The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-02 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

LEEns.--Ve had a 'fair demand for goods in the piece
halls on Saturday, but the letters brought by the Great
Western, which arrived on Monday afternoon and Tuesday
morning, bringing rather unfavourable intelligence of the
aspect of commercial affairs in the United States, caused a
dull market on that day, at least for foreign supply. For
domestic consumption there was a fair business done.
BRADFORD MARKET.—The attendance of buyers at our
market on Thursday was less numerous than last week, and
altogether the amount of business done was not so extensive.
In the yarn market there was a fair business done, with the
usual number of complaints about lowness of price. The
wool market was flat, and prices had a tendency downwards.
The reports of the new clip are favourable, purticularly with
regard to its weight.
11EcKmoNnwIKE BLANKET HALL.—There is no great
change in the market this week ; the demand does not in-
crease, the merchants not seeming desirous of buying in
large stocks. This curtails the demand and keeps prices
down.

WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET.—There is no variation in
either demand or price of long wools from our late reports ;
stocks continue light. Clothing and blanket wools are in
fair demand at full quotations,—Leeds Intelligences.
LANCASHIRE.—The woollen cloth trade at Saddlewoith is
yet very dull; scarcely anything is manufactured either for
the home or foreign markets ; operatives have not half ern-
ployment.—The slight improvement we have reported in the
trade at Bolton, and which the manufacturers and operatives
hailed with pleasure, has again wholly disappeared. The
whole of the machinery in no less than ten mills is at a com-
plete stand. The operative spinners have received notice for
a reduction in their wages of from fifteen to twenty per cent.
The power-loom weavers and dressers have also received
notice for a reduction in their wages of twenty per cent.
Manufacturers of every description of goods have done very
little during the last fortnight. Hand-loom weavers are
badly off. and short of employment ; indeed every other
' branch wears a very gloomy aspect. Failures amongst
shopkeepers and small manufacturers are almost of daily
occurrence. The fund for the relief of the distressed poor
has now drawn to a close ; and unless there be some means
adopted to alleviate the wants and distresses of the hundreds
who are out and short of employment, the misery and wretch-
edness of the poorer classes will be greater than has been
known in the memory of the oldest inhabitant in the town. The
trade at Stockport is worse thazi at Bolton, and the turn-out
still continues ; the masters declare that they have been giving
higher wages than have been given in most other towns. It
is said there are about 6;500 out of employment. Distress
is very great indeed. The cotton spinning and power-loom
weaving at Oldham is rather slacker than it was fourteen
days ago. The hatting is rather slack, but other branches
are much the same as we stated a few weeks ago. The
flannel trade at Rochdale has improved a little, yet the ope-
ratives have not full employment, and wages are very low
indeed. The silk trade at Failsworth, Leigh, and other
neighbouring towns of Manchester, is moderately brisk.
The weavers and dyers have full employment, and the mas-
ters are giving advanced wages to those weavers who take
their work to the warehouses in a certain given time. One
extensive firm last week took a large piece of land at Middle-
ton, near Manchester, to erect an extensive silk mill, the
erection of which will commence on Monday next; in fact,
the silk trade is better than any other branch in Lancashire,
but wages are by no means as high as they were about two
years ago. Mechanics generally are said to be very slack.—
Preston Chronicle.
t_ The market for metals has been excessively dull throughout
he week, but there is no further decine in any article, nor
any public sale of East India tin.

A Y ANKEE LEADING Arerrer E The following is a hu-
morous specimeAngoufaliecid.s,
tit
tlirsetaodn , editorialising.4.— It is a leader, under
in the Morning Star of
- the hardest of the storm, the
day before yesterday, we took ahlounge doWn to a steam-
boat landing; while standingr
inntot eubi rink of a deep gully that
hgoevbyay bayou, e
root' our
drunkenattention
emptied its torrent of water
was attracted to the bottom of th,e
on to a root fast
loafer was stemming the torrent
w ianngd anyit cal.o
anchored in the hank. The poor fellowinisgo
was near him, was combating his fate manfully,
culating his chances of escape, gave utteralp,niulinceecied it_nh,entobililooww-? jog :—" Haynt this a orful sitivation to be
If I wos a steam-boat, a rail, or a wood
fifty cents on a dollar than I'll ever be again. unliebsesbie,tter
gone case now, there haynt no truth in frenology. I've a
weigh-
ed all the chances like a general, and find only two f
bears in my favour: the first is a shrunk hole to crawl into,
and the second a special interspersition of Providence ; and
the best chance of the two is so slim, if I only had the change,
I'd give a premiuth for the skunk hole—them's my senti-
ments. If I could be a mink, a mushrat, or a water-snake,
for about two months, perhaps I would'nt mount the first
stump tother side the Bio, and flap my wings and crow over
everlastin' life, skientifically saved and preservated. But
what's the use holdin' on this root? there haynt no skunk
hole in these ere diggins ;—the water is getting taller about
a feet, arid if my nose was as long as kingdom come, it
wouldn't stick out much longer. Oh, Jerry ! Jerry ! you're
a gone sucker, and I guess your rearm don't know you're
out : poor woman ! won't she cry the glasses out of her spec-
tacles when she hears her Darlin' Jerry has got the whole of
Bufferlo Bio for his coffin ! What a pity tis some philan-
trophis or member of the humane society never had foresight
enough to build a house oeer this gutter, with a steam-engine
to
.invekeep out the water ! If they'd done it in time, they might
i i!ad tile honour and gratification of saving the life of a
fe..er_
11 being ; but it's all day with you, Jerry, and a big har-
bour to cast anchor in. It's too bad to go off in this orful
manner, when the knows I oilers hated water ever since I
was big enough to. know twant whisky. I feel the root
givin' way, and since eciv ,on, t know a prayer, here's a bit of
Watts's Dosologer, to prove I died a Christian :
" On the bank where droop'd the wilier,
Long time ago.,,
Before Jerry got to the conclusion, lite was washed into the
•fehwisfeeeyte coafuaglhatrgtehetiparosp.ect of deliverance,
that had started for
awmi !Vona
ta
atbhnaedyoshutee changed' the burthen of his dirge
with a belt
a thrilling cry
of " Heave to ! passenger overboard and sinking,
fortune !"
full of specie ! the man wat saves me makesnit
Jerry was fished ashore by a darkey ; and to show his gra-
titude, invited Quashey to "go up to the doggery and
liquor."