The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-01-18 00:00:00

STATE' OF iltinE AT PAISLEY.

It is unnecessary. in the present dulness, to enter into
a regular statement of the variomi articles manufactured
here. Trade, nt this season of the year, is in general
brisk, in consequence of preparatim. for spring orders.
The late feverish state of the moticy market in London—
the insolventy of a number of the most extensive banking
eltablialorneliu,—and the want of confidence naturally re-
sulting from these causes, have been severely felt here, as
will as In ether parts of the kingdom.
Although the stability of our banking establishments
here was never called irt question, public credit received a
a vcre shock by a recent occurrence in oar manufacturing
circle, and the want of the usual discounts which it pro-
&Jell created considerable ernbarrassinent among those
to io commercial pursuits.
The fancy silk gauze trade, which was one of our most
important branches, and, in all its various den's'--
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at a consphie viand, and many individuals, who supportea
their famine+ very respectably, have beeti reduced to
poverty. This trade was doing well, both for manufac-
turers and operatives, and was gradually increasing every
year. It would appear, however, that it is to be sacri-
ficed to some ucw-fangled notions of our political econo-
: ; and those principles of trade under which this
f ingdm o has reached its present pre-eminence, are to be
Andotted for theoretical conclusions, and our liberality is
to be shown in adopting measures which will have the
elf et of taking ;he trade from our manufacturers and in-
genious operatives, and putting it exclusively into the
hands of our rivals ui.en the Continent. No time therefore
ought to be lost in endeavouring to avert this calamity, by
an appeal to Parliament upon this momentous question :
arid petitions agaiiist the admission of foreign silks upon
tl.e proposed new plan should he immediately prepared,
and put into the hands of our Nlembers, before the) have
for London ; fur it is impossible that the manufac-
turers here can contend with those upon the Continent, so
lull as there is such a great disparity in the price of the
necessaries of life.—Paisley Advertiser.

Li /marmot Cesrostenoust.— The receipt
t of Custom- !
house duties at this port, in the year just en ell, we under-
stand, considerably exceeded three millions of money, not-
withstandiug the panic whi:h prevailed in the interior of
the country during the last quarter. The revenue here
cons, quently amounts to an entire fifth of the whole col-
d for the three kingdoms, as the statement made in
the I.indon Pipers of last week gave but fifteen millions
WI the aggregate. It appears, Scotland and Ireland to-
gether produce nearly one other fifth, and the large Eng-
lish ports of Bristol, Hull. and Newcastle conjunctively,
almost another fifth ;' so that but two-fifths are left for
London and all the remaining parts of England to make
up —Lie•rpool Saturday's Ad:whirr.
It appears from some official documents which have
been published in the Bristol Joornal, that the differences
between the Corporation of that city and the Chainuer of
Commerce having, in the course of tiler inquiries, forcibly
smarted the attention of the Parliamentary Commissioners,
site Chairman, Mr. Wallace, otteied to mediate between
the' parties, in order to settle those unhappy and injurious
divisions: and it being thought that the establishment of a
channel of free communication totween the Corporation, t
the'Sneiety of Merchants, and the Chamber of Commerce,
by the appointment of a Committee from each body,
would, in all probability, hare the effect of extinguishing
all discord between those bodies, the measure was 'weeded 1,
to by the Meechacts and the Chamber ; but the Corpora-
tion met the whole proposal by a (indention, that " it
could not but antieipate insuperalie difficulties in applying
the principle of the negotiation and arrangement to the
settlement of diffirences which wholly consist of hostile
semrssions, on the one hand, upon the revenue and consti-
tutions! government of the Corporation; and, on the
other, of the necessary defence and maintenance of rights
tstab'islied by the enjoyment and usage of centuries."
A Itt.sor RECKONLII.—When ()raze Bidder, the cal-
cuiiting phenomenon, was a very little boy, he made the
toot of England with his father, displaying everywhere his
astcmiehing power of combining and resolving numbers ;
among severe extrerr,elv ingeuioue and difficult questions
%Melt bad been prepared for hint, an ignorant pedagogue
asked (without furnishing any data), how many cow-tails
.would teach to the moon? The boy turned upon tfie inquirer
a look of considerably archness, and answered instantly,
" (Me, (fit were /mpg erieergh."
ESTI/SWUM:CART PHENOMPXON.—fir. Samuel F. Bar-
err, of Andover, called yesterday to relate to us the cir-
corestaucte of a phenomenon which recently came under
his &Nervation. He states that, being employed with
others in making a stone bridge in the north parish of
Andover, they discovered, on takine up a large flit atone
(shout three feet by five), a great body of living snakes,
%Melt had probably taken shelter there for the winter,
They were stiff, at first, from the cold, but exhibited
var:uus• piens of 'life when exposed to the slue On ,
ing eounted there were found to he 116: and what rt.:l-
- the eireurostanee more singular, there were various
vi.ecies, viz. }deck, striped, and grin soaker, and helve
:rnti brown adderw-,nombers of each. They were of (lift
carat sires, -varying ?rota six inches to tlvo reef —Selem
5;. Oites.Taciesetts mere).