The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-13 00:00:00

BIRMINGHAM, MARCH 11.

STOCK EXCiIANGE —The r;tilw Ly share market con-
tinues extratue y inactive, and little businesi transacted.
No sales were effected on 'Ch mg° to-day. Tha following
were am ug the closing quotations :—Birmingham, Wol-
verhampton, and Stonr Valley, sellers, 9 ; Eastern Coun-
ties, buyers, 12i ; London and North-Western, sellers,
102 ; ditto eighths, buyers, ; sellers, its. 3d. dis ; Man-
chester, Shefflel.l, anti Lincolnshire, buyers, 214; sellers,
22; North Staffordshire, 54 die.

LEEDS —MARCH 11.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —The share-market has been very
quiet to-day. The prices realized were lower than those
of yesterday. They were—Great Northern, A stock, ex
div. 10; L tncasbire and Yorkshire, 66 ; Midland, ex div.,
601 ; York, Newcastle, and Berwick, ex div., 16j.

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Manchester Guardian of Saturday.)
MANCHESTER, March 10,1.--The American ad vices
received this week state that the decline in cotton had
been stopped, indeed that prices were rather inclining
upward. At New Orleans, the rate of freight had risen
to 11-16 d. to id. per lb ; and the exchange was as low
as 6to 6i. We have to report a further depression in
it he Manchester market. Some degree of distrust is
awakened by the failures that have occurred ; and, now
that war is actually at hand. the wisdom of operating
with extreme caution, and thus restricting liabilities
within narrow limits appears to be strongly felt. The
home trade houses are inure timid and backward than
the shippers. They experience a great falling off in the
demand for goods ; and the bad debts they are incurring
render them increasingly wary in executing► orders.
Cloths for this branch of our trade have suffered more
than others ; showing now, in fabrics for bleaching
and printing, a considerable fall from the highest prices
of some time ago. The India department of our mar-
ket is the best; the lower qualities of shirtings, niada-
pullams and jacconets being so well engaged that they
yield but little, while 40's, 50's, and 60's mule yarns are
saleable at full rates. In reeled water twist there is a
slight further bias this week against producers. Warps
and pincops show the same tendency.
BRADFORD, March 9.—The dulness so long com-
plained of still prevails, and spinners are unwilling
buyers. Yarn—Everything is as dull and discouraging as
possible ; the shippers are doing scarcely anything, and
the home trade in spools shows no signs of amendment.
Pieces.—There is no feature for the better to report, but
the time is drawing near when activity for the approach-
ing season usually prevails.

BIRTHS.
OF A SON.
On the 9th inst., the wife of the Rev. W. L. Mason,
Bury St. Edmund's.

OF A DAUGHTER.
On the Bth inst., the wife of John Markham Carter,
Eig., Alresford, Hants.

MARRIED.

On the 11th inst., at Christ Church, St. Marylebone,
John D'Urban, Esq., of Bedford-row, Gordon square, to
Maria Charlotte, daughter of T. S. Cooper, Esq , of Dor-
set-square, A.R A.

DIED.
On the 11th inst., Mr. C. T. Radkin, of the Salutation,
17, Newgaie-street, aged 57.
On the 11th inst., at St. John's•wood, S. C. Henry,
youngest son of the late Rev. J. S. Ogle, of Kirkley-hall,
in the county of Northumberland, aged 42.

L ,NDON: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG,
of No. 112. strand, Printer, at he sun 0180 e, No. 112,
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of
Miidleeex, lioadaY, Uarob 13,1854.