The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-04-17 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANctrEsTert.—There has been rather more business doing
in the yani market during the last few days, but at gratual!y
declining prices. For goods the market has been flat, and
.prices rather Lowell than last week.—Guardian.
•ROCHMALE FCANNEL MARKKT, APRIL 9.—The market to-
day has been but gloomy; more goods may have sold than on
the proceeding Monday. but prices have been lower. In the
wool•market there has been but little doing, and the prices rhay
be quoted the same as last week.

HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—We have rather an improved de-
mand for most goods to-day, especially for good lastings ; and
this improvement was unaccompanied by any increase in value.
In Wool, a fair extent of business is doing, and in broke Wool
and nods large sale have been effected. and in a few instances
et inrproving prices. Yarns are not in brisk demand, but the
vales are fair at late prices.
'Laens, TUESDAY.—The business in both halls is very dull,
that is, little business doing in any departrnent. There is, of
rourse,'an increasing stock, though that stock is by,un means
large, but which is still indicative of what cannot be mistaken,
viz. that more goods are made than there is a demand for which,
,is a very different state of things from what was experienced
about Christmas.

FlunorresviaLb, TUESDAY.—There is very little to notice
this week.different from our last report. For plain goods the
demand is still limited; but a fair business is doing in fancy
goods.,on about the same terms as last week. The wool mar-
.ket pvtakes of the dulness of the surrounding markets; •no
more is doing than for immediate wants, and at the tura less
zooaey. .

BRADFORD, THURSDAY.—Some difference of opinion exists,
even among the best informed, as to the amount of business

,dane in our piece market. Our opinion is, that-there has been
a fair average demand. Some goods for the United States
have been disposed of, but there is no ,round for •thinking that
::anything like general extensive orders for that country have come
to heart so that the little life put into our market this week
-may beparely evanescent. But every thingdepends on orders
from that quarter. In wool the sales have been on the most
- limited scale possible, and the market very dull, with prices the
tutu below our last report. Yarns.—The demand is only for
instant wants;• but the few sales effected have been in favour of
.:4h manufacturer. •
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, APRIL, I2.—We have again
had more inquiry, and a little more doing in all the long wools
this week, which his occasioned holders to be more firm, and
last week's prices are,supported. _Short wuol continues dull of
sale, and hardly supports its price.-
, . HECKMONDWLICK.—The blanket trade continues in a de-
pressed state, little business being done, and the mills only
poorly employed, with but little prospect of amendment.
Bnay..—Business, generally, is worse than last week; calico
printing especially; and in the cotton spinning and power loom
weaving, the stocks are getting heavy; and it is supposed. that
2'if there be no speedy improvement, some of the mills will corn-
' nience running short time.
MIDDLETON.—The'siIk weaving is not so brisk as it was a
few weeks since; printing is in a pretty fair state, perhaps
better at Middleton than at most of the places in Lancashire;
'Cotton hand-loom weaving is not so brisk.
SADDLEWORTII.—The woollen cloth trade is not so good as
it was three weeks since. Very little has been done for export.
The home trade continues much the same. Hands have nut
more than four and five days work per week.
CHESTERFIELD, APRIL 11.—The trade in wool still continues
in a languid condition; the few sales that are effected are sub_
ject to aow figure.
LEICESTER.—We are sorry we cannot report any improve
merit in the demand for goods. Trade continues extremely
dull. A reduction of Id. per pound has taken place in worsted
yarns during the week. In wool, little or nothing is:doing.

At the late Warwick assizes a Mr: Lucy, a descendant of the
Sir Thomas Lucy • who has obtained so much notoriety in con-
n.ection with Shakspeare, preferred a bill of indictment against
a, William Shakspeare.
We understand, that Sir James Stirling has resigned the go-
vernorship of Western Australia, and that Mr John .Hutt,•noe
of- the founders of. South. Australia, whom the body of South
Australian proprietors were desirous to have appointed as suc-
cessor to Captain Hindinarsh, has been appointed to' succeed
Sir J. Stirling.
THE. Folios of IMITATION.—Since the Queen has begun to
ride on horseback, every female who can mount a horse is said
to. take what is called equestrian exercise." If her Majesti
wer,l to smoke a pipe or turn a cigar, all the ladies in the land
would we suppose, follow the royal example, and, like tbe.ladies
in,S,uth America, envelop their fair forms in clouds of %ace°
amcike, Why does not some dealer tempt the Queen with a
chOice Havaunah ? The demand far cigars would be prodigiously
increased, if her Majesty would only take a whiff.
Miss Stephens, the great vocalist, has at last,been united to
the, venerable • Earl of Essex; and Madam Vestris, to Mr.
Charles Mathews, son of the eminent actor of That name.—
Carlisle Journal.
THE TRANSATLANTIC STEAMERS.—The New Yorkers were,
three weeks ago, all agog, in expectation of the arrival, about
—,tltiatime, of the Sirius, from Cork, and of the Great Western,
;abOut the 20th, Irma Bristol. They entertained no doubt what-
. .ever: of the Atlantic being crossed by means of steam ships ;
„"4.tathe newspapers of the city were busy speculating onthe re-
•vOlUtion, social, commercial, and. political, which steam navi-
Ation between Europe and America would occasion. Both the
and the Great Western have, since they .sailed,, had to
encounter strong northwesterly gales, which may make their
'respective passages several days longer than they .would be
'were the winds moderate.

ANOTHER MuRDER IN BIBMINGHAM.—Last night (Wed-
nesdayl another murder 'of a most ferocious and determined
Character took plaCe in this town. Thecircumstames, as far as
we have- been able to collect them, were as follows : —Some
' 'short rime baCk, a young man, named Thomas• Wale, was mit-
' loyett at the house of Mr. Botterill, the Bed Lion, in the Bull
Ring,' as horse:keeper to Mr. Dean, the Proprietor and driver
one of the Dudley coaches. &Wing to some irregularities in
' he was discharged,. and about a week since, h
plade was suPplied by an elderly man named MichaelHandle)i.
This circumstance appears to have exasperated Wale; and, oh
• those than' one occasion he has called at the house, and annoyed
Handley when in the discharge of his duties as horse-keeper.
•Last.night, about eight o'clock, he again called at the house,
anti it would appear that, in the first instance,.they. had a.fieht
in the yard. Mr. Botterill, hearing the disturbance, went .)ut,
and very properly shut- Handleyup in a s'table to prevent a re-
newel of the violence. Shortly afterwards "the Loots" at the
Lion- went into the yard, when he observed Wale s'aurling
near the stable. He immediately exclrrimed, "Tom, why are
you standing there?" when Wale replied, "Old Mick's in here,
but I'll mark him before I've done with' him!". or *Or& to that
effect. The " boots" returned into the house, and in the course
of a- few minutes a-cry of " murder !" washeard to proceed
from theyard. All parties, •including Mr. &Merin and Mt.
Mash, the tatter gentleman happening to be accidentally in the
house, rushed nut, when they found Handley staggering froM
the effects of a stab. ' He; together with Wale, were conveyed
lute the kitchen, when' the blood was dikavered to flew co-
piously from the left:Side of Handley. Surgeon's were imme-
diately sent for; but before any arrived, the unforttinate rodn
bad breathed his last. Shortly after Mr. 'Heath, Mr. J. Led-
ger'', and other professional gentleman, were in attendance;
but, according to their statements, had-they been present at the
instant the.wound.was inflicted, it would have been impossible
to have saved the !Hen? thdeteased. Mr. Betterill, as we un-
derstood, took Wale,' with the knife in -his. possession. It is a
common pocket knife, and the blade was covered with blood.
The excitement -which prevailed in the neighbourhood, soon
afterthe occurrence took place, • was equal to that in Snowhill
the•Wedriesday night previous, when Mr. Davenport fell a vic-
tim to the litry, of •Devy.—Wale wasYemoved to the prison in
Moor-street;tappaeently in no way afrected the horrid 'deed
'ha bad committed..-.--Birrainyhen ;Vrertiser.

THE FEMALE HUSBAND

(From the Manchester Guardian of Wednesday.)
In the Manchester Times of Saturday last is a paragraph to
the following effect :

"Unfounded Report—A silly report has been industriously
propagated this week, to the effect, that a respectable remelt,
in this town has been married for about 17 years to a persoil
who, within the last few days, is discovered to be a woman. As
it was not impossible for such a circumstance to have occurred,
although very improbable, we had•curiosity enough to make
inquiries on the subject, and found that the alleged "remarka-
ble discovery" was a gross fabrication."

We, too, had curiosity enough to make inquiries on the subject,
and find that the "unfounded report" of the "remarkable dis-
covery" which, though "not impossible," is "very improba-
ble," is really,. in the main, true. All the circumstances corn.
municated to us relative to this singular case; we do not feel
justified in publishing; but we may mention a few of the prin-
cipal facts .connected with what is here known of the history of
this Chevalier D'Elon in bumble life, of course, suppressing the,
names of the parties. A few days ago, a respectable female
waited upon an attorney in this town, and asked his advice in
a case of a very peculiar nature. It seems that her husband,
a master bricklayer, who had been in the habit of trusting her
implicitly in:his business, even leaving to her management the
book-keeping requisite in his trade, and of late, for some cause
or other, refused to allow her the usual weekly sum for house-
keeping. Having, also, in other respects, treated her, as she
conceived, in au unkind manner, she carte to take advice as to
how she should proceed, under the circumstances, against her
husband, whom, to the no small astonishment of the profes-
sional gentleman she was then consulting, she deolared to be
nut a man, but a: woman.—The attorney thought it his duty,
under such singular circumstances, to: bring the matter under
the notice of Mr. Foster, themagistrate,-who directed that Mr.
Thomas should take the case under his management, and
bring the parties . for private examination before him (Mr,
Foster), at the police-office. Mr. Thomas took the necessary
steps; and on Thursday last, the parties were brought before
Mr. Foster, in the astable's room, at the police-otfice,
when the truth,;` averment to the attorney was cor-
roborated in the most. (.;istinct and unqualified manner by Mr.
Oilier, surgeon to the police, who rave-a certificate declaring
that the individual in question was a woman. The woman-bus-
band, we believe, did not make the least attempt to deny her
sex, but contented herself with stating, that her wife had been
only led to make this exposure, because she had withheld from
her the weekly allowance of money for house-keeping expenses.
The wife replied, that this was not the only cause of complaint
she had against her spouse; for that she, (the husband) was
occasionally intoxicated, and that, when in that state, thebus-
band treated her very ill. The wife has also stated that she ac-
cidentally made the discovery of the sex of her husband as much
as two or three years back; but that she had kept the secret
till the present time.—From what tould be gleaned of the his-
tory of this female-husband, it would seem that she had as-
sumed the garb and character of a buy at an early age,
and that in that character, she was apprenticed, at the age
of sixteren or seventeen, to a master builder, in one of the
large towns of Yorkshire. Being of good exterior, with
prepossessing appearance and manners, and of features rather
handsome, the supposed young than attracted the attention of
many females in the same condition of life ; and, amongst
nthers, was the one who afterwards became the wife. The at-
.tentiona of the young bricklayer were acceptable and accepted;
.and the union-took place shortly after the expiration of the ap-
prenticeship. Soon afterwards, this couple came to Manches-
ter, we are told, about the year 1827, where the husband com-
menced the business of a builder, and, by considerable skill,
ability, and attention to trade, was tolerably successful. Amongst
other branches of the business, this builder became remarkable,
indeed almost to celebrity, for skill and success in the erection
of flues, ovens, &c.; and, we believe, is, at this moment, in very
good business, employing several hands, and giving very gene-
ral satisfaction to those for whom any work has been executed.
The wife had the entire management of the books and accounts
in the business: and, as far as we have heard, there was not the
slightest imputation on her character. ,Webelieve that nothing
was done in the way of legal proceedings. Several articles,
claimed by the wife as her property, have been sent to the po-
lice office, by the husband; who, so far as we have heard, has
nut offered any reparation to the wife, for the cruel and painful
position in which she is now placed. One thing is tolerably
certain, that after the exposure which has taken place, and the
affair was currently talked of as early as Thursday or Friday
last, the woman who has ventured to assume the character of a
man will no longer be able, to continue to carry on business in
this town, and that she must either lay aside her disguise, and
resume the appearance which most befits her sex ; or, if she
will retain her unfeminine appearance and character, the must
seek to hide her imposture in some place where she is not
known, and where she may hope for a while to escape detection.
We believe that many persons, who have employed her, join in
declaring, that they had nut the slightest suspicion that she was
other than what she seemed. It is somewhat remarkable,, that
this is not the first case of this nature which has been brought
under the notice of Mr. Thomas. In January 1829, a labourer
in the service of Mr. Crisp, ship-builder, at Dockhead, London,
,while assisting in sawing a log of fir, was struck by the severed
part of the lOg with such force on the head, as to die of the in-
jury while being conveyed to St. Thurnas's.Hospital. • On strip-
ping the body to prepare it for interment, it was discovered that
the deceased, who was about 38 years of age, was a woman.
She had been known for about twenty-two years to have filled
various situations as groom, shipwright's labourer, and other
subordinate occupations iu duck-yards, vitriol works, &c. and
been twenty-one years married; and his wife declared in the
most solemn manner, on the inquest, and before the police ma-
gistrates at Bow-street, that during the whole of that period,
she had been in utter ignorance of the real sex of her supposed
husband.

(From the Manchester Guardian of Saturday.)

THE WOMAN-HUSBAND.—Subsequent inquiries confirm the
truth of the statements made in the Guardian of Wednesday
last, as to this singular case. And, as the circumstances of the
ease; and the name of the husband, have now become pretty
generally known throughout the town, we see no longer any
necessity for concealing the latter. The assumed name of the
Master bricklayer is Henry Stoakes; her real name we believe
to be Harriet Stoakes, and till the late exposure the parties re-
sided in Cumberland-street, Deansgate. This woman-man,
who, for probably more than five-and-twenty years, has suc-
ceeded in concealing her sex, and pursuing a trade of a more
than ordinarily masculine and hazardous description, with a
degree of skill and ability which has led to her establishment in
a good business in.this town, bound herself apprentice, 'at the
age of 16 or 17 Years, to a Mr. Peacock, a bricklayer and
builder at Bawtry, a small market town in the West Riding of
Yorkshire, on the river Idle, which separates the counties of
York and Nottingham. ' She did not remain with Mr. Peacock
during the whole period of her appreuticeship, but was "turned
over," as it is called, to another person in the same business.
It was during ter apprenticeship that she 'met with her present
Wife; and they- were inatried'at the Old Parish Church of Shef-
field; is the year 1816, when the Wife was only 11 years of age.
Since the investigation and disclosure of the ciriainstances on
Thursday week, the wife and hirsband have separated: We
believe that, although no leg,al proceedings have been, or in-
•deed could.he. taken in' thiS • extraordinary case,. Mr. Thomas,
the deputy-constable, has had several interviews with the hus-
band; in which he has endeavoured to induce her to make smile
TruYision for the woman whom she has so shamefully deceived ;
and who, after having, for twenty-two years; filled the character
'of a• Wife, greatly benefiting the iuteiests- of her supposed hus-
band; not only by her care of the honsehuld concerns, but of
the business, books; and accounts, had 'surety some 'claim to
compensation as a servant, if she were unable by law to demand
the maintenance of a wife. We believe that Mr. Thornas so
far succeeded in this humane negociation, as to induce the hus-
band to agree to give up to the wife the house in which they had
resided up to the time of, the discovery, with all the furniture
that it contained. The wife is, therefore, still residing there;
and the husband has gone to lodge elsewhere. The babtts of
the latter, we believe, are much more in accordance with those
of her assumed, sex and occupation, than of a woman; and no
one, except perchance from her beardless cheeks, and a certain
shrillness of voice, could, for a moment, suspect that the
little broad-set bricklayer was of the softer sex. At present,
she employs in her business, besides being most industrious
herself in its practical details and manual operations, eight men,
and a boy who is apprenticed to her. In her business and deal-
ings, she appears to have borne, hitherto a good character for
attention to business, and houesty in her. payments; and
we believe that she has stated, that she has made enough by
her business to enable her to live in ease without labour. Yet,
strange to say, with a degree of irritability which we should
rather expect to find in the injured than the injurer, she vehe-
mently refuses to couseut that any sum shall be set apart as a
provision for her so-called wife. Among other social duties
which this female husband has performed during her residence
in this town, is one Chet certainly it might have been expected,
if thd least feelings appertaining to her sex had remained, she
would have anxiously have endeavoured to evade. But, on the
contrary, there seems to:have been a sort of perversity in her,
which carried Ler into all extremes. She was for many years a
special constable, in the 13th division of that body. acting for
this town; and we are assured that on all occasions, where
the services of the divisions were required, as at electioes, orange
processions, and meetings of trades' unions, turn-outs, &c.; so
far from absenting herself from what, as in the case of well-
grounded apprehensions of a riot, must have been, to a woman,
a post of some unpleasantness, she is remembered to have been
one of the most punctual in attendance, and the most forward
volunteer in actual duty, in that division. We understand that
she is only no longer a special constable, because she did not,
on the last annual special session, held for that purpose at the
New Bailey, present herself to be resworn. She was nut dis-
carded or discharged; there was no complaint against her; and
probably the extension of her own business was her only motive
for not resuming the duties of this of Ice. Altogether, this is by
far the most singular case of the kind which has ever reached
our knowledge. The celebrated Cheva:ier D'Eon was not
married; and James' Davis (so called), the discovery of-whose
sex tuok.place only after•death, had not been married for so
long a period as. the woman whose case is-now under notice.
There, too, the discovery was made too lute to obtain from the
party herself any clue to the motives which ,led her to sown.
feminine a course of dedeption but here 'both parties- to the
supposed marriage are alive; and the one who assumed the
male sex is Still alive taative, if she chooses, the true history 'of
her reasons or fancy, fur laying-aside the garb and character of
her own, and assuming, the appearance, and undertaking the
airit,of the other sex,.ashich would certainly .be a very curiuus
chapter of biography.

. .• . • •
R now Escs few days ago, an old man, residing in
the township of Uswaldswisle,• had a very narrow escape from a
pertnature grave. His daughter, who is a straw-bonnet-maker,
bad incautiously placed a cup, containing about two ounces of
oxalic acid, partially dissolved, (which is used by persons in her
business to clean bonnets with,) on the pot-shelf; and her fa-
ther being thirsty took the cup, filled it up with water, and drank
off the contents. Portunately for him, Mr. Bradley, surgeon, of
Church, was.on the spot in a few minutes after the accident,
and by the timely use of the stomach pump, and copious wash-
ings with lime water; the otherwise fatal catastrophe was pre-
vented, and the old man is now as well as usual.—Blackburn
Standard.

NEW PRINTING MACHINE.—Mr. Thomas Trench, of Ithaca,
New York, is constructing his patent printing press, at the
Speedwell Works, near Morristown. • The Jerseroncrn mentions
that it is to be attached to one of the paper mills in that place,
and describes it as follows:—" The press takes the paper im-
mediately from the paper machine, prints it on -both rides, and
passes it through cylinders, which presses it smooth; thus, in
one operation and within the space of three minutes, the pulp is
taken from the mill and a book of .350 pages is ready: for the
binder. The•paper is printed in one continuous sheet, thus, a
whole edition can readily be printed, rolled up, and sent to any
distance. Mr. Trench had on his press Cobb's Juvenile
,Reader,'. of 216 pages, of-which he presented us a sheet of
about 70 feet, neatly printed, and which. can be examined at
our office. This new printing machine will cause a complete
revolution in the art of printing, kail genetally diminish the
price of standard works and school books. Hereafter, we sus-
peer, orders will he given for bibles, spelling.books, &c., by the
mile, instead of the volume, as ;n former time; but, be that as
it may, a sheet of five wiles in length can be made with nearly
the same ease as one of fifty or a hundred feet."—National in-
telligencer.