The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-03 00:00:00

FRUIT.

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, ;fol. 2,—The yarn market has been very
strong as regards pribes, and there has bean a good deal of
Inquiry for all markets, but not much business. The disco-
very made in Liverpool on Wednesday that the stock of
cotton was greater by 100,000 bales than the previous re-
turns had led buyers to believe occasioned a severe shock in
the present sensitive state of the market from high prices,
but the market seems to have fully recovered from it to-
day, and sellers confidently look for ar increased business.
The market has been quieter, but it is accounted for by the
absence of holiday people. The business has been exceed-
ingly limited in cloth, though this market, like that for
yarn, appears to have recovered in price what was lost on
Wednesday, owing to the cotton report as to stock. There
is a decidedly better feeling, but still buyers do not seem
disposed to operate at present rates. The stock of cloth in
the hands of speculators is still large, and one of the causes
of so little being done in it is said to be that manufacturers
having gone into the market when cotton had receded con-
siderably in value they are able to take orders and supply
goods at lower rates than speculators, who mostly hold
goods bought at the high rates to which they were forced
up in the early part of September. Prices to-day are Very
firm, and where sellers operate they are obliged to give the
full rates of Friday. Messrs. Du Fey and Co., in reviewing
the market during the past month, say :—" During the past
month a fair amount of business has been done both in
yarns and goods. The home-trade merchants were obliged
to purchase for urgent wants, and a limited demand for
various foreign markets having also sprung up gave a show
of some activity to our market, which has not occurred for
several months."

LEEDS.—The Leeds Chamber of Commerce reports as
follows of the state of trade for the month of December :
" During the earlier part of the month a considerable busi-
ness was done in woollens, especially considering the ad-
vanced state of the season. In the latter part, the usual
time for stock taking being at hand, the merchants
have been buying little more than for present wants.
Considerable orders have been given for spring goods, espe-
cially for light fancies, and the bulk of the manufacturers
are very busy, the exceptions being in those districts prin-
cipally engaged in the plain cloth trade. The want of de-
mand for the cotton districts and for the United States has
its influence on the market, but on the whole the woollen
trade in this town and neighbourhood-iihk.asheigaitAAtate,

and the new year's trade is looked forward to with confi-
dence in its continued prosperity. The public wool sales in
London, which were in progress at the date of our last re-
port, closed on the 10th inst. The advance with which the
sales opened was scarcely maintained, and at the close prices
were on the average much the same as in August. About
the same proportion was taken for foreign account. It can
never be too strongly impressed upon the colonial wool
growers, especially in Australia, how much their wools are
deteriorated by the burrs and grass seeds with which they
are so generally infested. There has been no particular
feature to notice in the trade since the close of the London
sales, the general demand is rather slack, but prices are
firmly supported. In English combing wools there has
been a decided improvement, and more business has been
done at an advance of 5s to 10s per pack, with a still upward
tendency. Shorts and noils are without much alteration,
but there is a somewhat better inquiry for them ; in the face
of the very large imports of most kinds of flax they maintain
their value with great firmness, and the demand is lively.
There has been no material alteration in prices, but holders
are exceedingly firm. Tows and cedillas are also in brisk
demand, and green hemps have been sold at higher rates.
The spinners are also very busy, and have considerable or-
ders in hand. The slight reduction in prices reported last
month has been recovered, and orders can only be placed at
full rates. The relative prices of linen and cotton goods
have no doubt been one cause of the increased consumption
of linen yarns. Machine and engineer tool trades, &c.—The
iron trade has not been so good latterly, and the demand
for both merchant's and best iron has been dull. This
is not unusual at the end of the season, and the makers are
looking for an improvement at the beginning of the new
year. The makers of railway plant continue well employed,
and in all branches there are orders in hand for some time
to come. The machine makers are very busy, especially
for flax machinery. The engineer tool makers are only
moderately well employed, and some of them are working
short time, or with a reduced number of hands. The de-
mand for cut nails is very brisk, and all the manufacturers
are in full work, and have considerable orders in hand. The
demand for leather has varied somewhat during the month,
but on the whole a fair average business has been done, and
as the sales in moat sorts have kept pace with fresh arri-
vals, there is very little, if any, increase in stock. There is
no alteration of any moment to report in respect of prices.
Rapeseed and linseed are fully as high in price as last month,
and although the mills are working, the present rates for
oil do not leave any profit. Rape oil is more inquired for, '
and the tone of the market is firmer than for some time
past. Linseed oil is also in demand, and prices are well
supported. Cakes are slow of sale in consequence of the
very mild season. Olive oils maintain the prices of last
month ; the rates required in the producing countries would
leave a loss at the present quotations in this market. The
paper trade still continues very quiet. The great falling
off in the demand for making up papers in Lancashire is
the principal cause, The supplies of wheat have been good,
' and a fair business has been done. A considerable quan-
tity of barley has been shown and the maltst 3rs have bought
to a fair extent. Oats and beans continue as before."

CARDIFF, lat.—There is a fair inquiry for every descrip
tion of iron, and prices are firmer than was the case a week
ago. Rails have not yet reached the quotatioas which ruled
three months since, but merchant bars are in good demand,
and prices are fully maintained. The coal trade evinces
considerable activity, and large shipments have been made
during the month of December. The men at nearly all the
collieries of the district are well employed. House and gas
coals continue in active request, and there is a fair demand
for steam c oal. There is no change to report in quotations.

WASHINGTON DURING THE WAR.—The city was
not, in former times, notoriously corrupt. Its
officials were, for the most part, honest and high-minded.
But with the war came enormous outlays for food, clothing,
ordnance, ships, and transportation, and the fi Igers of
every third man in America itched ,for a share of the plun-
der. The avaricious, the perjured, the peculating, rallied
forthwith, and the war and navy departments were placed,
virtually, in a state of siege. Sentries barred admittance
to public offices, personal applications to secretaries were
forbidden, and the qualifications for a chief of bureau were
deafness, blindness, and intangibility. Every State
in the Union was represented by sharpers. The "lobby"
rivalled the army in numbers. No threat could intimi-
date, no exposure abash, the unprincipled "patriots'
who plundered and made merry over the general die.
aster. Adventurers of every grade intrigued for con-
tracts, from butchers who haggled for hides, tallow,
and camp offal, to merchant princes who bargained
for gunboats, field batteries, and monster ordnance.
Embalmers clamoured for the bodies of the slain.
Inventors piled the arsenal grounds with motley models of
tents, knapsacks, rifles, and projectiles. Builders hopod to
dispose of their rotten vessels, and stable-keepers to sell
their spavined nags. A rogue from New York swindled
in
steamers, a rogue from Massachusetts in shoes. Pennsyl-
vanians made themselves infamous in shoddy speculations,
Connecticut mill-owners dealt in damaged muskets. Ohio
drovers fattened upon emaciated cattle, and Illinois factors
throve upon mouldy bread, Jews of a bad class peopled
the shops of Pennsylvanian Avenue, and sutlers that should
have been in the Penitentiary robbed the troops of their
paper pay. Bounty and claim agents, so called, set up
offices under the shadow of the Treasury, and cheated the
widow and the orphan. Railway presidents put their
heads together and agreed upon a concert of extortion.
Physicians, catching the infection, thieved in medicines,
and high officers of State enriched themselves at the
expense of the country. " Williard's" and the " National,"
two vast hotels, presented strange spectacles of an
evening, when their halls and " ordinaries " were
filled with soldiers and civilians. Here was a quartermaster
whispering with a " smart" waggon-maker, and there a
Representative listening to a lobbyist, whose tongue ran
oil and wine. Professional agents to procure commissions,
button-holed newly-arrived guests, and spruce volunteer
officers clustered on the sofas, with their spurs in the air
and a glass at their lips. The bars were thronged, and
tobacco-smoke rose in suffocating elowds to the ceiling.
The Capitol building became, for a time, a grand barrack,.
and Fire Zouaves held session in the halls of Coor!gpreosrsk
Bakeries were built in the cellars, and hogsheadbedrag.gesciruftgoitshtse
obstructed the marble porticoes and colonnafdoer:.
the Presi-
amblers. Lights
of rival regiments pummelled each other
'w-hero vice was dent's mansion, and drunken soldiergee
pleasantest man-
guard-house at the heels of hor!oeds:
sions in the city were occupied D.Y
atm()
merry-
burned at unwonted hoUrs.
Publtic
making. . • • became numerous and profit-
languished in Washing began. A
fine
strife b new theatre was
able as soon as thfe ..serenaders" gave entertainments
opened ; bands
.o
htrope dancers in
various halls; tT.
held forth performed in the public
lecture's at the Smithsonian Insti-
tute,streets,
uestrianperformers and eq
flourished in the public
Drinking-houses, or, as
witla k they were commonly
caned, " rum-mills," sprang up at every corner ; the streets
at night were copies of the Haymarket. M'Clellan's pro •
vost-marshal eudeavoured in vain to abate the prevailing
disturbances. Horsemen were planted at crossings, with
instructions to cut down any officer or soldier who rode at
a gallop ; the casks of disorderly publicans were emptied in
the streets ; loitering volunteers were compelled to return
to camp or go to prison, and a Government detective
bureau was organised to apprehend spies, traitors, and
swindlers. The battles that occurred in rapid succession
close to the city rendered Washington an immense hos-
pital depot, and there have been at one time as many as
twenty thousand sick and wounded within its walls. All
the vehicles in the city have been seized, in emergency, to
serve as ambulances. War-meetings have been held in the
Capitol grounds,—Cornhill Magazine for January.
KENNEDY V. BROWN AND WlFE.—This
cele-
brated cause, in which Mr. Kennedy, the barrister, obtained
damages of £20,000 for services rendered to Mrs. Swinfen,
stands first for judgment in the Court of Common Pleas,
013 M9liday) the 12th inst,—.Era,

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, SIX O'CLOCK.

PRUSSIA.

In opposition to the addresses of loyalty sent
from all parts of the kingdom of Prussia to King
William 1., the Liberal deputies are obtaining from
their electors signatures to addresses of adhesion to
their attitude in the National Assembly. M. Von
der Reck, chief of the district of Belgard, in the
circumscription of Keeglin, looking on this step of
the electors as a blameable proceeding, has issued a
rescript on the subject.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JAN. 2.

New Year's-day is distinguished in Dublin by the
inauguration of the Lord Mayor for the ensuing
year, a pageant which attracts great numbers of
spectators. Yesterday it was spoilt by the weather,
which was extremely wet and cold, the streets being
i❑ the worst possible condition for a procession, and
' the whole city wearing a very dismal aspect.
The Hon. John Prendergast Vereker having been
sworn in as Lord Mayor, and invested with the in-
signia of office, ho expressed his thanks for the
honour conferred upon him, promised to avoid all
party feeling, and to act as Daniel O'Connell did—
in such a manner that no person, looking to his
conduct, should be able to tell to what political party
he belonged—a promise that was received with loud
applause.
The Most Rev. Dr. Cullen delivered a discourse
in his cathedral on Wednesday evening, in which
he reviewed the old year from his Church's
standpoint. If the rich and poor had acted towards
one another according to the Gospel, both, he said,
would have an opportunity of gathering a rich
harvest of.merit. But if the Roman Catholics of
Ireland have to complain of poverty and its con-
sequent evils, they should be thankful that they
are exempt from the scourges which have fallen
upon other countries. In Italy a wild spirit of
revolution has spread ruin and devastation around,
and shaken society to its very foundations. The
condition of America is still worse—where brother
is arrayed in deadly strife against brother and
friend against friend, and innumerable multitudes
of brave men are sent to an untimely grave. How
thankful, then, should the Irish be for having been
preserved from such calamities ! Among other
causes for thankfulness during the year, Dr. Cullen
referred to the declarations of the laity in favour of
the Catholic University, against the attempt that
was made to extend the godless system of educa-
tion by a Minister who had assailed their holy re-
ligion in Italy Lod Spain. He could not but glar ee
at the public demonstration that was made in this.
city on the 20th of July last :

" That day shall be ever memorable in Ireland and in
the annals of Catholic education. The mayors, the town-
councillors, the chairmen of townships, the sheriffs, the
magistrates, the deputy-lieutenants,the multitude, of people
assembled in this church to assist at the sacrifice of the holy
mass, were all animated with one feeling—a firm determi-
nation to secure a Catholic education for their children—a
determination still more strongly manifested by the good
order, the regularity, the solemnity of the procession
through the city, which was attended by a concourse of
people such as was never witnessed in this city before.
Have we not great motives to be thankful to God for such
union upon a point so essential for the preservation of our
faith, and of everything good we have inherited from our
martyred forefathers r'

Dr. Cullen turns from the happy state of Ireland
to the contrast presented by Italy, and says :
"During the last few yearn, our Holy Father has been
tried in the crucible of affliction; he has been robbed of a
large portion of the territories with which the piety of past
ages had endowed the Holy See to enable it to provide for
the administration of universal Church and to preserve its
independence. During the same period powerful princes
and unscrupulous statesmen have been leagued against him
and bent on his final destruction. "Yet within the last 12
months the horizon has brightened and the storm has
abated some of its violence. One after another, the ene-
mies of the Holy See and of religion are passing from the
scene of their iniquities. Many of the leaders in the sacri-
legious warfare have gone already before the Eternal Judge
to account for their misdeeds ; many have fallen from the
height of their usurped authority never to rise again. Dis-
order and confusion, robbery and bloodshed, have been the
consequences of their crimes ; and the happy man who
was saluted by infatuated crowds as a redeemer, who was
hailed as the first of heroes, and almost placed
upon the altars of Protestant England because he
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wounded,n, ign
swore eternal enmity to Catholic clergy and pro-
f
and taken prisoner at Aspromonte, has lost all his prestige
and become an object of contempt even to those who puffed
him up with their praises, and he has retired into obscurity
—there, it is to be hoped, to weep over his follies and trans-
gressions, and to bemoan the many calamities inflicted on
his country. In the meantime the Pope has been able to
enjoy the blessings of peace in his capital, and to preserve
Rome from the evils which afflict all the regions of Italy
that have fallen under the revolutionary sway of the Sar-
dinian Government. His Holiness in his poverty has
been able to repair churches, to promote public works,
to give oceupation to his people, and to preserve the poor
from the miseries to which they are exposed in other coun-
tries. In Rome and its territory you do not see men,
women, and children barefooted, bareheaded, and almost
naked, even during the coldest days of winter; there no
poor creatures are all wed to die of hunger or inanition.
And, what most fills us with admiration, his Holiness's
charity is so great, that, though in difficulties himself, he
not only provides for the wants of his:own subjects, but 11
extends a merciful hand to his distant children,
_aredlgfinivani
means of relieving distress, not only in France
d
•sna su
me has been
and Ireland, but even in England, where h
so often insulted, and his image yearly committed to the
flames. Ought we not to be tha fal to God for having
a pontiff in these dangerous times--for en-
dowing him with given us so holy
so many virtues, strengthening him
against his enemies, and enabling him to perform innu-
merable good and edifying works ?"

At the usual weekly meeting of the South Dublin
Unien yesterday a curious fact was brought to light.
The master's report was read, in which it was stated
that on Christmas night he found the cook, Matthew
Francis, drunk. He reported the fact to the visiting
committee, who recommended that he to dismissed,
the complaint having been proved. The chairman
said, as he was at the committee, he wished to state
that in addition to this iniquity, Francis admitted
t
to having provided a brutal weapon to use against
the paupers in case he came into collision withi
to ' spector, thinking it a most outrageous.h wt
ebaePabould be
again. The whole committee and the Pooro.ti aw
pro-
vide,Di-
were unanimously of opinion
an inch in
was a bar of iron about a fobotoln
the end about two
diameter, having a kneoi,hing about two pounds.
cordweighing
fe attachedconfessed
dismissed. The weapon referrendgtontheyaa
nearly
ye chairman
inches in diameter, and
to a hole in
It had a strong
that he would use
according. as they came up. After a short
one end. Francis
the Paupers, and said he would knock
angry discussion, the report of the committee
it against
but
was adopted by the board, and the dismissal of
1 Francis, the cook, resolved on.
them down
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We
in first. rate style.
Morrison at
Wrre ilhEavre"reseEeivOFed a TnEREV. MR. M`LAUCHLIN.—
copy of the correspondence that
has taken place between the Home Secretary and Mr. Kid-
ston, J:P., who committed Mr. 111‘Laughlin to prison for
30 days, in reference to the case. In his letters Mr. Kid-
ston submits that it was not a case of conscience, but on
Mr. M'Lauchlin's part an attempt to place the priesthood
above the law—to arrogate a privilege to encourage crimi-
nals to flee to them for advice and protection, and to exclude
all inquiry by courts of law. The Home Secretary had
corresponded with Mr. Kidston in consequence of the above
memorial, and having obtained the above report, wit): to
o
f e
Bishop Murdoch that it appeared to him that were
release Mr. M`Lauchlin " without any instruction from
that person that ho is convinced that he was in error, or
any assurance that he would not, in any similar case, adopt
the same course, he should be giving his sanction to the
assumption of a privilege by
inethe Glasgow most
ministers of religion of every
seriousnew s newspapers,
p e cases,rs
ad-
dressed o
denomination which he is advised they cannot legally claim,
and which would tend, even
defeat the ends ofjustice." We observe in a letter of date
December 27,hed th
to Mr. M'Lauchlin's agents, that the Home Secre-
tary expresses his satisfaction at the liberation of Mr.
M`Lauchlin till the question of the legality of his sentenc
can be tried.
The next mails from Calcutta, China, and
Australia are not expected to come to hand before
the 15th inst., owing to the detention of the last outward
mails for those quarters from the 26th to the 29th ult., con-
sequent upon the loss of the Colombo.
It is reported that the Confederate Government
hive appointed an agent in England to obtain a_loan,