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MR. JEFFERSONIS DEATH. Letter from Mr. T. J. Randolph to a gentleman in New York : " 3lontfrello. July 4.1824. have withheld my leiter to announce, not, as had vainly oped. my beloved gesndfatl• restnratlon, but, alss ! his death. H e e xpired this day, 10 miridtes I,vtore I p.m. I have to return, for him, his and my awn , eternal nraiitude foe the comfort and eon 103t iOll which the unexampled kindness of yourselves and the New Verb comntittee afforded hid* in his last moments. He died as lie bad lived,the same calm, serene, benevolent, great man.—theerfully co mmitting his soul to Ithi Hod, and his child to his country : gra tified in hi. only wish' that this day and hour should be the moment of his death. . I " Tunstas J. RIStYMIPN." • It appears that the disease of which Mr. Jefferson died was diarrhoea of long cOntinuancc. He was buried on the sth, without any r omp or procession, in compliance with his dying request, in the cemetery of Uonticello. He left a '• Memoir of which will be speedily published. The day of his birth was the Yd April, old style, answering to the 13111 of the new. Mr. Wirt (.Ittorney-Generei et the United States) was unanimon , 7y appointed to deliver an eulogy on Mr. Jeffer son at IVashington: • 'the following is ao extract of a private letter received Nesterday " liattsarrs, Attn. lt. "In one of my fanner communications I mentioned the probe 'aility of e ime further change among the high functionaries of this country;'w Mt+ has since taken place. namely, among the governors l'hie removal of one of ths..t, that of Ems' ti lan iters, has neatens/feel other changes. 'But what has most excited the public atteation is, the nomination of the Attorney-general, Via cuixte V a nder Posse, to tits- place of Civil Governor of North Bra. bunt, the chief town of which is Bois le hue. The cause of this strange transplantation ie. hoverer, not unknown. Years ago M. Vander Fosse was expected to hare a tumble, on account of very serious differerces between him and the Minister of Justice. Van 31aanen, and which had been carried on with great animosity, so that it was imposaible both shoald remain in stations which pre anted continually points of contact. After a long struggle, th 31inister has gained the tic ory ; and M. Vander Fosse changes his black judicial gown and bonnet fur the embroidered coat Aral plainest hat of Cover:no, and the brilliant residence of Brussels to that of Beisde-Ituc, a most dull place. ••• Our funds are rising; the stocks of theSaciety of Commerce of the Netherlands. which trete as low as 71;, me again at 114. •• to Joseph Iluonaparte, whoM some papers mate already to hoe taken s w.:lk through Brussels, I Coll assure you that he is no: yet ar rived anal that no preparations even are made for his rt cqtion at the lintel de Belle Vue ; in truth, lie cannot yet be 'tier:. The p:ratission that allows hint to reside in this country was expe• muted to him but three or four weeks ago. lie will certainly have traiasl for it in the United S:ates, and thus. before it reaches him, and he embarks for Europe, smite time will elapse. • Th e j oa soal de l'arrahurglt et the 15th dub" contains the programme of the solemn enter and the coronation of the Emperor or Bassin at 3loscow. Ills latjestv will make his entry on hrse hack, surrounded by the Grand Dukes and the Princes of Prussia and Wirtemberg." Extract of a Letter from an Officer on board the United States ship Cyane, at Rio de Janeiro : • We arrived on the Ist of 31arch at San Salvador, one of the most beautiful harbours In the world.' Wisils'catinot describe its splendour. It is built along en elevated and extensive ridge, coo. manairg a stew of the commodious, spacious, and noble bay. The houses are gencindly lofty, and built of white marble. In the rear ot'thc city is a lake in theism of a crescent. San Salvador ia thus neatly surrounded by water, and by nature almost impreanable. The fortifiemions are very scientifically andatronsly constructed. Ihrir.g our stay the Emperor and his family arrived on a visit to the city.. _He was received with considerable parade. The Em peror himself has a military air, but the Empress has nothing vety recommendable in her appearance. She was on one side of her husband, and leis dere anti on the other. Ilia daughter, sited seven rears, rode a little in advance. It Is said that the k.m pane has abdicated the Portugal Crown in her favour. • • • • • • • • • S • "A man of wa cannot approach the city of Buenos Ayres marathon within fifteen miles, where you lie in about Si fathoms of wrer. This city. lies on a flat cheerless plain, which is bounded by the river. The sea has evidently receded a considerable distance from its old limit.. Tue population Is about 6 1 1,000 Wyatt:leis, who is at the head of the Government- is a man of great ability. 1 hope he may carry the Benublicans safely through their present war with the Brasilia's*. These latter have thirty sail of men of war now in the river of Plate, consisting of frigates and corvettes. Brown's fume Is much smaller, yet he attacks them on every wa it* without limitation. On the night of the Nth he engaged Atkins' Lobo's fleet, took two schooners, and cut up one of the large frigates in fine style, besides killing her Captain and forty mot. With a larger force he would easily destroy the Brazilian fleet. we arrived at Janeiro on the 20th of June, in expectation of Ending despatches, but were disappointed. Whither our next destination may be 1 do not know, but probably we shall touch at the several ports along the coast. " We hare had the small pox, by which we last our aurge3n, Doctor W. D. Rabbet. The dis:ase, however, soon subsided.— lours, truly," ike. HEALTH or Most La.—'rite W.gister states that there has not been an interment in Mobile for the last nineteen days.—Lowisiana Adverliar, June 19. HEALTH ASSURANCZ roes M DIC AT. Meg—The . following observations on Mr. Alison's scheme, in the Dumfries Courier, we have reason to believe, are from the pen of the Rev. Dr. Duncan, who has studied the subject perhaps more carefully than any other person in this country:- - The scheme proposes that there should be funds coed:shed snplicatle to the following purposes, viz. : —lst, Health Assurance; SI. Deferred Annuities; 3d, Life Assurance; 4th, Annuities to Widows; and sth, Endowments to Children." With regard to the proposal that such numerous objects should be embraced by the society, we detour a little. There are so many well established and highly respectable institutions, which already embrace all that is desirable in deferred annuities and life assurance, and which can be mode to answer the purpose of endowments to children, that we are not aware of any necessity for a new society to secure the attain omit of these objects; and we would humbly advis- the patrons of the sche,ne to consider whether the including of these objects, at least immediately, might not render their operations unnecessarily complicated and unwieldy. Were they to confine themselves at first to health assurance, and annuities to widows, or even to the former of these only. they would, we think, bid fairer for ultimate sucee.s, not merely for the reason already suggested, but also they would have the great advantage of steering clear of all other insti tutions, and of devoting themselves entirely to the supply of an ob vioas and universally acknowledged desideratum. Now, an insti video for health assurance, is no other than a friendly society on the common principle, the advantsges of which have been so long and so extensively enjoyed among the labouring classes: and our only wonder is, that these advantages should have been so long confined to that rank of life. There can be no dubt that profes sional men may be benefited as much as those who live by the la bour of their hands, and that, speaking generally, they do not stand less in need of it. To cluirity they cannot stoop like their in. !ethos, and the strum;les and privations to which they must fre quently be subjected in supponiug their families, and in preserving appearances when ill health has dried up their usual resources, may be teadily conceived. Aftiendly society of the kind contemplated, therefore, appears to us to promise much advantage, and we heartily congratulate Mr. Alison on the judicious object of benevolence to which he has devoted himself. Something of the same kind has already been established with flattering prospects in London, and we doubt not that the result in Scotland will not be less encourag ing than in the English metropolis. But it seems necessary for in suring success that those who favour the measure should imme diately declare themselves; for it can scarcely be expected that any individual should continue to keep alive his zeal in promoting such a scheme, should lie be met with lukewarmness by those whom he is labourirg to benefit. Madame Raymond has addressed to the King a suppli cation in favour of her husband, which M. Rothschild is said to have promised to second with all his influence. The Baron is also said to have presented Mine. Raymond the sum of 10,000 franca, which Raymond left at his office. An action for damages has been commenced against a merchant a! Marseilles by a great number of French me chanics, who hail been induced by him to go to Egypt, in the service of the Pacha. They have recently returned to their native country, after having under4one great priva tions, and been ill used by the Pacha's Ministers. Mr. David Lindsay, farmer of IVester Adamston, near Dundee, being engaged in getting in his harvest, a relation, Mr. George Martin, grocer, Scouringburn, agreed to assist in overlooking the shearers for a few days. Ott Tuesday evening, after the labours of the day had been brought to a dow, Mr. Martin walked forth into a field ; and when missed, tome time after, it was thought lie had gone home to his houae in Dundee. Wednesday morning, however, Mr. Martin was discovered in a field of barley, lying quite dead. The body was cold and stiff when discovered ; and it is thus conjectured that life had for some time been extinct. There is a document circulating through the country, by means of the newspapers, purporting to be an account of the revenues of all the royal burghs in Scotland. he Ihortfrire ti , ,urier remarks, that with respect to that burgh it is totally erroneous. We have the same complaint to make with respect to its account of our own. It states the revenue of Cupar to be 2,0821., and the expenditure to he 1 ,262/., leaving .surplus of 800/. This is too good news to be true. We are informed that the revenue does not at present amount to more than the above-mentioned plus,—Fije Herald. MEETING OF SILK MANUFACTURERS AND ?HEIR JOURNEYMEN. At a Meeting held a shot' those ago by the Journeymen Wesven of Spitaltields, for the purpose of considering what steps ought to be taken to avert the distressing consequences that were likely to result to them from the loai!equacy of the wages they were receiv ing, it was determined to call a Meeting of element, Ist order to come to some amicable arrangement upon the subject. They ac c•rslingly advertised that such a Meeting would he held at the London Tavern. on Monday, the 14th inst. In pursuance of this advertisement, about heir a dozen gentle men attended at the London Tavern yeetenlay„ when, atter waiting a considerable time, and the company not increasing. Mr. lieu was called to the Cheir. That gentleman spoke in terms of com mendation of the cot did of the journeymen. and considered they hail a just claim upon tile serious attention and consideration of the master manufacturers. He condetimed the system of reducing wages below a fair remunerating price, which for the last few years hat been most impoliticly and unjustly pursued when trade became bad. This nractice had been adopted by masters in consequence of the doctrine laid down by the late Mr. Ricardo, that whatever was saved in the redue ion of wages was so much added to capital. This, boa ever, ha I been found to be a most fatal error. and was now pretty well felt to be so throughout the country. The comm. (plaice of such a system was, that in proportion to the reduction of the price of labour below what a man could comfortably live upon and support his family by, the parochial anicesinente were in. creased ; and thus the money that ought to he paid for wages, wee diverted into aeother channel, and disbursed in pom'a rates. By compelling the labourer to have recourse to the overseers to eke out his miserable existence, his spirit of independence became extinct, and he was no longer an useful member of society. Much rather would he, as a masted, employ twenty men at full price, than have the labour or furty at halt price, and so drive them to the pariah for the remainder. The latter course made the men discontented with Government, and urged them to the annuli:mite' of acts of open violence hash wpon peetions and propeety. The object of the pre sent Meeting was to adopt souse plan to enable them to tie • fair and regular price fur labour. Ile had just received a letter from the Committee of Journeymen who had been appointed to meet the 31totters, saying that they were in the adjoining mom, and awaited the pleasure of the Meeting. In consequence, however, of the few persons present, lie thought it would be better to adjourn, and en deavour to procure a fuller attendance of the Masters on a future day. Had the Meeting beets more numerously attended, he should have submitted Name Ilesolution■ for their consideration, to the effect that it was their opinion that wages ought meer to be reduced below a fair and jest remuneration of the labourer. which weuld enable hint to live by hie own exertions, without asking the aid of charity, parochial or otherwise; that the request of the journeymen weavers to have a regular price fixed was founded in Justice, and ought to be complied with : and that a Committee should be formed to procure the united approbation and concurrence of the masters to suc h an arrangement. A fr ewe t.e.MAN thought it would injure the cause if they went into any Resolutions at so thin a Meeting, and approved of an ad. joitrnment. The other gentlemen present acquiesced in the propriety of call ing a fuller Meeting, and an adjournment accordingly took place. The Committee of Journeymen were then sent for, and Mr !fat a infotined them that, in consequence of the thin sittentlance of the Masters, it had been determined to poopotc coming to any Resolutions until a future •leeting had been called. The Committee expreseed their surprise and regret that so few Masters were in attendance; but they fully agreed in the propriety of another .deeding being called betige soy Resolutions were passed upon the subject. PUBLIC RECA.VTATIoN OF POPERY AT BRISTOL. The following declaration was read at St. Mary Redcliff church, Bristol, by the officiating minister, in the presence of a numerous and rspectable congregation, and signed by witnesses:— " Please to take notice, the Declaration, as follows. is signed by James Lanigan, a Roman Catholic, who is now to be admitted a member of the Church of England. " • I. James Lanigan, being a Roman Catholic, of the town of Waterfonl, Inland, of the age of 45 years (about 40 years) (my Miller and mother being also of the same persuasion, together with my uncle, who was a Homan Catholic Bishop, but now deceased, and under Whom I was brought up), do voluntarily tender this my confession before the members of the Church of England, and hereby renounce all connexion with the Roman Catholic body of professed Christiana, ' who teach for doctrines the commandments of men' (Mann. xv. 9.). and all adherence to their doctrines which are derogatory of the truth of God, and therefore Inconsistent with the Christian name and profession ; and I do hereby sincerely and openly disavow my former principles, and solemnly take upon my self the profession of the Protestant faith, a., laid down and taught in the 39 articles of the Church, and do desire most fervently to be allowed a participation in its privileges, and more especially to be admi.ted attnr previous examination of my fitness, and due inquiry into my circumstances connected with this change of my principles, to the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, as soon as may be deestiesl expedient by the Minister presiding. Given under my hand this sixth dab' of August, in the year of our Coed 1826. " • JAMES LANIGAN.'" (Signed in my presence, and rend in our Church) R. M.A. Presiding Minister at St. Mary Itedcliff: DIXON, Officiating Minister. FOTIIENGILI. } Churchwardens. RICHARD POOLE IeING, 11. itiIIGSTOCb:C. THOS. BROWN. Attesting the public reading in the Church on the same day of the above declaration of Jamey Lanigan. T:x rat PLOV ED Pal sir 1/11.—On Monday a general meet ing of the journeymen printers of Edinburgh was held in the Methodist Chapel, Nicolson-square, for the purpose of devising means to relieve the necessities of the unemployed of that profession. In the course of proceedings it ap peared that upwards of sixty men are at present out of work in this city ; many of whom have large families, and have scarcely had any employment since December last. In the seouel it was resolved to set on foot an immediate subscription among those at present in work, and a Com mittee was appointed to wait upon the masters, to solicit ' their co-operation, and to take such other steps as should be deemed advisable, for the purpose of relieving their dis tressed brethren.—Caledonian Mercury. The Lord Provost of Edinburgh has received the sum of 161. 10s. for the relief of the distressed manufacturers, and the following explanatory narrative :—Mr. Alexander Anderson, of the city of Kingston, Jamaica, after having read to his workmen, from an English newspaper, an ac count of the distressed state of the operatives in the British manufactories, asked if they would subscribe for the relief of their starving white brethren? They readily assented; and the operatives of this gentleman alone collected twenty eight pounds currency, which, remitted at the exchange of 174 per cent., gives 161. Ills. sterling, now placed at the I disposal of the Lord Provost, to be applied where it is most required. FEY sa IN DU t.lN.—The fever, we regret to state, Is every day extending ; the hospitals, and even the tempo rary sheds fitted up for the reception of patients, are all full, besides which, we understand, that 300 fever patients are lying in their own rooms, from the impossibility of ac commodating them in any of the hospitals. The fever, as vet, is confined to the working classes, but an epidemic and very contagious dysentery prevails generally throughout the city ; we have not, however, heard of any instance of its terminating fatally. FILAVD.—The public are cautioned against *swindler, who has lately figured away upon the town, and defrauded various tradesmen of different articles of goods, by the tra velling names of Mr. Ballet, brother of a gentleman well known, the Rev. Mr. Ortle, &c. Amongst the sufferers are—Mr. Harrington, jeweller, of Nottingham-street, of some gold watches ; Mrs. Perrot, of Tottenham Court road,of a quantity of lace and the lease of a house. Pla cards are issued for his apprehension. Ltiniertous Ace" nes•r.—A distressing, and at the same time ludicrou saccitlent, happened last week in the vicinity of Kingswell-strand Distillery, near Auchterarder. A gen tleman and his lady from Edinburgh were on a visit to a friend's house ; and a party, consisting of them, their friend, his lady, and another, was formed to visit the dis tillery. On their return, they had to cross the stream called the Ruthven, by a narrow wooden bridge, which overhangs a pool of some depth. The Edinburgh lady shuddered at the idea of it ; she protested the bridge was too frail to sustain them. One of the gentlemen assured her she was mistaken, and to show at once the strength of the bridge and of his own faith, he led the way, and taking the lady by the hand, she followed him ; another of the lailiesiollowed her, and last of all came the remaining gentleman ; the third lady, being rather sceptical, remained on terra firma, surveying with horror the rash attempt. Just as the weight of this adventurous party pressed upon 1 the centre of the bridge, it gave way, v hen the whole were precipitated into the pool beneath, up to their chins in water. They could not extricate themselves by their own efforts, for the bank on one side was steep and lofty ; and the other side inaccessible, owing to the depth of wa ter; and there the ladies had to remain, for some consi derable time, kept afloat by the exertions of the gentlemen, until, at length, they reached a more shallow part of the river, when they were landed in the presence of several in dividuals, who bad come to the spot on hearing the screams of the ladies. THE BRITISH vPIIESg STATE OF TIRADE. [From the Leeds Memory.) In our paper of the ?Id uh. we stated *at a deputation of ex-operati%e maoufactiorers from the township of Almondhury had waited upon the Earl of Hamwood, Lord Lieutenant of thin Kids t.) present a memorial, agreed upon at a meeting of the dies tressed and unemployed inhabitants of that district, describing tneir situation and begging th a t his Lordship would point out tothem such modes of relief as his wisdom might suggest. In the course of a long conversation, the Ilubstante of which we have already re ported, his Lordship said that, in order to judge more accurately of the nature and extent of the distress under which that part of the country from which the deputation came way labouring, he should beglad to know how many otthe families of the neighbouring town. ships, of the corking clams, were fully employed, how manti partial employm e nt, sod how many wententirely without la w; and he should also be glad to know, from actual survey, what wan the weekly income, from every source, of the individuals composing those families. This informaion the deputation promised to Col lett, and its, Ibllowing is the result, as transmitted this reek to his Lordship: TH t: TOWNSHIP OF KIRK ■URTON'. lucomc Income ierl4al. 8 Families 28 Individ, 14 88 d{l. 3 . 1 321 9.1. 74 449 I. 3d. 48 232 Is. 9J. per bl. 311 ?attain 161 Indir. 2s. 3d. 17 $$ 2s. 93. 6 16 le. 3d. 11 32 3s. WI. 30 139 from •ban In this Township, 22 indivict partially. and AO ; unemployed. no account can be got. arc found fully employed, 397 Ist THE TOWNSHIP 10 Families 56 Individs. Od.l 15 97 aid. 21 140 9d. 30 210 Is. 3d. OE KIRK HEATON. YS Families MS Intlit. Is. 9a. II 49 2s. 34. 2. tl. in this Township. 18 are and 193 unemployed. 11 fron;l;am • co account could be get.. fully employed, 149 pallidly, IN TILE TOWPISHIT or ALMOXDBURY. 93 Families 395 Individs. 0.1. 23 Families ill Intliv. Si. 341. 31 173 did. 19 3s. 9J. 116 665 91. 8 41 44. 3d. 137 961 lis. 3d. 12 40 4s. 9d. 129 715 ls. 9,1. 6 19 ba. Oil. 81 447 2s. 3J. 5 11 fad. 47 252 2s. 9d. 1 2 Bs. 6d. In this Township are found, Mt fully employed, 616 partially and 039 unemployed. We have not been able to ascertain With any degree of precision the effect produced by the discontinuance of relief to the unemployed pour in Leeds. In many cams the food voted to be dispensed in three weekly allowances, before the operations of the society ceased, is still sustaining the distressed ; in EVIG work may have been ob tained; and those whose parishes are tolerably liberal will have the failure of this resource supplied by parochial assistance ; hut we fear with all these palliatives that there is a great degree of suffering, aris ing almost to absolute famine, and venture to recommend that th e benevolers should, to the best of their power, supply by privat e donations the suspension of pubic charity. There arc at present about 1,001, stuff looms in Leeds. of which not above one half are in employment. Considerable disquietude exists amongst the masters as to the rate of wages, but by far the greater part of diem, both in number and consequence, wish to keep up the prices paid to the weavers. which are very moderate. No principle 73n be better established, and we wish it was generally acted upon, both for the sakes of the masters and their workmen, than that the evil of excessive supply, with which the country has been for months oppressed, will be much more speedily and effec tually remedied by keeping down the stocks than by reducing workmen's wages. Our Cortespondent. writing from Bradford, says :—" If there be any truth in general reports, the stuff market at this place was better on Thursday last than it has been for some time. More goods were sold, and an advance in prices took place, on one or two sorts, of sixpence per piece. It is much to be regre'ted, that no mode of as:braining what business was done at this market has yet been established. There is not a clerk of the market, nor any kind of returns whatever made ; and sometimes there arc as many goods sold out of the Piece Hall as in ft.". No topic contained in our present paper w.ll excite mac into than that which relates to the symptoms of reviving trade. We wish these symptoms were more unequivocal, but they are open to ibis observation, which it would be uncanditi to withhold, namely, that front August to October, merchants are replenishing their stocks for the fall trade abroad, and the retail dealers at home are laying in their stock for the winter season. These circumstances must, of course, make an increase to the ordinary demand for ma nufactured goods, and we must wait fora month or two longer be fore we can with certainty say whether the improvement is a gra dual advance towards the permanent revival of trade, or it .4 • mere temporary spring arising out of the season. The root of the evil of our dimistrous situation being an excess of supply, it is of the utmost consequence to avoid raising undue expectations, and thereby aggravate the evil by putting again into a state of activity a spirit of speculation. While manufactured goods are sold, as we tear is generally the case at present, at an actual loss. great care should be taken not to multiply them unduly, but rather to let the markets get disburthened, that the manufacturers may obtain a living profit. CONGLETON.—A slight improvement hss taken place in the silk manufacture of Congleton ; about thirty mills are now in full work, but at reduced prices. ft is generally admitted, that at an advance of wages, the manufacturers could nut meet the compe tition of other markets with aby chance of sikaess.—.llacclesfield Herald. LEICESTER.—At a time when almost every newspaper we re ceive is teeming with accounts of the great numbers of the working classes out of employment, it °Mode us great satisfaction to notice, that such a state of things is no longer the case in this town and neighbourhood. in making this statement, however, we must not be understood as conveying an intimafjon that we have returned to any thing like a state of prosperity . or that our industrious popu lation are enjoying any of those comforts which industry and hard work ought always to insure. We only mean to say, that this being the period when hosiers in the more extensive way of business begin to manufacture for the winter trade, awl there being little probabi lity of any farther loss on stocks in hand front the reduction in the price of wool, that most of them have been engaging hands during the last fortnight, so that there are now very few, if any, frame work-knitters unemployed in this town and neighbourhood. But satisfactory as this information must prove, as tar as it goes, it is yet lamentable to state, that such are the prices at which employ ' ment is obtained, that the workmen are earning a very small 1 weekly pittance—little beyond, we understand, what many of them have been in the habit of receiving in the way of parish relief.— , Leicester Clernitiele. Die Mat.the *ter ar:ette publishes the following view of the state of the Cotton-market :,--•• The market on Tuesday was, on the whole, tolerably lair. We have tak. n some pains to ascertain whether the demand beyond that of former weeks arises merely from the preparation for the autumn trade, or from any additional cause. At this season, the printers buy thole grey cloth for their fall and winter patterns, and this necessarily occasions a demand for printers' cloth, greater than there has been is the period between the spring and fall trade. Ihtring that period, there is generally little doing in the country trade, except to order, and then the country trade houses go out and purchase only what they want to fulfil their orders. But in the next two Wonder, a number of buyers come into the market, when it is fleet:vary that a fair stock should be on hand, to show to them. Such houses are, therefore. now Laying in stocks, to exhibit to their cusmiuers ; and we find that they are doing so with the more contideace, because the prices are now so low that there is little chance of their being lower. Here, then, are printers buying fur their usual autumnal works, and mer chants for their autumn sales ; and both buying more freely in con sequence of the impression that prices will not be lower. Foreign trade to places where there cannot be an early return is fiat, owing to the scarcity of money and credit. No man will now send off goods to be paid for twelve months hence. The Americans are buying little, and those who used to sell to them are not slow in attributing the 'thickness to the Corn Laws, which have made the Americans manufacture for themselves. Cotton yarns for export, which have hitherto been in fair demand, are rather dull of sale." We are happy to ray that trade is considered generally to con. tinue to be in a way of progressive improvement. As this opinion is warranted by facts, it I as given a cheerful tone to public feeling. Confidence is also acquiring strength from the immediate accession of at least one establishment of itnportance, by which additional facilities in a circulating medium are anticipated. Prentiaes are taken in King-street for the purpose of commencing a Branch from the Bank of England: and a very inviting plan is published fur forming a Joint Stock Banking Company. 1 he latter is submitted to the appiobation of the merchants, manufacturers, and tradesmen of the town and the surrounding district. Its claim to attention is founded upon the great reduction in the aggregateguaniity of the circulating medium; upon mercantile operations being deplorably reduced and crippled by the reduction in the quantity of money. We observe with pleasure that in this document a high and most deserved compliment is paid to the existing barking houses of our town, for the aid and security which they have afforded by their firmness during the eventful period of the late commercial crisis. A strong exception is made to the overwhelming influence of the Bank of England in the monetary system of the country. A Joint Stock Banking Company, it is urged, will be the only means for a well-founded feeling of security, together with the requisite expan sion of the circulating medium. Many other arguments are em ployed to point out the advantages' which must result front such an insti , ution, and the great occaston which now particularly exists for its adoption. That Joint Stock Companies have been eminently useful admits of no doott, and that Government approve of them has been declared front high authority. In this neighbourhood the influence of a similar Company will of course he advantageous or otherwise, according to the principles upon which it is conducted . Over-trading and too extensive a paper currency are admitted to have been the great evils which have led to the present distracted state of commercial affairs, and if their recurrence be not strictly guarded against for the future, another such crisis will the earlier ar rive. The liberalityor the establishment must therefore be tempeted with the soundest discretion. Its capital is w p a r n o t p s os a r n al d to ne be c : iti , e lldd s o f f . d th iv an ided lou i , n o to r all i Z ti a l h a tnes n 5 ~o l f i al r eso o. / _. e_ac r lt i t ie ro Individual to hold more the unemployed continue to engage active sympathy. Many plans are °flared fur consideration, and pressed upon the attention of Government. Employment is the great 'desideratum ; how to ac- I complish it is the difficulty; Emigration is urged by one class of it rime as the beat remedy for the present distress; an appropriatiOn of waste land Fos agriculture by another; to atop the progress of machinery by a third. The last remedy receives no claimer:rice, but on the contrary is rejected as totally erroneous in principle. In the mean time we fear the country will be agitated by a public confliction of opinion upon this important topiei A requisition has been presented to the Lord Mayor of London, signed hy a number of Liverymen, " requeating his Lordship to call a Common Hall, , foe the purpose of taking into eonsideratuin the propriety of pre -1 senting a petition to his Majesty the King, beseeching that his 3lajesty would nasemble Parliament in as short a time as possible, in order that nrevisitres may be adopted to put an end to the dreadful state of misery which now exists in the country, and to effect a speedy and complete abolition of the Corn Laws, and of all taxes on corn and flour imported.." A Meeting upon similar grounds is about to be !: eld in this town, by the gen -1 denten whose requisition to the Churchwardens we inserted in 1 our last; sod other Meetings, we understand, are to be promoted throughotit the country, tar accomplishing the same object. It is a matter which must occupy the most coleus attentnm . of I nisters ; and no doubt their best energies will be directed to. wards the accomplishment of any means by which the distresses of the workin.,o clasaes can be mitigated. But, as we have before re marked, all ranks of men are suffering; and it appears to be from the slow progress of time alone that ally alleviation to this state of things can arise. A dawning of alleviation is felt; and we sin. cerely hope that a combination ofcircumstances may advance it into more early premanency than Is calculated upon by mtitil deep. thinking and judicinus men.— Wlterfer's Manchester Gazette. GLAselow.—Since 11'ellnesAlay the demand fur sugar has heen very aeritly, at much the same prices that had bean obtained on Morday and Tuesday, though not so extensive, nearly 401) casks having been sold yesterday and the day before, makilec the Tian thy sold here in the week 1,300 casks. Coffee looks still well, awl every prospect of a gradual advance. The accounts from the Con tinent for this article are flattering. TI o• Cotton market, and the business in manufactured goods. reindia very nearly in the same si tuation as before men lamed —little has been &mean either. The sales during the week amounted to 1164 bales.—Glasgow Free Press.. In the manufacturing branches of trade affairs berg ham cgttainly begun to wear a more favourable aspect during the'present Weak. More hands are obtaining employment, and the carriers have been getting more webs to carry to the country districts. A considerable stir took place yrsterday in the power loom gornls, and several thousand pieces changed hands. The sales drawl were, we hear, chiefly effected for cash. The opinion daily gains strength that the title has turned for p:osperity. Cotton goods rot. the sshie market arc beginning to he more sought after. We hope we shall be able to announce a progressive improvement in all branches of business. !lank notes arc beginning to circulate more freely.--..GLIVne CIIII Orr. There are upwards of 390 weavers employed at out-door work about Hamilton. Mr. Brown has procured them additional work on the Carlisle road at Canderdykehead, and up as far as Leek fechan ; and a number of the Hamilton and Cambuslang nearer, have been sent there. They receive 2s. a day to keep them on their journey. The treasurer. Mr. Canison Deans, bat paid up wards of 12001. in road-making. His Grace the Duke of Hamilton is still employing a great number of men and women in clearing all the thistles and rubbish from his pleasure grounds. merely to give than wages. Besides a number of people employed about the new addition to the palace. we understand Mr. Brown is doing every thing in his power to procure work for the operatives. tar. of Larnnch, has a good many employed about Earnoch noose, be sides other gentlemen in the parish ; and we must say, much to the praise of the working class, that they have behaved well, and borne the privation with the greatest patience, We understand the parish has contracted to improve the road from Hamilton to Cambuslang, far which 2121. has been paid to the weavers. Also the road at Bumbank and Grime-Id Bridge, on which 1701. has been ex. vended. Also the road between Hamilton and Strathaven, on which 1711/ has also been expended : besides a number of by-roads, on which some hundreds have been expended. The subscription funds amounted altogether to above 400!„ and they have been so econo mically managed, that there is still a surplus on hand ; but if affairs do not speedily get round, it is to be feared there will be no altcrna. tire but a Government grant to keep the population from starving. —Glturgow Citron. A gentleman connected with the iron trade states, that he fourd I this department more dull in Lancashire than in any other part of the country. In 3lanchestc . , foundries that consumed 80 tons of pig iron a week are not using more than 20 tons, owing to there being no machinery for the cotton manufacture at present erecting. In Staffinalshire and Shropshire there are 34 blast furnaces out. In Ireland the founderies have not felt much of the pressure; but the dulness of the cotton trade at Belfast must lessen consumption by. and.by.—/bid. An . intelligent correspondent in Kilmarnock says—" It is true of late rather more weaving has been got, but at extremely reduced prices, and not in such quantity as to give full employment to all that arc idle, gre it numbers being still occupied at out-door la bour, besides those now engaged at cutting down the harvest ; when this ceases, should a more decided improvement not take place on the approach of winter, the condition of the working classes will be truly distressing. The only branch of business in this place that has e.caped the ptesest general calamity is the car. pet trade. The operatives employed in that line have been in full and constant work ; and, much to the honour of the gentlemen whe have carried on the different works, no attempt et reiltlefng the wages have ever been made, at least as far as I have learned."—lt gives ln us pleasure to be- able to state that during the week there has some improvement in the internal carriage of the country. The Kilmarnock Carrier Company had only live horses going ; on Tuesday night they had eight, aed the carriers in almost all direc tions had improved loads. A number of more webs are now going to the country ; but still there is no advance on the extremely low prices of weaving. Could the weavers by any means keep off the loom for a short time, now when the demands are beginning, a rise on their wages might take place sooner than they expect, At Aberdeen all the flax mills are in full operation. Dundee mills are also on full time. The colliers are now reduced to nearly one , half of the exorbitant wages they exacted last year ; that is, they get one shilling a cart, fur which they formerly received two. From the dull state of the coal trade, masters are not enabled at present to give mare ; there are considerable stocks on hand, and the pub lic works in the vicinil of Glasgow are supplied at lower prices than ever before known. The colliers arc much dissatisfied, and have of late held various general meetings at Barrachnie, for the purpose of concerting measures to effect a rise in their wages, and to consider the propriety of a general stand. The colliers belong. ing to one coal-master have been standing out three weeks. Front the low state of the iron trade, there is no chance of the colliers employed by them effecting any rise; and it remains to be seen if the mere sale collieries will again raise the price of this essential article at this period of general calamity at the Instigation of the men. The colliers are still easily able, with all the reductions, to make from 14s. to Ms. a week; and they have houses very cheap. At a meeting of the manufacturers, held at Paisley, for the per pose of asking relief from Government, we regret to remark that a disposition was manifested to mingle political discussion with the proper business of the meeting—to ascribe the existing distress to misrule on the part of Illinisters, and to petition fur parliamentary reform, as a remedy for what the country is now sufficing. We can scarcely believe it possible that even one of the Starving work. men will be the dupe of such shallow attempts to deceive them. The late distress plainly originated in the desperate spirit of specu lation, by which the country was for a time infatuated. In what degree the Ministers were to blame for this it is not very easy to see, or how any vigilance on their part could have prevented it. In. deed it is not their business to prevent it.—lf merchants engage in ruinous speculations, the blame is their own. 3linisters have nei. ther the right nor the power to interfere with them ; and it is deeply to be regretted that any attempt should be made to connect political questions with the distress of the country. These are surely not fit questions to be considered by starving workmen ; and such dis cussions are eminently calculated to frustrate the true and prow business of such meetings, which is to procure daily bread for those who are under the pressure of inamediate.want.—Caledonian airy. The following paragraph, relative to the slate of trade in LOU don, appears in a Dublin paper (the Evening Porl): " The merchants in this city never were more dull, and the com mercial intercourse with the Continent never more shack, except on the foreign post nights, when a little business is done in bills on or ' count of the high rate of Exchange. Persons who were in the habit of receiving expresses from Paris three or four times per week, do not now receive an express once in six weeks; this is the case even with Rothschild; lind in some of the first houses, many of the clerks have nothing to do, and would be discharged but for a kind consideration of past services, and a hope that they will again be wanted. The trade in gold is quite over; but it must be admittt d that • great deal has been imported, and remains in the country. NVithin die last nine months something more than ten millions have entered; and of this Rothschild imported to the ex tent of seven millions and a half. This speculator, to console him self for the loss of regular business, is now engaged in exporting silver. The profits which he derive, from this are very small, but be thinks it better to gain a little than to remain idle " Letters from Lyons state that the silk manufacturers of that city are in a state of deep distress. The poor people belonging to Orkney, who were picked up at sea, brought into Greenock, and returned home by the United Kingdom, bad, we understand, been given up for lost ; and shortly befors their arrival a most affecting incident hail taken place. On a Sunday preceding, the five children of Samuel Adamson, then supposed to be orphans, were carried to the parish church, and there di vided amongst those of the inhabitants who voluntarily undertook to support them, and be " father to the father lesa." CROPP.—The north and east districts of this county seem to have suffered more from the intensity of the drought, than any divisions of the country to the south or westward. The wheatis excellent, as seems to be the case everywhere ; some we have seen quite si , perb, and reported of as likely to produce fifteen bolls per acre. Barley and oats do not reach half a crop. We have even been informed that many farmers will have no more oats than are sufficient to afford meal for their servants, corn for their horses, and seed for next year. In the west of Fife, however, these crops do not appear to be 1 , 0 bad : some fields of oats and barley were rouped there a few days ago, at the rate of 201. and IV. per acre.— Fife Herald. HA7tVEST: • rYr in the Wei Tom lie rald.l It is now su f f i ciently ascertained th at the wheat crop it good and the oats very deficient ; in consequence of which latter circumstance, the price of °atm& is getting Very high in those places where it forms a. priteaipal article df human sustenance. It was expected that the ports would have been opened for the importation of oats on the ISth inst.; and, if Scotland were taken into the list of averages; there would have been no doubt in the case; but as mew ters arc at present arranged, there is a great chance that that:lost desirable event will not take platy. The next two averages, being the last of the sit which regulate im; portation, :oust amount to 28s. each, to open the ports ; but the last a ve r age b e in g on ly 26 5 . 10.1., it is scarcely to he expected that they will reacb so high; —Thus circumstanced, wr beg leave again to euggest, that if the porta he nut opened for oats on the 15th of August, in virtue of the present regulations, Ministers should tranta fur the discretionary pow er which they have of importing a certain quautity of wheat, to the importing of a definite quantity of oats. To admit the importation of wheat is not called for, and 'it would cause much dissatisfaction among the growers of that article ; but the importation of oats is absolutely necessary ; and it would give umbrage to no owes. as there are few farmers who will not consume in their own . I establishments the whole of the oats which they raise due year, and high or low prices are of course equally indifa ferent to them. The number of quarters, however, ought to be much greater in the one case than in the other, sc+ cording to the difference of the value; and the easiest way of settling the relative proportions of the two is, by re. faring to the opening prices. Thus, wheat opens at 80s. anti oats at 275., the farmer being very nearly three times as• great as the latter; cons4quently three quarters of oats should be admitted for one of wheat; and the privilege ' granted to Ministers for opening the ports for the impor tation of half a million quarters of wheat Mill extend to nearly one million and a half of oats, or, speaking more precisely, to one million four hundred anti eighty-one thousand quarters. By this mode Ministers surely incur no responsibility. Indeed, more extended measures of relief might be well justified by the price of Oats at the London Corn Ex change, leaving our Scotch markets, and the state of a large portion of our Scotch mouths, entirely out of the question. . The harvest has been going on rapidly, but although it commenced as early in this neighbourhood as in any other part of the country, still we suspect there is not so much carried with us as in other places, from the extreme anxiety of our farmers to have the grain well hardened in the stook, and from their over-confidence in the continu ance of the late fine weather. tire are afraid some of them have been caught in the rain which began yesterday afire. noon. We should add, however, that the rain is very gene. rally acceptable, more especially for the potatoes in strong clay ground, where it is staid the moisture, in many in. stances, has never yet got down to the dung; but a long continuance of rain would not only interfere with the harvest, but cause a very hurtful second growth to those potatoes which are at present doing well. The harvest draws towards a conclusion In Cumberland. En some situations, the oats were so thin, that the owners have been obliged to pull them up 'by the roots. 0:t Thursday evening we had a fine fall of rain, which will be of groat ►ervice to the late turnips and potatoes.—Letter from Mary port, Aug. 10:—During the week, the demand for shearers in this town has been brisk, wages 3s. to 3s. 6d. a day, without victim's. The corn, about here, is chiefly cut, except back-sown barley. Crops light, particularly barley and oats ; in many places it has not been found possible to cut the latter with the sickle. Wheat a full crop, on ground well managed. The potatoe-tops already decline, and the produce will be small. The first-sown turnips totally failed ; and the second sown are little better. The pisture lands scorched up. As for fog . , there is none.— Carlisle Patriot. A r•-spectable farmer at Wells, Norfolk, has cut his crop of wheat, threshed, dressed, and sent it to the mill, ploughed the land, and sowed it with turnips, which ap pear an exeellent crop, and all within five days. From Belfast to Dundalk the crops are good, the wheat is excellent, and the oats and potatoes are an average crop ; the barley rather deficient. From Dundalk to Dublin, and from thence to Limerick, and round by Cork and Waterford to Dublin, the wheat was fully an average crop, but the oats and barley were deficient, and the potatoes suffering from want of rain. Throughout Lancashire, wheat is an average crop, but oats are deficient, and this is the case all along by Lancaster, Penrith, and Carlisle. In Annan and Dumfriesshire, oats are at least less than half an average in straw, but wheat is excellent ; from Edinburgh toDunbar, the wheat is good ; oats and bar ley deficient. Turnips,with the exception of Swedish, are a complete failure. The wheat harvest is nearly finished in these districts. In the Carve of Falkirk there is an excel. lent crop of every description of grain, especially of wheat. In strong clay soils, the crops are everywhere good. In dry light soils there is invariably a short crop ; but where land lies high, and approaches muir lands, there are fair craps. A cattle dealer in the north country considers that lean stock, tfrom the scarcity of fodder, will not be saleable, and that many of those that hold such stock will he obliged to drive them to the hills to take their chance. If it is a mild winter they may survive, but if it is severe many of them will probably perish. The harvest in Scot land is only eight days later than in England. An tined farmer, whose farm is a little south of Edin burgh, has kept a journal of his farm'ng operations for the last thirty years; during which time the earliest periods he has commenced harvest work, were, once, on the Ist, and again, on the '2d August. According to his domestic recur:!, the harvest this season has commenced six weeks emit,. r than the average period of the preceding thirty years. Glasgow Chronicle. TIIE Mani NG FISI/ERl.—The following is a letter from a gentleman in Orkney, eminent for his talents ant extensive information " The herring fishing in Orkney is g ing on with grAit succ to ess this season. This fishing shows clearly h.w unnecessary i is foster aoy particular branch of industry, i i any particular situatior, by aid or encouragement from Government. If the situa ion be favourable, the trade to which it is adapted will grow up or itse:l. Eight years ago, there were not eight he ring boats be ongi 'g • the inhabitants of the Orkney Islands; and the curers and VCS.2:I from the w e st coast of Scotland, and from Ireland, paa.e I throug't the Islands to purchase herrings at Wick or Cromeriy ; and re turned, often late in the winter, with their cargoes, to wait in t se Orkney Islands a favourable opportunity of getting to the west ward. There are now above five hundred tail of herring bua:s sembled in the beautiful little harbour of Papa Sound, and betwi en forty and fifty sail of vessels from Ireland and the wilt C(810 tr Britain, purchasing their fish, and sailing every day with carp rs. From the entire ab s ence of aid and encouragement, with the cor comitant expenses of harbour dues, and pier dues, and anchortke dues, and ground-leave for curir.g, and from the natural advantagi, of the harbour, its easy acmes% its safety. its proximity to s fishing ground, and its favourable situatiun for a start to the ward, this station is now second only to Wick in that branch of our northern fishery, which consists in supplying curers from Ire. land, and the western parts of England and Scotland, with their green fish. SAs the curers take their cargoes to their own ports it, general, to be made up and branded fi r the bounty, this extensive branch of the fishery does not enter into the annual reports of our Scotch Fishery Board ; and, fortunately, perhaps, for this station, the curers an as free tr on idle interference and regulations for ti e conducting of their own business, as they ate from expenses.- 21 August, 1826." _ . _ The herring fishing is now seriously begun on the coa,t, near Montrose. On Monday night, one company's W., caught about eighty crane, and another seventy. Litt: • success has hitherto attended the Johnshaven station, o&y a few barrels having been caught. In consequence of an arrangement entered into ny th' partners of the late Congleton Bank (Messrs. Johnson Son) and the creditors, the proposed trust deetlis abandoneo, and the respected partners remain in full possession of their real and personal estates. We have, in the stoppa s e cf this respectable Bank, a lamentable instance of the terion; and almost irreparable injury which the town of Congleton, its neighbourhood, and the estimable firm, have experi enced, from the unwise check given to public credit, by the injudicious interference of Government, and the re strictions it put upon the issues of provincial hauls, en-- nected with the half-measure system of free trade, which it thought proper to adopt. This bank, situate in tlat midst of the silk manufacturing district, for between twenty and thirty years, gave an impulse and vigour to the trade, and to which Congleton is mainly indebted fot t:ic rapidity of its improverneuts.-.—.Maecleyield Herald. I rl - of Mr.' ;aged since that with next when estt• held, Nana 'lights P were i then ion in reality ip the intl to nit in rJ out I, snit stu e maz ['he asa siffir :.~