The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-13 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

MANCHESTER, SATURDAY.—This being a holiday week.
very little regular business may be said to be done in the
warehouses ; but the calico printers have been making con-
tracts with the manufacturers to deliver for the autumn, for
stocks of printing cloths are too iigbt to admit them to get
the quantity they require. The commercial news from the
east is very favourable, for their stocks are light, and prices
are advancing, so after this week we feel sure shippers will
operate freely, and we doubt not but we shall have a steady
trade for some time to come. It gives us great pleasure,
also, to know that the block printers are much better off, and
can get work readily ; for what with delaines being so much.
in request, and good prints preparing for the next season,
block printers are rather scarce in some districts. 27-inch
66's may be quoted at 4s. 6d. to 4a. Mid., and 72's at
4s. 10Id. to ss. 3d.

ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—We have had considerably less
business doing to-day, than on the preceding three Mondays.
This is partly attributed to the manufacturers standing out
for an advance of price, which they have faded in obtaining.
The wool market has been extremely dull, very few sales
having been effected at any price.

BOLTON.--The trade bet; has rather deadened during the
last fortniE ht ; manufacturers of counterpanes complaining
that they cannot realize any profits, and the weavers are
again beginning to be stinted in their work. Power-loom
cloths have fallen exceedingly in demand during the last few
days. For muslins and fine goods there is a favourable re-
action, and a lair business doing in them. The trade in
cotton yarns seems dull, for although the market has not
altogether lost its improved state, yet it has become much
less animated. Founderies continue moderately bt isk. Bleach
works are less throng than they have been fur a few months
past.

HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—We have nothing cheering
to report this week. All parties are complaining, in conse-
quence of so little business having been doing.
LEEDS, SATURDAY AND TUESDAY.—BOth markets have
been much the same as we reported last week. Saturday's
market was what we now begin to call a "fair market."
Tuesday's exceedingly bad. Business has been quiet in the
warehouses. The almost entire absence of American buyers
is much felt : their trade came in very seasonable, at this
period of the year—the transition of the seasons in our home
trade.
BRADFORD, THURSDAY. Wool Market. —There has
been but little doing in wools since our last report, and the
quantity in the stapler's hands is fully an average for the
time of the year. In prices no alteration. Noils and brokes
continue in steady request, and late prices fully maintained.
Yarn Market.—The demands for yarns continues, and prices
may be fairly quoted a shade higher than some weeks past.
Piece Market.--There is nothing doing to-day to call for re-
mark; it being the Whitsuntide holyday, less goods have
been made, and as the makers are generally working to order,
there is hardly so many pieces delivered to merchants as
there has been during several weeks past. Prices are very
steady.
LEICESTER.—There has been some improvement during
the week, and some more shipping orders have been received.
Prices remain firm, and upon some sorts of yarn there has
been a slight advance; indeed, the spinners consider their
prospects as more encouraging than they have been for some
years past, since they are not likely for the future to be sub-
jected to the same unfair competition as that against which
they bad to contend tiil Messrs. Clarke, Mitchell and Co.'s
bank stopped payment—a competition which was ruinous,
not only to the spinners, but to the hosiers themselves, and
more especially so, it is feared, to the poor bank depositors.
A number of the glove hands are out of employment.

POTATO TRADE.—potatoes have been generally advancing
in price for upwards of a month, and notwithstanding the
great proportion are effected by dry rot, now bring from Os.
to 10s. a boll—a rise of fully 30 per cent. upon the average
of the previous season. The London market will hardly
justify such prices, but as small quantities are daily wanted
here to complete car oes. a higher rate is easily obtained by
the holders. —Perth Paper.
HOP INTELLIGENCE.—WORCESTER, JUNE 7.—There was
less business done, and prices were 5s to 6s per cwt. lower
than the week before, but there were very few hops to be met
with at that reduction, holders being generally firm, and con-
fident in the present prices. The reports from the hop dis-
tricts are anything but favourable, the fly having now become
very general throughout the plantation. The bine is also
very weak and backward, and notwithstanding the late warm
rains. has made but little progress. Duty called £12,000.
Weighed on Saturday 202 pockets, during the week 91.

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IMPORTANT CHANGE IN THE LAW.-Mr. Cottingham,
the Union-hall magistrate, has declared that be never will
punish any man who was present at the battle of Waterloo
for any offence short of felony. An immense number of acts
of parliament are annulled by this important resolution.
People talk of the oninipotency of parliament, but mark the
munipotency of a magistrate, who, with a sic vole sic jubeo,
sets aside the laws of the legislature and of the land in favour
of a particular class of persons. It is possible that Sir James
Graham may inquire by what right or authority Mr. Coifing-
loon promises impunity to Waterloo men for all misde-
meanour, breaches of the peace, assaults, &c. The old-
fashioned notion was, that magistrates were bound to ad-
minister the law without favour or prejudice, but Mr.
Cottingham proclaims his rule of partiality.—Examiner.
LIAIMLITY OF DIRECTORS.—A case (Bush v. Brettle) was
heard at the Bail Court, in the ctiurse of the past week, to
recover from the directors of the Patent Rolling and Coin-
pressing Iron Company a balance, laid at ;1:320, alleged to
be due by the company to the plaintiff for work and labour
as an engineer, as well as for other personal services; which
was resisted, principally upon the ground that the services in
question, whatever may have been their extent or value,
were chiefly rendered, not to the company, who were sued as
such in the action, but to other persons, who had the ma-
nagement of the affairs before the company was formed ; and
that, even if the company were liable, the plaintiff had been
more than paid for his services. The jury adopted this de-
fence to some extent, but found that the money paid to the
plaintiff left uncovered a small extent of r 3 and some shil-
lings, and they accordingly found a verdict in his favour to
that extent.

THE DEALERS IN " DEVIL'S DUST."—The Morning
Post eives, for the attention of consumers whoSe interests
alone it seems the policy of the day to consult, the following
acute and veracious observation. And if it be asked by what
the effect is produced, we say point blank that it is by that
swindling system of Free Trade (so called) in certain Manu
factures, by which the said consumer cheats the labourer of
his hire, while the Devil's Dust man, a cleverer hand still,
stands in the back ground and cheats hini.—" Within the
last fifty years all the mechanical appliances used in our ma-
nufactures have been improved incalculably—BUT OUR MA-
NUFACTURES THEMSELVES HAVE, NOT IMPROVED. The
steani-engines—the spinning' jennies—the •4 mules"—the
" Lewises"—all the machinery now employed in the busi-
ness of manufacturing production is incomparably better
than the machinery employed towards the close of the last
century. Our mechanicians, however, are not cotton, nor
woollen, nor silk mantifaeturers ; and while our mecha•
nacians and chemists have dazzled the world with their dis-
coveries, the manufacturers, to whose schemes of production
our chemists and mechanicians minister, minister, in turn,
less effectively than before to the necessities of their fellow-
men. Our agriculturists supply better grain, and far better
beef anti mutton, than the agriculturists of England supplied
fifty years ago but our manufacturers of cotton, of woollen,
and of silk goods supply the world with articles far inferior
in quality to those which were supplied to ;he last p tie rat ion.

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Tfie largely 4erea.ied and rnoit re. pectable eireulatikn
which the 7uesday's Edition of the LIVERPOOL
STANDARD has now obtained amongst the mercantile
body in Manchester affords its proprietors the gratify-
ing power of urging this, amongsst the other undeniable
claims which it possesses, upon the favor of that portion
of the mercantile community of Liverpool who desire to
bring their advertisements before the notice of buyers in
the neighbouring manufacturing districts. In most of
the surrounding towns of Lancashire the circulation of
the STANDARD is steadily increasing. In Manchester,
however, the centre of the manufacturing district, our
publication of Tuesday—occurring upon the most im-
portant market day of the Cotton Trade, when its
Exchange and Hotels are thronged with country manu-
facturers, spinners, and calico printers—is firmly es-
tablished in circulation, and is perused with increased
and increasing interest.
Under these encouraging circumstances, we trust to
receive an increased measure of support from the mer-
chants and brokers of the town generally ; and it affords
us great pleasure to assure those of our friends amongst
those classes, who have hitherto bestowed their adver-
tising favours liberally upon us, of our increased ability
to do justice to the interests committed to their care.