The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-25 00:00:00

YARNS

lone can

ricans, which is ve

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In prices

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HALIFAX.—C

r piece r

u day presented the usual
)(Is were disposed of. The
_
deal of ma-
mills

dull appearance, and scarcely any
demand for yarn Las greatly fallen off; ana a grew.
chinery is running short time, with a prospect of more -
following the example. Very little wool, of any kind, is chang-
ing hands. The price of long wool is in favour of the buyer,
more especially in lower sorts ; but short wool remains firm, on.
account of the scantineFs of the supply.
HOSIERY AND LACE TR.& oEs.—The condition of the cotton
*factures cannot be considered as arnondm

hosiery m.

generl feeling o
and those depen

up hands are in much the won
ten, and Ruddington, where tt
ried on, being in

The cut-

wrought hoseare mad
destitute and stagnant

wnere the
not in that
The same

may be

Is very grc

a very forlorn state. with tLeWception'
have not felt the reaction to the same e
branch, whole shops of the latter being
notice. The silk knotted hose branch i

ose, which
silk glove

formed, everything but extinct. The h
still in a most depressed state, and soi

pbbin-net lace trade is
tie of, the factories are

have ventured to
till very flat, the
epor goods—being

much the same n
thigh= Journal

lace t

The Manx. Sun states, that the steamer Tynwald is to
make pleasure trips to Dundrum Bay, to enable paß-
gers to witness the launch of the Great v-

Britain next

spring tides.
MR. BROLTGR'S ENTERTAIN..
HALL.—We observe that this old favorite of
pool public purposes giving
evening next, in which he will
American Life and Character, varied by melodies
himself, Miss Balfe, (sister to the composer) and Si,
Sapio. Mr. Brough, we need not remind our readers,
more than usually qualified by his talent, both vocal and
otherwise, to render such an entertainment attractive and
and agreeable ; and we feel assured that such a rich treat
will not be lost by the musical public, especially as this
is, we understand, the only occasion on which it can be
given in Liverpool.

NT. AT TIIE CONCERT

the Liver-

an Entertainment on Friday

Sketches of
ng by

PATENT GAS-METER.—A new kind of gas-meter has
been patented, which promises to effect &I the purpose, of
such an instrument more accurately, regularly, and econo-
mically than any other yet devised. Its first cost is be-
low the average. And its wear and tear is inconsiderable
It is almost - ♦l,A} it is n

for water meters upenrfneuvouerys
ktiondsalayb
to7;uncle-r iliecliacmureatbelre
evil of corrosion by ammoniacal and sulphuric deposits,
The chief peculiarities of the patent meter are that it
works at less than one tenth of the usual pressure, at the
same time giving a perfectly steady light ; all tendency to
Jumping being obviated by a peculiar contrivance, whereby
the works lubricate themselves. The dial is-very large P
it has two hands like a clock, and may be read with
rr facility and precision by the at

meter is the invention of Mr. HI
the gasworks at Vatnhall.
Patent Dry Gas-Meter Company has
bring it prominently before fb^ -
employed in the Colo-

.hison, the engin(
A. company called the I-
been fort

British
aed to

seum, the Kdelaide (

already
Aitley's

street, Melphi. London.
FORTUNES MADE BY ADVERTISING.--
pamphlet, entitled " The Art of Making
extract has been taken, and is going the
provincial press, pointing out the facility o'
mense sums by the simple process of coot
sing. Doubtless large sums have been
made by such a system by certain
no doubt would make their way

om a small

.ound 'Of the
making im-

nuous adierti-
re, and will b
)f ability, who

biit to suppose th

course acquire wealth by such means,
imagine that all the penniless and sho
capable of rising to the dignity and w(
or the lord mayor of London sim
" Young Man's Best Companion."
easily made as the writer of the art'
lead people to suppose ; if it be s(

alth of an alderman
)ly by reading the
Money is not so

by advertising
day as an adve

doubtedly the greatest man of the tin-
Holloway, who expends the en
nearly every paper and
rtiser is
thousand pounds annually in a,
,'sbuextpalsoiitfs,tlh
Urinous sum of twenty
AitiillSdhiViisdlue individual ivertiseznents alone; his
name is not only to be seen
periodical published in the Br
agentssentral ~,a .___ in all the
country was too small for thi
lta, having
stretches over the whole of In
different parts of the upper,

of that immense count]
the Hindoo, Oordoo, G

iowFy provinces

language

r native
take the Pills

❑, and of

and use his Ointment, ac
a Cockney would do mitt
find him again at Hong

arding t

.
Led of Bow bell. We

medicines -known to the
translation. We trace 1
pine Islands, where he

makin
cans of CI