The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-26 00:00:00

The Manufacturing Markets.

MANCHESTER, Friday.—The dulness of our mar-
ket has become greater since Tuesday. To-day,
especially, there is a perceptible increase of indis-
position on the part of buyers to do anything in
either yarns or goods. Prices are generally without
nominal change, but practically they are rather
weaker than on Tuesday, and most so in cop twist
and weft about 32's to 40's.

BRADFORD, Thursday.—Wool : Since last Thurs-
day a quieter feeling has prevailed in the wool
market, and transactions have been more limited
than of late. The rise in the Bank rate of discount
which occurred last Thursday appears to have
induced a cautious feeling in every quarter, and the
purchases of spinners to••day are only for the sup-
ply of their immediate mods. The effect upon
prices, however, is not so marked. These appear to
be generally maintained with a steady firmness,
though the tendency upwards which has recently
been noticed is not to be met with to-day.
Yarns : The :tightness in money -which has
induced quietness in the cotton and wool mar-
kets, has had a like effect upon yarns, and sales
to-day are very limited in extent. Another great
cause of quietness, as far as concerns the foreign
trade, is in the fact that owing to the stormy
weather, no Ostend mail has arrived for the last
three days. The consequence is that the export
houses are at a loss how to act, but feel sure it is the
safer course to hold aloof from purchasing. The
chief business of the week has been in twofolds,
which are remarkably brisk, and in which some
fair orders, both home and export, have been placed,
Pieces—The mark has been thinly attended, and
not much fresh business has been done by either
home or American merchants. The export houses
have been equally inactive, and the demand has
been confined to a few orders in mottles, 3-4
worsted lastings and serges. The stocks of the
latter have rather decreased during the week,
caused doubtless by the immediate requirements for
the Spanish trade. There is no alteration in prices
for any description of goods.
LEICESIER.—Beyond there being a few orders
given out for the assortment of stock for the im-
mediate demand, but few workmen have been sot
on since Christmas, Stocks on hand are very low,
and a fair demand is looked forward to. Worsted
spinners are fully employed, and full rates for yarns
are maintained. The advance of the rate of dis-
count by the Bank of England has prevented
further excitement or advance in the wool market ;
it still continues its firmness, though much less is
doing, and that only for present consumption.—
Leicester Journal.

Importing Tea without colour on the leaf pre-
ventsal the Chinese passing oft inferior leaves as in theusu
kinds. Horniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore,always
good alike. Sold in packets by 2,280 agents.
Chaussee is
The General Council of thePon t
examination of
at present engaged in the definitive
the project for an irrigating canalfromß ewauarckaaireoftoththeeksinead
in the south-east of Fr
sea,
which will be one of the must important
:
This canal will derive its
water from the river Gardena at Lafoux, and. will serve the
immense
piain-10,000hectares (21 acres each) in extent—
bounded on the east by the Rhone, on the north and west
by the navigable canal from Beaucaire to Aigues-Mortes,
and on the south by the ponds on the coast of the Medi-
terranean. The nature of the ground will not, however,
allow of more than 7,000 hectares being irrigated. The
quantity of water to be supplied by the canal is fixed at
3,000 litres per second, which can be readily furnished
by the Gardon. The expense of the work is esti-
mated at 1,050,000 francs, one-fifth of which will be fur-
nished by the State, so that the capital to bo supplied by
the landowners interested in the undertaking will only be
810,000 f. The additional worth of the land when thus
watered is calculated at the minimum of 2,000 f, per hec-
tare, so that taking the total increased value at five mil-
lions, it will amount to nearly six times the expanse.
The question of the concession of the railway
from Cette to Marseilles is submitted to a commit-
tee composed of MM. Fould, Rouher, and Magne, who aro
to present a report to the Emperor with a definitive solu-
tion. A long conference has just taken place on the subject
at the Ministry of State. MM. Pereire and Talabot, one
representing the Southern Company, the other the Lyons
and Mediterranean, were successively heard.

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Naval and MiYitary Xxitelligenc6.

THE NAVY.

Her Majesty's piddle yacht Victoria and Albert,
Capt. George H. Seymour, C.]3., will be removrd
from her harbour moorings to-day and placed along-
side the dockyard at Portsmouth to receive her new
intermediate paddle shaft, which has been prepared
for her at the manufactory of Messrs. John Penn
and Son, Greenwich. A trial will be afterwards
made of her machinery. All the Royal apartments
in the yacht are being regilded and redecorated in
readiness for service at the forthcoming morriage
of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wiles. The
painting of the upper deck is also to be commenced
immediately, and it is presumed the gilding also,
which is in a very bad condition, although no
orders relative to the latter have yet been received.
Her Majesty's ship London, 86, which for the
last three days has been prevented by the weather
from going up Hatnoaze, remains inside the break-
water, with topgallant masts struck, all snug.
Weather permitting, the paddlewheel steasislocp
Virago, Commader Hope Johnstone, leaves Ply-
mouth Sound to-day with supernumeraries fur the
fleet in the Tagus.

On Saturday Earl de Grey and Ripon, accom-
panied by Colonels Jervoise and Owen, completed
his survey at Plymouth by inspecting the Devonport
Dockyare, Keyham Steamyard, and the gun-
wharf. They were attended by Admiral-Superin-
tendent Thomas M. C. Symonds, C. 8., and the offi-
cers of the different establishments.

The following appointments have been made
at the Admiralty :—Lieut. C. J. Balfour, to the
Buzzard; Lieut. J. F. Baker, to the Alecto ; Sub-
Lieut. V. C. Scholefield, to the Triton ; Sub• Lieut.
W. Collins, to the Buzzard; Sub.-Lieut. the Hon.
E. W. Dawson, to the Defence ; R. Holman, chief-
engineer, to the Alecto; F. C. Alton, promoted to
chief engineer, to the Indus for the Doris; C.
Mlieever, first class assist. engineer, to the Alecto ;
W. H. M. Arnold, paymaster, to the Buzzard;
A. G. Montagu, assist. paymaster, to the Blenheim ;
W. M'Glashan, second class assist. engineer, to the
Alecto ; P. Thompson, second class assist. engineer,
to the Fisgard, as supernumerary; J. M. Bran kston,
second class assist. engineer, to the Osprey ; F. S.
Scott; acting second class assist. engineer, to the
Alecto ; W. Ambler, acting second class assist. en-
gineer, to the Cumberland for the Royal Oak ; T. S.
Blyth, acting second class assist. engineer, to the
Fisgard, as supernumerary ; J. C. Caswell, C. L.
Rooke, and the Hon. E. T. Needham, midshipmen,
to the Marlborough ; E. C. L. Sturt, midshipman,
to the Black Prince; the Hon. Henry N. Shore,
naval cadet, to the Edgar ; Henry W. Hill,
Frederick. C. T. Bosanquet, William H.
L. Browne, A. Cooke, W. N. Diggle, H. S. Gough,
Francis H. N. Harvey, Edward W. Hodgkinson,
Augustus M. R, Hamilton, 'Wm. N. Hood, Aston E.
M'Murdo, Edward J. Pretyman, Wm. F. Roch, T.
H. Simpkins, and Edward A. W. West, naval cadets,
to the Marlborough; Chas. Heyward, master's
assist., supernumerary to the Marlborough; Thos.
J. Morris, master's assist., to the Buzzard; John A.
Miller, master's assist., to the Alecto; G. H. Piggott
and H. Baynham, master's assists., to the Narcissus,
as supernumeraries ; Geo. F. Whitmore and Chas.
M. White, master's assists., to the Forte, as super-
numeraries ; and A. A. Fanuel, clerk, to the Buz-
zard.

THE ARMY.
The examination of candidates for direct commis-
sions will commence at Chelsea Hospital this morn-
ing,before Major-Gen. F. W. Hamilton, 0.13., Vice-
President, and the members of the Council of Mili-
tary Education. Under regulations of the Horse
Guards, dated the 13th inst., none of the candidates
will be regarded as qualified for commissions in the
line on account of the examination they may have
undergone in endeavouring to obtain admission to
the Royal Military Academy, it having been de-
cided, for the future, strictly to confine the half-
yearly competitive examinations for admission to
the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, to the
object for which they are intended. The same rule
will also apply to the competitive examinations for
admission to the Royal Military College, Sand-
hurst. The number of candidates who are ex-
pected to present themselves to day is rather large. -
The examination will occupy the entire week, the
first day being devoted to the examination as to
the health of the candidates.

During the past week the division at Aldershott
was paraded for route-marching on different days
and marched out under its brigadiers in various
directions—on Friday the cavalry brigade, under
the command of Brigadier-General Hodge; on the
same day the field batteries of the Royal Artillery ;
on the previous day the Ist Infantry Brigade,under
the command of Major-General Brook Taylor, the
2d Infantry Brigade, under the command of Colonel
Wodehouse, and the Royal Horse Artillery. The
troops on each occasion performed a march of from
eight to ten miles, returning to their quarters
shortly after noon.

Brigadier-Gen. W. G. Brown, late in the com-
mand of the 2d brigade at Aldershott, with Lieut.
H. B. Savory, 78th Highlanders, his aide-de-camp,
will leave England by the next overland mail,Gen.
Brown having been appointed to the command of
the troops in China, with the rank of Major-Gen.
On Thursday evening a fire was discovered in a
temporary forage barn on the South Camp, Alder-
shot. The barn was filled with straw for the use of
the troops, and was situated near the stables occu-
pied by the C battery, Royal Horse Artillery, and
forage and other stores in the immediate vicinity of
the Barrack Department, all of which were at one
periel in imminent danger. The Camp Fire Bri-
gade, under the command of Mr. Superintendent
Burke, and assisted by a fire party of the Ist bat-
talion 6th Fusiliers, quickly brought Several engines
to the spot, and an ample supply of 'water being ob-
tained, the fire was confined to the building irt
which it broke out, which was, however, utterly de-
stroyed, although a great portion of the straw was
saved. Two other alarms of fire occurred during the
week—one on Monday night and the other early on.
Thursday morning. In both instances, however,
they Were found to be referrable to the furze on the
common surrounding the camp, which either by Etc-,
cident or design had been ignited in various places.
The foundation-stone of the "Aldershot Mission
Hall," or Soldier's Home, will be laid by the Earl
of Shaftesbury, on Wednesday, the 11th proximo.
The institution is intended to supply the means of
quiet recreation and instruction to the troops, in
addition to providing amusing reading, ienbged,seaomnlddorfaaaetiitsltiihtyne
for chess, draughts, and similar games.
Refresh-
ments, of a harmless character, will l
Home at a moderate rate, and the whole undertak-
ing, which has been
originated by a philanthropic
lady, is intended to counteract
tendency of some of the places
of public entertain
ment in the vicinity of the camp to Which the troops
resort in their leisure hours.
The death of Lieut.-Gen. T. Burke is announced
as having taken place a few days ago at his seat in
Ireland. The gallant General was Colonel of the
10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot, to which
he was appointed in April, 1860. He served in
Jamaica and St. Domingo in 1796 and 1797, and in
Holland in 1809. He next served in the Peninsula
during the campaigns of 1810,1811, and 1812, with.
the Fifth Division of the army. He volunteered the
" forlorn hope" of Sir John Leith's division at the
taking of Badajoz, where he received several severe
wounds, which prevented his pursuing his profes-
sional career. The deceased officer's commissions
bore date as follows :—Ensign; Oct. 1, 1794; lieut.,
Oct. 25, 1799; capt., Aug. 12, 1804; major, July
12, 1813; lieut.-col., July 22, 1830; col., Nov. 9,
1846; major-gen., June 20, 1851, and lieut.-gen.,
Jan. 18, 1860_
General Sir W. G. Power, Col. commanding tho
the 10th Brigade of Royal Artillery, died on Friday
last at his residence, Shanklin, Isle of Wight. The
deceased commenced his military career at the com-
mencement of the present century, served in Spain,
Portugal, and Franc, from 1808 to 1814, and was
twice wounded—at the seges of Ciudad Rodrigp
and Burgos. In recognition of his services General.
Power had been decorated with the silver war
medal with nine clasps, and created a Knight Com-
mander of the Order of the Bath and a Knight of
the Hanoverian Guelphic Order. He was in his
82d year.

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ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT
G A It DEN.
Under the Management ut Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. W.
'Harrison, Sole Lessees.
THIS EVENING, SATANELLA : Misses Sara Dobson,
Thirlwall, and Susan Tyne ; Messrs. W. H. Weiss, J. 'Rouse,
A. St. Albyn, 11. Corti, C. Lyall, W. 11. Payne, and George
Ferrets

Conductor—Mr. A. Mellon.
Atter which, the Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, en-
titled HARLEQUIN BEAUTY AND THE
ncBEAST.
Doors open at halt-past 6—C ommee at 7.

mfr H EATRE-R YA L, DRURY-LANE.-
-11 Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer.
THIS EVENING, the Comio Drama of THE NEXE OF
After which, the Grand Pantomime of LITTLE GO DDY
TWO SHOES,