The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-26 00:00:00

MARKET&

HARDWARE.

Biumuposmar, APLIL fl.—The improvement in the trade of this
town, to which renown was made to our last mak*. snide ba• not
bass folly maintains& TWA week the country orden aver b
the bulb of them Atli mem from the
be
rag cowing. ; the trade in
the =Ahem districts and in Scotland being alit in a eery languid cona
dition, sad wen Tenni takes plan there bon est amount of activity
can be mpected, there being rarely • very bony trade dime with Lea-
man?, end Yorkshire In the ciao of gone In demand la This
you has so far beam an exceptional
mw in every rennet • amen
ere not ordains because the public evince no Hon to
buy: the country beemoogers. when starts ham seldom, tf
over, been so ham, bare not been making them cop mhos
generally contenting the/mann. with buying to meet
ronbementa and no more. So lone as snail= sll this kind ex the
astern rent ceilidenca thorouthly shaken by the numerous
which occurred bat winter. and the far larger number of smeller es-
tablishments who.. credit has dna been compromised, It cannot be im-
pend that any oonsiderable reaction .111 take place. This week, bust
of the Wades] mannfacturore except such as are enneed in the foam
bides, have kept the hands on am &reran of Poor days. In • law In.
stances, the edge tool Corkingaad a portion of the light
She
bade.
the moo bare beejl w full thine, and upon the whole She labour
market le is ato mathrfebory nit& although in the jewellery mad
button Undo. there are still a groat number o' men out of Men. In
some breaches of the pining trades they are very short of cram and
the bran-foundry trade generally Is dull. The mlliterp
trade I. brisk, and with every prospect of Its
so for the reminder of the year. The government work is •
lams supply of now. being repaired for the Nast India erv.he
"mak= trade. s pens this town and the district, mores slowly;
one or two bou es here are la the receipt of a fair amount of orders, but
this is esorptional, and the last packet brought fewer than bad been
anticipated, sad reasonably so, looting at the email amount of
stock all over the Union. It la not easy to account for the long Con-
tinuance of languor In the Am Scan inde ; the most probable muse le,
that them m• &Ms to • tug, amount outelandinr, which should bare
been raid month. lore, and until them are cleared off bunions will not
rem urns Its ordinary state. The general trade In the adjoining district
of Booth StAfrordatilre Is somewhat beam. The carrying trade on
the railway and on the canal ham itcrased in the course of the
last ten dna . this may he taken a. • tolerable indication
that ma improvement I. going on. The order in the Marin for rails are
; two or three of the prindpal firms making rails bare lentlarecora=rgs orders ; In ono Instance sufficient to occupy them for
several math, In the bon trade there his boon no thaw since
Qaarteedlay, but the ptyalin Impression Is that the trade has root goat
hack, and that the demand for finished Iron a incroming rather than
otherwise All the large works sec in fuller onion= than tray have
been, and the consumption al pia iron la Inaressiag, lost mificientlY I.
sustalu prima for all the bent makes of that. commodity ; but at stoma:
there la no intemt on whatever of laremering the amber of formes In
bloat. The Chamber of COMMIWC• of this town has recently had under
coaddennort the wake as to the %dillies which gnat for disposing
of Mahn metals. a greaten of ernes la that way beteg com-
mitted en such towns se Sinainstam and Sheffiedd
Malty. With the nes to Cheek that it le tyg
all 'parson dealing in old sine& skid oily be per= to do
so under license from the manetrales, Tb. inael&e. for • bill
to be laid before the Solicitor Oendiet WO been dawn up, wider whke
to Welke penalties for intringmmat of the lama wader
istblortlit.romac is to he held. It is proposed that earthman nail not
be mad. f ern soy person Ands the age of datrea porn an Mon the
hour of sine In the morning or alter sht ia the menu heard. of
every of metal an) to be kept, the man and address of the
Pan! from whom purchased, I "%ether with lb, dessiption and wenn
of the meal Ind every niece of metal penshend Is to be kept intact for
the 44100 of three dear days. Parties licensed an to he compelled to
produce pinked'sr metals when called open; sod pollee officer. ap-
=or the purpose Ara to hare Nom, to search prelates. Mann-
metals fo• the yarn... al the bone fide trade estrhd on
by them. titeicupying premise. rated at id t , are to he 'reseeded am
exemptfrom the operation. of the proposed bill, the lanes of which,
n 0..• some impede stnogent. 011elnanin a cornet cep ash with
which maadacturen have long lad to contend, and, moreover, operate
se • check to • nry fruitful .outs of crime a this town,