The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-25 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Nov. 24.—There has been a
much better feeling in the yarn market to day,
with a good deal of disposition to buy, but spinners
are asking rather higher rates than they were on
Friday, and this has in some measure checked
business. On the whole there has been much
more doing than of late, and there is a percep-
tible return of confidence. In home trade yarns
there has been a pretty fair business, and prices
are id. to id. per lb. above the rates of last
Tuesday. There, is a better tone in the home trade
market than we have witnessed for 10 or 14 days
past, and spinners, while limiting their purchases
to present wants in most cases, seem to thick that
prices have touched the lowest point. In the cloth
market we have also had a decidedly more cheerful
tone, and an increased disposition on the part of
Buyers to operate has been manifested. There has
been a good inquiry for all sorts of goods, and for
most of the foreign markets, as well as for the
home trade, Manufacturers, however, owing
partly to the increased cost of yarns and to an
impression that prices of cloth will go higher, are
not so anxious to sell as they appeared to be under
the depression and stagnation prevailing last week,
and are in most cases ad vancingtheir quotations to
some extent. Tho business of the day has been
somewhat limited from this fact, but buyers have in
some instances given rather more than they would
have done some days ago, and the market closes
with a better feeling and at rather advanced prices.
LEEDS, 24th.—The woollen cloth-markets have
been of an ordinary character this morning, present-
ing no feature of special notice. The attendance of
buyers was not large, and the purchases made
were miscellaneous, the goods sold including a fair
sprinkling of ordinary black all-wool cloths, unions,
tweeds, as well as the various heavy fabrics which
are adapted to the season. Prices are firm, as well
for the manufactured article as for the raw
material. The West Riding woollen manufac-
turers, as well as the wool brokers, have made
liberal purchases of wool at the current colonial
sales in London. Some of the wool purchased by
the manufacturers is already going into consump•
tion, few holding heavy stocks. The flax trade
keeps active, the spinners and manufacturers being
well employed and having no difficulty in obtaining
a sale of their productions. Prices firm_

NOTTINGHAM, 24th.—We had again a good at-
tendance of merchants and others at this exchange-
hall to-day, and a moderate share of business was
done in lace yarns, at about as much money as last
week. There was not much passing in hosiery
yarns, for which late rates were genera:ly obtained.
Silks the same as heretofore. The demand for brown
nets was by no means buoyant, and recent prices
were supported. Many machines making this class
of goods have been stopped.
ROCHDALE, 23d.—The tone of this market has
undergone a decided change since our last report. For
some weeks past the flannel trade has been in a very
satisfactory state. But for some reason or another
that acceptable state of things has undergone a re-
lapse, and it is difficult to assign a reason why,
unless it be the continued openness of the weather,
which is not favourable to the sale of our goods.
To-day's market was quite stagnant as compared
with last week, but it had no effect upon prices.
The goods on offer were chiefly from Yorkshire,
but the sale was very dull. This depression has not
had any present effect upon the activity of manu-
facturers.

A Horribly Luscious Panegyric on the
Oyster !

To praise the oyster is to " gild refined gold and
paint the lily." Yet we are unwilling to allude to
this succulent and delicate bivalve, which has
afforded so much gastronomical enjoyment to man,
without expressing an affectionate interest in his
welfare. One can scarcely think of a fresh, white,
fat "native," as one certainly cannot see him swim-
ming in his own liquor, without a premonitory
moistening of the palate, indicative of his gastric
affinities with the " minister of the interior." One
of his eulogists exclaims: " The oyster contains
much nutritious' substance which is very digestive,
and producee a peculiar charm and an inexplicable
pleasure. After having eaten oysters we feel
joyous, light, and agreeable—yes, one might say
fabulously well. He who has eaten oysters for
the first time is best enabled to judge of this ; for
soon after having eaten them he will experience a
sensation he never felt before, and never had an
idea of." This sensation is experienced rather by
those who eet oysters for lunch, and as a whet
before dinner a la Francatse, than by those who
eat them in the evening. Oysters are said to have
a singular vivifying influence in cases where the
nervous organs are affected. They are also often re-
commended to persons suffering from weak diges-
tion. The medical man, however, usually accom-
panies his permission with a by no means
unnecessary caution—that the oyster shall be
thoroughly masticated. Too many persons bolt their
oyster. Professor Wilson, in the Noctes, admits that
he did. Dr. Kitchener knew better, for the oyster
has not only a finer flavour, but is far more nourish-
ing, when, as the worthy doctor says, he " feels the
teeth of the piscivirous gourmet tickling him to
death." Oysters are said to increase the blood
without heating the system, and taken before mid-
day with a glass of wine—Chablis is preferred on
the Continent—they often produce a most salutary
effect upon delicate ladies and invalids.
People are truly to be pitied who cannot eat
oysters. There are a few exceptional cases, no
doubt, but as a rule a child need no more grow up
with a dislike for oysters than a preference for
using its left hand. All young children, say under
two years old, like them. When the little bipeds
become older, particularly if they have discon-
tinued eating them for a considerable interval, an
unhappy fastidiousness often developes itself. The
best method of overcoming this repugnance is said
to be to take a piece of French roll or (milk•bread)
thinly-buttered, and to put on it the oyster deprived
of its beard. Squeeze a few drops of lemon on the
" native" and pepper it, and then the incipient
oyster-hater will usually eat it and admire the taste.
An Englishman who grows up with an invincible
distaste for a product of our shores which ancient
and modern nations declare to be unique, loses
such delicious gustatory sensations in health, and
such a useful and powerful restorative in sick-
ness, that he ought to be treated medi-
cally, and all his friends should concer❑ themselves
about his cure. Why should there not be a pro-
fessor—say under the roof which shelters the gigan-
tic Java oysters in Maiden-lane, whose duty it
should be to lead the ening palate back to health
and oysters, and to whom careful parents from the
country might lead their children, as they take them
to the London dentist ? Could a guinea be better
spent than in extirpating a silly prejudice, and qua-
lifying the rising generation to enjoy those pleasant
companions of midnight hours and midday feasts ?
—London _Review.