Star.
London, England, 1826-05-10 00:00:00

MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.

FROM THE MANCHENTER MERCURY.

We are happy to say that during the last week there
was a decided revival of the demand both for menu•
lactated goods -and yarn. On Tuesday the Markets
exhibited more firmness and activity than for some time
past, and the idea of any further decline in prices seems
quite gone by. The intentions announced by Ministers
with resp-ct to the Corn Laws a'so contributed, at a
more advanced period of the week, to maintain this
better feeling. There have ►lltce been some failures la
this town, which have tended to throw it back a little ;
but on the whole we feel confident of a gradual, though
not a rapid amendment in the trade of this district.
MANCHE/TED, MONDAY A FTWOON, MAT 8.
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All remains perfectly quiet in this town and neighbourhood.
Soldiers are, however, pouring into the county In all directions, and
the public-houses will soon be literary filled with them. It is
calculated, that there are upwards of twenty thousand power looms
in Lancashire, and that out of this number not more than a thousand
have been injured or destroyed. The stop, therefore, that will be
put to the production of goods by the destruction of machinery will
not be great.—The partial repeal of the Corn Laws will, no doubt,
I have a great tendency to tranquillize the working people in Lan.
eashire : they all appear delighted with the news.—The silk weavers
are now pretty generally employed; neither masters nor weavers fear
competition with the French, at the present low price of weaving.
Norway RIMIING.—This town and neighbourhood continue
quiet. A rumour partially prevailed this morning, that the calico..
factory of Mr. Burton, at Middleton, midway between this place
and Rochdale, bad been last night attacked, and successfully de-
fended by a division of the Rifle Brigade, but there is no truth
whatever in the statement. Some mischievous fellow or fellows
did, certainly, at nightfall, last evening, break about a dozen squares
of glass in the back of Mr. Burton's factory, but the thing was dune
clandestinely and no offender was seen. A Lieutenant and ten
men of the Rifle Brigade are stationed within the walls of this fac-
tory, but, on turning out they could not and an enemy to encounter.
The cotton trade generally is• Improved, but that improvement
appears not to have increased the wages of the workmen, although
it has given him a greater certainty of employment. The most
remarkable circumstance, however, is, and one that cannot be too
widely known throughout the country, that the men at the power
looms are, as to rate of wages, better off than those who work at
home by and! besides, on examining the amount of poor rues at
Middleton, it is found that the power loom men have received less
aid from the poor 'rates than the hand loom men.

L'autenant CAMPBELL arrived in town on Sunday,
with dispatches for Earl BATHURST. Secretary of State for the Co-
Initial Department, from Sierra Leone, giving an account of the
decease of Major-General Cunatss TURNER' C.B. Governor of
that Colony.
DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—AIaddin drew a numerous
audience last night, the music of which, like that of Oberon, im-
proves on acquaintance. Miss STSPHICHS gave her songs most de.
lightfully ; the obligato acecompaniment for the Vita (tenor), so
exquisitely played by T. COORS, to" In mybowera Lady weeps," is
exceedingly effective. Miss Jonsson possesses a beautiful rick
voice, a good shake, and great taste; she was encored in her first song,
" The sun is on the osesostain," and bliss Staranis's address to her
Mother, was rapturously called for a second time.
The improvement or the Knightsbridge road, in the
collateral line of Hyde Park, is proceeding with great rapidity.
Hitherto the improvement has been confined to the space between
Knightsbridge and Hyde Park Corner. The old wall separating
the road from the Park is now demolished as far as the Half-way
House, on the road leading from Knightsbridge to Kensington, and
even the new railing has been substituted from Hyde Park Cor-
ner to Knightsbridge, and will proceed to the Kensington Gate.
STATE OF His MAJEITY2 GAOL OF NEWOATE,
MAT 9.—Prisoner, under sentence of death 10; whose judg-
ments are respited during pleasure 40; under sentence of trans-
portation for life 17; under sentence of transportation for four-
teen years 9; under sentence of transportation for seven years 54;
imprisoned for various periods for felonies and misdemeanours 15;
insane 1 ; committed under the Bankrupt Laws 2; convicted by
the Court of King's Bench 1 ; whose judgments were respited laic
Session 4; remanded from last Session 4; for trial at ensuing
Session 179. Males 244 ; Females 92—Total 336.
The total sum invested in the funds on behalf of the
Savings' Banks is supposed to fall little short of 16,000,0001.
Ttie three first turnpikes established in Engiand were
at Caxton, in Cambridgeshire; Wadesmill, in Heft-
iorcLhire; and Stilton, in linntingdonshite ; they were
etec ed in the reign of JAULS 11.
Saturday, at Bedford, a yuu3g Gentleman undertook
to run on the London road, and re urn by Feilack-,
distance of four miles, in thirty five minutes ! whtih he
performed with the greatest ease.

CORN EXCHANGE, MA 14K-CANS, MAT 10.
The supply of Grain and Fluor is short hitherto. There secm, a
rather increased demand for every so:t of Grain, and the factors are
a-king a trifling advance onMonday's rata.—Arrivals: Engl's's
Wheat, 1,400 qt.,. Rarity, 11(.0 qrs. Oaw, 600 qrs. Flout, 2,4 0
'sacks. Irish Oats, 1,020 gra • tufa:3n 11, 33100 TS.

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