The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-12-20 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER.—There were some symptoms of improve-
ment in the yarn market yesterday,—the demand for India
• and the Mediterranean continuing to be good ; and a consi-
derate extent of business was done at the full prices of the,
preceding week. Although the prices of yarn are still unre-
rnunerating to the spinners, it is gratifying to observe, as an-
indication of improvement, that, whilst every former dscline
in the price of cotton at Liverpool was attended by an imme-
diate reduction here, the recent progressive decline in the
cotton market has produced no effect on the prices of yarn,
which have continued perfectly steady, so that the condition
of the spinners has been sensibly improving; and, as stocks
of yarn are generally light, a further and more decided im-
provement is pretty generally anticipated. In the goods
market there was not much demand, and some description of
manufactures, especially domestics and 27-inch printing
cloths, continue much depressed. There was, however, no
decline in prices ; and the absence of inquiry may be in some
measure ascribed to the near approach of Christmas, when
business is usually very limited. On the whole we may say,
that the feeling in the market was more cheerful and encou-
raging than for several weeks past.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, DEC. 16.—
We have had a dull market to-day ; the quantity of goods
sold has been very limited, and the prices extremely low.
The wool 'market has been heavy, and prices the same as
last Monday.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, DEC. 17. —We are not able
to give a more favourable report of this market, if it deserves
the name ; for a more discouraging state of trade never ex-
isted. Goods certainly are sold • and, in the worst of times,
this always was the case ; but the object of trade is profit,
which is nearly extinct. Nothing is heard of but complaint
and distress, failures, and evil forebodings. Every day adds
to the number of the unemployed, and every post brings
tidings of failures and losses.—Manchexter Guardian.

Married yesterday, at St. George's, Hanover-square, the
Viscount Palmerston to the Dowager Countess Cowper,
widow of the late Earl Cowper, and only sister of Viscount
Melbourne. Immediately after the ceremony they set off for
Broadlands, his lordship's scat, in Hampshire.—Morning
Herald of Tuesday.

KINNIEL PARK, DENBIGHSHIRE.—Lord Dinorben has
invited a large party, to meet his Royal Highness the. Duke
of Sussex, who is expected on Friday evening next. Sir
Richard and Lady Bulkley, the Hon. Captain and Mrs. Row-
ley, and Pryse Pryse, Esq., M.P., are among the visitcrs
expected. Col. Hughes, M.P., brother to the noble lord, is
still suffering from severe indisposition, which confines him
to his chamber. The Duke of Sussex, it is expected, will
remain six weeks on a visit to Lord Dinorben.

CONGLETON RAILWAY.—We learn by a paragraph in a
contemporary publication, that Mr. Willirahani has got into
a dilemma with his Congleton constituents, by having ac-
knowledged at a Railway meeting, at Stoke-upon-Trent,
that it was with his knowledge and consent that the direc-
tors of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway withdrew
from their bill a clause, which rendered it compulsory on
them to make the mainline of Railway through Congleton.
By this unfortunate act of "squeezability," the exertions of
the good people of Congleton have proved totally abortive,
and their labours and anxieties have been rewarded with the
" unseemly skeleton of a viaduct."—Chesicr Courant.
ROBBERY AT ASIITON.—On Tuesday last a most extraor-
dinary robbery was committed at the Commercial Inn, Ash-
ton. A gentleman who travels for a spirit house in Liver-
pool, left his bed-room in the morning for the purpose of
paying his bill before he left, and on his return to the room
he found that his carpet-bag had been opened, and robbed of
126 sovereigns, while a consiberable sum in bank notes, and
all the other property that could be identified, were left in
the place. Suspicion has fallen upon an individual who had
been in the house a day or two, and the police have been in
search of him, but hitherto without effect,—Sheffield
Patriot.

AN " OFFICE-PROOF " ADMINISTRATION.—The only
qualification necessary in a minister is, according to the Globe,
an attachment to office which no unpleasantness can disgust,
and no difficulty alarm. The fitness for office depends solely
upon the pluck to stick to it, through all weathers
.and at
every risk. In short, the man must be, in the appropriate
language of the Globe on Saturday, "office-proof;" which
it rejoices to have found out that Sir Robert Peel is not ; and
certainly when it relicts how vei y different a man its patron,
Lord Palmerston, is in this respect, no wonder that the con-
trast fills it with exultation and hope. My lord is no man
to be guilty of the weakness of imagining that the post of
honour can, by any any ossibility, be a private station. No
personal degradation, no public ridicule, will drive him from
the agreeable service of the state,. Not only would he turn
his coat,* but like Paddy from Cork, button it behind,
rather than fling off the livery of place. Office-proof; why
he is a very salamander. The fire-king, who would go into
the oven and be cooked wtth his steak rather than go with-
out his dinner, was a fool to him in endurance and voracity.
The Globe did well to attach itself to the fortunes of such a
patron for his clients need fear no reverse from his relinquish-
ing the power to gratify them, except absolutely compelled.
Persons like Sir Robert Peel, on the contrary, are so particu-
lar that they will not consent to govern without the means of
governing well, and will not sacrfice their sense of honor and
duty to the triumph or the selfishness of a party, and much
less to the consideration of gain. Such persons are not
worthy of a Whig-radical press. Rather, they deserve its
severest reprobation for setting an exampie which it must
deem both offensive and mischievous, as impugning the new
and' beautiful theory of an " office-proof" administration.
The anger of the Globe against Sir Robert is now perfectly
intelligible.
* `.l Had turn'd his coat, and would have turn'd his skin."--
-Morning Herald. LORD BYRON.