21 SEPTEMBER 1839, Page 5

On Thursday evening and yesterday morning, the stage - coaches from the

Smith and West of England did not arrive in London till some hours beyond their time, the roads being in many places flooded and bad from the recent heavy rains.

The continuance of unfavourable weather for the harvest, together with the account of the non-acceptance of the bills drawn by the Irnitcd States Bank, had an unfavourable effect upon our market yesterday ; and the demand both for yarn and goods was worse than on the pre- ceding Tuesday, with somewhat of a downward tendency in prices, but without any very marked decline.—ellanchester Guardian.

Another week of unpropitious weather has damped the gayety of the Cheltenham mid-season, and interrupted most of the amusements pe- culiar to the place. Not a day passes but heavy storms of rain thwart all the arrangements entered into with a view of contributing to the pleasures and enjoyments of the visitors, who are compelled for the most part to remain within doors, only the determined adventuring forth whenever a gleam of delusive sunshine bursts through the clouds. Such a wet and unfavourable season has not certainly been known for many years.—Chellenham Looker-on.

A very numerous and respectable meeting was held on Wednesday evening in the great room of the Leeds Commercial Buildings, to pro- mote the cause of Scriptural Education in connexion with the British and Foreign School Society.

It may perhaps not be uninteresting to our readers to know that the attempt to establish the manufacture of bobbin-net by machinery at Lyons is considered a failure in that country. A dispute arose some time since concerning wages between the English workmen in that city and their masters. The consequence has been, that the greater part of the machines remaining idle have become rusty, and they are now re- moving to Lisle to be set to work by Englishmen drawn from this vici- nity.—Nottingham Journal.