The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-01 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Dec. 30.—1 n shipping yarns sellers
report a much more eheerful market to-day, and a
good active business has been done at Tuesday's
prices. In home trade yarns there has also been a
steady business, but the least attempt to advance
prices has checked operations. In cloth, up to yes-
terday, the depression in prices continued without
abatement. The trade here has been so accustomed
to find, when the annual stock-taking cif cotton at
Liverpool came, a heavy surplus beyond the week-
to-week returns had given, that to-day they have
been taken rather by surprise that there is a defi-
ciency of 18,030 bales, instead of a surplus. Eigh-
teen thousand bal.s are not many (a third of a
week's consumption) at a time when the cable from
New York reperts 98,000 for the last week's r,_-
ceipts, against 72,000'" same time last year, and a
shipment hither of 73,000 bales, against 32,000 for
the same week last year; but still the surprise has
had a certain effect. Cotton has advanced ?id. per
lb., and in yarns and cloths sellers have made seri-
ous attempts to improve values. Manufacturers
have shown a decided disposition to withhold their
stocks, but it has simply made sales difficult, so that
there has only been a limited business. Buyers will
not operate at even a shade of advance. At the
lowest prices of last week, and which were quoted
yesterday, a large business could have been done.
The advices from India and China continue dis-
couraging—indeed, very bad—and it is only at very
low rates merchants can be induced to operate.
Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report of this day's
cloth market :—" During the week a fair business
was done, especially in goods from stock, but the
prices obtained were on the lowest scale. The re-
ported deficiency in the stock of cotton in this coun-
try has imparted some steadiness to our market to-
day, but we do not find buyers much influenced by
it, and close with a very limited business."
CARDIf, 30th.—'there is no altera.tiou of im-
portance
‘to, reporttin the demand for steam coal,
business being tolerably good, and prospects are of
a reassuring character. For a week or two about
Christmas time the collieries are as a rule only par-
tially employed, and this year has been no excep-
tion from the usual Custom, the result of which has
been that in many instances vessels have been de-
tained, and some inconvenience and loss have neces-
sarily followed. France, the Mediterranean ports,
and the mailpacket stations are taking about an
average quantity, the purchases of the mail com-
panies being slightly on the increase. In the house
coal trade, quietness continues to prevail, and the
demand from the West of England and Irish mar-
kets is not such as to keep the collieries in regular
employ. The prices obtained are comparatively
low, and it is not improbable that the reduction at
the ironworks will be followed by a like movement
in the coal trade, for it is generally agreed that the
proportion between wages and prices is much less
at the present time than a few years ago. There
is no improvement in the tin-plate trade, and the
order-books are rather bare. In all branches of
iron manufacture dulness prevails, and the works at
Merthyr and Aberdare are indifferently employed.
Stocks have not decreased, but it is fully expected
that early next year there will be a revival in the
trade.

LEEDS, 31st.--The closing markets of the year
1867 in the cloth-halls of this town have to-day been
quite as active as could be expected, considering
the depression which has more or less characterised
the trade for the greater part of the year. There
was only a limited number of buyers, but fully as
many as last Tuesday, and among them were repre-
sentatives of both Manchester and Yorkshire houses.
Thera was rather mor3 inquiry for spring fabrics
than yet observed in the public markets, and a
hopeful feeling was generally entertained that the
dulness of the woollen trade of this district, which
has for so long prevailed, is lessening. The goods
chiefly in demand to-day were fancy coatings,
meltons, and tweeds. The purchases were in
several instances only by the way of samples, and
therefore were small. No great bulk of any kind
of goods changed hands,; but this is a common
feature of the public market, it now becoming
more and more the practice of merchants to give
orders for goods accoriling to. pattern. There was
no marked change in paces, which are now steadier
than we lately had to note them, when the prices
of colonial wool appeared to be declining to such an
extent as was likely to have an effect on the prices
of cloth. Wools, too; are steady, but there is not
much business doing.
ROCHDALE, 30th.—There was a poor attendance
of buyers in the flannel market to-day, and the
same quietness prevailed as last week. The tone of
the market was firm as to prices, and there was a
general feeling expressed that trade will improve
as soon as stock-taking is over and yearly accounts
are balanced. There was little done in Yorkshire
goods and wools, and the prices of both are nomi-
nally the same as last week.

CHANGES IN THE LEGISLATURE
DURING THE YEAR.

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During the year 1867 20 members of the House
of Peers have been removed by death. Their names
and ages are as follows :—The Duke of Northum-
berland, 89 ; the Marquis of Exeter, 71 ; the Earl
of Mayo (Irish representative) 70 ; Earl of Moray,
70 ; the Earl of Kingston, 69 ; the Earl of Rosso
(Irish representative), 67 ; the Earl of Camper-
down, 54 ; Earl Pomfret, 42 ; Earl Brownlow, 24 ;
the Bishop of Lichfield, 79 ; tho Bishop of Roches-
ter, 69 ; Lord Fitzhardinge, 79 ; Lord Kingsdown,
73 ; Lord Aveland, 72 ; Lord Colchester, 69 ; Lord
Feversham, 69 ; Lord Wrottesley, 69 ; Lord Gray
of Gray (Scotch representative), 68 ; Lord Pol-
warth (Scotch representative), 66 ; Lord Llanover,
64. Of these peerages the earldom of Pomfret and
the baronies of Kingsdown and Llanover have be-
come extinct. On the other hand two new peer-
ages have been created by the elevation of the Right
Hon. Duncan M'Neill and Sir Hugh Cairns, and
Lord Rivers became entitled to take his seat on the
decease of his nephew, a, minor. The elections to
the representative peerages have been those of the
Earl of Lauderdale and Lord Elphiustone in Scotland,
and the Earl of Annesley and Lord Dunboyne in
Ireland. During the y9ar no peer has become en-
titled to take his seat-ty right of majority, but in
1868 no few than six noble lords' will come of. age,
viz.—..the DUke of N'crifolk,". December 27 ; the
Marquis of Bute, September 12.; the Marquis of
Huntley, March 5 ; the Earl of Ellesmere, April 6 ;
Earl Ferrers, January 24 ; and the Earl of Ilches-
ter, September 13. The changes in the Commons
may be thus briefly summarised :—At Andover,
early in the Session, Sir John Karslake, then re-
cently appointed Solicitor-General, was elected in
the room of Mr. Humphrey, resigned. At Birming-
ham Mr. Dixon was returned in succession to Mr.
Scholefield, who died at the age of 58. At Boston
Mr. Parry was elected, vice Mr. Staniland, resigned.
At Bradford Mr. M. W. Thompson succeeded Mr.
Wickham, who died at the age of 67. At Colchester
Mr. E. K. Karslake, Q.C., has taken the place of
Mr. Taverner Miller, who resigned through ill-
health. In Cork county, Mr. Smith Barry was re-
turned in the room of Mr. G. R. Barry, who died at
the age of 41. At Coventry, Mr. Henry Jackson
was elected in succession to Mr. Treherne, who died
at the age of 64. At Dowupatrick Mr. Keown has
replaced Mr. Tier, resigned. Dublin University
has had two now members in the year—Mr. Chat-
terton, now Vice-Chancellor of Ireland, and the
Right Hon. R. R. Warren, the present Irish At-
torney-General. In the representation of Galway
borough Mr. George Morris succeeded his brother,
the Right Hon. Michael Morris, now a judge in
the Irish Court of Common Pleas. In Galway
county Viscount .Canning-Burke has taken the
seat, previously held by his brother, Lord Dun-
kellin, who died at the age of 40. In West Glou-
cestershire Colonel E. A. Somerset was returned
vice Sir John Rolt, now Lord Justice of Appeal in
Chancery. Iu South Leicestershire, Mr. T. T.
Paget has succeeded Mr. C. W. Puke, who died
at the age of 75. At Manchester Mr. Jacob Bright
is the sitting member in succession to Mr. Edward
James, Q C., who died at the age of 60. In Middle-
sex, Mr. H. Labouchere was returned in the room
of Mr. Hanbury, who died at the age of 43. In
Rutland Mr. G. Finch succeeded the Ton, Gilbert

Heathcote; now Lord Aveland. • In North North-
amptonshire, Mr. S. Stopford was elected, vice Lord
Burghley, now Marquis of Exeter. In North'Salop,
Viscount Newport has succeeded the Hon. A. W.
Cust, now Earl Brownlow. At Stroud, on the re-
signation of Mr.Poulett Scrope, the seat w as taken by
Mr. Winterbotham. in East Suffolk, t.Mr. Cor-
rance was returned in succession to Sir 1?.. C. Ker-
rison, resigned. In Sutherlandshire, Lord Ronald
Leverson-Gower succeeded Sir David Dundas, re-
signed. At Weymouth, Mr. Henry Edwarde. vas
elected in the place of Capt. Gridley, resigned. At
Thetforl the Lord Advocate of Scotland stieeeeded
Mr. A. 11. B tiring, resigned. It the North Riding
of Yorkshire the lion. o.ktvins Dancomlnfills the
seat previously occupied by the Hon. W. E. Dan-
combo, now Lor I FevershAm. There are two seats
now vacant—Westmoreland, in consequence of the
de.ith of Col. the lion. H. C. Lowther, at the age
of 77 ; and Kirkcudsright, through the death of
Mr. Mackie, at the age of 46. `fhe result of the
year's Parliamentary changes has beep that, the
Liberals have made a net gain of one seat. They
displaced Conservatives at Coventry and in South
Leicester, while, on the other hand, a Conservative
has succeeded the Hon. G. Heathcote, a moderate
Liberal, in the representation of the county of
Rutland. The average age of the peers who have
died is 66 ; of members of the House of Coin-
mons, 58.

POLICE INTELLIGENGE.—This Day.

WESTMINSTER.

FORTUNATE DEtECTION OF ROBBERS.—An active
looking fellow, who gave the name of William
Powsay, was placed at the bar, charged with being
found aiding and abetting in the commission of a
burglary.

James Orr, of 11, Moreton-place, Pimlico, ,said,
" I was sitting at a little before..lo, o'clock „last
night, in the kitchen down stairs, when I heard
"'click," resembling the removal- of= the latch of
the 'street door. I suspected that: there Was
something wrong, and went up stairs.
When I got to the passage I found the
street door wide , open, and prisoner stand-
ing on the steps. He must have seen or heard me,
for when I got into the passage he gave a signal to
some one, which was answered by another man
running out of the front parlour with his arms full
of clothes. I gave an alarm and followed the pri-
soner and the other man, who ran together down
a number of streets into Warwick-square, where
I charged them with the robbery. The other man
escaped.

Mr. Arnold—What became of the arm fnll of
clothes ?

Witness—The man threw them down before they
began running.
Mr. Arnold—Was the latch of the door left
fastened ?

Mr. Dunham (the landlord)—lt was.
Prisoner—l don't know anything about it.
Remanded till Monday.

MARLBORO UGH-STREET.

NIGHT MARAUDERS. —IV in larn Lee, Alfred Sher-
wood, Catherine Guinard, and Susannah Cullen
were charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with loitering in
Oxford-street for the purpose of committing a

B. Webb, a plain clothes officer of the C
saw the prisoners in Oxford-street, and sus-
pecting them he followed them about for a consi-
derable time, and watched them, and saw the fe-
male prisoners stop several gentlemen, the male
prisoners being before them and sometimes behind
them, and occasionally standing on the opposite side
of the way waiting for them, and ready to receive
anything from the female prisoners.
Sherwood said that he was ou his way home from
the Victoria Theatre when he met the prisoners,
and was going with them to have a cup of coffee
when they were taken into custody.
The female prisoners said they met the men, and
they were invited to have some coffee, and they
were going to have it when they were stopped by
the constable. They !icier, spoke to any gentle-
men.

JosePli'Lane, 216 D, said that Lee had been con-
victed 'Of larceny, and was a constant associate of
thieves, 'and walked the streets all night. Several
of Lee's companions had been convicted, and he
knew Sherwood as a companion of Lee.
Lee said he was never locked up in his life.

Lane said that Lee had been convicted ten times
for assaults on the police, the last time on Monday
last, when he was fined 40s. at Marylebone Police-
court.

Patrick Geraghty, 26 D, gave similar evidence
to Lane, and said that Lee was the worst character
be knew, and was in the habit of prowling about
the streets all night with bad characters, trying to
fall across drunken men. He had seen Sherwood
in custody at Marylebone, and had cautioned the
female prisoners several times.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said he had no doubt the female
prisoners were hunting for drunken men to rob
them, and the male prisoners lying in ambush in
case their services were required. He should com-
mit the male prisoners for three months each, and
the females for a month each.