The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-22 00:00:00

West districts ...

... -
North districts 3 ... ... 6
Central districts... 7 ... ... 2
East districts 52 ... ... 7
South districts ... ... 8 9

Total ... ... 70 ... ... 29
The return for the sub-district of Eltham was not re-
ceived in time for publication.

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Aug. 21.—The market for shipping
yarns has been very quiet to-day, and to make sales
rather lower prices would have to be taken. Spinners
hold rather firmly to their quotations for most de-
scriptions of these yarns, and the market closes de-
cidedly tame. Sellers of home-trade yarns describe
all kinds as quieter, and rather lower in price. The
yarn-market generally may be described as flat. In
cloth the lower rates for money appear to have had
little influence, and have failed entirely to produce
the improvement that was expected to have attended
the change. We have had a very languid inquiry
for all makes of cloth this week, and purchases have
been small. Prices have gradually weakened, and
to-day sellers quote some reduction on the rates of

last Tuesday. Some low offers are made by buyers,
but mostly involving too great a reduction to meet
with acceptance. A rather limited business only has
been done, and sellers mostly find prices against
them. Messrs. John Slagg and Co., in reporting
the cloth-market of to-day, observe :—" The recent

reduction of the Bank rate has somewhat disap-
pointed general expectation in its influence on this
market, and neither prices nor demand seem to have
received any stimulus from this cause. The busi-
ness of the week has been most limited, and though
the very low offers of to-day have not found general
acceptance, we close with decidedly weaker prices."
CARDIFF, 20th.—There is no change to note in
the steam coal trade of the district. It continues
to be characterised by much briskness, and opera-
tions both at the collieries and at the docks were
carried on with a great deal of spirit. The require-
ments on home account for steam coal are increas-
ing, and an extensive trade is being done with Bir-
kenhead and the London and Midland markets. The
coalfields in the neighbourhood of Caerphilly are
being opened up, and at Llantisrant fresh collieries
are in operation. The house coal trade has moved
a little, and there is a tolerably good business doing
coastwise. In the iron trade things are looking more
cheerful. The reduction in therate of discount has
instilled a greater feeling of confidence, and parties
begin to consider that the worst is past. There was
an improvement in the receipt of orders during last
week, but not to any great extent. 'The importa-
tion of iron ore has been large, but the exports of
iron were under the average.

LEEDS, 21st.—For a Tuesday's market there
has been a satisfactory amount of business done
to-day in the cloth-halls. The attendance of
both buyers and sellers was rather more than on
this day se'night, and the tone of the market
more cheerful. The goods purchased were such as
have for some time been the most saleable, including
various kinds of Meltons, Whitneys, beavers, and
broad tweeds, with ordinary all-wool black cloths.
In the white cloth-hall a moderate amount of busi-
ness was done in hair lists, and a fair quantity of
winter goods changed hands. Prices of both wools
and goods are firm. The flax trade is rather dull,
but manufacturers keep tolerably well employed.
The stocks of yarns are in a moderate compass, not
being beyond an average amount. Prices are steady,
both for the raw material and for yarn.
NOTTINGHAM, 21st.—At our Exchange-hall to-
day there was only a moderate attendance, and the
demand for lace yarns was slow at about the rates
of last week. For hosiery yarns the inquiry con-
tinues steady at fully late prices. For brown nets
the demand was slow, and prices were similar to
those of last week.

ROCHDALE, 20th.—The flannel trade is rather im-
proving. There is more doing than of late for the
Continent. Fancy flannels and middle-priced goods
arc most in request, and the manufacturers are well
employed. Heavy goods, and also the very finest
qualities, are rather slow of sale. To-day's mar-
kets have been steady as to prices, and a moderate
business has been done, but the day being a partial
holiday, being known as " Wakes Monday," there
was less than the usual attendance of both buyers
and, sellers. The Yorkshire goods trade is not very
active, but it is quite as good as we ;have lately had
to report it. Not much wool has changed hands
to-day, but prices are firm.

The Fatal Collision off the Suffolk Coast.

The returns of the missing on Monday numbered
11 passengers, besides the loss of three of the crew,
but from what has since transpired it is feared the
number must have been about 24 or 26. The body
of one of the saloon cabin passengers, aged 14, son
of the Rev. Mr. Bird, of near Hull, was washed
ashore on the coast near Aldborough. He was put
on board along with his younger brother at Hull by
his father, and a female relative was travelling with
them to see them to their school n ear Chatham. The
latter were both saved. They were picked up after
the steamer had sunk, along with another passenger,
by the boat of the schooner Perseverance, which
landed them at Yarmouth. The steward of the
Bruiser recollects laying hold of the little fellow as
helay in the saloon, and placing him with his brother
on the bridge. He concluded that they had been
dragged up on board the Haswell, but it is now
clear that they must have gone down with the vessel.
His brother and his female companion when hauled
out of the sea were insensible, and it was with dif-
ficulty the youth was restored to consciousness. A
woman named Sarah Bell, the wife of a sailor, is
among those lost. She had her daughter with her,
seven years old. They were on their way to Lon-
d3n to meet the father, whose vessel was expected
home every day. The child was saved ; but how,
no one could tell. The two boys, fore cabin pas-
sengers, known to have sunk in the steamer,
were at the time of the collision asleep under one of
the boats, which was crushed in two by the Haswell's
bows. One of the little fellows had with him an
accordion, which he played to the passengers the
previous evening, and afforded them some amuse-
ment. Their names, or where they belonged to, are
unknown. The same remark applies to the woman
who was crushed to death in the starboard bow.
It has been ascertained that the ill-fated steamer
was sunk in 14 or 16 fathoms of water, about four
miles north of Sizewell-bank. Off Aldborough se-
veral boats have brought in from the spot a quan-
wtitiytho of hera wreckage,
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tity of
passengers'
one of her l
luggage
glifeboats,gage togetherand ladies'
bonnets, capes, dresses, parasols, children's wearing
apparel, toys, &c., which were found floating for
milesodffirteheetocra foasot.
The
the General Steam Navigation
Company were engaged many hours yesterday mak-
ing a searching investigation into the circumstances
attending the collision and the sinking of the Bruiser.
Capt. Harty, the chief mate, and the whole of her
crew, were called before them and examined at con-
siderable length. Their statements, we understand,
fully bore out the details which have been published
in reference to the accident. Every precaution was
taken on board in attending to their lights during
the night and seeing that they were properly trimmed
and burnt brightly, and this is admitted by the se-
cond mate of the Haswell, whose watch it was on
deck, as he admits that he saw the Bruiser's lights
full 20 minutes before the collision. From the mo-
ment the Haswell was first seen from the Bruiser
she was supposed to be a sailing vessel at anchor,
with her mast-head exhibited. All the crew of the
Bruiser who were on deck at the time assert posi-
tively that no other light was visible from the Has-
well until they were close on to her, when they could