The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-11-17 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

Tr;Anil OF LBEDS.—It cannot fail to afford satisfaction that
the woollen trade of this district continues in unabated activity,
with a fair prospect of its continuance during the winter. The
time when trade was so brisk at this season of the year is scarce-
ly remembered.
BRADFORD M AR KET.—The demand for goods at this market,
on Thursday, was as brisk as has been experienced for some
weeks past, more particularly in the superior qualities of meri-
nos, plain and figured, and former prices were fully maintained:
A good deal of business was done in the cloth market, particua
larly in Australian samples, but the terms were pretty much
the sanie.as previously; and three was no change to note in the
yarn market.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, on Tuesday last, was rather brisk;
the principal demand was for fancy goods and kerseys, the
business done in plain cloths being not quite so extensive as of
late.

HA iurnx MARKET, on Saturday, was rather duller than it
has been for some weeks past. The stocks of manufactured
goods, however, are not large, and the slackness of the
market may be in some degree attributed to the desire of the
spinners to obtain better prices for their yarns.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL 111sttap.T. Nov. 9.—The demand for
goods to-day has been very active; we have not had a better
market for some time. The manufacturers find a difficulty in
completing their orders, and the workmen are receiving better
wages. in wools, the principal demand, was confined to middle
qualities, which are become scarce. I.lic lowest sortsare rather
duller of sale.

THE LINEN TIZADE.—Some excitement has taken place
among the persons engaged in this trade, in consequence of the
Scotch manufacturers giving only thirty-six inches, exact mea-
sure, to the yard of cloth, instead of thirty-seven, as is usually
done. This has arisen from, as the sellers state, a misinterpre-
tation of Lord Ebrington's act for procuring uniformity in
weights and measures. As long ago as January, resolutions on
the subject were passed at a meeting of merchant-manufac-
turers and others connected with the linen trade in Dundee, one
of which was as follows :—" That, from this date, a strict ad-
herence to the provisions of this act be attended to ; and this
meeting pledge themselves henceforth to buy and sell linens by
the standard yard of thirty-six inches, and to abolish all dis-
counts of measurement which it has been the practice of the
trade to allow." It bas already been the usage iu the trade to
give the thumb over to every yard, and thirty seven inches was
consequently considered to "be the accustomed length of a yard
of cloth. The principle adopted by the Dundee meeting has
been since acted upon by the Scotch manufacturers, and has
caused great confusion in the trade, as the manufacturers gene-
rally in England and Ireland have not changed the old mode of
measuring. The wholesale trade in London has suffered great
losses by injurious disputes and deductions, and a committee
meeting of the wholesale trade has been held already, Mr.
Oliver of Aldermanbury, one of the most extensive houses in
the trade, presiding, in order to adopt means of inducing the
Scotch manufacturers to return to the old mode of measure-
ment. A second meeting will be held this week, when resolu-
tions, having for their object the removal of the evil complain-
ed of, will be proposed.

A HINT FROM THE GALLERY.—The Cokurgh Theatre, under
the management of Glossop and others, enjoyed an unenviable
celebrity for attention to anything but "words, phrases, and gram-
mar." On one occasion the scenes stuck in the grooves, and
the gods were much offended at beholding the halves of a house,'
with an interstice of a yard or so between them ; at length a
sweep called out, "Ye don't expect ,
,no good grammar here, but
hang it, .you might close the scenes! '