An attempt is about to be made by the Tories
to influence the chic- Lions in Stoke-upon-Trent by the erection of a number of houses, the proprietorship of which is to be invested in the present Tory Repre- sentatives, or in a Tory Committee. Our information is of such a cha- racter that we are at present unable to go into the particulars of the case. We would advise the Stoke Liberals, however, to be on their guard.—Staffordshere Examiner.
A proof of the altered state of political feeling in the manufacturing districts, may he found in the once Radical but now Conservative bo- rough of Salford. Hitherto the management of the parochial affairs of the town has been monopolized by the Whigs; who, like their supe- riors, have so contrived as to bring an old house about their ears. The effect of their policy was to increase the poor, police, and highway rates, threefold within five years, although the population has increased one-third, and trade has been, with little exception, prosperous. This galling taxation roused the inhabitants last week, and, at the annual Vestry meeting, they swept the entire faction out of office; not one Whig was left in any department.—Morning Post.
The demand both for goods and yarn in Manchester last week was exceedingly limited, and the market was in a very depressed state. Very little business was done, and that at a trifling reduction from the prices of the preceding Tuesday. Most of the ordinary descriptions of yarn have receded about id. per lb., and printing cloths about ad. per piece.
We understand that in February last a band of nineteen mechanics left Manchester per railway, for Amiens. On Tuesday morning, at half-past eight, another band of fifteen, all mechanics, took their depar- ture from Manchester for the same destination. From particular in- quiries made respecting this latter deportation, it appears that they are all of them machine-makers, and several of them from the eminent ma. chine-making establishment of Messrs. Cocker, and Higgins, of Selfoi.e It is quite impossible for any but those who pay great attention toithe matter, (and who have at the same time ready access to the parties cone missioned by the Continental manufacturers and spinners to miter into engagements on their behalf,) to form the least idea of the extent to which this sort of emigration is now conducted. But our readers will be still more surprised, perhaps, to learn that even women and young girls, who have been brought up as spinners and piecers, &c., are now also regularly, going to the Continent to be employed in cotton-mills,— Manchester Times.
Viscount Dungannon has announced to Dr. Kennedy his intention of presenting fifteen guineas annually for the encouragement of classical literature in Shrewsbury School ; thus affording a fresh instance of that munificence and zeal for literature which do honour to his Lordship's character. The particular subjects of competition for Lord Dungan. non's. prizes are not yet determined.—Standard.
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