The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-20 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Leeds Mercury.)
TRADE OF LEEDS._ Since our last the business in our cloth-
balls has experienced a slight change for the better, but the
same depression, which has now existed for some weeks in the
warehouses, still prevails.

HUDDERSFIELD MARKET.-This clay's (Tuesday's) market
has been very dull, and very little business done ; prices much
the same as last week.

BRADFORD MARKET.-There have been more buyers and
more bustle in the piece market to.day ( Thursday), and no
doubt more business has been done than on recent market days.
There is no variation in prices. The yarn-market continues
about the same as reported list week. The manufacturers buy
cautiously, and endeavour to purchase for less money, as they
cannot obtain a remunerating price for goods when manufac-
tured. There is next to nothing doing in the wool trade this
week.

HALIFAX MARKET.-The attendance of buyers in the Hall
has not been so good to-day ( Wednesday), and no great quan-
tity of goods has been disposed of, still there is a moderate de-
mand for low listings and heavy single goods. The yarn mar-
ket continues in a lifeless state, and spinners cannot obtain a
remunerating. price for the little they are able to sell. There
is not much doing in the Wool Market. Stocks in Staplers'
hands are but light, yet they are quite willing to sell on rather
easier terms to the purchaser; spinners, however, buy very
sparingly, chiefly on account of the inadequate price offered for
the produce.

WAKEFIELD Wool, MAnKET....__We. have again to report an
exceedingly dull sale for Wool, and what few sales have been
made of both long and short Wool are about id. per lb. below
the prices that were realized a month ago.
TRADE OF MANCIIESTER.--The pressure on the money
market, and the partial interruption of confidence, causing a
continued decline of cotton wool, lead to a corresponding re-
duction in the prices of goods and yarns. It is, however, we
believe, known that there are large orders in the market for
the latter, and consequently there is no general disposition to
submit to anything that can be called a sacrifice, so far as they
are concerned. The market for goods, too, is expected to
become brisker as the season advances, and manufacturers
who can afford to hold stocks therefore abstain, in the present
state of the demand, from urging sales.—Manchester Guar.
dian.

LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, FEL 18.
Our market continues exceedingly depressed, and some of our
holders have not hesitated to make large sacrifices in price to induce
sales of American descriptions, particularly of fair to good fair qua-
lity of New Orleans (new crop), which have been forced off, in
some instances at a decline of %d. per lb. Prices of all kinds are
very unsettled, and may be quoted nominally Vtd. to 1/2d. under the
rates of last week. Speculators have taken 200 American, and ex-
porters 110 bales of American. About 3,000 bales were sold yes-
terday, chiefly American.

_
d. d.
20 Sea Islands .... 25i to 30
50 Stained ditto... 10 —l4

d. d.
340 Maranhams 91 to 111
780 Pernams lO —l2
Madras 0 7
West India 0 0
Barbadoes 0 0
60 Demeraras 111 —l2
250 Egyptians l2 —l5
60 Peruvians
160 Laguayras 0 9k
Bahamas
ton-market to-day is estimated at
-day, and consists of 150 Pernam%
is, 1014 d. ; 50 Surats, 41/4d. to
1/2d. to 914 d.

Boweds 0 0
4,540 Uplands 7 9i
1,120 Alabamas 6i— 9}
5,600 Orleans 6 -11
650 Surats
670 Bahias
- Carthagenas 0 0
10 Bengals
The business done in our Cott
2,000 bales at the prices of yester
101%d. to Ild. ; 50 Maranham.
61, d. ; and 1,700 Americans, 71i

Bales.
Taken on speculation this year
Same in 1836
Forwarded to the country unsold this year
Same in 1836
Increase of import this year compared with the
same date last year
Increase of stock
Decrease of quantity taken for consumption 40,800
Decrease of quantity taken for export ... 5,530

Comparative View of the Imports and Exports of Cotton into and
from the whole Kingdom, from the Ist of January to the 11th
inst., and of the Imports and Exports for the same period last
year :

Into the Kingdom this year.

American
118,077
South American
West Indies, Demerara, &c.
East Indies
Egypt, &c.

Total•of all descriptions ... .. 161,469
Same period last year.
Bags.
American
South American ...
West Indies, Demerara, &c. ... 949
East Indies
Egypt, &c.

Increase of Imports as compared with same
period last year
Exports in 1837.
American, 1,195; Brazil, 295; East India, 5,165 ;
West India, —; Other kinds, —.
Total in 1837
Same period last year

Stock.

Feb. 10, 1837 .......
Same time, 1836 ....

6,655
4,946

262,020
136,220

Robert Parnther, Esq., will have a grand musict.l
party on Wednesday evening next, at his house in Graftol.-
street, Bond-street.

The Cesarovitch, Alexander Nicolaevitch, the En-.
peror's eldest son, will attain his twentieth year in April next.
His constitution is robust, his figure elegant, and his presence
noble and expressive. He goes through most of the manly
exercises with great grace. His education has been most
carefully attended to, and the time is approaching when ho is
to set out upon his travels to foreign countries. From these
France is by name to be excluded, but he will go to England,
as if in England, the great hot-bed of the great ancient and
inextinguishable revolutionary contagion was not to be found.
The Cesarovitch will, however, go to England, as Generals try
to obtain a glance at an enemy's camp—to study their tactics,
and prepare themselves to defeat them.—Gazette de France.
Mrs. Sparks, for many years a member of the
Drury-lane Company, expired on the 4th instant at Farnham
in Surrey, at the advanced age of 83 years. Mrs. Sparks made
her first appearance in London at Drury-lane Theatre as the
Old Maid in Murphy's farce of that name, so far back as
1788, and until she quitted the stage, some 18 or 20 years
ago, continued to represent the antiquated and matronly cha-
racters of the drama, which, on Miss Pope's retirement, wholly
devolved upon her, and in the performance of which she had
considerable merit. Her husband, who has been some years
dead, was also a performer at the same theatre, where he made
his debut, shortly after his wife's, as Gibby, in The Wonder.
Mrs. Sparks was the sister of Mrs. Brown, much celebrated
for her representation of The Romp, from which Mrs. Jor-
dan, afterwards so distinguished for her style and spirit in this
particular line of character, is said to have borrowed them.

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from Five Guineas to Six Guineas per pair, An elegant and exten-
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rying from nine to ten inches in height, may be selected from at the
above price, at T. COX SAVORY'S, Working Silver and Gold-
smith, 47, Cornhill, London.
N.l3.—A Pamphlet, with Drawings, Lists of Prices of Plate,
Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &c., may be had gratis, or will be
forwarded in answer to a post-paid application.

BIRTHS.
On the 15th inst., at Iticester, the Viscountess Chctwynd, of a
daughter.

On the 14th inst., at Ketteringham ITO, Norfolk, the lady of
A. Ogleby, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 16th inst., at West Brixton, the lady of J. Fitter, jun.,
Esq., of a son.
On the 16th inst., the lady of John Morgan, Esq., of Broad•
street-buildings, of a daughter.
On the Bth inst., in Rua de St. Francisco, Lisbon, the lady of
RiLhard Knowles, Esq., of a son.