The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-11 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

MANCHESTER, Oct. 10.—There has been much
less doing in the market than last week for most
kinds of yarn and cloth, and prices are in some
cases weaker. Shipping yarns are an exception.
The market has been very firm for these, and a fair
amount of business is reported to-day for Bombay
and the Mediterranean at extreme prices. Spinners
of these yarns are deeply under contract, and show
no disposition to take less than the full prices asked.
Business closes firm, with an upward tendency.
There are many orders in the market which for the
present are held back, pending the decision of the
Bank as to further raising discounts. For home
trade yarns we have had a quieter market, buyers
holding rather aloof from business, which has been
done at Id. per lb. decline from Friday's rates.
The cloth market is necessarily firm on account of

cotton maintaining its high price at Liverpool, and
in consequence of there being little pressure of
manufactured goods in the market. Although quo-
tations are high, they have been more or less nominal
for some days past, as buyers have not shown the
slightest disposition to operate at these rates. There
has been some speculation in resale lots, but at such
irregular prices as not to afford any reliable rule of
quotations. There has not been much buying for
foreign markets, as merchants in many of them can
suit themselves better iu those markets than here. For
instance, prices in Bombay are 25 per cent. lower
than here, and buyers prefer telegraphing their orders
to Bombay rather than executing them in Manches-
ter, and this has been done to a considerable extent.
Manufacturers are generally very deeply under con-
tract, and the scarcity of yarn wherewith to execute
them is so great as to afford very little prospect of
lower rates for the present, though fresh orders to
make are, of course, almost out of question at the
rates demanded. The Americans are doing much
less. In fact, they had supplied their wants mostly
a week or two back, and it was the great amount
of these which gave the upward impulse in prices.
LEEDS, 10th.—Notwithstanding that the morning
was very wet, there was about an average attendance
of buyers in the cloth halls this morning. An ave-
rage business was done, and fully as large an ag-
gregate quantity of cloth was sold as at any recent
Tuesday's market. The purchases, however, were
miscellaneous, including both plain and fancy goods
of medium as well as heavy makes. The export

houses are mostly doing a good business, and the
little quietness noticeable in the home trade is at-
tributable to the protracted summer having delayed
the actual wearing of autumn fabrics. The reports
from the surrounding district show healthy activity
among the woollen manufacturers generally. Prices
of wool, yarns, and goods are equally firm. Cotton
yarns keep advancing, and that is one cause of an
increase in the demand for unions of good manufac-
ture.

NOTTINGHAM, 10th.—At the Exchange-hall to-
day there was a limited attendance, and the demand
for lace yarns was quiet at the prices of the week
previous. For hosiery yarns recent rates were for
the most part maintained. Silks about the same.
There was a moderate demand for brown nets, and
prices were without material afternoon.
ROCHDALE, 9th.—The market was quieter than,
usual to-day, and very little business was done either
in plain or fancy goods. Both manufacturers and
merchants, however, were sanguine of an improve-
ment as soon as the weather has become more sea-
sonable. The plain flannel trade is at this time
duller than it has been known for years, and yet
goods do not succumb with regard to price. In the
fancy department there is more animation, and there
are some would-be buyers of printed flannels who
cannot get the supplies they want owing to the pre-
engagements of many manufacturers. Very few
parcels of Yorkshire goods changed hands to-day,
but supplies are increasing in anticipation of colder
weather. Transactions in wool are of the most
piecemeal kind, but staplers are firm in maintaining
prices.

THE DEFENDERS OF GAETA.—A deputation of
the German nobility has presented to the ox-King and
Queen of Naples a buckle', offered by them to the royal
pair as a homage of devotion. It is of beautiful workman-
ship in silver, chased with gold. In the middle of is are
seen Frangois 11., and Marie-Sophie, and all round are re-
presented the principal events of the siege of Gaeta. The
offering is accompanied by an album containing 40,000 sig-
natures of the German aristocracy.

THE CHARGE AGAINST THE MAGISTRATE'S SON
AT STAFFORD.—Yesterday morning Mr. G. F. Griffin and
Thyrza Tunstall were again brought before the magis-
trates, charged with the concealment of the birth of a fe-
male child, the illlegitimate offspring of the female prisoner,
and the body of which, it was alleged, the male prisoner
disposed of by throwing it into the river Mawddach. From
former reports of this affair, it will be remembered that the
coroner's inquest on the body of the child resulted in a
verdict of " Found dead," as the injuries which produced
death might or might not have been caused in the act of
self-delivery. On the prisoners being placed at the bar,
Colonel Hogg said that, owing to some misapprehension as
to the power of the bench to deal with the matter at Staf-
ford,or whether the case should betried. in Merionethshire;
the witnesses were not in attendance, and, after some dis-
cussion, the case was again adjourned. The bail was en-
larged, but in the case of the woman Tunstall, she had to
And too bail of £lOO each.