The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-08-11 00:00:00

MANUFACTURI?JG DISTRICTS.

We are glad to observe that an advents, has taken
place in the price of cotton wool. 'More than
40,000 bales were sold during lass week at Liver-
pool, chiefly to the trade. This•demand is • slawii
or hope that a corresponding request For our roams-
lectures will soon take place.—Business is also im-
proving in Manchester.—(Car/isle Paper.,
Letters received here this week from Manchester
state. that the demand for heavy cotton goodie, surd►
as velveteens, corduroys, &c. had increased iu the
last week. At LiverpoOl a great deal of basiurea
hail been done its raw cotton.. Aleout 19.000
packages had been sold,* good deal of it on specu-
lation. and at an advauce.of price of from rum penny
to two-pence pre.Rouacl. . These, we trust, are in-
dication. of improving times.—(iiiril Advertiser.)
Several cambric masiefacturers have given the►r
weavers an advaliee, chiefly on account of thtir
sacrificing neighbours having walked the plaid:—
or, in more apt terms, quitted the stage. Good
60-reed cambric) have beets sold for many weeks at
945. hot considerable Pales have been effected at
26.. this week. Low stout calicos continue in fair
demand, and are easy sales at ad. Intranet, which
makes an average in the last three weeks!prices of
Isd. to 18d. per piece. Second and third 7-4 C
licos full 18,1. higher within the_ last four weeks.
Fustian) have fetched Id. to IV. per pound on last
week's prices, sod are very bnsk sales at the ad-
vance. _ _ _

Various °thee ilescriptioo• of goods, calculated
for the autumn trade, are a little improved, say
21 to 71 per cent. on prices obtained this second
Tuesday io July. A great deal in obtai ii iii g all
advance depends on stocks suitable for immediate
demand.— (Manchester (:oi-ette.) '
We understand that the weavers in our city have
generally, if not entirely, reburied to the luoso.
excepting a few who are traversing various parts of
the country. and subsisting upon the public.—
(Carlisle Journal.)
We hear with great pleasure that the cotton trade
has improved considerably within the last three
weeks. The raw material has advanced about three
halfpence a pound, and the manufactured article
will sell for at least ten per cent. snore than it would
have fetched a month ago. Calico weaving, which
was one of the most depressed branches of the trade,
has undergone • material improvement, and the ad-
vance to the w may he stated at 2O per cent.
upon his former wages. This improveuseut in trade
is said to arise from an increased continental de-
mand, and sint from any home 'peculations.—
( Leeds Meriury.)
Last Saturday, a select meeting of merchant, and
others, was held at the Court-house in this town.
to take into consideration the propriety of 'kibosh.*
to 120 croppers and their families, amounting in
the whole to about 500 individuals, the means of
emigrating to America. Th 4 meeting was held
at the earnest solicitation of lite *uttering work-
men. After about two hours spent in deliberation,
it was determined, that it would not be
able •t the present time, to originate any public
subscription for the proposed purpose, hut that
Jr no material improvement should take !dace
in trade, before the next spring, the matter should at
that time be reconsidered, and if it wis then judged
proper, • subscription should be set on foot, for
enabling such of them as were then inclined to quit
the country. to proceed to Canada, where. accord-
tog to the colonial regulations, each head of a family
will, on locating, be allowed a grant of 100 acres
of land. On the return of two of the_Gentlemeas
from the meeting, they were lamentiog the difficul-
ties that stood in the way of affording any effectual
assistance to the unemployed. when one of them
proposed to 'furnish looms, geers, &c. for ten men.
if the other would find then, work. This generous
challenge was instantly accepted., and is promptly
acted upon, and the example is in these times sort
unwcorthy of ingitatiou.—(Leeds Mircnry.j
A numerous meeting of frame-work knitters
(principally hi the cotton branch). was held on she
Forest, near this town. on Monday last, to consider
what measures ought to be adopted for obtaining
relief from their present sufferings, in consequence
of the 'ovules' of wages, &c. when, among other Re-
solutions. the following wee unanimously adopted :
a That this areetinx do consider. wader esistiaa circus,-
minces, hat it is the dosy of the Frante.vrork Knitters of
this county Is es-operate with the trade of Leicestershire,
oral cease esoirlihme sill such lime se they iraa mean. such a
price for Ark taboar, as will (*able thews to ossiotain dorm.
wires sad families erithWt the wineries b lire
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