The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-09-01 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

TRADE OF LEEDS.—The cloth trade in this town has been
rather more brisk during the past week, and the prospect of a
good winter trade is improving. The merchants have been
pretty busy in the warehouses for the last ten days, though the
purchases of the 'metropolitan buyers have not been so exten-
sive as usual. A great portion of the cloth manufactured is
now made to order, which has the effect of keeping the manu-
facturers more steadily employed, and of producing a better
article at the price than could otherwise be accomplished.
BRADFORD MARKET.—There is very little alteration to re-
port in the transactions at this market on Thursday, as com-
pared with those of last week. There has been no improve-
ment in prices, and scarcely any variation in the demand for
goods and yarn, though rather more activity has been observa-
ble in the wool market.

tionoxasviELD MARKET, on Tuesday, was brisker than it
has been for some weeks past, but prices remained nearly sta-
tionary. The manufacturers are very anxious for an improve-
ment, but the merchants maintain that the present state of the
markets will not admit of it.

ROCHDALE, AUGUST 24.—The market to-day, was on the
whole but thinly supplied, those who had'any goods to dispose
of, soon found customers. The wool market was not so lively ;
the manufacturers appeared to be very cautious in their pur-
chases, and are determined not to hold stock at present prices.

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WRITTEN ON THE SUMMIT OF THE KEEP OF FEVERICS TOWER
CASTLETON, DERBYSHIRE.

(Fr'em the Liverpool Weekly Magazine.)
We sit on the topmost wall
Of Peveril's ruined tower.
We gaze on the deserted hall
Raised in his pride and power,--
And the same fair landscape now is spread
Broadly before our eye,
On which, in days of splendour fled,
Swept his proud chivalry.
On a fair and wide expanse -
Of bill and dale we look,
And joyful in the sun's bright glance,
Glides on the murmuring brook ;
The mighty hills before us spring
In their enduring pride,
And the passing clouds dark shaddows fling
Along their sunny side.
And many a year has rolled
Since dames of stately mien,
And mail-clad knights, and minstrels old,
Within these walls were seen;
Their former glories faintly shine
Through years of rayless gloom,
And the last of Peveril's lordly line
Sleeps iu a distant tomb.

Strangers possess the spot
Where thronging vassals knelt,
And his name will shortly be forgot
Where, as a prince, he dwelt.
But the mouldering turrets yet shall stand.
Strong, even in decay,—
A subject for the painter's hand
And a theme for the poet's Idy.

IL D. H

THE Ea RTHQUAKB.—It appears from the various provincial
papers which have come under our notice, and from other in-
formation, that the earthquake mentioned in our last extended
from Carlisle on the north to the borders of Cheshire on the
south; and it appears to have been, as indeed might be ex-
pected, most violent about Lancaster, which is nearly half-way
between the two er.remes. What was its extent to the east
and west, we have not been able to learn. It does not appear
to have been felt in any of the towns in Yorkshire, nor do we
hear of it from Ireland, or from the Isle of Man; though it ap-
pears to have been rather violent at Whitehaven, on the oppo-
site coast of Cumberland. The furthest point to the south at
which we have heard of it was Timperley, near Altriucham,
where it was faintly but distinctly perceived by a gentleman
whe happened to be lying awake at the time, and who men-
tioned the circumstance to several persons before he heard of
what had occurred to the northward. 'l'he following account
of the phenomenon is copied from the Preston Chronicle of
Saturday last :—" On Thursday morning, at about twenty-
three minutes before four o'clock, this town and neighbour-
hood, particularly to the northward, experienced a rather
severe shock of an earthquake, which excited considerable
alarm in the minds of those who happening to be awake
were fully conscious of the awful visitation. The writer
of this paragraph, who had witnessed several earthquakes
—one of them deplorably fatal—during a residence in a northern
province of South America, happened not to be asleep, and al-
mosLinstantly recognized the peculiar noise, or internal thun—
der, that generally precedes and accompanies those fearful
throes of the earth, and in an instant, he snore sensibly felt the
house tremble in a manner resembling the vibration caused by
the passing of several heavily laden waggons on the rough
pavement of the street, but with this important difference, that
the vibration though short, was much stronger, and, as he sup-
posed, more of a lateral than a perpendicular motion. The
window, which was partly thrown up for the admission of air,
was shaken to and fro several times, and the bedstead creaked
though no one on it moved. One of the family, also awake,
was perfectly sensible of the shuck, which lasted, including the
noise, as nearly us could be conjectured, ebout 30 seconds. It
was early dawn of day ; the new moon bad risen 30 to 35 de-
grees; the sky was cloudless, with the exception of a streak of
clouds over the N.H. horizon, and the air was calm and serene,
but sultry. The shock appeared to conic from the north west
quarter, and to pass to 'he south east; but of this there can be
little certainty."—Manchester Guardian.

LONDON WITHIN THE WALLS.—In the beginning of the last
century the population of London within the walls was not
much less than 140,000, as proved by deduction from the parish
registers; and the annual mortality was as 1 to 20 of that po-
pulation. In the year 1750 the population had decreased to
87,600; and, fortunately for the health of the citizens, space
continues to become more and more valuable for counting-
houses and warehouses than for human habitation, so that the
population of the city within the walls became 78,000 in the
year 1801, and is now diminished to 55,778, the rate of mortality
being now less than I in 40. Appendix to the Parish Rcyister
Abstract fur 1831.

PROPHETIC SPIRIT OP NapocEoN.—The grand marble statue
of the deceased hero, executed by Canova, in the possession of
the Duke of Wellington, furnishes one of many proofs of the
prophetic or superstitious tendency of his mind. This statue was
in Napoleon's keeping for many years, but he would never
allow it to be seen, nor even taken out of the case in which it
was sent from Rome. His reason for this singular decision
was, that in the right hind the sculptor had placed a ball repre-
senting the earth, and upon it a little figure of Victory, with ex-
tended wings. The extended wings offended him. II e said it
appeared as though intended to intimate that victory was about
to fly away from him; and that at all events the Parisians would
so interpret the omen. Forbidding all parley upon the subject,
he condemned one of the finest productions of the modern chisel,
a colossal statue 13 feet high, to remain in sulky seclusion in
the identical packing-case in which it arrived. in that same
packing-case it afterwards entered apslev-house, where it re•
mains conspicuously posted upon the grand stair-case, a captive
attendant as it were upon the commander who first turned the
tide of victory against his arms, and finally, measuring swords
with the victor in person, by one decisve blow expelled him for
ever from the field of battle. Thus do events seem to justify
the boding repugnance of Napoleon to this statue.