The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-25 00:00:00

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were mo

been rather quieter

chiefly to the -stocks
of the dealers being much reduced,
2h rates asked for the small quantity

past wee

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trade are however
- -"her than

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good, and holder

s are expecting

Messrs areame and

Co., in their

supply at present is quite
unequal to the requirement. The increased specu-
lative demand has rendered the position of
the manufacturer very difficult, the rise in the
price of manufactured goods being very far
from 'equal to that of the raw material,
and unless they can obtain something like an equi-
valent improvement in yarns and goods, the late
extreme rates must tend to curtail production ; in
the meantime, however, the prospect of current
rates being fully supported is pretty certain, and the

report state

resent eager demand for ail soits of clean low

likely to continue, at any rate until a more
TT-Inv/3 hie boon

, both for

some large -sides this week, export ana
home consumption, and to arrive, chiefly in
Douskoi, Crimea, Egyptian, Turkey, Peruvian,
&c. ; the market is again almost cleared until new
Is, which are anxiously looked for.

arrival

IRON.—The market for Scotch Pig Iron has
taken the turn which we predicted, and we have
again to quote a considerable decline in price.
About the middle of December last the quotations
were from 765. 6d. to 80s. per ton, and no later
than Friday last it was sold at 555. 6d, since which
it has rallied, and to-day sold at 655, and closed at
61s. per ton,—a price no less fictitious than that
obtained in December. At sos. men were sanguine
enough to imagine it would reach 100 s. and 110 s.,
and many backed their opinion both by betting and
purchasing the article, and to-day the buyers at 655.
were purchasing in the belief that they will again
see the prices from which it had fallen—an error
which many persons will find no less serious than
absurd. For with the following statistics it
is only a question of time as to when.
Scotch Pigs shall sell at 48s. a figure at
which the manufacturers can now afford to supply it, and
get a very fair profit. Something under twelve months
since they were supplying freely at 355. 6d. per ton, and
although wages have advanced in Scotland. they have not
done so at the some ratio as in Staffordshire ; nor does
coal:form such a desideratum in the former as the latter
place, added to which the chief production of the Scotch
works is Pig Iron, whilst that of Staffordshire is Malleable
Iron, upon which the great run has been made. The
great argument of speculators in Pig Iron is, the compara-
tive prices between Scotch pigs and railway bars six
months ago, and relative values this day—a comparison
of no value, so long as the stock of the raw material is
larger, and can be supplied in superabundance, at a much
lower price than the quotations of the day, and leave the
supplier a handsome profit. With manufactured iron it is
very different, as makers are full of orders for some time at
the rates of the day ; in the one case the price islegitimate,
in the other absurd, because the consumption of the
latter is not equal to the production of last year, when
prices were 355. 6d., and what comparison the present
consumption will bear to the present production, with
such an inducement to increase the make as present prices
offer, may be easily imagined.

Production ....692,000 .. 630,000
Foreign } 133,183
Shipments
Coastwise

134,574

somewhat serious
Northern line on Friday,
at 12.40 p.m. The train
-station, about ten miles north

ome means, not yet accounted for,
he line, and, after ploughing up the
ards, brought the carriages to a standstill
ock, which greatly alarmed and partially

of whom there were about 20 in the

To the engine driver and stoker the consequences

t leg of the forrr

mutilated, and the latter being very mud]
hurt. They are both now lying at Womersl

being greatly
bruised and

in a horse-box, next the engine, was so scalded and muti-
lated, that it had to be killed on the spot. All the passen-
gers were greatly terrified, but as yet we have not learnt
hat any of them had sustained any injury. The debris of
he train still remain on the line.
in the Yorkshire I RATHER TOO Mon.—A. strict teetotaller of our cc

,st eligible match, on the

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I married when he was about
mplaining of the difficulties to

ected him, said " he would
if he lived to be as old as