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

STATE OF TRADE

MANCHESTER, SATURDAT.—This being a holiday week,
very little regular business may be said to be done in the
warehouses ; but the calico printers have been mnking con-
tracts with the manufacturers to deliver for the autumn, for
stocks of printing cloths are too iight 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 4s. and 72's at
4s. 104 d. 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 failed in obtaining.
The wool market has been extremely dull, very few sales
having been effected at any price. ..

BOLTON.—The trade here has rather deadened during the
last fortniL ; 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 muslius 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 bi ink. Bleach
works are less throng than they have been for 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 encouragirb, 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 had to contend till 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 9s.
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 ou Saturday 202 pockets, during the week 97.

IMPORTANT CHANGE IN THE LAW.-Mr. Cottingbarn,
the Union-hall magistrate, has declared thst 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 otnnipotency of parliament, but mark the
otnnipotency of a magistrate, who, with a sic volo 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. Cotting_
ham 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.
Cottingharn proclaims his rule of partiality.—Examiner.
LIABILITY OF DIRECTORS.—A case (Bush v. Brettle) was
heard at the Bail Court, in the course of the past week, to
recover from the directors of the Patent Rolling and Com-
pressing Iron Company a balance, laid at £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 43 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 elves, for the attention of consumers whose interests
alone it seems the policy of the day to consult, the followit.g
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 baud still,
stands in the back ground and cheats hire.—" 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
steam-engines—the spinning jennies—the '' mules"—the
" Levcises"—all the machinery now employed in the busi-
ness of mannfacturing 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 manufacturers; 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 and 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 suppliedto the last g. neration.,

Etherpool &tanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 13, 1843

We have before us the Britannia, and Monte Video
Reporter, of the 11th March,--a paper printed in
English at Monte Video, the capital of Uraguay,—
from which, and from subsequent information received
from the same quarter, vid New York, by the Great
Western, we learn with regret, that, from the vacil-
lated and indecisive, if not absolutely faithless, policy
of Mr. Mandeville, her Majesty's Plenipotentiary to
the Argentine Confederation, the interests, the pro-
perty, and perhaps the very lives, of the British sub-
jects resident in that city, had been (and may still be)
placed in imminent peril. It appears that our minis-
ter, blinded by the representations of the Buenos
Ayrean Government that the accounts of the invasions
and barbarous aggressions of General Rosas on the
Monte Videan territory were mere fabrications, and
crediting, too, Rosa's assertions that he directed the
war against the person only of General Rivera,—had,
after repeated and unequivocal assurances to the Bri-
tish residents that her Majesty's Government (which
had just concluded a treaty of amity and commerce
with the republic) would put an end to the sanguinary
and destructive war carried on by that chief against
Monte Video, passively, and without calling upon
our naval fOrces there stationed, permitted the aggressor
to approach the very walls of the city, to expose under
them the mutilated corpses of those who had fallen
into his hands, and even to fire shot and rockets into
the town, " not directed against the fortifications occu-
pied by Rivera's soldiers, but on the dwellings of the
pacific inhabitants, amongst whom .a great majority
were foreigners, and a considerable number his own
fellow-countrymen." At the date of the paper alluded
to, Mr. Mandeville had arrived at Monte Video from
Buenos Ayres, in order to be present at the ratification
of the new treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation,
concluded in London between our Government and
the Monte Videan Republic ; and the British subjects
resident in the capital had publicly met and drawn up
a representation to him on the " murderous warfare"
carried on against the country by Rosas, and another
to the Commander-in-Chief of our naval forces on the
South American station. These documents (which
we subjoin) were most numerously signed, though
some residents declined to do so, " lest they might
suffer in their property, over which the enemy had
then control, or in the persons of their immediate
connections, residing at Buenos Ayres" :

" To HIS EXCELLENCY JOHN HENRY:MANDEVILLE, HER
MAJESTY'S ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY AND MINISTER

PLENIPOTENTIARY, &C. &C. &C,

" The undersigned British subjects, residing in the Capital
of the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay, come before your
Excellency to represent,—
" Ist. That when your Excellency visited this city in the
month of July of last year, and on the conclusion of a treaty
of amity, commerce, and navigation between her Britannic
Majesty and this Republic, a confident belief was raised in
the public mind that her Majesty's Government would
speedily adopt measures to put an end to the disastrous and
sanguinary war carried on by Buenos Ayres against the
Republic; which belief arose partly from the circumstance
of that treaty having been concluded, and especially, from
assurances given by your Excellency to several of the British
merchants here resident, that no invasion of this country by
the armies of Buenos Ayres would take place.
" 2nd. That, subsequently, other British merchants,
largely interested, commercially, in the welfare of this coun-
try, and in the attainment of peace, which has been so ear-
nestly desired by •its Government, have perused the
official correspondence carried on with your Excellency, and
have reposed their confidence on the strong assurances therein
advanced by your Excellency, that the mediation of her
Majesty's Government would lead to preserve the inviola-
bility of this Republic.

" 3rd. That the publication, in the official Gazette of
Buenos Ayres, of the correspondence which had passed
between your Excellency and that Government relative to
the mediation, having made us acquainted with the insulting
manner in which the laudable efforts of her Majesty's Go-
vernment were opposed, and also that your Excellency had
intimated to the Buenos Ayres Government that further
measures would be taken by that of her Majesty in order to
procure the pacific navigation of the waters of the River
Plate, whereby our confidence was confirmed in the security
of this country from the threatened hostilities.

" 4th. That, it having been further made known to us,
that your Excellency had been officially ihforiried of the
resolve of her Majesty's Government to put an end to the
war, and that your Excellency was empowered to demand a
cessation of hostilities between the Argentine Republic and
that of the Uruguay, and also the witbdraNN al of the Argen-
tine troops into their territories should they have passed their
own frontier, upon the understanding that the Government
of the Republic of the Uruguay adhered to the same line of
conduct under the same circumstances ; whereupon your
Excellency addressed a note to the Buenos Ayrean Govern-
ment, dated the 16th of December, demanding an armistice
and the return of the Argentine troops within their territory
the confidence before raised was strengthened into certainty
that the period had then arrived when effective measures
would be instantly put in force, to carry out those expressed
determinations of her Majesty's Government.
" sth. That, notwithstanding all these hopes and expecta-
tions, which from time to time have been raised up, as already
stated, we have the painful and grievous evidence before us
that the interference and the positive demand of her Ma-
jesty's government that hostilities must cease, have been to-
tally disregarded Illy General Rosas, and that this State has
subsequently been invaded by his armies, which in their
march through its territories have committed the most bar-
barous atrocities, and are now laying siege to this capital.
" 6th. That this invasion has already caused a vast de-
struction of British property, which loss to British subjects
has been greatly increased in amount in consequence of the
natural and implicit dependence placed on the various assu-
rances given by Your Excellency, and that the continuation
of the actual state of things is daily producing the most ru-
inous effects, and must lead to severe distress and suffering
among our fellow countrymen and others.

• "'ith. That, paramount to every consideration of loss and
endangered interests is the deep sense of shame and grief
with which we contemplate the disgrace attaching to our na-
tional honour, under such circumstances, after such a decla-
ration as that made by Your Excellency already referred to,
whilst an adequate British naval force is present, and the
acts of the Buenos Ayrean government are a flagrant insult
offered to the British nation.

" We, therefore, most earnestly and most respectfully so-
licit; that Your Excellency will forthwith concert measures

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