The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-07-25 00:00:00

MR HONDURAS COMPANY.

STATE OP TRADE.

SOUTH AMERICAN TRADE.—We have been favoured
(says the Macclesfield Herald) by a Correspondent at Bo-
gota, with some interesting information on the subject of
the rivalry between the French and English manufacturers
who export to that country. Our Correspondencetates,
that during the financial panic in this country and France,
orders were received at Bogota to mesa the sales of mer-
chandise and manufactured goods as much as possible, and
that, pursuant to these orders, sevt cal public sales took
place on account of the English and French consignments.
'fhe goods consisted chiefly of broad cloths, linens, calicoes,
cutlery, china, and leather goods. About 700 pieces of
French broad cloths were sold at to per cent. more than a
corresponding quantity of British broad cloths; both of
course at a sacrifice, the former, however, being only 1Y
per cent. less than the shipping price, and the latter up-
wards of 30 per cent. less The cutlery from France
fetched about 10 per cent. less than the English, but it is
remarkable that upon the shipping prices of this article
there was less loss upon the French than the English, a
circumstance which proves the comparative cheapness of
production even of cutlery in France; whilst the near
approach at the sale to the price paid for the English cut-
lery shows that the high reputation which we so long
enjoyed in foreign markets for superiority is rapidly
subsiding. In linen cloths al decided preference was
given to French, and from five to ten per cent. more
was paid for them; whilst in calicoes there was a pre-
ference for English equal to 10 per cent. In ornamental
leather goods the French exporter sustained a lots of about
20 per cent., and the English upwards of 30 per cent.
These leading facts are calculated to open our eyes to the
state of our manufacturing trade generally, and to put us
upon the qai sine for some better means of support than
the shadow of a once illustrious reputation. What the
French have gained in Bogota by a comparatively smaller
loss, in a time of panic and great financial difficulty, may
not unfairly be taken as a criterion of profit in happier I
times ; and the comparison which has been made to us, and
which of course will not escape the attention of the French
manufacturer, will naturally lead to speculation when the
present crisis shall have passed over.
NIaccLESTIELD.—We regret to state that the condition
of the manufacturers in our own vicinity, and throughout
the kingdom, becomes daily and daily more appalling.
The King, with his characteristic benevolence, has be-
stowed another sum of 1,0001. upon the Spitalfields'
weavers ; and we doubt not that similar donations will be
repeated in the country. But with all our veneration for
the kind motives of our excellent Monarch, we cannot help
asking where this scheme of patching up is to end—where
the demoralizing effects of administering from charity what
should be the demand upon industry, are to terminate ?
Macclesfield Herold.
CARLIII.E.—With feelings of grief we announce that
the operative manufacturers in our vicinity arc again
placed in a situation of the most heart-rending distress.
The state of Carlisle and its vicinity, caused by this dis-
tress, and prospects of the future, has arrived at an alarm-
ing height.—Carlisle Journal.
GLASGOW.— The depression in the cotton trade conti-
nues unabated, or rather, we may say, in parodying the
eloquent Charles Phillips, it exhibits'" a flow of' conti-
nued declension." Glasgow never was near so dull as it has
been during this week.—Glasgow Free Press.
'fhe Bank of England are, with all proper celerity,
drawing in their small notes. On the Bth July, the
amount in circulation was reduced to 1,354,8001. The
manner in which that establishment has kept the exchanges
favourable to this country, and consequently induced large
remittances of bullion, has already occasioned a percep-
tible change in the state of trade in France. It is difficult
to speculate with any assurance on the period when trade
in this country is likely to recover ; but an improvement
may take place sooner than most people, in their present
I gloomy spirits, imagine; and the amendment once fairly
begun, will no doubt, as in former cases, proceed with
some rapidity. It cannot, however, be expected that, with
a gold currency in England, prices will rise at all as they
did after the other re-actions during the last thirty years.'
What is now tobe hoped is, that they will not rise to a higher
pitch than that at which they can steadily reinain.—Glas-
gore Chronicle.
DUNDEE.—Commercial affairs, instead of recovering,
are every (lay getting more unpromising. Last week a
number of manufacturers paid off all their out hands,
making the distress sill snore appalling. The harvest,
which is now begun in every direction around, and which
will be general in the course of next week, affords little
prospect of bettering the condition of those who usually
engage in it; for, from the immense number of people
who are idle, or next to being out of all employment, it
cannot be expected to continue long. If the dry weather
continues, the greater part, if not the whole, of the crop
in this neighbourhood will re in the stack before the usual
time that harvest begins.
On Thursday, a case of gross imposition on the Relief
Committee was detected at the Calton Police Office. Two
women quarrelled at the door about precedency in getting
tickets for the meal. One of them reproached the other,
that she need not be in such a haste, for she could not I.);
in want, when her husband had such a good pension.—
Serjeant Leckie overheard the altercation, and watched the
woman till she had got a ticket and a peck of meal, when
she was taken into custody by Morrison, the door-keeper,
who was also on the alert. Her husband was also appre-
hended ; and it turned out that he had a pension of is. 41(1.
a day. Though they scrupled not to take the meal destined
for the destitute, they were no sooner in custody than they
sent for twenty shillings they had lying in a person's house,
in order to bail them out. They had been recommended as
objects of charity, by a person in Bell-street Calton ; and
had got nine and a half pecks of meal since the distribution
commenced, although they had been living nearly all that
time in Glasgow. Yesterday the case came on before the
Sitting Magistrate in Calton, who, after addressing thcmton
their infamous conduct in imposing on the Committee, and
then getting the meal which was intended for the really
necessitous, as a reparation for the injury they had done,
fined them in one pound, to go to the relief funds ; and in
default of payment, to be confined 14 days in Calton Bride-
well.—Glasgow Paper.
At length we have had rain in quantity sufficient to steak
the thirsty soil. On Thursday it rained the whole day,l
and yesterday till past noon. The rain must have been
general over the island. It will benefit the aftermath of I
clover, the late potatoes, and late oats; but any other de-
scription of crop is too nearly ripe to be improved. The
spirit of adventure is again rife in the country, not in cot-
ton, hut in grain, straw, and hay. A very fine field of oats.
at Dunbarney, near Perth, was sold at 261. per acre; it
had lain for some years under pasture, and the crop aye-
raged full three feet in height. At the roup of the farm-
stocking
and growing corns at Ilill, in the Carse, wheat
averaged 34/. and oats 161. to 14/. per acre. Hay of this
year's growth brought one shilling and tenpence per stone.
Who can afford to give one shilling and tenpence for a
stone of hay ? In Ayrshire the shipping ton of coals is
twenty-seven cwt. The same weight is given at some of
the coal works in Lanarkshire ; in which case the carter
lays off three cwt. before coming into Glasgow. The
weavers of Perth are about petitioning the King concern-
ing their distress. This example ought to be followed in
every district where the distress is felt ; and separate pe-
titions, detailing the state of each, should be sent off to the
care of Mr. Peel.—lbid.
Coat.—The accounts of distress in this city, which
reach us every moment, are of a description to barrow the
feelings of the most obdurate. We have it on authority
which we believe would not deceive us, that there are, at
this instant, in the city ofCork, families whichhave not tasted
a morsel of food for twodays and two nights. Let us express
an earnest hope that our fellow-citizens will come forward
to the relief of their suffering brethren ere it be too late;
disease and tumult are much more easily prevented than
stayed.—Cork Chronicle.
HERRING FISHERY.—We are much gratified at observ-
ing the continually increasing interest which the fishing on
the coast of Caithness has excited among the fishermen in
distant parts of the kingdom. This morning a fleet of ten
fishing vessels passed through the Caledonian Canal, at
Clachnaharry, from St. Ives, in Cornwall, on their way to
prosecute the fishing on the coast of Caithness. They had
been five weeks on their passage.
Mr. Grime snt.—This gentleman is at present labouring
under a severe and dangerous illness.

The wheat harvest has commented In the neighbourhood
of this city.. The crop will be large, and of most excellent
quality.—Canterhury Paper.
A fine sample of new barley was exhibited in our mar-
ket on Saturday last. The wheat looks uncommonly well,
and there is every appearance of an early and prolific har-
vest.— /hid.
The wheat harvest has commenced throughout the west
of England, and the accounts both of the quality and bulk
of the crop are highly satisfactory. The plantation of hops
at Orchard Portman, near Taunton, is in a remarkably
thriving state.—Deeizes Gazette.
The wheat hareivit is now in almost general operation
throughout Devonshire, and the produce is bountiful.
Oats and barley are also abundant crops, except on light
soils, where the want of rain has been mast felt.
The wheat and barley harvest is now becoming general
in this neighbourhood. 'Though the Lent grain, as we have
already stated, is generally a failure, the wheat is fine; the
produce will probably be little below an average crop. In
some districts the rains last week proved very serviceable
to the late-sown barley.-IVorcester Journal.
RomsEV, Jul!! 22.—The wheat harvest has commenced
in this neighbourhood, and is expected to be general on
Monday.
Leicearza, Jerat 19.—1 n the whole tract of fertile
country from Derby to this town, the crop of wheat is as
fine as ever was beheld, but the oats and barley are poor
and stunted. The pasture lands are quite parched up, and
cattle, which in a more genial seance would now be fit for
the market, appear lean and lank on the scanty subsistence
afforded them, even in the richest plains of this county.
Hay has advanced in price from eight to ten pounds per
ton, nor can any thing like an adeqsate supply be bad to
meet the demand in the London =abet. Beef and mutton
are from sixpence to sevenpence a pbund here, and vege-
tables almost as dear as in the tnetrorpolis.
WINCHESTER, JULY 22.—The harvest has generally
commenced here under the most auspicious circumstances.
The little rain we have had lately, so far from daing any
injury, has swelled the grains for the farmer, which
malt re the miller—is no bad thing. The turnip crops
are few and partial, but the barley in general looks well.
Second crops of bay are out of the questioti. The price of
csttle is improving.
The wheat harvest has commenced very generally in this
neighbourhood, especially between Southampton and Rom-
sey, and, as far as the crop has fallen tinder our observa-
tion, it is above an average tine ; the ears are large and
tolerably full. All other descriptions of produce prevent a
blank. We are in hopes, however, that the presencsea-
i tenable showers may bring round the barley and turnips,
but here again will complaint be beard, for now the wheat
is on the ground, the farmers will want to get it in.—
Hants Telegraph.
BINGHAM, Jut.v I9.—The harvest in this neighbour-
hood has partially begun, under the most promising aus-
pices ; the wheat crops are spoken of as being very promis-
ing ; and although rain has been for a long time much
wanted, yet now the wish seems to be for a continuance ofi
the present dry weather. The morning of Saturday last ,
(St. Swithin's) looked rather lowering ; at about eleven
o'clock, the " big tear" stood in the Saint's eye, and a
few pearly drops ran down his furrowed cheeks, but in a
few minutes his countenance brightened up, and he put on
a serene aspect, to the allaying and dispelling of the por-
tentous fears and doubts of all the old women in the
country.
The hay harvest in Monmouthshire is now nearly com-
pleted, and the wheat harvest has generally commenced,
with every prospect of a full average crop, remarkably
clean in the straw. The barley and oats in most places are
rather late, short in the straw, but well eared, having un-
proved very much by the late rains, so that an average crop
may be expected.—Cambrian.
A fine piece of wheat, of above 30 acres, in the old Park
of Gwern-y-Cleppau, near the turnpike-road at Tredegar,
the property of Sir Charles Morgan, was cut this week by
the worthy Baronet's own labourers, about 60 in number
(male and female), who were plentifully supplied with
cwru', and an excellent. dinner of roast and boiled meat,
with plenty of plum-pudding, each day beneath the foliage'
of the broad spreading oaks ip the field. The regular and
clean way in which the work was done, as well as the man-
ner of giving out the beer and provisions, reflects the
greatest credit on the Steward, who remained on the ground
each day from morning until night. The carrying com-
menced on Wednesday, and before Saturday, if the
weather permit, the whole will be well secure].—Cambrian.
We rejoice to find that all apprehensions for the safety
of the harvest and the late potato crops have now vanished.
The rains have been general in every part of the United
Kingdom. They did not come in time for the hay, and
that is the only short crop.—Dublin Morning Post.
Reaping iibegun in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh.
Three bands of shearers were at work on Thursday, on
the fields between the north side of the New Town and the
Firth.—Edinburgh Paper.
The harvest will be quite general in East Lothian on
Monday first.
Harvest has become general in this neighbourhood, and
from the information we have received, we are sorry to say
that the crops are uncommonly light. Yesterday a gloom
overspread the heavens most of the day, and towards even-
ing it terminated in a copious shower of rain. From the
appearance of the atmosphere we have every reason to ex-
pect more will soon follow.—Montrose Chronicle.
ARBROATH, JULY 20.—1 t rained more or less the whole
of yesterday, which will not, we trust, do any harm to the
wheat, as it is generally ripe, while it will essentially bene-
fit every other crop. The rain was excessively heavy about
9 o'clock last night. Yesterday 40 shearers were forwarded
by Mr. Win. Thompson, of the Bell-street, Flesh-market,
to an extensive farmer in East Lothian, who wrote him that
his crop had all got ripe nearly at the same time, and that
no hands were to be got there, the people not being pre-
pared for a harvest that was nearly a month earlier than
usual.
The harvest is now begun in various directions round
Glasgow. On Tuesday, Mr. Baird, farmer, Oldhall, near
Paisley, had 29 showers on a field of oats. Mr. Baird
caused all his hands to work with teethed hooks, as he con-
siders that they gather alight crop inuzli better than those
with smooth edges. Yesterday new barley was offered for
sale in Glasgow. ivo
Harvest has now become pretty general in this quarter.
With the exception of wheat, the crops are very deficient
in straw ; but the crop is however good. In several places
the scythe has been used instead of the sickle for oats and
barley.—Duadee Advertiser.
On Saturday week, Mr. idmonadatone, of Cardenas Park,
cut down a fine field of Georgian oats, fully ripe. He bad
his oats forthwith threshed, and the ground ploughed, and
again sown with the newly-reaped grain. He expects, if
early frost keep off, that his second crop will be better than
the first.
There is every appearance that next week will be
one of very general employment in the harvest in this
neighbourhood. Parcels of corn, of every description, have
already been cut down, and small fields of respers are to be
obierved busy in all directions. The wheat looks sound
and productive, and we are informed will, if saf.'ly got in,
be of first-rate quality, and the quantity rather above than
below the average. Oats and barley are, as elsewhere, mi-
serable; the straw has been almost forgotten in the process
of growing, and, when tried, the grain has not been found
abundant, nor productive of much meal. In some instances,
either because it has nut been thought worth while to wait
for the ripening of it, or because green food is scarce, cattle
have been set to pasture the corn crops. The best of the
early sown turnips show a scanty sprinkling of plants here
and there. The furrows of the late sown ones have a me-
lancholy look of neatness and cleanness, and appear in no
haste to produce any thing green. Watering them has
been tried with great benefit in the mean time, and in
many situations could not at present have been expensive.
‘Ve have reason to pray, however, that they will not be
assisted by any very moist weather till the wheat be se-
cured. Such showers, however, as we had yesterday,
must improve them and the potatoes-01par Paper.
A duel was fought on Putney Heath early yesterday
morning, between Messrs. Stephenson and Willoughby.
The dispute originated respecting a young lady at Clewer,
Bucks. Two shots were exchanged, but no mischief was
done; and the seconds interfered, contrary to the wishes of
the principals.

Yesterday a netting of the Shareholders in this Company was
held at Bahion's Coffee-houae, by adjournment. it was by no
means so well at:ended as on the former occalions ; a number of
those who then attended, having been content to take the 21. per
share offered by the Directors.
Mr. BLAIN was then called to the Chair, and in his address to
the Meeting, he said the impression made upon his mind, from thE
discussions which had taken place at former Meetings we., that
although the Directors had acted with great improvidence, they
had not acted from improper motives.
Mr. W. CLAIM said that there. was not the slightest ground fur
such an impression as that entertained by the Chairman. as he (Mr.
Clark) would have proved, had those at whose request lie had taken
so prominent a part in this budoess, supported him as they ought,
and as they had proadard. He attended there to state, that as his
advice had not been followed, he 'Mould not interfere further in the
business. His first opinion ,of the merits of the ease remained
unchanged. He thought the conduct of the Directova unwise, im-
provident, and dishonourable. Had he been supported, he would
ave undertaken to get back the money, or to have s'amped with
eternal infamy the names of every person concerned in it.
Several of the Shareholder* expressed their concern that Mr.
Clark should have met with any thing to induce him to throw up
the business, and they solicited him to retract his intention.
Mr. Svoxes said he, for one, should not shrink. He hed pur-
sued his separate action against the Directors, and he trusted the
event would show those who had aeteded to the proposal of the Di-
reators the folly of that step.
A number of Shareholders declared the transaction of buying in
one-half nearly of the Compeny'l Share*, and then charging them
with the loss, to be fraudulent. Ultimately ::ley prevailed no Mr.
Clark to allow • string of iter.olUtlons, which he had prepared, to
. be submitted to the Meeting. They declared that the Shareholders
i were not satisfied with the defence made 4.y the I)irectora. and that
measures ought to be taken to compel them to refund The Rego-
:. lotions were carried, • Committee was appointed, and it was de-
termined to make an,application to the Lord Mayor on the subject.