The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-07-21

OF Montbrilliant, and left again for Hamburgl
STATE OF BTRNINGHAM.-To give any thin.
ike correct picture of the depressed state o
trade III birmingham, and its consequences. woui,
DC no easy matter; few facts may give som,
ldea. The oldest, most extensive and respe.ta
bic merchants, manufacturers and traders, con
cur m representing the present depression as un
| Precedented in their experience. Ten Thousand
applications, by working men and women, for fire.,
passages to Australia, have been made, and re-
fused, within the last two months, at one emi-
grafton office in the town.
Between % and 80 good houses and retail
shops are untenanted in three Of the principal
streets, and thousands of middle and small rent
ed houses are unoccupied in every part of the
borough. The walls are literally covered daily
with auction bills, and purchaser can hardly be
found for either leaschold or freehold property
! he brokers' shops are crammed with goods pur-
chased at half the cost price. The pawnbrokers,
being completely stocked, refuse any except what
are termed best pledges. Thousands Of mechan-
les are living on half wages, thousands on quar-
ter wages, and numbers of creatures are sustain
cd by means known only to the Almighty him.
self. Upwards Of 300 applications were mad.
to the Gloucester railway company for situations
as guards, &c, within the last month. The poor
rate is doubled, and numbers are leaving their
houses to escape paying it, All is gloomy, and
no enc can see prospect Of improvement.
In the midst of these symptoms of distress we
have an apparent anomaly, of which we have in
vain sought an explanation. Every where in the
outskirts, streets being laid out, and houses
rising, as if by magic. Walk out to-day YOU
have green feld-tomorrow it is covered with
elegant buildings-and in a hours more they are
let and tcnanted. We believe we do not exac-
gerate when we say, that for the last II months,
not house in Edgbaston Parish has stood empty
for couple of days; and yet in that period there
cannot have been fewer than 200 houses added
to the number, and all of them substantial and
respectable. In every direction. building is pro-
ceeding with similar railway speed but chiefly
in Edgbaston is the progress remarllabie.-Bi-
nlt7tgbGnl Journal.
LEICESTER TRiDE.-We are sorry to say that
there is no improvement in the demand for worst
ed hosiery and the glove branch, which has affor-
ded employment to 50 many hands, very
dull, and less doing in it. There is no alteration
in the price of yarn The wool market is not so
finn, but little has yet been done in new woods.
The staplers appear disposed to act with caution,
and although prices full Is. per ton less than
this time last year, they have not confidence in
their being aintained.-LejceStey Chronicle.
INCREASING TRADE OF THE TYNE.-The bo-
rough of South Shields, which recently estab-
lished Chamber of Commerce, has now formed
a Company, with large capital, to trade with
the East Indies.-A vessel is already freighteI
for that quarter of the globe; and the time occu
pied on her voyrge will be spent in the erection
of large warehouses in South Shields, suitable
for the purpose of this new branch of the COM
merce of the Tyne.
The Paris Papers of Sunday, June 2sth, con-
tain little domestic matter of interest. They con-
hnue the discussion of the condition to which the
withdrawal of the Deputies from town had redu-
ced the Deputies, but present nothing new on the
subject. The intended visit of the King and
Queen to the south of France is not, it appears
ts take place this year. The Royal family were
~. IL n.F.
next month.
a failure (of builder for 1868, O01f. took
place in Paris Saturday.
The Qtsitidienne devotes three columns to
abuse of the English Government for interfering
with the French colonists who have purchased
lands in New Zealand, and refers to the conduct
of the English missionaries at Otaheite ''as a
proof of their intolerant spirit"
The CdpitOie asserts that NJ. de Se-cy was
sent from France at an expense OF 5OO,0}Of, for
no other purpose than to act as mediator between
Persia and Great Britain, and accuses the French
Government of sacrificing the interests ofFrance
on every occasion to those Of England.
The situation of the French Army of Africa,
and consequently of the whole colony, is, howe
YER the principal object referred to in the jouln-
ais thus received. The extracts from the 1ou-
l0ttndiS which yester day published, and
which contained such melancholy evidence Of
the straits to which the Governor of Algiers was
reduced, IN order to defend the place, were On
Sunday the topic of every conversation in Paris.
The most sinister reports respecting the fate OF
Marshal vallee and of his whole army were in
circulation on that day, and were held To receive
confederation from the silence of the Minister
| al papers, which could have contradicted them
were they untrue. as those reports were only the
echo of others which had generally obtained
| credit in the afternoon OF Saturday In addition
to the particulars yesterday gave, The JotiTh-
NJ d,s Dsbnts of Sunday mentions rumor that
! Marshal Vallee was, with the 500 men gnier
his command, blocked up IN Tenlah by the
| Arabs. and that he could not spare any of that
force to send forward to meet and accelerate the
arrival of the convovs which had lett A!SierS
with provisions for Mousaia.
We give elsewhere an extract of letter from
Constantinople, published in the SGHiGptofe de
.HarseiHcs, which uestions an intention OF ere
atiug in Turkey, representative chamber siml-
lar to that of the French Chamber of Deputies
The Madrid journals due on Sunday had not
arrived up to the hour of post The 'HonstsT
contains the following teiegraPhc despatch, cor
roborative at the intelligence we published yes
terday -, A.
ssTbe rebels (the Carlists) are entering France
bv Oletta. Sarre, and Ainhoa. l 800 men who
have already arrived here are to set off to-mor-
row for Bayonne. Baimpssada is at Ataun with
only 500 men.
oar letters from Bayonne of the 25th instant,
states that the Madrid papers had again failed to
arrive.
A letter from Sarag0ssa, dated the 2Oih INST,
states that the QUEENS had been received at Sar-
gossa with the greatest enthusiasm; that they
Visited the public buildings, and that az hall past
nine they honoured the theatre with their pre-
sence. The reloicings continued unnl three
o'clock in the morning.
The same letter mentions that CABRERA, at
the head of fourteen battalions, was preparing to
rush upon Upper Arragon, but that troops rom
Balaguer were sent to protect the points tfr eat
ened.
report prevailed in Bayonne that BALMAs-
EDA had, in the evening of the End, crossed the
road from Puebla dc Argamem to Vittoria, and
was fastening towards Navarro, through the
Amezceas; it was likewise said that he had vlsi-
ted Salvatierra and Alzalna.
CONSTANTINOPLE.