The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-23 00:00:00

BANK OF ENGLAND.

Quarterly Average of the Weekly Liabilities and Assets of the
Bank of England, from the 23d day of April, to the 16th day
of July, 1842, both inclusive, published pursuant to the
Act, 3 and 4 W. IV., cap. 98.
L 7. 13ILITIES, ASSETS.
Circulation' ..£18,279,000 Securities £21,713,000
Deposits 8,56.000 Bullion 7,818,000

X 26,844,000
Downing-street, July 22, F

£29,531,000

ANTI-CORN LAW COINFERENCE.
The members of the Conference met yesterday, at
twelve o'clock, at Het bent's Hotel, Palace-yard, Mr.
Tuyior in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN said he had to congratulate them on
the improvement that every day presented itself'. r,se
last night's debate was an example of this.
Their cause had evidently made much progress
during the last ten days. They could, not at
one tune get any one to advocate the measure of etor-
ping the supplies ; but last night there were more than
one, or two, or three Members who &dared their reaoi-
ness to du it, or were prepared to ,Afirction it when tie
time came. Last night a stand was made ; to-night
another would be made ; su he thought they ht.d
. every teasen fur hoping that before long such.
continued exertions made us the House and out of it, in
all parts of the country, must give them the certainty of
complete success. Es ery day the Uonfsrence receiyednuni-
berless letters, alt breathing the same spirit, and congra-
Uniting them on the improved prospects that were every
day opening to them, an.i their determination to exert
ti.emselves in their various district s to promote the objects
they had in view.—(Hear, hear.) The Chairman then
proceeded to read the following communications, the
tirgt referring tis the statement made in the, Manchester
Guardian of the improvement in trade, which statement
Sir U. Peel had alluded to with evident satisfaction :
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM A COMMISSION AGENT IN
MANCHESTER, TO J. BROOKS, ESQ.
Manchester, July 20, 1842.
Dear Sir,—No doubt the article in the Guardian of yes-
terday caused you quite as much surprise as myself.
Ist. As regards the United States, I felt it my duty
as the representative of an extensive calico printer, to
endeavour to obtain some of those considerable orders
for prints alluded to in the Guardian. I called upon
Messrs. (mentioning three houses), and you well know these
are the principal houses in the united States' trade, and of
course would be a fair criterion to judge by. They were quite
astonished at my asking for an order, and treated the whole
affair as a hoax.
2d. In the West India trade, I asked Messrs. (two extensive
firms), the latter of whom showed me his correspondence re-
ceived during the last three months, the whole of which gives
the most discouraging accounts you can conceive—that few
sales were made, and those onl' at a great sacrifice.
3d. As regards Canada, t.'itere is a very small business doing,
much less than former se;dons.
Another house sale: the accounts from Canada were very
discouraging, and chat the improvement in the West Indies
was not of recent date, alluding to Jamaica more particularly,
where business had been at a complete stand.
Bradford Reform Club Rooms, July 21, 1842.
Res,olved—That the Bradford United Reform Club, having
vent With considerable satisfaction the bold and zealous manner
iu which the Anti-Corn-law Conference, now in London, have
pressed upon hei• Majeity's Prime Minister the absolute neces-
sity of destroying the odious imposition on the bread of
'the poor, canons bet award them its best thanks for se doing.
But more especially as some members of the Conference have
dean ed. (heir imention of demanding the removal of the mother
of all monopolies—the monopoly m representation; as, in the
opinion or this Club, cheap, equitable, and efficient Govern-
meet wilt be looked for in vain, so lung as the present partial
syste.o of representation exists.
That while we hail with satisfaction the exertions of the Anti-
Corn-1a... League generally, we cordially invite them to come
oat unanimously, and aid in gaining for the people that political
power, which will at once and for ever destroy the aristocratic
domination by which this country has been reduced to its pre-
sent. indescribably distressed condition, and which, if not de-
stroyed, threatens its utter ruin.
That the spectacle now presented to the nation of a Parlia-
Digit, extensively corrupt, perpetuating monopolies in the food
of the poor, squandering the resource. of the nation in disgrace.
ful warfare, rejecting the just petitions of the people, and dis-
regarding the most faithful and alarming representations of
their destitute condition, ought to excite the indignation of
every virtuous citizen, and justifies the people in withdrawing
their confidence and support.
That this meeting, therefore, respectfully but earnestly calls
upon the representatives of .the Borough of Bradford, W. Bus.
field, Esq , and J. Hardy, Esq., to use their utmost influence
in Parliament, in co-operation with the advocates of popular
rights, to I revent the granting of further supplies to. the Go-
vernment.
REPORT OF THE STATE OF TRADE IN THE
EAST OF LONDON.
In Wapping, and the adjoining parish of Shadwell, there
are hundreds who have not earned a shilling since the last ten
scteks, and this in the midst of summer, when these very men
usually calculate on obtaining full employment. Our neigh-
bouring Ducks, the London and St. Katherine, are full of
vessels, the greater part laid up, which, under ordinary cir-
cumstances should be tailing to, or returning from, the
different ports of the Continent or America. Of those
which arc loading, the greater part present a hopeless
" laying on," the export trade, being, as I know, but
trifling, particularly as regards manufactured goods, the order ,
of the day being, for what they do get, dead cargo—that is,
the raw material, taken to the Continent and other parts, to
be manufactured at the place of destination ; so that, as
an old Rotterdam Captain observed to me, a few months
since, live cargoes with us have almost ceased, so that
freights scarcely pay wear and tear of ship. It may
be urged by Sir Roiled P..el or his friends that they have
seen something lately doing in the docks and river ; true, that
something being nearly confined to wheat and flour, working
into bond, till the sliding-scale is worked to a low point of the
duty, say to 6s, per quarter; if the weather continues fine ;
Is. if in the course of this week we should be resented with a
week of continued wet weather.
The distress I have described as prevailing n theTowerHam.
lets is scarcely lees severe than in Rotherhithe and Bermnd sey,
particularly amongst watermen, lightermen, porters r)
(fellowship
and corn), shipwrights, barge-builders, ballast-heavers, and ma-
ricers. It follows that the shopkeepers must suffer in the same
ratio, and in my own case I may truly state that my hu,iness is re-
duced to less than one-half what it was,ehis time twelvemonths.
Many of my neighbours, unable to hold out against such a state
of things, have closed their shops, driven to de:pair.
Turn we to the neighbouring poor-houses, and we find
them tilted to repletion, and additional hundieds seeking relief.
As yet there has been no great increase in the amount of
crime, but the neck of the summer being broken, as we say
here, and no hope of improvement on this side next spring, and
the possible contingency of a severe winter, the patience of
these suffering people will be severely tested.
Mr. Siturrnewoiern said the Guardian had been for
the last twelvemonths in the habit of giving such.repre-
stutationi as the one that appeared in the last number,
though the state of things.was worse th4e than it.had
finEr liter: before.
• Bosrov, IRE. —TrsAle here is unutually dull.
•
Parties who .n our ;Car-kit dayt-usectio consider hi. and 61. a
bad day's work, do not absolutely take so many shillings ! The
grocers are glad to have their receipts for the day averaging
=A.-fourth of -what-they 31.4" kirn Mechanics and
is
era arc idle. The wariwt-place needy-NI of