The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-29 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MaNctiEsTER, Nov. 28.—The low prices to which
light 40-inch shirtings have declined, with a disposition
manifested to make still further concessions, have in-
duced a disposition to operate ; and for descriptions suit-
able to India a fair amount of business has been done.
A moderate business has also been effected in longoloths,
but, the production having increased in consequence of
manufacturers having given up the make of other cloths
in favour of these, there haft been a slight reduction in
price.. Some little increase of demand has also been
experienced from the home trade at the reduced rates
now prevailing, so that the aggregate business exceeds
what we have bad for some weeks past. In yarns the
market has been very flat, especially for cop twist, which
is lower in price, with a prospect of a still further de-
cline. These and some other classes of yarns are now
fully ld. below the rates demanded a fortnight ago ;
and, though the depreciation of values in yarns is not so
nearly on a level with the low rates of 1848, as in cloths,
yet the advantage is at the expense of much less busi-
ness, the sales effected to day by spinners being very
limited in comparison with the bugnoss effected by
manufacturers. Both yarns and cloths have continued
to manifest increased weakness throughout the day.
Messrs. John Stagg and Co., giving a rather more un-
favourable account of the cloth-market, say,—
" The reluctance on the part of buyers to operate,
which has existed for the last few weeks, has to-day been
more strongly manifested, and the general tone of the
market is decidedly against producers. This may be
attributed in some degree to the very favourable ac-
counts received regarding the cotton crop, and partly
t) the financial arrangements anticipated on the meeting
of Parliament. India goods continue in much the same
cededposition
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in the demand."
LEEDS, Nov. 28.—The woollen cloth-markets to-day
have been fully as cheerful in tone as any during the pre-
sent month, but there has not been more than an average
quantity of cloth sold. Indeed, the markets at this
period of the year are rarely very brisk. The stooks
on hand are within a moderate compass, and care
is used to keep them so, all parties avoiding everything
like excessive speculation. Some heavy goods, including
20,000 woollen rugs in one order, have just been made
up here for the Government, who intend to send them to
the army in the Crimea. Most of these rugs were made
at Heckmoudwike—a village noted for its manufacture
of blankets. These Government orders are foetid to be
great boons in this district. The Leeds co rn•market
has been but thinly supplied with
second-rate qualities of wheat were ls. per quarter lower.
The best wheat was about the same price as on this day
week. grain to-day, yet the
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CHINA.
We have received files of China papers to the
11th October inclusive. We take the following
summary from the Overland Friend of China :
Earthquake, hurricane, and war, three of man-
kind's greatest terrors, have all been experienced
in this part of the world since the publication of
our last overland summary. Of the earthquake,
felt both in Hong Kong and Canton about the
same time on Thursday, the 28th ultimo, we find
no mark of the phenomenon on the earth's crust ;
and can say no more of it than that several persons
were made sick by the convulsion. Of hurricanes
we have reports of three which have been expe-
rienced in our vicinity within the last fortnight.
The British ship Thomas Chadwick, and American
ship Eliza Thornton, are the only total wrecks
heard of ; if we except a large ship, water-logged,
seen some seventy miles from Hong Kong two or
three days ago. Of war there is much to tell—war
by those enemies of mankind the sea-going pirates,
and war between the Patriots mid the Tartar
brood that infest the Chinese empire. But though
there is much to tell of it, accounts are so mixed
up with apparent falsehood that it is imprudent
to write out all we hear. Especially is this remark
applicable in connection with reports from the
northern provinces. The Shan,hai rebels, it is
said, are getting tired of waiting for the long-
promised relief from Nanking.
Of matters about Canton, speaking generally;letter from the
A DAUGHTER OF THE REGD-sTs.--sit
" Recently, in
they may be said to remain as last reported. We French camp
whichbefosreo
mecossac
Sebastopolks Lad set fire, we found
hear of horrible cruelties being perpetrated, every Ika laiouse to
ndon
now and then, by mandarins, but of no important smokreo,oaniClaiild of about 18 months' old, elegantly
the point of being suffocated with the
success or otherwise. Two chops (some say eight)
of new teas have arrived, somewhat dawaged,
dressed,
neck. The poor infant smiled upon our grenadiers, who
and having a gold cross suspended from its
within the last two days ; and it is to blninped removed it, and have adopted it until the family to
mere will follow soon, or we shall begin to des 'whom it belongs shall be discovered. It is curious to
P
air
for Canton's resuscitation. see the grenadiers fondling the baby, and treating it with
tenderness as it could receive from its mother."
Mattera continue quiet at Foo-chow, and there as much
ismult.T.___
i mem AND HEARING —Messrs. S. and B
The valuable advan-
appears to be no immediate prospect of an out-
sOlonivonasT, opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, Ob-
break. Trade goes on as usual, and the people serve—opposite the York Hotel. Newly-constructed Spectacle
wt eri
seem to pursue their daily employments without Lenses of the transparentgi•eatetshtis
invoutionis
fear. But in proportion as the Chinese Govern- taxeadorisod from
preserved and strengthened, ion becoming nn-
ment feel themselves strong in any locality, to the
pPersi persons are enabled to employ their sight
and very aged
same extent they manifest a disposition to break
minute occupation—can see with these l ensesgof amucktl the
111°Ist
their engagements with foreigners. A great deal nifying power—and they do not require the frequent change.eleg"
has been written and said about Sir John Bow- to the4anwgeDr?sucs effects of further powerful assistance. peaf-
ring's recent visit, and the honourable attentionast
nnaley—powerful, overiy.n—evrThi e.Organio Vibrator, an extraordi-
which he received from the local governmentdelusien I entirely different from all
others, to
instrument for deafness,
Poo-chow. Never was there a greater' has been '
i kind that has been, or probablyt4evelterPese anythingo
of
theel
than to suppose that his excellencyvisits
ommunity I Being of the same colour as the skin, ever
can be,
pbeerCepprti blec; it
an advantage to the foreign mercantile
ndinterview with publiceesdeafersons to hear distinctly at church and at
at Foo-chow. Since his visit. have assemblies;
the unpleasant sensation of singing noises
thrown every neee ears'
the viceroy, the mandarins ave.
that is
.entirely removed ; and it affords all the assist-
possible obstacle in the way of foreign merchants,. possibly could be desired. By her Majesty's Royal
every promise which Letters Patent for valuable and extraordinary improvements
and seem bent upon breaking in the most owerful and brilliant Telescopes Camp,
the- British imagines that theplenipotentiary gate-course, Op
era and Perspective Glasses (glazed with
Chinese viceroy made to h .
mum
im A large and brisk •
e German Glass), to know the distances of objects
trade has been opened with the native merchants, viewed through them—of great importance to the army,
and prospects of an immense export of tea, far be- I, a ivy, and others. These telescopes possess such extra•
cl the most sanguine calculations, bid fair to ordinary powers that some 3A inches, with an extra eye-
yon
render Foo-chow the great mart for black teas on ' Pie"' will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring,
the Chinese coast during the present troubles. And and the doubleestars ; witthhrteheemisrs eantgleascioll; lasntanbte,
when the tea trade has been diverted into the new seen
an person'sobje ctfroml2countenance
tol4 miles. They are of larger and all
channel, it is not difficult to foresee that Foo-ch,ow 1 sizes, with increasing powers accordingly.—
The Royal Eax.
is likely to become a permanent resort for Chinese hibiton - , 1851.—Valuable, newly-invented, very sll2,
whichl l
traders from the interior desirous of sell' powerful waistcoat-pocket glass,tho size of a vralnubyanswer
selling their. 1 a person can be seen and known 1i miles distant; they
produce to foreigners. The old duplicitythe opera houses,
and faith- 1 every purpose on the race-course, and at
lessness of the mandarins h however, seen at Bto 10 miles.
as, come into country scenery, and Ships are clearly
lk" yachting,
play ; and no attempt is left untried by them for ' They are invaluable for shooting, deer-sta
tourists.
4732,g, to
preventing an extension of intereou •
rsewith foreignerssportsmen, gcanip, and perspective glasses, with wonderful
and crushing the first beginningsrace-course,
of a foreign settle-object can be clearly seen from 10 to 12 miles
ruent in the provincial capital. Many the British power ,an .
of
le treet Piccadilly. Ob set •
ve—oppe.
and. American firms have their agents on the spot ; site the York Hotel.