The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-20 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Dec. 19.--There has been a con-
siderable amount of business doing in shipping
yarns to-day at very extreme prices. In some cases
the highest price has been obtained to-day at which
yarns have been sold during the last six months.
This branch of the market closed very strong, with
a decided tendency to higher prices. There aro yet
many considerable orders to be given out, which
producers are unable to accept, in consequence of
the deep engagements they have already entered
into. For home-trade yarns we have had but a

quiet market, there is not much business going on.
For these yarns there is no change in prices. The

market for cloth continues firm. The slight fall re
ported in cotton at New York in the advices by the
China steamship on Friday depressed ourmarketbut
momentarily, and the quickly-returning buoyany of
the Liverpool cotton market soon produced the re-
establishment of prices here. We have had, however,
between that day and the present but a limited
business. Buyers appear to be afraid of operating
largely at present prices. Manufacturers, on the
contrary, show no disposition to meet them at any
lower rates. To-day our cloth market opened rather
flatly, but we have considerable firmness at the close.
The business has been small, but at the full rates of
last week. The latest telegrams to hand from India
are not very favourable. Their contents are of a
nature to make merchants still less anxious than they
were to go into large operations. The purchases for
that market are, therefore, in some cases confined
to small parcels. There have been inquiries imply-
ing large quantities required, but there is no reason
to believe in any desire to place extensive orders.
There appears to be an impression gaining ground
that the supplies of cotton from the three great
sources--America, India, and Egypt—will fall short
of what was expected. Messrs. John Slagg and Co.
report of this day's market :
" The last American accounts produced but a transient
depression in our market, and prices soon resumed their
former position. Buyers, however, still act with great
caution, and confine their operations to small quantities.
The recent India telegrams are not of a nature to induce
purchases, but our market closes firmly, at last week's
quotations."
NOTTINGHAM, 19th.—The attendance at our Ex-
change-hall to-day was moderate, and a steady busi-
ness was done in lace yarns, at late prices. The
inquiry for hosiery yarns was tolerable, and full
rates were obtained. Silks without any material
change. There was a quiet feeling in the demand
for brown nets, but extreme rates were realised.
ROCHDALE, 18th.—The flannel market has been
rather inanimate to-day. There was a small attend-
ance of buyers, and they purchased sparingly ;
but prices are firm, and there is no overplus stock
offering. Manufacturers are well employed, as they
have been throughout the whole of the year. To-day's
sales have included about equal portions of plain
and fancy goods, but the demand for the latter
is the most active generally. Till the present season
of stock taking is over the markets will probably be
quiet, but in all other respects the trade is satisfac-
tory. There is a moderate sale for the best qua-
lities of Yorkshire goods, but inferior kinds are not
easy to dispose of, except at a reduction in price.
Wools are nominally the same as last week, with a
'air amount of business doing.

THE LATE CHIEF JUSTICE OF NEW BRUNSWICK.
—The Hon. Robert Parker, Chief Justice of New
Brunswick, died at St. John's, New Brunswick, on the 24th
ult., in his 70th year. Mr. Parker wont to the colony at a
very early age with his father, and after taking a degree at
King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia, was called to the
bar in 1820. In 1828 he was appointed Solicitor-General,
and acted also as Attorney-General of the province, during
part of the administration of the late Sir Howard Douglas.
He was appointed a Puisne Judge in 1834, and in Septem-
ber last, on the retirement of Sir James Carter, who had
also been on the bench for 31 years, he accepted, though
with considerable reluctance, the appointment of Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court. The labour involved in the
sittings of the Court in October brought on a return of
illness, under which he gradually sank. He was followed
to the grave by nearly 4,000 persons, including the Lieu-
tenant-Governor and members of the Government. The
late Chief Justice was a man of untiring industry, very ex-
tensive reading, and of great legal acumen. Few men
have ever had a higher reputation on the bench in British
North America ; while, in his own province, all sects and
all classes combine in admiring one who was, if ever man
was, an upright Judge and i Christian gentleman.