The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-07 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, APRIL s.—Business to a
very small amount has been transacted in foreign wools
during the past week, but prices have in no degree
varied for some weeks past. The sales yesterday of co-
lonial wools went off, we understand, at about the prices
realised in London February sales.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET.—LEEDS, APRIL s.—We
have not any change to report this week either in the
demand or prices. Transactions have been small, prices
stationary.

LELDS.—Less than an average business has been doae
at our Cloth Halls, both on Saturday and Tuesday,
and the deliveries to order have been less than for
sltne time. Low goods are higher in price, but
but e clothiers complain that they cannot replace
them at the present price of woal. Middle qualities and
fine goods continue stationary, and the stocks are low
for thz time of the year. Many country buyers have
been in the town, purchasing their stocks for Easter, and
in consequence there has been a little more doing by the
home houses; the foreign houses also continue busy.
BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.--WoolS—The re-
luctance to purchase combing wools still continues, and
the holders show no inclination to press sales. The high
prices now sought, as compared with the cost of wools
in course of consumption, tend to damp the spirits of
inquirers, and we find the spinners unwilling to buy at the
prices sought. To effect sales to any extent, lower prices
must be submitted to; but the staplers are loth to do
this, seeing, as they do, among the growers such a firm-
ness to maintain prices that cannot be realised here.
Yarns—This market is not so active as it was at the
close of February, and prices then current cannot be
realised; nor is the position of the spinner by any
means so good as it then was, for wools have as-
sumed a fixity of price from which there has been no
giving way equal to the expectations of the con-
sumer, or to the low price at which orders have been
taken. Labour is decidedly dearer in every department
than it was last autumn, and without an improvement in
the current rate for yarns the condition of the spinner
will not be very cheering. Pieces—The flattering
news from the east, and the arrival of the American
steamers with tidings of a great abundance of money,
cheap discount, and low ra'o of exchange, are all
highly favourable to a large business for the approaching
season. The sales of goods thus far, for the spring,
.are
reported as very satisfactory. If the fair at Leipsic, Just
now on the eve, be equal to expectation, we may look for
a particularly busy season, for there are now no stocks of
goods on hand, and the facilities for producing them are
limited, as relays are not applicable to power-loom weav-
ing- The business doing to-day has not exhibited any
marked alterations. The manufacturers are generally in
good spirits, and in many instances extensively engaged
to order. In prices there is no alteration.
MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—The face of
things in the commercial world is quite changed since
this day week, i. e. as regards our cloth market. Then
all was gloomy and lifeless, to-day the market assumes
quite another hue, and a good business is doing at
improving rates, and there is now a disposition
on the part of buyers to contract for
future delivery. The news:from India, whether political
or commercial, is deemed most satisfactory,
and large shipments for the East are in active progress.
There are also large orders in town for tne United States
by last steamer, and the market may be called healthy
in every branch. Yarns aro in better demand, and id.
to higher than on this day week. The sales for the
week are—Friday, 5,000 bales ; Saturday, 6.000; Mon-
day, 8,00; Tuesdap, 6,000; Wednesday, 7,000; Thurs-
day, 4,000; total, 46,000 bales.

LEIC. ESTER.—business in the warehouses remains the
same as last reported. The worsted spinners are fully
employed in working up their stock of wools, and
prices remain without alteration, though the demand has
slackened. The check in wools has inclined the fell-
mongers to bring their skin wool into the market,
but I e prices they required will not enable the spinner
to produce at a profit on present terms, so that but
little has been done either in skin wool or fleece sorts.
The little effected has been at prices a shade in favour of
the buyer.

Mrs. Butler (Fanny Kemble), a New York paper
informs us, still continues to have crowded and fashion-
able auditors at her Shaksperia❑ readings, at Stuyvesant
Institute, three mornings and three evenings a week.
She is coining money, and out of her Boston and New
York sojourns together, occupying a term of about two
months, she will have made a pretty little fortune. At
the former place we have seen it stated that she cleared
nearly ten thousand dollars, which we can readily be-
lieve, happening personally to know the sort of houses
she had at the Masonic Temple there. Here she is
creating the same furore, it being the decidedly fashion-
able thing to attend her matinees and soirees. Nobody
ventures to admit the possibility of surviving a single
omission of the " readings," any more than, a few months
ago, that of staying in town during the watering-place
season. The subsequent readings of Mrs. Butler have
all been of the same elevated character with that of the
Macbeth, the details of which we gave the day follow-
ing its delivery. She is certainly imbued with the true
spirit of ShAspere's genius, to a degree rarely witnessed,
on or off the stage.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF FRIDAY.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basiughall-street.

E. L. James, Queen-street, Cheapside, stationer, Apri,
30, at half•past one—W. Abbott and W. Abbott, jun.,
Bermondsey-street, Southwark, patent hair felt manu-
facturers. April 27, at eleven—W. Abbott, sen., Ber-
mondsey-street, patent hair felt manufacturer, April 27,
at eleven—W. Abbott, jun., Bermondsey-street, patent
hair felt manufacturer, April 27, at eleven—J. B. Withers,
Winchester, draper, April 27, at one—W. Minton, Li-
verpool, linendraper, April 27, at eleven—J. Ager,
Northampton, boot .and shoemaker, April 28, at twelve
—lt. 11. Evans and C. Evans, New Bond-street, auc-
tioneers and booksellers, April 27, at one—P. F. A. V.
Vyver, Crutched Friars, merchant, April 28, at twelve.

In the Country.

J. Dent, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, cloth merchan,
April 27, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—J. Whitworth,
Leeds, millwright and ironfounder, April 27, at eleven,
at the Court, Leeds—J. Jackson, Lackenby, Yorkshire,
builder, shipowner, and corn-merchant, May 1, at eleven,
at the Court, Leeds—W. Ask, Wakefield, Yorkshire,
watchmaker and jeweller, May 1, at twelve, at the Court,
Leeds—C. Broad, Bristol, timber merchant, April 27,
at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—J. Roe, Manchester,
drysalter, April 27, at twelve. at the Court, Manchester
—W. Clayton, W. Clayton, and W. Wilson, Preston,
bankers, April 27, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester