The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-02 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

STATE OF TRADE,

LEEDS.—,-The thigh:jest in the cloth hails on Saturday was
rather flat, and on Tuesday still worse; but in the warehouses
there is a somewhat lively trade, though the merchants are very
cautious. The autumn trade is expected to be good: At pre-
sent all parties are anxious not to send up the price of wool by
speculation.

.13ft ADFORD.—Piece-gci6cit) went off briskly on Thursday; but
without any advance. Yarns are a shade higher. Buyers of
all sorts display great caution. In the wool trade there is no-
thing new • very few transactions indeed : the period of the clip
is near—that accounts for it:
HA LIFA x.—Not quite so Many buyers in this market as usual
on Saturday, and rather less business done than in the preced-
ing week. -The merchants cOrnplain of want of goods in the
bands of the manufacturers. Prices steady; the late advance
will be maintained.

HUDDERSFIELD.—The market on Tuesday was a lively one,
and fancy goods particularly werein demand.
YORK Woof. MARKET, THURSDAY, MAY 28.—T0-day being
the first market for the season w 7 have had rather a numerous
attendance of buyers in compailson with former years, whilst
there has been but a •light show, confined principally to small
lots of ewe and fat, sheep wool from the neighbouring farmers,
with an entire absence of flock wool. The call of the market
has been decidedly in favour of fine hogs, (scarcely any at mar-
ket,) which are chiefly wanted by the manufacturers for fine
merino warp yarn. The prices otthe day may be quoted some-
what as follows; but we hope in the course of another week to
be able to give a more substantial account of the actual prices
of this most important article of the staple manufacture of this
kingdom. AU- hog superfine, 19d. per lb.; half hog and ewe,
17d. per lb.; all ewe, 15d. per lb.; locks, 11d. The transac-
tions of the market are confined to 14lbs. to the stone, in con-
formity with the late act of parliament, which came into opera-
tion the Ist of January, 1835, with a 4lb. allowed upon each
stone for draft. •

WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, MAY 29.—There continues a
good demand at firmer prices for all descriptions of short wool
for the clothing and blanket trade, if we except locks and low
Scotch, the use of which has been superseded by the heavy im-
portations of Russian and other low foreign wool. The long
Wool trade has been extremely active since our last, in conse-
quence of the light stock of fine hogs in thentarliet having cre-
ated a competition for the new- clips, which contain most of this.
kind, add run them up to higher prices ; and, although we can-
not quote any decided advance in other descriptions of long
wool, this circumstance has caused consumers to turn their at-
, tention. to. Wethers, which have been so heavy of sale, and
considerable sales have been effected in them at full prices.
ROCHDALE, MAY 26.—The demand for goods this week has
been very active, and a trifling advance has been realized.
Stoblis are now getting low, and is some sorts the supply is not
equal to the demand. The stock of wool is also very thin, and
in low sorts especially a great scarcity is felt.—Leeds ,ititelli-
gencer. ' .

SIR HOIVARD DOUGLAS.—A letter from Rassusa,•Of the -211
Of April, announces that Sir Hirward Douglas, the new Lord
_High Cominissioner of the lonian Islands, with his family, had
arrived from Ancona, in the harbour of Grovosa, on board the
Joules] steam-boat Eolauaissss. He was going to Corfu, On
board the seine vessel was the Bavarian Ambassador, . Count
Jennisson, on his way to Athens to congratulate King Otho
on attaining his majority.
THE LIVERPOOL CONSERVATIVE REGISTRATION ASSOCIA,
TION.—A highly respectable meeting was held on Saturday at
the Golden Lion Inn, Dale-street„for the purpose of forming
a Conservative Registration Association for the borough of
Liverpool. Mr. Alderman Robinson, on taking the chair,
briefly stated the object for which the meeting had been called.
The business was then proceeded in. and a series of resolutions
were agreed to ! which will appear in the advertisement of the
society. Some curious facts relative to the present state of the
registry were mentioned to show the necessity fur a greater
degree of watchfulness on the part of the conservatives.
CHARITY SERMON.—A charity•sermon was preached at St.
Michael's Church, on Sunday morning, by the Rev. H. Berry,
after which a collection was made in aid of the funds of the
Liverpool Dispensaries. The sum collected was £22 2s. 10d.
Suictne.—On Sumlay the body of a man was found floating
off New Brighton. It was subsequently discovered to be that
of Mr. Dawson, attorney, of 'Temple-court. The unfortunate
gentleman was last seen alive on Saturday last, and it is sup-
posed that he committed suicide whilst labouring under tempo-
rary insanity, brought on by the disarranged state of his affairs.
It appears that he was recently gazetted as a bankrupt, and the
last meeting of his creditors was to have been held this day.
THE WATCH BOARD.—At the meeting of The commissioners
on-Friday last it was announced that a bill, to the amount of
£2l 16s. 3d., having been sent to the agent of the Sun fire-office,
by the fire police, the reply was that it was too much, as one of
the engines was charged thirteen hours, and only worked five.
This would take £7 18s. from the charge.—lt was stated, in ex-
planation, (communicated from Mr. Wales,) that the fire at
which this expense had been occurred took place when Mr.
Brown, the agent foe London, was in Liverpool, making ar-
rangements with the fire police. Ile.was at the fire, and said
that one of the engines was of no use, and recommended it to be
taken away. Mr. Gallemore was told to remove it, delegated
the order to somebody who neglected it, and the engine worked
as long as any other. The board, under these circumstances,
agrees to deduct the £7 18s.—An item of £4 ss. 6d., for the law
expences of the late board, incurred by them in opposing the
new police bill, was objected to in the law clerks' accounts, as
being illegal, and it was accordingly struck out.
LIVERPOOL RACES CONTEMPLATED ADDITION TO THE
Pnizes.—A number of spirited individuals, forming a portion
of the respectable body of Licensed Victuallers of this town,
have fur some time past entertained an impression that, by a
little exertion on the part of its leading members, a handsome
stake might be raised, to form a purse to be run for under the
denomination of the "'Licensed Victuallers' Purse." With
this view a preliminary meeting was held on Friday night, at
the Adelphi Hotel, and froth what transpired the most favour-
able results are likely to be produced. The meeting was ad-
journed until Wednesday next, when the subject will he more
fully canvassed. It is to be hoped than the body will on that
evening come forward in a spirit becoming the occasion, and
show to other towns of less wealth and importance, that they
Will not be behindhand in supplying the sinews of war. The
well-merited celebrity of our races will then be sustained, and
the title given to it of the New-market of the North will then
not be unaptly applied. Manchester and Chester have already
taken the lead in augmenting the stakes, and we feel confident
Liverpool will not be slow in following the example. We need
but remark, that Liverpool is the only place of any note where
races are held which does not receive support from the Licen-
sed victuallers to cause that respectable class of tradesmen to
take the proposition seriously in hand.
SERVANT BURNED TO DRAM—CAUTION TO PARENTS.—.
Between twelve and two o'clock on the night of Monday last,
Mr. Wren, of Hulme, was awakened by a shriek in his house.
He sprung out of bed, and, on going upon the stairs, he found
Rachel Kay, the servant girl, with her night dress in flames.
He pushed her before him, got herdown stairs immediately, and
then tore off part of her bnruing dress and endeavoured to ex-
tinguish the flames. While thus engaged he reccollected that
two of his own children were sleeping in the same room with
the girl. He rushed up stairs and to his horror found 'one of
his children sitting upon the pillow completely surrounded by
flames; he snatched the child up, and fortunately it was not
much burned. The other, elder child, on awaking, had jumped
out orbed and ran out of the room. Mr. Wren found the can-
dlestick, a hair-brush and comb, a ball of worsted, and a pair of
scissors upon and amongst the bed clothes. The flames about
the bed were extinguished with some difficulty, and, Mr. Wren
having called the watchman, three surgeons were called in and
the proper applications administered. The girl was then con-
veyed to her father's house, where she remained till Wednesday
evening, when she was removed to the infirmary, where she died
the following day. She acknowledged that she had been em-
ployed mending her stockings in bed when she dropped a sleep,
being of a sluggish sleepy habit, and the flame of the candle had
doubtless communicated to her night dress or to the bed
clothes, and might have caused the sacrifice of three lives.—
Afancherter Paper,
NARROW SCAPE.—On Mondai last, during the storm of
lightning and rain which visited, lanchester and its vicinity,
Mr. Shaw, 'sheriff's officer, of., ack King-street, narrowly
escaped becoming a victim to its violence. Mr. Shaw was
returning from his office in Manchester to Bury (where he te-
sides,) in his gig, and when near Cheetham Hill, a sudden and
very vivid flash of lightning appeared to-cross the road directly
in front of his horse. It was raining heavily at the time, and
Mr. Shaw held an umbrella over his head. The moment he
saw the flash he felt a sudden shock, and experienced a-sensa-
tion as if the contents of a large, highly-charged electric jar,
had passed-through his body, and he was laid powerless, for the
moment, at the bottom of his gig. The horse, no doubt in some'
degree, affected by the same powerful agent, began to plunge
and rear in a frightful manner; and had it not- been fir the
timely assistance of a man who witnessed the accident, and who
promptly seized the reins, the consequences might have been
fatal. .After waiting a short time at the Griffin Inn to recover
himself, 3.1 r. Shaw, contrary to all expectation;was able to pro-
ceed on his way, but has since, we are informed, been under the
care of his medical) attendant, and is not yet perfectly recovered
from the effect of the shock. The ferrule on the top of the um-
brella attracted the electric fluid, and was, no doubt, the cause of
disaster.—Manchester Paper.
THE LATE 14.:ARL •OF DEVON.—The Earl of Devon, who
had been long an absentee from this country, died, at his Tesi-
deuce in the Place .Vendome, in Paris, on Tuesday last. He
was in his 67th-vear, having been born in July, 1768, and sue-
teededsto the Viscountcy of -Courtenay shortly before be was of
age. ;He prosecuted and made good his claim to the earldom
of Devon before the House of, Lords in 183.1. The late earl
was never married, and as all his nearest relations were sisterss-
the titles, &c., go to William Courtenav, Esq., Assistaut Clerk
of Parliament, .eldest son ol the late Bishop of Exeter, cousin
of the late viscount. The present Earl of Devon was born in
1777. and married, in 18tH, Lady Henrietta Leslie, daughter of.
Sir Lucas Pepys and the Countess of Rothes, by whom he has
several children, the eldest a son, now Viscount Courtenay,
being in his 29th year, and married in December, 1830, Lady
Elizabeth Fortescue, sister of Lord -Ebrington. The. Earl of
Devon has two other sons living, Henry and Charles.
REPRESENTATIVE PEERAGE, IRELAND.—The. Earl of Ban-
dou is a candidate for the representative seat in the upper house,
vacant. by the lamented death of the estimable and patriotic Lord
Longford. Few noblemen have stronger claims upon the illus-
trious individuals of which this distinguished body is composed
than Lord Bandon. Possessing a princely fortune he dispenses
the gifts which 'Providence has bestowed upon him with a pro-
fuse and liberal hand; and .being a resident on his own estate
and the father of a large and happy family, he sheds around
him the blessings and the benefits which one so circumstanced,
is, capable of conferring. As a politician Lord Bandon has ever
been firm, uncompromising, and consistent; and during the
many years that he represented his native county, Cork,—the
most extensive in the kingdom--in parliament, and when it
was really an honour to be selected for such a representation,
he never advocated a measure, or gave a vote, upon which he
may not look with conscious pi ide and gratification. Against
such a man—so estimable for his private virtues, respected
his public worth— it were indeed idle for the government to
start a candidate in opposition; but we think it better to takes
as we thus do, the earliest opportunity of apprising the peers
entitled to vote, of Lord Bandon's intention to solicit their suf-
frages conceiving it to be sufOient to glance, as we have done,
slightly, at the great and paramount claims his lordship posses-
ses to their favour and support.--'Dublin Evening Mail.
A VOLUMINOUS CASE.—The Police Gazette of the kingdom
of Saxony has the following article:—" The Oschatz band.—
The public is aware that aband of murderers, robbers, and
thieves, remarkable for the'number of individuals belonging to
it, has long been confined in the prisons at Oschatz. -There
were no fewer than ninety-six persons in prison on this ac-
count. What a Herculean task for the officers engaged in the
investigation! It was,' therefore, no wonder that the docu-
ments in the causes and which were sent to Leipsic for the sen-
tence to be passed, had accumulated to the almost unparalleled
quantity of three-hundred and forty-three volumes, and it cannot
excite surprise that the expense of looking over the documents
and drawing up the sentence, amounted to 841 dollars. The
sentence was published on the 16th and 17th of last month, by
which four of the criminals are ordered to be broken on the
wheel, and two to be beheaded. The remainder were sen-
tenced to imprisonment for various terms, from ten years to six
months. • Among them were 29 women, but few of whom were
condemned to severe punishment."