The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-21 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—His Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge visited the Queen yesterday at
the Castle, and remained to lunch with her Majesty
and Prince Albert. The Royal Duke took his depar-
ture in the afternoon, on his return to his residence at
Kew.

This morning her Majesty and Prince Albert rode
out in the home Park in their favourite small phae-
ton, her Majesty driving.
The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were
taken their accustomed airings, accompanied by the
Dowager Lady Lyttelton.
Lord Charles Wellesley, Hon. Mrs. Anson, and
Major-General Wemyss will have the honour of din-
ing with the Royal party at the Castle this evening.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Wednes-
day next, the 26th instant, at cne o'clock, at Windsor
Castle.

His Royal Highness the Hereditary Prince of
Mecklenburgh Strelitz honoured with a visit yester-
day the exhibition of the Model of St. Peter's, in
Pall-Mall.

General Sancho, the Spanish Minister, transacted
business at the Foreign-office on Wednesday.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

The Baron and Baroness De Thoren and family, at
Hathaway's Hotel, Brook-street, Grosvenor-square,
from the Continent ; the Rev. H. Des Vceux, arditto,
from Dorsetshire.
DEPARTURES.

The Prince and Princess St. Elia, and suite, from
Hathaway's Hotel, Brook-street, for Italy; the Duke
and Duchess De Noya and family, from ditto, for
Paris ; the Marquis Gregorio, from ditto ; the Hon.
Mrs. and Edward Doughty, Esq., and family, from
ditto, for their seat, Upton House, Dorset; Le Comte
George de Festeties, from ditto, for Vienna.

THE MANCHESTER TRADE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Six—Allow me through the medium of your
valuable paper, to draw the attention of your readers
to the present deranged state of several branches of
the manufacturing trade of Manchester, chiefly attri-
butable to the preference given by purchasers to
Scotch tartan goods. Were it the ordinary course
of events that had brought about the sudden and
overwhelming—l might almost say exclusive—demand
for tartans, there would be little cause for complaint;
but being produced by agency not the most legitimate
and fair, 1 shall be allowed, perhaps, a small portion
of your space while I point out the means by which
Manchester has been thus suddenly deprived of a
large portion of its trade.
The agency to which I allude is, the fact of her
Majesty's being advised to patronise the manufac-
turers of cloth in Scotland. This may, at first sight,
appear harmless enough, but a very little attention is
required to convince any competent judge that such a
course of procedure as her Majesty's, must be fraught
with serious evil to other manufacturing districts ; for
it is evident, that, mutatis mutandis, there being only a
certain amount of trade transacted in this country,
the more there is done in one part, the less there will
be done in another. Facts, too lamentable, confirm
the truth of this statement.

Unprepared for so sudden and extensive a demand
for tartans, many houses in the Manchester trade have
large stocks of goods on hand, which, as the writer
well knows, cannot, without serious loss, command a
market. God knows, the trade in Manchester was
bad enough before this calamity, but, it appears,
" worse remained behind."

I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
AN OLD MANCHESTER MANUFACTURER.
Manchester, Oct. 19, 1842.

11011110 USE AND Co's. BANKRUPTCY. —At a meet-
ing of creditors of the separate estate of Mr. H. W.
Hobhouse, held at the White Hart, in this city, on
Saturday, the Commissioners declared a dividend of
20s. in the pound. We understand that after this di-
vidend is paid, a handsome surplus will be left for the
benefit of the creditors of the joint estate. At a meet-
ing of the private creditors of Mr. Phillott, held on
Monday, a dividend of 20s. in the pound was declared.
A meeting of the private creditors of Mr. Lowder
takes place on Saturday. They are not likely to re-
ceive more than a moiety of their claims, Societies for
which Mr. Lowder was treasurer having proved
against his private estate.—Bath Chronicle.
STOURBRIDGE.—THE IRON TRADE.—The October
series of iron masters' quarterly meetings are just
ended. Gloomy and dull as the season they have
been ; the business done has been comparatively
trifling, and the future prospects of the trade are
disheartening in the extreme. Consequent on the
late stoppage of the works, a rise on the then
ruinously low price of iron of 1/. per ton was at-
tempted, and in many instances paid, but prices have
again receded, and the attempt to maintain in the
current quarter a rise of 10s., will no doubt prove
abortive. The demand created by the stoppage of the
works is supplied, and the orders now issued will only
be for such quantities as are required for immediate
use ; what this will be may be inferred from the fact
that the chain and trace trade is nearly at a stand still,
while the demand for nails is daily decreasing. Some
idea may be formed of the extent of the reduction in
the make of iron, from the fact that one work, which
has usually paid from 1,5001. to 1,6001. for carriage
per quarter, had not incurred an expense of 701. on the
same account in the one just ended.— Worcestershire
Chronicle.

Lord Powerscourt, Lord Clifford, Sir J. Hobhouse,
and Sir James Radcliffe, have arrived at Antwerp,
from Brussels.