The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-29 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

MANCHESTER, OCT. 27.—There was no change whatever
in the feeling of the market yesterday, as compared with
that of the preceding week. For yarn, suitable to the Ger-
man market, and ready for immediate delivery, there was a
fair demand, and holders had no difficulty in making sales at
previous rates ; but the buyers showed very little inclination
to make contracts for future delivery. For manufactured
goods the market continued exceedingly heavy and discou-
raging, and few sales could be effected, except at prices a
shade lower than those of last week. Two failures have
been announced within the last few days—one of a manufac-
turing house in Mozley-street, the engagements of which
are stated to be £21,000; the other of a bleacher at Bolton,
which, we believe, is of smaller importance. There have
been also some failures at Hamburg ; but we do not learn
that they are likely to have an immediate effect on this mar-
ket to any serious extent.

ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, Ai ON DAV, OCTOBER
25th.—There has been a very fair demand for flannels to-day.
though the market has been but thinly attended. Prices
remain the same : indeed, there has been no change for some
weeks back. The wool market has been more than usually
dull; and, on uccount of the prices giving way, the manu-
facturers buy very sparingly,

NOTTINGHAM:—We are sorry to state, that the plat net
trade, which seemed at one time to offer peculiar advantages
to the patentees and machine owners, has met with a great
reverse. Still the evil is not without remedy, provided the
patentees would adopt a liberal system of licensing to use
their invmtion. It is lamentable to state, that the hosiery

trade is worse thr2n ever, as employment is still scarce

have heard of many hands being discharged. Full fashioned
cotton hose, though extremely dull, are the most in demand.
Was the trade to France open, there would be a great demand
for fine hose above 42 guage. The Saxons are so pinched by
the Sutton drop-offs in the American and German markets,
that the Saxon hosiers have for once abandoned their system
of compelling the master stockingers to find their own frames,
and they are trying the speculation of procuring English iron
frames. Two frames have been purchased of a framesmith
last week, for the purpose of being sent to Chemontry. One
is a 30-inch two-needle frame ; the other, a 20-inch two-
needle. The English iron frames have half as much speed
again as the Saxon wooden frames. The hosiers ought to
apply to the comptroller of the customs at Hull, to stop this
traffic in its infancy.—Nottingham Review.

AUGMENTATION OF BENEFICES

(From the Blackburn Standard.)

The Gazette of Friday evening last contains an Order in
Council, under the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Act,
including a list of grants for the augmentation of nearly 100
benefices, being those which combine the largest population
with the smallest endowment, the whole amount granted
being equivalent to a present gross sum in 3 per cent stock
of £126,800. The funds thus appropriated have been realised
by the suspension of certain canonries and prebends, in seve-
ral cathedral and collegiate churches. under the operation of
the above-named act. The sums of money thus accruing
have been paid over to the Commissioners under the act, and
by them carried over to a common fund, out of which the
grants to which we allude have been made. They are, in
fact, the first fruits of the scheme which was approved of in
the Fourth Report of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
Other and similar lists may be expected to appear with more
or less frequency hereafter. The amount of good which may
thus eventually 'result from the re-distribution of a large
portion of the revenues of the Church is incalculable. The
object of the Commissioners, as stated in the report which
they have just published, is, to grant out of the common
fund under their care (in the first instance) such augmenta-
tions only as may be requisite to secure, as nearly as may be,
an average annual net income of £l5O to the incumbent of
every benefice or church, with cure of souls, being either a
parish church or chapel with a district legally assigned thereto,
and having a population amounting to two thousand, and
being in the patronage of the Queen, some archbishop or
bishop, dean and chapter, dean, archdeacon, prebendary, or
of some rector or vicar. The Commissioners reserve to them-
selves the right of abstaining from recommending such aug-
mentation in cases where special circumstances render it in-
expedient. The grants now made become payable on the Ist
day of May, and the Ist day of November in each year, the
first payment to take place on the Ist of next month. The
sums already allotted to the benefices enumerated in the Ga-
zette of last Friday range from £6, (the smallest,) to £126,
(the largest amount.) The following is a list of the benefices
in this county, which have been thus augmented :—Brad-
shaw (Perpetual Curacy) £39 ; Dalton, (Vicarage) £33 ;

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Eitel], (Perpetual Curacy) 4:51 ; Emmanuel, Bolton, (Dis-
trict Church) £Bl ; Goodshaw, (Perpetual Curacy) £27 ;
Gorton (Perpetual Curacy) £24; Great Harwood, (Per-
petual Curacy) £2l ; Hawkshead (Perpetual Curacy) £2-1;
Heapey (Perpetual Curacy) £42; Marsden (Perpetual
Curacy) £34 ; Milnrow (Perpetual Curacy) ; Moss-
ley (Perpetual Curacy) £27 ; Pemberton (Perpetual Cu-
racy) £114; lfoyton (Perpetual Curacy) £24 ; St. James,
Oldham (Perpetual Curacy) £7B ; St. Paul, 'Warring-
ton (Perpetual Curacy) £27 ; St. Thomas, Friarmer-
(Perpetual Curacy) £2l • Samlesbury (Perpetual Curacy)
£42; Stretford (Perpetual Curacy) £39 ; Tockholes (Per-
petual Curacy) £l2 ; and Whalley (Vicarage) £lB. The
number of benefices augmented in this county is twenty-one.
The number augmented in the adjoining county of York is
eighteen. From the large proportion of grants made to these
two counties we may naturally infer that the necessities of
the Church in these large manufacturing districts are greater
than in any other part of the kingdom. We cannot more ap-
propriately conclude these statements than by quoting the
following admirable remarks from the Time* :—" Unques-
tionably it is an object of the very highest importance to
promote the efficiency of the church in such parishes as those
to which these grants have been made. Spoliation formerly
fell with peculiar weight upon the town population of Eng-
land, and the consequence has been that our towns in modern
days have been the hotbeds and strongholds of dissent, while,
at the same time, they have been constantly advancing in
political importance. It is, therefore, both just and necessary
(if the secular establishment of the Church of England is to
be maintained) to snake something like restitution to these
localities. Great good must inevitably flow from the improved
pastoral superintendence and increased means of usefulness
which such apportionments of the funds at the disposal of
the Church Commissioners will create. It would be idle,
however, to hope that the resources of these commissioners

will ever be such as to meet the spiritual necessities of the
British people. There is need of a far greater and more ge-
neral exertion on the part of all the members of the English
Church. None but levellers would wish to see the incomes
of the clergy equalised ; and there is more room for doubling
whether too great a sacrifice has not been already imposed
upon the higher and more dignified portions of the ecclesias-
tical fabric than fur entertaining the idea that by further
a' -

tions of present endowments the laity can be relieved
trout the duty of contribution. Baron Munchaus n tells us
that he descended from the moon to the earth on a compara-
tively short rope, ' by cutting off the long, and now useless
upper end, and tying it to the lower,' till, by repeated
'l'lleings,' he succeeded in reaching the ground. The satire
is keen. This must not be our mode of church extension ;
the church has already done as much in this way as she can
afford, and it is now high time for her children to come in
and take their share of the burden."

We understand that a prize of £2O was awarded on Tues-
day, at tbc Stewponey agricultural meeting, to a gentleman
who has a disc engine and boiler, on four wheels, for farming
P
`,' as being the most useful application of steam-
poweruri)°ste(s) agricultural purposes, combining practical utility
with small cost, portability, simplicity of management, saving
of rnammi labour, small liability to accident, and economy in
futl."