The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-16 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, August 15.—Several causes have com-
bined to depress the market for cloths to-day, one of
which is a slight decline in the price of cotton at Liver-
pool, a change which always tends to stay operations here
more less, while further unfavourable advices from Cal-
cutta by yesterday's post, which state that both calicoes
and jaconets had further declined in value, had the
effect of putting a large number of buyers upon a very
restricted system of operating. Since the Bank of Eng-
land has lowered its discounts, depositors in the local
banks are said to have been recalling their money, and
this and other causes have somewhat lessened the means
of accommodation to customers, who find money rather
tighter when they expected it to be growing easier, and
this again has its effect in restricting business. Some
of the makers of domestics and shirtinge have been
putting their looms upon T-cloths, which are in better
demand from the Greeks ; but sellers of most kinds of
cloths report a dull and heavy market, and qualities
suited to India are much neglected and almost nominal
in price. The yarn-market still maintains a better posi-
tion than that for cloth, and pincops and warps are in
fair demand, some of the spinners coming from under
engagements being eull'uled to renew them on better
terms. On the whole, there was rather less buoyancy
in yarns, however, than last week, and some of the
buyers report a small concession in Indian qualities.
The report of the market given by a mercantile firm is
the town this evening says :—" From Tuesday last to
the close of the week we continued to have a fair de-
mand from the homehouses and printers, and prices
were well sustained. Yesterday and to-day, however,
owing to the slight decline in the Liverpool market,
there is less diPposition to act, but there is no giving
way in prices. For 40-inch shirtings, jaconets, and
maddapolams, suited to the India markets, the demand
has been on the most trifling scale, and the advices re-
ceived yesterday from Calcutta ave had the effect of
further discouraging buyers, and prices of these goods
are very irregular."
LEEDS, August 15.--.-There has been a rather limited
amount of business done in the cloth halls this morning,
a slight lull having taken place in the demand by the
rnerohants for waollen cloths. The trade upon the
whole, however, is steady, and bids fair to remain so for
some time to come. The weekly corn-market here to-
day has been flat ; little business has been done, and
wheat has declined from 2s. to 3s. per quarter as com-
pared with this day se'nnight. The weather is rather
unsettled, but from all parts of Yorkshire the harvest
reports are of a favourable character. Some crops of
wheat in the neighbourhood of Ripon have been cut,
and, if all happens well, reaping will be genem next
week.

THE OPENING OP RELATIONS WITH JAPAN.—The
honour of having broken through the wall of partition
which has hitherto for so many centuries excluded all the
world from intercourse with Japan, belongs to this coulee
try, and we may well he proud of it. But other coulee
tries will undoubtedly seek to share with us in its benefits,
whatever they may be ' • and already instructions have
been sent out to Sir John Bowring, the British Envoy in
China, by her Britannic Majesty's Government, to ask
from the Emperor of Japan a similar privilege to that
which has been so honourably secured by the United
States, and Sir John is to proceed at once to Japan to
make the demand. The treaty which Commodore Perry
has succeeded in concluding is not, let it be observed, a
treaty of commerce, but a treaty of amity and friend•
ship, though it opens to American citizens and the Ame-
rican trade two of the principal ports of the empire—
that of Samodi in the island of Niphon, and that of
Chickadada in the island of Yesso. These two ports will
answer every present purpose for our commercial inter-
course with that country. They are conveniently situ-
ated, and one of them, Samodi, is so commodious for
coal, that a depot is forthwith to be established there,
and arrangements are to be immediately made fora
a in
con-
stant supply—a most important point gained for
.enn bl g
us successfully to prosecute steam navigationt i those
seas. The port is, in other respects, alos
districtsdesirableof
accessibletby
poonsnittiroyn:
whltioialtlajroeinnsotthoethmera:iusfea,cittnereinegms.,
sea.he
c It is a good harbour; the neighbouring population
is extensive, and, altogether, it would appear to be an
eligible situation for foreign trade. The other port has
also its advantages ; at both there is to be permitted all
requisite intercourse for the purposes of commerce—for
American citizens may reside within their walls, and
American consuls are to be stationed there. It may not
be generally known—or at any rate it is apt to be for-
gotten—that so long ago as the reign of James I. of Eng-
landofßp3uerrrri
to
eatr :a
noi similarapfrj,eef,f roirlefaeenjtly,
Japan,
;pore: yacy,
safely
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jecaestishci
ptsgeosor aaafnnntn tihydteesd
kbi nygt
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stipulationsErema
t
of our
apoodrtisseosf,
without any hindrance to them or their goods ; and to
abide, buy, sell, and barter, according to their own man-
ner with all nations, to tarry here as long as they think
good, and to depart at their pleasures." It granted them
also " freedom of custom for all such merchandises as
either now they have brought, or hereafter shall bring,
into our kingdom, or shall from hence transport to any
foreign port,''—together with all due protection alike of
property and person. But this did not last long. The
conduct of the Portuguese Jesuits produced the expulsion
of all foreigners except the Dutch from the empire, and
has occasioned their exclusion. The Russians have
made many attempts to open up commercial relations
with Japan ; but in vain, the positive laws of the coun-
try, and their own want of tact, defeating every effort.
—From the New York Journal of Commerce.
NEW MAGISTRATES.—The been added
es,adredseat-
to the commission of the peace for Middlesex an Mr.
irinster :—Mr. Bayley Abel, Turnham-g.
William Bird, Bute House, Hammersmith
George
Peter Bodkin, Bellevue, Highgate;
kth.
Richard Block, Green-hill-grove, Barnete;
Mr. Alderman
- ,
Henry Charles Byng, Wrothain-parr
; Mr. Alexander Angus
Challis, M.P., Finsbury-.
nmasudgahl et
fobrrnf.e.reWilliam Samuel
esConni
ECrsoselln,dFenin, subueryrt-sc;irc3tilsr.;
square ; Mr. Duncan Dirihe
Auchinuty Glover, Staf-
ford-house ; Mr. Thomas
dw:rucienant-Colonel John Glos-
sop,?Fletcher, TencyColonel William Lewis Grant,
William Richard Westgarth
fortindi he
ylob:asne\y'v e;sl3itnbi dor :rue
se - tre rrGaecoerg;
George
Captainßd m o o Jacob a cHo bo
dWilliamin s o
u,
Isleworth ;
Mr. Alderman Hunter, West.
terrace ; Mr.
tamßaArnnettbo; ni\yirlel.lDitcahviisdopnowSueun:
Hinds, Wareham ;
:fir• Samuel Morley,
Bart., Oak-hill,
Hackney ; Sir John Henry
tad ; Viscount Ranelagh, Fulham ; Baron
LPabbl:eaourintYrYlelP:les Gunnersbury ; Mr. Joseph
Somes, Blackwell ; Mr. Hugh Taylor, Finchle
Y
James Tyler, Pine-house, Holloway ; /dr. Joseph
William Thrupp, Upper Brook-street ; Lieut.-Colonel
the Hon. Frederick Villiers ; Captain Frederick Augus-
tus Wetberall, Castle-hill-lodge, Ealing ; Mr. Robert
Wynne Williams, Bedford-place ; and Mr. Edward
Wyndham, Blandford-aquare.

.irrHE SUN" ON SMOKE PREVENTION.
—" There really ought not to oe any excuse for the entire
riddance of the smoke nuisance; oar own experience satisfying us
that the system of smoke prevention and economy of fuel, invented
and carried out by Mr. Lee Stevens, ie as effective as it is simple.
Until we had it applied to our own steam-engine furnace, we could
form no Idea of the ease and certainty of its operations, vrithoat any
moveable parts, and at such very moderate expense."—San.

Copies of OFFICIAL AND OTHER REPORTS, and of Testimo-
nials in favour of the Invention, as applied to STEAM BOILERS;
BREWERY COPPERS; STILLS ; CHEMISTS, DYERS, and
CONFECTIONERS' PANS ; COAL OVENS, Ike , with information
respecting licenses to manufacture or use the Patent Smokeless Fur-
nOces, given by Mr. JOHN LEE STEVENS, the Patentee, at the
Oakes, So. 1, FISH-STREET-HILL, CITY, LONDON.

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE:
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVENING, AUGUST 16,
WM be produced for the? first time. with New Scenery, Dresses.
and Effects, Rossines &,rand Opera ot SEMI RA3LIDE. Semiramide,
Madame Caradori ; Arsace, Miss Fanny Huddart ; mar°. Signor
♦rnoldi; Idreno, Signor :Juni ; Oroe, Signor Pitrrini ; Ombra di
Mono, Signor Ferrari.
To conclude with a favourite BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT.
Prices—Gallery, 13.; Pit, 25.: Upper Boxes, Ss. ; First Circle, 43.;
Dress Circle, 55.; Stalls, 75.; and Private Boxes, One, Two, Three,
and Four Guineas each.

THE ITRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
Under the management of Mr. Rucketone.
THIS EVENING, Arorxr 16,

Will be performed THE OLD CFIATE &U. Characters by Messrs.
Howe, Rogers, LI. Marston, and Duckstocs; Mrs. Fitzwllliam, and
Miss Reynolds.
Followed by the spANlsa DANCERS in a GRAND BALLET.
The new Farce AS LIKE AS TWO PEAS.