The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-22 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Nov. 21.—We have had another
very quiet market, and to make sales in shipping
yarns lower prices would have to be taken. The
offers making were generally at prices too low for
acceptance. No doubt the heavy receipts of cotton
at Liverpool have had a depressing effect. Home-
trade yarns have been exceedingly quiet, and the
little advance obtained last Friday has been decidedly
lost. Spinners are more anxious to sell than they
were last week, and very little business can be done
at the rates of last Tuesday. In the cloth market
there has been no new feature since Friday. Great
caution has continued to moderate tbe action of
buyers, who have been anticipating a reduction of
prices as the result of their limited operations. By
making low offers they have attempted to produce
a lower scale of prices. Stocks of cloth, however,
are really small, so that only in few instances have
sellers been willing to submit to lower terms. The
result has been a great limitation of business. We
find a pretty general inquiry for cloth, and quite a
general wish to resume operations at a scale of prices
not very seriously lower than the present range, but
such a resumption appears unlikely to be brought
about without some reduction in the price of the raw
nlaterial. Manufacturers complain that so unremu-
nerative is the trade in its present condition that any
further reduction would be ruinous, and they lean
more to a consideration of decreasing their production
or discontinuing it altogether than to lowering pre-
sent rates with cotton at present prices. To-day
we have had no quotable change in prices, and
the feeling has been one of general dulness, which,
however, might have been greater but for the
arrival of slightly better cotton accounts from Ame-
rica by the City of Boston steamer. Cotton had ad-
vanced a cent. per lb. when the steamer left, and this
seems to have prevented the amount of depression
people here had prepared themselves for in the
morning. The business has been small, with no
disposition to give way in prices. Messrs. John
Slagg and Co. report of this day's cloth-market:—
" The dulness noticed last Tuesday has continued
to characterise our market during the week. Buyers
have held aloof or only operated on a very moderate
scale, in expectation, doubtless, of easier prices.
The absence of stocks and absorption of re-sale lots,
however, prevent any pressure to sell, and though
the transactions of the day are few we close with
prices but little changed."
LEEDS, 21st.—There has been a rather limited
attendance of buyers in the cloth-halls this morning,
and they made purchases rather slowly, chiefly of
tweeds and meltons, and some fancy goods for
ladies' wear. There was not much done in the white
cloth-hall, there being but a small demand for hair
lists and other goods chiefly offered in the mart.
Prices are generally firm, having been strengthened
by the high cost of wool. The manufacturers and
country clothiers keep in full work.
ROCHDALE, 20th.—Though the weather keeps
rather open, and winter goods consequently do not
meet with a very active demand, a fair amount of
business has been done in the flannel-market to-
day. There was about an average attendance of
buyers, and they made purchases a little more
freely than of late. Fancy goods are in the most
request, and the manufacturers of such are well em-
ployed. The local wool trade is steady, and prices
have a hardening tendency. Stocks are within a
moderate compass in the hands of both dealers and
manufacturers. The active demand for wool at the
current sales in London and the advance in the
quotations have tended to strengthen their prices
here. There is a moderate sale for the best qualities
of Yorkshire goods usually offered in this market,
but inferior fabrics are in little demand.

HEALTH OF LONDON.

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Report.)

In the week that ended on Saturday, November
18, the births registered in London and ten other
large towns of the United Kingdom were 4,040 ; the
deaths registered 3,271. The annual rate of mor-
tality was 30 per 1,000 persons living.
In London the births of 1,052 boys and 1,022
girls, in all 2,074 children, were registered in the
week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years,
1855-64, the average number, corrected for increase
of population, was 1,978.
The deaths registered in London during the week
were 1,515. It was the 46th week of the year ; and
the average number of deaths for that week is, with
a correction for increase of population, 1,459. The
deaths in the present return exceed by 56 the esti-
mated number.
Thirty-two deaths occurred from diarrhoea ; the
mortality from this disease has much decreased. A
private in the Coldstream Guards, aged 23 years,
died in the Coldstream Guards Hospital, Vincent-
square, Westminster, on the 15th of November,
from "pneumonia, diarrhoea, collapse, whole dura-
tion two days." An hotelkeeper, aged 48 years,
died at 29, Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, on
the 15th of November, from diarrhoea (six days),
collapse from old standing disease of heart." No
deaths from cholera were registered.

183 deaths from phthisis, 175 from bronchitis, 102
from pneumonia, and 75 from disease of the heart.
The following deaths from carriage accidents were
registered :—Near the Royal Oak, Wandsworth, a
carman, aged 62 years, by the upsetting of a cart in
collision with a Hansom cab, fractured leg and erysi-
pelas ; died on the Bth of November in St. George's
Hospital. In Finsbury-square, a waiter, aged 60
years, fell from the roof of an omnibus ; died on the
10th of November in St. Bartholomew's Hospital. At
Surrey Canal Docks, a timber merchant's assistant,
aged 14 years, run overby a timber cart; died on the
sth of November in Guy's Hospital. A carman,'
aged 44 years, fracture of spine by falling out of a
cart ; died on the 13th of November at 16, Hedger-
grove, Ihckney. The son of a printer, aged 9
years, run over by a van ; died on the 2d of No-
vember in the Royal Free Hospital.
The annual rate of mortality last week was 23
per 1,000 in London, 37 in Edinburgh, and 27 in
Dublin, 42 in Liverpool, 41 in Manchester, 40 in
Salford, 25 in Birmingham, 27 in Leeds, 18 in
Bristol, 32 in Hull, and 39 in Glasgow. The rate
in Vienna was 28 per 1,000 during the week ending
the 11th inst., when the temperature was 3.1 deg.
Fahrenheit higher than in the same week in Lon-
don, where the rate was 25 per 1,000.
In Liverpool the births in the week were 392, the
deaths 385 ; in Manchester the births 293, the
deaths 282 ; in Salford the births 64, the deaths 85 ;
in Birmingham the births 226, the deaths 157 ;
in Leeds the births 216, the deaths 117 ; in Bristol
the births 120, the deaths 57 ; in Hull the births

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79, thd deaths 64 ; in Edinbtrgh the births-I.A
deaths 123 ; in Glasgow the births 300, the A& li4-71
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320 ; and in Dublin the births'l,6s, the.datlis
There were 297 deaths in Vienna dung Itle vteek
ending the 11th inst.

SOUTHAMPTON,—Among the population of this
borough ',estimated in the middle of the present
year at 53,001) 40 deaths were registered during
the week ending last Saturday ; of these 7 were
again referred to scarlatina ; no death resulted
from cholera. The annual rate of mortality during
the week was 39 per 1,000 persons living.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 30.012 in.
The barometrical reading decreased from 30.33 in.
on Sunday, to 29.51 in. on Friday. The mean tem-
perature of the air iu the week was 4-1.8 deg.,which
is 1-9 deg. above the average of the same week
in 50 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The
highest day temperature was 55.5 deg., on Friday;
the lowest night temperature was 32.1 deg., on
Thursday. The entire range of temperature in the
week was, therefore, 234 deg. The mean of the
highest temperatures of the water of the Thames
was 41.7 deg. ; that of the lowest was 42.8 deg. The
difference between the mean dew-point temperature
and air temperature was 34 deg. The mean de-
gree of humidity of the air was 88, complete satura-
tion being represented by 100. Rain fell to the
amount
S.E.and s.v
of O•
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was

Adinii gi Lord Nelson.

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Few are ignorant of the fact that the great Nel-
son, he who was called by the English the " God
of the Seas," and whose statue rises so proudly in
Trafalgar-square, was one-eyed ; but there is hardly
any one who knows to what accident was due the
loss of his eye, and•many who fancy they know it
are far from being accurately informed, if, at least,
we may depend upon the following account which
comes to us from trustworthy sources. To begin
with. The " American Cyclopzeclia," vol. xii., p.
175, relates that Nelson was in command of the
Agamemnon off Calvi, under the orders of Sir
Charles Stuart, and that he there lost an eye, being
struck by the sand and gravel thrown up by a pro-
jectile. The " Biographie Universelle des Contem-
porains," iii. 775, states that the loss of Nelson's
eye occurred at Bastia. The same assertion
is made in the " Conversations Lexicon," xiii.,
521. " Appleton's Cyclopfedia," p. 624, is for
Calvi. So that of the authors above quoted,
the Americans refer the occurrence to Calvi,
the Europeans to Bastia. Both are, however,
misinformed, according to the most Excellent Senor
D. Liberato Abarca, General of the Republic of
Nicaragua, to whom we are indebted for the follow-
ing communication :—" About the year 1780 there
cruised along the coast of Spanish America (Central
America) a celebrated English seaman, who was
afterwards to bear the appellation of God of the
Seas.' This man, who was destined to so glorious a
future, followed then the instructions of his Go-
vernment minutely, reconnoitring those coasts, suing
for sympathisers with the British trade, which was
then forbidden, and inflicting all possible mischief
on the Spanish colonies and on their material inte-
rests. In the discharge of such duties he entered
the mouth of Juan de Nicaragua, on the Atlantic,
and rowing up the river with an armed force, con-
sisting of various launches and other flat-bottomed
boats, came up within reach of the old Castle. There
he made his arrangements with the energy and ac-
tivity characteristic of English sailors, and deter-
mined to take the Castle by storm. The people
who composed the garrison of the said Castle, awed
by so bold a resolution,made up their mind to aban-
don the place. It is not well known why they
came to such a decision ; but I may assert, as a
faithful narrator of this event, who have had access
to the official archives of the city of Granada, that
the commander of the fort was seriously ill, and that
his daughter or wife, Dona Rafaela Mora, being
aware of the intention of the garrison, and of their
actual dereliction of their duty, came also to her
resolution, which was worthy of an ancient heroine
of Saguntum or Xumancia. Leaving the comman-
der in his helpless state and hastening to the bat-
teries, she soon perceived that the loss of the fortress
was inevitable, and that her father would have. to
endure ill usage, and would besides be exposed to the
sorrow and shame of having his name associated
with that national disaster. She looked about the
snot, and without hesitation she took up the still
bur:ing match which the soldiers, on deserting
the place, had thrown on the ground, and, with
manly courage, she fired all the cannons which
she found loaded and pointed at the invad-
ing flotilla. This noble deed was rewarded by
the happiest results that the Senora could possi-
bly have looked forward to. One of the many
projectiles fell on board the boat in which was the
commander of the flotilla, and a splinter of the bul-
wark struck the bone beneath his left eye, knocking
him down as if dead, whereupon, the flotilla of boats
rowed back down the stream in the greatest haste.
They reached their ship without any further acci-
dent and left those waters, freeing thus frozndanger
the castle of San Carlos de Nicaragua, and covering
with glory the heroine who had alone been able to
save the honour of her father and illustrate the
glory of Spanish arms byrepulsingthegreat Nelson,
the God of the Seas,' the hero of Trafalgar. This
is an authentic fact, and rests on documents in the
archives of the city of Granada, of Nicaragua, re-
public of Central America, of which now General
Don Tomas Martinez, descendant of the illustrious
heroine, is President. This lady received by aroyal
decree the brevet of a captain in active service, and
the permission to wear the uniform which was sent
to her as a present together with the decree. She
also enjoyed an annuity from the Government."
We give thanks to General Abarca for his commu-
nication, which we think must interest the reader, as
revealing an incident which is but little known,
but which reflects so much glory on the memory of
one of the daughters of Spain.—Las Novedades.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

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