The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-20 00:00:00

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been done in printing cloth, and at prices that have b'en cur-
rent for the last two or three weeks, as stocks of this descrip-
tion are still very light, and manufacturers are very shy in
taking orders to make unless they obtain full prices. The de-

preciation in mills 'and machinery is awful; about two or
three weeks ago a gentleman bought at Stockport for £llOOO
what cost in building £50,000, and the concern is about to

commence making domestics

We are sorry to report the

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stoppage of a print house owing about £40,000; and if the 1
father insists upon his claim, we learn that not more than Is.
10d. in the pound can be paid. Muslin-de-laine manufactu-
rers are very busy, for the printers for the autumn are pre-
paring this article, which in our opinion will be sold to an
extent never before known. This article is the cause of a great
number of block printers being engaged who have been with-
out work for many months. Good prints are also in request,
and we hope that most of the block printers will be full of
employment. 28-inch 66's may be quoted 4s. 6d. to 4a. 9d.
and 72's 4s. Hid. to ss. 3d.—Manchester Advertiser of
Saturday. - -

BLACKBURN.—The cotton trade, during the last three
weeks, has been rather flat ; for coarse descriptions of cotton
goods, such as 30's, 32's, and 34's jaconets, there has not
been an average demand ; prices are rather lower; contracts
have been offered at from 3d. to 4d. per piece less, and, in
some instances, taken, but not generally. Fancy and figured
goods meet with a more ready sale than for some time past,
but there is no advance in prices, except for mown and wor-
sted lenies and laced cambrics. The yarn market is rather
flat ; coarse descriptions are a little lower, and finer qualities
meet with a more ready sale. Hand-loom weaving still con-
tinues in a moderate state, and wages are said to be the same ;
but sonic masters are alleged to be more particular about the
work, and to make abatements for the most trifling faults.
The factory operatives in the town and neighbourhood have
full work. The mechanics and machine makers have a mo-
derate amount of employment; but house builders and ma-
sons have not much work. About three months ago there
were upwards of 600 inmates in the workhouse, but at pre-
, sent there are only from 200 to 300, and these are mostly old
people and children.—lbid.
BRADFORD, TOURSDAY.—WooI Markel: The demand
continues very steady for most kinds of combing wools. The
supply of new wools is less abundant than usual, which is
easily accounted for by the late extremely cold and wet
weather. Prices continue without any alteration fur some
years past.—Yarn Markel : This branch continues active ;
the spinners are, for the most part, working to order, at a
little better prices.—Piece Market : There is more business
doing to-day than either of the previous markets this month.
Orleans and merinos are by no means plentiful, and many
manufacturers are making to order. An advance has been
obtained upon many sorts. Fancy goods are in better re-
quest.—lL id.
HECKSIONDWIKE BLANKET MARKET.—On Monday last
there was a good attendance of buyers, and a tolerable amount
of business was transacted, principally for the home trade.
On Thursday the attendance of merchants was fully equal to
that of Monday. The conviction is now pretty general that
the prices of blankets have certainly turned the lowest point.
There are now more blankets making for the American mar-
ket than at any former period of the present year.—Leeds
Intelligences, of Saturday.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET.—We have no change to re-
port in the wool trade this week, stocks of combing wools
are light in the market, and the late improved rates are fully
maintained. No alteration in the demand or prices for short
wools.—lbid.

TRADE OF LEEDS.—The improvement in the weather on
Tuesday, together with the late arrivals from America and
India, caused a much better attendance in the Cloth-halls
than had been observed for several market tlq,s previous
and a considerable au;inentation of the porch
servable principally in the finer qualities of cloth
our manufactories connected with the Indian► market are
working long hours, and hopes are entertained that the im-
provement will become general.—lbid.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET.—The continuance of unfavour-
able weather had, in some measure, checked the demand for
light fancy goods, suitable for summer wear; hut there was,
nevertheless, a good attendance of merchants here on Toes-
day, and a fair quantity of business was done chiefly at pre-
vious rates ; and more might have been sold if the weather
bad permitted a better assortment to bare been brought to
market.—lbid.
HALIFAX MARKET.—We had a pretty good market here
on Saturday for manufactured stuff goods, fur, although the
attendance of merchants was not so numerous as we have
seen of late, several of them bought largely. Yarns were in
fair request, without any alteration in value. I❑ the Wool
market there was a tolerably brisk demand for the wools of
the better qualities.—lbid.
HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.—The silk glove branch
in Derbyshire has suddenly become most dreadfully de-
pressed, the hands in that county being nearly wholly unem-
ployed. This depression, iu a lesser degree, extends to Not-
tingham ; but we are not surprised, as the cut-up system
threatens to destroy the demand for this manufacture. The
wrought cotton hose branch is still in the same state of de-
mand as for some months ; but the fancy cotton hose hands
are attacked indirectly in the wages : thebagmen requiring
more work for the same money. This branch has, for some
years, brio in a very healthy state as respects wages and de-
mand. The bobbin net trade is still in a fair state of demand,
especially for fancy nets', which are made of several descrip-
tions, many of them highly figured by machinery ; those
that have the gimp or running threads inserted by machinery
are the roost in demand. Square nets, which have a very
thin appearance, are somewhat extensively made from the
Leavers' machines. These are as highly ornamented as the
platt nets, and are a contrast to them : they are very much
in demand in France. The system of registering patterns is
extending, and, in all prubahility, will further extend. As
yet we have heard of no prosecutions. The warp branches
keep gradually improving, especially for silk Jacquard laces,
which are very brisk. The warp trade still commands this
manufacture, as they can work a stout-sized silk, which
would fill the bobbins of the twist machines ; this will, ere
long. prove very important, as the articles made are exqui-
site, both in patterns and, texture.—Nottingham Journel of
Friday.

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LEICESTER HOSIERY TRADE.—We regret that we are not
able to report any favourable alteration in the Leicester
manufacture. The glove branch, so important to the borough,
is in an unusual state of dulness, and many of the hands are
suffering intense privations. Tile cotton cutup hose trade
is at an end for a while, and the lamb's wool and the worsted
season has commenced, kut they do not supply the place of
the former. consequently, a greater number of hands will be
but partially employed, and others wholly unemployed. The
worsted spinning factories are working more time, which is
considered by some as a sign of a coming improved home
trade; others, we are afraid, more justly attribute it to an
increased demand for yarns, to he manufactured abroad.
The fancy trade in mitts, cravats, boots, &c., is getting
rather more satisfactory, but there does not appear to be
anything like the demand that there was at this time last
year for these articles.—lbid.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, JUNE 12.
There has been a very flat market to-day, and a very limited
amount of business transacted, at previous prices. The last,
being Whitsun week, when many of the hands are idle, has
certainly been the occasion of fewer goods being brought to
market. The wool market has been still : the manufacturers
buy very sparingly, perhaps wishing to see what effect the
new clip may have upon prices.

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THE IRON TRADE

The prostrate state of the iron trade has furnished occa-
sion for the Mining Journal to give insertion in its columns
to some interesting statistics on the subject of the article.
it appears that, in the year 1812, the make of pig iron
amounted to 1,210,550 tons. The number of furnaces in
blast was 339, of those out of blast 190, the total being 529.
The produce of the different districts was :
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Forest of Dean.. tons 8,000 Derbyshire..
South Wales 457,350 Staffordshire North.. 21,750
North Wales ..
Yorkshire 42,000 I Shropshire 76,200
Northumberland.... 20,750 Scotland......
In 1839, according to the returns made by Mr. Mushet,
the number of furnaces in blast was 377, there being an
excess over those in the past year of 38, and the make was
1,247,981 tons, the excess over that of 1842 being 37,431
tons. The latter was thus divided :
Forest of Dean.. tons 18,200 Derbyshire. tons 34,372
South Wales 453,880 I Staffordshire North.. 18,200
North \Vales
Yorkshire 52,416 I Shropshire 76,200
Northumberland.... 13,300 Scotland. 196,960
Going back to the year 1830, it is found that the make
was then only 678,417 tons, or little more than half that of
the last year; " and here," says the authority from which
we quote, " we arrive at a point of interest, as developing
most materially the causes to which may be ascribed the
present position of the trade." Reference is made to Scot-
land :
I n 1830 the make in Scotland was
In 1839 it had increased to
In 1842 there was a further increase tr
While. at the present time, with a depressed trade,
it is taken at
In the case of Scotland, there is an increase, in twelve
years, of no less than 700 per cent., while, at the present
moment, pig iron may be bought in the Clyde at less than
40s. per ton. The increased make in Scotland and re3uc-
Lion price is attributed to the discovery of the " black band,"
and the application of the " hot blast;" and these two advan-
tages are considered to have been the cause of the present
state of trade, the existing depression affecting not only the
iron master but the collier and the furnace-man, without, it
is contended, a correspondent advantage being derived by
the consumer. The great augmentation in the make of iron
from 1830 to 1839 is ascribed to the demand which has arisen
in consequence of its application to a variety of purposes of
a novel character, particularly in the form of castings, and to
the demand also for the manufactured article for railways.
The increased make in 1840, and decreased demand, owing
to the completion of most of the great railways, apart from
the general depression in the trade towards the close of 1841,
induced the iron masters to submit, with few exceptions, to
a reduction in price of 25 per cent. calculated on the make of
the six months ending June 30, 1841, which arrangement
was carried into execution during the first six months of
1842, and which had the effect of again bringing down the
quantity to even less than it was in 1839. The demand for
iron for railroad purposes having now become trifling, it is a
question of vast importance to the trade how the consump-
tion may be accelerated. A change in the tariff of the
United States will, it is hoped, do good, but this is a pros-
pective affair upon which no dependence can be placed, and
the Mining Journal, quoting from the Globe, notices, as a
startling fact, the announcement that the Americans are
sending iron ore to this country in the face of the low rates
at which the native product is selling. The reduction of
make" is an expedient that involves a discharge of labour-
ers, not to be resorted to without great danger of local dis-
turbances, and the very contemplation of such an alternative
is painful. But there can be no doubt that the iron masters
are losing a great deal of money at the rates now current.

tons 37,500
.... 196,960
.... 238,750

MEDICAL CHANGES.—Dr. Bright has resigned his office
a senior physician at Guy's Hospital, and has been succeeded
by Dr. Addison, Dr. Barlow and Dr. Rees have been ap-
pointed physicians, and Dr. Golding Bird assistant physician
to the same hospital. At St. Thomas's, Mr. M`Murdo has
succeeded the late Mr. Tyrrell; and Mr. Guthrie has re-
signed the surgeoncy at the Westminster Hospital, his re-
signation having been followed by that of Mr. H. Thompson,
the assistant surgeon, who has declared himself a candi-
date for the surgeoricy. Mr. C. Guthrie, Mr. B. Phillips,
Mr. Alcock, and Mr. Lucas, are candidates for the assistant
surgeoncy. Mr. Guthrie has been appointed consulting sur-
geon to the hospital.
DREADFUL SUICIDE OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM SIMPSON
BLOUNT, R.N.—On Friday morning, an alarm was given
that the unfortunate gentleman above-mentioned, who resided
at Greenwich, had committed suicide by shooting himself.
The tragical occurrence was first made known by one of the
female servants, who heard the report of a pistol in the house.
She went to the water-closet, and there saw the deceased in
a sitting posture, completely doubled up, two pistols lying on
the floor, and a pool of blood •strearning under the door.
Immediately on the alarm being. given, the police went in
and assi3ted removing the unfortunate man, but it was
instantly perceived that he was beyond all mortal aid, his
head being so completely shattered that his features could
not be recognised. The deceased appeared previously to
have been quite collected in his mind ; and the only supposi-
tion as to the cause of his committing the awful attd dreadful
it he had failed in obtaining an appointment.