The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-20 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

The Pesth Gazette publishes the sentence of a
court-martial on one Joseph Ringsmuth, an assistant
in a school at Olen. He is condemned to eight years'
imprisonment, " in heavy irons :"-Ist. For having
di,tributed amongst his pupils several copies of an
edict of the revolutionary Minister of Public Instruc-
tion after the storming of Ofen by the insurgents ;
secondly, for having trained the scholars to the use of
arms and the practice of military tactics ; and
thirdly, for having caused a " Hymn to Kossuth," by
himself composed, to be sung in the school at the
termination of the daily studies.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manehester Guardian.)
MANCIIE,,TER, SEPT. 18.—The yarn market has
exhibited to-day a continuance of the inactivity and
heaviness which prevailed last week. There has, indeed,
been some inquiry for Indian qualities; but it appears to
have had no other object for the present than to ascer-
tain the state of the market in respect to such articles,
just before the arrival of the overland mail, for it has
led to hardly any actual business. The German and
other continental houses are still compelled by the limits
they receive to confine themselves to purchases of
comparatively small amount, for the purpose of
making up assortments ; and the home consumers find
an inducement in the less satisfactory condition of
their own business, to diminish their present stocks of
yarns before giving out fresh orders. Still, inanimate
and, to some extent, irregular as the market has been,
the general quotations show little change in prices,
as compared with those of this day week. The
concessions that have taken place have been partial,
and rather in water twist than in mule. In goods
exceedingly few trarsactions have taken place,
and the general bias of prices has been rather against
the manufacturers. To go a little more into parti-
culars, we may state that domestics certainly do not
improve. Long cloths and T cloths are rather more
difficult of sale. All descriptions of 40 inch shirtings
continue flat, especially the lower qualities, in which
there is some giving way of price. The contracts for
jacconets are gradually coming to a close, and there
is no longer the same facility of renewal as of late.
36-insh continues in diminished demand. In mada-
tollams prices scarcely show the firmness they lately
did, though there is still a demand for them. Even
in printing cloths there is less doing; their value
is, however, sustained by the orders in hand. Such
is the loss attending some departments of the trade
of this district, such as the spinning of water twist
for exportation, and the manfacture of heavy goods,
that several millowners in Rochdale, Manchester, and
the vicinity of Oldham have resorted to short time,
and at least one or two firms have altogether stopped
their works. And a sort of vague rumour of an in-
tention on the part of the operatives in this immediate
neighbourhood, to turn out for an advance of wages,
has been almost hailed as a prospective relief from
long-continued loss. The turn-outs at Bolton have
not vet generally returned to work, though we under-
stand several mills are again in motion.
ROCHDALE) SEPT. 17.—We have had more busi-