The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-05 00:00:00

MARKETS FOR MANUFACTURE.

MANCHESTER.—The market continued to exhibit a gradual
but constant improvement at the beginning of the week. A
better feeling was manifested, larger purchases were made,
and prices showed a steady advance. On Tuesday the demand
was more general, and rates that were not easily obtainable
last week were then readily paid. The transactions of the
day, though not to be called extensive, were far from incon-
siderable. Since Tuesday the same healthy tone has been
maintained, and attended by a development of a greater degree
of animation. The upward turn of the Liverpool cotton
market has imparted a degree of firmness here, and yarns
especially have attained a decidedly higher range—the extent
of the advance being, in all cases, a full I,d. per lb., and, in a
majority of instances, fully id. per lb. more has been attained.
Goods are also, in most instances, quoted per piece higher,
and in the absence of stocks of all descriptions, this is paid,
and for some sorts which are scarce a slightly higher charge
has been demanded and obtained. Still there is not the same
general improvement here as in yarns, whilst the advance in
the latter has placed many manufacturers in a somewhat more
unfavourable position.—Manchester Courier.
ROCHDALE.—WooI: Manufacturers are not disposed to
purchase at present large quantities ; and therefore business
is confined to immediate wants. Flannel: Large manufac-
turers are not desirous of taking large orders at this season,
owing to the fluctuations in the value of wool. Trade in home-
made goods is very healthy, all things considered. Yorkshire
goods have been very flat, and profits are cut down to a
minimum. The upward tendency in the raw material cripples
many.
BRADFORD.—WooI : There has been great activity among
the dealers in the country, and at prices beyond what can be
realised here. The spinners pause at such rates, and the
difficulty they find to cover cost, discourages them from keep-
ing pace with the high prices now demanded.—Yarns : There
is a fair amount of business doing. Old orders are fast
running out, and where such are required to be replaced, they
can only be done at an advance, and with no disposition in the
present uneasy state of the wool market to sell for lengthened
delivery.—Pieces : As no new engagements can be entered ,
upon, except at an advance, the business effected is under the
usual amount, and, the establishment of prices more nearly
approximating the cost, is only a work of time.
LEEDS.—At our Cloth-halls on Tuesday there was much
less business done, but some rather large deliveries of goods
having taken place during the week, the qiiantity passed to
accounts has been a full average. Prices are firm, with rather
a tendency upwards ; and the stocks remaining low in the
clothiers' hands, the mills in consequence continue in full
activity. There is quite as much doing in the warehouses as
is usual at this season.
NOTTINGHAM.—Lace : We have had an improved feeling
in our market this week. We believe the American season is
opening very favourably, and that there will be a scarcity of
many goods in that market.—Hosiery : The demand for the
home trade continues fair, and for all classes of goods stocks
are very low, and prices tending upwards. Yarns are very
firm, and spinners are looking for higher rates.—Nottingham
Journal.
LEICESTER.—There is a great want of employment expe-
rienced here in all ordinary branches of manufacture, and this
is rather increased from the tendency to rise in the wool
markets. This again induces great caution amongst manu-
facturers, who fear that even present prices may not be long
maintained, and that even if they be, there is but little chance
of remuneration for investments in manufactured goods.

COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL.—The schooner Lewtas, from
Newry to this port, was run into on Friday night, (which was
very dark,) to the west of the Northwest Lightship, by the
schooner Ann, which had sailed hence in the afternoon. The
former lost her foremast, and had her port bow stove in; and
the latter lost jib-boom, cutwater, &c. Both vessels got back
to port on Saturday.
LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.—The eighth
ordinary meeting of this society was held last night, at the
Royal Institution, in Colquitt-street ; M'Andrew, Esq., the
president, in the chair. Messrs. John Cunningham, Henry
Duckworth, and William V. Bird, were elected ordinary
members of the society. Mr. T. C. Archer exhibited a stick
of a peculiar quality, part of a plant grown in India ; and also
a helmet of a picturesque form, and nearly white, manufac-
tured from the fibrous material of the same plant, which, he
suggested, might form a valuable material for our manufac-
tures, particularly that of paper. Mr. Wm. Hine read the
first part of an elaborately-written paper, entitled " A Plea
for the Emperor Tiberius," and, at the conclusion, was re-
warded with a vote of thanks, after which the meeting
broke up.
THE LIVERPOOL TOWN MISSION.—The twenty-seventh an-
niversary meeting of this mission was held in Hope-hall, on
Tuesday. A large number was present, but the ball was not
filled. Mr. John Cropper occupied the chair. The annual
report stated that during the past year 61,979 visits had been
paid to the dwellings of the poor; 11,865 visits to the sick;
and 369 persons had been visited on the death-bed, The in-
door meetings had numbered 3,252. No less than 142,726
tracts had been distributed. Evening schools for adults had
been opened, in addition to those for children, and had been
well supported. The report enumerated several instances of
successful efforts in softening the hard hearts of ignorant, pre-
judiced sinners, and gave encouragement for extended efforts.
Mr. Houghton, the treasurer, read the financial statement for
the past year, from which it appeared that the expenditure had
exceeded the income by £77 Os. 2d.; but as there was a balance
from the previous year, the sum of £156 4s. 7d. remained to
the credit of the mission. The meeting was then addressed
by the Revs. W. M. Falloon, Joseph Taylor, J. B. Lowe, &e.

LATES

NEWS.

INDIA.

We have intelligence from Calcutta of the 22nd, Hongkong
of the 16th of December.

The Times' correspondent, writing from Calcutta on the
22nd December, says : _ _ _

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The fortnight has passed almost without incident. The
only important event is the introduction of bills for the
punishment and future government of the Santals into the
Legislative Council.
The rebellion itself seems again to be dying out. The
troops find the Santals in their villages, and are met with
professions of goodwill and offers of assistance.
The Governor-General has recently taken a remarkable step
in advance. He has addressed a circular to the five govern-
ments and the commissioners of independent provinces,
requiring them to prepare an annual report on the territories
under their administration. Each of these reports is to
resemble a President's message, to contain the history of the
presidency or province for the year. It will detail the im-
provements in legislation, police, education, public works, and
all other departments, after the fashion of the report which
Lord Elgin, some months since, presented for Canada. Those
reports are to be immediately published in India and forwarded
to England. They will form, in the course of years, a complete
index to the history of British India. Meanwhile they will
show the government at home how we are getting on, enable
them to estimate the Indian rate of progress, and, above all,
permit them to decide on the results of the different systems
in force.
I am informed that Lord Dalhousie will leave India
positively on the sth or 6th of March. Lord Canning is
expected in Calcutta on the 26th of February, and will for a
few days remain a guest at Government-house.