The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-20 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, October 19.--We have still 4 very firm
and active market, both for cotton, yarn, and cloth.
The Amer:osn accounts brought by the steam•ship
Africa, as to the state of the cotton crop, have had no
perceptible influence upon the prices here. The receipts
of the new crop had been 85,220 bale against 75,164 to
the same period last year; and there is the significant
fact that cotton was in the market earlier last year, and
was in great request, through the shortness of the previ-
ous year's supply. Yet the American accounts place this
year's growth at 2,700,000 to 2,800,000 bales, which is
exactly the estimate up to a late period last year of the
crop which turned out to be upwards of 3,000,000 bales.
One of the American accounts, after giving the above
estimates of the crop, however, adds—" Subject to an
increase of 10,112 bales per day for every day from the
10th October, without a killing frost." The opinion
strongly prevails in Manchester that it will bo a three
million crop, bat it has no effect on prices, because, just
at present, no one has time to be splitting straws about
trifles. Almost all the spinners, and all the manufac-
turers, have more orders than they can complete, and
almost every buyer in the trade has orders to place, which
he is only too anxious to discover how he may insure the
execution of without paying a further advance for. The
general complaint of merchants is, that after they have
placed orders, and actually paid for the goods, they have
the greatest difficulty in getting them delivered; many
persons say they never knew a period when promises as
to time for delivery of their goods were less to be relied
upon. The holders of India shirtings and madapollans,
under these circumstances, have been struggling hard to-
day for an advance, and in some cases have obtained lid.
per piece more than last week. Calico printers continue
exceedingly busy, and their operations in some cases are
much clogged by the difficulty of getting the fabrics ne-
cessary to execute the orders in band. For shirtings,
both of narrow and wide makes, there is a large demand.
Domestics, which are in rather more request, are still
comparatively sluggish, and prices have not improved;
in fact, the demand for India, for the Levant markets,
and for Holland and Belgium, which need to take large
quantities, has been limited for some time, and buyers
find better qualities of goods preferred in many cases.
In yarns the demand has been very large to-day; prices
of mule have increased since Tuesday last as much as
id. per lb. upon the common qualities of mule up t;
90's, and id. tod. upon the better qualities, while 100's
are quoted Id. per lb. advance. Water twists, both in
warp and bundle, aro higher, and are quoted id. to id.
advance. " Our quotations," says th circular of a lingo
house this evening, '• are considerably advarced since
Tuesday evening lust, the demand in the interval having
been very extensive, • perticularly in the yarns adspted to
the Eastern markets, which have been in great request."
The tone of the market is, indeed, very healthy, and a
large business has been done.

CALIFORNIA.—The total shipments of gold from
San Francisco by steamers and sailing vessels, from the Ist
of January this year to the month of September, eight
months, were nearly 29,200,000 dolls., or at the rate of
43,794,000 dolls. per annum, or, say 5.840,000/. for the eight
months, and at the rate per year of 8,759,000/.
Paica or WHISKY.—On Monday an advance of
3d. a gallon took place in the price of whisky at Cork. The
price is now 6s. the gallon for 25 over-proof. This advance
has been made by the distillers in consequence of the price
of grain being above the etandard at which the lower rate of
the whisky would remunerate them.