The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-24 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Oct. 23.--There has been some inquiry
for India this morning, but the offers made were very
low, and more with a view of testing prices, since the
giving way of the cotton market yesterday at Liverpool,
where prices generally underwent a change, and Ame-
rican samples were selling at id. to gd. per lb. lower.
The giving way of prices in manufactured goods has been
in a corresponding ratio to that on cotton, and cloths
may be quoted at lid. to 3d. per piece under the rates
of last Tuesday, while yarns are fully id. to id. per lb.
down. The enormous discounts charged by the London
houses on first-class paper of three months' date are,
however, the main obstacle to business, and the more
prudent of oer traders are taking steps to reduce their
liabilities at once within the safest possible limits by
withholding such orders as have not yet been given out,
and by withdrawing all their contracts with manufac-
turera as far as possible. The orders cancelled, in fact,
are on a very large scale, and sellers report that they
have not witnessed a more gloomy day in this business
since the year 1847. Spinners report to the same effect.
On Saturday and yesterday some of the houses holding
orders for yarn that have been lying over at limits for
some time took advantage of the exceedingly favourable
opportunity presented by the present low prices, and a
fair amount of business was thus quietly transacted ; but
sellers of yarns this morning report the market as flat as
that for cloth, with great irregularity in price, which, in
fact, are mostly nominal.
Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report :—" The increas-
ing tightness and difficulty of the money-market cause
buyers to keep as much as possible out of the market,
and restrict their purchases to the execution of pressing
orders only, and the business of the week has conse-
quently been on an exceedingly small scale. In prices
it is difficult to give correct quotations, the irregularity
is so great ; but all kinds have again declined,
and, compared with Tuesday last, there is.a difference
of lid. to 3d. per piece to the disadvantage of manufac-
turers."

WINDING-UP OF MR. FEARGUS O'CONNOR'S LAND
SCHEME.—Tne members of this notorious scheme con-
nected with Barnsley and the immediate district have,
during the past week, at Sheffield, through Mr. James
Loive, their secretary, proved their claims upon the
society, before F. Roxbury, Esq., barrister-at-law, thei
commissioner appointed for that purpose by the Master !
Chancery. The object the Master in Chancery has In
view is to ascertain how to apportion the surPl!isa3B°, ts. of
claim-
the company equitably amongst all the accreditedenthu,ia,ti.
ants. Perhaps nn other town entered
:rr more Although
than 1 a3t, O theoO
cally into the scheme than Barnsley.
;0
Ill_os thhi er
ei -
time it contained a population of little
persons, it yielded 345 members, who paid. 55117/
who paid 3'07/ ; .1
ham, it appears, had 70 members,
"d 38 9/ I Y 1, at"
Sheffield, 620 inemberA, who pal.
mviet
amount by the
r''m
whom
there were 5,461 members, theentiraenpbaoyments f 1
" faaroaosoco/. is the wholet
were 11,2871.; while,
company's accounts, about .
The. experience, of the commis-
sioner,which was subscribed, this sum having been paid by
about 70,000 persons.
in several of the principal towns,
who has set
goes to show that in t.Fe localities be has visited byno
means the whole of the subscribers have put in their
claims. On the average above one-third of the claimants
have re-appeared, and about two-thirds of the amount
subscribed has been claimed.—Leads Mercury.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT SOUTHERN AND
WESTERN RAILWAY.—on Saturday evenin as the six
o'clock train from Killarney was approachingg, the Mal-
low station, it Was signalled to stop, in order to let the
train from Dublin pass,. The train from Dublin having
passed, a signal was made that the line was clear, on
which the Killarney train again started, and the sudden
jerk caused three drovers who were sitting on the side
of one of the trucks attached to the train, with some
pigs which they bad purchased that day at Mill-street
fair, to lose their balance. Two of them fell in among
the pigs, but the other unfortunately fell out under the
wheel of the truck, which passed over his chest, causing
instantaneous death. An inquest was held at Mallow,
before Mr. Coroner Jones, and a verdict returned in ac-
cordance with the evidence. The deceased, whose name
was Howard, was a resident of this city, and his body
was emiveyed home. We understand that no blame
is attachable to any of the officials of the railway.

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Naval and Military Intelligence.

A letter from Dala.lslava, dated Oct. 8, gives the fol.
lowing intelligence :--" The Diamond, 28, Capt. Hamil-
i on, sails to-day to join the fleet. Surgeon Derrima.n died
at Therapia, Hospital a few pays alter being invalided. •
Surgeon Pearce has been invalided. Second Lieutenant
Lennox, of the Royal Marines, joins the Leander."
Vice-Admiral Sir Thos. Cochrane, K.C.8., Comman-
der-in-Chief at Portsmouth, struck his flag last evening
at sunset, and left on leave of absence for a week ; the
Admiral-Superintendent of the Dockyard being also ab.
sent, Capt. Sir Thos. Maitland, C. 8., of her Majesty's
ship Excellent, hoisted a blue pendant as Commodore of
the Second Class pro tem., being the senior officer in the
port, and temporary Commander-in-Chief; Capt. Eliott,
C. 8., of her Majesty's ship St. Vincent, is temporarily
Superintendent of the Dockyard.
The Hawke, 60, screw block-ship, Capt. Ommanney,
was taken into the old basin at Portsmouth yesterday
morning to refit. The Transit steam troopship, Com-
mander C. R. Johnson, was also taken into the steam- -
basin to repair defects. The Blazer and Prompt, mor-
tar-vessels, have been docked also at Portsmouth for re-
fitting.
The steam-transport Earl of Aberdeen, No. 20, arrived
at Spithead yesterday morning, from the East, with the
following passengers and invalids :—Lieut. Robinson,
R.A. ; Capt. Webb, 4th Dragoon Guards Major Hunt,
of the 74th ; Col. Phillpot and servant ; Miss Charlotte
Salusbury; Lieut. Lyons, Capt. Gastin, Mr. Strange,
Capt. Carew, Mr. Pope, first mate, and Mr. Master,
second mate of the steam-transport Culloden, wrecked at
Balaklava in the storm of Nov. 14, who have remained
prisoners in the hands of the Russians since then ; Robt.
King, John Thomas, Jas. Allen, Hugh Duncan, David
West, John Robinson, W. Alexander, Sergt. Lindrop,
Joseph Benoy, J. Bryan, Thos. Cross, Duffy, J. Gar-
lock, T. Haynes, —Ryaulds, Pat. Welsh, W.Whittaker,
John Freeman, Thos. Mudyman, Thos. Eaten, Walter
Roberts, J. Robinson, A. Randell, T. Thompson, Robt.
Raitb, Wm. Marshall, Thomas Cunningham, James Hall,
Robert Baker, S. Crabb, T. Whitcombe, A. Wilkie, J.
Perkins, G. Browne, G. Clarke, S. Butcher, Jas. Watts,
Moore, Wm. Hopkins, Win. Holdon, Daniel Hall,
Thomas Hall, Charles Marshall, Peter Parker, Richard
Ewsgard, W. Piggott, John Pratt, John Lester, James
Prillove, G. Piggry, W. Chaplin, Mrs. Hannah, Mrs.
L'ndap, Mrs. Cross, Mrs. Stephen, Mrs. Rowe, Mrs.
Tagg, and nine children, and seven horses. The Earl of
Aberdeen brought Major-Genera: Sir Harry D. Jones,
R.E., K.C.8., from the camp at Sebastopol, with the in-
tention of bringing him to England, but be was so ill on
arrival at Scutari that he wis compelled to disembark,
and was left there. ,•The Earl of Aberdeen went into
Portsmouth harbour-yesterday afternoon. -
There have been no arrivals or departures from'Wool-
wieh since Monday, with the exception of sundry small
craft in the employ of the Ordnance Department, for the
Conveyance of military stores and projectiles of war from
the Lowmoor and other foundries. Of these from 10 to 14
arrive daily. Lofty pyramids of shot and shell have
again accumulated in the Arsenal-yard, and among the
number are four of the monster 42-inch shells, three of
the same kind having been landed there about three weeks
since, •as an experimental sample. Further trials are in-
tended to be made with these formidable-looking mis-
siles previously to the issue of a greater number for ser-
vice, it is supposed, in the Crimea.
Brigadier-General Wooldridge left Dover on Saturday
last, by the packet Queen, direct to the seat of war in
the Crimea. Previously to the gallant officer leaving the
camp at Shorncliffe the whole of the British German
Legion was paraded, when the Brigadier received from
them a simultaneous and enthusiastic party cheer.
Lieut.• Col. Murray has resigned the command of the
Ist Regiment, German Legion, and Lieut.-Col. Hairky
has succeeded him. Brigade-Major Mills will embark
with the regiment in the Simoom.
Captain Oldershaw, Royal Artillery, director of the
submarine telegraph at Varna, has now the superinten-
dence at that station of both the Crimea and Constan-
tinople lines.

Vie Rev. G. Morley has been appointed officiating
clergyman to the Roman Catholics of Chatham garrison,
in place of the Rev. Henry Lea, M.A.
Staff-Assistant Surgeon Carte is relieved from duty at
Chatham, in order to enable him to prepare for embar-
kation for the East. In consequence of the crowded
state of the military prison, Fort Clarence, sundry pri-
soners have been sent back to their corps without ad-
mission.
Detachments of sick and wounded soldiers from regi-
ments in the Crimea, to the number of 59, with one wo-
man, arrived at Chatham at 5 p.m. on Monday from
Portsmouth ; they came home in the ship Transit, in
charge of two officers—viz., Lieutenant C. G. Breton,
4th Foot, and Lieutenant J. J. Bacon, 95th ; they left
Balaklava on the 23d of September. After medical in-
spection by Staff Assistant•Surgecn Macartney, 38 were
selected for surgical treatment in the hospital Fort Pitt,
and the remainder were sent to the Invalid Depot.
Several of the men were still suffering from their wounds,
which were partially healed.

The following appointments, made at the Admiralty
yesterday, appeared in our late edition last night :
Lieutenant George G. Wallace to the Sampson.
Lieutenant Theophilus M. Kelsall to the Arachne.
Lieutenant William Jardine to the Hecla.
Lieutenant James H. Ringrose to the Polyphemus.
Master James Saunders to the Fisgard.
Assistant-Clerk Francis J. Pulman to the Sampson.
Assistant. Clerk Martin J. Hay to the Polyphemus.
Assistaqt-Clerk Thomas Silk to the Arachne.
Assistant-Clerk William A. Martin to the Reel&

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WAR MEETINGS. —We (Scottish, Daily News) under-
Htand.public meetings are about to be held in all the
large cities of Sc( timid, to take the question of peace or
war into serious consideration.

The bands of the French army (says the Journal de
Maine-et-Loire) have just received an organisation which
singularly improves the position of the regimental musi-
cians. A young man who enlists as a musical pupil
may now reach the. rank of musical officer, by rising
through all the intermediate.grales.

•
NEARLY BURIED ALIVE.—The danger of too rapid in-
terment was exemplified in a very extraordinary manner
in this town during the last week. A young man, who
had been suffering from malignant fever, to all appear-
ance died on Tuesday morning. To avoid the danger of
infection which might arise from a corpse remaining in
the house all night, a coffin was immediately commenced,
the certificate of death sent for, and urgent application
was made to the incumbent of a church in one of the
suburbs to allow the corpse to be interred the same even-
ing. This, however, he declined, considering the pro-
ceeding teo hasty, but consented to the interment tak-
ing place the following morning. The result proved the
propriety of the delay ; the grave was dlig, and the coffin
ready, but the dead man in the course of the night gave
signs of returning animation, and at the hoar fixed for
his burial was in the comfortable enjoyment of a cup of
coffee, which he had asked for, with every prospect of
recovery.— WT ake:field Journal.

Two CHILDREN SUFFOCATED.—Yesterday morning
Mr. W. Baker, the coroner, received information from
Mr. Vaughan, the summoning officer of St. Matthew,
Bethnal-green, respecting the death of two children who
had perished from suffocation. The first case related to
a child named James Stanton, aged three months, whose
parents reside at Church-street, Bethnal-green-road. The
deceased was placed in bed by its mother on Sunday
night, and when she awoke on the following morning
the child was found to be quite dead. Mr. Eagle, the
surgeon, of Church-street, was called, who said the child
had died from asphixia through pressure, most probably
by being overlaid. The body awaits an inquest. A
second infant, aged two months, named George Whit-
ing, of Austin-street, Hope-town, Bethnal-green, was
,found yesterday morning lying in bed between the pa-
rents. He was lifeless, and when seen by Dr. Burchell,
of Kingsland-road, had been dead about two hours from
the effects of suffocation, under similar circumstances to
the first-named case. Deaths from the causes referred
to are unfortunately sadly on the increase latterly, and
the notice of the ooroner is very frequently
astleyct endalled to
f
them in the over-populated districts at the
London.

HARVEST IN CANADA._Extract from a letter re-
ceived by Vere Foster from
Stephen_ J. Fuller, Captain
R.N., dated Simcoe, Norfolk Uounty Canada West,
Sept. 20, 1855 :—" I may add, with reference to etni-
•
graLts themselves, that there is no portion of this conti-
nent at the present time where emigrants can do so well
y. Wages are unusually
hiah---three dollars a-day (12s. 6d. sterling) and board
aid this harvest for able-bodied men, and
abreeeL:getting 1i dollars (ss. 3d.) for digging po-
as in this county and its vicinit
The lisrve-t has beet,
hmaevne
havingmost abundant, bay alone
suffered from rain ; but the rout crops were
never finer. Potatoes are most abundant and excellent,
oats the heaviest crop ever produced in Canada, turnips,
carrots,
atoes.
and mangoid wurtzel never equalled. I have
mangold wurtzel now weighing 161b5., and a month's
growth yet before them ; add to this that the seed time,
now nearly over, has been the most favourable I remem-
ber in Canada, rain, mild and warm, having just fallen
in sufficient quantity after sowing, and the breadth of
wheat already sown exceeds anything previously known
here. The price 11 dollars (Gs. 3d.) a bushel, is unus-
ually high with such an abundant crop, and must go
down when seeding is completed, and threshing gene-
rally commenced, to 1 dollar, which is always a good
and remunerating price and one at which farmers can
get rich without risk. Lands are rising rapidly, and
must continue to do so, from the facility now everywhere_
afforded for internal communication and transport of
produce to the sea-board. I am astonished that we
have not more immigration of men with moderate capi-
tal, particularly agriculturists. No country offers a
finer field."

The Empress, some time ago, purchased the note'
Lauriston and its dependencies, in the Champs %sees,
for her mother, the Countess de Montijo, and her sister,
the Duchess de Alba. Oa the ground belonging to the
hotel are some buildings, in which ISt. Magnier, a
brewer, and M. Genest, proprietor of a diorama repro-
Carry on business.
rnntthinegletahsee bmoamdbeatrodmtheenste opferOsdonesss,a'A was stipulated that
they should be obliged to leave on receiving six months'
notice, and a
1 their premises destroy the beauty of the
hotel, a notice to quit on the Ist October was duly
given to them. But they did not leave, and have since
shown no disposition to do so. Accordingly, an zppli-
-3' made to the President of the
c Civiltio n w
Tribunalas on Ssittingatnrd Saturday
in chambers, in the name of
am. Eugenie Marie de Guzman, Countess de Teba,
and Empress of the French," to authorise the expulsion
of Magiair and Genest, and to order the demolition of
the buildings occupied by them. Those persons did not
appear, and the president decided that in the event of
their not leaving within 24 hours the Empress should
be authorised to turn them out by force, to remove their
effects, and demolish the buildings which they occupy,
au at the* fxpezve.—kgiatitVg.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE."
. Lessee. Mr. J. H. Anderson, LS, Norfolk-street, Strand.
, Increased Attractions, and success in equal ratio •
THLA. AND EVERY EVENING, at Eight &Clock.

Will ive presented, with entirely New and Magnificent Appoint-
'nents, MAGIC and MYSTERY, in twelve • acts, arranged in two
arts, by Professor Anderson.
After which, the startling illustrations of Spirit-Rapping. HALF-
AN-FIOUR wrrif TETE SPIRIT•t, being the most surprising and
interesting series of experiments ever given within the walls of any
theatre.
5i4,721 persons have visited the Lyceum already to see the Great
Wizard of the North.

Prices of admission:—Private Boxes, 11. Ils. GI and Li. Is.•
Orchestra Stalls, 45.: Dress Boxes, 35.; Upper Boxes, 2s. ;
Is.; Gallery, Gd. No Balt-price. Box-office open !Tom 11 to 5
daily.

Grand Morning Performance on Saturday Next at Two o'Clock.
Doors open at Half-past One.

• ROYAL SURREY THEATRE-.
• Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick.
FLEXNIORE'S (le Danseur Cominue) BENEFIT. and Last
AnneArs,nce at this Theatre ; also of that celebrated Danseuse, Mdlle.
AiTßlOL.will take place on TUUPSDAY, Yov. Ist, 1855.
Drama, Ballet Clomlune, Concert, Farce, Ballet Extraordlnaire
Melo-drama, &c., &c.
Tickett to be had of Mr. Flexmore. r 6. Hercules-Buildings, Lam-
beth, and at the Box Office of the Theatre. Box °face open daily,
from 10 until 3 o'clock.