The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-10-18 00:00:00

THE WOOLLEN AND LINEN TRADE.

TRADE OF LEEDS.—There is still a fair share of business
doing in the woollen cloth trade. 'Though there is not much
business doing in the warehouses just now, the merchants are
cautiously replenishing their stocks, which have recently been
thinned by the purchases of the London houses. There is an
r opinion pretty generally prevalent that the price of low cloths
is too high, and that, unless some reduction takes place, the
slackness which is at present perceptible will continue for souse
tune longer.
BRADFORD MARRET.—Notwithstancl jug the apparent caution
of the merchants, there was a very considerable share of busi-
ness done at this market on Thursday. Goods of superior and
middle qualities met ready sale, the former maintaining their
recent prices ; but sit quarter merinos of low qualities were in
little demand, and prices may be quoted lower. The wool mar-
ket was very dull, and there was proportionately little doing in
the yarn market, even though lower prices were in some cases
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.Huddersfield market on Tuesday was considered a flatter one
than there has been fur some weeks, though several of the Leeds
merchants purchased freely.—Leeds lntelligencer.
BARNSLEY LINEN TRADE.—The demand for coinnum de-
scription of goods is nut quite so brisk as it has been. Drills
and other figured goods continue to meet a pretty fair demand.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, OCT. 14.—The same dull state
of things 'continues generally to pervade the wool trade here
that we have noticed in our rate reports; the transactions this
week have again been very limited, and on rather more favour-
able terms for the buyer. This observation applies alike to
short and long wool.
COTTON TRADE.—Cotton spinning is very brisk, there being
a good demand for yarn, and better profits realized than upon
piece goods generally. Calico printing is still slack at some of
the establishments, but at others there is the fair average employ-
ment this season usually affords.—Botton Chronicle.

OBSERVATIONS
ON THE REGISTER AND MARRIAGE ACTS, AS FAR AS THEY
AFFECT THE CLERGY OF THE ESTABLISHMENT.

The old register act, 52 Geo. 111., and the old marriage act.
4 Gen. IV., by which the clergy are now governed. are repealed,
as far as they relate to the register of marriages, but no further.
But, while the clergy still continue to register baptisms and bu-
rials as before, the new register act is to procure a record of
births and deaths ; and this object it will fail to accomplish.
1. BIRTHS.—Every person is directed to give notice of the
birth of his child to the registrar within six weeks; as there is
seldom any motive for doing it, and no penalty fur not doing it,
it will of course be generally omitted. But if it is done, and the
child is baptized within six months, the clergyman must give a
certificate of the baptismal name, on the payment of one shil-
ling, in order that it may be inserted in the civil register.
2. DEATHS.—The death of every person must be announced
to the registrar within eight days, of which the clergyman who
buries the corpse should receive a certificate. But if no certifi-
cate is produced, he must report the omission to the registrar,
within seven days, under a penalty of ten pounds; whether by
post or otherwise is not said.
3. MARRIAGES.—Those who are not willing to have their
banns published in church, or to ask for the bishop's licenser
may give a notice to the-superior registrar, who will cause it to
be read, on three successive weekly meetings, before the guard-
ians; and a certificate of this being produced to the clergyman
of the church therein named, he is to marry the parties. But,
if he performs the ceremony within three weeks after the entry
of the notice, or after three months from such entry, he is guilty
of felony.
4. REGISTER OF MARRIAGES.—Before the first of March
next, when the act begins to operate, the clergy will be furnished
with new registers, in duplicate, one of which when full is to be
kept in the parish chest, the other will be delivered to the supe-
rior registrar, to whom also a quarterly return must be made in
April, July, October, and January.
NOTE.—By canon 62, a clergyman is liable to suspension for
three years who solemnizes marriages without licenses or banns;
and by 4 Geo. IV. he is to be punished for doing so with tran-
sportation for foUrteen years. By the 7th Wm. IV. the certifi-
cate of the registrar is made equivalent to the publication of
banns; but those who perform the ceremony contrary to the
provisions of the act are simply declared to be guilty of felony.