The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-18 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

LEEDS.—There is still a fair demand for manufactured
goods, though the markets since ow last can scarcely be said
to have been so brisk as they were a month ago. Probably
more would be sold if there were a better assortment in the
market ; as the Cloth Halls were scarcely eve► known to be
so scantily supplied with balk goods as at present. Two
causes conduce to this state of scarcity at present; the high
prices of wool, and the engagements of many of the clothiers
in the harvest. It is satisfactory to know that notwithstand-
ing our operative manufacturers are now pretty generally
employed, any improvement in the demand for goods, must,
owing to the thinness of the supply in the Halls, be imme-
diatly felt. This state of things hardly supports the theory
of those who prognosticate that wool cannot maintain its
present price. In our judgment there is nothing to indicate
an early or extensive fall.

BRADFORD, THURSDAY.--All kinds of plain goods for
printing continue in demand, and the lower qualities of 6-4th
merinos are really scarce in the market. In consequence of
the larger buyers for the home trade coming into the market
rather earlier than usual, the stocks in the warehouses have
been considerably reduced, and now the country purchasers
are in the market. The stocks of finished goods are there-
fore not large.—Yarns : These sell readily at very full prices.
—Wool: The finer qualities are most in demand. A fair
amount of business is doing in other kinds at the prices last
reported.
I-1 arAFav, SATURDAY.—There is still no life in the market,
and though, business is limited in amount, it does not effect
prices at present; but this can hardly be expected to con-
tinue without an improved demand for most goods. There
is nothing fresh to notice either in yarns or wool.
HUDDERSFIELD.—Our market here on Tuesday, was fully
as brisk as any we have had of late, nearly every description
of goods suitable for the autumn and winter trade having
met ready sale at improving prices. The sales of fancy goods
especially were extensive. The wool market is firm, and the
operatives generally are fully employed. This too, when the
price of bread is so high that foreign corn can be imported
nearly duty free.

YORK WOOL MARKET SEPT. 13.—We have had a good
attendance of buyers to day, with a fair supply of wool.
There has been only a moderate quantity of business done at
prices similar to our last reports.

WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, SEPT. 14.—The increased
inquiry for the, ordinary run of combing Wools noticed in
our last report continues; and as the demand has been freely
met by holders, business has been done to some extent at
fully former rates. The finer qualities of combing wools, as
well as all short wools, are without change in either demand
or price.

THE IRON TRADE.—The advance which we mentioned in
our last notice has maintained its ground, with every appear-
ance of a still higher price being obtained ere long, as the
demand continues brisk.—Midland Counties Herald:
Bully.—ln Bury and its vicinity trade seems to be im-
proving, especially among the calico-printers, both in the
machine and block departments, and some of the establish-
ments, we are informed, are taking in fresh hands. Cotton-
spinninte and power-loom weaving is good ; and the iron-
founders and machine-makers are busy. The late favourable
weather has also made outdoor employment far more plentiful.

WARRINGTON.

(From the Manchester Courier.)

A 'FACT.--- he license that was granted last week, at
Newton, for the " Patten Arms Hotel," is the first new
license for a public-house that has been granted for the town
of Warrington for forty years.
ESC APE OF A CONVICT.—Last week, at a late hour in the
evening, a van load of convicts, under sentence or transpor-
tation for the period of seven years, passed through War-
rington, on their way from Kirkdale to Chatham. Amongst
others was John Corhet Peeie, and the notorious Edward
Oakes, the "magsman." The latter escaped froth the van
at Stoney Stratford. A reward of £5O has been offered for
his apprehension.
UTTERING BASE COlN.—Last week, Biddy Blaney, the
wife of a private soldier belonging to the Sist regiment of
foot, was brought before Mr. Dakin, charged with utteting a
base half-crown, in Warrington market. The prisoner ac-
companied her husband's regiment on the march from Car-
lisle to Chester. on Wednesday, she went into the market
and purchased a halfpenny's worth of gooseberries, and iu
payment tendered half-a-crown to the woman making the
sale. A byestander, on seeing it, called out, " that is a bad
one." The market woman rang it on the stones, and putting
it into her pocket, said, " It is not, I wish I had a pocket full
like it." The prisoner received the change, and went about
her business. The half-crown afterwards went under further
inspection, and proved to be a counterfeit. The prisoner was
apprehended, and upon her were found two counterfeit shil-
lings and three good ones. Several counterfeit shillings of
the same date and die as those found in the prisoner's-pos-
session, were paid away in the market on the same day. The
prisoner received a most excellent character, and on the de-
positions
taken against her being forwarded to London, the
solicitor to the mint declined prosecuting, and she was, con-
sequently, discharged from custody.
SEICIDE.—William Dawson, an old man, carrying on trade
as a milkman and huxter, at Fearnhead, near -Warrington,
put a period to his existence on Sunday, by taking arsenic.
The deceased had been in a desponding state for some weeks,
having a great dread that he should come to poverty. He
was at Warrington market an Saturday, and at night, after
his return home, was taken very ill. On Sunday afternoon
a medical geuzleman Lara Warringt:Aa was callelin to attend
hint ; he found the deceased in a dying state, but still sen-
sible. In answer to questions that were puz to him, he ad-
mitted that be had purchased the poison at a chemist's shop
in Warrington, and that he had taken it in some milk. At
the bottom of a tin can a portion of the arsenic was also
found. The deceased died the same evening. On Tuesday,
an inquest was held on view of the body before J. Reyes,
E., coroner, at the Stocks Inn, Pouiton. A verdict of
"'lemporary Insanity" was returned.
LICENSING SYSTEM% —At the licensing sessions held at
Hoo Green, last week, one new license was granted. It was
fora house at Runcorn.

INFANT SCHOOL.—The state of the infant population of
Latchford is such as to have induced the Rcv. J. Wright,
the minister of St. James's church, to call upon his congre-
gation to adopt the necessary measures for the establishment
of an infant school, in connection with the church. A meet-
ing was held on Tuesday evening, to take the preliminary
steps, and there is every prospect of the plan suggested by
Mr. Wright being carried into active operation.