The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-01 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

LEEDS.—Saturday last was a bad day in both of the Cloth
Halls; but on Tuesday rather more business was done at a
slight advance in some cases, though very slight. Buyers
only take what they need; yet the moneyed houses will pur-
chase on any inducement. In the warehouses there is not
much doing.

BRADFORD MARKET.—There was a fair attendance of
buyers at this market on Thursday, but owing to the density
of the fog very little business was done, the merchants being
unable to discern accurately the qualities of the goods. In
the yarn market the transactions were as extensive as is
usual at this season of the year, principally for home con-
sumption, and prices were fully sustained. The Wool
market was dull, but in other respects there was no material
change.

BARNSLEY.—There is at present a prospect of continued
employment for weavers of drills in this town. Several of
the manufacturers have good orders in hand which promise
to continue over the winter season an average number of
weavers in full employment.
' Lawcasninz.—The Cotton trade at Rochdale has this
week become more gloomy, several of the largest millowners
having announced their intention of beginning to allow their
hands to work only four days per week. The woollen busi-
ness is not so brisk as it was a month ago, the hands in seve-
ral power-loom factories at Royton have already commenced
the short time system. The silk and cotton weaving at
Leigh are both in a depressed state ; it was calculated last
week that there were one thousand five hundred and up-
wards of looms that had no work in them. The woollen
cloth trade at Saddleworth is as good as can be expected at
this season of the year ; the operatives are doing moderately,
with respect to employment, but wages are low, and profits
upon all kinds of goods are less than we ever knew them to
be. At Boltdn, the great demand for goods which has ex-
isted during the last two or three weeks still continues with-
out any material alteration. The demand for some descrip-
tions of counterpanes is so great that many manufacturers
are not able to meet the wants of their customers ; this, how-
ever, does not produce any extraordinary effect upon the
prices, manufacturers being greatly in want of money, and
those who have stocks are anxious to part with them. _Fancy
goods of almost every description continue to be in brisk de-
mand. The machinery in the cotton mills within the town
is in full operation, and many of the masters are extremely
brisk, having very extensive orders in hand, none, however,
are realizing any important advance in regard to prices. The
shopkeepers continue to make loud complaints of the scarcity
of money, and of the distress which exists amongst the work-
ing classes. It will require a long time before the labouring
population will attain to that state of comfort and plenty
which is requisite to the health, happiness, and well being of
society.

The Bishop of St. David's has contributed £2OO towards
he rebuilding of Abergwilly Church, South Wales.

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MIRACULOUS AND EXTRAORDINARY PRESERVATION OF
LIFE FROM THE WRECK OF A VESSEL.—I have this day re-
ceived information of a French vessel having been driven on
shore, bottom upwards, on Thursday, the 19th instant, on
the rocks off Scilly, during a heavy gale—reported to be
from Gallipoli for Havre, with oil. Some of the islanders
having perceived the wreck, proceeded to ascertain the par-
ticulars and save the materiale, and when they gained the
top (literally the bottom) of thevessel, they observed several
holes, as if bored with a gimblet, which in discovering they
cut a larger place, and upon one man putting his hand in to
ascertain the cargo, it was immediately seized, and a voice
was heard to exclaim, " For God's sake save us !" The
parties directly made the hole wider, being assured that there
existed some human beings in this truly distressing and
novel situation, when to their inexpressible surprise, they
found the master and three seamen, and soon released them
from that barque which has so often borne them over many a
rough and boisterous sea,but which was so likely to prove their
coffin in the mighty deep, but for this providential and timely
aid. They also took out two of their fellow-seamen who had
died previously, one from exhaustion, the other from a cask
of oil falling on him at the time the vessel struck on the
rocks, and perceiving daylight, went to make another attempt
to release himself and fellow-sufferers from so extraordinary
and distressing a situation. These two poor fellows were
interred on Friday, at Sicily. When the sea struck and
upset the vessel, the remainder of the crew were unfortu-
nately washed overboard, and
_met with a watery grave. It
may be necessary to explain the reason of the holes in the
bottom of the vessel, which were bored by the poor unfortu-
nate creatures for the purpose of giving air to them within.
Such are the facts that have been stated to me by a gentle-
man, who received this information from the master of the
pilot sloop belonging to Sicily, from which place she sailed
on Friday afternoon, and arrived at i
Dartmouth yesterday.....
Correspondent of the Shipping Gazette.