The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-21 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

Already has the firm establishment of a Conservative mi-
nistry operated favourably on the interests of trade. The
last weekly reports from the manufacturing districts prove
that, notwithstanding the usually dull season of the year,' a
manifest improvement has taken place.

At Bradt "the animated demand still continues." At
Huddersfield " there was a fair amount of business trans-
acted." At Halifax there was very little variation from our
last piece market ;" but " spinners seem more fully em-
ployed." At Leeds " a brisk business was done in the
warehouses," and" manufacturers anticipate a brisk winter
demand." At Leicester " the French have been consider-
able buyers lately in the skin-comb wool." At Manchester
the markets are still better ; a fair business has been done in
both hand and power loom cloth, and the very full prices
paid on Tuesday have been obtained: Yarns are in good de-
mand, and in all probability 'ill remain so until the end of
the shipping season. At Rochdale " flannels are still in brisk
demand."

We suspect that these representations of men of business
are more likely to exhibit the real condition of the trading
community than all the vain inanities of a Cobden and a
Russell. They prove to demonstration that the manufac-
turers have only to blame the bungling mismanagement of
the late Radical government, which paralyzed trade both at
home and abroad. Only let the cottonocracy work fairly,
and we venture to say, that with Conservatism in the ascend-
ant, they will find their business improved and their opera-
tives more contented. Let them leave the agitation of the
corn laws, and attend to the working of their looms, and Sir
Robert Peel and his co-adjutors will look after the affairs of
the nation.

SAMBO SOMBER alias " JIM CROW.—On Saturday last,
a nigger, calling himself ,Sambo Somber, and representing
himself as closely allied to Dyce Somber, Esq., M.P., the
"liberal" member for Sudbury, was brought up before the
magistrates at Blackburn, on a charge of begging, ~ jumping
Jim Crow," and playing off divers other Indian antics in the
streets on the previous evening. The bench inquired where
he had come from, when Sambo said he had come from the
Cannibal Islands, along with his friend and relative, " Massa
Dyce Somber, de `liberal' member for Sudbury. " And,"
continued Sambo, "I hab de hop to be returned for de big
house de next time, as I am de ' liberal' also, and want no
queen, no church, but plenty of de cheap sugar, and de cheap
bread, and all de property dat belongs to oder de peoples,
cause I hab got none of my own. The bench inquired if
he had got no other qualification, when the nigger replied
" dat he could speak the Inglish as well as a Massa Somber,
de member for Sudbury.' The bench immediately " re-
turned" Sambo to the treadmill for 21 days as a rogue and a
vagabond—a conclusion which Massa Sambo did not think
was in accordance with his " liberal" way of thinking.—
Halifax Guardian.

NEWS OF THE NIGER EXPEDITION. —By Liberia
(Africa) papers, just received, the satisfactory intelligence is
brought of the safe arrival, on the sth ult., in Montserado
roads (colony of Liberia), of the Niger Expedition, after a
favourable passage nearly the whole way, and what is more
satisfactory, Captain Trotter reports that there was not a
case of sickness in any of the vessels. A newspaper pub-
lished at Monrovia, called " Africa's Luminary," says,
" The appearanCe of this squadron in our waters was hailed
as' a new era in African coast and river navigation."
THE MARQUIS OF WATERFOJtD.—At the suggestion of
his Royal Highness Prince Albert. and to the no small de-
light of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel
offered the mastership of her Majesty's stag hounds to the
Marquis of Waterford, who declined the honour. " Prince
Albert and you," said he, " are (1—(1 good fellows, but nei-
ther of you could see which way a 'fipperary man went across
a country. lam pledged to her Majesty's sporting subjects
in that part of the United Kingdom, and I am too much
attached to them to repeal the union and cordiality that sub-
sists between us. If his Royal Highness would honour us
with his presence, I will insure him good sport and a hearty
welcome in every habitation from Jemmy Millett's to my
own, and I'll mount him on a good 'tin, and no mistake."—
Kelso Warder.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday last two little boys,
named David Thomas and John Flower, aged about eleven
years, left their homes, in the Glebeland, for the purpose of
gathering blackberries, and incautiously got upon some
trains laden with iron, which were going down the tram-
road, .drawn by horses, towards the Basin. When near
Troedyrhiew, John Flowers cried out, " 0 ! Davy, there's
a nest of them," and immediately jumped off, and ran to
seize the prize. The other poor boy, it is presumed,' in his
hurry to jump off, fell under the wheel, when the whole of
the trains passed over his body. The boy Flowers, in his
anxiety to procure the blackberries, did not wait to see
deceased get off the train, and the first intimation he had of
the accident was, hearing him cry out, " Oh, Flower,
Flower !" Upon turning round, be saw deceased under the
train. lie immediately raised a cry, when the hallier and
some other person came to the spot. • Upon taking up de-
ceased, they found that his head had been literally severed
from his body, and he was otherwise dreadfully mutilated:—
Merthyr Guardian.

THE ASSASSIN PAPPARD.—The Droit states that a
minute search made at the lodging of the assassin Pappard
produced no result; but that the portrait of the Duke of
Orleans was found hanging up opposite to that of Napoleon.
The subjoined on the same subject is from the Gazelle des
Tribunaux :—" Pappard, who is only 27 years of age, has
already undergone more than four years' imprisonment for
variouvffences ; and, therefore, it is highly improbable that
he has served the usual period either in the 17th or any other
regiment. In 1834, Pappard, who is called the ` Albinos,'
from the whiteness of his hair, eye-lashes, and brows,
received his first sentence of confinement for a rubbery 'at
Sarlat, in the Dordogne, and again for a similar offence,
being detained in all five years in prison. He did not come
to Paris till 1839, and was employed by several masters, by
all of whom he was remarked for his extreme irascibility and
brutality. During a quarrel in a public-house, at Bercy he
wounded a man with a knife, and suffered in consequence
another imprisonment. The woman with whom he lived,
and who has a child by him, three months old, had suffered
so much from his violence, that, when she heard of his arrest
and its cause, she said, lam sorry for the Duke d'Aumale
if he is wounded, but I shall at last get rid of this wretch.'
The preliminary examinations are going on. Yesterday,
Baron Pasquier and the Duke De Cazes went to the Concier-
genie, and remained more than an hour.
The feeling of the democratic party in the United States
at the recent conduct of President Tyler is well illustrated
by the resolutions which were passed at a large meeting of
8,000 persons, described in the last file of New York papers.
With respect to the veto of the Bank Bill, the meeting ex-
press their gratification that President Tyler has followed the
illustrious example of the " great chieftain" (Andrew Jack-
son,) whom the democrats have always supported, in placing
his veto upon a measure palpably violating the, constitution,
at the same time decidedly condemning his sanction of the
repeal of the Sub Treasury Bill. They, however, hope that
in spite of Mr. Tyler's declaration, that the result of the last
election was condemnatory of the Sub Treasury, that the
views expressed in the veto message, and his connexion with
the Virginian school of democracy," will induce him to
propose some measure for the management of the public
money, resulting in the separation of the affairs of state from
those of the business of banking. These declarations with
tolerable distinctness mark the position of the president in
relation to the two great parties of the state, the repeal of
the Sub-Treasury being counterbalanced by the veto of the
Bank Bill. What must be the nature of the fiscal agent to
meet his approval is as yet unknown, but it is clear that while
his first message indicated his belief that the Sub-Treasury
was repudiated by the American people, he will not consent
to a national bank in the common acceptation of the word,
though perhaps it may exercise the functions of controlling
the currency, besides that of keeping the public money. A
great number of papers from various parts of the Union
combine in giving the President the highest praise for his
veto. The Charleston Mercury hails it as the delivery of
the people from the dominion of a conspiracy of avarice and
profligacy, and thanks Mr. Tyler for the firmness with which
he has met the undaunted and unprecedented storm of party
menace. The Trenton Emporium describes " John Tyler"
as standing fast, firm in his integrity, faithful as truth her-
self. •` The monstrous bill of abominations," they say, "to
establish a new United States Bank, while the corruption of
the old is still infecting the land, is no more. It received its
death-blow at the hand of the President." The New York
New Era observes, that a President was never placed in a
situation of greater di,fficulty and embarrassment, and that
Mr. Tyler has borne himself most nobly. The Boston
Morning Post considers the veto message as an exhibition
of uncompromising principle, conscientious devotion to the
constitution, and stern patriotism.