The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-18 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

MANCHESTER.—We understand that the letters from
India, brought by the overland mail, have brought favourable
accounts of the state of business both at Calcutta and Bom-
bay, where a fair business had been done in manufactured
goods. This intelligence, however, does not seem to have
produced much effect upon the market here ; for, although
there has been some demand for goods and yarn suitable to
the eastern markets. the orders are generally upon a very
moderate scale ; and, as the demand for the Mediterranean
is nearly over, and, owing to the season of the year, not
much doing for other quarters, the market yesterday did not
exhibit much animation. Prices, however, continued per-
fectly steady, and great confidence appears to be felt in a
gradual improvement in business as soon as the holidays are
over.

ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, DEC. 14.--
It is now the time of year when the flannel business begins
to grow slack, as the chief of the winter stocks are generally
laid in before Christmas. Though there has not been very
much business done to-day, yet, upon the whole, the market
has been better than that of last Monday. There is no
change in prices. The wool market has been dull, with
steady prices.

' HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, DEC. 15.—There is no new
feature to report in the aspect of this market to-day. Ap-
pearances are not very favourable ; but, as business is now
usually done to order, as the operatives are generally em-
ployed, and stocks are not unusually large, a fair business
may be said to be doing. New styles of fancy woollens meet
with ready sale, and checks, of a lighter quality, are in
tolerable demand. Business in the warehouses is an average
for the season, and prices are firm.—Manchester Guardian.
Trade in the Staffordshire Potteries has for a long time
been in a very depressed state, more especially during the
last twelve months. We are, however, happy to be able to
announce that there are now signs of considerable improve.l-
ment : several houses have within the last week or two re-
ceived large foreign orders, and their bands are now working
full time.—Globe.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL MISCELLANY

A sugar-refining company has just been established in New
South Wales by a party of forty German families, who have
recently landed at Sydney. They are now extensively engaged
in laying down lands as sugar plantations, and it is said that
this new staple product will be of great advantage to our
Australasian colonies.
According to a letter from Naples, in the Commerce, the
Count de Lecco, the King's brother, who is only 25 years
old, and in the apparent enjoyment of perfect health, has
been struck with paralysis, which has deprived his Royal
Highness of the use of his right side.
Last week, a sportsman shot, on the lake of Nantua, in
the Ain, between Lyons and Geneva, a large diver of the
North Sea, a bird much larger than a goose, measuring
nearly three feet from the beck to the claws, and four feet
from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other when dis-
played. This is the only specimen which has been seen in
that country within the memory of man.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 18.—On the night of the 13th
the Armenian Patriarch was deposed, in consequence of nu-
merous complaints from the Armenians, that he was not vi-
gilant enough in the cause of their faith, and had allowed se-
veral of their nation to become converts to the Protestant,
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over, confirmed in this idea by the fact that the French
and a great many to the Catholic religion. The Nile has
risen to 221 feet this year, and the inundation is so great that
incalculable damage has been done to the country. The
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THE MANCHESTER CHARTER.—At half-past ten on Mon-
day morning Mr. Cresswell commenced his argument in the
Exchequer Chamber. Nine judges were present, .viz., the
Lords Chief Justices of the Queen's Bench and Common
Pleas, Justices Bosanquet, Littledale, Pattison, Coleridge,
Williams, Coltman, and Erskine. The attorney-general ad-
dressed the court on Monday and Tuesday.