The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-03-13 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER.—There was a slightly improved demand
for some descriptions of yarn yesterday, and rather more
business done in them than for some time past, but without
time slightest improvement in prices ; and goods of all de-
scriptions were extremely flat, considering the present season
is one in which the utmost activity ought to prevail.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, MARCH 9.
There have been rather more buyers in the market to-day,
but little or no improvement in the demand for goods. The
manufacturers complain of the prices offered for pieces, and
some who are obliged to sell may have submitted to a small
reduction. The wool market has undergone no change for
some weeks back, the demand has been limited, and prices
stationary. _ _

HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, MARC
r ano worse, we can learn, this market was much of oflOTll.—From all we
the same miserable
description as for some weeks past; p
the prospect of amendment does not brighten.
hope of any profitable trade this season seems belndeed
extinct ;d all
e but
and unless the legislature interfere, and open the° sluices that
bar commerce, extensive ruin must be the consequence.--
Manchester Guardian.
BLACKBURN.—A more gloomy and unsatisfactory week
we have not had for some time past, and buyers are antici-
pating a further reduction in both yarn and cloth. We do
hope, however, that in this they they will be disappointed,
provided the sellers will remember and duly estimate the
fact that the spring is setting in, and most auspiciously ;
together with another most important fact, namely, that both
the raw and the manufactured material are at extremely low
and almost ruinous prices.—Blackburn Standard.

THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR TRAGICALLY ILLUSTRAT-
ED.—" A tragical event occurred a stoooorottitmd geoarigoo,"thsaeysthe
Quotidienne, "at the theatre of
per-
formance of Lucia de Lammermoor. A rivalry had been for
some time existing between two of the performers, and a duel
had even taken place, but they bad been apparently. recon-
ciled. In the second act of the opera, however, during the
combat, their former animosity revived as they thrust at each
other, and the stage fight became a real duel, the public in
the meantime applauding their earnestness without suspect-
ing its cause. Suddenly the actor who was performing the
part of Ravenswood uttered a dreadful cry, for he had receiv-
ed a wound in the breast, and then fell dead upon the stage.
The other actor was immediately arrested. The company,
unwilling to appear again after this melancholy event, broke
up on the following day, and the theatre remains closed."

NARROW ESCAPE.—On Friday-;;1;,---141r. Richard Or-
s state otpiece,
inFletarodileosfs,Hwaistlhinthdeeni,etNev
intention nout f in the neighbourhood of
ofooting snipes. He dis-
charged his gun, and was in the actsreloading,
some when it ap-
pearssparks that, owing to the dirty
and communi-
cated in the barrel ; the powder ine
to 41 I
()hand. It ex-
ploded to that in the flask, which he had'iritt
his fin-
gers, with a terrific noise, nearly tearing
and ripping up his coat sleeve in all directions,ne but
without materially injuring his arm. Ognaeopafratoitletrh flask
struck him on the side of the face, doin
than stunning him, causing his face to swell, and burniinnjuhrl
hair. Two little boys, who were by his side at the time,ghald
a narrow escape, one of them being so stunned that he could
not hear for some time after. Even the dog did not escape,
one side of the animal being almost denuded of hair, an
though it had been shaved.—Blackburn Standard.