The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-25 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Nov. 24.—There has been a
much better feeling in the yarn market to• day,
with a good deal of disposition to buy, but spinners
are asking rather higher rates than they were on
Friday, and this has in some measure checked
business. On the whole there has been much
more doing than of late, and there is a percep-
tible return of confidence. In home trade yarns
there has been a pretty fair business, and prices
are id. to id. per lb. above the rates of last
Tuesday. There is a better tone in the home trade
market than we have witnessed for 10 or 14 days
past, and spinners, while limiting their purchases
to present wants in most cases, seem to think that
prices have touched the lowest point. In the cloth
market we have also had a decidedly more cheerful
tone, and an increased disposition on the part of
buyers to operate has been manifested. There has
been a good inquiry for all sorts of goods, and for
most of the foreign markets, as well as for the
home trade. Manufacturers, however, owing
partly to the increased cost of yarns and to an
impression that prices of cloth will go higher, are
not so anxious to sell as they appeared to be under
the depression and stagnation prevailing last week,
and are in most cases ad vancingtheir quotations to
some extent. Tho business of the day has been
somewhat limited from this fact, but buyers have in
some instances given rather more than they would
have done some days ago, and the market closes
with a better feeling and at rather advanced prices.
LEEDS, 24th.—The woollen cloth-markets have
been of an ordinary character this morning, present-
ing no feature of special notice. The attendance of
buyers was not large, and the purchases made
were miscellaneous, the goods sold including a fair
sprinkling of ordinary black all-wool cloths, unions,
tweeds, as well as the various heavy fabrics which
are adapted to the season. Prices are firm, as well
for the manufactured article as for the raw
material. The West Riding woollen manufac-
turers, as well as the wool brokers, have made
liberal purchases of wool at the current colonial
sales in London. Some of the wool purchased by
the manufacturers is already going into consump.
tion, few holding heavy stocks. The flax trade
keeps active, the spinners and manufacturers being
well employed and having no difficulty in obtaining
a sale of their productions. Prices firm.
NOTTINGHAM, 24th.—We had again a good at-
tendance of merchants and others at this exchange.
hall to-day, and a moderate share of business was
done in lace yarns, at about as much money as last
week. There was not much passing in hosiery
yarns, for which late rates were generally obtained.
Silks the same as heretofore. The demand for brown
nets was by no means buoyant, and recent prices
were supported. Many machines making this class
of goods have been stopped.
RCCHDALE, 23d.—The tone of this market has
undergone a decided change since oar last report. For
some weeks past the flannel trade has been in a very
satisfactory state. But for some reason or another
that acceptable state of things has undergone a re-
lapse, and it is difficult to assign a reason why,
unless it be the continued openness of the weather,
which is not favourable to the sale of our goods.
To-day's market was quite stagnant as compared
with last week, but it had no effect upon prices.
The goods on offer were chiefly from Yorkshire,
but the sale was very doll. This depression has not
had any present effect upon the activity of manu-
facturers.

A Horribly Luscious Panegyric on the

Oyster !

To praise the oyster is to " gild refined gold and
paint the lily." Yet we are unwilling to allude to
this succulent and delicate bivalve, which has
afforded so much gastronomical enjoyment to man,
without expressing an affectionate interest in his
welfare. One can scarcely think of a fresh, white,
fat "native," as one certainly cannot see him swim-
ming in his own liquor, without a premonitory
moistening of the palate, indicative of his gastric
affinities with the " minister of the interior." One
of his eulogists exclaims: " The oyster contains
much nutritious substance which is very digestive,
and produces a peculiar charm and an inexplicable
pleasure. After having eaten oysters we feel
joyous, light, and agreeable—yes, one might say
fabulously well. He who has eaten oysters for
the first time is best enabled to judge of this; for
soon after having eaten them he will experience a
sensation he never felt before, and never had an
idea of." This sensation is experienced rather by
those who eat oysters for lunch, and as a whet
before dinner a k Francalse, than by those who
eat them in the evening. Oysters are said to have
a singular vivifying influence in cases where the
nervous organs are affected. They are also often re-
commended to persons suffering from weak diges-
tion. The medical man, however, usually accom-
panies his permission with a by no means
unnecessary caution—that the oyster shall be
thoroughly masticated. Too many persons bolt their
oyster. Professor Wilson, in the Hoctes, admits that
he did. Dr, Kitchener knew better, for the oyster
has not only a finer flavour, but is far more nourish-
ing, when, as the worthy doctor says, he " feels the
teeth of the piscivirous gourmet tickling him to
death." Oysters are said to increase the blood
without heating the system, and taken before mid-
day with a glass of wine—Chablis is preferred on
the Continent—they often produce a most salutary
effect upon delicate ladies and invalids.
People are truly to .be pitied who cannot eat
oysters. There are a few exceptional cases, no
doubt, but as a rule a child need no more grow up
with a dislike for oysters than a preference for
using its left hand. All young children, say under
two years old, like them. When the little bipeds
become older, particularly if they have discon-
tinued eating them for a considerable interval, an
unhappy fastidiousness often developes itself. The
best method of overcoming this repugnance is said
to be to take a piece of French roll or (milk•bread)
thinly-buttered, and to put on it the oyster deprived
of its beard. Squeeze a few drops of lemon on the
" native" and pepper it, and then the incipient
oyster-hater will usually eat it and admire the taste.
An Englishman who grows up with an invincible
distaste for a product of our shores which ancient
and modern nations declare to be unique, loses
such delicious gustatory sensations in health, and
such a useful and powerful restorative in sick-
ness, that he ought to be treated medi-
cally, and all his friends should concern themselves
about his cure, Why should there not be a pro.
fessor—say under the roof which shelters the gigan-
tic Java oysters in Maiden-lane, whose duty it
should be to lead the erring palate back to health
and oysters, and to whom careful parents from the
country might lead their children, as they take them
to the London dentist ? Could a guinea be better
spent than in extirpating a silly prejudice, and qua-
lify ing the rising generation to enjoy those pleasant
companions of midnight hours and midday feasts ?
—London .Review.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,

(From Fun.)
EUROPEAN POLITICAL MEETING.

(By Pneumatic Despatch.)
The Criterion Stakes. Open to all the world. Catch weight.

Any distance.
Mr. Louis Napoleon's Congress, by Emperor, out of Am-
1
bition (liam)
Mr. Abe Lincoln's Nigger Melody, by Proclamation, out
of Tune (Chase) 2
Mr. John Russell's Neutrality, by Seizure, out of Par-
tiality ................................ (Buncombe) 3
Mr. E. Landseer's Lion, by Nelson's Column, out of
Sight (Delay) 0
Mr. Unknown's Try-R•On, by Lump of Lead, out of
Swindle ................................. (Earl) 0
Mr. Admiral Kuper's Bombardment, by Instruction, out
of Christianity ............
g-50 to 1 agst Cong 1 agst Nigger ress, 2 to
Bettin
Melody, even on Lion, 4 to 1 agst any other.
This was an exciting race. Try,it-on took the
nleeaardag:
starting, closely followed by Nigger Melody, Neutrality,
and Bombardment, but Congress, making play on nearing
the post, caused a diversion, and HAM binged Congress by
a head ; a neck separated Nigger Melody and Neutrality ;
long
the
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principle
re.
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reckonings ( (cheap). h e ap ).
make
race was proposed;
friends," a prompt settlement up on this
but a leviathan bustle ensued, when it was' discovered that
a "leg" had walked off, first buttoning up its pockets, and
that instead of leaning against , a tree, as heretofore, had
varied the performance by getting "up one:' Settlement
was adjourned sine die,

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lIER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 24.

The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness
the Crown Princess of Prussia, drove in the grounds
of the Castle this morning. _ _

The Dowager Countess of Mount-Edgcumbc has
succeeded the Countess of Caledon as Lady in
Waiting.
Lieutenant-Colonel F. Cavendish has succeeded
Lieutenant-General Sir H. Bentinck as Groom in
Waiting to her Majesty.
Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and
Princess of Prussia honoured Messrs. Goode's china
warehouse, in South Audley-street, with a visit
yesterday.

Theie Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
ef Wales passed through London yeatevlay after-
noon on their way from Sandringham to Windsor
Castle.

Her Royai Highnesses the Princess of Waive has
honoured Miss Dixon by sitting to her for her royal
highness's miniature portrait since she has been at
Sandringham.

Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to
Windsor Castle,

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales left Sandringham House yesterday on a
visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle, the shooting
season of the Prince on his Norfolk estate having
been brought to rather an early termination by the
death of the late King of Denmark, which circum-
stance also led to the postponement of the contem-
plated visit to Holkar Halt, to meet the Lord Lieu-
tenant of Norfolk and the principal county people.
Their royal highnesses, accompanied by Lieut.-
general Knollys, Major Teesdale, Mr. Fisher, and
the Hon. Mrs. Francis Stoner, left Sandringham
House at 12.40 in closed carriages for the Wolfer-
ton station. Here they were received on alighting
by Mr. Robertson, general superintendent of the
Great Eastern Railway, and Major Palmer, High
Sheriff of Essex and director of the Great Eastern
Railway, and were escorted to the spacious saloon
carriage of the company. The train, which was
under the care of Mr. Robertson, Major Palmer, and
the superintendent of the carriage department--
Mr. Kitson, assistant-engineer, being on the engine
—left Wolferton station punctually at one o'clock.
There were but few persons assembled at any of the
intermediate stations, except Ely, till the train
reached Cambridge, where a stoppage of five mi-
nutes took place by the side of the south end of the
new platform.
On crossing the river Cam, just before reaching
the Cambridge station, a very pretty sight met the
view of the occupants of the special train, as a num-
ber of university men who were engaged in boat
racing ceased rowing and paid the usual aquatic
honours to their royal highnesses. The train passed
on to the
~North London line at Stratford, and at
Kew entered on the rails of the South-Western
system, reaching Windsor at 4.40, after a run of
three hours and 40 minutes, including stoppages.
The Prince and Princess and suite, occupying two
of her Majesty's carriages, proceeded through the
town to the Castle, whilst a merry peal from the
bells of St. John's Church gave them a welcome re-
ception. The arrival of the Prince and Princess is
somewhat earlier than was expected a few days ago.
Their royal highnesses are expected to continue
their visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle until
the Queen takes her departure for Osborne, which
will not be until after the 14th of December next.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has
left town on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Derby at
Knowsley Hall, near Prescot, Lancashire.
The Duke and D uchesgt of Richmond have arrived
at Hillingdon, near Uxbridge, from Scotland. The noble
duke and duchess will, with their family, take up their
residence at Goodwood Park, Sussex, about the 2d pros.
The Duke of Hamilton will leave Oxford, at
which university his grace is pursuing his studies, shortly
after the 15th proximo, to pass a few weeks with the
Duchess of Hamilton (ace Princess Marie of Baden) and
Lady Mary Hamilton, at Brighton.
The Earl and Countess Delawarr have left Buck-
hurst Park, Sussex, en a visit to Mr. Russell, M.P., and
Lady Elizabeth Russell, in Bedfordshire.
The Earl of Haddington has arrived at the Alex-
andra Hotel, St. George's-place, Hyde•park-corner, from
Scotland.
Viscount Midleton is still in very indifferent
health at Pepperharrow, near Godalming, Surrey yester.
day the accounts were more favourable.
The Countess (Dowager) Cowper and the Ladies
Cowper had, by the last letters, arrived at Florence, an
their way to Rome from Paris.
Lord Stanley, M.P., has left town to join the
circle at Knowsley on a visit to the Earl and Countess of
Derby.
Lady Theresa Lewis has left town for The Grove,
near Watford.
, The Hon. W. Bouverie has left Longford Castle,
Salisbury, for a tour in India.
The marriage of Mr. W. Clowes, of Broughton
Hall, Lancashire, with the Hon. Adelaide Cavendish,
daughter of the late Lord Waterpark, is to take place about
the middle of the ensuing month.
Sir Frederick Johnstone, Bart., leaves his seat,
Westerhall Castle, in Scotland, next week for India. Mr.
Chaplin, of Lincolnshire, accompanies Sir Frederick.

THE CRAWLEY COURT-MARTIAL,