The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-24 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

23.—We have again to report
a v
tisfdctory market in ship-
pingAelrAy NCIIE
irregularSTE R ,
and Aug.
un sa
I sea
yarns to-day. There is an absence of business
for all markets, and to effect sales spinners and
agents would have to make a concession of id. per
The market has
the
lbbe.e
non i
at
ah
cet
irates
and of
delTz. t s
a Fe d
the Liverpool cotton market continued sellers of
yarns succeeded in naintainiug their rates with
Friday, .
week. So long as
difficulty, but the decline in the raw material seems
to have precipitated tie fall of prices, and they have
given way in unexpected rapidity. In home trade
yarns we have also had a very flat market to-day at
id. per pound decline, and there is nearly a total
absence of business. The cloth market has been
extraordinarily dullsince Tuesday, and not only has
business been inactive, but prices have shown fur-
ther weakness. Buyers have been very cautious and
restricted in their operations, especially for goods
suited to the markets of India. To-day we
have a market quite as dull and inactive as any
we have had during the week. To sonic ex-
tent, perhaps, the cloth market is a little firmer
than for yarn. Manufacturers have made no
change in their selling quotations since Tues-
day, and though with Borne of them easier
terms might be made under special circumstances,
and for large quantities they arc unwilling to make
an alteration so considerable as that quoted in yarn.
The disapperzance from Manchester of two Levan-
tine Jews, who have been operating here as D.
Rodetti and Co., and L. Galipoliti and Co. has
precipitated some unpleasant disclosures. These
parties had purchased goods in Manchester, Brad-
ford, Leeds, Halifax, and Nottingham in cotton
cloth, linen, woollen, and lace to large amounts, and
are supposed to have left debts owing to the amount
of something like ,£39,000 in these various centres
of manufacturing industry. From two houses in
the cotton trade here they obtained goods to th e
amount of £5,000 each. One of them, manufac-
turers and commission agents, requested the parties
to show that they had means before they trusted
them, and by way of meeting the request t hey pro-
fessed to telegraph to Paris, producing soon of ter
what purported to be a telegram from a highly re-
spectable banking house in Paris,w hich vouched for
their high respectability, and said they were autho-
rised to make purchases on behalf of the French
Government. They have obtained goods, it is said,
in Manchester alone to the. amount of £30,000 or
£40,000. The letters and statements by which they,
obtained credit are reported to have
been exceed-
ingly plausible.
LEICESTER, 23d.—The bright and cheerful wea-
ther of the past week has tended to improve one or
two departments of the staple trade, and with the
prospect of a successful ingathering of the harvest,
manufacturers are hopeful of a still better fall busi-
ness. The trade done now is steady—the orders,
although not being:of such large character as in for-
mer years, making up a fair whole; but some houses
complain of a scarcity of orders. The fancy yarn trade
continues dull, and yarns arc unchanged. In conse-
quence of the late successive falls in the price of the
raw material, the demand for cotton goods is very
inanimate. There is rather more doing in worsted
winter goods than for the past few weeks, brought
about by the fine weather giving greater confidence.
The ebtstic webbing trade is not of such au en-
couraging character, orders coating in slowly, which
compels manufacturers to resort to short time for
the present. The autumn boot and shoe trade is
nearly over, and this branch is expected to be slack
for a little time. Materials are still increasing
in price.

rrim THUNDERSTORM INSCOTLAND.—Thethunder-
storm which burst with such violence over Edinburgh on
Tuesday extended over a remarkably wide area. As re-
gards Scotland our correspondence shows that thunder and
lightning, along with very heavy rain, pievailed very ex-
tensively. Though the catalogue of accidents is pretty
long, there is a singular absence of the usual serious ac-
companiments of a great thunderstorm, and the damage
to the crop to be deplq-ed,—
s almwt the only thing
Sot:man.

LA TEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

MONTENEGRO.

VIENNA, Aug. 24.

Advices received here from Cettigno announce
the discovery of a conspiracy, having for object the
overthrow of the Prince of Montenegro and the
union of the Principality with Servia.

THE IMPERIAL MEETING.

VIENNA, Aug. 21.

The 'Yew Free Press of to-day states that the
Emperor Napoleon has offered his good offices to
Austria as regards recommending the Papal
Government to consent to the proposed revision of
the Concordat.

i‘itiNICIT, Aug. 24.

The Emperor Napoleon, on passing through this
city yesterday, raised the Bavarian General Ho-
henbausen, Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, to
the rank of officer of the order, remarking at the
same time that the Bavarian army had always
fought valiantly.