The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-22 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

LEEDS.—The woollen trade continues active for the sea-
son, a great deal of the business being now done to order.
This, of course, keeps down the stocks in the Cloth Halls,
to which the merchants only resort when they want to make
up assortments. The transactions in the Halls, therefore,
afford no safe criterion of the amount of business doing.
There has, however, been full as extensive sales effected dur-
ing the week as in any week for some time past.
BRADFORD MARKET.—Considering the period of the
year, we had a full average attendance of buyers at this mar-
ket on Thursday, and a fair amount of business was done at
former rates. As it is generally thought that wool will not
be lower, and that there will be a brisk demand upon the
commencement of the new year, the manufacturers seem
disposed to increase their stocks; but various causes will
prevent this being done to any extent. The yarn market was
rather brisk, at former rates. In the wool market there was
an active demand for combing wools of middle and inferior
qualities, but in the better sorts not much business was
done. There was no variation in price.
ENGLISH WOOL.—The state of the trade continues about
the same, being still very unprofitable to the dealers gene-
rally, on account of the nearly universal equalization of price,
even from the farmer to the manufacturer. There has been
a fair demand for some descriptions of combing, but the de-
mand for clothing may be said to be almost extinct for the
present.—Leeds Intelligencer.

MAN BURNED TO DEATH.—An unfortunate occurrence
took place in Prescot on Thursday morning last, adding an-
other to the many thousand victims of the baneful effects of
intemperance. The sufferer, a man of the name of Michael
Lucas, was seen the preceding evening, very much intoxi-
cated, and ab-ut 12 o'clock he had lain down to sleep in the
Lee Wall, and near to the mouth of one of the ovens of Mill
Pottery, a place where many of the lower class are in the
habit of sleeping (notwithstanding the endeavours of the pro-
prietors to prevent it). He was seen in that situation by a
workman belonging to the pottery, who thought the deceased
was too near the mouth of the oven, and removed him some
distance off. The workman afterwards left that part of the
works, with the deceased in the situation he had placed him.
In about an hour afterwards he was alarmed by loud cries
proceeding from the Lee Wall, in which he had left the de-
ceased, and on arriving there he found a chimney-sweeper,
who had been sleeping a short distance from the deceased,
and who had also been alarmed by the cries, and they toge-
ther beheld the deceased, who was literally roasting alive, and
who seemed to dread • their nearer approach, continually
tarowing out his arms, and crying out violently, " Keep
them away ! keep them away !" They, however, got a sack,
and enveloped the body of the poor unfortunate sufferer, and
thereby extinguished the flames. Ile was immediately re-
moved and a surgeon sent for, who did all he could for the
sufferer, but without avail, as he died in about three hours
afterwards. He was not able to give any account how he
had caught fire. An inquest was held the same day before
Wm. Pemberton, Esq., coroner of the manor and liberty of
Prescot.—Verdict, Accidental death.
The tolls of the Bath Trust were last week re-let to Mr.
Robinson for £lO,OOO. per year ; the old rent was £11,700.,
and considering the immense traffic on the railroad, the fall-
ing off has been comparatively trifling.
The sheep stocks in the uplani districts are in a very
healthy and thriving condition, indeed, much more so than
has been the case during the last four years ; and this favour-
able state of matters will in the spring tell greatly for the be-
nefit of the store farmers.—Newcastle Journal.

The late Mr. Culley, of Coupland Castle, near Wooler, is
said to have grown a crop of wheat after rape, which is said
to have exceeded in value the fee simple of the land. There
is scarcely an instance on record, we believe, of wheat being
affected by milldew, when grown on the land where rape had
been eaten off by sheep.—Newcastle Journal.
REPRESENTATION OF WALSALL.—We have just learned
that there is a vacancy in the representation of Walsall, in
consequence of the retirement of Mr. Finch.—Anti-Corn
Law Cirettla, .
VESSELS DESTINI7I, CHUSAN.—It is stated that
government )1•!! -1 'Hakim: inquiries for small vessels at
Bengal, hut their destination was not known. We have
since heard on good authority, that tenders have been invited
for a large number of vessels of between 200 and
,300 tons
burden, and their destination will be Chusan ; they receive,
as compensation, a good round sum for the run down to
the island. They take uo cargo from this port, but on arriv-
ing at Chnsan will be held available for general service.—
East Indian Telegraph.
GENUINE HONESTY.—A traveller for a Newcastle house
lost his pocket-book, containing £3OO, between Hexam and
Alston, a few days ago; and on missing it he returned, in
the hope that it might be recovered. On the road he met
With a person named Batey, and inquired if he had seen the
pocket-book. Batey replied in the affirmative, and produced
it, with the money safe. Five pounds having been offered to
him for his restoration, he inquired if the traveller were a
principal in the firm, and on finding that he was not, he re-
fused to accept the donation.—Newcastle Journal.
A correspondent of the John o' Groat Journal, mention-
ing the loss of a Prussian galliot on one of the Orkney
Islands, naively says, " The natives will derive little benefit
from the disaster." It must have been an ill wind indeed
that blew nobody good ; and the Orkneymen seem to think
themselves very scurvily used by the elements. Our northern
friends long derived plentiful harvests from the sea. Wrecks
frequently furnished the plenishing of their houses, and the
means of keeping up a cheerful blaze during the long nights
of their stormy winter. But the law which forty years ago
had reached Tain, has now, we hope, advanced still further
northward, and taught the people of the Ultima Thule the
.propriety and the justice of respecting the property which
the sea has washed upon their coast.—lnverness Courier.

The King of the Belgians has issued the following decree
dated the 16th instant :—" Article 1. Our well-beloved son
Prince Leopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor is to bear the
title of Due de Brabant, which title shall in future always be
borne by the eldest son of the King, or, in default of a son,
by the King's eldeit grandson. Article 2. Our well-beloved
son Prince Philippe Eugene Ferdinand Marie Clement Ban-
douin Leopold George shall bear title of Comte des Flan-
d res."—Galignani's Messenger.

LORD AUCKLAND'S RESIGNATION OF THE GOVERNOR-
GENERALSHIP OF INDIA.—Our readers (Calcutta Courier)
may not perhaps be aware that Lord Auckland tendered his
resignation of the governor-generalship of India to the Court
of Directors some mouths back. We now understand, and
we have no doubt of the fact, that his lordship's resignation
has been accepted, the intelligence having reached Madras
by the last overland mail. The Hon. T. C. Robertson, mem-
ber of the Supreme Council and deputy governor of Bengal,
has been appointed to succeed provisionally to the governor-
generalship, which high situation it is expected he will con-
tinue to fill till September, 1843, the date of the expiration
of his service as member of the Supreme Council and deputy
governor of Bengal.
DISGRACEFUL OUTRAGE.—Some time ago a respectable
hotel in town was the scene of one of the most humiliating
outrages to men moving in the sphere of gentlemen that can
possibly be imagined, and which, it is understood, will
shortly occupy the attention of the Supreme Court, unless
the discreditable affair be hushed up by the offenders paying
the amount of the damage sustained by the hotel-keeper,
and the expense of the legal proceedings, already incurred.
It appears that three individuals, on a given day, entered an
hotel in the New Town at a late hour in the evening, and,
having been served with refreshments, which they had or-
dered, proceeded in the most wanton manner to destroy the
furniture of the apartment (the commercial room) they oc-
cupied, and perpetrated other outrages which would degrade
the most degraded of the " lords of the creation." Besides
breaking open and soiling letters addressed to highly respec-
table gentlemen, visitors to the hotel in question, rifling the
pockets of a great-coat belonging to an English traveller,
which was hanging in the room, they perpetrated other abo-
minations by writing on the window-blinds, and in the album
of the hotel, with the recital of which we cannot sully our
columns. The station which the accused have hitherto
occupied in society renders the disgusting outrage the more
unpardonable. A summons to answer the offence in the
Court of Session has been served on two of the individuals ;
but the third, an Englishman, has hitherto evaded the re-
searches of the messenger•at-arms sent in quest of him.--
Edinburgh Observer.
DEATH OF HER SERENE HIGHNESS THE DOWAGER
PRINCESS or REUSS-KOESTRIIZ. Intelligence of the
death of the above princess was received at Buckingham
Palace on Friday last. The deceased princess, who was
daughter of Prince Henry Reuss d'Ebersdorf, was born 2d
June, 1759, and was widow of Prince Henry of Reuss-
Schleiz-Koestritz, who died 22nd September, 1814, and
mother of the present prince and great-aunt to her Majesty
the Queen. In consequence of the death of her serene
highness the court was ordered to go into mourning from
yesterday until the 31st instant.

PREPARATIONS AT WINDSOR FOR THE RECEPTION Or
HER MAJESTY.—WINDSOR, DEC. 19.—Her Majesty bay-
ing expressed a desire that the new riditw-house should be
completed at the earliest possible moment,* Messrs. Grissell.
and Peto, the contractors, have guaranteed that the build-
ing should be fit for the use of th Queen by Monday next,
the 21st inst. Tile only work required to be perfected is the
plastering a portion of the interior walls ; but it is feared that
the late severe frost will retard the operations of the work-
men for a short time beyond that period. Should the present
severe weather continue, it is not improbable that her Majes-
ty's departure from Buckingham Palace for the Car tle may be
postponed for a few days beyond the time originally fixed
upon by her Majesty. It is fully expected that the ceremony
of the christening of the Princess Royal will take place here.
The alterations and other arrangements connected with the
royal kitchen are fast approaching towards completion. Upon
the arrival of the court a public meeting of the inhabitants
will be held for the purpose of voting congratulatory addresses
to her Majesty and Prince Albert on the birth of the Princess
Royal. " Better late than never."
THE WORLD COMING TO AN END.—Yesterday two
brothers were seen shaking hands together in the street,
A LAWYER'S SIMILE.—" The witness, my lord, stood
plump opposite the defendant—plump, my kvd—plump as a
partridge."

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THE PAST AND THE FUTURE

EY ROBERT SOUTEtEY.
[The following beautiful verses were communicated by the
Poet Laureat to Sir Egerton Brydges. They were intended
to be interspersed, with others, in his " Colloquies on the
Progress and Prospects of Society," but this design was
abandoned, and they remain a fragment. The mind of the
poet who wrote them is now, we grieve to say, in ruins.]
My days among the dead are past,
Around me 1 behold,
here'er these casual eyes are cast,
The mighty minds of old :
My nevar-failing friends are they,
With whom I converse day by day.

With them I take delight in weal,
And seek relief in woe ;
And while I understand and feel
How much to them I owe,
My cheeks have often been hedew'd
With tears of thoughtful gratitude.

My thoughts are with the dead ; with them
I live in long past years;
Their virtues love; their faults condemn;
Partake their hopes and fears;
And from their lessons seek and find
Instruction with a humble mind. -

My hopes are with the dead ;
My plat: with them will be,
And I with them shall travail on

Through all futurity ;
Yet leavia;g here a name I trust
That will not perish in the dust.