The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-16 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, OM 13.—Only
a very limited business has been done in foreign
wools during the past week, prices being without
apparent variation.

ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, OCT. 13.—
Sales have been quiet this week, and have been
limited to the immediate wants of the manufacturers.
We do not quote any change in prices.
LEEDS.—There has been about an nrerage quantity
of heavy winter goods sold at the Cloth Hall since
this day week, but almost every other description of
goods have been duller than for some time. Prices
rule steady. There has also been a fair quantity of
goods sold in the warehouses, the late period of the
season considered, but the principal demand is by the
drapers from the country. The shipping trade has
rather fallen off this week when compared with what
it has been doing lately.
BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—There is no
change for the better in the wool market, and prices
for all descriptions continue unaltered. The quota-
tions from the country show that farmers are not
more disposed to make sales except at remunerating
rates to themselves, which would not meet those cur-
rent in this market. Yarn—There is a shade more
doing in the yarn market, and for some sorts a small
advance in price has been obtained. Piece—There is
no alteration in the piece market, either in price or
demand, the manufacturers are still working to order
and stocks are low.

MANCHESTER, FRIDAY MORNINO —During the
whole of the last week our filoth market has been in a
languid sickly state, with a number of needy sellers
pressing goods on the market, which has caused a par-
tial, though not a general decline on most kinds of
goods.
If there is any exception, it is in low shut-
ings adapted for the India and China markets. Do-
mestics for home use are not so brisk as might have
been expected, considering the low figure at which
they might be purchased. There are very extensive
orders for the United States, and, from last advices,
likely to continue for some time to come. The silk
trade continues very buoyant, and our printers mode
rately busy. The fustian branch continues steady,
but prices low. Yarns without much change ; if
any, the buyer has the advantage.
LEICESTER.—We have no alteration to report, a
steady trade is doing in all branches. Workmen are
all well employed, and as a corollary, Chartist agita-
tion is defunct.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, OCT. 13.—The market
has been extremely flat the whole of the week, and the
transactions scarcely reach one hundred hogsheads
West India, at rather easier rates. In foreign no sales
are reported.—Bristol Mercury.
WALEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.--The sup-
plies this week are again large of Wheat, and good of
other grain. There is not much animation in the de-
mand for Wheat to-day, and new declines Is. per,, quar-
ter. Old fetches last week's prices. Oats and Shelling
are the turn cheaper. Barley sells slowly at late rates.
Beans are in retail demand without alteration in value.
REPRESENTATION OF TUB WEST RIDING. We
li hear of no movement to bring forward a Liberal candi-
date for the %Vest Riding; but a pretty general rumour
prevails that Mr. James Brown, of Harehills, Leeds,
and of Rossington, will be the candidate. Mr. Brown
is a Whig and a Free-Trader; he is decided friend of
the Church and the Government aid to Education, but
declares himself opposed to the endowment of any other
Church. He was the unsuccessful candidate for Hull at
the last election.—Leeds Mercury:
Mr. Green and his companions descended safely
on Monday morning, about five o'clock, near Vichy, in
the department of the Allier, about 90 leagues from
Paris. After having disappeared onSunday afternoon
in the direction of Corbeil, the balloon continued its
course over the plains of the Sologne and the forests of
the Nivernais. During the night Mr. Green kept at but
a little distance from the earth, and more than once shots
were fired at the balloon by the peasants, who probably
knew nothing of aerostatic navigation. At last, when
daylight had well set in, Mr. Green descended as stated
above, and was most hospitably received.
NOVEL GIRDERS.—Very considerable additions and
alterations, at a large cost, are being made at Middlesex
Hospital. In the course of the works some girders have
been put up, the arrangement of a working man, J.
Alderson, which deserve illustration. The main point
in the arrangement is the introduction of a continuous
thin wrought-iron tension-band. The truss is formed of
oak, secured at the foot to the tension-band, and has at
each side a flitch of deal terelve inches by four inches.
the whole very ingeniously strapped and bolted together.
Tho span of the girder is twenty-seven feet six inches
and the height of it in the centre twenty-two inches
We are told that they were tested by means of the
hydraulic press. When the pressure was laised to nine
tuns two cwt., the deflection was inches. The pres.
sure being taken off, they sprang back to their position.
The same principle has been applied to brick arches'
where there is no abutment, and they are intended to
carry landings. Two pieces of stone are introduced to
form abutments, and these are bound together by a thin
wrought-iron band.—Buihier.
EXFERIMENTS WiTII GALVANIZED WIRE AND
ITEM? Roees.—An experiment was tried last week at
the testing machine in Woolwich Dockyard, to ascer-
tain the comparative strength of wire andhemp ropes.
A wire rope three inches round, n;.d a nip rope of
three strands, hawser laid, common make, seven inches
round, were spliced together and placed in the testing
machine, and on the hydraulic power being applied the
hemp rope broke in the middle on the strain reaching
111 tons, the wire rope remaining apparently as strong
as when the experiment commenced. A wire rope
three-and a-half inches round was then spliced with an
eight-inch hemp shroud rope, and on the power being
applied the hemp rope broke in the middle with a strain
of to tons, the wire rope continuing apparently un-
injured.

THE NAVY.
(From the United Service Gazette.)
The gallant, distinguished, and highly-respected Vice-
Admiral of 'the United Kingdom, Admiral Sir Thomas
Byam Martin, G.C.8., has paid a visit to Portsmouth
during the past week, on account of the arrival of his
younger son, the Captain of the Grampus, from the Pa-
cific. Sir Byam has now the great satisfaction of seeing
two of his family commanding two of the finest
ships of their class in the navy, and who are now at
Portsmouth, namely, Captain William Fanshaw Martin
(1824), of the Prince Regent, 90, and Captain Henry
Byam Martin, C.B. (1827), of the Grampus, 50. Sir
Byam has been staying at Rear-Admiral Superintendent
Prescott's.

THE LIEUTENANTS' LlST.—Another lieutenant's out-
pension of Greenwich Hospital has become vacant by
the death of retired Commander Wharton. By previous
deaths Lieutenants Curtis, Reid, and Robert Barker,
and E. G. Palmer (1809), have succeeded to the seven
shillings a day half-pay list, and now, by the decease of
Retired Commanders Wharton and Bissett, Lieutenants
Charles Grantham and Henry Mason become entitled to
seven shillings per diem half-pay; and since the " Navy
List" has been published the following have become en-
titled to be placed on the half-pay list of six shillings
per diem:—Lieutenants David Gam Davies, John Ellis
Knight, John George Francillon, James Reynolds, and
Francis Harris (1815).
A NAVAL VETERAN.—Among the octogenarian offi-
cers of the Navy is Captain John Simpson (seniority
1809), who is in his eighty-third year, and in the full
possession of his mental and physical faculties. This
officer went to sea at a very early age, but was after-
wards placed in the Upper School of Greenwich, which
be left, having undergone the regular educational course,
in 1781, being bound out as an apprentice to Captain
Robert Man, afterwards Admiral Man. After long and
active service, in ihe course of which he served as Cap-
tain to three flag officers, Lord Gardner, Sir Richard
Bickerton, and Sir Graham Moore, he was appointed a
Captain of Greenwich Hospital, in which he is the Se-
nior Captain, having belonged to the Royal Navy for a
period of seventy years.
THE COAST or AFRICA.—The Cyclops, it is under-
stood, has taken out to the coast of Africa an offer on
the part of the Admiralty to Commodore Sir C. Hotham,
to return to England if he should so prefer. It is re-
ported that the lion. Captain Denman will ultimately
succeed to the command of the Coast Squadron. It is
quite time that this important appointment should be
entrusted to an officer who, having served success-
fully as a subordinate on the coast of Africa, has acquired
the necessary experience for efficiently superintendiag
and directing the operations of a squadron there. It
was altogether a mistake to appoint an officer like Sir C.
Hothant to such a service. Captains Butterfield, Adams,
Denman, &c., would do double the work, and with more
satisfaction to every one.
TIE PACIFIC STATION.—A private letter from Callao,
says, the Commander-in-Chief, Rear-Admiral Hornby,
left Callao in the Sampson steam-frigate, Captain Hen-
derson, for Valparaiso, Aug. 7th. The Admiral's flag-
ship Asia, 84, Captain Stopford, was at Payta, and WA S
expected to join him at Valparaiso by the end of Sep-
tember.

It is reported that the able and efficient Master of the
royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Mr. John M'Donald,
will be appointed Assistant-Master Attendant at Ports-
mouth Dockyard, vice Bellamy, promoted to Woolwich,
Mr. Flynn, who is acting at the pre3ent time, returning
to his old ship the Illustrious ; and that Mr. John Penn,
now Master of the Illustrious, and late of the Coiling-
wood, will succeed Mr. M'Donald as Master of the
royal yacht.
The Admiralty have signified their approval of the
erection of a new Battery at Sheerness, to flank the
Queenborough- embankment. The Ordnance Depart-
ment is to supply tho funds fur its constructiora
THE IRISH POLITICAL CowvicTs.--The Dragon, 6,
steam-frigate, Captain W. H. Hall, has proceeded from
‘Vaterford to Cork, and these awaits orders to receive on
board the Irish political convicts for transportation to
any place " beyond the seas."
The Admiralty have ordered their salicltor to take
legal proceedings against the Waterman's Steam Packet
Company, for the purp,lse of ejecting them from a lodg-
ment which they have for some time allocated to them-
selves at a place called the Grove, Woolwich.
FOREIGNERS VISITING OUR DOCKYARDS.—TIIO Ad-
miralty invariably give p,rini,sion to every foreigner,
who visits England, to take the run of all our dock-
yards ; but, during the past week, not only have they
order, d Lieutenants Lymnigsted and Sasso, of the
Swedish Royal Navy, to bo shown over the various
establishments, but they are to be allowed to take notes
on the spot of anything they may inipect. This is
rather too good-natured even for kind and silly John
Bull.