The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-14 00:00:00

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The East of England and
ble details of disasters at

eastern and southern coasts
d by th

also in Ireland. cause
merate the principal

cotch papers contain lame&
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•eat Britain especially
severe gales. We enu

An Italian vessel. called the Addolante, bound from the
Thames for Naples, sailed on Thursday week with a carge
of tobacco, sugar, &c. Owing .to the strong head winds,

she reached no further than-Beachy-head -by Saturday
night, and there went on shore. The vessel and cargc
were entirely lost, and nearly all her crew perished. Nine
bodies had been picked up. Two of the men saved were

so exhausted by Cold, fatigue, and exposure, that they are
not expected to survive. The captain was picked up in a
state of insensibility. He was not aware that he was sc
near the land, and the vessel ran on a dangerous hank
called " the Boulder." Her rudder was carried away
and she became unmanageable. The crew were all Italians.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Erin,
Captain Russell, sailed from Southampton on Friday, the
3rd instant, for the Mediterranean, with thirty-fly(
senger3, and returned on the Bth in a disabled
weather becam

on Sunday it blew a gale I
run into Dartmouth ; bu

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Aerated, the

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Karraturr.

VARIETIES

As we cannot bring events to our minds, let u
bring our minds to events.

trive to

E WORD " SPECULATIVE."—This is an epithet in
use among official persons, for the condemnation of what-

soever proposition is too adverse to private interest not to
1, and at the same time too manifestly true to be

ORTROGRAPHY.—The following is a true copy of X
letter received from the Post-office of Bury, I
—" Mr. Ackkin and Mr. Purhim berry In
Lankyshur." Translation of the at
and Mr. Berring, Bury, Engineers,
Manchester Guardian

correspo

t complains
his branch of
)-tained for it,

FRENCH POLISHING
bitterly of the effect of the
trade, and argues, if exern.
that it would be used extensively in lieu of
cheaper and incomparably better. He cons
it is not French polishing alone that is sufferir
laws ; the cabinet trade, the spirit varnish trad4
all, the manufacture of paper-hangings, as the Fx
enabled to employ designers and use numberles
producing a washable paper that is not to be eq
this country. Our excise restricts us in every qua
The Builder.
THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS.—Many can re

.h ars
ocks,
led in

the time ; for the heinousness of a libel in those days con-
sisted, in the view of a court, in its being or not on the
ministerial side. Many can
Walter, the grandfather of tl

Times, was most cruelly treated for all
was for stating that the Prince of Wall
York had incurred his majesty's disani

conduct in some trivial matter.

had one year's imprisonment in

r their
), and
nce he

was undergoing. He was fined £lOO stating
that it was understood the Duke of Clarence had returned
home from his station without leave

At this ver

princes, he was undergoing imprisonment fora year in
Newgate, fined £5O, sentenced to stand in the pillory'
once at Charing Cross, and to find security-for good be-
haviour for seven years.—Praser's Magazine.
SuccEss.—Of all. silly things, nothing is me
than, by elaborate proofs, to show to ourselvc
ought on such and such occasions to have b

lent, by

iesem to fall. This is philosophy, a
We have failed ; well, then, t

in and again, is not, to prove that we do no

fail, matters not. We have not fa

T in tt

enthusiasm, if it continue undaunted by obstac:
dued by defeats, is itself success, and the most
all success. The blows we receive, however I
receive them as all true enthusiasts receive then

)re silly
that we

preparing us for future triumphs ; for th,
closely incorporate the idea which domina

with the affections of our whole beir

within an intense and more restless entliu.si
make more radiant on our brow the high title
so that the entire world may see it, and bow to

YANKEE ENTERPRISE
who entered Vera Cruz o

Irrions of

the owner of a small schooner from ,
anchored off the harbour. He might be seen with b
less haste making his way to one of the best hot
city, upon entering which he vociferated for tl
lord ?"rhat important personage obeyed the
instant, but in evident trepidation, as a matter of mos..
when the Yankee, in a sharp accent, which conveyed the
idea to the uninitiated Mexican that his safety lay viltls
implicit acquiescence, thus accosted him, " I

" land-
-1 on the

Pant this
What'll
,eriEitted

you take for it ?" The Mexican, happy to b
the privilege of naming a price at all for pre
supposed to be at the mercy of
as he judged he wanted, to put a respec
tween him and "los Yankees."

the enemy, named so much

shouted the down-easter, as he commenced she
the money. " And now my friend (he add
the least possible time it will take you to cl
was told that half-an-hour would suffice.
an-hour, accordingly, our friend, the Yank

ig out
rbat is

And, in half-

and otherwise ministering to the comfo

and the

commodation of his countrymen in particu
public in general.—Norfolk Herald.
OLIVER CROMWELL.—In Fraser's Magazine for this
month are thirty-five unpublished letters from Olivet
Cromwell, which are communicated by Thomas Carlyle,
who states that these resurrectionised documents will per•
form the following services .—" They present to us the
same old Oliver whom we knew, but in still more distinct
lineaments and physiognomy; the features deeply, even
coarsely marked ; or, as it were, enlarged to the gigantic
by unexpected nearness. It is Oliver left to himself,--
stript bare of all conventional draperies; toiling, wrestling
as for life and death, in his obscure element ; none looking
over him but heaven only. He `can stand no nonsense;
he is terribly in earnest : will have his work done'—will
have God's justice done too, and the everlasting laws ob-
served, which shall help, not hinder, all manner of work.
The Almighty God's commandments, these, of which this
work is one, are great and awful to him ; all else is rather
small, not awful. He has pity—pity as of a woman, of a
mother, have we known in Oliver ; and rage also, as of 3

( these

uniforms), or go home.' Hang him out of hand ;he
wantonly killed the poor widow's boy—God and man will
be well pleased to see him punished !' The attentive
reader will catch not only curious minute features of the
old civil war in these rude letters, but more clearly than
elsewhere, significant glimpses of Oliver's character and
ways."

STATE OF TRADE

MANCHESTER.—This week has been, upon the whole, a quiet
one, and no great amount of business has been transacted.
Considering the season of the year, we could not, even under
more favourable circumstances, expect anything like a brisk
and active demand ; and we need not therefore be surprised at
the character of this week's market. The principal buyerS
have been the Greek houses, who have been doing a fair
amount of business in the cloths suitable for their peculiar
trade. For these descriptions of goods, some producers are
engaged for the next two months. In all other kinds, the mar-
ket has been exceedingly quiet. In domestics for the home
trade there has been rather more inquiry, but the business
doing in them has been very limited. Prices during th week
have kept low for all kinds of goods and yarn. No positive or
general decline under last week's prices can be quoted, al-
though occasional sales have been made at lower rates; and
had buyers been inclined to operate freely, there can be no
doubt that slight concessions would have been submitted to.
Flat although the market has been this week, yet a hopeful feel-
ing seems to be gaining ground that, after the turn of the year,
we shall witness a decided improvement. The two main ele-
ments of a good trace we have, viz., a moderate price of food,
and a fair prospect of a tolerably abundant supply of the raw
material of our staple manufactures.

LEEDS.--Deeemlier is generally the slackest month of the
year in the Woollen trade; and from the depression which has
for some time prevailed in the whole of the English commer-
cial circle, it could not be expected that the staple trade of this
town and neighbourhood would be as brisk as at the corre-
sponding seasons of past years. The Cloth Halls, on both the
market days since our last report, were thinly attended by
buyers, and very few goods changed hands. Rather more be_
siness has been done this week at the shipping houses, off the
market, than was done last week, but lower prices have had to
be submitted to. Little or nothing is doing in the home trade;
but from the caution manifested by all classes of manufac-
turers, stocks are not very heavy.
BRADFORD.—WooI.—There is nothing new to reoort since

to buy for distant delivery. Picas.—There has been rather
more activity this week? and several inquiries making for rem-
nant stocks of silk stripes and coloured checks, which, owing
to the caution of the manufacturers, are scarce. As there is no
disposition to make, except to order, we look for an early im-
provement, and a maintenance of present prices, if nut an
advance..

ROCHDALE.—The Wool market has been extremely flat, and
very little business transacted at similar prices to last week-
The hands at several of the cotton mills in the Rochdale dis-
trict have this day commenced working rather longer time.
There is not a doubt but there will be a brisk trade in the cot-
ton business there after this month. Confidence is certainly.
restored, and there are good demands for goods, at small
profits.
HU6DERSFIELD.—There has been a little more animation in
the market than for several weeks past, and more inquiries,
although the amount of business done has been very limited.
Prices are without any alteration, and•stocks generally low.
HALIFAX. For pieces we have had again a very dull market,
and only a small amount of business doing, at very low prices.
More pieces would have been sold if the manufacturers could
have taken the prices offered. Yarns continue in a very de-
pressed state, but the spinners are looking for better demand.
Wool still continues much the same, the spinners only buy
sparingly.
THE IRON TRADE.—BIRMINGHAM, DEC. 10.—The susPen"
sion of the various railway works has at length produced its
injurious effects upon the iron trade and those engaged in it.
The men engaged in producing the iron, and in the employ of
several of the largest works in the neighbourhood of Dudley,
have received notice of a reducti,,n of 20 per cent. in their
wages ; it is understood also that it is the intention of the coal-
masters to give notice of a reduction in the wages of the col-
liers to-morrow, to the amount of is. per day, thereby makingthe wages of the colliers 45., and those of the stonemen 2s. 9a-
of the iron-
masters have resolved upon suspending operations altogether
at present. A meeting of those engaged in the trade was held
o ughou addition o tout
ht
Staffordshire,
time
and
many is now the order of
"
at Wolverhampton, on Wednesday, when it was resolved also
to reduce the wages of the men in that district, so that the,
thing will be general in the course of another fortnight. •
theper ddaTthrl n

On night, Henry Quinn, a seaman on board
the edrHumility, in Morpeth Dock, Birkenhead,
was scShay
drownedatounr whilst trying to get on board the vessel:
SHOP EMBELLISHMENT.-Dawbarn's establishment,
in Bold-street, has long been celebrated not only for the
high character and extent of business transacted in it
but for the ornate character of the premises, their external
and internal decoration. The show-room has been still
further embellished by the addition last week of a colossal
painting, of beautiful and ingenious device, and which mg
challenge the attention. if not the admiration of connois-
seurs. The painting is the produce of Mr. Gurnell,
Liverpool artist, and certainly argues well for his skill and
taste. The subject certainly is unclassical, and the artist g
fancy has boen inspired but by the comfort imparted 11
the patent paletat, in honour of which the painting ha
been designed. The centre contains a view of Windsor-
park and pretty portraits of her Majesty and Prince
Albert, mounted on steeds, and viewing attentively three,
llamas feeding near. The top is adorned with the roYm
arms ; the bottom enriched with the arms of Liverpool;
and an emblazoned sepall-work of the most beautiful de-
vice encircles the •slcture, and in this the artist has le"
geniously inserted4he names of such magnates of our owe
country, and the leading potentates of Europe, as ha°
honouied w4ktheir patronage this fan mia and fasitionlibie
coitt‘