The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-02-06 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

SATIIIIDAT.

We have again to report another dull week. Of British Planta.
tion Sugar there have been only 200 hhds. sold at a decline ot Is. per
cwt. ; of East India Sugar only IA bags at 73e. for middling, and
77i. for fine. Of Molasses there have been sold 40 puncheons De-
merara at 28s. The business in Coffee has been confined to the gro-
cers, and only a few small parcels sold at former prices. in Cocoa,
Pimento, (linger, or Rum, nothing done. About 300 barrels
%lontreal Potashes sold at 275. a 279. 61. with a few barrels at 203. ;
311 barrels 3lontreal Pearl at 2)Ss. ; and '2O barrels of States Pot at
30s. fid. In Dyewood 40 tone Jamaica Logwood have been sold
on board at 61. In Tar 220 barrels Stockholm Tar sold at Pls. :Id.

In Turpentine no sales. In Rice 100 tierces have brought by auc-
tion '22s. 3d. a 23a. Salt Petre 3:0 bags have been sold at trim. a
265. per cwt. The sales in Tobaceo have been confined to the
trade, and some for the Irish market at a small reduction. The
Corn trade has been in a depressed state during the week, and sales
are made with difficulty at a reduction of 2,1. a 3d. on Wheat, and
on others Ora n reduction. In Indigo, Safflower, Lac Dye, Cream
Tartar, Madder Roots, or Madders, nothing done. A few hags
Sumach have been sold at lower prices. Olive Oil remains withou:
demand. Brimstone and Hides are dull and no sales. _ .

In the Cotton market we have had a more brisk demand during the
week, both by the trade and speculators, and prices have improved
at least id. on Brazils and Americans. Yesterday 1050 bags were
put np by auction, which were sold, viz. 450 Mobile at 70. a lid.
400 Egyptians at flid. a Cid., and 2110 New Upland at 7jd. a Sid
The other sales of the week consist of 7740 bags l'pland at
bid. a lled. ; 80 Sea Islands at 21d. a 24d.; 900 Alabama and
31obile at bid. a 7itl. ; 940 New Orleans at 7d. a 10d. ; 7CO Per.
nambuco at 90. a I Id. ; 1470 Maranhauts at 9d. a 91d.; 450
Ilahia at 9d. a 100.; 100 Demerara, 6-c. at 9id. a 10J. ; 10 Car-
thagena at 7d. ; liB6 Egyptians at ad. a 141. ; 610 Surat at bd
a 64d. ; making a total of about 14.1100 bags.
IMPORTED INTO Ltvraroot. FROM THE 28'111 JANII/lAT TO

TILE :in rtainc

51:1 Mich.
Sager (11. P.) } 3 trit.
11 Ma.
Coffee - 63 bags
I 22 tr 4.
Molasses . . 11311 pram
Rum - t 191 prima.
21 hid..
Fustic 25 tons
bladder . . 1041 bates

AllY INCLUSIVE.

Ilides (cow and ox) 503
Ditto (salted) - 1678
Wins - - 167 pipes •
Ditto . 320 hhaa
Brandy - 482 pipes
Ditto - - 60 hhtls
Cotton, West India 150 bales
Egyptian 1099 bales
American 5473 bales
Brazils 25811 bales

DISTRESS IN SPIT.ILFIELDS.

The gentlemen composing the Committee of Management foe
the application of the funds raised by public subscription for the
relief of the distressed weavers of Spits Melds, have, since their
appointment, been Indefatigable in the execution of their arduous
duty. On Thursday. Friday, and Saturday last, the Committee
and Mr. Hale, the respectable silk-manufacturer, the Treasurer, as-
sembled in Spitalfields ('hutch, and on each day the Chair was
taken by the Bishop of Chester, who has borne a very active part
in the proceedings.
Each succeeding day has produced a considerable increase in
the number of applicants. and the Committee have found it neces-
sary to adopt the billowing scale for their relief :—A single man.
wholly without empl• y, (A. ; single woman as.; man and wife
63., and Is. per week, in addition, provided that the sum paid to each
family does not for the present exceed 10s. pet week. To
persons partly employed a proportionate relief is extended.
Soup houses have also been opened in the neighbourhood, and
such of the applicants as have families are, at the discretion of
the Committee, furnished with a ticket to receive portions of soup in
addition to the pecuniary relief. Yesterday, the church being other.
wise engaged, the Committee assembled at the National School.
house, Quaker-street, for the reception of applicants. The hour of
meeting was ten o'clock, and the Committee continued their truly
Christian labours until about three o'clock, and during that time
fiB2 cases were disposed of. The following Is a statement of the
number of cases each day, and the sums expended in their relief
viz.:—
Feb. 2

211 notes
495 do.
1:7:s do.
682 do.

fat 8 0
176 6 6
2114 18 0
218 12 6

Total, 2,-214 1374 3 0
There are a number of unworthy characters always on the,
alert to profit by the distresses of others, and to appropriate to
themselves that which is intended solely for the relief of the deserv-
ing ; but in the present instance, the Committee have adopted pre-
cautions well calculated to defeat such unworthy purposes. Each
applicant for relief is rt quired to produce a ticket signed by his last
employer, giving an exposition of the applicant's circumstances.
and any remarks the master may have to make. A proper degree
of caution exercised by the masters in the giving or tilling up of
those tickets, will render it almost impossible that any deception
should be practised on the Committee.
Or ST. MAT'S HEW, BETIINAL-GREEN.—The fol-
lowing is an authentic sta'ement of the comparative condition of
Bethnal•green, as regards the poor, wholly supported in the horse,
during a corresponding term at the commencement of the years 1825
and 1828, viz. i-
-1835.

_____ 1826.
January 4 - - 5C7 persons January 3 - - 703 potions
n - - 573 Ditto 10 . . 74 Ditto
18 - - 579 Ditto 17 - - 816 Ditto
25 - - 685 Ditto 24 - - 884 Ditto
February 1- - 585 Ditto I 31 - - 907 Ditto
8 - - 3113 Ditto February 2 - . 929 Ditto

The work-house is calculated to afford comfortable accommo-
dation to 400 persons only, but front the above statement it will be
seen that an alarming increase has each week taken place in the
numbers of its inmates, that now the number is greatly more than
doubled.—Resides the numbers thus supported in the house,
the out-lensioners have since the beginning of the year averaged
about 15.00 persons weekly, at an expense of 1•101. per week, and
each week is adding to their numbers also. •
We have also received the following statement of facts relative
to the silk trade :
" The distress still continues to increase to an alarming degree
among the silk weavers of Spintlfieds, as the following abstract
from the books of the undermentioned parishes will show, viz.:—
" SetTaLwts:to PARlSH.—Paupers in the workhouse 409;
relieved out of the house 350. Sum expended on the out-poor on
the week ending 4th lost, 501.75. 6d. Inmost, of the out-poor on
the week 1110; increase of expenditureon ditto, :41. 51. 3d. Total
increase of poor in the above parish 193.
" BETHNAL-GREEN PARTAH.—Paupers in the workhouse 922 ;
relieved out of the house 1560; sum expended in the week on
the out-poor to the 4th inst.. 1601. 3s. lid. ; increase of expendi-
ture on ditto, 301. se. 4d. Total increase, of poor on the week in
the above parish 190.
" 311 LE END, WHITECHAPEE rattlan.—Poor in the work.
house, 06 ; ditto relieved out of the house, 238. Sum expended on
the out poor from last week, 321. 4s. 9d. Increase of expenditure
for the out poor on ditto, lel. th. 7d. Total increase of paupers in
the above parish during the week, 144.
"SIIOIEDITCH oagtsit.—Paupers in the house. 727. Increase
on the were. 15. Pensioners relieved out of doers, 1099, at an ex-
gg
eseti::: 11171. 93.3 d. Increase of expenditure, 181. ss. 9d. Total
of paupers in the above parish during the week, 150.
" The Report received by the trade committee en Saturday last
gives a most alarming addition to the number that are unemployed
etz looms. IltiO3 ; persons, 20,316. The circumstance of the num-
ber of idle looms and persons having so far exceeded last week's
report, is to be attributed to the work then in hand being since
finished, and their employers not being disposed to give them any
more."

THE LATE ACCIDENT AT THE NEW LONDON

DOCKS.

On Ratnerlay evening an inquisition was taken at the London
Hospital, Mile-end-road, en the body of Patrick Kennedy, the un-
fortunate man who was seriously injtwed by the sudden falling in of
• bridge temporarily built acmes Old Gravel-lane.
The evidence given, as accounting for this melancholy was-
trophe was as follows:
George Flamesly examined—l am a bricklayer, and am em-
ployed in the enlargement now making of the New London Docks.
Oa Monday morning, about half-past ten o'clock, I heard a loud
rumbling noise, and on turning my head to find from whence it
came, perceived it was occasioned by the falling in of a large por-
tion of the temporary bridge • its fall was caused by the weight of
a cart load of bricks. The deceased, who had been • few minutes
before tilling his hod, was, together with the cart, driver, and
horses, precipitated down • full several feet in depth. The driver
and horses escaped with very slight injuries, but he was buried in
the falling ruins, and severely hurt. When he was rescued from
his dangerous situation, he was conveyed to the house of Mr.
flopkee, a surgeon in llatcliffe.highway. That gentleman exa-
mined him, and finding his wounds of a very extensive nature,-
he recommended that he should be removed to the London
Hospital. Before doing so, however, he reduced the dislocation of
his arm. I helieve that the death of the deceased was entirely
accidental. Just before the bridge gave way, two wagons had
passed over it laden with coals. The witness here handed in a
letter from the resident engineer, the purport of which was to
say that since the accident every attention had been paid to the
deceased.
The Jury then, several of whom had seen the bridge subse-
Tient to its Mil, expressed their surprise at the slenderness of
WI structure, and at the same time took occasion to condemn
the culpable negligence of those whose business It was to see that
it was erected in such a manner as to prevent the occurrence of so
melancholy an event as the present. They thought, they said, that
I it was the Imperative duty of the Company to provide for the
widow and family of the decenaed, as certainly to the inattention
of their officers was the loss of his life to be attributed. They
then Mumd a verdict of " Ace.dental Death," with a deodand
of -001. upon the bridge.