The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-20 00:00:00

SPATE OF TRADE.

( From the LePdi Intelligence,...)
TR ow rite LEEDS.—The demand for goods has been pretty
unirm fie during the last three or fur weeks, fully as touch busi-
ness having been done as usual at this season in ordinary years.
Prices are nearly stationary, and remaining firm.
BRA DFORD MA R KET.—There was an improved demand for
manufactured goods at this market, on Thurstlay.atulfhere was,
in consequence, more briskness in the yarn market, with prices
looking up. It the wool market, a good deal of business was
done, and prices remarkably Brut.
ANCHRSTER.--Weare glad to state that there was a decided
improvement in business• at the market yesterday, to the de f
mend both for goods and yarns; and on several descriptions 'Of
goods particularly on shillings, an advance of from 3d. to lid,
per piece was very readily obtained. Indeed-business geerally.
h
was decidedly more brisk that is usual at this•period of the year.
~A failure of swine inagnitude has bees announced withifc.lt-fefr•
stuys,; but not being connected with the.staple trade.of thertown;
it has not produced much sensation.—Guardian.
BoCH DA LE FLANNEL MARKET, DEC. -11.-The market hats
been rather. doll, and the goods sold have been ut prices some-
what lower than those of the previous week. Wool has main
twined its price to.day, and in some cases, a few shillings per
pack more have- been obtained. At this time of the veer the
tlexttentt.tie,tlebausbiynetsbseis.ifeegitieornailnl doll! btebee.,w,
bn e
err. r.(11. tires
l!ilesti nygearrli
sy
an exception, the trade being brisk through the whide of the
Atwinter.
manufacturers"nt
t h,,tigbartehen,s,:ogcivkisnigitoi
vrthatir:ld-iiiwreorvke,ryntiligah,...
count of the many light
many f
the.
countermanded orders, and the very preva-
lent expectation Ihat wool will be lower in price. It will yet
admit of a considerable reduction, for pieces are sel:itig for
„even, or eight shillings a couple less at the present time, than
factories building, bwuillildti!l:4.l4.;sion an increased
they were six or seven weeks since. The flannel business is
tiharfbe'oerur::::l:(h).lholeiu:g:eirif;actl hands are DOW pretty well em-
greatly' on the increase in this town. There are at present no
Iwo of which are
demandpirieel "o t Syer:eri xd• readythan
fr

GitiNntNr; Tits Pooe.—At the meeting of the Stamford
Union, no Saturday se'nnight, the guardians received a 'letter 1
from Mr. Culso;t, Assistant l'tmr Lew Commissiotier, recont-
mending that all relieC•whether medical or pecuniary, be given
in the first instance only a 4 it loan, the guardians keeping to
themselves the right. at a future period, either to call on the win-
ner for repayment, or to remit it altogether. i i
.....ie guardittne
carried a resolution in conformity with the commissioners' re.
W
quest. The chaplain of the anion was refused e surplice until
the new workhouse be completed.— Lineninrhire Chronicle.
TO ENJOY .1 Iltne..----A lady from Patrington took her
gigde p,aartt
tu:ned fer:ii mb y H
au l lmoanednesday evening last, at dusk, in a
le s
..,rvant.on horseback. After passing
Winestead, (about fifteen mites from Hull ) the moon being
then rising, the servant a pptaised his mistress that something
'-es hanging from under the carriage and likely to bi lost.—
She initnediatelv stopped the horse,
la hen, to the infinite sur-
prise, a little boy about seven years (,),d was.frund upon the axle.
tree, lying upon his belly. with Pile leg ou each side, and his
arms firmly grasped round the eivi rail of the gig llama. It,
this manner the'boy had travelled all theWayfinnl Hull, with
one of his toes occasionally trailing upon the road, until his
shoe
was worn throwh. Ile way then taken home by the hide, sod
on Friday morning he was forwarded under the ears of :fir.
Pinder, the driver I,f the mail coach, to Ball, where he was joy-
fully received by his almost inconsplable ft ieiids, who had hail
him cried by Hie bellinan the do,i',!livP)re, and were proceeding
to do the same agioll.. Hiai,parli ip YVr,leA Antlerson, and his
mother a chiirwoman in' tVe'l:'Velfft, r .hr hltUhtsil been p as-
ing about the gir after' liaelit-i,g.,,,,00,i711 arik sutterea hirnselt to
bqdriyeti awe!: For tJasaftioi,ll-1441.-7444/{,9lts,erser,