The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-04 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, July 2.—There is rather more firm-
ness and activity to-day in the market for both
goods and yarns, but the change is attributable
chiefly to increased animation at Liverpool. The
hardening of price on the part of spinners and
manufacturers has led to the giving out of some of
the smaller orders, which could not longer be de-
layed with safety, but all purchases to any large
amount are still withheld, wherever they may be.
In the market for yarns the business is much re-
stricted by the advance of price demanded. At the
rates of last week there is more disposition to
operate both for the home trade and for foreign
markets, but spinners are now asking generally Id.
to id. per lb. advance, and wherever sales take
place probably the full ad. is obtained. There is
not much doing. but the business is of fair amount,
considering the firmness of these quotations. In the
market for cloth there is little more effect produced
by the animation at Liverpool than the general
demand by manufactures of an advance of price,
which buyers will not respond to. Nothing higher
than the rates of last week can yet be obtained for
piece goods. The advance of price checks business,
not only in all fabrics suitable for India and China,
but likewise in T-cloths and longcloths generally.
Among the manufacturers there seems to be a pre-
valent belief that the principal consequence here of
the movement at Liverpool will be the more gene-
ral adoption of short-time working, which has been
resorted to this week by a good many large esta-
blishments. The following is the weekly report of
Messrs. I. Stagg and Co.:—" There was a little
more inquiry at the close of the week for 40-inch
shirtings and some other descriptions of India
goods, and a fair amount of business was done in
them at Tuesday's prices. Yesterday and to-day,
owing to the excitement in the cotton market,
sellers are asking an advance, but so far without
success, and the day's business is consequently
much restricted. For other kinds of goods also
sellers are firmer, and without any improved demand
the late downward tendency of price is arrested."
LEEDS, 2d.—The woollen cloth markets have been
of a very quiet character this morning. Few buyers
wera in attendance, and they operated sparingly.
Small parcels of plain and fancy fabrics for the fall
trade were the chief purchased, with a few lots of
ordinary blacks. Prices are steady. Those of wool
are fully as high as last week. The flax trade is
not so brisk as it was a short time ago.

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ROCHDALE, Ist.—There has been rather. more
doing in flannel to-day, buyers operating more
freely than of late. More business would be done,
but manufacturers refuse to make any material con-
cession from late prices, alleging that neither the
cost of wool nor the manufacture will allow of re-
duction. The Yorkshire goods trade is flat. Still
manufacturers in general are fairly employed, and
the stocks are not very large. There have been few
transactions in wools, but there is no change in
pri▪
ces. When more of the new clip has come to
market the demand is expected to be better and
pri▪
ces more settled.

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The following passage from M. Mires book, " A
Mes Juges," relates to a curious conversation he had
with Cardinal Antonelli at Rome in 1850. M.
Mires belongs to the Jewish persuasion. " For
centuries," says M. Mires,--
" And especially among the Latin races, the trad-
ing in capital has been exclusively the business of
the Jewish race. Whether this be the consequence
of the possession of the soil being forbidden to them
in most countries, or in being merely tolerated
where they have found a resting place, it is not the
less true that in the north as well as in the south of
Europe, the Jews have continued to be almost com•
pletely the dispensers of movable property. If this
situation is more important to the Jews, it is also a
danger for them ; particularly at a period when
people tend to a change in their social organisation,
and to free society from all feudal or aristocratic
bonds as in France, in order to substitute civil and
political equality ; that is to say, the power of the
masses, otherwise called labour. Now, what deve-
lopes labour ? Why, capital ; the only thing that
can remunerate and increase it. If modern society
tends towards industry and capital, it naturally
follows that the class which knows best how to
amass and circulate it will become preponderant in
all branches of commercial activity ; this prepon-
derance will, consequently, revert to the Jewish
race, and it is precisely in this circumstance its
danger lies. These reflections recall to my mind a
conversation I had the honour of having in 1858
with his Eminence Cardinal Antonelli. I was then
at Rome ; and this man, so superior from his great
and powerful intellect, was kind enough to receive
me now and then, and his manner towards me was
most kind. On one of these occasions he asked me,
without circumlocution, what I really thought of
the Mortara affair. 'Eminence,' I replied, permit
me, for the sake of the Jews, not to give you my
opinion—not because this opinion would not be to
the praise of the Pontifical Government, but, what

is more serious for those who rule at the Vatican,
because it would not be flattering to their intelli-
gence, which, nevertheless, is considerable. Now,
as I desire to continue in your Eminence's good
graces, I pray of you to dispense with my speaking
my mind of this affair,' The Great Cardinal (as he
is called at Rome) good humouredly insisted, re-
minding me, at the same time, that Rome was now,
as ever, the country where freedom of speech was
the most complete, and this is perfectly true.
Well, then, since your Eminence desires it, here is
my opinion on the 'Mortara affair. As your Emi-
nence has remarked, the power of capital is become
in our days more than at any former period the
dominating power; it is capital that commands ; it
is by capital that public opinion is formed ; it is by
capital that nations are raised, and that people
aspire to material improvement. The consequence
is that the class possessing capital, or, what is the
same thing for the mass of the people, that has the
reputation of possessing it, is exposed at a given
moment to all the hatreds, the blindest, and the
most insane vengeance. udge, Eminence, if to
this disposition, natural to the human mind, be
added the feeling infiltrated from infancy into the
heart of Catholics against the men accused of having
crucified the Redeemer of mankind. You perceive,
Eminence, to what danger this race would be ex-
posed in a moment of popular delusion, when com-
mercial jealousy and the indirect passion of envy
are masked under the name of religion. This is
precisely the prospect which the Jews may expect,
merely because they possess capital; or even because
it is thought they possess it. If your Eminence
would but consider that in some countries they are
admitted on an equality as citizens; that in others
they are advancing towards complete enfranchise-
ment, and yet there exists in the hearts of the masses
a certain repugnance which is dormant rather than
extinct, you may easily foresee, Eminence, what
would light up these passions. Evidently material
interests, cupidity, commercial, financial, and indus-
trial rivalries, will one day, under the pre-
text of religion, or of morals, cry out against trad-
ing in capital as condemned by the Fathers of the
Church, and organise a crusade against the Jews.
Now, the best chance of preventing such calamities
would be to get up every five or six years a Mor-
tara affair, which, by awakening public sympathy
for the Jews, would deaden the hatred which the
possession of capital raised against them.' Ha !
ha!' answeredt with much wit the great Cardinal, A
' You want little persecution, eh! Well, then,
my honest Mir(ls, you shall not have any more of
it, and your co-religionists will have to defend
themselves alone!"
The conversation with the Cardinal gives rise to
the following reflections of M. Mires :

" This incident very nearly explains my ideas on
a subject which I have studied for some years. For
in the financial and industrial movement which is
going on, and transferring nations, in raising or
lowering the level of their preponderance by
the possession of capital—in this movement, I
repeat, the part which the Jews should play is
so great that at times 1 am terrified at the blind-
ness of men most interested in it, as they per-
sist in attaching no importance to it. What is
more serious in this blindness towards a certain class
is that the mass confound in their impressions,
and perhaps one day will confound in their wrath,
the Jews of the north and the Jews of the south of
Europe. They do not mark the difference which
is so strong between them, and which they would
promptly recognise if they studied what passes
before their eyes--a difference which is especially
characterised by the financial competition produced
in Europe on the different markets. It is here that
the great financial influences are met with ; it is
here that we may observe the tendencies which
distinguish the Jews of the North from the Jews of
the South."

In a section of his book which gives an account
of his prosecution, and which he dates " Dlazas,
March 20," he corroborates in the folio wing manner
what I have already said of the cruelty of which,
for some unexplained reason, has been practised
towards him :

"It is under iron bars, it is at Mazas, it is while
I am kept in solitary confinement, that I write
these lines. All communication is forbidden to me.
My relations and friends are not allowed to see
me. It was through the guardian of the prison
that I learnt the birth of my infant grandchild. I
am refused the aid of an advocate for the defence of
my civil and commercial interests. I am over-
whelmed with stamped paper by the provisional
administrator chosen by the Government, and I
cannot communicate even with him or answer his
summons. M. de Germiny himself, even in the in-
terest of the management which has been intrusted
to him, has failed in getting permission to see me.
What, then, have I done ?"
It remains to be seen whether the letter "To
my Judges!' will have any good effect. The feeling
among the public, unjust, no doubt, is that M.
Mires' condemnation or acquittal will chiefly de-
pend on the sort of influence employed for or
against him in the high quarters.