The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-05 00:00:00

THE WOOL MARKET.

(From the annual circular of Messrs. Dawson and Hance.)
LIVERPOOL, JANUARY 1, 1841.—The gloomy state of
business which prevailed at the date of our last annual cir-
cular, and which we expressed our fears would not give place
to improved demand, and higher prices, for some months,
continued without revival till August, when a slight reaction
was perceptible by the prices realised at the London sales,
and which, we are glad to say, have gradually continued to
improve up to the present period.
We estimate the advance at about 3d per lb on the middle
and better qualities, both of clothing and combing foreign
wools, as compared with the same period of 1839, but with
respect to the superfine qualities we have to repeat our re-
marks of last year, viz., that therseem almost superseded by
the next lower classes of wools, alid,liave not improved either
in demand or price, if of above 2s value.
In wools under is value, we can quote no material fluctu-
ation, with the exception of Peruvian and Italian, which
descriptions, we think, are at present disproportionately
depressed, and in both we look for improvement ere long.
The severe and long continued pressure in the money mar-
ket appears to have produced less effect upon the consump-
tion than on prices, which the prudence of both holders and
buyers has kept on the whole, very.steady in the face of light
stocks of saleable, clean wools, and which, if not still exerted
till this market is replenished, will result in an advance on
such descriptions, the moment an average business recom-
mences. We trust we shall not be considered sanguine in
expressing our impresion that spring will bring with it a snore
active demand than we have for some time experienced, and
that the comsumption of wool in the manufacturing districts,
now nearly an average one,
will become larger and more re-
munerating, both to consumers and importers, than in 1840.

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other day for a shilling

MATCH.—A few (lays ago, Robert Dodgin and Richard
Bradley, of Kirkby Lonsdale, walked by their horses, each
13 miles, for a wager of a sovereign, when the former won,
1
performing the distance in two hours and twenty minutes.—
Lancaster Gazette.

MATCH.—At Borrow, a few days ago, Joseph Batty, of
Burton-in-Lonsdale, and John Herdinan, of Newton, ran a
match for one sovereign. The distance was a mile, and
Herdman won it, doing his work in 15 seconds under four
minutes.—Lancaster Gazette.
" CURIOUS OFFER OF MARRIAGE.
this bead appeared in our last. A London newspaper of
yesterday furnishes us .with the following sequel in this
strange transaction.—" A correspondent has furnished us
with the sequel to the history of the uxoriously-disposed
Baron von Hallberg, whose advertisement for a helpmate we
inserted some days back. The bold baron's word as to his
haleness of constitution seems to have been taken so literally,
that the number of fair applicants who replied occasioned
some press of business at the Munich post-office. It is stated
that he received upwards of a thousand proposals within a
short period. Some waggish editor of a newspaper, we sup-
pose (fore wags will lurk even in the most steady circles), al-
luding to the above-mentioned facts, announced the baron's
intention to give a grand dinner on New Year's Day, to
which the fair suitors were one and all to be invited."
THE TRADE OF THE POTTERlEs._4midst the depression
of trade, and consequently very general suffering of the poor
artizans and their families, at this inclement season, a gleam
of hope arises for the future. Several manufactories have
recommenced work, that had been shut up for months be-
fore. This cheering announcement has in agreat measure
dissipated the gloomy foreboding prevalent a short time
since.—Sheordshire Gazette.

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