The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-27 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

BELFAST, Jan, 25.—Flax.—Sapplies in the vari-
ous markets about similar to those offered during
the week preceding. Demand continues again fair
at unaltered rates. Yarns.—Business accomplished
was considerably less than that transacted last week,
still the demand was of a fair character for all
classes of yarns. Home trade transactions were
only to supply pressing wants. Transactions on
Scotch and Continental account were to a fair ex-
tent. English orders were neither numerous nor
extensive. Stocks show slight reduction. Prices
well maintained. Hand loom Linens, brown.--
Under this head very little of importance to an-
nounce. Good makes of cloth for dyeing and
hollands were in fair request at unaltered figures.
Inferior makes and heavy linens were dull of sale.
No change in prices. Light linens for bleaching
were not so actively sought for as during the past
week. Powerloom.—A fair but not active demand
exists for heavy linens and light linens for bleach-
ing. Very little doing in cloth suitable for the
foreign clothing trade, or cambric handkerchief
A steady demand exists for roughs. Cloth for
dyeing and hollands, and prime makes of drills.
Stocks small, no change iu prices. Linen handker-
chiefs and damasks are dull of sale. Bleached and
Finished Linens.—Little alteration in this depart-
ment. Steady business still being accomplished
on home account ; still purchases are made cau-
tiously.
NorriNGHAm, 26th.—The cotton lace trade is in
a satisfactory condition. Orders for plain nets aro
now in course of completion for the Continent,
manufacturers in this branch being well engaged.
fhtre is about an average amount of business doing
in curtains ; and there is still a fair inquiry for
tatting edgings. Lace yarns hold firm at fully
late rates. In the silk branch there has been au
improvement in the demand for plain Mechlins•
There is also a rather better inquiry for laces. The
raw material is firm, and prices have advanced. in
the hosiery trade there is a fair amount of business
doing for shipping. Ihe home branch is without
material change. Hosiery yarns maintain their
value.

BUDGET OF MISCELLANEOUS. —Five thousand
consumptive patients resort to Minnesota every year.—An
American paper says —" The present winter, like the last
one, has thus far belied all the cold weather prophecies
of goose-bone, beaver, muskrat, bird-flight, and other
examiners. The frigid predictions that circulated 60
freely a month ago aro seen no more.—The wages paid on
Mississippi River steamboats average: Captains, $175 per
month; pilots, $2OO to $250 ; first engineers, $llO ; deck
hands, $3O to s6o.—Christmas must have been a lively
day in Cincinnati. Here are some of the head lines of
the Enquirer :--'‘ The Crimes of Christmas"---" The bully's
blade the sceptre of the street "—" Ruffianism rampant
—" A knife buried to the hilt in a drunken man's skull"---
" A young man stabs his best friend"—" A Christmas
reveller shoots a negro"—" A rough breaks a man's
leg with a kick"—" A chairmaker cuts his throat.
A New York dentist is charged with stealing a lady's ear-
ring, valuod at a hundred dollars, while he was fixing her
teeth.— Cable messages between the United States and
Havana will hereafter be sent for five dollars in gold for
ten words, from offices east of the Mississippi, and $7 and
50 cents, gold, from offices west of the Mississippi.-
The Aerial Steam Navigation Company of San Francisco
held a meeting, in Dec., and decided to build a new and
larger "Avitor " for practical work, to cost $37,000.
$5,615 has been subscribed. The corporators are satis-
fied with the performances of the last model, which was
accidentally burnt while on exhibition.— The steamer
China sailed from San Francisco on Saturday, Jan. 1, for
Hong Kong and Yokohama. She carried $693,000 in
treasure, of which $615,000 was for Hong Kong. $lO,OOO
for Shanghai, and $38,000 for Yokohania.-e-ln Vicksburg
the policemen wear red uniforms.—The Central Pacific
Railroad Company have built an hospital, costing $70,000,
at Sacramento. The total city debt of Boston is
$23,433,939, an increase of $5,000,000 since last year.-- it
vein of bituminous coal, 30ft. thick, and free from sulphur,
has been discovered 28 miles from Chico, California, and I
miles from the California and Oregon Railroad. This is
the first discovery of bituminous coal in Northern Cali-
fernia.—An Omaha despatch says that the Mormon
schism is increasing rapidly. There are over 2,000
apostates now in Utah, and they are about to have a daily
newspaper. Utah intends to make a strenuous effort at
this session of Congress to get admitted into the Union as
a State,—The New York _Herald says that never before
this year was the Hudson River open in January for navi-
gation from Albany to New York —An order for steel was
recently sent by telegraph from Boston to Sheffield.
Twenty-one days afterward the steel, which had to be
manufactured, was landed in Boston.—The President of
the Chicago Board of Education, in his annual report, re-
commends that the reading of the Bible be discontinued in
the public schools of that city.— The auction sale of pews
at Henry Ward Beecher's Plymouth Church took pace
on Tuesday evening, January 4th, in Brooklyn. Tin'
highest premium paid was $550, by W. 11. Sage, aLd tb°
sale netted $57,543, as compared with $51,494 last year.--
9'}'o la te,t news tells us that Iyhe,it, is now Selling. i 3
llt,gUe River arid Urnpqint va..ey,, Oregon, fur .37 cents,
and barley for 23 cents per bushel, and dull sales at that.
In Omaha wheat is selling at 40 cents, corn and oats 35.---
A Michigan husband agreed to leave his wife on payment
of seven dollars. She mortgaged her cook stove and paid
him.—Tho woman question ; Is he rich ?—Boston Ad-
rertiser.—The steamer Golden City sailed front San Fran-
cisco for Panama on Monday, Jan. 3, with $370,000 in
trea,ure, of Nellie., $28,000 are for New York. $327,00
for England, and $15,000 for Panama..—The residence of
ex-United States Senator D. K. Atchiuson, near Platts-
burg, Mobile, was burned on Monday, Jan. 3. All the
furniture and a large library were consumed. The loss is
about $20,000. In Waterloo, lowa, turkeys can be bought
at ten cents a pound, chickens at eight cents, and prairie
chickens at $2 50 a dozen.—The laying of the cable be-
tween Salcomhe and Brest in connection with the French
cable was successfully completed.
AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY.—At the meeting of
the
Thursday,boar
board of managers, at the Bible House, New York, on
Jan. 6, James Lenox, Esq., President, was in
the chair. assisted by William Whitlock, jun., Norman
White, Frederick S. Winston, James Suydam, and A.
Walsh, Esquires' Vice-Presidents. The Rev, Dr.
M‘Leod read th® 34th Psalm, and offered prayer.
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his fiel statementsfield ; afsr from no theth
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Rev. I. G. Bliss, Constantinople, giving an
account of
his work, snd especially in regard to Bulgaria, and
the good effect of the Slavic and Bulgarian Testament
which was electrotyped at the Bible House; from
the Rev. H. B. Pratt, Barranquilla, N.G., saying in sub-
stance that he finds but little demand for the Scriptures
in that region ; from the Rev. Dr. W. A. P. Martin,
Peking, as to the best mode of prosecuting and ex-
tending the work in China; from Mr P. Hand of Pek-
ing as to the printing of the Scriptures there, and sending
the fiscal account of the Mission. Grants of books were
made to the American Tract Society; to the Gene-
ral Assembly's Committee on Freedmen ' • to the Pa-
triot's Orphan Home at Flushing, Long Island; to the
American Missionary Association, Arabic Bibles and
Testaments ler Africa; to the Friends' Bible and Tract
Distributing Committee ; to the Missionary Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, Ojibwa Testaments; to 31r.
John S. Pierson, Marine Agent for vessels sailing to vari-
ous foreign ports. The entire number of volumes
granted is 7,744, besides others to the amount of $l,lOO,
and in funds $2OO to the Missionary Society of the Metho-
dist Church for Bible work in Norway. The books granted
were in an usual variety of languages, including Spanish,
Italian, Portuguese, German, French, Ojibwa, and
Arabic.—An interesting volume was exhibited to the
board, being a copy in manuscript of the Gospel by St.
Matthew in the language of the Kohlossian Indians in Al-
aska. It was written by the present primate of the Russo-
Greek Church when, a young man, he was a missionary to
that country.
THOUSANDS OF PRESENTS AT PARKINS AND GOTTO'S.
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card trays, pocket books, ornamental articles in china, bronze
gilt, and elegantly mounted for mantel shelf, drawing and library
tables; bagatolleboards. indoor croquet and indoor games of all
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Thousands of the above articles, all perfectly new and fresh.
Small articles carefully selected and sent post paid upon pre-
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