The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-14 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

(Front the Manchester Guardian of Saturday.)
MANCHESTER, Nov. 11—Throughout the present week
there has been a more decided abstinence than before
from any but such small purchases of yarns and goods
as might be absolutely necessary in the way of assort-
ment. It is felt to be of vital importance to the interests
of the country that we have now had ten or twelve days
of weather highly favourable for preparing the land and
sowing wheat ; but even this most propitious circum-
stance, with its influence upon the price of corn and upon
the state of the money market, aided by our greatly di-
minished production of yarn and cloth, and by the con-
sideration of the very considerable fall which has taken
place in prices, entirely fails to induce anything like
ventures on the part of either home or foreign buyers..
There is indeed some little speculation in cotton at
Liverpool, with a hardening in prices, occasioned by
very apocryphal accounts of a " killing frost" having
occurred in the United States. Under these circum-
stances, there is a somewhat increased desire, though no
pressure, to sell ; and it may be said that the bias of
prices is, in many things, slightly against producers.
This is not the case, however, in India mule yarns, for
which there is rather more inquiry. Warps, also, tip
to 24's, continue steady.
GLASGOW, Nov. 11.—There has been a quiet market
for cotton during the week, the trade only purchasing
sufficient to supply present wants. Prices are un-
changed.
BRADFORD, Nov. 14.—Wools ; There is no change
during the week, and the buying is on the narrowest
scale possible. Yarns—The supplies are most mate-
rially diminished, the continued short-time working,
stoppage of machinery, and ruinous price for yarns,
compared with the cost of the raw material, compel the
spinners to cease working, as near as they possibly can,
till a turn for the better presents itself,
....NOTTINGHAM, Nov. 10.—There is no alteration in
the lace trade worthy of notice since our last.
LEICESTER, Nov. 10.—Nothing is buying in any
branch but to complete orders. Long wools are giving
way; short kinds hold their value.

STATE OF THE WOOLLEN TRADE.

(Front the Leeds Mercury of Saturday.)

LEEDS, Nov. 11.- -There has been a better business
done in the woollen cloth market this week. There
have been several buyers in the town during the week ;
considerable activity has prevailed, and a better busi-
ness has been done in those warehouses that are mainly
engaged in the London trade. As the season for the
country demand is nearly at an end, this branch of our
trade is beginning to be rather quieter.
HUDDERSFIELD, Nov. B.—There has not been much
doing in the Cloth-hall or the warehouses ; several large
buyers have been about, however, but more for the phr-
pose of looking after anything jobbish than for the sup-
ply of any general wants. Prices still easier.
ROCHDALE, Nov. 7.—There has not been much change
in the flannel market to-day. If lower prices had been
submitted to, more business would have been transacted.
Wool has been rather firmer to-day, arising principally
from the London wool

HALIFAX, Nov. s,—We have continued depression in
both the piece and yarn departments of business, nor as
there at present any clear prospect of their attaining
more satisfactory position. The wool market is very dull
and unsatisfactory prices both of corning and clothing
kinds still showing a drooping tendency. There have
been a few sales of middle wethers at 141 d. per lb., and
of common noils and brokes at 12(1. Quotations, how-
ever, are very irregular in the market.

&TIRING INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Mining Journal of Saturday.)

Shares in a great many mines have been in request
this week, but at very low prices. Whilst on the
subject of low prices, we may remark that we
have received several communications upon the
present state and condition of the mining market,
and the manner in which property is depreciated in
value by what is termed " price making," and
" bearing" of shares. There is an old saying, we admit,
that the " value of a thing is what it will bring ;" but
in a limited and speculative market, like that for mining
shares, this does not always hold good. There is generally
some favorite stock of the day in which the public buy freely,
and to which the main attention of the dealers is, for the
time, directed ; and in many other good and promising
mines no business may be transacted for weeks ; for,
without buying orders on the market, the dealers do
not increase their stocks, without they get great bargains.
It is easy therefore to depreciate the value of such mines
as these, and upon such, as it appears from the informa-
tion we have received from the largest dealer in the mar-
ket, it is the practice of a few parties to act. To exemplify
our meaning more particularly, let us take the case of
Speedwell, the price of shares here (1024th), was 61. per
share; when suddenly, one morning of late, a daily
paper gave the quotation of an actual sale at 21. 14s. per
share. The shareholders, particularly those residing in
the country, became naturally alarmed at seeing a sud-
den depreciation of nearly 4,0001. in their property ;
but, on enquiry, it turned out that a very few shares
only had been forced on the market, and in " price
' making" sold at 21. 145., that quotation bein, immedi-
ately forwarded for publication, to establish it, if
possible, as the real value of the shares. This is
but the type of many ; and we should advise share-
holders, before they getalarmed and fall into the traps laid
for them by the " bears," to make enquiry as to the true
causes for the very low quotations often made, and
which have brought the mining market into its present
depressed condition. Many dividend mines have not
quite maintained their prices.
In the Bullion Market,—Mexican and South Ameri-
can dollars, 55. ld. per oz. Bar silver containing gold,
all gold above 5 grs. in the pound to be paid for, ss.
21d. per oz. standard. Bar silver without gold, ss. 20.
per oz. standard. Bar gold, 775. 9d. per oz. standard.
Spanish doubloons, 775. per oz. Columbian doubloons,
78s. 6d. per oz.
The gold mining share this week has been very quiet ;
prices on the whole have been fairly 'supported, but the
dealings have not been sufficiently extensive to give a
decided character to the market. The exception has
been Agua Fria shares, which have been in increased
demand, owing to favourable advices ; from the reports
published to-day, Anglo-Californian have likewise been
enquired for. The accounts from California state that
the mines there are progressing, and before Christmas
it is anticipated that some actual results will come to
hand.

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NOMINATION OF SHERIFFS.

Saturday being the morrow of St. Martin, the Lords of
the Privy Council assembled in the Court of Exchequer,
in pursuance of ancient custom, to proceed to " the nomi-
nation of sheriffs for the year ensuing for all the counties
in England and Wales, with the exception of Cornwall
and Lancashire."

The Lords of the Council present were—the Earl Gran-
ville, President of the Council, the Lord Chancellor, the
Right Hon. W. Gladstone, Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Lord Campbell, Lord Chief Justice of England, Sir John
Jervis, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, Sir
F. Pollock, Chief Baron, Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Baron
Alderson, Mr. Justice Colridge, Mr. Justice Wightman,
Mr. Baron Platt, and Mr. Justice Talfourd.
Mr. E. F. Greville attended as Clerk of the Council.

The Queen's Remembrances- administered the customary
oath to the Privy Councillors in Norman-French. The
members of the council having resumed their seats,
The Queen's Remembrancer (assisted by C. Brown,
Esq., the chief clerk) proceeded to read over the list of
names returned from each county. A variety of altera-
tions in the names having been made upon the informa-
tion which had been forwarded to the learned judges or to
the Council-office, the list was ultimately settled in the
following form :

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