The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-08-15 00:00:00

IN TILE TOWPISHIT

or ALMOXDBURY.

93 Families 395 Individs. 0.1. 23 Families ill Intliv. Si. 341.
31 173 did. 19 3s. 9J.
116 665 91. 8 41 44. 3d.
137 961 lis. 3d. 12 40 4s. 9d.
129 715 ls. 9,1. 6 19 ba. Oil.
81 447 2s. 3J. 5 11 fad.
47 252 2s. 9d. 1 2 Bs. 6d.
In this Township are found, Mt fully employed, 616 partially
and 039 unemployed.
We have not been able to ascertain With any degree of precision
the effect produced by the discontinuance of relief to the unemployed
pour in Leeds. In many cams the food voted to be dispensed in
three weekly allowances, before the operations of the society ceased,
is still sustaining the distressed ; in EVIG work may have been ob-
tained; and those whose parishes are tolerably liberal will have the
failure of this resource supplied by parochial assistance ; hut we fear
with all these palliatives that there is a great degree of suffering, aris-
ing almost to absolute famine, and venture to recommend that the
benevolers should, to the best of their power, supply by private
donations the suspension of pubic charity.
There arc at present about 1,001, stuff looms in Leeds. of which
not above one half are in employment. Considerable disquietude
exists amongst the masters as to the rate of wages, but by far the
greater part of diem, both in number and consequence, wish to
keep up the prices paid to the weavers. which are very moderate.
No principle 73n be better established, and we wish it was generally
acted upon, both for the sakes of the masters and their workmen,
than that the evil of excessive supply, with which the country has
been for months oppressed, will be much more speedily and effec-
tually remedied by keeping down the stocks than by reducing
workmen's wages.
Our Cortespondent. writing from Bradford, says :—" If there be
any truth in general reports, the stuff market at this place was better
on Thursday last than it has been for some time. More goods were
sold, and an advance in prices took place, on one or two sorts, of
sixpence per piece. It is much to be regre'ted, that no mode of
as:braining what business was done at this market has yet been
established. There is not a clerk of the market, nor any kind of
returns whatever made ; and sometimes there arc as many goods
sold out of the Piece Hall as in ft.".
No topic containedin our present paper w.ll excite mac into
than that which relates to the symptoms of reviving trade. We
wish these symptoms were more unequivocal, but they are open to
ibis observation, which it would be uncanditi to withhold, namely,
that front August to October, merchants are replenishing their
stocks for the fall trade abroad, and the retail dealers at home are
laying in their stock for the winter season. These circumstances
must, of course, make an increase to the ordinary demand for ma-
nufactured goods, and we must wait fora month or two longer be-
fore we can with certainty say whether the improvement is a gra-
dual advance towards the permanent revival of trade, or it .4 •
mere temporary spring arising out of the season. The root of the
evil of our dimistrous situation being an excess of supply, it is of
the utmost consequence to avoid raising undue expectations, and
thereby aggravate the evil by putting again into a state of activity a
spirit of speculation. While manufactured goods are sold, as we
tear is generally the case at present, at an actual loss. great care
should be taken not to multiply them unduly, but rather to let the
markets get disburthened, that the manufacturers may obtain a
living profit.

CONGLETON.—A slight improvement hss taken place in the
silk manufacture of Congleton ; about thirty mills are now in full
work, but at reduced prices. ft is generally admitted, that at an
advance of wages, the manufacturers could nut meet the compe-
tition of other markets with aby chance of sikaess.—.llacclesfield
Herald.

LEICESTER.—At a time when almost every newspaper we re-
ceive is teeming with accounts of the great numbers of the working
classes out of employment, it °Mode us great satisfaction to notice,
that such a state of things is no longer the case in this town and
neighbourhood. in making this statement, however, we must not
be understood as conveying an intimafjon that we have returned to
any thing like a state of prosperity . or that our industrious popu-
lation
are enjoying any of those comforts which industry and hard
work ought always to insure. We only mean to say, that this being
the period when hosiers in the more extensive way of business begin
to manufacture for the winter trade, awl there being little probabi-
lity of any farther loss on stocks in hand front the reduction in the
price of wool, that most of them have been engaging hands during
the last fortnight, so that there are now very few, if any, frame-
work-knitters unemployed in this town and neighbourhood. But
satisfactory as this information must prove, as tar as it goes, it is
yet lamentable to state, that such are the prices at which employ-
' ment is obtained, that the workmen are earning a very small
1 weekly pittance—little beyond, we understand, what many of them
have been in the habit of receiving in the way of parish relief.—
, Leicester Clernitiele.
Die Mat.the *ter ar:ette publishes the following view of the
state of the Cotton-market :,--•• The market on Tuesday was, on
the whole, tolerably lair. We have tak. n some pains to ascertain
whether the demand beyond that of former weeks arises merely
from the preparation for the autumn trade, or from any additional
cause. At this season, the printers buy thole grey cloth for their
fall and winter patterns, and this necessarily occasions a demand
for printers' cloth, greater than there has been is the period between
the spring and fall trade. Ihtring that period, there is generally
little doing in the country trade, except to order, and then the
country trade houses go out and purchase only what they want to
fulfil their orders. But in the next two Wonder, a number of buyers
come into the market, when it is fleet:vary that a fair stock should
be on hand, to show to them. Such houses are, therefore. now
Laying in stocks, to exhibit to their cusmiuers ; and we find that
they are doing so with the more contideace, because the prices are
now so low that there is little chance of their being lower. Here,
then, are printers buying fur their usual autumnal works, and mer-
chants for their autumn sales ; and both buying more freely in con-
sequence of the impression that prices will not be lower. Foreign
trade to places where there cannot be an early return is fiat, owing
to the scarcity of money and credit. No man will now send off
goods to be paid for twelve months hence. The Americans are
buying little, and those who used to sell to them are not slow in
attributing the 'thickness to the Corn Laws, which have made the
Americans manufacture for themselves. Cotton yarns for export,
which have hitherto been in fair demand, are rather dull of sale."
We are happy to ray that trade is considered generally to con.
tinue to be in a way of progressive improvement. As this opinion
is warranted by facts, it I as given a cheerful tone to public feeling.
Confidence is also acquiring strength from the immediate accession
of at least one establishment of itnportance, by which additional
facilities in a circulating medium are anticipated. Prentiaes are
taken in King-street for the purpose of commencing a Branch from
the Bank of England: and a very inviting plan is published fur
forming a Joint Stock Banking Company. 1 he latter is submitted
to the appiobation of the merchants, manufacturers, and tradesmen
of the town and the surrounding district. Its claim to attention is
founded upon the great reduction in the aggregateguaniity of the
circulating medium; upon mercantile operations being deplorably
reduced and crippled by the reduction in the quantity of money.
We observe with pleasure that in this document a high and most
deserved compliment is paid to the existing barking houses of our
town, for the aid and security which they have afforded by their
firmness during the eventful period of the late commercial crisis.
A strong exception is made to the overwhelming influence of the
Bank of England in the monetary system of the country. A Joint
Stock Banking Company, it is urged, will be the only means for a
well-founded feeling of security, together with the requisite expan-
sion of the circulating medium. Many other arguments are em-
ployed to point out the advantages' which must result front such
an insti,ution, and the great occaston which now particularly exists
for its adoption. That Joint Stock Companies have been eminently
useful admits of no doott, and that Government approve of them
has been declared front high authority. In this neighbourhood the
influence of a similar Company will of course he advantageous or
otherwise, according to the principles upon which it is conducted.
Over-trading and too extensive a paper currency are admitted to
have been the great evils which have led to the present distracted
state of commercial affairs, and if their recurrence be not strictly
guarded against for the future, another such crisis will the earlier ar-
rive.
The liberalityor the establishment must therefore be tempeted
with the soundest discretion. Its capital iswparnotpsosarnaldtonebec:iti,elldds
off.
dthivanidedloui,notor alliZtialhatnesn 5
~olfialresoo./_. e_acrltitiero Individual to hold more
the unemployed continue to engage active sympathy. Many plans
are °flared fur consideration, and pressed upon the attention of
Government. Employment is the great 'desideratum ; how to ac-
I complish it is the difficulty; Emigration is urged by one class of
it rime as the beat remedy for the present distress; an appropriatiOn

of waste land Fos agriculture by another; to atop the progress of
machinery by a third. The last remedy receives no claimer:rice,
but on the contrary is rejected as totally erroneous in principle. In
the mean time we fear the country will be agitated by a public
confliction of opinion upon this important topiei A requisition has
been presented to the Lord Mayor of London, signed hy a number
of Liverymen, " requeating his Lordship to call a Common Hall,
, foe the purpose of taking into eonsideratuin the propriety of pre-
-1 senting a petition to his Majesty the King, beseeching that his
3lajesty would nasemble Parliament in as short a time as possible,
in order that nrevisitres may be adopted to put an end to the
dreadful state of misery which now exists in the country, and
to effect a speedy and complete abolition of the Corn Laws,
and of all taxes on corn and flour imported.." A Meeting upon
similar grounds is about to be !: eld in this town, by the gen-
-1 denten whose requisition to the Churchwardens we inserted in
1 our last; sod other Meetings, we understand, are to be promoted
throughotit the country, tar accomplishing the same object. It is
a matter which must occupy the most coleus attentnm .of
I nisters ; and no doubt their best energies will be directed to.
wards the accomplishment of any means by which the distresses of
the workin.,o clasaes can be mitigated. But, as we have before re-
marked, all ranks of men are suffering; and it appears to be from
the slow progress of time alone that ally alleviation to this state of
things can arise. A dawning of alleviation is felt; and we sin.
cerely hope that a combination ofcircumstances may advance it into
more early premanency than Is calculated upon by mtitil deep.
thinking and judicinus men.— Wlterfer's Manchester Gazette.
GLAselow.—Since 11'ellnesAlay the demand fur sugar has heen
very aeritly, at much the same prices that had bean obtained on
Morday and Tuesday, though not so extensive, nearly 401) casks
having been sold yesterday and the day before, makilec the Tian-
thy sold here in the week 1,300 casks. Coffee looks still well, awl
every prospect of a gradual advance. The accounts from the Con-
tinent for this article are flattering. TI o• Cotton market, and the
business in manufactured goods. reindia very nearly in the same si-
tuation as before men lamed—little has been &mean either. The
sales during the week amounted to 1164 bales.—Glasgow Free
Press..

In the manufacturing branches of trade affairs berg ham cgttainly
begun to wear a more favourable aspect during the'present Weak.
More hands are obtaining employment, and the carriers have been
getting more webs to carry to the country districts. A considerable
stir took place yrsterday in the power loom gornls, and several
thousand pieces changed hands. The sales drawl were, we hear,
chiefly effected for cash. The opinion daily gains strength that the
title has turned for p:osperity. Cotton goods rot. the sshie market
arc beginning to he more sought after. We hope we shall be able
to announce a progressive improvement in all branches of business.
!lank notes arc beginning to circulate more freely.--..GLIVne
CIIII Orr.

There are upwards of 390 weavers employed at out-door work
about Hamilton. Mr. Brown has procured them additional work
on the Carlisle road at Canderdykehead, and up as far as Leek-
fechan ; and a number of the Hamilton and Cambuslang nearer,
have been sent there. They receive 2s. a day to keep them on
their journey. The treasurer. Mr. Canison Deans, bat paid up-
wards of 12001. in road-making. His Grace the Duke of Hamilton
is still employing a great number of men and women in clearing all
the thistles and rubbish from his pleasure grounds. merely to give
than wages. Besides a number of people employed about the new
addition to the palace. we understand Mr. Brown is doing every
thing in his power to procure work for the operatives. tar.
of Larnnch, has a good many employed about Earnoch noose, be-
sides other gentlemen in the parish ; and we must say, much to the
praise of the working class, that they have behaved well, and borne
the privation with the greatest patience, We understand the parish
has contracted to improve the road from Hamilton to Cambuslang,
far which 2121. has been paid to the weavers. Also the road at
Bumbank and Grime-Id Bridge, on which 1701. has been ex.
vended. Also the road between Hamilton and Strathaven, on which
1711/ has also been expended : besides a number of by-roads, on
which some hundreds have been expended. The subscription funds
amounted altogether to above 400!„ and they have been so econo-
mically managed, that there is still a surplus on hand ; but if affairs
do not speedily get round, it is to be feared there will be no altcrna.
tire but a Government grant to keep the population from starving.
—Glturgow Citron.
A gentleman connected with the iron trade states, that he fourd
I this department more dull in Lancashire than in any other part of
the country. In 3lanchestc., foundries that consumed 80 tons of
pig iron a week are not using more than 20 tons, owing to there
being no machinery for the cotton manufacture at present erecting.
In Staffinalshire and Shropshire there are 34 blast furnaces out. In
Ireland the founderies have not felt much of the pressure; but the
dulness of the cotton trade at Belfast must lessen consumption by.
and.by.—/bid.

An.intelligent correspondent in Kilmarnock says—" It is true of
late rather more weaving has been got, but at extremely reduced
prices, and not in such quantity as to give full employment to all
that arc idle, gre it numbers being still occupied at out-door la-
bour, besides those now engaged at cutting down the harvest ;
when this ceases, should a more decided improvement not take
place on the approach of winter, the condition of the working
classes will be truly distressing. The only branch of business in
this place that has e.caped the ptesest general calamity is the car.
pet trade. The operatives employed in that line have been in full
and constant work ; and, much to the honour of the gentlemen whe
have carried on the different works, no attempt et reiltlefng the
wages have ever been made, at least as far as I have learned."—lt
gives
ln us pleasure to be- able to state that during the week there has
some improvement in the internal carriage of the country.
The Kilmarnock Carrier Company had only live horses going ; on
Tuesday night they had eight, aed the carriers in almost all direc-
tions had improved loads. A number of more webs are now going
to the country ; but still there is no advance on the extremely low
prices of weaving. Could the weavers by any means keep off the
loom for a short time, now when the demands are beginning, a rise
on their wages might take place sooner than they expect, At
Aberdeen all the flax mills are in full operation. Dundee mills
are also on full time. The colliers are now reduced to nearly one,
half of the exorbitant wages they exacted last year ; that is, they
get one shilling a cart, fur which they formerly received two. From
the dull state of the coal trade, masters are not enabled at present
to give mare ; there are considerable stocks on hand, and the pub-
lic works in the vicinil of Glasgow are supplied at lower prices
than ever before known. The colliers arc much dissatisfied, and
have of late held various general meetings at Barrachnie, for the
purpose of concerting measures to effect a rise in their wages, and
to consider the propriety of a general stand. The colliers belong.
ing to one coal-master have been standing out three weeks. Front
the low state of the iron trade, there is no chance of the colliers
employed by them effecting any rise; and it remains to be seen if
the mere sale collieries will again raise the price of this essential
article at this period of general calamity at the Instigation of the
men. The colliers are still easily able, with all the reductions, to
make from 14s. to Ms. a week; and they have houses very cheap.
At a meeting of the manufacturers, held at Paisley, for the per-
pose of asking relief from Government, we regret to remark that a
disposition was manifested to mingle political discussion with the
proper business of the meeting—to ascribe the existing distress to
misrule on the part of Illinisters, and to petition fur parliamentary
reform, as a remedy for what the country is now sufficing. We
can scarcely believe it possible that even one of the Starving work.
men will be the dupe of such shallow attempts to deceive them.
The late distress plainly originated in the desperate spirit of specu-
lation, by which the country was for a time infatuated. In what
degree the Ministers were to blame for this it is not very easy to
see, or how any vigilance on their part could have prevented it. In.
deed it is not their business to prevent it.—lf merchants engage in
ruinous speculations, the blame is their own. 3linisters have nei.
ther the right nor the power to interfere with them ; and it is deeply
to be regretted that any attempt should be made to connect political
questions with the distress of the country. These are surely not
fit questions to be considered by starving workmen ; and such dis-
cussions are eminently calculated to frustrate the true and prow
business of such meetings, which is to procure daily bread for those
who are under the pressure of inamediate.want.—Caledonian
airy.
The following paragraph, relative to the slate of trade in LOU-
don, appears in a Dublin paper (the Evening Porl):
" The merchants in this city never were more dull, and the com-
mercial intercourse with the Continent never more shack, except on
the foreign post nights, when a little business is done in bills on or-
' count of the high rate of Exchange. Persons who were in the
habit of receiving expresses from Paris three or four times per
week, do not now receive an express once in six weeks; this is the
case even with Rothschild; lind in some of the first houses, many
of the clerks have nothing to do, and would be discharged but for
a kind consideration of past services, and a hope that they will
again be wanted. The trade in gold is quite over; but it must be
admittt d that • great deal has been imported, and remains in the
country. NVithin die last nine months something more than ten
millions have entered; and of this Rothschild imported to the ex-
tent of seven millions and a half. This speculator, to console him-
self for the loss of regular business, is now engaged in exporting
silver. The profits which he derive, from this are very small, but
be thinks it better to gain a little than to remain idle "
Letters from Lyons state that the silk manufacturers of that city
are in a state of deep distress.

The poor people belonging to Orkney, who were picked
up at sea, brought into Greenock, and returned home by
the United Kingdom, bad, we understand, been given up
for lost ; and shortly befors their arrival a most affecting
incident hail taken place. On a Sunday preceding, the
five children of Samuel Adamson, then supposed to be
orphans, were carried to the parish church, and there di-
vided amongst those of the inhabitants who voluntarily
undertook to support them, and be " father to the father-
lesa."
CROPP.—The north and east districts of this county
seem to have suffered more from the intensity of the
drought, than any divisions of the country to the south
or westward. The wheatis excellent, as seems to be the
case everywhere ; some we have seen quite si,perb, and
reported of as likely to produce fifteen bolls per acre.
Barley and oats do not reach half a crop. We have even
been informed that many farmers will have no more oats
than are sufficient to afford meal for their servants, corn
for their horses, and seed for next year. In the west
of Fife, however, these crops do not appear to be 1,0
bad : some fields of oats and barley were rouped there
a few days ago, at the rate of 201. and IV. per acre.—
Fife Herald.