The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-10-30 00:00:00

STATE OF TR-IDIs%

Ocr. 213.—The matket on Tbassley was fiat,
'wed the manufacturers of steam loom cloth were willing to sell, at a
reduction et 31. per piece, the goods on which they had. in thc pre-
vious animared demand, obtained an advance of Is. Boric of the
Blackburn calico manufacturers, discouraged by the comparative
dulness of the demand, talk again of dismissing their weavers. So
far as I am able to judge, I do not think the depressicn is as yet
any thing greater then usual at this season ; but another market-
day will enable me to judge. As far as it has yet gone, it can bi
accounted fOr from the printers having laid in all the cloth they
need for the it winter patterns. and from the drapers in the country
haling emnpleed their stocks. The meeting of the working
classes takes plate to-night, in the Manor Court room. If the
ministry refuse to take part with the people nn the Corn Laws. I
think I can see that s,rious tumults will take place during the
'winter. At one time the people sere reduced to complete apathy,
but the comparative briskness of trade during the last two months
has revived their hopes; and if the briskness is fo:lnwed de-
pression, and a confirmation of the Corn Laws, the expreteton of
ditnaristaction will be lively in proportion to the spirits the people
have gained while they have bread to eat.
STOOK PORT.—We cannot report favourably as to the actual
sales of goods from this district; the last three Tuesd ,y's markets
at Manchester having been flatter than usual. Still there is no dis-
position to sell under the prerent prices, and where a depreciation
has taken place it has been upon goods which the previous few
weeks' demand had raised in value. fair proportion of trade ap-
pears generally to be dving ; and from all we can learn, though no
great improvement may. take place, there is little cause to fear that
things wtil be worse.--Slor4orl Adn'ither.
GLASGt/W.—'f be wearing is now so far improved, that r.o work-
man of character and ordinary abilities finds the least difficult in
getting a web. Fine lawns are at present brisker than any fabric.
During the last fortnight several warehouses in town have not re-
fused a single lawn weaver, who applied, properly recommended.
The country towns are also feeling their full share in the improve-
ment. Last week a respectable agent from Irvine visited town,
and front one single house he received orders to employ forty new
hands. There is Lot yet, bower'', the least appearance of any ad-
vance in the prices of weaving. It requires a very good weaver to
finish a I," 4.4 lawn in a proper manner, and it is at present pail
from 4d. to aid: an ell, weaving. An industrious man will be able
to work four ells, which yields hint Is. 4.1. a day, or fix. a week.—
From this Is. NI. must b.: deducted for the expenses of loom rent,
light. dec. which leaves Gs. a week, for the support of the weaver
and his family. But it must be recollected that this is the calcula-
fion for a very good tradesman, and very few men are at prevent
earning above 3%. or 6.5. n week. It in surely for the interest of
every person :n use every possible exertion to get rid of a business,
which nisi so long afforded such miserable wages, and has but a
small prospect of being soon much better.
• •

It is lamentable to detail the distress of the manufacturing popu-
lation. There being but a small chance of their condition being
aeon bettered, they arc fallen into the most gloomy despondency,
and are now gone callous and indifferent about public affairs. Long
euffering appears to have completely broken their spirits, and de-
stroyed that tore of wooly independence for which they were for-
merly distinguished. Weavers of the most virtuous character, and
whose lives have been devoted to uniform and incessant industry,
fihrlink all their exertions vain to procure the means of subsistence,
or to give their families that education which alone can render them
of value to society or themselves, are sow zealously -
attention to the mama of expotaiation to a foreiga
only hope of relief. it would be difficult to coo--
idea of the misery which prevails. It is best
nes.ing the human beings' who ore to be seen emerging
Icom shops, pale, wan. and shivering; and exhibiting their emaci-
ated features and broken down constitutions, the effects of exces-
sive toil, in a damp shop, fur sixteen hours a day. Their ordinary
working apparel is conirletely worn nut, and unlit to withstand the
severity of winter. They made a shift, during the heat of stammer,
to do with any sort of clothing ; but the same tattered ferments are
unfit for winter. Passing through a village, the blitmle is to be heard
in operation from an early hour in the morning till 11 or 12 o'clock
at night. Many families, who ate said,/ dependent on the loom,
are in a state bordering on starvation. They are scarcely able to
command a meal a day, and are often without a fire. One Sab-
bath day lately, a weaver and his wife never tasted food, and their
five children go only a penny loaf among them. On a represen.
nation of their case, stone trilling relief was procured. Instances
of this kind are occurriogin every quarter. In a house that was
visited on Tuesday, the visitors saw the children rising (tom some
shavings on the floor, with nothing to keep nut the•cold but an old
rug. The parents slept in a fixed bed, and had only one blanket.
There were in the house two chairs, one of them wanting the hack,
a stool, and a fixed dresser. There was no grate. Alt ill furni-
ture and clothing had either been sold or was in the pawnbroker's,
in order to meet the cravings of !mega. The general earnings of
the weavers run from Is. to C 3. a week ; those employed at the finer
descriptions of work make a little more. It is the Fenrral opittion
of those best informed that the habits of the working Ouses are
foot deteriorating to the condition of the neglected Irish ; while the
Scotsman has not the buoyancy of spirits of the Irishman, who will
make a jest of his own misery. Many of the 'tom shops are empty
or partially filled, numbers of the inma.es having enlisted, or
forced themselves into better trades. To the eastward of this city,
there has been a considerable diminution of weavers from this cause
but it is feared there cannot be such °peonage in other professiogs sa
will effect a rise in the prices of weaving. As fuel, from the op-,
preach of winter, is becoming indispensable, distributions of coal *ill
be at necessary as meal. A ntun6o of the weavers, when the out-
door labour ceased, were supplied by the Relief Committee with
meddles. shuttles, and brushes, to enable them to re sumo
their miserable trade ; but the applications were so numerous, and
so long coral:med. that the allowance was stopped. It will there.
fore be out of the power of the great majority of weavers to pay any
rent at the approaching term of Martinmas ; and it will be useless
for the landlords to sell what mooting of the furniture, foe-the ex-
penses will not be cleared. Toe prosrietors of smolt houses in the
suburbs have for some time been severe sufferers by the stagnation
in trade ; and some of them are as notch reduced as their tenants.
There Is a landlord in Bridgeton actually receiving meal out of the
relief fund. Ile built a house, aril borrowed &I. upon it. He re-
ceived no rents last term ; and was obliged to sell an eight-day
clock to pay the feu duty. There is also the_ anomaly of a well-
-.
known preacher receiving his share of the
Meer has lan made much progress in t'
tics is far from being considered by
healthy condition ; and great apprehensions
the inadequate nourishment for the human frame,
*arm clothes, when combined with the cold wes
malionent diseases. The leavers of Parkhesd
are about to have meetingo to send up to Pa'
Pion of their dreadful state of deedtution,
their tontirtetthg lower to exist CIP•Ier sit
espeeted that these meetings will send
free trade in corn—which is the only rat
condition can lie bettered, by lowering t
rate commensurate with the value of lab

The distribution of oatmeal in the t„
last week amounted to 13 bolls pecks.
we* 290, atol they generally consist of
weaving became plentier, the weavers
ance; thus the small number relieved
diatrers beini abated. There is in every
complaints of suffering; and fearful an.
The suburbs are swarming with be-gars;
are soppoled to average about 30 ailay.
ton works hat let loon a number of boys

Fleet-street-hill, a sudden
and immediately after felt, ..
rope. Upon recovering the first .
ceivcd that he was surrounded by
whir dreadful oaths, threatened to knee o, . _ ...sea ttnlm
gave them all the money he possessed. He entreated theft to take
it 411, but refrain from using hint ill, and some of them having
then promised him protection, they proceeded to strip him very
deliberately and quietly of the various articles stated hi the indict-
ment. flaring taken all they could find they ran off by different
ways, and the prosecutor walked to a chandler's troop, then open,
within a few yards of the place where the robbery took place upon
his attempting, however, to give an alarm by a cry of " stop thief,"
several persons came up and begged him to be quiet, as the gang
were so daring and numerous, it was very probable he might
severely repent his boldness. From a butcher, ivho lives near the
chandler's shop, he borrowed a hat, and went In search of an officer,
declaring that he knew well seven or eight of the gang, and that he
had frequently met them in the street, while pursuing bis profes-
sional avocations. Notwithstanding every exertion of six or seven
officers, none Of. the offenders were found on that night or the
nest day ; but from the very accurate description given by the
prosecutor of their persons and dress, the four prisoners were taken,
and positively identified, Mr. Fuller swearing that.DOWDe and Ore
were the persons who held his arms pinioned, and searched his
breeches pockets, while thepther two prisoners mood nearly opposite
to him during the whole time of the robbery—so positive, Indeed,
was the prosecutor wish respect to the identity of the prisoners.
that he pointed them out successively in the midst of thirty others,
who were brought up under suspicion of being concerned in the
crime. The two cases of lancets wore traced to the possession of
Downe, through the means of a girl named Sarah Holt, who swore
to having recerved them from him. The prisoners were called
upon few their defence. Bishop said he would leave his cue to
Alessrs. Adolphus, Broderick, and P. Alley, who had been re-
tained on hi, behalf and that of the others.
Downe put in a written paper,in which he allegetlithat ha was two
miles front Fleet-street-hill at the time of the robbery. and de-
clared that he received the lancets from a person named Bailey, to
whom he had applied for them at the requestof the father of Hor-
ton, (one of the men convicted last fusions of the same offence) as
it was said the surgeon weuld not proceed further in the prosecution
if he recovered them. The girl, Nuufs Halt, got them for the ex.
press purpose of carrying them to Mr. Fuller.
Ore, in his defence, denied all participation in the robbery, and
urged it as a proof of his innocence, that Mr. Fuller had called at
Isis father's house, to ask him questions, before he was apprehended,
and that if he bad been guilty, there was full warning enough to
induce him to make his coupe.
object of -
,Uidence for

by
public
ions duly
numerous
distin.

Thema.,

or which they were tor- i ~As they are, however, rather singular, andpreseng a faithful pie- Dish, the whole of the case to them. The Natwun to 11" "It 1
virtuous character, and
old incessant industry, lure of the character of the general inhabitants a that district, as an extensive hop-factor in the Borough, in which husi etc he I
well as of the degree of daring slut lawless *trite with which they amassed a considerable fortune. and wishing a .tittlerela ation al
c means of
themsubsistee
for. some time carried on their operations, we think it better to give
i can render he the fatigues of the day, as well as for the improvement of
:aloeealously devoting their a beef recapitulation of the principal incidents. health of .his family, determined on purchasing a country reside
a foeeigu larwl, as the From tip evidence of the prosecutor (Henry ;surgeon ,itat ft ccervenient dist ince from Loudon. Among the many be I
to anomie odom,sto appeared Out on big way home Pens visiting ,paseitts,, ;Fir ec,tstl the one he now occupicd, and gave fa
demonstrated hrwit- halilwet wet" fn the twottipat I" the 1(0,4 s 1 ,Whetatrlve of the t: erases, which :mounted
cen emerging from the having then scarcely commenced, he heard, ow his walk gup 7001.1n0 in th''whokajook From the ine"se of
exhibiting their emaci- Fleet-street-hill, a sudden *twill whistle, with a sry of " Now,' population in aiuf about the neighbourhood of Croydon, as well
na, the effects of exces- and immediately after felt, hie arms pinioned ithd bound with a thr the ePivettittece of those residing between Norwood and Cr
a day. Their ordinary rope. Upon recovering the first shock of Such aa attack, he per. don and'atigt at places, the Con.missioners had determines! TIJ
d omit to withstand the ceased that he was surrounded by upwards of twenty, men, who, erecting' tch, and for that purpose had selected two acr.:l
ng the hest of sammer, with dreadful oaths, threatened to kopek out his brains unless he land, the property of the plaintiff, and the selection the Cenin
. .. _._ , ., ..---------------..,.m...,. hall mad. WAS the moat nublir_ and therefore valuable a

LOU MC Mill4llll/y .31 WCII. r.- Friend set up the local situation and public thoroughfare from
the meal distributed. Though Hickman said. the only object of accusing him was to prevent La d B - i be, wi i• BIRTHS.
I the suburbs, yet the popuLt. him from appearing as an'evideace for Downeaod Ore, wheat-10M. ron to rignton • and further, og t.n a quarter of a mile On the 27th inst., in Berkeley-square, the Lady Laura bleyritk,
the medical profession in a eenee he could have proved. ". of Croydon, and also' the short distanceiron London, consideratly
enhanced the value. There were so many buildings going on in of a .
herteions are entertained that
commanding Royal Attillery iti that garrison, or s eon.
Lydia Bender was than calkd to prove that eke was drinldng . . At Gibraltar, on the 211 inst., the lady of !dent-Colonel P:iyin,
with Bishop, at eight o'cloek,o i the night in which the robbery and about Croydon, upon speculation, that he was fearhil it would
On the 2ath inst., at the Rectory, Stanstead, Suffolk, the lady tit
man frame, and the want of
was COMmttted ;and that when he joined her to go to the public. turn out like the Kemp Towii ?Speculation, involve all those who
the cold weather, will end in
the Rev. S. Sheen, of a son.
Parkhead, and other districts, house, he was as calm and Seal as mei. ~,, had been concerned in it. The Commissioners were still disposed•
On the 2d inn., the lady of Lieut.-Colonel Marshall, Military
riddyman, swore he saw them together at tkaAt hoPeurre, tad' illaintrpt-il to _act fairly and hi:lnoue:ibis, but the public interest mast be their P
to Parliament a mrceenta- 'l'iJdyman, first consideration. Secretary at Gibraltar, of a anti.
urn, and the impaMbility of half-Pot ten at night. . ~. Mr. •Fuller, a surveyor. tesiding at Riegata, has, by order of the
rr sans privations. It is to be Mr*. Meer. the keeper of the ehalsgkees *IP. to- ji. lin • i •
wieners valued the land and In hie -estimation the land is
rid up strong Plattiess fine m• `fally-towar theti:trigl the "'Whey"' "lige . 4 - ike a* Mash mare,
1201'MARRIED.
. an acre, at a twenty-years' purchase.
rational way by which their hear ... 167 1.01- *4 4611' - ' '. A
' • ''' '' .. % . Inimi...la. um •WI In tla sbp *her* baildiqg On Saturday, at the New Church, St. Pancras, by the Rev.
g the prices of provisions to • not know then agaisi-i maii meat • •
I brands of the pr csalon was that•of srng WO vlosesel'alsgdire, William. Minn Ohm; Seq. of Tissfinaitreet,
labour. kr positively asserted ise theca est6l:' = • - • ed estates and farms. New Bridge-street, to Elizabeth, second daughter of Those Cadell,
Calton and Mile-end
reltevtddsviets that it was quite dnek- do .de of dee oat
_whore It • • • - . . ..r. - . . , _...,ppet, chariotte.stn_., ~.
4. Ala remota, surveyor of Croydon, &mead that he anew the mre• to 1-, et eitsroy.squan.
ccks. The number i although the man woo, ' brighllr "ana adage' that - landwell, and valuer) by order ofthe Co &se' for Building At Severn Stoke. the, Marmaduke Vatesane, son of the late
t destitute women. Since the Gadd not be less time 24 • ohat oink, bows the
.it
. He considered the property was not worth more than Thomas Nippon Vavasour, Esq. of Rochdale, Lancashire, to Mary
s receive no charitable assist. SPltalgelds bell, midair- all -/Ihr-. . at, hod egased-,
ed affords no criterion of the time. This witness also • • that
_bfaa eon* '
%.•• *I 21161. per sere; and according to his valuation, a proposition was Anne, youngest daughter of the Rev. J. F. S. F. St. John, Prelne •
liteda in his (winless's> presence of 4001. for the lauds which the dal,' of Worcester Cathedral.
'cry street the most distressing 3110131/hen Bishop was - his **km. is few" , .plaintif declined, anal upon being asked what sum he demanded,
eiricipstions for the winter, robbery, and although Jaa ' " • rime( kites be ,
to answer. 1)151).
;ors; and the calls in one shop recognile.hiitt,
ay. The stoppage of the eoe., -Robert end Prandp
.. and At • • 11.1=-examined-Lend in Croydon is valuable; where the Thursday morning, about two o'clock, at his house, near Wands.
toys and girls on the sympathy all gave within-14 tembolinie
.10 Minutes after. • t. to in racks are built, Government gave 934/. per acre for it. . worth, Christopher Misplay, Esq. Alderman of Vin:ry Ward, to
last week, 139 individuals were being very daricomd ta kdr. &dandle of his belag ipso. This wee the defence. which he was elected in 1810. He served the office of Sheriff in
nbers of females that were em. rant of the wean wlsomisboi - . • • Mr. Tstraistuen in reply said, his Learned Friend had done 1213-14, and that of Lord Mayor in 1821-2. His illness was short,
about protecting the public interest, anti so forth ; but the private his being, alone a fortnight ago, thrown ant of Ms gig. The publi.-
ing meal. In some closes at Small Barlow, WM. f Elia*** Minket; swore to the -.V well in endeavouring to captivate the ears of the Jury by talking not exceeding forty-eight hours, and was probably occasioned by
individeal ought also to be protected, and compensated for the loss services of this worthy Magistrate hare been on all occasions duly
melee rosy Le seen huddled in time being neat* nine lbw MI these witnesses took their
nary coal cellar. The rent is time loin the tinging Of lbw . ..
rkly. These hovels are also Matilda Moire ROOM she saw all the gang. to the nand*: of 30, he might sustain in having his property taken from him, and the appreciated by his fellow-citizens ; but his lose to hie numerous
Talton, and there daily emerge anti that the only man she knew was tolled Norton, the man who *tent and comforts of his domiin curtailed ; that part of the de- family and (den& is irreparable. Few men were ever more distin.
and misery, hundreds of beg- stole Ale. Fuller's h*. She defined stelemitlysbat the prisoners at Wee, referring to the plaintiff only giving 87001. for the estate, and I guished for amiable complacency of temper, and the tenderest Mice-
own and country. It is a fact the bar were not oolong thorn.
who have been regularly going Thomas Aidy swore, that the prisoner; Denim sad Ore, snout tunate at to purchase the Joan for 3or 40001. less than it was Of cholera minims, at his seat near Dublin, on Tuesday last,
.10,4•Irt0 Chronic.. the evening of the robbery with him, at sin bagel and Trumpet worth, so much the benef kids client. Ile had proved his case Ball, Esq., Paster in Chancery.
......-..... public.house, in Stepney, and that be sew Mee tome in there „„. upon the clearest testimony; it had not been contradicted by the (yf cholera niorbus. at Dublin on the Ilith moat. , Stephen Draper,
Per- defendant' witnesses Esq., who had been fur 36 years Surveyor of that port.
tea good at former prices re.stlY cool ""g quiet. 04 if nothing' hit hippsowl, about eight ...._ . !
nig -z-neJnry rowed tor four hours, and returned a verdict with an In Dublin, at an adesectici period of life, John aleade Thomas.
reel
of large
stacks,
and o (11%1=11(01e Is two miles from Flemateem .
in answer to a questicet Eros- Baron (know, eon. easesernent of damages 810/. with costs, late of the city of Limerick, Esq., formerly a most eminent Aid
lof IGO tuns a week on an fared dna* had been in custody fur bullocit.h ' The Court sat at ten o'clock precisely, and the case Meted the opulent merchant of that city.
ipproach of winter, are all The Jammed Judge observed, lie feared too many that Web. *hale day' On the 3d May. last, in the );sat Indies, aged 38, Henry ()Ac-
ting 4s. a day.-GL'itsgoto hniehood were concerned in Aunt pr.r..ikees. . . -- - , ley, Esq., Judge in the district of Mourehetiabad, Bengal, and
A yea,* named Sidebottnes awing, he aelkbpoo potions florryz-uousu Kert.sus.-roI,ICE.-AleayLanoNs... cond son of the late Sir Charles OtthelCY. Bart.
awcen five and six o'clOck, at the Angel and Trunsgrots and *dig* to boot- orrice.---On Saturday four coffee-house keepers, living its Sept.o.s.),Petersburgh, of the typhus freer,
On the 27th Sep l
~ _ _ . _ .
cited by the fact that the Who 000 •On Porter wife ni bit Robert Ker Porter, Ins Majesty's Onibul
'SOM. Of Aga -We parish of Si. St. Marylebone, were each fined Ws. and Y
one-place were Thrown into employment, the same lammed • at Caracas. She was • daughter of Prince Scharbateff, one of the
nee of the chimney of Mr. that no prtfudice ouribt toiset - hlnlegee", ants, Open evidence produced b Johnson of their having incut ancient families in Russia.
Any by
covered to been fire. The such din:Miura. The db*l was' * ' seep boa
.by, commenced business before six o'clock in the morning. on On the gli.b hist, at her house in UppeeSeymonr-sitreet, at. thi
ifitlity for a short time, and weavers, in a place where Nene bur lived- einem • oaetain days iu October. As'they pleaded ignorance of the advanced age of 96. ',lane Whyte, relict at James Whyte, LFq.
thevefore cosh' be called tie pope their and, OW Ilebid 'stint., Mr. Hoskins informed them, that, according to and stater to the late Sir John Lambert. Bait.
hoitglut the chimney would that tuber j d j csadds,
I u dre ' lir ilaverbi of mile dot prookormis of the Act, they must not open their shops ibia"'""'"- ' . - -- ---"en"'- -.-- - -,-..- --'----.
Royal Exchange, the Sun, upon their oaths, harms, lbw-NW Et WATICK TRIO DAV AT LOllll5O/4 RRIDOR.
100 llNN•fee .11114 JI 110fere goer in the' mornin from Lady-da to Michaelmas,
g y
lendanee : very fortunately in Metre's. Two prisms. Bald, saw as esb..Morning .... 5 min. after 1 I Evaning......lls Isla. after I.
ed, as the fire had been her;, and knew meet or ali 4sese .in it_dns, sae• Ind not before six in the morning from Michaelmas to
having been sustained) be- however, that the Meows wen n* dam' Ley-day, under a penalty of not exceeding 10/. nor less -
Printed* TUE BRITTiII PRBSS Office, by J.W CARLTON,Nu. 181
Several other witnesses hating begs sallsioo suppers flak, to than 40s. atreueLeati published he R.CANNON, ewe piece.