The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-13 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, June 12.—1 n yarns there has been
a more cheerful feeling in the market to-day, and
some of the merchants have ventured to make
offers. The principal of these have been for yarns
suited to India, but at ld. per lb. under the prices
which spinners would be disposed to accept.
For the home trade there has been rather more
business, and full prices have been. obtained. The
yarn market closes with a more healthy feeling than
it has done for some days past. In cloth there is

little or no change since Tuesday. The reports
generally concur in representing things flat, and ror
the same reason as on Tuesday—discouraging ac.
counts from India (buyers for that quarter being
now'out of the market), and timidity arising from
vague fears connected with the fall of Vicksburg.
At the same time that these reports are given of the
market as a whole, it is stated that people have been
availing themselves of the general flatness during
the week to put out orders which they have been
keeping back during the late activity, and which
they have found might be placed with some advan-
tage. For instance, we hear of a manufacturer
booking a very large order only yesterday, and'at a
price which will be remunerative. The business
doing in this way is said to be for no one particular
market, but is of a general character, arising out of
the lowness to which stocks have been in many in-
stances reduced in some of our large orders. We
hear of wry little speculative business. There are
few or no purchases for re-sale, and most of the
transactions of recent date have been entered into
to supply actual wants. In some quarters this busi-
ness is attributed to an opinion, which is again
gaining ground, that whatever advantages may be
gained on either side in the American civil war the
struggle will be a prolonged one, and this is all that
is necessary for the present to give strength to the
market and confidence among buyers and sellers.
We hear of a few more mills resuming business, but
not many. Mr. Maclure in his monthly report to
the Central Relief Committee, dated the Bth

instant, gives the number of operatives working
full time at 205,908, and those wholly out of
employ at 191,199, while rather more than
129,000 are working one, two, three, four, or
five days per week. From this it may be inferred
that, making allowance for the less production ob-
tained with Surat cotton as compared with Ameri-
can, the out-turn of the mills is considerably more

than half what it was in 1860, or before the cotton

famine had begun to affect trade. As the price of
goods, however, is net quite double what it was then
(though cotton is proportionably much higher),
there is reason to believe that the production so far
has not yet overtaken the means of consumption,
and hence there is some hope that the improvement,
as far as it is gone, may be maintained.
CARDIFF, 1 lth.—A good number of ships have
arrived of late, and a considerable reduction has
been the result in freights. This circumstance has
materially benefited the coal trade, and the collieries
are at present kept going pretty regularly. There
is a fair demand for steam coal, and quotations are
firmer. The ironmasters are moderately well off
for orders, and there is considerable activity at the
works. The inquiries from the continent have
is not
yet been so numerous as expect: shipmentsd.
her
hnios
change to report in prices. Th
month have been large,
owing to an accumulation
of orders through the want of vessels.

Foreign Nail racket List.

MAILS DUE.

ituelralia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Juno 18.
via Mtrseilles
June 12
Brazil and Cape- Verds, by British packet. July 5
Div of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena June 29.
china, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. June 18.
via Marseilles June 12.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton
and Ceylon vita '•*;o th t June 10.
India (Calcutta), , . ~}1 a1..9 en June 18

-- via Marseilles June 12.
India (Bombay), via Southampton June 10
via Marseilles June 10,
Portugal.... June 29,
111alta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton June 10
via Marseilles June 12
Newfoundland
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. Am:- ' by 'Brit, 'ket, June 10

-erica, by Brit. packet .. ....
by U.S. packet
by Canadian packet June 12
W.C. of Africa, M-
adeira, and Teneriffe .. June 10
Bahamas, via New York July 2.
Mexico
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, I Juno 13.
California. and British Columbia..

We understand that application is about to be
made to Parliament for a grant in aid of the Female School
of Art, Queen-square, now under the patronage of the
Queen and her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales,