The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-01 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTEP., May 31.—There is but little to say
about the market either in yarns or cloths. Buyers
are evidently indisposed to operate, either for home
consumption or for shipment, until we have further
advices from America. The great struggle in Vir-
ginia is still the cause of much excitement here,and
we are waiting with intense interest the news ex-
pected by the steamer due to-morrow, and which
may arrive this evening. For shipping yarns ex-
ceedingly little business has been done, and to make
sales spinners would have to take lower prices,
though, upon the whole, prices remain pretty firm,
owing to the majority of spinners being well sup-
plied with contracts. Home trade yarns are fully
as quiet as those for export. Prices are nominally
unchanged, but buyers have displayed very little
disposition to purchase for manufacturing purposes.
In cloth the market has changed very little since
last week. It is quite as flat. Manufacturers are
asking the same prices, and are tolerably firm, re-
fusing business in some cases at lower rates, though
it is pretty certain that in most cases where buyers
have operated it has been only where easier terms
have been conceded than would have been accepted
last week. For India no business at all appears to
be offering, though the news is not so adverse as first
telegrams led 119 to believe. The market closes fiat
both for yarn and cloth.
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The failure of a cotton
spinner at Padiham has been noken of on
Change. The liabilities are stated at £40,000. Messrs.
John Slagg and Co. report of this day's nl
small, with no ',market
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There is no change to report in the
.:;acct of our
market since Tuesday last. Bob
.. sill seem diss
inclined to operate, and tb,. bus:n
of the day has
ehauBt. our last quota-
thicoenns very

LEEDS, 310.--There has been a moderate attend-
ance of buyers in the cloth-halls this morning, and
and a tolerable amount of cloth changed hands.
there is a fair, steady demand for witneys, strong
meltons, pilots, and ordinary black, all wool cloths,
and good unions. Plain grave colours and sombre
mixtures are preferred to decidedly fancy articles
for autumn and winter goods. A
small sprinkling
of light goods have met with purchasers. Prices
are very firm, and may be said to have an upward
ry.
Wools command fully last week's rates.
the flax trade is steady, both as to prices and de-
mand.
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Institution of Civil Engineers.

31) at the hall of the Institution, Great
The president's annual conversazione was held on Tues-
The attendance was a very
numerous one, and comprised some of the leading literary
&
and scientific characters of the day.
dGarAo
rnegve street, g
Westminster.
exhibition
:lishitnirbition of works of art, both ancient and modern ;
pictures, statuarY) 0., formed a
pleasing and attractive
g(aV
feature in connection with the immediate object of the con-

versazione.
noticeable, the laudable
we iteltrsordeucCed fine art designs, and classical
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Among the modern works exhibited, the artistic prodno-
tions of Messrs. Howell and James, the eminent goldsmiths
oef
offf
romßr tses gioneflit tthlie
tion.
Thus we saw a flower vase or centre piece in ormolu,
with engraved crystal cornets for bouquets of Pompeiian
designs, with pierced masks, and figures carefully modelled
esisitrrfiteiratia t were
manufactures, well deserving men-
from the antique originals, in ttie recently established
" Muses de Campana."
A black marble clock with bronze bust of Shakspere,
supported on either side b statuettes of Y Tragedy and
Comedy most artistically treated in bronze Vert d'antique,
on pedestals of Russian plate, relieved by laurel scrolls
and palm loaves, mounted in gold on the polished surface of
the marble.
The popular memotial bust of Shakspeare, by Mr. Felix
Miller of South Kensington, and companion busts of
Tragedy and Comedy, ,were particularly admired, alike for
the admirable manner in which they have been rendered
by the sculptor, as for their artistic and exquisite reproduc-
tion in bronze and terra-cotta, byMessrs.Ho well and James,
the publishers.
Au interesting novelty, and which attracted considerable
attention, was a boudoir writing table set, composed of
Stratford oak, a tree which once grew within a hundred
yards of Anne Hathaway's far-famed cottage, at Shottery,
having been purchased by Messrs. Howell and James, for
carving into inkstands, blotting books, &c.
These articles are all of appropriate Elizibethan designs,
and mounted in rich ormolu settings, which enclose cameos
in Wedgwood, of ShakesPere's heroines and subjects from
his principal plays, speoially modelled by Professor Miller.
Clocks, tazzi, vases, and other ornamental objects in
Algerian onyx marble, also formed a portion of the interest-
ing collection of articles exhibited by Messrs. Howell and
James.

TRIAL FOIL MURDER AT EDINBURGH. _The trial
of George Bryce, on the charge of murdering a young-
woman named Jane Seaton, at Radio, en the 16th of April
last, began on Monday before the High Court of Justiciary.
After the evidence for the prosecution, and part of that for
the defence—the latter being in great part intended to show
that the mind of the accused, was affected—had been
heard, the court :shortly after one o'clock adjourned till
yesterday, when the trial was resumed and the prisoner
found guilty. He was strongly recommended to mercy on
account of his low mental organisation, but was sentenced
to be executed on the 21st inst,