The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-09-04 00:00:00

FRANKtvnT, Ara. 20.

Many strangers have already arrived here for the approechirg
fair, hut they are all sellers, who in every fair usually come a fee
days earlier, is if, by first taking possession of the market, they
thought to obtain an ads Accoriing to all conjectures, this
fair is likely to be abundantly supplied with British manufactures
of all kinds, and the competition of German and foreign houses will
Probably be vary great. Titus it is announced that agreed Ham-
burgh house, which has frequented our fair for several years past,
has purchased many thousand pounds worth of cotton and woollen
manufactures at extremely low prices, which it is intended to send
to the fair. We find also numerous advertisements from trades-
men here, who are not properly merchants, in which various
articles are specified, 111111 C of them whit names hitherto unknown
here, and offered ender prime cost. With respect to the competi-
tion of foreign merchants, we do not well sea how they can sell
equally good articles at lower prices titan our own merchants, as
the latter can doubtless make their purchases on the spot on as
good terms as the others; and, with respect to the advertisements
we have mentioned, it is evident that their chief object ni to
tempt buyers, though it cannot be denied that considerable injury
may result to the merchant who proceeds on the old sysem, as too
many buyers are tempted by low prices, without sufficiently at-
tending to the quality of the article. flowerer, this conjuncture
for tiding a fair advantage, Mr which nobody can be blamed,
will pass over, as it is impneeiLle, in the nature of things, that.
every article can long be :old at a price below the expense of
producing it, mud a concurrence of circumstances like the present,
In which the dbereased situation of the manufacture's In England
has produced these anomalies, must be transitory, and cease wilt
the cause. S:tting aside the unfavourable circumstances for the
merchants, as fePas the articles in question are concerned,, there is
every re:son to exf ect a satisfactory result of this autumn fair, with
regard to all such goods as, being reedy manufactured, are objects
of immediate conaumeticn, because the rich harvest of this year,
and the almost certain result of the vintage; are a sufficient mot-
ragement for the purchasers for the little market towns and the
country to provide themselves with a stock to meet the probable
den:and. In fact, the prospects of the vintage are so far certain,
that if, for the intenening live or six weeks, the weather should
not be quite so favourable as it has hitherto been, the wine may
suffer a little in quality, but in quantity will exceed, at all events,
the amount produced for ninny years. Among the articles, of
which large quantities have arrived for the fair, Merinos may be
mentioned, for which there is indeed always a great demand at the
autumn tale, with a view to the approaching winter. Saxon aa-
nufactures of plain and printed calicoes and other articles are al-
ready here, but the Swiss have not yet comeout t they are generally
the last. Considerable supplies of Sae middling and ordinary wool
are on the spot, but we have not yet sufficient data to form a very
decided opinion respecting that article.

WEST Or ENG LA ND.—WC understand that the town
of Frame was visittd on Wednesday last by Mr. Harvey,
the gentleman who has been deputed by the Committee ter
the relief of the distressed manufacturers in London, to
visit all the places to which they have sent remittauces,
and to inquire in what way the sums have been expended,
and report to them thereupon. Mr. Harvey was exceed-
ingly pleased with the plans which hare been adopted ID
Frome by the local committee there, and said they had
completely anticipated the wishes of the London commit-
tee, and that he could recommend nothing more than wl!at
had already been done. We learn from the best authority
that the distress experienced in that populous town, though
certainly very great, is by no means so extreme as it I s c
been represented to be, and it appears that employmoll s
immediately found for any poor man, being a tali:Jilin tr,
who is out of work. Not more than three hundred have as
yet made application.