The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-12 00:00:00

MARKETS FOR MANUFLCTURES

OF COTTON,
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Imports
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LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, JAN. 5;
Our arrivals have been further increased to a fair extent
since the middle of last week, as will be seen on reference to the
list of imposts below. In the interval from Thursday, when
our last market was held, much excitement has continued to
prevail? and a large business has been transacted in most lead-
ing articles of the trade; at daily advancing prices.
At this day's market we had a good attendance of buyers,
many of whom were from the country, and an extensive sale of
all descriptions of Wheat,' almost wholly for consumption, at
an improvement of fully 4d. to Cul. per 701 b. A few thousand
barrels of Floar found buyers at 40s. to 40s. Ed. in bond, and
425. was realised for duty-paid parcels : sack Flour scarce, and
3s. per 280113. dearer.
e quote malting Barley 3s. to 44., English Beans 2s. to 35.,
46s.anul pl..egryqptuiaarntelrs:ftroeig2sh per quarter
is
uranlei ee
cri
u;
so, fve the.lia:tie):
Oats
tnum-
berhe:ea. ofon floatingly :oacearia•gtoe ebsussoi (el
business
within
e ttheseodafye,w.
,c 1
da ynso rai pwteon4dsms
in value; but Oatmeal, fimutiirrseenaicreyi.ly,-made in retail Is. to 2s.
per sack over last week's c
We had a more free sale for Indian Corn at the rates of this
day se'nnight. Little or nothing offering afioat.

Wheat, lil 7016. s. d. s. d. , 13. d. a. d.
English red, new 10 9 @ll 0 old .... 'll 0 @II 3
Ditto, white lO 9 —ll 3 do. .....10 9 —ll 6
Irish red
Ditto, white lO 3 —lO 9 d 0..... 10 0 —lO 6
Rye, English, vqr
Barley. English 54 0 —57 0 old ....1
Scotch & Irish, ?,601t) -- do.
Malt, English, gp qr.
pale - -- old
Irish
-- do.
Oats, per 451 b.
English & Scotch, new old
Welsh — —1 do.
Irish, fine qualities
general do. -
Beans, English, is qr —— d 0..... '5B 0 —62 0
Scotch & Irisli,r 480th -- do. .... 55 0 —57 0
Pease, English, white
Do. & Irish .. maple —— grey.... 56 0 —5B 0
Flour, per 280/b.
English & Irish, 2nds 'fine .... 147 0 —5O 0
Ditto, superfine 55 0 —5B 0 ,extra .. 58 0 —6O 0
Oatmeal, is, lb. of 240th
8
Irish, 1846 49 0 —52 0 old .... 145 0 —49 0
Canadian - do. ~.. 45 0 —49 0
Bran, %3, 24th .T_ ' 1 6 1 9

I 7 3 - 7 6

80 0 -84 0
10 0- 0 0

5 2 - 5 6

- - -
4 11 - 5 2

CON EXCHANGE JAN. 8.
We have some fresßh arrivals from A, erica, ch
Ind an Corn, but scarcely anything from other
contrary winds having prevailed during the la
Though the business for local consumption has I
less active between Tuesday last and to-day, wt
enced a good demand for Wheat far tre.and, wi
impression upon our now comparative.y limited
grain, and with renewed speculative transactions
ther improvement has been realized; at the earn,
Flour has continued in active request at extreme
sueh parcels as were offered for sale.
At this morning's market an advance of 2d. to 3(1. per 70'b.
was generally realised upon Wheats, with a good steady de-
mand for the country, as well as for shipment to Ireland and
the north; there was, however, but a limited sale to millers in
our immediate locaity, and not much disposition to speculate,
though several parcels of bonded again changed hands.--Flour
a trine dearer, for both free and under lock ; of the latter,sales
to a fair amount were effected, and our last tlp quotation of
40s. refused in considerable quantity.
Both malting and grinding Barleys still tending upwards in
value, Malt firm at the late currency.
In Beans and Pease no change from previonS rates.
Oats and Oatmeal dull, but without variat on in prices.
Indian Corn moves off to a moderate extent, and the value
fully maintained.

Flour and
quarters, light
I.lst three days.

le9 somewhat

e have experi-
tiich makes an,
stocks of this

g, a slight fur-
le time bonded

MANCI{ESTER.—We are sorry that we cannot report any
symptoms of activity in the transactions of our market during
the past week. In the face of an unwillingness to purchase,
prices have evinced upward tendency, and are firm at advanced
rates. This is a result for which recent events have not left all
men who have watched their progress wholly unprepared. The
high prices to which the plethora of money has enabled the spe-
culators to send up the raw material of our staple manufacture,
could not but produce a corresponding influence in the goods
market. Add to this the extensive diminution of the supply in
consequence of the general adoption of short time—the average
period per week now worked in the manufactrr;n•..ttarr;,

1114 11.13Liluts ge-
nerally, not exceeding four days—and a state of things is pro-
and this advance duced necessitating an advance in prices. This state of things,
ors w
hnaeva.erl yt
aokie.
dhiczezr,iihmaosiipgrotthtueceotpel, arantdivnelipisotpaunidatvall, produce, very treat
and through them
im' 400 Egyptian, upon almost every branch of the trading community. In fact,
,nd2oo Surat. unless matters alter very speedily, the English artizan will be
soon but little different in condition and Prospects to the Irish
peasant. Let us hope that this may be avoided.
ROCHDALE.—We have had a very dull market this week, and
hut very little business was done. Prices same as last week.
Wool was selling a trifle higher than at our last mar-.et. Oils
as before.
LEEDS.—The Woollen trade, if anything, is a shade better.
Saturday was dull and dark during market hours, and not
mach business was done. On Tuesday, a better demand was
experienced, principally for goods of low qualities. The
foreign houses are doing a trifling more business than they
were lately. Prices remain firm.
BRADFORD.—WooI.—The demand is not animated, and the
stock in the market fully an average, but held for prices which
prevent the buyers from onerating, except on the narrowest
scale. The improvement noted in our last for noes and brokes
continues, and better prices realised. Yarn.—The business
doing is rather more extensive both for home consumption and
shipping, and low numbers are scarce, and the price demanded
for Wool suitable for them forbids the hone of an amended
supply, unless better prices can be realised. Pieces.--There is a
steady business doing in Orleans Cloth, of which the market is
not abundantly supplied. Cohurgs are also more inquired for,
and, on the whole, the opening market offers nothing more
diF.conraging,. The advance in Cotton will prevent any de-
cline in goods, as the Warps cannot be had at old prices.
HUDDERSFIELD.—We are Grad to notice an improvement in
the demand for manufactured goods here. Merchants are be-
ginning to make purchases of spring goods, for which it is ex-
pected there will be a good demand. Prices are very firm, and
stocks not heavy.
HALIFAX.—The new year has opened with much of the dull-
ness that characterised the latter markets of its predecessors;
and it is generally thought that the continually advancing
price of provisions tends to protract to a greater 'distance the
period of a revival. But few pieces have changed hands in the
Hall to-day, and prices remain unimproved. The return of
open weather has brought the continental buyers into the
Yarn market, for a few job lotiVtit below cost price; but, in
other respects, the trade continues without alteration. Owing
to the.stimuhis of the late advance, Short Wool has been more
in
trade is by,
no means briskand the increased price has been obtained; but the

On Tuesday, at the Birkenhead Police-court, consi-
derable merriment was excited by a complainant, in a
cause of disputed wages, producing a long stick, on which
was recorded, by notches, the work of eight months, with
peculiar notches for shillings advanced. Complainant
was, however, non-suited.

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DESTRUCTIVE PIRE.—A.I3OUt two o'clock on Wednes-
day morning, a fire broke out in the Dee Mills, Chester,
occupied by Messrs. Palin, and so rapid was the spread of
the fire that in an hour the whole was in a blaze. The
division walls, fortunately, are constructed of fire-proof
materiali, and consequently prevented the fire from com-
municating with the adjoining property. The alarming
intelligence immediately became bruited among the guests
at the Infirmary Ball, then celebrating at the Albert
ITotel. The mayor, Sir William Warre, (commandant of
the northern district.) Major Gordon, and other officers
of the 90th regiment stationed in Chester, and Captain
Robe (of the Royal Artillery), in full dress as they were,
hastened to the scene of destruction, and gave most effi-
cient services. The fire was not subdued till six o'clock.
The interior of the mill has been entirely gutted. .
SAGACITY OF A 1-loasE,—A horse belonging to Mr.
Cooke, driver of the Liverpool and Preston coach was
turned out for a winter's run, with some sheep, in afield,
near the town of Ormskirk. A few days ago, the last of
the sheep (eleven in number) were fetched for slaughter,
when the horse jumped the fence and left the pasture,
godßlefititwfsaaeinlntllgle
case
of epidemic; and
and was proceeding at a rapid rate to the town, when he
was met by two policemen, who attempted to stop him,
but without succeeding. He made straightway for his old
quarters, the King's Arms Inn, in Ormskirk, where the
Liverpool and Southport coach was
changing
horses at
the time. As soon as the horse perceived the coach, in
which he had run for nearly five years, he neighed aloud,
and could not be got from it for a considerable time, and
seemed to be anxious to join in the labours of his former
avocation.—Preston Chronicle.
l, IF I . HAD RUT THAT CASE IN PRISON! "—About
three years ago there was an epidemic raging in Glasgow,
high or law, who es-
caped they have an ex-
-ventilated prison, and in
tennovercrowding of the hospitals from
they took forty cases into the pri-
icte
aanhen
eapdcdteoidtpnnh:gaeieltsr there
attacks
uncwwekntaeshe
els
well-appointed,
from
eaooOpfmt
wp atoaihitssne. i
the extreme severity of the attacks, which killed some
people, they
them spread. In fact, there are so
ssasneensdtof disease so completely within management,
Ins twooann,
many
andhcol i
classes
that medical men who have the care and custody of those
who are in comparatively well-conditioned places are in
the habit of saying, in relation to cases in their private
practice, " Oh, if I had but that case in prison, I could
save it."—Mr. Chadwick's Speech at Exeter.
New Brunswick contains an area of twenty-six thousand
square miles, which is rather less than Scotland. The po-
pulation is about one hundred and sixty thousand, and the
number of clergy forty-three.
SLUG FENCE.—To repel the slugs and snails from his
carnations, Mr. Sharp of the Winchester gas-works,
encircles the rim of each pot with a piece of horse-hair
rop9, partially cut across its strands. The bristles start
forward, and present a chevaux de frize which neither
slugs nor snails' can surmount. It is very durable, may
be used to protect any plant, and is rather ornamental.