The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-13 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

DUNDEE, Oct, 11.—The failures which are occurring
daily in England induce caution here, and operations are in
consequence restricted to the supply of present wants.
Really good flax and tow about maintain their value, but
common qualities, esp►cially of St Petersburg goods, are
difficult to sell even at considerably reduced prices. The
business done since last report is confined to a few unim-
portant transactions. Jute continues very quiet hero, and
prices do not respond to the advance in the south, the ten-
dency being rather downward. There was a mo6'erate de-
mand for yarns to day, and as spinneis aro getting through
their forward sales they are now more willing for business,
and prices are in favour of buyers. Buyers of linens hold
orders for considerable parcels of goods of various descrip-
tions, but in the present state of the market they do not
place them, expecting that prices may yet go lower. Manu-
facturers are willing to contract fur nearly all the fabrics
made at reduced rates, but as they are still generally work-
ing en former orders, and not requiring to press sales, the
fall is not so great as on the raw material. Prices are, on
the whole, rather irregular, as makers who have finished
their contracts ask less than those who are still well fore-
' sold.

LEICESTER, 12th.—There has been a tolerable amount of
business doing in hosiery goods during the past few days,
considering that it is the fair week, At Loughborough and
Hinckley business is rather quiet. There is not quite so
much doing in yarns, and prices have given way. Spinners
are working generally to order: There iS n' material change
in the price of wools, and the market is quiet.
NOTTINGHAM, 12th.—The lace trade has been more quiet
this week than it has been for several weeks past. All
branches are dull. Plain nets are not inquired after, and
in fancy goods there is very little doing. Black silk laces
are in very little request, and the demand for narrow edging
has greatly fallen off. Silk Blechlins and quiltings aro not
in improved demand, and manufacturers are in all cases
confining productions to immediate requirements. The
hosiery trade is dull in all departments. Tha home demand
is limited, and there is very little doing in shipping,

THE LATE STR ALEXANDER LAWRENCE, BART.
—The Indian mail has brought the melancholy
tidings of the death of Sir Alexander Hutchinson Lawrence
by an accident, Ile was passing on horseback over a bridge
crossing a precipice in the Thibet-road when the bridge gave
way under his horse, and he was killed instantaneously.
He was the eldest son of the illustrious Sir Henry Montgo-
mery Lawrence, K,C.8., who fell at Lucknow, by the
youngest daughter of the Rev. G. Marshall, of Cardonagh,
in Ireland. He was born at Allahabad in 1838, entered the
Bengal Civil Service in 1857, and was assistant-commis-
sioner in the Purjaub, He married, in 1862, the daughter
of Dr Every Kenne ly, of Upper Merrion-street, Dublin,
and of Belgrade Castle, Dublin county. He was•ereated a
baronet for his father's KrvicrB in India in 1851, with re
mainder to his brother, lienr3 Waldemar. lie was nephew
of the eminent Viceroy or India, the Right Hon. Sir John
14awrencc, Dart,, 0,0. D , X,5.1,, D,C,L•

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HER MAJESTY.

11.
BALMORAL) Oct.
The Queen went out yesterday morning, attended
by Lady Augusta Stanley ; and in the afternoon
her Mjesty,
accompanied by Princess lielen!l and
the Dean of Wesrninster, and attended by L.di
Augusta Stanley, drove to the Lynn of Muick.
Princess Helena, attended by the Hon. E2ltc°l
Lascelles, went out riding_in the morning.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.
LUBECK, Oct. 12.
The royal yacht Osborre, with the Prince 80
Princess of Wales, together with the infant prince;
on board, has arrived at Travemunde.
Their Royal 1-lighnesscs will proceed to ahlekd
stadt by special train at 11 a.m.

Tt,eir Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales will not visit Paris before returning to Epfsrlsrtd'
though it is probable that a short stay will be made in Ou"
many,
The Duchess of Buccleuch and Lady
Scott left Belgrave•square on Tuesday to join the duke so
other members of the family at Drumlanrig astle, Para-
tr i sshire.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury will
receive a succession of visitors at Hatfield Nouse, erts..s
The Marquis of Bristol, who is staying at his
country seat at Ickworth, has been suffering, froz. severe
illness during the past week, and on Saturday his lerdall,i,,P;4
state vas such as to excite the serious apprehensions oi
Victoria
family. 'We learn, however, that a favourable charige has
since taken place, and that his lordship's medical adviser
give good hopes of his gradual recovery.
Maria 'Marchioness of Ailesbury has
arrived In
town from Jerveaux Abbey, the seat of the Marquis "'a
Marchioness of Aiksbury.
The Earl and Countt 83 of Derby do not receiveth
company at Knowsley Park until the second week
in
ensuing month,
Tee Earl of Wilton will leave N, wraarket 1°
Atsu:
mor ow, to join the countess at Heaton Hall, near
chester. At the end of the month the noble earl
the
"
countess go to Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray, for
hunting season.
The Countess Cowper will shortly receive a disc
tingu shed party at Wrest Park, Beds. It is the inteull°ll
of her ladyship to give a ball at Wrest to the count)?
nobility and gentry, and there is to be a grand ball at Per'
shanger Palk, near Hertford, before Christmas.
We understand that thei marriage of the Cir-a
Helen M'Donnell, daughter of the late Earl old Laura
BTrßart., Countess
eisalt o ofa takerr Antrim,i a
g place with
nATlSuri.ers Malcolm
theom
.21\ Murray
na
syt
3/ 0, regal
P. Copse°, °f•
Brawith Hall, Yorkshire, with Edith, eldest daughter
4:
Lord and Lady Charles Kerr, is fixed to take Place °l3 t
10th Nov Amber at Dalkeith Chapel.
The marriage of Victoire, youngest daughter Of
Mr. M. W. Balfe, to Don Jose Bernardino Fernandez de
Velarco, Duke de Frias, was celebrated yesterday at the
Chapel of the Spanish Embassy, by the Very
Hearn. After a dejctsner at the house of the brides faut—'
the duke and duchess left for Combo Bank, Seven 04.5'
Kent, on their way to the Continent.

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TEE CoIIIMON LAW COURTS.—The Court of Cora 4
mon Pleas will Eit at Nisi Prins in Michaelmas Term°
in Middlesex, on Thursday, November 3, and NSr°cll3,eBd:„YLl
November 9, and in London on Monday, November 7,
'.,
Monday, November 11. The Court will sit, after terms
Middlesex, on Saturday, November 26, and after term, 17
, London, on Thursday, Doc, 3. The Court of Elolleela"c,
will hold its first sitting day in term, in Middlesex,
Thursday, November 3; second sitting day, Wedneßditi;
November 9 ; third sitting day, Wednesday, November. J5O.
and in London on Monday, November 7, and Mondays
vember 14. The Court will sit after term, in Middlesex, en
Saturday, November 26, and in London on Thured.3:ig
D,cember 8. The Court will sit in Middlesex at Nisi pries
in term by adjournment from day to day until the cau6c
entered for the Middlesex sittings are disposed of.
OUR, DOGS.—The dogs of Great Britain are
increasing race. The £39 12s annuli tax Was Pal,
upon Si packs of hounds (ot 66 or more) in the finaacia:
year 1859-6 J, and upon 84 packs in 1861-62. Tho packs
greyhounds (of 15 ur more) were 29 in the former year suu
38 in the latter; the duty is £9. For dogs of any other de'
act iption the tax is 12s a -year, and it was assessed on 324,7!
in 1853-60, and on 3:6,862 in 1861-62. The returns do 11°'
carry these details down to a later year as yet, but the pro'
deco of the dog-tax increased in the ye.if 1862-63, and 1110'3

in the year 1863-64.
UNWILLING PASSENGEItS.—A femalecamel,witil
her young one, arrived in Southampton yesterdaY,
to be sent out in the Bremen mail steamer New York to the
United States. They were accompanied by an Arab keeoper.
By no contrivance could the elder camel be induced to res!
the gangway from the dock to the ship, although the Aral!
tried by blows and by coaxing with a bag of oats to get hedr
on board. The young camel, about the size 13°°Y;a,11
covered with beautifully soft silky hair, stuck to his an
' .
As the tide was about to ebb, the pilot on board the anT;
became impatient, and called out " Have the snit° d
oar
shipped." A number of the German passengers on b
the New York rushed on shore, and, amidst shouts 7,
laughter, took the young camel up in their arms and oarric,,,
him bodily on to the steather, and the ship was obliged
ha
leave the side of the dock immediately, leaving the eh
camel behind. The young camel began to cry in theAllifhe
pitiful manner on being separated from his dam, 0 on"
latter, hearing the cries, moaned distressingly; her d
were moistened with tears, and her head was slov/IY
At
solemnly moving to and fro, looking for her young one' „
length she was put into a horse box and slung on lAar-
steam-tug and taken out to the New York, which Waited

the stream for her. • 1 11'
CRYSTALLOGENIC FORM.—Under this tit 3
Kuhlmann has just addressed a paper to the AC, a;
demy of Sciences, his object being to show that all rah:le-10
particles have a tendency to arrange themselves in mista i;
or at least in strata, or in nodules. Thus gypsum, diesel33l;o
nated throughout a mass of clay, will in course of time
le®
found collected under the form of crystals, its Pertic ill.
having by slow degrees penetrated through the elaY 0
umeetoll.o
virtue of the force of attraction. In the Bidache
(Basses-Pyrenees) silex has formed distinct strata; tted,, la
the chalk formations concretions of silex are often fonii"Lo
short distances from each other. M. Kuhlmann sh°"t
that very flexible brass wire may become brittle by irecri;e,;-z
vibration ; the same is the case with iron wire, which, °' e•
this circumstance, is now universally rejected as a 113att ;e..
a.
rial for the construction of suspension bridges. The ellseie
lization of wrought iron has often been the cause of se
dents, as may be seen from the frequent breaking of ailaei
trees. Those of railway carriages are safer than those -g
common vehicles, because they do not receive such Vi°6ll,/
shocks on rails as the others do on stone pavements' t°,.,'
are, therefore, chiefly liable to wear cut. M. Kuhlease'd
states that he had, on the Northern Railway, elttinfi3c
axletrees, the iron of which still preserved its fibrous textur7
though it had travelled over several hundred thous°
kilogrames of rail. The axletree of a common carriage
when it breaks presents a granulated or crystalline frei);
ture, which it would not have had when fresh ir°Pl, t„-fl,
anvil—hence, by constant motion, the particles of the true
passed from the fibrous to the crystalline stet:
Similar changes take place in sheet-iron ; thus
specimen of the latter, of excellent quality, beville
mf'.
been used for the construction of a boiler, has il- f
become quite brittle, after having been for the space °9
,
20 years exposed to the constant vibrations produced by '-
ebullition of water; even the rivets which held the p14t,..,, e.
together have become brittle. M. Kuhlmann points Vat '-
easy way of discovering at any time whether the change d°:
scribed has taken place, and whether the iron under eXtial.i:
nation can still be depended upon or not ; this is, to Pel?,„--
alew square centimetres of its surface with a smooth 11';''
and then to expose it for a few minutes to the action of ui,tri:
acid. If the texture of the metal has become crystabe't
this new slate will thus become apparent. ;„ thiff
THE DISTRESS IN PRESTON.—The distress Am a
town has begun to assume proportions which wens
there not grounds for believing it to be of a transient ou-o;
ratter, would be calculated to create alarm as to the 0151,64,
the operatives during the ensuing winter. At the We
meeting of the Relief Committee, held at their caeca:
Crooked-lane, on Monday, it was reported that 2,156 e11,14,,0
comprising 8,162 persons, had been relieved during "-,
past week, at a cost of £225 Ss. 61, being an incrca tee
past
on the previous week of 229 cases, 1,001 persons, he
£25 Os. 6d, expenditure. The total increase in vi
L--
number of persons relieved since September 18, . ---
the distress was at its minimum, is no less tn
3,317. The committee have just taken the census of
the factory population by a house-to-house visitation, °h e;
t was discovered that no less than 6,894 factory operative;
. have either emigrated, found employment elsewhere, or 1231:0
been removed by the guardians. The chief constablea i
weekly report as to the state of employment shows that
there are 23 mills totally closed out of the 87. The numbe
of operatives working full time is 8,583; five days' 2,78119
;
four days, 496 ; three days, 4,603 ; two days, 67 ; and total
unemployed, 10,938. Seven deaths from fever bavh'B,
i
ensued during the past week, an inquiry as to the sana
tary condition of the infected districts was ordered, with dview of checking the further progress of the epidernie
possible,
IHE DECIMAL REFORM MOVEMENT.--Au in°
fluential meeting of commercial men was held on Tuesday
in Liverpool, at which it was resolved to form a provisions
committee with the view of establishing a branch of.
wolli
system 1
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kONEy- MARKET!

AND

00111111311,CIAL INTELLIGENCE,

The CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Position of the Money Market continues to
NeElent a more favourable appearance than it did
bai° (1r three days ego. So alteration in the official
13,illni, itutini has been announced this morning by the
tic, Of England directors, and the inference is
eat—ten)re drawn that the weekly return of that
6tulishatent will be of a satisfactory character,
points
these circumstances the tendency of effairs
z"nts to a favourable direction. At the same time
theiati fl"ting balances of discounters show a slight
tigl.l4entation, while the inquiry for accommodation
ibits a diminution. Brokers Gre therefore not
lorexacting in their terms, and in a few instances
nee a desire to grant their regular customers
i:_eater facilities. Thus first-class bills have been
negotiable this morning at 9 per cent.
r°Naals have been made by the directors of the
alltie and Great Western Railway Company
et; the emission of 4,000,000 dols., representing a
b°4l:l issue of mortgage bonds. The price of issue
;14 66, the coupons represent £l4 per annum
int 401 security of 1,000 dole., or 9} per cent.
yne,reati which is payable half-yearly in New
pt 4 and London. The bonds are redeemable at
114'1.t hat per dollar, and are transferable
tir-'3llt stamp or endorsement. The object
plv Which the capital is required is to sup-.
in; 'OO miles of the main line with roll-
srAst°ek• The development of the Western States
4;41, erica without any increase in the means of
Eitid-.114 to the Eastern Ports has given the Atlantic
di Great Western Railway, as rapidly as the
Everent sections have been opened, an unexampled
1,,•i1v.88. The resources of the road, it is stated,
411 ue far more than equal to meet the chagne for
ta,,t-rtestl even should the rate of exchange rule
-1e,o• higher than at present.
troll° f4ilure of Mr Edward Coombe, in the Spanish
"el has transpired to-day.

At ` Two o'CLocx. B
"0 Paris Bourse this day, according to
boTer's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were.
eeti ell 65f. 10c. An advance in the rate of dia-
" Was expected.
The English Stock Market has been very favour- 912
ere'h, iLfluenced to day, and a rise of per cent. lc
bee: t',1,1,6 improved quotations of last evening has s)
titter condition
result of the business transacted . The f,
eite'r Condition of monetary affairs, and less ex-
the tnellt shown by the public generally respecting a
mercantile failures that have lately occurred, tc
av
conduced to impart a firmer tone to quota-
eer,--s' Consols for money are 88 it 7,- and for the
Aaunt 881 The New Threes and Reduced st,
teltlitiEs are 861 ; March Exchequer Bills, Hs. et
; June ditto 245; to 18s. die.; Indian 14
im.entureg, 97; Bank Stock is 235 237 ; and
114 ditto, 212,
testi the Foreign Market there has been less busi.
6,8' but a firmer tone has been apparent. Turkish 1,
49re!,Cents., 1862, are 69 70; do. Consolides, 481
alexioan,26 4 ; do. New, 241 ; Greek, 22 t ;
Cit 4 Passive, 301 ; do. Certificates, 13; 4 ;
Aka g4e
n 66fie, 461 4 a;and the Confederate Loan,
st

tusi
nesa in the Railway Market has continued st 4
howsr4tely active ; the adjustment of the account,
de4le7eri has occupied the principal attention of the p
So:" and sueculators. Lancashire and Yorkshire, I!
proved
Western, and South Eastern have each sty
Vved 15s, ; Great Northern A Stock, North st
qustern and
4ud G North Eastern (Berwick), each £1; at
reat Northern, £1 102.
witkile Foreign and Colonial lines continue dull,
-,"oUt any material change in prices. si
t and Miscellaneous shares remain at steady Bi
ita.,". London and South African have declined
to sei and Hudson Bay Company have improved at
to it

ra BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
a -"ZILIINIENT FUNDS.
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83i
a 0 Account, Nov. 12
861 if
tilj.4 Cent. Reduced
86i t 6
ea per Cent.
_W 2i Cent. Jan. 1894" •** •••
1) per
i„ ° 6 per Cent., Jan. 1873
4LUities, 30 yrs, expire ."5 th JET , 1880..
Dto for 30 Yrs, expire sth April, 1885...
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Itta,
Cent. 11 7
'4ecltier Bills, £l,OOO, 4 & 3i per - 18 24
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-uo Cer') Accounttificates
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_ ° per Cent., 1852-58-60
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m°B Ayres 6 per Cent A.
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Do 3 per Cent., 1825
to ° 6 Par Cent, 1864
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dis x d
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dis x d
111,1,° Preach Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c
Nr,"rish Inancrial 6 per Cent
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Land Warrants (Hectares)
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p Do do • Aug., 1866.
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87 61
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bo`'count 6Bl
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AIN lvidends on the above payable in London
11.01 an, 5 Per Cent„ Ex. 10 Florins.
1, ~hl.O. • ,
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~., 130 , Per Cent., Ex. 12 Quil
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