The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-27 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER.—Our market since Tuesday has been very
languid, the depression having become more decided as the
week advanced. The business doing is extremely limited, nor
is there any immediate prospect of an alteration for the better.
Sellers, notwithstanding, are firm, and seem disinclined to
make any important concessions in price. Any sales effected
have been at the lowest rates current previous to the la-st ad-.
vance in Cotton. To the depressed state of the Cotton market,
but mainly to the peculiar position of monetary affairs, must
be attributed the present comparative stagnation. The present
tightness in the money market, in the opinion of those best in-
formed on such subjects, is considered likely to increase rather
than diminish for some time to come. All mercantile Opera-
tions are necessarily confined within the narrowest possible
limits, and the feeling daily becomes more general, that it is
safest to pause and await the result of the present crisis. _Short
time working and the closing of mills continue to increase
daily. The spinners and manufacturers of Stockport decided
on Wednesday to go on working three days a-week during the
next four weeks, and if matters do not improve, to reduce the
time to two days a-week. The distress amongst the factory
population is now beginning to be severely felt, owing to the
additions made every week to the number of the unemployed.
LANCASHIRE.—The trade at Blackburn and the neighbour-
hood is in a very precarious state: the working of short time,
and the c'osing of cotton factories, owing to the advanceavhich
has taken place on the raw material, is still progressinta• and
to a considerable extent. Distress is alarming, both amongst
cotton-mill operatives and the hand-loom cotton weavers. Se-
veral large dries have this week given notice, that if an altera-
tion for the better does not speedily take place, they will give
up the cotton business altogether. Calico block printing at
Church Parish, Oswaidtwisle, Accrington, and v cinities, is
very flat, and the operatives have not more than half employ-
ment, whilst many are totally destitute of work. Machine
printing is flat, and many engravers are only partially employ-
ed. 'the hatting trade at Oldham, Ashton, Denton, Droylsden,
Hyde, Duckinfield, Stockport, and their neighbourhoods, gets
worse; it has not been in such a depressed state as at praserit
during the last twenty years. It is said that about two-thirds
of the hat body makers are entirely without work, and ,others
have nut snore than to a. and some of hem three days' work
per ssee:, Ihe a °sty ~:,.sit trade at Siallemoi th gets worse
every week ; operatives are only partially employed, at-a very
low rate of wages. The manufacturers make loud complaints,
and declare they get nothing, or next to nothing, by their
goods. The silk trade at Middleton, Fails:N-odb, Chadderton,
Leigh, and Manchester, is by no means Rs brisk as it was four-
teen days ago; yet those operatives who are employed upon
broad figured goods, and new descriptions of fine fancy work,
and silk velvets, are fully employed at a moderate rate of
wages, but plain goods and silk smallwares are dull. The silk
dyers at some places this week are short of employment, The
gingham and fancy nankeen business at Radcliffe, Whitfield,
Unsworth, Eccles, and vicinities, is not to call brisk, yet the
operatives generally have moderate employment, but wages
are extremely low. The manufacturers also 'declare they can-
not get an advance upon their goods equal to that which has
lately taken place in the raw material. The trade in cotton-
mills at Rochdale may be best understood by reading an ac-
count of the following firms that have already closed their fac-
tories, namely, Messrs. John Bright and Brothers, three mills
closed, and one working short time ; Messrs. D. Jersey Se Co.,
two mills closed ; Messrs. Edmund Howard & Co., two. The
following have one mill each closed, viz., Mr. Thomas Smith,
Mr. James Pilling, Mr. James Brierley, Messrs. Staley, Wil-
kinson, and Co., Messrs. Lord and Co., Messrs. Butterworth
and Sons, Messrs. Williamson and Co., Mr. George Howarth,
and Mr. Abraham Brierley. Total mills closed, 17; number
of hands out of employment, upwards of ;COO. Several firms
that are working short time intimate thoir intention of closing
their factories. The hands in the woollen mills generally are
working full time, but the flannel handloom weavers are only
par:hilly employed, and at a very low rate of wages. The cot-
ton trade at Oldham, Rcvton, and Crompton, is getting worse
every day; and this week several occupiers of cotton mills,
who have been working short time, have given notice to their
hands of their intention to close their factories. The shop-
lseepei s are becoming alarmed, and will only purchase small
quantities of provisions, owing to the reports that many are
afraid of an outbreak. At Stcckport, masters have had meet-
inns every day, but they are afraid to close their mills at pre-
sent. The working of short time increases every day at Bury,
Heywood, Rainsbettom, and their vicinities ; and this week
several firms have closed their manufactories. The distress in
all the towns fifteen miles round Manchester, amongst cotton-
mill operatives, is alarming in the extreme ; and unless some-
thing is done very speedily, it is feared there will be distur-
bances. The towns are crowded with Irish beggars, and with
operatives out of work.
LEEDS.—Though the rise in the price of grain and the state.,
of the money market have checked the demand for woollen
goods, a.fair amount of business has been done daring the
week at the warehouses. The goodspurchased were chiefly for
the American market. The tone or the woollen trade is cer-
tainly dull; but from the cautious manner in which all the
principals engaged in it nave for the last two or three years
conducted their business, there are no heavy stocks on hand,
and prices are firm.
BRA DrORD.—WOOL—TIIC spinners buy with great caution,
and the purchases made during the week are less than usual.
The market is not abundantly supplied, which keeps prices
stationary. Neils and 'Moises are not so ready sale, but there
is no alteration in prices. Yarns.—There is a fair demand for
most kinds of Weft Yarns, and a disposition to bay for .distant
sent very low prices. Pieces.--Our market lias been pretty
lively for Dress goods; Merinos have also moved in quantity,
but the prices are very low.
HALIFAX.—The market on Saturday was again very dull, and
very little business was done. In Yarn there is not much do-
ing, though there is rather a better demand, but prices keep
down, and as spinners cannot sell to make the same again,
without a loss, sell sparingly. Wool is much the same, and
staplers do not care much to sell, as they cannot replace at the
same price.
HUDDERSFIELD.—The principal business done in oar mar-
ket on Tuesday was in waistcoatuws for America, and a large
quantity of pieces changed hands at the late prices. But little
business has been done at the warehouses during the week, but
the trade of the town and district is but slack. The high price
of food, with the prospect of BO still being higher, tends much
to stagnate the demand for clothing.

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NICOLL'S PALETOT, OF LLAMA CLOTH, REG.'D
AND 7 VIC., CAP. I).s.—Messrs Nicoll, Court Tailors, of
Regent-street and Cornhill, London, have the honour re-.
spectfully to announce that MESSRS. DAWBARN AND
SON, of 110, Bold-street, Liverpool, will continue to be
their sole agents for that town, and will have the- exclu.
sive sale of this fashionable Coat. Messrs. Nicoll can
most cheerfully recommend this establishment to any of
their patrons residing in its neighbourhood who may re-
quire, with the Paletot Coats, either Dress or Frock,
Trousers, Waistcoats, &c., MESSRS. DAWBARN AND
SON being constantly supplied from London with every
improvement in taste and faAion, and more particularly
as the same principles of business for which their own
firm is now well known are maintained by Messrs. Daw.
barn, viz., very moderate prices, combined with every ex-
cellence of material for prompt cash payments. Messrs.
N. are well aware that there are some fashions which have
so little of the enduring principle in them that they sel-
dom survive the fluctuations of a single season; others,
which from their intrinsic merit, acquire a firm footing in
public esteem and enjoy a more extensive vogue in pro-
portion as they become known to the public. To the lat-
ter order the Paletot has an undoubted claim, as by its
unassuming, yet gentlemanly appearance may be ascribed
the constant patronage of H. R. 11. Prince Albert, Prince
George of Cambridge, His Grace the Duke of Wellington,
and the principal members of the senate, the pulpit, and
the bar.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF NEW ZEALAND.—It will be seem
from an advertisement, that on the 20th May will be pub-
lished a splendid work, entitled " Pictorial Illustrations of
New Zealand." The sketches are by an•intelligent gen-
tleman, whose residence for several years in that colony
must have given him peculiar opportunities of witnessing
every day life among the New Zealanders, a. con,'
almost unknown in England, and never before r•-• „I
illustrated. The work will represent, for 4-1
ctorially
tho natives, their ceremonies, habits, "
.Lie first time,
the every thing of interest in New "
,ports, and in fact,
the public buildings, and land- ~,.,land • together with
ing point in this infant ,-*
-cape views of cvery interest.
highest style of art
- ,iony. The engravings arc in this
How seldom ,on steel, by Henryelville. Esq.
beginning' . tio we feel, perceive, or think of the small
118 in
~,.i of disease which surround and operate upon
e •
. our enjoyments and intercourse with the. world.
The young disease, which must subdue at length, .
Grows with our growth, And strengthens with our st_rength.,,
An improper regimen acting upon a particular kind of con-
stitution, late hours, both of retiring to rest and rising in
the morning, lay the foundation of intestinal as well as
and, secondly, is a powerful assistant
skin diseases. To all such we would recommend first a
change of system,
for the recovery. of health, that efficacious Paniily Medi-
chic. Framptoe's Pill of I :can, which has P7oemed the
.. approbation of persons in every station in society.