The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-09 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

LEEDS, May B.—The woollen cloth-markets to-
day have been of an ordinary character. There
was not a very large attendance of buyers, and they
purchased but small and select parcels of goods. It
is evident that merchants do not find a very ready
sale for their recently purchased spring stocks, and
hence they are buying. Prices are generally firm,
the cost of wool and the recent advance of £4 per
tun duty imposed upon olive oil by the Neapolitan
Government, coupled with the probability that the
disturbances occurring in India will tend to raise
the price of indigo at home, causing manufacturers
to ask more rather than less for their goods.
MANCHESTER, May B.—Cotton Goods.—There is
not much business in yarns. Buyers for the Medi-
terranean market and for Germans have operated
to a limited extent. Some little business has also
been done for the home trade, but the India people
have not done much, partly owing to 'spinners, who
are full of orders, asking rather high rates. In
cloths there is no change to notice ; the market is
without, animation, but prices are firm. A fair busi-
ness is springing up from day to day in mist de-
partments of the trade, which has a tendency to
keep prices firm, and the engagements of manufac-
turers are extensive. The uneasy feeling manifest-
ing itself from time to time among the operatives is
exciting continual apprehension, threats of strikes
being a matter of almost daily occurrence., A firm in
the neighbourhood of Manchester received a docu-
ment; from the strippers and grinders (a class of un-
skilled labourers) in their mill, which said, " We de-
mand an increase in our wages to 18s. per week."
The firm in question, being bound by contracts for
some time forward, had no option but to give the
advance, which of course was done. The same class
of operatives in the same mill, only seven years ago,
were paid 1 ls. per day.
ROCHDALE, May 7.—The wool market has not
been very active to-day. Prices, however, are
steady, and in the aggregate there has been a little
more done than last week. The farmers are ask-
ing, it is said, a higher price for the new clip, and
there appears little probability of the range of
prices being lower than those now current. The
flannel manufacturers are mostly well employed ;
but, as usual at this period of the year, the market
for products has been rather quiet, and not many
buyers were present. Orders are not freely ac-
cepted at late prices, as the price of wool and of
Tabour necessitate, manufacturers say, some ad-
Tance.

THE PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at
Page is about et par, and the short exchange on London is
25.12 k per LI sterling. On comparing these rates with
the English Mint par, £3 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard
gold, it appears that gold is about 2-10ths per cent. dearer
in Paris than in London. By advices from Hamburg
the price of gold is 4211 per mark, and the short
exchange on London is 13 gi per LI sterling. Standard
gold at the EngAish ;Mint price is therefore nearly
1-10th per cant. dearer in London than in Hamburg.
'The course :of exchange at New York on London for
bills at GO days' sight is about 109 h per cent., which, when
compared with the Mint par between the two countries,
chows that the exchange is against England. But, after
making allowance for charges of transport and difference
of interest, the present rate leaves no profit on the trans-
mission of gold between the two countries.
The large sum of £220,000 in gold, nearly all
Australian, and partly ex the Great Britain, was sent into
the Bonk yesterday. In the absence of demand for the
continent, some further amount will proba'ely be taken
there. The £64,000 by the Persia consisted of gold and
Mexican dollars; tin former remains hen

ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS.

I Closing I Businest
Share, R?ilways, I Paid.(l Price. I Done.
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12.10 ' Amberg.,Notting., Bost!
and Eastern Junction. 10 64 61
50 Belfast and Ballymena all
13.14 Bit, Wol , and Str. Val. all 8 84
stock Birk., La., and Ch June lOO 70 72
25 Blackburn
25 Blyth and Tyne all
10 Bost. Shef. and Mid. Co all 61 74
stock Bristol and Exeter
stock Caledonian
10 Carmarthen &Cardigan 9
50 Cork and Bandon all
50 I ork, Itlrock., &Passage all
20 Cornwall
10 Do A IA- gets no div t all _
15 10 Dountil 6pc perin all
hasbeen pd. toB
50 Dublin A,: Belfast June. all
25 Dun., Perth, &Ab. June all 8 81
stock (East Anglian lOO 174 18 171
stock Eastern! Counties .....
stock Eastern Union, Astock 100 37 39
stock Do do B do 100 26 28
25 Do NW A. late EU3ds B4
20 East Suffolk
10 Do
stock Edinburgh & Glasgow 100 74 80
stock Edin. Perth, & Dundee 1• 0 32 324 32 4
10 Forth 2 Clyde Junction, all
stock Furness
I stock Glasg. and S. Western j 100 99 101 994
10 Great tithe. of Scotland all
stock Great Northern lOO 116 117
stock Do do A stock 1 100 11.8 120 119 184
stock Do do B do
stock Gt. S. & IV. of Ireland 100 113 114 1135 145
stock Great Western
stock Do Str Val gals. stock 100 60 65
12 Irish South-eastern
stock Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 1055 1051 1051 5
stock ,London and Blackwall 100 70 71 71 705
stock ILon., Bright.. &S Coast 100 114 115 1144
25 ;Loud., Chat., and Dover all 11 12 12
stock Lond. &Nth. Western 100 102 10244021 55 2
124 Do eighths
stock Lond. CL Sth. Western lOO 925 935 925 35
25 L'derry & Coleraine
25 L'derry & 'Enniskillen all 104 114
424 43 43 2i i
tool: Man. Shef. 4-,• Lin,-oln lOO
50 Maryport and Carlisle all
124 Do do 5 shares.... all
1;:' Metropolitan
10) 1171 1181 1185 174 1
lock Iridland
tock Di Pinning. & Derby 10) 94 96
(0 Mid. G`.W. of Ireland
all
25 Do 4 shares
25 Mid Kent .... .... ••• • • • all
10 Do, Cray Line ...:.:
all
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100 Newcastle and Carlisle
25 New., Aber. & Herefd :01 101 111
10 Newry & Armagh, def 9 7 6 d
20 Newry, Warnpt. & Ros all
:ock Norfolk.... ........... 100 54 56
60 N. hn. Counties Union.. 31 34 3 d
ock North British lOO 62 624 62 5 .
ock Nor.Dev.Rail&Dk.stoc, 100
ock D, A stk ; A secs no d.
until 6pchas teenpd.B 100
ock Do B stock ...•.... .1 100
ock Nth. Eastern—Berwick) 100 961 075 97 65 75 i
25 Do do . G.N.E. purchase,l6l34 11 5 d
ock Do Leeds ............. 100 501 1 5
ock Do York • 100 804 81 805 1 1 805
Dot North London
10 North Staffordshire 174 31 34d 131 14
10 N. and S. W. Junction
)c)ckloxf. Wor. & Wolverptn tali 45 47 46.1 5 5
l 0 IFeebles
?0 Portsmouth —
all 14 16
10 Rhymney all —
)ck ,Scottish Central
)ck (Scot. N. E., Aber. stock 100 115 117
100 36 364 381
;ck IDo Scot. Mid. stock lOO 88 90
,ck (Shropshire Union lOO 48 CO
0 ;Satin° bourne & Sheer. all 4 3 d
,ck South Devon
ck. !South Eastern .......• 190 87 871 875 i 1 1
ck 'South Wales
ck S. York. and River Dun 100 77 80
0 'Staines, Wok,. and Wok all 6 8
5 Stockton & Darlington all , 394 41-
5 I Do do 9 85 05p
- (Stockton & Hartlepool 165
ck 'Taff Vale
A: ! Do Pref. No 1 lOO
5 ;TliamesHaveni k&Rail 22 . _
Ulster • • all 5(54. 565
i Do .......... ......
.l 0 Do •• •
15 I d 1p..,
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!k." iVflle of Neath
I jVictoria Sta. and Pim all 10 11
•I; 111-Mefferd & Kilkenny 100
1 ;Waterford & Limerick all
I 'West C •rnwall
• 'West London all
• Do 14 class
Do 2nd class
1 (Worcester A: Hereford , 111 24 11d

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