The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-27 00:00:00

MANCHESTER, MONDAY NIGHT.

(From our own Correspondent.)
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Under this bead it is my intention to communicate as
accurately as possible an recount of the particular events
of ihe week, with a view of laying before your readers a
succinct narrative of our commercial transactions, more
especially as they relate to the shipping interests of Li-
verpool. The ordinary reports of our markets give but a
very imperfect idea of the real state of feeling which ex-
ists amongst buyers and merchants, whose business is
confined to the foreign trade. These reports are gene-
rally the opinion of one particular house in the trade, and
cannot therefore be said to afford an extensive knowledge
of our commercial transactions. On Tuesday last the
market, though in some respects active at firm prices, on
the whole showed a downward tendency ; and it was en-
tirely owing to the lightness of stocks that prices were
maintained. This state of feeling was much more ap-
parent in the goods market than yarn, which sold more
fully, especially the coarser qualities suited to the Indian
markets. The news from the seat of war between France
and Morocco, produced some little apathy amongst
shippers, which was materially increased by the warlike
tone of some of the newspapers. In the latter part of the
week the same spirit was even more manifest, and on the
whole the byegone week has been less active than for
some time past.
THE LEAGUE AND THE REGISTRATION COURTS.
Mr. George Wils,m, the chairman of the League, in his
last oration in Covent Garden, whilst rebutting the state-
ments sent forth that the League was extinct, told his
hearers that they had only changed their tactics, having
directed the whole of their attention to the registration
courts. When this hint reached Manchester it was not
fully understood, even by those who in some measure
watch the proceedings of the leaguers. But recent events
leave no further doubt as to the intention of the Cobden
confederacy. For several days past the Manchester post-
office has been a scene of considerable bustle and confu-
sion. Messengers from Newall's-buildings were continu-
ally on the run with large parcels of letters, which, upon
inquiry turned out to be notices of objections. It is said
that they have in this way served seven thousand objec-
tions upon the Conservative electors of South Lancashire.
One person is reported to have signed 3,000 of these ob-
jections. A co-partner in the concern is reported to have
signed an equal number. These objections are served in
the most wholesale manner imaginable, many electors be-
ing served with two notices. The objections to the borough
electors are conducted on the same principle, and by the
league also. During the recent election for this county,
the leaguers endeavoured, and in some few instances suc-
cessfully, to make it appear that their proceedings were
not directed by any political motive, bat that the all-im-
portant question with them was free-trade, but the notices
now served are exclusively on conservatives. What does
Mr. Robert Gardner, who proposed your townsman, Mr.
Brown, at Newton, think of this ?
EVANS, THE MURDERER.—The decision of the chief
baron in postponing the trial of the murderer Evans, and
the advice which his lordship gave to have it removed to
Lancaster, in consequence of the publication, in the
Manchester Guardian, of a letter from Bristol, has given
general satisfaction in this town. In justice to Mr. Bes-
wick it is but right to say, that he knew nothing whatever
of the publication of the letter; and there is no doubt if he
had been made acquainted with the intention of the con-
ductors of the Guardian, he would have interposed to pre-
vent its publication. A similar course was adopted by the
same paper in the case of Milne v. the Corporation of
Manchester, but the character of the plaintiff stands too
high to be affected by such a course.
SHARE MARKET, MONDAY.—There has been very
little doing to-day indeed ; the few transactions that have
taken place are of so trifling a character as scarcely to be
worth notice. The only sales effected were Huddersfield
and Manchester, 24k 7 1-6; Leeds and Dewsbury, 1g and
remium ; Rosendale and Manchester 5 7-16.