The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-18 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

BELFAST, July 16.—Flax.—During the past week
the supplies in the various markets were small ;
prices on the whole were stationary. Yarns.—Less
activity in demand has manifested itself during the
past week. Stocks have increased, save in tows,
18s. to 225., and 355. to 50s. Line wefts, no
change in prices. Linens (brown).—llandloom.
No activity in demand in this department, with the
exception of napkins, which are in good request ;
Bs. 4d. and 10s. 4d. goods in spots and damasks ;
and good grades of drills likewise met a ready sale.
Powerloom.—Roughs, 5-4th and 6-4th wides and
damask; have been in fair request ; all other
descriptions were comparatively neglected. Bleached
and finished linens.—Home trade, demand quiet ;
orders have been placed, but these were not of an
extensive nature. Continental business as last re-
ported. No alteration has taken place iu stocks.

ROCHDALE, 15th.—There has not been a smaller
attendance lately in the flannel market than there
was to-day, and only a very moderate business was
done. As at last week's market, the demand ran
more on plain than on fancy goods, but a steady
business was doing in the latter by order, and that,
too, for exportation as well as for home consump-
tion. The Yorkshire goods trade does not show any
signs of improvement, but prices are steady. A fair
amount of wool is passing from the dealers to the
spinners and manufacturers at last week's prices.
The quotations for flannels are the same as last week.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—Wednesday.—The following
were the numbers present to-clay.—Admissions on pay-
ment, 19,996; ditto by season tickets and 13elziau Volun-
teers, 7,427. Ivtg visitors, 27,423.

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OSBORNE, July 17.
The Queen embarked on board the Alberta at
Trinity-pier at a quarter before 11 o'clock this
morning, and went out to the Victoria and Albert
yacht, Captain his Serene Highnesses the Prince of
Leiningen, in Cowes roads, when the Royal yacht
steamed round to Osborne Bay, where she remained
until the Osborne arrived with the Sultan on board.
The Sultan tame on board the Victoria and Al-
bert, accompanied by the Imperial Princes, their
Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
Duke of Cambridge, and followed by his Highness
the Viceroy of Egypt and his suite, from the En-
chantress, and was received on deck by her Majesty
the Queen.

The Royal yacht then proceeded towards the
fleet at Spithead, on nearing which a Royal salute
was fired.

The Royal yacht, preceded by the Irene, and
followed by the squadron of steam yachts, passed
through the line of ships.
The Victoria and Albert then steamed to the
eastward, when she anchored after the firing bad
ceased.

Her Majesty the Queen then invested his Im-
perial Majesty the Sultan with the Order of the
Garter.

The ceremony took place upon the quarter-deck
of the Royal yacht.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge,
Lord Paulett, Colonel Keen, and suite, honoured the per-
formances at the New Royal Adolph Theatre yesterday
evening.

RECEPTION OF HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY
THE SULTAN AT THE GUILDHALL.

The following is tho programme of the proceedings
connected with the reception of tho Sultan at the Guild-
hall this evening:—

Tho Lord Mayor, and the deputation of the committee
appointed by the Corporat.on, will receive his Imperial
Majesty the Sultan at the entrance-hall, and proceed in
the following order to the dais in the Guildhall :

COMMONERS.

Mr. Whiteside.
Mr. S. Heath.
Mr. Deputy Bower.

Mr. R. Taylor.
Mr. Marcy.
Mr. Israel.

Town Clerk.
Sheriff Lycett.
Alderman and Sheriff Waterlow.
THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE :
Thomas Henry Fry, Esq., Deputy.
Alderman Copeland.
Alderman Wilson.
Recorder.
Alderman Bosley.
Alderman J. C. Lawrence.
The Swordbearer. The Macebearer.
The Lord Mayor.
His Imperial Majesty the Sultan.
Principal Members of Suite of the Sultan.

The members of the Court of Common Council will
assemble in the reception-hall at a quarter to seven o'clock,
and will follow in procession to the foot of the dais upon
which his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and the
other Royal and distinguished guests will be placed.
When the Sultan has taken his seat on the throne, the
address, having been read by the Recorder, will be pre-
sented to his Imperial Majesty by the Lord Mayor in a gold
casket.

His Imperial Majesty having replied, the following pre-
sentations will take place :
Mover—Mr. Deputy Fry.
Seconder—Robert Stapleton, Esq., chairman of City
Lands Committee.

THE Two SENIOR ALDERMEN:
Mr. Alderman Copeland.
Mr. Alderman Wilson.
The members of the Council will then retire.
His Majesty the Sultan will then proceed to his private
apartments, conducted by the deputation.
After a short interval, the deputation, having previously
assembled in the lobby of the Exchequer Chamber, will
conduct his Imperial Majesty to his throne.
The concert will then commence.
When the Sultan retires to supper he will be preceded
by the deputation to the Council Chamber.
After supper the deputation will conduct the Royal party
to the hall.

FURTHER INERESTING PARTICULARS.
Entering from King-street into Guildhall-yard,
an arcade of double columns, with statues on
pedestals at intervals between, to form a porch
for the setting down of the guests from their re-
spective carriages, is provided in front of the re-
ception hall, as well as in front of the public
drinking fountain, forming a façade of upwards of
120 feet in length. The guests alighting here will
reach the cloak-rooms to the right and left. The
portions above the portico are finished with a pedi-
ment, and panels filled with figures, &c. From
the cloak rooms the guests will pass under the
southern staircase and give up their tickets in the
entrance lobby to the reception hall, then passing
under the orchestra, which is about 12ft. high, and
supported by two handsome caryatides, the new
reception hall is entered. This room, 54ft. wide
in the clear, is supported by a row of six ionic
columns on each side, it is 22 feet to the highest
point of the ceiling, and about 90 feet long, and
forms with the entrance lobbies and porch a build-
ing 105 feet long. The decoration of this hall is
kept in a uniform style, the prevailing colour being
cream or white, relieved with gold. The walls are
hung with a richly-diapered decoration, each bay
having an architectural frontispiece of imitation
wedge-wood ware, with a mirror 10 feet high
and 4 feet wide, and an oval light with the arms of
the City and of the Sultan, alternately, above.
t is lighted by 10 chandeliers of 12 lights
each. Four staircases, one at each corner of the
hall, give access to the upper or supper-room,
the two northernmost (adjoining the porch to the
Guildhall) have in their well-holes fountains
dressed round with flowers, &c. From the centre of
this hall, on the right hand side, a fifth staircase of
a very large and handsome character leads to the
supper rooms over the courts of law, and also to the
supper room over the reception hall ; this supper
room, 95 feet long by 54 feet wide, and about 18
feet high, will afford accommodation for 500 guests
at once, in addition to 300 guests in the law courts,
all seated.

The decorations of the supper rooms are of course
of a somewhat lighter and less imposing character
than in the room below, although considerable at-
tention has been paid to their artistic character.
The upper supper room will be decorated with
pilasters and cornices, and will have in each bay a
painting by Absolon representing the arts and
sciences, and will be lighted by 3 sun burners, and
provision has been made by means of louvres, dor-
mers, &c., for thorough ventilation; and not only
of this floor, but also of the ground floor by means
of the five staircases, as well as by external
openings.

The porch to the Guildhall has been cleaned, and
left with only its natural architectural proportional
though some decorations with flowers and shrubs,
about breast high, will be added on each side.
The Guildhall itself has had merely the mono'
ments cleaned and a double range of seats placed
along the walls where possible, the general character
of this hall not requiring any special decoration,
except the necessary erection of a large dais at the
two easternmost bays of the hall, 5) feet by 36 feet,
with a canopied seat in the centre of the easternmost
bay. Round this bay will be hung an arras 16 feet
high, of crimson velvet, powdered with crescents
and stars, and the two balconied windows filled with
handsome flowers, and lighted, in addition to the
.
present gaseliers, by two very handsome crystal
candelabra. The windows containing
stained glass
will be illuminated from the exterior.

THE PARIS EXHIBITION.—The :sixth party °f
excursionists of the Paris Exhibition Excursion Committee
left London yesterday in two divisions, numbering about
140, by the Brighton and Chatham and Dover RailwaYs'
A large proportion of the excursionists were from the pro-
vinces, and several were from Science Schools in Ireland'
THE LETTER OF LORD CLONCURRY.—DUBLIN'
Wednesday Night.—At the Ennis Assizes to-day the Lora
Mayor of Dublin obtained a verdict of £5O against the
Evening Mail for libel, in publishing a letter of Lord Clow'
curry, accusing him of being a fomenter of agrarian out-
rage. A similar action against the Cork Constitution was
settied•--defcudant to pay costs and apologise.