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SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock.

STATE OF TRADE.

(Prom the Manchester Guardian of this day.)

MANcEssTER, Nov. 4.—Goods have been dull, but
without any giving way in prices ; during the last day or
two, however, rather more disposition for business has
shown itself in some kinds of cloth, including T's and the
lighter domestics. We may say, too, that we are closing
the week in an increasingly hopeful mood as regards
business in general. If this most propitious weather
continue, we shall probably have wheat down in price ;
and as to the Eastern question, a well-authenticated
account of an engagement, even if adverse to the Turks,
would now lead people to look for a hastening of diplo-
matic conclusions, than for the advent of a general
war. As regards the disputes between employers and
employed, we do not hear that the general suspension
of work at Wigan, Preston, and Bacup, appears in the
way of being terminated. The mills in the Burnley
association were closed on Friday last ; and at Bury
fifteen leading firms have given notice that they will
cease cperations on the 10th inst. The Glossop masters
have given notice for the withdrawal of the 10 per cent.
which they had added to the wages of their hands ; and,
if a strike should ensue, the mills in the associated dis-
tricts will be closed. This is a course now widely con-
templated. We learn from Royton that the fustian
weavers in the employ of Messrs. Henry Whitaker and
Sons, George Holden and Son, Holden Brothers, and J.
and G. Travis, returned to work on Thursday, after a
strike of eight weeks' duration.
BRADFORD, Nov. 3.—Wools--There is no move in
combing wools, and the supplies in the hands of the stap-
lers, and coming to the commission houses, augurs
strongly that the country dealers have not had so many
buyers visiting them as in years past, Yarns—The ces-
sation of looms around here, and the turnouts in Lan-
cashire, have brought the business of the spinners within
a narrow limit, and at no period for very many years has
there been such a stoppage of machinery. In reeled yarns
there is some offering, not of a very first-class kind.
NOTTINGHAM, Nov. 3.—The lace trade is still as flat
as our recent reports have represented it, and there does
not seem any chance of a change for the better for the
next month or two.
LEICESTER, Nov. B,—Our market may be summed in
the word—caution in every branch. Manufacturers are
curtailing production, and worsted spinners are working
short time. But little is doing in wools, for which there
is no fixed value, nor any disposition amongst the
staplers to force sales.

QUARTERLY RETURN OF MARRIAGES,
BIRTHS, AND DEATHS.

(Published by authority of the Registrar-General.)
The return comprises the births and deaths registered
by 2,191 registrars in all the districts of England during
the summer quarter ending Sept. 30, 1853 ; and the
marriages in 12,039 churches or chapels, about 3,424
registered places of worship unconnected with the Estab-
lished Church, and 625 superintendent registrars' offices,
in the quarter that ended June 30, 1850.
The return of marriages is not complete, but the de-
fects are inconsiderable, and approximate numbers have
been supplied from the records of previous years.
The marriages exceeded the average in the quarter
ending in June. For the quarter that ended September
30. the births have also been above the average number,
while the deaths have been fewer than is usual in pro-
portion to the population. The mortality of the town
population has experienced a marked diminution during
the summer, but one town has suffered severely, and
others are threatened by Asiatic cholera.

MARRIAGES.
40,335 marriages were celebrated in the quarter that
ended in June, 1853, a number exceeding by 328 the
marriages in the corresponding quarter of the previous
year. The marriages in the spring quarter have thus
gradually risen 30,048 in 1842, to 40,335 in 1853. The
increase of marriages within the last five years is parti-
cularly conspicuous in London, Cornwall, Staffordshire,
Cheshire, Monmouthshire, and South Wales.