The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-11-01 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER.--During the last three days, two additional
failures have been announced, both, we believe, in some de-
gree connected with the one to which we alluded on Friday,
and one of them of considerable magnitude—the debts being
variously stated at from £42,000 to £50,000. The other, we
believe, is of small importance. Owing to these failures, and
to the general pressure on the market, the demand for yarn
was extremely limited, and prices were not only generally
lower, but exceedingly unsteady—sales being made at the
same time at rates varying id. to md. per 1b.,. for the same
qualities and descriptions of yarns. Manufactured goods of
all kinds were also in very limited demand, and at prices a
shade lower than those of Tuesday last. In consequence of
the unfavourable appearance of the market, a meeting of the
spinners of coarse yarn, in Oldham and the neighbourhood,
was held on Monday evening, when it was resolved to work
only nine hours per day for the next six weeks. The esta-
blishments to which this resolution refers are, however, ge-
nerally of very limited extent, and the diminution of produce
cannot be reckoned at more than 40,000 weight a-week.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, OCT. 28.
We have had another dull market to-day, but little or no
change in the prices. Wool has not been much inquired af-
ter, and its price nearly stationary.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, OCT. 29.—1 f any thing, this
was a worse market than last week, there being fewer buyers
and less demand; but, although the accidental sales are not
large, it is satisfactory to know that special orders are suffi-
ciently extensive to employ the greater part of the operatives.
The manufacturers determinately keep from creating heavy
stocks, so that prices remain firmer than could be expected,
and when the demand increases, they may suddenly rise.
Wools of finer sorts are lower, while the coarser qualities re-
main pretty firm. A general dullness prevails the ware-
houses.—Manchester Guardian'

It is said that Mrs. Butler (formerly the lovely Fanny
Kemble) has a work forthcoming, but whether it is a novel,
travels, poetry, or a plump baby, we have not heard.—New
York paper.
USEFUL SUGGESTIONS TO YOUNG MEN.—In the course
of my travels, I have seen many a promising and fine young
man gradually led to dissipation, gambling, and ruin, merely
by the want of means to make a solitary evening pass plea-
santly. I earnestly advise any youth who quits that abode
of purity, peace. and delight, his paternal home, to acquire a
taste for reading and writing. At every place where he may
reside long, either in England or on the Continent, let him
study to make his apartments as attractive and comfortable
as possible; for he will find a little extraordinary expense,
so bestowed at the beginning, to be good economy at the end;
let him read the best books in the language of the place in
which he lives ; and, above all, let him never retire to rest
without writing at least a page of original comments on
what he has seen, read, and heard in the day. This habit
will teach him to observe and discriminate ; for a man ceases
to read with a desultory and wandering mind, which is utter
waste of time, when he knows that an account of all the in-
formation which he has gained must be written at night.—
rlewton's Sketches in Biography,