The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-30 00:00:00

IMPROVEMENT IN TRADE.

The following are extracts from various Manchester jour-
nals of Saturday, all tending to show a revival of trade :
(From the Manchester Times, Anti-Corn-law League paper.,)
The almost total cessation of the supplies of yarn and goods
offered in the market has, of course, produced its natural
result—higher prices; and though the sudden and unfore-
seen rise has prevented many orders from being executed,
there has been a considerable amount of business done
during the week, especially in the lower qualities of yarns
and printers' cloths. In these goods the advance upon the
prices which could be obtained three weeks ago may be
quoted from 7to 12 per cent. Yarns, which were then sold
at Sid. per lb., have been this week sold at 90., and prin-
ters' cloths, then sold at 4s. 9d. per piece, have this week
realised ss. Gd., and a few pieces have been sold at ss. 70.
In fustians, domestics, &c., the advance has not been so
considerable.
(From the Manchester Advertiser, Chartist.)

This week more cotton has been sold than could be used
were all the mills in full operation, and at a very serious ad-
vance. In the natural course of things, when mills were
standing, and an abundant crop of cotton of good staple an-
ticipated, we should have thought that the price would ma-
terially have receded ; instead of this, we find the buyers
here hurry down to Liverpool, as though a scarcity were ex-
pected, and buy sufficient to last for two or three months
after they begin work. This is indeed playing into the hands
of the enemy, but we are forced to confess that here people
endeavour to sell cheaper than their neighbours ; but in Li-
verpool they are too much for us, for there they exercise
every stratagem to keep up the price of the raw material.
Stocks of goods are so exhausted, and everything so un-
settled, that no task can be mare difficult than to convey to
our readers the actual state of the goods and yarn market this
week, for although a considerable amount of business has
been done, much of it is conditionally, i. e., orders
have been given to make when the mills commence working
again ; for with few exceptions, the stocks of printing cloth
and many numbers of yarn are quite cleared out, and buyers
do not find it an easy matter to meet with a large lot of
either cloth or yarn anywhere. We are forced to confess
that we see no prospect of cloth going lower for the next two
months, even should all the mills begin immediately; for
when we consider the depressed prices at which they have
been sold, and calculate the serious reduction of the produc-
tion for the last three months; consider also that it is the
season of the year when printers buy for the winter style
(the stocks are also very light in the printers' hands, having
been afraid to buy more than for their actual wants, in con-
sequence of the weekly depreciation for the last three years;)
and, above all, when we seriously reflect upon the splendid
harvest Providence is about to give us, for we believe it is
now admitted by all that the crops of wheat, oats, barley,
and almost every kind of produce is not only abundant but
rich in quality. The immense importance of a glorious bar-
vest to the trade of this country, that buys a plentiful
supply of home-grown corn, arid a full crop of potatoes, can
hardly be too highly estimated, for it not only prevents the
gold from leaving us, but it enables the poor man to buy
more food. The new tariff is also a boon, for it will reduce
the price of many things. The money market it also easy.
We, therefore, implore the masters and men to settle their
differences in a friendly spirit, for we think we have good
grounds for expecting a revival in commerce, and a better
trade for some time to come. •
We have been requested to quote the prices of good 27-inch
72's in August, 1838, to 1842, with which request we cheer-
fully comply :
August, 1833, 7s. 3d. to 7s. 6d. (good 72'5.)
1839, 7s. Od. to 7s. 3d.
1840, 6s. 3d. to 6s. 6d.
1841, ss. 9d. to 6s. Od.
1842, ss. 3d. to ss. Gd.
Prices this week, both for yarn and goods, it is impossible
to give correctly, but cloth may be said to be full 3d. higher
than last week, and manufacturers are taking orders to make
27-inch 66's ss. to ss. 3d., and 72's ss. 6d. to 65. ; and
many houses will not sell for even 6d. more than the above
quotation : 40-inch cloth is very bad to buy, and orders have
been taken at Is. 3d. advance.

(From the Manchester Chronicle, Conservative.)
STATE OF TRADE.—Considerable advances have been,
this week, obtained for both cloth and yarn, though the sup-
ply, being greatly limited in consequence of the present turn-
out, the business effected has been, comparatively, but of a
limited kind. Nevertheless there is a very healthy feeling
in the market, and where parties are disposed, contracts for
almost an unlimited period may readily be effected. As,
however, the cotton-market has advanced about 20 per cent.
on American sorts, and higher wages are demanded, neither
spinners nor manufacturers are disposed to contract for
future delivery but at prices which seem exorbitantly high
compared with what have recently been obtained.
(From the Manchester Courier, Conservative.)

•
We have had another week of interrupted business, in con-
sequence of the turn -ont ; nevertheless, large offers have been
made for both goods and yarns, and at considerably advanced
rates. These offers, however, have not been generally ac-
cepted, because of the great advance in cotton, and because
of the uncertainty as to when the turn-out may finally ter-
minate, more particularly as regards the power-loom weavers
of Staleybriclee and Ashton. The impression also still gains
ground that business will permanently improve, and that a
tide of Conservative prosperity has already set in.
It is difficult to quote prices at present ; we may say, how_
ever, that spinners generally are demanding about
aeeprendtna,
per pound advance on the lowest rates for twist; whilst for
cloth, sm 27-inch sixty-sixes, 9d. to Is.; and on 40-inch si
ty-sixes, is. 3d. to is. 6d. per piece advance on the_ lowest
rates are readily obtained, and large contracts are ozsi
these prices.

Upwards of 100 prisoners from the disturbed districts have
been lodged in York Castle, while the original calendar itself
contains no fewer than 137 prisoners. The trial of the latter
alone will occupy three weeks.
ADDINGTON PARK, SUNDAY APTERNOON.—The phy-
siciaes report that his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury
had a good night, but has not been in so favourable a state
during the day, his strength having rather failed since morning.
THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.--It is with great
regret that we are compelled to announce that this brilliant
ornament of the church has for the last few days been rather
seriously indisposed. His grace is, however, recovering:
He very much amended during Tuesday, and we understand
that his Physicians entertain the confident expectation that
his grace will shortly be enabled to resume his important
official functions. The following very satisfactory. bulletin
was exhibited yesterday at Lambeth Palace, where inquiriesolcted
have again been numerous, especially when it is recollected
that most of the nobility and gentry are absent from town at
this season of the year :—" His grace has passed a very good
night, and is this morning considerably better. Addington
isnnile,Enwfinegrrms at home,
Park, August 24."
CLASSES IN NEWFOUNDLAND.—Theretinctiott in persons and rank here,
arising from official station
is no other dis-
at home would almost
provinces of the British empire,
or wealth. The upper class,
whichless, consists of the clergy,
without exception be the middle than those usual. in all the
ofe the state, with the oldest
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1 maffinecder c. office.--The
merchants,
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and rapidly-increasing num-
and a growing, nwsteimPliters of those respectable men who
the conductors of the.beuesor
Newfoundland as the country of their children.
ricseitiocsamenta
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tteehdrei
attend at a public charitable ball to see
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have e r o f tlie
chosenso sons
It is only necessary
people in their real character : it strikes every
saidhoder with admiration, for a finer, healthier,
behaved colonial " gentry " there does
or better ,
Professional men, lawyers, and medical men,
.ery other colony, to both these classes.—The
these excellent s
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s I have no name for, as neither that of labourer
peasantry is appl!cahle. The third
small farmers, small shopkeepers,and
class in New-
foundland belong,
negx: exist.
in
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fisher-
men,fishermen exclusively. They are well-clothed and
or
distinctive
usually wearhabit, which is a blue jacket and
fntohouirrnddi
trousers of good cloth, and a low-crowned glazed hat. To
thatac nladosfare
see these people in a public procession one is tempted to
observe, with the Emperor of Russia when he saw the English
in mass, on the occasion of the visit of the allied monarchs,
e Where are the poor ? " I have seen them in every possible
situation, and have uniformly observed them quiet, orderly,
and respectable : even in the pit of the theatre, which is fre-
quently, during winter, filled with them, not a word nor in-
dicialon of row or noise occurs. In the towns, of course,
there is still a lower class, which is engaged, as elsewhere, in
domestic or in menial offices, or employed in hewing wood or
drawing water, or as carters, farm-servants, &e.—Bonny-
easile'B IVeolbuttrilottl