The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-12 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

MANCHESTER, Nov. 10.—There was little change in the
market yesterday. Owing to the advance of the season, and
the non-arrival of a Hamburgh mail, the demand for 'yarn
for the continent of Europe has considerably abated ; but no
material alteration has taken place in prices. Manufactured
goods, with the exception of fustians, continue greatly de-
pressed, and it is difficult to force sales without submitting
to serious sacrifices. Some attempts have been making to
bring about a more general agreement for limiting the hours
of labour ; but hitherto, we believe, without success.

ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, Nov. B.—We have to-day
a very good demand for flannels at previous prices. The
number of buyers in the market was rather smaller than
usual ; but those who did attend purchased very freely. The
wool market continues in the same languid state, manu-
facturers buying only from hand to mouth.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, Nov. 9.—This was a far duller
market than had been anticipated. Few buyers were present,
and comparatively few goods were sold. Notwithstanding
this, the demand for wools was considerable ; and a general
feeling obtains, that a few weeks will witness a revival of
trade.

CoLNE.—The following extract of a letter from a person
employed in putting out work to weavers near Colne, gives a
lamentable, and we fear but too correct, view of th con-
dition of the hand-loom weavers in that neighbourhood :
" I delivered out work which will be 1000 pieces on Saturday ;
and, from the state in which weavers are, I shall have 800 of
them in this week. I never knew such scrambling for work
in all the bad times which I have seen; I could not make it
pitiful tales. One poor widow, with four
or five children, when she found the warps were done, actually
i last
g ntfoo for
hear every
thei r family to have some; it was really heart-rend-
burst out into bitter wailing, but we cannot help it; it is of
no use offering to go on, if no sales can be made."

STOCKPORT.—We are sorry to state, that there is yet no
improvement in the cotton trade of this neighbourhood. The
greatest part of the mills continue to work short time ; and
the extensive manufactories of Messrs. Lane and Sons, and
, upwards of seventy
that of Messrs. Carr and Co. which were stopped a few
months ago, are still closed. Wretchedness and distress are
of Stockport,
daily on the increase, and every week adds considerably to the
number of parties whose only means of support is parochial
families,relief. llwuirioi n oonmotiliethstownship
but who had been driven to the necessity of applying for
parochial relief, have been removed from the township to
Lad no
their respective places of settlement. Several manufacturers
have again given notice to reduce the wages of the over-
lookers, mechanics, and other hands in their employ. On
Saturday last, the town was visited by Mr. A. H. Wylie, a
gentleman from the Horne-office, who made very particular
inquiries regarding the existing distress. •

ADULTERATION OF Su GAR.--At Carlisle, two respectable
grocers were brought before the magistrates, on Thursday
week, charged with mixing their sugar with potato starch.

The ltev. William Moxon Mann bas been presented to
the perpetual curacy of Thorntliwaite, Keswick, void by the
death of the Rev. Joseph Lancaster; patron, the vicar of
Crosthwaite.