The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-13 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Manchester Guardian of Saturday.)
MANCHESTER, June 10.—On Tuesday, the gloom
which had come over our market was a good deal re-
lieved 1;7 the greater probability which had arisen that
the differences between Russia and Turkey would be set-
tled without a resort to war ; and, although business
continued dull, rather more disposition to purchase
showed itself than at the latter end of last week. It was
found, too, that the buyers of yarns and goods could ob-
tain but a slight concession from the prices of the pre-
ceding Tuesday. Yesterday and to-day, however, the ap-
prehension of hostilities has been revived ; and a renewed
feeling of depression has come over this market ; so
that hardly any operations have been ventured upon.
It is exceedingly fortunate that, in the present crooked
and dangerous state of Continental polities, and with
unsatisfactory advices from several important mar-
kets beyond the limits of Europe, producers are so well
supplied with contracts as not to be under the
necessity of weighing down prices by a pressure to sell.
The agitation now going on for an advance of wages in
spinning and weaving, and for a restriction of the hours
of work, for all hands, to the legal limit for women and
children, tend to render producers more indifferent than
they otherwise would be about entering into con-
tracts. We hear of various instances in which em-
ployers have yielded to their workpeople. At Stock-
port, the rnillowners are willing to raise the spin-
ning departments fully as much as, on inquiry,
they find that they are under the average of
the district, viz. five per cent. in mule and eight per
cent. in throstle ; leaving the wages for weaving, which
are one to two per cent. above the average, untouched.
But the hands rejected these terms, and persist in their
demand of ten per cent. all round. The consequence
is, that nearly all the mills in the town are now at a
stand.

GLASGOW, June 10.—Our cotton market has been
quiet but steady throughout the week. We repeat the
quotations of last Friday without any variation.
NOTTINGHAM, JUNE 9.--We cannot report any great
improvement in either branch of our staple manufac-
tures. The lace trade seems rather feeble, but the
manufacturers are acting with caution and prudence,
and seem to regulate their supply entirely by the do-
rnand, which, being slack, tends to check production. The
hosiery hands are pretty well employed, except in the
coarser departments, ix which less work has been done,
as the demand has not been brisk. The high price of
the raw material compels the manufacturer to be very
careful.—Nottingham, Journal.

LEICESTER, June 9.—There is less doing in some
branches, manufacturers having curtailed production,
but the hands find no difficulty in getting work
in other kinds. The workmen experience great diffi-
culty in getting their hose seamed, and the demand for
female employment is very great. Worsted yarns are
firm in price, though the demand is not so brisk for
them. There is but little doing in wools, and prices
will not be settled before the fair. The ate advance
of discounts by the Bank of England has retarded their
upward tendency, as well as having produced a salutary
check to speculation, both in this and other staple corn-
modities.—LeicesterJournal.

THE CLOCK AT THE 'CHANGE.—I am sorry, says a
Middlesex magistrate, that your correspondent, who has
pointed out the disfiguring excrescence on the face of the
Royal Exchange, did not at the same time draw atten-
tion to another remarkable feature, which appears to be
somewhat of an anomaly in that celebrated building.
The clock, which is said to be a most perfect work of its
kind, and upon which, I believe, a very large sum was
expended, was supposed to be designed, not only for the
use of those who have business on 'Change, but also as
a.
ostnandard to regulate the time for the whole city of
-Leend9n- Yet, it is actually so placed that it cannot be
Ifrom any part of Cornhill, or either of the surround-
ng streets, except from one Lingle spot. Any person
Comin from Prices-street or the Bank, and wishing to
set his watch
until he comes
must circumnambulate the whole building
t.i:isthe corner of Birchin-lane, before he
can accomplish
traordinary, the clorliErtose ; and, what is still more ex-
part of the frequenters. equally useless to the greater
of the Exchange, for it is shut
out from at least three-fourths of the quadrangle and the
arcade surrounding it. Such
a want of foresight as this
is surely a great reproach. The Builder.
DELETERIOUS EPPEoTs op TillE ADHESWE COlsiPosi-
TION ON POSTAGE STABIPs—
an office at
ineterwwkeeltvt e do ze n stamps
Leeds had occasion to place some
on letters last Saturday week.
or three
usual manner, that is, with the saliva. In two
them in the
hours afterwards the roof of his mouth became
ingly painful, being much inflamed, and on the lzowTnt
morning an abscess had formed as large as a nutmeg:
On the cMonday be was compelled to have surgical
and the abscess was lanced. He has been
under medical treatment ever since, but the mouth is
far from being healed yet, and there is an appearance of
a fresh gathering on the outer side of the gums, oppo-
mercury.
the original abscess...-Leedi