The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-03 00:00:00

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males
Females

STATE OF TRADE.
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.--It has been the subject
of frequent remark upon 'Change that for a numher
of weeks past, with only a Esing!e exception, some
large and important failure tnc.,lr place, or was first
announced in this town on the Monday or Tuesday
morning ; and that, consequently, the great market
of the week wos held under the depressing influence
of a heavy and recent calamity. The effect of rhese
repeated disasters was necessarily to destroy the con-
fidence which the comparative absence of failure
at the end of each precding week
,had tended
to restore; and the market consequently suffered
under severe depression. Yesterday, however, passed
over without any disastrous announcement, and it
seemed as if to-day was likely to elapse without
experiencing any such sinister influence as that which
had weighed upon previous market days. About
noon, however, it became known that Messrs. Coates
and Company, American merchants, of London,
having a branch in this town, under the firm of
Coates, Hilliard, and Company, had stopped pay-
ment. The London firm was one of the few Ame-
recan agency houses which survived the panic of
1836-7; but we understand that its business has
not recently been very extensive. The liabilities of
Coates and Co. are stated to be about 100,0001.; but
we understand that the debts here are not likely to
prove large, and the announcement of the failure pro-
duced but little effect on the market, which, on the
whole, presented a rather better appearance than that
of last week. There was more inquiry than pre-
viously, both for goods and yarn; and a fair amount
of business would have been done, if spinners and
manufacturers would have accepted the lowest rates
which were current last week. There was not, how-
ever, much disposition to make sacrifices, and the
amount of actual business was consequently limited.
ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—There has been a rather
quieter market ro-day, and less business transacted
than the three last Mondays. In the wool market
there has been very little doing, and prices may be
quoted as rather easier.
HALIFAX, SATURDAT.--OUF Piece-hall still looks
gloomy, and scarcely any business is transacted. In
yarn, also, the extreme depression continues, and a
further curtailmeni of production is the consequence.
Prices have fallen too near the cost of the mere raw
materials used, to make it worth while to run the
machinery, should current ratos not be maintained;
so that, with the present prices of wool, there is not
any room for giving way in the price of yarns. No
wool is coming to market. Spinners are only buying
same
the
for daily consumption, and prices are much
as lest week
Wbuet little doing in
had another dull.
HUDDERSFIELD,
dringTutheespwAYes.—k,
market, and,
the warehouses. Nevertheless, as regards the dis-

trict, it is considered that trade wears a more healthy
appearance than might be expected, from the heavy
pressure to which the mercantile world is at present
exposed.
LEEDS, TUESDAY. Our market continues ex-
ceedingly quiet,—there was hardly anything doing
to-day.—Manchester Guardian.:

THE UNEMPLOYED.—Yesterday forenoon, a num-
ber of unemployed factory operatives walked in pro-
cession through the town, with a drum and fife at their
head. A meeting of the unemployed on Blakeley Moor
was spoken'of, but did not take place at the time stated.
—Manehester Guardian.
STOPPAGE of RAILWAY WORKS. -- Orders have
been issued, it is said, to :suspend for a time the prose-
cution of the works on the Blackburn, Clitheroe, and
North-Western Extension branch of the Bolton, Black-
burn, Clitheroe, and West Yorkshire Railway Com-
pany.

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MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Price Current of Nov. 2.)
MA.onrrws.—This afternoon Mauritius sugar of all
kinds was in good request ; and the parcels offered at
public sale, amounting to 6,309 bags, 336 casks, 3 bar-
rels, and 27 tierces, mostly found buyers at former
rates; very dark brown went at 20s to 2Gs 6d; low and
middling, 28s to 295; good, 29s 6d to 31s; fine, 32s to
335; low yellow, 33s 6d to 34s 6d; middling, 35s 6d to
36s 6d; good, 373 to 38s 6d; fine, 39s 6d to 425; washed
and syrupy, 24s to 36a 6d per cwt. A part was taken
in rather above the value.
RICE.—To-day the market was abundantly supplied
saleamour
d ,gs ; hoers were Willing
sellers, but, submitting to a further rdeduction in priwilli
ces
of 6d to Is, caused nearly the whole to find buyers; Ben-
gal, good white, but anther broken, went at 11s 6d to
12s, good middling ditto 11s to lls 6d, middlinc, ditto
10s 6d.
FRUIT.—To-day at public sale 142 pkgs damaged
Patras Currants were only in part sold, 42s to
445, caroteols 42s to 455, brls 44s' 3,080 drumsbutts
Turkey
Figs only partly found buyers at lower rates, drums 38s
to 443, half ditto 50s; 835 pkgs Muscatel Raisins went
at 40s to 46s for boxes in layers. The market for Fruit
has a dull appearance.
SPIRITS,---Today Jamaica Rum met with attention,
and brought very full rates. Sales to a fair extent were
made, and 3s 6d to 4s 6d paid for fair to fine quality.
The market for East India is in a dull state, and not
more than is 6d can be obtained for proof with certi-
ficate. Leeward Island met with little attention, and is