The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-06 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANcilEsun, Dec. 5.—A. more cheerful feeling has
pervaded the market again to-day, and in some cam'
there has been sufficient demand for cloth to check the
downward tendency of prices a little. India shirtings
of 71b. and downwards have experienced souse demand,
and jaconets for the same quarter have met with a better
inquiry. Many of the orders executed have been small,
but the aggregate business for export is to a fair amount,
though there is not much faith in the permanence of the
improvement. Some of the home•trade houses, follow-
ing the practice of stock-taking in the last week of No-
vember, have also been purchasing a little more freely
this week. A good deal of business is still doing in long-
cloths, T cloths, and domestics.
The yarn trade has felt the improvement fully as much,
perhaps, as the cloth, and spinners have realised id. per
pound mere for cops than they could have obtained last
week. For Germany the season is almost over, but
buyers have been willing to pick up yarns suitable where
it could be done at last week's rates. More inquiry Las
also been experienced for India qualities, but not t• the
extent to which the home trade has felt the improve-
ment. While very sanguine opinions are hazarded as
to the permanency of an. improvement in yarns more
than cloths, there is a general feeling that, so far as
prices are concerned, we have probably seen the worst
that will be experienced on this side Christmas. Messrs.
John Slagg and Co. say :
"The accounts from Calcutta to hand on Wednesday
last being of a much more favourable nature than was an-
ticipated, there has been since that day a more active in-
quiry for low shirtings, jaconets, and Madapollams. Stocks
of these goods, which were very heavy, have been much re-
duced, but no improvement has taken place in prices. For
other descriptions of goods there is a steady demand at last
week's rates. O❑ the whole, although we have no change
in prices to notice, there is aynore cheerful feeling in the
market than we have had to report for some weeks."
Messrs. G. Fraser, Son, and Co., say :—" There has
been some increase of business during the last few days,
especially In India shirtings, benefitted, no doubt, by the
extreme decline in prices. Most of the stocks which
pressed on the market have consequently found buyers,
and prices, without being at all 'bnoyant, are certainly
steadier. Other goods yemain without change."
LEEDS, Dec. s.—The demand for woollen cloth this
morning in the cloth-halls has been of a very meagre
description, and very little has been sold. There is no
perceptible change in prices, but the tone of the trade is
scarcely so good as it was on Saturday. At the Leeds
corn-market to-day there.has again been a small supply
of grain and a dull sale: Wheat is noted 2s. per quarter
lower, and other articles in like proportion.

PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is
about 1 per mille discount (according to the last tariff),
which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 101 d. per
ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.141 ;
awl, the exchange at Paris on London at short being
25 071, it follows that gold is about 0.28 per cent.
dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from Ham-
burg, the price of gold is 4221 per mark, which,' at the
English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for stand-
ard gold, gives an exchange of 13.31; and, the exchange
at Jiamburg on London at short being 13.3 k, it follows
that gold is 0.18 per cent. dearer in Hamburg than in
London. The course of exchange at New York on Lon-
don for bills at 60 days' sight is 1091 per cent., and, the
par of exchange between England and America being
109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is no-
minally 0.17 per cent, in favour of England ; and, after
making allowance for charges of transport and difference
of interest, the present rate leaves a trifling profit on the
importation of gold front the United States. ,
NEW MEMBERS IN THE HOU.SE OF COMMONS.—
Although only a few weeks have elapsed since Parlia-
ment was prorogued, no fewer than 25 new members
will take their seats in the House of Commons on the
opening of the forthcoming session. It be remem-
bered that a few days before the close of the last session
write were granted, on the motion of Sir W. Jolliffe, for
five boroughs which had been for a long time' suspended,
and the following gentlemen were elected in the early
part of the recess :—Canterbury, Mr. C. M. Lushing-
ton (moderate Conservative) and Sir Wm. Somerville
(Liberal) ; Cambridge, Mr. Shafto Adair (Liberal) and
' Mr. Mowatt (Liberal) ; Maldon, Mr. G. W. M. Pea-
cocke (Conservative) and Mr. J. A. Bramley Moore
(Conservative) ; Barnstaple, Mr. Guinness (Conservative)
and Mr. Laurie (Conservative) ; Hull, Mr. Watson,
Q.C. (Liberal), and Mr. W. D. Seymour (Liberal).
Mr. John Henry Gurney (Liberal) will take the
de seatt
heath
for King's Lynn, rendered. vacant b y
of Lord Jocelyn ; Viscount Duncan (lAberal) the
seat for Forfarshire, vacant by the death of Colonel
Manic ; Mr. Acton (Liberal) that for Wigan, vacantn by
the death of Mr. R. A. Thicknosse ; Lord D ugeaartvhaonf
(Conservative) that for Frome, vacant by
the d
Colonel Boyle ; Mr. Serjeant O'Brien (Liberal) that for
Limerick, vacant by the death of Mr. Robert Potter ;
and Sir J. Paxton (Liberal) that for Coventry; vacant
by the death of Mr. Geach. Lord Haddo will takd his
seat for Aberdeenshire, the vacancy having been caused
by the resignation of Rear-Admiral the Hon. William
Gordon. Eight ether constituencies have 'yet to elect
representatives—namely, Abingdon, in the room of Lord
Norreys, who has succeeded to the Earldom of' Abing.
don ; Bedford, in the room of Mr. Henry Stuart, de-
ceased ; Limerick county, in the room of Mr. Wyndham
Goold, deceased ; Fermanagh county, in the room of
Sir Arthur Brooke, deceased ' Antrim, in the room of
Colonel Pakeham, deceased ; 'Ayrshire, in the room of
Colonel Blair deceased ; East Glocestershire, in the
room of Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bart., deceased;' and
Marylebone, the room of Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart,