The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-11 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, April 10.—The market continues ac-
tive. The business of the last and preceding week had
so far cleared off stocks as to enable manufacturers, to
some extent, to increase their prides ; and the continued
advance of cotton has brought buyers more freely into
the market this morning. For clothe suitable to. India
and China buyers have been willing to operate rather ex.
tensively, and, where manufacturers have consented to
take last week's prices, they have secured some fair con-
tracts. A desire to get a rise more commensurate with .
the advance •in the raw material, however, has been
the rule, and where, pressed too far has hindered busi•i
nese. Some leading houses report a very fair amount of
operations at a trifling advance, but generally the firer
ness of sellers is said to have checked sales. This /10°i
equals3me
wtoeethkee
foinr:_,
..
to most fabrics except longcloths and T-cloths, which are
dull of sale and unchanged in value. In yams there
has been a very, geod business, especially for !cater'
twist and mule up to 40's ; and in many ees°9.BPutnere
have obtained a further advaynacrensfsd'ic
cloths,
is
for
advanced prices are not held to
for
re
creased value of cotton, but SPinljes
accepted engagements at them, and
~ most of the' prin.:
have very freely ,
cipal producers are under coo
ward. .The chief business ir`
India and China, but borne Messrs.and Continental .buyers
John Slagg and
have operated modeste.lY•
Co. report as follariti'tloe- ithe cloth market. this rne
our market this Theo imniowoevbeamn
egne t to
noted noticei n i
ourn
last eontinu4s, and a large business has .been done. in .
I nearlyrtti kinds of India goods. To-day manufacturers •
ling : 'There 'is little
, de not seem disposed' to sell further at last week's rates,
but buyers will not concede any advance, and there is
consequently less doing. For printing cloths and long.
cloths there is a steady demand and no change in prices.
T-cloths are flat, atel prices very irregular."
LEEDS, April 10.—The woollen cloth markets tollay
have been rather flit, and the business done has been be-
low an average. The cold bleak weather by which the
present Easter is characterised tends to check the sale
of goods suitable for a warmer period of the year, and
retail traders and tailors are far from being as busy as
usual at this season of the year. Still there is a. little
creeping up in the woollen trade, and more emplo:iment
is enjoyed by .the operatives than was the case a few
weeks ago. Prices continue steady.

LANtASTER GUNS, &C., FOR THE CRILIE.4.---Yesterday
a large number of extra labourers, and fistigue-psrties
from the Royal Artillery and the Tower Garrison, in
addition to the regular Ordnance workmen, were moat
busily engaged during the day in shipping Lancaster and
other guns of large calibre, shot and shells of various
sizes, portable mangers, bay-rack% picket-posts, and
nose-bags for cavalry, accoutrements for all arms of the
service. and Commissariat stores, consisting of blanketa
in bales of. 25 each, • abeetB, and bedding. The above
will, in the first instance, be conveyed to Woolwicb,
where they will be trazuhippecl to vocals proceeding" to
the Oriao!

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