The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-23 00:00:00

STAFE OP TRADE

MANCHESTER, Sept. 22.—The market generally
shows more buoyancy and elasticity to-day than it
has done for a long period, and a very large business
is doing both for yarns and cloths. There are mills
still standing, and there are many looms in the mills
that are working which are kept idle for want of
weavers or sufficiently skilled workpeople ; but so
far as the production goes it appears to be falling
for the time behind the demand. In shipping yarns
we have had a very excited market to-day, and a ,
very general advance has been paid for most counts
and qualities, buyers for India, China, and most
others of the principal markets being rather anxious
to place orders. Prices have advanced, under these
circumstances, hi. to 11d. per lb. on the rates of
last Tuesday. Nearly all descriptions of these yarns
are becoming exceedingly scarce. Many of our
spinners have entered into contracts to-day that
will take them into November for completion. In
home-trade yarns the market is also strong as to
prices, and a fair business is doing. There is a de-
mand for most numbers of yarn for manufacturers,
and of some descriptions the supply appears to be
inadequate. For cloth we have had a very excited
market to-day, with a considerable advance in prices
for nearly all descriptions, but the great scarcity of
goods available for delivery, and the heavy pre-
engagements of manufacturers, who have been en-
tering into contracts for some weeks past, preclude
the possibility of a very large business being done.
There are a great many orders in the market waiting
to be placed, and eager buyers, but the scarcity of
yarns, and especially of the finer sorts, prevents
manufacturers from entering into the engagements
they otherwise would. They are thus prevented
from taking advantage of the greatly advanced
quotations of goods, the prices of which, besides
being extremely irregular, are, for all practical pur-
poses, in many cases only nominal. The demand
embraces nearly all classes of goods, but the finer
sorts of printing-cloths and cambrics for America,
and longcloths for the Greek markets, are the goods
principally in request. While, according to advices
from the United States, the manufacturers there are
fully engaged, the demand for cloths of various de-
scriptions is so great as to draw largely upon the
supplies of this country, and thus orders have been
gradually accumulating here for some time past.
N OTTINGH AM, 22d.—At the Exchange-hall to-day
there was a fair attendance, and the demand for
lace yarns wag firm. Prices for fine numbers were
3d. to Gd., and for coarse and medium ditto ld. to
2d. per lb. higher than on Tuesday. The demand
L forhosiery yarns was steady, at fully late prices. All
, kinds of silks firm. There was a rather better
demand for brown nets, and prices had a tendency
to advance.

WORTHY OF IMITATION.—The Chester magis-
trates have fined a man named Hickey for distributing in
the streets the bills of a Bristol quack doctor.
EXPLOSION AT A FIREWORK MANUFACTORY.—
On Thursday evening an explosion occurred at a firework
manufactory situate at Neehells, a suburb of Birmingham.
Tho result was .that ono man, named George Merricks,
was burnt to death on the spot, and his brother, Mr. John
Mcrricks, the owner of the manufactory, also received such
serious injuries that he died a few hours after the occur-
rence. A young girl was also much injured. The precise
cause of the accident has not been ascertained..

The movements of the precious metals during the
past week have been on a very limited scale. The
imports have only been to the extent of £88,998,
chiefly from America and Austria, while the ex-
ports have .mounted to £188,566, a large propor-
tion of which haz been despatched to the East Indies
and the Continent.