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STATE OF TRADE.

( From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)

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MANCHESTER, Aug. 16.—The advancing tendency of
the rates charged for discounts, and the greater difficulty
experienced in effecting them, have the effect of some-
what further restricting the purchases of speculators and
of shippers. There is, therefore, only a moderate de-
mand for cotton at Liverpool, yet without any change in
prices, though buyers have a better choice ; and our
own market is inanimate for most of the more distant
markets. The Russian merchants are, however, giving
out orders for yarns, as the season for shipping will be
running out before they can be executed ; and there is
sufficient business doing by the home and continental
buyers in warps and weft, from 28's to 32's, to render them
exceedingly stiff in price. Some of the better sorts of
printing cloths are in also good request, at full rates.
Take the market generally, indeed, and it must be
reported as very firm ; being supported by the extent of
existing engagements and the increasing cost of produc •
tion. The makers of India and China shirtings (a wealthy
body) consider that it will pay them to hold stocks, and
are disposed to do so, rather than make any concession
from their present low quotations. In pincops for
domestics there is a giving way now amounting to
id. per lb. from the late extreme prices, which were dis-
proportionately high. We understand that at one of the
largest mills in Stockport part of the workpeople again
turned out this morning, on what grounds we are not
aware. At Blackburn the hands will accept the advance
of ten per cent. only on conditions which the masters
are not inclined to accede to.
ROCHDALE, Aug. 15.—There has been a good demand
for low-priced flannels ; but those of a finer quality
have not been much in request. In the wool market
there is little change, and the manufacturers continue
to buy very sparingly. There is a good demand for
English wools, varying from 14d. to 16d. per lb. ; and
the dealers have small stocks on hand of that quality of
wool.

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HALIFAX, August 13.—Although we cannot report
an increased amount of business in our Piece Hall to-
day, yet there is a tone of greater confidence arising
from the pacific settlement of the eastern difficulty. The
same cause has contributed to impart greater firmness
to the yarn market ; and the spinners might have
orders to a large amount were they disposed to accept
late rates ; but they are holding out for an advance at
least corresponding with that of the raw material.
Wools are selling rather more freely ; and the staplers,
having to pay higher rates in the country, have succeeded

in realising a n advance.
HUDDERSFIELD, Aug. 16.—We have no material
change to report in our market of to-day ; the demand
keeps up for seasonable goods. Manufacturers generally
are fully engaged working to order.
BIRMINGHAM, Aug. 15. Considerable interruption
has been experienced during the last week in the pudd-
ling and other departments of manufacturing iron, in
consequence of the severe heat of the weather ; but the
best feeling prevails among the workmen, who seem to
properly appreciate the liberality of their masters in
continuing the high rates of remuneration for labour,
notwithstanding the repeated reductions in the price of
iron. In general, our works are well supplied with
orders, and all hands are fully employed, the only draw-
back being the scarcity of fuel, which, in consequence,
commands still a disproportionate and exorbitant price.
The prospects of this district are again considered to be
of a satisfactory and progressive character. Though the
market has for a time been over supplied with pigs,
it has not been so much from the make exceeding
the consumption as from other causes. The absti-
nence of manufacturers, during several months of high
prices, from their usual purchases, the efforts of specu-
lators to push their lots, and the introduction of Scotch
and other cheaper metal, must be taken into consid-
eration. These causes are now righting themselves.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the w 00l
sack at 5 o'clock.

MAJOR MOORE
Earl GRANVILLE said he was sorry again to have
to trouble their lordships on the subject of India, but
he wished to say a few words in explanation of a state-
ment affecting a gentleman, not a member of their lord-
ships' house, and who therefore was unable to offer any
personal explanation for himself. It had been stated
that Major Moore, the military secretary at Hyderabad,
had warned certain persons of the risk of lending money
to the Government of the Nizam, and a noble lord, not
now present, inquired if the Major Moore referred to
was the person who had received a pension from the
Nizam. He had received a letter from Major Moore,
enclosing certain correspondence on the subject, of
which he would read an abstract. The first letter, dated
Bth November, 1838, was from Major Moore to the
resident at Myderabad, General Fraser, enclosing a
medical certificate of illness, which obliged him to re-
sign. The second letter, dated 29th November, 1838,
was from the resident to the secretary of the Governor-
General, enclosing papers which he states bear ample
testimony to the distinguished merits of Major Moore,
and expressing his sincere concurrence in the favourable
sentiments respecting him expressed by the Governor-
General's commands respecting a pension of 600 rupees
a month, which was spontaneously proposed to be given
by the Nizam's Government, who were impressed with
a sense of the advantage which the state had deriVed
from Major Moore's services. The third letter, dated
December 27, 1838, was from the secretary of the Go-
vernor-General, in which it is stated that his lordship re-
grets the loss to the service caused by the retirement of
so excellent an officer as Major Moore ; and bears testi-
mony to the worth, zeal, and intelligence of so distin-
guished a servant of the Government, but declines to
sanction the acceptance of this honourable and well-
earned distinction, because, as a matter of precedent,
his lordship felt that it would be extremely imprudent
for the local Government to admit the pensioning of
British officers by the Nizam's Government. Under the
circumstances of Major Moore's long service and high
character, his lordship has no objection to submit the
offer for the orders of the Court of Directors. The
Court of Directors, in a political dispatch, dated Dec.
24, 1839, state that it appears to them that the insuper-
able objection which would exist to the pensioning of an
officer in our own service by the Nizam's Government,
does not exist in the case of the local officers. These
officers have no personal claim to a pension from any
other quarter. As a body they are becoming gradually
extinct, and they should be unwilling to stand between
them and the spontaneous bounty and gratitude of the
Nizam's Government, especially where those services
have been so eminent as those which Major Moore has
rendered to that Government as well in other forms as
in the form of saving expense. They therefore sanction
the acceptance by Major Moore of the pension offered
to him by the Nizam's Government.
PILOTAGE BILL.
The report of the amendments to this bill was con-
sidered and agreed to.
SECOND READINGS.
The following bills were read a second time :
Consolidated Fund Appropriation, Militia Pay,
Land Tax Redemption Act Amendment, South
Sea and other Annuities Provision for Payment, &c. ;
Apprehension of Offenders Act Amendment, Bet-
ting Houses, Commons Inclosure (No. 2), Female
Convicts, Loan Societies, Holy Trinity Church (Hulme),
-Validity Marriages, Friendly Societies ; Copyhold, &c.,
Commission Continuance, and Metropoitan Sewers Acts
Continuance.
UNIVERSITIES (SCOTLAND) BILL.
The Earl of ABERDEEN moved the third reading of
this bill.
The Earl of HADDINGTON said, in the only one of
the public journals which he had seen to-day, there was
a very short reference to the observations he made last
evening upon going into committee on this bill, giving a
colouring of his opinions which he felt absolutely under
the necessity of removing, as he did not wish to be mis-
understood on a question which excited a great deal of
interest in Scotland. It was stated in that journal that
he said that he thought the negative test in the present
bill was a better thing than a religious test. That was
not what he said. What he did say was, that he consi-
dered the negative test in the present bill—the declara-
tion in the present bill—without a religious test, a better
practical security for the Church of Scotland than a
general religious test would be, such as there could be
any hope of carrying without the declaration. He might
have added, and he thought lie did add, that he thought
a negative test a better practical security to the Church
than the present test, which was a farce, seeing that it
was quite inoperative. Those were the opinions lie ex-
pressed, and which, in the journal to which he referred,
had been misrepresented. He also stated that he consi-
dered, not only upon general grounds, but because of the
agitation which now existed in Scotland, a religious test
was due to the Church of Scotland. Such a religious
test he afterwards took the trouble of moving in com-
mittee, but no reference was made in that journal to that
amendment ; and it was also stated, in another part of
the same paper, that the noble duke (the Duke of Ar-
gyll) opposed the bill proposed by the noble earl (the
Bail of Aberdeen). With a view of having that amend-
ment put, be should, after the third reading, and before
the bill passed, go through the form of moving it.
The bill was then read a third time.
On the question that it pass,
The Earl of HADDINGTON moved the amendment
to which he had referred, which was negatived, and the
bill passed.