The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-19 00:00:00

STA? E OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, March 18.—There has been very
little business in yarns to-day, but the market is
exceedingly firm. There is no change at all in
prices. Many people regard the accounts received
to-day from America by the Niagara as having a
tendency to strengthen the market still further. At
present there are no offers making to test what
price spinners would now be willing to accept, but
it is expected that buyers will soon. be compelled to
operate, and probably to a rather considerable ex-
tent. The accounts from India are better, and are
thought likely to produce more activity in the
counts and qualities of yarn usually shipped to that
market, but at present there is nothing doing worthy
of mention. The market is very inactive in yarn
suited to the home trade, and for other sources of
demand. The improvement in the cloth market
which we noticed on Tuesday continues up to the
present time. There is again a better demand for
fabrics suited to India, and manufacturers are able
to do a better trade than they were last week by
about lid. per piece. Many of them, however, are
asking a little more than that, and this checks busi-
ness. From this cause there is not much doing. The
India accounts as regards cloth are rather unsatis-
factory. The Calcutta accounts up to the Bth Feb.
show no improvement; but on that day or the day
before news arrived from London down to Jan. 10,
giving details of the settlement of the American
difficulty, and there was an expectation of improve-
ment, But telegraphic advices now to hand of a
later date than the letters of Feb. 8 above referred
to state that no improvement had yet taken place-
Buyers in Manchester are, therefore, much dis-
couraged, and some of them are holding aloof frog'
the market. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report :---'
" Since Tuesday last the market has been gradually
recovering from the sudden depression which had
come over it. Manufacturers have shown less anxiety
to sell, and within the last day or two there has been
a slight revival of demand, which has resulted in a
moderate amount of business, chiefly in India goods.
To-day the improvement continues, but business is
in some degree checked by the higher prices asked.
LEEDS, March 18th.—There has been a damp and •
uncomfortable morning, which has made the cloth
markets have a more than usually dull aspect. only
a small amount of goods changed hands either in
the Coloured or the White-hall, but prices were
steady, and there was nothing in the character of
the trade to show any change of importance sine°
last report.

ROCHDALE, March 17th.—The market for both
wool and flannel has to-day been much the same a°
last week. No great amount of the raw material or
of goods was sold, but the prices of each are firmli
held, and the manufacturers are as well employed ag
they were a month ago. The Yorkshire goods dei
partment continues to wear a quiet aspect, all
prices do not improve.

James Gilchrist. one of the persons implicated
the " Cato-street conspiracy," died last week. Gilchrist,
so far as our memory sex ves, turned King's evidence'
Thistlewood was hanged, and others were severely
punished. Gilchrist eventually took up his residence ill
Cambridge, and has for years been living upon the parish
and private charity.—Cambridge Independent.
SNAKE BlTES.—Underwood; the discoverer of a
supposed antidote for snake bites, died near Melbourne
(Victoria), on the 28th December. For some time Past
public opinion has been divided as to the efficacy of the
discovery, and the death of Underwood from the effect of a
snake bite, after the application of his so-called antidote,
has settled the question in favour of the non-believers to
it. Underwood has for some time past been in the habit of
exhibiting snakes in and around Melbourne, and temPtin!
the reptiles to bite either himself or his little daughter, 'l2
order that he might apply the antidote, and publicly test its
goodness, and it was at one of these disgraceful exhibitions
at the bar of a public-house t: at Underwood met with h'
death. This is the second victim of the fallacy of these
supposed discoveries, and the jury, at the coroner's inquest;
in returning their verdict, expressed an opinion "
Tha
persons ought not to be allowed to exhibit poisonous snakes,
and allow themselves and others to be bitten." Underwood
was 57 years of age, and was formerly a prisoner of tile
crown.—Xelbporne 40.