The Sun.
London, England, 1826-07-25 00:00:00

STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

We regret to state that the condition of the manufac-
turers in our vicinity and throughout the kingdom be-
comes daily and daily more appalling. Even in the me-
trgis, where the strongest efforts have been made to
1000i)so/ress of calamity, the misery of the industri,
ous operati47ll4l' ed a height which is really horrible
in its physical and moral e i,7lte:lo,llg, with his
cha-
racteristic benevolence, has bestoWdatiother sum of 10001.
. ,
upon the SpiteMelds' Weavers, and we doubt not, that si-
millir donations will be repeated in the country ; but with
all our veneration for the kind motives of our excellent Mo-
han+, we cannot help asking where this scheme of patching
up is to end—where the demoralizing effects of admini-
stering from charity what should he the demand upon in-
dustry are to terminate ? Far be it from us to discourage
the gratuitous relief of suffering thousands, or to detract
6om the holiness -of human charity; but as public Jour-
nalists it becomes us again to raise the voice of warning,
and again to urge our 'rulers to same more decided and rea-
sonable course of action. Months and months ago we said
how things would turn out, and they have turned out as
we predicted. We take no credit to ourselves for having
so predieted,for the most ordinary mind, if gifted with com-
mon sense, could foresee the mischief which has occurred ;
hut what we said then we repeat now, and without ventur-
ing to recommend any panacea of our own, we cannot help
expressing's,' conviction that if Ministers would abandon
the patching-up system, and proceed boldly to grapple
with their difficulties, we might have a better chance of
doing well under their Government. Their intentions are
pure, and their discretion in the main is much to be com-
rilemled ; but why do they not, in an awful crisis like the
present, openly appeal to the Legislature for advice and
protection in the course advised; and as openly lay the
axe to the root of the evil under which we all suffer.—
That the evil is, in a very great degree, the rash and
busty introduction of a Free Trade Systein, we do not he-
sitate to assert; many parts of that system may be good,
and it would perhaps be wrong hastily to abolish whathus
been hastily introduced, but there are means of revising the
plan and remedying the evil, which require only to be un-
derstood and adopted to produce all the effect. which the
most prudent as well as the most sanguine could anticipate.
—Macclesfield Herald of Saturday.
LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, July 20.—Our Cotton-
market has been very flat this week, there having been
ut few buyers, a heavy import, and a great desire to sell.

Ls:ars, Jinx 22.—Last Saturday a deputation of six
operative manufacturers waited upon the Earl of Hare-
wood- Lord :.Lieutenant of this Riding, to present the
Memorial passed ut the Almondbury Meeting of the un-
employ'ed, and distressed inhabitants. of that district,
held on the Monday preceding. The reception given
by his• Lordship to the. Deputation was extremely kind
and condescending. After listening to their accounts
of the distress of the body they were appointed to re-
present,• he entered at large into his views of the cause
of the present distressed and unhappy situation of the ma-
nufacturing part of the country. That cause he appre-
hended to be overtrading, arising out of a speculative

spirit, as well in manufacturers as others. 'this spirit
was cherished, Its he conceived, by the facility of
raising and of creating paper money, which gave to pet-
sons without capital, or with lint very little capital, an op-
portunity of carrying On trade to a great extent, and which
frequently rendered trade, from the manner in which it was
carried on, unprofitable both to. them and to others who
had to compete, with them in the markets. As to the re-
medy, he saw no other than time and patience. The stocks
lately nit hand would be greatly exhausted, owing to the
quantity of goods now manufactured, and, us they were
sold of, and the markets cleared, a natural demand would
arise, and business would in time once more ilow
in its proper channel. In the mean time his Lord-
ship said, the distressed must apply for the paro-
chial funds, and to the funds raised for the distressed,
manufacturers, for assistance ; and he hoped they would
be found adequate to an economical supply of their wants,
together with such labour- as might be found for them.
Above all things lie recommended subordination, and said
that any attempt to destroy property, and particularly ma-
chinery, would not only fail to alleviate the distresses, but
would end in the ruin of those whom such acts went meant

to serve.
The harvest has already commenced in this neighbour-
hood, and several fields of oats are now in the hands of the
reapers. At Halifax, Elland, Batley, and in.many other
parts of the, county, the harvest has also commenced„
Owing to the great increase of the Methodists in thistown and neighbourhood, it is, we understand, proposed,
at the approaching Conference, which commences next
Wednesday, in Liverpool, to divide the Leeds Circuit iuto
two, 'under distinct superintendents.
GLAsGowe---The depression in the cotton trade conti-
nues unabated,. or, rather, we may say, in parodying the
eloquent Charles Phillips, it exhibits " a flow of continued
declension." Glasgow never was near so dull as has
been during this week.,-Glasgow Free Press.
CAPLISLE.---4Vitil feelings of grief we announce that the
operative manufacturers in our vicinity are again placed in
a situation of the tilost heart-rending distress.---Carlisle
Journal.

More troops have been ordered into the Northern Diri.
triet, from the West of England.
We hear that a very unusual number of petty depreda-
tions have becit .qamnitted during the last ten days, suet%
as the robbery of hen-roosts, pouttoe-fioldq, fildt-gardens,
&c. ; a great deal of which, we believe, is attributable to
tbe pinching necessity under which a considerable portion
of the operative manufactums at present labour.
At the request of the Committee appointed to ma-
nage the subscription lately raised for the relief of the
local unemployed poor, the Mayor has appointed Mon-
day next for another meeting at the Town Hall, in order
that the inhabitants may devise means of rendering fur-
ther assistance. The sum lately raised amounted to
about. DOW., exclusive of one hundred pounds voted in
aid by the London Committee; but large as this
amount is, it is now nearly exhausted, while the num-
ber of applicants for relief is rather increased than
diminished. We have no doubt, therefore, that our fellow-
citizens will again liberally come forward, to they have
always done, in the cause of charity—yet not the cause of
charity alone, but in some degretl in their own causes
the means of susteriasiutrscirialt4sitobnetiflo:lll4l,
injialdri.4,soatlitl:ci:autsrrtelrwrt,oee
raised by voluntary to the
intended meeting what haq beet► crone, ns will r►as
; tt‘P lama, at
Committee will doubtless report progres4,
ought to do; .an 4 they have only
ensure t:lte hearty support of tin
liis Barley
and Oats have been cut in ~.t~r.~tc~ l~l;rre and early next
wet-4i, several persons armlet:o:
a greater abundance of sal-
The fislunong.,ls tell
been already taken this sea-
ma", g d st'''-t1"411) SeUSOR for the last fourteen
son, than miring
plentiful in our market, almost
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