The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-08 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

tendency Yarns annfd
prices
iscontinue film, but the Upward
MANCHESTER, AUG. 7.
cloths
owing
for the present at an end.
This is partly
bto the easier state of the
Liverpool cotton-marketo, where the sales for this
week past have been
then
cloth-market
and export. Great
moderate scale, with but
:eafv:brgiocosdtsh,
asnu such
late,
as
ore
little business for speculation la
as
tdhoemestics, long-cloths, and
firmness prevails in for all kinds
is less business in
T-cloths, and though
still a moderate demand
is reported. There is
ofth eh
some little business in
printing-cloths, and manufacturers are looking for
more money rather than a d ech •
ne of prices.
lin There is not much doing 40-inch shirtinga ;
somel small quantities have gone
I more encouraging accounts arrive off,
but until
from India no
improvement worth naming is
sexpected.h A mo
derate demand for 36-inch shirting
For yarns there is but a quiet market,as sprung up.
but spin-
ners have a good many orders on hand, and Stocks
being much reduced, prices are steady at last
week's rates.

YOUTHFUL MARBIAGES.—Tke number of young
women marrying under age has increased rapidly with-
in the fast seven years. The
proportion fluctuated only
from 13.16 to 13.73 per cent. in the seven years 1841--7.
It then rose from 14.6 in 1848, and 15.75 in 1851, to
16.99 in 1852 ; 17.76 in 1853 ; 18.03 in 1854 ; and
17.89 in 1855. The proportion of young men to youi4
women who marry under the age of 21 is as 1 to 3 ;
but the ear;y marriages of men increased nearly to tht
Same extent r.a the early marriages of women.—Regis;
rar General.

His EXCELLENCY. on rising t. respond, The toast having been drunk with enthusiasm,
and gentlemen, I beg to return you my very
Mi.' s
pond, was
loudly cheered. He said—Mr. Chairman,
drinking my health. I believe as your worthy
hearty
thanks for the honour you have done me in kindly
chairman has already hinted, that I am probably
the first Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland who ever ap-
peared upon this lovely strand. At all events, no
Lord-Lieutenant could have come amongst you on
an occasion like the present. 'Amidst all the just
pride and the stirring hopes which cluster around
the work of this week, we ought still to remember
that we must spe tk with the modegy of those who
begin, and not of those who close, an experiment
—(hear)—and it behoves us to remember that the
pathway to great achievements has frequently to
be hewn out amidst iisks and difficulties, and that
preliminary failure is even the law and condition of

the ultimate success. (Loud cheers.) Therefore,
whatever disappointments may possibly be in store,
I must yep insinuate to you that in a cause like
_ _

this it would be criminal to feel discouragement.
(Cheers). In the very design and endeavour to
establish the Atlantic telegraph there is almost
enough of glory. It is true if it only be an attempt,
there would not be quite enough of profit. I
hope that will come too; but there is enough of pub-
lic spirit, of love of science, fa. our country, for the
human race, almost to suffice in themselves. How-
ever, upon this rocky frontlet of Ireland, at all
events to-day, we will presume upon success. We
are about either by this sundown, or by to-morrow's
dawn, to establish a new material link between the
old world and the new. Moral links there-have
been—links of race, links of commerce, links of
friendship, links of literature, and links of glory ;
but this new link, instead of superseding and sup-
planting the old ones, is to give them a life and an
intensity which they never had before. (Cheers.)
Highly as I valuethereputatior s of those who have
conceived and those who have contributed to carry
out this bright design—and I wish that so many of
them had not been prevented from.being amongst
us at this moment—highly as I estimate their repu-
tations, yet I do not compliment them with the
idea that they are to efface or dim the glory of that
Columbus who, when the large vessels in the har-
bour of Cork yesterday weighed their anchors, did
so just on that very day 365 years ago—and set
sail upon his glorious enterprise of discovery. They,
I say, will not dim or efface his glory, but they are
now giving the last finish and consummation to his
work. (Cheers.) Hitherto the inhabitants of the
two worlds have associated perhaps in the chilling
atmosphere of distance with each other—at a sort
of bowing distance; but now we can be hand to
hand, grasp to grasp, pulse to pulse. (Cheers.) The
link which is now to connect us, like the insect in
the immortal couplet of our poet, while
Exquisitely fine,
Feels at each thread, and lives along the line."
And we may feel, gentlemen of Ireland, of Eng-
land, and of America, who may happen to be pre-
sent, that we may take our stand here upon the
extreme rocky ledge of our beloved Ireland—we
may, as it were, leave in ourrear behind us the wars,
the strifes, and the bloodshed of the elder Europe,
and I fear I may say of the elder Asia ; and we may
pledge ourselves, weak as our agency may be—
imperfect as oar powers may be—inadequate in
strict diplomatic form as our credentials may be—
yet in the face of the unparalleled circumstances of
the place and of the hour—in the immediate neigh-
bourhood of the mighty vessels whose Appearance
may be beautiful on the waters, even as are the feet
upon the mountains of those who preach the gos-
pel of peace—as a homage due to that serene
science which often affords higher and holier les-
sons of harmony and goodwill than the wayward
passions of man are always apt to learn—in the
face and in the strength of such circumstances let

us pledge ourselves to eternal pace between the
old world and the new. (Loud cheers.) Why/
gentlemen, what excuse would there be for misun-
derstanding—what justification could there be for
war, when the disarming message, when the full
explanation, when the genial and healing counsel
may be wafted even across the mighty Atlantic
quicker than the sunbeam's path or: the lightning's
flash. (Cheers.) 1 feel, gentlemen, that I shall
I
best embody the sentiments which am sure per-
vade this entire meeting—the sentiments most akin
to this company and this hour, if, aler having drunk
the health of the gentle mistress of the British
islands, I now call upon you to &ink with conge-
nial honours to the la.ting friendseip of the British
Islands and America, and to the health and welfare
of the President of the United States. (Cheers.)
The toast having been duly honoured,
Dr. PALMER of the Niagara, having been loudly
called on, returned thanks for the manner in which
the toast had been drunk. He observed that the
great work they were inaugurating would form a
bond of union between this country and America,
and he believed every American WAS most sincerely
anxious that the union should be firm and lasting.
Every message that passed along the Atlantic tele-
graph would serve to cement the union between
the two countries. He could assure them,
on be-
half of Captain Hudson and the officers of the Nia-
gara, that they took the greatest interest in the un-
dertaking—that nothing would be left undone to
promote it, and that they were sincerely anxious
for the success and prosperity of the company. He
trusted he would be permitted to say,
that not the
least interesting feature in the day's proceedings
to him was the presence of the nobleman who now
administered the affairs of Ireland, and who, be
might say, was the very first English gentleman
who spoke and wrote of the United States of
America with the fidelity of a philosopher and the
benevolence of a philanthropist. (Hear, hear.)
After several other toasts had been
disposed of,
The CHAIRMAN again rose and said that the
next toast was " Success to the Cable." (Loud
cheers.) He would couple with that toast the
name of Mr. Brooking, one of the directors of the
Atlantic Telegraph Company, and at the same
time he must express the regret which they all
felt at the unavoidable absence of Mr. Cyrus Field
and other gentlemen connected with the great
work which they had met to inaugurate. (Cheers.)
It was at one time not easy to drink success to
the cable. Its friends not long ago were hoping
against hope, and labouring against enormous
difficulties. Now they were happy to say that
the task, though they accepted the wise senti-
ment of his Excellency, that they must not be
too sure of success, was rapidly approaching
completion. Temporary disappointments might
occur, yet nobody who considered this ques-
tion could doubt of its ultimate success. (Hear.)
When they remembered that for a temporary
purpose—to facilitate the operations of the war
with Russia—a submarine telegraph was laid from
Varna to the Crimea, a distance about one-fourth
of that which is now Leing attempted, could any
one doubt, when the magnitude of the interests
now at stake were considered, that this project too
would be successfully carried out ? It was impos-
sible to exaggerate the importance of this great
work, from whatever point of view they regarded
it • and its value and wonderful character were so
fully appreciated that it was unnecessary for him
to dwell at any length upon it. There was one
consideration, however, to which he wished to
allude. The gentlemen who had undertaken this
work had done so in no vile selfiish spirit of money
making. They seemed to have undertaken it with
a nobler motive. They had looked to those con-
siderations so well pointed out by his Excellency,
and had sought the blessing of Providence on their
labours. When this question was discussed amongst
its promoters it was laid down that the first mes-
sage between the two countries should be a mes-
sage of kindness and amity between the Queen of
this country and the President of the United
States ; but one of those who had been most active
in promoting the unddrtaking said, "Abe first mes-
sage conveyed by this telegraph ought to be, 'Glory
to God in the highest, and on earth peace and
good will to men." (Loud cheers.) He gave
them, " Success to the cable, and may it be an en-
during symbol of peace and friendship between the
old world and the new.
Mr. BROOKING, in returning thanks, said he had
the hohour of presiding over the finance committee