The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-07-01 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

MANCHESTER.—Ratheea singular phenomenon in our staple
trade may be noted, for, while the printers and merchants are
complaining of the unusual calm in trade, our manufacturers
and spinners are not only busy, but asking and obtaining higher
rates than last week or several preceding ones ; so the natural
conclusion to arrive at is, that buyers are anticipating a good
autumn trade, and purchasing or making contracts in anticipa-
tion; and, certainly, the general employment of the people, the
easiness of the money market, and the almost certainty of an
abundant harvest warrant them in acting upon their views.
We learn, that, at Ashton and the neighbourhood, the hands
are respectfully requesting an advance of wages, and we trust
the masters will comply, for they were tacitly promised when
the advance of five per cent. was given.-27-inch 66's may be
quoted 4s lop to ss 3d, and 72's Cs dd to 6s; 40 inches are also
i❑ better demand, and glb 66's are selling freely at lOs to les 3d.
—Manchester Advertiser, of Saturday.
LEEDS —The markets on Saturday and Tuesday last were
about equal to those of the preceding week. The demand for
heavy goods was but slow ; fancy cloakings were inquired after,
and, generally, the tone of the market firm. During the week,
a large amount of business has been done in the warehouses
The w- of trade is brisk. and prices rule high.
BRADFORD.—In our Piece flail, On Thursday, a fair amount
of business wa- done in g ods suited for autumn, such as
Merinos, Cobourgs, and Orleans ; and some kinds of fancy
goods were more inquired after. Wools still continue at stile
prices, and the supply of the new clip comes but slowly to
hand Yarns are at such prices that the spinners say they ate
receiving the very lowest: remuneration for their labour and
capital. Indeed some of them say they are not receiving any-
thing like remuneration.
HUDDERSFISLD.—The trade of this town and district is very
active, and the demand for better qualities of goods is on the
increase.—The market was well att, nded by buyers on Tuesday,
and many goods changed hands. Good dark styles were quickly
bow,ht ; but prices. considering the rate at which the raw
material has to he purchased, arc low.
HArAFAx.—There has been more business done in the short
wool trade this week than usual , but owing to the scarcity of
low wool, prices have ranged a little higher. Very little is
going forward in the long wool trade, the Spinners being de-
termined to work their present stock up before they will give
the advance that is now asked for new wools. The trade in the
Piece Hall is pretty stationary, tl.e principal call is for lastings,
plainbacks. merinos, &c.
ROCMDALE FLANNEL MARKET.—There was a slack market on
on Monday ; few buyers attended, and the business transacted
was limited. The wool market underwent little or no vaila-
tion since last Monday.

HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.—The silk hosiery branches of
gl yes and knotted st ckings, which a few months since were
considered to be half, extinct, having revived, stilt keep up their
superiority as respects demand over the cotton branches, which
have during the same period lamentably fallen off. The silk
warp lace trade has not fe't the depression in the same manner
as the cotton, ana hopes are entertained of a further revival.
The jacquard branch has felt a part of the geceral depression,
but not to the extent of the Lever's fancy trade.—Nottingharra

TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 1, 1845.

Whilst the government is coquetting with the
-disaffected in Ireland—inflicsing " heavy blows
and great discouragnnent" upon Protestantism, and

.pandering to the vanity and 'insolence of Popery—
the social condition of that unhappy land is assum-
ing an aspect which no reflecting and observant man
can regard without sorrow and dread for the result.
Murder and outrage stalk about in broad daylight,
unrepressed and almost unchidcd. Hour by hcur
fresh perpetrations of crime amaze and startle
us with their atrocity; arid in the turmoil of angry
passions which are desolating the land, human life
appears to be looked upon as a thing no more to be
regarded than the most worthless weed which we
trample on without a pang. This baneful state of
things apart, to the external eye every thing bids
fair for the gradual amelioration and the approach
of prosperity to Ireland. The superabundant capi-
tal of England is looking to that country as a field
for profitable investment. Projected railways, well
supported with the confidence of the public, promise
at no distant day to aid in the development of its
vast natural resources. But there is a upas tree in
the soil which poisons the very air, and destroys
every fair flower as it blossoms. An unholy confe-
deracy mines in the dark, and threatens to deliver
over the land a prey to anarchy and bloodshed, and
to steep its very name in infamy. Loyal and peace-
ful men within it cannot lie down to sleep with the

certainty that assassination will not be their doom
before the morning dawns; and even those who
abhor the crime of murder see it committed before
their very eyes, and dare not lift a finger to arrest or
to point at the murderer.
A horrifyin.; example of this feeling has just oc-

curred in the county of Cavan. A fe—tv days ago a
Protestant magistrate, Mr. Bell Booth, whilst in his
own gig proceeding home, accompanied by his two
sons, was barbarously shot by a villain, who deli-
berately came up behind him, and fired into his
back near the shoulder, the ball proceeding through
the muscles of the" back, passing thence into the
back of his head and coming out of his forehead.
One of his sons, by the horse running off, was
thrown out and sustained a fracture of the arm.
This murder was perpetrated deliberately in the pre-
sence of a lady who was passing along the road
and, at the time, was within eight yards of the mur-
derer; and although she pointed 'lrn out to the
people on the road, and entreated oflhem to arrest
him, not one stirred to perform so imperative a
duty, and the assassin went away unmolested! On
the authority of a letter from a p .rty informed of
the circumstances, the Dublin Reporter of the Lon-
don Times states that

" Though the murderer ran slowly, with a large fr&ze
coat on, through a well-populated country, seen by num-
bers, none dared lift a voice, much less a hand, to achieve
his capture. Every one knew and fe:t that the secret
tribunal which sentenced that unfortunate gentleman to
death, and who found so daring an executioner of its
fearful decree, would visit with like vengeance any man
who ventured to assist in bringing its barbarous instru-
ment to justice, and that hundreds of executioners, who
must art on pain of death, were at hand to carry out its
vengeance!"

We should add that the deed in question was
committed on a Sunday (9, when the victim was
returning from church, and when hundreds of per-
sons, on their way from church and chapel, were in
the immediate vicinity.
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And fur what offence has an amiable and excellent
member of society been thus brutally hurried out of
the world, and a wife and six orphan children been
deprived of their natural protector? Another letter
from the same quarter informs us that—
" No provocation on his part to the commission of so
daring an asrassinAiion can be conjectured, save that he
was a magistrate and a Protestant gentleman, eminent for
his loyalty and love of truth and justice. There was no
agrarian offence nil-ged by the midnight legislators against
him ; his tenants and labourers were chi,fly Ilomanists,
and such I am informed were some of his servants; but
in his magisterial and public capacity he was an enemy to
Ribbonism, and he became a victim to its worse than
Velamiqu: system of law, and trial an execution."
It must he clear that the existence of such a state
of society, which permits of these horrible assassi-
nations, cannot long be tolerated. We say more
than that, it ought not to be tolerated for an hour.
If the existing law is not strong enough to put down
the system of " Thuggee"—we have to go to bar-
barous India for a term of sufficient significance to
designate it by(!)—the law ought to be strengthened!
and, if the government of Sir Robert Peel refuses to
give this protection to life and property in Ireland,
they are 'Artually responsible, in the eyes both of
God and man, for every outrage and every murder
which they invite by their forbearance. But we
fear that they may have to be responsible for even
civil war as the result of their criminal apathy.
Under what circumstances were the remains of this
victim of Ribbon butchery borne to his last home ?
A party of military were compelled to be stationed
in an advantageous position on a hill, which com-
manded a view of the country fdr miles round, to
protect the friends and co-religionists of the de-
ceased from the attacks of an excited and brutal
peasantry. But a still worse and more threatening
feature is the attitude as: umed on the occasion by
tke protestant inhabitants of the district. Since
the law refused to protect them, and the Roman
Catholic peasantry, paralyzed by the fear of future
vengeance, durst not interfere to arrest an assassin,
with the blood of his victim fresh on his hands, we
are told that, on hearing of the murder of Mr.
Booth, they met at once, and. having concerted
their plan of action, formed detached parties and
scoured the country in search of the murderer, un-
happily without success; and at the funeral of the
victim, there were present 3000 men, part of them
armed, " because the arms which they possessed
for self defence would not be safe at home in their
absence; and they themselves could not pass safely
through the country unarmed." What a condition
for a civilised country, and a portion of the British
empire to he placed in is this ! Thanks, happily, to
the loyal and Christian forbearance of the Protes-
tants of Cavan, no collision has as yet taken place.
But is it wise, we ask of Sir Robert Peel, by neglect
on the part of those whose duty it is to govern the
country and to protect in it life and property, to
teach men that, practically, they must, if they
wish to breathe the air in safety, take their own
lives, and the lives of their children, into their own
keeping, and, since the law will not avenge, become
their own avengers?
Such a state of things, we :repeat cannot conti-
nue. The murderous ribbon combinations which
perpetrate these deeds of hideous outrage must be
swept from the land by the arm of a strengthened
executive. The Protestants of Ireland must not be

told, by a government which is surrendering their
religion to the aggressions of Rome, that their per-
sons are also to be placed beyond the law's protec-
tion. Yet such is the feeling which is going abroad
throughout Protestant Ulster. One by one the
loyal yeomanry of that province see their Protes-
tant gentry and the magistracy cut off or driven
into expatriation. Daily they are themselves me-
naced with increasing insolence and outrage; and
emphatically we warn those, who leave them to their
fate and to their own resources for protection, that
they are not men who will submit for ever, or lie
down to be trampled upon whilst they have arms
in their hands. The inevitable result of a conti-
nuance of the present [iniquitous policy, with
which these noble and patriotic men are treated by
a Protestant (?) government, is one not to be con-
templated without pain and misgivings—one invol-
ving horrors which ought not to invade the bosom
of a Christian country; but it must be contemplated
and prepare for, or this insane and cruel treatment
of the best blood of this portion of the empire must
be abandoned for ever.

FESTIVAL CHORAL SOCIETY.—The twenty-eighth
public performance of this excellent society took place on
the evenine of Tuesday last, in the Music Hall. The
oratorio selected was, Handel's sublime composition,
" Alexander's Feast," and the manner h. which it was
performed secured the warm approbation of a numerous
and respectable auditory.
LIVERPOOL HONORS.—We are happy to find that our
young townsman Mr. William Rushton, has obtained,
this year, the second prize, of his class, in Greek, and
the Hebrew and Comparative Grammar prize, at the
University College. London. Mr. R. G. Williams, (son
of Mr. Robert Williams, of Basnett-street,) who last
year gained Jos. Yates, Esq.'s exhibition of £2OO,
liven to the beat pupil of the high school, Mechanics'
nstitution, a this town. to graduate at the London
University, has also obtained the first Greek prize of
his class, in the same College.