The Sun. — 1867-03-23 (London, England)

STATE OF TRADE.  MANCHESTER, March 22.—The yarn market has been very flat to-day for all descriptions. In shipping yarns buyers show no desire to operate, but rather an inclination to wait, and the sales made have been effected at lower prices than on Tuesday. Home trade yarns are very flat, and sellers have lost all the improvement in prices gained up to Tuesday. Buyers will only give the lowest prices of last week. The cloth market is, if anything, flatter than on Tuesday. It did not improve to the extent of the yarn-market, though the impetus given to yarns by the recent advance of cotton at Liverpool, but it is now quite as inactive and depressed as it has been at any time within some months past. There is very little inquiry making with a view of testing prices, even where no business is contemplated; and the only offers making are at still lower prices than the depressed rates which sellers are quoting. The only fresh commercial advices affecting the market since Tuesday are those from Liverpool in connexion with cotton. One of the main hindrances to business is the absence of confidence still as to the ultimate prices at which cotton may be expected to continue with any steadiness. CARDIFF, 21st.—The severe weather which has prevailed during the last few days has proved a great obstruction to trade, and complaints are general of the slackness of employment. The long continued easterly winds have prevented the arrival of a number of vessels that have been waiting at different points of refuge, and which are already chartered to carry either coal or iron to the foreign markets. For steam coal there is some movement in the continental inquiry, and if it had not been for the scarcity of tonnage a very fair business would now be done. Home coal proprietors keep their collieries going with difficulty, the demand in many instances not being equal to anticipations, and the shipments are somewhat below the returns for the corresponding period of last year. Inland buyers are taking about an average quantity. Coke commands a slow sale, and the reduction in the wages of the burners is expected to be carried out without opposition. The virtual defeat of tne American Tariff Bill has been an agreeable surprise to the district, for it was generally supposed that a more restrictive tariff was certain to pass. It .1s hoped that the result will not be any falling off 111 the purchases of American houses. East India orders are looked forward to, and home engagements for railway iron are also expected. Aberainan works have been almost entirely stopped, and the new proprietors intend confining their operations to the working of the coal measures.  RESIGNATION OF TAE IRISH LORD CHANCELLOR•  --Saunders' News of yesterday states, on " the best authority," that Lord Chancellor Blackburne has resigned. An AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF FRANKLIN'S WaEl exhibited at General Sabine's conversazione. It runs thus  —" Philada., July 5, 1775.—Mr. Strahan—You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction. You have begun to burn our Towns, and murder our People. Look upon your Hands They are stained with the Blood of your Relations! You and I wore once Friends :--You are now my enemy, and I am yours,—B.