Star.
London, England, 1829-11-04 00:00:00

TOTAL TOT THE FITS TEATS.

Vsported I 110 I I
I 11,929 3,009 I 15,108
imported 8,028 I 47,600 25,387 91,104
Supposing the mean price of each horse to be 500 francs, or
16s. Bd. and this supposition is very moderate (says the report,
•,d we coincide in the opinion,) the sum expended by France has
teen 74,998,000 francs, or £1,374 916 sterling.—Cburt Journal.

65,996

The wine imported into the United States, from 1813 to 1824,
amounted to 23,200,000 gallons, or rather less than 2,000,000
gallons annually, a very small quantity, when the circumstances of
the country are considered.
The deliveries of sugar, last month, from the West-India Docks
alone, were nearly 4000 hogsheads less than in October 1828, and
this is equal to 60,0001. of duty in the first month of the quarter.
From this fact the natural inference may be drawn, that the de-
liveries from the other Docks and in other Ports have diminished
in a corresponding degree.
The discovery made by a cotemporary of the great improvement
which is visible amongst the manufacturers, affords great satisfac-
tion to all who know nothing about the subject ; and the autho-
rity on which our contemporary rests his information, a London
Monthly Review, must surely be considered sufficient to convince
all but those who are incapable of conviction. Amidst all these
symptoms of growing prosperity, however, the frequenters of the
Corn Exchange were treated this morning with a fact, which we
should think quite as good authority as any London Monthly Re-
view. We allude to the failure, last Saturday, at Norwich, and
at Yarmouth, of two of the oldest and most eminent malting es-
tablishments in the empire. If we are not much deceived also,
not many days can pass before something will occur in Norfolk,
which can only have arisen from the wants of landed proprietors.—
Naming Paper.
We are very far from denying or concealing the oppressive
difficulties under which trade has been and still is to a great degree
labouring. The depreciation of all commodities within the last
ten months has been very great, and must have ly tried the
merchants and dealers, who had considerable stocks of goods.—
Those who have continued to manufacture or to sell have done it
to little or no profit, and often to heavy loss. Foreign markets
have been glutted, and the home market has been dull and insecure.
Money has been extremely scarce, and bad debts fearfully abun-
dant. No acknowledged improvement has yet taken place in prices
or wages.—Leeds Mercury.
DARNHAT. THURSDAY NIONT.—This once flourishing manufac-
v.:ring market-town is now as quiet as a country village. I have
just returned from a meeting of the unemployed weavers, held on
Barebemes ; and, although it is now about twenty weeks since they
have had any employment, they appear as determined as ever to
stand out, should they, their wives and families, perish with hun-
ger. At the meeting this afternoon the 2d of June list was exhi.
hired, on which three cheers were given, and they all declared
that they should forfeit their existence sooner than work for any
prices less than those. One of the weavers, named James New-
ton, addressed the meeting at considerable length. A resolution
was passed, that no journeyman was to work with any " black
sheep," and that all strangers coming to the town should be urged
to pursue the same course. They declared that, if they were all
to be taken to York Castle, they were prepared to go there cheer.
fully. After being exhorted to keep the peace, the meeting ad-
journed to the following day.— York Herald.
If proof were wanting of general distress amongst the trading
anti manufacturing classes it is to be found in the present ruinous
erices of several of the principal articles of consumption with them.
At the late fair at Lancaster the best lots of cheese brought only
425. per cwt, a lower price than has been known for the last forty
years. And in our own market pork is selling at 4s. per stone,
bacon at ss. 6d. a stone, and hams at 6d. a pound. Yet, in spite
of all this, the ministerial prints are assuring their readers that
there are decisive symptoms of returning prosperity. We are
sorry to state that within the last few days there has been a sad
crash among the little manufacturers of Galashiels. No less than
thirteen, we hear, have " gone down"—probable extent of engage-
ments from £20,000 to 425,000. They operated upon a system
of credit, and each, in a great degree, depended upon the other.
The banker. indeed, by reusing discounts, had them completely
in his power.—Carlisle Patriot.
Gtesoow.—The improvement in business is more decided. The
sales of cotton yarn have nearly cleared the market of Numbers
below 100. Large purchases have been made both by the manu-
facturers and exporters. This vivacity has occurred very oppor-
tunely before the dead of winter, when exportation to the Conti-
nent is impracticable. Such of the power loom factories as had in
the spring ceased- working altogether, have resumed business • and
the cotton works in general are working twelve hours a day.—
Hand loom weavers are beginning to get a choice of work. On the
doors of several manufacturing houses, there is the cheering notice—
" weavers wanted."—Gkugore Chronicle.
A reduction in wages, of a general nature, has just taken place
in the linen-manufactories of Aberdeen, varying from five to ten
per cent. A stagnation in the demand, and the progressive fall in
the price of the manufactured article for some months back, are
assigned as the causes of this unavoidable measure. We regret its
necessity, and trust it may prove but temporary. At the same
time, when we look back to the seasons of depteuon with which
the manufacturing districts in England and the west of Scotland
have been periodically visited since the termination of the late war,
we cannot but congratulate our fellow-citizens that the sources of
employ and rate of wages in Aberdeen have stood up as they have.
It is matter of thankfulness, also, that meal, and the other neces-
saries of life, are likely to remain moderate, owing to which the
pressure that might otherwise be left from the present reduction
in wages will be so far mitigated.—Aberdeen Journal.
The Michaelmas cattle-markets throughout the kingdom are ge-
nerally the most important in the year, but this session they have
turned out badly. The failure of Mr. Rennie, of Phantas.ie, a
short time since, and more recently that of the great Yorkshire
dealer, Mr. Armstrong, have diffused a general gloom over the
prospects of the farmer, besides involving many in irretrievable
ruin. Some failures have also taken place in Aberdeenshire, which
have tended to increase these difficulties, and to make both buyers
and sellers doubly cautious. Another great cause, to which we al-
luded in our last, is the unproductivenesa of the turnip crop, an
article of such importance in the feeding of cattle and wedders, and
in dunging the land. This year the turnips have failed over all
Scotland and the north of England. Above ground they make
some show, but when taken up are invariably found wanting. This
inferiority is, undoubtedly, to be attributed to the heavy and long-
continued rains, which struck at the root of the turnip, checked its
growth, and rendered the article of very inferior quality. The only
good crop of turnips that we have heard of in the north is that on
the farm of Humberston, near Dingwall, which consists of fine dry
land, and is situated on a gentle declivity, with a southern exposure.
Here, however, there are net above twelve acres a modicum too
scanty to have any general effect.—lnverness Courier.
No one ought to feel surprised that the day for the com-
mencement of the next session of parliament has been again post-
poned. It is true that the Irish newspapers teem with the most
unequivocal proofs of the precious fruits of the " healing measure."
It is true that the enemies of religion have united themselves into
an 4• unholy alliance," and are using their most strenuous exer-
tions for the purpose of effecting the overthrow of the church
establishment. It is true that gaunt ruin stares the agriculturist
and the landholder in the face. It is true that the unemployed
manufacturers continue to combine, arid equally so that the crav-
ings of hunger and the chill of nakedness, are producing their full
measure of misery, despair. and insubordination. It is true, in
short, that all our national interests are drooping at home, and that
our influence and power are rapidly declining abroad. In a word, •
it is inset too true, that the liberals and the economists are revel-
ling in the full jubilee achieved by the lamentable success of their
pernicious measures. No one, we are sure, can venture to deny
the truth of all this, or justly brand us with the reproach of being
alarmists in thus stating it (for indeed we are not such)—yet if
there be one spark of that honest. straightforward, vittions. indig-
nation which was wont, of old, to characterise the British pe"ple,
still remaining unextingui.bed 'in the country—we repeat nu one
ought to consider it as a matter of surprise that his Majesty's Mi-
nisters should reel alotione..tet postpone to the latest possible mo-
ment the re-assembling the " colkctive wisdom."—felix Farley's.
Hristal Journal.
, —.—
Saturday tile wife of a eoacluuan, in.Bemer's-mews,
ovet balanced herself on the haylott, in shaking a carpet, and fell on
;-stories below. She broke both her legs, and was gene.
Hut.- d. She was taken to the Middlesex Hospital.

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