The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-26 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)
MANCHESTER, FEB. 25.—The letters and circulars of
this weak hold out a prospect of a larger supply of cot-
ton than most parties have latterly calculated upon. The
total receipts at the ports had reached 1,935,000 bales,
against 1,447,000 last year, leaving an excess of 488,000
bales, which, it is said, would be swollen to 510,000 or
515,000 in the following week. Some of the most cau-
tious and trustworthy authorities state very decidedly
that there can be no doubt of the crop turning out
3,250,000 to 3,300,000 bales. The swampy lands of the
Mississippi and the further West, which were considered
to have suffered materially from the rains, appear to be
generally yielding more than they did last year. And it
is a most important fact that, down to the latest dates
of intelligence, the weather continued remarkably fa-
vourable for "picking" over the greater portion of the
cotton regions. Under these circumstances, there was
a tendency 1 o lower prices in the southern markets, which
improved accounts from Liverpool failed to counteract.
'GLASGOW, FEB. 25.—The cotton market has been
I:ery quiet during the week. The trade operates with
caution and prices were barely sustained.
BRADFORD, FEB. 24.—W00l : The sale now progress-
ing in London maintain the firmness with which they
opened, and this being spread through the country,
gives a tone of firmness. The dealers hold for prices
which cannot be given to come to this market. The
business doing here is very languid ; the spinners have
shown more disposition to look, but the prices sought
deter them from buying. In noils and brokes there is
but little change. Yarns.—The business doing con-
tinues limited, as regards hank yarns. The demand for
Spools is not so active as at the turn of the year, and the
position of the spinner decidedly worse to enter into en-
gagements, 'at anything like the price at which
old contracts were made. This serious change cannot
at once be met, and some of the Lancashire houses
are placing their looms on cotton, till either mixed goods
command a better price, or yarns can be supplied at a
lower price, when they will resume its active use.—
Piecer, : There is a better feeling prevailing, and more
inqu'ay for goods, both for the Leipsic and other Ger-
maxi fairs, which open at Easter, and also for goods
Bratable or our spring trade here ; yet there is a great
;dearth of novelty, and what is offering is very similar to
the last season. The demand for plain goods is also
better, but the prices are most ruinous compared with
the cost to make them.
NOTTINGHAM, FEB. 24.—There has not been much
business doing since our report in lace goods. At the
same time the hosiery trade appears to be in the state of
prosperity in which it has continued during a consider-
able period. The advanced price of coal, and the
prospect of its being yet further enhanced in price, is a
etrcumstance of much difficulty, as it must compel all
'who use steam power in their operations to raise the
price of their work. Dyers, bleachers, lace drapers, and
lace thread doublers, are experiencing great perplexity
on .this account, and those thus engaged will be com-
pelled td make•additional charges for their work. There
is not" 4y change at present in the price of yarn ; but
it is generally supposed it will be higher still, mainly
from the circumstance above-mentioned.
:LEICESTER, Feb. 24.—fhe confidence that worsted
goods must even realise more than the present prices re-
quired by the manufacturers, added to the present sea-
Botable weather, has produced an increased activity in
the warehouses ; the stock on hand not being large has
met with a ready market, and shipping orders arrive
fori shire and drawers. The cotton demand for both
Hinc imiddre gauge, straight-downs, and fashioned
this season and Shilton hose perhaps never was greater at
. There exists great objections to the hose
rarAde from round frames in our market, but it is certain
tbat they have already acoomplished their mission in
our shipping trade, by superseding the cheap Saxony
hose for the American market, so much boasted of a
few years since ; and to the Nottingham trade on that
account alone, they, are of great importance and advan-
tage.

COURSE OF EXCHAN GE—YxsT ma DAT.

..Amsterdam.. _ ..... 11 17%;Gibraltar ..
.;
.......
13itio. three mo.n.ths ..11 19 ;Leghorn _ ......:
P•otterdam
11 19;i Genoa ... 25 40
Antwerp ......
..„ „-„ 23 82% 1 M ilan .. .. .. .. _ _
..
... .....
....30 123 i
Brussels'• ••• • •• ...... 25 32X, 'Venice .... • ... ...... ..
liamburgh ........ „ „ 13 8 Naples •••••••• • • • • • • • • 41%
Altona ..... •• • ....... Palermo ——• • • • ...... 124%
Paris.. .......• • • ••• •• .. 25 1234 alessina .. •.——• • • • • • 125
Dltto, three months ••25 35 f Licher' •••••••• • • • • • • • • 53'4 Mar seines.... .. —••• . 25 3.5 ,Oporto .. ——•••• " • • • • 53%
Beurdeaux .... -... • • • 'Rio Janeiro --••• • • • • • -
rran li i o rt• on-M a i n e ...• 120%1 Buenos Ayres... —•• • •
'Berlin . __ _ „
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Vienna ...... ~...... 11 8 Planadelphla .... ••• • • •
New York, b 0 days' sight
Trieste .. _ _ _ll 12 PRICES OF BULLION. PER OZ.
Petersburgh............ 31•3!6, Foreign Gold n Bars £3 17 9
Madrid ____ _ _ _ _ 504 ' Portugal Goid Coin .. 00 0
Cadiz.... •. ....... ... 50% Mexican Dollars 0 4 11M
Dam:lona New Dollars OO ° %Yle .. • ....... .. •••• 411v,:x in bars

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