The Sun.
London, England, 1826-07-14 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.
DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.
JULY 14, 1826.

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The Consol market wore yesterday an improved ap-
pearance, through the general expectation which pre-
vailed that preparations have been made for taking
a large amount of stock on the account day ; and this,
assisted by the few purchases made with the dividends,
has created a temporary scarcity- of stock. Consols
were full *per cent. better, having closed at 78, buy-
ers, for the 18th. This improvement, it is evident, is
owing much more to local causes, and the state of the
speculations for the account, than to any change
for the better in the situation of the country. Minis-
ters themselves, we learn, now begin to'be seriously
alarmed at the continued distress which prevails in
the manufactUring diatricts, representations of which
now reach them from quarters so respectable,
that the nature and extent of it can no longer remain
a subject of doubt. A manufacturer of great emi-
nence, from a district about 30 miles north of Man-,
cheater, and who is also a very considerable lend-owner,
is now in town, and has had An, interview with Minia-
ters. He anticipates, unless some speedy remedies
are applied, the most alarming consequences from the
present position of the countty. 'The great mass of
population about him is composed of the hand-loom
weavers of cotton goods, the most prosperous of whom
are reduced to a bare subsistence from their labour,
and the remainder on the parish books. The poor
rate in many places exceeds the amount of the rent ;
and the number of claimants for relief increases with
such frightful rapidity, that the class of inhabitants
which still contribute to the relief of the poor is gradu-
ally sinking into pauperism, and becoming applicants
themselves for support. Most of the- farms in that
neighbourhood are small, the tenants consuming -in
their own families the greater part of the produce and
working at their looms for the money with ;which. the
rent is to be paid. This source failing, the landlords,
of course, obtain nothing, and from the rank they
hold in the country, are expected to assist actively in
the alleviation of that distress with which their doors
are besieged. Statements like these are now submitted
to Ministers, who profess their willingness to do every
thing in their power, but declare their inability to
suggest any remedy, and desire that some may be
pointed, out by the applicants, who themselves are
equally at a loss. The root of the evil they consider to be
the stigma thrown on the country circulation,. -first,
by the failure of the banks, and next by tampering
with it on the part of the Ministers; but they are ready
to confess that credit and confidence are so completely
destroyed, that even to declare 'an interminable issue
of country bank-paper would now be totally useless.
All parties agree that some very powerful Measure is
absolutely. necessary, before winter approaches, for the
relief of the distressed population, since even a partial
restoration of trade would not relieve those whose la-
bour is everywhere superseded by' the increasing use
of power-loorris. So far, we believe, we May state,
that encouragement has been given to the applicants to
Ministers on this subject, that if the leading manu-
facturers and land-owners will Combine and suggest
any remedy which they conceive will prove effectual
Ministers 'will not allow any abstract ions r t of to policy,
on the fidherence to which, in ordinary tiMes, there
could be no question, to interfere with its adoption.
The obvious relief of emigration has presented itself,
we hear, to some of the manufacturers; and inquiries
-have been made how far the regulations of the Lanatla
Compttny will permit an arrangement for transporting
the unhappy weavers to the lands purchased of the
British Government, Some plans have also been
formed 'for. shipping off a portion of them to one of
the new American States, but no progress has yet, we
believe, been made in either project.. The indigo sale
which is now iii progress at the India-House, and
which consisted of nearly 7,000 chests, has been watched
with much interest. The ;brokers report the prices to
be such, though nearly 50 per cent. lower than those
of last year, as would be deemed feir average be-
fore the mania for speculation commence-it, and the
demand for the article as I,olerably steady, They re-
mark, however, and the fact is a very curious one, that
so far as the sale has proceeded, the great, majority al
the purchases have- been made on sth e account of
French, Swiss, and German manufacturers, but very
few for the English consumer. This failure of de.
mand, as regards the home consumption, will be a
sinister omen if it' lasts through the sale ; but it would
be premature to draw any conclusion from it until the
whole, which will occupy several days more, shall
have been gone through. The A dvices from Coloin-
bia, bearing any referrence to its finanee, which arris
ved yesterday by the Leeward Islands mail, are very
discouraging. It has been held out in this country,
that whatever consequences to the Government might
follow the failure of the agent here, a large reserve
fund, the prOceeds of the fiat loan, remained in the
Treasury at Bogota, and would, no doubt, be remit-
ted, when the call for it became known, for the pay-
ment of the dividends. If:reliance, however, is to be
placed on the contents 'of a letter we have seen, writ-
ten by an English merchant residing in latguayra,
that fund has been already dissipated by a proceeding
of. government, the extreme imprudence of which is
the least blameable part of its Character. It appears
that they have advanced to private merchants the sum
of 2,000,000 dollars, receiving their bills as security
for repayment, to be employed in buying up the bonds
of the domestic debt, which had fallen to 10 or 12
pear Cent.' 'of their nominal -value. At this very time
they were passing a law for paying off: this debt by a
foreign loan. The domestic debt, in 'consequence
rose to 50 per cent, but as no loan is now forthcom-
ing, the merchants, who undertook this notable pro-
jeet remain with their purehase, but reduced in value
to little.rnore timo waste paper, Thus disappears the
last remnant of English money transported to Colom-
bia, and which does not appear to have conferred' one
solid advantage on the country, but to have been literally
thrown away upon it. No material variation oc-
curred yesterday in the. foreign market. Russian Stock
has advanced to 80 ; the trans-Atlantic Bonds were
lower, but support better prices than could have been
anticipated.

Dim MORNING ettlioNict.r..]
The imprisonments under the Game Laws keep,
, l)
pace with the otner imprisonments. In 1825 they
amount to the enormous number, for England alone,
of 1,550. The number for Wale. is seventeen, and
for Scotland thirty, making the whole 1,597. Though
Scotland has no Game Laws, hi the English sense,
her Game Code being comprised in two 41(.14i—that of
1621, and the 13th of Geo. 111., imposing fines for kill
ing game without a legal qualification, and possessing
game without the leave of a qualified person ; yet, in
wine of the English counties, the proportion is even
lower than the average of Scotland. In the rich and
highly-cultivated e ounty of Northumberland, with a