The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-11-29 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The active demand for goods
and yarn which prevailed here last week has died away, with
the excitement at the time existing in the cotton-market at
Liverpool ; and both markets have returned to the state of
apathy and sluggishness which preceded the late specula-
tions. The business done in yarn was very limited ; but the
advance obtained, at that time, on certain counts and de-
scriptions suitable to the East India and Mediterranean
markets, has been pretty generally supported. Of manufac-
tured goods generally, and especially of printing cloths, we
cannot report quite so favourably : the limited business done
has been at lower rates—indeed, in many cases, at the lowest
rates previously paid. Two failures have been announced of
spinning and manufacturing firms in the country ; but they
are not to any serious extent.

ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY.—The flannel
market has been dull and heavy to-day, and the business
done has been limited. The manufacturers complain, and
not without cause, of the low prices offered for their goods.
In the wool market there is little change to report ; the
prices are about the same as last week's.

HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, TUESDAY.--The Fame dulness
and inactivity prevailed to-day as for many weeks past.
Buyers were rather more numerous, but the prices given
were ruinously low. Plain woollens were niost in request.
The demand for fancy goods was trifling. Wools remained
pretty firm ; in fact, prices are so low that there is no room
for abatement. Scarcely anything is doing in the ware-
houses; and the retail trade is miserable.

SHREWSBURY, TUESDAY.—The quantity of flannels was
not large, but we have to report that all, save one lot, were
sold ; and when we refer to the state of the money market—
the great consequent depression in all descriptions of trade—
and particularly to the miserable state of the markets held
at Newtown and Llanidloes for the sale of flannels (at the
latter place, not a piece, we believe, was sold at their last
market), we think it affords good grounds for believing that
this will prove a central situation, and will ultimately com-
mand the attention of all extensive purchasers. Coarse
goods (of which any quantity might have been sold) were
scarce ; and we understand the Llanidloes manufacturers
have determined not to take their goods to Newtown.
BLACKBURN.—We have no variation to notice in the state
of trade since our last, except that it has lost a little of the
buoyancy which marked its movements in the early part of
last week; and neither seller nor buyer are in high spirits as
to the remainder of the year.

FEARGUS O'CONNOR AT DARRYNANE.

Will any of our Kerry friends inform us what Feargus,
the great chartist leader, has been doing at Darrynane Abbey,
where, we are confidently assured, he has been located for
the last three weeks, on terms of the strictest intimacy with
his old traducer, O'Connell ? It is no ordinary affair, surely,
that could, have brought together two such noted and " war-
to-the-knife" antagonists as the above-mentioned brace of
public impostors, at a moment like the present. Mr. O'Con-
nell, it is very well known, has been long denouncing the
British chartists as actual rebels—fellows who ought to have
been long since consigned to the tender mercies of the jailor
or executioner, for their manifest treason against the Queen's
government ; Feargus, on the other hand, has been reprobat-
ing with no less vehemence the scheme and rogueries of
Daniel ; yet now we find them, if report speaks truly, in
secret conclave, and like the two kings of Brentford, smel-
ling at the same rose, and, what is stranger still, supping at
the same table ! There are but two modes of solving this
mystery. Either the repealer has made up his mind to avail
himself of O'Connor's physical service in promoting his
scheme for dismembering the empire, or the chartist hero,
with equally honourable views, has secured O'Connell's
moral influence with ministers to stave off the consequences
of a criminal prosecution for sedition. On either hypothe-
sis, the morale of the transaction is perfectly and truly
Irish.
Two facts following on each other's heels may, perhaps,
serve to throw some light on this as yet inexplicable mystery.
Mr. Feargus O'Connor, though convicted on a charge of
libel some three months since, has not yet been brought up
to receive judgment before her Majesty's justices in West-
minster-hall, while Mr. O'Connell's recent announcement
of his intention to raise an army of 500,000 men (all of the
fighting age) would lead one to suspect that a second in
command, of Feargus's known intrepidity, would be an inva-
luable auxiliary in the cause of Irish loyalty ! Let but the
500,000 fighting men be once marshalled under the actual
leadership of Feargus and our lives for it, Repeal of the
Union will'no longer be necessary ; certain it ►s, that the
imperial parliament will be spared the trouble of giving itself
any trouble in the business. Feargus and the Irish pikes
will accomplish all. Meanwhile, we are not disposed to
overlook the calculation of chances implied in the other con-
jecture. That the chartist leader would sacrifice a whole
hecatomb of human victims to save his own neck, we are
thoroughly persuaded ; and it is no less our conviction that
the repeal mendicant would immolate the Queen, with all
her family, if he were only tempted by an adequate consi-
deration in ready money. At all events, Feargus O'Connor,
at Darrynane Abbey, at this particular crisis, is certainly no
joke. This, surely, is evidence of a " compact alliance"
extraordinary ; but, doubtless, her Majesty's English Attor-
ney-General will be at no loss to account for his forbearance
towards Feargus at the opening of the next session.
We sincerely hope that some conservative member will
afford the right hon. functionary an early opportunity of ex-
plaining his conduct before the assembled representatives of
the nation.—Dublin Packet.

Amongst the few English of note in Paris is the Marchion-
ess of Westmeath. This lady, who has figured more in the
newspapers perhaps than any female of the present• century,
is now living in the most retired way in the Champs Elysecs,
with no other establishment than a lady's maid.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

April is said to be the month fixed on for the Queen's mar
riage.

The Ayrshire Examiner, a coarse radical print published
in Kilmarnock, has been discontinued for want of support.
Troops have been finally withdrawn this month from the
following places : Sligo, New Ross, Belturbet, Omagh,
Portumna, Newtownbarry, and Castlecomer. Limerick
Chronicle.
We have advices from Si. Petersburgh to the 9th instant.
The Neva was covered with ice, the communications with
Cronstadt were interrupted, and the navigation was consi-
dered as finished for the season.
A very superb bracelet is being prepared by Messrs. Storr
and Mortimer, jewellers to her Majesty, as a setting for the
miniature, painted by Mr. W. C. Ross, A. R. A., of his
Serene Highness Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg.
CURIOUS FACT.—Americans are known in the Turkish
language by the name of Yanki Doonaih, which means " The
New World." This certainly is as near to Yankee Doodle
as could have been executed.—New York Signal.

THE VOLUNTARY PRINCIPLE.-A prisoner came to the
House of Correction at Battle, Sussex, a short time ago, not
in the custody of any constable, but with his own commit-
ment in his hand, like a certificate of admission to a hos-
pital.