12 SEPTEMBER 1863, Page 3

It seems that we were not quite accurate in saying' °

this day fortnight that the price of all our linens has kept so far above the price of our cottons that the latter are still invariably the cheaper material. The Belfast Northern Whig, in an able article has shown that there are now linens of a coarse kind not only relatively but absolutely cheaper than cottons. We have before us samples of an Irish power-loom linen at 51d.

yard, and calico at gd. a yard. The linen is undoubtedly the better and more durable, as well as the cheaper article of the two, though naturally somewhat coarser.