The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-17 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY EVENING,

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The quietness that came
over our market last week is a good deal increased to-
day. There is still less inquiry for yarns from the
merchants, who are evidently more dubious as to the
maintenance of prices, than they were then. The
production is too extensively under contract for any very
noticeable effect to be producedupon the value of yarns by
this change of feeling; but those extreme and merely
nominal quotations which the buoyancy of a fornight ago
gave rise to, are now more generally modified than they
were on Friday; and the bias of actual prices is slightly
in favour of buyers in some kinds of mule and water twist;
that is to say, a buyer may secure a little advantage to
himself, if not with one spinner, yet with another whose
engagements may be nearer their termination. As a
rule, however, much steadiness prevails. Warps are
affected the most; for they are to be had at a decline
of kd. per lb.—fully that, indeed, in some kinds. Next
some degree of weakness. There
is
so
alsothem acopds betray some
demand for such goods as
were lately in active request; indeed, the falling-
off is very marked; and if sales must be made, rather
lower prices must be submitted to; butmauufacturers have
too many orders in hand for any such pressure to take
place. The home dealers were beginning to make rather
more inquiry for domestics, but this turn for the better
is scarcely sustained to-day. The absence of the Ame-
rican news may have tended in a small degree to quiet-
ness, though in a less degree than its actual receipt
towards the close of business hours. A more evident
cause of dulness is the ominous fact that that system of
free trade under which the great interests of the coun-
try are making such rapid progress, is placed in sus-
pense by the Government, and made to depend for its
continued existence upon the result of agitation and
electioneering contests. Hardly anything else has been
talked about on 'Change to-day; and men of all parties
feel that the course which Lord Derby asks the House
of Commons to allow him to pursue is fraught with most
serious evils.

ROCHDALE, MONDA.Y.—The flannel market continues
very inactive, with not much prospect of a speedy
change. There is no change in wool, either in price or
demand. As the manufacturers wish to produce as
little as possible under the present circumstances, they
purchase the raw material for immediate use only.
TUESDAY.—The position of our
staple M
manufactured goods, in reference to demand, con-
tinues much the same as we last noted; but the want of
confidence on the part of wholesale buyers is much com-
plained of in the spring demand. The thrown silk
market is now little less active for the present, but
stocks generally AcmcLannusrfai
are comparatively light, and prices
continue firm. In the raw silk market, the business
doing is moderate. Prices are much the same as last
reported.
HALIFAX, s ATtritDAy.
—We have rarely had a duller
market than to•day's. The uncertainty that hangs over
the political world, both domestic and foreign, checks
all operations ; and the aspect of the worsted trade is
of a most desponding character. Yarns exhibit no
amendment ; prices are at a stand, and the amount
produced is greatly diminished. Wcol is to be bought
on easier terms; but the transactions are neither large
nor numerous.
HunnEasPIELD, TUESDAY.—There has not been quite
so much doing in our market to-day as last week.
Crapc9, doeskins of large patterns, end light goods
generally, suitable for spring wear, have been inquired
for. The fancy trade continues dull; a moderate busi-
ness has been done in wools, at firm prices.

ntimetres.
THE NEW COLOURS OF THE FRENCH ARMY.
The manufactories at Lyons are actively employed in
making the silk for the colours to be presented to the
army and National Guards. As soon as a piece of the
silk is made it is forwarded to the Ministry of War,
the,h mpereeitiruen;dergoes a trial to test the goodness of the
dye. These colours, the silk of which is double, will
bo ninety centimetres square, us they were under
ee t hoen s
ot tinned a rsided of
wills the cavalrys e
rwi
bi l le
db
ien sixty
letters :—" Louis Napoleon au regiment." At the four
corners will be placed a wreath of oak, within which
will be the initials L. N., and the number of the
regiment. On the other side the corners will be
similar, but on the white stripe will be inscribed
the initials R. F., and under them the campaigns
in which the regiment has distinguished itself since
its formation. The colour staff will be surmounted by
a gilded eagle. Under it will be, on one side, the let-
ters R. F.; end, on the other, the number of the regi-
ment. The staff will be ornamented with a tricolour
colour knot fringed with gold like the flag. The colours
of each battalion of the national guards will be similar
to those of the army, except that the fringe will be in
silver. These colours are all to be completed by the
25th of April next.

SIR JAMES BROOKE.—A large number of the
highest members of the mercantile and shipping interest,
among whom are some of the East India directors, have de-
termined to invite the Raja to a public dinner, "in order to
mark the sense they entertain of the eminent services ren-
dered by Sir James Brooke to the interests of commerce and
humanity, in his endeavour to put down the evils of piracy
in the Eastern Archipelago, and in his labours to advance the
interests of civilization in that part of the world." The
dinner will take place after Lent.—Norfolk Mercury.

THE LONDON GAZETTE, March 16,

BANKRUPTS.

James Franklin, innkeeper, Great Marlow, Buckingham-
shire, to surrender March 27 and April 30, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street; Spicer, Chancery-lane.
Samuel Gash, builder, Hatcham New Town, Camberwell,
March 26, at twelve, and April 27, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankrutcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall• street ;
Lawrance, Plews, and Boyer, Old Jewry-chambers.
Henry Holland, builder, Eldon-road, Kensington, April
2 and 27, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard. street;
Mozon, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane.
George Warhurst, ironmonger, Leigh, Lancashire, April
2 and 29, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Mackenzie, official assignee, Manchester; Slater, Man-
chester.
Thomas Lord, boot maker, Ashton-under-Lyne, March 29
and April 26, at twelve, at the Blanchester District Court.
Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Cobbett , Manchester.
Robert Dilkes, inn keeper, Warrington, Lancashire, March
26 and April 19, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Fraser, official assignee, Blanchester; Nicholson, Warrington.
William Hough, jun., joiner and builder, Rochdale, March
30 and April 27, at twelve, at the Manchester District
Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester ; Downey,
Rochdale.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS.
W. Carman, milkman, Broad-street, Lambeth.
St.
W.
Georgelndsor..
F. Debenham, baker, St ney- errace, Kilburn.
A. J. Weatherly, cheesemonger, Cumberland-row, Islington.
W. Pyett, grocer, Bird-street,,.dt Lambeth.
J. Price, cheesemonger, Upper Whitecross-street, St. Luke.
the-Martyr, Bridge House-
' Newington-causeway.
place, Newn4,
G. Boon, milliner, Hanway-street, Oxford-street.
W. Carpenter,
grocer,
High-street, Shadwell.
J. Dalling, hair dresser, Brewer-street, Golden-square.
maker, Adam's tiraocwk,frlialarsm.rposatdea. Hampstead-road.
W. Gillbanks, Manchester agent, Mintern-street, Hoxton.
JI .DBaiyg,gy'le' atry clerkschoolmaster, o f
J. G. Hutchinson, furrier, Edmund-place, Aldersgate-street.
W. T. Webb, linen draper, Hall;street, City-road.
T. Rossetter, miller, Windmill-street, 'hackney.
J. C. Roeder, baker, Royley-street, Old-street-road.
T. Ward, commission agent, Little Litchfield-street, Mary-
RR..
Malony,Gellard, bliocoetn.
Mary-
lebone.
W. H. Thompson, jun., gentleman, Albany-street, Regent's-
park. smedakvl
S. Andrew, cotton waste:dealer, Ashton-under-Lyne.
J. W. Barton, cotton waste dealer, Manchester.
J. Heap, butcher,;HeatonNorris.
E. Morrison, common carrier, Manchester.
W. T. Moule, commission agent, Oxton, Cheshire.
W. T. Hunt, gas engineer's clerk, Brunswick-terrace, South-
wark.
T. A. Owen, shoemaker, hleaton Norris, Lancashire.
James Prescutt, builder, Bolton-le-Moors Lancashire.
Walter Scott, printer, Havant, Hants. ,
Richard Brown, bootmaker, Birkenhead.
Charles Whitworth, carter, Rochdale, Lancashire.
J. Cooke, sen., brickmaker's overlooker, Longton, Stafford-
shire.
G. Robotham, jun., beer retailer, Longton, Staffordshire.
D. Parry, brewer, Trosnant, Monmouthshire.
B. Pearce, sen., stone merchant, Portland, Dorsetshire.
E. Pinder, jun., builder, Birmingham.
Benjamin Ash, miner, Great Hucklow, Derbyshire.
Richard Christie Brown, attorney-at-law, Birkenhead.
J. H. H. Keeling, blacksmith, Great llucklow, Derbyshire.
John Stevens, coach builder, Cheltenham.
Thomas Thew, brazier, Bishopsvrearmouth.
J. Leeds, licensed victualler, Milton-nett-Gravesend.
W. Lewis, milkman, Birmingham.
E. Mogridge, leather seller, Edgbaston, Warwickshire.
J. Nurse, attorney-at-law, King's Lynn , Norfolk.
G. Reid, gardener, Grasmore, Westmoreland.
J. Schorab, journeyman hair dresser, Leeds.
Thomas Wadsworth, chemist, Manchester.
John Henry Francis, tailor, St. Helen's, Lancashire.
John Lewis, tailor, Manchester.
James Charles Poulett, tobacconist, Woodford, Essex.
Richard Sharp, tailor, Middlesborough Yorkshire.
James Hughes Allen, clerk, Dover.
James Beckett, hosier, Huddersfield.
James Jones, farm labourer, Talgarth, Brecknockshire.
DIVIDENDS.
In the Country.
J. Johnson, Liverpool, and Seacombe, Cheshire,
grocer, April 6, at eleven—at the Court, Liverpool—J.
Brotherston (not Brotherton as advertised in last Fri-
day's Gazette), Liverpool, merchant, April 2, at eleven,
at the Court, Liverpool—T. Dalton and T. Edwards,
Birmingham, ironfounders April 8, at half-past eleven,
at the Court, Birmingham.
L'AYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.
E. Thornton, Iluddersfield, ironmonger, 4d., on
Thursday, March 18, or any subsequent Thursday, be-
tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Freeman, Leeds.
J. Sykes and T. Sykes, Soyland, Yorkshire, woollen
manufacturers, 45., on Thursday, March 18, or any sub-
sequent Thursday, between eleven and two, at the office
of Mr. Freeman, Leeds.
A. R. Stace, Strood, 'Cent, ironmonger, 4s. 6d., on
Tuesday, March 16, or any subsequent Tuesday, between
eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-
chambers, Basinghall-street.
T. Rutherford, Agnes-place, Waterloo-road, mer-
chant, Is. 2d., on Tuesday next, or any subsequent
Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr.
Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-strcet.
Burton, York-square, Commercial-road East, clerk
in her Majesty's Customs, 5d., on Tuesday next, or any
anbacquent Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the.il.
office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, Basingha
stree

J. uller, City-road, glass merchant, 45., on Tuesday
next, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and
two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers,
Basinghall-street.
A. Campbell, ls. 3d., on Tuesday
next, or any subse-
quent Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office of
Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street.
J. Greenshields and M. Strang, Liverpool, merchant;
la., on Wednesday, Murcia Zl or any subsequent Wed-