The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-04 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

( From the Limerick Chronicle of Wednesday. )
Monday morning the troops in garrison assembled in the
New Barracks for weekly parade, before Major-General Sir
James Douglas, K. C. B.,—viz. Royal Artillery, 7th Dragoon
Guards, 18th, or Royal Irish, and the 36th Depot companies,
for the first time, a very handsome, clean, and well-appointed
corps of young men. They appeared in very good order and
condition.

Monday, Capt. Willis's company 37th regiment, with Lieut.
Franklyn, marched in from Clare Castle, and proceeded hence
yesterday morning for Tralee, head-quarters of the depot.
Captains Hooper and Coke's companies of the 69th regi-
ment, from Tralee, march into this city to-morrow, on route
to join head-quarters of the depot at Clare Castle, under Major
Mon ins.

Lieut.- Colonel Clarke, K. H., 7th Dragoon Guards, has
arrived in this garrison from head-quarters of the regiment at
Cahir.

The detachment of the 18th has not had a single defaulter
ever since their arrival at Killaloe.

Tuesday, the inspection of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon
Guards commenced at the barracks, Cork, by Major-General
Sir Thomas Arbuthnot, K.C.B.

The Royal Artillery were inspected by Major-General Sir
T. Arbuthnot at Ballincollig, on Tuesday. The firing was
admirably sustained, the movements rapid and excellent, and
the whole review was conducted so as to reflect much credit on
the commanding officer, Major Bridge.
The 4th regiment, commanded by Colonel Campbell, C. 8.,
and the 81st, commanded by Lieut.- (;olonel Maclean, under-
went an inspection on Monday in the Phcenix-park, Dublin,
by the Lieutenant-General commanding, and Major-General
Sir E. Blakeney, K. C. B.
The 35th regiment, from Dublin, under Lieut.- Colonel
Goldie, are now in Templemore Barracks.
The depot companies of the 76th Regiment, under command
of Major Hutchinson, having received the route for London-
derry, left Mullingar for that city on Monday morning. The
depot will have mine days' march.
The depot of the Ist battalion Royals replace the 76th at
Mullingar, and commence their march from Derry on the sth
November.

The 74th depot at Belfast expect the route daily for Perth.
Captain Ilderton has taken the command of the 25th depot
at Carrickmacross, in place of Captain D'Urban.
His Majesty's ship Athol sailed from Cork for Jamaica on
Saturday, with a company of Artillery under Major Darby,
and reinforcements for the 37th and 56th regiments.
The detachments of the Ist, 25th, 36th, and 6ith regiments,
now in Cork, will embark at Gravesend for their respective
stat ions.

The 43d Light Infantry is to furnish detachments to Ma-
croom and Mill.street, and relieve others of the 70th depot.
A private of the 67th received 200 lashes in Cashel, last
week, for striking his Serjeant-Major.
Captain Brown, A. D. C. to his Excellency the Marquis
Wellesley, met with a serious accident when returning from a
dinner party in the county of Galway some nights since. His
horse threw him in the avenue leading to his own house, since
which event he has been senseless.

Detachments of the 60th Rifles, marched yesterday from
head quarters, Kilkenny, to relieve others at New Ross and
Enniscorthy.

IRON TRADE.

(From the Bilston Correspondent of the Merthyr Guardian.)
The Quartbrly Meetings of the Shropshire and Stafford-
shire Ironmasters terminated on Saturday the 18th ult.,
and I am happy to announce that no advance was proposed.
There was, as I informed you in my last communication, a
disposition, on the part of a few individuals, to ask higher
prices, but the majority were averse to any such course,
conceiving the present period unfavourable to such an at-
tempt, and more particularly as the demand is barely suffi-
cient to employ the furnaces already at work. I think you
will agree with me that this (all circumstances considered)
is the most prudent course that can be adopted, and if the
remarks I previously transmitted have at all contributed to
this result (and which I believe to be the case from the
illiberal criticism bestowed upon them by a few individuals)
I shall be much gratified ; though it would be very satis-
factory if circumstances justified an advance on so import-
ant an article of British manufacture ; indeed, many consi-
derations combine to render it peculiarly desirable—the
capital employed, the risk incurred, the number of workmen
dependant upon it, and last, though not least, th; exceed-
ingly depressed state of the trade the last eight years.
We believe one of the most probable means of improving
the iron trade (we speak of course of means available to
the trade themselves), is to become well acquainted with
the state of the trade generally in Wales and other dis-
tricts, also with the demand, stocks, exports, &c., and
regulating the make by a due regard to these. But if these
matters should be overlooked by the trade it will be judicious
in yourselves and others, as journalists, to afford all the
information you can obtain on these points, and towards
which I will render all the assistance in my power, by
preparing an account regularly of the quantities exported,
which I will transmit with the prices and other general in-
formation.
The advantages of steadiness in prices must be so appa-
rent to you (from the consideration you have given the
subject recently) that further observations will be super-
fluous. I will therefore conclude my present communica-
tion with the prices fixed last week :
Common Bars, at Works £7 0 0
Common Rods, ditto 7 0 0
Common Boiler-plate, ditto 8 0 0
Best ditto ditto 9 0 0
Hoops ditto 7 15 0
Sheets ditto 8 0 0
Forge Pigs ditto 3 17 6 to 4
At which prices a considerable quantity was sold.
The price of tin plates 325. 6d. in Liverpool, with a fair
demand ; this applies to the general make. A very supe- .
rior quality will command Is. or Is. 6d. per box more.
The different trades carried on in this district have con-