The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-21 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Feb. 20.—1 n yarns there has been
rather more business doing, chiefly for India and
China, and some few contracts have been entered
into for delivery up to three months hence. This
shows rather morel confidence than we expected to
meet with, though the prices are low. There has
also been a good inquiry for twist suitable for the
Levant markets, and rather more inquiry for the
home trade. Altogether the market for yarns closes
firmer, and with a more cheerful feeling. There is
to some extent an impression that the prices for the
present have touched the lowest point. Spinners,
however, are rather disheartened, and complain
that the prices at present obtainable leave a loss
upon production, and we have heard this loss
stated at something like ltd. per lb. The cloth-
market is reported a little better also in
some quarters to-day, though from Tuesday to
yesterday business was exceedingly flat. Some
encouragement has been given to-day by the fact
that some of the old and well-known standard
buyers, whose faces have been rarely seen lately,
have been making inquiries, and that these inquiries
in some few instances have led to rather considerable
purchases, which it is believed have been of a bona
fide character, and on behalf of their constituents, to
use a term somewhat common to the trade here. It
seems to have excited observation, however, that
wherever inquiries are made it is found that stocks
of cloth still exist in abundance far beyond what
was generally expected, though, considering how
little shipping has been done for some time past,
this ought hardly to be the case. Some large pur-
chases have been made from time to time, but it was
generally understood that it was not for immediate
shipment. Apart from the operations above referred
to the market has been rather quiet. Prices are
generally rather firmer, but there is still irregu-
larity, and manufacturers desirous of selling do not
press for full rates.
NOTTINGHAM, 30th.—At this exchange-hall to-
day there was a moderate attendance. There was
a slow feeling in the yarn-market, and the business
done was at quite as little money as on Tuesday.
There was not much doing in silk. A fair trade
could have been done in brown nets, but the prices
offered were too low to induce manufacturers to
effect sales.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR. THE WEEK.

Railways.

Miles Opened. Receipts.
1863.

1862.

1863. 1862.
£ £
1,712 1,735
605 557
1,459 1,512
5,263 5,173
14,757 14,218
258 259
293 319
154 199

Belfast and N. Counties 136 136
Belfast and County Down 49 49
Bl'th and Tyne 2B 28
Bristol and Exeter l2l/ 107
Caledonian 230 230
Cockermouth & Workington tl 81
Cork and Bandon 2BO 20
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage
32 61 2761
Cork and Youghal ....
Cornwall 531 531
Deeside l7 17
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 83
Dublin and Drogheda 63 63
Dub. &Wicklow and Wextd 4Bl 481
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l 31
Edinburgh and Glasgow 1691 1691
Forth & Clyde Junction
Furness, &o 5O 5
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfic.,&E.Union
Great Northern 330 330
Great North of Scotland 6B 58
Gt. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 451
3t.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 329 329
Great Western 992 9641
Inverness & Aberdeen June... 731 731
Irish North-Western 145 130
Irish South-Eastern 254 251
Lancashire & Yorkshire 3951 3951
Limerick and Ennis.
Limerick and Foynes 26 26
Llanelly 46 461
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5l 51
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast
London, Chatham, & Dover 721 221
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend
Man.,Sheffield,& Lincolnsh
Manch. S.J un.& Altrincham 9l 01
Maryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan -
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 630
Midland Gt.Westn. of' Irind 2491
Monkland 7li
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and New. & Car 894
North London 9
North Staffordshire 254
Oswestry and Newton..
Rhymney l9l
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern . . 132
Somerset and Dorset 391
South Devon ,,.... 751
South-Eastern 306
Stockton and Darlington
Taff Vale 5l
Ulster 5l
Vale of Clwyd..
Vale of Neath 254
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
West Cornwall 271
W.HartlepoolHarbr.&llail 39
W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt
12
Whitehaven Junction
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35

toos 1,101

220 214
1,258 1,287
1,521 1,631
1,463 1,W.8
1,005 1,079
6,630 6,547

2,694 2,256
7,884 6,198
27,210 24,542
24,919 23,837
1,602 1,634
489 291
6,993 7,168
51,096 48,202
787 749
1,638 1,727
287 367
31,150 29.525
175 163
130 145
446 478
83,383 75,817
1,555 1,322
16,000 15,089
15,008 12,833
12,740
'l,OO 1057
14,564 13,067
1,066 1,040
1,164 3,03)
2,392
37,757 35,427
4,801 4,181
1,596 1,544
2,182 2,168

10,466 9,425
38,652 36,200
2,904 2,810
7,939 6,969
905 489
577 692
2,124 2,002
2,965 2,992
4,495 4,556

2,877 2,859
17,012 14,.,50
9,162 7,487
5,183 4,915
1,701 1,598
117 138
1,818 2,065
855 281
1,086 1109
661 618
3,548 2,834
583 410
782 105
720 584

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam
828 52
828 52
Austrian
Belgian Eastern Junction 26i 26}
Buffalo and Lake Huron l6l} 161}
Detroit and Milwaukie lB5 185
Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1081
Eastern of France
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O 1690
Great Indian Peninsula 4,15 4371
Great Luxembourg l3l 134
Great Western of Canada 345 315
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 439 435
Northern of Canada ....
Northern of France 7Ol CBO
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1491 1354
Paris and Orleans 1340 1204

1005 608
25,978 25,841
240 229
1,830 3,€08
3,238 2,579
3,730 8,520
47,058 14,348
13,138 11,572
19,902 15,054
7,226 0,158
4,191 3,817
13,020 10,633
16,121 13,00
1277 1,024
46,803 b 77
:d8,5 195
120,460 115,073
65,025 61,297
1,666

Pernambuco 7l
Royal Danish. 69

Sambre and Meuse 6B
South Austrian ...... 1414
Southern of France ......... . 777
Welland ..
West Flanders .............. 758
75
W. and N.W. of France....

1291
777
25
75
758

1,812 1,198
49,070 49,272
2,3156 24,093

937 868
37,682 3.1,469

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THE Do-NOTHING GOVERNMENT.—StiII there is
imperturbable silence on the part of the Govern-
ment as to the measures contemplated for the business of
a session that so far has produced nothing. Lord Derby
has tried to elicit a programme, but could obtain no answer.
Is a surprise intended ; or can it be that nothing at all is to
be done? The latter seems impossible; but what motive
can there be for the former policy ? There is no lack of
reforms required; why this entire absence of reforms to be
attempted r---haw 21mo Q *day.