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 tor
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 very little speculative business. There are
few or no purchases for re-sale, and most of the

mansactions of recent date have been entered into

to supply actual wants. In some quarters this busi-
ness is attribated 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 not 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, 11th.—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 fuir demand for steam coal, and quotations are
firmer. The ironmasters are moderately well off
for orders, and there is considerable activity at the
t
works. The inquiries from the continent h v
yet been so numerous as expected.
change to report in prices. The shipmentsereis not
yet
month have been large, owing
of orders through the want
fvessels.

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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,

superior courts for Trinity Term, the examiners re-
commended the following gentlemen, under the age
of 26, as being entitled to honorary distinction :
Walter Webb, age 21. The Council of the Incor-
porated Law Society have accordingly awarded to
Mr. Webb the prize of books presented by the hon-
ourable society of Clifford's Inn. The Council have
also awarded to each of the undermentioned gentle-.
men, whose names are placed in alphabetical order,
a prize of books given by the Incorporated Law
Society :--Charles Edward Bretherton, aged 23;
Thos. W. Henry Hallam, aged 25 ; John W. Pye-
Smith, jun., aged 22 ; and Joseph Edward Turner,
aged 21. The examiners have ale() further certified
that the following candidates, whose names are
placed in alphabetical order, passed examinations
which entitle them to commendation :—Henry
Johnson Carr, aged 22; William Cooper, aged 23;
George Sangster Green, aged 21; John C. Hardy,
aged 23; Joan Edward Gray Hill, aged 23 ; Win.
Ramwell, aged 22; and James Hamilton Townend,
aged 22. The council have accordingly awarded
them certificates of merit. The examiners have
further announced to the following candidates,
whose names are placed in alphabetical order, that
their answers to the questions were highly satisfac-
tory, and would have entitled them to prizes or cer-
tificates of merit if they had been under the age of
26 :—J ohn Robinson Adams, aged 31; Geo. Arthur
Rooks, aged 28 ; Chas, Sheppard, aged 29 ; Horace
Wm. Smith, M.A., aged 31 ; and Frederick Stroud,
aged 27, The number of candidates examined
in
this term was 147; of these 131 were passed, and
18 postponed. The examiners have aISJ rerartf:d
that the following gentlemen, whose names are
arranged in alphabetical order, have passed the in-
termediate examination with distinction :—George
Henry Blunt, aged 19; Alfred Brumsdon, aged 20;
Edmund John Thomas Judge Mourilyan, aged 21 ;
and Fredk. Nalder, aged 18. The number of candi-
dates examined in this term was 74 ; of these 72
were passed, and the remainder postponed.