The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-24 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER.---There was not quite so much business
doing yesterday, as on the preceding Tuesday, and price,
both of goods and yarn, may be considered a shade lower
than on that day. The diminution in demand appears to
have arisen from the rapid decline in the price of cotton, at
Liverpool, last week, and the uncertainty of the buyers as to
the extent to which that reduction may proceed, rather than
from any real deterioration in this market.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, JAN. 20.—
The flannel market to-day has been more than usually dull,
and the sales have been very limited. Work begins to be
scarce, and the labouring classes are at the present time suf-
fering great privations. Some twelve months ago, a dwel-
ling house could with difficulty be obtained ; but now, " this
house to be let," is posted in every part of the town.—ln
the wool market there is no change to report prices remain
firm.

HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, JAN. 2l.—This market pre-
sented much the same appearance as last week, there being
considerable inquiry after most descriptions of woollen and
fancy goods. The sales effected were • not extensive, but
prices remain firm. Great caution is exercised by all parties,
and the severe struggle will doubtless terminate in a gradual
advance in the price of goods. Wools are in tolerable de-
mand. In short, it is evident there is a gradual but very
slow change for the better ; but little Gontidence of permanent
improvement is entertained without a complete repeal of the
corn laws.—Manchester Guardian.

BLACKBURN.—Through the past week our trade has been
less animated than during the three or four weeks last pre-
ceding; and in some descriptions of both yarns and goods,
recent prices are barely maintained.—Blackburn Standard.

CURIOUS QUARANTINE FOR CONSCIENCE' SAKE.—The
legislature of Georgia has passed a law, ordaining that all
vessels from any port of Maine, arriving at any port in
Georgia, are to be detained in qugrantine one hundred days.
This most laughable law has been enacted because the go-
vernor and citizens of Maine have certain conscientious scru-
ples about slaves and the slade trade. If every state should
pass a (similar law, quarantining the vessels of other states
who differed from them in matters of conscience, what a cu-
rious state of things would ensue all over the country ! The
Philadelphians would pass a law quarantining all honest men
who might arrive, lest.they might, convert their own citizens
to the paths of prompt payments ; the Massachussetts
lature might quarantine all vessels on board of which any man
drank less than fifteen gallons ; the territory of Florida would
quarantine all who objected to hunting down Indians with
bloodhounds, and so the game would go round the union.
We must mark the effects of this movement.—New York
paper._
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LAMENESS OF TAE HORSE.—Three things must exist be-
fore a horse can be called lame. , There must be pain ; that
pain must • be. aggravated by motion ; and the horse must
show, by his movements, that he tries to prevent the augmen-
tation of the pain. We see the last, and we infer the ex-
istence of the two first. We know that he never pretends to
feel that which is not. . When he is lame in one of the fore-
legs, the head is alternately raised and depressed; as the
weight is thrown upon the tender limb, the head rises ; and
it sinks as the weight is transferred to the sound leg, which
is thrown forward much quicker than the other, in order that
the weight of the body may rest as transiently as possible
upon that which is diseased.- When the pain is seated in any
part of a hind leg, there is little or no up-and-down motion
of the head ; but the affected limb moves more slowly than
the other, which is jerked forward by a rapid or convulsive
effort. The body also rises a little as it is passing over the
diseased leg. When lameness exists in both fore or both
hind-legs, it is not so easily detected, especially if the pain
be equally great, or nearly so, in each. But the step is short
and 'cautious, and the foot is placed gently and timidly upon
the ground.—Stewart's Advice to .Purchasers of Homes.
GROGGY TIORSES—that is, horses having disease of a small
joint of the-foot, are very often lame on both, and the, lame-
uess is much less evident than it would be, were only one foot
affected. They have a peculiar kind of action ;- it is low and
confined. Their steps are short ; the foot skims the ground;
they set it down very gently, and they go much upon the toe.
They have been called daisy-cutters. Besides the lameness,
there is an unnatural degree of heat in the hoof, which is
often much contracted. This, which is sometimes termed
progyy lameness. is very common, and is seldom curable.
Light or fast-working horses are much more liable• than
others ; and the disease occurs only in the fore-feet. Many
work for a long time, even in stage-coaches ; but it is painful
to see them.—Stewart's Advice to Purchasers of Horses.