The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-12-14 00:00:00

EXPORT OF COTTON, 4-c.

Statement of the Quantities of Calico, Twist, and Cotton, exported
front Great Britain from the Bth of September to the 6th inst.
Yards Calicoes. lbs. Twist. lbs. Cotton.
Sept. 8. 4,253,928 - 299.720 - 540,857
15. 5.821.640 - 885.996 - 1.201,826
22. 4,1172,687 . 518.815 - 1,799,255
29 5.665,650 - 1.132.610 - 1,652.406
Oct. G. 5,349,482 - 1.073.040 . 1.088.443
13. 6 494,402 . 989.617 - 1.580 570
2u. 4.212,907 - 952.153 - 1.547,342
27._ 7.558.307 - 1.059.641 1.501,691
.Nov. 2. 5.116,882 - 1.361,9118 - 1,437,445
It. 7.073,019 - 45,302 - 809.037
15. 4.113.398 - 1.650.362 - 730.536
22. 6,017,406 - 763.900 - 626,574
29. 4.725,823 - 596.576 . 1,245,993
Dec. 6. 6,092.781 - 695,555 - 531,472
Previous to the Ist of September, the total exports were as follow s
Yds. Calicoes. &c. Pls. Twilit. Bags Cotton.
184,009,0110 . 16.966,259 - 10,000
being an average of about 5.000,000 yards Calicoes. kc.. 600,6001b5.
Twist, and 310 hags Cotton per week. It may be worth ureic,.
that the exports hsve latterly been very large, especially to Ham-
burgh. Belgium, and South America. We draw this artet.tion of
our readers to Belgium and Ilainhurgh, because in these markets
British goods come more immediately in contact with foreign ma-
nufactures ; and to the South American market, which now taken
more Cotton goods from us than the United States, because it is
almost entirely a new market to us. It is proper to remark, that
these exports do not include those of the ports on the Clyde.—Li.
rerpool Albion.

Loss or THE COMET...-. We have alre:tdv said that
criminal letters have been raised, at the insiance of his
Majesty's Advocate, against Duncan M'lnnes, lately tnru-
ter, and Peter Nl'Bride, lately pilot of the Comet steam
boat, calling on these persons to stand trial on the 21st of
this month, before the High Court of Admiralty. Almost
all the survivors of the passengers of the Comet, and a
number of the passengers and crew of the Ayr, are men-
tioned in the list as witnesses, so that the public nay ea
pect the most thorough investigation of this grievous cala-
mity. Several of the jurymen are deAgnatcd as belonging
to the navy. We observe also that the name of Thomas
M'Clellana, the master of the Ayr, is given in the list of
crown witnesses. If this person should be adduced, the
public may understand that no proceedings are in contem-
plation against him. Indeed it was cur opinion from the
first that whatever might be the degree of blame imputable
to him, it was not of a nature which rendered him answer-
ableat the bar of a criminal court.—Grasgmr Parer.
The idea of raising a subscription to relieve the distress
occasioned by the late turn-out in Bradford has failed ; the
cause having destroyed that sympathy which the inhabit-
ants of that town are always prompt to feel and to act
upon in any case of calamity.
Mr. Cliff, the proprietor of the cotton work at Gate-
house-upon-Fleet, near Glasgow, haying, during this year,
been subjected to unreasonable demands, at length dis-
charged every one of the spinners from his work, on a
month's warning, according to the original engagement.
He has been employed in collecting new bands to replace
them, and has been very successful in Glasgow. On
Thursday morning a number of male and female spinners
set off to Gate-house-upon-Fleet ; among them is Win.
Graham, son of the wounded spinner, and several other
new hands, who find it unpleasant to work longer in Glas-
gow. Mr. Cliff has assured them that he will take every
precaution to prevent their being molested by the old spin-
ners.—Glasgow Paper.

JOURNEYMAN BEOGAE.—On Tuesday two ballad-
singers were committed to Shrewsbury county gaol, to hard
labour, for one month, as vagrants; a third, a blind man,
who had been engaged by the others as a journeyntatt, at
Hereford, and who, after traversing with► them to Shrews-
bury, where he had earned them about eleven shillings
per day ! (and only received his meat, drink, and lodg-
ing for his services) was passed to his parish.— Worcester
Herald.

AWKWARD MISTAKE.—On Thursday evening a man,
mistaking the police lock-up for a place of refreshment,
walked into it and called about him for a glass of ale. Un-
fortunately, however, for him, it happened that the officers
had received an account of the escape of one Joseph Ilinde
(a convict under sentence of transportation) from the House
of Correction at Kendal, accompanied with a particular de-
scription of his person ; and being struck with the resem-
blance borne by the stranger, they proceeded to make the
necessary inquiry, when, singularly enough, he turned out
to be the very man. He was immediately secured, and
yesterday sent back to Kendal, from whence it appears he
bas been absent ever since the 12th of July.—Preston

DIABOLICAL ATROCITY.—On Tuesday, the 49th ult.
the family of a shopkeeper, in the parish of Cruden, were
awoke about midnight by a dreadful explosion, which
shook the house, filling the inmates with surprise and ter-
ror; and on getting instantly out of bed they found their
shop adjoining to be on fire, and the walls and roof of it•
much shattered. By their exertions, however, the fire was
soon extinguished, and they then discovered that the shop
had been broke into, and a large quantity of clothiery goods
and some money had been carried off: As powder was
none of the articles kept in the shop, there cannot be a
doubt but the thieves had brough► it along with them. A.
poor old woman, 95 years of age, sleeping in a closet at the
back of the shop, had her bed removed by the shock of the
explosion, the partition wall being thrown down, and the
fire having caught at the back of the bed, she had a narrow
escape for her life. Next day, a new white iron lantern
was found in a ditch in the neighbourhood, and there can
be little doubt of its having belonged to the incendiaries.
It is hoped that the authors of these diabolical proceedings
will be detected and brought to justice.—Dublin Evening
Post.

ALI.EGED CIIILD MUIIDEII.—A story has appeared in
several of the London papers, purporting to be a police re-
port of proceedings at Union Ilall, or. Monday last, relative
to circumstances connected with the death of a child, whose
body was found, about seven weeks ago, concealed beneath
some rubbish within a short distance of the town of Buck-
ingham. A young woman, who said that her name was
Mary Kirk, and that her parents lived next door to the
Flying Horse public-house, in Buckingham, is related us
have come forward to ease her conscience, by stating that
she had been called upon by a woman whom she knew,
named Elizabeth Ayres, to accompany her to the dunghill
under which the body was deposited ; and that the body
having been discovered with marks of violence upon it, and
a general impression having prevailed that the child had
been murdered, Ayres proposed that they should both quit
the town of Buckingham together, and that after having
proceeded in company to London, she had been deserted by
Ayres, and driven by destitution to a state of despair. The
magistrate, Mr. Swabey, who ordered Mary Kirk to be re-
lieved, is stated to have directed a letter to be written to the
Mayor of Buckingham, recommending an investigation of
the case. What the result of the application has been may
he readily anticipated. No public-house of the sign of the
Flying Horse exists at Buckingham. and the discovery of
a corpse under rubbish, seven weeks ago, had not been
heard of in that place.—Bucks Chronicle.
An accident, which had nearly proved of the most serious
consequence, happened at Tewkesbury on Wednesday af-
ternoon. As one of the Bath coaches, on its way to Wor-
cester, was descending the hill near the House of industry.
the splinter-bar broke, by which the horses (the best and
most spirited upon the road) became no longer subject to
the guidance and control of the coachman, and a most aw-
ful prospect presented itself to the unfortunate passengers.
The Hermitage turnpike-gate is situated immediately at
the bottom of the bill, and a narrow bridge over the river
Swilgate is just beyond ; and, as the horses were Going at
full speed, it seemed past the bounds of probability that
they would steer clear both of the gate-posts and of the
low rails of the bridge; they did, however, luckily avoid
both ; but the vehicle came in contact with the railing on
the causeway between the bridge and the church, and the
coach, the horses—and, of eourse, the striver and pawn.:
gers—were hurled together into the field beneath. But we
are happy to say that the injury sustained was astonish-
ingly trivial: the coachman arid tome of the outside pas-
senger., and a lady who was inside, suffered a few bruises,
hat neither the horses nor coach sustained any material da-
mage—although the meadow into which they rolled is at
least six feet below the surface of the road. Had the coach
gone over only a few yards nearer the turnpike, the cow.,
quences must have been dreadful, as the whole would then.
have been precipitated to a great depth into the midst .of
the river, which was at that time very much swollen flotiaj
the recent maim—Gloucester Journal.