The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-17 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE,

MANCHESTER, Aug. 16.—There has been a little more
activity in the market for shipping yarns to-day, and we
have had a general business doing for all markets except
those of India. In some few cases an advance of id. per lb.
has been paid on Friday's pricea., This branch of the mar-
ket was strong at the close, with a tendency to advance.
In home-trade yarns we have also had a veryetrong market.
Prices era pretty much the same as they were before the
late depression. Fine numbers still maintain their position,
the only signs of weakness being confined to yarns made
from the commoner qualities of Surat cotton. Only a
moderate amount of business is repotted, and in the absence
of any activity in the cloth market manufacturers are not
disposed to anticipate their wants. There is a more cheerful
feeling in the cloth market. There has been a pretty general
inquiry after goods, and buyers seem to have turned their
attention a good deal more than they have for somo weeks
past to the actual testing of prices, and though few offers
have been made and but little business has resulted manu-
facturers hold very firmly to their quotations. The only
cases in which any weakness has been manifested
has been where stocks had begun to accumulate
inconveniently. In such instances there have not been
transactions at lower prices, so far as we can hear, but there
can be little doubt, if purchasers were actually to present
themselves, offers at rather lower rates would be accepted.
Shirtings and printers of good quality still command rela-
tively the best prices; while longcloths, T-cloths, and do-
mestics, not meeting with a demand at all proportioned to
the present much-increasing supply, are rather weaker.
LEEDS, 16th.—There has been a moderate attendance of
buyers and sellers in the cloth-halls this morning, and the
tone of the market, though rather quiet, was satisfacto►y.
Winter goods, with autumn fabrics, have been purchased
to a fair extent by the home houses, but the demand for
exportation is rather slack. In good plain blacks and unions
there is a fair business doing. The manufacturers are well
employed throughout the district. Wool is firmly held at
last week's quotations.
NOTTINGHAM, 16th.—The attendance at this Exchange-
hall to-day was about as usual, but there was a very dull
demand for lace yams at prices similar to those of last week.
The inquiry for hosiery yarns was also inactive, at little or
no alteration in prices. Silks are realising very high prices.
In brown nets there was very little doing, owing to the ex-
treme dearness of the raw material.

ROCHDALE, 15th.—In all respects the flannel trade keeps
brisk and prices rise. The attendance of buyers was not
large, to-day, but sufficient for the supply, which keeps
small, ewing to the continuance of orders direct to the
manufacturers. Both plain and fancy goods sell well, and
there is an increase in the demand for the thicker kinds. In
Yorkshire good kerseys, plaids, linseys, and scourers are
all in fair request at fully late prices.

A RAILWAY POLICEMAN CHARGED WITH FELONY.
—At the Truro Police-Court on Thursday, before
the Mayor (Mr T. Truran), Mr W. T. Chappel, and Mr S
Pascoe, Frederick John Julian, a single man, aged 26 years
was charged with stealing on the 19th December last,
from the Truro station of the Cornwall and West Corn-
wall railways, a leather cash bag, containing an account-
book, a cash-sheet, and £ll Gs 4d in cash, the pro-
perty of the West Cornwall Railway Company. The money
had been taken for passengers on the West Cornwall
line, and on the morning of Saturda7, the 19. h of
December, it was placed in the bag, with the account-
book and cash-sheet, by Mr Morcom, the then booking-
clerk. Mr Morcom locked the bag, and put it, as usual,
in an open trough inside the ticket compartment of the
booking-office, to await transit by the next dawn train.
Mr Morcom having occasion to speak to Mr Watkin,
the station master, left the office for that purpose, and on
his return, the platform policeman, whose duty it was to
take the cash bag to the guard of the West Cornwall, asked
him for it. Mr Morcom told him it was in the usual place,
and they both went to look for it, but it was not in the
place referred to. Notwithstanding repeated inquiries, no
tidings were obtained of it until Wednesday, the 3d of
August, end that under the following circumstances
Julian was a policeman on the Cornwall line, having
charge of the points and switches at the Trnro station ; and
he lodged with a Mr Giessen. the keeper of a refreshment
house on Richmond-hill. About six. or
.seven weeks ago
he committed a blunderein turning the points, the cenee-
quence of which was that one train was driven against
another, and a serisus accident well nigh occurred. For
this he was dismissed the company's service, and he went
to Exeter, Mr Gleason detaining his box and its contents
as security for payment of lodging. Julian sent two or
three letters entreating Glassen to let him have the box,
and on one occasion stating that it contained £2O worth of
property, and a bank-book, and he promised that on receiv-
ing the box he would pay the bill for lodgings. Glassen de-
clined, but sent to Julian informing him that if he would
send the key he might have out of the box any article he
wanted. On Wednesday, the 3d inst., Julian sent the key
by Dail, one of the guards on the South Devon and Corn-
wall lines, end Duff, on arriving at Truro, gav,t the
key to Bate, a porter at the station, desiring him to de-
liver it to Glasson, and to get the articles wanted for the
oat up-train. Bate took the key to Glasson, and asked
for t'lle required articles ; but Glasson said be had heard so
much abuut the valuable coatelits of the box that he would
not open it except in the presence of a witness. Bate ac-
cordingly witnessed the opening of the box by Glasson, and
in it they found the cashbag and acceantboak which had
been stolen from the booking-office in December. '1 he
bag was still locked, but the bottom had been cut open,
and the money was gone. There *as in the box no bank-
book--no other book, in fact, than the company's cashbook.
On this discovery a warrant was obtained and placed in the
hands of Police-sergeant Rugg, of the Truro borough police,
who searched the box and took possession of the cashbag
and book. On Monday last ho proceeded to Exeter by
midday train, and in the afternoon of the same day appre-
hended Julien, and next morning brought him to Truro.
the next Cornwall Quarter Szesione.
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