The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-28 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Nov. 27.—There has been a very
steady market for yarns, and prices are gradually
gaining in strength in consequence of the large
business done on Thursday and Friday last for
China ; shippers to China have been the chief buyers,
but a few considerable purchases have been made
for Calcutta. Prices are fully id. per lb. higher
than last Tuesday, and the market closes very firm
at the advance. There is not much business re-
ported for the home trade, and the Germans, who
had begun to operate at the point of extreme
depression, are now holding back. In cloths, as
in yarn, a considerable business was done on
Thusrday and Friday in fabrics suited to the China
trade, at a slight advance on last Tuesday's rates.
The letters from Shanghai and other commercial
ports, however, do not report the market there as
in a very satisfactory state, and it is supposed that
the purchases here were of a speculative character.
Some purchases were also made for India. Accord-
ing to letters from Calcutta prices were a little
higher at last dates, and a rather more cheerful
feeling prevailed. To-day we have not had much
business for either China or India, but prices re-
tain the slight advance gained on China goods.
Printing cloths are not so easy to sell at last Tues-
day's rates. Longcloths and T-cloths only. in
moderate demand, at last Tuesday's prices.
Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report :—" On Wed-
nesday last, owing to the prospect of an easier
money-market, there was rather a better demand
for goods generally, and the downward tendency of
prices was arrested. On Thursday an active de-
mand set in for 40-inch shirtings and other goods
for China, and a large business was done in them at
an advance of I.ld. to 3d. per piece on Tuesday's
prices. There is less doing to-day, but this is
owing more to the long engagements of manu-
facturers than to any falling off in the demand.
Longloths and T-cloths have also been in more
request, and in some instances a slight advance
has been realized."
LEEDS, 27th.—There has been but a small atten-
dance of buyers in the cloth-halls this morning, and
the purchases made were confined to small parcels,
as they have been for the last few market days.
The trade at the warehouses, too, is rather flat, but
not more so than is usual at this intermediate sea-
son of the year. The country clothiers report
that they are not brisk, but that they are moderately
well employed. Prices continue steady, and those
of wool keep creeping up, but they cannot be quoted
higher than last week.
ROCHDALE, 26th.—The flannel market hes not
been very well attended to-day, the wetness of the
weather having kept several parties away. The
trade, however, was a shade better than last week.
The chief demand is for home consumption, little
being doing at present by the export houses. Lan-
cashire and Welsh imitations and Saxonies are
quiet, but dyed goods are very active for the season,
and there continues to be a good sale for Yorkshire
goods. Prices in general are firm. There has not
been much demand for wool to-day, but prices are
steady. Upon the whole the operatives in the
flannel trade are well employed.

IRE NA Vl'.

Her Majesty's screw steam sloop Serpent was
yesterday undocked at Woolwich, :and the new
sloop Rosario, launched at Deptford in Nov. last,
was docked in its place, to be prepared for service.
The screw steam troopship Himalaya, Capt. S.
Seccombe, had her steam got up yesterday (Tues-
day) morning, in Plymouth Sound, for the pur-
pose of going into Hamoaze to undergo repair, but
owing to the boisterous state of the weather she
did not make the attempt.
Mr. Thunder, engineer of the Hero, 91, was by
sentence of court-martial, on Monday, at Plymouth,
dismissed from that ship.

The paddlewheel steam store-ship Rhadaman thus,
4, Master Commander F. R. Sturdee, took on board
new boats, and proceeded yesterday (Tuesday) from
Plymouth for Deptford.

The screw steam corvette Charybdis, 21, Capt.
Keane, at Devonport, is to be fitted and stored as
soon as possible, when she will sail for her destina-
tion, the East Indies. Having been cleaned and her
valves overhauled, she was removed yesterday
(Tuesday) from No. 3 dock in Keyham steam-yard,
and placed in the lock, preparatory to going into
Hamoaze to-day (Wednesday).
The screw steam gunboat Porpoise, tender to the
Royal Albert, 121, was put into No. 4 dock in the
Devonport dockyard on Monday morning to have
defects made good.
The screw steam frigate Ariadne, 26, Capt. Van-
sittart, was appointed to be hauled into Keyham
basin yesterday (Tuesday), for docking to-day
(Wednesday).

The paddlewheel steam sloop Gorgon, 6, Com-
mander Bedford C. T. Pim, from Portsmouth, ar-
rived at Plymouth yesterday (Tuesday), and went
into Hamoaze. She will coal and provision, and take
the mooring brig Swift ender her care, and then
proceed to the Cape of Good Hope.
The North Star, 22 gags, a splendid screw cor-
vette, 400 horse power, with covered deck, is being
built in the Sheerness dockyard. Her armament
will consist of 20 guns, 8 feet 10 inches long, weigh-
ing 90 cwt. each, and two pivot guns, 10 feet long,
weighing 90 cwt. each. Her tonnage will be 1,856
and 82.94. As soon as she is launched a similar
vessel, to be named the Weymouth, is to be imme-
diately commenced.

The Orestes, 21 guns, 400-horse power, screw
steam corvette, which was launched in August last,
has undergone a trial of her engines, which worked
admirably. Her engines are of a new description,
called " plunger" engines, and were manufactured
by Messrs. Napier and Son, of Glasgow. She
is now in No. 3 dock, having her salt water distil-
ling apparatus fitted. The Orestes is considered one
of the handsomest vessels afloat, and is much ad-
mired as a piece of naval architecture.
The Collingwood, 80, sailing ship, is in No. 2
dock, Sheerness, being converted into a screw steam
vessel, 400-horse power, and is near completion.
The Leander occupies No. 1 dock, and is being con-
verted from a sailing ship into a screw stdm frigate,
400-horse power, having been lengthened some 40
feet amidships. In the basin are the Anson, 91,
screw steamship, 800-horse power ; Atlas, 91, screw
steamship, 800-horse power; Newcastle, 51, screw
steam frigate, 600-horse power ; all of which are
having their boilers and engines fitted, and are or-
dered to be brought forward immediately for the
first class steam reserve. There are also in the basin
the Wanderer, 4, screw steam despatch boat, 200-
horse power, and the Virago, 6 paddlewheel sloop,
300-horse power, both of which are undergoing re-
pairs and being fitted for the first-class steam ordi-
nary.

Orders have been received at Sheerness to prepare
the Malacca, 17 screw steam sloop, 200-horse power,
for the first class steam reserve, and to hold her in
readiness for the pennant.
The Cumberland, 70, guardship of the steam or-
dinary, Capt. C. F. Schomberg, has been paid wages
under the superintendence of Capt. C. Wise, super-
intendent of her Majesty's dockyard, and her crew
granted eight days' leave.
The Miranda, 15, screw steam sloop, Commander
H. C. Glyn, left Sheerness harbour on Monday, and
proceeded on trial of her engines, after undergoing
the necessary repairs, which were found to work
satisfactorily. Notwithstanding the unfavourable-
ness of the weather (a strong wind and tide being
against her), she attained a mean speed of 8 knots
an hour. She was inspected yesterday by Vice-Ad-
miral W. J. Hope Johnstone, commander-in-chief,
and staff, and sailed for Plymouth.
The Barracouta, 6, paddle, Commander W. Wood,
whose arrival at Spithead from the West Indies
with invalids was reported in The Sun yesterday,
hauled down the yellow quarantine flag from her
fore yesterday morning, and discharged her invalids
to hospital. She will go into Portsmouth harbour
this morning.
The Mersey, 40, screw, Capt. H. Caldwell, C. 8.,
lying at Spithead, had the " blue peter" flying all
yesterday, and was expected to have proceeded to
her destination—the West Indies—but was detained
until past sunset picking up stragglers. She was
to sail last evening, or at latest, at daylight this
morning.

The Bulldog, 6, paddle, Capt. Sir F. L. I\l'Clin-
tock, alongside Portsmouth dockyard, has com-
menced caulking and making good defects to paddle
boxes and bulwarks.

The Algiers, 91, screw, Capt. G. D. O'Callaghan,
will go out of Portsmouth harbour to-day, and take
up a berth at Spithead.

The communication between Nos. 7 and 10 docks
in Portsmouth yard, now being carried out by the
contractors, Messrs. G. Smith and Co., of Pimlico,
is ordered to be completed by the Ist of March
next, as the docks will then be required by the
authorities for the purpose of receiving the Warrior,
iron cased frigate, now building by the Thames
Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company. On the
completion of the work, these two docks, by the
removal of the central caisson, can be thrown into
one, with a total length of 615 feet, the caissons
being placed in the sunk grooves at each end. By
using the western rebate and the steam basin out-
side groove for the caissons the total length may
be increased to 645 feet. The breadth and the
depth will be necessarily very unequal, the new
portion, or No. 10 dock, as it is now termed, being
of greater depth than No. 7 by five feet, and also
of greater width in that portion which will be the
nearest point in contact with a ship's bilges. The
breadth between the entrance gate piers and the
coping will be 83 feet at one end and 80 feet at the
other.

The homogeneous metal introduced a short time
ago in Woolwich factory for forging steam boilers
is ordered by the Board of Admiralty to be applied
experimentally in the manufacture of chains, links,
and similar purposes, and to be reported on accord-
ingly, after being carefully tested.
The entry of additional smiths, metal workers, and
foundrymen at Chatham Dockyard, to be employed
on the iron-plated war steamer intended to be built
at that establishment, is to be suspended for the
present, in consequence of the whole of the prepa-
rations not having been yet completed for commenc-
ing the huge ship. Additional workshops and forges
will have to be erected in close proximity to the
second dock, in which she is to be built, but as yet no
commencement of these erections has been made.
The following appointments were made yesterday at the
Admiralty :—Lieut. Henry T. Bogers, to the Jason ; Lieu t.
G. T. Medd, to the Flying Fish ; Lieut. F. S. V. Meulin,
to the Marlborough, additional, for disposal; R. P. NV.
Powney, midshipman, to the Jason ; F. J. Easther, mid-
shipman to the llarier ; J. Sproule, surgeon, to the Ar.el ;
and Joshua Connolly, acting 3d class assistant •engmeer,
to the Cumberland.

The Calcutta quotations of Rupee paper by the
present mail show an advance of i par cent., which has
been followed by
for the Five per Cents.,
and a rise of I per cent. on this side, the clos-
ing quotations to-day being 951 to
and 1011 to. for the dive and-A-liall per Cents.