The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-06-05 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

STATE OF TRADE.

LEEns.—The transactions in the Leeds Cloth Halls on Satur-
day last, were fully as extensive as is remembeted to have been
the case on any market day since last Midsummer, and as there
Was altio a good demand for balk cloths on Tuesday, it may be.
Safely affirmed teat there is now a decided improvement ►n our,
Staple trade. There was no material alteration in-prices,' but
the conviction that trade was again reviving, created a very'
agreeable" and confident tone of feeling among all classes of,
traders.

BRADFORD MARK ET.—We had again a brisk demand for
manufactured goods here on Thursday, hut as th'e manufacturers
stood out for advanced prices,"the sales were not so extensive as ,
Tnight otherwise have been the case; where former terms were
acceded to. purchases were readily made. There was consider_;
able activity in the yarn market, at firm prices, and there was
considerable activity in the yarn market, at firm prices, ands
there was a good deal of business done in the wool market,.
Principally in the finer sorts, prices being firmer, and "slightly
improved.
HALIFAX MA RK RT, on Saturday, was brisker than has been
experienced for several weeks past, at former prices, and the
stocks of goods in the handsof the manufacturers are considered
to be getting low.
trDIDERSPIELD MARKET.—On Tuesday last, we had one of
the best markets we have experienced for some time past.
There was a• good deal of business done in all kinds of woollens;
the Leeds merchants 'purchasing freely; and extensive sales
were effected in both plain• ,and fancy goods, particularly.
Tweeds and Doeskins. Wool was consequently firm, but the.
sales were not proportioned to the transactions in manufactured
goods.

ElEcxmoNnwixs MA R KRT.—The Blanket Market has been
very regularly attended by the Merchants during the last six
Vieoks,-and although the demand is notgreat, yet it is progres-•
lively iniproving.

Irpart Wont MARKET, M 30.—The continued unfavour-
able weather for sheap-shearing, prevents the appearance of
aay considerable quantity of new wools in our market, indeed
the quantity Of wool pitched to day is so uncunsiderable as to be
scarcely worth notice ; therefore we are again under the necessity
ordefering any pailicular quotations until our next.

FIRST SELBY WOOL FAIR, JUNE I.—The Show of Wools
was very limited, and buyers numerous; ready sales effected at.
following prices:--All Hogs 18s to 19. s per stone of 1.1 lbs; half
and half, -17 s to 17s fid do. ; Ewes 14s to 15s 6d do.
CHESTERFIELD WOOL Al A nit RT, MAY,3o.—There is still an
.unusttaldepression in the wool trade, and prices for this article
still eontinue in the same state, very few sales being effected.
-The growers are in hope that better prices will be offered iu
the'course of a few weeks, as their stocks continue large, and
theirwishes are for a clearance. Hog wool only is-inquired
after.

••
DONCASTER WOOL MARKETS.—The first of the Doncaster
Wool Markets has bee postponed tall Saturday next, from this
day, for which it-was originally announced.

DEwsn6RY.—We had a pretty good demand for blankets
and shoddys at the Blanket Hail here on Monday, but the
. • • ,
manufacturers complain that the prices offered were not equal to
the current rates in the wool market.

GA INSEINO! WOOL 51 A lIKETS.—The markets for the sale of
wool at Gainsbro', will take place June 25, July 9, and 23, and
August 7. - •
TRADE OF 13VRY.—Business, in this town at least, has not
retrograded during the week, but has undergone a slight im-
provement, if any thing. Some of the bleaching establishments
seem rather busier than they have been, and that is considered
an indication of future improvement in the calico printing I:usi-
ness. Some of the printing establishments have the full average
work of the season; but others are very slack. Cotton spinning
and power-loom weaving are going on as usual ; all the mills
running full time.

At the fetes preparing at Berlin, 57 members of the reigning
families of Europe are to be present.
The strike of the Bradford joiners and carpenters is nearly
at an end, several of the men having returned to their work at
the old wages. _ _ _

About S(X) men are working (often night and day) to com-
plete the railway into Greenwich, which is expected to be
finished about the end of this month.
Mr. POUlkt Scrope has calculaled that the average increase
of the population of these kingdoms, amounts to 10(X) per day.
The number of new fourpeuny pieces issued from the mint
during the late and present reigns, is 5,359,500, amounting in
Value to £89,325.

An Indiana paper refuses to publish notices of marriages and
deaths unless they are delivered in person.
A woman named Fishman, living in Wych-street, Strand,
London, was a day or two since safety delivered of three child-
ren—two boys and a girl; and the mother is at present doing
well.

The Dean of Chester, Dr. Davis, has refused the request
of the Ma for and- Corporation for the use of the Cathedral, to
celebrate Li musical festival in aid of the Chester charities.

As a poor widoW, 00 years of age, residing at Kirkheaton,
near Illiddersfield, was sitting by the fire on Sunday week, one
of her eyes began to water, and_in a short time fell from her
bead into her lap, and rolled down jut° the .ashes! The sur-
geens in the neighbourboodsay this is an extremely rare occur-
rence, out sometimes happens with very old people..-:-HaUfax
Ezprest.
Among all the occupations of the morning, the Queen still
finds time to continue taking lessons in singing from Signor
Lablache, who has had the distinguished honour of teaching
her Majesty for some time prior to the accession The Queen
is also in the habit of performin, piano-forte duets with such of
the young ladies in waiting as are musical; but her Majesty
seldom plays alone.
The extensive Zoological Gardens at Broughton-park, near
Manchester, were opened on Thursday, by apitblic breakfast.
The gardens are beautifully situated on the new Bury road,
within a short distance of Cheetham-hill, and are upwards of
fifteen acres in extent. The colleCtion of animals, birds, Brc.,,
is already considerable. •
Miss Kelly, who has at great expense erected an elegant
theatre at the back of her house in Dean-street, Soho, has re-
cently recived spontaneous offers of patronage and assistance
from a noble duke, whose taste and liberality in theatrical
matters are universally acYrnowledgo.
J tits rus..,-It is reported that, in the correspondence of William
Pitt, first Earl of Chatham, some letters of Junius, addressed
to that eminent statesman, have been found., which hive never
been published ; and that, by this occurrence, the long-dis-
puted identity of the author of Junins's.letters is likely to be
ascertained.—Morning Chronicle.

- A few days since there was found in one of the pits of lail
marnock colliery, embedded in coat 120 feet from the surface, a
frog, which, on • being liberated, immediately began to use its
long-lost liberty, and leap atiout.• The bed of the . animal,
closely resembled its shape, was clearly discerned in the coal
from which it was extricated.

EXTRAORDINARY PROT/UM—A very
pheno-
menon
extraordinary
in practical gardening, and its improved science, ap-'
,eared in Covent-garden market on Saturday morning. One
bundle of asparagus, consisting of lit) heads, weighed twenty-
eight pounds. It-was.prOduced by Grayson, at Mortlake, and
was purchased for 305., it is said, for the royal table.
FRUITS OF TRANSATLANTIC STEAM NAVIGATION.—We
learn that a Swiss house has just given orderstoits correspond-
ent at Havre to forward several bales of goods, now in that
port, to England, in order that they may be embarked, either
at Bristdi or London, on board the first steam-boat that shall
leave either of those ports for New York.

. _
PRINCE TALLEYRAND.--The fortune left by the deceased
prince is said to amount to between 8,000,000 f. and 10,000,900.
The prince is said to have left annuities to his servants to the
amount of 50,000 f. a year, of which 12,000 f. is to the valet whom
he )resented t 3 the kinz. His estate of Valeopay is said to be
mortgaged to the amount of 2,400,000 f, but that money (in the
funds) producing a dividend of 120,(Mf. has been appropriated
to the payment of the interest.

The works necessary for completing the inside of the English
church at Hamburgh are active►y proceeding, and the govern-
ment of that city has given permission to raise a sum of money
by means of a mortgage. The outside, is quite finished, and it
may be expected that the inside will soon be completed, so that
the-Bishop of London will be able to consecrate it in the course
of this summer.

MUNICIPAL BOUNDARIES COSIMISS/oN.--The following
statement is an answer to an order Of the House of Commons,
dated 22d March, 1838, for an account of the total amount of
the expenses of the reports, surveys, maps, and the printing of
the•same, of the municipal boundaries commission :—cost of re-
ports and surveys, in salaries and travelling expenses of com-
missions, and office expenceS, £l4 67316 s 71d; cost of printing
the reports, £1,450 is 2d; cost of plans, in expenses of draughts-
mea's*department, and in bills paid to engravers and copper-
iilateprinters, £5,4993s 61d. And all this enormous outlay,
to find a little temporary employMent for a few barristers, over
a bill which ministers abandoneil on its introduction.

FUNERAL OF AN ENGLISH CABIN BoT AT OPORTO.-!-A
fine promising youth, the sou of the captain of the revenue
cutter of this port, who sailed in the Henry Hoyle, 'Captain
Ferguson, hence Tor Oporto, had the misfortune to fall over-
board into the Duro, shortly after the arrival of that vessel at
the scene of her destination, and was drowned. A private letter
from Oporto, alluding to the unhappy event, thus speake of the
. sensation which this circumstance created :—" The boy only
once rose to the surface, when his Iwo hands and the top of his
head were seen for an instant, and he then sunk for ever. They
searched about the spot with their oars, lint without success. He
was found next morning, having been in the water twent-four
hours. His hands were raised just as the captain had seen
them for the last time, and we could not get them down—so he
had to be buried with his hands sticking up beside his head.
We buried him last night at six o'clock, in the cemetery of the
British
captain,
Chapel;uiate,u rittihse
h merchant,?, English
rcbaut minister
and
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funeral." attended service;
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Crtehwe

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF MANSIALGHTEU.—An inquest
was held on Tuesday last, at Monk's heath, near Alderly, on
William Coops, seven years old, who was killed by William
Peaison„aged. 25, under the following,• extraordinary circum-
stances :—lt appears that the -deceased and his mother, John
Cdops, about twelve years of age, and William Thorley, aged
eight years,•having taken a bird's rest containing three eggs,
each of them kept one, intending to put. them on strings with
other shells of eggs; but the deceased, finding his ezg to con-
titin a bird, threw it over an adjoining hedge, and it fell upon
the arm of Pearson, who happened to be winning there, when
he called out that it had fallen upon his arm, adding, he would
make the 4-1 eat it, acid then laying bold of his head with both
his hands, proceeded to force open his month. having accom-
plished thus much, he put the egg therein, and held his mouth
shut to force him to swallow it. As soon as the deceased could
obtain his liberty, he ran.home, and informed his mother what
had happened. This was on the 16th. He soon after became
ill; and'coutinued ill until the 26th, when he died, although he
had, been daily attended by a skilful surgeon. On the post
mortem examination, the medical gentleman who had attended
the deceased during his illness, after stating the circumstances
which had.attended the progress of the disease, added, that, on
examining the back part of the mouth, he found gangrene had
taken place to a considerable extent, and also that gangrene
had set in down the whole of the mucous membrane,, terminal-
with the windpipe, where he found a very small foreign sub-
stance which resembled the skin of an unhatched bird; and he
was.of opinion, that if .a small unhatched bird, or any other
such like substance, had passed .doWn the windpipe, it would
have occasioned the before-described appearances, and which
would, necessarily, end .fatally. • Veitlict, " manslaughter;"
upon which Pearson was committed under the coroner's war-
rant to Chester Castle for trial at the next. assizes—Stoi:kport
AdrertiseJ.

'PRICE or WHEAT.—The average price of wheat for ihe week
ending May 19th, is 62s 2d, which is higher than it has been in
any week sinee' the 'nit of August, 1832, when the average
price was 62s 6d., The average price did not, reach higher than
61s 9.1 in the month of May, 1832; and it is now seven years
since it has been above 62, in the same month. In 183:i and
1831, we imported above 2,000,000 quarters of wheat, and in
18.32, only 325,435; since which time, with the exception of
last year; our reports have been sn insignificant that it may al-
most be said the ports have been closed. The quantity of wheat
at present in fond exceeds 500,000 quarters.