The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-03 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE,

MANCHESTFR. Aug. 2.—To some extent it appears
the quietness recently prevalent in this market has
been caused by en impression that the reported
peace negotiations in America were not only well
founded, but might lead to some settlement. The
advises to hand this morning by the Peruvian have
sufficiently negatived such impression, and sellers
breathe more freely again. The market for shipping
yarns has assumed a more cheerful aspect under the
circumstances, and some considerable orders have
been given out in yarns for Russia and for better
class of yarns in bundle, at the highest, point of the
market ; and as indication of more confidence among
buyers,it may be mentioned that merchants have not
been unwilling to give considerable time for the
seardi t
affected by the
completiou of suck orders. For Germany, also a fair
amount of business has been doing, and extreme
prices paid for all the better classes of yarns.
Here and there, where spinners have been pressing
sellers, in the lower qualities, a slight concession of
price has had to be made for the purpose of secur-
ing customers. For home trade yarns we have Led
a much quieter market, and there has not been
much done in yarns by Lancashire manufacturers,
little giving way in this
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manufacturers have not given way
owing to the smallness of stocks. Prices continue
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buyersad
find a little advantage is some of the com-
moner qualities.
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these, as they are upon not a few other varieties of
cloths. Superfine blacks and the best kind of
were
unions are inquired after to a fair extent, but,the
supply is not by any Ine4us likely to be adequate
to the demand. It seems not unlikely therefore
that the value of these goods will be higher, unless
it happens that with the fall of the year they are
less sought after. There is not much animation
among the woolstaplers, but they, as well as the
consumers, have little or no prospect that the pre-
sent London sales will bring about a decline in price,
NOTTINGHAM, Aug. 2.—At this Exchange-hall
to-day there was a limited attendance, and the de-
mand for lace yarns was slow, but the prices of last
week were maintained. In hosiery yarns there was
not much doing, and prices remained without any
important alteration. Silks about the same as
heretofore. Rather more doing in brown nets at
full prices, with a tendency to advance.
ROCHDALE, Ist.—The attendance at tteday's
market has been fair, and a satisfactory amount of
business has been transacted. There is a well-sus-
tained demand for flannels, especially the low and
middle-priced descriptions. Prices are steady, but
symptoms of a further
there are advance. There
has been a fair clearance.teeday of all the York-
shire goods offered, though operations in them no
doubt would be more extensive but for their exces-
sive dearness. There has lately been a
falling off
in the amount of business done in the warehouses,
which no doubt is partly attributable to high prices
and partly to the recent increase in the rate of
discount.

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is supported by a mass of masonry about 60 feet square,
and piercing to a depth which no excavatiou has yet reached.
Nearly three sides et this block have been exposed by exca-
vations of former years, and now a fourth has been nearly
completed. Other interesting discoveries have also been
made at this spot; but as to the purpose of the etructuro
ara divided iu opinion.

During the past week a general complaint has
arisen in the corn-growing districts of Yorkshire
that the wheat and oat crops are extensively invested
with black lice. These appear in myriads in some
places, and are said to prey exclusively upon the
ears of the corn. The crops adjoining the quickest
hedges are the worst, the middle of the fields being
comparatively free. It is supposed the lice have
been generated owing to the lengthened .drought,
and considerable anxiety is felt by most farmers
lest their presence may still more injure the crops,
which are already estimated as being one-fourth
lighter than last year, and are to some extent pre-
maturely ripening from want of rain. Indeet3

there is every reason to suppose that the harvest
will be begun next week. There are some farmers
who treat the lice trade lightly, and think the wheat
crop will prove rather light, hot very good in
quality. Barley does not appear to be touched by this
insect plague, but is generally spoken of as light, but
promising in quality.,Beaus and turnips have made
no progress last week; indeed, the latter are said
to have gone back, and in some of the East Riding
districts (where no rain worth mention has falle❑
this year) the crop has become so burnt up that the
fields are being ploughed out for summer fallows
for wheat sowing early in the autumn. This, of

coarse, will cause a serious deficiency in the win•
ter's supply of meat. The hay crop was never
better secured, but now that the harvest is com-
pleted the yield is said to be only half the average.
Hay is rising rapidly in price, and farmers are
looking with anxiety to the prospects of scarcity,
or at least dearness, of fodder in the coming winter.
Another week of splendid summer has passed,
completing (says the Sussex Advertiser) a month
such as is rarely witnessed in July. With the ex-
ception of a very few slight and partial showers,
little or no rain has fallen throughout the month,
and although during the past week there have been
daily threatenings of a change in the weather and
of coming rain, the menaced "fall" has ended in a
mere few small drops, or has passed off in thick
mist. Harvest has begun in various parts of the
district upon a small scale, with wheat, peas,
and barley. The warm suns of the past
ten days have rapidly ripened the grain, and
the only fear is, that the ripening process, owing
to the long continued drought, will proceed at a
rate that will bring the crops to maturity all at once.
The reports from different quarters are somewhat
conflicting, but looking to the accounts as a whole,
there seems a pretty general agreement that on well
farmed and good soils the crops will be very satis-
tory though not particularly heavy. On thin and
light soils the effect of the protracted absence of
moisture is very injuriously felt, and premature
ripening of the grain is apprehended, At the same
time we are bound to add that, from the statement
placed at our command, the injury arising from the
want of rain does not appear to have been so great
as might have been anticipated. From the hop
districts the accounts come extremely favourable.
In spite of the absence of rain, the want of which
is universally lamented by every correspondent, the
bines seem,on all good and well-cultivated grounds,
to have made 'considerable progress, and to be show-
ing plenty of fruit. Some good soaking showers
are, say the planters, all that is wanted at this
moment, and if these be followed by a fine time for
picking, all will go right. Many planters declare
that the picking will bo early.

The Railway Accident at Margate.

MARGATE, Atig: 2.

The railway accident which took place at the
South-Eastern station here yesterday afternoon was
of a more serious character than was A t first appre-
hended. One passenger, the wife of a stonemason
named Locke, died about an hour and a half after
being extricated from the broken carriages. She
was literally scalped, a great portion of the hair
being found with her headdress among the rubbish.
Both her thighs were fractured, and she had other
bruises and contusions in different parts of her body.
Another passenger, a gentleman residing at Favers-
ham, had two ribs fractured, and sustained other
injuries; and two ladies belonging to Margate were
fearfully crushed, but had no bones broken. Seve-
ral other persons were more or less contused and
shaken.

The accident resulted from the 2.20 p.m. train
from London running into the station at full speed,
and coming violently into collision with a short
train waiting to be despatched to Ramsgate.
The Ramsgate train consisted of on'y three car-
riages—one first, one second, and one third elms
--in which a number of passengers had taken
their seats, while others were walking about the
platform. Things were in this state when the
London train was observed approaching at the rate,
it is said, of fully 20 miles an hour. A cry of alarm
was raised on the platform, and several of the pas-
sengers escaped death by jumping out of the
stationary carriages. In a few seconds the advanc-
ing train dashed into the stationary one, jambing
the three carriages against the fixed buffers, at the
end of the station. The first and second class
crrriages were forced up on their ends, and the
third class carriage. which was first struck by the
force of the advancing engine, was thrown on the
top of the other two, all three being broken and
crushed into a shapeless mass. In one respect it
was fortunate that the Ramsgate train was in the
way, as otherwise the London train, to which very
damage was done, would have run into the
waiting-rooms and booking office, and the destruc-
tion of life and property would have been immense.

As soon as possible the unfortunate passengers
were extricated from the debris of the carriages,
and prompt measures were taken to clear the line.
In the course of two hours the trains were received
and despatched Lrom the platform as usual.

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