The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-09 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, May B.—Advices from the United
States to the effect that the price of cotton had
given way there, the further advance of discounts
by the Bank, and the continued apprehension of
war, have all combined this week in causing further
, dulness and depression in this market. They have
all but led to a suspension of business. Sellers of
shipping yarns report the market worse than
it has ever yet been, so that it is quite im-
possible to make sales at anything like. reason-
' able prices. The market in this branch closes very
depressed, and lower prices are quite the order of
the day. In home-trade yarns the market has also
been very depressed, and things are reported to be
worse since the telegram announcing that the bank-
rate had been raised to 8 per cent. than they were
before. In some quarters manufacturers are reported
to have bought at an advantage of id to per lb.
as compared with last Friday ; but even at this
reduction they are only purchasing to cover the more
pressing wants of the day or week, and appear to
have no confidence in prices recovering, or, in fact,
of seeing them so high again. For cloth there is
no market to-day.
T
want of confidence
everywhere
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naggeneral
agents and buying
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offers Pricesices
haveare veryb eebeen
low and
almost nominal.,
manufacturers showing
more
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atkhee
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but buyers are cautious
and are showing great
As compared with this time
reticence generally.
last month, sellers' prices have been lowered 2s. ld.
to 2s. 4d. per piece in madapollams, 2s. 6d. to 4s.
per piece in printers, ls. 9d. to 3s. and 4s. per piece
in 39-inch shirtings, 2s. 6d. to 38. 6d. in 45-inch
shirtings, 9d. to 12d. in jaconnets, 2s. 3d. to 2s. 6d.
in T.-cloths, and 3s. 9d. to 4s. in longcloths ; but
even at these low rates such quotations are in many
cases only nominal. Messrs. John Slagg and Co.
report of the cloth-market this day :

" We consider our market much weaker since last
Tuesday. Prices have daily declined, and there is
now more anxiety on the part of manufacturers to
sell. The raising of the Bank-rate and rumours of
war have, doubtless, contributed to this result."
LEEDS, Bth.--The cloth-hall markets to-day have
again been of a quiet order. There was only a
small attendance of sellers as well as buyers, and
while the latter purchase cautiously, and no great
bulk of any particular description of goods, the
former are not bringing very liberal supplies to
market. A fair quantity of cloth, however, is de-
livered direct from the manufacturers to the mer-
chants, and the general condition of the trade is sa-
tisfactory, the only contrary circumstance being a
little gloom from the unpleasant aspect of affairs on
the continent. Canadian buyers are beginning to
make their appearance, but not much business has
yet been done with them for the 4, fall" trade, for
which, however, there is reason to believe there
will be a good demand, our North American colo-
nies being prosperous, and English cloths being also
wanted in the United States, to which they find
their way through Canada. The country clothiers
report that they are tolerably well employed on
orders, and the large manufacturers are as well em-
ployed as we have lately had to notice. There is a
reduction in the price of cotton yarns, which has a
tendency to slightly lower the price of -union goods,
in which some export houses are doing a good busi-
ness for the continent. •

NOTTINGHAM, Bth.—There was a moderate at-
tendance at our Ex3hange-hall to-day. There was a
limited demand for lace yarns, and where business
was pressed prices were in favour of the buyer.
The demand for hosiery yarns continues dull, prices
tending downwards. The inquiry for brown nets
was very inactive, and prices were easier.
ROCHDALE, 7th.—The flannel market is still de;
pressed, and even a little more so than last week.
Few buyers have been calling at the warehouses
since our last report, and to-day the attendance was
miserably thin. Some limited transactions took place
in fancy goods, but otherdepartments are more than
ever neglected. Notwithstanding the slow consump-
tion, the industry of the manufacturing population
is well engaged, and in one branch the hands have
obtained a substantial advance in their wages.
There is no change for the better in the Yorkshire
trade, and wool is quiet, with every prospect of it
remaining so until after the approaching sales.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

_.„.._.
The market is very much depressed. Sales pro
bably 5,000 bales.

STEEPLECHASINC.—At the Lewes Petty Sessions
yesterday, Mr. J. G. Blencowe, chairman, Allen
Sadler, jockey; Mr. Edmund Duke, owner of several
racehorses; and Mr. William Wyatt were summoned by
the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, for having, on the 4th of April, at Ringmer,
unlawfully beaten and ill-treated a horse. Mr. Lang-
ham, of Uckfield, appeared for the society ; and Mr.
Lamb, of Brighton, defended. Mr. Lamb, to save trouble,
consented to plead guilty if the facts were not brought out,
but the magistrates said they must hear the circumstances,
and accordingly the case proceeded, the defendants plead-
ing not guilty. The circumstances were these :—On
the 4th of April the annual steeplechases were held at
Ringmer. The weather had been very wet; consequently
the ground was heavy. In one race a horse called Barabas
ran, and was ridden by the 'defendant Sadler. Before
it arrived at the last fence it was observed to be exceedingly
exhausted and swerved to and fro. When it reached the final
leap it refused to take it, whereupon the defendant Wyatt
struck it violently with a whip on its haunches, and the
jockey used his whip freely. Ultimately Barabas attempted
to clear the fence, but failed, and fell on to the bank with
its legs and head doubled under its body. In this position
Sadler stood over it and inflicted 10 or 12 severe blows with
an ash plant. So violent was he that a universal cry of
"Shame " was raised, and the mob called on the police to
take the jockey into custody. Instead of doing so, however,
they thrust him aside and endeavoured to protect the animal
from further injury. Mr. Duke then presented himself,
very excited, and, swearing, said he was the owner of the
horse, and endeavoured to resist the police. The horse being
unable to move itself was lifted up by several persons, and
supported for a short distance, when it walked very slowly
a bleeding and much exhausted. It was then covered
w7ta,
hymud ; in this condition it was taken for some miles
to Mr. Duke's stables, which it reached at 11 o'clock at
night. It was left there unwashed till 7 o'clock the next
morning. When the horse was being ridden towards the
last leap several persons on horseback, seeing the sad condi-
tion it was in, rode across it in order to prevent its jurap-
ing the fence, but they were driven back by the jockey
with the ash plant which ho carried ; and when it first re-
fused the leap Mr. Wyatt gave it two or three hard knocks
with a whip. Mr. Duke also struck the animal. These facts
were spoken to by Mr. A. Donovan (a magistrate), Mr.
Langridge (clerk of the peace), Mr. T. Chatfield (son of
the High Constable of Lewes), Superintendent Jenne', and
others. Mr. Langridge was cross-examined to show that he
was interested in the result of the race, and that he rode
across Barabas to prevent its getting a second place. He
denied, however, that ho had any bets on the race, and
said he rode across the horse because it would have been
great cruelty to make it take the fence. Be was himself a
sporting man, but the treatment that Barabas received was
to his mind excessively cruel, and worse than he had seen
any other horse treated that day, although they were all
more or less ill-used. Mr. Donovan, who was one of the
stewards, said he himself felt rather conscience-stricken
upon the matter. The course was very heavy, and all the
horses had to be hardly treated to make them get along.
Indeed, he considered that all who were at the races were
morally more or less guilty of cruelty, and he did not know
why the throe defendants should have been pitched upon
and brought before the magistrates any more than the rest.
He thought that by rights all of them should h
summoned. [lt afterwards appeared that Mtha
r.na: 'e been
Donovan
when ho made these remarks was not aware
case 0 thecruelty.]
de-
fendants had been summoned for aparticulathat no more
cruelty r
Mr. Lamb, for the defence, tried to show
cruelty was used towards Barabas on the day in
question
than was used towards any of the other horses, and
that such treatment was
magistrates retired, andclti: returning
the justices, were of
o
chairman said the majority o
the charge of cruelty randi beennginto court the
proved against
opinion thatrt h
unusual at races. The
all of the defendants.
d
Sadler, who appeared to be the
worst, would be fined £3 an costs ; Mr. Duke and Mr.
Wyatt would each
magistrates, said he dissented from this deci-
b° fined .£2 and costs. Mr. Sclater, one
l
gave notice of their
hreeedofendetts then
intention to
soo the e
appeal against the judgment at the Quarter Sessions. The
case excited a great deal of interest.
TUE
REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS RETURN.--The
return printed for the information of Parliament relative
to the redistribution of seats was published yesterday. It
consists of seven pages. The chief details were given in
our yesterday's parliamentary report. In the case of bo-
roughs with two members which are to return one only in
future, the population is given, and the net number of £lO
and other electors, and the same kind of statistics are sup-
plied as to the boroughs proposed to be grouped and the
boroughs which are to have additional members. The
population is given, too, of the boroughs which are to be
Elf.X4llthiNed.