The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-05-14 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

LEEDS.—We have nothing new to report regarding the as-
pect of the woollen trade at Leeds, except that the complaints
of the dullness of the markets have increased. On Tuesday,
there was a very fiat demand for balk cloths in the halls, but
still the manufactories and dressing shops are working full
time. The wool market is firmer, and there is no doubt that
trade would be much more buoyant but for the pressure on
the money market.
BRADFORD MARKET.—We had an average demand for
manufactured goods at our market on Thursday, and in some
descriptions more extensive sales were effected. The Yarn
market was rather dull, and prices by no means encouraging.
In the Wool market there was less business done, and in some
instances a slight depreciation of price was submitted to. Ge-
nerally, however, the staplers held firmly, as there is no
reason to expect a material decline in the value of wool.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, MAY 10.—We have again
to report an exceedingly dull market for all wools, and the
tendency of prices is still rather downwards. The generality
of holders are, nowever, indisposed to give way much in
price, so long as the consumption continues undiminished,
and the growers remain so firm.
HECKMONDWIKE.—Very little business has been done in
the Blanket Hall for the last two or three weeks, the manu-
facturers not being able to sell at reduced prices, owing to the
steady price of wool.
YORK WOOL MARKET, MAY 9.—The first market for this
season commenced to-day. There was a large quantity of
Wool in, (new and old,) but an unusually small number of
buyers. Few, if any sales were effected, for which reason
prices cannot be quoted.
BARNSLEY LINEN TRADE.—We are sorry to state that
the linen trade of this town is not quite so good as it has been,
and many hands are at present out of employment.

M. Paer, the musical composer, died in Paris on Saturday
last.

The Earl of Uxbridge was appointed lord chamberlain on
Tuesday ; his lordship resigned the following day, but does
not escape the necessary fees on taking office. Very pleasant,
but as the Irishman remarked, " think of the honour."
A GREEDY Fox.—Throughout the whole of last winter,
and during this spring, the farm-yards in Underskiddaw and
neighbourhood have been nightly plundered of every species
of poultry they contained. Turkeys, geese, hens, and ducks
were carried off invisibly by wholesale, and no one was able
to discover the extensive plunderer until Friday last, when
he was ascertained to be a remarkably large dog fox. Rey-
nard, it appears, had gone upon his marauding visits once
too often. He had taken up his quarters in a noted beild, a
little above Applethwaite, near the foot of the majestic
Skiddaw, which was a very convenient habitation for the
scenes of his destructive excursions, and on Thursday night
made his last gormandizing sally. On Friday morning Rey-
nard was watched by a noted sportsman of the right sort,
residing at Applethwaite, near Keswick, who, after consider-
able exertion, discovered the mansion of this extensive de-
stroyer of the feathered tribe, and the bones, &c., which lay
strewn around bore ample testimony to the extent of his
depredations. The wily animal had been somewhat fanciful
in his taste, and, after becoming tired of the different kinds
of poultry on which he so sumptuously fared, would now
and then help himself to a lamb or two by way of change,
and in this fashion appeared to be ekeing out a really com-
fortable life ; but, as the sequel shows, he had so long and
so inordinately indulged upon dainties, that he had lost all
measurement of his stomach, for, on the sportsman gaining
access to the interior of his stronghold, the very singular
circumstance presented itself we have now to it late. The
animal, which had been in the act of devouring a tine turkey,
stolen the previous night from a neighbouring farm-yard,
was found quite dead, and his decease was evidently caused
by his gormandizing prdpensities, having eaten until he had
any blint I—Ckrftie Po4riei.