The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-17 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Manchester ' Guardian.)
We understand that the letter's from India, brough
by the overland mail, have brought favourable accounts
of the state of business both at Calcutta and Bombay,
where a lair business had been done in manufactured
goods. This intelligence, however, does not seem to
heve pi-oduced much effect upon the market here ; for,
although there has been some demand for goods and
yarn suitable to the Eastern markets, the orders are
generally upon a very moderate scale ; and, as the de-
mand for the Mediterranean is nearly over, and, owing
to the season of the year, not much doing for other
quarters, the market yesterday did not exhibit
animation. Prices, however, continued perfectly steady,
and great confidence appears to be felt in a gradual
improvement in business as soon as the holidays are over.
ROCIIDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, DEC. 14.
begins to grow slack, as the chief of ll
—lt is now the time of year when the fi
zelltebusiness
the %ivli
arc generally laid in before Christmas.
to-
hisnot been very much business Though there
doday, yet, upon
the whole, the market hasbeer,better than that of last
Monday. There is no
market has been dull, with
toady prices.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, i
Change in prices. The v.-001
DEC. 15.—There s no
new feature to report in the asP ee of this market to-
day. Appearances are not very favourable ; but, as
business
regenaiislinly eownuispuloaylledy,done to order, as the operatives
astyles of fancy
large,a fair business may be said to be doing. New
and stocks are not unusually
quality, are hi tolerable demand.
woollens meet with ready sale, and
cheeks, of a lighter
Business in the warehouses is an average for the season,
and prices arc firm.

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TIIE BLI E JACKEws. .--,-- `-----",--,
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE PllV.,`'s.7:'-n-lizi-*Rj--'6' i
, -,(616;... ..,....: ,-.-.7•
December 4.;?....iiii13-z I
Sta.,—The Navy feel obliged for your flatteri ' •',615 f
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ments of the 9th instant, in your widely circ brtrk:m7.l/43
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in saying " The pride, the soul of England, Is' Navy.
Provided the Admiralty give encouragement to plenty of
blue jackets, like the gallant Stopford. Walker, and the
invincible Charley Napier, we arc safe ; these are the b,.)ye
for us and old England, these are not the' Queen's °e el,"
or the " Prince's Own," but they are the " Nation's
Own," " Great Britain's Own," the " Queen, Prince,
and People's Own." Wheresoever the British flag is
spread to catch the breczes of victory, it is indifferen,'..,e
us what is done upon land, provided nothing is neglected
at sea. Our only sure defence, after heaven, is our 071
wooden walls, and the stout hearts manning them. Nov.,
Sir, if you will do us the favour, when you have a spare
column, to advocate with the public this highly negicete4
branch of public servants, likewise to unravel sonic few'
passages of the knotty anomalous logic put forth by the !etc
Naval and rdilitary Commission, to the disparagement of
the bulwark of the nation," by placing us quite suliordi-
nate in pay and emolument to the Army, and more parti-
cularly the Marine Corps, it may effect a feeling of
justice ; as glory unites the Army and the Navy, each
have an equal claim to the beneficence of the nation !
Unfortunately, Litherto, the Navy have no, found a
friend in Royalty, Lords, Commons, or the public press ;
the responsibility, privations, and hardships of a sailor's
life, arc considered as nothing in competition with a soldier's
gay and pleasurable life at quarters on shore ; our titles of
distinction differ in name, though the same in rank ; v,-he
then should not rank be equalised in pay? while those
who have the harder work (the Navy) are least psi 1. A
short statistic of the relative services will show the shame-
ful, discouraging, and debased treatment to which the
Navy arc reduced, beginning at the lower grade. A
master's mate, after 20 years' active service at sea, may
re:ire on 2s. GI a day, with the rank of Lieutenaut in
the Army. A Quartermaster in the Army, if above 1"
years as Quartermaster, after 20 years' total service, bs. a
day ; the rank of the two are equal. One is leading the life of
a slave cn the ocean, the other that of a gentleman on shore.
What gentleman, unless of high aristocracy, will place his
son in the Navy under such prospects ? In a little time
where; will you find petty officers, so necessary to complete
the crews of a navy? The aristocracy here will tail, see
all cannot become heads of their profession. A Captain
of Marines, and twelve years' service in war, gave hiss.
that rank, and if he retired he had 7s. a day half-pay ; s
Lieutenant in the Navy, compeer with the Captain of Ma-
rines, and many of them nor, from forty to forty-three
years' standing, serving in two long wars, have now Ll 4
more than 7s. a day, somo of these from seven to tea
years prisoners of war, while all the officers of the Army
who were prisoners, taken only as Ensigns, on their return
home were promoted to the rank of Captain. Officers,
under such an unprecedented long captivity, sacrificed to
the policy of the State, have surely a strong claim to con-
sideration ; and as it so proved to our service, why IV as the
other excluded ?

The Navy and Military Commission amalgamated all the
old worn-out two-war veteran Commanders and, Lieute-
nants with the peace-made officers of that rank, and says...—
" That a very large number indeed must regard their posi.
tion as one of retirement upon half-pay for the remainder
of their lives," while to the regulars, engineers, artillery,
and marines, a full pay retirement is granted ; to the Ma-
rines, nearly one-third their number of Captains at I Is.
a day, when an old Post-Captain, ranking with Colonel
and of twenty-five years' standing, has only I Os, 6d. a day,
and the Navy wholly excluded from any full pay retire-
ment. Is this not treating us as a degraded service? If
an officer of the Navy is invalided abroad, at sick quarters.
through wounds or injuries received in the execution of
his duty, at the expiration of six weeks he is put on half-
pay, or it is optional with the Admiralty, at the above i,e-
riod, to distrain both whole and half-pay for ever, from the
expiration of six weeks, until the report of the Officer at
the Admiralty of his arrival in England, when his half-
pay again will commence, besides frequently having to pay
his passage home out of his own pocket. How different
from the Army Officer ! lie returns home invalided for
one or two years, on full pay continued, and if no occasion
of a ship of war offers of coming home, a sum of money is
allowed him by Government to pay his passage. All we
ask is, and all we fully expected of the Commission was,
to be placed on a footing of corresponding rank in pay,
half-pay, and remunerative retirement of full pay with the
Army. As to talking of twenty or thirty years' service o:i
shore, in barracks, where is the wear and tear of the con-
stitution in this compared to fifteen years' active service at
sea ? I am, Sir, your moat obedient servant.
AN OLD SEA OFFICER

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