Star.
London, England, 1827-02-01 00:00:00

MANCHESTER GOODS MARKET.

TOCIDAT. JAN. so:
The market for the lest ten days has been rather flat,
that is to say, the demand during that time has been
rather stationary, instead of increasing, as most people
anticipated. A sufficient reason, for this relative flat.
loess is, however, to be found in the canals being closed,
which has kept many London and Country buyers oat
of the market. .
The weather is now open, and the prices of goods in
to•day's market have been well sustained in cons'.
(lance. Well-informed people have a sober expecta-
tion of an advance in the price of goods, and in Me
wages of weaveii; but there are many persons who
think that any advance would drive purchasers out of
the market. In this opinion Ido not agree, for I have
nor, in many years' experience, seen a full employment
'of weavers in January, arid stocks moving off as fast as
goods were made, without such a state of things being
followed by an advance of prices when the extra spring
demand began to manifest itself. There is, therefore,
a reasonable hope that for a few months the working
people may be able to earn sufficient for their sub.
sistence.

The Sc. rate, which was expected to last till the end
of March, is exhausted, and another for the same
amount is about to be laid on. A proof of the distress
amongst a class of persons superior to- the artisans,
was afforded the other day at the overseer's office,
where there were nearly 200 applicants for a situation
of 801. a-year.

Two steam vessels, the Alban, and Canon, of XXI
tons eaeh, have just been launched at Deptford;
making six recently completed there for Government
service.
Upwards of 1001. was collected last week by the
Rector and Churchwardens from the inhabitants of the
parishes of Holy Trinity and St, Mary, in Guildford,
in aid of the distressed manufacturers, after sermons
preached in the churches of those parishes the preced;rig
Sunday. A collection for the same object was alio
made in St. Nicholas p%iish, the amount of which we
have not yet heard.

A package of comfortable clothing, containing 240
Wrments, was last week trAnmitted to the Vicar of
estbury, from the Bristol Committee, for distribution
amoag the poor of that place, being prittcinally the
gratuitous work of Ladies of that city and its neigh-

The Overseers of the parish of St. Bude applied to
the Devonpurt Magistrates last week, to make an order
for the maintenance of two illegitimate children (twins),
which had been affiliated on a rustic youth, who de.
scribed himself as " going in his twenty." Ou'being
' asked what his wages were, he said he Lammed for a
farmer, who supplied hint with board and lodgings,
and gave him in addirion,•ttue shillings per weep, to
provide himself with clothes and luxuries. With these
liberal funds at his command, the gallant Lubin pre- •
posed to marry the mother of the twins, who had one
child before, making a family of three to begin 'gib.
The Overseers of St. Bude, however, endeavoury4 )1C
restrain the marriage, and applied to the Magistrafti
make an order of maintenance on the delinqnearits
question. He was accordingly ordered to pa half of
his weekly stipend (one shilling) for the suppott of tip
children.

PEARL AND CORAL FDIHRRT Coin...mt.—Yesterday
a meeting of the Shareholders was held at the Comp
pany's Office in Broad-street Buildings, for the purpose
of coming to some resolution to enforce the payment of
the calls. The Association was formed for the purpose
of Fishing for Pearls and Coral by means of a peculiarly
constructed diving bell, by which it was expected' that
the divers would only have to seat themselves comfort
ably in the bell and pick up pearls and cord without
difficulty. It however seems, that the bell is too un-
wieldy an instrument to be moved with the expedition
required; and that kis not practicable, owing to the
rocks, to lower the men to those7places where pearls, &c.
are to be met with. The attempts of the Directors
therefore to compel the payment of the calls have been
resisted. The door of the room where the meeting was
held, was strictly guarded, in order to prevent any but
Shareholders from entering. The capital of the-Cirn-
pany was intended to have been 609,0004 in 15,000
Shares-41. per Share have been called.

Muarnm.—On Tuesday morning week, a young
woman named Michael Bradley, who resided in Ashton-
under-Line, left her lodgings and took with her a young
child, of which she had been delivered about six or
seven weeks before. Her stetement on going out was,
that she was going to the overseer of the township in
Yorkshire tn which she belonged, and would either have
more relief for the child, or She would leave it with
him. She was met afterwards on the same day, on her
return from Manchester, but did.not return to her lodg-
in4s until Thursday night, when she came without the
child. The neighbours were alarmed, and charged her
with hiving destroyed her infant, which- she denied,
hilt at length said the wind had blown her and the
childinto the canal, where it was drowned. The con.
stable, however, being sent for, she was takes into
custody, au,d then confessed that she had put the child
into the canal, at the upper end of the tunnel, near
Ashton-under-Line. The constable immediately set
men to drag for the child, slid used all mein' in Mir
power to ind it, but withont success, until Sunday,
when the water was let off with the cosiseat of the canal
proprietors, and the child's body was found, after
having paused through the tuna-I, and one lock near
to it. On Tuesday an inquest has hrld • n the body,
atlhe Cernnaerclal Inn, in Astiton•under•Line. when
the Jury .returned a verdict of wilful murder, and the
woman was committed to Lancaster Castle- for
Manchester Mercury.