The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-07 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Jan. 6.—The market continues
qniet, and is somewhat more depressed than it has
been this year. We have had no business of any
moment to-day in shipping yarns, and lower prices
would again be submitted to if buyers were disposed
to make offers ; but for the time being buyers seem
determined to make no sign, believing that we shall
have still lower rates shortly. This branch of the
market is, in fact, very flat, and shipping yarns are
down from the highest point fully ld to lid per lb.,
and even at this decline buyers are inclined to ope-
rate. In home-trade yarns we have also had a very
quiet and inactive market. Prices are nearly no-
minal, and spinners, whose contracts are drawing to
a close, show some anxiety to replace them. The
extreme depression in this class of spinnings is not
less than from ld to 2d per lb. In the cloth market
we have had an exceedingly quiet day. There has
been an almost total absence of business. There is
a decided increase in the value of goods, but in the
present inactivity it is difficult to arrive at any fair
estimate of it. We can only say that prices are
lower since Tuesday. While sellers, as a rule, are
not pressing goods on the market, buyers, on the
other hand, seem totally undesirous of entering the
market. The only offers made are at very low rates
—so low, in fact, that manufacturers would not re-
spond to them to any extent. What sales have been
made have been of insignificant amount, and we
close what may almost be described a blank day, so
far as business is concerned, with a feeling of general
depression.

NOTTINGHAM, 6th.—At this Exchange-hall to-day
there was a small attendance, and the demand for
lace yarns was limited. Late rates were generally
maintained, but in some cases prices were the turn
lower. In hosiery yarns there was not much altera-
tion. Silks steady, at full rates. The demand for
brown nets was very dull, and prices were nomi-
nally unaltered.

VIOLATION OF BELGIAN TERRITORY.—The Echo
du Luxembourg states that the Belgian territory was
violated a few days since by some of the Luxembourg police
agents, under the following circumstances :—A Prussian
named Schmitz, who had been arrested for a murder com-
mitted at Trois-Virges, escaped from the grand ducal gen-
darmes and fled to Belgium. Early the next morning M.
Herman, the echevin of Trois-Vierges (Luxemburg), went
to Gouvy (Belgium), accompanied by three gendarmes in
disguise. Herman there obtained the aid of a communal
couneillor named Andre, and of Lepot, a customs-officer.
With these two officers he entered the inn where Schmitz
lodged and seized him, the gendarmes meanwhile keeping
watch at the door. Herman and his two aids then took
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Belgian Government will demand explanations concerning
this violation.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

AMERICA.
Arrival of the Cuba via Crookhaven.
CAPTURE OF SAVANNAH.
NEW YORK, DEC. 28 (Morning).
Sherman has occupied Savannah. Hardee's army

escaped.

Admiral Porter made an attack by land and sea
on Fort Fisher, Wilmington. The land attack has
been repulsed. The firing by the fleet continues

:uriously.

NEW YORK, DEC. 28, MORNING.

It is officially announced that General Sherman
occupied Savannah on the 22d inst., capturing 150
guns, 30,000 bales of cotton, and 800 prisoners.
Hardee escaped with the main body of his army
by crossing the river to Union Causeway, opposite
the city, after destroying the iron-clads and navy
yards. Twenty thousand inhabitants remained in
the city. Correspondents state that Sherman,
having captured Fort Lee and several outworks,
demanded the surrender of Savannah on the 21st
inst., stating that if refused he would take no pri-
soners. Hardee refused. and escaped during the
night.