The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-21 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Manchester Guardian' of yesterday.)
MANCIIEiTER.—We are happy to be enabled to
state that the improvement which manifested itself
last week has continued down to the present time;
and that a more healthy feeling prevails in the market
than at any period for some time past. The large sales
of produce made under the operation of the new tariff
have liberated a considerable amount of capital which
had been for some time locked up, thereby placing addi-
tional means at the disposal of the more active and
enterprising merchants of the country; and, as a ge-
neral impression prevails that the prices of cotton ma-
nufactures are now at their lowest point, the inclina-
tion to make purchases for foreign markets has be-
come more general. Since Tuesday last, a very consi-
derable amount of business has been done in shirtings,
domestics, and ether goods suitable for shipping, and
also in yarn, especially in the numbers and qualities
adapted to the Russian market. In printingcloth no im-
provement has yet been manifested ; but we under-
stand, that some considerable orders for prints have
been received from the West Indies, Canada, and the
United States ; so that it is to be hoped, that that
description of cloth, which is now much depressed,
will, ere long, participate in the general increase of
demand. It is necessary to observe, however, that
hitherto, even in the fabrics that are selling the most
freely, little or no improvement of price has yet been
realized. In some descriptions of shirtings, an advance of
I:§d. to 3d. per piece was demanded yesterday by the
principal manufacturers, but it was not generally, if
at all, acceded to by the purchasers; and the amount
of business done was to some extent limited by the
demand. Indeed, it is not very probable that any
substantial improvement in prices can take placef un-
til, by the result of a good harvest, or by a change of
the Corn-law, the great bulk of the working classes of
this country, whose entire earnings are now absorbed
in the purchase of food, shall he enabled to procure
those supplies of clothing of which they stand so much
in need. In• order to show the operation of this cause
upon the market, we may observe, that the exports of
yarn from Hull during the first six months of the pre-
sent year show an enormous increase upon those of
the same period in 1841. The quantities in each year
are the following

1842. 1841.
Hamburgh bales 141 46.5 .... 11,787

Amsterd—am 72 .... 94
Rotterdam

St. Petersburgii 9,517 4,644

Gottenburgh v 307 . . 504
Other ports 2,567 .... 1,804

Total bales
This statement, it will be seen, exhibits an increase of
nearly 50 per cent. during the present year ; and, if
the home trade of this country had continued in a
healthy state, it would have been difficult, if not im-
possible, to supply the quantity that has been exported.
Owing, however, to the very great diminution in the
demand for manufactured goods, many of the spinners
who previously supplied the home demand have been
seeking their yarn for foreign markets, until those also
have been to some extent glutted.
ROCIIDALEFLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, JULY 18.—
There is a change in the flannel market to-day for the
worse. The pieces sold have been Thw, and the
buyers have offered lower prices, which, in numerous
instances, have been refused. The wool market is
much the same as that of the preceding Monday.

THE Bisnor or• WORCESTER.—We regret lo an-
nounce the severe indisposition of this Right Rcv.
Prelate, arising, in a great measure from his recent
t;om
polled to postpone his course of confirmations, which
he had already commenced.