The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-19 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION'.

Acting Master—Wm. Forster, to the Wilberforce
steamer (for Niger expedition).
Clerk—James Moorman, from the Admiral's Office,
to be Secretary's Clerk, Britannia.
Third Engineer—George Baker, to the Salamander.
Gunner—John Monereaff, to the Camperdown.
Gunnery Mates—Gerard J. Napier, and Edmund
Hemstead, to the Britannia.
COAST GUARDS—Lieutenants—Richard Nugent
Kelly, and Henry Decolas Foster, to be Chief Officers.
Mate—J. B. Kooystra (1819) to be Chief Officer.
Lieutenants—James Lester, to Lapwing ; Charles
S. Haswell, to Fox ; Charles Henry Baker, to Stork ;
William Hewlett, to Cheerful ; Josiah Drew, to Dove;
Ross Connor, to Skylark; Charles Goldsmith, Thomp-
son, Andrian, Thomas Mann, and Auridge, re-ap-
pointed Chief Officers ;
Joseph Taylor, from Newtown
(Isle of Wight) to Beaulieu River i—Kinsman (Mate),
removed to Mullion ; J. Hall, to the Pelter Station,
from Jury's Gap, vice Bullen, resigned.
The following Mates qualified for Lieutenant. at the
Royal Naval College, on Tnesday :—Messrs. Oswald
Borland and William Guy Bryan, Belleisle ; 11I'Leod
Baynes Cockraft, Queen ; George Herbert ILtrris
Greathead, late Snake ; James Charles Clark, kte
Fair Rosamond ; Robert Cooper Datnall, Britannia.
Mr. Alfred Burton, son of the late Major Burton,
was found duly qualified for a M Irina Officer, on Tues-
day last, at the Royal Naval College.
(From the Devonport Independent.)
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 17.—Her Majesty's steamer Rha-
damanthus, Captain Wakefield, arrived here last even-
ing (Friday) from Malta, with invalids from the hos-
pital and Ceylon receiving ship. She left Malta on the
7th inst. ; her Majesty's ship Vanguard left 'te is:and
some days before for the eastward, and her majesty's
ship Rodney had arrived on the 4th inst. at Gibraltar,
proceeding on her voyage the following day. lthe City
of Dublin arrived at Gibraltar on the 7,11 inst., and
sailed the same day for Malta. She will be employed
in carrying the mails between the lonian Islands and
Malta. The R'aadamanthus spoke, on the evening of
the 14th inst., in lat. 46 deg. 58 min., and lon. 8 deg.
24 min., an English schooner, No. 638, bound for
Naples. and yesterday morning (Friday) the American
ship Montreal, bound up Channel. The Rhadamanthus
brings no news of public importance, in addition to that
wbiehilasalres4Ml4ed.this,country by otberchannels.
Her Majesty's sbfoSt. Giorgeitneringethindmppe i,'
was taken out of dock on Monday, and is to be fitted for
the Ordinary.
Her Majesty's ship Calcutta, 84, Capt. Sir S. Raberts,
went out of harbour into the Sound on Tuesday.
Her Majesty's ship Rodney, 92, Captain R. Mann-
sell, arrived at G;b.-altar, all well, on the 2Gth Septem-
' ber, and sailed again on the 28th, to join the fleet.
Her Majesty's brig Savage, 10, was towed out of
harbour by the Carron, on Saturday ; her crew was
paid waves on Monday. The Savage sailed on Thurs-
day for Liverpool, for volunteer seamen.

-Her Majesty's ship Inconstant,36, Captain D. Pring,
is to come into harbour, and her crew, it is reported, is
to be turned over to the Bambay, 84.
Her Majesty's ship Britannia, 120, Captain J. Drake,
will cal here, from Portsmouth, on her way to the Me-
diterranean.

Her Majesty's ships Royal Adelaide, 104, and Cla.
rence, 84, are being fined for commission immediately.
The shipwrights and other branches employed on them
are to work ext ra hours.

Ships in Harbour—lmpregnable,lo4, Captain Eden;
San Jortf, 110, Captain Tayler, C.B. ; &leisle, 72,
Captain Toup NieuLs ; Ferret, 10, Lieut. W. Thomas;
and Carron steamer.

In the Sound—Calcutta, S 4, Captain Sir S. Roberts ;
Inconstant, 36, Captai❑ D. Prim;.
Her Majesty's ship Druid, 44.—The crew of this
ship excites considerable attention in the China Seas ;
they are all picked men, and almost the finest set of
fellows in the English fleet. To maintain a character
correspondent with the designation of the ship, they are
dressed as Druidically as may be, with fine flowing
beards; sweepingi in many cases, down almost to the
waist. They had been actively practised, about the
fining of May, near Macao, in the use of heavy guns
on shore, the firing being so arranged that the round
shot could be recovered after the exercise was over.
Several of the mandarins ventured to examine the shot
thus discharged:; they took up the cannon balls and
c irefully, weighed them with their hands, and so far as
could be judged from the shaking of their heads,: n 1 6e
dismay pictured in their Lees, seemed to consider them
as very formidable missiles indeed, which they woald
much rather examine in their quiescent, than er.caunter
in their projectile condition.
Her Majesty's sloop Childers, 16, Com. E. P •
Halstead, took us by surprise on Sunday afternoon, by
coming up to town without any previous notification of
her being in the river having reached us. She is from
Calcutta, and brings post-office packets up to the com-
mencement of the present month. We have not heard
what is to be her next destination, and believe she
tends to remain here some time. Iler appearance here
kill as,surc our people that though we have seat so
many of our fighting ships to China, there arc yet (Alters
remaining in India.—Alualmcin Chronicle, July 1.

STATE OF TRADE.

( From the Manchester Advertiser)

MANCHE' STEIL—TO give even a faint idea of the
continued depression and derangement of commerce in
this district would be a difficult task. We did hope
that the gloomy accounts we have been forced, week
after week, to record, could not be worse ; but we may
vv:th troll, say, that it would be impossible to name a
corresponding week or month equally flat, gloomy, and
dispiriting. We deeply regret to say that, since our
last report, goods and yarns have been even more (hill-
cult to sell, and prices of most kinds of goods have
again declined. The manufacturers and spinners are
becoming embittered and desperate, and rack their
brains to devise means of extricating themselves front
the pending storm ; but instead of having recoutise to
the only remedy left—viz., a curtailment of their pro-
duc:ion, some have, and others are attempting to reduce
the wages of both weavers and spinners, if the work-
people do submit—and submit we fear they must—the
reduction will he general ; and the consequence will be,
' that the hard-earn; d pittance of the hands will be lens,
without the manufacturers being benefited one whit,
unless we believe implicitly the doctrines promulgated
by tile Corn-law repealers—that wages must be reduced
here to enable us to compete with foreigners.
About 10,000 to P 2.000 people are out of employ in
Blackburn and its vicinity, in consequence of the mas-
ters wishing to reduce the wages of their hands (ot all
that receive above 9s. weekly ten per cent. The hands
consented to submit to five, but the master; ultimatum
was iii, to which the hands would not agree, and the
result is that all the mills are standing ; but what is
worse, the people, if not starving, arc merely existing.
Perhaps never in the memory of the oldest man was the
trade in this district in so critical and (dunning a state.

I'ae winter approaching, with thousands unemployed,

money more scarce than ever, the exchanges not, im-
proved, the revenue deficient, even with the new taxes
imposed ; our foreign affairs in an unsettled state ; tal-
kies in every distri2t, more compositions than were
ever before known, and confidence consequently low as
to the future. The reckless conduct of the Joint-
Stock Banks in 1535 and 1836, the consequent gambling
in worse than Swan River speculations, are now deeply
felt by hundreds of people ; the sudden deaths, the
frequent forgeries, embarrassments and embezzlements.
th.st we hear of every day, are but the result or effect of
these speculations.
We are sorry to say that stocks of all sorts of goods
and yarns arc accumulating; and should the eastern
question remain in abeyance, and the blockades on the
South American coast continue, to which we must add
the expiration of the shipping of yarns to Russia, it it
quite certain that spinners and manufacturers will be
a iVell to work short time, or the market will be glutted,
writes will be lower, and ruin inevitable. At the early
part of the week, money in London was more scarce
than when the discounts were at the highest pitch, and
ntis since
entP raisna y pasted
a llslt era;
six per cent. was given for discounting good bills, but,
the dividends being paid it was rather easier. Tae
Bank
iutioa onfeitEhnegrltaontilenllaitriclocntoery o
Directors pace
r discount
have more than sixty-five days to tun. This will ha,
t
upon
for long-dated inper
ea e fearfulri t. w a was
chargedffcl by one banking-
house ; and to give some idea of the scarcity of money
.h re, one joint-stock bank have requested their custom-
ers to take their three months bills for their checks.
nstcad of ehester • e

COAL-HOLE TAVERN, STRANID.—Thus old-
etablished and favourite place of public resort and amuse-
ment appears to be in as high favour as ever with the
lord a of conviviality, who nightly meet in great numbers,
and appear highly delighted with the vocal entertainment
provided for them, and the harmony and respectability
with which it is conducted.

TII E SIEGE OF FLORENCE.—The good Old
taste for sterling historical fiction which has recently been
appealed to with such stirring effect in the admirable work
entitled " Oliver Cromwell," is on the point, we under-
stand, of receiving a new and powerful stimulus to its re-
vival, in the shape of a romance of singular character Qtid
high literary pretensions, which takes for its leading illsto-
rical subject the celebrated " Siege of Florence, " an event
which consummated the downfal of that renowned repub-
lic. We have heard that some of the scenes of passion awl
of horror which are introduced by the writer are of an en_
eaxr,d '
en-
tirely novel description in English fiction, and assimilate
the work in some degree to that school of writing ._con,.
biniiag the terrible and the horrible with the simplicities
alraadt.tenitiohne,
ordinary lifo—which has created so singular a revolution °; '
the taste of our continental neighbours, and cf wiLich \,-11 'n
ictor
periniont can
scarcely/-1 ngo iis
foilthe
fa cekx
cn
iotlge d ggerde.
that it forms the coup d'essai of a new cac• the Inore so
lite-
rary celebrity, uidatsl for
The Gazelle des 7Mtinaux says that
took them 1 place yesterday. One of i.at several arrests
nected with the possession by DB said to be eon-
which he made use of. Ase artnes of the carbine
A printer, a lithographic second arrest is that of M.
tittles arrested on suspicion er, who has been several
a b •
' offences---for i.,..- emit, guilty of
t political
t y• 11 _,..ance, in tile 4544 of the guepowder.—ns
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