The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-14 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

BLACKBURN, May 12..—N0 improvement can be
reported to-day. Prices are again 4-d. per lb. je
favour of buyers, who, however, remain quite re-
luctant to operate, and the amount of bui.-ineso
really done Las Leen small. TLe of eratives Lava
quietly settled down at the five per cent reductiol3l
but they are actively rai,ing funds for emigration
purposes, and are anticipating that the drain which
will be effected in this way must speedily tell je
their favour.

BRADFORD, May 13th.—The Wool Market, 011

the whole, has undergone no change since MondaP
Spinners are holding off buying in consequence of°
public sale of wool during the afternoon by Messrs'
Townend, wool brokers. The purchases made are
confined to a few choice sorts of wool. Prices are
without change. The sale of Messrs. Townend cony
manded a good attendance of consumers ; the compel.'
tion was rather brisk, and the biddings, on the
whole, satisfactory. In worsted yarns there je
rather more business doing in home sorts, but the
foreign trade is in the same dragging condition el
hitherto. The export merchants are looking round
and making inquiries, but more with a view t°
test prices than to place orders. Stocks of single
yarns are in many hands accumulating. in two,
fold yarns there arc offers made, hut at prices o°,
low to be entertained. A rather more cheerftl`
feeling prevails in the piece trade, but in some de'
partments of this branch, as, for instance, for the
East and on home account, there is a very fair busi'
ness doing at firm rates.

7HE CRUISE OF THE ROYAL NA PAL

RESERVE.

Yesterday the Royal Naval Reserve and
Squadron assembled in the Portland Roads, 1300.1
on board the various ships nearly 3,000 Nava.
Reserve and Coastguard men, under the cow'
mand of Rear-Admiral Astley Cooper Nei'
C. 8., whose flag was hoisted on board the
George, guardship at Portland, Captain Matther
S. Nolloth, but was shifted in the afternoon t_(,),
the Agincourt (flagship), ironclad, which arrive:
in the Roads the previous day from Sheerness. The
Portland Roads now presents a magnificent sight'
with so large a squadron, composed of the folio
ironclads and block ships, who take up the followT
order :—Agincourt (flagship), the Scylla, the Cn,
ums, Captain Wilson (flying squadron), the
George, the Boscawen, the Mersey, 36 guns ; the
Trafalgar, 60 guns, 2,900 tons, 500 horse power'
the Hector, 20 guns, armour plated, Capt.
Kennedy ; the Black Prince, 41 guns, Capt. A.
Gordon ; the Duncan, 81 guns, Capt. C. FelloWes;
the Donegal, 81 guns; Dauntless, 31 gos,:f
Royal George,. 72 guns, will complete the list u,
the block ships for the Royal Naval Reserve'
and the Bristol, Liverpool, 35, Pbcebe, End);
wion, Liffey, Cadmus, and Scylla will form
the Flying Squadron. On Wednesday, 01a
0,
250 Royal Naval Reserve men were
veyed from Bristol and other ports to 11 eda
mouth, by the Great Western Railway, Afv,
arrived at the latter port at half-past three o'el°"01
where they were met by the Weymouth 111:10.
Naval Reserve men and the band of the tr3lo,
ing ship Boscawen, under the command of the
tenant Wilkinson, of the St. George.
loyal townsmen of Weymouth gave then
6,3
hearty welcome. The men were nearly all dress
alike in Guernseys, and wearing the A.8.'0 pc
with a ribbon bearing "R. N. R." in gal' 03
a quarter to four the men marched to the pier, 3
embarked on board the Commodore ste'illiee,r
CAptain Mace. As the steamer left the 1,
the men were again heartily cheered by the l'°_1)0/
lace, and the men, who seemed thorouSre,
~leased with the anticipated cruise, heartilYtbe
sponded. The Commodore arrived alongsld'd
St. George, and the men here mustered doro
were told off under petty officers. The Comm°oo
also conveyed 120 men on board the AlerseY:,steta
squadron will sail from the PortlaaJd
early to-morrow (Saturday) morning for the "tied
suntide cruise, when the men will undergo 07
ad
practice and other manceuvres. The Donegal
Royal George have arrived.