The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-08-19 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

LEEDS, Attu. 17.—We have nothing material to add al
present to the facts upon this subject which we last week
published. Improvement is slowly but steadily proceed-
ing, and it certainly augurs favourably, that notwithstand-
ing the discontinuance of extra relief to the unemployed
poor of Lnds, for the past fortnight, the circumstance, how-
ever it may he felt, has not led to any ostensible effects.
Although there is a disposition to extend confidence in
trade, some time must elapse before it will be fully re-
stored. Respectable houses wish to wind up their accounts
after the losses experienced during the late distress, before
they do business again wish suspicious customers, on former
terms.—lntelligenrer.
We lament to have to say that there is no trade in Dub-
lin, nor any appearance of its revival. We have, on the
contrary, inuelt extreme poverty amongst us, at this,
misfortune is now aggravated by the prevalence of fever.
Sickness and distress arc spreading over various parts of
the country too, and the great deficiency of several of the
crops necessarily gives rise to apprehensions for the future.
—Freeman'a Journal.
In Glasgow manufacturing is going on, certainly not
worse (which it cannot easily be), and as certainly not
much better. Little business has been done since our last,
and that little connected with one bad feature, viz. that
still lower prices have been offered fur twist and yarn.—
Glasgow Free Press.

Dust.—On Friday, a meeting took place on the sea-
shore, at a place called the North Crook, in the neighbour-
hood of Drogheda, Ireland, between Lieutenant Chesshire,
R.N. and W. Huey, jun. Esq. both of Drogheda; Lieut.
C. was accompanied by L— F—, Esq. and Mr. H. by
Lieutenant B—, R.N. The gentlemen were placed at
ten paces distance, and on the first fire Lieut. Chesshire
was dangerously wounded ; the ball entered his right
breast, and, having passed through his lungs, came out on
his left arm. Surgeon Pentland happening to be near the
ground, paid every possible attention to the wounded
gentleman. lie had him immediately removed to a house
in the neighbourhood, where he now lies in a precarious
state. The quarrel arose from a pecuniary transaction,
the particulars of which Mt. Huey published, and this
occasioned the message. Both parties acquitted themselves
with firmness. The greatest anxiety is evinced in
Drogheda for Mr. Chesshire's recovery. He is an officer
who distinguished himself in the late Peninsular war—in
the engagement at Bayonne, he was the first who leaped
on shore, and planted the British standard on the bank,' of
the Adour.
FeRTiIER PA RTICUT.A RS.—We regret to state that Lieut.
Chesshire has since died of the wound which be received.
This transaction has been, we have heard, muked by a
melancholy coincidence. The unfortunate gentleman whose
fate we have recorded received hie death from the same
pistol by which his father had been shot in a duel, some
years since, with Mr. Huey, sen.
BRADFORD UNEMPLOYED Poott.--On Monday nighl
last, a meeting was held in the Court-house, in Darley-
atreet, Bradford, on the subject of employing the unem-
ployed poor labourers, when it was resolved to continue to
employ them in cleansing the beck, on such terms as to add
wages to the relief they might be receiving from the town-
ship. A great many labourers have been since this re-
gularly employed.
INI OLERA NC E.—A clergyman of the Church of Eng-
land, residing at Stoney Stratford, recently sent the follow-
ing letter to a parishioner:— Sir, if you have any com-
munication with the person who lives next door to you, or
attend his meeting, I shall give you notice to leave my
house in three months. Yours obedietly."—This notice
was sent in consequence of the tenant holding intercourse
with his next door neighbour (a respectable man in the
town, but a Dissenter), and attending a Dissenting Chapel
which has recently been erected there.—County Herald.
CHILD-STEALING.—Mary Keefe, the woman in whose
house the child was found, who was taken from the car by
the sweeps on Monday evening, was yestntlay brought up
for examination, before the Magistrates of the Head Office,
and fully committed for trial. This woman and her hus-
band keep a buster's shop in Digges-street—the husband
has absconded. There were seven other children on the
car, belonging to the Foundling Hospital ; they were on
their way out of town,and not coming in from the country,
as stated in our paper of yesterday. —Freeman's Journal.
The sharks are very numerous outside this harbour,
attracted, it is supposed, by the shoals of pilchards. On
Saturday, a man belonging to one of the trawlers, while
fishing for congers, drew np a fish of this species, which
weighed nearly seventy pounds, and was destroyed with
some difficulty, the fierce tyrant having, in the struggle, bit
his hand severely. An officer in the Navy also caught a
shark, about forty pounds weight, with a hook and line,
last week ; and several others have been taken. Experi-
enced fishermen universally respect the courage of the
shark, by attacking him while over the gunwale; for if
taken alive on hoard, though out of his own element, he
attacks every thing in his way
with the ferocity of a bull-
doe. Dandy fishermen should avoid the shark ground.—
Pi;mouth Journal.