The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-04-28 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

LEEDS.—During the past week greater animation has been
observable in the mercantile establishments of this town than
for some time past, but the amount of sales in the cloth halls
can scarcely be said to have been materially augmented.—

There is, however, some evidence of an improved feeling of
confidence in the aspect of commercial affairs, and we have
no doubt that the effect will soon be visible in the increased
activity of our manufacturing and finishing establishments.
BRADFORD MARKET.—There was a numerous attendance
of merchants and others at our market, on Thursday, but the
aggregate amount of sales effected was not so extensive as
might have been expected; and prices underwent little va-
riation. In the yarn market there was a fair business done
at former rates ; but the wool market was heavy, the assort-
ments being limited by the lightness of the stocks in hand.
Prices may be quoted as nearly stationery.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET...There was no change to note
respecting this market on Tuesday ; the demand being steady
and prices nearly stationery. In summer goods there was
some animation, and better prices were realised. Orders
are increasing, and the business in the warehouses is rather
better. In wool, prices are firm, with a tendency upwards.
The news from America does not appear to have operated
unfavourably on the market, as the demand is chiefly for the
lionie trade. . . _

WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, APRIL 24.—The sales in
long wools have this week been on a very limited scale; and
prices arc barely maintained. Short wools for blanket pur-
poses continue in very languid demand, and with the excep-
tion of low noils, are without any improvement in prices.
HEcKmoNDlVlKE.—Although there have been more buyers
attending the blanket hall for the two market days this week,
(Monday and Thursday,) yet the demand for goods has been
limited, and the prices given bear no proportion to that of
wool ; this keeps trade in a most deplorable state, the blanket
manufacturers not receiving anything like good wages for
their trouble and labour.
ROCHDALE MARKET, APRIL 20.—We have had a rather
better demand for flannels to-day ; but prices have been ex-
tremely have made a strike this last week
against
Messrs. Tempest and Sons, and
between
the weavers state in a placard,
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being in full operation, and hand and power-10°1n te
Blackburn is in a fair state, the machinery in all the mills
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are also fully employed. The silk trade in the towns in
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neighbourhood of Manchester is improving, and both silk
and cotton dyers have more work than they had a month
since. The cotton trade at Stockport is yet very dull : out
of the 2,500-horse power in full operation at this time last
year, upwards of 800 is at a complete stand. The spinners
at Ashton, Staleybridge, &c., have been reduced this week,
at most of the mills upwards of seven per cent. The trade
in other towns is much the same as we stated last week.
SADDLEWORTH.—The woollen cloth trade at Saddleworth
is in a worse state than it was a month ago, in fact, more
than one half of the operatives are totally without employ-
ment. There is a slight improvement in time demand for

yarns.
CHESTERFIELD WOOL MARKET.—From the accounts
given of the wool trade in this quarter, an unusual dulness
pervades the market. The only quality in request are coarse
wools; nor are the prices any better than they have been
for some time past. The staplers here have accumulated
large stocks, under the impression that prospects would
have brightened before this. The clipping has partially
commenced in this part of the country, and bids fair to in-
crease the already stocked chambers very materially, which,
it is feared, will tend in a great measure to keep the present
rates stationary.

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Duke of 'Wellington will complete his 71st year on
Friday next, May I.

Sir Hugh Gough, our distinguished countryman, will
certainly command the expedition to China.—Cork Con-

stitution.

The removal of the remains of Napoleon from St. Helena
to Paris is said to be the subject of a negotiation between M.
Thiers and Lord Palmerston.
Excellent new potatoes and rhubarb, from the neighbour-
hood of Castletown, were exhibited for sale in our market on
Saturday last, and were readily disposed of at is. 6d. per
pound.—Manx Liberal.

Madame Vestris was married to Arinande Vestris on the
27th of January, 1813, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields ; the
lady was not then sixteen—they passed their honeymoon at
Bath.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Lady Louisa Cadogan,
sister of the Earl of Cadogan, and Marchioness of Anglesey,
was married on Tuesday last to the Rev. Wm. Marsh, D.D.
Her ladyship is in her 53d year.
The late Secretary Drummond got with his wife, the
daughter of Mr. Kinnaird, a North British merchant,
£120,000, and since his marriage he placed in the funds from

his savings £16,000.
LARGE WHALE.—A whale was thrown on shore on the
21st inst., near Flimby, of a prodigious size. Its length
was 58 feet, breadth across the tail 14 feet, height 8 feet, and
girth, 26 feet.—Carlisle Patriot.
At Kentraugh, the seat of E. M. Gawne, Esq., the gar-
dener has been cutting white cabbage since the 13th inst. ;
and on the 17th, gathered a fine dish of asparagus, and a
cucumber 14 inches long, the first, we believe, in the island.

—Manx Liberal.
LARGE PIKE.—A pike was captured in Windermere on
Tuesday last, by Mr. George Robinson, of Bowness, which
measured forty-two inches in length, girth round the body
twenty inches and three-quarters, and weighed twenty-seven
and a half pounds.—Carlisle Patriot.
A pension of £445 devolves to the civil list by the death of
the Right Hon. William Gregory, of Coole, county Galway,
ex-under secretary for Ireland, and brother-in-law of the
Earl of Clair:arty, to whose sister, Lady Anne Trench, he
was married in 1789.

We clip the following good hit from the Baltimore
Clipper:—" Let no man find fault with an editor for writing
foolish things, for there are so many papers now-a-days, that
all the good sense there is in the world would not half fill
them."

A dreadful casualty happened at Gibralter to the nephew
of Sir Charles Sullivan, R.N., an ensign in the 46th, who had
just joined his regiment, arising from the dangeroua amuse-
ment of a steeple chase. He was thrown from his horse, and
died in a few hours afterwards from concussion of the brain.
VULPINE AFFECTION.—In drawing the cover at East
Gordon On Saturday last, the Duke of Buccleuch's fox-
hounds unkennelled a fox bitch, which, on breaking cover,
was observed to be carrying one of her cubs in her mouth.
The fact having been stated to the huntsman, the pack was
immediately whipped off.

QUICK WoRK.—On Wednesday week Henry Armstrong,
of Branthwaite, undertook for a small wager, with the as-
sistance of a striker, to forge twelve horse shoes in forty
minutes, and accomplished his task with great ease and in a
workmanlike manner, within thirty-five minutes, and conse-
quently won his wager.—Carlisle Patriot.
Great agitation prevails at this time in Leicestershire, par-
ticularly in the neighbourhood of Market Harborough and
Melton Mowbray, from a prevalent and fatal disease in oxen.
It has shown itself especially in Irish beasts, and is so serious
that some large graziers prefer letting their grass grow to
purchasing stock to eat it, with the hazard of their dying.—
Leicester Chronicle.

DR. LARDNER.—A memorial, it is said, is being got up by
some of the principal members of the British Association for
the Advancement of Science to present to the council, to
pray them to remove the Rev. Dr. Dionysius Lardner from
his office as one of their members, on account of his late dis-
graceful conduct in the elopement from Brighton.
ANOTHER EFFECT OF THE HARD TIMES.—The young
ladies who sue for breach of proMise cases, complain that they
don't get half as much awarded them as formerly when the
times were brisk and money plenty. One lady in particular,
who follows the business of suing young men for a living,
says she cannot make it an object to carry it on any longer.
It makes it very bad again—don't it girls:—Savannah

Telegraph.
We understand that the joint opinions of two of the most
eminent men at the bar has been taken on the question
whether attorneys are liable to serve on coroners' juries, and
that the opinion being that they are not liable, Mr. Wakley,
the coroner for Middlesex, acquiesces in it, and has given
directions to the summoning officer not to summon them in
future.—Courier.

PERCUSSION MUSKETS IN THE ARMY.—We may con-
gratulate the infantry of the line on the likelihood of per-
cussion muskets soon becoming general for the whole army,
upon which the authorities have lately determined, and the
42d Royal Highlanders have the good fortune to be the first
regiment selected to receive them. The musket now in pos-
session of the 42d is of that very superior description, " the
long land tonor."—Military Gazette.
AN IRISH CANOE.—One of those relics of ancient times,
an Irish canoe, has been recently found in the river opposite
our quays. As the ballast lighter was crossing from the
quay, her warp rope came foul of something below ; and, in
extricating it, an old Irish canoe was brought to the surface
of the water. It was hollowed out of a single piece of Soak,

twenty-two feet long and twenty inches wide. A gentle and
elegant curvature upwards forms the fore part, and the stem
is oval, with a hollow moulding outside. Four spaces, simi-
lar to what are called floorings at present, are left in the so-
lid, and the entire symmetry is rather pleasing. To the lover
of Irish antiquities it affords a fine specimen of the works of
days of yore, and shows him that the Irish oak, like that we
fondly boast of, Irish hearts, is not to be surpassed in dura-
bility under the most untoward circumstances. The Mcenapia
of Ptolemy was situated on the same place as the modern
Wexford; and who can look on this Irish relic without being
Carried back through time as remote as when that celebrated
geographer flourished ? We understand it will he sent to the
Dublin Society by Mr. Allen, in whose timber-yard it now
lies.—Wexford Independent.

MARRIAGE AXTRAORDINARY.—A woman married two
husbands at the same time and place, by the Rev. W. FL
Schwabe, curate of Keighley. A couple were arranged at the
altar table at Keighley Church, on Monday, the 20th day of
April, for the purpose of being married. After having got
placed in order by the sexton, the minister proceeded ; when
they came to that part of the service where the ring was wanted,
no ring was to be found, and the real intended husband had
gone to buy it. Shortly he came, and produced the ring,
which was put upon the book, and afterwards upon the finger
of the bride, by the person, intended to give her away ; they
then proceeded to complete the business, the man who had
been regularly published standing by. The ceremony being
complete, they went into the vestry to register ; the minister,
having entered them, called upon the person married to sign,
and lo ! he answered, saying, " It's noone a me, that's 't
fello' !" The minister, not half pleased, finding out his mis-
take, returned with the party to the altar table, and remar-
ried the woman to her proper lover.
Toryism is a trying trouble to Mr. O'Connell. By day
and by night—in London and in Dublin—in the Commons
and the Corn Exchange, Toryism is the theme on which he
dwells and the vision from which he starts. " I am pre-
paring for the Tory advent if it should come," is the
justification which he proffers to his followers of the National
Association. He has been preparing for this all his life, still
the preparations are incomplete. Every year since the
passing of the Reform Bill was to be the last allowed to
Ministers, and if justice were not done to Ireland, justice
should be done to them.—There was to be no more sup-
plication—no more petition. The " hereditary bondsmen'
were to be aroused, and, with " Repeal" inscribed on their
banner, by their " right arms" the blow was to be struck—
the conquest to be wrought. It was valiant talking, and it
stirred the blood to think of the stimulating scenes it was so
gloriously to be shed in. Yet here we are, with the finest
imaginable weather for a campaign—the summer sun shining
full upon us, and Nature arraying herself in most inviting
richness, yet must we wait another revolution of the heavens
before our " green fields" can be crimsoned with a single
drop of gore for which they have so long been thristing !
Cork Constitution.

ROBBERY ON BOARD A FLY BOAT.—On Saturday last,
Samuel Hayes, the captain of the Active, one of Messrs.
Pickford Cv, Co.'s fly boats, and William Bancrofts and
and Nathan Salt, two of the crew, were brought before
William Stubbs, Esq. at Warrington charged with 'stealing
a quantity of rum from the cargo consigned to their charge.
According to the depositions, it appears, that on the 15th of
April, Mr. Thomas Simpson, an innkeeper at Harley, de-
livered a puncheon and a cask of rum, containing 39 gallons,
to Messrs. Pickford and Co. to convey to Messrs Mellor,
spirit merchants of Liverpool. The strength of the rum was
11-6 under proof. A box of samples was also sent with the
rum, of the same strength.—Thomas Farmer, clerk to
Messrs. Pickford and Co. on the delivery of the casks to his
masters at Stoke, also took samples, and shipped the rum in
the Active, of which Hayes was the Captain, in the same
condition as he received it. The Active arrived at Preston
Brook on the 16th instant, about 11 o'clock in the morning.
All the hands were drunk ; and it having been ascertained
that they had spirits on board, Varnham, one of the Cheshire
constabulary force, and Mr. Richards, the agent at Preston
Brook, searched the cabin. On entering, Hayes put his
hand into the stern cupboard, and broke a bottle containing
runt. Mr. Richards then sampled the two casks, and com-
pared them with the samples taken at Stoke, which had been
sent by another boat, and found a deficiency in the strength
of the smaller cask of 1 4-10ths, and in quantity, between
five and six quarts. In the boat, a piece of copper tubing
was found, which would act as a syphon. The prisoners were
fully committed for trial.—Manchester Guardian.

FELT CLOTH.—We were this morning afforded an oppor-
tunity of examining various specimens of woollen cloth ma-
nufactured upon the newly-discovered principle, a process
which threatens to effect a great revolution in the trade, and
for which a patent has been obtained. After twenty years'
application, Messrs. Wells, Williams, and others, interested
in its success, have brought their invention to a degree of
perfection which has not a little surprised us ; norcan we any
t
longer wonder, now that we have seen of much it is capable,
the West of England and Yorkshire manufacturers should
have evinced the anxiety upon the subject which we under-
stand them to have done, and that the rumours of what was
passing should have brought some of the principal among
them to town, in order that they might satisfy themselves of
the truth. The finer descriptions of cloth on view at the
Guildhall Coffee-house have not the high finish of the woven
fabric already in use ; but the qualities suitable for great coats,
cloaks, and other outward garments are admirable, as are the
scarlet cloths, such as are usually employed for the use of the
army. Several habiliments have been made up, to show that
there is no difficulty in sewing the newly-discovered material,
upon which point many persons had been somewhat sceptical.
The workmanship seems to be in all respects unexceptiona-
ble. But, while the process of Messrs. Wells and Co. is
applicable to the manufacture of cloths fit for wearing apparel,
as we have shown to be the case, it is eminently so as re-
gards that of the coarser articles, such as table covers, car-
pets, druggets, &c. The specimens exhibited of these
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much more susceptible is it of the dye that there can be no
chance of the seams of any thing of which it is composed turn-
ing white, as is the case with woven cloth. Some specimens
of the enamelled material are also submitted to the inspection
of the public. This seems, from its superior toughness and
flexibility; to be calculated, in many eases, to supersede the
use of leather, more particularly in the coach-building busi-
ness. The samples got together by the inventors are upon a
large scale ; and we are informed the rapidity of production
is so great, that three men, with a boy or two, are able to run
off daily no less than three hundred yards of long cloth, and
The machinery may be so this by the simplest means.
being manufactured of
pre-
pared as to admit of the article any
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tion is limited almost entirely
general way, as from one-
may, we believe, be considered, ina
according to the fineness
third to one-half what is now paid,
of the cloth. A drugget, for instance,, for which the charge
width and finish for
is 3s. per yard, may be made of the same
of a
width Ts. 3d. per yard. The finer dress cloths, -
corres-
ponding to that of a piece of Yorkshire cloth, for which we
pay 15s. or 20s. per yard, may be manufactured at an expense
of from 58. to 61. per yard.—Morning Post.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE: FRIDAY.

BRUTAL ASSAULT.

John Poole, a carter, complained against James Hartley,
a blacksmith, living in Cheapside, for having assaulted him.
The complainant said, that on Good Friday last one of his
boys came to him, and complained that the defendant had
been beating him, whereupon he (witness) went to the defen-
dant to remonstrate with him upon the impropriety of his
conduct. Some words ensued, in the course of which defen-
dant seized a hammer, and struck him a blow, which burst
the right eye from his head. _
_ _

Hartley, in his defence, said, that while he was engaged in
white-washing his shop, on Good Friday, one of the prose-
cutor's boys came, and commenced throwing stones, and as
he would not desist when bidden, he gave him a slight slap
on the cheek. Shortly afterwards his father came, and after.
behaving in a very outrageous manner, struck him, and he
(defendant) returned the blow. He would swear he did not
strike him with a hammer.

The defendant called two men, who were present at the
time of the altercation, who swore positively that at the time
the defendant struck the blow he had not a hammer in his
hand. From the appearance of the man's face, it was almost
impossible that such a blow could have been inflicted with
the fist.

Mr. Rushton said this was hardly a case for him to adju-
dicate upon. He could not inflict any punishment adequate
to the injury received. He thought the defendant ought to
be committed : however, as the •complainant had chosen to
take the steps he had on the proceeding, all he could do was
to levy a fine. Hartley was tined .t 5, or to be imprisoned
two months.

CAUTION TO PUBLICANS.

Inspector Walker complained against Elizabeth Price, who
keeps a tap in Charles-street, for allowing drunk and disor-
derly persons in her house. The officer said, on the night of
the 15th inst. he went into the tap, and-found sixteen prosti-
tutes and several men drinking.
The defendant was fined 40s. and costs.

Thomas Millington, 'who keeps a beer-house in Hood-
street, was fined in the like penalty for having eight men and
three prostitutes drinking in his house at two o'clock in the
morning of the 12th instant.
Inspector Cotlam complained against Robert Johnson,
who keeps a public-house in Naylor-street, for a similar of-
fence. Cotlam stated that on the night of the 16th inst. he
went into Johnson's house, and found sixteen prostitutes and
twenty-seven coloured men. _

Mr. Martindale, superintendent of hackney coaches, prov-
ed a previous conviction on the 27th March, and it was also
shown that there had been a conviction on the 6th January.

Mr. Rushton said the act made it imperative on him, un.
der the circumstances, to adjourn the hearing of the case un
til the next special sessions.
AN AMERICAN COOK'S PERQUISITE.

The captain of the American ship Gentoo appeared before
Mr. Rushton, for the purpose of preferring ucharge of felony
against two important members of his crew, the cook and
the steward, who had, it seemed, made a kind of joint-stock
affair of the " slush" or flit, which the former regarded as
the especial perquisite of all persons exercising so important
a branch of the culinary department. A barrel of the
" slush" had been sold to a person on the dock-quay, and
the purchaser paid ten shillings to the cook, and five shil-
lings to the steward, for its contents. The captain, hearing
of the sale, demurred, and gave his men into custody.
The defendants, two intelligent Americans, slightly co-
loured, stoutly contended that they were justified in acting
as they bad done by a very excellent authority—the prescrip-
tive privilege of their "order," " slush," in all well-regu-•
lated ships, being the perquisite of the cook ; besides which,
that functionary maintained that the captain, by an especial
agreeMent with him at Boston before sailing, conceded to
him the " slush," in consideration of his receiving only six-
teen dollars per mouth instead of twenty-two.
The captain, however, stoutly swore that he had never
authorised the .selling of the "slush," and the poor fellows
were sent to the tread-mill for seven days in consequence.
SATURDAY.
SELLING CONTRABAND SPIRITS. _

Emanuel Rogerson, a man of colour, and Benjamin King
were placed before Messrs. Rushton and Houghton, charged
with having had in their possession seven gallons of French
brandy, which they had offered for sale to Mr. James Rim-
mer, publican, Beat-street. It appeared, that, on Thursday
last, the prisoners called upon Mr. Rimmer and showed him
a sample of French brandy, which, they said, they would
sell to him at a low price. He requested them to call again.
He told supervisor Rowlands of the circumstance, and he
advised him to purchase whatever the prisoners would sell
him. He agreed to purchase seven gallons, which the pri-
soners were to deliver to him on Saturday, at ten o'clock.
Rowland watched them closely after this. On Saturday
morning they got into a car, taking the brandy in bottles,
rolled in a blanket. They delivered it to Mr. Rinhner, and
Rowlands seized both the brandy and the prisoners. They
were fined in the mitigated penalty of £25 each. In default
of payment they were committed to Kirkdale Gaol for three
months, during which time they are to be kept to hard
labour.