The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-26 00:00:00

STATE OF 22ADE.

LEICESTER, JAN. 25.—There continues to be a
good business doing in most descriptions of hosiery
for the period of the year. The market is buoyant,
and there is perfect confidence among the manu-
facturers. Future prospects are of an encouraging
nature. At Loughborough and Hinckley there is
a fair amount of business doing. Spinners are
well employed, and yarns continue firm, without
auy disposition to recede in value. Wools are
making high prices.
NOTTINGHAM, JAN. 25.—There is no improve-
ment in the lace trade, and many branches con-
tinue as dull as they were before Christmas ; in
others, however, there is rather more doing, and
engaged,and the
state. A t
there is every reasonable prospect of a thorough
revival very shortly. There are a four tolerable
orders for plain goods in the market. The fancy
trade is yet very dull. In the silk branch there is
but little improvement to note. There is a good
el'ayeto iy
amount of business doing in the hosiery trade,
utiiaandey departments being
in
beinga
Sutton-in-Ashfield, Mansfield, and other hosiery
districts, trade is in a healthy state, yarns are firm,
and make higher prices. In silk no material
change. entirely

TIIE CLERICAL BIGAMIST AT LEEDS.—At the
Leeds Town-hall, on Monday, the Rev. Henry Lloyd
Biekerstaffe was again brought up on a charge of bigamy.
On being charged in the usual form, the prisoner said he
had no defence to make, except that he wished to expedite
the course of justice rather than retard it. He was com-
mitted to takz, his trial at the next York assizes.

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The launching of the Prince of 't•YeL3l4.l,:re:s"C-.
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three-decker, took place at Portsmoutfiyest-eFday
with the most complete success. For :some daps
previous the weather had been unpropitious in the
extreme, and yesterday morning broke dark and
lowering, Ifith a cold N.N.W. wind, promising
little pleasure to the visitors at the launeh. As the
morning wore en the sky became clearer, with
glimpses of sunshine, and as enthusiasm on such
occasions never flags with the inhabitants at Ports-
-1 mouth some thousands of people had assembled on
every point whence a view of the proceedings could
be obtained by the time the ship was launched.
Among those present on the platform erected
under the bows of the vessel were—Admiral W.
Bowles C. 8., Rear-Admiral the Hon. G. Grey,
with Flag-Lieuts. Robinson and Swinburn ; Cap-
tains Farquhar and Hamilton ; Commanders his
Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, Cater,
&e. ; her Serene Highness the Princess of Leiningen
and Miss Bowles ; his Serene Highness Prince
Edward of Saxe Weimar, &c. The band of her
Majesty's ship Victory was in attendance, and
played a variety of airs during the proceedings pre-
liminary to the launching of the vessel. At 12 25
the master builder, Mr. Abethell, placed the bottle
i of wise, which was suspended in the usual manner,
in the hands of the Princess of Leiningen, who
broke it against the ship's bows amid the cheering
of all present, and the christening of the Prince of
Wales was complete. The workmen immediately
commenced splitting away the blocks remaining
under the ship's keel, and at 12 30 the cord being
cut which held suspended the pigs of ballast, these
descended in their channels and liberated the vessel
from the dogshores. A few minutes more and she
began to move, gliding easily into the water, ac-
companied by cheering from the crowd of people
present, and the strains of the National Anthem
from the Victory's band. The ship was no sooner
clear of the shed under which she had been con•
structed, than flag:t Iffs rose as if by magic from
her decks, displaying the Royal Standard, the Ad-
miralty Ensign, and the Union Jack. A bower an •
cher checked her further progress astern, acd being
taken in tow by steamtugs, she was berthed for the
present alongside the Victorious hulk, in the har-
bour, and will be placed in the steam basin next
spring tides, for the purpose of docking and receiv-
ing her machinery, &c. The Prince of Wale% was
laid down on the 10th of June, 1848, from designs
approved by the then Surveyor of the Navy, Sir
Wm. Symonds, and intended for a sailing three-
decker. It wt.s, however, subsequently determined
that, with several others then on the stocks, she
should undergo considerable alterations, necessary
to adapt her to the " screw;" and for this purpose
she was cut asunder amidships and lengthened about
50 feet; her stern was also lengthened as ranch as
was necessary to enable her to receive her outer
stern-post for her screw-shafting and rudder. The
figure-head is a bust of his Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales, and has been executed by
Messrs. llellyer, of Cosham and Southampton. The
followinglare her principal dimensions, description
of armament, engines, &e. :

Feet. in.
Length, extreme
retween perpendiculars 252 0
Ditto, keel for tonnage .. .. 213 31
Breadth, extreme
.. 60 2
Ditto, for tannage 69 4
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Ditto, moulded 58 6
Depth in hold • • • • 25 Gt
Height of figure-head from keel .. 60 9
Ditto of taihail from keel .. 64 9
Burdens in tons .. 3,994
Tier propelling power consists of a pair of 400-horse
powtr (nominal) trunk engines, by Messrs. Pena
and Sono. Armament—Upper Deck . one 68
pounder, 95 cwt., pivot gun, 10 feet long, and 20
22 pounders, 25 cwt 6 feet long. Main Deck :38
32-pounders, 42 cwt., 8 feet long. Middle Deck :
30 32-pounders, 56 cwt., 9 feet 6 inches long, and
6 8-inch onus, 65 cwt., 9 feat long. Lower Deck :
26 32-pounders, 56 cwt., 9 feet' 6 inches long, and
10 8-inch guns, 65 cwt., 9 feet long,
The Royal Frederick, 91 screw, nearly complete
for launching in N 0.2 shed at Portsmouth, had her
name changed yesterday to the Frederick William,
in compliment to his Royal Highness Prince Fre-
derick William of Prussia.

The measles have broken out among the crew of
the flag-ship Royal Albert, 121, in Plymouth Sound.
Several officers and men have been sent ashore to
the Naval Hospital.
The paddlewheel steam-sloop Virago. 6, Com-
mander Montagu B. Dunn, left Plymouth Sound
on Tuesday afternoon, with supernumeraries for the
fleet at Portland.

The Devonport dockyard lighter Ifameaze, Wm.
Webber master, having encountered a heavy gale,
put into Padstow on Sunday, with sails split, boats
stove, and ballast shifted.

Capt. K. Barnard, of the screw steamship Nile,
90, at Plymouth, is obtaining hands expeditiously.
Fifty A.B.'s entered on Sunday and 30 on Tuesday
on board the flagship Impregnable.
Topgallantmasts were sent up on Tuesday on
board the screw steam-ship Revenge, 90, at Ply-
mouth.

It is reported at Pembroke that Capt. Ramsay,
superintendent of the dockyard there, will be one
of the 24 captains to be made Admirals, and that
Capt. Tatham, commanding Milford district, will
be his successor.

Letters dated Gibraltar, Jan. 13, have been re-
ceived at Plymouth from her Majesty's screw
steam-ship Caesar, 90, Capt. T. H. Mason. The
gale just passed had been so severe that it was ne-
cessary to have three anchors down in the Bay and
to keep steam up, so as to be prepared for any con-
tingency. After it had passed, two days were oc-
cupied in clearing the cables, which were much
twisted by the storm. While superintending this
duty her master, Mr. Brehaut, received a fracture
of the leg, so severe that it became necessary to have
him conveyed ashore to the hospital. It is stated
that the condition of the boilers of the Ctesar will
not admit of her continuing on a foreign station 12
months longer. The Orion is ordered to Malta.
Lieut. John P. F. Grant, belonging to the screw
steam coastguard-ship Ajax, GO, Capt. John M'Boyd,
has been appointed additional Lieut. to the screw
steam-frigate Chesapeake, 51, Rear-Admiral James
Hope, C. 8., on the China station. Lieut. Grant
goes out passenger from Woolwich in the hired
steam-transport K hersonese.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Commander C. D. Buckley, to the
Forte ; Commander G. H. Parkin, to the Hannibal ;
Commander Y. Baker, to the Orion ; Lieut. H. T.
Gunanaell, to the Wellington ; Lieut. R. H. N. Moly-
neux, to the St. Jean d'Acre ; Lieut. C. Jenkins and
Lieut. A. Markham, to the Emerald; Lieut. C. J.
Rowley, to the Nile; H. T. Ellis, master, to the
Caesar; W. F. Rose, second master, to the Banshee;
E. Hinvest, second master, to the Perseverance ;
W. J. Lewis, assistant-surgeon, to the Nile; P. T.
Pendleton, promoted to second-class assistant-sur-
geon in the Greyhound; W. A. Stewart, acting
third-class assistant-engineer, to the Asia, as super-
numerary ; F. R. H. Yorke, midshipman, to the
Emerald ; J. F. Barns, master's assistant, to the
Prometheus ; G. Shambler, paymaster additional,
to the Castor; IL M. D. Wilson, assistant-paymaster,
to the Nile ; and IL J. Gardner, assistant-clerk ad-
ditional to the Nile.

GEOLOGY. King's College, London.
Professor TENNANT, F.G.S., will commence a
COURSE of LECTURES on GEOLOGY, on Friday morn-
ing, January 27th, at nine o'clock. They will be continued
on each succeeding Wednesday and Friday, at the same
hour. Fee, £2 12s. 6d.

R. W. JELF, D.D., Principal.

THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE.
Edited by W. M. THACKERAY•
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