The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-05-31 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

DIFSTRZSRIXO ACCOUNT 4. —( From the Paisley
Saturday, May 27.)—We have beer, favoured with a ..ight
report of the sub.oommlttee for managing the eubscriwim fin
relief of our unemployed operatives; and as there can he no o,th
,;!
trastworthy source of information, we deem it our duty to
t:
few extracts from that document before our readers :—" Tbe etio ber of wnrktng people destitute of employment continues to
crease. According. to one census recently made, of persona
employed--at present able and willing to work, yet without il!e means of occupation, and depending on that alone for subsistence,. even in the town of Paisley and its immediate vicinity, they ame.„.
to 12,899. In the retraining portion of the Abbey parish of p&iZ
ley, and is the surrounding parishes of Eastwood, Nedatoo,
barchan, Houston, Lochwinnoeb, anti Renfrew, the number, at
moderate estimate, may be rated at I,ooo—making an aggregate:6r
13,119'.f individuals out of employment, in what may be considered
the manufacturing district of the county of Renfrew. 'lke ponce.
lotion of this district, according to the Government Censua of 1821
I is 72,534 persons, comprising 14,9711 families, of whom 12.057 di;
rive their anpport from trade and manufactures. Of the loom
mass of human beings tints incapacitated from earning their dril7
bread, nine-tenths were tormerly employed in our cotton and
manufactures, or in operations dependent on them, and it is under'.
atond that at least one-to:ll.th of this proportion has been in the pay
of Glasgow houses. The fund this day remaining for the relief of
such a large body of industrious poor, is about 1,400(.,
has lately been, by some benevolent donations. Every mean,
nett'
continue to he used to obtain funds foe prolonging the relief hither.
to afforded."
A RBROATII.—The distress which prevails in this town it TM,
great. The number idle is 2.266: to be unemployed in the end
next week. 1.640. As the report was to be given In by a ee,oi,
time, for four factories, for want of time, not included, wemay viii
safety add, 200. Total 4,1011. On Tuesday morning abort
hundred people left the town in search of work.-11foafi„;
Chroniek.
Various sales, both of manufactured goods and colonial /owati
have been made during the week, but at exceedingly low poem
no other respect can we communicate any improvement in coos.
mercial matters. It is gratifying, however, to be able to ensomee
sales of any description, since the last three months may Ise mid
to have passed almost without commercial transactions of any son.
—Glasgow Times. •

TILE AIIMI.

Detachments belonging to the 13th, 44th, ■nd 43th Reglimm,
of Ii
fantry, marched, on Monday morning, from Webtminster, for Ciithin.
Detachments belonging to the 6th, 20th, :loth, and 4oth Reglirem,
Foot, marched, on Monday morning, from Westminster, for Cantstbe,
A Detachment of the 31st Regiment of lnfaalry marched, en 319141
mornint, from Westminster, Inc Tilbury Fort.
Detachment* belonging to the 4th and 36th Regiments of Foot marthei,
on 31onday morning, from W'estminster, for it'inchester.
Detachments belonging to the 37th and ;nth Regiments of Infantry
marched, on Monday morning, from Westminster, fur Port,inoutb.
A Detachment of the 76th Regiment of Foot marched, on Mown,
morning, from Wrtmlnster, for Jersey.
Detachments belonging to the 3d Dragoon Guard., the 341 Light nr,
goons, and the 15th llosaars, marched, on Monday morning, from We,p
minister, for Bristol, on route to Ireland.

A Delachmeut belonging to the 6th Dragoons marched, on Mot*
morning, from Westminster, for Dorchester.
A Detachment belonging to the 43d Regiment of Foot marched, ct
Monday morning, from Westminster, for Brid.ll, on route to Myrno.id
The lst Division of the Depot of the 78th ,Highland Regiment em
barked on board a steam packet, on Use 25th instant, at Glaegow, fur F.rt

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Detachments belonging to the f. 241 and b St RetiMinta of Infantry ea.
barked on board the Borodino transport, on the instaut, st Por...
mouth, fur Halifax.

SIIIPPEVG INTELLIGENCE.

LIVEIIPOOL, 11-loxnAT,ll.tY 29.

Arrived the Paullna, [tartlet, oral Lewis, Blackman, from Mobile,
days; Seafortb, AlcDotrall. from Demerara; Ardent, Davies, from
Orleans; St. Lucia, Bawling, from St. Lucia; Laurel, Dunlap, hots

Sailed the Courier, Walton, for New York.
Arrived the Shylock, from New Orleans, sailed 16th April. %Mel%
May, In lat. 46. long. 29. :!0. *poke the brig Lewis, from Mobile for Urn.
pool ; 19th, in lat. 49. 35. long. 16.:#1. spoke the brig Eliza, Field, frets
Liverpool for Newfoundland ; 011 the 21st, in tat SO. 16. long. 11. spoke
the ship Benlornond, from the Clyde for New Brunswick ; on the wee
day spoke the Matilda, from Para for Liverpool, out 49 day.,
The Neptune., thodd, from Africa, sailed from Bonny Bar on the Mb
January ; on the 29th March, in lat. 2. 211. N. lung. 24. spoke the Cellos,
Ford, from Boston for ValparalsO, out 33 days ; on the I= inst. at he-
lm, spoke the Paulina, from Mobile for Liverpool.
The Balance, from New Orleano, sailed 14011. and from Belize, lige
April ; on the 13th May, in lat. 43. 91. long. 39. 22. spoke the Catches
Ann, from .31obile for Liverpool.
The Eyder, from New Orleans, has arrived In the Clyde.
HOLYNKAII, MAC
The St. Lucia, from St. Loci; and Westmorland, for ilioaCur;l4;44sed
the Head.

FALMOUTH, MAY 25.--Arrived the Woodburn, Berea, from UMW,
and sailed again for the Cape of Good Hope.—Wind variable.
PLYMOUTH, MAY 2.—Arrived the Wanderer, Waygood, from imps •
Leone.—Wind E.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 29.—Arelved the Isis, Mann, from Newcastle. the
Brothers, Murray, from Sunderland for Miramlchl—the latter to .top a
kirk ; and the Pame, Marlitt, from ditto. Sailed the. Minstrel, Arkeoll,for
Rotterdam.—AVlnd N.E.

Ds AL, MAV 29.—Salted the Nelson, —, for the South Seas. Thera
vourite and Brilliant, for Petereburgh, remain. Arrived the Were
Reynolds, —, for Jamaica; the Hampton, Napier, from Grenada, the
Milford. Taylo% from Mocadore ; and the Eliza, Haute, from Lhasa.
Lieht wind, from the north, with fog,—Five P.M. The fog Is rather elm.
lag away, and the wind light off the land; several ships In sight coming Is
from the westward.

Off Dover, the Pr:ncees Charlotte of Wales, Bitten, from Bengal: the
Guildford, Johnson, from Madras; and the Buckinghamshire, trona Mink
The Intrepid, Stewart, arrived at Hull, from Riga, passed his Malegy's
ship Gloucester, with his Grace the Duke of Devonshire and suite, OU tks
24th inst. off the Scaw Point, In company with the Mentor steara•packett
also, on the ilthlkfay, off Gothiand, the Lightning steemspacket; all bead
to St. Petersburgh.