The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-19 00:00:00

Fourteen Two
Five ran.
OPEN STEEPLECHASE.

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Seven ran.

BETTING ON THE COURSE.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
Bto 1 agst Nabob.
9to 1 agst Orestes.
12 to 1 agst Balrownie (taken).
DERBY.
1400 to 200 agst Autocrat (taken).
Bto 1 agst King Tom (taken).
16 to 1 agst Dervish (taken to money).
4to 1 agst Scott's lot (wanted).

STATE OF TRADE.

( From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)

MANcHEaTER, Oct. 18.—There is some improvement
to-day in the general tone of our market. In several de-
partments, buyers are more disposed to operate, and
• sellers more inclined to harden in their prices. For
India yarns, an advance of fully 4d. per lb is required ;
and the quotations for reeled water twist up to 30s, and
for 24s to 28s warps, are raised about the same fraction.
The German merchants are venturing to increasu
their purchases. Warps and pincops for Domestics are
- stiffer, and mule spinnings of twist and weft suitable
for Blackburn are firmer 'at previous rates. Fine
yarns and most counts of doubled do not share in this
tendency. In Domestics, there is no improvement what-
ever; but 40-inch shirtings are more inquired after by
the India houses, and the makers are asking rather
higher prices. The causes of the little improvement ex-
perienced to-day appear to be the rather easier state of the
money market, the upward tendency of cotton, and the
somewhat more favourable condition of the Indian mar-
kets. The transactions of the day have not been large,
but they have been more numerous. Much regret has
- been felt to-day at the announcement that an old,
extensive, and highly-respected spinning house has sus-
pended payment. No particulars are known.
HUDDERSFIELD, Oct. 18.—The goods which have
passed into the hands of the merchants to-day have gene-
• ' rally been towards completion of former orders. Pur-
chasers of other goods have been exceedingly light, and
few in number, and complaints are general, in both the
cloth hall and the surrounding warehouses, of the scar-
city of business. The articles at all inquired for are a
few of the heavier and cheaper kinds of cloth, as
" unions," beavers, and pilotings, for the home markets,
- and such as are likely to come into immediate use. In
the wool warehouses; very little has been done, either
to-day qr during the past week.
ItoODALF6 Oct. 17.—We have had a very quiet and
dull in4rlset, although there has been a tolerably good
' attendance of buyers. Low-priced goods have been
most' dentand, and the merchants are .offering-lower
-prices. There has been little or nothing doings in the
-wool market ; the manufacturers. show no disposition to
buy, as the London wool sales open this week (Thurs-
day), arid they are expecting lower prices.
HALIFAX, Oct. 15.—As the merchants naturally feel,
in the present juncture, a disposition to contract their
operations as much as possible, there is very little busi-
ness doing. In every department of the worsted trade,
from the raw material to the finish€d article, consider-
able dullness prevails, and prices are little more than
nominal.
BIRMINGHAM, Oct. 17.—The quarterly meetings of the
ron trade have been held as usual during the last week.
The large dealers came forward on Thursday with their
amount of orders, and an extensive business was trans-
acted. Manufactured iron of every description main-
tained the nominal prices, indeed, contracts were reluc-
tantly undertaken at present rates, and conditionally
only, subject to the reduction of the wages movement,
yet unsettled—a very general presentiment obtaining
that higher figures will rule in a short time. For pig
iron there was much inquiry, and large sales were made
both at Birmingham, and on Saturday evening at Dudley.
Pig makers, in the absence of all speculative supply,
insisted upon considerably the higher figures, which the
manufacturers were ultimately obliged to concede, and an
advance of fully 5s per ton on this article has been esta-
blished. For ironstone higher prices have been given, but
coals remains at present unaltered. The dissatisfaction
among the colliers is generally attributed, and we think
justly, to the foolish attempt made in some localities
partially to advance the price of coals, and we are sorry
to say that as yet they have not resumed their work.
In limestone 6d. per ton additional has been obtained.
The trade is allowed on all hands to be sound and
healthy, and the demand is in most branches outstrip-
ping the power of production ; but the results of the
bungling policy decided upon at the last three prelimi-
nary meetings are being severely felt.