The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-27 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, April 26.--The market for export
yarns assumed an appearance of greater animation
yesterday, and to-day there has been a still further
improvement, owing to the change which has come
over the Liverpool cotton-market. There has been
a large business doing for shipment to-day at an ad-
vance of id. to ld. per lb. for these yarns generally
as compared with the lowest prices taken during the
recent panic, and prices closed strong, with an up-
ward tendency. The Germans, who have been out
of the market for some time, are expressing them-
selves somewhat sanguinely here to-day as to hopes
of peace, and there is an expectation that they will
be rather free buyers for some time to come, stocks
of yarn on the Continent having become very bare.
In home trade yarns we have had a quieter feeling
than in that for bundles, but a fair business has been
done at an advance of about id. per lb., but any
attempt to advance prices in excess of id. has been
found to arrest operations. The change, however,
has produced a good deal better feeling in the mar-
ket generally. The cloth market of course partici-
pates, to some extent, in the improvement. Buyers
that have been holding back their orders have now
been anxious to place them at a trifling advance on
the rates of Tuesday, and have in most cases bee,n
willing to give about 3d. per piece more than on that
day. The advance, however, appears to check busi-
ness, and it is believed that the operations have been
far from considerable in the aggregate. In cloth
there was a very large business done at the low
prices prevailing up to yesterday, and those who
had the sagacity to supply themselves then of course
are the less disposed to operate now the market
is against them. The cause of the sudden
rise of prices was a large business iu cotton at Liver-
pool yesterday and to-day-20,000 yesterday and
30,000 bales to-day, at an advance of nearly id. per
lb. Buybrs of manufactured goods see no cause for
this reaction. There is no improvement iu the de-
mand for goods, and nothing either in politics or our
foreign relations to account for the change. The
quantity of cotton is so great as to place the future
wants of the trade beyond a doubt of supply. It is
believed the change in Liverpool is caused simply by
speculation, which has brought buyers suddenly into
the market to cover sales made last week.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT CLIFTON SUSPENSION-
BRIDGE.—On Thursday evening, shortly after six
o'clock, a lad named Wm. Miles, 13 years of age, who is
engaged as a ticket-collector on the Clifton side of the
Suspension-bridge, which spans the Avon and connects
the counties of Glocester and Somerset, left his post and
got on to the parapet at the side of the bridge for the pur-
pose of gathering some of the wild flowers which abound
in that locality. While so engaged ho slipped and fell over
the steep declivity of St. Vincent's rocks. His fall was im-
peded by the ivy, but whoa rescued and conveyed to the
General Hospital it was found that he had sustained a
compound fracture of the skull, besides other serious in-
juries. On icquiry at -the hospital last evening it was
stated that the boy was still alive, but that he was in a
very precarious state.