The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-02-17 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

Bradford market on Thursday was, upon the whole, a better
one than that of last week. Six quarter merinos were rather
dull sale, but in narrow goods much activity prevailed at a slight
advance. 'Wool continues too high to leave the manufacturer
much profit. The mills in general are running the usual time,
and the poor find plentiful employment. •
The blanket market at lleckmoudwicke is now better, and
progressively improving.
Since our last report business in the linen trade at Barnsley
has been as we could have wished it. The London•buyers, who
are of no small consequence when they make their appearance,
have recently been in the town, and made several large pur-
chases. It is evident from their early visits to our manufactories
that the home trade, which has not of late been quite so brisk as
the foreign, will very speedily improve.
Rochdale flannel market on Monday was well attended, and
more business was done. Fine sorts sold readily; middle qua-
lities were better, but lower goods were rather dull; good greys
for dyeing continue to sell freely. The wool market was not so
brisk, though a little advance was talked of.
The woollen trade at Bury continues brisk, especially their
lower and stronger sorts, snch as blankets, mill cloths, &c.
Halting continues to improve a little at Oldham. Cotton
spinning and power-loom weaving are in great demand, and
four new factories are expected to be built this spring.
The calico printing at Accrington is very brisk. The res=
pectable and large firm of Messrs. Hargreaves and Dugdale is
making rapid progress in printing very expensive qualities of
goods for the foreign trade ; the home trade is also brisk. The
fairs at Foxhill Bank, Church Bank, and Baxendale, are also
making great progress in the spring trade, and the other firms
are not so slack, as they have been for some time past. The
woollen trade in and about the neighbourhood of Haslingden is
brisk, and hands are fully employed. The cotton spinning and
power-loom weaving is brisk, and there is every appearance of
a good trade throughout the surrounding neighbourhood.—
Cotton hand-loom weaving is not so brisk as it was.
STATE OP TIIE MANCHESTER MARKET.--On Saturday the
cotton trade was brisk both in varns and goods; goods seemed
to fetch a better price than they have done for weeks past.
Nankeens were in good demand, particularly buffs and drabs :
20s. twist was a scarce article in the market. On Tuesday the
market was not so brisk; yarns were net much inquired for,
except 205., 225., and 245. twist. Goods advanced to one-eighth
and one-fourthin price. Not so much business done as on the
Saturday.

MURDER OF DR. WARDELL AT SYDNEY, N.S.W.

his with extreme regret we announce the melancholy death,
liptinrder, of Dr. Wardell, the eminent barrister, of Sydney.
'1 he. savage occurrences must have happenedon Sunday, the 7th
September. He had invited a few triends to dinner on that
day, at his villa of Petersham, about eight miles from Sydney,
and had rode out before .the dinner-hour, but not returning
when expected, some uneasiness gradualle sprung up, and a
search was ultimately instituted in all directions, the alarm
being much increased by a threat having been industriously
conveyed to the doctor's ears some time ago, by some of his own
servants, that his life would be sacrificed. His intimate friend,
Mr. Wentworth, hearing the circumstance on the Monday
morning, immediately joined in the pursuit, and the body was
found in the forenoon of that day, in a secluded part of the
hush-, about three-quarters of a mile from the house, with two
gun-shut wounds, either of which was apparently-sufficient to
extinguish life—the one, a quarter of a musket-ball, which had
been cut with a knife, haying entered the head directly below
the ear, and another similar piece in the side. The melancholy
event, as might be expected, produced a lively sensation in
Sydney, and, indeed, throughout the whole of the colony. The
talents of Dr. Wardell, as a skilful lawyer and ati able political
writer, were of the very first order.,-Hobart Town Courier,
Sept. `26.-_[ here are no further details, papers not having ar-
rived from Sydney direct.]
Hobart Town papers to the 29th Sept. have been received by
the Cleopatra, arrived at Deal. Wheat had risen in price at
Hobart Town, and was sold at 17s. per bushel. At Sydney
also this grain was on the advance—wheat was 135.-.6d., and
flour 40s. per cwt.; wool was 1i5,1d. per lb., for which contracts
had been entered into at this rate.
The ship Edward Lombe, Capt. Stroyan, which left .Hobart
Town fur Sydney on the .17th August., was lost during a dread-
ful gale; twetve persons in all, out of twenty-nine on board,
perished—namely, Captain Stroyau, Mr. Norman, 2d mate;
Mr. Tibbett, 3d mate; .Mr. Gibbs, surgeon; Mr. Jones, Mr.
Kemp, Mr. Greenhill, Mr. Wilkinson, and Mr. Knight, pas-
sengers; the steward, and two seamen.
The influenza, or epidemic catarrh, had made its appearance,
affecting both young and old; though severe, it was not of a
seriun§ character.

The new chief commissioner of the woods and .forests (Lord
' Granville Somerset) has taken up his residence at the mansion
of his father-in-law, Lord Carrington, in Whitehall-yard.
ST. VALENTINE'S DAY.—The custom of " choosing valen-
tines" was a sport practised in the honses.of the English gentry
as early as 1476 • and " Dan-John Lydgate," the ;celebrated
monk of Bury, alluded to it
.in a poem, written Lot him, " In
prayse of Queue Caterine." Fynes Moryson, in his "-Itinerarie,"
says " that ye day was a learefuleharge, for the costlie custome
of making such rich and gorgeous presents." .Chaucer alludes
to the " inatyin,ge of al the byrdes" on that day: so. Shak-
espeare, in the Midsummer's Night's Dream :-
-" Saint Valentine is here;
Begin these wood-birds but to couple now•"
The custom of St. Valentine's Day seems to be at present con-
fined .to that of young people sending or receiving compli-
mentary or satirical letters, accompanied with a caricature
engraving; and to suc'a an extent is this custom carried that in
London alone the increase of twopenny-post letters on St.
Valentine's ,Day last year exceeded 200,000.• . • ,