The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-05-21 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

There was no change in the market yesterday ; the demand
continued quite as inanimate as ever, and the gradually in-
creasing stocks of the spinners and manufacturers compelled
many persons to sell at prices involving the most ruinous
sacrifices. Nor does there seem to be the slightest prospect
of improvement, except from a great diminution of produce ;
and that diminution is no rapidly taking place. We under-
stand, that most of the spinners at Bolton, Rochdale, Bury,
and Lancaster, have commenced, or are about commencing,
to work four days per week only ; and there is some expec-
tation, that a similar measure will be very shortly adopted at
Preston, in which case we believe it will become quite gene-
ral throughout the district.—Manchester Guardian.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, MAY 17.—The
market has been of a very discouraging nature to-day, the
demand being very limited, and prices uncommonly low. The
wool market has been quite as bad as the piece market, with
little change in prices. The woollen and cotton trade in this
town are both growing worse, and several of the cotton fac-
tories are working only four days a-week. The poor-rates
are fast increasing, and the overseers find daily a greater
difficulty in collecting them.

How THE ANTI-CORN-LAW PETITIONS ARE GOT LP.—
There no doubt will be, by and bye, when the metropolitan
anti-corn-law petitions are presented to parliament, a fine cry
of exultation on
the part of ministerialists, relative to the
great number of signatures_ attached to the said petitions.
But let no one calculate the feeling of the inhabitants of
London with respect to the corn-laws according to that
number. Those signatures, .by fictitious means, will be
times their real. amount. The writer of swelled to twenty
this paragraph saw yqterday in N, hitechapel a butcher youth
sign exactly seven different petitions, attaching a different
name to each of them.
In that neighbourhood there are un-
der the archways
of yards, and other convenient places, pe-
tition-stalls placed, attended by a paid touter, who, after the
nolywell-street, solicit with next to
manner of the Jews of
onng and old, male and personalviolence all pas.sers-by?
etitionslying
.upon their desk -formed
fe-
male, to sign the p .
them stalls. Thousands sign em in ignorance, and visibly for
fun's sake. The bills of Dr. Eady are not more forcibly
thrust info one's hands than are the placards of the corn-law
leaguers. All this paraphernalia of agitation to keep minis-
ters in place must make a pretty deep hole in the secret-
service money, to fill up which some new Whig tax must be
invented, to be placed.on the already heavily-laden shoulders
of the people.—Morlung Herald. -

MAYNOOTH.
ITS PRIESTS VIEWED POLITICALLY

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlR,—Will you permit me to set before the public, through
the medium of your highly-valuable paper, a few sketches of
the Maynooth priests. The petition against the grant to
Maynooth lies for signature in many places in the town, and
I think Englishmen should know the characters of these
priests of Antichrist, the men upon whose education English
money is so lavishly expended, and by whose agitation the
question has almost come to this :—ls Pope'ry or Protestant-
ism to be the religion of the land ? Is the wafer to be the
God of Englishmen ? Are they to be vassals of the Italian
tyrant ? But I would shew the political character of these
Antichrist, who, should Maynooth continue to
flourish, and they gain from a duped government further
power, will inquisitionize, dragoon, and, with fire and fag-
got, compel Christian men to receive their aboMinations,
and give up their liberty, their church, their Bible, and their
God. The testimony I give in this letter is extracted from
the highest authority—" The Report of the Select Commit-
tee of the House of Commons on Bribery and Intimidation
at Elections," dated August, 1835.

ministers of

The first Maynooth gentleman I introduce to you is Priest
Talvery, a son who in no way disgraces his alma mater.

John AP Carter examined,

" Did any freeholder ever tell you that the Priest Talvery
had refused the rites of his church to a man who voted for
the Knight of Kerry ?—Yes, that he would do so.

" Did you charge the priest with that I—l asked him whe-
ther what the man then present stated could possibly be the
fact.
" What was the thing stated ?—That he would neither
christen nor baptize, nor perform any of the, rites of the
church.
" Did the priest deny that he had said that ?—He neither
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