The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-08 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, FEB. 7.—ln yarns there has been
rather more business throughout the week, principally from
the Germans, and they are a shade dearer than on Tuesday.
The market has been gradually gaining in firmness for every
quarter for all descriptions of yarns. The amount of busi-
ness for India and China has not been large, nor halve the
home-trade houses bought much. The Germans have been
more active buyers, and have cleared out some pretty large
parcels of yarns at full prices. The cloth-market remams
exactly as it was on Tuesday, or, if there is any change, a little
firmer. Extremely little business is doing. Both buyers and
sellers are disposed to wait awhile, in the expectation of
rather better accounts from India in the course of another
mail or two, so soon as the news of the settlement of the
American question has arrived out there. And it is thought,
also, that the continuance of the system of short time must
soon result in giving increased steadiness to the market.
Manufacturers from the country speak of more mills having
been closed, in consequence of the ruinous loss attending
the production of cloth at the prises now current. In
some instances, and especially where the operatives occupy
catages belonging to their employers, the manufacturers
who have closed their mills have agreed to advance the
workpeople two or three days' wages per week to keep them
from the workhouse, and on condition that such advance
shall be repaid when more prosperous times shall enable
mills to be re-opened. This has been done (as stated
by Mr. Bright at Rochdale, a few weeks back) in former
periods of depression like the present, and employers have
found their workpeople honest enough generally
to return and work these advances off as soon as an
opportunity was afforded them of doing it. It is to be re-
gretted that many spinners and manufacturers have not
capital sufficient to enable them to adopt this course, and
that there is nothing for it in such cases but to leave the
workpeople to their own resources. The hope expressed
by Mr. Bazley, at Tuesday's meeting on the Indian
tariff, that boards of guardians would relax as far as
possible the ordinary tests to paupers, and not subject
those whose fingers were accustomed to the more delicate
processes of the trade to the rough-labour of stone-
breaking, met with a hearty response from the more
generous-hearted of his auditors. The wish is often
expressed that it may be well to ask who is to in-
demnify the relieving officers for such a breach of the
law. Have the guardians the power P In ordinary times
the relieving-officers of Manchester are every year sur-
charged by the auditor for breaches of the rule in sums
large enough to jeopardise nearly the whole amount of
their salaries, and they can only obtain a remission by a
process which involves a long and tedious correspondence
with the Poor Law Board in London, so that it may be
presumed that they will only follow a suggestion of this
kind to a very limited extent. But where this is not
done the poor people will naturally avoid the union
as long as possible, and, indeed, vast numbers are now
tramping over the country begging from door to door,
rather than accept the parish dole on the only terms on
which the law, when strictly enforced, permits it to be
given. Although many of our spinners and manufacturers
are successfully using Surat cotton, a far greater number,
through prejudice, or rather than incur the expense of
adapting their machinery to it, are averse to a fair trial.
This accounts in some measure for the great difference in
price, which is fully 3d. per lb. in favour of the buyer as
compared with American. The prejudice blinds many to
the fact that Surats may now be had of much superior qua-
lity to that which was ordinarily supplied some years ago ;
and of course where employers have a dislike to its use we
can hardly be surprised to find that the operatives are pre-
judiced against it to a still greater degree, finding that they
earn rather less wages when supplied with this description
of cotton.

Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley and family
have arrived at their residence in Dover-street, from
Alderley-park, Cheshire.
Lord Derby (remarks the Stamford Mercury)
was a visitor at Burghley last week, and was one of a party
of sportsmen who killed 400 pheasants in one day's shoot-
ing among the preserves.

An influential meeting was held at Exeter on
Thursday, for the purpose of erecting a museum in that
city, which is intended to serve the purpose of a memorial
to the Prince Consort.

A marriage is arranged between the Marquis of
Hastings and Miss Alice Lisle Pkillipps, second daughter
of Ambrose Lisle Phillipps, Esq., of Garendon Park and
Grace Dieu Manor, in the county of Leicester. The mar-
riage will not take place until the marquis has attained his
majority.

The Earl and Countess of Aylesford 'ha ve arrived
at Claridge's Hotel from Packington Hall, Leamington.

Lord and Lady Wodehouse and family have
arrived at their residence in Bryanston-square, from Kim-
berley Hall, Norfolk.

Lady Balfout has arrived at Claridge's Rote
from Ireland.

Sir George Cornewall and Lady Theresa Lewis
entertained a select circle at dinner, last evening, at their
residence, Kent House, Knightsbridge.

We are informed that Mr. Charles Wycliffe
Goodwin, late fellow of St. Catherine's-hall, Cambridge,
has undertaken the editorship of the ;Literary Gazetts. Mr.
Goodwin is well known to the public as one of the authors
of " Essays and Reviews," to which he contributed the
sixth article in the series, namely that on the Mosaic Cos-
mogony.

.nd lightning on the 16th
A!wiarspout also burst over the city. More
than 300, housed were thrown down, burying many persons
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LATEST NEWS.

PARIS, FEB. 8.

The Moniteur of this morning says:—
" The English journals announce that the French
Government is negotiating at London for a loan of
£4,000,000 sterling.
" This assertion is erroneous."

Yesterday evening, in the Corps Legislatif,
M. Vintry defended, and M. Picard opposed, the
Bill for the Conversion of the Rentes. The dis-
cussion will be resumed to-day.

MADRID, FEB. 7 (Evening).
Senor Martinez de la Rosa is dead.

TURIN, FEB. 8.

The official Gazette, replying to- the rumours that
the Government encouraged manifestations against
the temporal power at Rome, that"- itliad decreed
the recall of Mazzini, and, by means ef- secret en-
couragements was preparing a clanclestine expe-
dition, declares that the Government will not
depart from the laws of an upright and loyal policy,
and will endeavour to seize every opportunity
which may present itself of assuring, in an ample
and fruitful manner, the destinies of the nation.

ST. PETERSBURG, FEB. 8.

The Northern Post of to-day states that 5,000,000
silver roubles have been destined to cover advances
made to the owners of a less number than
20,000,000 serfs.

The Journal de St. Petergourg of to-day an-
nounces that 6,000 marines have received their
furlough.

MADRID, FEB. 7.
The Fontenoy, with troops for Mexico, has put
in at Cadiz to repair damages.
In the Cortes the treaty with Morocco is stil
under discussion.

Senor Martinez de la Rosa is in such a dangerous
state that his life is despaired of.
M. Mon has been summoned, by telegraph,
from Paris, and will be appointed President of the
Chamber of Deputies.
The Government is examining the question of
effecting the redemption of the public debt.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
PORTSMOUTH, SATURDAY MORNING.
Her Majesty's steamer Sidon, 22 guns, Captain
Crawford, has arrived at Spithead from the Cape
of Good Hope.

FRANCE.
PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.

The discussion of the bill for the conversion of
the Four-and •a-Half per Cent. Rentes commenced
to-day in the Chamber of Deputies.
M. Darimon spoke against the conversion, which,
he said, was immoral, on account of the abnormal
conditions under which it was effected, and because
an association of bankers would, to favour this
scheme of the Government, create an artificial rise
in the public securities. M. Darimon maintained
that the conversion was impossible on account of
the considerable deficits, the large floating debt, and
the probability that a loan would have to be re.
sorted to.

M. Barthelemy defended the bill. M. Konigs-
water opposed it.
The Constitutionnel of this evening says :
" Some English journals speak of a loan of
£4,000,000 sterling having been contracted by the
French Government with some English bankers.
"This news is incorrect."

BOURSE, Feb. 7.—The market has been rather
more buoyant, but the amount of business continues
limited. Threes opened at 71f. 25c., and are now
at 71f. 35c. The Railway Share Market has been
petty firm. The following are the last quota
tions :-
4t per per Cents lOO 40
Do end month 100 55
3 per Cents
Do. end month 7l 40
Bank Shares 3050
Credit Mobilier 766 25
Do. Account .. 768 75

Credit Fonder l4lO
Belgian 41 lOl
Piedmontese Fives 6B 25
Roman
Austrian
Spanith Threes 49
Home Debt

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans 1345 .. 1343 75
Northern
New ditto . 930
Lyons and Mediterranean 1077 60 .. 1080
Geneva.. — • • --
Southern 715 720
Western
Eastern ....
Sardinian
Austrian
Loirbard

POLAND.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
WARSAW, FEB. 1

It will be in your recollection that after the
closing of the Roman Catholic churches in October
last, the Protestant church and the synagogue were
also shut by order of their respective ministers, in
order that they might not be exposed to the same
profanation by the Russian soldiery as the Catholic
ones had been ; the consequence of this measure
was that the Rev. Mr. Otto, the Protestant minister,
and the Rev. Mr. Meisoles, Jewish Rabbi, had to
share the fate of the Canon Bialobrzeski, in the
citadel of Warsaw. It was an extraordinary occur-
rence, but one redounding much to the honour of
all, that the heads of the three different religious
denominations should suffer together for the same
national cause. The Protestant clergyman has
been set at large some time ago, owing to the inter-
ference of the Prussian Consul ; the Canon Bia-
lobszeski is undergoing his sentence in a Russian
fortress, and Mr. Meisoles, the rabbi, is still an
inmate of the citadel. He has been subjected to a
strict examination ; his chief crime consists in
having signed the address presented in February
last to the Emperor, and thereby induced many of
his co-religionists to follow his example; and as
his prolonged imprisonment is tantamount, accord-
ing to Russian laws, to a civil death, the Govern-
ment has appointed his successor. But the ques-
tion is, whether he will be accepted by the Jews.
The authorities not being satisfied with the
publication of the charges bronght against
Canon Bialobrzeski, had the impudence to state,
in the official journal, that when examined before a
court martial the worthy prelate declared that he
ordered the churches to be shut because he could
not any longer tolerate the singing of the national
hymns. If that were the case, why should he be
imprisoned and transported into the depth of Rus-
siq ? The falsehood of such a statement is palpable,
and requires no comment.
The Council of Administration has had several
times under their consideration the peasant ques-
tion and the project of the Marquis Wielopolski,
which is almost the one framed by Count Andrew
Zamoyski, wale President of the Agricultural
Society. WiWa few modifications it was adopted in
spite of theS‘hement opposition of Mr. Platenow,
who, with two other Russian officials, insisted that
the land which the peasants now cultivate should
be given to them as a gift from the Emperor and
not from the prop;
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