The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-10-10 00:00:00

CHESHIRE AND WALES.

ThE BEY. 'WILLIAM PRINCE, late curate 'of St. Mary's,
Birkenhead, has been appointed to the incumbency of
Pishill, in the diocese df Oxford.
PROMPT MEASURES.—At the Birkenhead police-court,
on Thursday, Mr. Joseph Griffith, the newly-appointed
inspector of weights and measures far the hundred of
Wirral, summoned 14 shopkeepers and others for using
deficient weights and unjust scales. The whole, with one
'exception, were convicted in various penalties.
BRUTALITY.--At the Birkenhead police-court, on
Thursday, Wm. Ward, a furniture broker in Grange-
lane, notorious for his brutality, was committed to prison
for six months with hard labour, for repeatedly and
cruelly kicking his wife, a few days after her confinement,
and in defence attempting to ruin her character.
A PUBLIC PARK was opened at Macclesfield on Monday,
last week. A portion of the land necessary for the pur-
pose was provided by private subscriptions. The Marquis
of Westminster, as lord-lieutenant of Cheshire, and the
Earl of Harrington. the owner of Gawsworth, a neigh-
bouring village, assisted at the proceedings, which were
attended by a vast body of the manufacturing population.
ACCIDENT AT EOREmoNT FERRY.—On Thursday
morning, William McDonald, a man employed at the
Egremont slip, was struck on the head by a hawser,.which
gave way in consequence of the rolling of the steamer to
which it had been attached. The blow was so severe
as to fracture the skull. lie was taken to Liverpool by
Superintendent Scamler, and conveyed to the infirmary,
where he now lies in a dangerous state, though not con-
sidered beyond the reach of recovery.

ROWING! FROM CAMHEIDGE TO bIIESTER.—On Sunday
evening, two undergraduates of Cambridge arrived in
Chester, having rowed across England—viz., from Cam-
bridge to Chester—in a couple of wager boats. The dan-
gers of the expedition, arising from mills, sluices, and
rushes in the rivers, and from boats and locks in the canals,
were very numerous. The distance traversed proved
about 270 miles.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—The traffic for
the week ending Ist October, 1854, was as follows :
Passengers, parcels, &c., £3,671 118. 5d.; steam-boats,
£662 2s. ld. ; total, £4,323 13s. 6d. Goods, £1,704 15s. 11d.
Total, including Carnarvon traffic, £6;028 9s. sd. Cor-
responding week last year, passengers, parcels, &c. £3,345
10s. 6d.; steam-boats, £499 Bs. 10d.; total, 23,844;195. 4d.
Goods, £1,548195. Bd. Total, including Carnarvon traffic,
£5,393 19s. Od. Increase, £634 10s. bd.
STOCKPORT, DISLEY, AND WHALEYDRIDGE RAILWAY.
—The first sod of this railway was turned on Saturday
week by Mrs. Legh, of Lymm, in presence of Mr. Thomas
Legh, of Lymm-hall, chairman, Mr. Thomas Carstairs,
Buxton, deputy-chairman, and the other directors and
officers of the company. The day was beautifully fine, and
the ceremony passed off very well. The contractors for
the line are Messrs. Davidson and Co., of London, at the
rate of £lO,OOO per mile, and, as there are no heavy works
the engineers, Messrs. Locke and Errington, expect that
it will- be completed in a short time.
WALLASEY LOCAL BOARD OF FIZIALTH.—The monthly.
meeting was held on Tuesday, at the Queen's Arms Hotel,
Liscard. Mr. Pooley, in the absence of the chairman,
presided. The surveyor reported that he had caused to
be emptied 134 privies and ash-pits, and recommended the
filling up of several ditches, and making some additional
sewers. It was decided to adopt a similar badge to that
worn by the Liverpool cab drivers, for the regularly
licensed donkey drivers, &c., of the district, with the
exception that the letter " W." should be substituted in
the interior. Mr. Nevill, in consequence of the sub-
committee having failed to come to terms with Mr. Shaw,
relative to the purchase of a piece of land for public offices,
suggested that as a house was then empty at the corner of
King-street, the committee should 'have power to enter
into an agreement for hiring that or any other suitable
building within the district. Mr. Ball fully concurred in
the suggestion, and said he had -much pleasure in second.
ing a motion to that effect. This subject, which has been
so often discussed, and on which so many motions had
been made and rescinded, has thus terminated, the com-
mittee having been empowered to negotiate for some
suitable premises and reporting-to the board. The meet-
ing then adjourned.
BIDSTON Cnuncn,—On Wednesday the Lord Bishop of
Chester attended at Bidston Church, for the purpose of
consecrating the new burial-ground which has recently
been attached to that church, and was met at the gates by
a large number of the clergy and gentry in the immediate
neighbourhood. After the ceremony the Bishop, accom-
panied by General Sir Edward .Cult and several of the
clergymen, adjourned to the residence of John Hartley
Hind, Esq., Birkenhead-park, the churchwarden of Bid-
ston, where they partook of luncheon, and, after remaining
about a couple of hours, the Bishop left by the five o'clock
train for Chester.
A SCENE AMONGST TUE BIRICRYZEAD COMMISSIONERS.
—At the board meeting on Tuesday, on the proceedings of
the Road and Improvement Committee being read, a per-
sonal discussion ensued, on Mr. Bailiff asking why Mr.
Rimmer's tender for making certain improvements in
Ashburton-road had been accepted in preference to others.
He said that he had heard out of doors that there were
certain reasons for it. Mr. Gough asked if it was not be-
cause the commissioners owed him a great sum of money ?
Mr. Henderson, the chairman of the committee, replied
that it was not; and declined to state the reasons why
Mr. Rimmer's tender had been accepted, beyond that they
considered it the most eligible offer, though not the least
in amount. Mr. Bailiff and Mr. Gough wished the amounts
of the different tenders to be stated. A scene" ensued,
several members stating that they considered no member
of the board had a right to ask such question. Mr. Gough
asked—What am I placed here for, then ? Mr. Hender-
son. Not to come here once a month to kick up a row !
The Chairman admitted that members were entitled to ask
for information at the board, but thought it better not to
mention the sums. After some more angry remarks, the
matter dropped, and the proceedings of the committee
were confirmed.
WOODSIDE FERRY.—At the monthly meeting of the
Birkenhead Commissioners, on Tuesday, the ferry account
was stated to be :—Receipts, from Sept., 1853, £2,083 10s.
14.; for 1854, £2,303 Bs. 6d. From 25th April to 30th
Sep. inclusive, 1853, £12,179 125.; 1854, £14,020 14s. ld.
Expenditure, from 25th April to 30th Sept., 1853, £lO,lBB
17s. 9d ; 1854, £12,637 191. 3d. Mr. Mills moved that the
fare at Woodside Ferry be raised from one penny to three-
halfpence. He said no one could help being struck with
the large amount of expenditure at the ferry comparatively
I with the receipts. The working expenses only of the,
ferry, since the ferryage had been reduced, in 1848, had
averaged sixty-eight per cent. He thought it quite im-
possible to reduce the working expenses sufficiently to
meet the exigencies of the township, and the only way of
doing so, therefore, was to raise the fares. If they raised
the fares as he proposed, he calculated they would receive
£17,000 per annum more income, without adding a far-
thing to their expenditure. Their present position might be
explained thus ;—Annual income, 025,000 ;.working ex-
penses £17,000; rent, £4,000; depreciation fund, £2,500;
making a total annual expenditure of £23,000. Their
surplus enabled them to pay only 24 per cent. to the bond-
holders ; and he would ask, was that a satisfactory posi-
tion ? Mr. Aspinall answered Mr. Mills in a very elaborate
speech, his argument befog that ever since the fare had
been reduced to one penny in June, 1848, they had had a
gradual and steady increase of receipts, and if it had not
been for ordering the unfortunate new boat, he calculated
that in 1855 their surplus from the ferry would have
reach £lO,OOO. The receipts in one week, in 1846, when
Birkenhead was in the hey-day of its prosperity, with a
twopenny fare, the receipts were over £BOO. On the
motion for raising the fares being put, only four voted
for it, namely, Messrs. Mills, Bailiff, Hughes, and Wil-
loughby; and eleven against it.

"'GENERAL ROWAN, in command of the British troops
in Canada, it is stated, has received a notification from the
Duke of Newcastle, minister of war, that three regiments
are to be withdrawn from Canada.

It requires, indeed, but little magnanimity to bear with
vituperations which suggest their own answers. Had it been
only " a trumpery dispute" which " I (?) had raised in your
columns," and had my " facts" been but so much " balder-
dash," then " One of the Committee" might have spared
himself the pain of such severities; Mr. Wray and Mr. Pughe
needed not to have done their very best to answer me ; and,
above all, it was excessively uncalled for that this high
official, your correspondent, together with his alliterative col-
leagues of the reserve, " Veritas," " Vincentius," and
" Viator," should all have pressed forward in such force to
the rescue.

If " Otte of the Committee" really desires a reply from me,
let him do as I have done. Let him subscribe his name to
his letters, and his desire shall be gratified. Hislast contains
at least one statement which am not prepared to accept on
anonymous authority. And whether or no, on literary and
other grounds, it would be very agreeable to me, and, I have
no doubt, to the public at large, to be able to identify the
writer of so Christian and classical communications.

➢feanwhile, I will feel obliged if "One of the Committee"
will not ascribe to me language which I have never used. It
is easy to put words between inverted commas, as though
they were the words of an opponent. But if those words
have been invented for the occasion, little credit, I appre-
hend, will accrue to the inventor. I have said nothing of
" not coming forward again." The words " papal and dis-
senting error" are not mine; neither have I spoken of an
attempt "to delude the Protestant public."—Your faithful
WSI. POLLOCK.
October 4, 1854.

servant,

ST, MARTDT'S CHURCH, LIVERPOOL

LETTER No. 111.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Srx,—l resume the subject which I commenced on the
mode of performing Divine Service at St. Martin's Church,
in the hope that it has not lost its interest with your numerous
readers, and that the unbiassed testimony of a stranger,
whose prejudice was all the other way, may be the means of
removing some portion, at least, of the erroneous impressions
which appear to prevail. In my last letter I described the
afternoon service, wherein the children of the schools were
catechised in obedience to the rubric, and I now proceed
with the service in the evening, which commenced at half-
past six o'clock. At the appointed hour the choristers en-
tered the church as in the morning—though I judged they
were not quite so numerous—and took their places in the
choir, the same clergymen officiating. I may pass over the
Exhortation, Confession, &c., which were given precisely as in
the morning service. The Psalms were chanted in a slightly
different tune, but still peculiarly expressive, leaving one
nothing to regret from the .change from simply saying them,
as commonly practised, and I fear too often with little regard
to their meaning. The .first lesson was read by one of the
assistant curates, from the lectern, and then the MagnYicat
was chanted by the choir. After the second lesson the Nunc
Ditnittis was chanted, and then the Apostles' Creed was
given in that monotone which, in my opinion, was the least
commendable portion •of the mode pursued in St. Martin's
Church.

I may here remark that•l noticed the occasional expression
of the preterite of,certain verbs as one syllable—l allude to
such words pronounced as "receiv'd, sav'd, or lov'd." I am
aware that among many professing Evangelicals such a
slovenly practice is common, but I imagined that, in•.a church
where strict attention to the proprieties is observed, the ear
would not have been 40 offended. Our language is deficient
in unernphasized syllables, and to slur over the few we have
destroys the rhythm of the magnificent compositions of
Scripture, which, when read with due attention to this point,
are so poetical. Besides, it is a proper distiction•between the
use of language addressed to the Ci-eator and that employed
in every-day life, to •read the former so that every syllable be
pronounced.

At the place appointed for the Anthem, a hymn was given out
and sung by the choir.and moat of the congregation. This,
to my mind, is an innovation which requires amendment.'
It is an evil which has crept into the Church in later days
to substitute doggerel rhapsodies, called hymns, for the
Psalms of David; and though a glance at the book which
was•offered me showed that it was published by.the Society
forthe Promotion of •Christian Knowledge, the fact did not
remove the strong repugnance which I have to the singing of
unauthorised compositions in the Church Service. I am
aware that the version of the Psalms of Dr. Brady and Mr
Tate.are not ordered by the Church, but they:have at lease
the semblance of authority as far as the mandate otKing Wm.
111,,, of. Protestant memory, and the sanction of the Bishop
of London of that day can effect it ; but no collection of
hymns has even the appearance of being authorised, except
such as we And in the.Prayer-Book. The subject has recently
excited some attention,,and may very properly be discussed
in convocation, so that whatever psalms and hymns be used
may have the sanction eauthority, and, being published with
the Prayer-Book, render other books unnecessary. lam not
now raising the question whether on such a matter the Incum-
bent is his own Ordinary, but most persons will agree in the
propriety of not multiplying books.
The remainder of the prayers were delivered in monotone,
and'immediately after the Benediction the rev. K. M. Pughe
ascended the pulpit, attired in his surplice, and, without any
preliminary prayer, gave out his text from Galatians iii. 10.
"For as many as are of the works of the law are under the
curse.: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth
not in all things which are written in the book of the lax to
do them." I have before remarked on the evident propriety
of thus following the order of the Prayer-Book as distin-
guished from the ordinary practice, and need not therefore
enlarge upon it here. The preacher explained the different
ways in which the Apostle used the word " law," applying
it sometimes as the moral law designed for all mankind at
all times, and sometimes as the ceremonial law, intended
only for the Jews until the coming of the Messiah. It is a
grave charge against the Tractarian party that they elevate
the practice of ceremonies into undue importance ; but Mr.
Pughe, in his sermon, distinctly explained the difference,
and forcibly impressed upon his hearers that the ceremonial
law had been abolished by the coming of our Saviour. I paid
studious attention to his discourse, which was eloquently
delivered, and nowhere could I trace the slightest approach
to anything .contrary to the doctrines of the Church, even
according to the notions of the most entreme Protestant,
unless indeed it was his insisting on the necessity of Baptism
as a means of grace by which we are enabled to partake of
the blessings which our Saviour came on earth to confer. I
should be sorry, however, notwithstanding what has been
said and written on the subject, to believe that any true
Protestant refuses to believe a truth so obvious and so
plainly taught. In the Scriptures we are told that our
Saviour's last command to His Apostles was to baptise all
nations; and the Church says, there are two Sacraments
generally (or in every case) necessary to salvation, It is
therefore worse than absurd, it is sinful, to stigmatise as
Tractarians those who teach the necessity of Baptism, a
truth so strongly insisted upon in Holy Writ, and, I lament
to say, so sadly neglected by those who profess to believe its
teaching.

The sermon ended, the minister pronounced the blessing,
and the congregation, which was not quite so numerous as at
the morning service, dispersed a few minutes before eight
o'clock.—l hare, I fear, reached the limits to which any letter
ought to extend, but if you will afford me space, I shall next
week offer a few general remarks on St. Martin's Church,
both as to what has been done and what appears to me to
have been left undone. VIATOR.

A NEW MODE OP COOKING OLD POTATOES.—After
the Ist of April potatoes ought to be peeled at night for
the one or two o'clock dinner, and for late dinners at any
time before nine o'clock the same day. I have repeated
this experiment many times, and the improvement in the
quality of the potato is very great. It is well-known
that, owing to the inherent quality of the potato, it IN ill
grow in spite of every precaution to stop its growth,
leaving the tuber very spongy, and with much of the
water extracted out of it. By peeling and steeping them
in cold water for ten or twelve hours, the pores and cells
become filled, however limp the tuber may be, and in the
process of boiling this fresji water is again discharged,
taking with it all bad flavour, as well as partly removing
the dark spots which all potatoes at this time of the year
have.—Ulsterman.
SCOTTISH RIGHTS.—On Wednesday, the members of
the National Association for the vindication of Scottish
Bights entertained their president, the Earl of.Eglington
and Winton, in the City-hall, Glasgow, in testiminony of
their gratitude to his lordship for his able advocacy of
their cause. About 600 gentlemen were present. The
Duke of Montrose filled the chair, supported right and
left by the Earl of Eglington (the guest of the evening).
Principal Macfarlan, Mr. J. Baird, M.P. ; Professor Ay-
toun, Mr. William W. Watson, &c. Sir Thomas Glad-
stone, of Pasque, officiated as croupier, supported by Sir
Archibald Alison, mad Mr. Crawford, of Crawfordjaud,

DIED,

On the 27th May, at Geelong, Australia, aged 31., Wil-
liam, son of Mr. Thos. Chamley, Brunswick Dockmaster.

On the 14th June, at Geelong, Australia, Mr. John
Stuart, of Birkenhead.

On the 6th August, at Hong Kong, aged 34, James,
eldest son of Thomas Warrington, Esq., of Tranmere-hall,
Tranmere.

On the 13th August, at Buffalo, State of New York,
Charles Henry, infant son of Mr. Charles Owen, New
Ferry, Cheshire, and grandson of Mr. C. M. Wilson, of
H.M. Customs, at this port.

On the 16th nit., in London, aged 25, Robert Grindrod,
late inspector at the Exchange Railway Station, in this

town.
On the 19th ult., at Kintbury, Berks, in his 100th year,
Mr. Pullin. His grandfather died aged 105, and his fa-
ther at 103.
On the 24th ult., at Bolton, Mr. John Platt, painter,
Oldhall-street.
Ou the 25th ult., aged 57, Thos. Burns Sloan, of Salford,
and late of this town.
On the 29th ult., at the Vicarage, Pershore, in her 89th
year, Mrs. Martha Campbell, daughter of George Camp-
bell, Esq., Mayor of Liverpool in the year 1763.
On the 29th ult., aged 63, Mr. Elias Owens, master-
cooper, of this town.
On the 30th ult., at Newton, aged 47, Helen, eldest
daughter of the late Hugh M'Corquodale, of this town.
On the 30th ult., aged 81, Henry Mather, the oldest
servant in the Ravenhead Plate Glass Company, St.
Helens, where he had worked for nearly seventy years.
On the Ist inst., aged 69, Mr. Joseph Roberts, share-
broker, of this town, formerly of the city of Worcester.
On the let inst., aged 12 months, Elizabeth Bertha,
daughter of Mr. James H. Lancaster.
On the lst inst., in Basnett-street, aged 5 weeks, Arthur
Louis, youngest son of Mr. F. L. Gillis, jeweller and
silversmith.
On the Ist inst., at Oldham, aged 68, Catherine, daugh-
ter of the late Mr. James Hayes, formerly of Williamson-
square, in this town.
On the 2nd inst., aged 84, Mrs. Sarah Baxter, late of
Chester.
On the 2nd instant, aged 17 months, William, youngest
son of Mr. Joshua Voyle, Portland-street.
On the 2nd instant, aged 2 years, Thomas Arthur, son
of Henry Towers Browne, Esq.
On the 2nd instant, aged 19, John R., second son of Mr.
William Townley, Beresford-street, Everton.
On the 3rd instant, Mrs. Evans, wife of Eyre Evans,
Esq., of Shaw-street.
On the 3rd instant, at Mount-pleasant, aged 57, John
Shaw, Esq.. surgeon.

On'the 3rd instant, aged 65, Elizabeth, wife of James
Brawley, Hill-street, Toateth-park.
On the 3rd instant, at her residence, Upper Pitt-street,
aged 46, Ann, wife of Captain William Bell, of the ship
Jhelum, of this port.
On the 3rd inst., at Egremont, aged 31, Francis Ann,
eldest daughter of Mr. Robert Dickinson, of this town.
On the 3rd inst., of congestion of the brain, in his 9th
year, David Angus, eldest son of John Angus Warde, Esq.,
of Birkenhead.
On the 4th inst., at his residence, Russell-street, aged
74, Mr. Peter Woodnorth.
On the sth inst., Mr. J. S. Ellwood, cashier at the Cor-
poration Waterworks Shipping-office, Strand-street.
On the sth inst., at Birkenhead, aged 47, Betsy, wife
of Capt. Richard Adams, of the Lancefield, of London.
On the 7th inst., aged 5 years, Robert Case, twin son of
George Edward Schultz.
On the 7th inst., at Tynemouth-street, Everton, aged 15,
Marion, fourth daughter of the late Mr. James Meikie,
goldbeater, St. John's-lane.
On the 7th inst., at East Bank, Oxton, aged 29, Eliza-
beth, wife of Mr. Thomas Nichols.
On the Bth inst., at his residence, Crosby Green, West
Derby, aged 48, Mr. Thomas Smith.
On the Bth inst., aged 29, Thomas, eldest son of Mr.
11, Williams, of Breckfield-road, South Burton, Liverpool.

Worthington, and Shipmn, Manchester ; official assignee,
Mr. Fraser, Manchester.—Thomas George Curtis, Oxford-
street, licensed victualler.—John Chancellor, Phcenix-
place, Dorrington-street, Clerkenwell, and Hyde-house,
Battersea, funeral-carriage master.—James Thornton Cart-
wright, Apollo-buildings, East-street, Walworth, timber-
merchant.—Joseph Asher, Old Dalby, Dbicestershire,
miller.—Emma Steele Fonlgham, Burton Joyce, Notting-
hamshire, braid manufacturer.—John Hucknall, Notting-
ham, grocer.—Henry Cobin Welsford, Tewkesbury, corn
factor.
PA.RTNERSIIIPS DISSOLVED.— Cropper and Howard,
Rochdale, cotton waste dealers.—Reade and Dyson, Man-
chester, calico manufacturers.—J. Mitchell and Son,
Heaton Norris and Manchester, manufacturers of ging-
hams.—E. J. Creasy and A. Parton, Liverpool, iron-
mongers.—D. Jones, and Jones and Simpson, Liverpool,
tobacco manufacturers.—T. Ragland and Co., Manchester,
weighing machine makers.—Milford, Snow, and Co.,
Exeter, bankers.—Thompson and Boddy, Manchester,

joiners.
DIVIDENDS.—Oct. 3, W. Green, Birkenhead, auctioneer.
—Oct. 30, R. liadland, St. Helen's, Lancashire, glass
manufacturer.—Oct. 27, J. A. C. Reimann, and J. G.
Geller, Liverpool, merchants. Nov. 3, W. Edmond,
Liverpool, merchant.—Oct. 31, J. N. Bateson, Rochdale,
cottonspinner.
Csanrice.TE.—Oct. 30, J. White, Ormskirk, Lanca-
shire, builder.

Sept. MEETINGS IN BANKRUPTCY. Hour
11, James S. Skipper (2nd) District Court, 11
11, Robert Getty (Ist) Ditto, 11
12, Robert Wrightson (2nd) .........
12, William Jones (2nd). Ditto, 11
12, Henry Brownentt (audit) Ditto, 11
13, Joseph Peers (Ist) Ditto, 11
19, Crosby Leighton (proof and div.) ... Ditto, 11
19, George Forster (proof and div.)

19, Henry M`Grotti(audit)
20, Joseph Carruthers (proof and div )... Ditto, 11
20, Henry 31`Grotty (proof and div.) ... Ditto, 11

TRADE AND MARKETS.

MANUFACTURES

MANCHESTER.—The highly-favourable political news
received at the beginning of the week, announcing the
victory on the Alma and the fall of Sebastopol, caused
the most sanguine expectations to be at once entertained
of the future course of the market. Such a degree of
firmness, as regards prices, was assumed, as spinners have
latterly been strangers to ; and advances were asked
which had the effect of greatly interfering with operations
that would otherwise have been entered upon, as buyers
were decidedly more disposed to make purchases. Spinners
were the more induced to hold out for higher rates in con-
sequence of the advance of ?,-d per lb, then quoted in the
Liverpool cotton market. The result was, that on Tuesday,
although much more animation was visible, the actual
increase of business was very insignificant. The high
expectations entertained on Tuesday very considerably
subsided on the two following days ; and since the ground-
lessness of the rumour of the taking of Sebastopol has
become evident, the feeling is little improved compared
with last week. The instances were few in which advl nces
were not asked for yarns at the beginning of the week,
and almost as few in which such advances were given.
The demand for export continued restricted, whilst the
operations of manufacturers were further contracted.
Prices are now barely firm, and purchases have been
made at reduced quotations. For India and China the
demand is very limited, and but little less so for Germany
and the continental markets generally. Goods have been
by no means in good demand, the market being disturbed
by the changed position assumed by manufacturers; and
though the higher prices sought to be obtained are no
longer persisted in, the operations have been smaller than
seemed likely to be at the earlier period of the week. The
Greeks are still buyers, but not to the same extent as
latterly.
ROCHDALE.—A steady demand for flannels, but not
quite so brisk as on the previous week. Little change in
wool, either in price or demand.
HUDDERSFIELD.—LittIe alteration in this market.
A few of the manufacturers say that they have sold more
goods than for the last few weeks, but the prevailing
feeling is that of quietness.
LEEDS.—The cloth markets, at both halls, have been
dull, but out of the market there has been a good deal
done by direct deliveries and by sales by the commission

hands. Prices continue steady—the stock of seasonable
goods is low—and the mills continue to be pretty well
employed. A moderate amount of business has been done
in the warehouses this week, and the trade is considered
steady and healthy.

BRADFORD.—WooI : There has been a very limited
business doing throughout the week, and spinners buy
very dispiritedly. In prices there is no change.—Yarns :
The transactions are of the same character as for several
weeks past, both as regards demand, and prices.—Pieces :
The political intelligence appears to have engrossed the
attention of nearly all parties, and business has almost
been neglected.

NOTTINGHAM.—There is not any improvement in
business in either of the staple trades connected with this
town. The price of yarn remains unaltered.
LEICESTER.—Except in the glove branch, which still
remains flat, a good seasons demand continues both for
plain and fancy hosiery. Worsted yarns remain firm, and
the spinners are fully employed. There is not so much
demand for wools, which appear for the present to have
touched the highest price.