The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-16 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)
MAN CH ESTEE , TUESDAY.—Some kinds of water
mule and mule yarns have again shown an upward
tendency ; and in all the rest the utmost firmness
has been maintained. Spinnings suitable for India
are, in fact, so completely bought up, that their
value can hardly be tested ; and the contracts in
hand for home snanuf;cture are so ample, as
to render the producers exceedingly independent;
so that, under these circumstances, the hesitation
which many of the buyers feel about yielding to the
present advance iA little noticed. Doubled yarns are
in fair request. Single yarns, for the continet, con-
tinue in a most unsatisfactory state, from the diffi-
culty of selling, and the disproportion betwixt the rise
in them and cotton. Although the transactions in
light and medium cloths are not of large abso-
lute amount, yet they are in full propor-
tion to the unengaged supply. The different widths
of printing cloths, and also 46-inch shirtinge, com-
mand ready sale at the quotations; but 40-inch shirt-
ings are not equally buoyant. Some little business
is doing in domestics : it is, however, most difficult to
effect any improvement upon previous rates ; and the
makers of these articles find themselves falling from
week to week into an increasingly discouraging
position.
ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—We have had a rather
quieter market to-day, as might be expected at this
time of the year. In the wool market, there is also
little change, and prices may be quoted the same as
those on the preceding Monday.
MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—We have no change of
importance to note since our last weekly report. We
hear of fair business being transacted in manufac-
tured goods at advancing rates. There has been some
inquiry for goods for the French markets, which is
an unusual occurrence in this neighbourhood. Most
houses being now fully occupied for the spring trade,
there is a scarcity of weavers felt. In torown silks
the sales are to a moderate extent ; the stocks being
reduced very low, higher prices are expected for
what is coming round for the market. The position
of the raw silk market remains unaltered. Public
sales are announced to take place at Liverpool on the
17th instant; the quantity to be brought forward Is
but small.

HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—There has been a vary
brisk market tc-day. Every description of woollens,
either superfines or low goods adapted for the season,
have been bought up with the grestest avidity. These
who have ♦isited us to-day in the expectation of buy-
ing remnants of stock at a low price have been dis-
appointed, for many sales have been effected at an
advance upon the offers made a few weeks since.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—An average amount of
business has ben done in our Piece Hall to-day,
chiefly with mixtures, and with no material variation
in prices. The yam market is rather stiller than it was,
the weather having checked the purchases of the ship-
ping houses ; but there is a large demand fur home
uonsumption, and the quotations have undergone no
change. The spinners being, in general, fully sup-
plied, there is nut much activity in long wools, and
prices have experienced no alteration. Tnere is a
brisker inquiry for short wools, at a slight im-
provement.
LEEDS, TUESDAY.—Both on Saturday and to-day
there has been more animation in the markets. tA
fair amount of business has been done. Stocks are
low, and prices are a shade better. In the ware-
houses, business is pretty good, both for the home and
foreign trade.

COTTON 1N THE WEST INDIES.

The subject of growing cotton in Jamaica is occu-
pying the attention of the colonists and the press of
that island. In speaking of this matter the Colonial
Standard, of the 13th December, says as follows:
Where are we to look fur cotton ? Tnis is be-
ginning to be a question easier asked than answered
among the men of Manchester, who are now almost
entirely dependent on the United States for that
commodity; and they begin to think that it is time
to consider what they should do it; from any
cause, that country should cease to furnish a sufficient
supply, which is not unlikely to he the case in a very
few years. Hitherto they have turned their eyes to
India only, as lik!y to furnish what may be short in
the future supply from the States. India seems to
have as yet been considered the only country in
which cetton is indigenous to the soil, from whence
an unlimited supply could be procured it the
cost of carriage were not so enormous for
the want of roads, principally, over which
so bulky an article as cotton can be carried. The
East India Company have been fostering its cultiva-
tion for some time, but are about to abandon it par-
tially after the present year; therefore, unless the
manufacturers set about cultivation on their own
account, no cotton fit for the finer sorts of fabrics can
be procured from India. We, therefore, hail with
great pleasure the manifestation of a desire to
cultivate cotton in this country, which we are
quite certain can be done to a much greater
profit than in any part of the States. We have
been told that there is cotton now growing within
five miles of this city, which was only planted in
August last, the lateral branches of which are said
to be larger and stronger than the main stem ever
becomes in the most favoured of the southern states.
Add to this that it is perennial here, but requires
replanting every year there. We have seen in the
hands of Mr. McGeachy some stems and pods of cot-
ton picked in the neighbourhood of Mobile, and along
with it a sample, picked at random, from an old tree in
St. Andrew';. We have narrowly inspected both, and to
the best of our judgment the St. Andrew's sample is
very much the best, being a much purer white, as well
as finer in texture and longer in staple, than the Ame-
rican, though, perhaps, not quite so strong. Strange
to say, too, the American cotton which Mr. M`Geachy
brought over seems exactly the same variety as the
indigenous cotton which grows wild about the road
sides here, and lives for eight or ten years at least
without any cultivation whatever; in fact, we believe
the tree from which the sample of native cotton to which
we allude was pulled is fully that age, and has now a
circumference of fifteen and three-quarter inches in
the main stem ; it is growing close to a fence near
a gate, and has never had the slightest care bestowed
. upon Such being the case, then, there is surely
great inducement for parties who have the means to
cultivate this great article of commerce ; it is far from
an expensive cultivation, and requires no costly build-
ings for its collection or preservation. The principal
thing, we believe, is to pick it clean, and pack it
dry, which would be a matter of easy accomplish-
ment, on the south side of this island, at all events,
where there are some 150,000 acres of land well adapted
for cotton cultivation. With all these favouring cir-
cumstances, however, we much fear that there are
but very few of our planters who have means suffi-
cient to enter into that or any other new system of
cultivation. We are led to expect the advent of cer-
tain American capitalists, who, it is said, will enter
largely into mining and cotton growing speculations.
Let them come, in God's name ; there is ample room
and verge er.ough ' for hundreds, aye thousands, and
locations will not be wanting, either to buy or hire,
in any part of the country.
" It is, we fear, needless for us to call the attention
of the Manchester manufacturers to Jamaica as a field
for the support of cotton equally convenient and
inexhaustible. They say it is of no use to send
agents to purchase cotton at Bombay, because there
are no roads by which it can he carried to that port ;
and for that reason the cost of carriage from the
interior is much greater than the original cost of
production ; but they say if the company will make
roads, and thus render the cost of cotton at the
shipping port as cheap as at New
.Orleans, the
western manufacturers of Manchester will soon have
agents there, just as the wool merchants of Wakefield
and Leeds have in every district of Reigland. Now,
here all the objections are already obviated. As
far as the south side of the island is concerned,
we have sufficiently convenient roads to carry
any quantity of produce of any kind that can be
grown upon it, to commodious and secure shipping
places, without any heavy expense. The Manches-
ter men have heretofore done us great injury,
and owe us in consequence some reparation, which
they will perhaps give if they find that their
own- interest will be promoted thereby. But
we do not put much faith in the idea of ob
taming aid from that quarter. We rather
look with hope to the advent of the American
gentlemen who are said to be about commencing
both mining and cotton growing on a large
scale, with capital entirely their own. From
them we look for an example of that ge-ahead energy
of which misfortune and grinding poverty have for
the time deprived ourselves, and if they mill, as we
think likely, bring with them a number of intelligent
free black and coloured people from the States, the
example of these may be of as much service to the
indolent and idle among our own population as the
capital and enterprise of their employers will un-
doubtedly become to the community in general."

THE MACKEREL FlSHERY.—Upwards of 100
boats are now in actual work, but the fishing during the
past week has nct been successful. The fish sent from
here to the metropolis on the 4th inst., and which cost
here between 235. and 265. per 100, were sold at a loss
of 7s. per 100, there being no demand for them in Own.
P1'10190(li

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.
IPSWICH, JAN. 15.
With a m.7lerate supply of both wheat and barley at
this day's market, th©y were sold at a slighht reduction
upon last wee k's prices. Beans and peas also rather
cheaper.

FEB QUARTER. I PER QUARTER.
Wheat, red 4os to 41s Beans, old
Do., wbife
Barley, malting 26s to 276 Oats.. OO, to 00s
Da., select
Do., grinding 23s to 24- Malt - 00s to 001
Beans 26, to 27s Flour, per sack.. 00s to 001
AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING JAN. 12.
Wheat 1,242 quarters at 44s 2d.
Barley
Oats
12 Os Od.
Beans ... 50 „ 28s 7d.
Peas.... . ....... 89 „ 28s 3d.
Rye .
HULL, JAN. 15.
Messrs. Taylor and Bright's circular states: —The,
wt tither has been exceedingly severe since this day week,
and the ground is now well covered with snow. Imports
are light, and business operations much contracted. To-
day's market was well attended by farmers, who brought
a good supply of wheat, which met slow sale at Is under
the currency of last market day. Nothing doing is
foreign. The transactions in sprin,, corn are limited,
there being few samples from ship-board, and granarie4
parcels are held 'or more money than buyers are disposed,
to give. Grinding barley meets a fair retail sale, 80
good qualities are not plentiful: For fine malting there
is also a little better feeling. With a good demand lie-
seed fetches is more money, but cakes continue slur
gish ; their present low price seems tempting for the
speculator. Nothing new as regards rapeseed. We
cakes maintain their last•noted lin proyetnent, and there
are now none afloat. Bones fetch s7s 6cl to 92s 6d as 41
quality. _

- The following are the present prices of grain :
a. 1.
Wheat, English, red 38 to 40
Do. white 4O 42
Dantzic and Ko-

s. 0
Peas, white and yel. 25 !
:"g
.
o
Do. grey
;
ILinseed, Black Sea. 44 --

nigsberg 46 48tDo. Petersburgh ... 38 43,
Pomeranian and Do. Riga &Archngl. 38
Hamburgh . 3B —4O Do. Konigsberg .... 36 —39
Danish, Holstein, & per too.
Friesland 3l 36 Linseed cakes, Hull —6/1/56d
Russian and Odessa 32 —36 Do. fine foreign ... 6l ,59
Oats, English
Do. Danish.— ...... . 10 12 Rapeseed
Do. Friesland l5 16 Rape cakes.. 80s Od to 82s 61
Do. Russ. & Odessa 12 —l4 Tares, English .oos
Barley,malting 22 —24 Do. foreign 305
Do. grinding........ 19 —21. Guano 6/ to 911"
Beans 26 —30 i do 00s Od to 90s Od
Do. foreign ...... 26 31iRye meal
Coat, JAN. 14.—Flour-1 • •st I2s 6d to 13s 6d ; extra 16t;
seconds, 1 is to 12s 6d ; households 9s to lOs 6d; thirds, 6s to r'
per cwt. Oatmeal lOs to lOs 6d; Indian meal 7s to 7s 6d ; wheat'
meal, 10s to lOs 6d per cwt. Indian corn 135 s to 137 s 6d per toe.
Bran 317 s 6d to 3/10sper ton. Hay—Farmers 25s to 355; averse,
30s; dealers 34s to 38s Od; average 36s per ton. Straw—Farmer
18s Od to 30s Od ; average 24s ; dealers 32s Od to 00s
average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d is Nu'
household loaf 5d to Sid per 41b. - Fresh butter, 84 m
,
10d per lb Eggs-5s 8d to 5s lOd per hundred. CoYeth
Newport 15s; Lydney 17s ; Landore 15s ; Best Peelft
Culm 14s per ton. Tallow 39s Od to 00e per C,..t
Whisky, 25 o. p., 5s 9d per imperial gallon. l'u%
—Beef 310 to 5d ; mutton 3d to 5d ; veal 4d L
Od ; pork 3id to 4d ; bacon 6d to 7id ; sausages bd Ijo
lb. Hops 131 Os per cwt. Bangor slates 3/ 2s 6d to 31 5.5
ton. Bark—Barbary 715 s to 815 s ; Valonia 141 to 01; Freo
7/ 5s ; English 0/ per ton. Fleece Wool 105 to 12s per etc/
Hemp 321 to 001 per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 18s to 19s ; re
g
ditto 24s to 26s per barrel ; Newfoundland 9' Os to 11l Le
ton. Timber—Memel, 85/ per ton ; deals, first quality, I°l
second quality, 16s per 100. Hides—Market 13s to 21gb:
salted 13s to .20s per cwt ; calf skins 2d to' 3el per
Potatoes, white 8d to 9d; Minions lld to 12d; Goan
Peruvian, 111 10s; Ichaboe, 9/ per :ton ; Tar—Arebange
19s per barrel.

RAILWAY SHAicis MARKETS*
BRISTOL, JAL 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was firm to-day llll
transactions were as follow :—Great Western, Quar".:re,
101/8 dis.—Midland, 501., 211/2 dis.—North Etafrordslo
9v2 dis.

LIVERPOOL, JAN. 15.
i• ed, STOCK EXCHANGE.—Business to-day was very Ara-it 0
and prices are somewhat lower. The transactions were
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follow :—last Lancashire, Preference, Quarters, 71. 6s.
Fifty
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 7% dig. c.—'.ittn,
(W. R. U.), dis.—London and North-Western, 115
New Quarters, 1% p.—Ditto, Fifths, 134 p.—Midland,
—Ditto, Halves, 223 —Ditto (Erewash Valley), 6°7'
Newcastle and Carlisle, 8.
MANCHESTER, JAN. 15. and
STOCK EXCIIANGE.--The market has been very firni
steady, at fair prices. The transactions were as
Caledonian, 8 7-16 c. Edinburgh and Glasgovi,,,, net
F,eetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction, ls. or&
share—Lancashire and Yorkshire (Manchester and Le to
1000, 42 dis.—Ditto, Fifths, 7% dis.—Ditto, 321. kpi6
Extension), 93/4 dis. —Ditto, (West Riding• Union), 6,l„,,th-
dis. Ditto, Preston and Wyre, 41 'Ai—London and e-w 9,16
Western, Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (C),
p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, Preference, %ire,
Ditto (Shetield and Lincolnshire), 4—North Stafford
9% dis.—South-Eastern and Dover (No. 4), Scrip, 6%. •
BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—Our share market was better to-duatc'
The transactions were— Shropshire Union, 3A
Staffordshire, 31. lls. 3d. dis. ex in.
YORK, JAN-. 14.
Srocx EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were
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follow : Caledonian, 11,4—North British, Halves, 'xis
York and North Midland, 18 VI.

GRAND TRUNK AND STAFFORD AND PEOlg„.
BOROUGH RAILWAY.—Yo iterday the winding-up f "'-
affairs of this company was proceeded with by the ilifo
ler in Chancery Brougham. From the report of I":
official manage-, Mr. Turquald, and Mr. Gedye, solet;
for to the estate, it appeared that the subscriptiklis
agreement was signed for 16,535 sharer, and °A
37,457/. was received by the provisional committee• of
return of one guinea per sha-r, a,ad a further return .d
2s. 6d. per share out of the 21. 2s. deposit had beenfoo,
back to the shareholders, but during the payment Tod
second instalment it was discovered that a &ell of
been commit:ed on the company by the presentati°7„ed
1,5001. f scrip, which had been improperly obtabl'oos
by some party from one of the scrip books wit, 000
payment of any deposit, and that the return c` g
guinea per share had been made thereon, als°11.1):to of
to 1,564/. It was also discovered thtit the rtto'-alle
one guinea, and of 2s. 6d. per share, had been Ire
on 200 sharer, which had been purchase] by the dilicho
tors with the funds of the company, and L11,..5t cao'
amount had been received by the secretary, wu°,lo-1 re!
not be fund. About 1,500 shares were 11'-ibei
among the provisional committee on which
paid deposits to the extent only of 8691. The b-ders
rat expenses of proceeding as far as standing or, to
was 15,302/. The liabilities are found to arnoutl" be
1,6914, and the assets, including 1,5641. sought to°„ripr
recovered from the directors on the spuriouS
and from the recrstary, to 2,492/. ; the balance 51t491.
bankers received by the official manager belligmode
Two calls of ss. per share respectively have betaA-tbe
on the contributories, to pay off the liabilities, eTi"of eta
expenses connected with the process of winding'eP
affairs.
eti"
TRADE OF SHEFFIELD.--It affords us much pl the
sure to be able to state that the general revival e"Ocea'
staple trades of Sheffield, to which we have of le.ted 030
sionally referred, continues :t-adily to progress, and it as
men of extensive observation and experience regerwer
the commencement cf a period of unequivocal OOP saf'
cial prosperity. The spring-knife trade, which he:sooted
fered from the late depression with almost uninitPooti'
severity, has at length regained a fair measure c' alive
vity. The operatives in that branch of industrYr .ocat•
to this fact, have issued a placard calling a public,:-„oing
ing ef their body, with a view to an origanizatiol3, 1),,-f the
fur its object an advance of Prices. " The object "side-
meeting (says the placard) will be to take into CODD
ration the best means cf improving our condition• ra4e.
a wee:-known fact, that from great depression of to Dot
and for want of proper thought and action, we hey" ,
bet n able to maintain a prop r position in societlieoloa
We also fully believe that from the increasing ur part
for our goods, an effort only need be made on 431!:,b Ore
to obtain that remuneration for our labour wh''

so justly deserve."—Sheffield Times. fel
FRENCH GRAIN.—A large proportion of the, meos
vessels which have, in consequence of the inc'e-per‘
weather and aiverse winds, be .n able to reach thedb
of London from foreign ports, have been laden is of
grain and flour, the produce of France. The arrivuo
this kind hays included several from Dunkirk se are of
from the principal shipping pt..rti of France, and
some if.t -Test and importance.

BIRTHS. •re' tile
On the 10th inst., at Hazlewood Castle, Yorksbi
H M
onOn t. rs. Vavasour, of a son. the Wit°
he 10th inst., at Tettenhall, Wolverhampton,
of J. Leigh, Esq., of twin daughters. ;cote'
On the 12th inst., in Chapel-street, the wife of ,-"
nant-Colonel Vansittart, of a daughter. the WO
On the 13th inst., at New W est-end, Hampstead, --
of W. M. Wilkinson, Esq., of a son. ti'
nlotle
On the 13th inst., at the Manor-house, Lechlade, htet•
tershire, the lady of George Milward, Esq., of a _da.ll,,girdea/jt
On the 13th inst., in Thurlce-square, Mrs. T. Rich
ale
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of a daughter.
On the 13th' inst., the wife of Mr. T. C. Savill, of tfi'"- i
, ' street, Strand, of a daughter. filfe a
On the 14th inst., in Clarges-street, Piccadilly, the
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W. A. Loch, Esq., of a daughter.
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MARRIED. ,T, 0 elVic
On the llth inst., at Terling, Essex, the Rev. - '1.00)1
bite
Ilighwood Vicarage, Writtle, youngest son of the to 1.0 8
Ovens, Esq., of Artigarvan-lodge, county of Tyrone! —Georg-
Pamela Sophia Lyon, only child of the late Captain
Francis Lyon, R.N. t' 'd
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On the 12th inst., at Trinity Church, Gray's Inn--r on'
11. Harris, Esq., of her Majesty's Customs, to Fsllnso .
a';e•
daughter of W. Horwe'l, Esq., of Mecklenburgh-sq—
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DlEDventOe'
On the 10th inst., at Chobham, Surrey, C.
E q., of Doctors', commons, cged . ► rectc't
On the 11th ing., at Brighton, the Rev. E. Bulroc
of Ilambledon, Surrey, aged 76. 1,013°'
On the 11th inst., at Torquay, aged 41, Soplua
wife of the Rev. T. P. Bridges, of Danbury, Essex' mig'
On the Ilth inst., in London, William Alexande.,.l.,7,tborP
son of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Fothergill, of 1,-Inb
r
Yorkshire, aged 21. 10',te
Oa the 12th inst., Mr. Daniel Fielding, of Clot-00
race, Islington, aged 74.

pev otert' J.

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Cu the 12th inst,, at Cawsand-house, near
Bellamy, Esq , aged 78. ea 49'
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On the 12th inst., at Weston-lodge, Delbysh'r,e'c,osac
the Hon. and Rev. Alfred Curzon, brothel of Loru.n.,.'"teo-1).1'
rector of Kedleston, in the above county, and .0."
Twyeross, Leicestershire.f tl3°
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On the 12th inst., at the Rector), Mary Aline' wife
Rev. A. Murray, rector of North -Waltham, Hants. iviloo
On the 13th inst., at Bognor, Sussex, Alexander 1
Schomberg, Admiral of the Blue, aged 76.

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No. 112 Strand, Printer, at The t,un 04Xce, as
Strand, in the Pre:Anct of the Savoy 'n the
rditidlena) Wedneaday; January 16, 1850.

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