The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-09-24 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

LEEDS.—The general aspect of the markets since our last
exhibits a trifling improvement upon what has been indicated
by our recent reports, but the aggregate amount of the
sales has not received any material augmentation. Indeed,
the quantity of business doing is considered small for the
season, but late prices are fully sustained.—Leeds hztel-
ligencer.

BRADFORD MARKET.—The market here on Thursday,
was duller than it has been for some weeks past, probably
occasioned in great part by the recent unfavourable intelli-
gence regarding the United States Bauk Bills. The sales of
manufactured goods were very limited, and little was done in
yarn, though former prices continued firm. There was a
good demand for short wool at previous rates, but the sales
of long wool were by no means extensive, and the prices were
scarcely maintained. —/bid.

WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, SEPT. 20.—We have this
week to report a very limited demand for all kinds of deep
combing wools, but the lightness of stocks prevent any vari-
ation in prices. Blankets and clothing wools continue in
fair demand, without any alteration for some time past.—
Ibid.

HECRMONDWIKE.—There continues to be a good attend-
ance of merchants at the Blanketnall ; more business would
be done, but for the unsettled State of. the Aveather,'Which
prevents goods being finished with the usual despatch : this
causes prices to keep up, although they are not in proportion
to the price of wool, which invariably advances more than the
manufactured article.

For East India indigo an advance of 2d. to 3d. per lb. ; for
the Bth October 3,800 chests are declared ; 406 serous
Guatemala at public sale found buyers, common qualities
brought former rates, but the better kinds went 3d. per lb.
higher: F— fetched 7s. 6d. ; low to fine Sombres ss. 6d.
to 7s. 4d. ; ordinary to good Cortes 4s. to ss. 10d. ; and low
and clean 3s. to 3s. 10d. per lb.—lbid.
SADDLEWORTH.—In this parish there are 39 firms con-
nected with the cotton trade ; the machinery belonging to
all of them is generally in full operation, the hands being
fully employed. The cotton trade has improved very much,
but the woollen cloth trade is worse than it was a few days
since. There are 57 firms connected with the manufacture
of woollen cloth. Gloomy accounts have this week arrived
from America, and the.late seizure of woollen goods there
has greatly injured the: trade here, so that hands on an aver-
age have not more than half employment, yet goods for home
consumption are in moderate request.—lbid.
TODMORDEN.—The machinery in all the cotton mills is in
full operation, but wages are by no means so good as they
are in the neighbouring towns; the operatives, however, ap-
pear in moderately good circumstanees.—lbid.
OLDHAM.--In this borough there are 96 cotton mills, two
of which are unoccupied, but the machinery to all the rest,
with three exceptions, is in full operation, and the wages are
as good as any other town in Lancashire.—lbid.

THE PAUPER.—In that house he slept ; and in thathouse,
if the parish of Gullumbury succeed, he will die. He is a
pauper par excellence--a picked man of his class in the never-
knew-any-other-condition ; he had no knowledge, no means
to avoid his fate. Born in a workhouse, he knew no other
home : he never knew a parent. He had known no love ;he
was scarcely conscious that he had children, for that was a
matter all between his wife and the matron. He was first
swaddled in the regulation baby-linen ; he was brought up
by hand on regulation gruel, end anti-regulation gin, admi-
nistered by a superannuated, drunken, snoring old nurse.
He had received a regulation education, which he had forgot-
ten. He married for regulation—morality's sake. He ate
regulation food,.and had, by habit, acquired a dietary appetite
and a dietary stomach. He slept in regulation sheets ; he
went to. chapel in his turn for regulation piety. He left his
wife to be provided for by the regulations. He helped to
make the regulation coffins, in one of which he was to be
carried.from the dead-house, at a trot, to the ?egulation
grave, and to have a brief regulation service over his unla-
mented corpse. He was an involuntary stoic—a man without
a motive. His affairs--his affairs. What affairs had he ?
Himself, we would say himself, he left to be disposed of by
the parish authorities. He had no voice in the matter. His
vicissitudes were, to get some work, when the workhouse
master told him that he was unlucky, not to say vicious, but
he was no banger hurried or teased ; to be tent from one
parish to another, wgich he did not care for; and to appear
before the score of comfortable gentlemen who had taken the
place of the as comfortable overseers at the board.—Thornton
Leigh Hunt, in the Heads of the People.

VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING.
(SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.)

EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, &C.
Fortfield, W Younghusband 285 Singapore, W& J Tyrer
Argyra, D Reed sog Cape Good Hope, H Smith or Huges Be Co

MONDAY EVENING

There has been sine Friday a moderate business transacted,
without change in prices; the sales on Saturday were 2500 bales of
all kinds; 500 American for exportation : to-day, 3500 bales sold,
including 150 Pernam mad to iold, 200 Surat sid to 6d, Maranham
10d to 104 d, Laquira, 9i, and Americans 64d to 94d.