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

exerted upon us by the great American Repub.
(Applause.) American freedom acted upon
Europe, and there was nothing better known
at the west end of this great city. (Laughter
and applause.) He had left the House of Com-
mons about 7 o'clock, just as they were proceeding
to a discussion on the ballot. There was not in
general much discussion, because the whole question
was conceded. (Cheers.) There was no practical
argument against the ballot; but if there was it
was one which its opponents dared not use. But if
this argument were used—that in the United States
at the recent elections in several States by means or
the ballot returns were made which were hostile to
the existing Government, and the popular will WES
freely expressed even in the face of a Government
with 600,000 or 800,000 men in the fie :d—the oppo-
nents of the ballot would wish somehow or other
that the United States were ever so far eff', because
it might, unhappily, come to pass that the peop'e
of Et,gland might think that that which saw
people in America from the power of individual
oppression or Government dictation might have
precisely the same beeeficial effect in England.
(Hear, hear, and cheers.) The people of England
had an interest i❑ everything which happened
in America, and when he spoke of the people of
England he did not mean the wearers of coronets
and crowns, but the 20,000,000 of the people who
lived upon their labour, and who having no votes
were not counted in our political census, but with-
out whom there could be no British nation at all.
(Loud applause.) These had an interest, as great
and almost as direct an interest as though they were

living in Massachusetts or New York, in the tre-
mendous struggle for freedom woich was now
shaking a whole continent. (Applause.) During
the last two years there nad been much said, much
written, and something done in this country to gain
us the hate of both sections of the American nation,
the North and the South. (Hear, hear.) He be-
lieved a course of policy might have been taken by
the English press and Government, and by the in-
fluential portion of the American people, that
would have bound us to the hearts of the
20,000,000 of the North, that would have
obliterated all remembrance of the war of the Revo-
lution and of the war of 1812, and we should in
heart and spirit have been for all time virtually one
nation. (Applause.) He could only hope as time
passed and our people ly came better informed they
would become more just, that ill feeling of every
kind would past away, and that in future all who

loved freedom here would hold friendly con-
versation with all who loved freedom there, and that
the two nations, separated as they were by the
ocean, but come as they were from one stock, might
in the future be united in soul, making together
every possible effort for the advancement of the
the liberties and happiness of mankind. (Loud
applause.)
Mr. BRIGHT then introduced to the meeting Mr.
Conway, a gentleman from Eastern Virginia, who
gave an account of his experiences both in the South
and North.

Other speeches were made and resolutions passed,
and the meeting separated.

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, June 16.—The yarn market today
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 id 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 hed 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
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 691 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 mage up were of a
miscellaneous character, and they included a fair
portion of ordinary broadcloths and heavy fabrics
for the colder season of the year. Rather more
business was done in medium white goods.
The purchases of fabrics for autumn and winter are
cautiously 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. The reports
from Dewsbury, Batley; Batley Carr, 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.
ROCHDALE, June 15.—The flannel trade keeps
active, and prices are very firm. There was a good
attendance of buyers to-day, and more than a late
average of business was done. There is an increase
in the demand for exportation as well as in the
tame trade. The Yorkshire goods trade is also
►ittle more active, and late prices are fully main-
tained. The wool trade shows a fair amount of
animation, though manufacturers are not eager
purchasers at the highest prices demanded. The
new clip is well spoken of, and the growers are stiff
in their prices.
NOTTINGHAM, June 16.—There was a better at-
tendance on 'Change to-day, and the demand for
lace yarns was more animated than on Friday,
business being done at fully late prices. The de-
mand for hosiery yarns was somewhat quiet, and
prices remained the same as heretofore. Sisk firm.
A moderate demand took place for brown nets, and
Tices were the turn in favour of the seller.