Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-04-11
STATE OF TRADE.


been received.
STATE OF TRADE.
The IRoN TRApE--Advices are in town
this week announcing further advance.
Accounts from all the various districts Of
its manufacture testify lis great prosperity,
and anticipate progressive Improvement In
Staffordshire the makers are in excellent
spirits Messrs John Brady a. Co., the
leading firm there have issued circulars
quoting 40s per ton advance on bars and
rods, and SOS per ton on hoops and sheets
above their January quarter day prices, and
will only accept orders from their regular
customers, limited to the usual monthly av-
erage Of their purchases.
Common bars, IN Wales, are now 20 per
ton nett, but the makers are not disposed to
sell much on these terms Pig iron in Glas-
gov has been sold these last few days in
large quantities at "a los nett cash, but to
is now refused for all numbers. The whole
sale price Of Welsh bars (common) in the
Liverpool market, is 60 los per ton; nail
rod sSl0 los; best bars Ell los to El2
sheets and boiler plates &I3; and other sorts
in proportion Spectators aud dealers are
not al all anxious to sell, it being now quite
clear that prices must 60 up as high as they
ranged in former periods, when the same
causes which now exist, were in operation.
The Amazing demand for iron for railway
purposes, not only in Great Britain, but
throughout the continents of Europe and
America, is beyond any thing like former
precedent
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pissed for lines which would occupy all the
iron works in it nearly two years to supply,
ifthey did nothing else, to say nothing OF
the increasing consumption for iron ships,
steamers, and other purposes. What will
be the maximum at this period none can
tell. In 1925 it reached, for common bar,
.el5 per ton, in 1886 ell l0s., aud in 1889
.SI0 los, maintained at each time from one
to two years. That the latter figure will be
Immediately obtained is now matter of
certainty where it will stop, it is as impos-
sible to say as it is to tell the effect upon the
market price Of an article of great general
consumption, when the demand VIGOROUSLY
exceeds the supply, such being the present
position of the iron trade, every market OF
any standing being quite full of orders for
the next six months, and many, to their sor-
row, for much longer period.
Since the above was in type we are inform
ed Of quotation from Wales, at sfl0, mer-
chant bars, free on board GI2 has been
obtained for fourteen thousand tons of rails,
but seI2 los is now asked Common bars
in the Liverpool market. therefore, may al
most be considered at sfl0 los and we I'M
derstand pigs were sold yesterday on
Change at f5 IS 6d,-and even Is 40s,
cash, in Glasgow.
PARLIAMENT.
In the British House Of Commons on the
9th, Mr. Thornley, alluded to the reputed
fact, that, twelve hogsheads as samples of
sugar from New Orleans, had arrived in
London by the Franconia, aud he wished
to know whether this sugar, as well as that
imported from Louisiana and other slave
countries, would be admitted into Great
Britain upon the same terms as sugar i'm
ported from Java and Manillal
Sir Robert Peel said that those countries
Of the IT, States in which sugar was produc-
ed by slave labor, aud admitted into Eng
land, were countries with which this king
dom had at present reciprocity treaties. He
would add, that he had no hesitation in say
ing that sugar, the produce of the United
States, included under the reciprocity trea-
ties, would be admitted under the proposed
advantages. Hear
Mr. Ewart wished to know whether it was
moi the fact that save-grown sugar, admit
ted at the reduced duty from the United
States would undersell the free-labor sugar
of Mauritius aud Jayy.
Sir R. Peel was understood to say that he
was not prepared with an answer.
!. SWITZERLAND.
Expulsion Of the Jesuits from Sioitzer-
land. The Queen Of the West has brought
intelligence from Switzerland, up to the Isl
Of March. The debate in the Diet at Zu.
rich, on the expulsion of the Jesuits, was oil
the mos. exciting character. The entrance
TO the Chamber was INSTRUCTED by dense
masses Of people, and it was only through
the aid of military force that passage
could be made for the members. The bust.
ness of the Chamber opened with motion
for the expulsion of the Jesuits, which mo-
ton was sustained by the presentation of pc
titions, signed by over 100, 600 citizens.
The liberalists denounced the jesuit,
without any reservation. Some of the lead
ers charged them with being corrupt il
morals: having lust for power; dangerous
because the laws of the order require impic
1t obedience, and because they have caused
civil commotions, and furnished arms witt
which to assail the liberties Of Switzerland
They are enemies of liberty, enemies of th'
Press, enemies of liberal education, and ar,
altogether unfit to direct the education o
Swiss children. They secretly wish 10 des