The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-24 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANC nESTRIt.—Upon the whole, our cloth and yarn market
must be leport.Td more quiet, although some houses say they
have had a fair amount of business. Printing cloth is again
better to buy : but the fact that manufacturers, printers, and
merchants are all light in stock will prevent any material
chang3 in the present rates; for printing cloth has receded full
lid per piece from the highest point. Domestic cloth is still in
good demand. Operative printers who can produce good block
were never known to be so fully employed. The country
houses are also busy, and expect above an average autumn
trade, 27-inch 66's may be quoted at ss 3d to 5s 74d. and 52's,
6s to 5e aid; some houses asking 6s 6d, which price they admit,
they can obtain for a limited quantity.-211anrhester Advertiser.

!ssns.—The woollen trade has not been quite so active du-
ring the past week as we have lately had occasion to report ;
and the purchases at both the Clotis Halls on Saturday and
Tuesday ware somewhat limited; the principal articles going
being heavy cloths suitable for the winter trade.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET.—The fancy wooren trade still
continues brisk, and there was considerable activity in this
market on Tuesday, nearly every piece of goods suitable to the
winter trade being disposed of. There was also a good deal
dose in plain cloths. The yarn trade with Scotland still con-
tinues active, and late prices are fully realized.
BRADFORD MARKCT.—Though there was a full average at-
tendance of merchants here on Thursday, it was generally re-
marked by the trade, that the purchases were not so extensive as
we have had to report for some time past, the principal diminu-
tion being in the sales of the exporting houses; yet the expec-
tation as to a brisk autumnal trade remained unabated. There
was a fair demand for yarns at late rates; yet the wool ma ket
was very dull, and owing to the extent of the supply, prices
were scarcely so firm as of late. Broke and short wools were
principally in demand
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET.—There has been a very good
attendance of buyers in the market io-day, and the demand for
flannels has been brisk at former prices. There is no change in
the wool market—the demand steady, and prices firm.
HECMONDWIKE BLANKET MARKET.—WE have had two good
market days this week, with good prospects for the future.
HALIFAX MARKET.—We had a fair demand for piece goods
here on Saturday, but there was nothing cal ing for particular
remark. The prices of goods remained much the same, though
Wool could hardly be said to be so firm.
LEICESTER.—There is little change since last week to report :
if anything, the demand is a shade slacker. Prices remain the
same.—Leicester Chronicle.
HOSIERY AND LACE TRADE.—The state of these branches
of British industry may be said to be a'most stationery, but, if
anything, a little amended in some respects, and certainly they
are not worse : still the state of the workmen is that of conside-
rable suffering and hard privation. The silk trade in all the
four branches, namely, plain silk hose, knotted and fancy hose,
and silk glove's, is extremely depressed; though, as we before
observed, there is a slight shade of improvement in some
quarters, but still it is extremely partial. The cotton hosiery
trade is still extremely dull in almost all the branches, and the
hands are much to be commiserated, as they are both in want
of work and adequate wages. The bobbin net trade may be
said to be a little recovering in the fancy department. Plain
nets, though extremely low in price, have been in pretty good
demand for some time. The warp lace trade is in much the
same state that i' has been in for some time past; that is, it is
rather duller than it was in the spring raonths.—Nottingham
Journal.

NAME. ,Passen- I
gers. Money. lastyear!l Fig,'
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Arbroath and Forfar
Birmingham and Derby .... —* _ —
Birmingham and Gloucester.. 2824 2213 2i
Brandling .1 unction — 818 j 2
Bristol and Glouce,ter
Chester and Birkenhead
Dublin and Drogheda
Dublin and Kingstown
Dundee a! d Arbroath 104134 532 257 4
Durham and Sunderland
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Eastern Counties....
Glasgow and Ayr 14862 1547 1449 4}
Glasgow and Paisley
Grand J unction
Great North of England
Great West:rn
Liverpool and Manchester
London and Birmingham — 18480 17 217 10
London and Blackwall
London and Brighton
London and Croydon 15708 550 347 31
London and Greenwich 367781 746 740 29s
Southwestern
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 904 749 44
Manchester and Birmingham. —372 u 5
Manchester and Leeds and
Hull and Selby — 8324 7212 6
Midland Counties
Newcastle and Darlington
Newcastle and Carlisle
Newcastle and North Shields 19225 4!"2 445 2
North Midland — —*
North Union 1(,702 1875 1109 44
Par a and Orleans
Paris and Rouen - 24374 65.2 5453 7
Preston and Wyre
Sheffield and Manchester 27898 911 &il
South Eastern -
Taff Vale
0620 562
Ulster 449 4a
Yarmouth and Norwich
York and North Midland ! 12331 3289 10
* Sec Midland Counties.

THE ORIGIN OF FOGS.—The very common but mi•-
t zken idea, that the fog which we see of an evening hang-
ing over low meadows, and by the sides of streams, is r•.
tending, arises very naturally from our first observing t
in low places, and as the cool of the evening advances, re-,
marking that it ascends to higher land : the fact is, how-
ever, not that the damp is ascending, but that from the
coldness of those situations they are the first places which
condense the before invisible vapour, and as the cold of
the evening advances, this condensation takes place at a
higher level. A large portion of the vapour ascends to
the upper regions of the atmosphere, where it cools, and
becomes visible to us in the form of clouds; and increas-
ing in density by cooling, they gradually descend nearer
to the earth, until at last becoming too condensed by the
loss of heat, they fall in rain, to be again returned in end-
less succession.—Scientific Phenomena.

LONDON ROAD.—The following auction announce-
ment, dated 1770, will show the state of this road at the
close of the last century, " To be Sold by Auction, at Ec-
cleston's Mill House, near Low-hill, on Wednesday, Aug.
7, at five a.m. The present prime crop of early white oats
growing on a close of land belonging to the Water Works
at Low-hill near Liverpool." An old lady lately living,
stated that she could recollect a field being between Lime-
s'reet and Seymour-street, which was surrounded by a
deep trench, probably dug by Prince Rupert's soldiers
during the siege. Prince Rupert's trenches were disco-
vered in 1805. They were thus described at the time.
They are situated about twenty yards from the present
London-road, opposite the end of Rt. Anne-street, on the
east side of the road (Seymour-street) recently cut lead-
ing to Rodney-street. Here the rock has been widely-
excavated and filled up again with loose earth. Other
traces are discernible in a field above, as well as on the
other side of a lane nearer the town at the top of a new
street now planned, to be called Gloucester-street, and at
the commencement of an intended street to be denomi-
nated Silver-street, all just below the Copperas Works,
and on the site of the old mill, blown down in the year
1795. There has likewise been traced, and may now be
seen as the workman are removing the earth, the situation
of the Fort or Beitte
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la the trenches, tradition says, the bodies of the rebels,
executed in 1745, were buried."—Lacey's Handbook.

A HINT FOR THE LADIES.—Look here—twenty-seven
a lverrisements from persons wanting pupils. The greatest
drug in the advertising world is education. We are too
clever by half now-a-days; everybody, in their own op':-
&on, can teach anybody. Here's a lot of knowledge for
twenty guineas a-year, extras included. French, Ger-
man, washing, board, lodging, music, drawing, calistheni s
—what's that ?—geometry, arithmetic, and the use of the
globes ? Why, it's dog cheap; too much by half for the
money. Old Peachetn, in The Beggar's Opera, who
wondered how any man alive should rear a daughter, must,
with respect, have been a fool; when daughters can be in-
structed in everything for nothing, we wonder who
wouldn't rear scores of daughters, if he could get them off
his hands. But there's the difficulty ; for when a man
comes to choose a wife in this work-day world, his object,
in nine cases nut of ten, is to get a woman who will strive
to make a shilling do duty for eighteenpence, who will at-
tend to her household, watch over her family, and not be
a')ove doing her duty ; and we think we can see in these
multifarious accomplishments of the present day, and the
necessary neglect of that solid practical education which
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heavily on hand. Who on earth, unless he be a fool, or a
man of fortune, can abide to sit down to an ill-dressed
dinner, in a slatternly house, with the better relish for ttis
victuals from a knowledge that his " lady," at a five-and-
twenty pound boarding-school, has acquired an inappre-
ciable quantity of French, Italian, German, calisthenics
(which, I supnov, some. other outlandish lingo), geo-
metry, or globes ? preserving, cooking, making
and repairing her children's dresses and her own, and a
knowledge of the use and economy of money, arc things a
marrying man can understand and appreciate, particular*
if he is under the neces,ity, as most of us era, of earning
his own bread ; and this, I think, is the reason that sun-
dry friends of ours, despising boarding-school accomplish-
ments, airs, and graces, have gone down to the country.
and brought up wives mho had learned by experience of
their respectable mother the art of presiding over a " com-
fortable home" and who, to their credit be it spoken,
don't know the difference between Italian and Irish,. or
could distinguish calisthenics from ' otta
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