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

STATE OF TRADE.

,
MANCHESTER, July 23.—The dulness and nepres-
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, can
get orders for some weeks forward at prices cover-
ing the reduced cost of cotton ; but these are excep•
tonal cases only, and many manufacturers are
still 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 at
a loss. The offers for goods in stock are mostly
at very low prices, and sellers anxious to realise
in some cases submit to them, but by no means
generally.

BLACKBURN, 22d,—The dullness still continues.
Prices run from id. to id. per lb. lower than last
Wednesday. In consequence of the four or five
days' holiday given by the I)arwen manufacturers,
owing to the fair, business is interfered with to some
extent, and less buyers are in the market. Short
time is considerably on the increase, many spinners
and manufacturers stopping portions of their ma-
chinery.

BRADFORD, 23d.—Although there is rather less
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. There
is some difference of opinion as to prices ;
while
some staplers say that quotations are rather stiffer,
others maintain that on the whole prices remain as
they were. There is no doubt, however, that prices
arc 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-priced
sorts, are somewhat neglected. The principal de-
mand is in 36's and 40's, single, on home account.
The demand for two-fold yarns is less active. GC-
nappe, and carded yarns are in little request. Srge-
uers generally are well employed on old orders, and
prices are firm. The piece trade is quiet. There
is little doing for either home, the Continent, or
America. Many houses, however, are, after con:
siderable activity in buying, now engaged chiefly 111
shipping goods. Prices are weak.

ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN TURKEY.—Th°
Zill, a local Armenian paper, gives the following latest re-
sults of an affair mentioned by us at the time :—" Our
readers will remember that the murderers of a young
Armenian couple who were strangled in bad on their niar-
riage night, at Musk, in the province of Erzeroum, bad
been been discovered, tried, and condemned according to
law. The central authorities. however, having roceutil
learned that the sentence had not only not been executed,
but that the culprits were still at large in their village--
one of them an Armenian Catholic priest, even continuing
to discharge his clerical duties —has ordered all the parties
to be sent to Constantinople, where the priest Will be
signed to the bagnio for life, and his two accomplices 11
condemned for 15 years of the same punishment."—Lev°
Herald.
Most of the corn in the county of Essex is noW
cut.