The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-22 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, March 21.—We have had a quiet
market to-day for yarns, and to make sales lower
prices would have to be taken. The large stock of
cotton is attracting a good deal of attention among
spinnners, who appear to think it the safer policy to
buy only what they require for immediate require-
ments, expecting prices still further to decline. In
the same spirit buyers of yarn, and especially such
of them as are shippers, are disposed to hold aloof,
and have done exceedingly little business. All the
improvement obtained last week has entirely disap-
peared, and the prices of yarn, as of cotton, are
drooping. In home-trade yarns we have had a
very flat market ; previous quotations have gene-
rally been asked by spinners, but spinners in most
instances are willing to make a slight concession to
induce business. In cloth there has been a gradual
decline of prices since the middle of last week, and
there is an evident disposition among merchants to
keep aloof and favour this depression as much as
possible. Sales have only been effected at declining
rates from day to day. To-day manufacturers seem
to, follow a good deal in the track of the Liverpool
Cotton-market, and there has been a further de-
crease in prices. The market closes, after an ex-
ceedingly limited business, with prices somewhat
below last Tuesday's rates, and with great irregu-
larity prevailing for all classes of goods.
LEEDS, 21st.—There is no perceptible improve-
ment in the woollen trade here, and the markets in
both cloth-halls this morning have been devoid of
animation. The attendance of buyers was small,
and many of thosepresentappeared rather as lookers-
on than actual purchasers. The selections made were
miscellaneous, and included about the same propor-
tions of ordinary broadcloths as of light goods for
spring and summer. The chief cause of the present dul-
ness is generally admitted to be protracted winterly
weather, but something is also due to the continu-
ance of the internecine war of America, and the un-
certainty as to what may at any moment be the
change in the cotton-market consequent upon some
event in that great conflict. Any considerable fall
in the price of cotton would be felt in the woollen
trade, for in many kinds of woollen goods there is
a large admixture of cotton. Though the woollen is
quiet and manufacturers are rather contracting their
productive powers prices keep very steady, and the
remark applies to both goods and wool. The flax
trade is not so active as we lately had to report it,
but it is not less so than it was a week ago. Prices
of the raw material and those of threads and yarn
are nominally unchanged.
ROCHDALE, 20th.—Business is still dull. Some
few and rather good shipping orders have, however,
come to hand. In that department, however, there
is still a considerable deficiency, as compared with
what is the usual standard of demand from abroad
at the close of the first quarter of the year. To-
day's market was scarcely attended. Notwithstand-
ing that things are flat, prices remain firm ; and the
same may be said with regard to Yorkshire goods
of all descriptions, for which there is no better
in-
quiry than as last reported. Wool is very dear in
consequence of the quotations at the current wool
sales, and manufacturers buy none, except when
compelled for the purpose of completing in
orders
hand.

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, March 21.
His Royal Highness Prince Alfred returned to the
Castle last evening from London.
Lady Charlotte Locker and the Hon. Sir Fred.
Bruce arrived at the Castle, and had the honour
of dining with the Queen and the Royal family
yesterday.
Sir Frederick Bruce kissed hands and took leave,
on his appointment as her Majesty's Minister to
Washington.

Professor Hoffman had the honour of giving the
first of a series of lectures on chemistry before her
Majesty and their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred,
Princess Helena, Princess Louise, and Prince
Leopold.

The Queen drove out this morning in a carriage
and four, attended by Lady Augusta Stanley and
the Hon. Florence Seymour.
Her Royal Highness Princess Louise also took a
carriage drive.
The Earl of Lucan had an audience to-day, and
kissed hands on receiving from her Majesty the Gold
Stick as Colonel of the Ist Life Guards.

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The Prince of Wales was present in the House of
Lords last night.

The Princess of Wales took a carriage drive yes"
terday.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
will give a grand dinner party on Monday next, at her re-
sidence at St. James's Palace, to celebrate the birthday of
the Duke of Cambridge. _

The Duchess of Somerset and Lady Gwendoline
St. Maur returned to the First Lord's official residence at
the Admiralty yesterday, from Bulstrode Park, Bucks.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn and
Lady Georgiana Hamilton are not expected to return home
from the Continent till the week after Easter.

The Marquis of Bowmont has left the Clarendon
Hotel for Floors.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Drogheda are
shortly expected to arrive in town from Ireland for the
season.

The Earl and Countess Grey are expected home
from their tour in Italy about the 20th of the ensuing
month.

The Earl Granville had a dinner party on Mon'
day evening at his residence in Bruton-street.

The Earl and Countess Spencer returned to town
yesterday, after a few days' stay at Althorp Hall, North"
amptonshire. The noble earl and countess will enter'
thin a large party at Althorp during the race meeting 6t
Northampton.
The Earl and Countess of Bessborough received
a select party at dinner yesterday evening, at their house
in Charles-street, Berkeley-square.
The Earl and Countess of Minto have left Far-
rance's Hotel for their town residence in Eaton-square.

A Ball at Washington.

On the night of the 6th instant, the Loyal League galr°
a grand ball at Washington, in honour of President Lil;
coin. The company appears to have been a rather niLle"
one. The New York Herald says :—" At half-past ten the
presidential party was announced, and as they entered he
bands bands struck up 'Hail to the Chief,' ana the company formed
in lines, leading to the presidential platform. When they
were seated dancing was resumed. Immediately an imniell6°
crowd of curious people gathered in front of the platform'
and tried to stare the presidential party out of countenant'
This crowd was constantly reinforced, until it was almost
impossible to get past the middle of the room. The President
occupied his chair but a moment, gallantly relinquishing it to
Mrs. Senator Harris, and falling back against the wall with the
rest of the gentlemen on the platform. He was dressed rn
evening costume, but with a black necktie, and looked
boyishly delighted at the charming scene before hire. 3111;
Lincoln remained seated in queenly state. She was dressed
in white satin, richly embroidered, and wore a point lane
shawl. Her necklace and earrings were of diaraonds• ger
hair was arranged with a fall of curls and with silver °rya"
ments and white artificial flowers. Her rounded arms and
dimpled shoulders were displayed, and her face bore an el-
pression which assured all observers that she was the Wife
of the President. There were numerous outrageOus ens"
tumes to be seen. The faded wall flowers' were in veil:
strong force. There was one lady who wore the dress of
her grandmother, an old fashioned brocade with big
knots of yellow ribbon, without any crinoline ; a nurcv
ber of ladies in plain black silks, others in muslin de-
laines ; one with a brown merino dress, with a black cloth
cloak and black hat ; one with a faded calico, evi:
dently from Tennessee ; another with a carriage cloak.
At
least a dozen ladies wore bonnets more or less inappropriate
to the festive scene. Several gentlemen elbowed their war
through the crowd with stove pipe hats in hand, and wear-
ing their winter overcoats, as though they expected
snowstorm in the Arctic regions. There were gentlemen.,
with all manner of scarfs, bright and fancy colours, as well,
as dingy black, displaying glittering pins of all manner of
devices. And Johnson's plebeians outnumbered the aristo-
crats at least twenty to one. They threw shoddy and petro-
leum completely into the shade. The dancing of thee?
people was marvellous. The men threw their legs ail:(111c;
like the spokes of a wheel; the women hopped, skipped, an
jumped about in a manner which would have made a Frencb
dancing master commit suicide. They introduced the figures
of a quadrille into the lancers, and a breakdown into
~„
quadrille. They appeared to think that every other dal;
was a waltz, and acted accordingly. The gall*, twit,
schottische, and varsovienne, the Danish and the roue
were all Greek to them. They understood nothing but
plain waltz and a plain quadrille, and appeared to thitle:
that they were exhibiting the greatest science when tIV,,
were kicking up the most dust. Those of the plebeians .1";
did not dance gathered around the doors of the suPPle
rooms, and remained there from nine o'clock until
time that the supper-room was opened. This gives a
pretty accurate idea of their calibre. The President alle
Mrs. Lincoln did not dance, nor did the grave ,s4coret,
taries trip the light fantastic.' There was a coal'
however. Vice Admiral Farragut, Major General B
Congressman Arnold, and an attache: of .°llOOO
the legations, danced the lancers together. the
Buchanan, daughter of Commodore Buchanan, °f
Boston Navy Yard, and Miss Wilson, of Chicago, Wer-034
this set. An admiring crowd surrounded the partY',,of
they danced with a grace and spirit unequalled hro-d,
others of the large company. As Andy Johnson Passvice
gentleman remarked to a Radical senator that the
ro,
President, in his inaugural speech, had disgraced lailsPtieit
and the country. "Well," said the senator, "We d•
regret it, for he has no chance now for the Presiuet,iios
He has killed himself off." Another gentleman added day,
"Andy Johnson was not inebriated on inauguration
to
but had rehearsed. his speech to a lot of Tenneee'elge
the night before." It was generally noticed thatwero
President did not recognise Andy Johnson, nor,
.„ the
they seen together. In spite of the reports hers
contrary, not one negro was a guest at the ball. IsTifwere
of them were on hand as waiters, however, an f the
on view in the outside halls. The retiring-roonan °,OOO.
presidential party were exclusively attended by neerjust
This was the only concession to the African race. .wa°
before 12 o'clock the President was notified that suPY" order
ready. The presidential party then retired in the sall'egiga.
as they entered, and a rush was made to folio's' out
Policemen kept back the crowd and the party got safe /by la
of the ballroom, and were ushered in the supper-rnei'lto the
private entrance. Then the doors were thrown °Pell ladieS
guests, who dashed in pell-mell in dreadful confilsi°lp jetia
being crushed against the walls, or dragged half fa
through the crush. Men tried to tear down the teniP, old
doorway. The table was cleared almost in a innreePotbiog
after the first 10 minutes the waiters could bring II bring'
except for a fee. In an hour there was nothing left toof
the
The President's party feasted at the upper end t.
hall, and, having finished, attempted to paser, and
Andy Johnson's plebeians were savage with hung part
would not make way for anybody. The Presiders cases of
were thus forced to enter an alcove between t,lAe.c. aloof
models, climb up stairs, and emerge upon a sort °olo°. doh
above the heads of the crowd, where they could
it:1°11°11f
upon the struggle for viands. Nobody cared . partl
them now. The President and others of inevocolo
spoke in severe terms of the disorder. Mrs' tdenl'
said it was ' a scramble." Well,' said the rj;:sis V/o^4
it appears like a very systematic scramble.
,er oast be
his only little joke during the evening. ter
grow serious, and wanted to go home• aeotheh
crowded along the narrow balcony, descendea„. may'stairs,
dita te th
stairs, and passed out quietly, without being noti con,“her aiS;
Johnson's plebeians paid no more attention to the
tinguished people after supper time than they
one hemle;
presidential party. Most of the aristocrats hanS_ti. Bang
and only the commoners remained in force.
stood solitary for a quarter of an hour. The V ice and _
his smiles gone, roamed about discontentedlY2o% 00*
stole away. The ball did not close, it fizzled u._lo were,
poor piece of fireworks. After two o'clock the peetoVre, stia
still eating off plates which had been used be
l
drinking from each other's cups."
.d to bfir
iteotd.f
14,000
THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH is said t
wherin.w- ;c
sent a magnificent chalice in gold to the priest Visajoo y
church of Hoboken, near New York,
lived as a private gentleman during his star
a,,,00 NOW";
A Canadian journal states, on infornat_
evinin,berior °3:
it has reason to believe is correct, that Us,
hitastensuope_rf
eCianneaedttensbewghinenhinagveefenthliestwedar
35,000 were French Canadians, no less aan
whom have died on the battlefield.
inie
4th3,000110n.

MCNEY MARKET

AN

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

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CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
There has been an exceedingly active demand for
ley to-day in consequence of a large sum,
amounting to £1,200,000 debentures due on the
East Indian Railway, to be paid this afternoon.
The requirements of the commercial classes, how-
ever, are very limited, and it is thought that after
to-day affairs in the discount market will assume
great quietness. The brokers have not, therefore,
(hiring the recent slight pressure for accommodation
advanced their rates, and bills have been negotiable
at q and 41 per cent.
In the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon
there was no material alteration, and the demand
for bills was very limited.
About £5,000 in gold was taken into the Bank
Yesterday.

Two O'CLOCK

At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Reuter's
41eg'ram, the French 3 per Cent. Rentes were 67f.
250. Firm.
The market for the English Funds exhibits ex-
treme sensitiveness, and although the public are not
Pert' large buyers at the present time, the Govern-
kent broker continues daily to make purchases for
the sinking fund of the national debt.. This
morning the amount appropriated for this purpose
ItaB £16,000 Reduced Annuities, and notwithstand-
ing this operation the Consols receded * per cent., viz.,
,_t° 89 for money, and to 89* I for the account.
The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 87i 8 ;
Ichequer Bills, 3s. prem. ; India 5 per Cents.,
1048 ; Enfaced 5 per Cents., 1008 ; and Bonds,
158. prem.
Spanish Securities have engaged chief attention
hl the Foreign Market ; the Passive have receded * to
32i 338 ; but the Certificates have risen *to 178 18.
Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 73* 4 ; Mexican,
26i ; ditto New, 251 8; Greek, 21* 22 ; Turkish
„ `-'cusolides, 52* 538 ; Italian, 63* 4 ; ditto New,
3i 3 din. ; and the Confederate Loan 34 36.
In the Railway Share Market there has been very
tittle business transacted to-day, and prices, in some
Ihstances, have shown a downward movement.
letropolitan and North Eastern (Berwick) have
each declined ss. ; and Great Northern, Brighton,
and Midland each 10s.

The Foreign and Colonial lines remain very in-
active at about previous quotations.
Bank and Miscellaneous shares continue dull.
Alliance, however, are steady at 334 34 ; London
4,1c1 Westminster have declined to 924 ; Oriental
'auk to 56 ; Joint Stock Discount are marked 8 ;
and London Financial, 21. South African Land
and Finance shares are quoted 1 i prem. ; Rio do
Janeiro Gas, 1 1i prem. ; South of England Wagon
Company,
Wagon
11. prem. ; and Varna Railway Com-
Pany, 44 j. prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
a. GOVERNMENT F (nips.
4r Cent. Consols
°.-Account, April 6 B9l 1
leer Cent. Reduced 874 1 4
litli. 3 per Cent B7l 4 i 4
ohvr 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
A_""- 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873
-go. Uities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
DO., for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 —
k‘,"? (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
-"euequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Cent —
• Do. £5OO 3 pin
II Do. £lOO and £2OO
411 k of England Stock, 51 per Cent —
I,l2rorAif GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
‘,"iall Stock, 101 per Cent., AprillB74 214/
D°
Account
D▪
0.
5 per Cent. July, 1870
4'o. Account
r.,°. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
4"0. Certificates
DO.-, Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent lO5l
DO. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
4°. 51 per Cent., May 1879 —
1,4'0. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 —
D 0.▪
Bonds, £l,OOO - pm
•-'O. under £l,000
4 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
tlatrian. Bonds, 5 per Cent —
r,Kilian 5 per Cent Bll
"3. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
th Do. 1863
'hellos Ayres 6 per Cent —
th';',.° I per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
gisn 6 per Cent lO3l
()I°. 41 per Cent
~onibian 6 per Cent.
Ithual 6 per Cent.
li° par Cent., 1864 —
b,,0- Scrip, .£55 paid
ijill 3 per Cent., 1825
D°." 5 per Cent., 1864 —
b es per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid —
1011ibian Principalities
p...t 0 X 65 paid — dis
.411a410r New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
ti, Provisional Land Warrant —
tiara 7 per Cent —
°1 Second Issue —
-'0 £lOO Bonds 941
b Do. 1864 96 4
D 0 Scrip, 5b pa., id
k 5 per£ Cents 1824-5, ex Coupons •
° Account
4'o. Coupons
4 "0 Account —
ittteinala 5 per Cent.
1t °• 1839 and 1850
ir° 5 per Cent (Maremmana Railway)
to 1865
ye 0 Scrip, £25 paid
b
lican 3 per Cent. •
0. Account
1)0 t' 1864 •
b - per Cent. Anglo-French —
tt o French Scri Ex. 20c — dis
4°lltevidean 6 perp, Cent.,2sf £3O paid
Ic°l-ish Ininerial 5 per Cent
°l3l't Granata, ll4
h° 2 per Cent 29 84
iio Deferred
tiol.„° Land Warrants (Hectares)
if.tiart 41 per Cent.
Do° 8 per Cent. (Uribarren) —
to° 41 per Cent., 1862
lio • ccount
1-I'llgliese 3 per Cent., 1853
...-.. -
D° Account --
° 3 peri.Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, 'B,
g 1 0 Account 471
;Pall r Cent., 1822, £ St.,
°44 per Cent., 1850
Do
Do , 1860
D° 8 per Cent., 1859
D° 6 per Cent., 1862
4k„°, i
1864 ....
pd 5 per Cent
Bi) Account
Dish_
.c 3 per Cent
Du 4 count
0 New Deferred —
,
0 Account —
;‘)0 Passive —
81;',,,°,Account 331 I
blit°ll Cert. of Coup not funded -
61,,. 4ccount lB 174 4
I'llik., 811 c h 4 per Cent.D
open
Cent... 1854
c' Ac
b° 6 Per Cent. 1858
135 b Account —
bu 100 Bonds
b° 6 per Cent. 1862
D° Account —
b°. £lOO Bonds 731 4
a(0) „.6 per Cent. 1863
rth '-*uaranteed, 4 per Cent —
ipzuela 3 per Cent.
b°. Account
boPer Cent, 1862 —
Account
6r Cent.,1864
~a,s, L'ividends on the above payable in London.
1,4t1a11, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins
"tit°, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f.
b° 24 per Cent., Ex. 12 Gail 621
. 1
Niel. Per Cent. Certifi.-..tes —
I bo ' Rentes, 3 per Cent. —
klio„,'4l...eeount —
Iv 0 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f.
• Account
1/4401 THREE O'CLOCK.

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'llerpool Cotton Market— rhis Day.

. Qarket quiet, pending the arrival of the American
4e(l. There is a fair attendance of spinners, who
ilolcfeirolis of going in for lower prices, to which
1,% will not submit.
e Probable sales have not yet been stated.
E PERSONS IN ONE FAMILY MURDERED.—ht
1
4traordinary crime was perpetrated the nig
calk,last at Avesnes, Nord, France. Five persons be-
Itko—tg to the same family, were found murdered, and
eift, waa dangerously wounded. This massacre was
A,,qt) piiblTed about six in the evening, and in the centre of
-;ge• The victims were a farmer, aged 45 ; his two
',led 19 and 15 ; his sister, 43 ; and her daughter, 17,
0(30'1 Person of the family that survives is the farmer s
er dia'ed. 46, but she is not in a state to be enabled to give
tNl4)Bitioli. Active exertions have been made to dis-
br)eatihe guilty parties, but hitherto without success. It
ithib-,(lt appear that plunder was the object in view, as
%1-16 Was stolen from the house.
a.:STAL PALACE LIBRARY AND READING-ROOM.
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tk -(444°11 in this very agreeable place of resort. This new
I?.thel)2rtant feature will, doubtless, be fully appreciated
v4iciiti'lluaerous subscribers and visitors, especially those
till the neighbourhood of the palace.