The Sun. — 1827-04-05 (London, England)

MANCHESTER, APRIL 2.—The reported sales of Cotton for the last week have exceeded, in the number of bags, the quantity calculated to be required by the spinners for the consumption of a week; and although the prices have not altered very materially, yet they have rather bad a tendency to decline. The yarn trade has been decidedly heavy and a shade lower, and the stocks begin to accumulate. This circumstance, at this season of the year, must, of necessity, create very unpleasant feelings amongst the spinners, who reasonably expected to have been better employed. That there are orders in the market is true, but they are offered at prices so low, that few will accept them, unless compelled by necessity. Goods are, in a measure, in a similar situation to yarns, as respects both the price and demand : particular sorts are at a shade lower, and, when offered at a reduced price, purchasers are found for tolerable quantities. Two or three failures have taken place, but, fortunately, not for sums of much importance; they, however, add to the deapondency which the unprofitable state of the Cotton trade had previously created. Till there are fewer goods made, things must remain as they are. We make more goods than the people want or cam.. Filly for ; and, as the United States people, as well as thrrople at Rouen, and other parts of the ontinent, are doing the same thing-you must expect to hear from hence the cry of bad times. If the producers of grain could apply machinery, as we do to the production of Cotton goods, you would shortly have the quartern loaf at a penny or two-pence, and then Sir Thomas Lethbridge would, indeed, be forced to go without a coat. The National Debt, and taxation, and tithes, and poor-rates, have nothing whatever to do with our situation, which has been entirely brought about by the excessive quantity of goods made. LA PERousE.—lt would appear from the following extract of a letter, dated Port Louis (Isle of France), Dec. 19, that some intelligence has at length been obtained of the fate of this unfortunate navigator :—" We have advice' here of the celebrated navigator Monsieur La Perouse's sword having been found by the commander of a ship who touched at one of the Molucca Isles. The inhabitants say that she was driven on shore in a tempest ; and, in consequence of some misunderstanding, they fired a broadside on shore, and in return they all were murdered, at least the greater part of them. It appears his name is very distinct on the sword." The journeymen ship carpenters of this port, a class of tradesmen who have long exercised a species of dictation towards their employers, and who prescribe the terms upon which they will sell their labours (the right to do which we do not dispute, so long as neither violence held on nor intimidation is employed to enforce their resolutions), ago. At this meeting it was held a meeting a few days unanimously resolved, that, in future, the master shall take wria, communicated to the one apprentice only to every gang of six men whom they minaasyteerms,plwoh.o, TathisaFriday last, unanimously resolved to resist the dictation of the journeymen, and to close their yards. The resolution was carried into effect on Saturday, on which day all the :ship-building yards in the port were closed. Several of the merchants resolutionmeeting and shipowners have, we understand, declared their determination to support the masters in resisting what they deem a very unreasonable demand on the part of the journeymen. Since the preceding remarks were written, we have received a statement from the master shipwrights, which is inserted among the advertisements....—Liverpool Albion of Monday.