The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-15 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Mar. 14.--The yarn-market shows
a decided improvement to-day, buyers holding
orders in suspense, being obliged to some extent to
execute them at once through a sudden upward
movement in the Liverpool cotton-market, which is
leading spinners also to put up their prices. In
shipping yarns there has been a considerable amount
of business to-day, at about Id. per lb. advance on
hanks and of 2d. per lb. on cops, as compared with
last Friday. The amount of business would havebeen
much more considerable had spinners been easier to
deal with. Nearly all classes of buyers appear to be
operating under the impression that lowest prices
have been.touched for the present, and the market
closes very strong, with an upward tendency. Home
trade yarn houses report much better business, at
prices fully ld. per lb. higher than on Friday last.
The cloth market has not nearly improved so much
as that for yarn. In fact, the improvement in yarns
and cotton is a good deal attributable to the large
orders recently taken by manufacturers for Indian
shirtings, which has sent manufacturers into the
market to cover their orders. Up to yesterday
evening there was a considerable business doing by
'shippers on India account, principally in shirtings,
from an impression that prices were low enough to
render transactions safe. An advance of manufac-
turers' quotations to-day has not been well re-
sponded to by buyers. In some instances as much
as 6d. per piece more is asked for shirtings, but it
checks business. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. re-
port of the cloth-market :—" A good business has
been done since last Tuesday, at gradually declin-
ing rates. The improvement manifested in Liver-
pool yesterday has been to some extent responded
to here, and to-day makers have somewhat raised
their quotations. There is, however, little disposi
tion to give an advance, and the business of the day
has been limited."

LEEDS, 14th.—There has been but a moderate at-
tendance of buyers in the cloth halls this morning,
and the market was of much the same quite character
as last week. The chief cause of the dulness in the
woollen trade is attributed to the weather, and the
general remark is to the effect that till wanner
weather sets in there 'will be no great improvement in
trade. The goods purchased to-day have included a
fair amount of ordinary blacks, as well as medium
goods in the white state, mixture coatings, light mel-
tons, and tweeds. The export trade to the Continent
and to Canada and the American States are devoid
of animation. The country manufacturers are rather
checking their rates of production, so as not to over-
stock the market, but many of them are beginning
to execute orders for autumn fabrics. Prices, those
of wool as well as of cloth, are steady. The flax
trade is not very active, and the high price of the
raw material keeps operations from expanding.
NOTTINGHAM, 14th.—There was a fair attendance
of merchants and others at the Exchange-hall to-
day, but the demand for lace yarns was by no means
brisk. Prices, however, ruled firm, and late rates

were well maintained. The demand for hosiery
yarns was limited, at previous currencies. Silks
supported their value. The inquiry for brown nets
still continues very dull, and coarse sorts are easier
to buy. Fine numbers may be quoted at late prices.
ROCHDALE, 13th.—Business as between buyers
and sellers keeps quiet, though there is little or no
cessation of industry in the mills, as the Govern-
ment order for the goods of this district has just
been given out, and distributed among a larger
number of hands than usual. This affords a season-
able counterpoise to the depression arising from the
long-standing scarcity of orders and •the want of
animation at the weekly markets. The state of the
market to-day was flatness, and though buyers go
their usual rounds, there is very little animation
among them, and their transactions are most de-
sultory.

DON CLAUDIO FONTANELLAS.—The Barcelona
journals announce that the Queen of Spain has granted a
free pardon to Don Claudio Fontanellas, who was recently
condemned to hard labour for a term of years, on a charge
of having falsely pretended to be the son of the late wealthy
banker of that name. The trial has been reported at length,
and our readers may remember that the young man, on his
return from South America, after a long absence, was at
first joyfully welcomed and acknowledged by his relatives,
but afterwards arrested and prosecuted by them as an
impostor.

THE EDMUNDS PENSION.—Mr. Jas. R. Brougham,
in a letter to a contemporary, says :—" My father,
Mr. John Brougham, died in 1829, and therefore could
not have been privy to any arrangement in Mr. Edmunds's
appointment in 1833 ; and as to the allegation that Mr.
Edmunds " held his office in trust, so far as the emoluments
were concerned," for the widow and five children of Mr.
John Brougham, I can only say that I now for the first
time learn that so extraordinary a statement has been made,
and I hasten most distinctly to declare that neither my
mother nor any of her family have ever received any sum
of money, either directly or indirectly, from Mr. Edmunds
in respect of any office held by him nor on any other
account whatever."

MILTON'S DEATH AND BURIAL.--Milton died in
1674. He had long suffered from the gout, and in
July, feeling that his end drew near, he wished his brother
to make his will. He expired on the Bth of November, so
easily, that persons in the room wore not aware of his
death. His remains were followed to the grave by " all his
learned and great friends in London, and not without a
friendly concourse of the vulgar." He was interred next
his father, in the chancel of St. Giles, Cripplegate. There
is a scandalous story that, in 1795, the grave was opened,
the body exposed, and most irreverently treated. We trust
other and meaner remains were dealt with. Such curiosity
is wholly unpardonable. Mr. Whitbread set up a bust, by
Bacon, to his memory, with an appropriate inscription.—
The Old City, itg Highways and Byways. collingridge,
London.