The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-05 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE,

MANCHESTER, July 4.—There has been a very
quiet market for all kinds of shipping yarns, and to
effect sales lower prices would have to be submitted
to. There has been some little business, at a decline
of 2d. per lb. from the highest rates of last week.
Business is very tame at the close. In home-trade
yarns there has been but little business doing, and
the market is quiet, with prices decidedly in favour
of buyers. In cloth we have been almost entirely
without business since Friday, and in all classes of
goods buyers have been entirely abstaining from
operations. This has been the case not so much as
a question:of price, but because of an entire absence
of demand, and of the discouraging aspect of the
market. The high price of cotton and yarn
necessitate prices on the part of manufacturers
which it is almost hopeless to seek at present, and
many of them are seriously talking of a more limited
production. At present they are met in the mar-
ket with' re-sale lots at various, but generally low,
prices which it is"impossible to compete with. The
prices of such goods are certainly lower than they
could now be produced at. In this state of things
quotations are merely nominal, but even at the
lowest rates quoted there is no disposition to buy.
We have had altogether a flat market, with but an
exceedingly small amount of business. Messrs.
John Slagg and Co. report,pf this day's cloth
market :

"Since last Tuesday there has bean a complete absence
of demand for goods; India buyers especially have ab-
stained from operations. Tho firm position of material
necessitates high quotations from makers, but the number
of re-sale lots offered render all prices quite nominal. To-
day our market has been quite without action."

LEEDS, 4th.—Election proceedings appear rather
to interfere with the current of trade, and to-day's
markets in the cloth-halls have been quiet so far as
the sales of cloth were concerned. The purchases
were chiefly small quantities of plain and ordinary
cloths, with a sprinkling of various kinds of winter
fabrics. The sale of the latter would probably be
greater were the weather less hot. The export
houses are mostly doing a good business for the
season ; and though the home trade is rather quiet,
it is satisfactory in its prospects, and the manufac-
turers are well employed. The prices of both wools
and goods are steady.
NOTTINGHAM, 4th.—There was a small attend-
ance at the Exchange-hall to-day, and the demand
for lace yarns was less active, the prices of last week
being for the most part made. For hosiery yarns
the demand was by no means active, and prices
underwent no important alteration. Thrown silks
in demand, and prices tended upwards ; spun silks
were also dearer. The demand for brown nets was
quiet, owing to the very high price of the raw ma-
terial ; rates remained without material change.
ROCHDALE, 3d.—The buyers at to-day's market
have been much more spirited than last week.
Many of them operated with freedom in both plain
and fancy goods. The fancy department was
scarcely ever in a more brisk condition, and manu-
facturers are pressed on all hands not only to com-
plete current orders with all speed, but to under-
take fresh contracts for short-time delivery. The
demands of the home trade have not only been con-
siderable to-day, but during the greater part of last
week the same parties were continually doing busi-
ness at the warehouses. The Yorkshire trade keeps
dull, and manufacturers have such prices to pay for
both wool and cotton that they cannot make any-
thing marketable at the prices which buyers are
willing to give. The high price of wool is so stoutly
maintained that consumers only purchase on com-
pulsion, and in comparatively small lots.

HEALTH OF LONDON.

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Report.)

In the week that ended on Saturday, July 1, the
births in London and ten other large towns of the
United Kingdom were 4,446—the deaths 2,881. The
annual rate of mortality in the week in those eleven
towns was 26 per 1,000 persons living.
In London the births of 1,004 boys and 965 girls,
in all 1,969 children, were registered in the week. In
the corresponding weeks of ten years, 1855-64, the
average number, corrected for increase of population,
was 1,965.

The deaths registered in London during the week
are 1,455. The week is the 26th of the year, and
the average number for that week in ten years,
1855-61, is, with a correction for increase of popu-
lation, 1,242. The actual number exceeds the esti-
mated mortality by 213.
In the last three weeks the deaths were, succes-
sively, 1,204, 1,359, and 1,455. The increase arose
in the deaths of young persons, for in the same
periods the deaths that occurred under 20 years of
age were 602, 769, and 835. The deaths from diar-
rhoea in those three weeks were 93, 187, and 184.
Of these 184 cases, 154 occurred to children in their
first year, 20 to those one year old and less than two
years, none occurred at two or three years of age,
one at four years, one at ten, one at.forty and under
sixty years, and seven at sixty years and upwards.
There were 27 deaths from diarrhosa in the west dis-
tricts, 48 in the north districts, 21 in the central, 55
in the east, and 33 in the south districts, namely,
those on the south side of the river. It will be ob-
served that though the population of the north or
east districts is less than that of the south, the
deaths from diarrhoea were more numerous in the
two first-mentioned divisions than in the last.
The complaint was fatal in 19 cases in Islington, in
16 in Pancras, in 8 in Mile-end Old Town, and 8 in
Poplar.

A water-side labourer, aged 48 years, died on 29th
June, at 22, Willmott's-buildings, Kent-road, of
" cholera Asiatica," after two days' illness.

The five following fatal street accidents by car-
riages were registered in the week :—ln Shacklewell,
a coal-dealer, aged 64 years, was killed by a fall
from a cart. In South Hackney, the son of a plas-
terer, aged 7 years, was run over. A carman, aged
40 years, was run over in Bermondsey-street by a
van. A fish-dealer, aged 35 years, died in West-
minster Hotel, from injury by a van. The son of a
ship-rigger, aged two years, was brought to the
London Hospital from Limehouse, where he had
been run over by a cart.

A lad, aged 1b years, died from an ear of corn
introduced into his right lung.

The rate of mortality last week was 25 per 1,000
in London, 25 in Edinburgh, and 21 in Dublin ;
30 in Liverpool, 36 in Manchester, 36 in Salford,
in Birmingham, 32 in Leeds, 24 in Bristol, 26 in
Hull, and 29 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was
39 per 1,000 during the week ending the 17th ult.,
when the temperature was 1.0 deg. Fahrenheit
lower than in the same week in London, where the
rate was 21 per 1,000.
In Liverpool 'the births were 435, the deaths 276 ;
in Manchester the births 257, the deaths 246 ; in
Salford the births 115, the deaths 76 ; in Birming-
ham the births 212, the deaths 114 ; in Leeds the
births 280, the deaths 138 ; in Bristol the births
101, the deaths 73 ; in Hull the births 74, the
deaths 51; in Edinburgh the births 127, the deaths
84 ; in Glasgow the births 382, the deaths 238 ;
and in Dublin the births 195, the deaths 130. There
were 415 deaths in Vienna during the week ending
the 17th ult.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.701 in.
The barometer rose to 30.06 in. on Tuesday, and fell
to 29.12 in. on Friday. The mean temperature of the
air in the week was 59.5 deg., which is 1.9 deg. below
the average of the same week in 50 years (as deter-
mined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean degree of hu-
midity of the air was 72, complete saturation being
represented by 100. Rain fell to the amount of
1.41 in., almost the whole of which fell on Friday.
On that day the rainfall at Clifton was 1.1 in., at
Birmingham 0.9 in., at Liverpool 0.15 in., at Wake-
field there was none.

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