The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-25 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

MANCHESTER.—During the earlier part of last week there
existed a rather better inquiry for several descriptions of goods,
and some of the lower numbers of yarns; which, on some con-
cessions being made by sellers, led to a fair extent of business.
Since Tuesday, however, this inquiry and disposition to do
business have to a considerable extent subsided, and the mar-
ket during the last few days has again been characterised by
extreme stagnation. To-day the complaints were universal as
to the difficulty of effecting sales, even at prices most favour-
able to buyers. Scarcely any inducement will tempt some pas-
ties to do business, so great is the caution now exercised.
Quotations vary much, and are made in many instances with
reference to the mode of payment proposed. Buyers with
ready cash at command (of which there are very few indeed
have it in their power to operate to very great advantage at
present, so urgent is the necessity for realizing sales in cash.
Printing Cloths and 40-inch Shirtings suffer great depression.
The home trade is almost at a stand-still, any transactions
effected being only for immediate need, and consequently on
the most limited scale. This is no matter of surprise, when
the daily diminishing resources of the population are takes
into account. This week, being Whitsun week, there will be
an almost universal closing of mills, and it is supposed that
many millowners who are at present going short time will not
resume working after the holidays.
LEEDS.—Less business has been done this week, both at the
warehouses and at the Cloth Halls, than during any week or
the present year. The very high price of food, and the uncer-
tainty whether corn will not be even dearer than it is now, have
greatly checked the comparatively slight demand which previ-
ously existed for the home trade ,• and there has not been much
business done this week by the houses engaged in the foreign
trade. In some instances, manufacturers are reducing the,
amount of their productions, and should a change no' soon-take
place for the better, it is to be feared there will be great dis-
tress amongst the operatives. The goods sold continue to be of
low qualities. Prices are without alteration.
HUDDERSFIELD.—There is no improvement in our market;
and what with the realities of the present and apprehensions of
the future, manufacturers and merchants are equally at a stand-
still. The only manufacture that has any vitality left is the
vesting trade. Raw materials are still tolerably firm.
BRADFORD.—WOOL.—The disposition to buy wool is not in
the slightest degree increased, and our staplers complain much
of the total want of business ; also of the prices sought in the
country being far too high to enable them to bring it to the
vat of consumption. The clip of new wool is not expected to
he either so great or good as usual, owing to the severe winter.
This will again tell against the spinners, whose vocation re-
quires nothing to make it worse. YARNS.—The business done

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for home consumption is very steady. The shippers are not
doing quite so much, nor is there any alteration in prices, which
alone can bring the large quantity of unemployed machinery
into activity. PIECES.—There has been rather more business
done during the week, both by the German Houses and Ame-
ricans, which is very desirable at this distressed time. In prices
we do not hear of any alteration.
HAM FA x.—Our piece hall on Satu-day presented the usual
dell appearance, and scarcely any goods were disposed of. The
demand for yarn has greatly fallen off; and a greal deal of ma-
chinery is running short time, with a prospect of more mills
following the example. Very little wool, of any kind, is chang-
ing hands. The price of long wool is in favour of the buyer,
more especially in lower sorts; but short wool remains firm, on
account of the scantiness of the supdy.
HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.—The condition of the cotton
hosiery manufactures cannot be considered as amended, and a
general feeling of despair prevails amongst the working classes
and those dependent on their welfare in this district. The cut-
up hands are in much the worse condition—Nottingham, Sut-
ten, and Ruddington, where these branches are principally car-
ried on, being in a manner paralyzed. The villages where the
wrought hose are made, though much depressed, are not in that
destitute and stagnant state as the cut-up districts. The same
may be said of Leicester, where the cut-up system is so very
general, the distress is very great. The silk manufacture is in
a very forlorn state, with the exception ofplain silk hose, which
have not felt the reaction to the same extent as the silk glove
branch, whole shops of the latter being stopped at a very short
notice. The silk knotted hose branch is at length, we are in-
formed, everything but extinct. The bobbin-net lace trade is
still in a most depressed state, and some of the factories are
stopping their machines ; that is, those that have ventured to
make fancy laces. The warp lace trade is still very flat, the
cause for this—namely, the fabrication of inferior goods—being
much the same as in the hosiery and bobbin lace trade.—Not-
tingham Journal.

The Manx Sun states, that the steamer Tynwald is to-
make pleasure trips to Dundrum Bay, to enable passen-
gers to witness the launch of the Great Britain next
spring tides.

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MR. BROUGH'S ENTERTAINMENT AT THE CONCERT
HALL.---We observe that this old favorite of the Liver-
pool public purposes giving an Entertainment on Friday
evening next, in which he will introduce Sketches of
American Life and Character, varied by melodies sung by
himself, Miss Balfe, (sister to the composer) and Signor
Sapio. Mr. Brough, we need not remind our readers, is
more than usually qualified by his talent, both vocal and
otherwise, to render such an entertainment attractive and
and agreeable ; and we feel assured that such a rich treat
will not be lost by the musical public, especially as this
is, we understand, the only occasion on which it can be
given in Liverpool.
PATENT GAS-METER.--A new kind of gas-meter has
been patented, which promises to effect all the purposes of
such an instrument more accurately, regularly, and econo-
mically than any other yet devised. Its first..togritshe-
low the average. And its wear and tear is inconsiderable.
It is almost superfluous to say that it is a dry meter,
for water meters of every kind labour tinder the incurable
evil of corrosion by ammoniacal and sulphuric deposits,.
The chief peculiarities of the iatent meter are that it
works at less than one tente the usual pressure, at the
same time giving a perfectl?'steady light; all tendency to
jumping being obviated by a peculiar contrivance, whereby
the works lubricate themselves. The dial is very large;
it has two hands like a clock, and may be read with great
facility and precision by the consumer. With such an
apparatus mistakes and disputes can seldom occur. This
ioi/ meter is the i fention of Mr. Hutchison, the engineer of
the gaswor at Vauxhall. A company called the British
Patent D Gas-Meter Company has been formed to
bring it ominently before the public, and it is already
employe in the Colosseum, the Adelaide Gallery, Astley's
Theatre, and other public buildings. The offices of the
Company are 1, Dale-street, Liverpool; and 7, Adam-
street, Adelphi. London.

FORTUNES MADE BY ADVERTISING.-From a small
pamphlet, entitled " The Art of Making Money," an
extract has been taken, and is going the round of the
provincial press, pointing out the facility of making im-
mense sums by the simple process of continuous adverti-
sing. Doubtless large sums have been, are, and will be
made by such a system by certain persons of ability, who
no doubt would make their way in the world if called
upon to play different parts on the great stage of life;
but to suppose that men in general must as a matter of
course acquire wealth by such means, is as absurd as to
imagine that all the penniless and shoeless of London are
capable of rising to the dignity and wealth of an alderman
or the lord mayor of London simply by reading the
" Young Man's Best Companion." Money is not so
easily made as the writer of the article referred to would
lead people to suppose ; if it be so, few need be poor.
But to our text : fortunes made by advertising. • Un-
doubtedly the greatest man of the day as an advertiser is
Holloway, who expends the enormous sum of twenty
thousand pounds annually in advertisements alone ; his
name is not only to be seen in nearly every paper and
periodical published in the British isles, but as if this
country was too small for this individual's exploits, he
stretches over the whole of India, having agents in all the
different parts of the upper, central, and lov-
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o aat immense country, publishing his rnedicaments is
the Hindoo, Oordoo, Goozratee, Persian, and other native
languages, so that the Indian public can take the Pills
and use his Ointment, according to general directions, as
a Cockney would do within the sound of Bow bell. We
find him again at Hong Kong and Canton, making his.
medicines known to the Celestials by means of Chinese,
translation. We trace him from thence to the Phalle-
pine Islands, where he is circulating his preparations us
the native languages. At Singapore he has a large depot :
his agents there supply all the islands in the Indian Seas.
His advertisements are published in most of the papers
at Sydney, Hobart Town, Launceston, Adelaide. Port
Philip, and indeed in almost every town of that vast por-
tion of the British empire. Returning homewards we
find his Pills and Ointment selling at Valparaiso, Lima,
Callao, and other ports in the Pacific. Doubling the
Horn, we track liim in the Atlantic—at Monte Video,.
Buenos Ayres, Santos Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, and Per-
nambuco : he is advertising in those parts in Spanish and
Portuguese. In all the British West India Islands, al;
also in the Upper and Lower Canadas, and the neigh..
bouring provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick,
his medicines are as familiarly known, and sold by every
druggist, as they are at home. In the Mediterranean we
find them selling at Malta, Corfu, Athens, and Alexan-
dria, besides at Tunis and other portions of the Barbary
states. Any one taking the trouble to look at the
" Journal " and " Courier" of Constantinople, may find
in these, as well as other papers, that Holloway's medi-
cines are regularly advertised and selling throughout the
Turkish empire ; and even in Russia, where an almost
insurmountable barrier exists, the laws there prohibiting
the entree of patent medicines, Holloway's ingenuity hag
been at work, and obviates this difficulty by forwarding
supplies to his agent at Odessa, a port situated on the
Black Sea, where they filter themselves surreptitiously
by various channels into the very heart of the empire.
Africa has not been forgotten by this indefatigable man,
who has an agent on the River Gambia ; also at Sierra
Leone, the plague-spot of the world, the inhabitants rea-
dily avail themselves of the Ointment and Pill ; thus we
can show our readers that Holloway has made the com-
plete circuit of the globe, commencing with India and
ending, as we now do, with the Cape of Good Hopei,
where his medicines are published in the Dutch and Eng-
lish languages • and while speaking of Dutch, we have
heard that he has made large shipments to Holland, and
is about advertising in every paper or periodical published
in that kingdom : we might add that he has also started'
his medicine in some parts of France, in some portions of
Germany, as also in some of the Italian states. We have
been at some little trouble to collect all these facts, be-
cause we fear that the article before alluded to, " The
Art of Making Money," is calculated to lead people to
spend their means in the hope (as the author states) of
making a hundred thousand pounds in six, years for his
pains, by holding up as an easy example to follow such a
man as Holloway. who is really a Napoleon in his way.
Many may have the means, but have they the knowledge,,
ability, energy, judgment, and prudence necessary ? Fail-,
ing in any one of these requisites, a total loss is certain.
Holloway is a man calculated to undertake any enterprise
requiring immense energies of body and mind. No doubt
he has been well repaid for all his labours; and is, we
should suppose, in a fair way of making a large fortune.
Of course it is not to our interest to deter the public from
advertising; but, as guardians of their interest, we think
it our incumbent duty to place a lighthouse upon wit.t.
we considered a dangerous shoal, which. ?nay perhaps
sooner or later prevent shipwreck and non to the san-
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The editor of the "Edinburgh Review, in a number
san-
guine and inexperienced about to navi.gatexi.such waters.
published about three years ago, stated, that he consi-
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generation to come, it win.
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required by the present class of large advertisers. At
prominently set forth ; and if these remarks,
conjointly
that period Holloway's node of advertising was most
be known to what ex
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extent the subject of this
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able to carry out his views together with the
with his, should descend to a
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