The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-22 00:00:00

CHESHIRE AND WALES.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for
the week ended 13th Feb. 1853 :—Railway : Passengers,
parcels, &c., £1,897 18s. 9d. ; goods : £1,025 2s. 5d.—
Steamboats : Passengers, parcels, &c., £224 14s. 6d. ;
total, £3,147 15s. Bd. Increase as compared with the cor-
responding week last year, £633 3s. sd.

THE STANDING ORDERS have been declared complied
with in the following case :—Birkenhead Docks: To
make a branch line, and sell or lease undertaking to
Great Western, London, and North-western, or other
railway company ; cost of branch, £12,000.
AIR. DANIEL HERBERT, the father of the Chester
coaching trade, died in that city last week. He drove the
first mail between London and Lichfield.

WIRRAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—In consequence
of the severe frost, the annual Exhibition and Ploughing
Match of this society, which was fixed for to-morrow, has
been postponed until Thursday, next week.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

THE CHASE.

The CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet on

To-morrow (Wednesday) the 23rd instant, at .... Withington
Thursday, the 24th, at
Saturday, the 26th, at
Each day at half-past ten o'clock.
The NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE HOUNDS will meet on
This day (Tuesday) the 22nd instant, at

Stoke -Heath

Friday, the 25th,at
Each day at half-past ten o'clock
Sir W. W. WYNN'S HOUNDS will meet on

This day (Tuesday) the 22nd instant, at
Wednesday, the 23rd, at
Friday, the 25th, at
Saturday, the 26th, at
Each day at half•past ten o'clock

. St. Martin's
Pentre Bychan
▪ Sarn Bridge
• Bryn-y-pys

MARKETS.

MARKETS FOR MANUFACTURES.

MANCHESTER.—The narket has continued quiet throughout
the week, but without prAlucing any marked decline in prices.
Both goods and yarns may be obtained on easier terms; the
reduction of price is, hcwever, inconsiderable, the absence of
stocks, and the engagements held by producers, being suffi-
cient to sustain the market pretty generally. We noticed last
last week that the market was not active, and this week this
inactivity has been increased by the tenor of the American
advices, which indicate enlarged receipts of Cotton and lower
prices, contemporanecusly with commercial accounts from
India of a rather less favourable character. The unfavourable
influence of the American advices was more perceptible on
Monday and Tuesday than it has been since. The steadiness
and partial recovery of the Liverpool cotton market has pro-
duced a somewhat similar feeling here, and although buyers
are exceedingly cauthus and disinclined to give out orders, in
no case is much disposition manifested by producers to give
way. In Yarns there is a very perceptible dulness. The
demand for India Ilis very materially fallen off, and pi ices are
in favour of the buaer, but irregular, much depending upon
the position of the parties. There is very little demand for
the continent of Europe, and Yarns for that quarter are the
turn lower. In Goods there is considerable firmness, prices
not having moved up to the same extent for years: printing
cloths are particularly firm and scarce, and still in demand.
Other kinds of goods continue without any further change
han a slight turn in the buyer's favour.
ROCHDALE.—',%e have had rather a still market, and little
or no change in prices. Wool continues much the same both
in price and demand.
MACCLESFIELD.—Our manufacturers continue actively en-
gaged for the spring trade. Many houses are working to
orders, and the stocks of goods on hand are quite insignificant.
Weavers, for theseason, have fuller employment than has been
known for several years past. The silk dyers are also busy,
which is a good indication that preparation is general.
HUDDERSFIELD.--The Cloth hall presents quite a deserted
appearance, from the want of stocks, most of the manufac-
turers working to order, who deliver their goods direct to the
warehouses, without passing through the hall. Business in
the warehouses is very brisk, merchants being able to com-
plete orders on hand only with time;
LEEDS.—Business has been pretty brisk with the commis-
sion hands out of the halls, and the mills continue in full em-
ployment. The advance in the price of Wool at the sales has
to some extent stimulated the wholesale houses to purchase
more freely, and goods to a full average extent have exchanged
hands in the warehouses since this day week. The shipping
houses hare also been more active this week than for several
weeks past.
BRADFORD.—WOOI The opening of the sales of Colonial
Wools in London, at an advance of Id. per lb. on October sales,
makes the holders here firm. In English Wools there is but
little doing ; all appear holding off, and working from stock
bought at the close of last year; but as this stock is daily de-
creasing, further supplies will be required, and a conflict be-
tween the bnyors and sellers is inevitable, before any active
buying will he apparent. Yarns : The decided firmness of all
kinds of English Wools, and the advance on Colonial, the ex-
travagant price of Gallipoli oil, now 70 per cent higher, makes
a considerable addition to the price of the top, and increases
the cost of Yarns at a period when the shippers' limits cannot
be met. The buyers on spool using less, in consequence of the
high price, there seems to be no alternative but an abridgment
in the production. Pieces : More inquiry among the mer-
chants for goods, and where lots are offered at old prices they
are freely accepted. But for the staple articles for spring and
summer trade, there is no unwillingness to order at prices
which will cover cost. In heavy goods, all Wool, the market
is firm.

NorrlNGHAM.—There is not anything new to report on the
condition of either the Hosiery or Lace trades, since our last ;
the principal, business doing in each being at this time to our
foreign possessions and anticipatory orders for the home spring
trade. The prices of Yarn for each trade is without alteration.

LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL NIARKET,
SATURDAY, FEB. 19.
s. 4. a. 4.
Hay, old,* st 0 6 61 0 S Potatoes,
Kew
Clover
Ditto, Green
Vetches 0 0— 0 0 Turnips, ton .18 0— 21 0
Straw, Wheat
Oat 0 2 0 *Mangelwurzel .. 19 0— 22 0
Barley

e. d. a. d•

ST. JOHN'S PROVISION MARKET,
SATURDAY, FEB. 19.

s. d. s. d. ; s. d. s. d
Beef vlb 0 5 to 0 8., 'Grapes,Eng.v. lt, 0 0 to 0 0
Mutton 0 6 0 8 ; Ditto, Foreign I 0— 1 6
Veal
Lamb, fore qr 0 0— 0 0 I Do. Eng. .... 6 0— 7 0
Do., hind qr 0 0— 0 0 ;Fowls, 3,. couple. 2 8— 3 6
Fresh Pork
Codfish 0 li— 0 3 (Turkeys.... each 2 6 8 6
Bret
Haddock
0 7 0 9
Soles
Salmon 2 6 0 0 IRabbits,:p cple. 1 9 2 0
Turbot
Fresh Butter .. 1 3 0 0 ;Grouse.. v brace 0 0— 0 0
Salt Ditto 0 8— 1 0 ;Black Game .... 0 0— 0 0
Lobsters .. each 2 0— 0 0 ;Pheasants 0 0— 0 0
Eggs y. 124 7 0— C 0 Partridges 0 0— 0 0
Potatoesop peck 1 0— 1 4 Woodcocks - 0 0
Asparagus 8 0— 0 0 Wild Ducks .... 4 0— 0 0
Cucumbers,each 1 6 2 0 Larks.— ga, doz. 1 6 0 0