The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-11-13 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

Ligna.—There is considerable activity in the demand for
woollen cloths, principally, it is understood, for foreign con-
sumption, and in execution of the orders brdught by the
Great Western and subsequent packets. The market on
Tuesday was not quite so brisk as the one on Saturday, but
there was a fair business done. Wool continues firm in
price.
BaAnFoan.—Our market here, on Thursday, was about an
average one, but there was little of the animation visible some
few weeks ago. The sales of manufactured goods were not
large, but there was a brisk demand for yarn at firm prices.
Wool was consequently better to sell, and as the stocks are
tot large prices underwent a slight improvement.
HUDDERSFIELD.—We had a very good market here, on
Tuesday, both in the piece-hall and iu the merchants' ware-
houses. A large business was done in doeskins and tweeds
of good quality and pattern, which generally realised former
prices. It is understood that several orders have been issued
for goods for the spring trade, so that there is a fair prospect
of the operatives being tolerably employed during the winter
mouths. This has given considerable firmness to the wool
market, and the middle and lower qualities of wool are look-
inctip in price.
kiIiCKMONDWIK R MARKET.—.The demand for blankets
continues but moderate, and although on last Thursday's
market there were more merchants, yet the quantity of goods
manufactured is greater than the demand. This causes
prices to decline a little, although wool maintains its price.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, Nov. s.—The demand for
coarse goods has been uncommonly brisk to-day, and the
market has been cleared of pieces of that description; the
last week's prices have been freely given. Wool remains
arm, and has undergone no change.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, Nov. 9.--We have a steady
and regular demand for all descriptions of combing as well as
short wools this week, and fully maintain the late advances
in them.

YORK WOOL MARKET, Nov. B.—Our supply to this day's
market has been chiefly warehoused wool. must of which has
found takers at prices nominal upon our last reports. These
markets will be continued fortnightly.
OLDHAPC—The working of the machinery of the Oldham
cotton mills "short time," was expected to have been much
more general than it has proved to be; nearly forty small
concerns, chiefly waste spinuing, machinery, are in operation
short time only ; most of the large manufactories are work-
ing full time. The demand for line as well as coarse yarns is
slack, but tolerable business is doing in power-loom cloths.
METAL MARKET, Nov. 7.—We have little information to
convey relative to the state of the Metal Market. The de-
mand for metals has certatnly not decreased since our last
notice; but it has not made that advance which bad been an-
ticipated from the reports so current as to the issuing of ex-
tensive orders from the American houses, for goods of the
manufacture of the town and district. Our quotations for the
respective qualities of Copper, are £9O, £92, £94. 'Fin,
£B5 for common blocks; £B7 for liars, and £9O for refined.
Spotter ranges between £23 and £2s.—Birmingham psi!er.
THE TEA TRADE, Moe pa r.—The deliveries of this ar-
ticle were last week again larger, having amounted to
518,8611h5. The trade is tolerably brisk.
The silk trade in Nottingham has again turned; there are
some very extensive orders in town, and there is a be:ter
prospect for silk hosiery than has been known for sonic
months pact. —Notts Review.
THE ASIRRiCAN TRADE.—We congratulate our fellow-
townsmen upon the prospect of a very improved state of trade
between this country and America during the ensuing winter.
It was stated by one of our most active merchants, at a pub-
lic dinner last week, that orders to the amottla of at least one
hundred thousand posn:ls were received by the Greet Western
when she arrived from her October trip across the Atlantic.
—Birmingham Advertiser of 771 IA reday.
The shipping trade at present is remarkably good in Leith.
The docks exhibit a greater show of business than for some
time past. A fine American ship, the Merchant, a tem-
perance vessel, is discharging a cargo of upwards of S(X) bbds.
sad tierces of Virginia tohaccco. Other vessels are discharg-
ing fruit and wine, and several with large cargoes of flex,
tallow, and other Baltic produce. In consequence of these
foreign arrivals, the coasting trade has improved in a corre-
sponding degree.—Dumfries herald
The state of trade in Newtown, Montgomeryshire, is very
far from being satisfactory, the price of wool being 15 per
east, higher than at the corresponding period of last year,
and goods selling at nearly the same prices. Manufacturers
complain, as it is serious with those who must throw their
goods on the market; but the large manufacturers have com-
menced holding for next season. The state of the water and
the weather generally are exceedingly unfavourable for fluish-
ing.—Shrewsbury Chronicle,
Llanidloes Flannel market on Monday was very ill supplied
with goods, in consequence of the previous bad finishing
weather. It is scarcely possible to give any proper quotation
of prices, as the quantity of business transacted was consider-
ably less than for the last six months. Several buyers at-
tended.—lbid.

AN APOLOGY FOR A M tsTAKE.—We are informed that an
tipology was posted on the gate of Emel Castle, addressed to
r. Johnston Stoney, stating that he was not the person in-
tended to be shot, and hoping he would overlook the little
aeeidenr he bad met with.—Newcastle Guardian.

It appears that the practice of scraping with the feet as an
sraprussou of disapprobation, familiar in our Universities, is
of venerable antiquity, for Peter Martyr f 1119) mentions
that be was saluted with it before finishing a discourse on one
of the satires of Juvenal, by one or two idle youths dissatisfied
with its length.
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EXPLOSION OF A POWDER MILL AT FAVERSHAM.—At
ten minutes before 11 nu Thursday morning last, the dread-
ful report of one of the corning mills of Mr. Hall, at Oare,
containing half a ton weight of treble powder, produced uni-
versal consternation in the town and neighbourhood. The
mill in question was situated about three quarters of a mile
from the town. The injury sustained by the extensive des-
truction of windows and buildings generally is trifling when
compared with the loss of life. 'Three unfortunate men, who
Worked in the mill, have met an untimely end; two only of
these have yet been found. Their bodies (or portions of
bodies, for they were rent asunder) presented an awful spec-
tacle. A man, named Thomas Adsley, was sowing wheat in
an adjoining field, and was killed by a piece of timber, which
cut his body asunder, breaking his leg and head. Fragments
of the building were blown to the extent of half a mile, and
the trees surrounding split asunder. The house of a Mr.
?fink, im.particular, the storekeeper, has suffered great in-
MY; the windows are blown Dot, and- nearly every pane of
OW is the dwelling broken.