The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-03-19 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MoreMANcßesTEß.—During the past week, the market has been
l uiet, in consequence , f the nature of the intelligence
teceiveg from the United States, and therg have not been many
ransactions except in the article of 40-inch shirtiegs. The sale
oanthis description of goods has been very brisk, and at an ad-
have of from 44d to 6d. ler piece upon former prices. They
been for a long period much depressed, but the receipt of
s2lnewliat extet•sive orders from the East have tended to create
uPward tendency to which we have referred. Domestics
Fontione much the same as last week. The prices of -a print-
72's• cloth
. may be thusquoted .-27-inch 66's. from ss. 7ad. to 6s;
d2's• us. 6d to 7s e. 9 fio,a range from Ss. 9d. to 6s. lad; and
72's are about 7s: ...
LEEDS '—The roughness of the weather on both the market
cloYtahTehrs ice
a oar last, having caused a limited attendance of the
thereshar hrnaofts,
Market, and also lessened the supply of fresh goods,
hot been quite so much done as of late; but a fair
ciaii e uasiness has been transacted in the warehouses, espe.
home consumption.
Be
hoYer'P"RD MARRET.—There was a good attendance of
s at this market on Thursday, who bought freely at recent
Prices, sir all assortment in the hands of the manufacturers
indicating; that there was no cessation of the demand. Coeds
Zocroasiderably higher in value than they were a few weeks
wet e Christmas, whether made wholly of worsted or partly of
Wasted and cotton, the prices of both cotton warps and worsted
is
,ahaving greatly augmented. Yarns sold freely at late
s. stocks being low. The wool market was firm, though
wellmarket supplied with nearly all kinds of wool.
1 BUDDERSFIELD MARKET.—The market here, on Tuesday, for
Lacti,e,Y goods of all kinds was brisk, considering the inclemency
' ule weather ; there was an absence of some buyers and sel-
,irs Who usually attend. The transactions for export to Ame-
pactateLerse, considerable, and in some cases for goods of new
improved rates were submitted to. The Wool Market
Presented no feature of novelty.
HALIFAX MARKET.—There was a good attendance of buyers
..t arket on Saturday, and as stocks were low, there was
Trnaestsaine firmness in prices as we have reported for some weeks
been' With a greater variety in stock, more business might have
t
v_.gone at late rates. The Wool Market was firm, though 1
extensive
that the transactions of the day were not quite so
wA:ve as of late.
demand
Wool, MARKET.—The market continues in all
demand, 2e same as reported in our last; no improvement in
11E0, .od Prices nominal,
Thursdam"tiwi'm BLANKET MARKET —On Monday and
was a
far. alth
-ouch the
is not much e attendance was very limited, yet there
of oreers put out for foreign markets. There
demand fc,r blankets for the home trade.
maßrokimsE FLANNEL MARKET—There has been another quiet
prices et to-day ; much ,
smilar to that of the preceding week.
re are low, and the demand more limited than it was two or
the weeks ago. In the Wool Market there is very little
Change, prices firm, and sales rather limited.
LITCESTER.—We have no change to report in Wools or Yams ;
rile former most certainly appear to have attained their highest
al
DPISIt for the I resent. mployment is general but there Is con-
difficulty experienced difficulty experienced in realising advances on goods,
tleept in Some few leading. sorts.—Leicester Chronicle.
ii
...i "JERI' AND LAcs TRADES.—There is scarcely any alte-
i-4ion in the condition of any of the branches of the hosiery
.rad, s•
since our last. A very material change has been observed
longer years in the demand for Nottingham hosiery, which no
in a great mea-
increases as the spring approaches, and declines as the
din recedes • the seasons of later years ceasing,
silk hose branch still
glove in having an effect on the call for hosiery goods. The silk
e trade has not improved. The plain .
eeps ire
The silk knotted trade is,
how rY gradually improving.
ever, wretched. The drawer branch, from what we can
Understand, is feverish about wages ; the hosiers playing
at the outposts. The same be said of cotton gloves. The
tricks
fancy bobbin net trade is stilvery dull, esreeially for those pat-
•° as made With wheels, which are a complete drug. The
Not
first style.
)..a_eqoard is carrying the' trade before it, hut even lace madetdeef
TPori that principle is dull of sale, and the patletarns
tengham Journal.
The warp lace trade continues stilt improve.—
NIALLIEGxD xi.
wrehc
jecihVelfieftath ti;isnitnEn AT SEA.—lnformation has been
...n II entering Port, that the master of a Hull vessel,
ranea k "ere some time ago for a port in the Mediter-
the btla' suot ok on the voyage, with a pistol, and,
lingering a little above the eye, he died, after
af a short time. On the arrival of the vessel at her
by ' a TPW miles from Trieste, an investigation was made
shot
tiethe British Consul, and e understand the result of
the inguirY was su h a to favour the supposition, that
was fired acecideentally.—Hull Rockingham.
tol4o ELA NCIIOLY Loss OF LIFE.—On Tuesday after-
Shoni the Neve Passage ferry-boat left the Glocestersbire
ere::: of the Severn, with one or more passengers, and a
Jonesof four boatmen, named Whitchurch, master, Davis,
unes, and
shore, the Watkins. When abouthalf a mile
from the
e boat was upset by a heavy squall from the
Northwest, accompanied by a snow storm, and imme-
diatelyo foundered with all hands. The accident was
_ served by the custom-house officers on duty at the Old
-Passage Perry, and a steam-boat was immediately des-
patched
buthopes of saving the crew and passengers ;
, on reaching the spot, no trace of either crew or boat could be found.
A' 141,1 HOURS' FACTORY BILL.—On Saturday week a
'erY numerous public meeting, convened by the Mayor,
s held at Leeds to promote the passing of an efficient
legislative
Measure for regulating theworking of labourers
In factories, and for limiting the labour of young persons
between 13 and 21 years of age to ten working hours per
Sat
for five days in each week, and eight hours on the
iturday. Mr. Councillor Joshua Hobson, the secretary
Rev.
to the Leeds Short Time Committee, was calledhtoßtehe
chair ; and amongst the gentlemen present
ewheereeretd
Dr. Hook, vicar of Leeds, eon his
arrival, Councillors Cawood and Martin Cawood, the Rev.
Mr. B. Jowitt, of
John Clark, the Rev. Thomas Nunns,
London, &c. The venerable champion of the factory
use
Richard Oastler, who had left Leeds only a few
ClaysCa,
befoMrr.e on a visit to his friend Mr. W. Cadman, at
.Wold Newton Hall, near Hunmanby, in the East Riding,
also attended by special invitation, and was vociferously
greeted on his entrance to the hall.

NORTHERN HOSPITAL, MARCH 16.
[WEEKLY REPORT.]
ADMITTED. DISCHARGED.
4etidentS ll I Cured
llmedkal
_ and Surcal cases Relieved and at own rpuest 3
won reconunendgiation ... 17 Attending as Out Patienq ts. 5
Total - Irregular
•'• • • .............. 28 Died
Remaining in the Hospital . . 80.

louse veo„nsulting Surgeon, William Gill, Esq.
Cha . ...4"8. Henry Holmes and B. H. Jones, Esqrs.
Plain, Rey. Win. R. W. Bateson,uErsqu.n,
aghes.-House-S House-Surgeon, Mr. Parker.

PRICES OF SHARES.
Sales
SHARES. d
p.Aarniat.. Thmi,esekDay
altionnitoinn akncltrieLeWtotif 8.
.4' &
80 371 301 ex.
Dittotu°3l3 and Gloucester lOO 1001
___ 17/
kir.„,_ quarter
•,;"Ingualn, and
... -van) on Derbyeighth Shares - _ A
d.rightors ..
I.
442
roll and Bury ****************
55-700 25-: 13:
ir.r,F2iead and Chester b_ntor new, issued, at £33 dis.
Dover,
_c. * : - ::: 36i-2-36
taater: scrip
Counties
it di Registered Shares - sh 122
nbur Perpetual - ..- ilO 4,1 10 Ditto gh and Glasgow 5O 50 62i-3 [lO
Ditto ScriP---• • ----•- -
• 12i 152
bitt^ 2 shares
GI.. ' Leith and Newhaven
"'gew. Paisley, & Greenock 2O 25
New
........
........
GI Ditto Preference - -
rand asguw. Paisley and Ayrshire - 50
- Junction
Ditto half shares
Quarter... 50 50 1151
... ...........
Ne ditto..... .. - 10 '2
--
Great w Western . .
Ditto new shares..... 50 50
r... bitto Fifth Shares
•.__reat North of England
*lull and Selby
Glolicester Ditto quarter - - 83
.L 3- -
~,
..eeds and Selby ..
100
- - 201-‘ : -
i
Leicester and Swannington
Lancaster and Preston .........
Ditto three- 100 47/ 38
quarter shares.:.. - - 254
Ditto and Carlisle
..........
Liverpool and Manchester .... 25 19 64
.. .
Ditto quarter shares 100 100..
Ditto half shares ...... 25 25 .......... 50 50
London and Birmingham lOO Stock, 242
Ditto quarter ............. 50 2 294
LDitto i• shares .......... ..- 2 412
ondon & Brighton
Ditto new ...... . .......... - 10
London and South Western ....
Ditto, 10th shares .... - 414
Manchester, Bolton, & Bury . .... •60 . 93
Manchester and Birnlingharn.... 70•
40 44i ex. 45
Ditto and Ditto Extension ,
311,
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto half shares - 3
2
Ditto quarter shales lOO
100 100 94
Midland Counties
Ditto, quarter - 15
-
1-sth Shares 2
North Midland
100 10040 47 94
Ditto new .. - Ditto .t 6s 8d 2li
55
5 102-3
worth Union ...........
Newcastle and Carlisle " ' 122
IC7O
•• • • lOO
25
s.Ditto quarter shares -
9
'4,..ewcaStle and Darlington June. • -
6
Auncorn Gap
_
ilitnarwinenuanh
ci Havre..........
a.
v.
1..
100- 8-4 15
Sheffield and Manchestere
25 2
50 Eik
QUarter
50
South Easter • ...... .
25
• New ah rn and Dover -.....
25
YOrk are,
and North Midland
00 50
!aßalf Shares
rts and Rouen _ 20 344
2 22. -2 14
prrlis and Lyons
_
25 20 341-ir
0 and reaps South "testr!! .............
_I- ---
8534
IlizikDi to Eighth •
......,„, cl'if Liverpool lO 121
10 24
•
....... °rough Bank.
IO 163
....... eboruinercial of Liverpool.. 1° 10
20
--..._ ''ust of England
10
20
--....... No heater & L'pool Dsct
10
10
--...... thern and Central ...•
N. ,
lo 10
*--.... -rtu and South Wales lo
1000
•----. Korth
of Liverpool....
72
100
•-......... s°nrh Lancashire
*v
•----. le erl3ool Union 2O
10 8/
20
-......._ ._?•yerpool Banking Co
7*
2.1
te,__ A 'its and Dorset Lfl,ol3ll3Fe 13nildings
t uouridcsHarrington IN'ater 1 200 Stock.
1..?:t1e Ditto
t•DZII,(/348 Light Company :..
100 Stock.
tilptto en; Gas ar Coke Co lOO 100
- 90
urPOol shUres.
I4e CortipaTlyari.he Assurance.. ) 100 100
tiv-4-n 48suran ..... ........
___ 10
114.e_%001 Fire and .......... • • • • 21
t„i3oftiester.o,si
21
heear •;. irance Company lOO
-I,ll,str,t inmotilesn(??_rnpany
it ertori cics, ..........
04 p -arryinn-. Com an •164
111401 r.r3' ... "• •. - 20
UB' eoni..py. - le