per bundle ; parsley,
2d to 3d per bunch ; celery, Os 9d to is 3d per
bunch ; endive, is 3d to 2s 3d per score ; beet, is Od to 2s
per doz. ; parsnips, Os Gd to is Od per dozen ; small
salad, 2d to 3d per punnet ; mushrooms, is 6d to 2s Gd per
pottle ; artichokes, 4s to 6s per doz. ; cabbage lettuces,
10d to is Gd per score ; sorrel, Gd to is per half sieve ;
radishes, is to is 3cl per dozen hands ; tomatoes, is to 2s
Od per punnet ; chillies, is to is Gd per 100; Brussels
sprouts, is Od to 2s Od per half sieve ; capsicums, is to 2s
per dozen; walnuts pickling, Gd to is per 100; cauliflowers,
3s b Gs per doz.
NEW-GATE AND LEADENHAIL.

Tarkeys, Os Od to Os 0d; Geese, 5s 6d to 103 Oil each
Ducks, 2s 6d to 2s Od ; tame Rabbits, Os Od to N Od;
wild do., is to is 6d each ; Pigeons, 6el to 8d each ;
large Surrey Fowls, Os Od to Os Od ; middling, 2s Od to
3s -01 ; Chickens, is Od to 2s 3d ; Capons, 3s 6d
to 4s 6d ; Hares 3s Od. to 4s 0(1 ; Grouse, 2s Od to 2s 3d each ;
Guinea Fowls, 2s Gd to 3s Od each. Ostend fresh butter, lie
6d to 12s Gd, and English lls 6d to 14s Gd per dozen lbs.
English Eggs, 8s Od to Os Od ; French ditto, 5s Oil to 7s Oil
per 120.