The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-03 00:00:00

SLATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Oct. 2.—The excitement and ac-
tivity in the Liverpool Cotton-market during the
past few days, and particularly to-day, have
caused spinners and manufacturers to advance
their quotations, but they have failed to produce a
corresponding feeling among buyers, and we have
a very quiet market. Shipping yarns are strong
in price, with a fair amount of offers, and
but for the advance the business done would have
been more extensive. Buyers would give a
little advance, but they decline to give the extreme
rates demanded. For cop yarns sellers are asking
id. per lb. advance on Tuesday's prices, but it 13
not generally obtainable, except on 32's twist and
weft. Home trade buyers, therefore, have not
operated freely, and only a moderate business has
been effected. Manufacturers are, of course, want-
ing more for their cloth, and shirtings are about 3d.
per piece dearer. Bat this branch of the market
appears more difficult to move than that for yarns,
and the advance stops business to a great extent.
There has been less inquiry than there was even
yesterday, and fur what business has been done in
some instances no advance has been realized. At
the same time manufacturers have refused orders to
make at prices which they would have accepted on
Tuesday.

SCOTCH HOTELS.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—Having recently seen letters in the London
journals respecting the high charges of Scotch
hotels, I beg to state that during a recent tour in
that country, including the Shetland and Orkney
Isles, Lewis, and Skye, during which I
sojourned at fifteen hotels or inns, I rarely
experienced high charges for board or lodg-
ings even in the towns ; for the general price
of one breakfast was ls. 93. or 25., tea Is. 6d. or
is. 9d., dinner 2s. 6d.: 3s. 6d. at Poplin's, Perth,
where I was charged 3s. for a bedroom. E!sewhere
the price never exceeded 25., with Is. or ls. 63.
daily for attendance. At the Royal Hotel, Wick,
I was charged 9d. for gas, but no where else. This
was charged for one evening.
These charges do not exceed the two dollars a
day charged generally at the American hotels in
1859, and I deem them to be moderate.
If travellers require luxuries they must pay for
them.—l am, sir, yours obediently,

CUR. Co OKE.

London, October 2.

MATWMONY AND BAPTISM.—The Rev. Mr. Dod-
ingtou, curate of Bere Regis, has refused to marry a young
woman named Jane Payne Butler, because she had "ne
true Christian name"— i.e., had not been baptised—un-
less she went through a course of three, months' instruction
preparatory to being baptised. The Rev. C. Smith, a congre-
gational minister, has written to the Bishop of Salisbury
on the matter, but his lordship says, ,4 1 have no power to
give, in a summary way, any authoritative interpretation
of the law in the case you put." In the meanwhile Jane
Butler is going through her course of instruction, which
has been reduced to 14 days.— Sherborne Journal.
PIEBALD FRENCH PARTRIDGES. —Two piebald
French partridges were shot at lloningham, Norfolk, on
the estate of Mr. E. L. Fellowes. They wore young birds
of this year, cock and hen. The wing feathers are streaked
with white, and they have, each of them, a broad bar of
white across the top of the tail ; on their backs they have
also some white feathers; when flying they looked almost
white. They evidently belong to the same brood, as they
were " driven" from the same field, and have been ob-
served by the keeper about the same spot since the be-
ginning of the season. Tho birds are now being stuffed
by Sayers, at Norwich.—Field.

NEW PAROCHIAL BUILDINGS FOR ST. PANCRAS.
—The guardians of St. Pancras have accepted the tender
of Mr. Henshaw for the erection of their new infirmary
at Highgate for the sum of £36,000, and that of Mr. B'
Mann for the erection of their new schools at Leavesdon,
Woodside, near Watford, for the sum of £37,545. Both
buildings have been designed by and will be carried out
under the superintendence of Messrs. Giles and Biven,
architects.

MR. BRIGHT IN DEVONSHIRE. —.Mr. John Bright,
M.P., visited Exeter on Thursday afternoon, on his will
to Cornwall. In the course of the afternoon he received
an influential deputation of Liberals. The hon. gentle-
man appeared in excellent health, but declined to make
a speech, remarking that he had been compelled to
decline similar requests at many other places, and he had
laid down a rule to do nothing more than his duty, and
it was clearly not his duty to come to Exeter to address
the citizens. Said he, " You do not want me here ; you
have two such men as Coleridge and Bowring that
scarcely any other place can equal them. I sat by Ur
Coleridge's side when ho delivered his speech on the Irish
Church, and it was one of the most beautiful speeches
I ever heard. It had a great effect upon the House - Mr.
Coleridge's morale has such weight. Morale will always
have its weight, but when you get brains and morale
combined it is irresistible." Mr. Bright added that some-
times it was an evil to have an election pending over such
a length of time, but in the present instance the people were
so educated in political subjects by the Liberal press that
it could not fail to be highly advantageous to the
Liberal party. The Tory press could not discuss the
leading questions of the day. " They had given °vet
the attempt in his neighbourhood." He thanked the de-
putation for their kind expressions, and for the compliment
which they had paid him. On the same evening he ar-
rived at Plymouth, on his way to Penzance. A deputa-
tion from the Liberal Committee waited upon him at the
Duke of Cornwall Hotel, requesting him to attend a public'
meeting. Mr. Bright said he had pledged himself to ab-
stain from political work at present.
ROAST DONKEY !—Everybody who has eaten
roast donkey has pronounced it excellent. In flavour it
is said to resemble turkey, though the colour is consider-
ably darker. The accomplished g)urmet is aware what
animal it is that contributes most largely to the composi-
tion of the best sausages in the world—the Lyons sausages,
The animal in question is a very clean feeder, cheap, hardy
and subsists easily at little cost, and it seems within possi-
bility that donkeys may be reared on the poorest commons
not only as beasts of burden for the use of the poor, but ag
a luxurious addition to the banquets of the rich ; and since
Prance, Austria, Russia, Belgium, Denmark, and other
countries have taken to hippophagy, the donkey may be
expected, at an early period, to make a sue essful invasion
of the United Kingdom in a new character.—_Macmillan's
Magazine fot October.

BOILER. EXPLOSION NEAR BARNSLEY.—Yesterday
morning, at a very early hour, an upright boiler, at the
Elsecar Ironworks, exploded, killing two men. The wor
belong to the Messrs. Dawes. A labourer, named Richard
Salter, and a crabman, William Noland, were the two
killed, and they were sitting close to the boiler at the time
it exploded.

CORNISH TICKETING, Thurslay.—At Redruth
this day 2,535 tons of copper ore realised £9,239 6s. 6c1.,
an average of £3 13s. Fine copper, 157 tons 4 cwt., pro-
duce 61 standard, £lO3 25., an advance on last sale of 225-
Wynnstay broke down so badly at Walsall that it is no
likely lie will reappear on the Turf.