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BRAZILS. trt, ap. Kr. Iced lint out let 1 to the led kat the tot, vet, I to the fly nen in ing ,uth , to ace cc's had be sad :n -vt, _ti the ow It, PP R ooDTInN ILL ARTICLILS TO TUE TREATY BETWEVN FRANCE A%l> RR kill.. EXPLANATORY OF THR 4TH, 13TH, AND ICI V Aar !curs. Art. I. It is agreed that not only, as is mid in the 4th article or the above Treaty, the respective l'Ansun shall er joy, in the one and the other country, relative to their persons, the exercise of their functions, and the protection due to the subjects of their Sovereigns, the sante privileges which are or may be granted to the Conntalr of the most favoured nation ; but also that these agents shall, in every m pect, be treated in both countries on a footing of the strictest reciprwill• 2. It is also declared that the undentanding contained in the clause of the 13th Article, whereby it is required that three-fourth of the crew on board Brazilian vessels be composer! of natives, altal not be in force when there is a want of such sailors. The high con tracting parties do not mean, in shy ease, to prolong the suspension of the said clause beyond the six years already assigned tin the term of several other stipulatiors in the Treaty. 3. It is finally declared t h at the tint paragraph of the 14th Article. porp.irting that all produce, merchandise, and articles soon, which are of the growth, manufacture. and industry of the territories and subjects of Iris Most Christian Majesty, exported tram French ports by Brazilians, in French or Brazilian vessels, for consumption- shall pry get errlig and solely the same duties which see sae th ,y b e kyl e ,' en th e p u iijects of the most favoured nation : ie is to be understood (the flr‘t paragraph) in this sense, that the Toriatoon of the duties is 15 per cent, on the value of the merchan dise, the rstimat on of which, according to the general mode, is o way be established according to market prices. 4 The prei.ent additional articles shall have the same forte and sense as if they had been inserted, word for word, in the Treaty o f the Hth January, Intl Dane at tiro de Janeiro, the Bth June, 1826. (Signed) LE 12021 TE DE GESTAII. VISCOUNT DE SANTO.ANIAZO. VIE( orNT DE P AAAAA DCA. LIMA. MAT mi. Pres I had the plemsnrc of teed easing you last, the nuot inte resting mem here hae IWtTI the miming • al the sudden dissolution of Congress. Cnfurtuoatrly far Pent, that iteeen'dy was composed of men totally unacquainted with the principles of government or polities. They could neither agree nor come to any decisive meal. rates at a time when their vertical were most required, and a: length some of them proposed to petition General Bolivar to remain to Peru. Bohm has consented, and he now holds the reins of Om errnment at the lead of 7,4011 Colombian troops, who would other- LW have left the country. in cm:ipliance with the treaty, by which may weer to be withdrawn on the overthrow of the Spanish power. It h however, a gaud thing tot Peru that the Liberator remains, 113 Paere k•ertairdy *mild have been mother revolution had he left e country, rot to restore the Spanish dmninion. hut one chief srivr.g with the 0 ,9„, for greater power, at,l thus creating (Nomi nal amongst the reit*, which has been the ease both in Chili and B u m Ayres. Ilingootnry is much in want u r !lever politicians, anti is in fact little borer at resent than a provi ice of Colombia. miler maim,' government. oral the name of • Hems 'die. tin , I w ente you last, no improvement has taken ;dam in this market, nor is it likely there will, so lung as the British merchnnta cocoanut sending mote giv.d. than the cauhtry can conaut. ie. The somata horn Engin:A.or great faillre4 of the banters, hay.o canned people here to be very estrum % in taking bills, and some hot, sea are shipping dollars in prilMenev. This Government sent tome time ago two deputies to Englaod. to negotiate a new loan ; they are so much In want of money, the) barebeen drawing (WI the expectation of this loan being, raised : their bills are at an enormous discount. Money must be plenty in England. if th a Govm anent can raise a new loan before it has paid the interest of the old one. The best remittance from thin roast is Bullion en Plats Pins, or the silrer in its pure state, se it comes from the mines ; it is not, however, allowed to be exported trom Pero, so that it has all to be prnaggied, which is attended with no small risk and expense. It is to called, because it conies from the mines in the shape of • pine srp4, and is watch in that state, or an arrival In Liam, about ; dot. Ir. per mark of eight ounces. and on board one of his Ms. jesty's ships of war 9 dol. As it is now in demand, it will rise a little higher. Coquimbo corner limas great vent ih the East Indies and North America; and since the great rellamion of duty in tail ad is pent there likewise, and may prove a valuable remit tance from them:in. It is worth on board at Coquimbo about 14 dol. Jr. per guano.] or 1061 b. Cocoa is exported in great quantities hem fitiayamtil for Gibraltar, anti all parts of this coast; it may now be Tooted at 6 dol. pet cargo of 81.1 b. Cotton grows in Peru, but a is met with only in very small quantities ; some of it was son to Liverpool, and was considered good ; it cornrses greatest pan or the cargo of a small vessel called the Ayacucho, by which I and this letter; she is to sail early to.moerow morning for Falmouth. ST. HE 1,EN.4. It must be of importance to our Indian traders to know that the port charges at St. Helena have been entirely done may ; and that at that island, as well as at Ascension, courant exertions are tawsl to raise supplies for our mer chant shipping. Colonel Nicoll', 11.31. Governor of Ascen sion, informed Lieut. Sanders that he had nuw more than forty tons of good water on the island, and could supply almost any quantity of that necessary of life that ships ar riving may need, as well as vegetables of various kinds, which have thriven there most successfully. At St. Helena, en the 20th of June, an Agricultural and Horticultural Society held a meeting and awarded premiums. Twenty ail gentlemen gave previous notice of their intention to pro duce lambs, island mutton, tilk, silkworms, cocoons, pumpkiss (the seed of which came from the Society Islands), vegetables of common and scarce sorts, honey and bees'-wax, lucerne and other artificial grasses, fruit, broad fruit, mushrooms, &c. After the show a Lilt was to be held, at which English produce, with the productions of the tropics, were to be exhibited. It is gratifying to hear that the industry anal energies of our fellow-subjects, end soldiers and sailors, are thus so usefully and peacefully exerted in foreign climes, turning the desolate places, anal the placts where the " land is barren and the waters inought," into fruitful valleys and abundantly refreshing smiiir, for the supply of their own and the weary voy agas urcessities. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. We regret to state that our Correspondent at the Cape of Good Hope gives an extremely unpleasant account for the present state of the Colony ; au unfavourable season of the ersp, the prospect of a famishing peacanrry, au exhausted rinlic treasury. and a disposition in the Municipal Audio shies in this crisis of calainitiss to disregard the principles of justice and equity, are the subjects which compose his letter; from which we give an extract : CAPE Or GOOD HOPE. JUNE 2. The news we have just received by the Sparrowhawk of the state tal affairs in Great Britain la very lamentable, but it is not near so bad as the stare of this Colony. In the first place we have almost a famine in the land. Bread can scarcely be obtained at any price. Tie Burgher Senate have purchased immense quantities of corn, on account of the public (an thew pretend); but, what cost them foot 80 to 90, they are selling at 280 fin dollars per load. They 11:il condescend to sell a single bag ; but it must be at their own Vie!. You have no idea in England how such Government Eft_ tablnhnierds in Colonies operate ag iinst the interests and welfare of the community ; they are, in fact, entirely perverted to private shoropnlies ! The min has happily just commenced, and if the fir tots ; Can obtain semi, to put into the ground, perhaps we may laths Jew a harvest ; but it is feared that the seed of last harvest will prove very bad. We have had no rain before thole seven meths. Cattle and sheep have been starving for want of grass. The scarcity of money has been so great in the treasury, that it is eta months since smite of the public officers have received any Vary. Much of this inconvenience and injustice has arisen from the manner in which silver was introduced, in lieu of the rix dollar paper Currency. Such was the consequent depreciation in property, t :'at Persons who, having been paid at that rate, had a right to calculate upon in equivalent of 4s. were then told that 18d. only vas what they could receive. The ruinous effects upon the Colony generally (fee all did not suffer at this rate), throughout all the sot, d trans:scums of life, can hardly be imagined. We do aniently hope that Parliament will redress our many grievances. Gar new Lirut—Governor does as well as can bz, lust lie hall to e temente his athniniatration of affairs under the must unfavourable d atrestaoces. The subjoined letter was received on Saturday morning from Liverpool:— Livool, A 24. following is a reply to a M e m or i a l forwar erp ded by the ugust parties tincemeil in the brig Al 'march, from hence for Buenos ,Iyrea, to nit Secretary of State fur Foreign Affairs : ( intlemen-31r. Canning is at present out of town. I cannot 4, rkipate the view which he may take of your application; but I bi`! no doubt h e w ill anxious to claim for the pr o perty o f hi s l %Wes sub)ers any protection not inconsistent with the ac. °P ledger' nehts which the state of maritime warfare confer* 1 ., 1 .P0n a helligerent, in respect to thc trade of neutral rights, whi c h (treat Britain has always exercised when Inrtielf at war, and the el "ling of which she cannot deny to any other Power. I am, &e. IVIII. GREECE. The following leiter has been received by the Messrs. Ricardo, from an English house at tilt. %ANTE, JULY 20, 1020. GT' NTT F)lFN—Since I last addressed you I have not received any communications from -, nor have we any late intylligence from the Mores, unless it be from `Mina, where, I am happy to say, the Turks have received severe check, or rather a series of repulses, from the Mainote colliery, and the troops under Niketas and Colo cotroni. The Mainotes have showed a determined bravery in defending the mountains of their own country. We are not in possession of the details; but (ruin what we learn, from letters and verbal relations, it appears that the Egyp tian troops under the command of Ibrahim Paella had com menced their march towards Tripolizsa, but previous to going there he was desirous to dislodge the Greeks, for fear they should close on his rear aul cut off his supplies. For this purpose he tl.tpatclied lush 's of troops to Ameiro and Calamata, who were severely beaten by the Greeks, with considerable loss of lives, and cotnpell.•d to flee to the sea shore, and dzmand assistance from the Turkish squadron in the bay of Colomata, to escape. We hear nothing of the Sultan's Beet: it certainly has not yet mode its appearance in the Archipelago, and it is very probable that the late disturbances in Constantinople, of which you will doubtless base the details, will retard its departure. All agree in stating that Hydra and Napoli are in an excellent state of def. nce, and that in Hydra the best pos sible spirit reigns among the sai lors. Messrs. J. and S. Ricardo, London. MR. ORI,4NDO. Substance of a letter addrtssed on the 25th instant to the Editor of the Examiner, in comtittence of one which appeared in that paper on the preceding Sunday; it was not published yesterday : Saa,—A letter appeared in your last journal, the object of which is professedly that of throwing doubts on the authenticity of a paragraph attributed to Mr. Trelawney, in which the general conduct of Messrs. Orlando and Luriottis, in their capacity of Greek Deputies to this coun try, is called in question ; and your Correspondent appears inclined to ascribe the fabrication of that paragraph to intrigues and cabals formed in the City, having some in terested end in view. It was not without much difficulty that I could guess the particular paragraph to which your Correspondent alludes, and that I succeeded in finelieg it ainetig your papers in one dated so far back as four months ago. It is as follows: "'('hose bockheads of the Geeek Depicies, Orlando and Luriottis, by their management, or I should say mis management, of the loans, have caused the ruin of their country." I have no doubt of this beitee the passage of the letter referred to by your Correspoi.dent ; but it is rather stir prising that he should have thought of reviving the sub ject so long after it had been left to die in oblivion, and at a moment when no circumstance has occurred which might appear to render expedient so tartly a measure. It is nevertheless your Correspondent's evident intention to justify the Deputies as to the allegation in question ; for, w Nether the censure passed against them be attributable to Mr. Trelawney or another, it is not the less certain that the accusation of mismanagement has been publicly made. But yoor Correspondent has found it much more easy to appear as the panegyrist of Mr. Orlando on the occasion than ids apo!oaist, though the latter capacity was rather more suitable to his undertakiti,g. Ile mint, however, per mit me the freedeso of an observation that may show how far the !reasons he gives for which h. believes Mr. Tre lawney not to have been the author of the above-stated paragraph are capable of strengthening his assumption. It may oe very true that Mr. 'frelawney experienced hospitality and kindness in Mr. Orlando's house at Hydra; but it is not the less certain (an indeed your Correspondent himself acknowledges) that Mr. Trelawney is " enthusiastically attached to the cause of the Greeks. It is hereby matte evident that Mr. Trelawney was hound to repress all private feelings, and incifice all personal con siderations relative to Mr. ()demi°, when be found the success of the cause to which be is "enthusiastically at tached" to have been rendered hopeless by the errors of that agent's administration. Mr. Trelawney, in holding the language attributed to him by your paragreph, would not have spoken his sentiments alone. Ile was in the midst of the scene of those operations which so much interested him, and heard complaints made on every side, relative to the mismanagement of the loans. His would, there fore, hare been the echo of the public voice in Greece. No one in that country was ignorant that the last loan negotiated in London was for two millions sterling, from which the effective sum of rather more than seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds was to be forthcoming; and that hardly one-third portion of this ever arrived in Greet•. What became of the remainder? In what con sisted the extensive aid which the Greek cause might have derived from it? Can it be otherwise than by the effect of mismanagement that the Greeks were deprived of the im mense advantages it might have pr. cured? And is it not natural that they should make those complaints of misma nagement which Mr. Trelawney is supposed to have as na turally repeated ? Your Correspondent closes his letter by announcing the approaching departure of Mr Orlando from this country; 1 a circumstance which I am by no means willing to believe. Mr. Orlando is hound to protract his stay in England, al though the notification of his recall from the official func tions he has hitherto exercised in it hes been received by him. He is aware that three individuals are appointed to receive from him anti examine his accounts; anti that al though only one of the three is already in this country, the other two arc every moment expected to arrive. Mr. Orlando has too great a regard for his character and repu tation not to relinquish, under such circumstances, all idea of departure for the present. He will no doubt feel the necessity of being present, with Mr. Luriottis, on the spot where all his transactions took place, and where the books, accounts, documents, &c. relative to them, are to be re ferred to. I have the honour to be, Sir, &c. Egham Races commence this day. On Monday morning, shout five o'clock, the wife of a poor working mechanic, who was on her road from West gate-common to Rothwell, for the purpose of lying-in at the house of a relation, was suddenly seized with the pains of labour, ticar the top of Westgate, Wakefield, and abso lutely delivered herself of a child in the street. At that early period of the morning, two young men, going to their work, were the only poisons near to witness her un fortunate situation. They humanely afKorded her the best assistance in their power, and, as soon as she was able to move, supported her to the house of a relation in New street, where, we are happy to hear, both the mother and infant, notwithstanding their unfortunate situation, are both doing well. Me.taticuot.v ACCIDENT= FI r..—YeSterday week a fire broke out in the sunk flat of a house in Home -street, Edinburgh, near Lochrin distillery, which was attended with fatal consequences. The alarm was given about half past twelve o'clock, and with that promptitude and despatch which now mark the operations of our fire establishment, the engines were very soon after on the spot; but unfortu nately, although a fire-cock is placed in the vicinity, there was no water in the pipes, anti half an hour was lost before it could be got, by which time the fire had made great havoc in the sunk and street stories, both of which are nearly destroyed. The furniture of the other flats was also much damaged in the hurry of removal, and the poor people to whom it chiefly belonged (the house being mostly let in small apartments) have also to complain of the cupidity of some wretches, who, taking advantage of the confusion, and under the pretence of rendering humane assistance, carried many of their articles off. But the most melancholy consequences of this accident are yet to state. A woman named Easton, a widow, we believe, who Mita ' bited one of the rooms destroyt d, had returned to it unper ceived, probably with a view to save something, and was burnt to death before her situation was known to those employed in extinguishing, the flames. Another woman, who leapt from a window, had her leg broken, and was carried to the Royal Infirmary. THE BRITISH PRESS. TO 'THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. St 11,—It was not my intention to have noticed any of the insinnations or misrePresentatima which have appeared in several journals respecting certain s!konn-vevtls. assumed to be for the service of the Greeks, because I thought it better to allow the real facts of the case to be developed by time, which would have given the best explanation, and have done full justice to all concerned. But as the state ment made in an Evening Paper of Saturday has personally implicated woe, silence would be no longer proper. It has been insinuated that I have, from eoerupt mo tives, delayed the works, and that I have rendered them inefficient. Each of these allegations is unttue. The uniform tenor and conshitency of my public life ought to have protected me from this hale and unfounded imputation on my honour and integrity; and my pro fessional character, whenever circumstances will require or permit the investigations, will be found unimpeachable on the subject of these vessels. It has also been asserted that I have made steam-vessels for warlike purposes 'or the l'acha of Egypt. This is like wise untrue. The simple fact is, that I have a son who has been employed in that country for the last two years, in superintending the erection of machinery for domestic manufacturing purposes; and neither It- nor myself have been concerned, directly or indi►ectly, in the construction of any implementsof war for the Pacha. I am, Sir, yours repectfully, ALEX. GALLOWAY. Weit.street, Smithfield, Aug. 27. 1826. --- WELSH IRON AND COAL MINING COMPANY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. Sts,—Having this day rend in tht Mies,* the Weekly De speech, and the Oh.verver, reports of the proceedings at a Meeting of the Shareholders in this concern, held yesterday at the London Tavern, in which statements are made wholly false and scandatously libellous, relative to myself. I beg of yon to insert this letter in your paper of Monday, in order that a report of the Meeting, which will doubtless th'n appear,, may at the same time be accompanied with this explanation. • __ First, as to the Netts—ln this paper it is stated that " I bribed three of the directors to hold their tongues, by a donation of 500!. each." This statement is wholly un tru:i, and without any foundation whatever, and I challenge those who have made the charge to bring forward their proofs. In the same paper it is alleged that my bill amounted to nearly 4,000'. all of which has been paid almost with out examination. This statement is al.o untrue, as the only bill which has been paid amounted to not quite 2,0001. and although money has been pipid by the directors on ac count of another bill, yet such bill is under examination, and has been so for some months. S;contl, as to the II eekly Dexpalch—ln that paper it is ass,rted—lst, That I have dtawn 1,200/. for stamp, and appropriated the money to my own use. This allegation is without foundation, since the money was appropriated as directed, and the deeds twice en gros:cd for execution, but owing to the resignation of Mr. Kershaw as trustee, and now Lord Palmerston, the deeds must he a third time engrossed. Since my resigna tion of the office of solicitor in May last, and the re enerossment of the deeds, I have not affixed the ad cola cm stamps, hut given the Company credit for the amount. The other allegation in this paper is, "that when the auditors commenced the examination of accounts. I offered them a cheque of 301. each as hush money." This statement is also without foundation. Many months ago, when Mr. Prater, Mr. Venning, Mr. Horton, and Mr. Jackson ['erring, were auditors, I was instructed to pay to them 301. each, being their proportion of the profit made on the sale of shares reserved for the benefit of the directors, au liters, and officers, and which, at the first audit, the auditors had not disapproved. In obedience to the in structions of Ce.t directors, I paid the amounts to the auditors, who made no objection at the time thereto, but I learned, subseprently, that after some of the auditors had quarrelled with some of the directors, the auditors, with one exception, declined presenting the cheques, and three out of the four were returned to rue. This, then, is the charge of hush money, which has been s t falsely and wickedly made. Third, As to the Observer—lt is there stated, first, that the sum of 12„500/. was retained by me for a long time from Mr. Jones. This statement is false, as it was paid over directly, and a receipt soon after given by Mr. Jones to me for the amount, which receipt was required from me by the auditors when I was out of town, but immediately on my arrival in town I handed it to the secretary. It is also alleged that I offered a sum of 413/. to the audi tors, and that they rejected it. This also is untrue, and I must say Mr. (lark knew it to beau. The same charge as to the stamps is also made in this paper, and needs not a se perate refutation. The Obvcrk.er further charges that I am in debt to the Company two thousand five hundred pounds ; and the individual who makes the statement is Mr. Clark, though I had previously, both in public, and by letter addressed to the auditors, proved the statement to be incorrect, as the Company is indebted to me, in stead of myself to the Company. As to the general allegations . of Messrs. IVilks and Verheke's bills being large in amount, I only observe that I never professed to lie what is called a cheap lawyer; nor to leave to the management of junior clerks and under.. strappers, business which, if so managed, ofight be cheaply, , 1 but would be sure to he had/y, executed. I merely add, that before Mr. W. Clark became a share holder, be was put in possession of every fact connected with t he Company, and especially relating to the shares, &c., and attended at a meeting of directors to state that he was perfectly satisfied with the Company, its concerns, and mana:ement—that he merely wished to invest some of his money in the Company, and that he never would directly or indirectly take any net in annoying or disturbing the directors or officers of the establishment._ So much then for the accuracy, truth, honour, word, and character of Mr. Clark, the late clerk of Messrs. Tim peron and Co. I am, Sir, your moat obedient S , :rvant, Aug. 27, lON. ,101 I N WILKS, Jun. FATAL Dust..—We are sorry to learn that a meeting took place on WTlneaday morning, to the north of Kirkal dy, between George Morgan, junior, Esq. and David Lan dale, Esq., both of Kirkaltly, when, at the first exchange of shots, Mr. M. received his adversary's ball in the chest, and unfortunately died on the spot. As the cause of this meeting must undergo judicial investigation, we refrain from giving particulars connected therewith.—Edinburet Courant. . _ _ NERVOUS Lam rs.—A Parisian physician, who has en tirely devoted himsAf to the study of the disorders to which the fair sex are subject, has just published a work, in which he teaches husbands the means of ascertaining whether their wives' nervous attacks are real or feigned ! We would advise this indiscreet and officious medical gentleman to take care of himself. There is now alive at the hour:. of Mr. Nicholas Temple, Bolton, near Appleby, a hen chicken with four legs. From the body of the fowl to the thigh joint connecting the leg, the appearance is perfect ; but from that joint the other two legs start, as it were, behind from the natural ones, and are said to be nearly as well formed and perfect as the two which nature assigns to the bird. A meeting of the pilots commissioners (Liverpool) is called, to he held on Monday next, for the purpose of tak ing into consideration the propriety of reducing the present rates of pilotage for conducting British ships into and out of the port of Liverpool. 'I . IIE INTERRUPTED SICRIFICE. — The extraordinary popularity of the opera of the Oracle , or lit, Interrupted Sacrifice, which is now performing at the Lyceum, translated from iVinter's Dos (In ferbrodiene opprfest, has caused numerous editions of the music of that highly-celebrated composer tobepublishedin thiseoun. try. ‘re observe that filmsrs. Ewer and .folianning, is the publics. tarn of a very superioredition of all the favomi te songs,dttets,and airs, in theahme Opera, that the music has been most delightfully admitted to English poetry, composed and arranged with pianoforte accom paniments, by P eter V on Winter; and with guitar acconinani. meats by a celebrated Composer, who has executed his task in a manner which reflects the greatest credit on his musical taste, as well as on his talents and judgment. Many of the aim in Messrs. Ewer and Johaniting's edition of the music cant-In French words, with an English translation, which, we have no doubt, from its novelty, will create a considerable sensation in the musical world, and amply repay the p u bli s h ers for the pains and ineen n ity w i t h which the whole work h as b een an liberally " got up." We have only further to remark, that the grandeur nod melody of Winter's o lisle has rendered it equally popular with tbst of the late la mented Weber. .111 .1 NUF.IC !WRING DISTRICTS. EXTRACT OF A PRIVATF. LETTER. MANrIIESTLR, SATIUkI/AY, Arr.. 2G. There is no alteration in the prices of cotton goods in this maid:et, nor have the purchases made since the last market day (Tuesday) heen extensive. It is understood that some consid. Table orders have been received from the Continent within the last few days; on the whole, how ever, there does not appear any increased activity of busi ness. Private letters from the surrounding districts re present trade generally without much improvoawitt. At Rochdale the cotton spinning is in full oprration. In the hack districts, Milmow and Litt!ehorough, business is re viving. and the accounts from thence assert confidently that the storm is passing over them ; but the statements received from Blackburn and Bolton arc less favourable, and it is feared that a long period moist elapse before em ployment can be procured for the whole of the working classes. There have been many meetings of the Mief Commit tee here, and of the trustees of smite of the adjoining roads, fur the purpose of devising some plan for employing the poor. The trustees of the Cheethatn-Hill road agreed to place I,ooot at the disposal of Mr. M'A am, to be laid out in giving such employmont on that road, and it was made known at the meeting that the London Relief Com mittee would add a proportion of one-third more, that is 333/. 6s. Md. for the same purpose. It is also understood that they will add a similar proportion to any sum of money advanced by public bodies or private individuals, in creating work for the poor. If these suggestions be adopted with a pro, er degree of public energy, there is no doubt but that the severity of the present distress would be greatly mitigated. srA R OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, AUGUST 26.—We are unable yet to an nounce any such improvement of tract.: as will effect any improvement in the circumstances of the working classes. The goods' market, for the last three or four weeks, has been more animated than it was during the summer months ; but the demand has, a very few instances excepted, occa sioned no advance of prices, nor has it encouraged the ma nufacturers to give out work to the unemployt cl weavers, who consequently continue in a state of melancholy desti tution. Such as have a legal claim for parochial relief re ceive assistance, as liberal as the circumstances of the times will permit; and others, who have not a strictly ld gal claim, but who have long resided amongst us and borne good characters, are occasionally reli-ved by our humane and active overseers. But there are thousands and tens of thousands, to whose assistance the law cannot, by even the most liberal construction of its beneficent spirit, be ex tended, and who are consequently enduring a distress, the intensity of which it is impossible to imagine; for every va riety of wretchedness which the most active imagination could combine for the formation of one picture of exquisite misery could not furnish such a scene as may be beheld in almost every cottage in the beck streets of this town. A gentleman from Suffolk, on Wednesday last, want int some of the streets between London-road and Ancoats, wishing to behold with his own eyes the condition of the people, whose misery he was willing to believe was exag gerated. On his return from his melancholy search, he told us, with an expression of horror, that he regretted the indulgence of his curiosity. " I wish I had not gone," said he ; " the wretchedness was too great even to he seen." Ile hea seen houses with no other furniture than a truck covered with straw, on which the heart-broken father sat, with a glazed eye and a deathlike expression on his countenance, seemingly unconscious of the wailing of the half-naked children who lay around him. lie had seen emaciated mothers, in whom even the extreme of wretchedness had not extinguished hope nor slackened exertion, striving to soothe these foodless wailing children. He had seen the dull apathy of despairing man, and the restless and exhausting exertion of' woman, hoping even against hope. Ile had seen many human beings fated to a not distant destruction. He had seen the wild rapture of thankfulness with which his donation was received, and he had experienced the heart-piercing thought that when what he had bestowed was expended, the objects of his bounty might perish with hunger. Ile had seen this—and, for his own sake, he wished that he had not seen it. How dreadful the experience of that misery, the very sight of which is thus intolerable ! Well might Mr. - Potter be overcome, when, in detailing one case of wretchedness, the whole amount of suffering rushed into his mind with over powering effect. Well might hundreds of the assembly which he addressed burst into tears when they thought how many instances had come within their own knowledge, of misery such as he so feelingly pictured. What is to be the fate of these our poverty-stricken fel low-creatures? There is little probability of their obtain ing employment before next spring; the fund raised by subscription for their relief is exhausted ; they have no legal claim on the parish funds; and winter, with all its accumulated horrors, is approaching. Our conviction is, that if prompt measures are not adopted, thousands will die of absolute starvation. Is this then a time to talk about the danger of introducing the precedent of a government grant? And do not those incur a fearful responsibility, who delay for one single day to repeal the laws which raise the necessaries of life to a starvation price, and who sup port a system of wasteful expenditure, while the people are in want of the means to purchase bread? _ _ With regard to merely temporary measures of relief, we are glad to learn, that after various interviews which have taken place between Mr. M'Adam and the Trustees of roads in this neighbourhood, it is probable that these gentle men will make exertions to employ the distressed workmen. In this way much good has been done in other places; and it would be a reflection on Manchester if it did not try a means of relief which has succeeded wherever it has been adopted. It ought to be recollected, that employment upon roads not only gives relief to the distressed, and be nefits the public generally, but it accustoms the weaver and the mechanic to country labour, to which they may apply themselves should the cotton manufacture continue long in its present depressed state.—Mancheafer Gazette. In times of distress, too much importance is always laid upon the am •unt of our debt, and " reduce taxation," is a cry perpetually set up, without regard to limits at which this must of necessity cease. At the late meeting at Man chester the fault has been committed ; we perfectly coincide with the resolutions regarding the Corn Laws, and we view that part of infinitely more importance to us than all the recommendations of economy to Ministers, because we give them full credit for a desire to effect every practicable re trenchment. It is the duty of every commercial man to call for a ret ision and an alteration of the Corn Laws,—it is the duty of every manufacturing town to petition for such alteration as shall place corn on an equality with manufactures. It is, if correctly viewed, the interest of the agriculturists as a body, that an alteration should take place, which, whilst it would afford them sufficient protec tion from foreign competition, would do no injury to trade, and would relieve the farmer.from the tricks of intriguing corn-dealers, who make up any price of average they please.—Stockport Advertiser. Lc ens, Ai:G. 26.—This week we have had an increase of buyers in Leeds and Bradford, and the quantity of woollens and stuffs passing daily through the hands of the carriers is rather on the increase, compared with our favourable report of last week. Though the prices con tinue low, the transactions arc principally with the regular houses, and thejdi business, as it is called, seems neatly at on end. It is said, and we believe truly, that the ma nufacturers make little profit by . their trade at present; these purchases do however give rase to the circulation of money, and it may be fairly presumed that all the nu merous hands through which it passes will derive from it some benefit. For some time past there has been a great deal more money in the hands of capitalist* titan could be profite,ly employed, owing to the circumscribed transac tions of trade, and an extension of sales is the best mode of bringing that money into extensive circulation. It was state I in onr paper of Saturday, that some im provement had taken place among the manufacture's in this city ; since that time several other houses have com menced increasing the number of their workers, so that there is now a pretty fair prospect of a revival. The num her of weavers out of employment will prevent any the in their prices at present ; but it is to be hoped that the num ber will alilYbove reduced, and prices improve s o as to place the the reach of want. Yarns ire rather looking up ; and the holders are not much inclined to sell at the present prices. The spinners consider the! cotton wool must soon rise; and in the expectation that pans will follow, they are about to increase their hours of working, which have been for a considerable time back est 4 tremely limited. This improvement has also extended it• self to the linen trade; and several of the east ;wintry manufacturers have transmitted lntructions to their agents by no means to revs sales, as they anticipate a rise of at least 20 per cent. by the spring. The effect of the late sales of cotton goods is beginning to be seen in the country towns, where work is perceptibly less scarce, though the prices are still unprecedentedly low. The sort of gingham vulgarly called cram is the sort of work most easily obtained. It is woven in a Unto reed, 4 in the split, and is paid when at 3d., and 54 4td. Pole licates are also becoming 'tinnier. Although :here is no material improvement in trade in Carluke, yet work is in greater plenty—partly owing to a numbisof the weavers being employed in the harvest field. A complaint has been made that the weavers, in some parts of the country, have not availed themselves of the oppor tunity of receiving good wages at the shearing: the re verse has the case at Carluke. A Mr. King, a fanner in Mid-Lothian, employed 40 hands from that place, upon his farm, in the parish of Crammond. Some have gone as far as England. All those that could be of any service have gone to the fields. The number of looms in the parish are 133—in the village of Carluke 78, of which 26 arc employ( d at the following kiwis of work, viz :- 1000 4-4 checks, 244.; 1.100 stripes I 14)0 broad, 21d. 1000 crams, cram 41 all over, 4.4 broad, 311.; 1300 checks, 7 porter over, 3d. ; 1600 silk stripe, 3d. ; 1400 silk-wefted pullicate, 18 shots, tid.; 1300 pullicate, 18 shots, V.; 1100 pullicate, Is shots. 1 tl. ; 1000 heavy stripe 4-I, 3d. Early in the spring a petition was prevented to the heritors, who met and subscribed 100/. to employ the weavers at the roads; and a number have been employed through the summer. Wages to heads of fami lies, 7s. 61., and to young men 65. per week; but the fund is now nearly exhausted.—eilargost Pa,.;,-. Our readers may form some idea of the number of ope rative cotton-spinners at the present period out of employ, at Ashton-under-Lyne, and of the outs. (pent distress, from the following fact :—On Sunday, the 20th inv., a person who occupied a pair of wheels in a factory in the above-mentioned town was suddenly hurried, by the cho lera tnorbus (at present a very prevalent disease), into another world, and on Monday morning, at breakfast time, no less than forty applications had been nude for the vacant wheels. Our readers may not be aware that notwithstandin; the permissive power given by Parliament to Ministers in the last session, to admit foreign grain into this country, that power is confined entirely to wheat and wheaten flour, which are not wanted, and does not exted to oats or other spring corn, of which there is so deplorable a failure of the crops. The Act is the 7th Geo. IV. cap. 71, and provides— `• That, at any time after the end of the present Session of Par. Sentient, and until the Ist day of January, 1827. or six weeks after the commencement of the then next ensuing Seasion of Parliament, if Parliament shill not then be sitting, it shall be lawful for his Majexty, by an order or orders by him issued,and by the advice of his Privy Council, to admit waiter for home consumption any quantity of a arehoused a heat or wheaten flour, not exceeding 500.000 qualms in the whole, on payment of such duty as ahall be declsred• in any such order, to be payable upon the entry of the same." No such order in Council to continue in force more than two months, and no wheat or floor to be admitted to entry that has been warehoused before the 2d of illay.—Leeds Intelligernyr. MANUFACTURERS' RELIEF COMMITTER.—Otte last week's paper contained the Report of the Committee in York and the neighbourhood, from which it appeared that 1,702/. was the amount of the subscriptions. The Lord Mayor having received a letter from the London Com mittee, we have great pleasure in giving the following extracts:— Illanufscitirers' Relief Committee, London, 2lst Aug. 1826. I have in request your Lordship will accept the sincere thanks of this Committee, your exertions in forwarding their wishes; and that you will olt!::;e them by expressing to the inhabitants of the city and neighbourhood of York their beat acknowledgments Inc the very liberal subscriptions raised in aid of the general distress. I have the honour to be, your L wdship's most obedient Servant, E. 3loariAlEll, Acting Sec. We find that the London Committee have remitted, for the relief of the distressed districts in Yorkshire, upwards of loo9o 7 .—Korre Herald. On Thursday, a Public Meeting of the inhabitants of Halifax was held in the Committee. Room, for the purpose of devising tile best means of supporting the unemployed poor, on which occasion the independent and generous spirit of the higher classes was manifested in a very ho nourable manner. The first resolution was to the effect that no application should be made from this place to the London Committee for relieving the distressed, the town having hitherto struggled through its difficulties without any other aid than that afforded by the inhabitants in the more eligible stations of lite to their poor neighbours. The second resolution was that a subscription amounting to 1,0001. should be raised for the relief of the unemployed; and, that the money may be applied in the most beneficial way, it was determined that a Reservoir shall be formed, for the purpose of better supplying the town with water, and at the sam..2 time giving employment to the poor. The subscription was very liberally commenced by iVilliata Rawson, Esq. with the sum of 1001. • a leafs!' Poox.—A public meeting has been held at Cork, to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning Par liament on the subject of the poor; when amongst other Resolutions the two following were proposed : " That it appears to this meeting that the inhabitants of such district. as the Legislature may define, should, from nine to thee, when they think it necessary, have the power of fixing and levying, under proper regulations, such sums a s ma y b e deemed sufficient for the maintenance of their poor ; and that the rentals of absen. tees ought no longer to be exempted, hut that an equitable assess ment should be made on the value of every description of property. " That a Petition be now agreed to by this meeting, imploring the Legislature to enact such a system of Poor Laws as shall afford an asylum and support to proper objects of public charity, without at tile same time holding out encouragement to idlenessand improvidence." After several gentlemen had addressed the meeting upon the Resolutions, a Committee of Inquiry was appointed, and an adjournment agreed upon fur a week. HARVEST.—A correspondent at Poeklington states, that a farmer of that town sowed some wheat in October. 1824,0 n rape stubble, and in the Spring of 1825 he sowed seeds among the wheat, and reaped the wheat ai the usual titne. This year, when he cut his seeds in June, there was nearly half a crop of fine wheat in full ear. And now, in August, he cut his second crop of clover with another mop of wheat, as before. Thus he has had three crops of wheat from once sowing. COLLIER3.—The public will be surprised to learn that the infatuated colliers have chosen the present period of general calamity for reviving the tnischievous operations of the defunct combination. The grand committee are again resuscitated : and the first edict is an order to all the col liers under their control to strike work for an advance of wages. Accordingly on Saturday last the colliers on the banks of the Monkland canal gave their employ. rs warn ing that they would quit work in a fortnight unless prices were advanced eid. a cart. 'f lie colliers to the eastward of this city have adopted the same course ; and the result is, that the proprietors of coal mines, in contemplation of paying higher rates for the output of coal, have raised the price to the consumer on an average 2s. a waggon. Best hard coal, that lately sold at es. MI. and 108. a waggon, is now Is., and the soft coal is advanced from Ss. to 10e. a waggon. This rise will be severely felt by many a poor family, and will he particularly hurtful to those manufac• tories that have partially recommenced working. 'rite rise is quite uncalled for at a period when there are so many of our best workmen all eager to get employment on any terms. There are also large stocks on band. The colliers at the present rates could easily earn 3s. 4d. a day, which would he considered handsome wages by thousands ; and 'f they make less it is only in constquence of short hours, while their brethren, the weavers, are cooped up 16 hours a day for one shilling. The iron-masters easily crushed the combination ; and why should not the same course be taken by those who serve the public with coals? The low price of iron will admit of no advance in the rate of ft.. ging coals ; and, rather than submit to any rise at present, it is probable some of the furnaces will be blown out, and hundreds thrown idle. A meeting took place on Friday evening at the George Hotel, Cowes, of the inhabitants, to raise by subecription 1001. for a cup, to be sailed for by yachts belonging to the club, in token of the generosity and good they hate done to the town in general by rendering it their port of reit.tha vont. ,I 1 : i • . ht I 1 1 ( ' 4 . i 4 ''. l i ' 4 9 oi i - f ., I f 1 , i 1 i i. 4 " t itl 1 4 .. . i ', . 1 I , 1 4 t • • N