The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-24 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, July 23.—The dulness and depres-
sion which have so long characterised the market
generally still continue. The rather heavy arrivals
of East India cotton this week have helped to de"
press the cotton market, and this reacts upon the
Manchester market. Spinners and manufacturers
who happen to be free of stock, and who are makers
of classes of goods not in stock, but wanted, on
get orders for some weeks forward at prices cover
ing the reduced cost of cotton ; but these are exeeP'
tional cases only, and many manufacturers are
sill in the position of holding considerable stocks
of cloth made when the raw material was much
dearer, and which can now only be disposed of au,
a loss. The offers for goods iu stock are tua3tlY
at very low prices, and sellers anxious to realise
in some cases submit to them, but by no means
generally.
BLACKBURN, 221.—The dullness still continues'
Prices run from id. to d. per lb. lower than last
Wednesday. In consequence of the four or flee
days' holiday given by the Darwen manufacturers'
owing to the fair, business is interfered with to Wilt
extent, and less buyers are in the market. Sbers
time is considerably on the increase, many spinners
and manufacturers stopping portions of their 1:03
chinery.
BRADFORD, 23d.—Although there is rather les:
doing in the wool trade than on Monday, at the first
market in the week, yet there is much confidence'
and a fair business has been done in wool.
is some difference of opinion as to prices ; vvbo
4ne staplers say that quotations are rather stiller'
others maintain that on the whole prices remain a
they were. There is no doubt, however, that prices
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are extremely firm, if they are not in some instances
higher. The worsted yarn trade rules quiet. Super
30's, single, with the exception of some low-Pr'efe,
sorts, are somewhat neglected. The principal
mand is in 36's and 40's, single, on home acconn:
The demand for two-fold yarns is less active. .11.
nappe and carded yarns are in little request. SPina
ners generally are well employed on old orders, an
prices are firm. The piece trade is quiet. There
is little doing for either home, the Continent, er
America. Many houses, however, are, after n°l3.
siderable activity in buying, now engaged chiefly 10
shipping goods. Prices are weak.

ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN TURKEY.—The
Zill, a local Armenian paper, gives the following latest re;
sults of an affair mentioned by us at the time :—" hod
readers will remember that the murderers of a Y°l-I,`"
Armenian couple who were strangled in bad on thqir
riage night, at Hinsk, in tha province of Erzeroure,
b3en been discovered, tried, and condemned accordingt "1",
law. The central authorities, however, having r 000137
learned that the sentence had not only not been execute"
but that the culprits were still at large in their villa'-;
one of them an Armenian Catholic priest, even contin'li.lie;
to discharge his clerical duties -has ordered all the Ptill'be,
to be sent to Constantinople, whore the priest Wil'ue
signed to the bagnio for life, and his two accomplie@sa t
condemned for 15 years of the same punishment."—Ler-

_Herald. DOC
Most of the corn in the county of Essex is
cut.

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