The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-10-28 00:00:00

THE WOOLLEN AND LINEN TRADE.

(From the Leeds Intelligencer.)
TRADE or LERDS.—We have very little alteration to report
in the state of the woollen trade since our last. The workmen
are kept moderately well employed, but the merchants are only
buying to order and to keep up assorted stocks.
BRADFORD MARKET.—The amount of business transacted
on Thursday was less than it has been for some time past, al-
though there was a pretty numerous attendance of buyers.
The prices of manufactured goods, however, remained firm.
'The demand for yarns was flat, and prices receded a little.
The transactions in wool were very limited, and on reduced
terms.
BRADFORD, OcT. 21.—1 am happy to give a better acconnt
of yesterday's market than for soote weeks back, though prices
remain much the same as last week. In wool much business
was done, as was also the case in tops awl yarns at a slight re-
duction. The piece market was rather languid in the lower
qualities, but fine goods met with a ready sale. On the whole,
the manufacturers in general think there is little ground for
alarm, as from the experience of former years, the trade is more
or less depressed towards the close of the year.
HALIFAX, WEDNESDAY.—There has been more business
done in this market to-day than for some weeks back, but at
lower prices. The manufacturers are in rather low spirits as
as to future prospects, especially as yarns do not come down
so as to enable them to make their goods at the prices
at which they are obliged to sell ; their stock begins to be
heavy.
HEcxsioNDwritr.—The Blanket Hall has for the last few
market days been thinly attended by the merchants and buyers;
the consequence is, a decline in the price of those articles so
necessary for the approaching winter.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, OCt. 21.—We do not report
any variation in the trade this week, the demand is dull and few
sales passing; yet notwithstanding the long flatness, there is no
materiel decline in prices, which may be attributed to the firm-
ness with which the growers hold what is still left in the coun-
try, and the little disposition they evince to sell at even old
prices.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, Oct. I7.—To•day the-market
has been flat, and but little business has been done-; the buyers
wanting goods at lower prices on account of the fall in the price
of wool, The wool market has also been very slack, and but few
purchasers.

THE HATTERS OF LIVERPOOL have generally come to tho
determination to close their shops at eight o'clock (Saturday
night excepted) during the winter season, from the Ist of No-
vember to the Ist of March. • _ _

AN INSPECTOR FOUND GUILTY.—We are of opinion that Mr.
Maunsell is entitled to the gratitude of all who think the con-
duct of the present police oppressive to the inhabitants of Li.
veipool. The sentence passed on Inspector Pool is 40s. and
costs. Mr. Maunsell is a reduced gentleman, and in bringing
this haughty underling to a solve of duty, for an outrageous
assault, we are of opinion that the plaintiff is entitled to public
approbation.
THE SANDON CONSERVATIVE GRAND MARCH.—WO believe
that this is the first piece of music which aas been expressly
composed and published, as au apanage to the conservative
cause. It was played by the band at the Royal Amphitheatre
on Friday evening, at the conclusion of Sir Thomas Brancker's
speech; and if we may be allowed to criticise its merits, as a
musical composition, we are free to state, that it is bah soul-
stirring and impressive ; and it reflects an additional honor on
the spirit of Liverpool, when to her genius is to be ascribed
this first martial accompaniment to our national constitutional
cause.

It affords us much pleasure to learn that Sir Robert Peel and
Lady Peel are enjoying improved health since their return.
We have been assured by a private friend that Sir Robert is
greatly improved in constitutional strength, or we should rather
say bodily strength, by his short continental tour. He is now
entertaining his private friends and enjoying the full comforts
of an English home.
Lord Brougham arrived in London on Saturday from Auck-
land Castle. lie was soon afterwards visited by several private
friends; and their report speaks highly in favour of his lordship's
improved health. He was rather jocular upon the state of po-
litical affairs; but now and then his pleasantry partook of the
caustic' vain and agreeably with his intimation in the north,
gyve indication of a " fair start," and a wiry run, in the ensu-
ing parliamentary hunting season. On Sunday he took a trip
to his villa at Petersham, and returned home to dinner. We
have not as yet learned, that any of the leading members of the
cabinet of whig exquisites have honoured his lordship with a
call; the author of "the Pleasures of Hope," is amongst the
last visitors.

IMPOItTANTOPINION OP THE FRENCH PRESS.—" Sir Robert
Peel has come to enquire into the state of public opinion in
France. One must see and be enabled to listen to Oust select
society, (societe choice,) Sir Robert Peel, Count • Pozzo di
Borgo, M. 11ok, M. Pasquier—all those intelligent and prac-
tised statesmen who have seen and handled people during the
last thi ty years—one must see and listen to them to take pity
upon all the incapacities of the Revolution and 'Tiers party,
destitute alike of ideas and the science of governing. (I) Yes,
we love to predict it—we shall assuredly have a Peel and
Stanley administration in England ere six months be elapsed.
The rational whiffs will strike of the rule of O'Connell and
join the tories, who wish to preserve the unity and strength of
the British empire. English aristocracy will resume its beauti-
fully noble bearing; it is that aristocracy which has fur succes-
sive ages formed the glory and the strength of , England!
Great Britain is indignant at submitting to the dominion of a
loquacious tribune of the mob. Sir Robert Peel and Lord
Stanley are the friends and partizans of a slow and moderate
reform, such as Europe may wish for. Between retrogade men
and the champions of subversion, there is in France, as in
England, a school of compromise, naturally called to assume
the direction of the state.—Translaled from La Chronique de
Paris.—[We leave our whiff-radical friends to ponder these
sentiments.—En.]
Ton Ductinss OF KENT.--It is said that the mother of the
heiress presumptive to the protestant throne of Great Britain,
has given £2O more towards the completion of the Tuam Mass-
i house. We confess this intelligence is by ao means such as we
can pass over without remark. The Duchess of Kent might,
we can easily conceive, have been betrayed into the first gift of
£5O to aid the work of superstition ; but the second act, suc-
ceeding as it does to the daring intolerance of the very parties
eu whom her Royal highness hat been pleased to bestow her
-
favours, looks very much like one of premeditation, if not a
smile of approbation on the persecutors of protestantism. Let
her Royal Highness beware! A great movement is now taking
place in Great Britain. Protestantism is about to rise with
an aspect more formidable than it ever bore since the revolution
of 1688, Popery will soon display its weakness in Ireland, as
the trepidation of the Roman hierarchy testifies. Their
threatened effort to preach against the protestant religion next
month, will accelerate their downfall, by augmenting that
spirit of enquiry among their flocks—already causing them to
" gnaw their tongues with pain." The people of England may
take it into their heads to construe literally the bill of rights as
it affects a British sovereign; and her Royal Highness may
find, to her grief, that she has sided with far the weaker party,
and involved her innocent daughter in seriously inconvenient
unpopularity. These are not times for crowned heads to tamper
with the basis of their titles.—Dublin Record.

SUSPECTED MURDER OF A WIFE By HER HUSBAND.—A man
named Peter M'Kenna, an Irish navigator, is now in custody
in this town, awaiting the result of a coroner's inquest, now
holding upon the body of his wife. The prisoner, who is the
father of a large family, occupied a cellar in Carlton-street, in
the vicinity of the canal. It appears that the neighbours were
on Saturday night disturbed by the noise proceeding from a
quarrel between the deceased, Margaret M.Kenna and the pri-
soner. On Monday morning the prisoner waited upon Mr. Shar-
rocks, a surgeon ; he said that the surgeon must go to his house
to see his wife; Mr. Sharrocks accordingly went there and found
the deceased lying upon her back. The prisoner said he had
struck her rather heavily, and the deceased, on beingasked where
she felt pain, said that her pain was very great, and that she had
great difficulty in breathing. On an examination, the surgeon
found that the ribs on both sides of her body were more or less
fractured; he bled her and applied other remedies, but tire de-
ceased died on Tuesday morning. Mr. Sharrocks, assisted 'by
Mr. Black, another surgeon, have since examined the body of
the deceased. All the ribs on the left side were broken, five of
them fractured in two places. The eighth rib was fractured and
the splintered end prottuded through the pleara. On the right
side live ribs were broken, two of them in two places; several
pieces of bone had been forced in the lungs. and the stomach
and liver had been penetrated by a portico' of the broken rins.
In the opinion of the medical men, these fractures were the
cause of the death of the deceased. They could not hive been
occasioned by a fall, as even falling a great height could
eased. not
have broken the ribs on both sides of the body of the dec
The coroner, at seven o'clock on Wednesday evening adjourned
the inquest, ill order to give time for the production of further
evidence.—Yesterday the inquest was resumed, further evidence
having been obtained, when the jury found a verdict of man-
slaughter against the prisoner.
In the annals of medical science, few medicines have obtained
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BALSAMIC PILLS. Their infallible healing properties ar
fully demonstrated by the perfect restoration to health of an im•
mense number of persons atllicted with strictures and other dis•
orders of the urethra. The Proprietor of this invaluable Medi-
cine has most judiciously feccluded from these pills that (fele--
terious a ticie, copaiba,"which may account in some degree for
the ;astonishing cures they have effected, and which have
established their fame for ever."—Mornieg Chronicle..
Mr. Robert Briggs' 2of Ulverstono, was fined by the magis-
, trates of that town £3*, for a second infringment of the factory
Cu.aherlastd