The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-03 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

WIGAN.— During the week some of the manufacturers in thi
town have advanced the wages of their hand-loom weavers 3d
per cut of .6 yards. Trade is very brisk in every departmen
of the cotton branch, and a further advance of wages is gene
rally looked for.
Limns.—There has been a strong muster of. metropolitan
buyers in the town since our last, and great activity has been
obseeved in the warehouses ; the sales of all kinds of cloths
suitable for the fall trade bein_T of almost unparalleled extent.
The transactions in the cloth halls continue as extensive as the
stock will allow; the supply of Fresh goods being small in con-
sequence of manufacturers being engaged making to order.
HUDDERSFIELD Ma RENT.—We had another animated market
on Tuesday. and nearly every new article produced that was
suitable for the winter trade was readily sold, most of the ma-
nufacturers being still engaged in making to order. The de-
mand for 'yarn, suitable for the Scotch shawl trade. was also
more brisk than it has heretofore been. Prices were firm.

nv,H.A.Lic r LANA•6A. luloakct tv-cloy lags laccia
but dull, and the business transacted very limited. The wool
market has also been very quiet, with no change in prices.
Another failure of a small inanuf..cturer is announced, and the
chief creditors are, as usual, the wool dea:ers.
BRADFORD MARKET.—There was a good attendance cf mer-
chants at the market on Thursday; and most goods suitable
for the autumn trade met a ready sale, at firm prices, but the
transactions might have been more extensive if the assortments
had been better. For yarn there was a good demand, and prices
were fully equal to last week In the wool market the sales
were not so large as might have been expected from the dealings
in other commodities, but this may probably be owing to the
circumstances noted last week, as it was evident that the
spinners only bought to met existing wants.
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HALIFAX MARKET.—The market here on Saturday was brisk
both for goods and ya:n, and prices were firm. In the wool
market there was a fair business done, and prices were steady.
LEICESTER.—There is little change since last week, hut
that little for the better. Wool and yarn remain the carne.
The demand for all sorts of the season is brisk, especially in
leading or lower sorts, in some of which, we understand, the
demand exceeds the supply.—Ltieester Chronicle.
HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.—The situation of the cotton
hosiery trade is by no means improved, the hands being consi-
derably in want of employment; this applies equally to the
wrought and to the cut up branches The silk glove branch,
though they have ventured to strike against the reduction of
their wages for cut thumb holes and ruck f ame.rent, is in a
most deplorable state. There is a very singular strike in the
Nottingham trade, it being no other than the woo len-cloth
hands, who have turned out to avoid a reduction of •hei, prices.
It appears, that notwithstanding the manufacture is extending,
such is the temper of the times, that the master cannot avoid
nibbling at the wages. The warp lace trade is, if anything, ra-
ther ch. clining, though several new manufactures have been
broached. Amongst the rest, is the making of velvet upon the
tirp Ironies, upon Tabberer's principle. The bobbin net trade,
if anything, is a shade improved, anti laces with some difficulty
can be disposed of without much difficulty.—.Kttingliam
Journal.

MANCHESTER.—The demand for home consumption still con-
tinues active. Printers are so full of orders that there is much
difficulty in get ing them to enter into contracts for early de-
livery. In the neighbourhood of Sabden, Accrington, Church,
Clitheroe, he machine and block printers are more fu,ly
employed that they have been for many years. During the
past week there has been a slight decline in the prices of 7.8
Printing Cleths, arising not so much rem a falling off in demand
as from an apprehension that the production, which has been
recently greatly engaged, would lead to an excess of stock, at
soon as present contracts shall have run out. The manufacture
of these fabrics has been for some time a most profitably
occupation, and has led a large number of persons to turn to its
p: oduction has therefore rapidly kept pace with demand. We
quote 26 in. 64 reeds, 5s 3d, 27 in. 66's at 5s pd. and 27 in. 72's at
6s lid to 6s 7id per piece. The Yarn market • s exceedingiA
buoyant, prices being firm at the full rates. A large business is
being done, not only by buyers from India and the northern pat to
of Europe, but also by manufacturers, for home consumption.
The buyers for the Mediterranean markets have been doing
nothing during the past fittnight. We IL:det sand that the
rates of insurance. and the danger of an outbreak of v, a-,
which may result from the occupation of the po tot Mogador
by the French, will, La the present, deter shippers for Gibraltar
and the Levant from operating in this market. In any other
respect we do not believe the trade of this district is as yet
affected by the misunderstanding which is said to exist between
the cabinets of London and Paris.;

TIDE TABLE.
DAIS. MRN. EVN. nEIGIIT IIOLYDAYS, ETC.
Tuesday 3 •2 31 247 13 8 Jupiter rises 7h Igm ev.
Wednes. 4 3 8 331 12 3 Moon in Apogee :h m.
Thurs... 5 358 427 10 10 Mars rises 411 15m mo.
Friday.. 6 5 3 541 10 0 Venus rises ili 31mm.
Saturday 7 625 7 10 g in Emu-elms.
Sunday. 8 752 8:4 1.. 6 14th Sunday af. Trinity.
Monday. 9 8 51 9 17 12 2

SrATISTICS OF MORTALITY.—The aver,p age of all
who d.e i t Bradford is 18.69 years; in Liverpco! the ave-
rage age is from 17 to 18 years; in Mancheiter, 18 years;
while in Leeds it is 21 years.

ANCIENT CANAL FROM THE NILE TO Tree RED SEA.
—The account of the canal given by the geographer
Makrizy, requires to be transcribed in his own words,
from the accurate summary which it contains of the later
history of this great monument of civilisation. " When
the Most High," says the writer, " gave Islamism to
mankind, and Amrou-Ben-el-A.ss conquered Feypt by
the order of Omar-ben-al-Khatab, chief of the Faithful,
he cleared out the canal in the year of the mortality. He-
carried it to the sea of Qolzoum, from which ships sailed
to Hedjaz, to Yemen, and to India. This canal remained
open until the time when Mohammed-ben-Abdoullah-
ben-El-Hossein-ben-Aly-ben-AbysThelcb revolted in the
city of the Prophet (Medina) against Abou-dja'far-Ab-
doullah-ben Mohammed-Al-Manssour, then caliph of
Irak. This prince immediately wrote to his lieut.nant in
Egypt, ordering him to fill up the causl of Qelznurn,
it might not serve to transport provisions to istedina. The
communication was cut
order was executed, and all that
off
with the sea at Qolzoum. Since that time
.At matters have
remained in the state we
.now see them. *
pre-
sent, the question of restoring the canal is solely con-
nected with the Indian trade. We own we have very
great doubts whether its re-establishment, if destined only
to connect our lines of steam-packets from India to Suez,
and from Southampton to Alexandria, would be found a
profitable speculation. The tedious navigation of the
Red Sea, and, we may almost add, of the MeOiterranean,
would render the route by the Cape preferable for sailing
vessels ; and we have not yet arrived at such perfection
in the construction of steamers, as to contemplate their
becoming the only vessels employed in the Indian trade.
It appears to us, that before any reasonable hope of re-
storing the canal can be en ertaieed, or, at least before it
can be kept open with profit, that Egypt must be again in
a condition to employ the irrigable land on the banks of
the canal for agricultural purposes. Unless the country
be flourishing, the population increasing, and the canal
constantly employed, it would be half filled with the sand
of the desert every year.—Blackwood's Magazine.
A MANAGER OUTWITTED BY AN ACTRESS.—In the
winter of 1818, Miss Kelly accepted a very liberal offer
from Mr. Frederick Edward Jones, the proprietor of the
Theatre Royal, Crow-street, Dublin, to remain in that
city during a principal part of the season. Her talent
was highly appreciated by those who witnessed it; but,
to the discredit of Dublin, the number was too limited to
render her engagement profitable either to herfelf or the
management. She had brought with her letters of intro-
duction from several persons of tank in England to their
compeers in Ireland ; and to the Lord-Lieutenant's con-
sideration she was particularly recommended by a very
popular nobleman, whose patronage of the drama had
beteterneettriolv
ase lauded.t otiAs
ie public. wie
nobserved,general,
and site
the
been u
ed
noble ri-pa-
tronage had been reserved for her benefit night. The
manager had made his appeal to the Viceroy for his usual
periodical "command," when a full house would be sure
to compensate for his previous losses. the c3inm(4ld
was immediately g'ven, but with this unexpected stipule-
ti in—that it eas to be on Miss Kelly's benefit night;
which night, according to the terms of her agreement,
was to be " free of all charges." The poor manager was
thus of s-matimovred by the cunning actress. She had
also asked f'or the command, hut for her own profit; and,
having obtained it, she pocketed the whole receipts, nearly
fiv • hundred pounds, and the treasure of the theatre was
left to recover from its insolvency by any othi r met hod it
could adopt. 'I he actors were unpaid, A vice-regal
c 'ffacand wrs then elways calculated to tiring five hun-
dred pounds to the trea-ury, and had never been known
to occur on a performer's benefit in Dtuttin. Bitter were
the mantleer's complaints at being " out-manoeuvredby
a woman" ; yet, while smarting under the alleged wrong,
he could nut help paving the lady a high compliment. He
Was heard to-observe, in a vet y fretful tone, " Talk of
tactics, sir !—talk of rranceuvres at Waterloo ! Poh!
I'd back General Fanny Kelly aerlinst Wellington and all
Itis staff!" The receipts of the " et7onand" night snot
readting the theta: trea,ury, placed the actors in a
very critical situation. Of their tied their wit
end merriment in the midst of it. many Thimsiettl stories
were tliCn told.— Otte Acts-ever.