The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-13 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

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MANCHESTER, Sept. 12.—Since Friday last our
market for yarns and cloths generally has been
quieter, though there has been little disposition on
the part of sellers to make any abatement in price,
most of the produ'iers being now well under contract,
and unwilling to take new offers which are not of an
advantageous character. To-day the shipping
market for yarns has been very strong, and we have
had a fair amount of business doing at the extreme
prices of last week. Spinners of these yarns are so
deeply under contract that they will listen to nothing
like concession in price, and buyers find great diffi-
culty in many instances in obtaining suitable yarns
for the respective markets. The market for home-trade
yarns has been very steady, but there has not been
much business effected. There is no change of prices
since last week, but this branch of the market is less
animated, and buyers appear more disposed to wait.
The cloth-market for some days past has been in-
fluenced by the quitcr tone of the Liverpool cotton-
market, and buyers have been less willing to operate
than they were last week. The fully engaged posi-
tion of manufacturers, however, has quite prevented
any giving way in prices. To-day we have a fair
inquiry and some business, and for all classes of
goods sellers hold steadily for last week's prices,
showing little disposition to make concession, though
buyers have made lower offers. Where manufac-
turers have to seek orders, prices are against them,
but as a class producers are well engaged. Messrs.
John Slagg and Co. report this day's cloth-market
as follows :—" Since Friday our market has been
rather quieter, in sympathy with Liverpool, but there
has been no quotable change in values. To-day the
inquiry is pretty general, and, although the business
has been large, there is but little disposition to con-
cede in prices."
LEEDS, 12th.—There has been a moderate attend-
ance in the cloth-halls this morning, buyers as well
as sellers. Seasonable fabrics, including both heavy
goods and those of lighter make for ladies' wear,
were in fair request. Considering the stocks of new
goods offered in the halls, a satisfactory amount of
business has been done, and the condition and pro-
spects of the woollen trade throughout this district
are healthy. Prices keep firm, those of cloth as well
as those of wool.

NOTTINGHAM, 12th.—There was a very small at-
tendance at our Exchange-hall to-day, and the de-
mand for lace yarns was quiet, at nominally un-
altered rates. Hosiery yarns firm. Silks fully as
dear. There was not much doing in brown nets,
and prices have very little altered.
ROCHDALE, 11th.—To-day's flannel-market has
been quiet, and although some first-class men were
present there was but little buoyancy in the proceed-
ings. Both during the past week at the warehouses
and to-day in the market the only inquiries were
for printers and fancy goods, and in the plain de-
partment for flannels of the finer qualities. Some
small lots of the better kind of Yorkshire goods were
disposed of, but no business at all was done in the
lower qualities.

VISIT OF THE FYCHOW GIANT TO THE PRINCE
AND PRINCESS OF WALES.—Last evening Chang
Woo Gow, the Fychow giant, his wife King Foo, and his
friends and followers, including the singular Tartar
dwarf, Chang Mow, all of whom have recently arrived
in this country from China, had the honour of an interview
with the Prince and Princess of Wales and other royal
personages at Marlborough House. Mr. Marquis Chisholm,
Mr. Mitchell, and Mr. Thomas Balding attended for the
purpose of introducing the Celestials and affording infor-
mation in reply to the questions of the royal party, which
included, besides the Prince and Princess of Wales, the
Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, the Duke of Cam-
bridge, the Princess Hilda of Anhalt-Dessau, and the Prin-
cess Victoria of Hesse. The interview was one of curious
interest, the Chinese visitors being dressed in their state
robes, and observing towards English royalty the same
forms which would have regulated their approach to the
Emperor of China. Only once, at the desire of the Prince
of Wales, did Chang remove his hat, the motive of the re-
quest having relation only to the subject of Chang's extra-
ordinary height. The prince also desired Chang Woo Gow
to write his name on the wall of the room, and the giant
displayed an amusing readiness to deface the splendid de-
corations. The Princess of Wales was graciously pleased
to accept from Chang a letter of compliment, after the
Chinese fashion ; and Chung Mow, the dwarf, was per-
mitted to present the little Princess Victoria with his fan,
which a moment before he had been using in true Chinese
manner. The greatest pleasure was expressed with the
visit by all the members of the royal party.
TIIE ENTENTE CORDIALE.—M. Alfred Assollant
has an article in the Courier du Dimancke apropos
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and found of the fetes at Cherbourg, Brest, and Portsmouth. The
following passage indicates M. Assollant's mode of treat-
ing then'tißalflenvd to be over. The
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found to be adequate. M. DupuYLome do is content • M
Trouille de Beaulieu satisfied; ArmstrongM.
M. Whitworth happy. The Marquis de ChasselP ou Laubat
has embraced the Duke of Somerset, and has been -embraced
by him. There was a good dinner at Cherbourg—a capital
one at Brost; great quantities of roast beef at Portsmouth.
The Magenta offered her arm to the Warrior, and the
Achilles did the same to La Gloire. ' Vive rEmpereur ! '
and ' Vive la Reins!' were shouted. Port ran like a river
and Bordeaux like a stream. They are fine fellows—we
aro fine fellows—you are fine fellows. Hurrah! Vivat !”
THE SUPPOSED ARREST OF " BROTHER MAURUS."
—The individual arrested at Birkenhead, under the sup-
position that he was "Brother Maurus," alias the Rev.
Henry Arthur Morton, has been X.6,:hArged from custody,
it being found that he was not the person " wanted."