The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-26 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

CARDIFF, May 24.—The East Bate Dock is full
of vessels, either taking in cr waiting for cargoes,
and in order to meet the requirements of shippers
the dock is kept working day and night, and the
inconvenience caused by the closing of the West
Dock is thus materially lessened. There is no lack
of demand for either steam or house coal, and the
collieries are in active employ, Double-screened
steam is quoted lls. to 11,1. 61, f.o.b. House coal
main tains its price. Coke is in moderate request,
the inquiry from Staffordshire being less than was
the case a few weeks pr. In the iron trade there•
is a large business doing, and the shipments have
been considerable this month. The emigration
movement has again commenced in earnest, and in
consequence of the number that leave at every pay
a scarcity of hands is felt at many of the works.
Quotations are hardly maintained for iron, and the
tendency of the market is rather in favour of
buyers. May 25th.—On the whole, the trade of
this port has been somewhat dull during the past
few days. The injury to the West Dock has been
found to be not very extensive, and will be repaired
in two or three weeks. The iron trade is some-
what unsteady, Scotch warrants having gone up to
595. 9d. cash, and 61s. 6d. open. Bars are quoted
at £7 10s. to £7 153. Freights aro gradually in-
creasing, and to several of the Mediterranean ports
the quotation is unusually high.
DUNDEE, 24th.—There was decidedly a better
feeling in the market to-day, and more disposition
for business than for some weeks past. The raw
material, flax, tow, codilla, and jute continue quiet,
and the demand is entirely consumptive. Prices
are about the same as formerly. The inquiry for
yarns was more active than last week, and a fair
business was done in all qualities. Flax and tow
sorts were firm at previous prices, but jute yarns
are dearer and scarce. The demand for linens has
also improved, and orders to soma extent were
placed to-day at full prices. More might have been
had manufacturers been able to undertake the
orders within a reasonable time.

LEicEsTER, 25th.—The hosiery trade is more
active this week, business generally being in a
healthy and satisfactory state. In the country dis-
tricts trade remains without much change. Wools
are realising enormously high prices, and the mar-
ket continues very firm, some sorts being hard to
purchase. Yarns are extremely dear, and are in
fair demand, spinners being well employed and
pretty generally working to order.
NOTTINGHAM, 25th.—There has been rather
more doing this week in general lace goods.
Mechlin quillings are selling tolerably well, but
there is no improvement in other branches of the
plain cotton net trade. Silk quiltings and silk
Mechlins continue in active request. There is a
better demand for Spanish shawls, but very little
improvement in the sale of silk laces or edgings.
In the meantime stocks of all kinds of goods are
kept as light as possible. The German houses are
doing but little in consequence of the unsettled state
of affairs on the continents In hosiery there has
been a fair amount of business doing during the
past few days. Yarns continue high in price, and
have no appearance of giving way.

The building trade in Leeds is in that unsettled
state which usually precedes a struggle between the em-
ployers and the employed, The joiners engad at the Town
Hall in the alterations required for the assieee, taking ad-
vantage of the urgent character of the work, refused to con-
tinue at their employment unless certain concessions were
made. The master refused to comply with their demand,
but the Town Hall Committee were compelled, as a com-
promise and in order to get the alterations completed, to
Placard the walls of the town, announcing to the men that
what they asked would be agreed to. The masters, how•
ever, evidently regarding what had occurred at the Town
Hellas preliminary to a general strike, held a meeting, at
which they offered to pay the men by the hour, at an ad-
vanced rate. The men refused the terms offered, and the
shops are therefore to be closed this (Wednesday) morning
The workmen state that they do not seek so much for in-
creased wages as for shorter hours, especially on Saturday.
—Leas Mercury.
[AnvvversEeteNT.l—Holloway's Ointment and Pills—
Heepy Ilealth.—However provident, however careful man
may be, he is still destined to be assailed by sickness, and it
is wisdom to be provided with a remedy against such a ca-
lamity. The ointment and pills discovered by Professor
Holloway are acknowledged by every person who has tried
them to possess the highest merits in curing all outward
diseases and other maladies resulting from violence, expo-
sure, mineral poisons, or scrofulous taints. This ointment
heals all descriptions of ulcers and subdues inflammations.
These pills purify and strengthen—and thus even in mode-
rately good health occasional dces of them prove highly
beneficial by their tendency to preserve the body from im-
purities and weaknesses, whence serious ailments frequently
arise.