Star. — London, England, 1819-04-21 00:00:00

REPORT. ll* Mei dunlideole twinned fo ierr into the Grievances complibed a/ IN the Fillies of the Hesi.o end Fauerwork Xrdeines in the Weill Menelectory of the _Town, end Colony of Leicester, which wee presented to the Ofiele yM the 12th di? , of February last, and to report the same, with their Observations theremposh to the flonee,together with the Minutes of the Evidence lakes before thou ;—Have, par. seam to the Order of the House, Inquired into matters to them rehrredi and bare agreed to the following Report : It appears to your Committee, upon the testimony of many respectable Hosiers and Framework Knit ters deputed to represent the body of Petitioners, that their trade has been, and still is, greatly injured by the introduction into it of a fraudulent species of worsted hose, which is called cut-up work, an article in appearance so nearly resembling the properly wrought stocking, that consumers cannot easily dis tinguish it, and which, though differing very little in price from the fair article, is greatly inferior in value. That since its introduction, the workmen en gaged in this trade have suffered the severest priva tions and distress, and are totally unable to maintain themselves and their families, by the utmost exertions of their industry, the average rate of their earnings not exceeding from 6s. to 7s. per week on labour of 15 hours a day ; that consequently they are now very generally reduced to pauperism, to the enormous in crease of the Poor-rates in all the parishes. both of the town and county where the manufacture is car ried on, to the great injury of the middle classes of society, and to the destruction of that spirit of inde pendence for which these mechanics were formerly conspicuous ; it having been proved, that. till the po rind before-named, the workmen in this vide have constantly obtained such wages as enabled them, with very few exceptions, to maintain themselves and their families by their labour. That your Committee are satisfied, that the dete riorated condition of the workmen is in a conside rable degree eltving to the introduction of the article complained of, the inferiority of which has brought the worsted-staring trade into disrepute in the fo reign and home markets, and has thrown a great number of hands out of employment, without con ferring any advantage on the community. Your Committee further report, that both the ho siers and frame-work knitters (the masters and work men) express an equal desire for the prohibition of this at tide, and concur in declaring that it would, in their opinion, restore the workmen to their employ ment, and a more adequate rate of earnings; that it would benefit the hosier, by re-establishing the repu tation of his manufacture both at home and abroad; and that it would be greatly advantageous to the public, which is now injured by purchasing, at a tri fling reduction in price, an article greatly inferior in value, and which, from its near resemblance, a con sumer cannot easily distingui)h from the fair article. Your Committee further state, that it does not ap pear that its prohibition would subject the trade to any competition at present from foreigners, they not being able to obtain the raw material, which is pecu liar to this country, and not exportable; with these iu;spressions, your Committee are of opinion that the Legislature may with safety grant the prohibition which is prayed for, at least by way of experiment, for three years. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 21, 1819. • TIIE FUNDS. FDIC* OF STOCKS THIS DAT AT ODZ oCLCCK t per Ct. Reduced 711 711—Consoli 721 71f 72i 72 Cons for Arc. 721 71f 72.1 72-33 per Cent. 80{ 79f per Ct. 90 89/-5 per Ct. Navy 104 103+ 1041031 Bank Lg. Anna 18 13-16 f —lndia Bonds 36 37 pr. Exchequer Bills (2d.) S 4 pre.—Endorsed 1 dis 2 pr. A fall of one per Cent. has taken place in the Stocks Since the Commissioners were served yester day ; Copsols were then at 73. This morning they opened at 721 for the Account, but from the im mense' sales thrown upon the market, they fell to 71i. The depression is attributed to the present gloomy state of trade and commerce, and the unfavourable re ports in circulation respecting the amount of the Loan. Wagers ate laid the Lean will be Thirty Millions.— The Commissioners gave 711 for Red. and were served generally by the Jobbers. Charleston Papers four days later than the last arrival reached us this morning, but the only intelli gence in them is from Washiugton, relating to the Cession of Florida, which we had before received via New York. • A Haroburgh Mail, bringing Journals to the 13th, arrived this morning. The following are extracts : PIAMBUROIL APRIL sm. Public Journals affirm that the dignity of Heredi tary Land Marshal in the Kingdom of Hanover, will be made hereditary in the family of Count Munster. ST. PETERSBURGIII, MARCH 24. On the sth of this month the Deputies of Livonia, with their Land Marshal at their head, had the ho nour of being presented to the Emperor, in order to request the confirmation of the new Constitution for the Peasants. They received a most gracious answer from his Majesty, who observed s--is It must be agreeable to your hearts to have contributed to the happiness of a numerous and important class of men by concessions which facilitate the means of acquir ing it to persons born with equal claims to it. You have acted in the spirit of our age, in which liberal principles alone can found the happiness of nations:" The Nobility of the Government of the Duna have now also resolved on the emancipation of the Pea sants, their vassals. In the Government of Courland, the number of births in the Lutheran Conniunities last year was s ir.. . 4 !! .. ~a 14,272, and tbr, punier At ibtaaba,A,ol39 the latter were $45 by die augural small-pox. .• • BZBLIII, %A?SIB ' •:) His Majesty has addressed the following Cabieet Order, - dated the nth kat. to the Von AltensteEn: " In consequence of the tegulations made by his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Save-Weimar, respecting the foreigners studying at the University of Jena, I have resolved that the youth belonging to my dominions, who are studying there, shall be im mediately recalled, to continue their studies at some University in my kingdom. Any of them who shall not immediately conform to this order, shall never obtain any office in my dominions. I hereby charge you to make this generally known by ;nears: of the public journals, and to take immediately such mea sures as are necessary." A Convention has been concluded, according to which (even in the course of the present year, and i before the commercial treaty made with Russia s in full force), the woollen, linen, and leather manufac tures of Prussian origin shall, if accompanied by au thentic certificates of origin, be greatly favoured in respect to the import duties . into the kingdom of Poland. HANOVItIi, APRIL 7. By unavoidable circiunstances there are a great many Subaltern Officers and privates,. of the late German Legion, who, though covered with wostade or disabled by the fatigue of the service and , increas ing age, have not become entitled to the provision from England. Lieutenant-colonel P. Von Linsingen has now addressed a circular letter to those Officers of the Legion who have half-pay from England, in• viting them to give one :day's halPpay every quar ter for those brave men, and also for the widows and orphans, and to appoint a Committee for that purpose, the whole with the approbation and parti cipation of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge. By order of the British Government, a se cond payment of Waterloo prize-money is now making, which amounts to £54. 17s. 4d. for a Staff Officer, £7 for a Captain, and 10s. Sd. for a Subaltern. In consequende of a Resolution of the Assembly of the States, the forced Loan, ordered during the occupation of the kingdom by the enemy, by the French Interldani Belleville, has been declared a debt of the kingdom. BRI6 , IITON, APRIL 194 We regret to observe that his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT is indisposed with a return of the gout. An express was sent off for his Royal High ness's Physician in Ordinary, Sir N.J. Ti zits EY, Bart. to his house in Dover -street, towards the evening yes terday ; and the return of Sir MATTHEW, who had left the Pavilion b.it on Saturday, was the conse quence as early as three o'clock, A.M. this day. The inquiries of Nohiiity were very numerous dining the early part of the morning. A Bulletin of Aealth, of which the following is a orrect copy, was at length exhibited, and which much relieved the growing anxi eties not only of the Nobility, but °Vali rants and descriptions of the people, viz. " Pavilion, 11 o'Clock, AM. April 19, 1119. " The Puma Ruiner was severely attacked by rattail* left hand and wrist, on Saturday night, which still onatinimig his Royal Highness has passed two restless nighA t iltie in atm respects is doing well. J. M. TIERNEY. At nine o'clock this evening, we are happy to`add, his Royal Highness was considered quite aswell - as in the morning.--The Earl of Firs is the only Pavi lion arrival to-day. Tus Elms or Yons,Yesterday the following Bulletin was issued respecting the Duke of Yogic. It will be seen, that Sir HINAY HALFORD has again been called in to attend the Royal Duke: " WTIMIOII, CAM; 41.111 L 20, 111112. " His Royal Highness the Duke of Yuiut continues free from fever, and is proceeding to recovery u favourably as possible." " HENRY HALFORD. " P. MACGREGOR." Princesses AUGUSTA and Somta take their airings daily, when the weather permits ; the Princess Au cosi.* to Frogmore, and Princess SoruzA in Wind sor Park. The Duke of BEDFORD is fast recovering from his late severe accident The Duke and Duchess of KENT are hourly ex pected at Dover, in the Royal Sovereign yacht from Calais. Captain Covay, his Royal Highness's Equerry, is already arrived at Payne's Hotel. Yesterday being the Duke of NoRTIIUMISEaLawn's ,birth•day, and being the thirty-fourth year. of his age, his Grace gave a grand dinner, en /milk, at his mansion in St. James's-square. The late HARVEY CHRISTIAN Comae, Esq. left a widow and ten children, four sons and six daughters.l To Mrs. Cowan he left 0,000 a-year for her life, issuing, out of his landed estates ; and to moth% on her decrate to his eldest sou ; to the ether 'togs £20,000 each ; and to the six daughters £l6,ooQ , eisth., The Bristol Election, it seems. cost Mr. Btorn.siflos £5,500, exclusive of ,100 subscribed by and the £7OO mustered by his constituents. The Russian Prince DOLOOROUCKI visited Chi tham-yard on Wednesday last, and paid very minute attention to every thing which was shop to bfrn.— , The principal officers of the yard accompanied hint through their several departments: Yesterday, the Loan Mayon held's' Court of Alder:. men at Guildhall. which was attended by eiihteiii Aldermen, the Recorder. Sheriffs, and City &c. Several bars of gold, 'weighing about MO ounces, were sworn to as oreign previous to expottas tion. The Court sll y tooted thanks tq Tirel Reverend Father in Goy the Lord Bishop of 144c -701W1 and to the Honourable and Revbrenci'llsl4 AsroN, for their Sermons, preached at Christ Cliiiirth, Newgate-street, on Monday and Tuesday in Bkakter week. Mr. JOHN SMITH and Mr. WILLIAM WA were sworn Coal-meters, slut Mr. SAMUEL ROLLS, a Cofh-meter in trust for the City, for a period of fistr years. The Chamberlain *ptbsented his half-yearly Account of the produce of the:Oiphans Bind. PARISIAN Ponuono.—tikort naiad areas of pink Intik Wilma Mind tit Windt, boom, led down, wk nroadown doom wry shalt White soda round but, not turned up is traps, mb a Was ci _Marabout fallibegs• Pfilkiktavidi a pink rose at the bottom of t he plum. • ' TAVgimpfAviogi',•.). .. ,iI.MWM, c'. .1 '.11101%a&-SZCHANOS • ' ttltiQstoilbie ilitcpradbris and uneertaintt isreflils in tlie rated Foreign Esehasiges. NES on Faris were negotiated in the early part of the business at tA..7e.. from which price they receded to 94.2. and towards the latter end rose again to 24. 5. which, we believe, mar be considered the fair average price for Bills at three months ; greater difference was noticed, how ever, in Bills at short date, and we have heard of their fluctuating about 90 centimes in value during Ex change hours. Amsterdam continues at 11.5. to 54. Hamburgh was done at 33. 10. to 104. printed 947. Frankfort 139 k. and 140. printed 141. Madrid 394. printed 38S. 4. Upon Genoa there were no Biils, and the course may be quoted 47g. and f. though printed 47k. For Naples there is also more money than Bills, 42t. may be considered the real price, 47i. being the printed quotation. Upon the whole, not much business was transacted, and the distinguishing feature of the Exchange business is extreme uncer- Minty and caution, and, generally speaking, more mosey than such Bills as will satisfy purchasers. DISCOUNT& These Cotitinut equally difficult, and indeed, until confidence .be ristorecl, we do not expect to report much improvement in this branch of our communi icationt:.--Foreign Gold in bars .E. 4 2s. 'New Dol lars ss. sd. Silver in bars standard ss. 6d. • XIN6INO-LANIL Since our Paper . bf Saturday we have liulo but mess to report. A public sale of Coffee, consisting of 158 casks and 372 bags, took 'place yesterday fore noon; they were chiefly Dutch, with only two lots Jamaica, and principally taken by the grocers at steady prices, say ordinary Dutch, rather damaged, 100 s. 6d.; good ordinary I 1 ls. ; fine ditto 114 s. 6d. to 115 s. 6d. none of which was clear; the . ordinary Jamaica, rather musty, fetched 100 s. Very liule busi ness was transacted by private contract, yet we no ticed some inquiry upon 'Change, and we think an improvement in price at hand. A considerable public sale of Sugar also took place yesterday, namely, 346 hhds. 29 tierces Jamaica, and 24 hhds. Demerara, but this article being very dull, the whole went off heavily at a reduction of about Is. from last Friday's sales, good strong brown Jamaicas fetching 695. and 71s. ; colouring 735. 6d. and 745. 6d.; ordinary brown 675. 6d. and 68s. 6d.; good brown Demerara 68s. and 695. the whole of the Jamaica were strong brown.—Molasses are heavy of sale and declining. In Foreign Sugars very little business was done. Refined equally heavy. COTTON MARKET. The chief inquiry continues for good Pernambuco Cotton for exportation, 'and such lots of East India Cotton as holders are necessitated to sacrifice, the highest limits for abroad being sd. to 50. for good fair Bengals. The sales last week were-100 Per nanis at 20d. ; a few Maranhams 171 d. ; picked Bahia .19d. ; 130 fair clear Demeraras 15d. a 15f•1. ; a few tierbice 141 d.; refuse 7d.; seedy West India '151.; pod Tobago 14d. and 15d. ; SG picked Boweds (in bond) 140. ; 100 good quality 156 d. a 'Sid.; and lin bond) 500 ordinary Surat: 6&d. ; 500 good ditto 13d.; and 400 Bengals, very ordinary, 50.; and pretty good 6d. Baltic, mut BO Pheridad With sNish by bald:, or etherwite they would tax be admitted tile Prussian poet:: a bill of bealth direct Ni t * land would not suffice. CORN-MARKET. MARK.LANE, Owing to contrary winds we have had Iv an. from our own coast since Monday, and w fine English Wheat was left over from SAtutd ay, taken off on full as good terms as quoted m last. Barley continues very heavy sale, haei nd hz. few buyers of that article; and the artiv : l s c, t abroad glut the market. Oats support Mei...!zs's prices, and Beans were more inquired after ; holders ask higher prices, which ar.: rot to be obta-,..., LEEDS, APRIL 2?. We „have been somewhat r.lar:r.ed here though, no bad consequences hive fel:me t !, b : most numerous assemblage of croppers, sirs, and other artisans and labourers out of ment. They kept coming in at an early hoa r forenoon from Wortley, Armley, Elo!beek, R a j the neighbouring towns and villages; and it is ccx. puted, that at one time, there were full three fr.• : . wild of these distressed people assembled, caie,i a Briggate. As many of them marched into C o With great sticks in their hands, they treated s;; :r .. little alarm, but their conduct was uniformly pe ace , able: their complaints were not !and, though t h might be deep The Worthy Mayor and Magist rate , , with the whole of the Civil Power, were in reading;, to act as circumstances might require; but, forth. nately, there was not the slightest occasion for the : interference. By fat the greater numbest of the asea,. blage dispersed by noon, and returned to their mgt• tive homes' Several respectable Gentlemen went among them, to a'certain the' mctives of their thus assembling; and frosts every inquiry it does not a;• pear that ihey have the least disposition to coma any breach 6f the peace but, in fact, the peep kaenV-,144 3vhat to.do in . their preient state of dn. tress. I 'understand- that art..active subscriptions I•gOing on in enable a nuntlik.of these poor men to premed in .Canada: and oglers :t.e said to barer:. pressed their wish to be sent to Botany Bay, provicLA they can 'Obtain the sanction of Govetnment. The case of these people is a very perplexing one; for emit numbers augnient daily by fresh discharge'. fro:at:ls various manufactories. TEWKSBURY. An intelligent Correspondent from 'Fmk sbmT, in Gloucestershire, states, that the continued deptessi. n of the stocking manufactory has induced the Ji.;• tens to suspend . their employ to artificers. He we have no trade—no money—and unless some• thing is done to relieve the accumulating burden of the Poor's Rate, we must al be ruined; one house discharged a hundred hands last week, and others are daily decreasing the number of their workmen: the consequences have caused an influx of applica tions for relief at the Workhouse, more apalling and extensive than at any former period. Our Cartes pendent further notices the gradual decline of bust ness, and the eventful results which are fearfully ar• ticipated by the whole of the inhabitants of this once flourishing town, than which there is not one better situated for commercial intercourse. No less than, two hundred and fifty of oar Nasal Lieutenants have recently embarked for Canada, to possess themselves of their portions of land in province, conformably to the regulations of Govern. meet in their favour. Plymouth Dock-yard has received a large supply of timber within the list few days, all British wood. In the course of the last year considerable quantities were imported from Dalmatia, Africa, America, Sa. Some idea of the magnitude of the yard may be ob tained by the information that it stands oa seventy five acres of land. Our agricultural friends are informed that the oil of hartshorn, applied in a small quantity to the heads and rtunps of lambs, effectually prevents the fox from taking them, or the fly from striking them. The warm weather, during the last two weeks, has effected a perceptible change it the vegetable world: the pastures present the most verdant appearance; peaches, nectarines, early pears, &c. are in full and abundant blossom ; and the apple and pear-orchards promise a luxuriant blow. The N er t hWili n Canal, which commences at the Wilts and Perks Canal, near Swindon, and terminates .in the Thames and Severs% Canal, at Latton, near Cricklade, Was opened on Friday week for Oivizat , o l The nevi Eitimates made on.llouttes and-winiinws , under the held of Assessed Tann, will . produce, in the patish-atikenerse, lisfoceeer-xlinare, ewe, an Addition' 0tL1,900 - alrenr. .; - . A Shoutei7.s(Sak4imsrilbPiiiie . fries-shire: —.Some weeks ago,. a severe shower of ialtowater fell. in the parish of St. Mungo, iraltosAies-shire. The follow- Um day, when the water was evaporated, the Teases of - evergreens and tiouicAlii eiltedges glistened w:th crystals of sale. . , :v.: - Monday afternocnivevro-; Pcwere tossing rip at t 4 back of - the White Horse-pi Petticoat-hr.!: after some dispute they_ quarritga; fine"Orarifg ze had won, the other he hndaost ; a waft who was Ft ,aent and saw the whole• transaction, - interfered, nYi ;declared the winner.: the boy Who had kit, in a v:e• kit - rage," stabbed the man with i'kaiife.l the, holy in three places, ancltbe boy who had-lionihare 4 a similar fists. The wounded man was taken to art:l:r -. ~ 's in Bishligate-street, who his declared hint out of danger ; the ' wai "taken honie to his mother. br young .assa6siu bas aped ft)r• the present. About avachvicleilc yssterdny morning, an alarm ing fire broke r out at the sign of the Ship and gut ch l'on • Al, - opposite tir k ii4*- - t rih. Wapping, - which i n aim u. cousitaiteashilmterior. On the arrival 0 1 --1 ‘ and a onpplrel mater being at band, the '-jii•t'Withetft fiddler 4amilge : ri fa: _ STOCK AND DELIVERIES LAST ICES[ OF WIST INDIA PRODUCE— Sugar—.4toek 12,749 Ishds. 5086 tierces. Delivered 1,279 579 Coffee—Stock ._ 6,406 bhds. 9,717 bags. Delivered 3Ol Ruin—Stock 695 tilids. Delivered Cotton—Stock......... 1,9116 bags. Delivered lO Pimento—Stock 475 tasks. 7,557 bags. D e li vered — 152 Ginger—Stock l,ss 3 .casks. 1,174 bags. _ _ _ Delivered lllO *pm* Cocoa—Stock 1155 csiks. 1.139 bags. EAST AND WEST INDIA PRODUCE EXPORTED LAST WEEt. Coffee, 4,044 cwt. Nutmegs, 1,811 lbs. Sugar, 5,167 cwt. Cloves. 2,475 Ibs. Rum, 27,337 gams, Cm:mum, 2,108 s lbs. ladigQ, 61,967 lba. Rice, 5011 ewt. Pepper, 41,210 lbs. Cotton, 569,633 lbs. Pimiento, 11,5 . 44 lbs. Tobacco, 425,785 lbs. FOREIGN TRADE. Ha"UR", APR '16.-r-Coi r ee has experienced various fluctuations lately, similar qualities have been old lit very different prices according to the lest ',parties. Within this day or two. *Wet', ae liotico greater Steadiness in prices and 'some degree of brislnuiss occasioned by an increased demand. •,.. I • "l e attp!ettlihusairti.itt ist‘ce, notwithstanding very little.. tArt it i 00; .For Refined Sugar 4re is Apleuls . ,inciutiy, portienlarly in the ben& gialitiee woad sniticllimilanthorgh Loaves sold at SlLVAlaitiOlkaustillittieftSo foie - cpality, are held at ,ii.IS tf, i l i thfritPe`deterirtintiijfe without buyers, at - ~rifv:likiii- i to.Ailthave rated as . high as. : gal4e§4 i 4; , ;ord,in' ary St. Domingo and: BrOvin itiartiniquo‘no more than nine grout can beebtilnixl• . !lELsINOaa, APRIL lO.—We hive hid rather blow, ing weather lately, and chiefly frOn Ihk - rwillAtOrirsli which-has forwarded the ships detained here .._6 9 - i, the Baltic ; bot.this morniisg it- has suddenly vetetit *gain to the North West, -kirk *ea& ifs** firir arrivals from England;'. At[ *er is just IsublOtiillt from the Prussian Goyertifti4 Pme octing,4o:teii4l ship front- the liimith.lea to . any , iinvi psni inAt. - •. • 4"( • ••••• I 4. .••••% .7- - 1........-.- .~