The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-27 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANcitasrsia.—Our market since Tuesday has been very
languid, the depression having become more decided as the
week advanced. The business doing is extremely limited, nor
is there any immediate prospect of an alteration for the better.
Sellers, notwithstanding, are firm, and seem disinclined to
make any important concessions in price. Any sales effected
have been at the lowest rates current previous to the last ad-
vance in Cotton. To the depressed state of the Cotton market,
but mainly to the peculiar position of monetary affairs, must
be attributed the present comparative stagnation. The present-
tightness in the money market, in the opinion of those best in-
formed on such subjects, is considered likely to increase rather
than diminish for some time to come. All mercantile opera-
tions are necessarily confined within the narrowest possible
limits, and the feeling daily becomes more general, that it is
safest to pause and await the result of the present crisis. Short
time working and the closing of mills continue to increase
daily. The spinners and manufacturers of Stockport decided
on Wednesday to go on working three days a-week during the
next four weeks, and if matters do not improve, to reduce the
time to two days a-week. The distress amongst the factory
population is now beginning to be severely felt, owing to the
additions made every week to the number of the unemployed.
LANcAsiiißE.—The trade at Blackburn and the neighbour-
hood is in a very precarious state: the working of short time,
and the closing of cotton factories, owing to the advance which
has taken place on the raw material, is still progressing, and
to a considerable extent. Distress is alarming, both amongst
cotton-mill operatives and the hand-loom cotton weavers. Se-
veral large firms have this week given notice, that if an altera-
tion for the better does not speedily take place, they will giVe
up the cotton business 'altogether. Calico block printing at
Church Parish, Oswaldtwisle„ Accrington, and vicinities, is
very fiat, and the operatives have not more than half employ-
ment, whilst many are totally destitute of work. Machine
printing is flat, and many engravers are only partially employ-
ed. The batting trade at Oldham, Ashton, Denton, Droylsden,
Hyde, Duckinfield, Stockport, and their neighbourhoods, gets
worse; it has not been in such a depressed state as at present
during the last twenty years. It is said that about two-thirds
of the hat body makers are entirely without work, and others
have not more than two, and some of them three days' work
per weel.. The woollen cloth trade at Saddleworth gets worse
every week; operatives are only partially employed, at a very
low rate of wages. The manufacturers make loud complaints,
and declare they get nothing, or next to nothing, by their
goods. The silk trade at Middleton, Failsworth, Chadderton,
Leigh, and Manchester, is by no means as brisk as it was four-
teen days ago; yet those operatives who are employed upon
broad figured goods, and new descriptions of fine fancy work,
and silk velvets, are fully employed at a moderate rate of
wages, but plain goods and silk smallwares are dull. The silk
dyers at some places this week are short of employment. The
gingham and fancy nankeen business at Radcliffe, Whitfield,
Unsworth, Eccles, and vicinities, is not to call brisk, yet the
operatives generally have moderate employment, but wages
are extremely low. The manufacturers also declare they can-
not get an advance upon their goods
.equal to that which las
lately taken place in the raw material. The trade in cotton-
mills at Rochdale may be best understood by reading an ac-
count of the following firms that hive already closed their fac-
tories, namely, Messrs. John Bright and Brothers, three mills
closed, and one working short time ; Messrs. D. Jersey & Co.,
two mills closed ; Messrs. Edmund Howard & Co., two. The
following have one mill each closed, viz., Mr. Thomas Smith,
Mr. James Pilling, Mr. James Brierley, Messrs. Staley, Wil-
kinson, and Co., 'Messrs. Lord and Co., Messrs. Butterworth
and Sons, Messrs. Williamson and Co., Mr. George Howarth,
and Mr. Abraham Brierley. Total mills closed, 17; number
of hands out of employment, upwards of 3,000. Several firms,
that are working short time intimate thoir intention of closing'
their factories. The hands in the woollen mills generally are
working full time, but the flannel Landloom weavers are only
' partially employed, and at a very low rate of wages. The cot-
ton trade at Oldham, Royton, and Crompton, is getting worse
every day; and this week several occupiers of cotton mills,
who have been working short time, have given notice to their
hands of their intention to close their factories. The shop-
keepers are becoming alarmed, and will only purchase small
quantities of provisions, owing to the reports that many are
afraid of an outbreak. At Stockport, masters have had meet-
ings every day, but they are afraid to close their mills at pre-
sent. The working of short time increases every day at Bury,
Heywood, Rainsbottom and their vicinities ; and this week
several firms have closed their manufactories. The distress in
all the towns fifteen miles round Manchester, amongst cotton-
mill operatives, is alarming in the extreme ; and unless some-
thing is done very speedily, it is feared there will be distur-
bances. The towns are crowded with Irish beggars, and with
operatives out of work.
LEEDS.—Though the rise in the price of grain and the state
of the money market have checked the demand for woollen
goods, a fair amount of business has been done during the
week at the warehouses. The goods purchased were chiefly for
the American market. The tone of the woollen trade is cer-
tainly. dull; but from the cautious manner in which all the
principals engaged in it have for the last two or three years
conducted their business, there are no heavy stocks on hand,
and prices are firm.

BRA DFORD.—WOoI.—The spinners buy with great caution,
and the purchases made during the week are less than usual.
The market is not abundantly supplied, which keeps prices
stationary. roils and Brokes are not so ready sale, but there
is no alteration in prices. Yarns.—There is a fair demand for
most kinds of Weft Yarns, and a disposition to buy for distant
delivery, which the spinners are not free to entertain at the pre-
sent very low prices. Pieces.--Our market has been pretty
lively for Dress goods; Merinos have also moved in quantity,
but the prices are very low.
HA LI FA X.—The market on Saturday was again very dull, and
very little business was done. In Yarn there is not much do-
ing, though there is rather a better demand, but prices keep
withoutd as spinners cannot sell to make the same again,
a loss, sell sparingly. Wool is much the same, and
staplers do not care much to sell, as they cannot replace at the
same price.
HUDDERSFIELD.-1110 principal business done in our mar-
ket on Tuesday was in waistcoatings for America, and a large
quantity of pieces changed hands at the lateprices. But little
business has been done at the warehouses during the week, but
the trade of the town and district is but slack. The high price
of food, with the prospect of its still being higher, tends much
to stagnate the demand for clothing.

PACKET LIST, GENERAL
.POST-OFFICE, APRIL 19..
Mails desp'd Last Packet Next Packet
Destination. from London sailed. due.
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Madeira
Spain
Gibraltar every month
Malta &lonian Islands 3rd and 20th Oriental
Greece and Egypt.... of every April 20 ---.
India, Cey on .& China } month.
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(except Honduras, &
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in W. Indies, except of every.
April 17 due May 7
Havana, Venezuela, month-.
and Madeira
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(3) Bermuda St. Juan month only. April 2 due May 7
de Nicaragua, and 17th of every Forth Next Mail
New Grenada
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Buenos Ayres I every month April 8 May 27
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muda, and U. States I '1 April 20; May 15

NICOLL'S PALETOT, OF LLAMA CLOTLI, REG.'D
6 AND 7 Vic., CAP. 65.—Messrs Nicoll, Coert Tailors, a
Regent-street and Cornhill, London, have the honour re
spectfully to announce that MESSRS.; 'IIANSTBARN AND
SON, of 110, Bold-street, Liverpool, will continue to be
their sole agents for that town, and will have the exclu-
sive sale of this fashionable Coat. Messrs. Nicoll can
most cheerfully recommend this establishment to any of
their patrons residing in its neighbourhood who may re-
quire, with the Paletot Coats, either Dress or Frock,
Trousers, Waistcoats, &c.;MESSRS. DAWBARN AND
it SON being constantly pplied from London with every
improvement in taste d fashion, and more particularly
as the same princip of business for which their own
firm is now well lin n are maintained by Messrs. Daw..
barn, viz., very moderate prices, combined with every ex-
cellence of materiel for prompt cash payments. Messrs.
N. are well aware that there are some fashions which have
so little of the enduring principle in them that they sel-
dom survive tl fluctuations of a single season; others,
which from their intrinsic merit, acquire a firm footing in
public esteeit and enjoy a more extensive vogue in pro-
portion as they become known to the public. To the lat-
ter order the Paletot has an undoubted claim, as by its
unassuming, yet gentlemanly appearance may be ascribed
the constant patronage of H. R. H. Prince Albert, Prince
George of Cambridge, His Grace the Duke of Wellington,
and the principal members of the senate, the pulpit, and
the bar.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF NEW ZEALAND.—It will be seen
from an advertisement, that on the 20th May will be pub-
lished a splendid work, entitled " Pictorial Illustrations of
New Zealand." The sketches are by an intelligent gen-
tleman, whose residence for several years in that colony
must have given him peculiar opportunities of witnessing
every day life among the New Zealanders, a country
almost unknown in England, and never before pictorially
illustrated. The work will represent, for the first time,
the natives, their ceremonies, habits, sports, and in fact,
the every tiling of interest in New Zealand ; together with
the public buildings, and landscape views of every interest-
ing point in this infant colony. The engravings are in the
highest style of art, on steel, by Henry Melville, Esq.
How seldom do we feel, perceive, or think of the small
beginnings of disease which surround and operate upon
us in our enjoyments and intercourse with the world.
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stitution, late hours, both of retiring to rest and rising in
the morning, lay the foundation of intestinal as well as
skin diseases. To all such we would recommend first a
change of system, and,
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Pill of Health, which has procured the
approbation of persons in every station in society.
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