The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-04 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, MARCH 2.—There has not been quite
so much business doing yesterday and to day as during
the last week. Many of the spinners and manufacturers
who have recently sold at low prices, are now asking a
slight advance ; and, in some ambers of yarns, rather
higher rates have been obtaiepa •
1..., firm.
"Iffleiselidee-41%-kfrae•-u—'4We -have had a dull market
to-day, and a very limited business has been transacted
at last week's prices. The wool market has also been
quiet, and the manufacturers buy for immediate use only.
Prices continue firm.
HALIFAX, FEB. 27.—The piece trade has been very
dull to-day in the hall ; and we learn that some of the
manufacturers are beginning to run short time. It is
expected that the failures in Hamburgh will not much,
if at all, affect this neighbourhood, but that they will
be felt chiefly at Bradford. There continues a slight
improvement in the demand for shipping yarns, but
without any advance in price. The demand for long
wool is languid, and staplers are free sellers. Short wool
ramains firm, the supply being limited ; but the trade is
not brisk.
HUDDERSFIELD, MARCEL 2.—There has been consi-
derable improvement in our market to-day' and trade
much brisker than it has been for some weeks past. The
warehouses during the week have been but flat.
LEEDS, MARCH 2.-7-We had rather a better market
on Saturday last, but to-day very little has been doing.
—Manchester Guardian.

(From the Circular of Messrs. M'lstair, Greenhow, and Ir
ring, of Manchester.)
BLANCHESTER, FEn. 27.—From the date of our last Cir-
cular up to the middle of the present month the condition
of this market was characterised by increasing gloom and
depression, accompanied with a further decline in the value
of nearly all descriptions .of cloth and yarns. Since that
period it has experienced a perceptible change for the bet-
ter, consequent upon the revival of demand, which up to this
date has continued to a fair extent. Still with all this there
is an absence of practical amendment, so far as spinners and
manufacturers (the former especially) are concerned, whose
position continues undeniably to be exceedingly unfavourable
—probably more so now than it has been since the rise in
the value of cotton took place, as the stocks of that article
which those of them who were fortunate enough to be pos-
sessed of at low rates have been exhausted. Were the His-
tory of the cotton manufacture consulted it would scarcely
supply us with a period when the margin betweerf the cost
of the raw material and the price of the manufactured article
was so small as at the present time.
Prices of goods and yarns which, from the improvement
in the demand, have become rather steadier and firmer, it
has been stated are about the same as they were previous to
the advance on cotton. This is an error; and if trade reports
be of any value, they must be chiefly so from a conviction
that they are records of facts. A reference to the prices
current at the two periods will satisfy you that goods and
yarns generally are now from 5 to 10 per cent. higher than
they were at the period alluded to.
The working of short time has been considerably ex-
tended during the month. Some establishments have closed
their mills entirely, and others are intending to do the same
unless matters improve. This les-ening of the production,
necessary and prudent though it be, is producing great
distress and suffering amongst the operatives, whose dimi-
nished means of subsistence are still further reduced by the
dearness of provisions. This state of things necessarily
exercises a most important influence upon our country trade,
which is represented to be very bad. The long and severe
winter has, however, prevented an earlier setting in of the
spring trade. In this county we have heard of the reduction
of many hands by retail establishments.
The last advises from the United States are of a very
satisfactory character as regards the trade in British manu
factures, and lead to the expectation that there will be a
very considerable increase in our exports thither, an expec-
tation which, if realised, will naturally have a most impor-
tant bearing upon the productions of this district. For
Canada the purchases so far have been very limited; to our
other North American colonies they will constitute an
average.

SPIRITS AND SILK.— An account, moved for by
Mr. Cardwell, shows that the quantities of spirits entered for
home consumption in the United Kingdom, amounted, in
1846, to 2,683,515 gallons of rum, 1,515,934 gallons of
brandy, and 40,266 gallons of Genevagainst 2,
69,485
5
gallons of rum, 1,058,777 gallons of brandy,
15,536 gallons of Geneva, in 1845. Since 1842 the an-
nual consumption of spirits appears to have increased
as follows, viz., rum, 585,226 gallons ; brandy, 432,865
gallons; and Geneva, 25,677 gallons. The silk manufac-
tures of India imported in 1846, amounted to 187,174 piec se,
the manufactured stuffs of Europe (altogether) to 17,9331 b.;
the silks or satins (broad stuffs), to 119.7281 b.; the silk
bands, to to 195,7001 b.; the gauze or crape ribands, to
to 25,6161 b.
34,7701 b. ; and the broad velvet stuffs,The
quantity of Indian silks exported from England in 1846
amounted to 471,817 pieces; and that of European stuffs,
&c., to 24,8971 b. The value of the British silk manufactures
, exported from England, amounted, in 1846, to 837,6771.,
against 766,4051. in 1845, and 590,1891. in 1842. The quan-
tities of raw silk imported into the United Kingdom amounted
in 1846, to 4,390,0081 b., against 4,354,6961 b. in 1845. The
quantities of British spirits brought to charge at the Excise-
office in 1846 • amounted to 24,106,697 gallons, against
23,122,588 gallons in 1845, and 18,841,890 gallons in 1842.
EFFECTS OF NEGRO EMANCIPATION.—The slaves
constituted formerly the wealth of the planters; now, as free
and remunerated labourers, they are the soul of our island
commerce, and as such are the wealth of the merchants.
Let us look back at the commercial revolution which has
taken place in Trinidad since the dawn of freedom. T'-
signs of comparative wealth among the labouring pen
everywhere appear. The great change of their condition'
greatly stimulated trade of every description. Mechanic
every class have increased a hundred fold among t h
es order of society ; these are rapidly rising into r pc
and wealth, and promise at no very distant day toe act a
important part in the internal trade and affiirs of the colon:
In consequence of the posses'ion of money by the
island imports have increased to a surprising extent,Pe pie' °L .
nthe
course of a few years.— Trinidad Spectator.
The Earl of Clarendon gave a dinner to the Cabinet
Ministers yesterday evening at his residence in Grosvenor
, Crescent.

DESTITUTION IN IRE,
_ SCOTLAND.
It affords us real gratification to
readers the following correspondence :
"Wesleyan Centenary Hall and
Bishopsgate-street Within, London, Feb. 26.
"TO THE COMMITTEE OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION
FOR THE RELIEF OF EXTREME DISTRESS IN IRE-
LAND AND SCOTLAND.
"Gentlemen—We respectfully take the liberty of
informing you that, in the benevolent efforts now
making by your association, and by others similarly
engaged for-the relief of our destitute fellow-subjects in
Ireland and Scotland, the Wesleyan Methodists of this
country have felt a most lively interest. That interest
there is reason to believe they have manifested by indi-
vidually contributing in common with their respective
neighbours and friends to the general subscriptions
opened in various parts of the kingdom, as well as in this
metropolis, for the purpose of mitigating the awful cala-
mity with which it has pleased Divine Providence to
visit us. But in order that no available means in their
p )wer might be neglected for augmenting the charitable
funds which this exigency so largely requires, it was
further resolved to recommend that congregational col-
lections should be made in all the Wesleyan chapels as
soon as might be practicable. To a great extent this
recommendation has been most cheerfully adopted.
Collections, aided by some additional private contribu-
tions, have already been transmitted to a central com-
mittee in London, a;pounting at present to nearly
33,0001. That committee has immediately proceeded
in the execution oonfided to their discretion, to direct a
first distribution of grants in aid of several associations
and other agencies which were deemed most likely to
secure an efficient and impartial accomplishment of the
object in view; and we have now the pleasure of tender-
ing to the acceptance of the British Association the sum
of 5,000 L, as a donation to the funds under its manage-
ment, in the full persuasion that its operations have
been, and will continue to be, judiciously and ably di-
rected, and that its influence with her Majesty's Govern-
ment, and amongst its own subordinate agents in
Ireland and elsewhere, will be so employed as to prevent
as far as possible the unworthy intrusion of' any secta-
rian partialities or antipathies, and to secure to sufferers
of every class and denomination a fair share and propor-
tion to the amount and urgency of their distress, of
audience, attention, and relief. This respectful intima-
tion the Wesleyan central committee will take the
liberty of conveying to the other associations or agen-
cies to which they may offer similar assistance for the
prosecution of their respective plans on behalf of that
committee.—We have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
" Your very obedient servants,
(Signed) " THOMAS FARMER, Treasurer.
ELIJAH HOOLE, Sub-Treasurer."
" BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE RELIEF OF '`THE xx-
TREME DISTRESS IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND.
" Committee-room, South Sea House,
"Feb. 27, 1847.
" Gentlemen—On behalf of tha committee of the
British Association for the Relief of Extreme Distress
in Ireland and Scotland, it is my duty to tender to you,
as representing the body of Wesleyan Methodists of this
country, our grateful acknowledgments for your muni-
ficent contributions to the funds which are intrusted to
our administration. And lam desirous at the same time
to assure you of the cordial and unreserved concurrence
of the committee in the generous and enlightened views
expressed by you in the letter which has accompanied
that contribution.
" The duties in which this committee are now engaged
have not been undertaken by it lightly or unadvisedly.
We clearly perceived from the commencement the serious
responsibilities which would rest upon us, and the diffi-
culties by which we should be surrounded. But we felt
confident that the British public would exhibit a libera-
lity commensurate with the magnitude of the emergency,
and that it would judge with kindness and consideration
the exertions of those who should undertake to bear the
heavy anxieties and to make the sacrifice of time and
personal engagement necessarily incident to the dis-
charge of such a trust. The communications which
reach us daily from various quarters, and most especially
the donation of .5,000/. by the body of tie Wesleyan Me-
thodists, and the terms in which it has been conveyei to
us, afford us the most encouraging assurance that we
shall not be disappointed in our anticipations.
" Thus supported, we shall cheerfully persevere in
our exertions,-endeavouring to administer the trust re-
posed in us in such a manner as may best evince our
deep sense of humiliation under- the severe calamity
with which it has seemed fit to Almighty God to visit
our beloved country, and our solemn conviction that
such national ieffictions ought to extinguish altogether
those unfortunate differences, whether they be sectarian
antipathies or political dissensions, by which mankind
are too easily disturbed. The field of Christian benevo-
lence, so far as it depends on the example and influence
of this committee, shall be preserved sacred from the
intrusion of unworthy jealousies, and all the offices
which arise out of sympathy with the desolate and
afflicted shall be discharged by us with strict impar-
tiality and in the pure spirit of universal kindness
ennobled into a solemn duty.
" May the blessing of God accompany the efforts
which are now put forth by the Government, and by
by every class of the people of this kingdom, for the
'relief of our distressed brethren and fellow-countrymen;
may ultimate good be thus extracted from present evil,
and may we all learn, in the severity of national afflic-
tion, the appropriate and invaluable lesson of personal
humility, of mutual forbearance, of brotherly sympathy,
and Christian love.
"I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
"Thomas Farmer .Bicr., Treaitirer; ana •
Rev. Elijah Hoole, Sub-Treasurer."

SPARRING EXHIBITION IN AID

OF THE DESTITUTE IRISH AND SCOTCH.
As a further proof, if it were wanting, that the fistic
fraternity have " hearts that can feel for another," the corps
pugilistique gave their gratuitous services on Monday night, a
second time, in aid of the charitable contributions now gather-
ing throughout England for the rescue of their starving fel-
low-countrymen, and to mitigate the multiplying horrors of
famine. The place chosen for the volunteer display was
the National Baths, in the Westminster-road, and each arena,
the lesser and the greater bath, was fitted with a stage,
wherein the gloved competitors exhibited their science of-
fensive and defensive, beneath a brilliant diadem of gas,
and numerous festoons of illumination lamps. Upwards of
fifty of the best known "Knights of the Knuckle" proffered
their services for the "mimic fray," and though all did not,
indeed could Dot, display, the alacrity and unanimity of this
kindly demonstration does them honour. The perform-
ances commenced by several minor actors, who, in couples,
ascended the boarded platforms, and after exhibiting in one
bath passed to the other, to entertain the second company of
spectators. Space forbids us more than a mere enumeration
of names ; yet that we cannot deny ourselves, as we consider
the record of them a due tribute to the humanity and charity
of British boxers. The first sets-to were between inferior
artists, as the elite of the company had not arrived. Lowry
and Furry, J. Smith and J. Scott (good), Neal and Martin
Scott and voting Jones, Tom the Greek and Roberts, Brian
and Clark, Cronan and Johnsen, and three or four minors
unknown to fame prefaced the principal performers.
Turner (the Wychwood Forester) and M'Donald, and Stocks
and Amos, elicited applause. David Hayes and Snacks (of
Leeds) made a merry bout of it. Joe Roe and T. Snow fol.
lowed suit. Puttock and Fred. Mason rough,d each other,
and Jem Burn's dwarfs showed that science is often best seen
on a small scale. Homer Howden and Cousens, Jemasy Mas-
sey and Young Sarni)°, J. Shaw and Herbert, Welsh and
Barnash, Massey and Phelps, Lazarus and Johnny Walker,
took their turns. Johnny, after a turn in each bath, on the
suggestion of a Noble Lord, was induced to put on the
mufflers a third time with the accomplished Owen Swift,
inasmuch as that ex-professor was without a partner in this
charity ball." A smart, and as we thought, not quite
friendly rally, was the result, which ended in Johnny catch-
ing mine host of the Horse-shoe an awkward up hit with
the left glove, which, added to a catch of the right heel
on the part of its receiver, brought him down heavily
on the stage. Harry Broome and Ned Adams formed a
preface to the Tipton Slasher and Peter Crawley's Young 'en,
who, though wanting the thews and strength of his
opponent, proved himself the better sparrer, foiling the
Tipton in almost every attempt; nevertheless, his agility
alone saved him from many an awkward hit which must
. have told in the forced rally of actual combat. At the close

of the sparing the Tipt(in stepped forward and repeated
his challenge to Caunt, to contest for the Championship for
2LO'. aside. Of this the public has heard somewhat too
much, until Caunt shall be disembarrassed from present
business obstrcles to making a match. Caunt replied; and
Bendier() shortly after showed with his erewhile antagonist,
Big Ben. The set-to was interesting, Bendy, as usual, ex-
emplifying the art of feinting, planting, jumring out and in,
ducking the head, running after his man, and all the other
eccentricities for which his actual contests with the Cham-
pion have been remarkable. Luke Rogers, Ned Painter,
hall, Savage, and many of the old and new school, were
present, but time forbade their being coupled or appearing.
Tom Spring returned thanks, amid much applause from
ratified audience, numbering upwards of 2,000 persons.
Great praise is due to the committee of management for their
excellent arrangements.

AN EXCELLENT SUGGESTION FOR THE AFFLUENT
OF ENGLAND.—We have pleasure in complying with the
request of a correspondent in making known that the Rev.
G. R. Gilden, rector of Newport, County Mayo, a clergyman
of unquestionable-respectability, has adopted the scheme
disclosed in the following extract of a letter received from
him for the relief of his perishing people. After a description
of the destitution of his people similar, to the glrievous
alsoac-
counts received from other quarters, he sava—" have
commenced a system of reproductive work, which if you
approve, make it known to your house-keeping friends. Mrs.
Gilden, anxious to take the young women from the road-
works where they were indiscriminately employed among
men, suggested the idea of finding them some home em-
ployment, and yesterday she began to give out some flax to
o y
receivelinen, they
spin at such a price as will meet their sad condition ; and
my plan for carrying it out is this—any person approving
of the object, and sending me whatever
some
God,n o of
m
please, with their address, and where in London or Liverpool,
a parcel will be received for them, shall, please
the value of their money in towelling, strong 34 wide money
or coarse table linen suited for servants, whatever they
name ; all qf fine flax, hand-wove and bleached, such as
cannot (for lasting qualities) be bought for any price in
England. If lam supported in this, I will set 500 women to
work before a fortnight, at their own fire-sides(miserable as they
may be) yet freed from the many contaminations of public
roads. The poor people themselves are delighted with the
tlnand sixty got flax yesterday, while all the wheel-ma-
ears'are busy preparing, and
ready aIso.—GEoRGE GILDEN,
all the weavers are getting
N
Txeland." We have no question manythatewp
ot Rectory, r
of
four
will at once respond to this call. The simplest
to
expend
e Mayo,aids e to
rds
"orward a post. office order for the sum they desire
nthis manner, giving their own address, if they reside in
London or Liverpool, or, if not, the address of a friend, who
will receive for them the linen when forwarded by Mr. Gil-
den.—liampshire Advertiser.
FIRE RAISING.—A sturdy Irish mendicant applied
for an alms at the house of Mr. Cairns, farmer, Broomsido,
in the parish of Dalgetty, Fife, on Saturday last, in the
afternoon. Upon being refused, he threatened vengeance in
such a manner as greatly to alarm Mrs. Cairns, she being the
only person in the house at the time, and it appears that his
threat was made good, for shortly after he left the house a
large barley stack was in a flame, and before it could be ex-
Iti nguished was completely destroyed. He has as yet escaped
the police.—Fifeshire journal.