The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-04-05 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

The demand both for goods and yarn at Manchester, on
Tuesday, was exceedingly limited, and the market was in a
very depressed state. Very little business was done, and
that at a trifling reduction from the prices of the preceding
Tuesday. Most of the ordinary descriptions of yarn have
receded about id. per lb., and printing cloths about 3d. per
piece.

ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, APRIL I.—We have
had a brisk demand for flannels to-day, and many pieces
have been sold. Low and middling-priced goods have been
most inquired after. Though- the buyers have purchased
freely, the manufacturers have not been able to obtain any
advance in price. Wool remains steady, and prices firm.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, APRIL 2. —We have little
or no change to note this week, excepting that the demand
has not been quite so great as for some weeks past. Yet a
large quantity of goods were cleared, especially in fancy
woollens, the demand for which is greater than the supply.
Heavy woollens, both for home consumption and exporta-
tion, were in fair demand. Light fancy goods, owing to the
continued cold weather, are not in very great demand. On
the whole, a good business is doing generally, and the ware-
houses exhibit symptoms of an active trade. Wools remain
firm, some sorts inclined to advance. The mills, for the
most part, are working full time.

The new number of the Quarterly Review contains many
interesting articles ; but as usual, like Hebrew, it must be
read backwards—the most attractive subjects being placed at
the end.

NEWSPAPER SIGNATURES.—There is no doubt that our
respected relative in choosing this signature followed the es-
tablished practice—a practice which is so excellent, and
which ornaments the pages of the press with so many great
and noble names : " Leonidas" complains of a street being
obstructed by the renewal of the pavement, and with Spartan
firmness call upon the paving authorities to " abate the nui-
sance ;" " Themistocles" writes to inform the public and
" The Editor of the Times," that a certain man, " five feet
six inches, &c.," is engaged in the pleasant operation of
swindling all those who will allow him ; " Brutus" is indig-
nant at the extortion of the " conductor" of a " Bus ;"
" Cincinnatus"

id awful from the plough"
corrects an error " into which the reporter had fallen," in
reporting the coroner's inquest on the body of the man who
died, after only a week's illness, at the age of ninety-seven ;
" Veritas denies that Mr. Tomkins was drunk when Police-
man, A 93," found him seated in a kennel and hugging the
lamp-post ; " Miltiades" tells " A Story of the Last Cen-
tury ; Caesar" enters into a disquisition on the merits of a
recent improvement in the steam-engine ; and " Solon"'
forsaking the law, pours forth " Lines on a Tear !"—From
Davy Dreamy. edited by Flit.
IMPORTANT TO SINGERS.—In Monday's sitting of the
Academy of Sciences, M. Arago made a communication
respecting a new application of a process of physics to the art
of healing, the medical apparatus of condensed air contrived
by M. Tabarie. It appears that a stay of more or less dura-
tion in condensed air has a very beneficial effect upon persons
suffering from pecuniary complaints, though the manner in
which it acts upon patients is not as yet very satisfactorily
accounted for. M. Arago informed the academy that M.
Francmur, our distinguished mathematician, having, in con-
sequence of a disease of the larynx, been visited with a total
extinction of his voice, had been able to utter some words
after three sittings in M. Tabarie's apparatus, and after the
11th experiment he had wholly recovered his voice, so as not
only to speak but likewise to sing. It was of great import-
ance to make a German sing, but much more so to render the
same service to our celebrated artiste, Mademoiselle Falcon,
who will shortly be indebted to M. Tabarie's process for the
possibility of again commanding public applause. It there-
fore appears that the action of condensed air is henceforth to
be included among the efficient branches of the art of ouring.
Paris print.