The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-06 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE. •

The Herald says the effects of the bitd weather,
and the general sluggishness of trade during the
season, are gradually but slowly affecting the
situation of a number of small establishments.
Two firms in the branches connected with Man-
chester have been. compelled to seek the in.-
dulgence of creditors—one with debts of £lO,OOO
or £ll,OOO, and another to the extent of about
X9-,000. It also appears that the quantity of
bills returned through the clearing-houses are
increasing, though they seem chiefly associated:
with the second and third class houses.

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THE LEATHER TRADE.
No further failures of importance annetteeed',.
The Times remarks that the break up is.simply
the result of undue credit having been granted to,
a single firm, which has mad© a multitude oa
smaller ones to keep a constant system of exten-
sion. Hitherto the tanners, as a, body, have•
always stood well for prudence and.solidity,,andi
it is believed that the position of the firms.thatz
have avoided speculation and carried. oil only
legitimate operations were never more healthy or
independent than at this moment. It is said tht
one of the firms who have failed in connection
with Messrs. Streatfield and Co. is not. expected
to pay more than a shilling in the pound, its
chief business for some time past having consisted
in accepting bills, r •

The Channel fleet hus been ordered to Plyranuth,,
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Senn
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There is no decisive news-from Naples.. The
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,effeet of the King's concessions is very
A notice from the Commander-in-C*46"fiki
intimates that the military secretary win rfcsiVil
ladies and gentlemen on Tuesday next.


PRIMITIVE
—lt appeseyt from official
statistics that the present strength; 'of the -Primitive
Methodist connection is estimated as follows :--132,114
members, 675 travelling preachers, 11,3t4 local preachers,
167,533 Sunday-school pupils, and 30,888.
school teachers,. The connection has, it furtlaste
Zujay leaders,
appears, 6,900 chapels. and 2',036 Sunday-schools.
DISASTRQNS. 1114151%. • FIGOINI3.B TYPO.
FOVNDRY.-04 Wednesday evening, between tha hours
of eight and nine o'clock, the utmost excite:nest was.
caused, in the inunediAto neighbourhood of West Smith-
1, fields by a fire of rather a formidable charaeter breaking.
out in the premises belonging to the Messrs. Figgins, tt,t-
well-known type founders, situate in West-street, Sutith-1
field, at the middle of the new Victoria-street, leading fium,
Holborn-valley, to what was originally termed thge-fieett
Ditch "den." The premises in question were of east -
extent and had the whole been destroyed thodfunage dont*
must have amounted to many thousand ofinds; folly
nately such was not the case, thanks to the fire brigmlit.
The total loss is very considerable, for, in4lependet4 of
the great quantity of metal consumed, the whole of:4.he
four floors of that part of the premises are swirly de.
etroyed, and the matrices are supposed to have Aied
rendered useless. Althougk the business of the firm talk
be somewhat retarded by the disastrous event, it wiultok
he. wholly suspended; and it is exceedingly/forunatii.
that the many surrousding buildings have nOt satitaised.
the least injury. The type foundry and its e.c.a,teook &re
believed to be. fully insured.
AZISWER TO IMPERTINENCE.--nat CIMUS4 in the-
Census Bill which provides for a return ut religion&
professions has called forth a gam, deal of opposition,o4
The system of asking impe.rtinent questions has lseial;
already carried by Government to. an insufferable extol:ft.:l
and must be ebeeka " riow much have you gut a.,
year ?" seen the height of impertinence, but u whars
your r@tigiQ.n.?" is a higher flight still. It weeds '•
ths. audacity of any clown in the most outrageous,*
pantomime. We are crying out upon Puseyism and
Vopery, whilst a confessional and an inquisition awa
growing up in our midst. ,g Walker" will probably haw
the denomination under which persons who like to keep
their LlO4i4inal opinions in their own breasts will for
the most part be disposed to return themselves. They-a
may, however, do better than that. Let everybody
who desires to. resist the attempt which ignorant fanatics '
are making to destroy the Christian liberty 'of the.
subj.eqt by compelling him to observe a pseudo-Jewish,
Sabbath, return himself as an excursionist, in order to,
signify that he is at any rate not 0, Sabbittimilik,---