The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-21 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

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The advices received since our last publication
from all parts abroad with which we have connexion
have been important, and generally of a character
very satisfactory, inasmuch as from present appear-
ances we may expect a continued good export de-
mand for manufactured goods, with a better chance
of remuneration to the shipper than fur a considerable
time past.
In the import trade we can notice no improvement
generally, and once more we have to report a very
gloomy market for cotton. The accounts from
America, in reference to the crop, are so univer-
sally in favour of the largest yield that has
ever been produced, that speculation has not been
thought of, and manufacturers, pressed by an eager
desire to realise on the part of holders, have made
their purchases this week at prices always id.
and occasionally id. per lb. below the rates current a
fortnight ago, whilst it may still be quoted as a re-
markable fact, that the spinners have taken less from
this market for consumption this year than they did
during the corresponding period in 1843. It can only
be supposed that more labour and less raw material is
now employed than was required for the heavy ma-
nufactures then produced.

The West India news is not of a very agreeable
nature. The planters had not recovered from the
discouragement occasioned by the measures in refer-
ence to their produce passed in the last session. Here
the prospect for them is iinproving, as sugar is daily
becomiig more valuable now that the first impulses
have given way to calm reflection, and buyers and
sellers both discover that they cannot, all at once, be
overwhelmed with an import of foreign produce.
The new trade in guano continues to be much
talked of, and reports as varied as possible are in cir-
culation in regard to the capacity of the islands to
furnish an adequate supply : it may be, however, that
every party is more guided in giving his opinion by
his wishes, and what his interest requires, than
by any duly authenticated facts that would
bear exposure to public view. It is a new,
and it may become an important trade, and we
should regret to see it interfered with unnaturally by
any premature speculation. So far, it has been of
vast advantage to shipowners, and we trust it will
prove equally satisfactory to agriculturists.
From the manufacturing districts, in every direc-
tion, the most satisfactory statements of improvement
continue to be received, and, with the present low
prices of corn, the prospect before us is gratifying.
.--Liverpool Mercury.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
THE LIGHT OF ALL NATIONS ON GOODWIN

SANDS. _ _
Union-street, Deptford, Sept. 20, 1844.
Gentlemen,—Having been engaged for several months
in erecting on the site of the caisson sunk on the Good-
win Sands by me during the autumn of 1842, an iron
column, with the twofold object of fixing thereon a red
light for the guidance of mariners, and for boring the
quicksand to ascertain its depth, with the ultimate view
of erecting a more permanent lighthouse, I have the
honour of informing you that I have already fixed the
column nine feet above high watermark, and shall, in the
course of the next fortnight (weather permitting), carry
it up to the height of 30 feet, and that on or before the
Ist of November next I shall show at the top of the co-
lumn a brilliant red light. The true bearings of the
other lights have not yet been ascertained accurately,
but shall be furnished to you in the course of next week.
I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen, your obe-
dient servant,

(Signed) WM. BUSH, C.E.
To the Committee for Managing the Affairs of Lloyd's.

THE him MIINICIPALITIES.—It has been sug-
gested to us to recommend that, after the banquet, which
is to take place in Dublin on the 18th instant, all the
Municipalities in Ireland should, as an aggregate corpo •
rate body, have a grand state banquet in the metropolis
—the day to be hereafter determined upon by the Li-
berator and the:several Mayors. We highly approve of
the suggestion, and trust that the various municipalities
will take the matter into consideration.—Drogheda
Mule