The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-31 00:00:00

STATE OP TRADE.

MANarEsTER, Aug. 30.—There is very little
doing in either yarn or cloth, and the market still
wears a very depressed tone. Not only is the de-
pression still severely felt in shipping yarns, which
had declined id. to id. per lb. on Tuesday, but
there is next to nothing doing for the markets of
India and Germany. The price of yarns for these
markets is again rather lower, but what stops busi-
ness is not a question of price, but an absence of
demand. Yarns for China have been an exception,
and buyers of these have operated pretty freely at the
full rates of the day. For home-trade yarns the market
is depressed, and they are almost unsaleable. The
demand for yarns suitable to Glasgow is equally
flat. Prices are tending downward for most de-
scriptions of cops, and we have now had 10 to 12
days of steady decline. In cloth the same weaken-
ing tone which has prevailed for some time still
continues, and is attended by much irregularity in
prices. Buyers continue to make reductions in the
rates they offer, and will only give these where
the goods are in stock or can be quickly
supplied. These low rates have met with
acceptance in some instances where goods are on
hand, but manufacturers find it impossible to
put down orders to contract except under the feel-
ing that th©y have only the alternative of doing this,
stopping their looms, or making to stock. There
is an opinion expressed in some quarters that the
market has now reached its lowest point, but few
seem to have practical faith enough in it to hold
goods where an opportunity of selling presents it-
self. We close without much business for any foreign
markets, and long cloths, T- cloths, domestics, and
counterpanes for the home trade are but in moderate
demand, partaking of the same tendency to weakness
which affects other fabrics.

LEIcEsTEn, 30th.—There has been less activity in
hosiery than during the past few weeks, the improve-
ment that was anticipated Laving given place to a
somewhat dull feeling, although a few orders are
still being placed. The factors seem to have sup-
plied their immediate requirements, to have on hand
small stocks, and to show no disposition to purchase
largely until they know the wants of the shop-
keepers, who complain on all hands of an in-
significant trade. Wools are unchanged. Prices
are steady, and no one seems inclined to
sell or buy. The better class of wools are the
only qualities that meet with any sale, and of these
but little is leaving the staplers. Plain worsted
yarns are as before quoted, and manufacturers are
mostly engaged in completing orders. Lambswool
goods are flat, at stationary rates. Fancy yarns
and hosiery are a moderate inquiry ; cotton yarns
are slightly lower. The uncertainty in the price
of cotton causes the cotton hosiery trade of Hinck-
ley to remain very depressed. In the elastic
webbing trade only partial einploythent is given ;
but the boot and shoe trade is more favourable.

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week.

1111 es Opened. Receipts.
Railways. ~.._.........._..„,-............_

1867.

1866.

1867 1866
2,550 2,136
733 733
3,091 2,961
1,417 1,425
8,523 2,8 8
30 2'B 35,260
3,112 2,815
521 601
137 4 1

Belfast and N. Counties 9JI
Belfast and County Down l9}
Blyth and Tyne . 36
Brecon and Merthyr 73
Bristol and Exeter l3l}
Caledonian, Scottish Central s7s}
Cambrian

Cockermouth K & renrith .. 211
Cork and Bandon 2O
Cork, illackrock, & Passage 6l
Cork and Limerick Direct
Cornwall 651
Deeside
Do Extension
Dublin ..lz ticliast 3 uneihni.... 0
Duldie and Drogheda 75
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wexid lO7
Forth and Clyde Junction
Furness, dm B5
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrik.,&E.Uniou , .7091
Great Northern 44;
Great North of Scotland 275
Gt. N ertlin. & Westu.(irel.) B3l
lt.Soutlin. & Westn.(lrind.), tin
Great Weßtern l3li
Highland ... 215
iloylke
Irish North-Western ll5
Isle of Wi,lit
Lancashire t Yorkshire 4:3
Limerick and Ennis..... 241
Limerick and Foynes 261
Llanclly .. 4GI
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western
London & South- NV eatern
Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast 335
London, Chatham, & Dover ; 1 1 6
all 3letiopolitan E xte us io ii .4 131
D,. Kent toast .......
.
1, ,u., 'Tilbury, & Southend
Londonderry and Coleraine 351
Itan.,Shetlield,&Lincolnah
Ranch. S.J un.&Altriucham i
Itaryport And Carlisle
_ AI

1211
564
I %O
31i

2,2 4t2
2,2 3 2,207

1,6k7 1.5:)
2,071. 2,U7
3 2 :!,13
3,5.6 3,57 i
417 3'JB

704
41Z
ris
63i

419 i
1292
216

F,03 5.3 U
12,518 11,412
3,. 04 So,qlo
42:,35 39,t87
4,281 4,1 'it

3),
12911
.1)0C1
293 k
135
121

Stetiipolitan
ilidland (incl. N.-NVest ern). , 895
llidland Gt. Westn. of land 2601
?donmoutlisli. Ball. & Canal 4l
North British, Edin., rertll
and Dundee ..... ..
N-Eastern and Stock. sell arl 122tf
North London ' It
North Statfordshire 268
Pembroke and Tcuby 27
ittayinney 221
Scottish North-Eastern ll3
Somerset and Dorset 65
South Devon ' 'lll
South-Eastern S3O
Sivarsea VAC ..

ZrLi Yale 63!
Do., renarth 2

- -
,
104
Ulster
Vale of Ctvryd.
Waterturd sod Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and lAuxerick 77
West Cork. . 17/
~ rexhsm 2401 d, &,3 ...... .. 11
15"tuvrea,Cleator4, Egt mut lO
ronkadn AND COLONIAL.
Austrian
••• 823
Bahia and San Francisco
Belgian Eastern Junction
Bombay, Baroda,& cm India 306
Detroit and Milwaukie IS9
Dutch Rhenish
Esstwrn ot k'rance 1590
E.t.a tern Bengal
.•• llO
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada 1377
Great Centrat of Belgium 265
Great Indian Peninsula 852
Great Luxembourg 172
Great Southern of India ...• 127
great Western of Canada 319
Madras...... .... 645
Madrid. Saragossa &Alicant 6,. 3
Northern of C,inada .....••• •• 97
Northern of Prance B7O
Norwegian Trunk
Ottorne.a . - tiol
Paris, Lyons, & 31editeratean 2160
Paris and Orleans.
Recife and San Francisco. 77j
So nde .
Sinyrna,and Cassaba
Southern of Prance ION
Victoria 2-4
IVelland
Weil t audit -IVc L t. or Iraucte -1201

33t
Zi6

4f
311 k
26U1

732
12,7
11
267
111
221
133

1 111
819

828
701
20i
306
189
1081
1.86

110
1129
1,177
2:i5
791 i
112
79

63i 6'l
12,553 1 ,0311
80, .43 SI, t 7
t• 5 1(19
1, 4'S 1,89 t

396
61,310 5:45,2

11t 135
1,0 ,0 700

rlO 638
136, 6t 133,G0.1
30 333 20,27 s
2',333 28,1±,:1
17,0,4 11.x21
3,221 3,L31

2,4C7

6 2 482
12 21,w1
1,62 i e,630
1,64 1,527
4076 3,8.4
~736 b 5. (5
6,611 4.;7i
3,6.17 2,5 t 5

31,304 20,034
se,' 9 i 78,039
6,601 5,(): 6
8.206 8.539
492 176
1,183 1, 33
1,31► 1,3 9
5,591 fool
34,08 29.1!3

'4lO
6,718
2,913
334

417
6,179
t,77
2 610
21N

40)
1.611

53)
4175

55.008 2 %IS' 1
3i5 4H
3-3) 3.3
3. • l 4) 5,73
6 6is 5,8 S
7,836 0,571
03,761 82,554

2,30 J 1,70
3.,(514 16,
25,034 25,703
1 !,W5 8,3: 4
20,7:5 2.6:5
6,8 6 6,3( 5
JAG t 62

12,8:i 10.0 st
9,7.8 7,401

20,146 17,0 -19
5.:351 1,0!5

788 15:14 6 ,Via
44 1,-166 1,393
801 1,413 tO3
2006 174,340 155,475
1854 9 ,6v4 76,45:
774 837 1, O.:
IC9 1,020 1,82)
61 1.426 7 6
978 36,0 6 32. x.Ol
:51 9,702 9,55'

25
1150

.150 .702
80.370 0,041