Star.
London, England, 1826-10-12 00:00:00

MANUFACTURING DICTRICTS.

MANCHESTER, OCT. 10.

It was mentioned last week that an advance had taken
pisce en some descriptions of goods, and remarked that
it;was not till then that any real advance could be said
to have taken place, as the prices during excessive de-
pression were not at all regulated by the cost of produc-
tion. The market being now cleared of old stocks,
there are no jobs to be obtained, and as manufacturers
have been very cautious, from the fears that they should
produce more goods thin would be wanted, an advance
has taken place in the prices of the kinds most in de•
mand. This advancer has however, again produced a
flatness in the foreign demand : for those who bad been
instructed to buy at the low price, decline giving a
higher, and will be kept out of the market, either till it
comes back to their pitch, or till they receive other
orders from their constituents.

The discussions in the newspapers on the competition
of foreign manufacturers have excited some notice here,
and persons well acquainted with the foreign markets
say that there is a very considerable competition rising
up in almost every quarter; not, indeed, such as will
be felt in open markets, but which is greatly diminish-
ing our trade in countries where the native manufactures
are protected by heavy duties, The export of plain
goods to the United States, for instance, is now almost
entirely confined to the finer qualities. A very good
yard-wide shirting is produced here at Bd. per yard,
better, probably, than any that can be produced in
America at 10d. so that there is little probability of
American bhirtings competing with ours in Germany ;
but the English shirting in the American tariff is as-
sumed to be worth SO cents, and charged with a duty
of 25 per cent. on that assumed value, or 50 per cent.
on its value here, so that at New York it costs 12d.--
The consequence is, that their home-made cloth takes
its place, and that the American merchants here export
only the finer numbers.

LIVERPOOL, Oman 10.
Our Cotton-market has been very flat to-day, the sales
not amounting to more than 800 bags. Prices are barely
maintained. The New York prices current, received
to-night, by the Maxchester, thus notices the state of
the Cotton-markets of that city :
44 We noticed in our last report a revival of demand for this staple,
and sales to some considerable extent. The inquiry is still conti-
nued, and the transactions of the last three days comprise about 600
bales of Uplands at 10 to 11, 400 Tennessees, principally at 10;
230 Alabama. at 10 to 11 ; and a small lot of New Orleans, at
131 cents. Our highest rates have been given for moderate quan-
tities for home manufacture. The stock continues to decrease, and
we do not vary our quotations."

Yesterday all the remaining capitals, &c. that wore
in the court-yard of the British Museum, were removed by a de-
tachment of the Royal Artillery. These magnificent ruins were
presented to the present Knia, when Paulus Rumba, by the Bey
of Tatrota, and were taken from the ruins of an ancient Greek
Colonial city, situate about nine miles from Tripoli. They were
conveyed la eight artillery waggons to Hounslow, and from thence
to Windsor: _ _ _

Mr. Price, the Lessee of Drury-lane Theatre, arrived
at Liverpool on Tuesday evening, in the Manchester,
from New York, and last night he reached town.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East
India House, when Captain Charles Besly Gribble was
sworn into the command of the ship Repulse, consigned
to Bengal and China.
A waterman was yesterday convicted in a penalty of
16s. and costs, at the Thames Police Office. for de-
manding Ss. of Mr. GRACE, for conveying him on shore
from cue of the steam vessels, his fare being 3d.
Last evening, about six o'clock, in the sorters' office
of the General Twopenny Post-office. in Lombard-street,
one of the scampers was employed in stamping some
letters that had just arrived from a short distance in the
country, among which was one containing a small bet-
tle of detonating powder, which, on receiving a blow
of the stamp, instantly exploded. The consequence we-,
that the unfortunate stamperbwas most seriously injured.
His hands were literally blown to atoms, his eyes like-
wise suffered severely. He was immediately conveyed
to the Mail Coach public-house adjoining. and promptly
attended by Mr. Price the surgeon, Cannon-street, from
whom the stamper received every attention. Two clerks,
who were near at the time, were much disfigured.
Every light in the office was extinguished. Some ilea
may be formed of the force of the explosiln, when it is
known that the table on which the letters are stamped
is three inches thick, and a portion of this was blown
into a drawer underneath. It is supposed the bottle
contained detonating silver, sent from a chymical menu-
actory in the country to a druggistsin London.
The discipline on board Greek vessels is, in general,
very strict. The crews are much less boisterous and
twits, than those of European me. chantmen, or even
ships of war; and a silence prevails on board, which is
interrupted only by the orders of the Pilot or the First
Lieutenant. These orders are given in a mild tone ;
Iwhile a European vessel seems as if it could only be
managed by oaths and threats.