The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-18 00:00:00

We learn by electrinielegisph from
the fere vi- tran apart Brandon, No. 137, •
head yesterday evening from the Ease, withittopen
Her Majesty's steam-ship Himalaya, Commando.
Priiet; R.N., arrived at Shithead yesterday 'morning,
about 5 o'clock, in eight days and three
,and a gnarter
hours only from Halifax, where she had landed from the
Mediterranean the 62•1 and 63d Regin3entS. She left
Halifax. on.the Bth. inst., with a' few invalid.d soldiers
and stout 30 of the wives 'and families of soldiers for-1
merly sent to. their native place (HAlifax) when, their'
husbands departed for .the Crimea ; the invalidu-ste-
under the command of Captain Hall, Royel. Artillery,
and in medical care of Dr. ',calk: and ;another niedioal
officer. No ship of war was at Halifax when the 'Rime.
lays left. Her, Majesty's sloop Arab, 12, was crhising
in the neighbourhood..Admiral Fanehe was expected
there about the 18th, with a squadron. The
Himalaya has keen, absent from. Portsmouth 40
days only, and 'dur;ng that period has run more
than 8,000 knots, and conveyed the two entire regiments'
of troops from Malta to Halifax in 18 days. She will go
into Portsmouth harbour this evening and re-coal forfur-
ther orders. She is in first-rate condition, and needs
only coaling, to be ready almost instantly for any service.
She was visited yesterday morning by Vice-Admiral Sir_
George Seymour, K C. 8., . Commander-in-Chief at
Portsmouth.

The Sir Robert Sale sailing-transport, No. 125, in
tlw of the steam-transport .zE..na, No. 186, arrived at
Spit.head yesterdAy morning from the East with troop%
Her Majesty's screw de3pAtch gun-vessel Alacrity,
Commander Majendio, left Portsmouth harbour on Mon-
day night,-and yesterday proved her. machinery and
speed, preparatory, it is believed, to her following the
others under the command of Gaptain, Watson.

Her Aldesty'-e ship Tribune, 31, Captain Eigell, was
taken into dock at Portsmouth yesterday to refit.
The S ork, 2, screw gun-boat, has been allotted to her
Maisty's ship Excellent as a tender.
The screw steam-ship Chien, 91, Captain John E.
Erskine, left Plymouth on Monday (it is supposed) for
the m'e't Indies.

TLe paddlewheel steam•sloop Virago, 6, sailed from
P;yrnouth yesterday for South America.
The screw steamship Conqueror, 100, Captain Thos.
M. C. Symr)nde, made a trial trip of her engines from
Plymutti Sound round the Eddybtone on Monday.

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The iron screw steam troopship PersevntAnee, 2 em • •
tuand.ex.3l-faut.cte,'.ifas., plead Idireekatii.,4
Tile new Ferew efe:iin-frlgr.te Liffey, 40, ortler.cl for
commission, has been p!aced. in the basin deck at Devon-
port to bs. coppered.

Toe steam:Cugvessel African arrived yesterday morn-
ing off Woolwich dockyard, and landed a cutter lifeboat,
23 feet in length, which has been lately built at Sheer-
ness, on an improved system ; i is said to b 3 impossible
to capsize it. An American
_nietallic patent boat, on a
similar principle, has been recently received at Woolwich.
It is . intended shortly to put these boats through a
course of trial 'in competition, in the presence Of the
Lords of the Admiralty and the naval authorities of the
dockyard, so as to test their efficiency.

The steam transport Rhadarnanth-us sailed yesterday
morning from Woolwich with boilers for the screw
steamship Miranda, a screw propeller for the steam-
corvette Scylla, some anchors and cables for the dock-
yard at Sheerness, and a number of supernumerary sea-
men for the. flagship Waterloo.
Three schooners are now unloading pig iron at the
arsenal wharf from Sweden. This metal will be used
for gun-casting purposes, it having been found by re.
peated experiments that the Swedish ore iesuperior to
any other for the casting of ordnance without cracks or
flaws. The Russian guns have been for many years
manufactured from the same description of ore.
Special trains from Portsmouth arrived at Woolwich
yesterday afternoon with detaehmenta of the A, B, and
E batteries of the Royal Artillery, and a large number
of horses, which sailed from the Crimea in the steam
transports Indiana and Trent. An immense quantity of
baggage and stores has also arrived, and twelve ordnance
waggons have been incessantly employed in removing
the same from the North Kent Railway to the garrison
stare 3. A detachment of the 77th Regiment from the
Crimea also proceeded by the North Kent Railway to
Chatham, this afternoon.

Special trains, with Royal Artillery from Portsmouth,
are expected to arrive during the night. •

A company of the sth battalion of Royal Artillery left
Woolwich this morning for Dublin.

The Amity sorew transport arrived yesterday morning
at Woolwich to discharge her cargo, with which she
sailed thence on the 11th of March for Balaklava, con-
sisting of forage-waeg ms, harness, wheel-barrows, tim-
ber, cases of preserved vegetables, and general ordnance
stor es.

The screw-steamship City of Manchester, Capt. P. C.
Petrie, arrived at Liverpool on Sunday morning, after a
fine passage of 12 days from Marseilles. This steamer
which ran for four years so successfully between Liverpool
and Philadelphia, has been 16 months in the service
of the French Government as a transport. She has car-
ried more horses and men than any other steamer in their
set vice, and, though 16 months absent, has never had to
go into dry dock, and never been a single day off duty;
which speaks greatly for her capabilities and her captain's
management. . _

Intelligence has been received at the head-quartera of
the Royal Sappers and Miners at Brompton barracks
that a large number of men belonging to that corps may
shortly be expected to arrive at Chatham garrison from
the Crimea.

A party of Crimean Eiok and wounded troops belong.
ing to various regiments arrived at the Strood station
yesterday from Portsmouth, where they disembarked.
On their arrival they were medically inspected by Dr.:
Speedy, from Fort Pitt, when those requiring further,
surgical treatment were ordered into hospital, and the
remainder sent to the Invalid depot.

APPOINTMENTS.

Capt. F. Hutton to the Royal William, for the service
in the Ordinary at Devonport ; Lieut. H. R. Stewart to
the Fisgard ; Lieut. L. Geneste to the Victory ; Lieut.
Lieut. W. Arthur to the Edinburgh ; Lieut. A. A.
Thrupp to the-Vesuvius ; G. R. Breton, mate, to the.
Alacrity ; J. G. A.nstruther, naval cadet, to the Magi-
cienne ; R. M Dewar, naval cadet, to the Vulture ; B.
'W. Bax, midshipman, to the Driver ; J. Phillips, mas-
ter% assistant, to the Tribune ; R. Creighton, assistant.
surgeon, to the Blenheim ; J. N. Sterlirg, assistant•
clerk, to the Illustrious.

STATE OP TRADE.

MANOTIESTER, June 17.

There was an improvement in the yarn-market yes-
terday, and a considerable business was effected. We
have Liafi less demand to-day, but still a fair business,
and prices may be quoted at per lb. above the rates of
last Tuesday. Cops and warps for manufabturers have
gone off well, and the demand includes export yarns for
India, China, and Germany. For the Mediterranean
the market is still rather quiet. Probably a larger busi-
ness would have been done today but -fir the higher
rates demanded by spinners. The cloth market has not
partaken of the improvement nearly so much as yarns,
but the tone of Lord Palinerston's statement in the
House of C.minsons last night on the American question
has given much satisfaction, and the market has derived
a healthier and more buoyant tone from the feeling im-
parted by it. Manufacturers are asking rather higher
prices, and owing to this there has not been a large busi-
ness done. Some descriptions of longclothe and T
cloths aro in a better position, owing to a fair business
within the last few days for Alexandria. The firmer
tone of the market to-day, however, has moderated the
demand for this quarter, and we have less doing. For
India but 'little improvement is expected in the cloth
market for the present, the last advices having been
rather unfavourable.

Messrs. John Siagg and Co. report :—" Since our
last reprt there has been a large business done in
India and China goods, at a slight decline from the
prices generally asked on that day; there has also been an
improved demand for some descriptions of T-cloths and
longclotbe, chiefly for the Alexandrian trade, and a fair
amount of business done at steady rates. Yesterday and
to-clay, owing to the reduction of stocks and the advance
on cotton, manufacturers aro asking a slight advance on
nearly all kinds of goods, but it is only lea few instances
and for small quantities that it can be realised."
Mesors. George Fraser, Son, and Co., say :—" Since
Thursalay last there has been a more active business
doing, and in soase cases spinners and manufacturers
have advanced their quotations, to which disposition
the more active business doing in cotton at Liverpool,
at firmer rates, has contributed. To-day, however, the
previous improvement in our market has not been sup.
ported, and business is dull."

LEEDS, JUNE 17.
There has been but a small attendance of buyers in
the cloth-balls this morning, and their purchases have
been limited to small quantities, chiefly of cloth suited
to the fall trade. There is no noticeable change in prices,
but those generally demanded are not readily given by
the manufacturers. An impression appears to prevail
that a fall in the price of Australian wool will occur at
the July sales in London, and that, as a consequence,
woollen fabrics will be cheaper in a month's time than
they are at present.
The report of to-day's Huddersfield market is as fol-
lows :—" The market is very quiet this morning. Low
goods for shipping are most i:equir3d. Nothing new in
styles. St,?cks are on the increase. Production has
rather decreased "

SUPERSTITIONS BELIEF IN DESTINY..

TUE MISSION OF THE PHILANTHROPIST.

Napoleon the Nephew, like Napoleon the Uncle, be-
lieves that he has a great mission to fulfil, and that his
life is in no peril until it is accomplished. But, how-
ever great may be the mission of an emperor, HOLLO.
WAY, s mission is to revive the sick, to soothe bodily
anguU, to save human life ; and these are deeds of
beneficence, and love, and mercy. FrOns all quarters
we hear of the most astounding cures accomplished by
his inestimable Pills and Ointment. To the former of
these remedies all diseases of the skin, the muscles, and
the glands seento yield like morning mists before the
sun. The Pills put to rout indigestion, liver complaint,
and disorders of the bowels, with. equal certainty. Our
"national disease," dyspepsia, isin peril of annihilation,
and we have seen enough to feel assured that whenever
Holloway's Pills are universally administered for this
distressing complaint, it will inevitably be "expelled
from society." Every day confirms the opinion we have
heretofore expressed, that Holloway's medicines are the
only preparations in existence that operate directly upon
the sources of disease, and we should be willing, in calm
of sickness, to throw away the pharmacopoeia, forbid
the doctor our presence, and trust to them and TEEM
ALOE,