The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-25 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Jan. 24.—We have again a very quiet
market to report. This has taken spinners rather by sur-
prise. The tone of the Liverpool cotton market yester-
day encouraged a hope that a similar improvement might
be expected here to-day ; but, instead of a better market,
the sellers of shipping yarns say that so far as there is
any change things are worse, and that to effect sales
lower prices would have to be submitted to. In home-
trade yarns there is very little change since Friday.
There has been a steady market so far as prices are con-
cerned, but buyers are timid and unwilling to operate,
so that extremely little business has been done. In the
cloth market there has been general disappointment among
manufacturers. There was a general impression that we
should have had an improved state of affairs to-day, owing
to better telegrams from India, but those who held such
opinions have been doomed to disappointment. So far
from any improvement having been experienced, there has
scarcely been any business practicable at all at last week's
prices. There have been some inquiries, but few offers,
and such offers as have been made have been at very low
rates. The principal buyers appear to have kept almost
wholly out of the market. In 39-inch shirting sellers hays
made some abatement in their quotations since last Tues-
day, 61b., 91b. Boz., 111 b., and 121 b. being quoted 3d. per
piece lower ; and 71b., 811 b., and 10lb. being 6d. cheaper;
71b. 45-inch shirtings are also 6d. cheaper; 91b. 39-inch
shirtings, 17 square, quoted last Tuesday at 20s. 9d., were
offered to-day at 20s.

LEEDS, 24th.—The attendance of buyers in the cloth-
halls to-day has been scarcely so large as last Tuesday, but
as Saturday's market was a very good one, and the general
tone of the trade in the warehouses is cheerful, the small-
ness of the number of purchasers present to-day was not a
circumstance to create the slightest alarm. The spring trade
is gradually developing, and there is a good bulk of cloth
delivering direct to the warehouses. Cloth-dressers and
finishers are well employed, as are also the great bulk of
the manufacturers. The range of prices keeps very steady,
and all the best qualities of new goods are firm. There is
no change in the local wool trade, and prices are very firm.
Norrricaum, 24th.—The attendance at this Exchange-
hall to-day was fair. The demand for lace yarns was, how-
ever, less active, but the rates of last week were maintained.
For hosiery yarns the demand was quiet, without material
change in prices. Silks were quite as dear as last week.
The demand for brown nets was dull, but recent prices
were for the most part maintained.
ROCHDALE, 23d.—The flannel trade keeps rather quiet,
and to-day's market has been of much the same character
as those for the last few weeks, though, upon the whole,
there was a little more business done to-day than at last
week's market. The Yorkshire goods trade is also quiet.
There is some falling off in the amount of these goods
offered for sale here, in consequence of the establishment
of a Saturday's market for them at Halifax. Still there is
some business doing in them here, as there doubtless will
continue to be. The flannel manufacturers are tolerably
well employed, and they are firm in their prices. Though
the local wool trade is quiet, and manufacturers are pur-
chasing rather to meet present than prospective wants, the
wool-dealers are able to keep up their quotations.

CHARGE OF PERJURY AGAINST THE DUKE OF
MARLBOROUGH.—At the Petty Sessions held yes-
terday at the Town-hall, Woodstock, before Mr. H. Barnett
and the Rev. W. S. Bricknell, Mr. George Osborne, farmer,
of Church Handborough, applied for a warrant for wilful
and corrupt perjury against John Winston Spencer
Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, committed at Blenheim
Palace on the 9th of November last, by making an affidavit
before Mr. R. B. Hawkins, a Commissioner for taking affi-
davits in the Court of Chancery, which the complainant
alleged his grace knew to be untrue. The proceedings
arose out of a trial between the parties some time ago. The
magistrates, without going into particulars, told the com-
lainant that he must apply to the Court of Chancery for
redress, as they had no jurisdiction. Mr. Osborne contended
that, as the offence was committed in the sessional district
of Woodstock, they could take cognisance of it. The ma-
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prosecute that man (meaning the duke) to the utmost."