The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-09 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Sept. B.—We have had a large business
transacted in yarns, both single and double. The demand
has embraced all descriptions, for all markets, and many
yarns have been sold at an advance of ld. per lb. on the
rates current last Friday. Sellers in some instances have
asked even a greater advance than this. The market has
been very excited, and closes strong and buoyant, with an
upward tendency. We do not remember often to have seen
a more lively end animated feeling. Home trade, or cop
yarns, have participated freely in the demand, and this
branch of the market has also been rather excited. The
prices of cops have advanced id. to ld. per lb. as compared
with Friday, and there has been a fair business done. The
cloth market has shared in the excitement which prevails in
that for yarns, and which is to a great extent the result of
the state of things prevailing in the Liverpool cotton mar-
ket. Since Friday a rather uncertain feeling had prevailed
among manufacturers and holders of cloth as to what prices
should be asktd, and buyers had been equally at a loss
what offers they ehou'd make, but to-day there has been a
decided advance upon nearly all descriptions of cloth, and
pretty nearly to the extent of the rise upon cotton. They
have not been able to obtain this advance in all cases, and it
has had the effect of limiting business. The inquiry has
been very active, and buyers would have been glad to give
out large orders at the old rates. In some cases they have
consented to give the advance, but not to any great extent.
The inquiry has been pretty general and has embraced de-
scriptions of goods suited to nearly all markets, home and
foreign, and has to some extent partaken of a specula-
tive character. Both buyers and sellers are watching
the market somewhat keenly, and it has been pretty obvious
that buyers would have supplied themselves more freely if
they could have felt that the prices demanded to-day would
become firmly established. The fact that some of the busi-
ness doing is of a speculative character no doubt operates to
render thew cautious, though there can be little doubt that
spinners and manufacturers have such large engagements
as to encourage a belief in this direction. Messrs. J, Slagg
and Co. report of the cloth market : " From Tuesday last
to the close of the week there was no material change in
the market, and the moderate amount of business done was
at the extreme prices of this day week. Yesterday and to.
day, owing to the course of the cotton market, there has
been considerable excitement here ; but, as manufacturers
hold firmly for an advance in proportion to that on cotton,
there has been very little business done."
LEEDS, Bth.—The woollen cloth trade keeps steady in all
departments, and for a Tuesday's market an average amount
of business has been done in the cloth halls to-day. The
bulk of the sales has been those of witneys, meltons, pilots,
and other heavy fabrics for winter, with a fair portion of
tweeds and ordinary black cloths. Mixed witneys in fancy
shades, command a ready sale. Indeed, novelties are sought
for, but not many are offered in the public market. Prices
are very firm, tho various raw materials used in the woollen
trade being high. The flax trade is active, and both threads
and yarns are in good consumptive demand at late prices.
The raw material is scarcely so firm as it was, the reports
as to the new crop inspiring hopes on the part of spinners
that a slight reduction may be reasonably looked for.
NOTTINGHAM, Bth.—There was a better attendance at
this Exchange-hall to-day, and the demand for lace yarns
was more active, higher prices being asked for and obtained.
For hosiery yarns an advance of le. per bundle was asked,
but the demand was by no means brisk. Silks unaltered.
The demand for brown nets was decidedly worse, and
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mediums
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makers could not obtain within 10 per cent. of prime cost.
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good deal of activity, a
buyers were numerous. There is
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A HINT TO PANTOMIME WRITET:S—A few
days since a clockmaker of Brussels, g
little room indoors, packed away a lot of clocks in a basket,
on the pavement in front of his house. The basket was
carefully filled, and straw was pressed down on the top of
all. Nothing was then needed but a lid, to procure which
the busy tradesman entered his premises. During his ab.
Bence a tumbril, used for the collection of the sewage and
refuse of that part of the city, came along, and the driver,
seeing the basket, immediataly empted the contents into his
receptacle. The clockmaker's astonishment at finding his
empty basket on his return may :be imagined. His loud
cries attracted the neighbours, who, seeing the scaver,oer
in the distance, guessed what had become of the el-
and
they were soon recovered, but doeiciedly tb
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immersion they had undergone,