The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22, 1863,

STATE OF TRADE.

MANcnEszEn, Aug. 21.—We have had a rather excited
market, with a go d business and higher prices both for
cloth and yarn. The excitement is, to a great extent, owing
to the rising cotton market and the increasing difficulty
there is in buying goods, owing to the constant efforts of
spinners and manufacturers to force up prices so as to cover
the increased cost of c tton. There has been a good deal of
business to-day in yarns, and the advance in prices since
Tuesday is fully Id. per lb. In some cases (but these are
exceptional, and where yarn is of peculiar and first-rate
makes) we hear of id. advance during the week. The de-
mand has been for India, China, the Mediterranean, and
home trade. Some business has also been done by the Ger-
mans, bat, as usual, they have exhibited a good deal of cau-
tion
iavtelhey
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bbeeeenn
or timidity, and their purchases have been compare-
s:lll:Blb.
done since Tuesday, though the market has not been quite
so active to-day. The business has evidently been, too, for
actual shipment, not for speculation. The better accounts
from India on Monday and again yesterday (bringing tele-
graphic dates to July 29 and 30) have evidently given a
further impetus to the market, and the pi ices of 30in. shirt-
ings have advanced 3d. per piece on the average. For 45in.,
50in., and wider cloths the advance has been 6d. per piece.
Of cloths of this description of first-rate makes, and scarce,
a much larger advadce has been given, but these cases are
very exceptional, and ought to have very little it. fluence in
estimating the state of the market. One good feature of
the market this week has been that the business has not
been confined to the few houses, but has been more general
than for some time past. The home-trade houses are buy-
ing, though not extensively, but the t rade is sound and
healthy, and more hopeful than it has been. There has
been more or less demand for all markets, and the Greeks
who ship to Egypt are buying more freely, a result prol
bably of the more plentiful supply of money to that part of
the world, through the increased quantity sent:thence, and
its greatly increased price. The influx of wealth to
some other countries through the stoppage of the American
cotton supply is also gradually producing a similar result in
extending the market for our manufactures. A much
larger business, it is said, could be done in yarns if stocks
could be found to supply the demand. The market closes
with a cheerful feeling, though no one looks upon the pre.
sent active demand as likely to continue for more than a
very short time.
NOTTINGHAM, Aug. 21.—There was a rather better at-
tendance of merchants and manufacturers at this Exchange-
hall to-day, and the demand for lace yarns was improved,
prices being the turn in favour of the seller, There is more
doing in hosiery yarns, and late rates are being fully made.
In silks there is no material alteration. All descriptions of
brown nets are a very dull sale, and the tendency in prices
is to give way,

The Prince of Wales's Turkish Room, Marl-
borough House.

(From the Buil(Tiny News.)
One of the rooms on the first floor of Marlborough House
has recently been converted into a very good representation
of a Turkish mandar'ah or reception. room. It is hung
about with the many valuable and interesting articles which
his royal highness brought home as souvenirs of his recent
tour, and with the mat and other objects given to him by
his New Zealand visitors. As pipes of every kind—from
that which is fitted with the jewelled amber mouth-piece, a
gift from the Sultan, to the commen " garmasak" of the
Egyptian peasant—are ranged about the room, it has been
called a " smoking-room ;" some people, better acquainted,
perhaps, with the Strand than the seraglio, have been
calling it the "divan." :It should be
remmbered that
there is no room specially used for smoking in a Turkish
house. The women smoke in the harem, the men in
their ordinary sitting. room, whether it be the enclosed
mandar'ah or the open leewan. The door-keeper smokes
on the mastabah, just inside the bab-el-hosh or door
which separates the courtyard from the street ; the cook
smokes in his or her kitchen, and the seis in the stable
or at the stable door. The term divan is as incorrect as the
smoking-room, because the "deewan" in not a room at all
but the mattress and cushions placed against the sides of the
room for people to sit upon. It would be wrong, then, to
suppose that the prince has become addicted to the Eastern
method of inhaling the fragrant weed. Neither nargheel,
sheesheh, nor chibouque in the room is stained by actual
contact with timbak or dukhhan. There is no gold leaf
tobacco in the gold embroidered bags, and we have no doubt
about the prince having the good taste to prefer a " choice
Havanah cigar" to the finest Gebelee, Sooree, or Abourikee
which was ever shown or sold in the Bazaar of Ladikice.
The apartment at Marlborough House is only a represen-
tation of an ordinary Turkish reception-room, and the
Eastern articles collected by the prince are placed in it. Not-
withstanding several shortcomings, the fittings of the room
havebeen very successfully designed. On entering the room
we find ourselves on a regularly arranged durkalah or lower
floor,whereon, in Eastern houses, the shoes of the guests are
left. This is floored with oil-cloth,instead of encaustic tiles ;
the faskeeyeh (tountain) is of white marble,inlaid with gild-
ing, and on the right of the visitors, facing the deewan, is
a tastefully designed suffeh or shelf backed with looking-
glass. There is an arch over and under it—the upper one
being decorated with the well-known complex Eastern
bracketing. On the shelf are laid out a calumdawn, or ink
and pen case, perfume vessels, and the elegant jug and
basin, the tisht and ibreek, used for washing the hands
before meals. The floor of the duffel is paved with tiles,
and their beauty exhibits strikingly the shabby imitation
of them on the floor of the durka'ah. At the side of the
shelf there is a cupboard, fronted with carved woodwork
and lined with Turkey red. cloth. The woodwork is very
well carved, but it is hardly Eastern enough to be satisfac-
tory. It reminds us too strongly of English pianoforte-
makers' work. Instead of being pierced in the work, it is
cut out and stuck upon it. The lining of this cupboard
would likewise have pleased us better if the Turkey red
had been here dispensed with, and the quiet green of dull
red and white ornaments, seen in Eastern houses, had
been adopted instead. It would have leaked more Turkish,
and, at the same time, formed a better back-ground to the
articles in the cupboard. These articles are too numerous
to specify; but conspicuous among them are amber
mouth pieces, embroidered tobacco • bags, a coat of
chain armour and a helmet, daggers, swords, kc., all artis-
tically arranged. Facing the visitor as he enters the room,
is a window, with lattice work admirably and truthfully cut,
which looks out into the gardens. The lattice work is the
favourite reel pattern, but it is executed with rare fidelity
and skill. There is a cushion on the window-seat, and some
embroidered work executed by the Christians at Beyrout has
been sewn upon it. The linings of the window are not equal
to the lattice shutter, being painted in imitation of inlaid
wood work. So again the walls of the room are painted with
Siena marble, and we miss the arabic texts which nearly
always adorn Eastern rooms. A few inscriptions are cer-
tainly hung about the room, but in Eastern houses they form
strings and friezes, and are made the principal ornament of
the walls, On tho walls of the room hangs one of the most
interesting articles in it. It is a fragment of real old Egyptian
hieroglyphic in an admirable state of preservation and of
rare beauty. The ceiling of the durka'ah. is, as usual, of a
different pattern to that over the leewan or raised portion.
While the former is formed into patterns by interlaced lines,
arranged in the form of a star and filled in with blue and red
colour, the latter is coiled with beams with long and narrow
retangular panels between them. Two large lanterns with an
ostrich's egg attached to the bottom of each hang from the
central beam. Three or four steps led from the durka'ah to
the leewan, the floor of 'which is carpeted with Turkey-red
cloth, and on it is laid a genuine Turkey carpet. The leewan
or raised portion of the room is separated from the lower part
by dwarf pierced wood partitions beautifully designed, and
each of different pattern to the others. Two leathern water
bottles, with hooks for fastening them to the camel's saddle,
hang on this partition. A raised framework about 18in.
high, called a takt, is put round the three sides of the lee-
wan, and on it the mattresses and cushions are put to form
the deewan. These cushions are covered with the same
kind of embroidery which, we noticed on that in the win-
dow-seat. A round tray upon a low stool, inlaid with
mother-of-pearl, &e., which, if not a real Eastern sufrah, is
indeed ben !rondo, forms the only table in front of the dee-
wan. A splendid " water bubble" stands upon it. A range
of shallow cupboards are fitted over the mantel-piece, where
we find a magnificent coffee service, the finjans or cups
being, of course, no bigger than our eggecups, and the zarfs
or holders most elaborately worked in filagree. Here, also,
we seethed ifferen ;specimens of Eastern dress—waist-scarfs,
abbas, keifiehs ; read in the centre, over the deewan, there'
is another group of Eastern weapons—daggers and swords
of rare temper, armour, and helmets. On either side of this
group there is a stained glass window, and a similar one
over the cushions at the side of the room. The openings
are cusped and filled with blue and red glass. They spoil
the effect of the whole room by the quantity of light which
they admit. It is not the colour of the glass which we ob-
ject to; that is correct eneugh.BhuatrifealnooEhead very sternbuilder
had fashioned them they would
diffe-
rent,
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0010 haveure d glass
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is in small pieces, and is separated by bands of plaster,
arranged in patterns sometimes of the most elaborate and
tasteful design. There would have been no difficulty in
making such work here. l t could have been easily made
with plaster of Paris, Keene's or Martin's cement.
.The
apresentteri o
lly openings
injure
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effecton oyf uglyeverything i n themselves,else inthe
et
room
m—destroying that air of calm repose and perfect tranquil-
lity which pervades all Eastern apartments, and which con-
tribute so touch to the " kei" of their occupants. We take
the liberty of suggesting this alteration, and also the sub-
stitution of real fifes for the shabby oil on the g:-Jor

below, to whomsoever has the control of the work. When
se much pains has been taken and so much expense has
been incurred to make a fitting receptacle for the spoils of
peaceful. travel, we notice with regret deftetz which can be
so easily remedied.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The official trial of the paddlewheel steamer Sala-
mis, recently constructed at Chatham, which it is
said will be the yacht of the Prince of \Vales, took
place yesterday at the measured mite off the Maplin
Sands, under the superintendence of Captain J. K.
Hall, commanding her Majesty's ship Cumberland,
74, and the steam reserve squadron at Chathamend
Sheerness. The Salamis is a remarkably handsome
vessel, her extreme length being 2281 t. Bin., and
her breadth 28ft. 2in. Her burden is 834 tons. She
is sister ship to the Pyeche and Enchantress, but in
appearance differs somewhat from both, from the
circumstance of her stem being built without a
knee, which gives it a squaro and " tumble-home"
appearance. At present she is only rigged to carry
two meats, but it is the intention of the Admiralty
to fit her with three masts, like the steam yacht
Enchantress. Her engines were manufactured by
Messrs. Revenhill, Salkeld, and Co., end their per-
formance yesterday fully justified the estabashed
reputation of that eminent firm. The diameter
of the cylinders is 61 inches, and the length of the
stroke 4 feet 6in. There ate 12 furnaces and four
bailers, and. the latter are: fitted. with :superheaters.
The paddlewheels are 21 feet. in diameter,
,and are
fitted withMorgan',s patent feathering floats, which
add materially to the speed of the ship. The floats
were immersed 6 feet. The coal bunkers are close
to the furnaces, and there is space on board for 18a
tons of coals. With her cables, coals, and anchors,
&c., on board, yesterday, the Salamis drew 9 feet
10 inches aft, and 9 feet 2 inches forward. The
officials belonging to the dockyard on board to
watch the trials on the part of the Admiralty were
Mr. Baker, chief engineer at Chatham, Mr. Moore,
principal master-shipwright, and Mr. Rumble,
inspector of machinery afloat. Mr. Blakey,
Queen's pilot, navigated the vessel to the trial
ground. The Salamis left her berth at Chatham-
dockyard at 9.50 a.m. and by 10.40 was abreast at
Garrison Point. The engines were then stopped to
take on board Capt. Hall and the other officials,
when the vessel's head was laid for the east to
place her on the trial ground, which was reached at
11.15. The wind at this time was blowing from the
westward with a force of three, and there was a
moderate sea on. Six runs were taken at full boiler
power, with the following results ;—la the first run
the time was 4m. 345., the speed in knots 12.139,
the pressure of steam 261 b., and the number of re-
volutions of engines 38; in the second run the time
was 3m. 365., the speed in knots 16.667, the pres-
sure of steam 261 b., and the number of revolutions
of engines 39; in the third run the time was 4m.
365., the speed in knots 13.043, the pressure of
steam 261 b., and the number of revolutions 38/ ; in
the fourth run the time was 3m. 355., the speed in
knots 16744, the pressure of steam 261 b, and the
number of revolutions of engines 37/ ; in the fifth
run the speed was 4m. 385., the speed in knots
12.95, the pressure of steam 261 b., and the number
of revolutions of engines 38 ; in the last run the
time was 3m. 10s., the speed in knots 16.364, the
pressure of steam, 26,b., and the number of revolu-
tions of engines 37. The average speed of the six
runs was 14843 knots, equal to 17; statute miles
per hour. The result is in the highest degree 'satis-
factory, the Salamis having thus proved herself—as
her designers and builders always predicated she
would be—the fastest vessel of her class afloat. Her
sister ship, the Psyche, realised only a mean speed
of 14521 knots per hour on the occasion of her offi-
cial trial, the Salamis thus beating her by a quarter
of a knot per hour. The Salamis afterwards took
a run towards the Girdlers to ease the steam down
and enable two of the boilers to be cut off, after
whim she was again placed on the mile, and made
four runs at half boiler power, with the following
results :—ln the first run the time was sm. 125.,
sec., the speed in knots 11.538, the:number of revo-
lutions 38, the pressure of steam 26 ; in the secon d
run the time was 4 min. 22 sec., the speed in knots
13.74, the number of revolutions 30, and the pres-
sure of steam 261 b,; in the third run the time was
5 min. 9 sec., the speed in knots 11.65, the number
of revolutions al, and the pressure of steam 26 ;
in the fourth run the time was 4 min. 23 sec., the
speed in knots 13.688, the number of revolutions
30, and the pressure of steam 26. The mean ave-
rage speed of the four runs was 12.648 knots. From
these data the Salamis may be pronounced a 13-knot
vessel at sea, all circumstances taken into considera-
tion, which makes her one of the fastest of the pad-
dlewheel steamers belonging to the navy. At the
close of the official runs some experiments were made
in making the circle. At full speed the complete
circle was made in 5 min. 10 sec., the rudder being
brought over to an angle of 35 deg. by three men
with 31 turns of the wheel. At half-speed the com-
plete circle was made in 5 min. 29 sec. With the
helm hard a port, the half circle was made in 2 min.
39 sec., and with the helm hard a starboard the half
circle was accomplished in 2 min. 23 sec., the rudder
in each case being over at an angle of 30 deg., and
the diameter of the circle being about three times
the vessel's length. At half speed, with the helm
a port, the half circle was made in 2 min, 40 secs.,
and with the helm at starboard in 2 min. 53 sees.,
with three men at the wheel, the rudder, which was
at an angle of 301 deg., being brought over in three
turns. The engines from full speed were stopped
dead in 13 secs. from the word being given from the
bridge, and when going astern the engines wore
stopped in 3 secs., and turned ahead in 3 secs.
From full speed ahead the engines were stopped and
started astern in 40 secs. The experiments, which
were watched by the officials with the keenest
wind, &.,
interest,3 were considered very satisfactory,
and under more favourable circumstances of
it is confidently stated that the vessel
will make at least another knot per hour. The
boilers generated a full supply of steam, and not the
slightest appearance of hot beariags was indicated.
The engines, which were under the superintendence
of Mr. Ravenhill, the head of the firm, worked with
the greatest smoothness and regularity, and the
diagrams of the expansion cards were exceedingly
favourable, Daring the trials the average tempe-
rature was 82 deg. in the engine room, 92 deg. in
the afterstokehole, and 94 deg. in the forward stoke-
hole. At the termination of the trials yesterday
afternoon the Salamis returned to Chatham harbour
to await orders from the Admiralty.
The iron screw frigate Tamar, 2,800 tons, 500
horse power, was yesterday removed from Chatham
harbour, and placed in the steam basin at Sheerness,
to be brought forward for immediate commission.

A second trial of the armour plates bupplied by
Messrs. Petin, Gaudet, and Co., of France, to our
Board of Admiralty, through Mr. Beghie, of Man-
sion-house•place, took place at Portsmouth on Wed-
nesday, and the results then obtained, together with
a subsequent inspection of the plates, prove the two
tried on Wednesday to be even inferior iu their
shot-resisting powers to the two previously tried in
company with the Millwall plate. On Wednesday
Messrs. John Brown and Co. sent a plate loft. bin.
in length by 3ft. lain. in width, and 51in. in thick-
nese, for trial with the French plates, but not
to compete with them. It was built up in a
peculiar manner of cold blast and charcoal iron,
according to a plan laid before the firm, hut
the theory of the plate's construction has
long
been known to be unsound, and the result
was, as had been anticipated, another failure
among many. Notwithstanding its failure, how-
ever, as a merely experimental plate, it has received
a higher official classification than either of the
French manufactured plates. Messrs. Patin and
Gaadtt's Iwo plates were of the following (Ewen-
firet was 15ft Tin in length by at 4111

in width and 51-in in thickness ; tied the second 15ft
7in in length by 3ft 4in in width and 41in in thick-
ness. 'rho main conditions of the contract between
Messrs. Petin and Gaudet and our Admiralty arc—
that the 41-inch plates shall withstand three shots
planted as nearly as possible in the same place with-
out penetration being effected, and that the 51-inch
plates shall resist four shots in the same manner.
The 51-inch plate received in all 10 shots fairly dis-
tributed over its surface. Only in three instances
were the shots overlapping, or "planted as nearly
as possible in the same place," but in all three in-
stances was the plate broken through, and penetra-
tion effected by two shots, instead of five, as per
contract. Nos. 2 and 4 shots just impinged upon
each other's circumference, with No. 3 in close
proximity, all at the right hand end of the plate,
but with no other shot near, and Nos, 2 and 4 were
connected by a wide deep crack extending upwards
of 15 inches. Pctin and Gaudet's 42-inch plate re-
ceived only six shots, which, however, selficiently
decided its character. The first shot on the lower
left edge exhibited a crack seven inches in length in
the indent. No. 2on the right lower edge, upon a
bolt, opened the layer of metal and cracked two
layers across. No. 3 shot, to the left of No. 2, opened
wide fissures in %the plate and drove the broken
metal into the ship's side, with a large crack to the
right. No. 5, in the centre of the plate, above and
clear of 2 and 3, drove the plate into the ship's side
four inches, with deep fissures in the metal. The
last shot did no particular damage in the circum-
ference of its own ImPaet, but opened up a deep
crack across a previous shot-mark 13 inches in
length.- Penetration, it will be seen, west effected
in this plate with single shots.
The Odin, 16 gun paddle frigate, Commodore
Lord John Hay, C. 8., arrived at Spithead yesterday
morning from India and the Cape of Good Hope,
and last from Teneriffe. She brought home a num-
ber of invalids and supernumeraries from India and
the Cape, who were transferred to the Victory flag-
ship yesterday by the Pigmy steam tender. The
Odin was commissioned at Portsmouth by Lord J.
Hay on Sept. 20, 1859.
The Lucifer paddle steamer, Mr. G. Allen, master
in command (temporary), arrived at Portsmouth
early yesterday morning from Cherbourg, which
port she left the previous day, at 2 ime., having
conveyed Vice-Admiral Sir M. Seymour, G.C.8.,
naval Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth and in
the Channel Islands, to Cherbourg from Jersey.
The Fire Queen steam tender was expected to arrive
at Cherbourg yesterday to receive Sir Michael on
board and convey him to Portsmouth. Sir Michael
had been engaged in his annual inspection of the
Channel Islands, and we regret to learn had been
compelled to leave his son suffering under a sudden
attack of illness at Jersey. In Cherbourg Roads
were lying when the Lucifer left two screw line•of-
battle ships, four iron-clads--one a two decker, car-
rying 90 or 100 guns, with very close p)rts, and
with an enormous beak projecting in front, and a
paddle steamer.
The following appointments and promotions have
been made at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Thomas W.
Simeon, to the Rattlesnake ; Powell C. Underwood
has been nominated to a naval cadetship ; John G.
Sheerman, in the Ringdove, promoted to acting
chief engineer ; and John B. Gibson, in the Nile,
promoted to acting first-class assistant-engineer.
The squadron of the 18th Hussars, whose desti-
nation is Northampton, is to remain at Aldershot
probably till the first week of October, under com-
mand of Capt. Peyton.