The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1826-08-10 (London, England)

IIIIIESPONIIENT.) There ere no disturbances in this town nor in its neighbourhood; neither is there alarm felt fur any serious interruption of general tranquillity. Some little excitement might be created by the determination to hold a public meeting, which is now fully resolved on, at least by those gentlemen who signed the requisition to the Church wardens, for a meeting on the subject of the Corn Laws and the national expenditure: but as the Meeting will be attended principally by persons holding nearly similar opinions, there will be the less likelihood of any angry discussion or disorder; and it will probably end, after a strong expression of political opinions, in a set of Resolutions, and perhaps a petition to the Crown, praying time repeal of the Corn Laws and a reduction of the national expenditure. I believe, if the requisitionists confined thetnseises to the first proposition, that a great majority of all parties in Manchester would support it,but there are a great number of the most respectable characters in Manchester opposed to any interference with the national expenditure. This meeting will probably he the signal for others of the same description in the surrounding manufacturing districts, where no doubt holder measures will be proposed. It is even doubtful whether a certain party in Manchester will not supersede the resolutions of time requsitionists by a petition for Parliamentary Reform. It was this' opprehension which led to the general opinion that the meeting would not he persevered in, amid I have reason to think it was not determined on until yesterday, after a kind of understanding between some parties that the question of Reform woukl not be pressed. Whether that understanding is general, or will be violated, is more than i can tell. This is the great market day here, but the purchases bay* ass boon so eyelike as might be expected. Prices, however, continue without any depression, but with the same firmness, and indications of a rise which prevailed during the last week ; and I am assured by a respectable gentleman that there are a greater number of buyers in town than has been during the season ; a great number are from extensive houses in London, and I know of five German merchants who have been waiting at a hotel in town during the last week for the purpose of taking the most favourable opportunity of efFecting purchases. The accounts respecting the state of the harvest in this county are favourable. I subjoin a letter which I hare received this day from Lancaster : " The quanmy of grain grown in the northern district of this county. although more than in the manufacturing, is not very con. sidersble; yet it is cattle of great gratification to observe that for the mat part the wheat is cut, and by far the greater proportion of it carried ; and it is not a little singular that the same remarks which apply to this grain throughout the cosoury, are equally an Sieable here; the crop is not very heavy, but it is particularly good, and well got in. The oats and barleys arc certainly some of them very much so ; these are also In a very forward slats, the former grain will he the latest. Beans and peas may be said to bt gone. Turnips may yet come. but there is certainly every prohabilii list the prtaltaction will be very scanty Potatoes, foe which this county is eel:brated, are looking well; the haulm is very promising, and prognosticates a good crop of this useful and most valuable root. " The Assists commence here to-morrow; the city will be thronged, which is caused not only by the very heavy calendar that there ts, but from the great excitement occasioned by the abduction me of Mr. Wakefield. 'Many rumours are afloat respecting it; some think it will go off by some point of law, tubers that the indictment cannot he susmined. while on the oilier hand there are those who maintain that a conviction must take place ; and these may be kamouni that in themselves appear to be idle. No day is yet fixed for the cause coming on. It is said that the M•Keans have static a hill confession of the murder of Liixsbeth Itaics at Iliarton-uponIrw,-11 ; but i have not been able to ascertain time tact." " Lancaster, 7th August, 1828."