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 II tx and tow about maintain their value, but
common qualities, especially 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 here, and
prices do not respond to the advance in the south, the ten-
dency being rather downward. There was a moderate de-
mand for yarns to day, and as spinners are 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, expeoting that prices may yet go lower. Manu-
facturers are willing to contract for nearly all the fabrics
made at reduced rates, but as they are still generally work-
ing ,n 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 lees 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.—Tho 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 Mechlins 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. The home demand
is limited, and there is very little doing in shipping.

THE LATE SIR ALEXANDER, LAWRENCE, BART.
—The Indian mail has brought the melancholy
tidings of the death of Sir Alexander Hutchinson Lawrence
by an accident, He was passing on horseback over a bridge
crossing a precipice in the Thibet-road when the bridge gal e
way under his horse, and ho was killed instantaneously.
He was the eldest son of the illustrious Sir Henry Mont go-
mery Lawrence, K.C.8., who fell at Lucknow, by the
youngest daughter of the Rev. G. Marshall, of Cardonagb,
in Ireland. He was barn at Allahabad in 1838, entered the
Bengal Civil Service in 1857, and was assistant-commis-
sioner in the Punjaub. He married, in 1862, the daughter
of Dr Every Kennedy, of Upper Merrion••streot, Dublin,
and of Belgrade Castle, Dublin county. He was created a
baronet for his father's services in India in 1851, with re-
mainder to his brother, Henry Waldemar. Ile was nephew
of the eminent Viceroy of India, the Right Hon, Sir John
Lawrence, Bart., Gr,c.l3

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HER MAJESTY•

BALMORAL) Oct.
The Queen went out yesterday morning, attended
by Leidy Augusta Stanley ; and in the afternocan
her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Helena and
the Dean of Westminster, and attended by
Augusta Stanley, drove to tho Lynn of 'quick. s
Princess Helena, attended by the Hon. 111/13
Lascelles, went out riding in the morning.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.
LUBECE., Oct. 12'
The royal yacht Osborre, wits the Prince end
Princess of Wales, together with the infant rinee
on board, has arrived at Travemunde.
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Their Royal highnesses will proceed to Gill
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stadt by special train at 11 a,m.

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Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prin-
ass
of "%Yaks will not visit Paris before returning to llngial2,r:
though it is probable that a short stay will be made in
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many-.
The Duolacss of Baceleech and Lady Vict°riad
Scott left Belgrave•square on Tuesday to join the duke an,
other members of the family at Drumlanrig Castle, D1117:1

fiiesshire.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury tll
receive a succession of visitors at Hatfield House, crtslli;i6
The Marquis of Bristol, who is staying at rare
country seat at Ickworth, has been suffering fro.
illness during the past week, and on Saturday his lordsloP,l
state vas such as to excite the serious apprehensions of
Ilia
family. We learn, however, that a favourable change b3,,3
since taken place, and that his lordship's medical advise'.
give good hopes of his gradual recovery.
Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury has arrived in
town from Jerveaux Abbey, the seat of the Marquis ell
Marchioness of Ailesbury. ice
The Earl and Countts3 of Derby do not r,cet-
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company at Knowsley Park until the second week
ensuing month.to
Tne Earl of Wilton will leave N,wmarket
morrow, to j lin the countess at Heatm near ssti'
a
-thester. At the end of the month the noble earl a:
countess go to Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray, for the

hunting season.
The Countess Cowper will shortly receive did
tingucshed party at Wrest Park, Beds. It is the intent,ll
of her ladyship to give a ball at Wrest to the 011,;,,,
nobility and gentry, and there is to be a grand ball ati.e
shanger Park, near Hertford, before Christmas. Lob'
We understand that the marriage of the -
Helen M`Donnell, daughter of the late Earl auantij:, aura
Countess of Antrim, with Sir Malcolm Murray
Bart., is to take place on Tuesday. the 25th inst. of
The marriage of Mr. W. W. P. Consett, f
Brawith Hall, Yorkshire, with Edith, eldest daughter,)l°o
Lord and Lady Charles Kerr, is fixed to take place °ll
10th November at Dalkeith Chapel. of
The marriage of Victoire, youngest daughter de
Mr. M. W. Balfe, to Don Jose Bernardino Fernandczto
Velasco, Duke de Fries, was celebrated yesterday at Dr,
CVpel of the Spanish Embassy, by the VerY ro
Hearn. After a de/caner at the house of the bride's 'ae
the duke and duchess left for Combe Bank, Seven 133,..s
Kent, on their way to the Continent.

THE COMMON LAW COURTS.--The Court of C°ll3.
mon Pleas will sit at Nisi Prins in Michaelmas 1era1135,:
in Middlesex, on Thursday, November 3, and Wednes-
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November 9, and in London on Monday, November 7, 6-.0
Monday, November 11. The Court will sit, after terra'
Middlesex, on Saturday, November 2G, and after WWI let
London, on Thursday, Dec, 3. The Court of Exchequou
will hold its first sitting day in term, in Middlesex,
„,
Thursday, November 3 ; second Bitting day, Wedufs,.(l3l6;
November 9 ; third sitting day, Wednesday, Novemue'74o..
and in London on Monday, November 7, and Monday' eu
vember 14. The Court will sit after term, in Middleses,
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Saturday, November 26, and in London on Thute.d.;
December 8. The Court will sit in Middlesex at Nisi Fri „.6
in term by adjournment from day to day until the eau'.
Entered for the Middlesex sittings are disposed of. _„
OUR DOGS.—The dogs of Great Britain are g`."d
increasing race. The £39 12s annual tax was Pali
upon 81 packs of hounds (of 66 or more) in the ilasneiP
year 1859-6 U, and upon 84 packs in 1861-62. The Packs;id
greyhounds (of 15 ur more) were 29 in the former year °L.
38 in the latter; the duty is £9. For dogs of any other 754
scription the tax is 12s a -year, and it was assessed on 324' ot
in 1859-60, and on 3.6,862 in 1861-62. The returns d 0
carry these details down to a later year as yet, but the Pr"‘
duce of the dog-tax increased in the year 1862-63, and eg`"--
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in the year 1863-64.
UNWILLING PASSENGERS.—A female camel' Wit,.ll
her young one, arrived in Southampton yesterdeP
to be sent out in the Bremen mail steamer New York to the
United States. They were accompanied by an Arab keeper:
By no contrivance could the elder camel be induced to eroes;
the gangway from the dock to the ship, although the ii:Tirer
tried by blows and by eoaiing with a bag of oats to got
on board. The young camel, about the sizo "
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covered with beautifully soft silky hair, stuck to his (lit
As the tide wr:s about to ebb, the pilot on board the e',l;
became impatient, and called out "Have the salca
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shipped." A number of the German passengers on Os
the New York rushed on shore, and, amidst Sh°ut°;:d
laughter, took the young camel up in their arms and car,rto
him bodily on to the steamer, and the ship was oblige(' 40
leave the side of the dock immediately, leaving the set
camel behind. The young camel began to cry in tlle,--tiaa
pitiful manner on being separated from his dam, all"pves
latter, hearing the cries, moaned distressingly; her,
end
were moistened with tears, and her head was slovil
At
solemnly moving to and fro, looking for her young °lle'd a
length she was put into a horse box and slung on b°B,r,d
steam-tug and taken out to the New York, which vial"'

the stream for her. , 14.
CRYSTALLOGENIC FORM.—Under this titi3
Kuhlmann has just addressed a paper to the
decoy of Sciences, his object being to show that all ill" i°B,
particles have a tendency to arrange themselves in crlstB
0
or at least in strata, or in nodules. Thus gypsum, diBs- bo
nated throughout a mass of clay, will in course of biasles
found collected under the form of crystals, its O:
having by slow degrees penetrated through the ci:jtooo
virtue of the force of attraction. In the Bidache
(Basses-Pyrenees) silex has formed distinct strata; and lat
the chalk formations concretions of silex are often Onto
short distances from each other. M. Kuhlmann/3-,„ at
that very flexible brass wire may become brittle by treci•eog
vibration ; the same is the case with iron wire, which' °in. lir
to this circumstance, is now universally rejected as a 7,:t01.
rial for the construction of suspension bi Lige& The cr":eei-
lization of wrought iron has often been the cause ot "
axle.
dents, as may be seen from the frequent breaking cf —„ of
trees. Those of railway carriages are safer than thee-jog
common vehicles, because they do not receive such-°i°,l4
shocks on rails as the others do on stone pavements; ns
are, therefore. chiefly liable to wear out. M. huhhned
states that he had, on the Northern Railway,
axletrees, the iron of which still preserved its fibrous tea
though it had travelled over several hundred thowiena
kilogrames of rail. The axletree of a common earrit.
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when it breaks presents a granulated or crystalline '1.,10
ture, which it would not have had when fresh from
anvil—hence, by constant motion, the particles of the ill°e.
have passed from the fibrous to the crytalline eit'' •
Similar changes take place in sheet-iron ;
specimen of the latter, of excellent quality, ha
nod
been used for the construction of a boiler, has f
become quite brittle, after having been for the elxVje,°/10
20 years exposed to the constant vibrations produced by
ebullition of water; even the rivets which held the plat,,'
together have become brittle. M. Kuhlmann points out
easy way of discovering at any time whether the change de:
scribed has taken place, and whether the iron under WWI:
nation can still be depended upon or not ; this is, to
a few square centimetres of its surface with a smooth
and then to expose it for a few minutes to the action of nitrle
acid. If the texture of the metal has become crystallin

this new state will thus become apparent. :„ tie
THE 1)
—ISTRESS IN PRESTON.—The distress in -
town has begun to assume proportions which W 5
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there not grounds for believing it to be of a transient 00i
racter, would be calculated to create alarm us to the atntkeif
the operatives during the ensuing winter. At the wee
meeting meeting of the Relief Committee, held at their cfno` ;
g
Crooked-lane, on Monday, it was reportel that 2,156 6tfiio
comprising 8,162 persons, had been relieved durin„Ea
past week, at a cost of £225 Ss. 61., being an iticr-Rol
on the previous week of 229 cases, 1,001 perso -#l,O
£25 Os. 6d. expenditure. The total increase in "
number of persons relieved since September 18, whi3:l3,
the distress was at its minimum, is noof
3,347. The committee have just taken the census ;1,
the factory population by a house-to-house visitation, Wb_po
operat";„
have
was discovered that no less than 6,891 factory
been either emigrated, found employment elsewhere, or 116,0
removed by the guardians. The chief constall
that
weekly report as to the state of employment shows
ofth there are 23 mills totally closed out of the Sl. Theilfa,B7';
operatives working full time is 8,583; five days, jor
four days, 496 ; three days, 4,503 ; two days, a ar'd,..,ty"iol3
unemployed, 10,938. Seven deaths from fairer %i•
as to the 04 a
ensued during the past week, an inquiry less
tary condition of the infected districts was ordered, with
if
view of checking the further progress of the epidemic'
possible.

An ifi°

lIE DECIMAL REFORM
tio MOVEMENT.---•
aential meeting of commercial men was held on Tl'e6-
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in Liverpool, at which it was resolved to form provi' l
committee w the view establishig a brancil!eitat4fbe
internanalith association forof obtaining a, uniforru
system of Daeataures, weights, and coinage.