The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-19 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, March 17.—There has been a consider-
able amount of business transacted to-day in yarns. There
have been buyers for India, China, the Mediterranean,
Germany, the home trade—in fact, for every market with-
out any exception, and the prices given have varied from
id. to Id. pe: lb. higher than could be obtained last week
for the classes most in request for manufacturers and for
export. For the Bolton class of yarns there has also
been a good demand at id. per lb. advance, and some spin-
ners have asked 2d to 3d per lb. more than they could
have obtained last week. The market has been exceed-
ingly strong, and a very excited feeling has prevailed. The
great advance in sellers' quotations has no doubt prevented
business to some extent, but for India mule buyers havo
given the terms of spinners more freely than might have
been expected. In the cloth market there has also been a
good deal of excitement yesterday and to-day, owing partly
to the advanced prices of cotton at Liverpool and. partly to
the encouraging tenour of advices from India. A telegram
from Bombay of the 27th of February states thaz cloths had
advanced 9d to 15d per Riece. There was also a telegram to
hand from Calciltia to the 27th of February yesterday stating
that the demand for goods was active, with 811. b. shirtings at
8r 6a; 71b., at 7r 6a; 61b., at 6r 12a; white jaconets,
3r sa; gray jaconets, 4r 8a; Gib T-cloths, 5r 4a; figured
shirtings, 7r 13a ; .and gray madapollams, 3r 14a. Yarns :
Banner• mill, at Ma 3 pice. Owing to these advices, shirt-
ing cloths ankmost descriptions of prints have advanced
6d per piepietk in the Manchester market, but it has been
difficult to get orders to make for future delivery, and
this has limited business a good deal. There has been
very little doing in longcloths and T-cloths, but of long-
cloths the production was previously engaged to some ex-
tent for the Levant. There has been some inquiry for
.jaconets, and a good deal of business has bean doing since
Thursday last in mulls, both to order and out of stock.
The advances asked by manufacturers have tended a good
-deal to 'check business. The business in cloths generally
indeed, has not,been so large as was expected, the excessive
prices demanded for yarns having put it out of the power
of manufacturers to take orders for cloth at the rates which
could have been obtained. By the quotations given above
from Calcutta it will be seen that the selling prices there and
the buying, prices here are more nearly approximating than
they have been for a long time past. The prices there of 71b
shirtings, for instance, after allowing 3s. 9d. per piece for
freights and other charges, come within 6d. to 2s. per
piece of the rate at which they might have been puiehased
here to-day. A fair amount of business is reported in the
aggregate, but not so much as was expected from the nature
of ad vices to hand, and consequently the market closes with
a feeling, to some extent, of disappointment.

SHOCKING DEATH FROM STARVATION.—Yester
day morning Mr. Humphreys held an inpeat at the
Britannia Tavern, Paul-street, Finsbury, respecting the
death of Sarah Jarvis, aged 67, who died on Sunday last.
Anne Jarvis, James-street, Curtain-road, an elderly and
poverty-stricken-looking woman, said that the deceased was
her mother. They supported themselves by needlework.
Deceased worked last Friday in bed, while she was speech-
less. She used to earn about 6d. per week. Witness only
got lid. each for the shirts she made,and her earnings were
2s- 6d. per week. They paid is. 9d. a week rent. They
were allowed ls. 6d. and two loaves of bread every week by
the parit h. Deceased got animal food very rarely, and when
to witness could get half a pound of meat for 2d she gave it to
her. She used to have just enough food to keep body and
soultogether. Witness had brothers, but they were too
poor
contribute to deceased's support. A married daugh-
ter used to give her 9d. per week. The witness also stated
that they were unwilling to go to the workhouse, under the
impression that they would be worse off there. Dr. Collier,
'medical officer to the parish of St. Leonard's, Shorediteh,
said that he gave the family an order to go into the house.
They refused to go. Deceased died from effusion of serum
on the brain, arising from disease and want of sufficient
food, Alter some remarks among the jurors on the singula-
rity thet the poor should entertain the idea so generally
that the food given iu the workhouse was insufficient, they
returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence
and requested the coroner to write to the board of gtmc-
diens to call their attention to the fact that the allowance
to the unfortunate deceased and her daughter was altogether
inadequate to the r wants,

TURREY.—The population of Turkey itt Europe
according to tibieini's statistical tibias, is thus cutoposill
Ottom, ns, 2,100,000; Albanians, 1,50j,000; Tartars and
other Mahoniedans, 950,000 ; total Mahomedans, 4050,000
Greeks, 1,000,000, and not 4,000,000, as reported in Mr
Layard's speech; Catholics, 640,000; Slaves, 6,20G,P00•
;
Armenians and others, about 500,000.

RANGE OF TEMPERATURE.—At 7 a.m. OD tho
14th ult. the thermometer at Montreal was 10 deg below
zero ; at 11 a.m. of the next day it was at 42 deg, a rise of
52 deg in about half that number of hours.

AGRICULTURAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.— Th e
Earl of Dartmouth has consented to take the chair at the
third anniversary festival of this charity, on Wednesday
the 27th May.