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 :
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LEEDS, 3d.—The opening woollen cloth markets

here for the new year have been of much the same
character as reported for the last few weeks. There
was but a small attendance of buyers and sellers,
and the amount of business done was restricted to
a few miscellaneous parcels of goods and to pur-
chasers of odd lots of plain cloths, tweeds, and mel-
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
last week, and dealers are firm in their demand.
NOTTINGHAM, 3d.—There was a better attend-

ante 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.
ROCHDALE, 2d—There has been a small attend-
ance in the fiannel-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 rth 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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no good reason why some of the manufacturers, at
least, should not attend here on the Mondays as
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BLOCKADE RUNNER.—The Liverpool Journal of
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29, with 622 bales of cotton. She was chased, and had to
throw overboard 154 bales to escape capture. She sailed
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
round trip. On the evening of the Gth 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 southern port.
The steamer Emma Henry was captured by the Cheroko,
formerly the blockade-runner Thistle.
THE WEATHER IN SCOTLAND.—The " fresh"
which set in on Sunday night continued on Monday,
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
Imuch 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 fiocks.—Scotsman.

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
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