The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPPEAMER JO, 1863.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

PIARKETS--This Day.

MARK-LANE.

A very moderate supply of English wheat was received
fresh up to this morning's market. Both red and white
qualities, however, met a slow sale, at Monday's decline in
the quotations of ls. per quarter.
The show of samples of foreign wheat on the stand was
large. In all descriptions, sales progressed slowly, yet no
alteration took place in the carrencies.

Floating cargoes of grain were in but moderate request,
at late rates. Malting barley sold freely, at extreme
currencies. Grinding and distilling sorts, however, were
in slow demand, on former terms.

In malt a fair average business was transacted at full
quotations.

The oat trade was far from active ; indeed, inferior pro-
duce was very difficult of sala. The supply on offer was
tolerably large.

Beans at.d peas moved off steadily, at full currencies.
For flour the inquiry was much restricted, at late rates.
ARRIVALS THIS W aEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt Oats. Flout.
630 I 390 ;1,390 I s7O
Irish -
Foreign 6,700 370 33,660 220 brio.
32u aka.

STATE OF TRADE,

MANCHESTER, Sept. 15.—While the excitement
the cotton market has strengthened and led to
a good deal of business in yarns, it has almost para-
lysed the cloth market. Private letters from Liver-
pool report sales yesterday to the enormous extent
of 30,000 bales, while the writers state there is little
doubt that, if there had been a better choice,
buyers would have taken 00,000. Surats advanced
id. per lb., and American and Egyptian Id. told.
The sales again to-day are announced at 20,000
bales. The excitement, as might he exnectecl, com-
municated itself to dealers in yarn and spinners in
this market, and they were yesterday asking an
advance of id. per lb., and are to-day requiring ld.
per lb. advance on yesterday's rates, and 2d, per
lb. on those of last Tuesday. At these rates
almost everything that could be laid hold of has
been swept out of the market, and we have lied a
state of excitement such at has rarely been expe-
rienced here. The sellers of cop-yarns report
prices Pe:l. to 2d. per lb. above the rates of last
Tuesday, and while some spinners say the advance
checks business, others speak of the check as mainly
arising from the absence of goods to sell. Buyers
say of the yarn-market that the excitement is such
as practically to have made the market very diffi-
cult to operate in from its irregularity, spinners in
many cases finding a difference of lid. to 2d. per
lb. in the rates demanded for the same qualities of
yarn. In the cloth market, manufacturers have of
course endeavoured to follow the advance; but, fol-
lowing as this impetus does so soon after the pre-
vious one, they appear to have been hardly pre-
pared for it. Some of them, foreseeing the futility of
any attempt really to obtain rates adequate to the ad-
vance which is now required to cover the increased
cost of cotton, refrain from offering their goods
at all. Those who have cloths to sell have in some
cases put up their quotations ls. per piece, and some
even more than that; but it precludes business. At
the close of last week some of the old London buyers
were in the market for both yarn and cloth for
C"ins; but to-day buyers for all markets appear to
have been discouraged from attempting operations.
Speculators even seem to be chary of taking goods
at the rates demanded. Thero has been a good deal
of inquiry and hunting through the market in search
of stocks ; but both speculators and bona fide buyers
alike refrain from offering contracts for future
delivery. Whether the present is considered, in the
language of the market, a " spurt," or otherwise,
there seems to be little confidence in the dura-
bility of present rates, and buyers want stocks avail-
able for immediate delivery, and stocks are exceed-
ingly scarce. With all the excitement, therefore,
it is generally reported that very little business has
been done in cloths. Buyers have in some instances
to-day refused to give even late rates, and much less
would they give the advances required. On the
ether hand, manufacturers are discouraged, and
give up all hope of conducting a satisfactory trade
in the present wild state of the cotton market, and
talk of again closing their mills until the spirit of
gambling which now seems to reign in Liverpool
hes given way to a calmer and more business like
tone. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report of the
cloth market :

"In consequence of the rapid advance in the raw
matcrial we have had a very excited market here, both
yesterday and to-day. There is great irregularity
in quotations, which must be considered entirely
nominal ; but speaking generally we may say that
an advance of something like a shilling per piece is
asked on shirtings, and on other goods in propor-
tion. So far buyers decline to pay this advance,
and there is consequently very little business
doing."
CARDIFF, 14th.—The coal trade continues brisk,
and there is a good demand. Prices are firmer, and
an advance of 3d. and 6d. have been obtained in
several instances. The colliers have commenced a
movement with the view of applying for an ad •
vance, but it is not believed that the coal-masters
will accede to the application. There is an ave-
rage business doing in the iron trade, and nearly
all the works are well employed. During the last
five or six days bars have shown a further improve-
ment of about ss. The wages of the puddlers end
others employed about the ironworks are likely to
be increased from sto 10 per cent. The extensive
Plymouth works are about to pass into the hands
of Messrs. Fothergill and Hankey.
LEEDS, 15th.—There has been a moderately good
demand for cloths in the halls this morning, and
the winter trade is likely to close well. Stocks
of the most current-going fabrics in the hands
of makers are by no means large, and, indeed, the
quantity of cloth in the halls has not often been
much less than it is at present. The manufacturers
in all departments are well employed, and some of
them are turning their attention to the fabrics for
the spring trade. The range of prices keeps steady,
having an upward rather than a downward ten-
dency. Wools of all descriptions are firm. The
flax trade is Lteady in most departments.

ROCHDALE, 14th .—The flannel trade keeps quite
active, the manufacturers being in full employment,
and their products being either made to order or
finding a ready market. There was not a very large
attendance of buyers at market to-day, but they
bought freely, and little of the bulk of stock offered
in the market was left unsold. The demand ex-
tends to both plain and fancy goods, and those of
low quality are scarce. Prices have an upward
tendency, those of wool as well as those of goods.
As long as cotton keeps up wool is not likely to full
much, though manufacturers buy cautiously.

THE PROPORTION OF BIRTHS TO POPULATION iS
1 in 28 in England and Wales ; 1 in 29 in Spain
and Bavaria; 1 in 30 in Belgium, Holland, and Norway;
1 in 32 in Sweden, 1 in 33 in Hanover, the Hanse Towns,
and Denmark ; 1 in 31 in Greece, and 1 in 38 in France.
Consequently the natural increase of population is lower in
France, in spite of the high marriage rate, than in any
other European State. More fertile than England are only
Wurtemburg, where the proportion of births to population
is lin 26; Russia, where it is 1 in 25; Austria, Saxony,
and Prussia, where it is 1 in 24 ; and Poland, where the
proportion is lin 23. It is, probably, a fact not generally
known that the women of the unhappy country now in the
throes of revolution form, as far as fruitfulness is con-
cerned, the vanguard of their sex in Europe.
VIOLENT OUTRAGE ON A YOUNG LADY.—At the
Newport Police-court, on Saturday, John Williams,
a young farm labourer, was charged with assaulting and
attempting to violate Amy Daniel, niece of a farmer re-
siding at Nash, on the previous Monday evening. The
young lady being sworn, said—On Monday evening, at
half-past five, I went from my uncle's house to visit a
friend. I was quite alone. When going past the Newall
Farm the prisoner passed me just as I entered the first
of two fields I had to go through. When 1 reached
near the end of the second field, a little before six
o'clock, I heard footsteps behind me, and turning my
head I saw him. I walked a little slower to let him go
before me over the plank of a small bridge. He said,
" Good evening, miss; are you going far?":
replied, I said
"Only as far as Salt Marsh." "Shall I come with you ?"
he asked. " Oh, no, I can go by myself,"
" Then," he said, " I must have a kiss." " No, you
won't," I told him ; but he immediately caught me round
the waist, and threw me on the ground. I screamed as
loud as I could. He knelt on me and dragged up my
clothes; and I struggled with him, and pulled his hair,
and tore his shirt ; but he scratched my face and my
hands, He was muttering something all the while to
himself, but I could not tell what he said. We struggled
on the ground for five minutes; but he hurt me further
than 1 said. As I thought he might be trying to rob me,
I begged him to let me get up, and I would give him all the
money I had in my pocket. He said, " How much have
you got ?" I said, "I do not know, but if you will let me
get up I will give you all I have." Then he let ine get
up, gave him all I had, which was 6d., and I ran
into and I
the " rhine" (the ditch), and waded through the
water, and got under some briars to escape from him.
He went away, and I came out again to get my hat and
umbrella, and the apples, which I had lost in the struggle.
He ran back after me again, when I jumped into the
rhine again, and was up to my waist in the water. [The
poor girl here wept, and could not be induced to repeat
i
the disgusting threats which the prisoner had used to her
she did not come out of the water. She said it was too
disgusting to repeat.] When the prisoner did at last
go off I got out and ran as well as I could to a little
cottage, where they took off my wet clothes and then con-
veyed me to my uncle's house. A police-constable said he
went in pursuit of the prisoner, and apprehended him at
Chepstow. When taking him from the cell to the railway
station he said, " What will be done to me ? I suppose they
will send me to gaol." Witness replied that he did not
know. In the train prisoner said, " I wonder what
they will do with me—l suppose they won't transport a
fellow ?" Witness again replied, " I don't know." The
prisoner being asked if he had anything to say, replied, "I
am not guilty." Ile was fully committed to take his trial
at the next quarter geeolono,