The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-08 00:00:00

EY LINEN TRADE.—The drill ot foreign trade
having commenced, the operatives are beginning to be nearly
all employed. The home trade is moderately brisk.—Leeds

—The working of the machinery short time
otton mills at Oldham is discontinned ; cotton spin-

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ners and power-loom weavers who have work are generally
fully employed, but, on account of the coupling of jennies,
many of the spinners are thrown out of work, and the town-
ship is heavily pressed on by the poor for parochial relief.—
The operatives employed in cotton factories at Ashton-under-
Lyne, Staley-bridge, Newton Moor, and Hyde, are moderately
employed, and the trade seems to be improving, but wages
are very low indeed, and manufacturers' profits are very

small. The power-loom weaving of calicoes at Stockport is
now in a moderate state ; the trade generally is improving
slowly, yet many families are in distressed circumstances, not
'ne; able to get work, persons from other towns having got
'4-nations during the late turn-out, which has caused
,Iss, and will long be remembered. The cotton
and' power-loom weaving in several other towns in
ighbourhood of Manchester, is, if anything, improving
The silk trade this week is rather worse, and the

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any other towns, which we generally
se, but rather better than they were a

—Preston Chronicle,

The market for metals remains without animation, nor is
ge in the quotations, all being nominally at

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CHARTIST CHURCHE:,:.—One of the most remarkable fea-
,,,res of Chartism in this part of the country is the number
.ces of worship which are opening in the various localities
cal :strength is greatest. They have ser-
Eiabbath in Glasgow, Hamilton, Lanark,
Eaglesham, Kilbarchan, and other towns
ibourhood ; and in all these places lay preachers
They regularly baptize children, and we
e sacrament was to have been dispensed
abbath in the town of Kilbarchan. The
ore founded not upon any religious, but a
id are, therefore, in the strictest sense of

the term, political churches. Of all the absurdities of Char-
tism, the attempt to form a religious sect on the ground of a
political principle seems the greatest, as it is the most blas-
phemous and profane.—Scottish Guardian.

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THE CUtti

-On the night of Monday week a most seri-
f tool; place between the watchers employed
e Duke of Norfolk, upon the Glossip estate,
(millers. Six of the tenters went out to watch
ed the Erne Croft Woods, and about half-past
ig of seven or eight poachers came into the
had lain down in a hollow place under the
the poachers advanced to within two or three
and called oat " Iloilo." Immediately the
icked the tenters with bludgeons and stones,
ight ensued, which lasted about 20 minutes,
tenters capturing two of the poachers, and
of nets, two bundles of pegs for setting them,
and three bludgeons. The poachers were all
Idcreons, and the tenters are all more or less
;hem very severely. The men, who were ap-
e been committed for trial.

A correspondent of the Times suggests
egulation of our paper currency:

the followin:

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That the Bank of England and all other banks in the
United Kingdom cease to issue their own notes. That a
board, composed of the Master of the Mint and others, be
Incorporated by act of parliament for the issuing of notes
payable on demand

on the security of government, accord-
ing to the following provisions :—To advance notes at a lows
rate of interest, lower than that payable on Exchequer-bill
—Firstly, to the Bank of England, to the extent of their
capital lent to government ; and further upon the deposit of
funded property and other British stocks, &c. Secondly,
to all other banks on the deposit of stock in the British
- : advances of notes on other property to be ob-
.drough the Bank of England. Of course the inte-
on such securities to be receivable by the banks, To
ue notes in payment of bullion purchased.—This system
'ld establish a sound currency. The paper being based
credit of government, it would possess the unreserved
'9 of the public, which none other can ever do ;
,trol, accountable only to parliament, would he
of the executive as at present, and, having
view, the defects of management now ex-
voided."

k.PPLI‘ TION OF ATAIOSPRERIC PRESSURE TO AGRICUL-
,6.—A number of ladies and distinguished
.amongst whom were the American Minister,
~son, Professor Graham, Mr. Jourdon, and other'
.lnd scientific men, on Tuesday last paid a visit to the
ueum, to inspect the model apparatus and experimental
.onstration conbtructed by Mr. Pinkus for applying at.
.ospheric pressure to the purposes of agriculture, as well as
a substitute for steam in propelling. carriages on railways.
Should the Principle prove available in practice for either of
uses, it will render -the present age the most re-
)le in the annals of mankind, and more especially so if
•'-hle for all the varied purposes of field
xl by the inventor. It is proposed to
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dsmission of gas. In like manner as mains
-rge iu all directions, from a centre, for the
. of gas, so may they be laid from a stationary
working air-pumps along the headlands of every
Ath valves at given distances, to which valies a flexible
sight pipe, composed of leather and caoutchouc, will coil
mind a drum of the machine, to which plough-shares,
packs, hoes, or any other implements may be attached, as
he case requires. This is a brief sketch of the principle;
and so far as we have had an opportunity of reflecting upon
it, we see no insuperable obstacle to its practical application
to all 'the purposes contemplated by its author; but we be-
it has not, as yet, been put to the test in any practical
agriculture. If successful, it will prove of in-
.', our colonial proprietors,_ especially to
steam-engines erected on their es-
We be-
lieve a co:npany is already formed for applying
,
if successful, it will add greatly to the
,greeableness of railway travelling. inasmuch as it will obvi-
ate the annoyance resulting from the escape of steam, smoke,
and cinders.

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POREIGIV igTELLIGENCE,

FRANCE

The strike among the operatives at Paris continties, and it
now excites some degree of alarm. The mail-coach could
not have left the post-ofice on Wednesday evening, if the
different regiments had not sent their smiths to make the
necessary repairs; and the workmen engaged in preparing the
House of Peers for the approaching trial have joined the dis-
contented.

The masons struck on Thursday morning, so that now
almost every branch of trade is suspended. The government
is endeavouring to restrain the movement; but fears are ex-
pressed that it will not be able to do so without resorting to
force, as the men are said to be well supplied with money.
The garrison was under arms in barracks on Thursday, and
our correspondent says the authorities ace determined to act
with vigour should the occasion arise. Hitherto the ordi-
nances have been disobeyed, as the meetings continue outside
the barrier, and at night on the boulevards. But if the orders
of the police are further resisted, the garde municipale will
enforce them at the point of the bayonet. Our correspondent
says he is desirous of not creating alarm on this subject, but
he has reason to know that energetic measures will, if neces-
sary, be resorted to. An emeute at this moment would add
materially to the embarrassment of the government. The
decline of the funds of the close of Thursday's market was
said to be owing to the increasing force of the operatives.