The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-27 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

MANC ET ESTER.—The same causes which have contributed re-
cently to produce depression in this market remaining unabat,d,
it cannot be expected that any improvement, either in the ex-
tent of business done or in prices, can be noted. The position
of spinners and manufacturers is every day getting worse, for
as their stocks of cotton, laid in before the advance. becomeaenxd-
hausted, their means of supplying the market with Yartrffi.
goods at the low sates of the day are rendered still
m""cue diffi-
cult. cult. The advance on Cotton is now fully 25 to 39 per
whilst buyers reiuse to concede on the manufactured article an
advance of 5 per cent. Foreseeing the inevitab'e tendencies
of
the market, we were the first to recommend manufacturers to
revert to the first principles of commercial policy In such case.
by reducing supply. Slowly end reluctantly our contemporaries
have followed in our wake, but at length all parties are becom-
ing agreed as to the tendency of acting upon the suggestion.
Already a considerable number of factories have been put f)n
short time at Preston, Bolton, Oldham, &c., but to-day (Friday)
meetings of manufacturers are being he .d at Stockport and
Blackburn, an which will doubtless be followed here and fa
other surrounding towns, for the purpose of adopting the tale'
the manufacturing districts. The unsettled condi-
tion of foreign markets at the present time holds out no pros-
pects of enc uragement to shippers, and certainly the prospects
of the home trade are gloomy enough, whilst the present sP°'
culations are operating on the prices of food. It is therefore,
0
highly inexpedient to go on producing stock at the high rates at
the raw material, whilst the great vents of commerce are novr
choked up with excess of supplies. If production be limited to
eight hours per day, it will be some time before there
will be
that diminution of stock. both here and abroad, that will restore
an equilibrium between supply and demand, and subsequently
enhance prices proportionately to the recent advance in cotton.
Reductions in wages would be an unmixed evil, at once cruel.
unc-Oled for, and impolitic ; the speculator in cotton has a°
right to a profit out of the wages of labour—the corn speculato:
is making the poor man's loaf small enough already—and be-
sides the paltry reduction in this element of cost, alth,,ugh it
might reduce the workman to extreme privation, would be a
miserable nibble from the advance on cotton ;—furthermore, it
would not create a demand (the thing wanted) for a single piece
more. With respect to the operations of this week we may sal.
after the fullest inquiry, that they have been even more limited
than those of the week before. Printing cloths have continued
in moderate request; prices are unchanged, although a hard
struggle was made on Tuesday to effect an advance on previous
rates. Within the last two or three days there has been a little
more inquiry for both 36 and 4 f-inch shirtings, but as holders
have bee-, rather firm in their endeavours to effect a small ad-
vance, the business done has not been large. In yarns therehae
been no material alteration, but, on the whole, the transr.ctioas
have been at least equal to those of last week. We quote the
following as the current rates demanded ;-26 inch l,rinters,
4s. 6d. to 4s. 7icl.; 27 inch, 66 reed ditto, 4s. (id. to ss. 13d. ; 21
inch, 72 reeds, ss. 3d. to ss. 104c1 36 inch, 66 reed shirtings,
7s. gd. to Bs. 6d. ; 72 reed tilt°. gs. to lost 4s inch G. E. India
Longcloths. 66 reed, at Bs. 73d to gs. 3d. (superior makes of this
e quantities this week at gs. for
fabric have been sold in moderate
printing;) 40 inch, 72 reed ditto, are held at gs.6d to 10s.
UDDKR4FIELD.—Our market continues much in the same
state as last week ;if anything a little more doing. Prices the
same.

Leans.—There continues to be a complete absence of speee"
lation in our cloth market both on Saturday and to day. 11T,
purchases at the Cloth Halls were confined to present denia"
for the home tra,'e, and with the exception of a few orders f°!
Spanish stripes, &c., for the India and China markets, wireu
are out, them is little doing by the houses in the foreign trade.
Prices are steady, but the manufacturers complain loudly of the
want of remuneration. Business in the warehouses is much
the same as for the last few weeks.
te prices.
BRADFORD.—WOOI Market.—The transactions to-day and
throughout the week have been extremely limited ; and as the
marketwhichmat
causesi sw el supplied, e
staplers th
toe purchasersonly take for
Yarn
Market.
immediatearuet
use. There is a great firmness manifested in the country"
—We cannot learn that cur market is any worse to. day,
the business may be considered very similar to several wee"
past. The very low prices for Yarn are telling upon our oper-
atives. The Wool c mbers are not so fully employed, which
clearly indicates that the machinery is not fully in work•-;
Piece Market.—There is nothing very particular in the demand
for goods to-day. Low moreens and damasks are mere In-
quired after ; also Orleans, merinos, and paramattas are iD
steady request, without alteration in prices. it
LEICESTXR.—We are sorry to bear comilaints from the mane"
facturers principally engaged in the London trade, on the c
thoo e
Untied flatness of the dema, d. Considering that it is now

usually dull. The country houses are better r.eca;cel
a foil average business in wrought hose : the suPPIYAt Wool*
equalto the demand. The straight-down branch is ""

and Yarns are stationary, ,A ith rather less doing

A policeman, named Bowling, 347 K, deposed that he
was sent for by the girl's master, that she made the same
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statement to him, and he took the prisoner into custody ; Tim NAVIGATION LAws.—Mr. Cobden 's
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and that upon proceeding to the house with the girl on of Manchester is well disposed to do that honorable g
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case. The girl, to give a further colouring. to the matter, vert to free trade, by pointing out to them that one of its
leading (identified tto theb y
stated that when she entered the prisoner's house with results will be the destruction of the colonial supremacy
Rowling, she saw the cap thrown from the top of the of Great Britain, Man; by her Chamber of Com-
a the
h u former m
ander
landing on the top of the staircase, but although she saw merce, is about to lend a helping hand to our faithleo
the hand which threw it down stairs, she did not see the ally over the channel, by procuring from a Whig govern'
body of the person. ment (if it can be done by menace or cajolery), a repeal
On this evidence the magistrate bad no alternative but of the navigation laws. For the sake of saving a trifling
to commit the prisoner for trial, and he was sent away in impost now applied to those who complain, but who are
the police van to gaol, not before he had loudly protested very far from being the real sufferers, these patriotic Ina;
his innocence, and declared that the girl was perjured. nufacturers are, in their insanity, committing an act 0
The same evidence was given on the trial, and his pro- suicide upon themselves. The repeal of these 181°S,
testations of innocence, and the excellent character he re- would reduce Great Britain to a fifth-r ate power.
ceived from several witnesses, availed him nothing. He owe their establishment to the Protector Cromwell : tbel
was found guilty, and sentenced to be imprisoned and form one of the solitary flowers reared by him amid till,
kept to hard labour in the House of Correction for three desolation which he had caused and cultivated on the so!:
months. of the monarchy, and had he done nothing more. and le"
Among the witnesses to character was a respectable undone all that he did besides, no one would have con:
woman, named Swift, a former landlady of the prisoner's, tested his right to a statute as one among the benefactors
who after the trial expressed publicly a strong opinion of of England. The wise administration of these laws ba.
his innocence, and the wickedness and perjury of the girl helped to establish the naval supremacy and the corn'
Evans. Two or three nights after the trial, the girl rnercial greatness of the empire. By them cur vast car'
Evans was sent out upon an errand, and she returned rying trade is secured to British subjects, and the itnl,l)r;
with her bonnet torn, her clothes in disorder, and blood taut art or science of ship-building encouraged within 1_
streaming from her face. On the master and mistress own private and public establishments. By their repeal'
inquiring how she came to be in that state, she stated that our ports would be filled by foreign vessels bearing °,13,.
she had been waylaid by the woman Swift, who made a produce; foreign crews working the ships so employe' ;
furious attack upon her and cut her face. On the evening and we should not alone have distress among a wide class
of Friday, the 2nd instant, the girl was again sent out, to who have not hitherto grievously felt that visitation, but
fetch some milk, and she returned apparently suffering with it we should lose our nursery for seamen, and oar
from violence inflicted upon her, and said the woman navy would, as long as it remained to us be built in 'ce
Swift had again waylaid her in the Back-road, and after reign yards. There is no doubt but that, i,,
f this new neii
striking her several times about the head and face ran mand fur repeal be complied with, foreign seamen won
away. On the following day, she complained that Mrs. be engaged to work at a considerably lower rate of vraqa
Swift had assaulted her while she was cleaning the door than our own, and vessels for English proprietors `col'',
steps. In consequence of these alleged repeated attacks be built on French; and !American stocks at In°,
on the girl, she was advised to seek redress at the police- less cost than they are now built on our own ; but tbe,6.,
court, and obtained a peace-warrant against Mrs. Swift. adv antages .0 bf pin with would he ruin in the end, 0n`.1.11,1
On the following afternoon (Sunday, the 4th instant,) would be found that a repeal of the navigation laws Vt'°u4
about half-past one o'clock, the attention of the girl and be, in reality, an enactment for enriching the foreigner at
her cries for help, and upon proceeding into the front par- the mortal and countless cost of the people of Great Bra'
lour, armed with a large carving-knife, and after knocking tamp.—Church and State Gazette.