The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-02 00:00:00

State of Trade.

MANCHESTER, April I.—ln shipping yarns the
amount of business done to-day has been very small,
but prices are tolerably firm, with but little disposi-
tion to give way on the part of sellers. We have
heard of some few transactions in Bolton yarns at
extreme prices, but generally the market for home
trade yarns, though steady, is quiet. In this de-
scription of spinnings prices are pretty much the
same as on Tuesday, and the business going on is
pretty much of a retail character. Manufacturers
appear to be buying only to suppy immediate
wants. In the cloth market there was some inquiry
for shirtings, which led to business yesterday. To-
day we have still some inquiry for shirtings and
other descriptions of cloth, and it has given a rather
more cheerful tone to the market. The goods in-
quired for are chiefly fabrics suitable to the India
and China trade, but to the time of writing but few
orders had resulted from this inquiry to-day. The
offers which have been made have been low, and
generally under the prices which manufacturers
would be inclined to accept. Where business has
been done it has been effected only at low rates.
There has been scme inquiry for printing cloths,
and the better descriptions are rather firm in price.
CARDIFF, March 31.—The steam coal merchants

are fall of orders, and an excellent trade would be
done had it not been for the difficulty in getting
sufficient coal down from the collieries. The
men still persist in working less than usual pfx
day, and hence the difficulty in obtaining a sup-
ply. The masters have decided to be guided as
regards a farther advance in wages by the course
that will be adopted at the iron works. Coke is in
goud request, and quotations well maintained. The
ironmasters are upon the whole fairly off for orders,
and it is expected that the present list rates will be
confirmed at the quarterly meeting. A large
amount of activity is evinced at the shipbuilding
yards.
LEEDS, April I.—The following is the trade report
of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce for the month
of March :—" The business dons in the woollen
cloth warehouses during the past month has not
been on a very large scale, the unfavourable weather
having to some extent prevented buyers from operat-
ing freely. A fair business has, notwithstanding
been done. In the halls there has been a very fair
demand, and the manufacturers generally fully
employed. The state of political affairs in the
north of Europe has caused the regular demand
for those markets to be very small, bat coneiderable
quantities of army clothing have been sent, and
a fair amount of goods has been taken for ship.
ment to other parts. The first series of sales
of colonial wool in London for the year com-
menced on the 3d and closed on the 231 Previous
prices were fully supported, and an upward ten-
dency upon combing and sound stapled wools,
which were in request both for home consumption
and for export. The small portion of the new clip
that arrived in time for these sales was in very
good condition. The total quantity sold was
53,900 bales. Daring and since the sales consump-
tion has been going on very steadily, but without
any unusual briskness. The demand for all descrip-
tions of flax has been very dull, and the business
done is merely for immediate wants. Prices are
somewhat lower, with a downward tendency.
Fine tows' have been in pretty fair demand, end
prices have been better maintained. Common
sorts have been quite neglected, and have receded
in price. Hemps have been very dull of sale,
and prices are also lower. The spinners continue
to be very busy, especially in tow yarns, and there
is a good consumptive demand, but a total absence
of speculation. Prices remain very firm. Threads
are in good demand. The manufacturers of iron
for railwaya demand purposes are exceedingly well employed,
the
being very great, arising from the
de
present enormous traffic on the railways.
NoTTlNGetass, lst.—There was a moderate atten-
dance at this Exchange-hall to-day, and business
in lace yarns ruled firm, at about the rates of last
week. For hosiery yarns the inquiry was limited,
and previous rates were generally made. Silks un-
altered. There was not much passing in beown
nets, and prices were nominally unchanged.

The Perseveranza of Milan states that ths Italian
authorities have just sent to the French police at
Rome the photographic portrait of five persons arrested at
Perugia and Rieti, in whose possession a BIM of 5,000
scudi (26,500 fr.) was found. One of the men is known to
have been employed for some time on the Roman railway,
and it is supposed that they were concerned in the recent
robbery of 32,000 scudi from the offices of the company at
Rome. _

AA/ LIU 4.
FIRST CATCH YOUR HARE, SAYS Mits. GLASSE.
—The Court of Assizes of the Seine, has condemned Mazzini
par contumace fur alleged participation in Greco's plot to
assassinate tho Emperor Napoleon, and has sentenced him
to transportation.
A DRAMA BY VICTOR lIITGO is spoken of as
forthcoming.
THE " GHOST" IN THE ASSIZE COURTS.—At the
Liverpool Assizes on Mealy, Mr. Davis, lessee
of the Newcastle Theatre, brought an action against the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company for the des-
etructicn of a large sheet of glass and other property, by
which he had sustained great loss, as the glass and other
articles were required for the effective production of the
" Ghost" at his theatre. He had been obliged to substitute
an inferior Fleet cf glass, and to delay his "Ghost" piece,
so that a rival exhibition had tali-en the wind completely
out of his sails. The jury thought that £3O, which the de
fendants had paid into court, was amply sufficient, as the
company could not be expected to pay for vaguely prohabl9
profits which Mr. Davis in ght or not have realised.