The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-12 00:00:00

S2ATE OF 7RADE.

MANCHESTER, APRIL 11.—We have to report
a stronger marker to-day both in cotton yarns and
cloths. Ther has been a large business for all
quarters, and especially for India, in yarns, and
prices have advanced fully id. per lb. upon the
rates of Tuesday. Many large speculative lots have
been cleared out of the market, and spinners have
been pretty free sellers at the advance. The home
trade have been buying to a fair extent in yarns
at an advance of id. per lb. upon Tuesday's rates.
The activity in the yarn market is partly attribu-
table to telegraphic advices from India, prices
having improved at Calcutta on the 26th of March,

the date of the latest telegrams. In the Manchester
eloth market we have had more inquiry to-day, and
a considerable quantity of goods have been moved
off at a small advance upon Tuesday's prices.
Sellers report, however, that this business has not
arisen from any legitimate demand having sprung
up, but from a speculative feeling, arising almost
entirely out of the excited state of the cotton mar-
ket at Liverpool, though to some extent possibly
the feeling may have had strength given to it by
the news from India. This news, which is by tele-
gram from Bombay to the 27th and from Calcutta
to the 26th of March, states that at Bombay at that
date the market was generally better, and that an
advance of two annas per piece had taken place in
the price of shirtings. The Cotton Supply Associa-
ciation are doing wonders in their attempts to show
what can be done with Indian staples of cotton, as
compared with American. They are now collecting
samples of manufactures from this description of
cotton, which are intended to be sent to the Inter-
national Exhibition in London, and which the trade
are to have an opportunity of inspecting on Tues-
day and Wednesday next at the offices of the asso-
firm, in Newall's-buildings, Manchester. The yarns
and cloths have been spun and manufactured at the
mills of Mr. John Cheetham, President of the As-
sociation, and one of the late members for South
Lancashire. These cloths are not made of the
choicest samples of cotton 19dia produces, but
simply from the staple called Broach, at about 92c1
per lb., and have been sent to be finished at the
works of the most eminent bleachers, dyers, and
printers in the country. There is no American
mixed up with the yarns of which the goods are
made at all. Among the samples are some 72 .reed,
22-pick printing cloth, in the gray state, as taken
from the loom, and samples of the same cloth when
bleached and finished as shirtings and for other
purposes. Then come specimens of dyed cloths,
in self colours, including drabs, pinks, ambers,
greens, buffs, lavenders, and blues. Some
of these goods are exceedingly delicate and
perfect in colour. One of them, a Prussian
blue, is very rich in appearance, giving to the
surface of the material at first sight something like
the pile on velvet. A sample of Turkey red is also
remarkable for its brilliancy. The printed goods
from the same cotton are in great variety from the
most simple patterns to the most elaborate, or from
a two-coloured plate up to one of 20 colours, as used
for furniture prints, and embracing blockwork and
machine, steam, and madder work. There are
nearly 100 patterns, in almost every variety of style
and colour. Many of the patterns are entirely new,
and have been prepared, so far as those on ladies'
dresses are concerned, for the spring trade of the
present year. In the International Exhibition they
are sure to command attention from the exquisite
taste and fancy bestowed upon the designs, which
in some cases are such as would be looked for upon
goods of a richer and more expensive material, and
not upon ordinary cottons. The sight of these beau-
tiful and highly-finished goods may well call forth
the remark that it is matter of surprise there should
have been a doubt, no longer than six months ago,
that our manufacturers could do any thing satisfac-
tory with East India cotton. This excellent and
unique collection of cotton goods is to be despatched
to London on Wednesday next, and, in order that
the public may be prepared to look for them in the
Exhibition, it may be as well to mention that they
will be labelled :—" Cotton Supply Association,
Manchester. Manufactured exclusively from East
Indian cotton, by Mr. John Cheetham, President of
the Association. Printed by —."