The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-03 00:00:00

STATE OF 7.RADE.

MANCIIESTEU, Tuesday.—This market and the Liver-
pool cotton market have both regained much of what they
lost between last Tuesday and the end of the week. The
manufacturers of this district have taken what may be re-
garded, in comparison with the production, a fair amount
of twist and weft, from 60's downward ; and the agents for
Scotland have also been moderate purchasers of mule yarns,
from 40's to 60's, and up as high as 80's ; and, in the case
of all these, there has been more or less of a recovery of
price. The Levant merchants have done something in
coarse numbers, say from 24's:dowzward ; and they hem)
found more of stiffness among goners. For China descriptions
of water and mock wet*, eft-, :Jiave been made; but, like
offers for India mule, th • ' 'to 'have led to no transac-
tions. Twofolds in,gen, Amer, in some kinds rather
dearer ; but the. Weil ,: i are of small amount. In
single and double above 100's there is no noticeable change.
Manufacturers have endeavoured, as far as they could, to
move along with the yarns they use, but they lag behind.
The holders of Eastern shirtings, especially of the heavier
sorts. find so little inquiry that it would be bootless to add
a fraction to the quotations. There has been some return
of demand to-day for certain kinds of printing cloths,
bleaching and dyeing fabrics, jacconets, T cloths,
partly for home consumption, and partly for shipment to
the Levant, and to some of the eastern and western markets
of South America ; and pretty generally the bias of prices
is in favour of sellers.

I Thee Afta lgterly been a tendency to an increase
of demand, of a miscellaneous character, and evi-
dently "nanmption at home and abroad. Buyers
are en,. . by the extreme smallness of stocks and pro-
ductMit •by' •the considerable fall of prices from the ex-
tretae heikhtlo' which they had nominally risen, some time
ago, under the influence of sanguine speculation ; but all
bona fide buyers are easily alarmed 'and made to pause, even
as to small and necessary operations, by the slightest un-
favourable appearances, and hence the continual oscillations
we have in the market.

The fall in the price of cotton to the spinner, and of yarn
to the manufacturer, bears such a proportion to the decline
in the prices of their finished articles, respectively, as to
place the producers in a position not near so ruinous or
dangerous as that which they occupied a few months ago ;
and, as the increase of demand has enabled some of them
to take orders for a few weeks forward, there are in
stances of a return to full work from short time or no time.
In other cases this resumption of production is ventured
upon without the preliminary of orders actually received,
and entirely from an increase of confidence in the future.
It is obvious, however, that this process can go only a very
little way without being arrested by a consequent rise in
the price of the manufacturers' and the spinners' raw
materials. The increase of work is, in fact, very trifling,
and it is less in spinning than in weaving. Many, who see
an apparent advantage in it, are deterred from its adoption
by the certainty that a comparatively small addition to the
use of raw cotton, would immediately run up its price so
high as again to place the article quite out of reach, and
shut up the mills once more.

HUDDERSFIELD, Tuesday.—The market this morning
has again been very flat. No buyers from a distance have
been reported. The business done has almost entirely been
in the hands of local merchants, and small district buyers,
who have been dating transactions forward to January 1,
1863. Their Purchases have been mis,plianenp.. Aid n.t
very extensive, and have been chiefly confined to medium
good. Very little doing in the " jobbing" line. During
the week, business has been very quiet in the warehouses,
London and other wholesale houses purchasing very warily
even of lots offered to them at considerable reductions to
clear out." Several representatives of merchant houses
here, who have been in London and the larger towns since
last market, complain loudly of th e unusual difficulty they
experience in effecting sales to any considerable amount,
notwithstanding the firm, and in many cases, advanced
rates which are being obtained for wools at the current
sales. Unions seem to be selling somewhat more freely,
although no advance, however slight, seems to be conceded
by the purchaser.

LEEDS, Tuesday—ln the Coloured Hall to-day, few
tweeds changed hands, but the parcels were comparatively
of an unimportant character; and even the samples of
spring goods, in light fabrics, that were shown only com-
manded an indifferent degree of attention. Stocks, how-
ever, are not heavy. In the White Hall, only a few par•
eels of mediums passed during the period of business. The
clothiers are now getting into fair employment, in prepara-
tion for spring, and the operatives are generally in good
work. There is no material alteration in demand for flaxen
yarns, and prices are described as being exceptionally some-
what easier. _

A HIGHLY RATED PARISH.—The poor rate
for the old parish of Weymouth has amounted on an Erre-
rage of 14 years to no less than 7s. in the pound. The pre-
sent rate is only Cs.—Pulman's News.
PUNISHMENT OF A TOM AND JERRY Boy, OF THE
OLDEN ScßooL.—Yesterday ono Daintry, alias Wilson, a
carpenter, was whipt from the watch-house in Groat
Marlborough-street to the Blue Posts in Poland-street, for
stealing knockers from gentlemen's doors. He had two
brass knockers tied round his neck.—Post Boy, Dec, 14,
1747.

RUNNING THE BLOCKADE.—THE STEAMER
HERo.—This fine steamer has at length eluded the vigi-
lance of the blockading squadron,and safely got to sea from
Charleston. When last heard from she had had 1,500
bales of cotton on board, and was waiting for a favourable
opportunity to run out, she having then made three unsuc-
cessful attempts to do so, each time narrowly escaping cap-
ture. She is a fine steamer of 1,000 tons, owned in Hull,
and commanded by Captain Peat. Her destination,we be-
lieve, is Liverpool. The steamer Herald, Captain Coxetter,
had arrived at Charleston previous to the Hero sailing.
This steamer left Bermuda on the 2Gth October, with a
valuable cargo, and the present is the fifth time she has
succeeded in running the blockade. The steamer Mimho,
that ran ashore on Sullivan's Island while attempting to
get into Charleston, was sold on the 3d ult. for 6,000 dole.
each.—Liverpool Post.

arrogant
supposed
THE ESTABLISHED AND DISSENTING CLERGY.—
The clergy of Folkestone have again been displaying their
bigotry and bad breeding, by leaving the mayor's break-
fast table because a Dissenting minister was apepointed to
ask a blessing on the feast. Their
was to illustrate the " moderation"
of the
The effect of
" most tolerant Church in Christeof
PuthrPe°mseinlysterssuoir the
their procedure is to open the eyes of
to a system which
the desirableness of putting unthinking people to
exalts one class of clergy
e:llenodtheprist„iaabnlyd therebyosed that it is on
makes them intolerably
narrow-
minded. Let it not, 0
layman" protesting against the
the clergy only
find thatvothhiswebla'edr'effect is produced, for we
" a emservamtie of a Dissenting minister with the
coupling of the name
toastßishop and Clergy of the Diocese," at a re-
cent '"oyster regards
at Colchester. This he •
ort to error.—Liberator.
in, practical support
IMMUNITY TO RUFFIANS.—Why Bholld. one
,'Th e
feast" as gtv-
sing le known bad character be allowed at large ? What is
the use of a police force if it does not keep a sharp look-out
after the once convicted felon. The system of surveillance
should be very much closer than it is over these men, and
they should certainly be liable at any moment to be called
up
on to show what are their means of living. What is
your trade F Are you actively engaged in it ? Whom do
you work for ? What do you receive ? These aro ques-
tions which ought continually to be put to all those persons
who have once come under the professional caw of the
police, and the correctness of the answer made tc those
questions should by no means ho taken for granted, but
should, on the contrary, be rigorously inquired into. If a
man have no obvious means of living, and yet does manage
to live, it is high time that so extraordinary a mystery as
his mode of subsistence should be looked to.—Dickeids
" All the Year Bound."
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According to the Austrian " Naval Almanack,"
which has just been published, there are in the service of
that Power :-1G Admirals (of whsm 11 are not on active
service) ; 11 Post-Captains, and 25 Captains of Frigatet.
A total eclipse of the moon, partly visible in
Paris, will take place on the 6th. The moon will enter the
penumbra at 41 minutes after 4 a.m., the eclipse commenc-
ing at 55 minutes after 5, and terminating at 44 minutes
after 9. The planet will leave the penumbra at about 11
o'clock,