The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-14 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

LE,Ens.7,The markets
_since our last have worn a firmer
aspect than -for some -weeks past, but the actual amount of
business transacted has not been materially •augmented., It
is satisfactory, however; to learn that several of our local es-
tablishments which had -for some time been doing4r merely
nominal business bars begun to employ additional bands, and
others have extended their hours of labour. strong hopes
are, therefore, entertained that ere long the woollen district.
will exhibit much of its wonted activity. • • ' •
liasnrouri MArtKET.—The attendance of buyers .at .cur
market on Thursday, was somewhat better than of late, but
the amoun t of business transacted was not materially, increased.
ifotli the yarn and wool markets were very languid, and the
prices underwent particular change.
DEIVS;II7IIY.—Nfost of the blanket markets in and near
Dewsbury are doing but little, and the number of persons out
of employ went are daily on the increase. We hope to' see.
something in the shape of ageneral subscription entered into
for their relief. Great distress prevails, and the inhabitants
of Dewsbury are not backward in relieving distress when ap-
plied to.
WAKEFIELD WOOL .TVIARKET,. JAN. 10.—The improve-
ment in demand noticed in our last report for all kinds of both
combing- and clothing wools is fully maintained ; there is,
boweVer, hitherto, no corresponding advance in prices, and
those obtained hear no proportion toothe price required by the

growers.
• LBICESTER.—The demand continues very dull; no foreign
orders have been received. The glove and fancy trade are
much depressed ; in the fancy trade an additional number
of hands have been discharged. Most Of the mills are run-
ning short time ; but little is doing in wool. It is selling for
less, ,by the wool-staplers, than it can, at the present time,
be purchased for by the growers. The stocks of wool in the
hands of the dealers and spinners are small.—Lcicester

MANCHESTER COTTON TRADE, FRIDAY EVENING.—
In consequence of spinners and manufacturers generally
asking an advance on the rates of laSt week, but little busi-
ness has been done ; still goods and yarns suitable for the
Indian.market have gone off at a trifling' .improvement since
this day se'night. The advance established on printing cloth
from the lowest point may be noted at 3d to a piece, and
price's are quite firm at that improvement. It is understood
that considerable quantities of yarn have been disposed of by
parties not immediately .connected with the trade, and which
has been held for some time, w hilst the quantity direct from
the spinner to the shipper has for the same period been but
small. On the whole however, thinks are decidedly better.
THE IRON Tr:Aim—Compared with what it has been at
many periods, the present price of iron is by no means high ;
and this trade has suffered, like most others, from-the gene-
ral pressure on the money Markel. Bar iron in Wales is now
quoted as low as from .£8 .1.5 s to £B., lgs per ton; 'a gradual
.reduction, amounting altogether. to about As per ton, having
taken place since the spring of last year. There' has :not,
however, beenibe least reduction in the rate of workmen's
;wages, which.still. contiunci higher than tbey,have been .at. any
former period ; airording, in truth, ai larger return for labour
than it has ever before acquired in 'any part of the:, torld.;---
.S'iturian.

In the market for metals the business has been much more
limited than in the preceding week, although the quotations
have., b<cu maintained. -British copuer is the_only article
which is higher, but the advance has-been very small, and is
attributed to the low state of the stocks on hand. •

DANIEL O'CONNELL.

(From tl.•e Times%)

Unriddle us this, good readers, if ye can. A " distin-
guished Irish gentleman," second to none in public repute,
happens to have a tritlinf, infirmity about him, whereby he
has become ahnost proverbial' for the fickleness of his friend-
ships. During a long and versatile life—now unhappily on
the wane—his uurepellable zeal in making political acquaint-
anceships has been surpassed, if we may venture to say it,
only by his whimsical dexterity in breaking and betraying
them. For the last 20 years we know of no public man on
the liberal side of politics (apart, of .course, from his own
immediate dependents) whom he bps not obsequiously fawn-
ed upon, and in six months afterwarda, computable by
Shrewsbury clock to a. minute, befouled and vilified with
every conceivable epithet of abuse. Politicians of every class,
Protestants o? every denomination, artisans and aristocrats,
Methodists and millowners, adversaries and associates, be-
reaved patents and helpless women—all have been subjected,
in turns, to the benedictions and 13illingsgate of this char-
tered libertine. The. Marquis of Anglesey and Viscount
Duncannon, Cobbett and Sharman Crawford,•
Whittle Harvey, ,and
.Fpargas O'Connor, Lord Brougham
and Wentworth Beaumont, Citizen. Roebuck and Sheriff
Raphael, Peter Purcell and: poar Miss Courtenay—alasl
where shall we end ?—ay, thowbole of theth, and hundreds
more, have..alternately bcca hugged and bated, caressed and
cursed, by the " distinguished .trish gentleman."
Now, with such irrefragable proofs of his volatile turn of
mind, be good etiougliftp tell us how it. is. that the political
compact which he made with the Melbourne ministry in 18.36
has, to this good hour, remained unbroken ?. Whenever his
liberal allies, possessing a particle of independence, have re-
fused to become his crouching slaves, he has invariably turn-
ed upon them like ariipfuriate boar. Thus, when Sharman
Crawford's sentiments and Sheriff Raphael's sovereigns were
found to he equally unavailable for his righteous purposes
(" say £2OOO for sir USE"), ,the ni
the
was denounced as
an intractable tory-radical, and thelatter as " the most in-
comprehensible of all imaginable vagabonds." -How happens
it, then, that this aistiiiguished gentleman's alliance with. the
whigs has, for ..bur lo 2ql gears, maintaineda degree of.stea-
diness, so utterly at variance with the ordinary phenomena
of his life? _

That he has no withheld from the a reasonable share of
sharpish speech as often as be fOund them either:slawit:lr
surly in executing his Lchests, must, wethinl:, be:genemily
admitted. We all recollect his ungQly virulence'. a.gaitist
poor Jiin, whose cle.vation to the peeragele endeavoured rto
ridicule by dubbing hini thes ungenteel., nickname. of
Lord Motintkite—a piece of rudeness which we, of course,
are utterly shocked at. Indeed, almost all his cabinet
drudges have, at one time.. oranothe,r,. been J;Sketi azdJace-'3'
rated by
.hies without- merep But this lort,lof:a4lipline,
. , .
excruciating -as.•its.yictu
nsmust have felt it to be, has never
once emboalenedthem to retaliate, nor. linzatal the
sliglltc:tt symptoms. of inipatience. The fact .is:• that the
whigs, too weak either to resist his deniacds.onto. resent4his
scertility, haveSonthi, that any. other, tone ,tovards, him than;
a,low and submiiii,ie one might lead to suchn,fatal, rupture,
a ~issuing in their, ejectment*froth.p G Cr, would farieit.,to
'bah their respective shari, of the spoils ;: while, on the other
'band; the distinguishedirish gentleman, knowing that, the,
existing ministry's continuance eilieo.isabsoLutely indis-
pensable far the s'lncess' Hlal and party extortions,
for aggrandising himself with a andlor oil-
ing the wheels.of the "Papal 1 Ferly endeavoured to
atone for his former treattneni- prat:Miming: them
the best ministry that evernxisted, by challenging thelaue,en.•
to change them if she dare F. 4 hurling deliance.at their poli-
tical opponents, and l,y coolly telling the people;ofz-England,7,
that if their representatives shall:have the effrontco,todis-
place the whigs, they -must,ansWee for it, -at their peril, to a,
victorious Irish -thob. :Yes ; this threatened.insurrection.
has been spoken or by its, distitignished fomenter, as if all
the munitions and resources- of rebellion. were in perfect ,
readiness ; as if a fleet of tranSPOrts were actually waiting to
convey to our shores the countless Popish myrmidons who
are to chastise the:white-livered -erairens of England; nay,
as if all the artillery of our Owlegallant garrisons were about
to be turned against-nS, and needed nothing but
,Sir Robert
Peel's acceptance of office •" to aWalten their dormant.thun-
. .
der."

But what mere sound and fury all this is! Can any mi-
nistry be forcibly retained in power :contrary to the will of
parliament
.and. the country ? Even on the Supposition that
a conservative government were already formed, could it
possibly continue in' the' direction of public affairs; unless
vigorously sustained by-the popular branch of the legislature ?
We need hardly remind the most ignorant of th 3 distin-
guished followers of the distinguished Irish gentleman, that
when any Cabinet_ have forfeited public confidence (even
though, by various arts, they. may retain that of the Sove-
reign), their .expulsion by parliament is a highly loyal duty,
as being needful tcleonnteract the deceptions and evil coun-
sels they may have' palmed upon the Crown ; and therefore,
if the British people shall, either by their representatives in
the present parliament,' or- by :an adequate majority in the
succeeding one, give solemn vac, indicating to her Majesty
an absolute necessity fOr a changed ministry,—does the dis-
tinguished Irish' gentleman 'mean us to understand that the
will of this great nation- is to be violently set aside by a bat-
talion of militant monks and the well-drilled squadrons of
Tipperary ? Alas; -what' would become of the extinguished
Irish gentleman !

• No-matter for that th.e• echoes of Dublin must, in the
meantime, ring to his trumpet blast, and those of St. James's
must he taught to 'reverberate- in loud and harmonious re-
sponse. We are to have no change of ministrY. Parliatrient
is roundly prohibited from' making the mad attempt; The
Whigs are to be maintained in office at the point of the
bayonet. The Papists 'of Ireland' have voted an address to
her Majesty, to remind the Queen, not merely that her
Popish subjects are the only loyal adherents to her " ancient
(Romish) throne," but thatif her Majesty, solemnly pledg-
ing herself henceforth to'be the Sovereign of a party, and not
of her people, shall put a final interdict upon the accession of
a Conservative ministry; ' no. sooner shall her faithful Com-
mons dare to assert' their constitutional rights in rega;:d to
such an interdict, than 100,000 Popish swords shall leap from
their scabbards to commence that exterminating war against
the liberties of England; which • shall never pause until her
streets are flooded, and-her furrows fattened, with the blood
.of her Protestant people:
.• '
Of the importance •attached to these warlike menaces we
have more than once• given our opinion ; yet we cannot re-
frain from wondering forwhat reason they haVe.been so tem-
perately abstained• from until this particular moment !. Why,
we had always understood that the very possibility of our
having a Conservative- government was regarded by the dis-
tinguished Irish gentleman as'a mere figment of romance.
But the very fact of•hie bestirring himself with so much
'savage earnestness •to .deprecate•the expulsion of the Whigs,
affords a strong presumptive proof that he himself believes,
in common with the whole conntry,•that their days are,ximn-
berecl:•7- Perhaps 'the vacant seats for Newark,,Devonport,
Falmouth, Southwark, Birmingham; and the
Tower Hamlets, which, were an amendment, upon the A-
ddress contemplated, would deprive the ministry of seven votes,
have filled him with• unusual- dismay. Let not his soul be
disquieted within him: • • Even if four of these seats were not
irretrievably lost to the Whigs; nothing on earth can now save
them. The distinguished Irish gentleman's troops mitstin-
evitably take the field ;• and in that case we again inqure, with
much solicitude, what shall become of the distinguished Irish
gentleman ?

. . .
There are now serving_ (inclding general officers with re-
giments) 581 officers .Rho served as officers in the Peninsula
and at Waterloo, and
.o.ut of these;226 have been.wounded.—
Limerick Chronicle.

PAGANINI IN.n,
.S.ciA.PE.—The Paris journals give an
account of a trial the, other day, in which the modern Orpheus
figured as defendant, and was found liable in damages to the
amount of 50,000, francs. TWo years ago; in conjunction
with certain other parties, he embarked in a scheme for the
establishment of a,Caaino, a.place'of public amusement, on.a
novel plan, consisting ofa
.fashionable club-house, concert-
rooms, a library, an athenaunn for scientific meetings, and
lectures. A joint-stock: company • was formed, of 700 shares
of 1,000 francs eacil, and the establishment was denominated
" The Casino. Paganini." Ilis performances were reckoned
upon as a principal. attraction, and he engaged to perform
nowhere else. A magnificent house and grounds were ob-
tained in the most fashionable.part of Paris, and the concern
commenced operatiOns • but, to the amazement of his-asso-
ciates, Paganini (who had' taken an active part in• the arrange-
bmeaeln; ethl itinso.auireadr,ar;:ieft.i
arrange-
ments, and occupied apartments at the Casino) refused to
at the
all the very first
aconcert,
sold at
I"ferainlaeds
each. In this coaduct h 6 persisted, noonithstanding the en-
treaties and 1-emOnstrauces of his associates; • and the public
considered the whole atrair a piece of humbug. The enter-
prise, consequently, was ruined ; and the parties,' who had
lost the large sum of money invested in it, sued Paganini for
damages occasioned
.by • his breach of faith. His defence
seems to have been.a series of quibbles. It was proved under
his hand that he.hadengaged to perform nowhere but at the
Casino ; but this, he pleaded, did not constitute any engage-
ment to, perform there. He also pleaded inability from ill
health : but it was proved that Ins health was as good as
usual, and that he was constantly fiddling within doors, tak-
ing as much care as 'Passible that nobody should have the
gratification of hearing him. At first, damages were given
against him to the amount of 20,000 francs;
but,both parties
having appealed; the 'result of the second trial, on the 3d
instant, was. that .the sum was enlarged to fifty thousand.
The
there in or, is inltaly sigor, we at p resent, but no doubt
made goo
perty • Prance from which the amount can be
od.