The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-30 00:00:00

SIATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Sept. 29.—The firmer tone of the
Liverpool Cotton-market has checked the decline in
prices which was the feature of the yarn and cloth
market all last week. There has been very little
business to-day, or disposition for business, and
prices are unchanged since Friday ; but we have
found rather more doing in shipping yarns. There
has been a fair amount of inquiry in yarns suited
for the markets of China, and they have led to some
business at full prices. Buyers of yarns for G3r-
many have also operated to a small extent, and there
have been some purchases on Glasgow account.
Altogether this branch of the market has been mor e
cheerful than of late, and it closes with a better tone
of feeling. In cloths the bulk of the proportion has
met with an exceedingly slow sale. There was a
good demand all last week for the better qualities of
shirtings, and more especially of T cloths suitable to
the markets of China, causing these goods to com-
mand relatively better prices than almost any other
fabrics. To-day, yarns being quoted dearer in con-
sequence of the firmer tone of the Liverpool Cot-
ton-market, manufacturers are somewhat less easy
to deal with, and although there has been a fair in-
quiry, with the exception of some further business
in goods for China but little business has resulted.
Mulls, and the lower makes of shirtings are still
neglected, and the inquiry for them has been very
small. Sellers of printing-cloths and the heavier
fabrics for the home trade report a quiet and dull
market.

LEEDS, 29th.—There has been a tolerably good
attendance of buyers in the cloth halls this morning,
and in winter goods a fair amount of business has
been done, and late prices were well maintained.
Among overcoatings, beavers, and witneys in the
darker shades sold about as well as last week ; but,
as the season for the wholesale purchase of such
goods is far advanced, no very large parcels were
made up. In thin goods, tweeds commanded a fair
amount of attention, but there is some falling off in
the demand for that class of goods, so that buyers
have no difficulty in satisfying their requirements.
In coatings, union meltons, plain cloths, and hair-
lists, a small miscellaneous business was done. The
country clothiers, as well as the large manufactu-
rers, report themselves to be moderately well em-
ployed, some few orders for spring goods having
been put out, and there being a fair preparation for
that season among manufacturers generally. Wools
are steady, at late quotations. The flax trade is
moderately active, and the price of flax, thread, and
yarns arc firm.
ROCHDALE, 281,11.--There was a moderate at-
tendance of buyers in the flannel market to- day,
but the business done was rather limited, only small
parcels of goods being purchased as a rule. The
trade, however, is rather mo re active than last
month, there having been a n increase in the de-
mand for fancy and printed goods. The Yorkshire
goods trade keeps very quiet, but prices are firm,
as are also those of flannels. The wool trade is quite
as active as we have lately had to report it, and
prices are a shade firmer.

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL CASTLE, Sept. 27•

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise,
the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Leopold, and
Prince Christian, attended Divine service at the
parish church of Crathie.
The Right lion. B. Disraeli had the•honour of
dining with her Majesty and the Royal Fan
ily
yesterday. •

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE'

The proceedings and finding of the general court-
martial which assembled at Chatham on the sth inst.,
under the presidency of Col. the Hon. J. J. Bourke,
in command of the 3d depot battalion, for the trial
of Private Rich. Fennan, 106th Bombay Light In-
fantry, and Privates John O'Halloran and James
Sweeney, Military Train, having been submitted by
the Judge-Advocate-General for her Majesty's ap-
proval, the sentences passed on the prisoners were
promulgated yesterday. The prisoner Richard Fen-
nan was tried, under the provisions of the 13th sec-
tion of the Mutiny Act, for appealing against an
alleged overcharge of about 13s. made against him
in his regimental accounts, and for using insulting
and abusive language towards the captain of his
company. The court sentenced the prisoner to be
branded with the letters "B. C.," to undergo 18
months' imprisonment, with hard labour, and at the
expiration of that term to be discharged from her
Majesty's service with ignominy. The charges en
which the prisoners O'Halloran and Sweeney were
tried were for using insubordinate, abusive, and
threatening language towards Sergeant Robinson,
Royal Engineers, and Sergeant Spain,. Military
Train, their superior officers. The court adjudged
each of the prisoners to be marked with the letters
B. C.," to be imprisoned and kept at hard labour
for 12 months, and at the completion of their term
of imprisonment to be both discharged from the
service with ignominy.
Capt. R. T. F. Stammers, two subalterns, and 75
non-commissioned officers and men of the Ist bat-
talion of the 10th Regiment, at Chatham, have been
placed under orders to proceed from that garrison
to Japan, to augment the service companies of the
regiment.
A divisional order has been issued by Major-G3O.
F. Murray, directing three officers and a party of
non-commissioned officers and men from each of the
depots attached to the three battalions of garrison
infantry at Chatham, to go through a course of
escalading operations, in conjunction with the officers
and men of the Royal Engineers. The troops to be
placed under orders for escalading duty are to -be
selected, where practicable, from those who have
gone through the prescribed course of instruction at
the military gymnasium.
Good conduct medals and gratuities of £5 have
been presented at the camp at Colchester to Private
Lyon, 41st Regiment, and Private Flynn, 49th
Regiment.
'I he detachment of the 29th Regiment, having
been inspected by Major-Gen. F. Murray, left the
depot at Chatham garrison yesterday afternoon, and
proceeded by railway to Liverpool, where the officers
and men will embark on board the mail steamer
Belgian, for Quebec, to join the head-quarters and
service companies in Canada. The officers who left
Chatham with the draught were Lieut. J. 11. Pit"
field and Lieut. W. M. Prendergast.
In accordance with orders to that effect received
from the Quartermaster-General's Department,
Horse Guards, detachments of the 2d battalion of
the 10th Regiment and the Ist battalion of the 14th
Regiment will proceed from Chatham to-morrovt
for embarkation on board her Majesty's ire:in screw
troopship Crocodile, 3, 700-horse prnver, Capt. b.'
W. Watson, for conveyance t';') Malta, to join the
service companies of those regiments which are
about proceeding to India for a term of service, re-
lieving two of the infantry regiments under orders
to return home.
Detachments of the Ist and 2d battalions of the
Ist Royals, Ist battalion of the 15th Regiment,
50th Queen's Own Regiment, and 109th Boni"'
infantry, arrived at Chatham garrison ,yesterday
from the School of Musketry, Hythe, 'Were the
officers and men have been undergoing a lengthened
course of the rifle instruction in the use of the
Snider breech-loader, previously to embarking for
foreign service.
Further experiments with the dismounting gear'
the invention of Mr. Donald Grant, of Chatham.
dockyard, are ordered to be carried out on boar'''.
her Majesty's iron-clad ship Northumberland, 26!
1,350-horse power, Capt. Roderick Dew, C. 8., now
fitting for sea at Devonport.
The large iron caisson constructed for No. 4
graving dock at Chatham dockyard, in the place of
the old wooden caisson which blew up some time
since, has been successfully floated into its place at
the entrance to the dock. The whole Of the water
was pumped out on Saturday, and a number of la-
bourers and others have commenced clearing the
dock of the accumulations of mud collected for
several months past, in readiness for laying the
blocks for the reception of the double-screw turret
ironclad Cerberus.
There will be a further trial of the Moncrieff gun

carriage in the protected barbette system on Friday
next at Shoeburyness, when several officers of the
scientific branches of the service, eminent civil en-
gineers, and distinguished officers of the foreign
armies, are expected to be present.
Major-Gen. E. C. Warde, C. 8., R.A., com-
menced his autumnal inspection of the troops in the
Woolwich district yesterday, and will continue his
inspection daily during the week.
Lieut. Fred. W. Egerton was yesterday
appointed
to the Black Prince, for service in the Flirt.
A commander's naval pension, value 165 13(31;
annum, has become vacant by the death, in his de-
year, of Capt. Louis A. Robinson, R.N. The, n
ceased officer entered the navy April 10, 180,!
board the Courageux, 74, and fought in Sir Rich
Strachan's action off Ferrol, Nov. 4, 18057 31161 wfoh
present at the capture of Linois' squadron, ~ v
13, 1806. When mate in charge of a prize in 18 off
he was attacked by two armed boats, and best
one and captured the other ; and in the same Yeteer
while in charge of another prize, beat off a Pri? lie
of superior force. He served in the boats altos,
Sheldrake at the capture of a vessel of four gas
under a battery on the coast.of Jutland ; 311" of
employed on shore at the taking of the isinioos
Java. As lieutenant he partook of two tor/
Feb. 15, 1815, with the American brig Cll3-if on
and afterwards served for five years and a 113 a off
the North America and West India stations 813 for
Lisbon. From April, 1834, until two raellti,bs:olo-
promoted to commander, January 10, 1837, ''`e 1 04
milder]. the Viper, 6, on the coasts of Portag3
Spain.

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from Dunkirk for Cherbourg, with coals, Nvas driven 8.511 i"
at Jury's Gap, near Rye, in a stronggale from the °nth()
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west.rocket apparatus, and fired three rockets over the
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each time effecting a communication, but the crew did oat
understand the use of the apparatus. They, lioweveir:(l,i
out their boat, to which they bent the rocket lin°, 3f and
this means were hauled ashore through a heavy taken
landed in safety. The rescued men were then t3":""ro
the house of the officer of the station, Idler° tbeY per'
provided with dry clothing and refreshrnent. Ti`Fn dent
severance subsequently broke up. It is a matter 0,,^,i un
regret that the crews of French merchant ships d°."4,4 ore
derstand the uso of the rocket apparatus. cl"e 'lOlO
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constantly wasted and life is lost in conse
ignorance, and yet tho Board of Trade sPeria .0, itJ
£20,000 a year in providing the apparatus and waif°
benefits and uses known.