The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-06 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Aug. 4.—There has been a better in-
quiry for 40-inch shirtings, but not a considerable in-
crease of business. Much. of this inquiry is no doubt
owing to the rather better advices by the last mail from
Calcutta. The great room there for the extension of
our markets in India is forcibly illustrated by the increase
of imports within a few years, the quantity of shirtings,
madapollams, jaeonete, and cambrics sent thither in the
last year, being 7,101,937 pieces, against 2,201,681 in
the year 1847-8. With a decrease, commencing this
week, in the pr eduction of these goods, equal to between
60,000 and 70,000 pieces per week, following diminished
shipments recently, there is much ground for hoping that
this great trade will sorn right: itself and manufacturers
re iliac more remunerative rates. In printing cloth a
moderate business, :end domestics are going off in mode-
rate quantities, with prices barely maintained. In yarns
the demand for warps and cops is very limited, and
prices are rather in favour of buyers. For India quali-
ties of mule yarn from 30's upwards, there is rather more
business, and prices are steadier,
BIRMINGHAM, Aug. 4.—The iron trade of the district
during the past week has maintained its improved posi-
tion, and orders are said to coins itt satisfactorily. There
has, however, been no, alteration in prices. Ironstone is
adyancing in price on account of its scarcity. The fac-
tors repro: eel: the country trade as improving, and more
particularly the demand for Birmingham goods is encou-
raging. Forges and heavy iron hardware are in request,
but hrass fmndry of all descriptions, if we except articles
required for the colonial markets, is extremely dul'.
Some founders -have little to do, and others are not
working more than half time. Electro-plating as well as
the tin-plate business is unusually slack. Bet although
these departments of manufacture continue depressed,
there are others in a state of oonAiderable activity.
The railway carriage business, considering the few new
railways projected, is extraordinarily active, and consi-
derable foreign orders are in hand for all parts of the
world. During the week deputations of merchants from
Bristol, Bradford, Worcester, the Potteries, &c., have
met in conference in Birmingham for the purpose of con-
sidering the propriety of establishing an agency in Lon-
don, through which all the proceedings of provincial
chambers of commerce relating to bills before Parliament
shall be more effectually directed. The deputations
present approved the proposal, and they were desired to
confer with the members of their respective chambers of
commerce at another meeting upon the subject.
NOTTINGHAM. Aug. 4.—The extent of business done
this week in the hosiery warehouses varies very little
from the amount transacted in each of the three or four
weeks previously. Prices of yarns continue firm at the
rates of last week. In the lace market there is but a
moderate amount of activity. The retail trades of the
town are just now very dull.
LEICESTER, Aug. 4.—The contracts for the Govern-
ment keep the hosiery trade tolerably brisk. There is,
however, not much demand for goods for home consump-
tion, and, contrasted with former years, there is by no
means an average amount of business doing. Still, in
some departments, trade may be said to be brisk. A
good deal is doing in the woollen shirt branoh. At Lei-
cester some of the hands are on strike. The worsted

mills are tolerably employed. Lambs' wool yarns (used
in the woollen shirt trade) are in demand. There is not
much doing in the wool market, manufacturers being
pretty well supplied.
LEEDS, Aug. 4.—The opening markets for the pre-
sent month in the two cloth-halls of this town to-day
have been of a satisfactory character. There has been a
fair average business done, and the stock in the White-
hall is very low, while that in the Coloured-hall is also
in a smaller compass than it has often been at this sea-
son of the year. The demand is rather increasing for
the stouter kincs of cloth of moderate quality, but small
quantities of various tweeds and mixtures continue tol
be purchased.. The wool trade is steady, but prices, both!
of colonial and home grown, are not quite so flash SI,
they were. ;
mtty s
week was not calculated to
DUBLIN, Aug. 3.—Owing to causes which we need.
not hi
and a succession of broken weather throu
impart a briskness to any
branch of trade. ed
not recapitulate, business continues sluggish in our

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EngIand:aLAUNCEL—A very interesting launch took place at
Liverpool last week, the North Lancashire Steam Navi.
gation Company having completed another of their ye
sels which are remarkable
sea boats. The vessel now launched has been named—c)--
the Patrick. She is intended to run between
Fleetwood
and Belfast, and will complete for the present
ar-
rangement for a daily communication betweenbwoitthh the exception of
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railwleaetywcaoordriaagneds and Ireland. The vessels leave
Belfast every evening in the week
Sunday, and at the former
wphoireth
1 a great convenience
run alongside the steamers,
to railway travellers,
and ad i
mid avoids the expense of cabs,
snporters, annoyance, i
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ca system ofd s tolln which is attended with
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some instances to railway
expenses.

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College, is in preparation at Cremorne Gardens. .For,-):;*
the institution, designed as a permanent memorial of the.._t
late Duke, the sum of 109,0001., has already been sub-- --7:- ~ Er'..--'; \-
scribed, but 26,000/. is wanting to carry out the desiFns ~.-{.,"
of the committee. The Queen and Prince Albert have . 't
subscribed liberally. A fete at Cremorne Gardens was
suggested. The proposal was readily and liberally n let . .
by Mr. Simpson, the proprietor, and preparations wile
immediately commenced to render the fete worthy- of
the occasion. It has been appropriately resolved tlnlt
the fete shall be military in its character. With this ii i-
tention the grounds of Ashburnham House, adjoining
Cremorne Gardens, are to be thrown open, in which
there is fast approaching completion a pictorial repre-
sentation of Sebastopol as seen from the rifle pits and
Mamelon, and a very well executed and delusive paint-
ing it is. In front of the Quarries and Mamelon, which
are erected on the ground before the picture, are real
trenches, real fascines and gabions, and real batteries.
These will be manned by about 500 actual and un-
doubted soldiers, and a representation of the storming .
of the Quarries is to be made, which is to comprise every
feature of the actual contest except the shot and the
wounds. During the day and evening every possible
resource of the establishment will be put into requisi-
tion to render the amusements continuous and varied.
There will be in Cremorne Gardens and 'the grounds of
AAiburnham House no less than six military bands, viz.,
those of the First Life Guards, the Horse' Guards
(Blue), the Grenadier. Coldstream, and Fusiher Guards,
and the Royal Artillery. The fete will take place 3u
Monday, the 13th inst., and will be under the direct
patronage of her Majesty and Prince Aibert, and of the
colonels and officers of the above-named regiments.

THE SUNDAY BEER BILL.

DEPUTATION TO THE EARL OF HARROWBY.
On Saturday a deputation, consisting of Mr, Foster,
president ; Mr. Harris, treasurer; Mr. Simes, secretary
of the Licensed Victuallers' Mutual Defence Associa-
tion ; Mr. W. Spirett, on behalf of the licensed vic-
tuallers of Leeds and operatives of Yorkshire ; and Mr.
George Candelet, representing amalgamated societies of,
Lancashire, waited on the Earl of Harrowhy, a member
of the Citiyitret,- to ask his lordship's support to Mr.
Berkeley's Bill to' Amend the Sunday Beer Act of last
session. Mr. Whitehurst, solicitor of the association,
accompanied the deputation, and stated its views.
Gentlemen representing the Lone on LicenSed Vic-
tuallers' Protection Society were alsagrfaent,and_stated _
to his lordship that they could add nothing to the rea-
sons urged by the Defence Association, to which they
gave their entire support.
The Earl of Harrowby expressed a general concur-
rence with the objects of the Defence Association, and
in reference to the bona-fide-traveller question said he
thought a traveller was one who was so far from his
home as not to render it convenient for him to return
there for refreshment. He said he had received a letter
advising that the word "traveller " should be struck out
of the act altogether.
Several members of the deputation thought that such
a come would only lead to fresh difficulties.
His lordship added that, without pledging the Govern-
ment, he might say that every disposition existed to ac-
cede to the views of the licensed victuallers, as expressed
by the deputation.
The deputation then withdrew, highly satisfied with
the interview.

MEDITERRANEAN ELECTRIC TELE-
GRAPE COMPAAVY.

The Mediterranean Electric Telegraph Company is on
the point of despatching their cable, which is shortly to
complete telegraphic communication between London
and Algiers. It will be remembered that last year 110
miles of cable were sent out from England, and laid
down between Spezzia and the most northern point of
Corsica. For this section of the line 90 miles of-cable, -
weighing eight tons to the mile, and containing six in-
sulated wires, were required ; the remainder was taken
to the straits between Corsica and Sardinia, and twelve
miles were laid down there, the communication having
in the mean time been completed along the island of
Corsica by land. The remainder, which had been sent
out to ensure a sufficient quantity, was then brought
home (in length about eight miles), and spliced to the
cable just about to be sent out. The communication
being now complete from London to Cagliari, in the
anuth of Sardinia, and the line from Algiers to Cape
Ronan, on the African coast, having been opened last
January, nothing is now wanted to complete the work,
and come under the guarantee mentioned above, than a
submarine cable from Cape Spartivento, adjoining Cag-
liari, to Bonan. This is the cable now lying coiled in
the hold of the ship Result, 1,700 tons register, belong-
ing to Mr. Green, of Blaekwall, and commanded by Mr.
Kell, the same gentleman who conducted the previous
operation so successfully. This cable is the largest
and heaviest, besides being the longest, ever laid
down. It is 150 miles long, each mile weighing
eight tons, and the whole cable weighing 1,200 tons.
This is exclusive of twelve miles of lighter cable sent
with it to avoid all chance of deficiency. This cable is
the manufacture of Messrs. W. Keeper and Co., of
Leadenhall-street. Its stowage demands the greatest care,
owing to the enormous weight, and to the circumstance
that it is all in one piece. Seventy one miles of it have
been put in the lower hold, forty-two miles on the orlop
(leek, thirty miles in 'tween decks, seven miles in the
after hold, and the twelve spare miles of what is called
small cable, although it weighs five tons to the mile, is
also on 'tween decks, and every one of these portions
has to be shored at very short intervals, to prevent the
movement of the cable. Altogether, the weight which
will be sent in this vessel will be 1,960 tons—a weight
which Captain Kell informed us with pride only made
her draw 22 feet 5 inches of water. In laying down the
last portion of the cable, that between Spezzia and Cor-
sica, it took five days, including the stoppage that had to
take place in cutting the cable, and going round to lay
the short lengths between Corsica and Sardinia. It is
expected that the present cable will be laid down in four
days. The Mediterranean Telegraph Company antici-
pate that in two years and a half they will have a direct
communication with Bombay, and from thence, by tele-
graphs already at work in the presidencies, to Calcutta ;
and they consider this line they are just about to com-
plete as only the preliminary steps to this result. Their
proposed line, joining the one at present open to Cagliari
at Cape Spartivento, will first be taken to Malta, and

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thence direct under the Mediterranean to Alexandria.
This will be an immense distance-984 miles of sub-
marine cable, without a station ; from Alexandria to
Suez, by land, 248 miles ; another submarine cable
under the Red Sea to Aden, with two stations, Cosiri
and Liddab, 1,552 miles, and from Aden to Bombay,
with stations at the Kooria Moorta Islands and Ras-al-
had. 1,907 miles. When this undertaking is complete
the communication with Calcutta, which now takes on an
average 36 days, will be reduced to a few minutes. Pro-
fessor Faraday, nbout two years ago, called the attention
of telegraph companies to the fact that there was great
difficulty in sending any communication through a greater
length of wire than 300 miles ; but since that time Mr.
Brett has been experimenting, with a view to overcome

this difficulty, and has perfectly succeeded in doing so.
By connecting each individual wire in this coil of six,
and also those belonging to another cable intended for
an American company, he was enabled to experiment on
a length of 1,250 miles with perfect success, and he has
prepared a new instrument for use with wires of great
length.

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.

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REPRESENTATION OP LEWES.—WO (Sussex Express)
understand that the next election for the borough of
Lewes will be contested, and that two gentlemen may
probably oppose the present members. One of the new
candidates is Sir Charles Blunt, Bart., of Heathfield-park,
the head of a family which represented the borough in
four successive Parliaments. We may add that the re•
cent vote given by the Hon. H. Brand in favour of the
Maynooth grant, will lead to the introduction to the
constituency of a very stanch advocate of Protestantism
in the person of H. Peters, Esq., a member of the
National Club, and who bas influential family connexions
in the neighbourhood of Lewes,

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