The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-04 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Manchester Guardian of yesterday.)
MANCHESTER, August 2.—According to advices of
the 20th ult., the dangerous state of international rela-
tions in Europe appears to have somewhat unfavourably
affected the New York cotton market; but in the southern
ports sellers were firm, at an advance of lc. per lb. The
Manchester market has felt the influence to-day of the
unfavourable commercial accounts by the overland mail,
of the agreement onthe part of the spinners at Stockport to
return to work immediately, and of the more unsatisfactory
impressions produced by the statements of the last day or
two respecting Turkish affairs. These causes have
tended to the restriction of business, by increasing the
caution of buyers ; and yet the market, with certain ex-
ceptions, has exhibited all the firmness by which it was
last week characterised, with an inclination to harden in 1
some articles. Even in 20's water and India mule no
concession can be quoted ; and as to those warps and
pincops whose supply will be augmented by the resump-
tion of work at Stockport, their value is maintained
with quite as much decision as it was a week ago.
Spinners look to the fact that that resumption of work
costs an addition of 10 per cent. to the wages previously
paid ; and they look, too, at the consequences to other
localities of the issue of that protracted contest. The
improvement which seems to be taking place in the wea-
ther has also contributed to the strength of the market.
In goods, the firmness in prices is equal to what it is in
yarns, though, on the whole, there is rather less busi-
ness doing than there was this day week. At Stockport
the millow-ners have agreed to pay the advance of
10 per cent. demanded by the operatives in the spinning
department ; but only five per cent. in that of weaving,
which is more than can be afforded. We mentioned
last week the unreasonable requirement, in a mill in
this city, of an addition of 30 per cent. to the self-actor
minders' wages, although they had shortly before re-
ceived 10 per cent. This was an under statement. What
they demand is, altogether, not 30, but 37 per cent. At
the meeting of the Employers' Association to-day, it
was resolved that the case should be investigated, and
that, if found to be of this outrageous character, then the
workpeople in that establishment shall have notice given
to them that if they do not withdraw their demand,
all the associated masters will close their mills.
It is a thousand pities that the operatives should
injure their cause as they are doing, not alone by
claiming an advance of wages far beyond what the trade
can afford, but by a tyrannical attempt to interfere with
the rightful and necessary prerogatives of their employers.
In one factory, a majority of the hands refused to com-
ply with the resolution of a minority, that every one
should subscribe 3d. per week to the Stockport sup-
port-fund. The minority required their employer to
stop this subscription out of the people's wages, which
he very properly declined doing, whereupon the dicta-
tors not only turned out themselves, but took effectual
measures to stop the whole works. In one mill in
Stockport, the spinners decline to spin and the warpers
to warp, because their employer intends to sell, and not
to weave, the warps and pincops they would produce.
In a weaving shed in the same town, where as high
wages are paid for coloured work as in any concern in
the country, and where the majority of hands would
quietly go on with their occupation, they are deterred
from doing so by a few malcontents, who levy a mob to
follow the people with hootings and threats as they go
home at meal-times and at nights ; and it is found that
the 13 police-officers maintained by the corporation are
quite unable to afford protection in the case. That the
operatives have a perfect right to demand an advance of
wages must be admitted by all : that they have no right
to enforce their claim by means like these, they them-
selves must admit. Surely, they must see that in no
way can they so effectually defeat their own purpose.
ROCHDALE, Aug. I. We have had a dull market to-
day, and less business was transacted than on the pre-
ceding Monday, but prices have been much the same.
In some instances the workmen in the fulling mills have
returned to work, at an advance of wages, but in most
cases they are yet out. The wool market has been
quiet, and prices rather easier. For rape oil of the best
quality 381. 10s. is asked.
HALIFAX, July 30.—There has been rather more
inquiry for some descriptions of goods in our piece-hall
to-day, but the sales have not been of an extensive
character. Notwithstanding the continued influence
of the unsettled state of Eastern politics, the yarn mar-
ket exhibits greater firmness, and the same may be said
of wool, in which there is more doing.
HUDDERSFIELD, August 2.—To-day's market has been
quiet, both in the cloth hall and warehouses. We have
had very few buyers in town. Goods of dark colour, in
new patterns, chiefly borders, large checks and clouds,
are mostly inquired for by our own merchants, and re-
quired for home autumn consumption. In the wool
market rather more has been done, at easier rates, in
consequence of the slight decline at the London sales,
the tone of which has been in favour of the buyer.
BIRMINGHAM, August I.—A sensible improvement
has been felt in the iron trade since the conclusion of
the quarterly meetings. Orders are more freely given
and prices are rather stiffening ; not more than 10s.
difference now exists between marked brands and the
lesser makers. The demand for sheets and plates is
most lively, and many of the contracts for rails, that
have for a long time more peculiarly been confined
to Welsh houses, are again being brought into our
market. For small sizes, wire, and the best sorts of
finished iron, the demand has also experienced a very
considerable impulse, through the large orders for
manufactured goods lately received, and now in course
of execution here.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

(Front the Registrar-General's Return.)

The Registrar-General's return states that in the
week that ended on Saturday 1,004 deaths were regis-
tered, a result which, though not unfavourable as com-
pared with the usual mortality of the season in London,
again gives indication of that increase which is charac-
teristic of the summer mortality of towns as distin-
guished from that of the country. The deaths returned
in the last three weeks were successively 904, 971, and
1,004.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1843-52
the average number of deaths was 1,068, which, with a
correction for increase of population, gives a mortality
of 1,175. This series of weeks embraces the high mor-
tality from cholera in 1849, and the average is therefore
greater than it would be if derived exclusively from
years less remarkable for epidemic disease.
Taking the fatal diseases in groups, it is seen that the
zymotic class increased from 226 to 270 in the last two
weeks, arising from diarrhcea, and measles ; diseases of
the nervous system rose from 94 to 128, while those of
the respiratory organs fell from 102 to 79. The pro-
gress of diarrhcea is shown in the returns of July as fol-
lows :-34, 54, 73, and (last week) 81 ; cholera, from
which no deaths were registered in the first week of the
month, was fatal in 3,6, and 9 cases in the subsequent
weeks. The 9 cases of last week are given in detail :
At 21, Clifton-street, Shoreditch, on 25th July, the
daughter of a gas-inspector, aged 6 months, " diarrhcea
(several days), cholera infantum (48 hours).
At 18, Caledonia-crescent, Islington, on 22d July, a
boy, aged 9 months, " sporadic cholera (48 hours)."
At 4, Springfield-villas, Kilburn, on 24th July, the
daughter of a gentleman, aged 3 years, died of common
cholera (24 hours).
At the Workhouse, Bishopsgate, on 27th July, a
needlewoman, aged 63 years, "choleraic diarrhcea, (9
days), choleraic fever (5 days.)."
At the same workhouse, on 28th July, the widow of
an iron-founder, aged 79 years, " choleraic diarrhcea (9
days), fever (3 days).
At 6, Bank's-court, Finsbury, on 20th July, the
daughter of a porter, aged 11 months, "summer cholera
(5 days)."
At 27, Hatton-wall, Saffron-hill, on 26th July, a
broker's man, aged 82 years, "English cholera (15 days),
old age."
In Lambeth (Waterloo, Ist part) at Prince's-mews, on
27th July, the son of a servant, aged 5 months, " cho-
lera infantum (24 hours)."
At 2, Raven-cottages, Hammersmith, on 28th July,
the widow of a surgeon, aged 65 years, " diarrhcea,
cholera Anglica (2 days)."
Last week the births of 769 boys and 752 girls, in all
1521 children, were registered in London. The aver-
age number in eight corresponding weeks of the years
1515-52 was 1,344.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED
IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 30.
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses l2B
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 3B
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration 79
riiDiseasesseases ofof
the
ee
Kidneys, &e.
and other Organs
of Digestion
Childbirth, Diseases of stile eljterus &C.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
16
Diseases of the Skin, &
Malformations
Premature ;,;(1. Deelbiliiv 3214
Old Atrophy ......................... i
Age

Sudden 33
''''''''
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance
Causes not specified .......... ....

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ..................... 1,004
Population Deaths in come_Deaths Enumerated. sponding week
in the
ISM. of 1852.
Week
175 ...... 132
490,396
North Districts
393,256
Central Districts ....
...... 376, 427
485 522
304 ...... 273
East .
616,635
South Districts ......
WeADDisisttrricictsts........ , _

Totals ......... 2,362,236 1,040 1,004
Ma1e5....................................... 520
Females .................................... 484

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.
Ma1e5....................................... 769
Females
Total

..... 1,521