The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-23 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Jau. 22.—The market for yarn
cloth has been very quiet. Owing to the conti-
nued activity in the cotton market, neither buyers
nor sellers of manufactures can make much pro-
gress with business. This applies to both export
and home trade yarns, for which prices are very
firm. Sellers of cloth are asking very full rates,
but they are perhaps hardly so inflexible as the
holders of yarns.
CARDIFF, 21st.—The change that has occurred
in the weather will in a few days afford an oppor-
tunity to vessels entered outwards to arrive at the
docks; and, as there are several orders on the
books of merchants and shippers awaiting execution
for the mail packet stations, French, Turkish, and
Mediterranean ports, a continuance of fair winds
may be looked upon as the only essential requisite
to place the steam coal trade in a more satisfactory
position than it has occupied for the last two
months. Orders from the Continental markets
are about the average, but from some of the
Mediterranean and Turkish ports there is a slight

increase in the demand. The favourable change in

the weather will, it is expected, have an equally
a favourable effect on the house coal trade, the late
gales having prevented the arrival of coasting ves-
sels bound to this port. Tho iron trade is unques-
tionably in a more healthy state than it was at this
time twelve months, as the hands engaged at the

leading iron-making establishments are now work-
ing full average time. Tin plates command a fair
sale, and the prices determined upon at the quar-
terly meeting are being, as a rule, obtained.
LEICESTER, 22d.—The absolute amount of busi-
ness doing is not large, but a more cheerful feeling
pervades the whole of the trade in this locality.
There have been very few sales effected in wools,
owing to spinners holding a fair stock, and buying
simply to meet present requirements. Rather more
has been done with the growers, but the prices asked
are mostly higher than the dealers can at present
afford to leave any profit. Prices continue firm.
A moderate demand prevails for worsted yarns.
The inquiry for worsted yarns is still of a retail
character, although a slight improvement is notice-
able. The extreme mildness of the season operates
to a great extent against this branch of manufac-
ture, preventing the usual demand from the re-
tailers, many of whom have large stocks. A
good and steady trade is maintained for cotton
hosiery, while at Hinckley manufacturers are very
busily engaged, particularly in the circular branches,
and orders continue to be placed at moderately
advanced rates. The elastic web houses are but
indifferently employed, the orders to hand being of
a meagre description, and, as a consequence, in
many cases short time has to be resorted to. Al-
though a few orders have come to hand, there is
not much doing in the boot and shoe trades, and
as the leather market is still firm, manufacturers
are very indisposed to effect sales at old prices.
The difference is chiefly felt on heavy goods, on
which a considerable advance will shortly be made.

SHIPWRECKS.—On Thursday morning, during a
thick fog, the screw steamer Scotia, from Glasgow, while
making for the port at Tynemouth, ran ashore at Castle
Point. The spot is very rocky, and, owing to the fog
land was not sighted until the ship struck. There was a
dead calm at the time, but the sea rose soon afterwards,
and the vessel soon filled with water. The cargo, con-
sisting of spirits, ale, iron, &c., was got off in lighters ; it
is expected that the ship will become a total wreck. On
the night of the 18th instant, the Lord Coke, laden with
firebricks, struck on the Sizewall Bank, which the captain
had mistaken for Orfordness. The sea was running very
high ; and in less than five minutes there were seven feet
of water in her hold. The crew, with the captain, Mr.
N. Muttitt, took to their boats, and were subsequently
rescued by the Soutliwold lifeboat, having saved nothing
but the clothes they stood in.
THE POACHING AFFRAY NEAR SWANSEA.—The
inquiry into the charge against the three brothers, David,
William, and Joshua Samuel, and the man Jones, for
committing a murderous outrage on the keepers in the
employ of Mr. T. D. Llewellyn on the Penllergara estate,
near Swansea, proceeds but slowly, owing to the number
of witnesses to be examined. On Thursday the prisoners
were again brought before the magistrates at Swansea,
Mr. Clifton, of Bristol, appearing for the brothers Samuel,
and Mr. Price for Jones. The whole of the day was
occupied in the cross-examination of Rees and Hughes,
two of the injured keepers, and the examination in chief
of Superintendent Matthews, who deposed to the appre-
hension of the several prisoners, not one of whom said
a single word that would in any way criminate himself.
The hearing of the case was further adjourned.