The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-10 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCIIESTER, Nov. 9. In shipping yarns we have had
a fair amount of business, but rather lower prices have had
to be taken than could have been obtained yesterday. In
fact, the market has been declining ever since Tuesday.
Some large offers have been made and for considerable
quantities, but at rates too low for acceptance. Sellers
seem under the impression that the market has about
reached the lowest point for some time, but buyers are
very cautious. In home trade yarns things axe much the
same. Manufacturers who buy these yarns are generally
very cautious about their purchases. The prices of Tues-
day are generally asked, but in some cases a concession
has been submitted to in order to effect business. The
transactions have only been of moderate extent. The
cloth market has gradually declined in price since Tues-
day, and things have gradually become more and more
gloomy. Where purchases are made considerable conces-
sions in price havohad to be accepted. The reported failure
of Dent and Co. has helped to intensify the gloom in this
market, yet we hear of nobody being individually affected
hero to any serious extent. The great merchants' ware-
houses horn are now mostly great bazaars. Tho traveller
buyer goes into them as he would formerly into a town,
and can buy silk, cotton, woollen, linen, and-almost every
description of goods ; and the result is that some of the
commercial catastrophes that might overwhelm a simple
manufacturerare not felt so seriously by them. The capital
is diffused over a greater breadth than formerly, and the
failure of houses embracing one or two descriptions of
goods affects them less. The failure in question has never-
theless had a depressing effect, and we have had a very flat
market, with depressed prices. India and China goods have
been difficult of sale, but still there has been a business of
moderate extent in other goods, out of the track of staple
goods or those which aro ordinarily in most demand.
NOTTINGHAM, 9th.—At our Exchange-hall to-day the
attendance was moderate. There was a limited demand
for lace yarns, and prices were the same as last week. For
hosiery yarns, the demand is hardly so good, but recent
rates may be quoted. Silks unaltered, but there was nothing
doing. The inquiry for brown nets was slow, at about re-
cent prices.

The publication of the new volume of Bancroft's
History oflithe United States, so long expected, and re-
cently announced for October 1, has been deferred by the
publishers, Messrs. Little, Browne, and Co., until the 10th
inst.

COSTLY BOOK.--Messrs. Virtue and Yorston
publishers, of No. Dey-street, announce an illustrated
work, in two volumes, edited by Mr. S. C. Hall, the well-
known English art-critic. Price $750 a copy. Only 150
copies of the work aro to Do issued.

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HER MAJESTY, &c•

WINDSOR CASTLE, Friday.

The Queen drove in the Home Park yesterday
afternoon, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses
Princess Louise and Prince Leopold.
ller Majesty, with Princess Louise, attended by
Viscountess Jocelyn, drove in the grounds of the
Castle this morning.

Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess
Christian also went out driving.

To-day is the birthday of hi: Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales.

Prince Arthur having now reached his lGth year,
her Majesty has determined that he shall enter the
Royal Military Academy at Woolwich as a gentle-
man cadet.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Headfort have
arrived at the St. George's Hotel.
Viscount Falkland has left the St. George's Hotel.

The Earl and Countess Spencer left Spencer
House, St. James's, yesterday, for Althorp Hall,
Northamptonshire.
The marriage of Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bart.,
M.P., with Miss Harriett Moncreiffe will take place
on the 6th of December.

Sir Robert Gerard has left the Clarendon Hotel
for Garswood, Lancashire.
Sir Charles Anderson, Lady, and Miss Anderson
have arrived at the South Kensington Hotel,
Queens ate-terrace, from Stinchcombe, Dursley.

We have to announce the death of Georgiana
Elizabeth, widow of Sir llenry Peyton, fourth
baronet, who died on the 6th inst. at Swift House,
Oxfordshire. Her ladyship was third daughter of
Sir Christopher B. Coddrington, of Dodington Park,
Gloucestershire, and married April 11, 1828, the late
Sir Henry Peyton, father of the present baronet,
Sir Algernon Peyton.