The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-04 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Jan. 3.—Many of our leading spin-
ners, manufacturers, and buyers are away, and
there has not been a full attendance at the Exchange
to-day in consequence of the holidays. The market
has been further very seriously affected by the re-

ported success of the Federal arms in America, and
the report (very vaguely and obscurely given in the
telegrams) of a motion in the Confederate Congress
in favour of peace. The result has been that we

have scarcely had anything worth calling a market.
The market for shipping yarns has been flat, and
sellers report doing nothing. Any spinners wishing
to press business would have to take lower prices.
Home trade yarns very dull, with scarcely business
enough to test prices, but they may be quoted id.
to Id. per lb. lower than on Friday. The cloth
market has been quite as inactive as that for yarns.
There has been scarcely any business done, in fact,
but in the absence of.transactions by which to test
the strength of prices, it may be said that the
feeling of sellers would have disposed them in most
cases to accept rates a shade under those of Friday.
Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report :
" But little has been done during the past week,
and to-day there is no disposition to operate.
Prices, however, are unchanged, and, although
we have not the test of actual business, holders are
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here for the new year have been of much the same
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the amount of business done was restricted to
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chasers of odd lots of plain cloths, tweeds, and mei-
tons. The tone of the market, both as to prices
and the prospects of the spring trade, was cheerful,
and the lack of purchasers arose chiefly from the
fact that merchants have scarcely concluded their
annual stock-taking. Stocks are believed to be in
a moderate compass, though they have increased
within the last few weeks. Manufacturers are
quite as well employed as before the Christmas
holidays, and the same may be said as to dyers and
cloth dressers. The prices of wool are the same as
.ast week, and dealers are firm in their demand.

NorrINGHAM, 3d.—There was a better attend-
ance at the Exchange-hall to-day, but the demand

for lace yarns was slow, prices undergoing no mate-
rial change. Hosiery yarns were also in limited
request, prices being firm. Silks very firm, with

the prospect of an advance. The demand for brown
nets was dull, and very little business was done, at
about previous quotations.
ROCIIDALE, 2d—There has been a small attend-
ance in the flannel-maket to-day. Merchants being
engaged in stock-taking and settling of the past
year's accounts, bought but few goods. The manu-
facturers are tolerably well employed, and are look-
ing for a better demand for their products with the
turn of the season. Late prices are well maintained
for both heavy and light goods. There was a very
limited business done in low Yorkshire woollens,
the market for which is, by a determination of the
Yorkshire manufacturers, about to be transferred
from Rochdale to Halifax. As the market at the
latter town will be held on Saturday, there appears
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B ic R.UNNER.----The Liverpool Journal of
Commerce has received advices from Nassau to 15th
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December. The Little Hattie arrived at Nassau on N0v.29,
with 622 bales
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again on Dec. 5, and returned on the 10th, having been
driven off the bar. The steamer Wild Rover has arrived
at Nassau with a cargo of cotton, having made a second
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round trip. On the evening of the 6th ult. the steamer
Stormy Petrel was wrecked on the bar going into New
Inlet. It is supposed that she struck a sunken vessel.
This was her fourth attempt to get into a sguthern port.
The steamer Emma Henry was captured by the Cheroke,
formerly the blockade-runner Thistle.
THE WEATHER IN SCOTLAND.--The " fresh"
which set in on Sunday night continued onAlonday,
reduced the streets of Edinburgh to that disagreeable con-
dition of slopiness which attends a rapid thaw succeeding
a heavy fall of snow. The weather again changed on Mon
day night to frost, and covered the pavements with a thin
coating of ice, which rendered walking very difficult and
unsafe. It appears that the snowstorm of Saturday night
has been very general over the country—the average fall
being about six inches. In some upland districts it was
much heavier, reaching in some places about a foot. The.
fresh fall of snow has increased the anxiety of sheep
farmers for the safety of their flocks.—Scotsman.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE
'Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining.

pins EVENING, a new Extravaganza, entitled THE
MAGIC HORSE AND THE ICE MAIDEN I RINCESS.
After which, THE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs.
Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fisher. D. Murray, J. Nelson, 11.
Forrester. H. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Marston, Miss Emma
Barnett, and Miss Fanny Gwynne.