The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-03 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

MANCHESTER.—The trade of this district up to Tuesday last
was rather improved in tone, and a fair extent of business was
transacted at the full currency of the previous week. Some
very considerable operations have been entered into for India
account, and the prices of the better qualities of 66 nd 72 reed
G. E. long cloths have improved. T. cloths and heavy long
cloths are also in improved request for the Greek and Cape
markets, and prices are advanced a trifle. Since Tuesday last
there has been less doing for the general trade, the operations
for the home market being very contracted, almost all parties,
both buyers and sellers, appearing to be anxious to await the
settlement of the great questions of commercial policy which are
now engaging the attention of parliament. Any lengthened
delay in the final decision of these important matters will have
a disastrous effect upon the trade of this district. Fears of the
possibility of a general election, which at this season would
have a pernicious effect on commerce, are alarming many of
our merchants and manufacturers. We regret to have to re-
port the failure, this week, of a house engaged here in the print
trade, whose liabilities we believe do not exceed £16,000. It is
said the cause of this embarrassment lay in a loss of some
.12,000 by a railway speculation. A manufacturing establish.
ment has also given way, the extent of debt being reported at
about a 830,010, and we understand the assets are very meagre.
We quote 26 in. 64 reed printers, at 4s. 4d. to 45 gd.; 27 in. 66
reed ditto at 4s 6d. to ss. 3d. ; 72 reeds at ss. 4id. to ss. gd.: 36
in. 66 reed shirtings, at 7s. gd. to Ss. 7id.; 36 in. 72 reed ditto
at gs. 3d. to 10s. ; and 40 in. G. E. India long cloths, 66 reeds, at
Ss. 3d. to 95. 3d. ; and 72 reeds, at gs. gd. to l Os. 13d. per piece.
BOCIIDA LIC.— Rather more business was doing in flannels on
Monday, 'here being a better attendance of buyers, but no im-
provement took place in prices. In the Wool market there was
not much change. Dealers asked higher prices for them, but
the manufacturers refused to give.
Leans.—We cannot report any change of moment in the state
of the Woollen trade since our last publication. The markets
remain very quiet; and probably there will be no material alter-
ation either in the produce or the demaod until the new tariff
question is settled. Should the measures pass in its main fea-
tures, as proposed by Sir Robert Peel, it is generally expected
that we shall for some time at least experience a brisk demand
for woollen and mixed goods for both the American and the
continental markets. The warehouses have been but thinly at-
tended by buyers this week, the only goods in request being of
the coarse and heavy kinds and tweeds.
HUDDERSFIELD.—We had a very still market here on Tues-
day, and there was no change in prices of manufactured goods.
Those for spring wear are inquired after ; and on the settlement
of the new line of commercial policy, there will doubtless be a
good trade. Wools are a shade lower.
BRADFORD.—Wool.—There has been more inquiry for Comb-
ing Wools, but we do not hear of more business being done;
the prices sought have been a barrier to more extended opera-
tions. Sh rt Wool and Noils are actively sought after, without
alteration in prices. Yarn.—The demand for Yarn is steadily
increasing, and the stocks in the manufacturers' hands ge-
nerally small. This augers well for an early amendment, which
we hope will not only extend to increased consumption, but
also improved prices. There is some inquiry made by the
shippers, and we hope ere long to report general activity.
Pieces.—The measures introduced by Sir Robert Peel appear to
be generally well received, and tend to inspire confidence that
ere long we shall be again in prosperity; the business doing Is
fully equal to the season, and prices firm.
HECK M ONDWIK K BLANK ET MA R KRT.—We have no improve.
ment to report of this market this week, the mildness of the
season, and the warlike speeches of a few firebrands in America,
has completely paralysed the trade of this district.

One of Torn Thumb's diminutive ponies died on Satur-
day, near Falkirk.
THE ALETHORAMA.—This interesting exhibition is
still open, and continues to attract deserved attention.
We have already said that it consists of a series of living
views, displaying nature in miniature. The best-managed
portion of the exhibiti m which we have seen is that of a
shipwreck. The thunder and lightning are extremely
natural, and when the ship is struck the struggles of the
mariners amongst the waves are displayed with unequalled
exactitude. The introduction of two swans is also most
successful. After gliding majestically on the surface of
the water, they raise their feathers, turn and stretch, and
raise their necks, and duck their heads, so much resem-
bling nature, that were it possible to magnify the figures
to the size of life, without decreasing their present effect,
we would defy the most skilled naturalist to detect the
deception. It may be interesting to the public to know,
that the whole work was executed by one of the most ce-
lebrated Dutch artists, and occupied him forty years. He
died twenty-five years ago, having amassed an immense
' fortune, his works never having been equalled on the
Continent, or, we may add, in any other patt of the
I world

" On the Use of
in furniture ,:nd in the inte.
zs, and in works of art," has

PAPIER MACHEE,—A large_ quarto,
e impry7ed papier mac)

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been placed in our hands, and certainly, until we had pe-
rused its preface, and glanced over its pictured contents,
we had no conception of the number of purpo-es for which
paper was available. Every possible description of orna-
ment for ceilings, cornices, pannellings, mouldings, &c.,

&c., can be made from it at a cost which, compared with
stucco work, is not equal to half, and which from its light-
ness, durability, and susceptibility of high finish, is more
than twice the, value of any composition in the nature of
Plaster that could, under any circumstances, be wrought.
Its applicability to the ornaments of furniture of every
description, especially to that rich class of furniture, the
taste for which is now reviving, namely, the renaissance
or Louis XIV., is at once obvious, and it is a subject of
congratulation to the public, that by its means good taste
may be iodulged in every article which ornaments a room
without incurring any expense worth speaking of. One
of the instances in which its application will be most ad-
vantageous to persons of moderate means, is furnished in
mirror and picture frames. The composition which hereto-
fore formed the ornamental portion of these articles, and
which the slightest shock fractured, will now be replaced
by the ever-during Papier Mach 6, and thus will be ren-
dered not alone lasting, as well as more beautiful, but
the risk of breakage, in respect to the plate of glass which
they surround, arising from the additional weight of the
heavy pretty ornaments, will b.: wholly obviated. It is a
most interesting, as well as a most useful discovery, and
deserves all the patronage which a public, anxious to pro-
mote its own interests as well to encourage ingenuity and
good taste, can afford to dispense. The manufactory, in
Liverpool, is open to all persons, and we can safely pro-
mise whoever visits it a treat of no ordinary nature.
THE WEATHER.—The extreme sensibility of the human
skin renders weather, of alternate damp and frost, a se-
vere affliction upon many of our fair readers, who suffer
considerably from cutaneous irritability in the face. The
extraordinary efficacy of Rowland's Kalydor in allaying
all tendency to inflammation in the skin, is no less es-
teemed than are its peculiar virtues in enhancing the
beauty of the complexion ! Those, whose face or bands
are at all unpleasantly affected by the weather, should
immediately have recourse to ROWLAND'S KALYDOR.—
See advt.