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

STATE CF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Sept. 4.—The market has been flat
for all kinds of shipping yarns, and even at lower
prices (within moderate limits) very few sales could
be made. In home-trade yarns there has been but
little inquiry, and prices are in favour of buyers.
The demand is also limited for cloth. All through
the past week there has been an unwillingness on
the part of buyers to eater the market, ani very

little business has been done. To-day we are even
still quieter, and a great deal of timidity is displayed
on the part of purchasers. We have had too few
operations to serve as a test of prices. Sellers quoted
last week's prices, but these are merely nominal, and
the actual value of the cloths may be taken as some-
what below such rates. No doubt some little of the
weakness in this branch of the market to-day is due
to the giving way in cotton and yarn, together with
discouraging India advicca. The uncertainty as to
the future of our cotton supply also renders buyers
cautious. Messrs. Du Fay and Co., in their monthly
trade report, give cotton and yarn at about id. to
ld. per lb. lower than on Aug. Ist-31b. printers at
lid. per piece less, and heavier and finer makes 3d.
to 4d. less. They quote 71b. 36in. shirtings, which
at the beginning of August were 13s. 3d. down to
10s. per piece, and heavier and finer qualities at 3d.
to 9d. per piece lower. They observe that the supe-
rior qualities of cloth are now generally inquired
for, and that the 'resent ample supply of a better
qua'ity of cotton will enable manufacturers better
to maintain the former established credit of their
goods than was possible during the cotton famine,
while the very inferior qualities are disappearing.
Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report of to-day's cloth
market:—" Little business has been done during the
week, and buyers have offered but timidly. To-day
we have a very quiet market, and close with a
smaller business, though prices have undergone no
quotable change."
CARDIFF, 3d.—There is a very good foreign de-
mand for steam coal, and large quantities are
being daily sent there by rail to Birkenhead and the
metropolitan and midland markets. The house coal
collieries are but partially employed, and the in-
crease in the coasting inqu'ry is not so great as ex-
pected two or three weeks since. The tone of the
iron trade of the district has improved very much
since the reduction of the rate of discount to 6 per
cent. The improvement in the demand for cold
black pigs is maintained, 'and for other qualities
quotations are a little firmer.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, Sept. 4—Symmetry, from Trinidad ; Johan
Emily, from Montevideo.
Arrived, Sept. s—Orion, steamer, and Batavier, steamer,
from Rotterdam ; Carl XV., steamer, from Gothenburg ;
Panther, steamer, and Giraffe, steamer, from Boulogne ;
Sir Robert .Peel, steamer, from Dunkirk ; Teal, from
Lagos; Sverne, from Prederiekshalt ; Alardus, from
Gefle ; Stella, from Bordeaux ; William Clara, steamer,
from Honfleur ; Lode, steamer, from Oporto ; Holland,
steamer, from Ostend.

Sailed, Sept. s.—Nile, steamer, for Cronstadt ; Souvenir
steamer, for Caen.

DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Passed.—Bolivar, screw steamer, vessel of war, from the
not tb, for the west.

Anchored.—Minerva, of Newcastle, from Shields, for

Gurracha.
Tho shipping in the Downs riding all well.

LONDON GAZETTE.—Last Evening.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 8. •
The Queen has been ploased to approvo of Mr. G. 11.
Heap as Consul at Belfast for tho United States 01
America.

ADMIRALTY, Ave. 13.
The Rev. William Robert M,llwaine, 8.A., has this
day been appointed a chaplain in her Majesty's fleet.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 3.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade have received a notification to the
effect that a quarantine of eleven days has been imposed
by the Greek Government upon all arrivals from Great
Britain in Greek ports.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE--Last Evening

Amsterdam Short. 11 17

11 1

Ditto 3 Months. 11 191 12
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 50 25 55
Brussels
Hamburg — • 13 91 13 9;
Paris Short 25 221 25 821
Ditto 3 Months. 25 45 25 50
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine 1211 1211
Vienna — 13 20 13 40
Trieste — 13 20 13 40
Petersburgh
Berlin
45
Madrid
461
Cadiz
27 10
Leghorn
26 9@ Milan
Genoa
Naples — 26 90

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has
left Gloucester House, Piccadilly, on a tour of visits in
Scotland.
His Royal Highness the Count de Paris is
making a series of visits in Ireland. Iris royal highness
has been on a iSit to viccount and Viscountess Castle-
rosse, at li'l K errarney Rouse, county y.
The Prince and Princess Brodiruo, attended by
Count Grovro, arrived at the St. James's Hotel, Picca,d'lly,
on Monday.
The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle arrived in
town on Monday from N:siting Mrs. Hope, at Castleblay-

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ney, Ireland.
The Earl of Derby, accompanied by the Hon.
F. A. Stanley, M.P., and Colonel tho Hon. W. Patrick
Talbot, went out partridge shooting on Saturday at
Knowsley, and the party had capital spoil.

The Earl and Countess of Horne are entertaining
company at Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire.

The Countess (Dow.) of Charlemont has recently
left town for Tunbridge Wells.

Lord aud Lady Stuart de Decies have arrived
at Dromar" their seat in the county of Waterfo:cl, from a
Continental tour.

A marriage is announced as about to take place
between the Hon. Junan Fane, brother of the Earl of
Westmoreland, and the Lady Mine Cowper, sister of tho
Earl Cowper.