The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-06-19 00:00:00

MARKETS FOR MANUFACTURES.

MANCIIESTER.—The market, this week, both as regards
cloth and yarn, has been dull, declining, and irregular. Some
produceis have indeed withdrawn from the market, but others
have met the buyers on such terms as a demand, confined to
immediate wants, and with an overwhelming production,
would permit their obtaining. In some instances spinners
have been met by holders of stocks of their yarns, who have
been sellers at id. to id. per lb. under what the spinners
themselves demand ; for holders have little confidence in rates,
based on a speculation in cotton, being upheld, and would
rather secure a profit here than take the chance of foreign
markets. Altogether, we wish we could report less un-
favourably, or see any immediate prospect of being able to do
so.—Manchester Courier.

ROCIIDALE.—A very fair demand for flannels, and the
manufacturers have asked better prices on account of the rise
in the raw material. There is not much change in wool;
the demand is steady and prices very firm.
HIIDDEESPIELD.—A better attendance and more doing,
both in the Cloth Hall and warehouses. In fact, more cheer-
fulness and animation in the market than for some weeks
past. Prices are firm. Wool, also, has been in pretty fair
demand ; and the waste and mungo market may be fairly said
to have been brisk.

LEEDS.—A steady business continues to be done in the
woollen trade, and a full average quantity of goods changed
hands. The demand being equal to the supply, stocks are low,
and the mills generally well employed. Prices rule steady. A
steady, quiet business doing in the warehouses for the home
demand, and the shipping houses are brisker than they have
been for some time past.
BRADFORD.—WooI: This market continues to be badly
supplied, and the prices are firm. Noils and brakes continue
in good request, and command high prices.—Yarns : The im-
provement in the demand for yarns, and the spinners being
generally working full time, has made an impression on the
minds of the youthful workers that better days are at hand,
and during the early part of the week there has been but
little yarn spun, as there has been a nearly general turn-out
for higher wages. The position of this branch of the trade has
been long bad, in consequence of having the raw material too
high, and the current rate for yarns too low, and any improve-
ment on the price of yarns has been met by an advanced price
of wool, and altogether the business is still profitless and un-
satisfactory.—Pieces A fair amount of business doing, but
great complaints of the unprofitableness of it.
NOTTINGRAM.—In the lace trade, silk goods are the prin-
cipal things selling. The hosiery trade is fair where firms
hold a stock of yarn at old prices, but to make goods at the
list of to-day, manufacturers cannot realise their own.

AT the Mansion-house, London, 'on Saturday, Samuel Seal,
who has been several times examined upon the charge of
having in his' possession a large quantity of granulated gold,
supposed to be a portion of certain gold stolen upon its transit
from London to the Continent, vial Dover, was discharged, the
evidence beinginconclusive.
THE IRISH PEERAGE.—An extremely curious case was
mooted by Lord Derby in the House of Peers on Monday.
The point is raised as to whether the patent for the new
Baron of " Fermoy" in the Irish Peerage is not absolutely
void. By the "Act of Union" three Irish Peerages must be-
come extinct before the Crown can create a new Irish Peer.
The provision was introduced in order to guard the Irish no-
bility against being swamped by profuse creations. Accord-
ing to Lord Derby's singularly lucid statement, only two
Irish Peerages have recently become vacant, but the. Ministers
have tried back upon the Earldom of Montrath, which be-
came vacant in 1802, and which they allege was never counted
before by the Herald's Office. This seems a singular fact, if
true, when we know that the Irish Commoners are keenly
alive to the vacancies in the Irish Peerage. The whole matter
is to be brought under the Committee of Privileges. On the
political propriety of making Mr. Burke Roche a Peer, Lord
Derby did not dwell at any length.

TUTS/J.lr, JUNE 19, 1855.

ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM.

WITHOUT attaching any undue importance to the
movement for what is called Administrative Reform,
and which proclaimed its existence by a monster
meeting in Drury-lane Theatre, on Wednesday, it
Cannot be denied that there is a growing uneasiness
and dissatisfaction in popular opinion with reference
to the administration of public affairs. It is not,
however, so clear that the present agitators are pur-
suing the right course to obtain the object they
profess to desire—always supposing that they are
sincere in their professions, and that they are not
making use of a popular cry in order to gratify
personal ambition. The progress of the War, more
particularly during the few months which followed
the landing of the British troops in the Crimea, when
complaints were rife of grievous suffering through
privations, caused by official incompetency or neglect,
naturally excited a large share of public indignation,
and induced consideration as to the most effectual
mode of applying a remedy to what appeared so
serious an abuse of authority. It was not simply that
appointments to important offices were made from
motives of personal favour rather than from conviction
of the fitness of the candidate for the office, and his
ability to perform the duties required, but the conse-
quences were frightfully apparent in the sufferings
and mortality of the gallant army exposed to the
rigours of a winter in the Crimea, and which
increased to such an extent as to threaten even the
existence of the British force before Sebastopol, and,
consequently, the position of Great Britain in the
struggle which she had entered upon with so much
confidence in the result. As thick as hail came post
on post, bringing the most saddening accounts of the
melancholy details ; and while the public mind was in
a fever of excitement, lamenting the evil, but scarcely
knowing how to accomplish redress, Mr. LAYARD
appeared upon the scene as a candidate for office upon
a change of Ministers. He was considered too dan-
gerous as an opponent, in the then state of parties, for
some attempt not to be made at conciliation, and he
was offered first one place and then another, which he
refused, on the ground of his knowing nothing of the
duties required of him. He then made an appeal to
public opinion, explaining his position, and stating
that what was most wanted was " the right men in
the right places." The assertion was at once laid hold
of, as the key to a solution of the difficulty, and
made a popular cry, out of which arose the movement
for Administrative Reform.
In common, however, with all movements of the
like character, in which feelings and prejudices are
appealed to rather than judgment and experience, the
argument is driven to the extreme, until it tends to
excite opposition when it might otherwise have me

with support. There is too much truth in the asser.

tion that duties are entrusted to those who are utterly
incapable of their performance ; and we cannot, per-
haps, do better than quote the following remarks from
an able article in Blackwood's Magazine of this
month, on " The Palmerston Administration." The

writer says
" Now, why is it that Lord Palmerston, whose accession to
power some three months ago was greeted with acclaim by a
considerable section of the public, who believed that at last
they had got " the right man in the right place," should now
be distrusted and decried ? It is vain to attribute this to
popular fickleness; for although the public mind, collectively,
is fickle, and sometimes unreasonable in its expectations, yet
most men form their conclusions from what they hear and
observe, and there is commonly a considerable lapse of time
between the flow and ebb of aggregate opinion. In this in-
stance it has been unusually rapid. Palmerston, the favourite
of February, is Palmerston the mistrusted of May. For this
singular change many reasons may be assigned. In the first
place, Lord Palmerston showed very little discretion in the
construction of his cabinet. The tendency of the Whigs,
from the commencement, has been to govern by means of a
small junta or restricted clique of aristocratic families ; in
short, to job the government of Great Britain whenever they
could get it into their hands. So pertinacious are they in
their adherence to this arrangement, that no instances of inca-
pacity, however notorious, are considered by them
suffi-
cient to exclude a minister, once admitted, from the family
circle. All they do is to shift him to another office when
the public clamour rises to a certain height. Thus, for ext.-
, d
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being rievsheLeeore
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President
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Admiralty—thatCharlesoefnt terhWi
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Indian, :and naval matters. Very possibly, as we write

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from memory we may not be doing full ju,tie,',,°,lo
Affairs,ho fasth ; e lesni ge her.:
Secretary
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the Colonies,
Palmerston himself has been Secretary-at- i.re:les
Secretary, Home Secretary, First Lord of the "-_l7 bol„i
be ecalfeseT4
Premier. Whig statesmen, it must
and
mention P Premier;-these m
suchi er;
triflest h ese
as a tpetCatli le:sealmosetnaCa,sip°: faesuo'brursFichliiiitlit::i esitSss:eLacnnOroLrdetdt°Pj Irtcf!tr i!ii.rit IT
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butterfly existence • they flit from flower to flow iy d
in a variety of nectar.' This systematic .onogt Ids
on the principle of exclusive family arrang iont,t 'filo 74i
given intense disgust to rising men of taie" we cot,'
adopted the Liberal party and no wonder, 10.1° oii P:e
the profession of the Whigs with their practice. ore cs
once 0044;
and glaring mistake Lord Palmerston has
mitted ; and in consequence he has brought liPee Aild'',4
active animosity of the Administrative Reformer We 30.1
wonderful that the feeling should be universal , like to
wish to deal in personal instances, but we should It' ve,00,0
—yea or nay—if Sir Charles Wood is thecaate' it tile 0
Great Britain to be appointed to the first ecevpt, 1
miralty in the midst of a tremendous war , . 000,0
name of Cocker, does Sir George Cornewall Le he VT o•
finance, and why was he made Chancellor of !Pe ce .1.10,k
at the precise period when the highest intelbblisfilLi
perience were required for that departmen?
45' e oVo
merston, who ought to know something about those
repvthiji
considered that Lord John Russell was the fitt.nesripia (40.01
account of diplomatic skill, to represent Grot 't..rae, ° d
Conferences at Vienna, was it wise, at the same lore• oft
him Secretary for the Colonies, and thus pass 3 P&010?,144
upon the most valuable dependencies of the , P;(6,
might push these queries further, but we forbear. ,ei 1
we think, has been said already to, prove that, n'd 0,041 g
of a Ministry, Lord Palmerston neither acte 1i.,, D.
well; indeed, that, in his first official arrange°
appointed the expectations of the country." eof l°4
While, however, we admit the full fbrete oe I,tY
remarks, and the extreme injucliciousness'her of,
,iir
mildest term, with which the greater nuyi of
ir
cial appointments have been made, it does ljpooilefit;
fore follow that we should rush into the ;PIT,
treme, and, discarding all the aristocrats el!,
of the Government, seek to fill their Phlee-oe r9'.
possessing what is called practical ability' „jilt:
amount of enterprise which has been develcrof iiific'i
the last few years in the successful 001'1, 001
takings of the most gigantic character, 'lltofFe
strated the possession of a considerable 81-513t1,,.°;
ministrative ability in individuals whose es ofl'cji
been called into exercise by the circunottl3l,ic that
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concerned in the hardly less irnportan.:, colve,e;
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cessful in the latter duty P The days j;:col't'
according to the ability of the Minister. oiollhdrit
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a Parliamentary majority than in dese,rv;;-iio I,,,e'aie
dence in his ability and patriotism whit% 'Ps r 0
reposed in him. Yet it is to remedy sue'.„3,elilicii
things that the advocates of Administratl; pipe 0
raise the cry for practical men. Would succeefilli
sa
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men as their speeches aim at prove more
Parliamentary warfare than the Presel",ttorria tl
hands, whose lives have been spent in 111-oevtssoll
best means of securing their family arral3rgai.tr?:h ic
studying the various changes of popular 'evf e,ll ;tt
i'f• they did not, where would be the value°,, .:00°;fe
practical ability ? They might display eil'efet,.o‘ al
skill in all the details belonging to their ors ,P. I,
offices, but they would be powerless asYlsitiscs ciis
their total ignorance of those peculiar 1%01 vd,
the Peelites term administrative talent, -5
or
great credit to themselves for possessing ill
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lative degree.
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be transformed by some equally intliiiive,tsei °plc'
a skilful Parliamentary debater, well Pra" ositielltis.
by eloquent declamation and lucid OP7fiegforly
present system of remunerating PS bye °f;iiic't°,
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and b business i
ingenious
performed than in the discussion of
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theories,
eor es illtrhiceahn ncoatnnb eot rap
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A:I occupy the time which is usually oallst 17110pr:17'o
.;he Session, without accomplishing arlY al t-efferi6lo
abstralfy jeaut 0
when
uheehn
any useful result. If it were reallY desillaciall°t;el
amcrh.la vr isame
t. aneßr
character,
however,og iwtaz
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iountelovda change
sNf-
shouldbe effected in any of our oonlil:„.-tee 6°,•00
the legitimate mode is to move for a corala,e,:loa
subject, in order to obtain the passing Of 3 'reiolll4
upon which to found a bill; but to wave 3,f- eSelijOf
discussion,affirming an abstract proposition, by woY "
joe..a i
opinion ofthe house, on his pet subject ofDee7 &vial' ,„,7
which. he has taken up with an energy °l;netlii4 to
tion worthy of a better cause. There is s°l-.eet, a 5 0,
plausible, to superficial thinkers on the sul/.01 dolls
the facility afforded by decimals to arithrac ithe re.ej
lations, that we can hardly feel surprised at me.
oethrreaniditeeth:aepireleil::lo:3,oioeif;lll/ the
he op 0.7,
of the motion, on which the Ministers, w
ee to i
it, were beaten by a majority of nearly thr 0.0 0010
These advocates for a decimal systeM feras fa r
however advantageous the system may be, as
Joejitie
accounts are concerned, its applicabilitY ctioo
illy que, ove
tary concerns of everyday life is not o
13' t)lc
been Show, „, to ~
but has not in the slightest degree
reed ''' ille,'
the advocates of the proposal are nowt and paP3P five
way in which it should be carried , sper
the re et
are issued, ad infinitum, proclaiming' owe, to
•
merits of the unit being a penny, tenP . for
ea j rite°
pound. The question has certainly call 14
,e of the the
exercise of a little ingenuity, but noi i_c eu ~
have shown how all the common laiowleug ;rite
u„,v. 0 to
subject of money is to be unlearned, or P": are ,
, vinVV., .c,,,
women, small shopkeepers, and labourers
tiao !uti,
be indoctrinated with a system which _,I 00'
favour in the eyes of actuaries and learnoA
i oe
clans. roes° .oto
The chief ground of objection to the p it i
Act
ration, is the utter impossibility of ,,ot
operation, even by the aid of the most strinviotapc
ti-
ain the of °
of Parliament. This has been prove asl
more e
of weights and mea2ures, which are

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