The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-04-21 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

LEEDS.—There has been rather more activity in the wool-
len, trade since our last than for some time previously, espe-
cially in the warehouses. It is understood that the demand
is principally to meet the domestic summer trade. There is
not, however, any improvement in prices, which are gene-
rally complained of as being unremunerating.
BRADFORD.—There was nothing worthy of remark in the
transactions at this market on Thursday. The quantity of
business done was about the average of some weeks past,
the principal demand being for plain and Alpalha figures,
which are low in stock, and the prices also very low. The
yarn and wool markets were equally dull, and the transac-
tions very few.

HECICIVIONDWIKE.—Very little business continues to be
done in the Blanket-hall, and that little at ruinous prices to
the manufacturer. At this season of the year the makers
usually are chiefly employed for the American market, and
during the summer months ; there is, however, scarce any-
thing doing at present, and but little prospect of any amend-
ment.—Leeds Intelligencer.
LANCASIIIRE.—The silk and cotton trade, with but few
exceptions, continue in a very depressed state in Manchester
and the neighbouring towns. Silk dyers, however, are fully
employed. The hating trade at Oldham, Denton, and Ash-
ton-under-Lyne, is moderately brisk. The operatives gene-
rally are very badly off. A cotton-spinner, in 1810, received
16s. Bd. for a certain kind of work, for which he now can
get only 2s. 9d. In the flannel trade at Rochdale, good
bands, when fully employed, get only from 6s. to Bs. per
week.—Preston Chronicle.

LEICESTER.—There is not the slightest improvement in
the demand. The Leicester staple trade has not been so
depressed for a great many years as it is at the present mo-
ment, and no hope of amendment for the next month or two.
But little is doing in wool.—Leicester Chronicle.
METALS.—The market for metals has not exhibited any
change in the quotations, and the business has been generally
very small throughout the week. The stock of East India
tin is much reduced, but the prices are not higher than 745.
for Straits, and for Banca 78s. per cwt. Spelter has been
sold in small quantities at £2O, delivered on the spot.

MOST EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF GROSS SUPER,
STITION-A FAIRY ! ! !

(From the Tipperary Constitution.)
CORONER'S INQUEST.—We have frequently heard and
read of the Irish peasantry, but we believe we may with
safety affirm, that a case which displayed greater ignorance
and cruelty than the one we are about to detail, never came
before the public eye. When first we heard the circumstances
connected with it, we really could not give credence to them.
Although we are aware of the unenlightened state in which
the peasantry of this country are kept, still we could not for a
moment conceive that in the nineteenth century—in the pre-
sent drgy, when we hear so much about " moral information"
—there could be found a body of persons so dead to eyery
sense of religion, so sunk in the depths of grossest super-
stition, so devoid of the commonest feelings of humanity, as
to have recourse to the practises which will appear in the
s o f the ca
''e i—A man of the m investigation that we this day lay before our readers.
sllichwillappearmore
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es
Mahony, intlie
evidence,
The facts t
are simply
Mahony, who lives on the demesne of Heywood, the pro-
perty of Charles Riall, Esq., had a son of the age of six or
seven, a most delicate child. It
appears the boy had been
confined to bed for two years, with an affection of the spine,
and, being a very intellectual child, and accustomed to make
the most shrewd remarks about everything he heard and
saw passing around him, his parents and the neighbours
were led to the conclusion that he was not the son of his
father, but that he was a fairy !!! Under this impression,
a consultation took place at the house of Mahony,and the
result
result was, that the intruder front the " good people" should
be frightened away ; and, accordingly on Tuesday night last,
the poor dying child was threatened with a red hot shovel and
ducking under a pump, if he did not disclose where the real
successful were the actors in their
scheme, John Mahon!, was ; and so
ofthe fairy,
their
expulsion the fairy, that the feeble
scheme, devised for the
hotshovel, and
being held near the also having
child, after
been taken part of thh way to the pump, told them he was a
•
Muhony
fairy, and that he would send back the real John
Gave him that night's lodybO.
the next evening, if they ._
h 1 t
This occurred on Tuesday rag t. as , and the child was dead
the next morning.

We heai that it is in contemplation greatly to enlarge the
present station of the London and Birmingham Railway.--
Birmingham Advertiser.