The accounts from the trading districts are still very gloomy.
At Leeds, :Manchester, Leicester, the Potteries, and Birmingham, the same tale of distress is continued. The Birtaingh«m Journal says- " The lamentable condition of our working cla4ses may be judged of by a single fact. It is nsual in Birmingham for the small manufacture! s who employ ten, twenty, Or thirty hands, to carry their goods to the merchants on hitlay, and to receive payment, generally on the following day, sometimes on that day week. One house has been, for a long time past, in the habit of paying not less than 3,000/. a week to such portico; two. tlumi-ul 3 which, at the least, may be looked on as wages. This day (last Satunlay) they do not pay one farthing! They have no orders, or none that they dare execute; and they can give none." An attempt was unsuccessfully made at Macclesfield on Monday, to sell by auction the goods which had been seized from several members of the Society of Friends for Churelorates. The people would not make a single bid, and the goods had to be curried away.—Manehester Times.
Several of the friends of the late venerable Bishop of Norwich have, without regard to political feeling, privately subscribed a large sum of motley for the purpose of erecting a splendid monument to that vener- able man in Norwich Cathedral.—Norph The Chancellor of the Exchequer has promised the proprietors of the provincial newspapers to take off the postage on newspapers sent by the penny posts, except within the town where the newspaper may be published. This, however, does not apply to the entd/icia/ penny posts, by which newspapers will still be churgeable ; but the Secretary to the Post-office, Colonel Maberley, has assured the same parties that
his department is willing to establish an official post wherever the inhabitants of a village or district can show that the letters will pay two_ thirds of the cost of the establishment. This is very liberal, and al populous villages ought to avail themselves of the offer.—Leeds Mercury.
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