The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-13 00:00:00

STA rE OF T BADE.

MANCHESTER, July 12.—The report of Tuesday's
market was that prices had given way on yarns to
the 'extent of fully id. per lb. since the previous
Tuesday, and we have now to say that the depres-
sion of the market during the last three days has
caused a further decline on home trade yarns
of about another halfpenny. The decline on
shipping yarns is nearly to the same extent. Sellers
are unwilling to give way, but it Oat s be found to..
day that lower prices must be . accepted to make
sales. Even at; the decline, business is on a limited
scale.,... The. "cloth market', is quite as inactive
as it Was on Monday -_and Tuesday, and the
actual transactions have hardly been sufficient to-
day to afford a test of values... On Tuesday
.the de-
cline was estimated -at 3d. to 6d. per *piece on the
shirtings, and lid. on jaconets and light goods for
India, within the previous week. Since Tuesday
prices have given way to about the same extent as
on yarns, but the market is very irregular. There
are, for instance, many contracts running in mulls
and jaconets, and these light fabrics are not so much
affected as some other kinds. Taking another extreme
the decline on the best class of goods, such as wide
shirtings and figured goods, are is. to is 6d per piece
lower during the last fortnight. For other goods
generally the decline bears much the same propor-
tion as that on yarn. The makers of 511 b to 811 b
shirtings, printers, and other fabrics are still mostly
running their machinery full time, and many of them
having exhausted or nearly exhausted their contracts,
and being unwilling to accumulate stock, arc dis-
posed to meet the demand at any reasonable decline
consistent with the lower price of cotton. Buyers,
however, are not in the market with any orders
which are pressing, and their offers are in many
cases too low to lead to business. The business of
the day, in yarns as well as cloths, has been on a
very limited scale.

LEICESTER, 12th.—There is not much doing in
wools among the staplers ; the supply is heavy, and
Yorkshire houses seem indisposed to buy so long as
the country fairs show prices to have a lower ten-
dency. What transactions have taken place have
been very restricted, at late or hat dened prices for
first-class qualities. In the worsted yarn spinning
department there is a fair general trade, but scarcely
equal to the average of former years. Prices con-
tinue firm. Fancy hosiery yarns are again de-
pressed, the improvement noticed during the past
few weeks having fallen off. Dealers are somewhat
dispirited at bad debts being too much the order
of the day, which shakes confidence throughout
the country. The demand for lambswool goods
is also somewhat flatter, the push which followed
the wool fair having subsided. Warehouses con-
tinue to hold off purchasing, althOgh from the
advanced season it was generally thought they
would have tried to buy lower. Shipping orders
are very scarce, first-class goods only being required
for America, where they can produce lower and
medium qualities by their own machinery. The
worsted hosiery autumn trade remains active, and
notwithstanding that the few weeks have shown a
marked improvement, the orders are not of a very
numerous or cheerful character for this period, and
manufacturers are only making for immediate
wants. The cotton hosiery trade is steady, and at
Hinckley an increased amount of business is being
done. The boot and shoe trade is very active.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(Front the Illustrated London News.)

The will of Sir Thomas Phillips, Knight, Q.C.,
late of 77, Gloucester-place, Portman-square ;
Llanellan House, Abergavenny ; and of the Inner
Temple, was proved in the London Court on the
4th instant, by the executors and trustees—William
Page Thomas Phillips, Esq., barrister-at law; his
nephew ; the Rev. William Price, testator's brother-
in-law ; and Thomas Phillips Price, testator's
nephew. The personalty was sworn under £60,000.
Sir Thomas was a Deputy-Lieutenant for the
county of Monmouth, and was mayor of Newport
during the Chartist riots of 1839, and knighted for
his services in suppressing the outbreak. Sir
Thomas was chairman of the Society of Arts, and
died at his residence, Gloucester-place, May 26, at
the age of sixty-five, having executed his will May
30, 1862, wirh two codicils, December, 1864, and
January, 1866. Sir Thomas bequeaths to his
nephew, William P. T. Phillips, his freehold
estates and leaves him the plate presented to him
(the testator) for services rendered in support of
law and constituted authority during the Chartist
disturbances at Newport ; the rest of the plate he
leaves to his sister, Mary Price, and also an annuity
of £2OO. All the plate that are presentations he
desires may remain in the family of his nephews
and nieces as mementos. His books he divides be-
tween his nephews, William P. T. Phillips and
Thomas Phillips Price. To his nieces Elizabeth and
Mary Price, he leaves each a legacy of £6,000. He
leaves his interest in the coal mines in the Forest
of Dean, Manhole, and Torch Amman between his
nephews, William P. T. Phillips and Thomas
Phillips Price, and his two nieces, Elizabeth and
Mary Price. The residue of his property he
leaves to his nephew Thomas Phillips Price.
He bequeaths £350, the dividends to be
paid to ten poor persons of the borough of
Newport ; £350, the dividends applied to repair- '
ing the school erected by him at Llanellen, the sur-
plus to be added to the teacher's stipend ; and £7OO,
the dividends in like manner for a school by him at
Courty Bella.

The will of Richard Curteis Pomfret, Esq., of
Rye, Sussex, was proved in London, on the 24th
ult., by Virgil Pomfret, Esq., the brother and exe-
cutor. The personalty was sworn under £300,000.
The will is dated Oct. 11, 1862, and the testator
died May 6, 1867, at the age of 70. He bequeaths
to his wife, in addition to any provision under set-
tlement, an immediate legacy of £4,000, an an-
nuity of £2OO and the furniture absolutely. To
each of his six nephews and nieces, children of his
late sister, Mary Durra, he leaves a legacy of
£lO,OOO. After making a few other bequests, he
leaves the residue of his personalty and the whole
of his freehold estate to his brother and executor,
Virgil rondret, absolutely.