The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-10 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

BLACKBURN, July B.—We cannot record any
improvement in our market to-day. The attend-
ance of spinners and manufacturers on 'Change
were much below the average, and although prices
were slightly in favour of buyers, as compared with
the quotations on the Manchester Exchange the
preceding day, business could hardly be effected.
BRADFORD, 9th.--The wool-market to-day is un-
usuallyand the quantity of wool changing
hands is qieisuexttremely small. The large quantity of
good wool now brought forward tends to prevent
consumers from operating beyond the supplies of
pressing demands. Some are waiting to see whe-
ther wool will go any lower in price, and are quite
unwilling to purchase. Some staplers, believing
that prices will not be lower, hold to their quota-
tions with great firmness, while others, who have
less confidence on this point, are more disposed to
meet the buyer. Middle and inferior sorts of wool
are still easier, but fine choice lustre wools are firm
in price. The worsted yarn trade is quieter than
it was. Still there is a steady business doing both
on export and home account, with a softening ten-
dency in price in some quarters. The piece trade is
unusually quiet, the demand for every quarter being
small and prices weaker.

IROYMASTERS' QU.iIeTERLI MEETLYG.

BIR3IINGHAM, Thursday Evening.

The second of the quarterly meetings of the iron-
masters of this district was held in the Town Hall
this afternoon. There was a large attendance, all
the great iron producing firms in this and other
districts being represented, as were also the
dealers and the various shipping houses. The
amount of business transacted was nat large, but
there was an unquestionable improvement in that
respect on the two previous quarter days of this year.
The tone was better, and the prevailing feeling was
that as soon as the hot weather is over the trade will
look up; in fact, the orders given out at this meet-
ing showed an improvement, which is general as
regards all descriptions of finished iron. There
was no approach to buoyancy tc-day, but producers
left the hall with a feeling of more confidence and
cheerfulness than for the last eighteen months at
least.

There is a fair demand for Staffordshire pig-iron,
all mine ; to quote prices is to convey a vague idea
only as to the quotations in transactions of this co►n•
modity, so varied in quality is the make ; but the
particular class of iron above referred to is £3 ss. to
£3 7s. 6d. per ton.
The contracts for Shropshire iron were entered
into as usual; prices firm.

The Royal Commission on Courts-martial met
yesterday at the E Committee-room, House of Lords, and
proceeded thence to visit the military prison at South-
wark. Present—the Chairman, Colonel Wilson-Patten,
Lieutenant-General Peel, Mr. J. R. Mowbray, Lieutenant-
General Sir James Yorke Scarlett, K.C.8., Lieutenant-
General Henry Eyre, Major-General Sir A. H. llorsford,
K.C.8., Colonel Lowther, C. 8., and Mr. S. Whitbread,
M.P. The secretary, Mr. J. L. Wharton, also attended.
All receive with satisfaction the announcement, that in
consequence of the Reduction in Duty, Horniman's Pure
Teas are sold Bd. per pound Cheaper. 2,500 Authorised
Agents—Confectioners in London and Chemists in the
provinces—Fapply liornioares lea only in Packeta.

IvOILEJGN KAILWAYb.
Antivrrp and Rotterdam, ICi
tailia and San Francisco, gua. 7 per cent,' lit
Bel,gianLuNx;aesmtebrnourg, Junction,i2r
Gaut

FOILEIGN MINICF.
Chocitales Gol and. Silver Mining,
1-16
Itossa Grande,
St. John del Hey, lim , 13

DOCKS
Freehold Land and Duck, 321

Alliance, Um., 15
rk o- uta tri , 121
Anglo Egyptian, lim., 181
Anglo Hungarian, 10
Ch atered .ter. o!' Ludia, London, and China, 281
Consolidated, lim., 4: 11-16
imperial Ottoman, Hi i
Loudon Chartered Dana of Australia, 221
Loudon and County, 494- so:
Loudon Joint Stock, 13
Loudon and %1 estininster,
Ditto, Scrip, 47)
Union oi'Amitralia, 491
Union of Loudon, Z. 3:

aIISCILLLANEOUS.
Atlantic Telegraph,
Ditto, S pur cent , 931
Berlin Water Works, 5
Continental Union Gas, HIM. 15
Crystal Palace, 27 6i
ELtyptian ti per Cent., Viceroy Loan, gua SS&
Fore-street Warehouse, link, 12i
Gen. Credit and Discount, link, bf
Uudson's Bay, 154
international Financial Society, lim, 31
London Provincial Telegraph, lim., 3/
Loudon v'inancial Association. Bin— 8i
Madras Irr,gation and canal (guaranteed 5 per cent. by
India Government), 1014
National viscount company. Ili
eninsula and Oriental steam, 55}
Neuter's Telegram, 251
Viceroy of Egypt (Mortgage) Loan, 711