The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-07-29 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

!AEU:I/S.—The demand in the Halls, espk.ially in that for
coloured goods, has been :somewhat brisk sii4e our last ; and
there is some activity iothe warehouses'ai. prices looking up-
wards in several of the inure important articles.
gliAnFotto.—ln the piecemarket, on Thursday, there was a
lively demand, at a Slight 'advance. Wool steady,,and a trifle
higher. The yarn trade is. exceedingly brisk. r i themina
are in full drive,though several new ones have lately b&ati added
to the previous ample number. •
HA LlFAX.—Weduesdav's market was not a brisk one,-thimgh
considerable business was transacted on the whole. We have
no change of price to note. . • :

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YORK-WOOL MARKET, July 21.—The supply of wool in this
day's market, generally, has been notwithstanding
which, many lots of good combing ,WOoIS remain over to next
week unsold. Locks, cots, and good ennditioned blanket wools,
.for the, home trade, have had the call of the. market, at a slight
advane4 whilst the former remain nominal upon our last week's
report. .

•
THETFORD WOOL FAIR.—The annual wool fair was held at
Thetford on Priday, the 15th inst., the attendance was very
'numerous, -and a great deal of business was transacted. Mr.'
Coke sold his hog wool at 565., and ewe at •455. :The Duke of
Norfolk's obtained thesame price, as also many other lots. A
,groat quantity changed hands at-prices ruling from 425. to 455.
for ewes, and 565. hogs; down hogs, Ms. to 565.
Leicester annual wool fair went off tvell. Buyers and sellers
were numerous, and much business was done. Thequantity of
wool was, lots 54, fleeces, 6,515. of which there wete sold 6,048
The average price was 435.,,ha1f-and-half. The silver cup pre-
sented to the largest buyer was carried off by a Mr. Jacques,
who bought 465 tons.

THE BORDER WOOL TRADE.—The wool trade throughout
the,,Border districts, is becoming generally active, although
there exists rather a dread of speculating to any great extent
on the present prices, which continue as high as the) were last
Year. • The buyers, however, from Yorkshire and the West of
I:ngland; have appeared in considerable numbers in Berwick-
shire and The neighbouring counties, and we understand they
have made several large purchases at the prices demanded, with
very slight discounts. The average prices in Berwashire are,
-or the hest- half-bred 'Mg wool, from £2 4s. to £2 G bred
£2 to £2 2s. ; 355. to 375.; ewe wo6l, 305.-
t 2s. per stone.- - There are symptoms of brisk business when
tb •eason is more advanced.—Liena ick Warder.
B HDAI.E FLats-r4tE.t. MARKET.—This market was again
well tended by buyers,on Monday-lust. The number of ma-
nufacturers and the quantity td. goodS.were both inferior to the
common attendance and stock on such occasions, and this will
probably remain the ease Until the hay harvest is settled.
Middle and low qualitieS sold readily, and some lots of fine
goods were disposed of ell at last week's prices.Y Bockings
also went pretty well, and few remained unsold.. Wools were
(till as hard as last. week, and sOld rather lazily. Oils were
about the same, and in price as before.

The absence of Lord Yarborough this summer, as commodore
of the Royal Yacht Club, will cause much disappointment to
the members, and be of great injury to the Isle of Wight, should
not another commodore be elected in the room of his lordship..
There is little doubt, however, but that the fleet will rendezvous
as usual at Cowes, particularly as an aqUidie fete has been fixed
upon to take place in celebration of the King's birth-day on
Monday, the 22d of August, the anniversary of the birth-day
falling on Sunday, the 21st.
On Friday morning, the American ship Francis arrived at
Greenock from New York, with upwards of 50 returned emi-
grants, principally- respectable-looking females.---Glasgow
Courier.
On Thursday, the 14th instant, arrived in Papa Sound,
Orkney, the sloop Jean Black of Rothsav, from Iceland, with
only three tons of cod. Reports the fishing is almost a total
failure, and a loss of twelve French fishing vessels, with sixteen
men in each, who all perished with the'exception of one boy.—
Glasgow Courier.

Died lately, at Stauchtou todge,, near Bedford, the seat of
Lieut. Colonel Latour, of the late 23d Lancers, his grey char-
ger, Blucher, aged twenty-seven years. This noble animal
carried the colonel during the three days at Waterloo. On his
death eight halls were extracted from him; he also bore the
marks of several lance and sabre cuts.

A novel mode of promoting the sale of quack medicine has
been resorted to at Bristol. A few of the pills are left at. each
house, with an inscription of " Taste and try before you buy."

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Lord Stanley has arrived at Frankford from London.—
Ga!iynani.

KENTISH MEN.-Mr. Kemble, the accomplished editor of
Beowulf," in a recent work endeavours, with much success,
:o prove that the Kentish men are Frieslanders.

Sir Robert Peel and his Lady and family are expected to
leave London, prior to the prorogation, for the romantic marine
villa called Norris Castle, in the Isle oftWig,ht, which the Bight
Hen. Baronet is said to have taken for two months.

O'CUNNELL THIBUTE.—The sum of 55., in bright copper
coin, the amount of the "legitimate" subscriptions entered
into by the " Liberal " party of this city, was, we hear, for-
warded from the committee of management, for presentation to
the beg,garman at Rochester. Three individuals were deputed
to take charge of the precious metal, which was enclosed in the '
celebrated "Butchery-lane " coffin. The coffin was urea.'
merited by the leg-bones ,of one of Cooper's dead ducks, encom-
"- passin the skull of a minnow caught in the Stour in the late
civic fishing excursion.—Kentish Gazette.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—ABOLITION OF FEES.—The following
written notice is affixed to the wall at the top of the staircase
leading from the members' waiting room to the lobby of the
House of Commons :*,-‘‘ The doorkeepers, messengers, and all
other officers of the Sergeant-at-Arms' department, are prohi-
bited from receiving any fee or gratuity whatever." And over
the entrance to the strangers' pallery there is also a written
notice posted up as followS :—" Admittance by a member's or-
der only."

,
THE LAND OF LIBERTY !--17ie miitan Evening Gazette, just'
received, contains a most appalling account of the execution of
a man at St. Louis, in the United States, by the means of a
slow fire. He had defeated the Deputy Sheriff in an attempt
to arrest an offender, and on,being himself arrested, he stabbed
the constable and the Deputy Sheriff, the latter of whom died
almost instantly. Having been with great difficulty captured,
he was conveyed to gaol, Irmo whence he was dragged by the
crowd, and chained to a tree, round which were placed shavings
and wood, and which were ignited a, soon as he was secured.
Not a single groan escaped him during the dreadful process.
DONCASTER Cll I) Hell It A TE. —A t a meeting of the ratepayers
of Doncaster, held on Thursday, (after several motions had.
been proposed and negatived,) t he SCil le which the churchwardens
bad adopted in 1822, yiz. a rate of eightpence in the pound, was
finally put carried by a decided majority.
At the assizes for the city•of York there was not a single pri-
soner in custody for offences committed within the city.
It is actually stated that there is a company in London which
undertakes to convey passengers from Loudon to Paris for nine
shillings !
A clergyman of Devon, after having endeavoured to explain
some difficult text, said, " I know that .commentators do not
agree with me." The next. day a fanner in his village brought
him a basket of potatoes, and said, that as hiS reverence said
that "common taties" did not agree with him, he had brought
him a basket of his best kidneys, -which he hoped would be more
wholesome.

Of about sixty members of the corporation of Stockport (in=
eluding the justices) there ale only four to be found who attend.
the established church.

WIGAN.—We observe by the I..,ndon,papers that Mr. Segar
has been appointed by Lord .1. Russell, Recorder of Wigan.
Mr. Segar is a Roman catholk, and a most uncomproinisingt
radical.

Miss Ellen Tree visits America at the close of her presen.
Haymarket engagement, Mr. Price securing the lady £BOOO
for her services for two years.
MADAME GATALANI:—Madame Catalani recently gave a
grand concert at her villa ucar Florence, at which she sung,
several of her French airs Ivith that power and sweetness oC
voice for whieh'she for somany )ears distinguished herself upon
the stage.
GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.—This vast undertaking (which
is to unite Liverpool and Manchester with Birmingham) is pro-
ceeding with great rapidity towards completion. The men are
at work on the whole line day and night; and the eminent
engineer (Mr. Luke) to whose talents the work has been in-
trusted has it in contemplation to throw open the line for the
purpose of travelling in the course of next summer. Great
preparations are also making in the carriage department, fifteen
soprlyenidn id
alreadybeen completed at the forwardedmanufac-
tory to the depot at Warrington.
timesupo hoals:i
andng
A manufactory fot the construction of engines is about to be
erected neat the Liverpool and Manchester Railway tunnel.
The excavations for the foundations of the building I • have al-
ready been commenced.

pag,anini is at present residing at his villa near Parma, for
the purpose of recruting his impaired health. Ile has declared
in the Italian that all compositions which have appeared in other
countries under his name are spurious, and that he has hitherto
published nothing but 24 cappr co for the violin, 6 sonatinas
for violin and guitar, and 6 quartets for violin, guitar, and vio-
loncello; but that he intends soon to publish the whole of his
trot ks•— Foreign Quarterly Reuiew.
The Edinburgh Patriot, the organ of the " voluntary" faction,
has Leen discontinued.
.An American Paper states, that the fashionable ladies of
Philadelphia wear their dresses so tight about their shoulders
that they are obliged to unhook them to sneeze!
COUNTY MAGISTIIACY.—Since the accession of the present
administration to office,:3s gentlemen have been appointed and
qualified as magistrates for the county of Lancaster, of these,
10 are churchmen, 1 Roman catholic, and 21 dissenters.

v Arwoon.—lt is said that the costs incurred and
paid up to the time the present appeal came on for argument
amount to the enormous sum of £I00,(X)0, of which £60,001)
has been incurred by the ap'pellants, and £lO,OOO by the
respondents.
Mr. George Robins' sale of extensive lands in Virginia is
necessarily postponed from the 2d to the 9th of August next.
It is rumoured that as little us £2OO may purchase at this sale
one thousand acres of land.

THR MILLION FUN D.—A clergyman in a southern county,
abuse annual income is small, applied for assistance out of the
aPna6ruies.s
fund. He obtained, in the whole, about E 600; hut out of this
he was called upon tt; pay. and actually did pay to two lay int-
pi opriators, upwards of i 3130, one of those said itnpropriators
being a Roman catholic and the of her a dissenter. —Dublin Record.
TIM DUCHESS OF Mt:cr.—Several Journals have stated
that the Duchess
snolcm.:esersr.i confidentialllltNire iatarCssit:itsnldsiiil.ite:trsic.:l:::ig)actiliit:t:hionte
ornthroughe:s:bpt::ee
tinhel
Royal Guard. The
; news of
iWouenhi
(z.tyv have receivedftbat i
the crime of Alihaud she fled from France where she was c
wore a green veil,
cealed; from Pat is she came to- Ghent, where she champed
when site passed through this city horses, accompanied by two oting
of Bretagne, and by an ex-otlice of the
site and all her suit spoke English, and.'
travels as an Englishwoman. vrotniit is probable that she
sels, and thence, by way of .
kix-la C Ghent she went to Brus-
have these particulars flom a person- hapelle, to Germany. We
Duchess
formed titan the police of Vra, , who seems to be better its-
CC or Brussels.—Ghent Paper
A line of Packets to L
Charleston. One of
theondon, is about to be established at
by Thomas Bennet, ex vessels intended for the line, owned
tog his mime, now V -governor of South Carolina, and bear-
tons hurthen and el :es at the foot of Wall-street. She is 500
egautly finished.—New lock Paper.
The election for t
Tewkesbury took _two town councillors for the borough of
,„,.; _ 0 place yesterday, when the numbers were:—
Moore, Messrs,
Alilouor L ugmore, 132; Knight,' 128; Osborne, 124.
mepand Longmore, the elected councillors, are con-
servatives , Knightand Osborne, dissenters and radicals.
At the De.cemb.74B.
stood
37
below
thi.electton tbe highest conservative on the poll
lowest radical. Is there no re-action?

One of the" reform" provincial journals(the Hull Advertiser)
of Friday last informs iis'readors that O'Connell had a grund
Public dinner given to him at Rochdale (Rochester), which was
" attended by all the elite of the neighbourhood I" After this.
veracious statement; it modestly computes the number of persons
who met in piocessiou on that occasion at 16,000!