The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-01 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Manchester Guardian of yesterday.)
MANcnEsrEn.—Since the market of yesterday
week, a slight advance has taken place in some de.
scriptions of manufactured goods, and also in yarn of
current numbers, and ready for immediate delivery.
Yesterday, however, the demand appeared to be checked
by the advance ; many foreign orders for goods hav-
ing been sent with limits considerably below the pre-
sent rates, are necessarily lying over for further in-
structions; consequently the market, though perfectly
firm, did not,exhibit much activity; and the amount
of business done was comparatively limited.
Roc FID ALE FLANNEL MARKET, Nov. 28.—The
demand for flannels continues extremely brisk, and
to-day's market has been equal to any of the pre-
ceding ones. Yet, with the ready sale that pieces
have met with, the manufacturer has not been able to
obtain any advance of price. There has been very
little doing in the wool market, on account of the
dealers attempting to obtain an advance in price,
which has been resisted by the manufacturers. Skin
wool is more difficult to buy, and rather better
prices have been given ; but other descriptions have
been sold at former prices. It was stated in the
market, that at the London sales, the latter end of
last week, skin wool had been sold at an advance of
one pound per pack.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE.—We understand that orders
received from Widmer Castle on Monday, to have
all ready fqr her Majesty's reception on Saturday next ;
the intended dep!!.rture of her Majesty, from the Kentish
coast, on Tuesday, been postponed until that day.
COVENT-GARDEN.-1 ESS ;amble resumed her per-
formances at this theatre on Tuesday;
.! .
CL the part of Semi-
randde, and was most cordially received. ..1-t the end of
the opera, Miss Kemble, Mrs. A. Shaw, and Mr: rlubilei
were called for. The house was well attended.
The father of the young Midshipman, now at issue
with Captain Elliot, in a letter to a Morning* Contempo-
rary, regrets extremely that the editor of the United
Service Gazette, in the face of an earnest remonstrance
from him, should have considered it necessary to drag '
into public, notice an affair which can be adjusted only
by reference to the proper authorities ; and adds, that
the whole of his narrative, from beginning to end, is a
tissue of mis-statements.

By the death of Sir George Townshend Walker,
Bart., G.C.8., a vacancy has occurred in the household
of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, to whom that
gallant officer was for many years " Groom of the Bed-
chamber"—a fact that showed great political impar-
tiality on his Royal Highness's part, as Sir George was,
to the last, a stanch Tory. _ _

Lord Wynford has arrived in this city (Bath) from
Weymouth. The venerable and learned Lord purposes
to reside here during the winter, for the advantage of his
heslth.—Bath Paper of Monday.
THE NEIY NAUTICAL NOVEL, " THE NAVAL
CLUB," BY "THE OLD SAILOR."—" The popularity
Mr Barker's writings have acquired is well deserved ;
it will not subside, but will doubtless strengthen and
extend, both among the members of the service he has
so faithfully described, and among the numerous class
of readers, who, though they know nothing practi-
cally of the service, find an endless source of amuse-
ment in perusing illustrations of the characters, and
narratives formed of the soul-stirring incidents, which
abound in the eventful lives of British seamen, whose
foibles are forgotten in the fun they inspire by the
drollery in which they invest the mischief they often
perpetrate. In The Naval Club' Mr. Barker has,
in his best manner, brought before us an immense
variety of those incidents, in which the grave and the
gay will alternately find matter for serious sympathy
and hearty hilarity. Life Afloat and Life in Green-
wich Hospital—interspersed with anecdotes illus-
trative of the characters of some of the most cele-
brated of the heroes of the quarter-deck—in the dif-
ferent gradations of their professional career—supply
the subjects of these volumes. They inspire an
interest which cannot flag; and will be as popular
among nautical men, as they cannot fail to be with
general readers."—Globe.
ACCIDENT TO LADY FITZROY SOMERSET.—(FROM
A CORRESPONDENT.)—We regret to state that her Lady-
ship met with an unpleasant accident on Saturday last,
at Deal Castle, by a heavy roller-blind (with an iron
rod, &c.. attached to it) falling upon her head, which
was much cut and bruised. The effusion of blood that
followed was very great, but we are happy to add that
under the skilful treatment of Dr. M'Arthur and Mr.
Watt (surgeon of Deal), her Ladyship is rapidly re_
overing.
CITY LICENSING DAY.—The following notice haq
been posted up on the doors of the respective churches
in the City ' A Special Session for the purpose of
granting licences to persons being about to keep inns,
ale-houses, and victualling-houses in the city of Lon-
don, to sell excisable liquors by retail, to be drunk or
consumed on the premises therein specified, is appoint-
ed to be holden at the Guildhall of the said city on
Saturday, the 3d of Dec. next, at the hour of nine
o'clock m the morning."