The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-05 00:00:00

STATR oF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, March 4.—The market has been ranter
firmer, and in yarns a fair business ha-t been done, but
the demand has' not been active for cloth. Buyers for
Germany, and also for India, have been taking yarns
with moderate freedom, and prices may be quoted d.
per lb. above the rates of last Tuesday. Manufacturers
have also been active buyers, and spinners have in some
cases demanded id. per lb. alvance for cops, but the
average prices do not reach more than ;(1. per lb. higher,
either on home trade or export yarns. Yarns suited to
the Yorkshire as well as the continental trade go off
well.

There has been a good deal of inquiry for clot, and
prices are very firm, Messrs. J. S!agg and Co. say :
" There has been more animation in the market yea-
terday and to-day than we have had for the last two or
three weeks. The accounts from Calcutta and the China
markets, received yesterday, are better than were ex-
pected, and a coneiderable business has been done for
those quarters at an advance on ebirtings of full 10. per
piece on last week's rates. For the home trade also there
has been an active demand for printers and shirtings, and
some kinds of domestics, at gradually hardening prices.
Long-cloths and T-clot hs, on the other hand, a-e compa-
ratively neglected, owing to the unfavourable advices
from Constantinople and Egypt, but prices are firmly
maintained."

The prospects of peace have a tendency to induce
caution among the buyers for the Levant trade, but
there is little doubt felt that this branch of our foreign
trade, though it may fall eff comparatively after hoqii-
ties have ceased, will take a more important position
than it did before the wnr.
Messrs. De Fay arid Co. have published an interest-
ing table (one of an annual series), giving art "estimate
of the difference in pounds sterling of the stems accruing
to the trade in cotton-manufactures during the years
from 1846 to 1555, to pay for the expenses of fuel, ma-
chinery, drugs for dyeing, printing, bleaching, interest
of capital, and every kind of wages, profits, &c., after
deducting the actual cost of the raw material." Last
year's table will furnish an example :—They estimate
the cotton consumed in Great Britain in the year 1E55
at 836,000,0001 b., and allowing 11 ounces per lb. as the
waste in spinning, this would produce 744,563.0001 b. of
yarn. Of this they calculate that 142,715,5001 b. has
been exported in the shape of yarn and thread, and
358,578,000ib. bas been exported in the form of cloth
or manufactured goods, leaving 243,269,5031 b, as the
amount of home consumption. We then come to values.
The, declared value of thread and yarns expiated in the
year is 7,735,9001., and that of manufactured goods
27,025,900/. ; while the home consumption, estimated
in the ',aura proportion as the declared value of the
' exported goods, plus 1, is 24,446,000/. ; t ,tai,
59,257,8001. ; from which deducting the total cost of
cotton (836,000,0101 b., as above stated, at the average
price of 53 1. per lb., er 19,739,000/. sterling), the
balance left to meet cost of production, profits, &c., is
39,518,8001. It will be seen from this table that
the home consumption of cotton fabrics last year was
equal to 243,269,5001 h. weight of yarn, or less than one,
tlerd of the whole 744,500,0001 b,, which is a much
s nailer proportion than has been retained in previous
e ears. In the prosperous year 1852, the home consump-
tion was 272,000,0001 b., out of a total of 668,000,00 g.,
and in that year, with a consumption ofonly 751.000,0001 b.
weight of cotton, at Cad. per lb. (or 16,819,3001. ster-
ling), the total value of our manufactures was
661,500,0001., of which 31,594,0001. worth were re
tained at home, and the balance towards cost of pro-
duction, profits, &c., was 44,730,7001., or an excess of
5,211,9001. over the balance of last year.
LEEDS, March 4.—ln the woollen.cloth trade we have
to report a steady market. In the coloured cloth-hail
this morning a fair amount of business was done, chiefly
in mixtures and spring fabrics. In the white cloth-ball
only a limited business was done, but the general tone
of the trade is firm and satisfactory. The report of the
Huddersfield market is as folio ws :—" We have had fully
au average attendance of buyers. Purchases were, how-
ever, mere numerous than extensive. There was a
brisk inquiry for ne spring fancy patterns, arid ready
sales were effected in black mixture doeskins and other
descriptions of plaid trouseriugs, at medium prices. The
wool trade is firmer."

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE
WEEK.

( Frain the Report of the Registrar-General.)
The total number of deaths registered in London last
week was 1,029. Of these 529 were deaths of males,
and 500 of females. The return is satisfactory, as tested
by experience ; for it is less by 221 than the average
number of deaths (corrected for increase of population)
in the 10 corresponding weeks of the years 1846-55.
Phthisis, as is usually the case, produced a greattr
number of deaths than any other disease, and was fatal
in 136 cases. Bronchitis was fatal in the next degree,
and carried off 95 persons ; pneumonia numbered 62, of
whom two-thirds were infants not more than two years
old. /looping cough prevailed to some extent, and 60
children died of it. This complaint is returned in five
cases in the report for St. John, Paddington ; and with
reference to a chill who died (the second in the same
family within a f rtnight from hoopiag.cough) at 14,
Wharf South,!the medical attendant mentions "the cold
and damp atmosphere" in which it had lived, the cot-
tage being low, and contiguous to the Grand Junction
Canal. Of 52 deaths from typhus Occluding continued
fever) occurred in the riorti division, which contains
the London Fever Ho,pital, 14 in the east, 9 in the
west, 8 in the south, and 4 in the central division.
Typhus is frequent in Bethnal-green ; the registrar of
the Church suL-district lecorded three deaths from
it in two days : and one (that of a man 32 years old)
occurred at 7, Nelson-street, Hackney-rond, where the
fatal disease ia attribott.d ly the inedicil atteiv'ant,
to "fetid smells arising from the house drains." Niee
deaths from typhus, and one from scarlatina, took place
in the Fever Hospital. The total deaths from scarlatina
were 24, from measles 17. and from smallpox 14. One
from rheumatic fever, 10 from rheumatism, 17 fr m cat -
cer, one from inteno,rasee, 2 from delirium tremens.

On February the 7th, at 45, Park-f trot t, Marylebor,e,
a man is returned as having died from want of food.

The greatest age recorded is that of a widow, 96
years, who died in Christ. etinrch, Marylebone.
Last week the b;rths of 1,002 boys and 974 girls, in
all 1.976 children, were registered in Londoc. In the
tr,n corresponding works of the years 1846-55 the aver.
age number was 1.575.
At the Royal Oloservatery, Greenwich, the rea lings
of the barometer were high ; the highest was 3053 in.
on the let, of March. The mean of the week was 30'365
in., and the daily mean was above 30 in. throughout
the week. The mean temperature was 43 S deg., whet)
is 4 deg. above the average of the same week in 28 years
(as determined by Mr. Giaisher.) The highest tempera-
ture occurred on Wednesday, and was 57 deg. ; the
lowest on Monday, and was 33.3 deg., and the difference
between that and the mean air temperature of the water
of the Thames was 41.7 deg. The wind, which before
had been mostly in the south-west, changed for the last
three days to north•east. Except a thick misty rain on
the morning of Thursday no rain fell in the week.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED
IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 1.
Zymotie Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat

Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 47
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration lB5
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs

of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations 2
Premature Birth and Debility 2,
Atrophy
Old Age
Sudden
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 33
Causes not specified

DEATHS mom ALL CAUSES
Population Deaths in corre- Deaths
Enumerated. sponding week in the
1651. of 1S 5. Week.
West Districts • 376,427
North Districts 490,396
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Districts

Totals
lilales
Females

1,b60

1,029
529
500

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