The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-27 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Oct. 26.—A telegram from New
York received in Liverpool this morning reporting
" a killing frost" has not bad much effect here, nor
apparently at Liverpool, though early accounts of
the cotton market indicate a heavy speculative
movement. In shipping yarns our market has
been rather better to-day, and some little business
has been done at a slight advance on what could
have been obtained at the depressed state of prices
yesterday. We have certainly less depression at
the close than we have had for same days past. The
market for home-trade yarns has been very quiet
for all numbers. In these, the firm feeling at Liver-
pool does not seem to have caused more business,
though it may have been a check to the downward
tendency of prices to some extent. In cloth the mar-
ket was quiet from Tuesday, and the subdued tone
of the cotton-market yesterday further depressed
prices. To-day, under the influence of a better feel-
ing at Liverpool, we have had a little more disposition
to do business. There has been a fair inquiry for
India shirtings, and some offers have been made,
but at rates too low to lead to business. Manufac-
turers fail to get up their prices to the rates of yarn
—say, to within 6d. per piece. The short-time move-
ment is progressin2; among manufacturers, so as to
promise a large decrease in production. Spinners
are following the same course. In the district of
Lees and Mossley alone it is expected a million
spindles will be on short time next week. Messrs.
J. render and Co.'s monthly circular of yesterday
from India and China, via Marseilles, says : " Our
last circular was dated the 9th inst., when this
market was generally pretty firm, but not active, nor
at all in correspondence with the movement in
Liverpool. Throughout the whole fortnight since
we may say that business has been on the most
limited scale, and this state of things continues,
with somewhat lower prices, and these, of necessity,
to a large extent nominal." The same circular
quotes China shirtings in very light demand—
standard makes quoted, 39in, 71b, lls 9d to 12s ;
841 b, 14s 3d to 14s 91; T-cloths in rather better
demand, but chiefly for nearer markets at is 5d to
is sid per lb ; medium Mexicans, is 7d, and best
makes is 91. India shirtings, 39in, 511 b, 8s 9d
to 9s 3d ; 61b, lOs to 103 3d ; 71b, lls 3d to 12s ;
wide shirtings, is 8d to is 9d per lb. T-cloths,
29in, 41b, 5s 9d to Gs lid; 32in, 51b, 7s 3d to 7s 9d;
61b, 8s 3d to 9s ; 71b, lOs to lOs Gd. Long-cloths,
Is Sid to is 6d per lb. Grey Madapollams, 32in,
31b, 5s lid to 5s 3d ; 50in, 511 b, 9s to 9s
3.1. Green-end mulls, sales at 6s Gd to Gs 4ld.
Yarns rose about ld. per lb. between the 9th and
16th inst., but the , advance not being generally fol-
lowed by buyers, was'soon lost. At present there
is considerable depression, and short-time working
having been resorted to. by a few large spinners is
on the increase.

Smo .ing in a Railway Clrriage.

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Yesterday Mr. Lewis Lovinsky, 1, Portland-cottages,
Forest-hill, who described himself as a colour and bronze
merchant, appeared before Mr. Elliott at the Lambeth police
court to answer a summons charging him with assaulting
sir. Thomas Adams, of Grove-villas, Forest-hill, and 5,
Duke-street, Adelphi, merchant, in a railway carriage. A
cross summons had also been taken out by Mr. Lovinsky
against Sir. Adams for an alleged offence on him by that
gentleman. Mr. Lewis, jun., of Ely-place, attended on
behalf of the defendant, and during the hearing of the case
the court was much crowded by the friends of both parties.
'rho investigation occupied the magistrate for nearly an
hour, and the evidence was taken at great length, but the
brief facts were those. On the morning of the 12th inst.,
the defendant and several of his friends travelled by a third
class train front Forest-hill to Laudon-bridge, and lin:tie-
diately after entering the carriage commenced smoking.
Ur. John Baddely, an elderlygentlernan, and solicitor, com-
plained of the excess of smoking, when the defendant, Mr.
Lovinsky, said he hal the privilege of the directors of the
company (the Loudon, Brighton, and South Coast Railway)
in his pocket, and that nothing but an order from the chair-
man should prevent his doing so. Mr. Bad (clay replied that
his only privilege was his assumption, for that smoking
was contrary to the rules and regulations of the line, but
the defendant and his frion 14 still coutinued to smoke.
At this point Mr. Adams, who was also a passenger in the
same compartment, interfered, and said it was a great
hamo that the sal ilring sh null be contiau ,d to the at),
aoyance of the geatlem tn who had just complained, when
Ar. Lovinsky exelaian 1, ° Oh, does it annoy you too ?"
Mr. Adams replied " Yes, and there is none bal., a
foreigner would attempt to do it." Me. Lovinsky re-
torted by saying that a foreigaer vas (pito as good
as a " Seotehman."
,Mr. Adams said he should
have him put out of the carriage at New-cross. The
defendant asked him if he could turn him out, and
getting up and leaning quite close to him, said it would
take half-a-dozen like• him to do so. At this time his
hands and face were quite close to his person, so close that
Mr. Adams was obliged to put his hands to his chest to
Push him away, and instantly defendant let fly, hit com-
plainant a desperate blow on the nose, which knocked the
skin off, and gwe Mr. Adams a black eye. Mr. Adams
threw off his hat, and had partly got his coat off to fight it
out in the carriage, but the parties present prevented any
more blows.- Mr. Adams expressed his determination to
give Mr. Lovinsky into custody at London-bridge station.
On the train reaching there, and before it hadquite stopped,
the defendant jumped out and ran away, and on the com-
plainant's attempting to follow him the friends of the de-
fendant prevented his doing so for some time. His cries
of "stop him—stop that man," caused ono of the railway.
servants to follow him from one railway station to the
other, where he stopped, and he brought him back to the
station master. The parties want from there to the police
station, but there the inspector on duty refused to take the
charge, and getting the names and addresses of each left
them to adopt what course they thought proper. On the
case for the complainant closing, Mr. Lewis addressed the
magistrate, and said that the whole affair was very much
to be regretted; admitted that his client had, under strong
provocation, and having himself been assaulted first, struck
the complainant; and suggested whether it would not be
much better for the parties to settle the matter without
calling on his worship for his judgment. Mr. Elliott, how-
ever, directed the case to go on, and the parties changed
places. Mr. Lovinsky, when sworn, said Mr. Adams had
given him a violent blow with his clenched fist before he
struck him. He also said that his object in getting out so
quickly at the London-bridge station was to procure the
assistance of a metropolitan policeman to give Mr. Adams
into custody for the assault, but hearing the cry of "stop
thief," ho was glad to hide himself so that he might not be
seen. In reply to the questions of his solicitor, he said
that his reason for saying chat he had the privilege of the
directors for smoking arose from the fact of the chairman
of the Brighton company having stated in his speech at a
recent meeting, that the second and third class carriage
passengers were privileged to smoke, and that ho (the wit-
ness) had read the speech. He (Mr. Lovinsky) further said
that himself and his friends travelled by the third class
carriages on purpost that they might smoke. Mr. Elliott
here remarked that he could not sae why the passengers in
a second or third class carriage were to be annoyed by
smokers any more than the first, and called Mr. Carpenter,
a respectable officer of the company, who said that, by the
rules of the company, no such privileges wore allowed to
the second or third class carriages any more than the first.
Four or five witnesses were called on the part of the com-
plainant in the second case, and all except one swore that
Mr. Adams gave Mr. Lovinsky a violent blow on the chest
before the latter retorted, by a violent blow on the eye and
nose. Mr. Elliott said that in all cases in railway car-
riages lie held that they should bo subjected to a search-
ing investigation, with the view of ascertaining the real
offenders, and therefore it was that he felt it necessary to
go into the present investigation at great length. He much
regretted to see on the part of the apparently respectable
witnesses called on behalf of the last complainant a dis-
position to exaggerate that which really took place, and
magnify a mere push into a violent blow on the chest with
the clenched fist, and a cry of " Stop him" into one of
" Stop thief." In fact, it was not at all difficult to say on
which side the truth lay, and that the conduct of Mr.
Lovinsky was highly improper in committing so violent
an assault, and for which assault he must pay a penalty of
£5, or be imprisoned for a mouth. The penalty was at
once paid.

The Pall Mall Gazette remarks :—" According to
the New rok: Times, a paper called the Sunbeam has just
been started by the convicts in the State prison at Trenton,
New Jers.y. In the absence of communication with the
outer world, we presume the convicts fill their paper en-
tirely with original articles and poems. Does the estab-
lishment of a paper by convicts in America prove that the
intellectual condition of the people generally is superior to
the English, or that more clever people get into prison ou
the othe?'side of the Atlantic than in this country ?

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