The accounts from the moors in the counties of Northumberland
and Durham represent the birds as small and rather weak on the wing, brit generally numerous. The weather has been generally favourable for shooting since the commencement of the season. The bird, have been selling in Newcastle at from 4s. to 5s. 63. per brace.— Sunderland Herald.
The Stockport district has been thrown into great consternation by the unexpected failure of the old and very extensive spinning ma- nufacturing establishment of Messrs. Lane, of Stockport. No failure could have caused greater surprise, the firm having for years been con- sidered an unusually prosperous one. The stoppage will be for a very large amount : one of the joint stock banks have, as it is said, ad- vanced 30.0001., but on a security supposed to be good ; yet this sum has been found insufficient to carry the firm through its difficulties. The cause of their stoppage rumour assigns to very extensive pur- chases of cotton in the United States at the late high prices, bills to which, it is said, were drawn and refused acceptance. An action for damages is now pending at the Liverpool Assizes; the damages must be deemed very large, 50001. having been offered as a compromise and refused. On this refusal, judgment was immediately entered upon a warrant of attorney for a large amount. —Liverpool Correspondent of the Standard. [By a recent arrangement, the Standard gives news daily from Liverpool up to six o'clock of the preceding evening. This is a great feat ; accomplished, we suppose, by means of the railway from Liverpool to Birmingham.) We have again to announce a very decided improvement in every branch of the cotton manufacture. Many mills, which had only been working three or four days per week, are again in full activity. The demand for twist was hardly ever known to be more brisk, and the prices of low numbers have advanced from the lowest point fully ten per cent.—Manchester Paper.
There has been a fair average quantity of goods sold at the Cloth. hallsof Leeds this week, but without any advance in price ; this has also been a rather busy week in the warehouses.—Leeds Mercury.
We are glad to learn the reviving condition of the lace-trade. A manufacturer of Worcester informs us, that a lively demand has recently sprung up for the stocks in hand; and that the price of the article, which has for some time been so ruinously low to the manufacturer, is consequently improving.— Worcester Herald.
The relief of the out- poor of Hinckley and adjoining parishes, re- siding in Leicester, which amounted a month or two ago to rart. per week, has been reduced by the increase of employment to 31. The highest number relieved in No. 1 district of the Leicester Union, ( St. Margaret's parish,) during the season of distress, was 1,100; last week the number was 480; and 22 persons have since obtained employment, who, therefore, will not be relieved this week. The highest weekly expenditure in the district was 134/. ; last week it was 751.—Leicester Chronicle.
Considerable distress prevails in Abingdon amongst the operative weavers, caused by the depressed state of the sacking and matting trade, the masters having been obliged to discharge almost the whole of their workmen. T he wretchedness usually attendant upon such a calamity has not yet been so severely felt, owing to the harvest, which has afforded work, turd consequently temporary means of relief, to a great portion of them.—Berhshire Chronicle.
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