The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-08-10 00:00:00

MANCHESTER, Am'. S.

tenon oust C4,IIIIIESPONIIENT.)
There ere no disturbances in this town nor in its neigh-
bourhood; neither is there alarm felt fur any serious
interruption of general tranquillity. Some little excite-
ment might be created by the determination to hold a
public meeting, which is now fully resolved on, at least by
those gentlemen who signed the requisition to the Church
wardens, for a meeting on the subject of the Corn Laws
and the national expenditure: but as the Meeting will be
attended principally by persons holding nearly similar
opinions, there will be the less likelihood of any angry dis-
cussion or disorder; and it will probably end, after a
strong expression of political opinions, in a set of Resolu-
tions, and perhaps a petition to the Crown, praying time
repeal of the Corn Laws and a reduction of the national
expenditure. I believe, if the requisitionists confined thetn-
seises to the first proposition, that a great majority of all
parties in Manchester would support it,but there are a great
number of the most respectable characters in Manchester
opposed to any interference with the national expenditure.
This meeting will probably he the signal for others of the
same description in the surrounding manufacturing districts,
where no doubt holder measures will be proposed. It is
even doubtful whether a certain party in Manchester will
not supersede the resolutions of time requsitionists by
a petition for Parliamentary Reform. It was this'
opprehension which led to the general opinion that
the meeting would not he persevered in, amid I have
reason to think it was not determined on until yesterday,
after a kind of understanding between some parties that
the question of Reform woukl not be pressed. Whether
that understanding is general, or will be violated, is more
than i can tell. This is the great market day here, but the
purchases bay* ass boon so eyelike as might be expected.
Prices, however, continue without any depression, but
with the same firmness, and indications of a rise which
prevailed during the last week ; and I am assured by a re-
spectable gentleman that there are a greater number of
buyers in town than has been during the season ; a great
number are from extensive houses in London, and I know
of five German merchants who have been waiting at a
hotel in town during the last week for the purpose of taking
the most favourable opportunity of efFecting purchases.
The accounts respecting the state of the harvest in this
county are favourable. I subjoin a letter which I hare re-
ceived this day from Lancaster :
" The quanmy of grain grown in the northern district of this
county. although more than in the manufacturing, is not very con.
sidersble; yet it is cattle of great gratification to observe that for
the mat part the wheat is cut, and by far the greater proportion of
it carried ; and it is not a little singular that the same remarks
which apply to this grain throughout the cosoury, are equally an
Sieable here; the crop is not very heavy, but it is particularly
good, and well got in. The oats and barleys arc certainly
some of them very much so ; these are also In a very forward slats,
the former grain will he the latest. Beans and peas may be said to
bt gone. Turnips may yet come. but there is certainly every pro-
habilii list the prtaltaction will be very scanty Potatoes, foe
which this county is eel:brated, are looking well; the haulm is very
promising, and prognosticates a good crop of this useful and most
valuable root.
" The Assists commence here to-morrow; the city will be
thronged, which is caused not only by the very heavy calendar that
there ts, but from the great excitement occasioned by the abduction
me of Mr. Wakefield. 'Many rumours are afloat respecting it; some
think it will go off by some point of law, tubers that the indict-
ment cannot he susmined. while on the oilier hand there are those
who maintain that a conviction must take place ; and these may be
kamouni that in themselves appear to be idle. No day is yet fixed
for the cause coming on. It is said that the M•Keans have static a
hill confession of the murder of Liixsbeth Itaics at Iliarton-upon-
Irw,-11 ; but i have not been able to ascertain time tact."
" Lancaster, 7th August, 1828."