The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-17 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, June 16.—The yarn market to•day
has been decidedly more cheerful, and there has
been a good inquiry, more particularly for the
markets of the Levant, of Italy, and for the home
trade. On the whole only a limited business has
been transacted. Prices are very firm. There has
been no business of any moment doing for India,
and there is no change in this branch of the market
either as to prices or demand, since Friday. The
buyers for Germany are particularly quiet. In the
cloth market there is also a better feeling than
there was last week, but there ie no change to
quote in prices. Buyers still keep aloof, and ma-
nufacturers do not manifest much anxiety to sell.

The sort of panic feeling which seized the market
last week seems to have passed away. Many of
our spinners and manufacturers are now well
engaged to order; but the check to business
which has recently taken place is preventing
others who had felt disposed from resuming
work, and the number of mills altogether closed is
still large. The singular fact still remains that
while so many mills are idle, and while hundreds of
thousands of operatives are unemployed, little at-
tention has yet been directed to practical efforts to
permanently increase the supply of cotton. Nearly
two millions sterling has been raised by subscrip-
tion and other means to relieve the destitution
y
of the unemployed, and yet through the cotton
companies and other agencies for growing cotton
(the only perfect remedy for the distress) compara-
tively little has been done. The total paid-up
capital which has been embarked in these schemes,
profitable as they promise to be, does not
reach £200,000, and yet the House of Commons,
was told in 1861, on good authority, that the
average profit on works of irrigation alone in
India (so necessary in undertakings connected
with cotton-growing) is 694 per cent.
LEEDS, June 15.—The woollen cloth markets to-
day have been much the same as those of last Tues-
day; but, withal, a little more business has been
done. The parcels generally wage up were of a
miscellaneous character, and they included a fair
portion of ordinary broadclothsand heavy fabrics
for the colder season of the ye. Rather more
business was done in medium white goods.
The purchases of fabrics for autumn and winter are
cantious;y'made, and, indeed, except in the way of
orders for future delivery, no great amount of busi-
ness is doing in goods for those seasons. he reports
from Dewsbury, Batley, Batley Carr,T and other
places celebrated for heavy goods, show that the
manufacturers are busy, but that the sales, for the
season of the year are not brisk. Still there is
nothing of an absolute depressive nature in either
the condition or the prospects of the woollen trade.
Prices of both wools and goods keep firm.
NOTTINGHAM, June 16.—There was a better at-
tendance on 'Change to-day, and the demand for
lace yarns was more oimated than on Friday,
business being done at fully late prices. The de-
mand for hosiery yarns was somewee: quiet, and
prices remained the same as heretofore. Silk firm.
A moderate demand took place for brown nets, and
prices were the turn in favour of the seller.

NIGHTINGALE PlE.—Gretry, the musician, says
a clever writer in the Saturday Review, was a con
stant friend of Isabey, the painter, till the connection was
rudely dissolved by that most dangerous of all pastimes, a
practical joke. He was passionately fond of nightingales.
He used to vow that they were the best of models, the best
of music masters, and that he was largely and eternally in-
debted to them. His love of music did not interfere with
his taste in cookery ; and although he ate little, he was a
gourmand of the first water. One day he was dining with
Isabey, his entertainer, warmly recommended a pate of
most appetising exterior. He ate eagerly of it, and declared
it to be one of the very best he had ever tested in his life.
" It is a pate of nightingales," said Isabey. Grotry turned
pale, laid down his knife and fork, took up his hat and
cane, tottered out of the house, and never entered it again.
It is a pity he had not learned to regard such things philo-
sophically, like one of the best of our English song writers,
Captain Morris :
And a song at my heart alike rushes,
Though I've not fed my lungs
Upon nightingale's tongues,
Nor the brains of goldfinches and thrushes.
Or, as the editor of the Almanaell des Gourmands replied
to a sentimentalist who objected to eating robin-redbreasts.
S'il fallait avoir pitie de tout le monde, on ne mangerait
personne."

CARDIGAN v. CALTHORPE.—MoraIists may, per-
haps, not unprofitably consider the observation, which
seems to be well founded, that simultaneously with the
abolition of duelling there has been a luxuriant growth of
envy, hatred, malice, and &.1 uncharitableness in the British
army,—Saturday Retie