The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-16 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCIEESTER.—We-reer„ et to repeat our remarks of last
week as to the continued depression in the state of the market,
both as it regards Cloth and Yarns. The uncertainty ,that
prevails as to the probable reduction to which buyers will
ultimately submit renders anything lilts settled healthy busi-
ness out of the question. To quote prices would be impolitic
at present, as there is no inclination to effect sales except
under peculiar circumstances. Want of confidence is increas-
ing, and a general desire to limit production. Short time
seems now inevitable, anckat the price of the raw material most
desirable.—FOßElON PRODUCE. 111AaicaT.—There has been
more animation in the Sugar market this week, and rather
better prices have been obtained. In refined goods and Treacle
there is no change to notice- Tea is firm, and a moderate de-
mand exists, principally for Congou of low and' middling
quality. In raw silk there is no alteration to notice, end only-
a very moderate demand exists. There has been an exceed-
ingly fiat market this week for Cotton, which received a still
farther depression on the arrival of the packet-ship Queen of
the West, yesterday,, bringing accounts of the increasing re-
ceipts at the shipping ports, and the market closes very heavily
at a decline of id. from last Friday's prices.
LEEDS.—The public markets have this week been fully as
dull as any we have bad this year, but there has been an im-
proved business at-the warehouses, especially in goods for the
foreign trade. All parties-continue to act with great caution,
and prices remain firm.
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HALIFAX.—There is little to notice this week, in any de-
partment of business. In the piece hall everything was the
same dull appearance; and the yarn trade remains much the
same, as to production, price, and remuneration to the spin-
ner: Not much wool, either long or short, is changing hands;
and if there be any alteration, it is in favour of the buyer.
lIUDDERSFIELD.—DoubtIess the severity of the weather ope-
rates prejudicially on the state of our staple trade; causing
merchants to purchase few.spring and summer goods. But few
buyers have been here this week, and the amount of business
done has been comparatively. small.
BRADFORD.—For wool the demand still continues very lan-
guid; there is not the least improvement in any class, all be-
ing equally dull, and the supply coming to market is likewise
very limited, which tends-to support prices. Noils and brokes
are ready sale at late prices, with very little stock on hand.—
YARNS.—Since our last, we. cannot add anything but that
which is of the most desponding character; the stoppage of
machnery is still prevailing,- and no addition made to the limi-
ted hours now working. This course is not confined to the
town only, but extends throughout this district. We learn that
part orders are in the town forßussia ; and although inquiries
are made, we do not hear of any material purchases being con-
cluded.—PiEcEs.—The business doing is very steady in Or-
leans and Paramattas, as far es delivery appears to be made,
and the stocks in the manufacturers' hands not heavy. The
Fancy Trade, since the introduction of silk, along with black
and coloured Alpaca, appears to have given new life to this
branch of the trade, and a fair business is doing, both for the
home trade and the shippers. The German houses have been
flat for some time past, but are expected to resume their wonted
activity to meet the spring continental fairs.
ROCIIDALE.—We have experienced another dull market.
Buyers were offering less money for some sorts of goods, and
in a few instances flannels were sold at a shade less than last
week, but this was by no means general. The wool market was
all flat, but last week's prices were fully-maintained.

COURT AND FASHION.

• -The Queen heldHaerlez on Friday afternoon, at Saint
:fr6.Tartmaeßs'sucPkailnageeim.
Prince Albert arrived
Buckingham Palace jetstty and
at two o'clock, attended by the
inresysvaoift.the Robes, and the
Duchess of Sutherland, distress of Douro, Lady
The Queen and royal family left Windsor on Tuesday,,
and arrived at Buckingham Palace per Great Western
Railway
On Wednesday, the Queen and Prince Albert, accom-
.panied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal,
went out in a sledge, Prince Albert driving. In another
sledge were Count Alexander Mensdorff, and the Hon-
ourable Misses Stanley and Dawson. The Earl of Mor-
ton followed in a third sledge.
Prince Albert has riven seventy-six head of deer to be
killed for the poor of Windsor and of the neighbouring
parishes.
On Tuesday Lady Stanley arrived at Hooton Hall, on
a visit to her son, Sir 'William Massey Stanley. Her
ladyship's arrival was greeted by the inhabitants of East-
ham by a merry.peal of the church bells, and a universal
display of flags and other demonstrations of jo y.

CONSOLATION.—An inhabitant of Corfu, who recently
returned from Spitzbergen, after an absence of 28 years,
found his wife in very good health, but the widow of -three
husbands !—Globe.

SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.—There is a gentleman farmer
residing in The neighbourhood of Worksop, whose Chris-
tian name is George.; he has a son at home with him
whose name also is George, and it is a most singular fact
that at Martinmas last, the farmer hired five men and lads
quite promiscuously and at. different places, and it was
found when they all got together, all five were called
George. This has at times produced no little inconvenience.
THE SMOKE NUISANCE.—"The loss to the public, from
excess of washing, Sec., which a smoky atmosphere renders
necessary, is more than at first sight might appear. Dr,
Lyon Play fair has shown, that iu this one item. Manche-
ster has been expending zetiO,ooo a-year, and that, if the
expense of additional painting and whitewashing be added,
the actual money loss would be double the amount of the
poor rates every year. The Rev. Mr. Clay states, that in
Preston only two furnaces consume their smoke, and even
that imperfectly; but were.all the factories in the town to
do ns much, the public would save £10.450 a year in ex-
tra-washing."—Liverpool Health of T'owns' Advocate.
TESTIMONIAL MANlA.—Everybody now-a-days is giving
everybody a testimonial. Wellington, in bronze, riding
the high horse ; Cobden, the peaceful hero of a world—
not a country • and Hudson, the railway monarch, whose
motto might be, " nulla dies sine linea." .It may, how-
ever, be confidently predicted that one Might be named
"whose,exertions in alleviating human sufferings far out.
balance the just Fund willingly rendered claims of those
:whose names are above enumerated.. This will be at once
apparent, when we call to mind the. almost incalculable
amount of agonizing torture relieved by Blair's Gout and
Rheumatic Pills,
whose proprietor may be said already to
have reared an iropem%liat e
monwnent on Ow gratitude
of thogsaucle,