dtt Country, REVIVAL or Tnauf. - =Thre'reidi Mercury says, " The demand for
the fall trade is beginning to increase the sales both in our cloth-halls and warehouses, and to revive the drooping spirits of our merchants. For two or three weeks past, the sales at the Leeds and Huddersfield markets have been large, and at Bradford and Halifax the markets are also improved. The manufacturer has still to struggle with an ad- vanced price of foreign wool and an advanced rate of wages and as he Ends himself unable to obtain a proportionate advance in the price of his goods, he is compelled to diminish the quantity made, and to supply himself as it were from hand to mouth. The commencement of the fall demand will, however, increase the quantity manufactured, and call again into employment some of the many hands which are now reluct- antly idle. It is universally agreed that stocks are low, both in the hands of the merchant and the retail-dealer; and this, combined with the prospect of an abundant harvest and a low price of food, is an en- couraging symptom to those who have to supply the nation with clothing."' IssristinaTithr OF VOTERS.—The Manchester Guardian of last Saturday mentions a handbill, of the following tenor, as having been posted on the walls of that town. " A meeting will be held in St. Peter's Field, on Monday evening the 20th of August, at seven o'clock precisely, to pass resolutions against dealing with any shopkeeper, or publican, or others depending on the custom of the people, who will not vote for Mr. Cobbett." So much for Tory intimidation of voters. We long ago told these short-sighted gentry, that tile game was one at which more parties than one could play.
A numerous and most respectable meeting was held at Manchester on Wednesday, for the purpose of petitioning the King to exert his in- fluence with the Russian Government in behalf of the suffering Poles. Mr. W. Haynes was in the chair. The meeting was addressed by Mr. Philips, the candidate for the borough, Mr. Potter, and Mr. Prentice. A Mr. Nightingale laboured very hard, but unsuccessfully, to divide the meeting by a long tirade of abuse of the Whigs. The petition was unanimously agreed to.
The to-.vn of Chard was surprised last Friday by a hasty visit of a troop of dragoons. It is said they were brought there with a view to another Clithero display ; but there was no crowd, and they were dis- appointed in consequence.
In one district of Liverpool, there are at present nine hundred houses to let.
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