The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-09-04 00:00:00

MARKETS FOR MANUFACTURES.

ALINCRESTER.—The favourable change in the weather has
had the effect of improving the tone of this market, which
was previously rather inclined to give way under the adverse
influences of rain and rising grain markets. There has been
a steady demand for India yarns throughout the week, at very
full prices • indeed, an advance of about id per lb. may be
quoted. ixtra hard twist for the Mediterranean has been
much inquired for ; and, under this demand, an advance of
id per lb. has been obtained during the last ten days ; and at
the full prices orders for delivery extending over more than a
month have been given out. The German houses have not
been much in the market, but the operations for home use
have been pretty general, and far from inconsiderable.
In cloth there is not much doing generally, but for particular
descriptions a very fair demand has been experienced. Low
printers are very good to sell, and very full prices are held for.
The same remarks will apply to light T cloths, and other
fabrics of a similar description. India shirtings continue
very firm in price ; but the supposition that these and other
light goods for export to the East would shortly be in excess
again, in consequence of the supposed intention to work full
time at Blackburn, had the effect of rendering buyers cautious
in their operations, and less inclined to give full quotations,
from which, on the other hand, producers were in no way
inclined to recede. T cloths, long cloths, and domestics of the
medium and heavier makes, are not in great demand, though
firm in price.—Manchester Courier.
ROCHDALE.—No change in the flannel market. Prices
have been steady, and most of the manufacturers are yet
working to order. There is a steady demand for wool, but no
change in price.
HIIDDERSFIELD.—There has been about the usual amount
of business transacted in the warehouses. Prices in wools and
manufactured goods are about the same.
• LEEDS.—With the return of fine weather, and the improved
prospects of an abundant harvest, our cloth markets have im-
proved, and more than an average business was transacted at
the Cloth Halls. No alteration in prices, and the mills con-
tinue in full operation. Business has been active for the
home trade in the warehouses, and some few orders have been
given out for the spring for shipping.
BRA.DFORD.—WOOI: A fair demand for all kinds of comb-
ing wools, which are held firmly for late prices. Noils and
brokes continue in good request.—Yarns : The prices de-
manded for wools make the spinners' position profitless ; and
the inclination for yarns is an upward one.—Pieces : The
contracts made some months ago are now running out, and
cannot be replaced, except at higher prices. The promising
weather and the successful season in the United States pro-
mise well ; as both here and there the stocks are reported to
be cleared but, which is encouraging for the future.
NOTTINGHAM.—The accounts we have on all hands of the
condition of commerce, as regards both hosiery and lace in
this town,'are anything but flattering. Hopes, however, are
reasonably entertained that we shall speedily have a better
demand for all branches of goods in each trade, as our own
autumnal demand will shortly commence, and American or-
ders for the coming spring may now soon be looked for, as
well as orders from other foreign countries. Prices of yarns
and silks for each business are firm.
LEICESTER.—Very little change in business since last
report. Government orders find enough employment to meet
the deficiency in the state of the home trade. The glove
branch is improved. The fancy trade is active. Spinners are
fully engaged in orders, and wool continues firmer.

LATEST NEWS.

THE WAR•

llrhasErLLEs, September 1.
The Thabor, which left Constantinople on the 23rd
of August, has arrived.
The advices from the Crimea are to the 21st of
August.
Despatches leave at 9 a.m.
The Caffarelli frigate has arrived, with invalids,
from the Crimea.
The steamer Armenian leaves with troops.

THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.

WAR DEPARTMENT, Sept. 1.

Lord Panmure has received the following tele-
graphic despatch from General Simpson, dated the
Crimea, August 31 :---
The enemy made a sortie last night upon our
adrance in on pf the Redan, and destroyed some
gabions. ,
-----

The new Ottoma Ambassador to the Court of the
Tuileries, Mehemed Bey, made the following speech
on his presentation to the Emperor :•--
"Sire,-Charged by His Imperial Majesty the Sultan, my
august master, with the mission of drawing still closes the

The fire which opened at daybreak on Friday continued
the whole of Saturday and yesterday, but was slackened this
morning by order. I should not wonder if it were to be
again increased to-night in order to favour the progress of the
French works. This has already been considerable, and the
French seem duly sensible of the service our cannonade has
rendered them. It has enabled them, I heard a French officer
say on Saturday evening, to do in four hours what they pre-
viously could not have done in 15 days. I believe that the three
days' fire has enabled them to do what they otherwise would
probably never have done. Their foremost parallel,
which had been begun at the two ends, could not
be completed, owing to its near proximity to the
Malakhoff. As soon as a gabion was put up a storm of pro-
jectiles was hurled against it and the working party. This
difficulty has now been surmounted, and the extremities are
connected. I understand that good progress was made last
night, and that they are enlarging the trench so as to admit
of its containing more men. Opinions are divided as to the
plan of attack that will be observed. Some think that with-
out pushing their works beyond the point at which they have
now arrived, the French will give the assault; and a report is
prevalent in our camp that a British division (the Light, it is
rumoured) will share with them the peril and honour. Others
suppose that they will sap up to the Malakhoff itself, blow up
the parapet, and assault amid the confusion consequent on
the explosion. All this is mere conjecture. As far as I have
had opportunity of observing, I think the French incline to
the latter plan. On the other hand, the distance is now so
greatly reduced—is, indeed, so very short—between the
French trenches and the Russian defences, that a vigorous
assault ought to succeed, unless, indeed, the more des-
ponding anticipations that I have heard indulged in,
as to the impregnability of the internal defences of
the Malakhoff, should be even more than realised. At
the same time we must not be misled as to the pro-
bable amount of resistance by the fact that, since the
first day of the bombardment, the Russian fire from the Ma-
lakhoff, and, indeed, from all parts of their line, has been
weak, as if their guns had been silenced by ours, and that the
works appear to have suffered considerable damage. Mute
though the Malakhoff may be, it would not be surprising if,
were we to assault today, our storming parties should find
that every gun could still speak loud enough. The dearly-
bought experience of the 18th of June must not be thrown
away. On the other hand, our fire has been both severe and
well-directed. That of the French has been partial, and
much less strong; and this has excited a good deal of com-
ment and conjecture, some saying that there has been a mis-
understanding, and that the French did not know they were
expected to back us with their batteries. It is improbable,
however, that there has been any mistake. Persons there
may be—perhaps themselves too hasty and impetuous—dis-
posed to tax General Simpson with over-great deliberation;
but he is generally admitted to be a safe man, not likely to
fall into misunderstandings, and one who would be quite sure
of wfiat was to be done before attempting to do it. He cer-
tainly keeps his own counsel extremely well, and nothing has
transpired of the plan which, it is presumed, he has for serious
operations at a very early date.
For hours together, the Russian fire has been very slack, an
occasional shot here and there. They seem to consider it a
point of honour to go off in great style on the first day, after
which they run their guns behind the parapets, cover them
with sand-bags, and allow us to blaze away with little reply.
There are reports that their men fight very unwillingly, and
that there is great difficulty in getting them forward. This
did not appear to be the case with• those who fought the other
1 day at the Tchernaya, but they were double primed with
brandy, and moreover comprised divisions that had just arrived.
Many of the battalions who attacked that day had not been
into Sebastopol at all. So at least we learn from the prisoners.
Some of the prisoners taken at the Tchernaya are said to have
inquired what had been the result of the attack on our
trenches, and, on hearing that none had been made, to have
expressed their surprise, as one had been intended simul-
taneously with that upon our right on the 16th inst. It
is believed or supposed, that the unwillingness of the
troops prevented the intended co-operation to be afforded
in the shape of a sortie against our right and left
attack. All these conjectures, suppositions, and beliefs,
must be taken for what they may be worth, which is
often little enough. To return, however, to our own loss
in the three days' bombardment. The information I have ob-
tained convinces me that it does not exceed 200, or, at most,
250 men hors de combat beyond the usual average daily loss
in the trenches. As regards the enemy, we may reasonably
hope, although we do not too confidenely reckon, that we
have punished him pretty severely. Although earthworks
take a deal of hammering before they show its marks, both
the Redan and Malakoff have a very battered appearance.
We have of course no means of ascertaining the Russian loss
of men. It is believed they sustained a very considerable
one on Saturday night. Their fire became extremely brisk on
that evening. The night was dark, and the only light save
that of the burning fuses which crossed each other in curves
against the black sky, and that of the flashes from the
rifles proceeded from some carcases which the French threw
from time to time in order to see what they were about. The
Russians were numerous in the Redan, intending a sortie,
and I believe some of them did venture out, but they were
received with such volleys from the Quarries that they
quickly retired, and then our batteries threw into the Redan
a shower of shells, which must have had a murderous effect
among the throng of Muscovites. The affair was brief ; the
volleys of musketry were very sharp indeed, and were taken
up, more or less, along the whole line. There was also ex-
tremely heavy firing on the left. Altogether the evening was
an exciting one, and the consumption of ammunition must
have been considerable.

understand that the Russians have been observed moving
about the heights beyond the valley of the Tchernaya, and it
would not be surprising if another attempt were to be made
ere long. They will find us all prepared—the English army
full of fight, the French and Sardinians elated with their
recent triumph, and the last animated with that additional
confidence which the consciousness of having behaved gal-
lantly and proved themselves worthy of their allies cannot fail
to give them. The whole of the French Imperial Guard,
which was away to the left, where it was of no nse, was yes-
terday marched over to this plateau, and encamped beyond
the French semaphore, and all along the slightly-elevated
ridge that overlooks the valley of the Tchernaya. Ido not
know the numerical strength of either the infantry or
artillery of the Guard, but they form a very large body of
men, and fine-looking soldiers they are.
A cargo of ice has arrived for the hospitals, and ten tons are
to be brought up for each division of the army. The Sinioom
has arrived with 420, and the Barrackpore with 300, of the
Army Working Coips. These 720 men form the bulk of the
corps, and will immediately proceed to work under the direc-
tion of the chief superintendent Doyne. They are to repair
the railway (" re-make" would be a suitable word as regards
a great part of it,) and make a road from head-quarters to
Balaklava. Sir Harry Jones has also ordered that they
should take the direction of the supply of water for the camp.
Writing on the 21st, the same correspondent says :

Yesterday afternoon, between 5 and 6 o'clock, the whole of
the French batteries on the left suddenly oponed a furious fire,
to which the Russians warmly replied. General Pelissier, in
his open carriage, with his aides-de-camp and usual Hussar
escort, passed through the English camp and went up to
Cathcart's-bill. The fire lasted until nightfall, and then
diminished. During the night there was not much firing.
At midnight it had almost ceased, and one saw but an occa-
sional shell in the air. At 2 a.m. orders came for our army to
turn out. This was rapidly done; the troops moved to the
front, to their usual positions in such case, and remained there
until daylight. It is now very early in the morning, and I
have not yet been able to ascertain the motives of the alerte.
It appears, however, that the French turned out before we
had orders tto do so, and that then a line of telegraphic lights
was abseryeil in the Russian positions, commencing at Sebas-
topol 4,44 running along the Inkermann heights. It is said
that the French got under arms in consequence of observing a
Russian force in motion on the heights in question.
Various rumours are abroad as to its object. From the
present aspect of affairs, and notably from the change
of place of the Imperial Guard, it seems probable that the
French will operate particularly on the Tchernaya line, where
they the other day achieved so brilliant a success, and that the

ST. PETERSBURG, Thursday.
Prince Gortschakoff writes from Sebastopol on the 30th
ult., at 11 a.m.:—On the night between the 28th and 29th we
blew up a large quantity of the enemy's projectiles in the old
Kamschatka Lunette. The fire of the Allies is moderated in
great part, but is strong at times.

. PARTS, Monday.
The Moniteur announces that the following telegraphic
despatch has been received from General Pelissier :—" Crimea,
Aug. 31.—A1l goes on well. Everything advances. We are
making progress."

MARSEILLES.
The Euphrate, which left Constantinople August 27th, has•
arrived. Advices from the Crimea are to the 25th of August.
Despatches leave at 9 a.m.
Troops are embarking.
The Carmel is leaving for Constantinople.
The Austrian squadron has left Toulon.