The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-31 00:00:00

GREECE.

We have received Athens journals to the 18th inst.
The elections were going on, and, contrary to the
general expectation, they had not led to any dis-
turbance of public tranquillity. There were not
sufficient returns at the above date, to lead to any
positive interference as to the respective strength of
parties.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—It was expected that the
complexion of the reports from America, as to the
growing crop of cotton, wonld have imparted addi-
tional strength to our market. But the Liverpool
speculators having remained quiet, a sympathetic
feeling has, as usual, shown itself on our Exchange.
A telegraphic announcement of the actual movement
of Austrian troops towards Hesse-Cassel has, how-
ever, contributed still more to restrain operations.
This has been very evident among the German mer-
chants, whose purchases to-day have been much smaller
than they were last Tuesday ; for, though they have a
general persuasion that war will be avoided, there is
yet enough of danger to render them, for the moment,
increasingly cautious. The India houses, having
cleared the market of various numbers, are necessarily
pausing at present. The home manufacturers, whose
consumption of yarn is materially diminished, are
still buying extremely little. Although, however,
there has been a want of animation in this deparment,
the spinners have made no change in their quotations,
and a general firmness grevails. For doubled yarns,
from 60's to upwards of 100's, there continues to be
some call ; but fine single, of good quality, is still ne-
glected. The cloth market is generally steady as re-
gards prices, but inanimate and the transactions by
no means considerable. Light printing fabrics are
more depressed than most other articles.
ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—The flannel market con-
tinues much the same as it was the preceding Mon-
day. The buyers are offering less money for pieces ;
and, in some cases, lower prices have been taken. The
manufacturers purchase the raw material very spar-
ingly, and seem to have no fear of prices getting up.
MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—The manufacturing
interest of this town are now complaining much of
the dulness of trade; and many weavers, we under-
stand, are waiting for employment. On the whole,
the autumn trade has not proved so satisfactory as
was anticipated. The throwsters continue fairly sup-
plied with work; and, up to the present, we hear of
no lack of employment in this department. The
market for thrown silk is, however, very unsatisfac-
tory ; prices of the article being scarcely more than
those now demanded for the raw material. There is
no new feature to note in the raw silk market since
our last publication.
HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—There is a continued
depression in the state of our market, which, indeed,
seems to be generally expected at this time of the
year, being between the seasons. We have had
scarcely any buyers in town during the week, and
nobody buys, except fur immediate wants. Fancies,
and light goods g-nerally, are in the best demand.
Ilattrax, SATURDAY.-Our Piece Hall has been
but slenderly attended to-day, and there is not much
disposition to purchase worsted goods, except at a re-
duction to which the manufacturers cannot assent,
as the advanced rates on goods have never kept pace
with the repeated advances on yarn. The yarn
trade is in a rather stagnant condition. The mer-
chants are struggling for a fall in the quotations ; and
the xnanuFacturer3, in the face of a firmer state of the
wool market, refuse to give way. A fair business is
doing in long wool, at a trifling improvement in
price. Short wools are a little firmer, but not much

doing.
LEEDS, TucsnAr.—The markets both to-day and
Saturday have bean tolerably attended, and more
business has been done. Heavy winter goods met
with a ready sale • and, with approaching cold
weather, the demand for this description of goods
may still improve.

QUARTERLY RETURN OF MARRIAGES,

BIRTHS, AND DEATHS.

This return, just published by authority of the Re-
gistrar-General, comprises the births and deaths re-
gistered by 2 189 registrars in all the districts of
England during the summer quarter ending Septem-
ber 30, 1850; and the marriages in more than 12,000
churches or chapels, 2,869 registered places of
worship unconnected with the Established Church,
and 623 superintendent registrars' offices, in the
quarter that ended June 30, 1850.
The :turn of marriages is not complete; but the
defects are inconsiderable, and have been supplied from
previous years.
The general result of the return is favourable
in a high degree; the marriages in the spring
quarter are more numerous than in any correspond-
ing quarter of the last twelve years ; so also are
the births in the summer quarter; and the deaths
are 86,044 instead of 135 358, which they were
in the quarter ending September, 1849, when
cholera ravaged the chief towns of the kingdom. The
decrease of deaths implies necessarily the decrease of
sickness and suffering ; the increase of marriages and
births indicates improvement in the condition and
prospects of the great body of the people.

MARRIAGES,

The marriages in all England in the quarter ending
June 30, 1850, were 39,018, The numbers in the
spring quarter declined rapidly from 1846 to 1848,
and roe still more rapidly up to 1850; thus following
and portraying the state of the country. London, Che-
shire, Lancashire, the West Riding of Yorkshire, and
South Wales presented the greatest fluctuations,
and the greatest increas3 of marriages in the June
quarter, 1850. Thy marriages increased in Middle-
sex, Hertford, and Buckingham; in Essex and Suf-
folk the marriages declined, as they did also in Devon
and Cornwall; in Shropshire, Staffordshire, Worces-
tershire, and Warwickshire—the coal and iron re-
gions—the marriages increased; they increased
also in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, and Der-
byshire—the seats of the thread, lace, and
other manufactures. In the great agricultural county
of Lincoln, the fluctuation was in an opposite direc-
tion ; the marriages rose from June, 1846, to June,
1848, and then declined. In the East and North
Ridings, in Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland,
and Westmoreland, in Monmouthshire, and North
Wales, the marriages increased in 1850. The marriages
in Portsmouth and Plymouth declined, in Bristol and
Cheltenham they increased ; in Stoke-upon-Trent
(the potteries), in Coventry, and in Birmingham,
Liverpool, and Manchester, the increase was consi-
derable. It was still greater in Leeds ; Halifax and
Sheffield shared in the general advance. Hull, Wol-
verhampton, and Salisbury—where cholera was ex-
ceedingly fatal in 1849—have little more than the
average marriages.