The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-10-27 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

BRADFOIID.—WooI Nlarket.—The transactions to-day and throughout the week have been extremely limited ; and as the market is well supplied, the purchasers only take for inimeuiate use. There is a great firmness manifested in the country, which causes the staplers to hold for late prices. Yarn Market. —We cannot learn that our market is any worse to-day and the business may be considered very similar to several weeks past. The very low prices for Yarn are telling upon our operatives. The Wool c tubers are not so fully ernp:oyed, which clearly indicates that the machinery is not fully in work.-Piece Market.—There is nothing very particular in the demand for goods to-day. Low mcreens and damasks are more inquired atter ; also Orleans, merinos, and paramattas are in' steady request, without alteration in prices. LEI cEsTritt.—We are sorry to hear complaints from the manufacturers principally engaged in the London trade, o, the con" thin:A flatness of the demand. Considering thaqit is now the height of the season for worsted arid wo, lien goods, it is nn" usually dull. The country houses ire better oft, and are dola.g.. a hill average business in wrought hose : the supply is .scarcely equal to the demand. The straight-down branch is flat. cu and Yarns are stationary, mith rather less doing.  r TFIE NAVIGATION LA od city WS.—NIr. Cobden's -° of Manchester is well disposed to do that bonortble ge tleman's woik bravely. Whilst the former is busi4n_ France in making that kingdom a huge and general coin vert to free trade, by pointing out to them that one of its results will be the destruction of the colonial supremacy of Great Britain. Man:hearer by her Chamber of Commerce, is aly.ut to lend a helping hand to our faithless ally over the channel, by procuring from a Whig government (if it can he done be menace or cajolery), a repeal, of the navigation laws. For the sake of saving a trifling impost now applied to those who complain, but who are very far from being the real sufferers, these patriotic manufacturers are, in their insanity, committing an act of suicide upon themselves. The repeal of these laws would reduce Great Britain to a fifth-r ate power. We owe their establishment to the Protector Cromwell : they form one of the solitary flowers reared by him amid the desolation which he had caused and cultivated on the soil of the monarchy, and had he done nothing more. and left undone all that he did besides, no one would have contested his right to a statute as one among the benefactors of England. The wise administration of these laws has helped to establish the naval supremacy and the commercial greatness of the empire. By them our vast carrying trade is secured to British suhjects, and the important art or science of ship-building encouraged within our own private and public establishments. By their repeal, our ports would be filled by foreign vessels bearing our produce ; foreign crews working the ships so employed ; and we should not alone have distress among a wide class who have not hitherto grievously felt that visitation, but with it we should lose our nursery for seamen, and oar' navy would, as long as it remained to us, be built in foreign yards. There is no doubt but that, if this new de, 'nand for repeal be complied with, foreign seamen would be engaged to woik at a considerably lower rate of wages than our own, and vessels for English proprietors would be built on French, and 'American stocks at much less cost than they are now built on our own ; but these adv sntages to begin with would be ruin in the end, and it would be found that a repeal of the navigation laws would be, in reality, an enactment fur enriching the foreigner st the mortal and countless cost of the people of Great Bris tain.—Church and Stale Gazette.  total anb probincial .t 1 6.  TH•E