The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-09-24 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

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The woollen cloth trade in
,Leeds and its neighbourhood con-
tinues in much the same state as at our last notice. Business is by
no means brisk, speCulation having been for a time suspended on
account of the critical state of the wool trade, yet an average
quantity of goods has been sold. The clothiers complain of the
reluctance of the merchants to give prices equal to the rise in
wools, and the latter urge as a reason that as the price of the
raw material must deline in value, they will not be able to real-
ise the prices nowiisked.
At Halifax market, 'on Saturday, there was an improved de-
mand for stuff goods, and former prices were fully maintained.
In the raw material, considdrably more business was done.
At Huddersfield market on Tuesday, a good deal of business
was done in low-priced broad cloths and cassinetts of the finer
qualities, though but little demand for superfine broad cloths.
On Monday, the 16th inst., at the Rochdale flannel market,
business was rather flat, and but few goods were bought, ex-
cept to make up their orders. The raw material is so dear that
the buyers of the manufactured article seem determined not to
speculate.
The silk weaving business, for eight or ten miles round Man-
chester, is very brisk, considering the season of the year.—
There is little or no waiting; all seem to have full work.—
Wages are low, yet there hasbeen no reduction in the wages
this year. A few finer reeds are changing to middle qualities,
and the figured or fancy weavers may earn, on an average,
from 12s. to 16s. per week; the plain sarsnet weavers from Bs.
to 10s. per week, whilst the poor cotton hand-loom weavers can-
not earn more than from ss. 6d. to 7s. per week. The cotton
spinning branch appears to be reviving a little at Rochdale and
Heywood. At the former place only two mills are working
short time, and those, which are power-loom mills, are ex-
pected every day to begin to work full time. The woollen trade
at Rochdale, and the neighbourhood, has not been so brisk for
the last 15 years past. The men have all full work; wages
have been advanced; and the weavers and spinners of finer
qualities seem-to want a further advance, which the manufac-
turers appear unwilling to give. The woollen spinners can
earn from 12s. to 14s. per week, and some can get even more:,
the weavers can earn from 10s. to Us. per week, and the supe-
rior hands can make 15s. to 16s. per week.
THE HARVEST.—On the whole, the weather during the past
week has been favourable for housing or stacking the late crops,
and, in this part of the country, the harvest is nearly at an
end ; •in Cumberland, Westmorland, some parts of Korthum-
berland, and in Scotland, there is a great deal of grain, espe-
pecially oats, to be taken care of. l'he bean crop, generally
speaking, is a failure.—Leeds Intelligences.

MANSLAUGHTER BY A GIRL.—In the forenoon of Wednes-
day fortnight some boys and girls were playing in a barn near
Ashton-under-Lyne, belonging to a Mr. John Stocks, when
one of them, a girl' eleven years of age, named Ellen Goolden,
ran out of the barn with a piece of carpet belonging to John
Stocks; a lad of fifteen, who used it to put under the saddle of
his ass. He followed her, and his father took it from her and
brought it.back to the barn. She returned and threatened to
break an oil bottle in the barn which belonged to John Stocks ;
but a lad named James Barry, about ten years of age, said she
must not do so. She immediately exclaimed, " D—n thee I'll
kill thee, then," picked up a three-cornered stone that was ly-
ing outside the barn, and threw it with all her force at Barry,
from whom she was not distant more than about two yards. It
struck him on the forehead and knocked him against the wall,
and he fell down upon the ground. She snatched up another
stone and threw it at John Stocks, but it missed him, and she
ran into her parents' house. John Stocks and a girl named
Betty Bardsley raised Barry from the ground and held him up :
but it was half an hour before he recovered his senses. He then
walked home, but suffered all the night great pain in the head,
and thei next morning about ten o'clock again became insensi-
ble, n, which state he remained till about noon on Monday
week, when he died.—An inquest was held on the body yester-
day week at the Grapes, at Ashton, before Mr. Rutter, coroner,
when it appeared by the evidence of Mr. Robert Wood, sur-
geon,lhat the cause of death was an inflammation of the mem-
branesof the brain and of the brain itself, arising from the
contusion caused by the blow on the forehead and aided by a
fracture of the shill and concussion at the bark of the head,
caused by the fall.—The jury returned a verdict of "Man-
slaughter`' against the girl, Ellen Goolden, and she was com-
mitted to Lancaster Castle for trial at the next assizes.—Ara\n-
chaster Guardian.