The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-12 00:00:00

MARKETS FOR MANUFACTURES.

MANCIIESTEIL—We have bad an inanimate yarn market
throughout the week; and the indisposition for business on
the part of buyers has rather increased during the last two
or three days. Spinners have not reduced their quotations,
but they could not now succeed in selling, if they were to
make the attempt, without yielding say id. per lb in many
descriptions. The Greeks are scarcely at all in the market
for their descriptions, and the same may be said of the India
houses; while the home consumers are not inclined to give
further orders at the required rates. The makers of some
sorts of longcloths and T's and of various kinds of cloth for
printing and bleaching, are experiencing a steady demand
from several classes of buyers, and the value of such articles
is, therefore, fully maintained. For the better domestics an
advance of 1-16 d. per yard is attempted, but with only very
partial success. India and China fabrics are quite neglected,
and could not be sold, except at an abatement certainly of lid.
per piece; nor indeed is it probable that any such inducement
would lead to operations ; but the experiment is not yet forced
upon the manufacturers, who are generally working to order.
Altogether, goods exhibit greater firmness than yarns under
this pause, the reason for which is, they gained less (many
articles hardly a fraction) during the recent movement.—
Manchester Guardian.

LEICESTER.—The home demand continues dull for the
season, and manufacturers produce cautiously : they cannot at
present realise any advance in goods. A little more is doing
for shipping. The fancy branch for new designs is active,
and the Lisle thread branch in the glove trade is improved.
Worsted spinners have established another advance of a half-
penny per pound in yarn, and are not anxious for orders, whilst
wools fully keep their upward tendency.

GOMFERTZ'S PANORAMA OF THE WAR is still on view in the
Queen's-hall, Bold-street, where it continues to attract crowds
of admirers. The price has been lowered to enable the work.
ing classes to avail themselves of the opportunity of inspect-
ing it.
TICE SATURDAY EVENING CONCERT of this week will pre-
sent unusual attractions. The vocalists engaged for the occa-
sion are Miss Rebecca Isaacs, Mr. Abraham Braham, M.
Reylaif, and Mr. Augustus Braham. Such a constellation of
talent must prove very attractive.
LIVERPOOL GUARDIAN SOCIETY.—The annual meeting of
this society was held at the offices in Commerce-court, Lord-
street, on Thursday, John Wrenn, Esq., St. George's-crescent, ,
president, in the chair. The various officers and committee
for the present year were appointed, and several new members
were elected. The report and statement of accounts were una-
nimously adopted, and ordered to be printed and circulated
amongst the members. The transactions for the past year
were -very .satisfactory, and the financial statement showed a
surplus.of nearly £lOO over the expenditure, which is carried
to the credit of the society's funds. The annual dinner is to
be held at the Angel Hotel, on Thursday next.
Acckossxs.—On Saturday, as the labourers were pulling
down the old suite of offices in Water-street, formerly occu-
pied by Messrs. Burns and Maclver, an outside wall fell upon
one of the men, Joseph Ashcroft by name, aged 42, living in
Gascoyne-street, and he was partially buried beneath the
ruins. When taken out it was found that he had sustained a
compound fracture of the thigh, and that one of his legs was
broken. He was taken to the Northern Hospital, where
amputation was proposed, but be refused to sanction the
operation. On Sunday, though still in a precarious state, he
was reported a little better than he appeared on Saturday.
On the same day, J. P. Tattersall, railway labourer, sustained
a fractured leg by accidentally getting jammed between two
waggons,.at the Sa,ndhill-station of the Lancashire and York-
shire Railway.—Late on Saturday, J. C. Morrison, aged 22, a
soldier, while keeping guard on board the Great Britain,
which sailed on Sunday with troops, accidentally fell over-
board, and was with difficulty rescued. He was taken to the
Northern Hospital, where he remains in a precarious state.—
On the same day a young man, named Brunne, while looking
after some pigeons, fell from the roof of a house, in Harris-
street, and sustained severe contusions, which are expected to
terminate fatally. He was taken to the Northern Hospital.
PORTRAIT os Mn. LOWE, M.P.—Mr. Lowe is not a pleasing
man. He has the fatal fluency of the small barrister. His
speed in twaddle sets stenography at nought; for, though he
does not throw out his words faster than Mr. Gladstone can,
—that would'be impossible for human lips,—yet he does not
punctuate as Mr. Gladstone does. He never makes a full stop,
but slides on and on,:from sentence to sentence, with a velo-
city that startles and stupifies. Thus, he is never cheered.
And he never uses any gesture. He stands immoveable, his
head bent down, and pours out with the easy perfection of a
one-pipe fountain. He can't see the clock, for he is nearly
blind ; he is quite abstracted, and has no thought of time ;
and only that there is an arrangement with his colleagues
that his coat tails shall be pulled every hour or so, the chances
are that he would •go on for ever, or until Mrs. Lowe came
to look for him, or until Louis Napoleon had landed in Lon-
don, and had sent Bosquet for the Bauble, Read, his speeches,
though tautological and verbose, are, at least, elear ; listened
to, they vex the House, which does not like to have its col-
lective brain strained and worried in the attempt to chase the
vehement and elusive Patter-song like speaker. This was
his usual offence, on Monday and on Friday ; but he super-
added to that the fixing Wednesday, by which time the bills
could scarcely be printed, for the discussion ; and even the
Palmerston Government had to apologize, through :Sir George
Grey, on Tuesday, for this insolent haste.—Correspondent of
the Dublin Nation.
DOCK COMMITTEE.—The weekly meeting of this -committee
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was held on Thursday; Mr. C. Thirner in the chair. On the
recommendation of the sub-committee of works, the tender of
Messrs. Thomas Vernon and Son, for the construction of two
wrought-iron girder bridges at the north coal railway, for
g 3,630, was accepted ; the tender of Messrs. John and Thos.
Johnson, for supplying steam and house coal for a period of
two years, was also accepted; also that of Mr. Daniel Chad-
wick, for supplying marline, Le. On the recommendation of
the sub-committee of the marine department, a final grant of
£V.O was made to the widow of Colin Edwards, late second
master of the Crosby light-ship, and a new boat of
twenty-one feet was directed to be ordered for the
Crosby light-ship. The harbour-masters' sub-committee
recommended the payment of 20s. to William Martin,
a gateman at the Prince's Dock, for saving the life of
a woman who had fallen into the lockpit. The sub-committee
also reported the resignation of John Postlethwaite, a dock
gateman, who had been appointed piermaster at Barrow. A.
communication was read from Mr. Robert Lamont, acknow-
ledging the receipt of a note from Mr. Mason, informing him
that the harbour-masters' sub-committee would give instruc-
tions to have the shed on the south side of the Clarence Dock
whitewashed if he agreed to pay the cost. As he could not
find that other parties paid for similar work, he requested to
know what the cost would be. After some. conversation, the
secretary was directed to inform Mr. Lamont that the cost of
whitewashing the shed would be £l4. The hut lately used
by the medical inspector of emigrants was directed to be re-
moved to the end of Prince's Dock, for the use of the pilots,
on trial. The usual circulars soliciting tenders for printing
and stationery were ordered to be sent out. A note was read
from Mr. R. S. Sibbold, requesting permission to place on
the landing-stage one of his ship communicators and life
buoys. Referred to the marine committee. This concluded
the business.
DISTRESSING SErICIDE.—On Friday, an inquest was held
on the body of Mr. Robert Mather, 56 years of age, a retired
merchant, residing at No. 68, Mount-pleasant, who committed
suicide by cutting his throat. Mr. James Cooper, surgeon,
the medical attendant, gave evidence that for several years
past the deceased had been subject to periodical attacks of epi-
leptic fits, which were brought on by an injury to the head
which he received by a fall from a horse. On Tuesday last he
was attacked again, and had seven fits during the day. On
Thursday morning, when the surgeon saw the deceased, he
found him very much depressed and low-spirited, refusing to
take his food, and stating that he knew he should not live
long. Deceased intimated to his attendant that he had
taken something the night before which would have effect
in a few hours, but refused to say what he had taken. The
surgeon was quite satisfied that he was then labouring under
a delusion, that he had not taken anything, and cautioned the
family not to leave him alone, to prevent the possibility of
anything taking place. This was a little before noon on
Thursday. About a quarter-past six o'clock the same even-
ing the doctor was sent for in haste, and was informed that he
had cut his throat. On going into deceased's bedroom he
found him lying extended on the floor, with a razor firmly
grasped in his right hand, the point of which was in a wound
in the throat, which extended in depth nearly to the verte-
bram. He was quite dead, and there was a foot-pan at
his head which contained a very great quantity of blood.
Mr. Cooper had no doubt but the wound in the throat was the
cause of death, that it was inficted by the deceased himself,
and that he was out of his mind when he committed the act.
—Mr. Thomas Woollam, a cabinetmaker of Mulberry-street,
whose workshop adjoins the garden of the deceased's resi-
dence, said that a servant came to him about a quarter to six
on Thursday evening, and asked him to force open a door.
He went to the deceased's bedroom door, and found it fas-
tened on the inside. Having procured a ladder he placed it
against the bedroom window, and sent up one of his young
men to open the window. The young man went up and
partly opened the window, but was afraid to go in. Mr.
Woollam then went in through the window, and found the
deceased lying in a pool of blood on the floor. The door was
found to be bolted with what is called a night bolt. He then
gave notice to the family of the occurrence. The jury
returned a verdict that the deceased destroyed himself whilst
rncler temporary insanity.