The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-04-10 00:00:00

STATE 01' TRADE.

IFenm the Lads ,Sfereuv y.l
We ate obliged reluctantly to admit that the signs of returning
prosperity in tie staple trade of Yorkshire. which we noticed
month ago. h .re not realized the ex stations that were formed
from them. The market. at Leeds and Huddersfield in the wool-
len cloth line, hare for the last three weeks been extremely dull,
never peilta's in the memory of man so niuelt so at this season;
and in the worsted staff piece-halls of Bradford and Ilalifax, trade
b equally flit noel unpromising, if we except that trade which
seises out of sacriticea. The natural consequence is, that the raw
material of wool is grealy depreciated in price, fine clothing Eng.
fish wools as iitur'i as 20 per cent. on comparison with the prices of
last year, rontnon cloth wool thirty-five per cent. and comb-
ing wool thiti.edive per cent. within the same period. Money
continues ex:really scarce amongst merchants and traders,
but a great proportion of the returned bills, from bank and
other failures. which two or three months ago were menacing the
trading and Comm-ref d intereo, have been paid off* .ind disappeared.
Mercantile and oilier arcerancei to a large amount have also been
met within the last few months without the creation of others, and
the commreial bark, which has had during the winter to pass
through a sternly PCIII, Is gradually righting itself. 'Pais exhausting
eon made, trait- will revive, but we must not expect,either during
the present year. or perhaps for many years to come, to find it so
buoyant as it has been for some years past. We may hope, how.
ever, that sounder principles of trade will arise out of our present
difficulties, and that in future real caplet will be made inure cer-
tainly productive than it ha- hitherto been.
The orders r.'e deed this year for our manatee.• re% in the woollen
line, front the United States of America, are unusually small. Last
year the droned Iran that quarter kept the manufactories of Dews-
bury in a s sue of great activity during the whole of the spring
season ; one considerable house in particular, in the blanket line,
had more oaten; than they could execute, but the first order they
hays..gpasisted. Akio year ham America arrived last Tuesday, and
was oily for 20 bales.
Owing to the failures which have recently taken place among
t to malufaeturets in the fancy trade, the usual supply has not been
re Tired at the Letipsi.: market; and it appears, front letters received
to lludderAtivill during the present week, that a great scarcity of
fancy goods of this description has been felt at the opening of the
fair, so much so. that the continental merchants have not been able
to supply themselves.
Among the signs of the times. it has been mentioned to us, that
the common carrier from Wakefield to iluddcrsfield, who conveys
also the London goods front the former to the latter place, one day
lap week mule his journey with so small a quantity of merchan-
dise that tat carriage amounted only to one shilling, while he had
to pay 3s. for tolls, at the bars through which his waggon had to
pass.
w bankers of circumscribed means have passed through the
trials to which they have been subject Iron) the late panic, with so
much persei ersnce as Mr. Shakespear Sykes, of the Huddersfield
bank. Atter standing a run of 50 clays, he was at length obliged
to suspend his payments; but he turret closed his bank, and lie
has been gradually paying off his note% and other demands against
him in full. till at length the great majority of the creditors of the
bank have been

Tire society for the relief of the unemployed poor in this town
is purmi-g its labours with assitinity and success. Last IVeditett-
day 149 cases came under the consideration of the committee, of
which 90 were relieved, with an expenditure of 241. ss. 10d. As
the season advance., the relief is administered with increasi.tg cau-
tion. That an institutlers of ibis nature is not uncalled for, 101
appear from the following return, collected with pest diligence,
and for which we are indebted to 31r. James Green.. There are in
the east and north-east divisions of Leeds 943 looms, usually em-
ployed in the weaving of worsted stutrs; of this number Nil /me in
full work, 299 are partially employed, and 390 are entirely idle.
(From the Manchester Guardian of April O.]
Although we have not the gtatificat ion of being able to announce
arty change for the better in yarns or in grey piece goods, we can
etre, and we do se with pleasure. that there has been • decided
improvement in the home trade. A Very considerable number of
Irsatlon and country buyers have been in the market, and though
Curie purchases have been in comparaively small parcels, they
base tended considerably to diffuse the confidence of an early
warlidmen.. In regard to the foreign demand, we do not hear of
muth change. It is said there is more inquiry for twist, but there
lies not been much actral buying. . _

We regret to announce aim pension of payment, by a concern
loth which :Winchester houses, it is said, axe involved to the extcnt
of or 60,0190/. it is that of the Dutch douse of blesses. J. L.
V.. 01 and Co.. of Amsterdam and Rotterdam. They have, we
betlrte, had an establishment in London for theft ten or a dorm
lugs. but it is only recently they have been much known as buyera
in this market. Can'tlerahle purchases were made here by them,
or on their account, within the last two or three weeks, for bills at
alter doe., varying front three days to a month, few or none of
which have been paid. Sonic hopes were entertained that those
wiadt had been dishonoured would be paid on Thursday last.
This, however, did not take pleat the disappointment was attri-
buted by the representative of the house to the non-arrival of the
Dutch it ail. It will gire us much pleasure to find, that it was at.
tributable to no less satisfactory reason.
Seisms:as' Wants. —We understand that Messrs. Birley,
Hamby. and Co. have given notice of an intention to reduce the
waste( of their spinners—to enaduenee from 31 onday next.
NIG)! or Tut Tt so ca--A rate tot the relief of the poor, of five
shillings in the Found, bu just been laid by the churchwardens
and ortrseers hf this town, arid was allowed by the Magistrates on
Thur.day. The last nee was only gs. &I. in the pound.
Tit Suomi DUMS.—We hear from goad authority, that it
is the intend*, of Ministers to submit to Parliement a petrponitlon
for liking entirely away the bounty allowed on the exportation of
relined sugars, and for reducing the extra duty on East India
ousr:a. 6.. per cwt.; leaving to the Wtst India colonists a pro-
Iscuun of 4s. distend of as at present Ins. per cwt.

We understand that the pictures in Carlton House are
to be removed to the Angerstein Gallery, with which latter
collection they are to be temporarily united, and exhibited
gratis, Eite the Angerstein paintings. In the event of the
above temporary union, would it not be desirable to raise
a certain scm by admissions, as at the Royal Academy, for
'lie purpose of making purchases?
Mr. E. Gibbon Wee',elide], who has lately attracted so
thud* of pu'olic attention, is the grandson of the celebrated
Airs. Priscilla Wakefield.

Mr. William Wakttield was recently married to Miss
Sydney, the only daughter of Sir Philip Sydney, Hart. of
littniburst Casa..., Kent.
Hy private letters from France, we learn that the holm
played off on Mr. Brook, s, by some wag stating in the
bevspapers that he, with a party of ladies, regaled on some
rif the elephant steaks, has obtained general belief in
Frmec ; nay, some go so far as to assert that the whole
animal was devoured by the gourmands of London. "Ces
dioLles crAngluis 1" they say. It is a pity w deprive our
friends of their joke.—Sunday