Star.
London, England, 1826-09-07 00:00:00

FROM THB SHEFFIELD IRIS.

The manufactures of Sheffield not being brought into
an open market for sale, as is the case in Leeds and
many other places„the exact state of trade is not easily
ascertained. Our report, therefore, can only be made up
from the general opinion, aided by other circumstances
and appearances which may be calculated to throw light
upon the subject. We have not heard of any alteration
in the commercial affairs of this neighbourhood amount-
ing to a general or even partial improvement, and so
far as the poor mechanics are affected, we believe the
distress is rather on the increase than otherwise. This
is indicated by the applications for assistance from the
fund for relieving the unemployed poor, which are in-
coming mure numerous every week. There has, however,
existed one peculiarity in the case of Sheffield diming
the period of embairassment with which the whole
kingdom has been affected, which justifies the fullest
confidence in its general solvency ; we refer to the re-
markable fact of no failures of any consequence having
taken place. So literally true is this statement, that we
venture to say not a single instance of bankruptcy has
been recorded which can fairly be attributed to the
pressure of the times, or which would have been avoided
had the prosperity of the past year been continued during
this. This is a singular circumstance, and one which,
we fear, applies to no other town of any thing like the
magnitude and population of Sheffield. There have
been few instances of property offered for public sale
recently ; and while we account for this by saying that
it has been because of an impression that few have had
spare money to buy, we cannot help regarding it as a
proof that few have been so necessitous as to be obliged
to sell—which, of course, confirms out opinion respect-
ing the solvency of the town. Sheffield is not a place
where much speculation is carried forward ; and the
capital employed in business is not fictitious, but real.
If large fortunes have not been suddenly amassed by
lucky experiments, ruinous devastation has not been the
result of unlucky adventures. Our mercantile progress
has been gradual, and perhaps rather dependent upon
our industry than our enterprise ; and on this account
there is good reason to believe that it will still be ad-
vanced, as, indeed, it is advancing, by the same un-
wearied and unostentatious assiduity.

Extract of a letter, dated Vera Cruz, Jane 26 :-
44 The late disasters in England did not fail to leave
their effects here. Bills to an extensive amount were
suffered to come back protested, but a great number
were taken up here on presentation ; and since the last
accounts we have from London, it appears that some of
the principal houses resumed their business again ; in
consequence, confidence is recovering here. Money has
of late been very scarce ; but a few days since we got
some relief through a conductor, which arrived from
Mexico with about 1,200,000 dollars, of which 500,000
are to be shipped against the last loan."
In consequence of what has recently come to light
upon the subject, the CHANCELLOR, it is said, has made
an order, that no attorney should in future issue a
commission of bankrupt, without first certifying that
no clerk of his was named in it as a Commissioner."—
The good effects of such an order, it is manifest, may
be easily evaded.
Farmers, to save themselves a little trouble, are often
in the habit of ploughing up their footpaths. This prac-
tice is altogether illegal, and a person in Oxfordshire
was lately fined 50s. for doing so.
Thursday afternoon, a woman resident in Chorlt-on
row, near the George the Fourth, Manchester, placed
some Jacob's water to kill flies, within the reach of her
infant, who drank of it, and soon afterwards died.

Buns.—These disagreeable insects can neither climb
up glass nor glazed earthenware, so if the bedstead rest
on slabs (of either substance), and care be taken that the
furniture touch neither the floor nor the wall of the charts•
ber, the object will be obtained.
All the accounts from thqse parts of the North of
Europe sufficiently near to England to receive intelli-
gence of the plans agitated in the late Cabinet Coun-
cils, indicate the greatest activity in the markets for
every description of produce, but especially corn. Oats
advanced full 30 per cent. and wheat still more ; while
sugar, coffee, and some other articles of colonial pro•
duce, the diffusion of which is believed to depend on the
activity of the trade in coin, also experienced an ad-
vance. • The transactions yesterday of the colonial.
market in Mincing-lane were also distinguished by a
briskness which has not been experienced for a very
long time past, although business there has of late been
Ilfar from languid.
CRANBOURNIC CHACIL—This chace is said to extend
over half a million of acres, and the present stock ofl
deer is at least from ten to twelve thousand. The right
of chace, the greatest ever possessed even by any Mo-
narch of this country, extending over not fewer than
500,000 acres of land, is the sole property of GROROR
Lord Rivals, who has repeatedly refused offers of pur-
chase made by other Noblemen, but has recently pro.
posed to the land owners to disfranchise it, on their
binding themselves to a payment to him and his heirs
of 18001. per annum. The Gentlemen of the Hunt,
however, expressed themselves as rather desirous that
the stock of deer should be reduced to about 5000, than
that this ancient and splendid right should be given up
entirely by his Lwdship.

.NAVAL

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EAST INDIA INDIA SHIPPING.
The Ann and Hope, which arrived at Cowes yesterday, begs
ieeounts front St. Helena to the 18th of July.
Aaidvats AT Sr. Natty/L....1%e Sophie, —, from Boisbay,
to the 16th of July; the Resource, Manly, from Bengal, on th.
6th of July; and the Waterloo, Hammy, from Batavia, os the
i Bth of July. _ _

SAILINCS PROM Sr. Lavinia, Ill0011:11, for tie
Mauritius, on the 15th of July; Resource, Tom' In, for London,
on the 17th; and Sophie, for Bourdeaus, on the 10th.
The Medway, Wamvr, from New South Wales, has arrived off
Portsmouth---sailed from Sydney in March, Hoban Town 22d of
April, and Bahia 11th of July.

Feueourn, Seer. S.—Wind W.—Arrived the Magnet picket,
PORTIOUIP, from Lisbon, Jn eight days; and Providence, Moon,
from Liverpool to Newcastle, leaky.
Porramotrrnt Sen. 6.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Mary Ann,
O'Benut, from London for Calcutta • Danube, Swarm. from do.
for Canton; Union, Cixatcn, and Loyalist, Rem, from do. for
Trieste. A ship with a poop has brought up at St. Helen's.
DEAL, Sum 6.—Wind S.W.—Arrived and sailed for the
River, the Enterprise, lh.wx, from Vigo; and Juno, ......, from
the Mediterranean. The Angerona and Africanus, with another
outward bound, sailed early this morning—the former has put
back, and remains. Several homeward bound ships have come in
this afternoon.

LIVERPOOL. Szrr. s.—Arrived the Enphan, Darsoar.x, and
William Fulsford, —, from Dantzic ; Martha, STILAERAIc from
Riga; and the Ellen, Taczoa, from St. Petershurgb. Sailed the
Isabella, LiED4, for Java; Brown, BARNt., for Alobile; Nassau,
Wit.son, for Philadelphia; Rachael, liovmn, for Sevannah; Car-
pen, Luooou, for Lisbon; Bristol. Ruts, for Alexandria; Matilda.
WILSON, for Trieste; Clifton, Bunt's', and Winscales, Punta, for
Quebec; and Agenorla, Vlairtwar, for Newfoundland.