The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-04-30 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

LEEDS.—Very little alteration has taken place in the
woollen trade of this district during the week. The markets
have been quite as dull as for some weeks previously ; still
all the manufactories are kept going the usual time, and we
hear of no want of work. We believe there has been a fair
demand for domestic consumption. •
BRADFORD MARKET.—The demand for goods on Thurs-
day was about an average one, and former rates were main-
tained. In the yarn market there was a fair business done
on previous terms ; but the wool market was less animated.
Indeed, there seems an indisposition to purchase largely
until the character of the new clip has been ascertained ; yet
the staplers give out that ere long the prices will be aug-
mented, and that there will be a brisk demand.
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WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, APRIL 26.—The state of
our market still continues heavy upon the whole, but some
holders having submitted to a trifling reduction in the price
of long wool, there has been more business done in this arti-
cle than for some previous weeks. There is no variation in
short wool.

LEICESTER.—The demand for goods for the home trade
continues very dull. The glove trade irbrisk. Some of the
worsted mills are running short time. Fleece wool is firm,
particularly in low short wools ; skin combing is offering
more firmly, and a shade lower ; farmers' parcels vary from
375. to 40s.

OLDHAM.—The hatting trade was never known to be so
brisk ; masters cannot get hands sufficient to meet their de-
mands. Several who have not been employed in the hatting
trade for the last fifteen or twenty years have commenced
working in that trade. The trade in cotton mills is rather
dull, especially where they spin for export.
SILK TRADE.—The silk trade is very brisk indeed; hands
have full employment of almost all description of work.

EXPENSES OF. THE ECCLESIASTICAL ESTABLISH-
MENT IN THE COLONIES.

We think it right to lay before our readers the folliowng do-
cument, moved for in the House of Commons by Lord Ashley
in the last session, which has recently been laid before the
house and printed.—Return of the expenses of the establish-
ment of the Church of England, and other religious deno-
minations, maintained by the grant of the public money, in
each of the colonies :

Gibraltar.—Church of England, £745 7s. 4d.; Church of
Rome, £3OO.
Malta.—Church of England, £826 17s. 6d.
lonian Islands.—Church of England, £685; Church of
Rome, £9l.

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Sierra Leone.—Church of England, J.:too.
Cape of Good Hope.—Church of England, £2313 15s. ;
Dutch Church, £5547 2s. 2d. ; Church of Scotland, £2OO ;
Wesleyan minister, £75 ; Church of Rome, £2OO.
Mauritius.---Church of England, £1373 12s. ; Church of
Rome, £l6ob.
Diocese of Quebec, Lower Canada.—Church of England,
£4507 15s. sd. ; Church of Scotland; £2OO ; Church of
Rome, £2OOO.
Upper Canada.—Church of England, £7474 15s. 10d. ;
Church of Scotland, £1482 ; United Synod of Upper Canada,
£836 6s. 8. ; Church of Rome, £l6OO.

Diocese of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia,-Church of Eng-
land, 6274 ss. 7d. ; Church of Scotland, £75.
New Brunswick.-Church of England, £541 Bs. 4d. ;
Church of Scotland, £5O ; Church of Rome, £5O.
Prince Edward's Island.-Church of England, £165.
Newfoundland.-Church of England, £392 17s. 2d. ;
Church of Rome, £75.
Bermuda.-Church of England, £lBl5 2s. Bd. ; Church
of Scotland, £66 13s. 4d.
Diocese of Jamaica, Jamaica.-Church of England, £36,610 ;
Church of Scotland, £683 6s. Bd. ; Wesleyan chapel, £5OO ;
Baptist chapel £6OO ; Church of Rome, £550 ; Jew's syna-
gogue, £lOOO.
Bahamas.-Church of England, £2017 16s. 6d. ; Church
of Scotland, £7OO.
Diocese of Barbadoes, Barbadoes.-Church of England,
£10,866 13s. 4d.
Grenada.-Church of England, £1785 13s. 3d.
St. Vincent.-Church of England, 1736 Is. Bd.
Dominica.-Church of England, £467 15s.
Antigua.-Church of England, £4342.
Monserrat.-Church of England, £660.
St. Christopher.-Church of England, £lBBO 17s. 6d.
Nevis.-Church of England, £ll3.
Tortola and the Virgin Island.-Church of England £250.
Trinidad.-Church of England, £lB5l 10s. 10d. ; Church
of Rome, £3262.
Tobago.-Church of England, £713.
St. Lucia.-Church of England, £427 15s.
British Guiana, District of Demerara and Essequibo.-
Church of England, I:12,11315s. ; Dutch Church, £58514s 4d;
Church of Scotland, £3029 ; Church of Rome, £1370 ss. Bd.
British Guiana, District Berbice.-Church of England,
£7290 19. ; Church of Scotland, £1745; Church of Rome,
£540 ss. Bd.

Honduras.—Church of England, £922 Os. sd.

Diocese of Australia, New gouth'WaleiLCllrch of Eng-
land, £8526 75.; Church of Scotland, £700; Church of
Rome, £lB3O.
Van Dieman's Land.—Church of England, £4978 4s. ;
Church of Scotland, £4OO ; Church of Rome, £3OO.
Western Australia.—Church of England, £3OO.
South Australia.—Church of England, £250.
Diocese of Calcutta, Ceylon.---Church of England,
£7349115. ; Dutch Church, £483 Ss.
St. Helena.—Church of England, £946 10.

James Heywood, a public-housekeeper, at Bury, has been
committed to Kirkdale prison, charged with the murder of
his wife, whom he brutally kicked and beat to death.
THE PENNY POSTAGE QUESTION.—The revenue of the
Post-office is better by £28,257 for the year ending sth April,
1839, than it was in the year preceding. It is remarkable,
however, that £23,000 of this increase occurred within the
last quarter of the year, owing probably very much to the
correspondence occasioned within that period by the large
importation of foreign grain. Besides the net revenue of the
Post-office, for the year ended the sth of April-inst., sup-
posing the published abstract to be accurate, shows a defici-
ency of upwards of £lOO,OOO when compared with the year
ending sth April, 1837. Thus, Net revenue, year ending sth
April; -1837 (see-Report, p 11), £1,657,479; ditto, sth April,
1839 (as now published), £3,548,000. Deficiency of 1836,
£310,479. And it is £9OOO less than it was twenty-four
years ago. But the general finances of the country exhibit a
most promising aspect ; and there is a gross increase in the
year of £2,132,866, the present is certainly a most convenient
season for pressing the question of an uniform penny postage,
with persevering energy, upon the immediate attention of her
Majesty's Chancellor of the Exchequer.—Morning Chronicle.
LAUGHABLE AFFAIR—A CAUTION TO MATRIMONIAL
AD VENTURERS.—For some hours on the afternoon of Thurs-
day last, the peaceful village of Harrow-on-the-Hill was the
scene of the greatest excitement, in consequence of the out-
rageous proceedings of the scholars at the celebrated seat of
learning in that village. It appears that a gentleman residing
in that neighbourhood, being tiredof alife of " single blessed-
ness," resolved upon advertising for a partner in one of the
London papers. The advertisement having attracted the ob-
servation of some of the wags of the school, they determined
on playing the discontented swain a hoax, and accordingly
directed a letter to the Post-office, in answer to the advertise-
ment, making an appointment for the purpose of an interview
at three o'clock on Thursday afternoon. At the hour- ap-
pointed, the concoctors of the scheme proceeded to the spot,
followed by a large party of the other boys, who remained in
ambush, not to alarm the gentleman, who was punctual to
the appointment. After he had remained there for some

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time, the prime movers in the affair began, as they passed,
taunting him at her tardiness, when at last, suspecting the
trick, he began beating a retreat. The other boys followed,
hooting him all the way, until he took shelter in a plumber's
shop. The boys instantly surrounded the house, and threat-
ened to break the windows unless he was turned out, which
the shopkeeper was ultimately compelled to do. The gentle-
man then took to his heels in the direction of the King's
Head inn, followed by the boys and others of a larger
growth, making a crowd of about 500 persons, pelting him
with eggs, and knocking his hat over his eyes, so that by
the time he entered the inn, he was in a most pitiable plight,
his coat having been literally torn from his back. Mr. Beas-
ley, the landlord, by way of a ruse, sent a post-chaise to the
front door, round which the mob instantly congregated ; but
after waiting about half an hour, they ascertained that the
object of their search had made his escape from the rear of
the premises. " Hark forward !" was immediately the cry,
and after the whole assemblage had crossed several fields,
they eventually ran down their game at the farm of a Mr.
Clayton, about half a mile distant, where he had taken re-
fuge in the coal cellar. Having demanded that he should
be given up to them, and refused, they threatened to pull
down the house, when the unfortunate man was brought
forth from his hiding-place, and the mob were conducting
him in triumph to the village, where they were met by the
heads of the school and some of. the principal inhabitants,
who rescued him from further violence. There is no doubt.
the outrage Will bep2l4 the subject of a judicialinvestigation.

Jamaica
Leward Isl. Deme. & Berbice
Honduras
New York, Boston
Charleston, Savannah
New Orleans
Havana
Canada
British North America
Newfoundland
Brazils
River Prate
East Indies
China
Batavia
New South Wales
Cape of Good Hope
Africa
Gibraltar
Lima, Valparaiso, &c.
Malta, Sicily, &c.
Smyrna and Constantinople
Malaga
Madeira
Western Isles, Cape de Verds
Lisbon
Cadiz
France
Holland
Hamburg, Bremen, &c.
Gottenburg, Stockholm
-Petersburg; Riga,ltt: •
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