The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-04-18 00:00:00

DEPRESSED STATE OF TRADE.

A number of lace machine-ntakers, framemnitba, Ste. paned
through Leicester on Wednesday evening, on the Nottingham
roaches, on their way to France. Artirans of sintilar trades have
aiao recently left that town for the same destination. and many
others, we underataiiii.‘are on the eve of taking their departure,
Caitlin, Lisle, and oilier torts of France, now possess some of our
best and moat inge,ious mechanics. who have been drawn thither
by the tempting tiffertheld Out to them lb, our Continental neigh.
boars.—Leityrirr Chronirk.

Business is exceedingly doll at !Tendon; the weavers are in a
state of complete starvatton i end what adds us their misery is. that
there Is no expectation of things getting better on this side of the
Marvin—Deb/in 11 farming Register.
There were but seven pieces of linen sold in Clonakilty nv the
last market day. The average number of pieces usually soid on
each market-day is three hundred.—Cork Chronicle.
Li.tle or no alteration hat taken place in the state of trade in this
district since our last. There has been no improvement in prices.
Awl if there has hem a little more business done in the Cloth and
Stuff flails, it has been so inconsiderable, as not at all to increase
the demand for labour, and the sufferings and privations of the
manufacturing classes are not nereeptibly diniinithed.Lcds Mer-
cury.
The leather trade in Olesgow was never known to be in a more
depressed state than at prevent. Business is at a stand still ; and
few sales making. Several failure, have occurred, sad a number
of tannery and eurriers are going idle. Even young tune who were
learning as apprentices, hut were not bound, have been discharged ;
those retained being married men, on account of their families.
Lamentable as the condition of Polloekahaws already is, a frightful
addition is about to be made to the general Morelia slesers. Mon-
teath think it prudent to shut up their extensive cotton works .for
a time. This will throw about apo workers out of employment.
and be the cause of 2:411. a week being withdrawn from circulation
in the town. On Friday last a meeting was held to consider of the
best means of devising speedy relief for the weavers, and others
out of employment. Sir John Maxwell Was called to the chair.
A petition from the weavers was laid before the meeting, which
stated their distress In plain and general terms, and prayed for
assistance. It stated that they did not by any means ask gratui-
tous relief. as they were willing to work at any sort of out-door
Mote. Along with the petition, there wits a statement of a num-
ber of webs that were going to respectable manufacturers, the
prices of which were so dreadfully reduced, that it was utterly im-
possible for the workman to support himself. The following is a fair
sample :
A 1200 5-4th lawn-stripe, 30. an ell weaving
A 1300 4.4 th lawn ford, Sid.
A 1300 i 5-4th lawn, 2
A 1400 5-4th do. Sidt
A 1400 11.11 th do. 4*(l.
A 1400 5.4 th jaconot, 4 Minis over even, 3hl.
A 1500 1.2 do. 5 do.
A 2000 9-6th cambric. 7 shots 6 d.
The above work can only be wrought by good tradesmen, and it
will require great exertion to earn from la. to Is. 3d. a day. Several
gentlemen delivered their opinion ; and on the suggestion of Mr.
Maxwell, a Committee of weavers was appointed, to ascertain the
number out of employment, and report to another Comtnittee,
which was appointed to meet on Tuesday afternoon.—Glargom
eh r on irk.

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A correspondent from New Church, in the forest of Pendle,
writes to us as follows s—" This village contains 110 pairs of locals,
only 20 of which are employed, earning four shillings per week
each. A cut 30 yards long, and GI picks in the inch. is wove for
Is. 3d. The parish relief for persons out of employ varies from od.
to Is. 3d. each per week. The farmers complain daily of this
distress, and say they cannot pay their rents. The overseer is
compelled to distrain where he cannot obtain payment of the Icys;
and tar two miles round the *reentry is in the same condition. You
would be surprised to see what alterations there ere among the
farmers; they are all for having the Corn Bill repealed, which
they think the great ciuse of all their miseries."—Bolton
The increased demand noticed in our last fur the country trade has
been continued, though, perhaps, scarcely to the same extent, in the
present week. We regret, however, that we have it not in our
power to communicate any amendment in the twist or gray markets.
In both these, we believe, prices are still lower than before; and
we scarcely remember to have witnessed • more depressed feeling
than prevailed last Tuesday, nor has there since been any improve-
ment. There have been several minor failures; and one of a very
old established and respectable house, against whom a commission
of bankruptcy has been issued.—Monciteater Guardian.
In the village of Bullock Smithy there are 582 weavers, 459 of
whom are totally out of employ. Our informant adds, that there
are many large families who are entirely dependent on the very in.
adequate allowance granted by the township, eked out by the
charity of private individuals—Stockport Advertiser.
The state of this district, we are sorry to say, presents no imme.
diate prospect of amelioration; on the contrary, we have no hest.
tattoo in saying, that for the last week or two the distress has been
ro pgressively increasing, and more people are now out of employ
than at any other period. Upwards of W. were last week paid
to the casual poor, and the pressure upon the poor,' rates, in other
respects, has become realty alarming. Instances have been brought
to our notice of respectable shopkeepers who are unable, from the
pressure of the times, to meet their payments ; a feet at once
proving that the depression is not confined to one particular class,
but that it is beginning to extend itself to the various trading
'ranches of the town. Many persons, who formerly were enabled
to support their families in a comfortable, not to say opulent state.
are now so reduced as to be unable to procure for them even the ne-
cessaries of life. If the despondency which pervades every branch
of the community does not soon give place to a cheering feeling,
resulting. from reviving prospects, we know not to what conse-
quences it may give rise; at present all is gloomy, disheartening,
perhaps hopeless. We would it were in our power to throw a ray
of comfort into this gloomy picture, by reporting an amelioration
in our vicinity ; but, alas ! it is not In our power ; at Congleton,
at Leek, and at Stockport, little or no improvement is perceptible,
and our accounts from Staffordshire, in the neighbourhood of the
Potteries, say, that trade is there in a most "stale, fiat, and unpro-
fitable' state, the cause for which, as some allege, is the general
scarcity of money.—Macclesfield Herald.

POLICE.

WORSHIP-STREET:

Yesterday a man named Maass Wilson was charged with a
fraud on Mr. Boards, of No. 42, Shoreditch, pawnbroker.
Mr. Boards stated, that on Saturday night, in the harry of busi-
ness, the prisoner offered a watch chain to him hi pledge, for 255.
He thought it was gold, and lent 10s. on it. The prisoner after.
wards returned to pledge another chain, which induced witness to
ask him it he was sure it was gold. The prisoner declared it was,
and complainant lent him IN., but in the morning found it was only
brass, or some spurious metal. . .

Mr. Osaonstz—lf you take in such articles at night you can
have nn remedy.
Mr. Boards asked if the Magistrate would remand the prisoner,
for the production of other charges against him.
The Magistrate said he could Mot, and the Wapner was dia.
charged.
A young man, named S. Cummins, resident in Cob's-court,
Petticoat-lane. wet then brought before the Magistrate, who, it ap.
peered, had for some time past been suspected of harbouring boys
in his house, and training them to dishonest pursuits. On Sunday
night the mother of one of these boys applied to a watchman for
his assistance to take her son from the prisooer's house. The
watchman understanding there was stolen property in the place, in-
formed the 'officers, who, on searching, found several bundles of
linen, a quantity of single twilled seeking, quite new, and cut into
lengths for snaking bags, and, in s corner of the MOM, an elegant
rosewond writing desk and a large mcwocect bill-ease. In the lat.
ter were found two brass stamps, one of them with the word " An-
trim," in old English letters, the other an Earl's coronet.
The pripaner was remanded until Saturday.
lINIOV.HAI.L.

ATTT.TIPT AT SITICIDE.-lAboutfro'elock on Sunday night,
as a azerlin:an, named Williams. was going his rounda, he was
in a house kept by a Mr. Davidson. a hair-dresser, residing
in 0:Iowan-road, Blackfriaw, to prevent his putting an end to his
lila.

Mr. ft, it appeared, had atternpte I to commit violence upon
himself in the house, but, on being prevented, rushed outside the
street door, with a razor in his hand. The watchman hastened to
him, and arrived at the moment he was about to lift the razor to
his head. The watchman seized him by the collar with one hand,
and struck him on the arm with his stick, with the intention of
knocking the razor nut of his hand. In this he did not succeed, and
.Mr. D. struck the watchman with the razor precisely under the left
ear, and inflicted a dreadful wound. Williams fell, and some
other watchmen coming to his assistance, he was taken to the watch.
hoit.e, where several surgeons hound up the wound, and he was
afterwards conveyed to Ouy's Hospital. On his arrival he was
wholly insensible, and the surgeons of that establishment gave it as
their opinion that he would not live many hours. After Mr. D.
had committed the &netts! act, he returned to his home, and was
preparing to retire to bed, when constables entered, lull placed
hint in the watchlinuse.

Yesterday Davidson was brought in custody to this office, and
the certificate of the house surgeon of Guy's Hospital was read,
which MAIM that he could not pronounce any decided opinion on
. William» s ease nod his wounds had been dressed another time.
Mr. HARMER &touted for the prisoner, and said that his client
was perfectly u. conscious of all that happened on the night in
question, being at the time in a state of intoxication.
The Magistrate declined putting any questions to the prisoner,
and remandedihim tuftil the Lite of the wounded man is known.
Twenty.seven Irishmen were afterwards placed at the bar, in
Parties. charged with having excited the alarming disturbance,
cnu•ed by a fight between the Connaught and Munster men, de.
scribal in our paper of yesterday, in the neighbourhood of Lam-
beth, on Sunday morning. It was mated that the Connaught man
who had been taken to the Hospital, notwithstanding the serious
nature of his wounds, had contrived to leave it during the night,
without the knowledge of any one connected with the Institution.
Most of the prisoners had recently quitted " the green isle," and
their defence was delivered in language tar front intelligible, but
they all declared their Innocence cf the crime with whi...11 they were
charged, and several affirmed that they did not know how to use a
abillelagh.
• The Magistrate bold the whole of them to bail.

CAUTTOTC—At Act of the last Session prohibits any
perking picking tip or temtootref any cask, containing spirits which
Oh" be accidentally found along phorc or at sea, and makes it an
offence punishable by fine or imprisonment.

SPORTING INTRLLIGENCR.

NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETlNG.—(Concluded.)

The last day's races were unqualleedly pod, and gate peat satisfaction.
We glee further particulars.
In the two matches the winners were the favourites, and won In a can.
ter; each ~r them rode by James Robinson.
The Plate.-7 to' 4 against Pigmy, 3to I against Rigmarole, and 6 and
and Ii to I against Leila.
This was a must admirable rare ; Pigmy ',did starting, and, making
severe running, kept the front, although Rigmarole nits c!o,e at her
quarter, and ran her In by a head. Young Buckle role Pismy. Moult
rthrnsarole, Goodison Brother to Skiff, Robinson El Hnrado, l'aels the
Slight colt, and Wheatley Carl, the othe:s by lath. About ttto•thirds of
the way Mother to Skiff bolted with Onotilsn, and knocked down Sam
burnard, puny and all, but without doing him any material Injury. The
came horse lost year carried Goodisun, wlUy nilly, from the Heath close
to his own door In the town.

Sweepstakes of 100 each. P.M.
Zeta on Swiss Guide, and 5 to 2 against Carthago.
Toil-and-Trouble and !4wlsv Guide mode very vtrong running to the
cord., when Carthago came op, pa..ed them, and won elerrriy by a !meth.
Rode by Robinson, Swi.s Gill& by Rookie, and the other by F. Boyce.