The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-11 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

MANCHESTER.-A large amount of business has been
done during the last ten days, especially in yarns for India
and in goods suitable for the Mediterranean markets ; but
the feeling yesterday was not quite so buoyant as on the pre-
ceding Tuesday, and the demand was generally on a more
limited scale, but without any change in prices. Some little
flatness was, no doubt, caused by two failures reported in
Glasgow, by which some loss will be sustained in Manches-
ter; as well as one in Liverpool and another in Belfast, which,
though not materially connected with the trade of this dis-
trict, have still a tendency to diminish confidence. The pri-
vate accounts received from London are decidedly more fa-
vourable than for some days past. Saturday last was con-
sidered to have passed over more quietly than any fourth of
the month ever recollected at this season of the year, and
money was, consequently, abundant ; the bill-brokers being
glad to lend money, for short periods, on the stock exchange,
at four per cent.

ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, DEC. 6.
The market to-day has been worse than that of the preceding
Monday ; there have been fewer pieces sold, and, in some
cases, lower prices have been given. In the wool market,
there has been little doing ; but prices have undergone no

HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, DECEMBER B.—This market
s,, animated as last week ; but, generally speaking,
a fair winter trade is doing. The fact that the operatives are
mostly employed, and the mills continue working full time,
is certain evidence of a fair amount of orders in hand. Stocks
are by no means heavy, and prices remain firm. In the
warehouses a slight improvement is observable. On the
whole, the woollen trade is as good as usual at this season..—
.Manchester Guardian.

was not

Our Paris correspondent says that Marshal Vallee is re-
called from Algiers, and that General Cubieres to be the
new Commander in Chief.

The Spanish Regency is said to have addressed a note to
the French government, complaining of the menacing knot
of emigrants collected in Prris around the ex-Regent.
WINDSOR, SUNDAY EVENING.—The nursery and three
adjoining rooms at the castle, for the use of the infant prin-
cess and her royal highness's attendants, are nearly com-
pleted. They are very plainly furnished, and are most con-
veniently situated in the Victoria Tower, over the bed-room
which was occupied by her Majesty previous to her marriage.
They are a very short distance from her Majesty's chamber,
which is over the Augusta Tower. There is now not the
least doubt that her Majesty will spend Christmas at the

We regret to learn that up to this time no accounts have
ived of the Fairy surveying-vessel, Captain Hewett,
missing since the 13th ult., when she was last seen off Low-
estoffe. Had the vessel been wrecked or foundered off the
coast, some of the wreck would undoubtedly ere this have
come on shore, and we entertain the sanguine hope that she
has been driven off the land, and obliged to run for shelter
to a port in Norway. Several revenue vessels and the Sala-
mander steamer have been despatched in search of her, and
until these return the relatives of the crew should not
despair.—Naval and Military Gazette.
In ten years the Whigs have expended upwards of six
millions of money in providing for themselves and their
retainers by useless and obnoxious commissions, by the
creation of new places and the pensioning of numerous
members of their own party.
We find that the mate of the Cyclops, whose conduct
when leading the Turks at the taking of Sidon, obtained such
flattering approval, is the son of Lieutenant-General Sir H.
J. Cumming, colonel of the 12th royal lancers, and the same
officer who, when serving in her Majesty's ship Hastings,
saved on two different occasions the lives of two men, by
jumping overboard after them, the one the carpenter, the
other a seaman of that ship, for which the Royal Humane
Society awarded him a medal.
TROOPS TO INDIA.—The usual detachments for the three
Presidencies in India, are to be embarked in the course of
the ensuing month, or early in February. The united
strength of these detachments will be about 1500 or 1600
men ; that being the extent of the number of cavalry and
infantry soldiers belonging to the depots of regiments sta-
tioned in the East Indies who are now available for duty
there.—United Service Gazette.

been re

THE ROTATION SYSTEM.--The announcement contained
in our last Gazette, relative to the 22d Foot being under or-
ders for India, has been officially confirmed. The regiment
is to proceed to Bombay. The ten years' hard service which
it recently saw at Jamaica, coupled with its eight years' pre-
vious service in India—its stay of nine years at the Mauri-
tius, and its comparatively short tour of home duty, the
major part of which has been of a harrassing description in
Ireland, would certainly seem to give the 22d a strong claim
to a better station than Bombay, and which would, no doubt,
have been allotted to it, if the obnoxious farcical and unjust
rotation system had not been in existence.—United Service
Gazette.

CHESS IN THE CAFE DE LA REGENCE.—A certain man
was once seen, who spent daily six or seven hours at the
Regence for ten years, constantly occupied in poring over
the players, but refusing invariably to play himself, and never
speaking even a single word. A disputed point arose; the
galirie was thin, and the taciturn veteran was pressed into
the service of the umpire. Sorely pushed to decide the ques-
tion, monsieur owned that, so far from being a player, he
did not even know the moves of the pieces ! Astonished at
this, the query naturally came, Why, then, waste ten years
of life in looking over the board ? The reply was, that "he
was a married man, and did not care to go home !"—From
Fraser's Magazine for December.
A Cow WITH A WOODEN LEG.—About five months ago
a cow very heavy in calf, the property of Mr. F. Kearsey,
dairyman, of this town, was gallopping down a hill near Ben-
nail Wood, when she broke the master sinew of her near
fore leg. Mr. J. Ballinger, farrier, of Leckanapton, being
called in to attend her, amputated the foot at the fetlock,
and supplied a wooden one. About a month after the first
accident her foot caught in the ground, and her leg was
broken short off at the knee. Mr. Ballinger then supplied
her with a wooden leg. She has since calved, and con-
tinued to give milk up to the present time. She is now kept
in a stable near Mr. Kearsy's house in this town.—Chelten-
ham Free Press.

SIR ROBERT STOPFORD.—The recent splendid success of
the British navy, so generally interesting to the empire at
large, will be doubly so to our readers when we inform them
that Sir Robert Stopford—the gallant admiral in first com-
mand off St. Jean d'Acre—is brother to the Hon. and Rev.
R. B. Stopford, of Barton Segrave,in this county, and hence
related to several of our noble and most respectable North-
amptonshire families of good conservative politics. It re-
mains to be seen whether a peerage will be withheld an officer
so distinguished, simply because he is a conservative, and
whether the vacant situation at Greenwich will be a second
time assigned to a whig without reputation, in defiance of
what the whole nation are wishing, and all of England that
is worthy of thatnavy, are demanding—Northampton Herald.
ExTR &ORDINARY TUMOUR.—One of the most gigantic,
flesh, and cartilaginous tumours, which the annals of surgery
record, was removed on Sunday last from the back of a poor
labouring man, residing at Elmore, by Mr. Charles Clutter-
buck, surgeon, of this city. Its base extended along the
spine from the shoulders to the loins, with a diameter of
upwards of seventeen inches, and a eircurnfirence of about
four feet and a half. Its weight amounted to 261bs. ! The
patient, who is a tine strong man, upwards of six feet in
height, and about 48 years of age, bore' the severe operation
most heroically, and is now doing well. This tumour had
been only about two years in arriving at the above monstrous
dimensions, and its removal was necessary for the safety of
life, as the first stage of mortification had commenced. The
mere inconvenience to the poor man from carrying such an
immense mass about with him which must have been great,
and his misery was aggravated by his being unable to lie
down except upon his face. The operation was very skilfully
performed.—Gloucester Journal.

Upon unquestionably authority we now state, that imme-
diately after the birth of the Princess Royal it was decided by
the Government that there should not be a brevet, even on
the most limited scale. Whenever a brevet is in contempla-
tion estimates are required from the departments, but up to
this hour not a single calculation of expense has been made,
either at the Horse Guards or the Admiralty. Thus, unfor-
tunately, is verified to the very letter the statement we put
forth many months since, that a brevet depended on the birth
of a Prince of Wales. It will be borne in mind that no ac-
tual promotion has taken place since the accession of Queen
Victoria. At the coronation merely death vacancies were
filled up. This fact, of no general promotion having been
granted in a space of time during which a coronation, a roya
marriage, and a birth have transpired, is, we believe, without
a parallel in the history of this country, and as such it de •
serves to be recorded. We are well aware that the authori-
ties have endeavoured to fortify themselves by precedents
and have in their researches gone back even so far as the
, when no brevet was granted, but we
birth of George IV.
assert that there is no case equal in hardship to the present
Naval and Military Gazette.
THE BENCH.-It has been some time known, if not to all
the world, at least to that very large part of it, the legal
body, that it is the intention of one of the highest function-
aries of that profession, Mr. Justice Littledale, to retire
from the bench at the close of his labours for the present
term. This retirement indeed has been long expected, and
would, in all probability, have occurred ere this, had not the
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devotion of the learned judge in question to his office—a
de-
votion carried well nigh to a doating passion—kept his re-
solve
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But
sectionbe this
of the barat unless the expec-
tations
are destined to be
as it may,
wofully cheated, the retirement of Mr. Justice Littledale at
Christmas may be considered certain. Of all the supporters
of the Melbourne administration among the legal profession,
Mr. Erle, the whiy member for our city, is, by all ac
counts, the man destined to astonish the world by the ad-
vancement of his brilliant array of talent to the bench.
Others, we are aware, have been named, (the seats of all as
slippery we trust as his,) but we hear from the very best
authority that Mr. Erle is to be the fortunate man. This
elevation will, of course, occasion a vacancy for this city.—
Oxford Herald.

CLOSE OP TIE EXHIBITION.
rirRE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION of the
LIVERPOOL-ACADEM Y of WORKS of MODERN
ARTISTS WILL CLOSE on SATURDAY, the 19th
instant. The Academy is open from Nine until Dusk.
Admission, Is. Catalogues, Is.
Also, every Evening, BRILLIANTLY ILLUMINATED
BY GAS, from Seven o'clock until Ten. Admission, ls.
SAMUEL EGLINGTON,
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Exhibition Rooms, Postoffice-place,ecretary to the Academy.
10th December, 1840.

THE THREE CARACCI,
(FROM THE SCHOOL OF BOULOGNE.)
THE celebrated PAINTINGS of Subjects from Religious
History, by ANNIBAL, AGOSTINO, and LUDOVICO
CARACCI, are NOW ON VIEW at the UNION GALLERY,
Slater-street, (out of Bold-street,) from Ten till Four o'clock
by daylight, and from Four till Tea o'clock in the Evening,
brilliantly illuminated with gas.
ADMITTANCE—ONE SHILLING.
JOHN BENTLEY, Keeper.