The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-09 00:00:00

he following appeared in our Tbird Edition of t
THE GREAT EXHIBITION- \

brilliant sunshiny day, resembling more the open-
pf September than the approaching fail of October,
afforded the holiday folk another opportunity of
.:g the lion: of the rnetropes to thr, greatest possible
tentage. St. Paul's, Westminster Abbey, the British
aseum, the National Gallery, and the numerous other
st,;h:s with which London abounds, have been crowded
with visitors, while the gay appearance of the streets would
almost induce a stranger to believe that the day had
beta set apart for the celebration of a festival, or made
t'-te cccasion fer some universal rejoicing. People
as they roll !westward like a waving current seem
to be bent on nothing but pleasure, as no doubt the ma-
jority of them are, and no matter what locality you
cropped upon In the neighbourhood of the parks, you were
certain to encounter multitudes of merrymakers heavily
laden with refreshment baskets. The numbers ad-
mittnd into the Exhibition fall very little short of _ yes,
terday's return. They are as follow:
At 10 o'clock
At 11 o'clock
At 12 o'clock

... 20,627
... 48,141
. . 71,279

At 1 o'clr,ek 87,431
At 2 er:tock 97,756
At 3 riclock 105,709
At '4 o'clock 108 776
••• •• • •••
Probably the attractions of Hampton Court, Sion
House, v.nd such liko suburban p;aceA, have assisted in
dr6l97llyg off many of our foreign and country visitors.
Tbe following is the official report of tho receipts
yesterday £5,283 3s.
Police numbers ... 109,760.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Gua?dian.)

MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—By the Niagara we have
Pdvices of a further decline of 40. in the price of
cotton at New York, with accounts of a dull state of
things in the southern markets, owing to increased
receipts at the ports, and rather unfavourable reports
from this side the Atlantic. In this market the subsi-
d.nce of prices from those nominal quotations for
yarns which were the result of the late active de-
mand, has proceeded somewhat further to-day, or,
at least, has become somewhat more decided than
it was last week. This, however, does not apply
to 24's and 28's warps, and not in any marked
degree to water twist in the bundle, or to 40's
mule. But the decline from the late highest rates
for the general run of current numbers, is not more
than id. to 111. per lb. ; the larger fraction being
found chiefly in the lower counts of warps. These
modified terms have induced some of the buyers,
whose previous contracts had come to an end, or
were on the point of doing so, to give out fresh orders,
though in a most cautious manner, and only to a
limited extent. The transactions of the day have
baen chiefly for home consumption. The Garman
buyers find nothing to stimulate them in theletters
from Leipsic, where the business of
the
elndian
rmttn
fair
is proceeding but languidly. The
houses are taking scarcely n
goods, the sales have been altogethearYinctTarns. In
risiderable,
and the bias of prices, for the most part,
72
the
against pro-
ducers, though only slightly.
Sre Amongsteds. The India
steadiest articles are 36-inch
and China buyers continue quite out of the market,
and the consequence is a further depreciation in the
value of shirfings, madapollams, and other fabrics
particularly adapted for the eastern trade. That this
should be the case is not at all surprising, when,
along with a consideration of the fall of prices on the
other side, the enormous shipments, as shown in the
subjoined table, are taken into account. It was ex.
pected that the exports in September would exhibit a
falling off; such, however, is not the case.
ROCHDALE, MONDAY.--WE have had about an
average market to-day, both as regards prices and
the amount of business transacted. There is little
change in the wool market, except that the dealers do
not press sales so eagerly at former prices.
MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.--Our market for manu-
factured goods continues fairly active, and prices are
generally well maintained. This satisfactory state of
things is, no doubt, mainly attributable to the fact,
that stocks of goods in the hands of makers have
been unusually small this autumn, and for the present
continue so, the demand being pretty nearly equal to
the production. The thrown silk market is extremely
quiet, and the inducements held out by holders to
consumers, having been almost without result in the
shape of business, have had the effect of further cur-
tailing the hours of labour in the mills. The raw
silk market is equally quiet ; prices, however, are
without material alteration, and seem likely to remain
so, stocks in the hands of consumers being known to
be small.

HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—There were not many
buyers in our piece hall to-day, and the principal
sales were in fancy goods' of low quality. A few
secs were also inquired for. The yarn market is
fully as much depressed ; and, as the prices are wholly
unrernunerative, the spinners are greatly curtailing
production. There is no change to be noted in wool,
which goes off slowly, without any alteration in the
quotations.

- HUDDERSFIELD, TIIESDAY.—Our market to-day
ha 3 passed off much the same as last, without any de-
ci led improvement. The home and export trade
are bath quiet for the season, though more has been
done in the warehouses during the week. We have
every reason to expect, from appearances at present, a
good trade being done during the winter season. In
the wool market more has been done to-day than for
some time past, at nearly the same prices as last.
LEEDS, TUESDAY.—On Saturday last we had an
active market in the cloth balls, and a fair quantity
of ends were disposed of ' • but to-day the market has
been dull and languid. Prices very firm, and stocks
not large for the season.

THE PROGRESS OF RAILWAY
COMMUNICATION iN EUROPE.
The Paris Constitutionnel publishes the following
account of the tour of M. Magne, the Minister of
Public Works of the French Republic, undertaken for
the purpose of examining the state of railway com-
munications throughout Europe :
" The Minister of Public Works has just resumed
his functions, after his tour through various parts of
Europe, to examine the state of railway communica-
ticris. M. Magna made an interesting excursion.
Accompanied by M. Chatelus, chief of the railway
division in the department of Public Works, he visited
B-Agium, Germany, Austria, and Italy, stopping
at Berlin, Vienna, Trieste, Rome, Genoa, and Turin.
The foreign Governments gave him everywhere a
most cordial reception, afforded him every fa-
cility for his investigations, and the Ministers of
Public Works of Prussia, the Roman States, and
Piedmont were polite enough to accompany him
themselves in some of his investigations. What
the lion. Minister has, above all, been able to con-
vince himself of, and what he will no doubt detail to
the Assembly, is the persevering efforts of our neigh-
bours to place the ports of Ostend, Antwerp, Ham-
burgh, and Stettin in communication with the
southern states of Germany, in order to unite all Italy
with the Austrian provinces, and to draw to Trieste
and Genoa the transit between England and India.
Whilst we are discussing and delaying, others turn
time to account, and obtain an advance on us.
Foreign railways are at our very doors, and we still
deliberate. 'What, for instance, did the Hon,
other in every direction, from the North Sea and the
Ba to the Adriatic ; from Hamburgh and Cologne
to Trieste ; from Koningsberg to the Lake of Con-
:tance, Switzerland and Italy He can say that he
aw seven and thirty sovereig
each other, acting in accord
for;ties, independent of
a complete railway system the construction of
tralisation of whichwe 'are 1 wh.i St we, with that cen-
been able to agree on
the execauc't'Plorrr ofa' the most not
yet
portent line in our territory. It is matternrosotf inn-
toriety that, for a great part of Germany and for the
circles of Prussia and of Bavaria, the shortest dis-
tance from the sea coast is the right line drawm fro
II through Rouen, Paris, Metz mlt is the natural commercial course fortrasburg central
Europe. The Antwerp to Cologne line now dispute
that transit with us. The recent opening of the line
which unites Hamburgh and Stettin with the
centre of Bavaria, and soon with the lake of Con-
stance, has produced a competition which not less
menaces our relations. Fortunately, the Strasburg
Rue is one of the most advanced of our number, and
the works are being urged on most energetically,
Three
sections of that line were opened during the
risn,3€'4,r ; the line will be open to Commercy in
m' —er 'the branch line of Meta will soon reach
of Havre
,il,l be
l'°Thach, '",(1 touch the Prussian frontier, and the port
Loraine in united to our frontiers of Alsace and
he first month of 1852, so that in that dl-
-
belongs to jail"
osi-
tion. But it is the co in time to preserve a transit
ran virtue of our geographicalp .
the Mediterranean anr4dTications between England and
tally disputed to
made by the Austrian 6,,,Ye
us, wf,l.,aclia. which are most energeti-
often spoken of the efforts
Trieste to the German railwernment to unite the port of
andthe gigantic labours
which it has undertaken toaYs' the Julian Alps at
the passage of the Somnaerier°"
Chatelus visited all these works,M. Magne
aoundfoMot,
presentsat several
sometimes in a carriage, and wereneti
of the trials between the locomotives
count has been published. If w e
thin west wswell:liteilin f aonrmaeecc,
the Hon. Minister was above all thingpauaruckoiaith
the immensity of the works at the Sommering. Thirteen tunnels and twentyg-efive vtile
ducts, amongst which is that of Kaltenrinne of t a.
stories, 50 metres in height, and 222 metres in
length, can give an idea of those great works. The
tunnels are terminated, and the works of art are ad-
valicing rapidly. Not less than 12,000 workmen
atiiid 2,000 horses are employed in the work-yards, and
atethengineers are in hopes of terminating the works
is
nowe beginninl4 of 1853. The Austrian Government
having the definitive survey made for the part