The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-03 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Oct. 2.—We have had a dull and very
depressed market this morning. In addition to the let-
ters from India, those from most other foreign markets
are of a discouraging character ; and business has been
disturbed by all kinds of unfavourable rumours respecting
the money market. One of these reports affects the sta-
bility of the Bank of France and the Credit Mobiiier, and
is mix3d with a good deal of speculation as to the proba-
bility of our own national establishment, in the exigencies
which may follow upon monetary difficulties in the neigh-
bouring country, having to suspend cash payments.
These rumours and speculations have met with more
or less consideration among different circles, but the
general tone of the market, from w:ratever cause, is one
of greater discouragement than has been witnessed for
some time past. The yarn-market has been wretchedly
flat, and prices ere lower and very ir regular. It would
be difficult to quote the decline in the various counts and
qualities of twist, because the test of business has been
less applied in some than others, but most spinners are
free sellers, and have evinced a disposition to mske some
concession where it would lead to trade. In cloths
almost all kinds of fabrics are offering at easier prices,
with but little result. If there is any business doing of
consequence it is mainly by the A lerandrine Greeks ;
but, generally speaking, the reports from sellers of all
classes of goods are unfavourable.

What ought " to be done with the Crimea" is not as
easy to pronounce as what ought not to be done with it.
Still we may arrive, by a species of exhaustive process,
at something like an approximative answer. Having
already seen, and shown that Sebastopol must not be
destroyed, must not be given back to Russia either with
or without conditions, must not be retained by France
or England severally or jointly, and must not be held
by any first-rate power there remain only two possible
modes in which it can be disposed of. It must, when
peace is finally concluded, be assigned, under the
guarantee of the Western Allies, and by a solemn
European treaty, either to Turkey or Sardinia.—Mart-
cltester Guardian.

AWFUL CASE OF SUDDEN DEATH.—Yesterday morn-
ing, about 8 o'clock, as Mr. Ed. Nugent, shipping clerk
to Messrs. Pickford, carriers to the London and North-
Western Ra'lway Company, was making an entry in his
book, he suddenly fell forward, and on being raised he
was found to be quite dead.
HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO FRANCE.—The Municipal
Council of Boulogne•sur-Mer have unanimously resolved
upon the erection of a monument to commemorate the
landing of her Majesty at Boulogne, on her recent visit
to the Emperor of the French, and have voted a sum of
12,000 f. in aid of that object. They have further called
upon the neighbouring distracts to send in their contri-
butions towards the e..pense of the projected memorial.
It is proposed that the monument in honour of the
Queen shall be erected as near as possible to the spot at
which she landed on the shores of France, and that it
shall be of somewhat similar proportions to the column
erected in memory of Napoleon 1., when he reviewed
his grand army on the heights of Boulogne, rod distri-
buVi the medals and decorations to those deemed de-
serving of them.
THE ROYAL FANOPTICON.—Aftera short vacation this
attractive institution opened on Monday with various
additional attractions. The chief features of novelty
consist of a series of dioramic views of "Rambles through
Venice," and "Illustrations of the War in the Crimea."
The views of Venice, by Mr. L. Buckingham, are highly
interesting, and serve to illustrate many of the historical
and poetical attractions of the once famous seaport. The
views illustrative of the war in the Crimea are drawn in
the most spirited manner, and comprise—a Pictorial Map
of Sebastopol and its environs, and Sebastopol before the
War ; View of the Town and Fortress, from the entrance
of the Harbour ; the Landing of the British and French
Troops in the Crimea ; the Battle of the Alma ; the
British Troops storming the Heights, and a fierce contest
for the colours on the Heights of Alma. Next we have
the Sailors' Battery, a Night View of Sel:ast :pol dutiaz
the Bombardment, Balaklava, Heavy CavalryECharge,
the Light Cavalry Charge, the Battle of Inkerman, the
Hospital at Scutari, and finally the Fall of Sebastopol.
These illustrations will hardly fail to be exceedingly po-
pular, and they will form a most attractive addition to
the numerous objects of interest which are collected to-
gether within the walls of this beautiful and Saracenic
temple of the arts and sciences.
DEATH OF CAPTAIN GROGAN.—Lieutenant Hall, of
the 88th Regiment, in a letter to his father, Mr. Robert
Hall, of Cork, dated " Sebastopol, Sept. 14," says :
"Grogan, who was killed, commanded the company in
front of mine, and when I got up to our advanced
trench I found his company halted. Soon an order ar-
rived to advance, and immediately he jumped upon the
parapet, crying out, Will any one follow me I This
was responded to, and we followed him closely at full
speed. When we had got about 200 yards he staggered
and fell, and I ran up to him, but he said, It is all up
with me,' and died in a few minutes. Strange to say, it
was his birthday. The total loss of our regiment of
400 men was about 180 killed and wounded. My com-
pany alone bad 34 out of 50 hors de combat. Our colonel
(Maxwell), who got three bullet wounds on the Bth, was
taken down to Balaklava, and is going back to Eng-
land."

DEATH OF ADMIRAL GIFFARD.-The llampskire In•
dependent records the death of Admiral of the White,
John Giffard, in the 90th year of his age. The Admiral
spent 34 years in the service of his country, having
entered the navy on the 25th of April, 1780, as a boy, on
board the Canada, 74, Captains Sir Geo. Collier and Hon.
Wm. Cornwallis, and while in that ship was present, as
midshipman, at the relief of Gibraltarinl7Bl, the ensuing
capture of the Spanish frigate Leocadia, of 36 guns, also
in Sir Samuel Hood's action off St. Kitt's' and in Rod-
ney's actions with the Comte de Grasse, 9th and 12th
of April, 1782. He next joined in succession the Dra-
gon, 74, Captain Lee; Ardent, 64, Captain Henry Har-
wood ; Trimmer, sloop, Captain Chas. Tyler ; Victory,
100, flag-ship of Lord Howe ; and Crown, 64, bearing the
broad pendant in the East Indies of Commodore Hon. Wil-
liam Cornwallis, by whom he was promoted to a lieute-
nancy, 20th Oct., 1790, in the Vestal, 28, Capt. Sir R.
John Strachan, and afterwards removed to the Crown and
Minerva. Mr. Giffard, whose proximate appointments
were 14th Nov.' 1793, and 12th July, 1794, in the The-
seus, 74, Capt. Robt. Calder, and Queen Charlotte, 100,
flag-ship of Earl Howe, was advanced, after participat-
ing, under Sir Andrew Snape Douglas, in Lord Brid-
port's action, to the command, Ist Feb., 1796, of the
Raven sloop, for his conduct in which vessel, in safely
escorting a large convoy into Lisbon, he received the
thanks of the Board of Admiralty. Being made Post
by Sir John Jervis into La Mignonne, of 32 guns, 19th
Oct.' 1796, we find he was subsequently appointed-
-29th Dec., 1796, to La Mahonesa, 40, off Lisbon and
Cadiz-23d Sept., 1810, to the Active, 38, off Cherbourg,
where he took, 26th Jan., 1801, Le Quinola, privateer,
of 14 guns and 48 men-23d Feb., 1801, to the Magni-
ficent, 74, in which ship he was the instrument, early in
the month of April, 1802, of suppressing a dangerous
insurrection of the Bth West India Regiment, then in
garrison at Fort Shirley, Dominica-23d April, 1808, to
the Prince of Wales, 98, lying at Portsmouth-7th June,
Bon the Cork Station, whither he
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Gardner-Bth Oct., 1805, to L'Athe-
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Gaeta-and 27th Sept., 1806, to the Zealous, 74, on the
Mediterranean station. From 23d March, 1807, until
his attainment of flag rank, 12th Aug., 1819, Capt. Gif-
fard was next employed as Lieut.-Governor of the Royal
Naval College, at Portsmouth. He became a vice-admi-
ral g2cl July, 1830, and a full Admiral 2$1:1 Nov,, 1841.