The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-29 00:00:00

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Matches.
Calorie received forfeit from Martinet.
Sister to Pyrrhus the First received forfeit from Rosary.
Scarecrow beat Caracara.
Hesperus beat Brother to Shylock.

Handicap Plate of 501. A.F.

... 1

Clincher...

Retail

Aphrodite

Selling Handicap.

... 2
... 3

Gay Lass ... •• • ••• ... ••• ..• J.
Lady Bibina ~. .•• ••• ••• •••
. 2
Mokanna ... ... ... ... ••• ••• 3
Sweepstakes for two years old. Winner to be sold for 70.
France ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
St. Alban ... --- ••• ••• 2

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—By the Canada we learn
that the weather in the States was still in the highest
degree genial and favourable to the growing crop;
that the receipts at the ports in the last week
were 38,000 bales against 26,000 in the cor-
responding week of last year, whilst the ex-
ports to Great Britain were 6,000 against 17,000;
and that, under thcse circumstances, the New
York and the southern markets continued to be de-
pressed and unsettled, with a slight additional decline
is prices. The character of our market is in accord-
ance with the still improving prospect as to the supply
of the raw materials. Although the producers of
yarns and goods continue free from stocks, and not
without orders, they are yet so desirous of renewing the
contracts that are running out, as still to give some
advantage to the buyers in making a bargain. Last
week's decline in the value of yarns may be stated at
lid. to id. per lb. upon common to good seconds,
mule and water, in the bundle, and also upon warps
and cops. That depreciation, and the somewhat
lowered prices of goods, have generally become more
settled to. day, and, in some things, are carried a little
further. Last week, concession led to operations of
considerable aggregate amount in articles suitable for
India, China, Germany, and the Mediterranean;
to-day, however, there has been less disposition for
business amongst the buyers, and the market has been
an inanimate one.
ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—The flannel market, in-
stead of improving, grows worse, and the merchants
buy very sparingly. The demand for wool continues
very limited, but prices are very firm, and are rather
looking upward.
MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—Very little variation
has taken place in the state of the manufactured goods
trade, the demand for both home and foreign
becomedescr
-
tions retaining a quietness which has of late
characteristic. Stocks are light, and production is going
on so leisurely as to leave no anxiety on this head,
even if the present state of things continues: In
thrown silks the business done of late has been insig-
nificant, with nominal prices. Production in this d
e-
partment is consequently at a very low ebb, th
being scarcely any margin between it and the raw
material. Raw Silk—The pubic sales held in Lon-
don on the 22d instant have terminated, at which
6,825 bales were put up, nearly the whole of which
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passed without bidding ; business by private contra
was subsequently entered into, to the extent of pro-
bably 700 bales various qualities, at a reduction (in
some instances) of 6d. to is. per lb.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY.--TO•dayS market has been
flatter than that of this day week ; and but few
goods have changed hands, either in the piece hall or
in jhe warehouses. In yarns and wools there is
no
alteration. For the former the spinner cannot obtain
a price that will cover the cost of production; and for
the latter the stapler is unable to realise rates as high
as those demanded by the growers.
HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—Our market to-day
has been very quiet ; not much inquiry for any
kind of, goods. Stocks continue low, as some of
the manufacturers are working short time. In the
wool market nothing is doing, as the manufacturers
here will not give the recent advance at the London
sales.
LEEDS, TITESDAY.—The woi)llen-cloth trade con-
tinues dull and languid, both with the manufacturers
and merchants. There is very little doing to order,
but prices are without change.

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.
A meeting of the Council of the Manchester Parlia-
mentary Reform Association was held at Manchester
last evening, Mr. George Wilson in the chair, and in-
fluentially attended, to consider the propriety of a Con-
ference being held in reference to the measure of reform
said to be contemplated by the Government. After a
deliberation, in which great unanimity of sentiment pre-
vailed, it was agreed, upon the motion of Mr. Bright,
M.P., seconded by Mr. Kershaw, M.P., that the Prime
Minister having announced it to. be the intention of the
Government to introduce a measure for the reform of
the representation in the coming session of Parliament,
this Council, complying with meshy urgent requests from
various parts of the country, resolves to convene a meet-
ing of the friends of reform, c hiefly, though not exclu-
sively, from Lancashire and Yorkshire, for the purpose
of conferring on the steps whir,th may be necessary to
give due expression to public of linion, and thus to secure
such a measure of reform as n tay be satisfactory to the
country.

Arrangements were to be I made, if possible, to hold
the Conference in the first we( sk of December.

ST. ALBAN'S BRIBE.' tY COMMISSION.

I esterday Messrs. Slade, I 'binn, and Forsyth, the
Commissioners appointed to in quire into the truth of the
alleged existence of bribery it the last election for St.
Alban's, resumed theirinvestigation at the Court House
in the borough, when, as on ti se preceding day, a large
number of the inhabitants wei .0 present, some of them
ladies, to hear the proceedings.
Mr. Bell, the sitting Member, was again in attendance,
as was also, for a considerable pi mtion of the day, Alder-
man Sir R. W. Carden, the un sv,ccessful candidate at the
last election.
Air, Bell and Messrs. Br: is e, Colt, Simpson, and
Bowen, were examined, but vi purposely abstain from
publishing the evidence, in ac, rdance with the express
debire of the Chief Comeaissio)ae r.

Surcipxs.—Con Sunday rat rt ling a man named John
Howard, Aged 78, a pensioner, formerly of the Coldstream
Guards, blew his brains out with a pistol in Hill.street,Wal-
worth ; and a man named Cost ,ell o cut himself across the
such an extent, in Longlig re, as to cause his liver to
sideprotrude.e
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